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Celtics Morning Joe: Does KG need to move back to Power Forward?
|Posted by shawn cassidy on November 5, 2012 at 6:00 AM
The Celtics chemistry has been under a microscope since the preseason. Doc's been like Dr. Frankenstein trying to create the perfect monster. Doc has yet to find what he wants. I know what I want, and I don't know if I'll ever get it. First of all the Celtics clearly haven't solved their rebounding issues. They rank 27th in the league out of 30 teams. Their out rebounded by five a game. What will it take to rebound the basketball? Is it personnel? Is it Doc's choice? His defensive schemes.
Bass, and KG average 7 rebounds apiece. That's not horrible, but KG only plays 28-30 minutes a night, and obviously the Celtics struggle when KG hits the bench. The ream has nobody to turn to right now when KG hits the bench. His rebounding total without question would be 10-12 if he played some old school KG minutes, but he'll never be that again. So the show must go on.
A lot of hope hangs on Sullingers shoulders. He has a knack for rebounding, and hopefully in time he can continue to improve this season. The Celtics need to find a lineup that works when KG hits the bench. That lineup must use Rondo to his full ability. The Celtics have the deepest team, and maybe in time the Celtics will resolve their issues when KG is resting. They're missing a guy of his defensive intensity. A guy that can block a few shots. Bass is not that guy, Sullinger can be in time, and on occasion.
The real question could be this. Should Doc use the three centers more, and should KG move back to power forward? Darko showed some signs, but early injuries have set back his progress. Wilcox much of the same, and Collins is a good filler guy. Let's look at some rebounding numbers from the Wizards game.These are the totals for each teams bigs.
Bass/KG/Sully/Wilcox- 19 total rebounds (Wilcox had zero)
Martin/Seraphin/Okafor/Booker- 25 total rebounds
The Celtics were out rebounded by 6 by the Wizards big men. Overall it was 46-35. So the small guys also joined in on the fun. Rondo is the best rebounding point guard in the league. Right now he ranks 5th among NBA point guards.
I don't usually write about trade ideas, or about dealing guys that often. But Josh Smith really intrigues me. He's got an expiring deal, and his buddy Rondo plays for the Celtics. Currently Magic Johnson is pushing the Lakers to trade Gasol for Smith.
Atlanta's Josh Smith has an expiring contract and an apparent fan in Magic Johnson, who playfully suggested during a Fantasy GM segment on Friday night's "NBA Countdown" show that he'd love to see the Lakers trade for Smith -- even if it meant surrendering Pau Gasol -- because L.A. so badly needs athletes. Dwight Howard would surely learn to live with such a swap, too, given how close he and Smith are off the court, but there's precisely zero evidence in circulation to suggest it's anything other than a fun discussion for TV/entertainment purposes.
How can the Celtics get Smith? Sadly Green would have to go, and of course it's an upgrade if a trade would actually happen. The Celtics look a lot like last years team despite being the best team on paper.
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And at this point, I'm truly annoyed with Doc and Rondo. We've had a revamp of personnel to suit an uptempo, defense-oriented approach. Instead we seem to have the same old same old, an approach to offense that wasn't working when we had the best shooter in history on our team, and a defense that relies more and more on KG as he gets older. It's so blazingly stupid. I'm sorry, but for God's sake, wasnt' Rivers the best offensive coahc in the league and wasn't Rondo a genius? I'm sorry, but THIS crap is the result of all that brainpower? This team has no clue that one can see. Not even an idea, except run the same old offense that wasn't working, or no real offense at all.
wtf? This is what we were waiting for all summer?!! This is what i got so excited over?
Even the most obvious, the most blazinglyobvious move, Rondo attakcing and kicking, isn't happening. EVEN FAST BREAKING ISN'T HAPPENING. How stupid is the situation we are in? How blazingly stupid is this? Jeez, at least the Heat knew what they needed and went out and got it. We went out and got a bunch of guys so we could play more aggressively and more up tempo, and then we said to them 'hey, time to play slow-ball".
We need to play more aggressive ball on both ends. My god, why does anyone even have to say this? And it has to start with Rondo playing aggressive man-to-man defense on his opposite number. And if those two things don't happen, forget it. We'll just end up riding the Big Three to death again,and does anyone really think that is going to (almost) work again?
And yeah, I think Sully has to start so KG can move to PF. KG just doesn't have a taste for the paint - well, and who can blame him at his age? We are going to have to throw Sully in there and let him work it out the hard way.
But if Rondo doesn't play more sustained man-to-man D, forget it.
I do love, though, the fact that he has delivered the one main thing that was demanded of him; improved consistency. So I think he's trying to fullfill expectations and will raise his defensive intensity.
Greg says...
Doc would play Smith and Rondo 40 a night anway. We need someone like Smith to hold the fort when KG hits the bench. Trade Green for Smith?
I would trade almost anything for Smith. I mean, the Big Three should be untouchable, and Sully and AB should be nearly untouchable. We'd have to give up a couple of good players and picks. Ideally we'd give them Bass, Green and picks. They might want more though.
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TKThe kids weren't responding to my discipline tactics. It was time for a makeover.
By Jason Good from Parents Magazine
THREAT "If you ask to watch TV one more time, I'm tossing it out the window."
Problem There are many. For starters, what the hell am I going to do without a television? Also, I live in a nice community, and throwing things out the window would result in extreme social ostracism by my neighbors.
Revision "If you ask to watch TV one more time, I'll wander into the kitchen and stand there eating all the brownies until I figure out if I'm willing to distract you from the television by enthusiastically suggesting that we play a nice round of Zingo!"
RELATED: How to Discipline Your Kids
THREAT "Brush your teeth, or they'll turn green and fall out of your mouth."
Problem Kids really don't care at all about what happens in the future unless by "the future" you mean the next eight seconds.
Revision "If you don't brush your teeth, they'll get this weird orange film on them. Look at your little brother's teeth. See that stuff on them? He has that because he's 2 years old and insane and screams if we try to put a toothbrush in his mouth. Also, if you don't brush, you'll have to go to the dentist, and even though I've said his office is awesome and super fun and a place that gives you stickers, it actually kind of sucks, and you want to avoid it at all costs."
