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FruitealiciousRead MoreJon and Carmen Pei spent years traveling the globe, visiting caf?s from New York to Taiwan in search of the perfect rendition of their treasured childhood treat: bubble tea. After organizing all their recipes, tips, and ideas, the couple opened their own shop, where they whip up their own blend of innovative bubble teas, smoothies, and frozen hot chocolate. Upon entering their colorful, brightly lit shop, guests are often greeted by Jon and Carmen themselves, who dole out free samples to first-timers, greet return customers by name, and tussle the toupees of visiting congressmen. The duo and their staff of baristas fold premium tea leaves and freshly cooked tapioca boba balls imported from Taiwan into fruity drinks. They also chop up fresh fruit for smoothies every day at the shop. Customers are invited to order from a menu of specialty drinks or choose from a variety of flavors, fruits, and mix-ins to design their own concoction. They can even add from a selection of more than 25 kinds of popping boba balls, which burst in the mouth with every sip. And during chilly winter months, the baristas pour hot bubble tea. Guests sip on beverages and nibble on snacks?such as crunchy Pocky sticks?out among the tabletops of the lively seating area. Some play video games on wide-screen computers and televisions, whereas others engage in more traditional games such Connect Four or competitions to fit the most straws up their nostrils.2150 N Josey Ln, Ste 100Carrollton, TX US
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This dude seems to have the Eagles' number time and time again. There is so much still to be said about the Eagles brutal loss on Sunday to the Arizona Cardinals. And, thanks to Andy Reid Philadelphia is once again in the national spotlight as signs of a quarterback controversy emerge from Reid's statement that he'll evaluate Mick Vick's performance and whether to replace him with Foles "as we go along." Time to take a brief break from talk of a) Whether Vick will live to see the end of another game; and b) Whether Vick should be replaced with Foles and turn to matters on the defensive side of the ball for a moment. Philadelphia's D did not play well on Sunday, and yet Eagles Nation isn't in a tizzy about it. Why? Because they have put together two impressive and comprehensive bodies of work in the form of the season's two first games. In a stark contrast to where we were this time last year, the commanding play of the defense has been what has saved the Eagles from full-on disast...
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In heavily outlining the tragedies and injustices that befell the musically gifted older sister of Wolfgang "Amadeus," writer-director René Féret underplays the most interesting elements in this story of Maria Anna "Nannerl" Mozart. Forced by their father to tour under hellish circumstances, young Wolfgang and Nannerl traverse Europe year-round, performing recitals for aristocrats who often stiff them. But the real humiliation occurs when teenage Nannerl, forbidden by her father from writing her own music, is reduced to accompanist for her baby brother; women simply are not composers or serious musicians. The father's edict sets the course for Nannerl's bitter life, most of which is told in postscript. But before we get there, the turgid film's margins contain a young princess-turned-nun whose friendliness with Nannerl carries more than a whiff of the Sapphic; and a tortured, married young nobleman who has Nannerl cross-dress so they can meet without arousing suspicion. These subplots hint at what could have been, nudging the film toward biting rather than obvious commentary on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and creativity, and the costs of thwarting expression of any of them. But Féret barely explores this, and the film suffers for it.
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ROCKINGHAM — Marijuana and meth, cocaine and pills.
Those four substances landed five adults, two teenagers and a juvenile behind bars last week, according to reports from the Richmond County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies say James Frank Register, 38, of Cauthen Drive in Rockingham, sold them prescription pills.
He was arrested Aug. 4 and charged with selling or delivering a Schedule II controlled substance and possession with intent to sell or deliver a Schedule II controlled substance. Register was jailed under a $5,000 secured bond.
Court records show Register is currently facing six counts of breaking into a coin or currency machine and one count of aiding and abetting larceny of an employee.
The following day, deputies say two 16-year-olds and a juvenile were found with marijuana following a traffic stop in Hamlet.
Travis Lane Yow and Jeremy Bret Hayes, both of U.S. 220, were each charged with possession with intent to sell or deliver marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Hayes was also charged with maintaining a vehicle for a controlled substance.
Both teens were jailed under a $15,000 secured bond.
Deputies say the other youth will be charged through the juvenile court system.
Two men were arrested Aug. 6 in separate cases involving marijuana and meth.
Deputies say they bought marijuana from Arthur Lee Galloway, 53, of High Street in Hamlet
Galloway was arrested and charged with selling or delivering marijuana and possession with intent to sell or deliver marijuana. He was released on a written promise to appear.
Deputies also say they found meth in the pocket of David Robert Brigman, 23 of Rohanen Avenue in Rockingham, after they stopped to talk to him outside a business on Airport Road.
He was arrested and charged with possession of methamphetamine and jailed under a $10,000 secured bond.
Two women were arrested the next day after deputies say each was found with cocaine following a traffic stop.
