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One of my readers wrote to me last week and asked me what it feels like to deep-throat, no doubt in part because of this post wherein I give instruction in that slurpy art. I would offer to him that if he's truly curious, no one is stopping him from his finding out first hand, or mouth, as it were. And yet, as amazing as it might seem to those of us who have dabbled in the bisexuality rough, apparently some men continue to carry the belief that sucking a dick or two makes you gay.
As if that's a bad thing.
Therefore to answer those querying but as-yet unadventurous minds, I'll address here what it feels like for a deep-throating girl.
I've almost always considered fellatio deeply satisfying. I find that taking a man's cock in my mouth gives me an enormous sense of power and pleasure. I like reducing the guy to bad grammar, if not complete pre-verbalism, with my mouth (and my hands. Hands help). However, I have to say that my pleasure in sucking a man's cock rises in direct proportion to how into the guy I am.
I love sucking Donny's cock, as I have said before and no doubt will say again. Not much outside of a blindfold and a brisk spanking, or some dirty oral and a nice, hard toy, gets me as wet as quickly as sucking his cock. In part it's the shape, the texture and the turgidity of it, but mostly it's the fact that it's attached to Donny, whom I love with an extra flamey white-hot burning passion.
I loved sucking C's cock too—I remember that the very first time I came with him like "look ma, no hands" while fucking, I had been sucking his cock and I noticed that I was inordinately turned on. When I straddled him and slid his cock into me, I was already most of the way to orgasm, primarily from having him in my mouth and down my throat, my nose struggling to snuggle up against his hard belly.
As much as I have adored sucking some men's dicks, I have loathed sucking others. Part of it is the size—I am an avowed queen of a modestly oversized dickdom—but more often it is the bigness of the dick in the man, and not the smallness of the dick itself. Tyler is not well endowed, but he could face-fuck me until I turned metaphorically blue, and I would have been delighted. Ernie, however…ah, Ernie…my resentment to him knew no bounds and I would find myself gagging the moment his modicum of cock touched my tongue.
The most repellant blowjob I ever gave was this pity job I doled out to the grubby needy pleading of this pathetisad little dude's little dick. I remain unsure to this day why I did it—I really didn't have to and yet I did, inconceivable as it is to my ken at this moment. I still detect a delicate heave of distaste when I recall the guy's begging. And yet I gave in.
But all of this tattered and glorious reminiscence doesn't really give you much of an idea of what it actually feels like to slide a cock down your throat. It merely gives you the back-story, if you will, the sympathetic understanding that no small part of the pleasure comes from giving pleasure to a specific dick and a specific person, and no small part of the pain comes from the same.
The mouthfeel of a hard cock is singular. A soft cock kind of feels like other things, like a finger or maybe an unflexed muscle. A soft cock is sort of floppy and soft, and maybe sucking it stirs up primordial memories of nursing. At any rate, when my mouth wraps around a flaccid dick, the sensation isn't so wholly unto itself as wrapping my mouth around an erect cock.
The erect cock has a kind of kinetic smoothness, a sort of strange resilient rigidity. There is almost no drag as my mouth moves over the taut skin of a hard dick. Something about the hard dick—a hard dick that I like, which for the intents and purposes of this piece we'll just take as assumed—compels me to suck it. A soft dick elicits a different response from me; I want to nurture it with my mouth. A hard dick, though, I feel a challenge to devour.
When I'm in bed with Donny, for example, I often have to remind myself to slow down and tease him. Intellectually, I recognize the purpose of the oral tease; I get the point of attenuating the blowjob act for his pleasure. But when I'm on my knees in front of him, or hovering over his prone body, or supine with him straddling my shoulders, and his big fat-bellied cock is there—right there—in front of my nose, it's pretty much all I can do not to take it in my mouth and down my gullet as far as I can, which, at first, isn't so far.
The art of deep-throating lies in two things: creating enough high-quality viscous porn-starry spit, and relaxing your throat to accommodating proportions. Both take time. The gag reflex is my friend, I know, and so I court it with a wily coquettishness. I take the dick in as far as it just uncomfortably will go, and I wait, holding my breath, until I find my throat begin to relax and until I need to breathe. Then I'll slide my mouth to the tip, do a little do-si-do with my tongue at the end, and slide back up until I just barely begin to gag and hold again, swallowing the tip.
At these moments what I feel is a mixture of challenge and trust and pride. I trust the man not to thrust and fuck up my prep time. I challenge myself to see how much I can put in my throat, how long I can hold it, how easily I can get ready. And I feel pride in a blowjob well begun. When a guy does thrust and fuck my face before I have properly lubed my throat, it hurts. It feels a lot like when you swallow very hot soup or too big a piece of lamb shank. It sometimes makes me gag a bit, and other times it makes me gag a lot.
After a few minutes of warm up, I can feel my throat begin to relax. Usually then I find an angle that will work for sustained deep-throat with this particular cock—and all are different. Sometimes I like to control the blowjob, and sometimes I like to be face-fucked. And other times, like when I'm tied up, I don't really have a choice but enjoy being face-fucked. In all cases, finding a comfy spatial relationship is key. Bad angles make for bad fellatio—it's simple human geometry,
When I'm in control, I feel like I'm choreographing an elaborate underwater ballet with my mouth, my hands, and the dick at hand and mouth. The slurpy noises, the imagined visual, the occasional eye contact, the hushed bated breath, the timely exhale, the fingers sliding the mix of saliva and pre-cum, the cock that pauses, filling my mouth and my throat, my throat fluttering little swallows around its tip. I love the feel of having my mouth full. If I'm really into it, it makes me wish that the guy had two or three other dicks to fill me with simultaneously. This strange feral compulsion washes over me and I wish I could take him into me everywhere all at once, even as I'm trying to keep my head while I'm giving head.
When I'm being face-fucked, however, the sense of control is lost and in its place comes a wild ride. When face-fucked, I feel like I have to keep a delicate balance between my breathing, my relaxed throat, and this relentless pneumatic cock that is drilling my mouth. Much of my experience then is completely wrapped up in my submitting to the moment, of finding my slender balance in this overwhelming crash of sensation. It, too, is pleasurable, though rhythm is important, for if the man isn't aware of what he's doing, he can make me gag, and then I have to fight to control that urge, to will it to stop and to find my calm center in his pheromone storm. My throat is almost always sore the day after a rigorous face-fucking.
I have never willingly spit. I like swallowing—or I should say I like it with the guys I like. If I was angry at my boyfriend, as I was with Ernie, swallowing felt like a mouthful of gall. A cock about to come sends out subtle susurrations before the Doppler ripples that signify the coming. I like feeling them, feeling it all, the tense taut tightening of flesh, the slight up-pull of his balls, the St. Vitus shaking. All of it. There is nothing like the undulation of a cock that is coming. I can feel from my lips, through my mouth, along my tongue and into the back of my throat the current of a man's orgasm as it flows through his cock. It's a wondrous thing, to have him tense under me, to feel him grip my hair, to hear him moan or scream, to see him twitch and jerk, to feel his orgasm graffiti my throat.
Afterwards, if he'll let me, sometimes I lay there next to him, his cock held gently as an unspoken word in my mouth as returns to its fragile birdling state. Then, the feeling is not so much power, or submission, or even wonder, as it is contentment.
Translating the purely physical into written language is difficult, and this piece feels to me a bit more forced than my usual writings, perhaps because it's dick-sucking divorced from the whole rolling rest of it.
I hope, though, dear querying reader, that this writing helps assuage your curiosity. Even better, I hope it whets it.
Life is too short to spend it reading. The world is your oyster. Go slurp it.


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This early Puccini masterpiece makes a welcome return to Covent Garden after an absence of over 20 years, in a new production by Jonathan Kent under the baton of Music Director Antonio Pappano. The exciting Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais sings the title role. A consummate Puccini soprano, Opolais caused a sensation as Madama Butterfly in 2011, and with Manon Lescaut, the bold but impressionable heroine, we will see a very different side of her character. She is matched in star power by Jonas Kaufmann as her lover, Des Grieux, and Christopher Maltman as her cynical brother Lescaut. This is a much anticipated new production, and Kent's vision of a young girl who faces temptation in the big city will surely resonate with today's audience.
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Tomorrow, Tuesday March 25th 2014, The Supreme Court will take up the Hobby Lobby case. Two Days later Obama and Pope Frances will meet and see if they can come to an understanding. The outcome of these two events could decide much of the future of the USA.
