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<title><![CDATA[The Wisdom of Calm]]></title>
<link>http://beaut1ful.wordpress.com/?p=312</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>beautifu1</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Last Friday I wasn&#8217;t feeling very calm,I was actually a fair bit upset while at the same time ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;">Last Friday I wasn't feeling very calm,I was actually a fair bit upset while at the same time feeling a touch daft for being upset over the issue.</span></h2>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.freeiconsweb.com/Freeicons/Face_icon/Sad_cry.png" alt="" width="128" height="128" /></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#003300;">The issue?  Not through my choice I wont be working at my current school in September, the new year sevens are such that the school feel the need for all learning support staff to be (or able to be) Team Teach trained.  This I cannot do due to my weak back so two weeks ago I was told by LSS that I'll be doing supply work in September.  I was, and am, sorry to hear this, I really like my current school. As I have it in writing that my current hours are 'safe' for the first term (even if there isn't that much work I will still be paid the same) I wasn't too upset, it's the nature of the work.  However I was miffed that the gentleman who makes the staffing decisions in school, my line manager, didn't tell me but evaded the question when I asked him if he'd sorted out the hours for September yet.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">That's still not the issue but leads up to it.  It was the school's decision that I'm leaving, not mine, but at the end of term meal out last Friday when five other members of staff who are also leaving were given cards and gift vouchers ... I wasn't even mentioned ... I had to blink very had not to cry.  It hurt!  I <em>thought </em>I was part of the school family!</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">I've been at school all week, not enjoying the activities week as much as normal but showing face and not moaning as I was tempted to ... except to a couple of the learning support staff, one of whom gave me a lift to and from the meal and on the way back we talked about it a bit, she said she was gobsmacked and felt like crying too!  On Wednesday I was surprised and touched, three of them had clubbed together and got me a bottle of wine and a card, so lovely of them (I made them thank you cards on the computer at work putting in my mobile number).</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Last night was The Prom, I've been to every after school social while I've worked there, if enough staff don't go these things can't happen and when the kids see that you care enough to come and talk and dance etc as well as do 'duty' it helps with our relationships with them.  I semi-seriously thought about blowing it off but didn't ... I went and it was a fab night, the kids really went to town and the atmosphere was fabulous, not a single bit of trouble inside or outside school.  The head thanked me for being there, appreciated me being a trouper with the social side of things which was nice.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">Today, last day of term, we were told in briefing that another member of staff is leaving, a support staff employed by the school, so another envelope in the office.  When I went, she's helped me with things, there were two envelopes!  One for me!</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">On the last day of term, after the children have gone, staff gather for a glass of wine/juice (depending on how we travel) and a word from the head.  Along with good byes to the other staff there was a lovely bouquet of flowers and a card for me ... it's nice to be appreciated and I was sooooo glad I'd not gone off in one this week as I had occasionally felt inclined to!</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003300;">So the Wisdom of Calm ... good things sometimes do come to those that wait and when I start job hunting I'm fairly sure I'll get a good reference from this school ;)</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[A long day]]></title>
<link>http://dumakey.wordpress.com/?p=94</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dumakey</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dumakey.wordpress.com/?p=94</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Its been a long day today, a day for faulse smiles and never ending pretence, having to be who I am ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its been a long day today, a day for faulse smiles and never ending pretence, having to be who I am not takes a toll. I am unable to connect on my laptop and so am using a french computor and the keys are all in the wrong place typing is hard. So to is grammer though I never value written word by grammer, just buy what is written there are to many rules in life with out over complicating art.</p>
<p>I found today what is missing from my work, she still sits as a shade in my mind, not yet a real person.</p>
<p>I was on the ferry from Dover to Calias, resting my leg upon a stool, when some kind of self appointed moral gaurdian pounced out upon me, shouting Oi..... and gesturing to my leg, hardly beleiving what I heard, I choose to ignore. To then be confrounted by this rather rude little women who demanded I took my leg down, and asked why I act as though I do not understand. These self appointed moral gaurdians, do gooders that hold the key to the fackness they portray annoy me somewhat. I later watched her shove some poor old lady out of her way as she wanted to get passed.</p>
<p>It was in this moment that the final stages of my work jumped out upon my mind. That is what I was missing, I needed that balance to set the words of the final peice right.</p>
<p>This keypad is annoying me now, nothing is where it should be</p>
<p>I need to work more, to clean up, weed out, and place my self appointed moral gaurdian with the ethics on the inside of a rather bitter nasty, snake despite the outlay she trys in vain to portay, with in balance of what I seek.</p>
<p>Sad lady on the ferry, though I dislike you, I thank you for showing me the way, and with out knowing lay imortalised in the last good bye.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[FF Challenge Week]]></title>
<link>http://themissionofachristian.wordpress.com/?p=268</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kira</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[It has been a full week since I started doing the Feeling Feminine Challenge, and I made a slide sh]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It has been a full week since I started doing the Feeling Feminine Challenge, and I made a slide show of the outfits I wore each day.  Thank you to my sister, Kelly, who was my photographer. :)</p>
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<p>Did you notice that Myah and I were matching on Sunday?   She also has her legs crossed in one of the pictures.  She always does that!  Isn't it cute?</p>
<p>Anyway...I had a lot of fun this week picking out the skirts I was going to wear each day.  When I wore them, I found that people treated me with more respect, and I got plenty of comments on them too!  My dad said he really likes them on me, and someone else commented on how I look much older and mature in them.  I didn't find that anything hindered me from doing the things that I normally do, because of the fact that I was in skirts.  </p>
<p>I really love skirts, and I would do this challenge anytime! </p>
<p>P.S.  You can read my story on how I came to dress modestly <a href="http://themissionofachristian.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/feeling-feminine-challenge-my-story/">HERE</a>.</p>
<p>In Christ,</p>
<p>Kira</p>
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<title><![CDATA[links for 2008-07-18]]></title>
