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A group for all of us that are often found collecting seeds and cuttings from everywhere we go. Write about your experiences with collecting seeds and cuttings.
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With this method my cuttings never dry out. I used a dish pan (50 cents at a thrift shop) and a terracotta pot WITH NO HOLE IN THE BOTTOM (50 cents at a thrift shop). All you have to do is keep…Continue
Started by LARK (Wi. zone 5). Last reply by Bob (Z9B Florida) May 1, 2013.
This is for everyone in our new "liberation" group wanting a t-shirt. Please post your sizes and everything here, so I don't have to bounce back & forth between groups, getting everyone's info.…Continue
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I've been looking for plants and didn't know where to ask, so I figured I'd start a Wish List discussion where we can add a list of what we are looking for. I just ask that when you receive what you…Continue
Started by Robin (N.IL zone 5). Last reply by Lisa Dent Apr 29, 2012.
Oh, Cindy, that is a gorgeous Zinnia! I wish I hadn't put that pack back! Your seedlings are so healthy! I believe that I just might try WS next yr. :)
Cindy, if they are Gerbera Daisies, cut off all the old blooms, keep watered if dry, & give some liquid feed. It may take awhile, but I bet they WILL recover if they are Gerbera Daisies. You have a "green thumb", so just be patient & give it time. Plants given to us from special people are priceless!
Cindy, How wonderful now to be very careful in transplanting your new purple Zinnias... I would like to get a pkg. what was the company name you got them from...
Cindy, wow!
Very pretty, Robin! I love iris too, bearded types especially. Thanks for the eye candy! Good luck with your division! Take care all!
A few months ago I posted a photo of an Iris I liberated, I managed to get a photo from the orginal spot of them blooming. Mine isn't big enough to bloom but maybe next year. Also, they seem to be dwarfs.
I had to keep myself from weeding, and I really wanted to move some away from the border since they were being sat on.
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My Journey to World Pulse,
I joined WorldPulse co-incidentally, but now willingly I want to be a part of it. Now, you all might wonder how this is possible. One day Mursal, my Afghan friend, came to my room and told me that she had an interview with Sunita Basnet about her life story. Suddenly, I asked her for what? She told me that Sunita would publish it in a website called WorldPulse, so that was the first time that I heard the name of WorldPulse. After that day I really became eager in the matter that someone take my interview and publish a story about me as well; therefore, when I saw Sunita, I told her that I was really keen to have an interview with her. So she accepted and she told me the time of the interview, and after I gave her the interview, she asked me "Why don't you join WorldPulse." Before, I never thought of joining a website, where I could share my stories or pieces of writhing; but I really liked to write, so I liked her idea and kindness of sharing this with me. As a result, I tried to make an ID in it, but I couldn't so I took help form Mursal and after that the door of WorldPulse blew love and kindness towards me. To be honest even thought I am not a good writer, whenever I shared something, some of you gave comments on them, which was a kind of encouragement for me to write more. Now, I am really happy that I co-incidentally asked Sunita for having an interview, and I really appreciate Sunita for being very generous to introduce world pulse to me. I really like worldpulse because it is a place where I can write about anything without any hesitation or fear.
Joining WorldPulse lead me to apply for the 2010 Voices of Our Future and encouraged me to take part in it. Before taking part in voices of our future, I had lots of opportunities to apply for some scholarships, but I was afraid to apply because I thought I was not capable to do so. However, for Voices Of Our Future I applied without having fear because by applying for Voices of our future my aim was to exchange my ideas with others and find the way to interact with others globally and still my aim is not only to get the grand prize because I believe that without winning the prize still I can be a future voice. Also, I think that applying for voices Of Our Future needs lots of courage and challenge because there are lots of intelligent and informative people, so if I won't be selected for the 5 month teaching program, still I will accomplish something. Whenever I think about it, I would feel honored and happy because at least I had the courage to take part and tried to be the future voice. My journey will never end if I do not get the chance, but it will open a door for me to know others and again some new information from others. At last, I want to say that by joining worldpulse I just lit the candle and now it continues to go by itself and tries to enlighten the dark parts of the world.
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Dearest Fatima,
We too are so happy that you asked Sunita to interview you, and as a result you joined our community. Ever since you joined PulseWire, we have been blessed with insight into your world, as a young Afghan woman, a perspective we rarely hear from in the media. And your enthusiasm for life, for justice and for web 2.0 is infectious!
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Interesting journey into WorldPulse!
Hi Fatima,
It was nice reading your journey into world pulse! :) I'm glad that you stumbled into it at first and are now enjoying it as a conscious activity as well. As you can well imagine, Web 2.0 is a powerful tool. It would be great to hear from you on how you plan to use this opportunity and community towards achieving your specific goals.
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Hello Fatima Sabri!
I'm one of the listeners for your Week Two assignment and I enjoyed reading how you became a member of World Pulse. I loved your comment "that the door of World Pulse blew love and kindness towards me" and that World Pulse is a place where you "can write about anything without any hesitation or fear." Now you just need to have confidence in yourself as a voice to be respected with an important story to share with the world. I think your participation in Voices of the Future is a big step in that direction for you because, as you said, women who do so "need a lot of courage." You touched my heart when you ended with "…by joining World Pulse I just lit the candle and now it continues to go by itself and tries to enlighten the dark parts of the world." In your next two assignments, I encourage you to include more of your personal experience as an underrepresented voice in your country and your positive vision for the future. Also, as a technical matter, be aware of the word count limit on your VOF journal entries as this assignment exceeded the maximum. Keep up the good work!
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Dear Fatima,
Your journal made me remember the day when you asked me about world pulse. I enjoyed talking with you and was inspired from you stories. I hope you will continue speaking ..
All the best.
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Sunita Basnet
keep shining your light
I am so happy that you got past your fear and took the plunge to apply. Your positive attitude is an inspiration and I am looking forward to hearing more of what you have to say!

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My first ever video tutorial - wish me luck!
Terrific video Asia and loving the fab mould you used for the flowers. Thank you for sharing, xx
Love the video.. Very informative.. you did not look nervous you done a fantastic job!! Love the flowers... Hugs May x x x x
You did a beautiful job on the flowers and on your first video! I'll subscribe when I sign in to YT later too. :) hugs, Kimberly
Oh well done Joanna, fabulous video and those flowers are really beautiful. I'll definitely be giving this one a try
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Way to go Joanna!!!!!
