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What to do when your bowels are irritable
You've ever suffered from gas, bloating, diarrhoea or constipation, you know how unpleasant and uncomfortable these symptoms can be and what a relief it is when they finally disappear. Many people are embarrassed and reluctant to talk about what goes on behind closed doors in the bathroom, but in truth, one in six people living in the UK experience periodic symptoms. So, you're not alone if you're suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Comprehending the symptoms and reasons for IBS can help you acknowledge it in yourself and support any friends or family members going through the same thing.
The majority of the medications used for dealing with spastic colon can cause several side effects, for which their daily and long-term use is usually not recommended. People with IBS should strictly avoid taking medications without consulting their health care providers. They need to take medications just under the supervision of their physicians.
People suffering from IBS can have symptoms ranging from mild to severe, but for many people irritable bowel syndrome disappears than having to experience occasional mild symptoms that don't require a visit to the doctor. If you think you might be suffering from IBS and have had symptoms such as gas, bloating, and irregular bowel movements more than three days a month over a period of three months, make an appointment to see your GP and discuss the issue with them.
- Anybody with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) will understand that handling it is really awful.
- You never understand when the next attack is going to strike.
- Some sufferers are constantly on the lookout for the closest rest area and plan their day around not being too far from a bathroom.
- Other individuals do not go there frequently enough.
- Either means, the pain can be terrible.
IBS is Defined by Abdominal Pain or Cramps, Bloating, Constipation, and Diarrhea
In some people, diarrhea can be popular, while in others, it could be constipation. Some people on the other hand, can suffer from alternating periods of constipation and diarrhea. However, IBS does not cause inflammation of the bowel tissues, or inflammatory bowel disease like Crohn's disease or colitis. IBS is usually not considered to be a life-threatening condition, though it can affect the quality of life substantially.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is One of the Other Key Causes
IBS is characterized by cramping, abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloating, and constipation. Because IBS leads to irregular, disorderly contractions of the intestinal tracts, gurgling in the intestines is a natural impact that follows.
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- Treatment: Apart from taking elaborate meals, lack of physical activity is often responsible for causing digestion problems.
- For a healthy digestion, besides eating in moderation, regular exercise is very important.
- Also, after having a heavy meal, you need to keep a time gap of 2-3 hours before you hit the sack.
- Short walks after meals can also contribute in enhancing digestion.
Negative Effects of Aloe Vera Juice
Aloe Vera as a Laxative.
Aloe Vera Consists of the Gel and the Latex
The latex of the aloe vera leaf refers to the yellow part which lies just beneath the leaf skin. It contains anthraquinones like aloin, which are responsible for the laxative properties of aloe vera. When present in aloe juice, the latex can relieve constipation, and stimulate bowel movement. However, studies have found that when used for a long period of time, people developed a sort of tolerance, and needed increased doses to get the same laxative effect. In fact, prolonged use of aloe vera juice as a laxative can increase the risk of constipation. Moreover, the consumption of aloe latex was associated with an exhaustion of the potassium from the cells in the digestive lining. This is the reason that aloe vera laxatives were banned by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) since November 5, 2002.
Milk and dairy products.
Foods Rich in Sugar
Artificial sweeteners like sorbitol and xylitol.
How to Treat IBS Naturally
http://draxe.com/ In this training video I am going to talk to you about IBS natural treatments and the IBS diet. IBS stands for Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Apart from these, some people may get relief from excessive gas, bloating, and flatulence by avoiding or lowering the consumption of the following foods:
Beans and Vegetables
Clients of IBS should eat smaller meals instead of three big meals, and drink a lot of water throughout the day. However, they should avoid sodas and soft drinks.
- ExerciseRegular exercise has been found to reduce the severity of IBS symptoms in many patients.
- Exercise can improve the quality of life and mental and physical wellness.
- Low impact exercises like walking, swimming, and biking can prove profoundly helpful in reducing the frequency and severity of spastic colon.

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Freshmen #245: Indy Harrison Solo Gallery
This week’s Freshmen Issue #245 features a very cute newcomer, a lean twink called Indy Harrison in a great solo.
Here comes the Indy Harrison Solo Gallery from Freshmen Issue #245. And like last week’s Karl Brunni (see here), Indy is a total newcomer. They haven’t even released his casting video on BelamiOnline yet. Usually, these images used on Freshmen are an excerpt of the Pin Up Gallery, that will later be released as the Model Of The Week feature. Also on BelamiOnline. This might take some time, though. And it’s possible that in the meantime, they will release hardcore scenes with him. Probably on Freshmen. If he decides to film guy-on-guy scenes with them…
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At first look I thought, what a cute twink. But Indy Harrison is actually more of a jock. He’s quite lean, with perfect six pack abs, nice pecs and a great bubble butt. He’s not super-hung, but has a beautiful cock and a pair of big balls in his sack. What’s rather unusual for a photo session here, is that Indy apparently ended it with a cum shot. The solo boys normally do cum, but as part of the photo session video. Indy is quite popular on BelamiChat and has a lot of loyal fans. There, he also says that he’s bi-sexual.
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Dynamic Glove 562
To kick off a busy July fight fans in Japan will get DynamicGlove 562, headlined by Japanese Super Featherweight champion Kenichi Ogawa, who defends his title against Hirotsugu Yamamoto. The champion is featured heavily on the poster, which if we're being honest is somewhat dull, though it could have been a good poster if they had really run with some of the ideas they have toyed with. It's clear the show is selling on Ogawa, but sadly for him he's not the huge draw that Teiken are likely hoping he could be.
Every major fight needs good promotional posters. This part of AsianBoxing will try and feature some of those posters.


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Julian, California in the mountains of San Diego, is known for its old gold mines and juicy homemade apple pies sold along the clapboard western looking Main Street. Just around the bend in Wynola is Jeremy’s on the Hill restaurant featuring local and organic cuisine. Chef Jeremy pair’s regional wines with his bistro menu and offers big plates of freshly made and friendly served meals. Flat iron steak with garlic fries is a favorite and his modern twist with Julian apples is delightful. After a filling meal, drive east through Mt. Laguna and pull into the scenic desert outlook. Mountains, delicious food and desert views all in a San Diego afternoon.
Jeremy’s on the Hill
4354 Hwy 78, Wynola, Ca

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Chrysler recently held a media test drive event for the 2013 SRT Viper at the Gingerman Speedway, South Haven, Michigan, so selected automotive reporters can have their first ever drive in this new American super car. SRT CEO Ralph Gilles himself attended the event, and took the wheel of a Viper for a few laps around the circuit. In this video he shares his views on the car with us.
With all the technology features found in the new Viper, such as traction control or infotainment system, one might imagine that it’s gone kinda soft. You might think SRT engineers had to compromise on power and speed to make the Viper more comfortable and less dangerous. Ermm… not so. This thing has a massive 8.4 liter V10 engine. It is absolutely bonkers. How can a car with those looks and 640-hp and 600 lb-ft of torque be soft?
The only thing soft about the new Viper is its price, which starts at $97,395.


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"I simulate love-making by beating a piece of wood with a metal wire on which it vibrates."
- Adam Clayton
did you know
The Picture of Dorian Grey mentioned in the song 'The Ocean' is a novel by Oscar Wilde, the Irish author who has been a huge influence on Bono's lyrics. In referring to it, Bono mocks his own vanity in thinking a rock star can change the world.

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HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES
40-1002. Nonpayment — Call. When any warrant is presented to the district treasurer for payment, and it is not paid for want of funds, the treasurer must indorse on the back of the warrant, "not paid for want of funds," and shall write upon it the date of presentation and sign his name. Warrants indorsed by the treasurer shall draw interest at the rate established by the district board from the date of indorsement until paid.
[40-1002, added 1985, ch. 253, sec. 2, p. 642.]


DURA CHI redefines durability and top performance for professional stylists. The DURA CHI Professional Dryer features a long lasting AC Motor that provides 1875 watts of power for increased airflow and decreased drying time. Powered with Rapid Clean Technology ™ the dryer features 6 blue LED lights that provide antimicrobial properties to decrease bacteria and buildup inside the dryer and improve airflow quality.
- AC Motor- Over 1000 hours of drying time
- Removable filter for easy cleaning
- Ceramic heater for quick and even heat distribution
- Automatic Ion Feature for added smoothness and shine
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Over the last two years, Scenic Rivers Land Trust secured $2.3 million in grants for landowners who want to permanently protect their land. Join us for a breakfast buffet and an overview of the legal and tax framework of conservation easements. Learn about significant income, property, and estate tax benefits that might be available to your clients. Program highlights include updates to a local grant program that provides a per-acre cash incentive for landowners who protect forests and/or plant trees on qualified land. Scenic Rivers is the most active land trust in Anne Arundel County, holding 65 conservation easements that protect well over 2,700 acres.
Speakers Include: • Nina Fisher, Scenic Rivers Land Trust, Board President • Ben Wechsler, Linowes and Blocher, Partner • Kristen Maneval, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Senior Transactions Counsel • Dick Davies, CohnReznick, Partner • David Ballard, Champion Financial Planning Group, President • Sarah Knebel, Scenic Rivers Land Trust, Conservation Director
Register for this no-fee event by October 15th at www.SRLT.org Questions? Contact Sarah Knebel at [email protected] or 410-980-6837.

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Special thanks to the following individuals and organizations for their contributions to Shoelace.css.
- Cory LaViska – for creating this project.
- Adam K Olson – for designing the logo with a single shoelaces.
- Bootstrap – for inspiration and an amazing grid system.
- KeyCDN – for providing an awesome CDN service.
- GitHub – for hosting this and many other open source projects.
- Surreal CMS – for sponsoring development.


