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5 Tips On How To Choose Interior Colors That Will Affect Your Mood In The Right Way
Our home is our shelter from the outside problems, a haven where we can finally relax and be ourselves. It is also a place where we spend a great part of our lives (beside our unavoidable workplaces!), so it's really important to make it as cozy and warm as possible. A lot of things make our home – the furniture, carpets, decorations and personal stuff. And the thing that dominates are colors we choose to paint our rooms with.
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No matter how often you paint your home, it is stressful each time. We're not sure how to choose the right colors or how to combine it with what we already have in the room. What should we keep in mind? What to pay attention to? What do we want to achieve with a certain color? What's the right choice for the kids' room, and what could work in the living room? The possibilities are not endless; they depend on a couple of tips that you should check out and you will get yourself in the mood you wanted every time you enter the room.
- The number of colors – Buying paint isn't that expensive, so don't go crazy with the variety of colors. Three or four colors are enough for one room, including the colors of furniture and carpets. Otherwise, it will just feel as overcrowded space and the forms will be lost in the mixture of colors. The colors you choose can differ only in tones or be complementary, just stick to no more than three.
- The type of color – in general, there are three types: active, passive and neutral colors. Active colors are the bright ones. They bring energy and creativity, so consider them for your office or kitchen where inspiration is needed. On the other hand, passive colors are cold and muted and that's why they have a calming effect on your body and can help you focus mentally. Consider them for your bathroom of bedroom. Neutral colors, such as beige, grey and white, serve as excellent transition colors. Overall, light colors make the room look more spacious and bright, while dark ones give an intimate touch to large rooms.
- The mood you want to achieve – keep in mind the atmosphere you want to incite in a certain room. Red increases energy and excites us, while lavender puts you in a relaxing mood even better than green or blue. Yellow is like a ray of sunshine, lifting our spirits. Green is for nature-lovers who like to be in touch with their inner selves. Purple is the complete opposite – choose it if you want to feel glamorous and sophisticated.
- Choosing the right light bulbs – Of course, we shouldn't forget that artificial light in our home also affects the way room colors will be perceived. And the type of the artificial light depends on the quality of light bulbs. For example, halogens are very similar to natural light and they make colors look bright and intensive. Warm incandescent bulbs will intensify yellow, orange and red, but it will suppress green and blue tones, while fluorescents will enrich them.
- The influence of sunlight – sunlight is what actually helps us see the colors during the day. That's why you need to be aware of the fact that it changes throughout the day, along with the effect it makes on the room. Rooms facing the east or south will be full of light most of the day, so if you want the sunlight to emphasize the warm or bright colors in it, choose your curtains carefully. Curtains Perth based retailers recommend using light, mildly transparent materials for decorating your windows, so you don't lose any of the natural light. Still, if you want to cast a dim light on the walls and make the atmosphere more intimate, go for curtains made of heavy materials with darker colors.


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Republication from Heritage Daily and University of Oslo
A deadly weapon and symbol of power – jewellery for a man, with magical properties. The sword gave power to the warrior, but the warrior's strength could also be transferred to the sword. That is how they were bound together: man and weapon, warrior and sword.
This sword was found in Langeid in Bygland in Setesdal in 2011. It is a truly unique sword from the late Viking Age, embellished with gold, inscriptions and other ornamentation. The discovery of the sword has not been published until now, when it is being displayed for the first time in the exhibition TAKE IT PERSONALLY at the Historical Museum in Oslo.
The sword must have belonged to a wealthy man in the late Viking Age. But who was he and what magic inscriptions are set into the decoration – in gold? Was the owner of the sword in the Danish King Canute's army when it attacked England in 1014-15?
In the summer of 2011, archaeologists from the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo discovered a Viking burial ground in Langeid in Setesdal in southern Norway. In one of the graves they made a startling discovery.
Arbeidsbilde konservator Vegard Vike Photo: Ellen C. Holthe, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo
"Even before we began the excavation of this grave, I realised it was something quite special. The grave was so big and looked different from the other 20 graves in the burial ground. In each of the four corners of the grave there were post holes," said excavation leader Camilla Cecilie Wenn of the Museum of Cultural History.
The post holes reveal that there was a roof over the grave, which is a sign that the grave had a prominent place in the burial ground. But when they dug down in the coffin in the bottom of the grave, there were few traces of gifts for the afterlife, only two small fragments of silver coins. The coins were from northern Europe; one was probably from the German Viking Age, judging by how it was embossed, while the other was a penny minted under Ethelred II in England dating from the period 978-1016.
"But when we went on digging outside the coffin, our eyes really popped. Along both sides, something metal appeared, but it was hard to see what it was. Suddenly a lump of earth fell to one side so that the object became clearer. Our pulses raced when we realised it was the hilt of a sword! And on the other side of the coffin, the metal turned out to be a big battle-axe. Although the weapons were covered in rust when we found them, we realised straight away that they were special and unusual. Were they put there to protect the dead person from enemies, or to display power?"
Dating of charcoal from one of the post holes shows that the grave is from around the year 1030, at the very end of the Viking Age. "And that fits in well with the discovery of the English coin."
The sword
Langeidsverdet helfigur Photo: Ellen C. Holthe, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo
The sword must have belonged to a wealthy man who lived in the late Viking Age. The sword is 94 cm long; although the iron blade has rusted, the handle is well preserved. It is wrapped with silver thread and the hilt and pommel at the top are covered in silver with details in gold, edged with a copper alloy thread," said project leader Zanette Glørstad.
"When we examined the sword more closely, we also found remnants of wood and leather on the blade. They must be remains from a sheath to put the sword in," explained curator Vegard Vike. He has had the challenging task of cleaning up the handle and preserving the sword.
The sword is decorated with large spirals, various combinations of letters and cross-like ornaments. The letters are probably Latin, but what the letter combinations meant is still a mystery.
"At the top of the pommel, we can also clearly see a picture of a hand holding a cross. That's unique and we don't know of any similar findings on other swords from the Viking Age. Both the hand and the letters indicate that the sword was deliberately decorated with Christian symbolism. But how did such a sword end up in a pagan burial ground in Norway? The design of the sword, the symbols and the precious metal used all make it perfectly clear that this was a magnificent treasure, probably produced abroad and brought back to Norway by a very prominent man," added Camilla Cecilie Weenn.
"The way swords are referred to in the sagas suggests that the sword is an important bearer of the identity of the warrior. A sword reveals the warrior's social status, his position of power and his strength. The sagas also tell us that gold had a special symbolic value in Norse society. In Norse literature gold represented power and potency.
Gold is rarely found in archaeological material from Viking Period and then too, it stood for power and potency. This indicates that gold had considerable economic and symbolic value. Based on the descriptions in the literature, we can say that the sword was the male jewellery par excellence of the Viking Age," said Hanne Lovise Aannestad, the author of a recent article on ornate swords from the days of the Vikings.
The sagas emphasise the importance of the ornate sword. Swords could have hilts of gold with ornamentation and magical runes. The mythical sagas tell of magical swords forged by dwarfs. The creation of myths around the art of the blacksmith and the making of high-quality swords may be related to the fact that few people mastered the art. The production of metal objects of high quality may have been a form of hidden knowledge unavailable to most people. This gave the objects a magical aura.
"In Mediaeval literature, swords are referred to as aesthetic, powerful and magical objects. The many similarities between the descriptions of swords in Norse and Mediaeval literature suggest that the splendour of the sword in the latter had roots in the Viking notions of the symbolic power, magic and ritual aspects of the ornate sword. The Viking Age was a period of great social upheaval. At times like that, certain symbolic objects may play an important role in negotiating social positions. There is much to suggest that these magnificent swords were such objects, reflecting the status and power of the warrior and his clan," said Hanne Lovise.
The battle-axe
The axe found in the same grave has no gold decoration. But the shaft is coated with brass and it may well have flashed like gold when the sun shone. Such shaft coatings are very rare in Norway. But a number of similar battle-axes have been found in the River Thames in London. That makes the axe particularly interesting. Dating of the axe from Langeid shows that it belongs to the same period as the axes found in the Thames. There was a long series of battles along the Thames in the late 10th and early 11th centuries. The Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard and his son Canute led their armies against the English king in the battle for the English throne. Even the Norwegian king Olav (Haraldsson) the Holy was involved in the attack on London in 1009. The men under the Danish King were from all over Scandinavia. Did the axes get lost in the Thames during the numerous skirmishes, or did the victors throw them in the river?

