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History of the Voting Rights Act
The Brooklyn Law School Library has several items in its collection related to the Voting Rights Act. The latest is Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy by Gary May (Call #KF4893.M39 2013). This fast-paced history of the VRA offers a dramatic, timely account of the struggle that finally won African Americans the ballot—although, as May shows, the fight for voting rights is by no means over.
When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a combination of sheer terror and insidious devices such as complex literacy tests and expensive poll taxes. Most African Americans would remain voiceless for nearly a century more, citizens in name only until the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act secured their access to the ballot.
The author describes how black voters overcame centuries of bigotry to secure and preserve one of their most important rights as American citizens. The struggle that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act was long and torturous, and only succeeded because of the courageous work of local freedom fighters and national civil rights leaders—as well as, ironically, the opposition of Southern segregationists and law enforcement officials, who won public sympathy for the voting rights movement by brutally attacking peaceful demonstrators.
Many argue that the 2008 election of President Barack Obama rendered the act obsolete, and there have been renewed efforts to curb voting rights and deny minorities the act's hard-won protections. The Supreme Court's recent decision in Shelby County v. Holder declared the protections in Section 4 of the VRA unconstitutional. Recent actions by the Department of Justice make clear that Section 2 and other sections of the VRA remain in play as methods to promote the goal of increasing voting rights. See the Jurist article for more on this issue.
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For program managers, their support staff and their subproject managers who use Microsoft Project Professional as a standalone tool to manage an integrated program schedule that is broken into subprojects.
This course is self-paced: you will view a recording of a live course at a time of your choice. The course consists of 4 session recordings of 3 hours each (12 PDUs). You finish the exercises on your own while being able to ask the instructor questions by email.
The course material is the NEW 375-page textbook 'Forecasting Programs' by Eric Uyttewaal. You will get a high-resolution PDF course certificate at course completion.
This course is for program managers, their support staff and their (sub)project managers who use Microsoft Project Standard or Professional to manage an integrated program schedule that is broken into multiple subprojects. The course will cover MS Project versions 2010, 2013, 2016 and Project Online used as a standalone application or in combination with Project Server.
What to do when you have a 10,000-task program schedule with 10 projects and 500 dependencies between them? Programs are notoriously hard to schedule: the amount of data is mind-boggling, projects are interdependent upon each other and the client wants to see the Critical Path for the entire program. You may even face the challenge to integrate a software Agile schedule with Waterfall hardware schedules.
The presenter will share special techniques and tools that he and his team developed for integrating a variety of schedules and identifying the Critical Path in large programs to forecast it. With these special techniques and tools, you will be able to manage your program as if it were a project. If you have more than 1,000 tasks in your program schedule, you should attend this course.
Each participant will receive a copy of the 375-page published textbook 'Forecasting Programs' (published in January 2018) and an electronic certificate with PDUs upon course completion.
This course is based on and aligned with the PMI® Standard for Program Management, 4th edition, and PMBOK® Guide, 6th Edition.
Participants must have managed at least one project from beginning to end with Microsoft Project. If you don't meet this requirement, we recommend you take our Fundamentals and Forecast Scheduling courses first.
What is a 'program'? How is it different from a 'project' or 'project portfolio'?
Modeling a large program: How to prevent drowning in the data?
What kind of schedule to request for the projects in the program: time model, workload model or cost model?
Establishing scheduling guidelines and standards for project schedules, e.g.
Rolling wave approach: Look-ahead window for detailed planning. How many months ahead?
Keeping one large program schedule or splitting it into separate subproject schedules? Pro's and con's.
Time modeling, workload modeling or cost modeling?
How many schedulers do you need?
The chain is only as strong as its weakest link: Implementing quality assurance to sub schedules: What are the minimum scheduling guidelines: How many checks do you need at least? This can range from 35 checks (time model) to 86 checks (cost model).
Creating the cross-project dependencies: use the master schedule!
What to do if circular dependencies appear suddenly?
How to verify if schedules are up-to-date?
Creating one-page reports ... always and ever ... even on very large programs!
How to defend a visible time buffer or visible cost reserve to your manager, sponsor or client?
Optimizing: How to Keep Your Program on Schedule?
The Critical Path in the next major milestone with about 100 tasks in the 1000-task subnet of the milestone?
Updating tasks: what update info to ask for?


