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CANBERRA, Australia, March 6 (UPI) -- A new agreement between Australia and Indonesia will include a pledge by Australia not to engage in espionage, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Thursday.
Relations between the two countries turned frosty in November with the revelation Australian intelligence agencies had been attempting to monitor the communications of Indonesia's president and other top officials. Bishop told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. the country's draft of a new code of conduct has been submitted to Indonesia.
"I made it quite clear that Australia would not use its resources -- our intelligence resources -- to the detriment of our friends and neighbors and that includes Indonesia," she said. "That will be part of the agreement, yes."
Bishop said the Indonesian election in April is delaying its draft.
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Similarities, key differences and what the next generation of computer games and gaming engineers can take away from each industry highlighted the discussions during the annual IGT-University of Nevada, Reno Computer Science and Engineering Symposium, held on the Nevada campus in May. There were over 70 people who registered and attended the Symposium, the majority being employees from games and gaming related industries in Nevada.
Keynote speaker Chris Satchell, the chief technology officer and executive vice president for game platforms and development at International Game Technology, emphasized the key intersections between emerging games and gaming during his hour-long presentation in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.
Satchell spoke from experience, as his distinguished career has straddled both gaming and development of games. Prior to joining IGT, he enjoyed a long career in video games, culminating as chief technology officer for Microsoft Xbox 360 business.
"Gaming and games are siblings, but they're not twins," he said. "Each industry obviously has many similarities, but it's in the differences where we can often find potential for greater growth and creativity."
Satchell told the assembled audience of faculty and students, as well as alumni and visitors from across campus and industry that games and gaming have much in common, from interactivity, entertainment, experience-based platforms, design-driven products, an audience of committed users, as well as a certain element of social stigmatization.
"Both industries have all of these," he said. "Both have all of these aspects."
Yet, Satchell said, by contrasting games with gaming and vice-versa, opportunities for improvement are available for both.
"Gambling games can teach video games how to create 'no-failure' products," he said, noting that whenever IGT creates a new game, the expectation of its customers is that it will never fail and will have a very long life cycle. Video games, by contrast, he said, have very few expectations regarding durability or longevity. The core video gamers, he said, fully expect that this year's innovative game will be replaced in a few years by a superior, higher quality product.
On the other hand, he said, video games provide an excellent model for collaboration and teamwork.
He said during the creation of a state-of-the-art game, it is not uncommon to have "up to 300 artists, by pure necessity, working together. They've learned, and the culture has instilled, a constant need to collaborate in these huge teams on a new game. The gambling/gaming industry is starting to learn this idea, but can still do more in this area."
He said both industries can benefit from maintaining high graphic and creative standards, while at the same time working to keep the consumer's experience simple and unfettered.
"Around 2000 or 2003 we had a great idea for our games: tutorials," said Satchell, whose quick-moving presentation included numerous joking asides, which seemed to resonate well with the audience. "The games had gotten so complex that it was felt we needed tutorials in order to explain how to play them."
He noted how the tutorials became a "built-in" barrier for gamers to enjoy their games.
"Then we got wise," he said. "What's fun about having to learn about playing a game? Nothing. It became too complicated. In the gambling world, they know this instinctively. There aren't a lot of barriers to enjoying a good gaming machine. They design all of their products accordingly, which is a real strength."
He said that during his time working in both worlds, he found there are many surprises and "a-ha" moments. He said that although teamwork is a must for the development of games, it often doesn't translate or is transferred easily through an ultra-competitive marketplace.
"When you walk into a casino, it actually works," he said. "We are a very competitive industry in gaming. You have to compete very hard for market share. But when I walked onto a casino floor and saw that IGT and Bally's games could stand side by side together and work on the floor, that blew me away.
"Now, in video games, when was the last time you ever saw Sony and Microsoft inter-operate in a similar fashion? I think it's a very good thing that this happens in the gaming industry."
Satchell passed along some figures regarding the two industries. He said that the traditional demographic for video games, 21 to 35 year old males, is "shifting to a much broader demographic." While the gaming world continues to be anchored by Baby Boomers, he said "Generation X is starting to gamble, which is adding an entirely new element."
In the future, he said, it will not be uncommon to see people "playing on the go," as the rise of social and mobile computing will provide opportunities for both industries to create new ways for individuals to utilize their products.
He added that "Gamer Scores" will continue to fuel a rise in the use of products in games and gaming. For video games, the concept reinforces the notion of community that has become so important to members of Generations Y and Z, while for gaming aficionados, keeping track of scores and milestones "give people a feel that their gaming experience is adding up to something and means something."
Before Satchell's keynote, Manos Maragakis, dean of the College of Engineering, welcomed those attending by noting that events like the IGT-University Computer Science and Engineering Symposium help reinforce the college's expertise in the field.
"Gaming engineering and many other aspects of our Department of Computer Science and Engineering are central to our plans for growth," he said. "Computer Science and Engineering is a program that started from local need and it has exemplified an excellent University-industry partnership.
"We want this program to continue to serve as an example to our college."
In addition to Satchell, speakers during the IGT-University Computer Science and Engineering Symposium included Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis, Eckhard-Pfeiffer Professor and director of the Computational Physiology Laboratory at the University of Houston, whose talk was entitled, "A Novel Way to Conduct Human Studies and Do Some Good" and Dr. Michael Neff, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Program in Technocultural Studies at UC-Davis, whose talk was entitled, "Making Characters Gesture with Personality."
