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Ah, that spring and summer wondrous treat – fresh strawberries with cream. A staple of pleasure gardens in and around Auckland since the 1860s, and a certain drawcard for the crowds, even now. Who would have thought that their presence in the early 1920s at an advertised social function out in West Auckland would have resulted in a prominent politician of the day almost being hauled over the coals for illegal election practices?
The politician concerned was the Hon. Christopher James Parr (1869-1941). At the time of the 1922 General Election, in which he ran for the seat of Eden here in Auckland (which included, then, Mt Albert, Avondale, and much of West Auckland) he was a minister holding the public health and education portfolios. It is perhaps the former responsibility which made him the target.
The complainant was one John Pool, of Mt Albert, backed by Labour Party interests. Quite apart from the fact that this was clearly a Labour vs. the Conservatives thing – the fact that Mr Pool hailed from Mt Albert, which had just come through a thyphoid outbreak and that local identities such as Forbes Eadie (also Labour-leaning) had pointed the finger of blame directly at Parr during the campaign … A connection may well have been there, amidst the muddy undercurrents.
The petition against Parr was a charge of "treating", an illegal electoral practice since 1858 under the first Corrupt Practices Prevention Act and succeeding amendments. A candidate found guilty of paying, wholly or in part, for any meat, drink, or entertainment for electors on a polling day in 1858 risked being sued and paying a fine of £50 for each person taking suit against him, and being removed from the electoral roll. By 1881 the risk was a £400 fine, and exclusion from the electoral roll (and the right be elected) for five years.
The incident took place on 3 November 1922, at part of the Levy family property in Glen Eden, and revolved around two and a half crates of strawberries "devoured by the ladies of Glen Eden", as the NZ Truth described it. (3 March 1923) Another similar allegation, around an incident at Avondale, was dropped before the court case.
On 3rd November, five weeks before the poll, Mr. Parr, by advertisement, called all prepared to assist him in his candidature to meet in the Glen Eden district. Forty people were present, including [W H] Shepherd, who became chairman, and [Percy] Levy, who became secretary. [Shepherd was a leading light in the campaign to have Glen Eden break away from the Waitemata County Council. ]Levy explained that if the women would provide afternoon tea they would provide strawberries and cream. Invitations were issued, and strawberries were ordered on three different occasions. The conversazione took place according to plan. Shepherd introduced the candidate, and Mrs. Parr was also present. After an address by Mr. Parr afternoon tea was ordered, and those who wanted strawberries and cream partook of them.
When challenged about the strawberries the same evening, Mr. Parr denied that they were paid for by him. Counsel proceeded to indicate that there was some trouble about who should pay for the strawberries.
Judge Hosking raised a question as to whether counsel would not have to prove agency. Mr. Quartley said it would be proved that the treating took place with the knowledge of the candidate. Even though it may have taken place without his knowledge, though the prosecution did not admit that, and if, by sending out invitation cards signed by Mr. Parr the committee turned an innocent affair into an act against the law, then the election was void.
(Evening Post, 26 February 1923)
One thing about the case – as the trial proceeded, readers were given almost a roll-call of strawberry growers in and around Glen Eden at that time.
Mrs. Hill gave evidence that she attended a meeting a week before the conversazione at Levy's, at the invitation of Mr. Shepherd, who stated that Mr Mrs., and Miss Parr were having a ladies meeting the following Saturday. Ladies could bring cakes, and they would provide strawberries and cream. She was pretty sure Shepherd said: "Mr. Parr is the man to vote for." In reply to Mr. Skerrett, witness said she did not know there had been a discussion among the ladies whether they should provide strawberries and cream.
Percy Wood said Percy Levy spoke to him last November about supplying strawberries "for Mr. Parr's turnout across the road." He rendered an account on 11th January, and on 11th February he rendered an account to Mrs Enckson on the suggestion of Mr. Routley. who ultimately paid him. William Qualtrough said that Shepherd asked him to tell his wife to come to the conversazione, and said: "We are doing it simply to get the women together for a friendly chat. It has nothing to do with the election. You can vote for whom you like." Witness said G. Levy asked him to order a crate of strawberries from Dick Woods, and he did so.
Richard Woods said he supplied one crate, of strawberries, and saw Levy in regard to the account. Levy said: "Do not send the account to me. I cannot have anything to do with it, as I am Parr's secretary." Levy told him to send the account to Mrs. Erickson, secretary of the social committee. Witness declared he also sent the account to Levy. Mr. Skerrett said no such account had been received.
William John Pugh, farmer, said after the meeting on 25th November he received an account or statement for 10s. which he passed on to Mr. Levy. He believed strawberries were mentioned in the account. To Mr. Skerrett: He did not pay the 10s, as he did not know to whom it should be paid. Levy said it was a mistake, the account was sent to him.
Bernard Alps, strawberry grower, spoke of supplying half a crate of strawberries to Levy. He was paid for the fruit last week by Mrs. Erickson. He first sent the account to Levy, but last week he was met by Mrs. Erickson, who asked him to come to her home, and she would pay for the strawberries.
(Evening Post, 27 February 1923)
Mrs Naomi Kinniburgh, Avondale's first Mayoress, was even brought into the saga, giving testimony that she had attended the infamous strawberry-and-cream gathering that day out West.
Mrs. Naomi Kinniburgh, wife of the Mayor of Avondale, said she had a particular reason in listening, as she wanted to know which way to vote. In her opinion, Parr did not make a sufficiently political speech.
(Evening Post, 27 February 1923)
The following day, the defence laid down their evidence that Parr hadn't paid for the entertainment or the catering at Glen Eden, and that it wasn't even an especially political meeting at all.
Parr would go into the witness-box and tell the Court he had absolutely no knowledge of the proceedings at Glen Eden until he went there on the afternoon, intending to address a political meeting. Further, on 4th November, one day after the committee was set up at Glen Eden, he wrote expressly stating that his committee was not to enter upon any monetary contract without his personal sanction. Counsel submitted it was absurd to suggest that the supply of a few strawberries was done from corrupt motives. He would submit strong evidence to show it was not done for political purposes, but was only reasonable hospitality.
Christopher James Parr stated in evidence that he attended a meeting at Glen Eden on 3rd November, and chatted with his supporters. He suggested that those willing to work for him should hand in their names. Levy was appointed secretary, and Shepherd chairman. When he arrived at the Glen Eden meeting he found the room decorated, and asked: "Who has done all, this?" Mrs. Routley replied: "The women have pushed the men out to give you and Mrs. Parr a social afternoon."
(Evening Post, 27 February 1923)
The fact that only a handful of men attended the meeting at Glen Eden, at which the now-famous feast of strawberries was served, was used by Mr. Quartley, counsel for the petitioner, at the Auckland Supreme Court as a ground on which to base the query as to why if this was not a political meeting, all other men were excluded. Mr. Justice Swinger pointed out that the invitation cards produced for the inspection of the Court bore the legend, "Ladies and friends" and that it would be unkind to suggest that Glen Eden women had no men friends, reports the "N.Z. Herald." Mr. Justice Hosking, on the other hand, put forward the view that, as most of the men in the district would be working men; they could not afford the time to go to afternoon tea parties. "When they can afford the time," he said with a reminiscent smile, "they generally avoid them."
(Evening Post, 1 March 1923)
In the end, the petition against Parr was dismissed, on the grounds that he was completely ignorant of any "treating" that might have happened at the instigation of the local organisers.
"The evidence in our opinion clearly establishes that, the respondent and his wife were ignorant of the intention that the women's meeting for which he had fixed the date was to take the form of a gathering such as that described, or until they arrived at the hall that there was to be anything in the nature of entertainment. It is not shown that he knew anything beforehand of any particulars of his committee in the arrangements, although of course on arrival at the hall he could but have assumed that the committee must have raised no objection to the ladies using the occasion for the purpose they did. It is also completely established that the respondent himself was never called on to pay, nor ever did pay any of the cost of the entertainment. This disposes of the contention that the respondent by remaining at and taking part in, the social, adopted the acts of those concerned in getting it up so as to make him personally responsible for any corrupt treatment involved, .for to entitle that conclusion it must be shown as a preliminary condition that the respondent was aware of the facts and of a corrupt intention on the part of those concerned. The evidence, we consider, clearly establishes he was ignorant of these circumstances, so that he stands acquitted of all personal complicity in corrupt practice alleged."
