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Five Mid-Summer Flowers at Eloise Butler
As the season moves into summer the diversity of plants increases as the upland prairie part of the Garden begins to produce a variety of blooms while there are still some blooms in the woodland and the marsh. Here is a small selection of five that you might not find at the local nursery - but in the Garden? YES. The link on the plant name takes you to a full information page with more photos of that plant.
Wild Quinine (Parthenium integrifolium L.) Or sometimes called 'American Feverfew'.
This is a big tall plant with white snowball flower heads that is quite rare in the wild in Minnesota and listed by the DNR as 'endangered'. It was found only in four SE Minnesota counties and the DNR has recently acquired two abandoned railroad rights of way where it has been found and designated those strips as a Scientific and Natural Area.
The white flower is somewhat unique in that there are five fertile ray flowers widely spaced around the flower head, sticking up like little rabbit ears and these surround a group of infertile disc florets. In fact the genus name comes from the Greek word parthenos meaning "virgin" which refers to the central infertile disk of the flower. While there have been some medicinal uses reported for the plant, principally as a diuretic, the reported association of the plant as as substitute for medicinal quinine is not established. The plant does make a bold statement in a prairie garden.
Blue Vervain ( Verbena hastata L.) - Also known as Swamp Vervain
Swamp Vervain is actually the better name as it likes moist places and while the flowers are blue, so are several other Vervains. These become tall plants - up to 40 inches, with multiple flower spikes atop the stem, but only a few flowers open at any given time, so flowering lasts for awhile. You can easily find this plant around local ponds and streams and marshes. it is indigenous to the Garden.
The species name hastata refers to the leaf which has a spear shape with a basal lobe that faces out like a halberd on a sword blade. The name vervain is said to be derived from the Celtic ferfaen, that is from fer (to drive away) and from faen (a stone). In early times the plant was used for afflictions of the bladder.
Frances Densmore in her study of the Minnesota Chippewa reports of their usage of the dried flowers as "snuffed" to cure nosebleed. Current research indicates using Blue Vervain medicinally can interfere with blood pressure medications. The plant is found throughout North America.
Rough-fruited Cinquefoil (Potentilla recta L.) Also known as Sulphur Cinquefoil and Sulphur Five-fingers.
This is an introduced plant from Europe and Asia, now well established across most of North America. The 'sulphur' part of various alternate names for this plant refers to the pale yellow color of the flower - which against the dark green of the foliage, is quite striking. The 'five fingers' represent the typical 5 lobes of the leaf. The entire plant is hairy, but the 'rough-fruited' part of the name actually refers to the ridges on the small seeds, not to the texture of the plant.
When Martha Crone was curator of Eloise Butler, there were 13 of the 19 Cinquefoils found in Minnesota present in Eloise Butler. Today we are down to three.
It's a nice plant, not aggressive, but can form clumps. The seeds remain on the plant until the wind shakes the stems strongly enough to dislodge them and then they fall near the parent plant.
Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium L.) Also known as Great Willow Herb.
This is a plant of open, recently disturbed land, particularly of burned over areas- hence that name - FIREWEED. In established gardens it is usually at the edge of a planted area, such as next to a path. It grows only in sunny areas, reaching up to six feet in height with pink to purple flowers with four rounded petals. The unique identifying part of the plant is the leaf vein system where the lateral veins do not reach the edge of the leaf but instead join an outer margin loop vein. Once the flower fades a thin seed pod is formed that sticks straight out from the stem. You might then think this is a Mustard family plant, but no, it is in the Evening Primrose family.
Its arrival in the Garden is worth exploring. Eloise Butler tried to grow it for years. She brought in plants from the East Coast in 1909 and 1912. In 1924 and '25 she got more from local sources. Martha Crone planted some in 1933 and Gertrude Cram sent Martha some seedlings from Isle Royal in August 1934 with the note "Miss Butler said nothing would ever induce it to grow for her but I thought you might like to make another attempt."
It is an international plant with a number of folk and herbal uses. It was used as a tea substitute in England and Russia and said to make a quite tasty tea; the French Canadians liked the young flower stalks and leaves as salad ingredients; fireweed honey is said to be very prized by the honey people. Frances Densmore reports that the Minnesota Chippewa used it for bruises.
P.S. It blooms every year in the Upland Garden.
Great St. Johnswort (Hypericum pyramidatum Aiton)
Eloise Butler wrote of this plant on July 23, 1911: "It is tall and sturdy, a profuse bloomer and interesting in bud and in fruit. The multiplicity of the stamens gives a light-some grace to the flowers of this family. The flower of this species is large, measuring some three inches across. The petals, when aging, roll up lengthwise, forming a spidery appearance, which adds variety to the inflorescence, together with the striking buds and seedpods. We can but wonder that with all its merits this plant has not been seized upon for cultivation."
She cultivated it - planting it in the Garden in 1907, 08 and 09. Martha Crone planted it also. On each stem a group of buds develop near the top, but only one flower on that stem opens at a time. The plant puts up multiple stems so the show is quite good. This is a native St. Johnswort.
Hypericum is a large genus - many from Europe where certain species have become well used in the herbal supplement market. The genus name is most interesting; it is from the Greek hyperikon, meaning 'above picture' and refers to the old practice of placing parts of a Hypericum above images to ward off evil during the old midsummer festival of Walpurgisnacht, which later in Christian times became St. John's Day on June 24th - the day when the plant was usually blooming. The common name of 'St. Johnswort' is a European reference to that feast date.
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I get the following exception+SIGABRT:

terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFBoolean shootBullet]: unrecognized selector sent to instance ...

Both of the above functions are inside a subclass of SKScene running in Swift3.
Notably I do not get any compile time error unlike #selector(test)

A: You have made mistake in setting target with Boolean value.

target is the object to which to send the message specified by aSelector when the timer fires. The timer maintains a strong reference to target until it (the timer) is invalidated.