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Baltic Art at Salon Populaire in Berlin
The Bucolic Genre Today: Somewhere Between a Subtrend of Organic Lifestyle and Provincial Art
An evening in Berlin organized by Kaspars Vanags (Latvia), Juste Kostikovaite (Lithuania) and kim? Contemporary Art Centre Riga. Wednesday, June 22, 8pm
The long-lived pastoral tradition of focusing on rustic subjects and on the romanticized country life of shepherds and shepherdesses is experiencing a remarkable comeback in contemporary art. The surprising comeback is partly caused by the conservationist movement and awareness to climate change, as well as by the now-mainstream consumer fascination with organic food and healthy lifestyle. On another level, the bucolic genre is a perfect niche for art deriving from the peripheries. By adopting "local food" marketing strategies to sell the regional, "provincial art" might have a chance to be noticed and taken seriously.
This week at Salon Populaire (Berlin), a pastoral event, with a midsummer night's aftertaste, will focus on the bucolic tendencies in art from the Baltics and will be followed by organic peculiarities of regional gastronomy.
Salon Populaire is a project by Ellen Blumenstein (she is also a curator of Pavilion of Iceland at the 54th Venice Biennale) and her team. It is a meeting point for conversations on art and neighboring topics.


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The mum of a toddler who suffers with a rare genetic condition is helping to raise awareness of her daughter's illness ahead of a major funding event.
Two-year-old Alexia Crane, of Wensleydale Avenue, Grange Park, suffered a heart attack when she was just 14-months-old, with her heart stopping for close to seven minutes.
Overall it has been a difficult year; I was very traumatised after coming so close to losing AlexiaMelissa Kimpton
She was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy – a condition where the heart muscle weakens, making it harder to pump blood around the body.
Now mum Melissa Kimpton is encouraging people to put their hands in their pockets to support her daughter by raising money for the Cardiomyopathy Association charity as part of the annual Jeans for Genes Day charity event.
Melissa, 26, said she is now having tests at Alder Hey Hospital to see if the condition is hereditary – but hopes Alexia's story will raise awareness of the condition.
She added: "Two of my cousins have been diagnosed with muscle problems and at the end of last year my dad died suddenly from a heart attack.
"Losing my father has hit me hard as I keep wondering if I could have recognised any of the signs or symptoms.
"Overall it has been a difficult year; I was very traumatised after coming so close to losing Alexia."
The results of the body scan allowed the doctors to diagnose Alexia with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a disease of the heart muscle.
Usually associated with older people, DCM is a reasonably common condition that can affect people of all ages, and one in 5,000 people in the UK develop it each year.
While it is not curable, it can be treated successfully, with most of those affected going on to lead a long and full life.
Alexia recovered incredibly well and in the end was discharged from hospital after four weeks. At present doctors are unsure what caused the condition and Melissa is waiting for the results of genetic testing being conducted in Liverpool.
Since then though Alexia has also been diagnosed with metabolic myopathies, which is a hereditary muscle disorder, so it seems very likely that both conditions are linked, although it has not been confirmed.
"Overall though, Alexia is a very happy and bubbly little girl. She loves causing mischief like most two-year-olds do," said Melissa.
This year the money raised by Jeans for Genes Day will go towards the Cardiomyopathy Association to fund a children and young people's officer.
The officer will ensure that all families with affected children know about the charity and will develop, promote and monitor the service.
Jeans for Genes Day is on September 18 with everyone invited to wear their jeans to work or school and make a donation.
Sign up for your free fundraising pack at: www.jeansforgenesday.org.


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Should I use grate-type tiles in my raised flooring?
Using grate-type tiles can be a blessing or a curse. Data center managers must understand the airflow in their raised floors if they decide to use them.
Grate-type tiles work well in the data center if they're used correctly and if the parameters are well understood. You need to really understand your under-floor air flow when installing grate-type tiles because they can deprive other parts of your floor.
Remember, you're limited to the amount of air your CRAC can deliver. Most data centers lose a significant percentage of their air in uncontrolled leaks. Additionally, the under-floor air flow and pressures are uneven to begin with. Thus, it's highly unlikely that you have all the air your CRACs are delivering actually available at the tiles you install.
You not only need to be concerned about how much air goes through which tiles, but you also need to know the exact placement of grate-type tiles. If you put them in a place where air volume and pressure are already low, they're going to do little for you and will probably make things worse somewhere else. Other then trial and error, the best way to make these determinations is through CFD modeling.
Additionally, while the GrateAire tile offers 58% open area, this is only if the tile does not have a damper. Dampered tiles allow you to control the air flow at each location so that you don't waste air in places where less cooling is needed. However, the dampered GrateAire tile has a maximum open area of only about 33%. This is not a whole lot better than a fully open standard perforated tile, so we don't specify it very much. But since the 58% open tiles affect under-floor air volume and pressure, we use them very carefully and only after performing a thorough CFD analysis.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert McFarlane is a pioneer in the field of building cabling design. He has been asked to speak at countless seminars on building infrastructure for electronic communications, evolving technologies and the requirements of trading floor and data center design. Mr. McFarlane served for twelve years as President of Interport Financial, Inc., a firm specializing in designs for financial trading floors and critical data centers.