Projects led by LCS Development showcase expertise in senior living
Projects led by LCS Development at two senior living communities have been nominated in the renovation or repositioning category of the 2020 Architecture & Design Awards sponsored by Senior Housing News. Awards will be announced December 15, 2020.
Wyndemere, a Life Plan Community in Wheaton, Illinois. Wyndemere is minutes from downtown Wheaton, Northwestern Medical Central DuPage, DuPage County and Government Campus.
LCS Development led the team of SBA Architects, RDG Planning and Ryan Companies to create new independent living apartments, complementing the continuum of care at the community. In addition, existing amenities were expanded to complete the community’s long-term wellness program and create a bridge between the new and existing buildings. A previous project included new wellness area, dining venue and resident activity spaces.
In partnership, LCS Development and Life Care Services have conducted master planning, market analysis, design, financing and construction activities so that Wyndemere can stay vibrant and competitive. This project represents the most recent step in this ongoing process.
The project was completed September 2020.
Rolling Green Village
Rolling Green Village, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, was established 30 years ago on 175 acres of farmland generously donated by Greenville residents.
Before undertaking this renovation and expansion project at the community, LCS Development led the master planning process and previous development projects. The current project added 60 independent living apartments and 23 cottages. In addition, a new clubhouse, main entrance and dining venues were constructed along with an extensive expansion of resident amenities.
LCS Development led the team of THW Design, RDG Planning, Triangle Construction, and Mavin Construction through project completion. The community is managed by Life Care Services.
The project was completed October 2020.


Kawthar Al Bashrawi is a Tunisian journalist, activist and TV personality.
Kawthar Al Bashrawi (or Kawthar el Beshrawi) started as a radio anchor in 1984. She later started appearing in talk shows on Arab Television, where she would often defend Arab nationalism. She gradually became a TV icon after clearly supporting the Palestinian cause and the Lebanese resistance movement.
Kawthar Al Bashrawi is said to now have her own TV show on Al Jazeera Satellite Channel.She is mostly based in Lebanon, and is a regular guest on Al Manar TV.
Commenting on the Tunisian revolution, Kawthar Al-Bashrawi describes it as a miracle; a revolution of a nation, not a revolution of political parties. It had no leader, unlike other historical revolutions, including the French and Iranian etc. Despite attempts of some of the former Zine El Abidine Ben Ali dictatorship’s symbols to return to political life, still she is reassured because the revolutionists are still cautious and alert.
Like most Tunisians, Kawthar Al-Bashrawi wants a secular regime that separates between religion and state, and guarantees the freedom of expression and opinion for everyone. She clarifies that secular does not mean atheism as some would think, it does not contradict with religion or belief.
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text: The aims of this review are to describe recent data focusing on the anatomical, functional and molecular changes of the carotid body during chronic hypoxemia, and to summarize current views in the literature relevant to the topic. The carotid body is the major peripheral sensor for detecting chemicals in the arterial blood. In acute hypoxia, carotid chemoreceptors transduce the signal to the brain for triggering reflexive responses of the cardiopulmonary system. The carotid body enlarges and changes its hypoxic sensitivity in humans and animals living at high altitude or subject to long-term hypoxemia associated with chronic cardiopulmonary diseases or hematological disorders. Recently, a surge of new evidence suggests that a heterodimeric transcriptional factor directly induced by severe tissue or cellular hypoxia, namely hypoxiainducible factor-1 (HIF-1), is a key controller for the transcriptional regulation of the gene expression of a spectrum of proteins for the cellular response to hypoxia. These proteins, such as endothelin-1, type II nitric oxide synthase and vascular endothelial growth factor, play important physiological roles in the control of vascular tone and angiogenesis. In the carotid body, chronic hypoxemia induces remodeling of the vasculature, stimulates proliferation of the chemosensitive cells, and changes their excitability and sensitivity to chemical signals. In addition, HIF-1-targeted genes are expressed in the carotid body and the expression is modulated by chronic hypoxemia, suggesting an active role for HIF-1 in moderate levels of hypoxic stress.

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text: The City of Kigali is working on strategies to develop more parks and public green open spaces for its residents and is set to install more public benches in 100 selected places. The benches will be installed on street edges according to Solange Muhirwa, the Chief of Urban Planning at City of Kigali. The selected spaces include Gisozi, Gakiriro, Musezero, Gisozi Carriere, Kinamba Garden, Kanyinya, Karama 2 and Karama 1. Other spaces are Ku Ryanyuma in Nyamirambo, Miduha trading centre, Rugarama, Kwa Mutwe, Biryogo, and Gatare. Engen Kanogo, Rubangura House, Main Roundabout and Muhima Yamaha, Kagugu among other spaces identified to set up these benches. The development is part of the city’s efforts to transform Kigali into a recreational and environmentally friendly city, officials said. So far public benches have been installed in 33 Kigali’s famous recreational facilities including Imbuga City Walk in the central business district (formerly car-free zone) and Rwandex public gardens. Muhirwa said that under the same project, the city is considering building a small masterpiece in the heart of the city but in an area yet to be decided. She added that as a way of making the project more inclusive, they plan to engage the public both physically and on social media to determine where these amenities can be set up. Their plan, she added, is to make a positive difference to people’s experience of Kigali’s public realm. She added that each bench has the capacity to accommodate at least four adults. Each space will have at least two benches minimum, depending on the available space. “This should encourage users to enjoy open spaces that surround them,” she said adding that “we understand that people have basic and secondary needs in these spaces: The first need is to sit, the second is the socialisation.” She elaborated that public benches will make Kigali’s streets more comfortable for all citizens, especially foot-travelers and transit riders. “The benches are for the general public and are not restricted to tenants of any particular building or patrons of any particular business,” Muhirwa noted. The seating spots were selected to provide a variety of viewpoints such as calm areas, greenery, landmarks, and for accommodating different activities such as reading, relaxing, conversing among others. “General street safety including traffic-related issues among others, are important considerations in choosing the space to set up these benches,” she said. According to Muhirwa the additional amenities such as bike racks and others can be considered as a part of the design, as long as they do not interfere or compromise the ‘seating function’ and ‘street-safety’ aspects of the bench. “Once installed, the benches will remain outdoors, exposed to severe weather conditions and public interactions,” she said adding that the fabrication, installation and the materials of the bench are selected in consideration of these aspects.

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There is currently “no alternative” to the strategy of social distancing, testing, and contact tracing, says the head of the scientific task force that advises federal policy on Covid-19.This content was published on September 20, 2020 - 13:37
In an interview with the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper, Martin Ackermann said the Swiss strategy is “working well”, despite rising cases in recent weeks.
Daily positive tests have several times climbed above 500, and the average infection rate per 100,000 citizens has exceeded the limit that Switzerland uses to determine whether a foreign country should be placed on its travel “risk” list.
However, Ackermann said that the r-rate of transmission is still low. For every 10 positive patients, a further eleven are infected. “Simply put, this is just one too many,” he said. “If it was brought down to ten, the r-rate would be one, and the situation stable.”
He praised the decentralised cantonal approach, describing it as “going at Covid-19 with a scalpel” instead of the “axe” of a national lockdown, as happened last March.
In order for this to keep working, however, especially into winter, he said resources need to be ensured both for contact tracing and for testing. If numbers of staff or tests are compromised, then “the system breaks down.”
According to the NZZ am Sonntag, some 12,000 tests are currently carried out daily in the country. Between 30,000 and 35,000 are planned in the medium-term, a number that could rise to 50,000, the newspaper says, citing a federal source.
With global demand for tests high – something Ackermann acknowledged – this raises the question of shortages in the coming weeks and months, the newspaper wrote. It quoted a federal health office spokesman as saying that authorities are currently working to boost capacities, but that shortages could not be ruled out.
Ackermann, who took over at the head of the taskforce in August, also maintained that the social and economic costs of a herd immunity strategy would be “much too high”.
Besides, he said, such a strategy would rely on a still-unknown factor: how long a patient remains immune after contracting the virus.

