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Clockwise from top left: Keith Wisakowsky, Casey Stafford, Gavin Satterfield, Brittany Parten, Blake Tucker, Billy Getzander, Alec Miller, Preston Peyrot
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No one will be going to jail for the alleged March 2015 sexual assault of a trainee volunteer firefighter with a link of chorizo if a deal tentatively agreed to Friday by the victim and the Ellis County District Attorney's Office is completed.
On March 31, 2015, the trainee firefighter told Ellis County sheriff's officers that Keith Wisakowsky, 27; Casey Stafford, 30; Alec Miller, 28; Blake Tucker, 19; and Preston Peyrot, 19, first attempted to sodomize him with a broom handle before settling on using a link of chorizo that was sitting in the fridge at the fire station. He was going through training to join their volunteer fire regiment.
According to a report from the Texas Rangers, brought in to investigate the complaint, Tucker and Stafford held the trainee down while Wisakowsky inserted the still-wrapped sausage into the trainee. Wisakowsky then cut the sausage out of the package, but it broke up when he tried to assault the trainee with it again.
The firefighters then let the trainee go, and he crawled to the bathroom, vomited and showered. While the trainee was cleaning up, someone took his clothes from the restroom. When the trainee came out of the restroom wearing a towel, Tucker took it, the trainee said, and he was forced to scramble to his truck naked to get some shorts.
In September 2015, eight people — the five firefighters, the chief and assistant chief of their Ellis County Emergency Service District 6 Volunteer Fire Department and Keith Wisakowsky's girlfriend, Brittany Parten, accused of capturing the attack on video — were indicted. The firefighters and Parten were charged with aggravated sexual assaulted. The chief, Gavin Satterfield, and assistant chief, Billy Getzendaner, were charged with witness tampering for allegedly trying to talk the trainee out of pressing charges.
Now, Wisakowsky is slated to be the person punished. According to the Ellis County District Attorney's Office, Wisakowsky has agreed to plead guilty to a Class A misdemeanor assault charge and serve two years probation. As part of the deal, the charges against the other firefighters and Parten will be dropped once a judge signs off on Wisakowsky's plea.
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Hi, I'm Levinson – welcome to my blog! Yes, its about law and justice, but no, its not boring!!!
The law is not always concerned with staid and dreary lawsuits; sometimes there are cases that are odd, to say the least. To start off my blog, I bring to you a collection of some of the most unusual cases to have been heard in the UK.
- Tracey Ormsby, a Policewoman, tried to claim £1.5million damages when she was hit on the head by a pineapple. The judge saw sense and reduced her award to just £3000.
- Lord Justice Ormrod, Lord Justice Dunn and Mr Justice Arnold made a memorable ruling in 1980, when they agreed that a woman who rationed sex to her husband was 'acting reasonably'.
- Cathy McGowan won a car on a local radio station, only to be presented with a toy one when she went to collect her prize. The court ruled that Radio Buxton pay her £8000 – the value of the apparently price Renault Clio – as they had entered into a legally binding contract.
- Schools were subject to a High Court order that they must inform children watching 'An Inconvenient Truth', the famous Al Gore climate change film, that it contains 'partisan political views'.
- Brian Clapton, a butcher, was subjected to a court order banning him from chopping meat too loudly between the hours of 6am and 8am.
- Procter and Gamble, the major multinational, managed to get a court to rule that Pringles are not, in fact, crisps, thus saving the company thousands in VAT applied to such products.
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November 10, 2016
Temple Israel
Reflection by Youth Minister Adrian Olsen
Have you ever visited a place of worship from another faith tradition or denomination? Our field trip to Temple Israel on Wed. Nov 2nd exceeded our expectations.
Confirmation youth, small group guides and the ReAffirmation class were greeted by our tour guide, Andy Halper and immediately this became a relational encounter. Andy's teaching style and gregarious personality were realized right away as he taught us to greet him saying, "Shalom, Andy" and he would greet us back, "Shalom, _________insert your name here". Every interaction he had with our group from that point on began with this greeting. In this way, he began to know us by our name; adults and youth alike.
Andy took us to two of their worship spaces. From the lobby, we moved into an intimate chapel like space. He taught us the three things you would always find at a Jewish Synagogue. He taught our group some Hebrew words and phrases to enhance our understanding. As a group, we were captivated by his knowledge and passion for his heritage.
The rest of our time was spent in the large worship space. Our group was enthralled by the architecture, the symbolism and the symmetry of the space. Andy explained that Temple Israel is a Reformed Jewish Community. This was an immediate connection for us as we just celebrated the Protestant Reformation this past Sunday. We could understand how we both want to keep important traditions alive while re-forming worship to reflect our changing world.
One thing I am sure we will all remember for a long time is when Andy let two of our youth open the "Ark" as he took out a very old scroll. Inside the hand stitched cover was a Torah (the books of Moses, the same first 5 books of our Old Testament). Temple Israel is one of only a few synagogues to have a Torah from the Czech Republic. This exact Torah had been read from by Jewish youth and adults who had perished in the Holocaust. And every time this Torah is taken out and read from, it is a reminder that God/Adonai is eternal.