(Evening Post 5 March 1923)
Surely a disappointing, not to mention court-cost expensive, time for those who muist have been certain that they smelled Parr's blood in the water politically. Instead, all they got was the fragrant scent of Glen Eden strawberries ...


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Around the world is an event organized by The Ego Co. and brings to us many great themed items, I mixed and matched some different regions and I guess I ended with an aborigine look here, but I like it!
I have no idea how I found this adorable sim called Galway. There is nothing on the sim's description what makes me imagine this is a domestic sim that still is open to public, allow rezz and run scripts, but I'm not sure how long it will last.
Style Card
Skin: FAKE :: LonaNative :: Common Native // DARK CHOCOLATE by Bonnie Forder for Around the world
Hair: -dDx- Butler – Gracile (Cast Iron) by Kallisti Burns for Around the world
Eyes: .ID. Ultimate / Mesh Eyes / REG/REG / Brown by Audrey Lamede
Dress: 22769 ~ [femme] Eryka Dress Sunrise by Paco Pooley for Around the world
Hands: Slink Mesh Hand Flat L and Slink Mesh Hand Relax R by Siddean Munro
Feet: Slink Womens Natural Barefeet (Mesh Rigged) by Siddean Munro
Poses: Purple Poses by Audrey Guter for Around the world

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Surreal in sports happens often on the field and in between the lines.
Recently, there was last year's World Series Game 6, when one more out would have made the difference, or this past year's Super Bowl rematch when it came down to a last play.
Also, the explosions of Tebow Mania and Linsanity had their surreal moments, as they led their teams to unlikely victories.
Record-setting moments like Usain Bolt in the 100 meters at the 2008 Olympics captured the public's attention and created an aura of unbelievability, too.
Surreal is most bizarre, though, when not even a screenplay for a movie could have been written to match what actually happened.
Sometimes, what happens off the field seems to be more compelling than what happens on it…and the hardest to fathom.
Which of these surreal off-the-field stories over the last 25 years have most affected American culture and been the most difficult to accept?
#5) Magic Johnson's HIV announcement
When it happened, it felt like a death sentence. Magic confirmed this in the recent documentary from ESPN about the announcement.
What made this story so surreal was that Magic was arguably the best basketball player in the world. And Magic was the first star athlete to report contracting the virus. To this day there have been few others.
Magic was also the most popular basketball player, possessing the biggest smile and an engaging personality. What a surprise, what a shock.
Some people wondered if he was gay. Everyone speculated how he had gotten it. HIV and AIDS were so…new.
And he, of course, had to retire from basketball.
Magic did come back for the 1992 NBA All-Star game and 1992 Olympic Dream Team. And this story has had a positive ending, as Magic has brought more attention to the disease and has helped to improve the lives of many who have had to deal with it.
4. Pete Rose banned for life
Pete Rose is the only living player on the ineligible list for baseball's Hall Of Fame.
He is also one of the greatest hitters of all-time, holding the record for most career hits.
Rose's nickname was Charlie Hustle because he played the game harder than just about any other player. That was his reputation. He was baseball's cover boy for years because of what he meant to the game.
Rose was a manager for the Cincinnati Reds when he was found to have made his bets. Though he argues he never bet against his team, he now finally admits to the bets.
This has been such a hard story for so many sports fans because Pete, the player, meant so much to them.
What's rare about this story, and similar to Magic and others in this Top 5, is that Rose was the only one caught doing this. No other players have been involved with betting on the sport since him.
Before Pete, there was the Black Sox scandal 70+ years prior, but no other gambling scandals have really occurred with major star athletes since. (Paul Hornung did gamble when he played, but admitted it and ceased doing it-Pete didn't admit to it for a long time).
3. Tiger Woods' sex scandal
Tiger Woods was caught having sex on the side with close to a dozen girls while married with young children to raise.
Starting late in 2009 with a car accident/rift with his wife over the Thanksgiving holiday, and lasting all of 2010 and into parts of 2011, controversy swirled over one of the richest celebrities in the world.
This one was a shocker because Tiger was not only considered the greatest golfer at the time, but many sports pundits considered him the greatest athlete of his generation. He had a string of years ranked number one in golf, and breaking Jack Nicklaus' career record for Major titles seemed inevitable.
Tiger lost his wife in a divorce, custody of his kids, and dozens of sponsorships. He also lost his golf game, which has only now come anywhere close to returning to its previous heights.
Tiger was the butt of jokes around the world because most of the girls were floozies. He risked everything for quick sexual encounters…and lost almost all of it.
Give him credit as he admitted to his mistakes, and he has since tried hard to make amends to his family, fans, and to himself. His game has recovered some a few years later, but, he continues to go winless in majors.
The stories of Woods' sexual exploits still remain salacious and fodder for pop culture junkies.
Only two stories are left, and you can probably guess which two they are.
Which one will be #1? Continue reading to find out.
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SO I found my flahsdrive! turns out I left it at work... so Christmas morning after going to say Hi to my grandmother (who can't join us today because she's not able to climb in and out of cars any more) and dropping off a DVD so that she would have something to watch and won't be all unhappy, then rushing off to church to see that some of the kids that I sued to babysit are now looknig older than me... then I rushed in to nuiversity to take the mp3s that I sorted through the other day home to amke an MP3 CD for LAra who just got an MP3/CD system for her car for Christmas.
So I figured, while I am probably the only person on campus, besides some rather disgruntled-looking security guards I might as well take a minute to say MERRY CHRISTMAS to all you people out there!
so MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas!
SO I found my flahsdrive! turns out I left it at work... so Christmas morning after going to say Hi to my grandmother (who can't join us today because she's not able to climb in and out of cars any more) and dropping off a DVD so that she would have something to watch and won't be all unhappy, then rushing off to church to see that some of the kids that I sued to babysit are now looknig older than me... then I rushed in to nuiversity to take the mp3s that I sorted through the other day home to amke an MP3 CD for LAra who just got an MP3/CD system for her car for Christmas.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Carols and I wish I was still a narcoleptic
So on Saturday night I ended up taking some fudge across to Chief Goth's house and playing guitar hero again. Lara was there as well as Laurin-of-the-spastic-colon who once AGAIN invited herself along. She has to leave early at least, to collect her friend Keegan, who she swears is actually female, but judging by the fact that a)we've only ever known male Keegans and b)she only got home at about 3am we're all pretty sure that there's something she's not telling us. In a rare moment of shared bitchiness, Lara and I waved goodbye while screaming out a fantastic rendition of "I kissed a girl" which, while not particularly melodious, was very well received - at least by our audience of Chief Goth and the next door neighbours.
We also watched some of a weird horror movie which was hysterical (to me), weird (to Chief Goth) and terrifying (to La). It was very weird trying to watch a movie with so many different reactions, and so we decided to skip Buzz and go straight to guitar hero. I was a lot more relaxed and managed to kick some serious butt, beating Cameron again as well as his friend Sean. I felt quite bad because apparently Cam was quite upset when he got home, but he liked the fudge and I promised to make him a batch so I hope that makes him feel better.
Other than that I worked yesterday morning, but was more just sitting around like a zombie, and at least it was quiet and there wasn't much to do. We're in the middle of a serious heatwave at the moment though and our air conditioning is broken so I ended up going to nearby restaurant and begging a bucket of ice from them, which Josh and I finished off in less than an hour.
Last night was the big carol service at church. I rebelled a bit in my own way - for once I arrived on time, I usually go late to skip the singing which annoys me, but considering it was a carol service unless I 'got the time wrong' and missed it I wasn't given much of a choice, but I wore a skull-and-crossbones necklace and some rather hectic makeup and didn't talk to anyone. As someone once said, I have no problem with God, I just have issues with the fan club.
