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In 1999, Konami, who had cemented themselves as masters of the arcade Rhythm Game with beatmania and the recently released Popn Music and Dance Dance Revolution, decided to expand their horizons into games that didn't just involve hip-hop and dance. It began with GuitarFreaks; a game that involved playing a relatively simplified rendition of a guitar by holding down one or more of the three buttons on its neck (colored in red, green, and blue) and using a switch at the bottom to "strum" it. Konami knew what they were doing so much, that with the release of GuitarFreaks 2nd Mix later that summer, they also introduced a companion series known as DrumMania (which was Exactly What It Says on the Tin, having to use a five-piece set of drum pads attached to the cabinet as instructed). The two games could also be linked for multiplayer in an arrangement they called "session play".Much like other Bemani franchises, the series uses a soundtrack with a mixture of original music by Konami's in-house artists, along with songs from J-rock acts and U.S. or European rock bands (the latter occurs infrequently in recent versions, but was more common in the early era). In 2010, Konami pulled a IIDX and introduced an upgraded version of the franchises known as XG; which brought revamped cabinets with a more powerful sound system, high definition screens, and redesigned instruments (specifically, the guitar now has five buttons, sustains and an effector pedal, and the drumset got two additional drum pads, double bass pedals, and a raised stage platform)In its homeland of Japan (which is, as usual, the only place you'll really find plenty of it), you'll rarely find matching versions of the two games separated from each other. In fact, when new versions come out, they now come out at the same time, the PlayStation versions always compiled the two games together, and the Portmanteau Series Nickname Gitadora (ギタドラ) is used as shorthand to refer to both GF and DM at once, and became the official name of both games beginning on the 2013 version (which also introduced new cabinets best described as white, downsized versions of the XG cabinets. So much so that the guitar cabinet only supports one player now).The series has been most prominently cited as the influence for Harmonix's franchises Guitar Hero (originally published by RedOctane, a company whose other claims to fame include making third-party dance pads for DDR, publishing the In The Groove home versions. Later turned into a Cash Cow Franchise by Activision before its untimely death in 2011), and Rock Band (which took Guitar Hero and added drums, plus karaoke built off its work on fellow Konami franchise Karaoke Revolution, and lots and lots of Downloadable Content). While the first GuitarFreaks got a U.S. release, it flopped. Konami hasn't officially released the series in America since: when faced with the aforementioned competition, it decided to play Follow the Leader with itself and release the dismal Rock Revolution instead, and then played a Heel-Face Turn as the publisher for an arcade version of Guitar Hero.
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Scientists create chickens with alligator snouts, cackle madly
Chickens have a deep, dark secret locked away in their genes: they used to be dinosaurs. Researchers at Harvard University have figured out how to access these genes to send chickens back to to the Cretaceous era, giving them reptilian snouts like alligators.
Way back in the time of dinosaurs and cave men, chickens and alligators (and birds and reptiles in general) shared a common ancestor. At some point the chickens went off to evolve into chickens while the alligators went off and didn't do much evolving at all, but despite some significant differences (including the fact that one now eats the other), both of these animals share a lot of the same genetic code. The difference is that chickens have all the chicken genes turned on, and all (or most of) the reptile/alligator/dinosaur genes turned off.
Using a special protein with the ability to suppress certain genetic signalling molecules that control anatomical development, Harvard researcher Arhat Abzhanov has been able to alter the development of chicken embryos so that instead of beaks, they grow snouts like alligators. Essentially, this is rewinding evolution, causing the chicken to genetically regress back to when all chickens were actually dinosaurs. With enough tweaking, Abzhanov hopes to eventually hatch one of these out of a modified chicken egg:
As it turns out, these genetic tweaks work forwards as well as backwards, suggesting that it may also be possible to actually speed up chicken evolution instead of rewinding it. But so far, both types of experiments are restricted to chicken embryos, and due to ethics regulations none of the modified eggs are allowed to hatch.
If you're wondering how this research applies to you, allow me to point out three things:
- Understanding how to control anatomical gene signalling may lead to a way to eliminate birth defects in the womb.
- We're now one step closer to Jurassic Park. Seriously.
- We're now also one step closer to the era of the FUTURE CHICKEN, which means that the days of humanity are numbered.
Isn't science just the best thing ever?
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Are we spoiling our baby by letting her sleep with us?
Our two-week-old daughter seems to be spoiled already. She won't sleep in her crib at night -- only in our bed. I don't want to have her get used to this, but it's the only way anyone can get any sleep. What can we do? Can a two-week-old be spoiled?Question:
A two-week-old banana can be spoiled. A two-week-old infant cannot.
With your daughter's help, you have figured out a way to get some sleep. Great! Look at it this way: Is your baby better off being cared for by a sleep-starved zombie or a rested adult?
There is a terrible fear that whatever we do with a newborn we will be doomed to do for life. Not true. Do what is age-appropriate. At this stage of the game your goal is to get through the next day. Sleep helps you achieve that goal. Snuggling your newborn between you, admiring the wonder you have created and drifting off into satisfied sleep are a few of the joys of new parenthood. Give yourself permission to savor them.
Next: Learn some "tricks" for putting your baby into a crib
The time will come when you are all ready for her to sleep in her own space. When it does, you will make the switch in a way that works for you.
There are some "tricks" for putting newborns into cribs:
- Place her head in the corner of the bumper pads, so she feels more snuggled.
- Rub your hand across the sheet before you put her down. It warms the bed and leaves your familiar smell.
- Turn on a metronome or "heartbeat" tape or toy to imitate soothing womb sounds.
You may want to try these techniques when she naps during the day.
Relax. There are no Sleep Police. Use common sense (don't put babies to sleep on soft, squishy surfaces; don't sleep with a baby if you are under the influence of drugs or alcohol) and grab what sleep you can get, however you can get it.
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Although it might not be easy for Windows' users to get accustomed to the Apple iMac whose design philosophy along with the user experience that it offers is just beyond imagination. With its incredibly functional hardware and the perfectly balanced software, iMac is most certainly an attractive choice for anyone.
• No need for a separate memory controller in the Core i3/i5/i7 series. By accessing memory directly, all the new iMacs provide a huge lift in performance and access efficiency.
• iTunes not only organizes music and transfers it to your other Apple gadgets, but also provides you the option of integrating with other OS X applications such as iMovie and iPhoto. This way you can take your media to wherever you want.
• The built-in Time Machine backup suite gives you the option of recovering your individual or multiple files. It also has the option of backing up the entire system through the incremental backups which are automatic and periodic.
