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All people deserve to live, work, and play in healthy environments. But low-income neighborhoods and communities of color often bear disproportionate health burdens from environmental pollution.
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Since 2011, EIP has had a program dedicated to helping residents and partner groups in Baltimore to track and reduce pollution in the city's most industrialized neighborhoods and to ensure that citizen voices are heard in environmental decision-making. Our program focuses on communities in South Baltimore and Dundalk, which are located close to large industrial areas and exposed to pollution from sources including industrial plants, oil terminals, and diesel trucks and trains.
Our goal is to assist these communities with obtaining critical information about pollution affecting their neighborhoods and to reduce risk as much as possible to human health and quality of life. To date, we have worked on pollution from trash incinerators, raw sewage in city streams, coal export terminals, coal-fired power plants, oil terminals seeking to transport potentially explosive Bakken crude oil by rail, and a port terminal built on chromium fill and permitted to discharge hexavalent chromium into nearby waters.
Neighborhood Air Quality and Health Data
Many industrialized communities, including those in Baltimore City, do not have information about the levels of air pollution or related health statistics in their neighborhoods. In Maryland, communities only gained access to information about asthma rates for geographic areas smaller than counties in September 2016. EIP works in Baltimore – and other cities like Houston, Texas – to make neighborhood-level air quality and health information accessible to the public.
EIP Curtis Bay Particulate Air Quality Monitoring Project
Between the spring of 2013 and the summer of 2015, EIP monitored for fine soot-like particles (PM2.5) in the Curtis Bay neighborhood in South Baltimore because the closest state-run monitor is over four miles from this community. PM2.5 is a pollutant associated with burning coal and other materials and it can cause premature death due to heart and respiratory disease. Watch our researchers, Troy and Kira, explain the project.
Air Quality Monitoring in Curtis Bay, Maryland from Environmental Integrity Project on Vimeo.
June 2012: Air Quality Profile of Curtis Bay, Brooklyn and Hawkins Point, Maryland
June 2016: Citizen Air Quality Monitoring in Curtis Bay, Baltimore
June 2016: PM2.5 Citizen Sampling Guide
Trash Incinerator Pollution
In 2010, a New York-based company called Energy Answers received a permit to build the largest trash-burning incinerator in the country next to the South Baltimore neighborhood of Curtis Bay. Trash incinerators emit more pollution per energy generated than coal plants for most pollutants, and incinerator emissions are especially high for toxics like lead, mercury, and dioxin. Baltimore is already home to one trash incinerator, operated by Wheelabrator Baltimore, L.P.
Reports, News, and Documents
October 2011: Waste-to-Energy: Dirtying Maryland's Air by Seeking a Quick Fix on Renewable Energy?
September 2012: Environmental groups and residents seek lower mercury, nitrogen oxide limits for proposed Baltimore incinerator
August 2015: EIP and eighteen environmental, health, faith, and social justice groups call on the Maryland Department of the Environment to find that Energy Answers' permit has expired due to a prolonged lapse in construction activities at the site.
February 2016: Baltimore Residents File Notice of Intent to Sue over Nation's Largest Trash Incinerator
March 2016: Maryland Department of the Environment finds that Energy Answers' Clean Air Act permits have expired due to the extensive lapse in construction at the incinerator site, agreeing with EIP's legal arguments.
June 2016: Maryland Public Service Commission revokes Energy Answers' Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN).
Crude Oil by Rail and Coal Exports
Shipments of fossil fuels and other products through port neighborhoods can pose risks to communities near transportation corridors. The shipment of crude oil by train increased in the U.S. starting in 2012, as the practice of fracking boosted oil production in North America. "Bakken crude" – which comes from the Bakken shale in North Dakota – is especially volatile and has caused several large explosions after trains carrying it have derailed.
One such explosion killed 47 people in 2013 in Lac-Megantic, Canada, and a February 2015 derailment in West Virginia burned a nearby home to the ground and caused an evacuation of the area. Baltimore City is already home to one terminal that ships crude oil by rail. A proposal for a second terminal was withdrawn after EIP challenged the permit. In addition, Baltimore is the second largest coal-exporting port on the East Coast, and coal dust can adversely affect residents living near terminals and rail lines that ship coal.
July 2013: Tighter Environmental Controls Sought for Curtis Bay Terminal, July 2013.
June 2014: Baltimore's Position in Crude Oil Market Grows as U.S. Confronts Concerns, June 2014.
June 2015: MD Denies Permit for Crude Oil by Rail through Baltimore
July 2016: Proposal for Oil Train Terminal in Fairfield Withdrawn
Public Records: After Court Battle, Maryland Releases Crude Oil Shipment Documents from CSX and Norfolk Southern. The released documents are available for download here.
For decades, Baltimore City's leaky, overloaded sewer system has routinely released high volumes of raw human waste into neighborhood streams, Baltimore Harbor, and the Chesapeake Bay. Raw sewage contains bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms that can cause illnesses such as cholera, dysentery, hepatitis, cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis. The risks are increased when untreated sewage backs up into basements in homes and other buildings. If left untreated, raw sewage microorganisms can persist in building materials for months and can cause toxic fungi and molds, which grow in moist environments, to develop. Hundreds of Baltimore City residents are affected each year by sewage backups. Responding to these backups is particularly difficult for low-income residents, who often have difficulty paying for cleanup, repairs to their basements, and replacement of personal property.
In 2002, the EPA, the state of Maryland, and Baltimore officials signed a consent decree requiring the city to fix the sewer lines and end all overflows and spills by January 1, 2016. But despite more than tripling water and sewer bills to pay for upgrades, in 2016, the city had only finished about a third of the required work and asked the courts for an extension until 2010.
