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In his new book, "The Parasitic Mind," behavioral scientist Gad Saad explains what it is about Trump that makes so many people refuse to even consider supporting him - even when his opponent is a rapidly aging Joe Biden. But he also dives into why so many others like him: unlike Biden the "political parasite," Trump is full of energy and "a DOER".

Bill O’Reilly: 'Be cautioned' if you think Hunter Biden story is enough to nail Joe

Bill O'Reilly is back! He joins Glenn to discuss the second — and last — presidential debate of the campaign season and he comments on whether or not Trump did enough to convince the average, uninformed voter of Joe's blatant corruption overseas. O'Reilly explains the origin of the Democrat narrative on Russian interference, why moderator Kristen Welker tried to stay off the Ukraine topic, and whether or not he believes Joe will be taken down by stories that mostly center on his son, Hunter.

WATCH: Rudy Giuliani says he has PROOF Joe Biden was business partners with Chinese Communists

Tonight at 9 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. CT, Glenn Beck goes straight to the source of the biggest story in the country with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who takes us directly into Hunter Biden's alleged laptop.

Despite Big Tech's attempts to squash this story, there should be a mad scramble in the media to get to the bottom of major corruption allegations, but they're willfully ignoring it. However, this is not just a story about Hunter Biden. This is all about Joe Biden. It's a story Glenn has been investigating for over a year that traces back to Ukraine and China. It goes directly to the root of corruption within our political system: How politicians use their family members to enrich the entire clan and sell out their country. While the media looks the other way, Glenn asks Mayor Giuliani to show us the evidence. Giuliani details the chain of possession of the laptop and reveals news that he only had possession of the laptop days before the New York Post story broke. He says, "I reported this the day after I saw it."

He also drops a major bombshell on the show and says Big Tech doesn't want you to see evidence that "establishes with texts, documents, contracts" that "Joe Biden was a 10% partner with a Chinese communist … and there are witnesses that will come forward and testify to it."

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GLENN’S THEORY: This is why Hunter Biden allegedly abandoned his laptop

We don't yet fully know why or how Hunter Biden's laptop allegedly was abandoned at a computer repair store. But, Glenn has a theory: did Hunter Biden purposely leave his computer — which contains countless materials harmful to his dad's campaign — to make it all stop? Hunter Biden has a troubled past — he has a history of alcohol and drug abuse, and it seems like Joe Biden has used his son for years to enrich the Biden family. So, Glenn thinks, maybe Hunter knew what he was doing…maybe it was a "self-sabotaging" cry for help. It's just a theory, but Glenn thinks it's a theory worth pursuing...

Former Obama admin. Secretary says we need a 'truth commission' to 'erase Trump's lies'

The far-left gets scarier each day. Now, former Obama administration Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, is advocating for the establishment of a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" once President Trump leaves office. He tweeted that the commission would "erase Trump's lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe." Glenn describes how similar models have been used in places like Serbia and Rwanda, and it never ends well for the minority party. In fact, Glenn says, an idea like this one can be used to further surveil and control the citizens who disagree.


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Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019: Imran, Erdogan & Mahathir leading from front

After decades of negligence and self-centered approach of the Muslim leaders, Pakistan, Malaysia and Turkey along with Iran seem to be concerned about their people [Muslims] in an increasingly Islamophobic world. The Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 is the first step in the right direction.

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Prime Minister Imran Khan on the invitation of his Malaysian counterpart Dr. Mahathir Mohamad will participate in the Kuala Lumpur Summit on December 18-20. The said summit is expected to be an important gathering of the Muslim leaders with a shared agenda related to the Muslim world and its collective challenges in a highly interconnected world.

“The summit will provide Pakistan an opportunity to explain views and find solutions to the challenges facing the Muslim world particularly governance, development, terrorism, and Islamophobia,” Foreign Office Spokesman Dr. Muhammad Faisal said at a weekly press briefing.

The summit is an initiative of Dr. Mahathir to gather five Muslim nation namely Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey, Qatar and the host Malaysia to foster cooperation to achieve socio-economic development.

Read More: Most leaders of the Muslim world are not leaders but office holders: PM Imran Khan

The spokesman said earlier, the Prime Minister would also visit Geneva on December 17-18 to co-convene the first Global Refugees Forum in December in recognition of Pakistan’s generosity, hospitality, and compassion for hosting the Afghan refugees for over four decades.

Dr. Faisal noted that several heads of states were expected to join Prime Minister Imran Khan at the Global Refugees Forum, the first major meeting on refugees in the 21st century, which would be jointly hosted by UNHCR, UN Refugees Agency, and the Swiss government.

Read More: Muslim leadership needs to engage world for better understanding: Imran Khan

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Friday that four countries including Turkey will be playing a pioneering role in the 2019 Kuala Lumpur Summit. Briefing about the summit which will be held between Dec. 18-21, PM Mahathir said the summit was a baby step towards identifying problems that haunt the Muslim world and find solutions for them, and he called for support for the initiative.

PM Mahathir further noted that the upcoming summit will be an alternative to the Muslim bloc Organization of Islamic Cooperation and could grow into a larger initiative in the future.

Trilateral summit on the sidelines of the 74th session of UNGA

In September this year, Prime Minister Imran Khan, along with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Malaysian counterpart Mahathir Mohamad agreed to jointly counter anti-Islam forces. Three leaders reportedly took part in a trilateral summit on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) where they agreed on possible measures to counter Islamophobia.

PM also announced on his Twitter handle that a TV channel was going to be launched by these three countries. “President Erdogan, PM Mahatir and myself had a meeting today in which we decided our 3 countries would jointly start an English language channel dedicated to confronting the challenges posed by Islamophobia and setting the record straight on our great religion – Islam.”

He further noted that “Misperceptions which bring people together against Muslims would be corrected; the issue of blasphemy would be properly contextualized; series & films would be produced on Muslim history to educate/inform our own people & the world; Muslims would be given a dedicated media presence.”

According to Pakistan’s former permanent representative Maleeha Lodhi, the states have agreed “to promote the narrative of Muslims to counter Islamophobia and to cooperate in the area of film and also establish a joint TV channel”.

Read More: Growing Islamophobia and a divided Muslim World

The three countries, she added, affirmed to pool their talent and knowledge, as well as, collaborating in research and development.

Propaganda against Muslims and Islam

It is important to note that since the end of the 20th century there have been deliberate efforts by the western media and scholars to present a violent image of Islam. In this regard, Edward Said wrote an insightful book titled Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World and presented a factual analysis of the situation. He outlined how the western media deliberately initiated a war against imagined violent Islam.