After our visit, some thoughts linger, everyone should take a tour like this! The simple act of hearing another's story and acknowledging we do not believe the same things but can live in mutual respect and dignity is huge. This message was not lost on our group. How much more understanding and peace would we experience in our daily lives?
Right before our goodbye, Andy took time to make sure we all knew that we would always be welcomed at Temple Israel. My hope is that Cross of Peace can truly live out our mission to Welcome ALL people as we were welcomed at the synagogue.


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It's that time of year, Katchafire are on the road again! After blazing through the New Zealand festival circuit and conquering the United States twice in 2017, Katchafire are finishing off their Winter Tour with shows ...
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"Hi Sir," Bobby came to attention when he saw Terrance come in the room.
Terrance said, "From now on, you will call me Massa," which sounded all rather Darth Vadery to Bobby, but he was more than eager to comply.
"OK Master … owww!"
Hey! Terrance was armed with a fly swatter, and it stung! He'd picked it up off a dresser table.
"You didn't listen. 'Massa.' The 't' is silent. And you are not OK. A free man is OK. A slave is either good or bad, and that's it. Got it?"
"Got it … Massa."
"Here, take this pussy boy. I'm giving you a present." He kicked off his dress shoes and handed to him shoe polish, a dauber brush, and a buffing cloth.
"Figure out how to use this without making a mess."
Bobby thought he was supposed to smear the polish out of the can with a finger and immediately made a mess of that, which prompted another smack at him with the fly swatter.
"I thought I just told you not to make a mess. You use the brush to put the polish on, not your fingers."
Bobby held onto the sole of the shoe and started to do a tentative, spotty job of applying polish all around the heel and the uppers using the brush. Terrance observed unmoving, neither expressing approval nor disapproval, up to the point where he smacked Bobby square on the front of his cock with no warning, which really hurt.
Bobby put his hands with the shoe in them in front of his cock and said, "Massa … look, I'm really sorry. I want to learn, but I just don't know how to do it."
Terrance said, "I know, and I'm teaching you."
Terrance's preferred method of teaching was to present you with a task, tell you little or nothing about how to do it, but give you clues along the way that you're doing it wrong in the form of stinging, precision strikes on your unit. Bobby now understood that the teaching could not continue until he lifted up his hands away from the area where instruction is delivered. He lifted up his hands with the shoe and started to polish again, which prompted another well aimed strike.
"Could I have a clue?" He got another smack.
Massa was going to stand there silent and keep hitting him until he changed something, but what?
"Shoe laces? I'm supposed to take the laces out, maybe?"
Bobby unlaced the shoe and put the lace over his shoulder, and he warily started to polish again, staring at Massa, looking for some sign.... He didn't hit Bobby, so he was on the right track.
Proceeding further along in this way, Bobby thus learned an entire procedure for shining Massa's shoes by trial and error, receiving lots of instruction via his cock and balls.
Bobby in his good-natured way also wanted to share some constructive feedback. "Massa, just so you know for your information in the future… my balls are really, really sensitive; so, you don't actually need to hit them that hard."
Massa smiled. "Really? Why thank you Mattress for giving me that FYI."
"Mattress, this is what I like to call a teachable moment. Now, you were given to me as a present. You were purchased from a store as a gift. That makes you property. I don't really want you, but it makes you my slave for now. And, I feel as though I would be derelict in my responsibilities as the master of a slave if I didn't teach you how to talk and behave right. So now, would you please do me a big, big favor and just grab hold of your dick and yank it way up high so that it's not hanging down in front of your balls in my strike path?"
Bobby pulled up his cock up with some understandable level of wariness and concern, given the way Massa was holding that fly swatter.
"Second of all,…" Terrance made that fly swatter whistle through the air. "Hguuu!"
Bobby's balls ricocheted, and he felt dizzy. He abruptly sat down.
"… I do not want to hear about how sensitive you are. This is not sensitivity training here. Come on now, get up."
"Now, 'sensitive' is a very big word, Mattress. It has three syllables. Slaves do not use big words, and slaves are not sensitive. From now on, Mattress, everything is either going to be painin you or else it's not painin you yet. Understand?"
"Yes Massa."
"So, tell me again about your balls, Mattress."
"My … balls are paining me."
Massa hit Bobby again. He made no sound but started to double over. Bobby complained, "Aahhh, what did I say wrong now?"
"Stand up straight when I am instructing you, Mattress. Now, repeat after me: 'is painin.'
Bobby repeated "is paining…" but again Terrance walloped him. He'd switched his grip and did a kind of a backhand this time.
Terrance said, "Do not flinch away from me, Mattress. The 'g' is silent. Again."
"My balls … is painin me."
"Now, what did you say to me right after that?"
"I said…" Whack! Terrance hit him again.
Terrance said, "Pull your dick up higher and get up on the tips of your toes, Mattress. You need to pay attention to the tense of the verb:
I say; I's gwine say; I don said; I bin gwine say."
"You pay attention and learn how to talk right. You and me, we are going to be having lots of conversations like this."
Bobby tried again. "I don said, 'What I say … bad … now?'" Bobby braced himself for another hit, but Massa said that he was making progress.
"Now, how do you thank Massa when he teaches you new things, Mattress?"
