Interview by Arjun Verma
Dr. Nazeema has a very good academic record from her School till her doctorate and she was a University Gold medalist at Bharathiar University. She is the recipient of the Best Faculty award from Nehru College among the teachers of South India and has also received Best Faculty awards from RVS College and Sree Narayana Guru College during her academic tenure at these institutions. She has also received Dr.RadhaKrishnan Gold medal award for her contribution towards teaching and research and the best Alumni award for the work rendered as the Vice President of the Alumni association.
Dr. Nazeema T.H on her experience in the education industry
I had started this profession as a lecturer. I was passionate about teaching right from my younger days and during my Post Graduation, I took a seminar where my staff said that, I was teaching like a teacher and that is when I decided to become one. And so after my M.Sc, I took up the job of an Assistant professor at Sree Narayanan Guru College of Arts and Science. During my tenure, I got the depth of my subject, where I was able to correlate the subject matter at different angles of Biochemistry which I had not acquired during my higher studies. This provoked a thought in me regarding the education given in all the Higher Educational Institutions
After about 8 years, I was selected as the HOD of Biochemistry at RVS College of Arts and Science. It was a different experience altogether as it was an autonomous college, that gave me the freedom to do a lot of work on the syllabus by incorporating practical concepts which would be applied in the industry. This is how education industry inspired more into me. While working as the HOD, we realized that we were very low on admissions and decided to work on boosting it and that is how I became the admission Director, wherein, I discovered my passion in administration also. In 2018, I became the Principal of KSG College. My reason for taking up this post was being able to do a lot of things for the younger generation through education. According to me, this is the best Industry to work with, because you get a chance to mould the younger generation on their thought process and also would be able to inculcate social responsibility. You get a chance to teach them things that had not been provided during their schooliate education. In the longer run, this also gives a chance to create a younger generation who can bring change in the nation.
I am still on the learning process and where am still learning and assessing myself to find out what kind of leadership is good for the team andAt times I am a democratic leader and the rest of the times I am authoritative. Yet, am not bossy when things are not done on time. I have to make the team understand and at such times I take up a dominative role too.
KSG curriculum
Regarding the curriculum at KSG, It has implemented value-added programs in each and every department which cater to the industry needs. Since we have students from Tamil Medium schools also, we render an exclusive communicative English classes and Personality development classes which grooms these students so as to fit in the Industry. The commerce students are rendered with a Tally program while the Computer Science students excel themselves on Artificial Intelligence. The students are given hands-on training in two of their domains related to their subject.
Placement opportunities available at K.S.G. College
As a Principal, I am pretty confident that the huge placement opportunities for KSG is in hands right now already. Still, more number of companies have come forward to take up the students from KSG into their organization. And, we are communicating with the HR of the various core companies pertaining to the departments available which leads to our vision of making more student entry into these companies apart from the IT field.
An open relationship with the students being the Principal of K.S.G College
Being the Principal of KSG, a growing college, which in itself needs a lot of interaction among all the students starting from the first year Undergraduate to the second year Postgraduate students so as to know their requirements and to make this Institution a student-centric one.
Students are not only interacted for their academics but also for the sports, extracurricular activities, health issues and also in motivating them for creating a social responsibility within them. Students are also asked to give their feedbacks related to their interested placements and about their expectations which is not being fulfilled. This feedback tells us the student needs for their up-liftment of their career.
An ideal school environment
Our ideal school environment is to give more autonomy to students in making wise decisions on certain issues related to the college and thereby creating critical thinking, analytical reasoning, intuitive approach and problem-solving skill among students. More responsibility would be given to students in deciding on the course which they need to study, question bank preparation and also in engagement of organizing various events.
Goals for making students great analytical thinkers
In the next few years, the institution would be heading towards reaching its vision in making our students as great analytical thinkers and having utmost critical reasoning power in them.
The institution would be reaching its autonomous status and would thrive to be a great University rendering the best to the younger community.
The current youth should start thinking about the nation’s growth. Their contribution to society concern is the need of the hour. Let’s start having a sense of protecting our natural resources. As students, I would request all of you to take up life skills as your priority and master them. My best wishes to you for taking up great challenges in life and to become a person who could bring change to the nation for a better living.
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It started as a game when I was about three. I didn't want to pick up my toys, or I wanted a few more minutes to myself during naptime. The footsteps were my warning to drop to the floor, to smooth my smile and close my eyes. I would fall asleep. When I woke up, my toys would be put away or I would be left alone to my daydreams of princesses and fairies. It was so much fun, fooling the adults. Sometimes I pretended to be asleep just for the thrill of tricking people. Ha! I would think to myself. Got you!
But then Mom and Dad started to fall out of love. They fell into different lives and grew restless in the one they had made together. I didn't understand, and I didn't want to. It was easier to hide in Dreamland. I would close my eyes and pretend myself away. I slept through hissed discussions and shouting matches. I got better at falling asleep faster so I didn't have to hear the opening arguments. I started dozing off at school during quizzes, on the bus when Jessie called me brace-face. After a while, I didn't even have to try.
My parents settled into different apartments. Fell into different loves.
Then they realized their child should have stopped napping nine years ago.
Having a routine helps me be a somewhat normal twenty-eight year old, or at least wards off attacks that would have me curled up on the sidewalk using some cement for a pillow. I made it out of community college in two years with a degree in something that doesn't help me process medical claims at Centrum Insurance. Initially my boss tried to put me on the phones, but one too many callers got upset when they received heavy breathing instead of a reason why their money wasn't in their FSA account. Luckily my boss's daughter has ADD, so she understands what it's like to live with a condition you can't necessarily control.
Now I'm back to a regular schedule, hiding in my cubicle and taking naps every couple of hours. It's become almost like clockwork, like those screens in an airport or train station that tell you the departures and arrivals. At 2:15pm, Lora is going to depart from the world of casual bitchiness on a round-trip shuttle to dreamland. She'll be back on the commuter rail at 3:00pm.
My friends used to tell 'm really passionate about. When we go out, I make excuses to leave early, saying that I didn't get a nap in today, or I don't want to embarrass them by falling asleep in the bread bowl.
It's like when you take a drive somewhere, and you're in the passenger seat. You're going somewhere, but you're also not moving at all. You're sitting down and not doing anything, just watching the world blur together outside your window. My life gets like that, blurry and moving fast while I just sit on the couch and let my eyes fall closed.
When summer nights are hot like this one, I pretend it's the heat and not Hank's oppressive weight three inches away that scares me out of bed. Hank sighed when he came to bed tonight; it's our six month anniversary, and he was probably expecting some amazing sex with multiple orgasms. I was "asleep," my back turned to the undoubtedly forlorn picture he cut with brand new boxers and drooping shoulders. He should have taken earlier protest that I was too tired to go out and celebrate tonight as a hint. He knows that my condition kills my sex drive anyways. Falling asleep in the middle of sex is a major downer. Literally.
I breathed every five seconds until he had showered, changed, and fallen asleep beside my prone body. Maybe it said something that he didn't even try to wrap an arm around me. He knows I'm emotionally as well as sexually stunted. The last time I had a shouting match with my mom, I ended up slumped over on the couch, cataplexy playing hell with my muscles. Hank is understanding of my condition and probably loves me all the more for it. I like Hank because he is another thing I can hide behind, something that helps me maintain my routine and hold on to normalcy. Hank is sweet, 6'2," and brunette. He makes me pancakes when I ask. We met through one of my few acquaintances, and I almost turned him down when he asked me out. But the jacket he lent me that night was big, and it was warm. It smelled nice. Lived in. Hank told me over Americanos the next morning that I reminded him of his sister: quiet, but not afraid speak my mind. It's a very polite way of saying I'm blunt and acerbic. He laughed when I told him that.
I think I'm a project for Hank. Sometimes it feels like he's trying to infect me with his own malady of humor and sunshine, attempting to sweeten me up with kisses and the thick, chocolately no-bake cookies he makes to tempt me out of napsIf we're using each other, then I'm not such a dick. But God those cookies make me do crazy things, like care about his day and buy nice panties. Good dogs deserve treats every once in a while.