The leading newspapers in the United States in the 1990s published countless anti-Islam articles. In 1996 an article titled Seeing Green; The Red Menace Is Gone. But Here’s Islam was carried out by the New York Times which cultivated hatred against Islam by dividing people between Us vs. Them.  The campaign against Islam resulted in what now the Western Media terms as “hate crimes”. The white supremacists do not want Muslims to be there at any cost. Now it is questioning the order within developed societies e.g. USA, UK, and Australia.

Read More: Imran Khan: Fifth Most-Followed Leader Worldwide

Political analysts and experts believe that Pakistan along with other Muslim countries should work on countering the propaganda against Islam. In this age of information warfare, it is pivotal to tell the world truth about Islam. In this regard, the efforts of the Prime Minister are appreciable and the aforementioned summit is likely to be productive.

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A dairy free alternative to whipping cream. It has the same texture and mouth feel as real whipped cream!

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  1. Cook almond milk & rice flour in a large bowl in a saucepan over med-high heat, stirring often, until very thick (once mixture comes to a boil it should be thick enough) - about 3-5 minutes, then let cool.
  2. Using an electric mixer, cream shortening and margarine, then add vanilla and sugar. Beat until smooth. Then add cooled rice flour mixture and beat until very fluffy.
  3. For a really nice presentation, put the whipped cream in a piping bag and squeeze onto your desserts.

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Why The Handmaid's Tale has an Important Lesson for Our Time

Updated: Sep 25

Sometimes it’s odd just how close fictional books, with their plots and characters, resemble real-life situations. For the first installment of our online Book Club, we read The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. This novel was published in the late ‘80s but might as well have been released yesterday. Its themes of power, oppression and what our group identified as survival through acceptance still resonate with what’s happening all around our world today.

Summary of The Handmaid’s Tale

Let me give you a brief rundown of what The Handmaid’s Tale is all about. There’s this new state that’s referred to as Gilead. In this state, which violently overthrows the previous government, women play different roles, all of which make them subservient to men. The most blatant of these roles are the Handmaids. They all wear the same garments, follow the same rules enforced by another group of women called the Aunts, but their most significant and oppressive role is that they must bear children for the Commanders. Once they give birth, they hand over the child to the Commander’s wife, who is tasked with raising that child.

The actual plot of The Handmaid’s Tale is told through the narrative voice of Offred, who is recounting her time as a Handmaid. She tells stories of how the Handmaids are treated, how the estate she’s in functions, and of the patriarchy that determines her existence. Offred is the name she’s given after being uprooted from her former life and forced into Gilead. Her daughter is taken away from her, and she is unsure whether her husband is dead or alive. Survival is the name of the game in Gilead, and what the Handmaids unwillingly accept to survive is the foundation for tension in the story.

What can we learn from The Handmaid’s Tale?

So much! The most obvious lesson is the power dynamic between men and women. As far fetched as this storyline seems, it’s actually not at all far from what’s still happening in parts of our world today. There are still regions where women are forced into marriage, not allowed to be educated and are legally not afforded the same rights as men. Similar to The Handmaid’s Tale, states came into power violently and will fight to keep their power. I’d even say that The Handmaid’s Tale is more of a reflection of parts of our society rather than a fictional recreation.

As far as the theme of oppression, well, we don’t really need to dig far to see how that is still present in today’s world. There are marginalized groups who are fighting to be recognized, to be protected and to be included as equal rather than as an “other”. And we don’t have to leave North America for this to be a reality.

The theme of acceptance as a means of survival may be a bit more complex. In the story, the Handmaids despise their roles, but they aren’t rebelling. They understand that the consequences could be fatal and so in order to survive, they reach a level of acceptance that allows them to function. I think we can look at our own lives for this lesson. How many of us settle for jobs we don’t like, or how many of us speak up against atrocities that are happening right under our noses. And our repercussion isn’t even fatal, but we accept our lives as is in order to continue to function “normally.” The connection is more subtle, but it exists.

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We had way too much fun reading The Handmaid’s Tale. The discussions lead us down so many different paths. The book club has been part of a series of online workshops which include guided meditations and coaching. We’ll be continuing the Boomerang Book Club with Such a Fun Age starting this week.

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"Michigan Roll" Zucchini Sushi RECIPE

"Michigan Roll" Zucchini Sushi RECIPE

I have to admit - I'm not very daring when it comes to trying different versions of sushi.  There is, however, one type that I really enjoy: "California Roll."  This is my version of that variety of sushi.  Instead of the seaweed I used zucchini from my garden.

1 cup cooked rice (I used Jasmine rice)
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1/2 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 large zucchini (sliced long - extremely thin)(I have a special gadget)
1 avocado (peeled, pitted and sliced)
1 cucumber (seedless preferably, or smaller pickling cukes)(if the skin is thin then you don't have to peel)
2 whole imitation crab sticks (unroll both sticks - see picture below)
french fried onions as a garnish on top

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Cook the rice ahead of time and cool to room temperature.  Stir in the vinegar, salt and sugar (set aside until later) (see picture above).

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Prepare all ingredients as listed above (slice zucchini, unroll imitation crab, prepare the cucumbers and avocado) (see collage above)

Make the zucchini mesh weave (see picture above).  Take about 9 to 10 slices of zucchini and weave it like you would the top of a pie crust.

Spread the rice mixture on top of the zucchini weave (See picture above).  Press the rice down firmly all over.  Gently press 2 sheets of unrolled crab so that they fully cover the rice.  Place the prepared cucumber and avocado slices on one edge (see picture below).

Gently and slowly roll everything (pressing down as you go) until it resembles the picture below.  Then slice into rounds (see 2 pictures below)

Garnish the top with French Fried onions (the kind that you would put on top of the Thanksgiving green bean casserole)

You may add as condiments: pickled ginger, wasabi and/or soy sauce.
If you would like to make more than one roll then repeat all steps above (ingredients are for one roll only)

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Vanessa Cameron will receive a new trial after being convicted of murder in 2012 and receiving a sentence of more than 70 years in prison. Cameron, represented by attorney Gerry Goldstein, appealed her sentence by arguing her constitutional right to a public trial previously was violated because the trial court excluded the public from voir dire. The Fourth Court of Appeals reversed her conviction and the State appealed. However, the Court of Criminal Appeal upheld the decision of the Fourth Court of Appeals.

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Liebelei Lawrence is one of the contestants on Big Break Mexico, which debuts May 13 on Golf Channel. She's also a golfer who has had fully exempt status on a major world tour; in Liebelei's case, the Ladies European Tour.

In 2011, she played 15 LET tournaments with four Top 30 finishes, but had to go back to Q-School. She regained her card for 2012 and had two Top 30 finishes. In 2013, she has partial status on the LET and so far has gotten into two tournaments.