• Another amazing feature named AirPrint lets you connect to the printers automatically. And not just this, AirPrint can even print wirelessly with a very little input.
Compared to the 2011 iMacs, 2012 iMacs, with more attractive features added, are more elegant and are better termed as the best iMacs ever. The upgraded USB 3.0 is not only ten times faster than the previous USB 2.0. Moreover, it's compelling aesthetics, faster processors and video, clear and sharp screen as well as its incredible performance is on par with MacPro. However, unlike MacPro, the performance of iMacs can be only expanded within limits.
Three years ago, Apply came up with a new series of iMac featuring Intel Core processors. But the downside of buying those Intel-based machines in 2012 was a number of undiscovered and unsolved problems. While the transition to this new chip should have been smooth, a large number of people have been seen online, discussing the common issues that started to appear with message boards since the iMac's Intel Core Duo release.
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RESULTS: A total of 60 ballots were cast in Petersburg Tuesday
James Holeman will continue to hold the mayoral seat after receiving 58 votes.
In the city council race, Richard Haller received 48 votes, Kevin Richards received 50 votes, and Joanne Tollison received 51 votes.
Dawn Pirolli remains on the Board of Review with 57 votes.
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The monthly General Meeting is held at St Anne's Church Hall, Harrington Street off Newcastle Avenue, Worksop S80 1NQ at 2 pm on the third Thursday of each month. (Please see Events for more details).
Membership of the Worksop and District U3A can be obtained either at our monthly general meetings or by contacting our membership secretary, by emailing through the Contacts page. An application form will then be sent to you upon receipt of a SAE. Please send your completed application form and cheque , made payable to Worksop and District U3A. If you belong to another U3A Group, the cost will be reduced by £3.50p. Our financial year runs from April-March.
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I was born April 23, 1977 in Huntington Beach, California, to Craig Schumacher and Jeannette Prince. Both my parents loved to surf and met in the water at Newport River Jetties in the mid-1970s. My mom surfed pregnant with me until she was 8 months pregnant, shifting from a surfboard to a mat when paddling on a board became too difficult.
I have been competing in surfing since I was 8 years old. Since then, I have won multiple national and international amateur shortboarding titles. I was the #1 US female shortboarder on the 1994 and 1996 US Team for the ISA Jr. Championships and won the 1995 Pan-American Championships. I have always enjoyed riding every size board, but after spending nearly 2 years on the ASP women's professional shortboard tour in an environment that sapped my love of surfing, I refocused my competitive interests to longboarding.
I am a three-time Women's World Longboard Champion (2000, 2001, 2010), Women's Longboard Pipeline Pro Champion (2009), and two-time ASP North American Champion (2008, 2009). From late 2001 to 2005, I went on sabbatical from competition, surfing in only two events from 2005 to 2007. I returned officially to longboard competition in 2008 to win the Linda Benson Roxy Jam at Cardiff, California. I have not surfed in competition since boycotting the ASP World Tour in 2011.
I have refused sponsorship (or brand "ambassadorship") in general, intentionally bucking a trend entrenched in many sports in order to have the freedom to speak my mind on social issues, such as persistent gender disparity, homophobia, the impacts of consumer culture, and other important social issues in and around surfing and sports in general. I have written various articles addressing these issues that have been published in The Inertia, The Guardian, and elsewhere.
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Maria Cerda and I married in 2008 during the brief time period in California when it was legal for same-sex couples to wed. There were 18,000 same-sex couples wed during this time period, before Proposition 8 made it again illegal for same-sex couples to be legally recognized wedded couples in the State of California. Our marriage along with the 18,000 others wedded during this time frame, were grandfathered in, making us legally wed in the State of California although our relationship went unrecognized by the federal government until just recently. After a long fought battle, we are now recognized as a wedded couple in the United States of America. Our relationship existed in a strange in-between space for years though we knew exactly where our relationship stood between each other.
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The competition for a job is becoming more fierce every day. Employers virtually have their pick of potential applicants, many with the same job skills. This competition requires, not only that your resume stands out, but your cover letter needs to stand out in about 30 seconds and grab their attention. The important fact to remember about a stand out cover letter is that it should not simply be your resume, reworded, but a focal point to get the recruiters attention.
Here are some tips on what to include in your cover letter:
Remember it is a cover letter, not a book. Imagine the hiring manager has thousands of resumes and cover letters to read through to fill one position. They do not have time to read novels about your career path. Think of your cover letter as your thirty-second elevator speech and write it accordingly.
Keep the tone simple, yet professional. If you are trying to impress the hiring manager with how many big words you know you may lose their interest. It is not necessary to use a thesaurus to write your cover letter (or resume). Keep the words and language, easy to scan. The cover letter should be a reflection of your personality, yet remain professional. It is not the time to practice a standup routine, nor be so stiff that you bore the reader. You will only have a few short lines to grab the recruiters attention; jokes, quotes and other irrelevant information will take up valuable cover letter space.
Dont repeat yourself. Your resume will have all the details about your career path. The cover letter is a perfect venue to show the hiring manager the correlation between your skills and what the organization is looking for. You also have the opportunity to show you understand the company vision and values. You need to show how you can add value to the organization. Remember it is not about you, but what you can do for them.
Finally, pay attention to who you address the letter to. To whom it may concern or Dear Sir/Madam are impersonal ways to start a cover letter. The hiring manager will think that your cover letter is a template that you send to everyone. Do your best to find out the name of the hiring manager so you can personalize the letter. Once you find out the name, make sure you spell it correctly.
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State Representative Jim Stamas was elected to his third term in the Michigan House of Representatives in November 2012, representing portions of Bay and Midland Counties. Within Bay County, Stamas represents the cities of Auburn, Pinconning and part of Midland and the townships of Beaver, Fraser, Garfield, Gibson, Mount Forest, Pinconning and Williams. Within Midland County, the District includes part of the city of Midland and the townships of Midland, Homer, Jerome, Larkin, Lee and Lincoln.
Stamas serves as majority floor leader of the Michigan House and chairs the House Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs. He is also vice chair of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules and Michigan Capitol Committee, a member of the Legislative Council and the House Fiscal Agency Governing Committees and serves on the appropriations subcommittees on community health and fiscal oversight.
Stamas holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Northwood University and an associate's degree in business management from Delta College.
