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<title><![CDATA[My story]]></title>
<link>http://projectbare.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/my-story/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As I alluded to in the About section of Project Bare, this experiment is one that is near and dear t]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><span style="color:#ffffff;">As I alluded to in the About section of Project Bare, this experiment is one that is near and dear to my heart. I’ve traveled a long, hard road to get to where I am today and, even now, I know I’ve still got more ground to cover. </span><span style="color:#ffffff;">So here is my story</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">. It’s a hard one to relive, but I’m happy to do it if only to help someone else out there realize that they aren’t the only one feeling the way I did. I would love to hear your stories too and I deeply believe in the power of our voices to affect change.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">Growing up, I was always a fun-loving kid who felt comfortable in her own skin and hardly worried what others thought. Of course, I wasn’t exempt from the growing pains  that many teenage girls experience—(what I thought to be) terrible, debilitating acne, a boy who broke my heart time and again, girls who were friends to your face and enemies when you turned your back. It sounds terrible when it’s all on paper, but it really is a part of growing up and growing into yourself. To be honest, I had a great childhood and growing up wasn’t nearly as hard for me as it could’ve been. I wasn’t the most popular girl at school by any means, but I had an amazing group of friends who were wholesome, no-drama and incredibly supportive. I’m still close with many of them to this day and four of them will be standing by my side when Adam and I get married next September. We didn’t drink, we didn’t do drugs and our idea of fun was getting together to play a boardgame or start a bonfire down at the beach. We all ran together on the same track and XC team and we never got tired of being together all day, every day.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">My senior year, I decided on Northeastern University as my home for the next four years. I remember being so excited to have my mind made up and to be a full fledged “city girl” the following year.  My first two years of college were pretty typical: meeting new people, living in a shoebox, drinking far too often and (amazingly) never getting hangovers. Northeastern was the kind of place where friends come and go and groups change easily—going to school there was more of a means to an end (specifically getting a good job) than it was a great social scene. Of course, we had a lot of fun, but we also worried too much about getting good jobs someday and my friends during freshman year were people I didn’t hang out with at all by the end of sophomore year.  It was at the end of sophomore year that image suddenly way more important to me than it ever had—I went to school a girl who had never spent more than $50 on a pair of jeans and suddenly I was wearing Sevens and 575s </span><em><span style="color:#ffffff;">just because everyone else was. </span></em><span style="color:#ffffff;">I also starting losing a lot of my baby fat during my sophomore year and had slimmed down considerably by the middle of that year. Suddenly, sizes were important to me and I began to do something that my friend from freshman year always did and I vowed I never would: “stomach check.” She’d eat a few bites of food and then, probably subconsciously, she would pinch the sides of her stomach to see if she was getting fatter with every bite. It made me cringe when I saw her do it and then suddenly one day I was doing it too. As you would imagine, this behavior snowballed until my bones were popping out and I was down to a double zero in pants. I gave up eating bread and pasta entirely and, because I had been a vegetarian since high school, my food choices were very limited. I only indulged when I thought it was acceptable—eating other people’s food literally right off their plate or sneaking things from my roommates’ stash in the fridge—but I could never bring myself to just buy a gallon of ice cream, even though I’d slowly eat nearly that much of my roommates’ at home. Peanut butter and nuts were my weakness—I loved how they tasted, but I refused to buy it because I knew I didn’t have the self control to just eat a few bites. Sometimes, I would buy a jar in extreme starvation at the grocery store and then get home and throw it away so I wouldn’t be able to eat any. Then I would eat my roommates’ peanut butter, somehow believing it was less of a crime if it wasn’t my own. The only carbs I let myself have were heaping bowls of cereal, which I ate every night for dinner for pretty much my entire junior year. I would starve myself all day long—sometimes only eating a banana for breakfast with “appetite-killing” tea and a salad with no protein for lunch—and try to make it until 8 or 9 PM so I couldn’t possibly eat more than that one bowl of cereal before going to bed. I was so embarrassed by my habits that I used to wait in my room until everyone had left the kitchen and then I would sneak in and make myself a huge bowl of cereal to take back to my room and eat in tiny bites to make it last. Sometimes, I would just go to bed super early to avoid a binge and other times I would succumb to it and eat everything in sight while my roommates weren’t there to see me. This kind of behavior went on for the beginning of junior year (and parts of the end of sophomore year, too) but it got incredibly out of  control after the events of my junior year.