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50 Things No Woman Should Ever Say After 50By Sarah Crow of Best Life |
50 Things No Woman Should Ever Say After 50
They say that with age comes wisdom, but that doesn't always mean maturity is part of the package, too. In fact, as 50 rapidly becomes the new 40, 50-somethings are seeming and acting younger than ever—for better or for worse. While, in some cases, that means the over-50 set is healthier, more active, and full of more joie de vivre than those who went before them, in others, it means their vocabulary is routinely being peppered with language that's nothing short of cringe-inducing.
"People in general, as they get older should use and express a more mature vocabulary in general as a natural succession of age and maturity," says etiquette coach Karen Thomas, founder of Karen Thomas Etiquette.
Thomas cautions specifically against older people using too much slang in their speech: "While believing us 50-somethings are 'hip' and in the know, you could be drawing more attention to your age than you'd like to. While I myself use slang rarely when speaking, everyone regardless of age should attempt to sound educated and mature—not rude and sassy!"
But if you don't want your language to make you the most embarrassing member of your family, you've got time to clean up your act. We've compiled a compendium of things no woman over 50 should say. And for more ways to scrub your vocabulary, check out these 40 Words That Will Instantly Reveal Your True Age.


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Seasons of Solitude: The Journey to Knowing Yourself
I have seized an abundance of noteworthy experiences; traveled to many different countries, built lasting relationships with people from all over the world, and can truthfully say I've created a life I'm proud of and excited for. Though I can't say falling in love has ever been on this list of treasures. When people talk of romance I know only so much, and I suppose it's true one will never know an intimate sort of love until it's felt. There have been many wonderful men who have walked into my life, many men who have thrilled me, even courted me, and have ultimately contributed to the ways in which I have grown and matured over the last 10 years. Though none whose names have been etched in my memory bank. I have been single for nearly nine years now.
When I let a detail like that slip, often times people look at me wide eyed. It's not normal per say. Im 23. Certainly, I should've had a high school sweetheart, even a serious boyfriend through college, or even a more serious relationship after college. But no, it never quite happened that way. I come from a family of intellectuals, my brothers and I grew up discussing politics at the dinner table. We learned how to articulate what we felt and never to be ashamed of speaking our truth. I grew up with parents who encouraged me to think intellectually, they listened to my thoughts intently, and have further challenged those beliefs my entire life. It would make sense that I would desire a similar connection in my adult relationships. My hunger for deep and meaningful relationships is what propels everything I stand for. And because of this, I thrive and I also suffer.
I have watched my best friends develop fulfilling relationships with men who adore them. I have counseled them, cried with them, rejoiced with them. There have been moments where I've wrestled with my own bitterness, days where I would've given anything just to feel what they felt, just to feel loved by a man who truly knew me. Part of me wonders if I'm missing the boat, if I'm gambling on a love that will never come. Have I set the bar too high? Have I shut out possibilities of significant relationships out of fear that they never could be? Though I can think of nothing more suffocating than being bound to a lukewarm relationship. I hold no grudges, no remorse, nor guilt; but I have no love songs to commemorate my name, and no lasting relationships to speak wistfully of.
So, this is where my advice to you begins. It's been nine years of the most fulfilling relationship I've ever had: the one with myself. How does one cope with solitude? Whether you've been single for many years, or just now exiting an existing relationship, there are many ways to brave the world of aloneness. It starts with one's own natural disposition. You have to come from a place of love. I see it again and again; women who are afraid of being alone. Though how can anyone blame them when we live in a society that says singleness correlates with insufficiency? This is simply not true. On the contrary, singleness… can be one of the most extraordinary times of your life. And this how I choose to view it, everyday I choose to walk on the side that says it is only a gift.
There is security in companionship. Humans have an unceasing thirst for intimacy; we look for connection in all areas of our lives, and we seek out those who we feel can fulfill those desires. So when romantic companionship is missing, we can feel empty, like something truly significant is ceasing to exist. Instead of pushing these feelings away, sit with them. You can have a longing in your heart, and still find a way to be satisfied and fulfilled in your life. There is no shame in wanting a partner, in seeking a life that has all the essential components connecting. The problem arises when you forgo possibilities in your present, when there is a fixation on something that isn't there. I've learned to practice the art of contentment, but this is something you have to actively pursue. If we look close enough, we can see there are ways to feel content in solitude.
Singleness is a time that allows for growth and self-discovery apart from inhibition. I know myself in a way that is so intimately, and beautifully untouchable by anyone else. I've used this time of aloneness to wrestle with my deepest insecurities, vulnerabilities, and sorrow. Yet in these dark moments of truth, I've also seen parts of myself that are covered in goodness and in grace. Over these last 9 years I have actively made the time to know myself; fully and unfiltered. Deep down I have known it could never be done with a partner. No, the edge have self discovery had to be done in only the company of myself.
I've learned that not only am I capable, I'm strong. I've learned how to care for myself in a way that's holistically loving and nurturing. I've learned how to cheer myself up, and make room for healthy criticism where needed. Of course, there are days where I miss a man I've never known, where I desire the deep intimacy of a romantic relationship. Though I have found companionship in many corners of my life: in my love of writing, in my thirst for fellowship, in passion for my blog, in my excitement for travel; all these give me such joy and ask of me so much. I give myself to these passions and they love me back in a way that is endlessly fulfilling and produce such happiness and exhilaration. When I look at my life, when I step back and look down, I know I have been loved deeply through each of these.
There is a quote by Matt Kahn I've always liked. It goes, "Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you, as deeply as they've met themselves." This is an invitation to heartily knowing oneself. My wish for you is an endless walk of self-love and discovery. May you sit quietly with yourself in moments of sorrow and in joy. Be truthful, ask questions, dig deeper. Whether you find yourself alone, or in relationship this season, make room for your own company. Just as we love and get to know others, you, yourself is asking of only the same. May you meet yourself deeply.
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The Twentieth Century comes down the Track
IN the first decade of the twentieth century there were three ways that Americans bet a half-billion dollars annually on horse races. The most privileged (six million) people went to the tracks. The least privileged resorted to handbooks. In between stood the poolroom. Poolroom was a misnomer. Its chief furnishings were a blackboard, telephone, telegraph, and ticker tape, folding chairs, slips of paper, and the day's issue of the Chicago Racing Form or the New York Telegraph. Few of its customers played pool.
An information bureau sent the names of horses scratched and where the odds stood over the wires a half hour before each race. The patrons bet accordingly, in person or via phone or runners. Ten to fifteen minutes before starting time the bureau submitted a final summary of the odds as the betting at the track had affected them, and a second wave of betting went on till an employee called "post" and "time."
The official report of the race was read out in staccato snatches as the ticker transmitted it. Winners were announced, bets paid off, and betting began at once on the next race, with clients given a half hour to get their money down. Odds, though the bettors seldom realized it, were rigged in favor of the poolroom operator. For a fee, race-track correspondents cut them by as much as half so that if the price were six to one at the track it might be three to one at the poolroom. Ex-gambler Harry Brolaski testified before a senate judiciary subcommittee that they were "from 25 to 150 per cent against the player in every race."
One swindle was watertight. If bettors were backing a favorite heavily, the poolroom operator could keep on accepting bets long after he learned that the horse had lost, and give out the bad news in his own good time.
With eight thousand races each year as lure, poolroom business was immensely profitable despite the high cost of protection. "I had a place," one New York owner told a magazine writer, "on Third Avenue, near Thirty-seventh Street. It was about a fifthrate room. My rent was one hundred, and I gave about twelve hundred dollars each month to square the game with the police and certain anti-vice societies. Then there was my help, my telegraph, and my telephone bills. After all were paid, I had for the season of seven months over $54,000."