A great turorial, with great effects...and I really love that silicone flower mould.
Can't wait for the next one! (you were great!)
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You did a great job with your first video. The flowers are beautiful. Now I have a new way to use my Stampendous enamels. Thanks you for sharing.
Oh I loved you video ... I've had a melting pot just packed away for ages ... now you've given me a whole new idea to use it ... Thanks so much ... your flowers are stunning!
Fabby video, loved those fantastic flowers. Those stampendous enamels look gorgeous. Looking forward to your next tutorial. xx
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Thank You! I've put a melting pot on my list for Santa and your video came in the nick of time lol. You did a superb job Joanna and your flowers are absolutely gorgeous. I'm off to buy a ton of embossing and enamel powders. ;-) Have a wonderful weekend.
A very very great tutorial Joanna
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Oh my goodness girly your video was amazing. Those flowers look beautiful. Of course now I want to go out and buy a Melting pot.
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You shouldn't have been so nervous! It's gorgeous! Looking forward to a new one! LOL
Hi Joanna..thanks for your tip..managed to get a flower mould from ebay..so have just had a go. I've just watched your tutorial again and your mixture seems much runnier than mine did when it went into the mould. I had lots of stringy bits too !! It was as if the mixture was already cooling, so I wondered how long you leave your UTEE to melt before adding your Emboss enamels please? xx
Hi Chris
What powders did you use to make your 'mixture'? And did you have your melt pot set on the highest temperature setting?
Hugs xx
Hi Joanna..sorry meant to say I used the Ranger UTEE, and Stampendous Embossing powders and Enamels.I had the temperature at UTEE. I tried it again this afternoon and it was a bit better but I don't get droplets left behind like you did, I keep getting stringy bits ! I also tried pouring the mixture onto my craft mat and using a cookie cutter, but the mixture was already setting so I couldn't press the cutter into it, even though I did it straight away, It seems to take so long to fill even small shapes that it appears to be cooling. I'm wondering if I just happen to have a faulty Meltpot, and its not heating up enough ! xx
Hmmm.... It does look like your 'mixture' cools down too quickly. I'll have a think how we can sort out this problem so you can make some beautiful flowers! :)
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Tasty! This is a great easy and quick dinner for any night, it looks and taste fancy enough for guest or on your own.
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Fabulous flavor combination. And the presentation makes dinner guests feel they've
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I tried this recipe today and it was delicious I used Butterfish fillet instead as we do not get halibut in my country. I used what I had on hand. No leeks either so I used mild green onions instead and it came out quite well. I will try it again.
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on July 20, 2012
Very good and rather simple, also seemed healthy. I used frozen arctic char, which I thawed completely and work perfectly with this recipe. I also used Chinese five spice as suggested in the broadcast along with fennel seed. It was delicious. The five spice works surprisingly well and is an interesting flavor, in an unexpected way, i think the lemon acid is very important to pull of the dish. I used a bit of garlic powder and suspect that fresh garlic chopped/minced with the sauté of veg would work well. I would err on the side of less time baking to ensure the fish is not overdone.
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Given how simple, quick, and healthy this recipe is, the flavors are delicious. The use of fennel seed and five spice powder is an unusual, but surprisingly good, combination. The bit of lemon juice really is important to balancing the richness of the salmon. I made the recipe exactly as described and it turned out perfect. C'est delicieux.
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This was terrific and so easy! My parents are coming to town and this is what I'm going to make for them.
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I tried this recipe this evening and loved it! I had no fennel seed. I used a pineapple ring with pineapple juice for my acid. I also added some lime juice. It was delicious. My Mom commented that this would be nice for guests. Very easy to prepare. Thanks, Laura!
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This week on NBC's 30 Rock, Liz's old Friend got very Friendly with Jack, while Kenneth coped with sartorial change by hanging with some (some!) of the cast from Night Court. Read on for the full recap!
Here she is, Ms. Jennifer Aniston, and she's playing an utter nut job from Liz Lemon's younger days. A sexy nut job, but make no mistake, someone who is crazy... like, "grab-a-cop's-gun crazy." (And we even saw proof of that.) I thought "Jen" (as the tabloids affectionately call her) looked sweet, but the role was juuuuust a bit much. Just a hair over-the-top.
So, Liz and Jenna's old pal, Claire, comes for a visit, and inside of 10 seconds she's "getting directions to the F train" from Jack (as they apparently say). Little does Jack know that "taking that ride" (if I may continue the metaphor) is going to cost him — and a lot more than the increased $3 fare they're talking about here in the New York City papers. Yeah, Claire is a staunch advocate for Cocoa Puffs, so much so that she earned the nickname "Crazy Putty" (or words to that effect?) back in the day.
Liz tries to warn Jack, to no avail. He apparently likes the punches to the face as foreplay (interplay?), the being chained to radiators, and the choking. ("Yesss!") Claire's a drug he can't kick. It gets so bad that Liz goes so far as to offer to go clubbing with her hard-partying gal pal — even if it means wearing a hairstyle and heels. Ultimately, Jack "bores" Claire, and in a last bid for naughty excitement, she (you guessed it) grabs a cop's gun and slaps it in Jack's hand. And so ends that whirlwind courtship. At night.
Did someone say Night... Court? Elsewhere in Lizland, Kenneth is very unsettled by the new page uniform, if only because it's not as "timeless, practical and sexy" as his trusty blazer. To make Kenneth feel better, Tracy steps up and does his darndest to fulfill the boy's dream of a Night Court wedding, recruiting some (some!) of the original cast including Harry Anderson and Markie Post. Alas, it turns out that the two principles have some unfinished business (involving no-show John Larroquette), so the big wedding is nearly waylaid. Oh, and we also learn that Jenna dealt Night Court its Jump the Shark moment by playing "werelawyer" Sparky Malone. In the end, Harry and Christine wed — but not before Anderson pitches Liz on the idea of a Heroes addition "whose power is close-up magic." It'd be funnier if you didn't think it might show up in next week's Heroes episode.
At episode's end, I was left scratching my head, and here is why: Didn't we see a while ago paparazzi pics of Tina Fey, Aniston and Jane Krakowski recreating the Friends opening, with Liz as Monica and Jenna as Pheebs, splashing in an open hydrant? Where was that?