So simply set target to self if method exist in class where you scheduling Timer.
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Turning: A Year in the Water by Jessica J. Lee, Book Review
"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms." –– George Eliot
The above quote comes to me as I read Jessica J. Lee's memoir Turning: A Year in the Water. From the beginning, I've an inkling that what she intends to say isn't just about swimming but something deeper. I'm not disappointed. Swimming in fifty-two lakes throughout one year in Brandenburg in itself is a fascinating idea. What more, I'm much gratified with the candid revealing of her interior journey as she describes the physical terrain she treads. Often, the two mirror one another.
At twenty-eight, Lee goes to Berlin from Canada to do research and complete her doctoral dissertation on environmental history. She brings with her trunks of emotional baggage of hurts and loss from broken relationships and a transient existence, traversing between Toronto, London, and Berlin.
Born in Canada to a Chinese mother from Taiwan and a father from Wales, Lee has been straddling multiple worlds all her life, first learning Mandarin at home, then English, then French in school. The multiplicity of languages reflects the challenges of growing up bicultural. The divorce of her parents further shakes up the fragile psyche of a teenage girl's search for a sense of self. As a young adult she looks to other relationships and experiences to find anchor but only reaps disappointments. A move to London, England, later leads to deeper personal loss. By the time she arrives in Berlin, accrued pains and hurts have left indelible marks in her life.
To find strength and healing in a new land where she has to learn yet another language and culture, Lee decides on a venture to come to terms with her predicament. Her plan is to swim in fifty-two lakes near Berlin in the Brandenburg vicinity through every season of one year.
In short chapters under each of the four seasons, Lee captures succinctly her experience carrying out this plan, interspersing a swimming log with the back stories of her life.
Perhaps it was a drastic response. In depression, I had become someone I hadn't wanted to be, emptied and hardened. I felt that I had to respond to it in kind, as if lake water might blast away my sadness and fear. So, I decided to swim for a year, in the hope of finding some reserve of joy and courage in myself. (6)
This unique resolve of hers fascinates me. Lee's memoir is a log of a brave yet quiet venture through the seasons. Not only that, she has introduced me to the natural beauty of the Brandenburg landscape and the travelogues of the German writer Theodor Fontane (1819 – 1898). I read with interest the German socio-political situations she shares, also lap up tidbits on the environmental history of lakes, glaciers, and the etymology of terms associated with her experience.
Limnology is the study of lakes. Originally from Greek, but with the German overtone of Schwelle, it refers to an in-between space, an apt metaphor for Lee's liminal identity between cultures.
Fragments of Chinese slipping out between English and German, as I press new words and places into place. Return. Home is as much in a language as it is in a landscape. (9-10)
In the stillness of the lakes, the border between nature and culture is thinned. Swimming takes place at the border, as if constantly searching for home. (14)
The term 'Turning' refers to the movements of the water in a lake. In lakes, there's stratification of water and overturn, with the different layers of water in constant vertical movement. This action creates 'cycles that keep the lake alive, ever-changing, breathing oxygen into every part of the lake.' Isn't that, too, a beautiful metaphor for our very existence, the essence of life?
Lee's metaphors are fresh and relevant, akin to her academic field of environmental history. Here are two other ones I'll remember for a long while. Lakes are markers in time in the glacial retreat:
In Lakes the present history of our world contracts and intensifies, urgent and shrinking like the ice… I take my parents' divorce to be a marker, a line drawn between childhood and adulthood… For a girl on the cusp of teenhood, there was never going to be a good time. (56)
And this one is another apt description of so many being called diaspora: Glacial Erratics. The word erratics has the Latin root errare meaning to wander, to roam, to be mistaken, to go astray.
Erratics carry their origins with them, telling the story of where a glacier has been and how the ice deposited the erratic in the landscape. An erratic is a rock that doesn't belong to the geology in which it is planted; instead, it's a record of another place… Like an erratic, I was carrying past places with me. I felt mistaken. (170)
Above all, I'm mesmerized by a determined mind and body as I read how she adheres to her personally-set rules: no cars, no wetsuits. She bikes to her destinations, carries her bike on public transit when needed, most of the time pedalling for hours. She prepares a light lunch and a change of clothes in her backpack and sets off in the morning, sometimes with a friend, but mostly alone.
Every lake has its own features, the water has its own feel, the sensation swimming there can be different from another, but it doesn't stray far from calming and revitalizing. In winter, she brings a hammer from home to break the ice on the lake surface before slipping into the frigid water. There's numbness and pain, surely, but she has developed the courage and the tenacity to face the dark mass and not withdraw.
In solitude, she finds strength; in conquering her fears, freedom. The ghosts of the past might still be there, but she has learned to face them.
Simple yet poetic, honest and mindful. Reading Turning is like dipping slowly into the lake of empathy, gradually getting attuned to the chill to find the water soothing. And you'd want to stay there just a while longer.
~ ~ ~ 1/2 Ripples
Turning: A Year in the Water A Memoir by Jessica J. Lee, Hamish Hamilton publisher, NY, May 2, 2017. 304 pages.
Canadian Edition (book cover image in this post): Penguin Random House Canada, April 7, 2020. 304 pages.
My thanks to Catapult.co for providing me a pdf version.
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The Department of Emergency Management stands to lose more than $94,000 in federal matching dollars if the state makes a $47,000 cut to its budget, according to the report.
The Kansas Army and Air National Guard stand to lose $179,000 in combined federal and state dollars if the cut goes through.
Brownback's office has said the governor does not intend to make across-the-board cuts. The governor requested the reports to prepare a budget for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1. That proposal will be presented to the Legislature in January.
However, the state is now facing a more than $60 million budget hole for the current fiscal year, making budget cuts likely.
Centers could close
The report from the Kansas Department of Revenue shows that a 5 percent cut would cost that agency $770,000 a year and cause it to leave 15 jobs vacant.
Without those 15 workers, the state would lose $12.8 million in collections. Over two years, it could cost the state almost $26 million.
Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan said the request to outline possible budget cuts is typical.
"All six years that I've been here, you've been asked about what a reduced package would look like. ... This is nothing different," Jordan said.
The Kansas Department for Children and Families would close three service centers, reduce staff and reduce grants if the state moved forward with a 5 percent budget cut.
Some of those programs try to keep families together and prevent unnecessary foster care placements.
"The end result of this reduction could be a greater number of children unnecessarily entering foster care at a much higher cost per child," the department wrote in the report.
The department, which oversees programs aimed at helping needy families, would lose $6.8 million under a 5 percent cut. It would also stand to lose nearly $4 million in federal matching funds.
The agency could close service centers in Goodland, Greensburg and Iola if a 5 percent cut happens. The staff at those offices would be moved to other offices.
It would also cut 66 positions from its Economic and Employment Services department, which oversees child care assistance and other programs aimed at low-income families, disabled people and the elderly population in Kansas. The staff reduction would save the state $1.4 million.
Haley Pollock, spokeswoman for Kansas Action for Children, a nonprofit policy group, called those cuts "particularly devastating" in an e-mail Tuesday. She added that "child care assistance helps Kansas parents get back to work or enables them to go look for work."
The cuts are being discussed at a time when fewer than 10 percent of eligible Kansas children are even receiving child care assistance at all, according to the nonprofit.
In addition, the agency would reduce community service grants and grants for faith-based initiatives by a combined $550,000.
The DCF warned in its report that staffing reductions could cause delayed processing of applications, administrative deficiencies, higher error rates, late payments and tardiness in federal reporting.
"This latter effect could result in federal penalties," the DCF wrote in the plan.
Other reductions could eliminate youth to adult transitional programs and could reduce the department's ability to help families in crisis situations.
Theresa Freed, the agency's spokeswoman, said in an e-mail that the DCF "is committed to protecting children, promoting healthy families and encouraging personal responsibility." She called the reports on a 5 percent cut "a routine budget exercise."
Annie McKay, president and CEO of Kansas Action for Children, said the cuts would devastate low-income families and the economy as a whole.
"They're coming on top of eight earlier rounds of budget cuts," she said. "The fact that this administration is looking at 'let's look at more cuts' rather than the root of the problem with tax policy goes to show how little regard this administration has for children and families in Kansas."
She also said Kansas is getting left behind other states by almost all measures.
"There's little to no evidence that the tax plan that all this is going to prop up is successful, is going to work, has worked or will work in the future," McKay said.
Corrections concerns
In its memo, the Department of Corrections warns that the 5 percent cut "would do irreparable damage" to its system and weaken public safety. In all, it would trim the agency by $34 million over the next two fiscal years.
Tuesday's leaked documents said low-risk offenders wouldn't be supervised by parole or community corrections if the budget were cut.
Nearly $1.8 million could be cut from prevention programs aimed at helping juveniles.
The largest cut would come from community corrections at $6 million annually or $12 million over two years.
Other cuts would be made in substance abuse treatment, $1.6 million annually that helps people who have been convicted of multiple DUIs. Without that option, according to the agency, those offenders would probably be sent to prison.
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The famous severed fingertip that was planted in a bowl of Wendy's chili in a failed fraud was sold to the scamsters by a down-on-his-luck Las Vegas man for $100, it was reported yesterday.
The nine-fingered fellow, Brian Paul Rossiter, said he didn't know his disconnected digit – which he'd kept wrapped in plastic in a drawer – was destined to become part of a now-infamous plot to defraud the chain.
The highway worker had pawned his finger to co-worker Jaime Placencia in exchange for Placencia's erasing a $50 debt and paying him another $50 in cash, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Placencia's wife, Anna Ayala, 39, then claimed she bit into a 11/2-inch finger on March 22 in a San Jose, Calif., Wendy's.
After Ayala filed a lawsuit against the company in a bid to win millions in damages, cops busted her and her husband for conspiracy to file a false tainted-food claim and attempted grand theft.
Rossiter, who lost his finger in December, had wondered why his colleague wanted it, his lawyer Ivan Golde told the paper yesterday.
"Look, I just want to buy it. Will you sell it to me or not?" Placencia told him, Golde recounted.
"Man, if you want my finger [for $100] you can have it," said the disabled man, who'd been unemployed since losing the finger to a truck hoist.
But once the Wendy's finger incident appeared in nationwide headlines, a horrified Rossiter confronted his friend.
"What on earth is my finger doing in that chili?" he said.
It was then that "Placencia basically confessed. He said, 'I'm going to make a bunch of money. My wife has this scheme,'" Golde told the paper.


