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The best kind of relationship is one in which your lover lets you film the two of you going at it and then you post it online. If you're wondering what that's like, then you'll find it on this site, which provides you with amateur teens and couples who do just that. However, the content isn't updating and there are bigger (and growing) teen sites out there.
This club has a very strict entry policy: Not only do the girls have to be over the age of 18, but also they can't be more than a few years older than that and they've got to be hot. Otherwise, they don't make it inside to fill the high-res photos or the incredible, often HD, vids offered here. Despite updates ending, you'll get your money's worth by joining.
These lovely cute coeds will blow your mind away playing with themselves and each other. Many can't help but enjoy hardcore sex with one man or even two horny men at once. In the vids that come in HD, you'll even see a creampie or two, besides many messy facials and girl-on-girl action. This site isn't updating, but joining for a bit could still be worth it.
These sexy coeds share their nubile bodies with the masses and take their masturbation public. These crazy chicks show off their panties and asses before using their fingers to explore their tasty slits. Then they stuff them full of toys in action that's not on any college exam. Almost all of the content has been taken down and it's low in quality, too.
These gals all have heavenly bodies and are definitely worthy of being called stars. They love to show off everything they have to offer. You will love the teasing and stripping so much that you'll be overexcited when you get to the hot FFF threesomes, pussy-licking and anal-probing. However, there are very few videos so you need to prefer high-res photos.
These teenaged cuties are total nymphomaniacs which is why you'll never see them in more than just lingerie, if even that much. Most pose, but some also fuck each other or do it with guys. You're promised thousands of photo sets, but the site fails to deliver anywhere near that many, on top of having stopped updating. Also, there aren't any Zip folders here.
Confessions normally involve someone confessing sinful desires. These fresh-faced hotties make sure their fantasies come true. Many of them lust after older men and by the time they're done, an experienced hunk ends up busting his nut all over a babe. Sure, the babes and the vids are high-quality but there isn't much content and updating is slow as well.
If you want to see sexy chicks strip out of their clothes and masturbate, you can do so by visiting this website. There are great-quality videos to be found on it and they're all really hot. The number of flicks offered isn't amazing, though. No new ones are on the way, as the website has stopped updating, so you might not want to bother joining the website.
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Are these girls hired for being very responsible and attentive to their charges? In the good-looking vids here, you'll see that these chicks are handpicked by randy dads, because they'll give special attention to their hard daddy dicks and take the responsibility of getting them off. This site is hot, but it's not very big or updating, so it's not worthwhile.
There's nothing wholesome about the outdoors when horny coeds go on wild camping trips. This site gives you videos that show cute chicks hooking up with other babes, giving blowjobs and fucking under the sun. The vids look good and they're hot, but they aren't exclusive and are being rotated. You have to pay more than you should in order to check them out.
New faces on the scene need that special something in order to make it in the hardcore porn world: gooey cumshots all over them. In these audition scenes, beautiful starlets just budding into the adult world spend time on the casting couch and then on their knees and on their backs. Fun content, but not a lot of it and no updating means you can skip this site
This site hasn't updated in quite a while and that's a big problem because the website is really quite small. It doesn't have many movies for you to check out, but the ones that it does give you tend to be high in quality. They're also fully exclusive. The flicks show fresh-faced babes getting banged by their horny lovers in a variety of outdoor locations.
It's a little taste of heaven. Sweet teens expose all their assets in the most tasteful of ways. They show off their breasts and pussies too in shoots that are softcore. You'll also see pairs of hotties modeling, but again, they never get naughty with each other. This decent-sized collection isn't updating, so for some, they'll be other sites that are better.
Some of the teenagers on this site get it on with guys who are much older than they are, because they hope it will lead to work in the porn industry. Other babes just do it because they love fucking guys who are old enough to be their dads. The scenes and concept are hot, but not everything's exclusive, many movies are low in quality and nothing can be saved.


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? G. Stober, of 103 Grand River Ave., states he would like to arrange a series of checkers games with several of the local players.
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? Coast Guard ice breakers Plain Tree and Arrowwood today cleared a channel for shipping in St. Clair River all the way to the mouth of the river. This was done to clear two or three coal boats that are expected in the next two or three days.
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? Mrs. James A. Yakes, 1903 Ninth St., was named the "Band Mother of the Past Decade," Friday at Port Huron High School. Mrs. Yakes has sent three daughters, Janet, Mary and Kathie, and one son, Daniel, through the instrumental programs at Washington Intermediate and Port Huron High School.
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Navman has announced three new GPS units for the European market, all in the company's F series. The F50 represents the top of the line, with a 3.5-inch touchscreen, a SiRFStar III receiver, 32MB of internal memory, and an Intel PXA processor. Bluetooth 2.0 is enabled with an accompanying cradle, and SD cards can be used to load new maps. Traffic information is updated in real-time. The F40 is differed mainly by dropping traffic functions; these are restored in the F30, but the trade-off is a lack of Bluetooth. The F30 should be shipping for �199 ($391), while the F40 and F50 are priced at �229 and �249 ($449 and $489). [via Navigadget]


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It has been a challenging winter, so I was excited a recent Saturday that I could once again run on the Cardinal Greenway. As one considers "quality of life" assets in Muncie, the Cardinal Greenway must be near the top of the page. At least it is in my personal list. It could even be one of the reasons someone might move to Muncie.
