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Joined: 29 Apr 2011
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Location: South Carolina
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 9:09 am
Post subject: Have you seen 'Thor' yet?
If not, hie thee to a movie house - it's amazing. My husband and I don't see a lot of movies in the theater these days, particularly on a Friday night in 3-D. It's too darn expensive; people can be hopelessly rude; and it's just sooooo very comfortable watching them later on DVD at home. But we were invited out with two other couples to see Thor this past weekend, and it was totally worth it. Not a romance, per se, but the hero is hunky and charming and wicked and bad-ass - all the things I love. And for once, praise the heavens, the heroine deserves him completely. Even when she does something stupid (for what I considered to be a pretty good reason), she's enough of a grown-up to admit she's done something stupid. All of the actors are good, and the plotline actually hangs together all the way to the end, which is becoming unheard of in any Hollywood blockbuster but even more so in a superhero story. I give a lot of credit to Kenneth Branagh, who directs this comic book yarn with the same level of commitment and excitement he brings to Shakespeare.
One note: I'd skip the 3-D if I had it to do over again. It's just an unnecessary expense; the spectacle would work just fine without it, I think, and the story is the star.
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Joined: 27 May 2010
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Location: Encinitas, CA
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 11:17 am
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My husband took our youngest last weekend (I had something going and couldn't make it) and they loved it. We're all going this coming weekend to see it together. I feel like I need to support Kenneth Branagh--loved him since
Henry V
and have followed his career ever since. But the reviews are so good I'm sure I'll enjoy it for it's own sake as well.
I was surprised to see that the guy playing Thor was Captain. Kirk's dad in the
Star Trek
Reboot--he looks very different for this movie.
For the first time in her life, she saw exactly what shed thrown away when she decided to have him by means fair or foul that shed not saved him but wronged him by consigning to him all the ability of a box turtle to make his own choices. ~Gigi
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 11:47 am
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Okay, I finally saw
for myself last weekend and --wow. One of the best super hero movies I've seen since...? Since a long time. I'm not a comic book fan so I didn't know all the backstory of the characters but the people I went with are and said the writers stayed pretty close to the mythology of Thor and his family, etc.
Not Hamlet by any means, but if you are looking for a fun escape for a couple of hours, this is a great choice. And Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is very, very easy on the eyes and plays the part with a nice self-deprecating air. I guess we will see him again in the
, which I'm now excited to see thanks, to this movie.
And yes--kudos to Ken B.--I'm so happy for him that the movie is a great success.
For the first time in her life, she saw exactly what shed thrown away when she decided to have him by means fair or foul that shed not saved him but wronged him by consigning to him all the ability of a box turtle to make his own choices. ~Gigi
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 12:57 pm
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I saw Thor over the weekend. I agree that Chris Hemsworth is easy on the eyes. I thought the actor who played Loki was even more appealing in a skinny bad-boy kind of way.
Though I enjoyed the romance the kiss at the end made me cringe--I can't tell you why. Did you all stay to see the bonus scene after the credits? see spoiler below
It was a teaser for the next movie in the series, The Avengers. I thought it was going to be a scene of Thor returning to earth to reunite with Jane so I was a bit disappointed.
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your right fullmetal that is funny ITS SLAYING ME
your right fullmetal that is funny ITS SLAYING ME
Made any sense?
What of shitty entry could you make for something like that. It's ridiculous LM. LETS BURN HER AT THE STEAK.
Substitution, coming for LM, DSX is now at the stake!
It's time! First entry on a new forum.
Edit: I think LMs request is summed up over this entire post, and i used myself as an example to what she was talking about. I could be wrong.
Stupid Shit People Do:
Double Standards are something fairly fresh in my life. I didn't notice them until recently, and i'm hating them already. A double standard is, if you don't know, something that is along the lines of hypocritical. I'm not sure the difference except i think a hypocrite is someone who tells others not to do something they do, and a double standard is saying one thing and doing it different. If you can't make heads or tails of that, then maybe you will after i give an example.
Someone complains that you don't hang out with them as much, so you decide to be nice and hang out with them. A while later after they've had their fill of you, they don't hang around as much. Sometime soon after, you decide you got closer to that person that said they needed you more but doesn't need you now. If you're following, that means you were asked to be closer to someone because they needed it, then they stopped hanging out as much, but you started to need them. Then they start saying stuff like "i can't chill with you ALL the time man, i have my own shit to do". Pardon me but weren't you the one that just a while back was saying they needed ME? Why is my kindness not returned? The reason for this will be covered later.
Other complaining stuff that sucks. Ok guys listen up, when Adam bitches about something either it via text or voice, he does something about it. Examples: my friends were sucking. I solved that by not hanging out with them as much, if they suck why would i chill with them? Problem solved. My employment status is another one, i would love some extra cash. Solved it by handing out applications and stuff trying to get a job, granted i havent been hired yet so i should probably call that attempting to solve. No matter, i'm trying and that's what counts. I bitched about people using my warcraft account, solved that by first changing the password to kick all but me and john off the account, and i'm currently working something out with john to get him his own account. Other broad stuff, like my immediate area. I hate my grandma, i told my mom to her face i dont like her dont make me take care of her i didnt want her in this house to start. Solved that by saying that, now i dont have to do much for my grandma. I occasionally take her to stores twice a month at the max, not daily like i was.