Stamas is the owner and former general manager of Pizza Sam's, the eatery in Midland the Stamas family has owned for nearly 50 years. Prior to running the family business, Stamas was self-employed as a realtor and was project manager at Case Systems.
Stamas is a former two-term Midland County commissioner. He was a Midland Township trustee from 1997-2004. He served on the boards of the Midland Downtown Development Authority, Midland Downtown Business Association, and Midland County Planning Commission.
Jim and wife, Marsha, have been married for more than 25 years, and have a daughter and a son.
Stamas served his country honorably in both the U.S. Army and the Michigan National Guard. In recognition of Jim's effectiveness and leadership his colleagues elected him Majority Floor Leader, for the 96th Session of the Legislature. As Majority Floor Leader, Stamas is charged with setting the overall agenda and direction for the House of Representatives. It is Stamas's responsibility as Majority Floor Leader to run the House agenda, call for votes and share responsibility for decisions on procedural matters.


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This post is actually a sermon I gave on 11/24/13 to a Church of the Brethren congregation which had a mixture of folks who were raised as Brethren with a traditional understanding of simple living, along with many people not raised in this tradition. I tried to tie together several facets of simple living with our modern, digital consumer culture and celebrating Christmas more simply and more thoughtfully.
Well, I've got some good news and some bad news: Christmas is coming!
That's both the good and bad news.
Christmas is my favorite time of year – and it also causes me a tremendous amount of anxiety. It makes me anxious for a number of reasons, some of which I'm sure you all share with me. But this past week I've been worrying about whether I should celebrate a 21st Century American Christmas, or actually be a Christian!
See, here's the thing:
I think that the notion of Christian simplicity is one of the most valuable things the Brethren have had to offer the world. It's in the church's tag line: "Simply, peacefully, together."
And, as we all know, Brethren simplicity starts with Paul telling us that we are not to be conformed to this world. He says in Romans 12 "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…"
Now, when Paul tells us not to conform to this world, he's saying "don't do what 21st Century consumer society wants us to do. We shouldn't live our lives by the same corrupt values that the big banks, and the multinational corporations like Walmart, McDonald's, and Amazon.com, and consumer society in general (values that have sometimes created horrendous injustice and suffering particularly in the Third World… as well as right here at home) so that we can live pretty comfortably.
Now, to be honest, I pretty much conformed to consumer society for a lot of years, in spite of what Paul asked us to do. I've had to admit that my wants and wishes had been pretty much out of control…
And so now I'm telling you: I am, a consumer addict! And I'm not joking! For most of my life I've loved to buy stuff… and when I could, I liked to buy expensive stuff. It gave me a thrill to buy a new cell phone, a camera, even a new bicycle chain! Let's not even talk about buying a car!
But I was stunned one Sunday morning some years ago, reading the Story of Jesus and the Rich Young Ruler in church back in Maryland.
That story is in Luke 18. You all know the story, but here's the key line that struck me:
Jesus says to the rich young ruler, "You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
It was at that point, reading this passage, and then having to preach on it, that it shamed me… because I knew I didn't live like that. I had to admit right then, that I was a consumer addict. And just like alcoholics, consumer addicts are never cured of that, but you can recover from it and that's where I am now – trying to recover from being a 'consumer'.
So I've spent the last few years working my own personal consumer 12-step program, trying to regain some of that old Anabaptist/Church of the Brethren sanity; trying to walk Jesus' talk a little better.
Now, that's always a hard job because it means making a lot of difficult personal changes, and change is always hard… if it's meaningful change – diabetics, people with heart disease, and alcoholics and drug addicts – we all know that… right??
But it's worth the trouble because it means having more control over our egos – our wants and desires – and focusing more on the needs of others.
But what makes it even harder now is that we're living in the 21st Century. and that's not your grandfather's simplicity anymore.
In the late 20th and 21st Centuries we have all become… consumers!
You know, of course, that's now our role in life… to consume. For many Fortune 500 executives, that's all that we are. Our job, as far as they're concerned, is now to consume… to make money for the corporations, to generate tax revenues for the government, and to increase the Gross National Product. That's our job description now in consumer America. Or at least that's what the world thinks we are, or thinks we should be.
I can't think of anything more demeaning than to be labeled a Consumer and having that be my identity. The sum-total of my life – someone who just consumes – uses up stuff… Is that who you want to be?
Especially since the Recession hit in 2008 we've been told by government, industry, and economists that we had to spend our way out of the recession… spend our way to prosperity, and make the economy grow, and then we were to keep on spending as much as we could even after the recession was over. We're supposed to buy, and buy… and oh, by the way, stay out of debt while buying all that stuff… although the Bank of America and the other big banks would love for us to stay in debt so they can make more money on our interest payments.
So if I'm not conforming to this consumer world as Paul taught me NOT to do, then I guess… I'm unpatriotic, because I'm not helping spend our way to personal and national prosperity!
Well… that kind of puts us all between a rock and a hard place! Do we please the bankers and big box stores… or Jesus? Remember, He said "sell all that you have…" not "buy as much as you can."
The big bankers and retail executives want us to become addicts because… they want our money… every day, and only addicts can do that. On the other hand, to be honest, we want much of the stuff they're selling! Because, we're told by our culture, that we are entitled to it, or that we should all want to have everything we can possibly get!
But to make my recovery from consumerism even harder, the late 20th and 21st Centuries have brought us "the digital revolution" with its computers, cell phones, smart phones, laptops, note pads, GPS navigation systems, and … the true savior of mankind… the Internet.
With the Web and all of our devices, we are now capable of, and often actually do, buy anything, anywhere, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all holidays included – without laying out a dime of actual money! Now compare that to the world our Brethren ancestors and our grandparents had to contend with in the horse and buggy days with the good old country store!
Living in our environment, today is the same thing as an alcoholic who is living and working in a bar with an unlimited tab: it's the kiss of death for living simply… having a simpler Christmas! And our multinational, digital universe is history's biggest and most ruthless bar… We think their whisky is pretty great stuff!
Yeah, I could blame it all on the corporations and Wall Street, but the fact is, I'm responsible for my own behavior. I'm responsible for my own walk with Jesus… along side of Paul. It's my addiction that pushes me away from Jesus, deafening me to His voice. Making me not walk his walk, and nothing could be more tragic than that!
Then there's the huge factor of the amount of damage we do to others "down stream" from us – 'Down stream' means… all those people who either have to make the stuff we buy, or have to deal with the consequences of what we do with it all.
