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Never worry about wet floors again. The Dri-Dek self-draining floor system is a practical surfacing product ideal for locker rooms, showers, pools or spas. Dri-Dek's textured surface not only drains water, but its patented design lifts you above wet floors too. It easily trims to fit wall-to-wall or around equipment and comes in 18 designer colors. It is also easy to maintain, according to the company.
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Hammer Strength recently released a new product brochure that highlights its extensive plate-loaded, Ground Base, bench and rack offerings. The in-depth brochure includes product specifications, options and colors. The Hammer Strength brochure also lists its top customers, including the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, leading collegiate programs and health clubs.
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Omron Healthcare Inc. features a variety of health and wellness monitors and personal and sports massagers. The company's Body Logic Wellness Series features body fat analyzers, heart rate monitors, wrist blood-pressure monitors, electronic sports massagers and pedometers. From blood pressure, thermometry, diagnostics and respiratory to wellness and juvenile tools, Omron reportedly delivers accurate results.
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Celebrating its 15th anniversary, Power Systems offers its 2001 catalog. In addition to sections on balance, medicine balls, plyometrics, speed, strength, rehabilitation, flexibility, personal trainer, weight management and fitness, the catalog features two new product categories: kickboxing and aqua aerobics. Most orders are processed the day they are received, according to Power Systems.
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The RapidTron Smart-Card Access System helps clubs eliminate lost revenue due to unpaid workouts by ensuring every entry to the club is a valid, paid entry. The Smart Access System offers member tracking, member flexibility, secure "cashless" workouts, multi-level security and more. The card can be integrated into every aspect of the club from lockers and the front desk to restaurant, parking and retail.
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Health clubs owners can offer their members significant savings on fitness and rehab products while earning valuable credit on products for their facility. TherapyZone takes the "banner ad" and affiliate programs commonly found on the Internet and places them on the club's front desk. Providing counter displays and marketing materials at no charge, TherapyZone offers clubs an exciting new profit center.
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The Vasa Trainer helps members achieve functional strength and conditioning, and it offers club owners peace of mind with its lifetime guarantee. The Vasa Trainer uses sports-specific training to maximize performance. Providing more than 150 total-body, multi-plane functional exercises and protocols to increase strength, the machine utilizes the user's own body weight as resistance. Users can design strength routines for every part of the body.
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Munich is Germany's largest federal state. This beautiful city is also a tourism hub for its vibrant culture, architecture, sporting events, and the ever-popular Oktoberfest. With buildings worth your attention, must-see museums, sprawling gardens and the best events, it is one of Germany's top destinations.
Make sure you take plenty of pictures when you visit Munich's most iconic landmarks. See the beauty of Old Town and stop by the Rathaus-Glockenspiel and the Cathedral of Our Blessed Lady.
You'll find other amazing attractions in Old Town, so a walking tour is a must. Wander the streets of Old Town and see Munich's best architecture at Marienplatz Square, St. Peter's Church, and Munich Royal Residence.
Are you looking for world-class art? Ride the train to Alte Pinakothek, Museum Brandhorst, and the Lenbach Haus. History buffs can easily spend hours exploring the city's past at the Jewish Museum Munich and Dachau Memorial.
If a more interactive museum adventure is what you're after, Munich aims to please. Ride the subway to Deutsches Museum to learn about nature and physics. There's also the BMW museum, the quirky Potato Museum, and the Museum of Man and Nature.
Spend an arvo strolling through The English Garden. Are you a sports fan? Then make sure you don't miss the Olympic Stadium at Olympiapark. You should also try Munich's beer gardens, like Waldwirtschaft and Hirschgarten, and get to know the Munchners (locals).
One of the best ways for you to experience Munich is to attend its top festivals and events like the world-famous Oktoberfest, the May Tree Celebration, Tollwood, and the Christmas Markets.
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The best time to visit Munich is during late spring from March to May for fewer crowds and cheaper rates. You'll also enjoy the best weather for the beer gardens and open-air cafés.
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The Internet is a strange place. It's even more bizarre that people, like myself, pen blogs divulging personal information, secret feelings and urges, and intimate meanderings for strangers, like yourself, to read. It's a little like my theory about one-night stands: It's easier to throw yourself into wild abandon with a stranger rather than a constant partner because there's no expectations, and you'll—god willing—never seen this anonymous bedfellow again. Basically you can get as freaky as you want with no judgment, repercussions, or issues to plague your performance. But you also run the risk of leaving the tryst orgasm free—but that's a whole other story …
What is it about the anonymity of the Internet that makes us so brave? Why can we bear our soul, our fantasies, our insecurities, and our fears to a cacophony of mouse clicks and faceless screens? This idea makes me think of a televised obsession of mine, the cult-favorite MTV show Catfish. In case you haven't watched this ubiquitous small screen phenom—which is an offshoot of a documentary with the same name—this show profiles aspiring lovers who meet on the Internet and have yet to connect face-to-face. They share secrets and desires with each other using the Internet as their conduit, confiding in each other like a normal, non-cyber partnership. The catch? Many of these Internet relationships are founded on lies.
Hidden or fake identities, picture stealing, and general dishonesty inform these Catfish tales, resulting in broken hearts and dashed dreams. Fueled by insecurity, jealously, or curiosity, the duplicitous lover-to-be or "catfish" assumes a different Internet-only identity and peruses the web seeking a potential mark—er, mate. My husband and I watch as these safe-from-a-distance virtual relationships unfurl into a deeply human discourse about loneliness, alienation, and the need for connections and communication. Why is it so hard to just reach out and touch a corporeal being rather than hide behind a photoshopped avatar?
After a brief hiatus I am back to blogging. Part of the reason why I stopped was because I wasn't even sure if I was helping people connect to a deeper understanding of themselves as holistically sensual beings—the real purpose behind my blog—or if anyone was even reading it at all. WordPress can feel alienating. Much like the nature of relationships, the things that attracted me to the Internet or the perceived anonymity of blogging are also the things that repelled me. I crave connections, feedback, a community of like-minded men and women to delve into the deeper issues. While I might get a "like" or a comment here and there, sometimes I feel like I am writing in a vacuum. Is anyone out there?
That was until I logged back in to post about a friend's amazing lingerie company and realized that my humble blog had taken on a life of its own. Despite my absence, Venus in Heels continuously attracts visitors—who cares that much of the traffic comes from unsavory keywords or sexed-up searches. While the search term "blowjobs" or "brothel girl" might bring them to my blog, they actually stay for a while and continue to navigate. So, thank you for coming—in whatever capacity.


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In the world of architecture, "green" is a growing trend. LEED certification, a rating system that determines a building's degree of eco-friendliness, is an award coveted by businesses worldwide. We have compiled a list of the greenest buildings in the United States, most of which are rated Platinum – the highest tier on the LEED certification ladder. Here are some of the highlights:
The status of this building is yet to be determined, but the architects at Oppenheim have high standards. The innovative design features wind turbines built right into the structure.
Clinton Presidential Library – Little Rock, AR
Green renovations made in 2007 earned this structure a LEED Platinum rating. The rooftop garden absorbs rainwater runoff and regulates temperature.
Greenway Self Park – Chicago, IL
This is Chicago's first eco-friendly parking garage. It houses 725 individual parking spaces, plus bike racks, plug-in stations for electric vehicles and spaces for car-sharing services. The entire building is powered by a series of six wind-turbines.
Transbay Tower – San Francisco, CA
Still under construction, and slated to be complete by 2017, the Transbay Tower will be set in the heart of the new San Francisco Transbay Bus Terminal – built from glass with a rooftop park to absorb the carbon dioxide from buses.
View our complete list of the Greenest Buildings in the US, and stay tuned for a list of our international top picks as well. (Know of a building that's not on this list but deserves to be? Please feel free to share it here.).