To further illustrate this point, I am going to share a short story about a mortgage client of mine who is moving to the Muncie area. We were talking about their reasons for making the choice to live locally rather than commuting back and forth from Indy or Hamilton County.
Yeah! There were, of course, many factors considered, including a local job and the local housing prices (since money buys much more house in Delaware County) that helped in their decision to move here, and not there.
They had been told that I am a runner so our conversation moved to the Cardinal and White River Greenways. I was thrilled when told that one of the determining factors in choosing our Muncie area over other cities was the Cardinal Greenway. Yeah again!
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California takes pride in being regarded as health conscious. But when it comes to smoking-related disease and cigarette taxes, the reputation is undeserved.
California has one of the lowest cigarette taxes in the nation — at 87 cents per pack. Only 17 states have lower assessments, and all but two other states have raised their tobacco taxes since California last boosted its excise tax in 1998.
Roughly $50 million from tobacco taxes collected in California go toward prevention and cessation programs. But in a state this size, with so many suffering from smoking-related diseases, it's not enough. According to recent figures from the American Heart Association, cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in California — and nearly one-third of those cases are linked to smoking. Moreover, health officials project that this year 34,000 children in the state will take up smoking. It's time for a change.
Proposition 29 on the June 5 ballot calls for increasing the cigarette tax by $1 to a total of $1.87 per pack. The estimated $735 million raised from the tax increase would go toward research on cancer and tobacco-related diseases. <NO1>These would provide valuable funds for advancements in research and go a long way toward preventing children from starting smoking.
<NO>Frankly, we would have preferred to see a bigger tax increase with the money going toward more pressing issues, such as education, early child development, safety-net services, etc. California has many more urgent financial holes that need filling.
Nevertheless, we recognize the political realities facing this measure, the importance of keeping the tax increase to no more than $1 and drawing a clear nexus between the tax and the damage caused by smoking.
Which brings us to the primary reason we support Proposition 29 — it will save lives.
Studies have shown that simply raising the cigarette tax by $1 will prevent 228,000 children from starting smoking while motivating more than 100,000 current smokers to quit. That alone is worth supporting Proposition 29.
<CS8.6>This is why so many health organizations, including the American Cancer Society, the American Hearth Association and the California Medical Association, are supporting the measure.
</CS>But it faces an uphill fight. Why? Because Big Tobacco, which pours millions into marketing campaigns to hook children on smoking, is dumping millions into a campaign to ensure this proposition fails.


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Studebaker Theater
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The Studebaker Building opened in 1885, a massive Romanesque style building between the Auditorium Building and Theatre and the old Art Institute of Chicago (which moved to its present location across Michigan Avenue in 1893; the old Art Institute building was razed in 1929 and replaced a year later with the Chicago Club Building). The Studebaker Building housed showrooms for the carriage company (which later manufactured autos) until 1898 when it was converted into the Fine Arts Building as a school and performance venue for musicians and artists and offices for publishers and architects. In 1917, the legitimate Studebaker Theatre was built on the ground floor of the building, the name still inscribed on the facade.
In 1933, the Studebaker Theater was renamed the World Playhouse and later began to show films, mostly foreign, while it continued to also feature plays on its stage as well.
However, by the 1950's, the World Playhouse was a movie house only, and its legitimate days were over. By the 1960's, it was screening adult films, and closed for a while in the 1970's after being renamed for a short time the Studebaker Theater.
The theater was reopened as the Fine Arts Theatre in 1982 with two screens. Some of its Beaux-Arts style decor remained intact, though a bit worse for the wear. In the mid-to-late-1980's, the Fine Arts became a quad. The Fine Arts was known as Chicago's premier art and foreign film venue for much of that decade and into the 1990's, along with the Music Box Theatre.
However, by the mid-to-late 1990's, the Fine Arts Theater had clearly seen better days. Newer and larger art film houses, such as Landmark's Century Centre in the Lake View neighborhood, and the Gene Siskel Film Center on State Street in the Loop, had replaced the Fine Arts in popularity and quality in the art film genre.
In its last days, it was no longer even showing just art films, but commercial features, as well. The last film on its marquee was "Red Planet" when it closed in late-2000. It reopened October 18, 2015 as the Studebaker Theater.
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We're not not "bitching" about bad writing; we're mentioning the fact that the description has way too many historical inaccuracies. For an excellent piece of writing on the history of the Fine Arts Theatres, and other Downtown Chicago movie houses, pick up a copy of "Downtown Chicago's Historic Movie Theatres", by Konrad Schiecke. I couldn't have written it better myself.
Bravo!!! One thing I noticed; you mention the small theatre was renamed the Fine Arts in 1908 and then you mention that the small theatre was renamed the Fine Arts in 1912. Is this an error in naming of the smaller theater?
The newspapers were a little unclear. "The Fine Arts Theatre" and "The Fine Arts Music Hall" both appear in the Tribune from 1908-1912. I suspect the 'music hall' references were talking about Assembly/Curtiss Hall on the 10th floor but it's not really clear. I'll take it down and re-edit.
