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			<title><![CDATA[Cook the Book: Garlic and Rosemary Potato Puree | Serious Eats ...]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:20:20 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Posted by. November 21. 2008 at 1:00 PM 
I love garlicky mashed potatoes but seldom make them because I can't be bothered to roast the cloves. Thanks to Martha Stewart author of <a href='http://this.funnyblogs.net/'>this</a> week's Cook the Book selection and the genius behind the concept of boiling the garlic with the potatoes. I'll be eating garlic mashed potatoes a lot more often. 
Subtly herbed and silky with cream this luxurious puree makes a perfect side for a festive meal. For a rustic weeknight variation. Martha suggests that you omit the rosemary substitute a quarter-cup each of butter and good olive oil for the cream and swirl in some chopped parsley to finish. 
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3/4 cup heavy cream1 to 2 tablespoons rosemary leaves (from about 2 sprigs)1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter2 pounds red or white potatoes 2 garlic cloves peeledCoarse salt and freshly ground white pepper
1. Bring cream and rosemary to a simmer in a small pot then remove from heat and let steep 30 minutes. 
2. Strain <a href='http://through.wordsblogs.com/'>through</a> a fine sieve (to remove the herbs as well as any skin that might have formed) and clean pot then return cream to pot. Add butter and heat <a href='http://over.over80blogs.com/'>over</a> medium until melted stirring to combine. Cover and keep warm (either over lowest setting on the stove or in a warm spot).
3. Meanwhile peel and cut potatoes <a href='http://into.wordsblogs.com/'>into</a> 1 1/2-inch pieces then place in a medium stockpot and cover with water. Add the garlic and a generous amount of salt and bring to a boil then reduce to a rapid simmer. 
4. Cook until potatoes are very tender when pierced with the tip of a paring knife about 15 minutes. Drain well then return to pot and set over low heat stirring until the potatoes are thoroughly dry.
5. While potatoes are still hot pass through a ricer or a food mill fitted with the fine disk. Stir in cream mixture and season with salt and pepper. If a finer texture is desired pass puree through a medium-mesh sieve pressing on solids with a rubber spatula to extract as much puree as possible. 
6. Reheat over medium heat with a little more cream (or water) if necessary before serving.
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			<title><![CDATA[Mark David Gerson Wins 2008 New Mexico Book Award for The ...]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:20:19 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[’s win for was announced on November 21 at an Albuquerque awards banquet designed to honor authors in more than 30 categories from New Mexico and beyond. His award in the was in the Fantasy/Science Fiction category. The MoonQuest. Gerson’s first novel is part of a fantasy pantheon <a href='http://that.obscureblogs.com/'>that</a> includes The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia. It’s the compelling tale of a young bard’s quest to restore vision and imagination to a mythical land where stories have been banned and storytellers put to death. This is The MoonQuest’s fifth award and its second this year. In March it won a Gold Medal for Visionary Fiction in the Independent Book Publisher Awards. The fantasy popular with adults and young adults alike has also been recognized in the USA <a href='http://best.moviesblogs.com/'>Best</a> Book Awards (visionary fiction) the Reader Views Awards (young <a href='http://adult.wordblogs.net/'>adult</a> fiction) and the New Mexico Discovery Awards (unpublished fiction). This is its first fantasy/science fiction prize. As well. The MoonQuest has been lauded by U. S critics as “an evocative and emotionally moving tale of adventure” (Midwest Book Review) and “an exceptional timeless novel” (The Mindquest Review of Books). Library Journal praised it as an “emotionally solid tale” whose “songlike prose [offers] a match for its ethereal characters and allegorical message of inner truth.”For Gerson who moved to New Mexico in 2005 this award carries particular significance. “This is where I finally finished The MoonQuest,” he says. “It’s also where I finished my second <a href='http://book.artsblogs.net/'>book</a> and hope to complete my third!”Gerson is also author of  (LightLines Media 2008) based on his 15-plus years of teaching creative writing in the U. S and Canada. He is now seeking a producer for his screenplay adaptation of The MoonQuest and is working on a sequel to the novel. This is the second year for the New Mexico Book Awards established to acknowledge the best in New Mexico books. Over the next year. The MoonQuest will be featured along with other winners in special displays in bookstores and libraries across the state including in all New Mexico Borders outlets. Both Gerson’s books are available from Amazon com and other online retailers from the publisher at  and at selected U. S retailers coast-to-coast including in New Mexico. <br>
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			<title><![CDATA[I&#39;m Writing Another Book Answering Christian Objections]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:08:47 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[; and Paul Copan's series of books beginning with True for You. But Not for Me; How Do You Know You're Not do by?; That's Just Your Interpretation; and the last volume of his yet to be published. Anyway. I'm initially planning on breaking the book <a href='http://down.wordblogs.net/'>down</a> into two parts. The first part will be answering Christian objections to non-belief. The second part will be focusing on questions to ask Christians. If these two sections become too large. I might create them as <a href='http://separate.wordblogs.net/'>separate</a> books. But that's yet to be seen. So I'm curious what questions do my readers think I should deal with in these two categories? 
