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How one woman raises three autistic daughters, loses one at Disney world, stays married, has sex, bakes gluten-free, goes broke, and keeps her sense of humor.
"Dr. Spock? Check. Penelope Ann Leach (Remember her?) Check. What to Expect When You're Expecting? Check. I had a 700 dollar Bellini crib for God's sake! Everything was perfect…."
And so begins Kim Stagliano's electrifying and hilarious memoir of her family's journey raising three daughters with autism. Always outspoken, often touching, and sometimes heartbreaking, Kim Stagliano is a powerful new voice in comedic writing - her "Kimoir" (as she calls it) is the next must-listen within the autism community and the literary world at large.
Author Kim Stagliano sums up the experience of listening to her own work, All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism, pretty well when she says by way of introduction, "When you finish All I Can Handle I hope you'll have laughed a lot, cried a little."
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On January 7, Christopher Melling and his daughter Aimee were found dead at their home in Burwell. Preliminary results show Christopher shot his daughter and took his own life after.
Wednesday afternoon Christopher Melling's brother Tom held a memorial at the American Legion in Gibbon.
This past week on social media, Tom has been asking the public to not come to any conclusions until the investigation is over.
"I don't believe that my brother was the primary cause of what happened that night, that's the primary reason I am pursuing this as much as I am. The finger is pointed far too quickly at my brother," said Tom Melling.
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Sermonette (i.e., a small sermon) is a generic term for short, locally produced religious messages that were aired by many U.S. television stations during their sign-on and sign-off periods.
While some of these segments carried the actual program title of "Sermonette," there were a variety of names used by individual stations, such as "Prayer for Today," "Meditation," "Give Us This Day," 'Devotions", "Five Minutes To Live By", "Reflections", "Words of Inspiration", "One Minute With Your Bible" or the like.
Sermonettes were generally about three to five minutes in length, and featured religious clergy from churches in the local station's coverage area. Reflecting the majority religious faith in the U.S., the clergy involved were almost always Christian (Protestant or Roman Catholic), although in TV markets with a large Jewish population, a rabbi might occasionally be called upon and TV markets with a large Muslim population, an imam might be called upon. The segments were pre-taped for airing at their normally scheduled early morning or late night time slots.
Articles written for church bulletins are often sermonettes in essence. They contain an introduction, frequently a really stupid joke, a body or situation that is being addressed, a Biblical/scriptural equivalent and a wrap-up or point tying the illustration and scripture together in a meaningful way. Similar articles often begin with a dumb joke or comedic opening that was supposed to lead to a serious discussion and pointed statement for the audience.[1]
Some stations also presented a nationally distributed filmed or videotaped inspirational message, either in addition to, or replacing, local messages. One of the best-known national sermonettes was A Seed from the Sower, presented by Michael Guido.[2]
Along with films featuring the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (the U.S. national anthem) and other patriotic or inspirational short features, sermonettes gradually disappeared from U.S. TV schedules as more and more stations switched to 24-hour programming, eliminating the classic sign-on and sign-off routines.
In the United Kingdom, similar short religious programs used to be broadcast at end of schedule, but were called "epilogues" (the BBC's was called The Epilogue) rather than "sermonettes" and broadcast on BBC and ITV. "Epilogue" was also the name of sermonettes aired in Australia at the end of each broadcast day. CTV affiliates in several Canadian cities aired sermonettes at the beginning or end of each broadcast day. In Mexico local Televisa and later TV Azteca affiliates transmitted sermonettes featuring Catholic clergy.
In the 1970s, comedian Chevy Chase delivered a parody sermonette as a regular on Saturday Night Live, speaking as the pastor of the "Church of Confusion". This type of programming was also parodied by Scottish comedian Rikki Fulton in his comedy show Scotch and Wry, where the "Last Call" segment featured Fulton as a number of different ministers, including the unwittingly intoxicated David Goodchild, the frustrated W. E. Free, and (most frequently) the dour-faced and ironically named Reverend I.M. Jolly.
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Churches of God in North America.—This religious organization arose as a result of the revival movement which spread through the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. One of the leaders of the revival movement was John Winebrenner, a minister of the Reformed church at Harrisburg, Pa. His sermons were so impressive that some of his congregation became alarmed about their spiritual condition. Revivals were a new thing in that region and some of the members became so dissatisfied that they laid the matter before the synod of the Reformed church which met at Harrisburg, Sept. 29, 1822. The case was not disposed of until 1828, when Mr. Winebrenner's connection with the Reformed church was severed. After this he began to labor in the surrounding districts and towns; and in 1829 he organized an independent church calling it only the Church of God. Other congregations soon followed in and around Harrisburg, each assuming the name Church of God, and adding the name of the town in which the congregation organized, as Church of God at Hagerstown.
These churches, in which all members had equal rights, elected and licensed men to preach, but for some time there was no bond or general organization or directing authority. In Oct., 1830, a meeting was held at Harrisburg for the purpose of establishing a regular system of coöperation, which was attended by six licensed ministers. At this meeting an eldership, to consist of an equal number of teaching and ruling elders, was organized which was called the "General Eldership of the Church of God," to distinguish it from the local church eldership. The movement continued to spread to adjoining counties and to Maryland, western Pennsylvania and Ohio. On May 26, 1845, delegates from the three elderships met at Pittsburg, Pa., and organized the "General Eldership of the Church of God in North America," but in 1896, the name was changed to "General Eldership of the Churches of God in North America."
In doctrine these churches are evangelical and orthodox, and are Arminian rather than Calvinistic. They hold as distinctive from other denominations, that sectarianism is antiscriptural; that each local church is a church of God, and should be called so; that in general, all Bible things should be called by Bible names, and a Bible name should not be given to anything not mentioned in the Bible. The members of the Churches of God believe that three ordinances are obligatory—the Lord's Supper, baptism and the religious washing of the saint's feet. They have no written creed but accept the Bible as their rule of faith and practice.
In policy the Churches of God are presbyterian. Each local church votes for a minister but the annual elderships make the appointments within their own boundaries. The congregation elects the elders and deacons, who with the minister constitute the church council and are the governing body, having charge of the admission of members and general oversight of the church work. The minister and an equal number of laymen within a certain territory constitute annual elderships, corresponding to presbyteries, which have the exclusive right to ordain ministers. The different annual elderships combine to form the General Eldership which meets once in four years, and is composed of an equal number of ministers and lay representatives (elders) elected by the annual elderships.
The Churches of God have been established in many parts of the country and are now represented in sixteen states. They were established in Kansas by the settlers who came from the older communities in the east and brought their faith with them. In 1890 there were 26 organizations in Kansas with a membership of 956. Nearly all of these churches were in the eastern third of the state. In 1906 only 12 organizations were reported with a total membership of 613. This falling off in Kansas is doubtless due to the emigration of many of the members to Oklahoma and the Indian Territory, where good cheap land was to be had.
Pages 347-348 from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.
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Nightmare Blanket - How I feel after this last election
>> Thursday, December 8, 2016
I revamped my short story anthology (sold some stories I had in it so needed new ones). Here's one of them. I'm sure many other folks who fought on the right side of things feel similarly. Will post new links when I'm sure they're all updated.