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Unununium, also known by its place-holder name Roentgenium, is the one-hundred eleventh (111) element on the alleged "periodic" table of elements. The table is, in fact, quite constant, unlike Unununium, which periodically phases between solid and liquid form.
Although not as common as most of the baser elements, unununium is quite plentiful in deep-space spectrum analysis of star formation, causing speculation that unununium may be a key ingredient in the gravitational forces which create stars from surrounding material.
History of Unununium[edit]
The element was originally named for Wilhelm "Conrad" Röntgen, the supposed discoverer. However, once the scientific community realized Röntgen had died 71 years before Unununium was found, they discussed the matter for several years through a series of peer reviewed papers, and hurriedly retracted the name.
The element was actally discovered in 1912 by the brilliant but then little-known chemist, Nikola Tesla, who was exposing various things to radiation. Tesla had borrowed a cup of radiation from his neighbors, Madame Curie and her husband, who figured Tesla might want to do something with it other than make toast. While aiming his radiation at one of his cat's toys, Tesla noticed a small but distinct orange and yellow light, and bent down to examine it with a hand-held glass. Tesla immediately realized that he'd just discovered an unknown element, and let out a whoop and a holler, got roaring drunk, turned cartwheels, celebrated the night away, and went on to win the Nobel Prize for Sheer Audacity.
For the first few decades after Unununium's discovery the element was considered largely useless, except, of course, for the tiny flickering light it emitted. This entertained a higher class of easily distracted party guests, and often made heads of state clap their hands in simple-minded glee. Then, in 1949, an enterprising Italian chemist somehow discovered that Unununium occasionally acted as a strong aphrodisiac (although it also emitted near-fatal radiation). Because of this, most professional chemists, who are well known and despised for their strange sense of humor, often used Unununium in bizarre practical jokes. Their favorite trick was to give radiation poisoning to each other, just to see who got sick or horny first. The losers would have to buy dinner for the winner - the same day, please - and everyone had a good laugh. This prank was the chemist profession's principal in-joke until one of their number, Cyrus Nimblebottom, performed an unusual experiment.
The Nimblebottom Effect[edit]
The year, 2006. The place, Paris, France. The weather outside, was frightful. And deep in his basement laboratory Cyrus Nimblebottom was about to carry out an experiment he had dreamed about the night before.
"In my dream I rode upon a white horse," Nimblebottom told author Anne Rice (See The Dream That Changed The World, Anne Rice, Scientific American, January 2008) "and when the horse bucked me off, as it usually does, I had a flash of inspiration before hitting the ground. I instantly woke up and wrote the dream down in my dream journal."
"I then ran to my basement, took out my box of Unununium, got some of my radiation, and, just as in my dream, put them both in the microwave. I set it at two minutes, twenty-four seconds, stood back, and when the little beep sound came I opened the door and found..."
He'd found that the Unununium had expanded into a semi-stable metal that glowed and flickered in shades of orange and yellow, like a beautiful cuttlefish coasting near the bottom of a clear, deep, sea. Nimblebottom reached into the microwave, picked up the substance with his bare hands, and found that some of it was warm but not hot, and some of it was cool but not cold, and the middle of it was juuusssst right. "Wow", he thought, "I love this new metal."
As did the world. For among the properties of Unununium are the abilities to make people smile-deep-down-inside, like when they see a newborn puppy or velciraptor; instantly improve their IQ by 20 points, thus outgrowing their now boring families and friends and taking to the road; add the perfect amount of muscle mass without exercising while giving their body that certain sheen; allow people to set aside their differences and work together (i.e. the new country of Israeltinezaq); and last, but certainly not least, to increase everyone's life expectancy by one-third (except for people prone to radiation poisoning, an effect later hailed as population control). It is delicious too! Renowned scientist and amateur sous chef Stephen Hawking seriously suggested it be renamed Umm Umm Umm. To some it tasted like swiss chocolate; to others, Indian food; and to natural blondes like butterfly wings dipped in honey mustard saturated with newly dripping mango juice direct from the tree.
Subsequent experiments found that the Nimblebottom Effect only takes place when a microwave is set for 2 minutes and 24 seconds, not a second more nor less. If the timing is not exact, when the microwave stops bombarding your Unununium and some of your radiation, the substance tends to explode just after emitting a high-pitched crinkling sound. The explosion isn't large, like Hiroshima, but it is enough to knock the microwave on its metallic WalMart backside.
So armed with a dream, a bit-of-luck, and a nod from Mother Nature, Cyrus Nimblebottom quickly won the coveted Nobel Prize for Sheer Audacity.
Planned uses for Unununium[edit]
Unununium is scheduled to become one of the world's standard metals used for coinage, even though (or perhaps because) it is dangerously radioactive and has the nasty tendency to degrade to nothingness more rapidly than Pop Rocks. Zimbabwe, Greece, and Brazil already use it in commerce, as its natural disintegration achieves the same goal as periodic devaluation, without all the shouting and milling around or the irritating interference of a free press.
As for that pesky overpopulation question, which all governments agree needs addressing but no public figure has the stones to be the first to pick up a bat and baby seal them - unununium's radiation output takes a divot out of an unsuspecting populace quite nicely.
An interesting fact: Although the metal's lethal and healing properties were thought to have ended all human greed, it now appears that David Icke and Prince Phillip have already jumped the gun and amassed over 90% of the world's Unununium supply.
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Dazzle the fashion press with a stunning corporate collection, as your teams strut their stuff on the catwalk. Let the imagination and creative juices run wild, release hidden design skills as you create catwalk sensations that will knock 'em dead. Teams will be given budgets, blank paper, bolts of cloth, safety pins, scissors, plus all the other items that it takes to create a catwalk sensation - you just provide the open minds. This heady mixture of fashion and design will lead to a memorable catwalk frenzy in front of the rest of the company.
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Teamwork, effective management, and a common vision and goal are essential ingredients for this mixture of fashion and design catwalk frenzy that promises to bring the house down! Teams have a limited amount of time to develop and choreograph their catwalk so accurate role allocation playing to the strengths of individuals is vital. Haute Couture is a challenging yet hilarious activity that will leave teams with lasting memories and a greater understanding of the importance of creativity and innovation.
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Readers periodically contact me to ask why I no longer write the kinds of in-depth CPU architecture articles I once did. In light of the current discussion happening about editorial content at Ars, it seemed appropriate to comment on how I see things in 2010.
In a nutshell, I can sum up my take as follows: "computing" has changed radically since 2003. CPUs have not.
The good old days
When we first started Ars, the Pentium Pro had recently launched and commodity microprocessors were undergoing a radical architectural shift from fairly primitive (in-order, dual-issue) to very complex (out-of-order, very wide issue). Clockspeed increases were driving commodity hardware into performance territory that had previously been the sole province of high-end RISC workstations. PCs were well into the very exciting middle of their CPU-driven move from the office desktop into the home, on the one hand, and into the server closet, on the other.
After a brief flirtation with hyperpipelining in the first half of the decade, Intel returned to the Pentium Pro lineage that it had abandoned with the Pentium 3, and the chipmaker began focusing on incremental improvements instead of radical, Pentium 4-style overhauls. Today's Nehalem and Westmere processors are direct evolutionary descendants of the original Pentium Pro.
As for the other big CPU makers, they're in the same boat. The basic microarchitecture of AMD's x86 processors is even closer to the original K8 of 2003 than Nehalem is to the Pentium III (though AMD will be making a significant departure from this venerable design with its upcoming Bulldozer core).
The IBM POWER7's individual cores are descendants of the once-novel POWER4 architecture that I described in my articles on the PowerPC 970.
As for Itanium's progress since 2003... little needs to be said. Sun was doing some interesting work, at least on paper, but that's all over as of the Oracle acquisition.
Then there are the game consoles, which I covered in detail prior to their launch, and which haven't changed a lick since.
Processor microarchitecture is just less interesting, and it hasn't changed substantially since I was actively doing in-depth articles on the topic. It's also much less important in the multicore era. Per-core performance is nice, but the main factors affecting real-world application performance are all located outside the cores themselves. The sizes and placements of on-chip caches; the types and speeds of I/O available to a processor; the way that the system is partitioned among CPU, GPU, main memory, graphics memory, and storage—all of these factors must be tuned and balanced carefully, and any one of them is just as important as microarchitecture in delivering performance and power efficiency.
Incidentally, one can see the impact of these trends at ISSCC, where microprocessor sessions are now 90 percent devoted to power management and fabrication process issues—core microarchitecture issues like pipeline depth and block diagrams will typically get a single slide and a mention in passing. This is in stark contrast to the days when presenters would spend most of their time walking attendees through the details of pipelines and functional units, talking about branch prediction, issue queues, instruction latencies, and the like.
All of this power management stuff is, frankly, quite boring. I can't muster the interest to write much about it, and even if I could, I promise that you couldn't muster the energy to read it.
The mobile scene: still boring
You might object that the mobile processor space is red hot. Intel's Atom is a brand new microarchitecture, and then there's the Cortex family from ARM. But Atom looks enough like the classic Pentium MMX that this three-pager I did in 2008 covers it pretty well.
As for Cortex A8 and A9, they're probably worth doing something lengthier on than I've done so far, but there's nothing to my knowledge that's really new or exotic. They're conventional from a microarchitecture perspective, with most of the interesting stuff going on at other levels of abstraction and design.
Other stuff is more interesting than PCs and CPUs
All of this isn't to say that there's nothing new on the horizon for CPUs. I mentioned AMD's Bulldozer above, which is suitably weird and worth looking closely at. The CPU + GPU fusion efforts also hold promise—when these devices share more than just a die (like, maybe sharing a memory space), then they'll be a lot more interesting. And, as I said above, I have yet to really dive into either of the Cortex designs. Finally, I've never given programmable GPUs the kind of detailed coverage that they deserve, so there's plenty to be done there.
So why don't I take two or three weeks and sequester myself to produce a deep dive into one of the above topics? Because, as I said above, the CPU just doesn't matter as much any more, and neither does the PC.
In 1998 and for a few years afterwards, covering "the PC" was covering computing—at least, the part of computing that was on offense and not defense—and covering microprocessors and motherboards was covering the PC. PCs, motherboards, CPUs, and fixed-function GPUs were the main things going on in computers, at least from a hardcore geek perspective. But this is profoundly no longer the case.
Programmable GPUs, enterprise storage, mobile gadgets, data centers, and more have all made both commodity and business computing a much richer and more varied ecosystem. This fact makes the GPU the only class of semiconductors I have real guilt about not doing in-depth tech articles on.
For the rest, I'd rather cover mobiles, cloud architecture, display and interface technology, Internet-scale software, and similar innovations on a day-to-day basis than disappear for some number of weeks to produce another CPU tech article. This has been the case since at least 2007, and it looks like it will be the case for the near-term future.