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Yep, that's right, I had three sports bets for two losses ($2,000) and one pending ($585) and a single (free) racing bet which won me $500. And that was the point at which (according to subsequent advice) they deemed my account to "not be recreational".
Now, it really comes as no surprise to have yet another account closed but frankly I didn't expect it quite so soon and in such circumstances.
I accept that they do have the legal (though not moral) "right" to do that. But what I don't accept is that they have any right to deny me the remaining $800 of free bets which was a significant condition of my joining and depositing $2,000.
Further, in correspondence with Mr Ryan Kay of ClassicBet, he insisted that I had used up $600 of my free bets which of course is nonsense as they accepted only $200 and rejected $400 of my requests. I have a screenshot to prove it.
Having failed in my demand for them to honour their commitment to me I forwarded a formal complaint to the NSW OLGR.
I was suitably impressed with the OLGR's prompt response to my complaint.
At this point I make the observation that I wasn't denied any sports bets, only racing bets, so I'm not sure what relevance quoting that legislation has.
a) For any promotion where bonus bets are received, the corresponding deposit must be turned over three times, at odds of $1.50 or greater before a withdrawal can be processed.
b) Bonus bets can be placed in any amount from 1 to 500 on racing events (free bets cannot be used on sports or multis unless specified by client manager). Bonus bets are subject to the rules in Section 9. on the Acceptance of Bets.
d) If after opening an account, clients are provided bonus bets without making a deposit, before they make any withdrawal, they must deposit at least an equal amount and turnover the deposit amount three times (after making the deposit).
e) Referral promotion. The referring client will be provided with referral bonus once the referral has deposited at least $200 and has turnover of at least $600 (at odds greater than $1.50.
Note the differences and additions to the rules which I quoted previously?
Those changes were made only after I complained. They are not the rules which were on the site when I joined and by which our contract should be bound. I have a screenshot which proves it.
a) All bets on an Account are considered to be placed and received in the State of NSW, Australia.
I most certainly wasn't in breach of clauses i) through iv) and haven't been accused of being so, so the conclusion therefore is that my request for a $200 free bet on a horse which was at less than 3.00 in the market represented an "unacceptable liability risk" to ClassicBet!
On a more positive note, ClassicBet did promptly pay me the balance of my account which included a dividend of $1,111.15 on the footy bet which was pending at the time they closed my account.
1. I am advised that, unlike the TAB in NSW, bookmakers are not obliged to lay clients a horse for at least $1,500 but even if they were, there is nothing stopping a bookmaker from avoiding that obligation by simply terminating his account.
2. I have no legal qualification but in 40+ years business experience I've picked up a few things, one of which is my understanding that notwithstanding the strict wording of terms and conditions, the exercise of discretionary provisions requires adherence to principles of FAIRNESS.
3. Are regulators concerned only with the letter of the law? Are they not responsible for the protection of consumers and monitoring the ethics of licensed persons?
4. It is quite clear that punters in Australia have very little opportunity to obtain justice in disputes with bookmakers. The State regulators are next to useless, almost always siding with the bookmakers who effectively fund them. And for some incomprehensible reason I am repeatedly advised by Fair Trading offices that they have no jurisdiction in gambling related cases! Why ever not?
End of rant (for the time being).
Racing Victoria has set the cat among the pigeons today with their announcement of a new set of product fees for betting on Victorian Racing product, all to take effect in just over six weeks.
Instead of the current 1.5-2% turnover rate, the new scenario would see 1.5-3% turnover or 15-30% of gross revenue – whichever is greater. Racing Victoria had previously supported the turnover model fought so hard for by Racing NSW in its court battle with the corporates.
Interestingly, it is to be applied on a per meeting basis, which does seem unfair. i.e. If a Corporate turnovers $1 million on Melbourne Cup day and wins $300,000 they pay $90,000 to RVL – they then back up on Oaks Day and turnover $1 million again and lose $300,000 they pay RVL $30,000. They're square for the 2 days but they've paid RVL $120,000. If they'd broke square both days they would have paid RVL only $60,000. Corporates and on-course bookies have a right to be upset about that.
Australia's biggest operator TABCORP, were supporting Racing NSW in it's corporate battle. Now that the Victorian racing authority has changed tact with a gross revenue model, TABCORP won't escape this money grab. They have already announced a $4 million earnings hit for the next financial year.
So what does in mean for punters and the continuing battle for fairness in the Australian wagering landscape?
It's quite difficult to get an accurate idea, but you can bet that it will be the punters who in one way or another will end up the losers.
Foreign corporate raiders are hardly going to settle for a lower return on their investment here – and the local giants TABCORP and Tatts have shareholders to answer to and revenue targets that won't be reduced.
Further restrictions and account closures on winning punters will be inevitable. Perhaps we will even see more restrictions on punters who only lose 1-5% of their money. That makes it more important than ever that regulators such as the Northern Territory Racing Commission finally stand up and do something about fairness.
The Australian (or is it European?) Wagering Council's (AWC) response smacks of hypocrisy as usual. Firstly, let's acknowledge that the AWC is made up of Bet365 (UK), Sportingbet (UK), Ladbrokes (UK), Paddy Power (Ireland) and Unibet (Euro). There isn't too much "Australian" about it – it's a lobby group for foreign interests.
Anyway, the main argument put forward by the AWC is about integrity and the risk that less competitive prices will lead to a rise in "illegal and offshore betting".
This may well be the case, but how convenient is the argument now?
Closing winner's accounts, restricting punters to $1 bets, advising punters that they are "uneconomical" because they have the temerity to win – all factors that drive punters offshore or underground. Integrity doesn't seem to be an issue when punters are the ones being disadvantaged through a money grab.
Perhaps racing needs to sort out its sustainability issues on its own. Is there too much racing? The answer is most certainly yes.
You can't help but feel this new fee structure is aimed at getting more of a return for the industry from corporates betting tote odds. Maybe restricting Corporates to only being allowed to bet fixed price and charging them a 1% turnover tax and then 2% turnover tax on Group 1 racing days would be advantageous to all.
If this were adopted, racing regulators and the Tab would have to look seriously at dropping tote pool take-out rates. They'd be loathe to but they are staring down the sports betting juggernaut that charges its customer on average 13% less than racing.
It's a fine balance between having enough money to sustain a healthy racing industry and then starting to drive punters away to lower margin sports betting.
One thing is for sure, bookies will be passing on most, if not all of the added cost to punters through greater risk-management. Winning will get a lot harder – if it wasn't hard enough already. If it becomes too hard to have a win, then racing and its direct participants will be the ultimate losers.
It's been a while since we posted, so here's a quick run down on where we're at in our quest to bring back fairness to sports and race wagering in Australia.
Consistent with recent posts, we are still getting no help whatsoever from the Northern Territory Racing Commission (NTRC) or the Northern Territory Government.
This is the regulatory authority that in mid-2013 removed the rule requiring bookmakers to bet all punters to win a minimum amount ($1000) on racing.
Bookmakers licensed by the Northern Territory Government are turning over close to $6 billion annually with conservative profit estimates of $400 million. Last financial year they paid just $2.4 million in tax to the NT Government through a levy on gross wagering profits, capped at $250,000 per bookmaker.
So why are the NT Government so keen to bow down to these highly profitable foreign-owned bookmaking firms given that tax receipts are so low? We have been led to believe it has a lot to do with Federal GST rebates. Huge rebates on the GST bookmakers pay. If anyone can contribute on this issue, let us know.
Rich has met with and continues to meet with several significant stakeholders including bookmakers, direct racing participants and administrators, in an effort to have our proposed Code of Conduct accepted.
At least ONE bookmaker has indicated that they are willing to sign off on the Code of Conduct straight away.
Other conversations are ongoing and we will await further responses in the next few weeks.
Integrity continues to be a huge issue facing sports and racing bodies. Banning winning punters here drives a considerable amount of money offshore to a multitude of bookmakers including Pinnacle and SBOBet, where information sharing agreements with Australian sports and racing bodies are non-existent.
Money becomes untraceable and massive concerns have to be raised about possible match-fixing and corruption. All on the NT Government watch.
We will be pushing for Federal action in the upcoming months as it has become clear that State and Territory regulators are completely complicit with bookmakers.
In a short time, we have passed the 700 follower mark @FairWagering. Twitter conversation has been open and honest. We thank all for contributing to the discussion and hope that we can continue to use social media to draw attention to the issues and to conduct a balanced debate about bringing back fairness and integrity to Australian wagering.


