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This odd Wii U collaboration plays like a guided tour of The Legend of Zelda's most iconic locations and characters. The price of admission? Playing a bunch of Dynasty Warriors.
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Left 4 Dead puts players in the role of one of four survivors during a zombie apocalypse. Survivors will depend on co-operation to get from one safe house to another, while facing hordes of "Infected", four of which can be controlled by human players in certain game modes.
This fair third-person shooter is supposedly the reason Giant Bomb exists.
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Alessandro Pautasso aka Kaneda is a graphic designer and illustrator whose specialty lies in vector art and mixed media. It was when Alessandro discovered an illustration book about the Beatles by Alan Aldridge that he realized that he wanted to become a designer/illustrator. Attracted by the visual arts, he started working in the field of commercial art and simultaneously focused on the so-called digital art. Portraits are always present in his works; in the last series he has tried to bring up to date and reinterpret the icons of old Hollywood, reproducing the portraits of John Wayne, Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe and many others… breaking down the faces in abstract geometric shapes with strong bright colors and trying to revive the colors of the past.
"Labokoff is a project born in 2007 where I explore interactions between photography and painting, real world and imagination, memories and reality.
My images are built around photographs that are picked in my personal collection: landscapes, nature, silhouettes…
These are individual memories but, through the choice of the photos , the way they are processed, and the minimalism of the resulting pictures, they become more universally evocative and can remain anybody a place, a memory, an emotion…
Painting is made of gouache or inks that are then digitally combined with photos, it is employed as textures, splatters or lines and shifts the images in a dreamy register. It brings vibrancy and add the strength of colors and shapes to raw photographs which creates a more subjective and poetic vision.
These are dreamed images trying to recreate a momentary emotion that anyone can feel in front of nature's beauty, a particular architectural shape, a landscape passing by or the silhouette of a beloved one."
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Banana Graffiti by Marta Grossi
"Every banana has a simple and unique canvas, and every banana is different. This is an open experiment based on a very cheap and ordinary support. I customize my banana during the night. I have my banana for breakfast the day after. This is a temporary space and love to prove that inspiration is everywhere."
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Tech, humor, video games, and nuance by David Chartier—Content Strategist, Freelance Writer, Tech Distiller, and proprietor of Finer Things in Tech
Utter iPad blasphemy. When are these people going to learn?
This is what I get for installing interesting new apps while sitting next to my wife. I hadn't gotten around to trying Paper until just now. But after watching the intro movie, Jessi immediately stole my iPad and drew these.


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Full Name: Narendranath Dutta.
Born: 12th January 1863.
Died: 4th July 1902.
Other Names: Swami Vivekananda.
Religion: Hindu.
Parents: Viswanath Dutta (Father), Bhuvaneshwari Devi (Mother).
Wife: Not Married.
Famous Sayings or Quotes of Swami Vivekananda:
- "Each soul is potentially divine".
- "The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence".
- "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself".
- "To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion".
- "This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive".
- "The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine".
- "Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world".
- "The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all" .
- "Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Maya. Fear not, and it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies".
- "Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves".
- "I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true".
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Limited character? Your statements, sir, border on racism. Making blanket statements like that is like saying all night elves are flippant tree-hugging animal coddling morons who seem destined to do nothing but blow up the world. There are plenty of ways to develop a troll character without being some stoned-out rasta wanna-be, and I'm sure many troll players don't think of themselves that way.
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Alexander Olch -- Knot Yourself from Alexander Olch on Vimeo.
I may not be the top result under "tie knot video tumblr" but somebody searched it and they found me sooner than they found this. For not having bothered in over a year, I'd say that's good ROI.
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1. (noun) someone who enjoys parties that include vodka drinking , weed smokin', and pill poppin but, still manages to be responsible and have christian like morals.
That Dahbuke bitch drank all of our vodka, but managed to wake up the next morning and clean our house before she went home to babysit.
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(noun) A person who is hard to understand and relate to, but interesting and fun to hang out and do drugs with.
Maggie is such a dahbuke, she's fun to hang out with, but I never understand where the fuck she's coming from when she starts to rant.
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When I first started here at SingleHop, over two years ago, one of my first tasks was to overhaul our aging DNS system. We had been creaking along using zone files, but their number was quickly growing out of control. Also, we rely heavily on automation here, and using scripts to automatically edit files can be quite error-prone.
So, back in April of 2008, we migrated to BIND-DLZ and moved all of our DNS records into MySQL databases. I released a DNS zone parsing script you can use to do the same thing in May.
This system has been incredibly stable. After a few initial kinks, we haven't even had to think about our authoritative DNS servers at all. During our recent internal DB overhaul, however, we discovered that the version of MySQL hosting the DNS records was too old, and it couldn't be updated because our DNS servers were still running CentOS 4.8. We were gonna have to migrate to an entirely new operating system, and to do that with the least downtime required setting up new servers.
Today, we finished setting up the new DNS servers and switching our infrastructure over to using them. When it came time to decommission our old nameservers, I decided to see just how long they had been running:
[root@ns1 ~]# uptime 16:55:01 up 593 days, 03:12, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.06, 0.04 --- [root@ns2 ~]# uptime 16:53:45 up 626 days, 10:40, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.08, 0.09
Like many unix nerds, I tend to get obsessed with uptime. For instance, my own personal server has been up for 99 days, and even my laptop hasn't rebooted in over a month. So it was not without a heavy heart that I destroyed the epic 626-day uptime on ns2 when I shut it down today.
These long-running servers got me to thinking: how many of our other internal servers have been running for a really long time? It turns out, having servers that run for years isn't unusual here at SingleHop. For instance, here is the uptime from our Quick Reaction monitoring server: 20:50:11 up 578 days, 1:30, 2 users, load average: 1.06, 1.25, 1.36; our customer database server: 20:33:42 up 647 days, 17:35, 1 user, load average: 0.29, 0.53, 0.63; the singlehop.com web server: 20:53:00 up 317 days, 12:40, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.07, 0.07.
