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As I'm sure you've noticed, there's been some changes here at tall penguin. I'm all about full disclosure, so here's what you need to know.
1. I've got a new layout and design which I think better reflects my blog and myself.
2. I've added an "About Me" page which gives a more detailed background on who I am and why I write this blog.
3. I've added a "Contact Me" page which will connect you and I for a more private discussion if that's what you'd like. I love hearing from my readers and welcome your correspondence.
4. I've added a "Buy Me A Cupcake" page. Some of my readers requested the ability to make donations to be able to say thanks and to support my continued writing. This page will allow you to donate through PayPal or with a credit card. You can donate any amount you like. Any and all donations are greatly appreciated.
5. I've hooked up with Amazon as an associate, which means that when I review books, movies or music and you click on my supplied link over to Amazon and subsequently choose to buy that item, I will receive a percentage of the sale. I will continue to only provide honest feedback on the items I blog about here and you are, of course, free to buy from Amazon without my blogged link.
If you have any questions, concerns or comments on these recent changes, feel free to let me know.
Onwards and Upwards!
tall penguin
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The Brain That Changes Itself...
I've just finished reading The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books) by Norman Doidge. And wow. I think I wanna be a neuroscientist when I grow up. Or a psychologist. That would be cool. Might be time to put my "therapist face" to good use. But I digress.
Sometime over the last few months, I became acutely aware that my brain has changed. That my mind, my thought processes, my reactions are now different than they once were. It has become obvious to me that my brain has changed itself. It is startling to realize that your brain is different. I woke up one day and wondered where all the suicidal thoughts went off to. Along with the deep self-loathing and challenges with accepting life as it is.
Really, I was shocked to notice what wasn't there anymore, what isn't floating around my head on a regular basis. The daily "I think I should end my life" thought wasn't the only one missing. Along with that thought, the following thoughts had also vacated my mental premises:
"My health will always limit what I can accomplish in this life."
"I'm not good enough."
"I'm not going to amount to anything in this life beyond what I am now."
But not only have certain thoughts left my mental meanderings, but new thoughts have arisen to take their place. Thoughts like:
"Life is short. I'm not going to let anyone or anything keep me from living the life I need to live."
"My best is good enough."
"My life is going to be awesome, because I'm gonna make it awesome."
And so on and so forth.
I don't know when those changes happened, or precisely how they happened, but they have happened. And that is amazing to me, considering how long I had all that other guck floating around in my consciousness. Don't misunderstand me, it's not all roses and unicorns in my mind all the time. There are moments where the old thought patterns come up, but these new patterns are gaining such momentum that it isn't long before they take over again. And that, to me, is nothing short of a miracle.
So, what does this have to do with the book I just read? Well, Doidge's stories from the frontiers of neuroscience validate the idea that the brain is capable of such phenomenal changes. It can indeed change itself, and profoundly so.
Doidge, psychiatrist and researcher, gives examples of people whose brains have reacquired functions lost during a stroke. The unaffected parts of the brain, thanks to neuroplasticity, have the ability in many cases to take over what the stroke-affected parts lost, recovering speech and motor skills.
Doidge also goes into the mystery of phantom limbs and how the work of neuroscientist VS Ramachandran has helped people, via a mirror box, release the pain they feel after a limb is lost.
The book also goes into how psychotherapy has the ability to change our brains. Over the years I've tried just about every kind of therapy imaginable. And they all had their place. But I firmly believe it was the intense reading, reflecting and questioning I've done since leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses that was the most therapeutic intervention for me. Over the past five years, I have become my own therapist. And it's pretty awesome how it's paid off.
Of course, nothing happens in a vacuum. I also have friends and my social network to thank as well as the meds I finally found to help me smooth out my moods and let me sleep at night. I believe all of these things together helped my brain change itself. As my friend D often says, "It takes a village to live a life."
I highly recommend Doidge's book. You can also watch a full documentary on Doidge's discoveries here.
Here is one of my favorite quotes from the book. Regarding the plight of widows or those who've lost partners due to the end of a relationship, Doidge writes:
"Often such people cannot move on because they cannot yet grieve; the thought of living without the one they love is too painful to bear. In neuroplastic terms, if the romantic or the widow is to begin a new relationship without baggage, each must first rewire billions of connections in their brains. The work of mourning is piecemeal Freud noted; though reality tells us our loved one is gone "its orders cannot be obeyed at once." We grieve by calling up one memory at a time, reliving it, and then letting it go. At a brain level we are turning on each of the neural networks that were wired together to form our perception of the person, experiencing the memory with exceptional vividness, then saying goodbye one network at a time. In grief, we learn to live without the one we love, but the reason this lesson is so hard is that we first must unlearn the idea that the person exists and can still be relied on."
I think that this applies not just to a loss of romantic relationship but can apply to any person or situation that we have lost; a job, our health, personal autonomy, a social network, our childhood; anything that feels like a loss to us. I believe grief is one of those foundation emotions that locks us up. It stifles our ability to move forward in life. I think it is stronger than fear, stronger than anger. In fact, I think that underneath all of our fears and anger is unprocessed grief. I know that the most profound mental and emotional shifts I have experienced over the past five years have been in confronting my grief. While grief can lock us up, when released, it can also free us beyond measure.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the mind is a vast universe. That three pounds can be our greatest heaven or our deepest hell. I'm happy I stuck it out long enough to see it become the former. And damn, I love books!!!
tall penguin
Sunday, July 25, 2010
The Return...
Once upon a time, there was a penguin. A tall penguin. And this tall penguin wrote. A lot. And she wanted somewhere pretty to store her writing, somewhere much prettier than the plastic Rubbermaid tub that had housed her journals and poetry for as long as she could remember.
One day, when she was but a teenager, she happened upon a gorgeous, mahogany-colored carved wood chest, imported from China. It had a beautiful scene of birds and flowers and a golden latch. It was the perfect home for her writing. She wanted it. It wanted her. It wasn't expensive by any standard of expensive, but it was still too much for her to spend at the time. So, she let it go, hoping that one day, when she had the money, she would be able to find something like it again.
But, she didn't. For many years she looked and looked. Sure, there were carved wood chests in every little Chinese furniture shop she looked in. But not like the one she had seen in her teens. They'd have flowers but no birds. Or birds but no flowers. Or too much of one and not enough of the other. Or it would have no birds or flowers, but instead, a whole lot of dragons. And she wasn't a dragon sort of girl.
So, she waited. And looked. And looked. And waited. Until, one day, in her early 30's, she stumbled upon a chest, a mahogany-colored carved wood chest, with the most perfect scene of birds and flowers. And a golden latch. And she had the money to buy it. But she didn't have a car to bring it home.
So the tall penguin went to the shopkeeper and paid for the chest, making him promise to keep it until the next day when she would return with her car to pick it up. He took the money, put a SOLD sign on the chest and promised it would be there upon her return. She didn't sleep the whole night. She prayed to the carved wood chest gods that no one would sneak in and steal it, that no one would offer the shopkeeper more money for it, nor any other possible events that would keep the chest from becoming hers.
The next morning she returned to the store and the chest was still there. She squealed with delight. She pulled her car around the back of the shop and the shopkeeper squished the chest into the backseat. She drove home with a smile, at peace with the knowledge that finally, after all these years, she would have somewhere pretty, somewhere deserving, to house her treasured writings.
She pulled her car into the parking lot of her apartment building and realized that she hadn't thought about how she would get it up to her third floor apartment, since it was large and awkward to carry, and there was no elevator in the building. So, she called her evil boyfriend (well, he wasn't evil yet, but he would be eventually) and he told her to just leave the chest in the car until he came home later that night, when he would bring it upstairs himself. But that just wouldn't do. She knew that he would be very late (he was always working late, which eventually became part of his evilness) and there was no way she was going to leave her beloved chest in the car all day where some covetous neighbour might decide that they wanted a mahogany-colored carved wood chest of their very own. No, that would not do.
So, she pulled the chest out of the backseat of the car and, extending her arms to their full breadth, she hugged the chest to her and slowly made her way up the three flights of stairs to their apartment. Panting, sweating and swearing obscenities under her breath, she made it into the apartment and placed the chest in the center of the room. And then, she promptly sat down on the couch and cried. Finally, it was hers.
The chest housed her writing for two years, until the day that the evil boyfriend broke up with her and subsequently told her that she and her belongings would have to vacate the premises by the end of the month. The end of the month! (He had now fully earned the evil title.)
In the following weeks, she packed her things, emptied the carved wood chest and prepared it for travel. The evil boyfriend came home one night, and, realizing that the carved wood chest would be leaving along with the tall penguin, groaned and lamented, "But it goes with the rest of the decor. Can't you just leave it here?"
And the tall penguin, who was already leaving behind her heart in a million shattered pieces, shrugged her shoulders and sighed, figuring it didn't really matter if the carved wood chest she loved so much got left behind as well. And so, she let the evil boyfriend keep the chest.
(Grief makes people do stupid things.)
And she regretted it every day thereafter. Some days she missed the carved wood chest more than she missed him. But there was nothing more to be done. She moved on with her life sans chest, and swore she would never buy another. It just could not be replaced.
Two years later, the evil boyfriend returned. Called the tall penguin up and invited her out to coffee, whereby he sincerely apologized for his previous evilness (and whereby she did as well...because evilness runs both ways in any relationship). And they, from that moment on, once again, were friends.
In time, she was invited over to see his new apartment. He had been through a few apartments in the two years they were apart (and as many girlfriends) and he had sold most of the furniture they had shared. But one thing he had kept. She entered the living room of his new apartment, and there it was, the carved wood chest. She went over and stroked the birds and the flowers and the golden latch.
"You kept it," she said, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Yes," he said, smiling at her, "There's no way I could have sold it. I know how much it meant to you."
She hugged him. And cried on his shoulder.
She allowed the chest to stay in his possession for a year. She knew it was safe there and she could visit it whenever she wanted. And she also knew that one day, at just the right time, it would return to her.