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I've been playing around with the cloud reader lite.
My purpose is to make a simple test that consists in packing the reader togheter with a single epub in a zip and make this available to upload in an LMS, such as Moodle. The uploaded package will have to behave like an activity in the LMS system: it will open in a new page in the selected explorer and directly show the epub to the student/user.
I've tested this in online browsers in Windows, Android and iOS with success. The problem arises when I tried to open the unzipped package directly with any explorer, through the file:// protocol, that is, offline.
In this last case, it won't work because the reader try to access the epub content with an Http Get operation, which is not allowed in the file:// protocol.
Well, as it is a cloud reader I am not surprised of the behaviour, and I am not saying that this is an error.
But, has anyone faced this issue, and, if so, found a solution?
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Simple Uses for Extra Envelopesposted by Andrea | 02/4/2012
I don't know about you, but we get all kinds of extra envelopes in the mail via credit card offers, donation requests, or for bills that we pay online. I've done everything I can to "opt-out", unsubscribe, and sign up for paperless statements… but the envelopes still come!
And since I don't like to waste paper, I've started using those extra envelopes to make grocery lists… and then I put the coupons for that shopping trip right inside the envelope.
It's a great solution to keep everything organized by store… and it's totally free!
Here are a few other uses for extra envelopes:
- making your daily to-do lists
- kids hot lunch orders/money
- allowances for each family member
- cash budget system
- storing extra receipts {one for each family member, category, or event}
- organizing restaurant coupons or menus {dine-in, fast food, pizza, delivery, etc}
- storing and organizing stamps and return address labels
- organizing small craft supplies {stickers, paper scraps, decals, etc}
What do you use those extra envelopes for?
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I shred them and add them to my compost pile. I also do this with all of those unwanted credit card offers, no chance of them falling into an identity thief's hands when there in my compost pile.
I just love to read your site! I look forward to what you have in store for us to read. Keep it up!
You can opt out of those pre-approved credit card offer junk mail too. Visit optoutprescreen.com, type in your information, and you'll stop receiving these offers for five years. Or, if you use traditional mail to send in the form, you can opt out for 10 years. Got this link from the Dave Ramsey website and it works.
I like to use them for my banking. That way, I'm sure I have all my checks and cash together!
Great ideas, but too much for me to organize! I'm still doing baby step. LOL I just toss them in my recycling bin.
What a bunch of great ideas.. I use some of them for coupons & lists too.. not always though.
Def food for thought! Thanks!
Kristen @ Joyfullythriving02/04/2012
I write my grocery list on an envelope and stick my coupons for that trip inside. I still take along my other coupons (in case I spot a good deal while I'm at the store) but this simplifies the shopping process – especially at the checkout. Simple, frugal, effective….check!


