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I am trying to decide if I should stay with my boyfriend or not.
We have been together for 2.5 years. I'm 27, He's about the same age.
I love him and he loves me. A lot of our relationship is pretty great, we say I love you everyday & hug and kiss all the time, we compliment each other and share our fears and insecurities. He is there when I need him, I know I can trust him.
But he has some serious problems. His parents were violent and emotionally abusive throughout his childhood and have physical fights. He has a problem where he will zone out and to get him attention I will need to call his name at least 3 times until he is back in the room with me. This is hard and tries my patience. Also, this means I sometimes feel I am struggling to get him attention and have a normal conversation with him - he watches TV a lot and gets lost in that world. I miss him when he is mentally gone.
Also, his mother has always clean up after him and around him and although if I ask he will always do what I request, it gets really tiring to ask everytime anything needs to be done - food, collecting dirty dishes, rubbish wrappers he has left lying around etc. He is like a child in that sense, he needs guidance on what to do and even how to do it - its so frustrating.
Also, his anger. He is the most caring man and forgiving. He would forgive me the world if I wanted, and that is a unique quality in him. He will let most things go and is a very easy going person in that sense, never really having any complaints. However, should I complain about something or make him angry he will go from 0-10 in a minute. Then his anger gets nasty. He will swear and shout and look intimidating. On rare occasion he has punched the wall or thrown something. He can even get angry in the street which is really embarrassing - my family would never display anger like that. Since I made him go to counseling and talked to him about his behavior he has got better. He swears less and shouts less but he still does it sometimes. It's like he hold onto his small bits of anger (which makes him really easy going) and then lets it all out in a massive blast. I have jokingly told him he is like the hulk/Jeckel & Hyde, but he really is.
We have made plans to live together. But lately all I can think is 'do I want my (future) kids to live like this?' There are characteristics in him I will never find in another man, he is some amazing in so many ways but this bad stuff is really killing me. Out of all my relationships he is the one I have had the most real connection too, he gets me, he has a good soul, a kind soul. But it is like he is either this 'wonderful child' or his 'horrible father'. I hate that life is so cruel and complicated sometimes. It seems I can't live with him and I can't live without him.
I have told him all of this and we are on a break now, so I can think. He has said he wants to be the man he needs to be for me and is prepared to make changes. If he could I would be with him in a second. But will we just be getting back together for a brief period where he works really hard and then gets relaxed and goes back to being his old self? Also, his behaviours can really irritate me, as I can't let myself loose it when he is being aggressive - I need to help calm him in those moments, it means that I have started letting my anger out in smaller bursts by having little digs at him - that's not cool. I don't want to be that person, criticing him like his dad did
Any advice please.
|Thu, 08-30-2012 - 2:08pm
Another relevant question is SHOULD you wait that long? Life is what we see passing by in the distance while we wait for someone to change.


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Review of chapter "J Street" from
Just started reading this, and I have to say that it really is quite good. Uses some of the Harry meets the Council cliche's, and turns others on their ear. I like the combination. New ideas on the concept, but no changes just for the sake of changes, as some authors would do. Great work so far. Pacing along quite nicely.
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Hey there! I'm so glad you're enjoying the story! If I may ask, what sorts of things do you see as cliche and which do you see as turning them on their ear, as you said? I've read some stories where Harry meets the Council, but not enough to really get a feel for what's been overdone and what hasn't. I maintain that Sherza's fanfic, "White Knights and Dark Lords" is a heavy inspiration for this story, and Sherza is my primary beta-reader. So, if you've read that fanfic and see similarities, then that's why. If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend it. It's a Xander-centered story that is positively amazing.
Thank you so much for your review. I hope you continue to leave feedback! Always good to get more opinions. ^_^
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Review of chapter "Uncle Lance" from
Charming and well thought out writing and storytelling in this chapter. Not quite as heavy-handed as your set-up.... meaning improvement as the story goes on.... as information is revealed. I liked how you kept having warnings against swarms of super-powered teenaged girls to Harry, and the TARDIS house was quite interesting. It is shame that Xander and Jessie weren't enough into Doctor Who for Willow to know about it. As a science hero, I think she would have had quite the pretend tv-boyfriend crush. Thanks for sharing.
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Review of chapter "J Street" from
Love how Willow is training Harry. Hope she does get the DADA job.
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Great chapter!
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Review of chapter "J Street" from
I always wondered about the comment, I think it was by Ron, that they had a squib cousin, but they didn't really talk about him too much. It seems for all the liberal thinking the Weasleys/Prewitts have regarding witches and wizards they still seem to be somewhat prejudiced about being related to non-magicals. Like Lance would be considered a blight on their family tree or something.
I'm glad Willow got the story of her past out in the open to Harry. It would be difficult if it came out in the wash down the road.
I can't wait to read more of this story. Keep up the great work!
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Review of chapter "Uncle Lance" from
Why do I picture a red headed John Candy when I see "Uncle Lance"? Oh well, Great chapter!
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I don't think Ron would be mean at all; he might be rude without meaning to, i.e. oblivious. He's not a bad person, he's just the character in the books who actually acts his age. More realistic. Not sure how Molly would react to Willow.