The handbook operators made less but their expenses were practically nil. The place of business was generally a neighborhood cigar store or saloon, rent free and tolerated as a side show to attract extra customers. Bets might be pitifully small, as low as five cents, but at this rate the handbookie needed no more than fifty cents capital. If the customers hit him hard with bets he could take off for parts unknown.
Many a man, woman and child who backed horses with money never saw a race track, that mile-long elongated circular course originally designed as a testing ground for horses. By the twentieth century it had become a merry-go-round gambling trap.
Life at a race track habitually started around four-thirty in the morning. Foremen, stable hands, and exercise boys turned out then to feed, walk, warm up, and gallop their charges. The trainers and owners went to the secretary's office - usually under the betting shed-at 10 A.M. to enter their horses in races they thought they had the best chance of winning on the following day. The entry clerk, at the sight of a bribe, was not above giving tips as to where the competition was least formidable.
After registration, lists of horses and riders were sent to the printer, and early in the afternoon private touts, bookmakers, and track correspondents set the wires humming with these facts, probable odds for tomorrow and scratches for today. Owners, trainers, and stable hands wired tips to bookmakers.
Before the news went out, bookies and their confidential agents were capable of arranging to have the races fixed. The actual dirty work, one gambler confided, was done in the home stretch. "A strong but secret pull on the bridle to the right or left, a sway of the body, a trick of the whip or spur, and the favorite and the near favorite are out of the running, and the horse that has been fixed is declared the winner by a nose, a throatlatch or a neck."
Not all bookmakers were dishonest, any more than all gamblers were. However, the absence of strict control, the fat killings to be made, and the ease of cheating conspired to make dishonesty remarkably appealing. Pierre V. Lorillard (who bought some of the six thousand acres of Tuxedo Park and won the rest from his relatives by keen poker playing) had no reason to feel sour about racing. He owned Iroquois, the only American thoroughbred who ever won the English Derby. Yet when he quit racing he announced, "I am very much opposed to bookmakers, because they rob the public and they rob owners of horses. There is no fairness in their dealings. All bookmaking is against the horses. A bookmaker, of course, could not live unless he bet against the horses and in the course of plying his trade he steals stable secrets and buys up jockeys and trainers. The bookmaking system is, therefore, demoralizing to jockeys and trainers, and hurtful to everything and everybody connected with racing. The bookmakers are, with few exceptions, rascals who would be fit subjects for prison. when their profitable trade of robbing the public on the race course is at an end. We have outlived the necessity for these fellows."
There was no honor among thieves and, though the bookmaker never lost money to the tyro turf fans, he might to fellow bookies who double-crossed him or to owners and their demoralized jockeys, who fixed races to the bookie's disadvantage. The most common sharp practices were:
1. To feed a horse just before a race since, "filled up," he could not do his best. 2. Steal a favorite from his stable before midnight and give him a five or six-mile workout on a macadamized road. "Night riding" or sitting on a horse in his stall all night was a good way to tire a horse out. 3. Give a horse the "wobbles" by putting a heavy shoe on one front and the opposite back hoof and light shoes on the other hoofs to make him run shakily, or drive a nail into a horse's foot, called "shoeing." 4. Send a horse into a race with lead in its shoes 5. Hold a horse back a few seconds at the post. 6. Restrain a horse during a race (called keeping him "under wraps") by the jockey's wrapping the rein around his hands; twice round was called "under double wraps." 7. Crowding, "pocketing," or "locking." To lock a horse, the jockey would ride beside the favorite up to the main stretch, then move as close as possible and lock the leg of the rival jockey with his till two or three other horses had passed. On complaint the jockey guilty of locking was fined twenty-five or fifty dollars and made twenty-five to fifty times that much from the bookmaker for whom he acted. 8. Give "foo-foo" dust, a powdered narcotic, to make a horse sluggish or "needle" him so he "ran hot." A horse used to stimulants was said to "run cold" if he did not get them. 9. Use a saddle with a small battery under the pommel pad that could be made to charge the horse with electricity, rousing him to run his fastest. Less artful than the electric saddle but quite as effective was the practice of "pricking" a horse with a pointed steel burr.
The drive to make gambling on races illegal began in about 1890 and intensified till, by the twentieth century, many states were outlawing it. Bookmakers paid anywhere from $17.50 to $57.50 apiece each racing day to the tracks, so this was an attack on the pockets of track owners. The fees usually totaled as much as the gate receipts.
To preserve a golden source of income, track managers resorted to a subterfuge called "oral betting." Blackboards disappeared from the bookmaker's stall and instead he wrote the odds on a daily program held in his hand. It was no break for the public, which now had twice as much trouble checking and shopping for odds. The bettor came close enough to look over the card, called out, "I have fifty dollars on Fleetwing to win." The bookmaker answered, "Taken" or "You're on," and a clerk recorded the bet. What he was on could easily be a "dead one," a horse the bookie knew was fixed to lose or had no chance to win. Since judges and officials ignored betting, the bettor was on his own.
Legislation against horse-race gambling grew, paradoxically, out of a fight by Illinois track gamblers to prevent a combination of bookmakers the notorious CAT of St. Louis from invading what they considered their domain. In 1900 Louis Cella, Sam Adler, and Cap Tillis, whose initials gave the combine its nickname, established a gambling house, large poolroom, and race track at Madison, Illinois, just over the state line from St. Louis.
This trespass was resented by Charles "Social" Smith, Harry Perry, John Condon, and other Chicago gamblers. Political friends of Condon's went to Springfield and pressured various officials to put Cella-Adler-Tillis out of business in Madison. A writ of injunction was somehow obtained. Cella, Adler, and Tillis, bristling with anger, demanded that the attorney who issued the writ against them issue a similar writ against a track operated by Condon. Condon's connections were good. The demand was denied.
Thirsting for revenge, CAT hired Colonel W. D. Washburn, a Chicago lawyer and member of the governor's staff, to fight the Chicago racing kingpins. Washburn, a man dedicated to reform, cheerfully accepted the assignment and a large fee on the understanding that he be allowed to fight the battle to the finish on his own if need be. He made it clear to his clients that they need pay him no more money unless they wanted to.
From honest judge Holdon, Washburn secured an injunction against John Condon's Harlem Race Track, at the time netting its owner $10,000 a day, and the track was closed. Despite the Illinois officials and politicians who had in the past protected track and gambling interests, able lawyers on the governor's staff, heartened by Washburn's courage, joined his colors. However, Governor Yates ordered them to call off the fight and they obeyed, except for Colonel Washburn, who resigned in order to finish what he had started.
Condon, stalemated, worked out a deal that would allow CAT to operate in Illinois. This did not deter the colonel. CAT and Condon, in unholy alliance, thipped in $100,000 to stop him. They brought $20,000 of this war fund around and told him that he could have it if he quit. The colonel's office was on the tenth floor. It was not inconceivable, said VVashburn, that the next person who tried to bribe him would be thrown out of the window. The emissary left in haste, by the elevator.
CAT had its counterpart wherever racing flourished and was a prototype of the professional gambling clique that stirred up a general outcry against everyone connected with racing. "What chance has the public got against such a combination?" a gambler mourned.
