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An Immigrant does what is necessary, to receive Permanent Residency.
Here is a Sci/Fi Horror Story. An Immigrant does what is necessary, to receive Permanent Residency status.
I give this story an M rating.
Escape to Gomorrah
By MrBillyD
The island City of Manhattan was a single building, 12 miles long, 3 miles wide, and 2,000 levels high. A ration of three nutrition cakes a day was allocated for each citizen, but there was never enough for everyone. Famine, starvation and disease were
perpetual threats.
The bony, hollow cheeked, 16 year old Karen Krendell carried her books home from school, along the cold, crowded, dimly lit corridor avenues. All the stores were packed with gaunt, sickly people, waiting impatiently on line for hours.
Karen was gaunt and hungry as always, but she wasn't starving like she'd been when here father was unemployed. That was when she and both her sisters had been wasting away. Both her sisters had died from starvation.
As she moved along the crowded, freezing corridor near her home, she heard machine gun fire, along with the screams of women and children. A Civil Disturbance Police Unit, was suppressing a routine food riot, outside her neighborhood Nutrition Center, in their routine manner. She wondered if her mother was among the dying.
A man stood on a flag draped podium to her right, haranguing the passing crowd.
"Those machine guns are too ineffective!", he shouted. "We of the Annihilation Party, and our Presidential Candidate, Senator C. Harrison Randolph, know what harsh measures must be taken, to end the perpetual crisis of overpopulation! The answer is clear, simple, and everybody knows what it is!"
"Blow up this monstrous City, with everybody in it!"
The crowd cheered.
"Blow up every city on Earth! Kill as many people as possible, so the few who survive can start again from scratch!"
The crowd cheered again.
Karen continued on her way, hearing the crowd chant.
"Blow them up! Blow them up! Blow them up!"
That evening, Karen sat with her sickly parents, shivering at the table, under a flickering light, in their family cubicle on Level 987.
They said grace, thanking the Lord for the dinner of nutrition cakes, cooked into a flavored broth.
Then her father David Krendell said, "We won't have to be eating this crap for dinner much longer."
Karen asked, "Are you planning mass suicide Dad?"
That wasn't a joke. Family suicide was commonplace.
"We'll be going where we can eat natural food for the rest of our lives. We'll eat fresh meat and fresh vegetables. We'll live under a warm sun and blue sky. You'll have a room of your own."
His daughter was horrified. "You are planning to kill us! That's the same thing that those people who want to blow up this City keep saying. They say that we'll have all those things in Heaven. Can't you let us wait for that?"
"No. We're not waiting patiently to be annihilated, and none of us will be going to Heaven, until after we've died in bed from old age. Until then, we'll be living on the Planet Mundomaya."
His blonde, 38 year old wife, and yellow haired daughter both stopped eating.
Karen's mother Amanda said, "Are you serious?"
"Today I was informed, that I have won a lottery. The prize is relocation for all of us, on the Planet Mundomaya. We're already booked to be on a flight, that leaves next month, on the 14th."
"Mundomaya?" Amanda repeated. "The planet of headhunters, cannibals, ritual warfare and human sacrifices?"
Dave said, "A planet where everyone eats well."
"Yeah. Each other."
"So do we sometimes Mom.", said Karen. "Everyone knows what the Black Market sells, and none of us have gone crazy."
Her father said, "On Mundomaya that will never be necessary. There they have fresh meat and fresh vegetables. They have beef, pork, seafood, and chicken and turkey, and native Mundomayan food. We can have our next Thanksgiving dinner without guilt."
Amanda said, "They worship idols with human sacrifices, and we'd be compelled to take part."
"I'm sure that those stories are exaggerated. Even if they're not, I'm sure that the Lord will protect us."
"Dave, You're not sure.", said his wife. "That's probably the same thing that Lot said, before he went to live among the people of Sodom and Gomorrah; and the Lord destroyed both cities with fire and brimstone."
"But not before Lot heeded the Lord's warning and escaped. That's the same thing we're gonna be doing, before Senator Randolph destroys this City, with fire and brimstone, of his own."
She asked, "Do you remember what happened to Lot after he fled the destruction?"
"His wife looked back and became a pillar of salt."
"And after that, both his daughters got him drunk and fucked him, and they each had a child by him."
Karen said, "We're not gonna turn into perverts Mom. When I do start fucking, there won't be any kinks in my screws."
"But how do you think you're gonna look, walking around wearing only a skirt, while carrying a spear, with your naked boobs hanging out and a couple of shrunken heads on your belt?"
Dave said, "She'll look like she's been eating right."
"She'll look like Lot's daughter."
Karen smiled. "I think I'll look cute."
"Just how cute do you think your own head's gonna look, after it's been shrunk to the size of a cue ball, and dangling on some naked warrior's belt?"
"Oh Mom!" Karen laughed. "That sounds so kinky!"
"That'll be after the rest of you has been carved up and tossed on a grill for a neighborhood barbecue."
"That sounds even kinkier!"
"That sounds like what happened to Lot's daughter."
Karen said, "They're not doing anything on Mundomaya, that isn't happening right here on Earth."
"Karen's right," Dave said, "so stop comparing me to Lot. Mundomaya is not Sodom and Gomorrah. Manhattan is. Mundomaya will be our Promised Land.
"The Bible does say 'Behold, I set before you this day, life or death, blessing or curse. Therefore choose life, so that you and you children may live, and possess the land, that the Lord your God has given you.'
"Now we can either have a long healthy life on Mundomaya, or we can wait here to be annihilated, along with everyone who stays in this City."
Karen said, "I wouldn't want to be among the few severely wounded survivors, who'll have to start again from scratch, and they won't have any medical care."
"Don't worry," said her mother. "Neither would I."
Six weeks later, the Krendells boarded the spaceliner. A month later they landed on the tropical, agricultural planet Mundomaya, in another solar system, 35 light years away from Earth.
Mundomaya had first been settled by fugitives, who'd come fleeing religious persecution in the Earth Nations of Mexico and Guatemala. Their revival of the human sacrifice religion of their Aztec/Mayan ancestors, had not been tolerated in either country.
Once original settlers had arrived, they and their descendants developed Mundomayan Civilization, and their ancient Faith, to the fullest.
After the Krendells disembarked at the Aerospace-puerto, they stepped into the sweltering heat of the Terminal building. Bare breasted women soldiers strolled armed with repeating rifles. Each soldier had the shrunken heads of men and women tied
on her belt.
Amanda asked "What are you looking at Dave?"
"How you're gonna be looking, after we've finally put on enough weight. I bet you'll look terrific."
"Thank you Dave, but I think that Karen and I'll wait 'til we're drafted, before we put on the uniform."
The passengers from Earth went through Customs. A honeymooning Earth couple stood in line, directly ahead of the Krendells. The Customs Officer found a packet of illegal white powder in their luggage.
The husband said, "It's for our personal use only."
The Customs Officer drew the pistol from the holster on his belt, and shot the husband.