If the Supreme Court decides that a person must directly or indirectly provide abortive services to employees, America will suddenly be different. If government can force an individuals directly or through their businesses to violate their conscience to please someone else's belief which it will have encoded in law; it could become a Pandora's Box of tyranny, unheard of since the middle ages. Once government decides what you must do unnecessarily (people could buy their own contraceptives) potentially there is no end. Of course a business owner who refuses to violate their conscience will instantly become a criminal and will be subject to fines, lawsuits or imprisonment. These things have happened to business owners already. Some businesses could no longer survive the fines or lawsuits. Many Christians will recognize this as fulfillment of prophecy; a way to stop those Christians from buying and selling, unless they comply. Would you still be free under those conditions?
By the way, why are people so upset about 15,000 fetuses being used for fuel in the UK to heat a medical facility? Once you say the unborn are not human and worthy of being killed for convenience; burning what is left is a rather small matter in the mind of those that accept the first condition as being correct.
You may not know this but Obama and the Pope understands that there are some 200 million professing Christians in America nearly half of them are Catholics. It now takes less that 70 million to elect a president. Catholics, as a whole, normally vote for democrats. If Obama pushes the Catholics and Protestants into each other's arms, democrats could be in the tank for the long haul. This also could be very profound because Pope Frances, last time I heard has about an 80% approval rating among the Catholic faithful. On the other hand, if he makes reconciliation with the Catholic Church, there is some common ground in redistribution of wealth that the church has stood for, many years.
These things are very profound events people. Why is it that I personally hear no main stream outlets talking about this? I literally have heard no one talking about this but me. Maybe I need to read more but I find that disconcerting. Am I just guessing? No. There is Bible prophecy and there is Cardinal Dolan; who has indicated that the church could have been Barack Obama's best ally for Obamacare. So, watch these events; they could be key happenings in our future.
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Goldman's Facebook Naysayer: Spoilsport, or Smart?
Richard Friedman turned down the Facebook deal.
Goldman Sachs's decision to put $450 million into a Facebook investment vehicle is being widely praised inside the firm — where partners are lining up to get a piece of the action — and by grubby armchair quarterbacks who admire them for their ballsiness in charging their clients a stiff 4 percent investment fee and their willingness to brush up close to the SEC's line of decency. True to form, the firm has been dead quiet on the subject of their big deal and hasn't even put out a statement, preferring, we assume, just to bask in its own awesomeness. Goldman: Everyone wants to be them or fuck them! But within the firm, it seems not everyone is so impressed. Like Richard Friedman, the head of Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, who was given the opportunity to invest using the pension and sovereign wealth fund money he manages and turned it down. According to the Times, Friedman, a "longtime partner" at the firm
decided the Facebook deal was not suitable for his clients, in part owing to the high valuation and to a mismatch with his investment criteria. The $450 million investment values the Web company at $50 billion. After Goldman's deal, some industry experts cautioned that Facebook's growth would need to accelerate rapidly over the next couple of years to justify such a steep price — a risk with many brand-name technology upstarts. One person briefed on the discussions with Mr. Friedman, however, said he would have "thrown out" his typical investment philosophy if he had believed a Facebook investment was an "easy home run."
Buzz. Kill.
But is the "longtime partner" [Let's just say it: old] just an old-fashioned spoilsport with an uncool aversion to risk? Who will probably one day be forced to admit he missed out on the Next Big Thing? Who probably still listens to CDs? Or is he a soothsayer who sees a tech bubble and is wisely, like those at the firm who saved their asses by betting against the housing market, opting out early? Either way, Rich is apparently none too popular at the office today. Going out of your way to protect your clients when you could reap giant fees is just so un-Goldman.
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Protecting the public health and safety is a top priority for the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs. During their first week in office, Governor Tom Corbett and Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele were confronted with a tragic situation that challenged this important premise.
This situation involved the Women's Medical Society and Dr. Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia. As the grand jury report on this case noted, this abortion clinic which was operated by Gosnell for almost four decades revealed a horrific reality: babies lost their lives there, and women who came to this facility were harmed and greatly mistreated, resulting in additional loss of life.
Understanding the Physician's Legal Obligation to Prevent the Spread of Communicable Diseases to Third Parties Within the Foreseeable Orbit of Risk
Author: Steven J. Alles, MD MS MFA
Introduction Physicians who practice in Pennsylvania diagnose and treat patients with infectious diseases regularly. Understanding the route of transmission, period of communicability, incubation period, and treatment options for many pathogens are part of standard medical training and practice. It is well-described that most infectious organisms can be spread to others through common human activities, and that certain populations may be at increased risk of exposure and adverse health outcomes. Currently, there is no statutory regulation in Pennsylvania that addresses a physician's duty to warn patients about the potential transmission of their communicable illnesses to protect third parties. However, there have been cases decided by the Supreme and Superior Courts in Pennsylvania who found that physicians do in fact have a duty to protect third parties within the foreseeable orbit of risk of harm, thus establishing common law precedence.
In an effort to boost physician supply in the United States, the American Medical Association (AMA) developed recommendations for a coordinated national approach for physician re-entry into clinical practice.
The AMA collaborated with the Federation of State Medical Boards, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and other stakeholders—including leaders in licensure, board certification and medical education, and directors of re-entry programs—to develop the recommendations. According to the AMA, current re-entry programs lack standardized curricula and an officially recognized accreditation process.
Medical Resident Taxes
The U.S. Supreme Court—in a unanimous opinion—upheld a Treasury Department rule that full-time medical residents are full-time employees, and they must pay Social Security taxes because they perform at least 40 hours a week of supervised patient care.
Nationwide, the amount of Social Security taxes levied each year for medical residents is estimated at $700 million. alternate languages.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Health's Bureau of Epidemiology is producing a quarterly newsletter with important information for physicians. The newsletter is available at www.health.state.pa.us/epinotes.


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We had a fabulous response to the Nutro giveaway! Thank you all for participating and sharing your pets pictures with us. And without further ado, Sophie would like to draw the winners names out of a hat...but first, let's try out some hats.
Really, she just liked the treats when she got a new hat to wear!
What a good girl!
The winners of the giveaway are (from Random.org...you didn't really think I would let Sophie draw a name out of a hat did you?!):
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I did all 3 of the ways to enter for the prize! I sure hope I get it! It would help out a great deal. $ is tight due to me not being able to find a job lately


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National TV Turn Off Week in Dedham
Who would ever think that families of today would unplug their televisions and video games for one day, let alone for an entire week! Well, believe it or not, it will happen. Families across the nation, including in Dedham, will be turning their television sets off for a week during the National TV Turn Off Week running during April school vacation. This national event encourages family to turn the television off for the week and go out and get some exercise and socialize with friends, and in turn building the community atmosphere.
The Dedham School PTO's, the Park & Rec department and the Dedham Library Innovation Team have talked with area businesses to provide events and discounts for the kids and their families. The way it works is that the kids can pick up a free TV Turn Off wristband (donated by www.dedhamrocks.com ) at the kickoff party at the Dedham Community House, The Blue Bunny Store or at either branch of the Dedham Public Library.
My husband and I took our sons (now 5 and 2) to the kickoff party last year not really knowing what to expect from the event as it was our first year living in Dedham. My oldest son Dylan loved it and had a blast. During the week, we were only able to take part in a one of the events, namely the swim time at the Dedham Health and Athletic complex. My son still asks to go back to it every time we go to the grocery store beside it. This year, my sons are a little older and although one is still young, the oldest is very excited to take part in some of the activities. He is especially looking forward to the scavenger hunt at Paul Park, the Beyblade competition and the Rock Climbing. I am hoping to go swimming again.
Everyone is welcome to join in the activities. For more information about the events and to register please visit the Dedham Town Website at www.dedham-ma/gov/TVTO. Almost all of the activities require registration to attend and they fill up fast. Check this website often as more events are being added. If you have any questions or need any assistance, you can email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Some of the other events to look forward to include a boat rental, rock climbing, ice skating, swimming, dancing, crafts, teas, karate and a band!


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AMERICA HONDA Motor Co.'s representative Juan Avila drives a Honda Fuel Cell Power FCX, a hydrogen-powered prototype vehicle, at the Honda campus in Torrance, Calif. Honda is road testing its research by leasing the $1 million-plus vehicle to a Los Angeles-area family for $500 per month, asking in return for reports on how the car handles trips to work, the grocery store and anywhere else they roll.
AP Photo ARLINGTON, Va. -- Instead of crawling out of bed at 4 a.m. to beat the morning rush, Frank Murphy sleeps late these days. He says he owes it all to his hybrid car -- and a law that has some of his fellow commuters upset.
