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Note Of What Has Gone Before: Falsely accused of espionage, Lt. Paris and
Ensign Kim were sentenced to life imprisonment on a penal asteroid. After
Paris was severely injured in a knife fight, Kim had to risk his own life
to protect his shipmate until rescue was at hand.
Star Trek - Voyager: The Secret Logs Of Mistress Janeway
Part 11 - Discoveries (MFF,BDSM)
by Mistress Nova
Captain's Personal Log:
"Do you still want your three guesses, Mister?" I demanded with another
arching blow.
Paris let his head drop. He was breathing heavily; fighting for control. He
was strung up in the center of my bedroom. His arms were shackled over his
head. His feet were anchored to the floor. The sharply defined muscles
tempted my touch. He was incredibly erect. But I resisted. He had been
courting punishment for weeks. Lately, he seemed to crave it. As his
Mistress, I had to oblige.
Tom's back was already red and welted. He had held out for longer than he
ever had before.
"Answer me, Tom," I whispered in his ear.
He inhaled sharply.
"Yes, Mistress," he said. "I want them. I want to think of you as a teenager
lusting for her first conquest. My, god, you must have been..."
I let the whip fall again. "Must have been?" I demanded.
Tom fought for breath. "You are incredible, Mistress."
I walked around to face him. Tom's face was nearly scarlet. I traced his lips
with the butt of the whip. Then I made him suck on it for a time.
"You were saying, Mister?"
"The Mistress must have driven men crazy with her natural sensuality and her
innocence," he said quietly. His eyes were lowered.
"And a few women as well," I said standing close to him. My lips were
millimeters from his.
He sighed a ragged sigh. "No doubt, Mistress."
Paris was perplexing me. It seemed he wanted to be beaten to a bloody pulp.
I couldn't do that without knowing why. Besides, my arm was tired and there
were other ways to torture him. Ways that would wring answers from him. I
released his bonds.
"On your knees, Mister," I said. "Keep still and keep those eyes down or this
session is over."
"Yes, Mistress," he whispered. "Please, don't send me away."
I sat on my bed. "Come, heal him," I said to the slave in my living room.
Mister Paris' eyes darted from side to side, but he didn't move.
"Do you want the blindfold?" I asked.
"No, Mistress," he replied. Tom was absolutely still as Mister Kim healed his
"Finish that and get me my wine," I said. Kim nodded. I had forbidden him
from talking. My glass was deposited in my hand. I grabbed the soft leather
collar I now required him to wear and pulled him to sit behind me.
"Stay still," I said to Kim. "Settle yourself, and lower you eyes."
He complied. The masculine tension in that room was beginning to make me
dizzy. Kim was very highly charged knowing who was there. Paris, I was sure,
knew Harry was in the room. His breathing, despite the rest, was still
"Look at us, Tom," I said.
He complied swallowing hard at the sight of us.
"Look at him, Harry."
Harry raised his eyes to meet Tom's. "Now look at me," I said.
They complied.
"Are you mine?" I asked.
"Yes, Mistress," they replied.
"You trust me?" I asked.
"Yes," they said.
"I can't let you go on the way you have, dear ones," I said. "The tension
is driving me to distraction. I am the only one allowed to distract on this
I grabbed Mr. Kim by the collar and pulled him toward me. I licked his parted
lips, then I kissed him deeply. He looked like he wanted to be kissed. I
wasn't sure by whom, but I didn't care. His mouth was too tempting.
When I was certain that his attention was on me alone, I released him. "Back
against the headboard, and be still. Mr. Paris, at the foot of the bed."
I settled myself beside Kim and looked at Paris intensely.
"You are still mine, Mister Paris?"
"Yes, Mistress."
"Why? Have you not had from me all you desire?" I said. I was afraid to ask,
but I had to know.
"No, Mistress," he said. He was struggling with words.
"Speak," I said.
"I want to know the Mistress more intimately," he said.
"Any more intimately, you should go to the Doctor," I said.
"I want to know all that makes you what you are, Mistress," he said.
I reached out and stroked his hair. "No one knows that, my pet."
"I want to," he said.
"That would take a life time," I replied wistfully. "But then, isn't that
what we have?"
I looked at him. Then, I looked at Mr. Kim whose eyes were cast down.
"Come here, Mr. Paris. Let's change places. I need to see you both."
I settled them next to each other. Both were naked and still very erect.
They kept their gazes on me, but heat radiated between them. I thought I
might swoon from the testosterone. I would have to make my point succinctly
so someone could provide me with release.
"I will tell you a story of my training with my Mistress," I said. "We have
come through enough for me to trust you with such a tale. Besides, this story
will help you both right now."
Their eyes were riveted upon me. They relaxed enough that hey were touching
at the shoulder.
"I was a fledgling mistress under the instruction of Mistress Tonia Barrows
at a place that was the image of the one on the Holodeck," I said. "I was
also a cadet at Starfleet."
Two sets of eyebrows raised to two hairlines.
"There was a female cadet with whom I was paired in molecular biology. She
was everything that I was not: vivacious, effervescent, saucy... all those
terms for a woman who could ignite a room with her charm," I said.
"Begging the Mistress' pardon, but you do not go unnoticed when you enter a
room," Paris said.
"I can't take my eyes off you," Kim said.
"Very kind of you, but I do not ignite. I'm more of a smolder," I replied.
"At any rate, this young woman and I worked many hours together going over
our labs. I spent more time with her than any person I wasn't related to up
to that point.
"This eventually became a problem for me. I didn't realize it at first, but
what I was experiencing was an intense infatuation. She was everything I
wasn't, yet she was my closest friend. We worked together as equals. She
helped me persuade instructors to our point of view. I was accustomed to
taking on everything in my path, she taught me how to ingratiate and charm."
My subjects looked at each other in recognition. They relaxed a little bit
more. I was pleased that they were aware enough of their friendship's nuances
to see the similarities. They also completed each other and they knew it.
This meant that I would be able to have sex sooner rather than later.
"Why would this friendship be a problem?" Kim asked. He looked at me with
tortured dark eyes. I fought to hold onto my train of thought. The urge to
drive him to distraction was overwhelming me. Then there was Tom's hairy,
muscular calf pressed against mine. I really wanted to run my tongue along
the inside of his leg until I reached his crotch. I concentrated hard on
what I wanted to say and managed to re-focus.
"The training from my Mistress had heightened my senses. You understand this,
my pets," I said. "I was aware of the color of her skin, the sheen of her
hair, her scent, her touch."
I paused sipping my wine for a moment. "Her physical beauty combined with her
formidable presence made it very difficult to be alone with her after a time.
Yet, I was so accustomed to being with her, talking with her, I couldn't stay
"So, you were just as miserable being with her," Tom said quietly. "Because
you can't envision a day without him -- her."
"Yes," I replied. "I needed to be with her. It didn't matter how confused I
felt. Then, weeks after this began, I was on a semester break and went to my
"It was good to be back. I spent my days in my Outfit or in sensuous, sheer
garments. My skin was bare for the warm sun and the brisk sea breezes. It was
hedonism," I said wistfully. I could almost feel it all again. "My Mistress,
Barrows, knew I that was troubled instantly."
"Tell us about your Mistress, please," Tom said.
"No. You want to hear of my training," I said. "That you shall never hear.
But the lady... was still beautiful and vibrant in her seventies. She could
still wield a bull whip when she chose, but mostly she controlled through
sheer force of will.
"Once she asked me why I was so distracted, I had to tell her."
I sipped my wine again. Thinking of my Mistress still had a powerful effect
on me all those years later. At the time of this tale, I was no longer
required to kneel before her. I was a well trained Mistress at that point,
but I was still compelled to sit at her feet. I would always be the student
for her. Even now, were she alive, I would feel the same way.