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“More than half indicated they were influenced by a healthcare professional or government agency to get vaccinated. As you can see, 27.1% suffered cardiovascular symptoms warranting hospitalization with 15.8% landing in the intensive care unit. Despite the bias of recruitment strategy to find patients with cardiovascular side effects from mRNA, these are large percentages requiring hospital and or ICU care. Never in recent times has there been such a cardiotoxic vaccine released on the public. More data are needed on these cases including diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes such as recurrent hospitalization and death.”
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
You have to get up pretty early in the morning to beat some other blogs to the punch on the previous nights Hulu videos dontcha? Ehhh...you might have already viewed this performance of "Two Weeks" by Grizzly Bear last night on the Tonight Show but it's really good so you might as well watch it again. Victoria Legrand really does take this song into the upper stratosphere of awesomeness right?
Video: Grizzly Bear "Two Weeks" on Conan
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Disclaimers: I do not own InuYasha or any of the characters associated with it. I'm only borrowing the characters to amuse myself and hopefully others. ^__^
Ch. 1 Memories
“Good morning Tokyo, tragedy has struck the city as more than a dozen construction workers were found dead on the newly established condo site. So far there are no new reports on the cause of death. We will bring you updates as they become available. Aimi, how are things looking on the ground level?” the news anchor asked as the screen split to reveal the reporter on site.
“Thank you, Makiko, after interviewing some locals, here is what they had to say,” the reporter showed clips of the people she spoke to.
One elderly man said, “The only reason why those men died was because they were building on the grounds of an old temple. It was a warning from the spirits to stop construction immediately.”
“As you can see Makiko, superstition and rumors surround this mystery,” Aimi said as the camera panned the area in which the incident occurred.
“Thank you, Aimi,” Makiko turned back to face the camera at the station, “In other news…”
The television could be heard from the dining room and Mrs. Higurashi seemed particularly interested. “I can’t believe something like that could happen. Do you think they were murdered?” the mother asked with a serious look spreading over her face.
Kagome looked up from her notes with wide eyes, “Mother! Are you serious? Who would murder over a dozen people? Who could get away with it?”
Kagome’s mother shrugged her shoulders, “I have no idea who could get away with it, but the only reason why I asked is because the locals seemed disgruntled over the fact that condos were being built on sacred ground. It was in the news some time ago and there was a huge dispute that eventually went to court. You can obviously see who won. There could be someone out there bent on getting revenge.”
“Mom, I think you watch too much TV. Just stay in the realm of reality please,” Kagome said with an exhausted sigh. She glanced at her watch and gathered her documents, “Mom, I’m running late. I need to get to work.”
“Souta! Hurry up or I’m leaving you behind!” Kagome shouted up the stairs.
Souta ran down with a backpack flung over his shoulder, “Yeah, yeah, I’m coming Sis.”
Kagome quickly bent down and kissed her mother on the cheek, “Love you Mom. We’ll see you later.” The two siblings left the home and got into the family car.
As Souta buckled up he said, “It does seem weird how all those workers died in conjunction to one another. I was reading a report online that stated the times of death and they were very close, mere minutes from each other.”
“Ah, so that’s why you’re lagging behind this morning,” Kagome commented. She continued, “Don’t forget there is an exam today in class.”
“I know Sis, you don’t have to remind me,” the brother said with annoyance.
Kagome became irritated, “Look, just because you’re sixteen and in college doesn’t mean you still can’t be forgetful. I was just trying to help you out.” Although her brother tested out of high school at the tender age of fourteen, there were still times when she thought of him as her baby brother.
“Do you help your other students like this?” Souta questions while crossing his arms.
“Actually, I do. I email all my students so that everyone comes in prepared. The last thing I want to do is flunk someone, but I suppose I could make an exception for you,” Kagome finished with a joking tone.
“I think it’s embarrassing how I’m even in your class to begin with. Too bad I have to take Feudal History as a requirement for my degree.” Souta was joking right back with his cocky mannerisms.
“You could have chosen another time and professor for this required class.”
“Not really. Any other choice would conflict with my work schedule.”
“Oh right, that waiting job at the restaurant. Isn’t that a hotspot eatery in downtown?”
“It sure is. You should come in there sometime and get something to eat.”
“If I wasn’t so busy all the time I just might take you up on that offer.”
There was a brief silence in the car until Souta changed up the subject, “I guess it makes sense that you would become a professor teaching the very thing you lived through.”
Kagome nodded, “I couldn’t agree with you more. I’ve always been interested in that time period even before I went there myself. It only flamed the fires more with my curiosity to the people and how they lived.” She became silent once more, recalling her time in that era, her time with… She shook her head of that memory so many years ago. It was best to leave it in the past and forget about it.
“You know, since Grandpa passed away you’ve been hitting those books harder than ever before. I know you want to help people, but I can’t recall what you said you wanted to be?” Kagome clearly wanted the subject matter to revolve around her brother. She didn’t want to think about herself at that moment.
Souta knew what his sister was doing and played along effortlessly. He didn’t mean to cause her undue stress with the thought of her past self. “I want to become an immunologist with a minor in virology. There are a multitude of titles for people who work towards cures for diseases. Virologists work with viral diseases, while immunologists try to create immunizations and vaccines to prevent disease. I suppose this could also fall under becoming a biomedical scientist because they specialize in finding cures for human diseases. Their research involves finding patterns in the body in order to use that information to treat those diseases.”
Souta was long-winded when he began to talk about a subject matter that interested him. Kagome smiled as she saw the excitement build in her little brother.
He continued, “Grandpa died of pneumococcal disease and this includes infections of the body, such as pneumonia, bronchitis, bacteremia, and meningitis. This is caused by 83 serotypes of streptococcus pneumoniae…”
“Alright you can stop now,” Kagome said while trying to suppress a laugh.
Souta huffed, “My point is, I want to find cures for all types of diseases so that people don’t have to suffer like our grandpa did. Who knows, what I conjure up might help mom when she gets older.”
Kagome smiled, “You’re headed in the right direction with the schooling you’re taking. Every semester you manage to get the maximum number of classes and seven of them are a lot. I could barely manage four per semester when I was going through university.”
“I would love to attend more classes if the school administration would allow it. The administration feels that I wouldn’t be able to handle more classes. I can’t help it if I’m dedicated to education,” was all he had to say about it. Kagome knew what he meant about dedication. All his time was spent studying and he never thought to go out to play, hang out or even have a girlfriend. Kagome couldn’t even recall if her brother had any friends to hang out with.
Before any more could be said, they pulled up into the college parking lot. Kagome grabbed her briefcase and went straight to her classroom with Souta right behind her.
“By the way, I got the assignment done for the class,” Souta mentioned as they got into the empty classroom. The class wouldn’t start for another hour or so.
He rummaged in his backpack and handed it to his sister. Kagome scanned over it while she bit her bottom lip. The assignment consisted of the student writing a compare and contrast synopsis of a real historical fact or event with a fictional story or creature of that same time period. The point was to find the origin of the story and see how it fit in the grand scheme of things within that time of history. The origins of a story are often linked to real events in time and Kagome thought this assignment would force her students to think outside the box. She put the assignment on her desk face down, promising to read it after her lessons were over. The report wasn’t due for another week, but her brother always turned assignments in early no matter what class he was taking.
Class came and went and the time seemed to go by in the blink of an eye. As the last student left the classroom Souta held out his hand, expecting to be given the car keys so that he could get to work. They had limited funds and could only afford two cars, and one belonged to their mother. Kagome only took the bus home if her brother had to work late at the restaurant.
“What time do you get off work?” Kagome asked.
“I get off at about nine. Do you want me to pick you up?” Souta asked as he was handed the keys.
Kagome nodded, “If you could that would be great. I need to stay a little late to get these exams corrected anyway. I’ll see you later tonight.”
The siblings parted ways and Kagome headed down the hall to get to her office. The documents almost spilled out of her hands as she laid them down on the desk. Kagome caught one paper in mid-flight and surprisingly, it was her brother’s report. She sat down and began to read the paper and before she knew it she was swallowed in by the content. Although the paper was scientific in nature, it did hold up theories on how demons have intermingled in the human world with unseen eyes. Demons were prominent in Feudal Japanese folklore and were the backbone to a society who believed in such things. The people of that time acted and reacted to things that they were unable to give an explanation to, and these in turn became the myths and legends that are known in modern times.
Kagome knew that some of these legends were true because she experienced them first hand, but the human world would never know it. Very few humans can sense demons, especially those that are hiding their true forms. Demons learned through the ages on how to hide themselves from human society and Kagome knew that some lived for hundreds to thousands of years. She did wonder if InuYasha would still be alive because she didn’t know if half-demons had the same life expectancy as demons. If he were alive today then he would be nearing six-hundred years old. Her mind began to drift to the past once more on its own accord. She wondered what she could have done to change the past to make the present more bearable.
“Kagome, please wish Kikyo back to life. Naraku is dead and there is no one left to use the jewel for evil,” InuYasha pleaded his case to the miko.
Kagome gripped the jewel tighter, “We can’t know that. This jewel has to be wished out of existence and you know that.”
“Kikyo and I could take care of it. It shouldn’t matter to you anyway because I know you’re going home after this is done,” InuYasha lashed out.
Kagome became confused at InuYasha’s harsh tone, “What do you mean? I thought I was going to stay here with you. After all we’ve been through, I thought…’
“Kagome, listen, I care about you, but I still love Kikyo. I can’t help it,” InuYasha explained.
“I-I know that, but I thought your feelings might have changed. You kissed me and told me you loved me,” Kagome didn’t know if she could keep it together. She fell in love with the half-demon and she knew that InuYasha would always have feelings for Kikyo. There were times when she thought that InuYasha came around to love her and only her, but she was mistaken. He loved two women at once and in the end, he had to decide.
“Please wish her back,” InuYasha pleaded one last time.
Kagome knew what she had to do and she knew that InuYasha would hate her for life, but she had the responsibility to ensure that the world would remain safe. She had to ensure that she had a future to go back to when this was all over. The miko held the jewel close to her heart and gazed at her comrades, their faces ashen with worry. Sango hugged Kohaku to her bosom and it was thanks to Kikyo that he was saved. Shippo looked like he was on the brink of tears as he sat on Miroku’s shoulder, and in the background with a backwards glance was Sesshomaru. They all fought alongside InuYasha in order to defeat Naraku, and the end result was the current situation.
Kagome closed her eyes and whispered, “I wish that the jewel would cease to exist forever…”
The jewel cast a bright pink hue that illuminated over the decrepit valley. The jewel floated into the air and vanished without a trace. As the light dissipated, the reality of the situation struck a chord within the half-demon.
“What did you do?!” InuYasha screeched.
Kagome winced back as InuYasha grabbed her arm, “I had to wish the jewel away. I had no other choice and you know it.”
“You had a choice! You could have wished her back, you jealous wench!” InuYasha berated the miko as he threw her on the ground.
Sango immediately went to her friend’s side, “Kagome didn’t have a choice because this isn’t about you or me or even Kikyo! This is about all of us!”
InuYasha’s ears flattened to his head. He knew why Kagome had to wish the stone away. He only wanted that last ray of hope and it was lost to him forever.
Sesshomaru made his presence known and stepped between the quarrelling groups, “Cease these antics. There is a way to bring her back. Her body is still here and if Kagome wishes to give up part of her soul to Kikyo then I can bring her back to life with the Tenseiga.”
“Why would you do this for me?” InuYasha asked.
“I’m not offering this to you because I want to. I have a debt to repay to the woman who saved Rin. The last thing that woman wants is to hurt you and this is her way to repent,” Sesshomaru said with a cold voice.
Kagome knew what the dog demon was trying to do. He was trying to mend the relationship between Kagome and InuYasha, and this would be the only way to do that.
“Kagome, if you do this for me I will be eternally grateful to you,” InuYasha said as he got on the ground to be at her eye-level. He grabbed her hand and stared into her blue eyes. Kagome could see hope restored and she knew that she had no other choice.
She nodded her consent, “Alright, I will do this if it means you forgive me.”
InuYasha helped her up so that he could rush her to Kikyo’s body, “I will do more than forgive you.”
Kagome gave a weak smile as she was literally being pushed to get to their destination. InuYasha always had a pushy personality, but this was almost too much even for her. The ritual was short and to the point with a few slashes from the Tenseiga to complete the transition from death to life. Without as much as a word, Sesshomaru disappeared from the foray, never knowing that Kagome was from the future.
The reanimated clay pot was no more and in its place, was a living and breathing Kikyo. With this resurrection there was nowhere in the past that Kagome belonged to. She promised her friends that she would still visit often because she believed that the well would always be open to her. Tragically, once she passed the timbered walls of the well back to her time, the well would be sealed forever. Kagome was not able to give a proper goodbye to her friends and it tore her heart to pieces knowing that she would never see those she cared about most. Kagome would forever be stuck in her own time to live a normal life after that fateful day. She was able to graduate from high school without incident and eventually she attended college to teach of the time that had forgotten her.
A clock chimed and this brought Kagome out from the past. She glanced up and realized that it was half-past nine, which meant that her brother had been waiting out in the parking lot for her. She checked her phone and saw two missed phone calls.
“Oh no, he’s going to kill me!” Kagome said to herself as she stuffed papers in her briefcase.
She ran outside and was met with the cool air of spring. Souta honked his horn at her and yelled out the window, “How long are you going to make me wait!?”
Kagome quickly got inside the car and apologized, “I’m sorry Souta. I had my phone on silent and I didn’t hear your calls.”
Souta sighed, “I was about to leave you here.”
Kagome breathed out with relief, “I’m glad you didn’t.” She meant to get some work done but in all actuality, she didn’t get any work done at all.