Liebelei is a child of the world: She has citizenship in three countries. Born in Greece to a Greek mother and American father, she spent most of her childhood in Luxembourg. So she has citizenship with Greece, the USA and Luxembourg. She also speaks five languages (and, as she notes in the biographical video below, is working on No. 6.)

As a teen she attended the Leadbetter Academy in Florida, then played collegiately at Vanderbilt.

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2. I'll sometimes use my practice swing to groove a move I'm working on. For example, if I'm trying to get my shoulders turning from the start, I might swing back only halfway. This is not a real rehearsal, but it can help me get a feel. It's one thing to feel it on the range, but better to do it just before you swing.

3. Whatever I'm doing with my practice swing, I always make a full finish. I want to feel the end of the swing--that's where I have to get when I go for real. I also look at my practice swing as a trigger: From that point forward I have to block out distractions and focus on the shot at hand.

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With Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason

I had the honour of giving a talk on the role of women in our Campaign against Fracking at a UN event in New York on 14th March.  The event was organised by the Mining Group of the Commission on the Status of Women and was part of the United Nations two-week conference focusing on the empowerment of rural women globally.  I was invited to speak by Rev Debbra Gill, moderator of the event.

I also had the honour of meeting our Ambassador to UN, Geraldine Byrne Nason and President Mary Robinson.

In my talk, I focused on the stages the campaign went through, starting in 2011 at kitchen meetings, the showing of “Gasland”, protests, public meetings, social media campaigns and political lobbying, resulting in our wonderful ban on fracking. According to the organisers, the Irish campaign against fracking can act as a template for campaigns globally.

Because of the theme of the conference, I focussed mainly on the role that women played in the campaign.  It was only when looking back at the entire campaign that I realised how much women had contributed.  This is not to say that men did not play an important part (Tony McLoughlin and Eddie Mitchell for example), but from the start of the campaign, women were to the fore of the action – whether organising meetings or protests, making speeches, giving presentations, researching, lobbying, tweeting or emailing.  In fact, this campaign had the side-effect of empowering local rural women to make a stand against something they felt strongly about and to feel that they could make a difference.  Up to now, this was not fully acknowledged and I was very happy to emphasise the role that they played.

Fracking ban June 2017: Government bans fracking!

It was also wonderful to have the opportunity to tell the world of our campaign starting in rural Leitrim that gained such momentum that it influenced our Government to agree unanimously to ban fracking in Ireland.

We now have one of the strongest bans in the world; to remind you, the wording is as follows:

“Notwithstanding anything in this Act or any other enactment or rule of law, it shall not be lawful for a person to search for, get, raise, take, carry away or work petroleum by means of hydraulic fracturing.”

And you can’t get any stronger than that!

Link to presentation: Campaign against Fracking in Ireland

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"Roseanne" Is Getting a Revival With Some of the Original Cast

One question: How do you come back from that ending?

UPDATE, 5/17/2017: The laugh is back. The Facebook page for Roseanne released a video confirming that the famous '90s sitcom will return in 2018. The show will air on ABC, and it seems as if the original cast are all in. Still no word on how it will all play out given the show's original ending, but we'll just have to wait and see.

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ORIGINAL, 4/28/2017: A Roseanne revival is in the works, and we couldn't be more excited.

Variety reports that original cast members Roseanne Barr, John Goodman and Sarah Gilbert are on board for the revival, which is currently seeking a home either on broadcast TV or on a streaming service. According to Deadline, Laurie Metcalf A.K.A. aunt Jackie will also join the comeback, which will reportedly include eight episodes of the comedy.

And while we can't wait to see our favorite blue-collar family back on our screens, we're a bit confused. The show's infamously dark ending doesn't seem to leave much room for a continuation. In the finale, Roseanne reveals that the entire show has been a fictionalized version of her life which she wrote to cope with the death of her husband Dan (Goodman), who in reality didn't survive the heart attack he suffered in the pilot. So ... is the revival going to be her next book? Or will the finale turn out to be a dream within a dream?

Either way, this pretty much confirms that every single nostalgic TV show will be raised from the dead at some point, whether it be Gilmore Girls on Netflix, Twin Peaks on Showtime, or the recently announced Will & Grace revival.

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I love all recipes!

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Date Posted: 03/08/2011 10:09:26 AM

Almost Homemade

Almost Homemade is one of my favorite cookbooks. I love all my Gooseberry Patch!!! The title alone is great, Almost Homemade, tastes like you worked for hours but only took a few minutes to bless your family with wonderful food!! Try the Easy Cheesy Parmesan Bread!!!! Keep them coming!!!

Location: Tremont, IL
Date Posted: 03/08/2011 09:30:32 PM

Mealtime help in a hurry

On those days when I'm short on time and still want to put a good meal on the table, I reach for "Almost Homemade." The recipes give fast help without being short on taste!

Location: Brentwood, TN
Date Posted: 03/08/2011 08:28:28 AM

First choice

I always reach for this cookbook first when doing menu planning for my family!

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Date Posted: 02/24/2011 03:25:45 PM

Almost Homemade

Great cookbook. If you like the taste of homemade pies, cookie, cakes this has some great recipes

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Travel in Central America and Mexico with the Peace Boat and learn about the UN SDGs in an experiential study program "Peace Education and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Latin America" which will take place June 20 - July 3, 2020, during Peace Boat's 104th Global Voyage. The program will begin in Panama and ends in Mexico, and includes a visit to Costa Rica.

In 2015, 193 UN member states came together to define 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to shape the global agenda for sustainable development in the next fifteen years and beyond. Peace Boat has made promoting and advancing the UN SDGs a key part of its mission.
This program is for students, activists, and lifelong learners of all ages, backgrounds, and nationalities who are currently or previously involved in SDG-related activities or have a strong desire to learn about sustainable development.

  • SDG Study Program and “Youth for SDGs” Scholarship

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Latin America - Summer 2017

The Latin American voyage from Panama to El Salvador in the summer of 2017 was an incredible experience for me. The program helped me gain an understanding of several cultures very different from my own. We had the opportunity to eat the local cuisine, explore the area, and interact with the people while learning about the efforts of these regions to achieve the United Nation’s 17 sustainable development goals. Getting to see and speak to the people was what I found most meaningful. You get the opportunity to hear their stories as they impart their wisdom to you. It can be rather eye-opening at times to talk to people my age who have a very different life. This program gives you the chance to get to talk and get to know some of the locals. It was a great opportunity and all the participants were wonderful people to spend time with as well.

Yes, I recommend this program

5 reasons why I loved Peace Boat

1) I travelled with a purpose: discovering places, meeting new people from different backgrounds, in places that just being tourist would not happen.

