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The conference seeks to bring together scholars, teachers, artists, activists, and other individuals or groups dedicated to Chican@ Studies and Latin@ Studies. With a trans-/extra-disciplinary approach, the 2013 annual conference will represent areas of concern in Chican@, Latin@, Ethnic, Gender, and Critical Race Studies, History, Philosophy, Art, Literature, Theatre and Performance, Music, Social Psychology, Education, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Economics, and other approaches concerned with social justice. Proposals on the methods and outcomes of participatory or action research are particularly encouraged. The program will feature panels on Human Rights, Critical Pedagogies and Epistemologies, Native Issues, Decolonization / Democratization, Gender and LGBTQ Issues, Race and Racialization, Politics, Language, Transnationalism and Immigration. Those with experience as students, teachers, activists, scholars, artists, and other community members are invited to submit the following types of proposals: panels, papers, performances, posters/exhibits, creative activities, testimonios, round tables, film screenings, workshops, and other innovative presentations.
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FOUR people have been arrested in Widnes under a police operation aimed at taking 'untouchable' drug gangs out of operation.
Three men and a woman were among 23 people arrested in a series of simultaneous dawn raids, which saw up to 150 police officers swoop on 28 homes across Widnes, Speke and Garston.
On Tuesday, sniffer dogs were used to search suspects' homes while a police helicopter provided cover for the teams on the ground.
Officers are now thanking residents in Widnes who provided tipoffs about drug-dealing in their area.
Operation Cray was spearheaded by police in Merseyside, with help from the Cheshire officers who raided eight addresses across Widnes.
A suspected cannabis farm, crack cocaine and a supply of ammunition were among the items found during the raids.
Now police are planning to step up action against the drug dealers by seizing the assets of suspected criminals, including their cars and houses.
Supt Justine Curran said: 'Operation Cray is the result of a year's work in and around South Liverpool and heralds the beginning of a wider operation to remove the criminals who form the higher echelons of the drugs trade in the area.
'Merseyside Police has a message to those who think their tight-knit drug-dealing fraternities are untouchable - you are not.
'We will not tolerate drug-dealing on Merseyside and through operations like this we will be keeping the pressure on the drug criminals.'
Det Chief Insp Geoff Tickle, who led the operation, said: 'By tackling drug crime we will be able to have a substantial impact on other kinds of crime which affect our local communities.
'We will also be working with our partners in the drug action team to provide information about the dangers of drug use but also to support users who will be affected by today's activity.
'Only by working alongside other agencies can we hope to make an impact on drug crime and its effects for the long term.'
Police are delighted with the intelligence being supplied by residents and are urging them to keep on informing them of suspected drug activity in their area by contacting the CrimeStoppers hotline on 0800 555 111.


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They watched the little blips of their heartbeats on a monitor, and they peered into each other's eyes and ears with the same kind of instruments their pediatricians use.
They used professional syringes to give "shots" to Raggedy Ann dolls, learned how to put a plaster cast on a finger and peered through microscopes in the Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles laboratory.
But the thing that puzzled the fifth-graders touring the hospital was the emergency room incubator: Why was it needed? And how in the world did they get a baby through those small round holes on the incubator's side?
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After a year of speculation, the Home Retail Group (Argos to you and me) saw the wrangling for its ownership finally take a clearer direction on Friday, when J Sainsbury Plc tabled a £1.1bn offer for the UK-based general merchandise retailer.
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An Afternoon with Ike: Eisenhower on Campus One-Half Century Ago
By Sam Starnes
More than three decades before he would achieve the rank of four-star general, John Tilelli, who grew up on a farm in New Jersey, shook the hand of Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of only five men ever named a five-star general in America's history. The handshake came when "Ike," as the two-term former commander-in-chief was commonly known, visited Pennsylvania Military College on the Friday before the 1963 commencement for a luncheon in his honor, a military review of the cadets, a ceremony in which he bestowed awards, and a reception. "In my wildest dreams as a young man, I never dreamed I would get that close to a president," said Tilelli, a 1963 PMC graduate who was awarded an honorary doctorate from Widener in 1996.
As he prepared to graduate from PMC that weekend, Tilelli was bound for military service, but said he did not aspire to make a career of the Army until ten years later. He ultimately was named a four-star general in 1994, becoming the highest-ranking graduate from PMC and Widener. While serving as a general and working in the Pentagon, Tilelli went on to meet other presidents. He worked as a commander in the first Gulf War for President George H.W. Bush, whom he refers to as "Bush 41," and he later served in the Pentagon under President Bill Clinton. Although Tilelli retired in 1999 before President George W. Bush took office, he also worked with "Bush 43" when he served as president and CEO of the United Service Organization (USO.)
Almost fifty years later, looking back on his first meeting with a president, Tilelli, now chairman and CEO of Cypress International and vice chair of Widener's Board of Trustees, remembers it as a landmark event for the class of 1963 that pointed its graduates on a path toward success. "It set the final values and allowed us to come to where we are today," he said.
The Sharples Connection
The origin of Eisenhower's visit to PMC began the previous year with a letter from Philip T. Sharples. Sharples, a businessman, aviation pioneer, and an active Republican fundraiser, was the brother of the PMC chairman of the Board of Trustees, Laurence P. Sharples, then a vice president in the thriving family business and also an aviation innovator. In December 1962, Brigadier Gen. Robert Schultz, aide to Eisenhower, responded to Philip Sharples's request of the president. "He is presently in Georgia but read your letter while in enroute from New York to Augusta and has asked me to advise you that he will take the review late in May," Schultz wrote. (Eisenhower was a frequent visitor to the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia where the Masters tournament is played.) After the invitation to visit campus was accepted, President Moll appealed to Eisenhower's widely known love of golf—one history of Eisenhower indicates that he played about 800 rounds of golf in the eight years that he was president—in a letter to Schultz in February 1963. "Appreciating the General's fondness for golf," Moll wrote, "we would be most pleased to arrange a foursome for him at the Springhaven Club in Wallingford, less than 10 minutes from here." Eisenhower, however, did not take Moll up on his offer.
Although Eisenhower is arguably the most significant historical figure ever to visit Widener or PMC, the college in this period was quite accustomed to welcoming influential guests to campus and took the event in stride, said Robert Pierpont, a 1954 PMC graduate who at the time of Eisenhower's visit worked in the college's administration as assistant to PMC President Clarence Moll. One challenge Eisenhower's visit posed was where to serve the lunch to the president and about two dozen select guests. "We had no good place to have a nice meal for that many people who would all want to be seated at the same table with the president," Pierpont said.
He said the solution was a large, temporary table of plywood built in the lobby of Alumni Auditorium, at the time a two-year-old building. A copy of PMC's budget for "Eisenhower Day" indicates the "special table" cost $50 to build. According to a planning menu, the entrees served on that table were a choice of "Lobster Newberg in Patty shell OR Filet Mignon." An earlier suggested menu had proposed "Frog legs & Crab Meat in Casserole on Melba Toast," but like the offer of a round golf, that entrée didn't make the final cut.
Eisenhower and Geoghegan
The late spring day of Eisenhower's visit offered a clear blue sky with a low in the
high fifties rising to the high seventies. Barbara Geoghegan Johns, then a junior
at Beaver College (now Arcadia College) in Glenside, Pa., said that her future husband,
John Lance "Jack" Geoghegan, a senior at PMC and the class president, drove from PMC
to pick her up that morning to attend the Eisenhower review. It would be one of their
very first dates.
Eisenhower, at the time 72, and two-and-a-half years after leaving the White House, arrived at noon in a car driven by his aide. Wearing a dark blue suit and tie and a gray fedora, he was greeted at the front entrance to Old Main by an honor guard and President Moll and Maj. Gen. William Shepard Biddle, PMC's commandant of cadets, who escorted him to Alumni Auditorium. Biddle, according to the Delaware County Daily Times, was an "old friend" who had served under Eisenhower in World War II.