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The Slave Network – 2
Every moment of Saturday was spent waiting for 2 PM. I was to meet the guy at the video rental store, and darn, I didn't even know his name, to meet what he called "a supremely beautiful and dominant Mistress." Surely, he hadn't seen my ex-girlfriend Deepthi. I picked up the latest edition of Business Weekly magazine, which featured the most prominent business leaders in the country and Deepthi was one of them. The only female entrepreneur featured on that magazine. How could any woman possibly be more powerful than she? It was doubtful, but I was open to the possibility.
2PM, I was at the video rental store eager to find out. "You made it." The guy said. "I knew you would."
"Yes I did," I said, awkwardly. "Say man, what's your name?"
"My name? It doesn't matter." He sighed.
"What does that..mean?"
"Twenty-seven." He said. "That's what she named me."
"27?" I asked.
"Let's say that it is my name now…you'll understand soon enough." He said. "Are you ready to meet Priya?"
Priya! It was the first time I heard the Mistress's name, which incidentally was a Sanskrit word for 'a beloved one.'
"Of course I'm ready to meet her. What should I do?"
"Nothing yet." 27 said. "I've got everything in the car. Let's drive there and then we'll get you ready."
I didn't understand a word but I would rather meet the great Mistress in a hurry than ask dumb questions all day. We drove a few blocks towards the suburban areas of Bangalore city and came across a tall apartment complex, "Mystic Heights," where he pulled in to park. We took the elevator to the twenty-fifth floor, the topmost in the building and arrived before an apartment that had the name "Priya" carved in black on white marble with the most elegant calligraphy. 27 stopped before ringing the doorbell. "There's something we need to do now."
"Tell me." I said, heart thumping away from anticipation.
"You are visiting the Mistress for the first time," 27 began, "and I am the one who is introducing you to her."
"True," I nodded.
"Which means that you are a gift to her, from me." 27 explained. "I am, essentially offering you as a gift to her. Do you understand?"
"You said it twice," I said. "Of course I understand."
"The Mistress expects her gifts to be packaged a certain way." 27 continued, hesitant. "So I will need to chain your hands and legs together…"
"Because you are my gift to her." 27 said.
"Right." I took a few moments to absorb the idea. Then I knelt down. "If that's what it takes, go ahead and chain me."
"Yeah." 27 began pulling out the metallic chains for packaging me. "I would also need you to take off all your clothes and get naked…"
I truly considered putting up some resistance, as this was getting unreasonable. Why must I undress before I even meet the Mistress? But I looked around, assured myself that no one was watching and then took off all my clothes. 27 ran a handcuff across my wrists, immobilizing my hands. He then cuffed my ankles together, and finally used a chain to secure the two cuffs together. I made an attempt to move my hands and legs, only to fall over nose-first into the mat before Priya's door. So I stopped struggling and succumbed to absolute immobility.
"Now you're ready," 27 said. He rang the doorbell and knelt down next to me. We sat in silence and waited.
A minute ticked by before we felt footsteps draw closer to the door. "Who is it?" a dominant female voice asked.
"It's me, number 27."
"What do you want?"
"I come bearing gifts," 27 replied.
The door unbolted and opened up, and standing behind it was the most spectacular woman I'd ever seen in person. Priya. She stood tall with her perfect, curvaceous body, dressed in bright red clothes but before I could look up to see more I felt a sharp metallic heel on my head, pinning me down. "This is just one gift," she said.
"I'm so sorry Mistress," 27 dived over and kissed her shoe. "But I think he will serve you well."
"Look at him, he's trying to see my legs." Priya said, crushing my head under her heels and turning her attention to me. "I don't want inferior beings like you looking at me. Is that understood?" Her tone was as fearsome as her perfume was inviting.
"Y..yes Mistress." I replied. Calling a girl "Mistress" would take some getting used to. Deepthi always had me call her by name. Besides, Priya was a professional and Deepthi wasn't.
"I want your nose to touch my floor at all times." Priya said, slowly relaxing her foot off my head. "If I catch you without your nose in contact with my floor, I will kick you a hundred times and fire you."
"I'm sorry, Mistress." I submitted, getting hard at the same time. Priya was exceptional at this.
"Come in, both of you." Priya said, walking into her house and taking a seat on her couch. I crawled over, keeping my nose on her floor as I moved. The nose-on-the-floor was a hard rule to follow, but from the corner of my vision I could see Mr. 27 kneeling at the foot of Priya's couch and praying to her with his hands joined. "Let's see how much of a gift you brought for me," she said, turning to me, nose still touching her cold floors. With a taunting intent, she placed her foot in front of my face, showing off the most perfect foot in the history of human feet. I took the cue and began to lick the parts of her toes that protruded from the leather casing of her heels. "Correct answer," she smiled, relaxing herself. The interview had begun. "Tell me everything I need to know about you and why I should accept you as a slave."
"I'm Suhas," I began fearfully. Of course she wouldn't care about my name, but most interviews I'd ever had in my life began with mention of the name. "I'm twenty-six years old, and I run a little video game company called Square Bananas." At this point, I expected a giggle. Some people would actually recognize that as the company that has the most popular multiplayer-chess game for cellphones. Priya, of course, was nonchalant, cold as ice. "I have eight people in my company, and we do very well. Made about three million U.S. dollars in revenue last year."
"You own this company?"
"Yes, I do ma'am. I mean, Mistress." My heart was racing, and I couldn't understand why. Being in the presence of this woman produced shivers in my gut.
"So you're rich and ugly." Priya said. "You get only one point for that…I like handsome slaves."
"Unhh..," No one called me ugly before, but no one called me handsome either. "Thank you, Mistress."
"Tell me other things that I might care about. Not the boring stuff." Priya said.
I would kill to ask what interested her, but I knew from experience that only dominants ask questions, submissives answer them. I supposed that my experience would be interesting to her, since this was an interview. "I had a girlfriend, Deepthi, who I served for four years." I began. Priya did not react, which probably meant that I was headed towards "interesting." So I told her the story of how we reunited three years after school, how we were both entrepreneurs but still had the one important difference, she being sadistic and me masochistic. I told her how we'd get together and all the things she'd make me do as her slave.
"That's very nice," Priya said, carefully listening to the story. "You get another point for experience."