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The Moose Jaw Miller Express started their six-game road trip off on a winning note doubling up the Medicine Hat Mavericks 6-3 on Wednesday night.
With the win, the Millers extend their winning streak to eight games and continue to have a four-and-a-half-game lead on the Regina Red Sox in the East Division.
As he has done all season Bryan Reyes came in clutch at the plate batting three-for-five and driving in three of Moose Jaw’s six runs.
The game remained scoreless through the first two innings before the bats came alive in the third inning.
Moose Jaw would get on the board first after an error by the Maverick's third baseman scores Austin Gurney.
Medicine Hat would respond in their half of the third inning, as Kellen Williamson would force a walk with the bases loaded to score Josh Stark, and then Deon Reese would score to make it 2-1 for the Mavericks.
Reyes would pick up his three RBIs in the fourth inning with the bases loaded he would crush a double to score Zach Campbell, Cam Grant, and Dawson Tweet to put the Moose Jaw ahead 4-1.
The Mavericks would get one back in the seventh inning to cut the lead to 4-2, but the Millers’ would seal the game with a two-run ninth inning to win and take the game 6-3.
Jesse Scholtz would get the win in relief pitching three and a third innings and allowing zero runs on four hits. Moose Jaw product Reece Helland would pick up his fourth save of the season coming to close the game out.
Moose Jaw will travel west to Sylvan Lake on Thursday to begin a two-game series with the Gulls – with the first pitch at 8:05 p.m.

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National Hemophilia Foundation Convenes Diverse Community Voices to Define an Actionable National Research Blueprint for Inherited Bleeding Disorders
National Hemophilia Foundation Enlists Diverse Patient Voices to Inform a National Research Blueprint for Inherited Bleeding Disorders
Bleeding Disorder Data Registry Reveals Racial/Ethnic Disparities That Could Significantly Impact Patient Journey
Telegenetic Counseling for Females MLOF Participants
Poor outcomes in people with hemophilia: Physician and subject matter expert perspectives
Integrated Hemophilia Patient Care via a National Network of Care Centers in the United States: A Model for Rare Coagulation Disorders
Rare, chronic diseases such as hemophilia and other congenital coagulation disorders require coordinated delivery of services for optimal outcomes. Hemophilia Treatment Centers (HTCs) are specialized, multidisciplinary healthcare centers providing team-based care to meet the physical, psychosocial, and emotional needs of people with hemophilia (PWH) and may serve as a model for other rare coagulation disorders. Health-care purchasers, as well as the general medical community, may not appreciate the breadth and quality of services provided by HTCs. They exemplify the acculturalization and actualization of integrated care by providing comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services that reduce morbidity, mortality, avoidable emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and overall costs while promoting a longer lifespan and improved patient functioning and outcomes.
This is accomplished by a team-based approach relying upon a shared decision-making model to effectively prevent complications and manage symptoms in PWH, who are dependent on high-cost treatments. This article provides a concise yet comprehensive description of the core components of an HTC and the regional and national networks in the United States, which together achieve their incomparable value for all stakeholders.
Preferences of people with hemophilia A and B for treatments including gene therapies in the US: A discrete choice experiment
The Relationship Between Self-Reported Physical Activity, Treatment Regimen, Mental Health and Pain In Persons with Hemophilia
The relationship between self-reported physical activity, treatment regimen, mental health and pain in persons with hemophilia enrolled in NHF's community voices in research.(2021). ABSTRACTS. Haemophilia, 27: 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/hae.14385
Passive Infusion Logging System (PILS): A Pilot
Community Voices in Research (CVR): A Patient-Centric Approach Moving the Future of Inherited Bleeding Disorders Forward
(2021), Abstract. Res Pract Thromb Haemost, 5: e12554. https://doi.org/10.1002/rth2.12554
Developing My Bleeding Disorders Community (MyBDC): A community-powered registry to provide a 360-view of living with a bleeding disorder
Knowing the importance of including the consumers voice in the future of research, the National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) partnered with the software healthcare analytics company; ArborMetrix, to develop a cloud-based platform; NHF’s Community Voices in Research (CVR), formerly known as MyBDC.
Through CVR, NHF will be able to send out longitudinal surveys and follow participants for a minimum of 5 years.
The relationship between self-reported physical activity, treatment regimen, mental health and pain in persons with hemophilia enrolled in Community Voices in Research
The objective of this study is to assess the relationship between self-reported physical activity, treatment regimen, mental health, and pain in persons with hemophilia (PWH) enrolled in CVR.
Empowering Nurse Practitioners to Shorten Time to Diagnosis of von Willebrand Disease
Von Willebrand disease (VWD) is the most common inherited bleeding disorder known in humans, but there are numerous barriers to accurate and timely diagnosis. In January 2021, new evidence-based guidelines were released by the American Society of Hematology (ASH), the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), the National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF), and the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) (James et al., 2021). The guidelines were designed to support patients, clinicians, and other health care professionals in promptly, accurately, and efficiently diagnosing VWD. Key recommendations in the guidelines include the use of bleeding-assessment tools when unusual bleeding is present and/or VWD is suspected; diagnostic assays; and the role of genetic vs. phenotypic testing for some types of VWD. Nurse practitioners can aid in identifying potential symptoms of VWD to help shorten the time from onset of symptoms to diagnosis.
NHF Builds a Community-Driven National Research Blueprint for Inherited Bleeding Disorders
- The inherited bleeding disorders (IBD) community has witnessed significant advances in recent years thanks to novel therapeutic advances and technologies and improved diagnostic proficiency.
- Yet important gaps persistent, particularly for those with rare disorders and underserved populations, including women with IBD.
- A new initiative led by the National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) and shaped by the voices of the patient community is underway to address this gap.
- Our goal: to design and implement a national research blueprint that outlines actionable strategies to address the most important needs within the community and opportunities to accelerate progress through coordinated collaboration.