A former Pittsburgher returns with a new book about life as a woman in Qatar.
7 p.m. Thu., June 5.
When Americans learn that she once lived in Qatar, says Lisa L. Kirchner, they often exclaim about how badly women are treated there. But ultimately, Kirchner's new book, Hello American Lady Creature (Greenpoint Press), emphasizes what the two cultures have in common.
Kirchner went to Qatar in 2004 as a marketing professional, helping Carnegie Mellon University launch its Middle East campus — part of Education City, the first co-ed institution in that Muslim nation. The Franklin Regional High graduate was married, to a Pittsburgh journalist. (Kirchner herself once wrote a dating column for City Paper.) Her husband moved to Qatar, too. But in 2006, he demanded a divorce, and Kirchner had to regroup in what seemed completely foreign territory.
"I would get tsk-tsked if I was showing too much skin," she says by phone from her home, in New York City. "You're kind of confined to your compound if you want to live anything like a Western lifestyle." Her job included supervising Muslim men, who "saw me as this thing they had to deal with," she says — hence the book's title, Kirchner's own coinage.
Divorce changed her perspective. She realized that as a woman in her 30s, feeling down because she was no longer young-wife material, she'd come disturbingly close to how Qatari culture itself views women.
True, she's not cool with cousins marrying, as they do in Qatar. But she cites America's pandemic domestic violence and ubiquitous workplace sexism as proof equality is lacking everywhere. "It's the same whether you're in the Middle East or the Midwest. ... It is a problem to pretend that it doesn't exist, and we have that problem more," she says. "Rather than say how bad they're doing [in Qatar], how can we do a better job?"
And she's continuing a multi-city book tour. The extended Pittsburgh stop includes: a June 5 book launch at Brillobox (with a reading of a short play based on scenes from the book); a June 12 event at Edgewood's C.C. Mellor Memorial Library; and a June 22 workshop, at Canonsburg's Lakeview Yoga, called Yoga For Getting Over It.


