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Melody Thornton
Melody Thornton (born September 28, 1984) is an American vocalist, dancer, and model. She rose to stardom as a member of the successful pop group the Pussycat Dolls. The youngest member of the group, Thornton assumed the second most prominent vocal role, after lead vocalist Nicole Scherzinger, and was distinguished for her melismatic vocal runs. As of 2010, Thornton has departed from the group to focus on her solo career. Thornton confirmed the title of her debut album will be Hit The Ground Running to be released sometime in 2012. Thornton's first mixtape, P.O.Y.B.L was released March 15, 2012. Thornton graduated from Camelback High School in Phoenix, Arizona in 2003. She is of Mexican descent from her mother Elia, and her father Theolph Thornton of African American descent. Thornton has an older sister named Nichole Thornton. Her talent was first discovered at a Papago Elementary School talent show when she sang Mariah Carey's remake of Badfinger's "Without You". In 2003, soprano vocalist Thornton was recruited in the Pussycat Dolls order to add vocal strength to the group. She saw the Pussycat Dolls on MTV Diaries featuring Christina Aguilera and heard they were auditioning for  ( Wikipedia article )
Personal facts
- Known as
- Thornton, Melody
- Date of birth
- 1984-09-28
- Place of birth
- Phoenix
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Model, Singer, Dancer, Songwriter, Singer-songwriter, Celebrity

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NBA: In year's past, teams returned from the All Star Break and played more unders. That hasn't been happending recently and last nights happy action fun time over fest occurred......more of that coming?
Free Play: 776 ILL Min 1st half UNDER 60.5.
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I actually like this whole game under any thoughts captain?
Thanks for the free play. BOL!!!
An Under play from Mr Fezzik. I love it. I am looking at the under fir the whole game here. Illinois road games have averaged just 120 ppg and the under is 20-6 in their last 26 road games, while the Udner is 8-3 the last 11 between these teams. Last year they met twice and just 110 and 100 points. I can see this one played in the 50's at best. BOL tonight Steve.
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I DID bet Min UNDER 130 also! VEry solid play.
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These first half plays are awesome, but my local doesent take them. Any full game plays Fez for us old school guys? Great content either way. I love your stuff
Ask your local to put up a 1st half......most of these guys will do so on a TV game......
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Indie Games Tagged with "linux"
Jun 2012
Winter Wolves serves up a huge visual novel adventure RPG with deep tactical combat. As a slave to the Amazon empire, you're sent out with your princess, Loren, in search of a missing queen. In short order, you discover Loren's problems are only a tiny symptom of a greater evil plaguing the world... but will she be able to overcome her own shallow world view and limited life experience to become the hero everyone needs her to be? And does she even want to?
May 2012
It starts with a letter from an old friend inviting you to dinner. How can something so simple, so innocent, throw you into a dark world of murder, mystery, and the supernatural? Set in London in 1603, this enormous Lovecraftian interactive fiction adventure will challenge and immerse you in a world that feels real and dangerous. Available as a free download or as an enhanced edition for Kindle devices and Nook tablets, this 12 to 15 hour adventure is a challenge, but one well worth undertaking.
May 2012
Recluse is a short, cute, and creative metroidvania-style platform adventure game from chambers that tied for eighth place in the most recent Ludum Dare compo. Centered around the "tiny world" theme, you play a snail who has never left its shell and is now ready to emerge into the world. While much of the gameplay is standard platform fare, there is a unique mechanic that makes Recluse worth experiencing: screen shoving!
May 2012
Short but striking, Cyanide Tea's second free indie visual novel tells the story of two people who have seemingly little else in common beyond the elevator they both take to work each day. David is a former police office who can't let go of his past, and Elena is a bright young girl who just happens to share the elevator with him daily. Will David be able to open up to her? And should he?
May 2012
Lexcavator is a wonderfully chirpy word-based puzzle game by Adam Parrish that combines elements of Dig Dug with spelling games like Bookworm. Your goal is to bash away at the letter tiles by spelling out words, clearing the way so the protagonist can hop further down the level. It requires a lot of careful thinking to prevent capturing yourself in a corner, so enter only if your vocabulary and tactical skills are up for a challenge!
Apr 2012
Time to get your Sokoban-like on with Tom 7's puzzle game, Escape. The built-in tutorial levels start you off with a good challenge, but it's the thousands of user-made levels (and a great sorting system for them) that will heap on the entertainment and have you playing for hours. Try your hand at creating a level of your own to share with the public to see if they can succeed to escape.
Apr 2012
Based a decade-plus old arcade game called XKobo by Akira Higuchi, KoboDeluxe is an updated and enhanced version of the original arcade shooter, porting the concept and gameplay over to modern platforms while introducing better animations, high resolution visuals, additional control options, a difficulty selector, and more. Whether you want a nostalgic arcade fix or are looking for a sturdy action challenge, KoboDeluxe will absolutely satisfy your craving.
Apr 2012
Life for Lily, like any other visual novel heroine, is fairly typical. She feels like she's adrift after college and is only working at her uncle's restaurant for the money. But is there more to the eclectic staff than anyone might suspect? A free game made in just a month by Cyanide Tea, packed with romance, restaurant hi-jinks, and more than a few surprises you may not see coming.
Apr 2012
When a deadly parasite infestation begins sweeping through a massive tree, crippling it and gradually killing off its inhabitants, heroes are found in the most unlikely of places. Five tiny friends band together to save one last seed and find the source of the monstrous parasites in this surreal point-and-click adventure from Amanita Design that is by turns stunning, otherworldly, engrossing, and even a little frightening.
Mar 2012
Games Featured:Conspiracy theory time! The order the following games are listed in along with the general theme of their content will, when viewed as a string of text on a single page from afar, show an outline of an Egyptian hieroglyph hidden in the chamber below the Sphinx. At least, that's what we're telling people... Shh!
- • Yeti Hunter
- • On the Shoulders of Ancestors
- • Hubris
Mar 2012
What happens when you give Mario a portal gun? A mish-mash of two extraordinarily recognizable games — Super Mario Bros. and Portal — with a whole lot of extras. Mari0 puts you in control of our favorite pixellated plumber as he goes on his famous adventure from the mid-1980s, only this time, he's got the power of portals on his side!
Mar 2012
Games Featured:It's blasts from the past(s) time! We dug up several games previously featured on Weekend Download to see how they've fared over the last few years. Some of them have vanished (oops), some of them have stayed the same, and some of them have grown into bigger, better projects! Take a look at some of the neater upgrades some of our classic games have gone through.
- • Zatikon
- • DoomRL
- • Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory
Feb 2012
Games Featured:I see you there, shadow. Following my every move. Writing a Weekend Download introduction as I do the same. Having cookies for breakfast just like I did. I've got my eye on you. And you've got your eye on me!
- • Para Para Paranoid
- • Cherry's Quest for Coffee
- • Me and My Shadow
Feb 2012
The Lost Vikings is a great game; one of the best puzzle platformers ever. But haven't you ever wished that it had more... zombies? Well good thing for you Gentleman Squid has come along and developed just that. In Three Dead Zed, you play as a zombie who has three forms, each with its own abilities. Your job is to jump, climb and attack your way to the end of the level to rescue some defenseless beings.
Feb 2012
After thousands of years, the Mugunghwa, sent into space to establish the first interstellar colony, has been found floating dead. You're sent after it to discover what happened to its crew with the help of two very different AIs, but the truth is vastly more complicated than you might think, and nowhere near black and white. In Christine Love's debut commercial visual novel release, take part in a captivating, clever, and emotional story that deals with love, politics, forgiveness... and hate.
Feb 2012
Games Featured:A little bit of looting, a little bit of inverting, and a whole lot of shooting in this edition of Weekend Download. In fact, if you tried to take Weekend Download through an airport security gate, you'd probably find yourself on the receiving in of some nasty stares and/or unusual search techniques.
