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The Haunted House
By Charles Dickens; Wesley Stace (Introduction by)
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On Christmas Eve, a party of friends descends on a purportedly haunted country retreat, charged with the task of discovering evidence of the supernatural. Sequestered in their rooms for the holiday, the friends reconvene on Twelfth Night at a great feast and share their stories of spectral encounter. "Conducted" by Charles Dickens and counting Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins among its contributors, The Haunted House examines quintessentially Victorian themes-sex and longing, nostalgia and loss-in ways that continue to resonate today. Ingeniously conceived and written, and spiked with flashes of Dickensian humor, this volume is a strange and sheer delight.
About the Author
WESLEY STACE is the author of the novel Misfortune. Under the name John Wesley Harding, he has recorded more than a dozen albums, most recently Adam's Apple. He lives in Brooklyn.


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CAC to Present "A Night at the Oscars"The Central Arizona College Art, Culinary Arts and Instrumental Music departments will present "A Night at the Oscars" on April 20 at the Don P. Pence Center for Visual and Performing Arts on the Central Arizona College Signal Peak Campus (8470 N. Overfield Road, Coolidge, AZ.). Admission is free.
Beginning at 5 p.m., the Art Department will hold its annual Student Art Show in the lobby of the Pence Center. At 5:30 p.m., a red carpet event will feature opportunities for attendees to have their picture taken with a Hollywood star. The Culinary Arts department will be providing delicious hors d'oeuvres until the concert begins.
At 7 p.m. the Community Wind Ensemble will present "A Night at the Oscars," joint band concert featuring the Santa Cruz Valley Union High School Concert Band and Central Arizona Community Wind Ensemble.
The 80 member Central Arizona Community Wind Ensemble will present music that has been nominated for or won an Oscar award for "Best Song" or "Best Original Score". The program will include many Disney favorites such as "When You Wish upon a Star'", "Chim Chim Cheree", and "Under the Sea". CAC student, Megan Ramos will portray Dorothy singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Film scores from the pen of John Williams will be featured from "The Force Awakens" and "Schindler's List". Lou Bagley, Casa Grande community member, will be the featured flute soloist. Other selections will highlight the work of Henry Mancini and a medley of James Bond themes.
The Central Arizona Community Wind Ensemble is conducted by Professor Rick Moore and consists of Central Arizona College students, high school students, area community members and music educators.
The Santa Cruz Valley Union High School Band is a 25 member ensemble under the leadership of Mr. Joshua White. They will perform John Phillip Sousa's "Washington Post March", Elliot del Borgo's beautiful rendition of "Adagio for Winds", "Covington Square", and will conclude with "The Wizard of Oz Meets the Wiz".

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C3 members submitted 11 abstracts to this year's Meteoritical Society Meeting. View them all here.
Krijt, Bowling, Lyons, and Ciesla seed life between adjacent exoplanets (April 2017)
Heck wins Cosslett Award (April 2017)
LPSC week (March 2017)
C3 members submitted 35 abstracts to this year's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. View them all here.
C3 scientists classify new shergottite (March 2017)
Krijt wins Hubble fellowship (February 2017)
Kite wins Greeley Award (June 2016)
Edwin Kite has been awarded the 2016 Ronald Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Science by the American Geophysical Union in recognition of his significant early career contributions to planetary science. Congratulations Edwin!
Trappitsch defends thesis (June 2016)
Graduate student Reto Trappitsch defended his Ph.D. dissertation "Deciphering Galactic Chemical Evolution - Iron and Nickel Isotopes and Cosmic Ray Exposure Ages of Presolar Silicon Carbide Grains." Congratulations Reto!
Tissot wins Nininger Meteorite Award (June 2016)
François Tissot, who finished his PhD with Nicolas Dauphas last fall, won the 2015 Nininger Meteorite Award for his paper "Origin of uranium isotope variations in early solar nebula condensates." Congratulations François!
Trappitsch receives Sugarman Award (May 2016)
Graduate student Reto Trappitsch will receive the 2016 Nathan Sugarman Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Research, given annually by the Enrico Fermi Institute. Congratulations Reto!
Dauphas recognized by the Meteoritical Society (May 2016)
Nicolas Dauphas was elected as a Fellow of the Meteoritical Society. Congratulations Nicolas!
Kööp defends thesis (April 2016)
Graduate student Levke Kööp defended her Ph.D. dissertation "The isotopic evolution of the early solar system as traced by hibonite-rich refractory inclusions." Congratulations Levke!
LPSC week (March 2016)
C3 members submitted 39 abstracts to this year's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. View them all here.
Dauphas receives named professorship (February 2016)
Nicolas Dauphas has been awarded the Louis Block Professorship at the University of Chicago. Congratulations Nicolas!
C3 members discuss 'The Martian' (January 2016)
Andy Davis, Edwin Kite, and Mohit Melwani Daswani led a public screening and discussion of the hit movie 'The Martian' at Max Palevsky Cinema on the UChicago campus.
Grossman Symposium held (December 2015)
The Department of the Geophysical Sciences hosted a symposium in honor of Larry Grossman's retirement. Several current and former C3 members presented talks in the symposium.
Tissot defends thesis (October 2015)
Graduate student François Tissot defended his Ph.D. dissertation "Geochemistry and cosmochemistry of uranium stable isotopes." Congratulations François!
Kööp wins Wiley Award (September 2015)
Graduate student Levke Kööp has won a Wiley Award for her recent presentation "26Al-depletions in anomalous and solar PLAC-like CAIs suggest high degrees of processing in the early solar nebula" at this year's Meteoritical Society meeting. She will receive the award, along with a check for $500, at next year's meeting in Berlin. Congratulations Levke!
Jadav moves to Louisiana (August 2015)
Postdoctoral Scholar Manavi Jadav has moved to the Department of Physics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
MetSoc week (July 2015)
Several C3 members attended this year's Meteoritical Society meeting. Browse their abstracts here.