Four days ago, boyfriend-turned-friend, preparing his move out of the country, called the tall penguin and said it was time to return the carved wood box to her. He rented a car, squished it into the backseat as the tall penguin had done some five years before, and drove it over to her apartment. She met him in the parking lot of her building and smiled as he struggled to get it out of the car and up the three flights of stairs to her apartment.
She just laughed, saying, "It's your turn."
They reached her apartment and he put the chest down on the floor at the end of her bed. It was the perfect spot. They hugged and he left.
And then, she promptly sat down on the couch and cried. Finally...finally...it was hers. And she would never, never let it go again.
tall penguin
Friday, July 23, 2010
Penguin Gets Schooled...
"You don't get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you don't know."
~~Sam Harris
Unless, of course, you're me.
I love Facebook. And I'll tell you why. Because every day I am exposed to information and articles and points of view that are new and different. And every day I wander into discussions with people, generally people I don't know. And every day I pick a side to debate, often not quite knowing fully what I'm talking about, and often pretending to know something when I don't (although I do this more out of ignorance than out of ego). And every day I get my ass kicked at least once by someone cooler, more articulate and a helluva lot smarter than myself. And damn, I'm lovin' every minute of it.
If you don't mind looking stupid, you can learn an awful lot.
tall penguin
"I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love's not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time …"
— The Journals of Sylvia Plath
For the better part of the past five years since leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses, I have conducted my life as a great social experiment. Digging through all of my belief systems, and abandoning most, I was open to exploring life with a deep curiosity and willingness to try new things and have new experiences.
And I have enjoyed this exploration. Much as a scientist enjoys looking through the microscope, I have delighted to watch myself explore this life. But you cannot continually be both the observer and the observed. It is a great thing to dive into when you need some perspective, but it's no way to live life from moment-to-moment. At some point, one must jump back into inhabiting the human experience fully and be content with that human experience as it is, however limited and finite it may be. I cannot be everything in this life, or everyone. I cannot live every possibility. There are choices to make, paths to choose.
I have had one recurring dream for the past five years. In my dream I am a bird circling the earth, but I cannot find a place to land. I fly and fly and fly, but to no avail; there is nowhere for me to stop and find rest.
This has been my life for the past five years; I, the bird, circling above my own experience, watching, observing, taking it all in. I have been freed to fly by means of letting go of what I no longer needed and I have flown well. But now, it is time to find a place to land. It is time to choose a path and a set of beliefs to govern my life, an operating system if you will. It is time to find my place on this earth.
I knew this moment would come. I feared it for a long time. But now, I am excited to choose for my life. This life is mine. Really mine. And although I cannot do everything I want, I can do anything I want. And that is enough.
tall penguin
— The Journals of Sylvia Plath
For the better part of the past five years since leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses, I have conducted my life as a great social experiment. Digging through all of my belief systems, and abandoning most, I was open to exploring life with a deep curiosity and willingness to try new things and have new experiences.
And I have enjoyed this exploration. Much as a scientist enjoys looking through the microscope, I have delighted to watch myself explore this life. But you cannot continually be both the observer and the observed. It is a great thing to dive into when you need some perspective, but it's no way to live life from moment-to-moment. At some point, one must jump back into inhabiting the human experience fully and be content with that human experience as it is, however limited and finite it may be. I cannot be everything in this life, or everyone. I cannot live every possibility. There are choices to make, paths to choose.
I have had one recurring dream for the past five years. In my dream I am a bird circling the earth, but I cannot find a place to land. I fly and fly and fly, but to no avail; there is nowhere for me to stop and find rest.
This has been my life for the past five years; I, the bird, circling above my own experience, watching, observing, taking it all in. I have been freed to fly by means of letting go of what I no longer needed and I have flown well. But now, it is time to find a place to land. It is time to choose a path and a set of beliefs to govern my life, an operating system if you will. It is time to find my place on this earth.
I knew this moment would come. I feared it for a long time. But now, I am excited to choose for my life. This life is mine. Really mine. And although I cannot do everything I want, I can do anything I want. And that is enough.
tall penguin
Thursday, July 22, 2010
It hurt to leave
But it hurt more
That you let me.
tall penguin
Having found that what I believed about myself, the universe and the world around me was almost entirely incorrect,
Having spent the last five years deprogramming, unlearning and otherwise reworking my brain,
Having realized that the mind is a tool that requires constant monitoring, as it is prone to error and deception,
Having rejected concepts of gods, monsters and all things supernatural,
Having realized, assimilated and come to appreciate that life is innately meaningless and that the universe is indifferent to my existence, is not made for me and that I am not "special" in any ultimate sense of the word,
Having faced my own mortality and accepted the reality that one day I will no longer exist,
Having grieved my losses, my errors, my regrets and defeats, and having made amends where possible,
Having let go of far more than I held on to,
Having realized that a balanced life is a play between emotionality and rationality,
Having noticed that the once desperate desire to enter into relationship and/or have a child has spontaneously and mysteriously lifted,
Having come to a wider acceptance of my family dynamics,
Having found the constraints of poor finance and ill health currently endurable,
Having found moments of intense fear being replaced with intense curiosity,
Having come to a place of relative mental quiet and calm,
Having fallen into very deep love with myself, all of myself,
I find myself in new territory, as if born anew. There is an openness here that is beyond words. And for the first time, in a long time, I find myself dreaming...
could be.
tall penguin
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Wisest Words I've Heard Recently...
"It just is. The mind will try to figure out the rights and wrongs in all of it - take no notice of the mind - at the end of the day it's a calculator trying to balance the spreadsheet."
-my friend Simone.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Are You There God? It's me, Penguin.
I read a lot, both on and offline. Online, thanks to my Facebook friends, I am pointed to a number of interesting articles on a daily basis. Articles that both challenge and refine my views. Sometimes it is the comments section of an article that gives me the best insights; everyday people commenting, presenting their point of view and often challenging the article's content. I came across this discussion today and it hit me right between the eyes.
On an article by John W. Loftus, a former Evangelical Christian preacher who is now an atheist, and author of the book Why I Became An Atheist, he discusses thirty things that would have to be true in order for Christianity to be true. It's a great list which shows the improbability of the basic Christian tenets.
To me, it's like being married to someone who's neglectful of you. You are so thrilled with the tiny bits of attention and affection you do receive. You make excuses for the neglect-you aren't WORTH the attention and care."
What caught my eye though was a few of the comments at the end of the article. Commenter "Hendy" writes:
"We trust god in things we would never credit a human for.
Case in point: at a Christian couple's group my wife and I are in a friend's wife shared a prayer sense that came from (I believe) Therese of Lisieux. She said that god seems distant and near at various times because he plays 'love games' with us. It's his way of being friendly with his children.
I immediately wondered how that would work if when my men's group split off to talk about life if I explained that I had been playing 'love games' with my wife and that I sometimes express affection and then disappear completely for a couple weeks and then come back to surprise her with a loving visit. We translate god's actions into 'love' and 'revelation' in ways we wouldn't in a million years use to describe human behavior."
Case in point: at a Christian couple's group my wife and I are in a friend's wife shared a prayer sense that came from (I believe) Therese of Lisieux. She said that god seems distant and near at various times because he plays 'love games' with us. It's his way of being friendly with his children.
I immediately wondered how that would work if when my men's group split off to talk about life if I explained that I had been playing 'love games' with my wife and that I sometimes express affection and then disappear completely for a couple weeks and then come back to surprise her with a loving visit. We translate god's actions into 'love' and 'revelation' in ways we wouldn't in a million years use to describe human behavior."
God plays "love games"? Hmm...this struck me hard, for the reasons commenter "Lynn" writes in response:
"I like what you said re accepting things in our relationship with god that we would never accept in real relationships. All that elusiveness and undependability would definitely be negatives in a spouse.
To me, it's like being married to someone who's neglectful of you. You are so thrilled with the tiny bits of attention and affection you do receive. You make excuses for the neglect-you aren't WORTH the attention and care."
In every single relationship I have had with a man, I have accepted scraps of attention and affection, like a dog at a table waiting for someone to throw it a bone. Having recently walked away from yet another example of this, I am struck by how deep that pattern has been grooved into my brain. And I see that the source of the belief that I'm not worthy of attention and care runs deep and long. It goes back not just to my relationship with my actual father, but the relationship I developed as a Jehovah's Witness with my "heavenly" father.
From a very early age, I was taught that I could talk to God at any time through prayer, that he was there to listen and respond. Of course, I could never tell what that response was. I was always looking for signs that God was responding to my prayers. At times, I saw God everywhere, in every conversation I had with others, in the events taking place around me, in what I would read...I was constantly on the lookout for God's personal attention and care for me. But at some point, I became aware that it was not so easy to parse out God's communication with me. Was that book I just read and my connection to it really God's voice speaking through the book, or am I just imagining something I wish to be true? Sometimes, God felt so close and other times, so very far away. "Love games" indeed.
When you talk to an imaginary friend (read God), you get imaginary answers; answers that you can tell yourself are true over and over and over again, but deep down you know that it's just your wishful thinking trying to make something real that isn't. And the same thing can happen in relationships that have this same sort of perceived closeness/actual distance, you begin to take every little scrap of attention as a sign of more than it is creating an imaginary relationship, one where you're receiving more than you really are. You want to believe that the scraps you are receiving indicate love, when really, the most consistent thing you're receiving in the relationship is neglect. And a deep and gnawing sense of dissatisfaction.
Add to this hide-and-seek I was playing with my unseen father, I had a father in real life who was emotionally and verbally absent. He worked a lot to provide financially for the family, and as my mother would say, "Your father is a man of action; don't expect him to use his words to show his love," as if to excuse the fact that he was emotionally distant and talked very little. If he was feeling things, he wasn't sharing them. He has, in recent years, told me that he just didn't have the words to express his feelings, or thoughts; that he didn't grow up in a family that shared stuff. And while I am saddened by this revelation and feel pity for him, it doesn't make up for the groove that got created in my brain as a result.