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The Legion Of The DamnedChapter by chapter - Book covers - Other languages - Quotes
Introduction to The Legion Of The Damned
The first in the Sven Hassel series of novels was, according to Erik Haaest's hysterical "biography" of Hassel, actually written by Georg Gjedde, a staff writer at the Danish Grafisk Forlag publishing house. Many readers of Hassel take this book (if not all the others) to be directly autobiographical, with its amazing feel of oppression and doom. It seems that Gjedde did not enjoy writing it and wishes to be disassociated from the whole thing - but he does admit to having received more money for this novel than any other in his career.
By the end of The Legion Of The Damned most of the major characters are dead (Gjedde claims to have enjoyed writing that bit at least) which is probably why most the stories of surviving members of Sven's section only refer to Tiny and The Legionnaire - who aren't in this book at all (they are supposed to have joined/re-joined the French Foreign Legion after the war and to be currently living on a Legion pension in France!)
When the book was first published in 1953 it received mixed reviews veering from "Of little interest to the average reader who should certainly know by now that 'war is hell'" to "Denmark has produced a new Hemingway"! Personally I'd go for "Fucking masterpiece".
The Legion Of The Damned chapter by chapter:
1. Filthy Deserter
Description of Sven's court martial for desertion. Court appearance with Eva Schadows as witness. Sentence to 15 years hard labour.
2. They Died By Day, They Died By Night
Long description of Lengries Concentration Camp and reasons for telling story (some serious philosophy here!) Prison food. Executions.
3. Fagen
Description of Fagen Concentration Camp. Hard labour. Chance of pardon by disposing of 225 bombs!! 68th bomb turns out to be an aerial torpedo which Sven has to drive out of town on a truck. Hospital experiments, transfer back to Lengries. Sven is pardoned and sent to serve in a penal regiment.
4. One Hundred And Thirty-Five Corpses
Description of penal battalion drill and training. More about food.
5. Spit And Polish
Penal battalion inspections. Unteroffizier Geerner finds dust in the coffee pot.
6. One Kind Of Soldier
The chaplain. Description of Sennelager. Training against tank shock. Swearing of oath. Transfer to tank regiment at Bielefeldt.
7. Our First Meeting
"Welcome" by Hauptmann Meier, commander of No5 Company. Sven is assigned to No2 Squadron under Leutnant von Barring, and then to Unteroffizier Beier, leader of No1 Section. Sven reports to Beier and interrupts a card game. Descriptions of Beier, Porta, Eicken and Steyer. The company has a little free time.
8. Curiosities Of The Balkans
Porta's sneaky trick on the Nazi railwayman. Food. Railway journey. Halt in Hungarian town of Makó. Porta steals a couple of geese, gets chased by a crowd of civilians and is rescued by Hinka.
9. The Glories Of The Balkans
Discovery of rail freight wagon of food and wine. Porta goes for a gambling session in Bucharest (the origin of his yellow top hat and monocle... he has also won a mistress!) Bit of philosophy from Sven on the occupation of various countries by the Germans. He also criticises Spain where he later went to live. Description of Roumania.
10. Ursula
Sven on leave in Vienna to meet Ursula. Train journey. Trouble because of penal uniform. Strange association between a mountain and having sex!
11. The Last Days
Description of Ursula. More references to Sven being good at sex. Meeting with Stege's brother. Strange association between the weather and sex! Sven and Ursula get married. Sven is described as an Auslandsdeutscher of Danish-Austrian descent and as a good, naturalised Scandanavian. Return to unit.
12. Porta's Leave
Short story from Porta concerning his leave in Berlin and certain accusations made against his good self.
13. Destination North Africa
Travel to Naples. Equipment for North Africa. Embark on ship to Tripoli, air raid, shipwreck. Sven and Porta meet in the sea. Porta talks about religion, his adventures in a nunnery and his love of the church organ. Italian plane drops lifeboat and rations. Rescue by Italian Navy. Return to Naples, hunt for Old Un. Transfer to the Eastern Front to be incorporated in the 27th Panzer regiment.
14. Three Girls
Old Un gives his philosophy on war. Hans Breuer joins the company. Description of dodges to get out of war. Issue of rations (Porta/rum). Porta and Meier incident, lots of abuse. Unteroffizier Fleischmann helps out. Meeting with 3 girls from KZ and their escape in the armoured train.
15. In Church
Visit to church in Pinsk. Porta plays the organ.
16. Before The Attack
Hans Breuer gets his foot squashed. 27th Regiment in Smolensk. Old woman pisses in the street. Talk of revenge on Meier. Preparation for action.
17. The Spectacle
Guiding tanks in the dark. Preparation for battle. Discussion of battle. Description of battle. Description of Russian winter cold.
18. Captivity
Some political discussion and statement on interpretation of writings. Comparison of Hitler and Stalin. Sven and Fleischmann are taken prisoner. Harsh treatment in captivity, escape attempt, train journey East, various adventures in captivity. Discussion of sabotage in p.o.w. factories. Sven and Fleischmann plan to escape. Strange inconsistency as Sven escapes and heads for rendezvous with Fleischmann.... Then Fleischmann is not mentioned again (till Company Commander right at the end of the book). Sven's adventures during escape back to the German lines.
19. The Swine Meier
Death of Hans Breuer. Stories of Meier and his brutality. Mine clearing duty. Meier's fate.
20. Sleep Your Fill Boys
Rest billet in Russian village. Porta tries to sleep. Big feast at the latrine. Orders to take tanks out onto the plain and dig in. Description of hole digging, inspection by the CO. Discussion of collaboration by Russian civilians.
21. 988th Reserve Battalion
Going on leave. Cancelled due to major Russian break through. Fighting at Volkov. First mention of Stalin the Cat. Christmas 1942. Guard duty in no-man's-land. Russians intercept letters from home. Porta disappears.
22. Death Rolls Up
Various promotions. Porta is a private at this stage (Stabsgefreiter). Stalin becomes Obergefreiter. April 1943. Completely uncensored letter from Ursula's father explaining her death. Sven's reaction. Tanks battles (presumably this is Kursk - "the greatest tank battle of the war"). More philosophy.
23. Separate Peace
Talk of peace and revolution. Move to new positions opposite very peaceful Russians on the River Donetz. Enormous feast. Porta tries to kill an elusive cat. Old Un's dental work on Porta... and Porta's revenge.
24. The Proud Fate
The chaplain. 27th Regiment bombed by Stukas. Attack on women soldiers. Retreat. More about the chaplain and his fate at the hands of Sven and Porta.
25. The Armoured Train
Looking after recruits. Allocation to armoured train. Sven's nurse friend Asta. Armoured train action.
26. Hals-Und-Beinbruch
Armoured car action. Sven and Stege wounded. Journey on hospital train. Time in hospital.
27. Wishing You A Long Illness
December 1943. Margaret and Barbara the nurses. Death of Stege - two versions of his death given by the Old Un. Sven leaves hospital to return to unit.
28. The War Continues According To Plan
Sven returns to unit which is in bad shape. Sven has to describe his stay in hospital (and the nurses) in great detail to the others. Very depressing chapter!!
29. Soviet Propaganda At The Front
Christmas 1943. Russian propaganda and its effects. Film shown in the trenches of food and women. Russian pranks (returning p.o.w.s etc). Story of Russian women's regiment. Von Barring takes to drink.
30. Retreat From Kiev
Conflict between Wehrmacht and SS. Front line fighting as infantry. Sven attacks tanks. Graphic description of front-line action. Fetching food through artillery bombardment. Fighting underground in tunnels. Death of Pluto. Covering retreat. Booby traps in trenches.
31. 'There's A Man Lying Out On The Wire'
Death of Porta. Sven ends up back in hospital. Short mention of Sven's involvement in the plot against Hitler. Meeting with mad Alpine Obergefreiter. April 1944.
32. Company Commander
Death of Barbara. Sven reaches rank of Oberleutnant. Old Un's death and burial. Roll-call of dead friends (including the missing Fleischmann!!)
33. Von Barring
Von Barring's madness. Sven's pact with Hinka.
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Anita Caspary, the former superior of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters who led 315 sisters out of religious life in 1970, died Oct. 5 at the age of 95.
Caspary's influence lives on, however, for she was the first modern sister to publicly challenge the Church hierarchy and the Vatican about the nature of religious life. She, in fact, pioneered a trend prevalent in women's religious orders today: "birthing" new forms of religious life.
Obituary writers have been lavish in praising Caspary's accomplishments, but many of those obituaries simply repeat misinformation and propaganda and fail to probe the actual events that have had a profound and lasting impact on religious life.
The storyline crafted by Caspary and her supporters was that the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters — a highly respected teaching and health-care order — were simply following Vatican II mandates to renew. As the story goes, the sisters were thwarted by Cardinal James McIntyre of Los Angeles, who was painted as one who was opposed to renewal. The sisters were hailed as heroines for standing up for their rights, being obedient to Vatican II, and defying the male hierarchy. A 1969 Newsweek headline about the IHMS' struggle proclaimed: "Battling for 'Nuns' Rights."
Of course, activists who want a more democratic Church jumped on Caspary's bandwagon, with some calling for nonviolent resistance to "abusive" male hierarchical authority. Others asserted that Church guidelines on religious life were an affront to the dignity of women, and Caspary became a heroine of the women's movement and a champion of those who prefer their own interpretation of Vatican II.
That same storyline has lived on for decades and is reflected in the Oct. 16 Los Angeles Times obituary , which claimed that the sisters merely were responding to the Vatican II call to modernize, but were blocked by "conservative" Cardinal McIntyre. The Oct. 18 New York Times obituary for Caspary reported that she felt the IHMS were "being asked to forsake the promise of Vatican II."
An examination of the facts, however, tells a different story.
First, the sisters' interpretation of the renewal called for by Vatican II was highly questionable. The order's renewal decrees of 1967 stated, among other things, that sisters could choose whatever work they wanted, dispense with regular community prayer schedules, and wear any style of clothing.
However, the 1965 Vatican II decree on the "Appropriate Renewal of Religious Life" (Perfectae Caritatis) said nothing of the sort, but, rather, called for orders to adjust their rules and customs to help them carry out "the apostolate for which they were founded." The decree also affirmed the "importance of common life, as expressed in prayer" and called the habit a symbol of consecration.
Cardinal McIntyre reminded the order about these requirements and was backed up by the Vatican. However, many of the sisters were heavily influenced by the women's liberation movement and the popular psychology of the 1960s. The entire order had engaged in sensitivity training with Carl Rogers and William Coulson, and Coulson later regretted his participation and blamed these workshops for the demise of the order.
The workshops, Coulson concluded, had convinced the sisters to free themselves from Catholic doctrine and make their own rules.
Caspary herself admitted in her 2003 autobiography, Witness to Integrity, "Religious life of the past, we felt certain, had to develop into new forms" and "a new theology of the life itself, a pattern of themes, had to be established." On behalf of the order she had even written Pope Paul VI in 1967, asking him to allow them to experiment with "a new form of religious life."
If that permission was not given, she told the Pope, " … at least 80% of our community will withdraw from religious life … in order to live a new form of consecrated life outside the canonical structure of religious life or of other ecclesiastically recognized groups."
This effort to weaken or even dissolve the ecclesial ties to religious institutes was rejected by Church authorities, and, in February of 1970, 315 sisters sought dispensation from their vows, with most of them joining Caspary in forming the independent lay ecumenical Immaculate Heart Community. Clearly, this was a difficult decision for many of the sisters, who followed Caspary out of a sense of loyalty and because they were convinced their order's decrees were valid.
Again, some Caspary obituaries, like The New York Times, were incorrect in citing this event as "the largest single exodus of nuns from the Roman Catholic Church." Some sisters may have left the Church, but some clearly did not.
Thirty-seven sisters left the congregation altogether. Another 50 chose to remain canonically connected to the Church as IHM Sisters, but they wound up without any of the order's property, a fact not mentioned in the Caspary obituaries.
Before she renounced her religious vows, Caspary had transferred ownership of the order's college, hospital, high school and retreat house to secular corporations held by the new lay community.
That was illicit alienation of property under canon law, but Cardinal Timothy Manning, Cardinal McIntyre's successor, did not want to take on a nasty and protracted civil lawsuit, according to his biographer, Msgr. Francis Weber. This left the canonical sisters with virtually no assets, but Cardinal Manning forged an agreement for them to receive $275,000 of the former order's assets, and he provided them with a residence.
For decades, the IHM-Caspary story has served as a cautionary tale for bishops and Church authorities, who would not welcome a mass exodus of sisters, adverse publicity and loss of Church assets. At the same time, the Caspary affair has served to embolden some other women religious to push the envelope on the definition of religious life, to blur the boundaries between religious and laity, and to challenge Church authority.
Ann Carey is an award-winning journalist and author of Sisters in Crisis: The Tragic Unraveling of Women's Religious Communities.


