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Peace, Love and Thunderstanding: The Debut

After a week in which Oklahoma City’s big league franchise lost all four of its games by an average margin of 16 points, this seemed like the perfect time to start a weekly column chronicling the inaugural season of Thunder basketball. When Patrick suggested this column handing out weekly awards he wanted to call it “Clark Matthews Thunderwear”. I vetoed the title thinking it sounded like I was promoting NBA apparel. He came back with “Clark Matthews’ Dirty Thunderwear”. Eventually, we were a

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Geek Chic

One battered old-faithful dictionary on my shelves, published circa 1975, defines a geek as “a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken. ” You may be deeply relieved to know that I’ve upgraded to a squeaky-new Canadian Oxford, although I can’t claim it’s a whole lot more flattering: geek noun esp. N. Amer. informal 1. An uninteresting, ineffectual, socially inept person; a nerd. 2. A person thoroughly devoted to one usu.

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Korea Go Trip Day 3 onwards

Korea Go Trip has come to an end. Albums are available on Facebook and here’s some of the selected ones. // The second game of Xinwen (brunei’s 2 dan player) against Venezuela player. // This is a scene of Heung Jin Primary School where students are exposed to GO (Baduk) as young as 6 years old. // They are being taught by Professional GO Tutor. // One of the students, I think he’s cool. // This is where we had lunch when visiting the Heung Jin School. I really don’t mind sitting outside h

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General Paik Sun-yup Addresses KATUSA Soldiers

A group of USFK KATUSA soldiers were lucky enough to listen to address from ROK Army Korean War hero, General Paik Sun-yup: “Our people must not forget that during the Korean War both Korean and US soldiers fought to protect this land under a blood alliance. This is what I want to say as an old soldier that I am now.” Retired ROK General Paik Sun-yup (88) made latest comments during a special lecture held on October 29th marking the USFK Eighth Army Korean Forces Support Group’s 58th annive

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6-Year-Old Albino Girl Killed for Body Parts

I had no idea that in the 21st century witch doctors still made magic potions - out of human body parts. I did not know that they use body parts such as arms, legs, hair, skin and genitals to concoct their potions. I did not know that albinos were considered choice candidates for making these magic potions. I also did not know that in some parts of Africa, albinos are considered less than human and that killing an albino was not even considered a capital offense in Tanzania - until very rece

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iPhone 100 apps you've got to try

Check out these great features, too: 25 Best iPhone Moments in History Wallpaper to spice up your iPhone Reader submitted iPhone photos from around the world The famous petition sent to Steve Jobs iPTIB's huge Twitter community -- get tips, tricks, breaking news updates Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008 -- 12:01 a.m. -- at my desk Inspired by VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s show, I decided that I wanted to share my 100 Greatest Apps of the iPhone. And just like the show, everything is brief and

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Drumroll Please: the Twilight Movie Review

Thousands of books are published every year and every so often one of them becomes a best-seller. Every now and then one of those books is put to celluloid. It is a lucky - nay, skilled - author, indeed, who crafts a manuscript so compelling that it becomes a pop-culture phenomenon. It's even rarer still to carry the true aesthetic of a book to film while honoring both the Hollywood marketing machine without betraying the soul of the novel. As both a huge literary and film junkie, I am often

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Today in Austin

One of the greatest days in the history of my life is only now just winding down. Late November in Austin begins its days with an icy frigidness that makes waking a necessity, an eager forced drive to pop out of bed and begin the day as it’s too cold to sleep and the sun is shining hard by 7am. I popped out of bed, the rest of the family still clinging deep into the last night’s sleeping dreams, dressed myself and began walking. I let the street lights dictate my route, wherever the walk signal

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Album Sales Soundscans For 11.18 [Now In Final]

CHART DATE: 11/17/2008 LAST UPDATE: 11/18/2008 13:53:05 NOW IN: FINAL LW TW artist / album label power index % change -- 1 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 597,013 -- FEARLESS -- 2 DAVID ARCHULETA JIVE/ZLG 180,460 -- DAVID ARCHULETA -- 3 NOW 29 UME/UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 166,422 -- VARIOUS ARTISTS -- 4 T-PAIN JIVE/ZLG 163,800 -- THR33 RINGS 1 5 TWILIGHT ATLANTIC 115,132 -32% SOUNDTRACK 2 6 AC/DC COLUMBIA 104,778 -34% BLACK ICE -- 7 ENYA REPRISE 93,628 -- AND WINTER CAME

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Tuesday Nov. 18 update

First, as OSU’s women’s basketball beat reporter I’d be remiss not to remind you of the 7 p.m. Wednesday game against Houston at Gill Coliseum. So consider yourself properly notified; we’ll have the preview box in Wednesday’s print and on-line editions.  Don’t have any football responsibilities anymore but today I wandered over the Valley Football Center for that sport’s weekly media availability in my role as a big-time sports journalist and did some nosing around. (That’s a polite way of sa

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Is the Sun Setting on the Big Three?

