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Saturday, February 28, 2009

My Life

Is it bad the highlight of my weekend is Saturday morning waffles?

They're awfully tasty.

Friday, February 27, 2009

The Goods

This post has its origins here.

Comment on this post and I will make you something. With these here hands. All for you. And I get to choose what I make. And you HAVE TO LIKE IT, BUDDY! Just kidding, you might hate it. But no take-backs, k?

The possibilities of the world are open to us. Me and you. The maker and the getter. It could be anything. I could make you a storybook, or knit you a checkbook cover or invite you over for a three-course meal. Pull up your socks, cause they're about to get blown off.

Here's the dealio, Joe: You'll have to repost and make stuff for someone else. Fun, huh?

So Mark did five which is a nice number but my version of the rules has always been a little off . . . so, I'll do five totally awesome creations for the first five and anyone who comments after that gets something pretty cool (unless I get lazy and just send you a piece of cardboard that says "You just got pwned, sucka!"). And I'll let you decide how many people you'll get all creative on.

Oh, and the getting of the goods will be as such: If you live in Salt Lake or thereabouts or somewhere I might be visiting in the next little while, I'll bring you (hand-delivered!) whatever I make. If you're far away, I'll send it to ya. Deal?

And if you leave an anonymous comment, I'll just make something and give it to a homeless person.

Okay, I am hereby ordering you to comment. Now. (Just do it. You know you want to.)

Thursday, February 26, 2009

My Brain Shuts Down at Eleven

I'm here laying in my bed doing a little late-night reading, right? I'm all ready for sleep: fuzzy pjs, hair in the signature messy ponytail, contacts out and glasses on. Whilst reading, I notice my glasses are rather smudged and could use a good cleaning. Of course, here I am cozy in my bed with absolutely no intention of getting up to get a cleaning wipe for these bad boys. A few minutes pass but, ugh, they're really starting to bug me. All I need is something wet to use to wipe them off.

Hey. My tongue is wet. I actually pull my glasses off and have them halfway to my mouth when I come to my senses.

WHA--what the hell?! Was I about to lick my glasses?

Oh. my. word. I need to go to sleep. Right now. Who knows what other crazy stuff I'll do in my sleep-deprived state? Geez. I might even yank out my laptop and document this ridiculous behavior. For posterity.

Licking my flippin' glasses. Seriously, why?

On Happiness

My boss said to me yesterday, “Kim, you are always so cheerful. You must be one of the happiest people I know.”

“I guess I just figure it’s easier to be happy than to be miserable,” I replied. “And,” I added, “I’m pretty lazy so, you know, always looking for the easy way out . . .”

“Well whatever it is, it’s sure nice,” she told me.

This got me thinking. What are some people so unhappy? I don’t get it. Doesn’t everyone realize how much energy is drained by a melancholy attitude? It’s so much more effortless to be happy.

Aren’t we Americans always looking for shortcuts and time-saving options? Well here’s one, folks: Just be happy. It’s not that complicated.

Back when I was full of teenage angst, my mom would tell me, “Choose to be happy today.” And I’d always say, “Okay, Mom! Sounds good!” Just kidding. I was a total brat from age 13 until 18 or so. So I probably stomped my foot at her and said something sarcastic. Because that’s how I rolled. Man, it’s a good thing I grew out of that whole “snarky” thing.

Luckily, I eventually realized my mom was right. She’s always right! You just have to make a decision to be happy. You get up in the morning and tell yourself, “This is going to be a great day.”

And then you make it happen, Captain.

P.S. Thanks for the advice, Mom. Love you.

P.P.S. Do you ever look back and want to apologize to everyone you knew during junior high? Something like, “Sorry you had to experience that whole period of my life. I’m pretty cool now. So, good news, looks like the angst wasn’t permanent.”

Anyone else?

Sometimes when I walk through the doors at Wal-Mart, I think I can feel a little piece of my soul dying.

But you just can’t beat those prices! Holla!

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

My coworker makes my brain hurt.

Yesterday I had one of the part-timers at work help me set up flags from various countries for our International Night. She asked me if I knew from which countries the flags were. I replied that I didn’t know.

"Well, what do you think this one is?" she persisted, holding up a black, red, and yellow banner.

"I don’t know. Ethiopia?" I hazarded.

"It looks more like the African flag to me," she argued.

I bit my tongue and patiently explained that Africa was, in fact, a continent, not a country and consequently did not have her own flag. The countries and regions, I explained, have flags but there isn’t an official "African flag."

"What? Africa doesn’t have a flag?!?" she asked.

"No," I said slowly, "That would be like saying 'the Asian flag'."

"Hang on . . . Asia doesn’t have a flag?!?"

Later, she wrinkled her nose during my (amazing, I might add) rendition of "I Think I Love You."

"Not a David Cassidy fan?" I asked.

"Are you kidding? David Cassidy! He’s a singer . . . he was in the Partridge Family," I explained.

"What’s the Partridge Family? Is that like American Idol?"

I looked at her for a long minute. "I have no idea how to talk to you," I said and walked away.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

For the sake of cuteness.

My mother has the cutest run I've ever seen. When we play kickball as a family, I love it when Mom is up at bat. When she runs, I practically die of cuteness. She puts her hands up (think "jazz hands") and prances off to first base. It's darling.

Speaking of cute, I interviewed a girl yesterday that also had an adorable idiosyncrasy. The tip of her nose wiggled every time she spoke. I was enchanted. I actually wanted to offer her a job just so I could continue seeing her little nose twitch every day.

I wonder if I have a charming quirk.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Why Kids are Cooler than Adults

#1: Kids are more fun to talk with. Children’s use and appreciation of language is so inventive. I love the way children can skip in a single conversation from what they had for dinner last night to what they want to be when they grow up to asking why the grass grows up instead of sideways. I love the way children giggle when they hear a word that is unfamiliar. “Oklahoma?” they shriek, “What’s an Oklahoma?” I think we, as adults, get tired with our language. We hear and use the same words over and over and conversations can become monotonous. But kids haven’t been exposed to enough language to get tired of it. They greet every encounter with speech as a new adventure.

#2: You can be much sillier with kids. In case you haven’t noticed, I have a proclivity for lightheartedness. Kids never tire of this. In fact, I’m pretty popular with the under-8 crowd. With adults, you’re expected to be serious. A lot. You have serious meetings and serious conversations and serious phone calls. No wonder adults look haggard! Where’s the silliness? Where’s the levity? Case in point: I met a three-year-old named Matilda last week. Upon meeting, I swung her up on my hip and danced in circles with her while singing “Waltzing Matilda” in an exaggerated Australian accent. She laughed and we became instant friends. You can’t do stuff like that with adults. Well, I’m not saying you can’t. I’m just saying you shouldn’t.

#3: Kids are more lovable. Some of my students drive me absolutely bonkers. Real live tear-your-hair-out want-to-cry insane. But at the end of the day, I’m crazy about these kids. I’ve been working with children for a long time and have seen hordes of kids come and go, and after it all I can say in sincerity that I have genuinely loved every single one of the kids I’ve worked with. Some more than others, mind you, but every one has held a little piece of my heart. Right now there are 54 kids enrolled at my school and there isn’t a single one that I wouldn’t miss if he went away. I don’t think I’m unusual. Kids just have a natural magnetism; you can’t help but love them. Adults? Well, that’s another story . . .

The highlight of his Sabbath.

Yesterday I offered the opening prayer in Sacrament meeting. While walking back to my pew, I saw my roommate grinning at me. So I did what anyone else would do in that most sacred environment: I pulled a seductive kissy face and winked alluringly at her.

Unbeknownst to me, the guy sitting in front of my roommate was also smiling at me. And he was somewhat alarmed that, in response to his innocent smile, I practically threw my virtue at him. In church.

I’m just glad I didn’t mouth, “You know you want this, baby.”

Because that would've been somewhat awkward.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Proof I shouldn't blog before I'm fully awake.

Just a few minutes ago, while I was perched on the bathroom counter swishing Listerine, I was thinking about alcohol. Listerine is chock-full of the stuff (which is why you're not supposed to drink it) (unless you're my grandpa).

So the alcohol kills the germs in your mouth. Yeah, I know that Listerine tells you it kills germs with essential oils from eucalyptus and the like but I'm not buying it. Otherwise koalas would have beautiful healthy teeth and perennially fresh breath. I haven't spent a lot of time around koalas, but I can imagine. So if the alcohol kills germs, do other types of alcohol do the same? Like, could I keep a bottle of whiskey under my sink and swish with that twice daily? And if you're drunk do you have less bacteria in your mouth than someone who's not?