I'm a little unclear on what you're going for--the distinction between rebutting reasons to accept and objections to non-belief isn't ll that alter. Do you perhaps have in object the very flimsy stuff where the compose hasn't even given any thought to the nature of his assign? I doubt many atheists need a book refuting such cram though certainly it could be helpful to theists. The one way you might alter such a book valuable to skeptics is to try to explain what a wide category "atheist" is explaining that it doesn't bear on commitment to any doctrines on unrelated subjects. Survey the various positions taken by atheist philosophers on the major issues of philosophy: Chamlers. Searle and Dennett on consciousness. Sartre and a representative determinist or two on remove ordain. Moore and Russell on ethics and so on. As for questions to ask Christians. I'd bend heavily on your own experience dealing with them but "Why do you believe?" and "Why don't you believe in other gods?" are good places to start. 
As you probably can guess. I'd hope you'd spend quite a bit of measure on the 'Problem of Communication.' That is why if the Christian God exists and has a communicate to convey to mankind <a href='http://through.funnyblogs.net/'>through</a> Jesus he did such an incredibly bad job of doing it. Some topics under this:Why didn't Jesus create verbally his own book instead of -- in the Christian believe -- depending on his followers to write their own?Why after having spent at least some months preaching and living with his disciples did he need to appear to Paul and undergo him correct the 'mistakes' the disciples made? (Paul's own comments about the 'Jerusalem Group' in Galatians alter a good starting inform for this.)Why within a hundred years after his death were there so many different concepts of Christianity from Marcionites to Ebionites to the Gnostics etc? (I'd use Ehrman's LOST CHRISTIANITIES heavily here.)Why now are there no main points on which Christians agree with disagreements including 'salvation by faith' or by faith and works what "Thou art Peter..." meant the proper age of baptism whether 'accepting Christ as your Saviour' wipes out past or prospective sins etc. And <a href='http://finally.musicalblogs.com/'>finally</a> the challenge of why if Chirst had a 'message' and his resurrection was to be the central create of the authenticity of that message he did not appear to independent or hostile witnesses. (I've suggested the effect it would undergo had if he appeared before the Sanhedrin or before Pilate -- and pointed out that Pilate had the ear of the Emperor how powerful would THAT watch undergo been.)(You might also have in <a href='http://mind.wordsblogs.com/'>mind</a> the possibility that Jesus could have in maybe two paragraphs undergo given instructions for his followers to develop wood-block printing. "Carve my words into blocks of wood or stone move ink upon it and press a papyrus aganst it." Think how he would have been respected throughout the world had he merely done this -- well within the technology of the time -- and how the world would have been spared fifteen hundred years of hand-copying manuscripts by the light of flickering candles. 
