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"The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels." Rupert Sheldrake.
In humans too, for better for worse, parents tend to pass on the parenting that they themselves received.
Patterns seem to be hardwired into our brains, and begin to be formed before we are even born. Sometimes we can unconsciously carry the feelings, symptoms, behaviours, of hardships of an earlier member of our family system as if they were our own.
Shared patterns of unhappiness are all around us. Depressed mother, depressed daughter...angry father, angry son...relationship difficulties of the parents mirrored by the children. The combinations are endless.
We can delude ourselves that we can make our lives go exactly to plan but our intentions are too often at odds with our actions. We desire good health but we overeat and don't exercise. We want a meaningful career but don't take the steps we need to take to achieve it. We want a loving relationship but distance ourselves as soon as someone tries to get close to us. We feel depressed but don't consider the deeper reasons why.
Typically people will consult a doctor and receive medication or therapy. Whilst in some cases these can be useful, they generally don't supply a complete solution. Identifying the origin of any traumas or behaviour traits in your family can help finally lay them to rest.
What else can you do? Researchers now are finding that our thoughts, inner images, and gene expression can be positively affected by meditation. When we meditate we can 'bulk up' the portions of our brains that produce happiness.
New experiences can also create new neural pathways. The more we practice something the more we train our brains to change.
So, if you feel like you are going round and round in circles and not getting anywhere start to think about the reasons why. What actions can you take to change your life? Identify the source of your problems then use meditation to rewire your brain.
"Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel?" - Ray Bradbury.
Have a listen to this 6 Phase Guided Meditation by Vishen Lakhiani. Practice it every date to get the full benefits.


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July 19, 2007
Ten million Americans have their identities ripped off every year. Having a stranger steal from you is hard enough, but imagine if the thief were your own flesh and blood!
Outfoxed at the Office
Identity theft can happen anywhere, even at your job. Dr. Phil wants to see just how easily this fraud occurs, so his staff members do a little snooping around the Dr. Phil offices at night to see what personal information they can find.
You won't believe what they dig up!
Bad Blood?
Ricky and Ray say their brother, Robin, has been stealing their identities for years. They say Robin has used his older sibling's I.D. to open lines of credit, rent a mobile home, and even attempt to buy a Harley!
"My credit is so shot, I couldn't buy a piece of gum."
To Catch a Thief
Ricky and Ray want to confront their younger sibling but they haven't seen him in over a year. With the help of private investigator John Weeks, they track Robin down in New Orleans.
"This is the worst I've ever seen him in my life."
A Compulsive Liar?
Robin is finally convinced to fly to the Dr. Phil show and confront his brothers. Tensions run high when he denies stealing his brother, Ricky's, identity.
Don't miss the explosive showdown onstage!
Robbing Robyn?
Ricky's fiancée, Robyn, worries about taking his last name after the wedding because she doesn't want to be mistaken for his brother, Robin.

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Rory's vital stats
Room 14, Inglewood Primary School. Intermediate team. Year 8
Best friends:
Alex Phillips, Josh Dixon, Luke Thompson, Inglewood Primary School.
Kody Johnston, Dargaville Primary School.
27 March 2002. 13 years of age.
Prior to diagnosis; soccer, swimming, tennis, mountain biking. He still enjoys; swimming, fishing, tramping, soccer, Star Wars, Pokemon, cooking, building with Lego, drawing, shooting with his bow & BB gun, reading, playing on the Xbox and iPod, riding his bike.
Favourite colour:
cheeky, determined, fun-loving, caring, tolerant, courageous, determined. Enjoys life.
- mum Leigh Honnor (New Plymouth), dad Sean Gardiner (formerly Whangarei), brothers Sam aged 15years and Colt aged 4 years, Grandad & Grannie Alan & Sandy Gardiner (Whangarei), Auntie Teri & Uncle Graham (Brisbane, Australia), Poppa & Nana John & Heather Honnor (New Plymouth), Uncle Guy (New Plymouth), Cousins Sacha & Corbyn (New Plymouth)
Dog Fern
Ngati Hau, Ngati Wai, Nga Puhi
Rory was a fit, healthy, active 6 year old boy. In February 2009 he started getting intermittent headaches, some serious enough to cause vomiting. Following three trips to the Doctor, and three to Whangarei Hospital, a brain tumor was detected via CT scan on the 17th of March. Rory was admitted to Starship Hospital, Auckland on the same day. At Starship a second tumor was found. Rory had surgery to remove the primary tumor at the base of his brain on the 20th of March, it was 4x4.5cm. Biopsy revealed it as a Grade 4 Medulloblastoma, a malignant aggressive type of cancer. The Neurosurgeon said Rory's life was on a razors edge, another two weeks and we would have lost him. Rory went on to have four further surgeries, over 20 hours on the operating table; to remove the majority of a second tumor located on his hypothalamus (it couldn't be completely removed), to remove a skull flap and Rickman Reservoir because of chemical meningitis, to insert a femoral line iv line into his groin to harvest his stem cells in preparation for chemotherapy, and to place a VP shunt on his skull to manage hydrocephalus, a build-up of fluid on his brain. Rory spent nine weeks on the Neurosurgical ward.
In May and June 2009 Rory completed 31 sessions of high dose radiotherapy to his brain and spine over a period of seven weeks. He had five weeks 'leave' at home, then returned to Starship at the end of July for four intensive cycles of chemotherapy with stem cell recovery. After every cycle Rory was re-admitted to the hospital because of infection. Each infection required treatment with a broad spectrum of strong antibiotics delivered intravenously. Rory ceased to eat or drink so was fed with a naso-gastric tube. A 'milkshake' was pumped into his stomach every night. Rory completed treatment in time for Christmas 2009.
During his treatment Rory was brave, patient, and tolerant. He held on to his bright and cheeky spirit through scans, so many intravenous lines his veins collapsed, intensive drug regimes, multiple surgeries, blood tests, physiotherapy, radiotherapy which robbed him of his hair and burnt his skin, chemotherapy which took him to rock bottom, and a greatly reduced ability to do everything he normally did. Rory celebrated his 7th birthday in Starship.
Rory had his first clear MRI scan, to indicate he was in remission, in January 2010. He returned to Starship for an MRI and blood tests every three months in 2010, and has returned every four months in 2011. Thankfully every MRI has been clear of disease, and Rory remains in remission.
At the start of 2010 Rory began his rehabilitation. He had been left with a number of impairments as a result of cancer, and the treatment he received. He has high frequency, and some mid-frequency, hearing loss, and now wears hearing aids. Rory has a VP shunt under the skin on the back of his head. One end of its cable is inserted in his brain and the other is tunnelled under his skin to his abdomen to drain cerebral spinal fluid (CSF). If the shunt fails, or becomes infected, Rory will need surgery to fit a new device. Rory has left sided weakness, problems with his co-ordination, and impaired spatial awareness, as a result of surgery. He had to re-learn how to walk, run and ride a bike (he now rides a trike). High dose radiotherapy is considered the 'big gun' for medulloblastoma but it has considerable long-term effects. Rory still has little hair, and this may be permanent. Damage to Rory's hypothalamus reduced his growth rate to one centimetre per year. He now has daily growth hormone injections to increase his growth rate to normal. He is monitored by an Endocrine specialist at Greenlane Hospital. Rory has had to be reimmunised against childhood diseases, and take Vitamin D to restore his level.
Rory gradually returned to primary school in 2010, increasing his attendance (continuous hours, and days) as he could cope, with Leigh supporting him in Terms 1, 2 and 3. Three months after starting school Rory was struck down with shingles on his face and head. He spent a week in hospital for treatment. He suffered from a complication (post-herpetic neuralgia) which sent intense pain shooting through the affected nerves on a random basis. Rory has had a part-time Teacher Aid, funded by the Ministry of Education, since Term 4 2010. This is to ensure Rory's safety and wellbeing at school, and so he gets equal access to education. Radiotherapy has affected Rory's thinking processes. He now has slow processing speed, there is disruption to his memory, and he has difficulty with complex or novel tasks. He repeated Year 4 in 2011.
In spite of his impairements the real Rory remains. He still wrestles with his brother, is fussy about what he wears, takes himself off quietly to draw or construct with the lego, likes a story and a cuddle before going to sleep every night, and has something to cheeky to say on a regular basis. In 2011 he resumed swimming lessons, started playing soccer again, and completed the Weetbix Tryathlon (supported by Sean). Rory is finding a new 'normal'.


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Well I am here and the floods might have tried to take over our basement, but we fought them back and I'm still here. First let me explain that I have not posted this week for a couple reasons. The first reason is I was riding the excitement of Sarah's job, I was riding that thrill till Wednesday. I am just very excited and proud of my wife! So instead of turning this into a full three days of singing my wife's praises I opted to just tell her, my family, her family, and some friends how great she is.
