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China's most politically explosive trial rapped in a matter of hours when Gu Kailai, the wife of Chinese politician Bo Xilai, did not object to murder charges against her. ITV's Angus Walker reports.
Updated at 8:40 a.m. ET: HEFEI, China -- The woman at the center of China's most politically explosive trial in three decades did not contest charges of murder on Thursday in a hearing that lasted just seven hours and could determine the fate of former politician Bo Xilai.
Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, chose not to contest the charge of murdering British businessman Neil Heywood, whose alleged secretive dealings with the couple fuelled a scandal exposing the intimate nexus between money and power in China's elite.
A formal verdict will be delivered at a later date, a court official said, recounting details of the closed-door hearing.
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Gu Kailai, center, appears at the Hefei Intermediate People's Court on Thursday.
The dramatic account of Heywood's death by poisoning is also likely to sound the final death knell to Bo's political career, even as sympathizers cast him as the victim of a push to oust him and discredit his left-leaning agenda.
"The accused Bogu (Gu) Kailai and Zhang Xiaojun did not raise objections to the accusations of intentional homicide," the official, Tang Yigan, said after the hearing, referring also to Gu's co-accused, an aide to the family.
State television showed Gu, wearing a dark pant suit and white shirt, being led into the courtroom and being seated in the dock. She appeared to have put on weight since she was detained earlier this year.
Wife of ousted China politician charged with Briton's murder
This photo shows Bo Xilai, British businessman Neil Heywood and Bo's wife Gu Kailai.
The court official quoted prosecutors as saying Gu and Zhang had killed Heywood with a poisoned drink in far southwestern Chongqing last November, after a business dispute between Gu and Heywood. Bo ruled the vast municipality until he was sacked in March just before the murder scandal burst into the open.
As a result of the dispute with Heywood, Gu had become convinced Heywood was a threat to her son, Bo Guagua, the official said without elaborating.
"Gu Kailai believed that Neil Heywood had threatened the personal safety of her son Bo (Guagua) and decided to kill him," the official added, reading from a statement to a packed news conference of dozens of reporters who had been barred entry to the courtroom in the eastern city of Hefei.
The aide, Zhang, had driven Heywood to Chongqing last November from Beijing and prepared a poison which was to be put later into a drink of water. Later that day, Heywood met Gu at a hotel, where he became drunk and then asked for water.
Corruption may be widespread in China, but one official crossed a line when he wiretapped President Hu Jin Tau. Now that official's wife is a murder suspect. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
"She poured a poison into his mouth," the official said.
Gu was represented by government-appointed lawyers. Her trial is seen by many Chinese as part of a push against her husband Bo, who made powerful enemies as he campaigned to join the next generation of top central leaders.
Bo was formerly considered a contender for the inner sanctum of power -- the party's Politburo Standing Committee -- in a once-in-a-decade leadership transition that is currently under way. The new leadership is expected to be unveiled in October.
Earlier, a British diplomat was seen entering the court, but did not comment. International media were not allowed into the court.
State censorship of Internet chatter on the trial was swifter than normal on Thursday. Users of China's popular Twitter-like service Sina Weibo played cat and mouse with authorities to discuss the case and used word play to try to get around the controls.
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Police dragged two protesters away from outside the Hefei Intermediate People's Court in eastern China. The two Bo supporters kicked and yelled as they were put into an unmarked car after they had appeared outside the building, condemning the trial as a sham and singing patriotic songs that were the trademark of Bo's populist leadership style.
"I don't believe it. This case was decided well in advance," Hu Jiye, a middle-aged man wearing a T-shirt and baseball cap, told foreign reporters at the rear of the court building, which was cordoned off by dozens of police standing in heavy rain.
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Police officers stand guard outside a court where the murder trial of Gu Kailai was held on Thursday in Hefei, China.
Hu and his friend were then shoved by police officers into a car. His companion, also a middle-aged man, struggled and yelled, "Why are you taking me? Why are you taking me?"
But many ordinary Chinese citizens were unaware of the trial, or felt that it had little impact on their lives.
"We are not really interested in the Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai cases because they are far removed from us, we are very busy with our daily lives," Beijing construction manager Ji Jiaminghe told NBC News.
"The lesson of the Bo Xilai case is that it was wrong to go against the political mainstream," Ji said, even as he acknowledged that he loved to sing and listen to the "Red Songs" that Bo promoted.
Communist Party aristocracy
The trial of Gu, the glamorous daughter of ruling Communist Party aristocracy, is the most sensational since the conviction of the Gang of Four more than 30 years ago for crimes during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution.
China's Communist party unleashes its full weight against former politician Bo Xilai and his wife over a murder scandal. ITN's Angus Walker reports from Beijing.
Gu and family aide Zhang Xiaojun face the death penalty if convicted of poisoning the former family friend.
Police sources initially claimed Gu had poisoned Heywood in a disagreement over an illicit financial transaction she had wanted him to help her complete, and they portrayed Gu as a greedy wife who was translating her husband's connections into dollars.
Sources: Briton killed after threat to expose Chinese leader's wife
But Gu's alleged personal motive for the killing -- that Gu believed Heywood was a threat to her son -- may count as a mitigating circumstance and help Gu avoid execution.
Any hesitance to put Gu to death would make sense, according to Hu Xingdou, an outspoken blogger and frequent government critic, told NBC News.
Scandal sends China's netizens into feeding frenzy
"The death penalty is not likely precisely because a political struggle is involved and people don't like political rivals being executed," he said.
In announcing the indictment about two weeks ago, the official Xinhua News Agency made clear the government considers the verdict a foregone conclusion.
"The facts of the two defendants' crime are clear, and the evidence is irrefutable and substantial," it said.
