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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 783609, 6 pages
A Design of a Congestion Control Scheme Based on Multichannel in Wireless Sensor Networks
Daejeon University, 300-716, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Received 22 May 2013; Accepted 31 July 2013
Academic Editor: Tai-hoon Kim
Copyright © 2013 Siyong Park and Sunmyung Hwang. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We propose a congestion control scheme on wireless multichannel sensor networks. The proposed congestion control scheme consists of a congestion detection strategy and two cases of congestion control strategies. The congestion detection strategy modeled in the Morkov chain provides two thresholds that can detect two congestion conditions, or light and heavy congestion conditions. The two congestion control strategies consist of a weak congestion control strategy that can control light congestion and a strong congestion control strategy that can control heavy congestion. In addition, the proposed congestion control scheme assigns a priority to a received packet according to their transmission distance, and it differentiates the number of useable channels when congestion occurs. We can reduce energy consumption due to retransmission because packets received from long distance can use more channels in the proposed scheme.
1. Introduction
Wireless sensor networks are local networks that collect information through deploying sensor nodes where direct observation is hard. Charging energy or changing the batteries of a sensor node is difficult in wireless sensor networks, so reducing the energy consumption of a sensor node is an important issue among others. Many researches on reducing the energy consumption of sensor nodes have been conducted, and researches on routing path, which minimizes the transmission path for reducing energy consumed for data transmission, are notable [1]. However, focusing on minimizing the transmission path leads to a problem of imbalance in energy consumption due to transmission path overlap and so on. For solving the problem, multipath transmission or similar data aggregation scheme has been proposed [2]. Because data collected by sensor nodes are always sent to a single sink or more, the bottleneck around sinks occurs frequently. Hence, congestion causes the rapid destruction of sensor networks by leading to too much additional energy consumption in sensor nodes in a short time. In particular, in the case of retransmission to a long distance, the energy consumption in sensor nodes is accelerated. Accordingly, we propose a congestion control scheme considering transmission distance, which can allocate a priority according to the transmission distance of received data and can use the different range of channels along with the different priority.
Recently, researches on techniques using multichannel for increasing transmission reliability in sensor networks are actively conducted [3]. Multichannel sensor networks can realize reliable and efficient transmission and can transmit data simultaneously without interference or collision because sensor nodes in the multichannel sensor networks use different channels with different frequencies. The proposed scheme can detect congestion by monitoring buffer occupancy rate and a threshold obtained from multichannel modeling.
This paper is organized as follows: Section 2 presents the related works, and Section 3 describes a congestion control scheme based on multichannel. The proposed scheme is divided into a congestion detection strategy and congestion control strategies which can control congestion according to congestion degree. Section 4 shows simulation results evaluating the performance of the proposed scheme. Finally, we present conclusions in Section 5.
2. Related Works
Many researches have been studied to reduce energy consumption of sensor nodes on wireless sensor networks. The authors in [2] proposed a data aggregation scheme based on a tree. Its main idea is to reduce energy consumption due to transmission of the sensor node used with maximum energy. Multihop hierarchical routing protocol (MHRP) to prolong the lifetime of wireless sensor networks is proposed in [1]. In this protocol, a cluster header was selected by considering the remaining energy of sensor nodes. In [4], energy-balanced parameter-adaptable cooperative protocol (EBPACP) discriminated between an intercluster and an intracluster and adjusted the size of cluster for improving energy balance. Authors in [5, 6] studied error recovery schemes to reduce energy consumption in wireless sensor networks. In [5], when retransmission is needed by a corrupted packet, the packet was divided into small subpackets, and retransmission was done for only the corrupted portion of the subpackets. An error control scheme in [6] used BCH coding following Hybrid ARQ on wireless sensor networks based on CDMA.
Many researches on congestion control which can be used in wireless sensor networks are actively conducted to increase the reliability of transmission. Congestion detection and avoidance (CODA) in [7] detected congestion based on buffer occupancy and the state of channel load and controlled congestion by an open-loop strategy or a closed-loop strategy according to congestion degree. Priority based congestion control protocol (PCCP) was proposed in [8]. In this protocol, packets were transmitted by priorities when congestion occurred. The priorities were assigned to sensor nodes in advance. In [9], authors referred to the imbalance of energy consumption due to transmission distance and traffic concentration around a sink node. Therefore, they researched improving the imbalance of energy consumption due to transmission distance in wireless sensor networks based on single channel.
MAC protocols based on multichannel which was able to use in wireless sensor networks were proposed to provide the high reliability of transmission [3, 10]. In [10], one of the N channels is a control channel, and the others are data channels. A guard channel scheme for mobile networks was proposed and extended in [11, 12]. In the guard channel scheme, channels were reserved for handoff calls and new calls; however, the number of channels reserved for each call was differentiated.
3. A Congestion Control Scheme Based on Multichannel
We propose a congestion control scheme based on multichannel. In the proposed congestion control scheme, congestion is classified as light congestion and heavy congestion according to congestion degree. Light congestion and heavy congestion can be detected through a comparison of value between buffer occupancy rate and two thresholds that are provided by multichannel modeling and extension of the modeling. Finally, the proposed scheme includes two congestion control strategies or a weak congestion control strategy and a strong congestion control strategy. A weak congestion control strategy and the other strategy can control light congestion and heavy congestion, respectively. For light congestion, senders reduce the number of sending packets by themselves, and a receiver assigns a priority to receiving packets according to transmission distance. In the strong congestion strategy, senders decide on whether they send packets by a random value.
3.1. Congestion Detection
To detect congestion, we consider the structure of a sensor node as in Figure 1.
In Figure 1, packets are stacked in the buffer after they are received through one of the channels. When the number of packets in the buffer exceeds a threshold, it is estimated that congestion occurs. To obtain the threshold, usable probabilities of each channel are to be gotten. The probabilities can be gotten in the way of the Markov chain modeling based on multichannel. For modeling, let denote the number of channels in one sensor node. Arrival rate for receiving packets denotes according to the Poisson distribution. The channel holding time follows the exponential distribution with average , and then is defined [11]. , a probability which will use the channel , is found through the birth-and-death process in the Markov chain. We obtain by is derived from (1). is a probability used to the channel . Hence, we detect light congestion in where denotes real buffer occupancy rate. In this paper, we estimate that light congestion occurs when real buffer occupancy rate exceeds a probability used from the first channel to the channel. We can estimate the optimal through a simulation.
We assign a priority to receiving packets according to their received signal strength (RSS) when light congestion occurs. RSS can be measured in the physical layer whenever packets are received. If RSS of a received packet is weak, it means that the packet is sent from far away, and so the packet is assigned a high priority. and denote a maximum RSS and a minimum RSS. A packet's RSS is compared with and, and and can change whenever the packet is received. We obtain the priority of packet in where denotes the number of priorities. A packet with a high priority can use more channels than that with a low priority. If a packet sent from far away is not received due to the number of insufficient channels, retransmission for the packet causes more energy consumption than that sent within short distance. Figure 2 shows the concept. In Figure 2, a packet with the priority 1 can use all channels and a packet with the priority 2 can use remaining channels but the last channel group.
We calculate rates according to the priorities of receiving packets for dividing usable channels per priority. The rate of priorities denotes , respectively. In Figure 2, the receiving packet with the lowest priority can use channels from the first channel till the th channel, and another packet with priority can use channels from the first channel till th channel. A packet with the highest priority can use all the channels. We stipulate arrival rates of packets according to the Poisson distribution to obtain a probability similar to (1) from the structure of channels such as in Figure 1. Also, is . The channel holding time of each priority follows the exponential distribution with an average of , and then and are defined. , a probability which will use the channel , is obtained by
is derived from (1). is a probability used to the priority . We detect heavy congestion in
In this paper, we estimate that heavy congestion occurs when real buffer occupancy rate exceeds a probability used to the channel .
3.2. Congestion Control
The main goal of a congestion control is to recover from congestion quickly. However, on the contrary, network utilization is reduced quickly. So it is important to keep a balance between recovery time of congestion and network utilization for designing an efficient congestion control scheme.
In Section 3.1, we classified congestion into light congestion and heavy congestion according to congestion degree. A congestion control strategy must be classified into two cases in accordance with this. Therefore, we propose two cases of congestion control strategies, or a weak congestion control strategy and a strong congestion control strategy. A weak congestion control strategy controls light congestion by reducing the sending rate of sensor nodes, and a strong congestion control strategy controls heavy congestion by giving up transmission of several sensor nodes.