I have a balcony on my apartment because it's in a shitty part of Somerton that not many people want to live in. It's the kind of area with close-quarter buildings that are held together by pigeon crap, an occasional girl on the corner who will grab your crotch instead of shaking your hand, and an unspoken curfew that starts at nine but goes later if you've got a guy or mace. I could certainly afford better, but I don't get many requests to host Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners, so that's a huge plus. My balcony also gives me a view of the trains. They rumble up from the depths to bridges built specifically for them, clacking along the outskirts on a track that's almost level with my sixth floor apartment. The city built these raised roads about ten years ago in the early 2000s, trying to make room for the heavy car traffic that clogs the streets below. It's supposed to be "new age," but the trains are the same as the T's in the subways, and the rails are decorated by the same graffiti artists flaunting their bubble letter skills.
I lean on the metal guardrail and wonder how many people jump from the rusted tracks. It's definitely possible, and if the nets that hang from underneath the structure give any indication, a common enough occurrence to warrant some taxpayer money. I look over the bar to see if the city had caught anything. The nets are empty, the newspaper this morning told me another body had been found where the track turns at the corner of Mayberry and Saint Thomas. Hank had been sad, had asked me how people could do that, to themselves, to their children, to their families.
I had shrugged, flicked to the comics. Not everyone is happy, Hank, I had said.
His sister had been depressed, he told me.
He was standing in the kitchen in his Batman boxers. Jesus. Dating six months and he was already airing out the dirty laundry.
His sister, when she was thirteen, wouldn't eat. Then they found scars on her wrists. Hank had looked so sad that I felt obligated to get up and give him a hug. He pulled me into him, mumbling that he would make sure I was always


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Deo, Ashwini (2014): Formal semantics/pragmatics and language change, ined. by Claire Bowern & Bethwyn Evans, 393-409. Oxford: Routledge.
Eckardt, Regine (2010): Grammaticalization and semantic reanalysis, in: 3) ed. by, 2675-2702. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Enke, Dankmar / Roland Mühlenbernd & Igor Yanovich (2016): Tts, in ed. by Sean Roberts, Christine Cuskley, Luke McCrohon, Lluís Barceló-Coblijn, Olga Fehér & Tessa Verhoef [online publication].
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Stranger raising money for Coming Attractions Bridal after Ebola scare prompts closing
Updated January 8, 2015 at 2:32 PM ; Posted January 8, 2015 at 1:30 PM
AKRON, Ohio -- A complete stranger set up an online fundraiser to try to save Coming Attractions Bridal and Formal from going out of business after Amber Vinson's Ebola scare daunted customers.
She had never shopped at Coming Attractions and she did not know the store owners, but when Terri Crispin of Munroe Falls heard that the Tallmadge Avenue store was closing she pickAnna Younker, who Thursday announced she was closing her doors this year, unable to shed the stigma of the Ebola scare. Younker protested the idea of asking for money.
Crispin, who had watched some of the animal rescuers she volunteers to organize use the website, had already set up an account on GoFundMe.com.
By Thursday morning the account had already raised $750, and Younker said the City of Akron called her to offer some of its vacant property for relocation.
Younker doesn't know what exactly it would take to get the business up and running in another location. She said Thursday that she hadn't even had time to contemplate it.
"I never thought anyone would reach out to us like that," Younker said. "When you decide to close a business you don't really think about people giving you money to stay open."
Coming Attractions closed for three weeks in October and November, in the middle of her busiest season, after Vinson shopped for bridesmaid dresses there on a trip home from Dallas, where she worked as a nurse and contracted the Ebola virus.
She paid out of pocket to cover the cost of specialized ultraviolet decontamination.
It wasn't enough, though. Despite a highly publicized reopening ceremony and a 60-percent discount on dresses, many customers never returned. Some, with weddings approaching, canceled orders altogether.
The insurance company denied claims. Younker said they told her there was no virus present at the store.
Crispin, 51, had never shopped at the store but had followed the Ebola scare online. She remembers cruising with friends up Tallmadge Avenue, where the store now sits, to the A&W off Tallmadge Circle.
"I wasn't one of the people who jumped on the Amber Vinson hate wagon but I did find out that she asked for a refund and all her bridesmaids went elsewhere," Crispin said. "When I heard that I thought that was pretty classless."
A November letter sent by an attorney representing Vinson said that bridesmaids decided to shop for their dresses elsewhere and wanted a $479.89 refund.
Younker and her husband, who had been in business for 30 years, wanted to close as gracefully as possible. Sales would continue until the end of January, and all existing orders would be filled.
The owners aren't quite sure if they are ready to change their mind, but welcome a miracle.
"The main thing is we would have to relocate," Younker said. "I don't know if it could save us, but I would like to keep doing what I've been doing."
Crispin set a goal of $20,000 for the fundraiser, and said she hopes it will ease the pain of a small business that fell on the worst possible luck.
"(Younker) doesn't see that it's possible," Crispin said. "If it got to the point where she doesn't have to close that would be a beautiful ending to a sad story."


As promised earlier in the semester, the Arts Initiative launched its new website today. Along with the updated website comes a new arts page on the University's main website, with the Arts Initiative "literally at the center," Executive Director of the Arts Initiative and Miller Theatre Melissa Smey said. The new site's development is keeping with Smey's goal of updating the site and addressing student concern about the outdated site expressed in the "Save the Arts Initiative" petition. The petition circulated last November, garnering more than 1,300 signatures, and was overwhelmingly supported by student governing boards and councils. The new advisory board---consisting of 16 students---which was created in response to the petition, gave feedback on the new design before the launch, according to Smey. The new website preserves the branding of the old one while increasing the functionality. The new events calendar introduces filter options, so those looking to purchase tickets through the TIC can choose on- or off-campus events and specify where in the city they're looking for off-campus tickets.more It also allows for three ways to highlight events, according to Lauren Pearson, the Arts Initiative's Associate Director of Programming Administration. Pearson was appointed in January, partially in response to the petition, and partially to fill and expand the role of her predecessor, Chad Miller, who was the . The homepage features up to four promoted events, and other pages feature a sidebar of highlighted events. Finally, the updated calendar will highlight up to 20 events that users can scroll through. In addition to highlighting the Arts Initiative's core programs---including Museum Meetups, which allows students to receive guided tours of certain museums, and Creative Conversations, which brings prominent figures in the New York arts world to campus---the new site also introduces a photo ops section, which will feature student photography of events. These photos will also be featured on the University's page. It also introduces a new forms page, which allows students and outside arts representatives to promote and/or sell tickets to their events more easily, offering a more "concierge service" for those wishing to be featured on the site, as Smey put it. Smey and Pearson emphasize that this is a beta launch and would like feedback from students.


All performances are held on Fridays at Middle ParkApril 6, the performances start at 3:50 pm; on April 13, they begin at 11:30 am; and, on April 20, they get underway at 3 pm. The award ceremonies take place at Cooper Creek Square on Saturday evenings. Stephanie Carey, of Cooper Creek Square, shared that "Cooper Creek Square enjoys hosting the Ski-Music Festival awards celebration each year. It is great to see the excitement from the groups after their week in Winter Park."
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McDowell said they "would love to give a shout out" to everyone who helps make this event successful, year after year. "The staff at Middle Park High School and East Grand School District, Winter Park Resort, Cooper Creek Square, the town of Winter Park; local ski rental shops, lodging providers; the ski and snowboard instructors, and many, many more, too numerous to mention."