2) In this world, every world fits: our travel was in Latin America, but onboard you meet many different cultures from many different countries.

3) My "country" doesn't define me: I had my culture, but after meeting other places on Peace Boat, I took and learned other people's great characteristic and make it mine, to be able to build my own personality, you also discover that onboard we are all seeking the same "peace and understanding"

4) You have fun in an academical programme: this programme is supported by an academical background, which after having so much fun you realise that it looks great on your CV.

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Overall, I had a very meaningful experience with Peace Boat during the Peace Education and the SDGs in Latin America. I was very glad that the group got to see both the municipal and the traditional sides of the places we visited. The overnight stay we had with the Embera indigenous community of Panama was absolutely amazing, very rich culture and very kind, genuinely joyful people. Life on the boat also offered many opportunities to see various lectures and attend programs, though I wish our stay on the boat was more longer and more immersive, though I do understand we had a tight and very full itinerary. Hope you consider Peace Boat!


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Find The Wysteria - 2 (for Girls)

Welcome to "Find the Wysteria - 2"! If you haven't already played the first installation of this quiz-story, I suggest you go back and do that. It will not make sense otherwise. Anyway, the way that you play this is a little different each time, actually. For this part there is something SPECIAL in each result! Which one will you get? xD P.S. I'm going to try to have all special results from here on out, so everyone gets something good.

This is an ongoing quiz-story with adventure, romance, and mystery, intended for teenage girls. Note: Wherever _____ appears, it means you insert your own name in that spot.

Created by: rhimicha

  1. We're back to where we left off: You, hanging off of a landslide. Thankfully, your bag was around your neck when you fell, so it's still on you. You're gripping onto a tree root as hard as you can, but it's not strong enough! It's about to break and you can feel gravity pulling you down to the sharp rocks below. Dawson is no longer shouting your name and for a second you are scared he has abandoned you. Just as you're about to fall, a strong green vine hits you in the face and you grasp it for dear life. "I've tied it onto a tree. You can climb up!" Dawson shouts from above. You scurry up to the top as fast as you can, and Dawson holds out his hand to give you an extra boost. Once you've both made it far enough from the edge, you lay down on your back and try to catch your breath. When you stand up, Dawson looks at you apprehensively. "Are you okay?" he asks. "I'm fine," you nod, making sure not to start crying. If something like this happened to you in real life, what would you do?
  2. Dawson and you are feeling very hungry/thirsty, but your supply is almost gone. There won't be another town for a while, and you both need more sustenance to keep going. You decide to camp out in a cave. You even find some common edible roots as vegetables. Dawson makes a fire and while cooking the roots, he asks, "Why do you want the Wysteria?"
  3. Dawson is sitting on the opposite side of the fire as you. Do you move closer to him?
  4. Do you want to ask Dawson more about himself?
  5. (If you picked the winky (; answer or the "I dunno" answer for question 2, then Dawson thought you were just kidding) Dawson tells you a little bit more about himself after you've answered his question about the Wysteria. "My parents live in a different kingdom that's ruled by a very evil man. They used all their life savings to send me here. If I find the Wysteria, I would use my wealth and success to somehow bring them to this kingdom."
  6. The roots are delicious and full of starch, so they are perfect for journeys like this. Dawson and you fall asleep in the cave, using your satchels as pillows, and you keep your weapon (which is a knife, by the way) in your hand just in case. He and you wake up early and pack lots of roots to go. You even find some edible fruits, that you know are safe because they are common back in town. Not before long, you are both descending the last part of the mountain, and can see the city of Lights. You are just a country girl and have never been here before, but you've always wanted to. They call it Lights because it is the city that specializes in prisms. They are hanging in almost every single building, and it has a magical effect.
  7. While admiring the 'lights', a princely young fellow comes riding through on a horse. He has wavy, light blonde hair and gray eyes. He says rather authoritatively, "Excuse me." You are forced to stop walking, and are very confused. So is Dawson. The princely fellow continues, "A precious thing was stolen from our city just last night. You appear to be travelers, but would you have anything to do with this?" There are several other men around him, but their bodies are covered in armor and their faces are covered with some sort of metal mesh. They are also riding horses. You soon realize that all these people are city keepers (like police).
  8. Dawson speaks for you. "No, sir." The princely fellow eyes you suspiciously and dismounts from his horse. "Well then, you wouldn't mind if I searched your bags?"
  9. Without waiting for a response, he takes your bag and looks inside of it. After giving it back he takes Dawson's and searches it as well. He doesn't find what he's looking for, and yet he laughs. He has a beautiful smile. "I'm sorry for having to do this, you two must have been on a long journey! I am Jules, and I'm the son of the head city keeper. Where are you from?" he asks. "We're from the city behind that mountain. It's known as Silkwood," you answer before introducing Dawson and yourself. Jules replies, "That's a rough mountain to cross through, how are you all holding up?" Dawson has several scrapes and cuts, but you are more beat up than him, since you almost fell down that landslide. Your leg is bruised quite badly but you haven't mentioned it yet. Since it's really hurting now, you decide to bring it up subtly. "Nothing too serious, but would you have a clinic nearby?" Jules answers while gesturing towards a big tall building, "Right that way. You are welcome to check into our lodge for a few days. We'll be off now, then." He mounts his horse and they leave.
  10. At the clinic, there is boy your age who is sitting behind the counter. He is too young to be a doctor, so you ask, "Where can I get my leg checked out?" Dawson is surprised at this, since he didn't notice your leg was hurt that bad. You were hiding it pretty well, after all. The guy behind the counter looks up from the papers and greets you with a blank stare. His hair is black and his eyes are dark brown. He is a little taller than you. "Names?" he asks. "_____ and Dawson." The guy signs you in and says, "My uncle, the doctor, is out restocking up on certain things. I'm a medic in training, so I'll be helping you today."
  11. You sit down on a stool near the back, and Dawson stands beside you. The guy who was behind the counter is now looking at your calf. "I'm Caldwell, by the way," he says. Your leg is badly bruised and Dawson is obviously feeling bad he didn't notice sooner, because he says, "Had you told me, I would have carried you." You shake your head and say, "It's not that bad." Caldwell says, while applying something cold that really stings, "Actually, it is." You inhale sharply and soon the pain is over. Caldwell wraps the part that is cut with a cloth bandage and ties it loosely. "You can take the bandage off tomorrow. It would be wise to stay off your leg for a couple days."
  12. Yo... guys... guess what? *no effect*
  13. Yeah, these are just things I'm gonna tell you about the next part. It will have more clear choices of which guy you want to be romantic with. Like there will be options for Dawson, Jules, and Caldwell. There will be some sort of romantic thing in each result! No go on, go read your awesome, special results for this part! xD Also, did you like? *no effect*

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  • After a long day, kick back and relax in the Aura Top Grain Light Grey Leather Power Recliner.  This  contemporary reclining chair is upholstered in full top grain light grey leather and is a great compliment to your Aura sectional or sofa. Each piece is constructed with premium high-end materials to give your dream home a luxurious look and feel. Attention to detail is highlighted by the rich two-tone contrasting dark grey linen accenting.  The chair features headrest and footrest support mechanisms that adapts to the shape of your body to offer the utmost comfort.