Then there was the rain. We have had a little water in the basement and I have been cleaning it and trying to prevent it from coming back (with rain in the forecast tonight we will see how I did). Also rain related problems are my morning commute. I have been working a part time job, but it is a morning shift starting at 5. My normal twenty minute drive has turned almost thirty five plus. That means I have been getting up earlier and instead of blogging in the afternoon I have been napping.
Lastly it is the start of Lent so I have been to church a lot this week. There was the call sermon on Sunday, then Shrive Tuesday with pancakes after, and lastly ash Wednesday. So this week really did not lend its self to a great blogging week.
I did find time to tie a couple flies, and today I took some pictures of my boxes nearing the end of the filling process. If you have been wondering how a person could have so many boxes and so few flies, it is because I went through them in the fall and purged them of all mangled, rusted, and worthless flies. I tried to save any hooks that could be saved, and mainly just wanted to get my boxes looking nice and being more on the functional again.
|This one needs a couple parachute Adams, and three more BWO's
|There is always room for streamers. I am constantly trying new ones and removing the junk.
|I keep thinking I'm done with this box, but that is not true. Hairs ear bead head, more brown stone flies, and I want to figure out a good Crane fly Larva pattern to add.
|This box is fun. I've got some of everything in here. Some AZ Wondering mini hoppers, some Small Stream Reflections inspired Ausable Bombers, two sizes of Royal Wolf, Henryville Special's. I am going to add some stone flies and a couple Goddard Caddis.
Now to wrap this up I want to thank Foul Hook for my newest box. I am not sure what I want to fill it with but for now I put some carp flies in it. One of my goals for this year it to bring one of these "golden bones" to hand. Last summer I was on the fish, but could not even get a fish to look at my flies. Here is the box, I really like it! The color is a little wild for my taste but if it use is for carp maybe it will be lucky. Oh and it came with a sticker. That is a huge bonus because I love brand stickers (I have them for my rods, and cloths on my truck).
|Good looking box don't you think?
|Still learning about carp flies so this is kinda a work in progress.
Okay everyone I am back.


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This morning, I had a great time, together with most of Lliswerry, running the Newport Half Marathon. This evening, I'm trying to record my thoughts as I sit down with a painfully grazed elbow and sore coccyx.
They say that you get back what you put in, and I can certainly confirm this today. My training for the Newport Half was a bit sporadic - a couple of long runs missed, training sessions dropped due to little things like high winds, feeling a bit poorly and sheer CBA if I'm honest. Other fitness activies took over, but so did thoughts about last year.
My involvement with the race last year was purely based around handing out Jelly Babies at Sainsburys and cheering on those lucky enough to be running.
This was my first ever winter for training (having had the last two Winters out due to injury, and the previous thirty off because of a general aversion to sporting based activities). I don't operate too well in the cold - I suffer with Reynaud's, and this brings on Chilblains which make life pretty miserable if you don't manage it properly.
I can confirm my thoughts by means of my son. James put in a storming 1:32 at Cardiff, and had the blisters to prove it. His training has been marred in the same way as mine, with the added cross-training of learning to use SPD clips on his Mountain Bike - i.e. bruising and cuts from not being able to dismount properly. James "only" managed 1:36 this morning, though on a positive note, only one foot was badly blistered. Clearly he didn't put enough effort in!
Two goals for me this morning - finish the race without stopping (tick!) and go sub 1:45 for the first time (no tick). After blowing up at the 11 mile mark at Cardiff for the past few years, I was taking this one carefully with a revised fuelling strategy and a careful eye on my split times.
Fuelling was based on porridge at 07:00 and High 5 electrolytes with an expresso at 08:15. During the race, I took on water twice, and a small handful of jelly beans about half way through, just keeping them in my mouth for the taste. No gels this time.
Garmin was set for 4:55 per kilometer, and I wasn't going to go quicker than that. Luckilly, my body was quite enthusiastic with this strategy and never allowed me to run anything like that quickly! A few slow kilometers and I was seriously worried - a master tiler, (I'm keeping things anonymous here), had stormed off ahead of me - he was going under the bridge as I was going over. Was I really that far behind? Over the next few kilometers, I slowly picked up the pace and got closer and closer until I passed him. Joy, I had sped up - checked my watch only to find that he was just suffering from the previous night's rendevous with "Bow". Not as spectacular as the Pontypool 10K last week, when the same anonymous person flew past me going up the hill, only to come to a complete halt outside the Star Inn (obviously a calling).
Going under the road bridge after Sainsburys, I thought I'd have a go at inspiring the sort of camoraderie that I experienced at the Great North Run. I shouted "Oggi Oggi Oggi", my fellow runners thought "nutter". Never mind, at least we had the bagpiper on our way home.
Before I knew it, I was at the Caerleon loop. I was happy to be at this point because last night, a fellow runner had promised to flash me if I got around the loop before she went in. The thought drove me on a bit, but clearly not enough as there was no sign of her when I exited to return to Newport. Turns out, remembering what she'd promised helped to spur her on, though I was heartened to hear later that she had got prepared for the moment.
At about the 3/4 mark, I saw a now familiar sight when "I only do 5K" breezed past, just casually taking this as a training run for great things at London next month. This has happened a few too many times recently for my liking, but the only way that I can complete is to get back into the training (see point 1 above!)
It was great to see a friend running this morning who was running his first Half. He's pretty fit, from a rowing background and we used to share similar parkrun times, though my Winter training has put pay to that, he surpasses me week on week at the moment. After about the kilometer mark, he passed me putting a good ten seconds between us by the time we got to the Riverfront. I was impressed, and not suprised, not expecting to see him until after the race. I spotted him just at the 11.5 mile mark, stopped. I slowed for a bit to see if he was OK, and he'd cramped up. Didn't take him too long to get going again, to finish in a respectable time, though he was on target for the elusive (for us) 1:45. So familiar to me, having experienced a similar distance breakdown at Cardiff, albeit for a different reason (heat and hydration). I have no doubt that he's smash it in October now, so I'd better do more training for that one.
Luckilly, I kept on moving, passing the stumbling points of previous runs, and trudged my way past the Riverfront once more. Over the bridge, and then the end was in sight... after I'd negotiated a final 400m with a camber that would have made a final-sprint impossible, so I didn't. Before I knew it, there was a kind lady at my leg, removing my electronic tag and I was done. No dizzyness, no need to sit down, just great!
The crowds were absolutely fantastic this morning. Cheering and shouting, with at least one person turning up just to call me on (who I subsequently ran straight past!). Lovely to see the circus acts too - the fire was amazing, and the girl with the hoops looked pretty hot too - though she wasn't hooping as I passed. Lliswerry Runners were everywhere - great to see people with me (Richard), ahead of me (after the loop) and behind. Something even more amazing, was that everyone was putting the same level of effort in - it's pretty personal at all levels - at the sharp-end, it's really about high-competition, but it was great to see everyone giving it their all. So many people going the distance for the first time, including "Princess Nick" with the "Physikcal Fitness" running group amongst others, though rather cruel of his "5K to Half Marathon" team insisting on him wearing the pink shirt. So good too for Badger and Dexter to get an outing, picking up the "tail runner" position - missed them from parkrun, since the "one dog" rule came in.
Great race, great organisation, great people - doing Newport proud! Lovely to have a Half Marathon on our doorstop, and great publicity for Lliswerry - lets face it, everywhere you looked there was Maroon and White! Oh, and I saw a Schnauzer - you know you're going to have a good day when you see a Schnauzer.
Oh, and you're probably wondering why I mentioned a few injuries at the beginning. The run was great, my legs ached a bit, but OK. Walking down the back steps a few hours later, I slipped and landed badly on my bum, back and elbow (taking the skin off completely). Yeah, running can be dangerous, but so can domestic situations. I know what I'd rather be doing!


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There is One Life, there is one Love and It is the heart of every life. It is the vibration back of Life and encompasses and moves through all that 'is'. This one Life is the sole resource for every bit of good that happens anywhere. From this One Life loving ideas come into fruition; they naturally find nurturing soil, and by that nurturing love they attain maturity. I am that seed of the Divine sprung to life land growing into the world 'I see', a world of love and harmony
Today I follow the path of this Love that has brought me into being. I go to the source; I discover the roots and realize the potential that I am. I am Love's potential and there is no limit to that which I can do. Today I choose to be that Love and let 'God' work through me. I let my life be led by co-incidence as I walk into a greater expression. My heart is my oneness with 'God-Heart' so I know that as I let my heart lead God is leading me forward. Synchronicity is my hallmark and my days are dreams fulfilled. I expect great moments and all my moments are filled with magic.
