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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:12 am
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I've been having nightmares lately in which I'm forced to move back to Texas and die there.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:58 am
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Immediately, or after some years of living there?
...and which would be worse?
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:47 am
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Both, and I can't decide.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:59 am
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Hey, Man, Don't mess with Texas!
It's an awesome state!
albeit kinda boring..... >
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:30 pm
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Believe me, I'd really rather not mess with Texas, ever again. They can
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:23 pm
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Hahaha, Texas sounds good to me right now. It's getting cold here now and I want my heat back, but just not too much of it.
As of late I keep having dreams in sitcom form. Such as I'll be getting into my dream and then we have opening credits and then of course we fade to black and go to commercial and all that jazz. There's even credits. I need to stop watching so much Buffy... I think it's getting to me.
I can't remember....oh *le sigh*
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:19 am
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Last night I had a dream set in Oz. Dorothy was walking to the Gilliken Country to see Glinda, and encountered a pair of werewolves who were refugees she had previously evicted from their ancestral home in the lands surrounding the Emerald City.
They appealed to her innate sense of decency for a place to live, and so she wound up settling them in the northern highlands of the Munchkin Country, on the condition that their puppies not be allowed out of the village before they'd 1) learned to control their form, and 2) been house-broken.
Yeah, I read WAAAAAY too many Oz books when I was a kid. I don't remember any of them involving werewolves, though.
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:23 pm
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wow. That is an involved dream.
I had a weird dream the other night. I was in a tugboat bar. No not a bar on a tugboat, a bar for tugboats. Tiny, grizzled old sea-dog boats. all of them sitting there drinking their liquor and griping about the fishing. It was odd.
and then last night i had an epic dream. Basically there is a tiny tiny parasite that burrowed into the back of your neck or into your ear and began to re-arrange your DNA piece by piece so you started to devolve into different animals. The parasites basically slowly began to control your body and convince you that you want to fight this 'thing' (i have no idea what it was but the ran around in big mecha suits...) using your new animal powers.
At first it would be super cool! you could breath underwater or see forever etc. But then you begin to look different. The powers keep getting better but you slowly can't be seen by the normal people and have to run away. Then at mid-form the parasite directs you to fight. You fight until you either die, somehow loose the parasite, you devolve completely or until the 'thing' is beaten. I remember one segment very vividly where two manatee-people were throwing razor discs into the mecha suit's gears and blowing them up in this murky underwater laser battle.
I'm told this sounds a lot like the animorph series (which i never read but i know a bit of it) except the affected can't change back to people. they get one animal and they slowly sink into it until eventually they are completely animals and the parasite leaves them stuck as their animal. The parasites take smart animals and turn them into people too but the people usually wind up in a mental institute for claiming that they used to be a dolphin but turned into a human so they could fight the 'thing' in the robot suit.
I think I'll turn it into a book once i figure a few things out.
Tell me if this sounds familiar but I can't honestly think of what it could be from...
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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:02 pm
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Last night I dreamed that there was this really good-looking guy, kind, smart, in business. There was a girl chasing him when I met him, which was find, because I wasn't interested. I because good friends with the girl, and we hung out a lot. But after a while I realized I
interested, and that now we were in competition. Which was totally not cool, because I didn't want to compete with my friend. Except that I really liked the guy. And then I learned that his secretary, who was tall and beautiful and smart, was also interested in this guy.
At that point I gave up, because my friend was more fun-loving than me, and the secretary was more intelligent than me. So one night I called the secretary and asked her to meet me in the street, where I bought a pair of peridot stud earrings. I gave these to the secretary to give to the guy, because they matched his eyes, and they would make a good present. I figured if she gave them to him, he'd be more interested in her than me, and I could bow out of the competition quietly.
Later that evening I went to see my friend and mope, on the roof of her house (it was a flat roof, with a ledge around the rim). Unbeknownst to me, the secretary and my friend had gotten together and the secretary had pulled the same trick with the earrings - gave them to my friend to give to the guy, so that she could take a step forward. My friend gave them to the guy, telling him that the secretary had given them to her. The secretary revealed that I had bought them in the first place, and why. I didn't know any of this. So when the guy showed up on the rooftop with secretary in tow, wearing the earrings, I thought they were going to announce their engagement. But my friend started blushing, and I was just totally lost. I was depressed because I really did love the guy, but I knew i wasn't as good as the other two. The guy came forward, leaving his secretary by the stairs, and the earring glinted. He said, "I really liked the earring [my friend] gave me... which is why I choose you." You being me. Eeeehhhh?!? I was in shock, but extremely happy, and the other two were depressed and resigned.
