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Mendlesham, Suffolk is a village with 1328 inhabitants, increasing at the 2011 Census to a population of 1,407, 5 miles north east of Stowmarket and 73.135 miles from London Wikipedia
Reiki with Andrew
Eye, Suffolk, IP23 7QG
I am a third degree qualified Reiki Master and Practitioner, offering one to one treatments for women and men at a quiet private studio [...]Distance: 5.12 miles.
Reiki and Tea
Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP68DH
Mobile Therapist Reiki Hot Stone Massage Swedish Massage My Passion is to make people feel better, using Reiki, Massage or simply by listening to what you have to [...]Distance: 6.67 miles.
Suffolk Reiki Company
Great Finborough, Suffolk, IP14 3AR
01449 678747
My name is Maxine Keefe and I have been practicing Reiki since 2012. Since then I have treated people ranging from children to those [...]Distance: 8.68 miles.
Sole II Soul
Claydon, Suffolk, ip60an
Debbi Chambers is a Reiki Master offering Reiki Treatments and Reiki 1, 2 and 3/Master Courses. Debbi also offers Reflexology, Readings, Maskery's Muscle Realignment, Natural [...]Distance: 10.18 miles.
Angel Creations
Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1
I am both a Seichim and Usui Reiki Master and work with many healing guides including Archangels and angels. Having a Reiki session or [...]Distance: 12.4 miles.
Lilac Pearl
Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 1XG
07704 195969
Lilac Pearl offers complementary mind therapies including Reiki in person from premises near Ipswich (for non touch therapies video conference is available), Lilac Pearl [...]Distance: 13.96 miles.
bodybreathe – Reiki Master Teacher
Woodbridge, Suffolk
07828 735073
Ana Rose is an experienced and fully qualified Reiki Master Teacher (Levels 1, 2, 3 & 4) and offers Reiki treatments and Reiki Level [...]Distance: 14.59 miles.
Serenity Touch
Norwich, Norfolk, NR15 2DX
My name is Hayley and over the years I have experienced many different therapies for pleasure and relaxation as well as for health reasons. [...]Distance: 14.74 miles.
Lesley Sherlock ~ Roseheart Therapies
Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 1AQ
07724 598188
General: www.roseheart-therapies.com
I was first initiated into the Reiki healing system in 2004 and have been using it in my daily life since then, going on [...]Distance: 14.88 miles.
Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 9ED
01473 685810 / 07791417838
Reiki treatments carried out in a relaxed atmosphere by Lesley Harold - Reiki Master Teacher. Lesley also runs courses for people wishing to learn [...]Distance: 14.98 miles.
WholeBody Holistic Therapies
Ipswich, Suffolk, IP7 5JB
Kelly Tennick - offering a mobile Reiki service throughout East Anglia. Reiki is an holistic therapy which brings about healing on a physical, mental, [...]Distance: 15.38 miles.
Prana Life Coaching & Reiki Healing
Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 0SX
Welcome to Prana Life Coaching & Reiki Healing, the first step to achieving your goals! Qualified in Life Coaching, Spiritual Life Coaching and Reiki, we [...]Distance: 16.89 miles.
The Treatment Shed
Sudbury, Derbyshire, CO10 0SQ
As a therapist I only act as a channel between the Reiki energy and your body energy. Clothes remain on during the session and [...]Distance: 17.04 miles.
Suffolk and Essex Animal Reiki Specialist
Capel St Mary, Suffolk, IP9 2JS
01473 480803
Here at Suffolk and Essex Animal Reiki, we specialise in treating the furry members of your family. Based out of our specialist treatment centre [...]Distance: 17.48 miles.
The Garden Room – Reiki
Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 2AP
Reiki has been found to be helpful for: Stress related conditions Anxiety and Depression Insomnia Emotional problems Fatigue For Relaxation Blood pressure problems It can also be given in Pregnancy [...]Distance: 17.94 miles.
Angelic hands
Ipswich, Suffolk, IP9 2LX
I am a Reiki Master/Teacher and offer Reiki, Indian Head Massage, Hopi Ear Candling and Thai Foot and Hand Massage in a quiet, serene, [...]Distance: 18.25 miles.
Tranquility Within
Attleborough, Warwickshire, NR17 2NQ
01953 451085
I offer a helping hand in coping with your emotions so you feel balanced, calm and in control in your busy and stressful life. [...]Distance: 18.66 miles.
Reiki Healing
Sudbury, Derbyshire, CO105LW
01787 212335
Holistic therapies and classes to relax mind body and spirit Meditation classes Reiki healing Crystal healing Indian head massage Aromatherapy Hot stone therapy Spa days and packages Reflexology And more..,,.Distance: 20.47 miles.
Simple & Serene Reiki Healing
Glemsford, Suffolk, CO10 7SG
01787 281114
Reiki is a non-intrusive form of healing, the flow of energy through myself to your areas of need. It helps the body to heal [...]Distance: 20.52 miles.
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Straily helps Oakland edge Houston 2-1
Dan Straily pitched seven scoreless innings to help the Oakland Athletics edge the Houston Astros 2-1 on Saturday.
Yoenis Cespedes and Jed Lowrie homered as the A's won for the seventh time in nine games to remain on top of the AL West. They began the day with a half-game lead over Texas.
Straily (9-7) allowed two hits, struck out seven and walked one in his third consecutive victory. The right-hander has a 1.50 ERA over 18 innings during his winning streak.
Dan Otero allowed a run in the eighth, but Sean Doolittle got four outs for his first save in four chances, completing the five-hitter.
Brandon Barnes had a run-scoring fielder's choice for Houston's only run. The major league-worst Astros have dropped nine of 12.
Houston starter Brett Oberholtzer (4-2) pitched six stellar innings, allowing one run and seven hits.
Straily retired his last nine hitters and 12 of his final 13 batters. He allowed one runner to reach third and he was stranded when Jonathan Villar was thrown out at second by Cespedes trying to stretch his single.
Matt Dominguez doubled to lead off the fifth but Straily struck out Chris Carter and Brett Wallace, and Matt Pagnozzi grounded out to shortstop.
Oberholtzer gave up Cespedes' 22nd homer leading off the fourth. After Nate Freiman singled, Oberholtzer retired nine of his final 11 hitters.
Lowrie hit a two-out home run in the seventh against Josh Zeid.
Wallace doubled with one out against Otero and eventually scored on Barnes' slow grounder to the pitcher.
NOTES: A's LHP Hideki Okajima cleared waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A Sacramento. ... A's OF Coco Crisp was given a scheduled day off. ... RHP Bartolo Colon (14-6, 2.90) starts the series finale on Sunday for the Athletics. He's lost his last three decisions. ... Cespedes is hitting .393 (11 for 28) in September. ... The Astros will send RHP Paul Clemens (4-4, 5.91) to the mound on Sunday. Clemens is making his third start after 30 relief appearances. ... Astros OF Robbie Grossman (strained oblique) missed his fourth consecutive game and remains day to day. ... RHP Edgar Gonzalez (right shoulder strain) was added to the roster at Double-A Corpus Christi and was scheduled to pitch an inning on Saturday. ... Houston C Carlos Corporan (concussion) played five innings for the Hooks on Friday night and was in the starting lineup again Saturday. ... Carter leads the AL with 189 strikeouts.

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The Czorny Alzheimer Centre looks a little like a typical institutional care facility. With its three cottage homes called Rose Garden, Sweet Pea and Pansy Lane, its gardens blooming with purple lavender and bright black-eyed susans, and a setting on a country road next to a pumpkin farm in Surrey, it feels more like a rural retreat.
The 36-bed residential care home is tranquil by design: the architecture reflects its innovative holistic, person-centred approach to dementia care. There are communal kitchens, living rooms and fireplaces, and each resident has a memory box to display old photos and mementos outside their rooms. There are resident pets: a cat and rabbit roam the halls. A chalkboard reads: "Have a beautiful day." Staff hug patients and hold their hands.
