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The Dragon Bride Chapter 1 - Lone Ghost Deer
By Kerry Xiong
Kerry Xiong
There is a story that we don't tell. Not because it is forbidden or off-limits. But because what it regards, a pond, is frightful and true. Very true. And it still exists today. If ever you come across this pond, don't step in. You could die if you do. So to even mention the story can be dangerous. No one, not even the elders, would dare. No one except grandpa.
He'd told me it once when I was a lot younger. I'd always slept in his bed during those days. Better there than in mom and dad's bed, which was always crowded with Goua, Mai, and Chee-my younger sisters. I was eight at the time and should have been brave enough to sleep alone according to mom and dad. I didn't think so. Neither did Grandpa.
Life in the forestry mountains always made nights cold. That night, however, during the frightful story, it was colder than any other. A freezing breeze snuck through our thinly woven bamboo walls making me shiver under grandpa's arm. I tucked in close, but still couldn't sleep.
The straw roof above head was starting to loosen, parting open gaps near the edge of our walls that made our house an effective sound box that amplified every animal cry outside my room. Louder tonight, they broadcasted. It was a ruckus-the owl, the weasel, the dogs. Maybe even, the Tigers.
"I'm scared of girl ghosts," I whispered to him. Everyone knew that Tigers traveled with girl ghosts at night to haunt humans in their beds.
Grandpa continued patting my back, softly. His eyes were closed, probably already asleep. But I nudged him as I always did. I hated being the last one to sleep. Especially so considering the ghostly and animal creatures lurking just outside. I shivered.
"Shh..." His lips slightly parted. I've seen this face before-unmoving, expressionless, and droopy. He was so still he almost looked dead. Until I abruptly jerked his arm free from its immobility. He coughed.
"Don't be scared of girl ghosts. Or Tigers. There are other things more scary," he mumbled, eyes still closed.
"Like what! Like what!" I said. He grunted, figuring that he'd stirred the wrong pot. He had me hooked, and I wouldn't sleep now until I'd heard the full story.
"Like water serpents in the deep green sea."
A long time ago, even before grandpa's time, in an unnamed village, there lived a poor mother and her son.
They were so poor they did not own a single plate or spoon to use, much less any food to eat. They had nothing but the clothes on their backs and the rags and remnants of pots and farm tools that they found in their shabby little house. They lived at the edge of this unnamed village, far away from everyone else.
It had to be this way. The townsfolk didn't want to live near them. No one wanted to speak to them. Not even their names were known. But what was known was that the woman had terrible fate. A fate that was contagious and evil. It was what had killed her husband even before her ill child was born. And also what made them so poor. Anyone who dared to meddle with her or her child would inherit traces of this bad fortune. So no one dared speak to them.
But sure enough, their ill fate spread anyway. As time went by, the land surrounding this unnamed town, for which the people used as farmland, became more and more infertile. Drought poured over the town and prolonged its visit. The forests beyond the farmland became inhabitable for animals making wild game scarce. All of this, the townsfolk surmised, was due to the old woman and her son. They must be destroyed in order to restore good fortune.
On an ice-cold evening, the townsmen set out to murder the woman and her son. They packed in their bamboo-woven backpacks thick grass-twisted rope, spears, and even a bit of rice and jerky as a snack for the journey. Because the woman and her son lived on the outskirts of town, it would be a long voyage by feet. As they traveled, the path lying ahead appeared more and more cluttered. Trees crowded in and shadowed the trail, darkening their way. It soon became so dark that they had trouble seeing.
"Are we going in the right direction?" asked one.
"It's too dark to tell," answered another.
"Let's mark our path so we know not to travel in a circle," suggested one.
And so they did. They cut the grass rope they'd brought into short pieces and tied a piece around a tree after walking a far distance. After tying over ten trees, the men were exhausted.
"We should have reached the end of town by now," said one. "It's nearly midnight and we've been in the forest all this time. We've not advanced."
"Shh..." calmed another. He placed a hand over his ear as he listened. Sounds of wild geese, owls, and even the snorting of wild boars echoed from a distance. The other's faces curled into wicked grins as they caught on. They licked their lips and rubbed their bellies. Wild game was residing in this area all along! That greedy wench!
Their thoughts were confirmed. Right before their eyes, not more than ten feet away, stood a pale white deer with horns as curved and tall as the branches of trees. It stood there unmoving and expressionless. It was white as a ghost. It's eyes shimmered ice blue. It's head not turning, as if frozen still. Leaves did not shuffle under its feet. The whistling wind did not tempt its limbs to shiver. Stark as night, quiet as ice, the lone ghost deer stood like a statue. Almost challenging.
The men made a slight move toward it, careful to not stir its senses. One lifted their spear and with a quick stab, sent the lone ghost deer into a panic. The ground trembled as the hooves of the lone creature pounced heavily onto the soil and fallen leaves. It ran for its life in a twisted motion, as if its legs were bound together. It even appeared maniac like, making the townsmen growl in laughter. The deer didn't get far and plummeted to the cold, hard forest canvas floor that speckled with its crimson, pungent blood. Seconds later, the men rushed to it.
He jerked free his spear from the neck of the ghost creature not so ghostly anymore. Encircling its neck was a ring of bright red, bubbly blood that stain its hairs. Its tall, branchlike horns maintained its white hue but now with blotches of red splatters. The men were proud. Dismissing their prior feat of murdering the woman and his son, they hauled the beast back home for feasting.
The next morning, the townsfolk celebrated in banquet for five days and five nights, not sharing a single slice of meat with the poor woman and her son.
Five days and five nights later, it started to rain. The curse was over, the townsfolk were certain. The land became moist again and animals could be heard at the dark of night. Life was coming back into town, they all agreed.
Until the rain didn't stop. The ground never dried again. And animal voices echoed louder than before. The town flooded like a frenzy of anger sweeping over the land. The village gaped into a deep yawn that sent everything, home, people, and all, down pooling with it. The folding chairs within the houses, made of rafting material, floated to the surface by the hundreds. The only ones saved from this destruction were the woman and her begotten son.
"That pond still exists today," grandpa had said. "They call it, Folding Chair pond. Some call it Beast Pond or Dragon Pond. The town was named Meuen Xi." He was wide-awake now, staring straight down at my widened eyes.
"Sea creatures lurk in those waters," he continued. "And they will catch you if you don't go to sleep at night."
I immediately squinted my eyes closed as my breath hastened. I tucked my head into the shadow of grandpa's chin.
"Go to sleep, Yuyen."
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"You can't grieve too much ? you're down two infielders right now. You just have to try and work your way through it, that's all."
"All of us at MSHA deeply grieve the loss of these miners' lives, and I want to assure their families and friends that we are conducting an uncompromising investigation into this accident. We will uncover the truth of why this tragedy happened, and how we can best protect miners in the future."
"When a community is grieving and going through a mourning, when you have more than 65,000 people showing up for services and people are burying these kids, you shouldn't have a meeting that talks about selling more guns,"
"I think it affects us everywhere. It's humbling to see all the grieving people going in and out. It makes you feel grateful that you were spared."
"The Parks family is a very, very close family and they are grieving and supporting the mother who lost her child last night."
"Many times in our society, children are the forgotten grievers because they don't grieve the way we do. They don't openly talk about how they are feeling because they don't have the vocabulary. How on earth would kids know how to describe these feelings?"
"But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died."
"It's so hard to go from having a daughter to seeing her dead. It's hard to mourn or grieve when you're so angry and focused on finding who did it. I know there are people who know who did this, and I can't understand helping a murderer by keeping quiet — these people were supposed to be her friends."

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Major Retailers Holiday Return Policies to Know
By Leah Westfall
December 14, 2012
Best Buy
Returns and exchanges can be made within 14 and 30 days of purchase and you're going to need your receipt.
• 14 days for computers, monitors, projectors, camcorders, digital cameras, and radar detectors.
• 30 days for all other products.
You'll get your money back in the same form of payment used when you bought the item.
To exchange or return items that were delivered such as major appliances and TVs call 1-888-BESTBUY.
