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    Embossed Stamping Technique Free Papercrafts Project

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 09:36 AM EST [General]

    Employing a monochromatic color scheme is a bold choice for papercrafts. Using just one color is a surprising look, one that will attract attention to any paper project. 


    This monochromatic embossed stamping technique from 100 Great Ways to Use Rubber Stamps is a great place to start in adding tone-on-tone color to cards. Embossing, along with materials like ribbon and adhesive foam, adds visual interest (with texture and dimension) to enhance a monochromatic scheme.

    100 Great Ways to Use Rubber Stamps
    is an invaluable resource of 100 incredible ways for rubber stampers to create great cards and keepsake gifts for every occasion. Each of the 25 chapters focuses on a key technique or material, then features a range of four inspiring step-by-step card designs incorporating that theme. Inside discover:
    *techniques like heat embossing, brayering and hand-carving
    *100 handy tips, one for each project
    *clear color photographs
    *easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions
    With 100 Great Ways to Use Rubber Stamps you will soon be on your way to perfect stamping every time!

    Download this free monochromatic embossed stamping technique here.


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    Thursday

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 09:33 AM EST [General]

    College Football is back tonight!
    We've all been there, the day of the first college football game at your Alma Mater (or current university). I can remember my days at Miami U in Oxford (during the Ben Roethlisberger era), and how crazy we got the day of...and day before a game. I remember keg parties and cornhole....5am parties and tailgating on the lawn near the stadium. Do you have any crazy or interesting college traditions? I'd love to hear em. Check in on the show or Email me.

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    Breaking down the Big Ten
    Yahoo Sports

    1. Ohio State: No other NCAA football team has more to prove in 2008 than the Buckeyes. After two straight BCS Title losses, Jim Tressel’s crew took a lot of heat from the media and fans. With 18 returning starters, the Buckeyes are a top-five ranked team in 2008 and have the title in their sites. The team will rely heavily on tailback Chris Wells to carry the load on offense. Maybe the best power-back they have had since Eddie George, Wells is a Heisman Trophy candidate and should help lead Ohio State to a third outright and fourth overall straight Big Ten title.

    2. WIsconsin: Maybe one of the most underrated team in the country, Wisconsin has 17 returning starters and two of the best tight ends in the country in Travis Beckum and Garrett Graham. An end of season bowl loss to Tennessee left a bitter taste in their mouths, but the Badgers are hungry for wins, hoping for their first Big Ten title in almost ten years.

    3. Michigan: This may come as a shock to many, but Michigan still should have a decent year, even though they a ton of question marks on offense. Almost zero experience at quarterback, only one returning offensive lineman and their two best wide-receivers from last year now playing in the NFL could only mean bad things for Ann Arbor. Enter Rich Rodriguez… you can say whatever you want about him, but this is a good choice for the Maize and Blue. It will be very interesting to see how Rich Rod’s spread offense will do against some of the defenses of this division. The Wolverines defense should be one of the better ones of the Big Ten.

    4. Illinois: The Illini are the upset pick of the Big Ten. Sure, Ron Zook’s crew are fun to watch but I am still not convinced they are better than the three teams above them. Granted, they have a potential star quarterback in Juice Williams (my favorite name since Kirby Dar Dar) and a sure-fire top ten pick in cornerback Vontae Davis, but they still need a couple more years of solid recruiting before they can contend for the title. Watch out for wide-out Arrelious Benn. That kid can flat out motor.

    5. Penn State: This has to be JoePa’s last year, right? Look, I am going to keep this simple. Penn State has a lot of talent this year and could easily jump a few teams on this list, but until they get a “new” blood in the coaching staff, they will stay a mediocre team. The injury to Sean Lee did not help their ranking either. Expect Derrick Williams to have a huge senior year and become a Biletnikoff award finalist.

    6. Michigan State: Another sleeper team in the Big Ten, the Spartans have a lot of speed and a ton of potential, but it all needs to come together to get them to move up the standings. Losing Devin Thomas to the draft hurt, but tailback Javon Ringer and quarterback Brian Hoyer are two of the best offensive weapons in the Big Ten. An inexperienced offensive and defensive-line could be troublesome, but the Spartans should have enough fire-power to get them into a bowl game.