Bobby took a deep breath. This was a whole new mine field now.
"I say…, thank you?…(ouch!)" Talking with Terrance just hurt like a mother-fucker.
Terrance said, "No. Repeat: 'I is grayful…'
Bobby said, "I is greatful…(aahah!) ... grayful … to (ouwww!)"
Jesus Christ! What could possibly be wrong with "to?"
Terrance said, "Your pronunciation is off: 'ta.'"
Bobby summed up, "I is grayful ta ya fo teaching me…(nnggeh!)"
Massa whipped him again, this time more on his left-side ball, which had been getting less attention.
Terrance said, "No. Wrong again in so many ways. I am teaching you, but you are not being taught: you is lernin."
Bobby tried one more time, "I is grayful ta ya fo lernin me … ta … talk ... good?"
Terrance frowned slightly disappointed to find no fault with that. The kid was a quick learner.
Massa said, "That's enough for now. Mattress, do me another big favor? When you see me and come to attention, just automatically yank your dick up out of the way from now on. That way we can save time and get right to business."
Downstairs at the dinner table, Alvin asked, "Terrance, why in the world are making the boy talk stupid like that?"
"I just think if he is going to be here in this house for a while – and believe me, it won't be more than just a while – he ought to get a little history lesson and learn something about how to talk and act properly like a real slave. That's all."
As an English professor, Terrance was very familiar with the historical context and the construction of pidgin language. A pidgin is a stripped-down lite version of a language that is sufficient only for communicating in a very direct and basic way. A pidgin language is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two groups of people that otherwise have no language in common, such as between masters and their slave property. West African Pidgin English was the only language that slaves could use to talk to their masters on plantations in the pre-war American South. Pidgin English has a small vocabulary and a simple sentence structure. Pidgin worked in the interest of slave owners, because it constrained freedom of thought. Language is thought. There were simply not enough words available to speak or think complicated thoughts in pidgin English.
Mattress would be trained from now on to only speak pidgin to his Massa.
Alvin thought this development was all a little weird, but it encouraged him to see that Terrance was somehow engaged and making a project out of the boy. Maybe, they could keep him after all.
Daddy said, "I'm going to have to spank you now, Mattress. I'm going to have to spank you hard, and I'm going to have to spank you with extreme prejudice."
Bobby shuddered and tried to prepare himself. Wasn't that how the CIA finally broke down Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
Bobby bent over his Daddy's knee in position for the spanking with prejudice.
Whack … whack ... whack … whack …
Daddy was a slow methodical spanker who focused intently on the goal of a building inexorable glow that accumulated with each successive stroke until it finally exploded into ass cheeks on fire. And once it reached that point, all he had to do was keep fanning the flames.
Whack ... whack ... whack … whack …
There was no drama. There was no counting. It just continued, on and on and on like the slow beat of a powerful drum.
Spanking has fallen out of favor in recent times, but Daddy was old-school in his approach to discipline. Spanking was a completely new experience for Bobby, because he was post-millennial generation. His parents sent him to time-out when he was a bad child; so, he'd missed that whole character-building experience of being turned over a knee and spanked until his face was as red as his behind. But, he was learning all about that now.
Daddy paused and rubbed his hands all over Bobby's butt as if he was warming his hands over smoldering coals. "OK. Tell Daddy what you did now. Why are you getting a spanking, boy?"
Bobby sniffled. No. He wasn't crying, but his head was bent down over Daddy's knee, and his nose just got a little runny is all.
"I ... sniff … I'm being spanked because … sniff … I played with myself when nobody was home," which was true.
Bobby had a lot of time alone to himself during afternoons when Paulina was done straightening up and Daddy and Massa were at work. He was on the floor chained to a bed, and it was boring. He didn't see any harm in entertaining himself as best he could. He would lie down on the floor a few feet away from the bed and masturbate until he shot his cum onto his chest and stomach. He was careful not to spray on the bed, because he knew they'd object to that. Some of it did get onto the wood floor, and he was pretty sure they wouldn't want that either. He didn't have access to anything he could use to wipe up with; so, he could only cover his tracks by licking the floor clean in those spots. There was a lot of it, and some usually dripped down into his balls.
He figured out how to lick his own hand like a cat would do and then use it to wash himself clean everywhere until he got himself cum-free, no evidence. Really, he must have known or suspected it was wrong, because he made every effort to hide it. He'd just assumed he was alone in private and could go on pretending forever that it was not happening.
"How many times, Mattress?"
"Umm … I think … eight? … ten times."
"Wow. You've been busy. So, that means we will need to have at least nine more spanking sessions like this one – one for every time, isn't that right, boy?"
"Yes. Daddy."
It is not completely true that that Bobby had nothing at all to wipe up with. He did have the buffing cloth that Massa had given him to shine shoes. Massa had started to keep his shoes lined up at the foot of the bed within range where Bobby could reach them. The shine cloth was by now mottled with black scuff marks as a result of his continuing daily efforts to improve.
He was being rather slowly and painfully taught how to do a proper spit shine. He often spit on the cloth. The point is that a cum stain here or there on it would not stand out obviously noticeable. He'd actually thought about using it, but it was sort of a gift and one of the only possessions he was allowed to have. It didn't seem right to use it that way.