Hm... please, a scene where HP has to deal with an entire floor of teenage slayers, heh.
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A wand with Spike's hair in it?
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This shows promise. Just please don't make it a Ron/Hermione fic, it drives me nuts. Plus I somehow think Ron would NOT like meeting a squib relative while Hermione would just treat them like a fellow human being. The poke towards Dumbasadoor's living chess game was an interesting foreshadow too. Willow meeting Hermione should be fun, with them both being knowledge sponges but Willow having learned moderation.
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Review of chapter "Uncle Lance" from
I've given a lot of thought to the different magics in these universes over the years (b/c yes I am that geeky). The way I always saw it was Willow had to worry more about addiction because she often drew her power from outside of herself. I figure that when they use the magic from their own core it's non addictive, which is why most wizards never have to worry about it. Wizards typically only use supplemental magic in potions and a few magical artifacts. However, because Willow can draw from outside herself she has the capability to be far, far more powerful than Harry Potter universe wizards. Of course, while Willow always has some magic at her fingertips, she would need a little time to draw up to her uber-witch levels. I mean, yes it was with a focus (the scythe) but Willow was powerful enough to change the laws of nature in her universe (one line to all potentials being chosen). She's crazy powerful when she wants to be. I think she might actually be so powerful that she'd simply burn up any normal wands if she tried to push her power through them. Maybe she would need one that actually resists her power, in order to slow it down, or perhaps just a prop wand?
Anyway, story is still interesting. I look forward to more.
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I get that magic becomes a crutch for wizards. The whole 'don't overuse it' thing by Willow is likely her projecting based on her own experiences. But people do that.
Getting her a wand should be an experience. Hm, getting her the DADA position.... normally I'd say it wouldn't work, but Dumbledore will be desperate to get anyone for it, so as to avoid having to accept Fudge's choice (Umbridge). He accepted Gilderoy L., he'll accept anybody.
Meanwhile I'd imagine the alarm level of HP's absence will be going up steadily, by the Order anyway.
Hm. Any chance of Willow recognizing anybody in a portrait in Hogwarts? Drusilla or Darla (back when human) ? It'd be fun.
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Review of chapter "Uncle Lance" from
Interesting...A very good way of bringing in a Prewett who is unknown and yet plausible. And the indignities and suffering of a squib.
Well done! I look forward to the continuation.
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The 'evil vibe' might not just be the blood ward; might be his curse scar, too. They don't yet realize how connected to Voldemort HP is. Hasn't mentioned the prophecy yet; then again he doesn't know about it yet, I think.
Not surprised by your take on Dumbledore. He started out in life intending to become a dark lord type, with Grindelwald, then sort of got 'scared straight' by what happened to his sister... ANYWAY, boy will all parties be upset about HP's disappearance, or what? The ministry not so much, but the Order, yes.
Poor Hedwig, has to cross the Atlantic to deliver his letters? Ouch. Presumably he's a magic owl & it'll be no problem...?
I bet Willow will very much want to see HP's textbooks --
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Yeah, there's a lot that Harry doesn't know yet. He doesn't even know that the Order exists at this point, so he really has no idea about the panic he's likely set everyone into.
As for the nasty vibes Willow was getting, I'm gonna say her focus was on the house at that point in time. The scar will come up, just not quite yet. And we don't know where Sirius was hiding, aside from Africa. Hedwig may have had to cross oceans before. At the very least, she's had to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Admittedly, that's a LOT shorter distance than the Atlantic. That is a good point that I'll have to bring up, so thanks for that.
I hope you're enjoying the story so far. Thanks for the reviews, and I hope you like what's to come. :)
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This is moving along nicely. I really like it.
Others have stated their opinion of Harry's type of magic vs. Willow's.
Willow's magic was heavily tainted by the Hellmouth, so she became addicted to it very quickly. Plus, she really didn't have a teacher, but taught herself; which really isn't the way to go about something like that. It's like teaching yourself to swim by jumping into the deep end of the swimming pool, instead of learning to float in the shallows.
Plus, if Harry were to slow down on, or stop using magic altogether, would that have an adverse affect on his health?
Not only that, but what about accidental magic? He was pulling it off for years, before he went to Hogwarts to learn how to use his magic safely. Now, it takes something of a major stress level for him to lose control and perform accidental magic.
From what I've read of other fics, isn't his magical core like a muscle, i.e., the more he uses it, the stronger it gets? Well, if that is so, then the less he uses it, the more it will atrophy, won't it?
He should be checked over for any power limiters or other spells of that nature. It wouldn't surprise me if he had a few of those on him.
Just don't kill Hedwig in this fic. I was very sad when I read in canon that she died, and I thought it was very unfair of Rowling to kill off Harry's most loyal friend.
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You bring up a lot of food for thought which I will definitely be digesting when I write the upcoming chapters. Willow's addiction in season six will not and does not affect Harry or any of his friends. I won't say that the entire wizarding world is immune to such things, but magic is, rather like pre-demolished Earth, mostly harmless.