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">In October of 2007, I was sexually assaulted by a person I considered a good friend. He was someone I trusted, someone who rode the T with me every day on the way to work, someone whose circle of friends I had quickly become part of. During the World Series that year in which the Red Sox were eventual champions, my friends and I would often go to a bar where my roommate worked to get drinks under the table (we weren’t 21 yet), watch the games on TV and wait for the players to come to the bar afterward, if it was a home game. One night, I was invited by this guy to go to his apartment to watch one of the games—under the impression that he had invited a bunch of other people. When I got there, it was just him and I. He mixed me a drink out of my sight and I drank it while we watched the game. I don’t remember much of the events because I’m positive that he spiked my drink (though I was too late in getting the test done to prove it for sure) and it all spiraled very quickly out of control later in the night. We went to a second bar where they served minors and had a couple drinks and then stumbled back to my apartment on campus. My roommate was home at the time and she remembers him being hardly drunk, but me being completely out of it. She didn’t trust him really to begin with and she tried to step in when she thought things were getting out of hand since he was touching me and acting possessive. She says I was completely not myself and I yelled and swore at her for trying to intrude and, after a while, she gave up trying.  After that, he took me into the bathroom at our apartment and tried to rape me. I don’t remember much at all, though it has come back to me in flashes during dreams or when I would see him on the streets in passing over the next couple years.  I specifically remember him asking me “do you want to do this?” and me telling him that no, I loved my boyfriend. He proceeded to take my pants off and we got into some kind of struggle, which left me with a huge bump on the back of my head.  I woke up the next morning in my bed with no pants on (my roommate helped me into bed) and I felt the worst feeling I had ever felt. I was violently sick and had to leave my job that afternoon to go home.  It was like no hangover I’ve had before or since and, from my research on roofies, I figured out quickly what I knew must’ve happened. I tried to piece together the night with my roommate, but I remembered very little and she wasn’t privy to what happened in the bathroom, just the aftermath. She convinced me to make the hardest call of my life: to tell my loving boyfriend of 5 years that another man had tried to hurt me, to defile the sacred act that only he and I had ever shared.  I was hysterical, believing that it was my fault for allowing someone like him to receive my trust, and I remember feeling guilty as I told Adam what happened.  He responded by driving to see me immediately (he lived in New Hampshire then) and spent the night holding me while I cried. The next day, he called out of work and took me to the hospital, where we waited for almost 8 hours for me to see a rape specialist. When it came down to it, I had waited too long for the roofies to pass through my system and there was no way they could prove it so I could press charges. I refused the rape kit because they told me that I could only get the results if I agreed to press charges and to me, all I could picture was being in a courtroom having to relive that nightmare, especially when so many women are victimized for telling the truth.  All I wanted was to go home and get on with my life.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">I spent the next two days holed up in my room with the shades down. I barely ate, I didn’t go to work and I only saw my roommates if they forced themselves in.  I felt so used, violated and ugly. I also felt guilty, so I didn’t dare share my story with anyone else because I felt like it was my fault. About a week later, having to go back to work and get my life together, I finally realized that I couldn’t keep it from my mother, whom my roommates encouraged me to reach out to. While I said that telling Adam was the hardest phone call I’ve ever made, I have to take that back; telling my mother that I had been sexually assaulted was the worst thing I’ve ever had to do and I don’t want to relive it now because it’s too painful.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">I’ve always been conscious enough to realize when I had a problem and now, I realized, I had two big ones. I had an eating disorder and I also had a terrible trauma hanging over my head. I tried to address the trauma with therapy, but I hated reliving it and talking about my feelings every time I went to therapy, so I stopped going after a few visits. I suddenly found myself timid and afraid to be myself: I couldn’t stand up for what I wanted, I feared everything around me and I was afraid to ever go out and drink again. I stopped drinking altogether for a few months until Adam encouraged me to keep living my life and not change everything because of him. I slowly started to go out more—and then it became a lot more. I drank heavily every chance I got because the temporary high helped me forget who I was and what my life had become. I was only happy when I was drinking and, when I wasn’t, I could barely function. On the outside, I might have seemed like I had it together—great boyfriend, great job, great grades—but inside I felt like I was wasting away. I began bingeing more than ever and my weight started going up. I would try to eat barely anything, believing that I had somehow won if I looked and acted healthy and happy on the outside, but it would always lead to bingeing on both alcohol and food. I began to get even more down on myself as my clothes started to get tighter, and then, not fit at all. I developed a “too far gone” mentality: I would look at myself in the mirror and think “I can’t do much worse, so I might as well keep eating.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">Suddenly in the spring of junior year, I had this epiphany that enough was enough. My life was completely turned upside down and my eating disorder had spiraled out of control after the assault. I agonized over it for days, but finally I made the decision to call the Boston Children’s Outpatient Eating Disorders program. My appointment wasn’t for almost two months, but I held on, seeing that light at the end of the tunnel up ahead.  At BCH, I was assigned a team of doctors to help me get better: a nutritionist, a therapist and a physician. They monitored my weight, helped me plan my meals with foods I actually liked and gave me the kind of support that I could never get from someone too close to the problem. My therapist was a life saver, literally: she was so supportive and nonjudgmental, and she recommended a book that completely changed my whole outlook. I</span><a href="http://www.intuitiveeating.