Happy Halloween Everyone!!
Since before I can remember, drivers have been using small waves and hand gestures to communicate to other drivers.  These gestures help things run smoothly while piloting our cars on the roads.  From what I understood, these signals are primarily used to say ‘thank you’ to other drivers when they yield or do [...]

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 Magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit 5 miles from Alum Rock in the south bay area. I was miles away in Mountain View when it hit and we felt it quite a bit- I’m wondering what they felt over there.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40204628.html

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On Global Warming-
From http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/ -
“for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”
Recently I read about Al Gore getting the Nobel prize; I was absolutely appalled. I can not believe that all you have to [...]

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/25/innocence.project/index.html
This is an article about a man who was recently exonerated after 20 years in prison.  A group called the Innocence Project does DNA tests on old evidence and gets innocent people out of jail.  Thats fantastic.  So I wondered what all those people who lost half their lives do after jail?  Apparently only 45% [...]

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10-25
A friend of mine told me about upromise.com.  It is a website/rebate service that saves money towards your education. They get rebates from retailers (for the referral I assume) who then deposits that rebate into your upromise account where it stays until they give it to a school (for tuition or whatever).
You can go onto [...]

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A few days ago I replied to blogs4brownback entitled “Kill my baby, Please.” Where he says this
The plan, offered by city health officials and approved on a 7-2 vote by the Portland School Committee, makes King Middle School the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to students [...]

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At last! The opening blog entry. I’ve been pining to do this for some time now, or at least until I stopped my unfounded anti-blog attitude. I’ve come to the realization I had a blog of my own already! Way back when we were all on AIM, we were limited by AOL’s stupid [...]

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