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There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Watanuki was sweeping the front walk when she came. He'd been sweeping for awhile now. Afterwards he'd work on raking, at least that was the plan. She kind of ruined the plan.
"Good Afternoon." She had said, surprising him. Watanuki hadn't noticed her come up. His eyes swung to her face and he nearly gasped.
She was pretty. All delicate features and clean lines. Her long dark hair had been curled into soft waves that framed her face well. The bruise that spread over her cheekbone and up her temple was livid and ugly and menacingly purple on her pale, otherwise perfect, skin.
"Hello." Watanuki greeted her, trying not to stare at the mark on her face. "What can I do for you?" He thought she must be plagued by particularly nasty spirits for them to leave that on her.
"I'm not entirely sure. Somehow I just found myself here." The smiled she cocked at him was full of sly humor.
"Ah, that's normal." Watanuki sighed.
"Welcome." A new voice drawled from behind them. Watanuki turned to see Yuuko in the door, smirk clear on her face but clothes oddly casual, for her anyway.
"Thank you." The woman answered in amusement. Her clothes were not casual. Her clothes were the height of fashion.
"Come in. We'll need tea Watanuki." Yuuko instructed, turning to lead the way.
As the woman passed him Watanuki noticed a large bruise on her arm, shaped like a hand, and as she walked up the stairs he noticed another, older bruise on her leg.
"What is your name?" Yuuko asked her as Watanuki sat out the tea service. They had been be sitting silently in one of the Western rooms. There was a third seat at the table, Watanuki took it to mean he should sit.
"Tsuruko." She answered in her modulated voice. Watanuki got the distinct impression that everything about this woman was completely modulated. This was a woman who thrived on control.
"Crane child." Yuuko nodded. "Pretty."
"Thank you, although I suppose my mother deserves the credit."
"Tell me, where did you get those bruises?" Yuuko asked as Watanuki poured the tea. For a minute Tsuruko said nothing, and the silence stretched awkwardly.
"You know you can love someone, and love them, and convince yourself they love you too, and doing that, you find you can forgive them almost anything. So, that first time they hit you, and they apologize of course, you think, oh it was just the once. But it's not. Then come the lies, but it's not him lying, it's you. He doesn't really mean it, he can change, it's not his fault, it's stress, it's the way he was brought up, you make a thousand excuses for him while he makes none. But one day you realize something's got to change, because if it doesn't, you might die." Tsuruko unwound a scarf around her neck, revealing a disgusting pair of bruises in the shape of hands, ringing her throat like a morbid necklace.
But that wasn't all there was.
A thick, twisting rope of black feelings and murderous thoughts lay wrapped around her neck like a noose, a heavy length of it running over her shoulder, down the floor and out the door. Watanuki had no doubt it led to that man who beat her. The pure malice of it choked him and he struggled to breath through his mouth.
"Is he okay?" Tsuruko asked as Watanuki sat hunched in his chair, hand over mouth, gagging.
"The darkness and taint your lover has left on you disturbs him." Yuuko reach over the table and set the scarf back around Tsuruko's neck. "I'm afraid it's rather bad. If something doesn't change, you will die, and soon."
"I already knew that." Tsuruko told the witch, as though it were a fact of the same caliber that the sky is blue. The sky is blue, the sun is bright, my lover will kill me. "I just don't know what to do about it yet."
"Why not make a wish?" Yuuko invited.
"A wish?" Tsuruko laughed. He laugh was as carefully controlled as her voice. "What sort of good would wishing do?"
"This is a shop, where any wish one might make will be granted, provided you can make the proper payment of course." Yuuko explained to her, carefully refilling her cup of tea.
"Of course." Tsuruko agreed.
"How about it? You could wish to change him. Make him love you. Make him treat you right." Yuuko enticed, all sharp smile and dangerous eyes. This was her hunting face, Watanuki thought.
"He already loves me." Tsuruko told her.
"He hits you!" Watanuki injected. "If he loved you-"
"He does love me!" Tsuruko interrupted him, voice breaking halfway through, that carefully modulated tone cracking. "He does, but sometimes love isn't enough. Sometimes people have love, but they don't know what to do with it." She swung her head back to Yuuko. "What would changing him do? You can't force others to change. Don't you think I tried? He doesn't have to change! I do!"
"You want to change?" Yuuko spoke calmly, even as Tsuruko heaved breaths in front of her.
"I want... I need to change." Tsuruko's voice returned to it's elegant tone. "But I don't know how."
"It's not very hard." Yuuko explained to her, getting out of her chair to retrieve something from the sideboard. "All you have to do is throw away everything you are." She sat a pair of heavy steel shears on the table. "Starting with this lovely hair." Yuuko lifted a waist length lock in her hand.
Tsuruko's fingers flew to her hair, running through the heavy texture of it.
"It took me twelve years to grow it out." Tsuruko said in thought.
"Mmm, well, it's up to you." Yuuko dropped Tsuruko's hair a returned to her seat. She lifted her teacup to her lips and calmly sipped it. Minutes crawled by silently as the battered woman stared at the scissors and Watanuki stared at her.
Slowly, almost hesitantly, she reached for the scissors. She tilted her head to the side, eyes closed, facing Watanuki, as she gather the thickness of her hair in a hand. Suddenly her eyes flew open and she closed the scissors over her hair with a single, loud snip, no hesitancy at all.
She sat the hair and scissors on the table before snatching her expensive purse off the floor. She dumped the contents of it on the table, snatching her wallet she emptied it of identification, subway card, and two thousand yen, leaving the rest inside before tossing it on top of state of the art cell phone, designer make-up, and leather appointment book. She stood from her chair and began pulling her costly silk shirt off her body. Watanuki quickly slapped a hand over his eyes.
"You don't have to do that Watanuki-kun." Yuuko told him, smile in her voice. Watanuki slowly lowered his hand. Tsuruko stood in front of him dressed in a camisole and bike shorts, her skirt in a pool around her feet.