Chicago's Fine Arts building contains two of the oldest surviving theatres in Chicago, with remarkably complex histories.
The Solon S. Beman-designed building began was built 1885-1887 as the Studebaker Building. A massive building with gigantic granite columns, it was built for the Studebaker Company, which at the time manufactured carriages. The first four floors originally served as showrooms, with manufacturing on the upper four and in the basement. At the time of construction, this part of Michigan Avenue was largely residential, but the character began to change soon after, with the construction of the adjacent Auditorium Building to the south in 1889. To the north was the Art Institute of Chicago, built in 1886-1887. Both neighboring buildings echoed the Studebaker's architecture with extensive use of arcades and rusticated stone.
In 1890 and 1892 the Art Institute built and enlarged an annex addition to the Studebaker to house its galleries and libraries while it prepared to move across the street into the Memorial Art Palace, used by the World's Congress Auxiliary for scholarly programs during the Columbian Exposition. In 1895, the Studebaker Company began work a new building on South Wabash Street and once it was complete in late 1897, the old building was re-dedicated to Fine Arts.
Under the management of Charles C. Curtiss, the new plans included two music halls on the first floor, Studebaker Hall, seating around 1500 and University Hall, seating around 700 for recitals. The top story was removed and three new stories added. The upper part of the building would be offices and studios for musicians, artists, publishers, architects, and other artistic purposes. A smaller assembly hall would be built on the 10th floor, connected to the Auditorium hotel's dining room. The open-air Venetian Court was built in the fourth floor light well. Stores on the lower floors would be designated for musical instrument stores. The new building would become the hub of the arts community in Chicago, and over the years held studios for such luminaries as Frank Lloyd Wright, Lorado Taft, John T. McCutcheon, L. Frank Baum, and organizations such as the Daughters of the American Revolution, Chicago Women's Club, University of Chicago Teacher's College, Chicago Musical College, Poetry Magazine, the Little Room, the Little Review, the Little Theater, the Kalo Shop and the Illinois Women's Suffrage movement.
Studebaker Hall opened September 29, 1898 and was primarily used for popular music, meetings and plays. It was noted as exceptionally beautiful and acoustically superior. Originally, it had an arched proscenium like the neighboring Auditorium and 34 box seats across three levels, divided by stately columns. Early on it was primarily used for light opera by the Castle Square company of Boston. It was leased to Connor & Dillingham of New York in June, 1907 and was refurbished. In August, 1913 it turned over to Klaw & Erlanger. The Studebaker began its brief high-class film career April 20, 1914 when Jones, Linick, and Shaefer assumed operations, with an even briefer stint under Triangle. In September, 1917 the Shubert organization took over the lease, working with K & E, and began a major reconstruction. The proscenium arch was enlarged, the side walls were rebuilt, and a new main floor, balcony, and gallery were constructed, though the ceiling remained the same. Hanks & Gazzolo took over in 1922, and in October 1927, Samuel Insull took over the lease so that his theatrically-oriented wife could manage it. (Gladys Insull was the inspiration for the Susan Alexander character in Citizen Kane.) After the stock crash devastated Insull, the Studebaker ran diminished until being leased to a variety of itinerants. Among them was the Central Church, which held services there 1944-1950. On February 11, 1950, it closed and was used as studios for NBC through 1955, reopening October 2, 1956. From then it operated under a series of organizations including the Nederlanders. It was only used sporadically in its later years, and the final show may have been A Prairie Home Companion in October, 1982.
University Hall opened December 29, 1899 and was renamed Music Hall around 1903, when a balcony was added. It was again remodeled somewhat in 1908, and renamed the Fine Arts Theater, now presenting plays. In 1912, it was totally rebuilt and the Fine Arts Theater name became more prominently used. On May 16, 1914 it started showing films under the Alfred Hamburger organization during gaps between live shows. Another round of renovations came in October 1916, when it was renamed the most familiar name, the Playhouse Theater and went back to showing plays except for brief stints of movies. In 1919 it was leased to Metro Pictures, but showed both film and performance through the twenties. In April 1933, coinciding with the Century of Progress, it was again renamed to the World Playhouse, featuring movies, especially foreign films. The World Playhouse became, essentially, Chicago's first dedicated foreign and art film theater. It closed in 1972; in its final year it had booked adult films among other imports. It was renovated and reopened in September 1980 for chamber music.
In December, 1982 M&R Amusement Company announced plans to convert the two theaters into a cinema complex, becoming the first theaters to open in the Loop in 10 years. They opened on Christmas Day with Moonlighting in Theatre 1 (Studebaker) and Veronika Voss in Theatre 2 (World Playhouse). Initially, the World Playhouse continued showing live entertainment occasionally. In 1983, the Studebaker stage was walled off to create Theater 3, utilizing a dressing room as a projection booth. In 1984, the same approach was taken in Theater 2 to create Theater 4; Theater 3 was renovated so that both could share a newly-built booth in between. Theatre 1 held approximately 1200 seats; Theatre 2 approximately 550 seats; Theatre 3 240 seats; Theatre 4 158 seats. Showing mostly art and independent films, with occasional Hollywood fare, the theaters closed in November, 2000.
