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Sleep Disorders
Sleep is a natural process we no longer take for granted. We now know that sleep quality is related to diabetes, obesity, heart disease and other illnesses. Because of its importance to our well-being, proper sleep often means better health. Improving sleep has benefits for existing health disorders.
At the ECU Sleep Disorders Center we evaluate a patient's sleep using advanced technology in a comfortable setting. Patients usually arrive about 8 p.m. and complete a normal bedtime routine before the sleep evaluation begins. Patients are observed by unobtrusive video and monitors while sleeping. No blood tests or invasive procedures are required and most people return to work the next day.
Children who have trouble sleeping because of breathing problems or other issues are welcome to our Sleep Disorders Center.
Results are reviewed by physicians board certified in sleep medicine, who will develop a program to improve sleep and reduce the harmful effects of sleep disturbances.
Sleep disorders may include:
Conditions that maybe caused by or that may worsen due to sleep disorders:
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Monday Morning
Good morning, loves! How are you this Monday morning?
I'm feeling mighty fine after a fabulous weekend filled with lots of celebrating, catching up with good friends and a lots of shopping. And I ended the weekend siting next to Alexa Chung at a lounge in the East Village. Not a bad way to end a great weekend. :)
Lots to do this weekend before leaving for New Orleans on Friday. As I mentioned before, J's birthday is next weekend and we have lots of celebrations planned over the next few weeks, so I've got my hands full these days.
So, how bout you all? What did you do this weekend?
Enjoy the day, sweets and I'll be by soon to catch up. :)
Images: 1, 2, 3 All images edited by The Alternative Wife
47 comments:
- Adele said...
Wow! Sitting next to Alexa Chung!!! I never see anyone famous :( Sounds like you had a fab weekend & another fab one on the way too!
Happy Monday hun xoxo
- March 12, 2012 at 5:18 AM
- The Dainty Dolls House said...
Gorgeous!! Hope you have a fabulous week and get everything organised ok! How exciting!! My weekend was good, just tiring as my girls were unwell and my husband and I are now fighting off the cold too, haha!! Have a fun week doll! xx
- March 12, 2012 at 5:30 AM
- VMcreation-fashion-studio-atelier said...
Aahhh............dearest,beautiful Dawn!!!
Just one more fresh,elegant and SOooooooooooo beyond lovely post,my ear virtual friend:-)))*
I love the mood in you post,and it sounds relly great,you has absolutely stunnng weekend!
I was with my LOVE on the bike in the countryside to the sea....mostly sunny,wonderful day in week:-)))*
Wish you wonderful sunshining week ahead,my dear friend,
- March 12, 2012 at 5:43 AM
- Statements in Fashion said...
Lucky you!! Sounds like a busy and wonderful weekend Dawn!!
You have much to look forward to...hoping this week flies by!
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- March 12, 2012 at 5:56 AM
- Marina said...
I love to read your post and imagine that I live some fancy life in NY, my favorite city :) Well, but I am stuck in good old Croatia :D
- March 12, 2012 at 6:29 AM
Very cool. You never know who you are going to rub shoulders with in the big apple! Hope your Monday is a good one, Dawn! xo
- March 12, 2012 at 6:39 AM
- Rachel {little bits of lovely} said...
Your celebrations sound wonderful Dawn; I love that celebrating with J makes you so happy - your good vibes are infectious + a brilliant way to start the week! Happy monday xx
- March 12, 2012 at 6:47 AM
- The enchanted home said...
Sounds like fun......last time we were in the city, we were seated next to Woody Allen and co. ...interesting! Glad you had a good weekend and NO is a blast..lucky you, enjoy!
- March 12, 2012 at 6:57 AM
- classiq said...
I have to say, your weekend does not sound bad at all. The photos you've chosen remind me that I need fresh flowers in my home. Have a great week, Dawn! :)
- March 12, 2012 at 7:03 AM
- Ballet Pumps And Roses said...
Sounds like a great weekend - I love New York - you can see anybody anywhere.
Have a great day :)
- March 12, 2012 at 7:11 AM
- Danielle said...
Happy Monday! I'm jealous you are on your way to New Orleans this weekend. I've never been, but it sounds like a lot of fun. And it's a great time for a get-a-way : ) I'm in need of one of those.
We did a little celebrating this past weekend at a friends 40th b-day party. Great fun catching up with friends, but today it's back to reality.
Enjoy your day!
Danielle xo
- March 12, 2012 at 8:37 AM
- Tanvi said...
I could see you had a blast via Instagram!!!!
Glorious pics to start a dull Monday Morning!!!
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- March 12, 2012 at 8:44 AM
- Lindsey Regan Thorne @ be pretty said...
So fun!!! :) Sounds like the perfect little weekend and how awesome that you were set next to Alexa Chung?! Your weekend sounds perfect... and shopping? Please do share your finds! xo
- March 12, 2012 at 8:53 AM
- Maria @ Orchard Bloom said...
Glad you had a great weekend!
- March 12, 2012 at 9:02 AM
I also dream to be in a place where I can rub shoulders with the most famous fashion people! I bet you are exciting with the New Orleans celebrations! Have a wonderful week, Dawn! :*
- March 12, 2012 at 9:14 AM
- Helena - A Diary of Lovely said...
what a great weekend!! Happy you had such a lovely time!
- March 12, 2012 at 9:21 AM
- rolala said...
Your weekend sounds like it was fab. And how cool are you to be sitting next to Alexa Chung! I had the most lazy weekend but it was quite restful. Have a great week Dawn!
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- March 12, 2012 at 10:06 AM
- Bodil Huisman said...
Wauw, Alexa Chung!! Sounds like you have a great weekend to look forward to, i'm following you now, love your blog!
- March 12, 2012 at 10:29 AM
- With love... said...
Beautiful images.
Have a splendid week.
- March 12, 2012 at 10:59 AM
- Miss Samantha said...
Really gorgeous images - particularly the last one... so dreamy!
I had a weekend in London with my girlfriends and it was bliss. Sounds like your weekend was fab and Alexa Chung - wow! xx
- March 12, 2012 at 11:10 AM
- B. in the Know said...
Sounds like a fabulous weekend! I had a fun weekend with friends...and, I *may* have met someone...not getting too excited because it is so new - but either way I have had a smile on my face all weekend and if that's all it ever is, I am just thankful for being treated like a lady and a big smile!
Much love,
- March 12, 2012 at 12:00 PM
- {The Perfect Palette} said...
What an amazing weekend! Hope you have an equally great week, Dawn.
xx, chrissy
- March 12, 2012 at 12:19 PM
- Dancing Branflake said...
Alexa Chung? Oh, the fab life you live, Dawn! Happy Monday to you!
- March 12, 2012 at 12:37 PM
i had a great weekend too, but sitting next to alexa chung tops mine for sure! ;) that's so awesome!
- March 12, 2012 at 12:41 PM
- Alexa said...
So jealous of your upcoming trip to New Orleans...sounds like a great weekend too!
- March 12, 2012 at 1:01 PM
- O said...
Happy Monday, hope you had a great weekend, the coming weekend sounds amazing too! xoxo
- March 12, 2012 at 1:03 PM
- Sandy at Ooh La Frou Frou said...
Dawn, I love following you on Instagram, as I always feel I get a peek into your weekends ... so fun! I'm flying out on Friday as well, but not to exciting New Orleans, but to Baltimore on business with hubby ... but at least I'll be staying in a nice hotel with a pool for a few days so I'm hoping to catch up on some relaxation! I always love your photos and how you work magic with them here on the blog ... a very soft world! xoxo
Sandy at Ooh La Frou Frou
- March 12, 2012 at 1:28 PM
Love all the birthday celebrating :) I know yall are excited about New Orleans!
- March 12, 2012 at 1:29 PM
- christine {bijouandboheme} said...
Oh I'd love to go to NO- have a fabulous time lovely:)
- March 12, 2012 at 1:31 PM
- Styleabaad said...
Alexa is my fave - so cool you sat next to her :) I have done nothing but hang out with friends, packing and on Sun we headed out to Phoenix, AZ where we're at right now!
- March 12, 2012 at 2:00 PM
- hope in high heels said...