EIP is working to push the city to provide clean-up services and financial assistance to homeowners whose properties have been damaged by sewage backups. And we are also collaborating with partners at Blue Water Baltimore to watchdog the continued work on system improvements and reporting of sewage overflows, to make sure that the city reports spills to the public as required by law.
Reports, Press Releases, and Documents
December 2015: Stopping the Flood Beneath Baltimore's Streets
June 2016: EPA Proposes 14 Year Extension for Baltimore Sewage Repairs
August 2016: EIP and Blue Water Baltimore Submit Comments and Petition to EPA and MDE on Proposed Revisions to Baltimore Sewage Consent Decree:
Drinking Water
It's difficult to imagine there are communities in the United States where it is unsafe to drink the tap water from municipal water systems. Yet in the wake of the lead contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan, the Environmental Integrity Project conducted investigations in Texas and California that found tens of thousands of residents – often lower-income neighborhoods and communities of color have been exposed for years to drinking water from public systems tainted by illegal levels of arsenic, a carcinogen. Worse yet, state and local officials often fail to warn the residents not to drink the contaminated water.
Our report on Texas drinking water, "Don't Drink the Water," released in March 2016, inspired more than 130 news articles and resulted in real government action to solve the problem. After U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo) read an article about EIP's report in the San Antonio Express News, he pushed the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Webb County to come up with $2 million to build a water filtration plant to solve the water contamination problem for the tiny town of Bruni, Texas — Bruni had more than eight times the legal limit of arsenic, the worst in the state.
After EIP released a report with similar findings in California, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee invited EIP Executive Director Eric Schaeffer to brief committee staff on ways to improve the safety of public drinking water systems across the U.S. And then U.S. Representatives Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) and Paul Tonko (D-NY) introduced a bill on September 23, 2016 called the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 2016 that that will improve public reporting requirements and increase federal investments in clean drinking water nationwide.
Reports and News
March 2016: 51,000 Texans Exposed to Toxic Levels of Arsenic in Drinking Water for more than a Decade
August 2016: Victory in EIP's Fight for Clean Drinking Water in Rural Texas
September 2016: Drinking Water for 55,000 Californians has Illegal Levels of Arsenic
September 2016: New Bill Would Help Protect Consumers from Contaminated Drinking Water


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|Peter Winston Hamady
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|Peter Winston Hamady
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This application is a Continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/549,642, filed on 14 Oct. 2006 and entitled "Precessional Device and Method", which is a Continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/428,761, filed 2 May 2003, entitled "Precessional Device and Method", and issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,181,987. Both applications are incorporated in their entirety by this reference.
The present invention relates to precessional devices. More specifically, the invention relates to a device and method which utilize precessional forces in a controlled manner.
Exercise Most existing precessional devices are passive devices that require a deflecting torque from an external source to generate a precessional torque. A common example of this type of precessional device is the gyroscopic heading indicator used for aviation navigation. The spinning rotor inside such a device does not generate precessional torque on its own, rather, it simply responds to the torque exerted on it (by the directional changes of the aircraft) by maintaining its original heading relative to the magnetic compass.
In contrast to this passive type of precessional device, U.S. Pat. No. 6,401,556 issued to Hamady on Jun. 11, 2002, herein incorporated by reference in its entirety, discloses a precessional device which generates a precessional torque without requiring an externally inputted deflecting torque. The disclosed device employs rotors which precess along a circular race or track. Axles run through each rotor making contact at either end with the surface of the tracks. The rotors' spin rate, ωs, is directly proportional to the rotational velocity, ωr, which is defined as the frequency of the rotors' precession around the track. The relationship between ωr and ωs is determined by the ratio of the diameter of the axle tips such that ωs=ωr dtrack/daxle The practical implication of this direct relationship is that the rotor speed (and resulting net precessional output torque) can not be increased without a corresponding increase in the oscillation frequency (Hz) of the net output torque. This limits the devices usefulness in applications such as resistive exercise where high resistance is often associated with slower movements and low resistance exercise is often associated with faster movements. Therefore, there remains a need for a device where ωs may be increased beyond the constraints defined by ωs=ωr dtrack/daxle, including but not limited to, a device where ωs and ωr may be controlled independently of each other.
One embodiment of the present invention is directed to an apparatus comprising: a rotor spinning at a rotor spin rate about a spin axis; an axle supporting the rotor, the axle having a first axle tip, a second axle tip, and a longitudinal axis aligned with the spin axis of the rotor; a rotatable circular race in rolling contact with the first axle tip and in rolling contact with the second axle tip at a point on the circular race diametrically opposite the first axle tip; a motor for rotating the circular race; and a controller for controlling the rotation of the circular race independently of the rotor spin rate.
Another embodiment of the present invention is directed to an apparatus comprising: a rotor spinning about a rotor axle at a rotor spin rate; a track assembly in rolling contact with the rotor axle during precessional movement of the rotor; and means for rotating the track assembly independently of the rotor spin rate.
Another embodiment of the present invention is directed to an apparatus comprising: a first rotor spinning about a first spin axis and rotating about a first rotational axis inside a first rotatable track assembly, the first track assembly having a first tract rotation axis coincident with the first rotational axis; a second rotor spinning about a second spin axis and rotating about a second rotational axis inside a second rotatable track assembly the second track assembly having a second tract rotation axis coincident with the second rotational axis; and a housing supporting the first rotatable track assembly and the second track assembly, wherein neither spin axes are parallel to the rotational axes.
