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Spelkbirds and Chinese warriors

It’s so gratifying to see the daylight creeping in at 7.30 a.m. and staying until 5.00 p.m. I hate the dark days of winter, they are so grey and miserable over Saddleworth Moor; and I have February to negotiate now, so thank goodness for work and for poetry. This has been a good week for both.

First the poetry: it was Spelks on Friday. I think I’ve probably mentioned once or twice how important this group is to me: friends and poetry, two of my favourite things. Anyway, last time we met, Hilary set the task for this week’s meeting. It involved ‘sunography’: a photosensitive square of fabric that we had to make an image on. I had chosen the only sunny day for weeks, Friday 20th, and used a felt seagull-shaped fridge magnet to make an image of a seagull on my square. It worked, slowly revealing itself, the ghost of a seagull. The final stage was to rinse the fabric under cold water and leave it on a flat surface to dry, and there it was, my ghost seagull. On Sunday last, I sat and embroidered my seagull back to life while I watched telly in the evening. It doesn’t look very seagull, but it does look like some kind of bird. So, during the week, mostly in the wee small hours in bed, I wrote two poems for my Spelkbird, pictured here. Yes, alright, I didn’t say I was an expert embroiderer, I haven’t done any embroidery for half a lifetime, but I enjoyed  doing it.

Our Spelkerama was on Friday afternoon at Penny’s house. All six of us were there, so it was a lovely, friendful meeting. Lots of fantastic poetry from the sunography activity: even when there wasn’t enough sun to make an impression on the fabric (we do all live in Manchester/Oldham and it is January!), there were lovely poems about the image not appearing: win win; and as ever, lots of sharing, laughter and food. I think I put on half a stone on Friday afternoon. Penny’s lovely buffet and Cadbury’s mini-eggs eh? What you gonna do? I’ll post one of my sunography poems at the end of the blog this week. I have written a PhD poem that I want to share as well, but Anna Percy has invited me to be involved in a Stirred Nasty Women project, poems in protest and response to the Trumpdom over the Ocean and other mad, mysoginistic decisions that have been taken globally this year and I’m not sure of the ‘previously unpublished’ rule at this stage. So the PhD portfolio poem is probably going to wait to appear in that anthology. Details of the project on Facebook here:

On the PhD front, I had several hours of writing. I forgot to save one day’s work, and it was lost from the MacBook. So annoying, and it meant I had to waste another day making up the loss. But I have sent off just less than 5000 words to the supervisors for discussion. The Selima Hill chapter isn’t complete, I could keep writing about her poetry for ever; but I have enough to discuss, and to make sure I’m on the right (I nearly put write: Freudian?) wavelength with it. I can’t afford any more negative feedback on my flawed Acadamese, I’m half way through the three years now. But I’ve read Katrina Naomi’s thesis, and I’m taking strength from that. It has taught me it doesn’t have to be obscure to be successful. I can’t write obscure, I’m a writer who believes wholeheartedly in the accessibility of the written word, so they will have to accept that. I’ll be more assertive for my own corner since I read Katrina’s (successful, accessible) thesis. I’ll always be grateful to Kim Moore and Rachel Mann for pointing me towards it.

On Monday we had to take Rosie Parker to the vet for dental treatment under anaesthetic. She wasn’t impressed with being placed in the pet carrier; and Jimbobs wasn’t impressed that his breakfast was delayed until she was in there and couldn’t get at the food. The treatment went well, but she had to have 6, SIX! teeth extracted. It’s strange, because she is the one who eats more biscuits and biscuits are supposed to be good for teeth. Ho hum! She was prescribed painkilling drops, the same kind that Jimbobs is taking for arthritis. He loves them, I call him my junkie boy. But she wasn’t so impressed; and he got awfully jealous when I was giving her hers, he felt I’d chosen the wrong cat. And as she smelt of vet and not of Rosie when I brought her home, there was a lot of unusual and unfriendly spitting going on on his part. Pets, eh? They’re worse than children. I took her back to the vet for a post-op check up on Friday and all was good; and I could stop giving her the drops, so one bone of contention was solved for him.

On Tuesday Amie and I went to Telford to visit my son, Michael. Always good to see family, and it was his wife’s birthday on Monday so we took cards and birthday presents. She’s at an age when she really wants to forget her birthday, I think; but I think you should face them head on and enjoy them. You’re still going to be the age you are whether you celebrate it or mourn it; might as well celebrate then, is my philosophy.

Wednesday, as usual, was my day for doing the books for my daughter’s restaurant. I’m only telling you this this week, because the saga of the new laptop continued. I switched on, tried to open Sage and got the message ‘Sage can’t work offline, please connect to the internet’. Well, you managed to work very well offline last week, Sage, so why are you being so arsey? Amie does have a wifi connection in the office, but the signal isn’t strong and it gave up trying weeks ago. But, necessity is the mother of invention, as the old adage goes. I had just prepared everything to take home and work from home when I decided to try to get the wifi signal working again. I turned off and turned on the hub thing, pressed and held the wifi button and , abracadabra, wifi! I don’t know how long it will last, she is on a high hill on the edge of a moor, but it worked for Wednesday, and I have a good idea what to do in future if it puts its foot down and gets stroppy.

On Saturday we went into Manchester to see the illuminated ‘Terracotta Army’ in Exchange Square.

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It was lovely to see them, they are only there for a few days, I think they go away today; but obviously they are a pale imitation of the real Terracotta Army. There’s a good Wiki article about the originals here:

I want to  see the real thing now, there’s always something new to do and learn! The restaurants in Manchester were all full so we picked up a Chinese take-away on the way home, which seemed appropriate on Chinese New Year. Kung hey fat choi.

And here’s my poem, the second of my two Spelk poems about my sunography bird, about the process of bringing it back to life with embroidery. I hope you enjoy the poem as much as I enjoyed doing it and writing it. Do you know Jonathan Livingston Seagull? If you don’t, you should! He has lessons to teach us all.

for Jonathan Livingston Seagull

For a while you were satisfying as a ghost.

But you were no active haunter, you just

lay there tediously not shaking your chains,

not oohing, not smashing the best china,

not turning the air that indescribable cold, so

not making my follicles rise like small molehills.

I decided to resurrect you, give you back a life:

not the one where you clog on the roofs of caravans,

squabble with rivals over scraps, steal sandwiches

from the hands of visitors; not the one where you swoop

and glide over the sea like a kite before landing

like a stone on the beach to catcall derision.

True, in a past life, you were this kind of hooligan.

But Jonathan would say you can be better than you were.

So my magic has made of you all the birds of the air.

I called up beak of puffin, beret of arctic tern, crest of peewit.

I called up tail of lovebird, wings of kiwi,

flamingo legs, the speckled breast of the dparis.

If you only ever sing one song, ghost bird,

make it Be Who You Want To Be.