Since then, various proposals have been floated to reopen the theaters, but none have come to fruition. Theaters 3 and 4 have been removed, restoring the integrity of the stages. The Studebaker and World Playhouse have been open for occasional special events, but await a thorough renovation to be reused.
The Studebaker is apparently to reopen October 18. http://www.studebakertheater.com
Great news. A theater once more and not demolished or converted into some stupid retail space. :)
Current piece on the Studebaker with great current photos. Copy and paste to view.
Incredibly, in 1917 the Studebaker was closed only 5 weeks for renovations. http://archive.org/stream/exhibitorstra00newy#page/710/mode/1up
Name should be changed to Studebaker, status to Open
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Snow, like newly fallen stardust painted across his brow, was the frigid crown bestowed on the knight by the earth and its season. O how it shimmered in the moonlight as he trampled down the frozen ground in search of the land where his heart and his manor would eventually be founded. And lo! how it changed with the earth's changes and the knight's changing of those things within and without him.
Long the knight, prized and loved by his king, searched for the place in which his body and his soul could finally find contentment. So tempered was his resolve when it came to this particular mission of his, that he began to evolve into a being that was beyond the confines of what is considered by some to be human nature.
Nature. Healing. Compassion. These are the humble less-traveled roads that led Sir William to the land of the Lady Hawk, the foundation destined to bear his manor. High up in a cherry tree, he spied her among the blossoms. Her golden feathers and her silvery song were so beautiful that he dared not disturb her, less she fly away and leave him wandering the world alone; for as soon as the knight laid eyes upon her, he knew that he could never love another, so rare and lovely was the sight of her. Just when he thought he could stand the aching of his heart no longer, she turned to him. Their eyes met, and her song became lost in the short distance and infinite space between them.
With knowing, and with wings that captured the sun's rays and held them with a lady's grace, she lifted his heart and delivered it gently to her eyrie. There Love embraced them, and in its embrace they were mated one to the other. Bound together for all eternity, they toiled through the seasons, fostering life and healing life already fostered, until one day, appearing with gleaming newness, came a maiden adorned with a halo that was fair and strong. Borne to them by Love, the knight and the lady happily added the maiden to their house of healing, where they bathed her spirit day after day with knowledge and affection. Sheltered in the warm glow of their parental adoration, the maiden flourished and blossomed and grew to follow the path of the sages.
Not long after the maiden's arrival, on an evening before the first caress of winter, Lady Hawk stroked the cheek of her beloved with a hand that was as soft and as delicate as gossamer. So happy was she, and was he, at the many gifts given to them by the maiden -- gifts that sparkled like jewels but were immeasurable with the silversmith's tools -- that they fell into Love's embrace once again. When they parted, the lady held out her hand and presented her husband with a gift far more precious than any to be found within the earth.
Overwhelming joy filled the knight, and he lifted the flower from his lady's palm and held it close to his heart.
"Rosebud you are to me and forever you shall remain," he whispered to the flower, before he inhaled its perfume. To his delight, the flower sighed and drew its petals back to reveal a small maiden swaddled deep inside its golden hues.
The mother -- the infinite nurturer, gathered up the maiden and bid her lord to seek out their eldest, who was away tending to the lilies of the field. Then tired, but content, she lay down with their newborn and sang in a maternal voice of virtues and graces.
When Sir William returned with his eldest child, the Lady of the Field, he found his wife and freshly-scrubbed babe aglow with comfortable familiarity; their quiet breathing played in perfect harmony as they slept cradled together in the protective arms of family bliss. The two sages, father and daughter, looked upon the new arrival with hearts that were captivated by innocence laced with divinity. After a few sweet moments of silent observation, the eldest turned to her father and spoke gently: "As she is Rosebud to you, so shall she be to me, for surely I shall never love one so well who is not of my own making." Then the two sages smelled the breath of new life before leaving to attend to life in need of tending to.
Several summers and winters passed, and with each turn of the seasons the two maidens, born to those true of heart and strong of virtue, grew more fair and talented in the arts of healing and charity. Their compassion for all living things made them fairer still, and over time transformed them into monuments that honored the king and his testament.
With eyes that held worlds, and worlds beyond worlds, the king looked down from his thrown On-High at the mortar (prepared on a spring day when events led a mortal man to the land of a lady anointed with a name which spoke of noble truths) that bound the hearts of those who made the knight's manor a home instead of mere stones molded into floors, walls and a roof. With every tribal heartbeat, another stone was laid before the hearth, pleasing the king greatly, for this was the manner of home that he envisioned for all those he marked and called his own.
In celebration of the king and the love he inspired, Joy, the constant companion of Lady Rosebud, danced with her fair friend upon the sparkling sands of humanity.
"Rosebud." The name became music to all those who heard it or spoke it through lips freshly dewed with milk and honey. And gardens, full of Four O'clocks and Forget-Me-Nots, sprang up from the youngest maiden's steps whenever she danced before the Lord her graceful dance of serenity.
Once the celebration had waxed and then waned, the knight and his three ladies fair were carried home on the king's breath which had been laden with prayers. Awash with the Lord's spirit, they sat at the family table speaking thanks for all the blessings that they had received through giving. Then, upon finishing the wonderfully delectable dishes prepared and set before them by the fair hands of the lady Rosebud, they said their good-nights and their I love yous and bore themselves each to bed, where they dreamed of all the wonderful tomorrows that were still left to be had by them.
