Hey Everyone
Just wanted to update everyone who have been emailing me to ask if i am OK.
As many know,  the state of Victoria (Melbourne) has many fires going right now.. The worst is over with but they are still finding more and more bodies. The news have been saying up to 240 people or more have been killed from the fires. The Current death toll is 173
 

I am really lucky as my area is away from the fires, By about an hour or so drive.. But its still scary & I Do have stuff packed and prepared. Where the really bad fires are (KingLake) is where my mother grew up, and she would of known a lot of people who died due to going to school with them. Shes fairly upset. And in another area where the fires are is where we used to live 3yrs ago.. so i am very thankful that we moved.

* A Lot of the fires were lit on purpose - They are still looking for the culprits and they will be facing  charges with murder. (Good!)

* We had extreme weather - 121F and then the next day went to 70 with lightning storms.

* We didn't really get enough warning about how bad things would get.. Sure we were warned that fires were going to be expected since 121 was our hottest day ever. But many had no idea there area would go up in flames. A Lot of the Areas were hard for firefighters to get out to and help, Many people had tried to escape the fires in there cars only to become stranded in the bushland as cars broke down due to the extreme heat. (very sad)

A Lot of the areas were surrounded by bushland & cliffs, With Small roads, making it harder on people to escape. With Strong winds. - The fire fronts said to be driven by 40 mph winds, and overtaking speeding cars, which were catching fire as they drove.

* There is still 25 fires that are not under Control & Heavy winds expected again today.

If anyone on my friends list has friends in Victoria that they have not heard from and are worried about, Feel free to leave a comment, or send a message with where they live and i will try and help you find out if they are in danger (many people are homeless now)

Lastly, If you can afford to donate money please do so. Any amount will help
For donations to the Victorian Bushfires Appeal:

The Red Cross: www.redcross.org.au or call 1800 811 700

Donations can be made at branches of the NAB, the ANZ or Commonwealth banks, or at any Bunnings store.

Also via the Bendigo Bank online or at any branch.

Australian Red Cross Blood Service: call 13 14 95 to donate blood

Donations to the Salvation Army: call 13 72 58

I heard the news mentioning that other countrys have been helping by donating, If anyone has the details for overseas to donate, please leave them in my comments so i can update this blog.
 

3 days ago, my sisters friend brought a baby bird to me that she had found. The baby was almost dead, ice cold & not very active.. I thought he would die, but ofcourse would do my best to save him.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm an animal lover, ever since i was a little kid i have raised baby animals with my mum, Hell.. my mother and i even raised a litter of pet baby rats.. from 1 week old.. they were jellybean size with no hair and eyes closed lol.. We just cant leave an animal to die.. Soon, we are going to start looking into becoming wildlife carers, so we can look after possum's,kangaroos,bats,owls etc.. thats going to be ALOT of fun.

Anyhow i posted pictures in my gallery, and had a few people wanting to see how he is going. So figured i would keep everyone updated on my blog. , For the first day , i had the heater on my baby bird, and he became alright & started to eat.. I was feeding him every hour.. At first i was convinced he was a House sparrow, or a black bird.. At this stage we were have just been feeding him Mealy Worms & was told to feed him little bits of water melon for "water"

Fast fwd - Day 3, - After posting about him on a baby bird forum, I have been told to change his diet over to a mixture of dog food, egg & some other vitamins, So i am off to the supermarket to go shopping today.. However he still loves his mealy worms, so ill probably give him some here and there.

Am now feeding him every 30 minutes, and have him under a lamp in a tissue box lol.. He's very spoilt, & now becoming very active.. as soon as i come near him, he expects food. I have him trained to open his mouth when i whistle to him.. VERY cute.

We took him to the vet yesterday (which ended up only seeing receptionist) hoping they could tell us what species he was.. But they didn't know. And she seemed very sure that he wouldn't survive.. However.. I disagree, as i said.. hes doing great. Thriving little bird, He's growing, hes eating, and going to the toilet.. All i can do is hope for the best! I'm trying my hardest.