"Two points! Thank you, Mistress." I said, clueless about her point system and what it meant for me as a potential candidate.
"Tell me more." Priya said. "Two points isn't much."
I drew a blank. What part of my past could I use to prove that I'd make a good slave? So I turned to the only other thing I could think of. "Mistress, ever since I heard of your beauty, I have not been able to sleep. I was hoping my eagerness to serve you would..perhaps..earn me another point?"
"You just heard about me yesterday, didn't you?" Priya asked.
"So you spent only one sleepless night thinking about what I might be like." Priya said. "You get no points for that."
"Oh…" I turned to the floor and gave up. "I have nothing more to add."
"You need five points before I can even consider you for orientation." Priya said. "And orientation is good, you can ask this guy."
Mr. 27 chimed in. "Yes, it's the best orientation. During mine, Priya taught me how inferior I am, she told me where I belong and then she slapped me twelve times, so hard." He drifted off into a little daydream. "It was just magical. She then had me lick her shoes clean and then threw me out of her house."
"I see," my mind raced. The very idea of being slapped by a beautiful Mistress made me gasp for breath. There was nothing I ever wanted more, but I still couldn't think of how I could get those three more points. "Mistress, please tell me what I can do for three more points."
"You should work out." Priya said. "Look at this guy, he's got good muscles." Mr. 27 took off his clothes and for the first time I noticed how muscular he was. "He got four points just for those muscles."
"I see." I sneaked a peek at my own pathetic body and bowed again, nose to the floor. It had to be something other than my physique. It had to be the one thing that I had more than any other guy that could come up to her. "Mistress, I am a very rich man."
"You already got one point for that." Priya said.
"I will pay you for the remaining three points." I said. "Whatever it takes. I want to prove my commitment to you with my money."
"Alright, you may go ahead and pay me for three points." Priya said.
"H..how much?" I dared to ask a question.
"How much are you willing to pay me for each point?" Priya smiled, answering questions with questions, like a true dominant should.
I thought for a minute. "Fifty thousand bucks?"
"Is that as far as you'd go," Priya asked, "for a chance to be among my slaves?"
"A hundred thousand." I said.
"Again, is that as far as you'd go to be my slave?" Priya smiled.
"Yes." I said, breaking the pattern. Obviously, Priya didn't have a set price and I wasn't going to spend all the money I had for something that wasn't guaranteed.
"Okay," Priya said, dropping a card. "My bank details are on that card. Go to the computer room, open your account and transfer the money to me. When I receive the money, I will give you your orientation."
As I prepared to stand up on my knees, I felt the bottom of her shoe on my head again. "Be careful. You don't get to look at me, not yet."
"Yes, Mistress." I turned around before getting on my knees and scampering to her computer room. I opened up my online banking system, added her details and sent her all the money as I'd promised. My balance was now lowered by a digit, but I felt that it would be worth it. Life is entirely pointless without unless spent in service of a powerful female like Priya. At least, that was what I explained to myself as I watched my hard earned money disappear.
During the five minutes it took for the money to transfer, I waited at the corner of her room for permission.
"You can come in. Nose on the floor." Priya said. I crawled in, feeling more victorious than last time. I had five points now, whatever the hell that meant. Soon my nose was touching her high heels. "You may sit down now."
Sitting up on my knees before the Mistress felt much like a beautiful warm sunrise following a spell of rain. Priya had the most shapely feminine form, with long flowing brown hair crowning a flawless round face with perfect features. Her smooth skin was the most brilliant thing in the heavily curtained room. Her long legs glimmered with unlimited pride and power as they flew out below a short black skirt, itching to kick live human beings for pleasure. She had a bright red shirt on, with a warm, black leather jacket to match her shoes.
"Now I know that you're serious about becoming my slave." Priya said. Watching her bright red lips move was intoxicating, as was the beautiful perfume that exuded her presence. "Welcome to your orientation."
"Thh..ank..yu…" I couldn't believe how extremely perfect she was, every inch of her!
"What I run here," Priya circled her fingers, showing off her beautiful little apartment, "is essentially a slave network."
"I…see.." I did see a couple of slaves sweeping her floor, a couple more cleaning up her large collectioin of shoes, some slaves cooking delicious North-Indian entrees for her and one very muscular man hanging upside-down from the roof in her kitchen.
"I have several candidates, working for me at different levels." Priya said. "Those guys," she pointed to one of her cooks, "are at level three. That guy," she pointed to the guy hanging upside-down in her kitchen, "is one of my permanent, approved slaves. He's at a very high level, twelve."
"Wow," I gathered, looking around.
"This guy here," she pointed to Mr. 27, "is only a level two today."
"I…see…" I nodded, although I didn't understand everything.
"You are a level zero." Priya declared. "The lowest of the lowest."
"Th..thank you?" I shivered.
"So go ahead and ask me the important question." Priya smiled.
"H,,,how do I reach the..level ..twelve..thing?"
"Good question." Priya continued. "It's very simple."
"It is?"
"All you have to do," Priya said, "is bring me gifts. Each time you bring me a worthy gift, I will promote you by one level.."
"You mean…?" I remembered how Mr. 27 had brought me in to meet Mistress Priya. "I need to bring you more slaves?"
"If you want to reach level twelve, yes." Priya said, getting up from her couch, walking over to the man hanging upside down and trapping his head between her gorgeous thighs. "Each level has its privileges. Level twelve has the highest of them all!" She rubbed herself against her slave's face with vigor, simultaneously teasing him and the fact that I was far away from treatment like that. "I use this one whenever I need my ass serviced." She rubbed her buttocks on the slave's face even harder smothering him thoroughly, disallowing even an ounce of breath. She stopped as suddenly as she started, returning to her couch. "I also use him as an example of level 12 privileges."
"I..see.." I bowed, turning mine and her attention to my enormous, throbbing midsection.
"That's Level 12, you're a zero." Priya reminded, strapping up her shoes tight. "You're nothing," her leg sprung back and swung around to hit my face hard, cracking my nose bridge instantly. "Zero," she repeated. "You are painfully useless to me right now."
I felt thick blood pouring out from my nose but shivered with ecstasy. She wanted to motivate me, and was doing a damn good job of it. I recovered from the kick and sat back to ask, "Mistress, is it compulsory for me to bring you more slaves?"