Somehow, between the inaction of these two fathers, I grew up thinking that accepting scraps was okay; that I could survive on the meager attempts of my partner to show me love and affection; that it was okay to go for weeks without open communication, if it happened at all. That it was okay that emails didn't receive responses, that matters that needed to be discussed got shifted off to oblivion to await the "right time" for discussion. That I felt as though I had to weigh every bit of communication to see if it was worthy of discussion, since there was so little time to share anything at all. That there was such a lack of open time...spontaneous, unscheduled time...to feel safe enough, to trust enough, to open enough, to share what I was really experiencing.
Eventually, after experiencing so many relationships like this, I learned to be all things to myself: partner, friend, therapist, God, parent, all of it. Sure, I'm grateful for the ability to be so self-sustaining, but now I don't know how to be with people in a healthy way. I don't know how to communicate in a way to be heard. I don't know what to share and what not to share and when it's okay to do so. I don't know how to choose healthy relationships that meet my emotional needs. I don't know how to express myself without feeling completely defeated the instant the words leave my lips. There is this voice in my head constantly censoring, choosing, parsing out what I say because I just don't know what's of value, or whether the person I'm sharing things with is truly interested in what I have to say.
But the worse feeling of all, the worse feeling of all, is that when I speak I feel as though I'm wasting the other person's time, that I'm not worth their attention and care. I have learned to be very sparse with my words as a result. Some say this is a good thing, that concise communication is useful. But it leaves me feeling desperately hollow, that somewhere in between the carefully-chosen words lies the death of a child who just really wanted someone, anyone, to listen to her.
A commenter here on this blog once said that my entries were "timid". He was right. And now I know why.
tall penguin
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The inquiry into historic allegations of child sexual abuse suffers from an "inherent problem" because its scope is too large, its former chair has said.
"It is clear there is an inherent problem in the sheer scale and size of the inquiry (which its budget does not match) and therefore in its manageability," she said.
"Its boundless compass, including as it does, every state and non-state institution, as well as relevant institutional contexts, coupled with the absence of any built-in time parameters, does not fit comfortably or practically within the single inquiry model in which it currently resides. Nor is delivery on the limitless extent of all of the aspirations in its terms of reference possible in any cohesive or comprehensive manner."
Justice Goddard said her departure should be an opportunity for a review of the inquiry. She added that after the inquiry was reconstituted under her leadership, it "proved in operational terms not to be a new inquiry with a completely fresh start, but rather a continuation and expansion of the previously existing inquiry in terms of its administration and management".
The former chair said she was not consulted in the recruitment of additional staff for the new inquiry and some of the staff were unsuitable because they had no previous experience of running an inquiry of this kind. She also said that the inquiry's public communications strategy needs to be "radically strengthened" in the future.
The inquiry suffered a further blow after victims' groups threatened to boycott it. Raymond Stevenson, of the Shirley Oaks' Survivors Association, said there was no guarantee that the inquiry's investigation into the treatment of children in care in Lambeth was "truly independent" because the Home Office were heavily involved in both this inquiry and previous investigations.
John McCabe, a spokesperson for victims of alleged abuse at Medomsley detention centre, said he was urging victims and their lawyers to boycott the inquiry because it was not taking evidence from victims who were abused over the age of 18.

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Bumps and Bruises will be part of the course!!
To know what to look for and how to deal with it here are a few pointers.
First of all if there is severe pain, swelling and excessive bruising these are signs of serious injury and should be reviewed by a medical professional - a Doctor or Chartered Physiotherapist.
For more mild aches and pains apply the PRICE principles:
P - Protect the injured area.
R - Rest the damaged area to avoid further injury.
I - Ice the injured area for 5-10min regularly within the first 48-72hr to minimise bleeding to damaged tissue and reduce pain.
C - Compress the injured area to resolve swelling and aid recovery.
E - Elevate the injured area to prevent the accumulation of fluid.


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Year-Round Gardening Ideas
Watching the way a garden changes its character with the seasons is part of the joy of gardening. To get the most from your garden, it should be designed and planted to provide interest for every day of the year. Each season has its own distinctive feel and appearance, and a well-designed garden will include plants that reflect this.
As the days lengthen, the garden quickly wakes from its winter rest. Bulbs, such as daffodils and crocuses, produce showy flowers, while other herbaceous plants begin to emerge from the ground, and deciduous shrubs and trees produce fresh, verdant growth.
For many gardeners, this season represents the high point of the year. Most herbaceous plants reach their zenith, filling out borders and blooming for several months, while annuals flower and set seed. Leafy trees and shrubs provide structure, and tender plants flourish in the mild summer months.
This is arguably the most colorful and plentiful season. Late-flowering plants, such as asters and dahlias, blaze in borders, while many trees and shrubs produce vivid berries and fruits. The leaves of many deciduous plants also brighten up the garden with rich hues before falling. In the moist and still warm conditions, some bulbs, such as Colchicum, provide a welcome freshness.
Once all the leaves have fallen, the shape and structure of the garden and its plants can be properly appreciated. This is a season of quiet, subtle beauty. Trees and shrubs, such as silver birch (Betula pendula) and Cornus with its red-colored stems, and evergreen plants, as well as the faded seedheads of herbaceous plants, provide interest. A few plants also produce delicate, often sweetly scented flowers. As cold weather sets in, frost and snow dust the plants, creating a magical feel.


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I held Roxxi in my arms for most of the night as she cried herself to sleep. The pain covering the air around us. I looked down at her sleeping form having fist fulls of my shirt in her hands and snuggling into me as far as she could go, it was as if she was afraid I would just vanish.
I looked down at her as I felt her stir.
"Daniel?" She asked in a croaky voice.
"I'm here baby" I whispered kissing her head.
"Oh god Daniel, she's gone" Roxxi said looking at me with tears in he eyes.
"You have to be strong baby, for the kids" I reminded her.
"Ok" She whispered closing her eyes again.
"Do you want to get up?" I asked.
"Not really" She sighed.
"Look stay here i'll go feed the kids and mind them" I said getting up.
"Can you stay with me please? I c-can't be alone" Roxxi asked biting her lip.
"Ok, I'll tell your brothers to do it" I said lying down again.
"Ok" She whispered cuddling into me again.
We ended up falling asleep again for most of the day. I can't help but think about what it was like for Alejandro, killing his own mate, I can't imagine it.
I know why he did it though, I didn't tell Roxxi i'm able to tap into minds, I found out all of her dirty little secrets, her horrible secrets.
Roxxi was fussing about how to tell the children and having a funeral, it was obvious she's under a lot of stress. The death of Ellen was hard on and every time she looked at the twins she nearly burst into tears. I couldn't bring myself to tell Roxxi the stuff I found out when I tapped into Ellen's mind, before she died. I wanted Roxxi to have happy memories of her friend.
"Where's mommy?" Andrew asked walking into the room.
"I-I.." Roxxi began before she started crying again.
"Momma? Why you cry" Ariana asked walking into the bedroom and climbing on the bed with Andrew so they could cuddle Roxxi.
"Your-Your mom, she isn't coming back" Roxxi said between sniffles.
"Why?" Ariana asked, looking so innocent and confused.
"Something happened.. mommy is gone to live with the angels in heaven" Roxxi cried.
"She died?" Andrew asked.
We both looked at Andrew in surprise.
"Uh, Y-Yeah" Roxxi answered.
"Oh" Was all he said in reply.
Ariana was silent snuggling into Roxxi and I, silent tears falling from her eyes.
"So she's never coming back?" Ariana sniffled.
"I'm sorry baby" Roxxi sniffled pulling her closer.
"You'll stay right?" Andew asked us both.
"Of course!" Roxxi said wiping her eyes.
"Of course we will" I said.
We all sat on the bed for a while, letting everything sink in for the twins. They seemed more confused than anything. I got the sense that they weren't that upset as they should be.
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django-datetime-utc 1.0.1
Django UTC datetime model field - timestamp without time zone
Latest Version: 1.0.2
django-datetime-utc provides DateTimeUTCField, a naive datetime model field. In PostgreSQL this translates to the field timestamp without time zone. All timestamps are saved in UTC.
Why use this?
The problem with using Django's DateTimeField is unless the default timezone on your (PostgreSQL) database server is set to UTC it doesn't matter which TZ settings you select in Django, PostgreSQL will save all timestamps in local time with an offset.
- Supports the default DateTimeField options such as auto_now_add and auto_now
- Works with South
- Saves all timestamps in UTC
- Values automatically converted to local time (specified by TIME_ZONE in your project settings.py) in forms and templates
From PyPi:
$ pip install django-datetime-utc
In settings.py add datetimeutc to the list of installed apps, set your local time zone and ensure time zone support is enabled:
TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/London' USE_TZ = True INSTALLED_APPS = ( #... 'datetimeutc', )
In models.py:
from django.db import models from datetimeutc.fields import DateTimeUTCField class Stuff(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=100) stuff_time = DateTimeUTCField() submitted = DateTimeUTCField(auto_now_add=True)
If your code creates datetime objects, they should always be TZ aware so they are automatically converted correctly to UTC (if necessary) before being saved to the database. Using the Stuff model above as an example, to set stuff_time correctly you would:
import datetime from dateutil import tz utcnow = datetime.datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=tz.gettz('UTC')) Stuff.objects.create(title='My stuff', stuff_time=utcnow)
This also goes for user defined datetime objects. For example in the admin panel, if the user submits a value for stuff_time, in admin.py you would:
from dateutil import tz from django.contrib import admin from django.conf import settings from stuff.models import Stuff class StuffAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change): obj.stuff_time = obj.stuff_time.replace( tzinfo=tz.gettz(settings.TIME_ZONE)) super(StuffAdmin, self).save_model(request, obj, form, change) admin.site.register(Stuff, StuffAdmin)
Here the datetime object is made TZ aware by setting the time zone to the one specified in settings.py (presumably the time zone of the user entering this data). This will be converted to UTC prior to save automatically.