Power radiated from Mistress Barrows. Her aura would wash over me arousing
without words or touch. I would settle at her right side and gaze up at her
while she spoke or quietly watch her as she conducted her sessions.
The day in question, my attention was divided. The session only mildly
interested me. My thoughts were still in San Francisco with my friend. Even
while she conducted a masterful two hours, I felt her disapproval.
"Once everyone left, the Mistress ordered me to tell her what was troubling
me," I said. "She listened with her customary serenity to the pitiful
rantings about my infatuation. I felt like an idiot as soon as the words left
my mouth. The Mistress was looking at me like I was a befuddled child. Then
she smiled at me like she was remembering something very sweet from a long
time ago."
I paused again remembering that incredible smile. Even in distant memory, it
could lift my spirits.
"What did she say, Mistress?" Kim asked. His stare was intense to the point
of desperation. There was a tension in his voice that Tom reacted to as well.
"Darling, she said to me, the life of hedonism isn't constantly sexual. How
can one savor what becomes routine? There are relationships that may not ever
cross that threshold.
"What about these feelings, I asked. She asked me what about them? Don't you
enjoy them? Doesn't her presence enhance you life? Doesn't her voice soothe
you and delight you?
"I admitted that this was all true. Beyond that, I needed her laughter, her
wit and her counsel," I said. "The Mistress told me to enjoy all these things
my friend brought to my life -- even the arousal. If there was no indication
that the physical attraction was mutual, release your pent up passion on your
slaves. They would all appreciate it."
"And did this help you, Mistress?" Paris asked.
"Not at first, but the session afterward did. As always, the Mistress was
right. My slave was very grateful," I said.
"But what if you are the slave?" Kim asked.
"Put your passion in serving me, dear ones, if that is what you choose," I
replied. "Have you talked about any of this with each other?"
Paris shook his head and gave Kim a hard stare. "It's not like I haven't
tried. When we get past talking about the nightmares, all I get is 'I don't
want to talk about it'."
I touched Harry under the chin and lifted his face until he was looking at
me. "Talk to him, Harry. Your silence is causing him pain."
"I know. I know. I'm sorry," he said. "It's just that the prison was bad
enough without having to face all these feelings."
"Tell him, Harry, not me."
"Tom, I don't know what I feel. I know that we're gotten so close because of
what happened that I reacted to you in a way that I never expected. I don't
know if I want it."
"I understand, Harry. I thought I'd done something to push you away," Tom
said. "But I knew we should talk about it. That'll make the nightmares go
away faster."
"I've been confused," Harry said. "When I wake up from those dreams, I want
to call you. I need to be with you, but I don't know what that really means."
"It means you need to be comforted, Harry," I said. "You need the only person
on Voyager who really knows how you feel. Tom is the only one who can make
you believe that you're safe just as you are the only one that can do that
for him."
"I'm still only sleeping through the night when I exhaust myself," Tom said.
"By working 18 hours or antagonizing me into flaying him," I said. "I've
enjoyed it, but my arms are getting tired. It's time you healed each other."
Harry smiled a little. He sat up to better face Tom. I eased off the bed and
sat on my chaise.
"I'll call you when I need to," Harry said. "I won't shut you out."
"Any time you need to, Harry."
"You do the same."
Tom reached out to pull Harry into an embrace. He hesitated for just a
moment, then melted into it. They held each other closely. Harry was near
tears. So was I. Tom stroked his hair; he pressed his lips against Harry's
I was moved by their bravery. I was also aroused beyond reason, but I didn't
intrude as Paris talked to Kim in hushed tones. Kim's eyes were closed. He
held Tom's upper arm. Their legs were intertwined. I realized that I was
exhausted by their intensity and by the strenuous session I had with Tom. As
they quieted, I drifted off to sleep as well.
* * *
A touch on my cheek awakened me. The boys were kneeling beside me with eyes
cast down. I sat up and tried to focus.
"Have I missed anything?" I asked.
"No, Mistress," Harry said.
"We know you'd want to watch," Tom said.
"Damn right," I said softly.
"We want to serve," Harry said. "We want to please you."
"It will take you both to satisfy me tonight," I said. "Mr. Kim, draw the
bath. Mr. Paris, remove my clothes."
"Yes, Mistress!" They said. Kim scurried off. Paris began to pull the leather
from my body.
"Our Mistress is as wise as she is beautiful," he whispered. "Thank you."
"I'm here for you all," I said.
"I adore you," he whispered with eyes that were far too serious.
"Silence. Take me to my bath," I replied. I wrapped my arms around his
neck. He lifted me into his arms. I enjoyed being pressed against his hairy
muscular chest.
He lowered me into my tub which had been enlarged by the ever handy Chakotay
to fit more than one. The water was perfectly heated and wonderfully scented.
"Get in with me," I said to them. Kim sat in front of me Paris was behind me.
We began to soap each other. I was concentrating on caressing Kim's gorgeous
abs with the thought of next massaging his nuts when Paris caught me around
the waist.
I was lifted for a second then impaled on his stiff cock. The breath left my
body; I arched back and my head rested on his shoulder.
"Forgive me, Mistress," Tom said. "I couldn't wait any longer. That rear end
of yours is too tempting."
"You'll pay," I gasped.
"I know," he groaned. "Harry..."
Kim moved over to me. He kissed me holding me by the hair. The kisses were
endlessly varied; slow and gentle to hard and deep while Paris pumped
relentlessly inside me. I was aware of how they still held each other with
one hand to keep balance, and, I had no doubt, some connection. I was
overwhelmed by them taking me so forcefully. They would both pay, I thought
as the first wave of orgasms hit me. I held onto Kim's shoulders as I bore
down on Tom's cock moaning -- no, screaming into his mouth.
Paris pumped harder. I was jolted with wave after wave until I saw stars. I
felt him stiffen as I was reaching the breaking point. He growled clutching
me closer as he came. I was winded by his embrace.
For moments afterward, I worked to catch my breath. Kim alternated between
kissing me and caressing my body. Paris held me against him breathing heavily
into my ear. I reached down for a handful of thick suds and hit Paris in the
face with them. Kim laughed and was hit with a face full of suds himself by
Paris. A short but intense suds battle ensued. My bathroom was a wreck and
we had to get into the shower to really clean up.
"Before either of you leave here, that mess will be cleaned up," I said later
in bed. I wasn't sure that either of them was listening. Paris was kissing me
and tugging on my nipples. Kim was teasing on my clit with his tongue and his
I vowed to gain control of them tomorrow. At that point, delirium was setting
in. They knew it. I was beyond thought or control. Next, I was on my knees
not knowing how I got there sucking on Tom's cock. Kim had my hips firmly in
his hands as he slamming into me. I was so grateful for this pent up passion,
despite the havoc in discipline this was causing. I started to come just
before Kim. Tom came watching Kim. My orgasm intensified to the point that my
brain turned to mush.
The next thing I remembered was being awakened by a jolt beside me. I was
lying against Paris' back with one arm around his waist. The disturbance came
from behind me. Kim was awake. His muted cry woke Paris instantly. In the
heavy fog over my mind, I felt myself being turned toward Kim.
"Harry, it's alright," Tom said. "Turn on your back."
I was gently placed onto Kim's chest. Paris hovered over us. I felt him touch
Kim's face.
"We're here, Harry," He said quietly. "We're really here. Think, think hard.
You're not hurting. You're not hungry. You can feel her against you. She's no
dream. I'm here. We're safe."
I felt Harry tighten his arm around me. He stroked my hair. He pressed his
nose into it and inhaled. His heartbeat slowed. "I'm alright, Tom. I am."
"Tell me, Harry."
"It's the same as always. I saw you dying, and there was nothing I could do,"
he said.
"You were alone with them," Tom said.
"I've dreamt of you leaving me and me leaving you," he said. "Either way, I
wake up screaming. But we are here."
