Maxxima introduces the MLS-10 2 LED AC/DC occupancy sensor light which works on 3AA batteries or can be plugged into any standard outlet with its AC/DC option. The MLS-10 has 4 convenient modes which allow you to select if you want it to act as a light that automatically turns itself on when motion is detected by the built in sensor and turns itself off 30 seconds after you leave the area, or it can be set to turn on at night only, be left on at all times, or be shut off completely. When left in the occupancy sensor mode this light will only go on at night when motion is detected, and will only go off once there is no motion left in the area. When left in the night light mode this light will go on whenever there is darkness in its area.

This is a perfect item to be kept in a closet, bathroom, stairwell, or any space, which requires lighting, as well it comes in handy during a power failure. With its built in AC/DC option Maxxima now offers even more convenience with their line of Occupancy Sensor Lights.

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Out of this pool, Sellers receive a score which determines their overall ranking in the weekly Seller Spotlight competition. The score is calculated by adding Lifetime feedback rating + 7-day feedback rating + number of sales for the previous week. The Seller with the highest resulting score will receive Seller Spotlight status for a full week. Ties are broken by random draw. As always, there is no charge for this service. It only requires a willingness to take customer service to the next level. We want the Atomic Mall shopping experience to be fun. By rewarding Sellers for providing great customer care to our Buyers, our goal is to enhance the enjoyment (fun) factor for everyone.

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Keeps Gettin Better is the first single of Christina Aguileras new Greatest Hits album Keeps Gettin Better: A Decade Of Hits.

Lyrically, it's a late entry in a crowded field, and the catchy electro-pop vibe isn't enough to make it one of her more memorable efforts.

The clip was lensed by filmmaker Peter Berg ( The Kingdom), and its Minority ReportSpeed Racer-highway-to-Anime-City vibe is sure to excite sci-fi geeks as much as Christina fans.

I really enjoyed making the video for 'Keeps Gettin' Better,' Aguilera said in the release. Being an artist who likes to play around with different looks, it was a lot of fun to portray various characters within the same shoot.