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff;">ntuitive Eating</span></a><span style="color:#ffffff;"> was exactly what I needed to wake up. It taught me that deprivation is counterproductive and it only sets you up for failure. With the help of this book, which I kept with me at all times like a Bible, Iearned how to start eating foods again that I loved and to pay less attention to the numbers on the scale than how I felt physically and mentally. I began to feel alive again for the first time—I was fitting in my clothes slowly and I was actually enjoying eating for the first time in so long.  I felt better, but nowhere near healed.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">It wasn’t until the summer before my senior year that I realized why this had all happened to me. Wanting badly to no longer be defined and confined by my worst life experiences, I applied to a month-long study abroad program in South Africa. A world away from my comforts and support group, the experience was everything I feared and everything I needed to start putting the pieces of my life back together. I traveled more than 8,000 miles to start over, but the person who truly changed my life was right in my backyard the whole time.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">I met Meg, another Northeastern student who also grew up in my tiny home state of Rhode Island, on the nearly 24-hour trip to South Africa. In cramped side-by-side seats, we bonded over the in-flight movies and the endless snacks she let me share when the vegetarian meals ran out on the plane. I found her to be so open and honest from the start—while I had always carefully hidden my journal from others, she would unapologetically pour her soul into hers whenever the need arose, no matter what prying eyes could see. Both being runners (and me having a hard time adjusting to life without a gym) we would often run a few miles together to the top of a mountain overlooking the city where we stayed. It was there that she divulged her own secrets to me: a long bout with depression and self-harm, an abusive boyfriend and an eating disorder of her own. Her admissions opened me to the realization that everyone has their own personal hardships and that, despite appearances, no one is perfect and admitting you have these problems is not a weakness, but a profound strength. I soon found myself telling her my story—a soul-cleansing therapy truly like none I had experienced before or since. Though this was the first step in my long recovery, I didn’t realize my own strength until I received a letter from Meg a couple weeks after I had returned home.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;"> In the note Meg said, “Meeting you changed my life. You are one of the bravest people I have ever met and you are beautiful inside and out. Never forget what you have to offer to the world.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">These words changed my life. I felt better than I had in years when I came back from that trip and Meg’s words had made me realize that the real me, the person that I used to love, was still there somewhere. I can’t say that it was an easy transition back to the real world by any means—in South Africa I was free to be whoever I wanted to be, in the US, I felt confined—and I began to relapse in a big way. I turned 21 a few weeks after my return home and I got so worried about seeing people again for the first time and returning to my old self that I drowned myself in alcohol and found myself in a hospital bed the morning after my party. I was so ashamed. So many people that I loved had witnessed this meltdown. But more than anything, I was so ashamed in front of wonderful boyfriend, who had spent so much time and money putting my party together, only to have me ruin everything. My confidence then was at an all-time low and, while I tried several times, to quit drinking and get my life together, it never worked. No longer were the days of being a happy drunk; now I would get hysterically upset after I drank and pick fights with Adam, telling him he should leave me for someone better. It is a testament to the kind of patient, loving husband that Adam will be that he stayed with me through all my ups and downs and always assured me that, one day, we’d have everything we’d always dreamed of.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">It’s now “one day” for me: I live in a beautiful house with my incredible fiancé, I’ve made friends in New Hampshire that like me for who I am and I’m finally getting comfortable in my own skin. This will always be somewhat of a struggle for me, but I’m finally able to eat what I want, do what I want and say how I feel without analyzing it to death. I’m still working on things like standing up for myself and apologizing less, but I’m getting there and for me, it’s worlds away from where I was. I love all of my friends and family dearly for sticking with me through everything I’ve gone through these past few years and I want you all to know that I never would have made it to the other side without you.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">That’s my story. Long, I know, but I hope worth it. Please feel free to send me a message or leave me a comment or, even better, tell me your own story. We can all help each other and I hope this post has helped you in some small way.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">Until tomorrow,</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">GutsyGirl</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[#SMR]]></title>
<link>http://notyouraveragesinglemomma.com/2009/11/22/smr/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>notyouraveragesinglemomma</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[  #SMR  (Sunday Morning Ritual) After church my brother, my parents and I piled into my fathers T-bi]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Richmond]]></title>
<link>http://centrifugalcity.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/richmond/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>centrifugalcity</dc:creator>
<guid>http://centrifugalcity.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/richmond/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Parked cars on Bridge Road, Richmond.]]></description>
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<p>Parked cars on Bridge Road, Richmond.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[My D60! Vol 1 ; Vol 2 ; Vol 3 - must see]]></title>