The guy and I walked away together, leaving my friend behind. After a few days I came down out of the clouds, and comforted her, but still... what? I've never had a dream like this before.
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:28 am
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Last night I dreamed of a colony on the moon. The people living there had hard lives. At times, the moon dwellers would become weary of the grind of daily life, and when that happened they had an unusual solution.
Not long after establishing their colony, the moon dwellers had discovered an alien species living in tunnels below the moon's surface. These aliens looked like black snakes, and no one had ever managed to communicate with them. But they were very helpful for treating moon malaise. The affected moon dweller would take off all his or her clothing and climb down into a pit of the aliens, who would gently but firmly wrap themselves around the person until he/she was fully encased. Then one of the aliens would bite the person, whereupon he/she would slip into a coma and stop aging.
While in the coma, the person would relive his/her entire life, but from a third-person perspective so as to see their personal history more clearly. This process typically took five years, after which the aliens would unwrap themselves, and the moon dweller would awaken and return to the colony rested and better adjusted than before.
I dreamed I was one of the moon dwellers who did this; but I discovered the drawback: I remember weeping for the death of a friend who died while I was in the alien coma, and who was years dead when I emerged.
And then I woke up.
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:00 am
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Ouch. That's a painful end.
I dreamed about a cathedral near my campus. Ironic, but true. There was a laser/fireworks show, and by every door were stationary sparklers shooting sparks six feet in the air. But we needed to get inside for a meeting. So one man crept close and knocked over one of the sparking stands, clearing a doorway. Except it was locked. So he called over his brother, who picked the lock. The door opened and all the kids streamed through, since the inside was like a recreation of a palace, right down to the contents of the drawers. Since there were no curators (the place was supposed to be closed, after all), people started looting everything they could find. One girl with a plastic bead bracelet swapped it out for one with real pearls. I ended up with a flimsy hair-comb, which looked fake anyway. Ah well, it wasn't too important either way.
Except that several months later, the head of the community called me over and said that the hair comb was actually an ancient artifact of some power, and I wasn't allowed to keep it anymore. In fact, for taking it out of the cathedral in the first place, I was to be punished and sent to the matriarch. I was quite angry, and my head started prickling. my hair got staticky, and when I touched the comb it gave me a shock. Looked like the power had awoken. The matriarch was like my grandmother, and was actually quite kind. We got along really well in the ensuing weeks, and when she took ill and died, she left me a note with her will, which left everything I could find to me. This included a box of pictures and mementos. The pictures were backed with scraps from a quilt, which, when we could put them together, would give us clues to her past.
One incident we uncovered was that this wasn't the first time the cathedral had been opened. The matriarch had also taken the hair comb, and when she was about to leave the community for training, her friend tried to stop her. The friend was sickly, and clingy, and used this to her advantage, trying to make the matriarch stay. In the end, the girl collapsed, fell face-down in the creek, and drowned. The matriarch left, and didn't come back until many years later, when the incident was forgotten.
Then my dog's yelling finally dragged me out of sleep, and I woke up.
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:19 pm
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Last night's dream was a wild adventure!
At first it started in the bedroom of the house I grew up in. Except, like many dreams, the size of this room changed depending on what was going on within it. I lived there for a while, then had to leave for something. When I came back, the room was a mess. Not only that, but there were two tigers in the room. Neither of them had been fed in a long time, and the male looked close to death.
I immediately called animal rescue, who sent a nice woman with a strange machine. She hooked up the machine to both tigers, and it rejuvenated them slowly. We almost lost the male tiger twice, though. The entire time, I was cradling them and holding them, keeping them warm. It was close, but eventually we managed to bring them both around. Then they grew QUICKLY, or my dream skipped ahead a bit.
Next we were in the old lady's shop, and I was helping her with it. She agreed that since I had stayed to help the tigers and nurse them back to health, that I probably wasn't the one who had hurt them in the first place. They grew pretty quickly, and soon were knocking me over as we romped and played. We would get the occasional customer, nothing too important.
Then a man came in with a crazy look in his eyes. He smiled at the lady, and said he would like to have all the money in the store. She politely declined, then he told her that he had locked the tigers in the cellar just like he did in that bedroom. I was standing close to him, sweeping the lobby, so when he reached into his pocket to pull out the gun I was on top of him in an instant.
Grappling has never been my strong suit. I just haven't had the training, really. So I grabbed his wrists as best I could, and used my weight to pin him to the ground, much like when I would wrestle in the yard as a boy. I yelled for her to call the police while I held him down, but they never arrived (despite seeing several police cars drive BY).
