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<title><![CDATA[German Shepherd History "DDR"]]></title>
<link>http://johnsk9.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/german-shepherd-history-ddr/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The shepherd dog split Germany Briefly and concisely: Were not only qualitatively high-quality dogs,]]></description>
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<p>Briefly and concisely: Were not only qualitatively high-quality dogs, because the breeders in the earlier GDR had neither the market nor the means, which justify here a once entitled wehmuetige review. So some West German breeder or also only owner of some customs dog races in such a way specified would have too gladly still one of these dogs. And not only these. The split German shepherd dog after the separation of the two republics also the organizations of the German shepherd dog associations, and not only the organizations separated. Also the &#8220;east shepherd dog&#8221; changed itself in the following four decades to a more compact, stronger copy as the western, with darker, the original graugewolkten skin color than the brighter or black-brown in the west. The earlier GDR-mainbreed-wait for German shepherd dogs and today&#8217;s chairmen of the regional committee Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the sports association, Werner Dalm: &#8220;in the west they were not so outstanding, because they &#8211; and that is objectively like that &#8211; could not compete with the most beautiful exhibition dogs in the building, in the figure. Those looked more more durable, like real work and customs dogs, and were not not so the beautiful, elegant dogs.&#8221; The east shepherd dog was not simply a border guard, schriebDalm. &#8220;you were bred to the all-largest part for our members, breeders and lovers. Only everything that we could not use for the breed, became the police, border etc.. Offered. To that extent only the Abschaum got. However these dogs had to bite well and be good in the nature, otherwise they were not taken.&#8221; Dalm further: &#8220;not the &#8216; special breed community (SZG) &#8216; of the GDR was formed paramilitaerisch, but the &#8216; controlling body &#8216;, the SZG was subordinated to which, particularly the latter, the &#8216; section serving and customs dog (SDG) &#8216;. The SZG straight still waited, because &#8216; above &#8216; (state security service-steered) from the breed had no notion, needed it the SZG still. But had developed like the controlling bodies, the SZG a right after the other one one took away. Last had hardly still about the own race which will say, how also in my book &#8216; the breed of the German shepherd dog in the former GDR &#8216; (note D talk: to refer over the head office of the sports association) in more detail to reread is. That was the reality. But under these circumstances we bred nevertheless good and healthy customs dogs, because scientifically one selected.&#8221; Werner Schulz, breeder and former dog-prominent border soldier: &#8220;most of these dogs were very pious. There was only a completely small percentage, which were really aggressive and unerzogen, which made bad experiences somewhere, with which hardly one clearly came. But otherwise, the Gro of the German-German or the German shepherd dogs, the GDR shepherd dogs at the German-German border, were completely normal dogs.&#8221; Schulz breeds country &#8220;under the name&#8221; from the Parchimer. It writes in its homepage: &#8220;German shepherd dogs made of GDR descent stand surprisingly still with many sport friends and lovers in the interest of zuechterischer efforts, or straight more in former times? However is the shepherd dog, which developed in the GDR, with large strong bones, balanced nature and dark pigmentation no mode feature! My breed goal and the breed goals of my friends consist of pairing the ostbluetigen shepherd dogs too received and with other DSH from ostblocklaendern and West German achievement breed. Naturally there is not any longer the mass at qualitatively very good breeding material. Therefore one will have been able to reach the abundance at pure GDR dogs not again, there many sport friends their dogs after the turn with kiss hand have delivered and these now nachtrauern. For this reason it is heavy to find trained dogs for prospective customers since the breeders will not away-give material. Mostly accordingly to puppies from Top GDR mating one refers.&#8221; Schulz further: &#8220;for many it sounds strange to discuss the breed style of the East German shepherd dog. I would like to sing also no praise song over the East here. But the question places and has to some extent breeding authority, recognizes themselves one a certain necessity to receive this breed form.&#8221; The separate history of the German-German shepherd dogs should be terminated after the collapse of the GDR, but splitting was deeper. After the reunification the powerful west federation has a saying. Press speaker sports association of pure Voltz in addition: &#8220;there are naturally still breeders, who continue to try today aimed to breed this east dog but we do not hold out to anything of it, now from mode reasons perhaps to receive from history so a dog. It must integrate itself in the long run into the common breed. There is a German shepherd dog and that wants we also further to promote.&#8221; Now one sees west shepherd dogs also in the &#8220;new&#8221; eastern Lands of the Federal Republic usually only. The East German breeders and owners with the &#8220;unit dog&#8221;, which reflects only for decades the disputed breed quality in the west, are not lucky: it is soft light. The relatively straight backs, which they never back-wished nevertheless in the west secretly, but officially &#8211; how because and the first dogs, which finally justified the world-wide call as a service dog -, that they nevertheless literally untergebuttert in the west now. Only the color good grey, they found. As if this would have been a new fashionable color. They did not want to have the healthy body, but they took up the color. Not few Schutzhundler or Diensthundler in the west see themselves however after this East German shepherd dog East German. But there is nearly no more breed basis. The Westschaeferhundler okkupiert also here the assumption of healthy Zuchtpotenzial thoroughly and flat-made. It is to be assumed many other race associations were out of the former GDR to the reunification exactly the same. There on the dog breed sector little was combined, but announced vollmundig, before well ten years. In the meantime also there no more dog barks thereafter. I would like to give to consider one however: If one regards the photos of with excellently 1 evaluated Rueden in the post-war period until 1960, then we find the back desired straight backs. With the GDR dogs however into the late 80ern however exactly the sloping backs like the west DSH.</p>