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Arif has developed as a specialist in the chiropractic treatment of pregnant ladies and children since 1999 when he attended a series of seminars by the lauded Carol Phillips, a famous pre-natal chiropractor, Sacro-Occipital Therapist and Doula and one of the world's best teachers of the Webster Technique. He went on to complete the course to become a Fellow of the International Chiropractic Paediatric Association , which then lead to him becoming a member of the Royal College of Chiropractors Paediatric Faculty.
Over the years he has continued to develop his knowledge, learning from the best in the fields of Sacro-Occipital Technique, advanced Craniopathy for babies, children and adults, paediatric chiropractic and cranial chiropractic (similar to cranial osteopathy). Complementing this he has attended courses on Tempero-Mandibular Joint therapy, particularly Functional Jaw Orthopeadics a specialism in the forefront of orthodontics and works closely with a dentist specializing in this area.
Arif now has a large practice treating many expectant mothers, babies and children, many who travel many miles to receive his specialized experience, knowledge and care. The whole practice can be full of pregnant ladies, prams and small children and the lovely receptionists often multi-task with arms full of babies.
Arif believes in the humanistic approach to pregnancy and birth. The human body has it's own innate wisdom and the female process of pregnancy and birth are generally healthy and safe. A birth team should create a loving, relaxed, nurturing environment for the birth; this power will help to deliver your baby without fear, feeling in control. To reduce the risk of birth trauma and problems such as crying babies we need to take responsibility for the outcome of birth.
Chiropractic treatment of the pregnant mum, babies and children is centered on a holistic approach, thoroughly examining the spine, pelvis, cranium as well as the muscular and nervous systems.
Chiropractic and cranial treatment of pregnant mums, babies and young children is a specialist field with many gentle and precise techniques for examination and treatment, focusing on correcting abnormal movement patterns, alignment and tension in the cranium, spine, muscles and ligaments. The treatment is gentle, relaxing and enhances the well-being of the patient.
Arif believes that analysis and specific correction to the pregnant female and paediatric spine and cranium is valuable in many cases. He would be very happy to discuss your problem before committing to an initial consultation.
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July 28 - August 2, 2019
The Down Syndrome Foundation of Florida partners with iCan Shine to bring Central Florida much more than just a bike-riding program. The mission of this camp is to teach individuals with Down syndrome and other unique abilities to ride a conventional two wheel bicycle and become lifelong independent riders. This achievement, in turn, creates a gateway of opportunity, helping them gain assurance and self-reliance in many other aspects of their lives. For many people, it's a seemingly impossible task to master but with this program 80% of the participants usually do it in less than a week's time. Within days of learning to ride, many individuals begin exhibiting independent behaviors at home. This achievement, in turn, creates a gateway of opportunity, helping them gain assurance and self-reliance in many other aspects of their lives.
Their adapted bicycling program had its genesis in the more than 20 years of research by Dr. Richard E. Klein and his students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Richard retired from his academic career at the University of Illinois in 1998 and the first bike camp was held in 1999 in LaCrosse, WI. In the ensuing years, Dr. Klein and his wife, Marjorie, invested a significant portion of their lives in growing the program to three fleets of bikes and approximately 30 camps in 2006. Today these camps are held in 80 cities around the USA and Canada. With their new identity, iCan Shine, they plan to expand their program offering to include other activities such as swimming.
Learning to ride a bicycle can be a frightening endeavor. At iCan Bike camps, children learn to balance, pedal, steer and take off on their own, many in five days or less – a feat parents say is nothing short of miraculous, considering many struggle for years to teach their children how to ride a two wheel bicycle.
When you enroll your child in a iCan Bike camp, they will be assigned to a 75 minute riding session which they will attend each of the 5 days. During this time they will ride a bicycle that gradually introduces the natural instability of the bike as each child is ready. They will be assigned one or two volunteers who will serve as their "spotters" to provide physical support, motivation and encouragement. While all individuals learn at their own pace, some will be ready to ride on two wheels as soon as the third day of camp, and historically more than 80% of children who attend our camps are able to independently ride a bicycle by the end of the five days.
The goal of our program is to teach individuals to ride such that they can be independent riders. In other words, they have sufficient riding skills that they can start, ride and stop their bike without any outside assistance.
If you would like to enroll your child in a iCan Bike camp please review the requirements for participation and indicators for success below and refer to our schedule for information about how to enroll in each of the camps we are currently offering.
To ensure the safety of our participants and the best use of our limited resources we have established certain criteria that all participants must meet to be eligible to attend a camp. These criteria are:
It is important to consider behavioral issues as you evaluate your child's suitability for this program. A participant may be physically able to ride a bike, but if their behavior is such that they cannot be persuaded to get on the bike and follow instructions, then it is likely this program will not be beneficial. Individuals with severe behavioral issues may be removed from the program if their actions are detrimental to the overall function of the camp or potentially harmful to themselves or others.
The abilities listed below indicate the likelihood of any given participant's success in learning to ride a two wheel bicycle at a Lose The Training Wheels camp:


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Want to stop nail biting? Not as easy as it sounds, most people are totally unaware of their finger nail biting. Good stress management and hypnotherapy can help.
Nail biting (onychophagia) usually starts when you are a child. And most people kick the habit by the time they reach adulthood.
But, for some, the fingernail biting keeps rearing its ugly head. You may have tried, time after time, to stop biting your nails. And you have vowed that it will never happen again.
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The cure for nail biting seems easy. Simply decide that you won't bite your nails again, and quit. Or substitute your biting with another activity or a negative reward, each time you catch yourself doing it.
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Trump falsely claims his administration has deported half of MS-13 gang members
President Donald Trump recently claimed that in the five months he's been in office, his administration has deported about half of MS-13 gang members, one of the largest criminal organizations in the United States around since the 1980s.
Trump singled out enforcement efforts against the MS-13 gang during an immigration roundtable discussion on two House bills written to withhold funds from jurisdictions that shield immigrants and to impose stricter penalties for criminal immigrants who re-enter the country.
MS-13 gang members are "bad people, and we've gotten many of them out already. You know, we're pretty much at the 50 percent mark," Trump said June 28. "We're getting them out as fast as we can get them out, and we're freeing up towns."
Trump's comment caught our attention since this is one of the most notorious gangs in the country. Is he halfway there in deporting thousands of MS-13 gang members?
Not exactly.
There's an estimated 10,000 MS-13 gang members in the United States. The latest data shows immigration officials have deported 2,798 gang members in fiscal year 2017 — that's members of all gangs and includes several months when former President Barack Obama was in office.
Trump's June 28 remarks weren't the first he's made about MS-13 and his administration's efforts against them. At a rally this month in Iowa, he told supporters his administration was "moving them out of the country by the thousands."
In April, he falsely tweeted that Obama's policies allowed MS-13 to form across the United States, and again that his administration was removing them fast. But multiple experts told us there is no evidence Obama's policies caused the gang's growth in the country.
MS-13 grew out of poor Los Angeles neighborhoods where many refugees from civil wars in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua lived in the 1980s.
It's grown into an international criminal organization with more than 30,000 members worldwide, the Justice Department said in an April 18, 2017, fact sheet.
It's difficult to peg down exactly how many MS-13 gang members there are in the United States.
Trump's Justice Department in April said there were more than 10,000 MS-13 gang members in the United States. FactCheck.org noted that for years the 10,000 figure has been a consistent estimate.
We asked the White House for evidence backing Trump's claim, but did not get an on-the-record response.
A specific number of MS-13 gang members deported is not available because officials don't track removals by specific gang, Dani Bennett, spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement previously told us. (The FBI says there's around 33,000 violent street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs criminally active in the U.S. and Puerto Rico — with an estimated 1.4 million members.)
But ICE "does specifically target MS-13 members for arrest and removal on the basis of their immigration violations," Bennett said, adding that deportations include foreign fugitives wanted for crimes committed abroad and who are removable under U.S. immigration law.
So far in fiscal year 2017, ICE said it has removed 2,798 gang members.
Even if all of them were MS-13 gang members, that would still be short of Trump's claim that "we're pretty much at the 50 percent mark" — since the Justice Department in April said there's an estimated 10,000 gang members in the country.
Also, fiscal year 2017 started Oct. 1, 2016, when Obama was still in office.
Trump said, "We're pretty much at the 50 percent mark" on deportations of MS-13 gang members.
Trump's Justice Department has said there's an estimated 10,000 MS-13 gang members in the United States.
The latest available data from ICE shows 2,798 gang members have been removed in fiscal year 2017. But that includes members of all gangs, not just MS-13. Even if all were MS-13, that would not be half of the estimated 10,000 MS-13 gang members in the country. And fiscal year 2017 includes more than three months that Obama was in office.
Trump's statement is not accurate. We rate it False.