THREAT "Either you get dressed right now, or you're never getting dressed again."
Problem Not letting your child wear clothes is a red flag to child services. It also breaks your heart when after ten days they start begging you to let them get dressed.
Revision "If you don't get dressed, I'm going to become very still and stare out the window until you ask me if I'm okay."
THREAT "If you don't let me cut your fingernails, they're going to slice your face open."
Problem Now my 4-year-old thinks his hands are weapons. He's destined to develop some kind of Edward Scissorhands complex.
Revision "I want to cut your fingernails because I bite mine incessantly -- to the point where there's nothing left to bite -- and every time I see your beautiful, young, creamy, long fingernails, I fantasize about waiting until you're asleep and chewing them off. I'm not proud of that, and I know it's not okay, but luckily there's an easy fix."
THREAT "If you don't stop crying, I'm going to cry too."
Problem I can't cry on cue, so in the unlikely event that he calls my bluff, I'll be stuck staring at him, mired in the quicksand of my lie or, even worse, trying to fake-cry. The only thing more disconcerting to a child than seeing his father weep is realizing what a terrible actor he is. "Daddy, is that really how you cry? You look silly." Me: "This is totally how I cry. Does it look unnatural?"
Revision "If you don't stop crying, I'll ask you over and over again why you're crying, even though you can't catch your breath long enough to answer me. I'll hold you in my arms and say things like, 'It's going to be okay, sweet boy,' but I'll be rolling my eyes, since it's completely ridiculous to cry for 15 minutes because the cat stepped on your foot."
THREAT "Going to bed with dirty feet attracts monsters." (Pretty hacky, but I said it. Creativity tends to waver after 7 p.m.)
Problem He's 4, and monsters are still very real. Now I fear that he'll obsessively start washing his feet like he's at the Ganges River cleansing for an afternoon prayer.
Revision "Going to bed with dirty feet will ... actually, you know what? It doesn't matter at all. Fact is, I just feel like I'm not very helpful around here sometimes, and one of the only things I can do to contribute is to keep you clean. So, when you go to bed, I don't feel like I've been a good father if your feet ... wait, are you still awake?"
Originally published in the September 2012 issue of Parents magazine.
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I have tried several times but to no avail, I just don't have whatever balls it takes to walk off.
The only thing stopping me now from moving on is a lack of funds. We have drained our savings over the last six months, $25,000, buying DS a car, insurance, college tuition and books, etc. Neither one of us is in a position, financially, to split up so our stay in the Twilight Zone continues.
This personal thingh, it comes from my guilt over the death of a dd. I have traveles tis road several times on here, and it is back on me once again. I just do not know how to releive it. It weighs heavy, and it pulls me back worse than anything else
Can't imagine what you've gone through. Having an only child, this is my greatest fear. Can't even bear to contemplate it. Hope you find some kind of peace over this tragedy.
Don't get me wrong, I have my better moments, life is not horrible on the outside. My W is doing her best to travel in the right direction, and I appreciate it. It is all this other crap and the built up worries that wipe me out.
I appreciate the support here guys, it is just about all I really have.
Peart took a long sabbatical to mourn and reflect, during which time he traveled extensively throughout North and Central America on his BMW motorcycle, covering 88,000 km (55,000 miles). After his journey ended, Peart decided to return to the band. Peart wrote Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road as a chronicle of his geographical and emotional journey.
Mr. Kite, I'd never heard of the Neil Peart book. I'm sort of fascinated by the very idea of a grief-recovery memoir by a Randroid rock musician.
After what you did I can't stay on
And I'll probably feel a whole lot better
When you're gone
I cannot imagine the loss of one of my kids.
Part 7 WOW. We talk a lot!
Well, IMAJ may not have done it, but I did it last night--took WW back that is. Maybe I need a 2x4 or maybe I'm chump of the year. She's supposed to be ending it with OM right now. They're talking face to face. She says she loves him but is choosing me. She says she doesn't want to lose me or our family. Am I crazy for trying again after DD#4?
Oblivious: As others have said, be careful with this one. Personally, I wouldn't take her back unless she fulfills some conditions that have been mentioned throughout this site (NC, IC/MC, etc.) if a legit R were to work. This business of "she says she loves him" is a non-starter - 100% guaranteed. A marriage is b/w 2 people - not 3. She HAS to be rid of him in every regard if anything is to work b/w you 2. Until she does this, it's lip service. Frankly, after DD#4 and she's still telling you this stuff, I don't think she's being real remorseful.
I am not currently in IC, thought about it again, but I was there for years, thought I had a handle on most of it, took the journey, but you know, even then I could never come to find it in me to forgive me.It was a long process and it doesn't seem to know an end. I happen to be a church going man and have even addressed it in that arena also, with the same results. I can hear the logic, but just can't find the application to me, I just have never felt worthy to either ask for or to recieve any kind of forgiveness.
I think what really poured salt into the wound was the A. Just as has been discussed here many tmes is the loss of any esteem one might have had for ones self. Really guts ya. I can feel the battle that is in the current conversation, I don't have to worry about taking her back, I never left, and as with several of the guys here, just hanging in there. But nothing I see in any of these conflicts do anything to bring oneself back up to some kind of value within.
The question always seems to be to find that fingerhold in the chasam to work our way back up, and to be able to maintain that hold while enduring the tempest.
I'll let you know this, I find much strength here, I see you guys in all the various stages, success' and failures - and yet here you still are, clinging on and breathing at the same time. Cool. Hoping for the positive and dealing with whatever comes.
Kudos guys.
I worry that I keep finding myself on the same path in life. Is this where I am suppose to be or is it for me to find that different path. I like where I am at mostly, just wish I could avoid the low hangers that keep trying to knock me off.
Oh well, such as it is. I appreciate the oppurtunity to vent out a bit, it is a release I needed.
Thanks guys.
I just have never felt worthy to either ask for or to recieve any kind of forgiveness
None of us are worthy of forgiveness. We are not entitled to grace, but yet we all have it, whether we like it or not.