    7. Purdue: In Joe Tiller’s swan song year, the Boilermakers are experienced (13 starters returning) and have a top-flite quarterback in Curtis Painter. The defense is going to have to keep the points down if they want to contend. They gave up an average of 26.5 points a game last season, including 48 points in their bowl win against Central Michigan

    8. Northwestern: The Wildcats are due to have their usual “surprising” season, where experts pick them to finish at the bottom of the standings and they emerge as one of the best Big Ten teams, winning eight to ten games. Will it be this year? Only the Wildcats know. They do have some exceptional offensive talent in quarterback C.J. Bacher and tailback Tyrell Sutton. If they offensive-line can hold up, they should at least be in every game this season. An easy non-conference should help their push for a bowl bid.

    9. Iowa: What has happened to the Hawkeyes? 12-13 the past two season and losses last season to Iowa State and Western Michigan have the fans in Iowa City looking to Kirk Ferentz to turn things around. If he does not find his touch, you can bet he will be looking for a new position very soon.

    10. Indiana: They lost their big wideout in James Hardy, but quarterback Kellen Lewis is back from suspension and could lead an exciting offense. Lack of talent and depth should get the best of this group, but they could bite some teams if they catch them sleeping.

    11. Minnesota: They are returning the worst defense in the nation from last season and thanks to the Gophers, Michigan was not the only Big Ten team to lose to a D-I FCS opponent. Those pesky North Dakota State Bison got the best of them last season. At least they are getting a new field soon.

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    Maybe the Bengals should give us a "money-back guarantee"
    Since they have a waiting list the length on I-75...this probably wouldn't work...but they should offer us, the fans, an opportunity to get our hard-earned / easily spent money back if the Bengals tank it. Maybe that would motivate MIke Brown to get a GM and start winning.

    Better yet...a precedent has been set. Thank you Stanford!
    The Stanford athletics marketing department has little choice but to take a big chance and hope that the payoff finally comes - first on the football field and then, maybe, in the stands of its sparkling but half-empty stadium. The deal works like this: New season-ticket and new "Family Plan" buyers can ask for the "Gridiron Guarantee," and if unsatisfied with the "entertainment value" at season's end, the cost of the season tickets will be refunded.

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    Manning won't play in tonight's game
    Indy Star
    He might be in uniform for Thursday night’s preseason finale against Cincinnati in Lucas Oil Stadium, but he all but certainly won’t play. He said Tuesday that he planned to be ready for the Colts’ Sept. 7 regular-season opener against the Chicago Bears.

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    Palmer won't either....obviously
    "I mean, I'm healthy, I could play, (it's) just not in the cards this week, I think mainly because we played Saturday and turn around and play again on Thursday," said Palmer, who had a protective brace on his nose and packing in his left nostril. "I just want to be 100 percent and healthy and feeling great going into the Baltimore game."

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    TGIT...Cheerleader of the Week
    Allison Humbert - Ohio State

    Name: Allison Michelle Humbert
    School: The Ohio State University
    Birthdate: October 12, 1987
    Hometown: Green, Ohio
    Year: Sophomore
    Major: Undecided

    1. I love Ohio State, but I almost went to: Kent State

    2. My favorite class is: Human Development and Family Sciences.

    3. Movies I can't live without: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Dumb & Dumber, RENT, Mean Girls, Radio. I could go on forever!!!

    4. Music I can't live without: ALL Country- Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, Justin Timberlake, The Beatles...I listen to pretty much anything!!

    5. TV shows I can't live without: Grey's Anatomy, ELLEN, Full House, Friday Night Lights

    6. One misconception about cheerleaders: That we aren't real athletes. Our season is longer than many other sports and we practice/train just as hard as any other athelete. Not to mention all the injuries cheerleaders have from performing very dangerous skills!

    7. My favorite sport is: Basketball & Wrestling. I love the intensity!

    8. My favorite professional sports teams are: the Cleveland Cavs & Cleveland Indians

    9. My one guilty pleasure is: Coldstone Creamery

    10. My best physical feature: my smile :)

    11. Strange and unusual fact about me: I used to play the trombone & violin.

    12. My friends would be surprised to know that I: used to be obsessed with X-Men & WWF Wrestling when I was younger. (Thanks to my older brother!)