Harry reached up and touched Tom's face. For a second I wondered if I was in
the way. But then I felt Kim hands on my skin again slowly caressing me.
"She feels so good," he whispered. "Sometimes I can't believe she allows me
to touch her at all."
"Tell me about it," Tom whispered. One of his hands was in my hair. The other
was resting on my butt. "She is incredible."
Kim's hands were growing more aggressive. I sighed audibly. "Mistress," he
said. "I think we've got some of that pent up passion to handle."
Without opening my eyes, I tilted my head back offering my lips to the first
who would claim them. It was Kim kissing me with his own brand of sweet
intensity. Paris was finger fucking me. I felt an urgency in them. This was
going to be explosive. Paris began to lubricate my ass. I moaned in
"Harry, take her," Tom said hoarsely.
Kim tuned onto his side so that we were facing each other, looped my right
leg over his waist then entered me without breaking the kiss. I felt Paris
gently working his way in through my anus. His face rested on my hair. I
could hear him breathing in my ear.
"Dear God," he moaned when he was completely inside.
"Amen," I thought. We were all primed enough that it didn't take long. I fell
asleep instantly afterward thinking that this should convince Kim that he
hadn't imagined all of us.
* * *
The alarm was insistent in waking me. My bones felt leaden, but I dragged
myself into a sitting position. I was alone in bed. That was about to annoy
me, but then I noticed that Paris and Kim were kneeling nearby.
"Speak," I said.
"We've cleaned up your quarters, including the bathroom and prepared a fresh
uniform for you."
"Oh?" I asked. I managed to get out of the bed and make an inspection. The
place was neater than when I cleaned it. I walked back.
"Did everything except whip yourselves for your impertinence," I commented.
Kim remained expressionless. I caught a smirk on Paris' face.
"You may get dressed and go. We will follow the usual rotation from now on,"
I said.
"Permission to speak," Tom asked.
"Granted, but be careful," I said. "I'm too tired to thrash you."
"Yes, Mistress," Paris said. "Was your friend real or a sage story?"
I smiled. "She is real."
"Who is she?" Kim asked.
"No one you'd know. My old friend went into the sciences, and is now a
married woman with nearly grown children," I said. "But there is someone
you've met who reminded me strongly of her. Strongly enough to make me
pursue the fantasy. But that is a tale for another day."
"Please, Mistress," Paris said. "At least tell us who she is."
I smiled a wicked smile. "Her name was Jadzia Dax."
I left them to deal with their erections while I got ready for my shift.
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Thank you for the responses.
I don't understand why I can't sum to zero when calculating the matrix elements using QED-like axial-vector theory. The only thing which is relevant for the unitarity is the internal structure of the gauge group, which in my toy-like case is just the direct product of the abelian gauge groups. In my initial question, the 1- GA5 coupling from the toy example corresponds to Z-boson which longitudinal degree of freedom decouples for low energies, so I again can make the replacement of the sum over the polarizations by -g_\mu\nu (in my question, the sum over the polarizations appears in the Z propagator).
Also, this doesn't tell nothing about why the unitarity is restored just under changing of the sign of the mp term in the propagators nominator of my two examples, without any other changes.
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Back in Reedville, Virginia, we secured ourselves to the dock just two days before Hurricane Maria was scheduled to touch the coast south of here. Fortunately she lost some of her "oomph" and stayed well to the south, so we only saw winds of 20 knots or so and little rain.
While Maria blew herself out we decided it was time for a little electrical therapy. Mastervolt had replaced a three year old inverter for us, under warranty, when it started to show signs of not starting our AC refrigeration system. Excellent support from them, as usual. The new unit was delivered to us back in Rockland, Maine, and this was our first chance to swap the old unit out for the new. While working in that (difficult to access) part of the boat I also wanted to replace some of our battery interconnect cables - we had a good supply of size 4/0 (107sq.mm.) tinned wire and all the necessary lugs, so we spent an afternoon making up interconnect cables to measured lengths.
It took us two days to swap the inverters over, upgrade the battery interconnects and also to replace a bilge pump sensor switch. That was just long enough for hurricane Maria to bounce off the coast and head away from us.
Right now we're preparing for the boat to stay here while we head off on our road trip, so we're checking all the bilge systems, shutting down and preserving the watermaker, servicing essential equipment etc. In case another hurricane sneaks in we've doubled up on all the dock lines and removed both the furling headsails and stowed them below.
We've been warmly welcomed back into the local community, the weather has also remained warm (at least in the daytime) and the social life has been great. Importantly, we're getting a good share of "dog time", walking the neighbours dog and even graced with a visit from our favorite sailing dog, the lovely Flaco, who as you'll see below is very interested in all things "boat".
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Porcelain Table Lamp
Materials: Porcelain red glazed base, porcelain socket. Opaque glass globe.
Height: 16 cm / 6.29"
Width: 14 cm / 5.51"
Electricity: 1 bulb B22, 1 x 75 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, not a specific one preferred.
Period: 1960s – Mid-Century Modern.
Designer: To be appraised. Made in the style of a light designed by Peter Pelzel for Vistosi.
Manufacturer: To be appraised.
This table or bedside lamp was purchased in France, but all the electric parts are Italian.
In the Vistosi catalogue 1961 – 1962 appears a table lamp designed by Peter Pelzel, model L122. The porcelain lamp has many similarities, but the Vistosi lamp is made of Murano glass off course.
Vistosi L122 Lamp
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Young workers at increased risk of injury
This Saturday (28 April) marks World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Workers' Memorial Day. This combined day highlights health and safety in the workplace and honours those who have died from work-related illness or injury.
While the health and safety of all workers is paramount, this year there is a focus on improving the health and safety of young workers through 'generation safe and healthy'.
Due to young workers' lack of experience and awareness of work health and safety risks, they are at increased risk of a workplace injury.
In South Australia from 2014 to 2017, 8,129 young workers aged 15 to 24 years were injured while at work and received income or medical support. These injuries represent almost 16 per cent of all worker injuries.
Young worker injuries
The most common types of young worker injuries:
|Type of injury
|Number of injuries (2014-2017)
|Laceration or wound
|Soft tissue
|Contusion, bruising and superficial crushing
|Foreign body on external eye, in ear or nose
Young workers often can't and don't perceive when a situation becomes unsafe and may not always ask questions or speak up when they feel unsafe, especially if they are a newly employed trainee or apprentice. Young workers can also be more at risk in the workplace due to the effect of peer influence and it's important for employers to be aware of this.
What can you do to keep your young workers safe?
The supervisor or manager of a young worker has the greatest influence on their attitude to work safely, so it's important to have the right person managing young workers. It's an employer's responsibility to make sure the workplace is safe and healthy and to protect young workers from physical and psychological hazards. Not all young workers will have the appropriate life skills and knowledge, so also consider what you task them with.
Tips for keeping young workers safe:
- Provide a safe and healthy workplace
- Provide personal protective equipment
- Provide an effective induction
- Identify safety gaps in the worker's knowledge
- Provide the right information, training and supervision
- Provide continuous mentoring
- Communicate effectively and be sure they have understood their instructions
- Develop a positive workplace culture where they feel comfortable to speak up and ask questions.


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THE PAST STUDENTS ASSOCIATION - How we started...
There was no formally organized past students association also called the old girls association until 1986. But the then past students, the sisters Leela and Nanda Wijesuriya, Susila Fernando and many others worked tirelessly with great sincerity for the welfare and betterment of the school and the fellow Sumangalians, and they are remembered with gratitude.
A formally organized association was inaugurated in 1986 with the retirement of Mrs Ranasooriya. We are now registered as a Social Service Organization with a registered number P/N/SS/11/134.
OUR VISION: To make Sri Sumangala Balika Maha Vidyalaya reach greater heights.
OUR MISSION: To plan and carry out activities to make our vision a reality
OUR OBJECTIVES: To work for the welfare and upliftment of the school.