After the last of the candles had given up their flames and silence had engulfed the land, shadows, foul and full of selfishness, began twisting toward the sleeping knight's home; shadows that belonged to two dragons of the most cowardly dispositions. Fear of the knight's sword and shield and his fierce protectiveness of his wards, kept the monsters at bay until the early hours of the morn when they slithered in through the manor's cellar door.
The sub-betas, for that is the name most suited for such creatures, crept up to the slumbering alpha and bashed him about the head with their tails. Sir William awoke, only to swoon under the might of the blows that fell down upon him like an undertaker's hammer on a coffin's nails. When the knight could no longer move, the dragons bound him hand to foot and then, to the horror of all who loved goodness, they went forth on slimy bellies to search out the ladies of the house.
Many indescribable torments saturated with indignities did the beasts inflict upon the ladies, leaving their delicate feathers and petals strewn across the ground. After every feather and petal had been plucked, and every worthless treasure had been plundered, the dragons set the manor aflame and then fled like the cowardly things that creep with no name beneath the earth; however, before the brutes could get beyond Sir William's land, dawn appeared accompanied by the trumpeting of horns that were carried by knights-errant on a mission for their lord, the High King.
The knights, with weapons at the ready, secured the dragons with sturdy chains and dragged them deep down into the dungeons that would house them far away from the innocent while they reflected upon their shame and the shame that they had brought upon their own houses. Then, when the knights deemed that enough time for reflection had passed, the dragons were each cast into a funeral pyre of their own making.
Night and day attendants visited the bedside of the bruised and battered knight, bathing him with tears and caressing him and coaxing him back to the land of the living. Finally from his darken slumber he did awake, and with heavily saddened footsteps made his way to the cherry tree that overlooked the manor that had at once upon a time contained his home.
"Once upon a time," wept the knight, as he knelt down among the ruins that had become his life. His eyes welling with tears, he reached out a trembling hand and lifted what remained of his wife and their two precious daughters: a singed feather and two wilted petals.
"Why, Lord?!" Sir William cried in a voice that was full of heartbreaking despair. "Why? Why in such a cruel and hideous fashion have you taken from me my three ladies fair? Have I not served you and loved you well with all that I am, and through my faith entreated those that you have given charge over my heart to do the same? Homage I have paid you time and time again, and this is how I am to be rewarded for all of my years of loyal service? Well, I shall not have it!" He held up his fist and shouted at the sky. "Now give them back! Give them back, I say!" But in his heart the knight knew that the king was as saddened as he and unable to obey his command.
Physically and spiritually exhausted, Sir William collapsed to the ground where he lay weeping, surrounded by his pain. As he lay upon the charred earth beneath him, his mind replayed the tragic events over and over again, searching for the little things that he could have done -- should have done -- to change their outcome. And when he tried to think of a reason why any creature, even a brute, would delight in such wanton destruction that resulted in the loss of beings as exquisite and as irreplaceable as his Lady Hawk and his two young daughters, he could not think of one.
Not a solitary one.
An idea, dark but welcoming, entered into his dominion then. If his cherished darlings (for darlings and cherished they were) could not come back to him, then he would go to them. He then, with his grief temporarily drying on his sleeve, pulled his dagger from its sheath and, with eyes closed, pressed its cold tip to his heart.
"Of this they would not approve," spoke a voice near to him, a voice that was warm and knowing.
The knight slowly opened his eyes and looked upon the king's son, the Prince of Peace and Prosperity.
"Why have you come to me now instead of when I was in most need of you?" Sir William asked, while at the same time releasing the dagger from his grip. Then he looked down at his other hand, still clutching what was left of his most valuable treasures, and was overcome with grief again.
Side by side, the prince and the knight wept openly for those who had been taken from the earth before their time. And when, although no less grief-stricken, the prince and the knight could no longer draw tears from their spiritual wells, they stood and turned to the lilies of the field.
The prince, with hands that were as warm and as comforting as the sun, took from the knight's possession the feather and the petals. Next, with undeniable reverence, he held up the remnants of Sir William's treasures and blew his living breath upon them. Instantly -- miraculously -- before the mortal knight's wonder-filled eyes, the feather and the petals sprang to life in the form of three perfect lilies.
"My father, the king, has bid me not to carry these to the field," said the prince of Peace and Prosperity, "but to bring them forthwith and plant them in his crown where they will bloom and remain until that moment when you come to reclaim them."
Sir William caressed the three lilies ever so gently. "But what of me? I do not even know who I am without the ones I love. What shall I be now, if not guardian of the family that has been given to me? "
The prince smiled tenderly. "Listen with your heart and you shall hear the answer, and upon hearing the answer, hopefully will you see again."
Sir William did not understand at first, but did as the prince instructed, and soon, very soon, he heard singing, sweet and ethereal.
"Can you hear them?" asked the prince, holding up the flowers, which glimmered in his hand like stars from the heavens. "Their song is sung especially for you."
