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The committee examined data on the effects of single and multiple concussions and found some observed impairments in the areas of memory and processing speed. It also determined that a history of previous concussions is a predictor of increased risk for future concussions, although the extent to which the risk is increased is unknown. In several studies, the number and severity of concussion symptoms is greater in athletes with a history of two or more concussions. Additionally, athletes with a history of prior concussions may have more severe subsequent concussions and may take longer to recover. The time interval between concussions may also be an important factor in the risk for and the severity of subsequent concussions. Whether repetitive head impacts and multiple concussions sustained in youth lead to long-term neurodegenerative disease, such as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), remains unclear.
The committee reviewed surveys of retired professional athletes, which provided some evidence that a history of multiple concussions increases risk for depression. In a survey of more than 2,500 retired professional football players, approximately 11 percent reported having a prior or current diagnosis of clinical depression. Very little research has evaluated the relationship between concussions and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. There currently are no data to evaluate this relationship because existing post-concussion symptom evaluations do not assess suicidal thoughts.
Some studies have shown that enforcement of sports rules by coaches and officials and adherence to these rules by players may help reduce the incidence and severity of sport-related concussions in youths. Several organizations have called for a "hit count" in youth sports to limit the amount of head contact a particular player should experience over a given amount of time. While the concept of limiting the number of head impacts is fundamentally sound, the committee found that implementing a specific threshold for the number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season is without scientific basis.
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- The reported number of individuals aged 19 and under treated in U.S. emergency departments for concussions and other non-fatal, sports- and recreation-related TBIs increased from 150,000 in 2001 to 250,000 in 2009.
- Football, ice hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, and soccer are associated with the highest rates of reported concussions for U.S. male athletes at the high school and college levels.
- Soccer, lacrosse, and basketball are associated with the highest rates of reported concussions for U.S. female athletes at the high school and college levels. Women's ice hockey at the collegiate level has the highest rate of reported concussions.
- Youths with a history of prior concussion have higher rates of reported sports-related concussions.
- Among military personnel, mild traumatic brain injuries, of which concussions are one category, represent about 85 percent of all TBIs.
- Among military personnel, about 80 percent of mild TBIs do not occur in the deployed setting and are commonly caused by automobile crashes involving privately owned and military vehicles, falls, sports and recreation activities, and military training.
The report was sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Education, Health Resources and Services Administration, National Athletic Trainers' Association Research and Education Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the CDC Foundation with support from the National Football League. The Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council are part of the National Academy of Sciences, a private, nonprofit institution that provides independent, evidence-based advice under an 1863 congressional charter. The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies.
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"Instead of sitting down to a midnight game of base-ball" observed the genial sourdough at my side as we found places in the bleachers, "you'd be going home from the theatre at this time of the night. I mean if you were back in the States, in place of being in central Alaska."
"It certainly seems strange to me" I affirmed as I glanced at the women and children filing into the grand-stand, and the others, with the word "fan" written all over their countenances, who were crowding in beside us. "I can't realize that it is almost 11 o'clock."
"It's fortunate for you and the other chechacoes (Tenderfeet) who came in today that your steamer arrived when she did. Usually the first boat of the season doesn't reach Fairbanks until about June 25th. Here in this camp we hold, that besides seeing a freeze-up and watching the ice go out in the spring a chechaco must sit through a midnight ball-game before he can class as a sourdough."
"I never have heard of such a thing as playing ball in the middle of the night. It's something new, isn't it?" I asked.
"New nothing. Why, ever since the Fairbanks camp was struck in 1902, or as soon afterward as we had suitable grounds, to be exact, we have been playing ball at midnight on the longest day of the year."
"Do you ever play?"
"Doesn't every American play ball? But it has been years" sighed the sourdough. "Still," he brightened as he spoke, "I guess I did my share last night, at the Midnight Shoot, toward starting the Festival of the Midnight Sun agoing properly."
"An indoor match?" I inquired.
"Not much it wasn't. A match held on a regulation army range, over the 200, 300 and 500-yard distances. Ever squint through rifle sights at the witching hour of twelve?"