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In New York right now, someone up to something?
Anonymous asked: I just discovered your blog and I am sure there is not much more that can be said, than what has been stated already. But you are a very beautiful, sensual and lovely woman. Your creativity is wonderful and your canvas is compelling. You do paint a wonderful picture. As an amateur photographer I would ache at the thought of photographing you (in a good way of course)!
ftoca asked: I don´t recall a woman so openly (¡In your own anonimous way!) sensual and erotic... What an eye opener you have been... ¡Bravo!
Anonymous asked: How is it possible that every single human being on the planet is not following you? A woman of such beauty, artistic such discernment, and such a salacious turn of mind should be a candidate for emperor. I am in awe, lovely lady. Every image is a joy to see.
ohmyholywow asked: It says a lot about the nature of your allure that when you posted the photo of you reading with your hand down your panties, I spent just as much time trying to decipher the title of the book as I spent admiring your lovely figure. Like well-written poetry, you always reveal the perfect amount to keep me intrigued and enticed and delving for more. As for the title of the novel, I finally settled...
Anonymous asked: you must taste delicious
wondernotwander asked: I wish I could see your face, because I am pretty convinced that you are the LOVE of my life. How else will I recognize you? :)
Anonymous asked: I have this fantasy of you offering your pretty bare foot to me just after you've freed it from a brown or black leather oxford shoe...
Anonymous asked: Id go fully lesbian for you babe.
Anonymous asked: Your last photo is very compelling. While the world is filled with photos of bimbos on cars, there are few of beautiful women on modernist furniture. Many thanks for titilating my aesthete mind!
folioinfours asked: Hey Sophie - Your blog is amazing, and your photographs are beautiful. One question: I can't help but notice how so many of your photos focus on your feet. Is this on purpose? Not that I'm complaining -- far from it, in fact. You have incredibly sexy feet, and I think it's great that you do this.
soxongirl asked: Thank you for reminding me that you post awesome pictures. Sometimes I miss them in the sea of posts that is my dashboard. Cheers!
Anonymous asked: Hi Sophie, you're too beautiful not to be french. Where are you from ?
Anonymous asked: I spy a Lelo. Nice taste. :-)
aboutmywant asked: I am a writer and if I wrote short pieces with you in mind, would you consider taking a picture to accompany those poems/prose?
A little experiment
Hi! Someone up for a little chat on Omegle? Look for me under the tag notshophiesworld during the next 20 minutes and let the Internet do its magic Love, S.
Anonymous asked: Uh oh. Now that I've stumbled upon your blog, my productivity levels are shot. You are all kinds of delicious/adorable/captivating. My request... more of everything.
Anonymous asked: Dear Sophie, I happened upon your lovely blog by chance and I just wanted to say I'm glad that you've found the time to continue. Your pictures are all both fascinating and sensual; I'd love to stumble across those enchanting woods or that field of grass somewhere, sometime. ~signed: He-who-hath-no-tumblr-account
victorrandon asked: Youre like part of my soul. =(
Anonymous asked: Sophie - You are a goddess of eroticism. You have an incredible body and a wonderful talent. Not to mention, you've kept going! I hope you never stop. P.S. Choose more shots with your fine hands. <3
I think this photo rocks, don't you like it? →
wondernotwander asked: Was going through my messages and saw the picture you made for me with your feet and the cupcake. Still drives me crazy now. I hope someday I'll get the opportunity to love someone as beautiful, artistic, and sexy as yourself. Happy Valentine's Day Sophie! :)
d3inos-deactivated20130222 asked: You're beautiful, and I want your socks on my face ;P
cupotea13 asked: I would LOVE to read your things! I have no doubts that your artistic ability transcends genre
simonmarc-deactivated20130223 asked: Hi Sophie, it's really good to see you're back. The idea of reading some of your notes is completely thrilling - I really would like to! You have got to be one of the hottest girls on the internet, so erotically exciting - so pretty! Am I right in thinking that you once asked for self pics? Just started Tumblr to contact you. Keep up the good work x
cequifaitbander asked: I just hope you're ok ;-)
eroticlightbox asked: Bravo...your photos are creative, erotic and simply fun. Thanks for sharing! - James
Anonymous asked: I love your photos soooo much and everytime you upload a new one it is like the shining horizon of a new day.
Anonymous asked: Satisfying, yet frustrating! When I see your curves, your softness, your glowing skin, it transports me to another place - a place where there's nothing but beauty. Yet it is so frustrating that I cannot hold a beauty like you, to feel you and to awaken my senses with your beauty. But, without technology, none of my senses would have been awakened by you, and now my visual and sensual senses...
thesensualstarfish asked: As a photographer you images have a certain captivation to them. They are really nicely done, arty, and full of flair! Greetings from California.


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At the age of 76, Mrs. Lizzie Robinson Jenkins has just finished recording a song she co-wrote with her mother, Theresa Brown Robinson. It tells the history of Rosewood, Florida. The proceeds will benefit scholarships and help build the Rosewood Black History Preservation and Research Center. In addition, Rosewood's history will be preserved and maintained for students interested in the historic perspective of a people. Cost: $1.23 each.
Rosewood Florida (Country Version):
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When people think of going to the chiropractor, they usually think of lying on a table and hearing their bones pop and crack. While the popping and cracking does really happen, rest assured, adjustments are painless, and noises are an indicator that the treatment is working. The sound heard when the chiropractor is applying sudden pressure to the spine is air being released from between the vertebrae, allowing for a greater range of motion in your spinal cord. Dr. Michele Lamourt of Sarasota Physical Medicine says there are a variety of benefits to this alternative treatment.
"When you get adjusted, you begin to see improvement in your spine alignment and relief from back and neck pain," says Lamourt. "If the dynamic part of your spine isn't moving appropriately, it will affect your central nervous system, as well."
Lamourt says that when your spine is aligned, the nerves connected to your spinal cord are able to send signals to the body more efficiently, firing off at a much faster rate and providing support to the nerve endings in your major organs, including the gut, intestines and heart. This means chiropractic adjustments can also ease symptoms like headaches, neck aches, dizziness, stomach problems and other nerve-related issues.
Do adjustments hurt? Are they dangerous? Lamourt says adjustments should not hurt and are not dangerous if you are going to a qualified practitioner that you trust. Anyone can receive chiropractic adjustments; most of those who seek them out have tried other, more traditional, approaches without finding relief. Experts say you should speak with your primary doctor to see if you are a good candidate for an adjustment.
How often can you get adjusted? And how long does each treatment take? There is no limit to the amount of times you can get adjusted. Each visit takes about 20 minutes, besides the initial consultation. Once patients' immediate concerns have been handled, by receiving adjustments once or twice a week for several weeks, maintenance appointments can be arranged once a month, or as needed. Lamourt says patients should begin feeling relief from pain in four to six visits.
Are there side effects? "Like with many treatments, you are going to experience some side effects that are perfectly normal," says Lamourt. "People usually leave feeling tired, like they've just worked out, and may have slight muscle soreness a few days after."
According to the Mayo Clinic, complications can occur when receiving chiropractic treatment, although rare. Do your research prior to making an appointment, and find a licensed professional with extensive experience. Most chiropractic care is not covered by insurance, unless referred by a primary care physician or if considered a medical necessity. Medicare Part B covers a certain number of visits if they are deemed medically necessary to correct an issue.
Is chiropractic care right for you? "If you are looking in the direction of natural wellness, with limited medications and side effects, chiropractic care might be a great way to begin," says Lamourt.


