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El año del pensamiento mágico
by Joan DidionUnas memorias conmovedoras sobre la enfermedad y la muerte a través de la experiencia personal de la periodista y escritora Joan Didion. Este libro memorable ha cautivado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. En él, la escritora Joan Didion, una de las autoras norteamericanas más reputadas de finales del siglo XX, narra con una fascinante distancia emocional la muerte repentina de su marido, el también escritor John Gregory Dunne. Este libro tan breve como intenso es, por consiguiente, una reflexión sobre el duelo y la crónica de una supervivencia. El año del pensamiento mágico obtuvo el National Book Award en 2005. Reseñas:«Llena de detalles y de una deslumbrante honestidad [...], un retrato indeleble de la pérdida y el luto.» Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times «Un acto consumado de valentía literaria, una escritora reconocida por su claridad que nos permite entrar en su mente mientras esta se nubla por el luto.»Lev Grossman, Time «Un libro que, repitiendo el tópico, se lee "como una novela" y cuya tensión sale de las entrañas de un ser herido pero dotado con una excepcional capacidad analítica y expresiva.»El Cultural «En una cultura donde la elaboración de los sentimientos [...] ha sido rescindida por una prohibición directa a través de la vergüenza o por el "deber ético del goce" [...], el libro de Didion duplica el valor del testimonio y de la invitación que lanza a un mundo de bobos emocionales técnicamente competentes.»El Mundo «El libro es un intento de trascender el estupor y sinsentido en que nos deja sumidos el dolor cuando experimentamos la muerte de alguien muy cercano.»Eduardo Lago, Babelia, El País
Blue Nights
by Joan DidionFrom one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old. Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana's wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana's childhood--in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. "How could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?" Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights--the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, "the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning"--like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.From the Hardcover edition.
A Book of Common Prayer
by Joan DidionWriting with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made her one of our most distinguished journalists, Joan Didion creates a shimmering novel of innocence and evil.A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two American women in the derelict Central American nation of Boca Grande. Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of the country's wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too little. "Immaculate of history, innocent of politics," she has come to Boca Grande vaguely and vainly hoping to be reunited with her fugitive daughter. As imagined by Didion, her fate is at once utterly particular and fearfully emblematic of an age of conscienceless authority and unfathomable violence.From the Trade Paperback edition.
by Joan DidionInez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, the year in which much of this bitterly funny novel is set, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam.As conceived by Joan Didion, these personages and events constitute the terminal fallout of democracy, a fallout that also includes fact-finding junkets, senatorial groupies, the international arms market, and the Orwellian newspeak of the political class. Moving deftly from Honolulu to Jakarta, between romance, farce, and tragedy, Democracy is a tour de force from a writer who can dissect an entire society with a single phrase.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11
by Joan DidionAuthor describes how, since September 11, 2001, there has been a determined effort by the administration to promote an imperial America, a "New Unilateralism" and how, in many parts of America, there is now a disconnect between the government and its citizens.
Insider Baseball: from Political Fictions
by Joan DidionA Vintage Shorts Selection Almost three decades ago, iconic and incomparable American essayist Joan Didion's now-classic report from the Dukakis campaign trail exposed, in no uncertain terms, the complete sham that is the modern American presidential run. Writing with bite and some humor too, Didion betrays "the process"--the way in which power is exchanged and the status quo is maintained. All insiders--politicians, journalists, spin doctors--participate in a political narrative that is "designed as it is to maintain the illusion of consensus by obscuring rather than addressing actual issues." The optics of presidential campaigns have grown ever more farcical and remote from the needs and issues most relevant to Americans' lives, and Didion's elegant, shrewd, and prescient commentary has never been more urgent than it is right now. An ebook short.
The Last Thing He Wanted
by Joan DidionThis intricate, fast-paced story, whose many scenes and details fit together like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, is Didion's incisive and chilling look at a modern world where things are not working as they should and where the oblique and official language is as sinister as the events it is covering up.The narrator introduces Elena McMahon, estranged from a life of celebrity fundraisers and from her powerful West Coast husband, Wynn Janklow, whom she has left, taking Catherine, her daughter, to become a reporter for The Washington Post. Suddenly walking off the 1984 campaign, she finds herself boarding a plane for Florida to see her father, Dick McMahon. She becomes embroiled in her Dick's business though "she had trained herself since childhood not to have any interest in what he was doing." It is from this moment that she is caught up in something much larger than she could have imagined, something that includes Ambassador-at-Large Treat Austin Morrison and Alexander Brokaw, the ambassador to an unnamed Caribbean island. Into this startling vision of conspiracies, arms dealing, and assassinations, Didion makes connections among Dallas, Iran-Contra, and Castro, and points up how "spectral companies with high-concept names tended to interlock." As this book builds to its terrifying finish, we see the underpinnings of a dark historical underbelly. This is our system, the one "trying to create a context for democracy and getting [its] hands a little dirty in the process."From the Hardcover edition.
by Joan DidionThe subject of this book is the fateful relationship between Cuban exiles of Miami and the larger body politic of the United States. Didion describes a place in which two profoundly different cultures co-exist, apparently with no understanding of each other, and where the myths of Cuban exile have not only become the everyday stuff of local politics, but have spread out from Miami to the White House and beyond.