"And what are you NOT going to do from now on?"
"I's not gwine ta … sorry … I'm not going to play with myself anymore home alone."
"And what's the new rule?"
"I ... will always ask my Daddy for permission and never do it alone … unsupervised."
"And remind me, what's our other rule?"
"–that I'm gonna try harder not to squirt on the new bed sheets when Daddy is fucking me."
Alvin rubbed Bobby's pretty red butt more and said, "good boy."
He also played with Bobby's cock, which was hanging down over the side of one leg. It really was a thing to be proud of. It was thick, veiny, and thumped on his leg when he lifted and let go of it. It even had freckles.
"Hey, Daddy, are you playing with my cock because you want me to cum for you now?" Bobby asked.
"No. I'm just admiring," Daddy said. "Daddy understands you are a growing boy and will always want to play with this, but you have to be closely supervised. We'll discuss that more after we're done with all the other spankings you've got coming."
"Thank you for taking care of me Daddy."
Bobby wiggled his butt under Daddy's hand, because he knew Daddy would like that. It was so important to Bobby that he maintain a good relationship with Daddy, because Massa was just fuckin' scary, and there was no pleasing him.
Bobby still didn't see how they knew what he was doing alone here in the bedroom, but he realized that he was somehow monitored even when he thought he was alone. They could probably see every time he scratched his butt and picked his nose if they wanted to, and he had nothing private that they couldn't oversee.
As if reading Bobby's mind Daddy said, "Paulina's been giving me reports that you're always a very good and well-mannered boy with her when she comes in mornings. She says you are very neat and clean when she gives you the potty chair, and you never splash. She also says you do a very good job washing yourself and cleaning out your anus when you're done. I'm very proud of you. You're doing a very good job."
"Thank you, Daddy."
Bobby was reluctant to discuss the potty chair. But, there was something he did want to ask.
"Daddy, may I please shave?"
Bobby's beard was growing out. His chest was getting prickly. His ass crack and balls were getting fuzzy. He was accustomed to grooming himself much more thoroughly. His head hair was all over the place, because he didn't have any mousse. A fashion model would never be seen looking so scruffy.
Daddy said, "It doesn't really matter that much to me, you being hairy or smooth. I think you're pretty either way. But if it is bothering you a lot, then I will ask Paulina to let you use a disposable razor."
Poor Mattress didn't have any idea what he'd done now to make Massa so angry with him. Whatever it was, he was more than eager to apologize abjectly and abase himself in any way and every way. Unfortunately, even that was another mistake.
"Massa, I apologize fo…ouuww! Goddammit!"
"Mattress, how many syllables in 'apologize'?"
"Try again."
"Massa I … sorry … fo … fo … painin you?"
"Yes. You are sorry, Mattress."
Massa had decided to hang Mattress upside down from a coat rack and torture his balls that way, because he was inspired by the performance of Jamie Foxx in the movie "Django Unchained."
Bobby's feet were up in the air with the chain on his one ankle trailing all the way down behind his back to the attachment point on the bed. The coat rack was put right up against the side of the bed. In this orientation Bobby's cock hung down on his stomach and his balls flopped forward over it in excellent position. The top of Bobby's head was less than an inch above the floor, and he had a clear view of Massa's shoes and the cuffs of his pant legs, but Bobby couldn't see Massa's face at all way up where his feet were. Bobby's wrists were bound behind his back, because his hands weren't needed to hold his cock out of the way anymore. Incidentally, Bobby's theft protection device also stuck out clearly visible in this orientation, pointing up between his legs near the base of his sack like an antenna.
"What exactly are you sorry for Mattress? What did you do that's painin me?"
"No sabi, Massa."
Massa had changed things up a little. Today, along with the fly swatter he also came armed with a foam rubber coated nerf bat. He now took a swing with the nerf bat to make a solid deep resounding thud on Mattress's ball bag.
Mattress groaned, "Massa please, really, no sabi!"
Massa had promised Mattress that his balls would start to toughen up and he would get used to this type of punishment, but he was being really rough today. The only practical reason for a slave to have balls is as a means to provide motivation and discipline, and Massa was never letting them go to waste.
"No idea at all, Mattress? Can't think of a thing? Really? What happened to your neck and your chin and your baby smooth balls that I'm looking over up here?"
"I … I shaved Massa."
"Where'd you get the razor?"
"From Daddy, Massa."
"Oh really? Please be so kind as to explain this to me, Mattress. Why are you going around behind my back asking your Daddy for special favors?"
"Go on now. Explain. There must be some good reason why you would do that. I'm very eager to know."
"I …, I …." There was no good way to answer this.
"–because, you know that you were my present, and therefore you belong to me first. Don't you?"
Mattress agreed, "Yes, Massa. I is yours firs. I is yours firs las … ever way."
"So I repeat myself, Mattress. Why did you ask your Daddy for special favors before you asked me?"
"I asked Daddy because ... (ooohwoooh!)"
"Try that again."
Mattress attempted once more, "I … don aks Daddy … cus … whenever (yeaaaow … hha ... ha!)"
"How many syllables, Mattress?
"… Three."
"Let me help you. The slave word you are looking for is 'iffn.'"