    Thanks to its elegance and beauty, Aura becomes the centre of attention in your room.

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I lead our reward advisory services, a team combining commercial approach with deep technical expertise and offering a comprehensive one-stop client service covering design, tax, valuation structuring, implementation, communication and compliance.

I have specialist expertise in converting companies into employee ownership through the Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) structure and work closely with business owners who wish to implement succession plans which recognise the benefits for their business of fostering wider employee ownership. I sit on the Employee Ownership Association members council which actively promotes employee ownership as an alternative ownership model.

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In the aviation industry, so much is left up in the air. Whether your business flies planes or manufactures aviation parts and supplies, you need coverage to help you reach your destination.

What should aviation companies consider when choosing insurance protection?

Great American’s aviation underwriters bring decades of industry experience to better analyze, price and tailor coverages. This expertise puts us at the forefront of emerging insurance trends in the aviation industry. Plane or helicopter, pilot or unmanned, we can help keep your business flying.

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  • When equipment wears down or an aircraft crashes, coverage for your physical property damages, as well as bodily injury damages for both the pilot and passengers.
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International Franchising With Great Harvest

Great Harvest now welcomes international franchise partners outside the European Union.

Join us as we build our global brand presence. We have recently started franchising internationally, beginning with development in Saipan. We are not expanding in the European Union.

Financial Investment

We will negotiate a specific agreement with you, but you can expect to pay a minimum exclusive rights fee of $125,000 (depending on the territory, the fee may be higher). There is a significant financial investment on our part for us to enter a new country.

We extend international franchise agreements for a minimum of 10 stores, to be opened within a five to seven-year timeframe (depending on regulations and territory availability for your area of interest, we may require additional stores to be opened within the same timeframe). International investors must have a minimum net worth of $8 million, with $4 million in liquid assets.

There will be a set franchise fee for each store at the time the store opens. You will also be expected to commit to an ongoing royalty of 5% and a 2.5% contribution to the marketing fund. Additional terms to be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.

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We will need to do additional research on specific regulations in your country to determine whether the market is viable for our brand. If you want more information about international franchise opportunities with Great Harvest, it’s best to speak with us directly.

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Be the first to introduce your country to Great Harvest’s fresh and healthy “real food” products.

Each Great Harvest location is unique to the community it serves, making it a perfect fit for international development.

With almost 200 stores and a forty-year history of franchising, we have the proven processes, training, support, and tools you need to build and grow strong, exciting bakery cafes.

Our fanatical dedication to quality, freshness, flavor, and nutrition is why our products taste best. We make our bread from scratch, by hand, every day. We grind fresh flour from the best tasting wheat on the planet, daily. No other franchise makes bread as fresh as ours.

With our cost-effective Hub & Spoke model and delicious products to serve more people at every meal throughout the day, we give you many ways to grow your bakery cafe business.

We’ve been ranked among Entrepreneur’s Top 500 Franchises for over 25 consecutive years.

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You can open five Great Harvest bakery cafes for the cost of a single Panera Bread store.

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What Are Dental Implants? – A Complete Guide on Affordable Dentures & Implants

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It can feel like the end of the world when you find that you are losing the teeth. This is primarily because your smile is the first thing that people notice in you and it comes with a grave social consequence. Practically smiling, chewing and speaking after the loss of tooth used to be immensely challenging and negatively affected anyone’s life a few decades back.

But with the advancement of technology, the days of suffering after losing one or more teeth are a thing of the past today according to the best dental clinic in Bangalore. Dentures and dental implants have emerged as the effective solution for the missing teeth and for permanently replacing the gap. These days you will get both affordably and you should choose the most appropriate one keeping in mind your issue.

Here an attempt is made to give you some idea about dental implants and dentures as well as how to get them affordably so that you can take an informed decision when at the hour of need.

What are Dental Implants?

Dental implants are the permanent replacements for the natural teeth. The roots of the teeth can be replaced by the titanium posts in the jaw. They bond to the bone after creating a strong foundation so that the natural looking crown can be attached to the posts.

The dental implants enable you to completely hide the fact that you have lost the teeth. The implants help to preserve the jaw structure that often gets disrupted after tooth loss.

Single tooth, multiple teeth and even a full mouth of teeth can be replaced by dental implants.  In fact, they are a great alternative to dentures. Dentures call for a lot of special care and need to be replaced eventually. That is one of the major reasons why they come with a much lesser amount of upfront cost as compared to dental implants.

Dentures never feel like the natural teeth in the way the implants do. Patients only retain about 18 percent of the chewing power when they opt for dentures.

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How to Care for Dental Implants

The implants are more or less similar to the natural teeth. That is why taking care of implants after the initial recovery period is a breeze. All you need to do is to keep the implants in great shape for maintaining the good brushing and flossing habits and home care is also very important to dental implants . This way you can visit the dentist regularly for the professional cleaning.

The Dental Implant Procedure

The tradition dental procedure primarily takes place in two parts. First, the screw is placed after drilling a hole. While the post slowly binds to the bone in the jaw a temporary crown is put in the place. The permanent crown is secured in the place in just 4-6 months and the patients can start returning to their normal oral care regime.

With the help of the “same day implant” technique or by using the individual implants full teeth replacement can be done. In order to secure the full set of teeth only 4 posts per arch are required. Patients can smile, eat and laugh at the same day after the treatment.

What are Dentures?

Dentures happen to be false teeth. They are used to replace original tooth almost effortlessly. They are removable and come as a partial plate or a full set. If you opt for a full set of dentures it means a complete upper and lower plate. On the other hand, a partial set replaces either the lower or upper row of the teeth.

Dentures and implants are quite different from each other. Implants are not removable, but dentures are. The dentures are a single piece molded plastic piece that imitates the teeth’s natural looks to a great extent.

Factors that Affect the Cost of Dentures

There are several factors that affect the cost of dentures. They are primarily mentioned below.

  • Type of dental insurance you have
  • Location of the dentist offering the treatment
  • The denture complexity that you will require
  • Materials with which denture is constructed
  • Added or enhanced procedure like surgery or tooth extractions for reshaping the bonny ridges
  • Types of warranty provided

How to Achieve Affordable Dentures and Dental Implants

Here are some ways with the help of which you can save while opting for dentures and dental implants.