To foster good will and friendship among the past students.
To build positive relationships with the community and society.
To take all steps to achieve our objectives within our own rights and privileges.
The First Committee:
Patron and President :- Mrs. Malini Ranasooriya
Vice Presidents :- Miss. Nanda Wijesuriya, Mrs. Sumana Bandara, Mrs. Swarnamal Rodrigo, Mrs. Rani Tillakaratne
Joint Secretaries :- Ms. Kulendri Peiris and Lanka Fernando
Joint Treasures :- Ms. Ramani Soysa and Padma Salgado
The Committee Members
Mallika de silva,Kapeesa Thenuwera, Nilanthi Perera, Sriyangika Dharma warden, Indira Rodrigo, Matilda Perera, Pushpa Peiris,
Ramya Fernando, Sepalika de Silva, Thilani Ratnayake, Suhashini Cooray, Pushpa Fernando, Rani Weeramanthri, Ramya Lokuliyana,
Eshani Weerasekera, Chitra Weerasekera, Karensa Palihawadana.
The Present Committee (2011 - 2012)
Patron :- Mrs. Sampathni Nepala ( Principal )
President :- Mrs. Swarnamali Rodrigo
Vice Presidents :- Mrs. Malini Ranasooriya
Mrs. Ramani Fonseka
Mrs. Manel Wanasinghe
Mrs. Kulendri Peiris
Joint Secretaries :- Mrs. Ranjani Pathirana and Miss Kumudini Cooray
Joint Treasurers :- Mrs. Ramani Soysa and Mrs. Padmalatha Perera
The Committee Members
Janaki Atukorale, Soma Silva, Ayendrini Fernando, Thilani Ratnayake, Manel Perera, Chandrakanthi Mendis, Vindhyani Ranaweera, Radini Vittachchi, SeshaNimali, Nimali de Silva, Deepani Kandanarachchi, Sharmain de Silva, Suhashini Salgado, Dushani Karunanayake, Ayodhya Savithri
How to Join the Association
Membership fee is RS. 1000/= and you become a life member
Walk into our office on a Friday and collect an application form, paying Rs. 10/=
All the requirements are given in the application form.
Complete the form and hand it over with the money and the necessary documents to the office on a Friday, Your application will be tabled at the monthly committee meeting and your membership card will be posted to you to the given address.
Our Membership
Our school has a history of 85 years and it is sad to state that our current membership is only 1807.
We should plan out an effective membership drive and all Sumangalians should join hands in this effort.
Committee Meetings
Committee meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month at 3.30 pm in our own office room, in the Computer building that was built with the generous donations given by our past students. This is one of our achievements to be proud of.
Our Office is open every Friday (Except on holidays and school vacation ) from 9.00 am to 2.00pm
PROJECTS and ACTIVITIES:
- The Annual
Sports Meet: The past students association donates the bronze,
silver and gold medals
- The annual
prize giving: After a period of 30 years we were able to have a
prize giving in 2003. The prize giving was funded by the generous
donations of our past students. Now it is an Annual event.
- Scholarships
to the needy children in the school: This is a project that was
started in a small way in 1988. With the generous
support given by our members this has become a project on a major
scale. This year we were able to give monetary aid worth Rs.
622,750/= to 290 students.
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- Sale of exercise books Excercise books having a picture of the school were sold at a low cost.
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The King is Dead, Long Live the King…July 22, 2011 | Author: Screen-Monkey | Category: The Dump | Leave a comment »
What do Apple, Netflix, Playboy, and Marvel Comics all have in common? We will come back to this question a bit later.
For Love of Dead Trees
In 1966 the publishing industry was making record profits with sales increasing every year. When Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson first published D&D in 1974 their route to fame, power, money and success was publishing game books. Photocopying entire books was not yet cost effective and the idea of a digital book was not even a glimmer in the eyes of Larry Page and Sergei Brin.
Ultimately, it would be people like Larry Page, Sergei Brin, and Jeff Bezos who would bring the great publishers down. In the mid 1990s, Page and Brin were working on the Stanford Digital Library Project. These two men are significant because they later founded Google. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994.
In 2000, Wizards of the coast released Third Edition Dungeons and Dragons. The economy was roaring, paper books were still the kings of the world, and digital piracy was in its infancy. The paper business model generated enormous success for Dungeons and Dragons as a brand and took Wizards of the Coast into windfall profits. It was perfect storm for the industry and perhaps nobody has a better perspective on that storm than Joseph Goodman of Goodman Games who called that period a "boom" with "staggering" sales.
The Digital Floodwaters Rise
But, there were already hints that the book publishing business model was in danger. With the rise of peer-to-peer file sharing programs like Napster (1999), Gnutella (2000), the Pirate Bay (2003), and others it became possible to download gigabytes of pirated role-playing game data in a few hours. Most gamers who had longingly fantasized about the possibility of owning every single D&D product ever published realized that thanks to a community of pirates this dream was being fulfilled. Unfortunately, it was happening without the authors ever seeing any benefit for their work. As the gaming public became more aware of the possibility of pirating the content, the foundation of their success began to crumble and Wizards of the Coast had to respond or die.
It was clumsy at first and even ham-handed. They ended their relationship with Paizo Publishing and migrated both Dragon and Dungeon Magazine into an online model in August of 2007. On April 6, 2009 Wizards suspended all digital sales of books, adventures, and prosecuted several individuals for piracy of their intellectual property.
The sole remaining place to buy any legal digital content is Paizo's run of Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine.
You can imagine what fans thought of that.
Wizards had initially created digital tools for managing the game, but they had promised much more than they could deliver. Their tragically named Gleemax forum never took off, their virtual table top was missing in action, and their unreleased character visualizer was almost comic. Within that there were small pockets of success with the Online Rules Compendium, the Character Builder, and the Adventure Tools.
The quality and length of the magazines began to degrade as custom cartography was often replaced with cookie cutter maps made from dungeon tiles. Dragon magazine was routinely padded with marketing-style product previews which were only more egregious when you considered the smaller page counts.
Imagine a Better and Brighter Future
I'm looking at you here Wizards of the Coast and your big daddy Hasbro too. Look me in the eye and hear what I'm telling you. What do Apple, Netflix, Playboy, and Marvel Comics all have in common?
All of them are wildly successful at providing media as a service in a world in which internet piracy is a fact of life. Like Wizards of the Coast, all of these companies are sitting on large library of media content. Unlike Wizards of the Coast, these companies have created a viable business model which undercuts the pirates by offering their large media library as a cheap subscription service. They have turned the tables so that the laptops, iPads, and smart-phones are their greatest allies instead of their hated enemies.
I want the producers of Dungeons and Dragons to be original when it comes to their content, but when it comes to their business model, I want them to steal every good idea that Amazon and Netflix pioneered and pour that right into a healthy profit.
One: Imagine every TSR/Wizards of the Coast game product and magazine ever published from every edition at your fingertips for about $5-10 per month. Announce it with big fanfare and roll out the content slowly with a loud trumpet blast sounding for any special content like some of the Gygax classic adventures. Not only will you see an end to piracy in your lifetime, your subscribers will see their subscription continuously gaining in value. You will make a new profit on out-of-print material. Your subscriber base will rise from solely Fourth Edition fans to gamers from every edition of the game. My advice would be to start with the core books for every edition and then slowly build content once the essentials for play are in place.
Two: Create a rating system put into place that allows you to rate your favorite media and find the best material quickly. Amazon, Netflix, Google… all of them allow you to rate things you like and don't like. Wizards will gain marketing information about their userbase that most companies would pay for. The new user will be able to quickly find content that is popular which makes Wizards look better again.
Three: Create tools that allow you to support your play of the game's current edition online with friends. Eventually this could add support for older versions as well if it is feasible. How these tools are used will provide you with even more information about your user base.
Four: Add social networking tools that allow you to easily recruit other gamers for long or short term games.