The knight wiped his eyes and offered up his spirit, as a weary clam offers up its pearl. Listening with his heart instead of his ears, he heard the familiar voices that he had cherished for so long, sing lovingly: "Continue to be the determined guardian, O Beloved, and you will be the change you wish to see in the world."
Sir William sighed, and then whispered: "Yes, the guardian I have been, and am, and now the change I must become." He then gratefully kissed each flower and each of the prince's cheeks, who quickly departed afterward with the heavenly beings that were to be loved and cared for personally by the king.
As the prince disappeared over the horizon, Sir William's fellow knights were left in his wake. Together, they banded around their brother, lending this shoulder than that when needed. Then, with the arrival of the proper time, they each knelt down humbly upon bended knee to help gather Lady Rosebud's Four O'Clocks and the Lady of the Field's lilies which they dispersed across Earth in hopes of one day bringing to its people a lasting peace obtained through an understanding of humanity.
Unlike the many love stories that have over time proven to be ephemeral, the love of this family -- these very real and beautiful beings -- has proven to be unbreakable, eternal. So that is why when the romantics ask the bards to recount a love both true and rare, they bring forth their harps and their lyres and tenderly recite the poignant tale of Sir William and his three ladies fair.
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PITTSBURGH -- Marc-Andre Fleury will be in net for the Pittsburgh Penguins when they take on the Philadelphia Flyers in a key Atlantic Division game Sunday that could help decide home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
Fleury gave up nine goals combined in his previous two starts, home-and-home losses to the New York Islanders Tuesday and Thursday. Brent Johnson, returning from a 17-game layoff with an injury, started and beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-3 Friday for his first win since Feb. 12.
Fleury is 21-12-2 in his career against Philadelphia, which will be coming off a 4-3 shootout loss to Ottawa Saturday.
Penguins defenseman Kris Letang could play after missing three games with a lower-body injury caused when he was tripped and went feet-first into the end boards March 25 against the Devils. Coach Dan Bylsma said he will be a game-time decision.
As expected, Sergei Bobrovsky will be in net for the Flyers -- just as he was for each of Philadelphia's four victories in Consol Energy Center since the start of the 2010-11 season. The Flyers have not lost in Consol, where they play twice this week. The Flyers and Penguins wrap up the regular season there Saturday afternoon.
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South Derbyshire figures show true cost of no-show GP patients
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FIGURES have revealed that doctors could have seen an extra 9,500 patients last year if people had not failed to show up for their appointments.
Doctors who were left sitting around at practices across South Derbyshire waiting for people who failed to keep appointments cost the NHS £91,655 in total.
This comes as health chiefs in Burton revealed that an average of around 10 per cent of appointments are missed in the town.
Dr Sheila Newport, chairman of NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group, said: "These staggering figures show that thousands of patients are being kept waiting for appointments while health professionals sit around in expectation of helping people who can't be bothered to turn up or tell the practice they're unable to attend.
"It's hard to count the human cost of the stress and suffering of patients kept waiting for appointments but there's no doubt that missed appointments are costing local health services hundreds of thousands of pounds at a time when the NHS has never been under greater pressure.
"Yet, this is a problem that's easily remedied. All people have to do is call their practice straight away if they have to cancel an appointment.
"A new appointment can then be made, and our practices can focus on treating other patients."
Statistics showed that GPs and nurses in the six practices in South Derbyshire spent an incredible 1,599 hours – or 95,940 minutes – waiting for patients who never showed up.
Dr Philip Needham, a partner at the Stapenhill Medical Centre, in Fyfield Road, agreed that patient no-shows was a significant issue.
He said: "It's a big problem. It's certainly a significant issue for us and means that other people who could have had that slot are missing out. A lot of people who miss appointments are those who have booked months ahead."


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Sac Natural Foods Co-opPosted on 07 / 24 / 2015
I just called and talked to their kitchen. Their hot bar is all organic and non-GMO! Even their oils. This is hard to find and spectacular!!
I just called and talked to their kitchen. Their hot bar is all organic and non-GMO! Even their oils. This is hard to find and spectacular!!
I've been going to the SNFC since the late 80s. I used to walk by on a nearly daily basis, as I attended Sacramento High School (before Kevin Johnson bought the second oldest high school west of the Mississippi River for self aggrandizing political propaganda.) But I digress.
SNFC is a solid, old-school style food co-op. They have a legitimate option for being a co-op *owner*: the optional owner worker program. So you can pay for a membership, never work, and treat it like Safeway, or you can actually work to pay for your membership. (Unlike an almost totally fake co-op like REI, where you're just paying for a membership like Sam's Club or Costco.)
Anyway, the store. It has evolved a lot over the years, and is now a reasonably solid small-ish supermarket with a good selection of natural, organic, and harder to find vegan and non-traditional grocery options.
Is it kind of expensive? Sure. You're paying for more ethically sourced products, at a co-op, with a staff union -- and that's not free. But on any given day, an actually ripe, organic tomato might not be that much more than at Raley's or Safeway.
Great bulk section.
Unfortunately, I don't get there as much as I'd like: it's not super close, and I have a Sprouts closer that has a lot of vegan products (and super cheap produce, albeit kind of B grade.) But it's one of those places I know I can get certain ingredients and products at (like the large tub of Earth Balance) without just having to hope that Raley's might be carrying it.