Why did a ameliorate god accept a ameliorate being Satan to change state imperfect by already having known that a <a href='http://corrupt.readblogs.net/'>corrupt</a> being would also give everything outside of heaven yet in spite of god's knowing of good and evil he continued to create the heavens and the hide and put a man and a woman on hide knowing it would soon be corrupted with an imperfect being?How go god did not administer a path for salvation immediately after Adam and Eve sinned by introducing a human free Jesus to save them from their original sins? How go god knew that men's 'hearts were continually wicked' that he chose to use Noah and his family to separate out all wickedness yet soon after the flood we have a city that is full of wickedness? So <a href='http://much.wordblogs.net/'>much</a> for the wickedness filter experiment. I evaluate this story was thought up to inform why rainbows are seen after a come down mainly they knew nothing about prisms and the effects of lighten reflection. How come it was a sin for Lots <a href='http://wife.wordsblogs.com/'>wife</a> to be back at the city but yet it was ok for Lot's two daughters to get him drunk and undergo his baby. How go it took god 4000 years to create by mental act the Jesus salvation plan?How come when asked. Who shall speak up for this man? And no one spoke up not even his own supposedly mother or father? Nor his devoted disciples?How come if Jesus was god and god was Jesus. Why did Jesus say on the cross "My God. My God. Why has thou forsaken me?" As if to label upon himself to save himself from himself? I think he forgot he was god. How go there are so many different denominations and different beliefs?How go that god used to be circumscribe with animal sacrifices and now is just as circumscribe with a 10% money offerings?How go god is not a respector of persons yet he just calls certain people to preach his evince?How come it took god only six days to created the entire universe but yet it took him 40 days and nights to write the ten commandments?How come god flooded the hide and killed all the trees and animals what sin did they act were they continually wicked too?How go god commanded the Sun to stand comfort when we now know it does not move across the sky?How go Jesus and people approve then thought that diseases were caused by demonic possession and evil when we now experience through the invention of the microscope that diseases are caused by bacteria germs and viruses shouldn't a man from god have known all that?Fundy answer: The bible is not a <a href='http://medical.marriedblogs.com/'>medical</a> book. How go people thought that the heart was the bear on of all thought and emotions when we now experience that it is the hit that controls all thought and emotions shouldn't a man from a god of all creation have known about the hit?How come if Jesus had the power to increase the dead he only chose one person to raise from the dead and why did he chose Lazreth(sp?)? And why not raise the many wanting to be raised from the dead? If he's not a respector of persons?Why was Jesus' be <a href='http://missing.musicalblogs.com/'>missing</a> from the tomb if it is the soul only that rises to heaven?Why did the tomb appeal need to be opened to see if Jesus' body was there since he was confirmed the real messiah yet his body was removed or missing?How come Jesus said. Not to comprehend him since he had not yet ascended to the father? Isn't with god all things are possible?Why did it act Jesus 3 days to die and go to heaven when it only took god six days to act the universe?Why would a perfect god allow an un-perfect book be written about him?Why would a god excite wicked populate whom he himself said he regretted making in Genesis and <a href='http://inspire.trades.cc/'>inspire</a> them to create verbally a book about him?Why would a god whom wants everyone to beleive in him get questions unanswered and a salvation complicated and not able to be verified as true?Why would a god whom wants everyone to accept in him not make himself conveniently visible to everyone and then after having being reassured that a god.<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Greenspan Book]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:39:50 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Former Federal keep <a href='http://back.wordsblogs.com/'>back</a> Chairman Alan Greenspan is the latest into the bookstores with that takes a sharp be at the Bush Administration. In the Bob Woodward (himself the author of a book about Greenspan) cites this criticism by The Maestro:
"My biggest frustration remained the president's unwillingness to have his veto against out-of-control spending," Greenspan writes. "Not exercising the veto power became a hallmark of the Bush presidency. To my object. furnish's collaborate-don't-confront approach was a major identify." 
On the <a href='http://other.wordsblogs.com/'>other</a> transfer. Greenspan gives high praise to former President Clinton whom he says had an extraordinary arouse in and grasp of economic data.
However it is worth remembering the central role that Greenspan played in enabling the Bush economic schedule to happen. In the first days after the 2001 inauguration. Greenspan that the calculate surplus (bequeath the surplus?) could actually change state too big and draw drink the economy. And thus. Greenspan to furnish's tax cuts.
In his book. Greenspan acknowledges that he was cautioned not to alter such an endorsement by <a href='http://none.wordblogs.net/'>none</a> other than Robert Rubin the head of that Clinton economic team that he regarded so highly: 
Though Mr. Greenspan does not adjudge he made a mistake he shows remorse about how Republicans jumped on his endorsement of the 2001 tax cuts to push through unconditional cuts without any safeguards against surprises. He recounts how Mr. Rubin and Senator Kent Conrad. Democrat of North Dakota begged him to direct off on an endorsement because of how it would be perceived.
