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	<title>A view from the hip</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Assignment # The Video Montage Assignment</title>
		<link>http://nick.blogsome.com/2005/12/07/assignment-the-video-montage-assignment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 06:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	So I am now posting my Video Monatge assignment.  Hopefully I&#8217;ve posted it in time to be eligible for the 2006 Oscars.  My biggest problem making this video montage was deciding which of the superbly shot, high resolution video clips to choose from.  I decided, before hitting the editing room, to create [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Afos.jpg" alt="" />So I am now posting my Video Monatge assignment.  Hopefully I&#8217;ve posted it in time to be eligible for the 2006 Oscars.  My biggest problem making this video montage was deciding which of the superbly shot, high resolution video clips to choose from.  I decided, before hitting the editing room, to create the montage around a song, versus looking at the collection of clips and then deciding what to use for audio in the background.  The song I decided to use is a classic right out of the early eighties, &#8216;I Ran&#8217;, by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_of_Seagulls">Flock of Seagulls</a>.  Now, I vaugly remember this song when it come out.  Actually, I don&#8217;t remember when it came out (1981), I was only two years old.  But my father mentioned he did listen to it when it was first released, so maybe it&#8217;s been stuck in my head for the past 24 years.  For the younger crowd the song will sound familiar because it was used in a commercial, a couple years back, for a video game, &#8216;Vice City&#8217; I think the game was.  Regardless, it&#8217;s a catchy tune that I&#8217;m sure will bring back some memories for both Matt and Greg.  As far as the creation process goes, I just let the holy spirit work through me when I create my art.  I&#8217;m really just rambling along now because I&#8217;m waiting for the video to upload to the server, just killing some time.  And now its done so here it is&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
	<p><a href="http://www.estiamaine.org/EyeRun.wmv"> Click Here To Watch</a></p>
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		<title>Bigger Needles</title>
		<link>http://nick.blogsome.com/2005/11/28/bigger-needles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Medical news: Study - Longer needles needed for fatter buttocks.
	    Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles to reach buttock muscle, researchers said on Monday.
	    Standard-sized needles failed to reach the buttock muscle in 23 out of 25 women whose rears [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p><a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&#038;storyID=2005-11-28T184639Z_01_MOL867559_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUTTOCKS.xml">Medical news: Study - Longer needles needed for fatter buttocks.</a></p>
	<p>   <img src="http://j-walkblog.com/images/injection.jpg" alt="" /> Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles to reach buttock muscle, researchers said on Monday.</p>
	<p>    Standard-sized needles failed to reach the buttock muscle in 23 out of 25 women whose rears were examined after what was supposed to be an intramuscular injection of a drug.</p>
	<p>    Two-thirds of the 50 patients in the study did not receive the full dosage of the drug, which instead lodged in the fat tissue of their buttocks, researchers from The Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Dublin said in a presentation to the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.</p>
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		<title>Another Political Survey</title>
		<link>http://nick.blogsome.com/2005/11/06/another-political-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	I&#8217;m posting another political survey, this survey is quite a bit longer than the lest survey I had posted.  It is more in depth.  The interesting thing about this survey is that it shows you graphically where you fall in politically compared to current and previous world leaders.
	Some results
	
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>I&#8217;m posting another <a href="http://www.politicalcompass.org/">political survey</a>, this survey is quite a bit longer than the lest survey I had posted.  It is more in depth.  The interesting thing about this survey is that it shows you graphically where you fall in politically compared to current and previous world leaders.</p>
	<p>Some results</p>
	<p><img src='/images/internationalchart2_01.png' alt='' /></p>
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		<title>Supreme Court</title>
		<link>http://nick.blogsome.com/2005/11/01/supreme-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	These are the justices of the supreme court and their religions, with Bush&#8217;s newest nominee tacked on the end of it.
John Roberts - Catholic
Stephen G. Breyer - Jewish
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Jewish
Anthony M. Kennedy - Catholic
Antonin Scalia - Catholic
David H. Souter - Episcopalian
John Paul Stevens - Protestant
Clarence Thomas - Catholic
Samuel Alito - Catholic
	what surprised me [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>These are the justices of the supreme court and their religions, with Bush&#8217;s newest nominee tacked on the end of it.<br />
John Roberts - Catholic<br />
Stephen G. Breyer - Jewish<br />
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Jewish<br />
Anthony M. Kennedy - Catholic<br />
Antonin Scalia - Catholic<br />
David H. Souter - Episcopalian<br />
John Paul Stevens - Protestant<br />
Clarence Thomas - Catholic<br />
Samuel Alito - Catholic</p>
	<p>what surprised me is it is mostly made up of catholics and jews.  it surely could use some more evangelicals.  </p>
	<p>with four catholics and two jews i&#8217;m pretty sure david duke isn&#8217;t a big fan of this court.
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		<title>Smallest Political Quiz</title>
		<link>http://nick.blogsome.com/2005/11/01/smallest-political-quiz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Take it yourself
	This is a pretty good little quiz to see where you stand politcally, in case you didn&#8217;t know what you should label yourself as.  I&#8217;m a centrist, this time I took the quiz.  I think the last time I took it I was a liberal.  Uh oh, I guess I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p><a href="http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html">Take it yourself</a></p>
	<p>This is a pretty good little quiz to see where you stand politcally, in case you didn&#8217;t know what you should label yourself as.  I&#8217;m a centrist, this time I took the quiz.  I think the last time I took it I was a liberal.  Uh oh, I guess I&#8217;m moving to the right.  I hope I don&#8217;t become a conservative, I just don&#8217;t think I have the energy to defend and justify every moronic thing Bush says or does.</p>
	<p><img src="http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz-score/draw.php?p=4&#038;e=4" alt="" /></p>
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		<title>USA Today gives Condi &#8216;demon eyes,&#8217; pulls photo</title>
		<link>http://nick.blogsome.com/2005/10/28/usa-today-gives-condi-demon-eyes-pulls-photo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	   
	
USA Today pulled a photograph of Condoleezza Rice from its website after a weblog revealed it was manipulated, giving the secretary of state a menacing, demon-eyesing stare.
	I&#8217;m pretty sure someone got fired over this.  She looks mean in both pictures.