<link>http://tapsanov.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/my-d60-vol-1-vol-2-vol-3-must-see/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>tapsanov</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Gallery vol 1 ! Gallery vol 2! Gallery vol 3!]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/tapsanov?cropsuccess#/album.php?aid=2044252&#38;id=1296575823" target="_blank">Gallery vol 1 !</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/tapsanov?cropsuccess#/album.php?aid=2044870&#38;id=1296575823" target="_blank">Gallery vol 2!</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/tapsanov?cropsuccess#/album.php?aid=2045305&#38;id=1296575823" target="_blank">Gallery vol 3!</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[lights]]></title>
<link>http://sherrykeating.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/lights/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sherrykeating</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Mag Mile Lights Festival, originally uploaded by ifmuth. Great shot by a Chicago photographer. Welco]]></description>
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<span style="font-size:.8em;margin-top:0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifmuth/4123870306/">Mag Mile Lights Festival</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/ifmuth/">ifmuth</a>.</span>
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Great shot by a Chicago photographer.  Welcome to the Festival of Lights in Chicago on the Mag Mile.  What a spectacle!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Black and the city]]></title>
<link>http://museumofmundanelife.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/black-and-the-city/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When I first glimpsed this crowd of people dressed in back, I though it was a funeral march. Only th]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>When I first glimpsed this crowd of people dressed in back, I though it was a funeral march. Only then I realised these must be office workers chased away from their desks and meeting rooms by a fire drill or perhaps an actual fire alarm. Remarkably monochrome, the only colour in this scene came from the fluorescent vests of the fire wardens.</p>
<p><a href="http://museumofmundanelife.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dscf2862.jpg"><img src="http://museumofmundanelife.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dscf2862.jpg" alt="" title="DSCF2862" width="500" height="375" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-116" /></a></p>
<p>I was on my way to Tate Modern to see <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/unilevermiroslawbalka/explore/"><em>How it is</em></a>, the current Unilever commission in the Turbine Hall. The massive black container by a Pole Miroslaw Balka reminded me of a crematorium. Walking in was felt to me like marching for a meeting with the death.</p>
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<p>Walking toward the darkness was a powerful experience. The environment inside was paceful an quiet, the voices of fellow visitors muffled by the soft lining on the walls. The interpretation suggested that the piece should evoke the fear of unfamiliar but I found it soothing. Inside, I felt more like in a womb rather than a grave. Both these places are small and cramped, which is perhaps ajar with the dark vastness gaping at you when entering the piece, but it doesn&#8217;t take long to reach the back wall of the container, at which point the experience is cut short. I wish the installation was deeper. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/unilevermiroslawbalka/explore/">The website</a> is interesting. It&#8217;s a confusing environment with very little content (or maybe it was hidden and I missed it), raw and intriguing.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Nozem]]></title>
<link>http://denhaagvandaag.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/nozem/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>denhaagvandaag</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Trying to Spot light our local business..]]></title>
<link>http://dearbornheights.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/trying-to-spot-light-our-local-business/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Trying to spot light some of our locale business here in Dearborn Hights, I started out with the Bon]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Trying to spot light some of our locale business here in Dearborn Hights, I started out with the Bone Yard, who has done us proud. If you have a business that you would like us to spot light drop us a line here, we need to support all our local business.</p>
<p>Right in our great city we have a restaurant that has been voted for the past 3 years for the best barbecue restaurant. The Bone Yard,<a href="http://detroit.citysearch.com/review/5183944#" target="_blank"> reviews</a> It has been a dining hot spot for years.<a href="http://www.theboneyardbbq.com/"> The Bone Yard</a></p>
<p><strong>Dearborn Heights<a name="undefined" href="http://detroit.citysearch.com/review/5183944" target="_blank"><br />
</a></strong>7010 N. Telegraph<br />
Dearborn Heights, MI</p>
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<title><![CDATA[World Voyage]]></title>
<link>http://cybertek.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/world-voyage/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Whether you travel a lot or just dream of traveling, WorldVoyage is a perfect game for you! This gam]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000080;">Whether you travel a lot or just dream of traveling, WorldVoyage is a perfect game for you! This game will become your travelling encyclopedia, guiding you in a fascinating virtual tour round the world. Enjoy the challenging levels with special features and bonuses, wonderful pictures of famous places, buildings and monuments. Fill your landscape with famous sights and discover the unique bonus at the end of World Voyage!</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000080;">120 levels and bonus puzzles</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000080;">20 famous world locations</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000080;">Unlock spectacular sights</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>System Requirements:</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">OS: Windows XP/Vista</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">CPU: 600 Mhz</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">RAM: 128 MB</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">DirectX: 6.0</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008000;">Hard Drive: 79 MB</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[4 Tourist In Mecca Die From The Swine Flu Virus ]]></title>