By "buying into consumer culture" instead of "not conforming" to it… we do a lot of damage. A lot of un-loving things, for instance:
… and we all know this, but we forget it when we walk into a store or go online…
Extremely low wage workers in 3rd world countries make much of what we buy and sometimes that work is done in sweatshops, and even sometimes it's forced labor. How many more factories in India, China, or Bangladesh have to burn down, killing hundred's of people so that we can have stuff… cheap enough, so we can afford to buy… a lot of it… so we can have it all?
If it was expensive, we wouldn't buy as much would we? Hmmm…
And virtually all of those factories create tremendous amounts of pollution in the process of manufacturing this stuff.
To make matters worse, the mining of many of the metals that go into our gadgets, particularly our electronics (and now the electronics are even in our Christmas cards) and the drilling and refining of oil to make the plastic cases the stuff goes in, here and around the world, denudes thousands of square miles of God's earth and causes enormous amounts of pollution that sickens folks and shortens their life spans.
Then, of course there's the recycling issue. Much of what we consume and throw away is not recycled. It ends up leaching away in garbage dumps, further polluting and sickening still more people.
Last… I'll give you just one statistic about our use of our, now billions of electronic gadgets: You know that Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook, and virtually all large web-based business rely on "server farms" – data centers – huge warehouses filled with computers – to store all the information… including your Facebook data, emails, and credit card numbers!
Today those server farms use around 10 billion watts of electricity a year. That is equivalent to the output of about 10 nuclear power plants! … just so we can surf the web, update our Facebook pages, and send email to our friends, and of course, buy stuff! You can decide if this makes any sense or not… to Jesus or to Paul.
I don't want to over-simplify what are some extremely complicated and difficult issues, but the bottom line is that…
This is not any way to show our love for people, or for ourselves.
So Merry Christmas!… well, Merry Christmas to us anyway.
The question is, Why do we do this? Why do we so happily ignore what Paul told us to do? Why do we reject living simply in these modern, hyper-digital times. Why do we continue to abuse those people for our own gratification… people we're supposed to love?
Science has some news for us about that:
Our 'standard of living', our life style as Westerners and Americans, is actually… here it comes… a physical addition. There is now good research that shows that the same chemistry is at work in our brains when we shop and buy things as when a person drinks or uses drugs. Even when we just think about buying something we want, the chemical, dopamine, kicks into our brains and we suddenly start feeling really good about it. The dopamine tricks our brains into thinking that buying this stuff is wonderful and that we should do more and more of it. It's exactly the same thing as having a drink of alcohol… and then craving more.
The problem is that the dopamine… wears off, just like alcohol or heroin, and later, we don't care about it so much anymore, or worse, we might even have "buyer's remorse" – "Oh, now I wish I really hadn't spent all that money on that!"… It's a hangover! It is true physical addiction. And I don't remember that Jesus was real big on addictions.
But our egos also play a big role in our buying habits too.
Our egos, like I've said before – but it bears repeating – are just little emotional 'shells' that our minds create to protect us and make us feel safer and more worthwhile. And they're always a little (and sometimes a lot) fearful that we might not be quite good enough… not as good as our sisters or brothers, or not as good as Mom or Dad wanted us to be, not as good as our boss wants us to be… so our egos create endless stories and arguments in our minds to overcome these imagined shortcomings.
The stories go like, "if I just buy this new car, I'll feel like a million bucks!" But , our tricky little egos know that we're not supposed to think like that, especially in church, so it makes up another story that goes something like "Well, you know, the tires on the car are pretty worn out; the oil needs to be changed; oh, and there's a scratch on the left side; and I almost forgot… the timing belt probably needs to be replaced… well, it'll just gonna be cheaper in the long run to… just buy a new car to replace my… oh my god, three year old car!"
Same thing for clothing, furniture, TV's, smart phones and don't get me started on kids toys at Christmas.
And it really doesn't matter if we're Rich or poor, whether we make a little money or a lot of money. In this country and in Western countries in general, we all tend to think the same way about having money, and having 'stuff.' If we have more money, we buy more, bigger things. If we have less money, we buy fewer, smaller things. But the common denominator is that we all want 'more.'
But… here's the key… Our egos, that want us to buy all this stuff so we can feel better, are NOT who we are, either!
Who we are, is in our souls, and our souls can be 'in charge' instead of our egos, because our souls are what connects us with God, and Jesus, and Paul, not our fragile little egos.
I know… you're thinking, "Wow! What a way to kill the Christmas spirit!"
But it actually can boost our Christmas spirit because… it frees us to focus on what Christmas is really about.
Christmas is about celebrating Jesus' birthday and giving him the kind of present he wants. I believe he wants us to love other people, the strangers from around the world, not just the family and friends in our living rooms on Christmas morning.
He would want us to work for economic and social justice for the poor – the people who sweat and scrape to make it possible for us to have most of our gadgets and bling.
He would want us to pay those folks fairly for what we buy from them… even if it means paying (Oh, my god!) substantially higher prices so they can earn enough to live decent lives… rather than our just going along with the rest of consumer society and participating in Walmart's, Kmart's, and Amazon's race to the bottom – their cheap deals that keep those people in poverty.
That makes me joyful… getting my head and my heart right with Jesus and doing what He would want, especially for His birthday.
Well, it's easy to say – and a lot harder to do.
So how do we do it?
First, we can meditate on our egos and our consumerism… and pray long and hard that God will strengthen us, and transform our consumer addiction.
Second we can think deeply and carefully about each thing we want to buy.
Each time we're in a store and see something we want to buy, whether it's for us or someone else, we should pick it up or get real close to it, look deeply into it, and see and hear the people who made it, who put into it the blood, sweat, and tears, and who sometimes suffered to make it… merely for our satisfaction.
We should think about the woman in Bangladesh with no education supporting 6 children, living in a falling-down hovel, who doesn't make enough money to have electricity, plumbing, or even a bed, and who will never be able to afford that item for herself.
Can we think of her and love her like The Virgin Mary?
Or the 10 year old boy digging in a mine with no possible future. Can we love him like we love The Baby Jesus?
Do you really need to buy that item and, in buying it, support their continued poverty and powerlessness? Or can we send a message to Walmart, Amazon, and JP Morgan, that we aren't conforming to their sad view of the world, and of people.
Then we should think, instead of buying this thing, maybe I should buy less stuff, and invest some time, effort, and the money saved, in alleviating the practices, policies, and greed that lead to the conditions these people have to work under by giving it to the church or another organization that operates out of love rather than the profit motive.