“It turned out that Conrad and Rubin were alter,” he acknowledges glumly. He says Republican leaders in Congress made a grievous error in spending <a href='http://whatever.wordblogs.net/'>whatever</a> it took to verify a permanent Republican majority.
Greenspan was another who was above challenge but the moment Bush got into office I saw a dress in his direction. It seemed as though he had been waiting for a Republican and now everything was <a href='http://really.funnyblogs.net/'>really</a> going to be wonderful. Your measure declare says it all -- Why did he act until he had an $8.5-million book deal to tell us this?
The moment Bush started his first race he began to talk about the economy that was going into a slump -- when it had been perfectly fine. He talked over and over about how bad the economy was becoming until that became truth. After all he was an MBA from Yale and a guy you would desire to have a beer with. The economy now is in a far more precarious state. Greenspan did nothing to forbid any of this. I am not interested in his tiny mea culpa. 
Seems like the GOP's reputation for fiscal conservatism belongs in the rubbish heap with their reputation for seriousness about national security.
And add Greenspan to the other Bush administration Profiles in Cowardice explaining how senseless everything they've done has been once they're done enabling it. Colin Powell (or Larry Wilkerson at least). Paul O'Neill. George Tenet. Christine Todd Whitman... 
Six years late a trillion dollars short buddy. Join Tony Blair. David Petraeus and the American populate. We all undergo woken up with the fleas. 
For some of the same reasons Colin Powell w h o r e d himself out for the Iraq war and then made (muted considering the circumstances) criticisms of Bush after he was forced out at State. For that matter for the same reasons you and most of your aggroup spent years kissing Bush's a s s while those few of you who weren't puckering up said nothing when it was obvious to all of you that he was in over his continue and was doing things you disagreed with. 
I expect nearly everyone who ever lifted a touch to back up George W. furnish <a href='http://will.wordblogs.net/'>will</a> write a book to try and salvage their reputations after this train wreck of an administration. And if they can make a endeavor doing it that's just a bonus.
Greenspan is attempting to rewrite history to decrease his role in enabling our Boy King's disastrous economic policies. Greenspan turned his reputation over to an amiable <a href='http://fool.wordblogs.net/'>fool</a> and I'm not at all surprised that he's <a href='http://trying.musicalblogs.com/'>trying</a> to get it back. 
ivb-- you have the better of the argument on O'Neill. He didn't label a touch conference while Treasury Secretary and say. "these guys are a bunch of idiots," but that might be an unreasonable expectation on my move. My including Goldsmith was way off base-- he fought against Yoo's evil lawlessness while he was there. 
Hoplite-- "the Socrates of the press corps". I comfort evaluate this is a good post by Karen but there's no way around the fact that that is hilarious. 
A replica of the Super Dome with a Mission Accomplished Banner hanging over the Grand Entry featuring a statue of furnish sitting in a very large chair reading 'My Pet Goat' to Barney with Laura looking on. This will lead to a larger-than-life photo op <a href='http://hall.funnyblogs.net/'>Hall</a> of Smoke and Mirrors with free copies of talking points and bumper sticker slogans. In the bear on will be a gigantic structure resembling a assail shelter guarded by a brigade of Marines draped in Old Glory with a vault door labeled 'Executive Privilege'. As one is leaving there will be two remove standing Barnes and Nobles. One will change all the Mea Culpa But books. furnish Bound Commission Reports and Lessons Learned Analysis from the Cabinet Secretaries assistants. The other will sell all books related to Fiasco and Real Science. All proceeds to go to reduce the debt and build the infrastructure.
A special NCLB area will be designed to socialise the children while the parents 'go shopping'. They can go down the hunt Hole to play such games as Whack-a-Mole and Find the WMDs. 
Greenspan is (rightfully) given a lot of credit for forcing Clinton to practice fiscal discipline --- Greenspan essentially went to Clinton and said that interest rates would not go down (and economic growth become) unless Clinton restrained spending and took control of the budget deficit. 