Rachel Davies

January 2017

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1- Rehearsal/Blocking

Students will memorize their monologue and work on character analysis. Begin rehearsal and blocking

Chunking a monologue- assign an emotion to each “chunk”. Break the piece into smaller parts. You need to choose an emotional journey for your piece and each chuck takes you on that journey

Beating a monologue- using the punctuation and emotional journey, draw a slash for every place you want to take a beat.

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Every character has a complete backstory. Every actor needs to do research to determine every aspect of their character’s life. Once you choose your monologue you will write a character analysis on your character.

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Maybe it’s just because I’m focused on the dead Americans in Benghazi and Algeria and the millions giving up looking for work that I am not more concerned about a true American scandal–the Subway sandwich chain apparently short changing people on their “foot” long sandwiches.

The controversy began when a teenager in Australia ordered a foot long sandwich from a Subway in Perth. Before he ate it, he pulled out a tape measure (don’t we all?) and realized it was only 11 inches long!! He was ripped off of an entire inch of sandwich!!

He posted it on Facebook, and of course, a picture of a sandwich got a zillion “Likes” and went viral as they say. Wish my Fan Site could pull THAT off. Maybe I need to post my lunch more often.

Anyway, people all over the place started measuring THEIR foot long sandwiches and what do you know? They measured 11 or 11.5 inches long.

Am I a bad American because I am not energized to join a class action suit? Maybe I and millions of others who have been wronged could recover mucho dinero for all those lost inches!! Think about it? A family my size?? 8 people?? That’s a LOT of lost inches over the years!

The sue happy types probably are already one step ahead of me.

I have an idea for Subway.

Maybe they should DOUBLE the price of the first six inches of sandwich and charge THAT for a true foot long!

In other words, if a six inch sandwich costs $4.00, shouldn’t the foot long cost $8.00??

Well, it doesn’t.

You can get the second half of the sandwich for a fraction of what you paid for the first half.

Why? Because it’s an incentive to get the customer to move a size up on their order.

It’s a tactic used all the time.

Ever notice at the movie theaters when the concession vendors say “A large is twice as big as the medium for twenty five cents more!”

Maybe movie theaters should charge you the higher price for all that extra soda!

You can buy my pencils for $1 each or a dozen for $8. Why? Because it’s great marketing.

I’ve never gone into the kitchen of a burger joint or restaurant and made them weigh my uncooked burger to PROVE to me it was really a quarter pounder.

I think it would bother me more if they were ripping you off based on the cost of an inch or a pound.

In other words, if Subway said you had to pay by the INCH and, say, each inch was .50, then it should add up. Six inches would be $3.00 and a foot long would be $6.00. Easy math.

Same way if you go to the grocery store and you buy a POUND of apples. If the scale is off, you ARE being ripped off.

But if I am paying for a BURGER with peppers on it, then I don’t really care if during one visit there’s 10 peppers and another visit there’s only 7.

In the first example, I am paying for the WEIGHT of the apples. In the second case, I am paying for the SANDWICH or BURGER as a meal.

Do you count how many onion rings or french fries you get EVERY time you order?? Why not??

Because you are content that as long as the medium is bigger than the small and the large is bigger than all of them, it’s a good day.

If you were charged a uniform price for beer by the ounce, you wouldn’t be able to get a Happy Hour beer for $1 and then spend $12 for the same size beer at a football game.

Does this make sense I hope?

And I’d like to see anyone complaining try to bake hundreds of loaves of bread a day and have them all add up to exactly a FOOT. Try it. Bet you can’t do it.

And some people would complain if it was even a MILLIMETER short of a foot. You know they would.

So for all those people complaining, I hope Subway takes me up on my idea to double the price of the six inch and charge you much more than you currently are now for the “foot” long.

Maybe I should go back and sue the eatery I used to go to all the time growing up.

My favorite was the “Torpedo” sandwich they made famous. But come to think of it, not ONE of those sandwiches was ever shot from the side of a ship directly into my mouth.

See? You can gripe and sue over just about anything.


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How to Create a Database With SQL

sql-wordsEvery database management system has its way of creating a database. This short tutorial is aimed at creating, initializing and populating a database using RDM. It covers the use of the rdm-sql tool to create a database via SQL statements in a script file and/or SQL statements entered directly through the command line tool.

This tutorial demonstrates basic database operations with the simplest of all databases, which we call a "Hello World" database, using the RDM SDK. Raima has also created a sequence of executable demos that don't require a preinstalled SDK. You may go directly to these demos, or continue with this tutorial. The demos start with a "Hello World" sample and graduate to ever-more complex demonstrations of SQL usage and the Raima programming APIs.

If you do not have the SDK for RDM, you can download the free evaluation version here. The demos do not require any preinstalled Raima software, as all needed components are packaged with each demo and may be discarded when completed.

Creating a database via importing a script file

This section will show you how to define and create a script file. You will then use the RDM tool rdm-sql to read and execute the statements, resulting in a new database.

Structure a script

Inside of a script file, you will define a series of SQL Statements, such as the SQL CREATE DATABASE statement, to execute to define and create your database including the tables and rows. The format will look similar to this.

create database hello_world;
create table hello_table (Foo char(31));

Taking a look at the above SQL Statements, you can see that it starts by creating a database with the SQL Statement format "CREATE DATABASE {database_name}". The next statement creates the table "hello_table" with F00 being the only column in the table. Be sure to save the file (called "hello_world.sdl" in this tutorial), then proceed to the next step. Note that SQL is not case sensitive.

Compile the script

Raima Database Manager has a tool for executing SQL statements, which is exactly what the file above is doing. It is executing the required statements to create a simple database. The name of this tool is rdm-sql. You will be using this tool through command line operations, which will be the same regardless of what platform you are on.

Step 1) Navigate to the location of where you want your database stored.

Step 2) Create and initialize the database.

Run rdm-sql  "name_sdl_file".

Ex: rdm-sql hello_world.sdl
This will generate all of the necessary database files under a subdirectory called HELLO_WORLD.rdm/:

Alternate Method: Execute SQL Statements Directly Using the rdm-sql Tool

The rdm-sql tool can also be used to execute SQL statements directly via the command line interface to the tool.

Simply run the following command on the command line to start up the tool : rdm-sql

This will bring up the interface.

Then key in the following statements. The firs two lines define the database, and the "commit;" causes the database to be physically created. The last line exits the tool.

create database hello_world;
create table hello_table(Foo char(31));

You have now successfully created and initialized your database!

Populating Data in Your Database

Step 1) Create a row in the database.

To add rows to a database, use the SQL INSERT statement:

insert into hello_table values ('Hello World');

The two statement above cause one new row to be inserted and then committed to the database. Until the commit, nothing will exist in the database files to be used at a later time.

Viewing the new row with the rdm-sql utility involves issuing a SQL SELECT statement:

select * from hello_table;

This asks for all columns of all rows. It is a trivial result set now, consisting of one row and one column containing the text "Hello World".

Step 2) Insert and update rows.