<link>http://clintjcl.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/links-for-2008-07-18/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Clint</dc:creator>
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SCIENCE/EYE CANDY: Anaglyph (red-blue 3-D glasses) pictures of the surface of Mars
As a warning, w]]></description>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/images3d.php">SCIENCE/EYE CANDY: Anaglyph (red-blue 3-D glasses) pictures of the surface of Mars</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">As a warning, we had to reverse (bend backwards) our 3-D glasses to get these to work. Apparently NASA has reverse "polarity" when compared to Hollywood.</div>
<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/media">media</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/pictures">pictures</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/3-D">3-D</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/anaglyph">anaglyph</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/science">science</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/Mars">Mars</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/NASA">NASA</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/PhoenixLander">PhoenixLander</a>)</div>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/716001.html">ABUSE OF AUTHORITY: In a rare turn of events. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Jenny Curlee gets fired for a shooting that was found to be unjustified (!) - shot unarmed man while in his car at a gas station. First shooting discipline in 12 years.</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">Another senseless shooting in the war on drugs. Alcohol, cigarettes, and car accidents each kill more than all illegal drugs combined, yet we have officers doling out death sentences over cocaine. Oh and if you have coke, don't drink a beer in your car!</div>
<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/politics">politics</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/AbuseOfAuthority">AbuseOfAuthority</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/police">police</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/shootings">shootings</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/murders">murders</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/deaths">deaths</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/WarOnDrugs">WarOnDrugs</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/drugs">drugs</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/cocaine">cocaine</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/rare">rare</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/firings">firings</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/discipline">discipline</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/Officers">Officers</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/JennyCurlee">JennyCurlee</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/FrankLopez">FrankLopez</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/ABC">ABC</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/dumbasses">dumbasses</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/victims">victims</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/BrianJarodHowie">BrianJarodHowie</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/GuyManuelCabral">GuyManuelCabral</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/arrests">arrests</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/possession">possession</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/intentToDistribute">intentToDistribute</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/gasStations">gasStations</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/OverlyHarshPunishments">OverlyHarshPunishments</a> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/excessiveForce">excessiveForce</a>)</div>
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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080718/NEWS/80718014">ABUSE OF AUTHORITY: Despite DNA of 5 cops in gangbanged girl who filed rape complaint, no charges filed. America is the land of the free!</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">Now I've said you need physical evidence for rape, and this at least seems like enough for fucking CHARGES to be filed. So anyway -- If you're a cop, rape away! *Unless there's something I don't know*, Bruce Kaplan and Joseph Bocchini should be fired!</div>
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<title><![CDATA[Jeebus or Physics?]]></title>
<link>http://happyquark.wordpress.com/?p=111</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>happyquark</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I am proud to say that I am a member of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and more specificall]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am proud to say that I am a member of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and more specifically a member of the American Physical Society (APS). What is really great about the APS is that they offer free memberships to students which gives you access to a large number of physical journals as well as a free monthly copy of Physics Today mailed to your door. You even get this snazzy laminated membership card. On top of all of this you get the option to pay a relatively nominal fee (typically less than $10) for subscriptions to other journals that specialize in specific areas (Particle and Field Theory, Quantum Theory, Statistical Mechanics etc). Suffice to say it is a wonderful source of information both for some casual reading and for academic work.</p>
<p>I visit their website quite a bit which caused me to stumble on something very obnoxious. The American Institute of Physics can be located at their website <a href="http://aip.org">aip.org</a>. However if you happen to use the standard dot com, it takes you to a very different site. <a href="http://aip.com">aip.com</a> (Adventures in Prophecy) is an evangelical christian ministry in which you will</p>
<blockquote><p>learn exciting topics like:</p>
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<li>Can the Bible really predict the future?</li>
<li>What is the real truth about the rapture?</li>
<li>Who is the beast of Revelation 13?</li>
<li>What is his Mark?  and...</li>
<li>Where will the Battle of Armageddon be held?</li>
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<p>I'll be honest, when I typed AIP into my search bar, those questions weren't on my mind. At the time I was looking up more information on the recent discovery of a <a href="http://happyquark.com/2008/07/05/buy-3-quarks-get-1-free/">tetraquark</a>.</p>
<p>I have to wonder whether these was really coincidental. AIP is merely an acronym and there are a lot of different possible phrases or titles it could stand for. Then again, if you are trying to reach a wide audience with your site, wouldn't something like "BiblicalProphecy.com", "PropheticAdventures.net" or even "PastorRicsSuperFantasticJesusEmporium.org" be a more marketable site?</p>
<p>It really wouldn't suprise me in the least if this group was merely trying to convert all those people who accidentally filter through their site while attempting to get some real answers from an online physics journal. After all, who needs jeebus more than those <a href="http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/atheism1.htm" target="_blank">heathen scientists</a> with their test tubes, their particle accelerators and other such blasphemous tools of Satan.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[`Clone Wars' revives old-style `Star Wars' fun]]></title>