You know how they say a dog's mouth has less bacteria than a human's? Well what about a drunk? Where do they fit in the scale? Is it dog, drunk human, regular human? Or do drunk people surpass dogs? What about drunk dogs?

I'm just saying.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Way to waste time on a dateless Friday night. And to giggle yourself silly.

Q1: Type in “[your name] needs” in the Google search.
Kim needs to take off the gloves.

Q2: Type in “[your name] looks like” in Google search.
Kim looks like an adult-sized Cupid of an indiscernible gender.

Q3: Type in “[your name] says” in Google search.
Kim says, "You can't put your arms around a memory."

Q4: Type in “[your name] wants” in Google search.
Kim wants nuclear-free peninsula.
Q5:Type in “[your name] does” in Google search.
Kim does not know the rules.

Q6: Type in “[your name] hates” in Google search.
Kim hates the Biggie Biopic.

Q7: Type in “[your name] asks” in Google search.
Kim asks the right question.

Q8: Type in “[your name] likes ” in Google search.
Kim likes beautiful revolutionaries.

Q9: Type in “[your name] eats ” in Google search.
Kim eats microwave oven.

Q10: Type in “[your name] wears ” in Google search.
Kim wears short shorts.
Q11: Type in “[your name] was arrested for” in Google Search.
Kim was arrested for public intoxication.

Q12: Type in “[your name] loves” in Google Search.
Kim loves vintage costume jewelry.

P.S. Only some of these are true.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

My Friend Pablo

You guys know all about Pablo, yes?

Wednesdays are my favorite days because that's the day I get to go kick it with Pablo for an hour or two after work. Pablo never fails to make me laugh so hard it hurts and his mother Galina always chides me for not constantly eating at their house.
A typical conversation with her runs:

Galina: Hi, Kim. You want food? What I should make for you? You like sandwich or nice apple, maybe?

Me: Oh, no. I'm fine. Really.

Galina: No, I will make little somethings. You like the salads? I make for you salad, yes? With the, uh, the tomato?

Me: I'm not hungry but thank you so much.

Galina: You want a refreshment? A Dr Pepper, yes?

Me: You know what? I'm okay. Really.

She bustles out and back in a few minutes later with a bottle of water, a package of cookies, two sandwiches and a bowl of fruit.

Galina: Here is some food for you. You eat.

Me: Okay. Great. Thanks.

And Pablo just laughs and laughs. He tells me, "You better eat before you get in trouble."

One day, about a year ago, I walked in to see Pablo wrapped up in a blanket. I said, "Pablo, you look like a burrito!" And the nickname stuck. He always wants me to call him Burrito now. And he never calls me by name, it's always "my dear." Last night, when I called him sweetie, he whirled his head around to ask, "Sweetie? I am Burrito." And with a sly smile he added, "Or you could call me Sweet Burrito."

And that set us off. We giggled about Sweet Burritos for almost twenty minutes. That's the way it is with the two of us: we keep merriment close at hand.

He's such a charmer, that Pablo. He told me once, "I love two things: good-sounding opera and good-looking women. You are one of those."

I love spending time with my hilarious friend.

Test of a True Friend

Karen and I were on the couch watching TV the other night when I turned to her and asked, "If you were dating Hugh Jackman, would you let me make out with him one time?"

"Oh, yeah. Because I'd be secure enough in our relationship and all," she replied.

"Really? Me too," I vow.

"Of course."

And thus we see the secret of our friendship. We would totally let each other make out with our imaginary hot boyfriend.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

It's perplexing.

Most of you have probably heard me mention my big sister, Amy. She’s pretty cool. Amy is the type of person people just always like. She’s friendly, talented and wonderfully witty. The people who don’t like Amy are probably the same people who cheered in the theatre when Bambi’s mom got shot and then went home and punched a kitten. Read: not cool people.

Anyway, Amy’s assets are many and her faults few so she will perhaps forgive my teasing her on this one small thing?

The way she answers the phone always amuses me. She just sounds so bewildered. “Hel-LO?”

You almost imagine her asking in response to a phone ringing, “What is this? A phone? Oh, I’ve never used a phone before. How do you make it stop? Hello? Oh, you pick it up first? Hel-LO?”

It’s just so funny. I’m giggling to myself right now as I think about it. I’m actually tempted to give out her phone number just so you can all experience Bemused Phone Amy.

But I won’t.

Because she can totally beat me up.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Probably the weirdest thing anyone has ever said to me in Albertson's.

I bumped into a friend at the grocery store today. We had been chatting in the produce section for a few minutes when he took a step back, looked at my butt (Yeah, you read that correctly. He full-on looked at my butt!), and said:

(Are you ready for this?)

"Girl, you shore know how to fill out a pair a' jeans."

I don't . . . I have . . . no words . . . What do you say to that?

I did my famous I'm-nervous-and-have-no-idea-how-to-respond laugh and finally managed a "Gee, thanks."

So, in case you were wondering, I can fill out a pair of jeans.

Wait. That was a compliment, right? Wasn't it? WASN'T IT??

Geez, now I've got a complex about my butt. That's really all I need.

You can't help but snicker at this.

Married To The Sea

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Happy Birthday, Abraham!

I love Abraham Lincoln. Quite a bit. Just take a look at my bookshelves. I have volumes recounting his war, his Presidency, his life, his lexis, and his legacy. I just love the guy.

So now, on the 200th anniversary of his birth, I'm celebrating. I DVRed Lincoln: Man or Myth? on the History Channel a few weeks ago and I'm just itching to watch it. Anyone care to join me? Come on, you know it sounds fun. We can talk about how much I love Honest Abe . . . I'll make popcorn.

Yes, I am easily amused by Microsoft Paint.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

All in the family

I’ll admit to being a little absent-minded at times. I maintain that I’m just preoccupied with more important things. (Like inventing a diet soda bong for my car so I don’t have to let go of the wheel while driving. Admit it. It’s a good idea.)

Anyway, I’ve always been apologetic for my forgetfulness. I talked to my mom recently and she relayed two very interesting stories which assuaged my feelings of culpability.

Story #1: Driving home from Baltimore Monday afternoon, Mom was lost in thought and accidentally drove up the exit ramp of the freeway. And almost got hit by another car. And almost died. I guess those big red “Wrong Way” signs didn’t catch her eye.

Story #2: My 6½-year-old brother Matt went over to his friend’s house the other day sans underwear. Apparently, he forgot to put it on that morning and hadn’t noticed all day.

HA! It’s not my fault I’m absent-minded. It’s in my blood! Look at these freaks I’m related to.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

There's no place like, uh, whatever.

I’ve been here in Utah for about 4½ years. Within that time, I have moved 5 times. (What can I say? I get antsy sometimes.) As a result of moving so frequently, I live light. I don’t own much and the stuff I have is pretty portable. I don’t feel like I’ve ever put down roots here in Salt Lake.

On top of that, my parents left my hometown in Texas a few years back and moved to a tiny little town in rural Maryland. (That's weird because, before they moved there, I don’t think I’d ever thought of Maryland as a real place.) So when people say, “you can’t go home again,” they really mean it; I can’t go home again. Because there’s someone else living in my house.

Maryland doesn’t feel like home to me because it’s not my home, it’s the place where my family lives and I go visit a couple times a year.

All these things culminate in my mind to a sense of general displacement. I don’t feel like I have a home in the connotative sense of the word. Sure, I “have a home” in that I “have a place where I keep my stuff and sleep at night” but that’s my current home, not my home home. So I’m left feeling rather detached from any physical place. Over the past 4 years my life had changed a great deal. Most things haven’t remained constant.

Except . . . (shudder) . . . my job.

This place is very familiar and (dare I say?) homey for me.

The one home that I have here is the very place that is slowly sucking away my soul.

How sick.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Reverently, Quietly

I try so hard to be reverent in church. I really try so hard.

But I am afflicted with attention-span issues.

And roommates.

This became a problem yesterday when my roommate flicked me with a rubber band right in the middle of Sacrament meeting. I could not let her challenge stand unanswered. I slipped that band on my finger, aimed peripherally, and let it fly. Yeah, except Liz wasn't exactly where I thought she was and the perfectly flicked rubber band sailed right across the aisle. In horror we watched as it pegged someone in an adjacent pew, and then in unison we bent over with uncontrolled, yet silent, laughter. In response to the look we received I said quietly, "What's her problem? Be nice, lady. We're in church."

