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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:41 am
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I had a strange dream that took place in a Caribbean port town that was vaguely steam punk, but without the steam-like 21st century technology in 19th century garb. I was traveling with a father-like figure and a little brother-type figure, and we sailed into the harbor on a yacht. The town began at the water's edge, forcing the piers to be far out over the water. They crisscrossed each other according to no discernible plan, and when they reached the shore they turned into wooden plank bridges that connected the buildings of the city together in a dense, creaky web, so that each building had doors leading outside on every floor.
We tied up to the pier and wandered into the house of a middle class family who lived sandwiched between two manor houses. Their house was made entirely of concrete and was so narrow that the stairs took up all the available space, with the bedrooms and living areas situated on the landings when they twisted in another direction. We made our way up to the highest floor, where we found a little girl imprisoned in a broom closet. We freed her, and fed her, and discovered that she was the true heiress to the house-her mother did not know she was hers, for her father had apparently carried the secret of her parentage with him when he disappeared.
Then the dream leapt forward in time, and we were leaving. The little girl was playing among the wooden plan bridges, leaping from one to another while in a beautiful yellow dress. I was following the father-like figure, when the mother rushed past to weep over the guardrail of the bridge leading from the pier we had tied up at. She was apparently at a loss at what to do with her new child. We left her to weep, but before we could board our ship the little girl feel like a stone to the deck in front of us, and we rushed to her aid to see if she was all right. She was fine, and she led us in a rousing patriotic song while night fell and the street- and pierlamps lit as the sky was swallowed up in pink and purple haze and the stars peeked through to watch us sing.
Then I woke up. It was a beautiful town that they lived in...I wish I could live there.
I love children...but I could never eat a whole one.
Psychosomatic! That boy needs therapy...
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Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:20 pm
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CBB - Sounds like a cool place to be.
I was thinking earlier, how often does everyone dreams of their muses?
Recently, I had a dream that began with narrations about Island Lords and how they ruled. Explaining that invidual Island Lords dont just rule islands, but can rule sections of... say a large metaprolis city. Much like mob bosses. Anyway, to keep it short, my muse, Aklabelkah was in the dream which is extremely rare and she was one of the Island Lords.
I do remember one part as a young woman asked Aklabelkah on why she does it differently than other Island Lords (ie, help people survive, providing shelters and foods ). To this, she replied something like "And why not? Is it not beautiful like slaughtering virgins or bloody wars?"
Then eventually the last thing I remember before waking up was Kermit the frog playing quitar in a dim bar or coffeehouse. It was a odd twist... O_o
Few of my friends have dreamed of Aklabelkah as well.
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:30 am
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Interesting dream, how do you know which muse is yours?
Last night I had several dreams but I can only remember bits and pieces, I was at grandma's with two other people I don't actually know, I was making tea but I really wanted hot chocolate.
And then there was one where I was on a spaceship, and I think I had an argument with someone. There may or may not have been a teddy bear involved.
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:28 am
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TheBritishInvasion wrote:
Interesting dream, how do you know which muse is yours?
Well, one can have as many muses as they want or need. I usually know mine by their presence or appearance. Aklabelkah... Abby for short, often have red hair, blacked out eyes, and long fingers.
I had LOTS of fun playing around. The image suits the feel quite well for she is dark, sadistic and have many secrets.
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:38 pm
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Really cool picture, I love it!
Okay, I have this dream like once a year, and it's always fairly the same. Maria, a friend of mine, myself and my sister Erin and usually one other guy who doesn't even exist outside the dream world.
Okay, it starts off that Maria's house is sort of out in the middle of nowhere, and it's not exactly her house so much as it's my house but she lives there for some reason. Her parents are gone, either missing or on an extended vacation, last night they were in Las Vegas ^^. Her siblings are also usually nowhere to be seen.
Anyway, we spend the first part of the dream making a meal, but also we're pulling together like Thin Mint cookies and sodas, snack typse stuff. The dunny thing is, last night I had a moment in the dream where I looked in one of the lunch bags we were packing, saw some thin mints from LAST YEAR'S DREAM, I kid you not, and pointed them out to my sister and Maria.
Anyway, after that, we load up all our food and soda into a hot air balloon, and then we take off. Each time I have the dream we go somewhere diffferent, last night we ended up landing outside some family's big reunion in an old house. But anyway, I guess I just like the dream because it's recurring. But I don't know what it means.
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:48 am
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I dreamt that my friend Will and I went to visit Ponce at the hospital, but it took so long for use to sign in that I had to leave before I could see her.
Also the hsopital was on a horse farm.
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:21 am
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My dream was so wacked last night.
'Kay, so, like there I was in this grocery store, and I was being chased my D*sney-version Hades, and I ran into a furniture/interior decor store, nextdoor. So I keep on trying to hide and I find myself in front of this lady there, who looked and acted alot like Lady Catherine De Berg from the newest Pride and prejudice was there with her spoiled granddaughter, and she wanted me to help decorate this room that we were in for her graddaughter. And it was all cutesty-purple crap, and the kids all "do this, no, do that!" and suddenly I turn around and we're in a flat of an apartment in like NYC.
So, I go looking through the rooms and a room of Willie Wonka's chocolate factory(like the TB version) was there, and there were all these, like, demonic kids, whose brains had been taken over, and the Johnny Depp Willy Wonka statred freaking out and so, well, I can't remember if he ran or the kids "got him".
After the WW incident, they somehow managed to get, get this, Shakira and Marilyn Manson, and turned then into evil constructs for their use.
And so like, MM is all like "call me Manson" and shakira's wearing hideouly revealing clothing, even moreso than when she had walked in.
And so they run off, and like, nobody understands that they're even constructs, even though they look like they've died.
And when I asked "Manson" ('cause I tracked him down to his flat) why they would choose him to be their construct of evil, he replied, "because I'm highly influencial", and so I left.
I zoomed back to the weird flat that had the spoiled girl's room and the Waked-out Wonka kids, and found out that the flat belonged to the girl's parent's, and they had like, all these bedrooms, even though it was just the three of them.
And so, I went down to the street only to find that it had been replaced by a small canal, and inside of it was most of my belongings (but none of it was my actual stuff, I just knew it was mine) so, I jumped in the water and my inflatable shark turned into a real shark, but just before it got me, these government officials pulled me into this boat they had.
They told me since I witnessed the MM and S incidents, I had to be a part of this Secret Service thing, 'cause I knew to much. So, they took me to this warehouse, where me and a few other people were, and they would take us out every once and awhile to do things, but they wern't really important things; like they took me out to this really nice resturaunt once, and then I din't leave the warehouse afterwards. It was mostly the same thing for four of the rest of us, ecxept there was this other girl, and the government officials had taken her shopping and out fine dining five times, and she came in wearing these Prada shoes that they had just bought her. And I told them that it was ridculous that they were picking this dumb girl to go out and dote over when there was the rest of us, some who hadn't even left the wearhouse to do anything, and on top of that, we wern't helping to do anything about the improvement of the status of the world.
