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http://nickbrendon.com/2009/11/25/nicholas-brendon-news-‘criminal-minds’-tonight-more-‘santaland’/

He returns for the 100th episode of CM tonight. Plus, due to the success of his play, "The Santaland Diaries", more shows have been added to the calendar.

[ edited by aaalex on 2009-11-26 00:00 ]

**Rhyticeros undulatus**

Wreathed hornbill
Ornitopark "Vorobji", Kaluzhskaya obl.
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I feel so alive and happy, so loved and blessed. Thank you, more than I can express, to everyone who has given me so much support and energy and kindness this year. I am overjoyed to still be among you, and wish you all an abundance of blessings!

Current Mood: grateful

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We're so delighted with the immense talent of our growing, global lj_photophile community that we've decided to introduce a poll. Each week, we'll choose a half-dozen photos (based on user comments and staff feedback) and ask you to select a photo of the week. The winning photo will be announced in the next newsletter. If possible, please limit photo size to 350x350 to ensure that images display properly on friends pages. We want to thank you again (and again!) for sharing your passion.

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Curtains

Thanks for joining us. To our American friends, have a fantastic Thanksgiving. To all of our international neighbors, we'll eat a little extra for you!

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After the comic posted here earlier I got thinking - any of you lot have qwerky eating habits?

I have a bottle of Lea & Perrins sauce on my desk at work and view it as a necessity and I often use Pot Noodles as the basis for an entire meal.

My Evie likes Cheddar cheese, she just mentioned worriedly that we only have two blocks left in the house (about 1 1/2 kilos of the stuff ... for two of us ... and I don't like lots of cheese on stuff). Little Sara will eat pasta, unflavoured, no extra salt and nothing with it.

I used to have a cat that went crazy for garlic potatoes ...

.. so, how about you and yours?

Current Location: Snuggling in bed
Current Mood: happy
Voices in my Head: Red Hot Chillis - Californication

"They mostly come out at night, mostly." - Newt, Aliens

Tags: quote

Though it's not quite complete yet (there's always room for improvement!), here's my steamy newspaper reporter outfit that I wore for Windycon.

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By the way, everyone looked amazing at Windycon! I was totally blown away by all your great costumes. Next time I won't be so shy and I'll take more pictures!

I made a video about the CAST of LOST.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEC1xUE2Ku4

Tags: video

http://whedonesque.com/comments/22478

http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com

Make sure to check out the really cool items on auction for Equality Now!

so, today while at the store my husband and I spotted a rosemary bush, and as we are expecting a baby, and don't want a great big tree around, we decided to grab it.

we've bought rosemary bushes before for the holidays, but they never lasted much longer than a month or two.

Is there a trick to keeping potted rosemary alive?

EDIT:
I guess I should also say I'm in zone 4 and in an apartment, so planting outside isn't an option :(

Current Mood: cheerful

http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/11/nepal-addresses-the-witch-hunts.html

http://wildhunt.org/blog/?p=3801

As a counter-point to the Saudi Arabia article I posted earlier this morning, the country of Nepal, as part of the U.N.’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (That’s today!) and the White Ribbon campaign to end violence against women, has launched a one-month media campaign to end witch-hunts against women in Nepal.

“…the Office of the Prime Minister and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal (OHCHR) have jointly launched a one minute television clip highlighting the violence against women who are alleged to be practicing witchcraft. A one-minute clip will be broadcast from the state-controlled Nepal Television just before the prime news at 8pm every day for the next one month. OHCHR and the PM’s office decided to air such video as a large number of women alleged to be practicing witchcraft mostly in the rural Terai have been ill-treated, tortured, brutally beaten up, and forced to eat human excreta.”

This is a big step, and should hopefully start a larger trend of governments taking the international witch-hunting epidemic seriously (Nepal is also taking part in the 2010 international initiative against violence towards women). It seems only natural that a country that honors “living goddesses” should concern itself with the welfare and safety of its women. If you’d like to thank Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal for addressing this issue, you can contact the Nepalese government, here.

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Current Mood: confused

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010807.html

WorldChanging Team: by Elana Schor The myth that U.S. roads "pay for themselves" thanks to user fees is a subject that's likely familiar to many Streetsblog readers...

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010806.html

WorldChanging Team: by Manish Bapna Barack Obama and Manmohan Singh need to overcome the mistrust that has characterised recent US-India relations on climate change and energy. From...

http://whedonesque.com/comments/22477

http://moondog-themoonblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/angel-sketchbook.html

"The book itself is 84 pages and costs 10.00 euro. The postage and packaging(anywhere in the world) would be another 5 euro, so you're looking at 15 quid altogether".

He and the others from Ecclectic Micks' have also released a sketchbook that you might be able to order.

We were asked by a representative of the Woodland Park Zoo, here in Seattle to do a photo shoot in their Rainforest exhibit to promote a class they are doing in January. The shoot was quite fun. The resulting poster from our photo safari at Woodland Park Zoo.
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You can view the rest of

helix90's photos here.

~artvixn

So, being the student of religion that I am and generally interested in current affairs, I took the time to read the Manhattan Declaration.

For those of you who don't know what that is or don't want to click the link, it's a statement by an ecumenical group of Christians about gay marriage, abortion and how they feel their rights are being in danger of being impinged in the current American political climate. While the majority of the document is nothing new, the same arguments rehashed, there was one thing that caught my eye: they mentioned polyamory specifically and identified it as an immoral behavior:

"We acknowledge that there are those who are disposed towards homosexual and polyamorous conduct and relationships, just as there are those who are disposed towards other forms of immoral conduct."-Manhattan Declaration, section: Marriage

While I doubt this alone is going to sway anyone's opinion of poly life, I had a moment of going "Wow, they're using the word! We've made an impression."

Waiting to see where, if anywhere, this goes.

Peace.

I've just recently landed myself in steampunk-verse, though I have come across some steampunk elements in my BJD and lolita circles earlier. Before I start seeking and hoarding clothes and items ~~and gutting old watches for parts XD~~, I would like to ask some questions. Hope you folks can help me out!

( Questions, questions... )

Much thanks in advance! If someone has already asked similar questions that have been answered, please direct me to those, too.

Tags: costume advice