The symposium also included a panel discussion on "The Future of Gaming," which included Andrew Kertesz of IGT, Walt Eisele of Bally Technologies, Patrick Crawford of Gametech and William Eadington of the University of Nevada, Reno.


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A ray of hope for the California GOP
The California Republican Party met this weekend for its annual fall convention against the backdrop of an ongoing disussion over the future of the sick man of GOP politics.
Veteran Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters offered his take on the question of the state GOP's health and concludes that the party is down, but not out:
The state party structure has never been a well-oiled, professional political machine like its Democratic counterpart. It's a collection of amateurs and volunteers such as its current chairman, Tom Del Beccaro.
Republican legislators and congressmen raise their own money and independent GOP groups, such as the Lincoln Club, often play powerful roles. The Lincoln Club, for instance, is the financial muscle behind Proposition 32, which is aimed at kneecapping Democratic fundraising by making it more difficult for unions to extract political money from paychecks.
That said, the state GOP does have a big problem: It remains a mostly white, mostly suburban and rural party of social conservatives in a state that is mostly nonwhite and fairly libertarian on cultural issues such as abortion, immigration and gay marriage.
Del Beccaro has made broadening the party's appeal his mission, but he's facing internal criticism because of money woes and other issues and could even lose some of his authority.
What of its future? Demography is working against the Republican Party, unless it overhauls its cultural image.
But if the state's economic malaise continues, if Proposition 32 passes, if Democrats continue their drift to the left and defy public sentiment on such issues as the bullet train and pension reform, and if voters reject the new taxes that Democrats are pushing, Republicans will have an opening.
They've been down and out before — nearly four decades ago, in the aftermath of Watergate and during the governorship of a young Jerry Brown. But within a few years, they staged a dramatic comeback and dominated California's political landscape for nearly two decades.
Boiled down to its essentials, the argument for why there's hope for the California GOP seems to be California's Democratic Party, which in its own way is paving the path for a Republican comeback.


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With four tight turns in the air and an unwavering landing, Canada's Patrick Chan launched himself into a whole new level of skating and put all the quad questions behind him.
The 19-year-old from Toronto, who was once so vocal in his defence of not having a quad, landed his first quad jump in competition Saturday, propelling him to victory at Skate Canada International in Kingston, Ont., after finishing a disappointing fourth in the short program.
"Finally," Chan said with a grin of sheer relief. "After I landed it it was pretty exhilarating. It's quite a jump, it's a whirlwind. And the audience was really loud [afterward], I couldn't hear my music for the first few seconds. It was a really cool feeling to finally put it out there in competition, especially in Canada."
Chan, who captured two world silver medals without the four-revolution jump, landed a quad toe loop that former Canadian star Brian Orser deemed "textbook" to open his program. He promptly fell on his triple Axel, thrown off-kilter, he said, by the raucous cheer of the crowd and his own adrenalin surge of excitement.
Still, his final score of 239.52 points — including the highest jump mark of the night for his quad -- was good enough for gold. Japan's Nobunari Oda was second with a score of 236.52 while American Adam Rippon placed third with 233.04. Kevin Reynolds of Coquitlam, B.C., second after the short program, fell to fourth place.
A quad controversy has raged in men's skating for the past few years and Chan has steadfastly argued for the no-quad side, drawing the ire of skaters such as Russian Evgeni Plushenko and Frenchman Brian Joubert, in his belief that skaters don't need them to be successful.
American Evan Lysacek won gold at the Vancouver Olympics without attempting a quad, and the results drew scathing words from Plushenko, Joubert and even former Canadian star Elvis Stojko.
Chan has succeeded at the world level thanks to his exquisite footwork and spins and interpretation of the music. The quad was the only element missing from his repertoire.
'A lot of excitement and a lot of tension'
"Now that I have the quad in, I feel like I've added another part to my inventory," he said. "Doing a quad brings it to another level. It's a different feeling when you do a quad in your program, it brings a lot of excitement and a lot of tension."
Michael Slipchuk, Skate Canada's high performance director, said Chan knew he could only take his score so far without the quad, but that adding it to the program before it was perfected would be too costly.
"Last year, when a lot of the talk about the quad was happening, his quad was not at the point where he could put it in a competition," Slipchuk said. "Even when people said you needed it, if you don't have it, you can't put it in. Now that he has it, it does put you at a different level. Guys who go out and just do triple Axels, they're a bit behind you. You still have to fill in with the rest of the stuff to make it work well."
Chan is fortunate to have the rest of the stuff. It was evident Saturday in his final twisting and turning step sequence that covered the length of the ice and built in intensity to the final bars of his music from Phantom of the Opera and brought the crowd at the K-Rock Centre to its feet.
Afterward, as Chan blotted away the sweat pouring down his cheeks, he said he was simply relieved to finally put the quad questions to rest.
"I didn't want it to be a three-competition drought of not doing a quad, that would have been kind of embarrassing," he said. "So to get it over with and done is good to know and now I can go into my next competition knowing I've done it already in Skate Canada.
And if the future looked bright for the Canadian teen before, it turned a few shades brighter Saturday, Slipchuk said, based on the fact that Chan's performances here were far from perfect. There's still plenty of room for improvement.
"If we just focus on what he did here, he posted the top score of the year so far, and he had four falls [over the short and long program] and a couple of missed elements," said Slipchuk.