    13. Favorite foods: Any kind of pasta, chicken, peanut butter and chips & salsa!

    14. Five people I'd like to have dinner with (living or dead): Steve Irwin, Julia Roberts, Ellen DeGeneres, My grandfather Julius Lettrich, and Kelly Ripa.

    15. Three people who annoy me: Richard Simmons, Rosie O'Donnell & Andy Dick

    16. Next risk I want to take: Scuba-diving! I love the ocean.

    17. Typical day: Wake up, class, practice, study, relax with some friends then bed to rest up for the same thing the next day!!

    18. I think facial hair on guys is: HOT...but only the scruffy look!

    19. If I won the lottery, the first thing I'd buy: Plane tickets to travel around the world! I love vacations!!!

    20. Describe the worst date you ever went on: I've been lucky enough to never experience a horrible date!

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    ESPN pays $2.25 billion for SEC rights
    For those of you UK fans looking for an SEC TV Network...sorry, your SOL. The Southeastern Conference has signed a 15-year deal with ESPN reportedly worth more than $2 billion to televise sporting events, including football and men's and women's basketball. The agreement announced Monday is the longest ESPN has ever signed and matches the length of the powerhouse league's deal with CBS earlier in August. The deal begins with the 2009-10 season and ends the league's look into starting a network to carry its sporting events. ESPN will have rights to every SEC home football game not on the network package and all league matchups will be shown on some outlet, including at least 20 a year on ESPN or ESPN2. That includes two primetime Thursday night matchups and Saturday night games.

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    Michael Phelps=Poor Sport?

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 08:33 AM [General]

    Check out this video that you DIDN'T see during the Olympics of Michael Phelps being a poor sport after winning one of his races!


    Phelps is a sore winner - Watch more free videos

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    90210 Launch Party This Saturday!!!1 Come down to the W Hotel

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 09:33 AM EST [General]

     HERE is the masterpiece!  hahaaaa...goood thing you can t see my face!!

     

     

    COme tothe W Hotel this saturday for the bug 90210 launch party!!!

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    Ohio State vs Youngstown State

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 09:32 AM EST [Ohio State]

    The Ohio State Buckeyes kick-off their 2008 football season this Saturday against Youngstown State in Ohio Stadium.  The Buckeyes are picked to win the Big 10.  Chris Wells was picked as the preseason offensive player of the year.  James Laurinaitis is the preseason defensive player of the year.  Let's face it...this game could be a massacre.  However, we all know that Jim Tressel will not allow his former team to be absolutely embarrassed in front of 100,000 people.  I think that the Buckeyes will build a comfortable lead, then grind it out on the ground, all the while playing excellent defense.  Actually, I cannot see Youngstown State scoring a touchdown.  A lot of Ohio State players should see action on Saturday, on both sides of the ball.

    I want to see the special teams step up their game from last year.  Coach Tressel has always said that the punt is the most important play in football.  If the Buckeyes have to punt, lets make sure the coverage is sound.  Also, seeing a scarlet jersey return one for a touchdown would be nice to see as well.  The biggest thing for the special teams is no blocked field goals!

    I don't need to see Todd Boeckman throw for 300 yards and 4 touchdowns.  I just want to see him control the offense, complete most of his passes and most of all...no interceptions.  The game plan for Youngstown State should not be so complicated that he, or a receiver, makes a mental mistake.  I am kind of anxious to see Terrelle Pryor.  Coach Tressel says that he is learning a lot from Todd Boekman.  If you take Boeckman's leadership and knowledge combined with Pryor's athletic ability and talent, you have something really special in the making.

    My prediction is Ohio State 41, Youngstown State 3.

    Here are some interesting nuggets:

    • Jim Tressel is 73-16 in seven years at Ohio State
    • The Buckeyes have not lost to an Ohio opponent since falling to Oberlin in 1921, 7-6
    • The Buckeyes are 106-8-4 in home openers, winning the last 29 in a row
    • They are 379-105-20 in Ohio Stadium since it opened in 1922
    • OSU returns 20 starters from last year, the most in the Big 10
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    A little bragging

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 09:30 AM EST [General]

    My book just got reviewed over at the Pagan Book Reviews site. And I am happy to see words like "awesome" and "must-have". Go read it  :)  and you can find all kinds of other book reviews there too, it's a neat site.