The trial and sentencing of both Gu and Zhang are widely seen as a prelude to a possible criminal prosecution of Bo, who is being detained for violating party discipline -- an accusation that covers corruption, abuse of power and other misdeeds.
In what's being called the biggest Chinese political scandal in years, Bo Xilai, the Communist Party secretary in Chongqing, was sacked Thursday. NBC's Ed Flanagan reports.
Bo, who was a favorite of party leftists and promoted himself as a friend of the poor and an enemy of corruption, was sacked as Chongqing party chief in March after his police chief, Wang Lijun, identified Gu as a suspect in Heywood's death.
Press behaved 'appallingly'?
On Thursday morning, there was no sign of Gu's elderly mother, nor of any members of Heywood's family in or around the courtroom.
In London, Heywood's mother accused the press of spreading lies about her son. "You've all behaved so appallingly," Ann Heywood said Wednesday outside her home.
British media have suggested Neil Heywood was involved in money laundering, worked for British intelligence or that he was Gu's lover. Ann Heywood claimed to know more about the case than was in the public domain, but she wasn't specific and said the truth would come out eventually.
More China coverage from NBCNews.com's Behind the Wall blog
Before his ouster in the spring, Bo, also the son of a revolutionary veteran, was one of China's most powerful and charismatic politicians. But his overt maneuvering for a top political job, as well as high-profile campaigns to bust organized crime and promote communist culture -- while trampling over civil liberties and reviving memories of the chaotic Cultural Revolution in the process -- angered some leaders.
Bo is the first Politburo member to be removed from office in five years and the scandal kicked up talk of a political struggle involving Bo supporters intent on derailing succession plans calling for Vice President Xi Jinping to lead the party for the next decade.
Bo is in the hands of the party's internal discipline and inspection commission, which is expected to issue a statement about his infractions. That would open the way for a court trial with charges possibly including obstructing police work and abuse of power. Thus far, Bo has been accused only of grievous but unspecified rules violations.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Right to an attorney
The sounds of the early morning in the Blair County Central Court building last Wednesday included the echo of filing cabinets clicking open and slamming shut, conversation and a bit of humor and camaraderie as four assistant public defenders began their day representing clients who are indigent, meaning they can't afford to hire a private attorney.
The defenders are a lively, almost eager group, that includes attorney Theordore J. Krol, a 23-year veteran of the office, and David L. Beyer, who has 13 years with the Blair County Public Defender's office.
They are joined by two newcomers to the office: Jason Imler, who has been on the job for only a few weeks, and Julia Burke, who came to the Altoona area after five years of criminal defense experience in New York City.
While she has experience, Burke has served as a volunteer assistant public defender this year because she had to take the Pennsylvania Bar exam before she could be hired.
It was her first day in Central Court as a full-time assistant under Public Defender James R. DiFrancesco, her position having at last been approved on Monday by the Blair County Salary Board.
"I went to law school to be a public defender," said Burke.
She calls the work of representing the poor "more interesting" than what she experienced working for a private firm in New York City, and she exclaimed what many might think is obvious: working in the Blair County criminal justice system is different than in Manhattan.
In Manhattan, a defense lawyer must deal with any of 250 assistant district attorneys.
Here, the defense lawyers know by name their adversaries on the prosecution side. They know the police officers and judges. Burke enjoys the more personable, familiar relationship among those in the justice system.
But this day, she had little time to talk.
"I have to go," she said.
Beyer has his private law office in Ebensburg, and while he serves as a part-time assistant public defender in Blair, he also receives court appointments in Cambria and other counties, in addition to his private clients.
He said of his Blair County clients, "Just because they can't afford an attorney, they should have representation."
Of his work as counsel to the indigent, he said, "I do enjoy it. I really, really like it. I enjoy fighting for them."
While public defenders are often depicted as overworked and underpaid, Beyer said his clients do not get slighted.
He said he takes work home at night.
He doesn't know his caseload, but, he said, "Whatever my caseload, it is heavy. I work extremely hard. I am not afraid of work. If it bothered me, I wouldn't do it."
If the enthusiasm for criminal defense work expressed by Burke and Beyer wasn't enough, Krol, who also is part time and has a private office in Hollidaysburg, said he loves the job because "to some extent I feel it is a public service in the community to do it."
But, he explained, the job keeps him on top of the latest developments in criminal law, and he loves those Wednesdays in Central Court where the public defenders must handle as many as 70 cases in one day.
Being a public defender is "the best part of my practice," said Krol. He loves trials, the strategies, the challenge of anticipating where the case is going as it unfolds before a jury.
"I need that invigoration of being in front of a jury defending my clients," he said.
It's Krol who gets the group engaged in the morning's work as the public defenders view a line of orange-clad female inmates brought to a holding area at Central Court. Then come a line of male inmates directed to an adjacent holding area.
Time to get to work, meeting with their clients. Half of the suspects don't even apply for a public defender until they arrive at Central Court for their preliminary hearings, Krol said.
What that means is the defenders have to get to know multiple clients in one day, assess their cases and their defenses to the criminal charges, then enter into plea discussions with assistant district attorneys and, most times, waive the cases to court. Ninety-five percent of the cases are waived.
In a few cases, Krol said, the defenders decide to have a preliminary hearing. Those begin at 1 p.m. before a magisterial district judge.
Krol tells the defenders it's time "to go into the war room," his term for the nearby courtroom where cases are reviewed, discussions held and decisions made.
"I go in there ready for battle. It's fun," he said.
Fifty years since Gideon
Just 20 months ago, a report prepared by a Task Force and Advisory Committee to Pennsylvania's Joint State Government Commission concluded that the public defenders are "hard-working, committed and competent professionals."
But it went on to say, "The problem is that they must work against daunting obstacles: inadequate training and oversight, severely limited resources and unmanageable caseloads."
This lengthy study by the commission focused on Pennsylvania's lack of funding at the state level for indigent defense.