Noches azules
by Joan DidionEn El año del pensamiento mágico, Joan Didion contemplaba cómo los rituales que formaban parte de su vida cotidiana cambiaban drásticamente con la súbita muerte de su marido en 2003. El libro fue publicado en 2005, justo unos meses después de que su única hija, Quintana Roo, muriera a la edad de 39 años. En su nuevo libro, Noches azules, Didion hilvana instantáneas literarias y recuerdos olvidados sobre la vida y la muerte de su hija. Noches azules trata acerca de lo que queda después de la pérdida de un ser querido.
Play It as It Lays
by Joan DidionA profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
Political Fictions
by Joan DidionIn these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable sex scandal, Didion reveals the mechanics of American politics. She tells us the uncomfortable truth about the way we vote, the candidates we vote for, and the people who tell us to vote for them. These pieces build, one on the other, into a disturbing portrait of the American political landscape, providing essential reading on our democracy.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Los que sueñan el sueño dorado
by Joan Didion«En la tierra dorada el futuro siempre es atractivo, porque nadie recuerda el pasado.»Joan Didion es una de las cronistas fundamentales de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Los que sueñan el sueño dorado reúne por primera vez en castellano una selección de artículos y ensayos de sus libros Arrastrarse hacia Belén, un clásico moderno sobre la vida en la Norteamérica de los años sesenta y especialmente sobre el centro de la contracultura, California; El álbum blanco, un mosaico de los años sesenta y setenta que incluye episodios vagamente autobiográficos de la vida de la autora; Después de Henry, donde Joan Didion nos advierte sobre las fantasías que los medios de comunicación construyen en torno a las víctimas de crímenes violentos; Salvador, que dibuja un retrato de los horrores cometidos en ese país y su estrecha relación con la política exterior de Estados Unidos, y Miami, donde reflexiona acerca de la inmigración y el exilio, y la pasión, la hipocresía y la violencia políticas. Todos ellos conforman una visión crítica y literaria fundamental para entender la sociedad americana actual.«Un enfoque único y fascinante... Didion debe de ser una observadora de otro planeta, tan audaz y alerta que termina sabiendo más sobre nuestro mundo que nosotros mismos.»Anne Tyler
Run River
by Joan DidionJoan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience, a story of murder and betrayal that only Didion could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense.From the Trade Paperback edition.
by Joan Didion"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror-its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy.As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb "to disappear," Didion gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
by Joan Didion Elizabeth HardwickThe novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America's most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work of criticism. A gallery of unforgettable portraits--of Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Carlyle--as well as a provocative reading of such works as Wuthering Heights, Hedda Gabler, and the poems of Sylvia Plath, Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life.
Según venga el juego
by Joan DidionDe la autora de El año del pensamiento mágico, una novela perturbadora sobre la realidad de ser mujer. Un clásico de la literatura norteamericana. A sus treinta años, Maria Wyeth se encuentra emocionalmente a la deriva y ajena a todo lo que la rodea. Su carrera de actriz se ha limitado a papeles en películas de tercera y siempre ha vivido a la sombra de su marido, un reconocido director de Hollywood que nunca le ha permitido tomar sus propias decisiones con respecto a su hija de cuatro años, recluida en un centro médico para niños con necesidades especiales, ni con respecto a su nuevo embarazo. Con una mirada implacable y una voz inconfundible, Didion disecciona sin contemplaciones la sociedad estadounidense de finales de los años sesenta, explorando por un lado la realidad de ser mujer en una sociedad en la que siempre han prevalecido las necesidades masculinas y, por otro, capturando el estado de ánimo de toda una generación que vive bajo el engaño de las apariencias, la amoralidad, las consecuencias del liberalismo extremo y el hastío generalizado del individuo contemporáneo. Incluida por la revista Time en su lista de las mejores cien novelas en lengua inglesa publicadas entre 1923 y 2005, Según venga el juego está considerada, después de más de cuatro décadas desde su publicación, un clásico moderno de las letras norteamericanas y una de las mejores novelas de Joan Didion. Críticas:«No ha habido otro escritor norteamericano con el nivel de Joan Didion desde Nathanael West. [...] Un libro espectacular.»John Leonard, The New York Times «Sencillo, comedido, inteligente, bien estructurado, ocurrente, irresistiblemente implacable, punzante y libre de sensacionalismos. Según venga el juego es un libro sobresaliente y de una excepcional calidad literaria.»Library Journal «Una novela mordaz que destila veneno en gotas minúsculas.»J.R. Frakes, Book World
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Joan DidionThe first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, forty years after its first publication, the essential portrait of America-- particularly California--in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
by Joan DidionThe "dazzling" and essential portrayal of 1960s America from the author of South and West and The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times). Capturing the tumultuous landscape of the United States, and in particular California, during a pivotal era of social change, the first work of nonfiction from one of American literature's most distinctive prose stylists is a modern classic. In twenty razor-sharp essays that redefined the art of journalism, National Book Award–winning author Joan Didion reports on a society gripped by a deep generational divide, from the "misplaced children" dropping acid in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to Hollywood legend John Wayne filming his first picture after a bout with cancer. She paints indelible portraits of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes and folk singer Joan Baez, "a personality before she was entirely a person," and takes readers on eye-opening journeys to Death Valley, Hawaii, and Las Vegas, "the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements." First published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been heralded by the New York Times Book Review as "a rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country" and named to Time magazine's list of the one hundred best and most influential nonfiction books. It is the definitive account of a terrifying and transformative decade in American history whose discordant reverberations continue to sound a half-century later.