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Capitol Chat Lawmakers are working through hundreds of bills and Capitol Bureau Chief Ben Adler joins us to highlight some of them. We'll also hear the latest figures from a PPIC poll measuring Californians opinions on education funding, same-sex marriage and climate change.
Sea Lions in Old Sac If you're in Old Sacramento this weekend you may have to do a double take to ensure you're not actually on Pier 39 in San Francisco. Three sea lions have made the docks beneath the Old Sac riverfront their new hangout for the summer. No one knows if or when the sea lions are planning to leave, but according to marine mammal experts, the trio are completely comfortable living in fresh water. Doreen Gurrola from the Marine Mammal Center in Marin knows all about sea lions living in the Sacramento River and joins us to explain what the trio is doing here.
"Les Mis" Master Class California Musical Theatre is doing a Master Class with "Les Miserables" that's a larger scale undertaking than they normally do. Their education department is offering a Master Class with a twist, with the Les Mis orchestra conductor and one of the actors from the show conducting sessions with the Sacramento Youth Symphony and Sacramento Children's Chorus that will result in a joint performance of the song "Do You Hear the People Sing?"
Nell Robinson Nell Robinson, a Bay Area songwriter and vocalist, and her musical partner Jim Nunally are opening for Ramblin' Jack Elliott at the Center for Performing Arts in Grass Valley tomorrow night. Nell and Jim are here in the studio and will be performing live from House & Garden, Nell's new album that was released on Tuesday.