As for killing of Hedwig or other main characters, I can't promise anything. I don't want to make anyone suffer, but I do want you to care about the characters and feel for them when they're in pain. That JKR pulled that off with Hedwig makes me admire her rather than hate her. Kinda like how Joss Whedon tends to off his most likable characters.
With that said, thanks for reviewing, and I hope you enjoy what's to come! ^_^
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With the 2012 baseball season approaching, let's take a look at the bottom dwellers of the NL West: The San Diego Padres. After an eventful offseason, this truly is a new-look Padres team. But make no mistake; the Padres are focused on future success, which means Padres fans are in store for another long season. So, what questions surround this team for 2012?
5.What can we expect from Yonder Alonso this year?
Last December, the collective cheer you heard was fantasy owners rejoicing that stud prospect Yonder Alonso was traded away from Cincinnati, thus out of the shadow of Joey Votto. However, it was short lived when we learned that the destination was to the spacious fields of Petco Park in San Diego.
Still, this is a win for Alonso, who will finally get to see an open path to playing time. Alonso only has 117 at-bats in his Major League career, so let's not go crazy with the hype. Those in single-season leagues must temper their expectations. Jesus Guzman lurks right behind him and may steal some at-bats, especially when Alonso struggles with rookie inconsistencies. NL-Only owners may find him useful as a speculative add later in the draft and dynasty owners may reach, but Alonso is probably another year or two away from being a mainstay in standard fantasy baseball leagues.
4. Is Cory Luebke for real?
After his June call up to the starting rotation, Cory Luebke became a sneaky-good fantasy baseball pitcher. Normally, you expect to see reliever turned starter take a hit with ERA and WHIP, but Luebke bucked that notion and posted even better numbers in the rotation. His 1.07 WHIP led the starting rotation and his 9.9 K/9 shows a player with dominance.
Can he sustain this level of play for a full season? There are reasons to believe he can. This is no ordinary pitching product of Petco. This is a player whose home and road splits show a better ERA and a better WHIP away from his home ballpark. To expect another sub 1.10 WHIP season may be overly optimistic, but a 1.200 WHIP with another low 3.00 ERA is doable. Match that with a possible 180-strikeout season, and you are looking at a solid number two starter for the price of a low end number three.
3. This is an entirely revamped bullpen. How will saves shake out?
After an offseason overhaul, we see a 2012 bullpen with a completely new look. Gone is Heath Bell who now resides in the sunny South Beach in Miami. Gone is uber-reliever Mike Adams as he goes to the loaded Texas Rangers. So who are the Padres left with?
The Padres answered that question with the acquisition of Huston Street from the Colorado Rockies. Street has shown dominance during his seven-year career. He's shown the ability to close out games and dominate at the plate. The fact that he's leaving Coors Field has to excite fantasy owners across the board. But save opportunities may be limited with a weak offense behind him. You can expect good performances from Street, but don't expect more than 30-35 saves, assuming he stays healthy. If his shoulder starts to act up from his 2010 injury, make sure that middle relievers Luke Gregerson and Ernesto Frieri are on your radar, since each could get a crack at a couple of save chances.
2. Can Edinson Volquez turn his career around in Petco Park?
Volquez averaged only 74 innings per season in the past three years, is two years removed from Tommy John surgery, and had served a 50 game suspension in 2010 for testing positive for a banned substance. Despite a laundry list of reasons to stay away, Volquez is still generating buzz because he is moving to a pitcher's park. However, those who remember his 200-strikeout season in 2008 and then look at the ball park for a reason for a resurgence may be in for a rude awakening. While there's no question that Volquez has heat behind his pitches, it comes at a substantial loss in control. His career BB/9 is over 4.8, which is completely unacceptable. His WHIP is obviously poorly reflected with his walk rate to an unrosterable 1.50 career average.
Will Edinson Volquez turn his career around? The only reason to draft him is if you are absolutely desperate for strikeouts. Even so, his WHIP may cause more damage that it's worth.
1. Is there any hitter worth drafting?
There is a dearth of usable talent on the 2012 Padres' squad. Most fantasy players could stay away from the Padres' hitters and be just fine. However, there are a few sneaky players that could hold value for your squad. None of these players scream sexy and you probably won't get too many jeers from your league mates in your draft room, but it's the stats that count.
First you have Cameron Maybin, who will likely lead the team in runs and stolen bases. He's a great source of quality speed in the middle rounds of your draft and could post 35 or more stolen bases. Next is Chase Headley, who can give you a decent amount of speed for your corner infield spot. He won't blow away the competition in runs and RBI, but low 60s in each category is absolutely doable. Finally, Carlos Quentin may have lost his upside status long ago; however this is still an outfielder who can nab you 20 plus home runs and 80 RBIs late in the draft.
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This photo was taken with the Leica M9 and Zeiss 25mm lens inside of one of the Newport seafood restaurants.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
A Marriage Made in Heaven
The extraordinary love story of Joni Eareckson Tada and her husband, Ken Tada
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
AGOURA HILLS, CA (ANS) -- After being becoming a quadriplegic, unable to use her hands or legs, after a tragic 1967 diving accident in Chesapeake Bay, Joni Eareckson was so depressed that she even contemplated suicide.