Any additional rows are added to the existing ones. The SELECT statement will see uncommitted changes. Your database connection is able to view everything that has been added, deleted or changed prior to the commit of the transaction. It is at the commit that other users (in a multi-user configuration) can also see your connection's changes, and as mentioned before, the commit makes your changes durable - safe on the disk.

The following statements insert new rows, look at the full contents, update a row, and view the contents once more before a final transaction commit:

insert into hello_table values ('Hello USA');
insert into hello_table values ('Hello UK');
insert into hello_table values ('Hello Australia');
select * from hello_table;
update hello_table set Foo='Hello English speaking World' where Foo='Hello World';
select * from hello_table;

This complete sequence in rdm-sql would look like this in a Windows command prompt:

Note that there is no reason to exit rdm-sql between the database creation and database updates.

More information about SQL: MSDN SQL Create Database Reference.


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Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl’s decision to mix youth and experience has paid off after his side secured a place in the FA Cup fourth round with a 2-0 win over Shrewsbury Town in their rearranged tie.

Dan N’Lundulu netted on his first start for Southampton in the 17th minute before James Ward-Prowse sealed the result with a clever curled free kick.

The reward for the Saints was a clash with Arsenal in the round of 32.

The Shrews were without manager Steve Cotterill who had to watch the game from his hospital bed as he continues his recovery from COVID-19.

The 56-year-old was admitted to hospital after his symptoms took a turn for the worse and has spent time in intensive care.

The game, originally scheduled for January 9, was postponed after a coronavirus outbreak at the Shropshire club.

The game started slowly as Ibrahima Diallo drove wide with the first sight of goal for either side.

Southampton took the lead in the 17th minute with the first real chance of the game, N’Lundulu slotting the ball into the far corner for his first goal for the club.

The goal was allowed to stand after a VAR check for handball against Caleb Watts as he controlled a long ball. Shrewsbury were unable to clear and the ball fell to N’Lundulu who put it through the legs of Scott Golbourne before it found the net.

In the second half, the visitors looked to hit back through Harry Chapman, who drove down the right and into the penalty area but his strike went wide of the target.

Goalkeeper Matija Sarkic had to dive to make a save to deny Jack Stephens adding to Saints’ tally from a Ward-Prowse corner.

Shrewsbury defender Aaron Pierre had to hook the ball off the line to keep his team in the tie after a ball from Jake Vokins, who scored in the win over Huddersfield at the same stage of last season’s competition, found Watts, whose shot was parried by the goalkeeper onto the defender and almost into the net.

Just before the full-time whistle, Ward-Prowse put the game beyond doubt when he stepped up to take a free-kick just outside the area and expertly curled the ball over the wall, with Sarkic unable to keep it out.

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Small Improvements

img_3194I’ve been working on my house lately. Improving it. Fixing things.

Specifically my kitchen.

Because it’s old, and a little bit of a mess.

It needed some TLC.

So, I ripped out the old faucet, the one that leaked and was also determined only to have as much water pressure as it absolutely had to, and replaced it with a shiny new one. I can actually fill up a jug now. Or water my plants. Then, I fixed a few broken and loose tiles on the pad for my woodstove and started tiling the backdrop behind my stove. Because I was getting a little tired of grease-stained paint.

These kinds of projects are completely new to me, and I have been figuring them out for myself—with a little encouragement from my sister and roommate. Two years ago, I would have looked at projects like these and said, “Nope. Sorry. I can’t do that. I don’t know how.”

Isn’t it funny how often I don’t know how becomes all-consuming? How quickly I can’t becomes the answer to . . . just about anything? I never realized how many walls I put up around my abilities by saying I can’t.

I couldn’t fix the problems in my house.

I couldn’t speak in public.

I couldn’t run a half-marathon.

I didn’t know how.

The last eight months have been a kind of releasing for me. I can’t has become I’ll try, and I don’t know how has become I’ll give it a shot. On Friday, I decided to see just how far I could really run and ended up with my first half-marathon under my belt. The week before, I participated in a week-long writer’s meeting and spent a whole day pitching my ideas to the group and talking about why I liked each one or thought it was important. Since starting my job, I’ve said yes to being videoed, recorded, critiqued, mentored, and even to semi-public speaking.

Now I’m tiling my backdrop and planning for the spring, when I will be building an addition onto my home. (Because every writer needs a library.)

Suffice to say, I’ve gotten sick of the edges of my comfort zone acting as a fence. My efforts may not be completely perfect, but I can’t hasn’t factored into any of them.

I’d count that as an improvement.

What are some things that you have been doing outside your comfort zone lately? Tell me about them in the comments!

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  1. Painting my kitchen!

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    1. A.R. Geiger says:

      😱 I love painting projects! Especially in the kitchen! What colors?

      1. The units are creamy glossy, with dark grey marble effect work surfaces. Cream metro tiles on the hob splash back. The remaining walls are a very pale pink. There will be a photo soon.

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      2. A.R. Geiger says:

        Ooooh, that sounds beautiful! Definitely let me know when you’ve got pictures!

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AP FACT CHECK: Biden goes too far in assurances on vaccines

AP FACT CHECK: Biden goes too far in assurances on vaccines

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden offered an absolute guarantee Wednesday that people who get their COVID-19 vaccines are completely protected from infection, sickness and death from the coronavirus. The reality is not that cut and dried.

The vaccines are extremely effective but “breakthrough” infections do occur and the delta variant driving cases among the unvaccinated in the U.S. is not fully understood.

Also Biden inflated the impact of his policies on U.S. jobs created in his first half-year in office, misleadingly stating his administration had done more than any other president. He neglects to mention he had population growth on his side in his comparison.

A look at his remarks in a CNN town hall:

BIDEN: “If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the IC unit, and you’re not going to die.” — town hall.

THE FACTS: His remark accurately captures the strong protection the COVID-19 vaccines provide as cases spike among people who have resisted the shots. But it overlooks the rare exceptions.

As of July 12, the government had tallied 5,492 vaccinated people who tested positive for coronavirus and were hospitalized or died. That’s out of more than 159 million fully vaccinated Americans. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said “99.5% of all deaths from COVID-19 are in the unvaccinated.”

BIDEN: “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” — town hall.

THE FACTS: Again, he painted with too broad a brush as he described in stark terms the disparity between those who got their shots and those who haven’t. The disparity is real, but a small number of breakthrough infections happen and health officials say they are not a cause for alarm.

No vaccines are perfect, and the government is keeping a close eye on whether new coronavirus mutants start to outsmart the COVID-19 shots. But for now, federal health officials say even when breakthrough infections occur, they tend to be mild — the vaccines so far remain strongly protective against serious illness.

BIDEN, asked about vaccinated people who get infected: “It may be possible, I know of none where they’re hospitalized, in ICU and or have passed away so at a minimum I can say even if they did contract it, which I’m sorry they did, it’s such a tiny percentage and it’s not life threatening.” — remarks to reporters after the event.