About 20 minutes later I started to get fidgety again and whispered to my roommate, "Hey, do you think she'll give us back the rubber band?"

"No!" was her response.

"Will you just ask?" I pressed.

Some people are just no fun.

Common Mistake

My dad, while telling me about a book he'd recently read, couldn't remember the novel's name. He assured me that I would be able to readily identify the book as he described the plot and characters. He then recalled, "It was written by Gene Wilder."

Throughout his summarizing, I grew more and more confused until I heard my mother in the background say, "You mean Jane Austen, dear."

Yes, Jane Austen was the author of Persuasion. Not Willy Wonka. But in truth, they are so similar, I'm surprised more people don't confuse them.

Friday, February 6, 2009

And happy Friday to you, too.

I had a hard time concentrating at work today. Well, because it's Friday. And maybe this had something to do with it:

Did you count 'em? Four, baby. And that was just before 3:30.
This afternoon on my way boring conference call, I was a bit distracted and not-paying-attentionish. And so I had a little lookie at the Internet. Specifically, a hilarious blog.
And that's where I read the words, "raging case of B.O. from a three mile jaunt in a monkey suit."
Honestly, I tried to hit Mute on my phone but I can never remember where the darn button is.
And that's why the other three people on the call heard a huge guffaw and wheezing that I tried to pass off as a coughing fit until I located Mute.
That'll teach 'em to invite me to a conference call on a Friday afternoon. Sheesh.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Flippin' Anxiety

I'm having job anxiety.

No, not that I might lose my job because, let's face it, this place would shrivel up and die without me here and that's the truth.

Now I could spin you a sweet little tale on how I feel about practically running this place while the person who makes three flippin' times what I make spends the majority of the work week still trying to figure out how email works. I could do that, but my mom told me I should not say swears on my blog because it makes me seem "low class" so I will not talk about that particular element of my job right now.

No, that's not it either.

Here's what is giving me job anxiety:

My desk.

I like my desk clean. I like it organized. I like everything put away. I don't like this. It's making me brain-hurty. And it's making me unfunctiony. And it's making me anxiousy. And it's making me ADDy. And it's making me blogging-instead-of-workingy.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Only, how cute is my brother, right?

James is now in Mexico and lovin’ it! He keeps his family updated through the magic of email. (The “e” stands for “entertaining”) Here are some excerpts from the past few emails that are just so James.

You don’t have to worry about us being robbed. I don’t have any money.

So I do not know what we are going to be doing today and, even if I was told, I would not really understand.

We turn our water heater on every morning for our shower. The first day we actually heated our water with our iron because we didn’t have any gas.

A funny thing about our ward is that no one can sing the Hymns and, to make it worse, if no one knows the Hymns on the piano, the chorister sings the first line and then everyone imitates that for the song. It’s quite painful to listen to.

Well, I hate to say it, but American Mexican food actually tastes a lot better than Mexican Mexican food.

I spoke in church on Sunday. I read Alma 5:45-46 I think and then maybe talked about it. I don’t know; it was in Spanish.

Time goes pretty fast here, even though the people don’t.

James, second from the right, confirms suspicions that he is just as weird in foreign countries as he is in the USA.
The band that plays down the street from James's house.

If you’d like to write to James, email me and I’ll send you his address. I’m sure he’d love to get mail from los gringos.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Surely she didn't mean that. Did she?

Do you ever stumble across an old email and find a treasure from years ago? I was searching for something my sister emailed me and instead found a message she sent Sunday, October 8, 2006 at 10:03 pm.

The subject line reads, "The perfect poem!"

And the message:
Abstinence sows sand all over
The ruddy limbs and flaming hair,
But Desire Gratified
Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
William Blake, 1787

Okay, okay. I have no clue concerning the context of this email. It could have been referring to something completely innocent and normal . . . BUT it's pretty funny to imagine what caused my upstanding elder sister to send me a poem about *snicker* desire gratified *snicker* with the assurance that it's "perfect".

Any conjectures? Ames, do you remember what this is all about?

I need to stop thinking about it. I'm giggling to myself much too often these days.


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India rejects NSA leaker Snowden’s asylum request

NEW DELHI (AP) — India has rejected NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s request for political asylum, the External Affairs Ministry said Tuesday.

The Indian embassy in Moscow had received a request for asylum from Snowden, ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin told reporters.

He said India carefully examined the request and decided to turn it down.

The government has “concluded that we see no reason to accede to that request,” he said.

Earlier Tuesday, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said India “has a very careful and restrictive policy on asylums.”

“We have given asylums in the past but we are not an open house for asylums since we have a careful and objective policy,” he said in Brunei, where he is attending a regional security forum.

India has not ratified a 1951 international convention on refugees and has no regular procedure for granting asylum to people fleeing persecution.

The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks has said that Snowden has applied to more than 20 countries for asylum, including India and China.

Snowden has been on the run since he exposed highly secret National Security Agency surveillance programs. He is believed to be staying in the transit area of Moscow’s airport since arriving there from Hong Kong on June 23.

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Koreas end talks on factories with no breakthrough

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Talks between the rival Koreas aimed at restarting a stalled inter-Korean factory park ended Wednesday with no breakthrough, but both sides agreed to meet again next week to discuss restoring what was once a rare symbol of cooperation between the archrivals.

They also agreed to a separate set of talks next week on allowing reunions of families that have been separated for decades by the border between North and South Korea, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said in a statement. The ministry said Seoul rejected a proposal from North Korea to discuss resumption of South Korean tours to a North Korean mountain.

The Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea, located just over the heavily armed border dividing the two countries, closed in April following North Korea’s angry reaction to South Korea’s annual military exercises with the United States and alleged insults against the North’s top leadership.

North Korea has in recent weeks ratcheted down its warlike threats and pursued diplomacy with both Seoul and Washington, though it has not pulled back on its nuclear weapons development as the U.S., South Korea and other nations demand.

The two Koreas recently agreed on a desire to reopen the complex, but they are still discussing how to do that.

During Wednesday’s talks at Kaesong, the rivals again shared the view that the factory complex should be maintained and developed, chief Seoul delegate Suh Ho told South Korean reporters after the meeting, according to media pool reports. He said the two sides agreed to meet in Kaesong again on Monday.

The Unification Ministry said North Korea proposed additional working-level talks next week — on reunions and the resumption of tours to the Diamond Mountain resort — via an inter-Korean communication channel at the border village of Panmunjom.

The ministry said Seoul accepted the offer on reunions because of the urgency of that issue, but rejected the offer on mountain tours because it wants to keep the focus on the factory park. It said the Kaesong complex’s restart will be a “touchstone for South-North Korean exchange and cooperation.’

Pyongyang wants the talks on separated families to be held at the mountain or Kaesong, but Seoul made a counterproposal to hold them in the border village of Panmunjom, the ministry said.

Also on Wednesday, South Korean representatives of factories that operated at Kaesong visited the complex and inspected equipment that they’re worried could be ruined during the rainy season currently pounding the Korean Peninsula.

Kim Hak-kwon, a member of a committee pushing for Kaesong’s restoration, said humidity had damaged a lot of equipment. More than 10 South Korean workers should spend three to four weeks in Kaesong repairing and maintaining machines, Kim said.

The complex combined South Korean know-how and capital with cheap North Korean labor, and was the centerpiece of cross-border cooperation projects hatched during a previous era of warming ties. Other joint projects between the two Koreas closed as relations soured over the past five years.

North Korea in April pulled its 53,000 workers out of the industrial park, and South Korea then ordered its managers to leave as well, against their wishes.

The park resulted in nearly $2 billion a year in cross-border trade before its shutdown.

The closure meant a loss of salary for tens of thousands of North Korean workers employed in factories run by 123 South Korean companies, and a loss of goods and orders for business managers who relied on Kaesong to churn out everything from shoes and watches to cables and electrical components.

The Korean Peninsula officially remains at war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.

Associated Press writer Elizabeth Shim contributed to this report.

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Jason Aldean Insists He and Eric Church Aren’t Outlaws

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Jason Aldean and Eric Church may appear to be two of country music’s biggest rebels, with their rambunctious attitudes and rocking songs. Turns out they’re really just two guys who are trying to have a whole lot of fun.