However, the champion among all the servers I checked today is one of our oldest backup servers:
backup02:~# uptime 20:44:48 up 899 days, 6:41, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.02, 0.07
Considering that SingleHop is not even three years old, a two-and-a-half-year uptime is pretty impressive indeed.
All of this is possible thanks to the magic of Linux. Software updates happen automatically, and the computer does not need to be rebooted to take advantage of them — only the affected applications need be restarted. And, thanks to our KSplice service, we don't even have to reboot our servers to do kernel updates! We can just keep our infrastructure humming without a care, for years at a time!
So, what's YOUR longest-running server? Share your story on SingleHop's community forum: http://community.singlehop.com/general-discussion-introduce-yourself/403-what-your-longest-running-server-we-just-reluctantly-rebooted-899-one.html#post2409
One of our servers was running without rebooting for 554 days.
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We have got servers with more than 1200+ days uptime, which are mostly Solaris 9 servers but we also have Linux servers with quite an impressive uptime (800+ days).
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A licensed aesthetician and cosmetology-school graduate, Stacey Witt is well-versed in the importance of skincare as it relates to beauty. She applies sunscreen at the conclusion of facials to ward off harmful UV rays, and she wields products that work with a variety of skin types to unclog pores and brighten complexions. Witt approaches each of her treatments with attentiveness, whether she is performing an enzyme peel, a lip treatment, or a makeup application for paparazzi-heavy treks to take out the garbage.
Lucia Papale engineers a broad lineup of therapeutic and aesthetic services. Drawing on more than a decade of experience, she offers massage therapy, bodywork, medical skincare, and physical rehabilitation for Ironman competitors. She also regularly attends continuing-education seminars to hone her skills. All her services?from therapeutic massages to exfoliating microdermabrasions?begin with a one-on-one consultation so she can tailor them to clients' particular needs.
From behind Gamma Salon's futuristic, chocolate-hued salon chairs, skilled stylists attend to manes with Kérastase, L'Oréal Professional, Inoa, and Schwarzkopf products. Before the first snip, they consult with clients to determine the best cuts and hues to complement face shapes, lifestyles, and humidity levels inside spacesuits. Additionally, stylists texturize hair with perms, add volume and length with extensions, and soften and unwind curls with relaxer treatments.
Though it's the body's largest organ system, skin is easy to neglect. This isn't the case at Jenny's Skincare, however, where the epidermis is the top priority. Here, aestheticians pay extra attention to pores and skin type as they perform facials and exfoliate with microdermabrasion. They couple these treatments with thorough cleansing and extractions to reveal rejuvenated appearances that always get carded at voting booths.
Sola Salons provide each stylist to have their own individual studio...that they rent. My Salon is in Peasanton, CA 94588, I absolutely love having my own privacy and space! I work on men, women & children,,I have been trained w/Schwarzkopf Professional color/cuts, Great Lengths Hair Extensions, JESSICA Trained Nail Tech..
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So you broke my heart. It's been years since that day, the day that I told you I liked you, and you replied with the two words that tore my beating muscle to shreds. You said, "I'm sorry." The words that followed next didn't even matter after that, because I knew that there were no more chances, not for us, anyway.
Now we're miles apart. And somehow, someway, I was able to mend my broken heart. You're okay now. So am I. But sometimes I wonder what I would say to you, if I were given the chance to see you again.
To the person who broke my heart:
Thank you. Thank you for teaching me that I could feel so strongly about a person, that I could love so fiercely, and that I'm capable of caring for another person with all my heart.
Don't worry. When you broke my heart, you didn't destroy me. You made me stronger. You helped me realize that I could pick up the fragments of what I thought was my world, and piece myself back together.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry for you. Because you didn't give me the chance to prove to you that I am worthy of loving, and being loved in return. I'm sorry that you never got the chance to see that.
I wish I could have told you all these things. Then at least you'd know that the day you broke my heart, was not the day that you broke me.
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Hall is arraigned on an attempted armed robbery
A Pittsfield man was arraigned this afternoon in Berkshire Superior Court. 33 year old DENNIS H. HALL, JR. (17 Maple Street) appeared before Judge John Agostini.
HALL had not guilty pleas entered on his behalf on one (1) count of ATTEMPT TO COMMIT A CRIME, TO WIT: ARMED ROBBERY and one (1) count of CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ARMED ROBBERY in connection with an incident that allegedly occurred in Pittsfield on March 16, 2013.
Judge Agostini released him on personal recognizance.
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The 10 craziest money blunders of 2010
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Penner awards.
This guest post comes from Len Penzo at Len Penzo dot Com.
As 2010 comes to a close, I think it is only appropriate that I share my picks for the 10 dumbest money stories of the past year, highlighting some of the most dumbfounding displays of numismatic naiveté and financial ineptitude known to man.
That's right, folks. Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Penner awards! Ba-da-bing!
Now, I know what you're thinking: Hey, Len, so why on earth should you be the one to give out such a prestigious award?
Well, as I see it, I have two very good reasons: 1) I've made plenty of stupid money mistakes myself over the years; and 2) it's that barren no-man's-land between Christmas and New Year's Day when precious readers are few and far between, and so I'm really desperate for any angle right now that might bring in an extra pair of eyeballs or two. (So please tell your friends all about this piece, would ya?)
Now let's give out some Penners!
The bucket list blunder.
Recipient: Dave Ismay
Background: The 64-year-old comedian wasn't amused after being told by his doctor that he had an incurable liver disease and only three months to live. Undaunted, he prepared a bucket list and was well on the way to spending his life savings -- including a $40,500 Mercedes -- when 10 weeks later he got the news that the original terminal diagnosis was in error and that his condition was treatable. Oops.