Angela Marie Tilley, 31, of U.S. 1 North, Rockingham, and Angela Nicole Register-Smith, 32, of 5th Street in the Safie community east of Rockingham, were both charged with possession of cocaine and possession with intent to sell or deliver cocaine. Tilley faces an additional charge of maintaining a vehicle for a controlled substance.
According to N.C. Department of Public Safety records, both Brigman and Register have a criminal past.
Brigman has been convicted on charges of possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, felony breaking and entering and damage to property charges.
Register's record shows convictions of discharging a firearm into occupied property, possession of a Schedule II controlled substance and multiple charges of breaking and entering and larceny.
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In April, Stephen R. Smith of Monaville reached his 25th anniversary as an ordained minister with the United Christian Church and Ministerial Association of Cleveland, Tenn.
On June 7, the organization he founded, World Pentecost Ministry International, reached its 15th anniversary. The non-profit ministry is licensed in West Virginia.
Smith has hosted television and radio programs and is a gospel song writer and author. He is a two-time Golden Poet winner with the International Poetry Association.
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Welcome to our evangelism website! If you received one of our Gospel tracts and are curious, or have questions, please check out the following links and videos. Also, please contact us at email@example.com if you have any questions. God bless.
We truly are grateful that you have chosen to check out our website and we hope you follow up on any curiosity you may have on issues of your eternal destiny. Are you saved? Do you think that you need salvation? How can anyone be saved and how does this work? Does God even exist? Please read on and, Lord willing, these questions will be addressed.
From Tony Miano's website about "Discarded Gospel Tracts".
If you are an unbeliever (someone who is not a born-again Christian) reading this and you have discarded a gospel tract in the past because you disliked or did not believe how the person in the mirror (you) compared to the mirror of God's law, yet for whatever reason you still believe God hears and answers your prayers (I mention this because I've talked to many people who believe this way), then know this. "If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination" (Proverbs 28:9). God ignores your prayers. They are an abomination to Him. Repent and believe the gospel.
While it is true that some people will discard a gospel tract before ever perceiving what it is or before ever reading the tract, more often than not well-written, biblical gospel tracts are discarded for one of two reasons: the person was either convicted by the Law of God (Romans 2:15; Romans 3:19-20) or their hatred of Jesus Christ (John 3:19-20; John 15:23; Romans 1:28-32) is such that the mere mention of His name, even in written form, is offensive to them (1 Corinthians 1:18). A well-written, biblical gospel tract assaults the self-righteous and exposes the futility of their erroneous perceived goodness (Proverbs 21:2) while, at the same time, revealing their hatred of God (Romans 1:28-32). Is it any wonder some people destroy gospel tracts and discard them as trash?
The reality is this. When you die, you are going to stand before God and give an account for your life. Because God is good, He is going to judge you according to the perfect, moral standard of His Law. If you've ever lied, stolen, taken His name in vain, He will find you guilty of breaking His Law. And because God is good, He must punish your sin; and the punishment God has ascribed for sin is eternity in Hell.
But God is also merciful, loving, and kind in that He provided one way to escape that punishment; and that was through the gift of His Son Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ: fully-God and fully-Man, without sin. He died a horrible, bloody death on the cross that He did not deserve in order to take upon Himself the punishment you rightly deserve for your sins against God. And then three days later He forever defeated sin and death when He rose from the grave.
What God requires of you is that you repent–that you turn from your sin, and by faith and by faith alone, receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Jesus said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me."
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stripper does npt work and sanding will take forever...
I have tried to strip the topsides on a 37 foot boat but the strippers I have tried will not cut it and sanding a square foot of paint with takes 15 minutes. The only thing I can think of to do is use a grinder which can cause major problems when I have to fare the topsides for blue Awlgrip. HELP.
I use a heat gun and sharp scraper, but my boats are wood.
If it is that hard to take off the paint, why does it have to come off?
you sure its paint and NOT gelcoat?
Are you trying to strip the Gelcoat?
If not, keep at it! it took 2 months to sand the Deck, Cockpit, Topsides, Hull, and Keels of a 20 foot bilge keel yacht.
I learnt a lesson about stripper - ensure you throughly wash it off with water after it has done it's job. Another bit of advice for paint stripper - cover it over with clingfilm. It should make it easier!
If you connect a vacuum to the sander the job will go much faster, you will use way less paper and you might live longer by keeping the dust off you. And it's much better for the environment. The vac keeps paint from building up and melting into the paper. The Fein vacuum is a great one for this type of project and super useful to have in your shop.
How much of the deck are you doing? If the entire thing, maybe you want to have it soda blasted?
I'll second the question about what it is. Do you know it is paint? Do you know if it's a 2 part paint or a single part paint? What are you painting over it?
IIRC, if you are painting with a 2 part paint you have to have a 2 part paint under it (or gelcoat) if you are painting with a single part paint, you can have a single or a 2 part or gelcoat under it.
Scraper, then heavy grit paper to even it out. Soda/sand blasting may be economical.