Earlier in the day, Canada's Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch skated away with the pairs silver medal less than a week after they were added to the lineup as an injury replacement.
Fellow Canadians Paige Lawrence and Rudi Swiegers took the bronze. Russians Lubov Iliushechkina and Nodari Maisuradze won gold.


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Jim Kuhn and Roger Tedder have been on the ground floor of a significant educational and sporting endeavor in Clay County for more than 20 years.
As the chief architects of the soon-to-be 22-year-old Clay County Golf Classic, they are proud of the impact it has had on the lives of many high school students who would not have been able to attend college without help from the tournament.
"One of our first scholarship recipients was also one of our most memorable — Ben Spivey," said Tedder, who has been scholarship chairman since the beginning. "Ben went on to dental school and is in business in Gainesville."
Spivey is one of 345 students who have received help, with a total of $510,000 given out since the tournament started.
"To be eligible to apply, you have to have between a 2.5 and 3.5 grade point average and demonstrate a need for assistance," Tedder said. "Those who have better grades usually qualify for more help. We are trying to help the truly needy."
Recipients can receive help for four years if they maintain at least a 2.5 GPA and take 12 credit hours each semester. Deadline to apply for this year's scholarships is Feb. 28. Information is available at www.claycounty
Time and age have begun working against Kuhn and Tedder, however, as they strive to keep the tournament viable. Kuhn, a four-time winner in the open and senior divisions, said the tournament needs younger blood.
"I am 70 and Roger is 74, so we are starting to age out,'' Kuhn said. "We need some younger blood — both in running the tournament and golfers competing."
Tournament entries have declined from the maximum of 112 to about 80 in recent years.
"I think the recession, changing the tournament to two days instead of three, and my retirement from Reinhold in 2009 has hurt the number of entries," said Kuhn, who also thinks his retirement reduced his influence among some of the sponsors.
That, plus the recession, greatly damaged the tournament, Kuhn said, to the point he thought maybe last year would be its final year.
Whitley Steel, which has been involved in the tournament from the beginning, is once again the title sponsor for the Classic, which will be held March 28-30 at Magnolia Point, Eagle Harbor and the Country Club of Orange Park. Entry information can be found at the website above.
It's the thought that counts
So, did you get any interesting gifts for Christmas?
I got two very intriguing gifts, one of which I really, really, really wanted.
Let's start with the other one — a slender package about 30 inches long. My wife said it was something I had asked for. The only thing I could think of that would be long and slender and that I may have asked for had to do with my favorite leisure activity, golf. But the present was too short to be a new driver, or even a putter.
As I peeled away the wrapping, it dawned on me. It was one of those devices that helps you pick up trash in the yard without having to bend over. This one was called a Platinum Reacher, a handy device.
With the Reacher, I can walk around the yard picking up twigs and limbs that are too big for the lawn mower to chew up. Having to bend down to pick up the literally hundreds of small twigs that litter my yard between mowings does immense harm to my back, to the point where I almost can't play golf.
I was pleased that Barbara had remembered my need for the Reacher, but you have to understand something. Getting that kind of gift was akin to giving pots, pans or vacuum cleaners to your wife on special occasions, other than it is Tuesday and the family needs those things.
I was really anxious to open that second gift because I knew what it was — a wide-brimmed leather hat. I had been wanting one for years and this year I finally had the guts to decide that I could wear a leather hat without looking too pretentious. It was kind of like the one that Crocodile Dundee wore in those movies, only with a more turned-up brim. And it was made in Australia, mate.
What did I get my wife for Christmas?
Oh, uh, well, I got her a pot and a pan. But wait! They were things she said she wanted. Honest! The pot was a self-stirring slow cooker and the pan was a frying pan she had been eyeballing for a long time.
(I got her a very nice blouse and an electric throw blanket, too, thank you very much.)
Maggie makes a comeback
Clay County resident John Shelley got a unique gift, too, about a week before Christmas.
He got the dog back that he had given away three years ago, and it only cost him about $1,500.
"It was well worth the price," said Shelley, a former traveling salesman who in 2010 had to give up Maggie after his wife, Betty Jo, passed away.
Since Shelley was on the road so much, he couldn't keep Maggie and had to find another home for her.
The person Shelley gave the Lhasa Apso to eventually had to give Maggie up as well and the dog wound up at an animal rescue kennel in North Carolina, which located Shelley through the microchip he had installed in her when she was a puppy.
That proved to be a good move, but there were still some obstacles to overcome.
"They told me that I had 24 hours to come get Maggie," Shelley said. If not claimed within that time, Maggie would have been put up for adoption.
Shelley couldn't take the time off to go get her so he did an online search for someone who could put her on a plane to Jacksonville.
Fortunately, he found Melissa Crespo, a caring animal devotee who agreed to make the 180-mile round trip from her house in Raleigh to Greensboro, where Maggie was housed.
"I have been involved in animal transport for a long time, but this was the first time I needed to do all the leg work," Crespo said. "I believe things happen for a reason and I think it was meant for Maggie to be back with him. His story brought tears to my eyes."
The rest of the tale wasn't without obstacles either.
"When I got there, they asked me what she looked like," said Crespo, who manages Canine County Club, a pet boarding and grooming business where she has worked for 31 years, since she was 14.
"I had never seen the dog, so I didn't know what she looked like. I called Mr. Shelley and he sent me a photo of her in email. He really wanted to get her back. It was such a great story."