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- Author: Darren O'Neill
- Home Page: https://github.com/pixeldomain/django-datetime-utc
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A selection of the opportunities available this week through Volunteer Centre Dacorum.
Age UK Dacorum
Would you like to help at a new fun and stimulating club for older people with mild to moderate memory problems in Tring or Berkhamsted?
If you enjoy the company of older people, are friendly, fun loving, caring and kind and can spare some time on Thursdays, this could be the volunteering role for you.
No specialist skills are needed but if you can help club members to feel welcome and at ease, make the tea and assist with clearing up then Age UK Dacorum would love to hear from you.
The club runs on Thursdays in the Kings Road Church Hall from 9.45am until 3.15pm and volunteers can stay for either the whole session or part of the time. If you could also help with transporting members to and from the club that would be a real bonus.
This home-grown charity is also looking to match volunteer befrienders with elderly people looking for companionship in Markyate, Bovingdon and Chipperfield.
Volunteer Centre Dacorum
If you would like to do something to support your community but don't know what, why not come along to Volunteer Centre Decorum's first ever fundraising curry night?
The centre is teaming up with award winning restaurant Sitar in Boxmoor to hold a fun event that will help this home-grown charity continue its good work.
Volunteer Centre Dacorum has been supporting other charities and community groups for more than 40 years.
It supports more than 470 other local groups, helping them find the volunteers they need to keep vital services running.
During the last decade the centre has helped more than 10,700 people of all ages, abilities and walks of life to become volunteers.
Hemel Hempstead-based Hope For Children has achieved the Valuing Volunteer Management 6 Point Promise administered by the Volunteer Centre.
Pictured is events and volunteer manager Rachel Simkin receiving the certificate.
Other organisations who have recently gained the award include Mencap's SNAP play scheme for children with a learning disability and the Box Moor Trust.
To find out more visit the website or call 01442 247209


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Fred Fearnot's Revenge, or Defeating a Congressman
"Saw my husband downtown to-day, but passed him. I didn't recognize him." "How was that?" "He was smiling."
Elsie -- "After I wash my face I look in the mirror to see it it's clean. Don't you?" Bobby -- "Don't have to. I look at the towel."
"I'm going to get lots of Christmas presents," said little Willie. "I've got three uncles." "Bet I get more'n you." replied Johnny. "My sister's got six beaux."
"Strategy," said Private Murphy, up before the sergeant for examination, is whin yez don't let the inimy discover that ye are out ov amunishun, but kape on firin'!"
"I am soliciting contribution for the Drunkard's Home," began the charity worker. "Sure," replied the woman of the house. "There's my husband. Take him."
Waiter -- "What'll you have?" Rube Jayseed -- "Waal, I don't know which to take, whether roast beef, veal or mutton." Waiter -- "Take corn beef hash, and yer'll get ther whole lot."
"Since I learned to run my own automobile," said Scadsbeigh, "my acquaintance has extended." "How so?" inquired his friend. "I have come in contact with so many people."
"I have decided," said young Sapleigh, seriously, "to begin shaving." "In that case," she advised, "you should follow that old hunter's rule." "And what is that?" "First catch your hare!"
"I see," said Mr. Henpeck, as he laid his paper aside, "that Champ Clark says he intends to keep on being Speaker of the House." "Well, let him, if his wife is willing," Mrs. Henpeck, "but just get it firmly established in your mind that you are not married to any Mrs. Clark."


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Volatility is expected to remain within the local equities market after the Philippine stock benchmark index fell below 6,200 points on global economic uncertainties.
The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) in the previous week fell three times on the weight of looming "overseas jitters," as how an analyst put it, overshadowing the three-day rally prior to the correction.
First Grade Finance Managing Director Astro del Castillo said that in the next few days, the market is off to a sideways trend, indicating that the market may fall further if good news won't appear to please global and local investors' appetites.
"Moving towards, it seems like the market will remain volatile given the changing investment landscape," del Castillo said.
He also said that as of now, no specific news is being anticipated by investors and this could trigger more volatility.
"We remain sensitive to the trends overseas. The market may still consolidate within the 6,100 to 6,500 [level]," del Castillo said.
"[The local market is still] considered healthy. Local economy remains strong," he added.
According to del Castillo, the PSEi going down to the 6,000-point level could only mean opportunities still given strong fundamentals in the market.
Last week, the benchmark index moved sideways to go down to 6182.17, which was still driven by concerns that the United States will taper its Quantitative Easing (QE) in the coming months, unless data on its economy deteriorates. Jonathan Ravelas, BDO Unibank Inc. chief market strategist, cited that other factors that exacerbated the market's decline was some foreign funds unloading their holdings in the region as well as issues of overvaluation still hovering over the markets.
"Chartwise, a bounce toward the 6,500 levels did occur early on during the trading week, but given the market's inability to stay above the said levels puts the 6,000 levels at risk," he explained.
Ravelas, however, said that investors should bear in mind that the market has bled for the last five weeks and appear to be extremely oversold.
"This increases the probability that said levels may hold. If no support appears at the 6,000 levels, this could call for further losses toward the 5,800 levels and give the bears the signal to cross the street," he said.


text: [please retain the CC to the bug tracking system] Andrew Young <firstname.lastname@example.com> writes: > >> So the problem is still: how to get ttyS14 working so I can use the > >> modem? > > > > No idea. It's a kernel issue, i would gather. > > > > You are using the ppp on ttyS14 to install base, right? > > No. I installed the base system from floppies. But I need the modem up > to get the rest of the stuff off the Net. I'm trying to get ppp going, > but pppd says "No such device" when I try to use the modem. Oh. Is the original bug closable then? If the device in /dev/ wasn't there but should have been, that's a bug in the 'makedev' package, btw, that you might want to file. If the kernel is not seeing a port that it should, that would be a bug in kernel-image-2.2.19 or whatever you used. > I *have* setserial installed, from the floppies. But when I try to use it > to configure the ttyS14 port, I get "No such device" -- even though ls -l > /dev/ttyS14 indicates the device is there. Any other ideas? Remember, > the hardware itself works -- I've been using this modem on /dev/cua14 for > 5 years with the old Slackware kernel. Well, maybe the kernel is not detecting it (whereas the slackware one did). Its possible slackware has a hacked kernel which looks for more serial devices. Maybe the device is coming up as some other device, rather than /dev/ttyS14. I mean, you're just putting it at ttyS14 arbitrarily, right? Why not ttyS4 or something? Maybe you need one of the binary only drivers, e.g., as discussed on http://www.toppoint.de/~chl/linux_on_512t.html ? You've looked through all the kernel output it gives at bootup? That should be visible with 'dmesg |less' or looking in /var/log/messages . This really feels like more of a hardware/kernel issue than Debian issue, really. -- .....Adam Di Carlo....email@example.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>


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Blues/Reading to face Stoke in Cup
The winner of the Blues v Reading FA Cup Fourth Round replay will face Stoke at the Britannia Stadium.
Provided Blues beat Reading in next Tuesday's home replay - which has been picked for live Sky coverage - we will travel to Stoke on the weekend of the 18/19 February.
The rest of the draw is as follows:
Preston/Crystal Palace v Coventry/Middlesbrough
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I am sure even more women will be after Arie now after seeing him on the show (if he isn't F1 that is). He's pretty much the whole package IMHO. All I'd want is just one of those kisses!
he does have the soap opera kiss down pat. Much better to watch than a face eating one.
That was a great message! And I've had a terrible day, so thank you.I love random acts of kindness.Really, realy appreciated.Scott- RIP SDL<3
I think Ariel will be pretty broken up if he's not F1 at least until his season starts
The ladies love Arie as well. Heck the ladies seem to love all of Emily's final three. It's just a matter of whom one thinks she'd be a better match with at this point.


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Piñata Protest is a finalist in Sunset Station's Summer Sounds series.
This is gonna be a fun weekend.
The Houston Street Fair & Market is Saturday. If you've been following the news, you know this might be one of the last fairs as the popular monthly street party fell victim to cost-cutting and was excluded from the proposed city budget for the next fiscal year. Former Mayor Phil Hardberger's baby might be going bye bye. So take advantage it still exists. Read my previous post for why I think this event is important.
Saturday, the fair will hosting a car show, with classic cars and hot rods on display. As always, there will be food and live music. And it's free.
I'll be at the fair. But at 2 p.m., I'm planting my behind on a bar stool at The Ticket, 420 E. Houston St., to see the McAllister Park Little Leaguers go all Spurs and win the U.S. championship. One of the beauties of The Ticket is that it's windowed all the way around. Homeless folk usually park themselves on fire hydrants and news stands on Losoya Street to watch their favorite teams on the big screens. I'm predicting there's gonna be a huge sidewalk crowd wandering over from the fair to see McAllister Park play. Should be a fun afternoon.
Sunset Station's Summer Sounds at Sunset Finale takes place Friday night. The competition started back in June and has featured various genres of bands competing against each other week after week. Finalists are Peekaboo Theory, 46 and Piñata Protest.
Continue for details on these events and much more. As always, these listings are compiled by the one and only Weekender calendar editor Stefanie Arias, aka "Taking Stefanie."
Movies by Moonlight HemisFair Park, 200 S. Alamo St., (210) 212-9373. Outdoor family film series continues with "Urban Cowboy." 7:30 p.m. pre-show entertainment; 8:30 p.m. movie. Free. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. Rest of the series:
Sept. 3: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Sept. 10: Fiddler on the Roof
Sept. 17: Barefoot in the Park
Sept. 24: The Way We Were
Oct. 1: Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Oct. 8: Creature From the Black Lagoon
Oct. 15: Monster House
Oct. 22: Frankenstein
Oct. 29: Jaws
Main Plaza Music Main Plaza, downtown, (210) 225-9800. The "Raza en la Plaza" series continues Friday with Roger Velasquez and the Latin Legends, 8 p.m. Free.