Mattress tried again. "I don aks Daddy cus iffn…."
This is what Bobby so hated about being made to speak pidgin. If he could just say it the way he wanted to, he could finesse it. He could try to qualify it and cut the tension with some flattery or humor. He could be clever. But now, all he could do was come out and say this outright, nakedly, with no defense at all.
"I don aks Daddy cus iffn I aks you I know you qwine say no." Bobby braced himself.
Terrance had to leave the room for a minute so that Bobby wouldn't hear him stifle a laugh. After a fair amount of work he'd gotten Mattress to finally say exactly what he wanted him to say, and when it finally came out in words, it was just so damn funny.
When Terrance came back to the bedroom, he said, "Mattress, you are a fucking genius debater. There is no way I can argue with you. You are absolutely right. I probably would say no."
Massa stuck the head of his fly swatter underneath of Bobby's cock and lifted it up. "Mattress, have I ever told you how disgusting your dick is? I notice it even more now it's up here in my face."
"Yes Massa. You say dat offn."
"It smells funny too. I want you to clean your dick better from now on, Mattress, because I don't want have to smell that up here. Understand?"
Mattress said "I sorry Massa. I pay mo attention…(noooo!)," which resulted in three swats in rapid succession on his nutsack again.
When Bobby's head cleared, Massa said, "From now on, Mattress I'm just going to give you a little tap for every syllable, because telling you repeatedly grows tedious. What was that now?"
"… I gwine pay mo … mind ta washin my dick so's it don smell bad."
Terrance was gently tapping on the head of Bobby's cock with his fly swatter ready to pounce if he said it wrong. And, of all the wrong times for it to happen, Bobby's cock got hard when he just kept tapping on it.
"Mattress, I can't believe this. Are you … are you … deliberately trying to provoke me?"
"No Massa. I never wants ta provoke you."
"Yes, you are! I think you are getting your filthy, stinking dick hard on purpose just so you can poke it in my face!"
This was some kind of mental cross-wiring Bobby hadn't known he had. Massa continued tapping on the head of Bobby's cock with his fly swatter and went on and on about Bobby's disgusting smell and his pale speckled cock and how offensive it was to have to look at this floppy thing. Bobby's penis kept expanding, thus becoming ever more offensive to Massa as he kept piling on more ridicule of it.
Girls and guys worshiped Bobby's cock. Nobody had ever talked to Bobby like this, and he could not make sense of his own reaction to it. When Massa kept on and on complaining how his dick was obscene, disgusting, and smelled, it would start to make him more and more hot.
"I'm in a quandary here, Mattress. I just don't know what to do. Can I fix this problem by hitting it more, or is that going make it even worse?"
He continued tapping on it. Then he said, "Come to think of it, why am I doing all the work?"
He told Mattress to arch his back reaching his bound hands all the way up behind him in the crack of his own ass until he could get hold of the free end of his mattress tag. "Hold onto that tag and buck your hips forward toward me."
Massa stood there and made him swing and thrust his hips out to push the head of his stiff cock into the fly swatter himself.
"I think if I had any more time with you I'd figure out a way to tame this monstrosity."
Terrance, sadly, realized that he was going to have to leave this scene without being completely fulfilled by it. Even though Bobby felt overwhelmed by what he was doing to him, Terrance would have been prepared to go much further. But, the logic of how Terrance's mind worked was that he could only permit himself to torture a boy to the extent that he actually deserved it.
Terrance knew all about the masturbation issue, which was already being dealt with. He'd really sincerely hoped that the boy would have been dumb enough to use his shine cloth as a cum rag. Terrance had lain awake at night imagining the truly epic punishment he could have given him for that, if only the boy could have just learned to be more stupid and worthy of torment. It was such a regrettable missed opportunity, and it profoundly annoyed him.
"Mattress, I've decided that it is time for you to go now. I'm going to call the store in the morning and arrange for them to take you back. We've decided to trade you in for a water bed."
Bobby was completely taken by surprise. He understood now that he'd screwed up a little and pissed off Massa, but he didn't think it was irreparable. He was really trying to fit in here, and he definitely didn't want to be resold.
"No. No. No. Massa, please. I wants to stay. Don't trade me fo no water bed, please, please!"
Terrance said, "I'm not going to argue with you about it. Maybe, you should go and beg your Daddy and wiggle your ass at him to see if you can get a different answer. You're really good at that."
"No. No Masa. I qwine aks you firs ever time."
"Actually, why even wait until tomorrow? I think there's still time that I can contact your store today. The sooner we get you out of here, the better. I've got to go look for that customer service number."
Terrance just left Bobby hanging there upside down. Hot tears began to stream upward into his chestnut hair. Suddenly this was all over, and there was nothing he could do. He'd tried his best to please them but totally fucked it up. He was going to be secondhand goods and go to ruin. After he had hung there alone for some time he was able to finally make peace.
"I surrender. I'll accept whatever is meant to be. And, I'll try to be brave about it when they come to take me away."
Downstairs at the dinner table, Alvin asked, "Terrance, please level me. After all this…, you don't really mean to trade the boy in for a water bed, do you?"