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PORTLAND-- When Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay player, takes on the Portland Trail Blazers Wednesday night at the Moda Center, he will be wearing No. 98 to honor slain Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard.
Collins, 35, signed a 10-day contract with the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday. He also revealed his number, 98, was a gay-rights tribute to Matthew Shepard. Shepard, who was an openly gay college student, was brutally beaten and murdered in Wyoming in 1998 in what was labeled a gay hate crime .
Collins silently wore the number 98 while he played for the Washington Wizards and the Boston Celtics. Now that he's playing for the Nets, he'll don his old number for the first time Wednesday night against the Blazers.
I picked that number obviously with regards to Matthew Shepard and also in 1998 the Sherpard project was founded, Collins told KGW Wednesday before the game. I understand there will be other stories, and over time, there will be other players who will step forward. I'm looking forward to that day.
Collins' jersey was the biggest seller of the day Tuesday on NBAStore.com, two days after he signed with the Nets.
The Shepard family tells ESPN they are driving from Wyoming to Colorado Thursday to watch the Denver Nuggets play Collins and the Nets. They hope to meet him and thank him.
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Award-winning writer and author of The Secrets of Mary Bowser, Lois Levenn will discuss women, race, and the Civil War, in response to the original Civil War drawings from the Becker Collection on view at the Cooley Gallery. The collection contains over six hundred previously unexhibited and undocumented drawings by American artist Joseph Becker and his colleagues – nineteenth-century artists who worked as artist-reporters for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper during the Civil War.
A former faculty member at UCLA and Reed College, Leveen's work has appeared in African American Writers, African American Review, The New York Times, the Huffington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and on NPR. The Secrets of Mary Bowser, her novel based on the true story of a former slave who became a Union spy in the Confederate White House, is a Target Book Club pick, bringing detailed research about African American history to popular audiences. Lois gives talks about writing, history, and the meaning of race in American culture at universities, museums, and libraries around the country.
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High-end furniture and accessories fill this longstanding antiques shop.
A redbrick home provides the perfect setting for an array of 18th- and 19th-century furniture at this Alton antiques store, which has been in business for more than 30 years. Dining sets, grandfather clocks, armoires, secretaries, wing chairs and bureaus fill the high-ceiling rooms. The prices may limit the amount of time casual browsers want to spend here: Dining room tables, for example, can run a couple thousand dollars, along with another $1,500 or so for four chairs. Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton are among the styles shown. Interspersed among the furniture are a number of accessory items, such as Oriental rugs, china, ceramics and paintings. A new Folk Art Room carries fun, affordable housewares, old signs and other merchandise in the price range of casual antiques shoppers.


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"Sometimes you have to jump and pray for wings," sang singer/songwriter Ben Bruce during his quite cool solo set where his tender, nicely composed songs recalled John Denver and particularly Assembly of Dust's Reid Genauer, who Bruce strongly resembled in both voice and all-out-there-on-the-stage delivery. Telling stories about faces in the fire with blinding insight and singing simple songs full of tender vibrations, Bruce showed himself a tunesmith to keep an eye on and even ballsily tackled Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You Too Long." Like ALL of the scheduling at Meltdown 9, this proved the ideal music for the hour and audience.
TapWater :: 2:20-3:25 p.m. :: Garden Stage
Vaughn Kreestoe :: 3:45-4:55 p.m. :: Garden Stage
This Bellingham, Washington trio first comes across like a classic organ-drums-guitar soul jazz combo but the plethora of nifty touches and sweet complications quickly affirmed them as a cut above the pack. As one wild-legged onlooker barked, "Crush grooves, man. They are killing it." They ranged from an instrumental answer to vintage Philly soul to more fiery spaces, but often dipping into the blues underpinning their funk. Executed with precision and full of well placed pauses and general centrifugal force, you might call it an extraordinarily fine soundtrack to a good porno.
Aphrodesia :: 5:00-6:10 p.m. :: Main Stage
Left Hand Smoke :: 6:15-7:30 p.m. :: Garden Stage
Around for close to a decade, this first live taste for me found a very strong boogie band playing feel-good-even-if-the-words-are-sad songs that had the Beer Garden hopping and full of raised glasses. Fronted by brothers Ben (piano, vocals) and Will Mish (guitar), Left Hand Smoke had a strong organ-powered thrust and eagerness to please that was plain ol' good times, especially when bolstered by wandering harmonica wunderkind Lee Oskar of War fame, perhaps the only man I've ever seen rock a leather jacket with his own name engraved on the back and not look silly.
