With only a week to go to our Movie Fundraising Get-Together, apologies for missing off some important details from my earlier email, such as: “Jimmy’s Hall” is an inspirational tale of 1930s Ireland based on a true story of Jimmy Gralton, the only Irishman ever deported from Ireland. This criticallyContinue Reading

#Vatican stuns Catholics by saying gays have “gifts & qualities to offer” http://t.co/szvOTvpOfd #Catholic #LGBT pic.twitter.com/krpze07Dro — Stuff.co.nz News (@NZStuff) October 13, 2014 The document, prepared after a week of discussions at an assembly of 200 bishops on the family, said the Church should challenge itself to find “a fraternalContinue Reading

Recreational drug and anaesthetic, ketamine, is being trialled in people with severe depression and is providing almost instant relief from symptoms, offering fresh hope of a quick new way to manage the illness at its worst. Ketamine, known colloquially as “Special K”, has been shown to alleviate depression in aContinue Reading

Heartbreaking photos from the latest ISIS attack http://t.co/n5zzWpN4YP pic.twitter.com/7U4SG6oyVG — Mother Jones (@MotherJones) October 13, 2014 The ongoing fight for Kobani, a strategically important city on the Turkey–Syria border, has become the latest front in ISIS’s crusade to create an Islamic state in Syria and Iraq. For weeks, ISIS fightersContinue Reading

Born in 1957, Georgina Beyer was the world’s first openly transsexual mayor, as well as the world’s first openly transsexual Member of Parliament, and from November 1999 until February 2007 was an M.P. for the Labour Party in New Zealand. Assigned male at birth, and given the first name George,Continue Reading

Two high school teachers in Louisiana were arrested on Oct. 1 after they videotaped themselves having a threesome with a 16-year-old student. Although the boy claimed the act was consensual, he was under the age of consent in Louisiana. Accordingly, the case was deemed a sexual assault and both teachersContinue Reading

http://www.poemhunter.com/katherine-mansfield/biography/ Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, in 1888, into a socially prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand. The daughter of a banker and born to a middle-class colonial family, she was also a first cousin of author Countess Elizabeth von Arnim. Mansfield had two older sisters and a youngerContinue Reading