Then she came over and threw me off of him. She helped him up, and gave him a great big hug. Apparently he was her nephew, and she was going to forgive him and all that. In frustration, I left for some restaurant nearby. There, I had to convince the chef to make me a meal without any meat in it. After a brief conversation about how to do this, I thanked the man and the staff. Two waitresses caught me by the door, and we talked for a bit about food service (which I've worked).
Eventually I realized that I had been gone a long time, so I bid them good evening and jogged back to the shop. Now it was closed, and the "closed" sign was faded from being posted up for so long. I used my key to get into the basement, and even the two tigers were gone. Instead I found a football uniform.. So why not, I put it on and went back outside.
Newly installed next to the shop was a football field, and my uniform matched the uniforms of one of the three teams playing. I joined them on the field, but the game was nothing like real football. It was a strange mix of volleyball and basketball, I would say. Our uniforms were black, there were also white and bright green. We won the game by one point, off of a ball that went the entire width of the field, was hit back into play at the edge, and then I managed to catch it and land in the end zone. O_o
We headed back to the basement lockers, and stepping inside I was greeted again by the robber nephew. He had his gun out already, leveled straight at my stomach. He smiled, waved a small goodbye, and then fired.
I woke up on the back of a boat traveling at full speed. Forests rose along either side of us, and the water was a murky green. The sky was overcast, but the water was frigid as it stung my face. My father was at the helm of the boat, his head kept down below the edge of the steering console. I was about to ask why, when a salvo of bullets slammed into the front of the boat. I, too, ducked my head down.
We passed another boat, which sprayed the side of ours with bullets. He kicked a rifle over to me, and I took up position just over the nose of our vessel. This time I fired into the rear of the boat ahead of us, the one that had been firing on us. Black smoke billowed out from it's engine, which sputtered and died. We blew past them in an instant, and continued down the river.
It was then that he told me what we were doing. We were chasing someone who had stolen a relic with some amazing power. We managed to catch sight of the boat with the relic on board, and were gaining ground on it. It led us on a chase over sand dunes between waterways, eventually reaching the end of the river. The water fed into a waterfall, which wrapped around both sides of the river with dry, if vertical, cliffs to either side of the waterfall.
The boat rammed into the shore, inches from the cliff to the left of the waterfall. We were right behind it, and so I used my rifle to keep them cowered in the boat. They raised up the relic to use it, but I shot into the hull of the boat, and they dropped the relic into the boat. There was a flash of light from within, and then all was silent.
We pulled up to the shore, and inside the boat was a baby lizard... and the relic, still steaming lightly. It was a black shaft with a bright, large red ruby on top. Gold or brass encased the ruby, and a thin silver thread wound it's way down the length of the black shaft. The silver thread curled into an ornate handle with a bulldog's head on the bottom.
The sound of boats came up from behind us, around a bend. We knew we couldn't make it over the waterfall in our boat, so we took to the cliff. I grabbed the relic and some grappling hook cables, my father took just some cables and hooks. We used the hooks to grab onto trees between the trunk and thick branches, and worked our way down slowly.
...and then one of the people chasing us drove their boat over the edge. It smashed into the trees above us, suspended in branches and tree trunks. Green algae and water dropped off it's hull, raining down on us. It was a moment of sheer terror, with a definite helping of "wild turkey farm, mate?"
We became much less cautious in our decent, but they were after me. My father split in another direction, promising to come back to help as soon as he could. I led the people after us in the other direction. The cliff overlooked a larger river, which the waterfall fed into. There was a long beach leading to a channel where a huge cruise liner/cargo ship was sailing. It had long ladders to either side, where lines of people were swimming up to and climbing aboard.
I jumped through the line, splashing and swimming forward as best I could with one arm still clutching the relic. There were men behind me with machine guns and automatic rifles, peppering the water with bullets. This did not seem to phase the passengers in the least. I kept running for the boat, until I saw that there were men lining up along the rails with rifles of their own. It was then I realized that I was going to end up a prisoner of one force or the other... so I played dead.
I twisted in place, dropping into the water. The wake of the boat drew me toward the hull, and I watched as flowers or orange and yellow flashed above and around me. The two rivals were fighting over the kill, and bullets would sometimes find their way near me. As I neared the end of the large vessel, the deep reverberation of the boat's propeller seemed to shake the entire world I was encased in. It grew, and it grew until the sounds of shouting and gunfire faded away. It grew until the heart pounding in my chest and the lungs screaming for air were distant memories. It grew until even the bones in my body rattled and shook from it's strength.