Drivers of the environmentally friendly cars are allowed to cruise solo in Virginia's car pool lanes, slicing Murphy's daily two-hour commute in half. And since buying a hybrid 18 months ago, Murphy is leaving his home as much as three hours later.
"The quality of life has gone up tremendously," he said.
But Murphy's joy is a source of irritation for his co-worker, Kristine Johnson, who does not own a hybrid. To travel in the car pool lane, she lingers at a commuter lot until two strangers agree to ride with her.
The inconvenience pays off less than it used to: Johnson complains that hybrids are making car pool lanes as congested as regular lanes.
"It's not fair," Johnson said. "In the afternoon it's all hybrids around me. I used to be able to go home in 30 minutes. Now it takes 45."
So goes the debate between Virginia's car-poolers and hybrid owners. Lawmakers say the hybrid rule wasn't meant to clog the car pool lanes, but to encourage people to buy the cars, which run on a low-polluting combination of electricity and gasoline.
Normally, the federal government would withdraw highway money from a state that gave hybrids commuter-lane privileges. But Virginia has a special waiver while Congress considers allowing the states to make their own rules for hybrids. Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia and Florida are poised to move ahead with similar incentives if the Senate passes a long-delayed highway bill.
California Assemblywoman Fran Pavley wrote legislation to open her state's car pool lanes to single-occupant hybrids. She said the bill contains "numerous safeguards" to avoid replicating Virginia's woes.
For example, California's Department of Motor Vehicles would limit the number of hybrids in the commuter lanes by issuing only 75,000 special decals. State transportation officials would review the law periodically, and it would only apply to hybrids that get at least 45 miles per gallon.
Brian D. Taylor, director of UCLA's Institute of Transportation Studies, argues against linking hybrids with car pool lanes, which he says exist for an unrelated purpose: taking cars off the road.
"It would be sort of like saying you should allow nurses and school teachers to exceed the speed limit because they contribute positive things to society," Taylor said.
Joe Waldman, general manager of northern Virginia's Landmark Honda, said officials should not be so quick to blame crowded car pool lanes on hybrids. He noted that solo drivers in regular vehicles continue to violate the rules, despite stepped-up enforcement and a new state law doubling some fines to as much as $1,000 for a fourth offense.
But Virginia Department of Transportation spokeswoman Joan Morris said, "Even if we got rid of all the violators tomorrow, we'd still have a capacity problem."
In April 2003, about 2,500 hybrid drivers in Virginia registered their cars and asked for "clean fuel" license plates, allowing them to use the car pool lanes, Morris said. By May of this year, the number had more than tripled -- to about 9,000.
Meanwhile, Murphy, the Virginia hybrid owner, continues to sleep late, while Virginia transportation officials consider compromises such as letting hybrids use the lanes only at times when traffic is less congested.
Murphy said it would be ridiculous to end the hybrid exemption altogether, but agrees something's got to give.
"I do have to admit, there are a lot of (hybrids) out there," he said.
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Bracelet looks great and I'm not quite where I want to be on this reading challenge so far but I plan on catching up this week!
I can't wait for the Echoes of New Orleans ball! Oh and the tours, and the pub crawls, and Cafe Du Monde... I just can't wait!!!
Pam! I can't wait to meet you at AAD! I'm so freaking excited! Oh, and I got a ticket to that JF thing after all! Life is good. :)
It is very beautiful!!! Thank you for the giveaway.
This is so pretty. Good job on it!
It's gorgeous!! You did a wonderful job! And I can't wait to meet you at AAD! We're gonna have a BLAST!!!!!
I wrote out my TBR for the challenge, and realized that I already have 4 books read! WOOT! (Don't worry, I'll be reading more than that if I can manage it - we both know my school schedule will try to knock me down, but I WILL PREVAIL! lol)
I am super excited to do the walking tours that are available everywhere- my dearly beloved and I are going as a vacation so we'll be doing touristy stuff in addition to AAD. Thanks for hosting the giveaway, the bracelet looks fantastic! You are so crafty. :D


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According to Tuesday's WDRB News, a Kentucky woman who is accused of intentionally abandoning her mastiff puppy inside of a house for several weeks, was arrested on Monday.
Police claim that 22-year-old Madeleine Cornish left her six-month-old mastiff puppy, "Benson" without food, water or care, inside of a Jefferson County, Ky., house earlier this summer. According to the Inquisitr, Cornish, who is a former MTV reality television "star," of Baby High, was in the midst of moving when Benson was abandoned.
By the time that the woman returned to the pup, he was severely emaciated and dehydrated. The arrest warrant highlights the puppy's dire condition after being neglected:
"Benson had a body score of 1, which is the lowest and worst on the body condition score chart used by veterinarians,"
"Benson's ribs, lumbar vertebrae, pelvic bones and all body prominences [were] evident from a distance with no discernible body fat."
Cornish is accused of more ill-treatment of the puppy...upon discovering his poor state of health, police claim that Benson was not taken to a veterinarian for care, but instead, abandoned on the street. The pup, dubbed "Hank," was found and taken in by The Arrow Fund, who shortly after his rescue reported:
Hank is such a wonderful boy - His spirit is fantastic and it is clear that he has so much love to give! You can bet he is now receiving all the love in the world!
The pup has continued to gain weight and thrive under the rescue agency's care. Hank's alleged abuser is facing a misdemeanor charge of second degree cruelty to animals and a felony charge for tampering with physical evidence.
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Facebook has released a new app today. Poke is a new app that is designed to directly compete in Snapchat territory. The new app allows content to be shared between users with it disappearing after a short period of time. Poke supports everything Snapchat does: photos, videos, and text can all be sent.
With the Poke app, you can poke or send a message, photo, or video to Facebook friends to share what you're up to in a lightweight way. You can poke an individual friend or several at once. Each message expires after a specific time you've set, either 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds. When time runs out, the message disappears from the app.
In other words, the app functions nearly identically to Snapchat. It's not clear if the data is deleted off of Facebook's servers. Snapchat deletes any data transmitted through its servers, so it truly is a self-destructing message. Also not clear is if the app warns you when a chatting partner takes a screenshot, something Snapchat does.
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Children's Blessing (Birkas Habanos) Oval Plaque - Girl This 7"x10" pink, wooden oval plaque with its charming design displays the age-old blessing in clear letters, asking G-d to watch over and protect our precious children. Rope on top for easy hanging.
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You know how much I love my Valentine puns, so I thought I would come up with a couple of cute and easy Valentine ideas, pulling from my Whisker Graphics stash.
First up is a 3-D gumball machine that you can print and assemble.
* My Valentine Printable, printed on cardstock, using a color printer
* 2 Glassine Bags
* 1 yard or so Divine Twine
* a sewing needle with a large enough eye to accommodate your strand of twine
* a handful of small, round candies, like M&Ms or Skittles.
* Optional: 1 Bigger Bitty Bag
1. Download the Cards & Template (1 page PDF) and print onto a piece of cardstock or heavy paper, using a color printer.
2. Cut out all of the shapes. You can put aside the latte tag for later.
3. Use the circle template to trace a circle onto your glassine bags. Cut out 2 circles. *You need to use 2 bags so that you get 2 good circles without seams down them (the back-side of the glassine bags have seams).
4. Align the two glassine circles on top of each other and then align them on top of the circular part of the gumball machine printout. Using a sewing needle threaded with Divine Twine, sew all three layers together (use a running stitch), starting at the bottom center, leaving a 1 1/2 – 2″ tail. When you still have about an inch left to sew, stuff some candy between the two glassine layers. Real gumballs wouldn't fit so I used red Skittles. M&Ms or another small candy would also work.
5. After filling your gumball machine with candy, sew up the remaining inch. You'll have to stretch your glassine circles into place a bit and you may have to remove a bit of candy to do this.
6. Before you trim off the end of your twine, string the little "I Chews You" circular tag on by poking a hole with the sewing needle. Now you can trim your twine and tie the two tails into a bow.
The striped Bigger Bitty Bag makes a cute envelope.
Valentine #2 is a cute little gift card holder (for a coffee/Starbuck's card).
* The "I like you a latte" tag from the print out
* 1 Little Bitty Bag
* 6″ or so Divine Twine
* Double-sided tape or glue
1. Glue the "I like you a latte" tag to the center of the Little Bitty Bag.
2. Insert a coffee card and fold the little flap of the bag closed.
3. Using a sewing needle threaded with Divine Twine, sew one running stitch through the flap to hold it closed. Tie the ends of the twine into a bow.