When it detects light congestion through (2), the receiver sends a light congestion notification (LCN) message to senders. Therefore, the receiver assigns a priority to receiving packets according to their RSS. The number of usable channels is differentiated by priorities. Sensor nodes receiving the LCN message reduce their sending rate as much as in (7). is included in the LCN message where and denote sending rates before and after receiving the LCN message, respectively. is the number of senders.
If congestion degree is heavy through (6), then a strong congestion control is required. When a receiver detects heavy congestion through (6), it is classified into two priorities such as
The receiver sends a heavy congestion notification (HCN) message to sensor nodes sending packets with a low priority. A sensor node receiving the HCN message generates a random number from 1 to 100. If is smaller than in (9), the sensor node gives up transmission. This means that congestion is strongly controlled because of reducing the number of senders,
4. Performance Evaluation
In this section, we perform a simulation for evaluating the congestion control scheme based on multichannel proposed in this paper. On experiment, we construct a receiver, a sink, and ten senders such as in Figure 3.
Table 1 shows simulation parameters for performance evaluation.
Figure 4(a) shows the throughput of the weak congestion control strategy. To obtain the optimal in (2), we simulate three cases of 5 channels, 6 channels, and 7 channels while packets/sec change from 30 to 50. In Figure 4, light congestion occurs when packets/sec become 35.
In Figure 4(a), the case of 5 channels gives the best performance. However, the network utilization of the 5 channels is about 10% lower than that of the case of 6 channels because the sending rate of senders is reduced too much. This means that the sending rate is reduced too much because in (7) is too large. Therefore, we find out that the number of optimal channels for (2) is 6.
Figure 4(b) shows the performance of the strong congestion strategy. Figure 4(b) also presents the simulation results of using both the strong congestion control strategy and the weak congestion control strategy and only the weak congestion control strategy. Also, when packets/sec exceeds 50, the simulation environment is added to two new senders for heavy congestion. In Figure 4(b), when packets/sec is over 35, heavy congestion occurs. So, until packets/sec is 50, the performance does not change whether the strong congestion strategy is applied or not. If the strong congestion control strategy is applied, sensor nodes as many as in (9) do not send packets. Therefore, the throughput in the case of adding to the strong congestion control strategy is better than that in the other case because the number of packets received in the receiver is reduced.
In this paper, we assigned a priority to receiving packets according to their transmission distance. In sensor networks, there are huge variations of energy consumption according to transmission distance. A sensor node located in long distance consumes more additional energy than that located in short distance when they retransmit. We assigned a priority according to transmission distance to prevent additional energy consumption from retransmission.
Figure 5 shows energy consumption of three cases due to retransmission. The first case is that congestion control strategies are none, and this case is utilized as a criterion for comparison to other two cases. Therefore, the energy consumption caused by retransmission in this case is set to 100%. Other two cases are as follows: one where only the weak congestion control strategy is applied, and the other where the strong congestion control strategy is added to the second case. We utilize (10) proposed in [13] for estimating energy consumption caused by retransmission Equation (10) is a well-known energy consumption model which is frequently used to estimate energy consumption on wireless sensor networks. Equation (10) is used to calculate energy consumption due to retransmission during congestion period. The result is shown in Figure 5.
In Figure 5, one case of applying the weak congestion control strategy shows that energy consumption is 42% under the criterion, and the other case of applying the two strategies proposed in this paper shows that energy is consumed 31% as compared with the criterion. This means that the proposed scheme provides a stable transmission environment for senders that are far away from a receiver.
5. Conclusions
In this paper, we proposed a congestion control scheme based on multichannel in wireless sensor networks. The proposed scheme consists of congestion detection and congestion control; we also divided them into light congestion and heavy congestion according to congestion degree. For detecting two cases of congestion, we used two thresholds obtained by multichannel modeling. The two cases of congestion were controlled by the two congestion control strategies, or the weak congestion control strategy and the strong congestion control strategy.
We evaluated the performance of the proposed scheme through a simulation. We showed the results of throughput and energy consumption caused by retransmission.
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On Monday, Twitchy reported that a mother whose baby lost her pediatric cardiologist came under fire from liberals on Twitter. Holly Fisher mentioned it in response to a message by Democrat strategist Donna Brazile, who hailed Obamacare in another tweet.
"Can we finally agree that Obamacare is working?" Brazile asked.
"I'm guessing you haven't lost your doctor?" Fisher asked in response. "I lost my plan AND my doctor."
A few days earlier, Fisher said in another tweet that her tolerance level for anyone supporting Obamacare "is officially at 0."
"I despise you," she added.
Fisher wasn't finished, and noted that her baby daughter had also lost her heart doctor. She blamed Barack Obama, since he signed the bill into law. This didn't sit too well with some on the left.
"Thanks, @BarackObama, for causing her to lose her cardiologist. Her name is Norah, not that you care," she tweeted. The vast majority of those responding expressed their condolences and hoped things would work out for the child. Some, however, responded with the vitriol that has become the hallmark of the left.
"[N]ot his fault. U should get a job and pay for it yourself instead of taking selfies all day. I feel bad for u tbh," one person said in response. Fisher said she does work and pays for her own insurance.
Others chimed in, defending Obama and his signature healthcare law. One person, however, went overboard, telling Fisher it was good that her daughter lost her doctor.
"Good, I'm glad she did. one less conservative underling to worry about. Have a nice life," said Twitter user "Alexa."
Alexa, however, wasn't quite finished, and went on to prove that liberalism, at its core, is an ideology of rage and hate.
"Conservatives aren't human to me. they're (sic) subhuman scum with no hearts or souls," she added. "Talking about a snot nosed brat that will be raised to be a hater of anyone who isn't white and straight."
Alexa later chose to delete her tweets, and her profile is not visible as of this writing. Her hatred, however, did not go unnoticed.
"Check @pnthrldy to view the dark, sick, hate-filled mind of a liberal," tweeted radio talk show host Neal Boortz, who said there are "tens of thousands" like her on Twitter.
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Anti-Obama Movie #1 at Box Office, trumpeted the headline to a post on Fox Nation today. It was celebrating extremely high advance sales for 2016: Obama's America, during its first weekend of general distribution. But if you read the fine print in the article in deadline.com from which Fox Nation's post is taken, you'll find they've stretched the truth a lot.
The film, co-directed by Dinesh D'Souza (who's been strutting his stuff on Fox News a number of times) and based on his 2010 hatchet job political commentary The Roots of Obama's Rage, grossed about $1.2M-$1.7M Friday according to Deadline, doing better in advance sales than The Expendables 2. But that was Friday, and advance sales. By today there were enough people going to The Expendables 2 and The Bourne Legacy to push 2016 to #4 at Deadline.com. Rotten Tomatoes has it at #13, with $1.2M weekend gross compared to $28.6M for Expendables 2.
That is extremely good for a documentary. But will it last? Deadline doesn't think so. It attributes the film's initial success to "savvy marketing in advance of the Republican National Convention August 27-30. Exhibitors are reporting busloads of filmgoers arriving at theaters around the country in pre-organized trips. It also employed much of the same marketing techniques used to garner attention and support for faith-based films, understandable since the audience is overlapping." In other words, once the conservative establishment stops aggressively propping the movie up, ticket sales will probably fall pretty fast.
Loads of commentary on the Fox Nation, and a little of it was about the movie.
But more of it, as usual, was about the subject.
Rotten Tomatoes gives the movie 57% based on 7 reviews, which is lower than The Dark Knight Rises but better than Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Sorry, your humble servant hasn't learned how to embed videos yet, but you can find the trailers at the Rotten Tomatoes link. If you're interested. I'm going to stay in and watch The Hunger Games tonight.
This hack job by skanky ingram's discarded boyfiend has already been discredited. It's 99% lies and 1% fact…the President's name is in fact Barack Obama. That's the only thing D'Lousa got right.
It's really hilarious that the only idiots swallowing the bullshit are stupids like twatty/pRick and this "amy smith" character. But then again, idiots like them swallow all the bullshit the neocon/teabaggers put on their plate.
First divide the sales per theatre by 3 (Friday/Saturday/Sunday). Then use your average price per ticket – $6? $8? It won't make much difference.
The numbers show not many folks are watching this one. Despite Sheer InSannity, Off-the-Mark, and the others of their ilk peddling it.