Although the two singers performed at Keith Urban‘s We’re All for the Hall Benefit Concert, which was themed ‘Rebels & Renegades: The Outlaws Are IN,’ and featured country music’s more rebellious artists, they’re not rebels all the time…or even some of the time.

According to Country Weekly, ACM Male Vocalist of the Year Aldean admitted that he’s often labeled as an outlaw, saying with a laugh, “I guess I kinda get stuck with that a little bit sometimes.” However, he insists it’s just the way his music comes across. “I think just because my music, the way it is, just kinda having that little bit of an aggressive sound,” he says. “I think people just kind of look at it that way. But I think that’s the case for a lot of guys.”

Aldean brought up his fellow country peer Church, who recently won Album of the Year, and is often attired in aviators and a leather jacket, adding to his tough-guy appeal. The ’1994′ hitmaker muses, “I mean, Eric’s the same way. I know Eric. He ain’t an outlaw. He likes to have fun, but he ain’t an outlaw. We’re all just a bunch of partiers. We like to have fun, play music.”

Whether or not they’re the next Jesse James, it’s clear that Aldean and Church are doing something right, after receiving some of the most coveted awards at the 2013 ACMs, and turning in solid performances.

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franklinNick Franklin homered twice, including a three-run shot, and the Seattle Mariners held off the Minnesota Twins for a 6-4 victory Sunday. Franklin and Michael Saunders both went deep during a pivotal four-run fourth inning. With the Mariners down 2-1, Saunders tied it with his seventh homer to open the inning, deep into the right-field second deck. After Henry Blanco reached on a fielder's choice and Brad Miller walked, Franklin connected on a 1-1 pitch from Kyle Gibson (2-3) to put the Mariners ahead 5-2.

Franklin added his 10th homer to right field with one out in the seventh. His 10 home runs and 32 RBIs are the most among American League rookies. Erasmo Ramirez (2-0) went six innings and allowed four runs on seven hits to pick up the win. He struck out six and walked two.

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1/2 c Granulated Sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Spray a Bundt pan with non-stick cooking spray. Mix granulated sugar and cinnamon. In a saucepan, melt butter and brown sugar over low heat, stirring well; set aside. Cut the cream cheese into 20 equal cubes. Press the biscuits out with your fingers and sprinkle each with 1/2 tsp of cinnamon sugar. Place a cube of of cream cheese in the center of each biscuit, wrapping and sealing the dough around the cream cheese. Sprinkle the 1/2 c of nuts into the bottom of the Bundt pan. Place half the prepared biscuits in the pan. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, pour half of the melted butter mix over the biscuits, and sprinkle on 1/2 c of nuts. Layer remaining biscuits on top, sprinkle with remaining cinnamon sugar, pour remaining butter mix over biscuits, and sprinkle with remaining 1/2 c of nuts. Bake 30 min. Remove from oven and cool 5 min. Place a plate on top and invert.

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Twin Cedars running back Jared Stephens will finish the season as the leading rushing in Eight-Man District Five. His 1,737 yards on the ground were almost 100 yards more than Tyler McDaniel of Moravia. Stephens also had the most touchdowns scored with 30 and had the most attempts of any running back in the district with 251. Another Marion County rusher from an eight-man team also made the list of top rushers in district five. Melcher-Dallas’ Trent Flescher ended up third in the district with 1,476 yards and 18 touchdowns which was also third in District Five. Compare Stephens’ and Flescher’s number to the rest of the state in Eight-Man and they rank in the top ten. Stephens is currently third and Flescher is tenth. The standings will fluctuate due to other teams still in the playoffs.

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Aug 25, 2015
helpful staff immaculate rustic cabin, close to restrooms, as requested nice to have a refrigerator very nice pool clean restrooms with great showers nice laundry/lounge area need new outdoor sink that looks cleaner and has a counter
Aug 17, 2015
Our kamping kabin was clean & easily accessible to the restrooms. The owners/staff were very welcoming & made sure we enjoyed our stay. If we are back in the area, we would definitely stay here again.
Aug 17, 2015
I enjoyed my stay very much. It was very peaceful, and I love that this campground was family-oriented.
Aug 17, 2015
The cabin was so cute! Can't wait to stay there sometime again :)
Aug 17, 2015
Small but has well kept grounds, very nice bathrooms which were clean, as well as friendly and helpful staff. Mini refrigerator in the Cabin was an unexpected surprise, I have never seen one in a koa cabin before.
Aug 16, 2015
Aug 11, 2015
Friendly staff but a little higher price to camp
Aug 03, 2015
Muy excelente todos sus trabajadores son muy amable. Me agrado mucho
Aug 03, 2015
Very nice staff,bathrooms and shower very clean and the pool is very nice.HAD a good stay.
Aug 02, 2015
KOA staff was very helpful with our 6 night stay while we visited family in the area. Lynn, however; still owes me grits for breakfast. LOL
Aug 02, 2015
Good Expirience
Jul 26, 2015
A great family oriented campground. The staff is very accommodating and friendly. This was our second stay here. Sharon is the BEST!
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The McClure's are great people, respect their customers, and, have a great business...Third year with them, always great.
Jul 21, 2015
It is hard to compare our stay because in the past we knew the managers. There were so many on staff during our last visit; we had no idea who the managers were. It is still kept up well; even though there are so many more campers crammed in. The kabin is always nice by the pond; but I was very disappointed we couldn't bring our dog in the kabin this time. We always did in the past.
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Jun 18, 2015
Great stay!!
Apr 28, 2015
Very helpful and accommodating. Great customer service. Great price. I am 100% satisfied with my stay.
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I can not say enough about how fantastic and blown away I was with the cabins at the camp site. Very very clean beds very comfortable and in great condition. And to top it off there was a mini fridge, fan, and a heater to take off the chill of the fall nights. And to top it of the friendliest camp associates to help out or just to have a conversation with. Highly recommend to everyone
Oct 14, 2014
First time staying at a KOA since 1968. I had thought they where very stark and so never thought about camping at a KOA until last week. I was very impressed with the campground and service. We stayed at another on our way home. We will be exploring more KOA's in the future
Sep 09, 2014
I love all the staff at the Unidilla KOA. they are wonderful people.
Sep 09, 2014
Amazing people-very clean and friendly!
Aug 26, 2014
The cabins were beautiful, but not much privacy in between areas. The location of the camp is also in a beautiful area of NY.
Aug 25, 2014
Fantastic staff and services
Aug 25, 2014
Very family friendly. Campground was very clean and well maintained. Can't wait to go back!
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Restrooms were clean, staff was awesome. Would have liked a chair in the cabin for the small desk/table top. It was great to have a small fridge in the room. Overall very satisfied with our stay.
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Jul 26, 2014
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Jul 19, 2014
Loved it! The staff was extremely friendly. We will definitely stay again next year when our boys come to play baseball!!
Jul 19, 2014
Fantastic time had by all. Clean, well kept, and very pleasant staff!
Jul 14, 2014
My sister and I stayed 10 day's at the KOA of Unadilla. I was throughly impressed with the treatment we received while we were there. The professionalism in which the campground was run was of exceptional grade, they really went out of there way to accomadate us and the children. they seen to it that there was plenty of fun activities for all of them and then some. A huge Thank You to everyone!
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I wished it could have been longer and Ray and Sharon made us feel welcome in the family way. Thanks and hope to visit again soon.
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We had another great stay for a long weekend and will definatley be back next summer. Our cabin was clean and comfortable and all of the staff were courteous and friendly. My girls look forward to coming back as well. :)
Jun 30, 2014
everything was great; only problem was the wifi, otherwise would stay there again.
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my son(6) and I had the most incredible weekend!! for m it was the MOST relaxing time I have had in FOREVER!!! he loved the flashlight candy hunt and hay ride, we cant wait for this coming weekend to do it again!!
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Jun 14, 2014
Great location. Be sure to walk by the brook.
May 27, 2014
Stayed in cabin. Very clean and staffs are very friendly.
Feb 03, 2014
Worked out ok. Nothing fantastic or detrimental.
Oct 13, 2013
Beautiful! Great staff! Really nice cabins!
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Was not a pleasant one. No curtains on cabin windows. But to be fair, we did not make reservations and we were thankful that they rented us a cabin for the night.
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Very friendly, family oriented campground. Small enough that the children can run around safely. The cabins and ground were very clean. We felt very much at home even though we were only there for one night. Only issue was, I wish there was coffee before 0900 for those of us getting on the road.
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one of the workers there was very rude have stayed there many times but this was the last
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Secret Agent Clank Also Getting The PSP To PS2 Treatment?