I posted pics of him on that bird forum, and no one knew what species he was at this stage.. Have been looking up birds for the last few days now.. Tons of hours spent trying to figure out what he is lol.. They don't think that he is a sparrow.. But they think he could be some type of Finch, or blue wren... It's kinda exciting waiting to see what he is lol... I measured him and he is only 2 inches big.

Check back later, for more updates if your interested in how he goes. Photos are posted in my gallery

Update*************   Day 8 -

His eye's are fully open now they opened on day 6. He has a ton of new feathers.. There is Grey, brown/orange and white coming through on him. He has now imprinted on me .. So he thinks I'm his mum lol.. He chirps to me when i talk to him and cuddles up to my hand.

I will not be releasing him, and it is important that if you raise a baby bird before there eyes are open that you do not release them either. Once a bird has imprinted on a human They will not have a good chance surviving in the wild due to them thinking they are a human and not knowing survival skills. If you cannot keep a baby bird that you have found. It is important that you check the phone book and try and locate a wildlife carer.

It's alot of work looking after him, Every 20 - 40 minutes i have to feed him. the first 4 days i stayed awake, the following days i have only had a few hours sleep. I am feeding him from 4am until 1 - 2am, If i go out i have to bring him everywhere.

We still don't know what type of bird he is at this stage., Tons of photos posted in my photo gallery :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A 2cm long fish apparently found it's way into the penis of a 14-year-old boy from India in a bizarre medical case.

The patient was admitted to hospital with complaints of pain, dribbling urine and acute urinary retention spanning a 24-hour period. According to the boy, the fish slipped into his penis while he was cleaning his aquarium at home.

Professor Vezhaventhan and Professor Jeyaraman, who treated the boy and later wrote a paper on the case, explained: "While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine. When he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his urethra and then he developed all these symptoms."

After detecting the fish in the boy's bladder, Vezhaventhan and Jeyaraman used a technique known as cystourethroscopy to insert a special set of forceps down the patient's penis. Unfortunately, the fish was just too slippery to grip, so they resorted to using a rigid ureteroscope with a tool attached that is normally used for removing bladder stones.

The fish the urologists removed, which Practical Fishkeeping believes to be a small member of the Betta genus, measured 2cm long and 1.5cm wide.

He was later admitted into counseling to help him overcome any trauma.

One of the smartest guys i know personally, GOOD ON HIM for speaking out, and morons like Wade Keller and Merc Mero should shut the hell up. The few wrestling writers who have spoken out againts Kens post, still have there panties in a bunch from what Ken wrote about the rumor sites a month ago.

Ken Kennedy has posted an extremely well thought out commentary on his website about the recent media attention given the wrestling business in the wake of the Benoit Family Tragedy.

The commentary starts out with, "Please GOD, I'm just BEGGING for someone who has actually wrestled in a WWE ring in the past decade besides Jericho, Bret Hart, John Cena, and Ted Dibiase to come forward on one of these shows and tell the world what's really going on. For these goofs, like Lanny Poffo? Ultimate Warrior? and Marc Mero???!! to repeatedly act as "experts" and "wrestler advocates" on the current situation is like having a frustrated ex-jock who rode the pine bench throughout his high school sports career give advice to Brett Favre on how to improve his game! It's ridiculous, insane, and it really makes me sick that these so called reporters like Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Geraldo Rivera, call upon these silly bastards who are bitter and frustrated that their careers have ended to represent the WWE which of course makes all of us look like a bunch of babbling idiots who are all addicted to steroids, drugs, alcohol, etc."

Kennedy points out that things are much different in today's WWE, "I, like everyone else in the company, have the luxury of being able to go home almost every week, play with my dog, hang out with my girlfriend, sleep in my own bed, and eat good home cooked food. This wasn't the case with these frustrated ex-wrestlers who are trying to grasp on to FIVE more minutes of fame and recognition."

