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| Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
cavalorn
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11:42p |
hmm
I just realised I still know the entirety of Marillion's Misplaced Childhood by heart.
I believe those of us who grew up in the 80s will always, to some extent, still be there until we die. |
alobar
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5:26p |
Homeless people die after bird flu vaccine trial in Poland  Below from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ericmonster. URL at end.
=======================By Matthew Day in Warsaw
Three Polish doctors and six nurses are facing criminal prosecution after a number of homeless people died following medical trials for a vaccine to the H5N1 bird-flu virus. The medical staff, from the northern town of Grudziadz, are being investigated over medical trials on as many as 350 homeless and poor people last year, which prosecutors say involved an untried vaccine to the highly-contagious virus. ( Read more... )
The news of the investigation will come as another blow to the reputation of Poland's beleaguered and poverty-stricken national health service. In 2002, a number of ambulance medics were found guilty of killing their patients for commissions from funeral companies.
( Read more... ) Current Music: Jim Cole & Spectral Voices - Spectral Winds, Inward Voices (Drone Zone: Atmospheric ambient space mu |
shakewell
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6:21p |
today's tweets Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter, because it's what we do. |
alobar
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5:18p |
The Few, the Proud, the Expendable! Below from Ward on C_3 list.
I say, bring the marines home and replace them with Congress, right wing news commentators, and their kinfolk.
========================== Pentagon extends tour of Marines in Afghanistan
By LOLITA C. BALDOR,
Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time. ( Read more... ) Current Music: Jim Cole & Spectral Voices - Spectral Winds, Inward Voices (Drone Zone: Atmospheric ambient space mu |
corvus93
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4:22p |
So, it appears that a server is down around here. Naturally, the sites I can't open are the ones that I would be most productive with. pfeh |
wishingwell111
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4:43p |
I've been so quiet  My two greatest treasures.. I wish I had some pictures of the now 3 month old baby, but I seem to have misplaced my camera returning from Solstice Ritual in Tenn. Oh well. Magickally, things are interesting, noticed increase in my psychic abilities such as knowing who is on the phone when it rings, predicting company moments before they arrive, prescient dreams, and the like. Useless gifts, really. Impresses people though. I don't know why, lots of people are like this. Off to cook a delicious meal of fillet mignon, asparagus, mashed new potatoes, appetizers, artisan bread, wine. Current Mood:  sleepy |
corvus93
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3:13p |
Haven't done this in a while... Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test... Modern, Cool Nerd
For The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one. A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions. You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd. Nerds didn't use to be cool, but in the 90's that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn't quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and "geek is chic." The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)! Congratulations! Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in any of the following: Buffy the Vampire SlayerProfessional WrestlingLove & Sexuality America/Politics Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TESTTake The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test at HelloQuizzy |
yoga
[ mneiai ]
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4:21p |
I'm home from school for the summer and haven't done yoga for about six months due to medical reasons. Before that, I was doing ashtanga yoga (with a pretty sadistic teacher ^.^). I can only find hatha yoga classes in my area and was wondering what you guys think--can someone somewhat out of shape do hatha yoga? I've always heard that it's very hard.