Per BOM, the film has actually been in release for 43 days (as of Friday's business), and on Friday, the film basically doubled its box office take but, again, that's after adding 900+ theaters. Through Thursday, the film (which had been playing in only 169 theaters) had earned $2.8 million. On Friday, after expanding to 1091 theaters, it took in $2.2 million. The truly interesting thing, though, is that BOM doesn't begin reporting the film's take until 8/13—its 32nd day of release—when it was playing in only 61 theaters (that day, it took in a little over $50,000, putting its gross-to-date at just over $586,000).
A couple of other facts, Friday's per-theater average was only $2067 which is the film's 4th largest per-theater average (last weekend, when it was only playing at 169 theaters, its per-theater average was $2643 on Friday the 17th, $2621 on Saturday the 18th, and $2102 on Sunday the 19th).
It should also be noted that the film company's last major film ("Expelled") actually opened in nearly as many theaters as "Hatchet Job" is currently playing ("Expelled" opened in 1052 theaters back in 2008).
Funny you should make this your closing line, because it's a perfect example for what I was going to bring up: The "forced popularity" card.
I've read THG, and tried to see the movie; it's even worse than Twilight, if you can believe that. I've also read Dinesh DâSouza's work- he makes "The Undefeated" look like meticulous research.
So how do they survive? Pure manipulative bullying from the PR campaign. It's #1 when it's not, people are buzzing about it when they're not, it's tapped into some sort of social relevance when it isn't, and (my personal fav) we have to believe that the actors created an end-all-be-all for playing the role that renders all future performances of the genre subject to comparison… even when someone who eluded the campaign thinks they flat sucked.
In more blunt terms: Everybody's seen this movie but you, and we dare you to find someone who didn't like it. Making you the outcast for speaking up if you're the person who saw through them.
Fox is a master of this in all their divisions- I daresay they're the best. Even Warner Brothers can't quite silence critics with presumed isolation as well as they can. And that may be the only thing this movie really has going for it.
I know of Roberto Unger. This is the same "principled" guy who in 2005 called the government of Brazil's ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the "most corrupt in Brazil's history" and then did an about face and accepted Lula's appointment to Brazil's Minister for Strategic Affairs where he developed the plan that included the Belo Monte monster dam (and many more) and so much infrastructure development in Amazonia that it was the "last straw" causing Marina Silva to opt for resignation.
Roberto Unger speaks in callow slogans and without any regard for the political conditions of the times and the viciousness of the opposition to thwart progress and change. When some Harvard Law professor talks this way, you know there is deliberate ignorance in service of some other agenda outside the pragmatic reality of government and how it functions. Defeating Obama would be incredibly worse and have significant negative impact on the issues Unger pretends he is concerned about. He's a fraud. Unger cannot possibly be "a progressive" and some form of devolutionist who wants to tear down the progressive will, install a negative and contrary government in order for "the voice of democratic prophecy to speak once again in American life." Could he be more convoluted and misdirected. Prophecy? What is he smoking? Look at the bigger picture Unger, you and the people that listen to you are absolute fools.
On a side note; Romney and Ryan have been going around saying that the downgrade in our credit is Obama's fault. However if you actually look at the documentation that S&P provided stating why they downgraded our credit they specifically state that it was because of the idiotic republican obstructionism. Anybody can google it and read it. But the republicans bank on their voters being lazy and stupid.
please dont disturb granny whitebread, until after 'wheel' is over, thank you….
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â¢âHe has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices.â
â¢âHe has delivered the politics of democracy to the rule of money.â
â¢âHe has disguised his surrender with an empty appeal to tax justice.â
â¢âHe has reduced justice to charity.â
â¢âHe has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to health care in the mistaken belief that he would be spared a fight.â
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These Love Heaven poems are examples of Love poems about Heaven. These are the best examples of Love Heaven poems written by international PoetrySoup poets
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Iris sun fades and so does the day
whispers the carried in the silence of night glowing
Wishes floating on silver trails faraway
The image of your face will forever bounded to this world
Angels Brought you to me made a lightening
sparkling diamonds in the misting treasures gems so bright
Ice roses turns into a steaming jungle of quivering glass
Flashing in the distance, in the moon light
and all of its stars, that's where the angels dancing
A beautiful adventure picture sparklers on a winter night
A cold moon dressed in dark velvet
with a pearl milky white smile beams
Sparkling jewel crystal lights up
stars blinking silver awakening
warm invading darkness your light
My life has at last found its light and its hope
Soulful cries a wolf dressed in winter clothes
faraway over ocean waves
carries in a wind's whisper sweet music dances
A magical night that will set the spirit free
Silently breathes out a puff of magic sweetly
beauty enchants warmly etching strikes
frosted fingers cracking ice deeply echoes
Striking inside bells toll warmly skipping drumbeats
bouncing of chamber walls loving tunes
Believing in your love a dream
Which enchants music of the butterflies dance
howling clouds out steaming warm sighs fluttering warmly
I closed my eyes at the end of the road
and thought of the stars
and the reason earth spins around the sun
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Anne- Lise Andresen :) - 28.12.2014 -
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Copyright © Sunshine Smile | Year Posted 2014
I tracked along a silver trail
carved out from Earthly dust
by rays persistent in the dark
and midnight wanderlust.
It led me to a bubbling fount
of sulfurous mud and tar;
whereupon I chanced a glimpse
and found a fallen star.
An ancient from celestial realms
ensnared terrestrially
dimly glowing in the murk
I heard it sing to me:
Sojourner of the moonlit way
I sense thy beating heart
I've travelled from infinity
now hearken ere you part.
You roam upon this infant orb,
you draw from it thy life,
but I sense greed and evil scorn
and no land void of strife.
I beg you tell me how it came
that creatures such as thee
have found such hatred in thy souls
to punish endlessly.
It's not so bad, I said out loud
we know of love as well…
as to the fate of mother Earth
I simply can't foretell.
The ground beneath my weary feet
gave way to empty space
then all around me in the void
I saw the human race.
Starving children, ill and gaunt
were kicked by wing-tipped shoes.
Females ranging every clime
in silence nursed abuse.
In darkness men were plotting war
in light their banners raised
it mattered not which way I looked
some evil met my gaze.
Make it stop, I beg you please!
Why poison thou my mind?
What can I do to stop all this,
is no good left to find?
Sojourner of the moonlit way
I sense thy beating heart
I've travelled from infinity
now hearken ere you part.
You roam upon this infant orb,
you draw from it thy life,
and though you're one of many men
love in thy chest is rife.
You must return to whence you came
you must confer abroad
the goodness that within thee burns
seek first to serve the flawed.
Think on the vast expanse of space
so empty, dark and cold…
and how despite the hopeless cause
star-light you still behold.
So too might thou, if you'll but try
endure this awful plight
for in the vast expanse of hate
love is thy shining light.
Copyright © The Grahamburglar | Year Posted 2015
It is now springtime in heaven
Sky is so blue...sun shining so bright
Beautiful flowers are everywhere
Angels are dancing...as the harps play
Here on earth...we scamper around
Sky is so blue...sun shining so bright
Beautiful flowers are everywhere
We are missing the angels in heaven
Angels are dancing...as the harps play
They await the day...as we do also
As once again we will all be together
Our mothers and us...in heaven above
Dedicated to: Our Mothers in Heaven
and her children who will be missing her
this weekend on Mother's Day
To all of you who still have your mother here
on earth with you make sure she knows how
much you love her.
Copyright © Carol Sunshine Brown | Year Posted 2011
Loving you is easy as the heart sings into your heaven
Come kiss me sugar before the snow melts
Stunning visions before the mirrors a flame sparks
As two white doves in eternal faithfulness weld us together
Standing an adoring torch within a breathtaking ray of sunlight
Dreams that were answered, within soft tenderness beauty and love
Always when you enter number one smiles
Love's paradise ruby wine flows warm
I will forever find you interesting sweet dreams
as you make me forget everything that lies behind
Many moons searching distant horizons
Coming out slowly from the light my dear
As I stared into the stars thoughts within you entered
Brilliant beauty a miracle dawns new horizons
Darling captivating your precious light holds me
Each time seeing you is like I have known you a lifetime beyond anything
We travel down the starlit path only for eternity
Heaven's whisper creating our future and dreams
A Collaborated Poem
Anne-Lise Andresen and Liam Mc Daid
(unrhymed couplets)
Copyright © Sunshine Smile | Year Posted 2016
I never knew following dreams could be this lonely,
But up on the hill, looking back, thank God I'm not the old me.