After Maggie's release and a visit to a veterinarian for a health certificate, there were several airline delays before the dog arrived in Jacksonville at 1 a.m., five hours later than she was expected.
"It was so heartwarming to get her back," said Shelley, who has since remarried and has two dogs in the household. The other one is a diabetic alert dog for his new wife, Mary.
"Maggie is a connection to my deceased wife," Shelley said. "She remembers all the tricks I taught her and she knew right where her bed used to be."
Lamar Thames is the former editor of My Clay Sun. He can be reached at email@example.com or (904) 403-6926.


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By JAY CRIDLIN, Times Staff Writer
Published February 8, 2008
They call me the Brass Belly. Ol' Ironguts. The Food Lion.
Okay, fine, they don't really call me those things. Not to my face, at least.
On Day One of the Florida State Fair, I set out to taste-test, in four hours, as many of this year's new concoctions as I could lay my greasy mitts on.
Here is my report.
Deep-fried bratwurst
Picture a corn dog strutting around the gym like he just worked his pecs, and you've got a good sense of what the deep-fried bratwurst ($3) is all about. It tasted like a corn dog - maybe spicier, with a hint of cheese.
Grade: B
Cedar Key steamed clams
I don't know what I was expecting for my $6, but what I got was a heavy plastic foam carton full of clams in their shells. I ate mine sitting on a 25-cent massage chair. It was definitely one of the weirdest places I've ever eaten steamed clams.
Walking tacos
In the Pantheon of Lazy Ideas, there should be a plaque honoring these fun-size bags of Fritos or Doritos with beef and taco fixings dumped inside. My walking taco ($3) tasted quite good. The texture reminded me of cereal. Meat cereal.
Grade: A-minus
Deep-fried cookie dough
Cookie dough tastes terrific cold or fully cooked. But these batter-dipped gobs ($4 for four) just tasted like not-quite-done cookies. They were gooey and messy, and without the chocolate chips, there wouldn't be much of a taste at all.
Grade: B-minus
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Hoping to dispel its reputation for terrible reliability, AT&T today revealed the dramatic extent of its network improvements in 2011 as part of its fourth quarter earnings announcement.
The carrier said it made over 150,000 improvements throughout last year, including the addition of more than 700,000 square miles of 3G coverage. AT&T also said that 3G call retainability across the nation is up 25 percent from last year.
The latter is something I've definitely noticed while using my iPhone in Brooklyn and Manhattan. It used to be that I would drop about 30 percent of my calls when traversing the city; now a dropped call is a rarity. AT&T boasts that its 3G call retainability has been above 99 percent since the middle of September.
AT&T said that 80 percent of its mobile traffic now goes over its enhanced backhaul, which refers to its HSPA+ network that powers non-LTE 4G devices. For most customers, that means slightly faster speeds than 3G, but nowhere near the improvement that LTE would bring. Technically, the iPhone 4S is a 4G device on AT&T's network, since it supports 16 megabits per second HSPA+.
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"I've beaten her 43 to 44 because she hasn't played in eight months and I've been playing every day. I have to pick my spots and try to get in her head."
"I just think it's better for the team to know they have to look at one person on the floor. I have that much respect for her."
"This year she's had to do it all. She's had to be the leading scorer. She's had to be the leader. She's had to be the one whose out there all the time."
"She's such a great leader for our team. She carried us at times during the year. She is the one that motivates them and gets them in the right spots. She does everything she can to help us win. She is the consummate team player."
"She takes it all in stride. That's her job and she's very accountable. If we don't win, she finds a reason, what she could have done better to help us win. She never blames anyone else. She always keeps them upbeat."
"I don't really want to think about it. I really don't. I cringe when I think about next year without her."


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I worked so damned hard talking about my feelings and she expressing remorse...We spent the entire summer together last year and I proposed to her in December. The love I felt for her, the closeness, the things in common, the works were deeper than anything I had ever felt..And I am 53 years old.
As it got closer to the date of her moving to my home from Puerto Rico, things got tense and she felt very cold and distant to me, almost exactly the kind of vibe I had felt when she was unfaithful. behold I didn't listen to my better judgment and she finally moved here this past summer. Things got tense after about a week and within 3 weeks, after she had humiliated me by belittling a very expensive gift I had given her pre engagement in front of my friend (who had told me she was cheating on me when she suddenly disappeared for a weekend), She referred to the expensive watch as "Marking my territory"...that was really it for me...Long story short, I ended the engagement and she moved back home.
But we had talked about still trying and going for therapy,etc.
Within a week of moving home, she put the man she had slept with on her Facebook page, clearly to display to me that she was back with him. I called her and she removed him..Over the next few weeks he was on and off the page a few times.
She then came to see me and while we had a 'fantastic' time, I saw she had called in her cell the day before. I finally ended it yet again but we still remained in contact....
Back onto her Facebook did he appear of course..
Then she text messaged me that I had ruined her life, her relationships with her family and never contact her again.
It sounds all so pathetic when I am posting this (short) version of the story.
I was so furious and enraged at her when she refused to talk with me that I threatened to email her sister, family and even ex husband..she laughed at me and called me 'pathetic'..
Well, that was all I needed and of course sent out the email.
Obviously (i guess?) Robin won't speak with me again and appears to be with the man she had cheated on me with early on.