The centre offers music therapy, recreation, a spa, hair salon, hall with a dance floor, kitchen and piano. Residents can bake, garden and have visitors at any time. The outdoor paths through the gardens ringed with benches, flowers and strawberry patches are circular, so no one can get lost.
"It is absolutely person-centred care. That's the lens with which we make all of our care decisions," said the centre's manager, Dorrie Ferster.
"These people have lost some of their cognitive abilities, but they haven't lost that existential part of them that makes them so human."
The centre's therapeutic goals follow the Eden principles of care, which seek to eliminate loneliness, boredom and helplessness through tailored care and connection with nature.
"Once you learn about a person, what their routine is, what are their likes, their hopes, how they lived, you can modify your care for people," she said. "Some of these individuals can no longer say, 'I don't like muffins and I generally don't get up before nine o'clock,' so we really have to watch and serve and learn."
Families of residents notice the difference.
"We totally lucked out in this place," said Monica Brabander, whose father, August Achterholt, moved in this past winter. "We feel really good about Dad being here and it has actually become like a second home to us.
"You have that vision in your mind where an old-age home is an institution, where you see all these old people sit in hallways in wheelchairs," she continued.
But from her first moments at Czorny, Brabander said she could feel the difference of the patient-centred care approach.
"I remember going up to the receptionist and saying, 'I'm here to admit my dad.' And she said, 'We don't admit here at Czorny. They're moving in.' And right then I thought, 'OK, we've found the right place.'"
The centre has a high staff-to-patient ratio, with 40 caregivers, including five registered nurses and psychiatric nurses and 24-residential care attendants. They offer occupational therapy, physiotherapy and social work services and the Alzheimer Society resource centre is right on site. Volunteers who want to bring their pets or children for a visit, or play music, read, or help garden, are encouraged.
"There are three things, children, music and pets, that no matter what, seem to really get through to people," said Julie Dahl, the centre's volunteer co-ordinator.
Volunteer Jess McCallum, a 27-year-old aspiring medical student who has been volunteering since 2009 with residents as a cottage companion, said of the staff: "The quality of care here is incredible."
"It's very different than other areas of medicine ... you can sit down and have a conversation with someone and you ask questions and get answers. Here you really have to watch and be intuitive to see if someone is in pain or if somebody is having a bad day, and what are their needs right now," McCallum said.
The centre, which opened in 2007, is named for Michael Czorny, the father of Surrey benefactor Marilyn Stewart. She and her family watched him battle the disease for nine years, and in memory of him and his wife Nancy, who was his primary caregiver, they provided the 8.4-acre plot for the centre and donated $10 million in capital funding to create the first stand-alone Alzheimer's facility in the region.
The facility, part of the Fraser Health network, is currently being expanded to help meet the growing need for long-term dementia care. Three more cottages are being added, which will bring the total number of residents up to 72.


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Your patience is appreciated
Many of you reading this on Inside the Dodgers have provided feedback for years that have led to the current changes taking place on the MLBlogs network of sites. If you haven't ever visited the team's offiicial blog, please bookmark us and come back…why?
Because the kinks are being worked out. I'm told that because ITD has had so much content generated over the past five-plus years, it's presented a challenge during the switchover. But, I've been assured that the end product will be much better for all of you as commenters (and, for many of you, as bloggers yourselves).
So, hang in there for another day or so…we'll surely be up and running smoothly by Opening Day, which is less than 100 hours away at this point.
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Yeah!!!! ITD is back!!!
Okay – I have been trying to do this ALL DAY long.
Happy Birthday to two of our wonderful ITD writers………Jhall and Oldbrooklynfan :)) I hope your day was fabulous!!!!
Well, it appears all of the posts we were trying to get on the last few days actually made it on the previous thread – LOL!!! We will be patient Josh!!!
The Dodgers are coming home – yeah!!!
Wow!!! The entire homepage is different, and I can't find the blog on the homepage. Maybe that is one of the kinks being worked out.
The new Dodgers.com layout looks sharp. And I have to say that I'm a fan of the "It's time for Dodgers Baseball" campaign as well. The most important thing to Dodgers fans is the team on the field at the stadium, and putting the emphasis on that is a lot more appropriate than deciding who owns the town. The Dodgers have always owned the town during the summer. No one contests that.
AND Happy Birthday to the 3/27 club: OldBrooklynFan, JHall, Rosie, and a few others who have commented here over the years. Hope you all had a great day, and many happy returns!
That's right!!! Rosie too!!! It's good to see you Northstateblues!!! Great stuff as always. Love the new homepage!!!
That's right!!! Rosie too!!! It's good to see you Northstateblues!!! Great stuff as always. Love the new homepage!!!
Happy birthday to our boys and girl! I hope everyone is doing well! I'm back now that the games start counting! Let's support our boys in blue and get back to the top where we belong!
The new home page looks wonderful.
Also want to wish a very happy birthday to OldBrooklyn Fan, Rosie and JHall. Hope you all had fun on your special day 🙂
The homepage does look fantastic!!!
Where's the E?
By northstateblues on March 27, 2011 2:46 PM
Maybe somebody thought enchanted or Eric should have it – lol!!!!
Good morning. Welcome back ITD!!!!!
Welcome back everyone!
Happy belated birthday to OBF, JHall & our wonderful Rosie!
I am dressed in Blue ready to go to the game today! People were asking me at work "Why are you here early?" haha,
We are patient Josh!
Hello All and Thanks for the Birthday wishes!!! Thanks also to Josh and MLB for tending to our blogs problems. GO DODGERS!!!!
Hey Jhall!!! I hope your day is going well so far. Perumike and Sparkleplenty…….it was good seeing your names amongst the writers from last night. I hope all is well with the both of you too 🙂
Hey Josh, I don't know if it would make things easier or run smoother, but, I'm not sure we need all those old ITD archives. Maybe just keep 6 months to a year of them. I know I don't use them. JMO!!!
Jhall – All those thousands of posts we have done over the years must have taken it's toll on the system.
Hi'Ya Nelly!! You too!! Good to see you PMike and Sparky!!!
Yep Nelly, that's what I'm thinking!! Perhaps they could put them in a seperate area where they don't come up everytime the main board is called up!!!!
I'm holding out hope for gettig the program that Gurnick uses where you can comment on specific posts. That's run by MLB too – I don't have o re-sign in to use it.
HiYa Beav!! Hope things are going well up your way!! That would be very cool!!
Going fine Wally now that I'm out of the stone ages.
Is anyone else having problems with letters not appearing that you know you typed?
Thequck brown fox jumed over the lazy dog.
See wht I mean?
My typing does the same thing, Enchanted….it's been doing it for quite some time.
Hey enchanted!!! Glad to see you are still have power, (electricity that is – lol!!). I am not sure if I am having the typing problem or not? If I did, I just assumed I screwed up.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
Hi everybody
I haven't been able to comment on this blog for about a week, so let me try again today.
What a fool. Unless of course Frank and Ned are gone after this season.
Hello Dodger fans! Hey, I'm just trying to get a message to OldBrooklynFan about a memorial service for Duke Snider at the Brooklyn Cyclones park on Sunday, May 15th. For info tell him to check the flyer I posted on my main site…
…And just so you all know, I love chasing down anything Brooklyn Dodgers if it's in Brooklyn to find. So if you're so inclined, I appreciate anyone who visits. But I knew you all would make sure OldBrooklynFan would get the message if I left it here.
Good luck this season!
Oldbrooklynfan – we have all been locked out for the last three or four days. It finally let us back on late last night!
LET'S GO DODGERS, LET'S GO!!!! It's great hearing Vin's voice coming from Dodger Stadium 🙂
It sure is, Nellyjune 🙂
Alright Andre!!!!! Wooo Hooo!!!