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Joyce, James
Still one of the most radical novels of the 20th Century, James Joyce's Ulysses is considered to have ushered in the era of the modern novel. Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, the book follows Leopold Bloom and a number of other characters through an ordinary day, twenty four hours, in Dublin, on June 16, 1904. The text is dense and difficult, but perfectly suited to an oral reading, filled with language tricks, puns and jokes, stream of consciousness, and bawdiness.
NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as well as group readings; and no editing was required, so in places there may be some accidental variation from the original text ... Listener be warned!
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of evil. Crime and Punishment is considered by many as the first of Dostoevsky's cycle of great novels, which would culminate with his last completed work, The Brothers Karamazov, shortly before his death.
This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to become an artist and a man.
This Side of Paradise
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is a wealthy and attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature and has a series of romances that eventually lead to his disillusionment. In his later novels, Fitzgerald would further develop the book's theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking.
Mysterious Stranger, The
The Mysterious Stranger-A Romance- is the final novel attempted by Mark Twain. It was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until 1910. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race".
Lawrence, D. H.
This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his poor financial sense and his drinking habits, she comes to inhabit the lives of her children - most particularly, her sons. She is determined that they will grow to be something more than men that come home blackened with coal dust every day and roaring with drink every night. As each grows up and moves away, she must release him. But Paul, she holds; they have a bond that defies time and the attractions of young women.
Lawrence originally intended the book's title to be "Paul Morel" and it is on this son - and his lovers - that he spends the bulk of his tale. The strong mother can make a success of her son, but if he cannot learn to leave his mother's apron strings, will he really be a better man than his father?
Cather, Willa Sibert
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near Hanover, Nebraska, (a fictional town near Glenvil) around the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. The novel also concerns two romantic relationships - one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Lindstrom, and another between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata.
Wharton, Edith
The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity Royall, and shares many plot similarities with Wharton's better known novel, Ethan Frome. Only moderately well-received when originally published, Summer has had a resurgence in critical popularity since the 1960's.
Rain (Version 2)
Maugham, W. Somerset
Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson.
Girl of the Limberlost, A
Stratton-Porter, Gene
A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August, 1909. The story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp, during the early 20th century.
Amy Foster
Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk. The one exception is the loving, if dull-witted, Miss Foster.
Glaspell, Susan
The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married man. Now that she's returned home to take care of her dying father, she faces some hard truths about who her true friends are and where her life is headed.
Red Planet, The
Locke, William John
Set during WWI in England, The Red Planet is a rich tale about the life in a little English town from the point of view of Major Duncan Meredyth, a disabled veteran of the Boer Wars. As he struggles to keep his life and the lives of those he cares for in harmony, he must also shelter a dark secret regarding one of the village's favorite sons.
The Red Planet was the third bestselling novel in the United States for 1917.
Flood, The
Zola, Émile
A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family's 70-year-old patriarch. The story speaks of the helplessness of mankind in the face of the forces of nature.
Dogs Of Boytown
Walter Alden Dyer
This collection of stories about dogs and the people they own was published in 1918. The story proceeds leisurely with much information about different breeds of dogs. The author obviously likes both boys and dogs. ( David Wales)
Echoes of the War
Barrie, J. M.
Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War. Some humorous moments. By the author of "Peter Pan".
Third Miss Symons, The
Mayor, F. M.
Miss Mayor tells this story with singular skill, more by contrast than by drama, bringing her chief character into relief against her world, as it passes in swift procession. Her tale is in a form becoming common among our best writers; it is compressed into a space about a third as long as the ordinary novel, yet form and manner are so closely suited that all is told and nothing seems slightly done, or worked with too rapid a hand.
Tarkington, Booth
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20th century to climb the social ladder. The eponymous heroine is at the heart of the story, a young woman who wants a better place in society and a better life. As Gerard Previn Meyer has stated, "Apart from being the contribution to social history its author conceived it to be, [Alice Adams] is something more, that something being what has attracted to it so large a public: its portrait of a (despite her faults) 'lovable girl'."
Cambridge, Ada