Looks like Sony will be bringing former PSP exclusive Secret Agent Clank to the PlayStation 2, one those 70 games coming to the last-gen PlayStation, according to a new listing from GameFly.

Ratchet & Clank fans may remember the previous PSP outing, Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters also went from the PlayStation Portable to the PlayStation 2 about a year after it first hit. The existence of the PS2 version was revealed via a similar retail listing at GameStop with an official announcement arriving one month later.

GameFly shows the PS2 version landing in May.

If true, Secret Agent Clank will join PSP hits like Silent Hill Origins, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories as up-ported once-exclusives. It will also mean one more title stealth announced by GameFly, who excels at revealing games prior to official announcements.

We're checking in with Sony to see if they feel like confirming the game's existence.

Secret Agent Clank [GameFly - thanks, Baust528!]


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Nintendo Sold Over 1.5 Million Wiis, DSs Last Week

November will be a big month for Nintendo when all is said and done, based on the more than 1.5 million consoles and handhelds it sold in the United States last week.

That 1.5 million breaks down to more than 550,000 Wii consoles and more than 1 million Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi portables, according to Nintendo's internal estimates. In terms of frequency, that's over 150 Nintendo hardware units sold every minute, more than 2.5 smiles put on faces every second.

Yes, those are impressive numbers. But one of those numbers was more impressive last year, when Nintendo says it sold more than 800,000 Wiis during the same time period.

In 2007, Nintendo sold a comparitively meager 350,000 Wiis during the Thanksgiving spending spree. That year, Nintendo boasted that Nintendo DS sales topped 600,000 during the same week long period, a number that jumped 20% the following year, nothing that compares to the new 1 million unit sold record held by combined DS and DSi sales.

Since Nintendo sold 506,900 Wii consoles and 457,600 Nintendo DSs during the full month of October, we'll bet the company will have something to brag about when November's tally rolls around. While we suspect it won't shatter November 2008's amazing, "historic" records,, we wouldn't be surprised to see Nintendo branded things topping the charts.


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Physical design, gameplay design, either way this custom Tron Light Cycles Board Game is a straight-up winner. Built by a modder to play with his sons, this one-of-a-kind, laser-etched board with tinted acrylic jet walls is like a Franklin Mint Chess Set from a very, very awesome future.

The pieces are die-cast Tron vehicles, which accommodate four-wheel variants (and the board can be equipped with ramps). As for how it plays, according to Ars Technica, players take either blue or orange light cycles and take turns moving, leaving two-inch-long jet walls behind them. Any cycle trapped or unable to avoid a wall is eliminated and removed. Trails may stay on the board for the duration of the game, or disappear after five turns. Another rule variant involves throwing dice to see if a cycle may make a turn.

The creator, Brett King, says he has no intention of selling this game, and I wouldn't either. I've no idea what this sort of thing would do as a mass market collectible, but it'd be a deserved happy ending if Disney licensed it from King.

One-of-a-kind Tron light cycle board game? Yessir [Ars Technica]


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As DC Universe Online Merges Into "Megaservers," Which Hero Will Keep His Name?!

Four "Megaservers" unifying DC Universe Online by platform and region will deploy on Monday, offering larger populations for raids, alerts and other missions, as well as swapping between PvP and PvE on demand.

Now, many of you are already wondering "Whoa, what about my hero's name?" Or villain's. See, if that cool moniker you thought up was taken on one server, maybe it was clear on another. But now all servers are getting merged down into four groups. So if two North American PS3 players separately chose "Ulterior Motive Man," on the old Killing Joke and Justice servers, who gets to keep it on the new, single PS3 megaserver for that region?

At a fan appreciation event at Comic-Con 2011, the DCUO staff laid out the rules. Basically, if there's a "collision" in name choice, whoever has an active subscription at the time of migration will get to keep the name. If two players have active subscriptions and the same name, then whoever has the most hours logged in the game gets to keep it.

If you lose out, you will get a free Name Change token and instructions on how to change your character's name if you don't wish to keep the handle assigned by the system. All I can say is, look for alternate spellings, ways to abbreviate or shorten the name, or delete spaces. All Captains can become Capts, Doctors are Drs and vice versa.

Or you may use the opportunity to completely rename yourself, and then go re-spec your powers and essentially create a new character at whatever level you've achieved.

Hopefully, that's the only icky detail of switching from individual servers to one giant server for each system and region. In the new layout, DCUO members will be able to swap between PvE and PvP "phases" by visiting the Watchtower (if they are heroes) or the Hall of Doom (for villains). A "Phase With" command will be available in DCUO's Social quick menu, allowing you to participate in the same PvE/PvP phase as a friend.

Here's where the MMO's old servers will go:

European PC Megaserver
(Conversion begins Aug. 8 at 4 p.m. Central European Time)
In Brightest Day
Looking For Trouble
Reality Lost

North American PC Megaserver
(Conversion begins Aug. 10 at 11 a.m U.S. Eastern Time)
Brave New World
Cry For Blood
Darkness Falls
Death and Glory
Last Laugh
New Frontier
Public Enemies
Virtue and Vice
Zero Hour

North American PS3 Megaserver
(Conversion begins Aug. 11 at 11 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time)
Blood Will Run
No Man's Land
The Killing Joke

European PS3 Megaserver
(Conversion begins Aug. 15 at 4 p.m. Central European Time)
Absolute Power
For All Seasons
Justice For All

New Producer's Letter From DeadMeat - MegaServers Are Coming! [DC Universe Online Facebook]


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Yes, I'd Love This $60,000 Flight Simulator, Thanks

You know those insane setups the military uses to train pilots on? They can cost millions, making owning one in your own home a pipe dream. But that doesn't mean you can never own a fancy flight simulator!

You just have to lower your aim a little, and instead of looking at something that costs millions, look at something that costs USD$57,000.

That something is the OVO-4, a home flight simulator capsule that has hydraulic movement, three 24-inch monitors and a full flight control sytem built into the cockpit.

Making it useful for Falcon 3.0, yeah, but also for Battlefield 3.

OVO-4 Home Flight Simulator [Firebox, via technabob]

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Deadlight is a side-scrolling survival game set in a zombie-infested, ruined Cold War 1980s. It's inspired by writer Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." It plays a bit like Prince of Persia and Another World.

Deadlight was also the last game I saw at PAX East and one I had to shoot video of in a rush, before catching a ride home. So, please forgive the bad camera angle and the rough audio. I think the beauty of the game still manages to shine through.

Thank you to Raul Rubio Munarriz, creative director of development studio Tequila Works, for talking a hurried, harried reporter through the game, while another PAX East attendee got a few minutes at the controls of the game.

Deadlight (official site here) will be out this summer for Xbox Live Arcade. It's not your ordinary zombie game. Melancholy as it is, it was a beautiful close to my PAX East.

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Online Dating Leads to Jealous Boyfriend and Computer Wire HorrorBe careful who you meet online. On May 8 in China's Henan province, Gao Xin (not his real name) found out the hard way after going out with a woman he met on the internet.

Later, the woman's pissed off boyfriend approached Gao. The boyfriend, along with several friends, attacked him and inserted a 1.2-meter computer wire into, ahem, the 27 year-old's urethra.

According to news site Want China Times, Gao was afraid to tell his parents about the incident and too embarrassed to seek medical help. He unsuccessfully tried to remove the wire himself before finally visiting the hospital. Doctors were able to remove the wire via surgery. Thankfully, the injury will not cause permanent damage to Gao's reproduction organ.

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Let's be honest: it's fun to track Harry, Hermione, and Ron's adventures through Hogwarts and the magical realm, but part of each of us always wants to be there ourselves.

Well, the new Harry Potter game for Kinect wants to put you in Hogwarts, too. Or at least a scan of your face. Which is both cool and creepy all at once.

Harry Potter for Kinect will span all seven years worth of Harry's story, putting the player in the midst of all the arm-waving, spell-casting drama from Sorting to the Battle of Hogwarts.


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Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Get The Vita Gamer?

Here we have yet another handheld gamer, and the Vita gamer needs holiday love, too. Perhaps more so than any other gamer, since the pickings are still somewhat (at least relatively) slim.

What suggestions do you have for the Vita gamer? Watch out for our editors' picks down below, but feel free to add yours, too.