If the tears will fall, let them be;
I believe this is God's plan, follow your dreams.
Copyright © Kevin C. Martin | Year Posted 2013
The Sweetest Starlight
You are the sweetest starlight shining across the ocean so pure
Moonlighting and enchanting my dreams with warmth aglow,
Touching gently my heart and soul with your beauty and wonder;
If we were together—I would hold you so gently in my arms and I
Would forever kiss your adoring lips with a passionate goodnight.
Love is a faraway queen rising in the morning sunshine's warm rays,
And your light glows brilliantly as the dewdrops glisten on my dreams
Of pure sweet surrender and kiss the very depth of my immortal soul;
You are the light of Heaven's dream of a rainbow's flight of angels
Arriving at Heaven's gate and coming to me on a beam of silver light.
Mesmerized I am as I embrace you as the heart, soul, passion and
Desire of my life—I see you as my true dream and my heart's delight;
Feeling palpably your wonderful caress as you ask me to kiss you,
And to place your ethereal lips upon my very own knowing that
My heart and soul are open now to your loving heavenly embrace.
Gary Bateman, Liam McDaid, and Michael Clarke
A Collaborated Poem, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
August 2, 2015 (Unrhymed Quintain)
Copyright © Gary Bateman | Year Posted 2015
Your Beautiful Heart Doth Beat
Your beautiful heart doth beat with rapture,
And the sweet of your kiss doth now swoon me.
We caress now and my soul you capture;
My love no place other I wish to be!
When we embrace my love in joy and fun,
Our hot passions spark an alchemic fire.
Our spirits soar high now becoming one,
Affirming love only God can inspire!
Your heart beats a brilliant tempo of love,
That enchants our eternal souls replete.
It's God's gift to us from Heaven above,
And His divine love is true and complete!
To God now I pray your love forever;
I declare my love leaving you never!
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
November 14, 2015 (Shakespearean Sonnet)
W-hen the fullness of time had come, Jesus was born behind an Inn in a cave-like stable.
I-n the Inn there was no room for the Son of God, no room for the Saviour of men.
S-tar was shining so bright above the stable for the shepherds to find their way to Him.
E-ven angels proclaimed His birth to those shepherds "Unto you is born this day."
M-anger is where Mary and Joseph first laid him. It was filled with hay.
E-very animal there must have known that their Creator had come that day.
N-o one knew the depth of love God had, to give His Son to dwell among men.
S-ame star guided three kings from the Orient, who studied the stars and heavens.
T-hese wise men from the East came saying "Where is He that is born King"
I-n their hands they brought him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrr.
L-ike these three wise men, wise men still seek him today!
L-ove is the reason that God sent His only Begotton Son into the world to save us.
S-eeking for you and me, yes God was seeking for us because we had left Him.
E-veryone, yes, all we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone to his own way.
E-ach one has to make his on decision to follow Him or not to follow Him.
K-ing, born to be a King. King of the ages. King of the past. King of the future.
H-eaven, He came from Heaven to earth to show us the right way.
I-niquity, the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
M-elody, He gives us a sweet melody, we sing many songs of praise to Him.
T-ree, A Christmas tree, the love that Jesus had for us, to die on a tree.
O-nly one life and how soon it passes. Only in life can we accept His Love.
D-eliverance, He came from Heaven to preach deliverance to the captives.
A-cknowlege Him and accept Him. Behold now is the accepted time.
Y-ou, Yes, this Christmas Love was for You. Will You accept this love?
For Brian Strands Christmas Love contest.
Copyright © Marty Owens | Year Posted 2009
Dedicated to my Dad Jerry W. Niday 3/20/1952 - 6/18/2013
I am who I am because of him
He's the reason for my son's name
He gave me my courage & my strength
To stand tall even when standing wasn't easy
Stand for the ones who can't
To think and fend for myself
I'm my Daddy made over
Taught me to fight back
To never back down
How to pick myself back up
When I've been knocked down
Fight for what I believe
I'm my Daddy made over
He gave me my stubbornness
Gave me my pride
Gave me my temper
Taught me not to take crap
To speak my mind no matter who
Work for what I want
I'm my Daddy made over
How to keep my emotions in check
How to handle large amounts of pain
When in trouble he always had my back
He knew how my mind worked better than anyone
I got it from him
I'm my Daddy made over
Even though he's gone
I'll stand and continue on
I may stumble I may fall
May even get hurt along the way
But I'll pick myself back up
I'll dust myself off and stand tall
I'm honored and proud to say
I'm my Daddy made over
Sabrina Niday Hansel
Copyright © Sabrina Niday Hansel | Year Posted 2013
The last gold leaf hangs on the bough;
Summer is just a mem'ry now.
You, too, have gone, my golden friend;
Our summer days came to an end.
We said goodbye; our chapter closed.
How I will miss you no one knows.
On eagle wings you split the skies;
Your spirit soared. You had to fly.
My earthbound soul will bear its grief
Severed from you on mortal reef;
But returning from yonder shore,
Your love in waves will wash me o'er.
You've gone before, my trusted love;
I wait behind, your mourning dove;
Yet, from across the great divide
Your voice to me in dreams confides.
No, I think not that dreams they are;
T is communion of the near with far.
On such sweet songs I stake my claim
To know and love you once again.
Copyright © Faye Gibson | Year Posted 2014
Now my tendrilled soul,
Has found its pergola-- Christ--
To wind its way up....
Copyright © EMMANUEL SAMSON | Year Posted 2007
I'm tired
I'm Physically and Emotionally tired
I don't want to be the strong one anymore
I can't this time
I don't know what to do Daddy
I need your help down here
I can't get back in control of my emotions
I'm having a hard time dealing with your absence
I'm having a hard time standing by myself
I need your help Daddy
I'm broken and lost without you Daddy
I need your will to want to carry on
I need your strength to over come this
I need your strength to stay standing
Your courage to fight back again
I need your help
Please Daddy I'm at a loss
How am I suppose to do this
I need your guidance
I need you to guide me back
To whom I was before
I need your help Daddy
I need your help
Such a romantic place on a beach in Monte Carlo
Simple little things in life catching one's breath
Moonlight glinting of waves breaking off a white sandy beach
Faraway thoughts brown eyes crying in an ocean dream song
Spell of romance makes one forget the sense of anything
Silent whispers echoes binding our chain together tides speak
Do you remember the white doves that followed us along the beaches
Each link in your arm magic walks closer feelings sing inside a joyous choir enchants
Nature nurtured by the desire to fulfill dreams makes time stop
Holds deep sea emotions a galloping white steed races home in warm waves kiss
The natures mesmerizing perfume of fragrant flowers
Where destiny paints the joy in butterflies dance on a warm loving breeze
Such is the passion in the depths of ones soul
Jewels needle vision flies without wings heaven sings in a spiral coloring rainbows
No barriers closed no reasons withstand
The midnight moon shades blue embraced one shadow two become one dream
A co write written by Liam Mcdaid
and Anne-Lise Andresen :) - 30.01.2015 -
Copyright © All Rights Reserved
Copyright © Sunshine Smile | Year Posted 2015
Tell me that this fear is just paranoia in my mind,
we're not straining, we're not struggling,
we're not sinking, we're just fine.
I'm not perfect my dearest, but damn have I tried,
and I'll try harder but I know I'll have the same results every time.
Do you want me all the ways that I am?
With all the struggles and the tears and the clinging to your hand.
I fear your getting further and Im left on the shore to stand,
watching you in the distance with a bullet in my hand.
Tell me all this worry, its just clutter in my mind,
tell me not to worry that we're doing just fine.
Cause Im scared to run you off and I feel Im falling deep.
And Im so frightened of these thoughts that its getting hard to sleep.
All I know is that the heart wants what it desires,
because of you the match inside has turned into a fire.
And I feel the broken glass thats sticking from my skin,
Wondering if you'll remove the pain or push it back in.
My hearts frantic wondering if you feel the same,
pleading and begging for more than just a saying,
but to feel and to see that im not alone,
with being in this love thats overwhelming.
Once I told you that we didnt have a spark,
but you were lighting up and I was sitting in the dark.
And this fire, this blaze its wrapped in desire.