I found the hull, rusted and bumpy, with my legs. I settled my feet onto it's side, and I pushed for all I was worth. Water shot all around me, and the shaking rumble seemed to suck me back toward it. I pushed through the water, using my arms to keep swimming away from it's force. Then, quite suddenly, the world grew quieter again. I was bobbing toward the surface, and light replaced the darkness I had never noticed consume me.
I came up for air, gasping and filling my lungs as the stars faded into the overcast sky. Soon I spotted a boat approaching me at high speed. It had two sleek, narrow sections of hull extending into the water, and a platform just above the water which connected them. The wheel and controls sat in about the middle of the boat, which was lowered to allow seating. Twin engines sat at the rear. At that point I was too exhausted to care, and so simply reached out my hand with the relic in it. If they wanted it so badly, they could HAVE it.
As the boat swung by, the engine died and a figure reached out the side. I closed my eyes, settling my legs into place and preparing to float or sink, as the water would have me.
Instead, strong hand wrapped around my entire arm and pulled me toward the boat. "CLIMB!" came the familiar yell. I opened my eyes, and there was my father. I did as he asked, climbing with numb arms and tired legs into the hollowed section of one of the longer hull sections. I lay there, breathing heavily as he settled back into his chair behind the wheel.
We sped away, arcing around the front of the cruise liner before the men with their automatic rifles could draw a bead on us. I lay in the bottom of the boat, watching the large ship fade into the background... when a single white flash illuminated the entire top of the ship. I knew what it was: a high caliber, long-range rifle round. Grabbing the relic in my hand, I dove out behind my father. The red gem of the relic glowed, and the silver began to burn my hand. Somehow I saw the bullet screaming through the air, twisting so fast it threw off tiny contrails from it's sides.
I realized that somehow, time had stopped completely. The water was still behind the boat, frozen in a spray from the twin engines into the murky green behind it. The bullet, roughly the size of my thumb, hung in mid-air with thin white lines criss-crossing behind it. I looked to my father, focused and intent on the water ahead of us. Then I grabbed the relic in one hand, and his shoulders in the other. It took a great deal of force, but I brought his body down to the deck with me.
I breathed in air that had never tasted so stale. The world came alive again in a roar, the engines and water arguing half a foot from my ears. I heard the bullet impact the steering tower milliseconds before I heard the cataclysmic "BANG". My father remained dazed, confused at his sudden movement from one place to another. I stood, grabbing the wheel and twisting the boat around a corner. Out of sight of the larger vessel, and into open waters.
Then, I woke up.
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:36 pm
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That dream was EPIC. ^_^
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^_^; Er, thank you?
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:16 pm
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I had a dream like that a while ago, except everything was much faster.
A person was pointing a crossbow at me, I woke up, a person was pointing a gun at me, I woke up, a person was getting ready to stab me, I woke up, and then a person was pointing a crossbow [distinct from the previous] at me and a friend pushed him away and yelled "Run!" We ran for a little while, and then I
woke up.
Now, reason I actually decided to post here. :sweatdrop:
I had a dream last night that I was at camp, or something similar. I have a sort-of recurring dream about this place, in that I keep coming back. There was a huge prank day the next morning, and a friend and I were chatting in my shared living room area about the pranks s/he (can't remember) was going to pull. After a little while, I came up with one that included water bottles, somehow. It was meant to get people wet, but I am not entirely sure how. When I went over to the sink to fill the water bottles, I found the turtle charm that went to my necklace (it is similar to one I have in this world, not quite the same). I put the filled water bottles by the sink, picked up the charm to put it somewhere safe, and then my alarm clock went off.
Does anyone else have these dreams where it's a story and time may or may not pass when you're not there, but you've still
there if it has? And does anyone else ever wonder, which is the real one? When I'm in one of those worlds, the memories of this world seem like dreams...
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By Laura Hinderman Citizen email@example.com April 11, 2013 1:30PM
Updated: May 15, 2013 6:15AM
You changed your clocks for daylight saving time and are enjoying the longer afternoons, and that's good. Hopefully, you also changed the batteries in your smoke detectors, which is also good. And the recent spell of warmer weather has been good.
What's also good is that the Orland Park Public Library is offering some new technology, including a new online catalog that will provide significant improvements.
Many of you who have been trying to access your account at the library through the SWAN system may have encountered a screen stating that you cannot during maintenance hours "renew or request materials or make changes to your account information" through SWAN.
The new catalog system, accessed through the library website, is named Polaris and was launched this month. It's easy to use and offers lots of great new features.
