Monday, December 20, 2010



Sarkozy and wife Bruni hit Indian tourist trail

AGRA-- French President Nicolas Sarkozy took his wife Carla Bruni sight-seeing in India on Sunday, with the ancient city of Fatehpur Sikri thought to be on their itinerary.

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After Hundreds Killed in Stampede, Cambodia Finds Solace in Spirituality

From mourners to the prime minister, the country finds solace in ancient Khmer traditions

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Sarkozy and wife Bruni hit Indian tourist trail

AGRA, India : French President Nicolas Sarkozy took his glamorous wife Carla Bruni sight-seeing in India on Sunday, with the ancient city of Fatehpur Sikri reported to be on their itinerary.

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

The Ghost Ship





The Ghost Ship is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Richard Middleton is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Richard Middleton then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.









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The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem





A uniquely comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to poetic form, The Art of Poetry moves progressively from smaller units such as the word, line, and image, to larger features such as verse forms and voice.In fourteen engaging, eloquently written chapters, Wolosky explores in depth how poetry works while offering brilliant readings of some of the finest lyric poetry in the English and American traditions. Both readers new to poetry and poetry veterans will be moved and enlightened as Wolosky interprets works by William Shakespeare, John Donne, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, and others.Featuring a comprehensive bibliography, a glossary of poetic terms, and a new appendix of suggestions for further reading, The Art of Poetry is a rich source of inspiration.









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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Novel without a Name





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The author of Paradise of the Blind, the first novel from Vietnam ever published in America, traces a young man's experiences fighting for North Vietnam, in a novel banned in Vietnam for its subversive content. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. NYT.









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Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (Classic Seuss)



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Illus. in full color. Children will be cheered just contemplating the outrageous array of troubles they're lucky they don't have. "When I was quite young and quite small for my size, I met an old man in the Desert of Drize." The old man looks like a cross between a cartoon granddad and a swami; he sits on top of a cactus, and tells his young listener that the best way to get over any sadness is to imagine all the ways you could be worse off. "Suppose, just suppose, you were poor Herbie Hart, who has taken his Throm-dim-bu-lator apart!" This has a more hurried, formulaic feel than the best Seuss, and it seems to showcase a less acute grasp of child psychology than usual. (Does it really make a child feel better to think of poor Harry Haddow, who, "try as he will, can't make a shadow," or Gucky Gown, "who lives by himself ninety miles out of town"?) But the illustrations alone make this morality tale a minor classic. (Ages 4 to 8) --Richard Farr









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Friday, December 17, 2010

Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes





Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (she was the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the traditional social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants. Many of her clients were members of the highest echelon of society with estates in Newport, the Berkshires, and Maine, but Farrand ultimately became a consultant for university campuses, including Yale and Princeton, and for public gardens, including the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at The New York Botanical Garden. Perhaps her best-known work is the extensive garden at Dumbarton Oaks, originally a private residence and now a research institute of Harvard University.

Deeply influenced by the English landscape designer Gertrude Jekyll, Farrand was known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders planted in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers. Her gardens have been photographed at their peak especially for this book, and these lush illustrations are complemented by beautiful watercolor wash renderings of her designs, now preserved at the library of the University of California at Berkeley.









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The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (Verso Classics, 10)





Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.









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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Native American Crafts and Skills: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Living and Survival



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An excellent introduction to the study of Native American crafts and outdoor skills.










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Keane: The Autobiography



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A publishing phenomenon in hardcover, Roy Keane's autobiography was the biggest selling sports book of the year. Now in paperback it includes a new chapter covering Keane's vindication by the FAI report, and the punishment meted out by the FA and Mick McCarthy's resignation. Brilliantly reviewed, Roy Keane's riveting, brutally honest autobiography has the potential to be one of the year's biggest paperback bestsellers.