Party on the Tower Plaza Tower of the Americas, 701 Bowie St., HemisFair Park. Summer concert series held every Friday. 7 p.m.-midnight. Free.
San Antonio Meeting Center 660 N. Main Ave., (210) 226-4600 ext. 2230. "Pictures Without a Story," photographs by James Gonzalez for Fotoseptiembre. 6-9 p.m. opening reception.
Summer Sounds at Sunset Finale Sunset Station, 1174 E. Commerce St., (210) 222-9481. Summer music series and competition concludes and a winner will be announced. Finalists in the series are Peekaboo Theory, 46 and Piñata Protest. Guest performers are Lynette Brehm and Slick Dickens. Doors open at 5 p.m. $5.
Taco Friday Artpace, 445 N. Main Ave. Grab lunch from a taco truck. Noon-2 p.m.
"La Imagen de San Antonio" Arneson River Theater, River Walk, (210) 946-4224. Performance is a showcase of song and dance from Mexico and Spain, along with the Latin varieties in the U.S. 7 and 8:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Aug. 29 and Sept. 4-6. $5-$9.
San Antonio Rose Live Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary's St., (210) 212-7638. The historic theater is home to a new classic country music revue, which includes songs such as "Hey Good Lookin'?" and "Is Anybody Going to San Antone" performed by a 10-member band of musicians from Nashville, Branson, Austin and San Antonio. 7 p.m. Fridays, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturdays, 7 p.m. Sundays-Mondays. $20-$49. Visit www.saroselive.com.
Artpace Garage Sale Parking lot across from Artpace, 513 N. Flores St. Furnishings from its artists-in-residence's apartments on sale: refrigerator, sofas, stoves, etc. 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
Gemini Rivercenter Comedy Club, 849 E. Commerce St. in Rivercenter mall, (210) 229-1420. Magician, ventriloquist and comedian performs a special matinee show for children. 3 p.m. $10.
Houston Street Fair & Market Houston and Alamo streets. Monthly fair is held the last Saturday of the month and includes live music, food booths, kids activities and more. This month's car show will include classic cars and hot rods on display. Noon-6 p.m. Free. www.houstonstreetfair.com
"La Imagen de San Antonio" Arneson River Theater, River Walk, (210) 946-4224. Performance is a showcase of song and dance from Mexico and Spain, along with the Latin varieties in the U.S. 7 and 8:30 p.m. Saturday and Sept. 4-6. $5-$9.
Cameo Rummage Sale Cameo Theater, 1127 E. Commerce St., (210) 472-2636. The theater is cleaning out costumes, furniture, fixtures and collectibles at this sale. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Thursday thru Saturday, noon-4 p.m. Sunday.
"Psycho Beach Party" Cameo Theater, 1127 E. Commerce St., (210) 472-2636. Chicklet Forrest wants to learn to surf, but strange things are happening on the beach — people are disappearing or turning up strangely altered. Will everything be back to normal in time for the big luau? 10:30 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays through Oct. 3 in the Zumbro Lounge. $13-$15.
Rivercenter Comedy Club Rivercenter mall, third level, 849 E. Commerce St., (210) 229-1420 The local stop for touring comedians hosts regular shows daily. Headliners usually perform 8:30 and 10:45 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 8:30 p.m. Sunday-Thursday. Comedia A Go-Go troupe performs at midnight Fridays ($5). "Midnight Madness" is a free show at 12:30 a.m. Saturday nights. The Oxymorons improv troupe performs on Tuesdays. Open mike shows at 5:30 Fridays and 3:30 p.m. Saturdays. Show prices: $13 Fridays-Sundays, $8 Mondays-Tuesdays, $10 Wednesdays-Thursdays. Currently:
Gemini, Friday-Sunday.
Ron Feingold, Wednesday through Sept. 6.
"Willy Wonka" Magik Children's Theatre 420 S. Alamo St., (210) 227-2751. The final show of the season is the musical about the greatest candy maker in the world and the children who win a chance to tour his famous factory. 7 p.m. Fridays, 2 p.m. Saturdays through Sept. 26. Starting Sept. 8, shows will also be held at 9:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays-Fridays. $2-$10.
San Antonio Children's Museum 305 E. Houston St., (210) 212-4453. Hands-on museum houses more than 80 interactive exhibits for ages 2-10, including the H-E-B Kids' Market, a bubble ranch, a kid-powered elevator and the new PowerBALL HALL, which opened May 30. Reading Adventures take place 10:30-11:30 a.m. Wednesdays. FETCH! science experiments take place 1:30-3:30 p.m. Fridays and noon-4 p.m. Saturdays. Dots & Squiggles takes place 10-11 a.m. Fridays. Museum hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays, noon-4 p.m. Sundays. Admission: $7; younger than 2, free. All kids free 5-8 p.m. every Third Thursday. Group rates available. Currently:
The Arts Cart: Cereal Challenge Create a cereal masterpiece and enjoy a bowl on the side. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. $3 per child in addition to regular admission.
Puro Slam On The Half Shell Oyster Bar, 202 Navarro St., (210) 843-3054. Weekly open mike certified by the National Poetry Slam allows poets to deliver their work and get heckled. 9:30 p.m. doors, 10:30 p.m. slam. Free. Visit www.puroslam.com.
Labor Day Arts & Crafts Show River Walk extension between the Alamo Street Bridge and Rivercenter mall, (210) 227-4262. Vendors show and sell unique and handmade merchandise at this annual event. Starts at 11 a.m. Sept. 4 and 10 a.m. Sept. 5-7.
James Taylor Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333. The famed troubadour and his band play a show indoors in San Antonio for the first time in more than a decade, having played the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in 2003 and 2001. Winners of five Grammys, Taylor was nominated for two more this year for Pop Vocal Album ("Covers") and Male Pop Vocal for one of its tracks ("Wichita Lineman"). $67.25-$87.25 at Ticketmaster outlets. 8 p.m.
Dos Equis Pachanga del Rio River Walk, (210) 227-4262. Ticket holders can sample culinary offerings from 20 participating River Walk establishments, 5-8:30 p.m. A post party with drawings and live music will be held until 11 p.m. $25 in advance; $30 day of event.
"Madama Butterfly" Municipal Auditorium, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 225-5972 or (800) 982-2787. San Antonio Opera begins its new season with Puccini's beloved tragedy about a geisha who must decide between an undignified life and an honorable death. (Sung in Italian; English translations projected above the stage). 8 p.m. Sept. 11-12, 2 p.m. Sept. 13. $25-$110 at Ticketmaster outlets.
Jazz'SALive Travis Park, 300 E. Travis St. Guitars & Saxes (the all-star group that includes Peter White, Gerald Albright and Jeff Lorber), Poncho Sanchez and Joey DeFrancesco will headline the San Antonio Parks Foundation's annual bash, which merges all types of jazz, from the traditional to the smooth, and all types of performers, regional and national. Starlight Salute gala set for Sept. 18; champagne brunch, Sept. 20. Go to www.saparksfoundation.org. See previous post for complete lineup.
"Carmina Burana" Majestic Theater, 224 E, Houston St., (210) 554-1010. San Antonio Symphony celebrates the start of its 70th anniversary season with a performance featuring guest violinist Gil Shaham, along with the symphony's mastersingers, Children's Chorus of San Antonio and the University United Methodist Church Choir. 8 p.m. $50-$70 at Ticketmaster outlets.
The Mars Volta Municipal Auditorium, 100 Auditorium Circle, (800) 745-3000. Progressive-rock band that spun off from the beloved At the Drive In plays its first headlining show in San Antonio in support of its new album, "Octahedron." $27.50-$35 at Ticketmaster outlets. 8 p.m.
Chickenfoot Sunset Station, 1174 E. Commerce St., (210) 222-9481. Rock supergroup features half of the Van Hagar lineup of Van Halen (Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony), plus guitar ace Joe Satriani and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. Their debut album, "Chickenfoot," featured a heat-activated cover. $34.50 at Ticketmaster outlets; premium packages available through www.ticketmaster.com. 7 p.m. Upcoming Sunset Station shows:
Shinedown, Oct. 7
Five Finger Death Punch, Oct. 20
All Time Low, Oct. 27
"Mamma Mia!" Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333. Smash hit musical based on the music of ABBA returns in all its disco-pop glory. Sophie is getting married and wants to invite her father to the wedding. The problem is he's one of three men from her mother's past. Sophie invites all three and the fun begins. 8 p.m. Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2 and 8 p.m. Oct. 3, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4. $33-$76 at Ticketmaster outlets. Broadway Across America series continues:
"Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles," Oct. 20-25
"Disney's The Lion King," Dec. 9-Jan. 3
"Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps," Feb. 2-7
"South Pacific," March 2-7
"101 Dalmatians," May 4-9
"Young Frankenstein," June 8-13
Oct. 11
Bill Cosby Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333. Legendary comedian, writer and actor (his role as Heathcliff Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" ranked at the top of TV Guide's "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" list) comes to town for two family-friendly shows. 2 and 5 p.m. Tickets, $41.75-$64.75, go on sale at noon Saturday at Ticketmaster outlets.
Check out our Museums and Exhibits listings for what's currently on display. For live music options, Visit the calendar linked off the Entertainment Page.
Stefanie Arias & Benjamin Olivo
Got any downtown news, event info, hearsay, tips, celebrations, complaints, boastings, updates, breaking news, memories, old photos, celebrity sightings, etc.? Want to write a guest blog? E-mail me.
