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Field of Fire
|The Field of Fire
Men burned alive by the Dragons
|War of Conquest
|Around 2 BC
|The Reach
| Targaryen victory
The Field of Fire was a major battle during Aegon's War of Conquest. According to semi-canon sources it is located in the northern part of the Reach.[2]
The Prelude
Aegon I Targaryen landed at what would become King's Landing and began subjugating the Seven Kingdoms.
The Battle
King Loren I of the Rock had joined forces with King Mern IX of the Reach in an attempt to throw the invader back. Between the two kings they had roughly 55,000 men, of which 5,000 were mounted knights. Aegon had a fifth of that number, mostly conscripts from previous conquests. Lord Jon Mooton of Maidenpool, one of the first lords to come over to the Targaryens, was given command of the Targaryen army.
The two armies met amongst the wide open plains south of the river Blackwater, near where the Goldroad would one day run. The field which the battle was fought on was quite dry that day. The allies charged and started to break the Targaryen lines. King Mern demanded, since he had brought half as many more men to the battle, he should have the honor of commanding the center of the combined Reach-Westerlands army, and he personally led the charge against Aegon's army alongside his kin. A major battle was then fought in which the forces of the two kings met the Targaryen army. The Targaryen host broke, but by then Aegon and his sisters had taken to the air on their dragons. The Dragons began to set the field aflame on all sides, especially downwind of the Gardener-Lannister armies while Mooten was upwind.
The Dragons killed 4,000 men of the combined Lannister-Gardener army, among them King Mern alongside all of his sons, grandsons, brothers, cousins, and other kin.[3] Another thousand men perished from sword and spears and arrows while 10,000 men suffered burns. Of the Targaryens less than 100 were lost while Visenya took an arrow to the shoulder.[4] One nephew of King Mern survived the battle, but he died of his burns three days later. When he died, House Gardener died with him.
The battle become known afterward as the Field of Fire. It was the only time in the conflict that all three of the Targaryen dragons took to the battlefield at the same time. Between Vhaghar, Meraxes and Balerion, they killed four thousand men outright, burning them alive including King Mern died. The army was broken and Aegon I was victorious.[3]
King Loren gave up his claim to kingship and became Warden of the West under the rule of Aegon I.[3] Harlen Tyrell, castellan of Highgarden, surrendered the forces of the Reach to Aegon. Aegon rewarded him by giving House Tyrell dominion over the Reach and raising him to Lord of Highgarden and Warden of the South.[5]
|It was the only time that Vhagar, Meraxes and Balerion were all unleashed at once. The singers called it the Field of Fire. [3]
References and Notes
- ↑ The World of Ice and Fire, The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book, Guardians of Order
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 13, Tyrion II.
- ↑ Reading from the world of Ice and Fire. Notes from George R.R. Martin's reading and Q&A at the Bubonicon 44 in Albuquerque by Trebla.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Appendix.


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Actually it hits stores everywhere September 27th 2011!
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Cranberry Cherry Crisp
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2 cups frozen unsweetened whole cranberries
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
2/3 cup oats
2/3 cup crushed shredded wheat cereal
1/4 cup shredded coconut
1 tablespoon chia seeds
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup cold butter
1/4 cup water
1. Combine cherry pie filling and cranberries and spread in a baking dish.
2. Combine all of the topping ingredients and mix well. Cut in butter. Mix should be crumbly.
3. Sprinkle topping over filling.
4. Bake at 350 for 25-35 minutes until fruit filling is bubbling and topping is lightly browned.
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This is a dedicated space to think beyond the traditional bounds of design, architecture, and urban planning. Rather than solve design problems idiosyncratically, PRE- is about defining avenues to broader ideas to be refined later. How can an approach unburdened by reality confront convention with new ideas, concepts, and typologies that empower design with agency?
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Every year, over 3 billion passengers around the world travel through a system conceived over 8 decades ago. Modern air travel is a cornerstone to the world economy, generating over $650 billion annually. Yet, despite its importance to the global economy, the industry relies on outdated rules and regulations that slow its progress and stifle its further growth. If the airline industry will continue to grow 6% per annum, it cannot simply maintain the status quo (i.e. world population grows at 1%). Systemic changes could not only increase the productivity of the airline industry, but also invite new possibilities to global infrastructure. How can we redefine the concept of the air travel to increase flexibility and confront systemic inefficiencies?
Despite the massive scale and importance of this infrastructure, the industry has posted a $63 billion deficit within the past ten years. The increasing inefficiency of an aging system has driven operating costs up 162% since 2000. Despite a persistently growing demand for air travel, airlines sell only 82% of their available seats because large scale airports are either no longer strategically located or outside of areas experiencing high population growth. The infrastructure has become increasingly congested, expensive, and inefficient.
Perhaps the cost of maintaining the current system actually limits its potential to grow. We propose a renewed airport typology to supplement these issues by addressing a systemic flaw. Why do airports limit the indefinite medium of aviation to only finite points? What if air travel can further propagate its mobility by finding a more adaptive system to truly become the most flexible of infrastructures?
The conventional system of air travel relies on two components – planes and terminals. One is mobile, and one is fixed. The conventional approach to streamlining the industry has fallen within this accepted paradigm, but what would a fundamental, systemic change mean to either? What if both components enabled a more accommodating flexibility?
We propose an adaptive system that makes use of an existing reality. What if we could make terminals mobile along the most flexible of mediums that already constitutes a major share of the transportation network – the conventional highway? Why not repurpose the 4 million miles of existing highway in the US to create temporary runways? By rescaling the 'airport' into a mobile terminal, a new infrastructural typology can provide unprecedented opportunity.
The highway system provides a malleable substrate – already wide enough in most locations and well within structural limits to land commercial jets, it can easily facilitate the basic requirements of an average commercial runway. Mobile terminals could divide the same functional, security, and mechanical requirements of a conventional airport into individual mobile gates that supplement the highway network. These gates are designed to the dimensions of a flat bed truck, and are thus easily moved to where they are most needed. Mobile terminal 'hotspots' will emerge and disappear over time, and routes can dynamically adjust to customer demand, models of efficiency, and the flows of existing ground traffic.
The mobile terminal is the logical response to the extreme inflexibility of a conventional airport. This typology can push the boundaries of mobility by connecting the potential of two infrastructures into an infinitely more adaptive system. It can coalesce the global mobility afforded by air transit with the regional network provided by the highway system.
The potential of this typology is far reaching. In Los Angeles, for example, 12,000,000 residents spread over 5,000 square miles, but share only three major airports. Mobile terminals could take advantage of the expansive highway system to create temporary runways during periods of low traffic, facilitating a hyper-efficient transportation network for one of the world's most congested cities. Terminals could also be easily gathered into areas of very high demand, for example massive sporting or entertainment events adjacent to existing large-scale parking lots. The flexibility of an adaptive system provides a synergy of transportation for all scales, more users, and in a wide range of contexts.
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Why do museums feel like fortresses, impenetrable to the real grit of urban life? The museum is one of the oldest architectural typologies and maintains a transcendent cultural paradigm. But the prototypical museum is often stale, refusing to sacrifice mistaken ideals rather than authentically connecting to contemporary life. If a museum is to have real relevance in a progressively open culture, it should abandon its self-imposed policy of curation. The museum should meld into the reality of everyday life, becoming a living bookshelf for the city's many urban stories. How can the spaces of a city be blended with museum galleries to create a museum typology that benefits the experience of both?