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Tabernacle Township highlighted in Burlington County. Inset map: Burlington County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
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Stephen V. Lee, IV (term ends December 31, 2016)[4][5]
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Tabernacle Township is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 6,949[10][11][12] reflecting an decline of 221 (-3.1%) from the 7,170 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 190 (-2.6%) from the 7,360 counted in the 1990 Census.[20]
Tabernacle was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 22, 1901, from portions of Shamong Township, Southampton Township and Woodland Township.[21][22] The township was named for a tabernacle constructed by missionaries David and John Brainerd.[23]
New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Tabernacle Township as its 23rd best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.[24] New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Tabernacle Township as its sixth best place to live in its 2010 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.[25] In 2009, it was rated the #1 small town by South Jersey Magazine.[26]
The area that is now Tabernacle was inhabited by Lenni Lenape Native Americans. In 1778, John and David Brainerd came to the area and erected a church to convert the local Native Americans to Christianity. The church was called Tabernacle In The Wilderness.[27] In 1803, William Wilkins acquired land from Hosea Moore to build Tabernacle Cemetery, next to the church.[28]
In 1860, Gilbert Knight built the Pepper-Knight House next to the Union Schoolhouse. It was later sold to the Pepper family who turned the property over to the Tabernacle Historic District following Clara Pepper's death in 1987. In the 1880s there were problems at the Tabernacle, so a new church was built on the spot. It was called the Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church, which still stands today.[29]
On March 22, 1901, Tabernacle was incorporated as a township by an act of New Jersey State Legislature from portions of Shamong Township, Southampton Township and Woodland Township.[21]
On July 13, 1928, Emilio Carranza (known as the Lindbergh of Mexico) was flying his plane from New York City to Mexico when he crashed in the middle of a storm over Tabernacle. The Carranza Monument was built with funds from Mexican schoolchildren, Hampton Gates Road was renamed Carranza Road for the pilot.[28]
In 1970, Tabernacle's population was 2,103, but by 1980, it had almost tripled to 6,236, reflecting rapid suburbanization of Philadelphia in South Jersey. Around the same time, the population of many other nearby towns boomed. Tabernacle's population reached a high in 1990 at 7,362 inhabitants and has continued to drop gradually. In 2000 there were 7,170 residents in the township and the population dropped to 6,949 in the 2010 Census.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 49.614 square miles (128.501 km2), including 49.120 square miles (127.221 km2) of land and 0.494 square miles (1.280 km2) of water (1.00%).[2][3]
Unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Apple Pie Hill, Bozuretown, Carranza Monument, Eagle, Fairview, Fox Chase, Friendship, Hampton Gate, Harris, Oriental, Paisley, Pine Crest, Sandy Ridge, Sooy Place, South Park, Speedwell and White Horse Station.[30]
The township borders the Burlington county municipalities of Medford Township, Shamong Township, Southampton Township, Washington Township and Woodland Township.[31]
The township is one of 56 South Jersey municipalities that are included within the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve, a protected natural area of unique ecology covering 1,100,000 acres (450,000 ha), that has been classified as a United States Biosphere Reserve and established by Congress in 1978 as the nation's first National Reserve.[32] All of the township is included in the state-designated Pinelands Area, which includes portions of Burlington County, along with areas in Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Ocean counties.[33]
There were 2,375 households, of which 34.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 72.1% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 16.7% were non-families. 13.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.92 and the average family size was 3.20.[10]
In the township, 24.1% of the population were under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 21.4% from 25 to 44, 35.3% from 45 to 64, and 11.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42.8 years. For every 100 females there were 101.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.8 males.[10]
There were 2,346 households out of which 41.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 77.6% were married couples living together, 5.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 14.3% were non-families. 11.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.03 and the average family size was 3.28.[40][41]
In the township the population was spread out with 27.9% under the age of 18, 7.1% from 18 to 24, 28.2% from 25 to 44, 29.8% from 45 to 64, and 7.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 102.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.5 males.[40][41]
The median income for a household in the township was $76,432, and the median income for a family was $86,729. Males had a median income of $58,148 versus $31,250 for females. The per capita income for the township was $27,874. About 1.1% of families and 2.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.1% of those under age 18 and 6.0% of those age 65 or over.[40][41]
The Carranza Monument - A 12-foot (3.7 m) monument in the Wharton State Forest that marks the site of the July 13, 1928, crash of Emilio Carranza, known as "The Lindbergh of Mexico". The monument, installed with funds donated by Mexican schoolchildren, depicts a falling eagle of Aztec design. Every July on the Saturday nearest the anniversary of his crash (second Saturday in July) at 1:00 p.m. he is honored at the monument site by local residents and representatives from the Mexican consulates in New York City and Philadelphia.[43]
Delanco Camp - An inter-denominational Christian camp meeting and summer camp along Lake Agape, located here since 1964, preaching under the Wesleyan doctrine.[44]
The Batona Trail - A hiking trail that extends for 49.5 miles (79.7 km), with significant portions running through Tabernacle Township.[45]
Apple Pie Hill is the highest point in the Pine Barrens and one of the highest in South Jersey, standing 205 feet (62 m) above sea level, with a 60-foot (18 m) fire tower providing panoramic views across much of the region.[46][47] In September 2016, chronic vandalism led the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to eliminate access to Apple Pie Hill by erecting a fence around the tower; access is possible when New Jersey Forest Fire Service Division personnel are at the site.[48]
Tabernacle Township is governed under the Township form of government.The five-member Township Committee is elected directly by the voters at-large in partisan elections to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats coming up for election each year as part of the November general election in a three-year cycle.[8][49] At an annual reorganization meeting held during the first week of January after each election, the Township Committee selects one of its members to serve as Mayor and another as Deputy Mayor.
As of 2016[update], members of the Tabernacle Township Committee are Mayor Stephen Lee, IV (R, term on committee and as mayor ends December 31, 2016), Deputy Mayor Joseph Yates, IV (R, term on committee and as deputy mayor ends 2016), Joseph Barton (R, 2018), Kimberly A. "Kim" Brown (R, 2017) and Richard Franzen (R, 2018).[4][50][51][52][53][54]
The township is patrolled by Troop C of the New Jersey State Police at the Red Lion Barracks in Southampton Township.[55]
Tabernacle Township is located in the 3rd Congressional District[56] and is part of New Jersey's 9th state legislative district.[11][57][58] Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Tabernacle Township had been in the 8th state legislative district.[59]
New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District is represented by Tom MacArthur (R, Toms River).[60] New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021)[61] and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).[62][63]
For the 2016–2017 session (Senate, General Assembly), the 9th Legislative District of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Christopher J. Connors (R, Lacey Township) and in the General Assembly by DiAnne Gove (R, Long Beach Township) and Brian E. Rumpf (R, Little Egg Harbor Township).[64] The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township).[65] The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach).[66]
Burlington County is governed by a Board of chosen freeholders, whose five members are elected at-large in partisan elections to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats coming up for election each year.[67] The board chooses a director and deputy director from among its members at an annual reorganization meeting held in January.[67] As of 2015[update], Burlington County's Freeholders are Director Mary Ann O'Brien (R, Medford Township, 2017; Director of Administration and Human Services),[68] Deputy Director Bruce Garganio (R, Florence Township, 2017; Director of Public Works and Health),[69] Aimee Belgard (D, Edgewater Park Township, 2015; Director of Hospital, Medical Services and Education)[70] Joseph Donnelly (R, Cinnaminson Township, 2016; Director of Public Safety, Natural Resources, and Education)[71] and Joanne Schwartz (D, Southampton Township, 2015; Director of Health and Corrections).[72][67] Constitutional officers are County Clerk Tim Tyler,[73] Sheriff Jean E. Stanfield[74] and Surrogate George T. Kotch.[75]