- • Invert
- • Hack, Slash, Loot
- • Dungeon Chaos
Jan 2012
The Kingdom of Fredicus is a place that loves its heroes. Unfortunately, Reemus, exterminator extraordinaire and overshadowed brother to the local dragon slayer, is having trouble convincing that populace that he deserves a little undying adulation. Sure, later in life he'll have Several Journeys to prove his bravery against invading death slugs. Right now, though, it's early in his adventure gaming career, and even after his first minimal-property-damaging bug slaying, he's have trouble getting people listen to the glorifying ballads written by his faithful bear companion, Liam. So a-questing he goes, in search of glory, gratitude, and, most importantly, a soft bed. It's The Ballads of Reemus: When the Bed Bites, the first premium downloadable adventure game in the popular series, produced by the newly minted Click Shake Games! And while the anticipation may have driven us all a little buggy, it was totally worth it.
Jan 2012
It's rough getting thrown in the Pit. Mainly because everyone there has the Plague, and nobody ever comes out... at least, not until you. Instead of dying, you, a mild castle librarian, unlock a hidden power within yourself that lets you and your friends battle monsters on another plane... and grants you the chance to save the world. A fantastic and engaging indie game from Level Up Labs that blends strategy, tower defense, fantasy, comedy, and even RPG elements for one wildly addictive game.
Jan 2012
The time has come for adventure!... well, a little one, anyway! This simplified roguelike from Ido Yeheili offers three different heroes ready to delve into a dangerous dungeon in search of an evil Minotaur what needs slayin'. While definitely not quite as complex as other titles in the genre, Cardinal Quest offers an ease of use and engaging gameplay that's hard to beat and harder to put down.
Jan 2012
Rarely are there arcade shooters as epic, gorgeous, playable, and steeped in story as Jamestown. A release from Final Form, Jamestown combines stunning pixel art with a vertically-scrolling top-down shooter (shmup), all set in a 17th century colony on Mars where Spanish Conquistadors have teamed up with native Martians to keep the new settlers away. What you end up with is a superb arcade game that's easy for beginners to get into but still a challenge to master.
Dec 2011
Games Featured:How about some diversions for the last day of the year? Two games pulled from the recent Ludum Dare compo, both of which share some of the same basic ideas and gameplay directions but end up being very different from each other, Then, just to make sure you're paying attention, a totally different game! Wow!
- • Minicraft
- • Incomitat
- • Void
Dec 2011
Natalie's got big problems. Or at least, to her they're big. With her parents threatening to cut her off unless she gets her priorities straight, the college student has no choice but to take a job over winter break in the sleepy little burg of Fairbrook. Will Natalie emerge at the end of 12 weeks just as aimless and self-absorbed as when she started? Or will the people she meets and the things she experiences drag her kicking and screaming into emotional maturity? A sweet and sentimental little visual novel simulation from Winter Wolves packed with charm and likable characters.
Dec 2011
Games Featured:Ready for a nugget of the strange and unusual? Three games carved from the walls of the Cave of Indie Coolness, built with non-standard ideas and experimental concepts in mind. No copy/paste genre cloning, more like the genres wish they could copy/paste these games!
- • Lost and Found
- • Hyperbolic Rogue
- • Six
Nov 2011
Just over two years ago from this day, a relatively unknown indie programmer called Notch posted about a work-in-progress version of a sandbox building game on the TIGSource forums. It was called Minecraft, and at the time, people thought it was really very cool. Fast forward to the present and Minecraft has sold over four million copies, been through extended alpha and beta phases, spawned the Mojang indie studio, and gained so much popularity, the launch of its official version took place at a Las Vegas convention dubbed MineCon. That's an impressive feat for any game, let alone one started by a single person. But now, Minecraft is officially out. No more beta, no more alpha, it's here. Time to lose yourself in a voxel world all over again!
Nov 2011
Games Featured:We've got some serious subject matter on the plate for this edition of Weekend Download. Grief, loss, religion, philosophy, government conspiracies, and probably a whole lot more hiding beneath the surface! Only venture forth if you've got a mind ready to do some serious digesting...
- • Wither
- • The Thirteenth Year
- • The Caldwell Incident
Oct 2011
Games Featured:It's adventure and excitement! Dragons and bears! Enchanters and rolling boulders! Everything you could possibly dream of from a collection of free games presented to enliven your weekend!
- • Arden's Vale
- • Start Fight Run
- • Lao's Quest
Oct 2011
Mining. Building. Fighting. Constructing. In the real world, all of these things are rough, painful sorts of jobs that most people aren't very interested in doing. In the gaming world, they're the Holy Grail of entertainment. Enter King Arthur's Gold, a multiplayer (with some single player, too) construction and combat game similar to Terraria, Minecraft, and hempuli's miniature masterpiece Masjin. Teamwork is the central focus of the game, and while some players will be busy mining and building, others will head out for direct combat with the enemy. How much more exciting could it get?!
Oct 2011
Games Featured:Somehow, due to some strange coincidences no doubt brought upon by NASA's Dawn spacecraft discovering a massive mountain on the asteroid Vesta, this edition of Weekend Download features three games that pretty much cover the spectrum of gaming preferences. Want action? Got it. Puzzles? Got it! An engrossing RPG? Got it. No dress-up games, though, for which you have our sincerest apologies...
- • Ascii Sector
- • Hanano Puzzle
- • Unepic
Sep 2011
Blocks That Matter, an indie game from Swing Swing Submarine, likes to do things a little bit differently. It likes to break the rules, mix up genres, tear down that fourth wall, and borrow the best from some of the most popular games ever released and turn it into something new. Blocks That Matter is part Tetris, part Minecraft, part Dig Dug, part platformer all wrapped into one, with a cute main character leading the whole thing up that serves as the perfect gateway to a game you won't be able to get enough of.
Sep 2011
Games Featured:More Ludum Dare games, anyone? The 48-hour game creation-a-thon has ended yet another competition, inspiring developers from around the world to create almost 600 new games, all centered around the theme of "escape"! The voting has ended, the scores have been tallied, and we've picked some of our favorite downloadable titles to share with you!
- • epacse
- • To Hell and Back
- • Stratus
Jul 2011
Your life takes a drastic change when you discover that you're no ordinary teenage girl; you're a witch, and there's a place at the secretive Iris Academy waiting for you! Will you bury your nose in your schoolbooks and become the next great magical prodigy? Develop friendships (and rivalries) to last a lifetime? Or maybe you'll find... someone special? This latest visual novel RPG simulation from Hanako Games and Spiky Caterpillar is not only tremendously addictive and engrossing, it's packed full of charm, replay value, and a magic all its own.
Jul 2011
Games Featured:3D games? 2D games? Can't we all just be games and get along and have happy times together? What? Nobody's debating this and there's no contention in the gaming community over the game types? Then, why am I still writing interrogative sentences?!
- • Beret
- • One and Light
- • Mythology
Jun 2011
Robots, man. They're the worst. Always pulling you out of your workplace and forcing you to battle them in a series of psychedelic levels, blowing you up, killing your cows. It's ridiculous. Luckily, we have Deepak, representing the everyman in the daily struggle against robo-baddies. Deepak Fights Robots, from Run-Man: Race Around the World creator Tom Sennett, is loaded with mind-bending levels, quick arcade action, more colors than a rainbow drowning in a crayon factory.
Jun 2011
You like Dino Run SE, right? And Nanotube? Well, imagine a game that's nothing like either of those games but co-created by the makers of each. Imagining that? Now stop and check out Super Space Rubbish, a game that satisfies the wildest fantasies you've had since starting this review, and does so with a fantastic retro style. Super Space Rubbish looks a lot like the classic Asteroids game on the surface, but really it's a mining/upgrading sort of experience where you customize your ship using materials extracted from asteroids smashed with your turret.
Jun 2011
Games Featured:Just because a game isn't technically finished doesn't mean you can't play it. Or that it isn't fun! This edition of Weekend Download features two games that are still works in progress. They may have some rough edges, dusty corners, and missing bits and pieces here and there, but you can still experience the core of what is shaping up to be a great game. And just think: when the games are officially released, you'll feel all cool and stuff because you already knew about it!
