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By Nico Rubello
Posted March 14, 2013
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — A Clinton Township woman is responsible for the death of her 4-year-old grandson, a jury ruled on March 11.
The 12-person jury convicted Terry Rita Borgia, 63, of felony murder for the January 2010 drowning of DeAngelo Tobia in the bathtub of her Clinton Township apartment. She was babysitting the boy at the time.
Since then, Borgia has resided in jail. She had already spent more than three years behind bars by the time her fourth and most recent trial rolled around.
During the three-day trial, which ran March 6-8, the prosecution pointed to the fact that Terry Borgia didn't call 911 and refused to help try to resuscitate the boy while her daughter, Tonina Borgia, did. She also told police on several occasions that she had filled the tub that morning and placed the boy, still sleeping and clothed, into the water.
Assistant Macomb County Prosecutor William Cataldo said during the trial that Borgia was guilty by virtue of "her words, her actions and her inactions."
After listening to testimonies, an audio recording of the 911 call and videos of police interviews, the jury deliberated for several hours and returned with a guilty verdict on charges of felony murder and child abuse. The jury opted for the felony murder charge over alternate charges of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.
A felony murder charge carries a mandatory life sentence in prison. A sentencing is scheduled for April 17.
Borgia's defense attorney, Mark Haddad, has consistently contended that Terry Borgia is taking the blame for her youngest daughter, Tonina Borgia, who, then 25 years old, was the only other person in the apartment at the time of the drowning.
Terry Borgia did not testify in the trial. Haddad said he feared that she was liable to admit guilt on the stand to cover for her daughter.
Haddad said he was disappointed with the jury's decision.
"I don't think the jury understood the case," he said. "I don't think they appreciated the extreme sacrifice this woman (Terry Borgia) was willing to make."
This was the fourth trial in the case, though two of which ended for legal reasons before jury deliberations.
A series of strange twists have marred court proceedings in the case.
Terry Borgia was originally found incompetent to stand trial after her arrest in 2010, but later was deemed to be competent after treatment. She had struggled with depression in the past, even attempting suicide after the death of her husband in 2005.
Haddad said Tonina Borgia confessed to committing the crime to her sister. In April 2011, Tonina Borgia walked into the Clinton Township Police Department and also confessed to detectives. Police didn't arrest her, nor did they press charges, not believing it to be an accurate confession, since she wasn't able to provide details consistent with the case.
Tonina Borgia later testified that the faux confession had come at a time when she was off her medication.
Haddad said she had confessed to police just enough to clear her conscience, but not enough to implicate herself.
In February 2012, jury selection for a first trial was about to get under way when Terry Borgia, to the surprise of everyone in the courtroom, suddenly decided to plea no contest to the charges against her, effectively accepting a life sentence. She later withdrew the plea.
Then, in June 2012, a second trial was under way when attorneys from both sides realized that a warrant obtained by a detective to photograph bruises on Terry Borgia's arms was invalid because the bruises had already been documented. Consequently, a mistrial was declared and an hour-long, taped interview — in which she made self-incriminating statements — had to be thrown out as evidence in subsequent trials.
In August 2012, the jury for another trial had been selected when the judge ruled a mistrial because Tonina Borgia — a key witness — was deemed unfit to testify after she was arrested two times in a little more than a week.
The prosecution did call Tonina Borgia to the stand during a December trial, which eventually ended with a hung jury.
Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Peter Maceroni, who oversaw the case, ruled Tonina in contempt of court after she failed to show for her scheduled testimony on March 7.
Instead, her testimony from the December trial was read aloud to the jury, in which Tonina defended herself from allegations that she was responsible.
Haddad said Terry Borgia never complained about being in jail during the last three years. He said he will advise her to file an appeal with the Michigan Court of Appeals.
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More toll-funded roads wouldn't necessarily mean more toll plazas clogging our highways. Advanced satellite tracking technologies allow "open road" tolling, in which motorists would be charged per mile of road used--just as consumers are charged per kilowatt hour for electricity, per gallon of water, or per minute of cell phone use--without the backup at the toll booth. Private investors have the resources to utilize this new technology.
