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Idahos Top Ten Outdoor Activities
Outdoor activities are plentiful in Idaho. To residents and visitors alike, Idaho is like a big backyard. A vast, year-round playground for adults and children. But, which activities rank as the top ten favorites? Based on personal observations, and not in any particular order, here they are:
Fishing
For some, fishing means trolling for sizeable lake trout in waters like Idaho’s Lake Pend Oreille. For others, tracking down the huge, prehistoric sturgeon in the Snake River is great anglin Read More...
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What Drives the Popularity of Audiobooks?
The range of entertainment available on audio books is huge: from Bestsellers, Classics, Comedy, Biography to History, Travel and Politics. Research shows that most people listen to audiocassettes and CDs while they are doing something else--driving, doing housework, exercising, preparing to go to sleep, surfing the net and especially travelling. Audio CDs are still out-sold by tapes and it's forecast that it will be 2006/07 before that trend is reversed.
So, if you don't have time to stop off Read More...
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For Public Speakers: Review Of A Book Youll Want For Your Own Library
THE FACTS ON FILE DICTIONARY OF CLICHES
2nd edition, 2006
by Christine Ammer
For any of you who do any speaking in public, this book would be an excellent addition to your personal library. For that matter, anyone who speaks--even in private--can benefit from seeing just how much of our common spoken language consists of cliches.
Those of us who are tuned in to language in general, and speaking in particular, tend to denigrate cliches, and we cringe mightily when we hear certain of those Read More...
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