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TARGIT has added a third physical training location in Denmark. The new location is Byggecentrum Kursuscenter in the middle of the picturesque landscapes near Middelfart.
The new location is expected to service TARGIT customers and partners from Southern Jutland and the Funen area. Together with the current training locations in Hjørring and Taastrup, the new site greatly complements the geographical spread of physical training centers in Denmark.
Also in Oslo, Norway, we have found a new training site to service our Norwegian customers and partners. The Oslo based company Visma is providing modern training facilities for our courses.
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Release Date: April 28, 2011
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I killed a girl last night. I did it with my bare hands and an old piece of pipe I found lying next to the dumpster. But that's not the part that got me. The part that scared me, the part I can't seem to wrap my head around and still has me reeling, was that when she charged me, her body shifted – and then she was a wolf. All snapping teeth and extended claws. But by the time I stood over her lifeless body, she was a girl again. That's about the time I went into shock… And that was the moment he showed up.
Now, all I can do is accept the truths that are staring me in the face. One, Werewolves do exist. And Two, I was born to kill them.
Do you ever feel like you've been waiting your entire life for a specific moment when it'll all make sense? Or like you're right on the edge of it all making sense, but you know you don't have all the pieces yet?- Tara GodfreyThat quote is exactly what would best describe this book if not the series. Tara is a Hunter whose duty to humanity is keep Werewolves in check. But too much about Tara's identity is foggy because being a Hunter is not something you become, it's ingrained in one's DNA and that lifestyle is far from what her current, pampered life is. This has been sitting on my shelf for a couple of weeks now after I won this from the Amber's blogversary giveaway a month ago. The only thing I know is that this is a story about Werewolves and after reading a series of books about Vampires, I finally decided to crack it open and clean my palate from all the sensual blood sucking.
I wasn't expecting anything but I was hoping that it'll be an easy read. It wasn't just easy, it was EXCITING.
Personally when one mentions Hunters, Supernatural instantly comes to mind for me. That TV show glamorized their monster-hunting occupation so that alone got me psyched. Next the conflict presented by HHildenbrand may be something that you've read once or twice before but she put a different spin on things and made it her own.
I love my stories to make sense even if it's written on the premise of fantasy because logic and rationale is standard regardless of your kind. Even if the laws are different one's reaction still follows a certain flowchart and not fall erratically between the cracks. On this note I love Tara, she asks the right questions and takes everything with a grain of salt, she doubts and relishes her journey towards enlightenment. Which is the normal reaction if you are in the precipice of something life changing. Wes, her Werewolf love interest, is interesting too, not only does he drive a badass Aston Martin but he's hunky and a capable consort for Tara. His history, DNA, destiny and relationship with Tara is intriguing. Is he really into her or does it have something to do with the prophecy?
But who I really love is Tara's Grandma! I tweeted HHildenbrand that I'm volunteering myself for adoption LOL. Not only is Tara's Grandma a Hunter but she's the leader of her team, a fearsome opponent, agile for her age and drives a Hummer! Tara got her skills from Grandma.
Now I'm the type of reader who nitpicks on things and I didn't find anything wrong about DIRTY BLOOD. Maybe some readers have noticed something but as far as my reading experience is concerned, if there are any nuisances, it might have been too minute for me to notice.


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NFA has known about Sean Clifford for years.
The standout quarterback from Cincinnati has been training with NFA since he was in second grade, and Clifford started opening even more eyes as a seventh grader at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy.
Already standing 6 feet tall and splitting his season between the seventh and eighth grade teams at CHCA, Clifford passed for 1,375 yards and 18 touchdowns in nine games.
Clifford has continued to grow, both in the physical sense and as a quarterback.
Varsity starter
As a sophomore at St. Xavier this past season, the 6-foot-3, 200-pounder was the varsity starter. While helping the Bombers go 10-3 and advance into the third round of the Ohio state playoffs, Clifford connected on 67 of 115 passes for 762 yards and 8 touchdowns. He also used his 4.6 speed in the 40 to rush for 217 yards and 2 TDs.
"With 1,600 guys at our school, I was definitely surprised about winning the varsity quarterback job," Clifford said. "But I think I worked hard enough to become the guy."
Even as a sophomore, Clifford had the athletic ability and physical tools to step in and quarterback a powerhouse St. Xavier program. And he didn't shy away from being a young leader.
"Gaining leadership throughout the season, I thought I really improved in that area," Clifford said. "But it took a big team effort. It wasn't just me alone. I felt like I was really part of a brotherhood and the other guys really took me in and made me feel accepted, especially the seniors. They taught me everything I needed to know to have success."
With two more seasons of football with the Bombers, Clifford is not going to be satisfied with his rousing success as a sophomore.
"With a year of experience on the varsity, I expect to be better next season," Clifford said. "I'm working hard to make myself the best player I can be. Decision making is something I really need to work on. Making throws that shouldn't be made is one thing I want to correct."
College interest
Clifford is already good enough to be noticed by college football recruiters. Akron has already offered a scholarship, and Clifford picked up another one while visiting Pittsburgh last weekend.
"Going to Pitt, it was a lot of fun," he said. "I learned a lot about the school and the coaching staff. To get an offer, it was a total surprise."
It will come as no surprise when other colleges line up with more offers, and Clifford is looking forward to the entire recruiting process.
"It's probably going to be a little hectic, but it's my dream," he said. "I think it's definitely going to be a fun ride through the rest of my football career. I just let it flow. I knew it was going to happen, so I just let it come to me. I'm not going to get too worried about it. I'm not going to let it be any more pressure than I already have."
Handling the pressures that come with playing quarterback has always come pretty easy for Clifford, and it all started when he hooked up with NFA as a second grader.
"NFA really helped me develop," Clifford said. "They helped me with my fundamentals, mechanics, leadership, everything."