"I'm just so grateful there were no Jack Kevorkian's around back then because my problem wasn't so much my quadriplegia; it was clinical depression," Joni told me in an interview at her Joni and Friends International Disability Center in Agoura Hills, CA.
"I just needed somebody to come alongside me and show me the ropes and teach me and lead me through the maze of questions I had to the point where I could say that 'I can do this. I really can live life in a wheelchair and live it with a smile, not in spite of the problems but miraculously because of them.'
"And because I began to lean harder on Jesus, the stronger you discover Him to be and the more you realize what you can do."
Today, Joni is an internationally known mouth artist, a talented vocalist, a radio host, author of 17 books and an advocate for disabled persons worldwide, but in those early days of her disability the last thing was on the mind was marriage, after all who would want to marry someone confined to a lifetime in a wheelchair?
Fast forward to the early 1980s when Joni was attending Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, pastored by John MacArthur. By now, she was an international celebrity, having written Joni, her autobiography and even starred as herself in the movie of the same name.
Watching her across the church just after the film Joni had been released was Ken Tada, a history teacher and school grid iron football coach.
"Joni was the main speaker at a Young Life banquet at the church and from a distance I could just barely see a gentleman who was seated next to her who I thought was her husband," Ken began as Joni sat next to him.
"I thought what she said was fantastic and I was going to go up to speak to her, but the crowd was just too big. So it wasn't until the year afterward that we had some mutual friends who were trying to fix us up and I was invited to a surprise birthday party for Joni. At it, we started talking and realized we had some things in common and so I finally asked her out for a date."
Ken smiled as he continued, "I had never taken anyone out in a wheelchair before, and so this was a new experience. I knew enough though that if we were going to go out on our first date by ourselves then I was going to have to lift Joni in and out of her wheelchair.
"So at the high school where I was teaching and coaching football I worked out with weights for the whole week with the idea that I wouldn't drop her on our first date. I had set a goal at the time of being able to curl a hundred-eighty pounds."
Joni quickly jumped in and said, "I'm not a hundred-eighty pounds. I want everybody to know that."
Ken then said, "No, no, Joni was not a hundred-eighty pounds, that was just a figure that I had set. I figured that I was safe, that I wouldn't drop her, if I could curl that."
Joni then said, "But you've got to tell the people that you knew I was heavy when you lifted me out of the chair and into your car. Tell them what you did."
After some coaxing from his wife, Ken finally replied, "Joni thought that she was on a date with Bruce Lee because I had done this 'Hi-ya' and it was at the time that I was lifting her, so I will never live it down now."
The couple went to a restaurant at Marina del Rey, on the Westside of Los Angeles, and soon the couple discovered that they had many things in common.
I asked Joni to explain more.
"Well, for one thing, we both love history and nobody knows this, but on many of our dates for that first year, we'd play history trivia at dinner and I would start beating him," she smiled. "I was getting all these correct answers and so then he threw in more difficult questions like, 'What sort of bomber flew the Pacific Theater in World War II?'
"We had a lot of fun playing history trivia and we both loved sports, and we are fans of the LA Lakers and we are both interested in education. So I realized we had a lot of things in common, but most of all of we shared in common was our love and passion for Jesus.
"I love this man's heart. When you see Ken and you listen to him, that's him. He's not somebody different behind closed doors. He is totally without guile and a man with a pure heart which I was drawn to then and it's still the same to this day, twenty-seven years later."
So how did Ken propose?
"I would preface that by saying that some people wondered why I would ask Joni to marry me, but in Second Samuel it says that 'man looks at the outward appearance but God looks on the inward appearance' and Joni is a beautiful person on the inside. So it was very easy for me at the time to want to spend a lifetime with this person because of her inner beauty and the quality that she brought into our relationship. And, as Joni has mentioned, the most important thing for us was that we both loved Christ.
"I didn't get down on my hands and knees, but I did ask her on a lake up in the High Sierras then in her art studio. I wasn't real romantic. It was a two part proposal."
Joni then jumped in and said, "When we were up in the High Sierras, Ken just keep asking personal questions like, 'What's your routine?' As he did, I was thinking that something's up, something's going on.
"And so it was, about a month later, that he came into my art studio where I was working on a painting and he popped the question. I don't know how to describe my reaction, but the colors on my painting were suddenly brighter and the swatches of red and purple and yellow paint that I had taped here and there were glowing. I learned later on after reading an article in Scientific America that when your system is flooded with endorphins, colors look brighter. And there was a very good scientific reason for everything seeming so bright and wonderful."
Ken then took up by saying, "There were friends of ours who said that 'before you do this before you make the final decision before you get married you ought to go away for a week and just try it out to see whether or not it's going to work.' Both Joni and I shook our heads and said, 'That's not going to honor God if we do something like that. So we ended up deciding that it may make for an interesting honeymoon, but we're going to go ahead and just trust that God is going to be the key and the glue that kind of keeps us together."
"There were people who recognized me and thought I was speaking over there and I said, 'No, I just got married,' and they looked around for my husband. When they saw Ken standing there they asked me if he was my 'Hawaiian tour guide' because Ken looks very Hawaiian, although he's actually Japanese American."