Sitting next to Alexa... as you do! Your weekend sounds absolutely lovely... we shopped and relaxed. We're planning to go to Boston in a couple of weeks - would love any tips on places to go/restaurants to try?
- March 12, 2012 at 2:41 PM
- A BRIT GREEK said...
Have to ask, was she looking as super stylish as she always is?
I hope you had fun shopping! Have a brilliant week, these images are gorgeous...
- March 12, 2012 at 3:06 PM
- Leslie said...
Sounds like an exciting weekend Dawn! The rose picture and model are gorgeous and I'm sure you are looking forward to your trip to New Orleans :)
- March 12, 2012 at 3:19 PM
- Tamra {ever swoon} said...
Not a bad wkend at all! I heart Alexa, where were you?? Isn't this weather divine!! When we do dinner next we should definitely do something outside, weather permitting!
- March 12, 2012 at 3:33 PM
- lorenabr said...
Now that's a weekend! Wonderful!
- March 12, 2012 at 4:34 PM
Dawn, you're just too cool. Why doesn't it surprise me that you sat next to Alexa Chung?
I ate sushi this weekend just because you mentioned it on Friday ;-)
- March 12, 2012 at 5:45 PM
- Sandy a la Mode said...
you sat next to alexa?!?! that is soo crazy!! i am excited for a warm weather week!!
- March 12, 2012 at 6:05 PM
- Alexis Grace said...
Glad you had a great weekend! Mine was crazed- but in a good way! Lovely photo choices!
- March 12, 2012 at 6:34 PM
- Rachel {Da Paura ♥} said...
These images are beyond dreamy! Sounds like a fantastic weekend you had. I had a fun one! Went on a little weekend trip with some girlfriends to Orange County and it was a blast. I'm beyond exhausted now though! :) I can't wait to hear all about your trip to New Orleans (and I'll be watching for updates on instagram:)
- March 12, 2012 at 8:01 PM
- Chic 'n Cheap Living said...
You and Alexa Chung could definitely be buddies! Aww I know J is going to have a great couple of weeks!
Chic 'n Cheap Living
- March 12, 2012 at 8:15 PM
- Krysten @ Why Girls Are Weird said...
I have always wanted to go to New Orleans, I'm jealous!
- March 12, 2012 at 9:34 PM
Glad you enjoyed your weekend. I did enjoy my trip to Miami as the weather was good the whole week
Have fun in New Orleans.
- March 12, 2012 at 9:41 PM
- honey my heart said...
sounds like a fun weekend was had and another one is on the way! hope this week zips by quick.
- March 12, 2012 at 9:53 PM
- Mrs. Pancakes said...
sounds like an awesome weekend! can't wait to hear how NO goes!
- March 12, 2012 at 10:40 PM
- Draffin Bears said...
Hi Dawn,
Sounds like you had a wonderful weekend and I love the pretty pink rose.
Wishing you a wonderful week
- March 13, 2012 at 12:04 AM
- Ali Rodriguez said...
Wow, so cool! She seems like she would be very interesting to talk to. Also, so exciting that New Orleans is coming up so quickly!
- March 13, 2012 at 12:59 AM
- Karolína Javůrková said...
Oh.....nice pictures!:) :*
- March 13, 2012 at 2:34 PM

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A recent article in Nature reports that WASP-18b has emerged victorious in the ongoing exoplanetary limbo competition.
WASP-18b is also a strong contender in the least-habitable-planet-yet-detected competition. It has a mass roughly ten times Jupiter's and skims 2.6 stellar radii above the surface of the parent star. The orbital period is a mere 22 hours 36 minutes. A year in less than a day.
To the offhand glance, even the simple presence of the planet seems puzzling. It's so close to its parent star that tidal orbital decay should haul it in for destruction on a timescale that's alarmingly short in comparison to the ~1 billion year age of the parent star. Either WASP-18b has been found on the very cusp of its dénouement (which seems unlikely) or tidal dissipation in the parent star is much lower than in a star like the Sun.
Darin Ragozzine pointed me to to a recent article by Barker and Ogilvie that indicates that WASP-18 may indeed be very poor at dissipating tidal energy. It's an F-type star, somewhat more massive than the sun, with a negligible convective envelope, and no good recourse to turning tidal waves into heat. It's like a bell that can ring and ring without making a sound. According to Barker and Ogilvie, similarly inviscid F-type parent stars are also responsible for the survival of WASP-12 and OGLE-TR-56b. Their prediction for WASP-18b would be that changes in the orbital period will not be observable, even with the excellent precision that will be obtained by timing the orbit over periods of a decade or more.
Darin also pointed out something else that's pretty cool. As is also the case with HD 209458b and HD 189733b, the transit of WASP-18b is readily visible in the archived photometry from the Hipparcos mission. Indeed, the planet has been sitting in open view on the web for well over a decade, assuming, of course, that one knew exactly where to look. To see it with 20-20 hindsight, use the folding applet provided at the Hipparcos web site. Enter the Hipparcos catalog number (7562) for the parent star, and fold the 130 published photometric measurements at the 0.94145299 day orbital period. Can you see the transit?
On worlds like WASP-18b, surface temperatures are well in excess of 2000 K. Under such conditions, the ionization fraction is high enough that the planetary magnetic field can affect the weather.
On Earth, where air is composed of neutral atoms and molecules, the wind blows right through magnetic field lines. By contrast, on WASP-18b, the ionization fraction is high enough that the winds will have a tendency to drag the planetary magnetic field lines along. This stretches the field lines, and like rubber bands, they offer a restoring force. Whereas ordinary exoplanetary weather can be described using the equations of hydrodynamics, on an ultra-hot Jupiter, the richer behavior of magnetohydrodynamics comes into play. As a consequence, I have little intuitive sense of what's going on at the sub-stellar point of WASP-18b, but I've got little doubt that it's interesting and complicated.


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Pompey's Pillar Defaced By a Musician Named Cole in the Name of Love
Cole Randall, a member of the Minnesotan band Flora Cash, demonstrated his romantic side by carving an elementary school styled confession of love into one of the only locations with physical evidence of Lewis and Clark's expedition, Pompey's Pillar.
Randall was caught on camera trespassing onto the site that was visited by Lewis and Clark in 1806. After discovering the trespassing, investigators found the words "Cole + Shpresa 10/10/2013" carved only a few feet away from William Clark's signature from 1806. The estimated cost to repair the monument is $5,000 and Randall wants to take full responsibility for his actions
Here is Cole Randall's heartfelt apology in which he explains his mistake and that it was made in a time of desperation.
To everyone affected by my signing the sandstone near the great William Clark's signature,
First, I humbly apologize. It was never my intention to harm the archaeological site, which contains Clark's signature. It was also not my intention to proclaim that I am somehow in the same "league" as that great explorer. The fact is: there is no excuse for my etching our names onto that rock... but I owe you an explanation and with that: a context in which my actions can be better understood.
My new wife and I had just finished our honeymoon, which consisted of a road trip to California. Sadly, our honeymoon was cut short when my wife discovered a suspicious lump on her breast. Because she had no insurance at the time, we were forced to make the trip back to Minnesota before we could even attempt to work out a screening. During the entire trip home, I was scared... Terrified, actually. Worst-case scenarios raced through my mind.
Eventually, we happened across the historical site known as Pompey's Pillar. I read the sign that explained why this place was significant and was utterly inspired by the last part of the description, which read, "for generations, Americans passing by this place have left their marks upon the rocks." Despite my better judgment, I was taken with the idea that by putting our names on that stone, we would be adding to a tradition started by the Native Americans, renewed by William Clark and carried forward by the average folk who have passed by and "left their marks" for over 200 years. On top of that, I was motivated by the fact that maybe if something were to happen to my wife, I could come back to this place years from now and see her and my names together. Stupid? Yeah. Misguided? Definitely. But when love and fear of loss team up: we sometimes lose our better judgment, no matter the consequences.
The fact is: regardless of what happens, our names will be removed from that stone. And I will be prepared to face the consequences of my actions. My wife advised me not to etch our names, but I insisted... foolishly. I regret my decision and once again, I humbly apologize to the people of Montana and to every American who was affected by my foolishness. My promise to you is that I have learned a valuable lesson throughout this ordeal and will never repeat such an action in the future. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me for this and realize that I understand the gravity of my mistake.