His wife screamed. "No!"
The Officer shot her. She fell dead in the aisle, beside her husband.
Dave asked, "You shot them without even a trial?"
The Officer said, "They were found with the evidence in their possession. No trial was necessary."
A pair of women soldiers came over, and dragged the dead couple to the side of the aisle, leaving their bodies in plain sight.
Now the Krendells put their bags on the table in front of the Officer and opened them.
The Officer found a Bible in Amanda's luggage.
"I'm sorry Senora. This is contraband. I have to confiscate this."
He placed the Bible on a shelf, beneath his desk.
"Contraband?" Amanda said, "Confiscate?"
"It is also illegal, for you and your daughter to be wearing those crosses. You'll have to hand them over."
"Hand over our crosses?"
The Officer touched the handle of his pistol.
Amanda and Karen quickly undid the thin chains around their necks, and handed their crosses to the man.
Dave said, "I read that there was freedom of religion here, in the Republic of Tulum."
"All inmigrantes are required to register as members of their local Parish Teochacali, within one week after obtaining permanent residence. Your Earth God Jesus, is one of the Teochacos, to Whom we sacrifice, at our Parish Teochacalis."
Amanda said, "I told you this would happen."
"One more thing Senora." The Officer said, "All women are required to dress modestly."
She and Karen glanced at the bare breasted women soldiers.
"It is unlawful," the Officer said, "for women to wear partially revealing clothes. They make men curious to see what little remains hidden. That leads to adulterous thoughts, which can lead to much trouble."
Amanda said, "We've come to have a better life; not to look for trouble."
"Then you must both be either fully covered, as you are now, or wear nothing at all above the waist."
"This is a tropical world, Mom.", said Karen. "It's 108 degrees at 7 o'clock in the morning. On Mundomaya, a woman's top garment is her belt."
The Officer said, "So all of you have a good day. Enjoy your stay on Mundomaya, in the Republic of Tulum, and in the City of Chichitok."
Dave said, "Gracias Senor."
The Krendells took a limo from the Terminal into Chichitok, a gleaming white city, that sweltered under a heavy white sun and glowing blue sky. The City was surrounded by lush green farmland, which stretched all the way to the jagged blue mountain range, 50 miles to the south, and even further in all other directions.
Chichitok was the Capitol of the Republic of Tulum. The Capitol was a city of museums, theaters, hotels, office buildings, libraries, and the University of Tulum. There were palmtree lined avenues, with elegant shops, art galleries, and sidewalk restaurants.
Chichitok was also a city of one and two story, whitewashed stucco houses, with orange tile roofs, on narrow streets paved with blue cobblestones. Open air markets were found in every parish.
On the day they arrived, the limo from the Terminal, drove the Krendells through downtown Chichitok, and around the Plaza Mayor. They drove past the Gran Teochacali, a massive, five tiered stepped pyramid on the north side of the Plaza. A grand stairway ascended along the front, across all five tiers, from the sidewalk to the
A teenage girl stood on the apex, between a pair of vertical stakes, to which her outstretched arms were tied by the wrists. She hung there, sunk forward, upheld by the chords, with an arrow stuck between her large bare breasts, and poking out her back.
Dave asked the driver, "What, no mass immolations?"
"This isn't a holiday."
"She is the daily sacrifice. She hangs there as a sign of assurance, that all is well in la Ciudad de Chichitok."
Karen said, "That's comforting to know."
That is how we worship the Teochacos." He explained, "The Teochacos bring the sun and the rain, which cause the plants to grow. The plants are eaten by animals, which are eaten by people, who are fed to the Teocahcos; making them strong enough to sustain us, here in the Republic of Tulum, and on the Planet Mundomaya."
Amanda asked, "Has anyone ever tried to sustain things, without human sacrifices?"
"You Earth people have, for twice as long as we've been on this Planet, and we don't have ten percent of your problems."
Karen said, "That's true. There might be something to it."
Blood stained stepped pyramids, or low platform teochacalis, stood in every parish in the city.
The Krendells moved into a five room, white washed, one story stucco house, with an orange tile roof, on a narrow, cobblestone street. The house was built around an open air patio, with a cypress tree. Karen had a room of her own.
The Krendells began putting on weight the day they arrived. They ate fresh fruits and vegetables, beef, pork and poultry. Human meat was also available in the local markets.
On their first Sunday morning in their new home, when Karen got up, her slacks fit snug against her newly rounded hips and thighs. She looked in her bedroom mirror, and saw her fully developed breasts and narrow waist.
I was right, she thought. I do look cute.
She wouldn't have to hide her protruding ribs, while she sweated inside those heavy blouses any longer.
She joined her parents for breakfast, at the table in the patio, under the cypress tree, wearing nothing above the waist.
"Look at this!" she announced proudly. "I've got a pair of artillery shells, and I'm ready to go bang!"
At mid-day, the Krendells attended a sacrifice at their local Parish Teochacali, where they had registered as members, according to law.
"We had better attend." Dave said, "I don't want any of us, getting tossed into any lion's den, or fiery furnace."
In the heavy heat of the tropical city, Karen and her mother had decided to avoid trouble, by dressing with Mundomayan modesty. Karen wore nothing above the waist. Amanda's top garment was her belt. She and Karen had each purchased a pair of shrunken heads, at a local market. They now wore them, dangling from their belts.
Amanda said, "It feels very comfortable and natural Dave."
He said, "I'm so glad we decided not to stay on Earth. If we'd stayed, I'd never have known what a great looking family I've got."
The ceremony took place, in a small plaza, a few blocks from the Krendell's home. A devout girl named Inez Coronado, who lived down the street from the Krendells, lay stretched out on her back, atop a stone of sacrifice, which stood in the center of a ten foot high, circular stone platform. She was not tied down. She lay there bravely, trying not to tremble
The Parish Cacique, Luis Suarez, was about 20 years old. He stood above Inez, who was around Karen's age, holding a razor sharp obsidian dagger.
Cacique Suarez slashed Inez open between her breasts. Then he reached through the wound, ripped her beating heart out, with his bare hand, and held it up high under the scorching sun, where it continued to throb.
Everyone in the crowd, including the parents of Inez Coronado, joyously shouted.
The Krendells were careful to join in the shout.
Then the Cacique chopped off Inez' head, and impaled it on a stake. She had a smile on her lips.
That was followed by a cannibal barbecue, which the Krendells were also careful to join in.
Amanda said, "So this is what we've won in the lottery?"
Dave nodded. "We've escaped from Sodom and fled straight to Gommorah."
"Well I've had enough of this." she said.
Amanda walked up to Cacique Suarez.
She told him, "I'm not doing any of this again. I am a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, and from now on, only Him will I Worship."
She removed the shrunken heads from her belt, and handed them to the Cacique.
Then she told him, "I'm sure there are more than ten righteous people in this City. I'm going to find them, and I'll be worshiping with them, from now on."
