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"The National Association of Parliamentarians, founded in 1930, is the largest non-profit organization of professional parliamentarians in the world. Headquartered in Independence, Missouri, the association helps organizations of all sizes conduct business efficiently through education and advocacy of effective meeting procedures and the accreditation of meeting professionals."
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"Video games represent an interesting exercise in storytelling, both in making use of narration and other storytelling devices, and also in making use of protagonists or player characters, which are in a sense representative of the players themselves, and in a sense distinct and independently motivated. What I'd like to discuss in this piece are some of the techniques used in video games to communicate story and to represent the relationship between the player and protagonist."
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"What if the Apocalypse has already happened? How should we live in a post-Apocalyptic world, when all of the values of the previous one have been destroyed? Aleister Crowley had an answer: we should each live according to our own True Will.
By this he meant that every man and woman must discover his or her own true nature and purpose in this world, and fulfill it. But the guiding principle in living that fulfillment must be love; not love in the sense of mere sentimental affection." -
"Reality Sandwich is a web magazine for this time of intense transformation. Our subjects run the gamut from sustainability to shamanism, alternate realities to alternative energy, remixing media to re-imagining community, holistic healing techniques to the promise and perils of new technologies. We hope to spark debate and engagement by offering a forum for voices ranging from the ecologically pragmatic to the wildly visionary (which, to our delight, sometimes turn out to be the one and the same). Counteracting the doom-and-gloom of the daily news, Reality Sandwich is a platform for voices conveying a different vision of the transformations we face. Our goal is to inspire psychic evolution and a kind of earth alchemy."
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"From 1974. Grover attempts to read a fairytale about a lonely princess (Sonia Manzano as Maria) who meets a handsome young prince (Northern Calloway as David). The tale ends up going in a different direction than the one Grover is trying to read from his book."
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"Hello! This is Keni Lee Burgess…
Welcome to my world. As you can tell by watching my videos, I'm into Bottleneck Blues. Mostly the old school fingerpicking acoustic blues. For me, there is nothing better than the sound of a Resonator guitar."
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"The great comedian as Eustace P. McGargle in the 1936 Motion Picture; 'Poppy', performing a routine with his 'beloved ka-dula – ka-dola'."
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"One Plank – One Bottle – One String!"
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"Anyone who loves music and is handy with tools can make a cigar box violin that is capable of producing really good tones. The violin may be designed for either two strings or four, depending on the maker's ability as a craftsman and aspirations as a player."
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"After you've smoked the cigars, you can make music with the box they came in. It's an easy job to make a cigar box violin, so let's begin."
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"Experience Bram Stoker's Dracula in a new way — in real time. Dracula is an epistolary novel (a novel written as a series of letters or diary entries,) and this blog will publish each diary entry on the day that it was written by the narrator so that the audience may experience the drama as the characters would have.
Please subscribe to the RSS feed so you can follow each installment and read this novel in real time!"
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"Three broad steps must be taken to remake this failed, unstable model: one, regulating global finance; two, correcting global economic, social and environmental imbalances; and three, devising ways to make sure economic progress is aligned with social needs."
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"According to a new book, the painter Vincent van Gogh did not slice off his left ear in a fit of madness and drunkenness in Arles in December 1888. His ear was severed by a sword wielded by his friend, the painter, Paul Gauguin, in a drunken row over a woman called Rachel and the true nature of art."
"'Maybe they are right,' she said. 'But almost any theory is plausible because there are so few established facts.'"
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"A history of the gruff but surprisingly sophisticated invented language and the people who speak it."