After having an experience like that, I asked Ken what were some of the things they both had to come to terms with in their marriage.
"It was a difficult time for me personally, as a man, because of Joni's notoriety," he said. "People recognized her as she mentioned even in Hawaii, but they didn't know who I was. My role, as a high school teacher, was where my identity was.
"But as a man, just standing there and watching these people come and greet Joni, it was one of those things that took an adjustment period. Joni was always so good to try and introduce me at the same time that people were trying to get to know who she was. Then, once we realized that this was part of our joint ministry, that as being able to do this as a couple, it made all the difference in terms of how we handled the situation."
Joni then explained why she began using the name Joni Eareckson Tada instead of Joni Tada.
"It was because so many people knew me by my maiden name," she said. "So I went to the Van Nuys County Court House and made my maiden name my middle name because I knew people wouldn't know who Joni Tada was, and I wanted them to know my husband, Ken Tada.
"Ken and I have an extraordinary relationship with so many people. In fact many of his former students respect Coach Tada as they call him. They love Coach Tada and they keep in touch with him over the years and that gives me a chance to interface with his world."
I then asked Ken to tell me something about Joni that might surprise people.
"Oh boy," he said, "I don't know if this would surprise anyone, but the beauty that you see on the outside is equally as beautiful on the inside. I think I've mentioned that. And she is the most phenomenal individual I know in terms of remembering old time music."
After laughing he continued, "It's like being married to a jukebox. I think part of it is that she has older sisters, but she knows all the old hymns all the old songs. I mean you can go into the forties, fifties and the sixties."
Ken retired from 32 years of teaching in 2004 and now ministers fulltime alongside Joni as they travel across the country and around the world with their wonderful ministry, Joni and Friends.
And what an example they are to so many!
To find out more, go to http://www.joniandfriends.org/
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Pink eye usually does not affect vision. Infectious pink eye can easily spread from one person to another. The infection will clear in most cases without medical care, but bacterial pink eye needs treatment with antibiotic eye drops or ointment.
A stye (hordeolum) is a red, painful lump usually filled with puss (may look like a boil or a pimple) near the edge of your eyelid. A stye most commonly forms on the outside of your eyelid, but sometimes a stye can form on the inner part of your eyelid. It is caused by a bacterial infection in the lid usually from rubbing the eye too hard or from inflammation of the lid such as might occur with conjunctivitis (pink eye). Some risk factors are include changing your contact lenses without thoroughly washing your hands first, failure to disinfect your contact lenses before putting them in, leaving makeup on overnight, and using old or expired cosmetics.
The Little Clinic can help distinguish the cause of the pink eye and make certain it is not something more serious such as a corneal abrasion (scratch of the eye) or ulcer. We can even prescribe the appropriate medication if indicated.
In most cases, a sty will disappear on its own in a few days to a week. In the meantime, you may be able to relieve the pain or discomfort of a sty by applying a warm washcloth to your eyelid several times a day.
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The Rev. Sara Wilcox, co-pastor at Land of the Sky in Asheville, NC, said she is grateful for the grant from LCM, which will be used to help the congregation become more sustainable and continue to grow in work and attendance.
"It allows us to grow our ministries as we grow in people and grow giving in our community," Wilcox said. "It will allow us to expand our children's ministries and some of the educational opportunities we're moving toward."
Land of the Sky UCC was founded in 2009, and very recently was accepted into the UCC. Wilcox said the church has worked to "build a community partly because it's about giving back to the United Church of Christ and building a ministry here long-term."
Sycamore UCC in El Cerrito, CA is working to "redefine church because we have a large community around us that is not part of the worship," the Rev. Sharon Lee MacArthur said. There are about 125 families that use Sycamore's educational or after-school programs, but don't join the congregation in worship services. "We're hoping to move forward to connecting with them [using this grant]. Helping families discover the spiritual part of life is part of the Christian experience."
Using the grant money, Sycamore UCC plans to reach into those "fringe" communities, and enhance its worship.
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I was recently afforded the opportunity to work with the internet department of a large medical publishing firm located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The department assisted the company's various marketing departments with regard to content destined to be posted on the Internet as well as coordination of scheduling and placement of content on the company's web site. Ultimately the department served as a conduit between various marketing and product management departments at sites in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and the Baltimore-based IT department that physically housed the company's web servers.
As a result of these activities, there were a great many files finding their way into the department via a number of paths. Most arrived by e-mail, some on diskette via interoffice mail and some were uploaded directly to ftp servers in Baltimore. This created a flurry of activity as the marketing staff and developers in the department attempted to organize and coordinate a variety of content. To add to the confusion, there were also numerous versions of documents that were submitted due to last-minute changes made by the supported departments. My task was to develop an interim solution to reduce the confusion created by content submission activity by organizing all the various content in one central application. I attempted to do this by building a small web application prototype that would serve to track each project's title, manager, department, department code and cost accounting code.