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If you have ever had food poisoning, you know how unpleasant it can be. However, food poisoning is just a small part of the consequences of bacteria in your food. I recently got food poisoning at a restaurant in Las Vegas. This food poisoning led to a gastro-intestinal problem that lasted nearly a year. Even today, I am still suffering the repercussions of the food poisoning. Needless to say, I dont eat out as much as I used to. However, even eating at home requires certain precautions to avoiding illness caused by bacteria in food. There are four simple steps we can all follow. Thats what this article is all about.
Step One: Cleanliness
Wash your hands in hot soapy water before handling food. When you use the bathroom, pet an animal, shake someones hand, etc. wash your hands even if you dont plan on eating or handling food. Using hot soapy water immediately helps clean away unwanted bacteria.
Wash cleaning utensils in hot soapy water. This includes dishes, knives, forks, spoons, cooking boards, and counter tops. While most of us do wash these things before we start preparing food, often we forget to wash them after each food item. For example, did you just cut up a chicken on your cutting board? Wash the cutting board in hot soapy water before you start cutting the potatoes or onions or anything else on the same cutting board. Dont forget to wash the knives after each food item as well.
Use plastic or non-porous cutting boards. Try not to use those wooden cutting boards that are built into your kitchen cabinets. Bacteria tends to hang out on them. They are not non-porous. At least, they werent the last time I checked. The best way to wash a cutting board is in a nice hot dishwasher. If this is not an option for you, use soapy water as hot as you can stand it, but not so hot your burn yourself.
One final note on cleanliness: Try using paper towels to clean up in the kitchen. If you do have to use cloth towels, wash them often in the hot cycle of your washing machine. I like to buy white ones and then soak them in bleach regularly before putting them in the washer. If you dont wash cloth towels regularly, bacteria can collect on them.
Step Two: Dont cross-contaminate
This means that bacteria can be spread from one food product to another food product. We especially need to be careful of cross-contamination when handling uncooked meat, poultry, and seafood. Keep these foods and their juices away from other foods, especially foods that are ready-to-eat.
What does this actually involve?
Start at the grocery store. Keep meat, poultry, and seafood away from other foods in your shopping cart. Once you get home, keep them separated in your refrigerator as well.
I mentioned earlier about cleaning your cutting board after you cut meat before cutting something else on it. Well, the idea situation would be to used a different cutting board for cutting meats, poultry, etc. then you use for cutting other food items.
Finally, never place cooked food on a plate that was previously used for raw meats, etc.
Step Three: Cook to proper temperatures
There is harmful bacteria that causes foodborne illnesses. According to the experts, when food is heated long enough and at a high enough temperature, this bacteria is killed. So make sure you are cooking your food at a proper temperature for a long enough time.
Invest in a food thermometer that measures the internal temperature of cooked foods. Make sure the thermometer is clean each time you use it.
Cook roasts and steaks to at least 145 degrees F.
Whole poultry should be cooked to 180 degrees F.
Cook ground beef to at least 160 degrees F. If you dont have a thermometer available, never eat ground beef that is pink inside. There is a high risk of illness from eating undercooked, pink ground beef. Dont take the chance.
Eggs: Dont use recipes that call for eggs to remain raw or only partially cooked. When cooking eggs make sure the yolk and whites are firm.
Fish should be opaque and flake easily with a fork.
Sauces, soups, and gravies should be brought to a boil when reheating.
Leftovers should be heated thoroughly to 165 degrees F.
Microwave cooking: Make sure there are no cold spots in the food. Cover the food, stir and rotate it so that it cooks evenly.
Step Four: Refrigerate promptly
Harmful bacteria is prevented from growing and multiplying in cold temperatures. This means you must refrigerate your food promptly. Your refrigerator should be set no higher than 40 degrees F. Also, set your freezer at 0 degrees F. Appliance thermometers are available that you can use to check there temperatures.
Put prepared foods and leftovers in the frig or freezer within two hours. Dont let it sit on the counter longer than that.
Thaw out food in the refrigerator, never on the counter or at room temperature. You can also thaw food under cold running water or, my favorite way of thawing out food is in the microwave. Most microwaves have a defrost setting that you can use.
Marinate foods in the refrigerator, not on the kitchen counter.
Try dividing leftovers into smaller portions so that they cool faster.
Dont overpack your refrigerator. In order to keep food safe in the frig, the cool air must be able to circulate properly.

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Youre at this cool party full of wonderfully geeky book lovers that you admire    Someone starts talking about a particular book and you casually mention, ve never read that one.      EVERYONE GASPS!
What book title was it?
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So I un-participated myself from the goodreads.com group of the 1001 Books Before You Die.    HOWEVER, while there? I noticed that one thread of the forum was to volunteer your top ten.   So, in a totally unscientific way to see if I should change my choices and continue with this challenge to attempt 1% (by when? February 2009?), I am proposing to MY SELF, a few of the following:
[I copied the few entries into excel; counted and sorted and bolded what I've already read, the red ones are what I WANT to read and the green ones are the few I actually have in the house.]
EDITED LATER to STAR those suggested in the comments! and fixed a counting error
To Kill A Mocking Bird 7
Pride Prejudice 5
Lord of the Rings 5
A Tale of Two Cities 4
The Great Gatsby 4
All Quiet On The Western Front 3
Frankenstein 3
Great Expectations 3
Hitchhikers Guide 3
Les Miserables 3
Little Women 3
The Hobbit 3
The Scarlet Letter 3
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3
Catch 22 2
Crime and Punishment 2
Don Quixote 2
Gone with the Wind 2
Grapes of Wrath - I attempted this once    2
In Cold Blood 2
Jane Eyre 2
Life of Pi 2
Never Let Me Go - Ishiguru 2
Of Mice and Men 2
The Bell Jar 2
The Blind Assassin 2
The Maltese Falcon 2
The Poisonwood Bible 2
The Watchmen 2
Wuthering Heights 2
Count of Monte Cristo 2
1984
A Fine Balance
A Handful of Dust
A Prayer For Owen Meany
Absolom, Absolom
Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Animal Farm
Atonement
Black Water
Blood Meridian
Brave New World
Brothers Karamazov
Cloud Atlas
Cold Comfort Farm
Dracula
Enduring Love
House of Leaves
I, Robot
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Invisible Cities
Invisible Man - Ralph Elison
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the End of the Night
Labyrinths
Lady Chatterlys Love - Lawrence
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love Medicine
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Namesake
Neuromancer
Nightwood
Northanger Abbey
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Picture of Dorian Gray
Pilgrims Progress
Rebecca
Sense and Sensibility
Sexing the Cherry
Sherlock Holmes
Shipping News
Solaris
Song of Solomon
Stephenwolf - Herman Hesse
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay
The Big Sleep
The Catcher in the Rye
The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
The Color Purple
The Country Girls
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The God of Small things
The House on the Borderland
The Master Margarita
The Secret History
The Sun Also Rises
The Watchmen 2
The World According to Garp
Thousand and One Nights
Titus Groan
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Uncle Toms Cabin
My question for you, my lovely readers, is this:   Are there any on this list that is a MUST read?   Im thinking MUST as in:  if I were at a party, which of these would most people be amazed I have not read? (no, I really dont go to any parties like this, but sounds like fun.)    Im thinking Huck Finn since its a Mark Twain and I cant truly feel confident that Ive read any of his work.    (big confession, huh?)
Can anyone recommend the ones with the fewest pages.