So many of us work so hard, try so hard, and nevertheless fail to find that holy grail. We make the mistake of thinking that we can find salvation through the merit of our good deeds and accomplishments, so we constantly reach upwards, with the belief in our potency to create our own reward. Yet we come up short, or even empty, standing alone. Life throws us curves, tragedies, we age, and we die.
By letting go and accepting that we are frail and undeserving, we allow grace to enter our hearts. Only then can we find what was there all along. To accept that gift is the bravest, most honest thing that we can do.
This is my recollection of last week's sermon, which shook me, and shook me hard.
[This message edited by OnceInALifetime at 1:24 AM, January 7th (Friday)]
I don't think I am trying to get ahead with good deeds, heck I am not sure what that would involve, obviously much more than anything I do. Me, I am just trying to get by with minimal impact or increased damage to the inner regions. I always figured that when the time comes, if it ain't too much, they'll need someone to swab the decks or muck out the stall. I hear I am pretty good at tossing it around by the shovel load.
But no, I'm not there yet.
I guess much of the thrust from Christianity of late has been about striving upwards, ascending, which, when you think about it, just sets you up for a fall. That's why this message, which is in fact a very old message, struck me as so novel.
[This message edited by OnceInALifetime at 1:36 AM, January 7th (Friday)]
I've found the broken part, been there for years. It is the contrite part that sticks me, am I teachable, guess not.
Guess I still got more miles to go, wow, that really blows.
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"I have the urge to declare my sanity and justify my actions, but I assume I'll never be able to convince anyone that this was the right decision. Maybe it's true that anyone who does this is insane by definition, but I can at least explain my reasoning.
I considered not writing any of this because of how personal it is, but I like tying up loose ends and don't want people to wonder why I did this. Since I've never spoken to anyone about what happened to me, people would likely draw the wrong conclusions.
My first memories as a child are of being raped, repeatedly. This has affected every aspect of my life. This darkness, which is the only way I can describe it, has followed me like a fog, but at times intensified and overwhelmed me, usually triggered by a distinct situation.
In kindergarten I couldn't use the bathroom and would stand petrified whenever I needed to, which started a trend of awkward and unexplained social behavior. The damage that was done to my body still prevents me from using the bathroom normally, but now it's less of a physical impediment than a daily reminder of what was done to me.
This darkness followed me as I grew up. I remember spending hours playing with legos, having my world consist of me and a box of cold, plastic blocks. Just waiting for everything to end. It's the same thing I do now, but instead of legos it's surfing the web or reading or listening to a baseball game. Most of my life has been spent feeling dead inside, waiting for my body to catch up.
At times growing up I would feel inconsolable rage, but I never connected this to what happened until puberty. I was able to keep the darkness at bay for a few hours at a time by doing things that required intense concentration, but it would always come back. Programming appealed to me for this reason.
I was never particularly fond of computers or mathematically inclined, but the temporary peace it would provide was like a drug. But the darkness always returned and built up something like a tolerance, because programming has become less and less of a refuge.
The darkness is with me nearly every time I wake up. I feel like a grime is covering me. I feel like I'm trapped in a contaminated body that no amount of washing will clean. Whenever I think about what happened I feel manic and itchy and can't concentrate on anything else. It manifests itself in hours of eating or staying up for days at a time or sleeping for sixteen hours straight or week long programming binges or constantly going to the gym. I'm exhausted from feeling like this every hour of every day.
Three to four nights a week I have nightmares about what happened. It makes me avoid sleep and constantly tired, because sleeping with what feels like hours of nightmares is not restful. I wake up sweaty and furious. I'm reminded every morning of what was done to me and the control it has over my life.
I've never been able to stop thinking about what happened to me and this hampered my social interactions. I would be angry and lost in thought and then be interrupted by someone saying "Hi" or making small talk, unable to understand why I seemed cold and distant. I walked around, viewing the outside world from a distant portal behind my eyes, unable to perform normal human niceties.
I wondered what it would be like to take to other people without what happened constantly on my mind, and I wondered if other people had similar experiences that they were better able to mask.
Alcohol was also something that let me escape the darkness. It would always find me later, though, and it was always angry that I managed to escape and it made me pay. Many of the irresponsible things I did were the result of the darkness. Obviously I'm responsible for every decision and action, including this one, but there are reasons why things happen the way they do.
Alcohol and other drugs provided a way to ignore the realities of my situation. It was easy to spend the night drinking and forget that I had no future to look forward to. I never liked what alcohol did to me, but it was better than facing my existence honestly. I haven't touched alcohol or any other drug in over seven months (and no drugs or alcohol will be involved when I do this) and this has forced me to evaluate my life in an honest and clear way. There's no future here. The darkness will always be with me.
I used to think if I solved some problem or achieved some goal, maybe he would leave. It was comforting to identify tangible issues as the source of my problems instead of something that I'll never be able to change. I thought that if I got into to a good college, or a good grad school, or lost weight, or went to the gym nearly every day for a year, or created programs that millions of people used, or spent a summer or California or New York or published papers that I was proud of, then maybe I would feel some peace and not be constantly haunted and unhappy.
But nothing I did made a dent in how depressed I was on a daily basis and nothing was in any way fulfilling. I'm not sure why I ever thought that would change anything.
I didn't realize how deep a hold he had on me and my life until my first relationship. I stupidly assumed that no matter how the darkness affected me personally, my romantic relationships would somehow be separated and protected.
Growing up I viewed my future relationships as a possible escape from this thing that haunts me every day, but I began to realize how entangled it was with every aspect of my life and how it is never going to release me. Instead of being an escape, relationships and romantic contact with other people only intensified everything about him that I couldn't stand. I will never be able to have a relationship in which he is not the focus, affecting every aspect of my romantic interactions.
Relationships always started out fine and I'd be able to ignore him for a few weeks. But as we got closer emotionally the darkness would return and every night it'd be me, her and the darkness in a black and gruesome threesome. He would surround me and penetrate me and the more we did the more intense it became.
