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NaCl is in pretty much every home in America, and we're exposed to it on a daily basis. It's been linked to heart disease and high blood pressure.

But, they would've recorded the slave thing. Most pharoahs and other important people were buried with slaves, so slaves were very important in the afterlife.

Well, if it's an animation class... The issue with open ended assignments like the one above is that students get out of them what they put into them. With a structured assignment, most students will learn something whether they intend to or not. Open ended assignments can provide the opportunity to do some independant research (in the case above, I'd have looked for what some of the great philosophers said about life and contrasted it with my own opinions...I'd have learned about Plato and Socrates and probably would've picked up something about Aquinas and Loyola along the way and taken a good, solid look at my own thoughts and opinions in the light of what I'd learned). However, they can also result in a few pages of rambling about personal opinions without any learning taking place. Some people like assignments with a lot of structure, because they are told what to do, what to learn, and how to do it. I find assignments like that very limiting, because sometimes my research will end up getting me interested in something that doesn't quite match with the assignment. I prefer open ended assignments, as they give me the opportunity to explore, but I enjoy learning and view classes and papers as an opportunity to do so. Honestly, it's probably the same reason I like debating in speaker's corner. I end up doing a lot of research to solidify and back up my opinions and I always learn something new in the process.

Plenty of teachers give open-ended assignments like that. I had a law school professor who gave us a research paper assignment that just had to be related to the subject matter in the course. Other than that, no topic guidelines were given. I learned so much writing that paper, and it allowed me the opportunity to explore an aspect of law that I otherwise wouldn't have. If the class he's taking is a writing class, that assignment will probably be quite productive. If it's a writing class, they'll be focusing on structure and organization, which can be done with pretty much any topic. However, I do hope they manage to teach him the difference between "right" and "write".

If you're going to a large event, find out if they'll let you do a 50/50 raffle. Sell tickets for a buck each, and at the end of the evening, if you take in $500, the winner gets $250, and you get $250 for your project. Talk to some sympathetic professors and secretaries at school. Ask them to help you. Tell them you want to set up a booth with 5 gallon bottles with their pictures on the bottles. Advertise that students will have the opportunity to whip-cream pie the professor whose picture is on the bottle that gets the most money dropped in it. Have the bottles at the most populated area on campus at lunch time with a big sign advertising what you're doing. My school's animal law society had an awesome contest to raise money that is kinda similar to the pie the prof one above. They had people submit the cutest photo of their pet, laid them all out on a table with cups above each photo, and people would drop their spare change in the cup of the pet they thought was cutest. They raised about $1K, and the winners got mouse pads with their pet's picture (you can get those made at the mall for about $10). Also, many local restaurants will dontate a portion of the proceeds from an evening to a cause/club. They give you fliers to hand out, and when anyone comes in with the flier, the restaurant donates 10% of their bill. Most will even let you stand outside the restaurant during that time and hand out the fliers to people walking in.

Sharing a stage with Michael Crawford at six venues and on TV.

Education isn't everything, and life experience counts for a lot (especially in trade industries and the computer industry). However, it can be more difficult to get employers to take you seriously without a college degree, and many times you end up making less money than someone else who does the same job, but has the degree.

Taking the story literally, Cain would have married a sister or niece.

I have. My first week of religion class in high school. The teacher (nun) was talking about genesis. She talked about how adam and eve were the first people on earth, and how cain killed abel, and then cain got married. I raised my hand and asked "if eve was the only woman on earth, who did cain marry? his mother or his sister?" The teacher started screaming at me about blasphemy and having no respect for the bible. Literally screaming. The interesting thing is, it was an honest question. All she had to say is that the law forbidding marriage between close relatives was not given until the time of Moses (Leviticus 18–20). Abraham married his half sister (genesis 20:12).

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A friend of mine used to have a popsicle mold that made penis shaped popsicles.

I didn't. ______ Dictionary quiz: Nightingale -- [noun]: A perma-orgasm Kris -- [noun]: An erotic popsicle Kristin -- [noun]:A perma-orgasm LOL!

LOL! So do I, but you'd never know by looking at my score.

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Ed and Mary - May your past be a pleasant memory, Your future filled with delight and mystery, Your now a glorious moment, That fills your life with deep contentment. May love and laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home. May good and faithful friends be yours, wherever you may roam. May peace and plenty bless your world with joy that long endures. May all life's passing seasons bring the best to you and yours! (Irish Blessing) Happy 50th Anniversary! -Kris

It seems as though those labels generally appear when the author of the post can't think of a quality rebuttal to the post he/she is responding to.

traveled around most of the republic, from dublin to galway to aran islands to cliffs of moher, to kilarney and blarney, then to waterford, and back to dublin. You can read my trip journal on my website if you want.

Or, just post the site address and the password...

A Pirate Looks at 40 - Jimmy Buffett He went to Paris - Jimmy Buffett ...I'm sensing a theme here. My favorite song tends to have something to do with my state of mind. If I'm really stressed out, I listen to JB to chill out. I've been really, really stressed out lately (and I thank Clownburner for continuing to put up with me) because of school. I don't sing karaoke often, though. I like singing along with my guitar better.

My car's full of junk, school stuff, karate stuff, papers, skydiving gear. It's 8 years old and hasn't been washed in two years. I've never, ever, not once been late on my rent. What you can't see is that my car has regular oil changes, brake maintenance, and tune-ups. Part of the reason I don't have a new car is BECAUSE I pay my rent...oh...and I've always gotten most of my deposit back when I've moved out of an apartment.

Well, the two weeks in ireland would be at the top of my list. Second would be the week in Kona Third would be the weekend in Key West. If I had to rank them in order of which I'd go back to, I'd put Ireland first, Key West second and Kona third.

My lease has a clause in it that if I get evicted, I have to pay all the back rent owed, plus my landlord's expenses for the eviction. When I was leasing, we'd take tenants to court over this stuff all the time, and we always won.

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I have a spectre and a silhouette. I demoed a sabre, but it felt too twitchy for me.

It is a work of fiction, and it is an easy and interesting read, which are the main reason why it's reached so many people that "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" didn't. Many of the historical theories (Jesus married to Mary Magdalene, for example) have been proposed by historians, especially after reading the gospel of Peter, which was eliminated from the bible during the council of Nicea. What Dan Brown did in DVC is mix historical theories with fictional ideas in a way that people have trouble telling which is which, because he does it quite convincingly. Also, the historical information in DVC doesn't always show christianity in a positive light, which is one of the reasons many christian groups try to discredit the entire book, forgetting that it's a work of fiction, and as fiction, there is nothing to discredit, so it pretty much just makes them look silly, just as silly as the people who take everything in DVC as fact. If anything, those groups should be working to discredit Holy Blood, Holy Grail, which is where a lot of the historical theories and ideas for the fictional DVC came from. Dan Brown took some off the wall historical theories and some little known historical facts and mixed them up with fictional ideas, characters, and a pretty good plot. What many churches don't like is that because people know some of what's in DVC is true, those people have been asking questions and researching to find out what is true, what is fiction, and what's just weird theory. The information those people are finding out and making available to people not inclined to do the research is information such as the fact that Constantine had a hand in choosing what's in the bible, and this information is making people question whether or not the bible we have today is truly divinely inspired (regardless of whether the original works were divinely inspired), or whether it was edited the way it was as a means of controlling the roman population. It's making people ask if they're reading parts of the bible out of context and if some big ideas are missing. So, it isn't the book itself that is making people ask questions, it's the information that's come to light to the general public because of the book.