HOWEVER, other people cannot seem to grasp this simple concept of trying to solve their problems. You solve problems by addressing them, it's that simple. 99% of the time your problems dont just randomly fade away. You call these people on it too, you tell them "well you can fix it by voicing out". What do they say? They say "that won't solve anything, it will only create more problems". You have no way at all of knowing that, psychologically speaking you're just being submissive and taking what they give you then using some horrible logic to justify it. It's either that or something along the lines of it being pointless. People even bitch about superficial shit. Lord knows i have, and i see others do it constantly. After a nice sleep i usually forget about it anyway, but a lot of people don't let some stuff go.
School is another one. I see way too many of you youngsters gripe about school. Unless you get beat up between all classes as a daily routine, don't bitch about school. Your classes are too hard? Change it. Can't change it? Either blow it off (not smart) or work harder. Other than school ITSELF being gay, don't complain unless you try to fix it. Teachers being bitches? Who cares, either be a bitch back or take it. I had teachers that seemed to make it their daily mission to tear me down, so i started talking shit to them when they tried. They got tired of hearing me talk back so i'd either get suspended (they didnt want detention with me) or they stopped being a bitch. Example:
US history when i was 17 in 11th grade. My fav teacher ever, who wasnt my fav at the time, was talking shit. She failed me (my fault for being a slacker) and then rubbed it in my face one time. It happened like this, we were in class and she was talking to another student before class started. She said something about no seniors scoring higher than a B- on her final. Me being me, asked why that was. She said it was because her class doesn't pay attention. I said maybe it's her fault for being a bad teacher. She says "it's real common for kids who are failing to be mad at the teacher". Ah that stung, but after that i got my shit straight and did real well in her class after that.
Point stands, don't bitch about it if you haven't tried to fix it. You don't even have to go berserk and attack people, just say "hey that's not cool" or something along those lines. People abusing your kindness? Tell them not anymore. People being general assholes? Tell them. I swear people always act like i tell them to punch someone in the teeth and call them a bitch, im not doing that. Explain, calmly or pissed off if needed, how you feel. Tell them it isn't cool, and don't say you can't because it starts more problems. Most of the time it's better to confront than it is to bend over. My god either knuckle the fuck up or try to fix it, nothing bad can come of an attempt.
Fandoms are GAY. They ruin everything. Someone finds something cool, then they do it. Later the fandom shows up, and people onlooking immediately hate the thing the fandom loves. Not because the thing itself sucks, but because the fandom exists. This isn't always true, like Linkin Park music. It sucks and the fandom sucks, that's a fact. Usually though, people hate the fandoms. I noticed something about fandoms though. People who like something before it has a fandom are usually ok with it, but people who hear about it after the fandom is established hate the thing and the fandom because the fandom is there. One person could hate one fandom, but not care about another for the sole reason of them being in it before the fandom came. That's a double standard right there. Fandoms themselves ruin shit. They overhype things with their imperfect knowledge and pseudo smarts, this is primarilly why they are hated.
Movies to avoid are usually easy to spot. They have stuff like "romantic comedy", "heartwarming", "fun for the whole family", "laugh out loud funny" or anything that gets any critic reviews mid commercial. Honestly, you're telling me Biff Webster from the Oregon County Times RAVES!!!! about how hilarious this movie is? First off, Rave is totally the wrong word. Just because a word has multiple definitions doesn't mean you get to use the one that's least used when you please. The reason words have multiple definitions is because so many retards use it incorrectly that the dictionary turns it into an actual definition to make the smart people stop stabbing themselves. Anyway, back off digression, those above things almost guaruntee a horrible movie. Romantic comedies are chick flicks, heartwarming means gay movies that have tons of cliches that feminists rally behind like "NO MORE MS. NICE GURL". Notice how it's MS and not MRS. Fucking feminists. Honestly i have seen that so many times. This fucking stupid shit where someone decides to fight the power and says a gay cliche like that, and mega feminists like my mom just smile and get all giddy. It's fucking retarded. Fun for the whole family are lame kids movies that you take your bratty child to instead of disciplining them. Laugh out loud funny usually means over used recently hot comedic actors like will ferral and vince vaughn doing the same castrated shit they have been, but they say it has VINCE VAUGHN so it must be funny. Any movies with kid stars is fucking stupid dont see those. The kid never dies, the kid also somehow does the impossible vs. the dumbest team of adults ever, in a poorly written script with horrid acting. The only kid that i say could ever act was the one from "6th Sense". That kid was spectacular.
Other stupid movie shit is stuff like people saying "there are no good movies anymroe". Are you fucking kidding me? Stop being a pseudo. Have you ever seen old movies? They suck! Filled with horrid editing, black and white, overacting and bad scenes. No, todays movies may be shit in terms of plot (which is understandable, you try and have fresh ideas for 80 years) but effects and acting etc are way better than old movies.
Prejudice doesn't exist. There is no such thing as pre-juding something. You have info, you judge. It is logically impossible to make a judgement on something you know nothing about. In order for a judgement to happen, the judge has to have some knowledge of what they are judging. Overuse of the prefix pre, as Carlin mentioned years ago.
Girls and boys are cool to compare. Girls watch movies or listen to music to relate. I remember sending kg a rhapsody of fire song, and she said it sounded cool but she didn't really get it. Something like that. This is why. Guys watch movies or listen to weird metal songs singing about finding a sword, because they sound or look COOL. We don't care if we can relate, the point is entertainment here. Guys are simple like that. Girls listen to sad music when they're sad or watch movies to RELATE to them. Girl just got dumped, she listens to a slow kelly clarkson song about getting dumped to relate. Girl dumps some guy, she listens to a fast version of the same kelly clarkson song with minor lyric changes about dumping a guy instead of getting dumped. Anyway, girls like to relate, guys look for entertainment. Get that through your heads.
