I've Got Your Number: A Novel By Sophie Kinsella

Review: I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella

   
    There are very few of us who could get by without our cell phones. I know that I couldn't. If I am not using it to stay connected to the world via Twitter, Facebook, and Taptu, I am using it to stay connected to my family and friends via Words With Friends. And occasionally I even use it for phone calls. I thought Sophie Kinsella was very clever in the way she took our dependence on these little gadgets and turned it into the type of Chick Lit novel that she is best known for. Once I got past the whole cheekiness (love that British phrase!) of Poppy to just swipe a cell phone that did not belong to her, I found myself enjoying the story. Her determination to fit in with the Tavish's, her clever way at winning Scrabble, and her general need to butt into Sam's business was all really quite entertaining.

      Sophie Kinsella is a very well known author in the Chick Lit genre. Some even credit her with launching the genre into the successful genre it is today. Her newest book, I've Got Your Number, just goes to prove that the praise is well earned. Check it out and let me know what you think!

What is digital library?

     A digital library is a collection of documents in organized electronic form, available on the Internet or on CD-ROM (compact-disk read-only memory) disks. Depending on the specific library, a user may be able to access magazine articles, books, papers, images, sound files, and videos.

      On the Internet, the use of a digital library is enhanced by a broadbandconnection such as cable modem or DSL. Dial-up connections can be used to access plain-text documents and some documents containing images, but for complex files and those with animated video content, a downstream data speed of at least several hundred kilobits per second ( Kbps ) can make the user's experience less tedious, as well as more informative. Internet-based digital libraries can be updated on a daily basis. This is one of the greatest assets of this emerging technology.

      On CD-ROM, the amount of data is limited to several hundred megabytes ( MB ) per disk, but access is generally much faster than on an Internet connection. Several CD-ROMs can be combined in a set, and because the disks are small, a large library can be accommodated in a reasonable physical space. The main limitation of CD-ROM is the fact that updating cannot be done as frequently as on the Internet. In addition, producing and distributing CD-ROMs involves overhead costs that are largely nonexistent in Internet-based libraries.

      Some institutions have begun the task of converting classic books to electronic format for distribution on the Internet. Some files can be viewed directly in HTML format; others can be downloaded in PDF format and printed. Some publishers keep electronic files of books and produce them one unit at a time in printed and bound form on demand.

      Electronic distribution of intellectual and artistic property has authors, agents, and publishers concerned about the possibility of copyright infringement. It is much easier to copy a CD-ROM, or to download an electronic book and make unauthorized copies of it, than it is to reproduce bound volumes and distribute them illegitimately. Fundamental changes in copyright law - and/or changes in the way in which the laws are enforced - are likely to occur as digital libraries expand and their use becomes more widespread.

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Perkara2 Sunat Yang Dilakukan Pada hari Jumaat

Perkara2 Sunat Yang Dilakukan Pada hari Jumaat :

Mandi sunat Jumaat dan memakai pakaian yang bersih dan cantik serta bau-bauan.

Sunat memakai pakaian yang berwarna putih.

Keluar ke masjid dengan niat untuk menunaikan sembahyang Jumaat pada seawal waktunya secara berjalan kaki dengan penuh tenang dan sopan disamping membanyakkan membaca zikir, berselawat dan bertahmid kepada Allah.

Sunat mengelokkan rupa parasnya dan membersihkan anggota tubuh badan sebelum keluar bersembahyang seperti memotong kuku, misai, mencabut bulu ketiak, mencukur bulu air-ari, menggosok gigi dan sebagainya.

Sunat membanyakkan membaca surah Al Kahfi pada malam Jumaat dan di waktu siangnya.

Sunat memperbanyakkan membaca doa dan memohon keampunan dari Allah pada malam dan waktu siangnya.

Memperbanyakkan membaca selawat ke atas Nabi s.a.w. pada malam hari dan di waktu siangnya.

Melakukan sembahyang sunat 4 rakaat sebelum Jumaat dan 4 lagi selepasnya.

Sunat membaca surah al Fatihah, al Ikhlas, al Falaq dan an Nas setiap satunya sebanyak 7x selepas memberi salam sembahyang Jumaat. Sabda Rasulullah s.a.w. "Sesiapa membaca surah Fatihah, al Ikhlas, al Falaq dan an Nas sebanyak 7 kali sebelum ia mengubah cara duduknya setelah imam selesai memberi salam pada hari Jumaat, nescaya akan diampuni dosa-dosanya yang telah dilakukan dan yang akan datang serta diberi ganjaran pahala sebanyak bilangan orang yang beriman kepada Allah dan RasulNya."