The moral of the story: Always be sure to get a second opinion before spending your life savings.
The curse of the cursed money curse (or something like that).
Recipients: Laura Santini, Rosann Santini, an unnamed woman from Park Ridge, Ill., and an unnamed couple from South Holland, Ill.
Background: A mother-and-daughter fortune-telling team was arrested after they allegedly convinced two -- well, to be kind, let's just say unwitting -- parties to turn over a combined total of more than $100,000 because their money was supposedly cursed. The fortune tellers promised that they would cleanse the money and then return it. Instead, police said, they absconded with the cash and took off to Scottsdale, Ariz. Imagine that.
The moral of the story: P.T. Barnum was right.
The $10 million dollar man (not).
Recipient: Nick Martin
Background: Man inherits $10 million (after taxes) and immediately goes on a spending binge -- for the next 10 years. Today, at age 59, he is now, in his own words, "basically broke."
The moral of the story: Apparently, $10 million doesn't go as far as it used to.
And you thought government pensions were the bomb.
Recipients: Robert Rizzo, Randy Adams, Angela Spaccia, et al.
Background: This past summer, in a stunning example of government compensation run amok, the Los Angeles Times revealed that Rizzo was drawing a salary of about $800,000 per year as the city manager of tiny Bell, Calif. -- a 2.5-square-mile town in Los Angeles County. The Times also found that Adams was earning $457,000 per year as the police chief, and Spaccia almost $400,000 as assistant city manager. Even the city council members were generously paid, with most earning $100,000 per year for the part-time positions.
The moral of the story: In a democracy, people get the government they deserve.
The IRS finally puts "Passenger 57" on hiatus.
Recipient: Wesley Snipes
Background: After being convicted in 2008 of failing to file tax returns, Snipes finally began his three-year prison sentence. "According to U.S. prosecutors, the actor failed to file any tax returns for at least a decade, and owed $2.7 million in taxes on $13.8 million in income from 1999 to 2001 alone," The Associated Press said.
The moral of the story: You can protest the federal income tax law all you want but, if you're smart, you'll still pay up.
The man who gambled on his life -- and lost.
Recipient: Jon Matthews
Background: After being diagnosed with mesothelioma in April 2006 and told he would be dead by the end of the year, Matthews placed a $160 wager with a British bookie that he would still be alive in June of 2008. He made it and, at 50-1 odds, won $8,000. Matthews then made another $160 wager, with the same odds, that he'd live to see June 2009. He did, winning another $8,000 in the process. Matthews then decided to press his luck with another $160 bet -- this time with odds of 100-1 -- that would net him a cool $16,000 assuming he could make it to June 2010. Unfortunately for Matthews, he died a month short of the payoff date.
The moral of the story: Kenny Rogers wasn't kidding when he said, "You've got to know when to fold 'em."
Ignore the tomatometer at your own peril.
Recipients: Everybody and anybody who was stupid enough to buy a movie ticket to see "Little Fockers."
Background: My father-in-law, Tony, warned us that the movie reviews for "Little Fockers" were terrible. Did the Honeybee and I listen to his sage advice? Nooooooooo! After plunking down a pretty penny at the theater, we got to see for ourselves that "Little Fockers" is, indeed, an absolute and embarrassing stink bomb. At press time, Rotten Tomatoes' tomatometer for "Little Fockers" was only at 11%. Eleven percent! In hindsight it's all so obvious; a movie franchise usually jumps the shark by the second sequel anyway. I think movie reviewer Matt Brunson said it best when he wrote, "Enough is enough. This franchise has run its course and made its millions, but now it's time for it to fock off." Amen, brother.
The moral of the story: When it comes to movie reviews, never doubt the tomatometer -- or your father-in-law.
Creative ways to lose your life savings (Part 1).
Recipient: An unnamed 68-year-old man from Southend, Essex, Great Britain
Background: A man lost about $125,000 when he placed it on the roof of his car and then drove off. The man used to keep his savings under his bed, but eventually decided the car was more secure. According to the man, "We found some of the small bags empty in the street, so it's pretty certain someone found it. I don't hold out much hope of getting it back." Heh. Ya think?
The moral of the story: It's official. Storing your life savings under the bed is definitely much safer than keeping it on the roof of your car -- especially if you plan on driving anywhere.
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suzurambles said...
Between the last article and this one I think there is a point I haven't seen brought up.
To me there are two classes of offensive language, general and hateful/slurs. General offense language doesn't have any particular direction, ass, damn, the f-word etc. It usually refer to actions and objects of negative value. Hateful words and slurs on the other hand attack a person's race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc.
I admit I swear frequently and with gusto, but I only use the general words. If I was to say to someone "You're an ass" it's a simple remark about their stubborn or foolish behavior. However if I say "You're a bitch" I am now making a more focused attack, if it was to a woman I am attacking her for being a woman, if it was directed at a man I am comparing him unfavorably to a woman.
The second example is what is unacceptable to me, it's degrading to attack a person for who or what they are and that is the kind of behavior that needs to be kept under tight control. People seem to be brushing both kinds of words off with a "Don't let the words have power over you" and I think that those people have never been attacked for what they are.
If someone calls me a fucking dumbass cause I pulled a boss before the group was ready and got us wiped yeah that's gonna roll off, but if they come after me for being gay/black/jewish/female that is a different, and far more offensive, matter.
I cannot up vote this enough and I'm continually astonished by how many people *fail to get your very salient point here* -- namely, the offensive thing is being attacked for *who you are* by someone that thinks *who you are is BAD AND WRONG enough for it to be used as an insult.*
Y'know, Ian and Matt have it spot on.
"Mild enough to use in public, but ugly enough to get attention. Bloggers can use [it] without being sexist, homophobic, or even ableist."
suzurambles said...