The service was actually pretty cool. I usually hate carols, a result of being forced to play/sing them every year since I was about 6, but I think I might be moving past that now and I had fun singing them and listening to the choir battling through some rather tricky stuff. It was also nice to watch all the people around me and see how they reacted to various bits of music or changes in accompaniment. Adding in the fact that I am now FINISHED Christmas shopping, I feel like the spirit of Christmas is moving in now that I don't have much to complain about. All I have to do now is help clean the house in preparation for relatives, put up Christmas decorations and wrap presents. In no particular order.
So after all that I went home, made dinner for my family (they're all very involved at church and wouldn't be getting home for a while) and collapsed on my bed. And didn't sleep. Yes, that's right. I've gone full circle from narcolepsy (which, despite all the shortcomings left me refreshed and alert most of the time) straight to insomnia. I finally got to sleep about about 5am and only managed to wake up at 10am. So now I'm thinking seriously about taking a nap over my keyboard until my meeting in about 10 minutes.
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
So I blinked and...
It's less than a week before Christmas! When on earth did that happen? As always, I had a bunch of goals for before Christmas, which are going to become 'before New Years' which will quickly descend into new years resolutions...
In the spirit of recovering from fieldwork, narcolepsy, diving and life in general, December has vanished into a haze of memories, mostly involving a few special friends and inane games (except for guitar hero, which I still love, but don't rock at nearly as much, but which will never be inane in my book).
So anyway last week I got to go for a real University Lunch, which basically involved going for lunch and then going back to university in time to pack up for the evening. It was fun and I do hope we'll be doing it again soon! I have seen what used to be a special friendship fall into dust (not including me this time, but I am saddened and definitely affected by it). Went Christmas shopping with friends, which was a lot more fun than shopping on my own, but took several hours longer. On the plus side, besides having Luke there to giggle at the random men stripping/walking around in girls' tanktops, kids with mullets... it also meant that we got to have a coffee break in the middle! Usually on my own I shop frantically, then go home and collapse. The injection of caffeine into the middle of the expedition made it infinitely more bearable.
The much anticipated 'Goth Clubbing Night' fell away when chief Goth broke her leg. It was sad and I hope she feels better soon as we played guitar hero last night and she was looking sore and unhappy and generally miserable about life. In true goth fashion, she could have gone clubbing anyway, as she doesn't dance, and her awesomely-cool leg brace thingie means that she has an excuse to wear a scary high shoe on the other foot so that she doen't hurt herself hobbling around, but I'm tired and I can't stay out late and to tell the truth, I'd prefer a nice evening with her and a couple of other friends arbing around (and playing guitar hero).
Guitar hero for the second time was a bit disappointing. I wasn't the incredible player anymore. I still beat everyone, but it was expected this time and not nearly so cool. I also felt that I wasn't playing very well, but I've also reached the point where playing anything (other than Raining Blood which is MY song) at the easy level is boring, so now I play on medium which I don't do nearly as well but at least I don't feel bored and cranky.
I got a really awesome Christmas bonus from the vet this morning! It was very unexpected and totally awesome and will go straight into my camera fund (I am upgrading to an SLR early next year and I'm so ecited I could explode!) and I managed to avoid any guilt becasue I had made them fudge as well as bought stickers for the vets' kids. Hannah Montana all the way!
That's all for me at the moment, must go off and get ready for another fantastic evening of guitar hero!
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Once again... why do I do this to myself?
So on Thursday night I headed off to movies with Luke, Duncan, Dave and Athena. Bearing in mind that this is the first movie I've been to since Batman (I fell asleep in the car-chase scene - maybe narcolepsy was beginning a long time before I noticed it?) I was pretty excited, but ended up screeching into the centre exhausted having rushed home, rushed off to collect Elvis, rushed to return diving gear and then rushed to go and meet Luke to grab dinner before the movie. In my defence I managed to only be about 45 minutes alter than I'd planned and I managed to sneak food into the movie-house so all was not lost (so for all guys out there, THAT is why we have bags. That and the fact that we feel an instinctive need to be prepared enough to survive on a desert island should it ever happen. More about this later).
We saw Madagascar 2 and I laughed the whole way through, but not enough to draw too many strange looks. Moderation and so on you know? When I got home at around 11pm or so I found myself nearly having a fainting fit in my bedroom. I sat down and had some water (it couldn't have been blood sugar as I'd had a massive blue slushie in the movie house) and decided that I had to take it easy for the next few days. All those good intentions...
To avoid being sucked into long long conversations with the other student in my lab, when I eventually dragged myself out of bed, dropped off Christmas presents and then stumbled into university I hid out in Luke's lab for the afternoon, and managed to get a lot of work done in not much time as well as helping him to write his first macro in visual basic. From there I went home and watched an episode of the x-files before heading off to my ex-work for the Christmas party. No, I wasn't going to egg them or anything, I just resigned over a year ago but still work there so I was invited to the party, and as they have a secret Santa I was kind of obliged to at least make an appearance.
I didn't anticipate staggering home well after midnight having laughed so hard I'm sure I tore a few stomach muscles. Lara was there and as usual the two of us went off on our own wavelength and ended up ripping everyone around us to shreds without them even noticing. The 'in my pants' game also made a glorious comeback, which was hilarious particularly (at the time) because we ended up running (literally) into a random restaurant at 11pm and settled down at a table next to a couple who were very obviously on their first date. It was fun to be completely immature for an evening!
The next morning I was totally exhausted and sat semi-comatose at the vet. Fortunately it seemed pretty quiet and I was able to help the few people who came in without needing to wake up too much. Then at about 10:30 6 separate clients walked in at exactly the same time. so I had to wake up to handle the chaos of dogs chasing cats, puppies escaping, crying people, people yelling and the phone ringing incessantly.
We only closed about an hour after closing time as people kept arriving and I haven't got the heart to turn away people who need dogfood or medication for their pets. Finally I managed to grab the phone between calls and switch it to answering machine mode and then cash up (for the third time) and sprint out the door with only an hour to spare before I had to meet Lara to go to her friend Storm's house. Storm is a huge One Republic and Maroon 5 fan, and as they were having a concert that night her friends had bought her a ticket and were surprising her with it that afternoon. Needless to say I arrived an hour and a half late and missed the surprise, as well as running off to the bathroom during dinner to put on makeup as according to Laurin (of the spastic colon) I looked 'totally worn out' (i.e. terrible).
The concert was awesome! I am not a maroon 5 or a one republic fan, but they had two of my favourite bands playing first as well as three little bands doing a battle of the bands type thing. The group that one definitely had the best bad, but their lead singer should be shot. One of the bands that I really wanted to see was really incredible. They aren't as much a band as two guys who DJ while playing about 5 different instruments each at various stages. It was amazing! Admittedly I was the only one in my immediate vicinity who even knew their music (and went ballistic, to many strange looks from the people around me) but by the end of their set everyone was going ballistic. at one point one of the guys was playing a little saxophone riff and we all started singing along, to the point where he was able to stop playing while we sang it back to him, over and over and over. His smile just got bigger and bigger and we got louder and louder. It must be amazing to have a huge arena with a good 20 thousand people in it singing your music back at you!
Once we got to the main acts I got through mostly on the strength that La and I have been to so many concerts together that we know when the other wants to dance like a moron/sing along/make snide comments or just be left alone to listen (that's usually more me than her). We also totally filled in Timbaland's part in Apologise (Eh! Eh!) which was awesome although we were nearly lynched a few times. Some of my students came to say hi, but I think I scared them a bit... We finished up at around 1am (having been standing/jumping around for a good 7 hours) and I headed over to Lara's house where she made me a huge mug of coffee and we ended up staying late talking crap. Like how that Bear guy said if you want to be rescued on a desert island and you have red lipstick you can write HELP with it. Of course that has its problems as (according to Lara) only sluts wear red lipstick therefore only sluts would be rescued, unless we were to start carrying it around as a precaution in case we were ever to end up stuck on a desert island. And that is how out bags get fuller and fuller!