Reform went on the warpath. In March 1903 a bill to allow gambling on race tracks had already passed Pennsylvania's lower house, when the Reverend Wilbur F. Crafts, superintendent of the International Reform Bureau in Washington, threw the weight of his organization against it, won over Philadelphia's influential North American newspaper, and persuaded a top Pennsylvania politician, M.A.J. Cassatt, to reverse his previous support of the measure. Governor S. W. Pennypacker promised to veto the bill if both houses passed it, but the upper house defeated it and it died an ignominious death in committee.
In New York a Captain Norton Goddard went to the Western Union Telegraph Company, posing as a poolroom king. As The Literary Digest put it, the captain "found the company ready to run a wire down the chimney of his house to supply his supposed poolroom with news of the races, and to send an operator who was an expert at jumping out of windows."
The president of Western Union, Robert C. Clowry, defended his company on the grounds that it was obliged to carry all messages (unless they were obscene) but said that he would gladly cut off service to any poolroom if the police informed him of its existence. Police Commissioner McAdoo retorted acidly that Western Union knew more about poolrooms since their operators were in them-than the police did. The treasurer of Western Union was well aware what the services earned for the company.
The press excoriated Western Union for selling racing news to poolrooms, and when pictures of the company directors were published people from all over the country inundated them with fervent protests. There was talk of criminal action for aiding and encouraging a felony, and United States Senator Chauncey M. Depew threatened to resign from the board. George Gould, Morris K. Jessup, and others held an emergency meeting and decided to discontinue information services and special wires to poolrooms, though messages about horse races were still permitted.
Many New York poolrooms were crippled and closed. One big gambler stormed: "We will get the odds and the results some way, don't make any mistake about that. As long as there is racing there will be poolrooms there are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with butter." Henry Stedeker, oldest bookmaker in New York said: " the company has sent out racing news in the past and made a great deal of money out of it. Personally I do not belive it would serve any purpose if the company did abandon its racing department for if the rapid distribution of news should be stopped, people would bet just the same, taking ticker or morning newspaper quotations for the settlement of bets.
"I will not say that the directors of the Western Union are not sincere in the cutting off of the New York rooms, but it appears that the company is distributing news to out-of-town rooms just the same. I think that the demand of 50,000 or more people who can not go to the race-tracks, but who still wish to bet, will not be unsupplied so long as the Western Union is a business enterprise."
When the North started its house cleaning, the South stirred uneasily, though it had little comparable untidiness, except in St. Louis and New Orleans. The movement was largely religious, spurred by hallelujah-shouting, hell-fire evangelists whose sermons against sin and gambling nightly packed their meeting tents. The reform wave, though sincere, attracted rabble-rousing demagogues as well as the honest politicians who put anti-saloon and antihorse-racing planks into their platforms so effectually that a number of Southern states went dry and almost all of them made racing illegal.
Maryland and the District of Columbia were infected by New York sharpies. After one race at Bennings in the District, the Baltimore World inquired, " do not the bookmakers own and control Bennings body and soul? The Washington course is owned and maintained by New York horsemen and bookmakers. They are in racing for profits. Is it any wonder then that the public are duped when they have a right to expect only fair treatment?"
Congress answered that promptly by doing away with racing in the District of Columbia.
Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and Missouri were next in line. In St. Louis, Prosecuting Attorney Joseph W. Folk had sent a number of graft-taking councilmen and members of the St. Louis House of Delegates to prison, so when he sought the state governorship, corrupt politicians and gamblers raised $100,000 to back his opponent, Harry Hawes. CAT is supposed to have added $300,000. Folk was the target for newspaper mudslinging, while the Jefferson Club, to which he belonged, attacked him "from ambush and lurked for him with unsheathed knives in dark places." Folk won by rallying his party in rural districts, and his victory was hailed by independent Democrats and the reformminded all over the country. The Memphis Commercial Appeal called it "the most superb victory in the annals of recent politics." When Folk came in, racing went out. The Delmar Jockey Club, run by bookmakers, arrogantly flaunted the new law, whereupon Governor Folk ordered the state militia to close it and took legal steps to appropriate its property for the state.
Louisiana was, inevitably, hit by reform sentiment. "Sitting Bull" Bush, an old con man and Mississippi River three-cardmonte sharp, ruled the roost among the gamblers in New Orleans until his direction of the Crescent City Jockey Club became so scandalous that respectable citizens pressed authorities to close the track. Then at the two big tracks rival bookmaking factions began feuding. Alarmed by the clamor of merchants who claimed that they were losing the money that went to the tracks, and by the evangelical disposition of the press and the demands for reform, the state of Louisiana prepared to pass an anti-racing law. The gamblers closed ranks and fought it with every weapon at their command, but race-track gambling was banned in the state (which gave it right back to the illegal handbookmakers).
When Texas joined the reform parade, the racing brethren built a track at Juarez, a mile and a half from the international border, where bookies could operate safely and telegraph and telephone reports to U.S. poolrooms.
The struggle to make racing verboten in California was long and hot, mainly because the president of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, Thomas H. Williams, along with the political machine of the Southern Pacific Railroad, was hard to beat. The Emeryville, Tanforan, and Ingleside tracks near San Francisco were either owned or controlled by tiVilliams, who did not brook competition gladly and "throttled and practically suppressed racing at the Santa Anita track, Los Angeles."
In the election of 1908 candidates for the state legislature had to declare whether they would support an anti-horse-race-betting law. During the campaign by the president of the YMCA, supported by editorials in the Los Angles Express, betting was defeated, and in 1909 Governor Gillette signed the bill to outlaw it in the state. VVilliams tried to circumvent the law and keep the horse players happy by going over to oral betting, and the Supreme Court of California, in a test case, upheld it. For two seasons Williams and Emeryville carried on until the legislature passed a bill that ended even this form of betting.
After January l, 1911, when an anti-race-track law became effective in Florida, gambling was permitted at tracks in only six states: Maryland, Oklahoma, Montana, Kentucky, Virginia, and Utah. Montana had only one track, at Butte, and the racing season was just thirty days. Racing was legal in Utah, but betting was not in Salt Lake City.
Kentucky, where horse racing was honored and indigenous,did not prohibit betting but did clamp down on bookmakers and poolrooms. The incomparable Colonel Matt J.Winn, more than anyone else, checked the reformers and saved racing for his state. The man who put the Kentucky Derby on a par with the World Series saw that the one hope was to make betting on horses respectable.
At Churchill Downs, where he was in charge, Winn found some pari-mutuel machines that had been shoved into the storeroom a quarter of a century before. His lawyers disinterred an almost forgotten act that permitted pool selling under particular conditions. Winn thereupon booted the bookmakers out of Churchill Downs and installed the pari-mutuel machines, supporting them with state sanction by having a law enacted that gave the state a slice of the pari-mutuel revenues.
The equipment Colonel Winn had rescued was a quaint mechanical contrivance originally invented by Pierre Oller, a Parisian. In contrast to the slick complicated modern "tote" it was simple and primitive. Each booth had racks of tickets numbered from 1 to 12 (depending on how many horses were entered in a particular race), each number representing a horse. Behind the ticket seller's chair was a large blackboard, and whenever a fan shoved a bet through the wicket and got a ticket, the man running the register "recorded" the bet by tugging a string connected to the matching number on the board. On big days scores of these contraptions were needed to "ring up" the thousands of bets. They were cumbersome, they were not 100 per cent accurate, but they did save racing in Kentucky.
The drive against race-track gambling was nowhere more intense or lengthy than in New York. In 1887 the Ives Bill was passed in Albany to "improve the breed of horses" and see to it that racing was limited to five designated months each year under the sole aegis of track officials. Seven years later it was amended:
Section 10.-- No law shall be passed abridging the right of the people to assemble . . . nor shall pool selling, bookmaking, or any kind of gambling hereafter be allowed or authorized within this state.
