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"Michael Jeffrey was then put in a chair, duct-taped to a chair and handcuffed, and basically tortured by Virgil Jackson," Heitlzer said. "He was beat in the head with a phone book and by hand by Virgil Jackson...He was hit twice in the side under his armpit with a stun gun."
Neither Jordan nor the Jeffreys ever registered official complaints against Jackson with the Department of Insurance.
When Bob Behnen ran for a Senate seat in 2006, his opponent, Wes Shoemyer, aired attack ads that criticized him for his involvement in passing the law that included the Lee Clause. Shoemyer won the election even though he too had voted in favor of the bill as a member of the House.
"Push comes to shove, Wes voted for the bill," says Kathy Armstrong, a member of Shoemyer's legislative staff. "But Wes went after him on it, and that's why he's filed bills to do away with it, because it's not right. Really, truly, the last place you want to have a felon working is in the bail bond industry."
In December 2007, Shoemyer introduced a bill that would have repealed the Lee Clause. After it was moved to committee, however, he amended the language of the law to retain the fifteen-year provision.
"The [bail bond] association came and talked to the senator and they had some changes that they wanted to do, and so Wes said, 'OK, if the association wants them,'" Armstrong explains. "He presented a senate committee substitute that kept the fifteen-year provision, but then he kind of sort of changed his mind and wants to go back to the basic bill."
Campaign finance reports from the Missouri Ethics Commission show that leading up to the 2006 election, Shoemyer received $1,400 in contributions from Allison and Allison's wife, Deborah. Allison says he and Shoemyer are "friends."
"Jack Allison is a constituent and they like Wes, and he happens to be a bail bondsman," says Armstrong. "And even in spite of the campaign contributions he received from the Allison family, he still moved forward with a bill that would've not allowed Virgil Jackson to have a license."
"It's going to stay the same," says Allison, who currently holds the title of legislative coordinator with the MPBBA.
That stance has created a rift between bondsmen who support the association and those who oppose felons in the industry.
"They pretty much only represent themselves at this point," says Angela Park, a bail bond industry blogger. "I can see why other people might be hesitant to join. It kind of leaves a bad taste in your mouth that Jackson was in the leadership and that he paid a bunch of lobbyists and state reps off and tried to murder his competitor."
That, however, hasn't stopped the MPBBA from continuing to lobby the state legislature with new proposals. In February, Sen. Maida Coleman, a St. Louis Democrat, introduced Senate Bill 1247 that would take oversight of the bail industry away from the Department of Insurance and place it in the hands of a "professional bail bond board."
The board would become responsible for all licensing, registration, discipline and rule-making for the state's bondsmen and bounty hunters. Though it does contain a provision requiring bondsmen to notify the proposed board within ten days of pleading guilty to a felony, it nonetheless retains the language of the Lee Clause.
According to the Missouri Ethics Commission, Coleman in 2006 received $800 in contributions from Allison, Carroll and the MPBBA. Last month, Representative Will Kraus of Kirksville sponsored nearly identical legislation. Neither Coleman's nor Kraus' offices returned calls seeking comment.
On her Web site, Park decries the proposals as a "bail bond power grab" by the MPBBA and writes that, "The association would like to pass legislation that will feed revenues to the association and require its continued existence."
Allison counters by saying that he and the other members of their organization are simply attempting to do what they feel is right. According to Allison, that means giving felons a chance to become bondsmen.
"As long as it wasn't a murder or something like that you shouldn't have to keep paying for your crime for longer than fifteen years," Allison says.
Ironically, one of biggest proponents of preserving the Lee Clause is none other than Jerry Cox. In July 2004 Cox's son Jim pleaded guilty and served a year in jail following a conviction of felony conspiracy. As a Florissant police officer, he twice planted drugs and other evidence on a woman who was going through a divorce with one of his associates. The hope was that the ensuing conviction would sway the judge to award custody of the couple's kids to Jim's acquaintance. He was paid $2,600 for the deed.
Jim Cox is currently part-owner and director of operations at Cox Bail Bonds. Jerry Cox, who recently survived a bout with cancer, says he eventually wants his son to become a licensed bondsman and take over the business — something, of course, that would be impossible if the Lee Clause were repealed.