And, then, all of the sudden, there was this telecast in the sky and this guy said he was going to destroy us, (he said 'You' but I think he meant humankind) and so he went of to talk about this volcano that he had made form over the past few days, and it was goning to be so big, it was going to top Vesuvious( except he said this other name, but I knew Vesuvious was what he meant) and Mt. St. Helens and some other volcano, mixed together and that we had a day to stop the volcano. And so we all piled into these military vehicles and headed off to find the location of the volcano. And so they found it was in this area of georgia that was apparently pink form the sky, and so we flew in to find these people selling real estate there, and some of them were singing whilst trying to sell us Real estate. And I said that this was stupid and didn't they know about the volcano, and they just kept on singing, and then, I ended up recognizing the tune, and so I joined in on the harmony, and they lady who wasn't singing before started singing to outdo me, and we were fighting through singing, and she got to this high A which is *just* outside my range IRL so I couldn't hit it, and then it was nightime and this lady who worked for the goverment had fallen in love with this other government guy on the mountain, gotten pregnant and had a baby all in less than 8 hours, I tried explaining to them that that in itself was not possible, and then I woke up.
And yes, most of my dreams are like this, which is why I can only remember a little bit. There was some part before he hades grocery store incident, but, I can't remember what it was...
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:30 pm
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Because I can actually remember my dream, and I'm kind of trying to avoid going outside to change my tire before work... Here you go!
Warning: It's not at all rainbows and butterflies.
The dream starts off in the top floor of my house, except it's laid out a bit differently in that the gaming room (a large room where we'll eventually put a pool table, in addition to the large TV and gaming systems. Also has a bed in it)...anyway, the gaming room was now some sort of deck. Anyhow, my brother and I go out on the deck and there are all sorts of guns on the far edge of the deck, yet somehow this isn't odd. What was odd was that I checked my wallet, and found a $10 I didn't know I had. For some reason, my dream had exactly the cash my wallet had in it last night, three $20's and a $5...plus my emergency money, my two credit cards, ID, various business cards...very strange for such a literal placement.
Anyhow! My brother, my father, and my mother each pick out their chosen weapon. My brother chooses an AK-47, with a slightly modified muzzle sight. My father picked out a .30-06 like he goes hunting with, and my mother had her AR-15 (which she actually does own one). Mine was...interesting. It was a large bore bolt action rifle with a scope, yet it swiveled just behind the bolt chamber, so that the butt of the rifle could actually be turned 90 degrees from the rest of the rifle (a truly purposeless modification).
Then, these people show up below the house. There are six of them (only four made it past the opening scene), and they all have weapons too. My father goes down to talk to them, and my brother takes up position in his room which is down the walkway from the gaming room. My mother was...somewhere. Anyhow, my father doesn't come back, and these guys start yelling at us to come out after them. So, being the fool, I set down my rifle and head outside to check on my father.
Almost as soon as I step out the side door and onto the lower deck (which is there IRL), a thin black crossbow bolt with a quad-titanium head (vicious things) slips past my neck, grazing my shirt collar. I drop to the ground in time to avoid a second bolt, which sticks into the door. The leader of the strangers is firing at me from a wrist-mounted crossbow, much like Davion Vayne's previous (medevial) incarnations used.
He keeps firing, and I keep dodging as best I can, but finally his last bolt slides along my arm and catches my sleeve, then pins my shirt to the ground at the shoulder. He walks up the few steps to the deck and smiles a sickening smile at me, and asks me to join them.
So, I think for a second, outline my plan in my head, and nod that I will. He smiles, removes the arrows, and helps me up. Two of his consorts go with me, the other one searching the house for my mother. I lead my duo upstairs, and look to my right and through the door to the gaming room. Somehow I know my brother is hiding behind the dresser where the guns and gun cases are now resting, so I tell my duo that I'll go get my rifle and be back.
As I reach for my rifle, he looks up at me, and I just give him a "don't worry" look. He just looks back down, shaking. I grab the rifle and head back out to the hallway, give a smile to my two "consorts", and motion for the stairs. As soon as their backs are turned, I raise the rifle and fire point-blank into the back of the head of the first, then swing the rifle around and slam the butt of the gun into the side of the other's head, knocking him off the stairs.
As I'm fooling with the bolt, trying to get the cartridge out and reload, the leader of the strangers whips around the corner and raises his actual rifle at me this time...but out of the corner of the room he's in, my father raises from his hiding place and sends a single round into the stranger, which knocks him back through the glass sliding door onto the deck we haven't built yet, which is a 15 foot drop..
The last guy from their group throws his gun down and screams he surrenders. My mother shows up at this point and puts him in handcuffs.
Next thing I know, we're driving out of there. My parents go in one car, and my brother and I in another. My parents disappear, but my brother and I end up at Chuck-e-Cheese's. Instead of being for kids it's like...some sort of adult gaming center. My brother gets five dollars in tokens (cash from my wallet, which was present in my dream before for seemingly no reason) and disappears from the dream. Once he's gone, I shoulder the rifle and start wandering around. There's a large table of people I don't recognize, chattering and eating.
Behind them, a guy in an Andromeda (TV show, it's good, watch it!) shirt sits down at the computer. I grin when I see him, and salute him like a Neitchzian (butchered that spelling). He looks at me like I'm crazy, but when I go over to him and explain to him (and everyone else) they all get it and start laughing. I glance at his computer screen, and it says they've found the remains of some name I can't remember.
So, I know they're in this building somehow. I go wandering again, and round a corner to see two rooms on the right. In the first is the crew manning the controls, and they're furiously getting something together on the terminals... I go to the next door, and there's a woman's face beyond the glass, but she's frozen. They're reconstructing her via her remains, and somehow I know that this woman is
really really really
bad news. Didn't look familiar, though...
So, she thaws, destroys her "creators" much to their protests, and then looks at me curiously. For some reason, I wasn't exactly afraid. She touches me on the shoulder, and we're gone. Next scene is in some basement of a house I vaguely recognize (though, again, structurally modified). The next part of the dream is entirely "M", but the general idea of the dream was thus:
This woman, who had a fairly exotic name (something to do with R's) was a vampire, and required both lifeblood and attention to survive. So, I was more or less her "pet" and not just her lover. This went on, and as she drained my life I aged quickly. Her friends would laugh at me, and sometimes she would bring them in too and play with/drain them.
Finally she was gone one evening, and I was sitting at the dinner table. One of the servants she kept asked me "Why do you stay here, why? You were to be such a great person, and if you stay here you shall do nothing but die!" I looked up, but the person was gone. I smiled, because I knew they were right.
(Back into the transcription of the dream, censorship off)
I nodded, and stood. I realized that this being was correct, and so I left...except I teleported
this time. I was back at the table with all the people, and they hadn't moved a bit. I explained that I was going to cleanse the entire world of the evil I'd helped bring into it, and they all agreed. I picked my rifle back up, but this time it was a sword of some kind.
Then I teleported each person to a location, most of them in groups of four or five, in these elaborately built and rather amazing living structures, that produced food and water. The structures could also close or open up their surfaces, and could expand and grow as needed. Anyhow, once everyone was placed I prepared to do what I'd said, when vampire woman shows up.
She raises her arms in an open gesture, and smiles her best winning smile. She said "Come now, if you love me, you won't do this to me. We can be happy together for the rest of eternity...just come with me, and forget all this nonsense." (I should mention, until I'd started helping the people again my hair had gone white with age. It was again now black, like it is in all my dreams).
I shook my head at her, and smiled. "Love from the lips of the devil, is like a poison kiss from an angel." And I, too vanished, but I was flying high in the sky. There were my family and some friends behind me, but too far away to see clearly. I remember feeling a great warmth, but then a great cold as a wave of...I guess liquid energy (light/hope/love/goodness/purity, take your pick) exploded out from the center (me) and spread rapidly, covering the land and destroying everything that was remotely human.