FORT PAYNE, Ala. (WHNT) – A father and son are charged in a burglary at a business thanks to a citizen who acted quickly and held them at gunpoint.
According to DeKalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris, deputies responded to a burglary call on Thursday at a business on County Road 835 in Fort Payne. A citizen was holding two men at gunpoint. The citizen told deputies he saw one of the men climb in a rear window, and then saw both of them leave through the back door carrying some merchandise.
Business owners confirmed merchandise was out of place in the store.
Aubrey Eugene McBride, 62, of Fort Payne and Jason Scott McBride, 38, of Henagar were arrested and charged with third-degree burglary. They are father and son, and are being held in the DeKalb County Detention Center.


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Gwendy's Button Box — Did You Miss Out On A 1st Printing? Here's Where You Might Find One!
As you know, we are COMPLETELY SOLD OUT of the 1st Printing, 1st Edition of Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar, but we checked around this weekend and it appears that Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Books-A-Million still have SOME copies left in-stock! (That said, retailers are telling us their stock levels are very low and they desperately need the 2nd printing, which shipped to them on Friday.) You may also want to try your local indie bookseller!
This 1st Printing, 1st Edition is one of the lowest in many decades for a Stephen King trade hardcover distributed to bookstores, so if you're a collector, these bookstores might represent your last chance to snag a brand new copy for your collection!
Our 2nd Printing will begin shipping this week, and you can reserve your copy SIGNED by Richard Chizmar through our website. The 3rd printing is underway and will be completed in approximately four weeks.
If you're a fan of eBooks, we also have some very important news for you! We will be handing off the eBook rights for Gwendy's Button Box to another publisher later this summer, and at that point they will be setting the retail price based on their own process. We don't know what that means for future eBook buyers, but we do know that many people are calling our $6.99 eBook a good deal, so whether you want to read the eBook now OR have it handy for down the road, you may want to order NOW to take advantage of this price!