- • Nikki and the Robots
- • Vexed Hedgehogs
- • The Adventures of Box Guy
May 2011
Games Featured:What's that? You want games to play? Games that let you climb around in caves or smash into pixel orc dudes? Well... we'll have to think about it. Ok, we thought about it, and we decided we'll think about it some more. In the meantime, play some games where you can climb around in caves and smash into pixel orc dudes.
- • OpenClonk
- • Intense Staring Simulator
- • Pilot Crash Course
Apr 2011
As the name would suggest, Digital: A Love Story by Don't Take it Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story author Christine Love, is a downloadable romance/mystery set against the backdrop of 1980s online technology. Part interactive fiction, part Uplink-style hacker game, and part nostalgic pastiche of a time of low-res graphics and crackling dial-ups that many current gamers never got to experience (which, for the record, this includes me, and, presumably, the author herself!). Digital: A Love Story offers a short, sweet and occasionally heart-wrenching trip back in time.
Apr 2011
John's got problems of his own, but those will have to wait while he tackles his job as a new 11th grade English Literature teacher at a school conducting a very unusual experiment. In this smart visual novel, you'll watch the lives of your students unfold through personal and private conversations you're not meant to see, and have to decide how to help them when they come to you for advice. A surprisingly fun, funny, and touching story that deals with everything from sex and sexuality to self-confidence, love, and, of course, privacy.
Apr 2011
Games Featured:Games. Fresh games. Newly minted from game presses built before the turn of the century. Which, come to think of it, wasn't that long ago, was it? But it sounds like it's ancient. Classic. Time-tested. You keep thinking that while you play the gems below!
- • 1916 - The War You Never Knew
- • Ranger
- • Tottenham
Apr 2011
Don't be replaced by a robot! Just learn to program robots! Then send them on tasks involving crates, bombs, explosions and junk food in this free logic/programming puzzle game. Pragmatica is a smart game in the vein of SpaceChem and The Codex of Alchemical Engineering.
Mar 2011
The first time I saw my velociraptor avatar trying desperately to outrun the scary wall of doom, I was completely sold. Three years have passed since the release of that Pixeljam racing platformer, and I find myself returning to its charms again and again. However, with time comes change, modification, upgrading, evolution. So is the potent rationale for the release of Dino Run: SE... And from what I've seen so far, it won't be going extinct from my hard drive any time soon.
Feb 2011
Atom Zombie Smasher is a game about zombies. It is not, however, your typical game about zombies. Where other games about zombies might have you playing as the heroic survivor who somehow escaped infection via genetic anomaly or dumb luck, Blendo Games' latest release does not. Instead, this ridiculously innovative tower defense-like real-time strategy game will put you in the role of faceless commander charged with the evacuation of his fellow citizens. This time, you get to be the one who orders the orbital nukes!
Feb 2011
Following in the tradition of the classic sandbox games (Sand Sand Sand and Powder Game), The Powder Toy by HardWIRED is a small download which stretches the boundaries of what is possible with a few simple elements. In fact, you can do almost anything with it, the only limit is your imagination.
Jan 2011
The creator of The Codex of Alchemical Engineering and Bureau of Steam Engineering (not to mention the grandaddy of Minecraft, Infiniminer) is back with a full-fledged indie game ready to provide a serious logic puzzle challenge. SpaceChem is anything but simple, anything but easy, and one of the most satisfying puzzle games released. If you can solve its challenges, that is. SpaceChem is a game you'll spend a few minutes learning but weeks trying to master, and its 50+ levels are more than enough to strain your poor brain matter more than it's been strained in quite some time.
Dec 2010
Games Featured:Roguelikes seem to be a lost love amongst most modern gamers. "Give me simplicity!" they cry, "Give me pretty pictures!", "Let me play without reading a manual or memorizing commands!". Well, while they sit in the corner and play FarmVille, we'll settle down with our deliciously intriguing dungeon crawling RPGs of yore. Even though the glory days of Nethack are gone, the roguelike is alive and very well today, and there are a number of great projects that aim to bridge the gap between fans and non-fans so that everyone can enjoy the deep satisfaction of exploring the unknown.
- • Brogue
- • Smart Kobold
- • LEDom
Dec 2010
It's bundle time again! Following the massive success of the original Humble Indie Bundle as well as The Indie Love Bundle(s), The Humble Indie Bundle #2 comes along with five great indie games, each available for Mac, Windows and Linux, with no DRM and a price tag of whatever you want to pay. Yay!
Dec 2010
Games Featured:Helpful tip for humans: if you ever find yourself in inclement weather, such as the rare steel storm that only comes out at night, seek shelter in the nearest building. If you can, find the Temple of Leemeealeaun, as it offers the best protection from these dangerous conditions.
- • Steel Storm
- • They Come out at Night
- • Rocky Memphis and the Temple of Ophuxoff
Dec 2010
Mark your calendars and set your bookmarks, Mission in Snowdriftland is back to entertain us once again with its joy-inducing classic-style platforming gameplay set against the backdrop of a cheerful holiday advent calendar. Beginning today and continuing right up through Christmas Eve, a new level will be unlocked to play each day as we march closer to that most joyous of holidays filled with presents, friends and family gatherings.
Nov 2010
Games Featured:Time for stuff! With the notable exception of Great Migrations, the games in this edition of Weekend Download seem to be dominated by white on black landscapes. Old school throwback or conscious atmospheric design choice? To that question I answer: yes!
- • Light Arrow
- • A House in California
- • Great Migrations
Oct 2010
Games Featured:Hey, you, weekend gamer. You want I should share games with you? You want they should be uh, fun? Good. Because I have games that are fun. RPG fun. Puzzle fun. Lasers fun. Lantern fun. What? You think lanterns are no fun? You think "flashlight.app" is more fun? Hmm. You need to play with lanterns more often, I think...
- • Sp.A.I.
- • Dear Agent
- • Eternal Dusk
- • Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Oct 2010
What Makes You Tick: A Stitch in Time is a handsome, evocative adventure game from Lassie Games. It features an excellent presentation, puzzles that are solid and never illogical, and a rich storyline. I continue to be entranced by the world of Ravenhallow and vicinity. One novel feature of A Stitch in Time is the ability to play every scene in both day and night. The differences between Ravenhallow in the day and nighttime are not only crucial to solving certain puzzles, but give you nearly twice as much game to explore. Ravenhallow becomes an entirely different world at night.
Oct 2010
And Yet It Moves, the simple but marvelous indie release from Broken Rules, will reignite your love for video games. That, or it will cause you to shake with anger as you replay the same part of the game for the tenth time. It might even do both! The physics-centric platform adventure employs the familiar "world tilting" mechanic that allows you to rotate the entire game environment in 90 degree increments. And Yet It Moves then proceeds to do crazy and wonderful things with this, allowing you to explore a universe as strange as it is satisfying.
Oct 2010
Games Featured:We've got three very special games for you this weekend! Special because they're all retro in style, but also special because they're really good and can be played over and over and over again and still provide loads of fun.
- • Gobber Assault
- • Zymo
- • Pheon
Sep 2010
Two years after your victory in the first game, Eschalon Book II finds you living a quiet life... perhaps too quiet, since your skills are beginning to erode, and you find yourself forgetting important details, but troubled by strange dreams. When you awake to find a note on your doorstep from a stranger who claims to know who you really are, you find that the adventure has only just begun in this turn-based isometric RPG featuring open world gameplay.
Sep 2010
Games Featured:Another Ludum Dare, another bunch of cool experimental games to play! This competition's theme was "enemies as weapons", and each entry did something slightly different with the concept.
- • Fail-Deadly
- • Unarmed and Dangerous
- • The Lair of Fungal Wonder
- • Isolation
Sep 2010
Daniel wakes up on the floor of an ancient castle, unable to remember anything but his name... unfortunate for him since his past might be out to get them. Frictional Games delivers one of the most tense and frightening horror titles in a long time, using superb atmosphere and physics controls to plunge you into a story you won't soon forget... assuming you survive.