Theodore Roosevelt Lilly needs to settle down just a tad 🙂
A tad?!!!! lol
The way Lilly is pitching, it feels like we've already gone more than 5 or 6 innings.
Geez, should have got more out of that inning!!!
He probably feels like that too, Jhall. lol
Well, even without his best stuff, he is battling and keeping us in he game.
True, Jhall.
It feels like we should be down about 5 runs too. So, in some ways he has gotten himself out of a lot of jams tonight which is a good thing.
Yep, we are fortunate to still be in this game Nelly!!!
Whoopie! Fred Gwynn and Carroll Channing get the start on opening day!!
Serious question – does this team even score opening day?
Well, I am watching that other game that is on, and neither of those teams are doing anything spectacular either. It's a 1 run game as well, and the gnats are currently winning.
Enchanted – perfect timing as always 🙂
I know there's a lot of Carroll fans here on ITD, but for him to get the start over DeJesus or even Miles, that smacks of Joe starting JP over Andre and Kemp. What good does it do for a prospect to earn a spot, then have some PVL get the start anyway?
And if Gwynn gets the start, why not in center where he's the most useful defensively, and move Kemp to right and Dre to left?
Its SOS different day. The idiocy never changes, only the names.
Whew!!! I thought I was going to have DiaGuerriers again! Lots of runs and I feel bad!!!
Always good to have Kuo-O-Pectate to stop the runs!!!!
Pepto-Broxmal doesn't always get it done!!!
I can tell, this is going to be a fun-filled season :):)
Rats!! DeJesus isn't ready for prime time yet!!! E=AAA
Yep, that kind of sucked Jhall!!! Brox needed that double play ball.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!! Well this ones on DeJesus!!! Unfortunate for Brox!! He doesn't bounce back from things like this very well!!!
Watch them blame this on Broxton.
No, he does not 😦 ………but that's on Brox and not De Jesus. Brox really needs to learn how to fight through this kind of stuff without implosions.
Shad – I am not blaming Brox for the blown save. I was just speaking to the fact that he can't let this stuff get to him and make his situation worse.
Yep Nelly, I agree!!
Errors happen and sometimes you don't get the calls you want. Brox just doesn't shake it off very well and get the job done. Just the way it is!!!
I agree Jhall!! He gets too rattled too easily still. I know it's spring training still, but it seems like the old habits are still lingering.
Andre needs to share his team psychologist with Brox if he isn't already doing so 🙂
Well, that was a big mistake in our favor.
I know Nelly but I'm always on that Dodgers mlb message board and thing like this is going to happen. Wow Dejesus is in everything hope we can catch this break in.
Yep Nelly, its too bad!!! Really great closers just seem to suck it up and find a way to get it done.
I surely miss those easy 1 2 3 innings.
Look how easy that dp was turned.
Yep, their closer overcomes the error, and ours doesn't. Rats!!!!
I'd keep Castro for now and send DeJesus to AAA for more seasoning!!!!
Oh well, still doesn't count for anything more than a learning opportunity!!!!
Overall it wasn't too bad of a game. With the way Lilly started out, it could have been alot worse. Plus, it doesn't count so onto tomorrow night when we head down the road to Anaheim.
That's right Nelly!! Doesn't matter till Thursday night!!!!
Yeah it doesn't count but it always fun to beat the Angels since they seem to owned us every single year in interleague game.
Yep, if we win Thursday, my half of the house will be very, very happy. If not, my side of the house will be screwed – LOL!!!
Chad Billingsley, Dodgers near deal?
It's great to finally have the start of the season just a couple of days away. Everyone starts with a clean slate and a lot of hope, and I hope that we can stay competitive in our division in spite of Ned's efforts and Frank's being in ownership so far.
My own expectations are not high when I look at what we'll put out on the field. Let's just realistically take it by position:
1st Base – we're average.
2nd Base – mediocre.
At short – maybe average, but fading.
3rd Base – mediocre.
Catcher – mediocre.
CF – better than average, and I'm talking about Kemp.
RF – average (sorry, if that upsets the Ethieraholics)
LF – mediocre.
Starting pitching – average, other than Kershaw and maybe Billz, but then again most teams have two good starters.
Bullpen – probably better than average.
Bench – at best average, but leaning to mediocre.
Perhaps the most exciting times in Spring Training were when our really young guys got a chance, like Sands and Smith, but there certainly is not much depth among really good prospects.
Is there much reason to expect that we'll perform at a level better than .500? The brightest hope yet is that Frank will be forced to GO with Ned not far behind. So, what else is new?
Good mornig ITD!
Was it you that want a calendar magnet? If so, send me your addr to crzblue at yahoo.
I tend to agree with you Bear!!!
We're not the only ones Nelly!!! The Angels closer wiggled off the hook after a huge error. I will go on record and say I have little confidence in Broxton as our closer!!!! I hope I'm wrong but he will cost us too many wins before Donny wakes up!!!
Remember, these were AAA players Brox was facing last night. God help us when he faces the real deal.
The Dodger fans are probably the most loyal fans around…but, with a lousy owner and a very poor GM, I don't blame the players at all for wanting to escape Looneyville!
Jhall – I read that article/blog first thing this morning, and I really think it was just Andre being realistic. He's right, how many Dodgers have we seen lately make it past 6 years? And, with Frank as owner, is he really going to be able to afford to keep all of them that will be up for new contracts. If he has a great year (Andre will be out to prove you wrong Bear!! LOL!! ), whether he is eligible for free agency or not, they are going to have to pay him (and Matt) if they want them to be happy. Andre is in a win, win situation. If he has a great year, everyone will want him and Frank will have to pony up the money to keep him, and even if he has a average year (like Bear thinks), he becomes victim to a GM and an owner who are absolutely horrible, and he would be traded to a team that actually gives a damn about baseball. So, Andre has a right to be realistic in his thinking. The fans sure are, and it's about time a player steps up and says the same thing. You want him to be a leader. Well, IMO, he just did that……….being realistic is part of what ballplayers go through I am sure. I just don't think we are used to hearing it from Andre.
Once again!
Well, ITDland, do you like this new format?
testing clicking on reply to Tru on "do you like this new format" Time: 1:25 P.M. PT.
I see the time stamp is really screwed up….it's 1:05 pm here in California.
Alright – I'm a yellow snow snowflake!!! How appropriate.
I like the new format. I had already seen it as Mark, our fearless leader tried it on his (MLb blogsphere) blog first. But he does not have the volume of comments like ITD does. I don't see all the comments here.
Down with Frank and Ned!
Bring back Jamie!
Just testing out the new blogosphere.
LOL E! yeah that is appropriate for you 🙂
LOL, Enchanted & Bear!
I wonder if once a yellow snowflake, always a snowflake? Or, will it change each day?
I thought I was locked out for good after my last tyraid, but I guess it was just more changes…… fancy! Wally looks like Wally – hmmmm 🙂
Okay Wally – how did you do that?
It isn't working here, but I am not sure if it's me or the computer here at school. I will see if I have the same problem when I get home tonight.
Nope. Still won't let me post a picture. Oh well, think with this team I prefer being yellow snow anyway.
Testing new blog page. Testing? Testing?
We've got a new casa!
I'm still yellow snow 😦
Now my comments are being moderated. 😐
Hi Everybody
Just Bookmarked in
Just trying to remain Old Brooklyn Fan.
I give up.
Think its not liking my email address
R my posts getting through???
Let's Go Dodgers, Let's Go!!
Okay, what is this? I saw all of the new pics next to everyone's post and thought I'd see what comes up for me.
Here goes nothing…
Jhall! Sorry about your Buckeyes 😦 Did you have to change something to have that picture? When I posted my comment, it didn't even ask me if I wanted that picture or if I wanted to change it.
