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Versace Versense Women's Fragrance 1-1.7oz: $49-$65

The White Mary is the explorer/journalist Kira Salak's first work of fiction. However, the novel has almost an autographical feel, with beautiful detailed accounts of the atmosphere and experiences. The protagonist Marika, whom the indigenous people call "White Mary", is like a version of Kira herself.

BOOK SYNOPSIS

Marika Vecera, an accomplished war reporter, has dedicated her life to helping the world's oppressed and forgotten. When not on one of her dangerous assignments, she lives in Boston, exploring a new relationship with Seb, a psychologist who offers her glimpses of a better world.

Returning from a harrowing assignment in the Congo where she was kidnapped by rebel soldiers, Marika learns that a man she has always admired from afar, Pulitzer-winning war correspondent Robert Lewis, has committed suicide. Stunned, she abandons her magazine work to write Lewis's biography, settling down with Seb as their intimacy grows. But when Marika finds a curious letter from a missionary claiming to have seen Lewis in the remote jungle of Papua New Guinea, she has to wonder, What if Lewis isn't dead?

Marika soon leaves Seb to embark on her ultimate journey in one of the world's most exotic and unknown lands. Through her eyes we experience the harsh realities of jungle travel, embrace the mythology of native tribes, and receive the special wisdom of Tobo, a witch doctor and sage, as we follow her extraordinary quest to learn the truth about Lewis--and about herself, along the way.

To me, Salak represents a new kind of female hero. Like her character Marika, Salak herself has traveled into the world's most remote and dangerous places, including war-torn Congo and the interior of Papua New Guinea, and narrowly escaped death. She has been chased or captured multiple times by rebel soldiers in the various places. Two of her non fiction novels talk about these adventures:

THE CRUELEST JOURNEY: SIX HUNDRED MILES TO TIMBUKTU

This book accounts her journey as the first person in the world to kayak alone 600 miles on the Niger River of Mali to Timbuktu, retracing the fatal journey of the great Scottish explorer Mungo Park.

FOUR CORNERS: A JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Some of these are just day dreams ...

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Diva Vodka : $1,000,000 (pretty please? )

• after class went shopping.
• didn't dish out too much money for unnecessary clothes (HUGE accomplishment!
• bought a lacy silky slip

 

• After getting back from the mall, I managed to eat, jog (for 40min), shower, and dress up in 1.5 hours (another great accomplishment)

1. Genetics Journal Club - read paper and make presentation
2. Info Design - research final proj; do final proj
3. Art Hist - read 100 pages of papers; write a 4 page essay
4. Plant class - study for test
5. Graduation - get ComCol requirements straightened up, get signatures; pick up cap and gown

Unrequited love?

Can there be love without trust?

What if you know that they are unfaithful, can you still love them?

Yes Sharon's asking you these questions. Don't be scared, I'm not crazy yet. I just had an epiphany and am curious from the lack of personal experience. This is about as sappy as I get .

I personally am iffy about Love (got chastized a lot for that)...but "trust" is something I have a hard time giving. It requires a lot to give trust to someone who you have no idea what they are thinking about....(except maybe one's parents).

Well, love is hard to give out too.

Actually its just hard for me to give out any emotion of affection. I could have feelings of utmost  intensity towards that person, but I just have an impossibly hard time letting myself show it. You have to keep on poking before you finally see me open a little. I find it hard even to show my affection to my own parents! weird...cuz I'm the only child...

I seriously need to losen up. Maybe i'll appear more lovable and warm

Sorry for this super-rant.

It is sad, ridiculous and pathetic that parts of the country still takes think this way seriously. They would get stoned by Feminists up North!

taken from http://objectiveministries.org/creation/sciencefair.html

2001 Prize Winners:

Elementary School Level

Cassidy Turnbull and her uncle, Steve, who is not a monkey according to Cassidy's research.

1st Place: "My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)"  <<<good to know

Cassidy Turnbull (grade 5) presented her uncle, Steve. She also showed photographs of monkeys and invited fairgoers to note the differences between her uncle and the monkeys. She tried to feed her uncle bananas, but he declined to eat them. Cassidy has conclusively shown that her uncle is no monkey.

2nd Place: "Pine Cones Are Complicated"

David Block and Trevor Murry (grades 4) showed how specifically complicated pine cones are and how they reveal God's design in nature.

