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Board of Education
Board Meetings
- Marie Karaba-President
- Ty Schneider-Vice President
- Jeanette Kodl-Treasurer/Clerk
- Brenda Henke-Board Member
- Amy Penterman-Board Member
Marie Karaba-President
I was elected to the Board of Education in 2010 and I'm honored to be able to give back to the school and community through this service. Thorp has a lot to offer it's students and the board will continue to strive to make decisions focusing on interests of all students.
Contact information: firstname.lastname@example.com
Ty Schneider-Vice President
Jeanette Kodl-Treasurer/Clerk
Brenda Henke-Board Member
Brenda graduated from THS in 1980. She attended one semester of college at UWEC. She was employed with Dan Becker, CPA for four years. Brenda has been employed as a bookkeeper for Haas Sons, Inc. for the past 34 years. She also does all the book work for her husband's business. This is her fourth year on the school board, and her fourth year serving as board treasurer. Brenda and her husband Bill have 3 grown children, all of whom have graduated from Thorp High School. Brenda is an avid Packer fan!
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Brenda Henke
Amy Penterman-Board Member
The School District of Thorp Board of Education consists of five dedicated volunteers, who are elected to staggered three year terms. The Board is responsible for several key areas: establishing policy; defining District priorities and goals; monitoring and evaluating progress; approving contracts, bonds and the annual budget; and selecting and evaluating the Superintendent of Schools.
Establishing Policy
The Board sets policies that govern the education of all children attending our district schools, as well as the day-to-day operations of the District.
Defining Priorities and Goals
In collaboration with the Administration, the Board defines annual District priorities and establishes specific goals, rationale and expected outcomes. It delegates to the Superintendent of Schools (the District's chief executive officer and educational leader) the authority to develop, operate and manage the educational programs to meet these goals.
Monitoring and Evaluating Progress
The District Administrator regularly updates the Board on progress towards goals, and Board meetings and study sessions are often devoted to presentations highlighting work in specific areas.
Approving Contracts, Bonds and the Annual Budget
The Board guides negotiations with the District's five bargaining units and approves all final collective bargaining agreements and employment contracts, as well as vendor contracts.
The District Administrator, with some guidance from the Board and in concert with his/her staff, prepares and presents a recommended budget to the Board. After discussion and input from the community, the Board is responsible for approving a final budget to be presented for a community vote. The Board strives to approve a budget that effectively balances costs with maintaining Thorp School District high instructional standards for students and staff.
Selecting and Evaluating the Superintendent
Perhaps the most critical responsibility of a Board of Education is to select and evaluate the Superintendent. The Board provides regular feedback and a formal annual review.Regular School Board Member term is 3 years.
- Ty Schneider term ends April 2021
- Marie Karaba term ends April 2022
- Brenda Henke term ends April 2020
- Jeanette Kodl term ends April 2020
- Amy Penterman term ends April 2020


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Monopoly City Streets
Hasbro commissioned "Monopoly City Streets", a live massive multiplayer online game using the Monopoly board game on real world streets using Google Maps and OpenStreetMap. Launched in September 2009, the game went for two months, picking up five million players. The interactive campaign spread to the Monopoly City Streets blog and Twitter channel and picked up a Wikipedia entry.
Click on the image below to play the video.
Tribal DDB, the brains behind the City Streets campaign, won a Gold Cyber Lion at Cannes International Advertising Festival 2010. Tribal described Monopoly's brand essence as being all about negotiation. Armed with $3 million in virtual cash, players purchased and constructed Monopoly buildings on any street in the world. They earned rent and were able to increase the earning potential of their streets by adding schools and eco-friendly parks. Players could sabotage their opponents with chance cards by erecting prisons/sewage plants, negating all rent on a street and even demolishing buildings altogether.
During the three months of the game, there was an online building boom – players purchased nearly 9 million streets and built more than 175 million buildings. Players enjoyed using the new sabotage elements of the game with nearly 1.8 million hazard buildings built and more than 2.5 million buildings destroyed. Negotiation was certainly a big part of the game for those who wanted to get ahead, but 52 percent of all offers were declined.
The top ten cities searched were New York City, Paris, London, Las Vegas, Tokyo, Miami, Madrid, Berlin, Barcelona, Los Angeles. The top ten streets searched were Wall Street, Route 66, Broadway, Oxford Street, 5th Avenue, Rue De La Paix, Rodeo Drive, Times Square, Main Street and Yonge Street.
The Monopoly City Streets campaign was developed at Tribal DDB, London, by executive creative director/copywriter Matt Ross (Digital), art directors/designers Matt Fenn and Tony Cianci, production manager Andrew Harb, designer Romain Brisson, programmers Carlton Dickson, Nicole Schloeter, Ben Cooper-Holmes and Paul James, senior account manager Sheerien Salindera, creative lead Simon Richings, technical director Matt Oxley, technical lead Paul James, developers Carlton Dickson, Christo Coetzee and Nicole Schloeter, UX Brooke McPherson, senior account manager Sheerian Salindera.
Filed under: Interactive, Monopoly
Tagged: DDB
Location: UK

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Our Firm
HSPRD is a full-service law firm built on strong client relationships and supported by smart, skilled attorneys. We strive to provide the highest level of service to our clients and are nationally recognized for our litigation successes. We have a deep transactional practice, and boast one of the strongest immigration groups in the country.


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Can omniscient God, who
Knows the future, find
The omnipotence to
Change his future mind?
– Karen Owens
One thought on "Omniscience and omnipotence"
Adeyemi Banjo
If a father knows that because his son has behaved badly the father will give the boy a good hiding, is the father capable of not giving the boy a good hiding? Obviously! The father just knows that the boy needs a hiding and he, the father, means to give the boy one. The "omnipotence and omniscience are mutually exclusive" argument is weak! God is omnipotent, but this does not mean that He will act at variance with His nature; for example, God CANNOT lie (because it is against His nature – i.e. a self-imposed limit – Titus 1:2) but this does not mean He is not omnipotent↓


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Video: CARE: 'We concentrate on leadership'
Explainer: Box Girls get tough in Nairobi
On Thursday, NBC's Nightly News features a program in Kenya, where girls and young women are taught strength and confidence skills. Producer Marisa Buchanan and correspondent Maria Menounos spent some time with the girls—check out their photo gallery here.
Life messaging
Maria listens in on one of the "life messaging" sessions on the basketball court. The girls are taught by other girls how to face the extreme challenges they are faced with every day in the slums. Marisa Buchanan/NBC News
Life lessons
Mamu and Florence, both young single moms tell Maria about the lessons they've learned and what they teach other girls. Marisa Buchanan/NBC News
The team
The girls gather outside one of the spin off organizations - Safe Dishes. All the proceeds go to support the Safe Spaces program. Marisa Buchanan/NBC News
A few good moves
Judy, the younger sister of a girl in the program, wanted to show Maria a few moves. Learning strength and confidence even at this young an age can help protect so many of the girls from the dangers of living in slums. Marisa Buchanan/NBC News
Smiles all around
One of the best things a program like Safe Spaces does is give these girls strength on the inside to be strong and confident - even though life continues to be difficult here. Marisa Buchanan/NBC News
Who's watching?
One of the most fascinating things about this program was who was watching on the sidelines. Boys looked through the window the whole time—getting a lesson too about the power of girls. Marisa Buchanan/NBC News
Meeting the Box Girls founder
Priest started Box Girls in Nairobi. It was a great to see such a committed man share his story on why he started the program to help women and girls in Kenya. Marisa Buchanan/NBC News
Box Girls member
Marisa Buchanan/NBC News
Young girls in Nairobi
Marisa Buchanan/NBC News
What's your story?
All the girls come to Box Girls at different ages and with different stories. Andrew Scritchfield/NBC News
Sports for Social Change
Auma Obama, half sister of President Obama is the director of Sports for Social Change-a CARE progam that supports many of these local Kenyan groups that invest in girls through sports and other programs. Andrew Scritchfield/NBC News


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Another classic from the ever-classy GirlWritesWhat:
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Sunday, 18 November 2012
Tomorrow Is International Men's Day
November 19 is International Men's Day: a time to promote male role models; to celebrate men's contributions to society; to focus on men's health and well being; to highlight discrimination against males; and to improve gender relations and promote gender equality.
As someone who wants both my son and my daughter to flourish across all areas of life, I am frequently reminded that our society and media do a particularly poor job of highlighting and addressing areas in which males face disadvantage. Thankfully we have women's offices, ministries and NGOs working tirelessly to improve the areas in which women still fare poorly. This is not the case for men.
We seem to have a cultural blind spot around men and gender politics. When a man has a problem, it is frequently seen as his own fault, whereas women's problems are more often attributed to others or to society. For example, we hear that men are to blame for their own poor health ("men don't go to the doctor"), whereas young women's high levels of eating disorders are blamed upon the cultural pressure to be thin.
The portrayals of men in modern day media are often negative – as violent murderers, wife bashers, sexual abusers, deadbeat dads, and bumbling idiots – even though, in reality, only a small proportion of men act out these roles and behaviours. This compounds the lack of compassion for men's issues.
Our society often assumes that 'men have it good' and only women carry the burden of gender-based disadvantage. The evidence strongly contradicts this. Here are 13 areas in which men and boys need our help. I would ask that you picture an important male in your life as you read them – be it your son, brother, husband, best mate or father. Many thanks to Glen Poole from the Men's Network in England for the idea for this article.