Oh, and I see we're back to the weird time stamp thing again…
Thx for the info jhall, but when I right click, I don't get an option to open link. I'll keep on trying and see if I can figure it out. Otherwise, I guess I have to get stuck on that image somehow…
thx jhall! i'll check it out later. I've gotta go; I'll catch up with ya later…
Testing 1..2..3
I am having the same issue as enchanted.
Frustrating 😦
Okay – I think it's working now because I see Andre – yeah!!!
My Ethieraholicism is in full force today. I am going to enjoy him play this season and hope for the best. I stand by what he said 100% because I believe in my heart he was just honestly answering a question, and I think people were surprised he said what he said. Andre is what got me involved in ITD in the first place, and I owe it to him for all the wonderful things that have happened to and with this group. Jhall said it best. It's all perspective and what happens happens in baseball (just like Andre was trying to say himself IMO). As Dodgereric loves to say….this is our toy store, no matter how screwed up it is right now, and hopefully the toys inside will be fixed someday. However until then, I am going to enjoy watching these boys play baseball.
I think Ken Levine is on the other line (the Seattle Broadcast).
Rubby sure looks like one of those "Best Arms ", Mattingly was talking about.
Juan just seemed to have timely hitting from what I remember, but Matt had his fair share of those as well.
Hello, all….less than a day away.
I am impressed with Sands as well.
Wondering what other icons show up on here…….
❤ the Dodgers!!!
Too bad there isn't a delete button to erase any really messed up posts that I did/do 🙂
All right. What happened to my tirade earlier today?
LOL!!!! Collie – We were thinking the same thing about Shad. I want to see what enchanted, messagebear, and Eric come up with too 🙂
I've got something, but I'm in "Your comment is awaiting moderation" hell.
Collie – as fast as Matt is, I think he would do well in the 2-hole if the 4-hole isn't working for him. However, if spring is any indication, then it seems to be working for him so far. Andre had a great double tonight so he seems to be getting in his lefty groove as well.
Hope my gravatar shows up. Out at Anaheim Stadium last night. Geez, I dislike that place. Blue product on the field pretty boring, I might add.
It worked Kahli!!!
Can't really see the image. It's my son dressed as a hippie…but he's really a Russian terrorist these days…???!?!?!?!?
One more out and the Opening Day roster will be revealed.
Spring Training is officially over – LET'S GO DODGERS!!!!
Can't say I was too pleased with Ethier's comments. This isn't the first time he's intimated he wants OUT. We get it, Andre. Ownership is in the toilet. But don't air it to the media vultures. Nothing good can come of it.
Beat Lincecum mañana!
kahli, Ethier's comment is a direct answer to a direct question. I for one applaud a straight answer to one that is an obvious avoidance. The truth hurts sometimes.
Let me try this angle.
Per the Dodger postgame show, Hector Gimenez made the team; Scott Elbert optioned and Juan Castro reassigned to minor league
125th attempt…
OK, guess I gotta wait.
Now, what happened to my tirade earlier today? It was my birthday present to myself.
I hope it wasn't censored. Because if they didn't like that post, they sure ain't gonna like my avatar.
Aaron Miles, Lance Cormier, and A.J. Ellis made the Dodgers, per DodgerTalk
Dodgers option Elbert and reassign De La Rosa, Kapler and Oeltjen
Wow!!!! I knew you would do something cool!!! Wow!!! Just Fabulous Dodgereric!!!!
I don't know. Right after your tirade and a few others from me and others, we were erased off the board, and all this started 🙂
Hope you had a good birthday!!!
Yeah, good birthday, thank you very much! Some good-natured ribbing about hitting the 29th anniversary of my 29th birthday, breakfast with some buds and a lot of nice quality time with my family! How much better can you get?
OK, cool! We can reply and have an avatar! Now I have to get to sleep, because according to the date/time stamp, I have to start working in an hour. Tomorrow.
3 Non-Roster Invitees make Dodgers: MacDougal, Miles and Cormier
Yeah, good birthday! Some good-natured ribbing about hitting the 29th anniversary of my 29th birthday, breakfast with some buds and a lot of nice quality time with my family! How much better can you get?
You can't get much better than that!
Oops, shoulda done a reply instead! Lemme try that.
OK, can't just copy a comment and make it a reply.
Seeing how I have been up since 3am, according to the time stamp, I have been up for 26 hours now 🙂
That's great Eric!! You deserve it!!
Here is the full roster….
The Dodgers today finalized their opening day 25-man roster for their game Thursday night against the Giants at Dodger Stadium, with the news coming during DodgerTalk after tonight's game. Thinking back to the beginning of spring, there are quite a few surprises.
•Starting Pitchers (4): Clayton Kershaw, Chad Billingsley, Ted Lilly, Hiroki Kuroda
•Relief Pitchers (7): Jonathan Broxton, Hong-Chih Kuo, Matt Guerrier, Kenley Jansen, Blake Hawksworth, Mike MacDougal, Lance Cormier
•Catchers (3): Rod Barajas, A.J. Ellis, Hector Gimenez
•Infielders (6): James Loney, Jamey Carroll, Rafael Furcal, Juan Uribe, Aaron Miles, Ivan DeJesus
•Outfielders (5): Andre Ethier, Matt Kemp, Marcus Thames, Tony Gwynn Jr., Xavier Paul
•Disabled List (5): Casey Blake, Jon Garland, Dioner Navarro, Vicente Padilla, Jay Gibbons
Collie – X. Paul is on the list as the 5th outfielder – hmmm
Ward Dear – There is a reason your name (Dodgereric) is underlined in the recent comments sections. You may already know this but if you click on your name, your Dodgerlyrics comes up.
Yeah, there's a box for placing a website on the sign-in location. I shoved that in there just for fun. It's underlined as you see it? On my laptop it's in italics like everyone else's, but it's red, like the "reply" link. Interesting.
Yes, I see it underlined not with italics nor is there any color.
Nevermind – we are talking about two different things. You are talking about right underneath your comments, and I am talking about the side bar letting the readers know who has commented recently. Yes, your name is in red italics in that case, and your name is underlined over on the side bar. Now, I get it! LOL!!!
Nevermind – yes, it is in red italics underneath your comments. I was referring to the side bar where it lets readers know who has commented recently. Now, I get it for sure now 🙂
5 players are starting on the DL. It will be interesting to see how the DL is manipulated……I mean managed this year with Donnie.
Barry Zito was in a car accident in West Hollywood tonight. He is scheduled to start in the 4th game. There are no reports at this time as to what injuries he has sustained, but, he was taken by ambulance and later released. It didn't appear he suffered any major injuries.
Sands' catch made Sportscenter 🙂
Dodgereric – my first "nevermind" comment was held saying "didn't you already say that?". I didn't think it was still going to post so I rewrote it in different way. I guess they both decided to show up.
Well, at least he is on the warning list. Enchanted has yet to make it on here with an avatar of his own. He and Bear just may be eliminated before they can even start – lol!!!! jk boys – it wouldn't be ITD without you 🙂
In that case, Oldbrooklyn fan made the list too, and Jhall must be flying under the radar because his name is just normal like the rest of us – lol!!
Well, this has been fun, but I gotta get to work a half-hour ago.
Sorry to hear that — I'm off sucka's!!! I of course say that jokingly because if you knew me well you would know that isn't Colliespeak.
Take care all… Nice "playing" with you all tonight! Happy Opening Day!! IMO it should be a national holiday.
Happy (belated?) Birthday Eric!
Late night at work tonight, but I wanted to check in and see the updates, looking good. I see the blog's title hasn't changed to "Inside the Yang-Na's", that's good, too.
One of the best things I can see right away is that we now can use HTML tags in our comments, which can add a LOT more fun in expressing yourself.
"What's my opinion of Kingman's performance? WHAT THE $#@$#@ DO YOU THINK IS MY OPINION OF IT?!!