Vicci Martinez Band :: 7:35-9:05 p.m. :: Main Stage
Poor Man's Whiskey :: 9:10-10:25 p.m. :: Garden Stage
Fittingly, the bar never saw such a sustained, boisterous line as during PMW's warm-up slot for Friday's headliner, Jackie Greene. These NorCal hooligans tie one to a friendly whipping post and beat the silly in ya right to the surface. It's then that their growing sensitive side can really get into your pores, that is when they aren't inspiring a howling pack of dancers with an Irish drinking song introduced with a Spanish toast and capped with the whole crowd throwing Devil horns in salute. While their recent Dark Side of the Moonshine album, which revisions Pink Floyd along with offering an album's worth of originals, is drawing some attention, deservedly too (hell, I wrote the liner notes for it!), it's seeing them in the flesh, awash in their manly musk, that one discovers how strangely subtle and baldly talented they are. Newer pieces like "Easy Come Easy Go" and "Three Years Gone" show some of Brent Mydland's knack for universal melancholy and the words for easing such sustained ache ("Just like an old song playing on the radio/ You know it's hard times come/ hard times go"). During crowd pleaser "P.M.S. (Pretty Much Screwed)" they showed their Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks/Cheap Suit Serenaders side with pocket trumpet, tick-tock drums and Charlie Christian guitar swing, with the muskiest of them all, Josh Brough, yelping, "Ragtime!" before a jumpin' piano solo. A "Wagon Wheel" closer performed in the audience tied a swell ribbon on things.
Jackie Greene :: 10:30 p.m. -12:10 a.m. :: Main Stage
BLVD :: 12:15-1:30 a.m. :: Garden Stage
Fast becoming late set royalty, S.F.'s BLVD turned in one of the day's finest performances and certainly one of the most high energy sets of the entire fest. Built around the octopus armed machinations of Curtis Sloane (electronic guitar, samples), Dylan McIntosh (drums, samples) and Tripp Bains (bass, keys), the instrumental aspects moves with the insistent hump of an after-hours disco, mid-period Parliament, '90s electro punch and other mischievous pre-dawn flavors. Early in their set I found myself discussing how their sustained grooves mirrored the wave-after-wave feel of female orgasm rather than the build-and-explode dynamics of rock's more male energy. Oh, they hit them peaks 'n' valleys for sure but one felt gripped by a tide far bigger than any one number. And they've fully integrated MC Souleye now, a gyrating, rippling force of nature with a flow that recalls young MC Serch and Organized Konfusion. As weary as many of us were you'd never have known it as we bent our frames into funky origami shapes in response to their manipulations. Cool!
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I dont understand 'taking time off'. She's not playing a lot of matches. She's one and done every tournament. And she just took a vacation during The Masters week. Do you want her to follow the golf tour all year? How does that help her tennis?
I think she needs to play, and with focus & effort, and win some matches, or at least go down fighting for every point
But she's still travelling to these tournaments, practicing on the courts (what and how effectively are a question), and doing press. And if she's a bit mentally fried/burned out, then playing a match could seem like another burden/requirement.
I think a month or so long break could help clear her mind.
It would be nice if Caro had someone who could talk some sense into her like Vika did. Vika was thinking about quitting tennis in early 2011 until she talked to her grandma.
No, following the golf tour isn't what I want Caro to do. Also, I think Rory should no longer be present when Caro is playing a tournament. She may play better in his abscence or at least have one less distraction.
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As someone who likes to traveling i'm trying to do travel anytime I can...(when I have time and money:)) Especially in last few years I feel that inside me is some little worm that doesn't give me any peace if I stay in one place too long...I suppose you all know what am I talking about.
Untill now I have visited Italy, Vatican City,Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Czech republic, Germany, Austria , Malta, France and Netherlands.
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Happy Birthday! I hope you enjoy your special day.
This is just crazy, I haven't been log since 2010 I think :) and I managed to remember my password. Sadly I also noticed that it's been almost 3 years and I don't have any new country to add (just few cities)...routine killed me :(. Hopefully, I will make it better soon...
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Happy Birthday from sunny California! Here's to many more wonderful years!
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Hi Marijan thanks a lot for your comments on my home page I hope that you will like Istanbul and Eskisehir ( means old city) good luck
The very best Birthday and all the years ahead.. Yes, Croatia is nice, also your photos.. But there are several "the most beautiful countries in the world" :-) Live long to see them all, so that your little worm was not hungry :)
I wish you have a very very Happy Birthday. Greeting from Bangkok, Teya
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I, as all people of rational mind do, have a singular fear. One that each person, if endowed with the proper vocabulary, could sum up in a solitary word as their greatest. I imagine that I am not the only person that suffers from it, as there already exists a term for its classification, but I am certain that it is not common. I know of no one else personally, in which it strikes terror. It is an inevitability for every person on this earth. It is my bane, and I must face it each and every day.
It is not pain, nor is it death. I have faced both on more occasions than I can count, and emerged steeled from the experience. It is not shame, for I have conquered that as well, in being an open man, with nothing to hide and little to lose. It is of no creature, for my combination of cunning and strength allows me to defeat or evade even the mightiest of beast. It is not of drowning or falling or flying; for I can swim, have exceptional balance, and have already flown more distance than the earth to the moon. I suffer, nearly intolerably, from Somniphobia. For those of you not fluent in Latin or at the very least, medical diction, I can say it in a much simpler fashion. I fear sleep.