My friends and family flew behind the wave, and as we passed they would drop into those structures I had made for the survivors, who were also untouched by the energy wave. The wave grew in strength and intensity, moving faster and faster until I was struggling to keep up. Then, I simply ended the wave with a thought as it crossed into the ocean. For some reason I thought that the people across the ocean had nothing to do with it, and they were too far behind our culture to be bothered with our problems. In the dream, I was closer to the center point of the world, and the young culture was to the west (So none of that "American Ego" BS
Then I fell. I fell from the sky, and to the earth, and straight through the ground. I fell and fell until all I could see was blackness and patches of hot gass or liquid, molten rock. I kept falling, until I was surrounded by fire. I knew that I was in the core of the earth, and a being appeared and began walking toward me. It was either bathed in, or made of, the same fire that surrounded me.
I looked up at the being, and it smiled a wickedly evil smile (reminding me of the attacker at my house, from the beginning of the dream), and reached out to place it's hand on my head. It said, simply, "It's time for you to die again."
And then I woke up.
...This is what happens when I get more than six hours sleep. In the end, I'm either sleep deprived, or have REALLY wierd dreams...
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:53 am
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Wow, you may want to copy that one out of the forums and consider a story plot, even just for the volume you have written
Well, I'm going to follow with a fairly condensed dream summary. It started out that I was captain of a mission to Mars, but a very 21st century feel to everything, the almost hodge podge look our current spacecraft have, nothing sleek or too futuristic here. We don't even have artificial gravity. But then I'm watching from mission control's perspective and our craft goes missing, never to be heard from again.
But did I say never? We eventually do get found and rescued, about five hundred years in the future, by Starfleet. Me and the surviving crew were frozen, and thus still alive when rescued personally by Picard, which i still don't have an explanation for.
Anyway, it turns out our ship had been attacked by a big dark space shadow thing that just ate everything, including half my crew, but I had been able to fend it off from myself and the other survivors with a tazer before we got frozen. Anyway, while on the enterprise, I get teamed up with Warf for some reason and the shadow comes back, and we have to fight together, but Warf doesn't like me at all. And then I woke up.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:42 am
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'Kay, so my dreams lately have been wierd. A couple weeks ago, I dreamed I was back in Israel, in the lunch room, eating spaghetti and whipped cream for lunch, and my family was there. I said hi several times, but nobody responded, and my response was, "I must be dreaming, then, 'cause she's not responding." And that was it. Ate lunch, thought "Must be dreaming," and continued eating.
Another dream was very convoluted, set in a sort-of post-apocalyptic world (half-destroyed buildings and the like), and there was one massive room underground with sun-lit windows, where a black cat who taught karate sang a Josh Grobain song to Josh Grobain. I have never seen him in my life. I have never heard any of his songs, I think. I don't even know what he looks like! What was he doing in my dream?!?
The one I had last night involved a long journey, first by flying motorcycle, then flying elephant. Eddie Murphy, two other guys (I don't think they were human) and a girl/me. Eddie was a joker until the motorcycle crashed, then he started grumbling when we went shopping for the elephant. When we got on, he got really angry and shouted and then he fell off. The rest of us shrugged and kept going, wondering what was wrong. When we landed, the smaller of my companions turned around and said, "No wonder! We were flying through the black clouds." Which was an area that magnified negative emotions.
Then we walked through a large tunnel, but when I turned around, I was the only one there, so I kept going. The guys must have crashed the golf cart somewhere behind me, and if I wanted to make it to the end, I couldn't afford to go back and get lost. I came out in a room with a window and a closet. I opened the closet and climbed through the back wall, into another room with a painting on the wall. I lifted the painting, which was a piece of paper, and climbed through the frame into a small white room with a small window, a door in the opposite wall, and hole in the wall behind me where I'd come through. I was supposed to wait here. The room was at the back of a large cement-block building right on the edge of the canal, and the water was rushing past and the spray made the foot-wide concrete ledge extremely slick. I wasn't actually supposed to be outside, since it wasn't safe, so I went back inside and waited patiently for my contact to show up.
A short while (which was probably, in real dream time, a long while) later, McGonagall and Dumbledore flew in through the hole and landed next to me, relieved that I'd made it. They had gotten worried when they didn't see anyone coming and gone back to check on our route. They found my two companions, the bear of a man and the little man, who had been worried about me, and brought them forward. Now they were debriefing us on the current situation, the new regulations, and the safety hazards. I was relieved we were finally safe.
The overall atmosphere was the we were refugees escaping something, and Eddie wasn't actually supposed to be with us, since he was a spy of some sort. The whole closet, wall, etc. sequence is a reference to a different dream I've had before, where there's an escape route in the back wall of a little girl's closet.
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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:00 pm
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Dreamed I had decided to try again for a PhD. I had switched to biology (which made perfect sense in the dream, but which in real life I'm totally unqualified to pursue a PhD in). I was studying a population of swordfish living in a freshwater lake in the mountains. I wasn't studying them because that's a weird place for swordfish to live, you understand; in the dream, that was perfectly normal. I was studying them for another reason, I think just because they were big fish.
Anyway, there was a problem. The locals didn't like me messing around in the lake. It took me a long time to get them to let me do my first field study, which involved dragging a net from one end of the lake to the other, pulling all the large fish out, and giving them RFID tags before throwing them back. Finally I got some funding, and locals grudgingly agreed to let me get to work.
Turns out they were right to be leery, because there was a sunken city in the middle of the lake. It rose from the water as I was part way through, stained white columns covered in dripping seaweed and algae shooting up around me. And it was full of undead creatures called "morgs". They were shambling creatures about 4.5 to five feet in height with grey, blotchy skin. Kind of like
classic roswell-style aliens
, only with tiny eyes, a hunch, and no conversation beyond "uuuungh."
The morgs wanted to catch me and make me King of the Dead. They had a big stained white crown they wanted to put on me, and I knew if they touched me (or one of my companions) then we were done for. We faced the first batch across a flooded room -- they were standing on a ledge on one side, and we were on the other. They didn't want to jump in the water and swim for some reason, which is odd now that I come to think of it, but made sense at the time. My companions and I vaporized several with laser pistols, but then they started coming across, some swimming, others poling over in small boats kind of like gondolas only much shorter. And a few of them had become invisible, which meant we had to run away.
They chased as up through the city, until we came to the very highest points of it. In desperation, I leaped from there onto a cliff face on the shore, and the morgs couldn't follow me.
But I wasn't safe, because the morgs had human accomplices. Two local women were waiting for me on shore, one in a black dress, the other in a red dress. The morg carrying the crown threw it to one of them, who caught it and continued the pursuit. They were beautiful; I was sorry to have to run away from them. Anyway, after a brief chase, I wound up leaping back onto the turrets of the city.
Then I woke up. ^_^
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:12 am
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For the last two days I have dreamed I was the Jokers assistant. Not Harley Quinn, just his assistant. But I'm not sure I wanted to be.
It was weird.
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:57 pm
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That's funny. xD I just watched the original Tim Burton "Batman" this week.
(Nice picture, Mirf.)
Because I was recently in a production of "The Mikado", I had a lot of random dreams involving my OCs in the Mikado roles. I think it would only be funny to me, though.
I had this creepy, violent dream about fighting giants. It scared me. ._. But my people figured out that giants don't know what to do when you run at them in a straight line. (?) Yeah. Dream Logic. But I think we ended up beating them. It was graphic nasty, though.
I've been having a lot of nightmares about giants, lately.
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:44 pm
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I remember these two dreams over the past two days. They weren't very happy.