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Amazon's Deeply Discounting a Ton of Computing and Gaming Gear, Today Only

Today only, Amazon’s promoting a Gold Box deal featuring an eclectic mix of computing and gaming accessories marked down to new low prices. The full list is below, but the Logitech G13 gameboard, the wireless Xbox 360 controller, and the tenkeyless Das mechanical keyboard are my picks. Let us know what you got in the… » 9/01/15 8:55am Today 8:55am


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Check Out the 109 New Final Fantasy Tracks in Theatrhythm: Curtain Call

While growing up, I, of course, knew the Mario and Sonic themes, but it wasn’t until I first played Final Fantasy VI that game music really started to affect me. To say I have a soft spot for the series’ music is an understatement—which is why I am ecstatic that Theatrhythm: Curtain Call has 109 new songs.

In total, the game has 221 songs (239 with the currently available DLC). Moreover, including its DLC, every song from the original Theatrhythm—except for "Somnus" from Final Fantasy XV—returns in Curtain Call.

But which Final Fantasy tracks make up Curtain Call’s 109 new songs (127 with the currently available DLC)? Check out the list below and click the links for a listen.

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Final Fantasy

"Cornelia Castle"
"Mini-Boss Battle"
Last Battle

Final Fantasy II

*"Battle Theme A

Final Fantasy III

"The Boundless Ocean"
Doga and Unne's Mansion

Final Fantasy IV

Troian Beauty

Final Fantasy V

*"The Ancient Library"
*"Battle 2"

Final Fantasy VI

Edgar & Sabin's Theme
The Airship Blackjack
Kefka's Tower
*"Protect the Espers!"

Final Fantasy VII

Golden Saucer
Highwind Takes to the Skies

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

"Cloud Smiles"
"J-E-N-O-V-A (Advent Children Version)"
"Those Who Fight (Piano Version)"
"Divinity II"
*"Aerith's Theme (Piano Version)"

Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-

"Timely Ambush"
"A Flower Blooming in the Slums (from FFVII "Aerith's Theme")"
"The Price of Freedom"
"SOLDIER Battle"
"CRISIS CORE Theme – Succession"

Final Fantasy VIII

"Find Your Way"
Maybe I’m a Lion
*"Shuffle or Boogie"

Final Fantasy IX

"Aboard the Hilda Garde"
"Swords of Fury"
"Festival of the Hunt"
*"Roses of May"

Final Fantasy X

"Spira Unplugged"
"Servants of the Mountain"
*"Thunder Plains"
*"Blitz Off"

Final Fantasy X-2

"The Farplane Abyss"
"We're the Gullwings!"
"YRP, Fight No. 1"
"Let Me Blow You a Kiss"
"Their Resting Place"
"1000 Words"
*"KUON: Memories of Waves and Light"

Final Fantasy XI

"Heavens Tower"
*"Tough Battle #2"

Final Fantasy XII

"The Mosphoran Highwaste"

Final Fantasy XIII

"The Gapra Whitewood"
"Dust to Dust"

Final Fantasy XIII-2

"Historia Crux"
"Groovy Chocobo"
"Noel's Theme - Last Journey -"
"The Last Hunter"
"Heart of Chaos"
"Warrior Goddess"
*"Crazy Chocobo"

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

"The Glittering City of Yusnaan"
"The Dead Dunes"
"Crimson Blitz"
"Lightning Returns"
"Savior of Souls"

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

"To the Sun"
"On Westerly Winds"
The Land Breathes
"Fallen Angel"
"Torn from the Heavens"
"Under the Weight"
*"Good King Moggle Mog XII

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest

"Battle 1"
"Battle 2"

Final Fantasy Tactics

"Prologue Movie
"Ultima, the Nice Body"
"Bland Logo~Title Back"

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

Across the Divide"
"Monster Dance~Rondo"
"Unite, Descent"
"Starry Moonlit Night
*"Promised Grace"

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers

Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon

"Dungeon Hero X's Theme"
"Raffaello Battle"
"Guardian of Darkness 2"

Dissidia Final Fantasy

"The Troops' Advance"
"DISSIDIA -ending-"
*"Battle 1 -arrange-" from Final Fantasy IX"

Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy

""Gate to the Rift" from DISSIDIA 012[duodecim] FINAL FANTASY"
"Cantata Mortis"
"Lux Concordiae"
*""Canto Mortis-An Undocumented Battle" From Dissidia[duodecim] Final Fantasy"

Final Fantasy Type-0

"Standing Strong on the Ground"
"Tempus Finis"
"War: Warrior Worth a Thousand"
"War: The White Weapon"
"Vermilion Fire"

Final Fantasy Series

"Chaos Shrine - TFFCC BMS Arrange-from FF"

Romancing SaGa

*"The Sewers"

Romancing SaGa 3

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call was released in Japan for the Nintendo 3DS on April 24, 2014. It is scheduled for a Western release sometime in 2014.

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Hearing someone say your mother [verb] [noun] is pretty common in gaming, but this clip, of some in-person DOTA gloating, is on a whole other level. Insults? Not needed when you're throwing up amassed, skull-crushing wall of noise.

The dude in the yellow shirt giving the rare lean-in double bird is the best.

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"Suspicious" Lady Causes Another Japanese Internet Conspiracy

When the weather is shown on Japanese television, there are often random shots of people walking on hot city streets. To people online in Japan, one person, however, doesn't look so random.

Previously, Kotaku reported how some Japanese people on the internet believe there is a mainstream media conspiracy that results in interviewing phoney people over and over again. Some believe that these individuals are paid performers.

Earlier this month, Japanese net users pointed to a clip of a random woman on a Fukushima street wiping herself with a towel during NHK's weather report. On the screen, the high temperatures for various cities were shown.

"Suspicious" Lady Causes Another Japanese Internet Conspiracy

As evident in the above GIF, the woman's expression is, well, rather odd. She stops and makes eye contact with the camera a few times. But that may be because she realized she was being filmed. On 2ch, Japan's largest web forum, commenters thought it was because she was playing to the camera—i.e., she was a plant.

"Suspicious" Lady Causes Another Japanese Internet Conspiracy

In the minds of conspiracy theorists, this was confirmed with a clip of what appears to be the same random woman in Fukushima doing the same thing last year.

Here is a still from that 2013 weather report.

"Suspicious" Lady Causes Another Japanese Internet Conspiracy

Online, some thought the woman was a paid model or part of the NHK camera crew and that she stepped in to fill out the footage—like, the crew didn't get enough good shots of random pedestrians.

Okay, so a camera crew might have been filming in the same place at the same time a year later and they happened to catch the same person? Or someone who looks like the same person? It could happen! Conspiracy theorists in Japan, however, are dubbing this as "yarase" (ヤラセ) or "staged."

And yesterday, another thread appeared on 2ch, saying that the same woman seemed to be on another weather report again, but this time with her hair pulled back and in... Hokkaido. Her hair and her hand are strategically placed, they say, to make her look different, yet her fingers are parted so she can see through her hands. Down the rabbit hole, we go!

"Suspicious" Lady Causes Another Japanese Internet Conspiracy

The eyebrows and mouth do look similar to the other woman—and 2ch commenters sure seem convinced these are all the same person. Honestly, I'm not sure.

"Wow, you have a good eye," wrote one 2ch commenter. "This is totally staged," chimed in another. Others wondered why it appeared as the same woman was being used. Maybe she's part of the camera crew. Maybe she's involved with someone in the local camera crew. Maybe these are all different people. And maybe this is just a crazy internet conspiracy.

"Suspicious" Lady Causes Another Japanese Internet Conspiracy

Granted, Japan has strict privacy laws, but news stations like to film random people on the street for weather segments that show how regular people are coping with the heat, rain, or whatever. Having a staffer walk on screen could help procure footage in a pinch, if they couldn't get people to sign release forms.

What is fascinating isn't necessarily that these could be the same person, because really, big whoop. Rather, this shows a distrust of the established television media. A distrust that, it seems, is universal.

またNHKでヤラせっぽい女が映る [2ch]

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Final Fantasy Tactics S Looks Nifty, But Looks Can Be Deceiving

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Transformers Legends Is Now On iOS. Here's How to Play It.