Ada Cambridge (November 21, 1844 - July 19, 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English born Australian writer. While she gained recognition as Australia's first woman poet of note, her longer term reputation rests on her novels. Overall she wrote more than twenty-five works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.[1] Many of her novels were serialised in Australian newspapers, and were never published in book form.
The story pans over three - four decades revolving the four Pennycuick sisters.
Canterville Ghost (version 2)
A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expect twists and turns to make it interesting. In this cast the crusty old ghost has a tough time convincing the family he exists and then in frightening them. This is extremely frustrating of course to him and as the protagonist of the story, takes matters (and non-matters) into his hands to deal with the upstart and irreverent new tenants. (phil chenevert)
Rilla of Ingleside (version 2)
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight "Anne" novels she wrote. This book draws the focus back onto a single character, Anne and Gilbert's youngest daughter Bertha Marilla "Rilla" Blythe. It has a more serious tone, as it takes place during World War I and the three Blythe boys -- Jem, Walter, and Shirley -- along with Rilla's sweetheart Ken Ford, and playmates Jerry Meredith and Carl Meredith -- end up fighting in Europe with the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Three Stories & Ten Poems
The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) The book entered into the public domain in 2019.
Fifty-one Tales (version 2)
A multitude of very short stories populated with things that lurk in the dark corners of human imagination. Wonderfully crafted and sometimes ending with an unexpected outcome, these stories are well rooted in mythology and speak of things beyond the thin veil of reality.
Rainbow Valley (version 2)
The story moves from Anne and Gilbert to their six children, and their new neighbours, the children of the new Presbyterian minister.
Rainbow Valley (version 3 Dramatic Reading)
Anne Shirley is grown up and married, and her six children are off having their own adventures with the Merediths - the four children of a widowed, absent-minded minister. Whether they're hiding a runaway home girl and plotting to save her from the orphanage or organizing a day of fasting to punish themselves for singing an awful song in the graveyard, their adventures and misadventures make this seventh Anne novel a different, but still delightful, story.
Rainbow (Version 2)
Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rainbow attempts to situate the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family within the continuous social change marking the Victorian transformation of Britain. Farmer Tom and his Polish wife Lydia, whose peaceful rural existence re-enacts the potent myths of Genesis; artisan Will and the matriarch Anna, who go to live among the industrial and mining communities so rapidly sprung up around Nottingham; finally the restless Ursula who, moving to the city, seeks sexual and emotional fulfilment with the Polish-descended Skrebensky - the three couples are not merely illustrative of the changing times, but allow the author to study in depth the conflict between the outer 'social' selves of those individuals and what he curiously calls the 'inhuman' essential being, the 'is-ness' at the core of their psychical life.
Lawrence evokes this dark, unconscious 'vital core' through a language of breathtaking poetic beauty; a rhythmic incantatory prose which listeners to this recording will find perfectly rendered by Tony Foster, in all its nuances. Like Paul Morel, the hero of the earlier Sons and Lovers, Ursula survives her losses to face a future of uncertain but radiant hope: "She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven."
In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back with profit to a grocer. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and leaves it for Tighe & Company. He also marries an affluent widow, in spite of his young age. Over the years, he starts embezzling municipal funds. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire redounds to a stock market crash, prompting him to be bankrupt and exposed. Although he attempts to browbeat his way out of being sentenced to jail by intimidating Mr Stener, politicians from the Republican Party use their influence to use him as a scapegoat for their own corrupt practices. Meanwhile, he has an affair with Aileen Butler, a young girl, subsequent to losing faith in his wife. She vows to wait for him after his jail sentence. Her father, Mr Butler dies; she grows apart from her family. Frank divorces his wife. Sometime after being released, he invests in stocks subsequent to the Panic of 1873, and becomes a millionaire again. He decides to move out of Philadelphia and start a new life in the West.
Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American abroad, who finds himself in an older, and some would say richer, culture that that of the United States, with its attractions and dangers. Here the protagonist is Lambert Strether, a man in his fifties, editor of a small literary magazine in Woollett, Massachusetts, who arrives in Europe on a mission undertaken at the urging of his patron, Mrs. Newsome, to bring back her son Chadwick. That young man appears to be enjoying his time in Paris rather more than seems good for him, at least to those older and wiser. The novel, however, is perhaps really about Strether's education in this new land, and one of his teachers is the city of Paris -- a real Paris, not an idealized one, but from which Strether has much to learn. Chad Newsome, of course is there too, and so are a scattering of other Americans, his old friend Waymarsh and his new acquaintance Maria Gostrey among them. Had Strether his life to live over again, knowing what he has now learned,. how different would it be? and what are the lessons he takes home with him?
Golden Bowl, The
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective spouses. The novel focuses deeply and almost exclusively on the consciousness of the central characters, with sometimes obsessive detail but also with powerful insight.