Honorable Mention:

"God Made Kitty" - Sally Reister (grade 3)
"The Bible Says Creation" - Aaron Kent (grade 5)
"Pokemon Prove Evolutionism Is False" - Paul Sanborn (grade 4)
 

Middle School Level

Patricia Lewis displays her jar of non-living material, still non-living after three weeks.

1st Place: "Life Doesn't Come From Non-Life"

Patricia Lewis (grade 8) did an experiment to see if life can evolve from non-life. Patricia placed all the non-living ingredients of life - carbon (a charcoal briquet), purified water, and assorted minerals (a multi-vitamin) - into a sealed glass jar. The jar was left undisturbed, being exposed only to sunlight, for three weeks. (Patricia also prayed to God not to do anything miraculous during the course of the experiment, so as not to disqualify the findings.) No life evolved. This shows that life cannot come from non-life through natural processes.

2nd Place: "Women Were Designed For Homemaking"    <<<<<<I mean seriously????

Jonathan Goode (grade 7) applied findings from many fields of science to support his conclusion that God designed women for homemaking: physics shows that women have a lower center of gravity than men, making them more suited to carrying groceries and laundry baskets; biology shows that women were designed to carry un-born babies in their wombs and to feed born babies milk, making them the natural choice for child rearing; social sciences show that the wages for women workers are lower than for normal workers, meaning that they are unable to work as well and thus earn equal pay; and exegetics shows that God created Eve as a companion for Adam, not as a co-worker.

Honorable Mention:

"Mousetrap Reduced To Pile Of Functionless Parts" - Kevin Parker (grade 7)
"Dinosaur & Man Walked Together" - Donny Findlay (grade 6)
"Rocks Can't Evolve, Where Did They Come From Mr. Darwin?" - Anna Reed (grade 6)
 

High School Level

Eileen Hyde (right) and Lynda Morgan (left), future Creation Scientists.

1st Place: "Using Prayer To Microevolve Latent Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria" <<<<ROFL

Eileen Hyde and Lynda Morgan (grades 10 & 11) did a project showing how the power of prayer can unlock the latent genes in bacteria, allowing them to microevolve antibiotic resistance. Escherichia coli bacteria cultured in agar filled petri dishes were subjected to the antibiotics tetracycline and chlorotetracycline. The bacteria cultures were divided into two groups, one group (A) received prayer while the other (B) didn't. The prayer was as follows: "Dear Lord, please allow the bacteria in Group A to unlock the antibiotic-resistant genes that You saw fit to give them at the time of Creation. Amen." The process was repeated for five generations, with the prayer being given at the start of each generation. In the end, Group A was significantly more resistant than Group B to both antibiotics.

2nd Place: "Maximal Packing Of Rodentia Kinds: A Feasibility Study"

Jason Spinter's (grade 12) project was to show the feasibility of Noah's Ark using a Rodentia research model (made of a mixture of hamsters and gerbils) as a representative of diluvian life forms. The Rodentia were placed in a cage with dimensions proportional to a section of the Ark. The number of Rodentia used (58) was calculated using available Creation Science research and was based on the median animal size and their volumetric distribution in the Ark. The cage was also fitted with wooden dowels inserted at regular intervals through the cage walls, forming platforms which provided support for the Rodentia. Although there was little room left in the cage, all Rodentia were able to move just enough to ward off muscle atrophy. Food pellets and water were delivered to sub-surface Rodentia via plastic drinking straws inserted into the Rodentia-mass, which also served to allow internal air flow. Once a day, the cage was sprayed with water to cleanse any built-up waste. Additionally, the cage was suspended on bungee cords to simulate the rocking motion of a ship. The study lasted 30 days and 30 nights, with all Rodentia surviving at least long enough afterwards to allow for reproduction. These findings strongly suggest that Noah's Ark could hold and support representatives of all antediluvian animal kinds for the duration of the Flood and subsequent repopulation of the Earth.

Honorable Mention:

"Geocentrism: Politically Incorrect" - Richard Cody (grade 9)
"Young Earth, Old Lies" - Melvin Knuth & Glenna Reher (grade 11)
"Thermodynamics Of Hell Fire" - Tom Williamson (grade 12)