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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

In the Land of Cocktails: Recipes and Adventures from the Cocktail Chicks



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Can't tell a Gin Fizz from a Gimlet? Think a Sidecar is something you'd see at the racetrack? If your idea of a wild night is a few Lemondrop shots washed back with a Cosmo, you're in need of some cocktail therapy! And there's no one better to tell you everything you need to know about a Brandy Crusta, a French 75, a Cachaça Swing, and much, much more than Ti Adelaide Martin and Lally Brennan, who will take you on a rip-roaring trip. . . .

In the Land of Cocktails

Proprietors of the legendary New Orleans restaurant Commander's Palace, Ti and Lally are cocktail divas, spread-ing the gospel about how to make drinks properly, from why a true Sazerac can only be made with Peychaud's bitters to why hand-chipped ice is best for cocktails. In this marvelously entertaining bookâ€"both a guide to making some of the world's best cocktails and a memoir of the authors' lives surrounded by family, friends, and delicious foodâ€"there are recipes for familiar classics like the Corpse Reviver and the Old-Fashioned; New Orleans favorites like Brandy Milk Punch and the Sazerac; and new inventions created by Ti and Lally, such as their now-famous Whoa, Nellie!

In the Land of Cocktails includes information on pairing food with cocktails, introductions to the beloved, boisterous Brennan family and their friends, and explanations of some of the unique, perhaps strange to some, words and ways of life in New Orleans. Filled with wit, sass, warmth, and lots of good times, In the Land of Cocktails is the ideal gift for cocktail lovers everywhere, whether you're a novice or an old drinking pro.











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The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround





The Gold Mine: a Novel of Lean Turnaround deftly weaves together the technical and human pieces of implementing lean manufacturing in an engaging story that readers will find both compelling and instructive. Authors Freddy and Michael Ballé have produced the first integrated and systematic approach to a set of ideas that have maximized value and minimized waste throughout the world. At the heart of the Gold Mine is Bob Woods, a curmudgeonly sensei coaxed out of retirement by his son Mike to help boyhood friend Phil Jenkinson save his struggling company. Despite terrific products and a backlog of orders, Phil’s company cannot generate enough cash from its operations to pay its bills. And so Mike enlists Bob to help his pal fix this crisis.

"You’re trying to deal with your mess as if it was a technical problem," Bob tells Phil. "Move this machine here, change this design there, which it is to some extent, but … it’s all about people. You have a leadership problem not just a production or business problem." As Phil begins to tackle the key challenges necessary to improve his company’s operations, he comes to understand the deeper points of lean. Readers will also draw powerful insights from his journey.

The Gold Mine presents all the key lean principles, ranging from well-known ideas such as pull and flow, to lesser-known yet equally important principles such as jidoka and heijunka. The book also reveals lean as a systemâ€"using a realistic story to show how the principles are interrelated and how they lead to useful tools such as kanban or 5S.









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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

God in the Wilderness: Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Great Outdoors with the Adventure Rabbi



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Rabbi Jamie Korngold has always loved the outdoors, the place where humankind first met with God. Whether it’s mountaineering, running ultramarathons, or just sitting by a stream, she finds her spirituality and Judaism thrive most in the wilderness. In her work as the Adventure Rabbi, leading groups toward spiritual fulfillment in the outdoors, Korngold has uncovered the rich traditions and lessons God taught our ancestors in the wild. In God in the Wilderness Korngold uses rabbinic wisdom and witty insights to guide readers through the Bible, showing people of all faiths that, despite the hectic pace of life today, it is vital for us to reclaim these lessons, awaken our inner spirituality, and find meaning, tranquillity, and purpose in our lives.











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The Magic of Interactive Entertainment/Book and Two Cds





This book looks at all facets of the field of interactive entertainment. From the early Atari 2600 to the 3DO and Sega's and Nintendo's game systems of the future, the book covers all home and portable systems.









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Monday, December 13, 2010

A few nice Children images I found:

C.C. Childs, Simon Gillis (LOC)

Children


Image by The Library of Congress

Bain News Service,, publisher.