Eventually she managed to shut me up long enough for her to go off to bed and I passed out in her room for about 5n hours until we got up and had breakfast with her mom. It was really awesome, sitting around eating snack-witches in out pyjamas while her mom recounted every episode she'd ever seen on national geographic (this is a relatively common reflex for most people when they find out that they've just met a zoologist). I felt like I was 15 again and it was awesome!
So after all that I went home and lay down for a nap before I had to get up and get some work done. I woke up about 7 hours later and had to rush off to church before rushing off to the ex-work to protect Lara from Laurin and get a movie. And then I settled in bed with my laptop (around 11ish) when Duncan decided that he's had enough to drink and that it would be a good time to call me. It was very entertaining but after about 40 minutes my mother started screaming at the computer so I had to help her. Turns out she was trying to talk to my aunt in the UK over Skype, but my aunt couldn't hear her. After I plugged the microphone in it was all fine though and I went off to bed.
So, to the title of this post, once again ti is morning, I am at university and I'm exhausted. Why do I keep doing this to myself? And why do my friends have to be so much fun that I can never go for 'an hour or so' as I promise myself every time so that I can go home and sleep? I am a lucky lucky person! Darn it.
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
The crappiest miracle ever: a guest post
So the other day Luke and I were discussing random stuff, as we do, and somehow ended up talking about childbirth. So I begged and whined until he agreed to write a guest post on childbirth: the male perspective. While I am female, and should probably have very different perspectives, I must admit to agreeing to a lot of his points.
Anyway here it is:
The Crappiest Miracle Ever
I am forever grateful for the fact that I have testes. Apart from the obvious bonuses of being able to stand and pee, and never having to consider the pluses of buying sanitary pads with or without wings, there is the glaringly obvious forte of never having to give birth to a child.
I have given the idea a great deal of thought over the years and have come to the conclusion that I doubt that I will ever have children of my own. I love kids, they're great! However, I can't get over that little voice of social conscience in my head that reminds me just how many children there are in this world already and how many, particularly in South Africa given our current AIDS pandemic and the related orphan crisis, desperately need homes and families. So, in light of my internal Jiminy Cricket, I think it is safe to say that, should I someday decide to have kids, I will adopt.
But adoption is not the point of this post. This post is about carrying a baby for 9 months. It's the male's perspective on how grateful we are that we won't ever have to do it. It's about how much I admire women for baring the brunt of the continuation of our species.
While I am most definitely not against the procedures leading up to pregnancy, I'd be lying if I didn't admit that the whole idea scares me! The thought of having a small creature growing inside of you is a little too close to something out of 'Alien'. Interestingly enough, the developing embryo does behave like a parasite in many ways; sapping the mothers bodily resources for example. So while the 'little miracle' drains the mother's life blood (almost literally…) she has the joy of lower back pain, a bladder that functionally mirrors that of a small rodent and the hormonal imbalances and associated mood swings of a psychotic.
Naturally, never having experienced this all, I'm giving a very one-sided view. But, on the plus side, women's boobs get huge, which, I think we can all agree, is appreciated by all parties…
Then comes the exciting and delightful right of passage: the birth itself.
I never cease to be perplexed by the range of types of birth that one can select from. I remember seeing a documentary about several births that occurred simultaneously in several countries around the world. It was fascinating to watch but, aside from the stark social contrasts between the individuals shown in the different countries the range of ways it could be pulled off was fascinating! From the classic scenario of the gynaecologist taking a look and shrieking something like, 'Oh sh*t! We're gonna need help…like, NOW!' to the water birth, the possibilities seem endless. The latter is a great cause for concern in my mind. The idea of spending a few hours in a large vat of warmed water, swirling with your own blood and faeces, doesn't exactly leave me feeling like I need to bring a life into this world…
There are several aspects to the birthing process which I cannot fathom. Firstly, the need to dilate a hole, normally the size of a golf-ball to approximate a watermelon. That in itself must be agony, but, as if God hadn't put females through enough, this often doesn't happen and there are one of two possibilities; tearing of the tissues to make the hole big enough (voluntarily or otherwise) or a caesarean section.
You are not likely to find many individuals as squeamish as myself, and so naturally, the idea of tearing tissues freaks me out completely! Not only that but tearing tissues in your nether regions of all places! I take my hat off to any mother who has endured a natural birth!
I have heard from many people that the C-section is by far the best and easiest means of extracting the child from your innards. I was recently told by a friend that the stress of the birth process, an aspect that is lacking from the procedure of the C-section, is vital for the normal psychological development of the child as it grows later in life. This aside, I've always wondered about how good it is for a child to spend the first moments in it's new world with all manner of pain medication coursing through the veins that it shares with it's mother.
Bearing all this in mind, there are still people on this planet. That means that either we are so genetically hard-wired to procreate that we cannot stop ourselves, or that perhaps there is something to the bond formed between mother and child in jointly enduring the horrors of birth. I know, from discussions with my own family, that apparently, once you see your child, belting forth and covered in afterbirth, you cannot help but instantly fall in love with it. I'd also be lying if I didn't admit that there is always a part of me that goes all 'Awww…' whenever I see a baby too so I can't point any fingers.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
I don't feel like writing anything profound
So I figured I'd try out the video posting thing. Here is a segment form one of my favourite video-clips. It's from the desert mole-rat expedition 2 years ago (two years already?) and it features Luke and the German who took us to help her on fieldwork. Luke has an annoying and uncanny ability to sense when he's being filmed, but in this case the german had no idea... unfortunately she caught on pretty quickly and so a lot of the other clips came out slightly staged-ish.
This is real, unedited fieldwork in all its glory! I had to cut the beginning because it was too big, so excuse the random start. And my inane questions were usually to try and promote some kind of conversation (it's amazing, you have the weirdest, most random conversations about everything, but the minute a camera comes out - even if people have no idea that they're being filmed, it all stops...).
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Monday, December 08, 2008
I'm going to be a cheesy blogger
I'm going to be a cheesy blogger and write about my weekend. After all the misery of being 'unfriended' on Friday, I was fortunate to have an awesome weekend with some very special friends and it made me feel 10000000% better!
So on Friday after Luke was really nice to me and gave me advice, helped me to reply to the friend who was being so immature and accompanied me on several admin trips - the last of which we did barefoot! It was raining and we were both in slip-slops which are really dangerous to walk in when they are wet... I ended up finishing my day by helping my supervisor catch a likkewaan (monitor lizard) and then going to gym.
I'm really enjoying gym at the moment and not ending up in excruciating pain like last time I started exercising regularly. It's really nice and something about running 3km before I go home every day (I know, I know, but it's been a while!) that makes me super-energetic and happy with life. Gotta love those endorphins! From there I headed home, took a nap (still battling the narcolepsy a little bit) and headed off to Nicola's house for a games evening of buzz and monopoly.
I got there to find that there was no power, but it came back on after a little bit (to great cheers from the Cantina Tequila across the road) and that Nicola had forgotten monopoly and that the buzz kit had disappeared into the black hole of scariness known as her brother's room. so we played Guitar Hero instead.
I had never played it before and I was quite nervous. Lara and Nicola played first so I was terribly intimidated by Nicola's performance and then terrified by the fact that Lara's turn only lasted about a minute because she's so bad that it cut her off after not very much... So I took my turn. And I was awesome! It turns out that it's really not very different to reading music and considering that I could read music before I could read words, I think all those years of music lessons (from before I started school until a year or so after I started university) paid off. Nicola wouldn't believe I'd never played before and I beat her and her brother's high scores on the hardest song! I felt quite sorry for Lara but she was really nice about the fact that we were having an awesome time and she failed on 'Slow Rider' about a million times (it was stuck in my head for days) and I left there really really late still laughing from the fun of spending time with special friends and not doing anything too special but just enjoying their company.