  • Medicaid – This one is a program that is state-funded and may assist adults in extraction services as well as in obtaining the dentures. But you should keep in mind that all practices do not accept Medicaid insurance and all states do not accept these. You should search the internet for finding the Medicaid coverage in the home state.
  • Dental Insurance – An appropriate dental walkout statement will be provided if you have dental insurance. Though most practices do not file the insurance claims, but you can save a lot by opting for filing the claim yourself. The professionals at the hospital will help you to calculate your cost.
  • Third Party Care Providers Payment– There are many dental practices that are affiliated and provide third party care provider relationships with the social service organizations and government, nursing homes, hospices, home heath agencies and retirement home facilities. By opting for them you will be able to save quite a good amount of money.

Apart from the above there are quite a few options for the low-income seniors. There are several government programs that are devised for helping the elderly to get dentures at reduced cost. Another way to get dental treatments like dentures and dental implant at reduced cost is to go for dental schools. You will get quality oral therapies at fraction of the cost there. You may have to let the students treat you, but they work under the supervision of the dentist and are qualified to do that.

From the above you may have derived a comprehensive idea about dentures and dental implants and how to get them at affordable rates. By keeping the above things in mind you can get the right treatment that is most appropriate for you without making a dent in your pocket.

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Ross from Friends

Having recently made his inaugural outing on Brainfeeder with “Aphelion EP”, British producer Ross From Friends aka Felix Clary Weatherall returns with his debut album on Flying Lotus’ label. "Family Portrait" is characterised by a perpetual desire to experiment and Felix's obsessive attention to detail, somehow marrying an intricately layered production style with warm, heavily saturated sonics that elevate, rather than stifle, his melodious funk. With a handful of revered 12”s under his belt via Breaker Breaker, Lobster Theremin, Distant Hawaii, Magicwire and a 10” on Molten Jets. “Family Portrait” showcases his ability to shift and evolve, moving from the world of lo-fi to the world of FlyLo, he demonstrates a versatility exemplified by the ease in which he can switch between playing shows with Little Dragon, holding down a peak-time slot in Berghain’s Panorama Bar and performing live at Maida Vale for BBC Radio 1.

The culmination of almost two years of intense studio time, working 20 hour days, and often spending months perfecting just one aspect of a track. "I tried to be careful with every single sound” he explains, “Trying new things, making a bit more of an explosive sound”. The album also finds Felix recording his own voice for the first time, with the resulting tracks acting as snapshots of his personal life while recording. “Every time I went to make music the things which would really grab me are the emotional things, and while I’m in that place I felt I could really focus on the track. That was a massive part of this album, tapping into my emotions… into my emotional instability”.

The album title - “Family Portrait” - also nods to a very specific personal aspect of the record: the influence of his parents. Dance music has always been a feature in Felix's life, with early memories of his dad producing music on his analogue set-up, or pumping out hi-NRG tracks on the turntable, he grew up discussing, sharing and learning about music from his dad. “My dad has been hugely influential to the whole thing,” he explains. However it was with the emergence of some old family VHS tapes, and the story of how Felix’s parents came to meet, that the true significance became clear.

Having built up a sound system in the 1980’s while playing at various squat parties around London (including the then derelict Roundhouse) Felix’s dad decided he wanted to get out of the capital and see some of Europe. He got his hands on a bus and started putting word out through a network of like-minded friends and acquaintances. At the time just a friend of a friend, the trip caught the attention of Felix’s mum-to-be, who offered to document the whole thing in return for a seat, and in 1990 they loaded up the sound system and hit the road. Travelling through France, Belgium, West and East Germany (though returning through a unified one) and beyond, setting up in towns to share their passion for the sounds of hi-NRG dance, Italo disco and proto-Techno through spontaneous parties in whatever venue they could find.

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Toyo-Nishiki has a gorgeous combination of white, pink, and red in every blossom! It will delight and brighten your garden in late winter and early spring. Quince-like fruit attracts birds.

  • You are purchasing a pack of Toyo Nishiki Flowering Quince in 3.5" pots
  • Profusion of White, Pink, and Red flowers in early spring
  • Attracts Birds
  • Bonsai potential
  • Easy care
  • Plants bloom on old growth
  • Avoid heavy pruning. Prune to shape as needed in spring after flowering to stimulate growth of flowering spurs which will improve bloom for the following year (although such pruning will reduce fruit production for the current year)
  • Note: Images are of mature plants
  • Family: Chaenomeles japonica 'Toyo-Nishiki'
  • Mature Size: 8' x 8'
  • Hardiness Zone: 4-8
  • Soil: Average, well-drained
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun/Part Shade
  • Characteristics: Deciduous, spreading, spring flowering, blooms on old growth
  • Growth Rate: Moderate
  • Tolerance: Drought, poor soil
  • Bloom: White, Pink, and Red flowers on the same plant
  • Suggested Uses: Beds & Borders, Ground Covers, Barrier, Hedge, Cut Flowers, Attracts Wildlife

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Your Gulf Shores beach vacation traditions in past years may have normally included a fair amount of eating at restaurants, shopping and enjoying local attractions that may be outside your comfort zone in 2020. So maybe this is a year to include some alternatives that we'll call "social distance friendly" vacation plans.

First, pick a Private Beach House--this is inherent social distancing as you are just staying with your group. Current beach regulations do not limit the size of your family, group, or household, but do require that you maintain at least 6' of distance from other groups. That is not difficult when you are staying at beach house. Explore all our Beach Homes here.

Private Pool and/or Pier--this instantly expands the things to do right outside your door. Swim or relax in the refreshing water of your own pool (many are heated in Fall, Winter and Spring). Find Homes with Pools. You can also surf fish (far away from swimmers, please) or fish from the pier at one of our lagoon-front homes. See Homes with Piers.

Now that you've picked your place to stay, here is a list of things to make your 2020 beach vacation easy and fun, while limiting your contact with others.

  • Grocery shopping and load-in--let The Beach Moms handle it. Special occasion during your stay? They can arrange for that birthday cake & balloons to be all set up and waiting for you as well, plus a wide range of the other things to make your stay easy and delightful.
  • Rent a boat, just for your family, at Hudson Marina. They are also doing dolphin cruises and other activities at lower capacities so you may be able to make it a private adventure.
  • Sand Castle University will come with all the gear to do a sand castle activity on your beach.
  • Mad Dog Fishing will bring fishing gear to you and even teach you how to surf fish. Please book 2 weeks in advance.
  • Gulf Shores Seafood will cook up a seafood boil (shrimp, potatoes, corn and don't forget the conecuh sausage--you decide how spicy you want it) for you to have at the beach house instead of going out for seafood.
  • Orange Beach Concierge can do a private chef dinner, or one of their absolutely delicious heat and serve dinners (Mexican, Italian, and others), or some of their gourmet to-go items (amazing chicken salad and pimento cheese to name a couple).
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To honor famed designer Marcello Gandini, BMW has literally recreated the BMW Garmisch concept, which Gandini designed at Bertone for the 1970 Geneva Motor Show. The 80-year-old Gandini, perhaps best known for the Lancia Stratos and Lamborghini Miura, even personally lent a hand with the project, which got its first public showing at this year’s Villa d’Este concours on the shore of Italy’s Lake Como.