1) If we want everyone to live longer, healthier lives, we must address the appalling state of men's health. Males have much higher illness, injury and death rates and die almost five years earlier than females, yet public research funding for male health is less than one-third of that for female health. National health expenditure is one third higher for females than for males. The problem is not that resources have preferentially gone to women, but that health service provision has been less than adequate at identifying and addressing the health needs of males. Health services in many instances serve women and children well but men poorly, in terms of access, availability, suitability of service delivery environments and service delivery methods (men are greeted and treated from a female model of service delivery). Health promotion messages aimed at males are poorly targeted and often demeaning or derogatory. Until 2010 Australia had no male health policy or longitudinal national male health study.
2) The health of boys also needs attention. After the first year of life boys have a death rate 35 percent higher than girls. In all areas of health status (death, disability, handicap and illness), boys fare worse than girls. Generally, more boys than girls have mental health problems, including conduct disorder, disruptive or antisocial behaviors. Young boys are the predominant reported victims of physical violence, emotional abuse and neglect from adults and carers. There is no secondary school testicular cancer self-examination component of sexual health education for boys despite the fact that incidence rates of testicular cancer for males aged 15 to 39 are more than double the rates of cervical cancer in females of the same age group. Up to one in seven boys experiences child sexual assault before the age of 16.
3) The male suicide rate is a national disgrace. 1,814 males killed themselves in 2010: more than the entire road toll. Divorced men are three times as likely to commit suicide as any other group.
4) Men are raised to be disposable. We socialise boys to take more risks and place a lesser value on their health and safety so that men will take on the dangerous but essential jobs: firefighting, logging, heavy trucking, construction, mining and the military. In a gender-equitable society we would raise both our sons and daughters to share this work. In Australia however, the most deadly, dangerous, unhealthy and risky work is carried out overwhelmingly by males, and the highest occupational health risks, mortality rates and disability levels are experienced by poorer men. More than twice as many males as females experience work-related injuries and illnesses, and over ninety percent of work-related deaths are males. Australia also remains a signatory to the international convention exempting "able bodied males" between 18 and 45 from the ban on forced labour. We hear a lot about the "glass ceiling" when it comes to women's employment but very little about the "glass cellar" when it comes to men's.
5) Men are more likely to be homeless. Males are one third more likely to be homeless compared to females, and twice as likely to be sleeping rough (homeless).
6) If we want everyone to live lives free from violence, we must address violence against men. The overwhelming burden of disease from violence worldwide is born by males. Men make up three-quarters of suicides, two-thirds of homicides and three-quarters of war-related deaths. In Australia, young men are three times as likely as young women to be victims of violence, however, there are no public health campaigns to address this serious issue. Men make up one third of victims of family violence, however there are barely any support services for these men, nor treatment services for abusive women. Some argue that because men are most often assaulted by other men, the violence they experience is somehow less important. However, it shouldn't matter who the perpetrator is. Talking about the gender of the perpetrator diverts the conversation away from addressing the needs and experiences of male victims of violence. We don't trivialise the experience of lesbian victims of domestic violence in this way by saying "but lesbians are most often assaulted by other lesbians."
7) If we want to give every child the best possible start in life, we must look at the way schools are failing boys. Fifty percent more Australian females than males graduate from our universities each year. In NSW, the difference between boys' and girls' average Tertiary Admission Rank is almost 20 percent. Boys have significantly lower levels of achievement in literacy than girls, are significantly more disengaged with schooling, and drop out more often. They report significantly less positive experiences of schooling in terms of enjoyment of school, perceived curriculum usefulness and teacher responsiveness. Boys are subject to more disciplinary actions during schooling, are more likely to participate in subsequent delinquent behaviours, alcohol and substance abuse, and during adolescence, are 4–5 times more likely than girls to suffer from depression and commit suicide. Boys are nine times more likely to be referred to pediatricians for behavioral problems, including Attention-Deficit Disorder.
8) There is a critical lack of male teachers. The proportion of male teachers is at a record low and continues to fall. In 2011 just 30 percent of all full-time equivalent teachers were male: 19.3 percent in primary schools and 41.8 percent in secondary schools. Males make up 2 percent of preschool teachers and 4 percent of childcare workers. The lack of male teachers may be a strong factor behind the high dropout and low achievement rates of boys. With so few male role models and mentors it's no wonder that boys disengage.
9) If we want to ensure that every child has the best possible relationship with both parents, we must remove the barriers separating fathers from their children. Fathers are removed from their children against their will and through no fault of their own. The majority of fathers are not granted reasonable access after contested legal proceedings costing thousands of dollars. Many fathers are advised not to proceed with custody applications in the first place. False accusations of domestic violence or child abuse are not infrequent in attempts to ensure custody of the children. Non-custodial parents, usually fathers, are then subjected to a system that forces them to pay "child support" without any system to make sure the money they pay for the benefit of their children is actually used for such. The system then refuses to enforce their ability to see their own children and the children's ability to see their parent. Parental alienation, whereby children are taught to dislike or fear the non-custodial parent is also not uncommon.
10) There is an epidemic of fatherlessness. Of the five million children in 2009–10, 864,000 (17 percent) lived away from their father. Of these children, 48 percent saw their father at least once per fortnight, while 24 percent rarely saw their father (less than once per year or never). Almost half never stayed overnight with their father. In 2009–10, there were 366,030 non-resident fathers. Research from the USA shows that violent crime, drug and alcohol abuse, truancy, teen pregnancy and suicide all correlate more strongly to fatherlessness than to any other factor. The majority of prisoners, juvenile detention inmates, high school dropouts, pregnant teenagers, adolescent murderers, and rapists all come from fatherless homes. The connection is so strong that controlling for fatherlessness erases the relationships between race and crime and between low income and crime.
11) If we want parents to be the best they can be, we must do more to support fatherhood. Until the 1970s dads weren't allowed to be present at the birth of their own children. Since then the role of the Australian father has changed from sole breadwinner to sharing the hands-on parenting and earning roles with his partner. Fathers are more likely than ever to require time off work to look after their children's needs but government legislation and workplace cultures haven't followed suit. Men are still expected to put in long hours and not take time off for family responsibilities. Women may sometimes find it hard to find an employer that gives them the job flexibility to care for their young children, but most men find it almost impossible. Discrimination complaints by men because of their parental status have more than doubled in the past decade. The current inequitable parental leave schemes, favouring mothers, reinforce fathers in the traditional 'breadwinner' role rather than supporting them as being 'hands-on' dads (which the research shows gives better outcomes for children). Many fathers feel excluded by staff and services that appear to be focused solely upon the needs of mothers. Ante-natal courses for new fathers are currently run at only a handful of hospitals despite the fact that up to 10 percent of first-time dads suffer post-natal depression and in most cases their symptoms go untreated.
12) Males lack reproductive rights. Upon becoming pregnant, a woman can choose to have the baby, have an abortion or put the baby up for adoption. A man has no legal right to choose whether to become a father or even to be notified that he has become a father, even if the pregnancy came about via deception (e.g. by falsely claiming to be on the pill or utilizing discarded or stored semen). Men also lack the range of contraceptive options available to women.
13) We need to do more to protect baby boys from infant circumcision. Each year almost 25,000 boys under the age of four are subjected to painful, sometimes dangerous and life altering surgery without their consent or medical cause. All six major medical societies of Australia have declared that circumcision of newborn males should not be routinely performed. The Royal Australasian College of Physicians has expressed concern that neonatal circumcision may violate human rights. In their statement the ACP disclosed the traumatic nature of circumcision, recommending that parents should be given more complete facts about the procedure. Circumcision has serious risks including infection, hemorrhage, scarring, shock, penile disfigurement, penile amputation, and even occasional death. The complication rate for this unnecessary procedure is estimated to be 2-10 percent. Three Australian states and two territories have laws that protect little girls from this sort of procedure but there exists nothing to protect little boys.
Gender equity is not a zero-sum game: this International Men's Day, let us remember that looking after men and boys does not take anything away from women and girls. If we want to create a world where each child can grow to fulfill their greatest potential, we must care equally about the needs and human rights of both genders.
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
As a Radical Feminist, I Believe . . .
Been following the always entertaining proclamations of Integralmath over on YouTube, & this recent one on the practically boundless imbecility of radical feminists is no different. Obviously I am ideologically opposed to his (admittedly well-reasoned) defence of the shaving of the punanis, but on everything else I must say it's all I can do to keep from whooping my encouragement & giggling with girlish glee.
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Sunday, 11 November 2012
Remembrance Day
In addition to the obvious - the 32 million human beings blown to pieces or mutilated during World War One, almost all male - I would like to, if I may, put forth a couple more things to keep in mind on this day of recollection.
One is that as many as 9 out of 10 British men who died in the trenches did not have the vote. Due to age, class, & property restrictions, the great majority of those who died didn't even have the right to put a cross in the ballot box of the country sending them to their deaths. 'Men' as a group got the vote the same year the majority of women got the vote: 1918, the year the men left alive came home from the war. It's good to remember that universal suffrage only came about because those men, with more undeniable righteousness than perhaps any other cause in history, demanded it, & to not have granted it might well have ended in revolution, & the abolition of the monarchy, as had so recently happened in Russia. It's wise, too, to remember that the enfranchisement of women came in only on the coat-tails of that, & that the war-work at home by women was stated as its justification - the suffragettes, universally seen as hysterical terrorists at the time, had little or nothing to do with the extension of the vote to women, & indeed their violent actions almost certainly put back that inevitability several years.
It's good to remember that all women - & men - alive in Britain today can thank those men, who fought & died, for the right we have to vote.
Now could also be a time for us to remember the universality of male disposability. In every age, in every nation, it is now, & always has been, the men & the boys who are sacrificed in their hundreds, thousands or millions on behalf of the women & children back home. For the good of all others, the young & the old:
So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,
And builded parapets and trenches there,
And stretchèd forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an Angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him, thy son.
