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Barry Krivisky Esq. truly understands trademark law clearly, succinctly and masterfully. His articles and speechs on this and other legal topics are a wealth of information. An asset to anyone in need of trademark or intellectual property counsel.

This book has all the great aspects of a superb novel. It has funny, serious, insightful parts, with excellent connections between characters and points of view. If I were a writer I wish I could write like this.
You've GOT TO READ THIS!

The book has useful information about the realities of disability, the prevailing attitudes, the causes of disability, family issues, and special services for special students. The idea of project-based inclusion is new and exciting. It will actually work in any school. Each chapter has an set of photocards that introduce a student with disability. As the cards are viewed by teachers and students they will know the student with a disability as a person, their joys and sorrows. An excellent book that is a joy to read.

Chace relies on Wendy Faris's remarkably constructive "Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction" (from Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community) to show how Jäntti's novel meets all five of the primary characteristics of magical realism: an irreducible element of magic, detailed descriptions of a realistic world, contradictory understandings of events, the near merging of two worlds or realms, and a questions of received ideas of time, space, and identity. Jäntti's novel is not exactly what I picture when I think about the kinder, gentler magical realism I'm familiar with from stories like Like Water for Chocolate. Instead it's a gritty, often gross, romp through a posthuman landscape. Chace analyzes Jäntti's use of narratological techniques to show how amorphous the narrative is in the text. The article contains lots of quotes from the text to support her claims and is remarkably easy to understand and follow for an academic article. Great work! Now if only the novel were available in English translation!

I have been reading Mr. Przybylowski's written work since 1997. He has a first rate communication style that at times invokes Mark Twain, Shakespere and my man, Stuart Scott.

The points he makes in this piece shed light on an important issue that I have never before seen covered in the mainstream media. Five years from now, when the networks discover this topic, we will all point to Joel Przybylowski as one of many strong men who could have been leaders in this field if only given the chance.

Joel Przybylowski's skills are now focused on creating the best maps, graphs and charts known to man. One can only hope that the people mentioned in this Letter to the Editor will one day be in possession of a superior map, graph or chart and they will recognize the name of the great man they turned out into the cold: Joel Przybylowski.

Best $5.95 I ever spent. Boo yah!

Wow! A definite read. This article is a very valuable and inquisitive look at new initiatives in Journalism. I recommend this reading for any up-and-coming or seasoned person interested in writing, Journalism, and education.

Divine Inspiration is an unusual coffee table book because the pictures do tell a thousand words, and because the text is helpful and interesting, not just filler. It is a good, respectful introduction to the Yoruba religion and its many offspring in the Americas.

In this amusing article, Roy Varghese and Christopher Hitchens debate the question of modern science undermining atheism.

Varghese boasts that Antony Flew, who wrote a splendid paper in 1950 called "Theory and Falsification," now says that science supports a Creation by some sort of First Cause Deity. I'm not entirely sure that Flew really says that (Hitchens does not make the same claim about what Flew says) but the question at hand is what Science actually tells us. And I don't think it has anything new to say about atheism. If anything, the trend has continued for Science to explain more and more phenomena that many folks in previous generations had despaired of understanding.

Yes, our Universe does have some very specific physical laws. And we surely are right to wonder where these laws came from. More than that, we're right to wonder why there is any such thing as existence at all. But we have to be careful that when we answer that question, we do so coherently. No matter what gave rise to the physical laws, we have to be prepared for the question of what gave rise to the cause of those laws. As Hitchens indicates, inventing an arbitrary creator at some stage of the game violates Occam's Razor and doesn't really add anything to what we know.

I'm a Pagan, and I think that monotheism is a form of atheism. So I'm not impressed with a debate about whether there is one god or zero: I see no difference between these two propositions. And that's the case in this debate. Moreover, I think it is risky to base religious claims on science, given that scientific statements are subject to validation.

I think there are indeed aspects of Reality worth cherishing, and the Goddesses and Gods are among them. But the Gods and Goddesses are not responsible for the existence of Reality. It's the other way around. So I can't see how the failure of Science to explain Reality would constitute evidence that Reality is created by Intelligence.

Varghese claims that life originated "fully formed." Well, that is subject to scientific analysis, and we may eventually see clearly that this is or is not the case. So far, it looks like life has evolved for quite a while, and it would not be surprising if evolution applied to the chemistry of the pre-biotic Earth. I think Varghese is going out on quite a limb here. Just because some of us (even all of us) may not be smart enough to understand how life originated does not mean that it did not happen!

The same is true of Varghese's claims that intelligence, consciousness, and the physical laws "simply cannot be explained by science." Science is, in my opinion, rather likely to explain the nature of consciousness quite precisely. And the same can be said about intelligence. We have plenty of data about what beings are intelligent and what beings are not. And about what beings are conscious and what beings are not. I would not dare bet against Science here. I would not even be surprised if Science showed that there was a way for physical laws to change in some manner, either randomly or incrementally. But even if Science were never to explain all these things to Varghese's satisfaction, that would not mean that Varghese could do so! Nor would it make a claim that a monotheist deity accomplished all these things a cognitive remark.

Hitchens takes on a classical representation of a monotheist religion, and finds it somewhat provincial. But in doing so, I think he misses the more general philosophical question at hand. Namely, no matter how much Science does tell us about consciousness, intelligence, the origination of life, or even changes in the physical laws, won't there always be deeper questions (such as why there is existence at all)? And is there a limit somewhere that Science has no chance to take us past? Not just a practical limit, but a philosophical limit? I think that Varghese has asked such a question implicitly, and it probably deserves a reply.

Anyway, I enjoyed reading this article.

With lots of examples and careful explanations you will find this book to be an excellent workbook, and learning tool to understand the complex ideas and concepts of positional play and Nimzovich System of play. But be aware it isn't an easy task, you may need to read and study some of the material several times in order to get and master some of the techniques (well at least I needed to do it before I understood some of them).

I also believe that this book is absolutely indispensable in order to understand what Nimzovich sets in his book "My System". Together these two are among the most important books ever published in chess history.

Pollack captures the humour and the frustration of a teenager with a new drivers license. Brilliant writing style.