Then we could celebrate a simpler, more joyous Christmas with 'lowered expectations' for our Christmas giving and receiving –with less – don't worry, not with nothin… just with less) so we can actually invite Jesus and Paul to the birthday party with us.


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Although he insists his side are confident and in-form, Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo has labelled Liverpool their "bogey team" ahead of their visit to Stamford Bridge on Sunday afternoon.
Chelsea are in second place in the Barclays Premier League and have already accumulated 12 more points than Brendan Rodgers's team, but Di Matteo believes that form bears no relevance to this fixture, as Liverpool always turn in an "exceptional" display when they visit west London.
"They are our bogey team because they always seem to play exceptionally well against us and get results," said Di Matteo, whose side have managed just one home Barclays Premier League victory against the Reds in the last five attempts. "It's always a difficult game against Liverpool and it'll be difficult to beat them.
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"They play their best game of the season and they find our players at the moment, who might not be at our best, but we're in good spirit, full of confidence and hopefully it'll be a different story."
Despite their strong start to the campaign the Blues have managed just a point from their last two matches and are without the injured England internationals Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard, but Di Matteo's charges are buoyed by the return from a four-match suspension of their captain John Terry.
Liverpool may be 11 places worse off than Chelsea but they are unbeaten in their last five Barclays Premier League matches and manager Brendan Rodgers believes his side travel to London full of confidence after strong recent performances.
"Traditionally Stamford Bridge is a very difficult place to go and get a result but we are going there with great confidence," said Rodgers, who enjoyed a coaching spell at the helm of Chelsea's youth academy during Jose Mourinho's tenure. "We know the offensive threats they have but our concentration will be on our own game.
"We have some really top players here that can hurt any opponent on a given day. That will be the objective. For us it is about collecting the points and collecting as many as we can."
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- 4Jan 15 by BrendaH84So either you are an experienced nurse who just obtained a new job or you are a new nurse with a new job. Either way you'll have a preceptor (shoot yourself right away, get the slow death over with). Sometimes it's all good and the preceptor is good, and you melt right into the new job.
But SOMETIMES you are the invisible man/woman! Your preceptor for the most part ignores you almost altogether! They want to leave on time, so they just mostly give you a few pt's , show you what they HAVE to show you (like the secret code to the room where the emesis basins are). Then they move to the rest of the assignment instead of giving it to you and standing behind you to make sure you know things, like "where are purple blood draw tubes?" "what's the number to the IV team?"
So what happens is you flail, you ask others, you take 10 times longer than you should if your preceptor was standing behind you. The crabby nurse on the floor sees you asking too many questions to everyone and tells your Manager who then thinks you're an idiot, so she asks your preceptor who says something like "well I thought she/he knew what they were doing, I've explained what they need to know, (once, super fast) , so I JUST took a few pt's for her/him to help out, I mean how much help do they need? I was right here, I don't know what's WRONG WITH HER/HIM!
You only have so long to learn so much before you hear the "it's not a good fit" speech.
Even very experienced nurses get this crap treatment when they go to a new area.
I precepted for the 1st time a month ago. Guess what, I made a point to pretend I was her and treated her accordingly! She thanked me profusely when it was all over with. I gave her my badge and said, "even down to swiping the badge to walk into a room, I'll let you do it all, and I will be right here next to you, so you have nothing to fear, it will all be great." Right at the end of the 1st shift I made a list, 1-10 of each thing to do and when, like 1. go here to get your assignment, 2. go here and do this. 3. click a. b. c. to log this, etc etc etc.
I handed her that list and said that's how we'll start tomorrow, and if you ever don't have me there, then follow the list to the tee, until you totally know what's what.
I was even prepared to let her use my login and just change the password everyday, so I could stand behind her and let her type it all in. Luckily her password and ID were all working the 1st day on the floor.
The only thing I can say about crappy precepting is you may lose your job as the new person, but I already KNOW two people who did and found other jobs right away, I actually saw that happening with my own eyes and though my Manager didn't fix it, I wrote that person a glowing letter of recommendation and told her to use me as a work reference.
And don't BE that bad preceptor when it's your turn to be one!
Read the story below, even Doctors get treated this way when they get precepted!
- 0Jan 17 by Ruby VeePrecepting isn't easy -- at least, not if you're doing it right. Unfortunately, not everyone is a good preceptor but our turnover of new grads is so high (we seem to be the feeder unit for the local anesthesia programs), everyone gets forced to precept whether they like it or not. What you describe is no doubt the end result of poor preceptors (who have no interest in precepting) being forced to do the job.
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Japan私は黒執事のほとんどをコスプレするのが大好き ! ^~^ My real name is Miyuki i'm 13 years old and i come from Japan. •□• i love cosplaying and yeah..i love to cosplaying Shieru! ^_^ and i have so much who i follow q///q but i just love all you Cosplayers! All of you are so epic! ♡ Animexx:http://animexx.onlinewelten.com/mitglieder/steckbrief.php?id=627414 Facebook page:https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1446762925602550&ref=bookmark
BelarusHi! I'm a cosplayer from Belarus since 2009 and I love anime, cosplay and British serials =) Also known as Tao^_^ FaceBook page: https://www.facebook.com/MissRomanovaOfficial
Japanコスプレを撮る人。 好きな作品を好きに撮ってます。 [tumblr] http://okudaao.tumblr.com/ [twitter] https://twitter.com/okudaao/ [archive] http://www.cosp.jp/prof.aspx?id=75834
GermanyHello I'm a Cosplayer from Germany =D I'm cosplaying since 2009 and try to improve myself every time. Nearly all of my cosplays are selfmade ^^ My Cosplay print store: http://themiscosplay.storenvy.com/ Ask me something =) http://ask.fm/ThemisCosplay Please visit my other cosplay pages: http://themiscosplay.tumblr.com/ http://themisvalvernis.deviantart.com/ https://twitter.com/ThemisCosplay http://animexx.onlinewelten.com/cosplay/mitglied/315455/
South Korea안녕하세요!!! 월드코스프레 회원 여러분! 24세 중부권 코스어 네타라고 합니다!!!~ 주로덕질하는장르는 트리니티 블러드 사이퍼즈 디지몬시리즈 3대본진위주로. 그외 코드기어스 클램프시리즈작품 아이온 원 피스 나루토등 많이 파고있어요~ 팔로우 환영합니다!+_+ 잘부탁드려요~ 블로그-http://blog.naver.com/wjddlswo91 Twitter-@wjddlswo91 Hello, Republic of Korea 24 years Cosplayers are called Netanyahu Well I'm begging you World Cosplay Member Follow Welcome Thank you こんにちは韓国コスプレイヤーネタといいますの欠如がこれからよろしくお願いいたします〜
Australiaみなさんこんにちは! :) I'm just a person who is in love with cosplay from Australia. I hope you like my cosplays! ^^ I've been cosplaying since 2012 どうぞよろしく~~ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/keishirocosplay <-- do come check me out!! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whutchulookingat (<-- i know. the name is weird xD) Twitter: https://twitter.com/RachelSiu88 follow me!!!! Tumblr: http://keishirocosplay.tumblr.com/
ItalyHey! I am a cosplayers from Italy! Thank for visit my profile! Kisses!!