It might be a bit late in the game to make this complaint-slash-observation, but I'm not really sure that I'd want some governmental-business partnership tracking every place I drive with a satellite. We're increasingly trackable thanks to our cell phones and standard in-car technologies at this point, so the horse may be out of the barn, but the idea still gives me the creeps.

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We just had our final crits wednesday, so other than tying up a few loose ends for classes and one final next week, I'm done for the semester. I feel pretty good about my project and how my crit went, but I almost shit my pants monday when my VectorWorks file with all my digital model and drawing information crashed. I guess that'll teach me for never backing anything up. I was able to use the floor plans I had just printed in Illustrator to get enough information back into VectorWorks to make a quick model for an axon drawing, so that saved me big time, but I was unable to get new elevations and some perspectives from the digital model that I really wanted. It also set me back as far as the work I was able to get done on the physical models because of all the catch up, but it could have been much worse.
anyway, about the project:
At the beginning of the semester we all had to find a pool somewhere in the city and go for a swim and reflect on it and all this to orient us in how we wanted our pool spaces to feel and all that. But I live on a small lake back home and have never really liked pools, especially indoor pools. With few exceptions, I think they're always sterile and utilitarian, just big humid boxes with a rectangle of water at the center. Some of the nicer ones have skylights, that's about it. So as far as the feeling evoked in my community pool space, which was really the primary focus of my design, I wanted it to evoke the same feeling of quiet relaxation, reflection and freedom of swimming outdoors in a natural body of calm water. I also drew on Olmstead Park and the natural elements on the site for this. This, in addition to the other aspects listed in the paragraphs below, was the driving force behind my design.
here's what I put in a portfolio I put together about a month ago about this project:
The program called for an enclosed community therapeutic pool, competitive swimming pool, diving pool and accompanying support spaces to be located on an empty lot between South Huntington Avenue and the limited access Jamaicaway in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood.
I chose to emphasize the more community oriented therapeutic pool and allow the competitive pools to remain secondary. I felt this was important not only in making the natatorium truly a resource for the community, but also to stress the spiritual or experiential nature of water and recreational swimming. I wanted to reinterpret the experience of swimming in a pristine natural body of water by allowing the building to become a metaphor of natural elements, such as the sky and tree canopies, which are all evident just across the Jamaicaway in Olmstead Park.
I also wanted to frame views of the surrounding area, especially the pond and forest in Olmstead Park, as well as certain elements and spaces within the building itself. My hope was that in framing views specific to certain areas of the complex, the memory of the view would become the memory of being in a certain area or space, whether it be the hot tob, the staircase, the sauna, and so on. In this way the view would frame the experience.
Finally, the entire layout and form of the complex was defined by the line of South Huntington Avenue where the main entrance to the facility is located, existing trees in the middle of the site that I wanted to preserve resulting in the composition of two seperate boxes for the competitive and community pools, and the various lines of sight used to frame an experience in different areas of the natatorium.
and here are some images (unfortunately without models photographed or sketches scanned yet):
stand of trees in Olmstead Park directly across the Jamaicaway
floorplan of the upper level with locker rooms suspended above the community pool. orientation is with south huntington running parallel to the right of the building and north directly above
floorplan of the ground/entry level with the community pool at the top. the lobby, cafe and garden are toward the bottom with the four major preserved trees just to the left of the far right building and the roof form of the athletic building to the left
floorplan of the lower level with the athletic pools and seating in the building to the left, connected to the community building by a long corridor and outdoor staircase. I hope to scan a sketched cross section soon to better explain how these spaces work together
longitudinal section through the community pool, locker rooms and administration (above) and other community spaces
perspective of the community pool space
axon of the various structural, mechanical and facade wrapping treatment components
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After nearly a year at Microsoft Research, Christian Belady has returned to Global Foundation Services, the unit of Microsoft that builds the company's data centers. Belady will be the General Manager of Datacenter Research (DCR), reporting to GFS head Kevin Timmons.
The new position marks Belady's return to working on data center designs that will be implemented in upcoming facilities. That marks a shift from his post at the Extreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research, which was focused on a longer-term vision for transforming hardware design.
"DCR will be an advanced development lab (versus a traditional research lab), whose horizon is one step beyond the data centers we have on the drawing board today," Belady wrote in a blog post announcing his transition. "I am blessed to have yet another great opportunity."