Kindest regards and best wishes,
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A winner was selected from 33 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
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I'm most likely bringing Alice back with me after the Enfield show, so she'll be at our house on the 5th. Whenever you're ready to go, she will be too!
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Chris123459 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 23 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
The Burger Co.
I am a restaurantor designing a take out burger concept. The concept is an all natural fresh hand made burger that is never frozen. Fries are hand cut and cooked in a cholesterol free oil. This concept will have a couple locations by year 2. The culture of the company is that of healthy, environmentally friendly, company that will have green elements. We are looking to reduce our carbon footprint and reduce energy. Our goals are much like Starbucks and want to contribute to a better environment.
All people looking for a healthy all natural burger for a great value
I want my business name "The Burger Co." to be arched around a picture of some sort of cow, steer standing broadside. I want the picture to black and white or a black picture on a white background. The color scheme in the restaurant will be reds, greens, browns, some greys. Colors that stimulate eating.
If it is possible to have the logo with the tag line "always natural, always fresh" and the same logo without.
So the logo is the same, one just has a tag line
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freshly squeezed lime juice
simple syrup
Sounds delicious, I'll have to see if our Vietnamese restaurants serve this. If not, well I'll make my own.ReplyDelete
I don't know how I've missed this at Vietnamese restaurants!ReplyDelete
Rachel, you make me feel quite home sick! We have this a lot in summer in Hanoi, Vietnam. There are two versions - with soda or with plain water. I am in for the soda ;)ReplyDelete
Rachel, I love this zesty and refreshing drink a lot! Now you remind me... I think some restaurants in Asia (probably) call it "lemon squash" :DReplyDelete
this seems very refreshing... i'll keep it in mind for summertime. so often when going to ethnic food restaurants we focus on the food, and not the drinks, so thanks for this little reminder. cute glass!ReplyDelete
That sounds very refreshing. Rob would totally love this!ReplyDelete
Excellent. Three of my favorite ingredients: fresh lime, ice, and soda. And simple syrup to boot. This is something I now must have. Thanks.
Is this what they mean by "lemon squash" in England I wonder?
I bought these cups at Target, too, on my latest trip to the US.
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Hello cuties! Now I am back to Izmir since my uni has already started. So, I hope I can find enough time to blogging. Here are the shots taken before I left Marmaris. I think this was the last time that I could wear skirt without socks as the weather is getting colder. (Damn!) By the way my hair has turned baby blue or something that I did not mean to dye. I believe it is because of the hair conditioner whose colour is yellow. - It has to be white for silver hair. - But, I know it is going to fade and turn silver/lilac again! (Yay!) Anyway, I wish I will post soon. See you!
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The loss may have ended the Lady Bucs' season; however, the ETSU women should hold its head high after being apart of one of the best teams in program history. ETSU closed out the campaign winning 15 of its last 17 games en route to a school-record tying 21-win season and the Lady Buccaneers' first trip to the NCAA Tournament.
ETSU opened up the game strong, thanks to the hot hand of senior sharpshooter Michele DeVault (
The Lady Bucs pushed their advantage to three, 14-11, when Latisha Belcher (
DeVault's third 3-pointer of the game with six minutes left in the half cut the Lady Buc deficit to 31-22, but ETSU was unable to inch any closer for the half. The Cowgirls took their largest lead of the first half, 39-25 on Taylor Hardeman's three with 2:32 remaining before the break and led 41-29 at halftime.
After the first 20 minutes, ETSU was 12-of-34 (35.3 percent) compared to
ETSU slowly chipped into the lead and stayed in the contest with the help from the long-range jumper. Three's by Siarre Evans (
For the game, ETSU shot 35.5 percent (27-76) from the field and
Senior Michele DeVault led ETSU with 22 points and tied a career-high with six three-point field goals. DeVault's closed out her illustrious career eighth all-time on the ETSU scoring list with 1,263 points and is the all-time three-point leader with 239 treys made. Sophomore's Latisha Belcher, Siarre Evans and TaRonda Wiles also helped pace the Lady Buccaneers. Belcher netted 14, Evans 12 and Wiles chipped in with 10. However, it was the attack of All-American guard Andrea Riley and senior post Maria Cordero that helped guide the Cowgirls to victory. Riley scored a game-high 26 points and Cordero added 23 on 7-of-12 shooting.
Head coach Karen Kemp has done a tremendous job building a winning program for Lady Buccaneer basketball during the past three years and plans on having it continue. Despite losing four standout seniors, Kemp returns nine players from this season, including ETSU's leading scorer and rebounder in sophomore Siarre Evans (
For the third consecutive year, the Lady Bucs have posted a winning season; marking the first time since 1984 the feat has been accomplished, as well as posting back-to-back 20-plus wins for the first time ever. In the end, ETSU closed out the year 21-12, which also marked the most games played in a single season for the Lady Buccaneers.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) today vetoed an increase in the minimum wage that was passed by the state's Democratic senate. Using what's known as a "conditional veto," Christie sent the bill back saying he would sign it if certain changes were made, including: shrinking the increase from $8.50 to $8.25 per hour, phasing it in over three years, and eliminating a provision tying the wage to inflation.
New Jersey's current minimum wage stands at $7.25, so Christie's veto, in essence, is saying that he believes a $1 increase in the wage over three years is sufficient. As the New Jersey Policy Perspective noted, "the first year increase proposed by the governor of 25 cents will be erased by inflation by the time the third year kicks in its 25 cents." Here are more benefits that Christie denied to working New Jerseyans:
– Wages would have increased by $439 million in the first year;
– Overall economic activity would increase by $278 million in the first year;
– The equivalent of 2,420 new full time jobs would be created;
– 537,000 people would have received an increase in wages: 307,000 New Jerseyans making between $7.25 and $8.50 per hour would've seen an immediate raise, and 230,000 New Jerseyans making between $8.50 and $9.75 per hour would've seen a raise as pay scales were adjusted upwards.
Christie vetoed the wage increase, even though the cost of living in the Garden State is about 30 percent higher than the national average, according to a study by the New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission.
Christie claimed that the minimum wage bill would threaten the slow economic recovery in New Jersey. "The sudden, significant minimum-wage increase in this bill, coupled with automatic raises each year tied to the Unites States consumer price index, will jeopardize the economic recovery we all seek," Christie said. But as the Center for American Progress' T. William Lester, David Madland, and Nick Bunker wrote, "We reviewed academic research that examines the effects of minimum wage increases during a recession or stretch of time with high unemployment and found significant evidence that even during hard economic times, raising the minimum wage is likely to have no adverse effect on employment."


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How Far We've Fallen: Attorney General Eric Holder Promises Russians US Government Won't 'Torture' Or 'Kill' Ed Snowden
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If you had any question about how low this country's reputation has sunk or how we're viewed worldwide for our open-ended detainment and torture of uncharged terrorism suspects, you need look no further than Attorney General Eric Holder's "reassuring" statement to the Russian Minister of Justice about whistleblower Ed Snowden's potential extradition.
Holder's letter pointed out that torture is "unlawful" in the United States and that the government wouldn't seek the death penalty, even if "Mr. Snowden were charged with additional, death penalty-eligible crimes."
William K. Black, writing for New Economic Perspectives, points out just how horrifically bizarre this situation is.
The idea that the Attorney General of the United States of America would send such a letter to the representative of a foreign government, particularly Russia under the leadership of a former KGB official, was so preposterous that I thought the first news report I read about Attorney General Holder's letter concerning Edward Snowden was satire. The joke, however, was on me. The Obama and Bush administrations have so disgraced the reputation of the United States' criminal justice system that we are forced to promise KGB alums that we will not torture our own citizens if Russia extradites them for prosecution.When a nation, especially one considered to be the figurehead of the "free world," has to make promises to a former Cold War rival that it won't torture and kill a whistleblower, there can be little doubt that the country has reached its nadir. The US used to shelter dissidents from the vengeance of their former countries and once considered whistleblowers to be a part of a healthy government.