ItalyOhayou minna-san! ♪꒰。ゝω⚫꒱ I'm MerocChan Cosplay ( 〃∇〃)o Italian cosplayer! ❤ I really LOVE to do cosplay, beacuse it's my passion! (〃∇〃)o ♡ Cosplayer since about 2008 :3 My Facebook Page BLOG: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tenshi-no-Koi-o%CF%89o/149345078551302?fref=photo My Facebook Page COSPLAY: [O0o...Under Construction...o0O] ⇛❣Cosplayer for Passion❣⇚
Italyi'm a Italian Cosplayer I hope do you like my cosplay.. Thanks for visite my profile
PhilippinesThis oxygen-breathing potato burrows herself in the cold earth of Southern Luzon, particularly in Tayabas Quezon Province. She strives to show appreciation to characters she loves by dressing herself with other vegetables she herself made, and tries to be them. DeviantArt: http://midori137.deviantart.com/ Cure: http://en.curecos.com/profile/?ch=313636 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/midori137 instagram: http://instagram.com/indoyelizabeth (◕)__(◕) ( - ‿‿ - )
PhilippinesHi! I'm Jeffrey :) FB PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/LYKchangetheworld
NorwayHi! Norwegian cosplayer living in England. Hope to make a lot of cosplays to put up here. If you wanna follow my progress, you can check out my facebook page ^^ http://facebook.com/ibelinncosplay
FranceI'm fench cosplayer since 2008, and I'm glad to share my passion! i'd like to have more discuss with worldwide cosplayers *o*!!!! all my costumes, vidéo and more here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/SakuraFlames-Cosplay/102314333201840
United StatesHello/hola/ola - cosplayer and photographer for one year and change. I go to as many conventions as I can, they are a blast! I do NOT make my own outfits, I don't do photo manipulation, I just dress up and take pictures for fun. =)


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Updated: July 25, 2013 6:28AM
I am tired of hearing uninformed individuals talk about the coyote problem in the suburbs. First of all, the coyotes were here before the homes were, and people should learn to adapt to them.
Coyotes take care of their young. They dig holes for habitats in woods away from homes and can often be spotted only when hunting for small game. They keep the rodent, bird and deer population under control when they are not interfered with by humans. They are beautiful creatures and strong.
When there is enough food, they are not interested in eating the pets of people such as small dogs or cats. People who leave a pet out with no supervision have only themselves to blame if their pet gets killed.
Coyotes in the suburbs are not interested in attacking, either. Some uninformed people are scared of them because they do not bother to learn about them, which would quell the fear. I hope people will come to see coyotes as a national treasure.
Marie E. Roman
Tinley Park


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Marc O'Brien is the lead strategist behind The Social Good Guides.
As a Social Designer and Creative Facilitator, Marc produces and leads creative workshops that focus on creating positive change while tackling some of todays gnarly social challenges. Through a series of playful exercises, he helps people come up with fun, unique, and innovative solutions to those challenges. Marc then designs those solutions, whether through quick prototypes or more flushed out visuals.
Marc is also the founder of Confidence, which is building the guts within hell-bent individuals by igniting the fire in their bellies to take their first step to work on meaningful projects—big and small. We do this through workshops, experiences, and collaboration.
Since 2009, Marc been actively involved, as both an advisor and facilitator, in Project M, an immersive program designed to inspire and educate young creative individuals by proving that their work can have a tangible impact on the world.
A multitude of his collaborative workshops and projects have been featured in the New York Times, Fast Co, AIGA, GOOD, Print, ID, PSFK, and various other design and culture outlets. Marc has lectured and facilitated numerous workshops at a number of distinguished universities and conferences throughout the country. Among other things, Marc helps people SMALLIFY their ideas, teaches at California College of the Arts, leads the GOOD SF Local Chapter, rides a bamboo bike, makes homemade hot sauce, and loves to unplug in the outdoors.


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Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas in Concert Friday, November 14
The hall will open at 6:3o. KZYX will have a bar featuring home-brewed beer, courtesy of the Foggy Coast Brewers, local cider, and wines. ...
Monday, December 22nd
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KZYX (Mendocino County Public Broadcasting) is holding elections for its Board of Directors. To apply and to vote you must be a member in good standing by December 31. There are three positions open: one each for Districts 2 (Ukiah) & 5 (Southern part of the County), and one At-Large seat. Follow this link for more information.


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Do You Really Want Your Right to Vote Determined by the DMV? Part 2
Welcome to VoteRiders' second installment of Do You Really Want Your Right to Vote Determined by the DMV?
This week we introduce you to Laura. She reached out to VoteRiders for help to obtain identification she needed to vote. Laura recently moved to Indiana from California. She is divorced and kept her married name as her legal name. She has a birth certificate, social security card, a United States Department of Veterans Affairs ID, a divorce decree and a California photo ID. When Laura sought her Indiana state ID, she was refused because the last name on her birth certificate doesn't match the last name on her other documents. The state is requiring Laura to produce a marriage certificate to follow the thread from her maiden name to the name she legally and currently uses.
In Laura's words: "I had assumed any intelligent individual (or agency) would make the connection that if I had divorce papers, I was obviously married and hence the name change."
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Career Counseling; Marriage, Family and Child Counseling
B.A. Sociology, University of California, Davis, 2003; M.S. Counseling, California State University, Sacramento, 2008
Welcome to my website! I am a full-time counseling faculty member at De Anza College. As a counselor, I provide personal, career and academic counseling to students in general counseling. I also teach Career Life Planning and Counseling courses.
Classes That I Teach
Fall 2014
Winter 2015
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Cheese is a truly amazing food. Treasured by many, reviled by a few and, despite being a staple of our diets, misunderstood by most.