After 11 months in the research unit, Belady said he was inspired by a recent visit to Microsoft's new modular data center in Quincy, Washington, which brought to life many of the design concepts he'd participated in during his time at GFS.
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Interesting online article about spiritual beliefs and grief:
"In recent years research has moved from focusing on the psychological and medical consequences of grieving to examining what constitutes vulnerability and resilience in bereavement. Our main finding is that strength of spiritual belief is an important predictor of bereavement outcome. People with low strength of belief resolved their grief more slowly during the first nine months but by 14 months had caught up with people with strong beliefs. Participants with no spiritual beliefs had higher grief scores than the remainder at the one month and 14 month follow up points. The comparison fell short of statistical significance, but strength of spiritual belief remained an important predictor after the explanatory power of most other variables was controlled for. Although the degree of closeness to the person who died and the level of emotional distress before the death increased feelings of grief, neither affected the rate at which the grief was resolved. " British Medical Journal
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The WebCafe site and e-mail list has focused on the necessary issues of diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer, the issues of post treatment adjustment to living with cancer, the intricacies of life with all the new plumbing alterations, and all the anxieties of ongoing vigilance. We have not focused on the issues of helping people through what happens when the treatments were begun too late, have ceased to work, or when there has been an aggressive recurrence with metastases, and the threat to life is now imminent. Many people have chosen to sign off the list at that point of reorientation, to go their final journey without the help and support of the group.
This section is dedicated to our fellow warrirors who are moving to a different phase of their life journey; from fighting cancer to fighting for quality of life in the time they have left.
The news often arrives or is delivered in the doctor's office, perhaps the same office where we first got the lightning bolt of our cancer diagnosis, and where we have discussed all the various treatment options, and progress, or recent lack thereof, over the preceding months or years. Hearing the news that death is imminent, that there is nothing else to be done, that there are no other treatment options, sometimes makes time seem to stand still for a bit. Things may suddenly feel cold or distant, colors and sounds may seem flat, different or far away. The very floor may not feel stable under our feet. There may be a sudden profound sense that something has changed about the safety and predictability of life. We may feel that we have not really heard right. How can this be? How can this have happened? It can be a disorganizing moment, with a lot of thoughts flooding in, or a moment of silence and clarity, or a time of numbness, where those initial thoughts and seemingly fragmented pieces of information will have to be sorted out later.
A physician on a recent episode of a popular TV show confronted his impending death. His brain cancer had advanced, and he realized he no longer wanted to go on with his treatments. He could not continue being an effective healer; he could no longer control his arms and legs and mind enough to do his job. At one point in the episode, having disconnected his own IV, he returned to his job in the emergency room. He tries to cope with every crisis as usual. But things are no longer "usual." He realizes that he can no longer keep giving to everyone around him, that he needs to let go of his life as he knew it, that he has no more to give, that he needs to let go of everything he has been doing every day, and acknowledge that he is going to die. He looked at all the activity and need around him, and realized that he needed to spend his remaining energies on his own dying journey. At what point do we let go and make that acknowledgment, and turn to our dying?
How we die is at least as important as how we have lived. People die in the same manner or style as they have lived. Those with a spiritual style will comfortably turn to those beliefs to help them understand and make it through this final transition. Those with a more cognitive or informational style will use those tools to assist and comfort them. Those who characteristically reach out and plan and take charge will approach death with this same attitude. And those who are comforted, at peace and content to let others make significant life decisions will make this final part of their journeys the same way. There is no one right answer for everyone; many take what they need from a variety of resources and supports, and people must find their own paths on this final journey. Those who have received the news that their illness is now terminal have the unique opportunity to plan how they will leave this world.
Entering this new part of the journey, means making the major transition from the activities and regular schedule of cancer treatments, with all the hopes for a cure and healing, to the acceptance and realization that the treatments are no longer working. Another outcome is now likely. This is an intensely felt time, and also a time when how others [especially one's physicians] behave can really shape the process. This transition usually begins with a doctor's visit, where recent tests and symptoms are reviewed and the new outcome is discussed.
