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            <title>From the ashes</title>
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            <description>Marriott Islamabad owner vows hotel will rise again</description>
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            <title>Re: Ups en downs</title>
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            <description>Hoi Maurice,

Zelf heb ik AP en dit verloopt bij mij zeer grillig, kan wel zeggen dat ik de laatste 5 maanden goed de sjaak ben geweest. En hoewel ik het daar soms moeilijk mee heb (ben pas 27 en dan heel vaak aan huis gebonden) is mij te concentreren op wat ik leuk vind. Ik heb veel hobby's die ik ook binnenshuis kan uitvoeren en daar probeer ik mij, ondanks de pijn etc, mee bezig te houden.
Wat mij ook echt op de been houdt zijn fora als deze. Ik ken in mijn omgeving helemaal niemand met reuma, en zeker g...</description>
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            <title>Ups en downs</title>
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            <description>Hallo allemaal,

wie van jullie heeft nog meer een grillig verloop van de reuma? Ik heb me jarenlang supergoed gevoeld en nu gaat dat minder. Hoe kan ik deze minder goede periode doorstaan? Heeft iemand adviezen? Herkennen jullie dit beeld?</description>
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            <title>Californians go home, many to ashes</title>
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            <description>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Thousands of Southern Californians returned home to find their houses burned to the ground, or miraculously intact on Monday, after a wind-whipped weekend firestorm swept through bone-dry canyons and hillsides.
  
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            <title>Californians go home, many to ashes 
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            <description>&amp;#60;p&gt;&amp;#60;a href=&quot;http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081117/ts_nm/us_california_wildfires&quot;&gt;&amp;#60;img src=&quot;http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081117/2008_11_16t151723_450x317_us_wildfire_california.jpg?x=130&amp;y=91&amp;q=85&amp;sig=N2gIpSBYrWk26qDiW1dFBQ--&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; height=&quot;91&quot; width=&quot;130&quot; alt=&quot;An owl escapes the area as a wild fire approaches Carbon Canyon road near Brea, California November 16, 2008. (Mike Blake/Reuters)&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&amp;#60;/a&gt;Reuters - Thousands of Southern Californians returned home to find their houses burned to the ground, or miraculously intact on Monday, after a wind-whipped weekend firestorm swept through bone-dry canyons and hillsides.&amp;#60;/p&gt;&amp;#60;br clear=&quot;all&quot;/&gt;</description>
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            <title>Maradona: Een leven vol ups en downs</title>
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            <description>Don Diego is terug, op misschien wel de enige plaats waar hij zich volledig op zijn gemak voelt: in het hart van het Argentijnse voetbal. Maradona moet de nationale ploeg, met de hulp van zijn vroegere coach Carlos Bilardo, naar het WK in Zuid-Afrika in 2010 leiden. Een ex-junkie als bondscoach, het zal voor iedereen even wennen zijn.</description>
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            <title>Glock: &quot;Het was een seizoen met ups en downs&quot;</title>
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            <description>Timo Glock is, met nog één race voor de boeg, erg tevreden over hoe zijn eerste volledige seizoen in de Formule 1 is verlopen. De Duitser begon het jaar met twee uitvalbeuren, maar stond in Hongarije voor het eerst op het podium en sprokkelde gedurende het seizoen een aardig puntentotaal bij elkaar.</description>
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            <title>Funeral homes facing problem of abandoned ashes 
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            <description>&amp;#60;p&gt;&amp;#60;a href=&quot;http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_on_re_us/unclaimed_ashes&quot;&gt;&amp;#60;img src=&quot;http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080819/capt.10d47ee38b694d2e8aefc72ae75f21e7.unclaimed_ashes_malp104.jpg?x=130&amp;y=86&amp;q=85&amp;sig=muZiF8hIMtWRGqpxvluLaA--&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; height=&quot;86&quot; width=&quot;130&quot; alt=&quot;Funeral director Peter Stefan poses next to boxes of unclaimed ashes at Graham, Putnam &amp; Mahoney Funeral Parlors, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008 in Worcester, Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick is reviewing a bill requiring funeral homes to hold onto unclaimed ashes for 12 months after which they could be buried in a common grave, crypt or scattered in a cemetery. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&amp;#60;/a&gt;AP - The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter. Someone loved the people once, enough to have their bodies cremated &amp;#151; then promptly forgot or decided they didn&amp;#039;t want them.&amp;#60;/p&gt;&amp;#60;br clear=&quot;all&quot;/&gt;</description>
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            <title>Nakajima wil seizoen vol ups en downs goed afsluiten</title>
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            <description>Kazuki Nakajima is verzekerd van zijn plek bij Williams voor 2009. De Japanner kijkt met gemengde gevoelens terug op de eerste vijftien Grands Prix van zijn eerste volledige Formule 1-seizoen. Met nog drie races te gaan staat hij op de vijftiende plek in het kampioenschap met negen punten.