The first took place in a library. There was this line I was standing in, and they made us breath this yellow powder and then get stamped by some machine. My friends were all in front me, and when I was second in line behind one of my friends, I noticed that this stamp thing left a horrible gash. No one seemed to mind, they seemed to enjoy it. People were using smaller stamp machines over by themselves. Some of them were missing chunks of meat to the point you could see the bone. It freaked me out, so I ran. No one chased me, but I was all alone. Every had stayed except me.
The other dream took place inside one of those basalt stepped pyramids in Central America. It was in ruins and the jungles had invaded the halls. I found myself in a central chamber where light came in through stone jaguars' eyes. There were these sort of Mesoamerican anthropomorphic creatures working. They were repairing the temple, and adjusting the jaguar statues. The lights coming from the statues met at a certain angle, but the area where they did was pitch black. Out of the shadows, something that looked like Quetzalcoatl flew out. The creatures began to lead people up to the top of the temple where a central shaft fell all the way down. They herded the people over the edge where the creature began to eat them. The more people it ate, the brighter the lights from the jaguars became, and the pit became wider. As it became wider, more creatures came pouring out. I woke up after that.
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"Around the city, we are having problems with golf carts, gators and four-wheelers being ridden on city streets," said Alderman Danny Abraham. "There is a law in Cleveland called the slow-moving vehicle law and I have asked the Cleveland Police Department for help with this matter."
According to Police Chief Charles "Buster" Bingham the slow-moving vehicle law that Abraham was referring to is actual one that covers the entire state of Mississippi.
The state statute reads that anyone operating any form of slow-moving vehicle must be at 16 years of age and hold a valid state drivers license.
"If we were going to get more strict on the law, then we would ultimately have to adopt a city ordinance on the matter," he told the board several meetings ago. "And, we have some questions as to the type of enforcement that we can legally provide."
Two of the questions at the forefront of the matter were: can the CPD take someone under the age of 13 into custody; and, would it be legal to tow a golf cart driven by an underage driver at the owner's expense?
At Tuesday night's monthly board of aldermen meeting, city attorney Jamie Jacks offered an opinion on the matter giving from the state Attorney General's Office.
According to the Attorney General's opinion, the Cleveland Police Department can make stops of underage drivers of slow-moving vehicles.
"What the opinion says basically is that the police department can in fact take a person under the age of 13 in custody," said Jacks. "They can be taken to the department where their parents would be contacted to pick them up.
"The AG's opinion also states that the city's police department could in fact tow golf carts from city streets at the expense of the owner and citations could be written," Jacks added.
After a minute of discussion Jacks said she would draw something up and present it before the board at next month's meeting.

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God's care of his people. (1-9) they are encouraged not to fear. (10-20) The vanity and folly of idolatry. (21-29)
Verses 1-9 Can any heathen god raise up one in righteousness, make what use of him he pleases, and make him victorious over the nations? The Lord did so with Abraham, or rather, he would do so with Cyrus. Sinners encourage one another in the ways of sin; shall not the servants of the living God stir up one another in his service? God's people are the seed of Abraham his friend. This is certainly the highest title ever given to a mortal. It means that Abraham, by Divine grace, was made like to God, and that he was admitted to communion with Him. Happy are the servants of the Lord, whom he has called to be his friends, and to walk with him in faith and holy obedience. Let not such as have thus been favoured yield to fear; for the contest may be sharp, but the victory shall be sure.
Verses 10-20 God speaks with tenderness; Fear thou not, for I am with thee: not only within call, but present with thee. Art thou weak? I will strengthen thee. Art thou in want of friends? I will help thee in the time of need. Art thou ready to fall? I will uphold thee with that right hand which is full of righteousness, dealing forth rewards and punishments. There are those that strive with God's people, that seek their ruin. Let not God's people render evil for evil, but wait God's time. It is the worm Jacob; so little, so weak, so despised and trampled on by every body. God's people are as worms, in humble thoughts of themselves, and in their enemies' haughty thoughts of them; worms, but not vipers, not of the serpent's seed. Every part of God's word is calculated to humble man's pride, and to make him appear little in his own eyes. The Lord will help them, for he is their Redeemer. The Lord will make Jacob to become a threshing instrument. God will make him fit for use, new, and having sharp spikes. This has fulfilment in the triumphs of the gospel of Christ, and of all faithful followers of Christ, over the power of darkness. God has provided comforts to supply all their wants, and to answer all their prayers. Our way to heaven lies through the wilderness of this world. The soul of man is in want, and seeks for satisfaction; but becomes weary of seeking that in the world, which is not to be had in it. Yet they shall have a constant supply, where one would least expect it. I will open rivers of grace, rivers of living water, which Christ spake of the Spirit, ( john 7:38 john 7:39 ) . When God sets up his church in the Gentile wilderness, there shall be a great change, as if thorns and briers were turned into cedars, and fir-trees, and myrtles. These blessings are kept for the poor in spirit, who long for Divine enlightening, pardon, and holiness. And God will render their barren souls fruitful in the grace of his Spirit, that all who behold may consider it.
Verses 21-29 There needs no more to show the folly of sin, than to bring to notice the reasons given in defence of it. There is nothing in idols worthy of regard. They are less than nothing, and worse than nothing. Let the advocates of other doctrines than that of salvation through Christ, bring their arguments. Can they tell of a cure for human depravity? Jehovah has power which cannot be withstood; this he will make appear. But the certain knowledge of the future must be only with Jehovah, who fulfils his own plans. All prophecies, except those of the Bible, have been uncertain. In the work of redemption the Lord showed himself much more than in the release of the Jews from Babylon. The good tidings the Lord will send in the gospel, is a mystery hid from ages and generations. A Deliverer is raised up for us, of nobler name and greater power than the deliverer of the captive Jews. May we be numbered among his obedient servants and faithful friends.
Isaiah 41:1-29 . ADDITIONAL REASONS WHY THE JEWS SHOULD PLACE CONFIDENCE IN GOD'S PROMISES OF DELIVERING THEM; HE WILL RAISE UP A PRINCE AS THEIR DELIVERER, WHEREAS THE IDOLS COULD NOT DELIVER THE HEATHEN NATIONS FROM THAT PRINCE.
1. ( Zechariah 2:13 ). God is about to argue the case; therefore let the nations listen in reverential silence. Compare Genesis 28:16 Genesis 28:17 , as to the spirit in which we ought to behave before God.
before me--rather (turning), "towards me" [MAURER].
islands--including all regions beyond sea ( Jeremiah 25:22 ), maritime regions, not merely isles in the strict sense.
renew . . . strength--Let them gather their strength for the argument; let them adduce their strongest arguments (compare Isaiah 1:18 , Job 9:32 ). "Judgment" means here, to decide the point at issue between us.