"Who is a missionary?" I asked my class, not too long ago.
They came up with a variety of answers: someone who preaches in a foreign country, someone who has very little, someone who doesn't make money, and the list continued.
It was difficult for them to wrap it all up neatly. Several wanted to insist that you had to leave the country. I think it was because it fit their idea of a missionary better. Flying to a foreign country steeped in poverty seems far more missionary-esque than serving on a college campus.
Many were on board with that. But for them, there had to be some type of leaving happening–going to a new place, even if they would begrudgingly accept work in the United States.
"What does a missionary do?" I asked.
The whole issue of pay came up again, some saying that would disqualify me from missionary status.
A student had approached me after class one day and started our brief conversation with that explanation.
I've often wondered why some people remain faithful to the religion of their parents and others don't. Considering that this student brought this conversation up in the first place, I figured I could try to ask some questions to get some bearing on the situation.
I think the thing that struck me the most was how reasonable the student was striving to be. Granted, I am grateful when students are reasonable, but I couldn't help but sense an absence of joy in this system of belief. In many ways, I was impressed with the responses I received to my questions. Yet I also wondered if this lack of belief stemmed more from a desire to be intelligent rather than closely examining the issues.
A conversation about exorcisms somehow veered into a free-for-all rapid fire of questions. As I've said before, though, if my students ask questions about the faith and they are interested, I have a difficult time telling them no.
"I don't believe the Church teaches that," I told the student.
Understandably, this is a question I hear quite often. My students find it difficult to accept that missing Mass is a grave sin. They aren't skipping it maliciously, I believe, and so I get where they are coming from with their confusion. Usually, it is out of laziness or boredom or busyness.
So I did what I generally do–I tried my best to explain why the Church teaches what she does.
The answer seemed to touch a chord and we moved on to other questions.
The start of the school year is just around the corner.
As if the date wasn't enough of an indicator, several other factors have drawn my attention to this fact.
1. I've seen a steady uptick in emails from the school, including schedules for in-services and faculty information.
3. Finally, I had my first bad dream.
Dreams have a funny way of revealing our inner state to ourselves. I don't remember many of my dreams, but I have a fairly consistent dream that happens as I approach a new school year. I dream that I am running late for school. The whole, restless dream consists of me waking up late, realizing I won't get to school in time (while also being a bit confused because I didn't think the school year had started yet), and the stressful experience of trying to figure out what to do. Usually, it is a short dream, but one that is replayed multiple times, giving me the feeling that I am in a constant state of panic and stress. When I pull myself out of the dream, I reassure myself that school hasn't started and that it was all just a dream. Sometimes my heart is panic racing so fiercely that it is difficult to fall back asleep.


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Home > Front Page > Iceland signs up as latest Treadmills inmate
Iceland signs up as latest Treadmills inmate
by Steve Everett - 3, April, 2019 2, April, 2019 0
Grocery store operator Iceland has become the latest big name to sign up for the Treadmills regeneration scheme in Northallerton.
The UK's leading specialist frozen food retailer has selected the former Northallerton Prison site for a new opening to join its network of more than 900 stores across the country, together employing more than 25,000 people.
The popular store group is a favourite with shoppers across the UK. Although best known for its frozen ranges, Iceland also offers an extensive chilled and fresh food offering, including fruit and vegetables, meat, fish and bakery products, together with a wide range of groceries. The brand also has exclusive partnerships with the likes of Slimming World and Greggs.
Iceland has been ranked as Britain's best supermarket for customer satisfaction for the past two years, being the only major grocer to make the top 10 of the UK Customer Satisfaction Index.
The privately-owned and family-run business also has strong environmental credentials. Last year Iceland stole a march on its supermarket rivals by announcing plans to go plastics-free on its own label product packaging by 2023, and recently the company fulfilled its pledge to remove palm oil from its own label products to help address the issue of deforestation in Indonesia.
At Treadmills Iceland will occupy a unit with 6,000 sq ft on the ground floor and a further 2,300 sq ft mezzanine level.
Iceland is the second major retailer to commit to Treadmills, after Lidl, which will occupy a 21,000 sq ft store as the retail anchor for the scheme.
A further general retail unit of 1,300 sq ft is still available to complete the southern part of the development, which will also feature parking for around 130 vehicles.
The scheme is being delivered by the Central Northallerton Development Company (CNDC), a joint venture between Hambleton District Council and leading Yorkshire property developer Wykeland Group.
A key feature of the scheme will be a four-screen cinema, operated by Everyman, one of the UK's most prestigious cinema groups.
The development also features residential, leisure and offices, including flexible space for digital technology companies, specialists and freelancers, to be operated by the Hull-based Centre for Digital Innovation (C4DI), as well as a showpiece civic square.
The scheme incorporates five Grade II listed former prison buildings which will be restored and brought back to life as part of the scheme.
The announcement of the latest operator to join Treadmills comes as the developers of the £17m scheme confirmed construction of the first phase will begin this summer. The development will create 180 jobs during the construction phase and 250 jobs within the scheme itself when Treadmills opens.
Jonathan Stubbs, development director of Wykeland and a CNDC Board member, said: "We're delighted to have secured Iceland as the latest leading brand to join Treadmills. This is another major boost for the development and paves the way for construction work to begin.
"We're also fielding strong interest in other opportunities, including four restaurant units around the civic square that will form the centrepiece of the scheme.
"We will go out to tender in the next few weeks to identify a contractor to deliver the first phase of the development, with work due to begin on site this summer."
Adam Mobley of WSB property consultants in Leeds is representing CNDC for Treadmills.
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export interface OverriddenMethods<TEmitter, TEventRecord, TEmitRecord = TEventRecord> {
    on<P extends keyof TEventRecord, T>(
        this: T,
        event: P,
        listener: (...args: ListenerType<TEventRecord[P]>) => void
    ): EEMethodReturnType<TEmitter, 'on', T>;
    on(event: typeof assignmentCompatibilityHack, listener: (...args: any[]) => any): void;

    addListener<P extends keyof TEventRecord, T>(
        this: T,
        event: P,
        listener: (...args: ListenerType<TEventRecord[P]>) => void
    ): EEMethodReturnType<TEmitter, 'addListener', T>;
    addListener(event: typeof assignmentCompatibilityHack, listener: (...args: any[]) => any): void;

    addEventListener<P extends keyof TEventRecord, T>(
        this: T,
        event: P,
        listener: (...args: ListenerType<TEventRecord[P]>) => void
    ): EEMethodReturnType<TEmitter, 'addEventListener', T>;
    addEventListener(
        event: typeof assignmentCompatibilityHack,
        listener: (...args: any[]) => any
    ): void;

    removeListener<P extends keyof TEventRecord, T>(
        this: T,
        event: P,
        listener: (...args: any[]) => any
    ): EEMethodReturnType<TEmitter, 'removeListener', T>;
    removeListener(
        event: typeof assignmentCompatibilityHack,
        listener: (...args: any[]) => any
    ): void;

    removeEventListener<P extends keyof TEventRecord, T>(
        this: T,
        event: P,
        listener: (...args: any[]) => any
    ): EEMethodReturnType<TEmitter, 'removeEventListener', T>;
    removeEventListener(
        event: typeof assignmentCompatibilityHack,
        listener: (...args: any[]) => any
    ): void;

    once<P extends keyof TEventRecord, T>(
        this: T,
        event: P,
        listener: (...args: ListenerType<TEventRecord[P]>) => void
    ): EEMethodReturnType<TEmitter, 'once', T>;
    once(event: typeof assignmentCompatibilityHack, listener: (...args: any[]) => any): void;

    emit<P extends keyof TEmitRecord, T>(
        this: T,
        event: P,
        ...args: ListenerType<TEmitRecord[P]>
    ): EEMethodReturnType<TEmitter, 'emit', T>;
    emit(event: typeof assignmentCompatibilityHack, ...args: any[]): void;
}

export type OverriddenKeys = keyof OverriddenMethods<any, any, any>;