"Eventually the business is his," the elder Cox says. "In hindsight, now that [the Lee Clause] is there, I say leave it alone. Because if somebody has been clean and has been an upright person for fifteen years — truly has — why keep kicking 'em?"
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Legislative leaders spoke to a large gathering of AFSCME union members at the Capitol Tuesday who are opposed to Governor Cuomo's pension reform plans. They offered support to the workers but remained neutral on the controversial issue.
Senate Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous told union members the Senate wants to crack down on pension abuse, but he did not mention Governor Cuomo's plan for a new pension tier with reduced benefits and the option of a 401k style plan. Afterward, Senator Libous would not commit to the governor's proposal, other than to say further discussions are necessary .
"It needs a lot of work," said Libous.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who told AFSCME members that they should not be punished for the Wall Street crash,, says details of pension reform must first be settled between Cuomo and the unions.
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George Nation, a finance and law professor at Lehigh University, says the U.S. Supreme Court damaged democracy and misrepresented sovereignty with its latest decisions involving same sex marriage. Here's his rationale:
Last month, on the last day of the 2012 term, the Supreme Court issued rulings in two cases involving same sex marriage. Both decisions gave proponents of gay rights cause for celebration. Unfortunately, a bright day for equal rights was, for reasons unrelated to gay marriage, a dark day for democracy.
In United States v. Windsor, the court found the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, and this is a very important victory for married gay couples. But, since the Majority's reasoning is muddled it's not clear if the result is based on federalism or equal protection grounds. Thus, we do not know if this decision represents a significant advancement for gay rights nationally.
In Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Court's decision had the effect of voiding Prop 8, the ballot initiative that amended California's Constitution to ban gay marriage. But, the Court decided Hollingsworth without ruling on the merits of the case. The five Justices in the Majority, led by Chief Justice Roberts, took a shortcut and decided the case on a specious standing argument. Not only did their shortcut deprive the country of a ruling on the constitutionality of denying same-sex couples the right to marry, it did significant damage to democracy to boot. The Majority's ill-advised and shortsighted opinion in Hollingsworth is likely to produce pernicious consequences for direct democracy. Moreover, the disrespect shown by the Majority for California's initiative process in particular, direct democracy in general (which 26 other states embrace and which has also been used to legalize gay marriage) and for the California Supreme Court, was completely unnecessary to finding Prop 8 unconstitutional. The court could have achieved this result more persuasively and efficaciously by upholding the ruling of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which was limited to restoring the right to gay marriage in California.
In Hollingsworth, California's elected officials refused to appeal the District Court's finding that Prop 8 was unconstitutional. Because the State government failed to appeal the decision, and thus to defend a law duly passed by the people of California, the backers of Prop 8 appealed. The California Supreme Court ruled, quite correctly because the case involved a law passed by direct democracy, that the backers of Prop 8 had standing to defend the law. The Ninth Circuit allowed the case to proceed and ultimately ruled, on the merits of the case, that Prop 8 was void because it violates the U.S. Constitution.
However, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the finding of the California Supreme Court regarding the standing of the sponsors of Prop 8, and vacated the Ninth Circuit's decision, leaving the District Court's decision as the final one. The Majority based their rejection on the fact that the sponsors never received a special grant authority from State officials to represent California. The Majority completely disregarded the nature of the initiative process in California, including the fact that the sponsors received the approval of a majority of California voters for Prop 8.
The Majority's opinion does not respect the right California citizens' possess to make law by using the initiative process. In effect, Hollingsworth grants state governments a pocket veto for any direct democracy results they don't like. If the state government does not like a law passed by initiative, the government need only find an amenable trial court judge to rule the initiative unconstitutional and then do nothing. The failure of the state officials to defend the law will render it void with no further court review.
This result has the potential to completely eviscerate the initiative process. Laws, including state constitutional amendments passed by initiative (like laws passed by the legislature) are subject to judicial review and are void if they violate the federal Constitution. They should not, however, be subject to veto by the State government. The purpose of direct democracy is to allow voters to legislate without the approval of the government. The initiative process recognizes the fundamental truth that the only sovereign in our system of government is the people, from whom all governing rights flow. If the people become dissatisfied with the representation provided by their elected officials, the initiative process allows them to exercise their fundamental right to self-government directly. Sovereignty resides in the people, not the government. The people don't require a grant from government to have authority; government requires a grant of authority from the people. It is frightening to think that five Supreme Court Justices fail, willfully or otherwise, to grasp this fundamental truth.