"Nothing is compulsory." Priya said. "Becoming my slave isn't compulsory. But if you want it, you have to bring me twelve live human beings to play with."
"Understood, Mistress." I said.
"I like playing with human beings, and you like being played with. It's a win-win situation I'm offering you." Priya said. "If you're ready for it."
"Yes I am, Mistress." I said with conviction. I could bring her twelve people. How hard could it be? This was Bangalore, a city of intelligent and submissive geeks. At least, my circle of friends was that way.
"Will you bring me twelve people?" Priya asked.
"Yes, Mistress."
"Are you committed to being my slave?"
"Yes, Mistress!"
"Good. In that case, I will mark you. But that is later. For now, you'll just have to sit and watch me." Priya said. She turned to Mr. 27 and pointed to her feet. "Take off my shoes. We'll play lick and kick today."
"Thank you, Mistress." 27 said, eagerly opening Priya's shoes and placing them on the side. Priya stretched out her legs and placed them on 27's shoulders. "Try," she said, inviting him with a smile.
27 stuck out his tongue and attempted to lick Priya's right foot, only to get a hard kick to his face. He then went for the left foot, only to get an even harder kick from that foot. That was the beginning of a long, painful game, where Priya got her feet a little cleaner each time, but Mr. 27 received only pain and a bleeding cheek from it. As painful as it was, I would sacrifice anything to play lick and kick with Priya. She derived supreme pleasure from inflicting pain to him, as well as giving me a preview of my life to come.
"Mistress, if I may ask you a question?" I begged, kissing her floor.
"Yes, go ahead." Priya said. She wasn't as uptight about questions as my ex was.
"Why do you have a slave network like this? I'm only asking because I wish to be your slave today, and if possible now." I asked, even as she continued kicking Mr. 27 and giggling as he bled out.
"I like being powerful, surrounded by a huge team of dedicated slaves." Priya said, ripping the underside of Mr.27's eyes with her toenails. "But I also like living in Bangalore, close to my family. Now I can't go around advertising the fact that I'm a Mistress. That would probably be illegal, and besides, there aren't as many submissive men out there as you'd think."
"That's why I have a network. Once I recruited my first slave, the first thing I made him do was bring me twelve more. Now they do the same thing, and the new slaves they bring in will do the same thing." Priya said. "That way, my power and influence only reaches the right people."
"That's exceptionally clever," I submitted. Seriously, I couldn't think of a better way for a dominatrix to run her business. The only problem was that I'd have to find twelve guys who were as serious about serving her as I was.
Meanwhile, 27 fainted and dropped to the floor in his attempts at licking Priya's feet clean. She got up and fetched some papers from her cupboard, which she placed on her little table. "It's time to recruit you. I need you to sign these papers before we can proceed."
"Yes, Mistress." I glanced at the papers. These were legal documents consisting of declarations such as 'I and am willing to pay any amount of money for the services of Mistress Priya, out of my own free will.' The documents went on to the extent of 'I am aware of the fact that the services of Mistress Priya could lead to serious personal injury and/or my death, and I consent to it out of my own free will.' "Do you have a lawyer working for you…"
"In my network? Yes." Priya said. "He is number 7."
"Wow." I said, signing the forms and legally consenting to my own death as Priya's "level zero" candidate.
"Those are the rules." She said, separating a few pieces of paper from the stack. "You must go over them before you start working for me. If you break those rules, you're disqualified." She then pointed to a clause in the papers that described the terms of 'disqualified.' I would have to turn over all my money and all assets to her, and the resulting 'punishment' could be anything she so desired.
"Yes, Mistress." I said, nervously scanning the rules.
"And now it's time to make it official." Priya said. "Put your head on that table." I obeyed. She twisted my face to the side, laying my cheeks flat on the table. Her foot went up and descended upon my neck, toenails penetrating my skin. "From today, your name will be thirty-one." The toenails dug deeper, my blood erupting from the sides as she ran them across to my jawbone. Among all sorts of pain, I felt dizziness from the extreme loss of blood as she dug her toe out of my neck. "It doesn't look like much now, but once you reach level two, I'm going to write my name on your chest." Priya said. "Are you ready to be my slave, thirty-one?"
"Yes, Mistress."
"Get out, and go bring me twelve people." Priya said. "Let's see if you're really worth something."
She removed my cuffs, dragged me out of her house, through to the stairway and made me turn around. She then kicked my face, making me tumble down the stairs, naked and in utter humiliation. As I regrouped, found my clothes and walked home, I knew I had my work cut out for me. Level 12, or die. Mistress Priya was worth everything.


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Waxahatchee's Exquisitely Bruised Lo-Fi Folk Hits New Haven
w/ Kindred Queer and Chris Cappello. $8, 7 p.m., Feb. 6. People's Arts Collective of New Haven, 212 College St., New Haven, manicproductions.org
For most lyricists, the mirror is never particularly cruel. Swarms of humans writing songs are into ideas of self-analysis and self-contextualizing, but a scant number are willing to say, "Hey, you. Yes, you. You can be awful sometimes. Just horrible."
Katie Crutchfield calmly takes the opposite route. The Birmingham, Ala.-cultivated and now Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter behind Waxahatchee uses 2011's American Weekend, her one-woman acoustic project's insidiously engaging debut, to explore several shadows and unflattering angles. After setting her scenes with scattered details — opener "Catfish," for one, includes imagery of bare feet, moonshine, whiskey and Sam Cooke — she digs into how unstable, conflicted, earnest and honest she is (i.e., very on all accounts). As she burns others through dysfunctional relationships that never undergo repair, she acknowledges that she will be burnt, too — and she deserves it. In "Bathtub," she sings, "I contemplate my ruined fate/Someone will hurt me so bad one day" as if it's a foregone finale. Waxahatchee's songs do spare shimmers of hope and nostalgic joy, but it's a fading kind of light.
Though just 24 years old, Crutchfield has been at this whole music deal for a while now. As a 14-year-old freshly smitten with female-heavy contemporary indie rock like Rilo Kiley and Cat Power, she formed an indie-folky outfit called the Ackleys with her twin sister Allison (who, by the by, still maintains various projects of her own, including the band Swearin'). The Crutchfields earned their chops through DIY shows and bills with punk acts, weaving their lives through various bands — P.S. Eliot, Bad Banana, the current Great Thunder — and keeping music as a major priority even though Katie didn't originally have any career-oriented plans. "I honestly don't think that I have thought of the long run that much at all," she says. "[It] wasn't until 2012 did I actually think, 'Oh, you know, if I do this and I do that, maybe I can make a sustainable living making music.' That is totally a new idea in my life."