Saturday morning was really difficult. Besides the fact that I had to work at the vet and I was exhausted, the vet had been up later than me the night before, and by some awful coincidence (kind of like when everyone brings puppies on the same day) we had a whole bunch of dogs who were put to sleep, one after the other. So in the waiting room I had crying owners, crying other owners who saw the situation and joined in, I was battling the tears, the vet was battling the tears... It was the hardest shift I've ever had to work. So I went to see Lara right after and she made me feel better and I went home and narcolepsed on the nearest flat surface (in this case, very fortunately, it was my bed, but I wound up sleeping upside down with my feet on the pillows and my head hanging off the side) until Luke called to find out about our plans for the evening.
We ended up at a pizza place near the zoo with about 10 zoo-keepers who kept us entertained with a whole bunch of funny zoo stories. By now I've heard most of them before, but I love them anyway.
After all that I got home and in bed by around midnight and had to be up super-early to get to one of the zoo vet's homes by 6:45 am to go diving for the day. I just made it in time but Elaine and Caleb who were also diving, were late so it was ok. My sinuses are still bothering me and I was exhausted and not very enthusiastic, but Caleb got me coffee on the way which probably saved my life!
It was hard diving with other people. For one thing, everyone in the group I was with had been trained by the same people so they had quite an in-depth bunch of procedures and hand signals that I just didn't understand. I'm also still battling a bit with my buoyancy and weighting just because I haven't dived much over the last few years and that can only come right by practise. the other thing was that I'm a little bit afraid of the two instructors (I love them both to bits, but they scare me!) and if you're nervous you tend to hold more air in your lungs than you realise and that makes you float...). But ti was fun and once I got used to it I think I did ok. I got to see three friends of mine qualify which was really special and I managed to get 2 dives on a single 10 litre tank (everyone else was diving with at least 12 litres) which means that my breathing is starting to get under control a little bit.
By the end though my tank was so light that I ended up spending my safety stop (3metres underwater) holding on to a piece of rubble and trying to think calm thoughts so I wouldn't shoot to the surface. I'm glad I went though it was a lot of fun, I only passed out once (on a boardwalk in the sun, so my nose is a lovely shade of beetroot now), I ate between dives, which was totally bizarre for me as I'm normally too seasick to eat or drink anything. I found blue food and had a bright blue mouth for the last dive which caused much hilarity!
After all that we headed home, I picked up my car and then went to Nicola's house to drop off money for tickets for New Year's (we're going to a rock circus this year) and then went and had coffee with Lara and Laurin which was awesome because I haven't had any decent girly conversation in a while and they didn't disappoint!
So now I'm sitting in my lab, trying desperately to stay awake but pretty happy with life in general! So all in all, it was a good weekend, even though I think I'm going to revert to full-time narcolepsy to recover from it!
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Friday, December 05, 2008
Go back to high school
SO, once again I have promised to write about something and I'm not going to. Yet. I will have to make a list and work through it all one day. I DO want to write about diving, I DO want to write about visiting the zoo yesterday and seeing the monkeys again and playing with a lemur. And back in time I still need to write about the desert trip and the bush pig bathtub guy and the farmers wife with her leaf blower.
But for now, something is bothering me.
I have a friend from high school. Most of the people I spent time with back then I have lost touch with and, thanks to Facebook I chat to one or two of them from time to time, but that's about it. Partly because high school was not a happy time in my life by any definition of the term, and partly because I find that if I do see them we have nothing to talk about. I'm away a lot and so when I'm around I really try to make an effort to be a good friend, but that means (as nasty as it sounds) prioritising people. I can't get my work done and still see all the people I care about. I can barely cope with getting my work done and seeing the friends I would classify as 'close' plus the people I am in the "getting to know" phase with who I really do want to get to know better.
I used to be a good friend, I never forgot birthdays, I kept up to date with how everyone was, I drank so much coffee with various people that my mild liking for coffee developed into a full-blown addiction. But not anymore.
So back to the point. This girl is... difficult. We were friends through school because we did a lot of extracurriculars together. We were at a fancy private school where I didn't fit into the traditional mould of "long blonde hair and eight layers of makeup" and neither did she. She went off on a weird pagan phase and I was into punk rock and metal and would have dyed my hair blue if a)my parents and b) school regulations would allow it. We were both from normal families which had morals and values rather than piles and piles of money and as such we found that we could relate to each other.
But after school things changed. I went to university and on my first day, in my first lecture I found an empty seat and shyly asked if I could sit there, and the girl who moved her bag out of the way became one of my closest friends. And so it continued. I'm not saying that university was a social cakewalk... but I was never alone or unhappy and I have been blessed with some of the most incredible people who I can call my friends.
This girl (who I will call Susie for anonymity and because I can't think of a better name) had a similar atmosphere. I know some people from her classes and I like them all. They're all lovely, sweet, friendly people. And yet by the end of a four-year degree, she had no friends in the world except for me and her next-door neighbour. We went of field trips for our studies, I went to a lot more than she did, and I survived everything from sharing a 1-person hut with 6 other people to showering in shoes because of a spider invasion, to sharing 2 showers with 60 other people and getting up to shower at 3am to avoid the queue, only to find a queue because everyone else had had the same thoughts. And those trips are among the happiest memories I have. You learn to appreciate the awfulness of a situation for it's humour and for the weirdness of choosing a career where getting into the shower to open the door to get out of the bathroom while trying to keep your socks dry in subzero temperatures can be considered normal. And through it all you bond as a group in a way that I've never known in any other situation.
She went on her first trip and phoned me every day to complain because the bath was dirty (first rule of fieldtrips: DO NOT use the bath! Shower if you can, otherwise find some extra-strength disinfectant first!). She made no friends on that trip. One of my brother's closest friends and a girlfriend who went to the same place, and she told me that she'd never had more fun...
I tried to prompt her into a more positive outlook. I like to whine myself, but usually purely for the drama of it, but I tried to explain that she would have more fun if she tried just a little bit... But it didn't work. As the years passed it got harder and harder for me to spend time with her. We really have nothing to talk about. I got tired of the phone calls which, as if scripted always go as follows:
me: "Hello?"
Susie: "Hi, is that Helen?"
me: "yes."
Susie:" It's Susie, how are you?"
me: "I've got a leg in traction and I haven't slept for 3 days, but otherwise everything's awesome! how are you?" (obviously the injuries change between calls)
Susie: "*sigh*" and then a half-hour rant about how awful her life is and how cute her dog is and how he sat when she told him to, but the he wanted his rawhide bone. Not the rawhide bone that you get from the petshop down the road from her, he only likes the rawhide bones from the market... and so on.
I know that her life is, to all extents and purposes, pretty empty, but at the same time every call got a little bit more draining until I just couldn't. So sometimes when she called I wouldn't answer and I would wait until I had a bit cup of coffee and I would listen to her voicemail. And then I would call back, or send a message or something and we'd invariably end up having coffee or something where I'd end up having to hear all about her dog again.
The kicker for me was when she got her name changed (officially) because she didn't like correcting people's pronunciation. It was the equivalent of doing all the paperwork to change her name from "Susan" to "Susie." She's adopted, and her parents waited for over 2 years to get her, and they picked out her name really carefully and they love her to bits. I I felt like she was kicking them in the face for it.
And so, over the past 6 years our friendship has kind of deteriorated and I feel guilty, but I'm just not around enough to spend lots of time with her, and I know that every time she calls and I'm out of town she feels like I'm avoiding her, but there's nothing I can do!
So anyway. She called about a week ago while I was having a narcoleptic episode and didn't leave a message. I would have answered it too, but - as anyone who knows me during nap time will tell you, it would take a small earthquake to wake me and my ring tone isn't that loud. I didn't call back because I figured if she hadn't left a message it was because she would call back. Then the conference and diving happened and I hadn't had time to sit still since then when I woke to this message this morning:
I just want to say that I won't bother u with phone calls or smses anymore since u never answer them. Good luck with everything. Our friendship was great while it lasted. Susie"
And now I don't know what to do. I know she's lonely, but I don't know if I should respond, or leave her to her sulking. And if I respond what do I say? I feel like I'm 15 all over again!