As of March 23, 2011, there were a total of 5,022 registered voters in Tabernacle Township, of which 981 (19.5% vs. 33.3% countywide) were registered as Democrats, 1,916 (38.2% vs. 23.9%) were registered as Republicans and 2,122 (42.3% vs. 42.8%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were 3 voters registered to other parties.[76] Among the township's 2010 Census population, 72.3% (vs. 61.7% in Burlington County) were registered to vote, including 95.2% of those ages 18 and over (vs. 80.3% countywide).[76][77]
In the 2012 presidential election, Republican Mitt Romney received 2,247 votes here (58.4% vs. 40.2% countywide), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 1,525 votes (39.6% vs. 58.1%) and other candidates with 49 votes (1.3% vs. 1.0%), among the 3,848 ballots cast by the township's 5,202 registered voters, for a turnout of 74.0% (vs. 74.5% in Burlington County).[78][79] In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain received 2,216 votes here (56.4% vs. 39.9% countywide), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 1,635 votes (41.6% vs. 58.4%) and other candidates with 53 votes (1.3% vs. 1.0%), among the 3,926 ballots cast by the township's 4,978 registered voters, for a turnout of 78.9% (vs. 80.0% in Burlington County).[80] In the 2004 presidential election, Republican George W. Bush received 2,345 votes here (59.4% vs. 46.0% countywide), ahead of Democrat John Kerry with 1,544 votes (39.1% vs. 52.9%) and other candidates with 45 votes (1.1% vs. 0.8%), among the 3,950 ballots cast by the township's 4,991 registered voters, for a turnout of 79.1% (vs. 78.8% in the whole county).[81]
In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 1,850 votes here (74.5% vs. 61.4% countywide), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 557 votes (22.4% vs. 35.8%) and other candidates with 36 votes (1.4% vs. 1.2%), among the 2,484 ballots cast by the township's 5,150 registered voters, yielding a 48.2% turnout (vs. 44.5% in the county).[82][83] In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 1,682 votes here (63.8% vs. 47.7% countywide), ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine with 778 votes (29.5% vs. 44.5%), Independent Chris Daggett with 127 votes (4.8% vs. 4.8%) and other candidates with 27 votes (1.0% vs. 1.2%), among the 2,636 ballots cast by the township's 5,009 registered voters, yielding a 52.6% turnout (vs. 44.9% in the county).[84]
The Tabernacle School District serves public school students in Kindergarten through eighth grade. As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 826 students and 65.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.65:1.[85] Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[86]) are Tabernacle Elementary School[87] for grades PreK-4 (441 students) and Kenneth R. Olson Middle School[88] for grades 5-8 (385 students).[89]
Public school students in Tabernacle Township in ninth through twelfth grades attend Seneca High School located in Tabernacle Township, which serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Shamong, Southampton, Tabernacle and Woodland Townships.[90] The school is part of the Lenape Regional High School District. The district also serves students from Evesham Township, Medford Lakes, Medford Township, Mount Laurel Township, Shamong Township and Woodland Township.[91][92] As of the 2013-14 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,249 students and 119.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.4:1.[93]
Students from Tabernacle Township, and from all of Burlington County, are eligible to attend the Burlington County Institute of Technology, a countywide public school district that serves the vocational and technical education needs of students at the high school and post-secondary level at its campuses in Medford and Westampton Township.[94]
As of May 2010[update], the township had a total of 89.17 miles (143.51 km) of roadways, of which 71.63 miles (115.28 km) were maintained by the municipality, 14.00 miles (22.53 km) by Burlington County and 3.54 miles (5.70 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.[95]
There are only two traffic lights in Tabernacle, both on U.S. Route 206.[26]
See also: Category:People from Tabernacle Township, New Jersey.
Howard P. Boyd (born 1914), scientist who has specialized in the study of the Pine Barrens.[96]
Sean Doolittle (born 1986), baseball standout at the University of Virginia and 1st round draft choice and current major league relief pitcher for the Oakland Athletics system.[97]
Shana Hiatt (born 1975), model and host of Poker After Dark.[98]
^ Staff. "The Contenders; Towns 2 through 10 abound with virtues, from open space to fine schools to mom-and-pop downtowns.", New Jersey Monthly, February 9, 2010. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Tabernacle, known as the Gateway to the Pines, is located entirely within the Pinelands National Reserve, which is not only a farm and agriculture hub, but also home to recreational fun like canoeing and hiking."
^ a b 2016 Tabernacle Township Committee, Tabernacle Township. Accessed June 23, 2016.
^ Administrator, Tabernacle Township. Accessed April 1, 2016.
^ Municipal Cletk, Tabernacle Township. Accessed April 1, 2016.
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Township of Tabernacle, Geographic Names Information System. Accessed March 14, 2013.
^ a b c d e f DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for Tabernacle township, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States Census Bureau. Accessed April 2, 2012.
^ a b c Table DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2010 for Tabernacle township, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed April 2, 2012.
^ Look Up a ZIP Code for Tabernacle, NJ, United States Postal Service. Accessed April 2, 2012.
^ Area Code Lookup - NPA NXX for Tabernacle, NJ, Area-Codes.com. Accessed December 2, 2013.
^ a b Snyder, John P. The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 99. Accessed April 2, 2012.
^ Honeyman, Abraham Van Doren. Index-analysis of the Statutes of New Jersey, 1896-1909: Together with References to All Acts, and Parts of Acts, in the 'General Statutes' and Pamphlet Laws Expressly Repealed: and the Statutory Crimes of New Jersey During the Same Period, p. 274. New Jersey Law Journal Publishing Company, 1910. Accessed October 11, 2015.
^ Hutchinson, Viola L. The Origin of New Jersey Place Names, New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed October 11, 2015.
^ "Best Places To Live 2010", New Jersey Monthly, June 22, 2010. Accessed June 22, 2010.
^ a b Tabernacle: Tops in Small Towns, Copy of article from South Jersey magazine at the Tabernacle Township website Accessed April 2, 2012.
^ Darrow, Chuck. "Tabernacle: Community has roots in religion", Courier-Post, October 18, 2006. Accessed June 19, 2015.
^ a b Home page, Tabernacle Township. Accessed January 22, 2012.
^ Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church, The New Jersey Churchscape. Accessed January 22, 2012.
^ Areas touching Tabernacle Township, MapIt. Accessed December 29, 2014.
^ The Pinelands National Reserve, New Jersey Pinelands Commission. Accessed December 2, 2013.
^ Fifteenth Census of the United States : 1930 - Population Volume I, United States Census Bureau, p. 715. Accessed August 31, 2012.
^ a b c d e Census 2000 Profiles of Demographic / Social / Economic / Housing Characteristics for Tabernacle Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States Census Bureau. Accessed July 21, 2013.
^ a b c d e DP-1: Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000 - Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data for Tabernacle township, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States Census Bureau. Accessed July 21, 2013.
^ DP03: Selected Economic Characteristics from the 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for Tabernacle township, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States Census Bureau. Accessed April 2, 2012.
^ History, Delanco Camp. Accessed April 2, 2012.
^ Batona Trail, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed August 31, 2012.
^ Wharton State Forest - Apple Pie Hill, New Jersey Birding and Wildlife Trails. Accessed December 29, 2014. "At approximately 205 feet above sea level, Apple Pie Hill is the highest point in the Pine Barrens."
^ Apple Pie Hill, SummitPost.org. Accessed December 29, 2014. "This one is unique in that is has a fire tower on it and it is accessible by car. Summit elevation is 205 feet, and the tower adds some 60 feet."
^ Adomaitis, Greg. "Pine Barrens landmark off limits to public due to vandalism", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 10, 2016. Accessed October 18, 2016. "The fire tower at Apple Pie Hill, which at 205 feet tall provides glimpses of both Atlantic City and Philadelphia, is being fenced off to restrict public access. Larry Hajna, a state Department of Environmental Protection spokesman, said Saturday that those wishing to climb the 60-foot-tall tower will only be able to do so when New Jersey Forest Fire Service Division B staff are present."
^ 2016 Municipal Data Sheet, Tabernacle Township. Accessed June 23, 2016. As of date accessed, Brown is listed with an incorrect term-end year of 2016.
^ November 4, 2014 Summary Report Burlington County Official Recounted Results, Burlington County, New Jersey, December 22, 2014. Accessed June 19, 2015.
^ November 5, 2013 Summary Report Burlington County Official Results, Burlington County, New Jersey, December 18, 2013. Accessed April 1, 2016.
^ Police, Tabernacle Township. Accessed June 25, 2016.
^ District information for Tabernacle Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed August 25, 2014.
^ School Data for the Tabernacle School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed August 25, 2014.
^ Tabernacle Elementary School, Tabernacle School District. Accessed July 29, 2013.
^ Kenneth R. Olson Middle School, Tabernacle School District. Accessed July 29, 2013.
^ New Jersey School Directory for the Tabernacle School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 29, 2013.