THE FACTS: Once again, too far. That is evident from the CDC's finding that 5,492 vaccinated people who tested positive for coronavirus were hospitalized or died as of July 12. That's not “none.” But he is correct that it is a small percentage of the more than 159 million fully vaccinated Americans.

BIDEN: “We’ve created more jobs in the first six months of our administration than any time in American history. No president, no administration, has ever created as many jobs.” — town hall.

THE FACTS: His claim is misleading.

While Biden’s administration in the first half year as president has seen more jobs created than any other president — just over 3 million in the five months tracked by jobs reports — that’s partly because the U.S. population is larger than in the past.

When calculated as a percentage of the workforce, job growth under President Jimmy Carter increased more quickly from February through June 1977 than the same five months this year: 2.2% for Carter, compared with 2.1% for Biden.

Since the late 1970s, the U.S. population has grown by more than 100 million people.

It’s true, though, that the economy is growing rapidly — it expanded at a 6.4% annual rate in the first three months of the year — and is expected to grow this year at the fastest pace since 1984.

Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue package contributed to the vigorous growth, but much of the expansion also reflects a broader bounce-back from the unusually sharp pandemic recession, the deepest downturn since the 1930s. Even before Biden’s package, for example, the International Monetary Fund was projecting U.S. growth of over 5% for this year.

Biden is also leaving out the fact that the U.S. economy remains 6.8 million jobs short of its pre-pandemic level, and the unemployment rate is an elevated 5.9%, up from a five-decade low of 3.5% before the pandemic.

Associated Press writers Lauran Neergaard and Christopher Rugaber in Washington and David Klepper in Providence, Rhode Island, contributed to this report.

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Mystery & Thriller Mini Reviews: The Wych Elm, The Hiding Game, The Holiday, and Take It Back!

On my blog today I’m sharing another selection of mini reviews of some mystery and thriller books that I’ve read and enjoyed over the past few months!

The Wych Elm by Tana French

I’m a huge fan of Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series so I was intrigued to read this standalone novel. I did have an ARC of this but due to not being well I bought the audio book, and I highly recommend it. The narrator of the audio is so perfect for the book! The Wych Elm is one of those books that grabs you from the beginning and then gradually weaves its spell around you! Toby is brutally attacked in his home and whilst recovering goes to stay at his family’s ancestral home with his Uncle Hugo, who has a brain tumour and needs some help around the house. One day a skull is discovered inside a tree in the garden and this leads to secrets and lies being revealed, cover-ups attempted and a family left reeling by what they discover. I loved this book and already want to re-read it. I highly recommend this one!

The Hiding Game by Louise Phillips

This is an intriguing and interesting thriller that follows Heather, a defence attorney, as she goes back to her home town to defend a teenage nanny who is accused of causing the death of the baby in her charge. I enjoyed following Heather and learning more about her life – her mother was murdered when she was a child and she’s never really been able to move on from it. I did struggle with the novel a little though as there are a lot of characters and it was difficult to keep them separate from each other at times. For the most part this book did have me gripped though and I was definitely keen to find out whodunnit in both the timelines. I love that it kept me guessing right to the end!

The Holiday by T. M. Logan

I do love a thriller novel that involves groups of old friends going away together and seeing how things unfold in that situation so the premise of The Holiday ticked all my boxes and I’m really happy to say that it lived up to all my expectations! Kate and her family are on holiday in a beautiful holiday home with three of her oldest friends and their husbands and children. Early on the holiday she discovers some texts on her husband’s phone that make her doubt his honesty and from there on the novel grips you as you wonder if he could be cheating with one of the other women in the villa. It turns out there are more secrets amongst this group of friends, which makes this such a fast-paced, gripping page-turner. I didn’t see where this was going so I loved being surprised by how it all turns out. I definitely recommend this book!

Take It Back by Kia Abdullah

This is a legal thriller that is very prescient for our times. Jodie is a sixteen year old girl with neurofibromatosis and she claims to have been sexually assaulted by four muslim boys. This is written in such a way that when you read Jodie’s story you absolutely believe her but then when you read the perspectives of the four boys you believe them. The novel follows the legal case but also the way the community deals with the accusations. This book certainly makes you think and would make a good book club read as it brings up lots of issues that would make for interesting discussions. It didn’t quite hit the mark for me, it just felt like something didn’t quite sit right with me and I can’t even put my finger on what that was. I did enjoy it though and I would recommend it. I’m looking forward to reading whatever Kia Abdullah writes next.

Stacking the Shelves with a new Book Haul (6 Jul 2019)!

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality, which is all about sharing the books that you’ve acquired in the past week!

Purchased Books/eBooks

And So It Begins by Rachel Abbott

I’ve been wanting to read this ever since it came out so I’m thrilled to finally have my own copy. I hope to get to this one soon!

Cape May by Chip Creek

This is a book where I’ve seen great reviews by bloggers and have been wondering if it was for me. I then saw it in the kindle sale this week and I snapped it up. I love the cover of this book so if I enjoy it I will buy the print copy for my book case!

A Double Life by Flynn Berry

I bought this one on a whim as it sounded like my kind of read!

The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed

This was another impulse buy as the cover caught my eye and when I read the blurb I decided to give this one a go!

Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter

I’ve now read two of Karin Slaughter’s standalone novels and I keep hearing such good things about her series so I grabbed this one in a recent sale. I’m hoping to start this soon!

Wrecking Crew: Demolishing the Case Against Steven Avery by John Ferak

I watched and was fascinated by Making a Murderer so when I spotted this book that was published quite recently I couldn’t resist buying it. I’ve already started reading it and it’s interesting although so far doesn’t stray far from what is known from the documentary series.

Purchased AudioBooks (Audible UK’s 14th birthday sale has had some great books on offer!)

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

I read this book years ago and loved it, I’ve been wanting to re-read it so when I spotted it in the recent Audible sale I snapped it up. I might save this one to read later in the year.

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

I’ve heard great things about this book so it’s another audio book that I couldn’t resist in the recent Audible sale.

The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore

I bought this on a whim from the Audible sale as it’s a period of history that I know virtually nothing about and I’m intrigued to learn more.

In At The Deep End by Kate Davies

I bought this one as it sounded like it might be a fun summer book to listen to so I expect to get to this one quite soon.

Borrowed AudioBooks

Me and the Table by Stephen Hendry

I borrowed this book from my library via the BorrowBox app and I’ve already listened to it. It’s one of those books that I think I enjoyed more for listening to it, especially as Stephen Hendry narrates the audio. I recommend it if you’re a snooker fan!

Looker by Laura Sims

I’ve been so keen to read this book so when I was offered a spot on the blog tour I jumped at the chance. I’ll definitely be reading this book soon and I can’t wait!

How It Was by Janet Ellis

I loved Janet Ellis’ previous novel The Butcher’s Hook so was keen to get her new book. I was really lucky to spot this in an email that was Read Now so I immediately went to NetGalley and downloaded it. I love the cover of this book and am drawn to wanting to read it asap!

