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As I stare out at the gloomy cloud cover, my body recalls the biting breezes of moments before. My mind forms a paradoxical memory, that sunny summer’s day when I decided to experiment with love and nature. Since creation, love has ordered our world. We have a myriad of potential situations and when we act in love and gratitude we are on our way to knowing Christ. Love is not simply an abstract ideal but a practical application of divinity, a naming of the Good in creation. I bought two sets of three identical tropical plants at $1.99 each. I bought myself a community of friends, three of which I would love, three of which I would isolate from my God-given calling to spread love.
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JIMMY EAT WORLD Stay On My Side Tonight - EP
When you’re Jimmy Eat World, everything you touch turns gold. Unfortunately, gold is sometimes gaudy and unattractive. That was my first response to the album.
But Mesa should be proud because it seems as if the Arizona quartet had some residual tracks left over from Futures. The five-song EP includes four unreleased tracks and a remix of “Drugs or Me,” all of which seem to be residual tracks from past albums. We’ve got your uneasy, freshmen track from Static Prevails (“Half Right”), the soft, indelible lull from Clarity (“Closer”), the radio ballad from Bleed American (“Over”), and of course the epic track from Futures (“Disintegration”). It seems as if every track, minus the remix, are cousins to a past J.E.W. album—beautiful, but at the same time scattered.
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“Video games are literally ‘murder simulators’ teaching our kids how to kill.” These words came straight from Florida attorney Jack Thompson’s website StopKill.com. Thompson is an outspoken crusader against video games, blaming them for the Columbine massacre and the D.C. sniper, among other things. His entire argument against video games is that they drive people to aggression, creating “Manchurian Children, who learned their deadly skills from video games” (Fall 2000 21st Century by Michele Steinberg). To solve this “epidemic” of youth violence spawned by gaming, Thomson continues to lobby for the censoring and banning of video games from society. Yet, if video games cause violence, should we not be alarmed and fearful for the future? Not a chance. For all his grandstanding, Thompson does not have a leg to stand on. Video games do not cause violent inclinations any more than a runny nose causes a cold.
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Haling from the greatest place in the world, I thought it my duty as an Albertan to set some ground rules now that this mysterious white substance has landed on Trinity’s campus. I’ve been involved in many a snowball fight in my day, and now I will outline some rules by which snowball fights should be fought.
Firstly and most importantly, no yellow snow balls. You all know what this entails. Your parents may have told you to never eat yellow snow. Well, I’m here to tell you to not throw that snow at my face.
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This NHL season certain players are competing for more than the Stanley Cup. Yes, the cup is the first priority, but close behind is a trip to the Olympics. Wayne Gretzky, Team Canada’s general manager, must have a final roster by December 21, and there are only 23 spots.
The forward positions have some guarantees. Simon Gagne has played his way back onto the team. Other locks include Jarome Iginla, Joe Sakic, Dany Heatley, Joe Thornton, Ryan Smyth, Vincent Lecavalier, Martin St. Louis and Brad Richards. That leaves three forward spots, two of those Gretzky had given to Mario Lemieux and Steve Yzerman, but it is rumored that Lemieux and Yzerman will decline those spots, and that Gretzky is favouring Todd Bertuzzi and sparkplug Shane Doan as their replacements.