Nightmare Blanket
Chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, double stitch, double stitch. The slim worn needle worked, in and out, grab and pull, weaving a web of delicate pink yarn as soft as silk and as dainty as lace. The fingers were gnarled, no strangers to arthritis, the skin dark and the touch sure. In and out, grab and pull, chain, chain and turn.
She bent over on her rocking chair, neck aching, feet and fingers chilled despite the space heater. The wind howled and shook her window, and her lamp shuddered, but her fingers never stopped moving. In and out, grab and pull, stitch, stitch, stitch.
She was tired—so tired—but the baby went home early and they needed her blanket by tomorrow. Stitch, stitch, stitch. Marnie always used the softest yarn, acrylic with a pearly sheen, though the girl would never see its cheery color, would never feel the softness. The style was beautiful but quick to make, useless for keeping warm, but that baby would never be warm again, lost too young to leukemia.
In truth, the blanket wasn't for her, but for the parents who would have to bury her, a nightmare talisman to soothe their sleep, not hers.
Stitch, stitch stitch.
It wasn't enough. It was never enough. But that was who Marnie was. She couldn't fix everything.
But she would do what she could.
Stitch, stitch, stitch.
How she might have laughed when she was younger to see herself now. Marnie had always been a woman of passion, who wasn't going to settle for what the world offered. Passion that got her into college and through it when that was still unusual for a woman, especially for a woman of color. Passion that had tied her to a "bad boy" before she realized what that really meant: not necessarily just a rebel, but someone who could be lost to drink, to drugs, who'd lash out at his woman and then beg her for forgiveness. Which she gave him, in her passion, until he'd turned his malice on their daughter.
That's when Marnie let her passion send him on his way, once and for all. Nothing was stronger than her love for Sue, the tiny girl with the poofy pigtails and enormous brown eyes.
Stitch, stitch, stitch.
So Marnie marched for women, because her daughter deserved a better future than Marnie had had, deserved all the chances that anyone else deserved. She marched for black's rights, and worker's rights, for gay rights. Whatever her daughter would be, Marnie wanted her to have every choice, every opportunity, every possible future. Sue was Marnie's future and she deserved it all.
Progress was slow. Even joined with thousands of other voices, one voice was hard to hear and change was slow in coming. But Marnie tried. Didn't let that stop her.
She would do what she could.
Stitch, stitch, stitch.
The first blanket had been for Sue, too. Marnie had dusted off the skill her own grandmother had taught her when Sue had had nightmares not long after the attack by her own father, had cried out in the night, and shivered herself awake. So tiny, so sweet, so quiet, Sue never complained but Marnie wept for her and made her a blanket in pink and purple. Told her it was a blanket to keep nightmares away, and Sue believed it, curled under it, and slept in peace.
Stitch, stitch, stitch.
Over the years, Marnie made many blankets for Sue. Sue became larger, grew, tall and slim as a reed, her smile shy but so beautiful, those dark eyes alight with sweetness. And the blankets kept the nightmares away, new ones crocheted in larger sizes Sue could tuck herself in under, head to toe, and sleep soundly.
Stitch, stitch, stitch, turn.
The nightmare hadn't come at night. He stormed into the school in a cloud of wrath and sense of entitlement that made him think his rage was justification enough to destroy others, an insanity that let him choose the most vulnerable as his targets. He walked into an elementary school, an agent of death and pain, and spared no one before they hauled him off in cuffs. And left those who had lost their most precious to pick up the pieces, rebuild what lives they could when what they loved most was shattered and stolen and lost. Marnie had felt dead inside, had stroked that precious tiny hand, now cold, and smoothed the last nightmare blanket she had made for Sue in a coffin Marnie had never hoped to see.
And had buried her future and her dreams with her daughter while the skies wept as fruitlessly as Marnie did herself.
Stitch, stitch, stitch.
Marnie marched for better gun laws then, for the safety for other people's children, for a better future she had no part in any more. She canvassed and made calls. Perhaps she made no more difference than she did marching before.
But she did what she could.
Stitch, stitch, stitch.
Decades had past. Marnie didn't march any more. Her hip never healed right after she'd jumped the barrier in the courtroom, trying to get at the man that killed her daughter. She didn't call much any more, or fight, or protest. She never knew if it had made a difference anyway, though she was still proud she had tried.
Stitch, stitch, and tie.
She fluffed out the blanket, completed. Tragic in its smallness, in what it represented, the last decoration to another life snuffed too early, another future unfulfilled. She shed tears, as she had shed countless tears before and would countless tears still to come. Her knobby fingers smoothed the blanket and found some solace in its beauty and the care of its construction, in its sheen and softness. She hoped the girl's parents would as well. She folded it neatly and pulled a different color yarn from her bag, blue this time, and began a new line of chain stitches.
She couldn't do everything.
But she would do what she could.


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The eurozone debt crisis and concerns about a global slump sent investor confidence in Germany to a three-year low on Tuesday, fuelling fears of recession in Europe's largest economy, analysts said.
The ZEW economic think-tank said in a statement that its closely watched economic expectations index fell by 5.7 points to stand at minus 43.3 points in September, its lowest level since December 2008.
The index had already plummeted by 22.5 points the previous month and it was the seventh month in a row that the indicator has fallen.
"The smouldering debt crisis in a number of eurozone countries and fears for a renewed weakening of the global economy are behind the drop," ZEW chief Wolfgang Franz explained in a statement.
Nevertheless, the decline was not so sharp as expected: analysts polled by Dow Jones Newswires had been pencilling in a reading of minus 45 points for September.
The number "points to a recession risk," said Jennifer McKeown, senior European economist at Capital Economics in London.
The decline "is another sign that the economy is suffering from slowing global demand growth and troubles in the eurozone's periphery."
In fact, she saw the reading as "broadly consistent" with German gross domestic product growth slowing from 2.7 percent in the second quarter of this year to "about minus 1.0 percent."
The ZEW index is the only barometer of investor confidence in Germany and this month's reading was based on responses from 289 analysts. But it has not always proved particularly reliable in the past in forecasting accurately the magnitude of economic downturns or upturns.
"However, it has been a good guide to the timing of turning points and clearly suggests that the recovery is long gone," McKeown said, noting that "the more reliable business surveys have turned down more recently too."
In all, she was forecasting a slowdown in German growth from 3.0 percent this year to "as low as 0.5 percent in 2012. And as the burden of losses from the peripheral economies worsens, Germany will struggle to expand at all in 2013," the analyst said.
For Fabio Fois of Barclays Capital Research, the problem with the ZEW index is that it is "biased towards the financial sector's sentiment with around 70 percent of respondents falling within this category... (so) we think it should be taken with a pinch of salt when it draws conclusions concerning the relative state of the real business cycle in the euro area."
Other business confidence indices, such as the purchasing managers' index or the all-important Ifo survey, which is based on as many as 7,000 responses in the real economy, are scheduled to be published later this month.
Pending the outcome of those, Commerzbank analyst Ralph Solveen also saw increased recession risks.