The Poison Garden by Alex Marwood

I LOVE Alex Marwood’s writing and have been eagerly anticipating a new book from her so I grabbed this one as soon as I saw it on NetGalley. I just know I’m going to love this novel!

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

I also got this from NetGalley this week. I requested it but didn’t hold out much hope as I know how popular this book is going to be so I was super excited when I got the approval email!

The Hiding Game by Louise Phillips

I requested this one on a whim when I saw it mentioned on FB, it sounds like my kind of book so I’m really happy to have a copy to read soon!

Have you bought any new books over the last week? Please tell me below. 🙂 If you join in with Stacking the Shelves please feel free to leave your link and I’ll make sure to read and comment on your post.


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“…all homeopathic drugs will now have to come with a label clearly explaining that “there is no scientific evidence that the product works and [that] the product’s claims are based only on theories of homeopathy from the 1700s that are not accepted by most modern medical experts.””

The homeopathic snake oil industry is one of the biggest scams and profiteering consumer rip-offs of all time and this will leave a mark!

1,800 studies later, scientists conclude homeopathy doesn’t work

A major Australian study analyzing over 1,800 papers has shown that homeopathy, the alternative treatment that relies on super-diluted substances and the principle of “like cures like” is completely ineffective, according to a report on After assessing more than 1,800 studies on homeopathy, Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council was only able to find 225 that were rigorous enough to analyze.

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Activin, BMP and FGF pathways cooperate to promote endoderm and pancreatic lineage cell differentiation from human embryonic stem cells

Xiaofang Xu, Victoria L Browning, Jon S Odorico
Mechanisms of Development 2011, 128 (7-10): 412-27
The study of how human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) differentiate into insulin-producing beta cells has twofold significance: first, it provides an in vitro model system for the study of human pancreatic development, and second, it serves as a platform for the ultimate production of beta cells for transplantation into patients with diabetes. The delineation of growth factor interactions regulating pancreas specification from hESCs in vitro is critical to achieving these goals. In this study, we describe the roles of growth factors bFGF, BMP4 and Activin A in early hESC fate determination. The entire differentiation process is carried out in serum-free chemically-defined media (CDM) and results in reliable and robust induction of pancreatic endoderm cells, marked by PDX1, and cell clusters co-expressing markers characteristic of beta cells, including PDX1 and insulin/C-peptide. Varying the combinations of growth factors, we found that treatment of hESCs with bFGF, Activin A and BMP4 (FAB) together for 3-4days resulted in strong induction of primitive-streak and definitive endoderm-associated genes, including MIXL1, GSC, SOX17 and FOXA2. Early proliferative foregut endoderm and pancreatic lineage cells marked by PDX1, FOXA2 and SOX9 expression are specified in EBs made from FAB-treated hESCs, but not from Activin A alone treated cells. Our results suggest that important tissue interactions occur in EB-based suspension culture that contribute to the complete induction of definitive endoderm and pancreas progenitors. Further differentiation occurs after EBs are embedded in Matrigel and cultured in serum-free media containing insulin, transferrin, selenium, FGF7, nicotinamide, islet neogenesis associated peptide (INGAP) and exendin-4, a long acting GLP-1 agonist. 21-28days after embedding, PDX1 gene expression levels are comparable to those of human islets used for transplantation, and many PDX1(+) clusters are formed. Almost all cells in PDX1(+) clusters co-express FOXA2, HNF1ß, HNF6 and SOX9 proteins, and many cells also express CPA1, NKX6.1 and PTF1a. If cells are then switched to medium containing B27 and nicotinamide for 7-14days, then the number of insulin(+) cells increases markedly. Our study identifies a new chemically defined culture protocol for inducing endoderm- and pancreas-committed cells from hESCs and reveals an interplay between FGF, Activin A and BMP signaling in early hESC fate determination.

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Home Ecommerce Easy improvements you may want for your AR15

Easy improvements you may want for your AR15

The AR-15 is the most used firearm in the United States today, and for a good reason. They are effective for home defense. AR-15’s are good for shooting small games and small predators. Ammunition is quite inexpensive and easy to find, recoil is not very high, and they are easily customized to the owner’s taste.

Here is a list of easy and valuable improvements we think everyone should add to their AR:

  1. AR Vertical Forward Grips

When driving your AR from target to target, the AR Vertical Forward Grips works well as a reference point, helping you position your hand in precisely the exact location each time. For instance, you can use a nonstandard grip on the front end of your rifle, starting with the hand wrapped around the AR Vertical Forward Grip and the thumb either along the side of the Picatinny-railed or over the top, free-floating handguard.

It helps put the supporting hand closer to the fire line, lending itself to immense accuracy. Many shooters simply like this shooting stance. It will most certainly support your performance on the trigger and decrease any fatigue while shooting. If you are looking for something lightweight, inexpensive, and highly functional, Mlok Vertical Grip may be suitable for you.

  1. Hand Guards

A lot of AR-pattern rifles come with some handguard rail system these days. There are lots of designs out there with a multitude of valuable features. Some handguards have a Picatinny rail along the top and modular attachments along the other three sides, like M-Lok and Keymod.

One thing is for sure. Gone are the days of the plastic tube-style handguards. These handguards typically have no attachment points or very few attachment points.

  1. Forward grips

If you are using an AR in a vigorous environment, you would need solid control over the muzzle end of the rifle. You will need help to control the swinging weight of the barrel when transitioning between targets. Forward grips allow for a better grip of the front end of the gun. It enables you to distribute the barrel’s weight and control the inertia as you swing between targets. Again, there are many options out there.

  1. Buttstock

Everyone has a personal preference for what accessory they want for their AR. It can be AR Vertical Forward Grips or Buttock. The features of the buttock range from fixed-length solid stock to adjustable stocks. Some can be moved easily and quickly depending on the need of the moment, and some are made with precision adjustments. Many designs also have compartments for storage.

Which accessory should I choose?

Stability is vital when firing a rifle, which is why a grip is one of the essential rifle accessories. Rather than directly gripping the barrel, a good grip gives you additional control and stability of the weapon. They are a must-have if you are planning on firing off a lot of rounds.

In an attack, your main aim is to stop the threat as quickly as possible. It doesn’t happen with one shot or from pulling out the gun. It happens with many well-placed hits on the attacker. The way you grip your weapon is the primary driver of how fast you impact the attacker.

To shoot quickly, one needs to minimize this muzzle movement because you can’t shoot accurate shots if your muzzle is off-target. The Mlok Vertical Grip is the most widely used grip for defensive and competition shooting with semi-auto handguns and other firearms.

Unlike a hand stop, which most folks position at the rear of their support hand, the Finger Stop has a rounded structure that is ergonomically designed to be located between your index and middle fingers.

It typically places it forward on the handguard, which means it doesn’t get in the way when transitioning to prone shooting positions, where most people move their support hand towards the rear.

With your AR grip, you should be able to manage the recoil better, and your rapid-fire groups should be getting tighter. It may take some getting used to, but all the puzzle pieces will come together with proper regular practice.