Behold! Caught in a thicket by its horns,
A Ram. Offer the Ram of Pride instead.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
-Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Letter To A Future Daughter-In-Law
Great state-of-the-nation address from Suz, a name I'd seen around for awhile but have only just now got round to checking out her fine blog, Shining Pearls Of Something:
A letter to a future daughter-in-law, possibly my own:
A few years from now, you're probably going to want to marry my son. Perhaps you already do; he's kind of hot and his potential is quite obvious, if I do say so myself. He's only 20, handsome and well-built, and when he lets his hair grow long, it's thick and wavy. He has his father's beautiful eyes, and my dimples look much better on him than they ever did on me. He's also a U.S. Marine; he has finished his deployment and doesn't expect to go overseas again, so he's preparing to begin earning college credits. I don't hover, so I'm not sure which major he's chosen – engineering or actuarial science. He surfs, rides a motorcycle and a mountain bike, hikes, and maintains a classic car. Pretty much everybody likes him or loves him, and respects him. Girls hit on him regularly.
I'll be surprised if he ever marries though. You see, his plan is to wait until he's at least thirty, therefore he will spend the next decade meeting, dating, working with, and probably sleeping with, the product of 60 years of American feminism. I'm pretty sure he won't find many women worth considering for marriage. How about we look at it from his perspective, m'kay? Here's what he sees:
Half of you have been raised without your fathers, yet only a few of your fathers deserved to be kicked out of your lives; you were raised by the women who kicked your fathers out, and perhaps a string of stepdads and "uncles." And those women, your mothers, taught you their values by example. Not an auspicious start. Most of the rest of you were raised by fathers who knew damn well that if they displeased your mothers, they too could be kicked out of your lives according to your mothers' whims. They knew full well who had the REAL power in the family; they quietly accepted that "mother knows best."
You were raised in a culture that permits, even encourages, women and girls to always push for more. Not necessarily to do more or earn more, but to demand more and to expect more. You were punished far less severely for your transgressions than were your male peers. Indeed your female peers egged you on to be even naughtier, and to be defiant about it. It's Grrrl Power, after all! The boys of your acquaintance were expected to give in to your shenanigans and your shit tests, and those who didn't were labeled "problem children" and medicated. A boy's best bet was to shut up and grovel, and maybe win your approval. They sure weren't allowed to go around offending the Special Snowflakes now, were they?
You were raised in a Disney Princess Culture, where every girl is entitled to her Prince Charming. And if she can't find one, she has the Grrrl Power to kiss any old frog and transform him into a Prince. You were raised to be a slut, at least through your twenties. Go to College. Establish a Career. Don't get married until your late twenties or early thirties, but DO NOT, under any circumstances, repress your sexuality. Your foremothers fought hard for your right to be promiscuous with no consequences; don't you dare let their efforts go to waste. And since you're not looking for a husband, there's no need to sleep with only "good" men, is there? 'Cuz badboyz are hawt! And nice guys are boring. Additionally, you have plenty of time to ride the best cocks you can find; thanks to modern medicine, you can get pregnant after menopause if you want, so there's no hurry. You are expected to waste your youth and your beauty on hot guys who treat you like shit, then give your leftovers to the guy you'll promise to love, honor and cherish for the rest of your life. Wow, how lucky is he!
My son looks around and he sees bitchy, arrogant, malicious women. He sees spoiled greedy women. He sees financially irresponsible women. He sees lazy undisciplined women. (Yes, even in the military; they had to lower the standards so more women could "serve.") He sees overweight women wearing unflattering clothes that display muffin tops and rolls of fat, who drool over his biceps while telling him that "looks aren't important." He sees slutty women who dress to attract men, sleep with the "hot" ones, and denigrate the rest by calling them "creepy." He sees "competitive" professional women, whose primary tool for getting ahead is the threat of sexual harassment lawsuits. He sees demanding women who expect men to bow and scrape for the privilege of a smile. He sees utterly irrational women whose "self-esteem " is obscenely disproportionate to their proven worth. He sees women who expect romantic dates and expensive gifts, yet have absolutely nothing of value to contribute to a relationship. He sees women who flirt with their hopeful, geeky JustFriends, barely enough to keep them on a string while simultaneously panting after Alpha Hotties, then run crying back to those JustFriends after being pumped and dumped by said Hotties, "Oh, why can't more men be nice like you?" (Answer: if they were, no woman would fuck them.)
Look around you ladies. You see the very same women, don't you? Most of you are these women. You think this is normal and acceptable, because "everybody does it." It's not.
There's something you should know about my son and his peers. They're not gay, they're not lazy, they're not stupid, they're not unambitious, and they're not weak. They've merely figured you out. They know you don't give a rat's ass about them, and you see them as nothing but providers and fantasy sex objects. They are wise to the game and they're done playing by your rules.
They have the same job titles as you and they take home the same pay, but they work longer hours and they do harder work; they know that their productivity is why employers can afford to hire you to sit at a desk and shuffle papers. They know that if two drunken people have sex and both regret it in the morning, only one of them is a "rapist." They know that "My Body/My Choice" actually means"My Body/My Choice/Your Wallet." They know that the minute they sign a marriage license, everything they own is yours, but nothing you own is theirs (except your debts) and you can walk away with cash and prizes, at any time, for any reason. Or for no reason at all.
They're calling Bullshit.
A few years from now, you'll begin asking yourself, "Where have all the good men gone?" You'll look down your noses at all those guys playing video games and living like frat boys in cheap apartments, and you'll know that they could do "so much better" for themselves. You'll shake your heads in wonder at their "immaturity," or their "wasted potential." Here's a little secret. (Yep. A few men are immature and weak – they've had the masculinity abused or medicated out of them by their single mothers and grandmothers) but most of them?
They no longer give a rat's ass about YOU.
That's right. They don't need to work hard and earn a good living. They have no intention of fathering and supporting any children, and no desire whatsoever earn your approval. You go buy your own four bedroom colonial in just the right subdivision! That's what Grrrl Power is for, isn't it? Many of these men will go so far as to quit their jobs as soon as they begin to "earn a good living." They don't want to earn enough money to pay taxes. They don't want to pay the salaries of millions of useless (and mostly female) government employees, and they don't want to pay for the personal choices of "Empowered Women." They refuse to feed your Beast. And you, and your church, and your government can't cajole them or shame them into giving a shit. Men are dropping out, Ladies. Chivalry has died of blunt force trauma, in a beatdown administered by Grrrl Power. Your mothers, your grandmothers, your schools, your family courts, your sociology professors, have all spent the last two generations telling men that they are unnecessary and unwelcome. And now they're leaving. (Oh sure, they'll be glad to fuck you while you're young and hot, aaaand then they'll move on to younger and hotter sluts.)
This is the gift that feminism has given to you – Independence. Scary, lonely, bitter, potentially impoverished Independence. For yourselves and for any children you may have. Most of you won't blame feminism though; you'll blame Male Privilege (which doesn't exist.) You'll blame The Patriarchy (which always gave women a far better deal than it gave men.) You will stamp your feet, flip your hair, and blame anything except the single cultural force that has devoted itself to suppressing and controlling masculinity. And you'll go home alone every night to your cats, your Facebook Friends, and your vibrator. I sure hope that's what you want.
A Mom
Saturday, 3 November 2012
Freddie Starr Hysteria Ate My Humanity
In a world of genocide, war, murder, political cover-ups, oil spills & corporate greed, this is what gets put on the front page. This is what the people most urgently need to hear, need to be made aware of?
"Comic Freddie Starr was arrested today by police probing the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal.
Starr, 69, was held on suspicion of sex offences after Karin Ward, 52, claimed he groped her following a 1974 BBC show when she was 14."
Let me fix that headline for you:
Jesus Henrietta Christ. For that they can arrest you & send police in to search your house? THIRTY SEVEN YEARS LATER? Even if this did happen - & let's say it did, though there is of course no evidence for it - why wait THIRTY SEVEN YEARS for your day in the sun? Thirty seven years before taking the newspaper money & destroying the life of a pensioner? For what? What has this accomplished?
As a thought-experiment, why not try this: Imagine if, in 1974, a 55-year old unemployed plumber in Hollywood walked into a newspaper office & told them "40 years ago Mae West once pinched my arse & wouldn't take no for an answer". Would that be front page news? Should that be front page news? Should someone in 1974 have gone searched that old lady's house & then put her in jail?
There's so much that needs to be said about this whole phenomenon, about the paedophilia hysteria that has gripped our society ever since feminism rose to its present position of power & influence in the 1980s. What the TV show Brasseye termed "Paedogeddon" really kicked off around then, with the utterly insane witchhunts in places like Bakersfield & Great Neck in the USA, & then the UK & the rest of the west. People didn't think like this before then. People didn't see child abusers lurking behind every bush. Playgrounds didn't have to have iron fences around them, & men sat by themselves in the park were not being primarily noted as potential threats.
So much, too, to say about the demonization of male sexuality (the penultimate aim of the paedophilia hysteria) & the way we as a society moved from Victorian prudery - the Christian hatred of the body & demonization of all sex - straight into the feminist age, where only male sexuality is demonized & all women encouraged - rewarded, even - to think of themselves as victims in all sexual encounters. And of the breaking apart of community, family, love & togetherness in this age of the nanny state (the ultimate aim of the paedophilia hysteria) but whatever explanations I can try to give seem to me so obvious & in any sane world worth talking to, unnecessary.
MEN ARE POWERFULLY ATTRACTED TO YOUNG, FERTILE WOMEN. Wow. Breaking news.
