I'm sorry for how late this one is. Graduation is coming up ^.^ and I've got everything coming down on me at once. Feels like finals week all over again :P Anyway on to news!

Promotions/Medals/Joins!!

Yay two more members! Although we did loose Siterath to the EH and Kodiak to retirement, we gained two more members. Everyone welcome DJK Jaya Cypher and KAP Bastion Creed to our halls.

No promotions or medals this week but I have this feeling that perhaps we'll be seeing some next week.

Competitions

The KHP has said something about a KMT for next month. I'm looking forward to that! I'll keep everyone updated on that as it comes out.

The house competition will be ending Wed. so make sure you get out those small submissions quickly. Details below :)

1.  Design a creature. 

While digging up an old Sith book on a planet about to be swallowed up by its sun in a few thousand years you are suddenly attacked!

What is this creature that you could not sense with your Life Sense?  What is it doing on this uninhabitated planet? 

Submit in .doc .rtf or .txt format with the subject  'What is that thing?!'

NOTE:  Do not just make this a current Star Wars creature.  It must be of your own design.

2.   Design a room.

What in the world does our meeting room look like?  You deside!

Submit in .doc .rtf or .txt format with the subject  'Now that's a room!'

3.  Design an old book.

We talk about all these old books we read and how much information and secrets they hold but what do these books look like?

Do they smell?  How do they feel?  Use that wonderful imagination of yours to describe one!

Submit in .doc .rtf or .txt format with the subject  'Dang old book!'

Awards for each part will be as follows:

Sapphire Star for first

Emerald Star for second

Topaz Star for third

All submissions are to be sent to me at [Log in to view e-mail addresses]  There is no min. or max. limit to page size for these   :)

I've not had many submissions for this. It's really easy and an easy way to get a medal or two. Plus it's activity and activity gets you promotions :) In other words, submit!

Clan/House News

I'm still looking for someone to take over the Jedi Trials. No one has shown any interest in but I'm hoping that one of our newer members will be at least a bit curious in it. If you'd like to view the website, it's under my dossier and is complete so there's no need to make one or change anything. If you are interested, let me know :)

With our beloved Kodiak gone ;) we'll probably need a new Roll Master. What does a RM do? Um....keeps the roster up to date....yeah. Anyway, the job requires that you send out one email a month to everyone asking them to reply and if they don't then you get to email me and the MAA saying who didn't and needs to be taken off. Sound complicated? Not really. If you are interested in the position, email Hades and me.

I encourage our new member to get in touch with Jason and see if he'd like for you to be in the Mystics. I'm sure he'd love to have the roster full :)

Lots of changes still going on but I think things are starting to settle down. Look for our clan to get into gear and start hammering out something about all that has happened and how it effects our history. Heck, look for something like that for the entire DB. It'll be fun :)

Telona's Funnies

Here's one for you Coke-a-holics. This is not very common but ye be warned!

Coke Is It!

2001 Darwin Award Nominee

Confirmed True by Darwin

(12 December 1998, Canada) A man crushed beneath a vending machine while trying to shake loose a free soda? If you thought it happened only in Urban Legends you're wrong! Kevin, a 19-year-old Quebec student, killed himself at Bishop's University while shaking a 420-kilogram Coke machine. He had been celebrating the end of final exams with friends. He died beneath the soda machine, asphyxiated, with a blood alcohol level slightly over the legal driving limit.

Kevin's last act was committed in vain. "Even as it fell over, the vending machine did not let out a single can," the coroner reported. Soda-holics take note! The report also states that toppled vending machines have caused at least 35 deaths and 140 injuries in the last twenty years.

For those with enquiring minds, I refer you to a website dedicated to the quest to clear Kevin's name. His family questions the official version on their website, aptly named cokemachineaccidents.com (currently ofline but Archived Here.) They recently sued Coca-Cola, two related companies, and Bishop's University for "gross carelessness." Their website exposé proffers several explanations for why Kevin's death was not his own fault: shaking coke machines "was common practice at the University," and anyway, unknown persons might have crushed Kevin with the vending machine in a bizarre murder, as it "would be difficult for one person to move" the machine.

In response, a spokesperson for Coke said that Canadian machines are now labelled with a warning that "tipping or rocking may cause injury or death." They have also installed anti-theft devices in newer models to keep people from obtaining free drinks.

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Submitted by: The Bitshipper, Dave Mann

Reference: The Canadian Press and Graeme Hamilton of the National Post

Everyone have a great week! Stay safe and have fun! Oh, email me when ever you feel like talking to someone ;)