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Don't kick the narcoleptic!
So the conference was actually quite interesting, and I found myself enjoying it far more than I wanted to admit! I met some nice people (of course I ended up sitting with a bunch of zoo-keepers, I seem to attract them!) and heard some interesting talks. It was at a dam that was more like a small ocean, it had waves and everything!
My talk was ok, I think. There were a lot of questions and I had fun as always (I love the question session in a masochistic kind of way, it's when you figure out if you REALLY know your stuff or not!) and I was asked a question about my lizards by the guy the lizard was actually named after! HOW cool is that? Yes. I'm a nerd.
So After about 24 hours of being there I got my uber-cool conference bag (it has a tomato frog on it) and drove the four hours home in some pretty intense rain. The traffic was appallin once I was nearly home, so I detoured to visit Lara for an hour or so to wait it out, and ended up staying for nearly 3 hours. She passed all her exams really well and now has a second degree! We also fell about giggling to a bunch of random songs that I had on my Ipod. I hadn't seen Lara for pretty much 4 or 5 months, except the occasional really quick hello, so it was really amazing to spend some time with her and remmeber how much her friendship means to me.
Soppiness over, I finally got home at about 10pm and had to pack for our departure at 6 the next morning. I managed relatively quickly and then couldn't sleep because I was so excited.
So basically, I elft home at about 6:30am on about 10 hours sleep total for the previous week, and very little sleep in total since about August. That kind of exhaustion is weird, because instead of the classic yawning and stuff, you get toally wired and bouncy and then occasionally your body decided that it's had enough now and you must sleep. So the first horizontal surface encountered becomes a temporary bed.
So halfway tot he beach I fell asleep in the car. It's really not that unusual to sleep in the car, but my friends seemed to find it amusing. It was only a short nap, and ended when I had a dream that we were driving up to a traffic circle and turning right, but I could feel (in reality) the car turning left so I woke up and said "We should turn right at the traffic circle!" Turns out we were at a stop-street, but we came across a bunch of traffic circles right after that which was quite creepy!
Over the weekend I gave several repeat performances. It didn't surprise me, I usually sleep a lot between dives, and on this trip there wasn't much organisation so the dives started being quite close together and I ended up not having my usual collapse-on-the-beach time so I slept whenever else I could.
What I don't understand is how people found it so incredibly funny that I kept falling asleep. For crying out loud I hadn't slept properly in about four months, it wasn't an amusing quirk, it was a necessity for survival!
I will write more about the trip at some stage, I'm just trying to get my thoughts about it all sorted out in my head. I also think I should catch up on some sleep, I'm still waking up at 6am automatically...
But I just want to say: if you have a friend who believes in power-naps, don't kick the narcoleptic!
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Wayne E. Greathouse, Sr., age 56 of Palmyra Township, passed away Saturday, January 19, 2013, with his family by his side.
He was born September 16, 1956, in Ravenna, Ohio, a son of Stanley L. and Emma B. (Antoniotti) Greathouse, Sr. Wayne was a lifelong resident of Palmyra and worked as an independent construction contractor. He loved being outside and taking care of his many pets. Wayne was a proud grandfather who was devoted to his family.
He is survived by his wife Fay Greathouse; children: Cattina Greathouse, Stacey Greathouse, Wayne (Becky) Greathouse Jr., Amber (Robert) Bittner; step-children: Alicia Crew, Cortney Crew, Carl R. Crew II "Ricky"; mother: Emma B. Greathouse; sisters: Sharon L. Ulrich and Terri D. Greathouse; and brother Stanley Greathouse Jr. Wayne also leaves behind his loving grandchildren: Austin, Madison, Gavin, Cameron, Tokken, Mary, Sophia, and Liam, as well as his nieces, nephews, great-nieces, and great-nephews. He was preceded in death by his father Stanley L. Greathouse, Sr.
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The Bash opened with a video package that focused on the main events, but mostly the "Three Stages Of Hell" storyline from this past Monday.
ECW Champion Tommy Dreamer vs. Christian vs. Fit Finlay vs. Jack Swagger vs. Mark Henry in a Championship Scramble match.
The time between entrants for the Scramble has been changed from five minutes to three, so it will be a 12-minute match. Christian and Jack Swagger are the first two participants. They locked up at the bell, with Swagger hitting a knee to the gut and working over Christian in a corner. Swagger lifted Christian for a backdrop and Christian tried to go into a sunset flip, but Swagger yanked Christian off the mat. Christian hit some right hands, but Swagger lifted Christian into a powerslam for a two count. Swagger applied an abdominal stretch, then hit a gutbuster. Swagger put Christian on the top turnbuckle, but Christian kicked him and went for a tornado DDT. Swagger blocked it, and Christian applied a sleeper, but Swagger spun Christian off and applied a front facelock. Swagger hit some punches, then put Christian on the top rope again. Christian kicked Swagger away, then hit a top rope dropkick for a two count. Christian hit Swagger with a pendulum kick.
Finlay was the next entrant.
Finlay hit Christian and Swagger with clotheslines, then threw Christian on top of Swagger. Finlay hit a rolling Samoan Drop on Swagger and kicked him tot he floor. Christian grabbed Finlay with a small package, but Finlay kicked out, hit a forearm and a sitdown splash for a two count. Finlay hit a clothesline, but Christian kicked him and delivered a second rope back elbow for a two count. Swagger pulled Christian from the ring and threw him into the security wall. Finlay kicked Swagger between the ropes. They got back in the ring, and Swagger poked Finlay in the eye. Swagger then rolled up Finlay for a pin.
Swagger has the advantage.
Christian shoulderblocked Swagger from the apron and hit a slingshot sunset flip for a two count. A doctor was checking Finlay's eye at ringside. Christian and Swagger traded counters on their finishers, then Christian gave Swagger a reverse DDT for a two count. Swagger came back with a uranage on Christian.
Tommy Dreamer was the next entrant.
Dreamer clotheslined Swagger and hit Christian as he came off the top rope. Dreamer bulldogged Swagger, then gave Christian a spinebuster for a two count. Dreamer gave Swagger a neckbreaker, then put Christian in a Tree Of Woe. Dreamer dropkicked Christian in the Tree. Swagger threw Dreamer into Christian, but Christian was falling out of the Tree, and the crowd groaned. Swagger threw Dreamer to the floor and tossed him into the announce table. Finlay threw Swagger into the ringpost, then the ring. Swagger charged Finlay, who side stepped it and Swagger went into the ringpost. Finlay gave Swagger the Celtic Cross for the pin.
Finlay has the advantage.
Christian kicked Finlay for a cover, but he kicked out. Dreamer gave Finlay a back elbow. Christian tripped Dreamer to the mat. Christian went to the top rope, but Dreamer met him there and went for a superplex. Christian blocked it, and Swagger decked Dreamer, then went to the top and tried to superplex Christian. Christian blocked it as well.
Mark Henry was the final entrant. The final period is five minutes long.
Henry clotheslined Dreamer, then powerbombed Swagger, who was superplexing Christian, and they crashed into Dreamer. Henry knocked Swagger out of the ring and press slammed Christian to the floor. Henry hit Finlay, then caught Dreamer off the ropes and powerslammed him for the win.
Henry has the advantage.
Everyone started ganging up on Henry, except Dreamer, who was down. Henry got knocked out of the ring, then Christian knocked Swagger out and rolled up Finlay for a two count. Finlay threw Christian out of the ring, then dove onto Swagger with a tope. Dreamer jumped off the ring apron with a senton into Swagger. Christian hit a springboard from inside the ring out, hitting Dreamer. Mark Henry teased climbing the ropes. Swagger got in the ring behind Henry and clipped his knee. Swagger gave Henry a reverse splash off the middle rope for a three count.
Swagger has the advantage.