Another embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method for modifying a resistance curve characterized by a periodicity, the resistance curve generated by a precessional device, the method comprising: providing a precessional device comprising a rotor spinning at a spin frequency capable of precessional rotation at a precessional frequency in a track assembly; and rotating the track assembly to modify the periodicity of the resistance curve.
The invention will be described by reference to the preferred and alternative embodiments thereof in conjunction with the drawings in which:
A locking solenoid 150, when engaged to a lock plate 155, keeps the position of the axle 115 fixed. The locking solenoid 150 and lock plate 155 act as a clutch such that when the locking solenoid 150 is engaged with the lock plate 155, the rotation of the motor driven track 120 provides a driving force to increase or decrease the spin rate of the rotor 110 about the rotor axis. Disengaging the locking solenoid 150 from the lock plate 155, allows the spinning rotor 110 to rotate, or precess, about the rotation axis of the rotatable track 120.
The frictional contact between the moving track 120 and the axle tips causes the flywheel 110 to rotate about the axle 115. In one embodiment, the rotor may accelerate to thousands of RPM as they are driven by the frictional contact between the flywheel axle tips and the moving track driven by the motor 130. No precessional torque is generated during the spin-up of the flywheel, however, because travel of the tips within the track 120 is prevented by the engaged locking solenoid 150.
At a preset rotor speed sufficient to generate a noticeable output torque, the locking solenoid 150 disengages and current to the motor 130 driving the tracks 120 is cut. When current is cut to the motor 130, the motor 130 acts as an electronic brake, braking the rotation of the tracks. In a preferred embodiment, the low transmission ratio from the tracks to the motor multiplies the braking effect of the motor thereby quickly stopping the rotating tracks. The rotational inertia of the spinning flywheel coupled by the frictional contact between axle tips and track causes the rotor assembly to precess around the track.
The precession of the rotor assembly 100 around the track 120 acts as a deflecting torque on the spinning flywheel thereby generating a precessional torque that is perpendicular to both the deflecting torque and the axis of rotation. In the embodiment shown in
When the user inputs a deflecting torque against the rotor-generated precessional torque, causing the track surfaces to push back on the axle tips, a second precessional torque is generated in the direction of the rotation of the rotor assemblies. The second precessional torque causes an acceleration of the rotor assemblies around their respective tracks. The increased rotational velocity around the track, and the corresponding increase in spin velocity, increases the rotor-generated precessional torque according to the formula τ=|ωsωr, where | is the rotational inertia of the rotors, ωs is the spin velocity of the rotors, and ωr is the rotational velocity of the rotor around the track.
The preferred range for spin velocity of the rotor depends on the size and mass of the rotor and on the desired torque output from the device. In some embodiments, the rotor spins at an operational angular speed of between approximately 2,000-15,000 RPM, preferably between 4,000-12,000 RPM, and most preferably between 8,000-10,000 RPM. In some embodiments, the precession of the axle tip in the circular race 120 is between about 0.25-2.0 Hz. Once operational speed has been reached, the rotational energy of the rotor assemblies drives the tracks' counter-rotation. The track motor continues to act as an electronic brake, siphoning energy out of the system to recharge the batteries.
As previously described, the torque sensed by a user interacting with the device is defined by: τ=|ωsωr, where | is the inertia of the rotors (a function of their shape and mass), ωs is the rotor spin velocity (about the axis of the rotor axle) and ωr is the rotational velocity of the rotor assemblies around the track. The rotational velocity, ωr, also referred to herein as the precessional velocity, determines the oscillation rate (Hz) of the net torque generated by the device.
In known precession devices, there is a fixed relationship, or ratio, between the rotor spin velocity, ωs, and the rotational velocity, ωr. The ratio, ωs/ωr, may be determined by assuming pure rolling of the axle tip on a fixed track surface, resulting in the relation, ωs/ωr=Dt/Da, where Dt is the diameter of the track and Da is the diameter of the axle tip. Both Dt and Da are fixed and therefore ωs/ωr is also fixed once Dt and Da are specified. Thus, in known precession devices, a given ωs corresponds to a given ωr An increase in ωs results in a proportional increase in ωr The user may increase ωr by manipulating the device at a higher tempo, which increases the deflecting torque on the rotors, causes an angular acceleration of the rotor assemblies around the track, and produces a higher torque output, τ. The fixed ratio of ωs/ωr, however, requires an increase in ωr. Therefore, as the output torque is increased, the oscillation rate of the output torque must also increase. For the expected range of output torques useful in exercise devices, the oscillation rate is usually higher than the 0.5-1.5 Hz oscillation rate preferred for resistive exercise.
In contrast to the fixed relation between the output torque and oscillation rate of the output torque of prior art devices, the present invention allows independent control of the output torque and oscillation rate regardless of the ratio of the track diameter to the axle diameter. The decoupling of the output torque from the oscillation rate of the present invention allows for a more compact precessional engine that provides sufficient resistive exercise over a wider range of resistive forces and oscillation rates.
In a preferred embodiment, the track 120 is rotatable and may be counter-rotated relative to the precession of the rotor. Counter-rotation of the track relative to the precession of the rotor allows for a greater effective rotor spin velocity with a smaller track diameter, allowing for more compact device designs than previously achievable. The relative precession rate, ωrp, is the rate of rotation of the rotor assembly relative to the track surface and is given by ωrp=ωr+ωt, where ωt is the rotation rate of the track. In the rotating track system, a relative precession rate of 4 Hz, for example, may be achieved as a combination of actual rotor assembly rotation relative to the device as a whole ωr, and the rate of track counter-rotation ωt. For example, if ωr is 1 Hz and ωt is 3 Hz, the relative precession rate, ωrp, is 4 Hz. The resulting output torque, τ, is 4 times greater than it would be if the track were stationary, since ωrp is 4 times greater than ωr. The user may therefore control torque output during operation by increasing or decreasing the track counter-rotation rate, ωt.