Kennedy addresses recent criticism that WWE offers no benefits such as health insurance or retirement, "I hear some of these guys talking about how the WWE doesn't have any type of benefits. I heard Johnny Grunge's widow on Nancy Grace saying that wrestling leaves you with nothing, and that two weeks after her husband was released from WCW that they lost their cars and their home. It apparently wasn't obvious to Nancy Grace, who is reportedly an extremely intelligent person, that they were obviously living outside of their means, and they weren't doing something that my parents taught me to do when I was a little kid……SAVE MONEY. This job pays well, but I know that it won't last forever. It's the same problem with pro athletes and actors in Hollywood who spend, spend, spend, like the money grows on trees and like it's always going to be there, and then falls flat on their faces when their careers are suddenly cut short. Who's fault? The team? The studio in Hollywood? I'm sorry, but I have no sympathy for people who don't save money and spend everything that they earn so they can impress everyone around them with all the NEAT THINGS that they own. As far as the having no health insurance thing goes, I've been seriously injured twice since I've been in the WWE. Every red cent has been paid for in full by the company, which is the case for any employee who is injured during a work or work-related event. Yes, I have my own supplemental insurance which is a bit expensive, but if WWE paid for it, I'm sure that, just like every other company in the country that offers health insurance to their employees, I would just be paid less, so it's a wash!"

He closes by comparing saying Vince McMahon is responsible for the Benoit tragedy to saying the public who watched Anna Nicole Smith's reality show, "In the end, we are all responsible for our own actions. Saying that Vince McMahon is responsible for the deaths of the Benoit's is like saying that you and I are responsible for the deaths of Anna Nicole Smith and her son. The millions of people who tuned in every week to be entertained by "how funny" she was when she was all PILLED up and DRUNK, suddenly became the same people who acted SHOCKED and APALLED when she died of a drug overdose. Somebody, PLEASE, stop the insanity!!!!"

 Posted at Ken Kennedys Official website http://www.Ken-Kennedy.com

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Ken Kennedy spoke on Fox news yesterday as well, here is a full recap written at Ken-Kennedy.com.. if you head over there you can download the video.

Or watch it on youtube

They show a clip of Mr. Kennedy doing his famous introduction, they cut back to the host who says she doesn't't even think he needs any other introduction after that she thinks he introduced himself very well. She talks about how he worked very closely with Chris Benoit and traveled together. She welcomes Ken. She asks him about traveling with Chris Benoit and how well he knew Chris. Ken says he wouldn't say he was one of the guys who knew him extremely well, but he did look at him like a mentor. Ken says he trained with him, traveled with him on occasion, he always talked to him and got advice from him. Ken says there were things Benoit opened up to him about.

The Host asks if Chris ever talked to him about Steroids, Ken says no he never talked to him about Steroids and it was just something that never came up. The Host mentions the posting Ken made on the website, and she says he knows he is Angry, like his profession is being misrepresented and mentions the use of steroids. Ken says one of the things going around now is these lists some saying 60 and some saying over 100 wrestlers have died over the past decade or two. Ken notes that only 5 or so of those happened to wrestlers who were under WWEs watch.

The Host says she has a list and brings up Eddie Guerrero, Brian Pillman and Russ Haas. Ken says that Russ Haas's death was due to a genetic heart condition and he had a heart attack and died in the ring. Ken says the other two, Eddie Guerrero and Brian Pillman they were 2 guys who chose to use a lot of drugs and take steroids. He mentions that before they came to the WWE they wrestled in WCW and several other organizations and back then the lifestyle was different. Ken says they could be on the road as much as 40 days at a time. He says they were drinking till all hours of the night, taking pills to go to sleep and using cocaine to keep them awake and they did it day after day after day.