<link>http://jerrybrice.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/4-tourist-in-mecca-die-from-the-swine-flu-virus/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jerrybrice</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The H1N1 Swine Flu virus knows no borders,has no boundaries, and has absolutely no respect for relig]]></description>
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<p>The <strong>H1N1 Swine Flu</strong> virus knows no borders,has no boundaries, and has absolutely no respect for religious or cultural traditions.</p>
<p>This year at the annual <strong>Hajj</strong> to Mecca,  Four foreign pilgrims have died of swine flu, the Saudi Health Ministry announced on Saturday.</p>
<p>The Saudi Arabia Health Ministry  said none of the four foreign victims had been vaccinated against the H1N1 virus, as has been recommended by The Health Ministry.</p>
<p>An official statement released by the ministry said all had underlying health problems, including cancer and respiratory illness, AFP news agency reported.</p>
<p>Three of the victims died in Medina and one in Mecca.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&#38;section=0&#38;article=128688&#38;d=22&#38;m=11&#38;y=2009">http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&#38;section=0&#38;article=128688&#38;d=22&#38;m=11&#38;y=200Over</a></p>
<p>The<strong> BBC</strong> is reporting that&#8230;.<em>up to three million Muslims from around the world take part in the holy pilgrimage every year, but health officials have expressed fears that it could provide a breeding ground for the virus.</em></p>
<p><em>Authorities had tried to prepare for any outbreaks by installing thermal cameras at airports and sea terminals, deploying 15,000 additional health workers and ensuring hundreds of extra beds were available.</em></p>
<p>The <strong>Hajj</strong> (<a title="Arabic language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language">Arabic</a>: حج‎ Ḥaǧǧ) is a pilgrimage to <a title="Mecca" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca">Mecca</a>. It is currently the largest annual pilgrimage in the world,<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajj#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup> and is the fifth pillar of Islam, a moral obligation that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by every able-bodied <a title="Muslim" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim">Muslim</a> who can afford to do so. The Hajj is a demonstration of the solidarity of the Muslim people, and their submission to <a title="Allah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah">Allah</a> (God).<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajj#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup> The pilgrimage occurs from the 7th to 13th day of <a title="Dhu al-Hijjah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhu_al-Hijjah">Dhu al-Hijjah</a>, the 12th month of the <a title="Islamic calendar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar">Islamic calendar</a>. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajj">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajj</a>)</p>
<p>The Health Minister has reported that there are 16 other people that have been diagnosed with swine flu and four remain in hospital in &#8220;critical condition&#8221;.</p>
<p>He added 12 others had recovered following treatment.</p>
<p>The Saudi government has recommended the elderly, pregnant women, people with chronic diseases and children skip the Hajj this year.</p>
<p>The Saudi government has said all pilgrims need a certificate of vaccination before they can apply for a visa.</p>
<p>This is real people, and this disease is spreading worldwide,at a rapid pace.</p>
<p>I encourage everyone to get a H1N1 swine flu shot as soon as you can.The reports of any side effects are exaggerated, and will cause millions of people to perish from the lack of the vaccine.</p>
<p>Any paranoia surrounding any alledged complications from the shot are totally unsubstantiated, and if those people out there insist on not receiving the vaccine, then we as a society should only expect more mounting mass casualties from the swine flu, as exhibited this weekend, unfortunately in Mecca.</p>
<p>If it can happen in Mecca, it can happen anywhere.</p>
<p><strong><em>Please everyone, wash your hands, and go get the shot.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>To follow the full story, click on the links for my sources below&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iDApMAhUln5jw-ffhzIZCh0I_-bgD9C41MJ00">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iDApMAhUln5jw-ffhzIZCh0I_-bgD9C41MJ00</a></p>
<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8372378.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8372378.stm</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.saudiembassy.net/latest_news/news11210903.aspx">http://www.saudiembassy.net/latest_news/news11210903.aspx</a></p>
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<link>http://prestonutley.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/hi/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>prestonutley</dc:creator>
<guid>http://prestonutley.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/hi/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas]]></title>
<link>http://bigeyeblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/dallas-fort_worth/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bigeyeblog</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bigeyeblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/dallas-fort_worth/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Fort Worth is my hometown. It is great place where to live. Full of interesting places and family or]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><em><span style="color:#333399;">Fort Worth is my hometown. It is great place where to live. Full of interesting places and family oriented events, I hope to capture some of them to share with you&#8217;ll&#8230;</span></em></p>