My point in this post? Not sure. I guess I am amazed how much I can miss her, when she clearly always had a back up plan, not just with this man but constantly in touch with other men and her pattern was clear.
I have never felt so sick and hurt. I knew inside she was an abuser and a hater of men. Her family history is the worst I have ever heard. Abandoned with her 2 sisters at a very young age and raised by a father who had full sex with her older sister
for 2 years. The entire family history is a disaster. Her own daughter Rosana won't live with her. It seems to be 3-4 generations on her mother and fathers family of serious abuse.
Even though I ended it and saved myself unbelievable hurt and pain, I can't get her and this whole disaster out of my mind.
Maybe venting it here helps?
thanks for reading if you made it this far.
[This message edited by SI Staff at 12:55 PM, October 5th (Saturday)]
More background on me for perspective...I've been divorced 5 years and on good terms with my ex wife..2 great successful, fairly well adjusted kids. I've only been in love 3x in my life and never felt anything near this despair I feel now..Even though I knew all along the dangers of staying with my fiancee..
Of course it was great on almost all other levels, which just added to the confusion. I suppose the thing that hurts the most, is the ice cold, completely devoid of true remorse on her part. I feel so sick and victimized..I didn't know the timeline of her cheating...Now when I think back to last February and just can't imagine spending all that time with her, only to have her run into another man's arms.
She explained' it this way,,,,"I went to him to see if I was truly in love with you"...
She has said variations of this many times...all with a completely straight face, as though it makes perfect sense!
It's unreal..simply unreal how damn stupid I was and I wasted almost two years, tons of money and heart and soul...into a sick, vapid, vacant sociopath who seemingly could not care less about me and or my feelings.
End of rant.
Clearly she is incapable of empathy or of true feelings, this is why she is so hated by her family and her daughter was smart enough to get away from her.
She's a charmer, a seducer, boy is she good at what she does. Ice cold eyes,
She's rocked my world but I remind myself through it all that at least I dumped her cheating, sick self regardless of the pain it caused me.
I can't be found on dating sites for awhile, I am on 'official leave'.
Thank you all for the fantastic posts and insights. It's like you almost know who she is..
I have to laugh..right?
Yeah, I have a 3 car garage and 6 cars..I'm the man! my problem is not meeting women, right now for the first time in my life, I am simply not available. Closed. I have things to take care of and let my ex go run into another person's life and blow it to bits. I am not going to hurt anyone and I am not going to get hurt either.
I have faith and complete confidence in the 'rightness' of all things. That there are lessons to be learned and ways to grow from challenges.
I have gone through a horrible divorce, felt like death, yet survived it and managed to overcome it all and be friends with my ex. It was my decision and somehow that didn't even help.
BUT, there at least was no infidelity.
I'm not cured, I have a ways to go to heal from this scourge that I allowed to enter my life. I feel sorry for anyone going through anything like this.
My plan is simple. I got $5k for her watch and expect $10K for her ring. I am spending it and having a good time with honest, clear and direct go go dancers! I don't want to date em. I don't want to love em. I don't want to have sex with them. But it's been revealing to imagine a stripper giving me a lap dance and watching her face morph into my ex fiancee's..
"I love you. you are an amazing man! You dress so well. You are so unusual. You can have ANY woman you want!!"
"Oh, no more money? Bye sweetie"
I kid you not. Cracks me up and it helps me be clear. Wish I had done this way sooner.
But yes, I am staying out of bars! haha
To make it even better, during sex the boyfriend accidentally called out her sister's name and that was it..She went nutso and broke up with him!!
Literally to seek revenge, when he called to go out for drinks again she showed up to the date.....with ANOTHER MAN.
She actually told me this....in fact, last summer when she was reading all of these great books on recovery from abuse and all this bullshit, she wrote him an emai apologizing for her actions. His response was maybe three words.
I am not being overly dramatic is saying that I believe my ex is truly a curse. A scourge, a destroyer of any man she comes in touch with. And she is seemingly clueless as to the effect of people losing their minds after such contact.
She had told me she thought her ex husband was going to kill her, she thought her daughter might kill her and when she came here a few weeks ago and I put it all together and confronted her she was literally fearing for her life. Afraid I was going to shoot her!
I said, "Shoot you?"...you are not worth the bullet or the trouble. Pack your shit and get the f out of my house..."
Then of course like a moron I saw her the next day...and then had yet another insane dramatic fight.
This is baby shit insanity. I only can share it here knowing I survived and I did not marry her, and ended it before her son moved here. .as if I had, it would have been the possible death of me.
I've beaten myself up endlessly for somehow staying in this dramatic unhealthy relationship..but I remind myself that this woman was raised to learn how to seduce and charm men..How to get them to fall in love...and she meant it as much as she is capable..Her twin shared this with me, how clearly they were taught to dress, to carry themselves to be 'arm candy'...charmers and seducers..
I wish I was completely 'cured' or totally didn't care about her..but I care much less this week than last, less today then yesterday and finally know, I would not see her again. I will never ever make this mistake again. My whole life has been careful to never put up with abuse..I have clear boundaries in this regard...but boy when I make a mistake...I really make a mistake..
I was in therapy for years and dealt with the issues I needed to deal with and have had a great life on almost all levels and stopped therapy as I didn't need it anymore..