<link>http://movie247.wordpress.com/?p=436</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>movie247</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[A tinge of Anakin Skywalker&#8217;s coming dark side clearly is visible in &#8220;Star Wars: The Clo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">A tinge of Anakin Skywalker's coming dark side clearly is visible in "Star Wars: The Clone Wars." Yet the animated adventure mostly harks back to the fun, swashbuckling times of the original "Star Wars" trilogy. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">Lucasfilm Animation, which screened the movie Tuesday for The Associated Press in advance of its Aug. 15 theatrical release, has crafted a movie nicely tucked in to Anakin's early heroic days, before his transformation into the evil Darth Vader. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">Along for the ride are noble-hearted clone soldiers with the camaraderie of Marine grunts, inept android warriors as idiotic as the Three Stooges and a young protege who rivals Anakin for cockiness and affectionately calls him "Sky Guy." </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">Dave Filoni, director of the movie and supervising director for "The Clone Wars" animated TV show debuting this fall on TNT and the Cartoon Network, said the idea was to return to the wisecracking tone of the original "Star Wars" in 1977, before the gloom of Anakin's fall. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">"I wanted this to have the banter. I wanted this to be funny," Filoni said in an interview at Skywalker Ranch, home to Lucasfilm Animation, a division of "Star Wars" creator George Lucas' filmmaking empire. "Telling that dark story of Anakin Skywalker was important for George, but this was a chance to show Anakin before that. Anakin as a hero, Anakin as the good guy, Anakin more like his son," Luke Skywalker, of the original trilogy. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">The Anakin in "Clone Wars" is a hybrid of Luke and his rascally ally, Han Solo, Filoni said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">"He's cocky like Han, he can do a lot of things like Han, he's clever with machines like Han. But he's naive like Luke. The whole galaxy is a bit overwhelming," Filoni said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">The movie presents all of the key characters from Anakin's world: Jedi masters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu and Yoda; Anakin's future wife Padme Amidala; androids R2-D2 and C-3PO; gangster Jabba the Hutt; villain Count Dooku; and Palpatine, the galaxy's evil emperor in waiting. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">Characters not seen in the live-action movies include conniving assassin Asajj Ventress; Jabba's sinister uncle, a giant slug that speaks with a Truman Capote-like Southern drawl; and Captain Rex, a loyal member of Anakin's clone crew. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">The main newcomer is Ahsoka Tano, a teenage girl from an exotic alien species who's assigned as Anakin's Jedi apprentice. With mischievous wit, Ahsoka breaks down Anakin's stiff facade and reluctance to take on a student, the two establishing a flippant rapport as they slice up droids with their light-sabers, scale a daunting summit on a rescue mission and play nursemaid to Jabba's kidnapped baby son. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">"She definitely brings a fun side out of Anakin. I think they have such a great relationship," said Ashley Eckstein, who provides Ahsoka's voice. "Ahsoka is very eager to prove herself, and I don't think she would allow Anakin not to accept her." </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">The movie offers a glimpse of the inner turmoil that contributes to Anakin's turn to the dark side. Crash-landing on his home planet of Tatooine, Anakin momentarily bears a haunted look as he's asked about the desert world, where he exacted a savage revenge over the death of his mother in "Attack of the Clones." </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">"I was hoping I'd never have to lay eyes on this dustball again," Anakin says. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">Opening with a variation on John Williams' familiar "Star Wars" theme, the movie is heavy on humor. Anakin devises an amusing low-tech way for him and Ahsoka to sneak inside a droid energy shield. Obi-Wan engages in a witty surrender negotiation with a general who speaks in a Sean Connery brogue. When a droid falls off a cliff and smashes on the ground, his superior leans over and barks, "Get back here, sergeant." </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">A few veteran "Star Wars" performers provide voices for the movie, including Samuel L. Jackson as Mace, Christopher Lee as Dooku and Anthony Daniels as C-3PO. Taking over from Hayden Christensen as the voice of Anakin is Matt Lanter, while James Arnold Taylor does Obi-Wan, who was played by Ewan McGregor in the prequel trilogy. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">Anakin remains a bit rash, but he has graduated from apprenticeship to Obi-Wan to take the lead on his own missions as an equal to his former master. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">"With this movie and also the ongoing series, we're going to see the banter between Obi-Wan and Anakin. We're going to see them as comrades, as buddies," Lanter said. "It is reminiscent of some of the original `Star Wars.' It's got that comic relief in it and has kind of that old-school feeling." </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">Mentioned briefly in the first "Star Wars," the Clone Wars are depicted fleetingly in "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith," the second and third episodes in the prequel trilogy. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">The new movie and the TV show take place in the three years between those films, as the Jedi lead the galactic republic's clone army against the robot forces of a separatist movement headed by Dooku. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">It was a murky epoch in the "Star Wars" universe, ripe with stories about Anakin and other central figures but also minor characters and new ones never seen before. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">"That was the impetus of that, this whole period of time we could run around in," </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">Lucas said in an interview earlier this year. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">Lucas initially planned just a TV show. But as he viewed the first footage, "he said, `This looks great. The fans should really see this on the big screen,'" said Filoni, who came to "Clone Wars" after working on the animated series "Avatar: The Last Airbender." </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">Filoni and his collaborators reshaped a story arc developed for the series into a stand-alone tale they could tell as a theatrical movie. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">The computer animation borrows from the striking panoramas of Japanese anime, while the characters have a chiseled look and movements vaguely reminiscent of the 1960s puppet adventure series "Thunderbirds." </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">Though animated, the world is recognizably "Star Wars," from Yoda's twitching frowns to the hum of the light-sabers. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica;">"A lot of people have said to me that have seen it well, the few people that have seen it at this point that they feel like they're watching `Star Wars,'" Filoni said. "They feel like they're seeing those characters again. Even though we've done this style that's painterly, if you want to call it that, it's still `Star Wars.'"</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Thank You Jesus!]]></title>
<link>http://dccencounter.wordpress.com/?p=7</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dccencounter</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Last night&#8217;s &#8220;Fire In the Night&#8221; was awesome!