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|Reviews for Under the Knife
| Eternal Skies chapter 1 . 8/28/2009
i really like your poems, they have such a unic touch and have they're own style! great! keep writing!
fav lines:
"Eyes water my cracked face
Fills in wrinkles of abandonment
My hand bites the mouth that speaks
I'm dissected with no name"
| Princess-anna57 chapter 1 . 8/28/2009
Great job! :) Angsty, but good. Write on!
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- Bumblebee is an Autobot Scout from the live-action film continuity family.
Bumblebee is one of Optimus Prime's most trusted soldiers and the brother-in-arms of Hot Rod.He is one of the strongest and most powerful of the Autobots, Bumblebee has a bottomless well of luck, determination and bravery. He would gladly give his life to protect others and stop the Decepticons.
Badly damaged in battle, Bumblebee lost the ability to speak verbally after he got his voice box smashed by Megatron, though he can still communicate over inter-Autobot frequencies (in a fashion that seems somewhat akin to instant messaging, a usable but more distant and less personal means of interaction). He can also communicate with the Autobots' human allies and his friend, Sam Witwicky, by playing audio clips from popular media on his radio.
- Japanese: Bumblebee (バンブルビー Banburubī?)
- Cantonese: Daai Wong Fung (大黃蜂, "Bumblebee")
- Hungarian: Űrdongó ("Space Bumblebee")
- Mandarin: Dà-huáng-fēng (大黃蜂, "Bumblebee")
- Spanish: Abejorro ("Bumblebee")
- Ukrainian: Bdzhilka (Бджілка, "Bee")
As the youngest of the Autobots, Bumblebee is very immature, short-tempered, hot-headed, impulsive, reckless and impatient; as he often lets his emotions or temper get the better of himself, despite this, he has a sense of justice, honor and good morals. On the battlefield, Bumblebee is a capable fighter.
- Expert hand-to-hand combatant: Throughout the Live-action film series, Bumblebee is shown to be a formidable hand-to-hand combatant.
- Expert marksman: Throughout the Live-action film series, Bumblebee is shown to be extremely proficient in the use of firearms.
- Skilled leader: In Transformers: Age of Extinction, Bumblebee appears to be a capable leader, when Optimus Prime was MIA, he temporarily took command of the remaining Autobots, however, Bumblebee's leadership is clearly not respected; particularly by Drift and Crosshairs respectively.
- Expert driver: Throughout the Live-action film series, Bumblebee is shown to be an expert driver in vehicle mode.
- Cybertronian strength: Despite his small size, throughout the Live action series, Bumblebee is shown to be stronger than most average Cybertronians.
- Cybertronian speed: Throughout the Live-action film series, Bumblebee is shown to be a faster than most average Cybertronians.
Transformers: Beginnings
- Voice actor: Mark Ryan
Optimus Prime entrusted Bumblebee with the secret that the AllSpark will be sent into deep space to prevent Lord Megatron from possessing and corrupting it. Just after the launch, Megatron attacks Bumblebee in his rage at losing the AllSpark, and shatters his voice capacitor beyond repair.
Bumblebee arrives on Earth and, sensing the AllSpark is near, takes on local camouflage to search for the artefact. He immediately attracts the attention of Sector Seven agents and Decepticons.
"Flight of the Bumblebee" online game
At some point in time, Bumblebee was trapped in a canyon with several Decepticons, among them Brawl, Barricade, Wreckage, and Scorponok. He valiantly fought through them all to make it to the other side. He did it without even bending a fender. Flight of the Bumblebee
Ghosts of Yesterday prequel novel
Transformers: Destiny
Transformers: Alliance
In the aftermath of the battle of Mission city, Bumblebee was having his legs repaired by Ratchet. Transformers: Alliance 1 Bumblebee and the other Autobots joined forces with Sector 7 to keep Earth safe from the Decepticons, and after Sector 7 was given one month to study the remains of the fallen Decepticons, escort the remains as they are taken to be disposed of. Midway, Optimus has doubts about leaving the AllSpark back at the Sector 7 facility, and sends Bumblebee with Ironhide doing his best to keep up back to the base. Optimus' fears are well founded, as the AllSpark fragment reawakens N.B.E 3, Wreckage, who proceeds to destroy the facility looking for the doctor who preformed experiments on him. The situation is further complicated by the appearance of Starscream. Bumblebee arrives, well ahead of Ironhide, and while defending the humans, takes a blast in his newly repaired vocal processors, yet again rendering him speechless. Transformers: Alliance 2 Sometime later, Bumblebee and the others are seen training with the newly formed N.E.S.T. group, and Bee has gone back to using the radio to express his emotions. Transformers: Alliance 3 N.E.S.T receives it's first mission, two Decepticons have been spotted in San Francisco. Lennox rides with Bumblebee. Prime kills Dead End by smashing into him, and Bumblebee chases Swindle over a bridge and confronts him. Swindle appears to have the upper hand at first, but Bumblebee takes him down with a shot to the back. Afterwards, Prime and Lennox are discussing their worry over Sam, and the decision is made to send Bumblebee back to protect the boy. As he departs, Prime reminded him that the position is only temporary... Transformers: Alliance 4
Transformers: The Game
(No voice actor, considering the fact that his voice box got blown before. DUH!)
- Autobot campaign
Bumblebee landed in Tranquility while being briefed by Optimus Prime on his mission to find clues on the All Spark. While on Earth, he took the form of a beat-up 1977 Chevrolet Camaro in possibly a dump or a demolitions bay. Some Decepticon drones were also in Tranquility at a nearby construction site, so Bumblebee confronted and destroyed the drones before any civilian casualties could ensue.[1] Prime detected a Cybertronian code matching that on an artifact owned by a boy named Sam Witwicky, who was reported to be buying a car at Bobby Bolivia's. Unfortunately, some more drones heard of Prime's report, so Bumblebee had to get involved in a high-speed car chase and defeat the drones.
With Sam buying Bumblebee, disguised as a Camaro, the first phase of finding the All Spark was complete. The next day, Prime warned Bumblebee that the Decepticon named Barricade was also on Earth and threatening to take Sam and his new female friend, Mikaela. So the Autobot had to incapacitate the arm-spinning, spike-punching, tantrum-throwing Decepticon while the humans escaped. Now that Bumblebee knew of the Decepticons' growing involvement in finding the All Spark's location, he obviously needed help. The only problem now with the Autobots' landing was their radar systems. The Decepticons had built radio towers throughout Tranquility to mess up any aircraft radar. Naturally, Bumblebee went to the scene and destroyed the towers. With the Autobots having landed, it was time to find the All Spark.
Optimus Prime explained to Sam and Mikaela about the All Spark, the importance of the glasses, and Humanity's fate. Before moving on the matter at hand, Mikaela questioned Bumblebee's alt-mode being such a beater. The mildly insulted Autobot then copied a more current version of the Camaro (2009 Concept). Later, a government group called Sector 7 went after the Autobots with their helicopters and cars. After Jazz's successful distraction, Sector 7 then switched their sights to Bumblebee, who got captured and carried away despite the efforts of Prime.
Sector 7 sent Bumblebee to Hoover Dam. The Autobot immediately saw the All Spark and a frozen Megatron. After a mysterious blackout, Bumblebee got free and started to shut down the power faster by ripping out the mainframe, blowing up the cooling fans, and removing nuclear canisters from their generators. The All Spark was his, but he had to wait for it to shrink while fending off Sector 7 troops, a lot of Energon drones, and a defrosting Megatron. (Oy!) Eventually, Sam and Mikaela got to the dam and fled with Bumblebee to Mission City before Megatron could get his huge, pointy clutches near the cube.
The Autobots' first priority was then keeping the cube from Megatron. Unfortunately for Bumblebee, he crashed into a building due to interference from Energon drones generated by the cube's radiation. Ironhide came in and helped. While the rest of the Autobots fought the Decepticons, Bumblebee had one final showdown with Barricade. After a lot of punches, blasts, and car chases, Barricade finally went down for good. Megatron then went to the scene and incapacitated the wounded Autobot with one shot from his fusion cannon. Bumblebee urged the two humans to take the cube to Optimus for he could not go on any longer.
After the battle was won by the Autobots, Bumblebee struck a pose with the other remaining four as they listened in on Prime's final speech.
- Decepticon campaign
Bumblebee was pursued by Barricade across Tranquility, and got killed, and to add insult to injury, his lifeless body was likely captured by Sector 7 for study. And man did he get the slag kicked out of him. Twice!
Revenge of the Fallen: The Game
- Autobot Campaign
He is a playable character in this campaign, and isn't really important to any missions, except for the one mission where he kills the massive Devastator. Go figure.
- Decepticon Campaign
When The Fallen sends out Megatron to destroy all the Autobots left in Cairo, Bumblebee and Jetfire show up. After you kill him, he falls, amidst mixed radio signals.
- According to an article on Edmunds.com, the filmmakers wanted Bumblebee's original Earth form to be the 1976 iteration of the Camaro because it was the worst Camaro possible that also had chrome bumpers.
- The same article indicates that the 1976 Camaros used in the film were all purchased via online auction for under $6000 each, one for less than $2000. That one didn't run.
- One of the 1976 Camaros was sold on eBay. The bidding ended on July 18, 2007; the final price was $40,100.01.
- The Bumblebee computer-generated model consisted of 7608 individual parts, 1,511,727 polygons, 19,722 rig nodes, and 8094 texture maps. The volume of all the pieces came to 1069.01 cubic feet.[2]
- Bumblebee stands approximately 16 feet tall, according to the official game strategy guide
- Bumblebee's character animation is based on the performance of Michael J. Fox in the Back to the Future movies.[3]
- The 2008 Concept Camaro used for Bumblebee was built by Saleen in 30 days, using a heavily modified 2006 Pontiac GTO body as the basis. The '08 Camaro was not in production at the time that the film was being made, hence an identical mock-up was needed to fill the role.[4]
- A weapon considered for Bumblebee was a pair of arm-mounted electrical "stingers". The idea was ultimately abandoned for the movie, but influenced other media.