It emphasized Pennsylvania is the only state that does not provide funding for those who represent the poor.
Public defender offices and appointed attorneys who represent indigent criminal defendants are funded through the counties, and the commission concluded state government was not fulfilling it's Constitutional duty to provide legal counsel for those who can't afford it.
The title of the study reflects its conclusion – "A Constitutional Default: Services to Indigent Criminal Defendants in Pennsylvania."
The report made a recommendation to totally revamp the indigent defense system in Pennsylvania by creating a new office in the executive branch.
It would be governed by a board and would have the power to contract with local public defender offices or other agencies to provide criminal defense for the poor.
The state office would "hire, supervise and fire county [public defenders]" according to the plan.
It would include a division to handle capital case appeals and provide a plethora of other services.
The state agency would work with the counties to "provide fair rumuneration," which would address the perceived inadequate salaries paid to the public defenders when compared to district attorneys and their assistants.
One of the task force members contributing to the report was Pennsylvania Sen. Stewart J. Greenleaf, R-12th District, serving Montgomery and Bucks counties, who chairs the Senate's Judiciary Committee and was both a prosecutor and public defender in his past life.
Creating a new state agency at a time when state government is attempting to address so many financial needs might not be realistic, which is why Greenleaf and others have recently given their support to Senate Bill 979, which will at least provide an entry point for the state in aiding the counties and public defenders to provide solid defense for the poor.
The bill would provide funding to create a headquarters or central office for indigent defense, possibly attached to a Pennsylvania law school.
The office would be overseen by a board that would include a public defender, an attorney from the Juvenile Defenders Association of Pennsylvania, a representative of the state's Interbranch Commission, a representative from the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, representatives of a law school and someone from the Pennsylvania Innocence Project at Temple University.
The governor and chief justice would appoint the members of the board.
The center, as a start, would provide continuing education programs for indigent defense lawyers and would focus on capital case defense skills and criminal defense and juvenile defense training. It would develop a training library.
Greenleaf, in an interview last week, said the Senate bill before his committee would be a start, and he explained why it was needed.
In the summer of 1963, just 50 years ago, the United States Supreme Court decided the landmark case Gideon V. Wainwright. The court ruled that criminal defendants, regardless of their economic status, were entitled to be represented by a lawyer.
It was a memorable case because Clarence Earl Gideon of Panama City, Fla., who was denied an attorney for his trial and sentenced to a five-year prison term for breaking into a pool room and stealing wine and money, sent a handwritten petition to the Supreme Court complaining that he was forced to represent himself in court.
That document was given to attorney Abe Fortas, soon to become a Supreme Court justice, to argue, and in an opinion, Justice Hugo Black wrote, "The right of one charged with crime may not have been deemed fundamental and essential to fair trial in some countries, but it is in ours."
Gideon was awarded a retrial and, being represented by an appointed attorney, he was found not guilty.
The standard for indigent defense was established by Gideon and public defender offices became the norm nationwide.
When it comes to Pennsylvania's application of Gideon, Greenleaf said, "We have not been doing a good job of doing that."
"This is a long-time issue with me," he said.
Greenleaf said that providing incompetent defense is costly because it means that cases are sent back to the counties for retrial. He said this is why the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Third Circuit Federal Court of Appeals in Philadelphia emphasize the need for a competent defense for the indigent.
"The state," he said, "should be involved in funding and training."
He said the Senate bill doesn't include all the recommendations in the Joint State Government Commission Report, but, he said, "we have to start somewhere."
'I fight for the Constitution'
In essence, indigent defense attorneys in Pennsylvania suffer from the Rodney Dangerfield "I get no respect" syndrome.
Blair County President Judge Jolene G. Kopriva said one time she asked a defendant, "Do you have an attorney?"
His reply: "No, I have a public defender."
The former Public Defender of Monroe County, Wiesalw T. Niemoczynski, who is proposing that the Pennsylvania Public Defenders Association receive state support to provide the education and other services suggested by Greenleaf, said in an April 2013 proposal he wrote for the association, "public defenders are often seen as clever villains rather than important public servants with a role in criminal justice co-equal to that of the district attorney.
"Defender resources are often a first target for cutting or reallocation. Asking for more resources to defend indigent persons accused of crime is not popular," he said.
Niemoczynski said the inadequacy of resources can be masked when it comes to routine cases, but he said, "More resource intensive cases, such as death penalty cases or those cases involving sophisticated, advanced scientific techniques, can readily overwhelm the capabilities of county-funded indigent defense."
Helen A. Stolinas, the full-time chief public defender of Bradford County and president of the Pennsylvania Public Defenders Association, said there is a "problem with parity" between the public defenders and the district attorneys.
The prosecution has more resources to draw upon, and prosecution attorneys are paid better.
And, because indigent defense is provided at the county level, each county's services are organized differently, Stolinas stated.
There are no statistics detailing the caseloads of public defenders, and even the definition of what constitutes a case is often debated. If one suspect is charged with three crimes, is that three cases or one case?
"It's always a challenge. It is a job that has its struggles. I feel it is an important job. If the Constitution is not enforced in our communities, then it is at risk in all the counties of the state," she said.
"The people we represent often don't have another voice, don't have the resources to defend themselves. It is a reward when you get a just result [for an indigent client]," she said.
Because each county's indigent defense system is set up differently, Court Administrator Janice Meadows was asked to explain how the service is provided in Blair County.
Blair has a public defender, DiFrancesco, three full-time assistants, Edward Ferguson, Imler and Burke, and four part-time assistants, Krol, Beyer, John F. Siford, and Michael S. Emerick.