Noncomformists are gay too. Anyone that claims to not do stuff because it's conformity are conforming to the NON-conformist culture made of people not trying to conform. Sorry to tear down the castle walls noncomformists, yall some bitches that are just disagreeing with popular opinion just to disagree. I'd be more than happy with tearing this word out of the dictionary.
Overanalyzing news people i hate too. One guy on i think scarborough country (msnbc) said "the daily show is overhyped, as is the colbert report. even new movies like snakes on a plane are overhyped". First off, the jon stewart news hour is NOT overhyped. That guy probably got made fun of so he decied to cry. Second, there is no one on this earth that took snakes on a plane seriously. We all knew it was going to suck in terms of plot etc, but we ALL wanted to see Samuel L. Jackson being himself on screen. Jackson even said so on the daily show ( i think this is called irony, i might be wrong) that he did the movie as a joke. Stop trying to tear shit down just because of...THE FANDOM.
Wal-Mart is fine stop bitching. They offer lots of stuff at low prices, what's not to like? Omg they don't pay well your point? We don't shop at stores because they help the employee's, we shop for bargains or getting what we need. More examples of pseudo's and noncomforming conformists looking for things to crusade against. Did you know Target does THE SAME SHIT as Wal-Mart? It's not as popular because they aren't as cheap. They could pay their workers the same shit amount and no one would care because it isn't in the spot light. Too many people searching for glory in the wrong places.
The medium in conversation is hard to achieve. Talking to people is annoying in this sense. You have to say stuff that isn't too far in one direction (direction names vary on conversation). It can't be too mad, or too nice, or too distracted, or too sarcastic. Why? People find the one tiny thing that doesn't feel right to them, and make a deal out of it. "Wow you took too long to reply are you too busy to talk to me?". That's a good example of it. There's a plethora of reasons why that could be, and what's even dumber is people ARGUE WITH THE REASON. Stop. Just stop please in the name of all that is good in this world, don't do that. I was getting a soda, next time i'll be sure to let you know when i start to think about thinking i might possibly think of having the thought of taking my ass out of the chair for 40 seconds. Honestly, arguing someone's reason is dumb unless you can prove it's bullshit. Another one is when people ask you stuff. They ask you your thought/opinion on something, you respond. Simple right? Apparently not because they start arguing with your answer too. Well kinda. What i mean is they say "how much money you got?" You say $10. They say "No you're lying i saw $20 in there". Why the fuck did you ask if you knew the answer dumbshit?
Open minded double standard. It's out there. People say stuff like "i'm open minded about everything" then they argue with stuff. Apparently someone needs to learn what that phrase means. Being open minded means you listen to other peoples opinions and don't argue. You're being dumb trying to sound like you're in the new age of humans by saying you're "open minded". Please, the only thing they say to back this up is they don't care about gay marriage. You can't be an open minded debater, that's a fucking paradox of logic.
Bad moods are attacked wrongly. Ever been in a bad mood? I know i have. Then someone spots it and says "Hey! Omg that guys in a bad mood!" and they run over then say "Dude are you in a BAD mood?!". And you say you are or you aren't it doesn't matter to them. No matter what you say, they take it straight up the ass at speeds that break the sound barrier, and say "WHOOOOA MAN! Hold up! Don't take it out on me!!". You cum guzzling cock juggler bitch YOU PICKED THE FIGHT.
Flat denial is gay, don't do it. It's the most frustrating thing on earth to talk to someone then tell them they did something and they say "no i didn't". I'm serious, everytime i hear this i stop talking and play it over in my head a few times then blink rapidly and reorient myself. Ok, i just said you did this, gave you examples of you doing it, and you say "no i didn't"? That just doesn't work. You have to be able to give an example or reason or something to disprove that, you can't just flatly refuse. Most of the time these people start changing subjects when you get on them too bad about it, a shame really. I hope you aren't the one to do this kind of ignorant shit.
Selfish. I posted it before, i'll say it again. The BIGGEST double standard ever. People have this habit of doing stuff to where they get what they want but don't make the changes needed to help someone else. It's like i said earlier, spending time with someone is an example. They want to spend time with you, so you take time out of your day and stuff to be there for them. You ask for it back and it doesn't happen. Instead you get tons of excuses with no reasons at all other than they just don't want to. I am fucking tired of that, CONSIDER OTHERS FOR ONCE AND IF THEY ASK SOMETHING OF YOU THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO GIVE BE A CARING PERSON AND MAKE A SACRIFICE. it's not hard!! My god why the fuck do so many people only care about themselves? I can't fathom it! Especially when someones in my position where they do tons of stuff for other people and get shitted on. I hate it so much.
Hah people have no idea really. I am so fucking nice and lenient to everyone, and most of them don't know how much i take. I let all the little shit slide, then once i get pushed over the limit and say WTF. Then that universal rule kicks in where i'm not allowed to get mad. Either i'm flatly denied or they just ignore it is irrelevant, the fact is everyone at my life at some point has asked me stuff i didnt want to do or give, but i did/gave it. I ask for a smaller favor back, or even the same favor and they don't give it. Why? It makes no sense to me other than people can't think of others. Sometimes they say stuff like "i understand man, i was in your shoes once". If you were in my shoes then you know what it feels like, but instead of making sure i don't feel the same thing you did, you do the same thing the other person did when situations were reversed and make me feel the same negative feelings you did. It's really stupid. If i treat people the exact same way they treated me, they say wtf and get mad. If i get mad, they say wtf don't get mad. Can you not understand what you're doing to me? I'm trying to prove a point by doing it back, but my efforts seem wasted. Yall don't know, you really don't . That's a true double standard right there.