Our proposal for a new museum typology redefines how 'The Museum' can create meaningful interactions between its contents and all members of the public through a series of cohabitated spaces. The typical museum establishes a spatial hierarchy, dividing 'fine art' from the outside world. But this rigid model does not relate to the informal and interactive nature of contemporary art, nor the cultural importance of transparency in public institutions.
The site is understood as a case study. As is the trend for many contemporary museums, it occupies a post-industrial waterfront lined with continuous industrial brick warehouses. The site occupies the only open space remaining along a long row of warehouse blocks, providing a small urban plaza that connects the city with the adjacent water front. Building upon the only usable public space within this context would be thoughtless – particularly given that this building must accommodate a public purpose. Can we turn the competing need for an iconic museum and qualitative urban environment into a cohesive narrative that actually celebrates both conditions?
We propose to design a series of urban spaces the cohabitate between outdoor urban functions and interior galleries. By lifting the building's program above an entirely open ground floor, we can enrich the existing urban plaza with distinct activities. These public activities find their match within the interior program, establishing a variety of activities that redefine the boundary between museum spaces and urban life. This bears precedence on both realms – the public and the private – to give new meaning to the museum's space in the urban fabric.
Our proposal articulates the public level into 5 zones - A sports court, a stage, a garden, a bus terminal, and a market plaza. These functions become different urban living rooms shared by public life and the interior museum spaces. The spaces created by the urban functions intersect with the museum's interior, fostering new dialogues and perspectives about how people perceive, understand, and connect with art in the real life of a city.
Rather than protect the art from the public, the architecture blurs the division between public and gallery spaces. A contemporary gallery and a city sport-court intersect to create an art arena for spectating: art, sports, and activity. This is not about imposing a rigid hierarchy. Rather it sets and supports a stage for activities that blend into both worlds. In doing so, it gifts the museums interior with a real urban life and the public realm with a meaningful urban space. The architecture concentrates its focus on an interior environment that is neither part of the museum or the city, but rather a mixing zone of both. Vertical spaces stack a variety of activities and program with collaged flexibility. This strategy is as spatial as it is cultural. It gives new precedence to the individual design of this museum and the more general typology.
The architecture concentrates its focus on an interior environment that is neither part of the museum or the city, but rather a mixing zone of both. Vertical spaces stack a variety of activities and program with collaged flexibility.
1st Prize, STCenters Competition. Exhibited at The Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). In collaboration with Annie Peyton.
Over 1 billion cars are driven daily around the world. That number grows by 170,000 every day. In Los Angeles (the 2nd most populated city in the US), the number of registered cars is greater than the number of registered people. Cars are a reality of modern life; while many urban planning strategies attempt to erase cars from cities to counteract urban sprawl, they fail to maintain influence. A change in policy is less effective than a change in culture. Rather than simply deny the importance of cars in the modern society/economy, maybe we can inspire a slow shift in attitude that makes better habits more exciting. How can architectural and urban strategies popularize more sustainable systems of transit?
This exercise takes Rio de Janeiro as a case study. Over 90% of new cars sold in Brazil use ethanol as fuel (a compound produced from sugar cane). This is a vital component of the country's growth (with a GDP growth rate approximately 3x that of the US in 2013), and planning decisions today will define the ability of Brazil to be a fully modernized economy. Despite the country's admirable use of sustainable fuels, Brazil's continued growth is still threatened by its own modernization. Every year, the number of cars in Brazil increases by roughly 10%, meaning that infrastructure in cities must accommodate 25% more traffic due to congestion. Planning authorities have sought alternative proposals to increase the transit system's efficiency.
Our winning proposal addresses the culture of driving in Rio De Janeiro, one of the world's fastest growing cities. We propose a new transit terminal typology that redefines the car as an instrument to create public interactions and focuses the operation center on its role as a public space.
The competition requires an operation system within a traditional city block. We propose to forego the suggested building envelop of the competition, which is out of scale and context to its neighboring buildings, and rather build a simple canopy over the adjacent street connecting a major park and the beach front. Above this new, high-volume pedestrian street, we propose an interactive 'terminal board' that lets users request car shares with neighbors using a web based application. This digital/spatial terminal system uses a simple combination of light and color to highlight similar users and create meeting points for either car rental or car sharing.
Situated within this ideal public venue, the canopy is a natural attraction and readily available to it neighborhood. This translates to everday life in a variety of capacities. Imagine planning your next trip to the grocery store, mall, or airport through a social media plugin that automatically supplements the obligatory selfie with a car rental or car share suited to your needs. This level of integration can not only offer new avenues to operational efficiency, but also reconsiders how we can popularize sustainable strategies.
The program of the operations center is buried within the street below, allowing for a distinct space that functions more than anything as an exciting public venue. The street becomes an electric promenade that engenders a 'spectacle' surrounding the electric car. The proposal overlaps architectural space with an infrastructural system to create a new social platform. The proposal was unanimously awarded 1st prize by judges for defining a solution that 'with just a single gestures resolves the volume and the program ...in a clear and concise manner.'
The US Military has the largest navy in the world, over 13 times bigger than its nearest competitor. The navy's operating principle in the 20th century was simple: to have the biggest ships, the longest reach, and the largest fleet. This came to a climax at the end of the 1950's, when the navy enlisted 6,578 vessels to active service. Today the active fleet has dwindled to 285, as advances in technology and naval strategy render the vast majority of older ships obsolete. But at an average price tag of over $100 million per vessel, where do all the outdated ships go?
In 1960, the National Reserve Fleet was formed to retire active ships to indefinite storage harbors. Ships were planned for regular maintenance as they waited to be repurposed, recycled, or left to sink. However, the retirement of ships has drastically slowed in recent years due to political pressure on the program, and now there are just as many ships unused as those listed on active duty.
The Reserve Fleet concentrated ships in harbors thought the United States. Over the last six decades, a few of these groups have become 'ghost fleets', stuck in a bureaucratic process that prevents the ships from regular maintenance and lengthens the timetable for their disposal. Ghost Fleets have been adrift for as much as twenty years past their appointed decommissioning, polluting their surroundings and littering their communities with an ostensibly negative symbol.
Recent studies by the US government have established three viable options for the reserve fleet's disposal to improve the system: Indefinite storage, recycling and reefing. Indefinite storage has been proven the most expensive and dangerous, as elements within the ship eventually erode and pollute nearby ecosystems. Recycling programs have found substantial logistic and economic challenges that prevent widespread implementation. However reefing - sinking a ship by design and using its structure to create an artificial marine environment– has gained favor as a time- and cost- effective alternative. This will likely be the chosen method for future disposal. But rather than simply sink a ship, can we use its substrate for something more creative?
The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in California is the most notorious ghost fleet in the US, as over 50 ships crowd the local community with their rusting skeletons. The bay is also one of the most important habitats for the California delta, connecting the San Francisco Bay Area to the Sacramento River. This delta provides essential irrigation to one of the world's most populated regions and forms wetlands that are home to countless threatened species of birds and fish.
The scale of the reserve fleet has degraded the local environment and created a persistent eyesore for the local community. Once upon a time thriving wetlands encircled the entire bay, but the accumulation of toxins left by the untreated fleet and annual dredging has rendered its vicinity lifeless. Annual dredging removes the natural accumulation of silt from the Sacramento River that would otherwise run the fleet aground. The ships are currently planned to be removed and tugged over 6,000 miles to Brownsville Texas after being stripped of toxic paint and wildlife, at the cost of over 1 million dollars per ship. This solution leaves no money to remedy the existing pollution of Suisun Bay and risks countless ecosystems along the ships' journeys to contamination from toxins and nonindigenous species.