Jul 2010
The platform adventure will never die. And that's a good thing! Frogatto & Friends injects a little more life into the classic genre, placing great-looking pixel art and a satisfying action/exploration game in front of your eyes for the low low price of free!
Jul 2010
REVENGE. That's the only thing on sixteen-year-old Merui's mind when a valuable item is stolen from her... inside a popular online game, that is. The thief, Alistair, offers her a deal; if she can figure out his identity before a month is up, he'll return the stolen item. Of course, that's easier said than done when Merui's schoolwork and personal life keep getting in the way of this polished, charming visual novel from developers Sake Visual.
Jun 2010
There's something hidden in a mine deep beneath the ice in remote Greenland. Phillip follows a map to the location despite a letter from his missing father begging him to burn the documents he discovers. Phillip wants to find out what obsession could have taken his father from his family all those years ago. Instead, he may find more than he could ever be prepared for in Frictional Games' survival horror series about dark and secrets. What you can't see can hurt you.
Jun 2010
Games Featured:Multiple endings HURRAH! Different outcomes to the stories you are playing are nothing new, but it isn't often that the games are short and entertaining enough to encourage you to gather them all. It's interesting to play through several times just to see how your actions affect the game world. Two of this week's games feature different endings, and you'll definitely want to experience some of these alternate conclusions!
- • Blind
- • Hydorah
- • The Life of a Pacifist is often Fraught with Conflict
May 2010
Five amazing, cross-platform indie games, one gorgeous sale. The Humble Indie Bundle lets you pick up World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru and Penumbra: Overture for one magically low price of whatever you want to pay. All titles are DRM-free and run on Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems.
May 2010
Have you ever wanted to tell a story about a kitten? Or an alien? Or a mummy, or a genius, or a demon, or a block of cheese, or a little girl with the magical ability to talk to soap? Well, a little bit of time and effort with Sleep is Death will let you do just that, all in the form of a playable experience for you and a friend.
Mar 2010
Games Featured:This weekend we have an enormously interesting game to share: Digital: A Love Story. The title encapsulates the experience quite well, as it's a game that's both about 20 year old technology and love.
- • Jump, Copy, Paste
- • Digital: A Love Story
- • Ruined
Mar 2010
Games Featured:It's a roguelike-like Weekend Download! Two of our games this weekend snuggle up to the famously non-casual sub-genre without turning up the complexity. Same RPG flavor, one tenth the time commitment! Quaffing potions should be a standard roguelike feature, though...
- • Fatherhood
- • Fishface
- • Desktop Dungeons
Mar 2010
Games Featured:Why spend all of your time toiling away on one game when you can make a ton of them? The 529-in-1 Klik & Play Pirate Kart II: Kart Harder is all about that, and the games featured below are from this recent event. 102 people contributed a total of 529 games over the weekend, each made in under two hours. It's quantity over quality, so don't expect the next Sprout, but do expect a lot of wacky ideas, one-trick games, and maybe even a few things that, once seen, can never be unseen. Check out a random selection of the 529 games, and don't be afraid to download and play many more!
- • Wolf, Goat, and Cabbage
- • Animal Control
- • Six-Chamber Champion
- • Watch Ducks
Feb 2010
Galcon Fusion is the latest in the growing line of casual strategy games from Phil Hassey. Following Galcon Classic, the original desktop version of the series, and borrowing a ton of tricks from the iPhone incarnations Galcon and Galcon Labs, Fusion pits you against the rest of the galaxy as you fight for dominance. Featuring high-definition visuals, loads of interesting modes of play, and several fun bells and whistles, Galcon Fusion is a respectable successor in the Galcon line and a captivating casual Risk-like strategy game.
Jan 2010
Terry Cavanagh's ambitious and charming little game of platformer-esque exploration contains a lot of fun, but may demand too much from your reflexes for some players. Seek out your missing crew across a sprawling map packed with secrets, symbolism, and a whole lot of challenge that will put all your skills to the test. Buckle up, Captain.
Jan 2010
Games Featured:It's Ludum Dare time again! Ludum Dare 16 has come and gone, leaving with us dozens upon dozens of unique, quickly-crafted games to enjoy. The latest competition's theme was "exploration", and here are a few of the top games as voted by the LD community!
- • Apocalypse Adventure
- • Penguinagain
- • Scavenger
- • Cat Planet
Dec 2009
Games Featured:Ever wonder what happens to the games we feature on Weekend Download? Think the respective developers just take a nap and start on something new? Oh ho HO! You would be wrong! Two of this week's games are updates of titles we featured in the past, proving once and for all (insert significant philosophical observation here).
- • GunFu Deadlands
- • !
- • Sumotori Dreams
- • Magic Planet Snack
- • Dawn's Light: A Christmas Tale
Nov 2009
Once upon a time, an exceptional game designer decided to put his hands to making a 'cool' game. It worked. The result was Excitebike, a fast-paced and challenging motorbike racing game. Released this year is the strikingly similar debut game from Turborilla, the aptly titled Mad Skills Motocross. While there are obvious differences between the latter and former games, the general idea of "move right using a motorbike while making jumps and going fast" is here, and that's what we like to see.
Oct 2009
From Amanita Design, creator of the famously brilliant Samorost series, comes Machinarium, a game so well-conceived and implemented it can confidently launch as one of the best point-and-click adventures of all time. Machinarium is nothing short of a playable piece of art. Similar to Samorost in style and gameplay, you play a lone robot thrown out of the city working his way through desolate mechanical slums. Solve puzzles, find and combine items, and encounter loads of creative characters in your quest. Machinarium is one of those rare games you can't praise enough.
Oct 2009
Games Featured:Why do bees have sticky hair? Because they use honey combs. Why do Weekend Downloads have a bunch of games? Because spending your weekend reading about and subsequently sorting pieces of lint isn't nearly as fun.
- • Glumbuster
- • Jed
- • Awakener
Sep 2009
Games Featured:Three truly heavy-hitting games on this edition of Weekend Download, two of them weighing in as unofficial sequels to commercially released games. Don't let that keep you from trying Journey to the Center of the Earth, however, as it packs even more punch than the name brands!
- • Journey to the Center of the Earth
- • ASCIIpOrtal
- • GIana's Return
Aug 2009
Games Featured:Remakes, revivals, and retro-styled games are the stars of this edition of Weekend Download. We've got that tasty old-school gameplay philosophy, primitive pixel graphics, and a penchant for minimalism all wrapped into one.
- • Minima Bomber
- • Tasty Static
- • The Thing with 40 Eyes Girl
- • Tango Strike
Jul 2009
Games Featured:The Experimental Gameplay Project has returned! Originally started by Kyle Gabler and Kyle Gray, the site encourages rapid prototyping of new gameplay concepts in a short period of time. World of Goo began as an experimental game called Tower of Goo, so you can see how much creative potential an idea like this has.
- • Bunny Blaster
- • Frobot
- • Proto Shooter
- • Egg Worm Generator
Jun 2009
Games Featured:It's the weekend!!! That means you have a little extra time on your hands. That means I get to take away some of that time with a handful of free games. That means you get to have fun on your weekend. Don't forget to mow the lawn, though.
- • Space Exploration: Serpens Sector
- • Bitfortress
- • Tombed
Apr 2009
Games Featured:This edition of Weekend Download is dedicated to cells. No, not the kind you find in prison, the kind you find right here, inside your body. The squishy little things surrounded by a lipid bilayer membrane. How about a hand for cells? All 100 trillion of them!
- • The Mushroom Engine
- • Madhouse
- • Gate 88
- • Pandaland
Apr 2009
Games Featured:This week, word skills and paint skills will go head to head in a dazzling array of visual and wordy deliciousness. In the left corner we have the book smarts, with knowledge of words and quick thinking. In the other corner, painting, featuring brushes, stamps and a burning desire to see a creative vision realized. It's the author vs. the auteur in this weeks... Weekend Download.