This is a great gift for a friend or teacher. Or, you know, yourself.


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BRABYN, JOHN A. PhD; SCHNECK, MARILYN E. PhD; LOTT, LORI A. PhD; HAEGERSTRÖM-PORTNOY, GUNILLA OD, PhD, FAAO
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, California (JAB, MES, LAL); and the School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, California (MES, GHP)
Received December 15, 2004; accepted April 5, 2005.
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to evaluate gender differences in the relationship between night driving self-restriction and vision function in an older population.
Methods. Night driving self-restriction patterns (assessed by questionnaire) were examined cross-sectionally in relation to age, gender, health and cognitive status, depression, and vision function in a sample of 900 elders (mean age, 76 years) living in Marin County, California.
Results. Of the total sample, 91% of men and 77% of women were current drivers. The mean age of the drivers was 73.3 years (range, 58–96 years). Among current drivers, women had slightly better vision function than men on most measures (low-contrast acuity, contrast sensitivity, low-contrast acuity in glare, low-contrast, low-luminance acuity, and glare recovery) but were twice as likely as men to restrict their driving to daytime. Men showed significant associations with avoidance of night driving on four spatial vision measures (high- and low-contrast acuity, low-contrast, low-luminance acuity, and contrast sensitivity). For women, in addition to these measures, a significant association was seen for low-contrast acuity in glare. Neither men nor women showed significant associations between driving restriction and performance on the other vision measures examined (glare recovery time, attentional field integrity, or stereopsis). The vision measures most predictive of self-restriction were contrast sensitivity for men and low-contrast acuity in glare for women.
Conclusions. Including both cessation and self-restriction, men over age 85 years are 6.6 times more likely than women to be driving at night. For both genders, vision plays a significant role in the self-restriction decision. A higher percentage of men than women continue to drive at night with poor vision. Men's night-driving cessation was associated with contrast sensitivity and depression, whereas women's night-driving cessation was associated with low-contrast acuity in glare as well as age.
The present study was designed to investigate gender differences in driving cessation and self-restriction to daylight hours among elders in relation to their vision characteristics. Numerous authors have studied the relationships between vision and driving, and many have noted gender differences in driving cessation and self-restriction among older drivers, but so far, none has explored the influence of vision variables, if any, on these behavioral differences between the sexes.
With the rapid expansion of the elderly population, and the 85+ age group growing fastest of all,1 people are continuing to drive well into the eighth and ninth decades of their lives.2 Although older drivers have more crashes per mile driven, the per-driver risk of crashes is no higher than that for younger drivers.3,4 This reflects the fact that older drivers modify their behaviors to reduce the risk by driving less5,6 and/or adapt their driving behavior to avoid driving in certain high-risk circumstances such as at night, in the rain, in unfamiliar places, or during rush hour.7–9 Many factors, including age, cognitive status, health status, vision, gender, trip purpose, income, education, and accessibility of services, influence the older driver's decision to give up driving or alter driving behavior.7,10–17
A number of authors have reported gender differences in the driving habits of elders. For example, Chipman et al.18 found that among 897 respondents aged 80 years or over who reported their driving status in the Ontario Health Survey (a large population-based health survey), those reporting that they still drove were more likely to be male and married than those who did not. Marottoli et al.6 interviewed 125 drivers aged 77 years and older and found that men were more likely than women to report driving in risky conditions and to acknowledge having gotten lost, having moving violations, crashes, or near misses. Gallo et al.8 reported results from a population-based survey of individuals over 60 years of age in which respondents who reported having stopped driving or having adapted their habits (such as not driving at night) were more likely to be female than male and more likely than current drivers to report impaired vision. Lyman et al.12 surveyed 901 drivers aged 65 or older, finding women more likely than men to report difficulties with driving. A survey by Bauer et al.13 of 300 drivers from 63 to 89 years old confirmed the findings of others that driving frequency is significantly associated with gender, with women much less likely than men to drive everyday. Females were less likely than males to drive at night, on long trips, or in bad weather. They were also over 75% more likely than men to report a reduction in night driving during the past year. The incidence of night-driving cessation among the Beaver Dam cohort was twice as high for women than men.15 Hakamies-Blomqvist and Wahlstrom19 conclude from their study that whereas men tend to keep on driving as long as their health allows them to, women give up driving for various, less pressing reasons.
Some reported results are not as clear-cut; the Bauer et al. study,13 which compared present driving behavior with that of 5 years prior, revealed no gender differences. Dellinger et al.20 also reported no significant gender effect in the frequency of driving cessation during the past 5 years among 1950 respondents aged 55 and older.
Many studies have demonstrated that, even given the influence of all of these social and demographic factors, associations exist between vision function and driving performance and driving habits. This is not surprising, because driving is clearly a visual task. Vision performance has been shown to be associated with crash rate21–25 as well as driving patterns, including cessation, night-driving restriction, and avoidance of difficult driving situations.7,11,14,17,26
We recently described the association between demographic, general health and functioning, cognitive status, and vision variables to both vision-related and nonvision-related self-reported driving restriction in a population-based sample of older adults.14 The present study more closely examines the association of performance on a large battery of vision tests with night-driving avoidance in this population of elders and specifically emphasizes the gender differences in these associations. Specifically, we ask whether differences in vision function between men and women exist that may contribute to the greater limitations women impose on their driving when other known factors are taken into account.
The study group considered here was the SKI Study sample, described in detail in Haegerstrom-Portnoy et al.27 This is a random, age-stratified sample of 900 community-dwelling individuals aged 58 years and older living in Marin County, north of San Francisco, California.27,28 Individuals over age 55 were eligible for the study. Of the 900 participants in this sample, 752 were current drivers. The larger number of women than men in any random sample of this age group, combined with a higher percentage of drivers among the men, gave us an equal number of men and women drivers. The mean age of the entire sample was 75.5 years, and of the drivers, 73.3 years (range, 58–96 years). This study followed the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute and the California Pacific Medical Center's Institute Review Board (IRB). Informed consent was obtained from each participant after an explanation of the test procedures, possible risks and discomforts.
Each participant was tested using an extensive battery of vision tests that has been described in detail elsewhere.27 Briefly, the tests included high- and low-contrast acuity (Bailey-Lovie Charts29); contrast sensitivity (the Pelli-Robson Chart30); near high-contrast and low-contrast, low-luminance acuity (SKILL Card31); stereopsis (Frisby Stereo Test32); low-contrast acuity at near with and without surrounding glare (Berkeley Glare Test33); glare recovery time (time to read a line on the SKILL Dark chart two lines larger than previously measured threshold on this chart following 1 min exposure to a diffuse 3300 cd/m2 glare source); and standard and attentional visual fields (modified Synemed perimeter). To approximate real-world conditions, all vision testing was performed binocularly with habitual correction.
Cognitive status was assessed using the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire.34 The level of depressive symptoms was assessed using the Center for Epidemiological Studies–Depression (CES-D), a 20-item scale.35 Self-reported medical conditions were recorded by asking each subject "Have you ever been told by your doctor that you have {high blood pressure, heart attack [or other heart condition], diabetes, stroke, cancer, arthritis?}" Demographic characteristics of the sample are presented in Table 1.
Driving habits were evaluated through a questionnaire (a modification of the VAQ devised by Sloane et al.36) that asked the subjects to rate how often a particular situation posed difficulty for them and also included items pertaining to annual mileage, driving frequency, uneasiness about driving, and highway versus nonhighway driving. Eighteen items addressed driving. Three items asked about difficulty driving at night ("I have trouble driving when there are headlights from oncoming cars in my field of view. When driving at night, objects from the side unexpectedly appear or pop up in my field of view. When driving at night in the rain, I have difficulty seeing the road because of headlights from oncoming cars."). If the subjects responded to any of these items by reporting that they do not drive at night (presented as an option to them), they were considered to restrict their driving to daylight hours.
Data were analyzed using SPSS 6.1 for the Macintosh. To facilitate meaningful comparisons between different vision measures, variables were expressed in log units wherever possible (i.e., high-contrast acuity, low-contrast acuity, low-contrast, low-luminance acuity, and low-contrast acuity in glare were converted to logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution [logMAR], contrast sensitivity was expressed in log units). Descriptive statistics (means, medians, standard deviation, and percentiles for continuous data and frequency distributions for categorical variables) were calculated. Differences between men and women, and driving restriction status for continuous measures were assessed with separate 2 (men vs. women) times 2 (no restriction vs. restriction) analyses of variance (ANOVAs). Categorical variables were assessed with chi-squared tests.