The relationship with one's regular medical caregiver needs to go through a transition as well, and many doctors are not comfortable continuing to work with someone they think they have failed. It is hard to look into someone's eyes and tell them you can no longer help them in the way you both had hoped. The transition to the idea of dying is necessary for both patient and physician; a new type of open and collaborative relationship needs to form, and both must trust each other to work toward the new goal of having the best life in the time remaining. If your regular doctor cannot make this transition with you, then, unfortunately, a new doctor or care team must be found. If you choose to die at home, the choice of home health care aides skilled in helping people die is at least as important as the physician and nurses you work with.
There have also been great social changes in how we experience death and dying. One hundred years ago, people were born and died at home. We moved into the era of modern medicine where doctors were part of every major physical transition or event from cradle to grave. Families were kept out of medical decisions and the treatment room. Today, patients and families want to be part of all medical decisions and have access to information to make informed decisions, at all stages of life. Some medicalprofessionals are not comfortable with this collaborative shift, others share information and decision-making easily with patients and families.
The period of moving toward dying is a time of re-orientation of approach to daily life and plans. It is a time of many examinations: of self, one's life, one's usual priorities, and of one's relationships. It is a time for honest assessment of those tasks, experiences and achievements one has always wanted to do, balanced against what energies and possibilities remain to do them. It is a time of planning for the physical, medical, palliative, emotional, psychological, spiritual, and environmental aspects of the life remaining. It is a time of figuring out how to tell people of one's coming death, of determining what kinds of assistance may prove necessary, of finding out what to expect, and of making financial and funeral/memorial plans. Plans may also include bequests and arrangements for the rearing of children left behind. It can also be a time of possible writing and of poetry and of some burst of creativity (this sentence is awkard, but don't have the right spin just yet). It can be a time of silences, or intense communication with self and loved ones. It can be a time for intense involvement from family and caregivers, and a time of closeness and anticipated loss.
This is also the time when our specific fears of death and the process of dying must be confronted and processed. Those fears [perhaps of pain, or of dying alone] can shape or distort the journey, unless they are acknowledged and discussed. How we approach this time as either the patient or the family member/caregiver, is very much determined by both our prior experiences with death and the dying, and also by our fears of this unknown territory. Were those prior deaths sudden, as after an accident, so no goodbyes were possible? Were they lingering deaths with much rage, suffering and isolation? Were they planned, comfortable and transcendent deaths, with loved ones gathered around? When we think of prior deaths of loved ones, we may think of sadness and loss, of perhaps, the goodbyes not said; or of our memories of the lies or secrets we were told about impending family deaths, held back from us when we were children, perhaps to protect us; or the great silences which were not breached, or perhaps the helplessness of watching someone slip away, perhaps in great suffering, or in a distant comatose state. Our approach will also be tempered by the patient's stage of life, independent of exact age. Has the patient had a life of happiness, met challenges, achievements and satisfaction? Or is the patient approaching dying with the sense of having a life's load of unfinished business, unmet goals, and unhealed relationships?
People typically want and need information about the physical changes and needs of the patient. They need to know what to expect as someone is dying, need to find ways to work with doctors and other medical staff, find a hospice program and understand the role of hospice, emotional supports, psychological supports, spiritual supports, plans for the last days, find how to be with the dying person, need information about effective pain management, financial planning, how to say goodbye to a loved one, how to take care of oneself in the midst of caring for someone else, how to explain things to children, etc. The list may seem endless and overwhelming.
A recent study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology [2002;20: 2514-2519] , suggested that the terminal patient's own sense of his or her overall health was the best predictor of the length of time remaining. That those who reported that they were feeling well during this time lived longer than those who reported otherwise, regardless of actual clinical condition. The authors suggested that doctors respect the patient's sense of his or her own health when making treatment decisions.
The pathway each journey takes will be shaped by many things. Among these are the patient and family's psychological style and the degree of adjustment to the idea that the patient is now dying, by the spiritual beliefs, by the actual medical condition, by the palliative needs determined by that condition, by the timetable of the progression, by the level of pain, by the degree of physical supports needed, by the realities of available money and insurance, by geography, the physical environment, and available social supports.
Pain is, naturally, one of the possibilities that people with cancer fear most. The most important points to remember about cancer pain are
Michael Lerner, in his wonderful online book, "Choices in Healing" writes, "There is a fundamental distinction between healing and curing that lies at the heart of all genuinely patient-centered approaches to cancer treatment and care." 1
Although the capacity to heal physically is necessary to any successful cure, healing can also take place on deeper levels whether or not physical recovery occurs. Healing goes beyond curing and may take place when curing is not at issue or has proved impossible.