Often the couty public defenders office can only represent one person in a group of multiple suspects who are arrested, at which point the court appoints "conflict counsel," who are paid $2,500-per-month by the county. They include Edward E. Zang, Douglas Keating, Warren T. Crilly, the law firm of Joel C. Seelye and Brian H. Grabill, and Mark A. Zearfaus.
Meadows said the county has a list of 29 other attorneys available for appointment to represent indigent clients.
One of those is Altoona Attorney Steven P. Passarello, a death-penalty qualified attorney who has for the past 15 years been appointed in many homicide cases.
He said an attorney is paid $2,000-$5,000 for a homicide case, but most of that money goes for expert witnesses.
Representing a defendant in a death penalty case means "you eat, sleep and drink these cases," Passarello said.
He said an attorney doesn't represent clients in these intense cases for the money.
"You have a duty to the court. Where the court is in a situation struggling to find representation, you have a duty to do so. … You just do them," he said.
Judge Kopriva said she thinks Blair County's public defender office "is one of the strongest I've seen in my 26 years."
She said that DiFrancesco, a former Cambria County Judge, is a good mentor to the younger attorneys.
"His organizational capacity has assisted us tremendously," she said.
He helped, for instance, to implement an expedited driving under the influence program, and, she said, "He understands the system, and he sees his role to be a very equal partner at the table."
DiFrancesco often says, "I am your public defender," meaning he is concerned not just with the protection of his own clients, but the protection of the Constitution for everyone in society, Kopriva explained.
Known as "Jimmy D." in the Blair County Courthouse, DiFrancesco, in reviewing his office, focused on some aspects of the Commission report.
The commission stated many public defenders' offices lack oversight, to which DiFrancesco said, "We don't have that problem here. I train my young lawyers. … They are held accountable."
He said his staff handles between 2,700 and 3,000 cases a year, which include mental health reviews, protection-from-abuse contempts, driving under the influence cases while under suspension – which carries a mandatory jail sentence – magisterial district court hearings at six magistrate offices, probation violation hearings and, on Fridays, criminal court guilty pleas.
In his opinion, local public defender clients "get really good service."
He believes in having good relations with the judges, the probation office and other court agencies.
"It's a system," he said.


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Fire broke out in two Barbour County homes between Thursday night and Friday morning, damaging one home and leaving another in ruins.
Philippi fire chief John Green said the first call came in at about 11:03 p.m. Thursday night, reporting that a trailer on Olive Hill had caught on fire. No injuries resulted in the fire, and no one was home at the time. Green said Philippi Volunteer Fire Department officials were on scene by 11:15 p.m., and the fire had already burned through the structure's roof.
"It'd been on fire for a while before anyone noticed it," Green said.
The structure was home to Junie Mayle of Philippi. Mayle had just recently built an additional room on the trailer and had purchased a generator that was destroyed in the fire while it still was in its shipping crate.
Mayle also owned a camper that was near the structure, but officials were able to put out the fire before it also claimed the vehicle. Green said Mayle told him he would be using the camper as a residence in the aftermath of the fire. Green estimated the damages incurred by the fire to be about $8,000. The owner did not have insurance on the home, Green said.
The Philippi Volunteer Fire Department responded with the help of the Belington Fire Department, Barbour County Emergency Medical Service and the Barbour County Sheriff's Department.
Green said the second fire occurred about an hour later in Union along County Route 30. The residence is owned by Tommy Phillips, but Darleen Welch is reportedly the resident at that address. The Philippi Volunteer Fire Department, Belington Volunteer Fire Department and the Barbour County Emergency Medical Service responded to the fire.
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Facts behind the zipper gardenOctober 22,2013
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Recently an article was published on a project that Im working on, the zipper garden. The article was heavy on style and light on substance. Im writing to provide more information.
n The zipper garden is a joint landscaping project by SPA and DEW Construction Corp., to be sited in the space between the new Barre City Place structure and SPA.
n The joint project originated when the permit application submitted by DEW included SPA property as a public walkway to reach the main entrance of their building.
n SPA submitted testimony to the DRB in September 2012, covering some of the issues relative to the public walkway, including public safety and privacy concerns. SPA received no response from the DRB.
n Working together, DEW and SPA devised a plan that would provide: a buffer space for the SPA Classroom (some classes use models), protection from winter weather issues (falling ice), and a creative landscape approach for downtown Barre.
n DEW, using a local landscape firm, developed an Overall Landscape Plan for the space between the two buildings and shared it with officials of the City of Barre.
n A communications snafu occurred and SPA was not advised about any need to submit an additional permit application for the joint landscape project. In addition, SPA has not received the documentation it has requested that would detail the applicability of current regulations relative to the need for a permit application for this type of project.
n The joint landscape project involves a sequence of activities in the space between the two buildings; the zipper garden is scheduled to be installed this week.
While I realize that controversy sells more newspapers, the joint landscape project is an exciting addition to downtown Barre, and deserved a more thoughtful article.
The reporter met with me and was shown the DEW Overall Landscape Plan for the joint landscape project, including the zipper garden (dated June 11, 2013). The reporter was also reminded about the testimony submitted by SPA to the DRB in September 2012 detailing concerns. The reporter did not describe the regulations for such projects and instead relied on apples to kiwi fruit comparisons.
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Pronunciation: zug-mê • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: The Greek correlate of the Latin word, syllepsis [si-lep-sis], a syntactic construction in which a single word governs two phrases in different ways, e.g. He in "He flew off the handle and straight to Rio."
Notes: Zeugma (syllepsis) usually indicates that one of the words or phrases involved is used normally while the other is in an idiom. "To lose one's temper" is idiomatic (nothing is actually lost) while the meaning of "to lose his hat" is straightforward. However, if you combine them, i.e. "He lost his hat and his temper almost simultaneously", the result is an amusing zeugmatic expression which is syntactically good but not so good semantically.