The massive scale and structural qualities of the ship provide an ideal building block for a dramatically new landscape. But by keeping the fleet within Suisun Bay, the investment costs can be redistributed to cleaning up the areas already polluted by the ships over time. Some sections between the existing bulkheads are opened to the water, creating various water depths, temperatures, and salinities that encourage a diversity of marine life. A connective boardwalk creates public programs that link the ships historic story to everyday visitors. These factors work together to create an environment that balances ecological needs with diverse cultural goals.
This plan can restore the local environment by reclaiming the Suisun Bay Fleet for broader social goals. We propose to strategically reef selected ships along the destroyed coastline, and to connect their decks via a public boardwalk. By stopping the annual dredging operations and through the strategic positioning of ships, a limited number of ships can create a wetland superstructure. This gesture can reconstruct the wetlands to redefine Suisun Bay as a post-industrial success story, rich with life and cultural value.
The Navy's stagnant reserve fleet invites opportunities for creative intervention. Rather than envision the fleet as a bureaucratic problem, we see it as a potential to give back to the community. We purpose that the Suisun Bay Ghost Fleet be reclaimed for widespread social, economic, and environmental goals. By creatively readapting the ships, we can activate their cultural potential. The Naval Boardwalk can be a sanctuary for wetland wildlife, a public boardwalk for learning and gathering, and a timeless cultural gesture that gives back to its community.
What presence does the library have when media is increasingly digital? Public libraries have been a cultural depository for centuries, but their real significance lies in their function as a public building. Nowhere else is space open to all members of the public, commercial-free. Does the decline of physically printed books mean that one of the last bastions of public buildings will also meet its demise? Or rather can the book be re-envisioned in how it relates the library with the community?
If the new library is to be a truly meaningful building for the community, we should address a fundamental question: Is a conventional library relevant in a digital world? Rather than readapt a doomed typology, what would a more investigative approach to a library's programming yield? Our proposal remixes a library's formative principles to celebrate its content, giving renewed excitement to such a fundamentally important building.
A typical library design separates its spaces into two major components - the reading rooms and the stacks. In this arrangement, the books are sequestered and compartmentalized, and the library is viewed as a sterile archive of knowledge. We suggest inversing this traditional relationship. If the book is an increasingly rare commodity, why not celebrate its value? Rather than protect books within a closed archive, we arrange the stacks along the perimeter of the building. This emphasizes the fundamental qualities that make books magical to both interior and exterior – with obvious consequence.
By accepting the consequence of digital media, books are limited to only their aesthetic value. No longer the actual medium for knowledge, the books can freely embody the spirit of the cultural realm they define. The books are arranged around a circular plan, creating a sacrificial layer that filters direct sun light into a diffused glow. In doing so, the books define an interior environment accommodating to the e-books and digital readers that have supplanted their functionality.
The building is organized vertically as a gently sloped (1:30) helix with circulation around the exterior. This creates a simple cylindrical volume and an unbroken façade. The skin of the building becomes a natural medium for the library's contents. The natural beauty of books is the outward expression of the building, unabated by the clunky protective layer as in the traditional typology.
This bold spatial arrangement creates a strong icon for the community. The library's role as a public building is emphasized by this simple gesture, creating open space that invites life into the heart of the library's spaces. This typology offers a unique spatial experience. The library is not an archive for books, but rather an exciting public building that invites its community to gather, learn, and interact. The direct relationship the books have with the facade make a dramatic statement that gives renewed energy to the library's future, and a qualitative interior environment.
The city is a living, breathing thing, filled with stories that will never be fully understood. One of those that is seldom represented is also ironically central to the reality of city life – vacancy. For most cities, the average vacancy rate for office space hovers around 10%, with peaks of 20% and valleys of 5% depending on the market's timing. Post cards of world cities frame iconic skylines, inundated with architectural gestures, many of them empty from actual occupants. Why has this fundamental cornerstone of the urban environment been overlooked by architects and urban planners alike?
To study this question, we take the quintessential metropolis – New York - as a case study. New York is a constant state of simultaneous growth and degeneration, toppling over itself as it churns through endless cycles of development. More to the point, it is the birth place of urban planning policies that govern the CBD's of major international cities worldwide.
In the 20th century, New York has been the laboratory for grand visions of urban planning. The city's manifesto has profound simplicity: to build with massive scale, guided only by a horizontal grid. But New York's urban principles have been increasingly challenged by the reality of its size, density, and congestion. The utopia sought by previous generations has become stale as the city's massive scale prevents its further growth. What does the city now aspire to be? To redefine its cityscape, New York must grow from its tradition of visionary urbanism.
New York once pioneered the guiding principles behind urban planning in large cities. As the first skyscrapers pushed the limits of height and scale, their unchecked density cast the public below in perpetual shadow. New York created the first major zoning restrictions for dense urban environments, passing a landmark resolution in 1916 that defined maximum heights and mandatory step-backs to allow light to the public realm below. Popularized into an architectural motif, these regulations helped shape the iconic Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, and many others. Fifty years later, advancements in technology allowed for lighter construction, taller buildings, and extreme density in parts of the city.
Again, the city developed a landmark zoning resolution in 1961, establishing incentive zoning that required public space at ground level to balance building higher. This created the modern skyscraper, a sleek box with a public ground floor, as evident by the Lever House, the Seagram Building, and the conventional office tower. Now, another fifty years later, New York must revisit the fundamental principles that have governed its growth to create a new vision. The city's evolution has negotiated public wellbeing with private interests to achieve a greater density of quality urban living. The value of public space has grown ostensibly over time, as zoning regulations have required more and more consideration for the public's welfare. But how can the city's future extrapolate these principles into new typologies that further address the importance of public space in the city?
We propose to create a vertical zoning system to compliment the horizontal plan of New York. By supplementing the horizontal plane with a vertical infrastructure we can create an entirely new axis for public life, filled with prototypes for a new urban vision. While past visions of New York have entirely remapped the city, we aim to actually readapt what is already given. Perhaps the most fundamental element of the city's urban fabric is actually its least visible – the elevator. The city's verticality has essentially relied on the elevator as a vertical infrastructure. We propose to further this principle by appropriating the elevator as a completely public element of the city. In doing so, we redefine the elevator as a vertical street and create vertical mobility for public life.
This creates the means for an immersive, 3-dimensional public realm, where the cityscape can evolve with rich programmatic density. Vacancies in existing towers can be exploited, becoming temporary museums, markets, or galleries. New amenities can transform existing office towers into vertical neighborhoods. Public pools can be suspended in the midst of the cityscape. Roof tops can become community gardens and parks, activating unused spaces with public life. Cultural programs can propagate throughout the city, creating diverse activity in the dense fabric of the city.
These public amenities are essential for a sustainable urban habitat. The truly 'vertical city' unveils the programmatic potential of the urban environment, able to respond to the various environmental, social, and economic conditions that constitute the city. In this sense, we aim to create an urban identity that will result not in any one vision, but rather in an accumulation of activities, spaces, and urban life.


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Tai Chi Classes in Portland for Health, Vitality, Longevity and Self Defense
Tai Chi is a practice with several facets.
Physically the training from our Portland Tai Chi classes cultivates a supple strength and flexibility. One develops grace and balance as the postures condition core support muscles. The body becomes less susceptible to damage as the weight bearing exercises gradually increase bone density and the stretching movements make a person more pliable. The breath work counteracts stress, improving blood pressure and heart rate by calming the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system.