<p>Neumann&#8217;s Jim</p>
<p>My Favorite  DDR Links:</p>
<p>The East German Shepherd Dog</p>
<p>German Shepherds Dogs Pups Czech DDR</p>
<p>DDR EAST GERMAN PUPS</p>
<p>DDR</p>
<p>PHONE     941-624-5406</p>
<p>Name:<br />
John LaTorre</p>
<p>Email:<br />
johnbirds@embarqmail.com</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Perdidos sin Perdidos]]></title>
<link>http://alilosabe.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/perdidos-sin-perdidos/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ali lo sabe</dc:creator>
<guid>http://alilosabe.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/perdidos-sin-perdidos/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lo reconozco, siento debilidad por los pasajeros del vuelo 815 de Oceanic Airlines. Desde que se est]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11pt;"><span style="color:#000000;">Lo reconozco, siento debilidad por los pasajeros del vuelo <strong>815</strong> de <strong>Oceanic Airlines</strong>. Desde que se estrelló su avión y comenzaron a montar el primer campamento, yo ya estaba especulando sobre lo que pasaría. Pero cuando conocimos al doctor <strong><a title="Jack Shephard" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Shephard">Jack Shephard</a></strong>… no tuve dudas en ningún momento: Iba a volverme loca por esta serie. ¡Y así ha sido!</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#000000;">Recuerdo perfectamente detalles del primer capitulo de la serie y eso que no he vuelto a verlo desde entonces. Tengo en mente a <strong>Claire</strong> embarazadísima y descolocada, al misterioso a primera (y a segunda) vista </span><a title="John Locke (Lost)" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke_(Lost)"><span style="color:#000000;">J<strong>ohn Locke</strong></span></a><span style="color:#000000;">, a <strong>Michael</strong> y el pequeño <strong>Walt</strong>, el “enmonado” <strong>Charlie</strong>, el desconfiado <strong>Sayid</strong>… ¿Quién podía predecir en esa primera toma de contacto la que se iba a liar más adelante? No podíamos imaginar la de personajes nuevos que íbamos a conocer y las aventuras e historias increíbles (y siempre entrelazadas) que nos iban a traer. Así conocimos a Nathan y también a Ana Lucía ¿La recordáis? Luego vinieron <strong>Juliet</strong> y <strong>Benjamín Linus</strong> (que acabó siendo simplemente Ben), y muchos otros personajes que ahora se quedan en el tintero pero que rescataremos y comentaremos en próximos post.¡ Ni he nombrado a <strong>Kate</strong> y a <strong>Swayer</strong>! pero habrá tiempo para ellos y para <strong>Hurley</strong>, <strong>Sun</strong> y los demás.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11pt;">Mientras tanto los que seáis tan frikis como yo, los que nunca jugaríais en la lotería los números <strong>4, 8, 15, 16, 23 </strong>y<strong> 42 </strong>por lo que pueda pasar, los que al escuchar hablar de la <strong>Estación</strong><strong> Orquídea</strong> no pensáis en nuevo periodo primaveral ni en un centro de esquí…. Os estaréis TIRANDO DE LOS PELOS esperando la tan anunciada Sexta Temporada, que no podremos ver hasta <strong>Enero de 2010</strong>. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11pt;">Por primera vez la serie se estrenará simultáneamente en todos los países para evitar así posibles filtraciones que quiten emoción al capítulo final, que se proyectará en los cines de todo el mundo para sorpresa de los fans.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:verdana;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">¿Qué mejor despedida que poder disfrutar ese último coletazo de la serie en pantallón de cine y rodeados de fanáticos del mundo DHARMA?</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:11pt;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong> </strong>Si os habéis perdido algún capitulo o queréis verlos de nuevo, podéis encontrarlos todos en:</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:verdana;"><strong><a href="http://www.seriesyonkis.com/serie/lost/"><span style="color:#0000ff;">http://www.seriesyonkis.com/serie/lost/</span></a></strong><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"> </span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:verdana;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">(En Castellano y en V.O.S) </span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:verdana;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">(¡Yo os recomendaría que lo vieseis en Versión Original porque las voces no tienen nada que ver!)</span></strong></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Patrick Dempsey haciendo malabares en el programa 'Good Morning America']]></title>
<link>http://illwritesomeeveryday.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/patrick-dempsey-haciendo-malabares-en-el-programa-good-morning-america/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Javi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://illwritesomeeveryday.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/patrick-dempsey-haciendo-malabares-en-el-programa-good-morning-america/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[¿Habrá algo que no pueda hacer? el actor de Grey&#8217;s Anatomy, Patrick Dempsey, es un hombre con ]]></description>
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<p>El nativo de Maine, una vez aspiro a ser parte de un circo en su juventud, asi que es una pequeña sorpresa la que pudo mostrar, pero aún asi, les encantará.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Wrath Of Viscous Anger Revealed Through The Wisdom Of God's Word]]></title>
<link>http://fidelgonzales.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/the-wrath-of-viscous-anger-revealed-through-the-wisdom-of-gods-word/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>fidelgonzales</dc:creator>
<guid>http://fidelgonzales.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/the-wrath-of-viscous-anger-revealed-through-the-wisdom-of-gods-word/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Anger often renders viscous consequences to those who have not control of it but instead are subject]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Anger often renders viscous consequences to those who have not control of it but instead are subject to its control. Throughout the course of my life, I have acquired great portions of reason and instruction in the elements of anger. Very few, throughout this time, have ever addressed it with such clarity as has the Bible&#8217;s array of lessons. And while I was introduced to the Bible at an early age, my foundations were scattered elsewhere, and therefore, the great ushering unto the Holy Word&#8217;s wisdom was primarily left untouched until my current quest, which is strengthened be a dutiful wife and church as well as a carefully assembled environment that I continually tend to as a gardener to his garden, weeding it of foul elements and encouraging that which is good to rise up in its life of glory.</p>