The original BMW Garmisch was a speculative, independent design proposal, intended by studio head Nuccio Bertone to strengthen his firm’s relationship with BMW by surprising the Bavarian company with an all-new concept vehicle, based on BMW’s Neue Klasse cars, for the Geneva show that year. The car was named after the Garmisch ski resort, not far from Munich. “We wanted to create a modern mid-sized coupe that was faithful to BMW’s design language, but that was also more dynamic and even a bit provocative,” Gandini said.

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Something tells us that Kevin Hart is secretly jonesing for a role in The Fast and Furious franchise. The actor/comedian/car collector just celebrated his 40th birthday on July 6 by purchasing the 1970 Plymouth Barracuda that appeared in 2018’s The Fate of the Furious, the eighth movie in the series.

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How much Hart paid for the car is unknown, but it certainly was a lot more than the average value of a stock 1970 Plymouth Barracuda in #1 (concours) condition: $74,300. For comparison, SpeedKore’s 966-hp 1970 Dodge Charger “Evolution,” which also appeared in The Fate of the Furious, was offered for sale last year for $699,000.

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Audiobooks generally take about a dozen CDs worth of storage. Even if you MP3 them they take about a CD and a half. This is quite bulky compared to the few hundred kb of data required when stored in text form. If there were an MP3 player with a built in text-to-speech chip, you could store an entire library worth of audio books on the same amount of media as one in the traditional format.

Mechanical-sounding voice (certainly not a huge problem)
Copy protection issues of having raw text available of major books. They've solved this for e-books, so I'm sure this isn't a deal breaker either.

Worldgineer, May 18 2005

Audrey http://hegel.resear...3d6adafe5a840fa.wav
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       Nice. It reminds me of eighteen rpm records. If the text was stored as characters but using an ASCII version of the phonetic alphabet, it could be even simpler. In fact, it could probably have been done twenty years ago or more with floppies and a BBC Micro style voice synthesiser. You might even be able to make one at home.
nineteenthly, May 18 2005

       An audiobook encoded with a 2400bps CELP vocoder could be 740 hours long and still fit on one CD. The audio quality would be a little robotic, but probably still better than from a text-to-speech system.
supercat, May 19 2005

       Sounds like a good idea to me. [+]
contracts, May 19 2005

       Nah, not worth it. Storage is plentiful and cheap, audio compression is, as supercat points out, good enough to fit many books on a single data CD, and a good reader makes a *huge* difference.
jutta, May 19 2005

       [jutta], i understand that speech compression is one of your areas of expertise. Exactly how good is it compared to text?
nineteenthly, May 19 2005

       Hm! It would be nice to have a storage format that has audio accompanied by searchable text on a frame-by-frame level.
jutta, May 19 2005

       [super], [jutta] Good points, though I'm not sure that's a better practical solution. I've run audiobooks through maximum-bearable compression in an MP3 format, and they take more than a CD. It also takes hours of effort (ok, a few minutes of effort every 20 minutes or so) to convert. I guess you could market pre-compressed audio files, and a special player that understands a better encoding than MP3.

       However, having this read text-based data allows you to listen to much more than the books available in this format. Find an interesting article online? Copy it to your TXT player. Haven't had time to read your e-mail? TXT player. More or less the whole Internet that you just don't have time for will be accessable.
Worldgineer, May 19 2005

       If text was used, it would be possible to scan data in from text on paper, which could then be read, like a highlighter pen being run along lines. This would make the algorithm for reading it out more complex because it wouldn't be stored phonetically and there would clearly have to be OCR. It would also be possible to convert it to audio internally but i'm inclined to believe it would be bigger than text.
nineteenthly, May 19 2005

       This might sound funny; let's expand this idea further. If in situations where a specific person's voice is not mandatory, we could use a really fast writer (like IBM Viavoice) to convert the voice into text and send packets of this text and use a fast reader (like Windows narrator) on the other side. If this can be done seamlessly, we can save a lot of data transfer.
concept, May 21 2005

       the more natural you want the text player to sound, the greater are the chip and linguistic dedicated harware you want the player to have, therefore the greater the speed for the player's processor and the greater the energy consumption, hence PC characteristics; don't know about portability being a main asset to that.. hope technology miniaturization will make it possible in the future. nice idea though [+]
sweet, May 21 2005

       [concept] and add tonality info on the way, for each word. imagine the moment you talk to your employee and try to tell him he's fired without hurting his feelings. for an experiment try pasting this to the word reader "... therefore, your future activity is no longer needed in our company"
sweet, May 21 2005

       There are already inexpensive small digital voice recorders. All this needs to do, in its simplest form, is to associate a character with a sample of a related phoneme, assuming the text is stored phonetically rather than using conventional spelling in the appropriate language. In some languages, such as Finnish, Czech or Swahili, the text can be more or less as spelt and it would still work, but in English, French, Portuguese and other languages there would need to be some alteration of the text. There is then the rather trivial problem of storing one phoneme per character, and an overestimate of the number of bytes used to store a single phoneme at an unnecessarily high sampling rate in an unsuitable format, i.e. MP three, is around eight hundred bytes. With the fewer than fifty phonemes in the dialect of English i speak, excluding allophones, that adds up to less than forty kilobytes. This is not difficult to achieve and doesn't need much processing power by today's standards, and that assumes that an algorithm optimised for speech is not used. It would not be at all demanding to do this.
nineteenthly, May 21 2005

       OK, let's do the math:

       Storage on a CD-R: 700 MB.
One second of telephony-compressed audio, technology publicly available as of ca '94: 1664 bytes.
Seconds per hour: 3600
Storage for one hour of audiobook: 6 MB.
Hours of speech that fit on a single CD-R: 116+.
Hours in the longest unabridged audiobook I've listened to so far: 24.

       I agree that some of the software solution to this may be inconvenient - you have to understand a bit about codecs and be able to use or perhaps even write converter software to make this happen - but I think that's very much worth it to, where a speaker is available, save you from the monotony of text-to-speech. (Unless, perhaps, the speaker is Brian Emerson, in which case I'd have preferred the text-to-speech.) There are such things as melody, flow, arc, irony, beats, timing, rhythm, and, three hours into the intricacies of US foreign policy in the middle east, you'll miss them.