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Ahh! Okay that made me laugh-- check this out, it's from my MYSPACEBLOG~~ (yes i have one.... >>")Noncomformists are gay too. Anyone that claims to not do stuff because it's conformity are conforming to the NON-conformist culture made of people not trying to conform. Sorry to tear down the castle walls noncomformists, yall some bitches that are just disagreeing with popular opinion just to disagree. I'd be more than happy with tearing this word out of the dictionary.
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The people that are so obsessed over nonconforming that they conform to the noconforming group... yeah don't think too long about that or your ears will bleed.
There's a difference between disliking conformity and being a nonconformist, you see. I think that people shouldn't be focused on nonconforming, but on being themselves. Because really, nonconforming seems to be the popular thing to do these days *rolls eyes*.
Bah. The point of this is that it isn't about trying to be different, its about being different because of who you are, not because of who you wish you were.
your blog entries need to be longer, and i bet your friends go into a fuck and suck fest about your stuff kayla. not to slam you, more to slam the general teen youth that thinks anything confusing must be brilliant to confuse them.
Now that I think about it, I really havent written in a while.
About the "Stepmania" part: Aspergian's songs are harder (I think...)
I HATE it when people do that! It only gets me in a worse mood when people ask me that. However, what's worse is when people ask me that, and I say yes, and then every few minutes they keep asking, "Are you not mad anymore?" What the fuck is your problem? Are you TRYING to get me angrier?Bad moods are attacked wrongly. Ever been in a bad mood? I know i have. Then someone spots it and says "Hey! Omg that guys in a bad mood!" and they run over then say "Dude are you in a BAD mood?!". And you say you are or you aren't it doesn't matter to them. No matter what you say, they take it straight up the ass at speeds that break the sound barrier, and say "WHOOOOA MAN! Hold up! Don't take it out on me!!". You cum guzzling cock juggler bitch YOU PICKED THE FIGHT.
Another thing that gets on my nerves is when I'm clearly in a bad mood (from what other people tell me, it's very easy to see when I'm angry or sad or whatever, even if I'm not speaking) and then people try to talk to me anyway. I tell them to leave me alone because I'm in a rotten mood, and then they insist that I'm not in a bad mood. Oh my fucking god. YOU don't decide my feelings. You don't tell me over and over that I'm actually happy, because at that point in time, I'm mad and no one can tell me otherwise.
God, I hate the people at my school. People do this shit to me all the time.
What I hate is when people say "Are you in a bad mood?" and then all of the sudden it makes you feel childish, like you having emotions is an immature thing. Example- I'm pissed off and sitting in a chair, not talking to people. My sister comes over and does somthing annoying and I snap at her, and one of two scenarios occur:
1) Mom, who is sitting nearby, whispers loudly & obviously, "Emma, be nice, she's in a bad mood."
2) Emma walks off, going, "Well SOMEONES in a bad mood!"
Also when parents act like the only possible reason you could be in any type of extreme emotion is because of typical teen stuff. "Oh she's a teenager thats why she's sad." God damnit no, believe it or not I actually can have emotions related to somthing other than friends or relationships or he-said she-said drama.
Fucking people. They suck.
Some sweep kicks on ppl like that always shuts them up
parents just say stuff like that to fill in gaps when they don't understand.
my dad always asks me, "Why are you in such a bad mood?" He always jokes around and tries to make light of everything when I'm mad, which only makes it worse for me. After all, misery loves company, and when I'm mad/sad/whatever, my question for all of those around me is: Why the hell aren't you feeling the same?!
my parents just go "oh shes a teenager and a goth, shes GOT to be in a bad mood"
Then, ANOTHER CERTAIN PERSON in my family starts a fight with me, then when i fight back and stick up for myself, she begins saying "why are you being like this! you're being so immature!"
i contradicted a part of her arguement and she says that
Here are some words people need to stop saying.
Rude. I don't want to hear this word ever again. It comes with this annoying tone of bitchy people going "tch that's just RUDE". It feels like a psychological drill in my skull. Let's check what the definition of rude is:
1. discourteous or impolite, esp. in a deliberate way: a rude reply
Impolite? That is the gayest thing since gay people. Impolite and rude were made by whiney brat white people as an excuse to talk shit on an almost pseudo level while still keeping a straight face. It takes a lot of willpower not to punch someone in the face when they say rude. All rude is, is when someone here's something they didn't like. Double back to human behavior it's a selfish thing really. They didn't get a response they liked, you could have been totally sincere with your response though, and they call it rude. Why? Because they didn't like hearing it. Politeness is a fake thing. No 2 people see eye to eye on everything in terms of being polite. It comes from your ability not to take things up the ass when they're said. Even if someone says something that pisses you off, their are better ways to announce it. Calling it rude makes you sound like a spoiled child. What's even more retarded, if that's even possible, is when you ask about the event in question, it's this conversation.
A: That's rude of you.
B: Why?
A: Because it's just rude that's why.
B: How?
A: Because IT'S RUDE. Stop being rude you're being rude now.
That's a frustrating conversation to have. It's that whole thing i talked about before, about people not backing what they say. In short, just stop saying this word. It's fucking stupid and you should feel stupid to use it.