Good to know.
If you bought something with cash, debit or a check for more than $250, the refund will be in the form of a check mailed to you within 10 business days.
Some Best Buy items are subject to the following restocking fees: 25% for special order products, including appliances: 15% for opened notebook computers projectors, camcorders, digital cameras, radar detectors, GPS systems and in care video systems: and 10% for Apple® iPhones.
Items bought online.
Items bought online can be returned to a Best Buy store, or you can mail the return back. However, when you return items to a Best Buy store you have the option of receiving a credit or an exchange. When you return by mail, you can only get a credit.
The time period noted, 14 and 30 days, applies to online purchases.
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PUBLIC NOTICE Twenty Mile Coal TR Foidel
September 28, 2011
Twentymile Coal, LLC (TC), 29515 Routt County Road 27, Oak Creek, Colorado 80467, has submitted applications for two Technical Revisions (TR's) to the Foidel Creek Mine Permit, Permit Number C-82-056. The revisions (TR11-77 and TR11-78) address construction, operation, and reclamation of the 15-Left Ventilation Shaft and the 16-Left Utility Borehole installation.
The mine permit area encompasses approximately 19,940 acres, located approximately 23 miles southwest of Steamboat Springs on Routt County Road 33, and approximately 7.3 miles northwest of Oak Creek on Routt County Road 27. Mine offices and major surface facilities are located adjacent to Foidel Creek, near the intersection of these two roads. The mine permit area is covered by the Cow Creek, Dunkley, Milner, Mount Harris, Oak Creek, and Rattlesnake Butte USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle maps. The lands affected by the proposed revisions are located in the SW/4, SE/4, Section 24, T5N, R87W (TR11-77) and portions of Sections 23, 26, and 27, T5N, R87W (TR11-78). TC controls the surface and coal in this area. The Mine Permit Area includes all or portions of Sections 7 through 9, T4N, R86W; T5N, R86W, except Sections 34 through 36; and Sections 13, 22 through 24, 25 through 27, and 34 through 36, T5N, R87W. The ownership, precise location, and boundaries of lands within the Permit are identified on pages 2.03-13 through 2.08-18 and 2.03-22 and 2.03-23.1, and Map 1, of the Mine Permit Application Package (PAP), and are included in this public notice by reference.
Copies of the PAP, including the referenced Technical Revision applications, (less confidential material) are available for inspection at the mine office and the office of the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety. A copy of the Technical Revision applications are also available for public inspection at the:
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Written comments or objections to the Technical Revision applications should be submitted to the State of Colorado, Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety (CDRMS), 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver, Colorado 80203-2273 within ten days of the date of publication of this notice. Some of the proposed activities (TR11-78) would occur within 100 feet of the outside right-of-way of Routt County Road 27, at location between its intersections with RCR51D and RCR37A. A public hearing to determine whether the interests of the public and affected landowners will be protected can be requested by contacting the CDRMS in writing within 30 days after the publication of this notice. If a hearing is requested, it would be held in either Steamboat Springs or Hayden, both of which are in the locality of the proposed operations.
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I Reupholstered My Side Chairs!
Happy St. Patrick's Day! This St. Patrick's is a little more meaningful for me because I now know I'm 28% Irish! You may be wondering how I know this exact percentage??
This past Christmas my Dad gave all my immediate family a present we didn't ask for or expect but one we have all enjoyed! He gave us an Ancestry DNA kit. Basically you spit in a tube and send it off to a lab and then 3 weeks later they send you back your personal countries of origin percentages.
I now know I am 40% German, 28% Irish, 16% Scandanavian, and 10% Great Britain (and trace percent of some others). It's been fun to see the similarities and differences I have with my parents and siblings (mostly similarities). A long story (but hopefully interesting 😉 ) to explain why I know I'm Irish and 28% for that matter!:-)
As I mentioned in an earlier post I lucked out one day (my Irish luck perhaps:-) ) while scavenging a local thrift store. Besides some décor items I found two matching green vinyl chairs for only $6.50 a piece!
The lines of the chair reminded me of the West Elm Bentwood Slipper Chair selling for a hefty $399 per chair. I thought for sure I could figure out a way to reupholster them and use them in my Living Room Makeover!
Well, I did it!! Please let me introduce you to my newly upholstered matching chairs! Only $16 a piece!
I purchased the fabric from Fabric.com. It was only $7.98 a yard and the material is the perfect weight and quality for this project.
TIP: If you are buying more than $35 worth of fabric from fabric.com then shipping is free. However, if you buy less then $35 then I usually go find it on Amazon (they sell most of their fabrics on Amazon too) because the shipping for it is only $2 on Amazon.
Okay, so here is the Tutorial! I want to preface this saying I'm not much of a seamstress so this was a big deal for me to try but I'm so glad I did!
1. Using an old sheet I held the sheet up to the chair and traced around each part of the chair (the seams of the chair).
This is me tracing the very top of the chair with a yellow marker. When I tried to take a picture the sheet slipped so the photo is not great (plus the lovely cat hair adhered to the sheet).:-/
2. Once I traced each part I would cut it out with scissors and then hold it up to the chair to make sure it fit correctly (as seen below).
3. At this point it is very important to decide what parts of the fabric you want showing where. For example, I decided that I wanted the light blue stripe to be centered to the front, back, and seat of the chair. And the side pieces of the chair to be centered to the navy stripes (as shown below).
I dedicate this step to my Mom. 🙂 Thanks, Mom, for helping me think this one through! I may have jumped into the cutting part without taking the time to plan it out! The results would have been no bueno!
4. Next I pinned my sheet pieces to the planned out parts of the fabric and cut around each sheet piece adding 1/2 an inch to every side.
NOTE: Be sure to add an inch or two to the bottom of each piece so you can tuck it under and staple it (you will understand what I mean as you read on).
5. Organize pieces together.
Top Half of Chair
Bottom Half of the Chair
6. Start Sewing Pieces Together. (Looking at the photo above) I took the piece on the left and placed it facing down onto the piece on the bottom (like you are making a sandwich with nothing in it). Then I sewed a straight line along the left side of the sandwich.
The photo below shows where to place the edge of the sandwiched side. The edge should be about a half an inch from the sewing machine needle (usually there will be a red line on the foot of the of the sewing machine as well to measure from).
The photo below shows that I have sewn together three of the sides.
(As shown below) Next, I centered the front side piece to the front seat piece and flipped it over and pinned the edge. I then pinned the left and right sides to the left and right edges of the seat.
Continue to sew it together inside out piece by piece (much like putting together a puzzle) until you are all done.
7. Next, I turned over the chair and pulled off the black backing.
This was what was underneath the black backing.
Depending what your chair looks like underneath you will either need to unscrew some screws in order to lift the seat off the frame or in my case I had to cut (with scissors) the straps in each corner where the arrows indicate below.
8. Staple the covers on. Once the seat was off of the frame I turned my striped seat cover right side out and placed the seat cover over the existing green vinyl cushion (I know, how dare I cover my Irish roots!).
Then while making sure to keep the cover centered I pulled the cover taut and stapled all around the back of the cushion (shown below).
Next put the top cover on right side out and while another person is pulling the cover down tightly, staple the fabric on the underside of the top portion of the chair. My Mom helped me with this part and we found it is pertinent to start pulling down and stapling the center before moving on to the sides (this help the fabric stay smooth and not wrinkle up).
9. Last Step!! Reattach the bottom seat cushion. Do this by either re-stapling the straps or screwing the screws back in the bottom of the chair. I plan on spraying the chairs with scotch guard to protect the new fabric.
I'm very happy with how they turned out and the price! I have a few loose ends to tie up in my Living Room Makeover but I'm hoping to be able to share the reveal with you next week! Have a great week!!
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47 thoughts on "I Reupholstered My Side Chairs!"
Jennifer @ Decorated Chaos
Your chairs look great! (Love that fabric too) and they look pretty professional if you ask me! I would have never thought about using a sheet-thanks for the tid bit.