Nie awarded NESSF fellowship (May 2015)
Graduate student Nicole Nie has been awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship to support her studies of the origin of Earth's Moon.
Tissot accepts Crosby fellowship (May 2015)
Graduate student François Tissot has accepted a prestigious Crosby Postdoctoral Fellowship at MIT. He will start in February, 2016.
LPSC week (March 2015)
C3 members submitted 27 abstracts to this year's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. View them all here.
Tissot receives LPI Career Development Award (February 2015)
Graduate student François Tissot has been awarded a Career Development Award by the Lunar and Planetary Institute for one of the best graduate student abstracts at this year's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
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How would you feel if you popped the question to your girl (Will you marry me?) and she happily says yes but tells you she doesn't want to change her last name.
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I love your calendar wall......... now wanting one. We all think we are so tuned in having everything on an electronic schedule a'la iphone, but sometimes I just want to see it in print. Keeping the entire year up on the wall shows how much you accomplished, not just where you are going.ReplyDelete
Good points, Katherine!
Just love the shape of your bulletin/inspiration boards!
Happy New Year, Mary Ann!
Thanks, they are from Pottery Barn.Delete
I am not feeling organized BUT feeling very inspired by your post!!! Wow this is fabulous, I love all of your ideas and need to follow your lead in a BIG way!! Happy new year.ReplyDelete
You get more done than anyone, Tina!Delete
Yes! The new year is all about order for me. I'm already planning to work on my own office. Which, actually won't happen until spring. So between now and them I am sure I will be posting my own home office inspiration! By the way, love your bulletin boards and those black pencils. Not sure how I missed the pencils at Target.ReplyDelete
Those pencil cheap...same price as the yellow ones.Delete
You have inspired me Mary Ann! I have a new laptop and have put up my inspiration board so far, still need to organize supplies and put up a calendar..... Where did you get the bulletin boards in that great shape!?
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Looks great - you are inspiring me!!ReplyDelete
Karena...they are from Pottery Barn Teen. I think I will put a link in the post now. :)ReplyDelete
Karena...they are from Pottery Barn Teen. I think I will put a link in the post now. :)ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for the inspiration Mary Ann. Organizing my office is at the top of my list of things to do in 2016. I better get started!
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Funny, I also work from a home office and I cleaned it up and re-organized yesterday. Feels much better to start the year off fresh.ReplyDelete
Mary Ann I love your office space with a view. And those curvy bulletin boards!! I need to carve out a little desk area for myself...I work from the dining room table and it's not all that inspiring! Happy new year my friend.ReplyDelete
Pretty work space, Mary Ann! Yes, I've been feeling the need to organize too. I bought a wire shelf stand and a clear tray and reorganized my "baking shelf" in one of the kitchen cabinets. I threw away anything out of date and grouped like items together, putting the small stuff in the tray which I can now easily slide out from the shelf (which is the 2nd shelf up) and get what I need quickly. The wire shelf, which takes up half the width of the shelf, allows me to better utilize the height of the space, while keeping taller items beside the shelf. It's a little thing, but it sure made me happy!
After having an aero bed living in my office for the entire Christmas week, all is back to order now! Don't know whether I can do that again! We are in the process of guest room and then kitchen updating/renovation so yes, organization is all. So much to do, so little time! Happy New Year Mary Ann!ReplyDelete
So pretty and organized, Mary Ann, especially love the calendar...fun calligraphy! Happy Tuesday!ReplyDelete
Mary Ann,
This is my favorite time of year for the inspiration and organization that comes to me. I'm going to visit Target and see if I can pick up some of those black pencils.
I must have the black pencils. Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
Treat yourself, Ron :)Delete
That is my dream office! All white and bright with a view to die for! A cozy retreat to sit and create beautiful spaces! Love all your new additions, but it looked great before! Yep, I'd be happy in that space!
xoxo Gail
And Gail, I have the view of the bay and cable cars :)Delete
Love your office! I'm planning on carving out some space somewhere and buying a new desk to set up for me to work. You just inspired me! Happy New year! XOXOXOReplyDelete
YOU deserve it!! You are a hard working blogger!Delete
I love your work space - The pin boards and the black pencils are my favorite. You are so organized! Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
First of all, Happy New Year to you Mary Ann! And I love your office - gorgeous and organized. Like Lisa I don't really have an office per se to work from, but that might be a new goal for me:)
We are currently (obsessively) cleaning and organizing the entire house; every closet, cubby, and storage space. I read the book The Art of Tidying Up this fall and I am inspired to really clean out and pare down.
Thanks for sharing your pretty space:)
I read the first tow chapters of that book and thought...I already do this...but apparently the rest of the book has more meat...I left it at my cousin's....need to get it back...she thought I was dropping a hint! Ha!Delete
Hi Mary Ann Thank you for these great finds! I love the calendar and the pinboards!
Looks great MaryAnn!! xo KReplyDelete
Loooove those pin boards! It must be a pleasure so sit down and work in such a pretty office! Hope the year is a good one for you! x SharonReplyDelete
Loving your home office, such a pretty place. Those pencils and the pinboards are just lovely!ReplyDelete
Can I have your beautiful little office? God I hate sharing mine with the laundry room but I suppose if I organized it and made it pretty it wouldn't be so bad:)ReplyDelete
Mary Ann, you office is a dream. You have made it so beautiful, organized, and personal. I am in love with your bulletin boards--they make your space. Love the wall calendar. I don't know if it is that I am old school or just visual (I choose to believe the later since I am in my mature years) but I love to have calendars/planners/inspiration in front of me everyday where I can see it and 'process'. Happy New Year!ReplyDelete


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The look of a monster can make or break a monster movie. However, the Far East has always had creature appearances on lockdown, doling out some truly classic designs over the years; and the one for the upcoming 3D monster bash Sector 7 looks to be following suit.