2. Who--else but God? The fact that God "raiseth up" Cyrus and qualifies him for becoming the conqueror of the nations and deliverer of God's people, is a strong argument why they should trust in Him. The future is here prophetically represented as present or past.
the righteous man--Cyrus; as Isaiah 44:28 , Isaiah 45:1-4 Isaiah 45:13 , 46:11 , "from the East," prove. Called "righteous," not so much on account of his own equity [HERODOTUS, 3.89], as because he fulfilled God's righteous will in restoring the Jews from their unjust captivity. Raised him up in righteousness. The Septuagint takes the Hebrew as a noun "righteousness." MAURER translates, "Who raised up him whom salvation (national and temporal, the gift of God's 'righteousness' to the good, Isaiah 32:17 ; compare Isaiah 45:8 , 51:5 ) meets at his foot" (that is, wherever he goes). Cyrus is said to come from the East, because Persia is east of Babylon; but in Isaiah 41:25 , from the north, in reference to Media. At the same time the full sense of righteousness, or righteous, and of the whole passage, is realized only in Messiah, Cyrus' antitype (Cyrus knew not God, Isaiah 45:4 ). He goes forth as the Universal Conqueror of the "nations," in righteousness making war ( Psalms 2:8 Psalms 2:9 , Revelation 19:11-15 , 6:2 , Revelation 2:26 Revelation 2:27 ). "The idols He shall utterly abolish" (compare Isaiah 41:7:23 , with Isaiah 2:18 ). Righteousness was always raised up from the East. Paradise was east of Eden. The cherubim were at the east of the garden. Abraham was called from the East. Judea, the birthplace of Messiah, was in the East.
called . . . to . . . foot--called him to attend His (God's) steps, that is, follow His guidance. In Ezra 1:2 , Cyrus acknowledges Jehovah as the Giver of his victories. He subdued the nations from the Euxine to the Red Sea, and even Egypt (says XENOPHON).
dust--( Isaiah 17:13 , 29:5 , Psalms 18:42 ). Persia, Cyrus' country, was famed for the use of the "bow" ( Isaiah 22:6 ). "Before him" means "gave them into his power" ( Joshua 10:12 ). MAURER translates, "Gave his (the enemy's) sword to be dust, and his (the enemy's) bow to be as stubble" ( Job 41:26 Job 41:29 ).
3. Cyrus had not visited the regions of the Euphrates and westward until he visited them for conquest. So the gospel conquests penetrated regions where the name of God was unknown before.
4. Who--else but God?
calling . . . generations from . . . beginning--The origin and position of all nations are from God ( Deuteronomy 32:8 , Acts 17:26 ); what is true of Cyrus and his conquests is true of all the movements of history from the first; all are from God.
with the last--that is the last ( Isaiah 44:6 , 48:12 ).
5. feared--that they would be subdued.
drew near, and came--together, for mutual defense.
6. Be of good courage--Be not alarmed because of Cyrus, but make new images to secure the favor of the gods against him.
7. One workman encourages the other to be quick in finishing the idol, so as to avert the impending danger.
nails--to keep it steady in its place. Wisdom 13:15,16, gives a similar picture of the folly of idolatry.
8. Contrast between the idolatrous nations whom God will destroy by Cyrus, and Israel whom God will deliver by the same man for their forefathers' sake.
servant--so termed as being chosen by God to worship Him themselves, and to lead other peoples to do the same ( Isaiah 45:4 ).
Jacob . . . chosen--( Psalms 135:4 ).
my friend--literally, "loving me."
9. Abraham, the father of the Jews, taken from the remote Ur of the Chaldees. Others take it of Israel, called out of Egypt ( Deuteronomy 4:37 , Hosea 11:1 ).
from the chief men--literally, "the elbows"; so the joints; hence the root which joins the tree to the earth; figuratively, those of ancient and noble stock. But the parallel clause "ends of the earth" favors GESENIUS, who translates, "the extremities of the earth"; so JEROME.
10. be not dismayed--literally, anxiously to look at one another in dismay.
right hand of my righteousness--that is, My right hand prepared in accordance with My righteousness (faithfulness to My promises) to uphold thee.
11. ashamed--put to the shame of defeat (compare Isaiah 54:17 , Romans 9:33 ).
12. seek . . . and . . . not find--said of one so utterly put out of the way that not a trace of him can be found ( Psalms 37:36 ).
thing of naught--shall utterly perish.
13. ( Deuteronomy 33:26 Deuteronomy 33:29 ).
14. worm--in a state of contempt and affliction, whom all loathe and tread on, the very expression which Messiah, on the cross, applies to Himself ( Psalms 22:6 ), so completely are the Lord and His people identified and assimilated. God's people are as 'worms' in humble thoughts of themselves, and in their enemies' haughty thoughts of them; worms, but not vipers, or of the serpent's seed." [HENRY].
men--The parallelism requires the word "men" here to have associated with it the idea of fewness or feebleness. LOWTH translates, "Ye mortals of Israel." The Septuagint, "altogether diminutive." MAURER supports English Version, which the Hebrew text best accord with.
the Lord--in general.
and thy redeemer--in particular; a still stronger reason why He should "help" them.
15. God will make Israel to destroy their enemies as the Eastern corn-drag ( Isaiah 28:27 Isaiah 28:28 ) bruises out the grain with its teeth, and gives the chaff to the winds to scatter.
teeth--serrated, so as to cut up the straw for fodder and separate the grain from the chaff.
mountains . . . hills--kingdoms more or less powerful that were hostile to Israel ( Isaiah 2:14 ).
16. fan--winnowed (compare Matthew 3:12 ).
whirlwind . . . scatter them--( Job 27:21 , 30:22 ).
17. poor and needy--primarily, the exiles in Babylon.
water--figuratively, refreshment, prosperity after their affliction. The language is so constructed as only very partially to apply to the local and temporary event of the restoration from Babylon; but fully to be realized in the waters of life and of the Spirit, under the Gospel ( Isaiah 30:25 , 44:3 , John 7:37-39 , 4:14 ). God wrought no miracles that we read of, in any wilderness, during the return from Babylon.
faileth--rather, "is rigid" or parched [HORSLEY].
18. Alluding to the waters with which Israel was miraculously supplied in the desert after having come out of Egypt.
high places--bare of trees, barren, and unwatered ( Jeremiah 4:11 , 14:6 ). "High places . . . valleys" spiritually express that in all circumstances, whether elevated or depressed, God's people will have refreshment for their souls, however little to be expected it might seem.
19. ( Isaiah 32:15 , 55:13 ).
shittah--rather, the "acacia," or Egyptian thorn, from which the gum Arabic is obtained [LOWTH].
oil tree--the olive.
fir tree--rather, the "cypress": grateful by its shade.
pine--GESENIUS translates, "the holm."
box tree--not the shrub used for bordering flower beds, but [GESENIUS] a kind of cedar, remarkable for the smallness of its cones, and the upward direction of its branches.
20. consider--literally, "lay it (to hear)"; turn (their attention) to it. "They" refers to all lands ( Isaiah 41:1 , Psalms 64:9 , 40:3 ). The effect on the Gentiles .of God's open interposition hereafter in behalf of Israel shall be, they shall seek Israel's God ( Isaiah 2:3 , Zechariah 8:21-23 ).
21. A new challenge to the idolaters (see Isaiah 41:1 Isaiah 41:7 ) to say, can their idols predict future events as Jehovah can ( Isaiah 41:22-25 , &c.)?
your strong reasons--the reasons for idol-worship which you think especially strong.
22. what shall happen--"Let them bring near and declare future contingencies" [HORSLEY].
former things . . . the latter end of them--show what former predictions the idols have given, that we may compare the event ("latter end") with them; or give new prophecies ("declare things to come") ( Isaiah 42:9 ), [MAURER]. BARNES explains it more reconditely, "Let them foretell the entire series of events, showing, in their order, the things which shall first occur, as well as those which shall finally happen"; the false prophets tried to predict isolated events, having no mutual dependency; not a long series of events mutually and orderly connected, and stretching far into futurity. They did not even try to do this. None but God can do it ( Isaiah 46:10 , Isaiah 44:7 Isaiah 44:8 ). "Or . . . things to come" will, in this view, mean, Let them, if they cannot predict the series, even predict plainly any detached events.