     

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    Catholic parish betrayed again

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 02:28 PM GMT [General]

    This month saw another shameful and furtive closure of a fine Catholic church – SS Peter and Paul, in New Brighton on the tip of the Wirral peninsula, whose dome used to serve as a landmark to sailors and which is now an empty monument to the folly of the Diocese of Shrewsbury.

    You can find the story in a Catholic Herald opinion piece by the Catholic writer Andrew M Brown (not to be confused with the Church Times hack Andrew Brown). Here are some extracts:

    Angry parishioners from the campaign group SOUL (Save Our Unique Landmark) accuse the diocese of, to put it mildly, lacking transparency. It is true that the consultation period was abruptly cut short by eight months. SOUL says the diocese had in any case made up its mind some time before. It is also a fact - the vicar general, Mgr John McManus, admitted it - that as early as September and November last year, the Diocese held "exploratory" meetings with a developer called Urban Splash.

    In the spring of this year the Diocese of Shrewsbury finalised an agreement to share the Anglican church a mile down the road, All Saints, and subsequently began paying to have it refurbished. The diocese neglected to mention any of these developments - until they were safely wrapped up - to the lay faithful whom they were supposedly consulting.

    Then, in a fascinating twist, the Vatican got involved. On May 2, the Congregation for Clergy wrote to parishioner Cathy Nelson to say the Bishop [Brian Noble of Shrewsbury] had "assured" them he "had no current plans to close the Church of SS Peter and Paul". How could Bishop Brian have made such an assurance? In July Mrs Nelson alerted the Congregation to the announcement of closure. It responded that "the Congregation must evince surprise" at the scheme to share "a local church of a Protestant denomination" and "hastens to assure you that, in the information provided by the diocese, there is no indication that any such novel plan is in the offing." Such a plan "would...naturally, be of concern". Why did the diocese not mention the church-sharing plan in the information it gave the Vatican?

    Good question; but the plan is going ahead regardless. So much of what Catholic dioceses do these days, particularly relating to church closures, is furtive. And that's not just my opinion: it's held by the Church's own architectural advisers, whose attempts to protect Catholic patrimony are constantly thwarted by Magic Circle diocesan bureaucrats with the numbers of property developers programmed into their mobile phones.

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    Bill Clinton: one more time with sincerity

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 02:24 PM GMT [General]

    Full coverage of the US Elections 2008
    Much excitement because Bill Clinton has endorsed Obama, supposedly with some sincerity. Countless BBC correspondents reported his pronouncement on the race for the White House with much solemnity. But even if Bill was being sincere, the question is: how would we ever know?


    Bill Clinton addresses the Democratic Convention

    The old Clinton hokum gets worse with every outing. I recall his 2006 appearance at the Labour conference, when he was greeted with much enthusiasm by the delegates. They sat bolt up-right waiting for his words of wisdom and the old stager crinkled his nose, narrowed his eyes, put on his best Elvis voice and launched into an endless parable about African villages as a metaphor for society and something called Ubuntu. It is drawn from Bantu, a southern African language, and relates to a Zulu idea: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu - meaning that "a person is only a person through other people". You don't say.

    After a while the Labour grins became fixed. One could almost see the thought bubble forming above the heads of the audience and framing a question: How much more of this rubbish does Clinton have left in him?

    The answer, unfortunately, is reams of the stuff. At least Obama has done the world a favour and his defeat of Hillary means we are spared four more years of Bill's tosh.

    Three Line Whip home
    Eagle Eye home

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    Character is a dangerous territory for politicians

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 02:22 PM GMT [General]

    The new director of Demos, Richard Reeves, will, it appears, hit the ground running. He is due to take up his post in September and has published several thought-provoking articles in the run up.

    "Will the Internet kill think tanks?", he asked in the Guardian. Heargued that "thinktanks win their influence either through intimacy with their principal political ‘clients' or through independent technical expertise", but that their power may wane "in an era of online networking, blogs and wikipedia."

    At the same time, in A question of character in Prospect magazine, he explored how the need for "good character" was emerging as a key area for both the left and the right. British society, he argued, is not broken "in any meaningful sense", but if it became composed of individuals without "a sense of personal agency or self-direction; an acceptance of personal responsibility; and effective regulations of one's own emotions", all attempts at social inclusion or harmony would be doomed.