Several days later, Amanda Krendell stood atop the Gran Teocchacali, between two vertical stakes, to which her outstretched arms were tied by the wrists. She hung there, sunk forward, upheld by the chords, with an arrow stuck between her large bare breasts, and poking out her back, as a sign of assurance, that all was well, in La Ciudad do Chichitok.
Six months later, the day of the Harvest Fiesta arrived in the Republic of Tulum. The heavy white sun crushed hard against the City of Chichitok. Once it finally set that evening, the customary heads of sacrificed women would be displayed on hooks, adorning the public buildings around the Plaza Mayor, and along elegant, palm tree lined Avenida Guiterrez. Karen, who was now 17, wondered if her head would be among them.
In the time since the Krendells arrived, Karen hadn't been hungry once. Now the day had come for her, to make sure things stayed that way.
Karen and six teenage Mundomayan girls stood in the 116 degree heat, atop a waist-high, circular stone platform. They wore calf-length skirts of shimmering red, orange, purple and gold threads embroidered into Mundomayan glyph patterns. They wore sandals and sequined belts. The girls were casually bare breasted, and had radiating crests of peacock viper plumes on their heads.
The platform was in a small plaza, in a district of whitewashed stucco buildings with red tile roofs. Thousands of revelers had crowded into the plaza to see which girls would get their heads chopped off, and their bodies barbecued that evening.
Karen stood beside Pilar Obregon, who had the brownish red skin, high cheekbones, long nose and smooth black hair of the native Mundomayan.
Karen's blonde hair hung to her shoulders. She had blue eyes.
They all wore necklaces carved from human knuckle bones. Their belt buckles, bracelets, earrings and hair clips were also carved from human bones.
Pilar asked, "So you've decided to take the risk?"
Karen told her, "This is required by law, to keep the population low. No one is permitted to get married and raise children until he or she has risked death in either war or human sacrifice. I think it's a good law. We should have had the same law on Earth."
"I agree.", said Inez, "but why do you talk about getting married? While Luis Vargas may have been fucking you for fun, I'm his betrothed, and everyone knows that; so why are you dancing this year?"
"It's required, for me and my family to be granted permanent residency status. That'll keep us from being returned to Earth."
Luis Vargas stood behind the line of girls, holding a machete with a four foot blade.
"You're blonde.", said Inez. "We don't get to see the heads of blonde women on the hooks very often. Everyone here'd be very disappointed if yours isn't; and I'm sure that Cacique Vargas wouldn't want to disappoint all these people."
"I'm sure he wouldn't either, but now we'll get to see, which one of us he loves the most."
Senor Carlos Coranado stood beside a table at the foot of the steps leading up to the platform. He reached into a basket on the table and drew out a slip of paper. He looked at it and called out.
"Five heads!"
Then the mariachi band on the side of the platform began blaring out a lively melody.
The seven young women spread out in a circle around Cacique Vargas, with their bare backs toward him.
The crowd started chanting, "Chop the blonde head off! Chop the blonde head off!"
Luis Vargas was 23. He was a husky man who moved the machete easily. He placed the blade on both shoulders of each girl, one by one, as the crowd continued cheerfully chanting.
"Chop the blonde head off! Chop the blonde head off! Chop the blonde head off!..."
Karen didn't flinch when she felt the heavy blade on her right shoulder. She held still when it touched her left shoulder.
Then, with great enthusiasm, the girls began a traditional foot-stamping, hand clapping, whirling dance.
In the corner of her eye, Karen saw Luis slash with the machete.
She heard a loud, wet chop.
The first girl's head flew off into the crowd, with an ecstatic grin on her face. As her whirling body collapsed with a stream of sparkling red blood shooting up out of her neck stump, the crowd and the dancers all shouted.
Karen continued dancing, without missing a beat. None of them missed a beat.
The blade slashed again.
The second girl's head flew off.
All over the City of Chichitok, and throughout the Republic of Tulum, the heads of thousands of young women and men were coming off. Thousands of others getting their beating hearts ripped out; all to keep conditions on Mundomaya from becoming like those on Earth. Karen was glad to help.
"Chop the blonde head off! Chop the blonde head off! Chop the blonde head off!..."
Now Pilar, Karen and one other girl, were the only dancers still alive; trying not to stumble, as they danced around the bodies of their freshly killed compadres.
Karen called out "Luis! My best wishes to you and Pilar!"
"Chop the blonde head off! Chop the blonde head off! Chop the blon..."
The three girls whirled about, making their skirts flare out above their hips.
The final girl's head flew off into the crowd, as her whirling body collapsed, with a stream of sparkling red blood shooting up out of her neck stump.
When the sun rose the next morning, the heads of hundreds of young women were firmly set on the hooks, lining Avenida Guiterrez, and overlooking the Plaza Mayor. The heads of a few dozen immigrant Earth women were among them. A hook adorning the Capitol Building of the Republic of Tulum, was ornamented with the head of Pilar Obregon, facing out across the Plaza Mayor.
All was well in Chichitok.
Six months later, Karen and Luis were married. They raised their two sons and three daughters, to faithfully worship all the gods of Mundomaya. Karen made sure that they never went hungry, and that they understood the importance of keeping the population low.
When their oldest daughter Amanda was a healthy, well fed, sexually active 16 year old, she was among the bare breasted girls whose heads came off, as they danced before the cheering crowd, at that year's Harvest Fiesta.
That evening, her head was displayed above the main entrance to the Casa Presidente, while her body was barbecued and dined on by El Presidente and his family.
Her mother was very proud of her.


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Grace Bradley Boyd dies at 97; actress, widow of William 'Hopalong Cassidy' Boyd
She appeared in 35 films, but her most enduring role was as the wife of the western movie hero, keeping the 'Hoppy' character alive.
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Grace Bradley Boyd is seen with her husband, William Boyd, who played "Hopalong Cassidy" in movies and on television, in 1940. She was an actress who came to Hollywood as a Paramount contract player in the early 1930s but abandoned her career after marrying the love of her life. (Richard W. Bann)
Boyd, the keeper of the "Hoppy" flame after the death of her western movie-hero husband of 35 years in 1972, died of age-related causes on her birthday Tuesday at her home in Dana Point, said Jane Mak, a longtime close friend.
As Grace Bradley, Boyd appeared in 35 films, including "Too Much Harmony," starring Bing Crosby; "The Big Broadcast of 1938," with W.C. Fields and Bob Hope; and "Come on Marines" with Richard Arlen and Ida Lupino.
The petite, Brooklyn-born actress, who launched her show business career as a dancer, was often cast as a femme fatale or "the wrong girl," but she played a variety of characters.
Her most enduring role, however, was off-screen — as the wife of William Boyd.
Born Grace Bradley on Sept. 21, 1913, she studied to be a concert pianist and at 15 represented the state of New York in an annual competition for young pianists at Carnegie Hall. Although she won the contest, she began modeling full time and attending dance school at night.
She was dancing in the floor show at the Paradise nightclub in Manhattan in 1933 when she was spotted by a Paramount Pictures director and placed under contract.