That looks great! Love the fabric you chose
I love how they turned out and I can't believe they only cost you $16. Nice tip about the Amazon shipping. Can't wait to see your reveal!!
Turned out great Tamara! Way to go!
Chairs look beautiful! Thanks for the reupholstering steps. Your dad gave an interesting Ancestry DNA kit for a gift. Made me curious of my background percentage breakdown. Would have thought the Scandinavian origin be the larger percentage; what a unique combination! 🙂
Beautiful! Great job and very inspiring.
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Gilly @ Colour Saturated Life
Wow! You did an incredible job on these, you would never know they were from a thrift store.
Great job, I like them better than the inspiration chairs, which to me now seem too dull and clunky. Your renovated ones look so graceful and beachy. Love the blue stripes!!! Judy
Errolyn Hatch
Great job on your chairs! Love the fabric, too. I have a chair that needs to be done–maybe now I'll tackle it 🙂 Thanks!
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Krista @ the happy housie
These turned out incredibly – fabulous job Tamara!! Thanks for sharing it with us at Work it Wednesday. We are featuring you this morning!
Barbara Olson
You did a great job of showing step by step how to do this project !! Loved your using the sheet. I think now I won't be afraid to try this !
Lisa @ Shine Your Light
Tamara, wow! Your chairs came out so great! I have recovered dining chair seats before but never anything that required matching the pattern and sewing. I am so impressed at how you tackled this. The end result is so professional looking!! Thanks for sharing at Best of the Nest!
Tamara, very impressive! Loved the tips and tutorial..from someone 100% Irish! We have to stick together…Siobhan.
Katreena Drew
Hi Tamara…
Wow..So Happpy to find your link!
I love What you have done with these beautiful ! Now chairs, of course they would of been someone's pride and joy one day lol
I'm excited to be able to see how to upcycle some chairs of my own.
thank you for sharing,
cheers Katreena
You did such an amazing job with these chairs!! Cheers to YOU! I don't think I would have seen the potential and walked right past the green, ha.
I have re upholstered before and I know how much work it entails. Great Job!
Looks really great. Thanks for the idea 🙂
Greetings from scandinavia
Barbara M
Love the finished pieces! I'm glad you didn't remove the green vinyl. The tip about sheets is very helpful. Lovely chairs and a great tutorial.
Nice job matching the stripes. Stripes can be very hard to work with on curvy surfaces but you did it & it looks great!! Thanks for sharing!! 😃
Can you tell me the best type of fabric to use for high use chairs? I am reupholstering some family room chairs. Would you recommend upholstery grade Cotton? Microfiber? Chenille? Polyester? Most of the upholstery fabrics I have found are cotton or duck cloth. What did you ise
Thank you for sharing Must try this on my chairs
Krista Singleton
I love the chairs and the fabric! Do you remember what the fabric was called? I'm having trouble finding it on fabric.com.


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I want to give this marriage more time to heal, but I don't know how to get over all the resentment and that I feel he is still lying to me about his affair. His answers after TT'ing and lying to me for so long about it are WAY to perfect when he finally told me some info!! It all just doesn't add up and so many things just don't make sense! My gut says he is still not being truthful about the affair!
For example, sorry TMI
One night during sex he bit my nipples so hard, I scream out. It hurt and I said I did not like it.
Three days latter his OW says out loud to everyone "I love my nipples bit so hard like you are going to bite them off" (I did not know it at the time but they were already having an affair for two weeks)
I, at the time thought it was strange that she said that after he tried it on me, but she was my (so called) friend and I wasn't thinking affair between them at that point. He swears he never had actual sex with her or has ever went near her nipples. But to me, that is just too much of a coincidence!!! Am I right??
This past Jan. He admitted that they felt each other up, but only on the outside of their clothes, never under. He said that was the only time they touched sexually and it happened the week before I discovered their affair(this is an example of what I think is the perfect answer, just enough in hopes to keep satisfied with his answer) I discovered their affair almost 3 months after the nipple biting incident. This was one of a few sexual things that did not add up. I don't believe they did not have sex. A few other incidents say otherwise too. I just don't believe they "just felt each other up outside of their clothes"
I feel his last TT was sort of made up or left stuff out to give me just enough so I would believe him, but not make him look SO bad! Do you know what I mean?
I have been trying so hard to just get over the fact that I will never get the truth from him. He is very stubborn!! If I want to stay and he will not give me the truth I need to learn how to move on from it. I am the type that needs the truth so this is hard for me and has kept us stuck! I haven't been able to move forward cause I know we are still living on his lie. It has Kept me from telling him I love him again too.
I want to stay in the marriage at this point, but how do I get over all the resentment that I carry that I feel he is still lying to me about his affair? That he is letting me live on his lies?
Does anyone have any ideas how to move on when you want the marriage and know you will never get the truth, but you feel you need the truth?
How to "get past" resentment when accepting that you're living with a liar who will not tell you the truth about how they destroyed your marriage and your life? I don't know if there's really a way to get past that. The only way I can think of is to do such a severe 180 that you permanently lose some of your care for them. So that the lying partner matters less to you than they used to. To see all their hurtful traits, know to yourself that they are all turnoffs and then... that's it, they're turnoffs, so you're turned off to big parts of them. And then you focus on yourself.
That's not being in R. But it is a way to survive. It's painful and lonely, but it also protects your heart from them. If they cannot learn their lessons and do the work, then they can never keep you safe.
(((hugs))) That is a very painful place to be in. Would you ever consider keeping your options open, just so that the possibility of leaving is never fully closed out, just so you can give yourself an out if it becomes too much? Sometimes just knowing that it's possible to leave can really help, instead of feeling completely trapped.
Trust your gut, julesinpain. Your gut does not lie to you. In all the lies my H told me, my gut never once lied to me. I am so sorry you are going through this.
My only options I think I have, are to learn to live with the fact he is still lying to me, or get out and move on.
plainpain, I agree that I think she said it on purpose. I did not even think that maybe they had discussed that I didn't like it and she threw it out letting him know she would love it. I was thinking along the lines that he did it for her and he tried it on me, and she was getting her kicks out of announcing how much she loves it in front of me and her BH! Maybe that excited her to know my WH did that for her, knew I didn't like it and she got off announcing it to me, since I did not know they were in the affair at that time.
Who knows, she is an evil bitch! I could totally see her doing something like either of those!! Sometimes, even this many years later I want to punch her in the face!! I had to see her yesterday, and she had her big ugly giant horse tooth grin on. I had to see her ugly giant receding hairline which makes her forehead look like a troll dolls. I sent her a Rogaine coupon in the mail once and told her there are things that could fix that! Sorry, I really am not a mean person, I just hate seeing her and I am a little angry tonight!
A few days before the confession, I had had enough and said to him that I couldn't be with him if I couldn't trust him. I loved him, he said he loved me and I wanted to believe the story. But the pain was too much - just a feeling that things were not as they seemed.
Trust your instinct and state your case. When I did, my WBF said it was the turning point. When I told him I couldn't do it anymore he changed instantly. I think the shift went from me being in the relationship and trying to R to me being a separate person and knowing what I needed to carry on.
"Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive" - CS Lewis
After I found SI, you all helped me stand up for myself soom. I still am not the super strong person I once was years ago. My self esteem was so rocked, but I can see me coming back off and on now.
I did stand up for myself this past January and told him I couldn't do this anymore and I knew he was lying to me about how much stronger their relationship was then he let on. I told him I was leaving him. That is when I got the they "felt each other up on the outside of our clothes" and that she got herself off on the phone the week before that, but he hated it and it was very awkward. I do not believe he hated I wish I hadn't let those answers stand back in Jan. because now I just see them as a load of crap! Like I said too many coincidences and things just don't add up.
I think the answers he gave me were hard to take in at the moment he told me, and is why I did not question how perfect they were at that time. But ever since, it has bothered me, that so much just still doesn't add up. So here I am still knowing that I need to get past it, or live with the resentment in my marriage and stay married. Or get out.