Five: Some books still need to be published. D&D nerds are also collectors by nature. The occasional 2-book campaign setting and splat book should show up to provide a little juice to my bookshelf. It doesn't have to happen often, but it still needs to happen. It is possible these books might incur an apparent loss, but these are an expense that further drives the success of the online model until the day when paper books are completely gone.
Six: Restore and maintain the magazines as online content with real quality. These magazines are part of the D&D gamer's sense of self and history. They simply must endure and, as witty as she is, Shelly Mazzanoble cannot carry an entire magazine herself. Wizards has already began shoring up the brands with initiatives that are cleaning up their digital offering by listening to their readers, being more careful with the content, and restoring features like comic strips, and the beautiful original cartography in Dungeon magazine. That is a good start and they need to follow through on it. My advice is to mercilessly loot Paizo's writing staff and reintroduce some more long term campaign arcs written by some writing all-stars like Monte Cook, Eric Mona, Margaret Weiss, Tracy Hickman, and Chris Perkins. When you do that, you should blast some trumpets about it so people know enough to look for it.
Gygax wrote S1, B2, and all the rest because he was getting paid to do it. We cannot and must not forget that simple fact. Some of these things appear to already be in the works. Some of them seem like inevitable conclusions in our newly forming digital age. Whatever the final outcome looks like, all gamers should want Wizards to succeed financially because we are the ultimate beneficiaries of that success and the next Keep on the Borderlands might be just behind the next door.
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HUNTSVILLE — Scott High turned in a mighty rally in the bottom of the seventh here Friday evening, but it was not quite enough, as Coalfield walked away with an 8-6 win.
The Yellow Jackets led 8-2 heading into the final inning and appeared set to walk away with a comfortable win. But the Highlanders found a groove, making the most of their final three outs before Coalfield finally sealed the win.
Coalfield's first three runners wound up scoring in the first inning, as the Yellow Jackets jumped to a 3-0 lead early. Scott was able to answer with a run by Andrew Carson in the bottom half of the inning, with Carson scoring on a Coalfield error after walking.
That's how things stood until the bottom of the third, when Jon Hamblin scored after a lead-off double, cutting Coalfield's lead to 3-2.
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Out of the past…Old friends reunite, remember the Cocalico of their youth
Gail Harting of Denver was worried about her dad. When her mother, Alverta, passed away last fall, her dad, Alvin Fry, took it hard. Members of the Ephrata Community Hospital staff, when they knew Alverta's death was imminent, warned Gail to keep an eye on her dad. They said that many times around the three-month mark after a long-time spouse dies, the other is likely to follow.
"He's been very lonely, and the winter has not helped," said Harting. "I remember him getting together with a bunch of guys years ago and thought it would be neat if they got together again."
Harting went to work contacting the other men who Fry grew up with. She knew they weren't getting any younger and this may be one of their last chances to reconnect.
"Elam's wife just passed away this winter," said Harting of one of the men." My dad seemed interested in a reunion when I brought it up. No one had done anything about getting together, but I really just wanted to do something for them."
Harting spoke mostly to some of the wives at first and from that was the start of many excited back-and-forth phone calls.
"He really enjoyed it," said Harting about her dad's reaction to the reunion that occurred on March 22 at Reinholds United Zion Church. "I gave him one of the pictures from long ago and he was just looking at it. He didn't say much it because he doesn't say a whole lot.
"Maybe in a year, we'll do it again, we'll see."
With the help of daughters Gail and Aletha, Fry is still living at home on his Denver farm and getting around fine at age 86. He's looking forward to doing some "outside work" this spring.
Following is a glimpse of past days in Denver and the remincences of these old friends:
Downtown Denver was known for being a bustling employment center, employing up to 1,000 workers at a silk mill, shoe factory, chocolate company, hosiery mill, fabric manufacturer, and hat factory.
Many operated on three shifts, but are all closed except for The F & M Hat Company, founded in 1912. It's hanging on as one of the only two surviving hat manufacturers in America.
The central gathering hub around this industrious town was Danny's Diner, now an apartment building. Except for the cars around the structure and a few belonging to some older houses, this area in Denver is now a ghost town with substantial, eerie, visual remains.
During World War II, the government had schools do things to help with the war effort and one of the factories in Denver was used for this purpose.
"We'd go out collecting milkweed and turn them in for parachutes," said Jim Gress. "It was used as insulation for life jackets and parachutes."
The schoolchildren walked fence rows, went in fields, and were continually on the lookout for the pods of the weed. Milkweed seeds contain light, flossy hairs which are buoyant and water resistant. Two bags of the pods could keep a man afloat for hours and the kids were told that "two bags save one life."
Women did the manufacturing work for the parachutes and life jackets in one of the buildings at Second and Walnut streets. The money was good because it was "from the government." The building now stands vacant and little changed since the 1940s.
At night in Denver during the war, the town would have "air raid drills" to make sure the "enemy planes couldn't see them at night." Sirens would go off and everyone would run into their houses and turn off the lights. People, usually men too old to serve in the war, would be out on the street walking around with helmets and flashlights, making sure everyone was doing what they were supposed to.
The end of World War II wasn't exactly like it's shown in the movies, with everyone being elated. Many troops had to stay in Germany to "keep a thumb" on the Germans, and were told the military branches were grooming them for non-surrendering Japan.
For these men, the thought of fighting Japanese was "much worse than fighting Germans," according to Christ Gress, 87.
All these friends were drafted for the war. Communication wasn't like it is today, so none of them knew at the time of the slaughter of millions of innocent Jewish people by the Germans.
The friends remembered The Great Depression of the 1930s, but that time was "different" for the rural Cocalico area.
Farmers, being more self-sufficient, were able to live fairly normal lives, living off their land without having to go too many places.
"You didn't go to the store to get anything," said Alvin Fry, brother of Eugene, who sat quietly as the result of his Alzheimer's. "You'd butcher a couple of chickens, steer, and hogs. The only thing we had to go for was sugar and flour. They'd put the sugar in a piece of paper and wrap it up with string. My mom would make a meal of cornstarch."
"Cornstarch pudding" consists of cornstarch, milk and sugar. Fry still eats "sneaky" and as he did when he was younger, and had a milk pie sitting on his counter waiting for when he got home.
Due to lack of refrigeration and ice not always in "the box," meat and dairy was not handled with the same safety standards as it is today.
"You'd have butchered meat sitting out for a long time in the summer-flies and all, and then you'd can or smoke it," said Luke Showalter, 88.
Cars were scarcer during the Depression.
"During the Depression years, being on the farm there, we didn't have a car because we didn't have the money, so we'd go to the store by horse and wagon," said Alvin Fry.
For fun as young adults, they would go to the movie theater every Saturday night. There were a few theaters including The Palace Theater, which was on Main Street where CK Grill & BBQ now stands. There was also a big outside drive-in theatre where their little kids "wore pajamas in the car and fell asleep before the movie ended."
Because driving motor vehicles was only a few decades old, it was a pastime to just drive around or take a "Sunday drive."
Kathryn Gress, wife of Christ Gress, 87, described how she met her husband.
"He asked me if I'd go for a ride," said Kathryn. That sort of thing likely wouldn't fly today, but it worked back then and they've been married for 60 years.
The Pennsylvania Dutch had a disruptive wedding night hazing ritual called "geglebbering." After the ceremony (if there was one) and reception (if there was one), the newlyweds would retire, supposedly, for the evening. Friends would serenade them outside the house with loud, discordant music-pots and pans.
"You knew they were gonna come, but you didn't know when," said Kathryn. "It was still a surprise. You could tell them you didn't want it, but they'd still come."
It was expected that the noise makers would be invited in, so they all came in that night for chips and ice cream.
None of the friends went to school beyond eighth grade which was not unusual at the time. Cocalico School District didn't exist, but there were a few small schools in the area.