In this breath I give thanks for the miracle that God is in my life; for the bounty that is God nature and the natural order of my life. My thanks is anchored in complete surrender, given up and given over, My dreams are fulfilled already.
And so it is.
Affirmation: My heart is my anchor and good is my blessing as I give all for that greater call.


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I nearly forgot to mention the lovely adventure that was last night's meal with my friend BAD.
Now, before I explain what we did, I need to mention that my ultimate comfort food is corn and mashed potatoes. Mixed together. I would happily eat just corn and mashed potatoes together for a meal every now and then. Usually I don't because a)mom cooks and b)I'm pretty sure you can't actually live off of just corn and potatoes.
But mom is away on vacation, and I'm the one in charge of what food goes in my mouth at the moment, so I promised myself that I would treat myself to some corn and mashed potatoes before she came back....
'Cept BAD is vegan, so I couldn't really add all the butter I wanted too, and the only milk I had to add was vanilla almond milk (didn't really feel like having vanilla potatoes.)
So we added Electric Lemon (green tea with ginger and lemon, from DavidsTea) instead.
Step one: Boil the crap out of potatoes. Too lazy to peel them first. Not too lazy to wash them first, luckily.
Step two: cook corn. I've got a double steamer thing, so potatoes just went in the bottom, corn went up top.
Step three: Remove corn before they get steamed to hell. Keep boiling the crap out of the potatoes.
Step four: Get bored and decide that potatoes are done when you're sick of waiting.
Step five: Hulk Smash potatoes. Add some olive oil. Keep Hulk Smashing.
Step six: Add tea. (We made it extra strength). Hulk Smash.
Step seven: Add corn. Stir in corn.
Step eight: nom the nommy noms.
They were interesting. The more you ate, the more you could taste the tea. There was really just a hint of green tea and lemon. I wasn't really expecting tea potatoes to taste very good at all. It was more of a "Hey, want to try this silly thing?" sort of experiment. Except I actually really liked it. A lot. I might have to go to Davids and see if they have any more electric lemon, since it was a seasonal tea and they aren't sending any more to the different stores around town.
Next time: Tea and rice. We were thinking of something actually normal, like Jasmine rice, but I think I'd like to try something a little crazier. I'll post it when I think of something.
Till next time, bon appeTea


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Q. 18. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
A. The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original sin; together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.
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Have now reduced my dosage to about two millimetres away from the 5ml mark, a decrease of about 5 millimetres from my initial starting point when I switched to liquid. I have noticed a number of symptoms but luckily they are currently irritating rather than seriously unpleasant. The first couple of nights, I had trouble sleeping but since then, I have had more trouble waking. I'm very grateful that I work from home so I can sleep for as long as my body wants. I seem to come round at about 9.30 but it takes me another half an hour to fight through the grogginess and actually move. My eyes feel gritty and heavy and most afternoons, I feel as though I could easily nap for another couple of hours.
I also seem to have lost my appetite mechanism. Since I started taking seroxat, I have been permanently ravenously hungry but for the last four days I have had to remind myself to eat. When the food is in front of me, my appetite is pretty much the same as before. My stomach is no longer sore but it does look very bloated and I can no longer blame mince pies. I have decided to go veggie for a couple of weeks and see if that helps and get stuck into wholegrains.
Another thing I've noticed is that I'm very thirsty and have had a pint glass of water at my side at all times. I've cut out coffee and only have one little cup of English breakfast tea a day, instead of my usual double-sized vat. I'm also avoiding fizzy drinks.
Mainly, though, I've ben feeling generally out of it. I feel like my brain is moving very slowly and my short-term memory is hopeless. I made the stupid error of deciding to test myself with an outing to John Lewis on Oxford Street yesterday. I found the movement of the tube made me a little bit dizzy and while I wasn't too bad with the crowds, I started to develop a hyper-awareness of my own thoughts, as though there's a whole other level of commentary picking over every thought that goes through my head. I used to get this a long time ago when I was having panic attacks and it's a horrible feeling, like having a second voice competing against the first one. I closed my eyes anfd concentrated on staying upright, as I was feeling a bit woozy. Once I got home, I was fine and demolished the paper in a couple of hours, did a bit of work and had dinner.
This week, I have decided to take control of my diet a bit more and have been poring over recipe books for healthy things to cook. From my own experience, I've found I feel so much better when I'm eating well. I positively burst with virtue when I eat fish or cabbage. I am also going to try to incorporate some yoga into my daily routine, in addition to my afternoon constitutional. The plan is to get down to 5ml in the next couple of days.
After nearly five years, I am trying to come off seroxat for the fourth time. I plan to keep a diary of my efforts and to discuss a few issues relating to the greed and lies of GSK, the makers of the drug, the woeful ignorance of the real effects of this drug amongst the medical fraternity and hope to find out what help is available to the thousands of people who struggle to come off it.
Monday, 8 January 2007
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Table View, Milnerton, Camps Bay, Hout Bay, Sea Point, Llandudno, Cape Town, V&A Waterfront, Rondebosch, Simon's Town, Fish Hoek, Bellville, Cape Town City Centre / CBD, Green Point, Durbanville, Century City, Noordhoek, Constantia, De Waterkant, Bloubergstrand
Midway between Cape Town and the winelands, Kuilsriver is also bounded by the two national highways: the N1 north to the Free State and Gauteng provinces and N2 to the east to reach the Garden Route and Eastern Cape.
Kuilsriver is a large established suburb measuring 1200km², consisting of residential smallholdings, large commercial properties and farm lands. The peaceful residential area is family-orientated and visitors can expect a warm, friendly welcome from the mostly Afrikaans speaking residents.
Originally a Dutch East India Company cattle corral and staging post for travellers to the nearby town of Stellenbosch, Kuilsriver quickly developed into a town and was declared a municipality in the 1950s.
For those with business interests in the wine and olive industry, Kuilsriver lies plum in the centre of the Durbanville, Paarl and Stellenbosch wine regions. It's also a mere 25 minutes away from Cape Town city centre and 10 minutes to the airport.
Things to do
The surrounding areas are dotted with wine estates for visitors to appreciate the many local wines on offer. Most wine estates include food pairings to sample along with their wine varietals. For an unusual wine tasting experience, Saxenburg Wine Estate has a wine safari that includes a tasting overlooking a game farm.
Enjoy a challenging round of golf at the 18-hole Kuilsriver Golf Club. Pro shop and drinks bar on the premises.
Calling all shoppers! The Zevenwacht Mall has over 100 stores including large departmental stores, boutiques, homeware products and a vast food court.
Feel rejuvenated with a treatment at the nearby Mangwanani African Spa. This company trains rural women to qualify as therapists as part of their social upliftment programme.
Travel in to Cape Town to experience the city's major attractions including a trip up Table Mountain, shopping, dining and boating at the V & A Waterfront and a ferry ride across to Robben Island.
Where to Eat
De la Paix Restaurant alongside Butterfly World offers mouth-watering dishes out on the patio. The Sunday carvery packs in the crowds.
The Table at De Meye Winery serves excellent fare, book well in advance! The 3 course set menu is determined by the freshest seasonal ingredients available to the chef.
The Zevenwacht Wine Estate is on Kuilsriver's doorstep and is popular for their delightful picnic baskets to be enjoyed alongside the lake. The estate has a fine dining restaurant located in their manor house for more formal dining.
A Sunday roast at Kuilsriver Golf Club is always well attended. The meal is exceptional value, booking is essential.
Night Life
Probably the best hangout in Kuilsriver, the Cock & Tail Bar is where the locals gather on a Friday night.
Enjoy a dinner and performing art entertainment at the Barnyard Theatre in the Willowbridge Mall.
Vacca Matta on Edward Street in Bellville is a late night dance club with energetic bar area. Long standing venue with guest DJs and regular party themes.
Where to Stay
The guest houses in Kuilsriver all offer excellent value, are well appointed and with attentive host and staff to ensure you enjoy your stay in the suburb.
Air The nearest airport is Cape Town International Airport, 13km from Kuilsriver.
Car There many car rental agencies in Cape Town city centre, in nearby Bellville and at Cape Town airport to hire a vehicle, or you could order a rental online.
Taxi Order a taxi ride using the Uber mobile app.
Did you know?
The 900ha Driftsands Nature Reserve adjoining Kuilsriver is regarded as an urban reserve due to its location, surrounded by urban sprawl. Much of the reserve needs time to recover and plans are underway to include a Xhosa initiation village and a local craft market. The reserve is also used for youth counselling.