- • Cuba Letra
- • Tux Paint
Mar 2009
Games Featured:In platform games, its standard fare to jump over or on top of your enemies. Occasionally you are granted a weapon with the rather limited range of directly in front of you. Fortunately, every now and then, an often overlooked method of weaponry is employed: control the hero with your left hand on the keys, while simultaneously aiming anywhere on screen with the mouse, providing 360° of free-firing joyous joy.
- • Abuse
- • Easter Avenger
Mar 2009
Games Featured:A lot of games featured on JIG are intensive. They require Flash 10, or Unity or some sort of graphics card capable of displaying something more than monochrome. However, sometimes gamers just don'thave the latest hardware requirements to play the latest whiz-bang flavour of the month. So without further ado, here are a selection of games developed for the trusty old DOS system.
- • Jetpack
- • God of Thunder
- • UrthWurm
- • Revenge of Froggie
- • Primrose
Feb 2009
Games Featured:Four simple but stunning games this week, ranging from strikingly bare-bones to the artistically slanted. Classic Night breathes a rare sense of wonder into a normally stale genre, while Where doesn't pull any tricks and simply drops you in a gorgeously-drawn maze.
- • Jumpman
- • Kakuro Nichiyou
- • Where
- • Classic Night
Feb 2009
Games Featured:If you were looking for the latest edition of Weekend Download, I'm sorry to inform you it's been in a terrible accident involving scissors, a blowtorch, and those annoying little pudding cups in the aluminum tins that, if you snap off the "easy open" tab, suddenly become an impenetrable fortress of pudding protection.
- • MacHeist 3
- • Afterlife: Rickard's Quest
Jan 2009
Games Featured:Two tiny games and one behemoth in this edition of Weekend Download. Aquarium and Little Ghost Joe are both rather cutesy and simple, whereas Nexuiz is gritty, serious, and all shooty with guns and stuff. Variety's neat, innit?
- • Aquarium
- • Little Ghost Joe
- • Nexuiz
- • Harvest: Massive Encounter
Jan 2009
Games Featured:If you ask me (trust me, you did... and if you didn't, you know you wanted to), the selection of games on this edition of Weekend Download are some of the most well-rounded and fulfilling titles ever to grace a single article. We've got a pixel-perfect 2D platformer, a 3D spy game, an old favorite RTS title re-imagined in open source, and the classic mahjong puzzle game. Can I get a "YAY!" along with a few high fives?!!
- • Spelunky
- • Gravity Bone
- • Widelands
- • Ivory Mahjongg
Dec 2008
Games Featured:The recent TIGSource Commonplace Book Competition has ended, yielding heaps of creative, unusual, and slightly dark games. Entrants were challenged with using a line from H.P. Lovecraft's "Commonplace Book", a notebook of disjointed, cryptic ideas, and create a game around these snippets of text. Below are a few of the top picks as chosen by the TIGSource community.
- • Verge
- • From Primordial Egg
- • Eversion
- • Lost in Eldritch
- • Theatre of Cruelty
Dec 2008
Games Featured:His consequent newspaper exceeds orange juice after a patronized disclaimer. The vehicle concatenates soil. When can soil compose above an individual? A deserted outline ministers to soil past a rotten attribute. WEEKEND DOWNLOAD WOOOO!
- • A Tale of Two Kingdoms
- • The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge
- • AssaultCube
- • Hideous Sounds in the Dark
Dec 2008
Games Featured:Did you know that the original meaning of the word "weekend" referred to the time from noon Saturday to Monday morning? Did you also know the word "download" seems to have originated in 1980? AND, did you know I spent a little too much time reading about the etymology of these words?
- • Meritous
- • Marathon Trilogy
- • Verge
- • Cosmic Invaders
Nov 2008
Games Featured:Last week, on Weekend Download, I had the tiny problem of listening to the constant drone of a leaf blower somewhere in my neighborhood. This week it was back, with a vengeance, and it directly affected my downloadable game playing experiences. When I was playing Oxyd, all I could do was smash into walls. When I played IVAN, I couldn't kill a bat. I couldn't explore all of Elona because focusing was out of the question. And zombies in Rock Boshers took me out a few times too many because my mind was elsewhere. Maybe I should take a hint from the protagonist in Violet and start eliminating the distractions by any zany means available?
- • Last week
- • Enigma
- • Iter Vehemens ad Necem (IVAN)
- • Elona
- • Rock Boshers
Nov 2008
Games Featured:The following message was stolen from artbegotti: This episode of Weekend Download has been brought to you by Triangles. Triangles are three-sided shapes that have three corners with internal angles that add up to 180 degrees. Triangles come in several varieties, including right triangles, equilateral triangles, isosceles triangles, obtuse triangles, and more! Triangles are also well known for their structural stability in architectural design. So go out and try some triangles today! "Triangles... We're Not Square!"
- • Tile World
- • Red Spheres
- • Pirate Fishing
- • Run for It 2
Oct 2008
Games Featured:Some odd news to go along with your games: Recently the American Heart Association announced that the Bee Gees song "Stayin' Alive" provides the perfect beat to follow while performing chest compressions as part of CPR on a heart attack victim. While this will certainly help save a number of lives, I really don't want to see disco (or qiana shirts) make a comeback.
- • Garden of Coloured Lights
- • Treasure Hunter Man
- • Timerocketxby
- • Skullpogo
Oct 2008
Games Featured:Sometimes indie game developers really impress me with their rampant creativity. This week, for example, we have a surprisingly deep strategy game from Chronic Logic that looks like it was stolen from 1992, a fighting game starring rabbits, an unfairly tough platformer called Love, and a physics-based racing motocross racing game. When "Hey, I have a neat idea!" is the driving force behind a game, you know you're in for a good time.
- • X-Moto
- • Zatikon
- • Love
- • Lugaru
Sep 2008
Games Featured:The intro paragraph to this edition of Weekend Download was delayed in an unfortunate airport scheduling conflict. Lacking the teams of writers normally required to complete this task, we have instead substituted the introduction with a single character, printed here:@. We hope you enjoy it.
- • Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
- • Archaist
- • Solar Wolf
- • Guru Logic Champ remake
Aug 2008
Games Featured:Eels, phonic substitutions, time-traveling groundhogs, and a game that lets you beat up Kirby-like avatars that represent people from around the world. Let's all join hands and sing a song of — OH MY OMELETS THE EEL IS EATING ME!!!
- • Phun
- • Teeworlds
- • Choke on my Groundhog, YOU !@#$% ROBOTS
- • Avoid the Evil Space Eel
- • Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People
Aug 2008
Games Featured:You like it old-school? That's good, because on this edition of Weekend Download, we've got a healthy dose of retro-style gaming ready to throw you back a decade or two!
- • Pittoch
- • CryptRover
- • Big Building Boom Blues
- • Armand and the Foppish Hat
Jul 2008
Games Featured:Along with our usual smattering of games, this week we're featuring one of the games from the recent Toronto Independent Game Development Jam (TOJam), a three day gathering of game makers held every year to inspire creative ideas. Be sure to check out all of the TOJam entries for more experimental gaming goodness!
- • a game about bouncing
- • Atomic Worm
- • Boondog
- • G:plus
Jul 2008
Games Featured:Good day and welcome to Weekend Download! For your comfort and ease of existence, we promise that Weekend Download will never say it's going to call you after work and never do so. Weekend Download will also keep its promise and get you that extra cash when it does your taxes. Weekend Download is also low in calories, low fat, and high in FUN.
- • Frozen Depths
- • Hydro Hydra
- • Mondo Medicals
- • Mondo Agency
Jul 2008
Games Featured:A few short, experimental-type games this week, including one from prolific Game Maker designer cactus, a two color game where you are a wild boar, and a game where you control a dark sun to capture golden butterfly/angel-type things. And just to make sure you don't go mad with weirdness, there's a nice relaxing mahjong game to tame the inner beasts.
- • Tropico Jong: Butterfly Expedition
- • BlockOn!