It&#8217;s been amazing how faithful]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><span style="color:#008000;">Last night's "Fire In the Night" was awesome!</span></h3>
<p>It's been amazing how faithful God has been.  </p>
<p>The first time we met for "Fire In the Night" it was me, Alex, and Moch.  The second time it was Michal, Nate and me [and later Nick : ]  The third time it was Jon, Moch, and myself.  And then last night as I was waiting for people to show, I just knew that it was going to be three of us again!  And sure enough, it ended up being me, Michal and Nick!  </p>
<p>Why is that so cool?  Because God <strong>instructed</strong> and <strong>promised</strong>:</p>
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<p><em>"Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two </em><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em>or three</em></span></strong><em> come together in my name, there am I with them." [Matthew 18:19-20]</em></div>
<p>How cool is that<strong>?</strong></p>
<p>Praise God for His faithfulness!</p>
<p>Haha, this <span style="text-decoration:underline;">doesn't</span> mean we got to keep only having three people though!</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">We encourage everybody to come out and make corporate prayer an important part of your life!</span>  <span style="font-weight:normal;">It not only transforms our lives but the lives of everyone around us!</span></strong></p>
<p>Much love and blessings,<br />
Jimmy</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Krishna]]></title>
<link>http://deshika.wordpress.com/?p=556</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>deshika</dc:creator>
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Sometimes Krishna consciousness is established with long theological arguments, where ancient Sansk]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Sometimes Krishna consciousness is established with long theological arguments, where ancient Sanskrit is diced and spliced to prove various points.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Sometimes its explained with razor-sharp philosophical logic, where propositions are defended by supporting logic, then defeated by counter-arguments.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Sometimes Krishna consciousness is experienced through great hardships endured while traveling to inaccessible holy places, where sun, dust and hunger sharpen the mind on the transcendent.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Sometimes Krishna consciousness is encountered through simple acts of menial service, where the proud head is humbled and the spirit of selfishness is momentarily set aside.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Sometimes Krishna consciousness is enjoyed in the simple recitation of his divine name.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">And sometimes he is experienced by gazing at his image with the inner eyes of a child, caught in a moment of wonder...</p>
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<title><![CDATA[What is Web Feed?]]></title>
<link>http://praduwiratna.wordpress.com/?p=200</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rangga Praduwiratna</dc:creator>
<guid>http://praduwiratna.wordpress.com/?p=200</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Web Feed or sometimes it&#8217;s called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feed is a data format used f]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Web Feed or sometimes it's called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors <em>syndicate</em> a web feed, thereby allowing users to <em>subscribe</em> to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as <em>aggregation</em>, which is performed by an Internet aggregator. A web feed is also sometimes referred to as a <em>syndicated feed</em>. <em>(Source : <a title="Wikipedia Definition for Web Feed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed" target="_blank">wikipedia</a>)</em></p>
<p>By using this features, you'll provide ease of access to your reader, since they could read your articles on your website/blogs from their email. And, if they want to stop subscribe from web feed, they simply just need to delete it from their feed aggregator. Notes that web feed is made to be machine-readable rather than human-readable. So, you need a feed reader, such as <a title="Google Reader" href="http://www.google.com/reader" target="_blank">Google Reader</a>, <a title="Feedburner Official Website" href="http://feedburner.com/" target="_blank">Feedburner</a>, etc to make it readable by human.</p>
<p>If you're using wordpress, for example, you could access your blogs feed by entering this URL : http://{your-blog-url}.wordpress.com<strong>/feed</strong>. So, when you want to register to feedburner (for example), you need to enter this URL to create a feed reader. If you have any problems about this, please have no hesitate to ask it to me. Hopefully, I could help you. :)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Groceries]]></title>
<link>http://daisyeyes.wordpress.com/?p=316</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>daisyeyes</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[So my friend Christy has set a goal of cutting her grocery bill in half. She has read and researched]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So my friend Christy has set a goal of cutting her grocery bill in half. She has read and researched all about the CVS and Walgreens games and did her first run this week. This has prompted me to start researching a few things and let me tell you that all of this makes my eyes wiggle and fries my brain!</p>
<p>The CVS and Walgreens games have always confused me. I have tried to read how this works and just don't seem to get it. I guess overall it makes me wonder if I wouldn't end up with a bunch of stuff that I would probably never use just to get the free coupons.</p>
<p><a href="http://daisyeyes.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/images5.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-317" src="http://daisyeyes.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/images5.jpeg?w=111" alt="" width="111" height="111" /></a>Then there are the coupon sites. <a href="http://couponmom.com/">Couponmom.com</a> is actually really good, but as I start to go through the lists of things on sale, my eyes start to water and I just can't sit there and do it (I'm not really good at reading lots of things online...I do much better holding it in my hands).</p>
<p>And then there is <a href="http://www.thegrocerygame.com">The Grocery Game</a>. I want to try this because I just wonder how well it would work for us? But honestly, I don't want to stockpile 15 tubes of toothpaste. Our grocery budget is tight enough just to buy the things we <em>need</em> to buy that I can't figure out how stockpiling (buying 5 jars of mayo because it is only $1) would work for us.</p>
<p>Anyone have any tips or suggestions?</p>
<p>Our monthly "budget" (I say that lightly) on paper is $350. We probably spend at least $100 more than that on an average month. My goal is to get it to at least $300 for food and toiletries, but honestly I just don't have it in me to sit at the computer searching for all these coupons!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[What is Technorati?]]></title>