I've written elsewhere about the wild variance in the age of consent across the centuries & nations:
In Spain the age of consent is 13. Does this mean the Spanish people are a race of evil paedophiles? In Albania & Austria the age is 14, Germany too. And Hungary. And Italy. And Portugal. In Greece it's 15. In some parts of America it's as high as 18, though a hundred years or so ago it was as low as 12. In Mexico it's still 12. In Britain it used to be 12, way back in the day but was lowered to 10 in the 16th century...On the cover of that newspaper there's a photo of the two of them together back in 1974, & yes she looks young but she doesn't look a child. And he looks pretty damn hot, I thought. Virile & handsome & young. Like a rock star. Why does that not get factored into the equation?
Which of these is correct? Lined up like that, doesn't it become obvious that none of them are? And that, in fact, none of them could be?
The legality of sex is fluid, malleable. But in our search for truth, our personal morality has to be above the laws of the day. Just because something's against The Law doesn't mean, in the greater scheme of things, that it's wrong. And just because something's legal doesn't make it good & beneficial. Wouldn't it be better to simply accept that different people mature sexually at different speeds? Would it not be the most sensible & humane thing to try have that acknowledged to some degree in the eyes of the law?
It makes me think of all the rock stars of the 1970's, with all those 16 year old (if that) groupies hanging off their cocks. Back then they were all at it - Santa Maria, that's why most of them got into rock'n'roll in the first place - & it was seen by anyone under 40 as something good & healthy, something wild & natural & free from the untruthful, hypocritical mores of society, much like rock & roll itself. When did the hardwired male desire for young, fertile women become a bad thing? And why?
Well, I guess I've already answered both of those.
Who is next to be dragged to the stocks? David Bowie? Brian Eno? Iggy Pop? Where does it end? Will gangs of vigilantes dig up Jimi Hendrix's headstone & grind that into dust too? How does any witch hunt end? I guess it stops when it gets so ridiculous that it can't sustain the credulity of the masses any longer. When farmyard animals get accused of witchcraft & 5-year old boys of communist leanings or sexual harassment. Hopefully then the herd moves onto something else. Someone else gets put in the stocks. But by then, of course, all the damage has been done, & can never be undone. And we move on. And we learnt nothing.
This world has gotten so bovine & stupid & cruel. I see every gathering of people now as only two meetings away from a lynch mob. And if you want to tell me that it has always been this way, then yes, perhaps it has. But I'm old & I'm tired, & I don't want to be a part of it anymore.
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Church roof collapse during service in Uyo, south-east Nigeria
A church roof has collapsed in Uyo, south-east Nigeria, killing at least 60 people attending a bishop's ordination.
Some reports put the number much higher, with many people believed to be still trapped under the debris.
Hundreds of people were inside the Reigners Bible Church including Akwa Ibom state governor Udom Emmanuel, who survived the disaster.
The church was still under construction and workers had rushed to complete it for the ordination, witnesses said.
Mr Emmanuel said there would be an investigation into whether safety standards had been compromised.
Pictures from the scene show collapsed metal girders and corrugated iron sheeting.
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed "deep sorrow" over the incident.
A rescue official quoted by AP news agency said 60 bodies had been recovered but the toll could mount as a crane removes the debris.
An unnamed survivor quoted by Nigeria's Channels TV said: "Normal church service was going on.
"It was about 20 minutes after the governor arrived. Suddenly, the roof fell on worshippers. The governor was quickly rescued. But others were not that lucky."
Building collapses are relatively common in Nigeria, mainly due to the use of sub-standard materials and the violation of building regulations.


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Why does it seem that good management skills are so hard to come by? Possibly because few people are actually provided training in people-management when they are promoted. The reasons behind promotion are also suspect…
In July, I attended a Strengths Finder Live meetup at the San Francisco office of 34 Strong. Gallup's Jeremie Brecheisen explained how only 1 in 10 people possess the natural talent to effectively manage others.
Employees are usually promoted because of success in a previous non-managerial role, or because they have significant tenure at a company or experience in a specific field. Jeremie reminded us that management is a responsibility, not a reward.
No amount of education is going to help people that have no business managing others. This post is for you, the lucky few who are blessed with natural management skills like assertiveness, relationship-building, and the ability to motivate others.
Starting off on the right foot is important, especially where professional relationships are concerned. Here are some tips for improving management skills right out of the gate:
Have regular one-on-one meetings. Get to know the history and aspirations of each employee. Learn who is helpful, who is honest, and who may need extra support.
Set short, clear, achievable goals. Establish time lines and benchmarks to measure progress. Help people understand how their careers, lives, and the world at large will profit from their contributions.
Turn your reports into ambassadors. Look for opportunities to share their accolades with other departments, by holding training sessions, publishing newsletters, and emailing success stories.
by: Caitlin Schiller
Great managers do more than oversee roles and responsibilities, they inspire people and are highly focused on employee development. Caitlin distills valuable lessons from some of the most influential leadership books ever written. Here are some juicy takeaways:
– In Getting Things Done, David Allen shares how actual tasks that you have to accomplish belong on your "Next Actions" list, never in your calendar. You can address them, dispatch them, and then move on to other pressing matters.
– In Search of Excellence tackles one of the most difficult tasks for any manager, letting someone go. A poor fit can be a destructive force and even have a negative impact on the employee himself. Firing quickly, fairly, and with generosity is the best way to keep the company moving and retain the respect of the remaining team.
by: Kristin Burnham
In this piece, Scott Abel shares his advice for fostering transparency, trust and loyalty. For example, Scott stresses the importance of keeping your door open to employees. But this needs to be a practice and not merely a policy. Leaders need to either listen on the spot, or immediately set-up a time to continue the conversation.
According to Scott, open-door policies help foster trust and openness on the team:
Trust is so critical. You want to get to a point where employees walk into your office and say something isn't working. You want them to give you that feedback honestly and openly – and fast so you can fix it. If you team is scared or intimidated by you, you won't get that.
Many companies are successful at assembling productive teams based on their technical abilities, but the less quantifiable, "people-building" element often tends to get lost. With the right management skills, leaders can anticipate and alleviate some of these common risks to team success:
Establish the "Why". Clarify the importance of a project for each employee and how it fits into the company's overall goals. Take time to answer questions at the very beginning, and give everyone a chance to talk about how they feel about what they're about to undertake.
Communicate Directly. When someone's behavior causes conflict, ask questions instead of making judgments unless you see the underlying cause as the main issue that needs correcting. If that's the case, focus on the cause, not just on the incident. Be careful not to superimpose your own impressions on the situation, since it's always possible that what you observed wasn't what the team member intended.
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Mmmmm…humble pie. While it's nobody's favorite dessert, managers need to eat it from time to time. You may be worried that an error will make you appear unqualified, but covering it up can make you appear dishonest and untrustworthy.
Sara suggests apologizing if necessary but recommends picking your battles. You don't want to say sorry for every little thing that happens because that could take away the potency of apologizing for a major error.
Another helpful tip is to offer a forward-thinking solution along with your confession:
I realize I haven't been sharing feedback with you outside of your annual review. I know that makes it harder for you to do your job — and it's my job to help you, not keep what I see as areas for growth or praise to myself until January. It's a mistake I'd like to rectify by scheduling times for us to discuss progress more regularly.
Even those of us who are born with the raw talent to manage others can use help supporting people to become the best versions of themselves. The common thread in all of these articles is that clear, authentic communication is paramount. Focus on that, and your employees are sure to joyfully give their best every day. That's the mark of a truly great manager.


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Successful Launch of the Holiday Club!
26 February 2016
Last week's half term holiday saw the launch of EHS's very own Holiday Club and we're pleased to report that it was a resounding success!
From 8am until 6pm, our newly-appointed Holiday Club Manager, Alex Sanzari, provided a range of activities and theme days to entertain and capture the girls' imagination. The weather was very kind to us and allowed a trip to the Botanical Gardens next door where we joined in with a Bug Hunt in the fabulous surroundings.
On Tuesday, and aptly tying in with the frosty morning temperature, the girls came dressed in their Elsa and princess dresses for a 'Frozen' theme day. During the day's activities, a life-sized drawing of Elsa and Anna was coloured in, princess tiaras and wands were made, and 'Olaf' was created using marshmallows. Artificial snow was magically created - which was a delight for the girls - and glitter snowflakes were hand-crafted to complete the icy scene. The afternoon provided relaxation time for everyone as they settled down to watch the Disney film and reflect on their 'Frozen' day.
Arts and Crafts played a big part in the week's activities with colouring and drawing stations, painting tables and even cake and biscuit decorating! Some girls enjoyed quiet time with members of staff just to sit and read the vast collection of story books, while others got involved with the games and dancing. Photographs taken during the week can be seen in the image gallery below.
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, NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 6 – Kenyans expressed outrage Saturday afternoon after learning that Members of Parliament (MPs) secretly added a Sh2 billion severance pay to their already huge package on Thursday evening.
The package gives each of the 222 MPs Sh9.3 million in send-off perks and Kenyans have united to protest the pay rise, which comes at a time when Finance Minister Njeru Githae has proposed to increase taxes to raise the money required to meet public servants' wage demands.
Christabel who works as a Personal Assistant said that it was unfair for MPs to raise their own salaries while Kenyans are still suffering.
"I think it's unfair for them to be adding themselves salaries while people are still suffering," she said.
"The other day we saw teachers, doctors and nurses on strike but it seems like no one cared, so I think they should channel this money towards adding salaries for the teachers and doctors," she added.
The pay bonus will see the Treasury calculate the 'severance allowance' at 31 percent of MPs' pay with perks such as house allowance, extraneous duty allowance, transport allowance, entertainment allowance, vehicle fixed cost allowance and constituency allowance included.