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Sweet Pixel Graphics Can't Save This Game from Collectible Card Banality

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This Video Game Studio Says No One Can Taste the Difference Between Coke and Pepsi

Oh come on. Come on. Who can't taste the difference between Coke and Pepsi? Coke is drier and chocolatey...er. Pepsi is sweeter and ... fizz...ier? For real, there is a complete and total difference between the two soft drinks, one that developers at Double Fine failed to recognize with any consistency. Come on. » 7/21/12 3:00pm 7/21/12 3:00pm


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SCOTT-TIPTON-NEW-300Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to require Congressional approval of any federal regulation with an economic impact over $100 million. The REINS Act, of which Congressman Scott Tipton is a co-sponsor, seeks to cut red tape, curb overregulation and reduce onerous compliance Continue reading

Rand Paul Courts Colorado Marijuana Industry

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V-A Stripped of Ability to Manage Large Construction Projects

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Kris McDermott Chicago comic

Third-person brag bio time!

Kris McDermott is a digital marketing nerd by day and teller of jokes and stories by night, wherever they’ll let her.

Originally from a small town in Ohio, her voice is dry with a blue-collar sensibility. She’s interested in exploring topics like gender, race and class, always with a self-deprecating voice. She’s performed at Zanies Chicago, in Chicago showcases such as The Gogo Show, The Kates and Performance Anxiety Chicago, and performed as part of Cleveland’s Accidental Comedy Fest in 2013. She is a producer of Queer Comedy at Zanies, Chicago’s longest running showcase with a focus on queer inclusion. Her comic interview series, “Hey, Can I Bother You?” has been published by some of Chicago’s biggest media publications.

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Unions Give $180,000 For N.M. Campaigns

Jul 8, 2014

Labor unions have contributed $180,000 to a Democratic-leaning political committee that was a top spender in New Mexico legislative races in 2012.

Campaign finance reports show Patriot Majority New Mexico received $100,000 from an American Federation of Teachers' political committee last month and $80,000 from a committee of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in May.

The group spent about $61,000 last month for research by a Denver-based firm and nearly $19,000 for "strategic services" by a consulting firm formed by David Contarino, who was former Gov. Bill Richardson's chief of staff. Contarino lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Patriot Majority spent almost $1.4 million on races in 2012. The group can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to independently advocate the election or defeat of candidates.

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MSU Extension Offers Cropping Seminars

                                                                                Montana State University Extension is hosting the annual Golden Triangle Cropping Seminar series in Chester, Choteau, Conrad, Cut Bank, Denton, Fort Benton, Great Falls and Shelby from January 13-16.
            Speaking at all seminar locations are Dave Wichman, MSU Central Agricultural Research Center, who will present information on crop and forage grain variety selection and the local variety trial results; Olga Walsh from the MSU Western Triangle Agricultural Research Center, will discuss soil micronutrients and remote sensing technology; and Kevin Wanner, MSU Extension Entomologist, who will give an update on crop insects of importance for the past year and best management practices.
            Mary Burrows, MSU Extension Plant Pathologist and Zach Miller, research assistant professor, will provide information on the economics of fungicide use on crops and will give a general update on crop disease pressure.
            Three private and two commercial pesticide applicator credits will be available for attendees.  Attendees are reminded to bring the pesticide licenses for registration.
            No pre-registration is required, there is no charge and all producers are encouraged to attend.  Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and all seminars begin at 9:00 a.m.  Lunch is on your own and the seminar ends around 3 p.m.
      The complete Cropping Seminar schedule is:
• Jan. 13: Fort Benton at the Ag Center, 1205 20th Str., contact Tyler Lane, 622-3751; and in Denton at the Town Hall, contact Chrissy Cook, 566-2277 or Darren Crawford, 535-3919.
• Jan. 14: Shelby at the Marias Fair Exhibit Building, contact Joe Parks, 424-8350; and in Chester at St. Mary’s Parish Hall (basement) 11 W. Quincy Ave, free lunch provided by CHS the agricultural company, contact Jesse Fulbright, 759-5625.
• Jan. 15: Conrad, PSSC 972 Granite Rd, contact Pondera Co. Extension 271-4054; Cut Bank at the Glacier Co. Courthouse Annex, 1210 E. Main, contact Glacier Co. Extension at 873-2239.
• Jan. 16: Great Falls at the Fairgrounds Family Living Center, 400 Third St. NW, contact Rose Malisani, 454-6980; and Choteau at the Stage Stop Inn, 1005 Main Ave. N, contact Travis Standley, 466-2491.
From:  Travis Standley, MSU Teton Co. Extension Agent, who is filling in for the Pondera County Agriculture Extension Agent.

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Berniece Elizabeth Ray 92

Berniece Elizabeth Ray, 92, of the Sylvia G. Thompson Residence Center, Sedalia, MO, and formerly of the Green Ridge, MO, community, died peacefully surrounded by family on July 23, 2014, from natural causes.

She was born in Sedalia, MO, on January 27, 1922, to the late Bessie Lee and Lee J. Stevenson.

After graduating from Hughesville High School, Berniece married the late Melvin R. Ray on July 28, 1940. She went on to become an exemplary spouse and mother as she continued to expand her circle of friends.

As a member of the Green Ridge Presbyterian Church, several civic and social clubs, and high-level success in the Avon organization, she focused all her energies toward being a model spouse, mother, relative and friend.

Berniece was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Emmett Stevenson and Glen Stevenson; and one great-granddaughter, Hannah Elizabeth Needy. Surviving her are four children: Judy (Cliff) Needy of Green Ridge, MO; Steve (Joan) Ray of Ft. Walton Beach, FL; Kenny Ray and Connie Ray both of Sedalia, MO; two brothers, Everett (Minnie) Stevenson of Cole Camp, MO, formerly of Smithton, MO; and Floyd (Vonda) Stevenson of Sedalia, MO.

She was also blessed with six grandchildren, Doug and Todd Needy, Meredith (Ray) Painter and Cameron Ray, and Justin Ray and Lori (Ray) Holem plus an additional 17 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

Friends may call after 10:00 A.M. Sunday with the family receiving friends from 1:00 P.M. until service time at 2:30 P.M. at Ewing-Schutte-Semler Funeral Home on July 27, 2014 with Pastors Randy and Dianna Marcum officiating.

Burial will follow at the Green Ridge Cemetery. In both actual and honorary status, pallbearers will be all grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The family suggests donations to the Green Ridge Presbyterian Church or the Crossroads Hospice Organization.

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‘Good Wife’ star empathizes with Weiner’s spouse

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Julianna Margulies says playing a wronged political wife on TV gives her compassion for what Anthony Weiner’s spouse is going through.

Watching Huma Abedin stand by New York mayoral candidate Weiner at a recent news conference reminded Margulies of how she played a similar scene in “The Good Wife” pilot.

Marguilies says she feels empathy for Abedin because people are quick to judge and comment.

But “The Good Wife” star said sexting scandals like that involving Weiner are the gift that keeps on giving for the CBS drama, keeping the show fresh.

It’s a reaction that makes her feel slightly guilty, Margulies told the Television Critics Association on Monday.

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The map above shows distributions of housing types in the pre-contact eras. The ranges of types were hypothesized by anthros based on archaeological sites, ethnographic data (both visual observations of housing and explanations by Native people). In the table below, each row shows house types that are related to one another. Each type will be connected to a short illustrated essay and links for similar types of native housing, with photos, construction and current tribal cultural info. It's recommended you scroll past the table and read the "why " of this section before looking up the archaic housing types. for your little classroom tabletop village. What the 3 in the first row below have in common is that each of them has become a styereotype of Native housing .

Central Arctic snowdome, igloo
Plains large buffalo-hide tipi
Southwestern and Meso-American pueblo
Early Navajo earth-covered hogan

Plains large earth-covered lodge -- Hidatsa, Arikara, Mandan
Plateau, northwest interior ladder-entrance pithouse

Southeastern woven-plastered walls, thatched roof house
Seminole thatched chickee

Great Basin/California thatched wikiup

Yukon, Oregon-California double lean-to, planks and bark
Northwest Coast plank house

Northwestern forest longhouse

For some time, I've been annoyed by a steady trickle of requests from (non-Indian) parents, students and middle school teachers seeking info for projects that involve making simple archaic toy-model houses. I see many books for kids that take this approach to teaching our history and culture. That approach portrays us as quaint and primitive, usually (today) without using those words. And of course we're supposedly long gone from this world. Ignored are real horrible Native housing situations, and real positive developments such as Indian architects and builders who are influenced by traditional values and forms, to create imaginative designs with new materials. And, as old forms of housing do survive, their functions and meanings are as "homes for the spirit." something that does not lend itself to toy "tabletop model Indian villages" created by non-Indian children.