Track owners beat a hurried path to Albany and succeeded in putting through the Percy Gray law. This effectually made racing in the state the monopoly of a jockey Club with seven stewards. Four of these were to be "respectables," men of prominence interested in giving horse racing a good name, who also formed the state racing commission. The "respectables" tightened their monopoly on New York racing when the law gave them permission to decide what tracks might come into being. The Jockey Club further had power to rule off any track jockeys, owners, or stable hands found dishonest in its dominance.
In order to keep the fans happy and the monopolists rich, bookmaking was permitted at the tracks and only regarded as wrong if members of the jockey Club or allied racing commissions profited directly from it. Punishment might be imposed "by civil action against the bookmaker," but no losing player seems ever to have taken advantage of this proviso.
With the legality of gambling at the tracks secure, the racing interests went after off-track betting and saw to it that it became a crime punishable by as much as five years in prison.
The New York Jockey Club was the same club that owned and operated Bennings in Washington and managed to have a duplicate of the Percy Gray law passed by a Congress that was "half crooked and half asleep." President Benjamin Harrison vetoed the bill with the words, "I return without my approval the bill to prohibit book-making and pool-selling, but on the contrary expressly saves from its prohibitions and penalties the Washington Jockey Club. If this form of gambling is to be prohibited, and I think it should be, the penalties should include all persons and all places."
In New York the Jockey Club was urged to do something to clean up racing. When it replied that it did not officially acknowledge betting at the tracks, sincere fans felt that it was a slap at their intelligence, as they knew perfectly well that the club members had proprietary interests in race tracks and that every track in New York took privilege fees from bookmakers.
Charles Evans Hughes campaigned in 1906 against William Randolph Hearst for governorship of New York and won a whacking victory on a reform platform. Immediately after he took office he was flooded with letters and telegrams asking him to live up to his campaign promises with a program of reform legislation.
In 1909 the state legislature made it illegal for anyone to state the current price odds on horses, seek bets on horses and locate himself in a more or less permanent position, and to set down in writing or the like any bets on horses.
The horsemen had too much at stake to accept complete defeat. Led by two millionaires. August Selmont and James R. Keene, they fought to have some of the more stringent antigambling regulations alleviated. The court of appeals sustained oral betting, among other changes that were achieved. This involved payment of money away from the track and at a future time and only worked for fans well known to the bookies. It did not bring the general public back to the tracks. Since gate receipts were all that accrued to the track owners during the 1910s, the racing focus shifted to Canada. By World War I, American horse racing prospered in Canada, throve in Kentucky, barely endured in New York, and was outlawed in most states.
The minor deflation at the end of the war induced thousands of Americans to sell their Liberty Bonds and use the proceeds to gamble with stocks. The speculative fever mounted and with it the urge to gamble in other ways. Racing interests saw that the time was ripe to bring racing back to the people.
Thomas E. Bourke, a Chicago newspaperman, was the first to succeed in reviving racing. In 1921 he got control of the Hawthorne course and opened it under the oral betting system. The sheriff made short shrift of that by arresting the bookmakers at the track. The Bourke coterie took a new tack the "option system." This was in fact a qualified mutuels arrangement. The payer bought a ticket (a "certificate," said the track) from a cashier that gave him the privilege, if he won, of buying the horse he had bet on. If the owner of a certificate decided he did not want the horse - and none of them ever did he received his money back plus the winning price odds on it. This, said the track, was a prize for opting the horse that copped the race.
The option system withstood every legal argument and assault hurled against it, and race tracks began to multiply in the Chicago area till the state of Illinois decided to make on-track betting legal and to exact a fee from the tracks for this right.
The craze for automobiles in the 1920s was indirectly responsible for the birth of new tracks and the renaissance of betting. Americans were bursting with prosperity, buying cars madly, driving for pleasure, and finding the roads awful. States needed money for road building and, looking at Kentucky and Maryland which had a nice take from their pari-mutuels, decided that this was a good way to get it. Illinois, Ohio, and many others legalized that system in return for a percentage of every dollar wagered.
The boom in real estate made Florida winter headquarters for racing in the 1920s. In New England, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Massachussetts sanctioned racing and gambling at the track, bringing the total up to nineteen states.
During the 1920s horse racing everywhere was conducted under more rigid and honest standards than had ever before prevailed. It became the paramount job of the racing judges to see that every horse was ridden to win. If not there was the possibility of a fine, suspension, or the danger of being ruled off the tracks forever after.
Horse racing, despite the insidious persistence of off-track gambling interests, became a cleaner sport than most. There remained what Life reported as part of a $30,000,000,000 gambling business, citing: "A stranger in almost any United States city can quickly find a horse-race bookmaker by making discreet inquiries of bellhops, elevator men, barbers or bartenders, or by hanging around the news stand where racing publications are sold." Even the most inveterate horse players ruefully admit: "No bookmaker ever goes to the Old Ladies Home to visit his mother except in the biggest and flashiest Cadillac money can buy."


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The Middle Cross FALL BIKE FEST is scheduled Wednesday November 11 at Manhattan Middle School in Boulder. The mid-day festival takes advantage of the Veteran's Day Holiday when Boulder Valley schools are not in session and is the final event of the fall Middle Cross program.
Activities scheduled for the 3 hour event include rides, clinics, food, prizes and a Middle Cross race that caps a season of training and prep races. All activities are free and open to the public.
Several high level competitive cyclists are slated to conduct clinics and activities for the students including Rebecca Much of the Subaru-HUDZ Cyclocross Team, Mike Friedberg of Mafia Racing and members of the Clif Bar Development team.
Middle Cross (MCX) is a program for middle school aged youth and is currently open to all BVSD middle school students, boys and girls of all riding levels who want to ride a bike with friends in a fun and supportive setting. Students join a Bike Club at their BVSD school to practice cycling skills as well as participate in various cycling clinics and race events. There is no charge to participate and most events offer bikes and helmets for students to use if they don't have one. The program's goal is to promote cycling for recreation and fitness.
Middle Cross organizers have been offering clinics and scrimmages throughout September and October leading to this final event. The FALL BIKE FEST is open to all BVSD middle school students interested in all levels of recreational cycling, from beginner to advanced. Middle Cross riders must attend with their bike club or have a signed waiver to ride the course.
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Record number of fellowships to back UTS young researchers in 2014
05 Dec 2013
- UTS has awarded a record 16 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowships this year to early-career researchers
- Introduced to attract young researchers from around the world, this year's fellowship projects range from the examination of human rights for refugees in south-east Asia to the use of algae as a sustainable energy alternative
The development of a non-destructive method to test building infrastructures, the use of algae as a sustainable energy alternative and a fresh look at Australian family law are just some of the research projects that will be explored by the newly appointed 2014 Chancellor's Postdoctoral (CPD) Fellows at UTS.
Sixteen fellowships have been announced for next year, the highest number awarded in a single year since the scheme's inception in 2005.
The three to four-year positions are highly competitive, and in the past have attracted early-career researchers from all over the world. According to Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Attila Brungs, 2014 is no different.
"Our 2014 intake has seen recruits hail from universities, including Imperial College London, McGill University and the University of Hong Kong. These top young researchers have outstanding track records, and will contribute to the University's aim to produce rigorous, world-leading research with impact," Professor Brungs said.