Gordal, you have hit the nail squarely on the head.
That focuses on the meaning that YOU ascribe to the words though. To YOU, "general offense" language isn't that bad. To someone else, it IS "that bad." The words have a different meaning, a different severity to different people. You are attempting to force YOUR opinion on someone else. Whether you are right or wrong isn't the point. It's that you are saying "this is what I think the words mean, so you'd better agree." Saying "you should use this word, it's just fine" is little different from "you can't use this word, I don't like it." It's still one person telling another person what to do.
suzurambles said...
Well Skarn, it is my view, which I made clear a couple times throughout. I never forced anything on anyone, just stated how I felt.
That said, in regards to wow itself, the words I considered "Ok" are still offense and just cause I fell alright using them and I'm not particularly offended by their casual use doesn't be they are right in any situation. Also they are all on Blizzard's filter list, however many of the words I don't like, particularly LGBT related slurs, are NOT on said list.


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When you reach eighteen years old or older, there are those who would tend to ask you life-changing questions. And I tell them abstruse or unconventional answers.
People are often shocked when I offhandedly tell them that I do not want to get married or to have a child. "Most people do not recognize that a spouse is a liability," I tell them. "And I cannot afford to raise an innocent child in this cruel world. It would be unfair."
It's not just unfair. I rather think it would be brutal. Think about the environmental abuse, moral and ethical degradation, political warfare, societal indecency, communal injustice, educational inadequacy, religious corruption, discriminatory and supremacy-induced hatred, and intellectual downgrade we are experiencing and our own children have to face. (WOW! What a nice improvement in human evolution, don't you think? Nature's stroke of genius, giving us bigger craniums and brain volumes… What an impressive feat.)
Heaven would be so gracious to me if my son or daughter would be so adept, so decisive and firm, so compassionate, so intelligent, and so flexible and resilient in dealing with all these things. Then again no child or person has such luck, save for a handful of individuals in history who actually left something good for humanity and the Earth. But even these good people are so flawed themselves that it must have taken them great effort to supersede their own imperfections. Most other humans don't bother.
There are also good things in this world that I want to take into account, but still the list of "evils" are just too long and too prevailing. My own child doesn't deserve to be born in this godforsaken planet.
And as for a spouse… Fuck that shit. I still have degrees to finish, professions and vocations to engage in, and my parents' peaceful retirement life to plan. And it would be much easier for me to accomplish all these without someone following me in every step and auditing my finances.
Just sayin'.
I would rather listen to the 1-hour boring lectures on the mysteries of life from a doddering old granny than watch some shitty "news" program that features Mr. X's new Botox-ed girlfriend, Ms. Y's date of her up-coming marriage in some gawdforsaken place, or Mr. Z's fits of crying on screen just to gain publicity, mass sympathy and (later) a new TV show on the network…
I mean, WHO THE FUCK CARES, MAN?!
Utter non-sense. Our country has a lot of more important problems to publicize, even as we speak, but it seems that producers and directors are so keen on wasting their money and effort for pathetic interviews, and bickering over the sex life of some sexy star.
Give me a break.
It was quite a rough day for me today. As if my mind's not very preoccupied with stressful thoughts as of the moment, I missed the class on my major subject for the second time on purpose (and rightly so, because discussions on laws that govern nursing aren't my cup of tea) and our Speech teacher was absent. Great. I went to school for nothing. After, I spent few hours with my college friends in a coffee shop, chatted with 'em and went home. I was expecting a drinking session, but no, we can't have everything in the world.
It's a good thing my bestfriend, Kurt, texted me. He was doing his shopping (as always) and decided to come with him. It's been a long time since we had a bonding session.
My bestfriend and I are different. Very different in fact. He likes fashion, clothes, shoes, Glee and Audrey Hepburn, and he's also a hopeless romantic. I, on the other hand, am fond of books, reading, nerdy stuff and science, and I do not dress well… And, not to mention, I am generally luckier to "hook up" with people, but no, I do not have Kurt's notion of true love and happy-ever-after heresy.
But still, we both love humanities (art and mythology, for example) and occult stuff. Since high school, we worship Charmed and all manner of fantasy wickedness we could think of. Our imaginations run wild every time we discuss about Wicca and otherworldly stuff. We are currently planning to make individual novels, with alter-ego selves being the characters of course.
And in a short span of five hours today, we spent our time drinking coffee, window shopping, and talking about nursing, school, our common close friends, former classmates and our failed love-lives. My bestfriend's presence totally gives me a lift. It's what you get for seven years of mutual connection.
A bestfriend is another you with a different personality. :)
"Miss Johnson, you're a nurse aren't you? D'you know a physician who'd perform abortion for me?"
"Clare, are you sure—?"
"Yes, I'm sure! My life is ruined, Miss Johnson! Don't you see? I need to get rid of this thing!"
"I don't think it's—"
"Please. I'm begging you"
"Clare… Abortion against my religion and personal belief. Giving you advice or direction with your attempt to murder your own child makes me no less of an abortionist myself! An innocent child, Clare!"
"It doesn't matter! Please! Do you know someone? Tell me, please! I'm desperate…"
And Miss Johnson does know someone…
We just had our most interesting session in our Nursing Jurisprudence subject. A series of debates were initiated, concerning three different biomedical issues with shaky moral grounds: in vitro fertilization (natural vs. artificial), placebo therapy without consent (anti-drug dependence vs. veracity), and rejection of physician's intervention in favor of faith healing (cultural respect vs. assurance to physical health).
Many people would raise their opinions on the said subjects, with both weak and strong premises, with pure logic or sheer emotion, with experience or objective analysis, and with religious conviction or scientific truth. Does the freedom of choice really supersede the value of life when it comes to abortion? How about contraception? About blood transfusion? About plastic surgery?