But Felix Eschwege at Natixis was not so pessimistic.
"We expect positive GDP growth in the third quarter, mainly driven by domestic demand. In particular we assume a rebound of private consumption and furthermore significant contributions by construction and equipment investment," the economist said, adding: "Nevertheless, uncertainty remains high."


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Teenage Mutant Freaking Ninja Turtles! God I love this franchise. The story of four brothers who live in the sewers of New York City, eat and adore pizza, train in the ninjitsu arts, and are named after the Renaissance Artists. These four brothers just so happen to be normal pet turtles who were mutated thanks to a strange mutagen which comes from many different origins depending on which version of the characters you watch. Their master named Splinter used to be a ninja warrior named Hamato Yoshi, he raised Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo to become New York's greatest defenders from evil forces such as the Purple Dragon Clans or their main nemeses The Foot Clan led by Oroku Saki AKA The Shredder.
Just that summary of their story awakens the kid inside me and gets me to smile. Yes as you can tell, I love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It's a franchise that people of all ages should enjoy. I'm eighteen years old right now and I watch the new Nickelodeon series but we'll talk about that later. Each of the shows (except a certain one that I'll talk about later) show a pattern: they are about family. Yes there is plenty of action to go around but the important thing is the relationship between the turtles themselves. When they interact with each other, it feels like you really are watching brothers goof around with each other or grow closer together after they are split.
I have not had the chance to see the new film in theaters yet. I will be going with a fellow fan to see it so that we both can do a review. But until then I will be doing a retrospective on ALL things related to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles staring with...
The Original Comic From 1984!
This means that this franchise is thirty years old. This was the origins of the beloved characters. Now I haven't read the entire series nor have I read a lot of it. I'm pretty sure I've read only one comic so I can't give a full review of this series. All I'll say is...it was okay. I know you probably expect me to love this comic but I'm sorry, I prefer the funny, bright, and colorful versions of the characters. In this, the turtles all feel like the same person, I really don't like black and white artwork in comics (Sin City, Walking dead, etc.), plus the turtles themselves are not really likable in any way. Go ahead and hate me for this but it's just not my Ninja Turtles.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 1987
They're heroes in a half-shell and they're green! Three years after the original comic came out, children heard of this show coming and they cheered with glee while parents heard the name and facepalmed. Who would have thought something called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would be you know...actually really good. Now this is not the series I grew up with, but I do love it. Here the dark noir style story was changed for an awesome, fun, colorful ride for families to enjoy. To give you the best slice of the show, I suggest you watch the first story arc of the series; that way you get a good introduction to the turtles, we get to know all the villains including the Shredder, Krang, Bebop, and Rocksteady, as well as some side characters like Splinter and April O'Neal. I do enjoy the series a ton, the chemistry between the brothers is a lot of fun, the action is still pretty fun to watch, and the Shredder is hilarious. Rest in Peace James Avery, you were an awesome Shredder.
Is it a good show? Yes. Is it perfect? Not really. There are the lack luster episodes which are in every TV series ever made, but there are times where the animation is....yeah it's pretty bad. Sometimes the turtles' ninja masks will change colors for some reason, or Mikey's voice will be coming out of Leo. Again I do like the series but not my favorite. Although there is one scene that is just like "I was frozen today!" and "That's a duck, that's a duck man!" where Donnie says this at random after defeating a robot:
Why does he say? I have no idea.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 Movie)
Not going to deny, I don't think this movie has aged all that well. Don't get me wrong I do enjoy them, after all I grew up with them but certain things are just off with this one. People say that the new CGI turtles look scary, I don't know the soulless eyes of the original movie turtles kinda creep me out.
Yeesh. Luckily the voice actors do a pretty good job and they keep the creepiness factor down a bit. People complain about the new turtles being played by nobodies except for Johnny Knoxville as Leo which doesn't make much since in this movie they are played by a bunch of nobodies except for Corey Feldman as Donnie, who is by far the funniest guy in both this movie and the sequel. Other than the turtles expressionless faces, the suits actually did pull of some cool moves. At the time CGI kind of sucked when it was used so they couldn't do what they are doing today so the limitations of their suits don't bother me as much.
April O'Neal is in this movie and she's about as memorable as Hayden Christensen's career. Not only that, she just doesn't look like April.
Sorry lady, you're going to need a lot more than a...yellow raincoat that you wear only once if you want to convince me that you're April. At least a yellow leather jacket resembles April more than you do...as much as I don't want to give Megan Fox credit.
Casey Jones is in the movie played by Elias Koteas and he is one of the best things about the movie. The scene with him and Raphael in the park is so freaking funny and enjoyable that it's impossible not to enjoy it. "Cricket!? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket." God that scene makes me smile.
The Shredder in this movie is basically a Darth Vader wannabe but I enjoy him nonetheless. His fight with the turtles is awesome and I love how it's Splinter that has to take down Shredder.
The fights are enjoyable, some of the jokes fall flat, the turtles are represented well, and the theme for this movie is awesome. T-U-R-T-L-E Power!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
This is NOT a good movie. Trust me it is far from it...but it is a guilty pleasure of mine. Many of the jokes are very dumb, there is a lot of slapstick humor this time (although the slapstick works a lot better in places like a scene with Donnie in the beginning where he's pretending to be a balloon. Not going to deny that scene is funny.), the villains are forgettable, yeah Shredder is back and he's cool but there is...*Sigh*...Tokka and Rahzar.
Good god I hate Tokka and Rahzar. Was there a copyrights issue with Bebop and Rocksteady? If there was fine but....LOOK AT THESE THINGS! I've seen better monster suits on an episode of Power Rangers. To be fair, I like the idea of Tokka, an evil snapping turtle. Clever concept for a rival but badly executed. The rest of the movie is just a type of funny bad that you get from movies like the Room and Batman & Robin although this movie is better made than those. Casey Jones is gone which disappoints me, the action in scenes is sometimes better than the first so I'll give it that. Finally we have to discuss the most infamous part of the fim that everybody mentions simply known as...Ninja Rap.
Good god, I freaking love Ninja Rap. It's so cheesy but in a good way, if that makes sense. It's as if the movie knew what it was now so it just decided to give up being serious. When you finish this movie you will be singing "Go Ninja, Go Ninja Go!" You know how much my brother and I dig this song? It was the groomsmen dance at his wedding reception. Yeah...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! ....Okay....I think I'm good. *Looks to Poster.* NOPE! I hate this movie! Onto the next one! It can't be worse than this!
Ninja Turles: The Next Mutation (1997)
Excuse me while I change my shorts...OH MY GOD that is atrocious! At least the third movie had turtles that were...presentable. This series has turtles that look like five kids dressed up like the turtles. Oh and we get a female turtle with boobs named Venus. MOVING ON!