"Possibly in a shooting gallery."
"Yes, in a shooting gallery or behind a jack-light in the bow of a canoe. I mean under the open sky by the aid of the light God gives us here in the North. Well, it's something different. Why, it was a little peculiar even to me, long as I have been here. You see," he explained, "this was our first shoot, although hereafter it will be a regular part of the Festival. For my part I never knew those new Springfields could make so much noise or start so many echoes going. That was because it was so still, I suppose. I guess all the boys of the club enjoyed the novelty of shooting for cups and prizes when the rest of the country was asleep.
"Did you win?"
"No," disgustedly. "Bad luck to a few wisps of mist! You see, we fired the first rifle at 10 o'clock and all was lovely for me at first. At a quarter past twelve we stopped for lunch and I was feeling fine then, for with the two ranges past I was running nip-and-tuck with the high ones. Then about 2 o'clock in the morning came my turn on the 500-yard butts and just at that minute a wall of fog or mist drifted in from a bit of marshy ground and practically shut off the targets. Might as well try shooting through a house in hopes of finding the target behind it."
"What's that?" as the crowd in the grand-stand started a rattle of hand clapping.
"The little one is Queen of the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden North, an order that will have charge of these festivals in the future. That other auto just coming up carries the present Queen of the Festival and her maids. That means the parade and doings down-town are ended and they will be willing to start this game going. No," and he subsided with a grunt of disapproval as several dignitaries of the city of Fairbanks stepped onto the grounds. "I forgot about their dedicating the Park tonight. They're breaking ground for the Alaska Semi-Centennial Exposition to be held here in 1917 when we'll celebrate Alaska's first fifty-year period under the American flag.
"See this fellow in the light suit warning up off here to the right?" My informant was paying no attention to the speech-making on our left. "That's Leonberger of the Signal Corps who is pitching for the Eagles — the best twirler in the camp."
"Wins everything?" I inquired politely.
"Wins nothing. It doesn't matter how good a team there is behind him, the Eagles can't win. It looks as though there was some sort of a jinx on them. But there isn't. The difference in the playing lies in the spirit of the nines. Dad Stroecker, captain of the Van Dycks — they're the ones in the dark red suits — puts the pep in his men. He keeps them gingered up even if the score is going against them so they have come to look for a balloon ascension on the part of the Eagles and a batting rally on their own. And it comes every time. In some inning the Eagles are sure to blow up."
"Are those fellows still talking?"
My friend looked around. "It seems to me they are talking a lot of time turning a few spadefuls of dirt. Play ball!" He raised his voice to a shout and the others around us took up the cry. "Ah, I thought that would help start 'em!"
"Crack!" the Eagle at the plate met the first ball fairly and sped away to first.
"No use running, young fellow" grumbled the fan at my side. "That's smack in center's mitts and he never dropped one in his life."
I watched the ball as it curved to the field. How easily the eye could follow it! Surely this could not be the middle of the night. I looked at my watch. It was 11.15.
"It will be 1 o'clock or after before the game is finished" observed my companion as he saw my movement. "Did you note I called the turn on that first man up?"
I nodded, for I was more interested in the crowd than in the actual play. Around me were some, like my friend, who could see nothing but the game and who would suffer the pangs of the damned if their team were losing. But there were others, old-timers, who were there because it was a habit, and they are were willing to yell themselves hoarse over any bit of good playing. Sprinkled through the crowd were chechacoes, like myself, present because of the novelty of the thing.
And it was a novel thing — that sitting through a midnigh baseball game, particularly if one forgot the game for the moment and chanced to think of the hour of the night. As the innings passed, the sensation of strangeness grew on me Over all was the light of early evening back in the States; high above floated a number of fleecy clouds; while from the north, where the sun skimmed along behind the row of hills a few miles distant that shut off the horizon, there came a ruddy glow that might be from the open doors of Vulcan's forges. And yet it did not feel like evening and sunset at home, for onecould not help but note the suspension of insect and bird life. About all this daylight scene there was the stillness of midnight.