Mentally the principles from Tai Chi training of redirecting force prove invaluable in everyday life. With practice one develops the ability to maintain a calm center regardless of circumstance.
Spiritually, our Portland Tai Chi practice cultivates ones energy. It can be a key piece of an internal arts practice to elevate your spirit; which is to say, gaining greater clarity and awareness, becoming less susceptible to petty distractions. With a clear mind one learns to put their full intent into their movements. Energy follows this intent extending the movements beyond their regular potential.
Tai Chi martial training requires intensive practice. An adept practitioner can handle an opponent of greater size and speed. It is the combination of a responsive healthy body from the physical, the clear mind and sensitivity of the mental and the heightened energy and awareness of the spirit that make Portland Tai Chi training effective. With the right timing, one doesn't need raw speed. With actions that are responses to opportunities, one doesn't need raw strength. With this understanding you can see that a Tai Chi practice can be adjusted to meet your goals and abilities.
Our Approach
Though originally practiced as a martial art, Tai Chi can be considered a "lifestyle enhancing practice" with a range of approaches to the training. Each individual's Tai Chi and Qigong falls into a part of the spectrum, ranging from medical/therapeutic, martial and philosophical, to spiritual. While any practice will contain components of each, your chosen focus will determine the shape of your training.
Your Portland Tai Chi and Qigong training develop the body to a baseline of health, responsiveness, and efficiency of movement. Mentally, we build to a baseline of clear-headedness, presence and purposeful movement. From this core skill set you can see how well primed you will be to pursue your individual goals.
The slow, weight-bearing movements of the Tai Chi forms develop structural ligament strength, bone density and promote a healthy free range of motion in every joint of the body. Practicing Qigong involves a basic mindfulness meditation, which means training our minds to stay present and fully focused on our present actions and environment. Simply put, when the mind wanders, you bring it back to what you are doing. This improves our ability to focus and center ourselves while reducing stress.
Breaking down further the approaches to Tai Chi training:
Our training involves regular deep breath work that can help improve your energy levels, as well provide health benefits. Stance and formwork may be modified to accommodate previous injury and can actually help rebuild structural strength and quality of movement. We will also help relieve stress and enhance your immune system with our meditative work and training. We can tailor your practice to support external treatments such as acupressure or acupuncture and address specific issues. The general goal of the training is to promote a high functional and healthy life.
The martial art side of Tai Chi is a subtle, yet effective approach to self-defense. Tai Chi Ch'uan is a close fighting style that utilizes softness and following movements to lock and disrupt an opponent. One of the key principles of martial art tai chi is yielding to an opponent's force and redirecting it to a disadvantageous position. This technique is combined with Fa Jing (the explosive release of force with the whole body) to take advantage of the opponent's inferior position and structure. Martial training involves intense posture training to develop strength and endurance. Qigong builds a high level of clarity and energy while conditioning the muscles and tendons.
The spiritual approach to internal arts means constantly striving towards enlightenment. Buddhist and Taoist monks use Qigong as a vehicle towards finding and maintaining peace of mind. The goal of this kind of training is to live in perfect harmony with the world. For most of us, this approach to training is simply about being more at peace with ourselves and learning to quiet the mind and live a smooth and psychologically healthy life.
The philosophical approach of Portland Tai Chi training shares some similarities with the spiritual approach. This training focuses on reaching high levels of clarity and focus.. We develop the ability to work free from distraction, our thoughts coming from an unfiltered source without being diminished by negative mental habits.
If you're interested in signing up or learning more about our Portland Tai Chi class, then please call us today at 503-235-3435.


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Both women were wanted by the Union Co. Sheriff's Office for Especially Aggravated Kidnapping and Felony Murder charges.
According to the TBI, onm May 19,Littlejohn and Davis, along with two other people, were engaged in a drug deal with a women when they kidnapped her and shot her in the back near the intersection of Bull Run Road and Highway 370 in Union Co. The victim, Lisa Young, later died.
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If you get a taxpayer-funded subsidy on your San Clemente municipal water and sewer bill, get ready to watch it disappear.
On a 5-0 vote this week, the City Council directed staff to phase out the subsidy during the next three years. Currently, 375 households receive the subsidy, which now is $14.40 on monthly water bills and $22.47 on monthly sewer bills, officials said.
From here on, no new participants will be accepted into the program, said Tom Rendina, the city's financial-services manager. The 375 households will see a yearly reduction in the subsidy until it ends July 31, 2015.
The subsidies are projected to cost San Clemente taxpayers $166,000 this fiscal year, Rendina said. He said participation has nearly doubled since 2007, when there were 200 households enrolled, and continuing water-rate increases, coupled with increased enrollment in the subsidy program, figure to further drive up the cost to the city's general fund.
To be eligible, households must provide evidence that they are enrolled in San Diego Gas & Electric's assistance program for low-income ratepayers. The program is not available in parts of town that get their water from the Santa Margarita Water District.
The City Council voted to end the subsidy to reduce costs as it was approving a two-year labor agreement with the city employees' union that is projected to add $352,000 in costs the first year and $579,000 the second year, a staff report said.
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For years now I've been waiting for Ye Oldye Ecology Symbol to once again become the ubiquitous cultural icon it was in the late '60′s and early '70′s. Has it, though, and I just … don't know that? Has The Little "e" That Could* become huge again, by any chance? I figure by now it must have. Symbols from the '60′s seem quite the rage these days. And, except for the peace sign (which of course we now see everywhere), you can't get more '60′s than the "e" ecology symbol.
So, fully confident that I'm dorkily late suggesting this: Let's bring back the "e" symbol for ecology and Earth Love and conservation and Being Green all that most excellent stuff that we need to do or die!
I mean, right? Ye Oldye "e" ecology symbol is the best. It used to be everywhere.
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better beware i need you, and want you to know dear. i swear i do, i really do dear (your touch) I love you too much so beware i'm not a king on a thrown no more. no treasures to my own but if i had your love i know i'd be the richest man in history.
Trust your struggle.
there is a park that is known for the face it attracts. colourful people whose hair on one side is swept back. the smile on their faces, it speaks of profound inner peace, ask where they're going they'll tell you nowhere.
cruel is the night that covers up your fears, tender is the one that wipes away your tears. there must be a bitter breeze to make you sting so viciously, they say the greatest coward can hurt the most ferociously.
money always sees, money always draws the light. hope you can see through the beggers in the clear. do you happen to know where i am from?
the air has filled me head to toe and i can see the ground far below. i have this breath and i hold it tight and i keep it in my chest with all my might. i pray to god this breath will last.
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An old photo today but I'm looking at my work with a new perspective of late. I remember enjoying watching the moonlight sat at the beach soaking in the noise of the waves and noticing the odd shimmer on the boulders of the moonlight but the dark sides contrasting. The other thing I remember is because there was a strong tide and surf that night you could hear the boulders moving and knocking each other in tandem with the sea's ebb and flow. Anyway, back to some form of normality 😀 I hope you like it. I do, maybe I think for its simplicity.
I have made a few changes to the site today, the main one was adding a light theme via the links on the top right. I feel it gives the viewer more choice to decide which they prefer, and sometimes I feel my black and white images look better against white than black. Choice is never a bad thing I hope.


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First published on September 21, 1937, Tolkien's masterful work is more than a children's classic tale. The story ties deeply into Tolkien's methodology and his faith. The Hobbit is an upcoming film series, with the release of the first film, An Unexpected Journey, expected in December 2012. The Desolation of Smaug will be released in 2013, and There and Back Again, in 2014.