But now we've come to the point where the nation's lead prosecutor has to openly state that torture and killing are off the table, at least in regards to Ed Snowden. How reassuring. The government hasn't "tortured" and killed its other main antagonist, Bradley Manning, but it did hold him in solitary confinement for over three years and his treatment could easily be defined as "torture." (Although not in the only way that counts: the administration's definition.)
Holder's letter has hints of malevolence below the "cheery" no-torture-or-killing surface.
Holder phrased his explanation in a manner that suggests he was trying to be clever: "Torture is unlawful in the United States." "Gitmo," of course, is not "in the United States." The locations of the many secret prisons the U.S. established in other nations were chosen so that we could torture suspects...This isn't very reassuring, but then again, a spokesman for the administration feeling compelled to make loosely worded "promises" about torture and killing isn't exactly reassuring either. As Black says, this should have been a forgone conclusion, and yet, AG Holder felt compelled to state this explicitly.
More subtly, note that Holder says that torture is "unlawful" – not "illegal." An act that is merely "unlawful" cannot be prosecuted as a crime. It may provide the basis for a civil suit. An "illegal" act can be prosecuted.
I always took it for granted that no U.S. attorney general would knowingly allow a criminal suspect in U.S. custody to be the victim of torture, raped, branded, or a host of other forms of brutality.Our country isn't supposed to torture and kill American citizens (although we have no qualms about doing either to non-Americans, which is troubling in its own way). And yet, there's still enough gray area in this statement to make it technically possible. One way the government could get around the whole "we don't torture and kill American citizens [except when we do]" issue is to do what the UK does when one of its citizens is targeted by the US: strip the suspect of citizenship.
In early February, a leaked white paper from the Obama Justice Department caused a small stir, because it laid out an expansive set of circumstances under which the president could order a citizen killed abroad. In September 2011, the US killed Al Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, both US citizens, and a few weeks later a US drone strike in Yemen also killed Awlaki's 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman...The US has already revoked Snowden's passport (although it is offering him a one-time use passport should he choose to return to the welcoming, non-killing, non-torturing arms of the United States). There's no reason it can't revoke his citizenship should it be deemed necessary. All he needs to do is pose an "imminent threat," another one of the War on Terror's endlessly flexible "guidelines."
Meanwhile, the UK is stripping people it alleges of having joined militant groups of their citizenship, some of whom have gone on to be killed in US strikes. Stripping people of their citizenship, strips people of whatever protection they theoretically had as citizens under UK law.
Of course, something as drastic as stripping Snowden of citizenship (and its attendant protections) is probably the most unlikely outcome. Holder's statement on the US government's intentions for Snowden is worded very specifically, most likely in hopes of preventing Snowden from taking advantage of the additional protection against extradition provided by the United Nations. Back when Snowden was still in Hong Kong, this point was raised by Tim Parker, a local immigration lawyer.
A handover could also be halted if Mr Snowden was believed to be in danger of receiving inhumane treatment in the US, Mr Parker added.Making very public statements about torture and killing sounds more like Holder trying to talk loudly enough that the UN will overhear him. If the government isn't going to venture into "cruel" and "inhumane" territory (at least not out loud), Snowden can't reasonably expect to be shielded from extradition by the UN guidelines.
"If Mr Snowden is at risk of being detained under the sort of conditions that Bradley Manning has reportedly been detained, which the UN special rapporteurs have said amounted to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment... then Hong Kong would not be allowed under its law, and could not extradite him to the US."
But whatever the administration's rationale for Holder's letter, the fact remains that the US government should never have slid to the disgraceful level where it feels its needs to make public promises about torture and killing. The fact that it has says a lot about the machinations of its anti-terror efforts -- one that turns whistleblowers into criminals and dissenting voices into terrorist sympathizers. If the administration wants to make a small effort towards rebuilding its reputation, it should consider dismissing the charges against Snowden and use the leaked information to open an actual discussion on national security and constitutional rights.
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Icon that indicates a drive read or write operation?
Might it be possible and practicable to design say, a taskbar icon which displays (or changes) when any drive reads and/or writes are occuring?
If this feature is not already available; it seems, to me, it could provide an indication of any actively illegal and unexpected external movement and it would warn a user not to try to implement wmpoweroff, wmreboot, restartwm or to unplug any flash stick or unmount a drive if any intended drive reads and/or writes are unfinished.
Perhaps a desktop icon for those who hide their taskbar.
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Jasper, I may misunderstand you totally, and it is not my intention to make fun of you, but on the front of my linuxbox there is a little orange led light that flash up every time a harddisk read/write operation is performed...
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Ahhh yes, but does that light operate during reads/writes to/from usb? I like Jaspers idea - some sort of indicator that data is currently being transferred (or in RAM awaiting writing to usb savefile) would be great.
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Hi tallboy, greengeek, et al,
A red light on my desktop tower flashes at regular intervals of about six seconds. I have read that that flashing shows some kind of hard drive activity, but I have not personally seen a detailed explanation of exactly what is, or could be, happening.
I always use a Multi-session-live-CD/DVD (as do you, tallboy) and a mounted flash stick (or sometimes two mounted flash sticks when backing-up).
Apart from the flash stick(s) it is rare for any other drive or partition to be deliberately accessed/mounted after boot-up.
This thread had its origins in my wondering if the commands wmpoweroff, wmreboot or restartwm would be automatically delayed whilst awaiting the finish of an active drive read/write operation (e.g, download or back-up). After a simple single-case test i
t seemed unlikely that a delay would be implemented
by any of those three commands - then I also wondered about unauthorised fraudulent/stealth communication initiated by any unknown external party.
I could remove (or perhaps disable) my hard drive(s) and my Multi-session option would still work - but I have no idea if my tower light would then stop flashing. My flash sticks' lights are out of view behind me - so a taskbar read/write warning icon would suit me ideally - but an expert opinion if that may be possible and practicable was the limit of my enquiry.
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I have now emboldened my above conjecture - because with the benefit of helpful responses below:
that conjecture about how the poweroff and reboot commands operate was at best only partially right, but more than likely - totally wrong.
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Hmm, I would think that I/O control for Linux devices may be possible to monitor, and I had an idea about looking for the source of the properties for one of my frequently used USB sticks (one of them actually collapsed today, RIP), but that was not very enlightening...
I think there are so many kernel related I/O operations going on between devices, that monitoring what we normally think of as reading and writing to a device may be difficult to separate from for example a monitoring function. An example may be the HDD light going on every six seconds; there is probably some exchange of info between different devices, how can that be separated from other read/write operations?
BTW, I have often seen that a save to a USB stick will not be done right away, sometimes the writing process don't start until I unmount the stick, so there is also a possible delay to take into consideration.
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The command 'sync' will flush all disk write buffers.
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There is a currently used technology used by differing OSes (Windows/Macs/Linuxes) that was developed years ago by IBM in conjunction with a (I believe) Stanford University Math Professor in queuing theory. That technology became known internally as "Lazy-write".
What it refers to is the ability of the use of system buffers to more efficiently dump information to a device versus writing each time an app sends data to the I/O subsystem. It is deemed to be better utilization on both the system and the HDD devices.
Developers and administrators in the Linux world understand this system design and frequently will make use of the
command to flush buffers out to the target device rather than wait for some normal system operations to handle this data movement. There are other varied reasons when this technique will be used, as well. Similar things are done as well by the other OSes.
This happens in the background, for the most part, and users almost never see this or notice this activity. And, on some very rare occasions (like unexpected power loss) will a HDD/USB be left with some tidy up operations that need be done on system reboots.
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Hi amigo et al,
Thank you all for your comments. However, I do not fully understand the sync command and would appreciate elaboration,
I follow that the buffers already in RAM are written to disk, but what if I'm near the start of a copy and paste where the data to be copied is hugely larger than my RAM - so presumably most of that data is not yet buffered.
Does sync queue a subsequent poweroffwm (or rebootwm) until all the data intended to be copied is actually pasted?
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Hi amigo et al,
Thank you all for your comments. However, I do not fully understand the sync command and would appreciate elaboration,
I follow that the buffers already in RAM are written to disk, but what if I'm near the start of a copy and paste where the data to be copied is hugely larger than my RAM - so presumably most of data is not yet buffered.
Does sync queue a subsequent poweroffwm (or rebootwm) until all the data intended to be copied is actually pasted?