There's the story about the commuter on the Kuilsriver train route that left his bag on the train. When he realised this, he ran alongside the train, shouting for someone to throw his bag out. Two passengers helped him onto the train before it sped off but his bag had already been thrown out at the platform…
B&B's (also knows as BnB's) vary from one another, but are each unique and offer a personalised getaway. B&Bs, as they are often called, save guests time and money by removing the worry about the first meal of the day This makes planning that much easier for your stay. This is perfect for guests who plan on doing a lot of sightseeing and expect to be out and about the entire day and night. Bed and Breakfasts are often in private homes or converted historical buildings. Meaning if you have a look through Accommodirects listings, you can find the perfect Bed and Breakfast suited to your taste.
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GAS Eatery and Supplies
O sandwich, we never knew thee - till now
You can spot a second-generation chef from a mile away. When culinary students are just learning to chop an onion, family trained protégées are calmly running kitchens and seeking to improve on their mentors' successes. Sisters Nichole, Kate and Samantha Maskiell cut their teeth working for their parents at sophisticated Armadale café Tartine, and their own venture GAS is a testament to their lifelong education.
Like Tartine, it's a small but slick operation, serving Middle Eastern and Spanish-influenced mezze and baked goods, and selling a range of take-home dinners plus preserves, muesli and teas. It's the sort of outfit you'd expect to find attached to a chic farmers' market near the likes of foodie haven Daylesford.
The communal tables are constantly packed with the cool kids and writers from the nearby creative agencies, as well as ladies who lunch, exhausted by their search for a lovely new throw in the numerous boutiques that line the street.
There is no written menu. The salads, tapas dishes and café favourites such as sausage rolls are in a league of their own, so rather than labelling the food and risking comparison to inferior versions of the product, they set it out in large glass cabinets for your eyes to do the deciding.
Bocadillos (that's Spanish for sanga) are pricey at $10.50 but stuffed to the gills with rare roast beef, cornichons, horseradish aioli and sweet roasted capsicum. Salads change daily and offer a wide breadth of ingredients. In a single bowl for $13.50 you may find grilled asparagus, smoky roast tomatoes, almonds, feta, mescalin, beetroot, olive bread croutons, roasted carrot, yoghurt, green beans, pine nuts, currants… phew! Throw a little of this next to some olive and mint chicken balls ($8 for four), or a pastie-like borek filled with aromatic lamb or beef mince, and you're in business.
They're also licensed, so if your job doesn't involve operating heavy machinery, or you have an afternoon to while away, grab a glass of local wine and watch the world go by while the sisters chop, knead and laugh in the kitchen behind you.
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253 Coventry St
South Melbourne
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Two years after sanctions threatened to cripple the program, Penn State has an eye on a spot in the polls.
The Nittany Lions as one of the top 25 teams in the country?
Just the thought of a ranked Penn State team seemed improbable in 2012 when the NCAA levied the type of punishments against the program that should have been a virtual death sentence. Among the big hits in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal were scholarship reductions and bowl game banishments.
Coming off a win against Central Florida, Penn State received enough votes in the AP Top 25 to finish in a three-way tie for ''29th.''
No. 25 Louisville earned 141 points; Penn State, Mississippi St. and Florida all received 49.


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Brazilian keeper Cavalieri last played for Fluminense last year, having been on Liverpool's books between 2008 and 2010.
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"This is one hell of a basement…"
Wandering through the dark, damp depths of the subterranean levels of Otha's manor, Aaron found a maze of connecting hallways and even more guards standing by iron doors. He could only assume that there were more monsters trapped behind them, making the situation seem all the more grim. With no sort of guidance to follow, Aaron simply snuck around the hallways, avoiding each guard in the desperate hope of finding anything of importance.
"And it's colder than the seventh layer of hell down here…" he muttered with a shiver, rubbing his unclothed body as he went. Looking up, he saw a long series of pipes running across the ceiling.
"They must carry water or something…" he figured, continuing on his way.
After another five minutes of searching, he heard a heavy set of footsteps approaching. Peeking around a corner, he found another one of Otha's guards, followed closely by a maid. Acting fast, Aaron took cover in the nook of a branching hallway.
Taking a seat atop a nearby crate, the guard laughed and took another heavy swig from the green bottle in his hand. Slacking on the job, no doubt.
"Hahaha….! Now… now lick your elbow!" the guard bellowed.
The maid nodded and tried her best, but she just couldn't seem to connect her tongue and elbow.
"My deepest apologies, sir. It can't be done."
The drunken guard swished the remainder of his booze around, seeming to digest her words. With a wicked smile, he set down his drink on the crate, hopping off and rubbing a hand down the maid's slender arm.
"That's alright, gorgeous. Now, how about you show me a little skin…?"
"My deepest apologies, sir. Madam Otha has forbid it."
"Tch… you're no fun." the guard slurred, returning to his box and taking another heavy gulp from his bottle.
Aaron turned away. He was positive he could surprise and take out the drunken sot, but he wasn't so foolhardy as to believe he could defeat that droning maid afterwards.
Forced to take an alternate route, Aaron began forming a mental map of the basement in his mind. With only the upper right corner unexplored, he looped around and was left alone with his thoughts and the damp stone.
But silently, another issue nagged at him… his decision to spare the jailer he and Reese captured. He had no idea why, but he felt a certain connection to Reese.
Perhaps it was a certain charm that all incubi had. Perhaps his friendly, smooth demeanor was the cause. Or maybe, it was because he reminded him of Old Man Gale.
No matter the reason, Aaron felt unusually trusting of the incubus. And the fear that the guard they bound would get free and kill him and the imprisoned monsters gnawed at the back of his mind. Not to mention what would shortly follow was their entire plan going up in a massive plume of smoke.
"You're going soft, boy."
Aaron's stomach tied up in knots and a deep, primal fear began bubbling up. While all of his instincts screamed at him to flee, something deep down in his mind urged him to stay. Aaron peered towards the inky-black depths of the hallway in front of him, a black helmet bearing the face of a scowling demon emerged.
"Have you forgotten so soon? Mercy is only good for your enemies."
Upon feeling that same oppressive aura that the knight brought with him whenever he appeared, Aaron felt his nerves bundle up in his throat. He wasn't sure if the dark figure was real or an apparition, but that didn't stop him from shoving his finger the knight's way and arguing with him.
"No. I can't just keep killing everyone in my way. I… I have to do it as a last resort!"
"Why? Just so you don't have to feel like a hypocrite next time you let your friend go free? What would've happened if you had shown mercy to your other opponents?" the knight spat. Even if the dark figure was a hallucination or apparition, the deathly scent of decay on his breath assaulted Aaron's nose all the same.
Aaron's imagination summoned horrid images before his eyes…
Leon Grandmore raping Nathan's wife right in front of him. Leon's father ramming that gilded bastard sword into his throat to avenge his late son. Father Gregorio walking back to his temple in victory, leaving a burning mansion in his wake.
Then, William Highwind with a booted greave planted firmly on his corpse and mighty spear pinning the limp bodies of a hellhound and griffon to the ground.
Aaron furiously smacked himself on the forehead, "No… I… I can't… no matter how afraid I am, I can't keep going on like I've been."
"Fine. Settle things your way, then." the knight hissed, sinking back into darkness, "But mark my words, you'll regret it…"
And just like that, Aaron was alone once more.
"Hello? Who's there?"
The gray-haired man's head snapped to the other end of the hallway, where he saw a short figure approach.
"Wes…" Aaron spat under his breath, cursing his rotten luck once more. Even with his far superior bulk, he doubted he had much chance against a mage with nothing but a wooden shank and his bare skin in a head-to-head fight. Deciding to retreat, he quickly ducked into the next hallway in a desperate search for a method for escape.
That's when he saw it. A square metal container… unfortunately, it seemed far too small to hide in. However, it did look to able to support his weight. With a wide smirk, Aaron peered up towards the pipes on the ceiling.
"I need to install some more damned lights down here…" Wes grumbled in annoyance, a ball of fire crackling in his right hand, serving the dual purpose of defence and illumination. Turning the hall, he looked around to see where the shadowy figure had retreated, but found only a small metal box.
"I know I saw someone…" the mage grumbled, readjusting his glasses with a single finger.
"B-boss… I heard some noise… you alright?"
Wes turned around, finding a wobbly guard standing at attention behind him.
"Ah. So it was you, huh? And it looks like you've been drinking on the job again…"
"N-no sir! I swear I haven't!"
"I can smell the booze on you, fool." Wes sighed, letting the flame in his palm fizzle out. Folding both hands behind his back, he turned away from the guard, "Just return to your post. I have work to do."
"Y-yessir." the tipsy guard replied with a salute, clumsily spinning on his heel and exiting the hallway.
With a scoff, Wes went his own way, moving further into the dark depths of the basement.
And once they were both gone, Aaron let out a heavy sigh of relief. He was hugging a particularly large pipe and tucking his feet under a smaller pair running parallel to it, effectively keeping him glued to the ceiling.