Im terrified to lose you, I think I might die or,
maybe disappear from all the pieces falling out,
im going crazy but when i open my mouth, nothing comes out,
and I cant explain to you why I just need to hold you close,
why every time you leave Im scared to let you go,
why these tears are building up behind my eyes,
all I know is that the heart wants what it desires
and it desires to be your wife.
So tell me in my panic, that your words are true,
tell my my dearest what I mean to you,
tell me that this paranoia is all within my mind
we're not struggling, we're not sinking tell me we're just fine
Copyright © Jay Loveless | Year Posted 2013
Her insecurity would not let her see,
I wanted her!
I thought she knew, my heart was opened.
I should've asked.
She walked on a thread, fourteen stories high
to cross from her building to mine.
The devil at her side, he cut her angel wings,
watched her drop, caught her in his wicked trap.
She was weak from years of abuse.
I heard her yell.
"Promise me this, what I sign
affects me and only me."
The devil answered, "I promise!"
No he did not lie.
Still for he It was Goodbye.
She signed his contract blind.
It was me she had dealt for.
Afraid to believe. Scared to accept,
what she knew, what she felt.
Her sense of trust for anyone long ago expired!
The man with the black blood ignored me!
I felt him; his chill was in the air.
Punished to live forever cold.
Even his pit of endless fire barely took the edge off.
"My misery of doubt is at an end!" she said.
He lowered his head in shame. That too was his curse,
he still felt remorse No matter how briefly.
She had to have me unconditionally.
If only she had known, she already owned me.
Her depth and strength impresses me
yet I know she could not stop what she had started.
She signed in blood, signed to guarantee
she would never again be alone, never again be without love!
I knew he was at our wedding, I heard the chatter of his teeth.
When I said I do it was Lucifer who stood there
him who heard my truth.
Without changing a thing, his contract he fulfilled.
I could only smile. How cold he is, the pain he sustains
for the decision he had made, when he left heaven's gate!
She hugged him on his way out.
I believe now, as I did then, as I always will for a brief moment,
his teeth stopped. For just seconds while in her arms he felt warm.
I wonder what he thought.
Let the celebration begin she owns me,
it's off to our room to be alone and in bed.
In what we did, we felt as if we were walking
innocently along a beach on the Caribbean Sea
I am the town she grew up in, her friend
her partner, and yes I am her lover.
For that her soul she traded. She had her man.
My soul she saved, my human form hers,
her kindness I return in something I know
though still in my youth my card would fall
early from the deck.
Yes he knew it too my time was short. I have only ten years left.
I held my wife all that time, made with her children from paradise!
He could not strike a deal in which he did not cheat.
He thought, ten years was for him a good deal.
The final laugh is mine, with my Angel on my side
I strike a deal, trade my soul for my wife's.
The devil acts unattached.
I beat him.
He'll feel colder now, that's the deal.
His warmth he seeks, in any soul
he can deceive. Now her soul he'll
never have. It is I who wins.
I who is eternally damned.
In my death my love,
a woman of substance
knows how dearly I worshiped her,
knows her true worth.
She will live into her nineties happy in the knowledge
she was loved for who she was - we were always one.
My Angel through my coffin explains to me
no soul is damned, when an act is selfless.
My wife and I will meet again!
So our story ends, but not before we hear a sound,
the echo of teeth that chatter. Chatter louder than ever.
It is literally
A Cold Day In Hell!
Sponsor: Justin Bordner
Contest Name: Death Shadow
Copyright © Maurice Yvonne | Year Posted 2014
Iris sun fades and so does the day
whispers the carried in the silence of night glowing
Wishes floating on silver trails faraway
The image of your face will forever bounded to this world
Angels Brought you to me made a lightening
sparkling diamonds in the misting treasures gems so bright
Ice roses turns into a steaming jungle of quivering glass
Flashing in the distance, in the moon light
and all of its stars, that's where the angels dancing
A beautiful adventure picture sparklers on a winter night
A cold moon dressed in dark velvet
with a pearl milky white smile beams
Sparkling jewel crystal lights up
stars blinking silver awakening
warm invading darkness your light
My life has at last found its light and its hope
Soulful cries a wolf dressed in winter clothes
faraway over ocean waves
carries in a wind's whisper sweet music dances
A magical night that will set the spirit free
Silently breathes out a puff of magic sweetly
beauty enchants warmly etching strikes
frosted fingers cracking ice deeply echoes
Striking inside bells toll warmly skipping drumbeats
bouncing of chamber walls loving tunes
Believing in your love a dream
Which enchants music of the butterflies dance
howling clouds out steaming warm sighs fluttering warmly
I closed my eyes at the end of the road
and thought of the stars
and the reason earth spins around the sun
A co write written by Liam Mcdaid and
Anne- Lise Andresen :) - 28.12.2014 -
Copyright © liam mcdaid | Year Posted 2014
A white dove flies gracefully across vision
Shines as transparent pieces of ivory joy
I give you a Candle of Love, for inspire and encourage you
Blown gently upon a soft warm lovely breeze
Falling slowly like a ripe apple
With sad confusion, I promise you heaven
Everything will fall into place and gives you, perfect pleasure of life
Love whispering on wings fluttering deep
It is possible to change your tomorrow, if you seek your dream today
To watch the light change i pray for your beauty to return
My arms are full of flowers, the beauty the unfathomable grace
Reborn under a promise of color inside the mist bouquet dream
Written by Liam Mcdaid & A-L Andresen :) 11.04.2015
Copyright © All Rights Reserved
Copyright © liam mcdaid | Year Posted 2015
Myself, Armed Only With A Dying Flame
Dark travels in such a long life
early days of hungering strife
A child born to fight for it
tasting ton of salt in every spit
Lost on pathways that breathe my aches
Prod me restless as I sever the chase
Between day and night and promises I made
To myself, armed only with a dying flame
Days sinking past like a slow tide
no softness, that one could abide
As years sent life into a dark spin
easy came toughness, pain and sin
I have seen more than I ever could
Branches of bitterness carved deeply in wood
Wandering eyes dismissed them as facades of a man
Who fell victim to the ride as the years fell down
Is there saving grace if I stop at none
I may have foreseen it all but I doubted I'd come
To terms with myself and make me turn around
From the edge of this cliff and fade away void of sound
Then came love trying its very best
softness, weakness in every test
Blade drawn to parry each thrust
to live on never daring to trust
Swiftly gone like a bygone air
I may be nothing more than despair's heir
Constricted by premises that haunt every corner
Shutting my eyes will mean absolute surrender
A weak moment, hell bore on down
life melted, each day a new frown
Love had been accepted with grace
she left without a path to trace
Sad night , the fight no great cause
clocks stopped, universe hit pause
Time yielded no forgiving reprieve
love lost, nothing , nothing to retrieve
I was again left to remain
I have but myself to blame
When the rain comes to ease the pain
I know I'll be whispering your name
Collaboration write, Robert Lindley and my very talented friend, Jake Ponce.
Here is hoping that you may enjoy this humble team effort .
Has been my great honor to write with my friend Jake!
Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2014
Your Touch Means So Much
Your touch means so much to me my love,
As we hold each other with intense passion.
We know our love has God's blessing above;
Our bond for eternity shall always be in fashion.
As we hold each other with intense passion,
We dazzle with emotion pure on this Earth.
Our bond for eternity shall always be in fashion,
As we approach our souls' nexus of rebirth.
We dazzle with emotion pure on this Earth.
We know our love has God's blessing above,
As we approach our souls' nexus of rebirth.
Your touch means so much to me my love.
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
July 31, 2015 (Pantoum)
Oh sky look down on this earth of gray,
Something dreadful on the horizon looms.
There is no black and no white today,
Laws exist but justice is doomed.
Morality is labeled religion,
And must be separated from state,
Whose own religion is political correctness
And determining God's fate.
Oh heaven rain down on us,
Ae are tasting your tears.
Yes we've become that bad,
Confirming your fears,
That what has been done ,
Is being done again,
Those lessons taught,
Coming to naught.
Judges and laws make it legal,
To be rid of your innocent babes,
Under a symbol of the eagle,
God's loving justice betrayed.
Racheal you cry the tears,
That now only heaven supplies,
Because ours have dried,
In the dust of our alibies.
Excuses and lies are linked,
As you and I know well,
The truth is all but extinct.
Truth is foreign to hell.
Oh heaven, look down on this world of gray.
Something dreadful is watching and looms.
Is there nothing left but to watch and pray,
While Rachael wails by the dumpster tombs?