Disunatkan bagi orang yang mengantuk ketika mendengar khutbah pada hari Jumaat supaya berpindah tempat duduknya. Berdasarkan riwayat dari Ibnu Umar katanya, "Aku mendengar Rasulullah s.a.w. bersabda, "Apabila salah seorang daripada kamu mengantuk pada hari Jumaat di dalam majlisnya maka hendaklah ia berpindah ke tempat duduk lain.

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Whitney Houston dead at 48

Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, has died at the age of 48.

Houston's publicist, Kristen Foster, said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unknown.

News of Houston's death came on the eve of music's biggest night — the Grammy Awards. It's a showcase where she once reigned, and her death was sure to case a heavy pall on Sunday's ceremony. Houston's longtime mentor Clive Davis was to hold his annual concert and dinner Saturday. It was unclear if it was going to go forward.

At her peak, Houston the golden girl of the music industry. From the middle 1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world's bestselling artists. She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful, and peerless vocals that were rooted in the black church but made palatable to the masses with a pop sheen.

Her success carried her beyond music to movies, where she starred in hits like The Bodyguard and Waiting to Exhale.

She had the perfect voice, and the perfect image: a gorgeous singer who had sex appeal but was never overtly sexual, who maintained perfect poise.

She influenced a generation of younger singers, from Christina Aguilera to Mariah Carey, who when she first came out sounded so much like Houston that many thought it was Houston.

Addiction woes

But by the end of her career, Houston became a stunning cautionary tale of the toll of drug use. Her album sales plummeted and the hits stopped coming; her once serene image was shattered by a wild demeanour and bizarre public appearances. She confessed to abusing cocaine, marijuana and pills, and her once pristine voice became raspy and hoarse, unable to hit the high notes as she had during her prime.

"The biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy," Houston told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an infamous 2002 interview with then-husband Bobby Brown by her side.

It was a tragic fall for a superstar who was one of the top-selling artists in pop music history, with more than 55 million records sold in the United States alone.

She seemed to be born into greatness. She was the daughter of gospel singer Cissy Houston, the cousin of 1960s pop diva Dionne Warwick and the goddaughter of Aretha Franklin.

Houston first started singing in the church as a child. In her teens, she sang backup for Chaka Khan, Jermaine Jackson and others, in addition to modeling. It was around that time when music mogul Clive Davis first heard Houston perform.

"The time that I first saw her singing in her mother's act in a club … it was such a stunning impact," Davis told Good Morning America.

"To hear this young girl breathe such fire into this song. I mean, it really sent the proverbial tingles up my spine," he added.

Before long, the rest of the country would feel it, too. Houston made her album debut in 1985 with Whitney Houston, which sold millions and spawned hit after hit. Saving All My Love for You brought her her first Grammy, for best female pop vocal. How Will I Know, You Give Good Love and The Greatest Love of All also became hit singles.

Another multiplatinum album, Whitney, came out in 1987 and included hits like Where Do Broken Hearts Go and I Wanna Dance With Somebody.

Early critical praise

The New York Times wrote that Houston "possesses one of her generation's most powerful gospel-trained voices, but she eschews many of the churchier mannerisms of her forerunners. She uses ornamental gospel phrasing only sparingly, and instead of projecting an earthy, tearful vulnerability, communicates cool self-assurance and strength, building pop ballads to majestic, sustained peaks of intensity."

Houston's decision not to follow the more soulful inflections of singers like Franklin drew criticism by some who saw her as playing down her black roots to go pop and reach white audiences. The criticism would become a constant refrain through much of her career. She was even booed during the Soul Train Awards in 1989.

"Sometimes it gets down to that, you know?" she told Katie Couric in 1996. "You're not black enough for them. I don't know. You're not R&B enough. You're very pop. The white audience has taken you away from them."

Some saw her 1992 marriage to former New Edition member and soul crooner Bobby Brown as an attempt to refute those critics. It seemed to be an odd union; she was seen as pop's pure princess while he had a bad-boy image, and already had children of his own. (The couple had a daughter, Bobbi Kristina, in 1993.) Over the years, he would be arrested several times, on charges ranging from DUI to failure to pay child support.

But Houston said their true personalities were not as far apart as people may have believed.

"When you love, you love. I mean, do you stop loving somebody because you have different images? You know, Bobby and I basically come from the same place," she told Rolling Stone in 1993.

"You see somebody, and you deal with their image, that's their image. It's part of them, it's not the whole picture. I am not always in a sequined gown. I am nobody's angel."