Below you'll find the first glimpse at what the structure of the film's creature will be like. That's right, kids! It's gonna be big! Sector 7, which will be shot in 3D, follows the events surrounding what happens when a mutated deep sea creature runs amok in an oil rig. Though horrific, it can't possibly be worse than what we had going on here in the Gulf for god's sake.
Award-winning actress Ha Ji-won starring for new director Kim Ji-hoon. Look for more on this one as soon as it comes.
An underwater oil field located south of Jeju Island, where Hae-jun is working as a marine equipment manager on an oil prospecting ship called Eclipse. Joining the crew later is Jeong-man, a former colleague of Hae-jun's father, assigned to Eclipse as captain. Though his job is to oversee the withdrawal of the ship, he suggests conducting some drilling one last time. After 3 weeks of preparation, Hae-jun takes new recruit underwater, but he sinks to the bottom of the sea when his equipment fails. Shortly after crew members begin to turn up dead, one by one, their bodies viciously mutilated. What the few survivors soon discover is a transparent underwater creature they encountered once before. The viral monster infiltrated the ship through the drilling pipe and has been feeding on the crew to survive. For Hae-jun and his colleagues, a fight for their lives begins.
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So, a little background first. My name's Doug. I had to get a job as a security guard, you have to do what you can do, I suppose. The money's shit and the hours are long. Plus the fact I was working at Meadow Place. Have you not heard of it? Well, let me describe it to you. It was a huge quarry once, but then in the 90's when everyone was going crazy with money, some developers bought it and decided what we really need in this town is yet another huge out of town shopping centre. The plans were great, a big eight storey tall central mall, with 100 shops, a gymnasium, cinema, loads of parking etc. The only minor problem was, there wasn't enough money to finish it all. Someone ran off with some of the money, or someone cooked the books, anyway, the whole thing ground to a halt.
It's one of those places you see in the newspaper, almost finished but never opened, with work tools and cranes and diggers and everything just sitting around, waiting for the work to restart, and it's been like that for nearly a year. Anyway, there's some sort of legal thing going on about it all, in the mean time the whole 200 acre site is closed off, boarded up, because it's in a quarry you can't even see it from the surrounding land, it's as if it never existed. However the administrators pay the smallest amount they can to keep a few security guards on site, patrolling, to make sure no-one breaks in and steals all the building materials.
Anyway, there a team of four of us on this shift, working 6 days on, 12 hours a day. Occasionally they ask us to do a double, which means when its midweek it can run right round to the next shift so you can be on site for 36 hours straight. Well, I need the money. For the first three months there was rarely any trouble, in fact it was almost fun at times, the place is a bit of a maze, and you have to patrol it, going to certain points and touching these tabs on the wall which electronically show you've actually done the patrol.
Between the four of us, that's me, Angus, Mack and Peter, we create games to make the day go smoother. We have this pick-up truck and we've turned a bit of the patrolling into a sort of rally-cross route, racing round the site in the pick-up, through the muddy part of the quarry that hasn't been developed yet, up and down the three multi storey car parks, along the main mall (The sliding entrance doors have been left on so you can drive right up to them, they open, and you can drive along inside, and then out the other end of the building, via one of the bigger stores) and then loop back to the site hut, stopping all the time to touch the patrol points as we go, see who can do it fastest.
Anyhow, as I say, no real trouble for three months. And then, one day, I'm doing the rounds, doing quite a good time in the truck, and I come breaking to a halt at the main doors, because, painted in yellow letters six foot high across the glass is one word:
I get out to have a look, and realise its painted on the inside, someone has actually painted it backwards on the inside of the window so you can see it the correct way round from outside.
And that was just the beginning. The yellow tags started popping up everywhere. Whenever you turned your back, the word 'Tamp' seemed to pop up on a wall or a fence. We used to get glimpses of 'the tamperer' as we called him, on the CCTV, but at first we never saw him in the flesh. And then, one day when I'm up on the roof of car park one, the two-way radio goes.
'Tamperer spotted in car park two!'
I run down the steps to ground level, across the road and into car park two. I'm not that fit and the exercise wears me out.
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I can't make out whose voice that is, but I see Angus running up the exit ramp and I follow him. There's eight levels of parking, and when I get to the top, the other three are already there, looking about
'Where is he?'
'I thought you were on him...'
We all look at each other. Who made the call?
The radio crackles. 'Over here!!!'
We look around, and there, on the roof of car park one, is the tamperer. He's a young sexy looking guy, about 19, shaved head, wearing all the usual hooded top and baggy pants, and he's got one of our radios. The tops of the two car parks are only about twenty feet apart, but there's no link between them except by going back to ground level. And he's smiling, a really cute smile.
'Come on boys, he says, you're gonna have to try harder'
Much as I hate the little petty vandals and thugs who hang around this town, I couldn't help but smile. There didn't seem to be any malice in his voice, it seemed like he was playing with us. The four of us were all too unfit to run back down all those ramps and get after him, so we all just stood there, panting.
Then, for some reason best known to him, he lifted up his sweatshirt, and flashed his stomach and chest at us. He had an impressive physique, wiry and strong, and he wanted us to know it. We wanted to shout, to tell him this was private property etc, but instead we glanced at each other, and responded to him in kind. We all raised up our shirts, and flashed our beer bellies at him.
He laughed, but not in a mean way, almost as if we were old friends having a bit of a joke, and then he did an incredible thing - he jumped from the roof onto a lighting pole, and slid to the ground, and he was away, bouncing like a spring. I've seen those free-runner or parkour people on the TV, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, well, this was what this crazy boy did, jumping over fences and skips as he disappeared across the car park.
From then on, it became a cat and mouse game, with one super fit and agile mouse pursued by four slower, out of shape cats. He would be all over the place, one minute on the roof, another in the mall, always moving, fast, and agile. We would sometimes almost get him, but he would always get away. He would toy with us, once he sprayed his tag on the outside of the portaloo while I was inside.