"Oh hell no," said Terrance. "We will not be trading him, just yet. I am somewhat perplexed. But, I sense he still has lots of potential to fuck up and be tormented for it in the future."
"But, Alvin, don't you go letting him know that. I mean it – not an inkling. I am looking forward to months, maybe years, of him all the time, hop to attention – yes Massa, no Massa, sorry Massa – worrying about us trading him in. Don't you screw it up. Remember he is my present, not yours."
Alvin said, "Terrance, sometimes I just can't even comprehend how you can get to be so evil. But, it's part of what I love about you, baby."
"I know you do," said Terrance.
Although he would never be allowed to know it, Mattress won out. He had succeeded in delighting both of his owners so that they would not want to let him go. He would not be unchained, but neither would he be resold as secondhand goods. He would never end up hitched to a vibrating bed in a pay-by-the-hour motel in Vegas. Despite obstacles and challenges, he achieved for himself a favorable outcome. He was a lucky boy.
It's true that some things were painin him. But looking on the bright side, many other things still weren't painin him – yet.


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edit How to Play
To play hattrick, each team of 4-9 players (8 in official matches) must have 4-9 (8 in official matches) of the following items:
Games are played with 2-8 (4 in official matches) teams. Each player must be wearing the hat they are going to throw before they throw it. When the whistle/horn/gong/whatever (Gun in official matches) makes a sound, each player throws their hats one at a time into the air and the height it reaches is recorded. the team whose last hat lands last is eliminated. then the score is worked out by dividing the height the hat flew by the height of the hat for sanity reasons. the team with the most points wins.
edit International
Hattrick was introduced into the 2052 Summer Sporting Championships but was taken off the list of events in 2076 due to the dominance of George Carey. His team (England in official matches) won every gold medal during 2064-2072. Rumor has it that it will be put on the list again next year because George Carey died in 2081.
Hattrick was introduced into the U-20 Summer Sporting Championships in 2060 after a request from Bob Sunesson and has been a part of it since. The latest winner was obviously Scandinavia (Sweden in official matches). Hattrick has also been exhibitioned at the Football World Cup in 2026 and 2042 and will most likely be exhibitioned again in 8 years time.
Since then, Hattrick has been played in many countries, and national leagues have been formed in the continents of Scandinavia (Sweden in official matches), Europe, South America and smaller ones elswhere.
edit Variants
Many leagues decide not to eliminate the team whose last hat fell last, while others changed the formula for scoring to be more fair on bigger hats or the reverse, if you want to join a Hattrick league, please consult the league manager (Owner in official leagues) for more information.
edit Notable Hattrick Players
This is a list of notable hattrick players.
edit Professional Players
- George Carey
- Bob Sunesson (Bob in official matches)
- Craig Wozniak
- Klas Løvelund
- Herman Vooijs
No women who play Hattrick are notable enough to be on this list.


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Plastique/marzipan Under Fondant??
Decorating By SgtGoodie Updated 27 Jan 2011 , 6:28am by SgtGoodie
I'm looking through my cake decor books and magazines again for some ideas. One of my books is by Mich Turner called (of course) "Wedding Cakes" and in her recipes I notice that all of the cake has two layers of frosting. One is a light yellowish tan color and the other is white and I remember in another book of mine called "The Well Decorated Cake" by Toba Garrett she covered a cake with marzipan and then many layers of royal icing achieving a vrey smooth finished look.
Looking further through the Mich Turner book I see that she discusses wrapping cake in marzipan or with chocolate plastique to be covered with either royal icing or rolled fondant. Her book actually says that "it is essential to first cover your cake with marzipan or chocolate plastique" and that "it will lock in moisture, provide a smooth firm base for a smart finish with your top coat, and prevents color of your cake from leaching into the icing."
So even though I've had these books for some time I didn't notice this. I covered my cakes with a chocolate ganasch before putting on the fondant. Does anyone know how these layers taste on the cake? Can they go under a buttercream icing? I would imagine that the chocolate may taste better.
i haven't tried covering cakes first w/ marzipan, but i've used it for molding figures & they tasted good
In England the traditional celebration cake is fruit cake. The fruit cake was covered with a layer of marzipan to seal in any juices that might seep out, then covered with royal icing or, more recently, fondant.
You can use marzipan on a regular, American-style cake and it will taste good...but it's really expensive here. The little 7 oz tube in the grocery store goes for about $5, and you can make your own, but almond meal is about $12 per pound.
Texas Rose is correct. also, keep in mind that many people have nut allergies, so if you use Marzipan, you need to let the customer know. That's one reason I generally don't use it.
The cake is for my daughter. (yes another daughter getting maried) I'm not sure what kind of cake I'll make this time.
Toba Garrett mentioned in her book that the process is much more a European thing than here in the USA. Her book said that the Marzipan would be covered with many thin layers of royal icing which ended up beng practically perfectly smooth.
I would like to cover it with a thin layer and then buttercream (not sure what flavor as of yet but it will be snow white). If not, I think a nice semi-soft layer of tasty white chocolate plastique under royal will be fine depending on the flavor of the WCP.
Mich's book has the recipe for WCP and in her book there's a list of celebrities that she has made the wedding cakes for which is quite an impressive list.