In some embodiments, the present invention allows for modification of the sinusoidal resistance curve 520 by computer control of the motorized rotor, precession, and track speed. The sinusoidal resistance curve may be modified by, for example, reducing the precession rate near the peak output, which flattens the force output and generates a more constant resistance force across each oscillation.
As an illustrative example, the track speed may be controlled on a real-time basis to accelerate track counter-rotation when the net torque curve nears its peak. If the rotor spin rate, ωs, is constant, the relative precession rate, ωrp, will also remain constant. As the track rotation rate, ωt, is increased, ωr must decrease in order to maintain constant ωrp. As ωr decreases, however, the output torque is also reduced thereby flattening the resistance curve.
Independent control of the track rotation may be used to quickly stop the precession of the rotor assembly if the user loses control of the device. A pressure sensor may be disposed on the handle of the device such that when the user breaks contact with the handle, a signal from the pressure sensor is transmitted to the CPU indicating loss of contact with the handle. In response to the receipt of the signal from the pressure sensor, the control program may disengage the motor from the track, thereby allowing the track to free-wheel. The free-wheeling track will accelerate to match the precessional rotation rate, ωrp, such that ωr quickly approaches zero. Alternatively, the motor may be engaged to counter-rotate the track such that the precession of the rotor assembly is offset by the counter-rotation of the track.
The configuration shown in
The use of separate motors to drive the rotor and track assemblies allows independent control of ωs and ωr thereby allowing independent control of the output torque and torque oscillation frequency. The advantage of a single motor driving both the rotor and track assemblies through a transmission is reduced cost while still allowing high output torque at a suitable oscillation frequency. For a rotatable track, the relation between ωs and ωr is given by ωs=ωr(1+G)(dtrack/daxle) where G is the ratio, G=ωt/ωr. For prior art systems having a non-rotatable track, ωt=0 and G=0. Counter-rotating the track results in a positive G thereby generating a higher output torque at the same oscillation frequency. Rotating the track in the same direction as the rotation of the spinning rotor results in a negative G thereby reducing the output torque at the same oscillation frequency.
Having thus described at least illustrative embodiments of the invention, various modifications and improvements will readily occur to those skilled in the art and are intended to be within the scope of the invention. Accordingly, the foregoing description is by way of example only and is not intended as limiting. The invention is limited only as defined in the following claims and the equivalents thereto.
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New York is one of a few states that disburses Medicaid funds through its counties. This system has caused New York to lose control of spending. David's reforms would include disbursing Medicaid funds from the State level, eliminating the need for counties to pay and wait for reimbursement. David would seek to authorize referral of all fraud cases to local district attorneys, reducing the timeframe for prosecuting cases. He would then let counties keep a percentage of recovered funds. David would seek to give counties access to a State Medicaid data warehouse to improve local efforts to uncover billing patterns that point to possible fraud or over-utilization of services. Lastly, he would create an automated system to alert county officials when residents become incarcerated or otherwise ineligible for Medicaid benefits. David will cut out fraud across all levels and departments and streamline processes to make government as efficient as possible.
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Falling into Ridiculous: An Essay on Love and Chemistry
Essay by: SipseyThistle
Status: Finished
Genre: Gay and Lesbian
You know that feeling you get when you connect with someone on such a deep level that you almost cannot stand it? You feel both balanced by that person, as well as set on fire. You feel embraced completely, understood fully, and yet anxious because of the hold they now have over you. If you do not know that feeling….I am sorry. If you do, well, I am sorry.
Why are we capable of such strong emotion? I really have no idea. I have a close relationship with my inner animal self and when I asked her why that attraction happens, she said- "because they smell good". I do not think it is that simple but I do wonder how much of it is out of our control due to chemical attraction and how much is of our own doing. What makes us decide to open ourselves to those people? What about them make us yearn to throw everything we have to the wind and run screaming after them? Surely, it's not just their pheromones. That seems like a fatally flawed plan for a being potentially capable of understanding quantum physics.
Our society calls this "falling in love". This term seems a little bland to me. It feels more like falling into Crazy, or maybe falling into Ridiculous. All of sudden, maybe despite your best intentions, you find yourself daydreaming about this person, checking your phone for messages, texts and missed calls, waiting anxiously for them to return to you and wanting to nurture them into a satiated stupor so that they can't, & don't want to leave you. You want to learn everything you can about them, look for their flaws so you can love them a little less, and bite them every single inch of them, all at the same time. That last part may just be me. I have an issue with oral fixation, but you get my point.
Taking care of people is such a huge part of my identity, it is impossible for me to separate the mother in me from the partner, the wife or the lover. Boundaries for love seem less clear in my head than what I witness in "normal" society. You would think that as a lesbian, I would have had to learn how to discern between friendship love and sexual love and maintain that boundary with much more intent that a straight woman. This is not the case. It is not my reality because well, you see, I have a type. There is a particular type of woman I fall for every time. I always have. I feel a need to mother most people and take care of those I love and I have amazing female friends who appreciate this attention from me but most of them are straight or more feminine lesbians. I can maintain boundaries with these women with very little effort because only a butch woman makes my heart flutter and my knees weak. That is where the falling into crazy becomes a problem.