Parking is atrocious, and always has been, to an almost comical extent. This is a place you want to ride, walk, or take light rail to.
SNFC is well worth supporting, and it'll be interesting to see their new location (as I understand it, being built now.)
Half of my experiences at the Co-op suck.
Most of the time the deli employees treat me like I'm either A) a magician who specializes in invisibility without knowing it or B)a real painful zit on their behind and they can't wait until I leave. I've seriously experienced employees looking at me from the hall behind the deli (and no one out at the cases to help the customers) then meander out into the deli area and take their sweetest of time until they ask me if I want anything. It was like I was in the Twilight Zone, it was nuts. I swear I've never mooned these people, insulted their singing, or smelled really bad in their presence so I just don't get it.
Stuff here can be ridiculously expensive. People always say "packaged food is more expensive than buying the ingredients and tossing it together yourself" which, yes, is true about most things but I am pretty certain that I was charged nearly $3. For a tomato. In the summer. Don't even get me started on trying to buy a bell pepper in this place. You'd have to win the lottery if you planned on making stuffed peppers for dinner for the family if the Co-op was the only place you could go.
What do I like? Some of the cashiers make me so happy that I go through their lines on purpose. They're that nice! Apparently I'm not so nice because I can't remember their names right now, haha.
Buying in bulk here helps a lot. They sell bulk apple cider vinegar and Dr. Bronners soap which are bulk section treats. They have a great variety of herbs and spices for teas, medicine, and tastiness.
They sell my Rudi's spelt bread here for a fair price.
Love the coop but absolutely despise their lack of customer service, when a staff member doesn't know what a GMO is, there is a MAJOR problem! Plus the deli selection hasn't changed much since the 80's.
i have yet to experience the co op yet if they don't know what GMO means ...that's scary!
Best option for vegetarian and vegan grocery items. Huge selection of anything you could want, condiments, mock meats, tofu products, breads, boxes, supplements, etc. Stuff you can't find anywhere else.
It is always packed, so I don't bring my kid or it is too difficult to maneuver the cart and the child.
Deli was okay, sandwich was not worth the price, Subway is more satisfying. Salads looked good, will try those next time.
Updated from previous review on Friday December 03, 2010
This is one of my favorite stores ever. They carry loads of vegan and raw grocery items. They always have several vegan meal options in the deli (along with desserts like vegan cupcakes), so it's a great place to stop for lunch or dinner. In my experience, the food has always been delicious. They have a nice indoor dining area near the front of the store, a water tap where you can fill up your canteen or a glass, and pleasantly clean bathrooms, making it a great place to refresh if you've been out and about on a hot (or cold) Sacramento day.
Been going to this store on/off for the past 18 years. Beautiful selection of various veggies.
I have been to this store many times. The fruits are always fresh and the vegetables are always ripe and ready to go. This store is not exclusively veg*n, but it is exclusiveley the best soures of vegan and vegetarian products that i have ever found in the Scaramento area. The staff are always ready to help a customer and answer questions regarding ingredients and alternatives.
I personally like this stores location, it is located only one block south of the 29th street lightrail station, and any number busses that also stop at that station. No matter where I am, I'm never too far from my favorite store.
Sacramento Natural Foods is my favorte store because they have many veg*n products that I cannot find elsewhere, including: 6 kinds of vegetarian gravey, more than 3 kinds of vegetable pot pies, twice as many veggie-spanish dishes as any other store i have ever seen, and more kinds of veggie soups and dinners, and suppliments, and hygiene products than i could ever count. In short, this is simply the best store out there and i would give it the highest rating possible.
Not many veg options in the deli, but the ones they have are excellent. Lots of great prepared food as well
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Managing the moeny given to foreign governments makes sense to me. Having some of our foreign aid tied to providing work opportunities for people of the work makes sense to me. It ties to the parable of teaching a person to fish, rather than just giving them a fish.
but the concept that all developing coutnries need is economic opportunity is woefully inadequate. Certain countries lack the fundemental institutional support that a "real" economy requires such as law, infrastructure, etc. Ask American companies why they are retiscent to work in places like Nigeria and they will tell you it isn't because there isn't profit to be made.. rather, the risks and difficulties involved make a successful venture that much more difficult. Nations must first create an environment where economic opportunity is possible and "humanitarian" and other such institutional aid is useful. And then, of course, we must not forget those people are this planet that live in poverty stricken places where even a functional government is hard to prop up. i.e. Haiti and Somalia. Our commitment to foreign aid makes me proud to be American, even if thet the bad-apples (Pakistan) get all the attention.
Don't you think aid packages to spur investment and private enterprise in low-income countries have been tried? Foreign aid is a very tricky, hit-or-miss concept that largely fails, due to myriad reasons; the only thing worse than aid and its accompanying naivete might be no aid at all and benign indifference. Mitt Romney is undoubtedly a smart guy who means well, at least for some, but the more I learn about him the less I feel he is suited to the presidency: his background and focus are too narrow, too limited to enclosed groups like PE pros and Mormon leaders. The limitless melting pot that is the US flummoxes him. Plus, I wonder how much living up to his father drives him, especially into areas unsuited to him.
Nation Building.... or...'let them starve/die' ? Thanks for nothing....