I want to stay married, I don't want the resentment in my marriage. Just don't know how to fix it. :( Thanks everyone for your replys!
In my situation, the MOW loved and I LOVED being severely bitten all over, especially her back, LOVED being choked.
So imagine my reaction when his teeth took a pitbull grip on my back, felt like he was drawing blood. He did that to my nipple has well. On several occasions I felt him sort of try to put pressure on my neck. This was extremely difficult for me to bring up. I was afraid of him getting really defensive. Well I talked myself out of that quick and bluntly asked...is this what MOW liked? Because in over 20yrs you never once did that!!!??? At first he said NOWAY! I just felt so much adrenaline and pleasure and I just wanted to bite you etc...
He didn't deny it for long. He told me one day that she wanted to be viciously bitten, she loved being choked during sex. He told me we did....it was scary but it's not like we killed anyone.
I told him "I don't want to know exactly what you meant by that" thinking later I'm pretty sure she liked erotic asphyxiation (being choked until you almost pass out when you're about to orgasm)
He never did it again. I hate it because sure I love some light biting,sucking. And sometimes we are enjoying ourselves so much that I'm tempted to kiss,bite and suck his chest and I don't do it because I think of her. Other times I tell myself "fuck you MOW,imagine myself kicking her off our bed and have amazing sex. Yeah our minds can protect us...
I'm so sorry you are dealing with this. This is NOT going to leave your mind and in fact tell him that sex is going to be a huge issue for you if he doesnt come clean. They really believe if they don't tell, it won't hurt. The fact that he's hiding this from you will affect you for God knows how long. He needs to know that withholding that is like continuos pain.
Because the unknown makes our brains create scenarios forever. It's also being a coward denying and TT for so long. Those who continue to TT will slowly kill their BS little by little.
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I see why you're in pain - you want to stay M, but you can't be in an M with a guy who's lying to you, and you think your H is lying to you. I do, too, along with many others.
If you threaten credibly to end your M, maybe he'll come clean - but you're not ready to end the M if he doesn't.
I strongly, strongly urge you not to rugsweep.
It sounds like your best bet is to give yourself permission to either risk D or to stay in limbo.
my seeking the truth never came I had to find it myself and when I would confront omy he would blow off the hinges
My resentment became calm and then i started to bottle up and then my resentment became anger that sometimes it felt like this relationship was ok and I was starting anew but then something so insignificant would blow the top off my bottled up emotions. Don't know if it will get better but if you need to talk to someone I'm always here
He is someone who has so far had a track record of TT and lying, and therefore I also don't believe him based on his past behavior.
When things don't make sense about his story, it is usually for a reason- either he changed information or omitted it altogether to make it not sound as bad as what actually happened. What he doesn't realize is that the TT is worse and does more damage than pretty much anything he could have done during the A.
"What did you expect? I am a scorpion."
You have 2 choices basically. Stay with a man that you KNOW is lying to you and try to make that work (how, I have no idea, I thought a good marriage was built on trust and respect).
Or stand up for yourself, demand the truth, and it he's not willing to give you the truth your gut knows, then leave. No waffling back and forth, no letting him give a little tiny trickle truth and then accepting him back, take a firm stand and demand the entire truth and don't buckle until you get it. THEN you can consider putting the pieces back together to a HEALTHY marriage.
I know I need to once again step it up and demand what I need from him, if I am really going to be able to heal in the marriage. Pull my bitch boots back on! I just don't know If I would be able to be really happy if I just let this go! I am so tired and exhausted having to fight to live on the truth! It has been so long and I just want to be on to the healing part! He doesn't understand how very badly I need it and he is stubborn! He says he has told me the whole truth. I have been having many good days lately, but the resentment is always lingering there and it is holding us back from having a great marriage again! I just don't know how to let it go!
He has been amazing and doing everything right and taking great care of the kids and I. He really steps up now to make my life great! Except that he knows I feel we are still living on his lies! He hates talking about it, because he feels he has told me the truth. Heard that tune before though! :( My gut tells me there is no way it is the truth. Too many coincidences and things that don't add up. Why can't I just move on since he is being so amazing again?? Why can't I just let it go and live? Why do I feel I need the truth so badly? I have tried to let it go! I just can't seem to be able to.
plainpain Hahaha! I laughed out loud at what you wrote about choking her if she liked it so much. Too funny! Thanks for the laugh!
Getting ready for a party right now, but will read everything over again what you all have written to me and respond tomorrow when I can.
Thanks again for you help and strength!
When a spouse does something completely off the norm sexually....it came from somewhere
If he doesn't come clean it will take so much longer to heal or you might never let go of resentment.
I strongly, strongly urge you not to rugsweep.
fyou143, thank you! I just might take you up on that soon!
What he doesn't realize is that the TT is worse and does more damage than pretty much anything he could have done during the A
He lies because he knows he can get away with it, as he has been for, what, 6 years now.
You have 2 choices basically. Stay with a man that you KNOW is lying to you and try to make that work (how, I have no idea, I thought a good marriage was built on trust and respect).
You feel you need the truth so bad because trust is a foundation of a healthy, good marriage. We can have healthy good marriages again after infidelity, but the foundation of truth must be built back up brick by brick. Without that foundation, the building (marriage) can't stand with just 3 walls.
This is very true, doesitgetbetter! Thank you for your insight! Thank you all! I think I need to take a deep breath and once again demand the truth if I ever want to trust and let my walls down again. This is so tiring!!!


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The number of council and housing association homes has plunged by 36 per cent in the 30 years since Margaret Thatcher introduced the right-to-buy policy figures have revealed.
Even that huge fall masked much bigger declines in parts of the North-East – particularly in County Durham (48.6 per cent), Stockton (36.7 per cent) and Redcar and Cleveland (34.5 per cent).
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In total, there are now only 264,525 social housing properties across the North-East and North Yorkshire, down from nearly 415,000 back in 1981.
Meanwhile, waiting lists for housing have rocketed because, critics argue, the homes that were sold off have not been replaced.
The statistics were published as the Government ordered the sale of up to £10bn of publicly-owned land – around hospitals, schools, military bases and roads – to allow 100,000 homes to be built.
Whitehall departments and local councils will be required to identify surplus land, some of which will be sold under a build now, buy later deal, allowing cash-strapped developers to pay up once the homes are completed.
But Shelter, the charity for the homeless, questioned how many of the homes would be affordable for low-earners – given the need for the Treasury to maximise its profits from land sales.
Campbell Robb, its chief executive, said: "We have 1.8 million households on waiting lists, more and more families stuck in an insecure private rented sector and millions priced out of the housing market.
"A lack of affordable housing is the root cause. It is absolutely essential that local authorities start prioritising spending on housing delivery to meet need."
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The 10-room brick house in north suburban Bannockburn that former Bears coach Mike Ditka owned from the time it was built until selling it in 1997 has come on the market for $2.29 million.
Built in 1989, the four-bedroom Colonial-style house was owned by Ditka and his wife until they sold it for $1.45 million in 1997 to the family that now has it on the market. Features in the house include four and a half baths, four fireplaces, custom oak built-ins and trim, marble floors, a kitchen with double appliances, a spa basement with a sauna, an exercise room, a wine cellar and a four-car garage, according to listing information. The house sits on more than 2 acres.


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Food snobs will tell you you're a chump for signing up for this because chefs just dump their cheap ingredients on supposedly less-refined palates, and sometimes the prix-fixe isn't even much cheaper than their usual price (21 Club's standard prix-fixe is only $5 more). Also, once the staff finds out you're there for Restaurant Week you might as well be invisible, for they sometimes wrongly assume you're a cheap bastard.
But we can personally vouch for very positive Restaurant Week experiences at Crema and Indochine during the last Restaurant Week (though the hotties who work at the latter can make it hard to focus on things, like chewing and swallowing.) The only thing to do is to pick a well-reviewed restaurant that's way more expensive than you'd usually pay for and throw caution to the wind. Worst case scenario is you pay what you expected – plus the drinks and whatever loose change you can scrounge up for a tip. Reservations will be taken starting tomorrow; details here.