Well after all that you would expect there to be no hope for the heroes in a half-shell to be good again. However something happened...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
Oh...SHELL YES! We finally get to MY Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This is where he turtles became AWESOME to me. Beautiful animation, great stories, amazing chemistry between all characters, and awesome action. By far my favorite versions of April and Casey Jones appear in this show. Many twists happen in this show that you wouldn't expect, there are tons of villains to enjoy, and the turtles are also best represented here. Give it a watch if you haven't yet, you won't regret it. Turtles! Mutant Chain Reaction. Turtles! Living Underground. Turtles! Ninjitsu Action! Turtles! IT'S A SHELL OF A TOWN!!!!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Foward (2006)
It's also known as just Season 6 of the 2003 series but I consider it it's own series since it has it's own title and theme song. Turtle Fans are usually split on this series, either they really like it or they really hate it. I think I'm on the loving side. Maybe this is because I'm a sucker for time travel and cyberpunk worlds so I just got hooked in. I loved all the new villains they had to deal with, they were more enhanced than the villains of their present so they had to deal with them differently, I did like the great grandson of April and Casey named Cody Jones although not as much as Casey and April. Basically I have the same thoughts about Fast Forward as I do the 2003 series.
This is a movie that had mixed reactions from audiences. Basically, if you didn't know the Turtle lore then you are going to be confused as shell when you watch this movie. That is sort of a flaw with the writing but if you do know turtle lore, this movie is awesome. I know some people don't like the whole epic tone to the movie with the immortals and monsters plot but I enjoyed it because it resembled stuff out of the 2003 series. The voice acting was great, there was a lot more drama with the turtles because here we see them more as like college aged and so they are splitting apart and are not acting as a team anymore so we get to seem grow as a family once again. The fight between Leo and Raph is one of my all time favorite turtles scenes ever in the franchise. My only gripe is that Donnie was criminally underused. He's my favorite turtle and he was just sort of there with nothing to do half the time and him being a phone tech support was just dumb. Chris Evans does a really good job voicing Casey Jones and Sarah Michelle Gellar while not in the film often does a fine job as April. If you've never seen the film and you know nothing about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles then I suggest you stay away from it but if you are a fan of the franchise then give it a watch.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Back to the Sewer (2008)
Like with any great show, there is always a decline. Married With Children died after Season 4-5, Star Trek the Next Generation's later seasons were boring, and then Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 8 AKA Back to the Sewer was when the show just withered then died. It's not retched like say Next Mutation or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, it was just...boring. The storylines were predictable, they repeated old jokes, their robot companion was really annoying, and they decided to give the turtles normal eyes and...they don't look right with the animation style. Well, five years was a good run for the 2003 series. I look back on it fondly and I will until I die.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
As soon as I saw the first teaser for this series, I groaned. The animation didn't look right, the designs looked awful, April being a teenager really angered me...but then I watched the series and I gotta say. This show is great! The animation really works, the characters are done well (except Leo, he's dry and sometimes annoying), April is really cool, the villains are great, there are a TON of nods to older Turtles stuff so us fans can grin at that. So far I love the show, some of the twists they did are amazing, the voice acting is awesome, and I'm looking forward to Season 3. The show also has by far the best theme out of all the shows.
Turtles Forever (2009)
By far the ultimate fan pleaser of the Turtles franchise. You have the 2003 Turtles teaming up with the 1987 turtles who travel to another universe to meet the turtles from the comics. HOW CAN FANS NOT LOVE THIS?!? Just like TMNT, unless you are a fan you won't like the movie. It is funny, awesome, and just an overall amazing film.
Normally I wouldn't include stuff like this because they are fan films but this time I have to make an exception for...
Casey Jones
Just to warn you, this is not a kids movie. This is a bloody, violent, really dark movie. It shows an origin story for Casey Jones and good god is this movie awesome. If they ever put Casey Jones in the new films, I want Hilarion Banks to play as him again. This is why I love fan films that are done right. There are a lot of bad fan films out there but this is one of the best. You can find the film on youtube, watch it and you will love it.
So that's my retrospective of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. I love the series and I hope it lasts another thirty years. I am really looking forward to the new film, I know it's cool right now to hate the movie but honestly I am hyped. What are your thoughts on this franchise? Do you love it? Do you hate it? Who is your favorite Turtle? Mine will always be Donatello!


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for the "POD AND PLANET FICTION CONTEST"
The bio-tech looked up from his console when he saw his patient open his eyes.
"Welcome to the Lai Dai corporation cloning facility here in the Oipo system, err... Liam is it?". With a rehearsed smile he continued: "You will be happy to know that the cloning procedure has been completed successfully."
"Why does this universe hate me?" his patient asked.
"I do not have that information sir, but I can tell you that you are now cleared to proceed to exit room A-3 where your personal possessions are waiting for you. Thank you for using the Lai Dai corporation cloning services. We look forward to serving you again in future." With this, the tech returned his attention to his console.
Liam looked at the tech and understood that he had been dismissed. He gingerly climbed of the raised platform he was lying on, putting his bare feet on the cold metal floor. Looking around, he easily found the exit room doors and unsteadily made his way there.
"It's been a while... I forgot how terrible it feels to wake up in a new clone." he muttered when he entered the room and closed the door behind him.
Like the other room, the exit room was utterly boring: gray metal walls and only the most sober furnishings. The chair looked uncomfortable and the small table carried his personal possessions; a fresh set of clothes and a portable neocom. With a grunt Liam put on the garments that had cost him a small fortune when he bought them years ago. Expensive as they had been, at least he was assured that a fresh set would be waiting for him wherever he docked or, as today, woke up.
This time however, he could not appreciate the luxurious fabrics; for all practical purposes, he was dead broke. The ship he had been flying only an hour ago, or more exactly its cargo, had represented pretty much everything he owned. Now that the vessel and its precious cargo had been turned to star dust, he was in real trouble: he needed a new premium clone but did not have the means to pay for it.
"Right" Liam thought rubbing his face, "Let's go and find out exactly in how much trouble I really am." He exited the room through the second door and after querying his neocom for the route to take, started making his way to his assigned quarters.
The passageways were almost deserted and the few people he did see appeared rushed, even panicked. With a sense of trepidation, he activated his neocom and asked for the latest news from the local nets.
"Oh, shit!" he whispered under his breath, "I guess this universe really does hate me..." The neocom had connected to the Interstellar Correspondents news feed and the main story headline read "SANSHA INVADE OIPO, EVACUATION UNDERWAY."
Liam hurried through the station corridors and once in his quarters, accessed the embedded console. Years ago, he had earned his capsuleer wings as an intelligence officer in the Caldari Navy, so it took him only a few minutes to put together a coherent picture of the situation. The result did not please him; only a few hours ago the Sansha Nation had invaded the solar system. They had immediately blockaded all the warp gates and they were now systematically ransacking the space stations in the system.
Liam knew that once they had control of all the stations, they would start pillaging the planets. Unlike the pirates that had killed him earlier today, the Sansha were not after riches or even territory. What they hunted for were slaves and once they had you, you were theirs forever.
Trying to stay calm, Liam pulled up the status of the station. All those that had transportation had long fled the station. About five hundred people were still stranded in the station with him.
"Probably an exercise in futility, but let's see if there is anyone here that I know." Liam thought while he asked his neocom to interface with the console to do just that. To his surprise a name did pop up; "Salbert? You poor devil..." Liam muttered. He stabbed a finger at his neocom and after a few seconds, the image of Salbert appeared.