Also, if you really want, you can
type with utilize play with use italics and strikeout text.
And there's a bunch of stuff I'm not even sure how to use, I should find out…. but if nothing else, I hope that link above works, otherwise this is gonna be one messed up looking post.
Happy early Opening
Day Night, everyone!
… and after all that, I still can't figure out how to make an icon…
Happy Opening Day, Ya'll………………
Let's Go Dodgers, Let's Go!!!!
Beat The Gnats!!!
Good morning.
Sorry I missed you last night Dodgereric and North. I think it's going to be a very intresting season for us. Should be fun chatting during the games.
Here we are on opening day – root for the best and settle for whatever comes.
We'll probably see on ESPN some of the banners flown around courtesy of the Giant fans. Wish we had gotten together to pay for one that says SELL THE TEAM.
So cute, Bear! Not really what I expected however 🙂
Good Morning ITD readers and writers!!
Messagebear is using a cute, fuzzy teddybear to make you all think it is safe to go near him, and then BAM!!! He lashes out and rips Frank and Ned a new one (and any player, coach or manager that is not doing their job). Then after his moment, he goes back to being the cute, fuzzy bear we all know and love. I LOVE IT!!!
My classroom is celebrating tomorrow with a classroom program for our parents and 4th grade reading buddies and more activities in the afternoon, including watching a game hopefully. (We can't do much fun stuff during the week anymore – boss lady doesn't like it 😦 ). I took the concepts I have done all along and put them into a program for more learning about this sport we love so much. I have some true die hard gnat fans in here that will not touch a Dodger logo to save their life. It's the first time I have an actual rivalry with students where they say they hate the Dodgers. It's funny but kind of scary too. We need to win tonight to shut them up for at least tomorrow 🙂
Woohoo opening day!!
This thing working yet?
lol they still haven't gotten the bug out yet.
Dodgreric ~ I think North knows how to use them. As for me, I can barely type! 🙂
Oops ~ Dodgereric (see told you I can't type!)
Hiya tru! Long time-no time. At least you know how to use a smiley face.
I just tried planting one of those things right next to a word and nothing happened. 😦
This thing hates me.
Oh, cool! Lemme try this….
LOL, Dodgereric. At least we were able to get on this blog. Dodger4life can't get anything to post. I think Enchanted is having problems too.
OK, that doesn't work. Gotta use the old way:
Anyone read about this and yeah I know it was yesterday morning but still.
Interesting that my name isn't in red any more. Maybe it's because I'm not at my home email address. Well, gotta go and get something worthwhile done.
Like putting together my 784th anti-mccourt letter to the Times.
Can't stick around long; got a lot to do. But had to come onto ITD and say…
IT'S TIME FOR DODGER BASEBALL!!! (I've been waiting to say this for a LONG LONG TIME!!!)
Ah, gotta put one of those things in before the words…… 🙂
Your name is still in red to me 🙂
Good luck on the letter to the Times. May you get your 784th published 🙂
E sad. 😦
Happy Opening Day/Night everyone!
D4 & Enchanted & anyone else having issues — try typing in "inside the dodgers" in the website section. It asks for you name and e-mail but doesn't require the website. However I wasn't getting through until I added that. Maybe this will help!
Happy Opening Day everybody!! Go Blue!!!
I'll give that a try Collie.
Using tags is kinda easy, once you get the hang of it.
The real, pointy brackets above the comma and period buttons disappear once you type them, because the computer thinks you're typing code. So to demonstrate, I'll use parentheses where the pointy brackets would go.
Number one rule of HTML tags is that you have to close them with a /. Here's an example to show why:
Say you want to bolden just one word. Type in "This is getting to be (b)really(/b) irritating! "
and it will look like this: "This is getting to be really irritating!"
If you don't put in that (/b) in there, the whole rest of the sentence will be bolded, so if you type this: "This is getting to be (b)really irritating!" , you'll get this: "This is getting to be really irritating!"
If you don't close the tag with the (/b), everything will be bold after you use it, so "This is becoming really irritating! But at least it's sunny outside. Did you hear about what happened to blah blah blah ?" would end up being ""This is becoming really irritating! But at least it's sunny outside. Did you hear about what happened to blah blah blah ?"
So here's a rundown of which tags do what (that I know, which is only a few of these):
(a href="")(/a): this one is the code you use for creating your own links, with whatever words you want for the link, instead of the full http address. For example, in my post from last night, I referenced the hideous, was-he-kidding-or-wasn't-he "Yang-Na's" article from the LA Times by doing this: "Inside the (a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-furgatch-yangnas-20110329,0,5705233.story") Yang-Na(/a) 's" And it made this: "Inside the Yang-Na 's". You only need to type (/a) to close this tag, you don't have to type the rest. But remember to close the tag, otherwise the whole rest of your post will become a link to that article. And don't forget to put the whole address between quote marks, otherwise you get funny results.
(b)(/b): This makes words bold. You already know this one from above.
(i)(/i): Italics. You can use these to make your posts say what you really wanna say.
(strike)(/strike): My favorite, Strikeout text! Place words inbetween these tags to make it look like you crossed out some text. So you can do things like this: "This is
pathetic WONDERFUL!". Strikeout is the lifeblood for internet cynicism.
And… that's all I know of these tags on the bottom. I'm curious to find out what the others are.
Dang are they going to fix the time to?
OK, Let me get use to this new blog setups. Hopefully I'm actually posting something! But patience is asked for and patience I will have! But the whole face, happy face, avatars…all looking GOOD!
NSB thanks for your hints…I will read them and try to learned them
Thanks for the rundown Northstateblues!! (b)FABULOUS!!!(b/)
Just trying to see if the blog will accept designated font color.
uh oh!! I already screwed up – LOL!!!
Well, apparently not, or it may require a different HTML designation code than what I'm used to for purposes of color.
(b)FABULOUS!!! (/b)


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CNN - 22 October 2000
"Peace process in limbo after Barak calls 'timeout'"
1. Objectivity Violation: Distortion of facts
"Peace process in limbo after Barak calls 'timeout'"
The CNN headline, "Peace process in limbo after Barak calls 'timeout,'" places the blame for the peace process being in limbo squarely on Barak. The cause: Barak's call for a timeout.
This is a distortion of the facts. With the wave of Arab incitement and violence against Israeli soldiers and civilians, the peace process has been in limbo for weeks. Barak's call for a timeout is in response to the intensification of the attack against Israel with the threats used at the Arab summit and calls for increased violence.
2. Objectivity Violation: Imbalanced reporting.
Of the 22 paragraphs dedicated to describing the reaction Barak's reassessment, 17 paragraphs, over 77% of this section, expounds the disapproving Arab reaction in exceedingly harsh terms. This gives an incredibly lopsided view of events. Here is a brief synopsis of the opening 11 paragraphs [we recommend that you see the original article in full]:
"Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat said he "expected this" from Barak..."
"The Arab summit's final declaration denounced Israel, calling for a United Nations-led "war crimes tribunal" to try Israelis...."
"Participants in the emergency Arab summit lashed out at Israel for what they said was unjustified aggression..."
"'There are no more relations to be opened until they go back to the right path of peace,' said Amr Moussa, the Egyptian foreign minister."
"Libya's delegation walked out of the meeting Saturday, expressing disgust that Arab ties with Israel were being left largely intact."
"The failure of the Arab leaders to take more stringent steps against Israel was condemned on the streets of Ramallah in the West Bank..."
Barak is quoted in two paragraphs as presenting the Israeli side, but he is immediately dismissed with the heading "Palestinians suspicious of Barak's motives," and introductory line: But some Palestinian leaders interpreted Barak's "timeout" as confirmation of their long-held suspicions about the Israeli prime minister's agenda.
CNN follows with six paragraphs presenting four Arab representatives denouncing Barak and Israel as having "no interest in peace." There is no commentary. The reader is left with the impression that Barak has no interest in peace and that Israel is to blame for the escalation of violence.