<p>This morning, as I overheard the lesson, I aimed my eyes wanderously upon the wall, while my hands worked the computer on monotonous task. I listened intently. The crux of instruction at hand was our son&#8217;s home school session, of which I was inadvertently aware of. For a moment, I glanced over at the five-year-old, his eyes razor sharp with intent, fixated upon the heart of his instruction, as it transitioned from spelling, into elements of grammar, history, wisdom and the very Word of God, as exists in Genesis Chapter 4, whereby the story of two brothers unfold, Cain and Abel.</p>
<p>As I listened, my eyes again wandered, unfocused and agape into the vastness of disassociation to the heart of my very quest, which held fast at the orated word eminating from Bible through the vessel of my wife&#8217;s lips. And as the chapter in history called to a close, my eyes began to take reigns once again of my surroundings with increasing focus, and there upon the wall, side by side, were two sisters, who themeselves are engaged in a highly similar circumstance of life as referenced in today&#8217;s lesson.</p>
<p>Well, if you are aware of whom I may be speaken, then behold this on behalf of those youth, and if not, your life will still be the better for reading God&#8217;s Word. And as a man, I understand full well the righteousness of a righteous anger but likewise understand through life experience its detrimental impact upon men, families, companies and even nations of the world.</p>
<p><strong>Genesis 4 (King James Version)</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>1And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.   2And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.   3And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.   4And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:   5But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.   6And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?   7If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.   8And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.   9And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother&#8217;s keeper?   10And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother&#8217;s blood crieth unto me from the ground.   11And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother&#8217;s blood from thy hand;   12When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.   13And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.   14Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.   15And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[Subsidiary Dieties I Have Known]]></title>
<link>http://brooklynmemoriesmostgreen.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/subsidiary-dieties-i-have-known/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>brooklynmemoriesmostgreen</dc:creator>
<guid>http://brooklynmemoriesmostgreen.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/subsidiary-dieties-i-have-known/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[THE BROOKLYN CANINE  COMPANIONS: Photograph of Brutus from our family album. &#8220;A kind of additi]]></description>
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<p><strong>Photograph of Brutus from our family album.</strong></p>
<p><strong><em><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;">&#8220;A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world&#8217;s worship . . .  The Dog is a survival &#8212; an anachronism.  He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail . . .&#8221; </span></em><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://www.online-literature.com/bierce/">Ambrose Bierce,</a> <a href="http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/"><em>The Devil&#8217;s Dictionary</em></a></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;"><img style="border:0 initial initial;" title="00000004" src="http://musingbymoonlight.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/000000043.jpg?w=300" alt="00000004" width="300" height="200" /><br />
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<p><strong>Photograph of Buddy and my son from our family album.<br />
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<p><em><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;">&#8220;A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.&#8221; </span></strong></em><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://www.robertbenchley.org/">Robert Benchley</a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>THE CALIFORNIA  CANINE  COMPANIONS:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Photograph of Xiang Xiang&#8217;s Ah Man, better known as &#8220;Gus,&#8221; from our family album.</strong></p>
<p><em><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;">&#8220;My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can.  That&#8217;s almost $7 in dog money.&#8221; </span></strong></em><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://www.customerthink.com/blog/comic_relief_time_for_random_acts_of_service">Joe Weinstein</a></span></strong></p>
<p><em><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;"><img style="border:0 initial initial;" title="00000006" src="http://musingbymoonlight.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/000000062.jpg?w=232" alt="00000006" width="232" height="300" /></span></strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong></strong></em><strong>Photograph of Feyd from our family album.</strong></p>
<p><em><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;">&#8220;How&#8217;s it going, Mr. Peterson?,&#8221; asks Woody in </span></strong></em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheers"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;">Cheers</span></strong></a><em><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;">. &#8220;It&#8217;s a dog-eat-dog world, Woody, and I&#8217;m wearing milk-bone underwear,&#8221; responds Norm</span></strong></em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sherri Shepherd gets a Brazilian wax on TV]]></title>
<link>http://loft965.com/2009/08/02/sherri-shepherd-gets-a-brazilian-wax-on-tv/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>loft965</dc:creator>
<guid>http://loft965.com/2009/08/02/sherri-shepherd-gets-a-brazilian-wax-on-tv/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lovely.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Elisabeth Hasselbeck might have a brain]]></title>
<link>http://loft965.com/2009/07/31/elisabeth-hasselbeck-might-have-a-brain/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>loft965</dc:creator>
<guid>http://loft965.com/2009/07/31/elisabeth-hasselbeck-might-have-a-brain/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[She barely scratch the surface of the surface of progressive thinking. But, at least she is not prot]]></description>