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The New York Times Magazine has given the cover of its last two issues to what
it calls The Class Wars. The first
story, by Paul Krugman, glossed the growing inequality in the US, and bemoans
the fact that "income inequality in America has now returned to the levels
of the 1920s." The second
piece, by Michael Lewis, was headlined "In Defense of the Boom,"
and takes a contrarian stance with regard to the late-90s technology bubble.
"If your measure of social progress is corporate profits, it is easy to
take a dim view of the boom," writes Lewis. "It is more difficult
to do so if you step back a bit and survey the bigger economic picture."
Moss, the editor of the magazine, decided to pair the articles off against each
other, with the successive covers of the magazine running photos from the same
shoot: first of all a robber baron kicking a working stiff out of the picture,
then the same working stiff dragging a handcuffed robber baron off to jail.
In case the pictorial rhetoric wasn’t enough, the headline on the cover of the
second magazine was "The Vilification of the Money Class".
But in fact you’ll look in vain for any defense by Lewis of the obscene pay
packages that Krugman attacks. While Krugman hasn’t drunk nearly as much of
the New Economy kool-aid as Lewis has (see this
1997 Slate article for an example of his skepticism about such things), the
fact is that the two writers are simply looking at two very different aspects
of the 90s boom.
Krugman concentrates on the increasing inequality in individual wealth and
pay, pointing out that top executives earned less than one fifth of their present
salaries as recently as 1987, "the year Tom Wolfe published his novel The
Bonfire of the Vanities and Oliver Stone released his movie Wall Street".
Lewis, on the other hand, looks on the excesses of the 1990s with a kind of
detached wryness. "It’s more than a little nuts for a man who has a billion
dollars to devote his life to making another billion, but that’s what some of
our most exalted citizens do, over and over again," he writes. "That’s
who we are; that’s how we seem to like to spend our time. Americans are incapable
of hating the rich; certainly they will always prefer them to the poor."
Lewis’s main thesis is that the technology boom did wonderful things for the
way companies were organised, for the way they were financed, and, not least,
for the economy as a whole. If we now start looking back on those days as an
evil era of stock manipulation and systematic shafting of the little guy, then
we risk losing sight of all the good things we had, including "the depth,
breadth and extent of wealth-sharing" in technology companies. The fact
that so many employees had such great stakes in their companies, says Lewis,
helped not only to spread the wealth around; it also gave companies a means
to structure their payroll in such a way that employees got paid more in good
times and less in bad times. In consequence, says Lewis, the number of layoffs
Lewis even takes the argument one step further, using the example of his own
purchase of Exodus shares at the height of the boom. "What happened to
my money?" he asks. "It didn’t simply vanish. It was pocketed by the
person who sold me the shares." That person, he goes on to say, was, more
likely than not, a working grunt at Exodus Communications. The foolish speculator
(Lewis) got fleeced for his greed; the noble worker got the cash.
Michael Lewis is bright enough to know that he’s only telling one side of the
story here. For one thing, employees in the technology boom didn’t hold nearly
as much stock as he likes to make out. They held stock options. That’s a very
different thing, because options skew the incentive structure. If a manager
holds stock worth $100 and considers a risky maneuvre which could send the stock
to $110, he has to weigh the 10% return against the risk that the whole company
could be endangered. But if the manager holds options to buy the stock at $95,
then his return becomes 200%: worth a lot more risk. What’s more, the interests
of the manager (boost the stock as much as possible, as quickly as possible)
aren’t necessarily aligned with those of shareholders (make sure the upside
on the stock exceeds the downside).
And yes, Michael, when people say that $7 trillion (or whatever) in stock-market
value has vanished, they’re right. It hasn’t passed from middle-class speculators
with too much cash to people who were lucky enough to sell at the top of the
market. It’s vanished. Yes, the money which was spent on buying shares at the
top was also given to people who sold shares at the top. But the vast majority
of shares were neither bought nor sold anywhere near the top. If a portfolio
manager bought a million shares of Exodus at $20 and marked his position to
market every day, then at the top he had made $140 million on his investment.
And when Exodus went bankrupt, that $140 million was gone, along with the intial
$20 million. Vanished. Into nobody’s pocket at all. So when Lewis writes that
"stock market losses are not losses to society. They are transfers from
one person to another," he is simply wrong.
Lewis also gets things right, of course. Yes, the bubble wasn’t the fault of
Merrill Lynch, or even of Wall Street in general. And Lewis is a dab hand with
the aphorisms: "By forcing Merrill Lynch to agree that its advice was corrupt,
Eliot Spitzer helped the firm avoid saying something much more damning and much
more true: that its advice on the direction of stock prices is useless. Always.
By leading the firm to the conclusion that it had misled the American investor,
Spitzer helped it to avoid the much more embarrassing conclusion that the American
investor had misled Merrill Lynch."
What he means is that the middle-class masses looked at the vast amounts of
money being made in technology stocks and got greedy. They started wanting to
get in on the act too, and they forced Wall Street to play catch-up –
not with the venture capitalists, so much as with the taxi-driving day-traders.
Cue another Lewis aphorism: "That’s the odd thing about the present moment:
it is widely understood as a populist uprising against business elites. It’s
closer to an elitist uprising against popular capitalism."
This is the point at which we can take the Krugman and the Lewis articles and
find some kind of synthesis. How can they both be right – Lewis that the
boom years were mainly driven by the little people, and Krugman that the little
people got very little from the boom years, and that nearly all of the benefits
accrued to those at the very top?
The answer is that while Krugman is right about the what – there is,
indeed, much more inequality in the US economy now than at any point in living
memory – he’s wrong about the why. Krugman discounts Sherwin Rosen’s "superstar
hypothesis" – basically, that, increasingly, we’re in a winner-takes-all
economy – in favour of something rather fuzzier to do with societal norms,
corporate culture, and the evaporation of any guilt that executives might have
once felt about paying themselves untold millions of dollars per year.
Krugman then goes on to say, basically, that the great unwashed are really
stupid, and will quite happily believe whatever rich people want them to believe.
"In addition to directly buying influence, money can be used to shape public
perceptions," he writes. While that might be true to a certain extent,
I don’t think it’s the main, or even a main, reason why policies which benefit
mainly the top 1% of the population continue to receive such widespread public
Rather, it’s worth recalling Lewis’s comment at this point, that Americans
will always prefer the rich to the poor. And also recall this month’s Harper’s
Index, where we find this:
Percentage of U.S. college students who believe the “next Bill Gates”
is among today’s generation of college students: 50
Percentage who say they are the next Bill Gates: 24
People support policies which benefit the rich not because they are rich, but
because they believe that they will be rich. Voting Republican is like buying
lottery tickets: it hurts the poor, but the poor do it in much greater numbers
than the rich.
It’s not just that Americans are a naturally aspirational nation, although
that’s part of it. It’s deeper than that: it goes all the way back to the American
Dream. The whole point of being an American, for most of its citizens, is this:
that anyone can make it. And even those who have statistically negligible chances
of ever doing so not only believe that they can, but also believe that they
will. And when they get there, goddamn it, they will have earned it. And there’s
no way that they want the government taking their hard-earned fortune away from
And with this in mind, we can now revisit Lewis’s thesis that the 90s boom
was a bottom-up affair, a grassroots movement, if you will. He’s right: the
day-traders who fuelled the rocket-like ascent of the stock market were not
the hedge-fund elite, but rather the aspirational poor. And Krugman’s right,
too: those day-traders didn’t make any money at all. The people who made money
were people like Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg, Wall Streeters who had enough
money even before they started their respective companies to live comfortably
for the rest of their lives.
But the billions that Bezos and Bloomberg made shined like beacons for the
population as a whole. They weren’t disgusted by them, the way that Krugman
is; rather, they were hypnotised by them. As the pot of gold at the end of the
rainbow became bigger and bigger, the desire for it grew proportionately. There
was no outrage because it wasn’t theirs, it was mine, if only.
So Krugman’s right: the rise in inequality was indeed fuelled by greed. But
it wasn’t the greed of the new plutocrats, so much as it was the greed of the
whole mass of the US population. And Lewis is right too: that very greed financed
technological investment and innovation which is sure to help the economy as
a whole, even if it never repays the original investors. But that doesn’t justify
the fact that the top 1% of the population got the lion’s share of the economic
benefits of the boom.

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John Moore to lead Ashland as new principal
John Moore has eight years of experience in education, having started his professional career teaching special education at Booker T. Washington Elementary. After four years in the classroom, he was hired a PBIS coach and administrative dean at Coventry Oak Elementary. Since 2019, he has also worked with teachers throughout Fayette County Public Schools as a safe crisis management trainer. Moore holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Louisville, a master’s degree in teaching from Midway College, and studied instructional leadership at Georgetown College, where he earned his principal certification.
“I am extremely excited for Mr. Moore as he joins the district’s leadership team with a focus on sustaining, renewing, and elevating Ashland’s rich appreciation for academic excellence and integration of the Arts,” said Elementary School Chief Faith Thompson, who oversees Ashland. “A consummate professional who brings a wealth of educational experiences, Mr. Moore has many strengths including his warm presence and passion for students, families, and their success. His ability to develop authentic and trusting relationships with faculty and staff will make his transition seamless and his balanced, distributive leadership approach demonstrates his value and dedication to all.”
Superintendent Manny Caulk announced Moore's hiring June 24. He officially took the helm at Ashland on July 1, 2020.