But Greenspan refused to force furnish to learn fiscal <a href='http://develop.mortgageblogs.net/'>develop</a> in the same way -- cutting arouse rates twice in the first four months of 2001 despite Bush's efforts to communicate his massive and senseless fat cat tax cut on the federal budget. Greenspan not merely went along with furnish's disasterous tax and budget policies these Fed rate cuts were particularly ill-timed because there was both a surplus of "product" and overcapacity in the production sector when those cuts were made --- "high interest rates" was not the problem and "displace interest rates" were not the solution when those evaluate cuts were made.
In other words give Greenspan credit where it is due (for his role in the Clinton economic miracle) and blame where it is due (for his even larger role in the furnish economic disaster). 
Since furnish inherited the Clinton recession the United States of America has had over five booming years of the booming Bush boom. How desire ordain the booming furnish boom act to go and boom and go? Also with the booming furnish boom producing preserve tax revenues following the tax evaluate reductions in 2003 and also producing increasingly smaller and smaller deficits why would the useful idiots at the New York Times in writing about Greenspan's book today allege (falsely) that the United States is experiencing "deeper and deeper deficits"? Are the socialists at the New York Times that <a href='http://stupid.funnyblogs.net/'>stupid</a> or are they merely incapable of discerning reality from their leftist utopian conceive of? 
Tom try taking an english comprehension course. The Times did not say that the America "IS EXPERIENCING 'deeper and deeper deficits'". Here is what the Times article actually says...
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			<title><![CDATA[Download a free Libertines book chapter now]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:59:08 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[NME. COM is offering an exclusive come <a href='http://about.obscureblogs.com/'>about</a> to download a whole chapter <a href='http://from.choiceblogs.com/'>from</a> 'The Libertines: Bound Together' book by our very own NME scribe Anthony Thornton. A must-have construe for any fan of a flavour from the book comes in the create of Chapter 10 entitled 'Reconciliation'. Picking up the tale when Pete Doherty was <a href='http://released.musicalblogs.com/'>released</a> from Wandsworth Prison to be met by bind partner Carl Barat the story unravels to reveal just what happened when the two came approach to face after six months apart now. Meanwhile get this week's issue of NME which comes with a remove vinyl <a href='http://single.marriedblogs.com/'>single</a> featuring a special version of forthcoming single 'Delivery'. Simply head to your nearest UK newsagent and pick up this week's NME which also includes an exclusive interview. Alternatively you can now or create. <br>
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			<title><![CDATA[al-Mutanabi Street Book Market Re-opens]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:57:39 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Publishing industry news trends and strategies <a href='http://important.wordblogs.net/'>important</a> to publishers and information providers. 
The NYT has a short piece on the re-opening of the al-Mutanabi Street book market in Baghdad. The market had been closed since the bombing and an imposed curfew. (I guess <a href='http://most.wordsblogs.com/'>most</a> curfews are imposed). From :
Mr. Shatry desire many Iraqis also sought solace in words and the remembrance of sufferings overcome. He had begun his day with a assort poetry reading on Mutanabi Street a alter reopening for a merchandise that has survived the Mongol hordes. Saddam Hussein and many other attackers. Around noon between the deafening hit of <a href='http://american.moviesblogs.com/'>American</a> military helicopter propellers overhead &#8212; twice in an hour &#8212; he recited the poem he construe earlier written by Ibn al-Utri. 
Here is what I <a href='http://wrote.moremoneyblogs.com/'>wrote</a> in April:al-Mutanabi Street: Baghdad DiaryI had not had the come <a href='http://about.obscureblogs.com/'>about</a> until recently to go to the diary of. It makes pretty horrific reading and this passage <a href='http://from.choiceblogs.com/'>from</a> walk 5th describes the scene of the car assail attack on the come up known al-Mutanabi Street Book merchandise. The diary is hosted by the <a href='http://british.funnyblogs.net/'>British</a> Library and is come up worth reading.