It is to me a fate worse than death and there are nights, more often than not, that I truly wish that it was the grasp of the cold fingers of death that would take me rather than the simple embrace of sleep. I am capable of highly ordered and complex thought. I understand that sleep is a natural and necessary process for the rejuvenation of both the body and the mind. I understand that it is, though it can sometimes be delayed, unavoidable. I understand that a fear of the unavoidable is irrational. I am unquestionably a rational man. I am capable of understanding the paradoxical circumstance that this creates. Yet still, trembling as an unclothed child left alone in a blizzard, I fear it.
I would gladly end this cycle, by reckless behavior, or even my own hand, so that I would not face it again. There is too much that remains for me here, however, that would allow me to take that path. There are those that rely on my existence for comfort and strength, adult and children alike, and I would not bear them grief simply to relieve my own. I must carry on in the face of it, not for myself, but for them. They do not know, nor will they ever, the burden I carry on their behalf. Never will they know why I wish my eyes to remain lidless, never will they know why I fight to stay awake, never will they know what it is that I fear beyond that veil.
I suppose that it is in fact not the act itself that I fear, but what takes place during its hold on my body that chills me, leaves me weeping, begging for it to never return again. It is what I see and hear and smell while I am there, deep in my own subconscious, that stirs the panic. The haunting, surreal, and painfully vivid machinations of a world that exists only in my mind. A world that I cannot escape, a world in which I bear sole responsibility for its every abhorrent detail, and yet, a world that I cannot control. It is this place that I fear, and it is the inescapable undercurrent of sleep that drags me down there. Down to a place where anyone, or anything, would fear to tread.
I have seen murder in the most intimate forms imaginable. Slow, agonizing, tortuous deaths the likes of which would cause demons to shield their eyes and cover their ears. Personal and private separations of soul from flesh, each different, and each lasting what feels like the entire life age of a man. The reaper always beginning and ending the absolution by peering longingly, almost lovingly, into the eyes of those that are to become lost. He sees their suffering as beauty, the wailing of their bodies as song, their very life essence as a gift unto him. I never awaken until the taking is complete, and long ago, I stopped wondering what became of these already incorporeal souls. As a child, I wept for them, as though they were real people being undone. As a rational man, I know now that they were already dead the moment they entered my charcoal sleep, as without true life as anything of even the waking imagination.
I have seen murder of a much grander scale and kind. Cataclysmic events, taking countless lives all at once, unstoppable forces against which no living thing can brace. They are always brought by the hand of a single maker, ruthless and cold. Those taken here do not physically suffer for long, but the moment before the torrent of fire is always known to them. It is in that moment where the terror of their impending doom takes hold, and it is in that moment where they are forced to linger while the one who has called their fate down upon them, basks in the radiant warmth of their abject fear. Reveling in the unmitigated power he has in this moment, he allows time to distend, as he watches their attempts to take shelter or flee or reconcile the imbalance of their lives poorly lived with their chosen deity. I never awaken until the devastation is complete, and long ago, I stopped wondering what those people thought in the moment before the sky burned down. As a child, I shared their fear, as I lived in a world where this was indeed an imminent threat. As a rational man, I know now that cataclysm by man or nature or God would likely come in a flash, with little time for worry and despair.
I have seen murder of a scope even larger still. Sight of all the cosmos, laid out to its near infinite edge. Then, a tear in the very fabric of space and time bursts forth, to reveal beyond a darkness even deeper than the places between the stars. From this extraordinary fissure booms a voice, speaking a language never meant for the ears of man. The words themselves have form, as great columns of energy, streaking across the serenity of the quiet and the dark. They cause stars to explode and collapse, and galaxies to violently collide. All that is, was, and could ever come to be, laid to ruin. The voice, unrelenting in its onslaught against creation, continues its pronouncements until there is nothing left of this grand tapestry but the void itself. The voice does not seem to think or feel or care about what it has done, the all of everything it has erased. I never awaken until I am left to pause for what feels like eternity, to contemplate nothing but the utter void, and long ago, I stopped wondering what became of all that was. As a child, it was too broad to fully comprehend, and I feared it for being such. As a rational man, I know now that only a malevolent deity would carry the capacity for an act such as this, and in such a being I do not believe.
It stands now one minute before midnight and musing upon what I have written I have come to a conclusion. Cathartic it has been, to uncover this truth. I no longer fear the sight of these events, as I have seen them for nights a thousand times ten. Their visages, I know now, as a rational man, are mere illusion. I can now come to bear upon them with this new found clarity, and from it, re-classify where my fear truly lies. It is born from the perspective in which I always see them.
In my dreams,
I am the reaper
I am the maker
I am the voice.
I do not fear sleep. I do not even fear what I find there. I am not Somniphobic.