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<p>She barely scratch the surface of the surface of progressive thinking. But, at least she is not protecting anything republican and conservative these days. She admitted her dislike for Ann Coulter, who I hate so much that I am starting to like her. Now, she is taking a stand against the &#8220;lying sack of dog crap&#8221; shit-starter Glen Beck, who this half-white Obama is racist against &#8220;white culture.&#8221; What the hell is white culture? That&#8217;s Nazi-speak to me. I mean, that&#8217;s verging on some Ku Klux Klan bullshit.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Skipper]]></title>
<link>http://handwires.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/skipper/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Headwires</dc:creator>
<guid>http://handwires.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/skipper/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So this game was a long time coming for me. I don&#8217;t quite understand how I hadn&#8217;t got my]]></description>
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<p>So this game was a long time coming for me. I don&#8217;t quite understand how I hadn&#8217;t got my hands on it earlier. I mean, BioWare is involved and I had read articles stating its similarity to Knights of the Old Republic, both games I loved unconditionally. One of my old room mates had rented the game and I watched him play it for a little bit. I thought it looked bland, only seeing him drive around in the Mako, maybe equip a character or two. I remember thinking the characters looked bland and boring. I walked out of the room a few minutes later.</p>
<p>Then, another room mate, a future one, also picked it up and played it. I didn&#8217;t even watch him play it. I only remember him saying that he saved his games a hundred or so times and remember thinking that I had to be somewhere and how it almost passed as white noise. It wasn&#8217;t until another friend, and former roommate of mine, also picked up the game and started playing it that I decided to see what it was all about.</p>
<p>What the hell was I thinking? This game is brilliant. Tops. Stupendous. Rockenomonal and several other adjectives describing how favorable something is. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve missed out on it. It plays very similar to the KotOR games, even better. More refined. The voice acting is awe inspiring, the best I&#8217;ve seen in any video game, and the gesticulation and character action makes me understand all the bad talk Fallout 3 gets for its stiff characters. Mass Effect climbed up the ranks to be one of my top ranked games, just below Ocarina of Time, Earthbound, and a few others. But we don&#8217;t need all this. There&#8217;s tons of aritcles telling you how great this game is. I&#8217;m here only to share my experience.</p>
<p>As of now I&#8217;ve completed the game twice, one as a paragon, and one as a renegade. My characters are as follows:</p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-19 alignnone" title="trentshephard" src="http://handwires.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/trentshephard.jpg" alt="trentshephard" width="360" height="553" /><img class="size-full wp-image-20 alignnone" title="johnshephard" src="http://handwires.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/johnshephard.jpg" alt="johnshephard" width="358" height="553" /></p>
<p>Trent Shephard &#8211; Level 52 Paragon Adept (Nemesis) Earthborn Survivor           &#124;             Park Shepard &#8211; Level 38 Renegade Soldier Colonial War Hero</p>
<p>Trent never learned how to keep his eyes open in front of a camera.</p>
<p>Now I know what you&#8217;re thinking. It looks like Park is just Trent with longer hair&#8211; however I assure you the opposite. Thare are many subtle details that define the two. Scar location, facial hair, package size etc. etc&#8230; it could also very well be an alternate timeline/dimension of Trent who was then named Park and became an asshole in part thereof.</p>
<p>Now I&#8217;ve always gone &#8220;light side&#8221; in these types of games, both KotOR&#8217;s, both Fables, both Black and Whites. I&#8217;ve found that most times it&#8217;s harder when you try to be light instead of dark. But anyone who plays light first is almost certain to do play the game again as dark. That&#8217;s when you&#8217;ve officially saved the world and/or universe you live in from the bad guys while simultaneously getting the girl amd winning the favor of those around you. The second time around you kill said girl and said people over and over in some sort of twisted time loop. As you could guess, it&#8217;s more fun the second time around.</p>
<p>With Mass Effect it isn&#8217;t so much light and dark as it is boy scout and morally grey emotionally passive bad ass willing to get the job done who  makes faces like this the entire game-</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21" title="faceshot1" src="http://handwires.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/faceshot1.jpg" alt="faceshot1" width="420" height="279" /><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22" title="faceshot2" src="http://handwires.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/faceshot2.jpg" alt="faceshot2" width="420" height="262" /><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24" title="faceshot3" src="http://handwires.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/faceshot31.jpg" alt="faceshot3" width="420" height="262" /></p>
<p>So if you&#8217;ve yet to make a stance on whether to play as Renegade or Paragon, I&#8217;ve just made your decision for you.</p>
<p>As far as classes go I played as polar opposites. The run-n&#8217;-gun soldier who runs, shoots, melees his way to his death count or the hide n&#8217; seek adept who makes entire rooms of baddies drift harmlessly through the air while taking popshots with his pistol while simultaneously winning a chess and horseshoes game against Garrus and Kaiden respectively.</p>
<p>Adept is fun, but not easy. Singularity is nice, as is throw, but I died more than I&#8217;d like to on the normal difficulty setting. As a soldier I died at least half as many times as my first go around on the insanity difficulty setting, though you could chock that up to the awareness of a previous play through. So, who did I enjoy more?</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-25" title="lightarmor" src="http://handwires.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/lightarmor.jpg" alt="lightarmor" width="400" height="598" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-26" title="heavyarmor" src="http://handwires.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/heavyarmor.jpg" alt="heavyarmor" width="400" height="598" /></p>
<p>Lame ass light adept armor or  Hot as hell soldier heavy armor</p>