It made me hate being touched, because as long as we were separated I could view her like an outsider viewing something good and kind and untainted. Once we touched, the darkness would envelope her too and take her over and the evil inside me would surround her. I always felt like I was infecting anyone I was with.
Relationships didn't work. No one I dated was the right match, and I thought that maybe if I found the right person it would overwhelm him. Part of me knew that finding the right person wouldn't help, so I became interested in girls who obviously had no interest in me. For a while I thought I was gay. I convinced myself that it wasn't the darkness at all, but rather my orientation, because this would give me control over why things didn't feel "right".
The fact that the darkness affected sexual matters most intensely made this idea make some sense and I convinced myself of this for a number of years, starting in college after my first relationship ended. I told people I was gay (at Trinity, not at Princeton), even though I wasn't attracted to men and kept finding myself interested in girls. Because if being gay wasn't the answer, then what was?
People thought I was avoiding my orientation, but I was actually avoiding the truth, which is that while I'm straight, I will never be content with anyone. I know now that the darkness will never leave.
Last spring I met someone who was unlike anyone else I'd ever met. Someone who showed me just how well two people could get along and how much I could care about another human being. Someone I know I could be with and love for the rest of my life, if I weren't so fucked up. Amazingly, she liked me. She liked the shell of the man the darkness had left behind. But it didn't matter because I couldn't be alone with her. It was never just the two of us, it was always the three of us: her, me and the darkness.
The closer we got, the more intensely I'd feel the darkness, like some evil mirror of my emotions. All the closeness we had and I loved was complemented by agony that I couldn't stand, from him. I realized that I would never be able to give her, or anyone, all of me or only me. She could never have me without the darkness and evil inside me.
I could never have just her, without the darkness being a part of all of our interactions. I will never be able to be at peace or content or in a healthy relationship. I realized the futility of the romantic part of my life. If I had never met her, I would have realized this as soon as I met someone else who I meshed similarly well with. It's likely that things wouldn't have worked out with her and we would have broken up (with our relationship ending, like the majority of relationships do) even if I didn't have this problem, since we only dated for a short time.
But I will face exactly the same problems with the darkness with anyone else. Despite my hopes, love and compatability is not enough. Nothing is enough. There's no way I can fix this or even push the darkness down far enough to make a relationship or any type of intimacy feasible.
So I watched as things fell apart between us. I had put an explicit time limit on our relationship, since I knew it couldn't last because of the darkness and didn't want to hold her back, and this caused a variety of problems. She was put in an unnatural situation that she never should have been a part of.
It must have been very hard for her, not knowing what was actually going on with me, but this is not something I've ever been able to talk about with anyone. Losing her was very hard for me as well. Not because of her (I got over our relationship relatively quickly), but because of the realization that I would never have another relationship and because it signified the last true, exclusive personal connection I could ever have.
This wasn't apparent to other people, because I could never talk about the real reasons for my sadness. I was very sad in the summer and fall, but it was not because of her, it was because I will never escape the darkness with anyone. She was so loving and kind to me and gave me everything I could have asked for under the circumstances. I'll never forget how much happiness she brought me in those briefs moments when I could ignore the darkness.
I had originally planned to kill myself last winter but never got around to it. (Parts of this letter were written over a year ago, other parts days before doing this.) It was wrong of me to involve myself in her life if this were a possibility and I should have just left her alone, even though we only dated for a few months and things ended a long time ago. She's just one more person in a long list of people I've hurt.
I could spend pages talking about the other relationships I've had that were ruined because of my problems and my confusion related to the darkness. I've hurt so many great people because of who I am and my inability to experience what needs to be experienced. All I can say is that I tried to be honest with people about what I thought was true.
I've spent my life hurting people. Today will be the last time.
I've told different people a lot of things, but I've never told anyone about what happened to me, ever, for obvious reasons. It took me a while to realize that no matter how close you are to someone or how much they claim to love you, people simply cannot keep secrets. I learned this a few years ago when I thought I was gay and told people.
The more harmful the secret, the juicier the gossip and the more likely you are to be betrayed. People don't care about their word or what they've promised, they just do whatever the fuck they want and justify it later. It feels incredibly lonely to realize you can never share something with someone and have it be between just the two of you. I don't blame anyone in particular, I guess it's just how people are. Even if I felt like this is something I could have shared, I have no interest in being part of a friendship or relationship where the other person views me as the damaged and contaminated person that I am.
So even if I were able to trust someone, I probably would not have told them about what happened to me. At this point I simply don't care who knows.
I feel an evil inside me. An evil that makes me want to end life. I need to stop this. I need to make sure I don't kill someone, which is not something that can be easily undone. I don't know if this is related to what happened to me or something different. I recognize the irony of killing myself to prevent myself from killing someone else, but this decision should indicate what I'm capable of.
So I've realized I will never escape the darkness or misery associated with it and I have a responsibility to stop myself from physically harming others.
I'm just a broken, miserable shell of a human being. Being molested has defined me as a person and shaped me as a human being and it has made me the monster I am and there's nothing I can do to escape it. I don't know any other existence. I don't know what life feels like where I'm apart from any of this. I actively despise the person I am. I just feel fundamentally broken, almost non-human. I feel like an animal that woke up one day in a human body, trying to make sense of a foreign world, living among creatures it doesn't understand and can't connect with.
I have accepted that the darkness will never allow me to be in a relationship. I will never go to sleep with someone in my arms, feeling the comfort of their hands around me. I will never know what uncontaminated intimacy is like. I will never have an exclusive bond with someone, someone who can be the recipient of all the love I have to give. I will never have children, and I wanted to be a father so badly. I think I would have made a good dad.
And even if I had fought through the darkness and married and had children all while being unable to feel intimacy, I could have never done that if suicide were a possibility. I did try to minimize pain, although I know that this decision will hurt many of you. If this hurts you, I hope that you can at least forget about me quickly.
There's no point in identifying who molested me, so I'm just going to leave it at that. I doubt the word of a dead guy with no evidence about something that happened over twenty years ago would have much sway.
You may wonder why I didn't just talk to a professional about this. I've seen a number of doctors since I was a teenager to talk about other issues and I'm positive that another doctor would not have helped. I was never given one piece of actionable advice, ever. More than a few spent a large part of the session reading their notes to remember who I was.
