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When you purchase an item from the Friends Shop, not only are you taking home a quality gift, you are helping with a great cause. Proceeds from each item purchased benefits the Friends of the Greenville County Library System, a non-profit organization whose purpose is to support the library system by providing financial assistance. The Friends help fund year-round programs, like the Family Fridays series, as well as special activities and the publication of Access, the library's bimonthly newsletter. 

The Friends Shop at the Hughes Main Library has regular operating hours of 10:00a-4:00p Monday-Saturday. Special holiday hours include Sunday afternoons from 2:30p-5:00p (now until December 21).  For more information about the Friends Shop, call 242-5000 x3004 or x2286. Come take advantage of great book and gift selections while helping an important cause!

Via: The Greenville County Library System 

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The Pew Internet Project recently released a data memo on Adults and
Video Games.  Among the main findings:

More than half - 53% - of all American adults play video games of some
kind, whether on a computer, on a gaming console, on a cell phone or
other handheld device, on a portable gaming device, or online

Age is the biggest demographic factor in game play by adults. Younger
adults are significantly more likely than any other game group to play
games, and as age increases game play decreases. Independent of all
other factors, younger adults are still more likely to play games.

Among older adults 65+ who play video games, nearly a third play games
everyday, a significantly larger percentage than all younger players, of
whom about 20% play everyday.

Age is also a factor in determining an individual's preferred
game-playing device. Gaming consoles are the most popular for young
adults: 75% of 18-29 year old gamers play on consoles, compared with 68%
who use computers, the second most popular device for this age group.

Out of all the gaming devices, computers are the most popular among the
total adult gaming population, with 73% of adult gamers using computers
to play games, compared with 53% console users, 35% who using cell
phones, and 25% using portable gaming devices.

Click here to download:

PIP_Adult_gaming_memo.pdf (115 KB)

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I have been whitelisted to use Google Friend Connect. Anyone doing anything cool with it? http://www.google.com/friendconnect/ ? I originally signed up as I wanted to see if it might be a way to add social network features to the GSATC website. I still have an interest in that, but haven't figured out if it is suitable for that purpose. My investigation continues, but I'd love to hear from others who are exploring the service.

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Gas is $1.43 at the Walmart, a place you couldn't buy gas for any price just a month ago. Can someone go over that supply and demand explanation again?
 
-- Phil Yanov via BlackBerry
http://www.philyanov.com

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This is just one photo in an incredibly funny collection of Total frickin' awesomeness from Olan Mills, Sears and other fine portrait studios. The captions are killer. I promise that that this will be the funniest thing you see all day, unless, of course, one of your 1970's family portraits happens to be included in the collection. Thanks to Josephine.

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Log for Life.  Phil Yanov, founder of the GSA Technology Council and president of ThinkHammer, talks with Peter Waldschmidt, the founder and CEO of Gnoso about Log for Life, an online diabetes log book that allows you to log more information with less effort, from any location. Gnoso is a Greenville, SC based software development company.

Listen at noon on WEPR 90.1 FM in Upstate SC, or stream live on the web.

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