IT Specialist Tony Mutwiri described the MPs as thugs and demanded for their immediate resignation or sacking.
"These guys are just thugs and they should be sent home right way," he emphasised.
"The money being used for their bonus should go to the striking workers instead of the MPs. The local mwananchi is actually suffering for no apparent reason," he added.
The severance allowance will be calculated by multiplying it by 31 percent for the five years – amounting to Sh15 million – and when the figure is subjected to taxation at 30 percent, then each member is set to take home nearly Sh10 million.
This is in addition to the Sh825 million approved in the Finance Act passed last month as gratuity payments for MPs, which brings the total wring out of public coffers in the last six months alone to more than Sh3 billion, far more than was being sought in pay to end the strike by public sector doctors.
Marketer Austin Omondi described the bonus as foolish and reprimanded the MPs for paying themselves before paying the striking workers.
"The other day we saw teachers, doctors and nurses on strike but it seems like no one cared, so I think they should channel this money towards adding salaries for the teachers and doctors," she added.
"It's uncalled for and unjustified because at this time, if you consider how the economy is, our MPs paying themselves another 9 million shillings just doesn't make sense," he said.
"There are teachers, doctors and so many other employees who need it and such money should be catered for such people. If they paid themselves after all the basic commodities are affordable then cool, but since they're doing that and it's still expensive, my opinion is that it's just foolish," he explained.
Marketer Peter Kariuki cautioned the MPs that their actions would not be forgotten by Kenyans when they went to vote during the forthcoming general elections.
"It's so unfair because they are not considering the normal mwananchi so I think it's better for every Kenyan to consider who they want in power when they're voting," he said.
"I'm sure Kenyans have now realized what the politicians are doing so I think they will vote wisely," he added.
Kenyans on Twitter (KOT) have voiced their opinions on the micro-blogging site using the hash tag #KOTAgainstMPsBonus and controversial blogger Robert Alai has organised a demonstration on Tuesday at 10am from Bata Hilton to Parliament.


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ATLANTA — Commuters battling traffic in the Bay Area or New York might protest, but Atlanta-area traffic seems to be uniquely awful.
For more than a decade, Atlanta has been among the fastest-growing regions in the country, but the road and rail system in a state that ranks 49th in per capita transportation spending just could not keep up.
Hourlong commutes are common, and more than 80 percent of commuters drive alone. Only 5 percent make use of the region's limited train and bus systems, according to research by the Brookings Institution.
This month, Atlanta-area voters are being asked to approve an ambitious fix that would raise $8.5 billion by adding a penny to the sales tax for 10 years.
The proposal, which bundles 157 projects in 10 counties, is part of a July 31 referendum that will allow voters across the state to decide whether they want a new tax for transportation specific to their region. Voters in the Savannah area, for example, will decide on a $1.6 billion regional package of road and transit improvements, of which $229 million would be spent in Savannah.Continue reading the main story
The complex regional voting scheme could bring in more than $18.6 billion in new tax money, plus additional federal money, making it one of the largest packages of its kind in the country, transportation experts said.
The approach is also an attempt to thread the political needle in an era when the recession and smaller-government sentiment have made any effort at new public spending, especially one with the word "tax" attached, a Sisyphean task.
"It's not a good time to be asking people for money," said Sam Williams, president of the Metro Atlanta Chamber, which is at the forefront of the campaign to promote the tax.
Brent Buice, executive director of Georgia Bikes!, said, "A lot of states are looking at it very carefully to see what happens because it's a politically safe way to get transportation funding."
"Essentially, this is a way to make people tax themselves," added Mr. Buice, who will be voting for a package of projects in the Athens area. "It's a way for the Georgia legislature to kick the can down the road and not have to raise the gas tax, which should have been raised a long time ago."
But taxes to improve roads, telecommunications, sewers and other services are a tough sell these days, and President Obama's appeals to improve infrastructure are an example, said Ken Orski, editor of Innovation NewsBriefs, a transportation newsletter.
"People simply do not trust the administration's vague promises as to how their gas tax dollars will be spent," Mr. Orski said. But the Georgia package is different.
"They are being very specific, and by doing so, they are vastly improving the likelihood of a positive vote," he said.
In each of the 12 voting regions, 75 percent to 85 percent of the money would go to projects on an unchangeable master list. The remaining money would be given to cities and counties to spend on any transportation needs they might have in the future.
The legislature is pushing people to vote for the tax with a kind of carrot-and-stick incentive. Regions that do not support it will have to pay a bigger share to get state-supported road projects completed and may not get them done as quickly.
In Atlanta, which has by far the largest package, polls indicate the vote will be close despite a vigorous campaign. Nearly $6 million has been spent on educational efforts, including a series of billboards along congested interstates with the slogan "Untie Atlanta."
The campaign has pulled together a quirky and powerful mix of advocates, led by Mayor Kasim Reed, who has made it the centerpiece of his agenda.
Hundreds of companies — including Coca-Cola, the Weather Channel and the Cook's Warehouse, a local kitchen shop — have pledged support, saying the region's transportation hurts business and arguing that the new projects would create jobs. Public transit and bicycling advocates like the proposal because 52 percent of the money would be dedicated to public transit.
Although little would be done to improve the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority's beleaguered train system and less than 1 percent would go to bike and pedestrian projects, the money would bring a light-rail train for people who work near Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And it would be a big step for the city's BeltLine project, which aims to revitalize a 22-mile stretch of rail and green space that loops around Atlanta and could one day connect nearly every neighborhood in the city.
Even professional sports teams like the Atlanta Braves have come out in support, hoping that bad traffic — often cited as a reason for low attendance at games — would be eased.
But the vote also underscores the longstanding cultural and political rifts between the city and the region's vast suburbs, where critics contend the package is too heavy on public transportation and Atlanta-only projects.
Other opponents include some members of the N.A.A.C.P., who argue that too few of the projects would help poor, largely black parts of the region, and the Georgia chapter of the Sierra Club, which says the project list puts too much emphasis on roads.
The Georgia Tea Party Patriots have been battling the proposal, calling it "the largest single tax increase in Georgia history" and contending it is full of special-interest projects and based on faulty assumptions about how traffic can best be fixed.
John Sherman of the Fulton County Taxpayers Foundation said the state should create a traffic authority staffed with transportation experts to determine when and where such projects are done, and not leave the decisions to politicians, like Mayor Reed, who put together the bulk of the project lists.
"His pet project is the Atlanta BeltLine, so he's included the BeltLine," he said. "The BeltLine goes nowhere, and it's not going to do anything to help the real gridlock of Atlanta. It's pure pork."
For many Atlanta-area commuters who have long been frustrated by a history of major road improvement projects that ultimately did not deliver, the latest promise of a fix is suspect.
"Everybody's in agreement that we have to do something about it, but are they just going to put a Band-Aid over it again or will it really be a solution and a serious change in infrastructure?" asked Ayla Crippen, 34, who works in sales for an online marketing company and relies on her car.
She has two young children and battles a daily 45-minute commute between her job in Sandy Springs and her home in Decatur. The few times she has tried to use public transportation to commute it was a scheduling nightmare and an uncomfortable experience, she said.
Still, she is willing to consider a penny increase in the sales tax if it might actually do some good.
"Everyone suffers from the traffic here," she said. "Everyone. This can't go on."Continue reading the main story


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The topic of a homemade Charcuterie Board has been bouncing around our house for about a week. Why? Because have you ever had one? They're delightful. Various cured and spiced meats sliced thin, paired with cheeses of varying textures (hard AND soft??), laid next to pickled vegetables and strong sauces. All these friends are preparing for their journey to the mouth, hopping on a fresh crusty baguette to serve as their vessel for deliciousness. The downside of making one at home? The amount of cheese you inevitably end up consuming. At a restaurant at least it's pre-portioned, but at home…ooooh at home, your ravenous instincts are the only things keeping you from "I just ate $45 worth of product".
So anyhoo, we deiced to embark on this task to cap off one of the greatest weekends of 2013 to date (I said the words "…and so began the craziest summer of my life" at least 4 times that weekend. I was in the moment). So how do we complete a task such as this? You head to Plum Market and get ready for expert advise and quality product.
The general run-down:
- Proscuitto (thinly sliced, almost to a melt-on-your-tongue thickness)
- Black Pepper Hard Salami (rich and salty with the perfect bite from the black pepper)
- Zingerman's The City Goat Cheese (the texture is a bit lighter than other Goat cheeses, and has a deliciously sweet tang to it. And it's rolled in fresh Tarragon, which I didn't think I'd like, but yowza it was the perfect accompaniment to this creamy gem)
- Vella Golden Bear Dry Jack Cheese (described as "The Grandfather of Jack Cheese" with a texture similar to Parmesan, this hard Jack has amazing nutty and earthy flavors. The rind is also a mixture of cocoa powder, oil, and black pepper, so you can eat it!)
- Olives (all different types, pit-in of course. My favorite ended up being the bright green kinds)
- Oil-Packed Artichoke Hearts (I could eat 2 lbs of these, no problem)
- Marinated Peppadew Peppers (the vinegar gives the perfect tang to balance out the natural sweetness of the cute little peppers)
- Lemon-Parsley Chickpeas (while these were good, they were more of a "let's get some deli salads and have a picnic" item, not so much a "this complements my meats and cheeses on my Charcuterie board" item)
- Cornichons (small pickled Gherkins–Cornichon is actually the French word for "Gherkin". I already had some from Trader Joe's, they're delicious and reasonably priced seeing as a jar of these can run you up toward $6)
- Pickled Garlic Cloves (yes, they were quite pungent)
- Orange-Fig Spread (this ended up being the runaway hit of the evening. The key to any good board–whether cheese or otherwise–is having a nice balance of flavors, hence the sweet counter-part. Everything went well with this spread: cheese, meat, even anything marinated or pickled)
- Whole Grain Mustard (a classic Charcuterie staple)
- Bell's Oarsman (full disclosure: I used to hate this Berliner Weisbier. It's not your average Wheat beer, it has sour notes that many people may not be accustomed to, but if you've got the palate for it, this session beer is a real delight)
- An Assortment of Crackers and Sliced Baguette
This shot is nice and blurry (too much Oarsman?) however it offers a better idea of the set up (the key is rolling up your Proscuitto for extra fanciness)
Oh, not quite full enough yet? How about a mini carrot cake to share!