Perverted is another one. What the fuck is this shit? OMG U PERV. And? Ok let's get one thing straight. There is only one difference between pervs and non pervs. Pervs say/do what everyone else thinks. We got that? They only make their thoughts public, unlike you. If they're perverted then you're a repressed sissy. Don't even get in my face with that beastiallity/child rapist/old people fucker/fruit molester/incestual shit. Those people are just colorful characters. You mostly hear perverted from feminists, because anything sexual is just off limits and wrong to them. Most of those females are really uptight about sex in any form, but they still masturbate in privacy. Probably feel bad and call it a sign of weakness too "Giving in to these urges is so beneath me!". What a load of shit.
This word and rude fit nicely together. They both stem from the same thing, a persons tolerance. If you were more tolerant you wouldn't call shit perverted or rude, and you would pull the stick out of your ass and realize that you just take stuff too seriously.
The phrase "by the way" as a phrase and as an acronym should no longer be used.
Every time i see this, it's by people who slide it in at the end of something. You can be talking about how much fun you are having with a person, then they turn around and say "oh btw dude i ran over your cat". Btw? Like it's some minor shit? I have NEVER, yes N-E-V-E-R seen a sentence following "by the way" that i liked. It's always something that i either needed to know sooner, or it was something serious. Or you could be like sean who waits 2 hours then says "btw" and talks some passive aggressive shit to you. Just like the others, stop using this phrase. Nothing good ever comes of it.
I am way too tired to keep going, you guys get a small one for a while.
nice entry fullmetal. i liked it very much.
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Contemplating an e-reader purchase (and it's a big deal since I'm a rare book librarian and have resisted this for so long!). However, I'm finally realizing that I'm missing out on some great romance e-books and some great deals, too (like the Heyer one).
I know you can get Harlequin e-books through Amazon, but what about the free e-novellas that Harlequin offers, are they compatible with the Kindle and can you even get them on the Amazon site or only directly from eharlequin.com? I'm thinking about Anne Stuart's The Wicked House of Rohan and prequels like that.
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I bought a ebook from them a few years ago and couldn't figure out how to get it on my iphone. I called their customer service number and was told that it couldn't be downloaded onto my iphone. They refunded my money.
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Harlequin switched earlier this year from multiple formats to epub only.
I have a Sony Reader, which reads epub and several other formats.
I get several Harlequin releases each month directly from them:
On the above site, use the Ebook Store drop list near the top of the page to get to the ebook section. Most new releases are available a month before the street dates, but a few lines like HQN and Luna only show up on the street dates.
I also sometimes buy here:
This is an ebook-only offshoot of Harlequin:
This is the store for the Sony Reader:
All Harlequin ebook releases are also available here, but not until the official release dates. I find it easier to search for backlist ebooks here than on the Harlequin site. For new releases, the Sony & Harlequin site prices are the same on some lines and better at Harlequin for others.
Kobo is also worth checking out if you get an epub reader, though they still didn't have a proper estore the last time I bought something a few weeks ago. (No cart, just buy one book at a time.)
Harlequin ebooks are available at many other sites--the above are just a few of the ones I am most familiar with. If you are buying backlist ebooks, be careful to check format. Ebooks created before the recent switch to all epub may be in locked PDF format or a couple other less accessible formats.
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Most free/sale ebooks wind up offered in epub format as well as mobi (Kindle.) It sometimes takes a day or two to catch up.
Having an epub reader (which is most other than the Kindle) also has the benefit of being able to download library books. Kindle is supposed to start working with library books, but I'll believe it when I see it.
BTW, you can take advantage of the Heyer sale now -- just make sure you download Adobe Digital Editions first and purchase the format that works with whatever ereader you expect to buy. You can download the books and then put them on your ereader whenever you get it. You will need to set up your ereader account with the same info you give ADE.
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I am so glad you asked this question. I have been reading epub format library books on my ipad. Now I see Harlequin has an Ipad app so I hope this means I can download the Harlequin freebies onto my Ipad?
I have a Kindle also, but I don't think the weekly Harlequin freebies are available on Amazon. I could be mistaken on this. Last year they released 13 Harlequins for free in celebration of an anniversary and most of them are quite good. Those are available on Amazon for free.
I like the Kindle because of its size and weight, I like the Ipad because of all the different things we can use it for.
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I know you can get Harlequin e-books through Amazon, but what about the free e-novellas that Harlequin offers, are they compatible with the Kindle and can you even get them on the Amazon site or only directly from eharlequin.com?
Update: I am able to read the freebie on the ipad using the Harlequin app but the freebie is not downloadable. The Harlequin app is easy to use.
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Video: China brawls with Georgetown men's basketball team
In more encouraging news about college sports…
Did you hear about the WWE smackdown men's basketball game between Georgetown and China? The Hoyas are in China on a 10-day goodwill trip that has been cited by the U.S. State Department as an example of sports diplomacy that strengthens ties between the two countries coinciding with Vice President Joe Biden's visit to China, according to the Washington Post.
Goodwill and brawls? Insert sarcasm here.
"Tonight, two great teams played a very competitive game that unfortunately ended after heated exchanges with both teams," Georgetown coach John Thompson III said in a statement. "We sincerely regret that this situation occurred."


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Joining forces to rebuild a highway bridge
In addition to increasing awareness of the parklands and restoring habitat across the site, the bridge improvements symbolize a new beginning for this part of Los Angeles County.