After spending a solid chunk of time running her indie pop band P.S. Eliot and then experiencing power struggles and ego clashes because of the control she exerted, she started a project of her own that skirted those issues of compromise and control. She took her current pursuit's name from Waxahatchee Creek in Alabama — a place where Crutchfield began writing material for this band. Her simple setup on Weekend utilizes a mic, a guitar, a digital 8-track recorder and little else. Distortion and echo are key to her lo-fi sound, adding to its vulnerable, raw sensibility. After spending so much time roaming the thicket of Weekend alone, its followup — Cerulean Salt, due in March — has her collaborating with a full band. This will be a record less concerned with a romantic relationship gone awry and more about "the actual concept of childhood and the fact that you reach a certain age where you realize that that part of your life and that innocence is lost and over," which sounds like ripe material for Waxahatchee's style.
Even with the gloom that fills her music and colors it with so much grayscale character, Crutchfield doesn't speak like someone who is particularly interested in exalting the grim. These songs are just reflections of what she's feeling like at the times she writes them, she notes. "I have a pretty normal life. I deal with things just like everybody else does with things," she says. "It's not like a thing where I try to pull the sadness out of myself for my music. It's there just like it's in everybody."Copyright © 2014, The Morning Call


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Wabash Valley Wine Trail
The Wabash Valley Wine Trail is made up of five wineries located in the southeastern part of the state. Visitors to this area can enjoy the scenic Wabash River Valley, historic towns, and quaint bed and breakfasts.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Kickapoo Creek Winery
A full-service winery with a tasting room and gift shop. We invite you to walk the grounds and visit the vineyard. Located just minutes from I-74 at the Kickapoo-Edwards exit.
CITY: Edwards
Lasata Winery
Lasata is a Native American word for "place of peace," and this winery's atmosphere lives up to the name. A variety of wines from blush and sweet to white or dry are created here and offered for tasting. Assorted cheese and other goodies are available, so bring your significant other and friends.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Dorney's Pumpkin Patch
Find pumpkins, gourds, ornamental corn, squash, hayrides, hay mazes, a beanbag toss, corn maze, gold mine, choo-choo train and many other family attractions.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Brubeck Theatre at Wabash Valley College
The Brubeck Theatre at Wabash Valley College in Mt. Carmel features many locally produced plays and musicals, as well as traveling professional performers.
CITY: Mount Carmel
Black Jewel Popcorn
Stop by and sample black kernels of corn that pop to the whitest popcorn you've ever seen. Tours are available.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Embarras River Canoeing
Spend the day canoeing and fishing on the Embarras River.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Albion Bowling Center
The Albion Bowling center features automatic scoring and league as well as open bowling throughout the week.
CITY: Albion
Berryville Vineyards
The winery harmonizes with nature to cultivate premium wine grapes. Walk through the oak forests, picnic in the vineyards or wade in the creek and stop in at the tasting room. The vineyard features fruit and grape wines from 20 varieties of grapes as well as raspberries, blackberries and gooseberries.
CITY: Claremont
W.H. Sommer Park
Use-by-reservation facility: 1850's pioneer homestead living history site, teams course programs, special events, picnic shelter rentals including fishing, canoeing, hayrides, and hiking trails.
CITY: Edwards
Albion Public Library
Established in 1819, the oldest public library in Illinois houses many original books brought here by English settlers.
CITY: Albion
Casey's Carry-Out Pizza
Variety of pizza available and other lunch items.
CITY: Albion
Lincoln Trail Memorial
This memorial commemorates the crossing of the Lincoln Family from Indiana to Illinois in early March of 1830.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Borowiak's IGA Deli / Bakery
Hot dinner and lunch entrees available.
CITY: Albion
Red Hills State Park
Located on Rt. 50 between Lawrenceville and Olney, this State Park features fishing, boating, hunting, hiking, horse trails and camping in a semi-secluded setting. This 950-acre site offers wooded hills, picturesque meadows, nature areas and an abundance of wildlife.
CITY: Sumner
The Albion Treasure Chest
The selection of antiques include bedroom suites, collectible glass, tools, coins and much more.
CITY: Albion
Cat's Kitchen
Variety of sandwiches and other entrees, daily specials.
CITY: Albion
Great Wall
Authentic Chinese food to eat in or take out. Full menu. See buffet specials. No MSG.
CITY: Albion
Beall Woods State Park
Listed in the United States Register of Natural Landmarks as the "Forest of the Wabash," this state park supports 64 species of trees within its 635 acres. Several miles of scenic nature trails start at the new Visitor Center.
CITY: Mount Carmel
Dimaggio's Pizza - Albion
Variety of pizza choices and other menu items.
CITY: Albion
Fry's Country Gifts
Located east of Lawrenceville on Old Rt. 50, Fry's features Moses Williard lighting, made to order florals, McCalls Candles, and much more.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Knapp - Mart
Variety of hot entrees and snacks.
CITY: Albion
Moravian Church & Cemetery
The only Moravian church in the state was built by German settlers in Southern Illinois.
CITY: West Salem
The Treasure Chest in Albion
A general line of antiques.
CITY: Albion
Kightlinger Antiques and Collectibles
Located in Kickapoo, IL (5 Min west of the Grand Prairie Mall on 150 across from Ludy's restaurant) This shopping destination features antiques, gifts, home accessories, lamps and custom re-purposed furniture. Holiday splendor starts Oct 1st! With the largest Christmas Shop in Central Illinois with over 65,000 ornaments on 80 trees and 10,000 lights you will be sure to be amazed and "yes!" you can purchase the ornaments. We also buy and sell estates so stop by and see us today! Our antique shop is conveniently located off of Interstate 74 near the Kickapoo Creek Winery.
CITY: Edwards
Mt. Carmel Municipal Golf Course
This 18-hole golf course is located adjacent to a beautiful city park, and offers tee times for non-members.
CITY: Mount Carmel
Seat's Orchard
This orchard is known for its strawberries and apples.