South and West: From a Notebook
by Joan DidionFrom the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles--and here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. She interviews prominent local figures, describes motels, diners, a deserted reptile farm, a visit with Walker Percy, a ladies' brunch at the Mississippi Broadcasters' Convention. She writes about the stifling heat, the almost viscous pace of life, the sulfurous light, and the preoccupation with race, class, and heritage she finds in the small towns they pass through. And from a different notebook: the "California Notes" that began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial of 1976. Though Didion never wrote the piece, watching the trial and being in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the city, its social hierarchy, the Hearsts, and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here, too, is the beginning of her thinking about the West, its landscape, the western women who were heroic for her, and her own lineage, all of which would appear later in her acclaimed 2003 book, Where I Was From. One of TIME's most anticipated books of 2017 One of The New York Times Book Review's "What You'll Be Reading in 2017"
Vintage Didion
by Joan Didion"Didion has the instincts of an exceptional reporter and the focus of a historian ... a novelist's appreciation of the surreal." --Los Angeles Times Book Review. Whether she's writing about civil war in Central America, political scurrility in Washington, or the tight-braided myths and realities of her native California, Joan Didion expresses an unblinking vision of the truth. Vintage Didion includes three chapters from Miami; an excerpt from Salvador; and three separate essays from After Henry that cover topics from Ronald Reagan to the Central Park jogger case. Also included is "Clinton Agonistes" from Political Fictions,and "Fixed Opinions, or the Hinge of History," a scathing analysis of the ongoing war on terror.
Where I Was From
by Joan DidionIn this moving and unexpected book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Where I Was From, in Didion's words, "represents an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up, confusions as much about America as about California, misapprehensions and misunderstandings so much a part of who I became that I can still to this day confront them only obliquely. " The book is a haunting narrative of how her own family moved west with the frontier from the birth of her great-great-great-great-great-grandmother in Virginia in 1766 to the death of her mother on the edge of the Pacific in 2001; of how the wagon-train stories of hardship and abandonment and endurance created a culture in which survival would seem the sole virtue. InWhere I Was From,Didion turns what John Leonard has called "her sonar ear, her radar eye" onto her own work, as well as that of such California writers as Frank Norris and Jack London and Henry George, to examine how the folly and recklessness in the very grain of the California settlement led to the California we know today–a state mortgaged first to the railroad, then to the aerospace industry, and overwhelmingly to the federal government, a dependent colony of those political and corporate owners who fly in for the annual encampment of the Bohemian Club. Here is the one writer we always want to read on California showing us the startling contradictions in its–and in America's–core values. Joan Didion's unerring sense of America and its spirit, her acute interpretation of its institutions and literature, and her incisive questioning of the stories it tells itself make this fiercely intelligent book a provocative and important tour de force from one of our greatest writers.
The White Album
by Joan DidionFirst published in 1979, The White Album is a mosaic of the late sixties and seventies. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a Black Panther Party press conference, the story of John Paul Getty's museum, the romance of water in an arid landscape, and the swirl and confusion of the sixties. With commanding sureness of mood and language, Joan Didion exposes the realities and dreams of that age of self-discovery whose spiritual center was California.
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan DidionJoan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later, the night before New Year's Eve, the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. <P><P> This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea she ever had about death, about illness, about marriage and children and memory, about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself. <P> Winner of the National Book Award
The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play
by Joan Didion"This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you ..." In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called "an indelible portrait of loss and grief ... a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage".) Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play. The first theatrical production of The Year of Magical Thinking opened at the Booth Theatre on March 29, 2007, starring Vanessa Redgrave and directed by David Hare.
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Supposedly, marijuana can negatively affect one's performance. I think we should now laud him even more for his Olympic performance.[/trolling_attempt]
Supposedly, marijuana can negatively affect one's performance. I think we should now laud him even more for his Olympic performance.[/trolling_attempt]
Non issue to me. He spent the last 2 years training to be the greatest Olympian of all time. He is 22 years old and does have a partying side. His only fault may be the people he hangs with. In a couple of weeks this will all go by the wayside. I wonder how many people remember he had a DUI shortly after the Sydney games?
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Phelps lost his endorsement from Kellogg's.
Kellogg's said Phelp's behavior didn't fit their image.
Funny how a company that markets its sugar-heavy breakfast foods to little children through cartoon characters has an "image" to protect.
Sugar leads to obesity, obesity leads to heart disease and diabetes.
This country is screwed up when Kellogg's and McDonald's are the good guys and Michael Phelps is the villain.
Yeah, but pot leads to...following around the Grateful Dead, endless transferring from one weird college to another, and starting one of the country's most successful ice cream companies.
I'll take a bowl of Ben and Jerry's over a bowl of Sugar Frosted Flakes anytime.
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
Phelps received a three-month suspension for his actions.
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Dr. John Suttie knows something about being a pioneer. When he began investigating the workings of Vitamin K in the 1960s, very little was known about its effects. Through his research, Dr. Suttie was able to explain Vitamin K's operation as a cofactor in glutamate carboxylation in prothrombin.
Dr. Suttie chaired the Department of Nutrition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for many years. He now serves there as a Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry. He is also the author of Vitamin K in Health and Disease (Oxidative Stress and Disease).
In addition to these pursuits, Dr. Suttie has recently taken on a role that will see him once again leading the way in nutrition science- working as the first editor of ASN's latest publication, Advances in Nutrition. Dr. Suttie was kind enough to talk with us about what members can expect from the new publication and to offer up experience gleaned from his years of study in nutrition and biochemistry.