Copyright © Robert A. Dufresne | Year Posted 2009
My darling love—you are the true angel of my existence!
Your satin silk touch mirrors your beauty in the moonlight!
Your satin silk touch always sets my true emotions afire,
With your scent of perfume and luscious red lips blushing.
Your warm tears are precious dewdrops kissing softly true,
As heavenly honey crystals shine bright signifying our love.
I look deeply into your eyes and realize our life is so special,
And that the magic of your divine beauty is beyond reproach.
Touching becomes my every precious breath now gasping hard,
For fresh air as I lay my eyes on you and feel your angelic aura.
As the very salt is awash in my ocean of dreams my dearest one,
My heart and soul are always one with you—as my true love rare.
What we share in this wondrous life are Heaven and Earth as one!
Your satin silk touch is the enchanted alchemy of our forever love!
Gary Bateman and Liam McDaid, A Collaborated Poem
Copyright © All Rights Reserved – June 1, 2016
(Unrhymed Couplet
Copyright © liam mcdaid | Year Posted 2016
About , Those Angel Eyes
Silently basking in your soft and gentle light
living deep within your natural glow
Your precious lips tell all a man needs to know
as heaven you cast into the starlight night
That night across the room I first saw those loving eyes
there hope cast into my soul winning your hand and heart
Thoughts of bliss and life that should never see us part
I swore an oath to win you should it take a thousand tries
By your loving side, softly resting in your gentle shade
stars faded to your light as the moon sought your love
Angels dancing in rhythm singing glory from far above
pale against steamy nights and the hot love we made
Your soul and spirit were to seed my desperate cries
for your loving kisses and touch to ever so die for
Love sent me play for , yes to even beg much more
for paradise resting in the light of those angel eyes
Robert L. 05-08-2014
Love's Alchemy is Eternal
Your look, touch, and scent now so perfect pure,
Enchants my true emotions and soaring passion.
I knoweth now our love shall always endure,
As God unites our souls as one by divine action!
Our sensual passion defines love's spirit entire,
As we caress and kiss for this moment's bliss.
Love's alchemy maketh our spirits soar afire,
As we embrace our lips find that deepest kiss!
Our hearts beat now in a sacred tempo of love,
That reflects our real destiny, two souls as one.
This is God's gift to us from Heaven high above,
As we wish these magic moments of eternal fun!
By Heaven, I pray our love's alchemy forever,
And declareth my love shan't leave you ever!
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
June 27, 2016 (Shakespearean Sonnet)
Copyright © Gary Bateman | Year Posted 2016
There is a place you can go that is full of only love and Warmth .
you will be surrounded by a light that shines from the Heavens ,
Sprinkles of Silver and Gold.
This place is filled with brilliant colors of Purple , vibrant Gold, all colors.
not one Color is less significant then another ,
for every color is equal here .
This place is surrounded by the beauty of different Flowers.
All flowers have significance here . No one Flower is better then another .
All Flowers are equal here .
It is important you know , you can cry here , and should cry as often as needed .
For the tears will cleanse your Soul and give the Flowers water to grow.
No one Tear is insignificant here , every tear has value and not one is better then another .
money holds no value , Where you live , what you own, has no significance here .
You will be surrounded by a beautiful light that shines from the Heavens .
A shining warm light will encircle you and allow nothing to hurt you .
Hate will be shed at the door like an old jacket of no use.
There is a place of beauty and Worth.
This place will not be found on Earth .
It is a place where no one person is better then another .
Copyright © Shanity Rain | Year Posted 2013
I am the hypocritical Christian.
I say I follow Christ,
But I'm still consumed by my demons.
I go to church on Sunday,
But I refuse to invite someone back.
I want to serve on mission,
But I'm too afraid to act.
They think I read The Bible,
But I just fall asleep in it.
They think I'm positivity and smiles,
But underneath I'm death and addictions.
They think I'm clean and pure,
But I'm broken and mistaken.
I say I'm not worthy of His love,
But Jesus will never let me be forsaken.
I pray long prayers,
But inside they're empty repetition.
It might look as if my faith is strong,
But my core is too easily shaken.
I say the things I'm supposed to say,
But don't follow His actions or obey.
I speak the truth the church wants to hear,
But deep inside on matters I don't know what to believe.
I walk in shame as if I'm not good enough
To be loved by God and saved through Christ,
But there is nothing I could ever do to earn His peace;
It's a free gift.
I accept;
Now forgiven, changed, and released.
Thank You God,
Thank You Jesus,
Thank You Holy Spirit!
In Jesus' Holy Name,
We pray,
"I Do Believe"
The purpose of LIFE is to {Living In Faith Ever}
to enrich God within us
to an optimum level
so that We as Humans
can be guided by God
to fuel out brothers and sisters
with the same driving force
to connect with the living God,
to His existence and
to See the Invisible,
Believe the Incredible, and
to Receive the Impossible
to our everlasting journey
to Heaven.
Rev. Samuel Mack
Copyright 2013
Copyright © Rev. Dr. Samuel Mack | Year Posted 2013
Break these chains that bind
holding in the deep ovens
blazing a fire for love.
Smiling midday moon
dressed in a baby blue sky
with sparsely scattered clouds dot.
White mother of pearl
their silver lining treasure
held soft beautiful warm babe.
In her finger beams
a light touching inside thoughts
sitting posed at three o'clock.
The moon just pops out
in kissing a golden sun
white ivory pearls smiling.
Within daylight thoughts
sweetly I pray in sunlight
shining warm all over you.
Deep ocean salted
with the bluest warmest waves
luster smiles sunshine color.
The magic tear drop
forms the silver lining bright
and cries for ivory pearls.
Alchemic water
wondrous most blue, dark and rare
lies love in Salt of the Earth.
Mermaids caress hope
encouraging happiness
makes all the more magical.
Pearl chain links in place
Neptune commands do it now
with finest gold most smiling.
Bathed best and brightest
white ivory pearls ready
for their concatenation.
Neptune's grandeur finds
all sea creatures in awe now
abounds pearl dreams of rare love.
Pearl Dreams of Rare Love
14 linked all so precious
from the ocean's heart and soul.
Gary Bateman and Liam McDaid – A Collaborated Poem,
Copyright © All Rights Reserved (November 16, 2014)
(Terza Rima in Unrhymed Tercet poetic format)
Copyright © Gary Bateman | Year Posted 2014
The sweetest sounds of burning trees
A gentle stroking in the breeze
The calm has lasted past the storm
Cloudy visions, Satan's roar
Too many sights have passed my way
A time found only in the haze
The softest screams are running bare
My aching bones creak as I stare
You walk a distance towards me
The fall's eternal, can't you see?
I'm a memory in your heart
I whisper to you in the dark
The battle's started at the end
No one is coming to repent
The sinners grab their wine from prey
No judgment calling here to stay
The sport is reckless to be told
The one is laughing at his souls
It falters nowhere to be sure
The power grows forevermore
Like a spirit in the wind
I have no say in where you've been
But cross the line to come to me
And pay the price for ecstasy
You walk a distance towards me
The fall's eternal, can't you see?
I'm a memory in your heart
I whisper to you in the dark.
Copyright © John Paluszek | Year Posted 2013
Gazing faraway reaching to the stars twinkle silver
shooting distant light of life orbiting inside one fantasy
Blazing hot burning trails upon a flaming kiss
from out of this world flies to You a dream
You lift me from darkness, it lives a star in your heart
Come with me and see tomorrow, where happiness replaces sorrow
Smiling weightless floating on magic dust spells cast
the heart golden overflowing deeply sweeping sands
A small moment of a lifetime, unaware of what it really was
Creates art is demanding but ride the wind, catch a star
Love flows pure washed surf inside the ocean waves crash on shore
Tides turning emotions swell unfolding feelings wild horses at your feet
Of music golden notes feels the dream really, but it's just fantasy
Honesty precious way even with storms and lashing rain
Enlightening eyes in one vision of a mind circling angelic beauty beholding love
who openly smiles pure in amazing grace always and forever shines
A co write written by Liam Mcdaid and Anne-Lise Andresen - 04.01.2015
His lucent light illumines her eyes
His face outshines the sun
His ethereal beauty unveils the skies
Her vibrant vision swiftly succumbs
Her silenced tongue, his intimate touch
His intangible hands sliding/slithering
Spiraling down with a gentle glide
Her body cold and shivering
His fiery eyes ignite a flame
Her attention he gains as she stares
Their lips entwine, his blissful rapture
Devours her heart from cares
Encapsulated, she can't escape
He clutches her in his arms
Her safe haven, her wedded love
His pearl preserved from harm
Her beating heart, a decelerate speed
Her aperture devoid of breath
His succulent waters drown her tongue
Compelling her closer to death
Solitary seclusion, her world in diffusion
Subverts her mind, subtracts her understanding
He gains her trust, thrusting utter confusion
Rest assuring her of a safe landing
She drowns herself to ceaseless sleep
In his grasp from detouring distractions
At her beauteous site, he rejoices and weeps
Absorbed in her FATAL ATTRACTION
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Ed: Well, here we are. The day we never thought would come. We have just gone to print with the inaugural issue of CALMzine and we're exhausted. Having taken up the mantle of editor from the very capable but unavoidably busy hands of Martin Cordiner, it fell to me and the editorial team – our woolly hat loving designer Joey Graham and cranially artistic creative director Philip Levine – to redesign and re-launch a men's lifestyle magazine for CALM.