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Home Food Everything you need to know about a healthy tortoise diet!

Everything you need to know about a healthy tortoise diet!

Feeding tortoises in confinement with a proper diet is not always easy to accomplish. As there is very little information on tortoises available, the correct nutritional requirements are often unknown. Many people depend on what is published in books or on the internet, which could be inaccurate in many situations.

It is also a real fact that despite all efforts by tortoise keepers to provide a healthy diet and to copy what a tortoise eats in its natural habitat, there are still many reports of captive tortoises with nutrition-related problems.

The balanced diet for tortoises plays a big role in their growth, shell hardness, and overall health, so giving the best food for a tortoise is what you should aim for. There are plenty of companies available that offer bulk tortoise food for sale. You just need to choose the best one that provides you with a healthy diet without burning a hole in your pocket.

Different tortoise species:

Mediterranean Tortoise Species- These types of tortoises can eat some grass, but they are not grazing species. Sometimes, they will love to eat animal protein, which they would find unscrupulously in the natural habitat, but this doesn’t comprise part of their normal diet and should not be given.

Grazing Tortoise Species- These types of tortoise species eat a mixture of grasses and juicy plants in the wild, with grasses making up for most of their diet. They may eat fruits and animal protein sometimes, but it is not recommended purposely to feed these diets to your tortoise.

If you feed a large amount of fruit to your tortoise, it may cause severe digestive tract defeats, including very loose feces. It can also disturb the normal gut flora and increase the reproduction of bedbugs because of the high sugar content.

Rainforest Tortoise Species- In the wild, tropical rainforest species eat animal protein as well as fallen fruits quite frequently, as they are typical characteristics of these types of environments. It is not enough to keep these species healthy on a diet of mixed grasses, hays, or 100% weeds. By adding some fruits and animal protein, you will give them a more naturally adjusted diet.

Different foods for different tortoise species:

As different species have different dietary needs and demands, it is important to know the distinctive requirements of your species of tortoise.

A healthy tortoise diet contains:

  • Always try to choose a diet that high in fiber. It helps in good digestion.
  • Provide a diet that rich in calcium for healthy and strong bone as well as shell growth
  • Low in protein (Additional protein can cause a thickening of the shell)

These are the most important factors that help you choose the best and healthy diet for your tortoise. It is important to know that an excessive amount of protein also provides an additional strain on the kidneys and other organs of your tortoise. So, it would be great to keep these points in mind when looking for healthy tortoise food for sale.

Best tortoise food with calcium

The calcium level of the food is very important both for healthy bone and shell growth, especially for younger tortoises. In addition, to feed your tortoises with dandelions, which are an important source of calcium, there are plenty of other bulk tortoise foods for sale available that have a very good calcium amount to phosphorus ratio.

The importance of calcium in tortoise foods

If you are looking to provide your tortoise with more calcium for whatever reason, providing them pieces of cuttlebone should do the trick.

You can simply break them up into small pieces to make it easier for your tortoise to nibble on them.

If you live in an area where the soil is chalkier, you may also notice that sometimes your tortoise will pick up small pieces of chalk and eat them. This is a representation of your tortoise’s natural behavior, so you don’t need to worry about anything. Always ensure that you provide the right type of UV lighting to tortoises so that your tortoise can metabolize the calcium you give them.

High-quality food for baby tortoises:

Well, it is important to give a healthy and varied diet to tortoises, no matter what the size and age. It becomes more important when dealing with baby tortoises. The need for a healthy diet by a perfect calcium level and vitamin supplementation is a requirement as they go within their stages of fast growth. So, it is your responsibility to provide a healthy diet to tortoises to make them healthy and strong.

The bottom line…

Of course, different species will have their own dietary needs. So it is up to you to buy healthy tortoise food for sale and provide tortoises the right type of food according to their requirements.

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Grab an opportunity to promote your brand with a custom logo on beach towels!

Custom beach towels are an imaginative and fun approach to make something your own. There are many companies that offer exclusively printed towels in bulk, so you can make and impart your designs to everybody for an extremely minimal price.

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    “I have a different story to tell at 75 than I did at 25. Fifty years makes a difference and so if there’s a poet listening to us right now, one of the things…

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    February puddles from a moment I took just for myself. And this: “‘For Ahkeem,’ along with ‘Quest,’ and ‘Step,’ reminds white audiences that it is not enough to agree that black lives matter, but…

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Today marks the 47th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade. In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution protects a woman’s right to have an abortion without excessive government restrictions. Pro and Anti-abortion activists are geared up for an extended legal battle, as the Trump administration has supported anti-abortion causes and changed the makeup of the Supreme Court. In March, the Supreme Court is expected to review the potentially momentous June Medical Services v. Gee case. This case challenges a Louisiana law that requires abortion providers to have hospital admission privileges to a hospital within 30 miles of where they perform abortions.

    Left-wing activists are increasingly anxious that with two new justices appointed by President Trump, the U.S. Supreme Court could vote to overturn Roe v. Wade or rule in such a way that a woman’s right to abortion is severely restricted.  Pro-abortion proponents have roundly criticized a recent Trump administration rule requiring health insurers to send separate bills for abortion coverage.  On the positive side for abortion advocates, six states including New York have begun codifying Roe into state law.  In New York, the legislature eliminated a previous ban on abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy, allowing abortions until birth.

    Anti-Abortion activists on the Right are celebrating President Trump’s support for their agenda.  President Trump proclaimed the anniversary of Roe v. Wade “National Sanctity of Human Life Day,” and noted that there is “more to be done” to reduce abortions.  For the Right, abortion is considered an evil commensurate with the country’s history of slavery and the Holocaust in 1940’s Germany.  The Right believes the over 50 million babies aborted since the Roe decision were murdered.  Overturning Roe is a fundamental part of their agenda; believing abortion disproportionately impacts minority communities. The Right also holds that pro-abortion arguments concerning rape/incest are dishonest; accounting for only 1% of abortions. A rally with hundreds of thousands of Anti-Abortion activists are gathering in DC this Friday.

    A Lucid footnote: the terminology around the abortion debate is central, with those on the left wanting to be termed “pro-choice,” and wanting to label there opponents anti-abortionists, and further recoil from the word baby; on the other hand those on the right prefer nomenclature describing themselves as pro-life and the opposing party as pro-abortion or pro-murder, and only using the word baby. We recognize these terms as important and have tried to be even-handed in our reporting above. For instance, Women do not say they are pregnant with a fetus, we universally use the word ‘baby’ when speaking of the developing entity during pregnancy. No one asks – “how far along is your fetus?” That word choice may be seen as pandering to the right. Contrastingly, our statistic above–stating the 1% of pregnancies due to rape–is from the Guttmacher Institute, the founder of that institute being a former president of Planned Parenthood.