CITY: West Salem
Wabash County Beall Woods State Park
Located 6 miles South of Mt. Carmel on Illinois Rt. 1, Beall woods contains one of the oldest dedicated nature preserves in Illinois. The "Forest of the Wabash" contains the largest single tract of untouched deciduous forest in the U.S.
CITY: Mount Carmel
Lawrence County Country Club
This nine-hole facility is open seasonally, and offers tee times for non-members.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Pizza House - Bridgeport
Offers variety of pizza choices and much more.
CITY: Bridgeport
Paradise Grill
Located in the FairBridge Inn Express (formerly the Best Western), the Paradise Grill offers a place to relax and enjoy the company of your friends. Daily drink and food specials.
CITY: Grayville
The Real McCoy
Featuring home style cooking in a cozy, nostalgic atmosphere. Daily specials are available in a smoke free environment. Please see our website for menu selections.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Illinois State Beall Woods State Park
Located 6 miles south of Mt. Carmel, this park features walking trails through what's been called the Forest of the Wabash. Tent camping is allowed, along with fishing.
CITY: Mount Carmel
Grayville Super 8
This recently opened facility presents an excellent accommodation for the traveler.
CITY: Grayville
McKim's Deli
Offers hot lunch and dinner specials as well as desserts and sandwich fixings. Located inside IGA.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Tykel's American
Bar and grill.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Lamont Outdoors
Features over 2000 acres of prime hunting south of Grayville, in White County.
CITY: Crossville
Bar and grille with a variety of menu items and specials. Call for website info.
CITY: Bridgeport
Bobe's Pizza in Lawrenceville
A local tradition, Bobe's offers all Italian favorites.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Thelma's Bed & Breakfast
A quaint bed and breakfast located within West Salem.
CITY: West Salem
Mi Casita Mexican Restaurant
Authentic Mexican Style Restaurant
CITY: Lawrenceville
The Steak & Sandwich Shack
WI-FI Hot Spot - Free Internet access to all patrons. Serving breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Come and see for yourself why they say, "Once you have the Shack you will always come back!"
CITY: Lawrenceville
Cloud 9 Bed and Breakfast
A Mediterrean exterior bed and breakfast complex with library, sun room, sitting room and other amenities.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Mid-America Air Center
The Air Center hosts many fly-ins and ultra-lights throughout the year.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Hogg Heaven BBQ
Hogg Heaven offers all the famous BBQ that you can find at "Ribberfest" all year long.
CITY: Mount Carmel
Alfonzo's Pizza
Serving pizza and pasta.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Dairy Dee
Seven flavors of soft serve ice cream everyday. Also offering a wide variety of premium sandwiches. Dine outside on our patio or carry out. World famous! (in this part of the world)
CITY: Sumner
Little Italy's
Pizza, pasta, sandwiches and much more served in an Italian atmosphere. Family dining.
CITY: Mount Carmel
Rivertown Cafe
Serving breakfast and lunch with a wide variety of good old home cooking.
CITY: Saint Francisville
The Coffee Shack
Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
CITY: Sumner
The Trace Inn Restaurant
Trace Inn Restaurant is open year-round offering a spectacular four seasons overlook of Red Hills Lake and the surrounding hardwood forest. Fine dining is enhanced by the rustic atmosphere of a rural decor, antiques, and creative seasonal decorations. The Banquet Room provides dining for an additional 50 guests and can be booked for private parties and meetings. Visitors to the Trace Inn will also enjoy a unique craft, collectibles, and antique shop.
CITY: Sumner
Dimaggio's Carryout & Delivery in Grayville
Delicious Italian dinners available for carryout or Delivery. Pizza.
CITY: Grayville
Taco Tierra
Restaurant offering many menu choices.
CITY: Mount Carmel
Vintage Collections Antique Mall
Features vintage antiques with over 50 dealers. You'll find primitives, linens, furniture, books, stoneware and much more.
CITY: Mount Carmel
K's Motel
Non Smoking Rooms, Weekly Rates, Credit Cards
CITY: Lawrenceville
King Buffet in Mt. Carmel
Located on 4th street in Mt. Carmel, all varities of Chinese delicacies are available.
CITY: Mount Carmel
Mandy's Family Restaurant
Offers homestyle entrees at lunch and dinner.
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There's nothing surprising about pre-wedding dieting -- most think of bridal bootcamp simply as that nasty little step between engagement ring and wedding. But, ladies, wedding-dress anxiety has reached a new low if we're resorting to a feeding tube diet.
Reported The New York Times: "In March, Jessica Schnaider, 41, of Surfside, Fla., was preparing to shop for a wedding gown by spending eight days on a feeding tube. The diet, under a doctor's supervision, offered 800 calories a day while she went about her business, with a tube in her nose."
Nutritionists and doctors have long decried dangerous dieting fads like juice fasts and pregnancy hormone injections. And this one doesn't sound much different. As The New York Times explains, a tube that goes through the nose and into the stomach is inserted to provide all nourishment sans carbs for 10 days, during which patients have to be monitored for problems like dizziness, constipation and extreme-dieting side effects like kidney stones and dehydration.
The diet has been commonly used in Italy and Spain for years, and was introduced in England last year. In the states, the "diet" costs around $1500 and a person's reputation for being sane. It is insane that a woman would care so much about what she would look like on one day (I get it, photos are forever) that she'd be willing to look ridiculous for 10 days. One mom quoted in the story said she avoided picking up her kids from school during her tube time because the children "would be scared." Yeah, they would be!
And doctors agree that its benefits are more fiction than truth. "The novelty is, they shove a tube in your nose," Dr. Scott Shikora, the director of the Center for Metabolic Health and Bariatric Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston says in the article. "It doesn't matter if it's through a tube, a straw, a meal plan. They all work, if someone goes from 3,000 calories a day to 800."
Now, I've seen plenty of brides watch what they eat in the months leading up to the wedding, but it seems like the pressure to be the perfect bride has finally driven us all mad.


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TEDx and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has started thinking about how to facilitate more meaningful conversations on global health and development issues within TEDx communities year-round.
There are two ways in which you can bring TEDxChange to your standard event throughout the year:
- Play a TEDxChange talk at your standard TEDx event. There are many to choose from:
- Melinda Gates: Let's put birth control back on the agenda
- Jeff Chapin: Design as a tool for better conversations
- Sven Giegold: We need a green new deal
- Theo Sowa: We need the voices of African women
- Mechai Viravaidya: How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place
- Melinda Gates: What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola
- Graça Michael: Mobilizing to fill our goals
- Melinda Gates: TEDxChange@TEDxKibera
- Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?