Interestingly, he never was on site when the other shift was on, only us. He had taken a liking to us. And, to be honest, despite our threats and taunts, we all liked him too - he was a dash of colour in our dull lives.
Then, he stepped his game up. I was outside the hut one day, taking a cigarette break, when I heard a noise round by the car park. I walked round, curious, to where I could see the pickup truck, parked on the other side of a chain link fence.
And there was the tamperer, standing in front of the van. I couldn't at first work out what he was doing. But then I moved a bit to the left, and realised he was jerking himself off! He had his baggy pants around his knees and was rubbing his cock violently towards the bonnet of the pickup
From where I was standing, I couldn't go directly to him, because of the fence, so I just yelled 'Hey!'
He turned to look at me, but he didn't stop jerking. 'Hey Felix!' he called (He had named me Felix, all of us had been given cat names by him)
'What the hell are you doing?'
'Giving you.. UHH... a present!' he yelled, between panting breaths
And with that, he came across the bonnet of the pick-up, two or three good gushes across the paintwork. I heard Peter yelling from the other side of the car park. The boy hitched up his pants, smiled that cute smile, and yelled 'Merry Christmas' (it was the middle of March at the time) before he was off and running.
We tried to catch him in some sort of pincer movement but he easily outmanoeuvred us and was away. All four of us gathered at the Pick-up to look at what he had done. There was several streaks of pearly white fluid across the green paintwork. Some had even got as far as the windscreen.
We shook our heads in amazement. I should point out at this point that we were all straight guys, as far as I knew. We didn't socialise together outside work, this was our little world, and the tamperer was playing with us. We knew things had gone to a different level now.
Back in the hut we discussed what we would do if we ever caught him. Up until that day it would have been a case of calling the cops and letting them take him away. But what harm had he really done? He had painted on the wall of a building no-one really wanted in the first place. He had brightened our lives up a bit. Giving him some sort of criminal record and locking him away hardly seemed fair. I don't know who suggested it, and I don't want to remember, all I can say is that, between the four of us, we came up with another way to teach the boy a lesson if we ever got our hands on him, Cats play with their prey when they catch it, so that's what we would do.
But he still had a few surprises in line for us. Once, for example, we had pursued him round the outside of the main mall, and then lost him. We were all standing around, panting as usual, and we decided to light up. And that's when it started raining. Only, it wasn't rain. What the hell was it? We looked up and there he was, our nimble foe, and he was pissing on us from the roof! We all cursed and dashed in different directions, but he managed to get us all with a good spray before we could get clear. He laughed again, and was off.
We all stood there, looking at each other, soaked in the teenager's piss. Angus had half a damp cigarette hanging from his mouth. It was outrageous, except, well, we all began to laugh. I know what you're thinking, some guy pisses on you, you should be furious, right, and I suppose we were, but the whole thing was just so ridiculous, the four of us there, dressed in damp security uniforms, pursuing someone twice as young and twice as fast.
He pulled his cum trick again too, several times. Once I went to my car in the car park, reached to open the door, and found my fingers smeared with the freshly sprayed boy juice which had been left on my door handle for me. All the others had the same experience, whether it was on tools, or door handles, or anywhere he could get to. Once we saw him dash out of our lunchroom, and we went into discover our lunches had been - interfered with. If we hadn't seen him leaving, we may have never known that out sandwiches had an extra topping that day. For some reason, I was sorely tempted to eat that sandwich, I know it's disgusting but the Tamperer had wanted us to eat some of his cum, and I bizarrely wanted to find out why...
Another time he appeared on our CCTV monitor, waving to the camera, and we all ran out onto the site, to the location of that camera, of course nothing to be seen, but when we got back to the hut, we immediately knew he had been there. On the TV screen, a distinctive smear of fluid across the glass, and a postage note, saying 'Tamp'. It occurred to me that because we had gone to where he had been standing, we would have been standing there, on camera, while he wanked over the screen. In fact, he would have been wanking over our images.
Anyway, one day we were pulling down a double shift plus one, so 36 hours on site for all of us. One hour in and we were all settling in for the long haul, when we heard someone yell, and a crash noise. We all dashed outside, and looked up, and there he was, our mouse, hanging by his trouser leg from the hut roof.
He was obviously up to one of his little games, because his fly was undone and his cock was out, but he had slipped, and the baggy trouser leg had caught on the guttering, leaving him hanging upside down from the roof in a most undignified fashion. The hut is only one story tall so he could practically reach the ground from where he was hanging. We stood there and laughed.
He looked surprisingly cool for someone who has just got himself caught. He grinned.
'Hey boys. How about you get me down and we'll forget all about this?
'What were you doing up there?' I asked
'I was just going to give you a little present through the skylight' he said 'I don't mean any harm. I like to play with you guys. Are you gonna call the police on me, Felix?'
I looked at the other three. We all grinned. 'I don't think that will be necessary, Tamperer. We've got something else in mind. We know you're a speed freak, so thought we'd take you for a drive round the site'
We reached up, and dislodged him from the drainpipe.
Ten minutes later, he was ready. We had stripped all his clothes except for his boxer shorts, and then we had tied him up. We tied his ankles together, and his wrists together behind his back, and then tied his ankles to his wrists, so he couldn't move. All the time we were doing this, he never uttered a word of complaint. And then, we tied him to the bull-bars on the front of the pickup truck, facing forward. It was quite a cold day and he shivered a bit, but his voice sounded clear and unafraid.
'Where are we going?'
'Well, I know you like this truck, because we had to clean your spunk off the bonnet. So, we're going to show you what we can do with this truck. We're going to take you on our rally route round the site...