^ Seneca High School 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 2, 2016. "ATTENDANCE AREA: Shamong, Southampton, Tabernacle and Woodland Townships"
^ Lenape Regional High School District 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed May 28, 2016. "The Lenape Regional High School District (LRHSD) serves the eight municipalities of Evesham, Medford, Mount Laurel, Shamong, Southampton, Tabernacle and Woodland Townships and Medford Lakes Borough."
^ Staff. "Regional School Districts", Burlington County Times, April 26, 2015. Accessed May 28, 2016. "LENAPE REGIONAL Serves: Evesham, Medford, Medford Lakes, Mount Laurel, Shamong, Southampton, Tabernacle, Woodland"
^ School Data for Seneca High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed June 2, 2016.
^ Burlington County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction, New Jersey Department of Transportation, May 2010. Accessed December 2, 2013.
^ Staff. "Pinelands water unusual", Courier-Post, September 10, 2004. Accessed February 10, 2011. "Howard P. Boyd, who has written three books about the Pinelands, is struck by the clarity of cedar water when viewed in small quantities... Now a resident of Tabernacle he likes everything about the unique region."
^ Staff. "Doolittle Selected 41st Overall in MLB Draft, Guyer Picked in Fifth Round: Doolittle goes to Oakland Athletics, Guyer selected by Chicago Cubs", CBS Sports, June 7, 2007. Accessed February 11, 2011. "Virginia first baseman/pitcher Sean Doolittle (Tabernacle, N.J.) was selected in the supplemental first round (41st overall) of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft Thursday by the Oakland Athletics, while outfielder Brandon Guyer was a fifth round pick (157th overall) by the Chicago Cubs."
^ Bodnar, Jason. "Shawnee grad bets on childhood dream through poker series", Burlington County Times, November 18, 2004. "Two decades after she was filming Shana's Variety Hour in the basement of her Tabernacle home..."
Tabernacle School District's 2014–15 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
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Mumbai, Sep 7: Veteran singer SP Balasubrahmanyam has tested Covid-19 negative, but continues to remain on ventilator. The news was shared by his son SP Charan on Monday in an Instagram video post.
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I tried setting TTL on entries but it causes slowness in performance in redis lookups and inserts. I was thinking of maintaining a sorted set by an hour to hashes, but that will take up more space and I am not sure if the value set can be that large to contain millions of hashes. What are some of the better approaches to handle this cleanup?


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OK I've done some EDITING... PLEASE READ THE BOTTOM POST for a FAR MORE ABRIDGED version of the longer one in these first two posts. I really really really would greatly appreciate feedback upon AT LEAST the short ABRIDGED VERSION WHICH IS the LAST post down below in this THREAD... thanks!
I wasn’t sure if this would be better for on screen or tv or just a short story, it’s actually part of one huge dream I had with some additions I’ve made, a series of strange ideas that to me seem like a cool neat story but wanted to hear your opinions… it’s rather long so please be patient… am really looking for some feedback and please excuse much of the grammar… much of it is in free style but not in any confusing way. Most of it is thankfully punctuated. I just wrote this all in a span of hours and couldn’t stop. I also know that much of the dialogue is crap but I was just writing anything that came to mind to get the message across… Hope you enjoy it.
A file clerk who does menial office cubicle work for a mass company is a 30 something, unmarried, doesn’t have much going for his life. He’s a good looking guy and very well built, but is very awkward with girls, gets the wrong responses never knows how to be around them (background never explained, suffice to say it’s obvious he seems a little disturbed or socially backwards). Very socially poor and awkward and backward. He has no real friends, or family. He does have a brother whom he visits sometimes in a mental institution, except his brother is a vegetable. He often talks to his brother about how boring his days are, his work life, no career advancement, can’t find anyone but is on the look out while his brother just sits not even looking at him. He frequents a big sports type bar that’s always packed and knows a few of the patrons there, often just goes there every day almost, gets his drinks and goes home. We see him return to his apt after the bar run, watches all kinds of weird programming and movies (nosferatu at 3 in the morning, etc) eating all sorts of junk but very slowly, as if he’s glued to the screen. That amounts to his day.
After work the next day he stays later than his usual work time and almost everyone’s gone from the office. Sam’s finishing some last minute work, he looks at his watch and notices it’s 11. He pulls out the card he picked up yesterday and smiles wanting try out what this joint might be like. He drives down to this new joint which he sees is built very fancily off a major street corner. It’s a classy high priced joint but it’s obvious so long as you can pay the cover (hundreds of dollars) its easy to get in. There’s a huge line to get in and people are dressed up looking good, some looking stupid… it was like one of those typical big opening joints in Hollywood which is happening in his town which is weird cuz nothing big usually happens in his town. Plus some of the people he’s seen in this town are people he’s never seen before. He gets in line, gets to the front, and the bouncer looks him up and down with squinted examining careful eyes, the other bouncer quickly pops over to him says “well… the cover?” Sam forks it out and walks in notices the setup’s basically like a grand nightclub… not really his type of joint. He actually hates night clubs, hates dancing hates everything about it, drinks too expensive, the works. He sees a great thing though, it’s a major one floor club with 3 massive surrounding bars, and a full party bar upstairs. He’s stoked cuz at least this place has more bar type stuff than most other clubs. He sits down at the main table on a stool and has a few. He looks on at the dance floor seeing it totally crowded for a few minutes but then a huge open space circle forms around this one girl… a girl he drops his drink for… someone so absolutely stunning (we’re talking more than mary jane) who dances elegantly and not any sort of typical club style skank crap. People just woo her on and cheer her on but are totally amazed at not only how gorgeous but how unique and different her style of dance is… it’s hard to describe, it’s like this chick wasn’t supposed to be here and was a class apart. She catches Sam staring at her and she smiles back. Sam with his drink dropped but his beer mug hand still cupping thin air snaps and turns back to the tender to order another drink hoping to dear god the girl didn’t see him but it’s obvious she did. He looks back over his shoulder like an idiot and sees she’s off the dance floor and is mildly relieved thinking she’s gone but he’s lightly tapped on the shoulder and he almost freezes and is completely stiff in movement. It’s her, she sits down next on a stool next to him and it’s obvious some others around them are staring at her and seeing how gorgeous she is, but each is almost too intimidated or scared to chat her up. She tries to casually talk to him but with no real success as he’s so poor at talking in general he has no idea what to say (worse than woody allen caricature here, he just stays still, dumbfounded with a bunch of uuhs, yeahs, and well uh huhs). She flirts with him a little more trying to break the ice and he finally breaks with a genuine relaxed slight smile. They try to talk a little more but he completely effs things up, not knowing what to say but she doesn’t mind, kinda finds it cute. She wants to hang out with him more but he kinda just gets up and starts to leave, she tries to shout out to him come back tomorrow and he barely hears it but denies hearing it.
Ok I realize I kind have blabbered on and I haven’t gotten to the important parts yet. Basically after realizing he screwed things up with such an amazing gal, he can’t focus at work and decides to head back later the next night to the same place, although this time the bouncers allow him in for free and he’s totally confused as to why but they say, cuz the gal inside pulled a few strings. He sees the gal again inside and she tells him how glad she is he came back and that she’s quite popular with the owners (she actually reveals mid convo that she is part owner of the place itself and she just moved). They start to kind of get along although really slowly and awkwardly, all due to him. He’s afraid to ask her out or ask her number and yet she for some reason won’t give it straight up even though she’s so interested in him obviously. This keeps going on, meeting at the joint, with even a little dancing this time although he’s terrible, he feels like he’s finally opening up, he’s totally going head over heels for this girl and she just keeps flirting with him more and more and tries to get to know him. These sorts of meetings at the bar keep on going on and he’s totally happy with it, in fact he’s mad about this girl and can’t stop thinking about her and he’s just so stupid that he’s never asked for her number, not even thinking about the fact that she never offered in the first place. He feels so liberated, as in as if his life has meaning, he’s gone so over the top with feelings for this gal without even seeing she may not feel anywhere near as strongly but he doesn’t care, he’s actually talking, communicating for once genuinely and connecting with someone more or less every time he meets her at the club. [This part I haven’t fully fleshed out, remember these are all just several ideas right now.] But it gets to a point that out of his pure desolation, his lonely, meaningless existence, he feels he can liberate himself from his life, achieve a sense of self THROUGH this girl rather than for himself, he makes the mistake of trying to make positive changes in his life FOR this girl and feel SHE is the key to his existence and meaning and not seeing that meaning comes from within, not anyone else and that progress comes from within and liberation is for ONE’s self, not for someone else, that’s the huge mistake he makes but he continues doing this, failing to respect himself as a result, feeling he can achieve some meaning through someone else which is NOT how he should go about seeking meaning in his life, almost devoting himself to her and yeah, to the point of obsessing over her.