Separate logistic regression analyses were performed for men and women to assess the association between each vision measure and driving restriction status while taking into account potentially confounding factors (i.e., age, depressive symptoms, number of medical conditions, cognitive status). These are presented as odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals. The units for the logistic regression analyses were selected to reflect clinically meaningful differences in vision function (i.e., 0.3 log unit steps, because this reduction in acuity measures reflects a doubling of the angle of resolution or three lines on an acuity chart).
Because our previous work with this sample has revealed that the spatial vision measures are often more highly correlated with each other than the dependent variable under investigation, it is necessary to select one measure to avoid multicollinearity. Therefore, all statistically significant individual vision measures from the preliminary analyses (along with potential confounders) were included in stepwise models. Both forward and backward stepping models were run and results were confirmed using both log likelihood ratio (LR) chi-squared and Wald statistic criteria.
Of the 900 individuals in the sample, 148 (16.4%) reported that they are not current drivers. Of these nondrivers, 79.1% (117) had a valid driver's license in the past. Of the 31 who reported never having had a valid driver's license, 29 were women. The percentage of the 869 who had ever been drivers who reported being current drivers is listed separately for men and women across age groups in Table 2. A high percentage maintain driving into the ninth decade. Cessation of driving occurs more frequently in the oldest age groups and occurs more commonly in women, as has been previously reported.
The genders happen to be equally represented among the 752 current drivers (376 men and 376 women). Table 3 lists the percentage of the current drivers who do not restrict their driving to daytime across age. The table shows that although female drivers are more likely than male drivers to restrict their driving to daylight at all ages, this is particularly true at the oldest ages. For example, in the oldest age group (over 85 years), 71.0% of male drivers continue to drive at night, whereas only 22% of female drivers continue to do so, a factor of 3.3 difference between men and women. The relation between age and the percentage driving without restriction is quite linear, but the slope relating percent still driving at night and age for women is approximately 2.7 times steeper than that for men. Overall, of the men who currently drive, 51 (13.6%) restrict their driving to daytime. In contrast, 104 (27.7%) women drive only during daylight hours. Thus, approximately twice as many women drivers as men restrict their driving to daytime hours.
If account is taken of driving cessation as well as driving restriction, the observed gender difference for the oldest age group is even larger. Among those who ever drove (ex-drivers as well as current drivers), only 6.6% of women over age 85 are still driving at night, compared with 42.3% of men of the same age.
Small but statistically significant differences (main effect of gender in ANOVA) were found between men and women drivers on several measures of vision function: low contrast acuity (0.03 log unit difference, p < 0.005), contrast sensitivity (0.05 log unit difference, p < 0.001), low-contrast acuity in glare (0.06 log unit difference, p < 0.005), low-contrast, low-luminance acuity (0.07 log unit difference, p < 0.001), and glare recovery (0.05 log unit difference, p < 0.05) with women having slightly better vision than men. High-contrast acuity and attentional field integrity did not differ between genders.
Those who restrict their driving to daytime have poorer vision on all measures than those who continue to drive at night (main effect of driving restriction in ANOVA): high-contrast acuity 0.10 log unit difference, p < 0.001), low-contrast acuity (0.14 log unit difference, p < 0.001), contrast sensitivity (0.185 log unit difference, p < 0.001), low-contrast acuity in glare (0.23 log unit difference, p < 0.001), low-contrast, low-luminance acuity (0.14 log unit difference, p < 0.001), and glare recovery (0.20 log unit difference, p < 0.001; attentional field integrity 11.65% locations, p < 0.001).
We describe the association of vision and driving restriction among men and women separately in the following section.
Figure 1 shows the distributions of performance on each of the vision tests for those who drive, with separate distributions for men who do not restrict (i.e., do drive at night [MN]), women who do not restrict (WN), men who restrict driving to daylight (MR), and women who restrict their driving to daylight (WR). As one would expect among a driving population, the vast majority of individuals in all driving/gender groups had standard high-contrast acuity of 20/40 (0.30 logMAR) or better. However, among those who restrict their driving to daylight, 25.5% of men and 16.2% of women have acuity worse then 20/40 (compared with 5.8 and 1.5% among those who continue to drive at night). Similar associations for other measures are shown in Table 4. The criteria for "failing" in this table correspond to the worst vision category in a later figure (Fig. 2). Overall, far more men than women with vision function poor enough to fail these criteria continue driving at night.
Among the five measures of spatial vision, the mean difference between restricting and nonrestricting driver groups ranged from 0.09 log units (women, high-contrast acuity) to 0.26 log units (women, low-contrast acuity in glare), i.e., 1.0 to 2.6 lines of acuity under the various viewing conditions tested. The mean differences for men and women between restrictors and nonrestrictors on other measures were also fairly small: approximately 0.2 log seconds for glare recovery time and approximately 12% of locations missed for attentional field.
How poor does vision have to be before men and women modify their behavior? Figure 2 plots the percentage of men (black bars) and women (gray bars) drivers who do not restrict their driving to daytime across various levels of vision function. For each measure, the bins of vision performance differ by 0.30 log units or a factor of 2. As performance on each of the measures declines, the percentage of men and women drivers still driving at night decreases. However, there is considerable variation among the measures as to how much driving behavior varies across vision performance. For instance, as low-contrast, low-luminance acuity, low-contrast acuity in glare, or contrast sensitivity decline, the portion continuing to drive at night shows considerable falloff. In contrast, there is little change in the percentage of people driving at night across all levels of glare recovery time or attentional field integrity. Also note that for all measures, the percentage of women in the worst category of vision who continue to drive at night is smaller than the percentage of men.
The differences in behavior between men and women in the worst categories of vision are not the same for all measures. For example, for low-contrast acuity in glare or low-contrast, low-luminance acuity worse than 1.10 logMAR (20/250), more than three times as many men continue to drive at night as women, whereas, for other measures such as contrast sensitivity, glare recovery time, or attentional field integrity, the proportions of men and women not restricting their driving behavior are much more similar.
As noted earlier, overall, women drivers are twice as likely as men to restrict their driving to daytime. For this reason, one cannot glean easily from Figure 2 the relative strength of the influence of a given vision measure on the driving behavior of the two genders. This can be addressed by looking at the rates of restriction behavior across vision categories relative to the rate for each gender in the best category of that vision measure. Figure 3 shows this relation for four vision measures, each chosen to illustrate a different pattern of results. In each panel, the frequency of restriction for the best vision category has been set to 1, and for the other levels of vision, the factor by which the rate differs from the frequency of the best category is plotted. For contrast sensitivity, the rate of restriction does not increase over a range of approximately 0.6 log units of performance. A further decline in performance of 0.3 log units leads to a doubling of the rate of restriction for both genders. Most striking is the fact that men in the poorest category of contrast sensitivity are nearly eight times as likely to restrict their driving as men with very good contrast sensitivity; women increase their restriction by approximately a factor of 4. In contrast, women appear to be more influenced by their acuity in glare than men, increasing restriction rate by a factor of approximately 6 compared with the men's factor of 4. The association between driving behavior and low-contrast, low-luminance acuity is similar for men and women; each increase their rate of restriction by approximately a factor of 4 as their performance on this task declines. The fourth panel in Figure 3 illustrates that neither men nor women show a strong association between attentional field integrity and driving behavior; over the range of performance, the rate of restriction increases by only a factor of 2.
Logistic regression analyses were performed to more rigorously and quantitatively assess the association of each vision measure and driving restriction while taking into account potentially confounding factors (i.e., age, depressive symptoms, number of medical conditions, cognitive status). The units for the logistic regression analyses were selected to reflect clinically meaningful differences in vision function (i.e., 0.30 log unit steps).
In these analyses conducted separately for men and women, each individual vision measure was included in a model along with potential confounders. The resulting odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) are presented in Table 5. Men show significant associations between limiting their driving to daylight and several vision measures: high-contrast visual acuity; low-contrast visual acuity; low-contrast, low-luminance acuity; and, most strongly, contrast sensitivity. Women show associations for each of these measures as well as acuity in glare.
Stepwise regression models revealed that for males, contrast sensitivity had the strongest independent association with night-driving restriction (OR 2.72), whereas for women, low contrast acuity in glare had the strongest association (OR 1.84). Table 6 presents the final multivariate logistic regression analyses (which also shows the OR and CIs for confounder variables) for men (top) and women (bottom). Depressive symptoms were significantly related to men's but not women's night-driving avoidance. On the other hand, age remained a significant predictor for women, but not for men.