Grace Bradley had a string of movies behind her when she received the phone call that changed her life.
Years before, as a 12-year-old schoolgirl, she had become smitten by dashing, silent-screen star William Boyd.
Since his earlier success, the handsome actor's career had plummeted, then risen again in 1935 after he began playing Hopalong Cassidy, the silver-haired western hero who dressed in black and rode a snow-white horse in a series of low-budget films.
In 1937, a mutual friend in Hollywood told William Boyd, "There's a girl you should meet."
When the actor phoned Bradley and said, "This is William Boyd," she recalled in a 1976 interview with the Costa Mesa-based Daily Pilot, she thought someone who knew about her "mad crush" on Boyd was pulling her leg.
"You mean the William Boyd?" she asked.
He laughed — the same distinctively hearty laugh she had heard in his movies — and she was speechless.
"You couldn't miss that laugh," she recalled. "There was no other like it."
The actor invited her to a small party at his beach house in Malibu. And when he arrived at her Beverly Hills townhouse to pick her up, her mother greeted him at the door.
William Boyd was standing at the foot of the stairs when Grace walked down to meet him. He instinctively held out his arms for her, she recalled, "and I walked right into them."
Three days later, Boyd asked her to marry him. "He said, 'I would have proposed the first night except I was afraid I'd scare you to death,' " she recalled.
They were married three weeks after they met, Grace Bradley becoming the fifth — and last — Mrs. William Boyd.
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Each western New York school district will be allowed to send up to three representatives. Members of the general public can register for a seat online.
King has been traveling the state discussing the new Common Core learning standards, teacher evaluations and other educational reforms adopted by New York.
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Striker hoping Everton move improves his international chances.
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Nikica Jelavic says moving to Everton can help him achieve his dreams.
The striker, who joined the Club from Glasgow Rangers on Tuesday, is a regular in Slaven Bilic's Croatia squad but hopes a move to the Premier League can help him nail down a frequent starting spot for his country.
He also says he is relishing the opportunity to test himself in what he believes is the best league in the world - and is backing himself to succeed.
"Everybody knows this is the strongest league," he told evertontv. "For me, for everybody that is the case. It's not easy to come here and play, but we'll see. I hope it will be good for me.
"It's a big difference, obviously. But I think in Scotland you also need to be 100 per cent. Scotland helped me a lot I and I think I am ready for the challenge here."
With this summer's European Championships in mind, Jelavic thinks moving to a Club his international manager knows so well can only be a positive.
Bilic was one of the first people he spoke to after putting pen to paper on his four-and-a-half year deal and now he has a first-team place in Poland and Ukraine in mind.
"It's nice to know he was here and that he was an ex-Everton player," he said. "Hopefully playing at Everton will help me go to the Euros and not only in the squad, hopefully the starting 11 too."
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poor patrick
"What? They can't hear me." I complained.
He smiled, and then mouthed "I forgot."
Patrick slowly opened the door, and cautiously stepped outside. Before he had a chance to breath Andy and Joe pounced on him, knocking him back into the room.
Pete started laughing, as did I.
I stopped though, when the 3 boys fell on the bed. Right on top of me.
"Holy fuck! It's cold in here!" Joe yelled, holding Patrick down with his hands. I laughed and walked through them over to Pete.
Patrick was screaming and Andy and Joe were unbuttoning their pants.
I suddenly did NOT want to find out what they did to Patrick, so I ran over to help. Pete tried to grab my hand to stop me, but he went straight through.
I laughed when I was standing right behind the two torturers, and I put my hand through their um... butts, I laughed harder.
They both howled and jumped off of Patrick, then ran over to Pete. They were rubbing their manly (well, maybe un manly, I didn't really know) parts, their faces both in shock.
"Dude, what the fuck was that?" Andy yelled.
Pete eyes were wide as he looked me. I didn't really care though, I was laughing hard, along with Patrick, who knew what had happened.
"Patrick, that is so not funny. Did you cast a spell on us or something?" Joe asked only half joking. I noticed his lisp. It was cute. And incredibly funny at the time.
Patrick shook his head still laughing.
The two now victims turned to Pete. "Any explanation to the uncomfortable freeze out to our ball sacks?" Andy asked.
Instead of playing it cool, Pete slightly panicked. He was looking at me with a kind of disbelieving look on his face.
"Go on, tell 'em," I said.
Pete sighed. "Well, yes actually. But you won't believe me."
"Try me." Joe said, still rubbing himself with a not-so-pretty look on his face.
"Well, there's this girl and um... she's kind of a ghost." Pete tried explaining. "And she's sitting on the bed laughing at you right now."
Andy and Joe looked at the bed, and then at each other.
Andy sighed. "Pete, I think you took too many pills today, son."
"Nah, it's true" Patrick suddenly said. "She picked up my hat."
Joe rolled his eyes. "How magical."
"No, seriously..." Patrick tried, but Andy and Joe laughed.
"Told you that you wouldn't believe me." Pete mumbled.
"It's ok Pete, there are doctors for these kinds of things..." Joe joked, causing him and Andy to laugh.
I glared at them. Hell no, they are not going to be mean to Pete Wentz.
I got up and walked over to them, thinking about what I was going to do, and then concentrating, hard. I knew I was going to hurt afterwards, but I had to do this for Pete.
So, while Andy was still laughing, I reached up and pulled his glasses off, then put them on Joe.
They went dead quiet.
"That was weird." Andy said, scratching his head..
"Really. How the hell did your glasses get on me?" Joe asked.
I sighed and pulled them off of Joe, then put them on me. But they slid down my nose.
"Pete, Andy has a big head." I whined.
Pete laughed. "Andy, she says you have a big head."
Andy smirked. Although he was freaked out, he still had to be perverted. "That's what all the girls say."
"Tell him by what I just felt, he can keep dreaming." I added, dancing around in the glasses. I of course, didn't feel him at all, but hey, if he wanted to joke, then I could too.
"She said by what she just felt, you know, when she was giving you a chill, you can keep dreaming." Pete passed on the message with a smirk.
Joe snorted. "Put in your place by a ghost chick!"
"So you believe me?" Pete asked desperately.
Andy and Joe shook their heads. "No. But yes." Joe said, confusing the hell outta me.
Pete rolled his eyes. "At least I got you halfway there."
I pulled off the glasses and placed them back on Andy's head before going and sitting on the bed, a little out of breath.
"Well, we're gonna jet. Talk to you guys later." Joe suddenly chirped, and with that him and Andy left.
Patrick stood up. I guess since they're leaving then I'll be safe. Thanks Pete. And Brailly." He added shyly.
I smiled and waved, but then remembered he couldn't see me.
Pete laughed. "She smiled and waved."
Patrick smiled. "Bye." And with that he went out of the door.
"Aw, Patrick is sweet." I commented, laying down on the bed.
Pete smiled. "Yeah, he is."
He made his way over and laid down beside me, causing a sudden rush to overcome my... well, body.