<p>Now, the plot is great. No real great boss battles, Saren was a push over. But by and far one of the most revolutionary parts of this game is the romance sub-plots between either A) Smokin&#8217; hot Ashley Williams or B) Clumsy cute Liara. Now, as my play through with Paragon and my first play through the game I talked to all my crew members after every mission, every time. I think it was because I talked to Liara before I&#8217;d talk with Ashley that Ashley would get upset and Liara would come onto me later. Look, Liara is a nice girl&#8230; or&#8230; whatever the Asari are&#8211; but I have to admit this wasn&#8217;t the outcome I was hoping for. As my friend so succinctly put it, &#8220;Get outta here E.T.&#8221;</p>
<p>The second time through as a renegade the only crew mate I bothered talking to was Ashley Williams, ignoring Liara completely even after her mother&#8217;s death. This, as planned, prompted the scene I had hoped for. But I have to admit feeling a bit let down when the scene finally hit. And I felt ripped off when Ashley&#8217;s time was cut in half in comparison to Liara&#8217;s screen time&#8211; Liara got a whole &#8216;nother scene for christ sake! I also felt jipped at the lack of distinction between the two sex scenes to begin with.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-27" title="sex1" src="http://handwires.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/sex1.jpg" alt="sex1" width="420" height="262" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-28" title="sex2" src="http://handwires.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/sex2.jpg" alt="sex2" width="420" height="262" /></p>
<p>In the future all female bodies are identical and only come with an optional palette swap.</p>
<p>And here&#8217;s Liara&#8217;s added bonus:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-29" title="liarasex" src="http://handwires.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/liarasex.jpg" alt="liarasex" width="420" height="262" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-30" title="liarasex2" src="http://handwires.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/liarasex2.jpg" alt="liarasex2" width="420" height="262" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-31" title="liarasex3" src="http://handwires.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/liarasex3.jpg" alt="liarasex3" width="420" height="262" /></p>
<p>Bloody disappointing. I believe every man playing this game was hoping for Ashley and the realization that Liara being a better lover is kind of disillusioning. Like maybe human beings shouldn&#8217;t be on the council.</p>
<p>Nah, Ashley was totally better. Hopefully this mistake is made up for in the sequel.</p>
<p>Mass Effect is ahead of it&#8217;s time, hopefully this game will usher in a more realistic era of games where sex with women may be a possibility in the virtual world, to which one can only hope to take it one step further and achieve it within reality. You know who you are.</p>
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<link>http://dirtcheapmag.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/skateboard-decks/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>p3t3r0t00l3</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[ekosystem have a great post on skateboard decks designed by street artists/graffiti artists (the pic]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.ekosystem.org">ekosystem</a> have a great post on skateboard decks designed by street artists/graffiti artists (the pic is mists effort)</p>
<p>check them out <a href="http://blog.ekosystem.org/tag/skateboards/">here</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Subsidiary Deities I Have Known]]></title>
<link>http://musingbymoonlight.com/2009/07/19/subsidiary-deities-i-have-known/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>musingbymoonlight</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Photograph of Brutus from our family album. &#8220;A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed]]></description>
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<p><strong>Photograph of Brutus from our family album.</strong></p>
<p><strong><em><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;">&#8220;A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world&#8217;s worship . . .  The Dog is a survival &#8212; an anachronism.  He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail . . .&#8221; </span></em><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://www.online-literature.com/bierce/">Ambrose Bierce,</a> <a href="http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/"><em>The Devil&#8217;s Dictionary</em></a></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Photograph of Buddy and my son from our family album.<br />
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<p><em><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;">&#8220;A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.&#8221; </span></strong></em><a href="http://www.robertbenchley.org/"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;">Robert Benchley</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://www.schulzmuseum.org/"></a></span></strong></p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6299" title="00000003" src="http://musingbymoonlight.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/000000033.jpg?w=214" alt="00000003" width="214" height="300" /></p>
<p><strong>Photograph of Xiang Xiang&#8217;s Ah Man, better known as &#8220;Gus,&#8221; from our family album.</strong></p>
<p><em><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;">&#8220;My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can.  That&#8217;s almost $7 in dog money.&#8221; </span></strong></em><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://www.customerthink.com/blog/comic_relief_time_for_random_acts_of_service">Joe Weinstein</a></span></strong></p>
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<p><em><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;"> </span></strong></em><strong>Photograph of Feyd from our family album.</strong></p>
<p><em><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;">&#8220;How&#8217;s it going, Mr. Peterson?,&#8221; asks Woody in </span></strong></em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheers"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;">Cheers</span></strong></a><em><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;font-size:x-small;">. &#8220;It&#8217;s a dog-eat-dog world, Woody, and I&#8217;m wearing milk-bone underwear,&#8221; responds Norm</span></strong></em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Silent Hill: Homecoming, review]]></title>
<link>http://dralel.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/review-2/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dralel</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dralel.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/review-2/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Silent Hill: Homecoming US boxart Silent Hill Homecoming is the sixth instalment in the Silent Hill ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Shephard and Dog]]></title>