I'm actually thinking of trying to use light chocolate cream cake and raspberry swirled cheesecake under the WCP and whatever I end up using on the outside. I'm not sure yet.
Have any of you all ever tried to put c layer of cheesecake in the center of your wedding cakes like a filling. I was thinking of splitting each chocolate cremecake and filling with a dark chocolate fillng so there would be two layers of cake with DC filling on top of thecheesecake filling layer and another just like it under the cheesecake.


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Beginning in ninth grade, Holy Child students are enrolled in a variety of courses, participate in extracurricular activities, and develop relationships with their peers and faculty. In turn, the faculty and administration get to know and value each girl for what she brings to our community, ensuring that she is offered every opportunity to excel and make the most of her time at Holy Child. By senior year, each student's experiences and relationships render her mature and prepared for the transition to college.
- Grades Nine and Ten
- Grade Eleven
- Grade Twelve
- College Admission Visitors at Holy Child
- College Application Programs & Plans
Grades Nine and Ten
In grades nine and ten, Holy Child students focus on academic progress. In addition, students are encouraged to explore opportunities to be engaged in the Holy Child community outside the classroom. The College Counseling staff introduces parents to the college admissions process by hosting grade-specific, informative gatherings on college admissions.
In her first two years, a Holy Child student will:
- Enroll in a solid academic program that challenges her to pursue academic excellence, and explore new subject areas whenever possible
- Read! There is nothing more important than finding time to read beyond the classroom. Reading is essential to preparing for college and readying oneself for standardized testing.
- Research and participate in a meaningful way in service opportunities.
- Get involved in extracurricular opportunities in the arts, athletics and more.
- Consider and take on leadership roles within the classroom and beyond.
- Form friendships and establish relationships with teachers and administrators.
- Gain confidence interacting with adults in group settings, as well as one-on-one.
- Take the PSAT/NMSQT test in her sophomore year,
- Use summer to pursue interests in service work, attend specialty courses, participate in sports camps or seek employment. Demonstrating commitment, responsibility and passion is imperative to the college application process.
- Maintain a positive social media presence.
Grade Eleven
The College Counseling team works closely with juniors in small-group settings and individual meetings to prepare each girl for every aspect of the college admission process. Each student and her parents meet with the Director of College Counseling to discuss family priorities and explore preliminary college choices. By junior year, Holy Child students are prepared and encouraged to take the lead in this exciting journey.
- In October, all juniors take the PSAT/MNSQT exam.
- In the fall, students have an option to take a practice ACT to help determine which exam - the SAT or the ACT - is better suited for them.
- In December, the college guidance course begins. In this weekly class, college counselors provide information and guidance on all aspects of the process, including:
- Understanding terminology
- Creating a college prospect list
- Working with Naviance
- Writing a college essay
- Preparing a resume
- Keys to successful college visits and interviews
- Completion of the college application
- Beginning in January, the College Counseling staff meets individually with every junior. Following the student-centered meetings, the staff meets with parents and students together to discuss college plans and priorities. Parents are asked to submit a parent questionnaire about their daughter.
- The College Counseling office hosts a Junior Parent College Night information session. Students and parents are expected to attend, as key information about the process is provided.
- By the end of junior year, each student will complete the following:
- Research a variety of colleges and develop a balanced list of colleges for application
- Take the SAT or the ACT
- Brainstorm topics and begin writing her college essay
Grade Twelve
As seniors, students maintain their academic progress, while completing their college applications. Seniors' first trimester grades are provided to colleges. Their leadership in the community is essential, whether they serve as peer leaders, captains of teams, leaders of clubs and other extracurricular activities. Below outlines the final stages of the college application process for seniors.
- In September, the College Counseling office will host a Senior Parent College Night. Seniors and their parents attend this informative session that provides guidance and recommendations for facilitating for the final stages of the college application process.
- In the fall...
- Seniors meet with the College Counseling staff to devise a final list of colleges and action plan for the application process.
- Seniors share and discuss drafts of their college essays with College Counseling staff.
- The College Counseling office hosts a financial aid workshop to assist families who expect to apply for financial aid.
- Seniors continue to attend weekly college guidance classes through the end of the first trimester.
- College Counseling continues to work with each senior to ensure that each girl completes each application well and on time, reviewing her essay(s) and answering her application questions along the way.
- From January to May, College Counseling continues to support the seniors as they receive decisions from each college.
- All seniors decide on their college choice by May 1 - the national decision day.
Standardized Testing
There are a variety of standardized tests that students will take as part of the college admission process. Below are the 2016-2017 test dates and registration deadlines. Click on the links below for more information about each of the tests listed.
SAT & SAT Subject Test
Consult www.collegeboard.org for SAT, SAT subject test, AP and PSAT information.
ACT Test:
Consult www.act.org for information about the ACT.
Test Optional Colleges:
Consult www.fairtest.org for a list of schools that are standardized test optional.
SAT & SAT Subject Test:
Consult www.collegeboard.org for SAT, SAT subject test, AP and PSAT information.
College Admission Options
Financial Aid & Scholarships
Financial Aid
Every family is encouraged to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Many schools only require the FAFSA to determine financial aid eligibility. Other colleges require a CSS Profile to determine need-based institutional aid. Please check an institution's Financial Aid Webpage in order to determine their required forms and deadlines.