But as Aaron put his ear up to the pipe, he found something odd. He heard not the sloshing of water, but a low humming. And as the adrenaline faded from his body, he also took notice of how ridiculously hot the things were. But he had not the time to investigate further.
Hopping down, Aaron landed into a crouch and glared down the shadowy corridor Wes had retreated. Balling up a fist, the iron-haired swordsman stalked behind the mage.
Stealth was never Aaron's forte, but he summoned up enough willpower to silently creep behind Wes until the mage reached his destination- another door. Like all others, it was one comprised of heavy iron. But unlike the others and to Aaron's great joy, it was unguarded.
The instant Wes stepped inside, Aaron followed and cracked open the door as slowly and carefully as he could, taking a peek at what lie beyond.
Wes, with the sleeves of his expensive coat rolled up, stood over the bodies of two women. Both were tied down to a respective operating table with thick leather straps. Looking closer at them, Aaron could feel his blood begin to boil.
It was Valerie and Kiera.
Gripping down on the door so hard his knuckles went white, Aaron was just about to burst into the room and beat Wes into a bloody pulp.
But then, a safer opportunity presented itself.
Wes approached a counter set into the side of the room, playing with some kind strange metal cube with a green glass orb set into the side. Atop it were several flashing buttons and switches Aaron wasn't going to even attempt to make sense of.
After a few moments of fiddling with it, Wes pressed a red button on the metal box, taking a step back and taking a seat across from it. That glass orb set into its side began twirling around, now emitting a soft green light and making a soft whirring sound.
"Journal Entry Number 843: I've just gotten my hands on two rare specimens: a hellhound and griffon! This is wonderful! I'm afraid they won't serve a practical purpose for merchandise, so Otha will probably just have me extract their demon energy and dispose of them before long."
'Great.' Aaron thought. Wes was casting his full focus on his strange device. And if Aaron was careful, the mage wouldn't be able to hear the creak of the door or his footfalls over the gizmo's whirring.
"That fat cow… she cares more about lining her already overstuffed pockets than the forward march of mankind!"
The ex-Legionary rolled his eyes as he proceeded. Wes might have been rotten in the personality department, but he was far too young and attractive for the likes of Otha. He figured that Wes was just using the rotund woman for money.
"That Aaron fellow they were traveling with was interesting, however. While most men who've had their soul corrupted by demon energy appear to have a black mass of ooze set in their soul, his is… different. It throbs more violently and has some sort of red electricity surrounding it. I wonder what causes this mutation? Oh, I can't wait to study him…"
Aaron was unable to hide his smirk. Finally stepping behind Wes, he lifted a fist high into the air before grabbing hold of the magician's shoulder and spinning him around.
"Study this, you motherfucker!"
Aaron's powerful sucker punch sent Wes flying from his chair, where the mage collapsed to the ground, knocked clean out.
With that out of the way, Aaron rubbed his sore knuckles and hopped towards his companions, finding both of them still unresponsive.
"Val… Kiera…" he said, placing a hand on each one's shoulder and trying to jostle them awake. After that failed, he tried every trick in the book- peeling their eyes open, pinching their cheeks…
And as a last resort, tickling under their armpits. Yet they still remained out like candles. It was no use.
"Great. Looks like I'm still on my own…" Aaron grumbled, quickly pacing away as he decided on his next move.
He took a final glance at his two companions. It pained him to leave them all alone in this godsforsaken house of horrors, but he had little choice in the matter. It wasn't as if he could carry them around on his back, and if he waited around for them to wake up, he would wasting the sliver of precious time he had remaining.
Looking around the room, Aaron finally took note of his surroundings. At every corner were beakers and vials, gizmos and gadgets, tomes and notebooks, and not a single thing made a bit of sense to the iron-haired swordsman.
But what really drew his attention was the wonder tucked into the very back of the lab.
A mana crystal. He had never seen one in person, but heard quite a bit about them from his soldiering days. From what very little he understood about them, they were apparently crystallized forms of magical energy and highly coveted by those who study the arcane arts.
It was suspended in a glass container atop a heavy contraption, tubes sticking out of it and running up into the ceiling. With each passing second, the yellow jewel would give off another spark of electricity, the yellow bolts running down the surface of the glass and into the strange device under it.
"So thats what was flowing through those pipes…"
Looking down towards Wes, Aaron grabbed the limp body of the mage and tossed him back into his chair. He was about to get some answers.
When Wes came to, he first noticed the left side of his world was completely blacked out. It didn't even matter that the left side of his spectacles were bent and smashed as the eye behind it was swollen completely shut.
Then, the pain of his eye, the splitting migraine, and stinging cheeks all hit him at once. Leaning over, the mage groaned in pain, but found himself tied to his work chair and unable to move.
"Awake? Good. Only took three slaps, too. I was worried I might find that beautiful princess of yours and get her to wake you with true love's kiss."
Wes growled and rage and whipped his head up to find the smug smile of Aaron Axenus bearing down on him.
Wes struggled against the ropes that bound him, "Y-you fool! I can just sear right through these ropes with a spell! It might burn my wrists, but I can-"
"I know. That's why I'm doing this."
Pulling a bottle of scotch from behind his back, Aaron poured its contents all over Wes' head, where it ran down his chest and back and soaked thoroughly through his clothes.
"There. You'd be burning more than your wrists now."
With his face now lit up as red as his hair with indignant rage, Wes stared up at Aaron with his good eye and hissed out, "What do you want from me…?"
"For starters… how long are my friends going to be out?"
"The hellhound and griffon? Another few hours. I gave them both an extra dosage of the tranquilizer to make sure they stay asleep through their physical examination."
Aaron couldn't help but let out a long groan. That was just great. It looked like he was alone for this one.
"Alright then. Where do you keep all your info?"
Wes nodded his head back over to the box contraption he was speaking to before Aaron had ambushed him.
Aaron raised a brow, "That thing? What kind of a journal is that?"
Wes, despite being beside himself with shame and rage, lit up as he got a chance to toot his own horn, "You like it? I call it an imagecatcher– just press the button, and that orb can record any event before it and play it back was many times as you'd like! Isn't it wonderful?! The only downside is you need a new glass orb for each hour of recording, but I'm sure I'll work out the kinks it time-"
"Alright, alright, I get it. Can I use it to find out how to shut down these stupid fuckin' collars?" Aaron grunted out, tugging at his own.
Perturbed at being interrupted while singing his own praises, Wes went on, "They're called nullcollars… and no, you can't. I've only just recently created the imagecatcher. What you're looking for would be in my old notebook over there."
Aaron looked over to the counter, grimacing as he saw what appeared to be several thick textbooks stacked atop each other. But looking closer, he saw they all shared a single spine.
"Alright, fuck that. I wouldn't dig through that even if I had the time for it." Aaron spat, jamming his finger into Wes' chest, "Just tell me yourself. How do I shut down these collars?"
"Otha has the masterkey for them all."
Aaron grumbled in annoyance once more. There was no way he would be getting that from her. Which only left him with one option.
"Fine then. How do you turn off their power?"
Wes sighed, tapping his foot against the ground, "Thats impossible. The nullcollars, like every other relic in this house, are of my own design. And nearly all of them are powered by that mana crystal over there."
Aaron looked over to it, "So, they're all powered by the same thing… so if I smashed it into bits…"
Wes jumped up in attention, "No, you fool! That would cause a chain reaction and make all the relics in the house explode! Even if the manor could survive all those blasts at once, it'd burn to the ground in a manner of minutes!"
Aaron swore under his breath rubbed a hand against the metal circlet around his neck. The collars were also powered by the crystal… and if he broke it, he wouldn't just be killing himself, he'd be blowing the heads off every monster in the building.
"So, is there a way to shut off the collars without making everything go boom?"
Wes shook his head back and forth, "No. The results would be the same if you tried to rip the crystal out of the reactor by force… which would fry you in an instant if you tried, by the way. The only safe way to shut down the connection between the crystal and the relics would be for the crystal to lose all of its power… which, for a crystal that young, would take thousands of years."
Aaron rubbed his chin, another plan bubbling up, "Unless… someone were to suck out the power manually…"
Wes stamped his feet against the ground in rage, "Forget about it, you fool! Energy can't just disperse like that! It has to go somewhere. Even if a magic user were to take in the crystal's power, their body would be torn apart!"
"Nariko… her collar isn't connected to the crystal, is it? Because her body can absorb electricity!" the iron-haired swordsman suddenly realized, beaming with joy as he came up with solution, "Her collars not run on the same power source as the others, right? How do I get it off?"
Still rather out of it, the usual brainiac couldn't connect the dots at first, "W-who? What the hell are you on about?"
"The raiju, you bastard!"