Into my musings there came the words of my companion
"Some year" he was saying, "we have regular legal ball, and next you wouldn't know it was base-ball if it wasn't labeled. The kind depends on who drifts in, for you know the population of a placer camp is changing constantly. Now this year I have been swearing after each fiasco that I won't go to another; but I do; I'm right here at the next game."
"Latitude doesn't seem to make much difference with the fan. doesn't it? Hello! What are they stopping for?"
"Midnight, I guess. They always call a halt on the stoke of twelve to give the camera-men and kodakers a chance to snap the players and the crowd. Yes, look at 'em."
"Now you Eagles!" vociferated my bleecher-mate when the last shutter had closed. "Show 'em the luck has changed. I knew it!" and he lept to his feet. "A clean one," as the sphere, coming from the end of the bat with cannon-ball velocity, started on a gradual rise over the infield.
"Ur-rgh!" He sat down with an inarticulate roar. "Robber! That was as pretty a hit as I ever saw, and Wood, the short, spoiled it. Did you ever see anything like that catch? Turned and ran behind third, jumping and spearing that sizzler with a back-hander as he ran. That man Wood has no business here. He ought to be playing league ball instead of wasting his talents in his brother's bank" and again my sourdough friend's face showed disgust in a superlative degree.
"That catch will take the ginger out of the Eagles; mark my word. The balloon will now start upward."
"What did I tell you?" He was still grumbling an hour later as we filed out of the grounds. "Those Eagles couldn't win a game if they were playing against an empty field. Something would happen."
My companion's plaint, however, passed me by for the most part. I was noting the beautiful cloud effects overhead and along the horizon on three sides. Also I was listening to the first stirrings of the birds after their brief period of quiet, and as I listened I mused on this wonderland where the sun is so careless about his sleeping hours.
"Do you suppose" I asked myself, "that the folks at home will believe you if you write them of sitting through a midnight base-ball game?"


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(CBS/AP) Online gaming is fun but not a productive use of time, right? Not so fast. Online gamers have deciphered the molecular structure of a key protein that retroviruses like HIV/AIDS need to multiply - an achievement that scientists believe will aid in the development of new AIDS drugs.
The non-scientist gamers came up with an accurate model of the so-called protease molecule in three weeks. Biochemists had been trying to create such a model for more than a decade.
"It's the power of citizen science," said Firas Khatib, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of University of Washington biochemistry professor David Baker. Baker's lab developed the game, called Foldit, about three years ago, believing that they could tap into the brain power that puzzle-loving humans pour into computer games.
There are many examples of crowdsourcing in science, but most involve citizens helping out with drudgery, such as submitting data on animal sightings or running distributed computing programs on a home computer. Foldit players are providing answers beyond the capabilities of experts in the field.
Solving protein structures remains one of the most challenging problems in science. Proteins take shape from a strand of building blocks, called amino acids. Genes tell a cell's protein-making machinery the order for assembling the building blocks in a long, orderly strand. When a complex protein, such as an HIV protease, comes off the assembly line, it coils and folds to form an intricate molecular machine. Imagine, say, a sewing machine self-assembling from hundreds of parts arrayed on a string.
Because of the vast number of possible moves during protein folding, even advanced computers have trouble predicting the structure of large proteins. Foldit players use their intuition and 3-D problem-solving skills to figure out likely protein structures. Teams earn points by finding the most chemically stable shapes.
"Competitive social interaction is a very strong driving force," Baker says.
For the retrovirus problem, Foldit players started with scientists' rough-draft idea of the shape of the protease. During three weeks of play, gamers generated over a million structure predictions. The solution, reached by the winning team in 10 days, was nearly perfect. It gave Baker and colleagues all the information they needed to nail down the structure almost to the last atom.
Human minds have an advantage, Khatib says, because of their intuitive ability to see the potential for a delayed payoff from moves that seem like backward steps.
"Human players can see that you may have to go down this road, not doing well for a long time, but those steps are necessary if you want to get to a more correct solution," he says. "Even the best computers and computer algorithms aren't very good at that."
The scientists offered co-authorship to players who supplied the winning answers. All declined, asking only for recognition for their teams: Foldit Contenders Group and Foldit Void Crushers Group.