- • INNO-vation 2007
- • Phyta
Jun 2008
Eschalon: Book 1, the debut title from Basilisk Games, will take you back to the nostalgic days of Ultima and Might and Magic. It's a turn-based, tile-designed RPG, a system that many fans of the genre are familiar with. Eschalon offers a rich, engaging and open-ended world to explore, with a similarly deep storyline. It's a modern-day tribute to the old CRPG's that fans grew up on, at a time when storytelling, adventuring and honing your character's skill took precedence over shiny graphics and cutting-edge mechanics.
Jun 2008
Games Featured:What do you get when you cross prehistoric man with a group of combative ants and drop them in a few procedurally generated areas? I have no clue, but this edition of Weekend Download will probably be the closest thing to an answer you'll ever find.
- • Overgod
- • Ancient Ants Adventure
- • Caveman Craig
- • Space Game: Mujakwi
- • Laser Bunny - Adventures in the Alien Death Mines!
Jun 2008
Games Featured:Old and new, artistic and scientific breakthroughs, and a little bit of wacky fruit-loving robots, too. It's the most widely varied Weekend Download in the history of the universe, as verified by independent laboratory experiments!
- • On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
- • Bridge Building Game
- • Foldit
- • The Jackyard


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HOUSTON -- Truck fleets are likely to make a major shift to natural-gas fuels and away from diesel over the next decade, with FedEx a likely adopter, said Frederick W. Smith, chairman and chief executive of the giant shipping company.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Smith said that he expects between 5% and 30% of long-distance trucking to be fueled by compressed or liquefied natural gas over 10 years, as the cost of the trucks declines and fueling stations become more common.
"If you' d asked me three years ago, I' d have said this is very tough, because the infrastructure wasn' t there," he said.
But now, the company is testing four trucks--two using liquefied gas and two using compressed gas--and if those work well the company will look to moving more of its 90,000 motorized vehicles to the fuel, Mr. Smith said, adding, "We' d be remiss if we didn' t."
Whether the company will make "a big conversion or wait until the economics make sense," he said, will depend in large part on the cost of tractor-trailer trucks.
Though FedEx, Memphis, is famous for its planes, the company' s ground-delivery business has been growing rapidly, Mr. Smith said, as jet-fuel costs soared from 67 cents/gal in 2001 to more than $3/gal today. Hundreds of FedEx' s lighter vehicles are now electric or hybrids.
Exports of natural gas, which require federal approval, have become a contentious issue in Washington. Mr. Smith said he favored exporting liquefied natural gas and even oil, as they would give the U.S. a lever to get other countries to open their markets.
"We have so much gas," he said, "it would be foolish and at the end of the day penny-wise and pound foolish not to export."
The company, which burns 1.5 billion gal of diesel and jet fuel a year delivering freight and packages to 220 countries, is not seeing any effect on fuel prices from the U.S. energy boom. Mr. Smith said he doesn' t expect to see a decline, as prices will remain set by global markets.
The growth in the global economy is likely to remain slow, he said. But the energy boom is contributing to economic activity around the U.S., he said, especially in energy-heavy areas such as Texas' Permian Basin and North Dakota' s Bakken Shale.
"We are delivering a lot of stuff up there to the Bakken for sure," he said.
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Economist Bernardo M. Villegas advised the Filipino youth to take charge of the country's sustainable development by being its most active agents of change.
Economist Bernardo M. Villegas advised the Filipino youth to take charge of the country's sustainable development by being its most active agents of change.
One of the key exercises in our formation program for public school teachers is for each school to have 10 descriptors of the world of the Filipino youth, specifically their students. Then the teachers identify the hungers, if any, of their students that underlie each descriptor.
"If Jose Rizal's teachings are emulated, they can guide the destiny of our country." Thus did Reghis Romero II, supreme commander of the Order of the Knights of Rizal, explain the essence of the recently concluded 50th National Rizal Youth Leadership Institute (NRYLI) at Teachers Camp in Baguio City.
Celebrating the Feast of the Holy Family this year on Dec. 30 bears added significance for us Filipinos. Today we also commemorate the 116th anniversary of the martyrdom of Dr. Jose P. Rizal who said the prophetic words, "The youth is the hope of our country."
Nelland, 18, stuck her tongue out at the end of her repartee. Her head bobbed as she rapidly delivered her lines. Her hands pumped the air in the space between us to the beat of her repartee. She smiled quickly in the end, partly congratulating herself for her successful delivery, and partly to ease the sting of her last line. She just performed her fliptop routine in front of me.
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Arnold J. Wayerski, 69, Sun City, Ariz., a Junction City native, died Thursday, June 15, 2000, in Sun Health Hospice in Sun City.
Services were held June 20 at St. Joachim and St. Anne Catholic Church in Sun City. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery in Phoenix, Ariz.
Visitation was at Menke Funeral Home in Phoenix.
Mr. Wayerski was born Jan. 2, 1931, in Junction City, a son of Marie (Mallek) Wayerski and the late John Wayerski.
He was married to Virginia Wanta on Sept. 8, 1952.
They moved to Arizona in 1962 and he was owner/manager of Thomson Veterinary Supply in Phoenix.
Survivors include his wife; one daughter, Nadine (Charles) Ehlers, Manning, Iowa; three sons, Mark (Julie), Lake Havasu, Ariz., Tim, Phoenix, Ariz., and Todd, U.S. Navy; his mother, Junction City; two sisters, Jeanette Shegstad, Minneapolis, Minn., and Lorraine (Kenneth) Doehr, Wisconsin Rapids; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.


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Letting Go
The Amazing Race Series: Part I | Part II | Part III
Note: The lessons in this 4-Part Series were inspired by the free 7-Day Trial of the iPersonalEnrichment.com program. While this series focuses mostly on concepts, the program works to internalize them.
In The Amazing Race, we started off with the image of three runners: one with hidden weights attached to their body, one carrying a heavy load on their back, and a third person without any weights or loads running freely. In any race, it is the third person that we would all want to be. Specifically, in the race to Allah subhanahu wa ta`ala (exalted is He), it is who we actively seek to be. It starts with learning that we have the power and the right to let go.
Understanding the Weights and the Loads
There are so many people holding onto heavy loads trying to make it through the race. People are holding onto sadness and grief, fears and insecurities, anger, and all the other limiting emotions. Limiting and difficult emotions are normal to experience, and we are rewarded for enduring challenges with patience and perseverance. But after those events have brought us back to Allah (swt), it's time to let go of the pain. And subhan'Allah (glory be to God), we have always had the power to do that. Letting go does not mean giving up or justifying wrongs. It means you are willing to continue the race with all the lessons learned, without carrying the emotional load with you. In place of bitterness and feeling victimized, you allow yourself to feel free, and even grateful for the wisdom and reward attained. Experiencing negative emotions is not wrong, rather very normal and human, and it can even be a blessing that reminds us to turn to Allah (swt). But after we have turned to Him, we go back to being content with Him and His decree. We let go of the attachments of needing sadness, of needing anxiety and fear to protect us and help us, because we have Allah (swt) to do those things and we have been given power over our own immediate choices to work for them.
Negative emotions, when held onto, become part of the attachments of dunya (this world). They are the weights attached to the runner as they try to run to Allah (swt) and get exhausted early. A traumatic life event is the heavy load that someone carries over their shoulders after the calamity has passed and they have the ability to put it down. Sometimes it takes the help of others to say, "Here, let me help you put that down. You don't need to carry it anymore." Some are so used to the weight, they're actually afraid of what it would feel like to live without it. The heavy load allowed them to turn to Allah (swt) and they are afraid that putting it down would mean they would forget Him and become heedless. So we have to understand something:
What does Allah (swt) Himself want for us?