Is it true that Barak is not interested in peace? At Camp David, he offered concessions so sweeping that even the U.S. negotiators were astonished: giving up virtually all the West Bank (including the militarily crucial Jordan Valley), offering to divide Jerusalem, ready even to renounce Israeli sovereignty over Judaism's holiest site, the Temple Mount. A.B. Yehoshua, Israel's best-known literary figure and a longtime peace activist, told Newsweek: "Barak had offered [Arafat] things that even I as a permanent dove, even a zealous dove, couldn't imagine an Israeli leader would offer." And Leah Rabin, the widow of peace architect Yitzhak Rabin, said he'd be "turning in his grave" from Barak's concessions.
In the CNN article, there is no equal time given to explain Barak's "timeout" decision. Only the relative unknown Gilad Sher, is quoted, rather feebly, saying that a timeout "doesn't mean the peace process is frozen." The reader is left with an imbalanced picture.
The following paragraph is particularly odious.
Barak's announcement was seized on by the leader of the militant Islamic movement Hamas, Mahmoud Al-zahar, who said, "Hamas said from the beginning Israelis are not willing to make real peace... Now that was proved after nine years... The question is how to organize our activities against the occupation."
Never mind that CNN describes Hamas as a 'militant Islamic movement' instead of what it really is: a terrorist organization. It appears to justify Hamas' "activities against the occupation" -- i.e.: violence and murder, by seizing on Barak's announcement for a time-out.
3. Objectivity Violation: Selective Omission
This lead story fails to highlight the biggest attack to date by Palestinian gunmen in Beit Jala on the residential Gilo neighborhood in southern Jerusalem. Palestinian gunfire hit 16 residential buildings on five streets, provoking a counter-attack by the IDF.
When the article does finally make mention of the attack towards the end, it writes:
"Residents of Gilo, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, said they had been fired upon by residents in an adjacent Arab neighborhood." [italics added]
Instead of reporting the objective facts of the attack, as it does in the paragraph above that reports on four Palestinians being killed, the events are described as if they are a "claim" made by the residents, casting a shadow on the actuality of civilians being fired upon.
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Released in 1974, Carrie was King's first published novel and tells the story of a high school girl who, through telekinetic powers, takes revenge on peers that have mocked her.
Most famously adapted for the screen by Brian De Palma in 1976, Carrie received a sequel in 1999 and a made-for-TV adaptation in 2002. The story was also the basis for a famously-troubled Broadway adaptation in 1988 which has some coincidental ties to Aguirre-Sacasa's most recent gig, rewriting the Broadway show "Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark."
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It's not always easy to work in all five of our Gaming App of the Day game titles into the weekly gaming app round-up, but I'd like to think this week I was particularly inspired. Notice how I just strung a bunch of words together? So good.
From large and colorful blocks to semi-realistic (looking) motorcycles, this week in gaming apps had it all, with the possible exception of the hundreds of thousands of other apps we bypassed in order to highlight these five. I managed to do two of them myself, one the Android-exclusive Little Empire; the other Super Crossfire HD, a game I used to break in my new-ish iPad 2. Yeah, don't get used to that.
It also bears noting that this is the second week in a row we've featured a game with zombies in it. If we manage to do that three weeks in a row we summon Tony Todd and he kills us all. Fingers-crossed!
If you have a suggestion for an app for the iPhone, iPad, Android or Windows Phone 7 that you'd like to see highlighted, let us know.
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When I was seven years old, I got the Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas. My parents already had a Pong machine and a Magnavox Odyssey, and I enjoyed both machines very much. Bu this was different. This was my console. My first console. And the game I fell in love with instantly was Super Mario Bros. More »
Little Empire is a Massively Multiplayer Backstabbing Simulator
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Last October I was excited to announce that former Xbox Live Indie Games developer Radiangames was getting into iOS gaming business with the frantic 2D shooter Super Crossfire. Then my iPad screen cracked. And my iPhone got dropped out of a speeding car. Someone did not want me playing this game. More »
Minesweeper Is Much Better With Zombies
Have they added zombies to Pac-Man and computer solitaire yet? I am afraid to check. But I should not be, because they have added zombies to Minesweeper. That turns out to have been a terrific idea. The result of this mad combination is called Zombie Minesweeper: A Love Story. More »
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ACLU offers: But JADE-watcher fears retribution
Elisha Strom sat in jail for a month for publishing the address of a Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement officer. Now the American Civil Liberties Union is offering its assistance in the case.
"This is a classic free speech issue," says Kent Willis, ACLU of Virginia executive director. "Ms. Strom has taken information that's publicly available and put it on a website. A federal court has already struck down as unconstitutional a nearly identical law in Washington."
Strom was arrested July 16 for publishing the address and home photos of one of JADE's officers on her blog, i HeArTE JADE. She's tracked the activities of the drug task force since October 2008, published photos of them at work and given them nicknames like "Porn Star," "Longhead" and "Pringle."
She was charged under Virginia code §18.2-186.4 that prohibits publication of law-enforcement officers' addresses or photographs with the "intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass."
She was arrested by Special Agent Jason Trent with the State Police's Bureau of Criminal Investigations, who did not immediately return a reporter's phone call.
Strom disputes that her blog harasses cops, and the ACLU agrees.
She hasn't decided whether to accept the ACLU's offer of assistance, which could be legal representation or an amicus brief. "I'd be interested in talking to them," she says from her home in Bedford County. "The only thing I'd worry about is making JADE mad."
While she says she doesn't feel threatened by the drug task force, she does feel intimidated. "They're already upset with me," she says. "I don't want to end up with 40 new charges because I'm getting support."
Strom has said her interest in JADE stems from the arrest and trial of her estranged husband, white separatist leader Kevin Strom, who was charged with child porn possession, enticement of a minor and intimidation of a witness after Elisha found him masturbating in front of a photo of young girls. An investigator on the case also works for JADE.
The enticement and intimidation charges were thrown out of federal court in October 2007. Kevin Strom blamed the charges on "false accusations" by Elisha, but pleaded guilty to one count of child porn possession in January 2008 and served 23 months in prison.
Elisha Strom was released on $7,500 bond August 13 and is scheduled to appear in Albemarle General District Court September 17.
And the i HeArTE JADE blog is still up. "I'm not allowed to use a computer," says Strom. "It's not active– but it went from hundreds of viewers a week to thousands a day."
Correction: The court in which Strom will appear was misidentified in the original story and has been corrected.
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You haven't blown a hole in anything, Bozo, and it's highly unlikely that you ever could.
Shiffletts are just like cops.
95% good honest decent hard working people.
5% lying thieving scroundrels.
Hey Gasbag/Steve/SOTLR/etc.
Are you the same Steve Shifflett that was an Albemarle deputy that allegedly lied about being shot at a couple of years ago?
Waz matter, Cup Cake? Get upset cause I blew a hole in your "cop has more credibility than Strom" theory? I love the example I used. It includes a little slice of supervision, a little slice of rookie, a little slice of crime scene tech, and a little slice of community service cop. The conspiracy and lying starts at the top and goes all the way down the ranks of the entire department. If those 4 told me Chief Longo was on the moon having three way sex with a mental patitent and a Panda Bear, you're right, I would believe it. Because that's just how good they are at lying without cracking a smile.
Think about what would have happened to the girl in Florida if the Keystone Kops had been smart and remembered to turn off their video and audio equipment. It would have been 4 cops lying against one poor girl. Shameful!!
wangitus, you will find that anybody being critical of police are always singled out and harassed. Didn't this lady point out in her blog at one point a cop left his post and went golfing with a girlfriend? Or did I read something incorectly? I don't have time to go back and look.
Steve S and see your ****, raise you one *****,
is that you Sick??