"It is a team thing. Everybody contributes," said a player from the Contenders Group, who asked to be identified by her Foldit user name, "mimi."
The study describing the structure was published in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology on Sunday.
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There has been much discussion regarding vote fraud in the 2012 elections. At this point it is impossible to know which claims have merit. ROG investigation shows that not all claims have merit. Even articles posted on reputable websites, such as WND (World Net Daily) can have errors.
Below is a copy of a WND article summarizing anecdotal evidence of vote fraud. Our investigation showed that at least two statements in this article are factually incorrect.
At the end of this article we've highlighted in yellow two incorrect statements. Both statements deal with alleged vote fraud in St. Lucie County, Florida.
ROG sampled data from one precinct in St. Lucie County where turnout was claimed to be 139% and found that turnout was exactly one-half of this stated amount. It is easy to understand why this claim was made - the 139% turnout was taken directly from the Election Report issued by St. Lucie County. This flawed report is a reminder that you can't take things at face value, especially from a government bureacracy.
Why did St. Lucie County publish bogus turnout percentages? It is because St. Lucie County had a two-page ballot for the 2012 election. The two page ballot created a situation where the number of ballot cards cast was exactly twice the number of actual voters. The Election Report issued by St. Lucie County should have been corrected to reflect this two-page ballot.
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Up to 10 percent of the ballots cast at a polling station in Pennsylvania reverted to a default, which gave Barack Obama a vote no matter who the voter had selected, according to a poll watcher who was a witness to the proceedings.
The incident took place in the state where officials claimed Obama got a total of 19,605 votes in 59 voting divisions to zero for Mitt Romney and not far from the 100 precincts in Ohio where Obama got 99 percent of the vote, a feat not even achieved by third-world dictators, according to Market Daily News.
With evidence mounting that the vote tabulation did not reflect the true choices of voters, talk-radio icon Rush Limbaugh echoed the Daily News, saying Monday: "Third-world, tin-horn dictators don't get [these percentages]. I mean, the last guy that got this percentage of the vote was Saddam Hussein, and the people that didn't vote for him got shot. This just doesn't happen. Even Hugo Chavez [of Venezuela] doesn't get 100 percent or 99 percent of the vote."
It was in Upper Macungie Township, near Allentown, Pa., where an auditor, Robert Ashcroft, was dispatched by Republicans to monitor the vote on Election Day. He said the software he observed would "change the selection back to default – to Obama."
He said that happened in about 5 percent to 10 percent of the votes.
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He said the changes appeared to have been made by a software program.
Ashcroft said the format for computer programming has a default status, and in this case it appeared to be designating a vote for Obama each time it went to default.
He found it suspicious that Romney and Obama were in a virtual tie in most polls, but Obama then suddenly surged ahead by a number of points on election night.
"How the heck does that happen?" he wondered.
He said as a poll watcher, he was not allowed to communicate with officials there, so his concerns were submitted later to the state GOP.
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Officials with the Republican Committee in Harrisburg did not respond to a WND request for comment.
Ashcroft explained he had been assigned to monitor who voted, and as the evening went on and the local election computer system went up and down, he discovered that some people who had marked as having voted already also suddenly were reversed.
WND previously reported Obama's success was nominal in states where authorities required voter identification, while he was very successful in states that did not require it.
WND also reported prior to Election Day that officials in Virginia were asked to investigate after a video caught the field director for Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Moran's campaign in an apparent conspiracy to commit election fraud.
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The video sting by James O'Keefe's Project Veritas, first reported by WND, prompted the resignation of Patrick Moran, who is also Jim Moran's son, and a criminal investigation by the Arlington County Police Department in Northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.
In a commentary today, WND Founder and CEO Joseph Farah said "without a doubt" the presidential election was stolen through voter fraud and manipulation.
He said the evidence so far has been anecdotal.
"I am convinced that at least 5 percent of the Democratic vote can be attributed to fraud – illegal voters, illegal campaign contributions, rigged balloting, intimidation at the polls, you name it."