Thanks. |
frusciantewater
[ daniella543 ]
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12:31p |
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yoga
[ imdissertating ]
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3:24p |
9 Various Yoga Icons Hi all, I've been wanting a yoga LJ icon for a while now but I haven't seen too many people making them so I made my own. Preview:    Here at my icon journal. If the mods think this is outside the bounds of this community, I won't be offended if you delete this post :) Current Mood:  accomplished |
starchamber007
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3:37p |
A Rogue's Life Canada Day... good God. I’m tired. So very, very tired. I’m about to get the biggest paycheck of my life, but that’s about a week away, so right now, I’m just tired. There were nachos... Lord were there nachos. I’m working on the final edit of the Tyrant, writing responses to a group which has decided to include me in its activities, (looking for a resident authoritarian I suppose) and trying to turn the sexual revolution thread into an actual full length piece. It’s been busy. In spite of that, I’ve spent all leisure time watching Point Break over and over, searching for some kind of meaning or understanding of why such a crappy movie holds such an intense fascination for me. So this is more “personal update” than “earth shattering revelation.” This is the crazy time of year. The heat, the strain, and the pressure are all very intense. I love it, but I suspect that it’s killing me. Current Mood: bad |
copia
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1:09p |
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fraterseraphino
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10:58a |
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lordandrei
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10:24a |
When I say, "Obscure" I MEAN Obscure Last evening I was YouTube surfing. I came across some old 70's game shows. I was a VORACIOUS game show fan in the 70's.  "Match Game", "Gambit", "High Rollers", "Now You See It", "Jackpot", "Password", "$foo Pyramid", "Gong Show", "Joker's Wild"... And the real "Wheel of Fortune" with Chuck Woolery, Susan Stafford, and buying ceramic dalmatians and putting the rest on a Gift Certificate. I ate this stuff up. One in particular was " Treasure Hunt." A really trashy show from the mind of Chuck Barris. (Which should make that statement redundant). ( Here's the quick summary from wikipedia )The show was undeniably exploitation for entertainment purposes. ( But then there was Emile Autouri )And of course because I LOVE the obscure... I've faithfuly recreated a fan page for Mr. Autouri on Facebook. Below is a YouTube exploration in abject stoicism. Back when Game Shows did fun things. Current Mood:  nostalgic |
copia
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12:29p |
Get regular dental cleanings, boys and girls Just got back from the dentist, first time in about two years. I'd been having some pain, which I was almost hoping was mere tooth grinding. He says I need a root canal on my top back tooth, and had thought he could do a root canal on my back bottom molar, but after numbing me out he doesn't think he can save the tooth and it has to come out. Since it's a back molar, there's no way to replace it with anything but an implant, which will be over $3000. I'm going to get a second opinion on the extraction issue. I never thought I'd be hoping for a root canal. I brush regularly, and use mouthwash before bed, and I don't drink sodas for the most part. But I do eat a lot of candy. When I got in the car, Love and Rockets' "So Alive" was playing. Yeah, I get it. At least I have some legal hydrocodone for a while (a stingy 16-count scrip!). The left side of my face is still numb, but I look normal enough. Tonight I'm seeing the Sun City Girls. It's supposed to be their last tour. I was going to buy another necklace and a wristlet/phone holder on Etsy today, but now it seems hard to justify. Current Mood:  numb |
cavalorn
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6:39p |
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fraterseraphino
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10:22a |
How do we know America is on the right track to wealth creation? When there are a ton of books describing exactly how we're going to hell in a handbasket. And there is historic precedent as well: America's Days Aren't NumberedHere's my theory: Prosperity and security are boring. Nobody wants to read about them. The same phenomenon occurred in ancient Rome, the last state to acquire such a firm hegemony. By the second century B.C., Roman citizens were affluent and their empire no longer had any serious rivals. With the dangers past and the money rolling in, they developed a taste for jeremiads. If you had a stylus, ink and scroll you could hardly go broke telling the Romans their empire, culture and way of life were yesterday's news.
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The Romans may have been unquestioned masters of their world, but they sure didn't like reading about it. And when the empire actually did start its decline in the third century A.D., criticisms and predictions of collapse became noticeably thinner on the ground.