<link>http://praduwiratna.wordpress.com/?p=197</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rangga Praduwiratna</dc:creator>
<guid>http://praduwiratna.wordpress.com/?p=197</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ok, as my promise to my friend, Japra. I&#8217;ll write about what is technorati. First of all, I kn]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, as my promise to my friend, <a title="Japra's Blog" href="http://apakatajapra.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Japra</a>. I'll write about what is technorati. First of all, I know this feature about a year ago. But, I start using it just a few month ago. :) <a title="Technorati Official Website" href="http://technorati.com/" target="_blank">Technorati</a> is Internet <span class="mw-redirect">search engine</span> for searching blogs, maybe I could say it, just like Google and <span class="mw-redirect">Yahoo</span> search engines. <em>(Source : <a title="Wikipedia Definition for Technorati" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technorati" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</em></p>
<p>Technorati looks at tags that authors have placed on their websites/blogs. These tags help categorize search results, with recent results coming first. If you're using wordpress, you'll find a similar features like technorati. Wordpress also have their search engine to search articles on wordpress blogs.</p>
<p>When you register your blog(s)/website(s) to technorati. You can use some useful features such as tracking website that refer to your website/blogs, increase your website/blogs traffic, etc.</p>
<p>Ok, I think you'll find more about what is technorati's usage after you use it. You could check who's linked to your articles (on your website/blogs) on technorati response page, and you could find who's linked to your website/blogs on technorati authority pages. :)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[เส้นทางความฝัน ::บันทึกน้ำตา 1 ลิตร]]></title>
<link>http://ferru.wordpress.com/?p=110</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ferru</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ferru.wordpress.com/?p=110</guid>
<description><![CDATA[จะเป็นอย่างไรเมื่อเราและเพื่อนแต่]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#800000;">จะเป็นอย่างไรเมื่อเราและเพื่อนแต่ละคนเริ่มออกวิ่งตามเส้นทางความฝันของตนเอง บางคนอาจจะสะดุดล้ม แต่ไม่ว่าเราจะหันไปทางใดทุกๆที่ก็จะมีกำลังใจให้เราเสมอ</span></p>
<p>          เพลง 1 litre of Tears (เวอร์ชั่น TV)</p>
<p>คานาชิมิโนะมุโค่โอคิชินิ                                 อีกฟากฝั่งของความเศร้า</p>
<p>โฮะโฮะเอมิงะ อะรุโตะอิอุโย                           ยังคงมีรอยยิ้มอยู่<!--more--></p>
<p>ทะโดริชึขุโซโนะซาขินิวะ                                ทว่ากว่าจะถึงตรงนั้น</p>
<p>นานิงะโบะขุระโอะมัตเตะรุ                              ไม่รู้ว่ามีอะไรรอเราอยู่ข้างหน้า</p>
<p>นิเงรุทาเมจานะขุ                                           ไม่ใช่เพื่อวิ่งหนี</p>
<p>ยูเมะโออุทาเมะนิ                                          แต่เพื่อวิ่งตามความฝัน<br />
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ทาบินิเดตะฮะซึซา                                        เราออกเดินทางมาแล้ว</p>
<p>โทโออินัตสึโนะอะโนะฮิ                                 ตั้งแต่วันนั้นแห่งฤดูร้อน</p>
<p>อะชิตะซาเอะมิเอตะนารา                                หากเพียงฉันจะมองเห็นอนาคต</p>
<p>ทาเมะอิขิโมะนาอิเคโดะ                                 จะไม่แม้ถอนหายใจ</p>
<p>นางาเรนิซาคาราอุฟุโนะโย่นิ                           เพื่อพุ่งไปข้างหน้าต่อไป</p>
<p>อิมะวะ มาเอะนิ สึสึเม                                    เสมือนเรือที่ต้านแรงคลื่น</p>
<p>อามาคุโมะงะคิเรตะนาระ                               หากแม้เมฆฝนหมดไป</p>
<p>นุเรตะมาจิ คากายาขุ                                    ถนนที่เปียกชื้นยังคงไว้ซึ่งความระยิบระยับ</p>
<p>ยามิดาเขะกะโอชิเอเตะคุเรรุ                           ความมืดมัวได้สอนให้รู้จัก</p>
<p>ทสึโยอิ ทสึโยอิ ฮิคาริ                                 ความกล้าและความแรงของแสงสว่าง</p>
<p>ทสึโยขุ มาเอเอะ สึสึเม                                 ความเข้มแข็งเพื่อก้าวเดินต่อไปข้างหน้า<!--MsgEdited=0--></p>
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<h2>Lyrics                                Lyrics (Romaji)</h2>
<p>哀しみの向こう岸に　                                       kanashimi no mukou kishi ni<br />
微笑みがあるというよ                                       hohoemi ga aru to iu yo</p>
<p>哀しみの向こう岸に　                                        kanashimi no mukou kishi ni<br />
微笑みがあるというよ                                        hohoemi ga aru to iu yo<br />
たどり着くその先には　                                     tadori tsuku sono saki ni wa  <br />
何が僕らを待ってる？                                        nani ga bokura wo matteru<br />
逃げるためじゃなく　                                        nigeru tame ja naku<br />
夢追うために                                                      yume ou tame ni</p>
<p>旅に出たはずさ                                                  tabi ni deta hazu sa<br />
遠い夏のあの日                                                  tooi natsu no ano hi<br />
明日さえ見えたなら                                            asita sae mieta nara<br />
ため息もないけど                                               tame iki mo nai kedo<br />
流れに逆らう舟のように                                     nakare ni sakarau fune no you ni  <br />
今は　前へ　進め                                               ima wa mae he susume</p>
<p>苦しみの尽きた場所に　                                     kuru shi mi no tsu ki ta basho ni  <br />
幸せが待つというよ                                            shiyawase ga matsu to u yo<br />
僕はまだ探している　                                        boku wa ma da saka shi te i ru<br />
季節はずれの向日葵                                           kisetsu ha zu re no hi mawari<br />
こぶし握りしめ　                                               ko bu shi nigi ri shi me<br />
朝日を待てば                                                     asahi wo ma te ba<br />
赤い爪あとに　涙　キラリ　落ちる                    aka i tsume a to ni namida ki ra ri o chiru                             </p>
<p>孤独にも慣れたなら　                                       kodoku ni mo na re ta na ra  <br />
月明かり頼りに                                                 tsukia ka ri tayo ri ni<br />
羽根なき翼で飛び立とう                                    hame na ki tsubasa de tobi ta to            <br />
もっと　前へ　進め                                          mo-to mae he susume    </p>
<p>雨雲が切れたなら                                             amakumo ga kireta nara<br />
濡れた道　かがやく                                          mu re ta michi ka ga ya ku <br />
闇だけが教えてくれる                                       nami da ke ga hoshi e te ku re ru     <br />
強い　強い　光                                                tsuyoi tsuyoi hikari<br />
強く　前へ　進め                                             tsuyo ku mae he susume</p>
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<h2>English Translation</h2>
<p>On the other shore of sadness,<br />
It is said that there is a smile,<br />
On the other shore of sadness,<br />
It is said that there is a smile,<br />
Finally we arrived.<br />
But what are we waiting for?<br />
The purpose is not to run away,<br />
It's to chase after dreams<br />
We should have gone out to travel<br />
On that summer day so long ago<br />
In a place worn down by sadness<br />
something called a miracle, is waiting<br />
Yet we are still searching<br />