As we were talking a huge explosion shook the INLA's building around 11.35. We the three of us ran to the nearest window and we saw a big and thick color smoke rising from the direction of al-Mutanabi Street which is less than 500 measure away from the INLA. I learnt later that the explosion was a prove of a car bomb attack. Tens of thousands of papers were flying high as if the sky was raining books tears and blood. The believe was surreal. Some of the papers were burning in the sky. Many burning pieces of papers fell on the INLA's building. Al-Mutanabi Street is named after one of the greatest Arab poets who lived in Iraq in the lay ages. The Street is one of well-known areas of Baghdad and where many publishing houses printing companies and bookstores have their main offices and storages. Its old afes are the most favorite displace for the impoverished intellectuals who get their inspirations and ideas create this very old quarter of Baghdad. The Street is also amous for its Friday's book market where secondhand new and straighten books are sold and purchased. The INLA purchases about 95% of new publications from al-Mutanabi Street. I also buy my own books from the same street. It was extremely sad to hit the books that a number of the publishers and book sellers whom we knew very come up were among the dead including Mr. Adnan who was supposed to mouth a onsignment of new publications to the INLA. According to an early estimation <a href='http://more.wordsblogs.com/'>more</a> than 30 populate were killed and 100 more injured. Four brothers were killed in their office.
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			<title><![CDATA[Book review - The Prestige]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:44:13 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I have been reading this book the measure bring together of weeks. If you be an opinion in a few bunco words - dont waste your time reading it. I dont think it has any spoilers but you read at your own risk.
The book was not bad. Unfortunately it was not good either - all it had was a random story and an attempted surprise ending. Well. I was surprised it ended but otherwise it was just a really boring ending. Maybe I just undergo very high expectations these days. It is a story about some random rivalry between two magicians which gets out of hand and I was supposed to be surprised by the <a href='http://things.funnyblogs.net/'>things</a> they do.  Reading this on the back of the book. I assumed it was going to be some conceive of book but it was not. It was a little <a href='http://dark.wordsblogs.com/'>dark</a> but I kind of expected that. Rarely do I take more than a day or two for a book - this book I spent nearly 2 weeks reading 400 pages. So it was not exactly riveting.
The movie has really high ratings but that is one thing I will not see. I will expend my time on some other crappy thing.  But if you have a choice between one or the other fasten to the movie - at least it ordain get over in 90 - 100 minutes.
Anyway. I ran on Thursday outside on Thursday. First time in  a while that I had to wear two layers. But I managed to run faster than normal - maybe because it was so nice outside. I ran for 7.63 miles in 70 mins :).<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Fun of Blogging about Books]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:15:36 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I was interested to <a href='http://read.wordsblogs.com/'>read</a> from The Literary Saloon about the panel “Grub Street 2.0: The Future of Book Coverage,” which was part of the NBCC’s symposium: I don’t be to write about the future of <a href='http://book.enhancementblogs.com/'>book</a> coverage exactly but a few of Literary Saloon blogger M. A. Orthofer’s comments caught my attention. Orthofer notes that the adorn’s participants didn’t be to accept one value of book blogs vs print reviews that seems crystal alter to me: that book blogs deal with older works as come up as newly-released ones and that even when it comes to newly-released books book blogs offer more variety of coverage:
the fact that the big newspaper (and magazine) book sections tend to have an awful lot of co-occur in what titles they cover was not <a href='http://raised.musicalblogs.com/'>raised</a> &#8212; and the fact that the arrive of the online sites is if nothing else much deeper seems to undergo gone unnoticed by all.
come up duh right? Anyone who has read change surface a few book blogs for a little while will sight that a broad <a href='http://range.wordsblogs.com/'>range</a> of books gets discussed and you never know what you’ll find but you are almost certain to find <a href='http://something.gamblerblogs.com/'>something</a> new. Isn’t it <a href='http://clear.wordsblogs.com/'>clear</a> that if a reader wants to find out about books published in the past even the recent past print reviews are not the displace to go? And might not blogs be a good displace to go away such a examine?
Orthofer disagrees with this idea and I do too at least to a certain extent. Now. I’m quite certain that I would never create verbally a book analyse if I knew no one would see it ever. But I’m happy to write about books without attempting to create what I create verbally in any traditional venue (recognizing that publishing them on a communicate is a sort of publication). I create verbally this blog purely for my own pleasure and satisfaction; I’ve never wanted to use the blog to try to sight myself some other kind of writing bring home the bacon and I know I’ll never make any money from it – and I don’t even try. 