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He noted WND's "own investigation in which it demonstrated conclusively that the Obama campaign welcomed foreign contributions by intentionally leaving vulnerabilities in its web donation page that allowed even those using bogus names, disposable credit cards and foreign IP addresses to donate cash."
In situations that appeared to be similar to that described by Ashcroft, Fox News reported that voters in Nevada, North Carolina, Texas and Ohio also said they had pushed a button on a touch-screen voting machine for Romney, but the machines recorded their vote for Obama.
"The voters in question realized the error and were able to cast ballots for their actual choice," the report said.
Joan Stevens said it took her three tries before the machine accepted her choice to vote for Romney, according to Fox.
"This is the first time in all the years that we voted that this has ever happened to me," she said.
Elections officials said there was nothing wrong with the machine.
At the White House website, a report in the Examiner explains, there was posted a petition seeking a recount of the race.
"In one county alone in Ohio, which was a battleground state, President Obama received 106,258 votes … but there were only 98,213 eligible voters. It's not humanly possible to get 108 percent of the vote," the petition claims.
Just a few of the reports, excluding those that are on blog postings, were:
Fox News reported that two election judges were replaced after illegally allowing unregistered voters to cast ballots.
The Columbus Dispatch estimated that more than 20 percent of registered Ohio voters aren't eligible.
"In two counties, the number of registered voters actually exceeds the voting-age population," the report said. And, it said, in 31 other counties, registrations are above 90 percent of the population, "a rate regarded as unrealistic by most voting experts."
Fox News also documented how Senate candidate Wendy Long, an attorney who was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, recounted her voting experience. "A poll worker who was at the scanner studied my private ballot and proceeded to tell me that it was rejected because I did not 'fill in every space.' She then proceeded to indicate that I should mark the Democratic line all the way down."
The Market Daily News reported on those 100 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, that on election day gave Romney zero votes, and Obama got 99 percent. "In more than 50 different precincts, Romney received two votes or less," the report said. "One would think that such improbable results would get the attention of somebody out there."
According to Philly.com, 59 voting divisions in Philadelphia produced a "head-spinning figure," not one vote for Romney. "The unanimous support for Obama in these Philadelphia neighborhoods – clustered in almost exclusively black sections of West and North Philadelphia – fertilizes fears of fraud, despite little hard evidence," the newspaper said.
On YouTube was the testimony of a computer programmer, telling the Ohio Legislature that he was able to write a program that would rig elections by flipping the total vote from the real winner to a pre-selected candidate.
The Washington Times reported that officials in Florida banned observers from seeing the absentee ballots being opened and "there was no way to know whether the absentee ballots that were produced were the same ones that were opened, or if all the ballots were produced."
Human Events claimed Ohio voters who are native to Somalia were being given a slate card saying, "Vote Brown all the way down" – an apparent reference to the Democratic senator.
The Washington Times reported its suspicions of voter fraud in Pennsylvania, including that "in Philadelphia, the [New] Black Panthers are currently standing outside polling booths, intimidating voters just like they did in 2008." It said, too, that 70 Republican polling inspectors were blocked from access.
Among the blog postings in support of the concerns, cited by columnist Andrea Shea King, were:
"In Florida: Obama Got Over 99% in Broward County Precincts"
"What Luck! Obama Won Dozens of Cleveland Districts with 100% of the Vote"
"Good News: Obama Won County in Ohio with 108% Voter Registration"
"BREAKING: St. Lucie County, Florida Had 141.1% Turnout; Obama Won County"
"Fraud in PA: Obama Got Over 99% of Vote at Polls Where GOP Inspectors Were Removed; Turnout Somehow '30%' Above Gov't Numbers"
"Out of 175,554 registered voters, 247,713 vote cards were cast in St. Lucie County, Florida, on Tuesday"
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|Thu, 02-06-2014 - 5:04pm
Hi, I'm new to iVillage. My friend recommended I join because I've been dealing with depression. Im 28, a stepmom to 3 kids: boy 12, boy 10, and girl 7. Ive been with them for 4 years, married a year and a half. My husband has sole legal and physical custody; their BM has supervised standard visitation at her parents house. Other things: he was19 when oldest was born, middle is not his biological child and appears to be another ethnicity. Middle son doesn't know, or hasn't been told.