In Play: Let's look at an example of zeugma from Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens: "Miss Nipper shook her head and a tin canister, and began, unasked, to make the tea." Get the idea? Now let's see if we can do it: "Councilwoman Rankin would rather press flesh than clothes." You have probably already heard something similar to this, "He drove his car recklessly and his wife crazy." All these sentences suffer from inoperable zeugma.
Word History: From Greek zeugma "a bond," which devolved from earlier *yeug-, also the origin of English "yoke." Latin jugum "yoke" ([j] was pronounce [y]) is another descendent, one responsible for English jugular, conjugate, and subjugate. The same root became Sanskrit yugam "yoke" and yoga "union." English jostle is a former diminutive of joust, borrowed from Latin iuxtare "to be next to" from iuxta "nearby," another relative. The nasalized variant gave us English join, joint, junction and Spanish "junta," all originating in Latin iungere "to join." (Now let's take the bull by the horns and thank Mary Jane Stoneburg of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania for yoking us up with this Good Word.)
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That's the meaning that I learned. A famous Swedish example goes, "She spent her first year as a widow in grief and the second one in Åmål." (Åmål is a proverbially boring small town.)
But opinions differ. Some definitions are quite complicated, and rather exclude the Doctor's meaning. For an introduction, try this page.
But opinions differ. Some definitions are quite complicated, and rather exclude the Doctor's meaning. For an introduction, try this page.
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This post was originally under paronomasia but still applies here:
misterdoe wrote:An example from the Big Bang Theory: After Raj's sister Priya had put Sheldon in his place after something he said, Leonard responded with, "My girl's licensed to practice law in three countries and your face!" Even Sheldon had to take a moment to let that one sink in.
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If you've spent time studying history at all, you probably already know that depraved sex acts are to religion as rock star groupies from the '70s are to depraved sex acts. In other words, they go hand in hand. Or hand in some other body part, depending on who we're talking about.
And since we've already covered wanton debauchery mentioned in the Bible, we thought it only fair to take a look at the kinkiest stories from other cultures around the world.
5Loki Makes Horse-Rape Babies
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For most of us, if you mention Norse mythology, the name that comes to mind is Thor. Mention Thor, and we think of a blond, hammer-wielding behemoth who probably looks more comfortable on an '80s metal album cover than as an object of religious fervor.
There's no amount of studs that will make this less homoerotic.
Anyway, if you saw the movie based on the comic book adaptation of the character, you were also introduced to Thor's rival, Loki. And Loki got horse-raped.
The convoluted and frankly baffling legend goes like this: When it was time to build Valhalla, the gods hired out the job to a builder. They gave the guy a deadline -- it had to be done in three seasons or there'd be no payment. The builder said "Sho' nuff" and got right to work with the help of his magical super stallion Svaoilfari.
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Apparently the builder did the backbreaking labor while the horse dealt with the paperwork.
Anonymous construction worker and Superhorse were just about to finish ahead of deadline when the gods decided to stall him so they wouldn't have to pay. Clearly the way to do this would be to have Loki take the form of a mare to lure the builder's horse away from his work. Sexually.
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As opposed to, you know, shooting it. Murderally.
Most stories say Loki thought he could outrun the stallion. He could not. He got fucked by a horse. All to keep his buddies from owing some guy money. Oh, yeah, and he got pregnant. With an eight-legged horse.
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All the saints and grape juice in the world don't hold a candle to the murderhorse.
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The horse he gave birth to grew up to be Odin's horse. Imagine if you got raped by an animal, got pregnant and had a son. An eight-legged monster-horse son. And your friend saw him and said something like, "Hey could I have that? He could sleep at the foot of the bed!" That's the kind of weird relationship Loki and Odin had.
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Artist depictions get a little insane at this point.
Another of Loki's sons, a goddamn wolf, ultimately killed Odin. And his third son, a giant snake, killed Thor. These two sons have the same mom -- a giantess. The thing to take home here is that if it stood still long enough, Loki would fuck it.
The best gods are into bondage.
4Old Man Coyote Has a Giant Penis
Most mythologies have a trickster character of some kind. The Norse had Loki, indigenous Australians had the crow, the Greeks had Hermes and the Christians had that sneaky serpent. Native American folklore had its own swindler, Old Man Coyote. Whether OMC was inventing the universe or conniving to marry his own daughter, he's often motivated by one thing: titties.
One of Wile E. Coyote's less-celebrated endeavors was developing Acme-brand Titty-Cannons.
The Athapascan Indians were so convinced of the coyote's unbridled libido that they depicted him with a huge dick swung over his shoulder like some kind of horrible alternate universe Santa Claus. In other words, one cultural touchstone for this particular tribe was that they agreed attaching imaginary person-sized dicks to coyotes was totally reasonable.
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We're going to assume he's steering the boat with it.
But they weren't the only ones dreaming up sick sexual scenarios for their coyote neighbors. In one Nez Perce tribe story, a coyote sees some women across the river, "POUNDS HIS PENIS" to make it long enough to reach them, then sneak-sexes the oldest of the maidens. So she cuts off his penis. To this day, Coyote's schlong serves as a dam in the river.
"Jesus, Dave, you can't let your family live there. I'm calling social services."
In another story, Coyote cuts off the vulvas of some frogs, just so he could lay them on the ground and hump them whenever he felt like it.
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But none of this compares to the Crow story about a horny coyote and a woman with balls of steel. It goes like this: A pretty girl was at a dance, and as pretty girls often do, she requested all the men to pull their dicks out so she could look at them. The smallest one would win her hand in marriage. We're not sure why she wanted the smallest one; maybe she had a teeny tiny hoo-hah, or maybe she had some kind of reverse preference for dicks, or dickslexia, as it is often called.
Or maybe she was tired of tripping over dicks all the time.