When I was seven or eight, I met a woman my mother worked with & recognized in her the kind of person I could follow around and take care of, while trusting her to let me do that without abusing my intent. She was slightly butch and beautiful in a natural zero effort kind of way. She had great eyes, low-slung blue jeans, and a killer swagger. During our visits to her loft apartment filled with second hand furniture and motorcycle parts, she held me up in her strong arms so I could see the Birmingham skyline over the trees outside her building and she just laughed aloud when I once bit her just to see what she tasted like. As you can imagine, my mother was traumatized when I bit her friend but it was TOTALLY worth the spanking I got when we left. She always smelled slightly of incense, some clean smelling cologne and motor oil from the oily rag that was always present near her hands. I think she probably hit on my divorced, liberal, yet very heterosexual mom because our visits to her home abruptly stopped with no explanation and I was left with a visceral memory of the type of woman I would grow up to long for and lust after with a feverish need.
As a teen, I would recognize these women in public places and would do everything I could to garner their attention without being obvious to my peers or my family. I was still"straight" on the outside, even though I had known I was different since I was a kid. I never had crushes on girls I knew. I enjoyed being with them but the girls I would have crushed on did not hang out with my friends or me because they were too busy playing softball with their friends or working out after school. Since I have the athletic ability of an aardvark, you can see where I lacked opportunity to hang out with "my" kind of girl back then. Therefore, I would see these seemingly strong, capable women in public on occasion and I would feel my pulse quicken and my breath catch as I stared, and stared and stared. Sometimes they recognized me but most of the time I managed to be pretty covert in my instant attraction.
Fast forward a few years and you have the first of my four falling into crazy moments. She was butch. She was tough. Like, seriously tough. Like, paroled after 3 years in prison for felony robbery tough. She changed my oil, mowed my grass and was to this day, the most amazingly, disturbingly, most feral, best sex I ever had. She also bought my drugs, lied to me constantly and had a wife and two kids. As you can imagine, we were the very definition of dysfunctional. She was also soft, sweet, and smelled amazing and cried at sappy movies and once let me give her a bubble bath even though it obviously was not the kind of thing she was comfortable with at all.
The object of my second fall was the one I eventually married. She is more balanced, more educated, less temperamental and perfect for me in so many ways. She is strong enough to dress in a way that makes her most comfortable even though it is not socially normative for a woman to wear men's clothing. She wears her hair in a crew cut, gave birth to our first daughter despite the fact that she knew she would become an insulin dependant diabetic for the rest of her life is she got pregnant, and she steadfastly nurtured me through the pregnancy and birth of our second daughter even though it was the roughest time in the history of our 15 year relationship. She allows me to run our lives with the forward trajectory of a freight train and she is highly educated and has a great job. She knows why I refuse to wear linen or white shoes after Labor Day and she will try anything I ask of her at least once. She is also strong enough to maintain her place next to me through my third fall and my current crush.
The third woman I fell into Crazy with was over six feet tall, strong, beautiful, smart and…butch. Not overtly butch. Butch is not about clothes or style, although that is part of it. It is about strength to be who you are, strength to be non-conformist without making rebellion the main goal. This woman knew who she was and what power she had over me, yet she was cool enough to walk away rather than trash my relationship. She loved my wife as a close friend and had the strength to leave us both rather than ruin what we had. We both still miss her and she is a constant reminder to us of how fragile a relationship actually is.
My current crush, which has surpassed crush and gone straight to falling into crazy is but a mere child. She is eighteen and only barely beginning to understand that she is a lesbian. She is 6ft tall, strong enough to race in triathlons, and gives a massage so good it should possibly be illegal. She started as my wife's favorite student, and became my family's favorite person as soon as she graduated from High School. She fits into our home perfectly and as if she has been there forever. She tweaks just about every need my dirty little mind and my closely guarded heart have ever conceived. I spend just about every waking moment around her trying not to stare at her or bite her to see if she tastes exactly like what I expect. She smells of warm fur and pool water. She has silky hair, expressive eyes and a love of gangsta rap. She is both as naïve as a child and as full of wisdom as only a product of a dysfunctional family can be. It is a problem, people, but it is a problem my partner is somewhat aware of. She does not realize the depth of feeling I have for this little baby dyke but she knows enough to be watchful and aware while also giving me enough rope to hang myself. She trusts me that much. It is down right humbling to be in the presence of these two women and know how loved I am and how safe I feel, while trying with everything I have to maintain appropriate boundaries. It is also utterly exhausting.
This all brings us back to my point or my initial question. What is it that sets for us that ability to fall into Crazy with someone? Not everyone has a type. Not everyone is gender specific, race specific, ability specific or age specific. We have names for people who date or marry men and women much younger than themselves. We call them cougars or chicken hawks. Our society struggles to understand differently abled couples, and biracial couples still draw stares in my part of the country. Our community is fighting for marriage equality as we speak, and yet it seems that most people just want the freedom to love and fuck the adults they choose without fear of repercussion. For a woman like me, it is very hard to ignore my more base animal needs when those needs have always pointed me toward women who will cherish me, stand beside me and agree to play with me while helping me feel safe and powerful.
All of this said, I still have no concrete answer to my question. If any of you have any insight into this deep probing question, let me know. I promise not to bite. Probably. Unless you are butch and you ask me to.
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Wow, so well written, so honest, so sensually honest! I quite enjoyed reading your essay so thanks for sharing your story.