"Thank you." She told Yuuko. And Watanuki directed his attention to her face. There was a light in her eyes that hadn't been there before. It was small, and it flickered and sputtured as though it might vanish at any moment, but it was there. She left, leaving her fifty thousand yen imported shoes at the door.
"Take everything to the store room." Yuuko directed Watanuki as she wrapped a ribbon around the mass of hair to form a long tail. "Be careful with this."
"I don't understand. What just happened?" Watanuki blinked in the direction Tsuruko had left so quickly in.
"She just decided she needed a change is all." Yuuko told him with a smile. "On your way back bring some gin. This tea needs gin."
16 months later:
He was playing on the front lawn with Maru and Moro when a woman stepped through the gateway.
She was pretty, and smiling brightly. Her short black hair framed her delicate features well and Watanuki wondered how long it had taken her to get such a natural golden tan. She wore a large Red Sox baseball jersey and black bike shorts with sleek black running shoes on her feet.
"Hello!" She cheered at him, giving a small wave.
"Hello. What can I do for you?" Watanuki asked her.
"You don't remember me do you?" She laughed, it was loud and brilliant and unrestrained.
"...No. I'm sorry." Watanuki admitted.
"Hmm, some time ago I came here with bruises, and left with most of my hair, and clothing, missing." She give him a flirty wink, rocking back on her heels. "I have to admit, my memory of the whole ordeal is patchy, but I remember you."
"That's not surprising." Watanuki sighed. It seemed very few could remember Yuuko.
"I just wanted to thank you." She twisted a ring around her finger as she talked.
"For what? We did very little." Watanuki disagreed.
"True. I learned nothing that day I didn't already know, but sometimes it's important to have it thrown in your face." She smiled again as she ran a hand through her short hair.
"You seem so different." Watanuki stated, and it was true, she was completely different.
"I had to leave everything I was behind and become a new person. I had to change everything." Tsuruko explained spreading her arms wide to demonstrate.
"Do you ever miss her?" Watanuki asked. He didn't have to explain who. Did she ever miss the person she used to be.
"Sometimes, yeah. I spent me whole life creating her after all. I loved who I used to be and it's a little sad that she's dead now. But, the dead always leave their mark on the living. Who I was became in part who I am."
"That's good." Watanuki told her and meant it. "But why did you decide to drop by now."
"I met someone, and he adores me." Tsuruko laughed again, a joyful sound. "He thinks I hung the moon and stars."
"Do you love him?" Watanuki asked.
"No, not yet, I don't think so anyway. But I could, and that's important." She smiled. "But he's leaving for America, to play baseball for the Red Sox in Boston. He asked me to go with him. And I said yes."
"Do you still love the other man? The one who hit you?"
"I do. I will always love him. But that doesn't mean I can't love someone else. The human heart is really amazing you know, it can love one person more without loving another person less." She bounced slightly on her toes as she talked.
"I see." Watanuki said even though he didn't. Tsuruko just laughed at him.
"You don't, but that's okay. I gotta go now. My flight leaves in three hours, and I gotta get to Narita before Keisuke freaks out and thinks I've changed my mind. He still doesn't quite believe I said yes." She shook her head and rolled her eyes, as if lamenting the stupidity of her lover.
"I hope you are happy." Watanuki told her sincerely as she turned to walk out the gate.
"I will be." She told him. "Because I finally realized I deserve to be." She looked back at him them, a fierce light burning her eyes, a roaring inferno that had once been a flicking flame. "We all deserve to be happy."
"Yes." Watanuki agreed softly as she walked away, throwing a jaunty wave over her shoulder in farewell. "We all deserve to be happy."
Author's Note: Oh my god, could it actually be a happy ending? Holy crap. Anyways this is my second favorite of the stories. Let the Rain Sing You a Lullaby is my favorite.
Title from a song by The Smiths. An awesome song by an awesome band.


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Post-communist Ukraine has long struggled to reform its judicial system and rid itself of pervasive and systematic petty and serious corruption—one of the many poisonous legacies experienced by all post-Soviet states. I recently interviewed Oleksandr Marusiak, an articulate and serious 25-year old from Chernivtsi in western Ukraine, who is part of a new breed of young people being recruited to reform and modernize the country's police and its policing methods. As he described his on-the-ground experience in the recruiting and training process, I couldn't help but be hopeful that, despite the continuing problems in Kyiv, some reforms just might be taking hold in the provinces. Here's why:
MOTYL: How did you apply for and get the job?
MARUSIAK: At the beginning of December 2015, I responded to an online "call for applications" for the post of instructor of patrol police officers. The Chernivtsi Province Department of National Police (a regional agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) was looking for experts in 22 disciplines. Instructors were supposed to have a variety of qualifications, such as teaching experience, strong communication and organizational skills, and the like. The announcement asked that applicants submit their resume to a special electronic address and note their preferred area of instruction. I chose "Defining Criminal Offences and the Bases of Criminal Procedures," inasmuch as I had received a Master's degree in criminal law from the Odessa University Law School in 2013.
About a week later, I was invited for an interview with three officials, two from Kyiv (both members of the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program Office in Ukraine—ICITAP), one, a defense attorney, from Chernivtsi. During the interview they asked about my work experience, teaching methods, and knowledge of the topic. Among the specific questions they asked were: "How would you explain the importance of understanding your subject area to police officers? How does theft differ from robbery? With which crimes must police officers be most familiar?" That same day, they called again and told me I had gotten the job and that I should attend a general methodological training session for instructors.
In all, I attended three such mandatory training sessions. At the first one, several Kyiv instructors who had already worked with police officers shared their experience with us, emphasizing the pedagogical differences between training sessions and university courses (which I had already taught) and highlighting the kinds of problems they encountered in teaching police officers and the solutions they developed. The other two sessions were specialized, focusing on the subjects we had chosen. All of us received electronic versions of all the instructional materials, as well as slides.
MOTYL: Were the training sessions useful? Were the materials presented objectively and professionally?
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MOTYL: Did you develop your own curriculum?