Shamans in traditional systems of medicine around the world found that if they sought first to safeguard the soul, rather than the body, the body tended to respond better. We can create the conditions of growth, or the conditions of healing, by nourishing, nurturing, and tending within us that which we value and wish to help grow.
As Michael Lerner wisely says,
It is useful to differentiate between universal, common, and unique conditions of healing. For example, inner peace is an almost universal condition of healing. A deep experience of love is also almost universally healing. By contrast, anger or hate is a less common condition of healing.
There are many common conditions of healing. Many of us are healed by attention and care from our friends and family, by finding work that we deeply enjoy, by laughter, by music that moves us, by great art. But some of the most important conditions of healing are the unique conditions of healing. William Blake said that any man who would help another must do so in "minute particulars." He was talking about helping another person by assisting him in the minute particulars--the unique way--that is most meaningful to him.1
How can you participate in your own healing process?
This is the question that the pioneering psychotherapist Larry LeShan asks in Cancer as a Turning Point. "What is the unique purpose of your life, the unique song that you were put on earth to sing?," LeShan often asks. Some people know the answer instantly. Others discover it after a time of living with the question. Still others have to work long and hard for the answer. It is a great question, and a great guide on the path to healing, for if you discover the answer, LeShan's next question is: "Under the present circumstances, what would be the first steps you need to take to begin moving toward living this life?" Embarking on this path can bring great healing.
Questions to ask yourself
A cancer diagnosis can thus lead to a profound transformation of values.
Within the circumstances of the cancer diagnosis, what would I optimally choose in every area of my current life:
This is an exercise in making yourself aware of what feels authentic to you. It is surprising how many people with cancer have never given much thought to what they would actually like. Discovering the little (and big) activities that give you special pleasure is both fulfilling and healing. One way of exploring this question is to divide your life into different areas of inquiry.
What are the specific physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual conditions that could support healing for you?1
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Some practicing oncologists consciously uses hope as a treatment tool. In ancient times, when medical technologies were more limited, the physician's appreciation of the therapeutic uses of hope was much more refined than it is today.
Even if one has no difficulty accepting the prospect of death, human beings need hope. To hope for a miracle is something we are capable of doing until the very end. There is no such thing as false hope.
We can certainly hope for a peaceful, pain-free death with dignity. Or the hope that death will reunite us with our loved ones who have passed. We can consciously aim and prepare for a death that doesn't impose too much on family members.
Michael Lerner wisely writes, "If a patient with a serious cancer hopes to be the one person in a hundred or in a thousand to overcome the cancer, it is not correct for the physician to propose that this is a false hope. It may be a slender hope, but that slender hope may still provide light as the cancer patient goes through the inner work of learning to live under new and difficult circumstances." 1
The healing process not only has a tendency to bring people closer to an appreciation of who they uniquely are and what their unique purpose is in this world. It also brings them closer to God, spirit, inner peace, connectedness, or whatever we choose to call that which is great and mysterious.
A real possibility exists that life in some form continues after death, and intriguing scientific literature supports the spiritual writings and the experience of many people who have had remarkable near-death experiences.
Many cancer patients cannot relate to the concept of a spiritual reality, but that they can relate deeply to nature, mankind, friends and family, art and music, or science and reason. At the heart of all great spiritual traditions is a clear recognition that all forms of dedication to what is worthy in human experience are ultimately spiritual. In this sense, the spiritual quest is the search for the life path on which we explore the highest potential each of us was given in this life. The spiritual quest can be undertaken as completely by an atheist or agnostic, or a worshiper of nature, family, mankind, art, music, or science, as by a believer in an explicitly religious or spiritual tradition.