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Marcie also shared a partial list of gluten-free items at Panera Bread that she received from corporate. I must admit I was surprised with all of the soup options since wheat is often used. It is also nice to know which salad dressings are safe. Please note that menus can vary by location and menu items can change.

To find ingredients for a specific item: Click on Menu and Nutrition, choose the Bakery or Cafe menu, select a product category from the links at the top of the page, then click on the individual menu item to display a page with that item's ingredients and nutritional content.

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by Dr. Chuck Baldwin - Dec. 5, 2008

"Change you can believe in." This was Barack Obama's campaign slogan. There is no doubt that the American people were fed up with George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans. Who can blame them?

After campaigning for change back in 1999 (What political challenger doesn't campaign for change?), President Bush and his fellow neocons promptly set out to continue business as usual in Washington, D.C. Federal spending and meddling exploded under the leadership of the GOP. In fact, one has to go back to the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt to match the increases in Big Government and Big Brother by Bush and Company. Add to the out-of-control spending habits of the GOP an unnecessary war, a near-Depression economy, and a burgeoning police state. It is no surprise that the American people were ready for change. And Obama excelled in delivering the message of change. So, what kind of change will Obama actually deliver?

Will Obama remove U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan? Probably not. Oh, he might reduce troops in Iraq, but if anyone believes that he will not leave a significant U.S. presence in Iraq, they are living in a dream world. Furthermore, many, if not most, of the troops from Iraq will most likely find themselves in Afghanistan. Mark my words; Barack Obama has no plans to remove U.S. troops from the Middle East. Net result: no change.

What about America's economic woes? What changes will Barack Obama bring to the table? Hardly any. America will continue it's trademark deficit spending; we will continue to send manufacturing jobs overseas; so-called "free trade" deals will continue to advance; Big Business will continue to receive government bailouts; the Federal Reserve will continue to call the shots for America's financial decisions (and reap gargantuan profits in the process); Congress will continue to be inept, irresponsible, and clueless; there will be no attempt to return the United States to sound money principles; and there will be no reduction in foreign aid. In a nutshell, it will be business as usual in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Don't get me wrong: Barack Obama will doubtless throw out some bones to his liberal supporters in much the same way that Republican presidents throw out a bone or two to their conservative constituents. Watch for Obama to overturn the ban on embryonic stem cell research. America's upper income earners can expect some sort of tax increase. No doubt oil companies will end up losing some tax exemptions. Watch for additional environmentalist policies to be enacted. And, yes, there will be some sort of "universal health care" proposal. But the Bush administration has already given America a socialized financial system, so how can Republicans complain about socialized medicine?

Obama might try to resurrect the "Fairness Doctrine." Some suggest that Obama might try to rid the prohibition of homosexuals serving in the armed forces, but I doubt that he will take on this one. The political net gain would not be worth the potential fallout.