The three Gress brothers went to a one-room school house, now vacant, on Galen Hall Road in Blainsport. Their teacher taught eight grades in the one room all at once. She was also the same teacher who taught their father. First graders sat in the front and eighth graders sat in the back.
"There's a big furnace in the back and on a cold day, kids roasted in the back and in the front you had your jacket on," said Elam Gress.
Some of the friends didn't want to, but others were not allowed to continue with their schooling beyond eighth grade in order to help their parents with their work.
"Dad said so," said Jim Gress, a retired owner of a successful flooring company in the area.
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Heart's Conversation?
There will always an empty room I keep in my heart, for you to come when you drained. But sometime, it locks itself when you?re busy around. Maybe, trying which gets us trapped in the same mistake over and over again. Maybe what we?ve got to do is just let the life flows into its direction without any force to stop and change it for our own purposes. Because half of this heart who doesn?t wanna let you go, for any reason, in any circumstance. I miss you, and it gets worse as the time passed by.
(quoted from Berta Dewi)
I?ve invested all my heart and all my life. I?ve given all for you. I was not supposed to get attached to you this much. Now, I?ve nothing left. It's even getting worse when I realize that? I simply miss us.
?Would you mind if you stay a bit longer??
I wish I could hear you saying,
?As long as you want me to be with you, I will stay, even it means... forever.?
But all I know, it's just my wish.
It's just the heart's conversation.
Even worse, it happens all in my head.
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On a perfectly ordinary January morning in 1996, New York was recovering from a crippling snow storm, and the original cast of Rent were preparing for the first downtown preview of a newly born show.
On this morning, its writer and composer, Jonathan Larson, would suffer an aortic aneurism. The show would lose its patriarch. Larson would never see critics' rave reviews, celebrity photographs with the cast, or the legacy he left behind. He would never read pieces scattered across the internet, even years after the show left the stage.
In Larson's honour, producers would offer $20 tickets to the front rows of the audience, making the show an accessible, human experience for the struggling artists it is so careful to protect. Larson's spirit was never left behind, even after his death.
The show transformed the careers of Broadway heavyweights Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs and Anthony Rapp, and would later become a major film produced by Robert DeNiro in 2005. It spent 12 years on Broadway, with 5,124 performances and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in its trophy case. It would inspire the ideologies and ambitions of emerging talent, including Lin-Manuel Miranda of Broadway's new great love, Hamilton.
Much of Rent's legacy is due to its tragic and untimely back story, along with autobiographical tendencies from Larson's own life. With sights and sounds so inherently 90s, it has become iconic, and undeniably influential to audiences over the last two decades.
Starting its story on Christmas Eve, 9pm, 1989, Rent introduces us to a vibrant vagabond life. With poverty-stricken artists, filmmakers, and wordsmiths roaming around New York's East Village, the audience is catapulted into the midst of the Aids crisis. As the cast perform Rent, voices roar "Hungry and frozen, it's the life we've chosen", a strong defiance against the cultural hierarchy of Manhattan, all the while, underpinned by the cultural damages inflicted on LGBT communities.
Of course, pop culture has moved on. A lot can change in 20 years, especially as Rent is so deeply rooted in the culture of its time. Yet today, in an unsettled political landscape, its message of love and diversity still resonates with new and old audiences. As a cultural artefact, it showcases the attitudes of the late 1980s and 1990s, in a time where HIV, sexual identity, and gender were unfairly bound together. It is a stark contrast to today, where a life lived with the disease is possible.
An earnest and diverse musical, Rent benefits from a core thematic foundation of love. Intertwined with addiction, infatuation, and disease, the show exhibits a narrative steered by time, or the lack thereof. It follows the anxiety of relatable characters as they grapple with their own realities. While several of the characters are living with HIV, Rent searches for a life well lived, for dignity in disease, and for acceptance. It is vivacious and solemn, all at once.
Throughout the show, audiences are unable to avoid its heart. At the centre of the story is Angel, a joyful transvestite whose sweetness and love for life is infectious. Considered as one of the most progressive and influential LGBT characters in theatre, Angel's happiness and self-acceptance makes for a warmer New York, in Larson's energetic, colourful and occasionally grimy fantasy of Manhattan's East Village.
As a musical embodiment of the artistic free spirit, Rent celebrates a passionate defence of living how we choose, encapsulated by exotic dancer Mimi's aggressive solo Out Tonight, an anthem that will leave you with a thirst for life.
At its crux, it is a fascination with time, and the fragility of human life. With intoxicating characters and show stopping performances of audience favourites such as Take Me or Leave Me, La Vie Boheme, and Seasons of Love, audiences are left hopeful and eager for more time in the 1990s.
Leaving behind a message of fatal love, Rent is an exploration of all of life's passions and triumphs, and highlights life's half-hearted promise of tomorrows. In true carpe diem fashion, audiences are left knowing that nothing is certain except for today.
Catch Rent at the Centre April 3-8.


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By this time, it's clear that Takashi Miike can and eventually will make every kind of movie—his filmography already teems with formula gore, yakuza bust-outs, comic-book fantasy, musicals, death-rock avant-gardisms, pathological thrillers, humanist dramas, hardcore porn, metaphysical absurdities, etc. And satires on all of the above. One Missed Call, one of the five movies he made in 2003, is no more than Miike's shot at generating a polished, rote, expertly composed J-horror flick. Stealing outright from the Korean ghost story Phone (2002) and the upcoming J-hackwork Premonition—both of which are soda-diluted copies of the Ringu series—One Missed Call follows a handful of schoolgirls (primary among them Battle Royale's Kou Shibasaki) as their cell phones begin forecasting their mysterious deaths. Soon enough, a backstory of child abuse and unburied corpses gets revealed; it's surely the first horror film to pivot on a case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
Even at their most derivative, the new Asian horror movies have become something of a genre peak simply by virtue of the respect they lend to visual space and emotional scar tissue. The Ringu inheritance of electromagnetic media-as-spirit channel is just icing. Miike is all over the dynamic, but typically, the film has excesses—the climactic face-off is yowlingly reminiscent of EC comics, and the cheesy digital effects are all but superfluous. Better is the hunk of the movie taken over by a paranormal TV host, who shanghais one fated teenybopper to wait for her moment of doom on the air—with head-rolling results. "Less than 15 minutes left!" he cries. "What on earth will happen to her?!" As if we didn't know.
Even more impishly self-conscious, Matthew Leutwyler's Dead & Breakfast is as goose egg as its punning title, doodling around on the George Romero template with even less panache and goofy wit than, say, 1972's Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things. Lambasting hick brainlessness more doggedly than zombie tropes, the film even steals from the Farrellys, with mockabilly Zach Selwyn warbling Greek chorus ditties every few minutes while Jeremy Sisto, Erik Palladino, and various other C-list slummers fend off cracker locals, an ancient curse, and the wisecracking living dead. The blood is raspberry syrup, the gags gag, and the film virtually falls over itself informing us how lame it is.


text: Blaze was owner surrendered with another golden due to their owner no longer able to keep them because of a move to another state. Unfortunately Jake passed away from an intestinal blockage we were unaware he was suffering from shortly after coming into rescue. Blaze was a bit on the wild side to say the least. He was not allowed in the house of his previous owners so was clueless when it came to house manners. He was going to need a lot of work to make him adoptable and as sometimes happens I fell in love with his enthusiastic attitude. The thought of placing him tore at my heart and I made the tough decision to keep him. He has settled a bit but still gets a little stir crazy so obedience and agility is a great outlet for him. We started competing in Rally and he's finished his Rally Excellent title. He's also completed his Beginner Novice Title with two second places out of the three legs required for the title!! GO BLAZE!! We've run into a snag with agility due to his desire to meet all the workers on the course--typical golden I'm told--but he's understanding his job more and more and I see agility titles in his future!!


