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- Doreen M. Altman - Healing Oneself Through this BookI have known about this book and the author for many years through Dr. Ronald Hoffman, who was my "health guru" in New York. He is also on the radio, which is where I first heard him, and now syndicated all over the country. I never thought that I would have to use the "specific carbohydrate diet" espoused in this book, as I had never had stomach problems. However I developed intestinal distress at the beginning of March, and was told it was a possible parasite. For three months I suffered with chronic diarrhea, and whatever the Doctors gave me did not work. My colon never went back to the way it was, and I went for a variety of tests, but got no real answers or a solution. I finally decided to take matters into my own hands, and after a month on this diet, which I do not find difficult at all, I feel like myself, and I am 100% improved. Thank you, thank you!
Doreen Altman - Grady Nelson - This 3.0 HUB can add power to tables that you probably never considered.Using an Acer Aspire P3-6820 11.6 Inch convertible (about $500 on Amazon) I was able to build a powerful Windows 8 Media Center. The machine only had one USB port which happen to be 3.0. Using this hub I added a WD My Book 2TB Drive, Using the Cable Matters USB 3.0 to Ethernet dongle I was able to get off the slow Wi-Fi and bring the speed up to well over 100mbps. Also added Hauppauge TV/FM dongle plugged into the hub added TV and FM to this WIndows 8 Tablet which had been upgraded to Windows 8 Pro and Windows Media Center. As added a Logitech A400 multimedia keyboard so that we are able to control the system from our bed. The result has be an extremely small footprint media center. Highly recommend this HUB as it has had not compatibility issues running as Ethernet, TV Tuner and Hard Disc controller. Micro HDMI port conntect to Panasonic HDTV at 1080p. Cheapest media center I've ever built and run incredibly fast. Total investment was less that $ 600.
- Mal Warwick - Red Meat for Political JunkiesFor a campaign junkie like me, reading Double Down was sheer pleasure, as was its predecessor by the same authors, Game Change. I’ve been reading book-length accounts of presidential campaigns since Theodore White’s The Making of the President 1960. This has something to do with my having been personally engaged in six campaigns for the presidency, including several with significant fundraising roles. But there’s more involved than that.
There are few human experiences that so predictably and so routinely subject the individuals involved to such excruciating stress as a big-time political campaign, and those for the presidency are the most extreme case. It’s difficult for anyone who hasn’t experienced something similar to understand what it’s like to be forced to make highly consequential decisions within minutes, or sometimes even seconds, with only the barest minimum of information to go on — at the end of a stretch of several 100-hour workweeks when an uninterrupted night’s sleep is only a distant memory. And not just once, but repeatedly: for weeks or months on end, the pressure never stops. If anything mimics the pressure that routinely comes to bear on the President of the United States, it’s a campaign for the office. And getting a ringside seat to witness the behavior of these highly influential people in extremis is a rare privilege, worth far more than the price of this book.
Double Down makes it possible for those of us who prefer the role of spectator to that of actor to enjoy this experience vicariously (if “enjoy” is really the right word). An Author’s Note claims that Halperin and Heilemann conducted “more than five hundred full-length interviews with more than four hundred individuals . . . between the summers of 2010 and 2013.” And this isn’t hard to believe, given the innumerable references to the state of mind, or the actual words, of many leading actors in the latter-day reality play that was the presidential election of 2012. For example:
Mitt’s wife, Ann, was even more upset — and it was all about Palin. . . She could barely comprehend McCain choosing anyone but Mitt, but this moose-hunting woman from Wasilla, Alaska? Really?
[Referring to his strange performance at the Republican National Convention, shouting at an empty chair on network TV] “If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to say something,” [Clint] Eastwood remarked, “they’re gonna have to take what they get.” [It was Romney who'd asked him.]
[After stealing Obama's thunder by stating on Meet the Press that he favored same-sex marriage] Biden went home after the taping thinking that he hadn’t made news and had done nothing wrong. That he’d been clear he wasn’t enunciating new policy, just stating a personal opinion.
You can’t make this stuff up! Or, rather, you can, but if you put it in print, you might get sued.
For any political junkie, Double Down is a must-read. The lengthy narratives about the two candidates’ preparation for the debates are priceless by themselves.
Mark Halperin is the senior political analyst for Time magazine, Time.com, and MSNBC. John Heilemann covers politics for New York magazine. - Timothy Hargadon "X7C00" - It a miracleI'm an artist. I'm also pretty good with animals. But I can only assume magic powers of some sort were involved with the creation of this master piece. How else can you explain how the artist got 3 wolves lined up perfectly with the full moon and was able to make all 4 subjects stay still long enough for him/her to paint them?
It's a miracle. It's frightening. It's a joy to behold.
Tim