For the cancer patient engaged in an intense search for healing and recovery, these considerations are not abstract theological issues. Like a soldier in a trench under bombardment who suddenly discovers prayer, or a prisoner in a forgotten cell awaiting execution, the person with cancer often has urgent reason to reflect on ultimate questions: the meaning of his life; what has true value for him; what happens when he dies; how he should live from now on. If he immerses himself in books about alternative cancer therapies, he will read about many spiritual approaches to cancer. But he may feel blocked and frustrated because he does not consider himself a religious or spiritual person, or because the kinds of spiritual experiences that the books describe seem foreign to him. For such a person, the fundamental distinctions between spirit, spirituality, and religion may never have been made clear. Without these distinctions, he may not see -- or give himself permission to explore -- the path to the realm of spirit that for him, as a unique human being, would be authentic, life-enhancing, and perhaps lifesaving.
We need to recognize that patience, grace, prayer, meditation, hope, forgiveness and fellowship are as important to many of our health initiatives as medication, hospitalization, incarceration or surgery. The spiritual elements of experience help us to rise above the matters at hand such that in the face of suffering we can find purpose, meaning and hope.1
A good death might be described mentally and emotionally as one in which as much movement toward wisdom and healing as possible takes place for the one who is dying and for those who love him. A good death might be described physically as one in which pain and discomfort do not exceed what can be decently endured.
It is very useful to recognize the distinction between our fear of dying and our fear of death. This distinction then helps us focus first on specific fears we have about the dying process. Most people are [unecessarily] more afraid of being caught in interminable suffering during the dying process than they are of death itself.
Some people are afraid that making practical estate arrangements or other arrangements for dying means that they have given up the fight for life, but taking care of the things you want to take care of actually releases energy for the fight for life.
A very important part of preparing for death is giving some thought to helping loved ones with the grieving process. This can be tremendously important, because incomplete grieving often injures the rest of the life of a mate, a parent, or a child. In the process of a good death, a great deal of the mutual grieving of patient and loved ones takes place while the patient is still alive and participating. If this process takes place as consciously and fully as possible, the death can sometimes become, strangely, a great healing for all involved.
Our culture's attitude--in which death is a highly toxic subject and seen as a failure, either of the doctor or of the patient--is not only new historically but at odds with that of other cultures. In many cultures, dying is surrounded by rituals in which everyone participates. For many centuries in the West, this was also so. Death was often seen as the culmination of a life, and people gave great thought to how they might die well.
In the face of sincere contemplation and prayer, the toxicity with which our culture has surrounded death often begins to dissolve.
All of this leads to exploration of what benefits we and those we love may receive from death and dying. We know all too well what the pain and losses will be. We know all too well that some people die with great difficulty and suffering, while others die peacefully. The question is whether or not we can find anything of value, in the midst of pain and loss, from death. The answer of some wise people over the centuries, and of many in our time, is that it is possible to find deeply meaningful and important experiences in the midst of facing death.1
Many thanks to Karen Greene for contributing this page.
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Sonya Hartnett's third novel for adults is perfectly formed and utterly compelling, an unflinching and disquieting work from one of Australia's finest writers.
Colt Jenson and his younger brother Bastian live in a world of shiny, new things – skateboards, slot cars, train sets and even the latest BMX. Their affluent father, Rex, has made sure that they'll be the envy of the new, working-class suburb they've moved to. But underneath the surface of the perfect family, is there something unsettling about the Jensons? To the local kids, Rex becomes a kind of hero, but Colt senses there's something in his father that could destroy their fragile new lives.
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Colt and Bastian have all the coolest toys in the suburban neighbourhood they've just moved to. Bikes that make local boys envious, and a new swimming pool that's a social magnet. But something makes it hard for the brothers to make friends and be accepted. Is it something to do with their dentist father Rex and his over-friendly manner? Freya, on the cusp of womanhood, does not think so. She thinks Rex is wonderful, even in his barbecue apron. She likes the way he's a smiling father, not a drunk like her own dad.
This is a deft, unsettling story that rumbles with menace like a distant electric storm. It's a dark edgy tale of class, submerged and repressed desire, suburban rumours, marital disappointments and tensions, as fragile adolescents try on the postures of adulthood.
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Sonya Hartnett's work has won numerous Australian and international literary prizes and has been published around the world. Uniquely, she is acclaimed for her stories for adults, young adults and children. Her accolades include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Of A Boy), The Age Book of the Year (Of A Boy), the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (Thursday's Child), the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for both Older and Younger Readers (Forest, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost's Child, The Midnight Zoo and The Children of the King), the Victorian Premier's Literary Award (Surrender), shortlistings for the Miles Franklin Award (for both Of a Boy and Butterfly) and the CILP Carnegie Medal (The Midnight Zoo). Hartnett is also the first Australian recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2008).