<div id="attachment_53" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigeyeblog/sets/72157622820237518/"><img class="size-full wp-image-53  " title="Dallas Baptist University" src="http://bigeyeblog.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dallas-baptist-university1.jpg" alt="Dallas Baptist University" width="500" height="333" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Dallas Baptist University</p></div>
<p><em>Dallas Baptist University Church, surrounded by a colorful sky on a typical day of autumn&#8230;</em></p>
<div id="attachment_54" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigeyeblog/sets/72157622820237518/"><img class="size-full wp-image-54  " title="Dallas Baptist University - Student Center" src="http://bigeyeblog.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dallas-baptist-university-21.jpg" alt="Dallas Baptist University - Student Center" width="500" height="333" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Dallas Baptist University - Student Center</p></div>
<p><em>Dallas Baptist University Student Center, a stunning autumn afternoon &#8230;</em></p>
<div id="attachment_55" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigeyeblog/sets/72157622820237518/"><img class="size-full wp-image-55  " title="Mountain Creek Lake - Dallas" src="http://bigeyeblog.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/mountain-creek-lake-dallas1.jpg" alt="Mountain Creek Lake - Dallas" width="500" height="333" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mountain Creek Lake - Dallas</p></div>
<p><em>Mountain Creek Lake view from the Dallas Baptist University Student Center, show the beautiful sunsets of Dallas in the fall &#8230;</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Venice, Italy]]></title>
<link>http://schnellsls.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/venice-italy/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>schnellsls</dc:creator>
<guid>http://schnellsls.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/venice-italy/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The train ride to Venice was lengthy and required me to make several stops along the way. I stopped ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The train ride to Venice was lengthy and required me to make several stops along the way. I stopped in Bologna for the second night in a row. The train station was clean enough, but I didn’t know the town well enough to explore at 1:30am, so I stayed in the train station and slept on the floor. The first night I was a bit nervous about sleeping on the floor near other homeless people, but they seemed pretty well passed out. Keeping my guard up while I slept I got a few hours of necessary relaxation. At 3:18 am I boarded a train heading to Venice (Venezia).</p>
<p><a href="http://schnellsls.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/p8043757.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-898" title="P8043757" src="http://schnellsls.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/p8043757.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
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<p>I snatched a room all to myself. I was excited about being able to fold the seats down and sleep for the ride. But just as the train started to move, one other passenger came into my area. She was a nice girl about my age doing roughly the same thing I was doing. After a bit of nice conversation with her I slept quite soundly for an hour or so. I awoke to her telling me that the train was splitting in two sections, one section going to the main city Venice and another one going to the old city of Venice. Thanking her I jumped off and boarded another section of the train. Unfortunately I had to sit in a crowded room, but they were all nice people, and surprised that I was traveling with only one backpack and for so long. Everyone else had huge suit cases and several other bags.</p>
<p>Arriving in Venice at around 6:00am it was still dark. The streets were bare and quiet. I took advantage of the solitude and grabbed several shots of Venice in the morning light. I wandered along the narrow winding streets, surprised to find travelers like myself sleeping in random areas throughout the city. Some were sleeping on stairways; some were sleeping in the streets in groups. Seeing them gave me confidence about my new practice of sleeping in train stations and on trains.</p>
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<p>Venice is confusing. The streets and passageways are set up in no logical manner. Venice was built on 117 islands with 150 canals and 400 bridges. The addresses are meaningless as well, so finding your way through logical street signs and such is nearly impossible. Fortunately there are giant, although confusing, signs pointing toward large squares and attractions.</p>
<p>I spent the majority of my morning confused and looking at a simple map of the area trying to figure out how to arrive at some of the prominent squares. I led myself in circles and even found myself walking down narrow side streets that dead ended at a canal with no way to get across.</p>
<p>Taking pictures along the way drained my battery and I was yet again in search of a stray outlet. I found several in the streets that were inoperable. I finally found a small café that was just opening. Two men were setting up chairs and tables outside for the morning visitors. I ducked inside and asked the older gentleman if he had an outlet. I mainly used motions and pointed to my charger; he took it from me and plugged it in. While it was charging I read my lonely planet guide on Venice several times as well as some of the other cities I would be going to. For his hospitality I decided to buy a chocolate filled croissant and a small macchiato just as a way of saying “thank you.”</p>
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<p>Leaving recharged from the coffee I continued touring myself through the winding streets to several of the squares (piazzas) and other historic markers. I wound up in a fish market along the main canal, it was full of people yelling and selling fish. It took me a long time of getting lost and turned around to find the main piazza, the one all of the pictures are taken from. It was magnificent. The beautiful ornate buildings surrounding the plaza were impeccable. There were hundreds of pigeons in the center being fed various things by the tourists. Several Asian couples holding food up had pigeons perching themselves on their arms and shoulders. The gondolas are just cool as you think they are, small boats with men in Venice-specific hats roaming the canals. Occasionally you can hear one of them singing, but it was a rare site to see.</p>