And we did. I went first round the site, first cautiously, then at speed, with the 19 year old wiry and muscular boy strapped to the front of the pick-up, his kegs and hands tied firmly behind him. I could see his head and naked shoulders twisting and turning into the curves, and could hear him yell out in surprise from time to time. We followed the familiar route, splashing through the clay coloured water on the undeveloped but of the quarry (which created a wave that doused the boy from head to toe), before skidded up and down the car park ramps, getting up to 70 or 80 on some of the straight bits, and then entering the centre, whizzing up and down the aisles, in and out of the supermarket, doing handbrake turns in the middle of the foyer, looping round and back to the security hut.
I got out and checked on the boy, He was soaked and filthy, but he seemed ok. As if to prove it, he looked up at me, and he smiled his pretty smile. 'More' he said.
Everyone else then took a go. We added extra obstacles, on one occasion me and the other two waited by the roadside as Angus came past at fifty, and we each threw a bucket of ice cold water at the passing truck. I'm pretty sure I got the boy head on. At some point in these trips, the boy lost his pants too, I think one of the others ripped them off him, meaning he did a couple of laps completely naked. As he went past one time I could see a rock hard erection on the boy...
We decided to stop soon after, for safety reasons, as everything was getting a bit crazy. We were playing with him but we didn't want to hurt him. When we untied him we noticed he didn't complain, he seemed like he was buzzing with adrenaline. As far as I was concerned we had completed our punishment, now we should let him go. But we hadn't finished with the boy, yet. There was plenty of other equipment for him to play with. We asked him if he wanted to try something else and he breathlessly said yes.
The site had a fully functioning automatic car wash, so we strapped him to the roof of my Volvo, face down, and we took him through. I had said to him before hand to let us know if it was too much, and I could see his head through the sunroof in case he wanted us to stop, but as the spinning brushes first waxed and then scrubbed him clean, he seemed to be enjoying it. One of the others kept by the safety cut-off just in case, but we didn't need it. It was a sight to see, him getting soaked in foamy water, and then those hard, spinning bristles running over and over his skin. By the time he came out his skin was red raw all over.
'More' he said.
We did many fun things with that boy. In the centre of the foyer of the part built building was a fancy glass elevator, which rose through an atrium the full eight stories of the building. We tied him under that, hanging by ropes under his arms, with his limbs still bound from before, and took him up and down the shaft twenty or thirty times, still stark naked. We threw things at him as he hung there - eggs, paint, water, anything we could find. The lift shaft looked like a bomb had hit it by the time we finished, but we were having too much fun to care. He enjoyed that so much that we strapped him to one of the cranes that were littering the site, and lifted him up into the air, taking him on a panoramic tour of the site, butt naked and tied up with rope.
We tied him to a doorframe, and someone tipped a can of paint over his head. We smeared him with plaster dust. We even took it in turns to slap at his butt with our belts.
Finally we stopped, and just admired his body, still hanging there, spread-eagled, naked, coated in paint and dust, with a bright red butt from the smacks with the belts. Each one of us had fondled him somewhere as part of our session, either on the butt, or felt his arms or his stomach, but there was one area we had avoided. He had not complained once. We were out of ideas. But he came up with one.
'Would one of you jerk me off?' He asked
We looked at each other. This was a test. We instantly knew it had to be done, but who among us would do it? The boy decided for us.
'Felix? Would you do it?'
I wasn't sure I could, but I looked at the others, and realised it didn't matter who actually did the act, I saw hands already rubbing their own crotches, and I knew we would all be getting off on it. So I spat on my hand, reached round, and grabbed the boy's already hard cock.
I had never touched another guy before, and it felt weird. But my buddies egged me on. I jerked him, gently at first, then harder and harder. The boy seemed to like it. Angus had pulled his own cock out, and was rubbing it. The other two followed suit. Oh, well, in for a penny... I unzipped my own fly and reached for my own cock.
We would have made a sight if someone had walked in right then - four uniformed security guards, standing around a bound up 19 year old boy, jerking him and ourselves off.
I can't remember who came first, but I know that at least one of my colleagues stepped up behind the boy and spurted over his pretty, rounded butt. I came at about the same time as the boy, my sperm splattering onto his feet as his own slicked my hand and the floor in front of me. I kept that handful of sperm, and I stepped behind the door and licked it, surreptitiously, as I didn't want anyone to see me do it. It was salty and still warm.
Finally we let him down. He was shivering from the cold. We took him back outside and threw him his clothes and he held them to his chest.
We were outside the comfort station, which had washing and showering facilities. 'Any chance I could get a shower?' he asked. That was the wrong question. Angus smiled.
'Oh yes,' he said, 'we owe you a shower, from that time you gave us one outside the main building'
And with that, he unzipped his flies again, and got his cock out.
'Wait, not on my clothes!' The boy yelled, hurling them to one side, just in time, for Angus let loose, spraying the boy full in the chest. He played the stream up and down the boy, who sank to his knees. The boy tipped his head back, he even opened his mouth and let some of the fluid in. I suffered a strange mix of disgust and arousal.
That was enough for the rest of us, we unzipped too and also let fly, soaking the boy from head to toe. Angus also turned to where the boy had thrown his clothes, and pissed on them too, soaking them.
When we had all finished, the boy was kneeling in the middle of an expanding puddle, filthy, soaked, a slight steam rising from him in the cold afternoon air. He said nothing, and reached for his soaked clothes, and began putting them on. He looked a sight, soaked in piss and mud. I immediately felt sorry for what we had done, I got a blanket from my car boot and put it around his shoulders.
'Would one of you take me home now?' he asked. I agreed. I felt bad for the boy - maybe we had gone too far? I hope we hadn't hurt the little bright thing that had bounded into our lives. I opened up the door of the Volvo and he sat inside. I decided the rest of us needed to talk about what just happened, so I walked back to where the other three were clearing up. We talked briefly - had we gone too far? Everyone looked down, they had all gone to places that they had never been before.
