Cables Books

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I found this tutorial to be well written and very useful. It is in two formats. In one format you hear the author discussing the subject while you are viewing slides that graphically illustrate each point. In addition, all of the material, including the figures and descriptive text are in a PDF file that you can print and use for reference or review at a later date. A really nice feature is the powerful search capability within Adobe Acrobat which makes it possible to instantly search the entire tutorial for specific topics and keywords and then play the multimedia clips directly from within Acrobat reader. I have previously had just enough exposure to Foundation Fieldbus to be able to recognize that the author is, without question, an expert on the subject. Now, with this tutorial under my belt, I feel prepared to build a Foundation Fieldbus segment and start getting hands-on experience.
Jon Monsen, Ph.D.

Lorna is rare in her craft, in her ability to transmit the reality of life, to situate that in a way that opens to those who do not immediately share her experiences, but at the same time place this where it belongs in her undiminished political commiment not just to the struggle of chicanas and indigenous people, but the general struggle the oppressed face around the world. Even if you are oblivious to politics, gender, Chicana power, you will find yourself seeing your own life more clearly in her words about hers.
A great book for teachers, particularly in community colleges and high schools. She writes about the real life working class students, particularly young women face, not about the normal white middle class alienation too many of our good poets seem to dwell on. This book belongs in every book shelf, in every home.

This book has been around for awhile, and I've yet to read a poetry book by a Chinana who surpasses this writer's scope in subject and language. With a strong voice and a keen ear for rhtyhm, this is a masterpiece in the growing canon of Mexican American letters.

This is a must have if you are looking for ways to jazz up your knits. Cables make the plain into a work of art. This booklet explains and shows you how to cross over the loops to create wonderful cables on a loom. No knitting needles required. A few patterns to try it out on: scarf, hat, bag, slipper socks, afghan, fingerless mitts, a shawl and a baby sweater.

I'm just in love with this book! I read it cover to cover the night I got it and the instructions are clear and easy and the pictures are a great helping tool. I've started by just making a few swatches using the diffrent cabeling techniques, I can't wait to start the hat with the cables down the sides and the felted back pack is high on my to do list too. The problem now is picking out the yarn!

I would highly recomend this book to any loom knitter out there. It is a great addition to Learn to knit on circle looms, Learn new stitches on circle looms and of course, the loom knitting primer (think bible for loom knitting) I'm excited about the possiblities of these patterns and I can't wait to get started.

This really is a booklet, as opposed to a book, but the cables will make your mouth water. Well worth buying.

I am about halfway through knitting one of the short-sleeved sweaters, and I can't wait to finish it and wear it! I'm an intermediate knitter, and this is my first real project with cables. Even though I'm using a different kind of yarn, it's been easy to pick up and follow the pattern. I've been amazed at how beautiful this sweater is coming out! I'm certainly learning some new cabling patterns and techniques as well. Most of the patterns in this book use more than one type of cable and they are all unique. Each one has big color photos of the finished product so you can see what they'll look like. The clothes look beautiful, and I've already picked out which pattern I'm going to try next. You won't find any of these clothes being mass-produced and sold in the stores. I'm looking forward to wearing this unique top that I made to fit me, and showing it off. :)

Dr. Hazlett explicates the dilemmas of free enterprise and government regulation, as they apply to the evil cable mafias, in this witty book. If you get cable tv, you should read this.

Dr. Hazlett explicates the dilemmas of free enterprise and government regulation, as they apply to the evil cable mafias, in this witty book. If you get cable tv, you should read this.

As we traveled along Interstate 10 between New Orleans and "Red Baton," I mused about the girders which held the highway up out of the bayous. What must travel or life in general have been like in that part of Louisianna a century or so ago.

George Washington Cable first collected these seven stories about Louisianna and published them in 1888. He calls them true stories. They are stories from times before his own from 1782 to after the Civil War. At the same time these stories are strange to Cable because life had changed so much in Louisianna between the time that the stories occurred and his own time.

The stories start with the story of Louise who came to Louisianna and almost became the dinner of a local chief. This tragic tale is quickly followed by the "bright and happy" story of Francoise and Suzanne who travel through the "wilds" of Atchafalaya. Alix's story is next. She was once introduced to Marie Antoinette. Then the French Revolution came and Alix lost her first husband. She will be a character that I long admire but I ask you to read the story to see why. Salome Muller was a German who lost most of her family enroute to Louisianna. (Some 1200 of the 1800 who attempted to make that trip never arrived.) Salome became a slave. Yet some 20 years or so later her family took her case to the State Supreme Court to free her. The
"haunted house" is the house of Madame Lalaurie who chose to save her possessions rather than her slaves when a fire burned her house. The story of Attalie Brouillard reminds me of the con men of the movie "The Sting" with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. The last story is a diary of a Union woman who lived in the South during the Civil War. To these I would like to add the story of George W Cable who begins his book by telling his readers how he got these other seven stories.

These are true stories from people who lived in Creole Louisianna, a time strange to us now.

Seven unusual, true stories set in Louisiana comprise the reissue of George Washington Cable's STRANGE TRUE STORIES OF LOUISIANA. First published in 1888, these stories are a gold mine of cultural lore and historical facts. As interesting as the stories themselves are the accounts of how Cable acquired them.