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CHICAGO -- A man was shot and killed on the South Side. His family believes he may have been the victim of a mistaken identity.
45 year-old Charles Smith was shot at 65th and Maryland as he walked home from a laundromat early, Wednesday morning.
He died next to a church, and just steps away from his home.
He was an independent barber. The latest style he was showing-off was a shaved head, with a series of stars. His loved ones think this latest haircut may have made him a target.


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At least eight families lost their homes in Elsipogtog First Nation after a fire in an apartment building reignited early Thursday and burned for at least an hour before firefighters — who didn't hear their pagers go off — arrived.
Allan Peters, fire chief of the Elsipogtog Fire Department, said the fire initially broke out shortly before 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, which started in one of the eight units of the building on Graham Road in Elsipogtog, 90 kilometres north of Moncton.
Peters said he returned to the apartment building around 11 p.m. to ensure all the hot spots were out.
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Then the fire reignited again a few hours later.
"It was pretty engulfed when we got here," Peters said. "Way out of control."
People living in the building had already left after the first fire, and no one was injured.
But the fire destroyed the building, and residents and others are now asking why the Elsipogtog Fire Department was slow to respond when the fire started up again.
Peters believes a power outage knocked out the paging service used to alert firefighters. Only two of the 22 volunteer firefighters heard a page after the fire reignited.
"Those pagers are loud," he said.
About 2,600 NB Power customers in the Kent County area, including 525 in Elsipogtog, lost power at about 4:30 a.m., but the utility said the outage was not related to the fire.
Peters said he learned of the fire when a fellow firefighter went to his house and pounded on the door.
"He had power where he was living, so he got the page," he said.
The lone firefighter
It's not clear when the morning fire was first reported, but Jason Augustine, a firefighter with the Elsipogtog Fire Department, said his page came in at 4:17 a.m. and he arrived at the fire at 4:20 a.m.
"Right off the bat, I started to ask if everybody was out of the building," said Augustine, who lives in the same area of the community where the fire took place and was the first firefighter there.
He called for more firefighters from the Elsipogtog department but didn't receive a response.
Then he started calling 911 for mutual aid backup around 4:30 a.m.
"We've never had a problem like this before," he said.
Mutual aid in the dark
Brent Goodwin, fire chief with the Rexton Fire Department, said his firefighters in Rexton responded to the fire shortly before 5 a.m. — the same time the Elsipogtog Fire Department arrived on scene.
"According to the paramedics and RCMP, the fire had been burning for over an hour before we were called to assist," Goodwin said.
Typically, the Elsipogtog Fire Department will call Rexton for fire assistance, a community about 14 kilometres north of Elsipogtog. But Rexton firefighters didn't receive the call and didn't know anything about the blaze.
They were later called in by RCMP instead.
"We should've been called by somebody before," Goodwin said.
"When somebody doesn't show up for that length of time or really 15, 20 minutes, there should've been a call put out to their mutual aid department."
Peters said he eventually did call for backup when he found out about the fire but Rexton was already on its way.
He said about 12 firefighters from the Rexton Fire Department and three from Elsipogtog Fire Department got to the fire.
"The paramedics and the RCMP were fairly upset because it was a long time before [firefighters arrived]," said Goodwin, the Rexton chief.
The New Brunswick Fire Marshal and Department of Public Safety have not responded yet to questions about the response, whether the province will investigate what happened, and the vulnerability of emergency paging systems when the power goes out.
'This isn't right'
Robert Joseph, who lives across the street from the burned building, said something needs to be done to make sure firefighters respond as soon as possible.
"We called the fire department at 4 o'clock and they told us the Elsipogtog Fire Department was on scene," he said.
"When I looked outside there was only one fireman out there standing with his gear on."
Joseph said he's relieved no one was hurt but he is worried about a future fire.
"What would [firefighters] do if somebody was in there?" he said. "This isn't right, something's got to be done."
'Snap and crackling'
Joseph got up in the night and thought he heard rain.
"I could hear this loud snap and crackling," he said. "I had thought it was a downpour or something."
His mother moved into the apartment building about a year ago. Now she's lost all her belongings and has no home to return to.
"She didn't get the chance to get a pair of clothes for today or anything," he said. "She's still in her jammies."
Joseph said he encouraged his mother to come stay with him after the first fire was put out Wednesday night. And when the fire reignited, Joseph said, he was glad his mom was with him.
Couldn't be saved
"I walked out and I could see this big flame to the next-door apartments," he said.
"Man, there was nothing they could do for it, it was already gone."
Micheal Levi, the owner of the building, said it was built by his father.
"I'm just grateful nobody was hurt and everybody got out," he said.


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Cholesterol Hoax
Apr 16, 2008
It never ceases to amaze me how money is the driving force behind so much of our world. So much of what is considered to be "science" seems to be tainted by bribery. An example of this is the whole "cholesterol is bad" fad. The idea that high cholesterol leads to heart problems seems to be everywhere and yet there is no evidence that this is true. This flawed theory has only served to pad the pockets of many in the food and drug industries. Traditional, healthy fats such as real butter, lard and olive oils have been replaced with harmful processed oils and fake butter (margarine).
Those with high cholesterol are actually living the longest! Cholesterol is made to protect us from infection! So if yours is high, no need to worry! The only consequence may be you will outlive your low-cholesterol friends!
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daveJay Apr 16, 2008 at 04:47 pm
I think it's important to note that much of the food eaten and the diet of many people leads to a lot of other health problems, and cholesterol is raised as a side effect. So just because you have high cholesterol does not necessarily indicate that you're unhealthy perhaps, but that doesn't mean that you can eat candy bars, popcorn, and pizza all day either.
And maintaining a good cardio workout is always a good idea too.
So what you're saying I guess is that you can eat a good, natural, whole foods diet and still get high cholesterol. Right? I think I would agree with that.
Robbie May 13, 2009 at 06:47 pm
interesting theory
because I'm just one those people who believe excessive cholesterol bad for your body
I will look more into this,


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04/03/00 pm: Monday morning sales were fairly good but noon cutouts were down 21-52 cents. Retail beef movement over the weekend was probably fairly good. Weak/lower prices are expected again Tuesday on light to moderate sales volume. Buying interest will be fair to good. But, buyers are expected to continue buying mainly near term needs and will be slow to buy 60-90 days ahead. Of course price out ahead will be the prime consideration among buyers. Cutouts Tuesday are expected to close weak to lower. Sltr Est: 128,000
04/03/00 pm: Packers are starting relatively short bought this week. But, if slaughter is reduced as expected, they likely have adequate numbers through Wednesday. No trade is expected Tuesday unless packers offer steady prices. Packers are expected to bid mostly 2 dlrs below last week on Tuesday. Some selling interest in the Cornbelt could develop at 1 dlr lower Wednesday. Most likely, Plains cattle feeders will holdout for steady until Thursday. Cornbelt: 70-72/113-115 Ks: 71-72 Tx: 71-72
04/03/00 pm: Cash trading on replacement cattle Tuesday will be weak to 1 dlr lower, instances 2 dlrs lower. Best buying interest will be for high quality, high performing yearlings with weight. Plainer quality feeder cattle will find a home but buyers will be trying to discount the price fairly sharply. Light receipts should be somewhat supportive to feeder cattle prices. But, recent strength in corn prices has feedlot buyers concerned and they'll be more cautious for awhile. Plains: 80-91 Cornbelt: 82-93
04/03/00 pm: Cash market for hogs Tuesday is expected to be mostly steady to firm, occasionally up 50 cents carcass basis. Hog movement is expected to be moderate. Estimated margin for packers Monday morning was bad. But, apparently demand for bacon remains strong and packers want hogs to fill bacon orders. Pork offerings Tuesday will be moderate, sales moderate. Loins and butts are expected steady to lower; hams and bellies, firm to slightly higher. Sltr Est: 367,000Friday: wi carc: 52-70.50 WT: 46.50-46.50 EI Carc: 54.75-69.75 ET: 45-45.50
April live cattle: first support 71.91, second 71.54. First resistance 72.28, second 72.65. June live cattle: first support 68.88, second 68.45. First resistance 69.31, second 69.74.