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Monday, February 25, 2008
I was recently a guest columnist on the Freakonomics Blog. There were several interesting questions from the readers, but one was quite striking:
"How can we explain the fairly entrenched position of Google, even though the differences in search algorithms are now only recognizable at the margins? Is there some hidden network effect that makes it better for all of us to use the same search engine?"
It seems that a lot of people are trying to figure out why Google has done so well. The difficulty is that the typical economic forces at work in many technology businesses that lead to entrenchment don't seem to explain our success. Let's take a look at the usual culprits.
Supply side economies of scale. This refers to the fact that a larger business may enjoy a cost advantage. The problem is that though there probably are some scale advantages, they get played out at a reasonably small scale. There are plenty of data centers out there and plenty of people that know how to run them efficiently.
Lock-in. The idea here is that when users have a high cost of switching to an alternative provider, they can be charged high prices that reflect the fact that they are effectively locked in to a single provider. But if you look at Google's business, the competition is only a click away. Users can trivially switch search engines. Most of our large customers also advertise on other search engines. And most publishers get their ads from a variety of providers, including their own sales force. So there are very small costs of switching to an alternative search engine for users, advertisers, and publishers.
Network effects. This refers to a phenomenon where the amount that people are willing to pay for a service depends on the number of people that have already adopted a service. The classic example is a fax machine: the amount that I am willing to pay for a fax machine depends on how many of my correspondents already have one. But this doesn't fit the Google case either: my decision to use Google is irrelevant to other users. It's true that advertisers want to advertise where there are lot of users but that doesn't affect the amount that they are willing to pay on a per user basis. The value of a user to an advertiser depends on how likely he or she is to buy, not how many users there are. A small website about knitting could be a great place to advertise yarn and could charge rates far higher for such ads than a much larger site.
If it isn't economies of scale, lock-in, or network effects, what is it that explains Google's success?
The answer, at least in my opinion, is a much older economic concept called "learning by doing" that was first formalized by Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow back in 1962. It refers to the widely-observed phenomenon that the longer a company has been doing something, the better it gets at doing it.
Google has been searching the web for nearly 10 years, which is far longer than our major competitors. It's not surprising that we've learned a lot about how to do this well. We're constantly experimenting with new algorithms. Those that offer an improvement get rolled into the production version; the others go back to the drawing board for refinement.
So I would argue that Google really does have a better product than the competition -- not because we have more or better ingredients, but because we have better recipes. And we are continuously improving those recipes precisely because we know the competition is only a click away. We can't fall back on economies of scale, or switching costs, or network effects, to isolate us from the competition. The only thing we can do is work as hard as we can to keep our search quality better than that of the other engines.


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Mar 12 2007
I Have Issues.
My close friend, Hyacinth, traveled to Austin with me. Marlboro Man and her husband, John, graciously offered to keep all the children rather than be dragged along and required to eat sushi or polenta or ceviche or other similar non-beef products. "Cool!" we agreed, and began making our Austin plans a few weeks ago.
I made our room reservations right off the bat, knowing the hotels would fill up quickly. Because of the high prices of the accommodations here in Austin, I knew it would make more sense for us to share a hotel room rather than the two of us each getting our own, so I reserved only one. But immediately, I started biting my fingernails. Because the truth is, I'm a freak. And I just don't know how to share a hotel room with anyone other than Marlboro Man. It isn't that I don't love Hyacinth and it isn't that we don't have a delightfully enjoyable time together. But it's just that…that…that. That.
I can't explain it adequately, but the two weeks preceding my trip to Austin have been marked not only by excited anticipation over my upcoming trip, but also generalized anxiety, not about how Marlboro Man and the kids would survive without me or whether or not I'd win the Bloggie or whether I'd remember to leave food for the dogs…but just how the whole scene in our hotel room was going to shake down.