Our results confirm the gender disparity in driving cessation and self-restriction noted in other studies, and provide some insight into the visual factors that may influence the decision to self-restrict.
Like many previous studies,16,18,20 we find that women are more likely than men to have never had a driver's license or to have ceased driving, particularly among the very old. We also show that if cessation of driving as well as night-driving restriction is taken into account, the gender differences become more extreme with only 6.6% of women over 85 years still driving at night compared with 42.5% of men. The overall differences between the sexes we observed in night-driving self-restriction (i.e., women drivers being approximately twice as likely as their male counterparts to limit driving to daylight hours) are also consistent with those of earlier studies. For example, Bauer et al.13 also report a two-to-one ratio of women to men restricting their driving to daylight. The Beaver Dam study15 showed a much higher incidence (within the past 5 years) of night-driving restriction in women drivers than in men drivers with the difference for those 80 years and over most extreme; 73.5% of women gave up night driving, whereas only 34.1% of men restricted driving in the same age group. Lyman et al.12 report that women are twice as likely as men to have a high degree of driving difficulty in particular situations, including night driving. Hakamies-Blomqvist and Wahlstrom19 also report that women were more likely than men to report night-driving avoidance.
The SKI Study sample comes from a community with higher levels of income and education than other large vision and aging studies. However, as Reed et al.28 demonstrated, it has few significant differences from other large elder study samples in terms of health and functioning measures. We have also previously established27 that it is similar in visual acuity to other vision and aging studies. The fact that its members also exhibit broadly similar behavior in driving cessation and night-driving restriction to the other studies cited here suggests that the present results have relevance to the broader societal context.
Several previous studies have examined the influence of vision on driving cessation or self-restriction. For example, the Blue Mountains Eye Study26 reported that individuals having acuity worse than 20/40 in the better eye were four times as likely to have given up driving than individuals with better acuity. Self-reported difficulty seeing in the dark or sensitivity to glare also significantly increased the odds of driving cessation. Eleven percent of people in that study who reported having stopped driving cited vision problems as the reason. Ragland et al.16 reported that trouble with vision was the only health problem identified as a major reason for limiting or avoiding driving. Vision was also the most often-cited reason for driving cessation among older drivers studied by Dellinger et al.20
Stutts11 examined the association between the limitation of driving (to <3000 miles per year or high-risk avoidance) and gender, visual, and cognitive factors. The vision measures were high-contrast acuity, contrast sensitivity, low-contrast, low-luminance acuity, and binocular field extent, which were all included in the current study as well. Unfortunately, no vision test results are shown, precluding comparisons with the present study. Although Stutts reports significant associations (ORs) between each of the vision measures and driving <3000 miles per year or high-risk avoidance, the findings are difficult to interpret. For some vision measures, ORs are reported for quartiles (of unspecified range) and arbitrary and unequal categories for other vision functions. In agreement with other studies, this study also finds that women are significantly more likely to limit their driving than men.
In our previous study,14 we examined the association between each of the vision measures examined here and driving restriction. However, self-reported vision-related and nonvision-related restriction were considered separately and gender issues were not addressed. After adjusting for potential confounders, each of the spatial vision measures was significantly associated with vision-related restriction, as were stereopsis and glare recovery time. Only stereopsis (of the measures considered in the present study) was associated with nonvision-related restriction. In the present study, which did not consider type of restriction, but did separately consider men and women, glare recovery was not significantly associated with night-driving restriction for either group. Women showed significant associations with night-driving restriction and all spatial vision measures, but for men, low-contrast acuity in glare was not significantly associated. Stereopsis was not associated with restriction for either gender. In our previous study,14 attentional field integrity was not associated with vision-related nor nonvision-related restriction; it was also not associated with night-driving avoidance for either gender in the present study.
Our results demonstrate that vision function is associated with the decision to stop driving at night for both genders. For men, the strongest association was seen for impaired contrast sensitivity, whereas for women, poor low-contrast acuity in glare was associated with night-driving avoidance. This is consistent with the higher prevalence of cataracts among women.37
In the final multivariate model, depression score (along with contrast sensitivity) was associated with night-driving restriction in men. Of course, in a cross-sectional design, causality cannot be determined. Thus, we do not know whether men stop driving at night as a result of depression or whether the cessation of night driving (for other reasons) leads to depression. Our results have shown that a much higher percentage of men with poor vision continue to drive at night. Bauer et al.13 speculate that decisions about reductions in driving may be easier for women because men tend to have a longstanding identity with operating an automobile. Consistent with this idea, the 1990 National Personal Transportation Survey (NTPS) reported the average man drove 16,500 miles, whereas the average woman drove 9500 miles.38 Consequently, giving up driving is a bigger change for a man.
Certainly, although vision is a contributing factor, social and cultural factors remain the most likely causes of gender differences in driving. The fact that in our society, men of all ages do more driving than women means they are giving up more if they decide not to drive or to restrict their driving. It is even possible that a decision by a wife to give up or restrict her driving may even increase the tendency and impetus for the husband to keep driving to maintain the couple's lifestyle.
Night driving might reasonably be considered a relatively high-risk behavior. The fact that men are more likely to be engaged in it (and that age is not a predictor of self-restriction) supports the established literature indicating that men in general are more likely to take risks than women.39 Men are more likely to drive fast, have 50% more crashes than women per mile driven,40 and account for 75% of driving fatalities.41 In other fields such as financial affairs, it is well established that men are considerably less risk-averse than women,42 although both exhibit increased risk aversion with age. Men are also more likely to exhibit overconfidence, especially in tasks considered to be masculine.43 Driving certainly falls into this category.
For men, age was not a significant predictor of restriction. For women, on the other hand, age remained a significant predictor of night-driving restriction along with low-contrast acuity in glare, which is consistent with factors other than vision contributing to the higher rate of restriction found in women with all levels of vision function.
Although most spatial vision variables are somewhat predictive of a decision to self-restrict, glare recovery and attentional visual fields are not predictive for either sex. Owsley43 established the importance of attentional vision as measured by the Useful Field of View, so it is interesting that elders are unaware of these deficits or, if they are aware, are not using them as a basis for self-restriction.
Vision function contributes to the decision of older men and women to self-restrict their driving to daylight hours. Men with poor vision are more likely to continue driving at night than women with the same level of vision function, whereas women are more likely to restrict their driving at all levels of vision function. Different vision functions are predictive of self-restriction in men and women.
The authors thank the vision testing volunteers at the Buck Center for Research in Aging and the elderly participants in this study. Supported by National Eye Institute grant EY09588 (JAB) and the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute. Data were presented, in part, at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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In a surprise turn of events, someone anonymously bought plane tickets for me to deliver the butterflies to her in person (see the full story). Sandra was deeply moved, carefully taking in each one. I later attached them on the ceiling above her bed, where they appeared to be in flight and truly uplifting. I think it's probably the best thing I could have possibly done.
Miraculously, against all odds, Sandra did it. She beat the cancer. After recovering, Sandra began going to schools across the United States and in Costa Rica, involving school children in making LOVE BUTTERFLIES for other cancer patients.
After two amazing, cancer-free years, Sandra was diagnosed with cancer for a third time! Minutes after hearing this, I began making this website as a way of showing her how much she is cared about. The intention of this site is to send out beautiful blessings - from Sandra's spirit - to as many people as it can reach. May the LOVE BUTTERFLIES bring joy and love whenever and wherever they are most needed.
After almost 6 years living with cancer, Sandra eventually let go. She was a very special person. To read the complete story that inspired the LOVE BUTTERFLIES, click here. It's long, but a lot of fun! :)


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On Friday, April 4th, Kate Abraham and Warren McDaniel were sworn in as Institutions Division Sergeants by Sheriff Jason Myers. They took the place of Sergeants who have retired.
Sergeant Abraham grew up in the Stayton and Sublimity area and first started with the office as a 15-year-old volunteer with their Search and Rescue division. In the mid-90s, she started working for the Department of Forestry as a firefighter. After three years she returned to the MCSO. Clearly, she's more than qualified to take on this important role.
Sergeant McDaniel is from the Scio and Lebanon area and served in the U.S. Air Force as a Munition Systems Specialist. He then became a mechanic before being hired by MCSO in 2008. He's held several specialty positions in the office including being a member of the Security Threat Group Team. His knowledge of the office will be a strong asset for the MCSO.
Sheriff Myers is happy with the new additions to the Office's Leadership Team. He told the group gathered to witness the swearing in, "These two new Sergeants are going to do a great job for our office and community."