McDonough says, "We'll explore what makes Bilbo's 'There and Back Again' journey so compelling, and how it connects with the deeper history of Tolkien's Middle Earth. The Hobbit becomes a gateway into the life, learning and faith of the man dubbed 'The Author of the Century' -- to quote the title of Thomas Shippey's insightful book on Tolkien. We'll see that far from being an escape from reality, Tolkien's works, including The Hobbit, can be seen as an escape to reality."
"My own love for The Hobbit and the rest of Tolkien's work took root in my boyhood," says McDonough, "and it has flourished as I have read them in turn to my children."
A professor of New Testament, McDonough teaches a course on Tolkien at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, MA, and is working on a book comparing Tolkien's fiction to the apocalyptic literature in the Bible. He came to Gordon-Conwell in 2000 from Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji, where he served as the chair of the Biblical Studies Department and as a lecturer in New Testament. He is a Sunday school teacher and occasional preacher at First Congregational Church in Hamilton. He is also a speaker for Medair, a Christian relief organization based in Switzerland. His research includes creation/cosmology in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, Hellenistic Judaism, Greek philosophy and religion and the Book of Revelation.


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"Lately, desserts like the Whoopie Pies have been becoming a popular option for weddings," says Janina O'Leary, pastry chef at TRACE W Austin. "We've been seeing a large increase in the demand for comfort food desserts and Southern-inspired sweets. The Whoopie Pie, Moon Pie, Banana pudding and other items that remind us of growing up seem to be the new staple. This is a way for people to bring their childhood into their big day with a fun twist."
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text: Kotaku: Finding out all the small, unexpected quirks of how different mechanics clash with each other in games is fascinating, and that's basically the premise for all these Mythbuster-esque videos we regularly feature. Usually, it's Halo 4. Not this time. Here are some Black Ops II myths put to the test by YouTube user defendthehouse, including whether or not it's possible to survive a semtex grenade sticky. Turns out, it is—if you do something specific.


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James City County Hurricane Recovery Update - September 23, 2003, 7:00 p.m.
September 23, 2003, 7 p.m.
James City County Emergency Operations Center
Veda McMullen, Jody Puckett, EOC PIO
(757) 564-2154 PIO Desk
(757) 566-4315 Citizen Inquiry Line
James City County offices will be open on Tuesday, September 23. The Satellite Office, 3127 Forge Road, will be issuing building permits for storm related damage to homes and businesses. Permits are free.
The JCC Division of Social Services will provide benefit services from the City of Williamsburg's Municipal Building, 401 Lafayette Street, beginning Tuesday, September 23, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
The County Board of Supervisors will convene Tuesday, September 23, 4 p.m. at the James City/Williamsburg Community Center for their regular work session. The Board's regularly scheduled 7 pm meeting has been postponed.
Williamsburg Area Transport bus service will operate full routes on Tuesday, September 23, 6 am to 8 pm. William and Mary routes are not operating.
Residents with emergency needs for showering or bathing facilities can use the James City/Williamsburg Community Center on Tuesday, September 23 from 7-9 a.m. and from 4-7 p.m. Residents should bring their own bathing supplies. The Center remains closed for recreational uses.
Residents with emergency needs for water can bring their own jugs/containers any time to three of the County's Fire Stations to receive water -- Fire Station 1 (3135 Forge Road in Toano), Station 4 (5312 Olde Towne Road) and Fire Station 5 (3201 Monticello Avenue).
The County is providing free bottled water on Tuesday, September 23 at the following locations and times:
- 8-10 a.m. - near the Chickahominy Haven entrance
- 11 a.m. - 1 p.m - Toano Middle School, 7817 Richmond Road
- 2-4 p.m. - York River Baptist Church, 8201 Croaker Road
- 5-7 p.m. - James River Baptist Church (Jolly Pond Road)
The James City County Convenience Centers will be open Tuesday and Wednesday, September 23 and 24 at the following times: 1204 Jolly Pond Road, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and at 107 Tewning Road and 3127 Forge Road in Toano, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. All fees are waived.
Debris clean-up is scheduled to begin later this week. To participate, residents are asked to leave materials by the roadside -- away from mailboxes, fire hydrants, power lines and poles, water meters, manhole covers and other obstructions. Place all materials in separate piles and do not mix materials.
Accepted materials include:
- Branches, limbs, and tree trunks up to ten feet long
- Debris from damaged houses and water damaged large furnishings including lumber, plywood, roofing materials, Sheetrock, siding, insulation, wire, cables, furniture and carpeting.
- Appliances including refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, washers, and dryers will also be accepted. Doors must be removed form refrigerators and freezers and all food must be removed.
Do not place regular household trash in the piles for special collection. More than one collection in each neighborhood will be provided.
Newport News Waterworks has lifted their Boil Water Notice. James City County residents who are customers of Newport News Waterworks (Kingsmill and Grove residents) no longer need to boil their water.
James City County will be enforcing all current open burning regulations. For information about those regulations, call 564-2180.
James City County citizens with power restored and Cox Cable can watch Channels 46 and 48 or call the County's Emergency Hotline number 875.2424 for more local information.
The County's Emergency Operations Center (EOC) continues to operate 24 hours daily. Any citizen needing information or assistance should call the EOC at 566-4315.
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The history of science abounds with momentous theories that disrupted conventional wisdom and yet were eventually proven true. Ajit Varki and Danny Brower's "Mind over Reality" theory is poised to be one such idea - a concept that runs counter to commonly held notions about human evolution but that may hold the key to understanding why humans evolved as we did, leaving all other related species far behind.
At a chance meeting in 2005, Brower, a geneticist, posed an unusual idea to Varki that he believed could explain the origins of human uniqueness among the world's species: Why is there no humanlike elephant or humanlike dolphin, despite millions of years of evolutionary opportunity? Why is it that humans alone can understand the minds of others?
Haunted by their encounter, Varki tried years later to contact Brower only to discover that he had died unexpectedly. Inspired by an incomplete manuscript Brower left behind, Denial presents a radical new theory on the origins of our species. It was not, the authors argue, a biological leap that set humanity apart from other species, but a psychological one: namely, the uniquely human ability to deny reality in the face of inarguable evidence - including the willful ignorance of our own inevitable deaths.
The awareness of our own mortality could have caused anxieties that resulted in our avoiding the risks of competing to procreate - an evolutionary dead-end. Humans therefore needed to evolve a mechanism for overcoming this hurdle: the denial of reality.
As a consequence of this evolutionary quirk we now deny any aspects of reality that are not to our liking - we smoke cigarettes, eat unhealthy foods, and avoid exercise, knowing these habits are a prescription for an early death. And so what has worked to establish our species could be our undoing if we continue to deny the consequences of unrealistic approaches to everything from personal health to financial risk-taking to climate change. On the other hand, reality-denial affords us many valuable attributes, such as optimism, confidence, and courage in the face of long odds.
Presented in homage to Brower's original thinking, Denial offers a powerful warning about the dangers inherent in our remarkable ability to ignore reality - a gift that will either lead to our downfall, or continue to be our greatest asset.
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"Somewhat interesting"
As someone who spends a fair amount of time studying the nature of reality, I was drawn to this book because of the title. Even though it turned out to be not at all what I expected, it had some interesting info and because of that I would give it a lukewarm recommendation.
I would have liked a deeper understanding and conversation about reality.
Narrator did an excellent job.
It would probably make a good documentary.
What really turned me off about the book was the author's facile treatment of Buddhism. He states that the objective of the practice of Buddhism and meditation (specifically zazen) is the denial of reality, when in fact it is the total opposite. Zen is ALL about the integration of the relative and absolute, and the mundane suffering world is where that happens. Zazen is even done with eyes open in order to facilitate that.