After the lunch but before the review and awards ceremony, Pierpont joined Eisenhower, Moll, and others who adjourned for a break in the Tumbleston Room, a lounge area that is now the PMC Museum. Eisenhower, as others remarked, was very gracious. "He was generally a nice, polite guy," Pierpont said. "You would never know that he had been the commanding officer who won the war—and had been president."
Jack Geoghegan had arranged for Barbara Geoghegan Johns to sit in the bleachers for the review on what was then the football field behind Old Main. The stands were packed, and included some students from nearby Stetser School, with whom Eisenhower chatted. Jack Geoghegan had not told Barbara of the high-profile role he would play in the ceremony: Serving as the cadet escort for Eisenhower during the parade and review, and presenting the president with a silver sabre and reading a short statement making him the first honorary captain in the history of the school.
When the military parade began with Jack Geoghegan by Eisenhower's side, an entrance that included the president standing at attention for a 21-gun salute, Barbara Geoghegan Johns told those in the stands with her that she could not tell which one Jack was—all cadets had donned formal military dress uniforms with hats that featured a strap worn beneath the nose. "They told me, 'He's the one with the president,'" she said. "I remember what a strange feeling it was watching them walk together."
Geoghegan then rode standing in the front of an Army Jeep while Eisenhower and Laurence Sharples stood in the back as the cadet band played. Geoghegan later presented Eisenhower with a silver sabre and a plaque, making these comments:
"Sir, this sabre is a symbol of leadership within the Corps of Cadets. It carries also with it a willingness to fight and die for our country, that you were so willing to do yourself. It finally carries responsibility. A responsibility that you as general and statesman were all too willing to exercise. Upon your decisions has rested the fact that we are free rather than captive Americans."
After Geoghegan's presentation, Eisenhower made brief remarks to the crowd. "I assure you," said Eisenhower, a 1912 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, "I did not attain the rank of first captain at West Point."
Eisenhower presented awards to nine cadets, including Geoghegan who took the top honor with the Francis M. Taitt Prize, designated for an outstanding soldier and gentleman with the neatest appearance in the cadet corps. "He was truly honored that Eisenhower came," Barbara Geoghegan Johns said. "He was very happy to be the person escorting him."
David Oskin '64, '07H, a junior at the time, received the Lt. J. William Wolfgram Memorial Medal given to the most soldierly cadet. Oskin does not remember precisely what Eisenhower said, only that he was very warm and courteous while Oskin himself was quite nervous. "I just wanted to make sure that my knees didn't buckle," said Oskin, a member of Widener's Board of Trustees who served as the board's chairman for nine years. "I was absolutely spellbound and elated. He was a general and president I had read about in books for years. It was very special to have someone like Ike put the award on your chest. It is one of the things in life that you don't forget. I felt very proud of my college that day."
David McNulty, secretary of the class of 1963 and editor of that year's Sabre & Sash–the PMC annual–was excited about Eisenhower's visit because copies of the yearbook he had labored to compile and edit had arrived only two days prior. Biddle agreed to give McNulty and his friend B. David Lake, president elect of student council for the rising senior class, time to present Eisenhower with the yearbook. With McNulty's family, fiancé, and others looking on, he and Lake shook his hand and spoke briefly with Eisenhower while standing outside the Biddle residence on 14th Street. McNulty said the historical significance of the moment resonated deeply. "We met and got our pictures taken with the Supreme Allied Commander of World War II, the man who ordered the D-Day invasion and achieved victory in Europe, the president of the United States, the man who put the words 'under God' in our nation's pledge of allegiance," McNulty said. "It was a day that we all would cherish as a milestone in our lives forever."
After a short reception back in Alumni Auditorium, Pierpont remembers Eisenhower leaving with very little fanfare. Unlike modern presidential visits that feature a heavy police presence, security was minimal. "There was no Secret Service with him," Pierpont said. Nor was there a motorcade. "I distinctly remember his driving off with the aide back to Gettysburg. As far as I can remember, they were the only two people in the car."
The Cusp of Great Change
The time of Eisenhower's visit came on the cusp of much great change in the college
and in the country. "In June of 1963, we couldn't even spell Vietnam," said McNulty,
who, like Tilelli, was commissioned into the Army that weekend. "It was the end of
an era."
That November, President Kennedy would be assassinated, and into the mid-1960s, the Vietnam War would escalate. Eisenhower visited PMC again in 1965, speaking to freshmen and to the Greater Chester dinner held on campus. He died in 1969. Nine years after his first visit and three years after his death, Pennsylvania Military College and Penn Morton College would become Widener College.
The coming years also brought much personal change for the class of 1963. Jack Geoghegan and Barbara Geoghegan Johns were married after her graduation in June 1964. After a year serving with the Catholic Relief Services in Africa, they had a child, Camille, in June 1965. Jack Geoghegan, who was commissioned in 1963 but had a two-year wait before serving, soon shipped off to Vietnam and was killed in the battle of Ia Drang in November 1965. The 1992 book, We Were Soldiers Once...and Young, tells the story of the battle in which he was killed (actor Chris Klein portrayed Geoghegan in the 2002 movie based on the book). Widener's John L. Geoghegan Student Citizenship Award is given annually for academic achievement, leadership, and community service. Keeping Geoghegan's memory alive at Widener has been important to McNulty, a close friend of Geoghegan. "Jack was a great guy," McNulty said. "He could have been president."
David Oskin, who in the years following served in Vietnam and then went on to a very successful business career, said the leadership exemplified by Eisenhower should be studied. "When I think of Ike, I think of leadership," said Oskin, for whom Widener's Oskin Leadership Institute is named. "He showed character and courage."
Tilelli also concurred with the leadership qualities of Eisenhower. "Your leaders in essence are a patchwork quilt of people you look up to," Tilelli said. "His style of leadership is an excellent one to emulate for young people."
Looking back, Tilelli said it is remarkable how fast half a century can pass. "Fifty years went by in a blink of an eye," he said. "Time goes a lot quicker than one might hope." But he said those years have been good to the place he calls his undergraduate alma mater and has continued to serve as a trustee. "The college changed to a magnificent university," Tilelli said. "It was a great college at that time. It's now a great university with the right mission and the right goals—supporting global and community leadership."


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Bipolar Schizophrenic Politics: Democrats vs Republicans
by Donald R. Barbera
It's lying season again. That means that politicians will be coming out with their best suits and best coats of armor to entice the people to vote for them. Both, Democrats and Republicans will be vying for your vote and at some point, we will give it to them, but before we do, here are a few thoughts that crossed my mind.
Democrats. Republicans. Those words did not hold much meaning for me as a child because I was unaware of what they meant or what they stood for in the United States. Now, that I understand what those words mean and what they stand for in the United States; these words hold even less meaning than they did when I was a child. The greatness of the United States lies in the words that it has so eloquently generated concerning the inalienable rights of man, the concept of all men being created equal and the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
Unfortunately, we have been unable to live up to those words or the concepts. It is not that the words are beyond our grasp, rather; they are beyond our capacity. As a product of a bipolar society is the primary reason the words Democrats and Republicans mean little to me personally and even less in the overall context with the stated mission of the United States. The bipolar mind drives the United States in its manic excesses. Most countries, except those emulating the United States, have a multi-party political system realizing that one, two or even three parties is not enough to represent the will of all of its people. Politics in these countries are lively and even unpredictable at times. Multiple parties require the building of coalitions and reaching out to all members of society if that group is to have a chance to gain power or stay in power.
Unfortunately, race and religion have polarized "thinking" in the United States and has led to political expediency rather than political excellence; political posturing rather than honesty; and, the subsidization of hatred rather than the mending of wounds. Sadly, I believe it stems from how this country began more than four hundred years ago.