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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Another Housewife Bites the Real Estate Dust

SELLERS: Joe and Teresa Giudice
PRICE: $3,999,000
SIZE: 10,000 square feet (approx.), 6 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms.

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: It seems the financial fat ladee has done sung for yet another of Bravo's allegedly wealthy housewives. This time its one of the blinged out guidettes from New Jersey. All week long there's been a big brouhaha a brewin' in the tabs and everywhere else about how The Real Housewives of New Jersey's too tan baby factory Teresa Giudice and her grunting huzband Joe filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy back in late October of 2009. The large livin' couple claimed an astonishing $11,000,000 in outstanding debt–$10,853,648.04 to be exact–and only $79,000 a year in taxable income, plus another ten grand a month in "assistance" from family members. It doesn't take a brain surgeon–and Your Mama ain't no brain surgeon–to figure out that it was only a matter of time before the over spenders heaved their trés tacky mansion in Towaco, NJ on the market.

That's right buckaroos, fasten them seat belts because Mister and Missus Giudice–that's pronounced gee-oo-dice or jew-dee-chay or something like that–have hoisted their mammoth, marble, granite, and onyx encrusted crib of questionable architectural provenance or integrity on the market with an asking price of $3,999,999, otherwise known as four million clams.

Oh lo-wurhd have mercy, that whackadoodle Danielle Staub is going to have a field day with this one, isn't she? She's going to take to the airwaves and clatter up to the rooftops to shout and scream some kind of crazy nonsense about how this is divine justice, the unforgiving retaliatory hand of fate coming down to chop the evil Giudices down to size. Can't y'all just see her head spinning round like Linda damn Blair in The Exorcist?

Anyhoo, according to previous reports and their fascinating bankruptcy filing–which Your Mama is embarrassed to admit we actually read–the Gee-oo-dice's (or Jew-dee-chays) have managed to rack up a staggering $104,000 in credit card debt, owe $12,000 for fertility treatments, and another $2,300 in phone bills. And that, puppies, is just the tip of their ice berg of debt. Crimeny sakes, who has $2,300 in phone bills? What kind of person has $104,000 in credit card debt? Have mercy. It drives Your Mama to drink in the morning just to think about that sort of financial hole. And furthermore, if these two have $11,000,000 in debt, where did Tee-tee get that toilet paper roll sized wad of cash last season that she used to buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ass-uglee furniture for their newly built monument to excess? Certainly they didn't wrack up eleven million bucks in debt in a single year.

Most mystifying, mortifying, and psychically destabilizing to Your Mama are the 8 mortgages that total $2,600,000 that the Jew-dee-chays (or Gee-oo-dices or whatever) carry on three homes. Whaaaaat? Somebody please grab Your Mama a damn nerve pill and slowly explain to our booze addled brain how these people managed to secure 8 mortgages on 3 properties totaling $2,600,000 with an income of $79,000 per year? It's no wonder the gubbamint had to step in to save the damn banks last year or whenever that was.

Previous reports indicate the deeply indebted duo have already handed two of the three properties back to the bank and one imagines that iffin they don't get their vulgar manse in Towaco sold quick–or big, bad, and rich Caroline Manzo doesn't step in to save their impoverished butts–then Tee-tee and Joe-Joe are in jeopardy of losing the family's faux chateau to foreclosure.

As best as Your Mama can tell, Mister and Missus Gee-oo-dice (or whatever) paid $530,000 for the 3.77 acre property in December of 2001 and subsequently took out a second mortgage of $1,720,000. Listing information shows the Giudice's residential beast measures around 10,000 square feet and includes 6 bedrooms and 5.5 poopers including a master suite with fireplace, separate sitting room, dressing room, walk-in closet, and steam shower. Please, do not, we beg of the children, think about or discuss anything related to Joe-Joe and Tee-tee taking a steam together.

Other amenities of the 16-room residence, according to listing information, include a train station sized entrance hall with double height ceiling and twin curving staircases with intricate wrought iron balustrades, a gigantic great room, formal living and dining rooms, game room, wine room, media room, den, office, gourmet eat-in kitchen with center island, and a separate staff or guest suite with private pooper.

Thank heavens listing information does not include photographs of the interiors because Your Mama would rather slowly saw off our left leg than look at the decorative train wreck that is the Jew-dee-chay (or Gee-oo-dice or whatever) mansion. We know of what we speak, poodles, because like millions of others, we've had the misfortune of repeating peering inside the wing-ed doors of that pile o' architectural doo-doo on The Real Housewives of New Jersey program.

The barely landscaped grounds include a long, red driveway composed of crushed granite or brick or something, a prairie sized motor court, large expanse of lawn–or weeds cut down to look like lawn–and two ponds including one with an man-made waterfall of stacked stone. Listing information states that "privacy and tranquility reigns" at the Gee-oo-dice (or Jew-dee-chay) digs but Your Mama has to wonder how much tranquility there really can be at a property that backs up to I-287, an extremely bizzy, 4-lane highway.

Listen celery sticks, we kind of like this Teresa gal and her amazingly explosive temper that causes her to occasionally upend tables in public places and holler brilliant barbs like "PROSTITUTION WHORE!" She makes for good (reality) tee-vee. We just think–and it is only Your Mama's meaningless opinion–that poor Tee-tee and Joe-Joe don't have a cotton pickin' clue about making good architectural choices or creating tasteful interiors...or, apparently, managing money. All the children know that Your Mama really doesn't care to dance on any one's real estate grave. However, we have a very difficult time feeling bad for someone–that would be Tee-tee–who's drowning in $11,000,000 of debt and then hauls her big balls onto national tee-vee and brags about how much cheddar she spent on her 9-year old daughter's birthday party. It's unseemly, not to mention bordering on immoral.

Where or where will Tee-tee, Joe-Joe and their band of bedazzled gurls go next? Maybe that touchy-feely Dina ladee will take them in. Or possibly the kind and well meaning but mealy mouthed Jacqueline can put them up in her basement next to that scary gun cabinet of hers. Somehow, even though they are tick as teeves, we sort of doubt Momma Manzo, a sensible if somewhat frightening woman, would take in a charity case with four children and $11,000,000 in debt. For what it's worth–and it's worth nothing–Your Mama thinks Joe-Joe and Tee-tee ought to get rid of the $1,280 a month Escalade they clearly can't afford, buy a used Kia car, and rent a crappy three-bedroom apartment in Secaucus, NJ with an affordable rent that's in line with their income. Just a thought.

angie said...

They must have realized long ago that $79k a year wasn't going to subsidize their spending habits, and yet they kept borrowing and spending until forced to declare bankruptcy - which I'd be willing to bet will be next. Thieves, and we're all paying for it in one way or another. Fugly, tacky house too. Love all the trees though.

luke220 said...

This place makes the Gotti manse look tasteful.

Now we know why Teresa is always late- it's that schlep from Towaco to Franklin Lakes.

Anonymous said...

I hope this serves as a cautionary tale to other folks living waay beyond their means out there.

Anonymous said...