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Sunday, October 17, 2010
I tried to call my aunt today because I was told she was mad at me, about the shit that went down with my niece. Well, she only has my niece's side of the story and I wanted to tell her my side of the story.
I hadn't said anything to her about any of this bullshit because she was in the hospital recuperating from the accident and I figured she didn't need to deal with family drama on top of everything else. But no, my niece had to stir a turd and go tell my aunt her side of the story and make me out to be the big bad bitch, saying I told everyone in the town where they live all the family dirty laundry. Supposedly all of this was posted on Facebook (my niece unfriended me, BTW).
My niece was the first one to post anything on Facebook, in a passive aggressive way, about me duping her (because I'm not devastated by my mother's death). All I said on Facebook was that she was talking about me, that she didn't really want to go there on Facebook, and if she did, I would air the dirty laundry there. That if she wanted to cut me out of her life, to go ahead and do it, that I had lived without her in my life for 17 years, I could live without her in my life for the rest of my life. That anyone who knew my mother (her precious grandmother) knew how she was and wouldn't be surprised by anything I had to say. Or words to that effect. But I did not air any dirty laundry on Facebook at that time.
So I called my aunt today to talk to her about all this shit. All I got to hear from her was how disappointed she was in me, that they had to live in that town. When I told her Traci started the shit on Facebook, she hung up on me. This is the aunt that stuck up for me against my mother, says she loves me, but won't listen to my side of the story. I guess I'm supposed to forget 40 years of abuse like it never happened, let my niece take over abusing me where my mother left off, and not say a word about it. Well fuck that shit. I worked too goddamned hard to get away from that kind of abuse and find my self-esteem and I'll be damned if I'm going back to it.
I cut my mother out of my life because of her abuse of me, and NONE of my family gave enough of a shit about me to call me or look for me or write to me, not even my aunt, when I left Illinois 17 years ago. If I want contact with my aunt, I have to call her, even though she's had my phone number for years (every time my phone number changes, I call her with the new number). In 17 years, I can count on the fingers of ONE fucking hand, with fingers left over, how many times she's called me. As for the rest of the family, they've never called me (well, Traci called to tell me Mom had died, BFD). They called a couple of times to let me know how Dad was doing after the accident, now I hear nothing from them about how he's doing because they're all pissed off at me over what I said to Traci (my niece). I'm sorry, if the truth about my mother hurts, TOUGH SHIT, BITCHES! I had to live through that shit for 40 fucking years, none of them have the right to tell me I can't talk about it on my blog or anywhere else, for that matter; none of them lived through it, none of them know what it was like. It just happens to be common knowledge in that town that my mother was a bitch and abused me when I was a kid - if they want to hide their heads in the sand about it and think it's forgotten, well, sorry, everybody else might have forgotten it, but it's something I'll never forget and I don't think it's something I'll ever get over, no matter how hard I try (and believe me, if 10 years of therapy couldn't do it, I don't think anything can).
So you know what, family? You can all SHUT THE FUCK UP! You don't really give a shit about me, you never have and you aren't going to convince me otherwise. The only person in the family in Illinois that I care about now is my dad, the rest of you can do whatever you want. I have my family up here and they're all I need now. I thought I needed you guys in my life, but I don't need more abuse and more bullshit. If you can't face facts, and want to think everything has always been fine and dandy, then go for it. But I know what the truth is, I've faced it, and I'm trying to deal with it, and most of the time, I deal with it just fine - until I run into people who deny the reality of my existence. Well, get over it. It was real, it happened, and I'm going to continue to talk about it.
You think these things need to be hidden and kept quiet so that no one knows, because it shames you. You should be ashamed, you let it happen and didn't do a damned thing to stop it. For years I thought I deserved the abuse, that there was something wrong with me, that I wasn't good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, thin enough, whatever enough. That if I could just change, the abuse would stop. Yeah, right. It wasn't something wrong with me, it was something wrong with the person who was abusing me.
The more people speak out about abuse, the more people who are being abused will know that it's not something they deserve to have happen to them. Then maybe people who are being abused will find the strength somewhere to leave their abusers, get help, and find a way to make a joyful life for themselves. You seem to think I'm blogging about this to make your lives hell, but really, I think about your lives just about as much as you think about mine - in other words - not at all.
And you know, it just hit me, I think y'all just might be a bit jealous. I left Illinois 17 years ago and made a life for myself and basically told Mom to fuck off. You all stayed there and kept kissing her ass so she wouldn't treat you the way she treated me. That's really a sorry way to have to live your life. And when she was dying, and you knew she was dying, you kept right on kissing her ass. You all kept asking her if you should call me and let me know that she was dying and she said "What for?" Even though you all thought I should be there, or at least be told, NONE of you had the balls to go against her and call me until she was dead. WTF could she have done to you if you had called me against her wishes? You didn't have to tell her you had called. Did you really think I would have come down there? And if I came down there, did you really think I would have made a scene? Come on, you can give me more credit than that. I might be a bitch, but I'm not that big a bitch. If I had come down there and she had said she didn't want to see me, or had said anything nasty to me, I would have said "Sorry you feel that way" and walked out. I tried twice to make up with her, and she wasn't having any part of it, so why would this time have been any different? And why would I have made things hard on Dad? Making a scene with her would have made things hard on him and I have no reason to do that to him. Which is why I was civil to everyone at the memorial service. Yeah, it would have looked real good if I had gone around singing "Ding dong, the witch is dead" wouldn't it? You all said it was so great to have me back in the family, but you want me back in the family on your terms, which means I have to toe the line just like I did when Mom was alive. Sorry, I quit toeing that line 17 years ago, and I'm not going to start toeing it again just to be part of a family that never really wanted me in the first place.
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- AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 3:26 PM
I can't say much except that I'm sorry. There are no words that can really express that sense of betrayal when your own family, especially those you think are on your side, pretty much tell you to fuck off and die.ReplyDelete
But I see keep telling the truth. We do a disservice to yourself and to principle when we don't.
joannadeadwinter - Thank you. That's how I see it - I've been betrayed by those I thought cared. I'm not going to let them shut me up, I'm going to continue speaking my truth and if they don't like it, they don't have to read my blog. I'm standing by my principles and my truth.ReplyDelete
((hugs)) if you want/need them, Mariellen. This is a powerful thing, telling the truth, and many cannot handle it. I am so sorry your family isn't rallying around you now that your mom is out of the way; you deserve better.ReplyDelete
I don't think there's much else to say other than I'm sorry. Sometimes it's just not possible for things to work out better than they did no matter what.ReplyDelete
I'm sorry, too Mariellen. Family can be toxic and rest assured, you are not alone in that fact. My own niece spews hatred about her mother (my sister) on Facebook. Lies, half truths....her twisted side of the story. She plays the victim so well that she has convinced HERSELF that she was raised by a monster. I was there, and saw no monster. I was so close to her...she's like my kid....and it's disgusting to see her blast her mother for things SHE did to herself. This from a woman who had stolen her parent's car and wrecked it at 14, stole money from them, stole the car again at 15 and got pulled over, started having sex at 14 and stopped taking her birth control pills at 17 so she could get pregnant and get out of the house. They raised her pretty well, in church, and with love. I was like her second Mom, and she would confide in me her troubles and I often acted as a liasion between her mother and herself....trying to get them talking. Today, she has one 13 yr old daughter who lives with her dad, a divorce, and is now the mother of two boys, 2 and 5 months, living with a man-boy who had a baby with another woman while living with her....and he's still there. No commitment, no love, no future. But she takes every chance she can get to blame her mother for her life today...at 32.ReplyDelete
So, know that you are not alone. Know that your only obligation is to speak the truth. That you cannot control what others think of you or how they act. I'm sad that you have lost your Aunt to the wickedness of (i'm assuming) her daughter? The fact that they talk about how your truth is "shaming" them tells me they don't really care about the truth, OR having a healthy relationship with you. Their loss. All you can do is grieve the loss and make the most of your life with the family that loves you, wants you, and needs you. Let it be enough to sustain you the rest of your days. You have something to offer this world, and the family you have....and that's unconditional love. Even though you didn't recieve it, you will not allow that legacy to continue...it ends with you. You know how to love and be devoted to those that are important in your life. Dont waste another minute trying to change the past or what others think about you. You're good enough to know and love RIGHT THIS SECOND! F*uck the haters~!
MigiziNse-ikwe - Thank you. It's funny, but the people I've met online are more supportive than my family in Illinois, and I don't know what I'd do without that additional support (my husband is so supportive of me in this, another one of the many reasons I love him so much).ReplyDelete
TropicalChrome - I've been hoping for too many years that things would work out, but it looks like they just aren't going to. I think it's time to quit banging my head against that particular brick wall and just walk away. I really appreciate the support from my online community, you guys are the best.ReplyDelete
Regina - No, my niece is my brother's daughter, my aunt is my dad's sister-in-law. I'm sorry your niece is being another toxic person and is disrupting your family. It's hard to deal with family members like that, which is why I walked away from my family years ago. I should never have gone back. That's why this time I've determined that I am done with them and won't be going back again. I'll keep in touch with my dad, but the rest of them - well, it's up to them to contact me and if they want to try and shut me up about anything, it ain't happening. Deal with me as I am or don't deal with me at all. I have family up here that loves me and needs me, I don't need the ones in Illinois to validate my existence.ReplyDelete
I hope your niece wakes up and sees the harm she's doing to herself and her children and finds a way to turn her life around. It can be done, Maude knows it can, I've done it. I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of, and wish I hadn't done, but I did finally learn from those mistakes, and those mistakes made me the person I am today, and I happen to like who I am now. Maybe that will happen for her.
I have been following your blog for a while and reading about all the pain you experience every time you have dealings with your family in Illinois, and all I can do is wish you the strength to turn away from the hatefulness and the peace that comes with walking away. It's a very difficult thing to do, and I'm glad you have a wonderful husband who supports you through it all. You will never forget, and you should NOT forget. Writing about it not only helps you, but also encourages others who have faced similar abuse. Courage, and strength, and peace to you.ReplyDelete
Moo - thank you, those words of encouragement help so much. That's one of the reasons I blog, so that others will know it's possible to walk away from the abuse and create a life free from it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 6, 2011 at 11:47 AM
Damn, you should go on Jerry Springer.ReplyDelete
Alexfromphilly - There's no way I would go on Jerry Springer. My blog is as public as I want to get with what's gone on in my family, I'm not going to go on national tv and make a spectacle of myself so someone else can make money off it. One of the reasons I blog about the abuse I went through is so that others who are being abused can know that it is possible to survive that abuse, get past it, and make a happy, decent life for themselves, to know that they can cut toxic abusers out of their lives and the world doesn't come to an end, it actually gets better when they do that. Going on Jerry Springer wouldn't accomplish any of that, so why bother?ReplyDelete
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What's the good software to capture anything that is going on at my screen to a video file that I can later on upload to let's say YouTube? I'm using Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
QuickTimeX comes with OS X and can do this for you.
Some other good 3rd party tools:
I think Snapz Pro X is the best of the bunch for video capturing.
Scratch that! Snapz Pro X is expensive and slow and rather outdated at this point. I've started using Screeny and love it. Integrates with CloudApp for uploading if you like, has a slick easy to use UI, and most importantly doesn't cripple my machine when recording a screen cast1.
1: This could also be the 12GB of ram and quad-core processor, but I like to think it's just a better written app.
Josh that's $70. Any justification of "is the best?" Although the others seem to be $99, s... – Dan Rosenstark Jun 7 '12 at 16:26
1@Yar: I'm going to update this 2009 answer right now. – Josh K Jun 7 '12 at 16:35
Open QuickTime / File / New screen recorder.
See this video
As others have said, Quicktime X can record both sound and video. Another free option is Copernicus. I used that successfully under Leopard. I've not tried it with 10.6 but see no reason why it wouldn't work.
Another for consideration is iShowU. It's not as heavily marketed, but it's updated fairly frequently and it's got a much more Mac-like interface than Snapz. It's really powerful without being difficult to use, too.


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Wargizmo wrote:I don't see why the Tier3 class glyphs should drop randomly in dungeons in the first place. The rogue+CYDSTEPP is not the only overpowered combo possible, getting Bloodpower and Heal in the same game is pretty ridiculous. By making these glyphs available to all classes you're by and large cheapening all the tier3 heroes as well as destroying the uniqueness of those classes. I'd prefer if the Tier 3 glyphs were only available to the Tier 3 heroes.
I was doing the Double Danger quest with an Orc Bloodmage.
I was carrying a venom blade.
A CYDSTEPP glyph spawned right next to me.
It was....orgasm-inducing.


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Confession Time
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So, I have a confession...I have stopped couponing!
That's right, until today, I haven't cut a coupon in almost 12 months!!! Ahh!! To fill y'all in, I got engaged! Yep, I started a new blog to follow the engagement, South Texas Wedding. That's taken a lot of time with the wedding planning and blog AND I started my professional career (night shift to boot), we moved into our first apartment, he started his professional career, (coaching so we have games once a week), and traveling back home at least once a month...just to name a couple!
I mean, I still go down the aisles of HEB and take the little yellow coupons that they have on hand, but nothing similar to the way I used to coupon. And...we are on our last bottle of shampoo and last deodorant stick. Our stockpile has lasted almost 1 whole year, but it's exhausted now. Being the Frugal Science Gal I am, I'm having a really hard time paying full price for a bottle of shampoo!
So, here it is...I'm starting my couponing journey again. Since I don't have as much time to plan the shopping trip like I used to so I think I am going back the the coupon file folder. Each week I'm going to go through the ads and cut the coupons of the products that we use. I mean, even if I'm only saving $0.25 on a product that we use all the time, it is better than nothing. Hopefully I'll get closer to the way it was before!
We need to save money for our Wedding!!
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Not really sure what that means.
No. If you have the circuit properly configured, you should see very little variance on the collector current.
You probably need a lower value resistor between 'drive' and 'base' or the transistor can't turn fully on.
It also requires that the collector sits higher than the base so the supply voltage - voltage on your load is higher than the base.
Using a transistor as a constant current device works well if the voltage is high enough compared to the load.
I think you always have to do some experimentation regarding the base resistor as the Hfe has a large spread,
This is what I got: 3.8v / 61.2ma7.6v / 61.4ma11.8v/ 61.6ma