My regards
In Linux, data often resides in memory and is not written to the HDD. This is particularly true in Puppy, where the writes are limited to prevent wearing out the USB flash media.
A "sync" command tells the system to stop storing that data in RAM, and write the data to the HDD (or flash drive). That memory is then released (and the data resides only on the HDD).
I believe that if your data copy is larger than RAM, it will typically just be stored in swap (virtual RAM), until physically flushed onto the HDD.
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Jasper wrote:
Does sync queue a subsequent poweroffwm (or rebootwm) until all the data intended to be copied is actually pasted?
In my experience the reboot or poweroff will not proceed until the data is finished being copied to the usb disk (I cant say if the behaviour is the same with copying to a HDD).
This is particularly noticeable with any usb stick that has a slow write speed. My suggestion is to use a cheap/slow 16GB usb stick, fit it to a usb 1.1 port, queue up 10 Puppy isos to be copied to it, then select poweroff and see what happens (try to find a usb stick that has an LED so you have a better idea what is happening...)
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HI greengeek,
I tried a very similar flash stick test to the test you suggested in your post immediately above.
Thank you for the idea and I'm very pleased to report that my experience was identical to yours.
My regards
It seems my conjecture about how the poweroff and reboot commands operate was at best only partially right, but more than likely - totally wrong.
Also, thanks again to all responders.
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I have had problems in the past when copying large volumes of data to usb sticks that do not have an LED - at least once I have thought that the PC was hung, and pulled the stick out before the data transfer was complete. For that reason I like your original idea of having an on-screen icon that indicates that data transfer (or savefile updates) are incomplete and still queued or still active.
(Maybe also a "pupsave interval countdown timer indicator"?)
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I have compiled xosview with only enabling the diskmeter .
dependencies are :
bash-3.00# ldd ./xosview-1.8.3-diskmeter-dyn
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0xb7fab000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7eda000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7df0000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7dce000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7dc3000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7cc8000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb7cc5000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb7cc0000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7cbc000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fb9000)
That should show the read writes to all drives .
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Play around with it. If it works, drop it into /root/Startup or create a tray icon to launch it .
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Hi Karl,
Thank you very much. My quick tests have been excellent and I will do more extensive tests tomorrow.
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Hi again Karl,
After more extensive testing - your app definitely suits my own needs perfectly.
I added your app to my JWM Menu > Desktop > KGon [as the menu name].
I also tried the icon below (with your initials) which I put in /usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons for the dual purpose of using it as my JWM menu icon and as the app/taskbar icon.
However, my eyesight is failing and I couldn't read your initials; so I settled on the other icon with the yellow plus sign.
I have some minor suggestions in case you may like to consider them together with any of your own tweaks or other ideas posted by say, 31st July:
* perhaps make "read/write" red with " idle" remaining green [but space instead of /].
* perhaps make the graphing in your green bar red instead of blue.
* perhaps have the "zero" show in green with other numbers in red.
* perhaps sound a bark when finished.
* perhaps incorporate your own choice of icon directly into your app.
My regards and thanks
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text: I was only referring to sap flow in sugar maple, which is the basis of the maple sugar industry. Kramer reviews the literature in his book, Plant and Soil Water Relations: A Modern Synthesis, and notes one study (Plant Physiology 20:636-648) which found no root pressure during sap flow. He notes that "considerable confusion" has occurred between sap flow due to local stem pressure (e.g. maple, palm) and root pressure (e.g. birch, grape). ****************************************************************** David R. Hershey Snail mail: 6700 Belcrest Road #112, Hyattsville, MD 20782-1340 Adjunct Professor, Biology/Horticulture Department Prince George's Community College, Largo, MD 20772-2199 Email: dh321 at pgstumail.pg.cc.md.us ******************************************************************* On 4 Oct 1996, Barry Meatyard wrote: > Dear Plant Edders, > > I've followed the correspondence on this with interest and would like to > offer a couple of observations. Like John Hewitson, I've seen exudate from > a Walnut stump - in this case NOT a distal branch but the main trunk cut > off as close to the ground as a chain saw allows. The stump was about > 30-40cm across as I remember and went on seeping for about a week after it > had been cut. Later when the main part of the stump was removed (but almost > certainly leaving some roots behind) and the site levelled the earth > remained damp on the surface even after neighbouring disturbed earth had > dried out. This would suggest that in this case at least the stem is NOT > involved as David Hershey suggests, and whatever is happening is going on > in the roots. > > I've also experienced at first hand exudate from sycamore (Acer > pseudoplatanus) which formed a dense hedge down one side of the garden of a > house I used to live in in Kent UK. I did some serious surgery on the hedge > to cut it back (it was a few years ago and I can't remember the time of > year - I suspect it was towards the autumn (fall) as I wouldn't normally do > that sort of work any earlier - certainly not in the spring because of > nesting birds - and I can remember leaves being around. The cut stumps > ended up between 1m - 2m high and 10-15cm in diam. They dripped copiously > with the liquid appearing to come from the outer parts of the stems but I > couldn't establish whether this was coming from the very outer sapwood or > the phloem. It didn't taste sweet. > > It's all been very interesting...... > > Barry > > Dr.Barry Meatyard Tel: 01203 524228 > Science and Plants for Schools Fax: 01203 523237 > Institute of Education Email: barry.meatyard at warwick.ac.uk > University of Warwick > Coventry > CV4 7AL > UK > > >


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These lists are updated through April 8 of the 2014 season.
This is an attempt to document nearly 100 years of high school outdoor track on the Peninsula and in the Peninsula area. It should be considered a preliminary document.
Corrections and updates are actively sought.
These lists cover schools in the Peninsula, Bay Rivers, Tidewater and Tri-Rivers districts, their predecessor schools and private schools in those areas. Since the Daily Press has covered Suffolk schools on a sporadic basis, these lists do not include any of the Suffolk schools.
During segregation, schools that educated whites and blacks had separate athletic organizations and did not compete against each other. White schools were members of the Virginia Literary and Athletic League, later the Virginia High School League. Black schools were members of the Virginia Interscholastic Athletic League, later the Virginia Interscholastic Association.
There is no separation on these lists. All schools are included equally.
What's included:
Times and distances from multi-team weekend meets.
Wind-aided times, because in most cases we're not sure what's wind-aided and what's not.
What's excluded, at this point:
Weekday dual, triangular and quadrangular, etc. meets, though if there is overwhelming sentiment for including "regular" meets, I can do a second research run, though it will take time.
Post-season national meets like the Golden West. At some point I would like to add those times, but I'm not sure what's a post-season high school meet and what's a summer AAU meet, and I'm not sure I have access to full results. Suggestions and guidance will be appreciated.
Indoor track times. I'd like to look at the district and regional meets that were held outdoors, and I'd like to eventually do a record list for indoor track.
The first list includes up to the top 25 performances in each event. Athletes can be listed as many times as they qualify. If an athlete has 10 of the best performances of all-time, then he or she will be listed 10 times.
The second list is the progression of the record, from the first recorded time or distance of the event to the present-day record.
This document considers events in yards and events in meters as separate events, so there are separate records for the 100-yard dash and the 100-meter dash.
Because field events have always been measured in feet and inches, there is no distinction between a field event held during the yards era and the meters area.
During the period when yards were the standard, almost every meet was hand-timed. So we have converted any FAT markings backwards to hand times. We are converting any hand times in meters to FAT.
This document follows the Track and Field News FAT conversion standard which adds .24 of a second to any hand time in a race under 400 meters and .14 to a 400-meter race. No time is added for any race that's over 400 meters.
Generally, any time with two digits to the right of the decimal point is a fully-automatic time. And any time with a single digit is a hand time.
For many years, newspapers only listed the winner's time in the results. Sometimes the stories carried details of other performances, but most times they did not. And for the majority of events, we have no access to trials results. If we have found these additional times, they are included if they qualify for the listings. If a meet wasn't reported to a media outlet or available from other sources, it isn't included, although we are using outside sources in an effort to be as comprehensive as possible.
And, I might have overlooked the time or distance when I was entering data into the database.
