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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My
name is Tom Adams and I work for the California Department of Education in the
areas of standards, curriculum, and instructional materials. My fascination
with ancient Greece goes back to childhood and it was reborn when my daughter
started to read the Percy Jackson series. She has continued on to other reading
adventures but I am remain fascinated with the Greeks. I have tried reading
Herodotus before but quickly got lost and confused. I look forward to obtaining
inspiration from my fellow readers and to enjoying their insights. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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CA 95814<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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319-0663<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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herodotus2010-bounces@readingodyssey.org
[mailto:herodotus2010-bounces@readingodyssey.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gabby Hon<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 12, 2010 10:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Swislow, Bill<br>
<b>Cc:</b> herodotus2010@readingodyssey.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Herodotus2010] Listen to the Herodotus Introduction online<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>My name is Gabby Hon and I'm an independent User Experience
Consultant in Chicago -- basically, this means that I do my utmost to make
online experiences useful and usable for people.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I'm currently doing a distance learning course in Latin
(using Wheelock) via the University of Alaska--Fairbanks. I've previously
studied both Latin and Ancient Greek but never for a grade. I'm entertaining
the notion of getting my MA, Classics online from the University of Florida at
some point in the future.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>When I'm not being a closet Classicist, I travel as much as
I can and futz about with my new DSLR which has a bunch of whiz-bang features
and a really thick manual.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Gabby<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Swislow, Bill <<a
href="mailto:bswislow@cars.com">bswislow@cars.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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I'm Bill Swislow. I oversee content, development and hosting for the
Cars.com<<a href="http://Cars.com" target="_blank">http://Cars.com</a>>
web site. My background is in journalism. My main avocation is art, especially
outsider/folk. I read a pretty random mix of non-fiction and fiction. Some
years ago I started adding classical authors to the mix. Having since then done
Aristotle and Xenophon with the Reading Odyssey, it's clearly an advantage to
read these with a group, not to mention an expert.<o:p></o:p></p>
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