Well...back to the drawing board. I have an amazing therapist who is helping me so much. I kick myself for avoiding therapy way in the beginning of this sick relationship. It would have saved me so much time, money and grief and in the in smallest chance of it 'helping' is work out our problems, it would have been worth it. But I did know it all and I saw every single warning sign, warning flag, there were so so many, I knew it, I spoke about it and I screwed up thinking that knowledge and communication were enough.
Clearly it's not.
Simply said, she is a very very damaged and sick woman, who is, has and will be suffering for a long time, unless she chooses to just live the life of an unfeeling sociopath, playing men against eachother and acting in such hurtful and destructive ways.
All the while blaming the world and any and everyone for her troubles.
I wish I could hold onto the hate. Or pity.
She is ice cold. It's frightening. She has been healthier than me though in her ability to completely move on after I finally burned the bridge by telling the truth about her. I have made fast big progress in the last week or so and have not contacted her at all. Thats a first and is getting easier as there is really nothing to say anymore and it's more pathetic than anything trying to be 'friends' with her when she clearly could not care less about me.
I do wanna be clear and defend myself just a bit,,,NOT INTO HOOKERS! never have been, never will be..and the stripper thing is more of a cathartic game than anything. I have no desire to be with one. Years ago I did and it was a joke..I'm very secure with women and in my ability to atttract them.
The question does exist and I am working on what the attraction was with my ex and it's not that hard to figure out. I liked the challenge. I liked her strength, I liked so much about her but I remind myself daily, I saw through her bs and I threw her out..
I might miss her. I might dream about her and all that..but she is gone because of me and it is good.
Her family is as cold as she is, she would never harm herself and if she did they would have no pity or sympathy. These people have 3-4 generations of child abuse and insanity in their blood.
she doesn't deserve my love, support or help and she has done the wrong thing more often than the right thing.
I wish I never met Robin and as memories fade I am clear that whatever we had together was much less than I ever thought. I was not prepared to meet a unfeeling shark and person devoid of human emotion and feelings.
I've looked within to figure out what was wrong with me to love a vapid hurtful sociopath (piece of shit works well too), who did nothing but make sure I never felt safe and steady around her.
She tried to destroy me and blamed me for it every step of the way.
I've come too far in my life to allow a POS like her to rain on my parade.
I've survived and am better for it.
She will spend the rest of her days looking for love and I doubt she ever will find a man who offered her more or understood her better. But it's moot, as if she did find such a man, she would be sure to destroy him out of habit.
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AT&T said to be exclusive carrier for Amazon's new smartphone
The pact adds to AT&T's string of strategic partnerships with device-makers over the years.
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AT&T, the second-biggest U.S. mobile-phone operator, will be the exclusive carrier for Amazon's new smartphone, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because the deal isn't public.
More than seven years after Apple introduced the iPhone, Amazon is expected to unveil its first foray into the smartphone market Wednesday at an event in Seattle hosted by Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos.
Fletcher Cook, a spokesman for AT&T, declined to comment Tuesday on whether AT&T had the Amazon phone exclusively. An Amazon representative didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The pact would add to AT&T's string of strategic partnerships with device-makers over the years. AT&T was the sole U.S. carrier for the iPhone until Verizon Communications was also able to sell the Apple devices starting in 2011.
AT&T also displaced Sprint in 2009 as the exclusive data-service supplier to Amazon's Kindle tablets. Verizon was added as a data supplier with the introduction of the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX.
"We haven't actually formally announced anything, so I have nothing to offer," AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson told reporters Tuesday, when asked for details on the deal for Amazon's smartphone. He spoke after giving a speech at a meeting of the Economic Club in Washington, D.C.
Bellevue-based T-Mobile US Chief Executive John Legere didn't hide his disappointment on Twitter after learning that Seattle neighbor Amazon picked rival AT&T as its exclusive partner.
"Really, @Amazon? What happened to hometown pride?" Legere tweeted Tuesday.
He also saw the news as an opportunity to criticize the U.S. wireless market for being split between two larger companies and two much smaller carriers.
Meanwhile, Sprint, the No. 3 carrier, is nearing a deal to merge with No. 4 T- Mobile, people familiar with the matter said this month.
"When #big (@ATT) and #bigger (@Amazon) get together, the industry feels a whole lot smaller," Legere wrote. He also tweeted: "Exclusivity sucks for customers. Exclusivity on @ATT sucks for the industry. #justsayin."
The Wall Street Journal reported AT&T's exclusive arrangement with Amazon's smartphones earlier Tuesday.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., June 6 (UPI) -- Auto racing team owner Richard Childress has been fined $150,000 and put on probation for his run-in with driver Kyle Busch, NASCAR said Monday.
Childress, 65, punched Busch, 26, several times during an altercation in the garage area shortly after the 250-mile Camping World Truck Series race Saturday at Kansas Speedway.
The incident now means Childress is on probation for all NASCAR-sanctioned events for the rest of the year.
"We feel this action is appropriate and are confident all parties involved understand our position on this matter and will move forward appropriately," the racing organization said in a release.
Childress said in a statement he accepts NASCAR's penalty.
"First of all, I'm responsible for my actions, plain and simple," he said. "As you know, I am a very principled person and have a passion for what we do at Richard Childress Racing. I believe passionately in defending my race teams and my sponsor partners. In this instance, I let that passion and my emotions get the best of me."
Busch and Childress' driver, Joey Coulter, had hotly contested the final laps of the truck race. Coulter passed Busch on the last lap to finish fifth, while Busch ended sixth.