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PARIS, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- There's good news and bad news for aircraft manufacturers in two new, separate projections by Airbus of France and Forecast International of the United States.
On the plus side, Airbus predicts worldwide air freight traffic will grow by an average of 4.8 per cent annually over the next 20 years, almost doubling the required global freighter fleet to nearly 3,000 aircraft.
On the down side, Forecast International says the market for light military helicopters, which more than doubled between 2006 and 2010, is on the slide.
"The trend in annual production in the light military rotorcraft market over the next 10 years will be somewhat uneven, but the overall trajectory will be downward," said Forecast International senior aerospace analyst Raymond Jaworowski.
Airbus made its projection in a report titled Cargo Global Market Forecast. It said a variety of factors will contribute to growth in the market -- world trade, private consumption, and industrial production – and that new cargo freighters by 2032 will be worth about $234 billion to manufacturers. There will also be revenue earned from conversion of passenger aircraft to freighter configurations.
In making the assessment, Airbus said freight carried aboard passenger planes was taken into account.
"Looking forward after a difficult few years, world trade is showing improvements and diverse emerging markets will call for increased flexibility in air cargo transportation, for which mid-size freighters will be the primary means to achieve this," said Andreas Hermann, Airbus' vice president and head of the company's Freighters business said. "This is why Airbus forecasts that the core of future freighter requirements will be in the mid-size category, where modern-technology freighters will play a large part in future fleet replacement and long-term growth."
Airbus said emerging markets are the fastest growth area for air cargo. The Asia-Pacific region currently represents 36 per cent of the world's freight traffic and will increase to 42 per cent by 2032, it said. China is the single largest individual nation driving air cargo growth: 15 percent currently and a projected 22 percent in 2032.
While growth is foreseen in the air cargo market, the opposite is true in the market for light (less than 15,000 pounds) military helicopters.
In its study -- The Market for Light Military Rotorcraft – Forecast International predicted that 1,411 of these rotorcraft, worth $23.6 billion in constant 2013 dollars, -- will be produced between 2013 and 2022, but the represents a declining market.
"Annual production of light military rotorcraft more than doubled between 2006 and 2010, as yearly output rose from 94 units in 2006 to 209 in 2010," Forecast International said. "By 2012, though, production totaled only 180 units, and Forecast International predicts that further decline is in store over the next 10 years."
Production of the helicopters will total 171 units in 2013 but decline to 109 units by 2022, it said.
The projection cites shrinking defense budgets and the end to a number of acquisition programs.
Very few new programs have emerged that would help keep overall production in the market on an upward, or even stable, course during the forecast timeframe," it said. "The situation is especially acute in the U.S. and in much of Europe.
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Vizio continues with their busy CES announcements with two additions to the intriguingly named "Black Tie" range of LCD HDTV's. The SV42LF 42-inch LCD and SV47LF 47-inch, both have 4 HDMI connections, full 1080p resolution, 120Hz processing and a side access HD game port with HDMI.
Te real differentiator though is the MEMC (Motion Estimation, Motion Compensation) that they both feature, which is a "breakthrough" in video processing that eliminates motion blur.
"Using the latest panel technology, 120 frames per second (fps) is generated from regular 50/60Hz broadcast content."
The range will be getting a new look as well with a new sleek industrial design frame incorporating a brushed aluminum accent below the bottom of a thin, piano black bezel. "When viewed with advanced video processing of 120Hz with MEMC and 6500:1 contrast ratio, the Full 1920×1080 – 1080p resolution allows for exceptionally deep, rich blacks and extraordinarily brilliant colors." All Black Tie models include a standard/HDTV/QAM combination tuner, RF input and are compatible with 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p and 480i input sources and a detachable base to accommodate on-wall mounting.
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Slapping a Cop Seems Like an Inefficient Way to Quit Smoking, Right?
So you've tried patches, nicotine gum, and Chantix in order to kick the smoking habit. Etta Mae Lopez went with a less conventional method – she smacked a police officer across the face in order to be taken to jail where smoking is not allowed.
The 31-year old slapped Sacramento County sheriff's Deputy Matt Campoy, and later pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery of a police officer.
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New cars are better than they've been in generations and many are being heavily discounted, which means it's a pretty great time to buy a new car. But which one? It's not an easy question, and, like all the hard questions in your life, Jalopnik's here to help with a giant chart that tells you exactly which car to buy.
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Kick off the fall season on the Greenway with our family-friendly Fall Frolic festival, packed with activities for all ages. Fall Frolic on the Greenway runs Saturdays and Sundays, October 5-27. Non-member entry is $12 for all ages (4 and under free). Greenway Member entry is $8 (must have valid membership card). Seniors age 65+ is $6.
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Leave it to the Skill Sets to piss me off after a great weekend. With J-Man back as Warlord and his willingness to toss some of his weight around with Omar,  J-Man agrees with Mets fans that the team needs to leave it's pussyifed ways behind them, along with thoughts of Manny, Pierzyniski, Peavey and Sugar from Survivor running through my head (not only does Sugar ooooozzzzzeee sexiness she's from Brooklyn too) a couple of articles this weekend have my blood boiling which doesn't take much when it comes to the Mets and the Sill Sets.
First, there is a story of the woman who had sprinkled her late father's ashes on the pitching mound at Shea Stadium a few years back. Now that the ball park is being dismantled, Lisa Hanson and her son Ben went to Shea with the wish of scooping up some dirt from the mound as a remembrance of her dad. But of course the management of the Mets, which we know is totally clueless when it comes to customer relations, told Ms. Hanson that she could not go on the field because of the work being in done on the take down of Shea. Okay, she did show up unannounced and maybe a bad time but you would think some dolt in management would have come out and made an arrangement with Ms. Hanson to get her remembrance but that would take intelligence and compassion which is in very short supply under the Skill Set regime as we see here with this quote from Skill Set Court Jester Jay Bird Horowitz:
 Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz said the organization could not let Hasson on the field for "safety reasons, " as workers were tearing out the bleachers and using large machinery.
""I'm not trying to be hard about it, " Horwitz said.â€But the stadium is closed."
I think Horowitz was juggling and wearing a five pointed jester hat when he made this stupid remark (I can't substantiate this rumor but I heard when he looked out of the new $iti Field press box, he said "Oh look I see Russiaâ€.) I guess it would be too much to have some GOOD publicity out of Flushing as the Skill Sets could not figure out how to give this woman a date to come back and go on the field to scoop the dirt,  maybe if she bought a couple of $869.00 seats they'd do her the solid.
Thankfully a couple of Mets fans/construction workers came to Ms. Hanson's rescue. I want to see Jeffey say something to the hard hats for doing this good deed so they can attach the hook from one of the cranes to his arse and lift him off the ground until he cries. Â
We all know that Shea was inundated with felines and their job was to keep the rat droppings off the sausage grills (I know you're all going EEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, but you know what I doing you folks a favor stop eating that shit it's no good for you.) but the cats have been a Shea staple and now a team of animal rescuers want the cats to be moved over to $iti Field. I don't know what these folks are even bringing it up, the cats are smart enough to know to go next door as the rats from Flushing Bay and the Iron Triangle will be on the $iti Field doorstep. Along a new closer and a slugging outfielder, a good tabby is escentail to success at $iti Field. Just remember that when you hit the Shake Shack concession.