Jacob's Room (version 2)
Virginia Woolf's third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his education at Cambridge and finally to his death in World War I. The prose repeatedly shifts its point of view and the reader is challenged to find connections between the narrative fragments. Largely from the comments of others we come to know the sequence and some moments of Jacob's life but we never fully learn who Jacob is. The literary experimentation in Jacob's Room is used even more successfully in Woolf's later novels.
Jacket, The
A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives.
The jacket itself was actually used at San Quentin at the time and Jack London's descriptions of it were based on interviews with a former convict named Ed Morrell, which is also the name of a character in the novel. For his role in the Sontag and Evans gang which robbed the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1890s, Morrell spent fourteen years in California prisons (1894-1908), five of them in solitary confinement. London championed his pardon. After his release, Morrell was a frequent guest at London's Beauty Ranch.
People of the Black Circle
Robert E. Howard
"The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in three parts over the September, October and November 1934 issues. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan kidnapping a regal princess of Vendhya (pre-historical India) and foiling a nefarious plot of world domination by the Black Seers of Yimsha. Due to its epic scope and atypical Hindustan flavor, the story is considered an undisputed classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars as one of his best tales. It is also one of the few Howard stories where the reader is treated a deeper insight on magic and magicians beyond the stereotypical Hyborian depiction as demon conjurer-illusionist-priests.
Castlecourt Diamond Mystery
Geraldine Bonner
The famous Castlecourt Diamonds have gone missing and the story surrounding their disappearance is strange indeed. To help sort out the mystery, you will hear eye witness statements given by the various participants in this curious case now, for the first time, given to the public.
Robert W. Chambers
Robert Chambers was a contemporary of Lovecraft, and this book consists of "weird supernatural tales" in a somewhat similar manner, except that the emphasis is on humor rather than horror. The narrator works for the newly opened Bronx Zoo in New York. He describes his adventures trying to obtain various rare specimens for the zoo's collection, animals that range from the merely extinct to the considerably more unusual. Along the way, he invariably finds a beautiful woman to fall in love with.
Three Lives
Three Lives tells the stories of three women from the same fictitious town of Bridgeport. The first story is of Anna, a servant to the wealthy, or those who seem to be wealthy. She finds herself taking on "projects" in an effort to better the people around her. Story number two is of Melanctha, a mixed-race character who is looking for ways to increase her knowledge and power over others, but mostly finds herself dealing with rejection and betrayal. The final story is of Lena, a German immigrant who leads a rather ordinary life as a married woman.
Freckles (Version 2)
Gene Stratton-Porter
Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one hand. He finds this place in the Limberlost Swamp, as a Limberlost guard of precious timber.
In the process, he discovers a love for the wilderness and animals he encounters every day on his rounds and a burning desire to learn about all the new birds and plants he sees on his rounds every day. He also finds and falls in love with a girl he calls the "Swamp Angel." This is the story of his plucky courage in sticking to his job in the swamp, and his adventures in learning about the natural world he finds himself in every day. He is befriended by the "Bird Woman" and with her help learns to love the Limberlost he has been hired to guard.
The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism. Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley. The novel was later republished with a foreword by Maugham entitled A Fragment of Autobiography. (Wikipedia)
Before Adam
Before Adam is a mixture of sound science and sci-fi speculation. It is based around Darwin's theory of evolution and the idea of racial memory. The main character lives in the current world but has dreams and nightmares that he relives the pre-stone age life of one of his proto-human ancestors. Those who are scientifically inclined may enjoy this novel more than fans of "standard" science fiction such as Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Sons and Lovers (Version 2)
Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912:
"It follows this idea: a woman of character and refinement goes into the lower class, and has no satisfaction in her own life. She has had a passion for her husband, so her children are born of passion, and have heaps of vitality. But as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers — first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother — urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives, and holds them..."
The present reader tells the story in his authentic regional English, featuring the East Midlands dialect used by Lawrence in the more intimate exchanges between characters. (Summary prepared by Martin Geeson.)
Ernest Vincent Wright
Fifty-year-old John Gadsby is alarmed by the decline of his hometown, Branton Hills, and rallies the city's young people to form an "Organization of Youth" to build civic spirit and improve living standards. Gadsby and his youthful army, despite some opposition, transform Branton Hills from a stagnant municipality into a bustling, thriving city. The story begins around 1906 and continues through World War I, Prohibition, and President Warren G. Harding's administration.