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USA Today pulled a photograph of Condoleezza Rice from its website after a weblog revealed it was manipulated, giving the secretary of state a menacing, demon-eyesing stare.</p></blockquote>
	<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure someone got fired over this.  She looks mean in both pictures.
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		<title>Smartest State 2005-2006</title>
		<link>http://nick.blogsome.com/2005/10/28/smartest-state-2005-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Smartest State 2005-2006
	 Top Five
1. Vermont
2. Connecticut
3. Massachusetts
4. New Jersey
5. Maine?

	Bottom Five
46. California
47. Nevada
48. New Mexico
49. Mississippi
50. Arizona
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p><a href="http://www.morganquitno.com/edrank.htm">Smartest State 2005-2006</a></p>
	<p><strong> Top Five</strong><br />
1. Vermont<br />
2. Connecticut<br />
3. Massachusetts<br />
4. New Jersey<br />
5.<strong> Maine?<br />
</strong></p>
	<p><strong>Bottom Five</strong><br />
46. California<br />
47. Nevada<br />
48. New Mexico<br />
49. Mississippi<br />
50. Arizona</p>
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		<title>Saved Premillenialist Christians Shouldn&#8217;t Drive</title>
		<link>http://nick.blogsome.com/2005/10/28/saved-premillenialist-christians-shouldnt-drive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Stay  Saved Premillenialist Christians Shouldn&#8217;t Drive
	I&#8217;m sure everyone here has been driving and seen the bumper sticker that reads &#8220;In case of Rapture, car will be unmanned.&#8221; While this never fails to inspire some very action-movie style daydreams and exciting video game premises, it also brings up a far more practical issue: should saved [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p><a href="http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/10/saved_fundament.html">Stay  Saved Premillenialist Christians Shouldn&#8217;t Drive</a><img src="http://www.bumperart.com/ProductImages/2004011951_Display-35.gif" alt="" /></p>
	<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m sure everyone here has been driving and seen the bumper sticker that reads &#8220;In case of Rapture, car will be unmanned.&#8221; While this never fails to inspire some very action-movie style daydreams and exciting video game premises, it also brings up a far more practical issue: should saved Christians be allowed to drive?</p>
	<p>One would think that, if we don&#8217;t grant driver&#8217;s licences to narcoleptics, epileptics, or other people who may, at random, lose all control of their careening vehicle, we sure as hell won&#8217;t grant a license to someone who may just up and disappear without warning. But, this never seems to come up.</p>
	<p>I&#8217;m willing also to consider legislation that would provide for them the right to pilot small, possibly electric city-cars that are speed-limited to 25 MPH, contain adequate warning lights and signage, and, upon detection of loss of driver (via a simple switch in the seat that disengages when the driver is raptured away) sounds a warning klaxon as it slowly comes to a safe, controlled stop under automatic control.</p></blockquote>
	<p>Amen!</p>
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		<title>Yale bans drinking games at Harvard-Yale game - Oct 27, 2005</title>
		<link>http://nick.blogsome.com/2005/10/28/yale-bans-drinking-games-at-harvard-yale-game-oct-27-2005/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Yale is banning drinking games from this year&#8217;s football game against Harvard and will shut down all tailgate parties after halftime &#8212; a move some alumni say could put a damper on one of college football&#8217;s oldest and most storied rivalries.
	The Ivy League contest, known simply as &#8220;The Game,&#8221; dates to 1875 and draws nearly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<blockquote>Yale is banning drinking games from this year&#8217;s football game against Harvard and will shut down all tailgate parties after halftime &#8212; a move some alumni say could put a damper on one of college football&#8217;s oldest and most storied rivalries.</p>
	<p>The Ivy League contest, known simply as &#8220;The Game,&#8221; dates to 1875 and draws nearly as many fans outside the stadium as inside. <strong>Students and alumni fill U-Hauls with kegs, grills and hard liquor<br />
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&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to send hordes of students to the hospital after each game. Drinking games are meant to get people drunk,&#8221;
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	<p>I play drinking games mainly for the camaraderie and the love of the game.</p>
	<p>What harm can a little binge drinking at Yale cause?</p>
	<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/25/iraq.main/index.html">U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000</a></p>
	<p><img src='/images/1004_bush_finger_318x254.jpg' alt='' />
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		<title>Japan &#8216;to allow nuclear warship&#8217; - Oct 27, 2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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	U.S. and Japanese officials have agreed to let the U.S. Navy station a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan for the first time,
	Although American troops have been based in Japan since the end of World War II, the Japanese public has long been wary of a U.S. nuclear presence

	I couldn&#8217;t possibly understand why Japan wouldn&#8217;t want [...]]]></description>
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	<blockquote><p>U.S. and Japanese officials have agreed to let the U.S. Navy station a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan for the first time,</p>
	<p>Although American troops have been based in Japan since the end of World War II, the Japanese public has long been wary of a U.S. nuclear presence
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	<p>I couldn&#8217;t possibly understand why Japan wouldn&#8217;t want a US nuclear presence.</p>
	<p>Oh shit I forgot about this </p>
	<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/10/27/japan.nuclear.ap/index.html"><br />
<blockquote>The decision comes 60 years after the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki</p></blockquote>
	<p></a>
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