In any event, Old Man Coyote traded his cock with a mouse's, and she was so impressed by his tiny wang she announced they would be married. It all fell through when everybody at the dance saw a mouse trying to drag a huge coyote dong around.


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Although it is a little scary that the 4 biggest contracts in all of baseball will be in the same uniform come opening day.
This move had to be made though. We needed a hitter to complement A-Rod as he was going to be left alone in that line up.
It also most likely ends the Manny to the Yankees rumors and i was kind of getting used to the idea of having Manny in the Bronx.


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This chapter was truly epic 5/5 hmph but now we must get back to madara or OP naruto in about 5 more chapters
Originally Posted by Photon
i wonder if now that kabuto has cut itachi in half in he can retake control of him with the talisman he was holding at the begging. i hope not i really want too see inzanami
He wont cuz itachi has already activated izanami (i think so)... plus, sasuke wouldnt let him
Who da hell said Izanami is a genijutsu? It could just be sacrificing your eye, in order to make the target change their mind about something. Say, if you wanted a bad guy to be a good guy, then maybe Izanami forces them to pick to be a good guy.
Itachi looks funny when sliced in half
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4/5. Good chapter, still wondering if that picture was his eye shutting after using izanami or if his body is deteriorating after Kabuto's blow.
Same here
Pretty good chapter.
I dont get why so many people are waiting to see kabuto get killed off. I like him now, a lot more then when he was oro's henchman
I dont get why he was worried at all about facing tobi if he didnt show him how edo tensei worked with his madara summon and all his other techniques
It seems like it's gonna be up to Sasuke now, looks like Kabuto placed that Edo-Tensei Mind Control Kunai on Itachi when he sliced him in half. Hopefully this is the case because it will give us a great deal of time to see what Sasuke is truely capable of now with his E.M.S. (And no I'm not a Sasuke fan boy)
izanagi - reality into illusion
izanami - illusion into reality
am i right?
4/5 I want 2 c IZANAMI
Mf like kabuto killing itachi. I hate it. Hey Sasuke, do some ****ing shit with your ems
Itachi cant die again:confused: , the brothers were finally reunited hmm...
in the next chapter it should be shown that the cutted itachi wos just a clone of itachi
And the real battle will just begin (kabutorochimaru VS uchicha brothers) ....:noc:
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Itachi cant die again:confused: , the brothers were finally reunited hmm...
in the next chapter it should be shown that the cutted itachi wos just a clone of itachi
And the real battle will just begin (kabutorochimaru VS uchicha brothers) ....:noc:
i want this to happen
a good chapter but i want to see sasuke and itachi winning or at least gaining control of the battle.
Welll i seee fan criying my kid kabuto is to op for then haha
Aaaa kishi tnk i want to see kabuto vs naruto and sasuke like kishi promest
Do you all remember the scroll Suigetsu found?! what might that have anything to do with what's going on right now? I'm rather curious.
Plot twist!!!!!
Izanami was used on sasuke!!! :d
So im hoping that Itachi was not actually cut by Kabuto. I would be very sad
want sasuke in action
its not good....its very good
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Harrie Black and James Kyte bow their heads in prayer at the Veteran's of Foreign Wars program, "A Tribute to Veterans," on Friday in commemoration of Veterans Day. (Freedom Newspapers: Leslie Spence)
By Tony Parra: Freedom Newspapers
For widows of the men who marched in the Bataan Death March, Friday brought back wonderful memories of their husbands, but also tearful remembrances.
The widows in attendance Rowena Preuit, Irene Wall, ImaGene McCormick and Joy Gardner were honored along with U.S. veterans at the Memorial Building in Portales on Friday morning.
"The Tribute to Veterans" program at the Memorial Building was one of two events honoring veterans with the other one being the "Veterans Day Appreciation" in front of the Veterans Memorial on the Eastern New Mexico University campus.
"This day brings back good memories, tearful memories," Gardner, who's husband H.R. Gardner was a Bataan Death March survivor and later passed away, said.
Preuit's husband, Louis Lane "Top" Preuit, was also a survivor of the Bataan Death March, who died later on.
"There's so much to be thankful for in this country," Preuit said. "This day brings back memories, most of them good."
Preuit said she appreciated the work people put into putting together the program and the recognition given to veterans.
Bobbie Victor was in attendance this year without her father, Homer Hobbs. Hobbs, a long-time Portales resident, passed away at the age of 85 in January at his home in Portales.
Hobbs was inducted into the U.S. Army in April of 1941. He was part of the 200th Coast Artillery and went to the Philippine Islands in the fall of that year. On April 9, 1942, he along with thousands of other American soldiers, was captured by the Japanese and marched to prison camps in the Bataan Death March. Approximately 70,000 Filipino and US soldiers, surrendered to the Japanese, under General Masaharu Homma, on April 9, 1942. Those soldiers were marched about 100 kilometers (63 miles) to a prison camp, according to a Bataan Death March encyclopedia Web site.
The prisoners of war were beaten randomly and denied food and water for several days. Many died along the way.
He was held captive in prison camps until September 1945. He had been awarded a Purple Heart, and eight Bronze Stars as well as other assorted medals and ribbons.
Hobbs was present at last year's Veterans Day commemoration. The survivors in attendance for this year's commemoration were Alvin Fails and I.R. Butler.
Victor said Friday brought back memories of when her father passed away in January.
"All of our family was very proud of him," Victor said.
Joe Blair, commander of Post 31, Portales Mayor Orlando Ortega and Col. John Posner, Commander of the 27th Fighter Wing of Cannon Air Force Base spoke about the appreciation they have for all veterans.
"I look forward to coming out here today and seeing distinguished members of the Bataan Death March," Posner said. "It's always a great honor to see you again. You always have a special place in our hearts. This is a very important day for us."