Finally, last Monday, my fretting had reached an all-time high, so I called Hyacinth. Our trip was less than a week away and I needed to talk some things through. "What happens right before we go to bed?" I asked. "Will we get in bed and talk for awhile, then say 'good night' to each other before turning the other direction? Or will we talk until one of us simply stops answering because she's falling asleep? Or will one of us stay up late reading while the other one goes to sleep?"
Hyacinth sat in stunned silence on the other end of the line as I continued my incoherent monologue.
"And what do we do in the morning when we wake up? Do we open our eyes, start stretching, smile at each other and say with a sleepy voice, 'Good morrrrning'? Or do I hope to wake up before you so I can slink out of bed and go shower for awhile while you wake up? Or, worse yet, will you wake up way before me and have to tap my arm and say 'Wake up, Ree…'
"And how do we handle the bathroom? What if I accidentally leave one of my long red hairs on the marble floor and you see it and think 'Eww'? What if it changes the way you feel about me? And what if I see your makeup bag sitting on the counter and I want to look through your products and decide to try your hand crème? Will I tell you? Or will I just use it and pretend nothing ever happened?
"And what if we're out and about and I decide I want to go back to the hotel room and take a nap? What if you decide you want to go with me? Will we have to go through the whole fall asleep/say goodnight ritual if we're merely taking a nap, or will we just fall on the bed and go to sleep for awhile?"
"Hyacinth had no reply for me except this, "I don't know what to tell you."
I decided to overcome my fears and proceed with our journey. And now, halfway through our trip, I can honestly report things are going better than I had expected. That doesn't mean that when we first walked into our room and saw they'd given us a king bed only, I didn't want to turn around and run back home immediately. But slowly, over the period of 36 hours, I've realized that everything's going to turn out for the best.
Hyacinth did tell me yesterday morning that our toes had touched once during the night. I had a twenty-four minute hiney cringe. But the good news is, I overcame it.
Your Exceedingly Well-Adjusted and Normal Pioneer Woman
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KsMaryLou On Monday, March 12 at 9:57 am
Ree, just have another glass of wine and everything will be o.k.
Hyacinth (yer pal) On Monday, March 12 at 10:01 am
I'm in the process of printing up the "I Slept with the Pioneer Woman" bumper stickers, so stayed tuned. For the record, I have not yet found a red hair in the bathroom. Yes, our toes touched once, but it was a well-manicured toe (see yesterday's post) so that made it all right.
Miz Booshay On Monday, March 12 at 10:01 am
I understand!
But it sure feels good to overcome :o)
We will be flying to Paris in a few weeks.
I know I must sleep on the plane…
but the fear of snoring in public is slightly mortifying.
Heaven help me.
Miz Booshay On Monday, March 12 at 10:04 am
Your bumper sticker is hilarious!!!
Carrums On Monday, March 12 at 10:05 am
Obviously Hyacinth got up before you, so you didn't need to worry! Her podcast was very interesting once again today. Can't imagine the catacombs! Heard that was part of the tour and it sounds incredible!
Good luck tonight — get your speech ready! And, wear open-toed shoes so you can show your pedicure off! LOL! Better yet, how about no shoes? Being PW and all.
Brandi On Monday, March 12 at 10:06 am
Always and awkward moment. My best friend in the whole world just ignores me until I stop talking about global issues and tanning. It's a routine we've both become accustomed to.
Jennie On Monday, March 12 at 10:06 am
Hi Normal Pioneer Woman! I just started reading your blog a few days ago and I love your "issues"…because so many of them are my issues…but somehow you make them look a lot groovier. I hope you win – you're a delight!
Twigs On Monday, March 12 at 10:07 am
never mind snoring ..what about farting in one's sleep? Mortifying!
love your blog..hope you win..
Me Too On Monday, March 12 at 10:12 am
Your toes touched?!? AAAAAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEE
Me Too On Monday, March 12 at 10:14 am
I usually sleep on the floor in those circumstances.
Mindy On Monday, March 12 at 10:15 am
Silly girl! I am so glad that you are having a great time!!
Tracey On Monday, March 12 at 10:31 am
Good Luck Ree! Hope you win, you deserve it.
Beccy Home-Eccy On Monday, March 12 at 10:35 am
Hey girls, don't go east of I-35 near the capitol.