More anger from bloggers about the rip off by the Skill Sets when $iti Field opens. This one comes from Andrew Beaton of Hot Foot with his post Outrage At $iti Field. I wish there were a way t ofind out who is buying up these luxuary boxes and paying all the dough for the seats behind the $iti Field backstop and if any of this bailout cash is going to Mets tickets? Â
I can't figure out who I want to advance to the World Series but I know the Phucking Phillies are not on that list. I look at the Brooklyn Dodgers of Los Angles and I see Manny and the case he keeps making for Omar and Tony B to turn on that Latin charm and Skill Sets coin to bring him to Flushing. I look at the Rays and I see Scott Kazmir and Joe Maddon (I got to get me a pair of Joe Maddon frames) and the fact that Stu Sternberg is not only a Mets season ticket holder but he's from Brooklyn (maybe me and Stu can go over to Sugar's house) then I look at the two pair of Sox and I'm rooting for Tito , Papi and Pap to do his jig but then I love Ozzie "Fuck the Cubs†Gullien as he is the most honest and up front manager in baseball. The Halos play the game they way Little League coaches should teach kids to play from the age of 5. So what to do? The Kazmir, Joe Maddon specs and the Brooklyn/Mets fan component is too strong for me to fight so it's GO RAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tim March man is alive and well and writing for the Wall Street Journal. A tip of the Mets cap to Craig Calcaterra of Shysterball for the link.
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Radio Host Ben Ferguson Needs Remedial Class in Reading
I think radio is what McLuhan called a "hot" medium.
In some ways, Ben Ferguson has won the day. I am writing this post about him, and his listeners are blowing up my phone at work, many of them calling just to swear at me. Here's what has happened:
For our Best Suburbs issue, I spent an afternoon in Rockwall to write a ditty about that fine burg. Two things struck me: first, the contrast between the gaudy, struggling Harbor development on the lake and the charm and bustle of the historic downtown; and, second, James Russell. Russell has cut hair in his tiny Hair Cut Place for a long time. Congressman Ralph Hall has been a customer for 20 years (which means he started going to Russell when he was 70). Before I drove back to Dallas, on a whim, I stopped in to get my head shaved by Russell — who shared his political views with me willingly and colorfully. From the story I wrote:
"I've been cutting Ralph Hall's hair for 20 years, his kinfolk's even longer," he says, pointing to a framed picture of the congressman. "He's a gentleman. That guy who beat him? He's an asshole. All these assholes have moved in here. I had a better clientele 20 years ago, no assholes."
Russell doesn't say this with anger. He sounds more bemused. By the way, he thinks the chief of police is also an asshole.
The haircut was a good one and cost $10. The diatribe was even better, and it came free of charge.
So this morning I got an email from Ben Ferguson inviting me onto his show, which airs on WBAP. "Wanted to get you on my show to talk about the asshole problem in Rockwall," Ferguson wrote. I told him I didn't have much more to say. I went to Rockwall and got my hair cut. I suggested Ferguson try to book Russell, who I think would make a great guest (except for the fact that he doesn't have a phone in his barbershop).
About two hours ago, the tweets started. Then the phone calls — to me, to Cristina, to our sales staff. Like I said, some folks were just calling to cuss and blow off talk-show generated steam. One woman accused me of being an "Obama lover." I talked to a guy from Waco, though, who hung up with a much different notion of what has happened here after I explained to him that I thought Ferguson was twisting my words to gin up anger on the air, that all I did was quote a barber I found in Rockwall who feels a loyalty to Ralph Hall, that I had no dog in the hunt, and that I wasn't trying to say anything negative about the Tea Party or the Rockwall chief of police. "Oh," the caller from Waco said. "Thanks for explaining that."
Ferguson seems to be enjoying the controversy and has said the invitation still stands to come on his show and explain myself. I've given him material to twist for one morning. I'm not inclined to give him more.


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Another way of increasing the electric field projection is through the use of a shield. In Figure 3, there is a ground pattern surrounding the sensor (blue area – representation of hatch pattern). This hatch is generally connected to ground. In the case of proximity sensors, this leads to lower electric field strength at greater distances, as shown below. Capacitive sensing controllers generally come with a shield electrode pin which is driven with the same voltage as that of the sensor. For proximity sensors, the hatch should be connected to this shield electrode.
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Sliders are gaining popularity for volume or intensity control. These can be laid out in different shapes, including linear and circular. A slider is actually a group of multiple independent sensors placed physically adjacent to each other. Actuation of one sensor results in the partial actuation of adjacent sensors. The actual position of the slider is found by computing the centroid location of the set of activated sensors (See Figure 4).
For the centroid calculation, a minimum of 2 sensors must be activated when they are touched. To meet this requirement, the size of the segments (i.e., independent sensors) in the slider has to be reduced. This increases the number of segments required to achieve a particular length. Figure 4B shows another arrangement in which sensors are laid in a chevron or W pattern. This pattern has the advantage of having comparatively bigger segments while still being enabling a finger to touch multiple segments when placed or swiped on the slider.
Similar to a linear slider, a radial slider can also be designed. The only difference between the two is the arrangement of the segments and the software algorithm because a circular slider does not have a starting or ending point. Care must be taken in the case of a circular slider that the sensors are not connected at the center.
Track pad
As noted in the previous section, a linear slider can only locate a finger in one dimension, thus by arranging two linear sliders in X and Y pattern, we can locate a finger's position in both X and Y dimensions. A typical arrangement of such a sensor pattern is shown in Figure 5.
In this arrangement, sensors are laid in the form of a diamond pattern. All the diamonds in a single row are connected together to act as a single segment of the Y slider. Similarly, diamonds in a single column are connected to act as a single segment of the X slider. The resolution and linearity required determine the size of the diamond. A typical diamond size is 4 mm. While increasing the size further would certainly reduce the number of pins required, the resulting response would not be linear.
Routing considerations
While placing the sensors on a PCB, care must be taken that no communication or switching signals are routed in parallel to sensor traces, as this will introduce crosstalk or switching noise on the sensor traces. This problem can be dealt in a number of ways:
Routing on a different layer: On a multilayer board, one layer can be used only for routing sensor traces while another layer is used for switching signals. Care must be taken that the two layers are isolated with a Vdd or Gnd layer between them.
Proper allocation of pinouts: Group sensors on one side of the IC and LED/communication signals on the other. This will ease the routing of traces by providing considerable space between the sensor and other switching signals.
Shielding: Sometimes it is not feasible to have more than a 2-layer PCB because of cost constraints. It may also not be possible to group sensor and LED/communication signals separately because of hard-wired pinouts. In such cases, one must shield the sensor traces with ground traces to reduce the effect of crosstalk.
Orthogonal routing: If nothing else can be done, traces should cross orthogonally instead of running parallel to limit the effect of crosstalk to a minimum.
Ground considerations
In order to make the design immune to environmental noise, all sensors should be surrounded by ground. Placing ground in close proximity provides a distinct advantage by reducing the noise significantly; however, it also increases the parasitic capacitance of the sensor. This goes against our objective.
This problem can be resolved by compromising between the two. Use of hatched/meshed ground patterns help in reducing the noise. They reduce noise less than a solid ground pattern but keep parasitic capacitance in control (see Figure 6).
Another important consideration is the button-to-ground or segment-to-segment clearance. The following golden rule can be used when deciding upon the button-to-ground clearance:\
Clearance (min:0.5mm;max:2mm)= Overlay thickness (acrylic)
This means that the clearance between the sensor and ground or segment and segment should be equal to the overlay thickness (in case of acrylic) with the minimum clearance being 0.5 mm and the maximum being 2 mm.
Ensure that the ground surrounding the sensor is connected to the IC ground to keep the current loop area as small as possible. Figure 7 shows an example where ground is not connected properly.
Violating this not only nullifies the effect of grounding but can also cause both immunity and emission problems.
Radiated Emissions
Any trace laid on the PCB can act as an antenna which is capable of both radiating and receiving. Using a Pseudo Random Sequence (PRS) generator for switching the sensor traces helps in reducing emissions. Additional circuitry is required to make the system immune to RF noise from the surroundings.
Having filters in software does help in improving the noise response but the first attempt should always be to not to let the noise enter into the device in the first place. This can be achieved by placing a simple series resistor of 560 ? next to the sensor pin. The pin capacitance of the sensor and the resistor together form a simple low pass filter, which filters out RF noise in the range of several 100 MHz and does not let it to enter into the device. Noise that is less than 100 MHz is not a concern to us because such signals need an antenna with a trace length of several meters (l = lambda/4).
Placing the series resistor not only helps in increasing the immunity but also reduces the surges of current required to charge the sensor, thus reducing the switching noise on Vdd, which in turn reduces the emission.