In another part of Portales, U.S. veterans were being appreciated for their sacrifices during the Veterans Day Appreciation program on the ENMU campus.
Donald "Doc" Elder, ENMU history professor, was the featured speaker for the ceremony. Joe Lafuente, a 22-year veteran who served in the Navy, informed the public about the Wall of Honor, which is a proposed wall with names and years of the military veterans who are current or former ENMU students and faculty members.
"We envision a wall, holding names of students and faculty who have given of themselves for the freedoms we enjoy," Lafuente said. "The generations of service to our country will not be forgotten."
Lilia Martinez took time to recognize Hispanic veterans who served the United States military, while Ashley Porter spoke about the contributions and sacrifices made by the African-Americans, known as the Buffalo Soldiers.
Utahna Livingston spoke to the crowd about the vital role the Navajo Code Talkers played during World War II using a code the Japanese could not figure out.


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Home List of Titles Quality-driven business policy specification and refinement for service-oriented systems
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- Title
- Quality-driven business policy specification and refinement for service-oriented systems
- Author(s)
- Phan, Tan; Han, Jun; Schneider, Jean-Guy; Wilson, Kirk D.
- Abstract
- Enterprise software systems play an essential role in an organization's business operation. Many business rules and regulations governing an organization's operation can be translated into quality requirements of the relevant software systems, such as security, availability, and manageability. For systems implemented using Web Services, the specification and management of these qualities in the form of Web Service policies are often complicated and difficult to be aligned with the initial business requirements. In this paper, we introduce the Hope (High-Level Objective-based Policy for Enterprises) framework that supports, in a systematic manner, the specification of quality-oriented policies at the business level and their refinement into policies at the system/service level. Quality-oriented business requirements are expressed in Hope as quality objectives applied to business entities and further refined or translated into system-level WS-Policy statements. The refinement relies on an application-specific business entity model and application-independent domain quality models. We demonstrate the approach with a case study involving policy specification and refinement in the security domain.
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- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2008, Sydney, Australia, 01-05 December 2008 / Athman Bouguettaya, Ingolf Krueger, Tiziana Margaria (eds.), Vol. 5364, pp. 5-21
- Publication year
- 2008
- Keyword(s)
- Business operations; High Level Objective based Policy for Enterprises; Hope framework; Organisations; Policy; Software systems
- Publisher
- Springer
- 0302-9743 (series ISSN)
- 9783540896470, 3540896473
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- Copyright © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008. The accepted manuscript of the paper is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive version of the publication is available at www.springer.com.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: Perfect Flame SLG Series Gas Grills
Units: About 663,000 in the United States and about 1,700 in Canada
Importer: L G Sourcing, Inc., of North Wilkesboro, N.C.
Manufacturer: Lucas Innovation Inc., of China
Hazard: The burners can deteriorate causing irregular flames and the lids of some models can catch fire, posing fire and burn hazards to the consumer.
Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received about 40 reports of fires from the burners deteriorating and about 23 reports of the lids catching fire. The firm is aware of one report of an eye injury requiring surgery and 21 incidents of minor burns to the hands, arms or face.
Description: The recalled grills are SLG series "Perfect Flame" brand outdoor propane or natural gas grills. The grills are stainless steel and painted black or gray metal. The model numbers affected by this recall are listed below. The model number can be found in the compartment under the cooking chamber. No other Perfect Flame model numbers are included in this recall.
Sold exclusively at: Lowe's retail outlets nationwide from September 2005 through May 2009 for between $200 and $550 (U.S.) and in Canada from December 2007 through May 2009 for between $200 and $250 (CAN).
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the product and contact L G Sourcing to receive free replacement burners and, depending on the model of the grill owned, a free replacement lid.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact the firm toll-free at (888) 840-9590 anytime, or visit www.lowes.com
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TV Dinner: Scamp!
Chris Manning has a dish he says is perfect for Mother's Day.
It's called shrimp scampi grenbloise a la creme.
It doesn't use many ingredients, is easy to put together and tastes as if you spent all day making it.
Click on the picture to see how it goes together.
The recipe is below.
Scampi Grenbloise a la Creme
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 pound peeled and deveined shrimp (21 to 25 count)
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon capers
- 1/4 cup white wine
- Juice of half a lemon
- Dash of Worcestershire sauce
- 2/3 cup heavy cream
Add the oil and butter to a 14-inch saute pan on medium heat. When butter is melted, add shrimp and season with salt and pepper. Cook until pink on both sides and cooked through. Remove shrimp to a serving dish.
Add the garlic to the pan and cook for 30 seconds. Add the wine, lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce and simmer until reduced by half. Add the heavy cream and cook until sauce begins to thicken.
Add the shrimp to the sauce and simmer about a minute.
Serve over rice or angel hair pasta
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New York Attorney General 'Probing' Prepaid Payroll Cards: Report (Update 1)
Updated from 10:40 a.m. with comments from Wal-Mart and additional information.
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is reportedly looking into several large employers in the state over their use of prepaid payroll cards to pay their hourly employees.
According to the New York Times , citing people "briefed in the matter," the attorney general's office has sent letters to 20 companies, including McDonald's
An email to the AG's office was not immediately returned.
McDonald's shares were up 0.5% to $100.42; Walgreens shares were falling 1.7% to $43.71: Wal-Mart shares were falling 0.5% to $75.04.
As more and more companies abandon paper checks in favor of the prepaid cards, a growing number of critics are questioning the fees generated from the use of the cards, ranging from 50 cents for a balance inquiry to $2.25 for an out-of-network ATM, which can take a bite out of workers' wages, the article says.
Many employees say they aren't given the choice between paper and plastic. And some employees, afraid to rock the boat at their employers are afraid to ask for another option, the article says.