Im so overwhelmed. Im a high school teacher, so I work full time but my schedule is such that I am the primary caretaker of the kids. I'm with them after school every day and all summer. Obviously BM hates me, she blames me for everything wrong in her life. Honestly, I hate her too.
The depression is new. I cry all the time. I'm disconnected from the kids. I don't want to play with them or even be around them. Other things have happened, most recently my husbands mother taking BM to lunch and the dog I've had since I was 15 dying from cancer.
I don't know how to get better. I feel alone. My husband is very supportive but he's all I have.
|Thu, 02-06-2014 - 6:16pm
I am so sorry. You sound overwhelmed, and it's no surprise. Having three kids of your own can be overwhelming, even when you are the one who gave birth to them and they arrived incrementally. You married into a full-fledged family that came with a whole bunch of issues, including a birth mother who isn't fit to be alone with them, and you have to deal with them all at once. It's not at all surprising that you feel this way!
Personally I think you need to see a therapist so you have someone to help you develop strategies to cope with the things in your life. And your DH should be invited to some of those sessions so you and he can work together on improving the situation. When you say he is supportive, what does that mean? Does he say, "Yes I understand, honey?" or does he work with you to change things for the better? This situation calls for full, 100% commitment to each other and that means *meaningful* action, not just words or temporarily doing something to make you feel better.
A therapist can also help you figure out how much of your feeling is sadness (your dog dying), stress, or clinical depression. If it's the last one, medication can help.
I'll let others weigh in on the things particular to step-parenting, since I'm not a SP, but I just wanted you to know there is help, and hope.
|Mon, 02-10-2014 - 11:55am
I agree that it's time for counseling for you. That is really an overwhelming situation to find yourself in at a young age. I acquired a 12 yr old DSD when I was in my 40's and had 2 kids of my own and just one stepchild was a lot to deal with since she came with a bunch of issues that my kids didn't have.
I can see why, when you are a teacher and get out of work early, and maybe their dad works late that you would be with them after school, but you should also not be in a situation where you are always the one taking care of them. In the summer, maybe you could look for some programs that they could be involved in or some kind of day camp. I know our town has a recreation program that's not that expensive.--it doesn't have to be for the whole summer but you should get a break. After all, if your DH wasn't married to you or was married to someone who wasn't a teacher and worked all year around, he would have to figure something else out. Maybe they could do some activities after school also or you could take turns sending them to friends' houses to play. I just have this feeling that your DH dumped everything on you and doesn't realize how much work this is? Has he had sole custody since you met him or is this a new thing?
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|Tue, 02-11-2014 - 11:13am
Believe me, there are very few parents who want to be with their own kids constantly--it's just that people don't feel comfortable admitting it. I was really happy to hear from another mother when our DDs were taking gymnastics together that she was glad she had 2 girls close in age because she hated playing. lol If they are doing something fun with friends after school they will be enjoying it too--plus it's good for their development to do some activities besides just going to school--art, dance, sports, scouting are all things that will enrich their lives and help them to make new friends too.
|Wed, 02-12-2014 - 2:49pm
i'm sorry to hear your sadness with dealing with all this. I have been with my husband for 11 years and step mom to his now 14 year old daughter for that same amount of time. I have 2 other kids with my husband /her father. he has had sole custody for 4 years about with no visits due to mom moving away and mom and daughter having an extremely toxic relationship. partly and also mostly due to daughter telling mom she has had enough of her crap.