MARUSIAK: No, it had already been prepared by the ICITAP experts. My class consisted of 11 meetings and an examination. Each session was structured in the following manner. We'd start with a quiz on the previous day's materials and with an analysis of their answers to the questions. Then we'd move on to a practical analysis of their homework, sometimes as a whole class, sometimes in teams. We'd end by discussing new material, which would then serve as the subject of the next session's quiz.
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MARUSIAK: The course lasted three weeks. Of course, this is a rather short time for understanding such a complicated subject, but it was enough for the students to get a rudimentary understanding of common criminal offences and legal procedures. Students took the course seriously, as they recognized that their future work directly depended on what they learned. Moreover, they understood that questions of self-defense and the legal liability of police officers are also a matter of criminal law in Ukraine.
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How do u add custom fields to the 'Portal Designer Content' so that I can have custom helpdesk requests (such as a 'New User Request' Page)?
Sep 23, 2010 at 6:59 UTC
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Yes, you can, just create them and selet ticket, see the links:
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Yes, you can, just create them and selet ticket, see the links:
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Great - thanks for that. I never noticed that, because those option are hidden while it is running a network scan, and since this take so long to run - It's never been displayed while on the occasions which I looked at this page.
Stop the network scan, and refresh your page (Settings > Advanced & International Options). Then you can config you own custom fields for you custom helpdesk pages :)
I have now created all the custom attributes i want (to create a separate new user request page).
However, the attributes only show up on the "New Ticket" Content Block. I cannot edit this block to improve the poor default layout of the attributes, or add additional info labels next to them.
How can I add these custom attributes to a New Content Block, so that I can have to seperate HelpDesk request forms (1 for generic IT requests, the other one for New User requests)??? Both will require a Submit button!
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Currently that level of customization is not available. Since the fields you are adding relate to the tickets within Spiceworks, we keep all of that information together. If this is something you'd like to see in the future, please submit a feature request.


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moderator Good afternoon and welcome to today's live webchat with Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat Party candidate for London mayor!
Southwark has been Simon's home for over 25 years and a big part of his bid to run the capital involves reducing crime and making London safe for all of us.
Hi Simon - thanks very much for joining us today. How's the campaign goin
simon_hughes Thank you very much for inviting me, we think it's going very well. We always said we would start in third place, overtake the Conservatives by the last few days and then make it clear to everybody that the only alternative to Mr Blair's Mayor being elected is Simon Hughes. We're still on course for that and I detect that former Labour voters and former Tory voters and many former Livingstone votes are coming our way.
We visited every one of the 32 boroughs and the city each on several occasions and they response is equally positive in Croydon as it is in Kensington and Chelsea.
wwwendy Hello Simon. What is the first thing you'd do as Mayor?
simon_hughes Bring in somebody from the world of business to go through the books to cut out the waste which has added to council tax doubling in 4 years and recruit somebody from MI5 to become the anti-terrorist chief working with the Mayor to ensure London's security against terrorism.
staylers Crime seems to be big on your agenda. What are your plans to tackle it?
simon_hughes Crime and security are at the top of my agenda Staylers. To prevent and detect and bring down crime I have agreed with the Met commissioner that if elected I will expect the Met to move 4 people to police each ward in every borough in London before the end of this year, led by somebody on a 4 year contract, and reporting back at local public meetings every 3 months.
By the end of my turn every ward would have 8 people policing, as the local community police service, guaranteed to stay in that area and not be taken away for other London duties. The times they worked would be agreed with the local community and the public would all know their names, their faces and their phone numbers which I have insisted will be answered.
Each railway and underground and bus station will also have a police presence at rush hours and after dark on the principle that the police should come to where the people are not the people have to look for where the police are. And there must be guarantees of taxis or legitimate licensed mini-cabs to take people home from tube or railway stations whenever they arrive. Last quick point, if every street in London had a clear street sign and good lighting then our city would be very much safer too.
moderator This question was emailed in earlier:
Hi Simon, I've been reading about your plans to Axe the Tax. Can you explain how replacing Council Tax with a Local Income Tax will help?
simon_hughes Start with first principles. Local income tax would be collected by the same people who collect income tax so you have one bureaucracy not two.
Second, local income tax like national income tax is based on your income and therefore on your ability to pay not on the value of your property which may be unrelated to your income or your wealth. About 6 out of 7 London households have an income of about £40,000 or less a year, and for people in these homes local income tax would therefore cost them less than council tax.
The more people who vote for me in June and in particular if I win the stronger the message to government that council tax must go and be replaced by a fairer system. Government is reviewing the options at this very moment for local finance so votes for the party most clearly opposed to council tax on June 10th could not come at a better time.
moderator Logicman wants to know:
How are London cabbies supposed to get through the West End if Oxford Street is pedestrianised? Have you seen how busy Wigmore Street is already?
simon_hughes I'm announcing my full plans for Oxford St this very afternoon and will be very happy logicman to send you and any other interested people the details. They are on the website - www.Simon4mayor.org.uk - even as we speak...
The summary answer is that all cabbies will be able to cross Oxford St by all the north south roads to pick up and drop off and when the Marble Arch to Tottenham Court Road tram is in place by 2011 then the congestion caused by all the buses will be replaced by a much less polluting and congesting but equally convenient form of transport.
Unlike the outgoing Mayor I'm also committed to proceeding by stages and learning from the consultation as I go. So pedestrianisation is planned to be for Sundays only in year 1, then if successful for weekends in year 2 and all week round by then end of the 4 year period. One last difference under the new regime will be that a representative of the black cab trade will have a seat on the Board of Transport for London where these things are worked through, whereas they have no place at the table at the moment.
maijahaas I can't see how Ken has improved transport in London. What would you do differently?
simon_hughes Let's start with pedestrians. For those of us who walk the priority is good pavements with minimum street furniture and very clear signs which include walking time to well known points of reference.
For cyclists the priorities are safe and secure cycle parks at railway and tube stations, cycle lanes that are completed and don't stop in the middle of nowhere and wherever possible cycle lanes separated from the main motorised traffic to maximise safety.