<link>http://eyeblinks.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/shephard-and-dog/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eyeblinks</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eyeblinks.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/shephard-and-dog/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Near Evora, Portugal]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Shephard and His Flock]]></title>
<link>http://retiredeagle.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/the-shephard-and-his-flock/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 18:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Robert G. Longpré</dc:creator>
<guid>http://retiredeagle.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/the-shephard-and-his-flock/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This man seems happy with his life at the moment that I took his photo on the edges of the Great Tha]]></description>
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<p>This man seems happy with his life at the moment that I took his photo on the edges of the Great Thar Desert in Rajasthan.  A shephard of sheep carrying a young one who likely is too tired to keep up with the flock.  It looks almost idyllic, a scene from the biblical past.  Yet, appearances can be deceiving.  Life as a shephard is hard.  Poverty eats away at one&#8217;s life and poisons relationships.  In the quest for water, there are many violent quarrels with neighbours.  In the quest for peace, there are many violent quarrels in the home &#8211; husbands and wives at each other&#8217;s hearts and souls; fathers and sons at each other&#8217;s throats.  How does one find space, time and energy for honouring the self in this climate of poverty, sparseness and festering relationships?</p>
<p>I learned a lot in India.  I asked questions and I listened.  And I learned that for all of our differences, within we are all the same.  And it is these similarities that are at the heart of the journey of self discovery, the focus of the text and photos of my second SoFoBoMo book.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Grey's Anatomy Season Five Finale - 5x23 / 5x24 - "Here's to the future" &amp; "Now or Never"]]></title>
<link>http://allnewseries.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/greys-anatomy-season-five-finale-5x23-5x24-heres-to-the-future-now-or-never/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mariocastrofox</dc:creator>
<guid>http://allnewseries.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/greys-anatomy-season-five-finale-5x23-5x24-heres-to-the-future-now-or-never/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When the finale is coming, Meredith and Karev teams against Izzie and Derek about doing the surgery,]]></description>
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<p>When the finale is coming, Meredith and Karev teams against Izzie and Derek about doing the surgery, while George&#8217;s seen as a good element by Hunt so he might be thinking about leaving the hospital for pursuing greater things.</p>
<p>Izzie spends time with a fellow cancer patient and contemplates whether or not to undergo a risky surgery, as Mark is ready to take his relationship with Lexie to the next level and a patient makes Owen reassess his place at Seattle Grace.George delivers stunning news to Bailey (possibly news that he is leaving to become an army physician), sending shockwaves throughout the hospital, and Izzie’s friends anxiously await her recovery from surgery. Meanwhile Bailey is surprisingly displeased after being accepted into the pediatric fellowship program, and the victim of a near-fatal traffic accident brings the talents of Seattle Grace’s doctors together</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lance and Shephard / sport and art]]></title>
<link>http://cultblender.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/lance-and-shephard-sport-and-art/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 10:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cultblender</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cultblender.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/lance-and-shephard-sport-and-art/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Two things I enjoy: cycling and art. Two people I admire: Lance Armstrong and Shephard Fairey. I hav]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Two things I enjoy: cycling and art. Two people I admire: <a>Lance Armstrong</a> and <a>Shephard Fairey</a>.<br />
<a href="http://twitpic.com/4odld/full"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-826" title="shep-helmet" src="http://cultblender.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/shep-helmet.jpg?w=300" alt="shep-helmet" width="300" height="198" /></a>I have blogged before about how cycling is the purest form of art among all sports and how the <a>Tour de France</a> could be considered the Hamlet within that artform. It just felt right to bring those two passions together. I could also have written about the amazing artful design of racing or MTB cycles, but that would bring a whole new discipline into it. Bikes are not designed to be artful, they are designed to perform. But Shephard Fairey changed that. He made a great design for a great bike (and helmet);<a> Lance&#8217;s Livestrong Trek Madone 1274</a>. Perhaps not a wet dream of every cycling enthusiast, but a frame that will keep you awake at night nonetheless.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.supertouchart.com/2009/05/04/italyfirst-look-lance-armstrongs-shepard-fairey-kenny-scharf-artist-bikes-for-the-giro-ditalia/"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-820" title="Design by Shepard Fairey" src="http://cultblender.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/scharffsheppitalybike2.jpg?w=300" alt="Design by Shepard Fairey" width="300" height="192" /></a>I saw <a>pictures of this frame</a> on<a> Lance Armstrong&#8217;s twitter stream</a> and looking at the pictures, it would appear he plans to ride on this frame during the Tour of Italy. Should that really happen, there is no more denying that no sport has more art to it than cycling. Personally, I hope that after Shephard helped Obama to a historic victory in the presidential race, he\&#8217;ll help Lance win a historic victory in Paris. You just gotta love the fact that Lance´s bike says ´Obey´ on the ballhead. Go Lance!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.supertouchart.com/2009/05/04/italyfirst-look-lance-armstrongs-shepard-fairey-kenny-scharf-artist-bikes-for-the-giro-ditalia/"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-821" title="kenny-sharff-bike" src="http://cultblender.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/kenny-sharff-bike.jpg?w=300" alt="kenny-sharff-bike" width="300" height="280" /></a>Edit:<br />