Who needs a plate when you have a capable plastic clamshell to eat out of?
Needless to say, we all ate WAY too much, and sat awkwardly and uncomfortably on the couch trying to watch "World Wackiest Water Parks" (or something along those lines) to take our minds off the massive amounts of items of the pickled and dairy persuasion that were currently setting up camp inside of us. I was so full and tired that I blew off my normal Game of Thrones viewing party and opted to go to bed at 9:30pm. Would I do it all over again? 1000%.
Look at how innocent they look. They have no idea they're mere moments away from total consumption…


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There are grown-up moviegoers who will appreciate "Chloe" — a titillating piece of fromage directed by Atom Egoyan from a script by Erin Cressida Wilson — for its psychological insights and its ideas about identity and desire in modern life. There are also teenage boys who get a hold of Playboy for the articles.
There is nothing necessarily wrong with dressing up skin and sex with lacy frills of intellectualism, but too much self-conscious seriousness can spoil both the cerebral turn-on and the voyeuristic thrill. Certainly, there is no doubting Mr. Egoyan's exquisite taste: his frames are elegantly composed; his camera movements as smooth as practiced pick-up lines. But he's shown off these etchings before — a solemn young woman in lingerie, a handsome older man in the throes of erotic distress — and the artistry he brings to the display feels tired and thin this time around. "Chloe" works hard at seduction, but its heart isn't really in the game.
Compared with the intricate postmodern puzzles this director has constructed in the past (in "The Adjuster" for example, or "Exotica," or even the muddled "Adoration") this movie is a tic-tac-toe board. At the beginning it presents an intriguing grid of possibilities, but as the squares are filled in a sense of futility takes over. Remade from a somewhat more interesting — perhaps because French — film called "Nathalie," "Chloe" tells the story of a middle-aged couple whose marital crisis is both exacerbated and, in a perverse manner, resolved by the prostitute who gives the movie its name.
Is it her real name? Who knows. She is played, with admirable daring and conviction, by Amanda Seyfried, who does what she can to turn a dubious conceit into something more credible. After a chance encounter in the ladies' room of a fancy Toronto restaurant, Chloe is hired by a gynecologist named Catherine (Julianne Moore), who believes that her husband, David (Liam Neeson), a professor of music, has been unfaithful. As evidence she has an incriminating text message, a suspicious missed flight home from New York, and David's easygoing, flirtatious manner with women.
Catherine's plan is a fairly straightforward entrapment, with Chloe as the bait. Working for her usual fee, she will engineer a meeting with David, and then proceed to seduce him. After this happens, apparently without much effort, Chloe reports back to her new client with details of every dalliance. Does this represent success or failure? Did Catherine want her suspicions to be allayed or proven right? Or was she perhaps after something else entirely? And what, besides cash, might Chloe have wanted out of their business arrangement?Continue reading the main story
Those questions, at first, are reasonably intriguing, in part because Ms. Wilson (the writer of "Secretary") and Mr. Egoyan have drawn out some latent implications in the original, which was directed by Anne Fontaine, with Emmanuelle Béart in the title role. The remakers take note of the hints of lechery and duplicity in David's behavior — because Gérard Depardieu played this role the first time, they were more than hints — and raise the less obvious possibility that the midlife crisis propelling this drama is not his, but Catherine's.
There is still warmth in their marriage, but it has also settled into detachment and routine. Catherine's relationship with their teenage son, Michael (Max Theriot), already distant, is strained by the fact that he is growing, before her eyes, into an autonomous sexual being. She is infuriated when she finds Michael's girlfriend tiptoeing around half undressed in the hallways of their house, and sensitive to the smallest signs of her own aging.
Ms. Moore is, as always, poised and canny in her depiction of a self-possessed woman in the process of unraveling. But just as you start to care about her, the movie repays your investment of sympathy with a series of stupid, breathless plot twists. The heavy-breathing soft-core action, accompanied by Mychael Danna's engorged musical score, is not itself objectionable, but it lacks any real dramatic vitality or emotional charge.
And so you are left stranded in the land of late-night cable television, or perhaps wondering how well "Fatal Attraction" holds up after all these years. As it slides wearily into worn-out sex thriller conventions, "Chloe" becomes tedious and mechanical. When it's over, you're left feeling kind of cheap.
"Chloe" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Sex for money, for love and for other, less clear motives.
Opens on Friday nationwide.
Directed by Atom Egoyan; written by Erin Cressida Wilson; director of photography, Paul Sarossy; edited by Susan Shipton; music by Mychael Danna; production designer, Phillip Barker; costumes by Debra Hanson; produced by Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck and Jeffrey Clifford; released by Sony Pictures Classics. Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes.
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Pollution particles found to have large impact on infant health
Tiny particles in the air probably have a greater impact on infant health than has previously been realized, according to new research published by a University of Chicago economist specializing in environmental regulation and his colleague at the University of California, Berkeley.
Their work examines a sharp reduction in manufacturing and, in turn, particulate air pollution during the 1981–1982 recession. Their research suggests that approximately 2,500 infants survived to at least one year of age who would not have without the improvement in air quality.
After the 1981–1982 recession, the ambient concentration of particulate air pollution rose modestly but has not reached the same level it was before that recession. Thus, the 1980–82 recession may have permanently reduced the national infant mortality rate. While the economic hardships imposed by recessions are well documented, this research appears to document a silver lining, said the studies authors, Kenneth Chay, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Michael Greenstone, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.
They report their findings in a paper, "The Impact of Air Pollution on Infant Mortality: Evidence from Geographic Variation in Pollution Shocks Induced by a Recession," being published in the August issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
The two examined data from the recession and found a striking reduction in infant deaths in counties in which the particulates fell drastically when compared to counties that were similar demographically but did not experience a big drop in the particles. The particles, called total suspended particulates (TSPs), range in size from barely visible dust specks to particles much smaller. They include both road dust and other suspended toxic and nontoxic material.
As part of the federal government's efforts to promote clean air, the Environmental Protection Agency has set strict standards for TSPs in the air and measures them accordingly. The TSPs figures, coupled with other data, were the source of the study undertaken by Chay and Greenstone. Theirs is the largest, most comprehensive study ever conducted of the connection between infant mortality and pollution.
"We decided to look at infants rather than adults because at this vulnerable stage of life, pollution may have substantial effects on life expectancy. Further, it is possible to construct approximately complete histories of infants' exposure to pollution, because mothers are unlikely to move after becoming pregnant," Greenstone said. "In contrast, pollution exposure may only slightly hasten the death of already sick adults and the elderly. Further, adults and the elderly may move several times during their lifetime so their lifetime, exposure to pollution is unknown, which undermines the credibility of any link between measures of current pollution and current health."
For their study, the scholars looked at death records from 1,050 of the nation's most populous counties from 1978 through 1984. They then created matches of counties where 1980–1982 changes in income and other factors were similar and compared the 1980 – 1982 changes in infant mortality in counties that had large drops in TSPs concentrations reported by the EPA with those that had small changes in TSPs.
They found that even a small drop in TSPs reduced infant mortality. A decline of 1 microgram (one millionth of a gram) per cubic meter resulted in roughly five more children surviving for every 100,000 births. For example, Chay and Greenstone's results suggest that in Chicago, where TSPs dropped 16 micrograms per cubic meter between 1980 and 1982, 70 extra infants survived to the age of one in 1982. This reduced the number of infant deaths by about 5 percent.
"The counties that had the largest TSPs reductions also had the biggest declines in infant mortality within one-year of birth in the 1980–1982 period," the researchers write. In contrast up until 1980, infant mortality was declining at about the same rate in counties with and without large reductions in TSPs during the recession, indicating that the paper's findings are not due to differences in trends in infant mortality that predate the sharp 1980 – 1982 reduction in TSPs. "Taken together, the data provide suggestive evidence of a direct link between particulate pollution and infant mortality," the paper reported.
Medical researchers have been unable to determine what aspects of air pollution cause adverse health impacts on mothers and their children. Chay and Greenstone's research may provide some insights on the mechanism. They find that 60 to 70 percent of the reduced mortality is due to reductions in mortality 24 hours after birth and 80 percent to lower mortality at 28 days. They take this as evidence that maternal exposure to particulates while the baby is in utero may affect the fetus's development. But they did determine that the peril is unlikely to be due to low birth weight.
In the last 15 years, the EPA has changed its priorities to more heavily restrict the smallest TSPs. Separate data on small particles was unavailable in the early 1980s, so Chay and Greenstone's research does not establish if the size of particles makes any difference.
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Hi all... Great to see all the work from around the world, it's amazing! So this was the first time for me to participate and I took the opportunity to draw in Prague while spending some days of holiday there. Sorry for the bad quality of pictures following, my scanner dropped out and I had to take some photos.
The old town...
Sketching in the bumpy underground Metro
Arrived at the castle museum - it was fantastic to visit the temporary exhibition about old Inca treasures!
There've been really beautiful things made of gold and lapis lazuli...
