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Today we continue our look at America’s favorite comics G.I. who is not Beetle Bailey, Sad Sack. We have two guest exhibits from Rick Beckham, books from 1944 and 1978 compiling his appearances in Yank Magazine, where he first appeared in 1942.

On the eve of Thanksgiving I opened my kitchen cabinet door; the little skinny one that holds the cookie sheets, and other oblong cooking supplies. And there it stood - my mother's mother's turkey platter. It's been in my family for decades, and it means a lot that I've been the lucky one entrusted with its care. I love the platter for all its tradition and the sweet memories it invokes since Turkey Day has always been my favorite holiday.

December Recipe Roundup: A collection of favorite blog recipes for your family and friends to enjoy over the upcoming holidays.

Films: Booksmart
Format: DVD from Rockford Public Library on The New Portable.

Oh, I really, really wanted to like Booksmart a lot more than I did. I heard a great deal about it and the reviews are almost entirely favorable. And, truth be told, I did enjoy it well enough. But I wanted to really like it a lot more than I do, and I just kind of like it. I expected it to be something more than it is, but it’s really just Superbad with female protagonists. It ...

New Music from Bryan Adams, Shawnee, Jane's Party and Thomas Rhett

We normally try to deliver brand spanking new tracks in our New Music Spotlight. This time around, we couldn't bring ourselves to deliver Christmas music before US Thanksgiving had passed. So, some of these tracks have been out for a little while.

And yes, we're delivering up Thomas Rhett's Christmas duo, again. We really like them.

It's still very early in the season, so we can't promise there won't be a follow-up New Music Spotlight Christmas Edition. Читать дальше...

The term unemployment refers to a state "when a person is out of work or has been without a job for a certain period." Additionally, it also refers to a person who is searching for a job and has not been able to secure one. This usually happens to most graduates. In many countries many young people find it challenging to secure jobs after completion of a degree or diploma education.

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Weekend Reads are late this weekend because this is no typical weekend! If you're like me you may not even be sure what day of the week today is!

Pallanghuzi, or Pallankuli, is a variant of Mancala played in Southern India, especially Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Mancala is a family of board games played around the world, sometimes called sowing games or count and capture games, which comes from the general gameplay. The games of this family best known in the Western world are Oware (or Awele), Kalah, Sungka and Omweso, and Bao. Mancala games play a role in many African and some Asian societies comparable to that of chess in the West. In Andhra it goes by the name Vamana guntal. Читать дальше...

Augustus II the Strong (1670 – 1733), also known in Saxony as Frederick Augustus I, was Elector of Saxony,  Imperial Vicar and elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.   Augustus' great physical strength earned him the nicknames "the Strong", "the Saxon Hercules" and "Iron-Hand". He liked to show that he lived up to his name by breaking horseshoes with his bare hands and engaging in fox tossing by holding the end of his sling with just one finger while two of the strongest men in his court held the other end. Читать дальше...

Those who are fascinated by Cricket can perhaps easily connect Test no. 1870 played against South Africa in Mar 2008 with Test no. 2241 against England in Dec 2016.  Clues: both were played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepuak, it is not about the Captain or the team; results were not identical – then?
Miles away, down under, the company that led Adelaide’s specialty coffee movement has been forced into liquidation, leaving behind unpaid employees, debts totaling millions, and questions over whether director Ian Callahan ... Читать дальше...

This is about and experience that is very important in human society, but that has only recently come been the object of exploration and investigation. I am talking about closely synchronized physical interaction in making music, but also in dance and athletics. I have devoted considerable attention to this in my book on music, Beethoven’s Anvil, and have many posts on the subject under the labels coupling and synchrony.
This post is about two particular instances of such coupling. First I recount... Читать дальше...

Elizabeth Urbanowicz points out five interesting themes you could dig into after enjoying the movie. Of course…in my experience…EVERYTHING doesn’t always begin to make sense when you get older.

The US tech giants Adobe recently became vulnerable to a data breach on its highly popular software Creative Cloud and reportedly lost data of 7.5 million users to the public.

As per the conversation with the Mashable team and Adobe, they have informed that no financial data or passwords were part of this large scale data breach. Adobe Creative Cloud is used by atleast 15 million people all around the world and is loved by the creative industry globally.

I read 77 books in November.

November factoids:

• 16,570 pages read
• Burned through 64 hour 24 minutes of audio

• 66 fiction titles
• 11 nonfiction titles

• 31 UK authors
• 34 US authors
• 12 authors from around the globe

• 42 female authors
• 27 male authors
• 8 books with multiple authors

• 11 audiobooks
• 61 digital books
• 5 print books

Watch Nick Cave tackle the Leonard Cohen classic Suzanne for the Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man film. Backing vocals by Perla Batalla and Julie Christensen.

Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

Writer: Ed Decter, John J Strauss, Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly (Screenplay)

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller, Lee Evans, Chris Elliott, Lin Shaye, Jeffrey Tambor, Markie Post, Keith David

Plot: A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from high school, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster.

Tagline – Warning: The guys who did ‘Dumb & Dumber’ ...

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'My fairy tales were as much for older people as for children...humour was the real salt in them.'

Starting a new business is a serious undertaking. Yet many aspiring entrepreneurs I know approach it as a fun project, get-rich quick scheme, or perhaps an expensive hobby. Others quit their day jobs and commit everything to their new passion, without regard for their own well-being, or the welfare of others around them. Neither of these approaches bodes well for success.

Non-Fiction: 

Leslie Jamison: The Recovering.
Mark Greif: Against Everything.
Scott Stossel: My Age of Anxiety. Fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind.
George Packer: The Unwinding. An Inner History of the New America.

Fiction: 

Kristen Lepionka: The Stories You Tell. 
Katie Lowe: The Furies.

Films: 

Midsommar (2019, Ari Aster).
Rentaneko (2012, Naoko Ogigami).
It, Chapter Two (2019, Andy Muschietti).

Shows: 

Atypical, Season Three. Читать дальше...

November 30, 2019 · 8:06 AM

Ok, last post about Style Carrot's partner in design Serena & Lily. It's a big deal, so it's worth the effort, for me and for you. If there's anything you've had your eye on, now's the time.

During the Serena & Lily Thank You Event almost everything is 25% off (Sale items, gift certificates artwork, and bikes are the only exclusions.) This is the brand's biggest and best sale of the year. Just use

In addition to the items I posted on Thursday and Friday ( books... Читать дальше...