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Here at Smiles Change Lives (SCL), we understand that for many families, braces are simply out of reach because of their cost. However, we don't believe braces should be considered a luxury. A healthy, beautiful smile is one of the building blocks of self-esteem and self-confidence. Every child deserves to feel good about their smile!
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Based in Kansas City, MO, the program has treated nearly 11,000 children since 1997, making it the nation's leader in providing access to orthodontic care for qualified youth.
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In this classic German chiller (by Metropolis director Fritz Lang), serial killer Hans Beckert (played by Peter Lorre) preys on children, and becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.[ Clip Extract Below ]German with English subtitles.
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I agree - I shouldn't think of titles for blog entries as I always come up with pretty lame ones. :P
I haven't done a FOTD for quite a while so I'll post one now, so you can see how all the recent products I have posted about look like when applied on. :)
Bobbi Brown's Classic Evening Palette
Guerlain Rouge G Serie Noir in 71 Rose Desir
Guerlain Terracotta Bronzing Powder Moisturizing & Long Lasting in 01
Have you noticed that product names seem to be getting longer lately? Or is it just me..? O.o
Before you see my FOTD, I feel that I must inform you that this is my first time to use a bronzer. :P I actually had bought many drugstore bronzers which I have never touched. I find that most drugstore bronzers are so shimmery and kind of look intimidating so I use them as eyeshadows LOL! :P
This is sort of a first time for me ok? :3
Also, I would like to note that I did not look like a toasted beach bum in real life and my camera seems to be exaggerating the bronzed look for reasons I do not know. :/ This looks so much natural and prettier in real life. I will have to deal with my cameras settings one of these days.
I put a broken line as a mark for all the areas I applied bronzer on.
It's sort of like the number "3".
I previously learned that holding cute props will make your pictures more appealing. :p Hence, here I am with Hello Kitty.
Primer - - Smashbox Photofinish Foundation Primer
Foundation - - Hera HD Foundation in No. 23
Bronzer - Guerlain Terracotta Bronzing Powder Moisturizing & Long Lasting in 01
Blush On - Bobbi Brown's Classic Evening Palette, Desert Rose
Eyeshadow Primer - UDPP
Eyeshadows - Inglot #16 AMC + Bobbi Brown's Classic Evening Palette, Navajo, Flint, Black Plum
Eyeliner - Majolica Majorca Cream Pencil Liner BR611 + Prestige
Mascara - Majolica Majorca Lash Extreme Fash Plus BR666
False Eyelashes - Missha Eye Lash #04 Natural Long & Clear Eyelash + HK bought falsies cute in half applied only to the outer corners.
Lips - Paul & Joe - Moisture Lip Treatment + Guerlain Rouge G Serie Noir in 71 Rose Desir
Pictures were taken last Monday. I got sick after hehehe. :p
Also, if you watched Xiaxue's latest tutorial on how to achieve noticeable lower lashes without applying lower falsies, you will notice that it's what I did on my lower lash line. :)
Forgive my vain pictures. :) I took this picture on the way home.
This is the road side at NLEX. :3
A sunflower! There was a bee when I attempted to shoot this but it got away before I could press the camera. >.<"
Do you like shimmery bronzers or do you prefer matte ones? :)


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Top 8 Websites for Renting and Trading Games
If you've been searching for the right place to trade your games or rent games, there are a ton of choices. However, some offer a bit more than others and even have a cheaper price. Check out the top eight places for trading and renting video games in 2013.
1. Goozex
If you're looking for a different way to trade games, try Goozex. It's super cheap and allows you to trade your games for points, which you can exchange for other games on the site. Games are available for all systems, including Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo. You can also search your game on Goozex to see how many points its worth, usually somewhere between 100 and 1,000 points. All in all, it's about .99 cents for each basic trade, but other games could cost more. You sign up for free and also get a free trade token.
2. GameFly
GameFly is like the Netflix of games. You can subscribe to the service and receive one or two games at a time. The games are mailed through the United States Postal Service. Games are usually received within two to four days from request. You can keep the games for an unlimited amount of time and then send them back to GameFly when you're done. GameFly has more than 8,000 games in their inventory, including all new games. The price depends on the membership plan you want, but the $8.95 plan offers the best value with an average of five to six game rentals a month.
3. GameTZ
Game Trading Zone (GameTZ), which started in 1996, was originally a forum of gamers that helped each other exchange their favorite games. Now it's a way to help members buy and/or sell used video games. GameTZ covers all the platforms and offers reviews of each game. GameTZ is free to sign up and use, but it's all based on reputation and history. Those traders who have been with GameTZ the longest have the best reputation and will have a yellow or gray star next to their name. This service is free as long as you have games to trade yourself.
4. Blockbuster Total Access
Blockbuster has been revving up its game rental market since the popularity of gaming for cheap became prominent with other sites like GameFly. Blockbuster has rental plans for two discs at a time, including games for $14.99 a month. The one disc at a time plan is $9.99. Some critics have pointed out that Blockbuster is still slacking on its selection of games, but it covers all platforms and provides a ton of newer games to rent.
5. Gamerang
Gamerang is also a great game rental service. It offers weekly promotions for cheaper plans and services all the big platforms like Xbox, Sony and Nintendo Wii. You can sign up for $14.95 a month.
6. Redbox
Redbox is one of the easiest ways to rent games — if you live in an area with a good Redbox distributor. It's easy to find all types of new games because the site is well organized. You can also see when the next games are going to be released and organize by platform. You can search for the game near you by using the "Find" feature and order your rental online, then head to the Redbox to pick up where it's been reserved for you.
7. Steam
Steam is arguably one of the most popular ways to buy and play PC games. Trading and gifting on Steam is easy with friends. You just select a friend on your list, right click and then click on "Invite to Trade." Not all games are tradable, but you can trade items and coupons from your Steam backpack. There is no monthly subscription fee for using Steam, you just have to pay for the games you purchase.
8. Yahoo! Games for PC
This is a bit different than other types of online game rental models. You don't have to rent games by mail, but instead can install them right from the browser through your Internet connection. You also buy games separately instead of having to pick a monthly plan.
These are just a few of the many sites available for renting or trading games. Which site is your favorite or what other sites do you know of?