    The interesting thing is that these two arguments are linked in a way that he did not explore.

    Reeves recognised, in the Prospect article, that character is dangerous territory for politicians, tempting them to "will what cannot be willed."

    It's actually worse than that. It is treacherous, indeed electorally suicidal, "don't have the capability to deliver on my promises", "go on, call me a hypocrite if you dare" territory.

    Character may end up being a problem for politicians but it is not a political problem. Good character is formed, above all, by the strong personal relationships nurtured by family, community and civil society. And each of these is, by definition, not government. Government may be able to create the conditions for each to flourish but it cannot, by almost by definition, deliver on the promise of good character.

    This is not, of course, a new observation. Political theologians Oliver and Joan Lockwood O'Donovan have argued that it is one of the most important lessons of St Augustine's City of God tells us, they argue, that:

    "It is the deep groundswell of social cohesion, the corporately felt commitments and unarticulated impulses that really determine the character of communities. These make the rational plans and conscious judgements of their leaders look like waves on the surface of the ocean."

    But it is a new problem for us, living at the fag end of the modern period during which political will became the one, true gospel. We are now so locked in to this "politicians delivering a better Britain" model that changing the script will be painful.

    All this may seem like a greater problem for the Left than the Right. After all, the Left has traditionally made more of Government's ability to solve problems. Now, faced with a problem that lies largely outside the political sphere, it is left somewhat unarmed.

    But it is also a problem for the Right. It is a long time since the Conservatives did any serious conserving. The Right's almost monomaniacal focus on the market as a "solution" over the last three decades has blinded it to the fact that the market does not necessarily foster "good character" and may, if allowed to eat its way through communities and civil society, actively destroy it.

    And it is also, returning to where we started, a problem for think tanks, at least conventional ones. If, as Reeves observes, thinktanks owe their influence to intimacy with politicians, when those politicians are faced with a challenge, like character-building, that is ultimately beyond their capacity, thinktanks risk losing their influence with them. Maybe, for thinktanks to remain influential, they will need to be active on the ground, in church halls, just as much as in Whitehall.

    There is much speculation in all this. The Left and the Right will continue to proclaim Britain wrecked or recovering, depending in which is in power, and thinktanks will continue to tell their political friends that they have just had the best idea since Child Tax Credits. And the population will continue to say they are disillusioned with all of them.

    But if character does emerge as a political problem, it may do more than cause ministers and their minions to scratch their heads. It may show that they, like the emperor, are wearing rather fewer clothes than they thought.

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    The excessive burden of green taxes

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 02:21 PM GMT [General]

    Today the TaxPayers' Alliance has released a report, The Burden of Green Taxes, that lays bare the amount we are all paying in green taxes and charges and examines whether that burden is justified.

    Since 1993 when Ken Clarke introduced the Fuel Duty escalator in order to meet "our Rio commitment", green taxes have become a massive burden on ordinary families.  Green taxes, net of road spending, now stand at a colossal £24.2 billion, nearly £1,000 per household.

    This is quite an imposition and those who pay the most are those in rural communities who need to drive to get around, the elderly paying more to heat their homes and manufacturing industries already struggling with competition from the developing world.

    Green taxes are generally paid in addition to other taxes like VAT, so they constitute a premium that you wouldn't want to place on vulnerable consumers and industries without good reason.

    The reason that has been given - by the environmental movement, politicians of all three parties, and those economists who support "Pigovian'" taxation - is that we need to correct for "externalities". 

    Those externalities are the harms to the rest of humanity that someone's greenhouse gas emissions create by their expected contribution to climate change. Under the logic that politicians use to justify green taxes, the tax should be set to compensate exactly for those externalities. In this case, that means that the tax should be set at what economists call the "social cost of carbon", which measures the harms of each ton of carbon dioxide emitted.

    That makes the social cost pretty important and estimates have been constructed by a number of different groups. We compared estimates from the most respected academics in the field, international institutions and Government departments. It turns out that British green taxes are already set between £7.9 billion and £21.8 billion too high, between £316 and £872 per household.

    The massive burden of Fuel Duty and Vehicle Excise Duty, the Landfill Tax, the Climate Change Levy and Renewables Obligation place a huge price on carbon that just can't be supported by mainstream estimates of the social costs of British greenhouse gas emissions.