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The bridge panels are designed to reflect the ongoing landscape transformation at the Conservancy, as the tensions of recreation and oil production, in the highly disturbed landscape are resolved and ecologies are restored.
The art functionally renovates the bridge, accommodates pedestrian traffic over the bridge, and serves as an iconic presence for all those who pass under the bridge on La Cienega Boulevard.
The open pattern of the panels is a conceptual mapping whose line work merges the broad landscape patterns and the image of the skin of the small Western Fence Lizard, part of its original California coastal sedge ecology.
The gateway will be a featured portion of the regional Park to Playa Trail that connects the eastern and western ridgelines of the Baldwin Hills and continues seven miles all the way to the Ballona Creek, wetlands and Santa Monica Bay.
They say it takes a village to raise a child. It also takes a village—of public and private partners—to reconcile the competing interests of commerce and conservation. A recently reopened highway bridge in an oil-rich area of Los Angeles County represents just such an effort.
Half-owned by the City of Los Angeles and half by Culver City, the 150-foot structure leads to the last undeveloped remnants of land in the highly industrialized Baldwin Hills neighborhood and, eventually, a regional trail that runs seven miles through wetlands and other natural areas down to Santa Monica Bay. Renovating it to accommodate pedestrians and bicyclists as well as vehicles kicked off the 30-year One Big Park plan to reshape Southern California's urban outdoors.
Local sculptor Cliff Garten was asked to design panels that would illustrate this renewal. His solution: Vertical structural elements representing oil rigs link ¼-inch hard-anodized aluminum sheeting etched with the skin pattern of the native western fence lizard.
The $540,000 project was commissioned by the Baldwin Hills Conservancy using state grants and administered by the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative, a nationally recognized model for revitalizing transit-dependent urban areas. (For more information on finding seed money for infrastructure improvements, see "Making transit-oriented development possible" and on page 32 of our January 2014 issue.)
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A Decent (If Lucky) Start To The Road Trip
If you missed the first three innings of tonight's Twins-Brewers contest at Miller Park, you were pretty much out of luck action wise. The Twins put seven runs up on the board in those three frames, with Carlos Gomez getting a hit in each!
The bad news is that Liriano stunk once again, allowing three runs over five innings but walking guys all over the park, giving up deep flys, and then getting a lucky strikeout to end an inning. He was essentially in trouble all night, yet ended up getting the win.
However, the bullpen (Dickey-Guerrier-Nathan) was able to take care of the latter four innings in perfect fashion, something that cannot be underestimated by the Twins pen on the road against a decent team. I always love it when Nathan completely blows away the side in the ninth, and that is EXACTLY what happened tonight.
About the only thing that made the game less enjoyable was that my FSN North station was crap for the entire game. It would skip, jerk, and blank out at intervals just enough to be maddening. Did anyone else have this problem? I hope it doesn't continue into tomorrow.
-You know, Joe Crede has got to be one of the most productive .230 hitters I have ever seen. I don't know how a guy with a batting average that low that provides so much offense when in the lineup. He must never hit any singles, just extra-base knocks.
-I guess that before Luis Ayala was designated for assignment yesterday, he complained to Gardy about his role in the pen, as he thought he should (and was brought onto the team) to be the primary setup man. Basically, that tells me why he didn't last very long here in Minny, what with our general preference for team-first kind of guys. Nobody gets a free ride around here. He made have had one decent season in the National League, but when transferring to a different organization you have to prove yourself all over again. The only thing he proved is that he could give up deep gopher balls with men on base.
-Also, as if this needs to be prefaced, Delmon Young made himself look silly out in left field tonight. He had one nice running catch, but later on he misplayed a carom so badly that he fell down on the completely opposite direction of the ball. Would have been quite funny if not for the fact that Young is getting a reputation for that sort of clumsiness.
Preview (36-36, 2nd, 4.0 GB DET): Nick Blackburn (6-2, 3.09) vs. Braden Looper (5-4, 5.21).


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Earlier this month, myself, the Grateful Dead archivist Nicholas Meriwether (who contributed to the Rock Hall's Grateful Dead: the Long, Strange Trip exhibit and wrote about the Dead's "best performance") and nine other archivists from a wide array of archival institutions presented at the Society of American Archivists' annual meeting in San Diego.
Founded in 1936, the Society of American Archivists is North America's oldest and largest national archival professional association. SAA's mission is to serve the educational and informational needs of more than 5,500 individual and institutional members and to provide leadership to ensure the identification, preservation and use of records of historical value.
Archivists from The Pennsylvania State University; McDonald's Corporation; Harley Davidson Motor Company; University of Alabama Rare Books and Special Collections; The Coca-Cola Company; ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives; Microsoft Corporation; American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming; the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center; the Grateful Dead Archive at the University of California, Santa Cruz; and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Library and Archives, gathered to each give a 5-minute talk about archival advocacy in their institutions and dialogue with each other and members of the audience on this important topic.
The goals of the session were to define how archivists reach beyond the institutional barriers of time, staffing and money to effectively advocate for collections, and highlight creative collaborations and outreach opportunities for both external and internal communities to become stakeholders in the archives. The archivists' specific topics ranged from exhibits that sparked institutional controversy to effectively handling the public's emotional ties to your collections, to collaborating with other institutions and educating both your institutional users and external patrons, to balancing ethical considerations with providing appropriate public service and archiving underrepresented local communities.