In 2014, Hartnett published a new novel for adults, Golden Boys, and her third picture book, The Wild One.
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I feel that Sonya Hartnett must have some experience of domestic violence. She captured the drunken father and his antics to a tee. I couldn't believe some of her observations - it was as though I had written the words myself. I really identified with the kids and mother in this book. It takes a while for it to start to unravel but the story is very good too. I enjoyed it despite the domestic violence.
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Although this book is marketed as adult fiction and is a must read for all teachers, it still could be a powerful text to both have in your school library and to use in class with students in years nine and upwards. Enjoy the reading then you're sure to think about using it in an education context. For adults who have read Hartnett's fiction before, the slowly emerging menace in the story is more easily felt. The "golden boys" are Colt, 12 and his younger brother Bastian, sons of their dentist father, Rex who has moved his family one more time. The opening event where Rex is teasing his sons about his latest gift of a bike sets up the power plays between all the male characters throughout the novel. Rex enjoys being "the father of envied boys". His move to an outer suburb ensures that the envy will be successful in crowding the house with the local boys from poor families, drawn in by the masses of toys that surround Colt and Bastian. When Rex adds a swimming pool to the house, those of us who will never forget Hartnett's 2002 novel Of a Boy are filled with foreboding. I have to ration my reading to 30 pages a day so that I don't devour the book in one sitting.
Rex's sons attend an expensive private school, far away and beyond the comprehension of the working class family of Freya, also 12 and her numerous siblings, Declan, Syd, Marigold and Peter, while there is always another baby coming. Rex introduces the boys to Freya's mother as they leave the church after Sunday mass and, as Freya contrasts them to her own active and noisy brothers, Colt and Bastian stand "placid as giraffes".
Two other boys complete the cast: Avery has street cat instincts, hates his guardian grandfather but has "the freedom of neglect" while Garrick, who enjoys bullying and is older and larger, comes from a family everyone is terrified of. Bastian, who "looks like a collectable doll" and Colt "like a boy pulled from a cereal box" are easier victims than Avery who has the street skills to avoid and escape more serious harm.
Over one month in the lives of the two contrasting families, Hartnett, with her sharp-eyed observation easily gains my empathy as I read inside her characters' heads in her gripping present tense narration. Both Colt and Freya are at that age where they begin to see their parents as people with faults and weaknesses. Freya is losing both God and her parents as she finds a confidante in Rex. Syd, being younger, wonders why Freya is telling Rex family secrets about their drunken, abusive father. Declan and Colt are also beginning to understand. Declan finds Rex "just a bit strange. Don't go there alone, Syd." However, Colt sees that the toys are "for him", "not us" and develops a growing but suppressed rage of suspicion and betrayal.
The tension laden climax does involve the pool in an oblique way as Hartnett, with her typically memorable imagery and the kind of sentence progression that reads effortlessly and disguises the writer's labour, produces an event which in retrospect has inevitable, dramatic power. Simultaneously (and this is her great skill) there remains the subtlety of the relationships which reverberate in my mind as I keep questioning what really happened and what effects it had and will have on the lives of these characters as they look towards adulthood.
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Marijuana allergy
If you have an allergic reaction around an hour after you have smoked marijuana, is the same thing likely to happen if you ate a cookie or brownie made with marijuana? Would an OTC treatment work? Like Benadryl? (Symptoms of allergic reaction include itcy rash on throat, and slight discomfort while breathing) Thanx!!!
Marijuana is one variant of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa, which is an annual herb. There have been reports of skin test proven allergy to components of Cannabis leaves, Cannabis pollen and Cannabis seeds. While most respiratory reactions are irritant reactions, there have been reports of respiratory allergy on exposure to smoke. Reactions have been also shown to occur in response to mold and dust mite contamination of the leaves. Oral and systemic symptoms requiring emergency treatment have been reported on ingestion of hemp containing foods by patients with previous exposure to marijuana smoke. If allergy is suspected, it is not recommended to proceed with re-exposure, since subsequent reactions could be more severe. Treatment with over-the-counter medications may not be sufficient to prevent a significant systemic reaction.
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