    Politicians are promising more green taxes and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme is getting into its stride, but the intellectual justification for further interventions just isn't there.

    Green taxes have failed to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions; in fact, emissions have risen since Labour came to power.

    Cuts before then were a one-time gain from the dash for gas. Politicians have been trying to tax people into replacing fossil fuels before alternatives are ready and the result has been that the taxes haven't delivered the green goods.

    At this stage - when we've had high fossil fuel prices for several years and consumers and businesses face excessive green taxes - there is already every financial reason for people to adopt alternatives to fossil fuels.

    Making the burden of green taxes ever heavier is an unjustified and deeply unwelcome imposition on families struggling to make ends meet in a slowing economy.

    If you want to find out how green taxes are affecting your area, we have also produced local estimates of how much people in each local authority area are paying in green taxes and the extent to which those taxes are excessive.  Those estimates can be found on our site.

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    Holy Moly, what happened to summer?

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 09:18 AM EST [General]

    Maintenance Worker at "Law Enforcement Center" busted for peeping in Women's restroom
    Ricky Leon Merriweather, a 47-Year-Old Richmond County maintenance worker has been arrested and charged on accusations that he drilled peep holes into the ceiling of a women's restroom at an Augusta law enforcement facility.

    Teen chases mother with knife after change to computer privileges
    Authorities say a Palm Bay teen chased his mother with a knife and beat his brother with a sugar cane because of a change to his computer privileges.

    Man tells deputies he slept through car chase
    The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says a man who led a deputy on a high-speed pursuit told investigators he was sleeping, not driving, during the chase.

    Truck driver robbed own truck
    Suffolk County police say the story just didn't make sense.

    Robber in a hurry steals cake, not cash
    Malaysian robbers ran off with a bag of cakes instead of 1.9 million ringgit ($651,000) in cash in a botched heist.

    Hammer assault suspect's $100K cash bail may be forfeited
    A city man on bail for two felony charges alleging he twice hit a victim in the head with hammer should forfeit his $100,000 cash bail because he was summonsed for drug possession Friday night, say police.

    Robber curses out judge at sentencing
    The mother of all curse words flew across courtroom D Monday as 16-year-old home invasion robber Richard Brantley was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

    Man sentenced after sending hostages for beer
    An Illinois man who police say held five people hostage in a motel in Fort Madison, Iowa, was arrested after he sent 2 of his hostages on a beer run.

    15-year old charged in killing another 15-year old
    Ramsey County prosecutors have charged a 15-year-old boy with second-degree murder in the shooting death of another 15-year-old who refused to shake his hand.

    Granda fights $10,500 cell phone bill
    A North Carolina retiree says she's been battling her phone company since 2006 over a $10,500 bill for calls to an adult chat line she claims she never used.

    Blogger arrested over leak of Guns N' Roses songs
    A blogger suspected of streaming songs from the unreleased Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" on his Web site was arrested Wednesday and appeared in court, where his bail was set at $10,000.

    Police say man swam nude in neighbor's pool
    Police say a man who lives in a town just north of New York City has been caught with his pants down - skinny-dipping in his neighbor's swimming pool

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    my blog

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 09:18 AM EST [General]

    Μaria is here

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    Got me a new job....

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 08:16 AM CST [General]

    Got me a new job, I just started working at AT&T and Cingular Wireless on 8-25-2008. I am a Sales Representative for a Cellular phone Kiosk at Rosedale Mall in Roseville we are located on first floor of the mall near Caribou Coffee, ALDO, The Walking and Cache' store, So stop by and I will hook you up with some discounts. I am always working from 9am-6pm so, when you get there just ask for me "Saly". Peace! See you guys there.

    Yes, I DO Dave in The Morning and Do KDWB All Day Long when I am at work. I mostly listen to the KDWB on my cell phone.