Many settlers came to this country came to escape religious tyranny at the hands of the British. However, once they arrived they invoked their own brand of religious intolerance upon anyone who did not believe as they did. Still, they were only following the Protestant tradition started by Martin Luther.
Once Luther broke from the Catholic Church, the split among the Protestants proceeded at a geometric rate and continued once it reached the New World. The interesting past of these religious rifts was the surety of its followers that they were right and everyone else was wrong despite the fact that many of the people they persecuted claimed to believe in the same God. Though the first Africans in this country came as slaves of the Spanish in the 1500s, it took the British to put the other part of the American psyche together to make for complete schizophrenia. At first, the number of white settlers and African slaves were few. In fact, slaves usually outnumbered whites. It was not unusual for Indians, Africans and whites to consort, but this changed as a pseudo aristocracy arrived in the New World. This was the true beginning of slavery in the United States.
Up until the mid-1800' the church remained virtually silent on the institution of slavery even though its greatest book, "The Bible", held enough tenants to halt the spread of slavery if "the church" had wanted it. However, the history of Christianity is replete with riding on the "band wagon" and not "rocking the boat" when it comes doing what is right. Eventually, to solve this "potentially" moral predicament "European" whites came up with the idea that the darker races of the earth were inherently subservient to the so-called white race, even though they had put whites into indentured servitude for years before this idea.
However, by coming up with this idea, whites had an unending supply of free labor for every child born to a slave was immediately a piece of property and a slave for life. Later, the one-drop rule of hypodescent further served to rid white America of the hybrid children it had sired by making sure that any one with a drop of black blood would be part of the slave class.
It all seemed to work well except the very things that had brought them to this country; religious freedom and the concept of freedom itself, resurrected themselves and caused a moral quandary for the country. Shortly after this enlightenment came the Civil War. The Civil War killed thousands of American young men from the North and South and yet, it seems, no lessons were learned.
Why? The answer is complex and involves religion, human nature and ideals. The United States has not lived up to its lofty ideal. It has not faced itself in the mirror and seen Dorian Grey. This hideous nature of the United States is wrapped securely in our bipolar nature. A history of racism is the underlying mindset of the United States and only serves to emphasize this repulsive nature. Everything is set up to be a win or lose situation. There is no room for permutations of gray. That is the problem.
Most human beings have the capacity to see what is right and what is wrong and the shades of gray between the two. Unfortunately, the two party system makes no room for this reality and asks us to shoehorn our way into a system that does not fit. Once of the most interesting fetes in recent political history was the introduction of a third party with a candidate who was actually drawing considerable attention and forcing the established power bases to actually address issues rather than trot out tired old palliatives.
However, that bid failed and its back to business as usual. That is why I believe that black people need to start using their political power to reward and punish. That is as simple as it gets. The Democratic Party has long taken the black vote for granted doing only what was not politically hazardous to staying in office. It was once the same for the Republican Party before Woodrow Wilson ruined that for the GOP.
Bits and pieces for the black community filter down on a regular basis but bits and pieces are not enough. Only full enfranchisement is acceptable. If that means changing votes regularly, then, that is what we must do. Damn the Democrats and reject the Republicans. Let's vote them in and then vote them out until they get the message, which is simply, "don't take us for granted."


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What is the last day I can register for the program?
Registration for CNA programs close one week before the start of a program. No exceptions.
By when do I need to have the CNA checklist complete?
The CNA checklist must be complete by the first day of class or students will be dropped from the program.
Do I need to bring the CNA checklist and documents with class to me on the first day or will my HS Counselor submit them for me?
You are expected to bring the checklist and your documentation to give to your instructor. Your HS Counselor should not be holding the information for you.
Can I stay in the program if I miss the first day of class?
No. If you miss the first day of class you will be dropped from the program.
Can I enroll in the program if I am an undocumented student?
Yes. However, students without a SS# will not be able to take the state board exam upon completion of the program.
Can I still get a job if I don't become a licensed CNA?
Yes. Students who do not become a licensed CNA can get a job as a home health aide. However, licensing is strongly encouraged as there are more job opportunities and higher rates of pay for licensed Certified Nurse Assistants.
Is there a limit as to how many concurrent enrollment students can be registered for each cohort?
Yes. Only two CE students can register per cohort.
What if I have to miss class for high school meetings or sports, i.e. senior meetings, school dances, ACT tests, other college finals?
Students need to think about potential conflicts prior to registering for the program. The attendance policy for the CNA program is very strict and absences for high school activities will not be excused. If students foresee conflicts, they should register for a different program.
What grades do I need to earn in order to pass tests and classes?
Students need to earn a 77% or higher on quizzes and tests in order to be considered a passing grade.
Are there opportunities outside of class time to practice what I'm learning in class?
Yes. The CNA program has open lab on Fridays from 7:30-11:30am for students to study. There is no formal instruction during these hours, but there is an instructor available.
Where will I complete clinicals?
Clinicals take place at one of the following places; Briarwood, Life Care Center in Aurora, Life Care Center in Westminster.
Are clinicals offered during the same time as my classes?
Clinicals do not take place during your typical class time. As a guide, you can expect to attend four days of clinicals from 6:20am to 2:30pm. Your instructor will let you know where and what times your specific clinical will take place on the first day of class.
How old do I have to be in order to register for the state board exam?
You need to be at least 17 years of age. Please note that in some places of employment, the minimum hiring age is 18.
How do I register for the state board exam - what is the process?
- After finishing clinicals, student names are submitted by the CNA Program Coordinator to the state board licensing office. Student names must match the personal government issued ID from the student.
- Students will then get an email from Pearson Vue containing a link for preliminary registration. This is to set up the username and password. This email contains a link that is good for ONE TIME ONLY. A student cannot return to the email and open it again to finish later. If the student makes a mistake during this process, they will need to call Pearson Vue to reset it and have another link sent.
- Students will then get a second email from Pearson Vue to complete the application process to test. Students need to pay for the test at the time of registration. The cost is currently $123. Registration for the test needs to be completed on a computer, not a cell phone or tablet.
- Students should not go to the Pearson Vue website ahead of time to pre-register or register, this creates duplicate names in the system and is not easy to fix.
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Things between them have been strained to say the least, but it seems like Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom may be patching up their marriage.
The Keeping Up with the Kardashians starlet was spotted driving around Calabasas, California with her NBA player hubby on Tuesday (October 8).
Khloe and Lamar seemed to be heading to Kris Jenners home amidst news that she and husband Bruce Jenner had legally separated.
Earlier in the day, Kardashian tweeted, Not all scars can be seen and not all love can be explained. The deepest love is also the hardest to express. Only those in it, understand. If I love u. Its a deep 4ever love. Ride til the end. Family/friend.Its simply called love. I take it seriously. Don"t judge unless u r in it.


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At Significance Labs, people often ask us why we think building technology for low-income communities is a good opportunity. They ask about access to smartphones and computers and whether low-income users are technologically literate enough to use the products our teams produce. Some press us on the assumptions we make around behaviors, like whether low-income users will be comfortable inputting personal information into online platforms.
From our experience working with low-income communities, we knew the answers to these questions. In focus groups and home visits, we saw that many family members had smartphones and that they used apps. We heard that they relied on Facebook to communicate with family abroad and texts to keep track of family at home. But we needed a deeper look at phone use.
This survey is an effort to answer these questions more rigorously, and we hope these findings will be useful for other groups thinking about how best to reach out to, deliver services to and support low-income communities.
This survey was a project of Significance Labs, a program of Blue Ridge foundation and the predecessor to the Blue Ridge Labs at Robin Hood. Additional support for this survey came from a generous grant from the Redlich Horwitz Foundation. We at the Blue Ridge Labs want to ensure that this work is available to the community and will continue to host the report as an extension of our work at Significance Labs.