And I have no interest in talking about being raped as a child, both because I know it wouldn't help and because I have no confidence it would remain secret. I know the legal and practical limits of doctor/patient confidentiality, growing up in a house where we'd hear stories about the various mental illnesses of famous people, stories that were passed down through generations.
All it takes is one doctor who thinks my story is interesting enough to share or a doctor who thinks it's her right or responsibility to contact the authorities and have me identify the molestor (justifying her decision by telling herself that someone else might be in danger).
All it takes is a single doctor who violates my trust, just like the "friends" who I told I was gay did, and everything would be made public and I'd be forced to live in a world where people would know how fucked up I am. And yes, I realize this indicates that I have severe trust issues, but they're based on a large number of experiences with people who have shown a profound disrepect for their word and the privacy of others.
People say suicide is selfish. I think it's selfish to ask people to continue living painful and miserable lives, just so you possibly won't feel sad for a week or two. Suicide may be a permanent solution to a temporary problem, but it's also a permanent solution to a ~23 year-old problem that grows more intense and overwhelming every day.
Some people are just dealt bad hands in this life. I know many people have it worse than I do, and maybe I'm just not a strong person, but I really did try to deal with this. I've tried to deal with this every day for the last 23 years and I just can't fucking take it anymore.
I often wonder what life must be like for other people. People who can feel the love from others and give it back unadulterated, people who can experience sex as an intimate and joyous experience, people who can experience the colors and happenings of this world without constant misery. I wonder who I'd be if things had been different or if I were a stronger person. It sounds pretty great.
I'm prepared for death. I'm prepared for the pain and I am ready to no longer exist. Thanks to the strictness of New Jersey gun laws this will probably be much more painful than it needs to be, but what can you do. My only fear at this point is messing something up and surviving.
I'd also like to address my family, if you can call them that. I despise everything they stand for and I truly hate them, in a non-emotional, dispassionate and what I believe is a healthy way. The world will be a better place when they're deadone with less hatred and intolerance.
If you're unfamiliar with the situation, my parents are fundamentalist Christians who kicked me out of their house and cut me off financially when I was 19 because I refused to attend seven hours of church a week.
They live in a black and white reality they've constructed for themselves. They partition the world into good and evil and survive by hating everything they fear or misunderstand and calling it love. They don't understand that good and decent people exist all around us, "saved" or not, and that evil and cruel people occupy a large percentage of their church. They take advantage of people looking for hope by teaching them to practice the same hatred they practice.
A random example:
"I am personally convinced that if a Muslim truly believes and obeys the Koran, he will be a terrorist." - George Zeller, August 24, 2010.
If you choose to follow a religion where, for example, devout Catholics who are trying to be good people are all going to Hell but child molestors go to Heaven (as long as they were "saved" at some point), that's your choice, but it's fucked up. Maybe a God who operates by those rules does exist. If so, fuck Him.
Their church was always more important than the members of their family and they happily sacrificed whatever necessary in order to satisfy their contrived beliefs about who they should be.
I grew up in a house where love was proxied through a God I could never believe in. A house where the love of music with any sort of a beat was literally beaten out of me. A house full of hatred and intolerance, run by two people who were experts at appearing kind and warm when others were around. Parents who tell an eight year old that his grandmother is going to Hell because she's Catholic. Parents who claim not to be racist but then talk about the horrors of miscegenation. I could list hundreds of other examples, but it's tiring.
Since being kicked out, I've interacted with them in relatively normal ways. I talk to them on the phone like nothing happened. I'm not sure why. Maybe because I like pretending I have a family. Maybe I like having people I can talk to about what's been going on in my life. Whatever the reason, it's not real and it feels like a sham. I should have never allowed this reconnection to happen.
I wrote the above a while ago, and I do feel like that much of the time. At other times, though, I feel less hateful. I know my parents honestly believe the crap they believe in. I know that my mom, at least, loved me very much and tried her best. One reason I put this off for so long is because I know how much pain it will cause her. She has been sad since she found out I wasn't "saved", since she believes I'm going to Hell, which is not a sadness for which I am responsible.
That was never going to change, and presumably she believes the state of my physical body is much less important than the state of my soul. Still, I cannot intellectually justify this decision, knowing how much it will hurt her. Maybe my ability to take my own life, knowing how much pain it will cause, shows that I am a monster who doesn't deserve to live. All I know is that I can't deal with this pain any longer and I'm am truly sorry I couldn't wait until my family and everyone I knew died so this could be done without hurting anyone.
For years I've wished that I'd be hit by a bus or die while saving a baby from drowning so my death might be more acceptable, but I was never so lucky.
To those of you who have shown me love, thank you for putting up with all my shittiness and moodiness and arbitrariness. I was never the person I wanted to be. Maybe without the darkness I would have been a better person, maybe not. I did try to be a good person, but I realize I never got very far.
I'm sorry for the pain this causes. I really do wish I had another option. I hope this letter explains why I needed to do this. If you can't understand this decision, I hope you can at least forgive me.
Bill Zeller
Please save this letter and repost it if gets deleted. I don't want people to wonder why I did this. I disseminated it more widely than I might have otherwise because I'm worried that my family might try to restrict access to it. I don't mind if this letter is made public. In fact, I'd prefer it be made public to people being unable to read it and drawing their own conclusions.
Feel free to republish this letter, but only if it is reproduced in its entirety."
Thanks for posting this. I have similar issues in my past and the betrayal of my FWW made me think that suicide would some how finally make all the pain go away. I tried it and failed but I still have moments where it seems like a solution, reasonable or not.
I even get upset at my postings. I used to be a reasonably articulate writer and speaker who could get my message through to whomever it was addressed. Now I feel like I'm just writing aimlessly. I would like to believe my past made me compassionate in my communications but now with the betrayal I feel like a shell with no emotions far to many days.
The last few days I've been down at the bottom of the roller-coaster. Reading this letter today was very thought provoking and helpful. There was a relative who recently committed suicide with no explanation and I've seen the damage it has done first hand. My heart doesn't believe that even such a well written statement as you have posted, would make the pain for those left, any less.