For the FAFSA, visit www.fafsa.ed.gov/index.html
For the CSS Profile, visit css.collegeboard.org
Scholarship monies are awarded by an institution, corporate sponsors or local organizations. Information regarding merit-based scholarship money awarded by an institution can be found on their website or www.scholarships.com
College Admission Visitors at Holy Child
Each year, nearly 100 admission officers visit Holy Child. The visitor is most often the first reader of a student's application, and will be presenting the student during the admissions committee review. Their visits to Holy Child provide a great opportunity for our students to meet with and make an impression upon the admission officer.
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College Application Programs & Plans
There are several types of application programs currently in use.
Common Application
For a comprehensive list of schools using the Common App, and to create an account, visit www.commonapp.org
The Coalition for Access, Affordability & Success Application
For information on the Coalition, and to view a list of member schools, visit www.coalitionforcollegeacces.org
School-specific Applications
Several colleges have their own application and do not accept the Common Application or the Coalition. Visit each college's website to determine which application(s) it accepts.
There are several ways students can apply to college. Application options offered by the U.S. colleges and universities include:
Early Decision I / Early Decision II
Early Action / Early Action-Restrictive
Regular Decision
Rolling Decision


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Chair: Gill Rigg, LSCB Chair
The Business Group is led by Gill Rigg, Independent Chair of the LSCB. Members of the group include all Sub Group chairs. For details of the LSCB Sub Groups please see below:
Case Review Chair: Louise Mason-Lodge, Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group
Child Death Overview Panel Chair: Colin Cox, Public Health
Reviewing all deaths up to the age of 18, excluding both those babies who are stillborn and planned terminations of pregnancy carried out within the law. The group collects and collates information on each child and seeks relevant information from professionals and family members. Where a suspicion arises that neglect or abuse may have been a factor in the child's death, referring a case back to the LSCB Chair for consideration of whether an SCR is required.
Professionals - If you would like to refer a case to the Case Review Group please complete a referral form, see Procedures (Referral for Case Review Group form).
Chair: Pam Hutton. East Cumbria Family Support
The Communications and Engagement group exists to provide the support, guidance, planning and delivery of communications and engagement activity for the LSCB, its sub groups and their stakeholders. The Communications and Engagement group will use the wider network offered by LSCB members to communicate and engage with the children's workforce.
Chair: Claire Render, Wreay C of E Primary School
Remit: Support the LSCB in ensuring that education settings and providers, exercise their functions with a view to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Chair: Louise Mason-Lodge, Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group
The group will plan, co-ordinate, commission and evaluate high quality multi-agency training to the children's workforce.
The group will ensure that the learning and development provided within agencies will equip professionals to safeguard children.
Contribute to the development of staff and organisations on a multi-agency basis.
Chair: Richard Simpson, Barnardos
To establish and maintain the basket of multi-agency key performance indicators and quality measures to monitor our strategic objectives.
Reporting to the Performance Management and Quality Assurance Sub Group are three locality based Quality Assurance Groups (QAGs). The QAGs provide regular and robust challenge and scrutiny, to identify good practice, effectively challenge partners on quality and improve outcomes for children and young people in Cumbria.
QAG Chairs:
Mel Baxendale, North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust (West QAG)
Elizabeth Curtis, Children and Family Services (South QAG)
David Pattinson, Cumbria Constabulary (North & Eden QAG)
Chair: Melanie Baxendale, North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust
To commission and recommend for approval by the LSCB, Policies and Procedures that result in effective multi-agency working together to safeguard and protect the children and young people of Cumbria.
Chair: Deborah Evans, Children and Family Services
Remit: Set the strategic vision, operation model, deliverables and direction for the Multi-agency safeguarding Hub.


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Baking A Chocolate Cake - Continuous Disaster - Help!
Baking By Lozenger Updated 24 Sep 2011 , 9:16pm by cakestyles
Hi everyone,
I have made two recent attempts to bake chocolate cake one with a receipe and one from a bag!
I made the bag cake first, greased and lined the 6 inch pan cooked as instructed and when I took it from the oven at the time instructed, it was still very wet. So i put it back in for 10 mins and took it out again, it was the same! So on and so forth for approx an extra 1/2 hour! then the outside was dry and the inside was stodgy!
So i tried a friends recommended recipe, used a different 6 inch pan, didn't line it just greased it. Recipe was 170g of caster sugar, self raising flour, marg. Teaspoon of baking powder, 3 eggs and 1 tablespoon of coco powder, oven 160 degrees for 1/2 hour and the same thing happened as above....
Can anyone tell me why this has happened twice?
thank you.
Try using cake strips around your pan and a flower nail in the middle. Those will help the cake to bake evenly.
Could it be that your oven's temp is a bit off? You might want to get a thermometer to check the accuracy of the temp before baking again next time.
I think your oven temp is off, too. You should need a nail or heating core in a 6 inch pan. Do other things bake correctly for you?
I believe cheatize meant you shouldn't need a nail or core in a six inch. Usually just for larger cakes.
160 degrees farenheit or celcius?
Does the recipe call for a 6" pan?


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