"Oh… yes, yes… you mean R-57…? The key Otha possesses isn't a traditional one, but a button like the one I used to open the gate. We keep the key to R-57's somewhere else…"
"You kidnapped these girls, and you don't even know their fuckin' names?"
"Why should I? Those demons are no better than lab rats! Numerals work just fine to-"
Aaron grabbed Wes by the collar, hauling both the diminutive man and the chair he was tied into the air.
"Shut. Your. Mouth."
"I-I'm sorry… I'm sorry, alright?"
"Now, Nariko's collar…?"
"The raiju, right? Y-yes, quite a bit of trouble, that one. When she first arrived here, she shocked one guard to near death and hopped into the pool of our garden. She stripped naked and rubbed herself against the statue of Callisto at the center, lighting up the pool and daring our guards to hop in and catch her. She got a lot less lively after I finally retrofitted a nullcollar to work on her…"
"You're stalling."
"Yes, yes. I get it. I had to get it to work a bit differently than the other relics in this manor. Our cold storage? It's powered by a small ice mana crystal, but it was so weak I had to route the electric crystal's power into it. Same thing with the ventilation system's wind crystal. But that system would be far too bulky too work into a collar-"
Aaron seized Wes by the throat, raising a threatening fist into the air, "I know, you have to replace its fire crystal shard every week. Now, where can I find the fucking key you bastard?!"
"A-a key! We keep her keys in the acquisition room… it's on the third floor, fourth door on the right hallway…" the mage wheezed.
Satisfied, Aaron released his hold on the mage's throat and turned his back to him, ready to set off.
"W-wait. D-don't free the raiju."
Aaron turned back to Wes, "Why not?"
"She's a complete lunatic, that's why! Even before we caught her, she was wild and unpredictable. After all these years in captivity… I'm not sure if she's still entirely sane. And you're going to offer her all the power in that crystal? You could be putting the entire city in danger if you let her go free!"
"What room do you have to talk about her, you son of a bitch?"
"Because I've seen her nature! I'm begging you, don't free R-57…"
"Her name is Nariko."
That was the last thing Wes heard before Aaron slammed his fist into the mage's temple, sending him spiraling once again into unconsciousness. With all the information he needed out of Wes received, Aaron scooted him into a broom closet and propped another chair under the knob.
Looking over his shoulder, Aaron realized that the odd device was still running and recording his actions.
"No point in trying to destroy it. With that bastard in the closet, he'd be proof enough of where I was…" Aaron figured, slamming his fist into some of the buttons on the side, hoping to shut it off. In response, the machine gave a few loud spurs before all of its flashing lights shut off.
Releasing a pent up breath, Aaron turned back towards the hallway. The third floor was a long way up, and he wasn't sure he could make it and back down again without being spotted.
A one-way trip would make things much more simple.
"Uhm… excuse me, Mr. Reese…?"
Reese, who was currently watching the door and humming a small tune to himself, looked over to the cell to his right. Caged within was a cockatrice, a cowardly snake and chicken hybrid who was coveted for her soft feathers.
With a slick smile, Reese combed back his dark hair and hopped off the chest of the bound jailer he was using as a living seat. Propping his elbow against the cold, rusty bars of the cockatrice's cell, Reese leaned forward and flashed her the toothiest grin he could muster.
"How can I help you?" he mewled sweetly.
The meek monster blushed, holding her wings up to her tomato-red face, "W-well… uhrm… I- I just wanted to know… what… what you're going to do once we get free… you've always been so nice to me, is all…"
"Tell you what, cutie. After we get out of here, I'll do whatever it is you want me to-"
Reese's heart took a leap. That loud, whining creak from behind couldn't have been anything but the door opening. Taken by complete surprise, Reese hopped into the air, fumbling with the spear in his hands before twirling around and facing the intruder.
And to the great relief of the incubus, it was only Aaron.
"Oh… shit… it's just you, kid. Learn to fuckin' knock. Ya nearly gave me a heart attack." Reese whined, "So, how'd it go? Didja find the key already?"
"Sorry, but the keys a no go. Otha's hanging onto that herself, and I doubt I'd be able to snatch it from her before anyone finds out we're trying to escape."
"Damn. Well, what do we do now?"
"Don't worry. I have a backup plan." Aaron chuckled, brushing past Reese as he walked further down the row of cells.
Reese shot a skeptical look Aaron's way as he approached their empty cell, "Call me crazy kid, but I don't think locking ourselves back up will do any good."
"Whelp, it's a good thing that's not what I'm doing…" Aaron scoffed and rolled his eyes, walking past their empty cell and over to its neighbor.
Reese had already unlocked all the monsters cages, but with nowhere else to go, their powers suppressed, and their spirits broken, they all simply lounged about like nothing had happened in the first place. Slamming his foot against the cold bars, the cell door swung open for Aaron.
Stepping inside, he looked down at her. Leaning against the back wall and sitting atop her dingy mattress, she absentmindedly picked at her cuticles.
"What do you want?" the raiju spat, choosing to stare at a clump of mold between her feet rather than meet him eye-to-eye.
"Hey, Nariko." Aaron said, ignoring her hostility and greeting her with a wide grin, "Up for a little stroll?"
Nariko shut her eyes, setting her hand down on her thigh and drawing Aaron's gaze, "Hmph. You need my help, don't you? What's in it for me?"
Aaron exhaled and slumped his shoulders, the frustration clearly starting to build up, "You won't have to dance for a morbidly obese slaver and her twink boytoy?"
A silky laugh bubbled up from Nariko's chest, her accent only serving to make it more pleasant to Aaron's ears. Looking up from the smooth skin of her milky thighs, Aaron inadvertently found himself staring at her pert breasts as she pushed them together.
Quickly snapping out of it, Aaron looked higher and met with her face, her soft and unthreatening features sharply contrasted by her wicked smirk and the mad glint in her greenish-yellow eyes. Smiling all the wider as they locked gazes, a few weak sparks of electricity popped in the air between them.
"You make a good point, human. Let's go for a nice, long walk~"


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In my last post, I talked about what led us to becoming foster parents. In this post, I will talk about the process we went through to get licensed as foster parents.
In 2012, we decided to look into becoming foster parents. We attended an informational session that was a sort of overview of what becoming a foster parent entailed and a bit about being a foster parent. After the session, we signed up to take the classes required to become licensed.
We attended classes for three months, once a week for 3 hours in the evening at our local community college. The classes were provided free of charge. There were about 10 to 15 other couples in the class with us, all of different ages and different reasons that led them there. The class was taught by a current foster parent and someone from the licensing agency. Throughout the class we talked about issues that foster children may have, the circumstances that may lead them to foster care, and tips on parenting them and correcting behaviors. It was highly stressed the corporal punishment (spanking or hitting) was a no-no, so we talked a lot about other ways to correct behaviors, and how some of their behaviors could be caused by their previous environment or their lack of control over their current environment. After all, the children don't choose to leave the only home they've ever known, and they usually aren't happy about it.
After the class, everyone was given the choice to continue and become licensed, or decide that foster care isn't for you and leave it at that. We chose to move forward and become licensed. Thus began the barrage of paperwork and home visits.
I cleaned our house like it had never been cleaned before and we filled out mountains of paperwork. I swear we even filled out the same papers twice because it was misplaced by the licensing agency. I felt like I filled out my name, birth date, and address hundreds of times by the time we were done.
People are often curious of what a home visit entails. What is the agency looking for, why so many visits, etc.? They are not looking into every nook and cranny of your home, they will not dig through your underwear drawer or the back of your closet or anything crazy like that. They simply want to make sure you have a clean home and that you have things necessary to take care of children, like a bedroom with a bed and dresser for them (and a certain amount of square footage per child, including your own), a bathroom, and functioning kitchen, and functioning fire alarms and CO2 detectors. They also want to make sure there is nothing in your home that is dangerous for a child, and that your cleaning supplies are locked out of reach of children as well as any firearms (if you own any).
As for the mountains of paperwork, they want to fingerprint you, learn about your past and how you interact with children in your own life (the licensing agency in our state asked for references and then ask those references for more references about us). They also need to do a background check, and they want to make sure you make enough money to take care of the child(ren) placed in your care (although you get paid by the state, they want to make sure you can function without it, so you aren't just 'doing it for the money').
After what seemed like an eternal mountain of paperwork and multiple home visits, we finally got the news that we were licensed in the Spring of 2013.
In the next post, I will discuss what it was like to get our first call and placement.


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A pilot project was launched earlier this month to help curb crime in Magaluf and Ibiza by deploying two British officers to assist the Spanish police.
This has been met with heavy criticism so far, but for those who might need to deal with the police abroad – for example, if injured in an accident – their presence can only be a positive thing.