While remembering Allah (swt) during our moments of weakness is a blessing from Him, He is more Merciful to us than His wanting us to hold onto that weakness in order to feel close to Him. Actually the opposite is encouraged:
The Prophet ﷺ (peace be upon him) taught us, "The strong believer is better and more beloved to Allah than the weak believer, while there is good in both. Guard over that which benefits you, seek Allah's assistance, and don't lend yourself to things devoid of benefit, and if something befalls you, then don't say 'If I only would have done such and such,' rather say 'Allâh ordained this and He does what He wills' for verily the phrase 'If I would have' makes way for the work of the Devil." (Muslim)
Imam al-Nawawi commented, "The intended meaning of strength here is a firm will and a desire to work for the Hereafter. So the one being described as a strong believer is more bold and stern against the enemy in Jihad, quicker to go out and searching for striving in Allah's path, more in his enjoining the good and forbidding the evil, in his patience with the harms he faces throughout, and stronger in the way he carries out difficult tasks for Allah's sake. He loves to pray, fast, make dhikr (remembrance of Allah), and perform the rest of the acts of worship, and he is more active in seeking after these affairs, as he keeps a closer watch over his performance of them." (Sharh Muslim (9/341))
Allah (swt) is more Merciful than His wanting us to punish ourselves with hardship, pain, self-imposed weakness and heaviness. He wants for us ease and lightness despite the natural human tendency towards weakness:
يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ بِكُمُ الْيُسْرَ وَلَا يُرِيدُ بِكُمُ الْعُسْرَ
"Allah intends for you ease and does not intend for you hardship." (Qur'an, 2:185)
يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ أَنْ يُخَفِّفَ عَنْكُمْ وَخُلِقَ الْإِنْسَانُ ضَعِيفًا
"And Allah wants to lighten for you [your difficulties]; and mankind was created weak." (Qur'an, 4:28)
Furthermore, whenever there is a command in the Qur'an or from the Prophet ﷺ, it means that following such a command is humanly possible. Here are just a few examples that show the option to hold onto an emotion or not is within our control:
Allah mentions in the Qur'an:
وَلَا تَهِنُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا
"Do not be weak and do not be sad." (Qur'an 3:139)
And to Musa `alayhi as-salaam (peace be upon him) and Harun (as):
قَالَ لَا تَخَافَا إِنَّنِي مَعَكُمَا أَسْمَعُ وَأَرَى
"(Allah) said, 'Fear not. Indeed, I am with you both; I hear and I see.'" (Qur'an, 20:46)
The Prophet ﷺ mentions, "Don't become angry."
Tricks of the Mind and Nafs (Ego)
It's interesting to note that 'sadness' in particular and emotions in general are often spoken about in English as nouns, making them seem static, unmoving, like you cannot do anything about them once they are there but wait for them to go away on their own. People become overwhelmed by their emotions when they feel they are static, and when they think they can't control them, so instead of trying to regain control they simply give in, and even justify it. In Arabic, emotions are often used as active verbs that include the responsible party in the verb. So it's as if it's saying, "Don't you do sadness," or "Don't you do fear." Meaning, when it comes to holding onto emotions, we are the active doers, doing it to ourselves.
The nafs has tricked us into thinking we have no power over these weights, these loads we're carrying. The nafs also tells us we need these weights in order to succeed, that they make us stronger. And sometimes they do, but only when we have learned about our power to remove them. Otherwise, the weights carried indefinitely lead to massive health and psychological problems, rather than strength. It continuously lies to us, like any oppressor for no other reason other than staying in charge, so that these lies control our direction. Subhan'Allah, fear and anxiety don't help us become safer. They actually make us panic and become less safe. Anger makes us lose control even though people choose to become angry in order to gain control. Feeling self-pity, actively maintaining the 'victim' mentality does not bring the promise of self-approval or control in life. It makes the person desperate for the attention and approval of others (aka riya'), and can even lead to manipulative behavior in trying to control others. Holding onto sadness after loss doesn't make experiencing the loss any easier, it makes it harder and more prolonged, more acutely felt.
To conclude this part, the nafs wants us to hold on dearly to all the emotions that can make us a slave to it. Letting go is about freeing our souls so we can run to Allah (swt), feeling secure, loved, and in control in the presence of al-Mawlaa, al-Wadud, and al-Qaadir. May Allah (swt) allow us to let go of that which slows us down in the race to Him, and may He make us of the strong believers.
Stay tuned for Part 3 which will discuss Four Common Emotional Weights!
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A beautiful article. I never thought about the connection between the nafs and carrying such a heavy load. There's more often talk about attraction of the dunya's "good" things (wealth, children, etc.) but never about how negativity can keep us tethered to the dunya as well. JazakAllah khayr.
Ameen Ya Rabb!!!
Amazing article. JazakAllah khair for sharing this knowledge with us. I am looking forward to the next one, insha'Allah.
@Sarah F.– wa iyakee. On the point of 'good things', a lot of times we think we're attached to an actual physical entity, like people or wealth, but the essence of that attachment are the emotions that those entities to evoke. Wealth for example makes a lot of people feel secure. But if you allow yourself to feel secure regardless in the presence of your Creator, than money remains in your hands and not in your heart. You let go of the emotional weight: needing to feel insecure without it, and affirmed your freedom: to have security in your heart instead. We may think we're attached to certain people, but what we're really attached to is the approval (love, respect) that they may give us. If you let go of the emotional weight: lacking self approval, and affirm your freedom: really loving yourself for the sake of the One who loves you, then instead of being heavy with the need/dependency for other people's approval, you allow yourself to love them without 'needing' anything back from them. Subhan Allah, the strange thing is as the hadith mentions, as soon as you stop 'needing' from dunya, that's when it actually comes to you! Truly, Allah changes our condition when we change our hearts for Him (swt).
JazakAllah for reminding me that being strong is a choice that we make and that only we can help ourselves do that.
As'Salaamolaikum. What an insightful article with great reminders and points.
In one form or another, and to one degree or another..some more than others; we will all experience life/events that unfold which are painful and difficult (whether with family, illness, money, work, relationships, children etc.)…Allah (SWT) never places weight on one's shoulders that is greater than they can carry or bear.
Jazaakh'Allah Khairan Sister Muslema! I look forward to the next article in this series, Insha'Allah!
Question for the writer: I have a tendency to feel I do not deserve what God has given me because I feel I'm not worthy of it or that I did not work hard enough for it. I am very hard on myself and as a result I fall into self doubt. How can I break the self doubt and have a better opinion of Allah ?
You are not worthy, yet Allah has given you it and as such He has deemed you worthy…Allah knows better than you whether you are worthy or not, right ?
Also, it's not how hard you work that determines whether you get something… It's whether Allah bestows it upon you or not – through the illusion of your work, or otherwise…
When did you first have that thought that you needed to deserve something ?
Within ethnic minorities there is a tendency for parents to teach their kids to over stretch… Was this instilled in you ?
What advantages are there in having to work hard for something… In having to 'deserve' it ? Does it make you more noble ? Who will it please ?
If you answer these questions… The need for approval will shrink, but you will still have to 'press delete' to begin to overcome it…
If you value your freedom more than self approval or the approval of others… Then all you need to do is to make a decision to let the constriction that comes with needing approval go. Do this until there is no constriction when you think about have something big for no effort.
The 7 day free trial at http://www.iPersonalEnrichment.com will teach you the foundations of letting go… I would advise you to listen to the "being worth it" module that is on the Gold Package which is released further on in the month. (the modules are drip fed to ensure that you are building on previous absorbed knowledge/experience)
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Feeling humbled because of Allah's blessings on us and grateful to Him (swt) is a good thing. Having Shukr is an integral part of receiving guidance.
But at the same time that one knows their own weaknesses and mistakes and are overwhelmed with feeling thankful to Allah (swt)– that should not be a reason to punish oneself because of feeling they didn't deserve it. First, to do so means you're questioning the qadr of Allah (swt)– and He is the Most Wise. You have what you have in rizq by the plan of the Most Wise.
Second, even blessings are a test. In fact they can often be a bigger test than difficulties. So yes, be thankful but also be aware and careful with your blessings.