In debates, they say, "there are no wrong answers". Only wrong reasoning. Debators tackle and attack, forever babbling about theories, laws, principles and ideas that would somehow discredit their respective opposing side. Debates, they say, are designed to convince. But in any case, anyone from either the affirmative or the negative, whose beliefs and intellect in firm and founded, will never be convinced of the views of the opposition.
The battle of the moralities and legalities concerning biomedical issues are never ending. The religious groups, the government, the scientific agencies, the political and business factions, the cultural castes, and the individuals that comprise humanity are ever diverse. And in this diversity will pros and cons sprout unendingly. The debate never ends. Even inside our heads.
Still, according to our Nursing Jurisprudence professor, the beliefs and decisions a nurse (or anyone) holds boil down to herself in the end. Will she opt for the whims of technology and individual choice? Or will she pay heed to her own conscience and judgment?
Clare is waiting.
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Jesus Freak: A self-professed Christian who labors under the mistaken impression that Christians are persecuted in this country, and that he or she is commonly persecuted for his or her beliefs. These people usually attempt to convert everyone they know or meet to their own denomination of "born again" Christianity, thereby alienating a number of non-Christians as well as Christians of denominations not of their own, then attribute their subsequent shunning by society to a fictitious, widespread anti-Christian mania. (Urban Dictionary)
Well, they have infested Facebook. And as much as I want to be open-minded and complacent of their religious rants, I can't help but experience a mixture of annoyance, pity and haughtiness towards them. I have nothing against people who profess their faith proudly (because I do too), but there comes a point when these religious fanatics (e.g., Jesus Freaks) often step a toe out of line, beyond the respectable boundaries of other people's morale, without any reasonable grounds. Their talks about God and the Bible are very Medieval: narrow-minded, too fundamental, illogical, unphilosophical, stagnant, biased, and irritating to hear. Their best weapons are bickering, picketing and black propaganda, which are, to the sane mind, unwarranted.
And what's worse is that they seem to imply that they're the most knowledgable and blessed creatures of the Earth. Their existence is really uncalled for, and they're getting to my nerves. Grrrr…
It's funny how you can pick up insightful ideas and realizations from complete strangers. Having or overhearing a small talk from your seatmate in the bus, or your fellow customer in a coffee shop, or your co-worker from an elevator is seemingly nothing more than something that would make time pass faster.
From these small talks from strangers, you can sometimes discover strange philosophies of human existence, baffling theories about love, the nature of marriage and friendship, and even the wisdom of death and suffering. And what's more is that these deep talks usually come from ordinary people: from the simplest janitor to the most gruffy-looking student.
Sometimes the most precious jewels can be found in unlikely places.
The current issues (such as the RH Bill, Divorce Bill, and the alleged PCSO bribery) that bridle the Philippines into moral and political chaos has put the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines to pressure and into a bad light yet again. It seems that the people's favorite hobby nowadays is Catholic bashing and labeling more than 400,000 clergymen around the world as senile hypocrites, filthy pedophiles, and arrogant old men, even by the Catholics themselves.
It truly saddens me that the fathers of my religion are persecuted by half truths and logically fallacious allegations, especially ad hominem statements. But it is assuring that there are still many people who support our priests despite recent scandals and verbal attacks.
Why am I supporting them in their "meddling" with national affairs?
Yes, there are many bloody and scandalous portions of our Church history that the Catholic Church is not proud of. Yes, priests as a collective are imperfect; they are human, not gods. Yes, the present world is a place more open to liberal ideas, but that does not mean that the conservative, dogmatic, and traditional teachings are of no value. We are so much eager to advance and to adapt to modern "principles of living" that we tend to forget the time-tested philosophies of our Church fathers.
I am not persuading you to oppose RH Bill or Divorce Bill, nor I am dissuading you to hate priests from the recently discovered PCSO bribery scandal (If it is proved that they are guilty, those priests should be punished accordingly). I am simply pointing out that our Catholic Church leaders do not deserve the shameful accusations they are facing right now; there are other more sinister people who should merit such persecution. There are anti-Catholic people who call themselves "Freethinkers" who do not even possess even an inkling of what a Freethinker should be: instead of relying on reason, philosophical skepticism, and inquisitiveness, these fake "Freethinking" individuals use black propaganda, poisoning the well, and ad hominem attacks to take advantage on the Church's current, shaky position. Shame on you.
Let us pray for and support our Church fathers. We simply cannot afford to have them take all these attacks. The Church must remain strong against all it adversaries; if not, it's Salem Witch Trials and the Inquisition all over again, only this time it's we Catholics who are to be burned in the flames of sedition, modern immorality, and slander.
© jandennarriba 2011
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Good morning, chums.
But not in the way you think.
Far be it for any of our higher powers to care at all, our health care system is crumbling at our country's feet. The accessible, affordable, accountable, standardized, quality health care that every Filipino deserves seems to be the least of the government's concerns. Let's face it: infrastructure, short-term distribution of relief goods (in front of camera men), and incessant and unjustified extermination of the so-called "rebels" are much more appealing to the masses rather than curing the more pressing concerns like maternal and fetal deaths, improvement of public hospitals and demand for wage-increase among health care workers, like nurses.
There is one obvious solution to this problem—nursing education. Since nurses are trained to provide holistic care to their patients, it is then sensible to send a whole lot of them in schools. But despite the constant population of people who require a wide range of health care, it is rather a shock (and an injustice, mind you) that our country "produces 200,000 Nursing graduates per year while there are only 2,500 available nursing jobs awaits them." (DOLE) An outrageous proportion of nurses and patients also exists; instead of the ideal 1-nurse-to-4-patients standard, there are ratios which are 1:20 to (unbelievably) 1:100, depending on what godforsaken, public hospital you'd choose to die in.