"Of course, the benefits are mutual. For each fellow, there exists great opportunities to collaborate with our most senior and established researchers. This, combined with access to the best technical facilities and support at UTS, will allow our newest fellows to thrive – to further establish their research careers, and develop skills in research leadership and management".
Dr Lucy Fiske, a human rights and gender justice researcher and 2014 appointee, could not agree more.
"The UTS Chancellor's Postdoctoral Scheme is providing me with an opportunity to join UTS's vibrant research community and to conduct research which is designed to help shift thinking on refugee protection," Dr Fiske said.
"The scheme creates a sustainable opportunity for early career researchers to focus on developing their research skills under expert mentoring and immersed in a welcoming and critically engaged community of researchers."
Fiske, originally from Curtin University, is investigating the lives of refugees living without formal protection in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. Her research expertise will join the likes of Dr Nina Burridge, in UTS's Cosmopolitan Civil Societies research area.
The 2014 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellows are:
- Dr Joel Barratt (Science) – Laboratory validation of vaccine candidates for leishmaniasis predicted using a novel in silico pipeline based on machine learning algorithms. Supervised by Professor John Ellis
- Dr Dewei Chu (Science) – Interface engineering of metal oxide nanocubes for energy efficient memory devices with improved performance. Supervised by Professor Matt Phillips
- Ms Dena Fam (ISF) – Facilitating nutrient recovery from wastewater: an innovative approach to institutional analysis of urine diversion and pathways to sustainable sanitation. Supervised by Professor Cynthia Mitchell
- Dr Lucy Fiske (FASS) – Informal refugee protection space in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand: building a life without rights. Supervised by Dr Nina Burridge
- Dr Dominic Hare (Science) – Striking whilst the iron's hot: probing iron in neurodegeneration using stable isotope bio-imaging. Supervised by Professor Philip Doble
- Mr Kai Li (Business) – Asset pricing with heterogeneous beliefs and social interactions. Supervised by Professor Tony He
- Dr Huu Ngoc Duy Nguyen (FEIT) – Compressed sensing for wireless monitoring in health technologies. Supervised by Professor Tuan Hoang
- Dr Lu Qin (FEIT) – Big graph processing in MapReduce. Supervised by Professor Chengqi Zhang
- Dr Daniel Sabater-Hernandez (Pharmacy) – Development, evaluation and implementation of a community pharmacy service for patients at cardiovascular risk. Supervised by Professor Charlie Benrimoj
- Dr Olga Shimoni (Science) – Smart multifunctional nanoparticles for therapeutic delivery, sensing and diagnostics. Supervised by Professor Milos Toth
- Dr Alecia Simmonds (Law) – Matching, hatching and despatching: a cultural history of family law in the Australasian colonies (1788-1901). Supervised by Professor Shaunnagh Dorsett
- Dr Bojan Tamburic (Science) – How does my biofuel garden grow? Supervised by Professor Peter Ralph
- Dr Dolf Timmerman (Science) – Quantum dots in flatland: novel hybrid materials for optoelectronics. Supervised by Associate Professor Mike Ford
- Dr Teresa Alejandra Vidal Calleja (FEIT) – Multimodal perception and information fusion for advanced condition assessment of aging infrastructure. Supervised by Professor Gamini Dissanayake
- Dr Paul Walker (FEIT) – Theoretical and experimental studies of dynamics and control of hybrid and electric vehicle powertrains. Supervised by Professor Nong Zhang
- Dr Xun Wang (FEIT) – An innovative framework for risk-aware social service robots. Supervised by Professor Mary-Anne Williams


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The official website stated on the title, "We're also working to ensure that H1Z1 can be enjoyed by players around the world, and having the word 'Kill' in the name of the game can be limiting with some global audiences." The decision to play it safe with the title is somewhat understandable in light of current events and online sensitivity. However, this is still a fairly adult game filled with gore and zombies, and you do in fact kill zombies in the game. So in that respect, being overly sensitive about having "kill" in the title comes off as more than a little strange. This weekend's H1Z1 Invitational consists of an All-Stars Tournament, featuring 75 of the top online H1Z1 and Twitch personalities. These players will compete in a tournament for a special prize pool. Top players include past tournament favorites such as CDNThe3rd and ANGRYPUG taking on such Invitational newcomers as Crispy Concords and Cizzorz. This year's prize pool for the Invitational totals $500,000. That's not bad for a game title that's only available as an Early Access game on Steam for Windows PC and hasn't even received it's full launch yet. The winner for the Invitational this year will score a top prize of $15,000. The second-place runner-up will receive a prize of $10,000. Third place will take $8,000. The lowest cash prize for the tournament goes to the rank No. 10 player of $400. However, $1,000 will be awarded to the player with the Most Kills in each of the three matches in the tournament. The event kicked off on Friday, October 20 at the H1Z1 Arena at TwitchCon, and runs through today, Sunday (Oct. 22). One exciting aspect is that there will be a Qualifiers Invitational Challenge, and all TwitchCon attendees are eligible. So even attendees will have the chance to compete for up to $50,000 in prizes at the H1Z1 Invitational. Daybreak also provided a number of gameplay tweaks to the core H1Z1 game to improve the overall experience. The developers have restored user interface elements to make them look how they used to. According to the company's website, the goal here is to make those elements align with the game's new style. However, players who are training for the Invitational or Challengers Qualifiers will be happy to know that everything has been left the same for the competitions. There aren't any other changes to the game other than the UI, the logos and the in-game artwork. As far as the game leaving Early Access, that still doesn't appear to be happening anytime soon. According to the official website's statement, "These updates definitely take us a step closer, but we still have to polish up the core gameplay (with your feedback) before we're ready for a full launch." So, it seems as if the actual full launch for H1Z1 is still a ways off. In terms of the new changes, players can now preview new skins on their characters in the Marketplace. This will work similar to the in-game Character Customization feature. Also, Daybreak Company has opted to remove the "Watch" section of the game. Here's a breakdown of some other known issues that have been tweaked with the latest update (Courtesy of Daybreak), which went live on October 19: Selected emotes will not update until the player enters a match. The "Scrap" button can become non-functional after cancelling scrapping an Emote or Rides skin Some language text in the front end menus may appear cut off Occasionally, certain image assets in the front end menus will load slowly Occasionally, after selecting DUOs/FIVES, the match queue will not appear in the top left corner of the screen Most of the changes seem like minor tweaks for the most part and don't appear to be all that major or significant. But, changes like this are to be expected from an Early Access game that is still a ways out from its full launch. Fans interested in checking out the 2017 H1Z1 Invitational can check it out online at H1Z1.com. Tournament matches started Friday (Oct. 20) at 1:00 pm local time with the Challengers Qualifiers. After another round of Challengers Qualifiers, the All-Stars Invitational began on Saturday, Oct. 21 at 2:00 pm local time. The Legends Invitational and Challengers Invitational take place today at 11:30 am and 3 pm respectively. H1Z1 is currently available as an Early Access title for Windows PC via Steam. The game is also in development for a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One release later on. Players who haven't yet checked the game out are in luck. Daybreak is currently offering the game for a 50 percent off discount on Steam. So, they can pick up the Early Access title for $9.99 instead of its regular price of $19.99. There's also the option for waiting for the game's full launch as well.