For more information and analysis of our survey, including details about the methodology and limitations of our survey, please download the full report below.Download Full Report


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Here are some things:
1. I hurt my back playing my final regular season dodgeball game last night. I'm pretty pissed about it. But I WAS pretty awesome, so fair trade.
2. My youngest son is on a cruise (Italy, Turkey, Greece, Spain, France) with my parents - who, when I was 5 or 6 promised if I put all of my allowance money into 'the can' we would save up and one day go to Disney World. I'm still waiting bitches.
3. For mother's day my husband said he would build me a new wooden arbour for my garden entrance since the metal one we currently have is bending from the weight of the giant rose bush that climbs around it (NOBODY appreciates an out of control bush). Anyway - we made our way to Home Depot and bought wood - NOT for the arbour, but for the front steps he decided suddenly to rebuild. ._.
4. I'm not sure if you know this, but I have a lunatic on my hands. On Thursday night I guess there was another physical 'incident' - my exes wife attacked him in another drunken rage - biting chunks of skin out of him like an animal. He called the police and she was arrested & taken to jail. He had to work all day Saturday and asked if my daughter could babysit her 2 1/2 year old brother - I said it would be fine, but not at their house since she was out on bail and would definitely come to take the baby. So to my house he came! He's a cute little guy. Anyway, not 20 minutes in and she was at my door screaming for her son. The police came and sent her packing - and left her baby with me. Now THAT is karma bitch.
5. I went to a wedding on Friday night - they read their vows from their cell phones - and before they were pronounced man & wife the minister said 'it's not official until it's on Facebook' and instructed them to pull their phones out yet again to update their relationship status'. Weird.
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|Scary Werewolf | Martin Grondin (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Full Moon 2010 by Gregory H. Revera (CC BY-SA 3.0)
As always remember you may find spoilers, so if you are playing the campaign or think about playing it you probably do not want to read more beyond this point (or perhaps you want, who knows).
With this session report I resume the campaign with some changes as part of the usual player group have decided for various reasons (Real WorldTM, etc.) to not keep on with the adventures of La Llamada de los dioses... Does it means that this won't continue? Of course not, because along players willing to continue there will be another ones as you will see in these session and next ones (in fact I decided to arbitrarily level up them to the sixth level of their respective classes before continuing).
|Werewolf by Viergacht | Pixabay (Public Domain)
Wolf by pngimg.com (Free download)
If you remember the last session characters were on the tunnels of the hideout used by evil clerics of Penumbra to plot their nefarious plans and they were hearing howls that did not portend anything good, something that soon got exposed with the sudden aparition of a fast and hairy humanoid creature along some four-legged fellows who didn't hesitate to pounce over them... It was a werewolf, with a group of giant wolves which quickly finished with almost the entire group, forcing Luna the half-elf and Meler the mystic to make a tactical retreat to evaluate the new situation in which they had gotten into that not allowed to save the lifes of their mates falling while covering the pair, and loosing part of their belongings, like the wand of light the driad gave them in the lake they discovered in session #15.
And what was happening while in other part of the underground complex? Well, from the mysterious fountain of bluish light and smoke appeared a girl (Laura, a new player) who somewaht (surely thanks to the action of powers beyond any earthly comprehension) had been attracted to fall through a magical portal that had led her into an unknown place.
After wandering into the tunnels and discovering she was in fact in some caverns below a volcano Theia, as this was the girls name, finally got into the battle and helped Meler, who achieved to finish the lycantrope (however he couldn't avoid to get bitten...), and Luna achieved to finish part of the pack thanks to her "capabilities", allowing the mystic to scare the rest.
|Gnoll by Manzanedo (Blogger | Deviantart)
|Ogre by tinyfroglet (CC BY 2.0)
After proper presentations (and discovering that Theia probably have the same mission as them) the group continued to investigate caverns under the volcano and ran into more troops the evil clerics of Penumbra placed into the underground complex, facing gnoll and ogre patrols and easily overcoming them.
|Black Robed Monk by Old Book Art (CC BY 3.0)
Continuing with the exploration they reached a chapel where a group of clerics were carrying out a prayer to Penumbra facing an altar dedicated to the dark god, achieving to go unnoticed by the orcish guards watching the room. A few moments later Meler discovered a new cave with a group of bloodied orc corpses before a carved portal in rock shaped as a devil head and stairs descending to darkness, the mystic also saw in the portal's rock the red mark of a hand and the initials TG as well as a blood drops in the steps.
Meler returned in his footsteps and went to the place Luna and Theia were hiding, but they couldn`t avoid to be discovered and attacked by the orcish guards of the chapel, rendering Theia and Meler unconscious and near death, so Luna was alone against danger...
And then something happened (something I won't explain because not all characters know what happened, and you never know who may be reading this session report...). There's enough to say that when Theia and Meler awoke they were safe in the chamber where sleeped the virgins they meet in session #13.
What will happen in the next session?
As is customary to say:
To be continued...
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Come meet me in Los Angeles this weekend! I'll be at Bent-Con, an amazing annual Comic Con targeted for the LQBTQ community! I'll have a table for all 3 days, Nov. 8th-10th, and will be signing & selling copies of the Kyle's B&B books, and showing artwork, and would love to just meet ya' and say HI! Details & tickets at www.bent-con.org
If you've seen some of my previous postings about Bent-Con, then you know what a fun, creative crowd it draws, as well as being the only Comic Con completely devoted to LGBT comics. Other gay comics creators had tables at last years', and will be there this year, too... like Patrick Fillion, Joe Phillips, Butch McLogic, Jeff Krell, ("Jayson"), Jezza Smiles, the Tom of Finland foundation... and many, many more!!! Also, I have never seen so many hot guys walking around in skimpy superhero costumes. (Some more pics below). Hope to see you there!
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Bits of My Weekend...
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- Ancarol said...
Sounds great your weekend !! It's totally plenitude day I think that i need too !! jealous you ,Have great great time every weekend .
- September 29, 2009 at 2:36 AM
- Marta Castellanos said...
Beautiful pictures!!Do you have a cat?It´s lovely!Your work sounds nice, i mean...work is work, but travelling and getting in contact with young people sounds not too much bored!xo
- September 29, 2009 at 3:53 AM
- Jennifer said...
ummm I just become completely jealous of this post as soon as I saw those first few pictures. OoooH to in college (or Work) at a college with supplies like that again. Letterpressing is my FAVORITE!!! I bought a small handpress a couple years ago but we need more type and funiture to do anything great with it. Wow looks like an amazing weekend!!!
- September 29, 2009 at 8:38 AM
- darad123 said...
I have been trying to get a job at a college or university in my area (Boulder, CO) as an admissions advisor. This is my dream job! What sort of experience do you have or should I have? How did you land such an awesome job?
Thanks for your help,
- September 29, 2009 at 12:52 PM
these photos are so pretty! looks like you've been busy doing lots of fun things. i want to see the business cards you made! ~joelle
- September 29, 2009 at 4:42 PM
- Elaine said...
WOW I didn't know buildings could be chained down!!! That's pretty crazy.... Why would anyone want to live where it's tornado all year round!!! ;) That first picture of you is GORGEOUS. You're soooooo pretty! Hope you have fun traveling!!!
- September 29, 2009 at 5:37 PM
- Sarah Clarke Gaudet said...
I agree, what a gorgeous picture of you! Love all of those shots!
- September 29, 2009 at 8:52 PM
- Orchid Grey said...
@Marta: I do have a cat! Actually, I have two. the one in the picture is Zephyr
@Jen: I really want a hand press now, there are some suppliers in the boston area
@Dara: I'll email you about my job, it's petty intense at times...