The application needed to be built quickly and cheaply because constraints in the purchasing and tenuous acquisition processes ruled out any new requisitions until the beginning of the next fiscal quarter. It needed to run on standard PC equipment that was readily available in the department. Technical support for the application by experienced system administrators would be limited. The applications needed to be light, fast, easy to use, stable and easily maintained by the department's staff that approached web development from a marketing, as opposed to technical, perspective. Despite the fact that this was the Department of the Internet, the focus of the department's activities was on content coordination. The IT department administered the heavier-duty web servers and telecommunications that were off-site.
This document will relay the lessons learned from my investigation into the software tools required and available for building a rudimentary, dynamic internet application. Consideration will be given to commercial and free software alike. We'll begin with some definitions and background of the elements of a dynamic web application and then continue on to a tour of some of the available technologies. It is my intention that this article serve as an informative starting point for developers and would-be developers as they begin to seek solutions for their web application development requirements.
Advanced web designers often use a scripting language called JavaScript and a system of naming the parts of the web page—the Document Object Model, or DOM—together with HTML and CSS to create dynamic content on a page. These effects are sometimes called Dynamic HTML or DHTML. I, however, am limiting the scope of this project to building a web site that will generate dynamic content by interacting with a database. I was not interested so much in effects displayed to the user but in focusing on building an intuitive web application. The project scripts will be executed at the server, not at the client as occurs with JavaScript. The tools and methods presented here will not limit the addition of interactive or stylistic features to the application at a later time.
Data is defined as a general term meaning the facts, numbers, letters and symbols processed by a computer or communications system to produce information. In a computer system these items are typically stored in files. A collection of related files is a database. Within these files, records of items are organized into rows and columns. In this case, I need something more sophisticated than a simple collection of files.
The project requires a RDBMS, or Relational Database Management System. An RDBMS is a software package that stores data in rows and columns as tables. Various tables can be related to one another in order to answer questions posed by the end user. These questions are known as queries. The RDBMS is a concept first introduced by Codd in an academic paper in 1970 but was not commercially available until the mid 1970s. The RDBMS responds to all queries whether they ask the RDBMS to retrieve, add, update or delete data from the tables.
Sometimes the RDBMS that services a web site is called the back end. The web pages that the end user will see is often called the front end. Questions are posed to the back end using a language called SQL (Structured Query Language). In short, if there is data that needs to be processed, a DBMS of some kind is required. The most popular at this time are Relational DBMS, that respond to questions/commands via SQL.
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Ballinger Independent School District in Texas has deployed WiFi arrays from Xirrus to support the district's 1:1 laptop initiative.
The initiative, dubbed "emPOWERing Students for the Future," provides Ballinger ISD students with an Apple MacBook laptop computer on loan. More than 500 students and more than 600 computers are involved in the initiative, which is open to students in grades 6 through 12.
"Our school board decided they wanted each staff member in the district and all students in the junior high and high schools to be equipped with an Apple MacBook computer this year, so we quickly went to work to find the Wi-Fi network that would support all the students, deliver the necessary bandwidth, be easy to install and maintain, and not cost the district an arm and a leg," said Tim Gau, director of technology of Ballinger ISD, in a statement released this week. "We had roughly six weeks to have the 600+ computers ready, which meant having the network in place and the teachers and students trained."
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Lake George Amid unprecedented expressions of municipal cooperation, the leaders of Lake George's two local governments decided Tuesday, Jan. 24 to work together on exploring conversion to solar energy and pursuing consolidation of functions and resources.
The actions were taken at a rare joint meeting between the Lake George Village trustees and the Lake George town board.
Town board member Marisa Muratori and village Public Works Superintendent Dave Harrington revealed they have been taking action exploring the concept of installing solar panels to energize various municipal facilities, both to save money and to shrink the governments' carbon footprint.
As of Tuesday, Harrington had given two solar engineering firms preliminary tours of the Lake George town and village facilities, and several more similar surveys and interviews are scheduled for the near future.
Based on the success that the Town of Chester has experienced already in their solar panel installations, Muratori said she had high hopes for the solar energy initiative.
"This is one of the things we can do to boost our sustainability locally, as we increase our efforts to rely on our community resources," she said.
The two boards resolved to move forward on the project, as consultants have warned that federal incentives for solar conversion are expiring soon.
Harrington said there's plenty of room at the northwest edge of the parking lot at the village-town hall complex for a lineup of solar panels, which are 16 feet deep. He also said there was plenty of space at the village landfill.
The solar conversion project in Chester is virtually complete, with solar panels installed at the town landfill and garage, and yet to be completed at the town ski area, health center and Municipal Center.
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III Forks. This relatively new steakhouse — the only Illinois location of a seven-link chain — has a shiny steel-and-glass rooftop space whose outdoor bar and fireplace draw a good (and sometimes dressed-to-kill) crowd. But though this is a rooftop, the restaurant is surrounded by the tall condos of the Lakeshore East development (east of Michigan Avenue and north of Randolph Street), so you get a rooftop effect (there's a pretty park just below) and a canyon effect simultaneously. If you're going to make an evening of it, I'd suggest ordering appetizers and cocktails on the roof (the fennel-laced lamb meatballs and serrano-spiced chicken flatbread are pretty good), but head downstairs for your steak. 180 N. Field Blvd., 312-938-4303.