Statistics from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office show there were 1,680 fatal road traffic accidents in Spain in 2013 and 10,086 casualties with serious injuries requiring hospital admission.
The same data also shows that 1,492 British nationals died in Spain in 2013, and almost 900 had to be hospitalised.
Sustaining a serious injury, or losing a loved one in a fatal accident, is a traumatic and difficult time.
Many people are in shock and have difficulty in processing the information that they are given.
If this happens while overseas that trauma is often compounded by the lack of familiar support, language and communication difficulties and the lack of understanding of the local systems and processes.
Having a British officer on hand would undoubtedly be a great comfort and reassurance to most victims, particularly if, in the case of these two members of the West Midlands force, they are fluent in Spanish and know the area well.
Instead of focusing on what they're doing in their down time, I'd be interested to hear from some of the people I'm sure they've already helped.
This attempt to make two of Spain's most notorious resorts into safer places for holidaymakers is surely worth a try.
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Viren's work on human appearance and body image is focused on situating embodiment within different cultural and socio-political contexts. He is particularly interested in cross-cultural differences in beauty ideals and body image, and his research seeks to map changing rates of negative body image across different world regions. His other research on body image borrows concepts from first-wave feminist scholarship to examine the way in which beauty ideals and practices shift awareness away from real competencies to superficial aspects related to beauty and appearance. The aim of this research is to identify factors that might protect women and men from body image concerns and disordered eating.
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Swami, V. (2016). Attraction explained: The science of how we form relationships. London: Routledge.
Swami, V., Barron, D., Weis, L., & Furnham, A., 2017. To Brexit or not to Brexit: The roles of Islamophobia, conspiracist beliefs, and integrated threat in voting intentions for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. British Journal of Psychology, in press.
Swami, V., 2017. Sketching people: Prospective investigations of the impact of life drawing on body image. Body Image, 20, 65-73.
Swami, V., Barron, D., Weis, L., Voracek, M., Stieger, S., & Furnham, A., 2017. An examination of the factorial and convergent validity of four measures of conspiracist ideation, with recommendations for researchers. PLoS One, 12, e0172617.
Swami, V., 2016. Change in risk factors for eating disorder symptomatology in Malay students sojourning in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 49, 695-700.
Swami, V., 2016. Masculinities and ethnicities: Ethnic differences in drive for muscularity in British men and the negotiation of masculine hierarchies. British Journal of Psychology, 107, 577-592.
Swami, V., Tran, Kuhlmann, T., Stieger, S., Gaughan, H., & Voracek, M. (2016). More similar than different: Tattooed adults are only slightly more impulsive and willing to take risks than non-tattooed adults. Personality and Individual Differences, 88, 40-44.
Swami, V., 2015. Cultural influences on body size ideals: Unpacking the impact of Westernisation and modernisation. European Psychologist, 20, 44-51.
Swami, V., Voracek, M., Stieger, S., Tran, U. S., & Furnham, A. (2014). Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories. Cognition, 133, 572-585.
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All-Star Panel: Reaction to DHS funding showdown
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HOUSE SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER, R-OHIO: The House has done its job under the Constitution. It's time for the Senate to do their job. Listen, I've got a tough job here. So does Senator McConnell. But Senate Democrats are the ones standing in the way. They are the ones jeopardizing funding.
ED HENRY, FOX NEWS CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Speaker John Boehner to Chris Wallace on "FOX News Sunday" yesterday.
A quick response from the spokesman for House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi saying, quote, "He has no plan to avoid a government shutdown that would threaten the safety of the American people. The speaker's reliance on talking points and finger-pointing was a sad reflection of the fact the Tea Party continues to hold the gavel as they insist on their futile anti-immigrant grandstanding."
George, you had some strong comments on this yesterday on "Fox News Sunday." We just spent seven, eight minutes talking about the threat from terror. How could Republicans be put in a position now where they may be shutting down the part of government that deals with terror threats?
GEORGE WILL, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: Because some members of the House enjoy the politics of sterile gestures, which is to say send to the Senate a bill that, you know, a, will not be passed by the Senate and, b, were if passed by some miracle, and miracles are thin on the ground these days, it would be vetoed by the president.
Worse, this is about defunding Department of Homeland Security or a portion therefore. In 2013 during the government shutdown 200,000 of 235,000 DHS employees were deemed essential and came to work. If you wanted to target the particular Citizenship and Immigration Service, it's called that deals with the immigration proposals that these people, that the conservatives rightly don't like, well, that's funded by fees. It's not funded by appropriations, and it will sail merrily on. So I do not know what they think they are accomplishing.
HENRY: Charles, when Speaker Boehner says it's all the Senate Democrats' part, they are filibustering, is that going to carry any water at all?
CHARLES LANE, THE WASHINGTON POST: Well, there is sort of a rule in Washington that when anything shuts down it's the Republicans' fault, and I think that's the way the story will play this time as well. I must say it's very ironic given that DHS a an issue that the Republicans used in the 2000, what was it, 2002 elections, right, to destroy a lot of Democratic candidates. And, yes, now it's turning into the vein of their existence.
Only one thing I would say in response to George is maybe the only saving grace for the Republicans is so many people are deemed essential in DHS that even if you, quote-unquote, shut it down no one would notice.
It's not exactly like the whole government. So that might give the Republicans some political respite to get their act together and cobble something together.
You hear Senate Republicans like Corker, McCain, and others addressing the House and addressing their own leadership, let's work something out.
And one presumes that will get done eventually.
HENRY: Charles?
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: No, let's not work something out. On this one I'm going radical. On this one I think it's time for the Republicans to do what Harry Reid did in October, 2013, in which he partially abolished the filibuster who he could pack the D.C. circuit to get three liberals on it.
I would go the rest of the way, abolish the filibuster over this, pass it with Republican votes, and have Obama have to veto or accept a bill which strikes out the funding for the immigration service and his illegal, unconstitutional actions.
HENRY: We have a sound bite. Let's hear it from a Republican, a prominent one, John McCain, who yesterday said this is a dumb idea.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, R-ARIZ.: We cannot, we cannot cut funding of the Department of Homeland Security. We need to sit down and work this thing out. And there are ways we can address what the president did was unconstitutional. But it's not through cutting and shutting down the Department of Homeland Security. It's too serious.
HENRY: My point being I know you don't want to shut down the Department of Homeland Security. But would you even, under your plan, get the 51 Republicans, would you even get Republicans like John McCain supporting some of the pushback?
KRAUTHAMMER: If you have a bill that said that we fund everything in DHS, as the House has passed, except the part that would be implementing the unconstitutional action of the president, it would pass the Senate the way it passed the House. Then the president would have a choice. If he vetoes, well, then everybody will understand, unlike the narrative that you now have in the media that it's the Republicans who are shutting it down, you would understand that the president vetoed a bill to fund the department in order to preserve an illegal executive action on immigration.
And that's the way the story ought to read.
WILL: I repeat, the bill that would be passed by changing the fundamental nature of the Senate would get to the president's desk and be vetoed. And if he signed it, it wouldn't make a particle of difference because the relevant agency is self-funding.
HENRY: George, you were have been making that point. I wonder, I'm not defending shutting down any part of the government, but I hear from conservatives who say they won the last election. And they want to stop the president's executive actions on immigration. And this is they believe the only way to do it. And, because you think it's a bad political tactic.
WILL: It's not a bad political tactic. It's constitutionally impossible. That's the problem. The separation of powers is there. And if they want to solve the power they're up against win a presidential election. That solves a lot of problems.
LANE: The real problem here for the Republicans is that Senator McConnell declared emphatically when he took over as majority leader no more shutdowns. And he is boxed in by that. And so we can argue all we want, but he himself set the narrative.
KRAUTHAMMER: Let the president be the one to trigger the shutdown.
If immigration is self-funding, then he will sign the bill.
HENRY: That's it for the panel.
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United States District Court, D. Oregon
July 13, 2017
STACEY JO KINLEY, Plaintiff,v.DR. ROBERT SNIDER, MARY RAINES, JOHN AND JANE DOES 1-10, Defendants.
Jo Kinley ("Kinley") filed a Complaint against
Dr. Robert Snider, Mary Raines, and John/Jane Does 1-10
(collectively "Defendants"), alleging a claim
under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a violation of
Kinley's Eighth Amendment right to be free of cruel and
unusual punishment arising from Defendants' alleged
failure to provide adequate medical care. (ECF No.
1.) Defendants filed a Motion for Summary Judgment
(ECF No. 44), seeking entry of judgment on
Kinley's § 1983 claim. For the reasons set
forth below, the Court GRANTS Defendants' Motion for
Summary Judgment and dismisses Kinley's Complaint.
was in the custody of the Oregon Department of Corrections
("ODOC") from June 23, 2010 until her release on
July 21, 2016. (Robert W. Snider Decl. Attach. 1, Aug.