I am sure that the prosecuters are wringing their hands over how to proceed with this not so brilliant plan of shutting this woman up.
I am surprized they even took it on, they usually are too busy picking on people for minor crap to make the conviction statistics look good.
Maybe if the prosecuters office got back to the original mandate of protecting the people, keeping society civil and do it without needless waste of taxpayer money, they wouldn't get into these messes.
They over punish small frys to look good and do not realize that they are throwing away slightly thawed people who made a mistake and could redeem themselves if the prosecuter were not always out for easy kills.
I would venture to say that if the proesecuters office simply brought this woman in and discssed the situation with her she would have backed off and save the taxpayers a boatload of money.
So you've decided that there's no proof based on a newspaper article? No wonder you're not a cop anymore. What about statements she's made to other non-biased third parties? privy to those? Things found on her seized computer? any idea whats there? And you continue to think that the arresting officer may be subject to some potential personal civil liability even if she's convicted simply because the law itself *may* eventually be found wanting?? Spend at least 15 minutes in law skewl before you decide to be an internet lawyer, judge and court of appeals all rolled into one.
Did the public defender's office leave her in jail for a month?
Looks like the Washington state case was used to shut up somebody being critical of police. Why does this not come as a surprise to me? LOL!!!!!
ââ?¬Å?The only thing I'd worry about is making JADE mad."
Just a guess, but it might be a little late for that
Why don't get the entire quote right?
"ââ?¬Å?The only thing I'd worry about is making JADE mad... they're already upset with me," she says. ââ?¬Å?I don't want to end up with 40 new charges because I'm getting support."
She's worried about more bogus charges being placed now that she is out on bond. Do certain loose cannon cops use the law to hide behind and retaliate against people - repeatedly? Yes. Myself, having had to file 8 lawsuits in the last 12 years, can tell you that once they get a case of the butt for you, it never goes away. It's an ego trip by which they just keeping digging their hole deeper.
Let review my currernt score. Steve S, 6 .... Cops 0.
To go into even more detail, 2 default judgements with interest until paid, 5 settled out court as we neared the court dates for a jury to hear my claims, and the best 1 still pending. This last remaining lawsuit will most definitely go to a jury, with other cops testifying against the defendant.
Don't even attempt to say Strom has nothing to fear now that she is out on bond. That dog don't hunt, Cup Cake.
I was going to stay out of this particular thread, but IMHO your choice of user name dared me to enter. :)
The most interesting thing that the media seem to be ignoring are the several references in the iheartejade blog to Elisha Strom's admitted emotional relationship with JADE officer Brian N. O'Donnell (who was an investigator in her husband's prosecution at the time) and her overtly sexual relationship with another JADE officer after her stalking had started:
These relationships-gone-bad are right out in the open, in detail, on the iheartejade pages. Elisha Strom even dedicates the blog, in her very first post, to O'Donnell by name. There is more than a hint of woman scorned in the air.
My opinion: Neither the JADE men nor Elisha Strom can be trusted to tell the whole truth; both have things to hide about this case and the one that preceded it.
Nobody 'left' her in jail...she had a bond hearing and the judge set a $7500 bond....which means she needed about $750.00 to get out. And it's nobody's 'fault' she was in jail except her own! And Steve S. stop with all the 'damages' talk. You've made it very clear that you spend your life filing lawsuits...you're up to 8? Why don't you get a real job!
"You've made it very clear that you spend your life filing lawsuits"Šyou're up to 8? " Steve S. ought to file them as long as he can win them. What's it to you? Are you being subpoenaed?
quote: "And you continue to think that the arresting officer may be subject to some potential personal civil liability even if she's convicted simply because the law itself *may* eventually be found wanting??"
If she's convicted, the game is over.
If she has the conviction overturned, it's a whole new ball game.
This is the way my drunken uncle explained it to my hick cousin, so it must be true. :)
Just remember that the Federal Circut Court that struck that law down is much more Liberal than the Federal Circut Court that would hear the case regarding Virginia law. Just something to think about.
Here's another credibility issue.
Who's telling the truth? 5 cops or 1 girl?
quote: "...deputies claimed that the waitress "asked to have her picture taken with their weapon, but acknowledged they should not have agreed," according to the police report. "Bambi," however, told investigators that "the Midland deputies asked her to go outside to take pictures of her holding the weapon on their marked unit."
Why on earth are any of you giving any credence to the words of a racist nut?! Just because she says it on her blog, doesn't make it true. Anybody crazy enough to tail these officers endlessly because she's "curious" about them, loses a lot of credibility in my book.
Heck, I could start a blog tomorrow and make all sorts of stuff up. The only idiots I can think of who would be gullible enough to swallow it hook, line, and sinker are people like Sick/SteveS/SeeYour et al.
quote: "Why on earth are any of you giving any credence to the words of a racist nut?!"
I don't recall seeing anything racist in her blog. I also have no idea who she is or her past. I don't care to know. This is about "innocent until proven guilty" But as we all know it's totally opposite nowadays... "guilty until proven innocent".
Furthermore, based on personal knowledge and experience, a cop has no more credibility in my book than any other citizen out on the street. I don't have time to look for the link right now, but I have posted it previously. The news link has probably expired by now. 4 cops toss a girl in the back of a patrol car. They immediately begin to create a tale taking the blame off the cop car that caused the wreck and conspire amongst themselves to make it appear as if the girl was at fault. One slight problem, they forgot their video and audio recorders were still on.
See if this link works for you, then we can discuss cop credibility further if you like, Cup Cake.
Here's the actual news report. Don't ever assume this intentional lying and conspiracy doesn't take place nationwide. Has the "crime scene technician" in this story always told the truth in court? Has the sgt in this story always told the truth in court? Credibility, HaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!
Four Hollywood, Florida, police officers and a crime scene technician are suspended with pay ââ?¬â? and probably contemplating career changes ââ?¬â? after being recorded by a police dashboard camera conspiring to frame a civilian driver for a crash. Alexandra Torrensvilas was arrested for driving under the influence only after a police officer rear-ended her at a traffic light, and that officer and his colleagues openly discussed, within range of the camera's audio pickup, doctoring their stories and the evidence to blame the woman for the collision.
One of the officers can be heard saying, ââ?¬Å?I don't want to make things up ever, because it's wrong, but if I need to bend it a little bit to protect a cop, I'm gonna."
Also recorded was, ââ?¬Å?We'll do a little Walt Disney to protect the cop because it wouldn't have mattered because she is drunk anyway."Suspended in the incident are Officers Joel Francisco and Dewey Pressley, Sgt. Andrew Diaz, community service Officer Karim Thomas and crime scene technician Andrea Tomassi.
Besides blowing the DUI case against Torrensvilas out of the water (charges were dropped,) the officers have compromised every case on which they worked. Since they're on record falsifying testimony, past and present cases in which they testified or were scheduled to testify will have to be reviewed. Some convictions may be overturned and pending charges will likely be dropped.
Broward County Chief Public Defender Howard Finkelstein has also called on state investigators and the FBI to get involved.
Gasbag, if you're putting links to Stormfront, then you know about Elisha Strom.
Mr/Mrs/Miss ****, Albemarle Commonwealth's Attorney Denise Lunsford has already stated that she pretty much has to prove the intent to "coerce, intimidate, or harass". After the recent murder case with a hung jury, this Strom case is going to be a close second in the difficulty of proof..... IMHO. What's her proof? Statements made to JADE cops by Strom? Like Elliot said above, and I quote, "Neither the JADE men nor Elisha Strom can be trusted to tell the whole truth; both have things to hide about this case and the one that preceded it."
I would like to see Elliot on the criminal jury. :)
I don't foresee a conviction. For that reason, many of my thoughts are based upon a conviction not being handed down. I don't think it's unreasonable to speculate on anything thereafter. If Strom is convicted, she will most likely appeal. If she appeals, she could possibly win. If she wins the appeal, she will most likely sue the trooper who placed the charge. None of this is in any way related to the O J Simpson case or the bus rides.