I don't have a solution to your probing question, but know you are not alone. I have myself been in a monogamous straight relationship for 15 years & married for 12, have 2 kids and during these 15 years have also fallen crazy into 4 people, 2 men and 2 women, all completely different in age, background, and looks, however only 2 of those 4 posed a real threat to my relationship, I should probably speak in present tense as the threat is very much ongoing with my 4th and final crush, but it is compelling and a first for me in terms of my sexuality as a woman falling for another...She is my coming of age and my coming out story as a not straight female, which although inconvenient, messy and fastidious, I do welcome for giving me awareness about my own sexual identity...I don't know how this will affect my family and my partner but I'm trying to do "the right" thing by keeping my partner "on the loop", and bringing him along in my journey of self discovery as much as I can, without wanting to share petty specifics or the depth of my feelings..If they became completely overwhelming and the affirmation that I'm actually gay instead of bisexual then I would have to face up to them and to my partner...I honestly don't know what else to do, life is a journey and we keep learning as we go along, sometimes in order to learn and grow as a person you have to meet these amazing people that cross your path at a particular time, and that either have to teach you a lesson, or be taught a lesson, and I want to think that if one is receptive, honest and true to one's deepest motives and openly shares them with those involved then less harm and pain should come from the experience....I don't know if my approach is right but I know my partner has been aware of all my 4 crazy crushes, as he is now aware of my last which could prove the most challenging yet, but I do feel exploring my same sex attraction is important for me as a woman, because what is the alternative, ignore it and stop developing as a person?
@Incognita- Thank you so much for your heartfelt response to my essay. I haven't responded but have thought of you often and would love to know how you are doing with your own journey and questions. Be well.
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MPs who arrived at work yesterday hoping to resume Gordon Brown's newly unveiled strategy of Eton-bashing class warfare were bound to be disappointed. For one thing the prime minister rarely sticks to a strategy for long. For another, his deputy, Harriet Harman, had seized control of the Commons dispatch box overnight.
That meant an inevitable switch from old Labour toff-thumping back to New Labour's default position: the gender war that Harman has waged for many years, so successfully in fact that many blokeish Tory MPs have now defected to her side. They are the feminist equivalent of Taliban commanders whose allegiance is flexible.
So during question time on women and equality, Peter Bone, Tory MP for Wellingborough, joined in expressions of alarm that the Met may close its people trafficking unit. So did Croydon Central's Andrew Pelling, who lost the party whip over allegations that he had assaulted his wife.
Hotwheels Hattie, as she is known to traffic cops all over southern Britain, was as magnificent as ever. The thinking woman's Jeremy Clarkson sped past a Lib Dem attempt to widen the discussion to forced labour and child trafficking without even stopping. Trafficking is about women and sexual exploitation, she made plain.
In a show of sisterly concern, her Tory shadow, Theresa May, weighed in to deplore university research "which downplayed the extent of trafficking" for prostitution and was cited in Nick Davies's Guardian report along the same lines. Not only did Harman agree, (citing a dreadful case in passing), she revved up. "I take this opportunity to deplore the reporting in the Guardian ... those involved should be ashamed of themselves."
Amid murmurs of "hear, hear", eyes swivelled reproachfully towards the Guardian's press gallery seat. It may have been a coincidence, but at that very moment a beatific smile crossed the face of the veteran class warrior Dennis Skinner. Could the ex-miner be quietly relishing a middle-class playground fight? Guardian and Sisterhood sticking hatpins in each other? Bliss!
It couldn't last and it didn't. When MPs turned to quiz Hotwheels about future parliamentary business, class warfare broke through again in the shape of the gangling Old Etonian Sir George Young. Would she join him in condemning Brown "for launching a class war against those with aristocratic connections who were educated at public school?" he asked slyly.
Sir George is a gentle giant. It is easy to imagine him being trafficked between older boys in return for buttered crumpets at Eton in the 50s. But he knows, who better, that Hotwheels went to a posh school too, and that her uncle was Lord Longford, later upgraded to Lord Porn, scourge of Soho, friend of Myra Hindley.
Hotwheels rose above it. She cited clause 1 of her equality bill, which aims to narrow the gap between rich and poor. It was the cue for bank-bashing Labour MPs to let rip against tax-avoiding Tories and the "blackmailing" RBS bank board, which is threatening to resign unless the taxpayer pays out obscene bonuses. Hotwheels put her foot on the accelerator and ran the bankers over.
Even the Lib Dems abandoned restraint. David Heath pretended to be sorry for Tory candidates with double-barrelled names forced by David Cameron to shorten them. Could this be because his opponent in Somerset is called Annunziata Rees-Mogg and Dave has asked her to shorten it to Nancy Mogg? It could, it could.
In all the excitement Speaker Bercow was moved to intervene and condemn "sedentary wittering" on the opposition benches. Quite right, said Hotwheels. "There is much too much sedentary wittering – it should be for me to witter at the dispatch box." And she did.
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Two boats were travelling to the island, I was on the first and it was dangerously crowded. The waves made the boat bob up and down and a couple of people looked slightly sea sick, I felt at home. Closing my eyes and breathing through my nose – once you got past the smell of fish – the salty sea smell filled my nostrils and you could almost imagine you were in Indonesia. Almost anyway. I was sat next to a girl with short blonde hair, her eyes were green and she looked relatively friendly.
"It is me or does this boat reek of fish?" she asked suddenly,
"It is a fishing boat," I reminded her, "but I've smelt worse smells."
"Do you reckon anyone will notice if I jump overboard and swim to shore?" she questionned,
"Yeah, I think they'll see," I grinned, "but I could try and create a diversion?" I offered. She smiled and looked back down into the green water,
"I can always dream, right?"