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This very interesting book is almost unbearable to listen to because of the strange performance of the reader. The male voice is warm, but absolutely monotonous. He uses a few short and strained melodic phrases that keeps recurring and nagging at the listener in a way that makes it difficult to focus on the content. Which is a great pity with this book. It deserves much better. This perfomer has to improve. May Audible coach him!
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THE KING WITH 4 WIVES Once upon a time there was a rich King who had four wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adored her with rich robes and treated her to the finest of delicacies. He gave her nothing but the best. He also loved the 3rd wife very much and was always showing her off to neighboring kingdoms. However, he feared that one day she would leave him for another. He also loved his 2nd wife. She was his confidant and was always kind, considerate and patient with him. Whenever the King faced a problem, he could confide in her, and she would help him get through the difficult times. The King's 1st wife was a very loyal partner and had made great contributions in maintaining his wealth and kingdom. However, he did not love the first wife. Although she loved him deeply, he hardly took notice of her! One day, the King fell ill and he knew his time was short. He thought of his luxurious life and wondered, I now have four wives with me, but when I die, I'll be all alone." Thus, he asked the 4th wife , "I loved you the most, endowed you with the finest clothing and showered great care over you. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?" "No way!", replied the 4th wife, and she walked away . without another word. Her answer cut like a sharp knife right into his heart. The sad King then asked the 3rd wife, "I loved you all my life. Now that I'm dying,will you follow me and keep me company?" "No!", replied the 3rd wife. "Life is too good! When you die, I'm going to remarry!" His heart sank and turned cold. He then asked the 2nd wife, "I have always turned to you for help and you've always been there for me. When I die, will you follow me and keep me company?" "I'm sorry, I can't help you out this time!", replied the 2nd wife. "At the very most,I can only walk with you to your grave." Her answer struck him like a bolt of lightning, and the King was devastated. Then a voice called out: "I'll go with you. I'll follow you no matter where you go." The King looked up, and there was his first wife. She was very skinny as she suffered from malnutrition and neglect. Greatly grieved, the King said, "I should have taken much better care of you when I had the chance!" In truth, we all have the 4 wives in our lives: Our 4th wife is our body. No matter how much time and effort we lavish in making it look good, it will leave us when we die. Our 3rd wife is our possessions, status and wealth.When we die, it will all go to others. Our 2nd wife is our family and friends. No matter how much they have been there for us, the furthest they can stay by us is up to the grave. And our 1st wife is our Soul. Often neglected in pursuit of wealth, power pleasures of the world. CHERISH YOUR SOUL...........(Type: status | Published: 2013-10-31T09:07:35+0000)
[elibgeda leunamme] - Imagine u were sleeping on d same bed wit ur friend and u had a dream where he was chasing u with a machete, while running 4 ur life,u woke up and saw him lukin @ u and d next thing he said was "4 ur mind now u sabi run abi?" What will u do? For more of this,go like 'lincoln comedy clinic' (y)
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[ulahgoli amuwkuhc divad gnave] - The best thing that can happen to a man is to live his life serving God, hence taking care of his soul
[ymme htur] - hmmm....a Story indeed..dats the message for me today.
[niellumrellum ffej] - Wow am just cherish it
[ssenippah xilef] - wow very nice 1.
[eimehp nhoj] - It does inspires
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[edinaku nakeina] - God bless u 4 letting me kw this, i will neva neglet my soul
[yhtomit nhoj] - i cherish my soul
[nisot imeyawulo] - D greatest care u can give ur soul is surrender it to the Lord Jesus. Dt's d only way u can preserve it n it will also preserve u
[osnon ireabm] - So inspiring. This tells us most timez we leave the most important to chase less important
[aniseda niyot] - Gud message,i will cherish my soul till eternity
[ivel mihso] - This is great, can we learn from it?
[eihcu amoihsi] - ur first wife wil always be dere 4 u no mater wot she wil put her best 2 make sure her home is in orda,oda wives want 2 get marrid 2 u bcos of ur wealth
[yddap annebgo] - Wht a nice and transforming story
[ebida teiluj] - very motivatin i realy adore dz ur post... true sayin oh God help m 2do so
[habm ehcu] - Wow!!Realy, i took time to read this, well done buddy,Educatin.
[animal halwalimad] - Very captivating
[leumas ynnus] - Great, my God help us
[erakab aloiba] - hmmm great information for d first time thanks.
[obid hannah allets] - So true! May our eyes be opened to the things that really count and not be given to frivolity.
[rofaoroko yoj] - i tink d best i can do is to give God my soul coz he alone can take care of it
[ynnej anigroeg hage ynnej] - Its realy a teachin story. May we neva neglect d chance we hav 2 put tings in other cos no body nos wen, where nor how she/he is departin 4rm dis world. God 4give us our sins in JESUS MIGHTY NAME, AMEN........
[oyatomo yram oyalimnuf] - Wise quote, keep it up
[airolg ha'al b] - I need you more Lord Jesus
[suip sulub emij] - I feel cold, is very excited. God bless u
[niyotnurolo ssikilab iraba] - Wow!!! Am speechless
[sesom amada ais] - indeed wat shall it profit a man togain d world and lose his soul
[derfla luap] - I feel lyk reading it again
[ande aniwgaihe] - Yea,,thats quite true
[ebgiunu ehgaihe] - this is a word of truth
[divad abgeya snitram] - Thnx a lot...thoughtful story
[almok atina] - Hmmmm!Nyc.Serious food for thought!.
[eciruam semaj ubukay] - has anyone seen a soul before? bloody religious shit sold out to the poor
[sorpyhso ukoya tisab dba] - Thanks! Emotional indeed.
[ihcub ewkebi] - Fud 4 tut.TNX 4 D ADVICE
[noemis ynohtna tsezin'd] - http://employmentpay.com/?id=nizest
[amoehpi skono arolf] - Chaiii first wife too dey suffer ooo while last wife always enjoy and also d luckiest...Reminded me of d british epic movie TUDORS...
[eknuf ednireyo] - A word of advice to us all, I like dis
[alokub ekomuj eyeyeda] - nice words of wisdom am impressed and touched
[ure cire] - Food 4 tot here...may God help us!
[oyaelomi ornebgaf] - Hmmm food for thought
[alosniyodeda tadaas nukaleda] - Hmmm 2 emotional
[iyuseda edaukaf] - 1st inspiratnal,emotnal,motivatnal tale of d wk by u pple; Give ur life to christ and u save ur soul. Amen!
[nassah elas rakabuba] - Word of wisdom, so sad
[haze htiaf] - Nice 1.....tanx 4 d message
[ijro tfig] - God pls i need ur grace.
[hamimej ednahmi robaneza] - Hmmm... Our Souls how important, always negleted.... God help us.INFORMATION NIGERIA: THE KING WITH 4 WIVES Once upon a time there was a rich King who had four wives. He loved the - 50th Comments
[mudebenn yramesor] - Hmmmmmmmmmmm!speechless
[ayannogo enihpesoj ihceki] - So inspiring. I hv learnt alot.
[ihcarama ecinreb] - It means we should not go for 2nd, 3rd or 4th wives but maintain the first wive since she is our soul
[elamo uyay ayahay] - Wota very rich,philosophical n religious post!Thumbs up.....luv it
[eknoreda hanailuj ekeleyo] - It really touch my heart, may God help us. Well done on dis!