What's even more surprising is the fact that there are more than 180,000 registered nurses today in the Philippines, waiting for any employer to seek for their services. Unfortunately, even if the emergency rooms are cramped with bleeding and taken-for-granted victims of vehicular accidents, even if the wards are becoming nesting grounds of both pathogens and malpracticing health care workers, even if misallocation of health care goods and services persists, and even if there are many cases of fatal performances of negligence in the OR's and DR's nationwide, the Philippine government's only good move so far is… well, I don't really know. And if ever there is a good move, it's not doing much good anyway in the current and doubtfully progressing state of our current health care delivery system.
Right at this very moment, hundreds of unattended people die in hemorrhage, shock, sepsis and trauma. Isn't it ironic that, while many needy patients are sitting ducks in front of Death's cloak, many nurses are wasting four years of study by working as call center agents, being ESL/EFL teachers or remaining unemployed commoners? that physicians study nursing just to join the registered, overworked and underpaid nurses for the mass exodus abroad? that in spite of the unlimited demand for health care, countless patients are currently maltreated, snubbed and rejected in hospitals? and that notwithstanding the overproduction of nursing graduates, there are actually nurses who are so incompetent that they can't even differentiate Metoprolol from Metronidazole? (The last statement is a satirical hyperbole, but you get the idea.)
This complex and seemingly unsolvable problem in the Philippine health care setting may be attributed to the despicable ineptitude displayed in the fields of nursing education, profession, economics and administration—to name but few. Whatever the root cause is, it is obvious that whenever monetary values come into the picture, things get a bit too complicated for our own liking. Low wages, scarcity of nurses and health care practitioners in remote regions, high school fees in nursing institutions, and the indirect proportion of job vacancies and supply of registered nurses, among others, are examples of the complications brought about when one puts a price tag on something that shouldn't be monetize in the first place: health care or nursing care, our basic need.
Health is indeed wealth since the preservation and promotion of health is every Filipino's right. However this cliche seems to be contorted today. Health is wealth. Health is money. Money is limited. Therefore… How dismal. And the surplus of jobless nurses gives a spark of false hope to many of the ailing patients. A nurse is a human too, after all, and how could she take care of others when her own needs aren't met in the first place?
© jandennarriba 2011
(This essay is the initial draft of my editorial for our college paper. It's too long, I know. Haha. But I like writing lengthy essays. I hope my associate editor won't kill me. Haha.)
Have you ever experienced walking in a corridor in the mall or in the school, humming to yourself, thinking about mundane things, minding your own business, etc. in a day so seemingly ordinary that you don't expect anything spectacular to happen? And then suddenly this hot guy/gal bumps into you, and your eyes met, and, three months later, he/she became your this-is-the-one lover come true?
Did you, at least once, experience this kind of romantic, fantastical occurrence?
Well, I didn't. And I don't expect I will. I mean, who are you kidding about the love-at-first-sight baloney. Hahaha. As far as I'm concerned, such kind of romance is far too, well, impossible to happen in this corrupted generation. Gone are the days when the first kiss was an important rite of passage; when marriage was a sacred, lifetime vow (and not a pathetic contract witnessed by an indifferent mayor); when love was pure, passionate, and a mixture of sincerity and chastity. Ah. Those good old days…
Good old days… well, that's exactly the point.
Still, we can't desire what we can't have, can we? At the height of technology, humans' ability to express sincerity and intimacy became limited, tainted, and, sometimes, pretentious. Sex became as ordinary as eating breakfast. No spark. No truancy of vileness. Just pure animalistic urge to express the carnal desire.
Call me old-fashioned, but if you tell me that romantic relationships aren't such a big deal, then tell that also to broken families, broken-hearted-turned-suicidal youths, victims of abuse and polygamous scandals, and children who can't even define love emotionally, at the very least.
Today, that girl/guy you bump into some corridor would just call you a "careless asshole." Oh well, so much for the lover's dream come true, eh?
© jandennarriba 2010
So I've been busy for the past three to four days. And what made my adrenaline rush through my system all this time?
And there's this:
I'll get back to you guys soon. I might like some of your blogs, but checking them out right now would be a bad idea. I have paperwork, case forms and PRC forms to finish, so there. I have to type this post within ten minutes because my duty mate is practically flogging my ass to hurry up with typing the forms.
Working at Christmas break. Oh, the irony.
Good morning, chums. :)
Sunday is my favorite day of the week, because I get to make grocery, clean my room, go to Mass and do nothing else productive for the rest of the day… Sure as hell. Sometimes, Sundays are so boring that I could almost hear my neurons sending electrical impulses inside my cranium. Or maybe I'm just congenitally psychopathic, I don't know.
I will be gone for three days. We're having an out-town-duty. I just packed my stroller. It took me more than an hour's worth of sweaty work to sort out it out. I just hate packing. My obsession-compulsion tends to override my relatively sane mind. Should I bring this? Should I bring that? Just in case this. Just in case that. I'll never know if I will be needing this. Who are we to say that I won't be needing that?… I even included my Tarot cards on the list to bring.
Yeeeaaah. I'm congenitally psychopathic.


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Shopper. Theatre-Goer. Foodie. Sports Fan. Chicago Loves You All.
When you stay at the Embassy Suites Chicago Downtown-Lakefront, you're in the heart of downtown Chicago. And all of the many attractions that have put this area on the map and that bring it to life are within a short stroll or cab ride.
Here are some of the more popular places to go and things to see.
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Magnificent Mile
Considered one of the Great Avenues of the World, Magnificent Mile is home to shops, restaurants, outdoor exhibits, and much more. Officially Michigan Avenue, this is a definite must-see during a visit to Chicago.
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Navy Pier
Historic Navy Pier is Chicago's premier tourist attraction. Located on the banks of Lake Michigan, visitors here can ride on a 15-story Ferris wheel, eat at one of the many lakeside restaurants, taking a boat tour, watch a 3-D movie at the IMAX Theater, visit the Chicago Children's Museum, listen to live music, and much more.