As for buses, I will consult each autumn on how we use our resources to provide the routes and services when and where people want them. The biggest immediate priority are more services in the suburbs around London rather than from the middle to the outskirts.
For the tube the priorities are to reduce congestion are morning rush hour by introducing an early bird cheap fare for journeys finishing by 7.30 and bringing forward the track and signaling maintenance works by agreeing one week close downs during the summer school holidays to allow maximum work to be done to improve reliability rather than the couple of hours a night which are snatched at the moment...
Tubes and I hope trains would also run late until 2 am on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. For trains the priorities are to integrate rail services with other London transport services, to make sure all stations have somebody physically present who is responsible for safety all the time and to have police and other officials on late night trains.
Linking all public transport there will be a common information system to tell you not just what's happening on your bus route but on the tubes and trains as well - and vice versa...
Lastly, and with apologies for a long answer, but transport is one of Londoner's two biggest subjects of concern, for cars I would keep the congestion charge for the present zone but make it easier to use, put clocks at all the entrances to the zone, and allow a five minute leeway; negotiate a common system across all of London for telling people what the parking rules were and a common system for people with disabilities to park across the boroughs.
Pause for big breath! The rest of my policies are also on the website. But the motto for my transport policy is 'London must be an easier city to live in and travel around'
larry_lamb Do you think ordinary Londoners should subsidise the 2012 Olympics if they are awarded to the capital? How is someone living in Croydon, for example, going to benefit?
simon_hughes I'm a supporter of the Olympics and it is the present Mayor who negotiated the financial arrangements that govern us at the moment. After June 10th as Mayor I would enthusiastically work to win the bid for London next year.
If we succeed then of course I would initiate discussions to see if we could gain contributions from two other places not yet included in the calculation - the private sector and central government.
If this succeeded then we might be able to reduce the council tax supplement across Greater London. But the Olympic games work from the premise that they're awarded to a city, which in our case is Greater London, and therefore it is right that all Greater London should be involved and make their contribution.
I have however already made clear to the Olympic bid team that I would expect each borough to see one sports capital project and one sports revenue project left as a legacy, and no reduction in other sporting funding or activity.
I am convinced that with a sports fanatic as Mayor we can really boost sport at all levels not just for the super athletic.
georgeee The headlines today are filled with plans to ban smoking in London. What do you think of that plan?
simon_hughes All my instincts are against making one more thing illegal. So I cannot envisage wanting to implement a London-wide smoking ban.
I'm not a smoker myself, and appreciate the harm done by smoking and passive smoking. I believe however that the way forward is by continuing and more effective health education - and this applies to combating obesity as well - and I would divert much of the money currently spent on Mayoral publicity to health education for Londoners.
Of course if a particular pub or bar wish to ban smoking in all or parts of its premises it should be allowed to do so. And of course we should not allow smoking in schools or hospitals or other places where there are clearly vulnerable people who have no choice but to be there.
aggenda How do you propose to regenerate London's slowing tourism industry?
simon_hughes This is a big priority which I would adopt enthusiastically. I see the Mayor's role as being the Ambassador for London around the UK, Europe and the wider world.
I would promote events in London for all our communities - the four British national days, and special occasion events annually for the big communities from India, Pakistan and other parts of Asia; from Africa; from Latin America and all those other parts of the world that are represented in London in large numbers. I would initiate a rotating London borough of culture series to bring tourists to all of our boroughs not just the central ones. I would bring in welcome desks for people to welcome visitors at our airports and rail stations. And I would not make public pronouncements that were offensive about other heads of state in a way that the current Mayor has sadly done on a couple of occasions.
Winning tourists and business is better done by being nice to people rather than rude to them.
moderator Why do you think Londoners aren't more interested in the elections?
simon_hughes Honestly because up til today many people may still think that Mr Livingstone will be re-elected and therefore the election is not of much interest. But under the first and second choice system which is uniquely different in this election, Mr Livingstone is not even now set to win in round one and could be beaten by someone who could overtake him once second preferences are taken into account.
Without being immodest all the evidence is that only yours truly can collect enough first and second choices to replace the old Mayor with a new Mayor. If in the last week the public realise that Mr Livingstone can be beaten interest will go up, turn up will go up and happily excitement will go up too. Which means that people should watch this space, realise that there are big differences in style and substance and I hope not only definitely turn up to vote but vote for somebody who will be able to unite Londoners whatever part of our great city they come from and whoever they are.
moderator I'm afraid that's all we have time for. Thanks to everyone - especially Simon for answering our questions today. Best of luck on June 10th!
simon_hughes Thank you very much. Keep exciting the electorate and keep smiling
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That was eight months ago. Georgiou is not only getting treatment for her son, but is now helping others. Officials say another goal of the program is to streamline the paperwork involved in order to provide more face to face help for families. It's estimated that about 186,000 children in Harris County have mental illness. 10,000 of the 16,000 children in juvenile probation department are diagnosed with mental illnesses. Capella Tucker, Houston Public Radio News.


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Gone But Not Forgotten…
Many of you are wondering where we are… Nobody died, She's still with The New Guy, He's still a cynic… We're taking a brief hiatus, but I promise we'll be back in some form (a book, perhaps?)! We miss you too, and thank you for being our loyal readers!
And we may be taking a break, but we still have a closet full of SST-HST special prizes! Drop us a line…
A Long Winter's Nap
A Near Miss
Oh, how time flies. Exactly one year ago I was heading out of town for my yearly two-week work trip. This time last year I was just a few months into my relationship with The New Guy, and I was really worried about us being apart for so long after seeing each other incessantly for the previous weeks. I remember actually thinking he'd be over me by the time I got home. It's funny to look back now and think about how stressed out I had been about us missing each other too much, and having such a distance (literally) between us so early in our relationship.
Because now – it's exactly the opposite.
When he dropped me off at the airport, I could almost detect a bit of giddiness in his voice. He barely hugged me, gave me a quick peck and said, "See ya!" and got back into his car and drove away. I've talked to him a few times since I left, and for the first time in the two-plus months since I've moved in, he seems downright happy. And it made me a little sad.