"Liam!" Salbert said urgently, "Tell me you're not stuck here with me?"
"Sorry to disappoint you, but yeah, I'm here.", Liam replied, "Where are you? Can we meet and see if we can find a way out of this mess?"
"I see where you are." Salbert said quickly. " Stay there. I'll be with you in two minutes." He closed the connection.
"A neocom should not be able to tell you where I am" Liam thought smiling. He and Salbert had gone through the Navy Intelligence training together and apparently, neither had forgotten what they had learned there.
Liam woke from his reverie when a computer voice informed him Salbert was at the door. He opened the door and Salbert hurried in.
"Liam! You're the last one I thought I would find here. Please tell me you have a fast ship in the dock and we can get out of here!"
"It's good to see you too!" Liam smiled, "I would ask you how you've been, but you're right, we have more urgent matters to discuss. To answer your question: nope, all I have waiting for me at the docks, is a pod."
"I was afraid of that." Salbert sighed. "I looked up the docking bay manifests and there isn't a single capsuleer ships docked." "However, assuming you still are a qualified pod pilot..." Salbert let his voice trail of expectantly...
"I can assure you I still am." Liam confirmed.
"Well then," Salbert continued, "we might have a way out of here yet. But we must hurry. Those Sansha will be on our doorstep within the hour. Grab your stuff and follow me."
"I'm wearing everything I own", Liam said sadly, "Let's go."
Together the two men hurried through the deserted station corridors until they reached one of the large docking bays where a crowd was gathered. When Salbert and Liam arrived, the gathered people fell silent and looked at them. Worry and hope shining in their eyes.
"These are most of the people that are still here." Salbert told Liam. "All of us need to get out of this station as soon as possible. And then we need to find a way out of the solar system."
He pointed to one of the docking lanes where a large commercial cargo ship was docked.
"As you can see, we have a way out of the station. I never got that fancy capsuleer certification you have, but that there is my ship, the 'Mlaghai' and there is plenty of room in there for all of us. The problem is she's dead slow out of warp and there is no way we can outrun the Sansha at the gates. We'll be dead, or worse, long before we even get in jump range of the gate."
"And that is where I come in.", Liam said. "You need a scout to fly to the gates and tell you when it is safe."
"Exactly!" Salbert agreed excitedly, "We need a capsuleer that is capable of maneuvering a cloaked vessel. None of us would be able to react fast enough."
"You know I would love to help you out here." Liam said. "But as you already know, I have no ship, no money..."
"But we do!" Salbert gestured at the assembled crowd around them. "There is a sales contract for a frigate with a fitted cloaking device available in this very station and all of us together have sufficient money. All we need is a pilot to fly it?"
"A frigate, eh?" Liam asked doubtfully, "That means a simple cloak that won't work during warp. Still, this just might work and honestly, it's the best offer I have had all day."
A smile appeared on Salbert's face. "Good to have you with us again, captain." He turned to the crowd and shouted "OK everybody, we already talked this over! If anybody has a better idea, let's hear it now! If not, go get your stuff and board the transport. We leave in exactly twenty minutes. If you're late, you get left behind!"
The crowd quickly dispersed, some heading towards the cargo ship, some going to their homes to get their families.
"It looks like you had this all planned out before you met me." Liam remarked.
"Well, once I knew you were on board we started to set this up." Salbert said carefully. "You should get a move on; the frigate is ready and waiting for your pod."
Liam looked at Salbert and asked: "Aren't you afraid I'll take the frigate and leave all of you here to distract the Sansha for me?"
Salbert turned to look Liam straight in the eyes and answered: "I believe myself to be a good judge of character and I know you used to be a decent human being. Tell me now: am I wrong trusting you with the lives of these people, not to mention my own?"
Liam sighed, "No, you're not wrong. I would not have a way out of here without them. I am curious why you are taking on all those passengers though. You really need their money to buy the frigate?"
Salbert looked away uncomfortably, "No, I don't, but I could not leave them here for the Sansha."
Liam could tell that Salbert was holding something back. "Well, we'll have a talk about that once we're safe."
"We sure will." Salbert grinned, looking relieved, "But right now you need get in your pod, get out there and start scouting. We need to get this show on the road!"
Fifteen minutes later the small frigate left the station. Inside the frigate, Liam was suspended in the ectoplasmic liquid that filled his pod. The pod systems fed electrical impulses directly into Liam's nervous system and allowed him to communicate with the outside world. Right now, Liam had a communications channel open with Salbert on board the still docked 'Mlaghai'.
"Salbert, I have undocked. The information I have indicates that the Sansha came through the Isinokka warp gate. Assuming they want to keep their way back safe, I expect that gate to be heavily guarded. I am going to take a quick look."
"Roger Liam, be careful. By the time you have reached the Isinokka gate, we should have everybody on board and be ready to undock. How's the frigate handling?"
"She's holding up pretty well. She's exactly what we needed: small and fast. I've decided to call her 'Uaminifu'."
Salbert gave a short laugh: "That is a nice name for it. 'Mlaghai' and 'Uaminifu'... Let's hope they brings us luck, right?"
"I'm coming out of warp in 10 seconds." Liam interrupted sharply. He had plotted a course that would put him a thousand kilometers of the gate. He had to engage the cloaking device the moment he came out of warp. He would probably be spotted, but if he could cloak up fast enough, the hostiles would not have enough time to lock on to him. The pod systems silently counted down the distance: "Five... Four... Three... Two... One..."
As soon as the faster then light drive cut out, the alarms went off; seven Sansha ships were orbiting the warp gate. Liam quickly engaged the cloak and spooled up the conventional propulsion. If the enemy had seen his ship, they would hurry to the spot where it had appeared and Liam definitely did not want to be there when they arrived. However, it looked like he had executed the cloaking maneuver perfectly; they were not approaching his location.
"Or maybe I'm just lucky" Liam thought wryly.
"Salbert? I'm at the Isinokka gate. As expected, it's hot: six destroyers and a battle cruiser. Nothing huge but more than sufficient to stop you. It looks like they are flying in a defensive gate camp pattern. They are not moving out any time soon."
"Roger that Liam." Salbert came back with a sudden urgency in his voice. "I just monitored some comm traffic and it looks like the Sansha have finished ransacking the last military station in the system. There's a bloody good chance they will be appearing on out doorstep any minute."
"Get out of the station!" Liam transmitted. "I bookmarked a safe spot on the way to the gate. It's not perfect but it will have to do. I'm heading to it right now. Stand by to warp the 'Mlaghai' to me!"
"Way ahead of you buddy! I'm undocking right now and aligning in your general direction" Salbert replied. "Please hurry Liam, I got a lot of very frightened people here." he added in a whisper.
"Always knew my crazy bookmarking habit would come in handy one day" Liam muttered absently while he prepared his warp drive. "OK, disengaging the cloak in three... Two... One... Now!" Faster than any regular pilot would be able to execute the maneuver, the little frigate decloaked and entered the still forming warp tunnel. There was no way to know if the Sansha had seen him leave, but even if they had, it would be difficult to follow him.