What I fear is the possibility that these horrors that linger in my subconscious may somehow find their way to the surface and see the true light of the waking day. I fear that the world may one day be forced to face a man, practiced in and driven by irrational thoughts that would be a threat to every living thing. I am capable of highly ordered and complex thought in my waking mind, I fear as to how I might apply that to what lurks beneath. I know of no term that applies here, so I shall create one for my own using.
I fear my own subconscious.
I fear myself.
I'm growing tired... time to visit fear once again... and hope for the sake of all that I awaken still, a rational man.
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In this Thursday March 7, 2013 photo, Jacinto Rodriguez Cruz, 49, leaves his home on a wheelchair with the help of his wife, Belen Hernandez in the city of Veracruz, Mexico. Cruz and another friend suffered serious injuries during a car accident last May 2008 in northwestern Iowa. After their employers insurance coverage ran out, Cruz, who was not a legal citizen, was placed on a private airplane and flown to Mexico still comatose and unable to discuss his care or voice his protest. Hospitals confronted with absorbing the cost of caring for uninsured seriously injured immigrants are quietly deporting them, often unconscious and unable to protest, back to their home countries. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
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This town lies 8km southwest of Bergamo and houses a priceless collection of more than 800 crèches.
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v. XXV-Aprile 179 I - 24044 Dalmine
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think per mile, not per week
Circumnavigators have stated that one should expect to use up a set of sails in a circumnavigation. Based on that I once estimated the cost of a set of sails for a typical mid 30-something cruiser at about $0.20/mile.
Think of sails as fuel which depletes as you use it to propel the vessel. So the cost per week depends on how much the sails are aged that week. Of course on a single week basis it is immeasurable by even the best experts. Wear on the sails during that time will be a function of strength of the winds and time of UV exposure of the sails in the sun, as well as the operator exercising discretion in proper handling of the sails. Sails can be abused and aged faster just as an engine can be by operating it incorrectly to various degrees. Sails that are bundled to the boom too tight or left uncovered exposed to the sun when not in use will age faster than those that are treated well.
Realistically the island hopping sailboat will switch between using the sails and engine based on conditions and operator discretion. Using less of one for a voyage means more of the other, so one has to include engine costs in sailboat propulsion costs.
The engine and/or genset also provide(s) power on anchor for services that the sails cannot support, such as electricity, refrigeration, watermaking, heating, cooling, etc.. For non-propulsion power generation one can then think of cost per week. Some of that cost will be a function of such things as the number of occupants or the lattitude and season of the anchorage and use of amenities such as air conditioning. Again the operator's discretion in using amenities comes into play.
Now I'll revisit the original issue about how much fabric sail cost per week considering the boat is moved every few days. On that basis it may take 5 years to circumnavigate. A $5000 set of sails then would be expended at $1000 per year, which is about $20 per week.
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Learn about simple steps your company can take to help the environment and reduce energy costs.
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Looking for ways to help the environment and, at the same time, boost your bottom line? Exploring energy-efficient technologies might be a way to power up the profits.
"Energy costs look small, but they are an opportunity for savings," says Harvey Sachs, buildings program director for the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, in Washington, D.C. "That savings can flow directly to the bottom line."
Gauge Your Current Usage
It can be challenging for business owners to figure out exactly what their energy use and energy costs are, says Mike MacDonald, a senior researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Because electricity is measured in kilowatt-hours and natural gas is measured in therms, it can sometimes seem like comparing apples to oranges.
To add to the complications, businesses often pay a demand charge, which measures how much energy a commercial customer uses. The monthly demand charge is generally based on the 15 minutes during a billing cycle with the highest average kilowatt usage. "It can be about as high as the energy charge," Sachs says.
So it's often worth the investment to hire an energy expert who can look over your bills and determine your exact costs.
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Once you have a good read on your actual energy use and costs, it's time to look into the energy reduction strategies that will fit your business best.
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One relatively easy fix is to replace illuminated exit signs that use standard incandescent lamps with ones that use LED lights, MacDonald says. Older signs use incandescent or fluorescent lighting. An incandescent sign costs $28 a year to operate, and emits 574 pounds of carbon dioxide, while a new LED (light-emitting diode) sign, which uses a semiconductor chip, costs $4 annually in operating costs, and generates just 72 pounds of carbon dioxide, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
Businesses also can cut back on their lighting bills by installing daylighting systems. Dimmable ballasts and light sensors, for example, can adjust the electric lighting in response to the amount of daylight that is available, says Katie Ackerly, a research staff member with ACEEE.
Sachs says the technology is especially easy to implement in one-story buildings, where skylights can be installed to use the sun as a primary lighting source.
Studies have also found that improved lighting can enhance sales and productivity as it "improves the quality of the experience for the shopper and the employee," Sachs says. Integrated daylighting systems also are available that adjust the lighting up or down, based on the available natural light and occupancy of the building. Their usage has been limited so far due to costs and installation complications, but companies are working on offering more accessible products.