export type StrictEventEmitter<
    TEmitterType,
    TEventRecord,
    TEmitRecord = TEventRecord,
    UnneededMethods extends Exclude<OverriddenKeys, keyof TEmitterType> = Exclude<
        OverriddenKeys,
        keyof TEmitterType
    >,
    NeededMethods extends Exclude<OverriddenKeys, UnneededMethods> = Exclude<
        OverriddenKeys,
        UnneededMethods
    >
> =
    // Store the type parameters we've instantiated with so we can refer to them later
    TypeRecord<TEmitterType, TEventRecord, TEmitRecord> &
        // Pick all the methods on the original type we aren't going to override
        Pick<TEmitterType, Exclude<keyof TEmitterType, OverriddenKeys>> &
        // Finally, pick the needed overrides (taking care not to add an override for a method
        // that doesn't exist)
        Pick<OverriddenMethods<TEmitterType, TEventRecord, TEmitRecord>, NeededMethods>;

export default StrictEventEmitter;

export type NoUndefined<T> = T extends undefined ? never : T;

export interface StrictBroadcast<
    TEmitter extends TypeRecord<any, any, any>,
    TEmitRecord extends NoUndefined<TEmitter[' _emitType']> = NoUndefined<TEmitter[' _emitType']>,
    VK extends VoidKeys<TEmitRecord> = VoidKeys<TEmitRecord>,
    NVK extends Exclude<keyof TEmitRecord, VK> = Exclude<keyof TEmitRecord, VK>
> {
    <E extends NVK>(event: E, request: TEmitRecord[E]): any;
    <E extends VK>(event: E): any;
}

export type EventNames<
    TEmitter extends TypeRecord<any, any, any>,
    TEventRecord extends NoUndefined<TEmitter[' _eventsType']> = NoUndefined<
        TEmitter[' _eventsType']
    >,
    TEmitRecord extends NoUndefined<TEmitter[' _emitType']> = NoUndefined<TEmitter[' _emitType']>
> = keyof TEmitRecord | keyof TEventRecord;

export type OnEventNames<
    TEmitter extends TypeRecord<any, any, any>,
    TEventRecord extends NoUndefined<TEmitter[' _eventsType']> = NoUndefined<
        TEmitter[' _eventsType']
    >,
    TEmitRecord extends NoUndefined<TEmitter[' _emitType']> = NoUndefined<TEmitter[' _emitType']>
> = keyof TEventRecord;

export type EmitEventNames<
    TEmitter extends TypeRecord<any, any, any>,
    TEventRecord extends NoUndefined<TEmitter[' _eventsType']> = NoUndefined<
        TEmitter[' _eventsType']
    >,
    TEmitRecord extends NoUndefined<TEmitter[' _emitType']> = NoUndefined<TEmitter[' _emitType']>
> = keyof TEmitRecord;

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The Central Alabama Multiple Myeloma Support Group, founded in January, 2013, meets on the 2nd Saturday of each month from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM at Landry's Seafood Restaurant 139 State Farm Parkway Birmingham, AL 35209. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please contact Deidra Jones at (205) 531-3193 or by E-mail at djones_dmcj@yahoo.com or Karl Hendrickson at 205-790-0217 or by E-mail at kfh2jr@gmail.com. Visit the group website at http://birmingham.support.myeloma.org.


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Takanori Nishikawa – Roll The Dice [PV] (Eng Sub)
Takanori Nishikawa (西川 貴教)
(Born September 19, 1970) is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and voice artist. He performs under the stage name T.M.Revolution (TMR), which stands for "Takanori Makes Revolution" (貴教が革命を起こす, Takanori ga kakumei o okosu), stemming from the famous '80s pop electronic band TM Network. Despite most of his songs being written by Akio Inoue and composed/arranged by Daisuke Asakura (also TMR's former producer), T.M.Revolution is considered Nishikawa's solo project. Nishikawa is also known for contributions of ending and opening themes to many notable anime and game series.
Nishikawa debuted as TMR with the release of his first single "Dokusai (Monopolize)" (独裁 -monopolize-) in May 1996. Later that year, his third single "Heart of Sword (Yoake Mae)" (HEART OF SWORD ~夜明け前~) was used as the third ending song for the anime series Rurouni Kenshin, further expanding his fan base. He also contributed six songs to the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED franchise – three for Gundam SEED and three for Gundam SEED Destiny. Nishikawa has guest starred as a minor character in each of those anime series that featured his songs. In 2010, his single "Save the One, Save the All" was used as the ending theme song for the movie Bleach: Hell Verse. Nishikawa has also had a long-standing affair with Capcom's Sengoku Basara series of video games and media franchise, with several of his songs being used for it, including Crosswise and Flags.
T.M.Revolution is the first artist to be signed to Tofu Records, a record label (affiliated with Sony Music Japan) promoting Japanese artists in North America. Tofu released three of his most recent studio albums: coordinate (2003), Seventh Heaven (2004), and vertical infinity (2005). Nishikawa made his North American live debut at Otakon, a large anime convention in 2003. He has also performed at Pacific Media Expo in 2004 and at the New York Comic Con in 2008. Nishikawa revisited his 2003 US performance at the Asian culture convention Otakon by performing at Otakon's 20th Anniversary on August 10, 2013
Artist : Takanori Nishikawa
Title : Roll The Dice
Release : 14 November 2018
Label : Epic Records
Lyric : Myuncompletedstory.blogspot.co.id
Translation : Myuncompletedstory.blogspot.co.id
Theme Song : Drama Joshideka!
720p – Takanori Nishikawa – Roll The Dice [PV] (Eng Sub)
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Charles serves as CEO of Civitas Learning and founded the company to transform educational outcomes using big data analytics. He discovered a passion for education while teaching high school students on the weekends during his undergraduate days at Stanford, and upon graduating translated that passion into the founding of multiple education start-ups. These early ventures included ClickSafety.com, an online safety training company, and Testakers.com, the first rich-media, diagnostic and prescriptive test prep tutoring application online. In 2002, his business was acquired by Kaplan, where he spent the next nine years as an in-house entrepreneur, launching several edtech businesses in the K-12 and higher education markets. Charles is a two-time CODiE Award recipient for excellence in software development and a former Director on the Education Board of the Software & Information Industry Association. He is also named on the "16 People Changing the Landscape of Online Education Forever" list by Find Education Online. He is a frequent speaker at education events around the country, when he is not home in Austin, TX, enjoying the outdoors with his wife two young sons.