@TheOwls: I'll post pictures!
@Elaine: There is a weather station on top on the mountain, people stay up there year round but not in that little place. that's just the gift shop! thank you for the sweet complement!
@Sarah: Thanks!
- September 29, 2009 at 11:18 PM
- pve design said...
stunning photos!!!
- September 30, 2009 at 6:10 AM
- missDTM said...
WOW! you can take letterpress at your school? that sounds awesome...i'm insanely jealous.
beautiful pics! especially of your cat.
- October 3, 2009 at 10:24 AM
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Swift sales in Brooklyn Heights: Co-ops at 75 Henry St.
Eye On Real Estate
In pricey, patrician Brooklyn Heights, some homes sit on the market a looong time before being sold.
Others are snapped up in a New York minute.
We were wondering why the other day, as we strolled along streets lined with beloved pre-Civil War brownstones and wood-frame houses. So we asked experts to share their insights.
"There's so much negativity out there. A lot of people are saying, 'Maybe I'll wait for prices to come down.' Then I'm reminded that a great property in a great location will sell, and sell quickly," said Leslie Marshall of the Corcoran Group.
"People always want to live in Brooklyn Heights."
It's got a plain-Jane exterior and lacks a landmarked pedigree. So why are home-buyers crazy about 75 Henry St.?
Consider the speed with which Greg Williamson of Douglas Elliman recently sold two co-ops in this Brooklyn Heights tower.
They drew accepted offers at their very first open houses. Both are now in contract for "significantly above their asking prices," said the associate broker, who heads the Williamson Team.
Unit 5E, a two-bedroom co-op with a private terrace and an asking price of $1.495 million, had been on the market for only 13 days when the sale contract was signed.
After a best and final offer was accepted for Unit 5E, it was topped by an even higher offer from a disappointed bidder, who wound up winning the apartment, Williamson said.
City Finance Department records indicate that the sellers of Unit 5E, Erik Hendrickson and Sue Hendrickson, had purchased the co-op for $665,000 in 2009.
Unit 9J, a studio with a $435,000 asking price, was on the market for 15 days when a sale contract was signed, Williamson said.
According to Finance Department records, the seller of Unit 9J, William Berg, had purchased the co-op for $365,000 in 2012.
Among Brooklyn Heights co-ops and condos, "75 Henry gives you the best bang for your buck," Williamson said. "It's a view-driven building that's highly amenitized, with low monthly carrying charges."
The co-ops are large in the 300-plus unit tower, which was built in the 1960s. There are 1,200-square-foot two-bedrooms, 740-square-foot one-bedrooms and 600-square-foot studios. And the centralized location, near subway lines, shopping corridors and stellar brownstone blocks, is appealing.
"There are brokers and direct clients who contact us repeatedly to ask when certain units will be coming onto the market," he said. They want two-bedroom units with views facing east and north and three-bedroom units facing west, both of which rarely become available for sale.
He has a special affinity for Brooklyn Heights, the neighborhood where he grew up. Since 2002, he and his mother, now-retired Madeline Williamson, have sold more than 100 units at 75 Henry.
The Williamson Team focuses on residential sales in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, DUMBO and Manhattan neighborhoods as far north as Harlem.
As readers will recall, this past January, shareholders at 75 Henry voted not to pursue the sale of Pineapple Walk, the property's low-rise row of retail and restaurant spaces, to a high-rise condo developer.
The vote afforded a strong measure of protection for 75 Henry's south-facing views.
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E3 is an incredibly hectic time, and not just for those of us running around for three days straight trying to bring you the most comprehensive coverage possible, but for the show's exhibitors as well who spend those three days running though the same demos and trailers while trying to make each instance unique for those watching for the first time. But when we see something we truly love, we're inclined to stop and take a further look. Such was the case when we went behind-the-scenes at Bethesda's E3 booth to see Dishonored up close and personal.
I caught up with Arkane Studios and Dishonored's Co-creative director, Harvey Smith, following he and Raf Colantonio's two-play walkthrough that demonstrated how player choice will be inherently intertwined with the game. Smith has been around the gaming industry for quite a while (going as far back as 1993) and served as the Lead Designer on the revolutionary action-RPG, Deus Ex. What does a guy who has helped deliver some of gaming's most respected titles think about Arkane's new project in Dishonored?
"It's my favorite thing I've done in years," said Smith. For good reason, too. Dishonored was among the most impressive titles we saw first-hand at E3 2012, and it made its mark without any kind of predecessor or marquee franchise backing it. When Dishonored releases in October, gamers will be treated to a rarity – a brand new IP that sheds the traditional genre roles that so often limit and confine original games. It'll be blending stealth and action elements into a single, sleek package that incorporates not only player decision, but morality as well.
What we know is that Corvo, the game's protagonist, is a stealthy assassin that has an abundance of supernatural abilities. Once a primary bodyguard for the Empress, he seeks vengeance against the oppressive Lord Regent who framed him for her assassination. I asked Smith to detail Corvo a bit more and what he is setting out to accomplish at the outset of the game. While he couldn't reveal a heap of details for fear of giving away plot spoilers, he hinted that it won't be so much about Corvo as it will be about the player controlling him.
"We started with a blank slate mentality about Corvo because we didn't want to project too much onto the player and violate that very important player expectation," said Smith. "From a certain point in the game and after certain events take place, he begins to act outside of his comfort zone."
He continued, "We wanted a classic story to ease the player into the world, which in today's industry is pretty different. I mean, it's not a sequel. You can play it entirely in the way you want. It's a game about an assassin yet you don't have to kill anyone, and it's not a part of any traditional genre like you've seen before."
The game's dystopic setting in the 1850s-style whaling city of Dunwall looks like it will have a medieval flair as it seemingly draws from old British architecture, yet it also has futuristic, industrial elements evident throughout. Bethesda has always been a publisher known for taking great pride in the level of detail that is put into their in-game environments. I asked Smith if gamers can expect Dunwall to be just as in-depth and extensive as previous Bethesda settings.
"Well, Dishonored is mission-based and each one is almost like a handcrafted location, so the space itself is very non-linear," he said. "A lot of different things can happen depending on your play-style. Dishonored's enemies are aware or not based on their perceptions. In a lot of games, it's almost like if you're within their radius, they know you're there. With Dishonored, they're looking and listening, and in one instance they may hear you, in the next they may not."
Smith assured me that Dunwall is meticulously detailed in the way it communicates its lore and history to the player. Pieces of interactive storytelling can be found throughout the world. Notes, NPC conversations that mention certain businesses, locations, and even Dunwall's political realm will all be available for the player to explore.
"As you play through, you start to absorb these details," said Smith. "You read notes, eavesdrop, take different paths to hear different conversations, and then there will come a time in the game when your absorption of what the world is and what's going on will greatly help you. The average person passing through the game once is not going to get that."
According to Smith, when the player comes to this understanding, Dishonored becomes something that the players themselves are driving and pushing forward. "That's the thing about Dishonored, the game doesn't play itself," he said.
Recently, more and more games have adopted the "morality concept" and have attempted to create ethical situations where players make choices that will affect them later on, but very few have been able to successfully employ this idea. Arkane and Bethesda are working to ensure that players will feel morally responsible for their actions and emotionally invested in the choices they make by implementing a system called "Chaos" that will track each player's moral decisions, in turn directly affecting how certain situations play out later in the game.
"We're tacking the number of innocents you kill through the course of the game as well as the outcome of certain side quests, and we're assigning a score as the missions go on," said Smith. "What happens over time is that NPC conversations will change based on how violent you've been. There's also going to be sequences on a smaller scale that will change based on that concept."