Thanks again.
The old glass half empty, half full thing.
I personally don't give a flying fuck anymore. I get up, do the best I can, and go to bed. I'm not going to break my back for a living anymore, I'm not going to do without because my adult kids are lazy, and I'm not going to risk heartbreak ever again. That's how I live, right, wrong, or indifferent; I don't give a fuck.
I always wondered about those folks w/shitty-looking places, now I have one. Best case scenario I gotta pay her half-so why make it worth any more? Actually it's better for me if it's worth less.


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text: Tom Bechman Archives Email Author Fair Weather Days Bring Out The Tractors Hoosier Perspectives All kinds of activities going on in fields once fields dried out. Published on: March 19, 2012 Tweet Post to Your Wall. Email Blog RSS Permalink Print Once fields dried out and the uncharacteristic warm weather continued through this past week, tractors and other vehicles of many sizes and descriptions began to appear in fields. Fertilizer dealers committed to judge evening FFA contests had to cancel out as farmers ramped up to take advantage of the good working days and get spring field activity done. There are still those weather sources that say it could be a cool, wet spring, although the latest word from Ken Scheeringa in the Indiana Climate Office is that warm weather should continue into April, maybe just not at such an extreme high above normal. May and June are still fuzzy on his radar screen. At any rate it's apparent people want to get work done when they can. Many didn't get this opportunity last year. Here's a sampling of what we've seen. As mentioned, we've seen fertilizer applicators, mostly commercial applicators, applying fertilizer on fields. We've also seen a few anhydrous tanks, and know that some people have applied anhydrous ammonia, starting on ground that is typically the first to warm up and dry out in the spring. Others took advantage of the warm, dry spell to seed grass or a cover for summer pasture. If the field was bare, they sometimes worked it in with a vertical tillage tool. In livestock areas, we've seen manure spreaders of various sizes and descriptions both heading to the field, and actually spreading manure in the field. By far the most activity we've seen so far is people tiling. Some are simply replacing tile in blow-holes where old tile failed. Others are running singe lines to an outlet to try to help their system work better. Then there are those who are installing an entire tile drainage pattern in a field. Some of these are contractors, many are farmers who have enough acres to justify having their own tiling equipment, either a trencher or a tile plow. We haven't seen a planter yet, other than in a barn lot, and we also saw a strip till rig ready to run in an area where it's too erosive to make strips in the fall. These people are serious- if you aren't, you don't figure out how to build a 24-row strip-till tool bar on your own that folds and allows you to carry it down the road. There are also people clearing brush and cutting out trees form fence rows. We've seen some fertilizer applied to pastures. Soil testing is likely going on, we just haven't seen it. And we haven't seen a planter actually running, although we know at least one field of soybeans was planted February 29 in central Indiana. Good weather in March brought out the equipment. What will April bring? We'll have to wait and see.


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My mother, in whose memory this site was created, was a cookbook addict. Her philosophy in life was based upon a statement attributed to Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536): When I get a little money I buy books, and if any is left I buy food and clothes. Replace "books" with "cookbooks" and you'll get my mother.
Over the years, she had passed on several of her cookbooks to me for fear that years of living in the United States would result in me abandoning the cuisine of my original country or, worse, becoming so culinarily syncretic that I can't tell how a dish is supposed to taste. Well, Mom is no longer with us, so she and I can't have our once never-ending discussion on her view on culinary syncretism and how I think it might not be built on terra firma.
How I miss debating with Mom. Heck, I miss hearing her voice, period.
Thai cookbooks, especially old ones, are notorious for errors, typographical or otherwise, and way-off measurements. The sin of omission of key ingredients is also exuberantly committed. You really have to pay attention and exercise not only commonsense but also extreme caution. If a cracker recipe calls for a liter of coconut milk and 1/2 cup of rice flour, a red flag should go up. With that kind of ratio, you know you're more likely going to get coconut milk goo rather than crunchy crackers. When chicken is mysteriously absent from a Thai chicken salad recipe, you know something's rotten in Bangkok.
This is clear evidence that the writer and the proofreader have conspired against you. Please be understanding if you see me walk around looking frustrated and paranoid for chances are I have just finished reading a few Thai cookbooks. They have that effect on otherwise trusting and relaxed human beings.
That's why Mom's cookbooks are so precious to me. They're full of her handwritten corrections, tweaks, comments, suggested variations, reports of people's responses, etc. When it comes to marginal notation, my mom would have given the Masoretes a run for their shekels.
I think of these notes as Mom's posthumous road signs which have several times saved me from potholes, deer, and boulders on the road of cooking. Sometimes, some of her "road signs" even lead to cool shortcuts which yield results that are close or identical to those achieved through a more laborious means.
A peanut sauce recipe in an old coconut milk-stained cookbook supplemented with my mom's handwritten notes is a case in point. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by the number of herbs and spices called for by several recipes for authentic Thai peanut sauce, here's my mom's recipe to the rescue.
All the herbs and spices are found in commercial Thai red curry paste. No need to hunt down all 20 of them. Interestingly, Mom opted for salt instead of the more traditional fish sauce; granulated sugar and vinegar are also used as handy replacements for the traditional palm sugar and tamarind pulp respectively — all with no lethal effects. Our family has enjoyed the sauce made this way for years.
A word about this recipe: If you're looking for a Chinese-style peanut sauce that goes over noodles or Vietnamese-style peanut sauce that is served with fresh spring rolls, this is not it. You can use this sauce in that way, if desired. But this is a Thai satay sauce which is on the sweet side, has a flavor that is found in Thai curry (but is not supposed to be hot), and is served as a dipping sauce for Thai-style satay.
If you're looking for the kind of peanut sauce that contains Chinese ingredients such as sesame oil, ginger, chili sauce, or hoisin sauce, this is not it. Thai-style satay sauce does not contain any of those ingredients and is not seasoned in the same way.