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"Process-Structure-Property Linkages in Molecular Mechanics Simulations of Grain Boundaries"
For a variety of materials, atomic-scale modeling techniques are commonly employed as a means of investigating fundamental properties, including both structural and chemical responses. While force-field based calculations are significantly less computationally expensive than their quantum-mechanical counterparts, the datasets often investigated are large in size (103 – 109 atoms) and high-dimensional, and thus cumbersome for use in multi-scale models. The development of quantitative "process-structure-property" (PSP) linkages for atomistic simulations presents a powerful route to convert atomistic simulation data into actionable knowledge. Here, a framework is presented for quantifying structure from these simulations in full- and reduced-dimensional form, and a series of protocols are developed for establishing regression models for process-structure and structure-property linkages.


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Synopsis: The San Francisco High Quality Child Care Mental Health Consultation Initiative is a partnership between public agencies, mental health providers, and child care centers. The Initiative provides accessible, culturally competent mental health consultation to child care centers. Services provided include case consultation, intervention with children and families, program consultation, therapeutic play groups, referrals, parent education and support, and provider training. The evaluation examined children's social skills and behavior problems; teachers' perception of consultation services; parent satisfaction; and teacher-child interactions. Results indicated favorable effects, including a significant increases in social skills and decreases in problem behaviors for children in treatment.
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VILLA PARK- Starting the first of this year there are new laws in place to better serve Illinois veterans.
Chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, State Senator Tom Cullerton (D-Villa Park) is proud of the work the Illinois General Assembly completed last legislative session to serve and honor the sacrifices Illinois veterans have made for our state and nation.
The laws make it easier for veterans and military personnel to get cancer screenings, terminate their phone contracts during deployment, obtain specialty veterans' license plates and more.
"Illinois' heroes have worked to serve and protect our democratic values and principles. It's important that we continue to honor the sacrifices they have made for us by implementing common-sense legislation to improve our military men and women's lives," Cullerton said. "I urge area advocates and organizations to familiarize themselves with them to better serve and educate our heroes as they return home."
Cullerton served in the Army from 1990 to 1993 as an infantryman. He continues to use his military experience to champion legislation to help military veterans, personnel and their families. And believes we must continue to honor the
work our military personnel do throughout the year.
"We have more work to do to guarantee our veterans and military persons receive the services and protections they deserve," Cullerton said. "I remain committed to better serving our heroes and honoring the sacrifices they have made for our great nation. I will continue to work with my colleagues in a bipartisan manner to better serve Illinois veterans and military members."
DuPage County residents can read the list of laws to aid Illinois veterans that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2018 at http://bit.ly/2A6QktF.
Cullerton urges veterans, military personnel, service providers and organizations to reach out to his Villa Park Office at (630) 903-6662 for further information or with any questions concerning the legislation or state services.


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Asheville FM hosts dozens of weekly shows that run the gamut of musical styles and tastes (you name it, they've got it). But don't take our word for it: take theirs. Xpress brings you this weekly feature — direct from the DJs — highlighting a few of the station's stellar offerings. www.ashevillefm.org.
Debra LaBar, aka MamaRoux, is a New Orleans original, born and raised in the city that care forgot. Music is life in the city: christenings, funerals, crawfish boils and just plain porch sitting are all celebrated with song. A plethora of genres pours from New Orleans and Mama Roux makes sure you hear them all. Congo square, dixieland, R&B and boogie spice her gumbo as she leads a musical journey through one of the world's most beloved cities. Saturdays from 3-5 p.m.


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Milos Jojic: Player Profile of Borussia Dortmund's Latest SigningJanuary 31, 2014
As rumours of Milos Jojic's impending move to Borussia Dortmund quickly spread throughout the media, many Dortmund fans were left bewildered, having never heard of the latest arrival. The Serbian reportedly joined the club for €2.5 million from FK Partizan Belgrade, as per the club's official website (via Stefan Coerts of Goal.com).
Here at Bleacher Report, we've decided take a close look at the promising Serbian midfielder and what he could bring to the faltering Bundesliga giant.
Jojic, 21, is the latest gem to come out of the famous Partizan football academy, the one that produced the likes of Adem Ljajic, Stevan Jovetic and Lazar Markovic, among many others in recent years.
An attacking midfielder by trait, Jojic is well-versed in almost every aspect of the modern game. His powerful right foot is a direct threat to the opposing goalkeeper, and he's not afraid to try his luck from distance.
Perhaps more importantly, Jojic has also shown that he's an outstanding team player when needed, as his through passes split defences and set up teammates with an unbearable ease.
However, his willingness to help his teammates doesn't just stop there. Although an attacking-minded player, Jojic can often be seen tracking back and defending.
If you need further proof of his undoubted ability, here are some statistics which show how vital he has been for FK Partizan this year.
Jojic has scored six goals and recorded seven assists alongside 26 key passes (all a record high for Partizan so far) in just 15 league appearances this year and has recently received the Jelen Super Liga Player of the Year award for his performances in 2013.
He was also a standout player for Partizan in 2012/13 as his remarkable performances helped them win the league title for the sixth consecutive time, beating archrivals FK Crvena Zvezda thanks to his last-minute, free-kick goal in what proved to be a title-deciding match.
Nevertheless, he is far from a finished product.
The Serbian youngster has, even when his performances were unparalleled to his teammates, shown signs of inconsistency, as he failed to score in eight consecutive matches this year.
Since the Super Liga is notoriously known for its often slow pace of football with minimal effort from both sets of players, his physical endurance might be another reason for concern. Arriving at a club that is known for its never-say-die attitude might be a problem for Jojic, as his legs will now be put to the test on a more constant basis.
However, at just €2.5 million, Dortmund may well have unearthed a gem of a player who, given the proper treatment, could easily follow in the footsteps of Jakub Blaszczykowski and Robert Lewandowski.
Statistics courtesy of JSL fantasy.


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However, the new carry forward rules mean that 50% tax payers could contribute up to £200,000 (gross) to their pension next tax year at a net cost of only £100,000.
Many high net worth individuals will own their own business and their commercial property premises. Their SIPP could purchase the commercial property releasing a cash sum outside their pension. They could if they wish reinvest this money into their SIPP claiming tax relief of up to £100,000 dependent on their contribution history.
Steve Latto, Head of Pensions at Alliance Trust Savings said: "SIPPs purchasing a commercial property from a member could become increasingly popular in the coming months. With the SIPP purchasing the commercial property, the owner of the business can receive a significant capital injection which they can use to make further contributions to their SIPP. The new carry forward rules mean an individual could contribute up to £200,000 gross next tax year dependent on their contribution history.
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Maison Air et Lumière doesn't just sit there passively; instead, it is actively working to generate energy, move air and pull in daylight. Designed by Nomade Architects, the French home is adapted to its local environment and oriented to make the most of passive design strategies. Velux windows and skylights fill the home with bright sun and ventilation strategies keep the climate comfortable. Sustainable materials and a tight, high-performance facade are augmented by both solar hot water and photovoltaic systems on the roof - all of which add up to an incredibly low-impact home.
In designing this private home in Verrières-le-Buisson, France, Nomade Architects first adapted the home to its environment by orientating it to the light, views and natural slope. Modular in concept, the home is build from three basic forms, which could be used in different configuration for other projects in the future. Nomade also wanted to take advantage of the fifth facade, ie the roof as both a design element and a functional space in that can do work.
Maison Air et Lumière is completely open to the sky and filled with natural light, but was carefully designed to minimize overheating. Nomade utilized the Velux Daylight Visualizer to simulate lighting conditions and light levels for each room. Then natural openings and operable windows work with the form of the house to create a natural chimney effect to pull in fresh air and exhaust warmer air. Attention to the home's envelope and permeability allowed the design team to carefully control and optimize energy use. An energy efficient heat pump is used to control the climate, while a rooftop solar system heats hot water and a PV system generates electricity. Sustainable and healthy materials like wood, linoleum, plaster and glass further minimize the home's impact.