My best friend and I taught our first year in Austin, and being innocent church-going girls from Ree's hometown, we had no concept of what a real city was like. We decided to go sightseeing on a Friday night in the red-light district (12th street, if I remember) to spy out a real-live prostitute! We had only read about them in the Bible and Gone with the Wind, and had an inkling that styles might have changed over time! Did we ever get an eyefull! (Hyacinth, DON'T SNICKER!!!)
Please bring back some ceviche on ice! I'd ask for Blue Bell, but our beloved grocery store has it on sale this week!
The Wooden Porch On Monday, March 12 at 10:37 am
That is hilarious!!!! To the title of this post, I say, "YES, YOU DO!"
momto3cubs On Monday, March 12 at 10:48 am
You and Hyacinth both have me laughing!
My anxiety would have been over the kids surviving my absence! I would be so stressed over that, nothing else would matter. LOL
Now, picturing the situations you described, I'm suddenly longing for a girls-only vacation. We'd spent most of the night talking, until someone fell asleep. And share chocolates. And you could use my stuff without asking. But I'd want my own bed.
Hope you have a great time there in Austin!
Jean On Monday, March 12 at 10:51 am
I'm so relieved to know that I'm not the only person who has crazy thoughts like that. Your one step ahead of me though, I'd never reveal such thoughts to anyone. I always thought at that point I'd have to be committed.
Leisha On Monday, March 12 at 10:55 am
It's like you've entered my brain and recorded my thoughts…I totally feel normal! You rock! Good luck tonight!
Heather B. On Monday, March 12 at 11:08 am
But no! You do not have issues, well at least you're not the only person with those crazy hotel room phobias, for I have the same issues. Thusly, if I go away I sleep by myself. But now I'm thinking about sharing a hotel room with someone when I go to a conference and the whole thought of it all, is giving me hives and a 'hiney cringe'.
I feel you, Ree. I really, really do.
Nan On Monday, March 12 at 11:08 am
Oh, I loved this. You are just as neurotic as me. What a relief. You've made me feel right at home! (and apparently a lot of other maladjusted folk!) LOL!
Wendy On Monday, March 12 at 11:36 am
LOL!! Really, I am laughing with you, not at you.
I think if a friend of mine told me this before our trip, I would have called and got my own room. And thrown my hand cream at her as I ran to my door. You know just as a distraction.
Hope you have fun.
cecedon On Monday, March 12 at 11:39 am
I shared a king bed with a friend on my girl trip in October. While there was a slight bit of anxiety over it, we both asked enough questions that we figured we were both the type that didn't touch our spouse during the night so we knew we'd keep to our side of the bed. I have no idea if our feet ever touched and I think yer pal may have been trying to freak you out when she told you that (just kidding). I'm so excited about tonight I can hardly stand it. So did you sleep in or what this morning??
kim On Monday, March 12 at 11:42 am
Well, I have to say that you're better adjusted than you think–in my opinion! Share any and all products, telling or not? Check! Share food? Check! Share darn near anything except a hotel room? POSSIBLY check! Share a bed, even if king-sized, in said hotel room? Not only no, but HELL NO! Huge full-body cringe!!! So, see, you have evolved way beyond some of us! Good for you, cause I wanna be like you when I grow up. HAHA!
kim On Monday, March 12 at 11:43 am
I'm a lurker…you crack me up…Anytime the issue of sharing a room comes up (with someone other than my husband) I am so out of there…The touching toes comment actually made me squirm…Obviously, we're all freaks or we wouldn't hang out here at your website…Good luck vibes being sent your way from LA (Lower Alabama)..Hope you win…
Rich with kids On Monday, March 12 at 11:53 am
I'd only be nervous if Hyacinth asks if she can tickle your back…cringe
Holly in FL On Monday, March 12 at 11:55 am
You had better win after all you've been through just to get to the awards!
Hee, hee…yur funny!…the crazy kind of funny that makes me want to check behind the curtains before I go to bed…but, yur still funny!
Heidi the Hick On Monday, March 12 at 11:59 am
As a chick with a few anxiety issues of my own, I commend you on the barrage of questions. I really do. I think it's good to hash out all the ISSUES before hand. Just get it out of the way. Why have all those ISSUES festering in your head????
marni On Monday, March 12 at 12:01 pm
During the Atlanta 2-Day Walk last year I was assigned a roommate… someone I didn't know… and they gave us a king size bed! I thought I would cry when I walked in and saw that. Luckily for me she didn't show up and I got to sleep all alone in luxury.