- One 13.5-ounce can of full-fat, unsweetened coconut milk
- 2 ounces (approximately ¼ cup) of Thai red (mom's preference and mine too) or Massaman curry paste (milder but flavorful)
- ¾ cup unsweetened (natural) creamy peanut butter (Do not use regular peanut butter or anything with added emulsifiers. It must be the type of natural peanut butter that comes with natural peanut oil on top and no sugar added. I often use Smucker's.)
- ½ tablespoon salt
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar or white vinegar (Do not use white wine, red wine, balsamic, or anything else — not even rice vinegar)
- ½ cup water
- Put everything into a medium heavy-bottomed pot and bring to a very gentle boil over medium heat, whisking constantly.
- Let the mixture simmer for 3-5 minutes over low heat; be careful not to let the mixture scorch at the bottom of the pot.
- Take the pot off the heat, let the sauce cool down to room temperature (or slightly warmer), and serve the sauce with satay or fried tofu.
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Claire's Diabetes Health Blog replaces sugar with Swerve to make this sauce diabetic-friendly.
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Il Mulino – One of my favorite restaurants in Fort Lauderdale. I always eat there several times when I am in town. They have really good food and the service is the best.
excellent stuffed breads – I love the garlic rolls. Stuffed bread recipes are original and interesting. I would go again, when I am in ft lauderdale.
Just Another Olive Garden – Very disappointing and goes to show you what happens when the real owners aren't involved any longer. Such a disappointment! Something always gets lost in translation and as for garlic rolls??? An authentic Italian restaurant would never serve garlic rolls. I have to agree with STACYPIE!
Another horrible example of commercialism and a new Olive Garden!
Editorial Review by Christy Buena – Locals flock for traditional Italian cuisine served in a casual atmosphere with friendly, attentive service.
Inconsistent, disappointing...doesn't even compare to food in NYC. – Been here a few times and the food is inconsistent. I really enjoyed the Fettucini Saporite and ordered it again and it was dry with very little sauce and raw spinach leaves. The pasta is excellent though. My husband ordered the Chicken Balsalmico. The chicken was rubbery. He also asked for the artichokes on the side and they came out cold like the just came out of the refrigerator cold. So, he ordered something else. He sent back the Penne Alla Vodka because the sauce was way too strong- 3 of us agreed with that one. The waitress was terrible. Never called over the manager and was lax with getting our waters to us- served the appetizer before we even were served water- very poor service. My husband spoke to the manager who told him the vodka sauce is not even made there- they buy it. The best part was the mozzarella sticks- great appetizer. Very disappointed that the food isn't as good with every visit there.
User review by brookal2 – It really is true what everyone says -- such a great place. Social and jovial inside -- great for a fun date or with kids or for when your parents are visiting you when they come down for the winter. Very good food and very good value. Nothing I wouldn't recommend about this restaurant. No reservations and gets very crowded, especially on weekends, of course. So come early, or not too hungry yet, or thirsty for a drink at the bar while you're waiting.
Great food- Go early – Excellent Italian food- Great pizza and pasta. The salad dressing is to die for. But be sure to go before 7 if you don't want to wait on line. They don't take reservations.
User review by urbabygurl7 – Il Mulino is def the best! I moved to NYC and haven't found anything that compares, especially to the Baked Ziti. Haven't had a bad dish there. THe garlic bread is really great. Too bad they dont have one in NY :(
Best Italian Food in Town! – I frequent Il Mulino at least once a week. Food is very tasty, generous portions, great prices, and friendly wait-staff. I've tried almost every other Italian restaurant within Broward County and always come back to Il Mulino. Try the eggplant parm... best in the country!!
Cheap Italian – Good lunch Italian place, inexpensive good food. The menu seemed a bit limited but had good options for lunch. The food came a bit slowly, but that seemed more a kitchen issue than a waitress one.
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Who can have dabigatran etexilate?
You should be able to have dabigatran etexilate if you have a type of atrial fibrillation known as nonvalvular and at least one of the following applies:
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- your heart pumps less blood around your body than normal
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DAD'S SWEARING … Although I'm not sure it's a good sign (or a bad one) in an 88-year-old man, my father has developed a daily habit of cussing up a blue streak at the mere mention of Pres. Bush's name, or the sight of his name in a newspaper, or even at gratuitously random moments during his waking hours … "That #&@*%$*!," he growls, sometimes three and four times for emphasis, his voice rising in anger and malice … Now I'm not one to take offense at colorful language in people of any age, and cussing seems a powerful evocation of emotion, but the sheer repetitiveness of the curses and the incongruity of a white-haired patriarch of a very patriotic nature (his custom has been to fly the flag daily in front of his suburban home) exploding into expletives four, five, sometimes 10 times during the day has been unsettling even to me – a live and let-live hippie … But for my dad, he rails against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have taken so many lives, the lies that got us there, the economy in shambles because of it, the compromised international human rights reputation of the U.S. after Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and this administration's defense of torture during interrogations …. "That #&@*%$*!," he growls.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE … It's quite a different world reading the Bay Area press from perusing the Denver metro dailies, even if the Hearst chain has taken over the venerable San Francisco institution, the Chron. Here's a random sampling from my week back there … A great piece by Kevin Fagan about Rev. Louie Vitale, 76, "one of the most active peace protestors to come out of the Bay Area since the 1970s." A champion of homelessness causes as pastor of SF's St. Boniface Church until retiring in 2005, the Franciscan friar has been jailed more than 100 times for charges related to nonviolent peace demonstrations, most recently for a 2006 demonstration against Fort Huachuca in Arizona, which is known as the "U.S. military's premier training grounds for torture techniques" and a Good Friday demonstration last week at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California where nuclear weapons are developed … An opinion piece by Dr R. Jan Gurley urging Big Pharma (the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry) to put some of their record profits into "developing a drug-removal process for water treatment" since so many pills, multivitamins, hormones, anti-biotics and other drugs are entering our drinking water through our urine … An editorial worrying that the recent outing of Admiral William J. Fallon as Mideast military commander after "a friendly Esquire magazine portrait saying Fallon would be key in staving off a possible war with Iran" might just be "a prelude to war with Iran" … A piece by Bob Egelko about the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco which ruled against an Oregon community which had argued it was entitled to maintain a drug-free workplace by requiring job candidates to be screened for drugs and alcohol. Not so, said the court. "A city can't require all job applicants to be tested for narcotics and must instead show why drug use in a particular job would be dangerous" … And a piece by Ruthe Stein covering the movie Milk (starring Sean Penn) being filmed in San Francisco about the charismatic gay supervisor assassinated by a fellow supervisor wingnut in 1978. Harvey Milk was the supervisor from the district I was living in back then, and I would see him on the city bus and on the streets. He was completely approachable, listened to everyone (even me) and was a big inspiration for my getting involved in politics.