The economy will be top priority on the first day of Canada’s new parliamentary session. The Conservative government will be pushing aside controversial legislative issues such as reforms to juvenile justice to focus instead on the faltering economy. One issue that has become particularly salient is Canada’s auto industry, a growing priority that may make mention in tomorrow’s Speech from the Throne. In the United States, the outlook for the Detroit Three automakers worsened as President Bush

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Interview: Lisa Hendrix

Literary Escapism would like to welcome Lisa Hendrix, author of Immortal Warrior.  She’s here to give us a glimpse into the Immortal Warrior and we’ll even get some tidbits about her next novel in the Immortal Brotherhood series, Immortal Outlaw, which will be out June 2, 2009. Make sure you stick around and enter the contest at the end.  We’re giving away a copy of Immortal Warrior to a lucky commentator. —————————————— For those of my readers unfamiliar with Immortal Warrior, can you give

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Sunny Days, the ICU and pretty jewelry

How do those subject marry? They just DO..... Portland, Oregon has been spoiled with some lovely days. I get excited and then it hits me...Global Warming. They aren't making this stuff up folks. I have lived in this area for 31 of my 38 years and I don't recall such a lovely fall. Sun, red trees, very little rain.....did I mention the sun? So....today I couldn't take it anymore. My good friend has been up at the ICU with her mother for 10 days. I have stayed away thinking she would TELL me i

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The elderly woman with the cross

Candlelight vigil at Palm Springs City Hall on Friday, 7 November 2008 (Photo: Richard Lui, The Desert Sun) Peter LaBarbera, President of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality, renown gay porn aficionado, and ersatz critic of the queer equality movement, recently posted an article about an incident at an otherwise peaceful, Palm Springs candlelight vigil on the Friday following the passage of Proposition 8.  From Americans for Truth about Homosexuality: Dear Readers, here’s more evidenc

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WILD AT HEART - Monday November 17th 2008

Hey Kirk-You kicked out some cool videos this weekendhere is this week's blog post - BillWild Bill Ketelhut provides the "blog" to this anti-blogHe has a radio program on WXOU out of Oakland UniversityWild At Heart What a busy morning I have been having trying to get things organized for my radio show. I started off today doing an interview with Aaron Stegemoller who plays “The Bonze” (Cio-Cio San’s uncle) in the Detroit Opera production of Madame Butterfly and what a beautiful production it is.

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Elephant Through a Mirror, Darkly

[Note: Originally I was going to post this but then re-read it and while I was satisfied with the concepts, I thought it came across too much as Freshman-in-College sounding…then I realized that was a perfect tone for the internet. No, actually I came across this post by Jonah Goldberg through this rebuttal, that is a continuance of something I wrote about here. And since this really captured the essence of the disagreement, I thought I’d post it even though it is very long and less than polis

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A Sterling Write from WHERE IS THE MOOLA?

YL is on the move todie -- not On The Beat, that's for Scaredy PC at Chow Kid!, according to mGf AM**** which I will show relevance later, closing hours of PM maybe --so here's a Cut&Paste without that 20-mil AP!:) Through the fire - Chaka Khan (Go visit the ORI to listen to da muzak!--Desi:)Monday, November 17, 2008The Difference Between Conviction and Stubborness Today I saw this posting in a forum titled: The Difference Between Conviction and Stubborness When is holding on to your beliefs con

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Some thoughts on the housing market

I see the credit crunch hasn’t halted the smug careerist advances of supercilious pricks who produce and host housing programmes. The current spate of programmes are a tad more humble than the usual fare we’ve become accustomed to over the last few years, but annoying nonetheless. And I doubt I’ll ever reach the point where I don’t want to give that fucking annoying blonde bitch off ‘Place in the Sun’ a massive slap in her toffee nosed face. I’ve just watched a very interesting channel 4 documen

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12 Questions: Meet Audree Rowe (Glenview, USA)

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community - in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly - activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice. We’re very proud to feature Audree Rowe (crowdSPRING username: ArtbyAudree) today. Audree lives and works in Glenv

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Christian bloggers on Proposition 8 Persecution

Michael Laprarie makes some noise about the “post-Proposition 8 unhinged gay meltdown …” opining: Maybe Sally Kern was on to something — “Palm Springs Rally Turns Violent“  The post-Proposition 8 unhinged gay meltdown continues in California.  Witness angry gays attack a pro-Prop8 protester, wrestle her cross away, and stomp on it.  Then imagine the maniacal screaming fit national gay activists would have if a Christian protester ever ripped down a rainbow flag and stomped it into the ground …

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