You may place holds, renew materials and pay fines online. Library cardholders can still check out materials from other libraries through an interlibrary loan. Orland Park Library materials also continue to be available to other libraries' cardholders through an interlibrary loan and reciprocal borrowing.
Bridget Bittman, the library's public information coordinator, provided the following information for patrons to be able to gain access through Polaris:
Log in to your new online account with your library card number and under the password, use the last four digits of your phone number. Visit "My Record," then "Login" to set up a user name and create your own password if you like. By creating a user name, you will no longer have to enter your library card number each time.
While online at the new site, please double check your account and ensure that your personal information and list of materials that you have checked out and placed on hold is correct. Also, you may use your account to choose email or text notifications for holds, courtesy notices and receipts. You may still search other libraries' materials under "Keyword Search." Choose the drop-down menu labeled "Using" and select WorldCat Libraries.
By implementing these changes, the Orland Park Library has moved to a more individualized program, meaning that books in the library inventory will now be first available to Orland Park residents.
The result is that residents will likely get reserved books sooner. Bittman also said the library would have more latitude to purchase copies of popular books and receive them much quicker, adding to its inventory.
The e-reader inventory, currently "Overdrive," is being expanded to include "3M," which includes titles not previously available to Orland Park Library patrons, including those from Penguin and Putnam publishers. Titles like "The Help" and others will now be available for download onto your tablet or other electronic reading device.
There are also changes to the library's check-out procedure as well. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been installed to provide a more user-friendly experience for patrons.
New self-checkout stations were installed to replace older ones for which software was no longer supported. These new self-checkout computers are multifunctional, allowing patrons to check out materials, view their accounts and pay any fees or fines owed with a credit card (an option to begin in May).
The library is in the midst of tagging all materials with RFID tags, which will assist the staff with inventory, but more importantly make checkout a faster and easier process. Staff will always be available to assist patrons with this new technology.
On Monday, the beginning of National Library Week, Zinio, a digital magazine collection, will be available to all Orland Park Library cardholders. This service allows you to download magazines for free to your iPad, Android tablet and computer.
Examples of available magazines include Newsweek, Readers Digest, Martha Stewart Living, Everyday with Rachael Ray and Seventeen.
To get started, select "Digital Materials," then choose Zinio at www.orlandparklibrary.org or call the computer help desk at (708) 428-5171 for more information.
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New Hublot boutique in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
CerrarThis opening signals the brand's rapid expansion in Asia, and more generally worldwide.
After five recent openings last August, in Hong Kong on Causeway Bay, Abu Dhabi in the Marina Mall, China on Shanghai's West Nanjing Road and in the cities of Dalian and Nanjing, Hublot is particularly pleased to announce the opening of its first Mongolian boutique in Ulaanbaatar. As the capital and nerve center of a resource-rich country in the midst of an economic boom, Ulaanbaatar has enormous development potential for the brand and its products. It is the 49th Hublot boutique in the world and the third in Northern Asia after Seoul and Ginza in Tokyo.
Located in the heart of the city in the Central Tower Mall on Sükhbaatar Square next to the Government Palace, the Hublot boutique's 1300 square foot area offers Hublot customers a comfortable space featuring Hublot's "Black" concept design. The unique materials and the fusion of materials which are the hallmark of Hublot
watches played a prominent role in the boutique's design. The polished stone floor, the black wall coverings with a full-grain-leather look, the furniture in wood and aluminum, the fittings in glass and metal as well as the sophisticated details give this boutique a resolutely contemporary look. At the entrance, a wall of screens greets visitors with a projection of events and the latest creations.
The boutique's experienced international staff offers a very high level of service to a clientele who can be received in the privacy of a convivial VIP lounge furnished with comfortable sofas, a library and bar. The final touch is provided by animated showcases developed and designed by Xavier Dietlin, which catch the eye and drive home the brand's image of dynamism and innovation.
"With this first boutique, and thanks to our Mongolian partner Madame Darima Tumur of Chevalier LLC, we are proud to establish Hublot in Mongolia and I am sure of the brand's future success in this country. This new boutique is a perfect reflection of the brand DNA. With its fusion
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In addition to certain limited editions, the Hublot boutique will be in a position to offer practically the whole range of Hublot's watch collections including the Big Bang and Tutti Frutti, King Power, Classic Fusion and Masterpieces.
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ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED for September 30th, the first two Almighty Re-issues – 'Blood, Fire & Love' (first released in 1989) & 'Soul Destruction' (first released in 1991) – have now been rescheduled for January 20th 2014.