Because I think I'm happy too. Happy might not be the right word. Relieved is probably a better choice.
I'm staying at a co-worker/friend's house, and she's been out of town for the first few days of my trip. Walking into an empty house was like a huge weight lifting off my shoulders. I unpacked slowly, rather than the frenetic packing (and resulting tantrum) that occurred at home before I left. I took a long bath and didn't worry about a comment of how much water I use every night filling up the tub. I read a magazine cover to cover, got into bed with all the lights off because no one was reading next to me, and I slept – all night.
When I woke up the next morning with no one next to me, I didn't have a twinge of loneliness, not even a pang. I had no cats to feed, no throw-up or pee to clean up, no dishes to put away, and no vacuuming to do. Hey wait, shouldn't I miss him?
Then again, I also had no morning kiss, no coffee in bed, and no one in the shower with me (okay, that part I'll admit I kind of liked).
Now he's watching football, working in the garage, puttering in the backyard and going on mountain bike rides. These are all the things he does normally, but I can't help but think that now he sounds like he's on a fabulous vacation – from me.
Everyone here is so excited for me. They keep coming in to look at my ring, wanting to know every detail of my wedding plans – of which there are none.
When I got home last year, we almost broke up. It was mostly my exhaustion speaking combined with a little cold feet for the first trimester of a new relationship. We ended up picking up where we left off, having an amazing Christmas, and well, you know the rest.
This time when I get home, we leave 4 days later for a two-week trip with his mom.
So I guess the question is, will I want to go home?
Miss-ile Launch
I have a news flash for you; it's OK to look forward to some time away from the one you love. In fact it's honest, even downright healthy to do so. I have another news flash for you; what you're NOT supposed to be is downright giddy with joy and anticipation at the prospect of being apart from each other. When it comes to a supposedly healthy and happy couple spending time apart, there's a line of demarcation that is acceptable anywhere between melancholy and mildly excited by the idea. You are way, WAY on the other side of this line.
I was on the basketball team in high school. One night we played the number one team in the state. We weren't ranked in the top one hundred. The game started and they scored ten points in about a minute and a half. Our coach called timeout. In the huddle he kept pleading, "Don't panic! Don't panic!" We took the court again and they scored another ten points, almost as quickly. We called timeout again. The huddle was very quiet. Not even our coach knew what to say. I decided to break the deathly silence by asking, "Hey Coach… is it OK if we panic now?" We still lost, but we ended up making a real game of it. Who knows what would've happened if we'd gotten off to a strong start?
I'm NOT saying you're down twenty points in the first quarter and I DO think it's too early to panic. But I don't think this is the fairy tale you've been dreaming of all these years and it begs the same question I've been asking myself for so long now – are you more suited for, and even destined to be alone?
Let's start with the facts: Over half of all marriages end in divorce. Your parent's marriage was a joke. Most of your married friends are miserable. Oh, and let's not forget… you gave up your entire life to be in this marriage-to-be. These are not reassuring pieces of information, but they cannot, and should not be ignored.
The trouble with fact is that it sometimes gets in the way of a good romance. So maybe you moved a little too fast… you were digging the guy, and he was digging you just as much. And maybe you were forced by circumstance to sacrifice a lot more of your life than he did… you had a decision to make and you made it. The last time I checked, you guys were still engaged. Maybe it's time you focused a little more on the good stuff that got you here, instead of the downright inconvenience of having to alter your bathroom habits or allow an end table to be placed in the wrong corner of the living room. He's a good man and you love each other and there's no way I would say or write this if it wasn't certain of it. On the other hand, what if those things simply aren't enough to make it work? I don't have an answer for that any more than the next guy, despite the fact that it happens all of the time.
Hey, nobody said it was going to be easy… if it was every couple you know would be happy.
So Far Away
When I moved 60 miles away, I knew my life as I knew it would change drastically. Never mind the fact that I can't seem to find the bank when it's right on the corner of my street, or that I can't get used to my new nosy neighbors and a strip mall on every block.
It's the change in all of my relationships that I'm referring to. I knew that I would see my family less, I knew that I would see my friends less, and I knew those relationships would be challenged in ways that they had not been challenged before. What I didn't know was that I would feel like I was being punished for finally falling in love.
And for the most part, the person making me feel that way is you.
For the past ten years of our friendship, I have been primarily single. I have been in and out of a few semi-long term relationships but one thing has been constant: when there's been heartbreak, you've always been there to help me pick myself up, dust myself off, and get back on the horse. You championed me; "That guy was an asshole – you can do so much better!" "You don't need that guy! He's a douche bag!" We'd immediately get back to our routine of cocktails on Mondays or Thursdays, and for the past few years, our blog. We'd cackle over our love blunders (mostly mine), and it seemed our friendship withstood anyone who came and went in our lives.
But this year was different. This year there was The New Guy. And everything's changed. Our friendship wasn't affected when you got divorced. It wasn't affected when you were crazy about a new girl – or two. It wasn't affected when I dated Extra Large Jerk, or Salt and Pepper, or even my ex.
But now it's real. I'm engaged and I moved 60 miles away. And now you're gone.
I know my new domesticated life is boring to you. But I'm still me. I will still have my crazy stories; my skeletons will still be constantly falling out of the closet, I promise. I can still talk on the phone, and I still have a car.
So I'm asking for me (and for our readers), and especially for our future as best friends, please put whatever bullshit is going on with you aside and be my friend again. I promise to start talking more about sex (when I start having it more), and I promise to continue to tell more stories that remind you of the old me.
For example, did I ever tell you about the guy I dated who worked at the grocery store? The holidays always remind me of him, because one time when I was loading the bags into my car, he held a sprig of mistletoe over my head and laid a big ol' smooch on me. We dated for a while, but it was 1990 and I honestly can't remember what happened next.
Well, he just wrote to me on Facebook.
So are you back in?
You've Got A Friend
You are completely and utterly wrong … I think.