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Ball breaks TD record, Badgers lose final game
Badgers rally in regulation but lose in OT
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State 24, Wisconsin 21 (OT): Sam Ficken kicked a 37-yard field goal in overtime and Kyle French's 44-yard attempt to match sailed wide left as the host Nittany Lions overcame Montee Ball setting an NCAA record with his 79th career score.
Zach Zwinak rushed for 179 yards and a touchdown for Penn State (8-4, 6-2 Big Ten), which wore No. 42 stickers on its helmets to honor Michael Mauti. The senior linebacker was relegated to the sideline after suffering a left knee injury during last week's 45-22 victory over Indiana.
After Ficken's overtime field goal squeezed just inside the left upright, French's attempt in the windy conditions sailed comfortably wide to send Wisconsin (7-5, 4-4) into next week's Big Ten championship game versus Nebraska on a sour note.
Curt Phillips tossed a pair of touchdown passes – with the latter one going to Jeff Duckworth from 4 yards out to tie the game at 21-21 with 18 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter.
With the contest tied at 7-7 midway through the first quarter, Ball scampered around the right end and tiptoed down the sideline for his 73rd career rushing touchdown. Ball moved past Travis Prentice of Miami (Ohio), who set the major college mark for total scores in 1999.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Penn State's Matt McGloin, who had only 47 yards in the first half, finished 19-of-37 for 200 yards and a touchdown. … The Nittany Lions nearly tied the game at 14-14 on their first possession of the third quarter, but Brandon Moseby-Felder was unable to secure the ball on a pass in the back of the end zone. The play was originally ruled a touchdown, but a video review led to the reversal of the decision and Penn State settled for Ficken's 23-yard field goal. … Melvin Gordon's second career reception resulted in a 57-yard touchdown for Wisconsin.


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Loomis Sayles Bond Preps for Rising Interest Rates
The managers of this Kip 25 fund own a lot of junk bonds and foreign debt and even a few dividend-paying stocks.
The managers at Loomis Sayles Bond (LSBRX), a member of the Kiplinger 25, appreciate good values and have the latitude to go anywhere to find them, whether it's in fixed-income securities, convertible bonds, bank loans or even common stocks. But the managers — Dan Fuss, Elaine Stokes and Matt Eagan — also have to keep an eye on the bigger picture. These days, with yields near historical low levels across nearly all types of bonds, they're building a portfolio that's poised for a rise in interest rates.
The managers continue to find deals in high-yield corporate bonds, which account for 19% of their fund's assets. And about one quarter of the portfolio is invested in securities that are issued in foreign currencies, such as Mexican pesos, Australian dollars and Norwegian krone. One purchase in 2012: Morgan Stanley bonds issued in Australian dollars. Those particular securities pay a yield of 8%, which is higher than the U.S. dollar-denominated Morgan Stanley bonds also held in the portfolio. Finally, the fund has acquired some convertibles (bonds and preferred stocks), straight preferred stocks and common stock of high-quality dividend-paying companies, such as Intel and Bristol-Myers Squibb. "If rates head up," says Stokes, "that's generally good for equities."
Stokes and her cohorts have been right about many things in years past, as their long-term record shows. Over the past decade though February 15, Loomis Sayles Bond returned an annualized 9.7%, an average of 4.6 percentage points per year better than Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond index, a measure of the broad U.S. bond market. Over the past year, the fund earned 10.8%, beating its bogey by a whopping 8.1 points.
But there have been a few bumps along the way. In 2008, a heavy weighting in corporate bonds dragged the fund down 22.1%. That year, Bond lagged the Barclays index by 27.4 percentage points. In 2011, the fund returned 3.5%, lagging the index by 4.4 points. The main culprit this time: almost no Treasuries in the portfolio. Those bonds rallied strongly in the second half of 2011 as frightened investors piled into what they perceived to be the safest IOUs on the planet.
Another bump came in 2012: In October, Kathleen Gaffney, a 28-year Loomis Sayles veteran and a co-manager of the Bond fund, resigned from the firm. She left to join Eaton Vance and to lead a team of portfolio managers for a group of new multi-sector bond funds. Gaffney often handled calls from reporters and thus, to people outside the firm, she appeared to be a prominent voice at Bond.
But her departure isn't reason to sell shares in the fund right away. She was one of Bond's four managers, and for the past ten years, the fund has moved from a portfolio-manager-focused investment process to one that's more team-oriented, says Jae Park, Loomis's chief investment officer. Fuss, who is 79, launched Bond's institutional share class in 1991 (the retail share class came in 1996). Stokes, who has been with the firm for 25 years, and Eagan became co-managers in 2007. The fund's real team, however, stretches beyond the managers to the 40-odd traders, fixed-income researchers and analysts who help in the analysis, purchase and sale of fixed-income securities.
No one on the team expects rates to rise rapidly in the near future. Loomis expects the yield on ten-year Treasury bonds — 2.0% on February 15 — to reach 2.25% by year's end. (Kiplinger's forecast is the same.) Stokes adds that the firm expects the slow-growing economic environment to continue in 2013, with little inflation. Stokes says the country's deficit problem is a risk, one that may take a decade to iron out. The process, she says, "is going to be long and slow." Other issues nag the managers, too. Continuing volatility in emerging markets and political tension in the Middle East could pose problems. And there's the worry that China, which has stabilized and will post better economic growth numbers this year, can grow without government support.
The topsy-turvy economic and political world combined with low yields and the threat of rising rates and inflation makes the job of picking bonds challenging. Stokes, Fuss and Eagan buy with a long-term view of three to five years. But, says Stokes, "no single bond sector is cheap these days."
That's what makes the dig-deep research of Loomis Sayles Bond so appealing. "This is not a time for an index bond fund," says Stokes. "Look for bond funds that are flexible in what they can invest in, and look for managers who do their credit work."


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SALISBURY, MD -- The Mid-Delmarva Family YMCA in Salisbury, MD, is the latest Y to deny membership to registered sex offenders—a practice that appears to be gaining momentum nationwide.
YMCAs in Michigan, Connecticut and several other states also banned registered sex offenders from their facilities.
Officials from the Mid-Delmarva Family YMCA cited child safety as the reason for their decision to eliminate sex offenders from its membership list.
"Evaluating this decision, we felt that basically we're a family organization first," Rich Stover, Mid-Delmarva YMCA chief executive officer, told local media. "One of those awesome responsibilities we face is to protect the children. This is an opportunity to identify and remove anyone posing a threat to them. Safety is far more important than membership numbers."
Beginning this week, the Y plans to run its membership list through the National Sex Offender database using software from DAXKO and Raptor Technologies. Stover said any matches will be verified, and that members will be allowed to appeal the decisions.
Although such policies are gaining momentum in Ys nationwide, some question whether the organizations could be liable for legal action based on anti-discrimination laws. Others wonder if such measures make it harder to rehabilitate past offenders.
"I understand people's need for safety, and I can't stress enough that I am all for keeping children safe," Dr. Kathryn Seifert, CEO of Eastern Shore Psychological Services told local media. "There are some offenders who have been through treatment and will never offend again. ... Part of people coming out of jail is learning to be part of a pro-social society. If they can't be a part of that society, they will continue to be anti-social. ... Looking at the circumstances of someone's offense would be the common sense approach."


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I saw this photo in my feed and I couldn't believe my eyes. Two grounded F-18s under fire? Not quite: They are two F/A-18 Hornets assigned to the Blue Angels, starring in the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar 2012 Air Show. Just a controlled "wall of fire," as the US Navy calls it.
A very cool photo by U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Jamean Berry.