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Oven-Roasted Root Vegetables Mediterranean
Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 5:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 7:23 p.m.
From Chef Costa Magoulas, Daytona State College; serves 6-8
1 large yellow squash
1 large zucchini
1 medium red onion
2 medium tomatoes
1 bunch asparagus, stemmed
1 red bell pepper
1 medium eggplant (leave skin on)
2 large parsnips (about 8 ounces), peeled
8 garlic cloves, peeled whole
4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling
2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
4 ounces feta cheese, crumbled
8 kalamata olives, seeded, sliced
1 tablespoon chopped oregano
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cut all the vegetables into 1 1/2-inch pieces. Toss all the vegetables, garlic, olives, olive oil oregano, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper in large bowl.
Place on baking sheet or roasting pan spreading them out to assure they don't steam while roasting. Roast the vegetables at 350 degrees until tender and golden brown, stirring occasionally, about 45 minutes to 1 hour. Remove from oven and mix with feta cheese. Serve warm.
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This charming police station cat goes along on calls to assist elderly people who are being targeted by financial con-men.
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I just know there is a "hello kitty" joke in here some where…
Well since cats are associated with them and I think this election cycle fits this song too…
They are doing thge preliminary races at Churchill Downs
right now.
Run for the Roses I think in a couple of hours.
Will Obama claim victory & saying that he is actually
He is leader of Seal Team Six, right?
He is brillian without the TOTuS!!!
@ Lily:
I am surprised that Obama hasn't mentioned respectful
funerals for disaster survivors.
One of the gratest hoaxes of our times sold by the
MSM is that Obama is brilliant.
I think that he is actually rather dim, but he
balances that with hubris.
He is impossible to underestimate.
It is truly a hoax. Especially his *suddenly* new ex-girlfriend.
I think the British press was saying that only now the American media is vetting. Because all this infomation was at hand in 2008. It is amazing all the holes in his background and the media just carried his water. He is so brilliant, so smart (yet will not release his grades). The cover-up for bho by the media is unbelievable. Especially the 57 states remark. Good grief any other person who would say this who was running for president would have never made it to the ballot.
@ yenta-fada:
{yenta} he can barely talk in English. 😉
From newsbird. If you make people think they are thinking, the will love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
– Harlan Ellison
That statement left me almost breathless and, as usual, started me thinking. The commenters on this blog are a motley crew. Some are Indies, some Repubs, some Dems, some are very conservative, some moderate and, some liberal. The one thing we all have in common is respect for each other as individuals. Which brings me to this, BO's supporters who launch personal attacks on the blogs. They think they're thinking, when in all reality they're just parroting the LSM and Progressive talking points. But, when up against people who make them think they become outraged and launch into personal attacks. The BO loyalists hate people like you who make them think. At this point, they seem more pitiful then arrogant, more afraid then confident, and cling to beliefs that no longer exist. They're lashing out in despair because they don't want to think.
@ yenta-fada:
The link for the above:
@ yenta-fada:
It is very unusual that these people are honestly rabid in their support of bho. I have never seen anything like it. They ignore the actually facts, say you can't believe whatever you read, yet they believe whole cloth the propaganda. This will be a very unusual election cycle especially if Romney really brings the fight. The complete out in front socialism they aren't even hiding anymore. The Forward slogan, the Life of Julia gradle to grave support of the government. The media is so biased.
RIX wrote:
@ Lily:
Do you hink that maybe Imam Obama will release the
dead Osama photos? You know, just coincidentally
in time for the election.
I think he will do ANYTHING and use ANYONE to try and win this election. Even if his handlers say it will be unwise, he will over-ride them and do what he wants. I say more power to him. Let his hubris out for full display.
/the only thing that gives me pause on the bin laden photos is that he has a whole lot of man-love for Islam. No I don't think he is muslim but he surely sides with them. So on the photo's it may be a 50/50 chance on him actually releasing them.
@ Lily:
The mass mob psychology behind Obama's putsch is obviously fascinating to us. Here's a bit of what Ann Barnhardt (koran burner)
has to say:
"people are so narcissistic, deluded and dim that they absolutely cannot process that anything bad could ever happen to them. That is why the Obama regime, an oligarchy of a few thousand people at the very most, is going to steamroll over this entire, godforsaken country. And the people will SIT AND WATCH, completely unable to engage reality in any adult manner."
@ yenta-fada:
That statement by Barnhardt shows why they had to jump all over the Tea Party movement and demonize it. A true grassroots organization that stands up for America and the Constitution is a real danger to people who want to demoralize and confuse the masses of people. The Tea Party needs to be re-invigorated. It is political and it stands for the rule of Law.
@ yenta-fada:
Just wait. I think the tea party being low key right now is good.
The OWS really, really want to engage them. Besides only some Americans are so heavily backing bho. Not all by any means. I also think that many people think we are stupid. Some of us surely are, but by no means all. A lot of people are noticing what is going on.
There is what I have called an under lying quiet. Not to mention this is an example of your average dimwit OWS'er. An idiot opens his mouth and confirms he is an idiot.
I have a 30 year old son and he says this guy is so ignorant and stupid….
@ yenta-fada:
It truly is.
@ Lily:
I saw that vid. Another product of the Cloward Piven educational system. I am always in the position of viewing the U.S. from the outside.
I would probably be a member of the Tea Party. You may be right about staying under the radar for those supporters. Giving the OWS dumbos a focus is not a good idea. Confusion to the Enemy!
@ Lily:
This is excatly what I mean. This shows excatly how bho is viewed. The media and polls spin that bho is still heavily backed by the American people is greatly exaggerated.
Second Deck Empty: Obama Launches His Reelection Campaign Before Half-Full House
@ yenta-fada:
I think a back-lash is coming against bho. But because of the race card he is using the timing has to be just right. American's are a highly un-predicatable lot. Bho has step his foot into it big time on many issues. The American people are noticing. Just because the ones making the most noise does not exactly represent what the average American thinks.
@ Lily:
Very good writer who explains the modern tide of the 'entitled'
The horse people I am with say that Bodemeister will win the kentucky derby. So place yer bets
@ yenta-fada:
I've read other books concerning this. Looks like a good book. I think with all the victimology, pc and the over inflating of egos of children in the guise of self-esteem, also the cramming down peoples throats that something is wrong is not wrong is the problem. Everything has turn basically upside down. Bad is good and good is bad. There have always been people like this. But now days the amount of people like this have exploded. Not to mention trying to remove God from the equation too. Combine all this factors together and you will get a very bad equation.
coldwarrior wrote:
The horse people I am with say that Bodemeister will win the kentucky derby. So place yer bets
#9 Trinniberg
No particular reason – just like the looks of the horse at 40 to 1 odds.
I'll Have Another?
@ brookly red:
The jockey who rode I'll Have Another might work for me.
OK, this is funny. Obama kicked of his official campaign today, also today, Cinco de Mayo, The derby, Karl Marx birthday (hmmm) AND the super moon! WOW.
@ coldwarrior:
It still was a good race with a surprise winner.
Union Rags had such a poor start that he never had a chance.
@ brookly red:
Not to mention very few people attended it. Check the link in my #29.
No more fainters for sure.
sittin on the deck popping feral cats///
Lily wrote:
@ Rodan:
No kidding. There was no need for overnight waiting. There was plenty of empty seats and lots of open places on the floor.
/oh well just goes to show you that the ones that waited overnight are in the very small miniorty!
what was his line? "we are the ones we have been waiting for"? yeah OK whatever.
@ brookly red:
Yeah the shine is off that penny now.
I guess if he wants to draw crowds he should make speeches at job fairs…
on second though, I take that back, not a good idea-my bad.
And Obama has his Defense Secretary Panetta publicly attack our troops
waldensianspirit wrote:
And Obama has his Defense Secretary Panetta publicly attack our troops
big mistake. tyrants can only exist through force, if those charged with providing that force vote present, well you can guess the rest.
@ coldwarrior:
no more mint juleps, thanks!
coldwarrior wrote:
The horse people I am with say that Bodemeister will win the kentucky derby. So place yer bets
and that is why i dont bet on horses!
i would have come in second.
@ brookly red:
Who in their right mind would have this managing the troops?
Niccolò Machiavelli stated quite correctly that the prince must control the purse & the sword. He may have stolen the purse but the sword will be his undoing.
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The summit will provide an opportunity to share knowledge, solutions, and best practices in managing challenges and seeking opportunities on improving environmental impacts of sporting entities.