In an effort to make these new versions as complete as possible, the release date has been put back, and extra attention given to the early work of a band (formed in Scotland in 1988) who have long been regarded as influential, splicing elements of rock, punk & metal, and notching up a Top 5 UK album and successive Top 30 singles.
Musically, The Almighty staked their ground between Motorhead & 'Electric'-era Cult, which made their early Polydor releases – five albums, starting with 'Blood, Fire & Love' – a breath of fresh air for riff-hungry rock fans the world over; and now, with their reputation continuing to flourish, Spinefarm has taken over from Polydor (the band's original home) as the label co-ordinating the Re-issue campaign…
THE INITIAL batch of Re-issues (fully official and put together under band supervision) will appear beneath the 'RE-F**KIN'-ISSUES' banner and be divided into two parts – the first pair of titles coming out on January 20th and the following releases a couple of months later.
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1) Microsoft.Phone.Maps.Controls.Map exposes ViewChanging and ViewChanged events. I'd expect them to fire when I pan the map. That does not happen.
WP7 Bing map fires ViewChangeStart and ViewChangeEnd, ONCE per each view manipulation. My application hooks to latter and then draws content on the map. How would I implement this with WP8 map?
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The Statesmen are preseason ranked No. 2 in the Collegiate Newspaper Preseason Baseball Poll. Delta State had one of the best seasons in school history last year by going 49-15 and advancing to the NCAA Division II National Championship game for the fourth time in school history. DSU also won the Gulf South Conference Title and the South Region Championship. The trip to the Division II World Series last year was the 11th in team history for the Statesmen.
Junior outfielder Jordan Chovanec and senior outfielder Michael Vinson are the top two hitters returning from last year's team. Chovanec hit a team-leading .351 with three home runs, 28 RBIs, 30 stolen bases and 57 runs, while Vinson hit .342 with five home runs, 53 RBIs and 47 runs. Chovanec and Vinson each committed just one error in the field.
On the pitching staff, senior pitchers Josh Branstetter, Jordan Moore and Colton Mitchell are the top hurlers returning to the mound in 2013. Branstetter went 7-3 with a 3.01 ERA, Moore went 8-1 with a 3.08 ERA and Mitchell went 8-2 with a 3.50 ERA. Mitchell threw a perfect game last year and was a finalist for the CSpire Ferriss Trophy.
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A packed El Rey Theater in Los Angeles was treated to the second-to-last performance of Sugar's classic album Copper Blue. Fresh off their appearance on Conan, Bob Mould, Jason Narducy, and Jon Wurster ripped through the album flawlessly while sprinkling in such Hüsker Dü classics like "Celebrated Summer" and "Makes No Sense." Dark reverb fanatics Abe Vigoda served as the opener, debuting some new material. Check out the photos above.
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If you are so afraid of it, you might have wanted to act before... don't tell me that you needed to reach old age to experience a blackout... and how bad it can get when you are in a small town, out from the lines providing heavily populated areas. Living in a town or, worse, in the middle of nowhere with the comfort developoed through (when not actually in) a big city, is far more expensive than the average cost of a modest living, and comparable to that of an upper scale location there.
That's what gets me double and triple and more stressed about the future: where and how to live so as not to be so fundamentally vulnerable... beyond the fact being human and not being able to actually control your own destiny, that is.
In any case, I wonder how expensive the same product was a few months ago.
I learned what a standard soldier for the Roman Empire carried, wore, and trained for at various points in history. Not very applicable to me, but it was interesting.
I was reading 20th century history of Ireland on wikipedia, (because why not?) when I came across this nastiness. Effective at getting attention to the protest, but still nasty.
Don't recall which book it was, and don't feel compelled to go look. I think it's just called "The Roman Empire". Picked it up cheap used at a local bookstore. Some good information, but something about the writing style annoys me. The intro was "the Romans were really cool - yeah, they had slaves and were brutal in war, but they were really cool" for several pages.
That glistening balloon and glistening ass are actually in same color
I learnt that my bathroom fan needs fixing...makes an awful sound and sometimes doesn't even run.
A faint idea of who was Viotti.
I just learned my favorite singer Greta Salpeter/Morgan started a new band called Gold Motel. Been listening to her stuff all day. Sounds like The Pipettes, much lighter than her very dark Hush Sound stuff. Good that she is in a better place. The shocking part is she is younger than me.