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Grant Park
Grant Park consists of 300 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds and is home to attractions including Buckingham Fountain, the Lincoln Statue, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, and Millennium Park. It also hosts a variety of events and concerts throughout the year.
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McCormick Place
Totaling 2.6 million square feet of exhibit space, 1.2 million square feet all on one level, Chicago's McCormick Place is the nation's largest convention center.
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Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is the only one of the five Great Lakes entirely located within the United States.
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Museum Campus
The Museum Campus is pedestrian-friendly park consisting of 57 acres along the edge of Lake Michigan. It is home to three of Chicago's most popular museums—the Adler Planetarium, the Shedd Aquarium, and the Field Museum of Natural History.
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Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago has showcased magnificent art collections for more than 150 years. Known for its Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and American paintings, the institute houses more than 260,000 works of art. At one million square feet, it provides a fascinating journey into the more than 5,000 years of human expression from cultures around the world.
Millennium Park
Sitting atop a parking garage and the Millennium Station commuter rail, Millennium Park is considered to be the world's largest rooftop garden. Located within the northwestern section of Grant Park, Millennium Park features a variety of public art, post-modern architecture, an ice-skating rink, and a variety of others attractions. Numerous events, concerts, and cultural activities are held here throughout the year.
Chicago Loop Business & Financial District
The Loop is the second largest central business district in the United States. You'll find a wide variety of shopping, dining and cultural activities here.
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State Street Shopping
One of Chicago's historic shopping destinations, State Street became famous when Frank Sinatra sang its praises in his song "Chicago". Today, it's home to a pedestrian mall and a variety of well-known stores. Visitors here can see the Chicago Archbishop's Mansion, the Original Playboy Mansion, the Chicago Theatre, and more.
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Soldier Field
Home to the Chicago Bears, Soldier Field is located within Grant Park.
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Chicago Theatre
The Chicago Theatre was built in 1921 and was the first large movie palace in the United States. Its stunning French Baroque style, magnificent lobby, and grand staircase provide ample reason for a visit while you're in the area. Simply walking by is an experience in and of itself as the Chicago Theatre marquee and six-story-high CHICAGO sign are striking icons on State Street. Stage plays, magic shows, comedy, concerts, and more are performed here throughout the year.
Museum of Contemporary Art
One of the nation's largest facilities devoted to the art of our time, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) offers exhibitions of the most thought-provoking art created since 1945. The MCA documents contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance. Located in the heart of downtown Chicago, the MCA boasts a gift store, bookstore, restaurant, 300-seat theater, and a terraced sculpture garden with a great view of Lake Michigan.


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About ten days ago I posted an item about Google looking for a large amount of office space in Boston to build a Googleplex. That article also mentioned that other cities were being discussed.
Today, an article in the Michigan Business Review lets us know that Ann Arbor is one of the other locations.
Ann Arbor is home to the University of Michigan where Larry Page attended school. Page was also a commencement speaker at the U of M this year.
One search reportedly focuses on up to 200,000 square feet for a "Googleplex," described as a technology/call center that could land either in Ann Arbor or a handful of other cities.
This article also points out that Google is also looking for 40,000 square feet, "for work related to the company's work at the University of Michigan as Google digitizes the entire library collection."
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By Stephanie Springer - bio | email Tifton, GA (WALB) – The Christmas season typically brings out the best in people. And Students, teachers and staff at Charles Spencer Elementary School in Tifton have embraced the concept of paying it forward.
And they're spreading their generosity.
A teacher said she got the idea she got the idea from the Kevin Spacey movie "Pay It Forward." Now the halls and classroom doors are plastered with signs that read "How are you paying it forward?" and those students are hard at work.
Something special is happening inside this elementary school. 600 students, teachers and staff are giving up precious time to help others. "Ine night I was laying in bed and I thought wouldn't be nice if every single class could do a good deed," said Teacher Jane Walker, who used the simple concept of "paying it forward.
She says the idea has caught on quickly and every class is doing something to help others. Nine-year-old Leilana Fonsah's class is helping tutor students in need. "I'm working on a story. I really want to finish but instead I'm tutoring."
Marquez Maxon said, "Our class is helping the humane society. We're donating food and stuff like that."
Luke Stephenson said "We're donating clothes we don't wear anymore and toys, and book bags."
Students are selling candy canes to help pay for research to help a student who is battling a rare and incurable disease.
And it's not just the students- the custodial staff is paying it forward, too. All four put their money together and bought presents for 10 special needs students. "We seen the papers on the doors and I said it would be nice if we could do something for the special for Christmas."
The special needs class is making sandwiches for the local soup kitchen. But why are students so eager to help others? "We want people to know there is someone who cares for them. You don't have to go through life feeling lonely."
The school says they hope to continue this all year. Students donated one thousand dollars to Santa's Helper, money that would have normally gone to their accelerated reader store.
Some other ideas classes have come up with include purchasing toys for HeadStart, baking cookies for a local mission group, and even pulling weeds outside the school.
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SALISBURY, Md. – The disturbing YouTube video, the Jungle, involving weapons, drinking, drugs, and even threats now has nearly 5,000 views.
The video was uploaded October 11th by Dover Dale Entertainment, also known as DDE, made up of young men from the Dover Dale community in Salisbury.
"Stop the Violence," a non-profit youth center that provides a variety of educational and active after-school activities for all ages in the Salisbury area, is located just around the corner from where some of the scenes were filmed. Organizers with the group say this is something that they work to thwart every single day.
"We're all incredibly sad and a little stunned by it," says Nina East, a board member with Stop the Violence. "This just goes to show we need this program in our community, we need these kids to have somewhere to go."