[nawo naoj] - Hmmmmm its really a foot 4 thought
[adnabis isokn ecnirp] - Wow str8ty talk...D.O.D
[ednutalo imet alomeda] - God help me in cherishing my soul...
[adad ibed] - Lord fil us with ur strength 2 always do the right tinz at the right time n hip us nt to forget thy words........
[aloine ruolav eijo] - God help me to d right way to go.
[inajjit h awuah] - Hmmmm, i hope they mek use of ds.
[nosnhoj trebor] - So for real,very educating.
[ugakilo amme] - OOO GOD have mesy on me what have i don to my 1's wife
[leunammi inoja] - what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and then lose his soul?
[yelnats efe eromamoida] - really inspiring, its what we all are guilty of. Hope we learn and make things right?
[smilah amilah] - u are so much right
[etepke irat arabuodi] - Vry inspirin message.
[imereda ujawnernalo imaboya] - Think twice b4 doing bad
[aron akiluna] - I tnk God 4 dis msg nd pray dat it impacts in our lives, d end is near.
[retsevlys alle ssenippah] - Indeed!words of wisdom.
[airotciv eihihe] - tanks it's touching
[ohilinam tsitneics eugirdor] - True to the core
[nues alohsi] - Food for thought
[urela akniyalo trofmoc] - Take care of ur FIRST WIFEI.E UR SOUL.
[tnecniv eigoibvo] - too touching. true life story. we all are guilty.God have mercy and re-direct our ways 4 his glory.
[dammahum inas dammahum] - Wow,wonderful idea!
[oala iyuseda eledoya] - Hmmn. What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and lose his soul in Hell fire. Pls, let's feed our soul with life i.e the word of God
[auhsoj nisotawulo] - this story is wow
[arawiyno ihcekn] - Nice write up...
[acitsralohcs ehiamoumm] - wow!! really gud
[tayifes olleb] - Wow! Such a nice piece
[sesom ihcatuwko] - I'm touched down to my marrows!
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[xerd nosrats leafar] - Pray for your soul to acompany you to heaven.
[ihco atnicej] - A wonderful talk
[imediba aloiba] - Touch'n message 2 all
[ibalejo nuesawulo einohtna] - Nice tip to make heaven
[ovutnap hanoj] - Food for thought
[wemolehtab neeruam] - I'm greatly touched! Dear GOD help me, draw me closer to u, d spirit is willing but d flesh is weak.
[eknuf hannah imediba oyatomo] - I Luv and cherish my soul my God Help me.
[aneta ordnas] - Which is the country of the king ?
[sunavlys acire] - Heart touching...............God help me pls!
[aihtnyc osnonihc] - wonderful write up
[ewkaro ysso] - Very interesting.
[rokousti iridak inot] - Indeed food for thought
[nomis akeda ysset] - Word! May God help us.
[ednutabab snilloc esarnuta] - I receive grace to serve my God better IJN.
[okrad ubist aicilef] - das that mean that our first choices are far better than our other choices?
[alolimadawulo edobnaya] - Dat d mesage 4 me today
[amnidihc ahouno] - God help me to cherish my soul nd mk it in heaven at lastINFORMATION NIGERIA: THE KING WITH 4 WIVES Once upon a time there was a rich King who had four wives. He loved the - 100th Comments
[ito hsakn luap] - Ya!! God. Unto u I submit my soul.
[ididn rehtse] - Wow what a story God pls help us to care for our soul
[rofako eizemihc] - good one dear,pls can u defferenciate soul frm spirit? How could one cherish his or her soul? thanks
[ayirak elabab rehtse] - May God help us to cherish our souls more than anything
[ednames owiat] - The bitter truth,may God help us to love our soul the more.
[kutu evol liagiba] - Food 4 thought... Nice one
[hade yrrem] - Wat a touching story. I won't neglect my soul
[efneynoido ennaxor] - May God grant us wisdom,to enable us cater for our soul that we often neglect in pursuit of the ephemeral, transient things of life, to the detri ment of our soul !
[epotimet imeyeda] - gud story wisdom talk
[oseeda edesoba] - soul is very important cherish your soul
[uloaynas .m.c] - oh lord,pls help me to cherish my soul
[alonika ocbas] - Dis is great lesson for everyone
[isnedu gnisselb] - Gr8t,God hv spoken to me tro dis story..God help me.....
[yadnus repsorp] - Wow I luv dìs...
[ednutawo lahsram] - Highly inspiring.
[semaj hpesoj] - Wow so touchin n real
[ssecnirp uwkuhciynaefi] - God help us oo, am so touched!
[ihcot yelsgnikhpesoj hebi] - (sobin...) Am touched by dis. God pls help me take good care of my soul bcos its so delicate 2me....
[ekelubgo thgirb] - Most of the time, we loose it to the devil
[yhtomit imaboya uwenudo] - It wl be too devastating if a man gains the whole world and loses his SOUL in hell........ Food 4 thought
[otuidawn atteirneh udam] - So inspirational God pls help me in dis difficult journey.
[nosmas elnukeda obedabg] - This is True talk.
[irijo aisitsana] - Is touching to th soul may God help us
[ekinyeda imeyeda] - Simple story bt great meaning and so emotional..
[retep aloseda nuesawulo iyuweda] - I love this touching message
[adaga niwdog] - What a great lesson?may God help us to take good care of our first wife because she is our body and soul.
[ojabeda edalomo] - More Greeze To Ur Elbow
[mati ehcu] - God help me to take good care of my first wife and to love her,,my soul.
[oyadeda sesom] - ...''Cherish your soul'' only by embracing Christ Jesus...
[halludba nbi urisan-dammahum] - Subhanallah this was an extract from a great sheikh(Islamic preacher).
[thgirb lliwsdog] - Why not complete the story
[nawut kahsmab] - Well thought out.
[ulauwno uwkuhcego] - Hmmm!! Stories that touch
[emorej revoyt] - Let us pray fervently 2 Lord God 2 teach us how 2 take gud care of our SOUL according 2 His plans 4 us...
[avm yelram] - Dis is a very good lesson to odas out dere....sit up
[nesta sukram sabanrab] - This is truely wow! May God help us. Amen
[nhoj mihgozehce htiaf] - Tanx 4 dis inspiring story
[nomolosecnirp suoicerp] - Very Educative, keep-up admin.....
[ahpo yelsgnik] - Waooooo...GOD PLS HELP ME
[ita yoj] - Yes that is d true about life...u are right
[lecxe alowiyalo] - Hmmmm! Well wrapped!
[semaj ecaep] - Hmmmm! what a great and deep moral lesson story!!!!
[harabm ada] - God bless u for dis wonderful story
[yrogerg kralc hoda] - www.naijalatext.com/?id=226
[yssoj amunoawn] - When u fear God ur soul is preserved....
[avm yelram] - Wow.....dis is gr8t nd wonderful......nice 1
[edoyak ednibgino] - well said. touching.
[nuhobnika edasalof eyosubeda] - Whao!lord help me 2 enter into ur kingdom
[pobe yadnus] - This is a great lesson to learn about life.
[ajehco ecarg] - Wonderful, great n excellent one.INFORMATION NIGERIA: THE KING WITH 4 WIVES Once upon a time there was a rich King who had four wives. He loved the - 150th Comments
[eko leunamme] - We are not bring noting 2 ths world, surely we can take anything out
[mailroi skrop umada] - I really believe in those words of wisdom, may we all turn to cheerish our souls and remain chastised. naturallly in poligamous homes de first wife is always and usually de most endurate of all d others.