I had this girlfriend once, and I mean she was a girl who was really just a friend. She worked for me. She was (and still is, I presume) 12 years younger than me, but she was as smart and funny and cute as any woman twice her age. Sometimes, I wanted to sleep with her, but I never tried, and mostly I really enjoyed this unique friendship I had with her. For a while, she was as important to me as any friend I had and I really thought we'd be friends forever. At the peak of our friendship, she met a guy and eventually married him. They now have three kids and live about half an hour from me. I haven't seen or spoken to her since the day she got married. I have no idea why, but I know that I regret it. I also know that I have no intention of letting that happen to us.
To me, relationships, friendships, affairs and the like all have a shelf life of sorts. For most, this shelf life is finite and the end result an enjoyable, but limited result. Only the special ones last a lifetime, or even close to it. But it goes back to what I've always said about relationships of any kind… circumstances have WAY MORE to do with them than we usually realize.
For example, which part of moving 60 miles away to live with the man you're going to marry did you think was going to have zero impact on our friendship: the 60 miles part or the getting married part? You remember me, don't you? I'm the guy with three kids who you already lived twenty miles away from – in the other direction. I'm the friend that you saw consistently, but hardly often, due to what they like to call in show business as, "scheduling conflicts." Or put it another way… if you'd stayed put and I'd moved 60 miles in the other direction, would we have seen each other any more than we have now?
And now that I'm rolling… yeah, TNG and I are all good and yeah, he knows we're only friends and yeah, even under the surface he's as comfortable with our friendship as if I were female, or gay. No one is happier about this than me. But do you really think that means I'm calling you up at 10:30 at night because I'm drunk, or because I'm pissed at my girl or because you left a weepy message on my voicemail three hours earlier? The truth is I'm not. If it's an emergency, I promise not to hesitate. Other than that, the conversation will have to wait until tomorrow… or next week. I'm sure it would be OK with you. But I won't do it out of respect to him. Call it old-fashioned if you want… I prefer to call it old school.
As far as being "in?" Are you kidding me? I wouldn't miss the next twenty or so years of your life for season tickets to the Boston Celtics. Well, unless they were floor seats. Just kidding. You're stuck with me.
All Signs Point To Yes
When it comes to relationships, there have been all kinds of famous and not-so-famous sayings with regards to "how you know" if someone is right for you.
Meet his family… If he's good to his mother, then he's the guy for you.
Okay, so I've met TNG's family. I definitely know he's good to his mother. And he's definitely good to me… after his mother, of course.
Get sick. If he takes care of you, then he's the guy for you.
I got deathly ill and he failed that one miserably. But then I fell face first on a mountain and he passed the yogurt and ice cream test with flying colors. Then I got sick again and he failed miserably again. I guess 80 stitches in your face deserves more attention than a bad cold. Plus, I have to admit I do get sick a lot.
Go on a trip. If you travel well together, then he's the guy for you.
We've been on a few trips together. Yes, my nickname is "Five Stars" and his is "Two Stars," but I've managed to come down a few notches in the last year and he seems to be enjoying his rise in hotel thread counts. Aside from my occasional abandonment into First Class, we seem to mesh well on the road and have lots of stamps in our passports to look forward to.
Live together. If you don't kill each other in the first six months, then he's the guy for you.
The initial road to the end of Month 1 was rocky at best, and I certainly shed a lot of tears, but Month 2 has proven to be a little bit drier. Except for my current cold.
Have a garage sale together. If he lets you sell all his shit, then he's the guy for you.
I made that one up. But let me tell you… that should absolutely be on the list. Last weekend TNG and I had the yard sales to end all yard sales. Being the obsessive person I am, I of course spent the two weeks prior pulling every piece of junk from my boxes and his entire house (mostly his house), organizing them into sections in the living room, pricing every item with a sticker, advertising online and making signs. Each night, he stood in front of the piles of his past looking longingly at his rusted red-painted floor lamp from 1972.
On the morning of the sale, I woke him at 4am. He looked at me like I was crazy. I said, "You think I'm crazy, but they'll be here in an hour." Sure enough, just as I had dragged the last stack of plaid flannel bedding out to the table (neatly tied and tagged of course), headlights flooded our driveway. The early birds (or bottom feeders as TNG angrily called them after they offered $1 for his beloved lamp) had their own flashlights, and they were ready to buy. One guy even wore a headlamp.
"How about fifty cents for this?" asked one lady who held up TNG's poster of a Gargoyle. I saw the words "That's not for sale" forming in a bubble above his head so I rushed over to her and whispered a price behind my hand. We haggled with our hands over our mouths like the pitcher and catcher in the World Series, and soon she walked off with the poster that used to hang prominently over the couch.
At the end of the day, as we watched the last piece drive away, TNG looked at me with panic. "I think we sold too much!" he said. He spent the next few days wandering through the house saying, "Wow, it looks a lot nicer in here. I guess that garage sale was a good thing after all."
"Except," he said, "I shouldn't have sold that lamp."
Gotta go. I've got cookies baking in my new oven.
Sell Out
Now I'm really depressed.
It's not you, it's me… really. And since I'm not breaking up with you, you can believe I'm telling the truth. I'm not a dreamer and I'm not an idiot. I am fully aware that meeting the family and surviving a garage sale together are moments as common and integral to the success of a relationship as a good sex life and the ability to laugh at each other without wanting to kill each other. I've read enough magazine articles and surfed enough Internet to know that what you are saying about the potential and viability of a relationship is defined way more by the small and dull moments than it could ever be by the grandiose and sweeping moments. I know this in my head, but in my heart I still have a hard time making the connection. In my heart, I still fear that this is a truth I may never be able to reconcile.
Allow me to state my shallow case by addressing the menu you have so painstakingly laid out before us, one item at a time:
Meet his family… If he's good to his mother, then he's the guy for you.