The host says maybe it was just a decadent lifestyle, and she is just a casual observer but they all see athletes in some cases Baseball players and they take steroids and then when they stop they get very small. She says she looks at WWE wrestlers and they look to her like they are taking those kinds of drugs. She asks if Ken is telling her that they are not? Ken says, They have a drug policy in place right now and they are regularly tested. He says he has been tested 5 times. He is asked if he takes Steroids and says no. Ken says contrary to popular beliefs and what some people have said their levels are bigger levels, Ken says that isn't true. They mention it being the same as the NFL. Ken says in Wrestling the outcomes are predetermined, and their levels are 4:1 Testosterone to Epitestosterone levels. He says if your levels are over you are suspended and Dr. Black [The Doctor who started this program] Will look at each case and if you have a legitimate medical reason why your levels are higher then 4:1, which there are very few reasons why you would be able to and if you don't meet that criteria you are suspended and ultimately fired.

The Host asks if he does not think there is a steroid problem. Ken says he thinks there was at one time, but now he does not. He says the Wrestlers that you see dying he believes are from that era where Steroids and Drugs were a problem. The Host asks about Benoit, Steroids and the Toxicology reports and if he will not come back clean. Ken says he doesn't know, and obviously they found steroids in his home. He had passed the drug test and he says maybe he injected the steroids the day before he died. He says he does not think the toxicology reports are going to prove anything.

The host says Mr. Kennedy representing a new breed of wrestlers in professional wrestling and thanks him, Ken says they truly are.

Recap written by Ken-Kennedy.com, and you can download the video there as well... google_ad_section_end -->.. google_ad_section_end -->.. / message -->

             

Rob Van Dam
Well, there's no need to wait until we have our heads wrapped around this, because I doubt that'll happen, so here it is. I know that a monster committed those terrible, unforgivable acts of horror. Just like everyone who knew Chris Benoit, I can't think of him as a monster. Not Chris.

Chris was truly a role model's role model. You simply had to respect him and admire his focus and unmatched discipline. If I ever got asked a question about who I looked up to the most in the business, you guessed it. That's me sharing a real feeling with you. Not talking about bull **** that I have little interest in, like who would I like most to wrestle with, or what's my favorite color, but who I actually looked up to in the dressing room. It's Chris Benoit- in the ring and in the dressing room and with his family.

The last time I talked to Chris, a few weeks ago, he told me how much he respected me for stepping away from the business. His message now comes to me from beyond. He said "Some of us don't know when to get out." I told him that I always held a little contempt for him telling me back in 1992 that I was a dumb-ass for wanting to quit WCW, and mentioned the irony.

Over the last several years, on overseas tours I'd always see Chris in the gym when the other guys were recovering from the night before. He'd train hard and sometimes I'd see him allowing young wrestlers to follow his lead and get a guaranteed killer workout. He took pride in what he did and set a great example for others, myself included, to follow.

How many murderers…baby murderers at that… are praised so highly by EVERYONE who knew them? This is all so bizarre and new information seems to come out every few hours but I can't imagine we'll ever understand what happened here. It appears that Chris took the answers with him. To tell you the honest truth, the easiest thing for me to believe at this moment is that if no frame work was involved, he was taken over by demonic energies with no compassion. I have to believe this is often the case with such inhumane acts.

Nancy, Daniel and Chris' tragic deaths obviously have affected a lot of people. Just remember, there's enough hate in this world. Hateful thoughts do not move us in the right direction, so make a conscious effort to remember that. It's important now and always.