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<p>Several people had told me that Venice was dirty and it smelled bad. I did not smell anything, other than the salty sea water, which if you are not used to can smell a bit unpleasant, but all in all I thought Venice was not terribly filth ridden or smelly. However there were some areas that did have a large quantity of trash in them, but they were being swiftly taken care of my city workers with brooms.</p>
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<p>Because I was alone and I walk fast, I was pretty much done with Venice by the afternoon. I took a nap on a bench that was facing the water and away from the tourist section. Hot and tired, I decided that I wanted to swim, but the water in and around Venice was a little too heavily used to be anything I would want to swim in. I got out my trusty Lonely Planet guide book and searched for a nearby coastal city that the train went to. I found a town called Trieste, on the border between Italy and Slovenia.</p>
<p>I headed back to the train station and jumped on board a train to Trieste.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[good morning]]></title>
<link>http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/good-morning/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>y</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/good-morning/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[always look on the bright side of life&#8230;]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>always look on the bright side of life&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/20091122post-good-morning.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3531" title="20091122post-good.morning" src="http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/20091122post-good-morning.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="216" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[sugar rush]]></title>
<link>http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/sugar-rush/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>y</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/sugar-rush/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[equal parts&#8230;]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>equal parts&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/20091122post-sugar-rush.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3528" title="20091122post-sugar.rush" src="http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/20091122post-sugar-rush.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="472" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[perfection]]></title>
<link>http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/perfection-2/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>y</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/perfection-2/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[still bubbling&#8230;]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>still bubbling&#8230;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[geometry]]></title>
<link>http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/geometry/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>y</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/geometry/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[loving math&#8230;]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>loving math&#8230;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[three's a company]]></title>
<link>http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/threes-a-company/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>y</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/threes-a-company/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[then add butter&#8230;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[behind the looking glass]]></title>
<link>http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/behind-the-looking-glass/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>y</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/behind-the-looking-glass/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[foggy&#8230;]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>foggy&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/20091122post-behind-the-looking-glass.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3516" title="20091122post-behind.the.looking.glass" src="http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/20091122post-behind-the-looking-glass.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="432" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[2006, December the 2nd]]></title>
<link>http://knowthankyou.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/2006-december-the-2nd/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>knowthankyou</dc:creator>
<guid>http://knowthankyou.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/2006-december-the-2nd/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[San Francisco was still hibernating through a long cold night I had just left my hotel on Market Str]]></description>
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<p>San Francisco was still hibernating through a long cold night I had just left my hotel on Market Street and was wandering half asleep following lines in the cold concrete occasionally looking up at darkened windows and closed doors my hands were planted deeply in my pockets so I probably walked a little robotically the icy wind blew in off the Pacific and the tall buildings downtown accelerated it like a luge I cheered the occasional piece of paper racing along and wished I had an alpine bell to ring in encouragement it was sunrise on a Saturday morning and as the sole representative of our species in the vicinity I took a moment to thank the air the buildings the streets the lights basically everything I could see for making San Francisco what it is I was disappointed though by the lack of coffee houses in other cities you can&#8217;t extend your arm without touching one but here in San Francisco they must have an unusually healthy respect for sleep it&#8217;s