I was only gone about five minutes, and then, as I walked back to the car, the boy leapt out. I thought we had hurt him, but his grin was as bright as ever, all over his face.
He was pulling up his trousers. 'Merry Christmas' he yelled, and he ran off, laughing. I looked in my car, and saw he had given me another of his special presents, a splattering of white Christmas snow all over the dashboard and the steering wheel.
I felt a great relief then, sure then that everything was OK, and that we had not seen the last of our sexy trespasser...


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Born in Hamilton, Ontario, George M. Johnson moved to Kamloops, B.C. in 1991, where he is Professor of English at Thompson Rivers University. He specializes in modern literature, particularly psychological approaches to it and the supernatural in it, as well as biography, playwriting, and screenwriting. As a long-time Chair of the Global and Community Action Ctte at Kamloops United Church, Johnson is a social activist whose plays deal with some form of social justice. His screenplay "Peace Pledge" about Canon Dick Sheppard and the Peace Pledge Union in the 1930s was selected as one of 12 finalists for the Euroscript Screenplay Competition in the U.K.
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2011 Rest Assured, a short play selected from over 450 submissions for annual Pick of the Vine show. Little Fish Theatre, San Pedro, California. Full production, January 14-February 19th, 2011. www.littlefishtheatre.org
2007 Still Life With Nudes, a comic play about seniors who storm an art gallery demanding that their friends outrageous nudes of them be hung there (and involving a yarn bomber). Winner of National Playwriting Competition sponsored by the Regina Little Theatre, for http://www.reginalittletheatre.com/season0607/playwright/default.htm
1994 Twentieth Century Literature, Andrew J. Kappel Prize, judged by John Fowles, for year's outstanding essay, "`The Spirit of the Age': Virginia Woolf's Response to Second Wave Psychology." Twentieth Century Literature 40.2 (Fall): 139-164.
Still Life With Nudes. Ryga: A Journal of Provocations (Summer, 2012): 89-180. www.rygajournal.ca
Johnson, George M. Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond: Grappling with Ghosts (UK.: Palgrave Macmillan 2015) 9781137332028
Johnson, George M. Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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Walking is an easy and convenient way to get around Willoughby. Not only is it healthy for the environment, but thirty minutes or more of moderate exercise a day is healthy for you too! You could get this just by walking to the shops, station, park, or school.
Willoughby City Council promotes sustainable transport and is working towards creating a liveable city where car dependency is reduced and the city is easy to get around by walking, cycling and public transport. Council is working on a number of projects to encourage walking in Willoughby.
There are many bushwalks available in the Willoughby area, including The Round Willoughby Walk. You will also find information about other scenic walks around Willoughby and Sydney Harbour at www.walkingcoastalsydney.com.au. Willoughby Walks is a free, interactive self-guided walking tour app brought to you by Willoughby City Library.
Willoughby City Council is making improvements to facilities along existing walking routes to increase walking amenity and improve the comfort level for walkers. Facilities such as seating and bubblers will be installed along selected routes. Resident suggestions for suitable locations for these facilities and other improvements are welcome. If you would like to nominate a suitable location please phone 9777 7706.
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A few weeks ago, the New York Times published an article saying that the Stuxnet worm, which infected a large number of Iran's nuclear power plants, was a joint effort between the United States and Israel. The program began under former president George W. Bush and continued under President Obama.
Last month, the Washington Post ran an article saying that the US and Israel collaborated in a joint effort to develop Flame and that work included Stuxnet.
But last month, on Breitbart.com, writer Joel Pollack says that Israeli officials are denying that claim. Rather than a leak that put Israel at risk because of mismanagement of national security information (i.e., revealing that the US was responsible with oops… Israel, too!), they say that Israeli intelligence first started developing the cyber weapon and had to convince the US to join in, and with some difficulty. The reason that president Obama is claiming credit for Stuxnet is to boost his re-election chances. From the article:
The source for the new claim is Yossi Melman, a journalist for Israel's left-wing Ha'aretz daily (via Israel Matzav):
The Israeli officials actually told me a different version. They said that it was Israeli intelligence that began, a few years earlier, a cyberspace campaign to damage and slow down Iran's nuclear intentions. And only later they managed to convince the USA to consider a joint operation — which, at the time, was unheard of. Even friendly nations are hesitant to share their technological and intelligence resources against a common enemy…
Yet my Israeli sources understand the sensitivity and the timing of the issue and are not going to be dragged into a battle over taking credit. "We know that it is the presidential election season," one Israeli added, "and don't want to spoil the party for President Obama and his officials, who shared in a twisted and manipulated way some of the behind-the-scenes secrets of the success of cyberwar."
This is a different spin on things but it's difficult to say which one is correct. It is true that all politicians will say things (or not say things) in order to boost their re-election chances. But based upon what I have read from Richard Clarke, former head of US Counter-Terrorism, his belief was that it was made in the US because it has (had) all sorts of controls in place to prevent it from doing collateral damage and that was most likely done at the insistence of lawyers, and he knows all about the culture of lawyers.
Whichever version is correct — either the US or Israel took the lead — what we know for sure is that state sponsored cyber weapons are a reality. Stuxnet (and Flame) have both changed the world. How many pieces of software can say that?
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Designed to meet the needs of women who consider hair colour to be a significant part of their overall image, the salon, in Dubai's upmarket Jumeirah district, has been carefully designed to create a truly unique hairdressing environment. Comfort and relaxation is key, with specially designed chairs, natural lighting and a unique one-on-one experience with the stylist, from initial colour consultation right through to final blow-dry.
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This Irish girl from Kilkenny, Maria Dowling has made a name for herself as the Arab world's leading hair colourist. With a career spanning more than 20 years in the industry, Maria is known for her precision work and creating the most flattering shades while intuitively knowing what a client wants and needs. Today, she successfully runs her busy salon and works with a loyal client base who trust her implicitly with their hair. Maria also co-runs her distribution business, House of Maria Dowling, supplying professional spa brands to hotels and spas across the Middle East.