Gail Kim
"I can see that everyone has been shocked by the Chris Benoit family tragedy and I didnt want to speak on this topic since the news came out. I received the news the day after I got home from the last road trip and was resting when i was notified that Chris and his wife were dead. I woke up immediately and was in total shock. My first thoughts were ....was it an accident? I couldn't believe it! I reached out to my friends in the business and slowly i started to hear more details. I can honestly say until yesterday I was in a state of shock and confusion. Its almost like you dont want to believe the details that you were hearing because thats not the Chris we all knew. Like you have probably heard before, Chris was one of the good guys in the business...passionate, intense, quiet, and always so nice. I loved his family and they were always a pleasure to be around...truly. Daniel was such a cute kid who you could tell looked up to his father and loved wrestling as well. Its so strange how we all think we know what someone's like and then something like this happens. I think I am still in the stage of not wanting to believe it.... but it did happen. The news coverage blaming the steroids? I dont believe it was roid rage...it sounds like from the investigation that this was not a "in the moment" incident. it happened over the course of the weekend. Who knows if steroids affected him in terms of long term use.... we dont know any details about his personal life, his health, etc... so i dont want to draw any conclusions myself. its just been a sad few days that I cant seem to stop thinking about and I know we are all asking the question WHY? I dont think we'll ever find out the answer to that question." -Gail Kim


Booker t
WWE superstar King Booker sat down with KHOU out of Houston, Texas today to talk about the Benoit tragedy. Below are some of the highlights. Booker said that he knew Benoit personally and as most people in the business that knew Benoit have said, commented that he had never seen a bad side of Benoit. He noted that he knew Benoit's wife Nancy and all of his children. He characterized what has happened as completely "out of the norm and unexplainable." Booker noted that he wrestled Benoit in 75-100 matches and just recently talked to him for about thirty minutes about the wrestling business. "We're all tired at certain points, we work a lot of hours, but I never saw this side of Chris. I've never seen Chris mad. I've never seen Chris angry. He was always the guy with a lot of positive energy, always pushing the guys."

He went on to tell a story of a student that came to his wrestling school in Houston, Texas to be trained. Booker said that the student arrived from Illinois, with "no way to go back" and had $800 in his pocket. He revealed that the student carried around a photo of Benoit and Eddie Guerrero with him, as he was inspired by them to pursue a career in professional wrestling. "That was just the type of person he was, always encouraging people. He didn't even know this guy, but that's the type of person he was." Booker commented.

When "roid rage" was brought up in the interview, Booker commented, "The media is going to put a spin on it, you know. We know that. WWE knows that. Did the guy last week who murders his wife and kid last week have any form of roid rage? He was a cop. This happens in any form of life. I feel like the human life is a delicate piece of equipment and everyone has their breaking point. We don't know what his breaking point was. You don't know what my point is, I don't know what your point is. We're all human. I just think it was a huge malfunction and whatever it was, we may never know. It's not for us to know. It's out of our hands and with God now."

Booker said that the wrestling industry is a huge family and he's cried and wanted to pull his hair out over the tragedy. He revealed that he loved Chris and said that he is mad to see him "go out like this. I'm pissed at him in certain ways. I wish I could just hold him for a second, but it's out of our hands. I'll be there at the funeral and tell him goodbye and hopefully see him on the other side. Hopefully, I'll find out what happened one day."

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I had my thoughts posted, via Blogs and Bullitins.. i was very disapointed with some people's Reaction and response with how i felt, (from someone who has met him many times.) in the end they were causing too much trouble for someone who is still greiving and in shock. So i pulled them down. However, i was wrong to take them down because of what a few people thought of him..

I am going to keep this short, i agree 100% with EVERYTHING these wrestlers have stated in there posts. And I miss Chris Benoit and wish this NEVER happened..

               RIP The Benoit Family.

 

 

Hey Everyone, my dogs had puppies 2 weeks ago, (carlito & Sarge ) They are Mastiff x Rottie .. more pics of Carlito in my profile pics, hes my baby! but the Rottie is the mum.. They are so cute!! if anyone in Victoria is after a pup, message me for price info.

This was right after they were born

about a week old here

and these were taken just today, there about 2 weeks old now, and just starting to open there eyes

soo Adorable, i swear im gonna have problems handing them over to there new owners lol :(