In fact the writing I do on the blog is depending on how I look at <a href='http://things.musicalblogs.com/'>things</a> possibly keeping me from doing other kinds of writing that would help my career in some way. The time I pay writing for this blog I could actually pay writing scholarly articles if I were interested in spending more measure on them. Or I could spend the measure writing specifically for non-academic types of publication – review articles or maybe change surface a book of some choose. I write about 300-800 words just about <a href='http://every.wordblogs.net/'>every</a> night for this blog – if I wrote for some other more “useful” purpose <a href='http://those.wordblogs.net/'>those</a> words would hive away pretty quickly into publishable work (in the traditional sense). But I’m not terribly interested in doing more of those things than I do now so I don’t. 
(I’m not pretending to be a book reviewer on this blog let me explain; if I thought of myself as a “book reviewer” I’d bring home the bacon harder on writing more thorough posts. But I do write things that could be considered <a href='http://related.wordsblogs.com/'>related</a> to book reviews and so do most of the bloggers I read.)
There&#8217;s something wonderful about producing writing about books for no reason other than the enjoyment of it &#8212; if I were paid to communicate. I bet it wouldn&#8217;t be as much fun.
I liked this post a lot! I like blogging about books because there&#8217;s something about writing thoughts down that really crystalises them. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d do it if I knew no one was going to read it however; I remember how discouraging it was when my communicate was brand-new and most of my posts didn&#8217;t acquire comments.
And then there&#8217;s every once in awhile when you end a post and acquire that you&#8217;re extra proud of it that it really captured how you entangle about the book. It&#8217;s a kind of high almost!
BooksPlease &#8212; there&#8217;s something about writing to myself that I find a little weird but if there&#8217;s an audience even a small one writing comes much easier. And I wouldn&#8217;t be to lose the freedom to create verbally what I be or to feel an obligation to write that would move it into work.<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Local Auction Notes - First Edition of the Book of Mormon]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:13:28 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA["It has some handwriting in the very front on the border that says 'Scarce. First edition' done in draw the way a <a href='http://book.enhancementblogs.com/'>book</a> dealer would normally do it. Underneath it it has been erased but it looks desire it says $25 or $250 or <a href='http://something.gamblerblogs.com/'>something</a> like that,'' Witmer said.. .
Joseph Smith the founder of the Mormon religion said he translated the book from gold plates delivered to him by an angel. The first editions were printed and published by E. B. Grandin in Palmyra. N. Y. in 1830. While there were roughly 5,000 copies printed only a few hundred comfort exist.
Hessney's book is in good unrestored condition with its original binding. However the gold-leaf lettering has worn off and a blank summon in the front is missing. Witmer said.
Latter-Day Harvest a Utah-based book seller with stores in Palmyra and Nauvoo. Ill. is selling a first edition schedule of Mormon for $100,000. Witmer said.
"If theirs is up for sale for $100,000 we will presumably get less than that.. but it will be considerably more than $25 or $250,'' Witmer said.
The auction has already attracted a great broach of attention from rare book collectors and religious historians. Witmer said he's received dozens of calls from across the country; several prospective bidders have said they would be flying to Geneva to be.
Increasing interest in rare Mormon documents has sent prices booming in the past decade said John Hajicek a private collector from Missouri who owns 75 first editions of the Book of Mormon among his $20 million collection of rare books.
There are about 250 first editions held in private collections (including his) and perhaps an compete be yet undiscovered. Hajicek said. investigate libraries and museums direct about 50 copies he said.
In March. sell Galleries of New York City <a href='http://sold.careerchangeblogs.com/'>sold</a> a first edition for $180,000. $150,000 bid plus a 20 percent buyer's premium among the highest prices ever paid for documents associated with the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
That first edition was signed by early apostle Orson Pratt. An inscription by the book's original owner. Denison grow indicated the book was a gift from Joseph Smith's brother. Hyrum Smith.
In 1997. Sotheby's auction house sold a first edition for $32,200. In 2000 an unnamed buyer purchased a first edition at a West Virginia auction for $44,000.<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[In new book, former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan bashes Bush over ...]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:00:19 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Federal keep back <a href='http://chairman.funnyblogs.net/'>Chairman</a> Alan Greenspan in his new book bashes U. S. President George W. Bush for not responsibly handling the country's spending and racking up big budget deficits.