[afret azro] - Hmmmm,thought-provoking
[ekemo htide] - My dear u are very very right
[edalok snitram alo] - D word of God is d bst fud dat can be givn 2 ur soul. Pls don't starve ur soul of this.
[roya elowodnugo] - FILL IN THE GAP: LIFE is incomplete without _______?
1. Love
2. Money
3. Luck
4. Family
5. Friends
7. House
8. Automobiles
9. Internet
10. Study
11. Wife
12. Clothes
13. Facebook
14. Entertainment
15. Mother
17. Movie
18. Education
19. Father
20. Others specify........
[yrolg oroti] - Pls God help me to cherish my soul


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have all the problems been solved with the new Bernina 780? i remember talk of either the 630 or the 730 having overheating problems. i think it was the 630. i was offered a demo 730 or a new 780. i'm leaning towards a 730(if it does not have the overheating problem). i'd like to hear all pros & cons on both. i'm looking for a hassle free machine that does a magnificent straight stitch.
Be care with the new 7 series (780 etc). I tested this machine at 3 or 4 different dealers and had the same problem - the tension side stitching was horrible. Once the dealer adjusted the tension it sewed just fine. Each stitch had to be adjusted before it would stitch properly. After test driving this machine I decided I could find a machine that actually worked as it was supposed to. I may get the 580
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The Gender Card: Hitting a Guy Where It Hurts
It's a male politician's nightmare. You're facing a female challenger. You're lagging in the polls, but a great debate performance could redeem you.
Then, just when you think victory is within reach, your opponent hits you where it hurts. "Man up," she taunts.
How do you recover from that? It's a tough one, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can attest.
It took the Nevada Democrat a week to come up with a retort after GOP challenger Sharron Angle zinged him with a "man up" during a televised debate this month. (Ultimately he settled on, "From the street to the ring to the Senate chambers, I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.")
Democrat Robin Carnahan told Republican Roy Blunt to man up in the Missouri Senate race. And former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told the entire GOP establishment to man up, while one of the party's men, Arkansas ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee, suggested it's really National Public Radio that should man up.
The Wall Street Journal asked a cross section of sources for their best response:
When Your Opponent Says 'Man Up,' You Say...
"No, dear, Eliot Spitzer tried that."
—P.J. O'Rourke, humorist
"Okay. Let me get the door for you."
—Betsy Salkind, comedian
"Okay, hold my beer."
—Paul Leo, screenwriter
"You're beautiful when you're angry."
—Paul Krassner, satirist and co-founder of the Yippies
"Don't talk to me while I'm knitting, dear."
—Andrew Corsello, writer
"Human up."
—Gloria Steinem, feminist and writer
"'You first,' thus keeping the level of discourse on precisely the seventh-grade track where it had begun."
—Gina Barreca, professor of English and feminist theory, University of Connecticut
"Aren't you the one who wants to wear the pants in this race?"
—Dee Dee Myers, press secretary to President Clinton
"Maybe after Pilates."
—Eric Preven, TV screenwriter
"No, I'm going to man the lifeboats now that you're going to sink the ship of state."
—Al Jaffee, author of Mad Magazine's "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions"
"No one has suggested he man up."
—Aaron McLear, spokesman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger


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Melo hopes talk with Amare can fix struggling Knicks
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|hot topic (01-23-2012)
|4 years ago
|class of '04 - away - #8
He missed alot of shots yes but who he gonna pass to?
Amare freezes once he sees the paint like he got beat up by sherman williams
Shumpert a rookie and has his moments but he a rookie
Fields............???? anywhere???????
Tyson a d player and only good for the alley oops
They not moving the ball around yes, because Melo going one on one all day. They play better when they move the ball around but we gonna act like Melo isnt top 5 scorers in the league?
|4 years ago
|class of '04 - away - #9
Stephen A Smith went off on Stat saying maybe they should trade him. Stat honeslty my favorite KNick right now but he right. Stat acting like a SG, taking jump shots Wtf he aint ray allen. Drive and attack the fu*king basket.
|4 years ago
|class of '04 - away - #10
Melo one of top scorers in the league, who he gonna pass it too.
But you cant blame the fans either. 3 stars and we cant beat anybody.
|4 years ago
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|class of '10 - away - #12
Stat lost it will never recover to how he was playing last year i think.
Just Look at how fast he was moving in these videos and how much better he looked even on defense
fu*kin idiot gained 20 pounds in the summer only to get slower. I just watched some games from last season early in the year he look like a different player. Last year he was fast and mobile and energetic. His mid range was money and he had a skip in his step. Now ???? This n*gga moves like an old man i dont know if its the knees the back or whatever but something aint right with him from last year this time compared to now. It aint just Melo or no more felton its more than that.
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|class of '04 - away - #16
Stat move like a fu*king rock out there man. But Melo doing the same sh*t. He cant move lateral at all.
They both have no feeling to play any defense at alll.
But I blame the coach most of all...All these issue and D Antoni just lets the team run the team.. Get Melo and Stat on some fu*king diets
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The Lady Bears' program has risen quickly to become a national power during the past several years, along with producing one of the most dominant players in recent memory - center Brittney Griner.
Luckily for Grambling, the Lady Tigers won't have to deal with Griner, who is now in the WNBA, for today's season opener, but it's not quite a consolation prize. ...


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i would like to run windows 98 on qemu on xdsl, i found a tutorial but it links to files to make the install easier but the file linked to doesnt seem to exist and the tutorial misses the instructions on what the file does to make thinfs easier, so does anyone have this file or can you filll me in on what the tutorial misses out. nice one.
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Browns Take Revenge on Bengals: Autopsy of an Upset
On Thursday Night Football the Cleveland Browns showed that their days of being pushovers in the AFC North are over.
49ers DT Ray McDonald Says "Truth Will Come Out"
The 49ers defensive tackle is the first NFL player to be arrested on domestic violence charges since the league instituted its automatic 6-game ban for such instances.
49ers Stumble, Fall Short of Successful NFC Title Defense
It was a game of controversy and heartbreak, but the 49ers won't be going to the Super Bowl this year, falling just short in Seattle.
San Francisco 23, Carolina 10: 49ers Dominate Panthers In Second Half
The 49ers shut down Cam Newton and Carolina in the second half and are one win away from being back in the Super Bowl.
Seahawks/49ers, Bengals/Colts & Panthers/Saints Highlight Week 14 Slate
It's Week 14 of the NFL season and only four games remain to decide who advances to the playoffs. And who goes is anyone's guess as 29 teams remain in contention for a trip to Super Bowl XLVIII.
Slack Lines, Week 12: Winning by a Whisker
Luke's lead continues to narrow, and everyone's buying into the Panthers. And the Broncos. And the...Cowboys?
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They already knew the answers before they detained him at the airport.....
Is it a "conspiracy"(?) now that law enforcement officers are being fired for upholding the Constitution?
Would it now make sense that higher ups in the military are being framed up and booted out of the military for refusing to obey unlawful orders?
If this story is factual, then we might as well hang it up as far as expecting the Feds and government to obey and uphold our Constitutional rights! Not to mention, doing the right thing to get our country back on track? I guess the cat is out of the bag that the US government has gone rogue?
Kind of makes sense when you read about leo's murdering and abusing "unlawfully" people and getting away with it.....
i'm just curious, have any other chief of police or sheriffs been hassled for signing on to support the Constitution.
surly he wasn't the only one that signed at the time. why just him? what makes him draw the attention of the tsa, or any other fed agency?
this doesn't pass the sniff test,there is something else going on here.