"The Young Aunt with White Hair" is set in Spanish occupied Louisiana in 1782 and describes the horrors experienced by a young woman on the long journey to New Orleans from Germany: robbed by sailors on the ship; an Indian attack near the mouth of the Mississippi River, during which her husband and baby are brutally murdered; being held captive by Indians and told she was to be the chief's dinner. Her ordeal was so great that her hair turned snow white in a matter of hours, and she never recovered from the experience.

Humor and suspense make "The Two Sisters" just plain fun to read. Two teenage girls- one a tomboy and one a demure, sweet lady- undertake a dangerous trek across the Atchafalaya swamp to North Louisiana in 1795. It's not only a good story, but the details of clothing, places and people are priceless. "Plaquemine was composed of a church, two stores, as many drinking-shops, and about fifty cabins, one of which was the courthouse. Here lived a multitude of Catalans, Acadians, Negros and Indians. ..It was at Plaquemine that we bade adieu to the old Mississippi.."

The story if "Alix de Morainville" reads like a fairy tale: the birth-deformed baby farmed out to a peasant family; the arranged marriage that turns out to be a love match; the convent stay; the marriage of dear friend Madelaine to Count Louis de la Houssaye and the couple's departure for the Louisiana colony; presentation to Queen Marie Antoinette; Aleix's grand wedding at Notre Dame Cathedral; the onset of the French Revolution; widowhood; rescue; and flight first to England and then to Louisiana.

The other stories are "Salome Muller, The White Slave," "The Haunted House in Royal Street," "Attalie Brouillard," and "War Diary of a Union Woman in the South."

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This book not only brings the complexity of foaling to the average horse owner but it really prepares you for what to expect from a foal along with some of the complications that can arise. I won't ever let this book leave my stable.

I bought this book after purchasing a pregnant mare, our first horse as well! The book made me very confident that I could handle whatever happened and that I would know when I needed help. I have referred back to the book many times since the foal was born but I would only recommend this book to someone who will be involved in the actual foaling. It would be of minimum help in raising a foal unless it was an orphan. Focuses mainly on the first couple weeks of life.

Ted Turner dreamed it. Sid Pike built it. The book's title, We Changed the World (Paragon House, 2005) -- is far from being immodest. The creation story of the CNN International satellite communications network evokes the American legends of stringing the intercontinental railway from sea to shining sea and the decade-long mission to land a man on the moon.

Sidney Pike apparently never heard of the words, "It can't be done," although there are certainly plenty of folk around shouting them in his ear. His task brings him to confront domestic and global communications bureaucracies and powerful political leaders around the world. Some suffer from such shortsightedness and ignorance that they cannot even comprehend the concept. Others comprehend it only too well, fearing the threat to their own vise-like grip on information. To accomplish the mission, he crisscrosses the globe many times, coming to feel that "home" is a Boeing 747. (He probably has enough Frequent Flyer miles to actually take up permanent residence in one.) From China to Bahrain, Argentina to Moscow, Iraq to Canada, Aruba to New Zealand, bit by bit, the International network grows, as Pike cajoles, explains, and hammers out agreements that inch the project forward. (The case of establishing the link in Guam is in itself a cheering vindication of the American yearning for the triumph of the underdog!)

In every case, Pike gives credit where it is due and pulls no punches about naming names where a hard punch in the nose is more appropriate ("Ted Turner is the worst deal maker I have ever known.") Even when the player is himself, Pike lays it down straight. On several occasions, his relation of a disagreement ends with "They fired me." His personal integrity and genuine belief in the value of this mission allow him to do no less. This sense of mission never intrudes into the narrative, but patently fuels the endeavor: a core belief in the power of free information exchange to ensure the viability of democracy. He's right, of course. For some portions of the world, the easy access to information that most of us take for granted is as dangerous to despotic power as an ICBM.

The saga is thrilling as a narrative alone, but sprinkled throughout are fascinating insights into the workings of the global communications industry, the inner wrangles of Ted Turner's corporate empire, and the arcana of trying to establish a new mindset for a twenty-first century world. Beyond that, it is both inspiration and proof-positive that "it" can, indeed, be done.
-- B. S. Horton, Ph.D., Technology Advocate. 2005.

The introduction of CNN's 24-hour cable news channel in 1980 changed the world of television, with satellite and cable providing a strong competitive alternative to tradition TV - and author Sidney pike was in the middle of the revolution, here explored in his We Changed The World: Memoirs Of A CNN Satellite Pioneer. Pike met with media and government leaders around the world trying to sell CNN programming, and was an early pioneer for the global television channels we know today. His memoir provides a first-person review of obstacles, achievements, challenges, and a rapidly-changing industry under transition to this day.

I had been looking for a descriptive book like this for almost 6 months before I spoke with Mark and he offered it as a solution to a large cable networking job that I had to do and had NO idea of the procedure. HE WAS RIGHT, in that the book would walk me thru it and even better, I learned what I was doing quicker than taking a class. This book is LONG overdue. Great addition to your technical library