The entire activity for non-Indian youngsters is like those sorry dressup games which suggest that Indian identity is merely a costume, with paper feathers and paper bags playing a role in sleazo imitation garments. However sleazy or fine, Indian identity is taught as a costume or role to be put on, then taken off. Thus this section on Native housing. is being developed as a partial corrective. The photo on the right -- a toy "tepee" cut from a blanket by the two white children (or the book's authors) -- is from a book expensively prepared in London, marketed in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. which takes this highly undesirable approach to presenting our history and culture by having non-Indian children manufacture these inaccurate, usually ugly fakes -- from houses to costumes to "art" such as paper eagle feathers. The book of fake-craft is Make it Work: North American Indians -- the Hands-on Approach to History. It's one of the most offensive cultural education books I've ever seen, not the least because of the great expense with which it was produced -- all color photos, many children (no Indians of course), photographed in London, prepared entirely by arrogant and ignorant Brits, but quickly picked up also by Thomson Learning in the U.S.

I find this approach -- trash crafts, the fakery of "costumes" and junk toy models -- so dominant in non-Indian schools' approaches to Indian history/culture in schoolbooks and on websites touting expertise in teaching about "minorities" that these pages are a counter-attempt. I will show both real cultural-historical-environmental meanings of traditional dwellings, and both the negative (which is still the majority) and the positive new aspects of present-day Native housing and buildings.

Here's what HUD's Office of Native American Programs said in a 1995 study:

"The poorest-quality housing in the United States is that occupied by American Indians and Alaska Natives living in reservations and other tribal areas. Such dilapidated housing might not be of concern if a commonly held myth was accurate; namely that tribal-area populations are dwindling as their inhabitants move to the cities in search of higher incomes. A new study, however, exposes the fallacy of this belief--people are leaving the reservations to secure employment, but many of them are moving to areas just outside their borders. . . . a more equitable and efficient method of distributing federal resources should be developed at a time when the housing deficiencies of many Native American families remain the most severe in the nation." Reading the whole essay is highly recommended to all those elementary teachers who are assigning those "Build a tipi from a paper cone" activities. Exploration of CodeTalk, produced by ONAP's Indian employees, is highly recommended as an excellent source for current developments in Indian life and culture today, as well as housing policies and pix.

A site of real and virtual (computer-generated) solar architecture projects with heavy emphasis on Native American influences, designs, and uses, by New Mexico solar architect Dennis Holloway. Especially interesting is the project by Holloway and Navajo archaeologist Dr. Charles Cambridge that built 3 demonstration solar hogans on the University of Colorado campus (Boulder). This page from HUD's Office of Native American Programs website CodeTalk describes 1995 Native Cultural Design housing and facilities prizewinners. Most of these projects apply traditional housing concepts to modern life, whether for energy-efficiency or to create the the social solidarity of Inuit villages, where everyone helped one another to survive.

Douglas Cardinal, Blackfoot from Alberta, Canada, is one of the most interesting arcitects today. He uses new materials with traditional design concepts, and develops his building designs with one of the earliest architectural firms' uses of computers. His largest, most famous design project is the Canadian Museum of Civilization, whose campus is pictured here, which has a large Native section. In a write-up about the architect that the museum posts, they mention his birth and early life, but they do not mention his Indian ancestry, or that his earliest project was a church in Red Deer for Reserve people. The CMCC thus contributes to the notion that Indians are either gone or scattered survivors irrelevant to today's world except for entertainment visits to museums, where you can see plastic dummies in dioramas and collections of glass-cased loot.

Someone (of course) has already asked "What's wrong with having our (non-Indian kids) play dressup and make these little play-toys?" A long, thoughtful answer to this question is in several essays in the (currently) out of print book that is still in many libraries: Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children. The bottom line is that Indian identity isn't a play-role. Our Indian kids who help make outfits for powwows (and other items) learn authentic methods, and will proudly wear these items in authentic community events. It is part of their lives, not a play-time time-out from life. Though TIE is unfortuntately recently out of print, still available from Oyate (a Native group in Berkeley) is How to Tell the Difference: A Guide to Evaluating Children's Books for Anti-Indian Bias. This is only about books, not dressup and toys or trashcraft. The authors automatically downcheck books where non-native children are shown "playing Indian." The reasons for this (explained in the longer work) are valid, and connect to the group's analysis that relates to avoiding the teaching of stereotypes or teaching a kind of ancient past view (usually distorted), but in any event frozen in the long-ago, unconnected to the present. The Native group -- teachers, librarians, parents, artists, intellectuals -- supports a criterion that "The continuity of cultures [should be] represented, with values, religions, morals, an outgrowth of the past and connected to the present." The guidebook is highly recommended for elementary and Middle school teachers or parents. Oyate: 510/848-6700.

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CREDITS:Maps adapted from Harold E. Driver, Indians of North America, 2nd Ed., Univrsity of Chicago Press, 1876. Maps were prepared by Driver and and William C. Massey in the 1950's and '60's (one of the first big GIS projects) that put together all known data both ethnographic (interviews) and archaeological to define map-absed culture areas, common subsitence features, tribal territories. The typical house types icons are adapted from Driver and Massey. The photo of children in trash-costume, sitting outside a toy tipi are from the book mentioned in the adjacent text.

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AP Apologizes For WWII-Era Firing Of Reporter

May 4, 2012
Originally published on May 4, 2012 7:55 am

Sixty seven years later, The Associated Press is apologizing for the way it condemned and then fired one of its correspondents for reporting "perhaps the biggest scoop in its history."

Edward Kennedy was among a small group of reporters taken by Allied military officials to witness the May 7, 1945, surrender by German forces at a schoolhouse in Reims, France.

Military censors swore the journalists to secrecy, saying they couldn't report the surrender until given the OK by Allied commanders.

But German officials went ahead and announced the news. So Kennedy took action.

"He used a military phone, not subject to monitoring by censors, to dispatch his account to the AP's London bureau" the wire service says. "Notably, he didn't brief his own editors about the embargo or his decision to dodge the censors. The AP put the story on the wire within minutes."

For taking that initiative, Kennedy was expelled from France by Allied forces. The AP condemned his actions. And Kennedy was fired.

Now, AP CEO Tom Curley says that was "a terrible day for the AP. It was handled in the worst possible way."

Of the news that Kennedy broke, Curley says that "once the war is over, you can't hold back information like that. The world needed to know."

Kennedy died in 1963.

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Updated Jan 11, 2013 - 8:08 pm

Former Tempe mayor Hugh Hallman may run for governor

Hugh Hallman was elected mayor of Tempe in 2004 and remained in that role until last year.

Now according to the Phoenix Business Journal, it appears Hallman may have his sights set on a higher office.

The former mayor stated the following on his personal website Friday:

“Over the next few months, I will be traveling the state of Arizona to speak with and listen to people from all walks of life about what’s really important to them in their state government, and how we can address our priorities successfully.”

Hallman may face steep competition from the likes of Douge Ducey, Ken Bennett, Richard Carmona, Fred DuVal and Phoenix mayor Greg Stanton.

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Dish Reaches Settlement With Cablevision, AMC

Oct 22, 2012

Dish Network is settling with Cablevision and AMC Networks after a well-publicized and drawn-out fight in court and on the airwaves. Dish will resume distributing AMC and other channels as part of the settlement, and pay a hefty sum, too — roughly $700 million.


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Chris Schauble Meets His Biological Half-Brother

An emotional reunion four decades in the making brings KTLA 5 Morning News anchor Chris Schauble to Madison, Fla., in the search for his biological parents. For the first time, Schauble met his older half-brother JC Robinson Jr. This video originally aired on the KTLA 5 Morning News on Thursday, April 24, 2014.


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      Help stamp out hunger

      The Kirksville letter carriers are gearing up for a busy day.

      This Saturday marks the tenth anniversary of Kirksville??s participation in the national Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.

      Blue plastic bags are being sent out this week.

      These bags can be filled with non-perishable food donations and left next to your mailbox on Saturday, May 10th.

      All donations will go directly to the local food bank. Monetary donations will also be accepted.

      ??If everyone can pitch in and help we can stamp out hunger together, that??s what it takes, togetherness, as a team to make this happen,?? said Corey King, Kirksville Post Office Customer Service Supervisor.

      Over sixteen-thousand pounds of food was collected during the food drive last year.

      Contact the Kirksville Post Office for more information at 660-665-6077.