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- Transylvania Library to hold used book sale Saturday - Asheville Citizen-Times
- Veteran cricket journalist Rajan Bala dies in Bangalore - Newstrack India
- Finding Husbands for Iraq's Widows - ABC News
- Shmoop! (There it Is.) Introducing Shmoop Music. - PR Inside
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| Transylvania Library to hold used book sale Saturday - Asheville Citizen-Times Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:42 AM PDT BREVARD — The Friends of the Transylvania County Library will begin their annual used book sale 9:30 a.m.- 5p.m. Saturday. Nearly 20,000 used books will be available for sale ranging from best sellers, history, cook books, classic literature and biographies to childrens books, crafts, religion and more. Audios and videos will also be offered. The Friends have been holding a book sale for 20 years. All of the proceeds from the sale go to support programs at the Transylvania County Library. This years sale will take place in the Rogow Room at the Library. Day One of the sale is for Friends of the Library members only. Membership is available at the door for $10. The book sale ill be open to the public 9:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Monday. On Tuesday and Wednesday the hours will be from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m; Thursday the sale runs from 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Friday's hours will be 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday and Friday all the books will be sold at half-price. On Oct.18, the sale will run from 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. and all books can be purchased for $4 per box. Jeanne Smith, Book Sale Co-chairperson commented: Thanks to Transylvania County citizen donations we have some very unusual books to be featured this year in Treasures including autographed copies, 1900-1950s French texts (some signed, some uncut) a set of the 2007 Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory and 50 books on how to live with your feline companion. There will also be 1,000 cookbooks to choose from as well as great selections of history, nature and art books (how-to and particular artists). Come see for yourself. The Friends of the Transylvania County Library organization was established in 1957. Today, they have over 700 members. The Friends support the Library in countless ways including publication of The Library Herald and financial support for a wide variety of Library programs. Contributions and the proceeds from the book sales are used solely for the benefit of the Transylvania County Library. For more information, call Jeanne Smith at 885-2530. |
| Veteran cricket journalist Rajan Bala dies in Bangalore - Newstrack India Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:21 AM PDT
Bangalore, Oct.9 (ANI): Eminent sports journalist Natarajan Balasubramaniam, more popularly known in the sports fraternity as Rajan Bala, died this morning in a Bangalore hospital. He was 63. One of the finest and a much revered cricket writer in this country, Rajan was the former Sports Editor of Deccan Herald and served in a similar position in the Statesman and several other publications across the country.
He had suffered a stroke and been put on dialysis for some time. He suffered a heart attack and was rushed to hospital less than a fortnight ago, where he slipped into coma. He never regained consciousness and passed away on Friday morning. Rajan was a cricket writer for over four decades and also authored half a dozen books on cricket, including the biographies of B S Chandrasekhar and Sachin Tendulkar. In the last few years he had worked as a columnist. His latest book on cricket "Time Well Spent" was to have been originally launched in Bangalore tomorrow. His last published book was "The Covers Are Off - A Socio-Historical Study of Indian Cricket : 1932-2003". He was also the Indian correspondent of the Wisden Cricketer and Wisden Almanac for many years. Rajan was an icon for the younger generation of writers of the willow game in the 1970s who followed his despatches from various parts of the cricket world with great interest. Though he wrote primarily on cricket, Rajan had an indepth knowledge of Indian football, having grown up in Kolkata, and tennis. Rajan was also a good club level cricketer who used to bat higher up the order and bowl off spin. Former Indian off spinner Erapalli Prasanna said: "In the passing away of Rajan Bala, I lost a very close associate, a person with whom I could discuss cricket in length. It's a personal loss to me. I felt that among all the cricket journalists, he was the best because he had a tremendous knowledge of the game." (ANI) |
| Finding Husbands for Iraq's Widows - ABC News Posted: 09 Oct 2009 06:04 AM PDT After the bombing of Samarra's famed Shiite Askariya shrine in February 2006, a spate of sectarian-based attacks claimed the lives of many Iraqis. The victims were mostly male, leading to a surge in the number of widows in the country. Indeed, more than 1 million Iraqi women have become widows in the past three years, according to Samira Al Musawi, the head of the Women and Child Committee in the Iraqi parliament. So, in 2006, Iraq's Al Ethar NGO, a nonprofit organization that provides women and their children with money and free health care, began a controversial new program to help interested widows find second husbands. Initially, most of the women balked at the idea, worried about facing adverse responses from their communities. But the program has seen more than 40 widow remarriages in the past three years. Mohammed Abbas, the executive director of Al Ethar, said his organization supplies interested men with photo albums and biographies of widows willing to remarry, as well as details of any children from first marriages. In one case, Abbas said, a man specifically wanted to marry a widow with a child. "The man said he didn't have any children of his own," Abbas said, adding, "he was looking for a wife and a child." Ayad Ayid, a 48-year-old merchant who recently married a widow with five children, said he met his wife through the Al Ethar program. "Although she has five children and I have four from my first marriage, I didn't care," he said. He now lives in Baghdad with his new wife and all their children. But not everyone thinks kindly of Al Ethar's program. Al Musawi said she "declared my full refusal to this idea," likening it to "showcasing and ... selling and buying women through making use of widows' economic status." But her opposition is not entirely grounded in fact, because the monthly payroll, estimated at $90, paid by the Iraqi government to widows is usually cut off after the women remarry. Al Ethar occasionally helps the newly married couple, providing them with funds to start their new lives, although not every couple receives aid from the establishment.
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| Shmoop! (There it Is.) Introducing Shmoop Music. - PR Inside Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:57 AM PDT 2009-10-09 14:51:07 - Shmoop, a digital textbook publisher, introduces Shmoop Music, its eighth subject area. Shmoop's writers, primarily Ph.D. students from top universities, including Stanford, Harvard, and UC Berkeley, analyze the lyrics, music, back stories, and historical connections behind your favorite songs. Shmoop Music includes a "Listen and Learn" player - a mash-up of RealNetworks Rhapsody streaming music, Yahoo! Media Player, and Shmoop's original commentary - that allows fans to listen to the full-length song with "pop-up" commentary and lyrical analysis.
Mountain View, CA, October 8, 2009 – Shmoop (www.shmoop.com) an award-winning publisher of digital textbooks, introduces Shmoop Music, its eighth subject area. The same great website that compared 19th century literature to Gossip Girl and called Emily Dickinson a packrat takes on Smells Like Teen Spirit. Why Shmoop Music Rocks • Listen and Learn – listen to full-length songs streamed via Rhapsody and Yahoo! Media Player, mashed-up with commentary from Shmoop • Get Smarter. Better. Faster. – uncover the juicy stories behind the song, crack the hidden meanings in the lyrics, discover connections between literature, history, and great tunes • Find Your Inner Music Connoisseur – learn about melodies, instrumentation, and composition; find sheet music and tablature • Tunes from Every Part of the Dial – expand your range. Bob Dylan. Velvet Underground. Radiohead. Kanye. Regina Spektor. (Don't see your favorite? Shmoop takes requests.) About Shmoop Shmoop's digital textbooks make literature, US history, poetry, civics, biographies, and, now, music more fun and relevant by showing you how much these subjects have to do with your world. Shmoop writers are primarily from Ph.D. programs at top American universities, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Harvard. Shmoop was giddy to be an Official Honoree in the 2009 Webby Awards and to be named "Best of the Internet" by PC Magazine. Shmoop's CEO has been known to dance on stage at Bon Jovi concerts. |
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