Fortunately, Lance is very active on Twitter (good to know, the boss arrived safely in Rome and is eagerly awaiting the start of the Giro) and he posted a new link to both the Shephard Fairey designed bike as also the design made by Kenny Sharff. I cannot stop looking at this amazing time trial bike. Whoa!</p>
<p>Click on the images to go to the SuperTouch site where you can see larger images. Keep in mind however that the artists only designed what is printed on the frames, not the actual frames. This information goes without saying for people familiair with the sport, but for art afficionados this might be relevant news. The SuperTouch website does state that they are two majorly different designs&#8230; but that&#8217;s one is a time trial bike, and the other one is a &#8216;normal&#8217; racing bike. just so you know. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Want to read more on Lance, Livestrong and art? Supertouch has written more news about that <a href="http://www.supertouchart.com/2009/03/09/lanewslance-armstrong-announces-the-stages-art-show-to-benefit-livestrong/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Leadership is about making tough decisions]]></title>
<link>http://mikesdailyblog.com/2009/03/21/leadership-is-about-making-tough-decisions/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mike Martinez</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mikesdailyblog.com/2009/03/21/leadership-is-about-making-tough-decisions/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Leadership is a lonely road.  It often can&#8217;t be traveled lightly or with making tons of friend]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Leadership is a lonely road.  It often can&#8217;t be traveled lightly or with making tons of friends in mind.  Leadership is about making tough, sometimes controversial decisions, that make some people very happy and make others very unhappy.  Leadership is about having knowledge or insight about things or people that the general public doesn&#8217;t and having to make decision that as a result a lot of people don&#8217;t understand.  Leadership is not a popularity contest.  If you have the need to always be liked or favored, you&#8217;ll never be an effective leader.  Leaders make the choices and the decisions that need to be made for the good of their people and their organizations or businesses.  Leaders have to make tough, tough choices and they take the credit and the criticism for the outcomes.  Leaders take the time to hear all the different sides to an issue, or take in the research or information that is available, then they go that quiet place and listen to their instincts.  Then&#8230;they make decisions.  If you are going to be the leader that you&#8217;re supposed to be you can not shy away or escape this responsibility.  This is a cross we must all bear&#8230;and we bear it alone.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lost- 5x09: Namasté]]></title>
<link>http://allserieslinamarcela.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/lost-5x09-namaste/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>valeria</dc:creator>
<guid>http://allserieslinamarcela.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/lost-5x09-namaste/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Cada vez se va poniendo más interesante, como pasa siempre con lost. Hay varias cositas que ya las h]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[This is why I love lost...]]></title>
<link>http://hellosky.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/this-is-why-i-love-lost/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hellosky</dc:creator>
<guid>http://hellosky.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/this-is-why-i-love-lost/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jack and Desmond in the hatch. &#8221; You really think this is happening?&#8221; &#8221; Why wouldn]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>&#8221; You really think this is happening?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8221; Why wouldn&#8217;t it be?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8221; It says quarantine on the inside of the hatch to keep you down here. To keep you scared, but you know what? We&#8217;ve been up there for over 40 days and no one has gotten sick! You think that this is the only part of it that&#8217;s true? Did you ever think that maybe they&#8217;d put you down here to push a button every 108 mintues, just to see if you would, that ALL of this, the computer, the button is just a mindgame, an experiment? &#8220;</p>
<p>&#8221; every single day&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p></blockquote>
<p>Jack and Locke&#8217;s conversation about the button</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8221; Sayid, don&#8217;t&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8221; Jack-&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t. It&#8217;s not real. Look, if you want to push the button, you have to do it yourself.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8221; If it&#8217;s not real then what are you doing here Jack? Why did you come back? Why do you find it so hard to believe!?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8221; Why do you find it so easy?!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8221; It&#8217;s never BEEN easy!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lost-5x09: Que te pareció Namasté?]]></title>
<link>http://valerieseries.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/lost-5x09-que-te-parecio-namaste/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>valeria</dc:creator>
<guid>http://valerieseries.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/lost-5x09-que-te-parecio-namaste/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Cada vez se va poniendo más interesante, como pasa siempre con lost. Hay varias cositas que ya las h]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;">Cada vez se va poniendo más interesante, como pasa siempre con lost. Hay varias cositas que ya las habia adelantado en los spoilers.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;">Primero vemos como fue el accidente del 316, y un poco antes, el copiloto le hizo notar a Lapidus la presencia de Hurley en el vuelo, ya que lo había reconocido como un “oceanic six”.</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;">Nuestros losties quedaron separados en 2 líneas de tiempo: por un lado Jack, Kate y Hurley <span> </span>en 1977, y también Sayid que quedó aparte. Por otro lado Sun, Lapidus y Ben con el resto de los sobrevivientes, entre ellos Ilana y Caesar, que no sabemos en que año están, se supone que 30 años después, o sea en 2007.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-813" title="ben-y-sun" src="http://valerieseries.