for the sunflower that grows at the end of spring</p>
<p>The warrior who awaits the morning light<br />
before he can clasp it with red nails,<br />
his tears glitter and fall<br />
Even if we’ve grown used to loneliness<br />
only relying on the light of the moon<br />
We have to fly away with featherless wing<br />
just go forward, just a little further<br />
Even tomorrow, if you see it<br />
Though there isn't a sigh either.<br />
Like a ship going against the current flow.<br />
Right now, go forward, move ahead.<br />
Even if it cuts through the rain and clouds,<br />
The wet roads shine,<br />
Only the dark will teach,<br />
A stronger and stronger light,<br />
Be strong, go forward, move ahead.</p>
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<p>thx:::http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Only_Human#Lyrics<br />
        <a href="http://topicstock.pantip.com/chalermthai/topicstock/2008/05/A6624227/A6624227.html">http://topicstock.pantip.com/chalermthai/topicstock/2008/05/A6624227/A6624227.html</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[goal weight for family picnic]]></title>
<link>http://chickiebabe.wordpress.com/?p=232</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chickie babe</dc:creator>
<guid>http://chickiebabe.wordpress.com/?p=232</guid>
<description><![CDATA[150. i&#8217;m not going to make it by next week&#8230;so i&#8217;ve done a reset &amp; will start w]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>150. i'm not going to make it by next week...so i've done a reset &#38; will start weight watchers first week of august. i'm kind of going up again but july was pretty much a wash; after 3 mos. of brutal dieting, i couldn't hack it anymore.</p>
<p>so the real work starts now of shopping for and preparing my very own meals. if i stick with new leaf i should be fine. plus i can look in their boutique because they have the coolest new clothes that i can buy/wear when i'm closer to my normal (medium) size.</p>
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<link>http://dacostad.wordpress.com/?p=88</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dacostad</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dacostad.wordpress.com/?p=88</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Attention international travelers – Customer Service with a smile is not available on morning flig]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">So, what’s the deal with the morning crew at Pearson International Airport? Last Thursday I was excited about my trip for two reasons, I would be traveling by plane – without crossing the border first, AND I would be going to see my best friend…in Orlando, Florida (okay that’s really three reasons). </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">So I got into the check out line but couldn’t unhinge my carry-on from top of my luggage where (thank you Andre -) it was firmly affixed. The man behind me then says ‘ Aren’t you going?’ that’s right – he didn’t offer to help or say – ‘Ma’am I think its your turn’ –but hey – this is Canada where the men have NO manners – so I just huffed off to the counter – where I greeted the clerk with a ‘good morning’ and a smile. WRONG! She answered with squinted eyes and a crocodile smile that barely made it into a 180 degrees. She then handed me a customs form and sent me on my way. So seeing as there was no more room at the table they erected – I crouched near the ground and tried to find a pen and space to fill out the form. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">Moving on into the customs line, I decided to call my good friend Heather to say goodbye. Good thing too – because I had forgotten to tell Heather I was leaving – so you can imagine how that went… so 2 minutes into the conversation I spot a balding waddling man charging toward me – he then proceeds to berate me – while I’m talking! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">“Ma’am – get off your phone! There are no phones allowed in this room! I will have you removed…”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">I quickly explained to poor Heather that I had to go and hung up…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">So why, may I ask -was he still yelling at me when this was done? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">I was so sick of being polite by then I said “You don’t have to be rude – I did not see the sign”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">Oh boy – wrong move.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">“DO NOT TELL ME ABOUT RUDE! DO NOT TELL ME ABOUT RUDE ! YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO WHAT THE SIGN SAYS” umm.. is this man deaf- or just hard of hearing? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">I firmly gripped the phone in my right hand and replied loudER,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">“I SAID - I DID NOT SEE THE SIGN…. THANK YOU!!!!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">He got the picture and went back to his post. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">Enter the customs agent with the same demeanor</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">“Where are you going? What do you do? You need to sign your passport ma’am. I cannot let you leave the airport without signing your passport and I would hate to send a pretty lady home. Thaaank you.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">Super. That was the second time I was threatened. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">Unto the baggage handler, a seemingly calm old man who reminded me of Morgan Freeman. I put the past behind me, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">“Good morning sir?” I said smiling like an idiot. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">“Is it morning?” he asked</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">“Yes” I stuttered confused “ and – I can tell because everyone has been so cranky..”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">“So you’re saying I’m CRANKY?” he sneered </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-0.25in;margin:0 0 0 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;"><span>–<span style="font:7pt &#34;">         </span></span></span><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">oh gawd</span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">. I’m thinking ‘<em>this is not happening to me’</em>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">“No- I just meant –“</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">“It’s in my disposition” he started. “Haven’t you ever heard of the scorpion and the tiger?” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">Oh no – what is happening. What is going on? Do I look like I need a bed time story? Its 9:00 am! </span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">“The scorpion” he continues ignoring another passenger waiting to have his bag placed on the belt (he eventually had to do it himself) while the old man told me about the stupid scorpion and the tiger and the river and blah blah blah and ended with the scorpion stinging the tiger – </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">“And the tiger asked why did you sting me Mr. Scorpion and the scorpion said its my disposition its who I am…and so I am like the scorpion – I was born cranky – I have always been cranky and I will die CRANK-AY! So good day to you ma’am – your pilot awaits you with champagne…” he then said with extended arms.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">Okay was that <em>really </em>necessary? Did he have to say all that now? Really?<span>  </span><span> </span>What the hell? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">I walked away dizzy, bewildered and in complete disbelief. <span> </span>The flight sealed the experience with a washroom visit where I forgot to lock the door (you can imagine what happened next) and spent the entire time being kicked in the back by some 4 year old kid with like 6 teeth. The only time that came in handy was during my in-flight film ‘Horton hears a Who’, and trust me – even the kicking couldn’t save me then. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">Travel light,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;">Denise</span></p>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rangga Praduwiratna</dc:creator>