Then one night he goes to the bar all excitedly especially cuz this time, after 2 weeks, he’s gonna ask for this gal’s number, as he gets in, he meets her, again they start talking and he’s having a blast just being with her… She says she wants to dance for a little but he really needs a drink so he tells her to go by herself. She’s kind of annoyed but not angry and goes off and he realizes how stupid he’s being, yet he still goes for the drink and starts watching her do her moves solo with others around her. What feels like staring at stark beauty for hours which is really only a matter of a few minutes is broken as his attention snaps as a thudding clasp on his back startles him totally. He swings his stool around to see it’s the older beggar poor dude he bought a drink for and he’s like “WTF? How the hell did you manage to get in here, what are you doing in here? Who are u exactly?” The poor guy simply smiles and nods/***** his head in the direction over to where Sam’s girl is dancing and says “you’re not doing too bad yourself are yah buddy…” Sam turns to see and then just starts blabbering, opening up big time, some of it very awkward, disturbing as well but openly honest… it’s clear he’s a few marbles short “oh her, well I mean we’re not really you know, it’s, well I don’t know what to call it. But she makes me feel great, completely amazing. I have a sense of purpose, HER. I can say I love her even though I barely know her. I can seek meaning in my life through her, she has that key. I’ve never felt a sense of self, She’s the person who can give me that self. I can make the changes I’ve wanted to FOR her.” The guy says “you’ve totally fallen hook line and sinker for her haven’t you… well I guess this’ll be interesting… although you hardly even know her? Also, the way you’re talking about her as if she’s the key to everything… sounds a little crazy if you ask me given you hardly know the gal… I’d be a bit careful.” Sam doesn’t care and tracks back on to finding out who the hell this poor guy is in the first place. The guy still doesn’t answer and Sam gets angry and grabs the poor guy by the collar slightly roughing him up, the bouncers don’t notice and the tender notices is about to call the bouncers… The poor guy remarks at how surprised that this guy has a bit of a temper tantrum, an anger spark… interesting stuff but then he looks in the direction of the stage and tells Sam he might want to actually start watching over his gal. Sam turns around swiftly and sees the gal is gone from the stage, he starts looking above and around the crowd, turning at every point to see where she might have gone. He then sees her to the far back right of the stage walking to a part of the back wall of the club. She’s there crying out for Sam and yelling at him HELP, PLEAASE and then vanishes as dry ice shoots out from the vents near by and envelope her. He can’t see her. He starts freaking out whispering to himself loudly where the hell did she go. He then turns around to shout it out to the poor guy but even that guy is gone from his sights. He doesn’t care though, he pushes his way through the crowd and stage and forces himself to the back part of the club where she disappeared. He comes up against a black wall. Nothing… he can’t see her to his left or right or anywhere, he starts pressing against the wall, punching against it angrily wondering WTF did she go and what is going on? A few bouncers see his behavior and start moving through the crowd to get to him so he can be escorted. He sees them and starts pounding even harder at different parts of the wall, then moves a little to the left and lands a hard right kick in sheer frustration half expecting the wall to give way or part of it to be damaged. Much to his amazement as his foot strikes, that part of the wall gives way like a door. Glancing inside all he can he is pure blackness and he can hear, almost feel this silence so strong and penetrating, his ears start ringing even with the loud club and lounge fusion music in the club. Seeing the bouncers are just a few feet away from him, he runs in not knowing what the hell this is all about, question after question. As he runs in, he’s surrounded in pure blackness, he has no idea where to move so he keeps running straight not looking behind him, he’s almost under complete sensory deprivation… no sense of sight, smell, sound nothing.. He finds as he’s moving in it’s much harder for him to breathe and he starts gasping for air as he’s tired from running so fast and far in. He drops to his knees grasping his neck, choking on no air. He’s then violently lifted by a massive flash gust of powerful wind. He flies upward what seems to be several feet off the black floor still surrounded in total darkness. Before he has any time to think, emote or even react with the exception of sheer fear, he’s smashed against some surface which knocks him out cold, unconscious.
Opening his eyes slowly, feeling very groggy, his back aching from the back smash against what he presumes to be some wall. He sees he’s lying on a small hill of crimson tall grass peppered with auburn/orange fire blade tips. He stands up slowly to see an environment so unlike anything he’s ever seen before in his life. He’s standing on the tallest of several similar mounds and hills of crimson grass but that’s not all that surrounds him. He’s in a huge massive expanse, a whole separate world, a place so strange. Yellow blazed trees with royal blue birch shaped leaves and branches appear far down on his left. Open fields with strange massive landmarks and huge stone like designs and rock formations off in the distance ahead of him. Up far ahead, he even sees mountains and amongst them 3 prominent silver volcanoes blowing their thick black smoke… mixed with the crimson colored fields to the right of them he sees the whiteness of ice trees and snow… What surrounds him is almost a clashed amalgam of contrasting separate worlds smashed together all with such radically differing natural environments. He’s absolutely perplexed, not knowing what the hell to do or where to go or what this is all about. Why is he here, what the hell kind of place is this? Every question opens a pandora’s box of more questions. He looks around him trying to get a grip but is not given a chance. The ground beneath him starts to shake, crumble and cracks start forming, an almost fault like crack formation forms right around him, and multiple fractures on the mound he’s form. He starts running down the side of the mound trying to get to a more solid place or what seems to be safer. He slides downhill, strangely not feeling any bit of friction against him, almost as if it were a water or ice slide. But the cracks start gaining on him, he makes it however and runs up further between multiple hills/mounds in these valley like pockets between them. He shouts out if anyone else can hear him, the only emerging noises are from the surrounding environments in the vast expanse around him but he can’t hear anyone or anything living. He shouts out what the hell is going on? He hears a faint reply of “I might have a few answers.” He turns in the direction of the voice which came from the top of another hill several meters from where he is. He sees a man at the top, with a cane and a small hood. Racing up as fast as he can towards the top of the hill to reach the man, he struggles cuz of his sheer exhaustion. He finally gets to the man and to his astonishment it’s the poor beggar he first met in the bar he always frequented. Trying to demand answers for what the hell is going on, accusing of him being behind whatever the hell all this is and getting him stuck here, he also wants to badly hurt this man cuz ever since he met him, all this bizarre stuff has happened, the fantastic girl, this new joint, how he got in and of course this entire different place he’s in…his mind comes back to the girl… “WHERE IS SHE!! IS SHE HERE? Start answering some of my questions dammit!” And he starts moving in on poor guy [now dressed up in somewhat better clothing, a cross between a 1800s style vertical striped pants with a large sweat/hoodie, very peculiar looking]..
The poor guy counters telling him “If ya hurt me or if anything happens to me, you’ll be all alone here yourself… and so will she… with no one to help her, no one to go find her…”
Sam barely able to stop himself from badly roughing this guy up, letting him know he’d do anything for her and that somehow his head is wrapped around this warped idea that she carries all the answers he seeks for meaning, for actually LIVING his life. He’ll make any change for her and to serve her, he’ll do anything with his own life as he feels so strongly connected to her despite barely knowing her, not even knowing her name, number, nothing about her, he’s completely obsessed with this girl. The poor guy tells him both he and Sam are about to become pretty thick pals through this all, he’ll help him. Sam tells him to **** you and has no idea as to who this guy is, his motives, what he is, what this place is… too much for his mind almost to fathom so he focuses on trying to “Save” the girl… his girl… whom he believes somehow is his key to life.