Here's my beef: when the federal govt proposes national laws, like Obamacare, opponents say it should be up to the states. When states propose laws, like California's prop 37 on genetic food labeling, opponents say it should be up the federal govt. Sounds like a no-win.
Further, conservatives often say that private enterprise is the solution to economic woes, and that gov't should know enough to get out of the way. At the same time, they blame Obama - a gov't employee - for not doing enough to jump-start the economy. Again, a no-win.
If someone's got an explanation, I'm interested to hear it.
romney is just a coward.
did he mention that america send a check for $2billion to israel every year with no strings attached?
that's more than $250 for each israeli citizen. that's like 4 months worth of work for a chinese worker.
and that's money america borrows from china to give it away to israel!
and what do we get in exchange? an idiot like netanyahu who is sh itting on america every chance he's got.
why aren't the republican cowards asking to cut this handout to israel when the deficit is going throught the roof?
i bet you romney and netanyahu talk over beer on how to stash that money in blind trusts in the islands..
Romney = toast.
The only change we need is in Romney's brain.
Romney at 60-min interview: What health care - go to the ER when you're sick, 'SOMEONE else (??)' will
pay for it...
So Romney is in favor of cutting off our long standing support for Israel? Wow, that's going to cost him some votes. Without Israel, there can be no second coming.
supporting the radical muslim brothehood, with billions of our tax dollars....was not smart.
Down inside....he knows that 4 more years of Obama's leftist progressive policies, will leave such a sour taste in the moderate and conservative's mouths, that they will be ready for a big, refreshing change. A dem won't have a chance after 4 more years of what Obama is doing.
We will see a conservative win, like Obama did over McCain, as people were looking for something other than Bush. Bill wants Hillary in the WH, and he knows that the only chance she will have in 2016, is if Romney is elected in November.
Superior speech which smacks of the practical executive. I read the speech of a poet stating universal truths in an artful manner using the fiction of a video to avoid confronting the Muslim Text which, from the perspective of a Muslim cleric, allows the stomping of people of other faiths and the subjugation of women. Mr. R.'s design of foreign aid gives another reason why a gifted writer -Mr. O. - needs replacement by an executive.
Foreign policy folks on the floor text....'THUD' That says it all...He insulted the Egyptians or petes sake!
'Zero based' allocation each year is appropriate, but each bilateral account should also be billed for DoS and DoD expenses in maintaining relations with the foreign sovereign from the allocation. The full costs of maintaining the embassy, the consulates, the security, reasonable navigation portals, etc should be added to the 'aide' in the form of programs to stimulate bilateral trade.
Also, foreign aide should increasingly eschew humanitarian relief funding.....excepting the organization and logistics .....relying on NGO funding.
What was not said was resumption of a paternal role in international leadership in behalf of feedom....not the fatherless abdication of leadership exercised by Obama.
Federal vs State solutions: Conservatives generally believe in government, as far as they are needed, to be as close to the people. The benefit of that is to have local solutions for local problems. State level experiments also drive innovation and results, witness the vast difference in red and blue states fiscal situations. It is Big Business that sometimes clamor for national standards. But Big Business is not always synonymous with Conservatives, witness their support for stimulus funds too.
Govt vs Private Sector-led growth: conservatives don't blame Obama for not "jump-starting" the economy per se. Instead, they fault Obama for imposing the terrible conditions that prevent the economy from healing itself. For eg, the Keystone project and other obstructions on oil, gas, coal and nuclear projects. Dodd-Frank impact on the financial sector, without solving the real problem of Too Big to Fail.
But I suppose he won't be touching the $2 Billion in aid we give to Israel every year..... I mean, since he went there and pledged America will stand behind Israel's preemptive strike against Iran.
AKA... America will approve of Israel's invasion of Iran and America will finish the job (since Israel can not possible encircle, occupy and monitor Iran for the next 20 years.
That will be America's job.
Welcome to the beginning of our third life-long war.
Fortunately, Mitt Romney will never be president of the United Sates.
Great idea Mitt! Let's start with all the money we are wasting on I$rael. Enough charity for that parasitic little country when we can use that money here at home.
Nothing new. The initiative already started with many of the aids offered with incentives attached for meeting the conditions attached. It is more about the right kind of change not just change for change sake.
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|Vanins are enzymes with pantetheinase activity and are presumed to play a role in recycling of pantothenic acid (vitamin B5) from pantetheine. Pantothenic acid is an essential nutrient required to synthesize coenzyme A, a cofactor involved in many biological processes such as fatty acid synthesis and oxidation of pyruvate to fuel the citric acid cycle. Hydrolysis of pantetheine also liberates cysteamine, a known antioxidant. Vanin-1 is highly expressed in liver and is under transcriptional control of PPAR-alpha and nutritional status, suggesting a role in energy metabolism. The lack of potent and specific inhibitors of vanins has hampered detailed investigation of their function. We hereby report the design, synthesis and characterization of a novel pantetheine analog, RR6, that acts as a selective, reversible and competitive vanin inhibitor at nanomolar concentration. Oral administration of RR6 in rats completely inhibited plasma vanin activity and caused alterations of plasma lipid concentrations upon fasting, thereby illustrating its potential use in chemical biology research.
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