The Terrace. The outdoor space adjacent to Shanghai Terrace, in the Peninsula Chicago Hotel, is a courtyard so pretty, so beautifully finished, you're actually disinclined to treat it like a city-view space (though it is, albeit on the fourth floor, so the best views are above) and more inclined to treat it as an elegant courtyard lounge (which it also is). Lunch, dim sum, cocktail and dinner service available. 108 E. Superior St., 312-573-6744.
The Terrace at Trump. Yeah, it's crazy expensive for the bar bites and cocktails. Yes, it can be full of tourists, crowding around the inside bar awaiting their chance at an outside seat. And it galls some people (based on emails I have received) that it's Trump. Nevertheless, the 16th-floor Terrace, adjacent to the outstanding Sixteen restaurant, offers unmatched, close-up views of the Loop skyline, the Wrigley Building, the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. It really is a spectacular venue. 401 N. Wabash Ave., 312-588-8600.
Terzo Piano. Sitting on the Art Institute of Chicago's third floor (which is what terzo piano means), Tony Mantuano's sleek, white-on-white restaurant has an appropriately minimalist outdoor area, shielded from the weather but overlooking Millennium Park and the Michigan Avenue skyline (though for the best views, get up and walk out to the open-air space). A new menu adds some dishes to the all-Italian selection, including malloreddus (ridged, conch-shaped pasta) with braised rabbit, and seasonal specials such as softshell-crab risotto. Open every day for lunch, but dinner is available Thursday nights only. 159 E. Monroe St., 312-443-8650.
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Agio Italian Bistro. One of the cutest places anywhere is this charming Palatine Italian. The dark wood and stone-finish look of the interior is more than matched by the roof-topped open-air exterior, landscaped and equipped with glass garage doors and heaters that make seating an option no matter what the weather. Cavatelli and eggplant Parmesan are two of the most reliable dishes on the menu. 64 S. Northwest Highway, Palatine, 847-991-2150.
Bakersfield. An adjunct of the upscale grocery Standard Market across the street, Bakersfield justifiably prides itself on its wood-grilled meats and top-quality produce (sourced across the street, naturally). The outdoor patio, with its fire pits and tables sheltered by massive umbrellas, is one of the nicest outdoor options in the suburbs. 330 E. Ogden Ave., Westmont, 630-568-3615.
Carlucci. Ivy-covered stone walls surround this spacious suburban garden, large enough to support a canopy-covered full bar, massive water fountain and, on certain nights, a music combo. The menu, overseen by chef Jonathan Harootunian, offers excellent pastas amid other Italian staples (I can never resist the linguine, tossed in the recess of a cheese wheel, a Carlucci signature from way back), and Carlucci's happy hour includes a nice selection of $3 and $5 appetizers (available 4-7 p.m. Monday-Friday). 1801 Butterfield Road, Downers Grove, 630-512-0990.
Carriage House: A pretty and spacious sidewalk cafe abuts this Southern charmer, and the people-watching along this stretch of Division Street is never dull. New additions to the menu include a lovely strawberry salad with English-pea creme fraiche, a modern take on hoppin' John that includes nuggets of pork belly, and a sized-for-two lamb-chop entree with grits, pickled favas and mint vinaigrette. Beer selection and cocktails are strong points. Open for lunch or brunch six days (closed Monday). 1700 W. Division St., 773-384-9700.
Chicago Firehouse Restaurant. This South Loop restaurant's backyard patio is softly lit enough to qualify as sultry. The area is bordered by high stone walls and raised beds of uplit trees and shrubs, and most of the tables have umbrellas. Steaks are the big draw here, but the kitchen also puts out a very good roasted chicken, a first-rate crabcake and a hefty signature burger, all of which will save you money vis-a-vis the big beef. On Tuesday nights, "Pinot on the Patio" offers $5 glasses of pinot noir, pinot gris and pinot grigio. 1401 S. Michigan Ave., 312-786-1401.
Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse — Oak Brook. Surrounded by tall trees and a flagstone waterfall, equipped with retractable shades, Gibsons' 200-seat patio can seem far, far removed from the heavy traffic nearby and the Oakbrook Center Mall across the street. But that's what you want from an outdoor space, isn't it? 2105 Spring Road, Oak Brook, 630-954-0000.
Greek Islands Lombard. The suburban outpost of a reliable Greektown mainstay offers outdoor comfort via its pergola-shaded, bi-level outdoor space, done in Aegean blue and white. The menu is exactly what you expect — not in and of itself a bad thing — and it's reliable. 300 E. 22nd St., Lombard, 312-932-4545.
Maya Del Sol. The spacious outdoor patio offers propane heaters and gas fireplaces if it's a little cold, colorful blankets if it's even colder and will lend you a pair of sunglasses if it's nice and sunny. Good, solid value-driven menu is highlighted by good ceviches and better margaritas. 144 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, 708-358-9800.
Piccolo Sogno. Still one of the most beautiful outdoor dining options in the city, the restaurant's outdoor space offers privacy fencing, mature landscaping, dramatic lighting and, of course, Tony Priolo's exceptional Italian menu. The only trouble is that, when the weather is nice, nobody wants to eat indoors. 464 N. Halsted St., 312-421-0077.