highly likely that all I needed to do was walk knight to king&#8217;s bishop three and some wonderfully grotty all-nighter would have greeted me with stained doors flung open and a chipped mug already filled I heard a streetcar in the distance and then was gratified to see another member of our species sleepily stumbling her way through the cold dawn this meant there was the potential for something to be open early nearby I just hoped it wouldn&#8217;t be an electronics retailer or a Fisherman&#8217;s Wharf tourist junk emporium I walked a block in the same direction south I think and saw an open door on a side street it was a little hole in the wall vendor that sold pastries some were recognizable but most were unusual Asian varieties they were really weird and fascinating and I asked the vendor what they were she had a difficult time explaining so we mainly just smiled at each other I ordered the largest hottest coffee available she served it to me in a big styrofoam cup with a complicated plastic lid that my frozen hands broke almost immediately I spent the next glorious half hour standing on a variety of street corners warming my hands on the cup blowing steam off the coffee and taking gulps just big enough to warm my luxurious interior without scalding my mouth</p>
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<title><![CDATA[City march to target homophobia]]></title>
<link>http://newsaboutcities.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/city-march-to-target-homophobia/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>tellmenews</dc:creator>
<guid>http://newsaboutcities.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/city-march-to-target-homophobia/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A march against homophobia takes in Liverpool four weeks after a homophobic attack on a trainee poli]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Main Street]]></title>
<link>http://outsideofthecave.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/the-main-street/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
<guid>http://outsideofthecave.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/the-main-street/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Walking on the tedious path of poetry in a language I barely use&#8230; Here we go.   It&#8217;s ten]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Walking on the tedious path of poetry in a language I barely use&#8230; Here we go.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s ten in the evening,</p>
<p>Ashes from last night&#8217;s fire,</p>
<p>Blend with the snowflakes and, well,</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t see the difference.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This man&#8217;s pissing on the wall,</p>
<p>Of the bank, a withdrawal,</p>
<p>His girlfriend sits in the car,</p>
<p>Trying to evade my smile.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I see a woman coming fast,</p>
<p>Frail and nervous like a deer,</p>
<p>She looks at me briefly,</p>
<p>My laugh went to her instead.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Eratically, this man,</p>
<p>Drowned himself with his own drink,</p>
<p>And on the other sidewalk,</p>
<p>Someone&#8217;s smoking and coughing.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The lights coming from the cars,</p>
<p>Are blinding me and I can&#8217;t,</p>
<p>See who is this silhouette,</p>
<p>Not until these spots are gone.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>As always there&#8217;s some action,</p>
<p>Lots of action on this street,</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the main street after all,</p>
<p>And I walk by my own self.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[watch Stoke City vs Portsmouth online live stream TV sport 11/22, 22 Nov 2009.]]></title>
<link>http://kobesport.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/watch-stoke-city-vs-portsmouth-online-live-stream-tv-sport-1122-22-nov-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>prince</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kobesport.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/watch-stoke-city-vs-portsmouth-online-live-stream-tv-sport-1122-22-nov-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[watch Stoke City vs Portsmouth online live stream TV sport 11/22, 22 Nov 2009. This Sport Games Star]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Monument]]></title>
<link>http://dlennis.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/washington-monument/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>D L Ennis</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dlennis.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/washington-monument/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[While in Washington D.C. last week my primary interest was shooting street shots but I could not res]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a title="Washington Monument by D L Ennis, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dlennis/4123954581/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2536/4123954581_0db965864d.jpg" alt="Washington Monument" width="325" height="500" /></a><br />
While in Washington D.C. last week my primary interest was shooting street shots but I could not resist a few typical tourist shots too.<br />
© 2009 D L Ennis, All rights reserved.</p>
<p>NOTE: Permission for the use of my images is granted for personal websites and blogs but is to include a link back to this site and proper credit given to me, D L Ennis. Link to be used&#8230;(Visual Thoughts <a href="http://dlennis.wordpress.com/">http://dlennis.wordpress.com/</a>)</p>
<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: Commercial use, and the creation of prints, must be purchased! For more information you can contact me <a href="mailto:dennisennis@gmail.com" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[16. Thursday, June 11, 2009. The Strip.]]></title>
<link>http://stoptimeproject.com/2009/06/11/16/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Claudette</dc:creator>
<guid>http://stoptimeproject.com/2009/06/11/16/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sin City. Old home. Ghostbar. Transparent floor. CineVegas.]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Sin City. Old home. Ghostbar. Transparent floor. CineVegas.</p>
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