"Gadsby" is a lipogram - a whole novel of some 50.000 words without a single instance of the letter E. When it first appeared in 1939 it was hardly noticed by the general public, but a modern reviewer called it "probably the most ambitious work ever attempted in this genre". Hardcopies of the book are extremely rare and sell for thousands of dollars.
Whirligigs
A collection of short stories.
Cathedral Courtship
Kate Douglas Wiggin
An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases girl. Boy loses girl. Boy finds girl. Finally, girl catches boy with the help of a mad bull.
Jennie Gerhardt
Dreiser, Theodore
This is a story of an innocent, caring, beautiful young girl from and extremely poor family who throughout her life is drawn into affairs with two different men from a much higher social class. How members of her family, the family of one of the wealthy men, and society in general react to her situation is the basis of this story.
Old Wives' Tale
Arnold Bennett
The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age. It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Burslem and Paris.
Five Tales
This 1918 book consists of five short stories or novelettes by Galsworthy. They are The First and Last (1914), A Stoic, The Apple Tree (1916), The Juryman, Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918) This last became part of the trilogy The Forsyte Saga.
My Brilliant Career
Sybella: "There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I am one of a class, the individuals of which have no time for plots in their life, but have all they can do to get their work done without indulging in such a luxury". Like the author Miles Franklin, Sybella grows up in the bush, and as her family's fortunes decline, so her feelings rise that life should hold more for her than the relentless hard physical work farming marginal land in times of drought.
Thin Ghost And Others
M. R. James
Five ghost stories, published in 1920, by the early twentieth century master of ghostery.
Pierre & Jean
This short novel's titular characters are brothers. An old family friend dies, leaving without explanation his entire fortune to Jean, the younger brother. Pierre, the protagonist, is puzzled, jealous, and increasingly bitter. A bequest, a secret, a major decision. This, Maupassant's fourth novel, is considered by many to be his finest. (Lee Smalley)
Terror: A Mystery
In rural England during the time of war, a rash of unsolved murders spawns conspiracy theories, paranoia, and fear as they search for a culprit, an explanation, and an end to the terror.
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Now you can get Original Hockey Mom Brownies at…
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Now you can get Original Hockey Mom Brownies at Xcel Energy Center
Original Hockey Mom Brownies mother/son team Patti Howard and Andrew Howard. (Jess Fleming / Pioneer Press)
By Nancy Ngo | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: October 31, 2017 at 12:26 p.m. | UPDATED: November 2, 2017 at 10:22 a.m.
Brownie points to Original Hockey Mom Brownies (facebook.com/originalhockeymombrownies), which started out feeding youth hockey teams and has grown into a full-fledged operation that includes a food truck and two dozen brownie varieties, ranging from salted caramel to s'mores.
Recently, mother/son team Patti and Andrew Howard began offering their desserts at the Xcel Energy Center, available during hockey games, concerts and other events. We chatted with Andrew Howard, 26, about the growing business.
What's your first food memory? On Fridays, we would get pizza from Tasty Pizza in Hilltop. And I would make custom spaghetti and cheese bread sandwiches.
What did you want to be when you grew up? I had no idea; that's a great question. I did go to culinary school for a semester.
How did you wind up in the food business for good? For me I got connected at age 19 with some business professionals and mentors who were in the entrepreneurship field. I met them while I was going to culinary school and that really trained me on becoming entrepreneur-focused.
It was a seven-year journey. I was working for a corporate company when they restructured our commission scale. I just said, "No, thank you." And I said to my mom, "I've watched people for 12 years enjoy your brownies, let's go."
It began awhile back. Twelve years ago, I played for the Andover Hockey Association and my team qualified for regions. My mom was a team captain and team manager. She made us star-shaped brownies and she said, "No matter what happens, you'll always be all-stars." And it grew from there. She was making brownies for family gatherings and companies she worked at. People loved the brownies and had been encouraging my mom to open a business but she didn't want to do it on her own.
How has the business grown? We launched our food truck April 12, 2016, and were regularly in downtown St. Paul and Minneapolis. This is the first year we have a booth at the Xcel Energy Center, Section 119 behind the benches. Our brownies are available for all Xcel Energy events, including Wild hockey games, state hockey tournaments and concerts. We're available for other events, including weddings.
We started out with eight flavors. It's grown to 24. We also now have a gluten-free option in every flavor through special orders.
What's your favorite brownie flavor? The Slap Shot. It's has toasted marshmallow, graham crackers, chocolate drizzle and a peanut butter cup on top of a gooey brownie. It's like s'mores and amazing — especially heated up over ice cream.
If you had to eat or drink only five things for the rest of your life, what would they be? Pizza. Spaghetti. XS Energy Drink. A Slap Shot brownie. Cheesecake from Manny's Steakhouse in downtown Minneapolis. I hated cheesecake before that and then I tried the one there and think it's the best thing ever.
What's next? It's a secret, stay tuned.
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AMD Radeon Drivers