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Compare and Contrast the ways in which Khaled Hosseini and Henrik Ibsen represent females in ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ (2007) and ‘A Doll’s House’ (1879).
Examine the view that in both texts ‘women’s voices are silenced and suppressed’.
In the novel ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ by Khaled Hosseini and the play ‘A Doll’s House’ by Henrik Ibsen, It could be argued the representation of women is a recurring theme that is presented in patriarchal societies in the two texts. Arguably, women in both texts face obstacles that disempower and silence them due to men’s treatment of women, the societal view of women, and the oppression and objectification of women. I believe women’s ability to overcome this disempowerment is particularly challenging due to being oppressed by men. ‘A thousand splendid suns’ is a post-modern text set from the early 1960s to the early 2000’s suns represent women in Afghanistan In the 1960s when some of the biggest strides were made towards a more liberal and westernized lifestyle whilst still trying to maintain a respect for more conservative factions. ‘A Doll’s House’ on the other hand, was set in the 1870s, in the Victorian era, where the distinctions between men and women and their gender roles became more sharply evident than ever before.
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Ibsen presents the women in ‘A Doll’s House’ as silenced and suppressed through the male treatment of women. It can be argued that Torvald’s treatment of Nora depicts this view through Torvald’s constantly patronizing his wife Nora with seemingly innocuous comments and metaphors such as “my little squirrel” which is objectifying her to a point where he suppresses her as he doesn’t even regard her as a human which therefore silences Nora by making her feel inferior to him by not even regarding her as a human. By using the possessive pronoun ‘my’ Ibsen highlights the idea that Torvald feels as though he owns Nora which further depicts the objectification of Nora in this case. Perhaps this is deliberately done by Ibsen as his beliefs on how a relationship should be like, that rather than two people dwelling together in a Victorian patriarchal society they should live as equals, “free to become their own human beings” and consequently, Ibsen’s critics attacked him for failing to respect the institution of marriage. Therefore, this could link closely with Nora and Torvald’s lack of respect for her and through her character, present the idea of women tolerating inhumane behaviour that is ratified on them by men. Like Ibsen’s private life, his writing tended to raise up sensitive social issues, and some parts of the Norwegian society also frowned upon his work. ,therefore, this could have been a deliberate move by Ibsen to highlight the suppression between Torvald and Nora to highlight the realities of what women face to make them more aware and push people away from the ideas of suppressing and objectifying their wives and therefore silencing them and pushing for more equal relationships between husband and wives. This could link closely to Nora’s empowering actions at the end of the play when she left Torvald and defies all expectations of her as a wife and therefore is not silenced and suppressed by the end of the play. Furthermore, Krogstad’s manipulation and control over Nora further reinforces the silencing of women through the male treatment of women with the blackmail ‘But I tell you this. If I get thrown into the gutter for a second time, I shall take you with me.” This controlling and blackmailing behaviour has silenced Nora’s voice to a point where she feels threatened and bullied by Krogstad for her secret being revealed throughout the whole play. However, Nora finally overcoming the disempowerment and silencing of these controlling and manipulative men at the end of the play, when she leaves and defies not just Torvald’s expectations of her but society’s expectations of her as a woman to subdue and fulfil ‘her duties’ as a wife, not solely does this empower Nora but also the women audience in the Victorian Era who, like Nora, may have experienced suppression and silencing through men. Ibsen depicts the empowerment of all women at the time as Nora represents the struggles of women in the Victorian Era and so her being able to overcome the male treatment of women by leaving Torvald highlights Nora’s strength and power.
Similarly, in the novel ‘A thousand splendid suns’ Khaled Hosseini portrays the female characters in the play being silenced and suppressed through the treatment of women through Rasheed’s manipulative and controlling behaviour on Mariam shown through the long list “It wasn’t easy tolerating him talking this way to her, to bear his scorn, his ridicule, his insults, his walking past her like she was nothing but a house cat. But after four years of marriage, Mariam saw clearly how much a woman could and tolerate when she was afraid”. The long list shows an aspect of female suffering in the novel which emphasizes what many females in the Afghan society had to go through in the 1960s due to the way that men treated them and they were forced to just accept it and were silenced as they felt as though they had no other choice and were just destined to go through the vicious cycle of the mistreatment of women. Hosseini does this deliberately to make the reader understand and sympathize with the female characters in the play by depicting them as oppressed and helpless characters through the expectations that are put on them. This is further emphasized through Nana’s words ‘Learn this now and learn this well, my daughter: like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman’, these words become a refrain for Mariam as she gets older due to the experiences she undergoes especially with Jalil and Rasheed who always seemed to accuse Mariam of everything. This reflects the view of men in the 1950’s in Afghanistan, that women were in the wrong and always seemed to accuse them no matter what shown through many male characters such as Jalil who shifts the burden of Mariam onto Nana and Rasheed who blames Mariam for everything that goes wrong in his life and just like the female characters in the novel, Mariam, Nana and Laila who all portrayed a struggle to overcome this. Alternatively, it could be argued that due to Jalil leaving Nana leading to Nana raising Mariam all on her own, did not silence and suppress her and nor was she disempowered, but as a single woman, which was a shocking thing at the time, raised Mariam on her own which is deliberately depicted by Hosseini as it is empowering women by showing her strength and determination.
The societal view of women plays an immense role in the play ‘A Dolls House’ as in the Victorian period men and women’s roles became more sharply defined than at any time in history and this played a huge impact on the way that society viewed women, as they were only expected to fulfil their gender roles which consisted of domestic duties while the men at the time commuted to their place of work in for example the factory, shop or office and were the breadwinners. This is reinforced by the title of the play itself ‘A Doll’s House’ which is an extended metaphor presents this idea as Nora is confined in this ‘House’ which would reflect the societal view of women and their roles at the time as Torvald expects her to be perfect and Nora is once again objectified as a ‘doll ’in societies eyes. This is reinforced when Nora is leaving and Torvald tries to persuade Nora stay in order to fulfil her ‘sacred duties’ to her husband and her children as if that is the only thing she is valued for in the house her ‘duties’ as all women were in the Victorian era when their husband’s went to work and they were expected to fulfil their “duties” as wife’s by completing their domestic duties. Moreover, the fact that Nora is referred to as a ‘doll’ is a deliberate move by Ibsen to reflect the societal view of women as objectifying them by referring to her as a ‘doll’ as she is just expected to do her domestic chores and can reflect the idea of women in society seen as something that men and society can just play around with and use just like a doll. Furthermore, the character of Mrs. Linde reinforces the idea of the societal view of women silencing and disempowering women to a point where they are suppressed when she is forced to marry a man due to her financial circumstances, despite loving another man (Krogstad) leading to her having a loveless marriage which is representing of the women in society at the time who were expected to make sacrifices in their happiness and to play the submissive role in society which forced her into believing that she ‘did not have the right’ to refuse her husband’s marriage proposal. Yet, could also be that Ibsen presents society and it’s view of women as women having a voice and are not silenced shown through Nora having so much dialogue in the play this is presented through Ibsen view when Ibsen stated in his notes for the Modern Tragedy that ‘a woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view’. This view shows the characters in the play are therefore presenting the patriarchal society at the time where women, even in the law were seen as inferior to men just like Nora which makes it difficult for women to overcome this. Despite this, Nora having the main lead role in the play and having so much dialogue reinforces her importance and Ibsen gives Nora a voice by doing this and helps draw attention to her struggles and the many other women in the Victorian society with similar struggles. Futhermore, the fact that the play ended in Nora being able to overcome this by leaving Torvald despite him begging her to stay with his ‘face in his hand’ and calls out ‘Nora! NORA!’ empowers women even more as despite being oppressed by the whole of society Nora broke through the stereotypes and the gender roles and overcame the disempowerment. Therefore I agree Ibsen empowered women through the character of Nora and depicts the views of the suffragette Louie Bennett who declared that ‘more than any other modern writer (Ibsen) has proved himself a prophet and apostle of women, no other ….. has shown more sympathetic comprehension and its latent powers’.
Similarly, in ‘A thousand splendid suns’ the societal views of women also become an obstacle that disempowers and silences women and plays a significant part in the novel. Nana perceived herself as a source of shame and disgrace after being abandoned by her fiancé, disowned by her father and propelled away after her affair with Jalil who blamed it entirely on Nana and continued living his life normally and leaving Nana to deal with the aftermath of the shame and abuse from society. She was obliged to take all the responsibility alone while Jalil freed himself by telling his wife that is was her fault as Nana tells Mariam, “You know what he told his wives by way of defence? That I forced myself on him. That it was my fault. Didi? You see? This is what it means to be a woman in this world.” This shows that society just expects women to take the blame and it is worse if a woman breaks the norms of society rather than a man and Nana is disempowered as men always have the upper hand in this patriarchal society. This also reflects the same themes that were portrayed in Ibsen’s A Dolls House and therefore shows this disempowerment of women in society has not changed over time from the Victorian era and even to the postmodern era and women are still by society viewed as being less than men and therefore are always put to blame and is easy to point fingers at them to shift blame. Moreover, the societal view of women is presented through a key character, Rasheed. Rasheed is considered an antagonist however it could be argued if he really is at fault or is he just representing the views of the society that they lived in, in Afghanistan. The culture and society led to women being confined and constricted as they would be beaten shown through the alliteration in ‘if they laughed too loudly’ and therefore led to Rasheed being the way he was to Mariam and Laila because he was only reflective of society and its views and is relatable to the Afghani readers at the time who experienced these same views and confinement from society in the 1960s. The key character of Nana further depicts the societal view and expectations of women“It’s our lot in life, Mariam. Women like us. We endure. It’s all we have. Do you understand?’’. The silencing of women through the societal view of women is shown through the short sentences‘ it’s all we have’ and ‘We endure’ which shows it silences women in the sense that they feel helpless. This shows that Nana knows what society expects of her and also understands that they are expected to be silent and ‘endure’ and she understands in the society in the society in the 1960’s women’s were voiceless and also understand that they have no other choice.
In both the texts oppression and objectification was a major theme presented throughout. A Doll’s House presents the objectification and oppression of women through the sexualizing of Nora when he dressed Nora in a costume of his choosing and coaches her to dance the tarantula in the manner that he finds “desirable” and therefore she is over sexualised. These actions of Ibsen portraying Torvald over-sexualizing Nora links in closely with Gubar and his views that if everything is written by men, then men only write what they want us to see, therefore by Ibsen writing this it is clear to see that this is done deliberately by Ibsen to create an image of women that men at the time would expect and want to see, which is a woman being objectified and being over-sexualized and therefore Ibsen just conforms to societies view of women by creating this image of Nora. This links in closely with the play being written in a third-person perspective which is also is alluded to as the ‘camera lens’ which can portray the idea of the male gaze. The Male Gaze represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the male viewer and in this case, Nora was over-sexualized and objectified entirely for the pleasure of Torvald and the male audience. This explains why Ibsen ‘stated that it is not about women’s rights as such: rather, the drama is about Human rights. In a speech at the festival of the Norwegian Women’s Rights League in 1898, he asserted firmly that he was not a member of the league and had no conscious aim of creating propaganda when he wrote A Doll’s House: I am not even quite clear as to just what this women’s rights movement is. To me it has seemed a problem of humanity in general.’ And therefore did not even intend for it to be seen as empowering for women as it was.
Arguably, A thousand splendid suns portrays the objectification of women through the symbolism of the Burqa which potrays the silencing and suppression of female physically. Mariam feels them literally as the ‘cloth kept pressing against her mouth’, silencing her and making it difficult for her to breathe therefore Mariam feels oppressed not only because she is physically silenced but also due to the fact she is forced to conform to society’s expectations of a woman concealing herself and not being able to express their views and voice opinions openly. The symbolism of the Burqa is significant as in the 1960s the Burqa became optional for a while, regardless of this many women still didn’t have the option whether they wanted to wear the burqa or not, such as Mariam, due to society and men still oppressing women to wear it like Rasheed who had a rather strong view on the burqa and women who didn’t wear it. However, it could also be argued that the burqa was like a safe haven to Mariam from society, “Still, she found some comfort in the anonymity that the burqa provided. She wouldn’t be recognized this way if she ran into an old acquaintance of hers. She wouldn’t have to watch the surprise in their eyes, or the pity or glee, at how far she had fallen, at how her lofty aspirations had been dashed.” This long list, therefore, depicts the idea that in the end, the burqa is not an oppression on females that silences them, in fact, it empowers them by listing many ways in which women can be themselves without any judgment and be free in their own space.
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In conclusion, both texts A Thousand Splendid Suns and A Doll’s House portray the silencing and suppression of women throughout the many different ways, of the male treatment of women, the views of society and the oppression and objectification of women, however, in the end, it is all empowering for women as this mistreatment and inequality is highlighted to make people more aware of female treatment in the Victorian era and even the postmodern era to push people away from it. Moreover, both texts end in an empowering way, in A Doll’s House Nora takes a stand and leaves her husband and in A Thousand Splendid Suns with the fact that it could be viewed as a male bildungsroman showing the growth of these two girls, Mariam and Laila, into marriage and maternity illustrates the travail of Afghani women and Mariam and Laila’s familial love triumphs and Mariam’s love lives on even after her death.
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES
D) PRIMARY TEXTS
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, 1960
- A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, 1879
E) SECONDARY SOURCES: BOOKS AND ARTICLES
- Stephanie Forward, ‘A new world for women?’ in English review, 19.4 April 2009, p24
- ‘The Archetypal image of women in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and pinters the homecoming’ – Zainab Abdulaziz Al Suhaibani
- A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Attwood
- Stephanie Forward ‘A New world for women’ p25
- Stephanie Forward ‘A New world for women’ p25
- Stephanie Forward ‘A New world for women’ p25
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Darren Wilson’s descriptions of Michael Brown in his grand jury testimony released last night are striking. According to Wilson’s account of his struggle with Brown, the teenager was an extremely powerful and vengeful beast capable of superhuman feats:
“[W]hen I grabbed him, the only way I can describe it is I felt like a 5-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan,” Wilson told the grand jury when he explained the initial struggle with Brown at the police cruiser. “He looked up at me and had the most intense aggressive face,” Wilson told the jurors. “It looks like a demon, that’s how angry he looked.”
Then there’s Wilson’s description of Brown’s overall demeanor:
Very aggressive. Um, he is I don’t really know how to describe it. Um, he turns. I looked at his face. It was just intense. It was. I’ve never seen anybody look that, for lack of a better words, crazy, I’ve never seen that. I mean, it was very aggravated, um, aggressive, hostile. Just, you couldn’t, you could, you could tell he was lookin’ through ya. There was nothin’ he was seeing …
Wilson also said that Brown “looked like he was almost bulking up to run through the shots, like it was making him mad that I’m shooting at him.”
And so on. Brown was a legitimately large kid — he outweighed Wilson by about 80 pounds. But Wilson isn’t just saying Brown was large: He’s saying or implying that he looked like a demon, that he was emanating almost superhuman anger, that he was beyond human reason, that he was apparently trying to run through gunshots.
While Wilson was engaged in a physical confrontation with someone who outweighed him significantly, his characterization seems to fit a pattern outlined in a recent study led by Adam Waytz of Northwestern, which showed that white people associate black people with various mystical concepts — a so-called “superhumanization” bias that might help explain certain societal outcomes, like black patients in hospitals receiving less pain medication than white ones. The researchers showed that whites are quicker to associate blacks than whites with various superhuman words, and are more likely to think blacks have certain superhuman abilities and associate those abilities with a diminished capacity to feel pain.
Furthermore, the Waytz paper has some specific comments on crime that seem prescient here:
The present findings also suggest numerous implications of this bias for future research to explore… Superhumanization of Blacks might… explain why people consider Black juveniles to be more ‘‘adult’’ than White juveniles when judging culpability (Rattan, Levine, Dweck, & Eberhardt, 2012); perhaps people attribute enhanced agency to Blacks thereby judging them more culpable than Whites for their actions (Gray et al., 2007). Relatedly, superhumanization of Blacks may contribute to Whites’ tolerance for police brutality against Blacks (Goff et al., 2008); perhaps people assume that Blacks possess extra (i.e., superhuman) strength enabl[ing] them to endure violence more easily than other humans. For now, the present research provides evidence of a superhumanization bias that, despite its ostensible distinction from other forms of prejudice, may be just as dehumanizing and consequential.
“Dehumanizing and consequential” neatly sums up Wilson’s impressions of Brown, that’s for sure.