The military dictators who seized power in Rome and led the empire on its downward spiral did not much like reading about their own shortcomings, and they had ways of making sure that they didn't have to. These were the days of the panegyric – an obsequious form of literature that praised the emperor and empire to the skies. When you start seeing those, it's time to worry. Heh. |
isomeme
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9:48a |
Off the grid We're gradually getting settled in at the new apartment. I love the place, especially its roominess; 10 years crammed into our previous home has made me really appreciate room to swing my arms without knocking over a lamp. I haven't had net access at home since we moved. Nor have we had TV. The all-in-one cable installation is due to happen on Saturday; meanwhile, we're living like our primitive ancestors, doing this odd thing called "talking with each other" to pass the time. Well, actually madelineusher has found an open wifi link to leech, but I haven't stooped that low. Yet. This morning, I decided to try for speed on my trip to work, just to see what might be possible. Door to door time was 45 minutes, and that was with an unusually long wait for the bus. I'll never get my antique Masonic tomes read on a commute as short as that. :) Speaking of which, I'm nearly done with Robert Brown's Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy. It's a very typical "lone visionary" book -- he has one very good idea, and proceeds to apply it where it is appropriate, and then where it is not appropriate, exhaustively, stretching his argument well past the breaking point. I also tend to distrust an author's views on sacred geometry when he can write "The radius of any circle is one sixth of its circumference" with a straight face. Still, his core ideas are excellent, and the book has shed some intriguing and productive light on several symbols of special interest to me. I recommend the book if you already know Masonry and astronomy reasonably well, and can thus spot when he's gone off the rails. |
decadence
[ antonijan ]
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9:19a |
Decadent life and theatre I love enjoying live musicals and to sahre with you my lifestyle.... You can get a de luxe trip to broadway shows in New York? A Chorus Line have an amazing contest and they call it "Be the One"! The object of the contest is to upload an online audition and those who garner the most votes online will be selected as "The One" and awarded prize packages including the chance to win a grand prize trip to broadway!!! The online contest is in conjunction with the ACL tour and each cities contests doesn't begin till a few days before the opening of ACL in your city....so check the official website often and keep in mind the tour schedule that I also included below. The winners on each stops will be pooled together and a grandprize winner will be chosen from them for a chance to a paid trip to NY and a premium seat to a Broadway show! Swanky deal huh? Post your own audition, when the tour is near your city, at auditions.achorusline.com Here's the tour schedule, so you could get ready for the contest. 5/4/08 - 5/17/08 Denver, CO The Buell Theatre 5/21/08 - 7/6/08 Los Angeles, CA Ahmanson Theatre 7/8/08 - 7/27/08 San Francisco, CA the Curran Theatre 7/29/08 - 8/3/08 Portland, OR Keller Auditorium 8/5/08 - 8/10/08 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre 8/13/08 - 8/17/08 San Diego, CA San Diego Civic Theatre 8/19/08 - 8/31/08 Costa Mesa, CA Orange County Performing Artscenter 9/2/08 - 9/7/08 Tempe, AZ ASU Gammage 9/11/08 - 10/5/08 Boston, MA The Opera House 10/7/08 - 10/12/08 Greenville, SC The Peace Center 10/14/08 - 10/26/08 Cleveland, OH Palace Theatre 10/28/08 - 11/30/08 Toronto, ON Canon Theatre 12/2/08 - 12/14/08 Baltimore, MD Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick PAC 12/16/08 - 1/4/09 Philadelphia, PA Forrest Theatre 1/6/09 - 1/11/09 Raleigh, NC Raleigh Memorial Auditorium 1/13/09 - 2/1/09 Detroit, MI Fisher Theatre 2/3/09 - 2/8/09 Tampa, FL Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center 2/10/09 - 2/15/09 Orlando, FL Carr Performing Arts Centre 2/17/09 - 3/1/09 Fort Lauderdale, FL Broward Center for the Performing Arts 3/3/09 - 3/8/09 Atlanta, GA The Fox Theatre 3/10/09 - 3/22/09 Washington, D.C. The National Theatre 3/24/09 - 3/29/09 Hartford, CT The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts 3/31/09 - 4/5/09 Providence, RI Providence Performing Arts Center 4/7/09 - 4/12/09 Pittsburgh, PA Heinz Hall 4/14/09 - 5/3/09 Chicago, IL Broadway in Chicago 5/5/09 - 5/10/09 Buffalo, NY Shea As an example, here is a copy of the audition link language. I’m “auditioning“ for the National Tour of A Chorus Line’s Be the One competition, and I need your help! The 8 dancers who get the most votes will win an exclusive prize package, including tickets to A Chorus Line. Click here to view my profile and cast your vote to let everyone know you think I’m a Singular Sensation! http://auditions.achorusline.com/san-francisco/audition/132Thanks, Anthony John PS. Please ask your friends to help me spread the word if don't mind :) Ant http://auditions.achorusline.com/san-francisco/audition/132 |
contentlove
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7:51a |
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contentlove
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7:35a |
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alobar
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5:40a |
"Believe Me, It's Torture" Even right wing idiots are starting to come to their senses. Go to URL at end to access hotlinks in the story below.