The primary sources are the archives of the Daily Press and The Times-Herald, the papers published in Newport News. For the last few years, we've also relied on meet results posted on milestat.com
To fill in gaps, we've used information from the following:
Dogwood Relays web
Flat Hat (William and Mary student newspaper), Williamsburg
Journal and Guide, Norfolk
Journal Newspapers, Northern Virginia
Knoxville Journal-Sentinel
Krabba, Hampton High School student yearbook
News and Observer, Raleigh
Philadelphia Inquirer
Queen City Relays (Charlotte) website
Richmond Afro-American
Roanoke Times
Times-Dispatch, Richmond
Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk
Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg
Washington Post
Charlottesville Daily Progress
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News flash: More and more women are jumping outside their marriages in search of no-strings-attached sex. All it takes to find a willing partner? An Internet connection and an account on a site like AshleyMadison.com. We sent writer and monogamist Teddy Wayne to meet the growing flock of lady Don Drapers
*And not by their husbands
My eyes are blurry from too many post-midnight hours in front of my laptop, trolling through scores of Internet-dating profiles of women. I'm carpet bombing them with the same boilerplate message, suggesting, with unsurpassed creativity and seductiveness, that we get together for a drink.
Just one catch: Most of them are married.
Actually, a second catch: I have a girlfriend.
I'm on AshleyMadison.com, the behemoth of extramarital-dating sites, whose controversial slogan is "Life is short. Have an affair.®" You've probably heard of it. But you probably don't know anyone on it—or at least anyone who admits to being on it.
Because if you go on the site, you'll find a lot of avatars adorned with a simple drawing of a woman's face and a confidential finger over pursed pink lips, with the promise of additional "Private Showcase" photos, viewable only if the member sends you a "key." Many profiles are eloquent and demure, asking men to compose thoughtful missives and to refrain from sending erection photos. But a number are either fake, or appear to be from sex workers, or are written like the following: "to have a well built guy with a huge spear shove it in my tight MILF [orifice not anatomically designed for sexual intercourse] in front of my husband all night long!!!!!!!! TO BE TREATED LIKE I WAS THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH BY A HUNGRY GROUP OF MEN, PREFERABLY ALL [ethnic group whose male members are often hypersexualized in American culture, due in part to a complex legacy of discrimination]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BIG THICK [rhyming masculine body part] NEED APPLY!!!"
Clearly I need to embellish my résumé. My first e-mail blitz, which doesn't specify that I'm a journalist hoping to interview subjects, nets me a grand total of zero replies. Still got it! I change tack and name-drop GQ and assure recipients that their anonymity will be preserved. Most women continue to ignore me, some flatly respond no, and several are dubious about my identity.
Yet a few replies roll in. One is from Megan. (Identifying details have been obscured or altered slightly to ensure anonymity, and all names are fictitious.) She lists her weight at well over 200 pounds, her limits are "Anything Goes," and her tagline is "I'm too much for you." And what is she looking for? "Sex.... I'm not here at AM to meet someone for the opera, I assure you."
"Just to be clear, is this a sexy date or a formal interview?" she writes. "Ideally we could combine the two."
What the hell is going on here? What, exactly, is compelling these married women to set up "sexy dates" in droves, aside from easy Internet access? For years, our collective narrative of the errant housewife has run thusly: Neglected by her aloof or abusive husband and dying a slow death from her suburban prison, she falls into the arms of a dashing, romantic gentleman. In myths, novels, and films, from Helen of Troy to Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter to Diane Lane in 2002's_ Unfaithful, _the affair of the rare philandering female is the centerpiece of the story, and its punishments are draconian (the Trojan War, ostracism and branding with an A, being cast in Must Love Dogs). On the other hand, just try to name every single guy who has cheated on Mad Men—and gotten away with it. Then again, _Mad Men _takes place fifty years ago.
In the real world, with greater professional equality between the genders and third-wave-feminist sexual liberation, are women cheating for the same reason that men have throughout history, as Megan's profile suggests—that is, to sate their sex drives and gratify their egos?
In the spirit of this gender reversal, I invite you to picture me as Carrie Bradshaw, sprawled out on her bed with her PowerBook G3, as she voice-overs, "I couldn't help but wonder: Are unfaithful women the new adulterous men? Has Casanova turned into...Cassandra?"
Megan has picked Coppelia, a Latin American diner at the border of Chelsea and the West Village in Manhattan, and she's waiting in a booth when I arrive. She recognizes me from my profile photo, and I slide in across from her. She's around 40, wearing casual, loose-fitting clothes and a pleasant smile. In short, she doesn't fit the portrait of the promiscuous, inconstant woman cast as the adulteress in Hollywood dramas.
I thank her for meeting me. She says it's no big deal. It is, though—if her identity were somehow unmasked, it could torpedo her high-powered career: She's worked for one of the most prominent political figures in the country and nearly ended up in Obama's administration.
Over cold Cusqueña beers on a hot July afternoon, Megan drops the professional mien. "I'm a dirty old man trapped in a woman's body," she says. "I lust after younger men the way dirty old men lust after younger girls. I get dirty old men. I'm looking for eye candy. I'm very shallow."
She tells me that she's been corporeally disloyal in relationships since she started having sex at 16 and has don't-ask, don't-tell permission to frolic with other lovers from her "nerd" husband of nearly two decades, with whom she has several children.
"He can barely handle me, and he's super-vanilla," Megan says. "But he's also a fantastic guy and father. We have a really happy and functional house."
She hoped marriage would change her cheating ways, but two years later found herself straying—as much out of a lust for life as for flesh. "I find myself living my life in the third person and deciding whether it'd be a good story." She takes a sip of beer. "I want it to be dramatic."
Since then, she's averaged one or two new men per year, with a few women sprinkled in, and in the digital age has supplemented her search with Ashley Madison, Craigslist, and CougarLife. As is customary for women on Ashley Madison, she gets bombarded by suitors, then rejects about 90 percent of those she meets. To her, the main contrast in the libidos of the genders is not their size but their pickiness.
"Women want their affairs to have sexual attraction," she opines. "Men just want their affairs to have a vagina."
For some reason, a professional photographer sets up a tripod and camera at the entrance and walks past us several times. Megan seems discomfited. I assure her the photographer is not with me.
Her friends (granted, a self-selecting cohort) are just as randy as she is, though not all seek out external solutions—to their detriment, she believes. "They're all unhappy with the amount of sex they're getting—the ones who are still married," she says. "I feel like I'm the healthiest one out there. The ones who've started playing around are much happier."
But what about the guilt? "I really consider it a favor to my husband. My marriage would be in shambles if I wasn't playing outside the marriage." Such playing is not without its risks; she's fallen for men before, she admits, and says heartbreak is part of the game.
Megan prefers younger men whom she can think of as her "boy toys—my playthings." She asks how old I am. I tell her 33, and she points at me and says, "That's my perfect age." Later she clasps her hand over mine for a few seconds when I make a joke. Soon after, she removes my glasses without asking permission. "Your glasses are so clouded, I need to clean them," she explains, wiping them on her shirt.
Megan also has some olfactory qualifications. "I need to smell men," she tells me. "They need to smell good to me: healthy, alive, confident. I can smell fear; I want them to smell like they deserve me. I've met guys who are theoretically attractive, but they don't smell right."
There's a pregnant pause; we both know what's coming next. "Do you want to smell me?" I ask.
"I haven't really put my nose into your neck, which is where the smell holds," she says, and stands to the side of the table. I join her, expecting her to crane just her nostrils into me, but she embraces me in a hug, pulls me tightly into her expansive bosom, and burrows her face into the crook of my neck for a deep whiff.
"You smell good," she says with the cool detachment of a pheromone connoisseur, eyeing me in what seems to be a new light.
As our interview winds down, she asks what my romantic situation is. I tell her I have a girlfriend. "Are you in an open relationship?" she asks. No, I answer. "Too bad," she says softly.
"The women's movement into the workplace was the first massive jump into unfaithfulness," says Noel Biderman, CEO of Ashley Madison. "The more financial independence women have, the more it correlates to how unfaithful they'll be." When Biderman launched the site in 2001, he predicted "that the Internet would be the second massive jump and usher in an era where women would behave like men. Ten years later, having built a female brand, I think I was right."