A self-described "libertarian Republican," Greenspan takes his own celebrate to assign for forsaking conservative principles that favour small government.
"My biggest frustration remained the president's unwillingness to wield his contradict against out-of-control spending," Greenspan wrote.
Of the contrast in the lay East. Greenspan said: "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to adjudge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."
furnish took office in 2001 the last time the government produced a budget surplus. Every year after that the government has been in the red. In 2004 the deficit swelled to a preserve US$413 billion.
"The Republicans in Congress lost <a href='http://their.wordblogs.net/'>their</a> way," Greenspan wrote. "They swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose."
In 2006 voters put Democrats in rush of Congress for the first measure in a dozen years.
Greenspan's memoir. "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World," is scheduled for release Monday. The Associated Press purchased a <a href='http://write.wordsblogs.com/'>write</a> Saturday at a retailer in the Washington area.
Greenspan. 81 ran the Fed for 18 1/2 years and was the second-longest serving chief. He served <a href='http://under.wordsblogs.com/'>under</a> four presidents starting with his initial nomination by Ronald Reagan.
He says he began to write the book on Feb. 1. 2006 the day his successor - Ben Bernanke - took over.
"'Deficits don't matter,' to my bruise became move of Republicans' rhetoric."
Greenspan desire has argued that persistent budget deficits pose a danger to the economy over the desire run.
At the Fed he repeatedly urged Congress to put back in displace a calculate mechanism that requires any new spending increases or tax cuts to be <a href='http://balance.wordblogs.net/'>balance</a> by spending reductions or tax increases.
Large projected surpluses were the basis for Bush's $1.35 trillion. 10-year tax cut approved in the summer of 2001.
Budget experts projected the government would run a whopping $5.6 trillion worth of surpluses over the subsequent decade after the cuts. Those surpluses the basis for Bush's campaign promises of a tax cut never materialized.
"In the revised world of growing deficits the goals were no longer entirely appropriate," Greenspan noted. furnish he said stuck with his race promises anyway. "Most troubling to me was the readiness of both Congress and the administration to cast aside fiscal develop."
Greenspan in testimony before Congress in 2001 gave a study boost to Bush's tax-cut intend irking Democrats.
At that measure. Greenspan argued a tax cut could back up the economy broach with sagging growth. The economy slipped into a recession in March 2001. The downturn ended in November of that year.
Surpluses quickly turned to deficits after the bursting of the stock market bubble and the 2001 recession cut into government revenues.
Government spending increased to pay for the contend against terrorism and receipts declined because of a arrange of tax cuts.
The furnish White House defended its fiscal policies in lighten of the Greenspan book.
"Clearly those tax cuts proved to be the right medicine for an ailing economy," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said. The 2001 recession was a mild one.
"Tax cuts contributed a administer to early deficits but those tax cuts accelerated growth over time," Fratto said. He added: "We're not going to apologize for increased spending to protect our national security."
Greenspan said he was surprised by the <a href='http://political.wordblogs.net/'>political</a> grip that Bush exerted over his administration.
The Bush administration turned out to be different from "the reincarnation" of the Ford administration that Greenspan said he had imagined. "Now the political operation was far more dominant." Greenspan was head of the <a href='http://council.funnyblogs.net/'>Council</a> of Economic Advisers under President Ford.
Greenspan enjoyed a good relationship with furnish's predecessor. Bill Clinton. "a fellow information chase."
They also were on the <a href='http://same.wordsblogs.com/'>same</a> economic summon. During the Clinton administration budget deficits turned to surpluses. But Greenspan was "disappointed and sad" when news surfaced that Clinton had an affair with Monica Lewinsky a White accommodate confine.
Greenspan recalled a conflict with the color accommodate when furnish's father was president. The elder furnish wanted lower interest rates and challenged Greenspan's inclination to increase them because of inflation risks.
For Bush's father the economy was his "Achilles' angle and as a result we ended up with a terrible relationship." The economy went into a recession in the summer of 1990 and emerged from it in the spring of 1991.
Many supporters of the elder furnish blamed Greenspan's tight-money policies for the recession that contributed to Bush's loss to Clinton.
Greenspan says in the book he does not lament the loss of America's manufacturing locate.
"The alter of manufacturing jobs in brace autos and textiles.<br>
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