"I'm Zac,"
"I'm Rosie, you're super tanned – where are you from?"
"I grew up in Indonesia, my parents own a chain of hotels on most of the islands,"
"That is...I am so jealous!" she grinned, looking like an excited puppy, "So, I'm just stabbing in the dark here, you surf?"
"Guilty as charged," I held up my hands, she began to giggle helplessly. It was a high pitched sound that hurt my ear a little, some people's heads turned, including the bald girl's. "Shut up you little freak!" she called across the boat, Rosie stopped laughing and narrowed her eyes. Her eyebrows sunk and her lips tensed,
"What did you say?!" she yelled back,
"I said shut the..." before the baldy had finished her sentence Rosie was out of her seat and had launched herself at her.
"Say that one more time!" she threatened holding the bald girl's arms. The man with the clipboard and another man rushed forward and prised Rosie off, they took her into the driver's cabin. I sat back in dismay and shook my head, she had gone from hysterical laughter to crazy woman in less than two seconds.
"That's Rosie, she's bipolar," said a guy with short blonde hair and green eyes, "she's my twin."
"That explains a few things..." I muttered,
"I'm Adam,"
"Zac," I replied, my mind was still focused on Rosie's sudden outburst, I'd never been exposed to people like this and it was starting to freak me out. What if one of them stabbed me during my sleep?
We climbed out the boat, grabbed our luggage from a smaller boat which had somehow beaten us to the island and I followed the group into the dining cabin. Taking a seat I noticed Cayden with some girl, he'd already ditched me for some fun and despite the fact we'd spent less than four minutes talking I felt betrayed. I noticed Rosie in the corner of my eye, she took out some pills and swallowed them before taking a seat at the side.
I was put in cabin 7 with a cabin leader called Will Something. I followed a group of ten boys out the doors and back into the forested area where wooden cabins were scattered around. I noticed Adam was in the group but I couldn't see Cayden anywhere. After a short three minute walk we pulled up to the cabin with a number 7 on the door, Will – a tall, muscular, shaven headed man – turned to us and smiled.
"The name's Will, this summer I'm going to help you guys fulfil your potential and hopefully we'll have fun along the way! I'm pretty easygoing but I have a couple of rules, no talking after midnight, no smoking and no girls in the cabin. Before I let you in, I am going to search your luggage for anything illegal or any cigarettes, please also hand me your mobiles which you'll be allowed at allocated times throughout your stay."
We stood around for at least ten minutes as Will searched us, a few guys had tried to smuggle in vodka and one guy had brought some pills which looked rather suspicious. On my turn Will checked my pockets and opened my case, he rustled through my collection of board shorts and T-shirts before letting me in. As I entered the cabin I noticed a couple had already bagged beds, I found one in the corner near the window which looked out over a picturesque cove. After throwing my clothes into a few drawers and pushing my flip-flops and climbing shoes under the bed I turned to see some guy staring at me, he had thick glasses and tufty hair which flopped onto his face. He seemed memorised by my watch, without saying anything he reached out and brought it closer to his face. I jerked my hand away and he glared at me,
"No!" he cried, this guy was seriously weirding me out. Will came over and steered the guy away,
"That's Fred, he's got severe autism which can often drive him to do things which we normally perceive as socially unacceptable, please humour him. He's really into clocks and trains." He whispered quietly before turning round and blowing his whistle.
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"I think that whatever happened, whatever was said, must have been with certain emotions. I have forgotten it. I think even Congress workers will forget it and we will move ahead," Chavan said.
After resigning from the state government on July 21, Rane had criticised the Chief minister for "slow decision-making, lack of control over the administration" and other issues which affected the Congress' showing in the recent Lok Sabha elections.
Rane, who joined Congress in 2005 after quitting the Shiv Sena, had said the Congress leadership had reneged on the promise to make him Chief Minister within six months of joining the party. He announced yesterday that he was withdrawing the resignation and would campaign actively for Congress in the Assembly elections due in October.
"The Lok Sabha poll results were unexpected, specially in Sindhudurg (where Rane's son lost his bid to retain the seat). It was shocking for Rane and all of us," Chavan said in a television interview.
"It is not easy for anyone to recover from such a shock. That's why, out of desperation, he sent in his resignation letter to me when the results were being announced," he said.
"I later told Rane when he came to meet me that I won't accept your resignation as you are under stress. He was annoyed and was analysing who helped and who did not (in the Sindhudurg poll campaign)," the Chief Minister said.
"After some days -- may be he met some people in between -- he again came to me and handed over another resignation letter. We had a lengthy talk. I told him I will convey his feelings to the Congress leadership," he said.
"In the meanwhile, I feel he must have thought seriously about (his) future and accordingly has decided to withdraw the resignation. I welcome that," Chavan said.
Rane yesterday withdrew his resignation as minister, terming his decision as an "adjustment" after being assured he will be given "due respect".
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As soon as I step in I'm swept of my feet. Ryan kisses me passionately and I hear Ebony pretend to gag.
I force myself to pull back and I take a deep breath. "HOW DARE YOU" I shout.
"Didn't succed mate" Falcon says laughing. "See in the living room in a bit"
They all depart and I fold my arms across my chest angrily.
"I'm sorry" he muttters.
"Not good enough" I say pouting, probably was a bad idea because Ryan kisses me suddenly and my back hits the wall. I wrap my arms around his neck while his are on my hips.
"You really are irrestistable when you're angry" Ryan whispers against my lips.
"And you cheat" I say back. He pulls back to look at me.
"How so?" he asks.