Enemies in Dishonored are said to exist within the game world itself, rather than simply being spawned at a specific place or time and scripted to perform a certain action. By this philosophy, a player might stumble upon a group of enemies engaging in criminal activity. On a second playthrough, the player might take a different path, see the enemies and take them out beforehand, thus preventing the crime from ever taking place. To reiterate this concept, Smith presented an example of a situation that two players may encounter differently depending on how they've played the game up to that point.
"If you're playing the game very stealthy, not killing a lot of people, and your Chaos is low, you'll come across a family," he said. "The father has just come back from taking his son to a boat and he's set to leave Dunwall (which is both poverty and plague stricken). Tomorrow they're going to come back to find another boat and get out safely. If your Chaos is high, that scene will play out very differently."
In that scenario, Smith stated that the boat would this time be right around the corner from coming Reapers (plague victims). The family now seems completely detached and disconnected. They're losing their memory and don't remember who they were supposed to meet at the docks or even why they were there to begin with.
"There are darker outcomes here and there and there are also things that you do where there are direct branch consequences," Smith said. "There are extra pools of rats in the world when your Chaos is high. A basement that otherwise may have just been a place to loot and pass through might be filled with rats, forcing you to find a way to get past the swarm."
Before letting Dishonored's Co-creative Director head back into the Bethesda theater for another media walkthrough of the game's demo, I asked him whether or not players can expect their moral choices to play a role in how their particular story concludes.
"The Chaos system does drive the endgames," he said. "There are about two to three major branches on the endgame, and little variations on all of those as well based on whether or not this character lived or didn't. So it's a subtle thing in the sense that it reflects what you're doing across the game, but it also plays a major role in how the game ends."


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Like It Never Happened
by Emily Adrian
Publisher: Dial Books
Release Date: June 2nd 2015
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Realistic Fiction, High School, Chick Lit, Theatre, Fiction
Stereotypes, sexuality, and destructive rumors collide in this smart YA novel for fans of Sara Zarr's Story of a Girl, Siobhan Vivian's The List, and E. Lockhart's The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks.
When Rebecca Rivers lands the lead in her school's production of The Crucible, she gets to change roles in real life, too. She casts off her old reputation, grows close with her four rowdy cast-mates, and kisses the extremely handsome Charlie Lamb onstage. Even Mr. McFadden, the play's critical director, can find no fault with Rebecca.
Though "The Essential Five" vow never to date each other, Rebecca can't help her feelings for Charlie, leaving her both conflicted and lovestruck. But the on and off-stage drama of the cast is eclipsed by a life-altering accusation that threatens to destroy everything…even if some of it is just make believe.
I've always been a huge fan of theater, ever since I did the play "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" as a young kid. There's just something about theater that's so much fun, and the people who do theater are just loads of fun to be around. They aren't scared of being who they are. I think that's a big part of why I liked this book so much.
Basically, there's this group called "The Essential Five" because they are always cast as the five leads in Mr. McFadden's school plays, ever since their freshmen year. They vow one day to never date each other, because they think that would ruin everything for them, especially since they act so well together. However, they realize that sometimes there will be cases where they will have to be intimate and kiss during plays and such.
This summer, Charlie and Rebecca are both going away to help at a theater camp, though this could spell trouble because Rebecca has a huge crush on Charlie. They also had to kiss in a play a while back and Rebecca liked it very much. It's unclear for a while if Charlie feels the same way.
This book was very fun to read! I'm a big fan of day camps in books, ever since Don't Ever Change by M. Beth Bloom, so this one yet again hit a soft spot in my heart. I also loved the large cast of characters, especially Rebecca and Charlie. I even liked Mr. McFadden; he was a funny guy, especially about his car in the very beginning! Like It Never Happened was such a quick read as well, because it just kept me hooked since I loved all of the characters so much.
I definitely can't wait to read more by Emily Adrian in the future!
Since this book is so fun, I thought that I'd make a playlist of fun songs that remind me of the book and theater in general! If I was more tech savvy, I'd know how to make an actual playlist. Instead, I made a list of songs that I'm sure most of you all know!
Young and Beautiful by Lana del Rey
You Are In Love by Taylor Swift
We Are Young by Fun.
The Walker by Fitz and the Tantrums (This one just reminds me of theater folk for some reason, because it's just so original)
Somewhere Only We Know (The Glee version, because I prefer it!)
On Top of the World by Imagine Dragons (Reminds me of how I'd feel if I scored the lead in the play)
Cool Kids by Echosmith (I personally find theater kids to be the coolest)
Follow the Like It Never Happened by Emily Adrian Blog Tour and don't miss anything! Click on the banner to see the tour schedule.
Emily Adrian was born in 1989 in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. After graduating from Portland State University, she moved to Toronto, Ontario, where she worked as a receptionist while secretly writing books.
Emily currently lives in Toronto with her husband and their dog named Hank. Like It Never Happened is her debut novel.


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By Jason Van Horn from mpogd.com
Dragon's Call is one of the most features packed browser-based MMORPGs on the market. I've played a lot of them and while there are a few that are downright terrible, most of them are marginal at best, but lack the overall draw and staying power of 3D subscription-based or free-to-play releases. While Dragon's Call does have its limitations, it's generally in areas that can be forgiven (or at least overlooked to an extent), as the gameplay and crafting/enhancement systems more than make up for them.
One thing that might surprise players is that Dragon's Call actually has a ton of quests, which actually have story and narrative attached to them; you're still going out and killing a certain number of enemies, but the game at least throws you a narrative bone and reason for doing so unlike some other browser-based games. The game actually plays a lot like regular MMORPGs, though you won't be wandering around lost looking for quests, as enemies are all assigned to designated areas and the world is a series of landmarks you can click in order to go there; once you're there you can then see what enemy types are there and what their level is. During the initial hours of the game, everything is extremely streamlined and new user friendly, as you can instantly click track to go to wherever the enemy mob is that you need to fight, and you can instantly teleport to the NPC quest giver after it's over with a mere click of the button too. Teleporting is free, but once a certain point is reached it then costs about 1K in gold to use the feature, which isn't bad considering money isn't all that needed or hard to get in the beginning.
If you don't want to worry about meeting death on the battlefield or using up a lot of health potions to heal yourself, you can also earn experience and gold by taking on a job, which acts much like the auto-battle system. You choose from one of the stores to work at, setting how long you want to spend doing that activity, and then you'll get gold or experience rewards depending on which job you chose (some jobs offer higher chances at gold rewards while others more experience based).
Once you start finding powerful pieces, however, then you can get crafting and enhancing in order to make them even more powerful. You can refine equipment, purify it, embed it, decompose it, and much more; it's quite staggering how many options there are. You'll need to spend money and special gems and stones in order to improve a piece, and there's never a guarantee that you won't hurt the equipment and fail, so you'll need to use these secondary currencies in order to improve your chances so you don't lose everything. If you gamble and it all pays off, you not only have a strong piece of equipment, but the game will even broadcast to the other gamers that you managed to reach an especially high item upgrade number.
Dragon's Call has a few big flaws, but it's still one of the most fully realized browser-based MMORPGs that I've played to date. If you're looking for a MMORPG you can play wherever you go (as long as you have the Internet) then Dragon's Call is definitely a game to give a shot. I had fun playing the game and plan to spend more time on my character.
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I've finally got my laptop back (and working- woo hoo!) and have recently been reminded that there was this little space where I used to vent my thoughts, document my somewhat insane passion for parties and basically have a little outlet for rants on pretty much whatever.
Now it's been waaaay too long between rants to catch you up on everything - so much has happened as you can imagine, but I thought I would make my re-debut into the blogging world by showcasing some of my CAKES!
I'm often asked about cakes, and please let me stress that I do not wish to make cakes for a living, these are amateur and purely for my own pleasure (although I have made a couple and been compensated for my labour) But I really wanted one place that I could have photos of past works... this is not quite all of them over the years... but it's a enough to make their own post.