"Thanks for helping him out." He said.
"Even though you didn't want me to? No problem." I replied with a grin. I then sat up, dangling my feet off the bed. Pete copied my motions.
"So this is the life of a rock star? Seems pretty, I dunno. Not what I expected." I said, looking at the floor.
Pete chuckled. "This is one of our few days off. Tomorrow we have to go into the studio and work on the new album."
I nodded. "I was looking forward to that. The new album."
He smiled, but didn't say anything. I continued to look at the floor.
I felt him move, and blinked when his hand was placed softly on top of mine, not going through it.
I really didn't understand this whole touching this. But at the moment, I was glad he was able to.
I looked up into his eyes with a slight smile. He laced his fingers through mine before moving closer and cupping my chin in his other hand.
He then leaned forward and placed a sweet, gentle kiss on my lips. A tingling ran through my entire body as I closed my eyes, enjoying his touch.
"For someone who makes me feel cold, you have the warmest lips." He whispered. I smiled.
Then of course the moment had to be ruined. His hand slipped through mine onto the bed, and his moment of touching was over.
He looked down at our hands and sighed.
"Well, that sucks." I said, repeating an earlier awkward silence breaker. (and another gay baby was born... :])
"Yeah." He replied with a smile.
I looked at the floor, slightly pissed that I wasn't solid. But hey, if I hadn't of killed myself, then I would never have met him anyway.
Thanks everyone for the reviews! So now you can tell things are starting to warm up. I think it's funny how many people are telling me they wish they could die. Don't say that at school, now, they'll send you to a counselor.... :]


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Official Promo: An Adventure In Space and Time
The BBC has today released this awesome photo of David Bradley as William Hartnell from the forthcoming dramatised account of Doctor Who's early years, An Adventure In Space and Time!
This teaser image has probably been released in advance of footage being unveiled at the San Diego Comic Con later this month. Certainly we've already had some other images revealed at last week's Paris Comic Con, so prepare yourselves for a little bit more, Kasterborites!
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Sublime. Simply sublime!
He's 15 years too old!
And Hartnell—back in '63, looked 15 years old than he really was, so the casting is PERFECT.
I have a good feeling about this. He is great as Hartnell and much more of a likeness than Richard Hurdnall. I only hope they concentrate on his love and dedication for the show and not just on how arkward he apparently was from time to time. It's a wonderful gift for the fans.


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Nothing is Forgotten: My Process
A few people asked to see my process on my short story Nothing is Forgotten, so I thought I'd try to explain as best I can how I did it. Its always a bit strange showing my workflow though, cause it feels like I'll be found out for cheating. I can imagine the sigh of disappointment "oh…that's how he did it? meh."
I spent a good deal of time sketching out the whole story in my sketchbook. I try to keep my thumbnails as small as I can possibly draw them. These are for me to understand, so they can be super tiny. Probably even smaller than I did them here.
Once I've got the whole thing figured out (I think that's the most important part), I just copy my thumbnails onto a bigger piece of paper, and make 'em look a little prettier.
So, my materials! There aren't many!
Bristol board, and my absolute favorite thing in the world, my Kuretake brush pen. This bad boy glides around the paper smooth and easy. On some papers though it looks like garbage. For example it doesn't take well to the paper in moleskin sketchbooks.
On the bristol board I sketch out the basic layout of the thumbnail in pencil to make sure I have the composition right. I keep this really really simple. I know what it's supposed to be in the end, so it can seriously just be a few lines to give me an idea of placement. Then I just go for it with the ink.
Now the bad thing about this is, when I try to use watercolor on top of this, the ink smears all over the place. I also tend to ruin bristol board when I paint on it with watercolor.
So I do it with the magic of Photoshop.
If you're using watercolor to create the background textures, its best to use water color paper. Try different weights, different brands, different presses, they'll all give you different effects.
I use Windsor and Newton watercolors, but I suppose any would work fine. I also use yogurt container lids for my palettes so I wouldn't take my advice too seriously.
There's no real technique to this. Just experiment. This is actually the most relaxing part of the entire process. Just let go. Use the force. Use rags, salt, whatever brushes you can find laying around.
You want to scan this in REALLY high resolution or it'll look like junk against your drawing.
If you don't have watercolors, or don't feel like spending the money on all the paper and stuff, you can find lots of awesome watercolor textures online if you search for them. Just make sure you get some good high resolution ones. Make sure you ask the owners before you use them!
Ideally you'll have a lot of these so you can browse through to find the best shapes and textures possible that match your illustration. I think about 20 or 30 would be plenty.
So then you pick out an area that you think looks nice. You drag this onto your scanned in drawing, turn the layer to multiply, and you have THIS:
I didn't want the first layer to be too dark so I brightened it a bit with Image > Adjust > Levels. Oh but before you do that, make sure you make a copy of the original layer in case you ever want to go back to it.
So now I'm going to use that copied layer of the watercolor texture(also set to multiply) to make the tree stand out and make the image overall a little darker cause its supposed to be night. I don't want to just bust out the eraser though and erase the tree, cause then if I want to make corrections later I can't. So I add a layer mask.
Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal all
This allows me to hide parts of the layer by just using the paintbrush.
So I want to add another texture element on the bottom right to make it a bit more shadowy and mysterious.
This'll do.
Again using a layer mask with a black gradient to hide the edges of this new addition. It's not much, but it adds a little something.
Next up, my horrible trees (I got a lot better at drawing tree silhouettes as time went on) Don't laugh at them.
Ok you can laugh. they really are pretty bad. So I drew these trees with the selection tool, and then use a black to transparent gradient on them.
When I put them in the image though they don't look so bad. They're a background element, and just there to give the idea that this is a forest and not just a single tree. I like to think they atleast do that.
Then you have the final image! Only like a million more to go!
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Milky Way Railroad: Chapter 1, Making of
I learn so much from reading other people's techniques and get inspiration from knowing that even the pros have to work at their drawings for hours, even days, tweaking them to get them just right. Here's my process from start to finish. I hope someone will find it helpful!
I used some techniques I learned from reading Sam Bosma's blog. Go check him out, his work is crazy good!
I did about 15 or 20 thumbnails for this drawing before deciding on the one you see here. I'd post 'em up but the sketchbook they are in is lying in a box on some boat in the pacific on its way to california from japan.
Rather than try to draw characters into a composition, I like to draw them seperately in pieces. This gives me the freedom to move them around in photoshop until I feel like I've got a good balanced composition based on my thumbnail. Also if you're anything like me, drawing on a big clean sheet is nerve wracking, so this helps cause I don't feel like I have to get someones face perfect or I've messed up an entire drawing.
I then printed the comp out really big using four sheets of 8.5 by 11 paper. Tape em together, and use tracing vellum to do my pencils. I would usually just draw the whole thing in photoshop, but my big wacom is also in the depths of a boat somewhere.