As the apparent owner of a set of breasts and a uterus, you may well wonder what a woman is doing being editor of such a title. And well you should. What the hell would I know about the inner workings of the male brain? It came apparent early on in the process, however, that a mind detached from the core issues is a helpful brain indeed – someone who can look at the content from the outside and decide whether it's good enough – and that brain turned out to be mine. Plus, I have actually met a number of males in real life, some of which I have known in the biblical sense, and the majority of which have had a plethora of underlying issues so broad it would make Norfolk blush. One guy I went out with had OCD and insisted on showering 4 times a day, another friend of mine is unhealthily obsessed with free jazz – quirks I accepted wholeheartedly, but proved a burden on the relationship in the end – but all of which gave me an insight in to the depths of the male psyche, both the good and the bad. That's how I justify my position anyway, and I hope I can do the magazine and CALM justice in our ongoing pursuit of conversation and debate, exploring the multi faceted world of male society in the UK today.
Anyhoo, after a series of late night editorial meetings fuelled, in the main, by cheap beer and biscuits, we managed to organise ourselves enough to put together what is now CALMzine. We also managed to rope in Murph from The Wombats to talk to us about his depression and use of anti depressants, which was very enlightening– not least due to the fact that the interview was conducted on the swanky roof garden at Warner Records in the sunshine – and we also persuaded Independent journalist, Scritti Politti musician and Twitter star Rhodri Marsden to bang out a few words for us on the male reluctance to talk about health issues. He's a busy man and I had to buy him a number of drinks in order to get him to agree but it paid off and he came on board. What a guy. He wears good hats, too.
The learning curve for us all has been a steep one, but we feel unbelievably proud of (and pleasantly surprised by) what we've achieved and can guarantee that CALMzine will go from strength to strength as future issues appear. We hope that you agree. Next up is the GEEK issue, so we're currently dusting off our stamp collections and Star Trek box sets to embrace our inner nerd and invite you to join us. So, see you in February. Live Long And Prosper, my friends.
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Webb Simpson out of Open, wife to give birth
Reigning U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson withdrew from the Royal Lytham field as expected on Friday because his wife is due to give birth in two weeks' time.
LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England (PA) -- For the second time in five years, the Open Championship will not have the reigning US Open champion playing in it as Webb Simpson withdrew from the Royal Lytham field as expected on Friday because his wife is due to give birth in two weeks' time.
In 2008, Tiger Woods was unable to play at Birkdale after he underwent reconstructive knee surgery immediately after his 14th major victory at Torrey Pines.
Simpson indicated straight after his win in San Francisco last month that he did not see himself flying over the Atlantic.
He joins Australian Jason Day and 1998 winner Mark O'Meara in pulling out of next week's event. Day's wife has just given birth, while O'Meara has not played since March because of a rib injury.
"I'm a guy who loves my family and we're probably only going to have a couple more babies, so I have the rest of my life to play in the British Open," Simpson said two weeks ago. "I don't want to miss the birth of the second child, so it's an easy decision.
"After winning it's certainly a little harder not to go because I'd love to go and try to win another major, but in the grand scheme of things and grand scheme of life it's a decision that I know I'll always be happy that I made," he added. "The first experience watching my first son being born was one of the greatest experiences I think a person can have -- and I don't want to miss it again."
Ben Crane, 54th in the world, is first alternate but still does not have a place in the event despite this week's three withdrawals. That is because there could be more than the standard 156 players either exempt or qualified by the conclusion of the Scottish Open and John Deere Classic this weekend.
There are currently 155 in the field, but the leading non-exempt player at Castle Stuart and in Illinois -- providing they finish in the first five on Sunday -- also earn spots.
Day pulled out on Tuesday after his wife gave birth to their first child, and Day has decided to stay at home with his son new Dash.


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Don't you just love that headline? I get your hopes up for a split second as I mentioned the word "snow", but push you quickly back into reality when I mention it's not widespread AND there's not much moisture to work with either. Heh heh heh......
But before we talk about that, how about your Friday? What a great way to end the work week! Sunshine galore until the late afternoon once high clouds pushed in(but still made for a great sunset in spots!) with an official high at Philly International of 45 after a seasonable low of 25.
As mentioned above there were clouds moving in and they will stick around overnight. This does two things: 1) keep temperatures "milder" overnight and b) since a clipper system is pushing through we will have some snow showers with little accumulation toward morning. Lows will be around the freezing mark.
Once the clouds kick out of here by midday we will have a sunny afternoon with highs in the upper 30s. Another clipper system will push through overnight Saturday into Sunday so with lows in the upper 20s and highs in the lower 40s we can see some snow showers once again with little accumulation.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day will start off sunny, but then clouds roll in before lunchtime with highs in the middle 40s; after dinnertime we can see some light rain with lows in the upper 30s, but overnight into early Tuesday morning a cold front ushers in colder air. This will allow temperatures to drop, change everything over to snow, and also cause anything that's wet to freeze(and hence, ice).
With Arctic air on top of us overnight Tuesday lows will be in the upper teens and highs on Wednesday will only rise a few of degrees; we'll "warm" into the lower 30s ahead of another front with a chance of snow overnight Thursday into Friday and then it's back into the 20s for highs going into next weekend!
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Oooo! Something new and festive for the holidays! I love it! I certainly didn't see this one coming, and it wasn't until I noticed them on the shelf at my usual grocery store that I had heard of their existence. I was excited to see them as much as I love the Candy Cane Kisses that Hershey's makes for this time of year, the lack of real cocoa butter in them has me shunning them. These Dove Peppermint Bark pieces can hopefully fill the void. So I grabbed a bag and hoped for the best.
The wrappers are silver with dots of red and green on them, and therefore very festive. Inside each wrapper is a holiday tip from Martha, reminding me that I can string lights on trees in my year and use pears and chocolate for an easy dessert. You know, the type of things you'd "forget" considering you've celebrated the holiday season in some form your whole life. I only read the if I felt I needed a chuckle.
The candy is nicely constructed. It's white chocolate on top, and the bottom is dark chocolate. It's split maybe 2/3, but really is almost even. The white chocolate top has shards of peppermint candy cane in it. They're sticky yet don't get stuck to your teeth or cut your mouth.
The flavor is awesome. I was worried it's taste more of dark chocolate than white chocolate, but it doesn't. The peppermint is the main flavor, it's light and refreshing, yet not overpowering. It's delicious and really satisfying to eat with a hot drink.
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We observe that the series $$\dfrac {1} {z} -\dfrac {1} {z+1}+\dfrac {1} {z+2}- \dfrac {1} {z+3}+\ldots $$ is conditionally convergent, except for certain exceptional values of $z$ ($z\in\mathbb{C}\setminus{{-\infty,\infty}}$ interpreted via ratio test), but the series $$\dfrac {1} {z}+\dfrac {1} {z+1}+\ldots +\dfrac {1} {z+p-1}-\dfrac {1} {z+p}-\dfrac {1} {z+p+1}-.\ldots -\dfrac {1} {z+2p+q-1}+\dfrac {1} {z+2p+ q} +\ldots $$ in which $(p + q)$ negative terms always follow $p$ positive terms, is divergent.