Swagger tried to keep Dreamer, Finlay and Christian from getting in the ring. Henry hit Swagger form behind and gave him a guillotine slide on the ropes. Dreamer and Finlay knocked down Henry. Christian gave Swagger a Killswitch, but Dreamer broke it up and DDT'd Christian for a pin.
Dreamer has the advantage.
Finlay, Swagger, and Christian all attempted quick covers, with Dreamer breaking them up (or kicking out). Finlay DDT'd Swagger, but Henry broke it up and covered, but Dreamer pulled him off. Dreamer DDT'd Henry, then Christian dropkicked Dreamer. Christian went for a second rope sunset flip on Dreamer, who kicked out. There was a mad rush for one more cover by everyone, but no one got it as the clock ran out.
Winner: Tommy Dreamer.
They aired the Gillette Fusion commercial with John Cena and Vince McMahon. I guess that makes up for not seeing it on Raw last week.
Backstage, Edge approached Theodore R. Long, saying that since Vince McMahon put him on "probation", Long should think "outside the box" and make the Punk vs. Hardy match a Triple Threat match with him added. Edge said it was a "crime" he wasn't on the PPV. Long refused, and Edge said he should reconsider, or Long would end up like Vickie Guerrero (out of a job).
Title vs. Mask: Intercontinental Champion Chris Jericho vs. Rey Mysterio.
They reviewed the history between Jericho and Mysterio as Rey made his entrance. They noted in the introductions that if Rey lost, he would have to unmask "forever."
Jericho tried to grab the mask at the bell, but Mysterio hit some punches. Jericho applied a headlock and trash talked, but Rey broke out of it, only to be shoulderblocked down. Rey leapfrogged a charging Jericho, then hit a boot in a corner, and a rana that sent Jericho to the floor. Mysterio went for a baseball slide, but Jericho caught it and swung Rey into the security wall. Jericho rammed Rey into the ring apron. Mysterio crawled back into the ring and Jericho catapulted him into the bottom rope. Jericho stomped Rey, then delivered a vertical suplex for a two count. Jericho applied a crossface chickenwing, but Rey elbowed out of it. Jericho put Rey on the top rope for a back superplex, but then went for the mask instead. Rey elbowed Jericho to the mat, then hit a top rope senton. Rey ran the ropes, but Jericho grabbed him in a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker.
Jericho kicked Rey in the head, then put him in the corner and choked him with his boot. Jericho rammed Rey face first into a turnbuckle, then dropkicked him to the floor. Rey got on the apron and Jericho went to suplex him back in, but Rey floated over and hit some punches. He went for a backdrop and Jericho drove a knee into his head, then dropkicked him on the mat. Jericho applied a double chickenwing, but Rey kicked out of it, then dropkicked the knee of a charging Jericho, sending him through the ropes and to the floor. Mysterio dove off the top rope and hit Jericho with a senton on the floor.
Mysterio rolled Jericho back in the ring and hit a springboard bodypress for a two count. Mysterio leapfrogged Jericho, then used a headscissors to send him into a turnbuckle. Rey then springboarded off one rope, dropping into an Arabian Press off another, for a two count. Rey went for a Quebrada moonsault, but Jericho caught it and powerslammed Mysterio for a two count. Jericho missed a charge in the corner, and Rey hit a top rope moonsault on a standing Jericho for a two count. Rey went for a rana, but Jericho dropped him to the mat and hooked his legs, applying the Walls Of Jericho in the center of the ring. Mysterio struggled and made the ropes for a break.
Jericho charged Rey, who sidestepped him and sent him over the top rope. Jericho landed on the apron, and Rey kicked him so he would fall over the middle rope. Rey went for a 619, but Jericho dropped to the floor to dodge it, then clotheslined Rey from the apron. Jericho went to the top rope, but Rey crotched him. Rey went for a top rope rana, but Jericho blocked it and superbombed him to the mat, then put his feet on the ropes, but only got a two count. Jericho went for a Lionsault, but Mysterio moved out of the way. Rey hit a rana for a two count. Rey dropkicked Jericho into 619 position. Jericho blocked the move and went for the Torture Rack, but Rey spun out of it and hit a tornado DDT for a two count.
Rey began kicking Jericho's legs. Rey went for a springboard, but Jericho caught him with a Codebreaker as he came off the ropes. Jericho crawled onto Rey, but Mysterio kicked out at two. Jericho argued the count, then kicked Rey in the back. Jericho threw Mysterio in a corner, then put him on the top rope. Jericho headbutted Mysterio twice, then stood on the top rope, but Mysterio pulled away and Jericho fell to the mat. Mysterio dropkicked Jericho into 619 position, and hit the move. Rey then went for a springboard rana, but Jericho caught it and put him in the Walls of Jericho. Mysterio rolled under Jericho, then went up and over him for a sunset flip. They traded reversals on a sunset flip for two counts, and Jericho pulled out of it with Rey's mask in his hands. However, Rey had a second mask on. Rey gave an enzugiri to a stunned Jericho, sending him into the ropes, hit a 619, then dropped a springboard splash on him for the pin at the 16 minute mark.
Winner and new Intercontinental Champion: Rey Mysterio.
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JERUSALEM — Israelis have stopped in their tracks, standing in silence as sirens pierced the air to remember the 6 million Jews who perished in the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. The Jewish state came to a virtual stop as the two-minute siren went off on Monday morning, marking Israel's Holocaust remembrance day — one of the most solemn days on the Israeli calendar.
Buses and cars stopped on roads and highways. Many people stepped out of their vehicles and stood in solemn silence. Pedestrians stopped walking and stood still in contemplation. Melancholic music and interviews with Holocaust survivors are filling the airwaves while TV stations show documentaries about the genocide. Ceremonies are held around the country. Names of those killed are read out at parliament later in the day.
Yom HaShoah / Holocaust Remembrance Day 2014: This picture shows German Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Poland, arrival of Hungarian Jews, Summer 1944. (Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons)


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Kawasaki disease is a rare illness that most commonly affects children ages 0 to 5, but can sometimes affect children up to the age of 13. It is a type of vasculitis. Vasculitis means inflammation of the blood vessels. It can affect the whole body, including the blood vessels of the heart (coronary arteries). The cause of Kawasaki disease is unknown. Without treatment, affected children are at higher risk of developing problems with the coronary arteries. Other areas of the heart may also be affected. With timely treatment, most children recover with no lasting problems.
These are common symptoms of Kawasaki disease:
The symptoms of Kawasaki disease can look like other health conditions. Make sure your child sees his or her healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
Lab tests. Blood and urine samples are taken to check for signs of inflammation. These are also used to help rule out other health problems.
Electrocardiography (ECG or EKG). This test records the electrical activity of the heart through small, sticky patches on the child's chest. The patches are connected to a machine with wires. The machine records the electrical activity. This helps check for problems with heart rhythm and heart structure.
Treatment will depend on your child's symptoms, age, and general health. It will also depend on how severe the condition is. Treatment typically starts as soon as the problem is suspected. Your child may need to stay in the hospital for a few days or longer.
Your child's healthcare provider may prescribe aspirin or intravenous (IV) gamma globulin (IVIG). Corticosteroids and other medicines may also be prescribed if aspirin and IVIG don't work well.
Once your child is home, he or she may need to take low-dose aspirin for 6 to 8 weeks. Do not give your child aspirin without first talking with the child's healthcare provider.
If your child develops heart problems, the provider may send you to a pediatric cardiologist. This is a doctor with special training to treat children's heart problems. Your child may need medicine, procedures, or surgery.
Most children with Kawasaki disease get better within a few weeks. But serious complications may occur. Those involving the heart include:
Kawasaki disease may also affect other body systems. This includes the nervous, immune, digestive, and urinary systems.
If your child has a coronary artery aneurysm, he or she will need echocardiograms, sometimes for several years after the illness. Your child may need more treatment, including blood thinners to prevent clots. It is important to keep follow-up visits with your child's healthcare provider, even if your child is feeling well.