After that, I met some friends and we were sketching together enjoying our supper in a cosy little pub. I hope we'll see their work soon too!
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Beautiful sketches, Aillynn! Your portrait and figure sketches are terrific, and I love the church and the Inca gold exhibit. Nice work!
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Thanks Michelle! I'm still trying hard to get better and faster in sketching. I saw your drawings from this sketchcrawl, your deers are so cute and radiating a warm atmosphere of christmas time. Hope to see more soon!
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great work! i visited Prague 18 years ago and I could recognize the first sketch instantly, beautiful
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Hello, Aillynn I was in Prague in the summer of 2007 and I loved it!
Great drawings love the 1ª one!
Great drawings love the 1ª one!
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Beautiful drawings! I especially liked sketches of people in the pub
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Art and Social Change
Art and Upheaval, William Cleveland
Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame, Beverly Naidus
Telling Stories to Change the World, Solinger, Fox, Irani
Conversation Pieces, Grant Kester
Works of Heart: Building Village Through the Arts, Elizabeth and Young, eds.
Points of Contact: Disability, Art, and Culture, Crutchfield and Epstein, eds.
But is It Art: The Spirit of Art as Activism, Nina Felshin
Beginners Guide to Community Based Arts, Knight, Schwartzman, et. al
Bodies In Commotion: Disability and Performance, Sandhal and Auslander
Stage Turns: Canadian Disability Theatre, Kristy Johnson
Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy, Stephen Madigan
Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends, White and Epstein
Narrative Practice: Continuing The Conversations, Michael White
Narrative Medicine, Mehl-Madrona and Hartman
Coyote Healing: The Power of Story In Healing, Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Narrative Therapy, Combs and Freedman
Symbol, Story, and Ceremony, Combs and Freedman
The Way of the Shaman, Michael Harner
Among the Healers, Edit Turner
Awakening to the Spirit World, Ingerman and Wesselman
Shamanism and Spirituality In Therapeutic Practice: An Introduction, Christa MacKinnon
Shamanism: A Reader, Graham Harvey
Remedios: The Healing Life of Eva Castellanoz, Joanne Mulcahy
The Woman in the Shaman's Body, Barbara Tedlock
Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy, Katz, Biesele, and St. Denis
Writing as a Way of Healing, How Telling Our Stories Transforms our Lives, by Louise DeSalvo, 1999, Beacon Press. (Ms. DeSalvo teaches at CUNY.)
Poetic Medicine, by John Fox, 1997, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam. (John is president 2003 – 2005 of the National Association of Poetry Therapists-NAPT.org.)
The Way of the Journal, by Kathleen Adams, MA, LPC, 1998, Sidran Press. (Ms. Adams is past president of NAPT and is Director of the Center for Journal Therapy.)
The Journal Wheel Guidebook and Wheel, by Deborah Bouziden, 2001, Rodgers and Nelson. (A great book and tool for getting started, new thinking, movement…)
Living to Tell the Tale, by Jane Taylor McDonnell, 1998, Penguin Books. (A great how-to book.)
Writing the Memoir, by Judith Barrington, 1997, The Eighth Mountain Press. (Ms. Barrington offers you a template for writing your true stories.
On Writing, a Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King, 2000, Pocket Books / Simon & Schuster. (Also with lots of memoir for ideas and insight and the ABC's of writing.)
Of Narrative Means Michael White, Dulwich House, Australia
What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter, 1990, Harper Perennial. (Great exercises for all ideas you need to write.)
Writing Down the Bones, Freeing the Writer Within, by Natalie Goldberg, 1986, Shambhala Press. (How to use all methods, with definitions and all.)
Opening Up, the Healing Power of Expressing Emotions, by James W. Pennebaker, PhD, 1990, The Guilford Press. (Research and many studies cited.)
Creative Arts Therapies Manual: A Guide to the History, Theoretical Approaches, Assessment, And Work With Special Populations of Art, Play, Dance, Music, Drama, And Poetry Therapies by Stephanie L. Brooke (Paperback – May 4, 2006)
Baltimore Sun "Arts appear to play a role in brain development" Liz Bowie May 18, 2009 http//www.balitimoresun.com/news/education/bal-md.arts
Psychology, Group Oriented
The Gift of Therapy, Irvin Yalom
The General Theory of Love- Thomas Lewis
Expressive Arts Therapy
Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy: Theoretical and Clinical Perspective by Stephen K. Levine and Ellen G. Levine,Kinsley Press, 1999
Dance and Other Expressive Art Therapies: When Words Are Not Enough by Fran J. Levy (Paperback – Oct 13, 1995)
Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics by Paolo J. Knill, Ellen G. Levine, and Stephen K. Levine 2004
The Expressive Arts Activity Book: A Resource for Professionals by Suzanne Darley, Wende Heath, Mark Darley, and Gene D. Cohen (Paperback – Dec 30, 2007
Expressive And Creative Arts Methods for Trauma Survivors by Lois J. Carey and Judith Rubin (Paperback – Apr 15, 2006)
Expressive Arts Therapies in Schools: A Supervision and Program Development Guide by Karen Frostig, Michele Essex, and Julianne Hertz (Plastic Comb – Jul 1998)
The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy: Working with Movement, Metaphor and Meaning by Daria Halprin (Paperback – Nov 20, 2008)
Expressive Therapies Continuum: A Framework for Using Art in Therapy by Lisa Hinz (Hardcover – Mar 23, 2009)
Art Therapy
Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy by Laury Rappaport (Paperback – Oct 15, 2008)
Art and Healing: Using Expressive Art to Heal Your Body, Mind, and Spirit by Barbara Ganim (Paperback – Jun 7, 1999)
Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul by Shaun McNiff (Paperback – Nov 16, 2004)
Expressive Therapy with Troubled Children by P. Gussie Klorer (Hardcover – Dec 1, 1999
Expressive Arts with Elders: A Resource by Naida Weisberg and Rosilyn Wilder (Paperback – Apr 1, 2001
Rogers, Natalie The Creative Connection, Expressive arts as Healing, Science and Behavior Books, 1993
Art as Medicine, Shaun Mcniff
The Living Stage: A Step-by-Step Guide to Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy by Tian Dayton Ph.D. and Zerka Moreno (Paperback – Nov 1, 2004)
The Drama Within: Psychodrama and Experiential Therapy by Tian Dayton (Paperback – Dec 1, 1994)
The Essential Moreno: Writings on Psychodrama, Group Method, and Spontaneity by Edited by Jonathan Fox (Paperback – Jan 31, 2008)
Psychodrama & Group Psychotherapy by J.L. Moreno (Paperback – Jan 1, 1994)
Psychodrama with Trauma Survivors: Acting Out Your Pain by Peter Felix Kellermann and M.K. Hudgins (Paperback – Oct 19, 2000)
Dance Therapy
Returning to Health: With Dance, Movement & Imagery by Anna Halprin (Paperback – Oct 7, 2002)
Dance and Other Expressive Art Therapies: When Words Are Not Enough by Fran J. Levy (Paperback – Oct 13, 1995)
The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy: Working with Movement, Metaphor and Meaning by Daria Halprin (Paperback – Nov 20, 2008)
Dance Movement Therapy: Theory, Research and Practice by Helen Payne (Paperback – Jul 26, 2006)
Art Therapy
A Practical Guide to Art Therapy. Fausek, Diane. Binghamton, New York: Haworth Press, 1997.
Art and Healing: Using expressive art to heal your body, mind, and spirit. Ganim, Barbara. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.
Art Therapy, an Introduction, Judith Rubin
The Art Therapy Sourcebook. Malchiodi, Cathy A. Los Angeles: Lowell House, 1998.
Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination McNiff, Shaun.. Boston: Shambhala, 1992.
Art Therapy Practice Harriet Wadeson , Innovative Approaches with Diverse Populations, Wiley and Son Inc. NY 2000
Ethical Issues in Art Therapy Bruce Moon, Charles Thomas Pub. Ill. 2006
Handbook of Art Therapy Malchiodi,C., Guilford Press, NY, 2008/2012
Art Psychotherapy, Harriet Wadeson
The Handbook of Art Therapy, Caroline Case, Tessa Dalley
Understanding Children's Drawings, Cathy Malchiodi Guilford Press
Art as Therapy with Children, Edith Kramer
Studio Art Therapy, Catherine Moon
Arts Therapy for Social Change/Multicultural
Art Therapy Race and Culture; Campbell, Liebmann, Brooks, Jones and Ward
Arts Therapists, Refugees and Migrants
Reaching Across Borders, Ditty Doktor
Expressive and Creative Arts Methods for Trauma Survivors. Lois Carey
Arts and Creative Arts
The Healing Image, Madeline McMurray
A String and A prayer, Eleanor Wiley
American Art Therapy Association.1202 Allanson Rd., Mundelein, IL 60060-3808. 888-290-0878 or 847-949-6064. Fax: 847-566-4580. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.arttherapy.org.
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Can You Stream The Original 'GLOW'? The '80s Series Is A Part Of Wrestling History
Netflix's new girl-power series GLOW, executive produced by Orange is the New Black and Weeds superstar Jenji Kohan, takes on the world of 1980s women's wrestling. One of the wildest things about the series starring Community alum Alison Brie may be the fact that GLOW is based on a real 1980s series, Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling. So, if you're a fan of the Netflix original series and want to know more about the actual original series, look no further. Here's everything you need to know about the '80s show and how to watch the original GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling.
The original series ran from 1986 to 1989 at the height of the '80s televised wrestling craze. The theatrical series added to the wrestling drama on the mat and in the ring with back stories and behind-the-scenes beef between the women — which is pretty similar to what we see with wrestling today. The original GLOW not only inspired the new Netflix series, premiering June 23, but also a 2012 documentary, GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
So, if you're a fan of the Netflix wrestling comedy, here's how can you get more GLOW in your life.