Ashley Madison now says it has approximately 6 million active members in thirty countries (about 4 million in the United States). Revenues in 2012 were $100 million—more than decent, but still far behind the titans of online dating like Match.com and eHarmony. While the overall membership skews 70 percent male, Biderman claims gender parity among people in their thirties (which translates to lots of lecherous 65-year-old men hitting on 30-year-old women).
Biderman says he is happily married and regards his venture as a release valve for those in sexually unfulfilling, but otherwise effective, unions. In a joint interview with his wife on Australian TV's A Current Affair (ha!), he defended his company by saying, "I would rather see people pursue [an affair] and stay true to their families." His wife was more ambivalent. "I don't think it's the best thing, no—but...I can't take on the burden of everybody else's lives," she offered. Both conceded they would be "devastated" if the other used its services.
But whatever is driving women to these infidelity sites, the one notion nearly everyone agrees with is that our understanding of female sexuality is outdated. As Dan Slater wrote in a New York Times op-ed this year, some studies have shown that women report more sexual partners than men, are less selective in certain contexts, and are nearly as likely to accept casual sex from a celebrity or from a close friend they've been told is good in the sack.
There's also a keeping-up-with-the-Mrs.-Robinsons pressure, especially among wives who have at least as much power as their spouses, says Kate Bolick, author of _The Atlantic'_s much discussed "All the Single Ladies" cover article. "When I've watched women cheat in their thirties, they're not necessarily unhappy with their husbands, but they're all alpha women, and they feel entitled to what they want," she says. "If you're a 34-year-old woman successful in your career and you've got a great husband but you're bored sexually, and you watch all your single friends run around town having sex, you think you should be able to have that, too."
I ask Bolick to scroll through her phone and count the number of women she knows of who have had affairs. "Fifteen!" she announces.
Gloria is a slender, pretty woman in her late forties whom I meet on a Friday night at The Bar Downstairs at the Andaz hotel in midtown. She's had two enjoyable long-term affairs with male colleagues. Recently, however, without any opportunities presenting themselves, she joined Ashley Madison. She wants to fall in love again but doesn't feel the need to leave her husband—at least not yet.
"There are more reasons to stay than to leave. There's still love that holds us together," she tells me over cocktails and tapas. "But I don't believe any one person ever fulfills a person's needs. And lifelong passion is extremely rare. If I left him and married someone else, it'd probably just be a matter of time until I had the same situation. It's unusual for a strong sexual component to remain after a few years, and I'm not willing to give up that part of my life."
She says she's been with "publishers of magazines, CEOs, politicians, managing partners at law or investment firms"—all via Ashley Madison.
"Politicians?" I exclaim, astonished anyone in elected office would be so brazen in the aftermath of Anthony Weiner. "Can I ask what level of government?"
"I won't say any more," she laughs. "I like him and don't want to get him in trouble."
Whereas some might get off on devising a secret rendezvous, Gloria seems to be troubled by it. "I don't feel guilt about the effect of the affair," she says. "I feel guilt about the circumstances—to see someone, I need to come up with an outright lie."
I've gotten a taste of how physically and mentally fatiguing it can be to set up these arrangements, and I'm not even leading a double life. Gloria is the third woman I've met up with in about ten days, and I've had long phone calls with three others, not to mention a seventy-text spree with a woman in Albany (which included plenty of boastful sexts on her end, like: "This little fat girl knows how to play. You'll see when we walk into [REDACTED SPORTS BAR]. I give it 5 min before someone hits on me. Not even. Lmfao.") We tend to imagine infidelity as a state of heightened eroticism, three-hour binges of lingerie and champagne in a hotel suite. We don't think of the far greater chunk of time the cheater spends lying to his or her spouse, questioning the marriage's foundation, and seeking an exit strategy. There's nothing dramatic (in an exciting way) or sexy about that.
Sarah and Laura
One early-thirties woman, Sarah, has just met a date—she's ambivalent about him—before she joins me for lunch at the French bistro L'Express near Gramercy Park. She goes for eight-to-ten-mile runs several times a week and posts a semi-blurry photo of her cute, corn-fed face on her profile, one of the few women to do so.
Sarah tells me she's had "ten years of boredom. I want to have fun." She married young to appease her religious parents and finds her bourgeois life and sexually unadventurous husband "suffocating." As with most of the women I've interviewed, she labels herself "more of the controller" in the relationship: "I earn more. I repair everything. I fix up the house."
She joined Ashley Madison two months ago to "sort of test the waters," she says. The first man she met on the site came over to her house for their first meeting while her husband was on a trip. She met him on the steps to her home, and with minimum conversation they progressed to the shower and the bedroom. "It was the hottest sex of my life," she says, beaming. "Porn-star sex." Why haven't they met again since then? "He's Muslim, and it's Ramadan, so I haven't talked to him for a few weeks." She laughs. "It's so hypocritical—all this holier-than-thou stuff."
Sarah also has a forensic-science degree, and when she mentions a hotel she visited during her affair, I ask if it was the meatpacking district's notorious Liberty Inn, with its reasonably priced two-hour rooms. She says no, but reveals a fun fact: Hotels aren't required to wash comforters. "So when you go to a hotel, always pull the comforter off, because there are semen stains all over," she advises.
I don't mention these lax hygienic standards when Laura, around the same age, tells me about the time a professional athlete she was sleeping with got busted after his wife discovered the receipt for their $600 night in Union Square's W hotel. Laura has called me from her corporate office on a Monday night shortly after we exchange an Ashley Madison e-mail. A few minutes in, she orders a secretary who has entered her office not to interrupt her conference call.
Like Sarah, she's been with her unambitious husband for around a decade and is not only sexually uninspired and no longer in love but also chafing under the shackles of her conservative upbringing and professional demeanor. Her rebellion includes sexting her boyfriends under the table at dinner with her husband.
Her views on gender relations are of a modified-traditionalist strain. "In the workplace, it should be equal," she says. "But in the house, the only way it works is if there's a strong masculine and feminine component. You need to give your husband a blow job every day. He should feel like a king. Seeking it out in my sexual life is to make up for it in my real life. I want my husband to be dominant and more successful. I don't want to be the man in the relationship."
Laura also expresses a level of self-esteem that many might envy. "I lost a lot of weight, and then I realized that I'm hot. All of a sudden, people were asking if I'm a movie star—I get that every day," she tells me, along with, "Everyone tells me that I'm amazingly good at sex, that it's beyond anything they've ever experienced."
Ninety minutes in, she's still hesitant to reveal too much, though, so I try to persuade her to meet me that night. It's already 9 P.M. She asks if we can do so two nights later when she's less tired. I don't trust that she'll follow through. Throughout our call, she's told me several times that her hands are sweaty from confessing her secret to me. So like any respectable journalist hoping to secure a meeting with a reluctant source, I play to her proclivities.
"I think you like talking about this in your office," I suggest.
"I do like it," she admits. "I feel kind of naughty telling you. Like I'm doing something really bad. Sometimes I wish I could tell people. But I feel like such a deviant. Because it turns me on. Being bad."
"And I think you like the idea of reading about yourself in an article."
"You're right, I do," she says. "I want to take it to lunch with my girlfriends"—suburbanites she's dismissed as Keeping Up with the Kardashians-watching Stepford wives—"and discuss how shocking it is that people like this are out there and they're such whores, and make a big deal out of it and see what everyone says. I like the idea of feeling like a whore."
"Of feeling naughty," I say.
She pauses, then says, "It'd be really naughty if I were to fuck a GQ journalist." A few seconds pass. My heartbeat quickens. Various boundaries—professional and personal—are shifting under my feet. It feels dramatic.
Laura breaks the silence. "Not that I'm offering," she says with a small, ambiguous laugh. "I'm not."
She tells me I have an attractive voice. I deepen it, make it more gravelly, promise to reimburse her for a cab down to a meeting spot.
"Stop talking in your sexy voice," she giggles. "You're using your sexual powers against me to get me to meet with you."