23. do good . . . evil--give any proof at all of your power, either to reward your friends or punish your enemies ( Psalms 115:2-8 ).
that we may be dismayed, and behold it together--MAURER translates, "That we (Jehovah and the idols) may look one another in the face (that is, encounter one another, 2 Kings 14:8 2 Kings 14:11 ), and see" our respective powers by a trial. HORSLEY translates, "Then the moment we behold, we shall be dismayed." "We" thus, and in English Version, refers to Jehovah and His worshippers.
25. raised up--in purpose: not fulfilled till a hundred fifty years afterwards.
north--In Isaiah 41:2 , "from the East"; both are true: see the note there.
call . . . my name--acknowledge Me as God, and attribute his success to Me; this he did in the proclamation ( Ezra 1:2 ). This does not necessarily imply that Cyrus renounced idolatry, but hearing of Isaiah's prophecy given a hundred fifty years before, so fully realized in his own acts, he recognized God as the true God, but retained his idol (so Naaman, 2 Kings 5:1-27 ; compare 2 Kings 17:33 2 Kings 17:41 , Daniel 3:28 , Daniel 4:1-3 Daniel 4:34-37 ).
princes--the Babylonian satraps or governors of provinces.
mortar--"mire"; He shall tread them under foot as dirt ( Isaiah 10:6 ).
26. Who--of the idolatrous soothsayers? When this prophecy shall be fulfilled, all shall see that God foretold as to Cyrus, which none of the soothsayers have.
beforetime--before the event occurred.
He is righteous--rather, "It is true"; it was a true prophecy, as the event shows. "He is righteous," in English Version, must be interpreted, The fulfilment of the idol's words proves that he is faithful.
showeth, &c.--rather, "there was none (of the soothsayers) that showed . . . declared--no one has heard your words" foretelling the event.
27. Rather, "I first will give to Zion and to Jerusalem the messenger of good tidings, Behold, behold them!" The clause, "Behold . . . them" (the wished-for event is now present) is inserted in the middle of the sentence as a detached exclamation, by an elegant transposition, the language being framed abruptly, as one would speak in putting vividly as it were, before the eyes of others, some joyous event which he had just learned [LUDOVICUS DE DIEU] (compare Isaiah 40:9 ). None of the idols had foretold these events. Jehovah was the "first" to do so (see Isaiah 41:4 ).
28. no counsellor--no one of the idolatrous soothsayers who could inform ( Numbers 24:14 ) those who consulted them what would take place. Compare "counsel of His messenger" ( Isaiah 44:26 ).
when I asked--that is, challenged them, in this chapter.
29. confusion--"emptiness" [BARNES].


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- May 31:
- Willits bypass court case coming down to the wire
- Letter:Wake Up Willits! about the bypass
- Letter: Protecting pot growers while raising highway stink (bypass)
- Letter: Little Lake Wick Drilling Model.
- May 24:
- City holds course on Willits bypass relinquishment efforts
- May 22:
- Piles, wick drains and protests
- May 17:
- Letter: Bypass Scam
- Willits bypass route remains an area of conflict
- May 9:
- Brooktrails to reconsider bypass support on Tuesday
- May 8:
- CalTrans poised to begin major bypass work
- May 3:
- Last two Willits tree-sitters slip away
- May 1:
- CalTrans violated bypass construction permits, Water Board charges
- Willits bypass construction update
- Willits protesters off to Sacramento and LA
- Apr 25:
- Farm Bureau, CalTrans issue statements on bypass settlement
- Two arrests as bypass protesters stage sit-in
- Apr 23:
- Farm Bureau settles bypass lawsuit
- Apr 18:
- Willits bypass update: On the use of wick drains; Why they are being used
- Violent tree sitter pleads guilty to felony; sentencing scheduled May 31
- Apr 11:
- Large crowd objects to Brooktrails' bypass support
- Apr 9:
- Willits bypass progress report
- Apr 4:
- Willits: All five tree-sit protesters removed from CalTrans' Willits bypass right of way
- Apr 2:
- Updated at 5 p.m. Tree sitters blocking Willits bypass route pulled from trees
- Mar 29:
- Tree-sitter declares hunger strike
- BOS remains committed to Willits bypass
- Mar 28:
- Tree-sitter declares hunger strike
- Mar 26:
- Willits bypass construction continues
- Mar 21:
- CHP arrives in force to clear bypass protesters
- Union members call for end to bypass delay
- Mar 19:
- Showdown likely between protesters and CalTrans
- Mar 16:
- Showdown likely between protestors and CalTrans
- Mar 14:
- Rally supports Willits bypass, while protestors shut down worksite
- Mar 12:
- Commentary: Phase 1 of the Willits bypass is unsafe, destructive and wasteful
- Commentary: Local first or Interregional?
- LETTER: Hearing from the whole community
- LETTER: Consider consquences
- CalTrans bypass: The waiting game continues
- Mar 8:
- LETTER: Bypass-- 'Un'occupy the highway
- LETTER: Bypass--There are 'better ways'
- LETTER: Bypass plan is 'unsafe'
- LETTER: The public should know more on the bypass boondoggle
- LETTER: Out on a limb on the bypass
- Mar 5:
- Bypass protests and counter 'statements'
- Feb 28:
- Bypass project halted by the birds and Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Feb 26:
- Commentary: Bypass means a safer, healthier Little Lake Valley
- Bypass construction starts, then stops
- Letter: The bypass--Is there 'a better way'?
- Feb 19:
- Commentary: Why is there a tree sit in Willits to protest the CalTrans bypass?
- Letter: Supports the bypass
- Letter: Near catastrophe by CalTrans save only by luck
- CalTrans gives bypass contractor a green light
- Feb 12:
- Tree sitter's protest against the Willits bypass continues
- Feb 5:
- Bypass lawsuit rolls on as Warbler sits
At the recent MCOG meeting, Supervisor John Pinches railed at the protesters contesting CalTrans' plans for a by-pass around Willits. MCOG Executive Director Phil Dow has already urged the California Highway Patrol to dislodge the protesters, including "Warbler," the tree-sitter on the site of CalTrans' planned southern interchange.
Local ranchers come to serenade the Warbler, and truckers honk their support for the protest, but our notables want the protesters removed, forcibly and quickly.
Among other complaints, Pinches denounced the protesters for "wasting taxpayer money" in delaying the project.
Excuse me, John, but who is wasting our money?
Let's start with the project itself, projected to cost $214 million dollars. That's for a two-lane "freeway" with two four-lane interchanges at north and south ends.
What's the average cost for such a project nationwide? Just $45,963,944, according to a Washington state study-not counting acquisition of land for right of way, but including mitigation costs. In California, the average is only a little higher: $45,963,944. CalTrans is paying its out-of-state contractor, Flatiron, a cool $107 million for construction alone. Total construction cost is estimated to be $135 million, not to mention the design and maintenance costs.
Why the excessive cost? Because CalTrans decided to drive their freeway over a wetland, and the engineering and construction costs are enormous. Never mind the environmental laws. Satisfying them has and will cost more. But the bottom line is that Big Orange is wasting the taxpayers' money.
Then there's the little matter of the current delay. Yes, protesters, acting as citizen monitors, discovered that CalTrans had not done its homework, as it promised it would, relevant to the Migratory Bird Act. Fish and Wildlife has insisted the agency do the necessary surveys before they start construction. But the fault is CalTrans', not that of the citizens of Willits.
And this isn't the first time. The January start date was missed because CalTrans assumed it didn't have to fulfill the conditions the Army Corps of Engineers had set in granting their permit. And the project was "cancelled" (according to a Willits News headline in 2010) after CalTrans submitted a woefully incomplete Environmental Impact Report and thus lost their chance at funding for the time being. Arrogance or incompetence, it doesn't much matter. It's costing the taxpayers money.