Divided into two key areas of Built Environment Innovations (development, planning and design of physical spaces such as venues) and Stakeholder Engagement Strategies (developing and communicating sustainability messages and actions), the Summit will include keynote addresses, case studies, industry panels and networking opportunities. The aim of these full day events is to offer possible solutions and inspire action, small or large, towards achieving:
* Efficiencies and ecological consciousness in urban and regional development via outdoor space management (e.g., sport facilities, parks, community centers, etc.) best practices.
* Increasing participation in sport and recreation due to accessible and better-managed fields and facilities.
* Reducing financial and social costs associated with development through ecologically sustainable development (ESD).
Our expert panelists will of domestic and international sustainability leaders will share their perspectives- panel members include:
* Brad Mohr (Assistant Director of Ballpark Operations, Cleveland Indians, Major League Baseball)
* Simon Gorr (Stadium Development Manager, AFL)
* Brian Thurston (Business Development Manager, Sustainability Services, Waste Management)
* Darlene van der Breggen (Principal Urban Designer, Public Works, Government Architect's Office, NSW)
* Natalie Valentine (Manager - Simonds Stadium, Co-ordinator - Sports Venues, City of Greater Geelong)
* And other industry and community leaders
"We hope that these best practices and insights will provide the attendees and the sports community in general with solutions and ideas that will lead, inspire and educate them with ways to improve their ecological footprint," says SSU Director, Dr. Sheila Nguyen, LEED Green Associate.
Melbourne - 25th of March, 2013
Deakin Prime Level 3, 550 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000
9:00am - 5:00pm
Sydney - 26th of March, 2013
Allianz Stadium (Captains Bar) Moore Park Road, Moore Park, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
"Given the relevance of sustainability in modern society, the summit is open to those who are passionate about the environment and are initiating or developing sustainability strategies in either grass roots, community or professional sports. Not only will this summit be a great networking, knowledge sharing and development experience for anyone in sport but it will be a great opportunity for those providing services such a waste management, energy providers, recruitment and consulting services" says SSU Director Michael Bokody.
"We expect a diverse mix of people who will be able to connect, share experiences and develop key relationships."
Registrations for the summit can be made via Sports Sustainability United at www.sportssustainability.asia with an early bird ticket price available until the 17th of February.
Help Australia become a leader in this space and improve the environmental health of our communities so we can have places and spaces to live, work, and play.
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Voters in the Cloverleaf School district in Westfield Township have a chance to elect three school board members, as well as decide a school levy.
Board members William Hutson and President Chris Berry are not running for re-election, so the board will see at least two new members.
Four candidates, including a current board member, a former mayor of Chippewa Lake, the vice president of an educational software company and a banker are running for the three board seats.
A major challenge board members face will be dealing with the Cloverleaf's financial issues. The district has been in "fiscal emergency" since January 2012, and a five-member state commission must approve all of the board's financial decisions.
Michael J. Maloney Jr.
Maloney is vice president of business development for eSchoolView, a division of Infinite Cohesion, a company that creates software and educational websites for school districts across the country. Previously, the Lafayette Township resident served as the community information officer for Cloverleaf Schools between 2009 and 2010.
Maloney is married and has two young children.
All of the candidates cited budgetary concerns as a top priority for Cloverleaf.
"One thing I would like to accomplish is continue the great steps that Cloverleaf has made to be as fiscally responsible as possible and continue to investigate shared services," Maloney said.
The district now shares Treasurer Jim Hudson with Medina City Schools.
Maloney said he is prepared for the challenges ahead.
"The Board of Education is going to be continually faced with hard decisions," he said. "I just want to make sure the decisions that are made are within the best interest of the students as well as fiscally responsible as possible."
Maloney serves on the advisory board of Walsh University, and is a member of the Cleveland and Columbus chambers of commerce. [br]
Jason Myers
Myers, of Lodi, works for FirstMerit Bank in Wooster. He is married and has three children.
Myers has not run for a political office. He said he hoped he could bring his experience in corporate banking to help with the district's finances.
"My big goal is to help simplify the whole financial situation of the district," he said. "What I'm really hoping to do is help communicate the district's financial situation to the voters. Given the nature of how funding works in the state of Ohio, that task is difficult."
Because the district is in fiscal emergency, the five-member state commission is requiring it to go on the ballot for a levy until one is approved, and he hoped to communicate that to voters.
Myers is a board member for the Cloverleaf Soccer Association, a Cub Scout leader, a soccer and T-ball coach and an advisory board member of a local Junior Achievement chapter, a non-profit that teaches students financial literacy. [br]
Jane Rych
Rych, of Westfield Center, is running for her second term on the Cloverleaf school board. She is the only incumbent on the ballot. Rych, an insurance agent for Plumer Insurance in Seville, is married and has two children who graduated from the district.
Rych said her main goal if re-elected was to make sure Cloverleaf students are prepared for the future.
"It's really about the kids," she said. "It's making sure they're prepared for whatever they decide to pursue."
She said it's necessary for the district to provide a variety of opportunities for students. "Colleges look for kids who are very well rounded, look for kids who have leadership," Rych said.
Although she doesn't have the same financial background as some of the other candidates, she said, she has learned a great deal from her time serving on the board. "I really think that's it's important to get a parent's perspective," she said.
Rych is also involved in organizing fundraisers and activities for the Westfield Township Fire Department, and is a member of PEO Chapter EX in Medina. [br]
William Schmock
Schmock, of Chippewa Lake, said his whole family graduated from Cloverleaf schools. His daughter works as a kindergarten teacher and his wife is a paraprofessional aide in the district.
Schmock, who is retired, last worked for Premier Manufacturing in Cleveland. He was mayor of Chippewa Lake between 1980 and 2002, and was involved in merging the villages of Chippewa-on-the-Lake and Briarwood Beach in 1998.
He said he has worked on both corporate and government budgets, which will prepare him to work with the district's fiscal issues, if elected.
"We've got to balance our cost-cutting while still providing the high quality education that our children are receiving," he said.
Schmock also said teachers must be supported.
"That's where the money needs to go — into the classrooms," he said. "There's additional classes that I'd love to see."
Schmock served on the Lodi Hospital board of directors when it combined with Akron General, and worked on a committee at the Medina Sheriff's Office to upgrade its communication system. [br]
Cloverleaf levy
The Cloverleaf school board has expanded the number of programs that will be brought back if a levy passes.
Additions include restoring two gifted program teachers, capping elementary school classes at 28 students and restoring ninth-grade sports, some non-athletic activities such as children's theater, Elementary Student Council, and field trips.
Also, pay-to-play fees would be reduced from $250 to $150 at the high school level and $125 to $75 for middle-schoolers.
The 10-year, 8.3-mill levy will cost the owner of a $100,000 home about $291 a year.
As the district did in its last levy try during the primary election, the district plans to bring back high school busing; half-day, everyday kindergarten; and reopen school buildings to community groups in the evenings — cuts made under the district's fiscal recovery plan.
The district will also place a law enforcement officer at each school, a move requested by parents after last year's Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Superintendent Daryl Kubilus said the board and the five-member commission overseeing district finances have not yet made plans for more cuts if the levy fails.
If the levy fails, Kubilus said the commission would likely have a special meeting to determine more cuts.
"That's a scary proposition for us, one which I'm hopeful we won't have to endure," he said.
The district is projecting a $5.8 million deficit by 2017 if a levy is not approved.
Kubilus said many people have asked him how soon the district would be on the ballot again if the levy is approved. He said that even though the state's formula for funding schools is unpredictable, he didn't expect to return to the ballot for new operating money until "sometime in the 2020s."
Contact reporter Kiera Manion-Fischer at (330) 721-4049 or email@example.com.


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I've got a dual-monitor setup, with the monitors configured through the "Nvidia X Server Settings" application.
In the Ubuntu Display settings, the monitors show up as one extra-wide monitor labelled "Laptop". Until now, this really hasn't been a problem, but now I'm trying to set up a Wacom tablet.
The Ubuntu tablet settings allow the tablet to be mapped to a specific monitor, but since the OS "thinks" that I have only one monitor, I can only map the tablet to both of them.
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Anthony L. Vazquez-Hernandez on March 20, 2014 at 12:33 am
Seated 500 according to the Film Daily Yearbook of 1942. Also listed as closed that same year.
Don Lewis on August 7, 2010 at 6:13 am
From the 1950s a photo postcard view of downtown Craig, misc businesses and the West Theatre.
kencmcintyre on March 23, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Here is a June 2004 story from the Craig Daily Press:
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