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Take Control of Speeding Up Your Mac

With this 196-page book, you can:Save money: Extend your Mac's useful life and postpone buying an expensive new computer.Save time: Work more efficiently rather than constantly waiting for your Mac to catch up with you.Eliminate irritations: Banish the spinning pizza of death. Reduce startup and application launch times.Work smarter: Learn power user tricks for getting more done with less effort.You'll learn answers to questions like:What are the eight quickest fixes for Mac performance problems?Which common claims about Mac performance are myths?How can I objectively measure my Mac's performance?Which popular Mac OS X features have hidden (and severe) speed penalties?What are the best ways to find and eliminate CPU and RAM hogs?Can I make my Mac faster by freeing up disk space?Will defragmenting my disk, repairing permissions, or clearing caches speed up my Mac?When is an SSD (solid-state drive) a smart upgrade choice?Which hardware upgrades are worth the money, and which should I avoid?If Web browsing is slow, how can I tell where the bottleneck is?How can I make my Mac start up, go to sleep, or wake up faster?How can I type faster?How can I make my mouse pointer move faster or more fluidly?

With this 196-page book, you can:Save money: Extend your Mac's useful life and postpone buying an expensive new computer.Save time: Work more efficiently rather than constantly waiting for your Mac to catch up with you.Eliminate irritations: Banish the spinning pizza of death. Reduce startup and application launch times.Work smarter: Learn power user tricks for getting more done with less effort.You'll learn answers to questions like:What are the eight quickest fixes for Mac performance problems?Which common claims about Mac performance are myths?How can I objectively measure my Mac's performance?Which popular Mac OS X features have hidden (and severe) speed penalties?What are the best ways to find and eliminate CPU and RAM hogs?Can I make my Mac faster by freeing up disk space?Will defragmenting my disk, repairing permissions, or clearing caches speed up my Mac?When is an SSD (solid-state drive) a smart upgrade choice?Which hardware upgrades are worth the money, and which should I avoid?If Web browsing is slow, how can I tell where the bottleneck is?How can I make my Mac start up, go to sleep, or wake up faster?How can I type faster?How can I make my mouse pointer move faster or more fluidly?

the parts that matter to get right are being done by experts, but we are DIYing what we can.

Summer 09: Kennedy Library remodels the first floor including the Reference Room.

Unlike many cities farther north, Kansas City, Missouri—along with its sister city in Kansas—had a significant African American population by the midnineteenth century and also served as a way station for those migrating north or west. “Take Up the Black Man’s Burden” focuses on the people and institutions that shaped the city’s black communities from the end of the Civil War until the outbreak of World War II, blending rich historical research with first-person accounts that allow participants in this historical drama to tell their own stories of struggle and accomplishment.
Charles E. Coulter opens up the world of the African American community in its formative years, making creative use of such sources as census data, black newspapers, and Urban League records. His account covers social interaction, employment, cultural institutions, housing, and everyday lives within the context of Kansas City’s overall development, placing a special emphasis on the years 1919 to 1939 to probe the harsh reality of the Depression for Kansas City blacks—a time when many of the community’s major players also rose to prominence.
“Take Up the Black Man’s Burden” is a rich testament not only of high-profile individuals such as publisher Chester A. Franklin, activists Ida M. Becks and Josephine Silone Yates, and state legislator L. Amasa Knox but also of ordinary laborers in the stockyards, domestics in white homes, and railroad porters. It tells how various elements of the population worked together to build schools, churches, social clubs, hospitals, the Paseo YMCA/YWCA, and other institutions that made African American life richer. It also documents the place of jazz and baseball, for which the community was so well known, as well as movie houses, amusement parks, and other forms of leisure.
While recognizing that segregation and discrimination shaped their reality, Coulter moves beyond race relations to emphasize the enabling aspects of African Americans’ lives and show how people defined and created their world. As the first extensive treatment of black history in Kansas City, “Take Up the Black Man’s Burden” is an exceptional account of minority achievement in America’s crossroads. By showing how African Americans saw themselves in their own world, it gives readers a genuine feel for the richness of black life during the interwar years of the twentieth century.