April On Monday, March 12 at 12:17 pm
I have the same quirks. I went on a road trip in February with a friend, and before making reservations, I hit her with a game of 20 questions. You know, just to make sure she is safe and all.
carla On Monday, March 12 at 12:29 pm
Oh Ree, you're such a man. I guess I had no idea women fretted about sharing a bed. Every girl trip I ever went on, none of us cared. We were just thrilled to be able to sleep all night and not have to worry about kids the next day. They were always like sleepovers when we were all little girls—talk, talk, talk, eat, eat, talk, talk, sleep, repeat.
Good luck today. Did you notice the sun came out (wasn't supposed to), just for you today?
Robin On Monday, March 12 at 12:46 pm
Puh-lease tell me you're over the whole bed-wetting thing. Better yet, puh-lease tell Hyacinth.
I hope the podcast has various and assorted sleeping sounds…snoring clips might edge out burping the ABCs…;).
KnittyOtter On Monday, March 12 at 1:11 pm
Glad to know I'm not the only one who over thinks things.
Good Luck!
BlackJack On Monday, March 12 at 1:43 pm
Lord Have Mercy. You are such a…..Woman!
Doc On Monday, March 12 at 1:48 pm
Well, youknow I have a million comments, but I don't dare..no, I just don't.
However, I'll take one of those bumper stickers. I wanted to post about how hot you looked in the manicure shop and all but it seemed inappropriate. Now, after reading THIS post, it doesn't seem quite so..
Anyway, hope you're having a good time. Heh.
anon On Monday, March 12 at 2:44 pm
You don't have issues. You just need your privacy. Next time, try a less expensive hotel and get separate rooms or a suite with two bedrooms. Then you can be together when you want and have alone time as well.
NancyB On Monday, March 12 at 3:23 pm
I kind of expected you'd report that the two of you played Family Circus Tickleback.
Enjoy your time in Austin, basking in the glow of your big win…
Denice On Monday, March 12 at 3:36 pm
Hope tonight goes well for you, too. I'm always nervous about sleeping next to someone else now that I'm married. Had no problems with girl sleepovers before. Do husbands cause these issues?
Good luck at the Bloggies!
Pamela On Monday, March 12 at 3:38 pm
Hyacinth… you could pay for the trip and afford separate rooms next time if you sold those bumper stickers.
What a bloomin' idea!
Jenni in KS On Monday, March 12 at 4:54 pm
Wow! I can't believe so many people have those same issues. I thought it was just me. I was always too afraid to ask those questions out loud, though. I even avoid long car trips with people I don't know extremely well.
I will *never* (NEVER!) go to another over night homeschool mom's night out. Well, there's more to that one than my weird issues. I got assigned a king size bed with a good friend and it gave me an all night long hiney cringe.
I don't mind camping with other people if I have my own tent, but a week is pushing it. I have serious personal space issues. Only my husband and children are allowed in my bubble. (Sorry, other relatives may only hover close to the perimeter.)
JosieK On Monday, March 12 at 5:19 pm
THAT'S IT REE! You need your own TV show…or at least your own HBO special. I swear you kill me! I'm dying here laughing because everything you've described is stuff most have us have experienced at one point or another and you verbalized it. I want to be your best friend!
Sherri On Monday, March 12 at 6:13 pm
You are way toooo funny. I have now found a new website to check out before I start my day, you're bound to get me giggling. Enjoy your trip.
Nicole On Monday, March 12 at 8:40 pm
All the tension would have melted away if you had just had a pillow fight or a tickle fight with Hyacinth.
Kristie On Monday, March 12 at 9:12 pm
Oh my GOSH you and I are TWINS, separated at birth!! I cannot, absolutely cannot, share a bed with another person besides my husband (or my kids, since the youngest one keeps winding up there every stinking night, but that's another story for another day) I have the exact same issues and hate sharing a hotel room …. and if I'd walked in and seen just one bed, I would have probably hyperventilated.