I wish I could force every right wing talk show host and politician to be waterboarded to see if they changed their mind about waterboarding.
=================================Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens Undergoes Waterboarding
Just in case the revelation that American torturers took their cues from that model of moral clarity that was the Chinese Communist regime hasn't fully convinced you that the practice is unquestionably, incontrovertibly evil, Christopher Hitchens' column in the August 2008 Vanity Fair, "Believe Me, It's Torture," ought to drive the point home. That is, if the accompanying video, available online at Vanity Fair's website, doesn't do it first. In the video, Christopher Hitchens is brought, hooded and bound, into an austere looking storage room, and placed on a board, slightly elevated at its foot. He is instructed by the similarly masked interrogators on how to call a halt to the procedure, either through a safe word - "red" - or by releasing the "dead man's handle" - a metal object placed in each hand. A towel is placed over his face and one of the interrogators begins pouring water on Hitchens' face from an ordinary-looking milk carton. The interrogators demonstrate no more aggression that one might when watering a houseplant. In fact, the process looks so unremarkable that you begin to wonder if they aren't simply "warming Hitchens up" for something worse. Seventeen seconds pass, and then Hitchens drops the dead man's handle. When the hood is removed, it is jarring to see how panic-stricken Hitchens looks. In the video, Hitchens describes the experience: They told me that when I activated the 'dead man's handle' - which is a simple process, you simply release something, let it go - I didn't do that. I practically, even though my hands were bound, I...as near as I could...I threw the thing out of my hand. I mean, I really wanted it to stop.
I could swear I shouted the code word, but I hadn't.
Everything completely goes on you when you're breathing water. You can't think about anything else. It would be bad enough if you did have something. Suppose if they wanted to know where a relative of yours was...or a lover. You feel, "Well, I'm going to betray them now. Because this has to come to an end. I can't take this anymore." But what if you didn't have anything? What if you'd got the wrong guy? Then you would be in danger of losing your mind very quickly. That last paragraph, I believe, is critical, especially considering the torture practices of the Chinese Communists - who we are now emulating - were designed to elicit false confessions from those who were tortured. Attention should be paid to the aftermath of the experience as well, which Hitchens relates thusly: As a result of this very brief experience, if I do anything that gets my heart rate up, and I'm breathing hard, panting, I have a slight panic sensation that I'm not going to be able to catch my breath again...lately I've been having this feeling of waking up feeling smothered, trying to push everything off my face. It takes only seventeen seconds to impact the life of an innocent man. ( Read more... ) Current Music: Mwvm - Rotations (Drone Zone: Atmospheric ambient space music. Serve Best Chilled. Safe with most me |
alobar
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3:05a |
leg update When I made my recent post on my experiences with Oil of Tranquility, I neglected to talk about my leg. The real reason I began using Oil of Tranquility was to see if I could heal my leg. I have been mucking with my leg now for about 3-1/4 years. The leg has been pretty much healed for quite some time, but it is purple, tender to the touch, ugly looking.
See a list of posts dealing with various procedures for healing my leg.
( Read more... )
When I started using Oil of Tranquility on my leg a month ago, the leg became far less tender. Some of the purple blotches began to lighten. However, there has been little change in my leg since then. It feels useful to apply Oil of Tranquility to my leg, but it does not appear to be an amazing oil for healing old woulds and scars.
Current Music: Zen Potato - Constant 3 (Drone Zone: Atmospheric ambient space music. Serve Best Chilled. Safe with |
star_5_meo
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3:09a |
ps. thank you christa for the green skirt. Im going to wear it tomorrow bc i put it on and felt cute. That never happens! yay woooo...
ok. muah. |
star_5_meo
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3:05a |
Well the bar was uneventful. Bunch of people i didn't care to see. (Excluding max)
I had two waters and then lickety split.
I came home and got in Bed but then Brenden called and wanted to get Ice cream.
And one. I never pass up ice cream. and two. god knows when I will see him again.
So. im home now and trying to repass out. Its 3. i have an appointment at 9 am.
i got alot on mah brains though.
sleep dear god let me sleep. |
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