It has sustained us for millennia in its many glorious forms - be it dense and rich, soft and mold encrusted or blue veined and pungent - yet it originated from just a few simple ingredients: milk, rennet and salt, and long before anyone had even heard of Louis Pasteur.
What are its origins and how does such diversity arise from such seeming simplicity?
In this informal - but informative - class we will make a simple fresh cheese to better understand the basic principles of cheesemaking (and also because it's fun). Then we'll taste a variety of more complex artisinal examples to experience cheese in some of its many guises, and to discover how it is able to provide us with such a broad spectrum of delicious aromas and flavours.
These sessions are designed to allow you to learn in a relaxed environment and you are invited to Bring Your Own Bottle of wine or beer...or soda! (although I'll supply a glass or two of something as well) to pair up with the cheeses we will be tasting. If you have any questions about this in advance please feel free to post them in this classes 'discussion' section.
Brooklyn's Smallest Cheese School (ie. my kitchen)
200 Freeman Street, Apt 8 Greenpoint
Brooklyn, NY
6:45 pm - 8:45 pm ESTAdd to Cal
Chris began working for the London-based cheesemonger, Neal's Yard Dairy (NYD), in 1995. Starting as a part-time staff member at Christmas to support his university studies, he continued part-time until the Summer of 1996 after which he became a full-time member of staff.
This brought new roles including cheese maturation, wholesale and export. Then, in 2004, he established NYD's tastings and education programme which he ran until he left NYD in 2011. His work included public events as well as weekly training sessions for various representatives from the food industry, including tours of the NYD maturing rooms in Bermondsey, South East London. Throughout this time, he regularly visited producers across the UK, Europe and further afield.
He is also an experienced teacher, having worked with a wide variety of institutions including The School of Artisan Food in Nottinghamshire, Rick Stein's Cookery School in Cornwall, The San Francisco Cheese School in California, Murray's Cheese Shop in Manhattan and The Bedford Cheese Shop in Brooklyn, New York, as well as running classes in inner city schools and prisons.
Chris also has extensive TV and radio experience, has organised and given talks at many major food festivals, and judged at the British Cheese Awards, World Cheese Awards and The Great Yorkshire Show. He was part of the two-man Great Britain team at the inaugural Caseus Awards in Lyon, 2005.
He is currently teaching himself how to brew beer, works for Beer Table in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, i working on a new food tourism project - www.cheesejourneys.com - whilst still teaching regular cheese classes.


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Big Eden movie trailer - starring Louise Fletcher, Arye Gross, George Coe, Eric Schweig, Tim DeKay. Directed by Thomas Bezucha. Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13
Foreign trailer for the documentary The Big Eden.
Rolf Eden is Germany s last playboy. As king of disco he launched the first beauty contests popularising DJing and striptease in prudish West Germany. Father of seven children of seven different women, he has danced with the Rolling Stones and Ella Fitzgerald in his clubs. Rolf Eden is a larger than life octogenarian with long, blond hair
his girlfriend is younger than his grandchild. It is not only his eccentric glitzy lifestyle that continues to irritate as much as it humours the public; the real provocation derives from his militant cheerfulness:
'My whole life I was lucky. That s true. One hundred percent. I was only ever lucky, no downs, no hick-ups, never any real trouble, only up, up, up until today.'
This unflinching conviction was essential for Eden when he, coming from a Jewish background, entered the German entertainment business of the 1950s. Leaving Israel via Paris, he returned to post war Germany to open a nightclub on West Berlin famous Boulevard Kudamm, decidedly blocking out the country s recent dark history.
Can you really be a hedonistic egoist and get away with it in the end? Is it even possible to enjoy the sweetness of life without recognising its bitterness?
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Discussion in 'The Mainboard' started by Cornelius Suttree, Mar 21, 2013.
Love being on spring break for the opening weekend
michigan state wake up
No.... Let the chaos ensue
I think it would be hilarious if the B1G just laid an egg. It would hurt all of my brackets, but damn if it wouldn't be hilarious.
Bobby Capobianco
The Palace looks different for some reason, ohhhhh, there is actaully fans there.
Capobianco blocking Gary Harris
Same. Lots of chalk with my bracket.
surprised that three by Payne didn't go in seeing as how they're playing a team from IN and all
Bucknell. Stephens wants to start his new job ASAP
Or you could just bet Marquette heavily. I dont see that upset happening.
It's just a value pick if you're in a big pool
Bucknell doesn't make mistakes(only 9 per game) has a really good big man. Shoots free throws well and shoots decent from 3. They'll do fine.
I took it in my 200 bracket pool.
I can't justify pulling for Bryce Drew. Go Sparty.
speaking of Butler
It's still normally referred to as a "Reach-In" not a "Reach Around" right?
holy shit
Sooooo... thanks to whichever TMBer designed the BOSS BUTTON and included our favorite anchor, Robin Meade, in the 2nd email on the page
Anyone watch the first part of the Grantland live thing with Bill Simmons and Jalen Rose?
Valparaiso looks like absolute shit
nice little alley oop mich st did
Stephens at UCLA would be scary
Rotnei Clark on one channel, Bryce Drew on the other.
already fielding downey-like questions from women at work after seeing my tv.
"who's playing?" "oh, it's college?" "I only like the clippers"
suck my dick or leave me alone.
Roosevelt Jones, good name.
Anyway to get all games on one screen?
You work in a kitchen?
Valpo. Make those 3s.
Verne with some quality chortles setting the tone for the tourney early on
Make multiple browser windows and size them up
I can't get the Butler game to load though
valpo about to be run out of the gym
Get more screens.
thanks for comin out valpo
Didn't see this on Grantland, is it a video podcast?
Capobianco's last game vs MSU ended in a one-point defeat
Last year they had it where you had 4 games going and could press on the one you wanted to hear. But thanks for the obvious
Florida Gulf Coasts HC's team may not win the bracket, but he'll always be a winner in life.
NSFW this is his wife
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Allie LaForce
Need more sideline reports in the Butler game.
One lucky mafucka, look at this guy
Thus far, Rotnei Clarke's shot selection has been very Marshall Henderson-like.
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Biography of a buddhist priest and an intro to how zen buddhism works. Not bad.
Next up is a kids' version of Arabian Nights…
10 years after introducing 43 Things to the world, we have decided we have met our last goal: completing the incredible experience that has been 43 Things. Please join us in giving one last cheer to all the folks who have shared their goals with the world, as well as all the people who have worked at The Robot Co-op to build this incredible website. We won a Webby Award, published a book, and brought happiness to a lot of people.