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I have needed a good outfeed table and addition multipurpose assembly table for a long time. I finally decided to take the time to build one, and one that would last. I intend to keep customizing the table as my shop needs progress.
I started with a bunch of left over 3×3 Spanish cedar stock from a tricked out timber framed carport I built years ago. I made my table legs and frame using mortise and tenon joinery. First glueing up 3 H frames, or leg assemblies, then adding the stretchers to complete the table frame.
The table top is torsion box construction, using 3/4" MDF sheet goods laminated with SPF framing lumber for the internal grid work. I straighten and milled down the 2x material to 1 1/4" thick. The perimeter frame is ~ 3 1/4" x 1 1/4" to allow for the future mounting of vises. The internal grid is 1 1/4" x 1 1/2" members 8" OC. After assembly of the top, a sheet of Masonite hard board was added as a replaceable sacrificial surface. The entire top was the wrap in red oak 1"x 4" and edges rounded over, for a durable edge.
I used wood closet rod to make stub tenons at the four corners of the frame. These dowels are indexed to the top with four holes bored in the bottom layer of the MDF top. I also added work bench casters to the outer four legs to allow for moving the table in the shop. The top is removable to allow for future shop move.
I am going to add plywood panels to the lower framework to provide shelves, and much needed storage space for bench top tools. I would like to add cabinets below for additional storage. I also plan to add a builders paper roll hanger on the end of the table for glue ups, and a multi-outlet electrical strip to the top stretcher for sanding and power tools.
It feels good to finally take time to build something for myself, that will be so well ultilized in the future.
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#1 posted 04-08-2016 01:15 AM
-- What wood John do?
#2 posted 04-08-2016 01:28 AM
This is a great looking bench. Very sturdy and solid. I like the Masonite top, I have done this before as well. I don't have an outfeed table, but it is on my "to do" list. Maybe after seeing yours, it will get bumped up a notch or two.
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#3 posted 04-08-2016 03:35 PM
Stellar job on the out feed table….An out feed table is a must have project for anyone that owns a table saw, to be able to handle large sheets of ply….Very well constructed….It should last many years….
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#4 posted 04-08-2016 11:57 PM
Sweet – wish I had room for something like that – well done
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#5 posted 04-17-2016 01:57 AM
Awesome table.have one of these on my to do list.
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A Frostwolves Raiding Bedtime story - Heroic Immerseus
I picked up her book and put it back on the shelf. "Which story do you want? Do you want me to tell you the story of Dos-Ryga?" She shook her head.
"How about Lucky Yi, the cricket? Or maybe Wicked Nitun?" I was thinking back of my Pandaren Beast of Fable stories.
She screwed up her face, thinking. "No, I've heard those ones. Can I have a new story?"
Oh dear, what am I going to tell this time, I thought to myself. I racked my brain for something new to tell her - I had used quests, the Tillers, and raid kills as my stories.... Aha, that's it!
"Lie down next to me," I said. "And let me tell you the story of how Mummy and her friends killed the big bad water monster, Immerseus."
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It was 9 o'clock and all the little kids were in bed, so Mama went down to play World of Warcraft with her friends. All Mama's friends were there - Uncle HK and Uncle Xyn were there. They were the "tanks" and they could take the big hits without dying.
"Why are they tanks?" my daughter asked. "Are they driving tanks?"
"No," I said. "They're called tanks because tanks can get hit by bullets and swords and arrows and not die. Can I finish telling the story?"
"Yes," she said meekly, and I continued.
Then we had the damagers, the ones who could do big damage to the bad people. Uncle Sev and Uncle Aza were there. Both warlocks, they used magic from demons to hit baddies really hard, but used their magic in different ways. Uncle Az liked throwing fireballs around, whereas Uncle Sev liked using magics that stuck to you and hurt you all the time. Then there was Uncle Sabre, who was a hunter, and he would shoot things with his gun and he had really cool pets with funny names.
"What kind of funny names?" asked my daughter.
"Ummm..." Yeah, OK, I shouldn't have said that to my daughter. Sabre names his pets all sorts of dreadful names that I wouldn't have known were naughty till someone pointed them out. Like Minge, Merkin and GTstripe... "Well, he just calls his pets dirty names..."
"Dirty, like as in poo-poo?"
"Yes! Dirty like in Poo-poo. Or dirty like in not wiping your bottom after poo-poo."
Yuck indeed.
There was also Aunty Luxy, who shoots lightning everywhere and uses the power of nature to hurt people, and she always likes to wear pretty clothes. Then there was Uncle Exray and Uncle Lushen, who were cousins and lived in the same house. Uncle Exray was a birdie who would cast magic spells with stars and sun powers, and Uncle Lushen was a zombie who never talked much but he used kung-fu moves and kicked people a lot and did a lot of whoo-wha stuff to them.
"Why doesn't he talk much?" my daughter asked.
"Because he's shy," I said.
"Why is he shy?"
"Because he doesn't need to talk because Uncle Exray talks for him."
"Like my little brother? He doesn't talk properly, he talks like a baby even though he's 4."
"Not quite like that. Uncle Lushen knows how to talk, he just doesn't WANT to talk. Just like how you don't like talking when there's a whole bunch of strangers around, right? Now let me finish telling this story, OK?"
Then there were the people who healed everyone. There was Mama, with her tree magic; there was Uncle Asys with his water magic and special totems..
"What's a totem?"
"It's umm... a magic stick in the ground. It can do cool things like make your magic stronger and faster, or give you more energy so you can still use your magic."
.. And there was Uncle Morz who used his magic to make force fields on everyone so they don't get hurt. But, there was too many people. You can only have 10 people to kill a monster, and we had 11. Uncle Sabre was nice and said he would sit out, and we said next time he can come.
"That's not very fair," said my daughter.
"He was being nice. It's ok, he'll get his turn next time. Besides, Uncle Sabre has gotten more treasures than anybody else in the group."
So we all went to see the big water monster, Immerseus. He was BIG and stood in the middle of the room like a fountain with a mouth and arms! Uncle Xyn put some markers down so we knew where we had to stand and then we started fighting him. All the people using magic would throw all their big spells PEW PEW PEW, Uncle Xyn hit him with his sword and used his shield so he wouldn't get hurt so much, and Uncle HK and Uncle Lushen were kicking and punching him.
Immerseus would fight back at us by putting puddles of yucky black stuff under our feet, and if you don't get out of it, you would die. So it wasn't long before you saw lots of black yuck stuff everywhere and you had to be careful where you stepped. Also, every time someone hit Immerseus, he would throw a blob at you, and if you didn't stop hitting Immerseus and kill the blobs, the blobs would all gang up on you and you would die, so every now and then, they had to stop hitting Immerseus and kill some blobs.
Uncle Sev had a special job. He got to hit Immerseus all the time, which meant everyone else had to kill his blobs. Mama had to keep a special eye on him because he got bad magic on him because he was doing that and Mama had to use her cleaning magic to get it off him, otherwise he would die. Uncle Asys was very busy looking after Uncle Xyn and Uncle HK because they were getting hit very hard. Uncle Morz was putting bubbles on everyone so they wouldn't get hurt so much.
After a while, Immerseus ran out of blobs to throw at us, and then he started to shoot a big water spray from his mouth. It hurt a lot if you stood in it, and sometimes you would DIE, so we would try very hard to run away from it, or run through it, or run to the back of the room where it couldn't reach us.