Once the race was over, Busch hit the side of Coulter's truck on the cool- down lap, setting the stage for the Childress-Busch confrontation.
Busch is on probation until June 15 for all NASCAR events due to an altercation he had with Kevin Harvick in a May 7 Sprint Cup race at Darlington Raceway.
Saturday's incident was not a violation of his probation, NASCAR ruled.


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Mornin' everyone.
This is just a quick fly-by 'cause DW and I are on our way to the FLD (favorite local dive) for breakfast.
Yesterday afternoon, Deeze came down to Hampton from her tri in Freeport, ME so we could meet Mariposai and Twocat at the end of their relay. I met up with Deeze as she arrived and we had a chance to talk a bit before the relay van showed up. We had a terrific, but too short (for me - I had to leave too early because we were taking a neighbor recovering from hip surgery out to dinner) visit with everyone in the park and on the beach. Deeze, Mariposai and Twocat all look great after their respective races. There's a photo floating somewhere...
11.9 racewalking miles this morning in 50F temps, starting in the dark, and finishing just after sunrise. Nice start to the day! Now, about that breakfast...
Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.
...mornin' jay///.......sounds like a fun day.....
really good Avenger Doggie Adventure yesterday
60min bike ride,,,,,,,,,50-degrees and sunny
.....rear view mirror fell off when I got on the bike,,,,,,
as I
pedalled out of the Neighborhood, a Goose of Doom was heard honking in the distance.
I resolutely made my way up the street
due to the forewarning,
NOTHING else bad happened (except I had to LISTEN for the cars)
mirror is now firmly in place ready for the next work-out
..................good running guys.............occasionally The Goose of Doom is a GOOD THING.....
..nothing takes the place of persistence.....
Good morning Jay, Tom and all to follow. Enjoy that hard earned breakfast Jay. And Tom? Glad you got your mirror fixed and there were no goose "accidents" on your journey.
Thinking about you a lot Holly, and glad your brother is with you for love and support.
Sounds like Tag and Honey had fun, fun, fun yesterday. You doggies have the best adventures.
Great pictures lately - David leaving another runner in his dust and Ribs and his beautiful running partner. Looking forward to seeing the one of Jay, Twocat, Deez and Mariposai.
It's raining and 54° here. Great day for the Packer season opener. But knowing the die-hard Packer fans, the parking lot will be filled with tailgaters sporting their best rain gear/black plastic garbage bags
Yesterday was DS#2's 25th birthday. Had a great dinner that he chose - marinated tenderloin, twice baked potatoes, steamed green and wax beans, a fresh spinach/pear salad, garlic pull-apart bread and chocolate mint ice cream cake. I had to work extra hard to burn off those calories this morning. An hour on the elliptical and 45 minutes of weights.
Have a great Sunday everyone!
King of PhotoShop
Check out the culinary skills on jlynne! Nice dinner.
Glad about that meetup with Jay, Twocat, Deeze and Mariposai. We all seem to find ways to get together somehow. Next year's Boston won't be one of them for me as I have chosen not to take part. I've done the last 3 and it's time to rethink this distance combined with all the travel and hassle of it.
5 very slow recovery miles for me at the park, then fertilized the lawn so that I'll have a "bonny green lawn" in the spring as the guy on the radio ad for Scott's says. Feeeed your lawn! Feeed it! Now is the pairfect time!" Spareribs
Trails are hard!
Only an hour away, but guests at the camp made it too hard to come down. Sorry I missed it. Great pictures, though. Hope everyone is healthy after their 200 mile jaunt.
3.5 yesterday and just under 7 today on the roads around the camp. Loving the cooler weather--long sleeves felt comfortable today.
Need a fast half for late fall. Then I need to actually train for it.
relay events are always a fun time, but even more fun with a great group like we have here. anxious to hear more about the eastcoast relay and meet up.
wonderfully cool morning here and we get a break from our 90's. it's a good day to get lots of outdoor things done, like cleaning up some of my garden and planning spots for overwintering garlic and onions. I'll have to replant my lettuce though. Our week of 90's was too much for my little seedlings.
That dinner does sound good, Jlynne, your DS chose well!
Jay, how long does it take you to racewalk 11.9 miles? That seems like a lot of walking to do before breakfast! (this from someone who doesn't even run before breakfast if I can help it.) Glad you were able to make it to the end-of-relay meeting.
Tammy, I'm pulling out my garden these days but it's because it's time to put it to bed, so to speak. Pulled all the beans yesterday. My lettuce pretty much all bolted awhile ago and then got drowned in the rain we had. Starting to dig potatoes though, and the carrots and beets are awesome.
Holly, that was a tough choice, but I think the right one. There will be other marathons, but you only have one mom. Hey, hang onto your marathon fitness though with a 20 miler and look for another one soon!
Always get a chuckle out of Avenger Doggie's stories. He's so good to be so patient with Honey. Sounds like a fun race, too bad it was so lightly attended. The winner's baskets sound wonderful.
Our weather pattern has been kind of odd for us. Usually, we get a weather system high or low that locks us in to days of clear skies, or days of overcast grey and drizzle. The last few weeks have been a mixed bag, with days starting rainy and dreary and clearing up beautifully by the afternoon, or the opposite with clear morning sunshine giving way to wind and rain by noon or early afternoon. Yesterday was overcast and "spitty" in the morning, but by noon the sun came out and the afternoon was beautiful. Today is clear and sunny, with clouds expected later. It seems there hasn't been a stretch of dry weather to let the trails dry out a bit. And get this... the forecast for next Friday (yeah, I know, it's early) is an inch of snow!! So... Saturday's Equinox will certainly be interesting, that's for sure.