Company of Heroes - performance gains of up to 25% for the ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series, and performance gains of up to 10% for the ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Crysis Warhead - performance gains of up to 11% for ATI CrossFireX technology in dual configuration.
Crysis - performance gains of up to 13% for ATI CrossFireX technology in dual configuration.
World in Conflict - performance gains of up to 30% for high settings that were previously CPU limited with the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series.
Test System Setup and 3DMark Vantage
Test System Setup
Processor(s): Intel i7 920 @ 3.8GHz (190MHz x 20)
Cooling: Noctua NH-U12P (Supplied by Noctua)
Motherboard(s): GIGABYTE EX58-UD5 (Supplied by GIGABYTE)
Memory: 3 X 2GB OCZ Technology PC-12800 DDR-3 8-8-8-24 (OCZ3G1600LV6GK)
Hard Disk(s): Western Digital 300GB Velicorapter (Supplied by Western Digital)
Operating System:Windows Vista SP1 64-Bit
Drivers: Catalyst 9.5 and Catalyst 9.6
With no changes to our test bed let's get stuck straight into it and see how last month's drivers go against this month's with popular ATI cards.
Version and / or Patch Used: 1.0.1
Developer Homepage: http://www.futuremark.com
Product Homepage: http://www.futuremark.com/products/3dmarkvantage/
3DMark Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware.
3DMark Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft.
HD 4850: Straight of the mark we can see a bump in performance here.
HD 4870 X2: A little north at the X setting, but no real difference.
HD 4890: Here we see no real change.
Benchmarks - Crysis Warhead
Version and / or Patch Used: unpatched
Timedemo or Level Used: Airfield
Developer Homepage: http://www.crytek.com
Product Homepage: http://crysiswarhead.ea.com/
Crysis Warhead updates and refines the gameplay of the original game through a sidestory plot involving Psycho, one of previous protagonist Nomad's allies. The game is a parallel story that follows Sergeant Michael "Psycho" Sykes, a character from the original Crysis, as he faces his own trials and challenges on the other side of the island during the time period of the first game.
It also showcases a new, enhanced and optimized version of CryEngine 2 using full DX10 extensions and is the first game developed by Crytek's Budapest studio.
HD 4850: Big jumps at all resolutions.
HD 4870 X2: A little bit all over the place; minimums are the same or up, averages are a little down, though.
HD 4890: The lower resolution minimums seem ever so slightly down. Averages are identical, though.
Benchmarks - Far Cry 2
Version and / or Patch Used: 1.01
Timedemo or Level Used: Ranch Long
Developer Homepage: http://www.ubi.com/
Product Homepage: http://www.farcry2.com/
The Dunia Engine was built specifically for Far Cry 2 by the award-winning Ubisoft Montreal development team. It delivers the most realistic destructible environments, amazing special effects such as dynamic fire propagation and storm effects, real-time night-and-day cycle, dynamic music system, non-scripted enemy A.I. and so much more.
HD 4850: Like we've seen all along, there's gains across the board.
HD 4870 X2: Here we see no real change.
Benchmarks - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky
Version and / or Patch Used: 1.5.07
Timedemo or Level Used: Custom Timedemo
Developer Homepage: http://www.gsc-game.com/
Product Homepage: http://cs.stalker-game.com/en/
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, is the stand-alone prequel for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, a first-person shooter computer game by Ukrainian developer GSC Game World.[3] The game consists of a roughly 50/50 mix of new areas and old, remodeled areas from the previous game. The X-ray graphics engine has been updated to version 1.5 and includes DirectX 10 support (later patch 1.5.06 included DirectX 10.1). Additionally, the AI received an overhaul to accommodate the new faction wars feature.
HD 4850: Those gains continue to be seen under Stalker.
HD 4870 X2: Low resolution minimum seems to be slightly down.
HD 4890: A little downward movement at 2560 x 1600.
Benchmarks - Left 4 Dead
Version and / or Patch Used: Latest Steam Update
Developer Homepage: http://www.valvesoftware.com/
Product Homepage: http://www.l4d.com/
Left 4 Dead uses the latest version of Valve's Source engine, with improvements such as multi-core processor support and physics-based animation to more realistically portray hair and clothing, and to improve physics interaction with enemies when shot or shoved in different body parts. Animation was also improved to allow characters to lean realistically when moving in curved paths.
Rendering and artificial intelligence were scaled up to allow for greater number of enemies who can navigate the world in better ways, such as climbing, jumping or breaking obstacles. Lighting has been enhanced with new self-shadowing normal mapping and advanced shadow rendering that is important to convey information about the environment and player actions.
HD 4850: Across the board we see some good gains.
HD 4870 X2: A little bit of movement, but nothing major.
Benchmarks - High Quality AA and AF
High Quality AA and AF
Our high quality tests let us separate the men from the boys and the ladies from the girls. If the cards weren't struggling before they will start to now.
HD 4850: Up again!
HD 4870 X2: Small minimum drop.
HD 4890: Small minimum increase.
HD 4850: Our last test sees performance is up again.
Last month we saw some serious dramas with the HD 4850 and the Catalyst 9.5, but this month that seems to be all gone with some good gains being seen for the mid-range card.
As for the other cards we tested, there isn't a whole lot happening. At some points we see a slight increase while other times a slight drop, but for the most part there isn't a whole lot going on.
If you've a HD 4850 and have moved to the 9.5s, upgrade to the 9.6s straight away. And even if you're a 9.4 user, we would recommend the move to the new driver as it's always best to be up to date so you can take advantage of the latest bug fixes which are always one of the most important aspects of a new driver release.