After scanning in the pencil drawing, I decided I wanted something more clean, so I went over the pencil lines with my little graphire that could. I also completely changed Zanelli's face to fit more with the style of the rest of the drawing.
It helped a lot to get the values down before putting in color. There probably comes a point where you don't need to do this anymore…but I'm not there yet. Coloring is the hardest part for me. To do this, I just trace the shapes using the line drawing, throwing in random values, until I've got every shape cut out and on it's own layer (its very important to stay organized here, maybe create a separate folder for each character). Then I get rid of the lines, and use only the shapes to find my values. If it reads well without the lines, it'll read all the better with them.
I would usually spend more time on shadows, but didn't feel like dealing with it, so I created this quick layer of blue shadows and set it to multiply.
The red noses and ears…I dunno why I do it. I guess it makes them feel a little more alive. Maybe I'm modelling them after myself?
The bounced colors and shadows in the third picture… I don't really know all the rules, and there are plenty of webpages out there devoted to this subject. I just kinda go with, if theres a red wall, anything next to it is gonna get a bit of a red tint. Sometimes I don't care about the rules and just add whatever color I want. Sometimes that works, but usually it looks terrible.
Adding the lines back never gets old. Its like opening a present on Christmas morning.
I wish I could say that I hand make all my textures but the you could call me a big liar. I got the ones I used on this image from a great blog called Lost and Taken. Its full of all sorts of textures.
Using these help get rid of that cold digital feeling. Its a quick cheat though. I'm sure there are better ways. I usually put set these layers to soft light, but just experiment and find what works best for you.
Adjust the levels and color balance and you've got a finished image!
I gave myself two days to finish this (although I've been doing thumbnails here and there for at least a month now), so while I could keep tweaking and tweaking to my hearts content, my self made deadline is up and this is the final.
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Heroin addicts who can't quit using and don't respond to methadone treatment can be helped by maintenance doses of heroin, according to a study conducted by researchers at King's College London.
Reuters reported May 28 that heroin maintenance, while obviously not a cure for addiction, at least kept most of the hardcore addicts in the study away from street drugs, which in turn helped prevent use of dirty needles and other unhealthy behaviors. In fact, about two-thirds of the heroin-maintenance group tested clean for the presence of street drugs, a far better performance than among methadone patients, two-thirds of whom typically test positive for use of street drugs.
Some of the study participants stayed in the program for more than two years and were able to get jobs and reconnect with family members, researchers added. "People are not only physically getting better, but they're getting back into society," said study author John Strang.
The findings were published in the May 28, 2010 issue of The Lancet.


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This is a family-friendly home at Horseshoe Beach located on the Gulf with breathtaking views! The home is very spacious so everyone has room to enjoy their vacation.
The great room has two sitting areas for families to enjoy sunsets, observe wildlife and watch for boats to arrive with the day's catch! One sitting area has a TV and the other has a cozy fireplace, a perfect reading spot. The sitting areas are divided by the fabulous dining table, which seats 12. Whether cooking in the kitchen, dining with family and friends, or enjoying the sitting areas, you will face the beautiful Gulf of Mexico.
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WASHINGTON (WKZO) -- The deadline is fast approaching for Congress to approve a federal spending plan in order to avoid a government shutdown, and it looks like the Tea Party wing of the Republican party could just be willing to let a shutdown happen. The problem here is the Affordable Care Act, which some of the Tea Partiers say should be defunded before any other government budgets are approved.
Democratic Senator Carl Levin says they're playing Russian Roulette with the government, telling us that there's practically no issue that some faction of Congress couldn't make simiolar threats about. He doesn't think that most Republicans are even on the side of the Tea Party, and believes the leadership is just cowtowing in order to avoid facing a primary fight from the Tea Party.
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She enjoys traveling, cooking and eating good food, shopping, Weekends in the Kai, Fitness, Being Outdoors, Surfing, Boating, Snowboarding, Wakeboarding, and of course Miller BBQ's under the almond tree in Old Man Bay.
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She is presently working towards a Bachelors degree in Finance with a Minor in Marketing from the same institution,
earned her undergraduate degree majoring in Accounting at Elon University in North Carolina. She hopes to be a Certified Public Accountant
Samantha is the title holder for Miss Earth Cayman Islands 2010-2011
Cassianne is a goal oriented individual whom strives to be the best she can at everything she does.
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What's more, Project AWARE supports divers with the tools and resources to join in campaigns and activities that contribute to advancing the health of the ocean for future generations.
We've removed millions of cigarette butts from the ocean floor and way too many toilets to mention. We've rescued hundreds of entangled sea turtles, dolphins and sharks – one by one - setting them free from discarded fishing gear. We've pounded the pavement and flooded the halls of local governments, insisting on better protections for manta rays, hammerheads and sawfish. We've made history by helping create one of the world's largest marine reserve in Australia.
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Al Sharpton is a political and social activist in the fight against injustice. (added from Simon & Schuster)
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The Better Market Street project held a public workshop on Wednesday at the Parc 55 hotel, seeking feedback and reaction to each of the three plans that will alter Market Street (and perhaps Mission Street). Construction of this project is slated for 2017, and has two stated overall goals: Optimize sustainable mobility modes (transit, walking […] [Read More]


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Is there 'Perfect'?
One of the themes that has been running the past year is creating 'Perfect'.
Creating Perfect....for me. What does that look like, how does it feel, when does it intersect with.......everything? What can you create in your life, to be in your optimal operating state to be at your best...most creative?
As if one is meditating and gently bringing oneself back to the meditation as the mind wanders and talks to itself.....you are gently bringing yourself back to your 'Perfect Practice'.....that optimal operating state.
Would love to hear if you think it is completely bunk, if you live in the OOS and are creating that perfect place and what that looks like.
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Jun 21 2012: Perfection is actualization at the full extent gradually. Perfection is not specifically focus on just one of possibilities. But perfection implements all possibilities gradually with no one left behind.
Relatively, when someone has ability to use for both of eyes, in this case, someone is perfect in using eyes, because the two eyes can be activated to see images, but if we ask for how good for both of our eyes capturing images? The answer may lead to the fact that our eyes may not full functional as it should be compared to others.
To make a better understanding that most of people misunderstood, about God is perfect. Perfect God means, God should be able to implement God's possibilities as realities, (whether we consider it as good or bad, but since those are part of God's abilities, it should be realized, because God is perfect).
Perfect is not related to specific ability of all possibilities that could be realized, but precisely asserts that all possibilities that could be realized, must be able to be realized.
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Please check this out. With mainstream people seeing us as what cosplayers are portrayed as in "Heroes of Cosplay", I wrote a blog post about what REAL cosplay is.
I got Animal Crossing New Leaf a few days ago and I want to visit people and make new friends and stuff.
My friend code is 4141-2851-0050 my town sucks because lol hey just started this week but I want to see other people's towns and villagers and stuff.
So yeah, send me an ask with your code and we can be friends and stuff maybe?