Gorge to Host Watershed Music Festival with Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton
Country music husband and wife team Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert will be among the headliners at the first-ever Watershed Music Festival later this year.
The three-day country music event will take place August 3-5 at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington. Music festival enthusiasts will recognize the venue as the same place the annual Sasquatch Music Festival is held every year.
The event is being billed as the “Northwest’s premiere country music festival,” and has a lineup to back up the claim. In addition to Shelton and Lambert, other notable artists scheduled to appear include Dierks Bentley, Dwight Yoakam, Kix Brooks, Sara Evans, Uncle Kracker, Brantley Gilbert and Thompson Square. Additional artists are expected to be announced soon, and a local stage will feature acts from around the region.
Fans will be able to campout during the festival, and a statement from the organizer, Live Nation, says fans can expect “late night sets, impromptu jam sessions, collaborations and more.” Tickets for the event go on sale May 25, and will be limited to 25,000 fans.
Live Nation promoter Brian O’Connell spoke in a statement about why the Gorge Amphitheatre is such a great location for the event.
“The Gorge provides a feeling that is impossible to recreate anywhere else,” he said. “It is truly a magical place and provides the perfect setting for a cool, eclectic country event. We wanted to create something that didn’t exist, from the caliber of artists to the camping to the atmosphere. I’m excited to be a part of it and see it all come together.”
The Sasquatch Festival has been held at the amphitheatre every year since 2002, and takes advantage of its terraced lawn seating. Other festivals to be held at the venue include Lilith Fair, Vans Warped Tour, Ozzfest, Creation Festival and Area:One.


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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Anyways, All Day Fight Day is coming up in like 11 hours. Exciting stuff. Nothing serious, but I just wanted to make it as a tournament to make it seem more competitive so we have more fun, regardless of skill level. There's going to be some dope people, I hope I can do well against them.
Heh heh, "It's all about penetration." Btw, the guy was talking about basketball, I'm watching Sportscenter.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
This is all very annoying. Go away now, fever, so I don't get tired when I show even the slightest emotion.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
That's what's up right now though, that reading status. I've been on it, forreal. Ursula K. Le Guin, you sorceress, with your Earthsea books. And of course, Stephen King, you tailor of tales of terror. I'm not reading a book of his, but a collection of his short stories known as Night Shift. A few of them have been made into movies: Children of the Corn, Graveyard Shift and The Lawnmower Man. Mind you, The Lawnmower Man movie was nothing like the story he wrote, to the point where they had to take his name off the movie because he demanded it. Ok, so I still don't have this collection in my possession, but soon I will. I'm waiting for it to be delivered to the Columbia City library.
Speaking of scary things, that movie, The Haunting in Connecticut, I want to watch that. This time, it's actually based on a true story, and not like half or a fourth of a true story. That is what's up. Yawwwwp.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
But forreal, another SFIV session with the homies is needed before the tournament. Still need to figure out when that will be, exactly. Maybe I'll have it somewhat early the 29th? Freakpoop. Oh well, I'll just have to decide soon. Let's see if I can sleep. Good mornight, all.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Oh well, Spring Break is almost here. Can't wait to kick it, play video games and whateverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Dang, my neck hurts. Darn reading, typing, dying...lkajgr;elkaj;yt4a. I hope everyone is doing well though. We'll all make it! Or something corny like that.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
There are too many instances like that to share, not just in that movie, but in general. Just like a picture I just saw. I cried from laughing so hard. Good stuff.
Time is such a colossal thing to try to comprehend. It's ironic how such a mind-explodingly complex thing can be measured by something as simple as a clock, or sundial if we were kickin' it in the old, old days.
Let's get delirious.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
I met a girl yesterday; I wish I found out
more about her other than her future last name:
Buscaino. I saw her through the window of my
classroom, the professor going on about
the signaling in cells and the need for something.
I was already drooling, my head resting on the make-do
pedestal formed by my right hand and arm,
body slowly going limp. As soon as I saw her,
I jolted awake as if bitten by bullet ants and almost
raised my hand to say, “The answer is love!”
I could only thank whoever designed the building
with its huge windows, allowing me to see
most of her: straight, long black hair, lightly
toasted brown skin, a deep dimple on her
left cheek, and a purple peacoat and jeans,
both of which she filled out well. The windows,
not big enough to see what shoes she wore
to complete my mental picture, made her
look like she floated past the building.
I stayed awake, only to think of how I shall compare
her to a summer’s day, or if that pretty mama,
is she single? As soon as the room is abuzz
with the rustling of bags, I’ll find you
amongst the thousands unnamed on campus.
This poem is untitled because in the poem, I don't know the name of the girl that I saw while I was in class. There's a few things going on in the poem I'd like to mention. I describe the girl in pretty good detail to contrast the word "something" when I'm talking about what's happening in class. Although I'm falling asleep and not paying attention in class, this girl commandeers my attention with just a glance...slash stare. When I wrote the summer's day followed by the pretty mama part, I was contrasting old and new romantic lines from Shakespeare and Ne-Yo. I think that's about it. Anyways, enjoy!
Friday, March 6, 2009
Where would I go though? I don't know. I would probably just walk around somewhere totally new to me until I felt like going home.
I don't know. Someone play me in SFIV on Xbox Live.
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