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Parx Casino designated as Honor Flight home
ANTHONY DIMATTIA Staff writer
Bucks County announced Tuesday that Parx Casino has been designated as home of the Honor Flight Bucks County, which provides veterans free escorted tours of memorials in Washington, D.C.
The first trip took place last year. And on Oct. 5, roughly 200 World War II and Korean War veterans will meet at Parx before leaving for the nation's capital for this year's event. Upon their return to Parx in Bensalem later that day, the veterans will be honored with a homecoming extravaganza featuring local marching bands, active military members and other festivities, said Joseph Szafran, Bucks County Recorder of Deeds and Honor Flight organizer.
The trips are paid for with donations from local businesses and municipalities, and volunteers from Honor Flight Philadelphia assist on the bus rides. Parx will pick up costs for extra buses this year because of a large increase in the number of participants compared to last year's inaugural event, Szafran said.
"Parx has been a large contributor to the program," he said. "They are very generous to the community and Honor Flight. Designating Parx as the home is a way of showing our appreciation to them."
Honor Flight Philadelphia is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization dedicated to thanking veterans by transporting them to visit the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia and the national war memorials in Washington, D.C.
Anthony DiMattia: 215-949-4205; email: adimattia@calkins.com; Twitter: @dailydimattia


Oh. Em. Gee. I am sick to DEATH of the "end times" rhetoric.
Listen people...the world is in no worse shape than it was a century ago. And people are no more evil than they were a century ago. I can't argue that it seems that way sometimes, but I really think it's just the ever widening sphere of digital information and the increasingly invasive and exploitive nature of the media. We have global awareness now, in a way that was never possible in generations past. We are Facetime, Skype, YouTube aware. We are realtime, high definition, multiplayer aware.
A hundred years ago, we might never have heard about the tragedy in Boston. Fifty years ago, it might have been reported on the nightly news by Walter Cronkite, perhaps made the front page of our local newspaper. We could turn one off and throw the other way. We weren't bombarded by information and images twenty four hours a day until all we could do was bury our heads in the sand like a nation of weeping ostriches to escape the the horror and the heartbreak. My God...look how long it took the world to realize what Hitler was doing. Nobody knew. Nobody could. So the scope of that atrocity was far greater than anything most of us have experienced in our lifetime, even 9/11.
In reality, our world is shrinking and the people in it are evolving. Our past is far more blood soaked than our present. Crack open any history book. Hell, crack open the Bible. They are full of lunatics, maniacs and deviants of every variety. And it's also full of people who elevated and revered them and then rode their whackadoodle coattails into the history books.
You honestly don't even have to look very hard to find examples. Elizabeth Bathory? Caligula? Ghengis Kahn? Mao Zedong. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler? Those are just a few noodles in the soup of our insanity and bloodlust.
One of my facebook friends once asked....if time travel became a reality someday, to which era would we choose to travel? Now, as a full blown nostalgia addict, I'm a master at romanticizing bygone eras. But when I really thought about it, I had to admit that some would make me merely reluctant; others, downright terrified. Because once, bigotry, hatred, oppression, injustice, exploitation and violence were an accepted and expected way of life. Can you imagine being a woman in pretty much any era prior to 1970? A black man? A homoseuxal of either gender? Sometimes minorities were simply ignored and marginalized, but sometimes they were treated as subhuman chattel. No thank you.
But we ARE learning to respect and love one another. We ARE learning about equality and colorblindness and social responsibility. The fact that a marriage equality is even at issue is proof of that. Once, such a thing would have been patently unthinkable. As would other social conventions that we have come to embrace in the new millenium. Women supporting families? Running businesses? Making laws? PREPOSTEROUS! Integrated schools and businesses? INCONCEIVABLE! Political and Religious freedom? HERESY! Democracy? IMPOSSIBLE!
You see what I mean? We've come a very long way. Hitler could never come to power in today's world. People will argue with that. But I will defend that stance with gusto. Could. Not. Happen. And these days Elizabeth Bathory would likely be diagnosed with some kind of mental illness, medicated to the gills and put in restraints for the rest of her life.
Yes, evil people walk among us. They always will. But for every evil person who rigs a bomb to explode during a time honored and iconic event, there are a hundred whose kindness and humanity shines through the pall of hatred and violence to demonstrate what mankind is really about. And the Boston tragedy is a testament to that. Nobody stopped to ask the injured the state of their soul, the slant of their politics, or the nature of their sexuality before offering aid. They just did what needed to be done, because nothing else mattered other than the fact that fellow human beings were suffering and terrified.
These are NOT the end times. In fact, I'd say we are witnessing the dawn of a gentler era; one of social, political and more importnatly....humanitarian reform. It's going to take a a long, long, long time to reach it's zenith, but at least it's on the horizon. I really do believe that.
I don't think God is angry enough to wipe us out of existence. If he's up there at all, (and you know my opinion on that) I think he might actually be kind of proud. His thoughts are probably along the lines of..."Well, they're slow learners but I do believe they're finally beginning to catch on. Maybe in another millenia or so....."
My oldest son is turning 18 this weekend. I've been struggling for weeks to put my feelings into words. Normally, this is not a problem for me. But lately, my brain is too full of other nonsense to achieve brilliance. Or even, truth be told, run of the mill flippancy, which can do a passable imitation of brilliance in the right circumstances. I went digging through my archives looking for inspiration and I found this piece, which I wrote five years ago. Surprisingly, the feelings haven't changed much. The same disbelief, the same sense of surrealism, the same feeling of desperation when you realize it's all going too fast and you can do nothing to slow it down., the same longing to have the simpler times back, even if it's just for a moment. There's really no need to re-write it. This piece says it all. Happy Birthday Jase. And I really do like the young man I've discovered, even if I occasionally want to strangle him.
It's strange how a small thing can suddenly drive home the point that time is passing so swiftly.
I know of course, that time marches relentlessly on. I see my sons changing before my eyes. I launder their ever bigger clothing. I solve their ever bigger problems. I wrestle with ever more complicated issues; ones that I never anticipated when they were small and sweet and had no will of their own beyond filling their bellies and their diapers.
But occasionally a moment or an action or a memory will spark that knowledge until it is a blazing inferno of awareness. And suddenly it's right there in front of us where we can't ignore it...life really is going by dreadfully fast.
It can be a big thing or a small thing; a silly thing, or a serious thing. Usually it isn't the thing itself, but the memories associated with it.
For instance, I remember being heavily pregnant and obsessed with clouds. Yes, clouds.
Pre-Pubescent One was being moved from the nursery in preparation for his brother's arrival. I had a lot of mixed feelings about that, and among them, guilt. Those of you who have more than one child know this feeling. It's not entirely rational, but it's very powerful.
I was deliriously happy about the new baby. But I was sad that the special time I had shared with my firstborn was coming to a close. Never again would he have my undivided attention. Nor would the new baby, for that matter. My boys forever after would have to share; my time, my attention and my love.
I felt somehow as if I had ruined everything.
What a ridiculous notion. But no matter how much I tried to talk myself out of those feelings, they persisted and grew, until I was a seething ball of weepy, hormonal confusion; happy one moment, sad the next, with no discernible emotional middle ground.
To assuage the guilt of evicting Pre-Pubescent from not only his room, but his crib as well, I convinced myself that he needed a new sanctuary; one of transcendant cuteness.
Again, it was a very silly and fanciful notion, but it helped a little.
And so, I became obsessed with creating the perfect room for Pre-Pubescent One.
I found an adorable wall border with Teddy Bears and Dalmations and Firetrucks. It struck me as the epitome of little boy-dom, and I was completely charmed. I planned the decor of the room around the border, which was a fairly simple matter, as most of the colors were bold and bright primary shades.
The problem arose when I decided that I should do a wall treatment to mimic the cloud like background in the border.
We painted the walls white and I found a glaze in the exact shade of blue that I needed. I experimented with every conceivable fabric and every conceivable technique to achieve the perfect degree of "fluiffiness".
"Fluffiness." said Husband skeptically, when I explained. "How do you paint fluffiness?"
I showed him. He was impressed, but dubious about the amount of time and effort it would take to cover all four walls with the required fluffiness.
I figured out pretty quickly that it doesn't work if two people try to do a wall treatment. No two people have the same technique and it became very obvious where his portion ended and mine began. I told him that in order to look just right, it had to be perfectly seamless. I would have to do it myself.
"Look." I pointed out. "See how your clouds are...heavier? Darker? They look like rain clouds. I need light, wispy, summer day clouds."
By this time I think Husband was pretty convinced I had lost my marbles along with my waistline. He looked at me for a moment, contemplating, I'm sure, whether he should humor me, or seek the assistance of a mental health professional.
He decided to humor me. He surrendered his carefully engineered facsimile cloud putter onner, and left me to my own maniacal devices.
It took me an entire week to finish that room. Then I had to go back with a smaller cloud putter onner, because the big one left a line of demarcation along the window and door frames. I painted over some spots because I wasn't happy with them.
And still, I could see where I had started and where I had stopped and I was not at all pleased. The paint was darker where I had used a freshly dipped putter onner and no matter how many times I went back over it, it just didn't seem right. My pursuit of seamlessness was driving me slowly, but surely insane.
They are the hallmark of my pregnancies, these obsessions. Some women get horrible cravings, some women get incredibly er...amorous, some women throw up...I develop obsessions.
Remind me to tell you about the time that I, nearly full term with what would turn out to be a 9 lb., 5 oz. fetus, decided that I absolutely HAD to have a matching robe and nightgown for the hospital and dragged Pre-Pubescent One through the mall for hours in search of one, despite the fact that he was having the mother of all tantrums.
Anyway, this one was a doozy.
But eventually, exhaustion and common sense won out and I had to concede that it was good enough.
Not only was it good enough, but once I was able to stop nitpicking, I realized it was pretty adorable, if I do say so myself.
Ten years have passed since then, and his room has remained unchanged for much of that time. But two years ago, I reluctantly took down the border to appease his growing sense of maturity and ease his embarassment.
Since then, he's endured the cloud walls without much complaint. But we've been promising him for two years that we would redecorate in a more suitably masculine theme and finally, he asked if we might be able to have his room done in time for his 13th birthday, for which he is planning a sleepover.
Husband and I realized we could postpone it no longer and this week, we tackled the job. It was a big one, because everything needed to be sanded, including the walls to insure that the clouds would cover and the texture would not bleed through.
As we worked, I was focused only on getting the job done. We hate to paint, you see. We loathe it with the white hot passion of a thousand suns. It's so tedious, so nitpicky, so BORING and so messy.
But when it came time to put that first stroke of fresh paint on the wispy, azure blue walls, I felt a wave of pure melancholy. I remembered laboring over this room with Diminutive One warm and heavy in my belly. I remembered how small Pre-Pubescent One looked in his enormous new big boy bed. I remembered how he stood before me the next morning wearing a pull-up and a grin as he proudly and earnestly told me he had spent the entire night there and didn't go back to the crib even one time, not even to look.
Just for a moment. Just to feel his spindly little limbs folded in my lap, and his bath fresh hair tickling my nose and to breathe in all his perfect innocence, and appreciate it the way I couldn't back then, not knowing how fleeting it really is.
As the cloudy blue walls slowly disappeared, it struck me as remarkably metaphorical, if walls can truly be a metaphor for childhood lost and adulthood not yet gained. They are no longer cloudy, but blank and smooth, waiting for the rest of his life to be inscribed upon them.
They will hold posters, and signs and notes and all kinds of memorabilia. And then, when he leaves home, they will be blank once more.
When we finished I looked around. It felt at once completely familiar and thoroughly alien. This, I thought...this is no little boy's room. This is the room of a young man.
And I realized that I need to stop mourning the little boy who was, and discover the young man who will be. I think I'm going to like him.
And that little boy? He'll always be there, in his cloudy room and his dinosaur pajamas waiting for me to tuck him in. I'm going to give myself permission to visit him there every now and then...to snuggle down in his big tiny bed and hold him close to me while I read him something sweet and silly.
Wait for me there, used to be boy. I'll be back again soon.