Interviewer: Tell us a bit about your work as editor of Advances in Nutrition. How will the content of this publication differ from others that ASN offers?
Dr. Suttie: The society decided that they were interested in a journal that would primarily publish reviews, which is a major change from what they have been doing. Most of the publications that ASN puts out are focused on research reports. Although JN and AJCN publish some reviews, they do not publish a large number of them. So, it's that focus that really makes Advances in Nutrition unique.
Interviewer: What are some of the highlights of the first issue that you think would be most interesting to the membership?
Dr. Suttie: The first issue will have five reviews that cover a wide range of subjects, as nutrition research is quite a broad area. It should be an excellent indication of the types of reviews we will publish in the future. In the first issue, one of the reviews will be a clinical, nutrition-focused review on the impact of N3 fatty acids on Type 2 Diabetes. There will also be one that touches on the connections between nutrients and epigenetics. There's another dealing with functional amino acids and the processes with which they are involved in metabolism. Additionally, there will be a review focused on weight management, specifically on how chickpeas, lentils, and other dried legumes may aid weight management. Finally, it includes a review that focuses on iron homeostasis and hepcidin.
Interviewer: Could you give us a preview of upcoming issues?
Dr. Suttie: The next issue that will come out will be similar in that it will cover a wide variety of issues in nutrition research. That one will be out in January 2011. The issue that then comes out in March is one that will focus primarily on mineral metabolism. Although there may be some other reviews, there will be between six and eight that center on that theme. The theme-focused issue is certainly something members should look forward to from Advances in Nutrition in the future. We will be working with the heads of the Research Interest Sections to put together issues that will have between six and 10 reviews focused on their area of expertise.
Interviewer: You are quite a leader in Vitamin K research and biochemistry. Could you tell us about how your research in the field has developed over the years? What current advances are you most excited about in relation to your research interests?
Dr. Suttie: I started investigating Vitamin K a long time ago, in the early 1960s. At that time, what was known was that Vitamin K was somehow involved in a number of proteins needed to coagulate blood. In fact, that is about all that was known. I got started in the field to determine what it is that Vitamin K is doing. Although we knew it was required, there was no idea what it was required for. It turns out the Vitamin was acting to work as a substrate for an enzyme that modifies proteins after they are first synthesized by altering specific glutamic acid residue to gamma-carboxy glutamic acid residues which changes the activity of prothrombin and other clotting factors. This was the area in which I was most heavily involved. In later years, I got a bit more involved in the nutrition end, studying whether increasing Vitamin K intake could solve certain health problems. There was a lot of interest at one time in the role of Vitamin K in skeletal health. It turns out that it is unlikely that many people are not getting sufficient Vitamin K for that purpose, but there are other potential areas of concern. For example, there is one Vitamin K-dependent protein that appears to prevent calcification in the vascular system. There are other proteins that are dependent on Vitamin K, but we are not sure if we have a complete understanding of what they are doing metabolically.
Interviewer: How did you initially get involved in nutrition and with ASN?
Dr. Suttie: I am in a biochemistry department, and the department at the University of Wisconsin always had a reputation for its focus on nutrition. If you go back 50 or 60 years, there were a lot of departments that had that kind of focus, but not with the same kind of reputation that there is here. I originally joined ASN because both nutritional scientists and biochemists attended the yearly Experimental Biology meeting (home to ASN's Scientific Sessions and Annual Meeting).
Interviewer: What aspect of your involvement with the organization has been most helpful to you professionally?
Dr. Suttie: ASN does a good job of helping people get together. I think that the annual meetings are so important in that aspect. It's always good to see what other people are doing in the wide area of nutritional science. The organization has also shown an ability to interact with other groups and to push for changes that are good for the field. It's difficult for any one society to have a major impact, and ASN has always been willing to get different groups to get together and have that kind of impact, giving us a chance of being heard and influencing important policy changes.
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Google said it had taken down the information at the school district's request, but said it had not been served with an injunction.
Experts on search engine indexing technology insist that Google's Web robots could not have hacked into the school site–instead, several possible scenarios have been suggested. Barry Schwartz, executive editor of Search Engine Roundtable says that because Google could not have generated the site's password by itself, someone else must have made the student information available to the search engine.
The security hole came from possibly someone publishing the content publicly, somehow, or by letting down the security or by posting a hyper-linked URL with an embedded password in the URL, Schwartz wrote on his blog Monday.
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Spiedini ("skewers" in Italian) refers to this dish at Frasca Food and Wine involving meat, seafood, or vegetables roasted or grilled over a fire. Instead of lamb shoulder, you could buy about 21/2 pounds boneless leg of lamb to trim and cube for the spiedini.
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I followed the recipe exactly and my only regret is that I didn't have guests that night. Perfection.
I prepared only the lamb. This is a delicious, classic recipe, using simple ingredients on hand in a weekend condo kitchen. Deboning and preparing the lamb shoulder took a bit of time. I used wood skewers soaked in water before grilling. Good enough for company. Saved this to my recipe file. Served with a rice pilaf and green salad which worked well.
The lamb was tasty, but the vegetable combo was nothing special, and the dressing had far too much lemon juice. I used lamb from leg steaks, not the shoulder blade chops, which I find too tedious to cut up. I marinated it at room temperature for about an hour, which worked out very well. Next time I'll grill this with red peppers, sweet onions and tomatoes.