Mama, sorry not to email you directly (we've got a new email filter at the office making it difficult).

Any confirmation on whether the following post about Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer buying a modern cube on one of the Venice walk streets is true?

Anonymous said...

For the person discussing the bankruptcy thing, they declared bankruptcy in October 2009, and it was widely-spread news last week.

I wonder if Danielle would sell them her $1.6-mil house?

Anonymous said...

I don't mean this is a mean way because it's never good when someone has to file for bankruptcy but we all saw this coming. Come on. This bitch was spending money like it was going out of style. Does anyone remember the episode when they were just moving into this house after it was completely and the movers were bringing in the new furniture? This bitch spent hundreds of thousands on furniture and her husband paid for it in CASH on camera. Where the fuck did he get all of that cash????? Hmm...

The real question is, where will she go? As she's previously stated on the show, she couldn't buy an existing house because "other people's houses creep me out." Enjoy that new (used) rental apartment. Don't forget to check for bedbugs!

In all seriousness though, I hope she lands on her feet, it's never fun to see someone fail, even if they are an entitled bitch that doesn't do anything but shop all day while her husband doesn't make enough money to pay for it.

Anonymous said...

The reason that they are claiming the ridiculous lie of an income of $79,000 is that the new bankruptcy laws have an income threshold of I think maybe $85,000 or so to be able to file bankruptcy.
So if they declared they made more they would not be able to file.

Pretty sneaky suspicion the judge is going to tell them to blow it out their derrierre with that lie, unless he is bought off.

Anonymous said...

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving person. Danielle on that show might be bat-shit crazy, but to me, Theresa is truly the most offensive one of the Real Jersey housewives.

Every time this house has appeared on the screen, or whenever I refer to it, I call it an architectural monstrosity, because that is what is is, both inside and out. And it backs up to a freeway! Who the hell wants a $4-million temple to tackiness that backs up to a freeway?!?

But back to her being totally deserving, I'm sorry but it's true. I can't even stand the sound of her voice. And the way she would throw money around was so vulgar and tacky it's almost like the Kharma police were just waiting in the wings to swoop in, I'm so glad to see they finally did.

And I know it's horrible to say, but her children are annoying, ugly little spoiled brats that look like Troll Dolls. Normally, I would leave the kids out of it, but considering how she's the ultimate stage mother who's always trying to pimp that talentless, ugly as sin oldest daughter out as a model and/or actress, I figure it needed to be said in the hopes that Ms. Guidice, fame whore that she is, will actually read this article and the comments and get it through her thick skull that the kid isn't going anywhere in that department, so stop being such an overbearing stage mother and let the poor ugly little thing have a normal, happy childhood.

Carmella Mozzarella said...

some of your finest reporting ever!

StPaulSnowman said...

Why do all these bitter people even watch that shit on TV. I prefer to spend my time reading a good book..........unless reruns of Flipping Out or Million Dollar Listing are on.

Wendy said...

bwah ha ha ha ha!!!!
Zillow (notoriously bad in NJ, but still) values the house between $548K and $721K... a far cry from their $4MM asking price! a less chateau-like house a couple doors down (#16) is for sale for $818K. (also shown on zillow)
can't wait to see how this one plays out, meaning how much they can sell it for. the market SUCKS in NJ right now, especially the $750K-plus market. good luck Jew-dee-chays (or Gee-yew-dee-chays, or whatever).

tax records on their house (tax value is $425K) is here:
if you have to do your own search, choose "morris" under the county field, and then type in Giudice for owner name. and enjoy!
love ya mama!

Anonymous said...

Anon @ 2:03 - You are incorrect; there is no limit to the amt of money someone can earn to be able to file bankruptcy.

Artchitecture said...

Hello, fellow "Chil'ren" :-)

The best to everyone who's a regular disciple of Mama and the website, but how ANYone on EARTH, with TWO BRAIN CELLS to rub together and TRY to make a SPARK OF A THOUGHT watches that nauseating, putrid, steaming, utterly & eternally REPULSIVE pile of FLY COVERED PIGSHIT called "The Real Wives of ANYwhere" is FOREVER BEYOND MY ABILITY TO COMPREHEND. Thank GOD. I'd almost vote REPUBLICAN in the next election before I did that. Even if all of those brain-dead bitches are really women with SOME actual brains & class off camera, and are really just making FLAMING IMBECILES of themselves for their "15 minutes" of fame, they're STILL SEWAGE-covered, WHITE-TRASH, EGOMANIACAL MEDIA WHORES, who ACTUALLY think they're worth watching! PUKE, CHOKE AND BARF, forever and a day!

Anonymous said...

Anon 5:36

You should check out the law.
Bankruptcy requires you to pass a means test to determine if you can file.
My neighbor who is a bankruptcy attorney told me awhile back, at least in my state that you could not make more than about $85,000 a year to be able to file bankruptcy.

Anonymous said...

I think Teresa is still in denial that she is broke.

Have you read her twitter page?

She is acting like everything is just fine.

Just an observation

Nurse Kristina said...

Just for the record, the name is pronounced jEW-dICE (as in "rolling the dice..." something they've been doing for far too long).

Also, CHILDREN ARE OFF-LIMITS! Can't believe someone actually called her children ugly. Who does that?!

Anonymous said...

I read somewhere that her kids look like "trolls". Now, that's not nice....:/

Get a Life said...

The $ amount for bankruptcy is around 85K or less for Chapter 7 and above that is Chapter 11 (where you pay back your debtors as much as possible in a 2yr timeframe). Teresa and Joe are trying for Ch 7 so they don't have to repay their debts...they basically wipe the slate clean. Under both you declare what debts you are over your head in and you can still keep your home.

Anonymous said...

Why are her kids off limits? She and Barney Rubble put their kids on television and we see her pimping out the ugly older one time and again. If she gets the benefits of using this trashy show to pimp out her froggy daughter then she has to deal with ME calling her an ugly little toad, which she is.

The child has ZERO talent too! It's not enough that she is ugle but her voice sounds like some clown voice with her mama's JOISEY accent. She's cute in that troll-like homely way now but when she gets a few more years under her belt, she will simply be GOD AWFUL homely.

That little froggy ain't going to be making money to keep the Barney and Betty Rubble and their entire family in that God-forsaken monstrosity.

Anonymous said...

Why is this house so ugly? Lord have mercy. =/

Anonymous said...

Forget about lack of taste....I have a theory about all of this: I believe they have a ton of money, all of which is not from making an "honest living". They CAN afford the house and all but they can't pay off their debts with illegal funds, thus the bankruptcy. They should have been using the cash instead of the cards. With the exception of that "face-dragged thru a parking lot of gravel" Danielle, I LOVE those NJ bitches! You rock!

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What kind of smoke detector should you install at home?

More than 95 percent of U.S. homes have at least one smoke detector installed inside them, but most homeowners remain unaware of the different kinds of sensors available and their effectiveness, reports the U.S National Fire Protection Association.

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