"Liam!" Salbert called out with a touch of panic in his voice. "I got Sansha vessels on long range scan. They'll be here any second!"
"I'm away from the gate. Warp to me now!" Liam shouted.
"Aligning to your position now... Speeding up to warp threshold..." Liam could hear the strain building in Salbert's voice.
"Shit, the Shansha are landing on grid!"
Liam tried to keep the panic out of his own voice: "Salbert? Are you clear? Talk to me Salbert! Salbert?"
"We're OK Liam." Salbert whispered relieved. "But that is about as close as I ever want to make it."
"Great work Salbert" Liam said urgently, "but keep alive there buddy. I've moved myself to a better safe spot. When you come out of warp, immediately align and warp to me again."
"Good thinking." Salbert agreed, "We need to stay ahead of them!"
"That's not going to work for long though." Liam said, "They probably saw me leave from the Isinokka gate and they definitely saw you warp away. You can bet they'll be launching scanner probes any second now. You need to make some bookmarks yourself so you can keep moving."
"What do you think I've been doing?" Salbert grumbled, a hint of hurt pride in his voice. "You get going and get a look at the other warp gate! There are only two warp gates in this system. If the Isinokka gate is locked down, we have no choice but to try the Haajinen gate."
"Roger that, sir!" Liam laughed, "On my way now. Try to stay aligned towards the warp gate, will you?" With that, Liam accelerated the 'Uaminifu' towards the Haajinen gate.
"Salbert? I'm at the Haajinen gate, I do not think I was detected. I can see three Shansha ships; fast interceptors. They appear to be flying away from the gate... Yes! I can see their warp drives spooling up, they are warping out!"
"Please confirm Liam, the Haajinen gate is safe?" Salbert asked eagerly.
"Confirmed! The Haajinen gate is safe and I cannot see them on scan. Get you heavy ass moving, it's check-out time!"
Acutely aware that the cargo ship with over five hundred souls on board was hurtling towards him, hoping for freedom, Liam nervously kept checking his directional scanner, repeating a steady rhythm of "Stay away, stay away you monsters, stay away..."
Suddenly, a single reading appeared on the scanner. "No, no, no you don't!" Liam thought, "Stay away I told you!" But the next scanner sweep revealed three targets incoming.
"Salbert! Abort! Stay where you are, they're coming back!"
"Too late!" There was genuine panic in Salbert's voice now, "We're already in warp. We'll arrive at the gate in twenty-five seconds!"
Liam could see the same three Sansha fast interceptors appearing at the gate and he suddenly knew exactly what to do. "Stay on course to the gate Salbert" he said calmly, "I'll clear the hostiles from the gate for you."
"Liam, what are you talking about? You can't engage those ships. I can see them on scan now; those are fast interceptors! There's no way you can outrun them!"
"Never mind that Salbert. You should arrive at the gate in just over ten seconds. Just make sure you are ready to jump through the gate as soon as you land." With that, Liam gave the ship the instruction to disengage the cloaking device. "Sorry about this my little Uaminifu." he said silently while he disabled the ships defensive systems. "But there is no way I will let them capture me alive..."
As soon as the cloak dropped, the three Sansha vessels turned towards him and activated their warp drives. The gamble had worked: the fast attack ships left the gate and closed the distance in less than five seconds. The instant they landed next to Liam, they disabled his propulsion systems.
At the warp gate, Liam could see the 'Mlaghai' appear and set course to the jump gate. "Good luck Salbert, see you later I guess..."
If Salbert sent a reply, he would never know for as Liam had expected, the Sansha opened fire on his ship. It was only a single volley meant to disable his ship's defenses so they could board and capture him. However, with all her defenses offline, the 'Uaminifu' disintegrated with the first volley.
"Good morning sir, can I help you?" the woman behind the counter asked the man standing before her.
The man offered a data chip and replied "I am here to pick up one of your patients."
The women accepted the chip and after examining the data said "Very well sir, everything seems to be in order. If you would like to go to recovery room seven, the patient is there waiting for you. I'll prepare the release documents. He will need to complete them before he leaves?"
The man acknowledged the request with a nod and slowly walked across the large atrium towards the recovery rooms. When he reached the seventh door, he hesitated and took a deep breath before opening the door.
"Salbert! They did not tell me you were coming to pick me up!" Liam got up from his chair and approached Salbert with a big smile on his face.
"Hi there Liam." Salbert said in a hushed voice. "How are you doing?"
"Well, I'm OK I guess, all things considered..."
"How much do you remember about what happened?" Salbert asked softly.
Liam gestured Salbert towards a chair and sat back down himself: "Not much really. The therapists here have filled me in on most of what happened, but I can't say I remember much of it. They tell me that I should be happy I still remember my name... I could have lost a lot more when my consciousness was transferred to this unprepared standard clone after I died at the Haajinen gate."
Liam looked at Salbert and asked "Even now I know that I should have had a premium clone prepared and waiting for me... Why didn't I?"
Salbert studied Liam face for a moment before answering. He could see that even though the bio-techs here had clearly tried, they had not been a hundred percent successful in giving Liam his original looks back.
"When you woke up in the Lai Dai station in Oipo, you had just lost everything you owned. You did not have the credits to buy the premium clone. And with the Sansha threat, you did not really have the opportunity to make other arrangements."
"The people you saved are very grateful." Salbert continued, changing the subject. "They want you to know they were very sorry about what happened to you and they have made sure you could get the best treatment here!"
"I appreciate what they did for me very much." Liam said, "But the therapists here have done everything they can and now it's time for me to start earning my own living again, somehow."
"You still have your capsuleer implants." Salbert said. "Your license may be reduced so you can only fly shuttles and frigates, but I've been told that with a bit of study, there should be no problem for you to get the higher certifications back."
"Look Liam, I can use a good pod pilot to watch my back and I trust you more than I trust anybody else. Come fly with me and in a year, we'll have you flying capital ships again!"
"That would be nice, working with you I mean." Liam said gratefully. "Flying capitals again will take a bit longer I'm afraid." he added bitterly...
Salbert got up from the chair. "It's settled then. Let's get out of here."
Liam grabbed the small pack containing the little he owned and followed Salbert to the reception area.
"You go and fill in your release papers." Salbert told Liam, "I'll wait here for you."
While Liam walked towards the reception desk, a man approached Salbert.
"Good morning sir. I am, or rather was, one of the therapists responsible for his recovery process here at the center."
"Thank you for taking such good care of my friend." Salbert said carefully.
"That's what we are here for." the man replied with obvious pride in his voice. "It does not happen often that a capsuleer wakes up in an inferior clone. Sadly, there really is not much we can do when it does happen; mostly we just try to help them make sense of the world again. Help them pick up their life again. Your friend lost a big chunk of memory and some of the memory he still has is unattached, unreachable until a random event connects it back to his active memory. He will require close supervision for a couple of years at least."
"I know," Salbert said, "I got the full lecture about his condition when I contacted the center about taking him of your hands."
"Yes, I'm sure you did." the therapist agreed, "Still, it quite an imposition on you, to say the least. I understand you and the patient were not close before the incident?"