I discussed the Northeast Ohio Popular Music Archives (NEOPMA), a group of archival collections (including the papers of Jane Scott and Jim Clevo, master tapes of the Dead Boys' recording sessions, handwritten lyrics by Joe Walsh, concert posters and photographs promoting local rock groups and by local artists, and hundreds of hours of recordings of local college radio station shows and bands), and library materials (including extensive runs of local magazines Scene, Alternative Press and U.S. Rocker, and numerous books and commercial audio and video recordings, such as Mike Hudson's Diary of a Punk and Cheetah Chrome's A Dead Boy's Tale, among many others) that the Library and Archives at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is actively developing related to local and regional popular music focused on the musicians, radio stations, record labels, recording studios, music venues, concert promoters, booking agencies, poster artists and music publishers in Northeast Ohio. The objectives for the NEOPMA are to preserve an important part of Northeast Ohio's cultural heritage, create a valuable in-depth resource for researchers of all kinds, strengthen the relationship between the Rock Hall and the local music community, and result in a variety of locally-relevant public programs at the Library and Archives, including lectures, panel discussions, performances and other events.
It was evidently an effective five minutes, because I soon had my first new addition to the NEOPMA collection! A few moments after the session ended, Trent Purdy of Tucson's Lysergic Sound Distributors (and a M.A. in Library Science from the University of Arizona), came up to me to offer the Library and Archives a complimentary copy of a four song 7-inch EP re-release of a restored and re-mastered 1970s acetate recording by the Akron, Ohio, band Bold Chicken.
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We've all seen her before. She's sitting behind home plate at a baseball game on a warm June afternoon. She's the friend we meet for a lazy Sunday brunch. She's even, on occasion, the impeccably dressed lady at a garden party, with heels that match the clutch that match the earrings. Or, perhaps she's you, blissfully unaware of a fashion faux pas that can strike even the most well-informed and well-intentioned woman.
What I'm talking about, of course, is the bra strap blunder that rolls into town about this time every year. Women – especially those who live in northern parts and thus experience a limited span of seasonably good weather – rejoice at the sight of sunshine and sensation of a warm breeze on their shoulders. As the sun comes out, out come the tank tops: spaghetti strapped or halter backed, they're the perfect vessels in which to deliver these feel-good summer vibes. Unfortunately, tops and dresses that dare to bare are not so kind to the ever conventional bra, with straps, snaps and hooks obscenely poking out for public viewing.
Perhaps the aversion to strapless bras stems from the strapless bras of yesteryear: foam-filled, shapeless and unsupportive, these "brassieres" made better floatation devices than undergarments. Fortunately, lingerie companies have shaped up and stand at the attention of our bodies (and pocketbooks), offering better fits, sizes and prices for wardrobes and budgets of every kind. Today's strapless bra is this season's secret weapon, whether it's a basic bandeau for those who need minimal support to underwire cups for the bountiful crowd. And with a plethora of selections of these strapless styles available everywhere from specialty stores to big box discount retailers – and a tank top or two that begging to be worn – why wouldn't you trade in for a sleek new model?
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Why'd he move out?
Originally Posted by God
get out of my way kirby, i've got gulags to build.
I'm sure we all know why he moved out.
"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.
his friend's roommate dropped out and he requested to move in with him
were you and him in any way shape or form friends? or just acquaintances
he was just that guy in the room from my point of view
I do not make friends easily.
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Ladies, let's face it; you're one of two people on the slopes:
1. The ski-diva in full makeup, with hair curled or in pigtail-braids; your goggles used as a headband or necklace. (Think Paris Hilton at Sundance).
2. The snow-hesher in a Milo beanie with nothing on your face but some sunscreen (and maybe some mascara from the night before).
But true Bettys (like Utah-based pro Grete Eliassen, below) know how to strike a balance between ski Bunny and crunchy granola.
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ZF-6764: Minor misconception in Zend_Validate messages processing
According to existing documentation getMessages() method returns a list of validation failure messages as => pairs.
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But different validators in the validator chain may have the same message keys, so some messages may be lost.
It also produces problems in Zend_Filter_Input, which uses validators conception for messages processing. All rule validation errors messages are stored within one array.
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Gwendolyn Ebbett is Dean of the Library at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She is also the University's Copyright Officer. She previously held positions as Music Librarian and Head of Cataloguing at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.
Gwen serves as delegate to the OCLC Global Council, and is active on the OCLC Canada Advisory Council. She was a founding member of the OCLC Americas Regional Council Communications Committee. She was previously appointed as an alternate delegate for the OCLC Members Council for Canadian libraries as well as for the OCLC Global Council. Gwen was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL), as well as to the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Advisory Committee.
For 20 years, Gwen has been proud to serve on library boards at a national and provincial level, including as Chair of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), as a member of the OCUL Executive Committee, as well as Treasurer for the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL). Gwen chaired CARL's Information Literacy Task Force, was a member of the Synergies working group, and currently serves as Chair of the Committee on Research Libraries for CARL.
Gwen is particularly interested in scholarly communication initiatives, open education, copyright, and information literacy, and their impact on teaching and learning. She has been active in the advancement of new initiatives in Scholarly Publishing provincially, nationally and at the University of Windsor, piloting PKP's OJS, OCS and OMS, as well as establishing an Institutional Repository.
Gwen was honoured by the Mount Allison Faculty Association with the Dedicated Service Award (Group Award) from Canadian Association of University Teachers, the Federation of New Brunswick Faculty Associations with the Prix Nicole Raymond Award (FNBFA), and the Canadian Association of University Teachers Academic Librarians' Distinguished Service Award.