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A tribute to beloved Fulton resident Mamie Louise Black Pasley was held Friday afternoon, August 31, in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury located on the campus of Westminster College.
Although a rainy afternoon, Mamie's son Victor said in his remarks: "This isn't rain…it's tears of joy. Because her family had the wisdom to set aside a part of her estate to give to the College and choose this Memorial to pay tribute to her life."
Speakers at the tribute included Westminster President Dr. George B. Forsythe; Dr. Rob Havers, Executive Director of the National Churchill Museum; sons Victor and Bruce Pasley; brother Rev. Charles Black, who is Associate Pastor of Community Ministries at First Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, GA; and Jack McBride, President of the Fulton NAACP.
"Mamie understood the value of education in promoting change and advancing social justice, helping us remove the barriers that often divide people. We at Westminster are inspired by Mamie's commitment to that truth," President Forsythe told the gathering. "In the past decade, we have created an educational community on campus that represents a much richer tapestry than was the case sixty-six years ago, and we are doing our bit to form that 'more perfect union' in our small corner of the world."
Appreciation was expressed by President Forsythe for the generous gift the family bestowed upon Westminster from the Pasley estate.
Representatives from the College, the National Churchill Museum and Sigma Chi were in attendance. Support for the event was provided by the Westminster Ambassadors.
In his remarks, her brother Rev. Black said: "The expression she lived by was: 'What will it take?' and then she answered: 'I can do it.'"
After the event, participants proceeded to the Sinews of Peace Room (also known as the Fulton Room) in the National Churchill Museum where a photograph and a plaque was unveiled that reads:
"I was charged with serving rolls and water . . . He (Winston Churchill) was very polite and modest, and said 'hello'. Segregation was a way of life, and integration became our future. The movement of the world encourages people to study and know the excitement of change."
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"Westminster College and the National Churchill Museum deeply appreciate Mamie Pasley's role in our history."
A reception followed in the Undercroft of the Church.
The eldest of a family of sixteen, Pasley worked as a cook to the Sigma Chi House at Westminster from 1958-1970. She passed away in 2004.
At the age of 26 while working for the Fulton Country Club, she came to Westminster to help serve lunch to Sir Winston Churchill and President Harry Truman on that momentous day in 1946 when Churchill came to Westminster to deliver his "Iron Curtain" speech.
Pasley served dinner rolls to the two dignitaries and 100 guests and brought a glass of water to Truman when he was resting after lunch in an upstairs bedroom. One of her vivid memories of the day was Churchill giving the entire catering staff big cigars.
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I find the new ones disappointing and they smell like grapefruits to me. I noticed that they have done away with the yellow. The texture that you are left with in your mouth are somewhat crystallised which I find unpleasant and difficult to adapt to bring back the smooth original soft powder chalky texture.
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Hi everyone sorry to correct some of you but you may be delighted to be reminded that they are actually called barratt and not bassetts. The originals are excellent I have stocked up just in case I do not see them again. I just cannot get enough I prefer them over choccies any day of the week especially the yellow and green as they are soft and then the pink for subtle contrast in flavour. The smell as you open the packet is devine and they pastel colours melt your heart and bring you back to your childhood. mmmm! yummy.
I really hope that the new version of refreshers are not here to stay maybe if we speak up enough barratt's may reconsider. If this change is due to an improvement to health I'm sure that my addictive listeners and me will compromise by eating refreshers in moderation (not) just to see them back on the shelf. by the way i am well into my 30's and still love them. barratt refreshers are normally found in martins news agents - the blue and white chain stores often called something different in some parts of the uk like mcolls, you will not find them in shops where you would expect to see them such as in spars or co-op's trust me i have done my homework but be quick otherwise you will get the new version. alternatively by online at barratts.
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I utterly agree that the new refreshers are a pale imitation of the sweet I have eaten far too many of in my life. Bring back the old refreshers!!
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Springfield, FL-- We start on the prep diamond at Rutherford's Shamplain Complex, the Rams Tuesday hosting a key 4A district 2 matchup with Wakulla. Those two part of just a three team district so their head to head games that much more crucial.
Rams in white, trailing here in the 4th, that is until Nick Nelson singles up the middle, in comes Sean Kitts with the tying run.
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
San Diego Interim Mayor Todd Gloria and other city leaders are calling on San Diegans to clean out their closets and donate gently used clothing and blankets for an upcoming event, Project Homeless Connect, geared to help homeless people.
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Got some spare warm clothes? A few extra blankets? City leaders are calling on you to donate the gently used clothing and coverings during this month's donation drive.
City leaders are planning a news conference Tuesday at noon to get the donation drive started with their own clothing donations, such as a flight jacket, blankets and wool socks.
They'll also release a report reflecting the profile of participants who are expected to attend, based on last year's 1,143 participants. Among the findings, nearly 70 percent were between the ages of 41 and 70, and 86 percent were unemployed.
The 8th Project Homeless Connect will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 4 at the San Diego Concourse in Golden Hall.
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The event, led by the San Diego Housing Commission, also provides homeless with basic needs like jackets, blankets, sleeping bags, toothbrushes and socks.
Event organizers are seeking 400 volunteers to staff registration tables, assist in escorting clients to various services, and provide food service.