The Documentary
Watch the 2012 documentary on Amazon, iTunes, YouTube, and Google Play and discover the real story of GLOW and where the original women wrestlers are today.
If you search "gorgeous ladies of wrestling" in YouTube, tons of videos and episode clips from the '80s series appear. This show is over the top, wild, and campy in the best way possible.
Gorgeousladiesofwrestling.com has DVDs of the original '80s GLOW and merchandise for sale on the website. In addition to buying seasons of the show, fans can buy discs featuring special matches and videos focused on favorite characters.
And, of course, you can couple all of this with watching the Netflix series so the GLOW fun never stops.


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Episode 122: Cheney, The Bounty Hunter[edit]
(Episode starts with Han coming out of his grave. Nobody is around. The group already departed.)
Han: Well..that sucked. Wait...where's the group. I've got to find them! Wait...is that a O'Donalds? Mmm. I'll stop by there first and bet me an Egg O'Muffin. (Stops by, eats, then runs down a street)
(Switch scenes to the group, who is walking down a Corellian street)
Adam: Poor Han....
(A group of GIGN Officers get in the area)
GIGN Officer: For terrorism and starting WWIII, you shall all die.
Everyone else: WE ARE NOT TERRORISTS!!!
GIGN Officer: Then explain why you were riding the missile that blew up the Pentagon? And why you crashed a plane into the president!?!
Adam: For the former, we can't pilot a missile, and for the latter, we can't pilot a plane.
GIGN Officer: Then how do you explain everything else you have destroyed, like that base I just saw you obviously destroy!?!
(In the background, a woman with a sniper rifle is shooting lawyers.)
(Han catches up to the group)
Rene: By the order of the French Monarchy, I annex you GIGN officers to FRANCE!!!
GIGN Officer: We were already French. And you have not answered my question.
Adam: Er, the base was evil.
GIGN Officer: That is what they all say.
(Llegobi Wan Kellegobi appears)
Llegobi: Hi Han, is this a good time?
Han: NO!!!
(The woman in the background sees Llegobi)
Woman: My name is Julie Forrest. You destroyed my book. Prepare to die.
(Julie shoots Llegobi. The shot is ineffective, because Llegobi is a force ghost)
Ljlegobi: Hey, wait a second, THERE SHE IS!
(Ljlegobi hovers up to Julie)
Julie: I SAID PREPARE TO DIE, DAMMIT!!!
Ljlegobi: I did NOTHING of the sort! I was just told to put it in a paper shredder by a woman who likes pink.
Julie: You, you...14-year-old!!! <aims at Cerid> My name is Julie Forrest. You destroyed my book. Prepare to die.
Cerid: Oh great, you.
Julie: YOU ARE A PRUDE AND A BITCH, CERID!!!
(Another force ghost of a Women appears. She has a slight scottish accent.)
Woman: Ljlegobi, get your ass back to the void. I didn't sit and slave over the stove to make you a cold batch bangers and mash! Stop stalking that girl and get back over here!
Ljlegobi: But honey-
Woman: Don't fucking but honey me, honey! Get back here or I'll hit ye over the head with this pan so hard that force will be coming out of your ass!
(Ljlegobi disappears as well as the Woman. Julie attempts to shoot Cerid, but misses, hitting a GIGN officer in the head)
GIGN Officer: TERRORI- Hey, isn't she the one that shot anybody that tried to sue her?
(Julie shoots another GIGN officer)
Julie: My name is Julie. I am not a terrorist. Prepare to die.
GIGN Officer: Then explain why you are shooting us.
Cerid: Just arrest her...
(The GIGN Officers disarm and arrest Julie. Meanwhile, in a house several miles away, a phone call is answered.)
Cheney: Yes?
Bush: You need to get them.
Cheney: Who's them.
Bush: I'm sure you're very familiar.
Cheney: I'm on it! Rumsfeld! We've got another job.
(Cheney suits up like Dog the bounty hunter. Rumsfeld follows suit.)
Cheney: We're going to nail these guys.
Rumsfeld: Damn straight.
(They get into a van)
Cheney: I'm hungry.
Rumsfeld: Okay, we'll stop by the O'Donalds for something to eat.
(Meanwhile, at the O'Donalds...)
Han: So then Aquarii yells BOMB! and then the oven explodes!
(Everyone laughs)
GIGN Officer: You guys are all right. (Drinks coke)
(Cheney busts through the door.)
Cheney: Stay still, nobody move!
(Aquarii stops eating a cookie)
Aquarii: I'll never finish this cookie.
(Julie comes running in, having escaped and regained her sniper rifle)
Cheney: Hey, that annoying girl again! I helped destroy her book.
Julie: My name is Julie Forrest. You destroyed my book. Prepare to die.
Starnes: You will never regain the porn, Cheney!
Robert: You mean you were travelling with us all this time, Starnes?
Starnes: I, er, uh...
Robert: GIVE BACK THE DARN PORN, STARNES!!!
Starnes: Here. (gives Robert a picture Starnes' brother drew when he was young)
Robert: YAY...hey, this is not porn!!!
(Starnes runs, Cheney and Robert chase after him.)
Cheney: Rumsfeld! We've got a runner!
(Rumsfeld pulls the van up beside Cheney and Gates, who enter.)
Cheney: Low speed persuit! Low speed persuit!
(Cheney takes out his shotgun from under the seat, opens up a window, and starts firing, only to hit the vehicles tire. A Police Car is idling on the curb)
Police Officer: What the-
(He acclerates into a bush.)
Police Officer: Crap.
Starnes: Avoid THIS!!! (pulls pin of smoke grenade, throws it at the van)
(Smoke blocks Robert, Cheney, and Rumsfeld's vision. Rumsfeld crashes into the police car, killing the police officer and destroying the van. When the smoke clears, Starnes is in a car with a jet engine)
Robert: You allow cars with jet engines?
Cheney: HEY, YOU STOLE THE PROTOTYPE COMBAT MILITARY SUPERCAR!!!
(Starnes turns to Cheney, and shoots a machine gun on the car. Cheney is shot, and badly injured. Meanwhile, inside the O'Donalds, Julie is aiming her sniper rifle at Cerid. She misfires, seemingly killing Han.)
Julie: DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT!!!
(Han then stands up.)
Han: What the heck just happened?
C: You are a commie.
Han: C, I don't have amnesia.
Julie: Hello? Anyone see the person who just accidentally shot Han?
GIGN Officer: Yes. You are under- (shot by Julie)
Adam: Han, your Grue Army soldiers are dying to anti-terrorist Americans.
Han: Grue Army? What Grue Army?
C: You have amnesia, alright. You lead a Commie Grue Army.
(Han punches C)
Adam: Even with amnesia, some things never change.
Han: Must not go insane, must not go crazy... (squeezes stress ball)
Froggy: Ribbit.
(Rumsfeld, slightly injured, walks in with a Walther PPK)
Rumsfeld: I WILL SEEK VENGANCE AS I DID IN 2003!
(Rumsfeld fires a bullet from his gun aimed at Starnes. Slow motion ensues. Before the bullet reaches Starnes, Froggy lunges, and the bullet loges in the left lobe of his brain. Starnes then jets out in his military jet engine car with guns.)
Adam: Lets see, Han does not know about the Grue Army, Indy is a traitor and dead, Froggy is dying, and I LEAD THE GRUE ARMY!!! WOOHOO!!!
Froggy: Shut...up...
(Froggy is taken by hospital staff to the Worst Ever Hospital)
Adam: DAMMIT!!!
Keira: Froggy will probably die.
Adam: Froggy is going to the hospital.
Keira: That hospital has really bad service.
(Meanwhile, flash to Starnes' super-car. Scene change to the Worst Ever Hospital. The doctors are operating on Froggy)
Doctor #1: Ooh, that frog looks tasty! (licks Froggy, dies from poison)
Doctor #2: We just got Trousers out of here, and already new idiots are here!
Doctor #3: I bet you $500 I can survive jumping out the top floor!!! (jumps out top floor, dies)
(Alka'anad walks in)
Alka'anad: Man, I need medical help. Those guys who broke my first leg broke my second.
Doctor #4: Sorry, we have a more important operation. This frog lost the left lobe of his brain.
Alka'anad: I guess I can donate the left lobe of my brain.
Doctor #5: Okay! Start the operation! (runs, trips, dies)
(Dr. Moneysign comes in)
Dr. Moneysign: Money money money!!! Give me money!!
(A nurse gives Dr. Moneysign a dollar)
Doctor #6: Lets operate!!!
(Operation starts. Half of Alka'anad's brain is put in Froggy's head. Lightning strike. Froggy stands)
Doctor #6: It lives! It lives!!! Mwa ha ha!!!
Doctor #4: Shut up.
Froggy: Ribbit shall take the ribbit!!! Mwa ha ribbit!
(Spooky lightning strike. Credits roll)
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Since I'm on the subject of (or lack of) updates, Spangle call Lilli line is releasing their best album "since," Super VC just started recording their new album (I am super, super excited), also, see them live here (they have a new bassist too). Cheer just had an "unplugged" concert in
Well, here are the new tracks from Cao Fang and also My Little Airport!
Sample Track: Cao Fang - 礼拜六礼拜七 (Saturday Sunday)
Picture by bluedangdang
Sample Track: My Little Airport - 我愛官恩娜,都不及愛你的哨牙 (I love Ella Koon, but not as much as I love your buck-tooth)
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Haha another wonderfully original & cute track from MLA! ^_^