"We had not seen each other for years." Salbert answered and added in an irritated voice: "What do you want from me?"
"Oh, nothing." the therapist said soothingly. "But it was an exceptional stroke of good luck for you that he was revived in the Oipo solar system when he did, wasn't it?"
When Salbert did not reply, the therapist continued: "When any kind of armed incursion occurs in a system, it is standard procedure to shut down the cloning facilities in the local stations. That way any request for a clone is automatically redirected to a station in a safer location. This may add a small delay to the cloning process, but this procedure is set up especially to avoid what happened here with your friend. The cloning facility in the Lai Dai station in Oipo should have been offline..."
Salbert looked the therapist straight in the eyes and said: "For some reason Liam still ended up in that station. We were lucky that one of the people stranded in the station was a certified bio-tech that could finish the cloning process when it started. Now if you want more information about why it happened, you should check with the Lai Dai station in Oipo."
"Actually, I did." the therapist said, studying Salbert's facial reaction. "But they cannot find any trace of the malfunction that must have been there. Apparently, the military grade, tamper proof systems have somehow been erased and reset."
"Well then I guess we'll never know what happened, will we?" Salbert replied coolly. "Now if you will excuse me, Liam and I are done here and need to be on our way."
"Of course," the therapist said disappointed, "Thank you for using the Lai Dai corporation services. We hope to serve you again soon." he added automatically.
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So, the manuscript for 'One in a Generation', the biography of Rav Eliezer Berland, has been written and is now being fact-checked before going to the proofreader.
That means that we're about two months away from getting the book printed - which is your chance to participate in this enormous mitzva project, dear reader.
We need to find at least 20,000 NIS to get 1,000 copies of the book printed, and that's a lot of money!
So, after discussing it with my co-author, we've decided to start a fundraising campaign to help us get the book printed, and out there, ASAP. If you'd like to join us, here's a few options for you to consider (the Paypal account is in dollars, not shekels):
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The couple of people who've seen the draft so far have all been bowled-over by the book. It's like a cross between an Artscroll Biography and a John Le Carre thriller....
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If you're going to an MIAA football semifinal tonight, you might want to invest in a program.
This is the last year of the present playoff format as we know it. Starting next fall, playoffs will begin following the seventh week of the season and progress into a true Super Saturday at Gillette Stadium in which six Super Bowl champions will be crowned.
Looking at this year's games, we think we have a good idea of which teams will move on to Gillette, Bentley College and Curry College this Saturday.
Here's one prognosticator's take:
Division 1
Brockton over Weymouth: The Boxers clearly are clicking on all cylinders while the Wildcats have been up-and-down since a win against Needham.
St. John's Prep over Andover: I just think the Eagles have a little too much on both sides of the ball.
Division 1A
Everett over Masconomet: Speed kills, and few teams possess more speed than Everett, especially on the defensive side of the ball.
Barnstable over Lincoln-Sudbury: The Red Raiders haven't forgotten the lead they squandered against the Warriors in the postseason a year ago.
Division 2
Reading over Tewksbury: The Rockets have waited a year for a second crack at the Redmen.
Duxbury over Mansfield: I kind of like the team that has been more consistent through and through.
Division 2A
Beverly over Burlington: Game of the night, no question about it.
Natick over Plymouth South: The Redhawks appear to have too many offensive weapons at their disposal.
Division 3
Wayland over Westwood: I've thought from Day 1 that the Warriors were among the teams to beat in Division 3, and I haven't seen anything since to make me think otherwise.
Pembroke over Sharon: Not sure what to make of Sharon's showing on Thanksgiving. I think the Titans have improved a great deal during the season, and it's never a bad thing to hedge a bet with Bob Bancroft.
Division 3A
Lynnfield over Amesbury: The Pioneers should take down the Indians for the second time this season.
Bishop Feehan over Dighton-Rehoboth: The Shamrocks are flying down the stretch and have earned the right to be considered the team to beat in Division 3A.
Division 4
St. Mary's over Shawsheen: The Spartans ground game could very well be the difference here.
Abington over Millis/Hopedale: This is a tale of two teams headed in different directions of late.
Division 4A
Cathedral over North Shore: The explosive Panthers offense figures to be the difference here.
Bristol-Plymouth over Madison Park: The Cardinals have scuffled down the stretch, and the Craftsmen are peaking at just the right time.


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Senator John Kerry has publicly conceded the U.S. presidential race to President George W. Bush.
Speaking in his hometown of Boston, Mr. Kerry told supporters he called Mr. Bush to congratulate him earlier today (Wednesday).
He said he and Mr. Bush talked about the need for Americans to unite, and said he hopes the healing can begin.
Senator Kerry said it is vital that every vote be counted -- but added that even when all provisional ballots are counted in Ohio, Democrats will not be able to win the state or the overall election.
The crowd also heard from Mr. Kerry's vice-presidential running mate John Edwards, who vowed to continue fighting for what he called the "hard-working Americans who built this country."


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No Business Like My Business
This is a post about, obviously, nosy people who can't seem to keep out of my personal life. Well, I have some advice for you: Stop. Just stop right now. My personal life, my relationship with my daughter's father, is absolutely none of your business. We have enough to work though regarding those who are involved for reasons that are, to be completely blunt, none of your fucking business. You sticking your nose in where it doesn't belong to stir shit up is just you being an asshole.
Having ex-boyfriends decide to create fake accounts and contact my sweetheart to tell him all those dirty nasty secrets doesn't work. Would you like to know why? Because he already knows. He also knows more than what you told him. He knows everything. Every dirty little secret. This includes what you didn't tell him. So there. Go suck on that. I bet you didn't think I would tell him everything. I bet you thought that your little message to him would make him end things with me. Well, it didn't. Not just because I had already told him either, but because he and I have been together before. We loved each other then and we love each other now. We always have and always will. That isn't going to change. Oh, and yes, it was me that answered the phone at the office and yes, I knew that it was you calling.
People from the past coming out of the woodwork to text his phone when he didn't have it, nice, real nice. We know who you are. We know what you said. Do you know why? It's because there is open communication, as much as possible, between us. He tells me everything and I tell him everything. This is how things work between he and I. We want our relationship to be based on complete honesty. That's the way it will always be. No secrets.
I don't understand though. I'm not involved in your lives at all. Not one little bit. Does it hurt you? Does it upset you so much that I don't want to be your friend that you feel you need to try to hurt me, hurt us? Does your life suck so horribly that ruining others lives makes you feel better in some minor way for a few seconds? Let me tell you a little something else: I have changed. I do my best not to wish anything bad on anyone. There are those times that I still do when my anger and rage run high, but I am human and I am far from perfect. However, I will never, not once, stick my nose into your lives. I have no need to know who you are screwing with or who said what about you. Mostly because I don't give a fuck. When the friendship or relationship or whatever was over and done with I moved on. I took the lessons I learned from it and used it to shape who I've become. I do my damnedest each and every day to be a positive person, to see the good in others. I accept each person I meet as they are. It isn't my place to tell them they are good, bad, or anything at all. So with the way that you are acting, be careful. You're going to end up having the same thing happen right back to you. Although it won't be done by me even though I have had to urge to do so I have ignored it and put it behind me.