Approximately 8,900 people in San Diego County were counted sleeping on the streets or in homeless shelters one night last January, according to the Regional Task Force on the Homeless. The annually conducted "point-in-time count" is the region's most accurate indication of the local homeless population.
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Help desk
A help desk is a resource intended to provide the customer or end user with information and support related to a company's or institution's products and services. The purpose of a help desk is usually to troubleshoot problems or provide guidance about products such as computers, electronic equipment, food, apparel, or software. Corporations usually provide help desk support to their customers through various channels such as toll-free numbers, websites, instant messaging, or email. There are also in-house help desks designed to provide assistance to employees.
Names and professional association[edit]
HDI, formerly known as the Help Desk Institute, was formed by Ron Muns as a for-profit organization in 1989, its purpose being to serve the industry as a professional association focused on the development of technical support personnel and the sharing of optimal practices. It adopted the name HDI in 2004 to reflect the maturing of the support industry. Technical support was expanded to cover desktop systems as well as provide other types of assistance for customers of organizations.[1]
While the term "Help desk" initially implied the place where employees receive technical support relating to their organization's IT infrastructure, the scope of the term has expanded in meaning and use. In major academic institutions, "help desk" can also refer to help provided in an academic library. The 2012 HDI Practices and Salary Report[2] reported that for the first time in the 20 years since its inception, the name "service desk" (at 32.3%) is more frequently used than "help desk" (at 26.6%) or other names (which total 40.1%). The primary reason is likely to be the global adoption of the terminology of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), which uses the term "Service Desk" to describe a one-stop function providing support and assistance, replacing the concept of a "Help Desk" within the context of the provision of IT support.
This section relies largely or entirely upon a single source. (June 2012) |
A typical help desk can effectively perform several functions. It provides a single (or multiple) point of contact for users to gain assistance in troubleshooting, get answers to questions, and solve known problems. A help desk generally manages its requests through the use of software such as issue tracking systems. These systems often involve the use of a "local bug tracker" (LBT). This system allows the help desk to track and sort user requests with the help of a unique number, and can frequently classify problems by user, computer program, or similar categories. Many software applications are available to support the help desk function. Some target the enterprise level help desk and some target departmental needs. Help Desk able to handling and prioritize all escalate tickets and requests.
In the mid-1990s, research by Iain Middleton of Robert Gordon University[3] studied the value of an organization's help desks. It found that value was derived not only from a reactive response to user issues, but also from the help desk's unique position of communicating daily with numerous customers or employees. Information gained in areas such as technical problems, user preferences, and satisfaction can be valuable for the planning and development work of other information technology units.
This section relies largely or entirely upon a single source. (June 2012) |
Large help desks[4] are often structured into different levels to handle different types of questions. For example, a first-level help desk may be prepared to answer the questions or provide the information commonly found among the FAQ or in a knowledge base. If the issue is not resolved at the first level, it can be forwarded to a second level with resources to handle more complex issues. Organizations may also have a third line of support to deal with software-specific needs, such as updates and bug fixes that directly affect a specific client.
Large help desks have a person or team responsible for managing the incoming requests, called "issues"; they are commonly called queue managers or queue supervisors. The queue manager is responsible for the issue queues, which can be set up in various ways depending on the help desk size or structure. Typically, large help desks have several teams that are experienced in working on different issues. The queue manager will assign an issue to one of the specialized teams based on the type of issue raised. Some help desks may have telephone systems with ACD splits ensuring that calls about specific topics are put through to analysts with the requisite experience or knowledge.[5]
A large number of these help desks have strict rosters. Time is set aside for analysts to perform tasks such as following up on problems, returning phone calls, and answering questions via email. This roster system ensures that all analysts have enough time to follow up on calls and also ensures that analysts are always available to take incoming phone calls. As the incoming phone calls are random in nature, help desk agent schedules are often maintained using an Erlang C calculation.
Desk side team[edit]
The desk side team (sometimes known as "desktop support") is responsible for issues related to desktops, laptops, and peripherals, such as personal digital assistants. The help desk assigns the desktop team the second-level desk side issues that the first level was not able to solve. They set up and configure computers for new users and are typically responsible for any physical work relating to the computers, such as repairing software or computer hardware issues and moving workstations to another location.
Network team[edit]
The network team is responsible for the network software, hardware and infrastructure, such as servers, switches, backup systems, and firewalls. They are also responsible for the network services, such as email configuration, file management, and security issues. The help desk assigns the network team issues that are in their field of responsibility. Networks often have proprietary or open source monitoring devices that forward outage information to help desk systems so that tickets may be automatically opened and primary contacts paged.
Server team[edit]
The server team is responsible for most or all of the servers within the organization. This includes Domain Name System (DNS) servers, network authentication, network shares, network resources, email accounts, and all aspects of server software. It may also include more advanced services such as those related to databases, storage or content management systems, specialized proprietary services, and other industry-specific server-based applications.
Other teams[edit]
Some companies have a telecom team that is responsible for telephone infrastructure such as PBX, voicemail, VOIP, telephone sets, modems, and fax machines. They are responsible for configuring and moving telephone numbers, voicemail setup and configuration, having been assigned these types of issues by the help desk.
Companies with custom application software may also have an applications team who are responsible for the development of in-house software. The help desk may assign to the applications team such problems as finding software bugs. Requests for new features or information about the capabilities of in-house software that come through the help desk are also assigned to applications groups.