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Tadeusz Rózewicz Biography and Poems. This is biographical information on Tadeusz Rózewicz, one of the best poets of all time. This biography page also provides a link to poems written by Rózewicz, as well as, a video biography...if available.
Tadeusz Rózewicz (born 1921), Polish poet and writer
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Origins News Roundup for September 17, 2014
Read about the death of Wolfhart Pannenberg, still debating creation and evolution, and a really big dinosaur discovery.
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Read about the death of Wolfhart Pannenberg, still debating creation and evolution, and a really big dinosaur discovery.
This week's news features volcanoes, skeletons, and stars, as well as a thought-provoking new book from InterVarsity press.
Geologist Keith Miller examines the "Cambrian Explosion", a period of rapid evolutionary diversification approximately 575 million years ago, and whether it poses a challenge to evolutionary theory. From the June 2014 issue of Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith from the American Scientific Affiliation.
Some people who brook no "god of the gaps" arguments anywhere else look to these three moments as more reasonable places to insert God into natural processes: God spoke matter/energy into existence, God made life out of lifeless matter, and God breathed a soul into human beings.
This entry was originally posted on February 13, 2010. While the question of evolutionary predisposition toward religious belief may be challenging, Christians need not see it as threatening. In fact, this is actually a Pauline notion that is explored in Romans 1, where Paul claims that it is in mankind's nature to "know God".
I was raised in a household of atheists. My parents were card-carrying members of the American Communist Party, and therefore the atheism in my household was quite close to the militant anti-theism of the so-called "new atheists".
In this video conversation, N.T. Wright discusses how the Enlightenment worldview -- which clearly separates God from the world -- has impacted our view of Scripture, and why cleaning the "spectacles" through which we view the world can help us see both Scripture and the world more clearly.
A common argument leveled against the theory of evolution is that scientists have not been able to produce transitional fossils that show the change of one species into another. In this podcast, we address a common misconception about what transitional fossils actually are.
In this series, James Kidder provides an intriguing study on transitional fossils and the evolutionary history of modern humans. He begins by discussing the fossil record, explaining how new forms are classified. He then explains the physically distinguishing trait of humankind—bipedalism. From the discovery of Ardipithecus, the earliest known hominin, to the australopithecines, the most prolific hominin, Kidder focuses on the discovery, the anatomy, and the interpretation of these ancestral remains.
Genes and physiology are seen as something different from "us" and "our mind," and they seem to be controlling us, so we can't even change our mind. Humans are presented as pawns of their biology, puppets dancing to the tune of their genetic masters.
Once we have a scientific hypothesis for how something exists, it is tempting to make the philosophical inference that this is also why it exists.
Do you believe in God? If a cadre of outspoken, strong atheists wrote a litmus test for scientists, that might very well be question #1.
This ongoing series written by historian Ted Davis begins with a brief synopsis of his personal background, and then goes on to reveal his passion for debunking "the now-common view that the history of science and Christianity is one of ongoing, inevitable conflict."
If God himself is willing to die, particularly in such a gruesome way, then perhaps we should at least consider the possibility of God allowing the death of other creatures, too. But would this really be compatible with what we know of God through Scripture?
To say something is poetic is not to declare it ultimately untrue, futile and meaningless—it is to say it is more profound and meaningful and true than many other modes of expression.
We find no compelling evidence that the earth's geological features can be explained by a global Flood. Here we consider three lines of evidence: global salt deposits, the order of deposition of sediment layers in the Grand Canyon, and the sequence of fossils in geological strata.
In this talk, Professor Plantinga addresses the fact that many contemporary thinkers—including many theologians—believe that God cannot perform miracles, providentially guide history, or interact in the lives of people, as these activities would be contrary to science. Plantinga, on the other hand, makes the case that this popular view is mistaken; excluding divine action in the world is not a central feature of natural science itself, but a philosophical or theological preference that has been added on to science (and can just as readily be removed). Plantinga concludes that it is completely logical to accept the miracles of the Bible and support contemporary science.
Many Christians believe that they face a painful choice-- either life was designed by God or it is an evolutionary product of natural selection. Charles Darwin himself believed in this dichotomy, and people ever since have felt the need to "choose sides". However, looking back at history, we find that one of Darwin's chief scientific colleagues, Asa Gray, did not share this perspective. In this three-part essay, part 1 charts the relationship of Asa Gray and Charles Darwin. Part 2 describes Darwin's struggle with the problem of natural evil and design in nature, and part 3 explores how Asa Gray was able to embrace evolution without rejecting the idea of design.


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I was first introduced to the Illegal Wiretaps when they graced the electronic pages of my What's in a Name? feature. I didn't know how really to describe them then, and I still don't really know now. Electronica is a safe term, as is experimental. Nonetheless, these are by definition vague genres ... More >>
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Survivors of a nuclear disaster scratch each other's eyes out in The Divide.
Photos by David EnsmingerTSOL Walter's on Washington May 7, 2011 In the dramatic, razor-sharpened lens of TSOL songs, suburbia is far from a sleepy wonderland bedecked with slick malls and coiffeured lawns. Those tracts of same-samey homes are chock-full of demons such as singer Grisham hims ... More >>
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"We were little pricks, but bored out of our minds..." The Adolescents on the 2007 Warped TourFor 30 years, seminal Orange County punk band the Adolescents has unleashed anthemic teen angst, since mutated into wise adult aggravation, in intermittent bursts. Sure, members come and go at revol ... More >>
Rocks Off has always been a fan of symbolism, hidden meanings and puzzles in general, so besides Raymond Chandler, Stephen King and Larry McMurtry, our favorite form of "lit-rah-chah" is allegorical stuff like George Orwell's Animal Farm, William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Edgar Allan Po ... More >>
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Look for bags of colorful baby potatoes, which cook quickly. If you can't find them, use halved fingerling potatoes. Squeeze the soft roasted garlic out of the skins, and enjoy with the potatoes.
This recipe goes with Bistro Steak with Red Wine Sauce, Chicken with Quick Chile Verde, Grilled Halibut with Tarragon Beurre Blanc
Cooking Light APRIL 2013
1. Preheat oven to 450°.
2. Remove white papery skin from garlic head; separate but do not peel cloves. Place garlic, olive oil, potatoes, thyme sprigs, and rosemary sprigs in a large bowl; toss to coat. Arrange potato mixture on a foil-lined jelly-roll pan. Sprinkle evenly with 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt and pepper. Bake at 450° for 25 minutes, stirring after 13 minutes. Sprinkle with 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt and parsley.
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Medical Director, Sports Medicine Program at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta; Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine.
From recreational activities to free-play to team sports to camps, outdoor activities in the south during the late summer months have one thing in common — the heat.
Heat-related illness is responsible for thousands of emergency room visits. Heat injury can range from mild heat cramps to heat stroke and death. It's always concerning when I get a call from an athletic trainer, coach or parent telling me a child had to go to the hospital to be treated for dehydration or heat illness, because these conditions are largely preventable.