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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Chocolate Can't Fix Everything
Every relationship that you have changes you. Sometimes the changes are subtle, like emulating a friend's hairstyle, or the way in which they answer the phone, and sometimes they are drastic, like making a career choice or moving across the country, just to be with a friend. People brush up against your life and leave their fingerprints on it.
Sometimes that might be words of wisdom that come back to you at just the right time. Sometimes it's the memory of an extravagant act of selflessness that prods you to be a better friend. And sometimes it's pieces of pain, shared in quiet moments.
One of my friends once confided in me that her marriage was loveless. Not that either cheated on the other, just that there was no emotion, no passion. I had often wondered why she married this bland man, unremarkable in looks, personality, or finances and one day posed that question to her. She responded, "Because he asked. And I didn't think anyone else ever would." I cried inside, thinking of both of them living in a settle-for, I-can't-do-any-better-than-this marriage.
Another friend was in a truly unhappy marriage. Her husband was demanding, treating her as if she were a slave rather than a cherished gift from God. He was verbally abusive to her and I often found her in tears. I offered our home as a sanctuary for her daughter so that she could drop her off if the fighting got too ugly. More than one late night she came to visit.
One Sunday I sat behind my friend and her husband in church. From the set of her shoulders I knew that she was crying. She left the service early and when I went outside, she was sitting in her car, tears streaking down her cheeks. Though her face was saying, "just leave me alone," I motioned for her to roll down the window. I took her hand and kissed it, leaving an imprint of my lipstick on her hand, a kiss to take home. It made my heart ache that I couldn't do anything to fix it and make everything better.
And what could I say to my very dear friend who's husband of 20 years drained their bank account and left her and their 4 children for the woman he'd been having an affair with for 10 years? I offered to buy her a t-shirt that says, "It's better to have loved and lost than still be married to the crazy b-----d," but that wouldn't fix it all and heal the pain of loss and betrayal.
If only chocolate could fix everything. I'd make a batch of these bars and take them to every hurting woman in my life. But some days it seems like that would be a mountain of bars. I can't do it alone. So I have a challenge for you bakers out there. Make your favorite treat, then, rather than eating the whole batch and moaning about the size of your hips, wrap them up individually in cellophane and put a little ribbon around each one. Tuck some into your purse and see how many hurting people you can find that day to give them out to. And if you run out of hurting people to bless, try just brightening someone's day. There's nothing like the smile of someone who's been randomly given a cookie!
(aka Thousand Dollar Bars - adapted from King Arthur Flour)
shortbread layer:
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup confectioners' sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
caramel layer:
2 cups caramel, cut into small chunks
3 tablespoons heavy cream
chocolate layer:
3 cups chopped milk chocolate or dark chocolate, melted
1 tablespoon coconut oil (optional)
Crunchy sea salt for garnishing
1- Preheat oven to 300 Deg. F. Line a 9 x 13-inch pan with parchment paper, leaving enough to hang over the edges.
2- In a medium-sized bowl, beat together the butter, sugar and vanilla. Add the flour. At first the mixture may seem dry, but will come together as you continue to beat at medium speed.
3- Take the dough (it will be somewhat stiff) and press it evenly into the pan. Lightly flouring your fingertips will help with any sticking.
4- Prick the crust all over with a fork. The holes will allow steam to escape and the crust will bake evenly with fewer bubbles.
5- Bake the crust until it's lightly golden brown on top and the edges are deeper golden brown, about 35 to 45 minutes. Remove from the oven and set it aside to cool completely.
6- Once the crust is cooled, melt the caramel and cream over low heat in a small saucepan. Pour the caramel over the cooled crust and set in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to chill and firm up.
7- Melt the milk or dark chocolate slowly in a double boiler or over very low heat. If it seems very thick, add a tablespoon of shortening to thin it. Pour evenly over the chilled caramel layer and spread to cover all of the caramel. Sprinkle the sea salt over the chocolate layer. Return to the fridge until the chocolate is well set. Cut into 2" x 2" squares to serve. (The chocolate may shatter if you cut it straight from the fridge, so you might need to let it warm up just a tad before cutting.) It's best to store these bars in the refrigerator.
8- These bars can also be cut and dipped in milk chocolate to resemble Twix ® bars. After the caramel layer has chilled firm, cut down the length of the pan, splitting the bars into two long, narrow bars. Then cut each long strip into "fingers". Dip the chilled bars into melted chocolate, place on parchment paper to set, sprinkle with sea salt, and allow to set up for several hours.
(Note: It's waaaaay easier to spread the chocolate on top, rather than dipping them, but dipping gives a nice, all-over layer of chocolate that's wonderful. Either way, they're delicious. And don't forget the crunchy salt. Salt + chocolate + caramel + shortbread = fabulous. If cookies could fix problems, these would do the job!)
15 comments:
Lynn, you are such a kind heart with a gift of healing (1 Cor 12). Not healing in the "patch it up with a bandage," but the healing which comes from meeting another where their pain is and walking through it with them.
The bars look fabulous and thank you for the exhortation to look for moments to lift up the downtrodden.
Thank you also for the drawer full of homemade cards you sent me during a time of my own upheaval - you work wonders even without chocolate. Love you!
- November 15, 2011 at 8:10 AM
- Debbie said...
What a moving post. It really affected me. It made me remember that there are 3 important things in life...1) Be kind 2) Be kind 3) Be kind....The chocolate looks delicious too!
- November 15, 2011 at 3:19 PM
This is really lovely mom.
- November 15, 2011 at 3:34 PM
- Astrid and the kitties Kashim, Othello and Salome said...
such a moving post Lynn and I love your challenge! Will try to do so!
- November 16, 2011 at 1:15 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
This post rings so true Lynn for so many woman and the friends who support them through it all. Chocolate can't fix it but it is a temporary comfort!
- November 16, 2011 at 6:02 AM
- Elle said...
There really is a special bond that women friends find if they are lucky.You are a special friend and even though you can't fix everything, just being there for a friend is a lot! Great cookies, too. Think of all the smiles they can bring.
- November 16, 2011 at 2:42 PM
- Melinda said...
A wonderful post, Lynn. You are so right when you say, sometimes you can not fix it better. But there always are ways to be a better friend during difficult times. And there lies the challenge.
I think kindness and love are key, too. I think I know someone who needs some extra kindness right now and you have shown me that my life is definitely in a position to be there for her! I am going to make some good cookies and walk down to her house today. (I am allowed to walk!)
Thank you for the emails today. They were perfect for cheering me up and a good laugh! Loving the quilt piece colours in progress. xx
- November 16, 2011 at 10:53 PM
- grace said...
aw, sweet lady. i live in such a happy place myself that i sometimes get a rude awakening when i see such sadness in others. you're a good egg, and these are good nibbles!
- November 17, 2011 at 3:31 PM
- Adam said...
Terrific post Lynn, your friends are lucky to have you. My friend's father passed away suddenly last week at 58 and it was definitely one of those situations that could have used a chocolate cure all. It's funny as a friend in those situations you feel so helpless and useless since all you can do is "be there." But often you find out that just "being there" was more comforting and helpful than anything else you could have done.
- November 18, 2011 at 11:13 AM
- Miss High Heels said...
What a great post. People always say that cooks/bakers/chefs put love into their food but your post has made me realise that good food can also bring hope. Especially if it involves chocolate!
- November 19, 2011 at 4:34 AM
- joey said...
great post, but i didnt really pay much attention to the story, im interested in the recipe here :p.. thanks for sharing
and whatever hardship you're facing now, i hope you'll make it out succesfully.. goodluck!
- November 24, 2011 at 6:45 AM
- Shelly said...
Love this, doing it today.
- November 25, 2011 at 7:50 AM
- Barbara said...
That's sad, Lynn. And one has to be so careful NOT to get involved or comment because you never know what will happen in the future. A hug with no words is the perfect thing to do.
And no, chocolate does not make anything better...but giving them away to hurting friends is a good start.
- November 27, 2011 at 5:21 AM
- Hazel - Chicken in a Cherry Sauce said...
What a beautiful post. Very sad to hear about your friends. It is a shame that chocolate cannot solve problems, but it can definitely help!
- November 29, 2011 at 9:40 AM
- Aveen said...
What a lovely post Lynn, and what a good friend you are.
- December 6, 2011 at 10:54 AM


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Mother speaks on anniversary of daughter's death
Emily Willegal beaten, raped in 2003
A mother is speaking out on the 10-year anniversary of her daughter's death.
A memorial picture of Emily Willegal hangs at the end of Milwaukee's Rock Bottom bar where she worked. Willegal was beaten, raped and murdered in 2003, authorities said.
"My baby's going to live on and on and on. Even long after I'm gone, people will still remember the joy she had in life," said Willegal's mother, Paisley Woodside.
Rock Bottom has created a special brew, called Willegal Wheat, to celebrate Emily's life. On Friday night, those who come to remember Willegal will help raise money for Milwaukee's Healing Center, where Executive Director Maryann Clesceri said they help survivors of sexual assault.
"And to make something that was so horrible turn into something that's very meaningful," said Clesceri.
Woodside said her daughter was found in an alley near First Street and Meinecke Avenue, barely clinging to life. Hours later, Willegal died in the hospital.
Police said Kimani Ward confessed to the crime and is serving a life sentence.
The fundraiser will be held from 7-11 p.m. Friday at Rock Bottom Brewery in downtown Milwaukee.


