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• Thankfulness is relative

  
  Rethorykal Questions — Authority: 107
  For example, I haven’t seen too many sentences like this one yet this semester: “The bridge in this article is that because the scores of this test were rendered towards the fact that the nature of the counselling workforce has been altered.” My Nikon is still out of commission, which is why you haven’t ...
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• Retraction. (Not really.)

  
  Wellington Road — Authority: 115
  When I was growing up, Harriet the Spy was a book that I liked a lot. It’s about a girl who writes in her journal what she really thinks of people. One day, Harriet loses her journal, and her friends find it and read it. Harriet’s friends are hurt by what she has written, and Harriet must apologize (i.e., ...
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• New All Points Bulletin video profiles the vigilante Enforcers

  
  Massively — Authority: 678
  All Points Bulletin developer Realtime Worlds recently introduced fans of the urban crime game to some of the underworld organizations of San Paro . After focusing on the bad guys first, Realtime Worlds has released a follow-up video about the Enforcer vigilantes who hunt those criminals. Whether that makes ...
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• Brian Byrnes Describes CNN’s ‘Backstory’ on Argentina’s Forensic Anthropology Team

  
  The Argentine Post — Authority: 417
  By Brian Byrnes.There have been many, many stories told about Argentina’s horrific 1976-1983 “Dirty War,” when the military ruled the country with an iron fist, squashing any dissident voices. At...
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• Passenger Of Size Allegedly Has Picture Taken By Flight Attendant

  
  How to Get Out of Debt - Free Help — Authority: 158
  I think Consumerist.com does an exceptional job of bringing new information and stories to light that helps people. I’m such a big fan of their that I am linking to their stories so you can read them. Passenger Of Size Allegedly Has Picture Taken By Flight Attendant We can in no way confirm that this is ...
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• Lore is important

  
  Massively — Authority: 678
  Filed under: Culture , Lore , Opinion , Academic Lore matters. Its often considered to be low on the list of game features, it wont save a game that is otherwise lackluster or missing content, and it cant be the only reason you play a game. But it still matters, and it still has a lot of importance, and ...
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• Happy Thanksgiving

  
  Duck And Cover — Authority: 124
  Taking a few days to collect some thoughts and do a few things, but wanted to wish everyone a safe and happy Thanksgiving.
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• Rise and Swing: Jazz brunch on the South Side

  
  The Chicago Weekly — Authority: 426
  Senegalese musician Morikeba Kouyate sits in the sunny front window of Hyde Park’s Chant restaurant, his twenty one-stringed kora resting in his lap . He is taking a breather in between songs, which layer his high, strong voice over complex fingerwork on the gourd-and-stretched-skin instrument. In the expansive ...
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• Library Routes Project

  
  Closed Stacks — Authority: 107
  This is a question I’ve asked people over and over since I first had the germ of the idea of becoming a librarian: “How did you become a librarian?”  What I’ve found, is that everyone I’ve asked has a real story of how they come to the conclusion, that this is the job they want.  [...]
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• The Oxymoronic Genre – Erotic Urban Fantasy

  
  Love Romance Passion — Authority: 433
  by Teal Ceagh , guest blogger and author of Mias Return . People tend to look at me oddly when I tell them I write erotic urban fantasy. Paranormal romances are everywhere these days. Even erotic paranormals are almost commonplace. But when you say you write erotic urban fantasies, readers’ eyes narrow as they ...
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• Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad ‘Burbs?

  
  CHICAGO CARLESS — Authority: 119
  ( Photo: There’s more to life than meets the eye in this aerial photo of Chicago. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory .) One of the things I shouted loudest when I first began Chicago Carless four-and-a-half years ago no longer applies. Back in mid-2005, I still carried around my New-York-native anti-surburban ...
  2 weeks ago

• Museums In the Digital Domain, Part Four - Generative Assets

  
  koven j. smith — Authority: 107
  This is the last in a series of posts (and sorry for the delay in getting this one up; sickness followed by the Museum Computer Network conference prevented me from getting this up sooner). Part One, with a brief introduction, is here , Part Two is here , and Part Three is here . You can read all four parts ...
  3 weeks ago

• APB video podcast introduces the criminals of San Paro

  
  Massively — Authority: 678
  Filed under: Podcasts , Video , Lore , New titles , All Points Bulletin , Crime All Points Bulletin is definitely on the radar for a number of fans of urban crime games seeking a deeper multiplayer environment. While many of us would enjoy a perpetual cascade of felonies (or arrests), Realtime Worlds ...
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• Imagine explaining this to Elizabeth I and Philip II…

  
  Rethorykal Questions — Authority: 107
  British Airways and the Spanish airline, Iberia, are in merger talks?! I’ve flown BA before, but all my memory can supply for Iberia is their jingle from the early 1970’s, which is filed next to the terribly dated Iran Air jingle.  Iberia’s just sang their brand name several times, but Air Iran seemed to ...
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• Veterans Day - remembering Tom B. Mobley

  
  Your Pet's Best Friend — Authority: 116
  This is the Purple Heart my father was awarded in World War II.  I never saw it until after he died.  We found it when we were cleaning out his dresser. On November 5, the United States Army Field Band & Soldiers’ Chorus gave a terrific concert in Kennett.  While there was a variety of music, the overall ...
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• ‘BackStory’ Veterans Day Episode on iTunes

  
  UVA Today News Blog — Authority: 424
  “BackStory with the American History Guys,” a public radio history program produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities , offers its programs as free podcast downloads from iTunes. It currently is touting the latest episode, “Coming Home: A History of War Veterans,” which features Brian ...
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• Why the U.S. House’s Health Reform Bill is Good News for Gay Rights

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Rep. Nancy Pelosi made history this weekend, doing something that no politician has been able to do in the United States since...well, forever. Pelosi was able to work the U.S. House to pass a health reform bill, by a vote of 220-215 , that brings this country closer to the precipice of national health care than weve ...
  4 weeks ago

• Tanya: Captain Hook

  
  abdpbt — Authority: 417
  Photo by rippedoff at deviantART “I should go out tonight, because I’d really like to get laid.” “Tanya, it’s pirate party .” “I know.” “So?” “So what?” “Phi Delt, Tanya.” “Yeah …” “The water polo team .” “Isn’t pirate party a date party?” “Technically.” “Well, ...
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• Snicker, or how the velvet worm turns…

  
  Rethorykal Questions — Authority: 107
  See here . [Thank you, Derek] I also love the phrase “ a sort of high-affinity fluorescence probe for Epic Fail” courtesy of DoctorPa t.
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