Along the same lines, businesses can install occupancy sensors. At least one big-box retailer has already gone this route by putting sensors on its refrigerator cases in some stores, MacDonald says. The LED lights in the cases go on when a customer walks by. Other types of businesses can do something similar, MacDonald says. The sensors make the lights go on and off based on whether someone is in the room.
Another technology to explore is geothermal heat pumps, which use the ground, rather than the outside air, for heating and cooling. Sachs says they generally work best for moderate-size buildings. If systems are designed well, they are relatively easy to maintain and control, depending on the locale. But like anything else, there's no one-size-fits-all solution. The region of the country, age of the building and type of construction all need to be taken into account. "There are no panaceas in mechanical systems," Sachs says.
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A Stadium and Arena Trend Here to Stay – Large Stadiums are moving to convertible and removable football fields like the Super Bowl Field in Cowboys Stadium, allowing for a multitude of events and increased profits.
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Austin based Hellas Construction has been busy developing and fine tuning their Synthetic Turf for the Super Bowl XLV. The convertible turf in the Cowboys Stadium is a version of the NFL field that the Dallas Cowboys currently play on. The uniqueness of the roll-up system is the ability to remove or exchange a field in a matter of 48 hours.
The three-in one SoftTopâ"¢ Roll-Up system purchased by Blue Star Development is first in the nation to interchange three full fields in one venue "" Pro Football, College/High School Football and FIFA Soccer. Bruce Layman, VP Turf Operations for Hellas says, "not only does the roll-up turf allow for different sports; when hosting concerts, boxing matches, and even Pro Bull Riding we don't have to worry about the turf being damaged." The turf is safely rolled up and stored in the stadium when other surfaces are needed.
The Alamodome in San Antonio was the first in the country to install the roll-up system in 2002, and installed their second SoftTop in 2009. "It is clear that more and more venues are moving to our SoftTop Roll-Up system because they realize it increases utilization of the facility, maximizes return on investment and simply provides the best surface," says Reed J. Seaton, President of Hellas Construction. Northern Arizona University and the Kibbie Dome at University of Idaho also have SoftTop Roll-Up systems.
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Well, I never got to try LOTR Online, but with the open beta today I finally did.
$199 for a lifetime membership. That's the same as $15 for a year. I'm really going to give this one a fair shake.
So far....
-Overall graphics much better than WoW, doesn't seem as good as EQ2 or Vanguard though
-Animations not as fluid (realistic) as WoW or EQ2 but better than Vanguard (I love how a running character in Vanguard looks like a non-moving stick body with robot like swinging arms - cheese).
-Interface - not horrible for a brand new game, much like WoW but not as good
-Addons? no idea.. if it can have WoW's addon support, that will be a plus
If it wasn't for the $199 lifetime or $9.99 a month options for Pre-Order people, I'd probably not even look at it again. But $199 lifetime is so tempting. I could really stick with 1 MMO for that even if it wasn't the best.
EQ2 is still the best MMO hands down though (except for PVP and lack of any good addon support). EQ2 is one hell of a polished HQ and content rich MMO.
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I'll pass on LOTRO...I tried it a bit recently...Too cookie cutter (quests), to small (world size), too "wow"ish (for me) (graphics). BTW...Of course EQ2 is polished...It's been out 2 years...If you were around during the beginning (or in beta), you know the launch was not that hot for EQ2, just as it's not great for Vanguard. Vanguard has alot of work to do, but the one big thing you mentioned should be addressed within a month or 2 (it's on thier top 10 list) (The running animations of other characters). It's not that I don't think LOTRO looks and runs great...It does...But I guess I just don't like that "style" of MMO...
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Will never play a LotR game that does not have the movie license.
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I gave Vanguard one heck of a good shot... maybe 40 hours ingame. I'm now of the opinon that anyone still playing it is holding on to the fantasy dream of what they hoped the game was going to be. I can see nothing about Vanguard that should make anyone want to play it over EQ2.
With renewals on SOE's Station Pass going up $5 next month, I expect a flood of people to go back to EQ2 or their other home SOE games. I think Vanguard's population will totally bottom out within the next 3 months - down to a Matrix Online level.
If they had only had the money to polish Vanguard for 6 months to 1 year more before release it could have made it. But, with such a failure of a release Vanguard will never be able to hold enough subscribers.
I'd say the same thing about LOTR except for the $199 lifetime membership thing. LOTR is pretty damn polished right now and ready for release. lifetiem memberships may create a very solid and permenant player base that could keep this game at or above EQ2's subscriber numbers for a good while. More people = better MMO.
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Turbine is behind LOTRO and they have no talent, they killed DDO as soon as it launched. Hell look at how horrible Asherons Call 2 turned out... They made one decent game and that was the original Asherons Call.
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That opinon is about as stupid and childesh as your avatar.
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i was wondering how rare the old-ass dos versions by interplay are? I think the super nes one was based on those.