I have dug my own grave as far as my children are concerned, they now spend months trying to come up with intricate details for what they want on their cakes. Some days I wish that I had just stuck to the Woman's Weekly birthday cake book, but these feelings are very short lived when I see their eyes light up and them announce proudly that their mum makes the best cakes in the world (yeah a little biased I think, but I'll take it) I even had the embarrassing moment when asked by Master 4 (now 7) why I didn't make the cake at a friend's party he was attending, not so subtly announcing that the standard of the cake was not quite up to his standards.
So enough already - below are some of the pictures that I have been able to find over the years.
As you can see, many of them had their own themed party to go along with the cakes, Miss S Rockstar Party, A Fluro 18th party, Fairy Party, Soccer Party(ies . . .yes recycled that theme :-), Rubix Cube 40th (that was so fun Miss Clare!) Master J's Roman Gladiator party, Magician Party, Superhero party, Miss S's very girly Sleepover, Mrs J's Angry Birds, Joint Master J & Master L's I-Fly Party, Princess Party, Vet party..... (as previously blogged)


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A great table or mantle accent for holiday's, anniversaries, or for a significant other is the Satin Red Bubble Bowl Vase. The vase stands 3½" high, has a 2¼" opening, and measures 4" at it's widest point. Spread a few of these around a holiday event to compliment your decorations. The exterior of the vase is a hand painted deep satin red, while the interior is a shiny silver finish. The Satin Red Bubble Bowl Vase has an timeless and elegant look.
We also carry the Satin Red Bubble Bowl Vase in a larger, 4¾" tall option. Combine them both for a beautifully themed composition.


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Monday, 10 October 2011
its Part 100046 of our kitchen being fixed, post flood, we have a tradie here and as my husband is in North QLD with work i am working from home while the tradie does his thing.
I wanted a cup of tea, so i had to sidle past tradie in the tiny kitchen, and had to move the drawers that are being fixed in the kitchen and a huge hunstman spider with a body larger than my hand ambled out.. i jumped as i thought it was a huge feral rat.. then realised it was as peaceful obese huntsman spider..
(NOTE: The bite of Huntsman spiders is of low risk (mildly toxic) to humans. Huntsman spiders are a non-aggressive group of spiders ) for more info on Huntsman spiders click this link.
I reckon i could have put a collar and lead on it... put out my hand and she walked on to it, she was soft and furry, with eyes that shone like iridescent facetted diamonds. she tentaively put one leg than another out to make sure i didnt mean her harm. she then sat on my hand, i took her outside. put my hand near the Jacaranda tree and she walked off.
the tradie paled at the sight of me chatting happily to the spider, i explained to him that she is harmless, and beautiful, and good natured, but the guy looked like he was going to vomit .. he had steel caps ready.he wanted to squash her!!! i gave him a lecture about how these spiders how balance our ecology to prevent us being over ridden by nasty bitey insects... tradie gave me a squinty eyed look...
Yes Australia does have a lot of highly venomous, aggressive spiders, but Isopeda Isopedella (Huntsman spider) is not one of them.
They are large and hairy and as they are quite timid, may jump and scurry which will cause you to also jump and scurry, but stay calm, and the spider is fine.
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This site has links to Mal's Christmas Show, his book about Ireland, classic programs and memorials to his life. From time to time we may even blog about what the family is doing now.
5 comments on "Mal's Family"
Wayne Zawila
Would love to see you produce the Christmas show on a set of CD's
Sunday before Xmas was always spent with Mal. I have several shows on open reel tape made over the air
Dearest Mel Bellairs!
My name is Effi. I am from Germany. My parents bought Liscrona House from you in the 90s when I was a child and we spent almost 20 years there every summer and spring and often even winter. We loved our "Grey Old Lady" so much and for my sisters and myself it was our home. Unfortunately my parents had to sell it. I am very sad about this.
I remember we used to have a story about Liscrona. The old story about life there 100 years ago.
Someone took it and nobody knows where the story is. I would love to have the paper again. I think, you gave it to my parents back then?
I was wondering, if you still have the story and you could send it to me? I would be so happy!!!
I hope you and your family are well!!?
Best wishes, Effi
PS: Please do not get confused by my name – I got married! 😉
PS. Sorry – of course I ment MAL 😉
This is an absolute jewel of a site. Thank you so much for assembling its content and making it available on the Internet.
One of my warmest Christmas memories of the late sixties is listening to Mal's annual Christmas show, first on WBBM and then from WIVS Crystal Lake (when I could receive it down all the way down in Des Plaines) later into the early 70s.
I'm especially fond of the Nutcracker Suite narrated by Peter Ustinov. It was a delight to hear it again after more than 40 years!
Other "special connection" I have with Mal per say is that one of my uncles was a board engineer at WBBM radio during the 50s into the 70s who worked with Mal often and spoke of him highly. He was most likely the person who initially turned me on to Mal's annual Christmas show.
Thanks again … and Merry Christmas!


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It glides onto the lips really easily and at first has a nice creamy formula. However after a few minutes it becomes dry and the finish is matte. As a result, it can cling to the dry places on my lips. I find i have to use a balm on top of this lipstick. I really like the colour, i just wish the formula was less drying.
At £4.49 a pop, this is a decent price. However I'm quite tempted to try the MUA £1 lipsticks as they seem to be a bit creamier?
Overall, a lovely lipstick colour! I'll use this up tell it runs out but i'm not sure if i'll repurchase another one unless it's a really nice shade.
What do you think of Barry M? Hope you guys are having a good week, the weather has been rubbish here! Looking forward to revealing the 4 foundations choose by you in May for Project Foundation - read about it here if you missed it!
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Michael Learmonth noted yesterday that American Apparel and ESPN are among those marketers who've had ads placed against the YouTube video of Tillman the skateboarding bulldog. Well, Armstrong Flooring wasn't just content to run some ads against the video. The marketer, along with agency BBDO, New York, decided to create its own spot with a skateboarding bulldog.
Guess what? He totally is Tillman. A rep for BBDO, New York, confirmed this afternoon. Well, that's enough hard-hitting investigative journalism from me for one week.
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Sunday, July 22, 2012
When Life Gives You Lemons
This is what the mirror frame looked like before...
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I LOVE snowmen! And I love this project. Thanks so much for linking up to Marvelous Mondays! :)ReplyDelete
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Overstreet, who is currently ranked 118th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and is from Kingfisher, Okla., played in honor of U.S. Army Sergeant Jesse J.J. Castro. Castro was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle while on patrol in Hawijah, Iraq. Each golfer playing in The Patriot All-America honors a fallen or severely injured soldier by carrying a golf bag bearing the name of that soldier. Before the tournament, participants receive a card with the soldier's story, so they can be familiar with who that person was, what they represented and how they were killed or wounded in action.
With his Patriot All-America victory, Overstreet receives a sponsor exemption into the Web.com Tour's 2018 Air Capital Classic played June 21 - 24 at Crestview Country Club in Wichita, Kan.
Overstreet's -11 under par ties Cory Whitsett of the University of Alabama in 2011 for the lowest winning score in the tournament's seven-year history.
Past Patriot All-America champions include: Cameron Champ from Texas A&M (2016), Braden Thornberry from the University of Mississippi (2015); Kyle Kochevar from the University of Virginia (2014), Kyle Westmoreland from the Air Force Academy (2013); Sebastian Cappelen from the University of Arkansas (2012); and Cory Whitsett from the University of Alabama (2011).