- Speaking of weapons, for someone whose main job is being subtle, Bumblebee is quite well armed, with a cannon powerful enough to rattle Brawl and a ring-shaped light missile launcher in either shoulder.
- He is also a capable close-combat fighter, as seen in his fights against Barricade, Skipjack, Ravage, and Soundwave. He is extremely agile and sturdy, able to stand up to enemies much larger than himself. Even helped give Sentinel Prime a hard time.
- In the films, despite having weapons, Bumblebee seems to prefer hand-to-hand fighting, only using his weapon to aid him or land a finishing blow. In Revenge of the Fallen, Bumblebee was able to kill both Ravage and Skipjack without firing a single shot and fought Soundwave mostly hand-to-hand, while in contrast, Soundwave mostly relayed on his weapons. One of the only times he has been shown to rely on his weapons rather than his fighting skills was when he killed Brawl but he had his legs blown off so he wasn't able to fight hand-to-hand.
- Another note is that this Bumblebee is one of the few bots to have gone up against Megatron in close quarters and survived.
- According to the prequel comic by IDW Publishing, Megatron ripped out and crushed Bumblebee's voice capacitor during the battle at Tyger Pax back on Cybertron. In the film itself, Ratchet only states to Sam that Bumblebee's "vocal processors were damaged in battle" and he was "still working on them" after firing a single plasma beam at Bumblebee's throat; by the end of all the conflict (the climax of the film proper), Bumblebee has regained his ability to speak. Although it was not confirmed on-screen, screenwriter Roberto Orci did confirm off-screen[5] that Ratchet's (regenerative) beam was indeed the reason. It could be that the doc didn't have enough time/resources, what with all the war and inter-stellar space travel, to fully perfect the healing plasma early enough. And even if he did, Bumblebee took off for the Cube after only a marginal amount of repairs were performed on him after his encounter with Megatron, so a vial of even faster-acting plasma could be sitting in Ratchet's lab back on Cybertron, if the Decepticons didn't trash it of course ...they did.
- Just as well, Roberto Orci also admitted that Bumblebee's brief contact with the All Spark would be an equally valid (and an even more "in-continuity") explanation.[5]
- In the film (2007), Bumblebee scanned a working, drivable Camaro—with the same paint job—that won't be released until some time later this year (2009). However, it is possible that the Camaro in question was being road-tested by GM engineers, like they are doing in the real world.
- In the online virtual world simulation/game Second Life, there is a full replica of the Sector Seven base which contains a giant discussion room where Michael Bay held a question board. This room contains a giant frozen Megatron replica and free avatars of both Bumblebee and Barricade. Both freebies are non-transforming. Also, the Bumblebee avatar has his battle mask down and it can't be raised. However, some sellers have created a transforming version.
- Strangely, after Sam asks Bumblebee if Sector Seven hurt him, there is a something that sounds like: "YES. THEY. HURT. ME.". In this scene, even more strangely, the sounds he makes sound almost suspiciously like a Decepticon.
- According to the Hasbro, Barricade is Bumblebee's arch-enemy.
- Starscream seems to particularly dislike Bumblebee, blasting his legs off in the first movie and ambushing him in the second while the Autobot transported Sam and the other human protagonists. The feeling is most likely mutual.
- It's been said Bumblebee can still talk. When Sam tells him to get in the garage, he made a sound that says "Whatever!'. When ambushing and kicking Skipjack in the face he made a loud "YEOW!" sound, then after killing Skipjack, he made a "Yeah!" sound. and when Sam's mom screams at him it sounds like he is saying " @#!*% "
- His license plate reads "4NZZ454" in the first and second movies, in dark of the moon it reads "900 STRA".
- In the Revenge of the Fallen video game, Bumblebee can talk freely. Bumblebee talks throughout the radio so any channel that is on he can say.
- In humanoid mode, Bumblebee's alt mode doors resemble wings. Also, on ROTF's official site, when clicked on Bumblebee, he flaps them like wings and raises up in the air (true, for a short time, and a low lift-off).
- Bumblebee, before each and every successful kill in the movie series, emphatically lowers his mask. Bumblebee's mask tends to be a warning signal for when he intends to bring the pain.
- Before shooting Brawl, he snaps it down.
- Before tearing apart Ravage and Rampage, he looks into the camera and snaps it down.
- Before turning the tables on Soundwave and killing him and two Protoform troops, he faces the camera and snaps it down.
- In Dark of the Moon, Bumblebee is seen with a spoiler on his trunk for the first time.
- Despite being the only mute Autobot (or perhaps because of this), Bumblebee is the most emotional and expressive of the Autobot team, emphatically pointing, shrugging, and even waving his hands and acting as if he's speaking while he uses the radio to communicate. He likely does this to make himself better understood despite not being able to speak properly.
- Apparently, this "language barrier" between Bumblebee and Sam might be inspired by the interaction between ET and Eliot in the movie E.T., whose director, Steven Spielberg, was also the executive producer of the live action Transformers movies.
- Bumblebee can be short tempered. He has been seen threatening soldiers many times, and even pointed his cannon at a man annoying him in the third film.
- Despite having a huge gun sticking out of the right side of his roof while in Stealth Force mode, the interior appears the same with Bumblebee's shoulder cannons on the back trunk. This can be seen in the highway chase seen in the movie that shows Sam's point of view while Bumblebee is in Stealth Force mode.
- Despite his heavy handed combat prowess, Bumblebee is apparently a master at handling humans, catching them in mid-air, transforming and tossing them to avoid lethal collisions, and generally getting them out of harm's way. He even pulled Sam inside of one of his seats, while transforming.
- Bumblebee is the only autobot that has not been killed in all four films.
- In a TV spot video, there was a scene which Hound and Bumblebee dancing with Tessa (while Drift bobs his head in the background) but it was not present in the final cut of the film.
- Bumblebee's vehicle mode makes a cameo in the 2017 Power Rangers movie; when red ranger Jason Scott pilots his T-Rex Battle Zord, it accidentally steps on a yellow Camaro, prompting its pilot to say "Sorry Bumblebee!".
Concept Art
External links
- ↑ Although this was not necessary as the humans were indestructible in this game.
- ↑ Robertson, Barbara (2007). Heavy Metal. Computer Graphics, 30(7), 12-17.
- ↑ Cinefex magazine, issue number 111, published October 2007.
- ↑ Saleen article about the construction of the Barricade and Bumblebee vehicles
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COMException Class
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The exception that is thrown when an unrecognized HRESULT is returned from a COM method call.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Initializes a new instance of the COMException class with default values.
|COMException(SerializationInfo, StreamingContext)
Initializes a new instance of the COMException class from serialization data.
Initializes a new instance of the COMException class with a specified message.
|COMException(String, Exception)
Initializes a new instance of the COMException class with a specified error message and a reference to the inner exception that is the cause of this exception.
|COMException(String, Int32)
Initializes a new instance of the COMException class with a specified message and error code.
Gets a collection of key/value pairs that provide additional user-defined information about the exception.(Inherited from Exception.)
Gets the HRESULT of the error.(Inherited from ExternalException.)
Gets or sets a link to the help file associated with this exception.(Inherited from Exception.)
Gets or sets HRESULT, a coded numerical value that is assigned to a specific exception.(Inherited from Exception.)
Gets a message that describes the current exception.(Inherited from Exception.)
Gets or sets the name of the application or the object that causes the error.(Inherited from Exception.)
Gets a string representation of the immediate frames on the call stack.(Inherited from Exception.)
Gets the method that throws the current exception.(Inherited from Exception.)
Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.(Inherited from Object.)
Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.(Inherited from Object.)
Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.)
|GetObjectData(SerializationInfo, StreamingContext)
When overridden in a derived class, sets the SerializationInfo with information about the exception.(Inherited from Exception.)
Gets the runtime type of the current instance.(Inherited from Exception.)
Converts the contents of the exception to a string.(Overrides ExternalException.ToString().)
Occurs when an exception is serialized to create an exception state object that contains serialized data about the exception.(Inherited from Exception.)
The common language runtime transforms well-known HRESULTs to .NET Framework exceptions, enabling COM objects to return meaningful error information to managed clients. The HRESULT to exception mapping also works in the other direction by returning specific HRESULTs to unmanaged clients. For mapping details, see How to: Map HRESULTs and Exceptions.
When the runtime encounters an unfamiliar HRESULT (an HRESULT that lacks a specific, corresponding exception), it throws an instance of the COMException class. This all-purpose exception exposes the same members as any exception, and inherits a public ErrorCode property that contains the HRESULT returned by the callee. If an error message is available to the runtime (obtained from the IErrorInfo interface or the Err object in Visual Basic, or in some cases from the operating system), the message is returned to the caller. However, if the COM component developer fails to include an error message, the runtime returns the eight-digit HRESULT in place of a message string. Having an HRESULT allows the caller to determine the cause of the generic exception.
The following are some considerations for troubleshooting a COMException exception.
- Check the ErrorCode property
When the runtime encounters an unfamiliar HRESULT and throws a COMException exception, the ErrorCode property includes either the error message or, if an error message is unavailable, the eight-digit HRESULT value. The error message or the HRESULT value can help you determine the cause of the exception.
For a list of HRESULT values, see Common HRESULT Values.
- Late-bound arguments and Microsoft Office objects
When passing late-bound arguments to methods of Microsoft Office objects, a COMException exception may be thrown when the objects are COM objects. The late binder assumes that such method calls involve a ByRef parameter and that the property you pass has a set accessor. If the property does not, the .NET Framework generates a MissingMethodException exception (with a CORE_E_MISSINGMETHOD HRESULT ). To work around this behavior, use early-bound objects or pass a variable instead of a property of the object.
- Visual Studio and the hosting process
COM is used to communicate between Visual Studio and the hosting process. Because it is used before code runs, a call to CoInitializeSecurity causes this exception to be thrown.
In some cases, running Visual Studio as Administrator may resolve the issue. You can also disable the hosting process.