Armed with basic knowledge about how the body regulates temperature and simple hydration tips, parents can reduce the risk of children suffering heat-related illness.
How children's bodies regulate temperature
Kids generate more heat during exercise than adults.
Children have a limited ability to send blood to the skin (which results in sweating and evaporative cooling — the most efficient way the body cools itself during activity), because they have less blood volume than adults.
Kids begin sweating later during exercise than adults.
Children absorb heat from the ground and pavement because they are closer to the ground than adults. This causes a child's body temperature to rise more quickly than that of an adult.
Kids take longer to adjust to higher temperatures and humidity than adults. Children who are new to the South or who are out of shape should exercise for shorter, less intense sessions three to four times per week for two weeks to allow their bodies and temperature regulation response to adjust.
Keeping your child hydrated
Never rely on thirst. When a child begins to feel thirsty, he or she may already be one percent to two percent dehydrated.
Prehydrate. Thirty minutes before activity, have your child drink until he or she is no longer thirsty — then drink another eight ounces of liquid. Children weighing less than 90 pounds should drink five ounces after every 20 minutes of activity. Kids weighing more than 90 pounds should drink eight ounces every 20 minutes.
Water is the best drink for kids participating in activities lasting one hour or less. Children engaging in activities lasting more than one hour should drink a fluid with carbohydrates (sugars) and electrolytes. Sports drinks were designed specifically for re-hydration during exercise and contain the right amount of carbohydrates, about six percent to eight percent.
Fluids like fruit juice and soda contain a great deal of sugar and can cause cramping. Beverages containing carbonation and caffeine should be avoided, because the carbonation can make a child feel bloated and caffeine can speed up metabolism, which generates more heat.
Drink it, don't pour it. Pouring cold water on the head or face may feel great when temperatures are high, but doing so does not improve hydration.
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There is a local company addressing this issue with technology.
They put smart chips in Helmets and headbands to monitor body temperature. Alerts are sent to coaches and trainers if a person is overheating.
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I use this app several times a day, just as much as Facebook really! It rarely forecloses, but it really irritates me that whoever writes these stories makes NUMEROUS grammatical errors. Also, once in a blue moon, there will be an hourly weather forecast.
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Editor's note: This is one in a series of Fast Facts offered from the CNN Library giving a more in-depth look at a person or topic in the news.
(CNN) -- Here's a look at what you need to know about the Nobel Prize, an international award given yearly for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Economics, and Peace.
Facts: Nobel prize recipients are called laureates.
The award consists of a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash prize (8-million Swedish kroner (SEK) - almost $1.2 million U.S. dollars as of September 2013).
The main inscription on one side of the Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, and Literature Nobel Prize medals is the same: "Inventas vitam juvat excoluisse per artes," loosely translated, "And they who bettered life on earth by new found mastery." Word for word translation, "inventions enhance life which is beautified through art."
The Peace medal has the inscription "Pro pace et fraternitate gentium," translated, "For the peace and brotherhood of men."
The Economics medal has no inscription.
Nobel prizes are announced in advance but awarded on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
The Nobel Prizes for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Economics are awarded at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded at its own ceremony in Oslo, Norway. Periodically, no prize has been awarded. This happened most recently in 1972.
The number of winners is limited to three per category.
A person must be alive to be nominated. If they die during the consideration period, their name will be removed. Only if a person is announced as a winner and dies prior to the ceremony, will a posthumous award be given.
The Nobel Foundation protects the common interests of the Prize Awarding institutions: the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Timeline: 1866 - Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. He later builds companies and laboratories in more than 20 countries around the world.
December 10, 1896 - Nobel dies in Italy at the age of 63. His will endows awards in five categories: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, and Peace.
June 29, 1900 - The Nobel Foundation is established. It is the central body of the Nobel organization responsible for awarding the Nobel Prizes.
1901 - The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
1939-1943 - No Nobel Peace Prizes are awarded.
1968 - A sixth award, Economics, is added by the Bank of Sweden (Sveriges Riksbank) in the memory of Alfred Nobel.


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Children in Haiti suffer many daily challenges. They constantly face the effects of hunger and malnutrition from a diet lacking in basic protein, and are lucky if they can find one good meal a day. Contaminated food and drinking water can cause cholera and other diseases. Parents of these children in poverty unknowingly turn their children over to a life of child labour.
Child labour abuse through child slaves known as "restaveks," affects almost 400,000 Haitian children. Restavek is a Creole term from the French rester avec, meaning "to stay with" or "to remain with." Unfortunately, it more accurately describes a child living as a house slave. Children as young as 4 or 5 up to age 18 are Haitian restaveks. Three quarters of them are girls.
When all is lost at home through crop failure or sickness, animals are sold to buy medicines and food. When these resources are gone, the only way to provide for these destitute children of Haiti is by sending them to live with families in the cities with the promise of food, shelter, education, and a better life. In many cases, these promises are not reality. This child exploitation subjects many to a life of verbal and physical abuse and mistreatment.
Lack of education, job training and opportunity keeps them from moving forward. They struggle with poor social skills and emotional development as a result of their harsh treatment and separation from family. Having no way to contact their families and not wanting to stay with cruel employers, many of these children go to the streets to live.
Once on the streets, these displaced children of Haiti are forced to steal, beg and become involved in violence. They also become slaves of a different nature as child sexual exploitation leads them to a life of prostitution in order to survive.
Many suffer from hunger and malnutrition, contract STDs and HIV/AIDS or end up in prison. It is estimated that there are 10,000 Haitian street children, up to 8,000 alone in the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
It's not hard to see why our friends, Marlene and Daniel Alix, the founders/directors of Faith and Love in Action Orphanage, were moved to action by taking in homeless girls to their own home from the streets of Port-au-Prince 17 years ago. Since that time, their ministry has evolved into an orphanage that houses 75 children, both girls and boys of all ages.
We can also appreciate how relieved they were to finally be able to move all the children from Port-au-Prince to the much safer area of Jacmel.
Haitian Boy With Plaintain Leaf Healing Remedy
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Like their African descendents, Haitians face the many struggles of HIV/AIDS as it continues to spread across the country. As of 2006, an estimated 250,000 were diagnosed with this dread disease, and we can assume many more undiagnosed cases exist as well. It is the main cause of death among Haitian women in their reproductive years.
There are approximately 200,000 HIV/AIDS orphaned children and at least 12,000 of these children in Haiti are infected themselves.
A country facing little or no health care run by corrupt governments, leaves children in Haiti living in poverty, vulnerable to so many challenges.
The Julia Project Foundation wants to make a difference in the lives of these hurting Haitian children by providing Haiti Orphanage Relief.
Julia, our charity's namesake, and I extend a warm welcome to you.
—Jill Carty, Founder
A charity motorcycle ride in The Kawarthas and Lakefield, Ontario to support our efforts helping HIV aids orphans and children in poverty.
African school kids face daily challenges to their basic survival. The Julia Project Foundation wants to make a difference for hurting children in poverty.
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