       If you enjoy text to speech for the novelty value, good for you; if you don't have audio at all, good for you, too; but the problem of not being able to store all that stuff has been solved for a while. (Unsuprisingly - extreme lossy speech compression and speech generation meet somewhere where speech is compressed to elements of a "voice font", not all that different from elements of the phoneme set of a language, roughly the order of magnitude of an alphabet. Nineteenthly, above, is heading there, too.)

       All that set, I still think this is an extremely cool idea for the existing mixed-media players. E.g., you can store notes on your iPod, and Apple has long had text-to-speech; why not have a mode where my notes can be read to me? It would cost them next to nothing, all the technology is already there.
jutta, May 21 2005

       Thanks for the info, [jutta], that's really helpful and interesting. I wish i knew more about speech compression.
Storage is not the only issue though. If it's memory on something like an EPROM or a card (sorry, i don't know the right terminology and i know it's probably out of date) rather than on an optical disc, it can be read directly into the device, it can be smaller and have fewer moving parts, so it would be more durable and reliable, and in those circumstances, less storage would be available for the same price. However, i agree that storage is not really an issue. What could make a difference to this, though, is that if it is stored in text form rather than as compressed audio of some kind, the necessary data can be transferred more quickly, such as on a dial-up internet connection, and also it becomes possible to convert data that were previously only text into audio, such as webpages, viewdata, text files and actual printed text on paper if some kind of scanner is available. I think it would be more difficult to convert text in English than in many other languages written in Latin script because of the way it's spelt, but English spelling is unusual in its poor correspondance between characters and phonemes, and there would have to be much more complex conversion software which would slow things down, take up more storage space (though this may not be an issue) and be potentially buggy. However, if a language with saner spelling is to be converted, the problem is much simpler, although to read actual text printed on paper, OCR would be needed, which for all i now (and i am most ignorant on this matter) is just as difficult to do as converting English text to speech. Even so, there would be advantages to a device which could read in ASCII stuff even if it couldn't do OCR.
nineteenthly, May 21 2005

       I like the concept, but...

       // Mechanical-sounding voice (certainly not a huge problem) //

       ... here, I disagree. I think you're vastly underestimating the impact of this problem. The voice is the entire interface. If it sucks, the whole experience sucks. And to date, I have not listened to any text-speech synth that I could stand to listen to for more than a couple of minutes*. Imaging listening to Audrey (link) narrate an entire novel.

       So a lot of work would be needed in this area to make this idea viable, I think.

       (*With the possible exception of the US Weather Channel WeatherStar forecast voice-guy (link again). It's pretty damn good, but it's not true synth. It pulls from a pre-recorded file of phrases.)
waugsqueke, May 21 2005

       The problem of the mechanical-sounding voice could be solved. The phonetic content of the player could be determined by asking the user to recite a series of sounds or a phrase which could then be chopped up and turned into the voice of the player itself. This would help people who are fond of the sound of their own voices.
nineteenthly, May 21 2005

       The problem with text-to-speech is not with the sound of the voice per se, so much as it is with the prosody (pacing, word stresses, and intonation). "Assisted" text-to-speech systems, where a human edits the characteristics of the generated speech, can produce results which would be fully acceptable. The amount of effort required to generate such speech, however, exceeds that required to simply say what needs to be said. There are sometimes cases such a thing can be worthwhile (e.g. many staffers working on a project can generate dictation files that match).

       One idea I do find intriguing, though, would be that of using a speech-to-text algorithm to 'line up' the recorded speech with the printed text, allowing someone to simultaneously listen and follow along with the written word.
supercat, May 22 2005

       I definitely think the problem here is English spelling. For a lot of other languages there would be no problem at all, since there are regular rules for stress, and raising the voice for a question, pausing because of commas and so forth are already built into the punctuation of the text.
nineteenthly, May 22 2005

       Listening to a bad synthesized voice is a lot like reading text - minimal. Since the computerized voice intonates everything the same, once you get used to the voice - learn it like a language -- you can let your imagination fill in the tone of voice, the same way your imagination fills in the pictures with text. To me this is much different than being spoon fed meaning by human actors.
JesusHChrist, May 22 2005

       I tend to agree, but i also think the font in which something is printed influences one's impression of a text. If something is in Courier, for example, it would seem to be plain, official and no nonsense, but in Black Letter it would seem pretentious, falsely anachronistic or perhaps Biblical in tone. Some authors insist on the use of a particular font to print their novels.
nineteenthly, May 22 2005

       JHC: In some ways, I prefer older text-to-speech systems to newer ones. The older ones would generally try to speak mostly in a monotone, except for the last syllable or two of a sentence or question. The newer systems try to add a more natural 'arc' to the speech. Unfortunately, the efforts at adding word stress and intonation patterns sometimes produce results that are just plain wrong. A monotonous voice is much less bad than a voice which uses improper word stresses.
supercat, May 22 2005

       My head hurts...

       I like this idea just for the fact that you can cut & paste text into it. Bonus croissant if you enable it to assign different accents to different portions of speech.

energy guy, May 22 2005

       Once they solve the problems of synthesized speech, and the problems are big, why stop at a TXT file reader? I'd like a machine into which I could stick a book or magazine into, so it could optically read the material and read it outloud to me.

       In fact, for short articles, I might be able to tolerate the synthesized voice in its current state of the art.
noglider, May 22 2005

       Although this product would not be for [waugs] and others with low tolerances for such things, I've personally listened to hours of generated speech without being annoyed. Back in college, when I was out of interesting mp3s to download I did something like this. I'd find e-texts that I wanted to read, generate sound files with text-to-speech software, convert them to MP3, and upload them to my little MP3 player. The only problem I had with this was that I was limited to 30 minutes or so with my 16mb card, and it took far too much effort to be useful.
Worldgineer, May 22 2005

       Are you sure about the 1664Bytes per second, [jutta]? - In the link i posted, the 2400bps is very bad already.

       High compression of audio makes the voice more unintellegible to me than any text-to-speech synth, which is quite intuitive.
loonquawl, Apr 01 2009

       //Are you sure about the 1664Bytes per second, [jutta]? - In the link i posted, the 2400bps is very bad already.//

       2400bps is 300 bytes/sec. Even if that level of compression is dreadful, that wouldn't mean 13.3kbits/sec (1664 bytes/sec) would be.
supercat, Apr 02 2009

       [21] Kindles are huge, compared to an MP3 player.
Worldgineer, Apr 04 2009

       Has anybody done an idea for a voice-avatar yet?
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