Conducted Immunity and Emissions
Proper usage of the decoupling capacitor and small current loop helps in keeping conducted immunity and emissions under control. For noisy systems, a passive filter or a ferrite bead on the power supply line helps in keeping the noise level under control.
By following the guidelines mentioned above, one can safely improve the SNR and have a reliable working board.
Tuning for production
So far, we have discussed various aspects of a capacitive touch sensor design, various types of capacitive sensing technologies, which to use for which purpose, and which sensor patterns are appropriate. We also discussed the performance and reliability related parameters. To address board-to-board and device-to-device variations due to production, tuning and calibration of these parameters is required for optimum performance in the field.
Tuning is one of the largest concerns for capacitive keypad designers. Engineers have always been wary of the apparent hard and time-consuming nature of this process. While it is true that there are many considerations to be made when calibrating a capacitive keypad, the process becomes much easier once we understand the variations to be considered and their implications. In the next part of this series, we'll discuss how to accommodate and account for variation to create a reliable application.
About the Authors
Priyadeep Kaur has completed her BE in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh and is currently working with Cypress Semiconductor India Pvt. Ltd. as an Application Engineer. Her interests are embedded systems, analog circuits, and DSP. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Pushek Madaan is currently working with Cypress Semiconductor India Pvt. Ltd. as a Senior Application Engineer. His interests lie in designing Embedded system applications in C and assembly languages, working with analog and digital circuits, developing GUIs in C# and, above all, enjoying adventure sports. Pushek can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Purchased with funds from an Anonymous Donor, with support from the Dedalus Foundation, 1998 98/79 © Estate of Robert Motherwell
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Robert Motherwell (1915 – 1991) was one of the most important figures in the development of Abstract Expressionism. He is widely known for his "black on white" paintings, such as his "Elegies for the Spanish Republic" series. However, "drawings played an essential role in the gestation and evolution of his central themes and core visual ideas", as the Art Gallery of Ontario notes in a press release.
Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO's Director and CEO, declared that 'Painting on Paper: The Drawings of Robert Motherwell' "gives visitors the opportunity to explore the mind and works of Motherwell", adding that the exhibition offers "an in-depth look at the artistic process and evolution of one of the movement's major figures".
The Art Gallery of Ontario houses one of the finest collections of works by Robert Motherwell, having acquired 74 drawings and paintings by the artist in 1998. As Brenda Rix, AGO's assistant curator of prints and drawings, says, "Motherwell aims to express human feelings and the human spirit through gestural lines and bold forms".
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you didnt do anything wrong it just will not work. , u need a tv that can get the pal signal, so ur sol like me until after the 26th
... I am thinking about killing myself right now.
I've been going through forums and asking questions for at least 3 days, without finding answers to my concerns.
I am really hoping I can get help here, it's my last resort.
Keep in mind that I am a huge noob about this whole subject, so you'll have to be a little patient
God bless the person that helps me!
I downloaded a PAL version of wii Sports Resort.
I live in Canada and therefore have an NTSC Wii/old TV.
I tried following this guide:
"1. MAke a NeoGamma Folder in the root of SD card and put the RZTP.dol file inside it. Boot.dol needs to be there too
2. Load Neogamma R6 via Homebrew Channel and have the settings like this:
002 fix: ON
Alternative dol: SD
3. Then just launch the disc or USB. You'll see a stupid video with a bint with sexy hands for about 3 minutes. Video ends and then it restarts the Wii
4. Restart Neogamma and change the settings so the it doesn't run the alternative dol."
And it seemed to work fine until I got to step 4. The screen is black and white, and it jumps up and down making it nearly impossible to see what's going on.
I'm pretty confident my mistake is in the settings of NeoGamma. I put the video forcing mode on "Wii" and it gave me a green screen. I put it on "NTSC500somethingi" and it gives me a black screen... The black and white screen appears on "Disk"
Can you please help me out and tell me what I'm doing wrong?
you didnt do anything wrong it just will not work. , u need a tv that can get the pal signal, so ur sol like me until after the 26th
Another thing you could do is download the JAP version. Thats what I am using. Eventhough i dont understand a thing in JAP, I can easily navigate through the menues. If you know how the first wii sports is set up, youll know how to use this one as well. Very fun game. Just make sure you have the motion plus.
That can't be right, I've seen other people playing it even though they don't have a PAL TV.
There has to be a way.
Is this for all the pal games or just sports resort?
Because when downloading a game, they usually only have the PAL version on torrents... do you know where to get NTSC ISO's?
I have a PAL game that was doing the same thing. I boot it thru Neogamma R6, using WBFS USB drive, this is my settings:
Region Options
Boot Language: Console Default
Force Video: Wii
Patch Video: No
VIDTV Patch: Yes
Patch Country: Yes
that's it, no other changes in Neogamma. I am using cIOS36 rev10. This game is not the same game you are trying to boot, but it is a PAL game and I was getting the black and white flickering screen.
About that cIOS35 rev10 thing, what is it and how do I get it??
when you run Neogamma, at the bottom of the screen it will say what version of the cIOS you have installed, mine is 249 rev10. If you want to know about cIOS and IOS, click here.
Leave everything default and just change the settings for Video Force: NTSC (480i) Thats what I did for a PAL game that I regionfriid for the US region for it to show up in the Disc channel, but when I chose to use the BackupLoader instead it wanted to show up the opposite like I was in Europe trying to play a NTSC game and I had to use that setting.
Last edited by Brewaholic; 07-24-2009 at 01:00 AM.
I use GX Loader or GX Forwarder, I have the Video Mode on Automatic and 002 fix on. This works on NTSC running on Pal. The green screen stays on for a couple of seconds then game loads.
Hope this helps.
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Well heeled: Men march against violence
While their footwear was questionable, their cause could not have been more worthy.
They marched in heels as a way of saying no to domestic violence. And they raised money for the cause in the YWCA�s second annual Walk a Mile in her Shoes.
So, as I did last year, I have singled out men who went the extra mile to make a point. Without further ado, the second annual Frankie Awards:
Best shoes: Hands down, this one goes to Carl Howard, an accountant at Virchow Krause, who sported 6-inch Plexiglas stiletto heels with straps decorated with little mirrors. He raised $600 for the cause by getting his office mates to pledge, but they had conditions: They got to pick the shoes, and he had to wear them at work half the day.
Young courage: Ryan Vicenzi and Sam Novak, both 14 and from Milton High School, who wore heels despite what their friends might say. �As long as I�m giving to the women and children,� Ryan said.
Walking wounded: Jeff Bealles, whose weight collapsed one of his heels just over halfway through the march. He soldiered on with one shoe.
Public service: The Janesville City Council. Three of its members�Tom McDonald, Yuri Rashkin and Bill Truman�marched in heels. No Janesville School Board members were noticed in the crowd. Their members should be shamed into participating next year.
Fancy dresser: Truman again, not only for his massive platform shoes but for his white cotton skirt with tulle accents that would have looked lovely on some damsel.
Good sport: Ed Martinez, who knelt curbside to buckle Truman�s shoes.
Innovator: Rob Gamble, chef at the Janesville Country Club, who couldn�t find a pair of women�s heels in size 13 double-E, so his wife helped him hack a pair of heeled cowboy boots into a reasonable facsimile, complete with plastic jewels. Rob kept his dignity, however, with a chef�s jacket and a kilt. Rob also donated 200 chocolate truffles for the after-party at The Armory.
Mr. Outlandish: This was a close call, but dapper attorney Larry Barton wins it with a pair of shiny black platform boots that laced all the way up to his knees. It was the silky black shorts with the U.S. Marines logo that put him over the top.
Best makeup: Mark Terry. His mother, Jutta Terry, did his makeup and artfully painted his shoes. He wore a blonde wig and other accoutrement that he hoped added up to a casual French look.
Mark�s sister survived an abusive marriage, Jutta said, so he was marching for her.