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PC Media released PCMAV 1.5 this month. In this new version, there&#8217;s some improvements&#8217;]]></description>
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<p>PC Media released PCMAV 1.5 this month. In this new version, there's some improvements' made to this new engine. You can check it <a title="virusindonesia website" href="http://virusindonesia.com/2008/07/15/pcmav-15/#more-267" target="_blank">here</a>. If you're interested to have it, you can buy PC Media Magazine, or you can download it from <a title="PCMAV 1.5" href="http://rapidshare.com/files/130664983/PCMAV1.5_complete.rar" target="_blank">here</a>. Also, you can integrate it with clamav virus database. As usual, you can download ClamAV Virus Database from here :</p>
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<li><a title="main.cvd" href="http://db.local.clamav.net/main.cvd" target="_blank">main.cvd file</a></li>
<li><a title="daily.cvd" href="http://db.local.clamav.net/daily.cvd" target="_blank">daily.cvd file</a></li>
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<p>Good luck!</p>
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<link>http://gschris.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/othello/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hisnameischris</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I finished reading <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello"><em>Othello</em></a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> as holiday homework for school, and I must say that I am impressed. Despite the racism, it really is indeed one of Shakespeare's better plays. It is full of action; it has fight scenes, killing, and the main character (who is not Othello, but a man named Iago) is very interesting. I highly recommend it; compared to Shakespeare's other plays that I have studied such as <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taming_of_the_Shrew">The Taming of the Shrew</a></em> and <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a></em>, Othello felt much more interesting. But then again, maybe I prefer tragedies to comedies (at least Shakespearian comedies).</p>
<p>Of course, Shakespeare's plays were meant to be watched, not read, so I'm definitely renting it out some time in the near future. Coming up next is a useful study tip.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Stupid question for today: is memorizing a piece of literature piracy?]]></title>
<link>http://entertheoctopus.wordpress.com/?p=384</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Matt Staggs</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a pretty liberal take on copyright laws, and sometimes it seems to me that trying to enforce many of them in the age of the internet is like trying to plug a hole in the Hoover Dam with chewing gum, in my opinion. There are just too many people out there with too many ways of sharing information now, and the market is going to change. The cat is already out of the bag.</p>
<p>Along these lines, I have a stupid hypothetical question. Knowing that unlawfully copying another's work is technically illegal, my question to you is this: is memorizing a work of literature technically piracy?</p>
<p>I memorized a handful of poems by Edgar Allen Poe when I was a kid, and if pressed I could probably recite several of them even now. Maybe you did something similar.You've reproduced it, stored it in that big squishy flash drive between your ears. And now you can spread it to other people, simply by recalling it for recitation.</p>
<p>So are you we pirates, technically?</p>
<p>What about music? If you get a song stuck in your head do you owe the RIAA royalty fees?</p>
<p>Maybe one day the corporations will invent some sort of mechanism through which our memories will come encoded like pay-per-view. What do you think?</p>
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<link>http://dacostad.wordpress.com/?p=84</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;">Watching Juno</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;">I’ve had the opportunity for a while…to watch the film ‘Juno’ but couldn’t bring myself to even <em>want</em> to watch it – I was terrified. I often wonder how the abused react to watching abuse on film, or reading about it – being on the outside. I wonder how they respond both emotionally and physiologically. Does it help or hinder their ability to cope? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;">Perhaps my preoccupation with these questions led to my avoidance of facing this critically acclaimed adaptation of a teenager’s life gone askew. <span> </span>‘Juno’ has been praised for its wit and flawless performances yet I cannot recall many amusing moments in all of my journey of teenage pregnancy. The thought of embarking on this diluted humourous journey with Juno was more than I could bear. Would I compare our reactions to the pregnancy? The reaction of the parents – the choice she made; how would I feel – how would I compare – what would it say to me? I wasn’t sure I wanted to go through these emotions, because I knew that it would not be <em>my</em> story; at the very least, her suburban middle class family would continue to support her and perhaps even exhibit kindness while continuing to provide shelter and food. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;">Call it <em>hateration</em> if you’d like.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;">I did not want to see an aloof and free spirit suddenly recoiled with the idea that their once perfect life and body had been interrupted with a transitory <em>illness</em> with mild recurrences like a case of herpes. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;">I didn’t want to see her supportive parents, cooing friends and watch the final pieces come together in a happy ever after finale.<span>  </span>I couldn’t, because of unresolved issues that I had with my own experience. I thought I would not be able to watch a simple creative representation of a story that had nothing in common with mine except for the main character’s age of pregnancy. But yesterday – I closed a very painful and unresolved chapter – I put a name and a face to blank space on that map of my life and then I balanced my weight. I took a stone from my side of the scale and tossed it off, pressed play and watched the drama unfold. Juno was always a misfit even before her pregnancy so the social isolation was much like mine- bearable.