I know what mistakes I have made in the past. I know there are a lot of them that I can't fix and that I won't be forgiven for. But I am who I am now, not who I was then and it concerns me that what is going on in my life affects you so very much that you have to make attempts to ruin it. So, last piece of advice: Stop worrying about what is going on in my life, my relationships, me altogether because I don't stop to think one iota about you until you rear your ugliness in my life. Then I deal with the situation in the best way perceived by me and mine and move on, like I did when I walked away and out of your life for the very many reasons you gave me to do just that.


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The music of Vermont-based folk duo Cricket Blue is inspired by diverse aspects of the American folk tradition: old and current, popular and obscure. Laura Heaberlin and Taylor Smith write songs marked by close-knit harmonies and words about myth, confusion, love, and the ends of the things.
Heaberlin's and Smith's sometimes mingled, sometimes markedly contrasting imaginations form the bones of Cricket Blue's sound. Heaberlin's perceptive lyrical voice elevates everyday mundanities and makes the sublime pocket-sized. Smith threads images and characters into narratives that flicker between enigmatic and nakedly honest. They count songwriters like Jeff Mangum, Joanna Newsom, Laura Marling, Anaïs Mitchell, and Bob Dylan among their influences, as well as poets and storytellers like Dylan Thomas, Alice Munro, Angela Carter, and David Foster Wallace.
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For some, living near a tourist paradise means we view tourist activities the way Superman views Kryptonite.
That's why so many Bay Area residents have never walked the Golden Gate Bridge, avoid cable cars like the flu, have only seen the inside of Alcatraz in movies — and have a hearty laugh at the schmucks riding those silly duck boat thingies. Those amphibious vehicles are constantly winding their way through the streets of San Francisco and generally annoying us natives, who believe we're too good for duck tours because we drink fine wine and eat expensive cheese.
We're lucky to have those duckies.
I admit to not being thrilled while embarking on a Ride the Ducks San Francisco tour, anchored (not literally) in the heart of Fisherman's Wharf. My wife and three kids — none of whom possess a fraction of my Bay Area guy pretentiousness were already half-exhausted from pretour excitement.
And, really, why not? They were getting on a vehicle that transforms from bus to boat and back without having to stop to tuck in the wheels. We all had "quackers" — duck call gizmos that make fantastically annoying sounds at bikers and joggers. What's not to love?
This particular vehicle is a new addition to the fleet — painted orange to celebrate either Halloween or the San Francisco Giants (I'll go with the latter — though, as an A's fan, I wasn't terribly enthusiastic about the color).
Our guide, Jeff Brandt, who went to high school in Pleasanton, was the nearest thing to a Jungle Cruise boat driver this side of Orange County (he was actually much less groan-inducing than the safari guys at Disneyland). A 31-year-old former professional fisherman, who found a new career just up the docks, Brandt does a 90-minute tour filled with wonderfully bad jokes and San Francisco lore that will be new even to natives. My three kids — ages 12, 11 and 5 — had more fun on this than any other local outing I can remember.
After stopping briefly at the cable car turnout above Aquatic Park to trumpet the Rice-A-Roni theme at tourists, Brandt took us through North Beach, where we learned why Washington Square Park is actually a triangle — with a statue of Ben Franklin. Why Ben Franklin?
"I don't know," Brandt admitted. "I was hoping you guys would know."
My mood improved after a round of music making — performing "La Bamba" on our quackers, with lyrics changed to "La Sagna." We saw a building where Francis Ford Coppola has made film magic, as well as the original Transamerica building (now home to the local Scientology chapter), which is near the "new" Transamerica building. ("Some people say if it wasn't for that building, the city of San Francisco would be pointless," Brandt said.)
Then it was on to Chinatown, through Union Square — with an explanation of its name — and past the Metreon, where "Godzilla" was playing ("he completely destroyed San Francisco and look around us — they already rebuilt it").
From there, the Duck headed southeast, toward AT&T Park and the boat ramp just beyond the Port of San Francisco sign. We descended into the bay with no little excitement. ("Now that we're out on the water, I can perform marriages," Brandt declared. "Forty bucks.") He took us past some impressively large container ships and explained how the nearby dry docks worked. We had fantastic views of the Bay Bridge and, of course, AT&T Park. Once we got to McCovey Cove, he even let some of the kids drive. (My 5-year-old loved it so much, she tried sneaking a second turn.)
After the cruise section of our adventure, we headed back to our own dry dock via the Embarcadero, where we snuck up on unsuspecting joggers while quacking along to the theme from "Rocky." It really was one of the most fun 90-minute blocks of time I've ever spent in San Francisco.
As Brandt said, just before we disembarked: "The best part of San Francisco is that you don't know what's around the next corner."
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Ride the Ducks San Francisco: 2770 Taylor St., at the corner of Jefferson Street, across from the Fisherman's Wharf sign. Open daily. 877-887-8225, www.ridetheducks.com, $35 (adults), $32 (seniors), $25 (kids), $5 (3 and younger).
Parents need to know: Don't let that big sun overhead fool you. Even during summer, it can get cold quickly in San Francisco. Wear layers. And though getting wet is unlikely, the vehicle still goes in and out of water, so there's a chance of a small splash. Caution: There are no seat belts on the vehicle, so be prepared to keep a keen eye on smaller children.
Nearby eats: It's called Fisherman's Wharf for a reason. There are a number of restaurants within easy walking distance of the Ride the Ducks home base, including Applebee's and the kid-friendly, relatively inexpensive Rainforest Cafe, which is where we went, less than a block east. The menu is varied but uncomplicated and the food is good.
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The recent addition to Park Meadows Restaurants in The Vistas includes Brio Italian Restaurant. Across from White Chocolate Grill and La Sandia, this restaurant too has a great patio looking west over Highlands Ranch and to the mountains beyond. A "Tuscan Grille," Brio offers classic Italian fare in a comfortable dining space. North on Quebec is Pesce Fresco offering Italian and Mediterranean food. Maggiano's Little Italy is across I-25 off Dry Creek Road. Maggiano's is a great choice for family-style Italian dining and also offers banquet facilities like their location in downtown Denver.
About Italian Restaurants
Italian food is one of the most popular cuisines in America today. From pizza parlors and specialty ice cream shops to high class restaurants, everybody seems to have a favourite Italian dish. While some restaurants are run and catered for by the owner, harking back to his roots and his family recipes, other Italian restaurants have been spawned as huge chains. Consistency and low prices are the hallmarks of many chains, whilst quality and handmade dishes draw a different clientele.
A typical Italian menu will offer fish dishes, pasta with a range of sauces; steaks, seafood and more. Almost all Italian dishes include a tasty sauce, vegetables and a form of pasta. Fine Italian wines such as Chianti and Merlot are included on most menus. Desserts may include rich panna cotta, tiramisu and quality gelati, or ice cream. Finally, round off the meal with an Italian cappuccino or espresso coffee.


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