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Linkin Park have announced two LIVING THINGS listening events taking place in the next few days. The first being tomorrow, Friday, June 15th and Monday, June 18th. They will be taking place in LA and you can read more about them below.
Linkin Park will be holding a listening party for their new album LIVING THINGS tomorrow (Friday, June 15) in LA:
LPUHQ will be hosting a LIVING THINGS listening party at Warner Bros. Records in Burbank, CA on Friday, June 15 at 3pm. A select number of members will get the chance to hear the new album, enjoy some pizza, and give their feedback. If you would like to attend, please click ENTER below. If you are selected to attend, you will receive a confirmation email TONIGHT, June 14. ONLY RSVP IF YOU ARE 100% POSITIVE YOU ARE ABLE AND WILLING TO ATTEND
There will also be another LIVING THINGS listening event on Monday June 18th in which Mike Shinoda himself will be attending. View the details on this event below:
We would also like to invite a select number of LPU members to attend a special Sonos Studio Listening Party with Mike Shinoda on Monday, June 18 in LA. You may reserve your free pass for this event starting at 7pm TONIGHT. There is a VERY limited number of spots available and it will sell out almost immediately. Reserve your spot HERE. Please note, this event is 21+ only.
Will you be attending any of these listening events? Let us know by posting in the LPA Forums!
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins say they have developed a method for finding and killing malignant cells while sparing healthy ones. Experimenting with human prostate cancer cells and mice, they used a method called theranostic imaging to target and track potent drug therapies directly and only to cancer cells.
Theranostic imaging relies on binding an originally inactive form of drug chemotherapy, along with an enzyme, to specific proteins on tumor cell surfaces and detecting the drug's absorption into the tumor. The binding of the highly specific drug-protein complex, or nanoplex, to the cell surface allows it to get inside the cancerous cell, where the enzyme slowly activates the tumor-killing drug.
Researchers say their findings are believed to be the first to show that chemotherapies can be precisely controlled at the molecular level to maximize their effectiveness against tumors, while also minimizing their side effects.
In the theranostic imaging experiments, investigators directed drugs only to cancer cells, specifically those with prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) cell surface proteins.
"Our results show a noninvasive imaging approach to following and delivering targeted therapy to any cancer that expresses PSMA," says senior study investigator Zaver Bhujwalla, Ph.D., a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Kimmel Cancer Center, who also serves as director of the Johns Hopkins In Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center, where the theranostic imaging studies were developed.
Dr. Bhujwalla says the new technique potentially will work against any cancer in which tumors elevate production of certain cell surface proteins. Examples would include breast cancers with HER-2/neu and CXCR4 proteins, and some liver, lung, and kidney cancers also known to express particular proteins. She notes that PSMA is expressed in the vessels of most solid tumors, suggesting that the nanoplex reported in the latest study could be used in general to image and treat a variety of cancers.
The study appears in the journal American Chemical Society Nano, published online August 6. The paper is titled "A PSMA-targeted Theranostic Nanoplex For Prostate Cancer Therapy".
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TUCSON, Ariz. – The Arizona men's and women's swimming and diving teams fell on the road to Stanford at the Avery Aquatics Center on Friday afternoon. The women were defeated by a score of 158-137, while the men fell 185-113.
On the women's side, Bonnie Brandon won the first individual event of the day as she took top honors in the 1000 freestyle with a time of 9:47.32. Brandon also won first in the 200 back with a time of 1:57.06 and the 500 freestyle in 4:52.28.
The Wildcats also earned first-place points in the 1-meter diving event as freshman Michal Bower earned a score of 298.20 to take the victory.
Competing in her first meet of the spring, senior Margo Geer took the top spot in the 100 freestyle with a time of 49.26, just edging out Maddy Schaefer of Stanford as she touched in 49.34.
Meanwhile, the Wildcats picked up a victory by freshman newcomer Tjasa Oder in the 400 IM as she swam to a time of 4:22.73. Oder also finished second in the 500 free and third in the 1000 free.
To close out the day, Arizona took home first place in the 200 free relay as the team of Geer, Brandon, Grace Finnegan and Taylor Schick touched in 1:31.33.
The Arizona men got off to a good start to the day as the team of Mitchell Friedemann, Kevin Cordes, Andrew Porter and Brian Stevens won the 400 medley relay with a time of 3:14.37.
Cordes remained unbeaten in individual dual meet events as he took home the 100 breast (53.44) and 200 breast (1:57.70) titles.
Stevens picked up an individual win as he swam to an impressive time of 19.99 to take home the 50 free title. The time was a personal best for Stevens as it was his first sub-20 time in the 50 free.
Michael Sheppard capped off the Arizona first-place finishes on the day as he won the 200 back with a time of 1:47.70.
The Wildcats return to action tomorrow as they face off against Cal beginning at 1 p.m. The meet will air via tape delay on Pac-12 Networks tomorrow night at 9:30 p.m. MST.
For continued coverage of Arizona Wildcat swimming and diving, visit ArizonaWildcats.com and be sure to follow the team on Twitter @ArizonaSwimming.


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A simple solution to the coming phosphorus crisis
Biologist Mohamed Hijri brings to light a farming crisis no one is talking about: We are running out of phosphorus, an essential element that's a key component of DNA and the basis of cellular communication. All roads of this crisis lead back to how we farm — with chemical fertilizers chock-full of the element, which plants are not efficient at absorbing. One solution? Perhaps … a microscopic mushroom. (Filmed at TEDxUdeM.)
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