"You kiss me making me lose my train of thought" I say passing a hair through his hair. "Now we should go and tell the others what happened during the tracking"
He nods and takes my hand and we walk into the main area and sit down. I sit happily on his lap.
"I think Spark should explain it since our version was complicated" Ryan says.
"Go Ahead" Falcon says and I see his arm around Rai's shoulder protectively.
"Okay, well a group of power baddies popped up on radar the day after we started using our powers.
Problem is these Baddies are Angel's so there immortal but they can actually be killed by magic or one of us if delivered a fatal wound directly through the heart...... this only happens to Angels who sort of practice black magic.
Like stuff like shadows, deadly powers, abilty to bring fear to your mind... that sort of stuff. But the Coucil new the area they were in which was close to use but they couldn't pin point it.
So they needed one of us to try hoping that they wouldn't be able to block us" I explain calmly and Rai and Ebony stay silent. Well Ebony trys to speak but Ryan glares at her cutting her short.
"So did it work?" Ebony asks.
"No, she almost got in when they detected her.... Falcon had to telepathically pull her back to reality with mind control" Ryan says.
"But why are they after us?" Rai asks looking at Falcon.
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Summer 2016
It's a new season and the garden is going through changes. This years summer crew of five Bota, Bea, Cyril, Francisca, and Sho are maintaining the garden, but are putting much of their efforts in towards the development of the Monmouth College Farm. This summer we are working hard toward providing more fresh produce for our community. You can find us every Friday out at the Monmouth's Farmers' Market at 122 W Boston Ave, Monmouth, IL.
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Featured in the Chicago Tribune
We are very excited about the recent article published about the project by the Chicago Tribune. Check out the article and a nice video here.Thanks to Jodi Cohen and Chris Sweda for the pleasant visit, as well as the lovely article and footage.
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A quick video about the garden, featuring the House residents of Spring 2013, thanks to a visit from WQAD!
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Chapter 2: Harbinger
I knew this day was coming, the day that I would leave the man that was like my father. He had kept my secret safe, and now –where I was going - my secret would be all my own once again.
My hair was in an array of golden curls, straw everywhere. I had slept in the stall with Zal last night. Master Kento walked in this morning, his green eyes were bloodshot and cheeks puffy. I knew that he had been crying, but I also knew that he would never admit to it. He pulled up a stool and sat eye level with me in Zal's stall. No words were said. That's how it had always been with Kento and I; we knew what the other was going to say through these deep expressions.
There was no time to cry out of my violet eyes, because I had my country to save. Heading to Orva was just another step on the journey to protecting my people.
I felt a kind of déjà vu as Kento put his small, wrinkled hand over mine. This was four years ago all over again. How could I leave the man who protected me? How could I leave when someone could find out my secret? They would kill him, not even caring that he had won the world cup.
Then Kento turned to me, with tears in his sharp eyes, "You are the greatest person I have ever known," he whispered. "Believe you can do this. Life is like the gate before the race, it has to open before you can fight to win. The gate is open now Maia. Be brave my little one."
I set my head on his knee as he pulled the straw out of my hair. "I feel like I am getting closer to it Master. The feeling you get when you know that something that will change everything is about to happen. The excitement, you almost feel feverish." My cheeks were warm and flushed, and in my head I felt something pass through the web of my brain. It was so quick I missed it. I tilted my head up, rotating it left to right, hoping the feeling would come back.
"Is there anything the matter little one?" Kento asked his hand fiddling nervously through his beard.
"I thought I felt something. I must be nervous." I flashed a quick, full-wat smile. Kento nodded and walked away. He knew better than to believe the face I put on. Though, today he would leave me alone for it.
It is strange saying goodbye to the people you love most in the world. There are not enough words to articulate the physicality or mentality of the process. To put it simply, there is only an emptiness in your heart and stomach, and the feeling that you will never feel full or grounded again.
I shook the thoughts away, going through my morning routine of getting Zal ready. I was fine adorning myself in Orva's colors of purple and gold. It was quite the change from the Hunter Line's green that I had become so accustomed to. I braided my hair with gold ribbons, and braided Zal's mane with purple ribbons so that we would complete each other.
In a naïve sense I was fine with my secret being my own again. The death of my parents had eaten at my heart since I had escaped Ugary. This secret, my birth country, it was not even half as heavy as that.
I took my bags and led Zal out to the fields where the riders picked us up for transport. My heart was happy for but a moment wondering about the dragon I would be assigned to. Each 18 year old is assigned a rider to transport them to different spots on Eldoris throughout the duration of their internship. I would not only be racing in Hunter Line now, but under Orva's colors in the North and the South. There were hundreds of thousands of men who were riders from both areas. For the reason that I was under an equestrian internship in Orva, the South, even though the horses are born and breed in Hunter Line, the North, I could receive a dragon rider from either area.
I was blowing air onto Zal's face when I felt a chill across the base of my back. I looked up to see Kento stopped in his tracks looking through me – past me to the rider who had landed. In my innate curiosity I turned around quickly. My eyes met the pair of crystal clear blue that were several feet from me. The emptiness in my heart and stomach quickly turned to dread as both organs felt like they were doing flips inside me.
Because standing in front of me was the prince of the Northern Heights. My rider was Aiden, the son of the most powerful man on Eldoris, King Liam. The same man who wanted to destroy Ugary. Aiden would be my rider for the next four years.
Kento pushed me forward. I shook my head, realizing Zal and I were stopped in our tracks. "Brave," Kento offered with a smile that showed is dimples. The word would have been hopeful if it had not been drowned out by the sound of my own beating heart.


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