This part of the story I haven’t developed really at all. Basically this entire part which forms a major part of the story are a series of puzzles, mini-adventures, challenges he has to overcome against different “opponents.” He does find other creatures and beings in this fantastical world, some of which help and some who try to hurt him. As he completes each puzzle or challenge, many of which are life threatening (I have some ideas for an entire football field being a partial landmine while he has to solve several riddles to get to the next safety step/stone among a few others), the poor guy magically sort of appears or is always there, as a sort of GUIDE to help him sort out what he’s learned at each puzzle or challenge. It’s nothing meant to be preachy or anything, just slight subtle but VERY important lessons he’s supposed to have learned about himself, about life and in general but the problem is… SAM NEVER GETS THEM… He keeps ignoring each message, each useful bit of info that may seem very cryptic and useless initially but holds profound meaning if thought about. He only cares about the direct result, the direct info that is passed over to him at each puzzle and adventure which gives him clues and diff info about where his girl might be, how to get to her or even directly help her life. Along his path he’s reminded of her stunning beauty by these ethereal, 3-D images of her that appear along various locations he’s been to, different hallways, pasture-sides, all of which appear mid way between his efforts to get to her so he can carry on… not learning the basic idea that changes should be for oneself and for one within, NOT for to satisfy another. [These lessons and stuff I’ll have to hammer out a lot more obviously]
After finally completing all these various challenges, he’s beaten, worn down, hurt, exhausted as hell and can barely move on but his final destination is a door to this sort of solitary, desolate mushroom shaped igloo built of shining golden snow and thick fire colored ice, he enters and inside is just a single large room. His guide friend has no left him, vanished without any passing remarks or anything, but he doesn’t care in the least… He walks in and sees an almost like a huge play room, the entire room, walls, floor, ceiling, everything is made of large padded, thick safety tiles, each of which is the size of two pillows…. All joined together. The color of the entire room and tiles are dark turquoise with toxic bright green blotches “spilt and thrown” all over. In the center of the room he sees a large rectangular chunk of the floor removed, or cut away, much like a burial inlay/indent for a coffin to be lowered except this is much more shallow. It’s almost like a bed made inside the floor which he can’t even be bothered about cuz of how tired he is and how badly he wants to see HER and get the hell out of this place… He doesn’t care anymore about what this was all meant to be, forgetting all of his questions and more importantly each lesson he’s learned along the way. He sees a large mirror on the wall front and center beyond the “indented bed.” From it this sort of mystical energetic glow emerges and right there stands his girl… his girl, dressed and looking as stunning as ever, her hair just slightly blowing back. She looks so real but he looks carefully and sees it’s actually just an image of her, she’s ever so slightly transluscent/transparent almost radiantly angelic in appearance. He is so absorbed by her but at the same knows something’s up, this isn’t her in full. She smiles at him welcoming him coming this far along. He asks her what this place is all about? What is it? Where is she or who is she really? Did she have any part in any of this, in dragging him here?
She hardly answers any of them, only relaying that he must sort that out himself, and she herself must leave and forever depart. She tells him to rest, as he’s deserved that much. She lets him know directly that all of what he’s been through, all of what he’s done to get here has been for the wrong reason, for her and not for himself, the changes, the sacrifices he’s made both internally, the determination to seek answers for a modicum of self-realization, liberation and meaning for his life should be THROUGH HIMSELF, FOR himself, not for anyone else… no one can achieve a sense of purpose or meaning THROUGH someone else, it has to come from within, an internal search, and the fact that he felt he could achieve this all through her, serving her, what he deemed as “LOVING” her which was more of an obsession, a desire for something else. He failed to see all along that all his actions here in this labyrinth like world were NOT in the name of love, or not dedicated towards real true love for her… how could he when he hardly knew who she was or what she was? He still doesn’t even know what this is all about or who she is or who this poor guy who eventually became his nuisance of a guide along the way or whatever the hell all of this is about. She tells him she can’t stay and has to leave, and thanks him for all the distance he’s traveled to get to her here but he should’ve left any time he wanted… he was not bound to this world by any means except by himself… he was constrained by himself and his one track obsessive mind, and she herself shares nothing with him or for him. He’s in desperation after this, not believing what he’s hearing at all and almost begging of her to stop saying all of what she is saying… that all of what this is, all of what he’s done through this entire life threatening journey has been for nil. He reminds her of their conversations they had and she laughs at him but not cruelly, just out of sheer pity clarifying that he felt that those conversations earned him the right to love her? That those brief muddled, confused talks which didn’t amount to much, the simple flirting meant love between the two? She mentions how sad it is for him to think that, to assume that, she ends with an “I pity you…” and with a somewhat caring smile turns and walks back to the mirror, fuses with it and the only reflective image remaining is of her 2-D face plastered on the mirror smiling at him the same way she did the first time.
He drops to his knees at this devastating revelation given to him. He can’t believe how far he’s been strung along, duped with no hope of any reciprocation or a chance at his own reply. All those hints and lessons he learned earlier on (which I will flesh out, suffice to say), suffice to say were all about changing from within for one’s self, improvement not for others, but for yourself to realize the value of changes you make, that is respect for yourself… NOT for someone else, not to serve someone else… there was a great philosopher who once stated that women COULD NOT and should NEVER achieve meaning and self liberation to their lives THROUGH man unless they wish to pay the ultimate price and the entire premise of this story contains this emblem of information but turned on its head obviously (the man this time seeking self realization through his so called “love” for another woman). He also realizes how colossally stupid and blind he’s been in his so called love which was nothing more than sheer physical obsession and a desire for something more, be it anything. In this he falls, crying out in anger but also laughing… the laughter at the complete and utter doomed irony of his situation… the sheer explosive expression of two extremes of emotion, of both fury and laughter overwhelms him as he’s on his knees, he rolls over and falls inside the indented laying area “carved” out of the floor and lies, with the same multitude of expressions and emotion that would confuse anyone else upon trying to see what he’s genuinely feeling. As he lies, confined in this igloo like prison, caged, we eventually find out and see a flash cut multiple times back and forth between him lying down in this turquoise room to finally focusing and staying on him lying in the exact same position only this time wearing a tightened straight jacket, on a bare off white cream colored tiled floor in the middle of a hallway with characteristic small claustrophobic side walls.
As he still rages on with his full expression of a gamut of feelings and utter confusion, rage, laughter at the humor, irony and sadness of it all, he violently writhes around on the ground, shaking about not able to control himself. We hear two voices in the background and their shadows run down the hall yelling “jesus this guy appears in a new place every day here, how the hell does he manage to get out of his cell??” We see their officers, wardens, guards at this institution. They drag him back slowly through the hallways and back to his cell and we understand that Sam basically ends up in the same institution which he visits his brother at which brings into question, was he file clerk at all, or even working while actually visiting his brother. We finally see that the entire fantastical world, all the puzzles, games and adventures and the guide character are all figments and imaginary creations of Sam in his own head, perhaps his own mental fantasy gone awry, crazy for him to become completely psychotically obsessed over this girl… but was the girl real? A few days later, Sam does get a visitor whom he doesn’t recognize cuz of just how fried his mind is, and it turns out to be the girl… it’s obvious the girl sees him out of pity for him and feels partially guilty at whatever she might have done to cause his state. She tries to explain to him every time she visits that she didn’t mean to lead him on, that she was just flirting with him at the club and wanted to get to know him but didn’t want things to become so immediately serious. She even accuses him of acting so bizarrely possessive around her at the club [which he probably was but we never see cuz in his own warped mind, we’re seeing what Sam sees and believes] and he was always so strange to her, she could tell he was unbalanced and wanted to stay away from him, even refusing to see him or meet him at the club whenever he dropped by which was every night almost. She didn’t want to get to know him any further cuz how bizarre and strange he was every time they met, but she had no idea he was this obsessed and infatuated with her that it drove him completely nuts so she feels partially responsible. She mentions lastly that she had no idea he was trying to commit suicide in order to see her, right outside or whatever the hell he was trying to do by smashing himself into the walls of the club one night that the bouncers had to drag him out and call the police cuz of all the commotion he was causing… it was then he was tossed into the loony bin. She then leaves while Sam is simply on his visiting chair staring blankly off to the walls obviously completely unresponsive to his visitor or her words… he’s fubared.