Although he might want to, I doubt that Obama will actively promote additional gun control (Democrats always lose when this happens). He may push for a ban on "high capacity" magazines that hold over ten rounds, as Bill Clinton did. If Obama does not go after guns directly, we can expect some sort of attack on ammunition (which is already happening) that will drive up the cost of ammo even more. Of course, some sort of gun confiscation or martial law could materialize in the wake of another "terrorist" attack. But a McCain administration would act no differently, so, again, the net result is zero change. Remember, it was Republican George W. Bush who expunged Posse Comitatus and deployed 20,000 army troops on U.S. soil to be used for domestic law enforcement. If Obama really wanted to bring about change, he would reverse Bush's draconian decisions, would he not? Don't hold your breath.

We can also expect more harassment of gun owners and lawful gun dealers by the BATFE. But this is no change at all. The current leadership at BATFE is already about as hostile to gun owners and gun dealers as it can possibly be. An Obama BATFE will be no worse. But neither will it be any better. Net result: no change.

So, what will be the overall change to the direction of America? Answer: there will be no change to the overall direction of the country. There will be no change to the welfare state. There will be little change to the warfare state. No change to NATO, except to expand it. Very little change, if any, to foreign policy. No change to America's open sieves, otherwise called national borders. And there will be absolutely no change to the burgeoning New World Order that began in earnest under both Bushes and Bill Clinton.

The NAFTA superhighway will have the support of the Obama administration. The North American Community will proceed unimpeded by the Obama White House. In all likelihood, the Amero (a common currency with Canada and Mexico) will materialize during Obama's first term. But this would all have happened had John McCain been elected. No change here.

One reason why it is so easy to predict a business-as-usual Obama Presidency is the people that Obama has surrounded himself with. Former New York Federal Reserve chairman Timothy Geithner* for Secretary of the Treasury; former Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers* for National Economic Council director; Bush's Defense Secretary Robert Gates* will keep his job; Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel for Obama's Chief of Staff; Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State; Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano* for Secretary of Homeland Security; former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle* to head the Health and Human Services Department; former Assistant Attorney General Eric Holder to be Attorney General; New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson* as Secretary of Commerce; Susan Rice* for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Paul Volcker* for the Economic Recovery Advisory Board; James Steinberg* as Deputy Secretary of State; Mona Sutphen* for Deputy White House Chief of Staff, and Louis Caldera* for Director of the White House Military Office.

Does anyone see "change" with the above names? Every one of them is a longtime political insider. And at least eleven of them (those with an asterisk [*] behind their names, above) are members of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). In fact, six out of the eleven cabinet-level positions in the Obama administration are CFR members.

The CFR has dominated both Democrat and Republican Presidential administrations for decades. Presidents such as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton have all been members of the CFR. Vice Presidents such as Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, and Dick Cheney have been CFR members. And over the last several decades, practically every secretary of defense, secretary of the treasury, and most CIA directors have been CFR members. And let's not forget that this year's Republican Presidential nominee, John McCain, is a CFR member.

Do you now see why--no matter who is elected President of the United States--nothing changes? Republican or Democrat, it does not matter: the CFR and their collaborators remain in power. And as Sonny and Cher used to sing, "The Beat Goes On."

There will be no real change in Washington, D.C., until the CFR and their elitist cronies are thoroughly and universally removed from power. And the only way this will happen is if we elect an Independent President of the United States (someone who truly understands the New World Order and is dedicated to defeating it), because the two major parties will never allow someone opposed to the CFR to become their nominee. The only Republican candidate for President in 2008 who demonstrated those credentials was Dr. Ron Paul. And to a lesser degree, the only Democrat who even seemed to vaguely understand this was Dennis Kucinich. Notice that both men were thoroughly repudiated by their respective parties' leadership and all but totally ignored by the national news media. (The CFR and their surrogates also control the national news media. What a coincidence!)

So, while the occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue may have changed, there will be no real change to the direction of these United States. Count on it!

*This is the final call for FREEDOM DOCUMENTS. Orders must be received by Wednesday, December 10.

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