And there goes my Pulitzer eligibility. After a few quick calls—and a request I immediately reject to send a photo of my genitalia for insurance against the possible exposure of her identity—she says she's told her husband she's going running and agrees to meet me. I sprint to an ATM and withdraw money for her cab, then jump in a taxi myself to the twenty-four-hour L'Express and sit at the bar. She calls me as I'm on my second vodka tonic. I'm afraid it's to cancel or to mock me for showing up, but she says she's en route. Ten minutes later she walks in. I can't describe her appearance, except to say that she has listed her weight in the mid-one-hundreds, calls herself "fit," and wears corporate attire. I can see how she would be some men's type; she's not exactly mine, but I could also envision a scenario in which, if I were single and feeling lascivious, something might happen.
After a few mojitos, the details pour out about her liaisons, generally with men who are "very rich and older and dominant"—with whom, she says, "I feel like an expensive toy." There's the gentleman who, during a two-hour lunch date at Babbo, Mario Batali's West Village restaurant, fingered her under the table. And the spiritual leader who hit on her in his house of worship. And the husband's friend she flirts with to get back at his obnoxious wife. And her on-again, off-again relationship with the W-frequenting athlete. And the supposed Harvard professor whose classroom she visited one day: "The sex sucked. He folded my clothes neatly over the podium, and he just bent me over a chair and fucked me kind of roughly." When she tells me he's still working on his dissertation, I feel obligated to inform her that she had podium-sex with a lowly graduate student.
She presses her leg against mine and periodically leans in close to whisper, but generally comports herself more properly than she did on the phone. She texts her husband after midnight that she wants some more alone time. At 1 A.M. she shows me her phone. "Look, he hasn't even responded," she says.
Laura and I stumble out of the bistro at two in the morning. We walk into a bank so I can withdraw $60 more to pay for her long cab ride home, back to the suburbs. "I want to see your apartment," she says when we come back out on the street. "You're living my dream, living in Manhattan."
I could do this if I wanted. I could take this woman I just met home to my apartment and have sex with her and not tell my girlfriend, and Laura would concoct a wild story for her husband, as she did to cover up her W hotel romp. Whatever feels romantically or sexually lacking in or injurious to your life—your current relationship, the girls in high school who didn't give you the time of day, stultifying routine—can be compensated for, at least for a few hours, in the fashion of so many unsatisfied people: through clandestine congress.
But I don't want to do it. Other than Megan, the only one who is open with her husband, the women I have met are all, by their own admission, either deeply unhappy or deeply dishonest with their spouses. Monogamy may defy certain biological imperatives and may not make as much sense for modern eighty-year life spans, but that's the contract you sign up for; if it isn't for you, then opt out or marry someone new.
"I really can't show you my apartment," I tell Laura as I hail her a taxi. Tomorrow she'll e-mail me that she wrote an essay about our encounter on the ride home; a week later, that she's left her husband and that "I bet the next time that I do have mind-blowing sex it will not be with someone who is married." Then, a few weeks after, that she's quit her job. She wants to be a writer, and asks me for advice.
For most, is cheating just about sex or sexual ego? I would still submit that the latter is the case more for men than for women. But with Laura, it's about desire for another life altogether. There's still no Ashley Madison for that.
Teddy Wayne (@TeddyWayne1999) _lives in Manhattan and __is the author of, most recently, the novel The Love Song of Jonny Valentine. This __is his first article for _GQ.


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(AP) – North Carolina state government has suspended a welfare program for the unemployed because there was no guarantee the federal government would reimburse the state for keeping benefits going until the shutdown ends.
The state Department of Health and Human Services said starting Monday it directed county social service offices to no longer approve Work First applications. Renewing current Work First participants also has been suspended.
Julie Henry with DHHS says current Work First participants already have received October payments, so people could miss benefits if the shutdown extends into November.
Henry says the federal government sent a letter to the state saying they could continue making cash payments to Work First enrollees, but repayment was tentative.
Work First served 21,000 people in September and distributed almost $5 million.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Blogiversary! And a little writer's retreat
My first post on Travels with Books was April 11, 2009, about going through some of my mom's things. Within a week, I started talking about this book I wanted to write about my ancestors in Ireland.
I think I started writing the book in November 2008 during National Novel Writing Month — 50,000 mediocre (at best) words in 30 days! I got back to my busy life, but managed to travel back to Ireland for more information in October 2009. I didn't have time to organize the research because another nanowrimo started as soon as I got home. I added about 23,000 more words, trying to fill in some of the missing pieces in my 100-year-long, multi-generational saga.
The following year (2010), thanks to my new writer buddies, I kept at it. I ended up with this monster draft in a three-ring binder, some of it in longhand. (By the way, I took a break and worked on other stories during nanowrimo 2010 and 2011.)
I'm still progressing at excrutiatingly slow speed. Earlier this year, I decided that my monster child might actually be triplets — I mean, a trilogy. I re-outlined the first book and put headers and notes into Scrivener. I'm now typing my draft into Scrivener, revising as I go.
Last weekend, I had my first free Saturday in aeons and decided to give myself a little writing retreat. Nothing organized, just a Saturday at home with priority on writing.
I put the nice lace pillows on the bed and laid out the guest towels, just for me! I slept in, but not too late. Cooked breakfast. Spent more than an hour trying to add those little "share" icons you see at the bottom of this post, as part of the April Platform Challenge (I've enjoyed the daily tasks, but that one caused some problems).
I finally started on my story after 10 a.m. Stopped to check a child character's birth date on my old desktop computer. Pulled up photos of the actual Irish manor house so I could add a few scene details. Then I went on a book and internet search to find the 17th-century word for "diaper." (Another historical writer uses "clout," but I couldn't find any sources for that, and "nappy" came later.) Considered focusing my blog on 17th-century Irish social history because there's such a dearth of information. Ordered a book online from interlibrary loan.
During lunch, I read my May/June Writer's Digest that had just arrived in the mail. Lisa See talked about organizing historical research. Wish I'd read her ideas a couple of years ago!
Back to the book. By the time I quit to make an afternoon grocery run, I'd written about 771 words. Pitiful, I know, especially for a day dedicated to writing. So let me add some accomplishments:
- Transition to the next scene.
- Added Sarah, the third child in the scene, for historical accuracy. Corrected George from a baby to a toddler.
- Added details, including relative directions for the stairs and hall, type of floorboards, and the toddler's trundle bed.
The next time I get a day off, I may use some tips in this article about a Mini-Writing Retreat. Two things will get this book to publication: God's help, and sheer stubbornness.
The challenge is that I'm not just writing, I'm revising. That means stopping to look things up, checking facts, deciding on consistent names for servants and other supporting characters. If anybody has any tips on how to keep flowing while doing all that, please share!
Writing Magazines <-- May/June issue as pdf file
4 comments:
- Gerry said...
Came across your Twitter name via the platform challenge and visited your blog. I so relate to where you are--revising a book, juggling it all. I made my first blog post in 2009, too, but I've not kept it up. I've resolved as a result of Robert's exercises to "get better."
Will follow you on Twitter, and I will re-visit the blog.
- Elizabeth Saunders said...
Thanks for visiting, Gerry. I'm enjoying the platform challenges. Between blogging, revising, social media, etc., we'll have to prioritize what's most important.
- Monique Liddle said...
Congratulations on your blogiversary! Did you tell the MNINB grp? If not, we would have loved to have heard of this important milestone of yours. If you did, I'm sorry I missed it.
I have a general question about your blog. Can I follow it through email - by getting email reminders when a new post is released? I'm not very good about checking my blogger Reader.
Thanks for a great post and look forward to reading others.
- Elizabeth Saunders said...
Thanks, Monique! I mentioned it, but probably late at night. I've been behind on the challenges this weekend and haven't read all the comments at MNINB.
Funny you should ask! ;-)
Thanks to today's platform challenge, you can follow by e-mail.


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What happened there? Again, it is hard to tell anything interesting without some speculation - and possibly I'll have to apologize to Dave for this - but I think Dave has read "You must hate version control systems, we won't be using any" and assumed that this is is from a company that superficially rejected version control because they did not want to learn or, in other words, from someone that assumed that version control is useless. Talk about beams and eyes. That's not to say that I vouch for the 'pipelines' system or for replacing version control with it. I still don't know much about these pipelines - but new ideas don't have to work in every possible aspect to be worthwhile and you'll not have a break-through idea if you always stick to the accepted wisdom.
It is easy to assume stupidity - on average people are mediocre - but the internet is a big search space - expect to be surprised from time to time :)