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by Robert Wilkinson
This is a rerun of a series from a while ago about how Astrology relates to intuition, hunches, belief systems, and other internal reference points. I originally wrote this article as a response to a question a friend posited, that being "Why can't someone just rely on their intuition instead of astrology?" I suppose the short answer is that you can, but just be ready to take the consequences of acting with incomplete knowledge. While true intuition is always accurate, the problem is knowing whether we're operating from intuition or another set of feeling assumptions that may have been formed by less than accurate perceptions.
We all make our decisions limited by our blind spots, our prejudices, and our wishful thinking. We all come from a family and culture with dualistic and inconsistent internal belief systems, and have been shaped by others in ways we barely suspect, by friends and foes, loved ones and strangers alike. In this sense it is useful to remember that all are our teachers, and show us how to raise our experience of life and response, human patterns in a forever changing reality leading us to our Higher Self.
Without belaboring the obvious, our personalities are for the most part products of cultural biases, assumptions, inferences, and delusions regarding the cause and effect process. These are the source of pleasure and pain for us, and afflict the entire human race. To believe differently is to invite the higher Law of our being to teach us that everyone is limited by perception, regardless of assumed certainty of view. All forms change, even our pre-set belief systems. This is useful to teach us humility and compassion as we learn how to adapt to this very curious, strange, and ever-changing world.
We are not trained to assess with accuracy what we feel, or why. Often our feelings mislead us, and what many believe to be intuition cannot be entirely trusted to bring clarity in what is happening and why. With self-knowledge we can come to a place where we can know the difference between true higher intuition and feeling-hunches, but it takes an amount of training with an ability to know the boundaries between one's own subconscious and others', as well as the collective unconscious.
We are a combination of subconsciousness, self-consciousness, and Super-consciousness. The works of the venerable Florence Scovel Shinn are particularly efficacious in fostering an understanding of the distinctions between these three, and how to bring our subconsciousness into line with our Superconsciousness. Often we feel that which others feel, and through wanting to be agreeable, take on belief systems which may or may not be true for us. Though we may try to build a sense of certainty about what we feel, this is not the same as true intuition, derived from "inner-tuition," or "inner instruction." It is immediate cognition, also referred to in the Agni Yoga lessons as "straight knowledge."
Intuition is an inner power to be cultivated. It is not the same as "psychic ability." The former works from heart knowledge, the latter from gut knowledge. While it might seem I'm splitting hairs, it's really quite a difference. Heart knowledge operates from loving-wisdom, while gut knowledge works from the astral (or emotional) level. While feelings can seem real because of their strength, often as not we misjudge the meaning of what we're feeling and miss the ideal. Most of us are not trained to distinguish between the apparently real and the conditionally real, much less the conditionally real versus the inherently real.
Astrology helps us to see the cycles of what's happening, and what is widespread versus what is particular. The planets can help us get a fix on whether we're beginning something, bringing something out into the world, or fulfilling the various areas of our human existence, preparing for other chapters of life about to open. We can see the timing of shifts in the effects of prior causes, and know whether it's a good time to launch our boats, mend our nets, or just party. We can know whether the storm we're in is personal or not, and when it will pass. We can know if it is in fact a good time to buy or sell something, or if it's better to hold back a little. And we can know what both we and others are going through, and hopefully choose the highest manifestation possible in the moment.
I suppose if we were saints we wouldn't have to worry much about timing, since we'd be doing our highest being all the time. However, since most of us are usually not very saintly in our behavior, thinking or feeling, it seems like astrology could be a valuable tool to give us a consistent yardstick with which to measure what's up and why, and remind us of what's possible in our human-ness. It's like a road map and a weather report. You may not need either of these to drive across the continent, but they can be useful to know when there are storms or impassible straits, as well as alternate routes to take.
Of course, winding up in a flood zone or a blizzard also teaches us patience and compassion, so I guess it all works out in the end. I'd just rather do it with least suffering along the way, given what we all have to learn anyway. There are other means of testing whether we are working from our intuition or our astral impressions, but that's another article for another time.
(Originally published 29 March 2005)
© Copyright 2008 Robert Wilkinson


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As world transpires into a moonlit desert –
Chilly, gray and with hints of colour.
The pale lush of the thorns,
Marking the edges of an otherwise serene horizon.
The cool breeze from the mellows of the dunes,
Carrying hope in form of whiffs from the sea.
Making me imagine myself walking barefoot
On the boundary of this world.


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"I've come to terms with it," said Anita Vestal, who masterminded an escape plot for inmate Jeffrey Miles. "I'm ready for it to be over."
Vestal has been out on bond while awaiting her trial, living with her four children between the ages of 9 and 14 and a steady boyfriend.
But she faces a likely lengthy prison sentence to pay for her baffling and fateful decision to free a murder suspect and run off with him.
"I knew this was coming," said Vestal, 37. "I just tried to live life."
Now Vestal, who is part Cherokee, will spend one last Thanksgiving with her large extended family before the trial's conclusion next week. Vestal said she would probably make her usual dish — banana pudding — for the annual family gathering.
The only real question remaining for Vestal is how many years she will serve.
SEE ALSO: The how-to of a jail break
The various charges against Vestal carry an average sentence of 18 to 22 years under the state's mandatory sentencing guidelines. But that's just an average.
It could be less if Vestal's attorney convinces the judge to go light, citing Vestal's relatively clean record otherwise and her lack of violent criminal history, or by claiming that Miles manipulated Vestal.
But her sentence could also be much, much more. Prosecutors will try to convince the judge to take a harder line based on aggravating circumstances, like the obvious premeditation that went into the escape, or Vestal's presumed knowledge that Miles was a dangerous man and posed a risk to society if he was let out.
The jury — five women and seven men, including a mix of white and Cherokee — appear to range in age from their late 20s to 70s.
They will hear closing arguments in the case Monday (Dec. 2) and then go into deliberations.
Open and shut case
Vestal doesn't dispute that she helped Miles escape. In fact, Vestal's attorney, Chris Siewers, didn't put on a shred of evidence or call a single witness in Vestal's defense.
Assistant District Attorneys Jim Moore and Ashley Welch, the prosecutors who are trying the case in tandem, produced testimony and witnesses who took six days to present their information.
But when they finished, Siewers simply announced that the defense would rest without presenting a case of its own.
Siewers likely concluded there would be little point, given the trail of hard evidence documenting the escape plan hatched and executed by Vestal.
Although some of the moveable cameras in the jail had been craftily repositioned before the escape, a play-by-play was nonetheless captured on video by fixed cameras.
It would be futile to deny Vestal had taken the reins of the control room during the escape. Other jailers testified how Vestal told the control-room operator on shift that day to take a break while she covered for him. And how she then walked off her own shift to allegedly go on an errand.
Miles' orange striped jumpsuit, along with an undershirt and boxer shorts labeled with his name, were found under the seat of Vestal's van at her apartment. The two had swapped the van for a truck before fleeing across the country.
And the jail keys that Vestal had slipped to Miles so he could open the doors were still in the pair's possession when they were eventually captured, holed up in a California hotel room together three weeks later.
The fact that they were still together when captured was pretty damning in itself.
But for good measure, a handwritten note from Vestal referring to the escape plans and professing romantic feelings for Miles was found in the trashcan of his jail pod, ripped into just three or four pieces, easy for investigators to reconstruct.
"Nobody is going to get in the way of our future," Vestal wrote in the note, adding she couldn't wait until she and Miles could finally talk freely come Saturday, the day the escape went down.
The trail of evidence was impossible to dispute, so Vestal's attorney didn't even try.
When it comes to the escape charges, Vestal "is going to be convicted and sentenced on that," Siewers conceded in court.
He is her third court-appointed attorney. The first one resigned from the case, as did the second, although that is not entirely unusual for a case that drags on for so long.
Accessory after the fact?
Vestal faces a host of charges related to the escape: harboring an escapee, aiding and abetting an escapee, conveying messages and instruments of escape to an inmate, and obstruction of justice.
But the more serious charges levied against Vestal are "accessory after the fact" for all the crimes that landed Miles in jail in the first place. Vestal faces two charges of accessory to murder, one charge of accessory to attempted murder, and two counts of accessory to armed robbery.
Those are the charges that would rack up substantial prison time for Vestal. The escape-related charges would carry only four to five years on average, but all the accessory charges would carry another 14 to 18 on average.
Siewers argued that the accessory charges were not appropriate. His strategy: concede the escape but fight the accessory charges.
That didn't require evidence of its own, but will come down to a legal argument with the jury: did the prosecution meet the criteria to prove accessory after the fact?
Helping someone who committed a crime — be it financial support, concealing evidence or evading capture — isn't the sole test. The lynchpin is whether Vestal in fact knew what Miles did.
The prosecutors argued that Vestal had to know.
"It was common knowledge," said Assistant District Attorney Ashley Welch. As a jailer, Vestal clearly knew the charges against him. And in a small community like Swain County, everyone pretty much knew.
"Knowledge can be inferred from the different circumstances involved," Assistant District Attorney Jim Moore added.
Siewers countered that just because Miles had been charged with murder didn't mean Vestal knew it to be true, since people are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
"To say that she 'could have' known is not enough. The only thing that matters is what she knew," Siewers said. "There is no evidence that she knew any of that."
Welch then cited the interrogation conducted by a police detective in California when Vestal was captured there.
The detective asked Vestal, "So you knew that Miles had killed those two guys?" To which Vestal answered, "Yes."
"She didn't say, 'No he's innocent, that's why I broke him out.' She doesn't say, 'No he didn't do this. I love him.' Her response was, 'Yes.' That response says it all," Welch said.
The original crime
The jury in a Swain County jailbreak case has had a tough two weeks.
While the trial will ultimately determine the fate of former jailer Anita Vestal for springing an inmate from custody, jurors were forced to relive the execution-style murders and violent robbery that landed Jeffrey Miles in jail in the first place.
Prosecutors spent nearly four days walking jurors through the invasion of Scott Wiggins' and Heath Compton's rural home along an isolated country road, including bloody crime scene and gruesome autopsy photos.
Miles was one of six charged in their murders, but is believed to be the ringleader of the posse and the ultimate triggerman.
A string of ill-fated coincidences led Miles from Atlanta to Bryson City and eventually to Wiggins' and Compton's doorstep back in August 2008.
After a night of doing drugs in their hometown of Atlanta, Miles and a friend — along with two female companions — set out on a road trip to Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Resort. A two-day partying binge ensued, but the drugs and money began to run out.
Miles and his friend ventured out to search for more, leading to a chance encounter in the parking lot of a Super Walmart in nearby Sylva with two local boys. The locals returned to the casino with Miles, and in the midst of more drugs and partying, they concocted plans for a home invasion. The two local boys suggested Wiggins and Compton — whom they knew as drug dealers and thus likely to have cash lying around — as potential marks.
The foursome from Atlanta and the two local boys piled into a single vehicle and set out on the robbery.
Mayhem ensued once they invaded the home, however. They shot Wiggins and Compton execution style, ransacked their home for valuables, overturned furniture and emptied the contents of cabinets, doused everything in kerosene, and set it on fire before fleeing the scene. The fire never caught, however.
A third victim, Timothy Waldroup, had wandered up to Wiggins' house in the midst of the robbery, hoping to score drugs from them. Waldroup was caught up in the murderous melee. He was ordered into a bathtub and shot, but he didn't die. He stumbled out, crashing into a giant aquarium in the living room and leaving a bloody trail on the walls and furniture before collapsing in a ditch by the roadside where he was found alive but unconscious in the morning.
The loot the Atlanta crew made off with included an arsenal of guns, lots of cash and a pet Chihuahua — all of which were found in their possession when they were arrested in Atlanta days later.
All six — Miles' crew of four from Atlanta plus the two local boys — were charged in the murders and robbery. Their fate:
• Miles and the other man from Atlanta pled guilty and are serving consecutive life sentences.
• One of the women from Atlanta committed suicide in jail before going to trial.
• The other woman from Atlanta pled not guilty and went to trial, but was convicted and sentenced to life in prison despite claims that she never went into the home and didn't know what was transpiring inside.
• The two local boys, Mark Goolsby and Dean Mangold, who participated in the invasion initially but fled on foot when things started to get ugly, got lesser sentences.