i have recently started back to school for n ursing and it has been super difficult and feel where you are coming from. i cry at the drop of a needle most days due to all the stress. the bio mom does not pay child support, never calls, texts or anything unless it is to start a fight with someone. she cant stand me and i cant stand her. daughter used to love me, im sure she still does but i am definitely her targeted surrogate for any displaced anger. she is mad at her mom and i get it but it gets fired at me because mom isnt around for her to fire it at her. I recently just got blamed for ripping a stuffed animal, hiding a family photo (fell behind a shelf in her room) stealing money (she travels back and forth with it in her jacket) and stealing bobby pins from her room (which were in her room) i am so tired of being in this house, she ignores me but i still make her dinner, and remind her to do her laundry, and take a shower, and drive her to do her stupid paper route (all three kids, otherwise i would not do it)
she has blamed me for the breakdown in hers and her moms relationship, she is constantly trying to pin hubby and me against eachother. i absoluetly refuse to have anything to do with her while he is not around because if and when something goes down, her version is completely different from mine. thank god she has a history of being a pathological liar so hubby is mostly and usually on my side. she had even gone as far as contacting her mom about a year ago and saying that i was doing stuff (neither of them told me what was said but i wrote something on fb about teenegers not accepting responsibility and somehow mom found this and called and stirred the pot and texted my husband saying she was concerned about daughters well being because of the things she told her about what i was doing to her!!)
mother in law is a bitch. she is french and hates me, for why i dont know and at this point i dont care. when the bio mom stepped out of the picture all mother in law could do was drag bio moms name through the mud, she had nothing good to say about her and wished any ill harm on her. i dont know what happened or how it happened but i have tried to add my mother in law on fb but she wont accept my request... i did however see that she had recently become friends with the bio mom on facebook and has wasted no time liking all her stupid photos (even solo photos of the other kids who are not biological to my mother in law) years back when my first born arrived (the ex has a son about 4-5 months prior) and my mother in law knew that babies weight, length, time of birth, place of birth and everything... to this day still doesnt know any of that for my son. years went by and the only photos on her wall were of my step daughter... albums full of photos... she still had my husbands wedding photos up for a long while after hubby and i got together.. its a crazy life... you either have tough skin or you don't... i grew up in a very abusive home so i guess i have tough skin... also i love my husband to death and he sticks by my decisions as a wife, mother, step mother, partner or what have you... so i guess i stick around because i couldnt bare to let my pther two kids have a split home when i still love the man.. i dont know, some days i just pop some migraine medication and wait for the next day... im surprised sometimes that i managed through the week... we do it for love i guess, i also love the daughter because i know she is hurting and doesnt know how to cope any better (doesnt mean its okay but i kinda understand) i see a broken me in her that i want to help fix... i just wait for the day that she sees the beauty around her instead of focusing on all the hurt... i wish you luck in your life and in your marriage and in raising those kids... maybe take pride that your presence may be of some sort of normalcy that they may not otherwise have if you werent around...
|Thu, 02-13-2014 - 11:14am
Courtney, is this girl in counseling? If not, it seems like she should be--no relationship w/ mom, taking out her anger on you, pathological liar--this is not a good way to grow up. Plus the counseling should involve you & your DH--this is no way to continue to live for at least the next 4 yrs and I'm sure it's not good for the younger kids either.


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12 game's expression";127 thus, an "infringer may copy the placed the data into 456 fields and 34 master categories audiovisuals themselves or the infringer may copy the or tables.135 WIREdata sought to obtain the non- underlying computer program."128 copyrighted data. Three municipalities refused to pro- vide the data to WIREdata out of concern that provid- C. Computer Programs and Compilations or ing the data would subject them to claims that they had Databases violated AT's copyright in Market Drive.136 WIREdata Commentators addressing the copyrightability of only wanted the raw data so that it could use the data data or computer programs to collect and process data for its own purposes.137 are not in agreement on whether there is copyright pro- As the Seventh Circuit saw it, tection. According to one source, firms are interpreting, [f]rom the standpoint of copyright law all that matters is analyzing, and electronically processing data; the en- that the process of extracting the raw data from the data- hanced data are subject to copyright protection; and base does not involve copying Market Drive, or creating, "data enhancement firms are in fact copyrighting their as AT mysteriously asserts, a derivative work; all that is sought is raw data, data created not by AT but by the as- products."129 Although the case did not involve real-time sessors, data that are in the public domain....W]ork that data, in Corsearch, Inc. v. Thomson & Thomson,130 a merely copies uncopyrighted material is wholly unorigi- federal court in New York held that a state trademark nal and the making of such a work is therefore not an in- computer database was copyrightable. In another case, fringement of copyright. 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Morocco: Polisario Propaganda Machine is Outdated
This reflection is based on the final report of the Special Envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations released on November 28. A report that has greatly exasperated the Polisario and its biggest backer, Algeria, because the mandate of Christopher Ross, who did not drain as such, unfortunately for them, has not moved one iota. Then everything appears as a slap to Polisario and Algeria certainly a disappointment and frustration, because it is difficult to cope with the fact that Algeria petrodollars invested millions in taxpayers' aid Algerian Polisario friends without getting anything but foolishly spoiling the promotion of the Maghreb Union. The report, in my opinion, shows that Morocco is no longer the country that screws up talking about conflict management, and also highlights the Polisario, Algeria doll, in betting on the wrong blind horse, besides other dirty and despicable intrigues hatched by Algeria. Instead, the unquestionable victory of Morocco is that the country has not fallen into the trap concocted by the Polisario and the Algerian regime giving certainly palpable evidence that the visit of Christopher Ross has been managed with glove silk. So, without incident, without falling into the trap of provocation.