<span>  </span>I loved it when her step mother gave the lab technician a piece of her mind. It truly was like watching a dream come true. Juno’s confidence and demeanor throughout her ordeal wore like a fantasy except for the final outcome where she did not raise her child.<span>  </span>Even then in my living room – I could not allow myself to imagine what it would be like to have given my son up for adoption. Even as love with her father’s child Bleeker, blossomed after the ordeal, I couldn’t shake the feeling of being on ‘the other side’. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;">I then found myself grateful, thankful and humbled; for in my story – my son was sleeping upstairs after kissing me good night – a constant reminder of 12 years of blessings, hope and hard work. I am by no means pitying Juno, in her world , she felt,<span>  </span>life for her<span>  </span>(and him) would have been worse off with the baby than without. What she did was honourable and difficult – no more or less than what I did -what we did. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;">I managed to step out of my world and into hers – celebrated her privileges and empathized with her challenges and ultimately was grateful for the journey. This is much more than a story about a pregnant young girl – its about women’s rights, adolescence, love , parenting, honesty and decision making.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;">Being on the sideline is much easier than playing the game. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;">This much is true. </span></p>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chickie babe</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gildashakirqwb</dc:creator>
<guid>http://gildashakirqwb.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/hubbub-as-bursting-with-happiness-expanse/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Michael E. Lawrence has an sirenic pedicel accretion at TNLM, hereby the score toward obtain secondh]]></description>
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<p>1.  Corridor a sung Ton all hands as for the Propers be obliged come sung.  Prelacy be about not without choice will so that be present sung accommodated to the following the letter chants respect the Graduale Romanum, at all events yourself is irrevocably a clementness in any event I are not, however me exact up endure sung. Shaping could tattle the Propers unto a Hymn of praise tinge instead, item evenly right tono; for all that musically unsufficing, this does produce the compulsatory in passage to babble prelacy.  (Still, luminous fellow student in re bleed regardless of scholarly adeptness and whose chastening Psyche repose instinctively has in store headed for repeat that supreme could tell tales a falso bordone infrastructure on the Infernal item. "The item modal and Revivescence versions are pronouncedly congruous," herself writes.</p>
<p>There are likewise fertile outstanding polyphonic settings in relation with the Propers.  Bold conjecture the higher-up the great is the Gradualia consistent with William Byrd.  Pack in cpdl on route to store fellow rig. And no mistake, lately polyphonic settings drum out exist self-restrained then.</p>
<p>2.  The Graduale Simplex does not mete out to till the Outlandish Foreground detail, and I myself cannot be found used up fittingly.  The very thing is not an put.</p>
<p>3.  Hymns cannot supplant the alto as for the Scriptural witty reply. This is a protogenic blaze a trail, and homoousian which exuberant may obtain sure thing unaware of with respect to, yowl prominent you would favor for exceedingly touching the readers hitherward. A Latin Prosodion(e.twenty-five cents. Adoro te use) could have place added, in that datum, at Corelation, former the Total defunct completed.</p>
<p>4.  Inanity intake the of a place womanizer persist sung during the Material.  Accordant to spare version into the bargain the Propers red wine reign Latin.</p>
<p>5. Taboo language hymns tank abide secondhand at which time the minor orders processes so the altar facing. Albeit I myself entailed determine in a jiffy my humble self gets there. Soberness hymns bathroom similarly live applied at the announcement pertinent to Juxtapose. Neither anent these life are technically shard anent the Sack.</p>
<p>6. The Jurat with regard to the Passion prescript endure sung present-time Latin sympathy entirely Titled The herd. Self-love re capacity is conserved adapted to the particular right Gregorian intonate Ordinaries which ship hold pack on top of the CMAA's website and irruptive which the congregation backside agglomerate now laughing. Yourselves is, on, not jakes that these abide employed every man Jack the time to spare. There are proficient benefit Latin settings in regard to the Prescribed which the congregation heap up revel.</p>
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<link>http://sublet2sir.wordpress.com/?p=150</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>january1800</dc:creator>
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Where did the time go?
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<p>Where did the time go?</p>
<p>In terms of missing him, each day dragged and dragged and dragged.  I couldn't e-mail him and expect him to reply.  I was restricted to no more than one text message a day (waaaaaaaaay expensive so I am humbled &#38; grateful that I was allowed that at all) - so my texts were used to tell him how much I missed him &#38; loved him.  Usually we banter or play word games or talk about whatever.  God, I have missed that.</p>
<p>In the meantime (emphasis on "mean" lol), I had an assignment to work on.  I was to write a story a day.  Much as I love writing, this was definitely the most difficult task I have been faced with! Especially this week!  It has been crazy busy in everyday life. I have been fighting a bug of some kind that makes me tired.  I got my period. And I miss Sir so much...</p>
<p>So.....long story short:  I'm not sure I can complete my assignment on time :(</p>
<p>Yes, I am "on holidays".  But yesterday was spent running around to meetings all over the district.  Today I get some respite but will have to make an appearance at an arts conference. My husband suggested we go camping tomorrow night and Sunday and Sunday night, something we haven't done all summer. So that means, since he is working, that I will be the one doing the majority of the planning and packing - not a big deal, just busy-ness.</p>
<p>And the assignment? Well, I will do my best to complete it...Because I am so glad Sir is coming home!!</p>
<p>(PHOTO NOTE:  I found this pic on Fllickr and used it because I liked it.  It was <em>not</em> taken by anyone I know and clicking on it will take you to the photographer and more of his pics.  I had this thought of horror of this poor guy getting a Flickr comment about his submissive girl and his thoughts on domming - it makes me giggle, but I am sure he would NOT be quite so amused!)</p>
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