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Video: Man sues police after hit in eye with ECD prong
Man alleges near total loss of vision in his right eye after he was shot twice by deputy
By Eric Lyttle
The Columbus Dispatch
HAMILTON COUNTY, Ohio — A Hamilton County man has filed a federal lawsuit against the Fayette County sheriff and a deputy, as well as a State Highway Patrol trooper alleging excessive use of force after he was shot in the eye with a Taser.
Matthew David Kelly, 24, of Harrison, sued on April 2 in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, alleging near total loss of vision in his right eye after he was shot twice by Deputy Clinton Sines. He asked for compensatory damages of $5 million on each of four counts.
Kelly was asleep in the passenger seat while his friend, Justin Runck, drove south on I-71 west of Washington Courthouse just before 4 a.m. on May 25, 2013.
As Kelly slept, Runck was pulled over and arrested for drunken driving by Trooper Bryan Cook. After securing Runck, Cook then tried to wake Kelly. He reached through the open driver's side door and across the seat, calling, "Hey partner. Hey," and then shaking him.
Kelly, according to the complaint, was "startled and flailed his arms over his head."
Fayette County Deputy Clinton Sines, who had stopped to assist, then ran to the passenger side of the truck and, with his Taser drawn, opened the door and shouted, "Sheriff's office, show us your hands. I know you're asleep, now get out," as he grabbed the back of Kelly's sweatshirt and began to try to pull him out of the truck.
Sines gave a couple of hard tugs, apparently unaware that the wordless and apparently confused Kelly was being held in place by his seat belt.
"I'll tase you," Sines told Kelly as he continued to yank Kelly from the truck. When Sines' grip slipped, Kelly rose and Sines fired his Taser. The Taser prong struck Kelly in the right eye.
Sines directed Kelly to "get on the ground, get on the ground now," and threatened, "I'll do it again." Kelly fell back into the seat and covered his head with both arms. Sines allegedly fired a second jolt into Kelly's eye.
Sines tried to pull Kelly out again, and then realized Kelly's seatbelt was still fastened. Cook reached in and released it and walked Kelly to the back of the truck, as Kelly complained, "My eye hurts."
He was taken to Fayette Memorial Hospital and then to Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center, where the Taser prong was removed hours later, according to the complaint.
Sines is named in the suit for excessive force.
Cook is cited for failing to prevent Sines from using his Taser.
Fayette County Sheriff Vernon Stanforth was named for negligently failing to properly train Sines, citing Sines disciplinary record, which includes a 1999 letter for unprofessional conduct, two reprimands in 2010 for neglect of duty and a 2011 action in which Sines was sued for violating the constitutional rights of an 18-year-old woman during a traffic stop as.
Kelly's lawyer, Jeffrey Witt, declined further comment, as did Patrol spokesman Lt. Craig Cvetan. The Fayette County sheriff's office did not return calls.
Copyright 2014 The Columbus Dispatch


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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team fell to Holy Cross on a buzzer beater on Wednesday night. Brisje Malone of Holy Cross caught the inbound pass with under three seconds left to play and delivered the game's winning basket. Just seconds earlier senior Kirsten Daamen had given Central the lead with her 20th and 21st points of the night.
The Blue Devils (2-3) built an early lead on the Crusaders (3-3). Holy Cross' Brisje Malone hit a free throw with 10:56 left in the half that cut CCSU's lead to 15-14. CCSU answered with three straight baskets to build a 21-14 lead. Seniors Kirsten Daamen and Jaclyn Babe and freshman Amanda Harrington were responsiblefor the scores.
A three-point basket by Holy Cross snapped Central's run, but junior Jessica Babe scored to put the Blue Devils ahead 23-17.
From that point, Holy Cross controlled the half. The Crusaders' closed the period on a 22-4 run and went to the half with a 36-25 advantage.
A three by Jessica Babe opened the scoring in the second half for the Blue Devils. Daamen converted the old fashion three-point play after being fouled on a layup, but Holy Cross maintained a 41-31 lead at the first media timeout of the second half.
The Blue Devils closed the gap to 41-35 on a long jumper by junior Lauren Arbogast with 13:05 left in the game, but Holy Cross scored the next three points to take a 44-35 lead.
CCSU cut the Holy Cross lead to five with a basket by junior Jaleen Thomas with 7:44 left in the game. A three by Jessica Babe, a jumper by Daamen and another basket by Babe put CCSU ahead 46-44 minutes later.
From that point both teams traded baskets with Central taking its final lead of the game on a basket by Daamen with nine seconds left in the game.
Following a pair of timeouts by Holy Cross, the Crusaders inbounded the ball with 2.5 seconds left in the game. The inbound pass found Brisje Malone near the three point line. She caught the pass, stepped right and hit the winning shot at the buzzer.
Daamen finished with a game-high 21 points. She also had nine rebounds, two steals and a block in the game.
Jessica Babe added 14 points and Arbogast contributed 10.
Thomas finished with seven rebounds, a season-high for her. Jessica Babe followed up Daamen and Thomas with six rebounds. Babe also had four assists.
The Blue Devils return to action next Wednesday with a home game against Vermont. The Blue Devils and Catamounts will tip-off at 7 p.m. in Detrick Gym.