TIBET ALERT … Cyberace Lee Taylor warns that Chinese cyberhacks are attacking Tibet support groups and individuals with emails that may appear to come from a trusted person or organization. As Thomas Clayburn reported in Information Week, "A shadow war against organizations supporting Tibetan protesters has erupted in cyberspace, mirroring efforts by Chinese authorities to quell unrest in the Tibet. " … Added Mikko Hypponnen, chief research officer at F-Secure, "Somebody is trying to use pro-Tibet themed e-mails to infect computers of the members of pro-Tibet groups to spy on their actions. And this is not an isolated incident. Far from it." … To enhance the cyberattack legitimacy, the messages contain information related to recent events in Tibet and may appear to come from a trusted person or organization. But the content is simply bait, a social engineering con, to get recipients to open the documents and trigger an exploit. "The exploit silently drops and runs a file called C:\Program Files\Update\winkey.exe," explains Hypponen. "This is a keylogger that collects and sends everything typed on the affected machine to a server running at HYPERLINK "http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/cmp/tc_cmp/storytext/206905235/26809455/SIG=10l8jl2s1/*http:/xsz.8800.org" xsz.8800.org. And HYPERLINK "http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/cmp/tc_cmp/storytext/206905235/26809455/SIG=10hvbbmr7/*http:/8800.org" 8800.org is a Chinese DNS-bouncer system that, while not rogue by itself, has been used over and over again in various targeted attacks."
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life sometimes jumps out at you
and totals your car.
It comes careening from around a curve
or down a mountain
and buries you.
It erupts from the depths of the earth,
or pours from the sky in liquid sheets,
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Ah, social media-wherever would we be without it? It's no secret that platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have connected us in ways we never thought possible, and they've given us access to an elite world that most of us wouldn't ever have the chance to see-the life of an A-list celebrity.
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Just days into the war, a PriceWaterhouseCoopers survey found that more than 20 percent of booked rooms were cancelled over the next seven days in key meetings industry cities, including San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, and Orlando. PWC lodging industry analyst Bjorn Hanson told the Los Angeles Times on March 24 that bookings over the next few weeks would plummet 5 percent from pre-war forecasts. "The markets being penalized are those with a higher percentage of international travelers and those with a higher percentage of air travel," Hanson told the Times. In a Reuters report, Hanson said, "cancellations appear to be outpacing new reservations."
Under the scenarios released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, upon which PWC based its lodging forecasts, the most likely scenario is still a brief war that lasts four to six weeks, entails no significant reduction to oil supplies, and ends with a U.S. victory. Under this scenario, PWC predicts that RevPAR will decrease for the first half of this year, and bounce back to baseline growth by the year's end, resulting in a 0.5 percent increase for the year. Under CSIS' intermediate and worst-case scenarios, PWC forecast RevPAR decreases of 0.1 percent and 3.6 percent, respectively.
Smith Travel Research also found RevPARs falling as a result of the war. By the end of the first week of war, the firm found an 8.4 percent drop from this time last year; average room rates fell 3.8 percent. Hardest hit were the biggest money-makers: high-end properties in large cities. Luxury hotels fared poorly, being down 10.3 percent, while urban hotels overall went down 11.8 percent.
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A title that truly came out of left field, Lost in Shadow surprised people with its intuitive puzzle gameplay elements, soft atmosphere, and intrigui
When it was revealed last year, Epic Mickey was an intriguing title. Meant to revitalize the character with an all-new adventure (and headed by Warre
Going beyond the books, The Lord of the Rings has been a full-on phenomenon, beginning with the books and expanding into films as well as video games
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Due to a strong demand and repetitive questions asked about Mobile Development and the future of Media Publishing, we decided to create a set of meetings, round-table style, where the THINK TANK of Chicago technologists, publishers, media experts and bloggers would discuss these issues and come up with objective opinions.
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A CHDO is a private, nonprofit organization that meets a series of qualifications prescribed in the HOME regulations. Cook County must use a minimum of 15 percent of its annual allocation for housing owned, developed or sponsored by CHDO's Cook County evaluates organizations' qualifications and certifies them as CHDOs. Recertification is required. In accordance with program requirements, all HOME activities must benefit low-income households whose income does not exceed 80% of the area median income (AMI). Annual income restrictions apply to rental housing projects with 5 or more HOME-assisted units. A minimum of 25 percent in eligible non-Federal matching resouces is required per project. Contingent upon project type and amount of HOME assistance, long-term affordability periods and monitor requirements may apply.
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Last week, I put up a post about my favorite Stephen King audiobooks (click here to read) with a promise at the end that I would do another post in the near future about my favorite audiobooks from all authors, not just King. I did this because my favorite question after I meet a Stephen King fan is to ask who else they read. I would assume that is your favorite question as well. I do hear it a lot from people, so I figured I would throw up a post about it. I prefer audiobook format over regular books, because I just do. I get wrapped up in them quicker and easier, which makes the story more enjoyable, to me.
I also wish to state that I am not including podiobooks in this list. Podiobooks will get their own post, simply because of format differences. Also, podiobooks are generally put together by indie authors, and, in my mind at least, it's not fair to stack them against "The Pros." One podiobook did make this list, however, and that is purely because it was that good. I also own the e-book of it, even though I will probably never read it. Sorry for that. Once again, if you are not aware of what a podiobook is, then you will have to wait for that post for me to explain it. You could use the "Amazing Google Machine" in front of you now, if you want to learn more.