Think what you might about our environmental laws, there is no justification for a public agency to ignore them again and again, each time costing taxpayers' money. Oh, and by the way, when challenged to examine two-lane alternatives last year, when it was clear that was all Big Orange would ever be able to build here, CalTrans claimed a "lack of funds" for such a study. A couple months later they were spending millions on an unnecessary and unsafe median divide in the Ukiah stretch of 101.
So I would urge John Pinches to get his fiscal concerns straight. If deep down inside he believes in Big Government, good for him. But he should call a spade a spade. CalTrans' by-pass is a boondoggle and needs to go back to the drawing board. As for MCOG, maybe they should insist that Director Dow leave the CHP in peace and report instead on what it has cost the rest of the county to pour MCOG funds into this disastrous project.
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Lexus ES Basic Maintenance Questions
Can anyone explain how to reset warning lights on the dashboard of the Lexus 350 ES once an oil change is completed, so that the message "required oil maintenance" is no longer displayed, and so that the exclamation point in a red triangle is no longer visible.
assetcorp Posts: 4I think you can safely stay with the conventional oil for another 30,000 miles or so. Around 75,000 miles consider switching to synthetic oil as a prudent measure to reduce wear on the engine.
Here's why: I have a 98 Toyota Camry, and Consumer Reports printed an article that described sludge buildup in Toyota engines, even with regular oil changes. So, after having the engine fully cleaned (which Toyota paid for, even at a non-dealer!) the technician recommended a switch to synthetic oil. I did this around 100,000 miles, and that car now has 140,000 and runs great. So, I'll apply that lesson to my other car, an ES 350.
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edouble1 Posts: 171994 ES300 V6- 275,000 miles. I recently noticed a slow leak of power steering fluid from the reservoir. On occasion, especially on hot days, when the AC is used, smoke is coming from under the hood. I am assuming it is from the leaking fluid. It looks like the leak is comming from a hose just to the right of the oil fill, which runs from the engine, to the cooling fan. there is no actuall damage on the hose, as far as any cracks, but it looks like the leak is comming from where the rubber meets the preasure fitting at the end of the hose. The end that connects to the fan, looks similar to a break hose fitting(Banjo). Looked in my manual, and couldn't find anything on this. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help!
harry33 Posts: 1Foe ES350 you need to put car in N(Neutral) position then turn off . Then press and hold trip meter reset button and then Turn ON, but not start. The " Reruired Mainenance" sign will change to " Mainenance mode". Then start the car, while holding trip meter reset button. for fewseconds this will reset the indicator.
frank944 Posts: 2I took my 2000 es300 to the dealer, they said I need to the brake light bulb, trans service, power steering service and fuel injection service, I know I need to replace transmission service in the dealer, what happend the power steering, do I need replace it or can I add it, what type of power steering u suggest? what color the power steering fluids? what is fuel injection service? is that the same as plug? thanks.
ghg Posts: 1I have a 2011 ES 350. Upon opening the hood I was surprised to see the extent of the various covers that conceal most of the under-hood equipment. Is there any functionality to those covers or are they merely cosmetic? What is the downside, if any, to removing them permanently?
assetcorp Posts: 4I have found the covers to be purely cosmetic, and actually quite a nuisance, for simple repairs such as replacing an air filter. In my 2007 ES 350 the plastic covers are secured by plastic knobs that just break off, when attempting to remove them, creating another nuisance. I can't imagine the covers serve any functional purpose, as most vehicles lack them.
therealjab Posts: 3ghg,
The cylinder head covers on the ES350 serve two purposes: 1) The cover actually reduces certain engine vibrations from entering the cabin 2) cosmetically cleans up the engine bay
You may remove the cover and not experience an increase in cabin vibrations. All you have to do in order to remove the cover is to remove the one bolt that holds the cover onto the cylinder head (see ref #90480 in the engine cover diagram) and the cover should pop off. -
rcummelin Posts: 184Given that the ES350 drive train is Toyota Camry, and the V6 Camry has none of these covers in the engine compartment, I can only assume they are cosmetic--just a differentiator for Lexus. I can't see any downside to removing them, but be sure to save them so you can reinstall them before you sell/trade the car.
Yes, those little clips that hold them in place are annoying--if you drop one, it's lost forever in the lower engine compartment. You can buy them at Lexus or Toyota dealers for about $1.25 each. One of these days I'm going to remove that lower engine compartment shield/panel just to see how much junk has accumulated there.


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Rhandi Ball posted a career-high 28 points on 14-of-21 shooting from the floor and six rebounds. The Lady Statesmen (21-10) started the contest on fire offensively and defensively with Ball recording eight quick points and holding the Sharks (23-8) to just 3-of-10 from the floor to go ahead 15-8 with 11:58 remaining in the first half.
Nova Southeastern came out of the second media timeout hitting scoring five out of their next five shots to take their first lead of the game at 20-19 with 7:27 remaining and finished the half 14-of-26 (.538) from the floor. Delta State finished the half 12-of-32 (.375) from the floor.
Ball ended the half with 16 points and four rebounds for the Green-and-White with Chadisty Hickman recording six points.
Tailor Jones was the leading scorer for NSU in the first half scoring 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting from the floor with Taylor Buie recording 10 points.
The Sharks hot handed shooting spilled over into the second half as the Lady Statesmen tried to make a comeback but for every DSU shot made NSU matched it.
Ball helped Delta State's 14-of-26 (.538) second half shooting connecting on 6-of-8 from the floor on the way to her career-best 28 points.
Jones, Nova Southeastern's and the South Region Tournament's Most Outstanding Player, went from being a scorer in the first half to the facilitator of the Sharks offense recording a total of five assists, eight rebounds and 16 total points to cap off the night.
NSU tallied 23 points off of 15 DSU turnovers while limited their number of mishaps by only recording three second half turnovers. The Lady Statesmen who normally record 20 plus points off of turnovers themselves only managed to score five.
Hickman finished with 14 points and four rebounds while Seneca Walton, after producing two double-doubles in the tournament, was held to four points and eight rebounds.
Danielle Robinson paced the Sharks with 20 points and five rounds, with Buie and Jones ending the night with 16 points a piece.
Rhandi Ball – Sophomore – Delta State University
Seneca Walton – Sophomore – Delta State University
Tailor Jones – Senior – Nova Southeastern University *
Taylor Buie – Freshman – Nova Southeastern University
Mexandria Porter – Senior – Nova Southeastern University
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and lot villages around are same period of time.... Nature, country around are beautiful too.
And about food ... it's ... yes, great food (at the moment you don't go buy food to supermarket ! but go to some farmer or farmer market, small stores...).
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Miss Headrick attended Cleveland High School and is employed by Pharmacy Home Delivery.
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That bet was highly unlikely from the get go...and you cited good reasons why....the NFL has a strong history of fighting to say they were wrong - and when they do - they concede and say nothing will change.hdtvfan0001, you're lucky you didn't bet me. The NFL said the wrong call was made but the decision of the refs at the time remains.