Nakajima op autosport.com over zijn debuutseizoen: &quot;Dit jaar kenmerkt zich door ups en downs. Na de Spaanse Grand Prix had ik een goede periode en in een paar races zat ik echt heel dicht op het tempo van mijn teamgenoot Nico Rosberg. In Spa en Monza had ik het echter moeilijk. Het was belangrijk om in Singapore een goed resultaat neer te zetten. We hebben nog maar drie races voor de boeg en ik wil het seizoen in stijl afsluiten. Bovendien gaan we nu naar Japan en dat is altijd extra mooi.&quot;</description>
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            <title>Alt Text: Ashes to Caches -- Cremation Services for Dead Geeks</title>
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I've been contemplating the ever-present specter of death and eternal nothingness, mostly because Warcraft has been getting a little dull lately. I'm not too worried about the disposition of what eternal soul I may or may not possess, but I realize my surviving loved ones will have to deal with the rapidly cooling rest of me.



I've pretty much settled on cremation, because of the efficiency and because the whole pallbearer conversation is so awkward. But then what? I'm just not an urn sort of guy. Those who are into urns, who are part of the urn scene, recognize me when I come in the door and avoid me.




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Technology, as always, comes to the rescue. There are so many neat things you can do with the dead, burnt part of yourself these days that mulling over the options is like visiting a death-obsessed Apple Store. Here are just a few of the options available to you, me or anyone mortal.


Portrait

Ashes to Portraits will take your earthly remains, mix them into some paint and paint a picture ... of you! It's like a really sensitive mad scientist. If life were a movie, I'd completely go for this one, because you know you can't get made into a corpse-portrait without something cool happening. You'll come back to terrorize the family that moved into your home, or you'll help a young insecure woman find true love, or maybe you'll just drive someone insane with the staring. There's no bad outcome.



But this is real life, or so I'm told, so I see no reason to be painted into a portrait of me. I'd rather be a painting of a robot version of myself with vibro-claws, earthquake-beam eyes and a nice HD screen.


Space

This is the go-to destination for the rich, accomplished, dead geekish person, thanks to Space Services. Timothy Leary went this route. So did Gene Roddenberry.



I'm not so keen on it myself. Why should my remains get to do something I can't? I'm the one hauling these calcium phosphates around, but after I get hit by a semi or try the pork tartare, they get to go on the trip of a post-lifetime? Let my ashes buy their own freaking ticket if they want to go into low-Earth orbit so much.


Diamond

For those who enjoy jewelry, and the being thereof, LifeGem will infuse your remains into a diamond. Becoming one of the hardest substances known to humanity doesn't sound too bad -- at least I'd finally be in shape. Michael Phelps may have a perfect swimmer's body, but can he scratch chrysoberyl? I think not.



I'd want all my cremains made into diamond, though. No reason to break up the set. That's either a lot of diamonds, or one huge diamond, requiring the assets of a small European country to purchase. All the more reason to get one to install me now as overlord.


Pencils

Yes, you can get your ashes made into a bunch of pencils. I'm not sure if this is commercially available yet, but I don't really care. Who uses pencils? People who are bad at crosswords, that's who. And people taking Scantron tests. Those are not groups I want fondling my remains. I'm sure there are many people who would love nothing more than to spend their post-life being sharpened, but I'm not one of those people.


Fireworks

Of all the services I've covered, the fireworks option is my favorite. My loved ones will be touched to see me reincarnated briefly as a shining work of art in the night sky, and my enemies will enjoy seeing me blow up.



The toughest decision is whether to go for the smiley-face. They can make me into one of those smiley-face fireworks, but do you think they'd be willing to explain to the crowd that I'm being ironic?



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Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sj&amp;#246;berg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a moralizer, a morphologist and a memento mori.

    
    
    
    
  

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