Everyone kept hitting and hitting Immerseus until his health went to zero, and then BOOM! He exploded into lots of little blobs, all over the room. There were blue blobs and black blobs, and they all started crawling back towards the middle, so they could make Immerseus whole again - so you have to KILL the black blobs, or heal the blue blobs before they reached the middle. If you didn't do that, each time one blob hit the middle it would make a big explosion and it would hurt A LOT!
Some blobs reached the middle and Immereus grew big again! So we had to start all over again, doing the same thing. But it was easier this time because we had killed some of the blobs and made his energy low. It wasn't long before he went BOOM again and we had to go and get rid of all the little blobs.
Immerseus was getting really weak now. He was almost dying, and so everyone was hitting him really hard and his health got lower and lower....
"And then he died?" my daughter asked.
"Yes," I replied. "And then he died."
"And then?"
"Then we saw he had dropped a treasure chest so we went to go pick up the treasure! There was GOLD in it and everyone got to share in the gold. There was also some special treasure too! Uncle Xyn got some new bracelets, and Mama got some new shoes. Uncle Lushen and Uncle HK both got a new hat. And everyone was very happy! Yay!! The end."
"Yay!" my daughter said. "I liked that story - can I have another one tomorow?"
"OK, I'll tell you another story tomorrow." I said. "Now, you're supposed to sleep - Mama is going downstairs."
"Why? Can't you stay here a bit longer?"
I smiled. "I need to go and make sure I have another story to tell you tomorrow."
And you guys wonder why I am late to raid all the time...


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I am currently a waiting bee and have just initiated the process with My boyfriend of designing a custom ring After 8 years of dating. I have recently fell in love with the idea of a split shank and want it to sit high. My question is do you think this is a bit too high for everyday wear, I don't have a labor extensive job and am not using my hands often.


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Davis & Hensley: Brownback deserves no credit for Hutchinson grant
Written by Rep. Paul Davis and Sen. Anthony Hensley
September 21, 2009
At the height of political hypocrisy, Sen. Sam Brownback announced last week that Kansas has secured a $1.78 million grant to build a rail spur in Salt City Business Park. This is terrific news for Hutchinson and our state, but Sam Brownback deserves no credit. In fact, Sen. Brownback opposed the legislation which provided the project funding.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was a lifeboat for this state during a dismal budget year. Without it, even the most basic functions of state government would have been demolished and economic turnaround would have been delayed for years. Unfortunately when it came time to vote on this critical legislation, Sen. Brownback was more interested in toeing the party line than acting in the best interest of his constituents.
On the Senate floor, he proclaimed ARRA was a "speculative bet that would not pay off," and a "grab bag of aimless government spending." In truth, it provided for millions in major transportation projects and got thousands of Kansans back to work. It saved public schools from additional teacher layoffs. It brought $69 million for unemployment insurance. More than 1,000 public safety jobs were salvaged. And now that ARRA is paying off in Kansas, Sen. Brownback is eager to claim credit, despite his ardent opposition to it in Washington.
In the ever-changing arena of politics, one truth remains constant: Kansans need elected officials who care more about the people they represent than the political party with which they affiliate. Sen. Brownback- who is always running for an office aside from the one he holds- has never kept these priorities in order. He has little more to show for his 14 years in Congress than a shattered economy, skyrocketing health care costs and an embarrassing attendance record. It's time to hold him accountable- the stakes are simply too high for Sam's same old political games.
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We cannot compete right now with the west in terms of innovation or with China in terms of mass production. That is why I think that the breakthrough for our country might come out of the sciences, especially basic science, which requires that we cultivate the intellect, not natural resources, and which will enable us to take the lead in technological innovation.
This is why the Dynasty Foundation primarily invests in science and education.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
the thoughts of her dreams, echoed in her memory and she closed her eyelids tighter as this could change it
many years had left her wiser and wiser still she would become--- still she struggled---how futile it all seemed at times
and then like a candle's brilliance in the early evening's dimness--it would hit her---she knew, she could go on, not only on but follow
follow an unknown thing, but so real she could feel it's breath on her moist neck
only she knew her intent and strength, only she could end this dream
33 comments:
Great post of hope and detemination.ReplyDeleteReplies
thanks so much susan :)Delete
I agree with Susan. Nicely done!ReplyDeleteReplies
haha thank you dana :)Delete
Beautiful prose. So rich, and that imagery... Scrumptious. =)ReplyDeleteReplies
wow thanks crystal!:)Delete
She is a strong, strong woman. A wonderful little picture.ReplyDeleteReplies
i hope she is---i wanted her to be--thanks joanne :)Delete
Definitely a strong character. Great piece.ReplyDeleteReplies
i think she is getting there! thanks suzanne :)Delete
Hang in there, Lynn - this too shall pass.ReplyDelete
I enjoyed this piece of writing... look forward to reading more and finding out how the dream ends.
With sunny smiles being sent your way, JennyReplies
i think that particular dream just has to end---so true that things do pass, and that is usually a good thing, huh---sunny smiles received and sent your way too, thanks jenny :)Delete
I read this three times...theres a real sense of self-determination...taking charge of ones own destiny...ReplyDeleteReplies
i think she is finally aware that that is what she must do--thanks for the interest in this piece zoe!!Delete
I think you could turn some of your writing into song lyrics, Lynn. What do you think? More people would be helped by your words.ReplyDeleteReplies
well i used to write songs and sing--but i don't think i have it in me anymore--but that is very sweet of you to say :)Delete
I'm curious about her dream. Sounds like it could be something she is hoping/dreaming to be true someday. Then again, it could be she was hoping to dream a bit more and change the dream to something else. Will we find out?ReplyDeleteReplies
i think she did want the dream to come true, but knew it shouldn't---thanks donna :)Delete
wow! great piece! Keep up that wonderful talent of yours. :)ReplyDelete
Hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day!
that's very sweet---i did have a pretty nice day, hope you did too! thanks marie :)ReplyDelete
I love words that give me a picture. Great job.ReplyDelete
awww i am glad! thanks teresa :)ReplyDelete
It takes a lot of strength to keep hoping a follow a dream.ReplyDeleteReplies
i agree, i really can--thanks sherry :)Delete
lovely words and sentence structures! :)ReplyDelete
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why thank you mitha :)Delete
Almost my dream last night Lynn. It wasn't light with me though, it was a galaxy and I floated within it. Thing was too was that I was conscious. Any more dreams like this and I'll suspect an alien entity !ReplyDelete
You have a love way with words.Replies
I like to reflect on those kind of dreams. The ones I try to hold on to a little bit longer than I should. Very pretty piece today!ReplyDeleteReplies
haha i know--it is tempting to hold on--thanks theresa :)Delete
It's amazing how our dreams can speak to us like this isn't it?ReplyDeleteReplies
it always does amaze :)Delete


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My name is Sacha. This is my first time doing a blog or online journal, whatever you want to call it. I was born in Mauritius where I was adopted by my wonderful (sometimes!) parents and have grown up in London every since. I am one of five and I live with the struggle of having to live up to the your older siblings to be the best. Everyone has ups and downs in there family and don't get me wrong I don't think my problems are more important. But, please do excuse my rants about my life issues sometimes…..
I am 19 years old (turn 20 in August :D). I am about to start my second year of university in September at Bucks New University in Buckinghamshire/High Wycombe. I study Event and Festival Management where I hopefully will specialise in wedding planning. My dream is to open a wedding planning company as I love helping and being a part of the most special day of anyone's life.
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