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Jethro (though he addresses Jed as his uncle) is the son of Jed's cousin, Pearl Bodine. He drove the Clampett family to their new home in California and stayed on with them to further his education. The whole family boasts of Jethro's "sixth-grade education" but nevertheless feels he is a bit of an idiot. Jethro is simply naive in the first season of the show but becomes incredibly ignorant and pompous as the series progresses. He often shows off his cyphering abilities with multiplication and "go-zin-ta's," as in "five gozinta five one times, five gozinta ten two times," etc. The tallest student in his class in the town of Oxford (so named because "that's where the oxen used to ford the creek") because of his age, he is often impressing others that he graduated "top of his class at Oxford." In Beverly Hills, he decides to go to college. He manages to enroll late in the semester at a local secretarial school due to his financial backing and earns his diploma by the end of the day because he did not understand what was going on in class and was too disruptive. This was an ironic in-joke - in real life, Max Baer, Jr, has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Santa Clara University (he also minored in philosophy).
Many stories in the series involve Jethro's endless career search, which include such diverse vocations as a millwright, a brain surgeon, street car conductor, double-naught spy, Hollywood producer (a studio flunky remarks Jethro has the right qualifications for being a producer - a sixth-grade education and his uncle owns the studio. The in-joke gag of Jethro as a movie producer was replayed in the 1981 movie), soda jerk, short order cook, and once as a bookkeeper for Milburn Drysdale's bank. More often than not, his overall goal in these endeavors is to obtain as many pretty girls as humanly possible. Of all the Clampett clan, he is the one who makes the most change from 'country bumpkin' to 'city boy.' Another running gag is that Jethro is known as the "six-foot stomach" for his ability to eat: in one episode, he eats a jetliner's entire supply of steaks; in another, Jethro tries to set himself up as a Hollywood agent for cousin "Bessie" - with a fee of 10,000 bananas for Bessie and 1,000 bananas for Jethro. At one time Jed mentions Jethro was the only baby he knew born with a full set of teeth "just like a beaver". Jethro appears in 272 episodes; he is not in the third- or second-to-last episodes, but Baer of course remains billed in the title credits. Baer claimed he only auditioned for the role of Jethro for fun and never expected to get the part. Supposedly, he clinched the part largely because of his grin.
I learned today that stove hood is an elegant being
^^^Something I learnt(learned) a while ago is that Max Baer Jr. (Jethro) directed and produced "Ode to Billy Joe" about a kid who throws himself off a bridge after he has gay sex.
I've seen the movie, Pete.
Despite the fact that the critics hated the movie, I actually found it a pretty good movie. Of course, I remember the song when I was a little boy, and during those years we always wanted to know what they threw off the bridge, and why Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the bridge in the first place. The movie gave us a plausible answer.
I learned that Ode to Billy Joe was filmed at Sidon, Mississippi and Google Earth tells me that Sidon has an amazing billabong (which a geography teacher told me a long time ago is a sure sign of a river in its senescence)
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda...
^ that's an inane tune with twisted lyrics and ridiculous plot which is more indicative of the Irish peasant settlers than about my country IMO.
Besides, how can a great country and its people be summarised in one song?
I learnt(learned) that Robby Benson is all grown up now since he did "ode to billy joe" 36 years ago
that one bottle of water leads to a whole lot of time heading to and from the bathroom. water makes everybody piss a lot right? i know i'm not alone on this one. everybody says the same thing.
and it makes me feel cold too. i would drink tea but tea doesn't like me too much. i'm not trying to do number 2 more than once a day.
one thing about the closet/you don't have to hurry/it will be bad tomorrow/so brother, don't you worry
^ Those over-emotional, braindead, fantasy-loving, Irish peasants produced too many bogans in my country.
At least the Marseillaise and Rule Britannia have good tunes. I don't know Spain's national anthem.
In recent times, journalists interviewed Bobbie Gentry, who wrote the song, to get her take on the lyrics, and what they meant to her as a songwriter.
She remarked that she never foresaw the controversy that her song caused, and certainly not people's fascination with it after all those years. What I found most intriguing is the fact that she never meant to portray any mystery on the matter of why he jumped off the bridge, or anything concering what was thrown off the bridge.
Rather, she noted,she intended to make a statement about the insensitivity of people, passing biscuits around the kitchen table, gossiping about trivial matters, while a major tragedy had just occurred.
Insiders have revealed that Robbie Benson is and was one of the nicest, gentlest men they have ever met. In a town full of narcissistic bastards, I think it's refreshing to hear that not everybody there is an asshole.
Today I learnt I can't resist straight porn (and that it never fails me...)
... So who knows a good shrink?
The woman who lands Robbie Benson is a lucky, lucky gal. (I don't think he's gay or bi)
"[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires."
― Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
It may be diluted in your wealthy country but unfortunately they make up 40% of my inefficiently-run one. They complain the loudest over every trivial issue and have infiltrated the governments so their emotive wailing is now broadcast by the state media.