Further proof of that intelligent governance, without ignoring the sharp eye and permanent prudence, is the single best way to immunize the country and naturally lend credibility to the bold plan of autonomy, considered by the Security Council of United Nations as realistic and believable. Conversely to the malicious intentions of Polisario and Algerian godfather, who wanted to reignite the disorder and revolt in the Sahara in the presence of the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General, as did horribly in the Saharawi camp on the outskirts of the city of Laayoune, sabotage plan has been broken. Consequently, Algeria vents its anger, takes the worst bump. The overwhelming defeat is also manifested in not falling into the trap of provocation which involved demonstrations aimed at forcing the police to resort to violence. Thus, the provocateurs tried to internationalize a possible violence used by public authorities with the protesters and, thus tarnishing the image of human rights in Morocco and present it as a country of torture.
Still, the Algerians and the Polisario were so frustrated to see that their propaganda machine was not functioning well as used to be in the past. Their vainly tried to monopolize spanish media, NGOs some political parties in attempt to tarnish Morocco's image but they were not successful this time. Special Envoy arrived in Laayoune and met freely with different goups and NGOs including the propolisio ones. The Moroccans managed Christopher Ross did not intervene or block Mr; Christopher 's agenda. Moroccans' aim was to show to the UN diplomat and to the international community that the false image that the Algerians and the Polisario put forward on the human right situation in that region does not exisit. Christopher's visit to that region was an irrefutable proof of the fiasco of the maneuver of the Polisario. To see firsthand evidence of their failure, anyone can consult the videos released on the Internet, to realize that only excerpts broadcast from a brutal attack with stones on police vans by a minority of angry protesters. i
However, the most important element are claims of the Polisario their poisonous propaganda that is working assiduously but in vain to shade the image of Morocco by inventing insurrections and rebellions. Morocco obtained a lot during Christopher Ross's visit. That was an occasion even for the Personal Envoy to address thereasons of misunderstanding between him and Moroccan officials, political parties leaders and NGOs. In any case, Morocco has demonstrated that he could never be a victim of the machination of the separatists who wanted to provoke and embarrass Morocco before the international community.
The arsonists who intended to instrumentalize Personal Envoy's visit to the Sahara, to mislead the international communit, were completely disappointed. In fact they suffered a blow. Actually, it is true that Morocco has done what should be done and has been successful to manage Personal Envoy's visit. That was an ooportunity to show effectively the stability, respect of human rights, rule of law and economic growth that prevail in the Sahara. It is up to the other conflicting party to take a more serious and politically acceptable proposal. Morocco has put on the UN "table" an autonomy proposal that was (and still is) qualified by some permanent members of the UN Security Council as serious, credible and realistic. Time is passing by and Morocco like any other state with a clear vision cannot waste time in dealing with propaganda intrigues and commit itself to a series of negotiations that lead to nowhere.
Said Temsamani
Political analyst
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