Pioneer, I don't know all of the facts in either case. But the former law in Washington and the current law in Virginia are very similar. I'll look into it later and let you know if I find anything. Wouldn't it be funny if Washington had used the law to hush up some girl half a police department had slept with? (Not saying that's what happened in Virginia though of course.) Maybe a blog entry stating the author had gone by Officer Ben Dover's house on Bottoms Up Lane and was sleeping with him several times a week while his wife was at work. That would be hilarious!
Simply because the law *may* prove to be unconstitutional doesn't guarantee her some future payday for potentially violating it. Separate but equal wasn't (in the end) constitutional, but it didn't mean a windfall for every black person who had to ride in the back of a bus. And just because a judge may decide she didn't in fact commit any crime and acquit her doesn't mean she'll be cashing in either. OJ was acquitted, did he sue the State of California? No. HE got slapped with a civil suit, and I'd think Strom (assuming she's not convicted) would be looking at civil litigation from the defendant's perspective if she didn't have so much dirt on the officers involved.
I consider myself a reasonable person, and you'd have a tough time, based on the facts as explained in the story, of convincing me that the arresting officer didn't have reasonable cause to believe that she may have violated the law whether said law will in fact survive constitutional scrutiny or not, so lets stop speculating on what kind of damages she'd get in some hypothetical future suit. Do you suppose individual law enforcement officers get to decide for themselves whether the General Assembly properly took into account first amendment protections before enforcing laws on the books?
Somebody did.
But in a way, it's all good. Being held a month in jail will maximize her damages if she is found not guilty and sues the trooper.
Eyespy, as usual, you're just another user name that has no clue of what you speak of. Where you people learn this stuff I will never know. A $7,500 bond does not mean she needs to post $750 in cash to get out. She can't post the $750 cash, it has to be done through a bail bondsman. The bond can also be posted by somebody putting up their land for example, which of course means the land has to worth at least $7,500. No money exchanges hands then unless Strom fails to appear in court. If I had condoned what she did I could have bonded in less than 10 minutes without a dollar being posted anywhere by anybody. I should have bonded her just to diss you off. :)
We disagree on whose fault it is that Strom is in jail. You think she has committed a crime. I don't. The State of Washington had their law overturned as unconstitutional. If Strom challenges the charge against her far enough here in Virginia, it will probably be overturned in this state too.
Now let's discuss "fault" in my filings lawsuits against cops. Whose fault is it? Do you think I woke up one spring morning of 1997 and decided to go out for the next decade and trick cops into doing things that would surely get them sued? I must be dayum good at what I do if you really think that how the events played out.
If the judge determines Strom has committed no crime , I wish her all the luck in the world if she chooses to sue over a false arrest and her sitting in jail for a month. Put me on the jury and I will award her $250,000 just for the month she spent in jail.
quote: "The law under which Strom was charged is similar to a law that Washington state enacted in 2002 that forbids the publication of police officers' home addresses and phone numbers with the intent to harm or intimidate. A federal court struck down that law."
"The State of Washington had their law overturned as unconstitutional. If Strom challenges the charge against her far enough here in Virginia, it will probably be overturned in this state too"
how are you so sure that the Strom case and the Washington case are the same? Do you know all the facts of both of these cases?
You're wasting your time, ****. This gasbag is all over the local news blogs like a rash. You can't tell him anything because he's a self-ordained expert of the worst sort. He's like the drunken uncle or hick cousin that shows up at every family gathering, thinks he has a captive audience, and starts bloviating. He certainly doesn't let the facts stand in his way when he's in the mood to make a point, and has thus turned into a local joke (albeit a very tiresome one).
Ok, wrong Shifflett. I almost painted all Shifflett's with the same broad brush you paint cops with.
Mr/Mrs/Miss Question, of course not! Geesh!!!
And why don't you get it right? The white deputy claimed he was ambushed and shot by a black guy. The then Sheriff Robb jumped on it with both feet and immediately called it a hate crime. What really happened? Nobody knows the complete story to this day. Whatever happened, the commonwealth's attorney refused to pursue any charges against him. Did they find out a few truths they didn't want to expose to the public after labeling Shifflett a lair? Or was Shifflett really lying? Brings up another good point about today's law enforcement... you know ONLY what the cops want you to know. Nothing more, nothing less.
He's also the one who was sued for police brutality and lost while employed as a deputy sheriff in the Louisa County Sheriff's Office. If I recall correctly, that fiasco cost Louisa County over $500,000. Don't quote me on that though please, I just don't recall the exact amount.
Any good detective can find him easily. Let me give you a link.
Reality Check, do you want to have a discussion about credibility or not? You brought up the subject and commented on Strom's lack of credibility. I then proved just how much credibility cops can be given as well. The point I clealy made was that 4 cops vs an innocent girl in Florida may not be much different than a handful of cops vs Strom in Virginia. When the case is over locally the question still remains as to exactly who told the biggest lies while under oath in court. Welcome to the year 2009, where cops have no more credibility than the average citizen nowadays. They made their bed, let them sleep in it.
Mr/Mrs/Miss Question,
Here's another link to the person. Very good and informative reading.
ps - I wasnt' real clear above - my last remaining lawsuit will most definitely go to a jury, with other cops testifying against the defendant. The defendant now being a former cop.
How would I? I simply entered "4 FLORIDA COPS CONSPIRE" in Google, and it returned about 5 trillion hits. I simply clicked on one of the hits. I didn't study the website of the hit, or what has been posted on it previously.
Steve, don't bother playing coy with me "cupcake." You know exactly who Elisha Strom is, as well as her history as a white supremacist. You're incredibly stupid to think that anybody would fall for your "who, little ol' me?" ingenue act.
A mental patient could post that she's having three-way sex with Chief Longo and a panda bear on the surface of the moon, and you'd swallow it. Why? Because you're desperate for validation. Your persona as a litigant is all you have.
Question-- surely Steve must be the cop who's related to Elvis & Jeffrey Shifflett?
Nope, but he is indirectly related to a cop that got fired for domestic abuse.
Strom sat in jail for 3 or 4 weeks? But, by God, here's a tale that tops hers. Absolutely amazing what's going on in this country now! Unbelievable!!!
A man is suing the Kissimmee Police Department for an arrest over mints. When officers pulled Donald May over for an expired tag, they thought the mints he was chewing were crack and arrested him.
May told Eyewitness News they wouldn't let him out of jail for three months until tests proved the so-called drugs were candy.
May said he was just minding his business, driving home from work, when a Kissimmee police officer pulled him over near 192.
"I don't know how it occurred," he said.
May was pulled over for an expired tag on his car. When the officer walked up to him, he noticed something white in May's mouth. May said it was breath mints, but the officer thought it was crack cocaine.
"He took them out of my mouth and put them in a baggy and locked me up [for] possession of cocaine and tampering with evidence," May explained.
The officer claimed he field-tested the evidence and it tested positive for drugs. The officer said he saw May buying drugs while he was stopped at an intersection. He also stated in his report May waived his Miranda rights and voluntarily admitted to buying drugs.
May said that never happened.
"My client never admitted he purchased crack cocaine. Why would he say that?" attorney Adam Sudbury said.
May was thrown in jail and was unable to bond out for three months. He didn't get out until he received a letter from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the State Attorney's Office that test results showed no drugs were found.
"While I was sitting in jail I lost my apartment. I lost everything," he said.
While May was behind bars, the Kissimmee Police Department towed his car and auctioned it off. He lost his job and was evicted. Now May is suing the city for false arrest and false imprisonment. He wants to be compensated for the loss of his car and job.
May's attorney and the city of Kissimmee discussed a possible settlement last year, but failed to reach an agreement.