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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York judge Tuesday ordered a 30-year-old man to move out of his parents' house after they went to court to have him evicted.
Mark and Christina Rotondo brought the case after several eviction letters offering money and other help were ignored.
The parents didn't answer a call seeking comment Tuesday and their letters, filed in court, don't give reasons for wanting their son out of the house.
The son said he doesn't speak to his parents.


LA JOYA - The Juarez-Lincoln girls soccer team handed McAllen their first district loss in four years Monday night, holding on for a 1-0 victory at home. A first-half goal from Pricila Hernandez helped the Huskies take a lead into the break. After that, a strong defensive effort helped Juarez-Lincoln hang on for the 30-6A victory. The Bulldogs hadn't lost a district game since March 10, 2015. CHANNEL 5's Joel Villanueva has the recap and post-game reaction.


Digi has partnered with Gibraltar BSN Life Bhd to launch Dengue Cover+, a life insurance plan that covers both dengue and the Zika virus. Dengue Cover+ is offered exclusively to Digi postpaid and prepaid Malaysian customers within the age range 18 to 45.
Customers can sign up via Digi's EasyAdd service, a subscription marketplace by Digi. Start by picking a package online, filling up a policy form, and wait for the approval from the insurance underwriter. Interestingly, applicants do not need to undergo any medical examinations. Similar to other insurance policies, Dengue Cover+ offers different coverage at different price points based on these tiers: Platinum at RM20/month or RM220/year, Gold at RM10/month or RM110/year, and Silver RM5/month or RM55/year. Other separate plans can as low as RM0.15 a day.
The plans provide compensation for Total Permanent Disability ( TPD), additional accidental death and TPD benefits, additional death benefit due to severe dengue or Zika virus infection, and up to 10 days of Hospital Cash Benefit for dengue fever or Zika virus infection. After signing up for the insurance package, subscribers can then manage their subscriptions via EasyAdd. Premiums will be directly debited to their Digi account.
"Our partnership with Gibraltar BSN allows us to connect our customers who matter most, by offering hassle-free digital insurance solutions and keeping them protected with up-to-date health alerts," Digi Chief Marketing Officer Loh Keh Jiat said.
"By applying through their phones, Digi subscribers can easily supplement their existing life insurance coverage with Dengue Cover+ at affordable premium rates. We are pleased that our collaboration with Digi allows us to protect wider demographic groups and narrow the protection gap as we continue to launch simple, affordable, and relevant products to Digi users," Gibraltar BSN President and CEO Rangam Bir added.