Third, realize that the best way to show your gratitude for what you have been given is to use it and spend it in the way that is pleasing to Allah (swt). Allah (swt) tells Dawud (as)– "I'malu aala Dawuda shukraa"– "Work, O family of David, in gratitude." (Saba: 13) And know that no matter how much we worship Allah (swt) in words and actions, it can never repay Him (swt). We simply show our gratitude out of our love for Him (swt).
Fourth, take your blessings from Allah (swt) as a sign of His Love for you and His Mercy on you. Your biggest blessing is that He guided you to Islam. Furthermore, any good deed that comes from you is by His permission. These are all signs of His love– and if you allow yourself to really feel His love, you will have a better opinion of Allah (swt). If He loves you, then who are you not to love yourself?
A person who knows their mistakes can love themselves as long as they continue to repent and believe in the infinite Mercy of Allah (swt).
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I hope this helps insha Allah!
Your light [ and knowledge] has made me happy, so thank you, and may Allah bless you, myshallah! Thank you, good Muslims. You've made me so happy that I want to cry, I may only be 14, but Islam starts when you're young. You have proven to me that all the light in world has not been snuffed out. Myshallah, and may Allah protect you and your family from the fire. Also my doctors appointment in Atlanta is coming up for cancer please hope and pray that Allah does not allow there to be anything wrong- I've made it 11 years now because of Allah [ swt]. Ameen
May Allah (swt) reward you for sharing your insights and thoughts Sr Muslema – and your point about being attached to that way 'things' make us feel rather than the things themselves is so true! Its amazing how simple concepts like these make a big difference in our understanding of ourselves and the world, and thus in the way we feel and behave towards ourselves and others. Totally recommend the IPE program!!
Subhan Allah, this is exactly what I needed to read. I havent even read part two yet but i'm excited about it none the less. Ensha Allah it will direct me on the "how to's" or what to do next.
I don't know how to get over being sad about straying from the straight path , which makes me feel weak .
You are not weak or alone. May Allah protect you from the fire whose fuel is men and stones. You are stronger than you know, and you may accomplish anything. I feel being 14 that I have caused major sins, but I have taken heed, fell down on some hard stones, and may Allah forgive me. I may have done bad things but I did not lie, so maybe it won't be so terrible. But you can do anything, you just have to believe! May Allah forgive all my sins! Also, don't worry, you can get back on the right path. Obey Allah, and do righteous. Inshallah, things will work out. Ameen
Masha'Allah, great article! Jazakum Allahu Khair for taking the time to write it. May Allah help all the Muslims let go of these emotions and keep us on the straight path, Ameen!
Thank you! I shall overcome IA. Wasalam. Amazing words Brother AbdelRahaman and Sister Muslimah. I feel better already.
Jazakallah for writing this piece! It was a answer to my dua and an end to my sorrow! Alhumdulillah Allah works in wondorous way! May Allah grant you Jannatul Firdous for all your efforts! Ameen
Ma'Shaa'Allah! Beautiful, thank you! It was meant for me to read by Allah's will.
Tricks of the mind and nafs are so true. Jazak Allah khair for the precise clarification. Reminded me of Musa Alaihi Assalam, when he feared approaching Fir'aon, then Allah swt reassured him that He will be with him:
( 12 ) He said, "My Lord, indeed I fear that they will deny me
( 13 ) And that my breast will tighten and my tongue will not be fluent, so send for Aaron.
( 14 ) And they have upon me a [claim due to] sin, so I fear that they will kill me."
( 15 ) [Allah] said, "No. Go both of you with Our signs; indeed, We are with you, listening.
Surah Ash-Shu'araa'


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NEW YORK (WKTV) - The Appellate Division of the State of New York Supreme Court has upheld the sentence of a teen convicted of shooting another teen inside the Cooperstown Police station.
Anthony Pacherille Jr. is currently serving an 11 year prison sentence in the shooting of classmate Wesley Lippitt.
Pacherille Jr admitted to chasing Lippitt down Main Street in Cooperstown and into the Village Police Station where he shot him in 2010.
The Defense Attorney for Pacherille Jr appealed the conviction, claiming that the judge had been biased in his sentencing as well as being abusive in his discretion by denying a request to sentence Pacherille as a youthful offender.
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there may not be a dipstick. there is probably just a bolt near the bottom of the tranny to check it. you can only check it properly when it's hot and running.
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Edith Pepys was born 8 on 11 Oct 1599 in Sutton, Mddlsx, England. She was christened on 11 Oct 1599 in Impington, Cambridge, England. Edith was living 10 in 1636. She was mentioned in the wil(l) of her brother Robert on 12 Aug 1657. She signed a will on 15 Sep 1665. She had a will probated on 4 Oct 1665.
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Death happens a lot in videogames, but for some reason it never seems to stick. From heroes who get infinite do-overs to supporting characters who "die" only to resurface at the nick of time down the road, videogames might be the only medium that leaves the audience feeling surprised, maybe even cheated, if a dead character isn't magically brought back to life.
And nobody, but nobody gets magically brought back to life more often than villains. The really interesting ones can usually expect to stick around no matter how horribly they "die;" if their creators aren't ready to let them go, those villains will find a way back to the world of the living. Some are more tenacious than others, often to the point where their ability to defy death has become a defining characteristic. What follows are the most enduring examples.
Oh, one other thing: Bowser's not on this list, for several reasons. First, he's too obvious; for Christ's sake, he "died" in a pool of lava and came back eight times in his first game appearance alone. Second, his antagonism toward Mario and Peach over the years has mellowed to the point where Peach's kidnapping is just something the trio does for fun on weekends when they're not racing go-karts, playing baseball, golfing or kicking a soccer ball around.
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Third, THIS HAPPENED:
Above: Oh yeah, it totally happened. Nintendo said so and everything.* You'll probably still fight him in the next game, though
Killed in: Resident Evil, Resident Evil 5
Calm, resourceful and cool enough to perpetually wear sunglasses, Albert Wesker has been the proverbial man behind the curtain throughout most of the Resident Evil series. And we're actually less impressed by his apparent ability to come back from the dead than we are with the fact that he's always at the center of what should be uncontrollable zombie outbreaks, unharmed, unruffled and apparently ignored by the flesh-eating masses.
Introduced as the heroes' commander in the first RE, Wesker was soon revealed to be an undercover agent for Umbrella, the company behind the Raccoon City zombie outbreak. His work with the STARS special police unit was nothing more than an attempt to farm disposable soldiers he could use them to test out the combat abilities of Umbrella's freakish menagerie.
His overconfidence bit him in the ass when he tried (in one variation of RE's story) to pit Jill Valentine against a hulking, nigh-indestructible Tyrant. Much to Wesker's surprise, the uncontrollable abomination ignored his orders and murdered Wesker instead.
Two more Resident Evil chapters came and went, and Wesker seemed to be just another casualty of the first game's mansion incident. That is until he resurfaced in Code: Veronica, with glowing red eyes and superhuman strength and speed.
It seems Wesker's buddy William Birkin (also known as "That Gross Boss Monster With The Huge Arm-Eye Thing from Resident Evil 2") supplied him with an experimental virus that gave him cool superpowers instead of turning him into a zombie or unstable automaton. After kicking Chris Redfield's ass around for a few minutes, he was separated from his old nemesis by a piece of falling debris, at which point he took off running. Wesker resurfaced again during Resident Evil 4 (hiring Ada Wong to collect a sample of the Plagas parasite for his research), and was tracked down by Jill and Chris sometime prior to RE5, at which point he and Jill hurled each other through a window and off a cliff.
Wesker seemed to be dead again, which of course didn't stop him from showing up once again in Africa, somehow even cooler and more of a pain in the ass to kill than ever before.
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His final act was to turn himself into a weird monstrosity with a giant tentacle, after which he was dumped into the crater of an active volcano and shot with two rocket launchers at once.
This appeared to finally kill him off for good, but we have our doubts. Being blown up and/or dunked in lava has never been enough to keep Bowser down, after all.
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