Until next month, happy gaming and benchmarking.
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Inside Look: Green Bench Brewing Co., St. Petersburg
Story: Emma Janzen
Photo: Photos by Meagan Klementowski/Nutmeg Imageworks
Green Bench Brewing co. opened in St. Petersburg in 2013.
Nods to the city of St. Petersburg and state of Florida abound throughout the brewery's decor.
Co-owner and brewer Khris Johnson is a St. Petersburg native.
The brewery makes a handful of IPAs, in addition to other experimental releases.
Wood aging and barrel-fermentation are a few of the special things happening on the beer side of the operations.
"We got into this business because we absolutely love beer," Johnson says. "We want to be the best."
The taproom has become a gathering spot for the local community.
Johnson experiments with many styles, but at the end of the day hops reign supreme, he says.
A simple but comfortable outdoor beer garden draws locals to the brewery's yard.
Drinking local beer "has almost become synonymous with the lifestyle of the current St. Petersburg resident," Johnson says.
Named after the iconic green benches that have marked St. Petersburg's downtown sidewalks since the early 1900s, Green Bench Brewing Co. paved the way for the city's blossoming craft beer scene when it opened in 2013. With nearby Tampa Bay's quickly growing crop of breweries and several others in the works in St. Petersburg at the time, co-owner and brewer Khris Johnson says they knew staying local—he and partner Steven Duffy are both from the city—was the right call. "Opening a brewery was a gamble, but once the property was secured, I think we were all very confident that St. Petersburg was the place for us," he says, citing the growing beer scene as a factor in that decision. "As one brewery you create demand, but as several breweries you can create a destination."
Three more breweries opened within a year of Green Bench's debut, and in our Sept/Oct 2017 issue, contributing editor Josh Bernstein highlights the city as a beer destination to watch. "I think that, as a whole, we're all making better beer than we were a couple of years ago and there are more residents drinking local craft beer," says Johnson. "We're all growing very quickly and it's garnering a lot of excitement, which has given us more of an avenue to push our boundaries further, whether it be with the styles we produce, or the package formats, or the parties we throw, or the distribution footprints we explore."
As one brewery you create demand, but as several breweries you can create a destination.
Green Bench is known for their IPAs, and Johnson says the Sunshine City IPA and Postcard Pils are stellar examples of their house style. "Sunshine is our best seller. It's a really juicy and drinkable tropical IPA that is double dry hopped with Citra, Mosaic and Azacca," he says, adding that half the tap wall typically features IPAs because the team are so enamored with all things hoppy. "Postcard Pils is an American Pilsner that's true to style and very drinkable. I think we do an incredible job of making this beer very balanced yet extremely complex when it comes to the malt profile, the hops and the very nicely lagered fermentation profile."
The brewery also taps into beer trends like wood fermentation and experimentation with yeasts and bacterias. A house culture was developed for their Saison de Banc Vert, a 100% Foeder-fermented French Saison, and Les Grisettes is part of the Brettanomyces series. "The goal of our beer program is to produce the best beers we possibly can," Johnson says. "I believe the only way we can achieve that goal is to produce the type of beers we're most passionate about."
That passion extends beyond the beer and into the tasting room, which has evolved into a community hub with an outdoor beer garden and a large indoor space. Historic nods to the city abound, with vintage photos of St. Petersburg donning the bathroom walls, a bar backsplash made with former sidewalk bricks from downtown, and a bar top designed by a local concrete artist. "Our vision was to have people come in for a pint, come in for a party in the beer garden, meet with colleagues to talk business, or stop by for any other daily interaction," says Johnson. "We're all from St. Petersburg and we love living in this city and believe that residents here deserve the absolute best," he says.
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Q: Reshape MATLAB matrix with repeated indicies I apologize if this is a repeated question.
Suppose I have a matrix A
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6

and a vector b [1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4]. Thus, matrix A contains multiple ordered measurements based on vector b.
How can I reshape the matrix to have dimension [2 2 4], such that A(:,:,1) = [0,4;8,3]?
I understand I need to reshape. I tried using permute, however it does not handle repeated indices.
Thanks!

A: You are close, you just need to sort the columns before reshaping them
A=[0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6]

%A =
%     0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
%     8     9     1     2     3     4     5     6

b=[1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4]

%b =
%     1     2     3     4     1     2     3     4

[~,idx]=sort(b)

%idx =
%     1     5     2     6     3     7     4     8

A=A(:,idx)

%A =
%     0     4     1     5     2     6     3     7
%     8     3     9     4     1     5     2     6

A=reshape(A,[2,2,4])

%A(:,:,1) =
%     0     4
%     8     3

%A(:,:,2) =
%     1     5
%     9     4

%A(:,:,3) =
%     2     6
%     1     5

%A(:,:,4) =
%     3     7
%     2     6

Be careful, this will only work if you can assure that each number in b is repeated same number of times.

A: Assuming your b is always some repeated 1:n pattern like it is in your question, you can use:
p=4 % number of indices
permute(reshape(A,size(A,1),p,[]),[1,3,2])

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