The second series i think can be rewritten as $$\sum _{t=0}^{t=\infty }\left(\sum _{n=t\left( 2p+q\right)}^{n=t\left( 2p+q\right) + \left( p-1\right) }\dfrac {1} {z+n}-\sum _{n=t\left( 2p+q\right) + p}^{n=t\left( 2p+q\right) + \left(p+q-1\right) }\dfrac {1} {z+n}\right)$$ but i am not sure how to proceed forward to prove this statement from here. Any help would be much appreciated.


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(Stafford Springs, CT)—For Belchertown, MA native Adam Gray, the 2013 Late Model season at Stafford Motor Speedway was a season that most racers only dream about. Gray's year got off to a somewhat rocky start with a flat tire leaving him with an 18th place finish in the season opening CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler race. But in the 16 races that followed, Gray finished on the podium every Friday night with 6 victories among his podium finishes to clinch the championship one week before the CARQUEST Fall Final.
"It's been the dream season," said Gray. "Starting the first week the way we did we figured another top-5. I could never imagine that it would have ended this way, I'm speechless. I couldn't have done any of this without my Mother and Father, Leon Chartier, James, Wilmont, Mike, Walt, Alan, my father's whole crew, and all my sponsors, Meadows Motor Car, Land's Auto Repair, Hawley's Auto Body and Repair, OJS Construction, Trackside Motors, Pizza Shoppe, Barrco, Gregg Orlen Construction, and Perry's Auto Parts."
Gray's early season misfortune left him with a 34-point deficit to the top of the Late Model standings. Both Woody Pitkat and Tom Fearn got off to strong starts and by the end of May, Gray was still 34 points out of the lead, but he had climbed his way up to fifth in the standings. At the end of June, Gray was right behind Fearn in the race for the championship and he took the points lead for the first time following the July 5th feature. Once Gray was in the point lead, he would keep that lead all the way through the Sept. 13th feature where he clinched the championship with a third place run.
"After that first race, we kind of assumed that we were out of it more or less and we were on the lets get wins and podiums deal," said Gray. "Our mindset was to win races. We tried to do everything right this winter to get the car where it needed to be to contend for a championship. We felt good about the car but none of us would have ever dreamt about having the finishes that we had this season. Honestly we're still looking at each other saying that we can't believe how good of a run we've had this year."
Heading into the final race of the 2013 season, Gray has posted 6 wins and 16 top-5 and top-10 finishes in 17 starts for a miniscule average finish of 2.9. Gray leads the Late Model division in all three categories his amazing performance helped him to finish second in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Division 2 national championship standings behind Ricky Martin from Raceway Park.
Gray will officially be crowned the 2013 Late Model track champion at the 44th Annual Stafford Motor Speedway Champions Awards Ceremony on Friday, November 22, 2013 at Maneeley's in South Windsor.
For more information, contact the Stafford Motor Speedway track office at 860-684-2783 or visit us on the web at www.staffordspeedway.com.


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With all the attention paid to the importance of a high credit score, most financially conscientious Americans are aware of the more common actions that can have a negative impact. Miss or make a payment late, carry and excessive amount of debt or default on a loan and you'll see your score take a nosedive. Seemingly innocent actions can also be devastating to your score.
Here are several mistakes you may be making that prevent your score from soaring:
Avoiding Credit Cards
Not using credit cards may seem like a wise move that will lower overall debt, but it's not. The credit bureaus cannot make an honest assessment of your risk to lenders, if you have little or no credit history to base it on. Credit cards are a necessary part of establishing a healthy credit history and earning an excellent credit score. The key is to manage them well, making payments on time and using less than 40 percent of your available credit limit. Keep multiple accounts active by using them for small purchases every now and then and reap the benefit of an increase in your credit score.
Closing Credit Card Accounts
Another seemingly rational move toward a high credit score is the closing of a credit card account. While successfully paying off a credit card balance is reason to be congratulated, if you choose to close that account, you will lower your available credit limit and see your score drop. The amount you have available to spend when compared to your outstanding credit card debt is called the credit utilization rate, which needs to be less than 30% to earn an excellent credit score – closing an account will raise it.
Another factor to consider before closing an unused account is the value of a long credit history, estimated to be 15% of your FICO score. This is another benefit for holding a credit account over many years, even if you don't use it; closing an older account may be detrimental to your credit score. Use each credit card for a small purchase every year to keep the account active.
Credit Card Account Types
Retail store charge accounts and rent-to-own furniture accounts are two poor ways to borrow. They work just like a standard credit card but typically offer a credit low credit limit that is easily used up. Credit reporting agencies frown on accounts that are maxed out, giving them reason to doubt your ability to pay back your debt.
Multiple Outstanding Balances
Having too many large credit card balances will have a negative impact on your credit score, especially when they include multiple department store credit cards. Avoid the temptation to open an account simply to get a discount on the purchase you're making. While you may save a few bucks, when the retailer checks your credit report a hard inquiry will be triggered on your report and depending on your financial condition, may drop your score by up to 35 points. In addition, high interest rates that are part of these so called special offers will make it harder to pay off, if you rack up a high balance.
Knowing your score and working to maintain an excellent rating are essential to securing future loans or a mortgage. While all of the particulars that go into making up a credit score may not be known, common sense and responsible money management go a long way to secure an excellent one. It's up to you to keep an eye on your own credit history, review your credit reports and immediately report any errors you may find.
For more helpful tips and advice, visit ASAPCreditCard.com. Or, click here to see a complete list of all the top credit card offers.


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Start your morning with something strong. Gevalia's French Roast blend, only recently sold in stores, is for those who love full, robustly flavored coffee with a complementary aroma. Unlike other dark roasts though, this blend goes down smooth with or without the help of cream or sugar ($8.99, Gevalia.com).
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While it's easy enough to commission a bespoke suit or customize a pair of Nikes, the process of creating a made-to-order fashion item is still largely hands-off. Despite these traditional constraints, the tween market now has LA-based Fashionology to help channel a little inner Galliano.
Founded by Elizabeth Wiatt and Jamie Tisch, the concept takes the idea of customized fashion to a new, highly interactive level. Visitors to the Beverly Hills flagship or the newly launched website first place their orders on a computerized menu, where they choose their style (Peace, Malibu, Pop, Rock, or 'Juku), type of garment (from tees and hoodies to skirts and sweats) and embellishment (charms, graphics, bling, pins and chains). Boutique visitors then assemble their looks with the help of a "Fashionologist," while online shoppers are sent a kit filled with all the elements to create their piece at home. Birthday parties, events hosted by Disney Channel celebrities and collaborations with guest designers such as Amber Valletta have all helped to increase the brand's profile among both its tween fan base and their parents.
The concept owes much to the idea of user-generated content, especially online, where site users can collaborate with their virtual friends on designs. Given that this phenomenon is just as explosive among adults as it is among teens, it's perhaps surprising that no such interactive atelier has been developed for us grown-ups. "I haven't come across any other businesses that are doing what we're doing," says Wiatt. "I think the idea of mass customization and personalization is out there, but not in the full experiential way that we've put together."
But that's not to say there isn't a market for it. Wiatt has observed plenty of parents designing their own tote bags and tees, and says that a spinoff catering for adults wouldn't be totally out of the question in the future. But for now, she's sticking with the tweens. "This economy is tricky, and our focus now is on analyzing the smartest and thoughtful ways to grow," she says. "Our core purpose has always been to empower girls around the world to make creative choices and have fun with fashion."
For more information, see www.fashionology.com.
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CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Adult Source Media has signed an agreement giving video-on-demand giant AEBN exclusive rights to the VOD release of ASM's animated gay adult film Pirate's Booty.
With five hardcore scenes and more than 60 minutes of CGI action, Pirate's Booty features realistic-looking characters. The story follows swashbuckling Captain Jack Swallows (voiced by straight adult performer Evan Stone) and his crew as they set sail on harsh seas and encounter rough, dirty, balls-to-the-wall action along the way.
Pirate's Booty became available in AEBN's network of online theaters on May 12, the same day it hit the streets on DVD.
Adult Source Media, the multi-award winning studio behind the film, specializes in animated adult content. Founded in 2004 by Wendy Crawford, ASM made a name for itself with its work in hentai and anime; the move to realistic computer-generated imagery was part of a natural progression, Crawford has said.
The company's previous CGI titles include Pinks and Pleasure, both created for the straight market.
For more information about Pirate's Booty, visit PiratesBootyXXX.com. To view the animated feature in video-on-demand format, visit AEBN.net.