Red Door. Throughout the history of this space, previously home to Cafe du Midi, Meritage and Duchamp, outdoor dining has always been a draw. And so it remains, now a small-plates concept by chef Troy Graves, with a redesigned (last year) tri-level outdoor area with simple wood seating. 2118 N. Damen Ave., 773-697-7221.
Salsa 17. This lively Mexican restaurant in downtown Arlington Heights doesn't offer alfresco dining per se, but when the weather behaves, the huge windows are thrown open for an open-air effect, which goes nicely with the menu and the very good margaritas. 17 W. Campbell St., Arlington Heights, 847-590-1122.
Sola. I really like Carol Wallack's tastefully designed interior more than I like dining outside here, but given the natural advantage of tree-lined Byron Street to set with outdoor tables, alfresco is hard to resist, especially at brunch. 3868 N. Lincoln Ave., 773-327-3868.
Tesori. This used to be Rhapsody, but while the restaurant name has changed and there's a new Italian menu in place, the outdoor garden is as inviting as ever, a green oasis in the heart of the Loop. Yes, the occasional "L" car will screech around a nearby turn, but that just emphasizes how unusual a spot this is. 65 E. Adams St., 312-786-9911.
Tokio Pub. A small-plates pub offering Japanese and Latin-influenced small plates (house-made ramen, fish tacos) in an open-air space protected from all but the most wind-driven elements. Attached to Shaw's Crab House, so if you crave more substantial food, you can always stroll in there. A good place for a drink and a bite. 1900 E. Higgins Road, Schaumburg, 847-278-5181.
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Cynthia's StoryWe all looked forward to supper when Mom served this. Not difficult to make, but special all the same.
1/2 lb
bulk pork sausage
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1/2 lb
ground beef
1/4 c
onion, chopped (half a medium)
15 oz
creamed corn (one regular can)
15 oz
peas, canned (one regular can or 1 cup frozen)
1/4 lb
american cheese or velveeta, cubed
8 oz
evaporated milk - reserve 1/2 cup for topping
1 Tbsp
worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper to taste
1 c
baking mix (bisquick or similar brand)
1/2 tsp
1 Tbsp
egg. beaten
1/2 c
reserved evaporated milk
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2In large casserole or 9 by 13 inch baking pan, combine together peas, corn, cheese - which has been cubed or melted, - evaporated milk (don't forget to reserve 1/2 cup)and worcestershire sauce. Add the browned meats and onion and mix together thoroughly. You may want to add some salt and pepper at this point, it depends on how salty and seasoned your sausage and cheese is, and, of course, your own taste.
3Place dish in preheated 400 degree F oven and bake while mixing the batter (about 10 minutes). Remove pan from oven and pour the batter over the dish being sure to cover the sides and corners well. Leave an open area in the center. Not only does that make for a nicer presentation, it allows steam to escape without breaking through your crust.
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Course/Dish: Other Main Dishes, Casseroles
Main Ingredient: Beef
Regional Style: American
Collection: Food on the Run
Other Tag: Quick & Easy
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Carla Skiles Masnick - Mar 13, 2012
Sounds delicious! Can't wait to try it!
~ StillWild ~ StillWild - Mar 13, 2012
Looks great and will try it soon. Will let you know how we liked it!
Cynthia Weaver cuckoo4cookies - Mar 16, 2012
Please do, Donna and Carla. I didn't add any salt and pepper to the recipe but you might want to add a bit.
~ StillWild ~ StillWild - Mar 17, 2012
thanks! This is good info that you might want to add to your recipe. I always taste and adjust for seasoning if needed, but some people follow a recipe step by step and may not give it a good review just because it might need a little seasoning adjustment. Everyone's taste is dfferent...
Cynthia Weaver cuckoo4cookies - Mar 18, 2012
Thanks for the suggestion, Donna. I did update the recipe.


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At Potratz, we don't just stop at driving traffic to your dealership. We create opportunities to build long-lasting relationships with customers. We do this through on-site webinars and training events for managers & sales teams, offering expertise in new media, mobile, video search, Search Engine Marketing, retargeting, custom websites and all aspects of traditional media including TV, radio, newspaper, direct mail and email as well. We get involved with each one of our dealers on a personal level. We empower and educate our dealer partners with valuable market and media consumption information that in turn helps develop long lasting results. Whether you're new to the interactive world or a longtime technology user, we will work with you to develop a strategy with a consistent campaign message across traditional and new media platforms.
Where We Came From
In 2003, Paul Potratz founded Potratz Partners Advertising. Building on his experience in advertising and the automotive industry, he developed relationships with dealers across the country, from single-point rural dealerships to multi-rooftop, multi-point dealerships. When we entered the picture, many successful traditional agencies existed. While we knew we had to offer traditional, we felt and knew there was much more that could be done in automotive marketing, and our passion was for the digital and online world. Even before the big internet boom, we were already going beyond traditional advertising to include interactive efforts, partnering with Overture* and Classmates.com while internet marketing was still in its early stages. We've evolved from a pioneer in interactive automotive marketing to the industry leader in digital automotive marketing.