There is a risk for early coronary artery disease after having Kawasaki disease, including early heart attacks. Your child will need to follow a heart-healthy lifestyle for life. This includes eating healthy foods, getting regular exercise, and not smoking. Your child should have regular follow-up with a cardiologist throughout his or her life.
Talk with your child's healthcare provider about what to expect for your child.
Call your child's healthcare provider if your child has the symptoms of Kawasaki disease. If your child is diagnosed with Kawasaki disease, keep all follow-up appointments. Also watch for signs or symptoms of complications, including:
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IN late 2010, a new category of lager started appearing in London. Sandwiched between the Premium Lagers and the Super Strength Lagers, the Very Strong category sought a new sweet spot. At around eight and a half percent alcoholic volume, could you enjoy the potency of a Super with the drinkability of a Premium? Here's what I discovered.
If you like playing along at home, you'll be wondering which products I'm describing. They are:
Kolson Super 8.6% by Royal Unibrew from Poland. I bought this one from a convenience store on Old Street in Shoreditch, east London.
Oranjeboom Imported Strong Beer 8.5% by, Oranjeboom from the Netherlands. I bought this one from a convenience store on Bethnal Green Road, east London.
Good luck finding them. They both disappeared from shop shelves a matter of months after appearing, thus rendering this review useless. Nevertheless, I shall press on by telling you that of the two, Oranjeboom Imported Strong Beer was the best. That's why the rest of this post is about Oranjeboom Imported Strong Beer and not it's slightly stronger and less pleasant rival.
What can I say about the can? Well, it's not as cool as the Kolson Super. The Kolson can is minimalist and elegant. The Oranjeboom effort looks like the designer couldn't stop designing.
On the plus side, everything you need to know about it is right there in front of you. The strength, where it's from and who manufactured it. The Oranjeboom logo is there, featuring an orange tree. Of course. Well it is from the Netherlands. And there's the date that, presumably, the Oranjeboom brewery dates back to. 1671 was a very long time ago, even by continental beer standards.
Incidentally, I spent two minutes researching Oranjeboom Imported Strong Beer, by which I mean I used Google. They do have a UK website at http://oranjeboomlager.co.uk/ which is very interesting. Apart from the lack of explanation for the orange tree logo, and the mention of this particular Strong Beer. It's almost as if they're doing a Carlsberg and are embarrassed by it.
If you're the sort of person who likes to know how their sausages are made, you can discover a few more facts about this beer. They describe it as being an "Original Dutch Recipe" that includes "Pure Natural: Choice Hops, Finest Malts and Grains, Clear Water". Notice the absence of syrup. Carlsberg Special Brew this is not. On one of the sides crammed with multilingual text, there is an official ingredients list. Astoundingly, this is less informative than the list on the front I quoted from.
Let's see if the other side of the can is any less useful.
Nope, just a barcode and another impenetrable block of multilingual text. Nothing to see here. So there we have it. A can covered in text that only conveys the basic details. Now there's no excuse for not pouring it into a glass, and trying to write words to describe it to you. This is why you can now see a photograph of this can, poured into a mismatched pint glass.
Pouring was a doddle. There was very little head, and what little there was, quickly dissipated. Right now, there's a thing, white, patchy layer of foam. The lager colour is gold, and is bubby with carbonation.
What does Oranjeboom Imported Strong Beer smell of? This is easier to describe if you've already smelt the generic malted barley of premium lager and the strong whiff of a super strength. That's because Oranjeboom Imported Strong Beer smells part way between the two. Not as off-putting as the 9% super-strengths, but getting there. Honestly, the smell lets it down. It's too close to super smell for my liking.
What does Oranjeboom Imported Strong Beer taste like? Coming straight from the fridge, the first gulp isn't bad. Much better than the smell would suggest it is. The second gulp confirms it. At fridge cold temperature, Oranjeboom Strong tastes more like a normal, everyday premium lager, and only marginally like a super-strength monster. From the third, pleasantly painless gulp, I can start to make sense of the taste. First, as you'd expect from most lagers, there's no flavour to speak of. Normal lagers give you a mild, bitter aftertaste. Supers give you an overpowering, synthetic aftertaste. Oranjeboom Strong gives you, guess what? Something half-way between the two. What you feel is a moderate bitterness, followed by a moderate wave of strong, thick super-style aftertaste. Not overpowering, mind you. Just a moderate wave of that sensation that, surprisingly, does not linger.
What do I like about Oranjeboom Imported Strong Beer? As you can probably tell, I'm impressed by the combination of strength and drinkability. As long as you don't breath in while sipping or gulping it down, you could convince yourself you're drinking a regular premium lager. The short-lasting aftertaste even gives it a hint of refreshment. At least while cold. Also likeable is that it's not over carbonated, so you don't suddenly start burping. Another big plus is how well it warms up. Even at near room temperature, it is sill drinkable. Other lagers would have given up and become revolting by this point. From the outside, it looks like a normal lager, helping you hide your alcoholism. And, being somewhat hard to find, it earns you one hipster point for drinking it.
What don't I like about Oranjeboom Imported Strong Beer? The smell. It's much too near to the odour of the ghastly super-strength lagers. We all know how smell triggers memory, so as soon as some people smell this, they'll be put right off and not even try it. The aftertaste, until you get used to it, will be too much for some timid drinkers. And to nit-pick, the design of the can lets it down. If you just want a nice tasting beer however, then you can easily find ale much much more delicious than this.
All in all, Oranjeboom Imported Strong Beer is a very easy way to get lamp-shaded quickly. It is barely less drinkable than most premium lagers, yet nearly as strong as the horrifying super strength lagers. If you like lagers, strong beer or Dutch brews, it is worth trying. If you can find it.
In fact, I was so impressed by Oranjeboom Imported Strong Beer, I decided to up the stakes it put it to the biggest test of the year; celebrating the start of 2011 on the Embankment near Big Ben and the London Eye.
The night would involve many hours of standing in a humungous crowd of people, armed only with the food and drink you could carry and limited access to disgusting public porta-loos. New Year in London calls for drink that tastes good and is strong. That second point is very important. First because it's bitterly cold outdoors at night in the middle of winter. Second, because you don't want to lug around heavy bags of drink. And, most importantly, you want to get drunk without constantly needing to use the filthy porta-loos.
How did I and my Oranjeboom Imported Strong Beer fare on the night? Outstandingly well.
To surmise, Oranjeboom Imported Strong Beer is an affordable (if you can find it) lager that hits the right spot between drinkability and strength. Think of it as two ordinary Dutch lagers in one can.
Have you tried Oranjeboom Imported Strong Beer? What did you think? What reputation does it have in the Netherlands? Where is this beer available to buy? Leave your comments, corrections, advice to others and other nonsense here in the comments section.


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Coins, rocks and butterflies all featured in Milroy's earlier paintings. They are small, hand-held objects, and are all collectable. She chose the objects for the print project on the basis of the contrasts between their inherent qualities. By depicting standard objects in grid-like patterns and in an emphatically direct way, giving equal weight to each element and eliminating any sense of space or location, Milroy draws attention to the integrity of the object itself.
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|Lisa Milroy (born 1959 in Vancouver) studied at the Sorbonne (1977–78) before attending St Martin's School of Art (1978–79) and University of London (1979–82). Milroy lives and works in the UK, and was made a Royal Academician in 2005. Her work presents everyday objects, often arranged in grids, groups, lines, rows and columns. This pared-down approach was also utilized in her travel paintings of the 1990s, which concentrated on building façades. The repetition of windows and other architectural elements echo the rows and patterns of objects found in her earlier paintings
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A softground etching with colour aquatint and extra hardground definition. Each print made from three separate copper plates. Printed on 300gsm Somerset Satin paper. One of a series of three prints individually entitled Rocks, Butterflies and Coins published by The Paragon Press in 1994.
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Prison Carriage Rescue was released in 2010 for Kingdoms. A dragon soldier attempts to transport a captured King's man to prison before he is rescued by a knight.
This set features a cart and black horse with a unicorn helmet. Various accessories such as swords, shields, a torch and a spear are included.