- Melinda Gates: TEDxChange@TEDxDelhi
- Program a TEDxChange session at your standard TEDx event. You can dedicate one session of your event to highlighting speakers who work in the areas of global health and development. The session should be called TEDxChange. Questions? Email email@example.com.
See the hightlights from TEDxChange 2013 »


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Galactic Fireworks
Filaments of gas and dust stream across the center of the Milky Way galaxy in this new image from the European Southern Observatory. The center of the galaxy, which contains a supermassive black hole, is at center. The wisps of material also contain denser lumps that may give birth to stars. This image was made with infrared light, which is produced by relatively cold clouds of material. The red shows warmer regions, while the blue and green show cooler regions. [European Southern Observatory]


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Breaking: ESPN Suspends Analyst Rob Parker for Insulting Redskins QB, RG III
Cable sports network ESPN has suspended its commentator Rob Parker following his offensive racial tirade against Washington Redskins player Robert Griffin III. In a segment on yesterday's First Take program, Parker said that the rookie quarterback was "not one of us" and that he was only "kind of black" because he is engaged to a white woman, is rumored to be a Republican, and has spoken in favor of racial neutrality, sentiments that the sports analyst derided as "cornball."
"Following yesterday's comments, Rob Parker has been suspended until further notice," network spokesman Josh Krulewitz said in a statement. "We are conducting a full review."
Yesterday, the suspended-but-not-fired analyst made a number of negative remarks about Griffin, questioning whether or not he behaved and spoke the way that Parker appears to believe a black person should:
But time and time we keep hearing this, so it just makes me wonder deeper about him. And I've talked to some people down in Washington D.C., friends of mine, who are around and at some of the press conferences, people I've known for a long time. But my question, which is just a straight honest question. Is he a brother, or is he a cornball brother? [...]
Well, he's not really, ok he's black, he kind of does his thing, but he's not really down with the cause, he's not one of us. He's kind of black, he's in a—but he's not really like the guy you'd really want to hang out with, because he's off to something else. [...]
Well, because that's just how I want to find out about him. I don't know, because I keep hearing these things. We all know he has a white fiancée. There was all this talk about he's a Republican, which, there's no information at all [about that]. I'm just trying to dig deeper as to why he has an issue. Because we did find out with Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods was like 'I don't wanna, I've got black skin but don't call me black.' So people got a little wondering about Tiger Woods early on about him.
Asked about Parker's remarks, Robert Griffin II, the quarterback's father declined to take offense:
"He needs to define what 'one of us' is. That guy needs to define that," he said. "I wouldn't say it's racism. I would just say some people put things out there about people so they can stir things up.
"Robert is in really good shape on who he is, where he needs to get to in order to seek the goals he has in life … so I don't take offense."
DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Players Association was not nearly as forgiving in an email he sent to the Washington Post:
"Robert can certainly take care of himself. Nonetheless, I hope that our men and for that matter, my own kids, will never beg for authenticity from someone who can only talk about the things that other people have the courage to do. People need to be held accountable for the offensive things that they say."
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Turns out this racist prick is from Detroit, so cut him some slack. He probably can't even read at a seventh grade level.Noteworthy Comment +14
WHY does ESPN employ so mnay racist black men? HMMMMMMMMMMMMM???+9
Ignorant racist toad. Fire his worthless ass. Oh wait he's "African" American which means the can't be fired only white people.+8
Pure racism. Democrats must be bursting with pride.+9
Don't suspend, Fire his ass!+7
WTF ! Suspended?! What would Parker have to do to get fired, incite black on white crime ?!
Maybe an ESPN employed white former QB should encourage current NFL QBs to only throw to white receivers? Would that meet ESPN broadcast standards?+6
RGIII's mommy and daddy are black – therefore he's black. It's really as simple as that. By my calculations… that makes him twice as black as our beloved president.
When will the racists stop this kind of crap. Devisive class warfare is all this is.Noteworthy Comment +10
"Suspended until further notice" is ProgTalk for Parker to lie low for a couple of months. He'll be back on the air by February. A white guy would be out on his ass already.+9
Obama: ESPN acted stupidly…+8
Why is he wearing a suit and tie?
Isn't that the uniform of the white devil?
A crackah?
A honkie?
Doesn't he know they gonna put ya'll back in chains?+8
He only likes cornhole brothers like Reggie and Barry …
Oh, wait, that's cornball … shouldn't that have been cornbread? You know, like "cornbread and chitlins wif gravy?"+7
"Down with the cause?" What cause? Is this numbskull stuck in the '60′s?+7
Watching the clip, Parker teaches us that if a brother wears braids, he's considered "urban" and can be assumed to be 'with the cause".
It's a shame we can't resurrect Jimmy The Greek Snyder and puts some braids on him.
Racism aside, one can see why ESPN wants to retain Parker, who's obviously an encyclopedia of good sports information.+5
Didn't Mike Tyson go down with the cause? Or did he go stupid from the clap?+5
Maybe RG wouldn't let this ignoramus sniff his jock long enough.
It would be ironic if this putz sucked a white espn dong to get his job, cause it is guaranteed he's taking on all comers to keep it, now..+3
Fear not, Rob. You're black and obviously liberal. If ESPN doesn't put you back on, someone else will. And if ESPN doesn't, I'm sure they've got a generous separation package for you so they won't get sued. Black and liberal, it's a win win in media no matter how incompetent and racist you are.+2
Seems some/most blacks are obsessed with the issue of race.
Toxic racism. is harmful to your health.+3
Wow, I love this young man's story. Race is irrelevant, but his family is not as it is a rarity in today's society. His family is a throw back to the 50′s so depressing when you think about it Reg3′s family should be the future not a reflection of the past.
Wow, not sure why it embedded the video and not just a link sorry folks..0
They'll do their best to haul him back to the plantation.0
I guess MLK wasn't "down with the cause" either.+1
Grayscape, I'm sure he would be called an Uncle tom in today's world.+1
Sounds like Parker stepped on his Olbermann.+2
Awww, he speaks 'white'. No wonder Rob doesn't like him. He enunciates.+4