The help desk staff and supporting IT staff may not all work from the same location. With remote access applications, technicians are able to solve many help desk issues from another work location or their home office. While there is still a need for on-site support to effectively collaborate on some issues, remote support provides greater flexibility.
See also[edit]
- Call center
- Comparison of issue tracking systems
- Comparison of help desk issue tracking software
- Customer service
- Support automation
- Technical support
- Call board
- Help desk software
- ^ https://www.kayako.com/blog/history-of-customer-service/
- ^ "2012 HDI Practices and Salary Report".
- ^ Middleton, I "Key Factors in Help Desk Success (An analysis of areas critical to help desk development and functionality.)" British Library R&D Report 6247, The British Library 1996
- ^ "IT Help Desks Not Just For Large Enterprises".
- ^ https://www.calvin.edu/it/about/student_jobs/HelpDesk%20Technician.pdf


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AirSoft: Or how I learned to stop doing, and start LARPing
So recently a few buddies and I took up Airsoft as a hobby. After getting tired of smashing my loud, impatient, lazy friends, I want to go bigger.
Well, kind of.
I found tons of groups in my area, filled with all the cocky, "experienced" LARPers, and I want in.
Anyone familiar with this ****? Any suggestions on gear? I want an electric, both main and sidearm, and a spring sniper. The main and sidearm need to have under 350 FPS. What type of "gear" should I get? Any places to get cheap camo? I'm not using my uniforms for this ****. (because I'm not gonna tear them up, or get in trouble)
Suggestions? Thoughts?
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Originally Posted by Cy Q. Faunce
5/13/2010 12:19am, #2--
also, inb4 paintball, I'm not made of money, people.
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Originally Posted by Cy Q. Faunce
5/13/2010 12:54am, #3--
How are you banned and still posting?
5/13/2010 12:59am, #4--
Uh, didn't...didn't you join the Marines?
Are you fantasizing about your job while you're on leave? Go get drunk and make bad decisions or something, jeez.
5/13/2010 1:00am, #5
5/13/2010 1:26am, #6--
Because I'm fucking amazing.
And I'm unfortunately, in the Reserves. Lets be real, its one weekend a month and all I really do is stand around. Its fun using my sup3r l33t s01 tr41n1ng in airsoft.
by super leet soi training, i mean, "I'M UP THEY SEE ME I'M DOWN" AND "FATAL FRONT NEAR CORNER FAR CORNER CROSS CORNER".
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Originally Posted by Cy Q. Faunce
5/13/2010 1:29am, #7
5/13/2010 11:02am, #8
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--Do they really do fire team rushes in airsoft matches?
Your in Detroit..why don't you just join a gang and teach them CQB and small unit tactics like the Army guys from Ft. Hood do?
5/13/2010 11:04am, #9--
I prefer paintballing to airsoft. It's a lot easier to "rhino hide" in airsoft then it is in paintballing...although airsoft is cheaper. This link should lead you to equipment for both though.
5/13/2010 11:13am, #10--
My advice? Don't waste your money.
A decent functional airsoft costs as much as it's "real steel" semi auto counterparts. Expect to pay upwards of $300 at least for a machine that doesn't jam constantly. Also, at a limit of 350fps, don't expect your sniper to be accurate beyond @ 25 feet.
Oh, and unlike real life, concealment and cover are the same thing. Yes, you can hide behind a shrub and it will act as cover against airsoft.
If you like running around in the woods, and playing with your weapons platform of choice enough to spend the money, then go for it! But if you want some sort of "realism" from your larping experience, well, I don't know what to tell you.
Also, the airsoft kids I've met tend to be REALLY ANOYING. The things they don;t know about firearms could fill volumes, but don;t tell them that. They are 1337 0p3r470r2 don't you know?
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Yeah. You know what I mean?


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Saturday, June 23, 2007
Regi's American Bistro
1002 Light St
Baltimore, MD 21230
Phone: (410) 539-7344
I went here for lunch with a friend I teach with. It was a very cute place with great decor and great seating outside. Thee outside was full so we sat inside. We both had the urkey and Brie - Fresh roasted turkey breast right off the bone! with melted brie cheese and cranberry demi-glaze served on ciabatta bread. It was very thick! It came with these fresh made fries that reminded me of boardwalk style fries. Both the fries and sandwich were very good.The service was very good. Most sandwiches were $8-$10. The menu had a nice wide selection and I would love to go back and try some other things. The only con I saw was parking- Federal Hill is basically all metered street parking so good luck! We lucked out and it was lunch time. I couldn't imagine dinner time!
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Five Places To Wait Out A Zombie Apocalypse
My high school once did an over-night lock-in. Essentially, we spent the night in the school, it was like a sleepover with dozens of people. It wasn't the sleepover aspect that intrigued me; rather it was being inside the school at a time when I normally wouldn't be. I felt like I was breaking some kind of rule. That was the kind of dorky goody-good I was.
This sensation is something I have carried with me. A few times I have had to work overnight at my retail job and I was actually excited to go to work. Or now if I'm at the office after the sun has set. I chalk that one up more to being 12 stories up and seeing the city glow. Whatever the case may be, I just enjoy being in place after dark that I'm normally in during the day.
Because of this I can't wait for a zombie apocalypse forcing me to possibly spend the night in some place other than a house. I never understood mobilizing instead of taking refuge in a situation like that. I would hold up somewhere as long as I could.
These are my top choices.