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Dreams For Significant Girls: Not Significantly Enjoyable
Dreams of Significant Girls
Cristina Garcia
ARC from Simon and Schuster
July 2011 $16.99 238 pages
A fast read, with an interesting premise: In 1971, three girls from different backgrounds are roommates at a posh Swiss boarding school. They're an unlikely trio- Cuban-Jewish Vivien, who loves to cook. Brash, loud Ingrid, a troublemaker who quickly gets a reputation for being fast. Shirin, a wealthy and sheltered Iranian princess, who just wants to be left alone to study mathematics, but also on some level yearns for a friend.
So– I was expecting a little feel-good unlikely bonding. Call it: "Sisterhood of the Traveling Bell Bottoms?"
This book was all right, a fast un-demanding read that I polished off in an evening. But it was disappointing. Each of the characters was complex- with a lot of past going on. But, as the perspective shifted between the three girls telling the story, I began to feel like each one of them sounded less quirky and more, in need of therapy for working out the stuff they were dealing with. Granted, for privileged rich girls who are supposed to be living a charmed life, each one is wrestling with something: Ingrid's rebellious behavior has gotten her kicked out of multiple schools, and her father's wrestling with his memories of WWII. Vivien's parents' marriage is having trouble. Shirin has everything money could buy, but she's lonely and desperate for friendship, so much so that she's willing to buy it.
I feel like this book never quite sorted out the right rhythm, in dealing with each girl's life balance, or the trouble they got into together. It was trying to be a story about the three of them bonding despite their differences, and their boarding school coming of age adventures. But, from first boyfriends and relationships, to horseback riding incidents and family secrets, I felt like the balance was off. Never quite salaciously campy enough to be a trashy guilty pleasure, and kind of too emotionally askew to be affecting. Maybe I wasn't buying into the posh setting, maybe it was the girls' characterizations?
No, wait, I know: One of the characters actually said: "If I wrote this in a book, nobody would believe me." That is, in fact true of some of the major plot twists.
Verdict: While I didn't hate the book enough to give it a really angry heave off the top of a very tall cliff, I'd definitely toss this one over. Meh.


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Veterans and military at UMSI
UMSI has been home to a number of students who were veterans before - and in some cases, during - their time at the School of Information. The University provides support to veterans and the U-M Student Veterans Assistance Program can help familiarize you with the support available for student veterans and active service members. In addition, there are external funding resources specifically for veterans and family members of veterans. Below are stories from former UMSI graduate student veterans.
Iraq war veteran Chad Kijewski (MSI '13) earned dual master's degrees in information and public policy while serving as the state's joint intelligence plans and policy officer for the Michigan Army National Guard. Read his story.
Alumni Sean Buckner (MSI '12, above) and Sarah LeMire (MSI '12) are combat veterans, husband and wife, and proud of their work at UMSI. They wove military service around their education, and Sean is still active duty in the Army National Guard. Read their story.
Laurie Sutch (MILS '94) is a veteran who used the computer skills she learned in the Army and honed at UMSI to forge a new career. She balanced life in the master's degree program with weekend drills in the Army Reserve. Read her story.
Alfred Speredelozzi (MSI '00) served on board a U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser as a communications officer, an experience that led him to focus on how people could improve their computing experiences as part of his master's degree. Read his story.


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It's An Animal's Life
Nice doggie. Good boy!
Live your life in such a way...... ....that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders and says...... "Oh, S**t!.... she's awake!!"
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A minister told his congregation, "Next week I plan to preach about the sin of lying. To help you understand my sermon, I want you all to read Mark 17."
The following Sunday, as he prepared to deliver his sermon, the minister asked for a show of hands. He wanted to know how many had read Mark 17.
Almost every hand went up.
The minister smiled and said, "Mark has only sixteen chapters. I will now proceed with my sermon on the sin of lying."


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Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview with CNN's Kate Bolduan that he can't formulate a "good" reason not to run for president in 2016.
"There may be reasons I don't run, but there's no obvious reason for me why I think I should not run," Biden said in the interview, which aired Friday morning on CNN's "New Day."
Biden said, realistically, that a decision on his potential 2016 run would come next summer.
One reason he might not run is the sizable polling gulf already between him and Democrats' most logical candidate — former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll out last week, Clinton holds a 73-12 lead over Biden in a theoretical 2016 Democratic primary. Biden will also be 74 in 2016.
Biden said that he was "truly optimistic" about the 2014 midterm elections, though he acknowledged that it might be prudent for both him and President Barack Obama to stay away from the races of vulnerable Democrats.
"There's some places where I can go in and the president can't. There are some places where it makes no sense for me to go in or for the president to go in," Biden said.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Those pundits penciling in Kansas University's basketball team as an automatic winner against unheralded Richmond on Friday in San Antonio may be forgetting one thing.
Richmond of the Atlantic 10 Conference actually defeated KU, 69-68, on Jan. 22, 2004, in Allen Fieldhouse.
"They weren't nervous playing us in Allen Fieldhouse ... they won't be worried playing us in San Antonio," KU coach Bill Self said before practice on Tuesday in Allen Fieldhouse, where his eight KU teams have compiled a 129-7 record.
The only other nonconference losses in Allen in the Self era have been to Oral Roberts and Nevada.
"It was Jerry Wainwright's team. I remember that well because he's reminded me of that several times that he was actually the one in charge when they did that," Self said of Wainwright, current Spiders' coach Chris Mooney's predecessor at the Richmond, Va., school.
Former KU guard Keith Langford played on that KU team with the likes of Wayne Simien, Aaron Miles, J.R. Giddens and David Padgett.
"KU is playing Richmond? Richmond, I will have my revenge... vicariously of course ... Let's get it," Langford, a pro player in Russia, wrote on Twitter this week.
KU junior Tyshawn Taylor listened intently Tuesday as a reporter informed him of the home loss to Richmond, which occurred in the not-so-distant-past.
"That is interesting. I did not know that," Taylor said. "That is something good to know. It's something we probably could feed off of now. I think I am going to tell the guys that now.
"It's a different situation. There's a lot more to play for right now. We don't want to lose at all," Taylor added.
Wesley can't go: KU sophomore red-shirt Justin Wesley did not make the trip to Tulsa for KU's wins over Boston University and Illinois last week and cannot travel to San Antonio with his teammates today in advance of Friday's game against Richmond.
"Transfers cannot travel (in accordance with NCAA rules)," Self explained on Tuesday. Wesley, who is Langford's brother, transferred to KU from Lamar. He has practiced this season, but not played in games, in accordance with transfer rules.
Jayla still in D.C.: TNT/TBS announcer Craig Sager was incorrect during last Sunday's broadcast when he said Thomas Robinson's sister, Jayla, had moved to Lawrence. Sager said she was living with Angel Morris, mother of the Morris twins.
Jayla is living with her father in her hometown of Washington, D.C.
KU officials informed Sager and network officials of the mistake, well in advance of Friday's KU-Richmond game. Tip is 6:27 p.m. in the Alamodome with a live telecast on TBS. If KU wins, the Jayhawks would play either Florida State or VCU at either 1:10 p.m. or 4 p.m. Sunday.
Happy memories: San Antonio, of course, is where the Jayhawks beat North Carolina and Memphis in the 2008 Final Four.
"We've already got those memories," Self said. "It would be nice to play well this weekend and move on to Houston (Final Four). If we were able to do that, San Antonio has officially become my second favorite place behind Lawrence."
Itinerary: The Jayhawks are scheduled to leave Allen Fieldhouse for Topeka's Forbes Field at 2 p.m. today. Flight time at Forbes is set for 3:30 p.m. KU is staying at the Hyatt Regency Riverwalk in San Antonio. Times of today's departure, of course, could change, depending on length of KU's practice. The Jayhawks will practice from 2:10 p.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday at the Alamodome. The practice is open to the public. Richmond will hold an open practice from noon to 12:50 p.m.
Job openings: Former KU assistant and St. John's head coach Norm Roberts is expected to surface as a candidate for the opening at Fairfield, ESPN reported Tuesday.