Last time I went to visit a friend in Dallas we stayed overnight. Best phone call of my life was the one I got from her beforehand telling me she didn't like sharing hotel rooms and would it be ok if we each got our own???? Ahhhhh, I knew she was a good friend for a reason!!!
Glad to hear you are adjusting, though. I'd recommend drinking a good stiff drink each night to relax you, but if you're anything like me, that would just make you snore, which would be even more embarrassing.
diane On Monday, March 12 at 10:18 pm
Congratulations on your win!!! Woo! You deserve it.
I once shared a room with three people I'd never met before in New York City Convention… we all worked for the same company in different parts of the country. Rooms in New York City must be expensive.
I'm still in therapy.
Malena On Monday, March 12 at 11:24 pm
And I thought I was the only weirdo who can't stand to share a hotel room with anyone but my husband! Oh, and I don't sleep on planes. 8-hour flight? No problem. I ain't sleepin'. I may have to velcro my eyelashes to my eyebrows, but I ain't sleepin'. That's just – eeww.
Tiger Lamb Girl On Tuesday, March 13 at 4:56 am
I'm afraid I'd hafta get my own hotel room. I just wouldn't sleep otherwise. Sounds like you two had a blast!
Lainey-Paney On Tuesday, March 13 at 4:18 pm
You're so neurotic.
I love it!
friend of your momma's On Saturday, March 24 at 12:22 pm
I have spent the entire morning reading
about the pioneer woman.
What a talent.
I am 68.
I have lots of nice underwear.
I never wear it.
Not the tops or the bottoms.
My grandaughter asked me (when we were in the shower together)"what are those
big things that hang down?"
Underwear is scratchy and makes me feel fat.
My sister, Pilly, wears expensive underwear
that matches. My older sister did, too.
What a waste of time and money.
I, too, am a middle child.
I love you, ann-marie.
You are my sunshine.
friend of your momma's On Saturday, March 24 at 12:30 pm
I slept with my little sister growing up.
We shared a room.
Sometimes, we shared a bed.
We still sleep together.
We snuggle and talk and touch.
Not like lesbians.
Nothing against lesbians.
Just like normal sisters.
My daughter won't do that.
Just weird.


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Good resource for student research especially in conjunction with the other resources at https://www.eeremultimedia.energy.gov/solar/
Innovations, from using materials that lower manufacturing costs to expanding application and use, are driving the photovoltaic (PV) industry forward.
A brief PV history demonstrates the materials innovation and evolution from high cost silicon to less expensive multi-silicon and thin film.
Passed initial science review - expert science review pending.
Use video to help students understand the science engineering and technology behind Photovoltaic (PV) energy generation.
The teacher should spend a bit of time discussing the concepts of band gap, electron hole pair, semiconductor materials, electromagnetic spectrum, and efficiency.


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Dr. Anthony Letai led a study showing a new technique that can predict which specific drug will be most effective in treating various types of cancer tumors.
Tags: BasicResearch
Dr. Lawrence Shulman wrote about his work in Rwanda and providing access to life-saving advances in cancer treatment through the collaborations of the Rwandan Ministry of Health, Partners in Health, and Dana-Farber.
Dr. James Bradner and his team continue to work on the JQ1 molecule, which tricks the body into forgetting how to make sperm.
Dr. Philip Kantoff commented on therapeutic cancer vaccines.
Dana-Farber was mentioned in a story about how bureaucracy and outdated rules often block potential breakthroughs, but precision medicine is providing hope.
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Dana-Farber plans to expand precision medicine research by moving some staff into the new Longwood Center. Several research programs will now be under one roof.
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Dana-Farber was mentioned as one of the institutions affiliated with Harvard that benefited from research dollars from the National Institute of Health.
Dr. Edward J. Benz, Jr., talked about research to develop treatments for cancer that are more efficient and less toxic, by specifically targeting tumors using genetic analysis.
Tags: BasicResearch, TargetedTherapy
Cigall Kodach, PhD, spoke about the problems in today's biology and medicine research on a panel at the Forbes Under 30 Summit.
Dana-Farber patient Grace Silva served as a case study of an "exceptional responder" for a treatment she underwent at the recommendation of her oncologists, Dr. Jochen Lorch and Dr. Nikhil Wagle.
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