If a guy isn't good to his mother, chances are a woman with a pulse will know it by the second date. A guy who treats his mother poorly will usually reveal himself by then. A guy who treats his mother poorly is either, A) a complete asshole, B)… well, he's just a complete asshole. Passing this test is like passing finger painting in kindergarten… It's truly nothing to brag about.
Get sick. If he takes care of you, then he's the guy for you.
The first time I took this test, I received a D. My girlfriend was home alone with a fever of 103 and I played both ends of a softball doubleheader, followed by a post-game drinking session with my teammates. I've gotten much better. I've taken this test about 400 times since then and I've worked my way up to a C minus. My solution is this: don't get sick.
Go on a trip. If you travel well together, then he's the guy for you.
Isn't this kind of easy? Let's see… cocktails on the plane, hotel sex, great weather, hotel sex, no work, hotel sex, white sand beaches, hotel sex, gourmet meals, conscience-free shopping and yes, hotel sex. How tough is this? If I care enough about a woman to even consider taking a trip with her, the rest is gravy to me.
Live together. If you don't kill each other in the first six months, then he's the guy for you.
I'm glad your "living together" engine is running more smoothly of late. I'm happy you've moved beyond a menu of daily meltdowns and buckets of tears and you know I wish you nothing but complete and utter giddiness in your new life. Still, there's four months to go before you reach the end of this mythical, six-month probation period… But let's not pop the champagne just yet, champ.
Have a garage sale together. If he lets you sell all his shit, then he's the guy for you.
………………… Oh sorry, I fell asleep on my keyboard for a second.
Call me crazy, but I'd like to think that it takes a lot more than the absence of a domestic felony at a garage sale to help a woman decide if the man of her dreams remains the man of her dreams. But, whatever floats your boat.
Oh, and congrats on the brand-new oven your collective possessions bought you… and the fact that you slept in the same bed that night.
One Night Only
I know that all I've been doing is whining and complaining about my new life, so you'll be pleased to know that my past has come back to spice things up a bit…
Hey (She Said), I know it's been a few years since we've talked (had a one-night stand), but I was in your neighborhood and thought you might like to get a drink (have a one-night stand again). Anyway, if it works on your end (if you want to sleep with me and go another two years without talking), let me know. ~ Joe Schmo
I'm only shocked it didn't happen sooner. Having been single for so long prior to meeting TNG, I had a feeling that situations like this would arise. It's actually a good thing that this engagement has taken me out of the area code of my old life.
Hey Joe, yeah, long time. Actually, that's not my neighborhood anymore. I'm sixty miles away now. Oh, and by the way, I'm getting married. So, sorry about the booty call, but I'm going to have to pass. Take care, (She Said)
Okay, so that's not exactly what I said, but it's close.
Wow, that's great news! I hope he's a good guy; otherwise I might have to kick his ass. You deserve only the best… Are you sure you don't want to meet for a drink? You're not married yet, after all.
Oh, so tempting. Not really.
Yeah, he's a great guy, so no need for the fisticuffs. (I love that word) Anyway, take care. (She Said)
So… no drink then?
I decided not to answer. And my gut tells me I should never have answered to begin with. But this situation begs the question of what to do in the future. Because, knowing me as you do, this is bound to happen again. Not to mention the fact that I brought my phone number with me to TNG's, which in hindsight was probably a big mistake. And yes, I am the last person on the planet with a landline.
Here's the thing: TNG doesn't know that this exchange took place. Does the "what he doesn't know won't hurt him" theory apply here or do I have to tell him every time my past resurfaces? Obviously the conversation was harmless, but I did engage in conversation with the guy. I have to believe that every once in a while, an old girlfriend looks up my man and I'm none the wiser. According to TNG's gossipy next-door neighbor, this place has had a revolving door on it for the last 10 years (which actually makes me kind of relieved).
Luckily the emails stopped after I didn't respond. But if the sins of the past come calling again… what's a girl to do?
Up All Night
The last time I received a call from the sins of my past, I answered – sort of. No, I didn't have sex with her… I didn't even see her. In fact, I didn't even directly speak to her. We typed. We flirted with our keyboards. We exchanged flowery text messages and e-mails that danced around the fact that the only reason for the two of us to see each other again would be to get naked. I had no intention of laying my eyes on her, much less my hands, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the ride. Then my girlfriend at the time got wind of the exchange and all hell broke loose. It turned out that NOT getting laid on the side cost me more grief at the time than any illicit sex I've ever had. It's not enough to just be good…
When it comes to past lovers, we must be very, very good.
For guys, it's about the lure of temptation and the ego stroke of being wanted, even if the only thing we're wanted for is what's hanging between our legs. We're usually more than happy to take a trip down memory lane with an old flame when the opportunity arises. We don't even need the memories to be particularly romantic or, well, memorable.
Sure, I remember all that great sex we had (even though I was drunk every time).
Sure I remember our first kiss (I was already deciding how soon it could be until our last kiss).
Sure, I remember that weekend we were invited to your sister's beach house (I spent the entire weekend figuring out how I could have sex with her instead of you).
When sex from the past reappears in the present, I don't know too many guys that don't at least give it some thought, if not action. Okay, I don't know any guys that don't at least give it some thought. And I know a lot of guys who give it some action.
Everybody in a relationship carries the baggage of their individual past. The later in life we commit to someone, the more baggage we bring to the table. At a certain point, we all have a decision to make: Are we about our past, and the baggage we carry, or are we about the now, and what we still believe can be? You made it clear where your choice lies… I'd like to think I'd do the same thing in your shoes.
Either way, I see no reason to share whatever baggage we carry with someone we love, if it doesn't reveal itself on its own. Part of having someone love us is allowing them to think of us more highly than we would otherwise… Why rob someone we love of feeling this way?


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Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution through Painters' Eyes
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The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual shape to Revolutionary events and symbolized an entirely new concept of leadership and government. Since then they have endured as indispensable icons, serving as historical documents and timeless reminders of the nation's unprecedented beginnings.
