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The guide to local potpourri (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
BOOK SALE | Merrillville The Friends' of Lake County Public Library will have a BOGO (Buy One, Get One Free) sale in the Book Sale Room located on the main level of the Central Library at 1919 U.S. 30, from 2 to 8p.m. May 21. All books, videos, records, puzzles, paperbacks, encyclopedias, audio tapes and CD's, normally offered as incredible bargains, are included in this special sale event.
'Net reaction: Lakers at Rockets, Game 6 (Yahoo! Canada Sports)
Scanning the blogs and beats following the Rockets' 95-80 win over the Lakers in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals ... T.J. Simers, Los Angeles Times : "The way this is going I'm going to have to ask the question again, although I already know the answer: THIS IS EMBARRASSING. Only the underachieving, disappointing Lakers could make Luis Scola (notes) look like Larry Bird. The guy goes ...
Literacy Council to hold its annual Used Book Sale (Florence Morning News)
The Florence Area Literacy Council will hold its annual Used Book Sale to help fund some of the organization’s adult literacy programs.
St. Mary’s sends Ghana children back to school (Billerica Minuteman)
In September, parents in the United States take their children back-to-school shopping for pens, paper, pencils, notebooks and highlighters, half of which are usually lost in the child’s backpack within a week.
Alex Ross: Rediscovering the operas of Francesco Cavalli. (The New Yorker)
Opera was, in effect, born twice. Its first coming was during the last decade of the sixteenth century, when humanist musicians and poets at the court of the Medici, in Florence, began to present a new kind of sung drama. The inaugural operas had impeccably high-minded subjects--Daphne changing . . .
Reportlinker Adds World Book Publishing Market Report (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue.
Wolfram Alpha: Wikipedia killer? (ZDNet)
It seems that most people who have had the chance to use Wolfram Alpha (myself included) agree that it will do a few things to Google: it will drive it to innovate in semantic search and it will complement its high-volume search capabilities quite nicely. It will not, however, kill Google. On the other hand, the folks over at Trusted Reviews made a very good point in their first look at Alpha: ...
Army Staff Sgt. Bryan E. Hall, 32, Elk Grove; killed in explosion (Los Angeles Times)
He was among five soldiers who died when a suicide bomber detonated a truck loaded with explosives at the entrance to a police headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, north of Baghdad. When Army Staff Sgt. Bryan E. Hall returned to Iraq from leave early last month, his 2-year-old daughter, Addison, hugged a fabric doll with his image. She would squeeze the doll, which caused her father's recorded voice to ...
Detroit Students Detail Needs (Washington Post)
Education secretary meets with high schoolers, asks them their thoughts on school reform.
Detroit Students Tell Education Chief About What They Need to Succeed (Washington Post)
DETROIT -- Four of Dennis Black's childhood friends have been shot to death. Last year, he quit the Cody High School football team for a job at Popeyes to help his mother pay rent. He failed ninth grade on his first try but is on track to get a diploma. Many of his peers aren't.