All eight men in the video, and others behind the scenes, are involved in a multi-agency investigation led by Salisbury Police, after a series of minor assaults, narcotic sales, and vehicle thefts in the area last Spring. Some of those involved with the video reportedly have no prior convictions.
"We've come into contact with some of these kids in their earlier ages, I've coached a few of them," says Jermichael Mitchell, program director of Stop the Violence. "A lot of them were in our school system at one point in time and they graduated from high school and have moved on and are working in the work force in our community."
Although Mitchell understands the concern that the video has sparked, he was not personally alarmed when he saw it. He feels that because the video was clearly professionally made, the young men are emulating rappers that started off making videos in their home town, and were able to get a record deal.
"That was again their way out of their community, and I believe that's what these young gentlemen are trying to do. I feel more or less it's just an outlet, that 'rags to riches' story."
Experts feel that social media is making a huge impact on the factor of "socializing," and that the main source of the problem for these kids may be their home lives.
"For children who's parents for a variety of different reasons cannot be involved or are not involved in their lives, as social beings they seek out other ways to receive acceptance, to build their self-esteem," says Dr. Michael Finegan, executive director of Peninsula Mental Health Service. "Some of these kids have found the lyrics of violence, of inappropriate sexual activity, of aggressiveness to build their self-esteem."
While law enforcement are taking the appropriate steps, community leaders collectively agree that there needs to be more of a group action.
"One of our problems is that we are so fragmented in our society," says Dr. Finegan. "We all have to work together."
"We've got to get involved as a community," says Mitchell. "It takes a community effort, the school system, the parents, community outreaches, everybody has to work to save our children, and give them other paths to make it."
Both Mitchell and East say that Stop the Violence provide these outlets for the youth in the community, but in order to be able to do more of it, they need all of the help they can get. For more information on their services, and how you can help, check out their website.


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If I had to point out two trends in arthouse cinema this year, it would be the near fetishization of atmosphere and mood (THE TREE OF LIFE, MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE) and a dogged commitment to minimalism (MEEK'S CUTOFF). DRIVE has both in spades. Oh, and it has Ryan Gosling, so no wonder it's been the closest thing to a mainstream success the arthouse scene has had this year (Woody Allen doesn't, and will never, count).
DRIVE is the very definition of style over substance, but when it's THIS stylish and with such a uniquely informed sense of style (hey, look at all the hipsters blasting the soundtrack!), it's really hard to care. The story and characters are so simple (minimal, if you will) that so many different allegories could be layered about it. Was it laziness or genius that inspired the choice? Who's to know. But where thin-ness of plot is aggravating in a majority of circumstances, here, it just moves out of the way of the copious atmosphere while, contradictorily, the fable-like quality of the plot allows the audience to give it all the depth they want without the writers mucking it up.
And then, in probably the most brilliant aspect of DRIVE, there's the violence to offset the retro-cool, synthline vibe of the rest of the movie. The violence here is as violence should be: shocking, sudden, messy, nauseating. It's certainly my favorite part of the movie. Violence has become incredibly boring to me in films lately. It's not that I'm desensitized (I don't think), it's that violence usually equals laziness (or exploitation) among filmmakers. Violence should not be easy. It should be tough, brutalizing, disruptive, corrupting. I think DRIVE gets that right (see also: CACHE and A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, among others), and it's easily the most arresting part of the film.
Oh, and just by watching the movie, you feel like a badass when you walk to your piece of shit car.
Also, don't forget to check out my personal Tumblr over this-a-way: http://thenatwistercomes.tumblr.com. It's bound to hold more interest to you than whatever pretentious movie I just watched (and by just, I mean months ago).
If anyone could wrangle a world spanning, multiple storyline filled disaster flick about a realistic disease that puts the world on the verge of collapse, it would be Soderbergh of Traffic (multiple storylines) and Oceans Eleven (wrangling a huge cast of big name actors) fame. (Aside: I don't know what is it about Soderbergh that he gets these ridiculous casts of big Hollywood actors to play some pretty small parts, but more power to him, I guess.) Contagion is a movie about a super contagious flu that becomes a pandemic spread by Ms. Patient Zero herself, Gwyneth Paltrow, and involves such personalities as Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Matt Damon, and more. I know, right?
While it's directed with precision and propulsion (I'm pretty sure the disease itself is the protagonist of this film), and while Soderbergh smartly uses the camera to make it obvious to even the rear seats about the paranoia and real-life terror he's pushing (just try to not think about what you touch after seeing this movie), this movie is carried by its two lead actresses playing brave women who put themselves in great danger to save a lot of lives (they would be Kate Winslet and Jennifer Ehle). These are two very human performances in a movie that could be seen as coldly procedural.
And there does seem to be a vacuum of real, human emotion at the center of this film (and no, it's not Jude Law, har har), but Soderbergh wants us to fill that with OUR reactions to this frighteningly real situation. How would you react? What would you do to save yourself and your family? Soderbergh doesn't seem so interested in his characters' choices, they hit their expected beats and some are played better than others…he wants to put the audience in the center. It's fun stuff in a movie that could have easily been a terrible throwback to 70s disaster movies. Soderbergh, I know you're getting tired of the game (and that's probably why what you're putting out these days are so inventive and slightly subversive), but I'll see anything you do nowadays. (If you haven't seen The Informant!, do so immediately, it's one of my favorite movies of the past 5 years.)
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This private modern home in Glenn has new hardwood floors and many improvements. The location is ideal as it is just a short walk to the large public beach where you can stroll the lakeshore for miles and miles. Glenn is situated right between South Haven and Saugatuck which both offer wonderful dining and shopping options. Glenn itself boats an outstanding local convenience store with a deli and homemade pizza, a restaurant and ice cream stand, a hardware store, and a darling home store. This is small town America at it's best. The home features two decks for grilling, a screen porch for dining and relaxing, as well as plenty of indoor space...Read more
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