Potato, potato, potato award: Gene Schaetten, Bruce Schumacher and Ken Wege of the local Harley Owners Group did not walk, but they wore leathers and heels and drove their Harleys up and down the route gunning their engines.
Best speech: Janesville Police Chief Neil Mahan, who brought sobering news: Just hours before the march, officers responded to a residence after receiving a frantic call from a woman. The man had locked the doors, pummeled her face and broke windows, Mahan said. Three small children were in the house. The man gave himself up peacefully.
�It points out just how severe the problem is,� Mahan said. �We make those runs more than 1,000 times a year in the city of Janesville.� Add to that 100 sexual assaults and 30 forcible rapes.
�You�re here to say Janesville won�t tolerate sexual abuse or domestic violence,� Mahan said.
�Right! That�s right!� the high-heeled men responded, and then burst into applause.
�Today, you bring your hearts, your checkbooks and in some cases your total disregard for appropriate men attire to this event,� Mahan said, restoring the laughter that dominated the march.
The JPD would not violate uniform standards to wear heels, Mahan said. However:
Bravest cop: Milton Police Chief Jerry Schuetz, who wore some tasteful black high-rise slippers that technically weren�t heels, but he certainly outdid the JPD.
Best accessory: Dan Wilcox, whose little dog DaVinci wore little gold booties and a gold ribbon to match Dan�s heels.
A final tally of the proceeds was not immediately available, but each walker was asked to raise at least $250, and at least six of them raised over $1,000, said organizer Allison Hokinson.
And as always, Allison wins Best organizer.
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The Chambers research team cites one interviewee as stating Spilman corporate attorneys "add value to transactions" and the team is "strong, solid and experienced" in major commercial transactions. Spilman attorneys John F. Allevato, Michael J. Basile, Amy King Condaras, Brian C. Helmick and Lee O. Hill are named as leading individuals in various divisions of the West Virginia corporate/ commercial law arena.
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Dec. 7, 2003
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Poem: "Books," by Billy Collins, from Sailing Alone Around the Room (Random House).
From the heart of this dark, evacuated campus
I can hear the library humming in the night,
a choir of authors murmuring inside their books
along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,
Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son,
each one stitched into his own private coat,
together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.
I picture a figure in the act of reading,
shoes on a desk, head tilted into the wind of a book,
a man in two worlds, holding the rope of his tie
as the suicide of lovers saturates a page,
or lighting a cigarette in the middle of a theorem.
He moves from paragraph to paragraph
as if touring a house of endless, paneled rooms.
I hear the voice of my mother reading to me
from a chair facing the bed, books about horses and dogs,
and inside her voice lie other distant sounds,
the horrors of a stable ablaze in the night,
a bark that is moving toward the brink of speech.
I watch myself building bookshelves in college,
walls within walls, as rain soaks New England,
or standing in a bookstore in a trench coat.
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves,
straining in circles of light to find more light
until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs
that we follow across a page of fresh snow;
when evening is shadowing the forest
and small birds flutter down to consume the crumbs,
we have to listen hard to hear the voices
of the boy and his sister receding into the woods.
Literary and Historical Notes:
It was on this day in 1941 that Japanese bombers attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack came after the United States had frozen Japanese assets and declared an embargo on shipments of petroleum and other war materials to Japan. On the morning of December 7, soldiers at Pearl Harbor were learning how to use a new device called radar, and they detected a large number of planes heading toward them. They telephoned an officer to ask him what to do. The officer said they must be American B-17s on their way to the base, and he told the soldiers not to worry about it. A sailor named James Jones, who would go on to write the novel From Here to Eternity (1951), was in the mess hall that morning. Because it was Sunday, there was a bonus ration of milk to go along with breakfast. Jones said, "It was not till the first low-flying fighter came . . . whammering overhead with his [machine guns] going that we ran outside, still clutching our half-pints of milk to keep them from being stolen."
The Japanese planes dropped bombs and torpedoes, and ships started capsizing and sinking. Men jumped and fell from the boats into the water, which was covered with burning oil. Most of the damage occurred in the first thirty minutes. The U.S.S. Oklahoma capsized, and the California, Nevada, and West Virginia sank in shallow water. The U.S.S. Arizona was completely destroyed, killing more than 1,500 soldiers aboard. When Nurses arrived for morning duty they found hundreds of injured men all over the base. The nurses ran around, administering morphine, and to prevent overdoses they wrote the letter M on each treated man's forehead.
There were ultimately 2,390 Americans killed at Pearl Harbor and 1,178 wounded. Two days after the attack, the Navy passed out postcards to the survivors and told them to write to their families, but not to describe what had happened. A man named George Smith said, "My mother didn't get that postcard until February. . . . When the mailman got [my] card at the post office, he closed down and ran all the way to my house . . . woke up my [parents] and told them, 'Your son's OK.' I would not see my mother for two and a half years."
Franklin D. Roosevelt called December 7, "a date which will live in infamy," and he used the event as the grounds for leading the United States into World War II.
It's the birthday of the novelist Willa Cather, born in Back Creek Valley, Virginia (1873). Her family moved west when she was a little girl, to get away from a tuberculosis epidemic. The disease had killed all of her father's brothers. Congress had recently passed the Homestead Act, and thousands of people were moving west to take advantage of the free government land. She always remembered the journey out to the plains, sitting on the hay in the bottom of a Studebaker wagon, holding on to the side to steady herself. She said, "As we drove further and further out into the country, I felt a good deal as if we had come to the end of everything - it was a kind of erasure of personality. I would not know how much a child's life is bound up in the woods and hills and meadows around it, if I had not been thrown out into a country as bare as a piece of sheet iron." Her family settled in Red Cloud, Nebraska, and most of her fictional Nebraska towns are based on it. She fell in love with the Nebraska landscape. She wrote, "Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth is the floor of the sky."
Cather idolized the immigrant women of Nebraska, who worked alongside men in the fields. As a teenager, she cut her hair short and wore boys' clothes, calling herself William Cather. She traveled around the town with the local doctors, telling everyone she was going to be a surgeon, and she did experiments on frogs in her spare time. But when she went off to college, she got involved in journalism and eventually moved to New York City to edit McClure's magazine. She became an extremely successful magazine editor at a time when men ran almost all magazines and newspapers in New York, but the job kept her from writing anything but short fiction. After living in New York for fifteen years, she quit her job and took a trip back home to Nebraska. Standing on the edge of a wheat field, she watched the first harvest that she had seen since her childhood. When she got back to the East, she began her first great novel, O Pioneers! (1913). She said, "This [is] the first time I walked off on my own feet--everything before was half real and half an imitation of writers whom I admired. In this one I hit the home pasture."
Cather went on to write many more novels about the westward expansion of the United States, including My Ántonia (1918), The Professor's House (1925) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927). They're novels about longing for an America that had been settled, divided up, fenced off, and lost.
Cather said, "We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it-for a little while."
It's the birthday of novelist and essayist Joyce Cary, born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland (1888). He started out wanting to be a painter, and went to art school, but nobody liked his paintings. He moved to Paris and tried to write a novel about the bohemian scene there, but he never finished it. Hoping to find better novel material, he volunteered for the British Red Cross in the Balkan War against Turkey. He nearly died twice and never wrote any fiction about the experience. After that he went to Africa, and almost died a half a dozen more times. In 1918, he was shot in the head, but survived. He said, "A special luck follows me everywhere. . . . I shall not die a violent death. My insurance money will be wasted."
In Africa, he started writing several novels, all of which he burned in frustration. Finally, he published a few stories about African colonial life in the Saturday Evening Post, and made enough money to write for a living. He's best known for his novel The Horse's Mouth (1944), which is narrated by a cranky, frustrated old painter named Gulley Jimson. He wrote, "Even the worst artist that ever was, even a one-eyed mental deficient with the shakes in both hands who sets out to paint the chicken-house, can enjoy the first stroke. Can think, By God, look what I've done. A miracle. . . . Must be one of the keenest pleasures open to mankind. It's certainly the greatest an artist can have. It's also the only one. And it doesn't last long, usually about five minutes."
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