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Almost half of Rebecca's 23-year career in hairdressing has been spent at the helm of mariadowling Salon, and is Maria's longest serving stylist and confidante. UK trained Rebecca is a big fan of Michelle Wiliams' pixie crop and loves 'making people feel fabulous' with her creative cutting and colouring talents!
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Rhiann joined mariadowling in January 2016 after working her way up t Style Director with Toni & Guy salon in the UK and then more recently running their Ras Al Khaimah salon. With 19 years in the business, Rhiann loves the creative side of the industry and has also worked on a variety of creative editorial shoots for regional magazines and blogs. Rita Ora is Rhiann's current hair crush.
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Delta Air Lines says it will robustly serve Bemidji area
Delta Air Lines, now the world's largest air carrier with service to 66 countries on six continents, says it will continue to robustly serve Bemidji.
"Your success here drives our success in feeding the hub, so we very much view this as a partnership," Tammy Lee Stanoch, Delta vice president for corporate affairs, told the Pioneer's Editorial Board on Thursday.
Northwest Airlines and Delta formally merged at the end of October, and since then has rebranded all its domestic stations, including all those in rural Minnesota, she said. The airline hopes to secure its single operating certificate by year's end, then casting all operations under Delta and headquartered in Atlanta, Ga.
"We view our partnership with these greater Minnesota communities as hand-in-glove," Stanoch said.
Airport managers in the 8th Congressional District, however, questioned that partnership when they met in late January in Bemidji with U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, DFL-8th District, who is chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee which oversees commercial airline regulation.
The airport managers had questions about Delta maintaining flights to rural Minnesota, status of regional carriers, pricing issues and being able to get queries answered timely from the new conglomeration.
"The article inspired us to get out on a greater Minnesota tour," Stanoch said of the Pioneer article of the managers' meeting with Oberstar. Delta officials this week are meeting with editorial boards in Duluth, Bemidji, Grand Forks and Fargo.
"We're beginning to help customers get used to the single brand standard," Stanoch said, adding that the separate policies under Northwest and Delta for the first and second checked bag, ticket changes, etc., have all been "harmonized."
Ticket kiosks in terminals now also recognize both Northwest and Delta ticket codes and record locator number, she said. Eleven Northwest aircraft have been repainted with the Delta logo, she added.
Consumers can now use their American Express credit card as an affinity card, meaning it will allow Sky Miles frequent flyer miles, Stanoch said. "That's a huge part of the synergies as we're expecting $2 billion annually in synergies in combining the two carriers. To win the business, American Express also put up $2 billion in cash commitment, because they know this will be the world's largest frequent flyer program and the world's biggest affinity program."
The new Delta announced Wednesday that it plans by the third quarter to merge the three regional carriers under Northwest and Delta -- Mesaba (Northwest Airlink), Comair and Compass -- into one subsidiary called Regional Handling Services.
That's a good move for Bemidji and other rural Minnesota airports, says Stanoch, as the new subsidiary will be headquartered in Minnesota.
"Those synergies are very important to the value of the merger, but also it ensures a much greater likelihood that service to greater Minnesota and the Upper Midwest is maintained," Stanoch said. "The regional oversight was in Atlanta ... Delta agreed, as part of the merger, to consolidate all of those functions at MSP (Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport)."
"That's great for airport directors in Minnesota, and nobody does it better than Bemidji, about making sure that the people who are making the schedules and making decisions know what's going on in the community, know what's going on at their airport," said Jeff Davidman, an attorney with Best & Flanagan LLP of Minneapolis and a Delta consultant.
"Having them in such close proximity and to understand the community, because they're just a few hours away, allows the two to meet on a more frequent basis and is a real advantage for airports in greater Minnesota," he said.
The regional carriers have more than 700 planes, Stanoch said, discounting a concern of Minnesota airport managers that an expansion of Essential Air Service locations will extend the retirement of regional jets and keep less desirable planes on Minnesota routes.
"I would call that concern unfounded and unwarranted because the aircraft type that we put around is based on demand," Stanoch said. "Granted, most people would prefer a regional jet over the Saab, but because we have the Saab and it has the right number seats on it, we can have three flights a day out of Bemidji, where if we were flying a 50-seater aircraft, we might only have two flights a day."
If there was the demand at Bemidji, Delta would place a 50-seat regional jet, she said.
"And it's not for the lack of availability of aircraft, because Delta works with numerous connection partners," Stanoch said. "Delta has a glut of regional airplanes right now -- they have too many regional airplanes in the fleet for the demand they have."
Davidman also said EAS applications specify service with certain aircraft, and all have been with the 34-seat turbo-prop Saab, not regional jets.
Stanoch said the new Delta is also conscious of pricing, and seeks to be competitive. At the Bemidji meeting of airport managers, it was noted that a flyer on the Iron Range could drive to Duluth and fly out than to connect from Hibbing-Chisholm Airport.
"We constantly monitor fares, and occasionally they get slightly out of whack," Stanoch said. "We looked at that (Hibbing-Chisholm). Air fares one-way were $15 and $30 higher out of Hibbing, so he was right on that. As soon as we see a problem , we immediately fix it and make sure that all the airports are competitive at the same fare structure."
Stanoch said Delta will make corrections "because we know that these airports have to be able to stand on their own, and we don't want to sacrifice one greater Minnesota airport for the benefit of another, because Delta needs this feed and we need these communities to be strong and continue to have air service that people will support."
And that support will even become more important as Southwest Airlines enters the market at MSP.
Oberstar tasked the airport managers to study the possibility of delinking the major airlines from regional carriers, as the major carriers can force regional carrier competitors out of a smaller airport by lowering fares.
