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Minnis Alderman, sandwiched between the Hammond digital organ to her left and the Baldwin concert grand piano to her right, stands military-straight atop the conductor's platform at the Centennial Fine Arts Center, facing members of the Ely Community Choir.
'When it comes to the choir and what we are going to sing, it depends on what the mood is, where the feeling is,' Alderman says
The diminutive 81-year-old commands respect, and the two dozen or so choir members who've gathered for their Wednesday-night practice wait quietly for their cue.
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Note: http://www.elynews.com/articles/2010/02/24/lifestyle/life01.txt
Minnis Alderman in harmony with life
By PATRICK TIMOTHY MULLIKIN Ely Times Reporter
Published on Wednesday, February 24, 2010
| Published Feb 24, 2010 - 08:57 PM | comments?  |
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Kindle™ Author Threatens to Sue the Book Awards Organizers for Refusal to Accept Kindle™ E-Books
Organizers of the Sharp Writ Book Awards confirmed that they has received threats of legal action by a Kindle™ Author for excluding Kindle™ (and other) eBooks from being nominated for the prestigious 2010 Sharp Writ Book Awards. Meanwhile, printed books continue to pour in at the Book Awards’ San Diego office for consideration for the 2010 awards from across the world. Nominations for this prestigious Award, which is open to English books printed between January 2006 and February 2010, are being accepted till March 15th.
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Note: http://www.prweb.com/releases/kindle/book-award/prweb3639554.htm
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) February 24, 2010
| Published Feb 24, 2010 - 08:14 PM | comments? |
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My family has always been competitive. My husband, Simon, once beat his head on the carpet in anguish when I took his queen during a friendly chess game. My dad panics if he can't complete a Fiendish Sudoku in ten minutes; and during TV quiz shows, I am regularly compelled to shout at the paralysed idiot who can't remember basic facts.
It never occurred to me, however, that one day the blinking rabbit in the studio lights would be me.
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Note: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1248328/Could-quiz-crazy-family-beat-Britains-biggest-Eggheads.html
By Flic Everett
Last updated at 7:36 AM on 04th February 2010
| Published Feb 16, 2010 - 12:04 PM | comments? |
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Wired for invention: Don Baker of Mukilteo has held 18 patents during a lifetime thinking of better ways to make things work.
Dan Baker was sitting in the doctor’s office. He recently had knee surgery, and now it was time to take out the sutures.
The doctor pulled out a surgical staple remover, what looks like a cross between tweezers and scissors.
Baker did a double-take. “I have a patent on that damn thing,” he remarked.
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Note: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091213/LIVING/712139943
By Melissa Slager Special to The Herald
Published: Sunday, December 13, 2009
| Published Dec 13, 2009 - 06:30 PM | comments? |
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Relearning how to live after a brain injury
There had been fires all that summer around South Lake Tahoe, flushing the wild animals from the places they normally grazed into the open. As Aram Attarian and Carol Welsh set out for their Menlo Park home that morning in 1996, the only smudge on a day Welsh remembers as "postcard-perfect" was the layer of smoke that blanketed the horizon.
They had ridden to Tahoe on his motorcycle to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. Attarian took pictures of Welsh, stretched out on a rock in her biker chick leathers, and one of himself in which he looked exactly like Jack Nicholson in "Easy Rider." As they started back, a life filled with such heedless, carefree mornings stretched out before them like the road ahead.
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Note: http://www.mercurynews.com/los-gatos/ci_13980109?nclick_check=1
By Bruce Newman bnewman@mercurynews.com
Posted: 12/11/2009 05:33:01 PM PST
| Published Dec 13, 2009 - 10:13 AM | comments? |
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Silverstar's Empire Interactive Signs Exclusive Deal With American Mensa
Mensa Licensed Videogames to be Developed and Distributed by Empire Interactive
BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 11, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Empire Interactive, an international publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software and a unit of Silverstar Holdings (Nasdaq:SSTR), signed an exclusive, multi-year deal with American Mensa, acquiring the rights to develop and publish videogames based on the Mensa license in the United States. Through the agreement, Empire Interactive will create console, hand-held, and PC/Mac game adaptations. A similar deal was also signed with British Mensa.
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Note: http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=159416
Source: Silverstar Holdings, Ltd.
| Published Feb 21, 2009 - 03:18 PM | comments? |
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How long until you be crashing it against the wall?
The Mensa Puzzle Alarm Clock, one of the weirdest of its kind
There are quite a lot of wacky alarm clocks available, but the Mensa Puzzle is definitely one of the most innovative and annoying similar gadgets.
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Note: http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Fearsome-Mensa-Puzzle-Alarm-Clock-100752.shtml
By Florin Tibu, Audio Editor
23rd of December 2008, 14:32 GMT
| Published Dec 24, 2008 - 05:34 PM | comments? |
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My Buddhist Chinese friend, Bubba, tells me the most annoying thing about ancestor worship is that long after your Uncle Ping has died, he's still following you around the house criticizing your every action. Bubba would rather avoid the spirits that trail around after him. The Seacoast Paranormal Research Group (SPRG) is hunting them down.
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Note: http://seacoastonline.com/articles/20081220-ENTERTAIN-812200301
By Lily Robertson features@seacoastonline.com
December 20, 2008 6:00 AM
Writer Lily Robertson tags along for an investigation
| Published Dec 22, 2008 - 05:09 PM | comments? |
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“Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. That you must believe if anything good is to come of this story.” Charles Dickens-A Christmas Carol. What we don’t know is how he died. What we do know is that he died Christmas Eve. What else do we know? We know he lived in London. Europe. We also know that the tradition here is to put up Christmas trees on Christmas Eve. We also know that it is not uncommon to have 13 foot ceilings in European homes.
I think Marley died of a heart attack.
I can relate.
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Note: http://www.budapesttimes.hu/content/view/10382/230/
The 13 foot tree
Written by William Lower
Friday, 19 December 2008
| Published Dec 19, 2008 - 05:07 PM | comments? |
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