Thankfully we're about to have a country-wide Royal Commission which may root out the decades of pedophilia and coverups within the Catholic Church. And hopefully it may bring some honesty into this massive organisation with all its propaganda, emotional blackmail and mind-control.
One can find quite a few people of Irish descent in Boston, but to be honest, I don't know much about them except what I've heard from other people.
I can say that, based on what I have read, the country of Ireland seems like the least progressive nation in the European Union. If I recall correctly, Ireland still sees abortion--even in the case of saving the mother's life--as a punishable crime, and until recently, couples could not legally divorce. Other people have told me that in the countryside, people still widely believe in the existence of fairies, leprechauns, and wood nymphs. I don't know if my sources have the correct information about that, but if they do, it shows a culture that does not seem to have progressed very far.
I personally can't get past the drinking thing, but you must understand I've been taught since the time I was an infant about the perils of drink. I cannot overcome those deeply-ingrained sentiments.
I don't know much about Irish-American culture. It might bear no resemblance at all to that of its mother country.
^ I was corresponding with Criostoir about these issues and he acknowledged the dependance on alcohol
There's an excellent Irish gay writer named Colm Toibin. He says his people have been INFANTILISED— first by the English landlords, secondly and most importantly by the Catholic Church, and thirdly by the EEU subsidies
^Do you share my discomfort for the EEU?
Even from the date of its inception, I have never felt comfortable with it. An Englishman is not a German, who is not an Italian, who's not an Irishman, etc, and now innocent people have to pay the price for an act of idealism. I think the UK exercised most remarkable prudence when they chose not join the Euro.
To be fair, I can look at this situation from the viewpoint of an American. I only hope the very best for Europe. A big part of my heart lies in it; I care very much about its welfare. Right now, however, the situation looks pretty grim.
Extremely dumbed down Western civilization math for dummies (for those who always say I speak or write too much):
Europe 2012 = Roman Empire 312
USA = "Byzantine" Empire
Great Britain = Ancient Syria
Of course the values and, therefore, the equations, are false, but for lazy, "common" people who want quick impressions ignoring the capital, decisive, differentiating, stressing details, there they have it.
I always said that the EU would end up like this (I was so happy to find it that I commented on the vid back in 2009 or so):
but I still need an iconic representation of Britain laughing at The Continent for falling down from the same ground they all are sharing....
I love the EU
Of course no system is perfect and there's always room for improvement
Yet it's the best thing that happened to Europe in the past 55 years
I somehow, somewhat agree: the best thing that can happen to a corpse is a nice embalming, and there is always "room for improvement"... but how long can it last?
^ That movie was so funny !
Now, about your BBC link, each point, like the whole package, is like a crappy product that is marketed under a nice appearance or through bait-samples, covering the real nastiness of the whole: like in the cases of the bubble burst, or the euro crisis, and like everything that is yet to come next to the front page of the news, saying all that now is generally considered resentful, grumbling nonsense: until one day the general tone passes from ultimate optimism, despite the perceived "deficiencies", to utter, darkest desenchantment and resentment, and those formerly perceived as prophets of doom will, once Doomsday arrives will then be considered lukewarm, insensitive bystanders.
The crisis is not only European or is it?
I had the idea it was more of a global thing... you know... subprimes... China's yuan...
Eventually I suppose EU will have benefited some countries or (economic) classes of people, and failed others and that opinions about it will differ depending on where one belongs...
It's only 55years old, there IS room for improvement, when it's inhabitants realize the need for thinking globally first, locally second... or at least doesn't make them opponents...
The crisis is the systemic crisis of an expansive period, and it is not "only European", since it is a global system, but it IS European-based, therefore being a global crisis as being built on the Western world, which is European-based (the "new Europe" is the USA, by that meaning not that the USA is Europe, but that that nation takes it where Europe left it before being embalmed). China, Russia or that part of the Islamic world that we know is thriving under the impulse giving by the Western world and, like the Weestern world itself without the political and economical structures that support it, will fall back to the previous "natural" backward state, with no democracy and no capitalism... and no civil liberties arising from sophisticated, cosmopolitan urban societies.
During the past millennium there has been a movement of social and economical expansion based on capitalism and democracy, but even the sloppiest analysis will show that it is being used to be reverted to the previous state of oligarchy... that is more "naturally" (for those who are fond of the "natural" and "more universal" state of things) found outside the Western world in the past five to ten centuries.
The EU is not 55 years old: it is as old as Europe itself. You are taking the trademark and the managing system for the actual product.


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