26, 2015.) At the time ODOC took custody of Kinley, she
was suffering from pre-existing spinal injuries. In 1994 and
1998, Kinley underwent fusion surgeries following a car
accident and a domestic violence incident, respectively.
(Michelle Burrows Decl. Ex. 43 at 4, Jan. 30, 2017.)
While Kinley reported good results following the 1994 back
surgery, in 2008 she became "progressively
worse." (Burrows Decl. Ex. 43 at 4 ("For
the past one year, the pain has become more
In July
2010, when Kinley entered the Coffee Creek Correctional
Facility ("CCCF"), Dr. Snider performed an intake
examination and medical screening of Kinley. (Snider
Decl. ¶ 6.) During her intake exam, Kinley reported
"chronic neck pain and a history of fusion surgeries of
the cervical spine at ¶ 3-6 in 1994 and 1999 due to a
ruptured disk as a result of a motor vehicle accident; a left
ankle open reduction and internal fixation with steel plate .
. . in 2001; and right shoulder and back tumor surgical
repair, date unknown." (Snider Decl. ¶
6.) Dr. Snider was aware of Kinley's pre-existing
spinal injuries. (Burrows Decl. Ex. 39 (Robert W. Snider
Dep. 48:2-49:24 (acknowledging that he reviewed
Kinley's medical records), July 22, 2015 (hereinafter
"Snider Dep.").)
accordance with the practice at CCCF, Kinley was assigned to
work in the kitchen for six months upon her arrival at the
prison. (Burrows Decl. Ex. 41 (Stacey Jo Kinley Dep.
47:7-10 ("[A]nybody that gets here from a new - or
just coming into the facility, is required to work in the
kitchen for six months before you can look for another
job."), July 22, 2015 (hereinafter "Kinley
Dep.").) In response to her complaints about neck pain
while performing her kitchen duties, Dr. Snider placed Kinley
on a lifting restriction of no more than twenty pounds for
four months, beginning August 3, 2010. (Snider Decl.
¶ 11.) However, Dr. Snider declined, as
unnecessary, Kinley's request for a shorter work shift.
(Snider Decl. ¶ 11.)
August 23, 2010, Kinley fell in the kitchen during her work
shift. (Snider Decl. ¶ 12; Kinley Dep.
50:8-51:8.) Immediately after her fall, Kinley told her
supervisor that she was "not okay and I need to go to
medical." (Kinley Dep. 54:4-12.) Kinley
reported to the nursing staff at CCCF that she fell in the
kitchen and hurt her back. (Snider Decl. ¶ 12.)
Medical staff placed Kinley "on a no work status until
Thursday, August 26, 2010, when she could be seen by a
provider." (Snider Decl. ¶ 12.) On August
26, 2010, at Kinley's request, the no work order and the
lifting restrictions were discontinued. (Snider Decl.
¶ 13, Attach. 2 at 115.) However, on the
same day, Dr. Kinley extended Kinley's Neurontin
prescription and authorized an additional pillow and towel
for six months. (Snider Decl. Attach. 2 at 115.)
In May
2011, Kinley complained of pain radiating through her right
side and numbness in her right arm. (Kinley Dep.
56:11-19.) Kinley alleges that despite multiple earlier
complaints of pain and discomfort, it was not until she
presented with pain and numbness on her right side,
i.e., a "new injury, " that ODOC ordered
an x-ray. (Kinley Dep. 58:10-59:12.) With regard to
her prior complaints of pain, on July 29, 2010, Kinley had
reported to medical staff that she "worked in the
kitchen yesterday when I got done my neck hurt so bad I
couldn't stand it. I've had # surgeries on my neck.
I've been disabled x 10 years you should have all that. I
shouldn't be working anyway." (Burrows Decl.
Ex. 12.) The Progress Notes from that visit include the
entry: "Provider APPT MADE." (Burrows Decl.
Ex. 12.) The medical records between August 2010 and May
2011 include a number of entries regarding Kinley seeking
treatment for pain. (Burrows Decl. Ex. 13 (in August
2010, Kinley complains of a "sore right
shoulder"); Ex. 14 (in August 2010, Kinley
seeks treatment for "chronic neck pain"); Ex.
15 (in September 2010, Kinley reports that her
"butt cheek hurts down to calf"); Ex. 16
(in August 2010, Kinley complains of "frequent
numbness" in her right hand and "sometimes"
numbness in her right shoulder); Ex. 17 (in
September 2010, Kinley seeks treatment for chronic muscle
tightness and pain); Ex. 18 (in October 2010, Kinley
states that she "fell in kitchen my hips getting worse
& worse. They have to do something. I guess I'm just
going to have to contact my lawyer."); Ex. 19
(in November 2010, Kinley requests chiropractic treatment);
Ex. 21 (in April 2011, Kinley seeks treatment for
"chronic neck & back pain"); Ex. 22
(in May 2011, Kinley reports that she has "been losing
strength in my hands. Sometimes I have numbness from my neck
down my hand. There's no pain.").)
On May
23, 2011, Kinley underwent a cervical spine x-ray that showed
evidence of degenerative disc disease:
[Q]uite severe degenerative disc disease involving
intervertebral disc spaces from C3 to C6. The bodies of C5-6
and 7 have been surgically fused. IMPRESSION: Anterior
subluxation of C3 is most likely due to degenerative changes
involving posterior facet joints. There is degenerative disc
disease from C3 to C5. There has been a surgical fusion from
C5 to C7.
(Snider Decl. Attach. 2 at 163.) The following
month, in June 2011, Dr. Snider referred Kinley to ODOC's
orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Jerry Becker, for an evaluation of
Kinley's neck pain. (Burrows Decl. Ex. 27.)
Becker evaluated Kinley for her cervical spine complaints. In
addition to performing a clinical examination, Dr. Becker
reviewed Kinley's x-ray. Dr. Becker diagnosed Kinley with
"C5-6, C6-7 fusion with multi-level degenerative disc
disease and some subluxation of C3-4." (Defs. Mot.
Summ. J. Ex. 3 (Jerry Becker Dep. 25:13-15, Jan. 21, 2016
(hereinafter "Becker Dep.").) Additionally,
Dr. Becker provided a "second diagnosis" to
"rule out C7-T1 nerve root compromise on the right
side." (Becker Dep. 25:16-17.) Dr. Becker
recommended that Kinley undergo a cervical magnetic resonance
imaging ("MRI"), "fairly soon."
(Becker Dep. 26:6-7.)
August 2, 2011, Kinley received an MRI. (Snider Decl.
Attach. 2 at 165.) Dr. Becker reviewed the MRI report
and concluded that "the findings are long-term,
multi-year, they are basically a combination of trauma and
degenerative disc disease, aging issues." (Becker
Dep. 31:5-8.) Dr. Becker noted that Kinley had not
experienced a "fracture or dislocation" and the
"spurs" were a result of long-term formation, not
a recent trauma. (Becker Dep. 31:10-15.) It was Dr.
Becker's opinion that from an "orthopedic
surgeon's standpoint there was "no indication . . .
for surgery." (Becker Dep. 44:4-7.)
following month, a neurosurgeon, Dr. Magdalene Banasiak,
evaluated Kinley for cervical spine surgery. (Burrows
Decl. Exs. 31, 32.) Dr. Banasiak examined
Kinley and reviewed the same x-ray and MRI that Dr. Becker
considered. Dr. Banasiak recommended Kinley have an
"EMG and nerve conduction study of the right upper
extremity to rule out ulnar neuropathy." (Burrows
Decl. Ex. 32 at 2.) Contrary to Dr. Becker's view,
Dr. Banasiak recommended that Kinley "undergo anterior
cervical discectomy and fusion at ¶ 4-5 and C3-4 for
decompression of the spinal canal, bilateral nerve roots
causing radiculopathy, and correction of the progressive
kyphosis." (Burrows Decl. Ex. 32 at 2.) On
April 10, 2012, Dr. Brian Ragel performed the surgery
recommended by Dr. Banasiak.[1]
judgment is appropriate where there are no genuine issues of
material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as
a matter of law. Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a). On a motion
for summary judgment, the court must view the facts in the
light most favorable to the non-moving party, and all
reasonable inferences must be drawn in favor of that party.
Porter v. Cal. Dep't of Corr., 419 F.3d 885, 891
(9th Cir. 2005). The court does not assess the credibility of
witnesses, weigh evidence, or determine the truth of matters
in dispute. Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477
U.S. 242, 249 (1986). "Where the record taken as a
whole could not lead a rational trier of fact to find for the
nonmoving party, there is no 'genuine issue for
trial.'" Matsushita Elec. Indus. Co. v. Zenith
Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 587 (1986).
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