I plan to get out to the Dome to run up and do the out-and-back, then back down. It's a 14 mile round trip. But if it's super muddy, I might just turn around early and bag it. Just not into getting all muddy today, but at least the sun is shining (for now)!
Wonderful morning to run here so I had a successful 19.3 mile run. No goose of doom seen or heard
1st- 5k in 28:12 ran the 5k course, not the race
2nd- Half marathon w/DW in 2:14:33
3rd- 5k in 28:12 ( yes I'm consistent )
DW won age group and I got 2nd Wow that proves I beat everybody that did not show up and 5 that did
That was a nice photo you posted yesterday Ribs (how much did you photo shop it) cause did make you look young.
Courage ! Do one brave thing today...then run like hell.
ran a beautiful course with DD in east boston this morning along the water and beach. altho IRC, totally unimpressive time. probably did well in AG, because it was a young people's race. i've never seen so many police along a route, probably added thousands to the race cost, also close to Logan, Suffolk Downs, and major subway stop.
here we are before the race (no after pic)
jlynne - your packers are wiping out washington
nice meetup in hampton
sarge and jay - nice run/walk
tw - happy biking
happy gardening and other activities to those i missed
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Hey, hang onto your marathon fitness though with a 20 miler and look for another one soon!
Hey, hang onto your marathon fitness though with a 20 miler and look for another one soon!
I thought the same thing. Yesterday I ran 11 miles and today 19 miles, and then I signed up for a local 50k trail run in two weeks (Germantown 50K). I hope you don't get snow before Equinox.
TomWhite -
Sarge - nice running!
Marj - great picture!
The wait continues...at least Hospice is there 24/7 now.
Life is a headlong rush into the unknown. We can hunker down and hope nothing hits us or we can stand tall, lean into the wind and say, "Bring it on, darlin', and don't be stingy with the jalapenos."
steve, great racing with Tag, Honey, and your father in law in the walk. Jay, I'm envious that you got together with deez, mari, and Twocat. jlynne, happy birthday to your son. Sarge, nice half for you and your wife with AG awards for both of you. marj, great picture of you and your daughter before your race.
Nice long runs for fatozzig, Jay, and Holly.
This morning, it was about 50° and there was a light wind. I did 3 miles at a 10:48 pace.
A good day and good runs for all.
TW - goose of doom, I love it!
Looking forward to seeing a relay picture
Evan's post sounded like a local weather report, one that leaves you not knowing what the weather is going to be.
I did a hike on Saturday. My plan was to summit Mt. Ellinor, but it was an epic fail for me. Basically my legs were fine, but when I hit the region that was completely exposed to sun (the last 1000 ft of climbing, which is a rock scramble), and it felt like 80F up there (it was only 67F at the trailhead), and I did not bring a sun visor or sunblock, I knew I should turn around. Got some pictures, but the low lying fog covered up most of the view. I will save this climb for a partly cloudy, much cooler day.
Today I met up with Bachelor #2 - ultra trail guy. Gosh, he is tall (6'2") and has great legs of course, and was actually not bad looking. I know that makes me sound really shallow. My boss who is blind, keeps telling me to completely disregard looks. As for personality, he definitely has a completely down to earth "country-ish" thing going, which was a bit endearing. We did a short trail run, then brunch. He lives kind of far away however, but we are going to meet up again...., and did I mention, he has great legs!
Well this is a public forum, so I guess that is all I'll be saying on the topic.
"During a marathon, I run about two-thirds of the time. That's plenty." - Margaret Davis, 85 Ed Whitlock regarding his 2:54:48 marathon at age 73, "That was a good day. It was never a struggle."
.... and did I mention, he has great legs!
Well this is a public forum, so I guess that is all I'll be saying on the topic.
Leslie Living and Running Behind the Redwood Curtain -------------
Trail Runner Nation
2018: Mendocino Coast 50k - April 21
Great legs count for a great deal enke! And another date.....hurray!
I saw Deez as well---got a nice big hug before the start of the Lone Gull 10k---wish we had talk time too, but there was a huge crush of folks and since it was a Grand Prix race, the field was large and FAST! oh my. I ran a 43:23 for 6:59 pace---not too bad one week after a marathon---not a PR, but just a minute off my best. Gorgeous day in Gloucester and spectacular ocean views for much of the race. fast course but rolling hills the whole way. Team finished sixth in open and 7th in masters. One of the guys on my team was the overall winner but we didn't have a full guy's roster today. Great fun! I also saw and chatted with Bad Dawg from The Swamp. He ran a PR and continues to tear up the roads and PRS---age be danged!
Glad Avenger Doggie got to race.
Nice to see Sarge here! Nice running and racing for you and DW too
Holding a good weather thought for you Erika!
New skirt in town
Just an easy 2-miler this AM, followed by a crazy-intense yoga class! Rushed off to Canobie Lake Park for lots of loop-de-loops on the roller coasters, and then a Cannon-ball-Run back to the Boston area to get my son to his Lego League Robotics class.
I can't tell if my neck is sore from
A) The running
B) The yoga
C) The roller coasters
D) Whipping my neck around looking for the staties on my my run to get DS back to Lego League in the afternoon.
G'night all!
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