In its seventh year, The Patriot All-America Invitational featured a field of 84 PING All-America golfers from all three NCAA Divisions, NAIA and NJCAA rankings as well as from U.S. Military Academies and universities outside the United States. Current PGA TOUR stars who have played in The Patriot All-America during their college careers, include: 2017 US Open champion Brooks Koepka (2011), 2017 PGA Championship winner and FedEx Cup champion Justin Thomas (2011), Patrick Rodgers (2011), Daniel Berger (2012) and Bryson DeChambeau (2013).
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Mason Overstreet, University of Arkansas
- How does it feel?
- Oh it feels awesome, I mean this is definitely one of the better fields we play. I played outstanding today. I mean the putt on 18 was just a big bonus, but it was just a really fun week.
- Take us through 17…
- I pushed that a little bit, the second shot, but it worked out. That putt, I knew if I just got it rolling it had a good chance of going in and it just fell over the front edge.
- Take us through 18…
- It was nice, I knew I had a four of five shot lead on 18 tee, so I knew if I just got a three wood out to the right it was going to be fine. I just hit it right in the middle of the green here and luckily the putt fell. I hit a gap wedge into 18 and had a 30-foot putt. Birdieing the final two to win is definitely a confidence booster going into the spring semester as well as just nice to finish off with a win.
- What was it that was clicking for you this week?
- I drove the ball really well this week. I missed a few short putts here and there, but I made more than my fair share of 15 footers and I was hitting my irons really well, so pretty much my whole game was going really well.
- Coming into today, did it feel like the kind of day you had today?
- I had a really good warm-up session on the range, so I knew coming to the first tee that I had a little confidence. Then I bogeyed the first hole. Every once in a while, that can be a little bit of a step up. To get that first bogey out of the way and kinda get you going for the day. Then I birdied the next four, so that was a little bit of a rough start, but I knew if I'd kept going the way I had been, I'd end up doing well.
- What has the experience been like this week aside from the golf?
- This week has been a really nice week. The weather was awesome. I mean where I live it's about 20 degrees. The trip to Luke Air Force Base was really something special. Getting to see our military personnel and everything and what they do. They were so gracious in letting us come out there and visit. I didn't get to go to where they had the game room, I was too tired, but I bet that was awesome too.
- The tournament's connection with Folds of Honor, does that make this thing more meaningful?
- Yes, definitely it does. Playing for a fallen soldier puts a little bit extra on this tournament. Knowing you got a guy there with you, who you're playing for and how you do, not really reflects on him, but will get his story out there a little more.
- Ever played in a Web.com Tour event?
- I have not, this will be my first professional event. It will be nice to get out there and just kinda see what all goes on at a professional event and kinda get my feet wet.
- What can you build off of after an event like this?
- Mainly, just knowing that I can close and finish well. Birdieing the last two holes. The two putt on 16 was really the one that got me going – over the hill. I made a good second putt there. I knew I had a four shot lead coming to the last two, so I tried to stay aggressive, try not to get complacent. With the four shot lead sometimes you can just try to play to the middle of the green. What had been working for me all week, was going at the flag, so I figured might as well keep doing it.


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Kaya turns 1 in a month…which means I have only 1 month to plan. Sometimes I think it would be so much easier if I weren't an event planner & I could throw my kids just a simple party in my backyard. Who am I kidding, even when I TRY to do simple backyard parties, they get out of hand and complicated really fast.
Example A: Kiana's "Undersea Party" last year.
I just can't seem to throw a party without THROWING A PARTY! So here's the theme for Kaya's first b'day:
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On this Wednesday in the third week of Lent, we hear from Paul's first letter to the Church in Corinth:
Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that 'all of us possess knowledge.' Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. Anyone who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge; but anyone who loves God is known by him.
Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that 'no idol in the world really exists', and that 'there is no God but one.' Indeed, even though there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as in fact there are many gods and many lords— yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
It is not everyone, however, who has this knowledge. Since some have become so accustomed to idols until now, they still think of the food they eat as food offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 'Food will not bring us close to God.' We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling-block to the weak. For if others see you, who possess knowledge, eating in the temple of an idol, might they not, since their conscience is weak, be encouraged to the point of eating food sacrificed to idols? So by your knowledge those weak believers for whom Christ died are destroyed. But when you thus sin against members of your family, and wound their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food is a cause of their falling, I will never eat meat, so that I may not cause one of them to fall. (1 Cor. 8:1-13).
Bishop N.T Wright frames the question:
[A]lmost all the meat available in a city like Corinth would have been offered at some shrine or other; and idol-temples served not only as butcher's shops but also as restaurants. To avoid idol meat altogether might, then, mean de facto vegetarianism (an option forced on some in any case by economic circumstances). For a Jew, facing this question would pose quite sharply the options we just noted. One major Jewish position regarded pagan worship as idolatry, and insisted that genuine monotheists must not flirt with it. Another major Jewish tradition said that idols were non-existent and irrelevant, and that the one creator God claimed as his own all that idols have usurped. This second way may well have been helped by the kind of speculative Jewish gnosis according to which one's relationship to the one true God elevated one above the problems of the pagan world. The first way could lead to dualism, the second to assimilation. Paul carves out a way which avoids both.
N.T. Wright, One God, One Lord, One People: Incarnational Christology for a Church in a Pagan Environment.
Paul's response is rooted in the Shema Israel, "Hear o Israel, the LORD is our God, the LORD alone." N.T Wright reasons that the pagan pantheon is not irrelevant. It must be confronted. One cannot retreat from paganism, just as one must not assimilate. One must instead worship the true God, the one whom paganism parodies. And for Paul this true God is revealed in Jesus of Nazareth. It means, clearly, that love and concern for other members of the community is to be placed ahead of all attempts at personal self-realization. Paul spells this out in terms precisely of Jesus who is God and who died on the cross. For Paul, Jesus' crucifixion is not simply about attaining individual salvation; rather, it means the remaking of the community of the people of God into a community that is given such security in the love of the true God that it is able to forgo all human privileges and rights to which it might otherwise lay claim. Id.
Let us pray: Gracious and living God, you alone are God. In you we live and move and have our being. Soften us that we may stop trying to put ourselves first, that we put aside our arrogance, and remember that we are a people that have been remade into a new creation, and that we are called to make that known to the world.
Please keep Bishop Doyle and his family in your prayers as he undergoes surgery, and for a quick and full recovery.
Lenten Series: Reconciliation, today at 6PM at Trinity with Fr. Peter and Br. Michael of Holy Cross Monastery as our speakers.
Please remember everyone on our Prayer List.
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Chester J. Makowski+
St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
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After the Korean War conflict (the two sides still technically remain at war), there were many prisoners that were still imprisoned by both sides. In a series of prisoner exchanges, over 100,000 soldiers were brought to this bridge to return home...if they chose to return in the first place.
When the 38th Parallel was established, it effectively sliced the country in half. Families were split and still remain divided today. The conflict ravaged both sides, and at the time it was unclear which direction the Koreas would go. There was no clear distinction like there is today. Before each exchange, many prisoners were given the choice of either returning home or staying with their captors. The conditions were that, once you've crossed that bridge, you cannot return to the other side. Ever.
The bridge as it is seen today is very easy to miss. There are no signs or memorials, as it is only accessible if you are in the military and very few Korean nationals have permission to go there. All tours there are not permitted to leave the bus, as just on the other side lies North Korea. There are no visible guards or defensive positions. No special lines or barriers. Just an old, abandoned bridge spanning one of the most heavily militarized borders in the world.


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On one hand, £27.50 is a lot to pay for a bottle opener.
On the other hand, when it looks like this...
Seems almost a bargain now, don't you think? I found this hexagonal hottie at the very tempting shop, Holly's House. I'd previously browsed this online and actual emporium (the bricks and mortar version is on the New King's Road in southwest London), founded by interior designer Holly Wick. I loved its style though lamented the prices of most of the things I put on my mental shopping list (like this stunning seagull wallpaper).
Find it at Holly's House
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