April feeders: first support 83.64, second 83.26. First resistance 84.02, second 84.40.
April live hogs: first support 64.02, second 63.35. First resistance 64.69, second 65.36. June live hogs: first support 72.70, second 71.70. First resistance 73.70, second 74.70.
May pork bellies: first support 96.63, second 95.33. First resistance 97.93, second 99.23.
04/03/00 pm: May corn futures closing call: down 1 cent Tuesday. Export inspections were 35.9 million bushels, but week-before was revised down to 35.6 million bushels from 39.7 million previously reported. There was a report of 105,000 tonnes of corn sold to Turkey, but that was U.S. exporters reporting the sale from last Friday. Weather markets are only as good as the latest weather forecast. Models point to a warmer-drier pattern into mid-April. USDA begins weekly weather and crop bulletins late Monday which continue into the end of November. Look for 4 percent of the corn planted vs. 2 percent average. With warmer temperatures in the forecast, look for seeding to proceed rapidly. Major Cornbelt state areas were as follows: IL up 3 percent, in down 2, IA up 1, NE down 3, OH unchanged, and MN down 1 percent.
04/03/00 pm: May beans closing call: down 2 cents Tuesday. Soybean export inspections were 18.6 million bushels vs. the 8.2 million bushel average needed to reach USDA. Some are projecting U.S. exports at 950-975 million bushels vs. USDA at 910 million. In addition to the larger exports projected, the 1999 crop was overestimated by 25-35 million bushels, which will reduce carryover as well. Prospective paintings for soybeans indicated that delta and southeastern areas will be down, which should increase average yields. IL was down 1 percent, in up 2, IA unchanged, MN up 4 percent, MO unchanged, NE up 7 and SD up 12. OH was down 1. Some are already predicting larger acres by the final, as high as 76.5 million acres, but they also projected higher acres for last week's report, which failed to materialize.
04/03/00 pm: Chicago May wheat futures closing call: down 1 cent Tuesday. KC May futures closing down 1 cent Tuesday. It will be cold in the Plains, but markets decided that no widespread damage is likely. If temperatures drop below freezing in late April, it would do a lot more damage. In the past, early May freezes have caused widespread damage. USDA begins Beltwide ratings for the winter crop Monday, and ratings will be compared to the 68 percent reported last year. Recent moisture will carry the crop for some time but as temperatures rise in May-June, more will be needed to fill out heads properly. Export inspections were 17 million vs. 22 million the same week last year. Exporters reported 110,000 tonnes of wheat to Egypt which was official confirmation of sales reported on Friday.
04/03/00 pm: May futures: up 20 Tuesday. The A Index was up 20 points to 57.95. Rainfall in the Cottonbelt over the weekend was generally welcomed, although heavy in some areas. First crop progress report will be released late Monday indicating cotton plantings for the year so far. Ideas on acres planted are still larger by the final - but the entire growing season still lies ahead. Spec-hedger report is expected to reveal the specs net long about 25 percent vs. 32.5 week-before.
04/03/00 pm: July beans: first support 5.55, second 5.45. First resistance 5.64, second 5.74. Nov beans: first support 5.69, second 5.61. First resistance 5.77, second 5.85.
July meal: first support 172.17, second 168.87. First resistance 175.47, second 178.77. Dec meal175.20, second 171.40. First resistance 179.00, second 182.80.
July oil: first support .1869, second .1835. First resistance .1903, second .1937. Dec oil: first support .1960, second .1942. First resistance .1978, second .1996.
July corn: first support 23.41, second 2.35. First resistance 2.46, second 2.52. Dec corn: first support 2.58, second 2.53. First resistance 2.63, second 2.68.
July wheat: first support 2.66, second 2.57. First resistance 2.76, second 2.85. Dec wheat: first support 2.93, second 2.84. First resistance 3.02, second 3.11.


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During my days of touring liberal arts college campuses, I heard questions about how the institutions addressed the problem of the "campus bubble." The term fits: more often than not, when I think of a stereotypical liberal arts college, it seems like it was plopped down randomly onto its surroundings. There is an abrupt transition from on-campus to off-campus. These bubbles are perhaps most noticeable by drastic changes in architecture or an obviously predominant population of young people. They are also notorious for their high concentrations of privileged people.
Before entering this year, it's appropriate to take a look at how the idea of the bubble applies here at Wes, some of the less-recognized benefits and valid criticisms of the bubble, and ways we can keep the bubble at the forefront of conversation without popping it.
There are some results of living in a bubble that don't seem to be as detrimental as the isolating term implies. I think a couple of the most distinctive attributes of the Wesleyan community—some of the things that make Wes Wes as we know it—derive from the campus bubble.
For instance, the safe spaces on campus in which all students are free to express themselves are successful in part because they thrive on the community's differentiation from the outside world. It would be difficult to have this accepting of an environment if students didn't feel that they could learn about themselves and explore different things in the safety of a somewhat isolated environment. This could be both in terms of taking on new academic and extracurricular interests, and in terms of learning things about yourself personally that may not have even been on your radar before getting to college.
In addition to the safe spaces on campus, the passionate dialogues that take place at Wesleyan couldn't be the same without the code to which the students and administration adhere. This refers to both Wesleyan's more obvious codes like the use of gender-neutral pronouns, but also the ways in which students are expected to respond to their peers' comments and questions. A code like this would be much harder to come by without the certain degree of "bubbliness" or isolation that Wesleyan currently has. It is with these criteria in tow that conversations here become both their most intimate and their most articulate.
There is, nevertheless, undeniable validity in being concerned with how this community is isolated from its outside. Maybe the most common concern is comparing the privilege of a liberal arts college community to that of its immediate surroundings, and at Wesleyan another compelling issue is the high concentration of like-minded opinions that might go against the intention that students here have to keep open minds and reach for diverse conversations.
This is made more evident by the impassioned nature of Wesleyan students. This is important not only because it can make a popular opinion on campus look like the only opinion, but also because it creates a bit of a trap. Accompanied with the campus bubble is a sort of "idea bubble" that makes it easier to fall into the popular assembly of views without checking yourself or the circumstances that got you there. This is because here is clearly a community of thinkers who want to ask and answer hard questions and are eager to be (or are) the most eloquent conversationalists they can be. It's something to aspire to in an environment like Wesleyan, or in college in general, because it seems as though these few years are a unique opportunity to have people like this around you from whom and with whom you get to learn. That's an exciting thing, so it makes sense that breaking out of the bubble, or actively imagining the circumstances that lead to different kinds of equally intelligent opinions and conversations elsewhere, might not happen as frequently as it should.
Furthermore, Middletown itself is an underrated resource of varied opinions, experiences, and different dialogues waiting to happen. Finding ways to connect to the greater Middletown/Middlesex community is a good way to start scrutinizing the bubble. There are several extracurricular opportunities with this goal, like working at the Green Street Arts Center or the Center for Prison Education, or looking into MidWes, the umbrella student organization of groups focused on Middletown-Wesleyan relations. But it doesn't have to be as official as adding extracurriculars, and to many that probably seems like a time crunch. Spending time off campus in general, perhaps getting to meet people that live and work in Middletown and related towns or maybe just exploring the area, would be similarly effective in putting the bubble in perspective.
For the start of this semester, it's key that we as a community acknowledge the merits and pitfalls of our bubble. Acknowledging that the bubble plays a significant role in shaping our conversations and opinions might lead to more of the open-mindedness to which we aspire.
Sammi Aibinder is a member of the Class of 2018.
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