Although you can use the COMException class to return specific HRESULTs to unmanaged clients, throwing a specific .NET Framework exception is better than using a generic exception. Consider that managed clients as well as unmanaged clients can use your .NET Framework object, and throwing an HRESULT to a managed caller is less comprehensible than throwing an exception.
Available since 8
.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
Portable Class Library
Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0
Windows Phone
Available since 8.1
Any public static ( Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.


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Coming in to their match up with Southern Buckeye Conference American Division rival Western Brown, the Bethel-Tate girls basketball team was already facing plenty of adversity.
With post player Kendall Murphy already out for the year due to injury, the Lady Tigers lost their tallest remaining player, senior starter Cyra Jones, to a concussion in their win over Batavia on Jan. 17.
So as they prepared to tip off against the Lady Broncos last Thursday evening, the Lady Tigers could ill afford to get down to a bigger and deeper Western Brown squad.
Unfortunately for the Lady Tigers, that was just what happened.
Using full court pressure defense, the Lady Broncos jumped out to a 9-0 lead in the first minute and a half and never looked back as they rolled to a 68-45 conference victory.
"You go down nine nothing and we mentally broke down and we really never recovered from that," Bethel coach Dave Fallis said. "We called a couple timeouts to calm things down and have a couple conversations. When you do that to a team a lot of times you can break their spirit pretty quickly."
The Lady Broncos wasted no time jumping on the visitors from Clermont County as Kylie Garrett quickly nailed a 3-pointer just nine seconds in to the game.
And they just kept the tide rolling by beating the Lady Tigers at their own game — pushing the tempo.
Once Garrett's shot sailed through the net, the Lady Broncos set up their full court pressure defense and quickly got the results they had hoped to.
Western Brown's Elizabeth Carter stole the ball from Bethel as they tried to advance the ball against the press and found teammate Delayne Seigla for a layup to put the Lady Broncos up 5-0 about 30 seconds in.
After a missed Bethel shot, Western Brown pushed the ball again and, this time, Morgan Wright got into the action as her layup put the hosts on top 7-0 less than 40 seconds in.
Then Seigla did it herself as she stole the ball and went in for a layup. Her second basket of the game put the Lady Broncos up 9-0 with 6:29 left in the first quarter and forced Fallis to call timeout.
"We always stress that the first two minutes of the game are two of the most important minutes of the game (and) the first two minutes of the second half," Fallis said. "We lost both those contests tonight."
It looked as if the Lady Tigers were going to be able to withstand the Lady Broncos quick start as they settled down after Fallis called timeout.
Brooke Jenike hit a 3-pointer to get the Lady Tigers on the board before teammate Andi Lanigan converted a layup off a teammates drive and dish. The baskets quickly closed their deficit to four, 9-5.
Once Seigla answered with a 3-pointer for Western Brown, Jenike and Taylor Atkins hit back-to-back jumpers to cut the deficit to three, 12-9, with a little over four minutes left in the opening period.
It was at that point, however, when Garrett took over for the Lady Broncos.
She scored five straight points to push the Lady Broncos to an eight point lead before Carolin Baker's pull-up jumper brought the Lady Tigers within six, 17-11, as the first quarter came to an end.
But while the Lady Tigers were starting to find some consistency offensively, they had no answer defensively for Garrett and her teammates.
As the second quarter began, Garrett, a 5-foot-9 guard/forward, helped Western Brown add to their lead as she converted a layup and was fouled. Her foul shot put the Lady Broncos up 20-11.
However, Baker answered right back for the Lady Tigers as Bethel stayed within striking distance.
But, again, it was Garrett who answered as she drained a 3-pointer. Then, after the Lady Broncos forced a Lady Tigers miss, Garrett came down and hit a short jumper in the lane to put Western Brown up 25-13 with 5:24 left in the half.
With their tallest player standing 5-foot-6, the Lady Tigers had no answer for a determined Garrett. She scored 27 points and grabbed 11 rebounds.
"Kylie just played a whale of a game," Fallis said. "She brought some intensity today that she didn't have that first game we played. She came back and got our number today, that's for sure."
But the Lady Tigers continued to hang around. A Jenike 3-pointer kept the deficit in single digits, 25-16, with 4:20 left in the half.
The Lady Broncos, however, answered with five straight points as they pushed their lead to 30-16 with 3:46 left in the half.
Over the final three minutes of the half the teams both began to get out and run. They traded baskets on the final four possessions of the half as the Lady Broncos took a 37-24 lead into the break.
The second half opened in a similar fashion as the teams traded buckets the first two and a half minutes of the half.
It was at that point, however, where the Lady Broncos broke the game open.
A Garrett free throw and offensive rebound and putback got the Lady Broncos going before teammate Amber Dowd hit one of two free throws to increase the Western Brown lead to 45-28.
Jenike — who, along with Baker, scored a team best 12 points — momentarily halted the Lady Broncos with a driving layup to bring Bethel within 15, 45-30.
But Wright and Garrett quickly scored on back-to-back possessions to put the Lady Broncos up 49-30.
Though Kylie Sawyers answered for the Lady Tigers, another Garrett layup and an Elizabeth Carter free throw pushed the Lady Bronco lead to 20, 52-32 as the third quarter was winding down.
Western Brown took a page out of the Lady Tiger's game plan to open their lead.
"We're typically the team that runs, runs, runs. We had a smaller rotation of girls today because we're missing a couple of girls and we got tired," Fallis said. "If we're not running and pushing the ball our halfcourt offense against bigger teams doesn't produce a whole lot points."
Bethel battled in the final quarter as they tried to cut into the Lady Bronco lead but could get no closer than 16 before Western Brown pulled away.
"We're still building a program," Fallis said. "If things turn out the way we'd like it to, this will be our second winning season in a row. So we're still learning how to win."
Bethel (8-6, 4-2 SBC-A) 45 Baker 6 0 12, Sawyers 1 0 2, Myers 0 0 0, Poe 1 0 2, Kilgore 0 0 0, Lanigan 4 0 8, Atkins 2 2 6, Jenike 5 0 12, Shinkle 1 1 3, Allen 0 0 0. Totals: 20 3 45.
Western Brown (11-4, 5-1 SBC-A) 68 Garrett 10 4 27, Henry 0 0 0, Wright 7 1 15, Carter 0 1 1, Seigla 7 0 15, Hall 0 0 0, Wiesenhahn 0 1 1, Dowd 1 4 6, Nickell 0 0 0, Fischer 0 0 0, Harvey 0 1 1, Leist 1 0 2. Total: 26 11 68.
Halftime: WB 37-24. 3-pointers: BT 2 (Jenike 2); WB 4 (Garrett 3, Seigla).


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Jamie Foster had coach Peter Gentle raving about him last night after making a winning start to his Hull FC career.
Foster, on loan from St Helens and playing his first Super League game since March, kicked six goals in this 217th Humberside derby.
He also set-up two tries as Hull erased memories of their 'Tragic Weekend' defeat in Manchester.
"Jamie has a bit of class about him, hasn't he?" said Gentle after only his team's second win in eight games. ''And he was pretty handy turning four into six every time we crossed the line. There is some quality there."
Foster kicked a penalty after the hooter to earn Saints a 36-all draw on his previous visit to Craven Park in February.
But he has been frozen out at Langtree Park and relegated to the under-20s for the past four months.
He jumped at the chance to join the Black and Whites, initially on a four-week deal.
"He sees this as an opportunity because Saints wingers are not doing anything wrong," added Gentle. "He has had to bide his time and fortunately we have been TIRED..
able to offer him a deal. We would like it to be longer but we will have to see what happens."
Foster, axed by Saints after a nightmare on his last appearance at Bradford, made the worst possible start, booting his kick-off out on the full. However, it got better for him and the visitors, still smarting from their 32-30 defeat at the Etihad Stadium in May after leading 30-16 with 15 minutes left.
Gentle admitted he feared another great escape when Rovers battled back from 14-2 and 20-8 down to 20-18. Talisman Michael Dobson missed the conversion to Josh Hodgson's try that would have made the score 20-20.
Even then Dobson's break almost set up another for Sam Latus only for the winger to spill his chance.
Gentle's nerves were calmed by late tries from Richard Whiting and Tom Briscoe.
Hull are up to sixth in the table but a fourth successive defeat cast further doubt on Rovers' play-off hopes.
"It's what we do on the back of this that is important," added Gentle. "The boys have said that is the benchmark now and we can't drop below that."
Rovers boss Craig Sandercock said: "I thought we were going to sneak a win. We created some opportunities but we butchered them."


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The "Cell line and DNA Biobank from patients affected by Genetic Diseases" is situated at the "Centro di Diagnostica Genetica e Biochimica delle Malattie Metaboliche", part of the Diagnostic and Research Department of Istituto Giannina Gaslini and has been operating since 1975.
The Biobank has constantly provided an essential service to the scientific community by establishing, analysing, banking, and distributing cell cultures and DNAs derived from patients affected by rare genetic diseases.
The Biobank, sponsored by the Italian Telethon grants, consists of specimens (dermal fibroblasts, lymphoblasts, amniocytes, chorionic villous cells and DNAs) derived from patients due to more than 250 different genetic defects.
At present, the Biobank is part of the Telethon Network of Genetic Biobanks, which is constituted by 11 Italian Biobanks.
The clinical data concerning the patients are collected in a continuously updated biobank database.
The Biobank is supported by experts for clinical information revision.
To protect confidentiality, the samples are identifiable through the use of a code. Access to the data is restricted to biobank staff and is protected by a password.
According to ethical and legal recommendations, the samples have been taken for analysis and biobanking after written donor informed consent, approved by the local Ethics Committee.
The Biobank has developed and maintains procedures to guarantee that the cell lines are free of mycoplasma, bacteria, and fungi, during expansion, at the time of frozen storage, and after recovery from liquid nitrogen of the samples for distribution.