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Fair enough, nothing wrong with that at all. I did love the movies and it is hard to follow a book of that magnitude to it's fullest with out making the movies drag. They did a good job and if you've never read the books than you won't know the differences. Movies rocked for sure, got them all on DVD. :D
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8 ounces semi-sweet baking chocolate, divided
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3 eggs, divided
3/4 cup flour
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1 tablespoon McCormick Gourmet™ Cinnamon, Roasted Ground Saigon
1 teaspoon McCormick® Raspberry Extract
Preheat oven to 350°F. Microwave 2 ounces of the chocolate and butter in medium microwavable bowl on HIGH 1 1/2 minutes or until butter is melted. Stir until chocolate is completely melted. Stir in 1/2 cup of the sugar. Add 1 of the eggs; mix well. Add flour; mix well. Spread in greased foil-lined 8-inch square baking pan.
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Responding to the music of Keith Burstein's Symphony 'Elixir', critic David Sonin described the composer as "a contemporary master of tonality". Burstein was encouraged by conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy to develop the work beyond its many-layered and dynamically driven first movement, which was conceived as a Concerto for Orchestra. He added a second Adagio movement with its long soaring melody and polyphonic counter-themes,and gathered the disparate elements of these movements into a final scintillating dance. The Songs of Love and Solitude were written to compliment the symphony, their twelve fleeting visions implying hidden dramas which range in experience from tempestuous darkness to serenity and acceptance.
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Sweeping romantic symphony
I was instantly captivated by the lush sweeping opening. The symphony has an almost 'filmic' quality with a sense of wide horizons and big pictures but with dense rich textures leading to an intense final climax. The songs are a compelling contrast, with haunting melodies and a sense of longing. Music to sit back and enjoy.more....
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Symphony 'Elixir' • Songs of Love and Solitude
Symphony 'Elixir' grew from a first movement originally conceived as a Concerto for Orchestra. When the conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy heard and enjoyed this work Keith Burstein developed further movements under his encouragement and realised that the character of the work had become symphonic. An extended process of development followed with initial performances of each movement separately. The symphony was not performed as a whole until this recording (2013), which therefore represents its world première as a complete work.
The sense of questing was further enhanced by the circumstances of the recording which took place in Lithuania, the region of Eastern Europe and Russian borderlands from where the composer's family originated. It was his first visit to the area. Both his parents (Samuel and Barbara, each violinists), were born in the United Kingdom but his paternal ancestors were Russian.
The first movement's title, Energico Nuovo, signifies the intention of the music to strike out in a new direction, which for the composer meant an exploration of how his new tonal language could express itself in the vehicle of symphonic form. The music is at once many-layered and dynamically driven, the listener being invited to undertake an ardent journey of the soul.
The second movement, Adagio, repeatedly unfurls a long soaring melody about which several counter-themes are weaved, sometimes in five- or six-part polyphony (many voiced style). The orchestration now becomes more focused and integrated in contrast to the concerto style of the first movement, a process which continues into the third movement.
Alla Marcia, Alla Danza (like a march, like a dance), the third and final movement, gathers the disparate elements of the first two movements together. The halting opening 'march' theme transmutes into a scintillating waltz which carries the music upsurgently to its conclusion. Under the final bars is heard the opening melody of the symphony signifying the cyclical character of the work.
The term 'Elixir' comes from alchemy, and implies a transformational or magical ritual in which a sacred essence is extracted, and relates to a notion of a life-giving force.
Since the heyday of the symphony, or when it was last a dominant form in classical music, arguably the late nineteenth century and onwards into the first half of the twentieth, new classical music, as a genre of music, has now rather more competition than before to gain the attention of the public. One way to regain it after many years of atonalism may be (in the view of the composer) to rejuvenate the traditional forms of music with musical material that is nevertheless contemporary in character. A review of the symphony described Burstein as "a contemporary master of tonality" (David Sonin).
To complement the symphony he has written a new song cycle, Songs of Love and Solitude, especially for the purpose of this recording, with the same orchestral forces (except with harp instead of timpani), the extended orchestral song cycle being another great classical musical form, in this case of quasi-symphonic extent.
The twelve songs of the cycle comprise glimpsed inner moments of the heart in a series of fleeting spiritual visions or 'confessions'. They imply a hidden drama which spans a wide range of experience from tempestuous darkness to serene light and acceptance.
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I used to do an annual strength test every 4th of july weekend. My personal best was at the age of 39. I benched 225 for 18 reps, squatted 225 for 30 reps, 14 wide pull ups and ran 3 miles in 21 minutes at a body weight of 205#. Now at 47, I only do dumbell presses and never go over 70# for chest work, never go over 40# for overhead presses and focus primarily on core work keeping my lower back, shoulders, abs and achilles tendons healthly. I just had my annual physical and my doctor told me that he wished that his 30 year olds kept their fitness up as well as I do. I now do weights twice a week for1 hour, cardio sprint work twice a week and try to squeeze in tennis twice a week. It's not easy to find the time, but let me tell you, when I am out on the court playing singles against 30 year olds and they are the ones huffing and puffing, it makes it all worth it!
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