A Shopping Mall
I know this was done in Dawn of the Dead but it seemed to work for them. Well, half of them. Though this mall seemed way better than any mall I have been to. In addition to the usual mall shops there was a gun shop, a bar, and a food store. They had access to enough shit to make a functioning living space and kitchen area. This is where someone living in New York would joke how the make shift living area was bigger than their apartment.
The mall offers a variety of stores to both help you defend yourself from zombies as well as occupy those times when the zombies aren't around. Think about all the shit it malls you wish you could play with but can afford or justify buying. Now is the chance to live it up! My local mall has a Lego store and now all I can think about is building the most elaborate Lego creation. Something with millions of bricks. Or building one of the Star Wars ships and have attack the shit out of Hogwarts. Fuck, I need some Legos. Additionally, every store offers a security gate should any zombies get past the main entrance.
The downside would be the limited food supply. Sure there's the food court, but how long will that food last? Colorado blue laws also mean the only available booze would be whatever was leftover in the Chili's or Bennigans's (Bennigan's?) or whatever stupid restaurant may be attached to the mall.
Worst case scenario, you can wait for death in one of those massaging chairs.
A Bar
Ok so a bar doesn't really fit the first part as most of the time spent in bars is at night. But I offer this rebuttal: whatever, shut-up, I don't care.
On first thought, hell yeah, a bar! There's booze, some food, I love going there when there aren't hordes of zombies, why not? Well, it's really dark, it's really small, there's nowhere to sleep, and eventually all that will be left would be Bud Light and Soco.
Ok, so this has to be a specific kind of bar.
Yeah, titty bar!
No. Again that may seem like a good idea, but it's fucking terrible. The hot naked chicks are totally outnumbered by gross dudes who were just staring at naked chicks. Also, gross. Just gross.
The answer is a Dave and Buster's type place. You get the booze and food, it's roomy, and there are tons of video games. I'll wait out any apocalypse if I can spend the time playing skee-ball or Pac Man or simulate a car race. There are really no other redeeming factors other than getting drunk and playing video games. You're pretty fucked should zombies make it in. Those video game light guns aren't going to do jack, but you know you would try.
A History Museum
My sister got to spend the night in a museum once. I was jealous. There's a good chance I try to scare her with some story about dinosaur ghosts. That's probably not true. We didn't really talk unless we had to when we were younger.
Ever since she got to do that, and I learned it was an option I have always wanted to spend a night in the museum. I want to see dinosaur ghosts. The museum is big and there is so much going on. Recently there were animatronic dinosaurs and all sorts of interactive dinosaur stuff, but the there were so many kids I couldn't play with nearly enough of that stuff.
How awesome would it be to bash zombies with a T-Rex fossil? Also there would be all those caveman tools that could be used to fight off zombies. If they could kill dinosaurs then surely they could kill zombies.
Ok so maybe there weren't actually cavemen around at the same time as dinosaurs thus negating that argument. But cavemen probably killed other cavemen so their weapons are capable of killing zombies. Theoretically.
Since I have been pointing out how to pass the time when the inevitable end is nigh, make your way down to the planetarium and spend the final moments watching the creation of the universe. Or laser Floyd.
A Grocery Store.
This stems mostly from an episode of "Married With Children." A heat wave forces the Bundy's to seek the AC of the local grocery store. Ever since I saw Al Bundy in his tacky summer wear sitting in a lawn chair in front of the dairy case I've wanted to do that. That kind of makes me sad now that I that I've said it.
I think it has more to do with the idea that anything I could need would be right there. As a child I just assumed the store was the magic place where everything came from. Run out of juice at home, go to the store. So the idea was this endless supply of juice and junk food. And I was naïve and believed they would just give it to me for free. I mean shit, the Bundys weren't paying for anything. I didn't realize at the time that they were stealing because they are terrible people. Oh and it was television bullshit.
The main draw to a grocery store is the food. That's really it. Just a basic survival tactic. I guess there's some books and shitty toys to keep one amused.
This was actually a retarded choice. Everything else has some element of fun and you could enjoy yourself should it be the final moments of your life. Not the grocery store. That's what I get for thinking anything the Bundys do might be fun.
A Zoo
Zoo's have tall walls meant to keep animals in should they break free of their containment areas. Perfect for keeping zombies out. There are all sorts of habitats to keep you safe from the elements, or as possible hiding spaces. And all the animals mean you have possible fresh food sources. In the current world it would be fucked up to go hunting in a zoo. That's not true in a zombie infested world.
Occupying a zoo at night would allow you to see the nocturnal animals doing more than lying around like someone committing disability fraud. God damned animals being put into a fake habitat then not entertaining me when I come to see them.
There's something spooky about the idea of being at a zoo all night. From some reason this spooky aspect appeals to me.
Would it be possible for the animals to contact the zombie virus? This made up virus that currently has no set of rules? Because a zombie panther would scary as shit. Actually it probably wouldn't be scarier than a wild panther. Human zombies lose all there cognitive and most of their functional skills, being reduced to a primal desire to sate an appetite. So it stands to reason that the zombie panther wouldn't have the same hunting skills a normal panther would have. The sleekness, the stealth, the stalking ;that would all be gone.
Should a zombie attack happen these are the places where you could find me. Just because certain doom is clawing at the door doesn't mean you can't have some fun. What about you? Where will you go when the zombies come?
See ya in zombie hell…
26 Jan 2012 Lee S. Hart


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