New York Attorney General Schneiderman is looking into whether the companies have violated any state labor laws because under state law, "employees must give their explicit consent before companies can credit funds to a payroll card," the New York Times says.
Schneiderman is also investigating whether the employers have forced workers to accept payment via payroll cards in order to be hired, among other things.
"We are concerned about excessive or insufficiently disclosed fees which may unduly reduce employees' take home pay," Schneiderman wrote in the letter, according to New York Times .
Card issuers including Citigroup
"We offer our associates multiple ways to access their wages without fees," says Wal-Mart company spokesman Randy Hargrove. Employees can pay through direct deposit, paper checks or debit cards "through a program that we believe is one of the most competitive and employee-friendly in the marketplace."
Wal-Mart launched its debit card program in 2009. Hargrove notes that shortly after the launch, the company met with New York Department of Labor and "shared full details about the program."
Walgreens told New York Times the payroll card was one option among many; McDonald's declined to comment, while Wal-Mart also said that it allowed employees to choose how to receive wages.
Follow-up emails to McDonalds and Walgreens were not immediately answered.
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DEC seeks to thin deer herd in parts of Catskills
August 28, 2013 —
ALBANY, NY — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has increased Deer Management Permits (DMPs, or "doe tags") statewide by about 18% for the approaching deer hunting season.
Here in the Upper Delaware River Valley, DEC's Wildlife Management Unit (WMU) 3M, which includes parts of Sullivan, Orange and Ulster counties and covers nearly 750 square miles, is one of the state's WMUs that needs substantial deer population reduction.
A look at the table found at this website (www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/30409.html) shows that DEC hopes to issue 49,200 DMPs (or 65.7 DMPs per square mile), and the chance of a hunter's receiving two DMPs in this management area is high both for residents and non-residents.
See www.dec.ny.gov/permits/6094.html for information about hunting licenses in New York State.


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So it's been a week since DrupalCon, which means I'm kinda sorta caught up enough to write about it. Hooray!
As with DrupalCon Sunnyvale, I came away with one conclusion fixed in my mind: The Community is Drupal's greatest strength. Virtually everyone upholds a strong community and open source spirit, and will gladly talk to you for hours about subjects both on topic and off, with or without beer (free or otherwise).
But enough about how cool we are. On with the rundown.
T'was the night before DrupalCon and all through the city, not a hacker was typing, not even a key.
So it's a bit belated, but for those who haven't gotten a phone call from me, you get this instead. Yes, I have made it to Spain alive (and calling the US is expensive, dagnabbit). DrupalCon starts on Wednesday, so in the mean time I am doing my best to uplhold the image of the stupid American tourist.
I will spare you the daily blow by blow, as this isn't that sort of blog, but I will make a few comments on the wonders of international travel...
The schedule for DrupalCon Barcelona has been posted! Not surprisingly both of the sessions I submitted were accepted. If you're coming, stop on by! Now I guess I need to actually put together presentations for them...


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Ask-A-Pro Tennis Blog
We're going to be staying in a condo on Isle of Palms this next week with two of our sons, 16 and 10. The 16 year old starts high school season next week. The 10 year old plays mostly green dot ball. Both of them would like to get some tennis in during the week. We wondered about the cost of private lessons or the possibility of group programs. Thank you.
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We are happy you are coming down to Wild Dunes Resort and are interested in the tennis program for your sons. We have two junior clinics that run daily from 9-11am. They are technically based on age but we often divide them up by skill level. Junior Masters is slated for the 7-11yr olds and Future Stars is for the 12+ ages. We do offer private lessons that run $65 with a staff professional. The only constraint on private lessons are they have to be done at 8-9am or after 11am. Thanks so much and please do not hesitate to get in touch with me at the Tennis Center at 843.886.2113 with any questions or concerns. See you soon!
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...it caused great strain on your marriage?
I'm posting this at my DH's request, because he wants to see what like-minded moms would say about his concerns.
My DD is now 13 months old, and she still nurses a lot. Generally, she'll nurse once in the morning, at daycare drop-off (though sometimes she forgets), once in the afternoon at daycare pick-up, maybe once in the evening, and then right before bedtime. Then she'll nurse maybe 2-3 times during the night. That's a total of 6 or 7 times in a 24 hour period, though it can be more or less depending on teething or illness or fun toys to play with.
I WOH full-time, so my DD's in daycare. She eats solids there, and has a meal of solids at home in the evening. She has NEVER taken a bottle, though she'll take a sippy of EBM and soy milk at daycare, as well as a lot of water.
My DH believes that nursing past the age of one is detrimental to both myself and DD.
a) he doesn't believe that breastmilk has any nutritional value past the age of one ("it's just a drink").
b) he thinks that it makes it impossible for others to babysit DD since she likes the boob for comfort and she can't go to sleep without it.
c) he also feels that DD is very "clingy" and needy because I still nurse her
d) he feels that it greatly interferes with our sex life because I have a low drive
e) he says that the fact that I cosleep with DD so that DD can nurse at night makes me tired and depressed, which impacts our life in general, as well as my health
f) he says that I keep nursing DD to feel important
g) finally, he believes that I'll always have an excuse to keep nursing DD (i.e. teething, illness, comfort), much like he'll always have an excuse to keep smoking or drinking beer.
We're in counselling right now, and obviously there are many other issues at hand, but my DH put it this way: which is better, nursing DD until she decides to wean or having her father there in her life? I guess it's sort of a either/or situation for DH, and I think he feels so strongly about this that he think it'll destroy our marriage.
FTR, my parents have successfully babysat DD many times, and have both managed to put her to sleep without the boob (or sippy of EBM and soy milk worked fine). Her DCP also put her down for naps with a backrub. And my DSS has also managed to put DD down for a nap with his own method.
I'll withhold my own views here in order not to color people's responses to my post.
So, what do you think mamas? What would you do?