But Stanoch said the direct connection offered by having regional carriers owned by the major airline is key. And few carriers not connected to a major carrier can survive in this economy.
"We have to keep fares attractive enough and the right capacity in the market so people will fly from Bemidji or from Hibbing, and not drive down to Minneapolis to get on a competing carrier," Stanoch said. "We want to get them on Delta in Bemidji and have then travel all the way through to wherever they're going."
If there was the demand, other carriers would do it, she said. "But for the strength of the hub system, you just can't make the numbers work."
Keeping one carrier also allows participation in the affinity program, seamless transition in terms of infrastructure such as luggage going into the system for the entire route, lower any risks in that process, said Mary Loeffelholz, Northwest regional director for airport affairs.
"For the customer who wants to fly out of Brainerd or Bemidji and travel the world, and get there on time, and safely with luggage, it's really seamless through a network carrier, and that's one of the big advantages that we can provide to the greater Minnesota communities," Loeffelholz said.
"I understand their argument," says Stanoch. "But we'll always compete very aggressively with any carrier, large or small, because this is a very competitive, thin-margin business. We know we've got to get the customer here and carry them all the way through the network."
Supply and demand control rates, she said. If there is only one seat on a flight as a customer walks up for a last-minute ticket, the rate will be at a premium, she said.
The three Delta officials came to Bemidji on a flight half-full, she said. "Those walk-up fares would be much, much less. It's seasonal demand, too. Summer here is much more peak demand."
Meanwhile, Stanoch said the average fare for Bemidji to Minneapolis in January 2008 was $223, and it stood at $229 for January this year with one less daily flight.
While Bemidji airport officials seek more flights for business passengers, Delta maintains that its scheduling matches demand.
"Even though we've taken about 10 percent capacity out of the schedule for the summer because of the economy and the recession, service to greater Minnesota has been maintained at previous levels," she said. Delta plans three daily departures out of Bemidji this summer, the same as 2008.
"That's a fairly substantial commitment for Delta to make, as we look at the economic gloom that's ahead," Stanoch said, adding that Duluth will increase one flight to eight daily departures.
The average load factor for Bemidji in January last year was 62 percent, she said, and was 67 percent this year. "Bemidji has done a pretty good job of maintaining passengers, even in a month like January which is a pretty weak month."
Adding a third winter flight would have load factors drop below 50 percent, Stanoch said. "We continue to look at the market and at demand cycles, and right now with the economy it's soft everywhere."
Delta would "always look at adding another flight if the market could bear it, but with these kinds of load factors, these are not profitable routes at these fares."


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While occasional yelling is common in families, parents who constantly yell at their children are subjecting their children to emotional abuse that researchers say can be as harmful as physical abuse. Check out some resources and tips for putting a halt on yelling and having a better relationship with your daughter. This is part two of Stop Yelling It Doesnt Help It Hurts
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Labeling- You are messy, untidy, lazy, naughty, stupid, a nuisance, a sissy, a bully, clumsy, fat, a little pig, shy, hopeless .
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Undermining- Ill do it, youre to slow . I love you but I dont like you.
Discouraging- Why do you always get it wrong?
Parents you know that yelling can be damaging to your daughter. It can escalate to name calling, mental abuse, and low self-esteem. Also, in the end they tend to tune you out over time. All the more reason to stop the yelling!
Keep in mind that some parents come from parents that yelled. This is not to say that its okay to yell it will just take a little longer to adjust to not yelling. Also, your daughter has no doughtily figured out how to push the right buttons to make you yell. This is a separate issue for attention.
Make good attempts to stop, access the situation and step away for a moment. Come back after calming and youll see that the conversation as well as moods will be better. At first, it may take a while to calm down before reacting but over time and practice youll move from trigger to a positive reaction in no time.
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Albertson's Inc., one of the world's largest food and drug retailers, on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings that exceeded both company guidance and First Call consensus estimates. Sales in the quarter totaled almost $9.6 billion.
Albertson's Inc., one of the world's largest food and drug retailers, on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings that exceeded both company guidance and First Call consensus estimates. Sales in the quarter totaled almost $9.6 billion. Before restructuring and other charges diluted EPS were $0.45 and net earnings for the period totaled $184 million. Company guidance for EPS was at least $0.43 and First Call consensus was $0.44.
Larry Johnston, Chairman and CEO said, "We are very encouraged by these results and remain committed to taking the steps necessary to unleash the full shareholder value that is inherent in this great company. The results we are reporting today prove that the plans we have implemented are beginning to give us traction to continue moving the company in the right direction. We will continue taking the steps necessary to sustain our positive momentum, remaining sharply focused on our five strategic imperatives."
For the 13-week period ended August 2, 2001, total sales increased 3.9% when compared to the year earlier period. Comparable store sales, including replacements increased 1.9% and identical store sales increased 1.5%.
As previously announced, the company recorded a charge in the second quarter to cover a major portion of its recently announced restructuring program. The second quarter charge totaled $558 million pretax, $0.82 per share, covering severance benefits, asset impairments and lease terminations including $450 million in noncash charges. Johnston said, "This restructuring plan is a major step in returning Albertson's to peak competitive condition. The associated charges will be justified in a relatively short period of time by the company's improved performance." Including restructuring and other charges, the company reported a net loss for the quarter of $151 million or $0.37 per share.
Commenting on the company's positive sales momentum, Peter Lynch, President and COO said, "Throughout this quarter, the company's increased investment in our strategic sales initiatives resulted in same-store sales growth above the velocity of the industry. This investment also drove a slight gross margin decrease during the quarter. However, in future quarters we will have a whole new source of funds to invest in the marketplace as we begin to realize the benefits of our restructuring activities. Our plan is to continue to drive positive sales momentum by investing a significant portion of these dollars in selected strategic markets. We fully expect that these actions, coupled with our continued thrust into corporate brands and value-added products, will result in both strong sales and improved gross margins."


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