Starting today, 43 Things users can export their goals and entries from the site. Starting August 15, we will make the site "read only". 43 Things users will still be able to view the site and export their content, but we won't be taking any new content from users. We hope to leave the site up for folks to see and download their content until the end of the year. Ending on New Year's Eve takes us full circle.
It has been a long ride (one of our original goals was to "build a company that lasts at least 2 years" - we beat that one!) While we wish the site could live on, it has suffered from a number of challenges - changes in how people use the site, the advertising industry, and how search engines view the site. We wish the outcome was different – but we've always been realistic about when our goals are met and when they aren't.
As of today, you will be able to download your goals and entries. See more about that on the FAQ page. Thanks for 10 great years of goal-setting and achieving.
- The Robots.
Biography of a buddhist priest and an intro to how zen buddhism works. Not bad.
Next up is a kids' version of Arabian Nights…
Third foundation book was good. Starting to get interesting. I'll have to do the next one.
Behind schedule, read a shaggy dog story of a Star Trek novel. Good TOS references, good use of Troi and Shelby, little else good.
Red Mars was meh. I'm not sure whether I want to read the next two or not.
So I've officially reached the third point of my little journey. Apparently this is day 149 of the year and 217 days remain. It took me about 40% of the year to read 36 books. That's ok. I had a lot of upheavals.
To reach my goal by the end of the year, I need to read one book every nine days. If I can just manage a book a week I'll finish ahead of schedule.
I know I can get the next two Mars books from the library near my work, and I'm sure I can find something at the two local libraries. I may be able to get cards at other libraries, and I have a lot of books I still haven't finished in the house, like Childhood's End. I'd go looking, but I'm manning the rummage right now.
I can do this.
Sore as hell. Trying again Thursday if I can sneak in besides Grandma's birthday celebrations. I think I'll call it if I can go a whole calendar month and whatever in between. So, if I can get at least 3 in a week for all of May and June, I'll call it at July.
I'd like to create a filing cabinet that I can take to any future house. Still, it needs to fit in the space I have now. It also needs to not be fugly.
The solution: Martha Stewart's Office in a Chest
I measured my mother's hanging folders for her cabinet. 13" from hook to hook. That means the interior of the chest needs to be at least 14" and the exterior would thus need to be at least 16" wide.
Due to the size and shape of the room I'm in, 30" is the maximum length of the chest.
Ideally, it would be at least high enough to sit on. Ideally, it would have cushion on top, one I could upholster to match my stuff. And most importantly of all, I'd need to be able to install a padlock, somewhere out of the way so it still looks nice.
Have to obtain the chest first, then worry about creating the filing system within later.
Thief of Always: Meh.
Q, Squared: Epic. Not as good as I, Q, but very good.
The Left Hand of Darkness: OK. Not as good as I expected. Going to be looking for Earthsea novels soon.
Next on deck: Red Mars.
Wind in the Door wasn't as good as Wrinkle in Time. Read another one, too. Picked up the Thief of Always and another Trek novel at the library.
So I've managed to get myself off the pop machine by having a pop with my breakfast.
I can't stop going for a snack. Obviously I need to start packing something. Will do that for tomorrow.
All there is left to do is:
1) vaccuum/scrub
2) find some way of organizing the things I keep in there (specifically my class stuff and books)
3) Move a few things in once I have air-tight storage in the house for them.
At 2, I'm going to mark this off.
Ready Hyperion by Dan Simmons. what was the point of that?
Also read Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. Not bad.
Picked up a few other books from the library, including The Wind in the Door.
Need to get more from a library.. and turn the ones I have in. Due tomorrow!
I still have a few books of my own…
So the splitter I got is broken, but worse yet, none of my plugs will stay in the wall. So the wall needs to be fixed, then a splitter obtained. I can probably start to hook it up to the TV, though.
Shoulda posted this a week ago
I have at least two more books stocked, and another one in the mail…
There's still some garbage to sort out, and a few items that need to be repacked and replaced. However, it's mostly done.
Gotta love RTC.
The Wii, being in the front room and attractive to guests, is now set up. I can plug and unplug it at will.
The N64 in my bedroom is not yet set up, and I need to procure a plug splitter before it can be.
However, given how much work I have to do this week, I do not see myself completing it until sometime after Friday.


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The Mammoth Book of Special Ops Romance
Running Press (US) &
Constable & Robinson (UK)
Passionate Stories of Hard-Hitting Love
The Mammoth Book of Special Ops Romance, edited by Trisha Telep
Stirring romance anthology featuring the heroes of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, Air Force Pararescue, the Green Berets, the Army Rangers and other special forces: men and women who live and fight in extreme danger to preserve our freedoms, defenders and protectors of all we hold dear.
Featuring the short story Lipstick Spy School by Gina Robinson, and stories by Marliss Melton, Shannon K. Butcher, Cheyenne McCray, Debra Webb, Penny McCall, Laura Griffin, Shiloh Walker, Sydney Croft, Gennita Low, Michele Albert and many more.
Published in the UK by Constable & Robinson
Published in the US by Running Press (Perseus)
512 Pages, Price: $13.95 US, £7.99 UK
Release Date: Spring 2010
Atlantic Ocean
The Lipstick Spy School is set in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, luxury hotel overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
Inside every woman there's an inner Bond girl longing to break free. The Lipstick Spy School had one mission--draw it out and nurture it. For a day, at least.
Cate, aka "Tracy Bond," actually had two missions--get a decent pedicure and kill Jason Bergman, Lipstick's special ops spy instructor.


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Battery Operated Bonsai Tree 18 Inch - 48 Blue Lights
Price: $34.95
As Low As: $29.71
- Product Description
18 Inch Battery Operated Bonsia Tree with 48 blue lights. Enjoy the beauty of a Japanese garden year round. The perfect size to use anywhere in your home or office. Perfect for an outdoor event but not intended to be left out in the elements.
Makes a great desk lamp.
- 18 Inches in Height
- Base Measures 6.5 x 6.5
- Multiple Branches With 48 Blue Lights
- 48 Clear Acrylic Flowers
- Battery Operated
- 4 x AA Batteries, Sold Seperately
Loved by wedding and event planners. Perfect for that centerpiece your looking for.
Product Information
- Color: Black base - Blue lights
- Type: Bonsai Tree
- Battery Size: 4 x AA