    KDWB JUNKIE

    Saly

     

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    LA NOCHE ES NUESTRA

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 09:16 AM EST [General]


    Spanish graphics from www.MyOnda.com

    LA NOCHE ES NUESTRA
    Esta noche...
    embriagate de mi, soy tu vino tinto
    consume mi escencia,
    pierdete en mi aroma,
    empieza al ras de la luna,
    temina al salir el sol.
    Deja que sienta tu piel
    las aterciopeladas caricias
    que en cada milimetro
    con esmero sembrare
    para cuando acabe la noche
    pueda cosechar de ti
    infinidad de rosas, roces de labios y suspiros.
    Integrame a tu imagen
    al vaiven de tu vientre
    hazme sentir
    que domino el universo.
    Practica conmigo
    tus mas preciados secretos
    y haz que mi sangre se agolpe
    como olas de fuego en marea brava.
    Desprendete de tu pudor
    que se funda con el viento
    que se pierda en el y que vuelva...
    al salir el sol.
    Guarda tus escrupulos
    en el jarron de la flores, depositalos ahi mientras me amas,
    colocalos...
    al ras de la luna
    que los deje aqui
    una vez que ceda
    su lugar al sol
    Invitame como lo haces,
    con tu especial sonrisa
    a beber el cristal liquido
    que destilan las estrellas
    empieza al ras dela luna.....
    continua hasta que salga el sol.
    Seduceme
    con tu danza inigualable
    con tus notas de gemidos
    con los sueños que te alcanzan
    Consumeme lentamente,
    entregame parte de tu destino
    construye un marco de besos para el alba
    que sean nuestras siluetas
    la obra de arte, que dure....
    hasta que aparezca el sol.©

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    Paper Tiger links

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 02:15 PM GMT [General]

    A day late, literary links and other fragments:

    - If you live in the debatable lands of Eastern Europe, it's likely that you will know several languages. These may inlcude the one that, in public, you must pretend not to understand; the one you learned in secret and are now struggling bitterly to forget; and the one whose great lexicon, which existed in a single paper copy, may have burned earlier this month. I discovered all this in a fine and depressing New York Times dispatch from the Caucausus (via).

    - This week's literary list: novels about writers, at Conversational Reading.

    - Dovegreyreader's blog-reading habits described, in a post that contains several links I must follow up.

    - Michael Chabon podcasts from the Democratic Convention. The version that downloaded to my iPod this morning cuts off after seven minutes, and the NYRB hasn't got around to mentioning it on their home-page yet, but it ought to be good when sorted...

    - In praise of Joseph Mitchell, more praise of whom is always welcome, via its author's blog.

    - I'm not the only one who thinks the internet is making book titles longer. (Although I thought it first. So there.)

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    Jamaica, una joya perdida en el Caribe

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 09:14 AM EST [General]

    Llevo dos días en Kingston, Jamaica y estoy afectado por el contraste entre la belleza del paisaje y la dejadez en que se encuentra la ciudad. He viajado por diversos lugares del continente, conozco varias zonas de México, he visto el tercer mundo en primera persona en Indonesia, pero Jamaica los supera a todos en decadencia.

    Por lo general en todos estos lugares que les he mencionado hay una gran diferencia entre las zonas pobres y las zonas turísticas. La pobreza es mayor en Bali que en Jamaica, pero la zona de Nusa Dua (donde se encuentran los hoteles cinco estrellas) refleja el flujo de capital turístico. El contraste con el resto de la isla es grande, pero a pesar de la miseria, existe un espíritu de conservación de lo propio.

    Esto no pasa en Jamaica, por eso digo que más que pobreza es dejadez y miseria compartidas. Las zonas turísticas de la capital están en un estado de abandono, el resto de la ciudad es deprimente. El dinero del turismo no se queda en Jamaica. Las grandes corporaciones pertenecen a extranjeros que no invierten en la mejora de la isla. La deuda externa es tan grande que el propio gobierno vive hipotecado sin poder mantener a flote su ciudad. Aún así la belleza rodea la miseria de la ciudad de una forma tan peculiar que no deja de atraerme.

    La pobreza es tremenda. Niños descalzos, sin camisa pedaleando sus bicicletas que en cualquier momento pueden caer desmontadas. Cientos de personas sentadas en la calles, sin hacer nada, hablando, fumando y con ojos de abandono, se han rendido ante el sistema. Mujeres muy jóvenes cargando niños en pañales. Los huecos en las calles parecen llevar años ahí, erosionados por el tiempo y la lluvia. El calor y la agobiante humedad ralentizan todo. Las gallinas escarbando en las montañas de basura que se acumulan en las esquinas. Las cabras cruzando las calles buscando un trozo de pan duro que no l