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As noted in yesterday's post, Thanksgiving 2004 was marked by the discovery of the The Incredibly Christian Chronograph, known commercially as the Talking Musical Prayer Clock, which blared The Lords Prayer four times a day. The full promise of this piece, however, was manifest only a full year later during the pre-Christmas season when I, in the course of pursuing gifting options for Mom, Da Boyz, and assorted hangers-on, experienced, via an altogether different call to prayer, the International Maternal Transfiguration Epiphany:
If my mother were Muslim, I would expect to return home one fateful Thanksgiving Christmas Ramadan1 to find
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According to this listing, quoted directly from the seller's web site, the clock's key features include
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- Really loud
- Non-sweeping second hand
- Clock features 12 hours cycles
- Red Hand Alarm indicator
- Auto-dimming of light when alarm sounds
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And, this model comes in "Dishy Ivory," "Duck Egg Blue," and "Sandall Green."
Also, many other formats are available; the Golden Palace model is pictured here.
My mother, by the way, would choose the standard model in turquoise. She, being of proudly humble stock, would deem the Golden Palace "just too much."
For the full experience, the clock's azan (the Arabic call to prayer) can be played, either in full or, in an atypically merciful gesture on my part, abbreviated to the first third.
[Ahem, did you note the Feature listed as "Really loud?" That description is an excellent example of truth in advertising. I will add that the clock's audio alarm is, apparently, an acquired taste that remains as yet unacquired in my case.]
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Somewhere in a parallel universe, a Muslim guy with a couple of kids is traveling to his mother's prefab-log-cabin equivalent where he will discover, to his simultaneous dismay and fascination, the Mosque Clock and he just may have the vague feeling that somewhere else, someone is experiencing something quite similar but a bit askew. If that kind of spiritual bond between the Ozarks and Bangladesh doesn't warm your ecumenical cockles, …
- Given that Mesomorph may be the best cook in the extended family and Prodigal's Dishwasher Salmon would have been a improvement over the Turkey Desiccato family specialty usually featured on such occasions, a holiday celebrated by fasting might actually be a good fit for the skill-set if not the appetites displayed in these family get-togethers in the Ozarks [↩]


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Prayers that God would deliver and save. (1-13) Believing praises. (14-24)
Verses 1-13 David prays that he might never be made ashamed of dependence upon God. With this petition every true believer may come boldly to the throne of grace. The gracious care of Divine providence in our birth and infancy, should engage us to early piety. He that was our Help from our birth, ought to be our Hope from our youth. Let none expect ease or comfort from the world. Those who love the Lord, often are hated and persecuted; men wondered at for their principles and conduct; but the Lord has been their strong refuge. The faithful servants of God may be assured that he will not cast them off in old age, nor forsake them when their strength fails.
Verses 14-24 The psalmist declares that the righteousness of Christ, and the great salvation obtained thereby, shall be the chosen subject of his discourse. Not on a sabbath only, but on every day of the week, of the year, of his life. Not merely at stated returns of solemn devotion, but on every occasion, all the day long. Why will he always dwell on this? Because he knew not the numbers thereof. It is impossible to measure the value or the fulness of these blessings. The righteousness is unspeakable, the salvation everlasting. God will not cast off his grey-headed servants when no longer capable of labouring as they have done. The Lord often strengthens his people in their souls, when nature is sinking into decay. And it is a debt which the old disciples of Christ owe to succeeding generations, to leave behind them a solemn testimony to the advantage of religion, and the truth of God's promises; and especially to the everlasting righteousness of the Redeemer. Assured of deliverance and victory, let us spend our days, while waiting the approach of death, in praising the Holy One of Israel with all our powers. And while speaking of his righteousness, and singing his praises, we shall rise above fears and infirmities, and have earnests of the joys of heaven. The work of redemption ought, above all God's works, to be spoken of by us in our praises. The Lamb that was slain, and has redeemed us to God, is worthy of all blessing and praise.
Psalms 71:1-24 . The Psalmist, probably in old age, appeals to God for help from his enemies, pleading his past favors, and stating his present need; and, in confidence of a hearing, he promises his grateful thanks and praise.
1-3. (Compare Psalms 30:1-3 ).
3. given commandment--literally, "ordained," as in Psalms 44:4 , 68:28 .
rock . . . fortress--( Psalms 18:2 ).
4, 5. cruel man--corrupt and ill-natured--literally, "sour."
5. trust--place of trust.
6-9. His history from early infancy illustrated God's care, and his wonderful deliverances were at once occasions of praise and ground of confidence for the future.
my praise . . . of thee--literally, "in" or "by Thee" ( Psalms 22:25 ).
10, 11. The craft and malicious taunts of his enemies now led him to call for aid (compare the terms used, 2 Samuel 17:12 , Psalms 3:2 , 7:2 ).
12. (Compare Psalms 22:19 , 40:4 ).
13. (Compare Psalms 35:4 , 40:14 ).
14-16. The ruin of his enemies, as illustrating God's faithfulness, is his deliverance, and a reason for future confidence.
15. for I know . . . thereof--innumerable, as he had not time to count them.
16. in the strength--or, relying on it.
thy righteousness--or, faithful performance of promises to the pious ( Psalms 7:17 , 31:1 ).
17-21. Past experience again encourages.
taught me, &c.--by providential dealings.
19. is very high--distinguished ( Psalms 36:5 , Isaiah 55:9 ).
20. depths of the earth--debased, low condition.
21. increase, &c.--that is, the great things done for me ( Psalms 71:19 ; compare Psalms 40:5 ).
22-24. To the occasion of praise he now adds the promise to render it.
will . . . praise--literally, "will thank."
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Late last week I, along with two partners – the Business Council of NYS and Unshackle Upstate, sent a letter urging Comptroller DiNapoli to stand down on his persistent opposition to enacting significant pension reform in New York.
Without enacting Governor Cuomo's Tier VI as proposed, we estimate that taxpayers will be exposed to $123 billion in more taxes and businesses would face a more than $17 billion increase in property taxes. Clearly this is unsustainable.
But as budget negotiations begin to ramp up and the Governor sending mixed signals, it is vitally important that the business community remains steadfast in pushing for Tier VI with the defined contribution piece intact, and not a watered down version.
Noteworthy on the national front, today NFIB continues to fight back against costly and onerous mandates, with the Environmental Protection Agency in our sights. Politicians and bureaucrats from Albany to Washington DC and beyond need to be constantly reminded that government does not create jobs, but their actions sure can stifle them.


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50 Fall Beauty Products For Your Favorite Feature!
Have your prettiest fall ever! These 50 new products for your eyes, smile, hair, and skin will make your fave feature look amazing.
By Kara McGrath
Eyes: Natural and Bright Shadow
If wearing the same makeup look every day sounds absolutely dreadful to you, pick a shadow palette that has tons of different textures and colors! This one has neutral shades that you can wear anytime plus a bright fuchsia and sparkling navy that are surprisingly flattering.
Pretty Rebel Beauty Eye Shadow Palette, $46, toofaced.com


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Sponsored by: EMBA Admissions
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This Class Visit is an excellent opportunity to observe current Modular Executive MBA students and experience first hand both the outstanding faculty teaching and the dynamic student interaction. It is your chance to speak with current students and faculty in person and gain a broader understanding of what the program entails. You will observe the challenging yet highly supportive academic and learning environment and understand why Goizueta Business Schools Executive MBA Program is the top-ranked EMBA program in Atlanta. Before the class you can enjoy lunch with current students. The class officially begins at 12:30 PM with lunch at 11:30 AM and the class ends at 4:30 PM. |
Event Start Date / Time: |
Friday, May 3, 2013 at 11:30 AM |
Event End Date / Time: |
Friday, May 3, 2013 at 04:30 PM |
Event Facility: |
Goizueta Business School (West Wing) |
Location: |
1300 Clifton Road NE Atlanta, GA 30022 Atlanta, GA 30322 |
Contact: |
Caroline Grimes |