C.C. Childs, Simon Gillis

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows C.C. Childs (1884-1960), American athlete and bronze medal winner in hammer throw at the 1912 Olympics and Simon Peter Gillis (1880-1964), a Canadian-born American athlete who competed in the hammer throw at the 1912 Olympics, standing at Hilltop Park, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11576

Call Number: LC-B2- 2522-11



Portrait view of child wearing a sun hat, with dog and toy cat (different angle)

Children


Image by Powerhouse Museum Collection

Format: Glass plate negative.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Phillips Glass Plate Negative Collection, Powerhouse Museum www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/collection=Phillips_Glass_Plate_Negative

Part Of: Powerhouse Museum Collection

General information about the Powerhouse Museum Collection is available at www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database

Persistent URL: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=385870

Acquisition credit line: Gift of the Estate of Raymond W Phillips, 2008

Barbie® - Kelly®'s friend Tommy® as Chucky from "Child's Play" (2006)

Children


Image by Charles (dollstuff.net)

Here's another "oldie but-I-haven't-added-it-yet" that seems appropriate to post on Halloween.... ~mwahahaha~ This is Tommy® as Chucky from the Child's Play movies. It's from 2006.

I made his outfit (I also made the prints for the the striped and blue overall fabrics and printed them myself), rerooted his hair and completely repainted his face (removing all the original paint).

I'll add more about it later! ♥

Sunday, December 12, 2010

The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity





The wedding ritual of the ancient Romans provides a crucial key to understanding their remarkable civilization. The intriguing ceremony represented the starting point of a Roman family as well as a Roman girl's transition to womanhood. This is the first book-length examination of Roman wedding ritual. Drawing on literary, legal, historical, antiquarian, and artistic evidence of Roman nuptials from the end of the Republic through the early Empire (from ca. 200 BC to 200 AD), Karen Hersch shows how the Roman wedding expressed the ideals and norms of an ancient people. Her book is an invaluable tool for Roman social historians interested in how ideas of gender, law, religion, and tradition are interwoven into the wedding ceremony of every culture.









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Mild Ale: History, Brewing, Techniques, Recipes (Classic Beer Style Series, 15)





Mild ale is a simple beer to make, but an extremely difficult style to pin down. Although light in body and alcohol, it is complex and full of flavor.









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Saturday, December 11, 2010



Question by Nate:

How do I get a job a regional accounting firm?



I want to get a job at a regional accounting firm I had 3.0 gpa in my Accounting degree. I don't know of many firms and the ones I do know of don't have any public email or application process on their websites. I am willing to travel anywhere in the U.S. Does anyone have any tips?




Best answer:

Answer by capwest5a
If your 'degree' is a two year degree from a community college, that's virtually worthless.
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You will most likely never be hired if you think you can apply for and get jobs online. You must go in person to get hired in most cases.





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25 Houses Under 1500 Square Feet





Following up on the successful book 25 Houses under 2500 Square Feet, this title will continue to explore, though case studies, the joys of living in compact, well designed homes. The 25 houses presented in the book offer an extraordinary range of architectural solutions for designing functional yet exciting, dramatic living spaces within a small envelope. The houses will range in size from a few hundred square feet up to 1500 square feet of heated space. As with 25 Houses, projects will be located throughout the United States with some coming from Europe, South America, Asia and Australia.

Readers interested in building a primary residence, a weekend getaway, or a guest house will discover how architects, through the innovative use of common building materials and careful attention to space and light, are able to create dwellings that belie their small size.

The projects were selected for their excellence in design, innovative use of materials and methods of construction, each house comprises a case study that includes interior and exterior photography by some of the finest architectural photographers working today; drawings including site plans, details, and floor plans; and concise, informative text that highlights the design and technical aspects of the house.

Architects and architectural firms to be featured include: Lake/Flato, Olson Sunberg Kundig Allen, Archi-Tonics, Via Architecture, Dean/Wolf, Belmont Freeman,Hanrahan and Meyers, AC2, Frank Harmon.









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