The entire maze, world, the place, his adventures and puzzles were just obsessive mind games he was seeing in his head, his own internal attempts to become someone better for her. He was so “in love” with this girl and she obviously felt none of that back and this drove him mad, completely psycho… the entire fantastical world was simply a metaphor for all his attempts to show her how much he wanted to be with her, hoping that she would become his. I think we’ve all been in that situation where we’ve become infatuated or liked someone strongly that it takes so long for us to get over them, and we keep stupidly hoping that they’ll just wake up and see how the right person has been right in front of them all along and they never do… our lives become rollercoasters of grief, anger, denial at how he/she could not realize how good we were for them despite if they were our best friends, or people we hardly knew… we’d try to make changes, improvements in ourselves to see if they’d notice us or see us as better not seeing that any true genuine improvements that need to be made should be for one’s self and come from within, not for someone else. This story takes it one level up, much more to the extreme in which someone goes so far that he can’t come back, and his mind is lost within a sea of its own creations in search for an actual meaning to his life, liberation from his routine boredom, when his search were all for the wrong reasons despite noble intentions.
I don’t know if the story ideas make much sense or if the multiple messages do but I thought they did and seemed kind of a neat story, of course loads needs to be fleshed out and improved of course but I just typed this all in a matter of a few hours, despite the fact that I’ve had this dream several months ago just once and haven’t forgotten about it since… it’s been kind of looming in my head. Sorry if it was such a long read but I hope enjoyed some of it, any and all feedback would be welcome! Hell I’d love if you could contribute as well.
I say thats more than 'a bit long' :mad:
... Still reading anyway.
I agree.. WHOA :eek:
That doesn't look like an idea
it looks like a bloody short story itself.
yeah uh hehe, well i just kept writing and writing... i realize that my topic title is slightly misleading but any feedback on the story would be deeply appreciated
can't wait to hear your feedback mentok and to whoever else reads this... it will mean a great deal
Sam, a handsome yet useless, boring, socially backward and very awkward file clerk, has a dead end career, nothing going for him in life. He doesn’t hate his job, he’s just so bored with the routine and he does it like a robot. He frequents his favorite small town bar that’s big with the locals cuz of the sports games shown and one night he sees trouble with this older poor guy dressed in grungy clothing trying to order a drink he has no money for. Sam buys it for him and the two start talking and actually get along quite well, Sam’s first actual conversation with someone in years. Suddenly the poor guy leaves without Sam noticing (watching TV briefly as fans erupt as a team scores a homerun), Sam notices the guy’s totally gone and chases after him to see where he is. He runs down different blocks and can’t find the guy at all, then suddenly bumps into him… the poor guy has no idea who Sam is despite the fact they just talked, the poor guy freaks out and runs away. Sam notices the guy dropped a card for a new club joint in town. He decides to check it out although he hates clubs, the bar is great but he sees the most gorgeous woman he has ever seen down there and the girl catches him staring at her and is interested in him as well. She tries talking to him but Sam really screws things up but she doesn’t mind… she never gives him her number but Sam comes for the next several weeks just to see her. Sam thinks he’s in love, he’s in head over his heels over this girl, but it’s not love… it’s complete obsession, Sam’s a little unbalanced and this passion for his girl totally consumes him… he’ll do anything to better/improve himself just for her, to serve her because he believes that this is the key of meaning to his life/existence (not dangerous psycho violent obsessive, but kind of bordering on that, he’s just too into her). He doesn’t realize that any improvements he wants to make in life should be of his own steam FOR himself, he shouldn’t try to attain MEANING through someone else. One night, he does see her at the club but she’s in trouble, and vanishes in the thick dry ice enveloping her against the back wall. He runs to the back wall noticing she’s nowhere around and starts smashing against the walls hard. The bouncers see him and are coming to throw him out but Sam smashes the wall hard again and it gives way to this pitch-black darkness he’s eventually enveloped in. He runs “inside the wall” only to be knocked out and awakened in this fantastical world. What surrounds him is almost a clashed amalgam of contrasting separate worlds smashed together all with such radically differing natural environments from crimson tall red grass hills to silver volcanoes laden with molten royal blue ash. He sees the poor guy here as well “expecting him.” And has no idea what this place is or what this is about, why he is here, who this poor guy is… but he’s drawn to his obsession to find his girl, the one whom he feels carries his key to self-understanding, WORTH, liberation and meaning. He has to overcome Life threatening puzzles, mini-adventures, conundrums of all sorts from mine fields to outwitting smarter opponents (creatures of this world) in mazes and riddles. The poor guy acts as his guide and so called friend to the world, to help him learn the lessons from each puzzle, but Sam ignores them, just hell bent on his obsessive to desire to save his girl, not realizing the cost its having on his own life and sanity. He finally reaches his destination and the girl only to find out the girl is just an image, an illusion who doesn’t love him, who doesn’t feel anything for him and she vanishes. Sam realizes the stupidity of mistakes… he was not bound by this world and could have left any time. His blind obsession to seek MEANING in his life THROUGH someone else (rather than improvement for one’s self and meaning from WITHIN) leads him to want and be with something that does not reciprocate. One should NOT feel they become worth something when another recognizes or judges them on that… self worth comes from WITHIN FOR one’s self… for a TRUE ideal… not for a mistaken desire such as his obsession. After such exhaustion and life threatening adventure, his efforts to “save” this girl… to bring some meaning to his lonely existence was for nil because he did this all for the WRONG reasons, that one should realize self worth from within, not through someone else, or to serve someone else… liberation cannot be sought through another but from within, and he pays with his sanity. He goes completely mad, insane, with psychotic rage but a sharp loud laughter humoring at the inherent irony of his situation. We see him lying down in his final place in the world gone completely mad but we find out that he’s lying in the exact same position in the REAL world in an insane asylum, wrapped up in a straight jacket before the wardens drag him back to his cell. The entire world was a metaphor, a twisted mind vision in his head for his efforts to improve himself for this girl to fall in love with him, so that he could serve her and feel he could achieve meaning through that alone. The girl visits him in the asylum [she does exist, but we see the moment she’s in trouble back in the club marks the beginning of Sam’s story in HIS mind…not of reality] out of guilt that she somehow must have driven him to his current mental state despite the fact we find out her telling a vegetable-Sam that she didn’t want to see him any more at the club after how strange he started acting later on around her… he was getting so possessive and scary. In conclusion it is this bit of information that most likely [it’s open ended] triggered Sam to have this fantastical world and vision in his own head established, playing out all the scenarios and puzzles to save his girl and show her she should be with him cuz of all he would do only to LOSE himself in his own mind and see she never would have loved him back despite his greatest efforts… thus he goes insane.
I hope it makes some sense… and it’s a FAR FAR more abridged version of the much longer read below which I would also love feedback on, but feedback on the above abridged version alone would be great…thanks
please could someone at least read the ABRIDGED VERSION that I wrote up which is RIGHT ABOVE this post, forget the long long version and please if someone could provide their feedback or some of their thoughts it would be greatly appreciated
I like your idea Echo, it sounds like it would make a great story.
Really develop Sam's fantasy world...make it something as vast as Tolkein's Middle Earth. I'd really go over the top creating this world, there is nothing more challenging, and at the same time satisfying to an author than to not just create characters and stories...but an entire world.
I like the idea of leaving it open ended. Personally, I might establish from the very beginning that Sam may just be nuts and institutionalized... perhaps throughout the story have flashes into the 'real world'...have a storyline going on in the 'real world', in the asylum...but the old homeless man who guides him continues to pull him back into the 'fantasy world'...But throughout the story use various hints that go either way. I'm not sure if you read The Ultimates, but I really like what they did with Thor...he could either be a total nutjob whose possibly a mutant...or he could actually be the Norse God and son of Odin. There are clues that could suggest either. I think that would be a good way to go.
I dunno, just my two cents...like I said, it sounds great. Maybe once you finish it you could email it to me?


MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] The . You6-minute film (full movie) directed by Akifumi Zako and Hiroaki Miyamoto.
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