As Paul Staiti reveals in Of Arms and Artists, the lives of the five great American artists of the Revolutionary period--Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart--were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding spirit. Living in a time of breathtaking change, each in his own way came to grips with the history being made by turning to brushes and canvases, the results often eliciting awe and praise, and sometimes scorn. Ever since the passing of the last eyewitnesses to the Revolution, their imagery has connected Americans to 1776, allowing us to interpret and reinterpret the nation's beginning generation after generation. The collective stories of these five artists open a fresh window on the Revolutionary era, making more human the figures we have long honored as our Founders, and deepening our understanding of the whirlwind out of which the United States emerged.
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Staiti has put both words and pictures together in a graceful book that helps us understand why the American Revolution looks the way it does. "Of Arms and Artists" sets a new standard for the fusion of art history and political narrative, and will immediately become the authoritative account on the art of the American Revolution, and also the first successful attempt to explain why those faces and figures come down to us with such an iconic sheen. —Joseph Ellis, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution
Through an artful narrative, Paul Staiti links the lives and works of these artists in intimate and fascinating detail. "Of Arms and Artists" is a delightful and informative tour through the family album of the American Revolution, and while the faces may be familiar, through Staiti's work we gain new insight into the character of the artists, the people they painted, and the cause of the Revolution. —William M. Fowler, Jr., author of American Crisis
Staiti intertwines art criticism and history in this account of five American artists from the Revolutionary period and the role their paintings played in constructing the narrative of the nation's founding. The artists—Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart—created the images that have helped to define the Founding Fathers for generations. Staiti skillfully shows how the Founding Fathers were attuned to the importance of visual art in constructing a public image and how they collaborated with artists to, ultimately, shape history. —Publishers Weekly
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Professor Chengzhong (Michael) Yu is an internationally recognised expert in materials science. He is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow.
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Professor Yu has collaborations with scientists in chemistry, material science and chemical engineering from the US, Japan, Scotland, Sweden, France and China. Through these collaborations, more than 30 international journal papers have been published.
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Professor Yu has attracted five Discovery Projects, two Linkage Projects and two Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities grants from the ARC, and grants from from the Cancer Council Queensland; Queensland Government, Cotton Research and Development Corporation and other funding agencies. He has undertaken a number of collaborative projects with commercial partners. Before he joined AIBN in 2010, he attracted 12 grants from the National Science Foundation of China; the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology; the Chinese Education Ministry; and Shanghai Government. Professor Yu is a referee for more than 50 international journals. He is a reviewer for the ARC and NHMRC; and a grants peer review panel member for the NHMRC in 2012.
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Professor Yu is an ARC Future Fellow (2009). He is the recipient of the 2015 Le Févre Memorial Prize for Chemistry (The Australian Academy of Science), 2015 UQ Vice-Chancellor's Research Focused Fellowship, 2009 Innovation Award of the Chemistry Academy of China; the 2009 Young Scientist Award of the Ceramic Society of China; the 2005 New Century Scientist Award from the Chinese Ministry of Education; and the 2004 Young Scientist Award from the Chemistry Academy of China. Professor Yu received the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in China (2004); the second prize of the National Science Award of China (2004); and the Shanghai Science & Technology Progress Award (2002). He has been invited to give more than 30 plenary, keynote and invited talks.
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- Song H, Ahmad Nor Y, Yu MH, Yang YN, Zhang J, Zhang HW, Xu C, Mitter N, Yu CZ. (2016) Silica Nano-Pollens Enhance Adhesion for Long-Term Bacterial Inhibition. J. Am. Chem. Soc., DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b00243.
- Zhang HW, Noonan O, Huang XD, Yang YN, Xu C, Zhou L, Yu CZ. (2016) Surfactant-Free Assembly of Mesoporous Carbon Hollow Spheres with Large Tunable Pore Sizes. ACS Nano, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b00723.
- Yang YN, Stefano B, Song H, Zhang J, Yu MH, James R, Ekaterina S, Debra S, Yu CZ. (2016) Anion Assisted Synthesis of Large Pore Hollow Dendritic Mesoporous Organosilica Nanoparticles: Understanding the Composition Gradient. Chem. Mater. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b03963.
- Ahmad Nor Y, Niu YT, Karmakar S, Zhou L, Xu C, Zhang J, Zhang HW, Yu MH, Mahony D, Mitter N, Cooper M, Yu CZ. (2015) Shaping Nanoparticles with Hydrophilic Compositions and Hydrophobic Properties as Nanocarriers for Antibiotic Delivery. ACS Cent. Sci., 1, 6, 328-334.
- Zhang HW, Yu MH, Song H, Noonan O, Zhang J, Yang YN, Zhou L, Yu CZ. (2015) Self-organized Mesostructured Hollow Carbon Nanoparticles via a Surfactant-free Sequential Heterogeneous Nucleation Pathway. Chem. Mater. 27, 18, 6297-6304.
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The only problem with artist Huck Gee's plastic toys, says Plastic Chapel owner Dea Webb, is that she can't keep them in stock. Luckily for Gee fans, the artist will be in town today to sign and sell his new book, The Art of Huck Gee. Gee's art, Webb explains, is sort of "a graffiti take on Japanese pop art." The San Francisco artist creates a variety of limited-edition plastic toys (often featuring the popular Skullhead image he designed) as well as illustrations. His "Skullhead Project" in 2005 brought together fashion and figurines: Designers like Marc Jacobs and Jil Sander dressed Gee's Skullhead toy in their runway duds.
The newly released book is a full-color retrospective of Gee's always-fascinating work. "I don't think he's ever come to Denver before, and who knows if he'll ever come back again?" says Webb. "Now would be the time to meet him and get him to sign your book." The book, $35, will come with a special, limited-edition white cover that is only available on this tour. And if his book sells as fast as his toys, you'll want to get a copy soon.
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Really? Where's it at--somewhere behind University Hall?
I've been at BGSU for nearly ten years and I'd never seen nor heard of this. Which shows you how plugged in I am around here.
Thanks for the haunting post, and all the libertarian/mutualist stuff you've been putting up lately; fascinating stuff. I liked the "rights" vs. "right" essay especially.
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