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/ben-y-sun.jpg" alt="ben-y-sun" width="480" height="270" /><br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;">Lefleur y Juliette ayudan a Jack, Hurley y Kate a infiltrarse entre los Dharma como nuevos reclutados, ya que justo llegaba un submarino.</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;">Me encantó la chombita azul de Jack!!! <span> </span>Encima Pierre Chang, o como se llame, lo denigró a “Workman”!!! De neurocirujano a conserje!!!</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;">Kate estaba bien onda 70 con ese look hippoide.</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;">Era cierto que Amy es la madre de Ethan. Me gustó como Juliette carga al bebé y cuando Amy le dice que se va a llamar “Ethan” se lo devolvió al toque.</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;">Una pregunta: que pasó con Faraday??? LeFleur dijo que él tiene unas teorías muy interesantes sobre los viajes temporales, pero que ya no está…</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;">Hurley recalcó el detalle, de que si están con los Dharma, y en 1977, que no nos olvidemos de que “los hostiles” acabaron con ellos…Que haran nuestros losties cuando llegue el momento de la purga??? Se escaparán a través del tiempo, como en la vieja serie &#8220;El Tunel del Tiempo???<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;">Jin y Sun desencontrados en el tiempo, muy romántico.</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;">Y volvió nuestro fantasma, o lo que sea, más enigmático: Christian Shephard, que tambien, como se había adelantado, les muestra a Sun y Lapidus una serie de fotos de la iniciativa Dharma en los 70, y especialmente la de 1977. “Les espera un largo viaje”, les dijo. Lapidus y Sun viajaran en el tiempo???</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;">Sayid!!! Tan lindo como siempre!!! Y con tanta mala suerte como siempre!!! ( ya sabemos el destino de todas sus novias). Tuvo que caer en otro lugar y lo tienen que confundir con un hostil??? Y encima el pobre no entiende nada, pero como lo que le sobra a Sayid es inteligencia, supo seguirle la corriente a LeFleur y Jin, quienes no le dieron una miserable explicación.</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:fuchsia;">Pero quien aparece al final a llevarle un “sándwich” a Sayid??? El niño Ben!!!, que como ya lo habíamos adelantado, lo vamos a tener por 4 epis.</span></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Flocks and Figs]]></title>
<link>http://swervechurch.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/flocks-and-figs/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>swervechurch</dc:creator>
<guid>http://swervechurch.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/flocks-and-figs/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The book of Amos is tucked in between Joel and Obadiah.  Page 1340 .  The scriptures say this about ]]></description>
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<p>The book of Amos is tucked in between Joel and Obadiah.  Page 1340 <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> .  The scriptures say this about Amos in chapter 7:14-15, when he was being told to leave the country because the people there did not like what the Lord was saying through Amos&#8230;.Amos said, <strong>&#8220;I was neither a prophet nor a prophet&#8217;s son, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees.  But the Lord took me from tending the flock&#8221;  </strong></p>
<p>You see, Amos was a prophet&#8230;.but  he did not start that way.  He ended up that way.  Amos did not have a degree or a pedigree.  He was not schooled in the prophetic nor did he attend the prophetic seminary.  He tended flocks and figs.  He had blisters on his hands, dust on his sandals,&#8230;and probably much more depending on how careful he was walking all around those sheep&#8230;.. </p>
<p>God was working then in 792 B.C. and He is working now.  God is working all around us all the time.  The Lord took Amos away from what he was doing and made him into something else.  When you have an encounter with the Living God&#8230;.you are changed.  Amos was, Moses was, Abraham was, and on and on throughout time&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;louie was, Zosh was, Pete was, Jen was, Debbie was,&#8230;&#8230;..and the list goes on.</p>
<p>You may just be a sheepherder or a tender of fig trees right now&#8230;Put your ear to the spirit&#8230;&#8230;look around  you and see what God is doing&#8230;&#8230;just in small areas, at your work, on the street, maybe even in your church&#8230;.and listen for what God may say to you about leaving the flock and figs&#8230;.at least for a while.</p>
<p>louie @ <a href="mailto:lmercer6@cfl.rr.com">lmercer6@cfl.rr.com</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Conservatives vs. evolution...]]></title>
<link>http://loft965.com/2008/12/14/conservatives-vs-evolution/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>loft965</dc:creator>
<guid>http://loft965.com/2008/12/14/conservatives-vs-evolution/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Did she just compare evolution to a bag? I would pay to see someone pie her face. She needs to stop ]]></description>
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<p>Did she just compare evolution to a bag? I would pay to see someone pie her face. She needs to stop it. For that matter, all conservatives need to take a hiatus and zip it for a while. Give us a break, we deserve it.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Money - N.A.S.A.]]></title>
<link>http://171tv.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/money-nasa/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>brunomorais</dc:creator>
<guid>http://171tv.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/money-nasa/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Já que o Miguelito (aka Michel Montandon) alertou que a crise é de caráter, hoje eu posto um clipe r]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Já que o Miguelito (aka Michel Montandon) alertou que a crise é de caráter, hoje eu posto um clipe recém-lançado do <a href="http://www.myspace.com/northamericasouthamerica" target="_blank">N.A.S.A</a> (North America South America), um projeto dos djs/produtores <a href="http://www.myspace.com/squeakeclean" target="_blank">Squeak E. Clean</a> (irmão de Spike Jonze e representa a North america) e <a href="http://www.myspace.com/djzegon" target="_blank">Zegon</a> (também conhecido anteriormente como Zé Gonzalez, foi responsável pelas pick ups do Planet Hemp e formava o Dz Cuts &#8211; dupla com O Dj Nutz, e representando a South America). Essa música tem participação de David Byrne (talkin heads), Chuck D (salve o Public Enemy), Ras Congo, Seu Jorge &#38; Z-Trip.  O responsável gráfico é o designer Shepard Fairey, que fez aquele poster Hope! (vermelho e azul ) do Obama.</p>
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