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HESSTON — Calvin Ridgeway, 88, passed away Saturday, May 17, 2014, at Bethesda Home in Goessel. He was born on Sept. 18, 1925, in DuQuoin, Ill., the son of Calvin J. and May Stevenson Ridgeway.
Calvin attended schools in DuQuoin. After graduation from high school, he proudly served his country in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a cook. After his stint in the service, Calvin went to work for Sherwin-Williams Paint Company in Kansas City, Mo., as the assistant manager of the Brookside store where he worked for 39 years.
He married Frances F. Schlotthauer on May 15, 1949, at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Marion. In 1950, he was confirmed at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Kansas City. In 1999, the Ridgeways celebrated 50 years of marriage by renewing their vows at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Maui, Hawaii.
In 1986, Calvin moved to Marion with his wife to help care for his mother-in-law. When she needed to go to a nursing home, the Ridgeways moved to a retirement home at Schowalter Villa in Hesston, where they resided for 13 years. After Calvin started to have memory loss, they transferred to the Villa's assisted living for four years. He was later transferred to Bethesda Home in Goessel.
Calvin's favorite things to do were playing pool, cheering for the St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals, bowling, fishing, and traveling.
Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Frances of Hesston; and sisters-in-law Betty J. Ridgeway of DuQuoin and Lois Johnson of Marion. Calvin was always proud of his nieces and nephews, Keith Kielman of Lawrence, Lester W. and Richard Ridgeway of Illinois, Jane Johnson of Marion, Pam Levetzow and Rhonda Oleson of Kansas City, and Cindy Gowan of California.
Calvin was preceded in death by his parents; brother Lester; and sisters Velma Summers, Helen Wray, and Betty Kielman.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 22, 2014, at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Marion, where the casket will be open prior to the services. Graveside services and interment will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Greenwood Cemetery in Newton.
Friends may call at the funeral home today between 1 and 8 p.m.
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The battle for your digital trace begins
As companies ask consumers for trust while using their data to maximise profits, some businesses say the public must be educated about online privacy and retain the right to choose what information companies use.
This ever-evolving online privacy conflict of interest, built on the dollar value attached to personal data, may never be resolved, according to senior industry insiders.
Richard McLaren, chief technology officer for Australian media company Mi9, revealed that user information was now his company's main currency and that the public was often unaware of how their online activities were tracked.
Mi9, an extension of ninemsn, is a joint-venture between Microsoft and Nine Entertainment Company that claims an audience of 9 million readers over its various portals.
McLaren said that last year Mi9 took an official view that the future of media was data.
''One of the big unspoken ambiguities of data is what it actually is we are collecting,'' said McLaren. ''It ranges from information about how people or browsers are interacting or what articles are the most popular, what content is being shared, and where people are spending most of their time.
''People are often unaware how their activities are leaving a trace and we see it as our responsibility to ensure that people are well informed about what types of data and what types of trace they are leaving.
''There is clearly a lot of interest in the use of data for commercial purposes. I don't want to use the anodyne word 'responsibility', but we, as far as possible, collect and use data only in ways that are clear and unsurprising from a consumer point of view.''
One of the hurdles in discussing online privacy, according to Siobhan MacDermott, chief policy officer for anti-virus software company AVG, is there is no clear definition of what private information is and whose responsibility it is to protect it.
''The definition of private information varies from country to country,'' MacDermott told IT Pro. ''Everybody can generally agree that passport numbers and social security numbers are private information. But when it gets to IP addresses, there's a lot of discussion about whether that's private. Who owns that information?
''Is the responsibility to protect privacy on the government, a company, or the consumer?
''Our argument is that it should be the consumer. Government might not have your best interests at heart. Should it be a company? Should it be Google or Facebook? What could they do with your information? We don't think companies should have that responsibility, either.''
MacDermott said consumer education was key to protecting privacy.
''The average person on the street doesn't even know that their search results are being tracked,'' she said. ''[They] go to their Facebook status and say they are depressed and they will start seeing ads for Zoloft and depression clinics.
''If they say they had a rough night with too much beer they get ads for AA. But they haven't necessarily made that link yet.
''Consumers should be educated. If you want to disappear from online, you should be able to. You should be able to determine if someone is tracking you and you should be able to be notified if your information is being sold to a third party. Today, it is increasingly companies that are making those decisions and governments are trying to catch up.''
Marc Benioff, founder and chief executive of software giant Salesforce, believes that even if governments attempt to regulate online privacy today, perspectives and legislation will change as members of the generation that never knew a world without the internet take positions of power and influence.
''The current generation of leadership in place today was not raised on this technology and these issues are new to them,'' Benioff said. ''But if you look at how youth behaves on these social networks - how they look at things is completely different. As they get into positions of power and [elected] office that will dramatically change policy.''


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The future of civilization and humanity as we know it is without any doubt heading towards a "hive mind" or "collective consciousness" where we're all hooked up to the one "brain". We will become like the Borg, quite literally. This isn't fantasy, it's real.
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Mars was habitable longer, more recently than thought
Warmer, wetter conditions lasted until 3.5 billion years ago
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The dried-up Martian lakebed where NASA's Curiosity rover landed last year could have supported microbial life for millions of years, ending as recently as about 3.5 billion years ago. The findings, described in six studies published December 9 in Science, expand what scientists thought was a very brief window of time during which life could have thrived on the Red Planet.
Curiosity, an SUV-sized rover, landed on Mars in August 2012 in a region full of rocks that resemble weathered clays on Earth. In March, researchers announced that minerals in a sample drilled in an area known as Yellowknife Bay had formed long ago in a lake that was neither salty nor acidic. The lake's water may have been hospitable to bacteria (SN Online: 3/12/13). Now, after finding multiple layers of clays in the area and determining the chemical composition and ages of several samples, researchers are confident that this temperate era was prolonged, perhaps giving simple life a chance to take hold.
Curiosity hasn't detected complex organic chemicals that are essential for life. But project scientist John Grotzinger of Caltech notes that many of the ancient rocks Curiosity analyzed reached the surface relatively recently, so their molecules haven't been severely battered by solar radiation. He adds that the rocks are about the same age as the oldest rocks on Earth with signs of life, possibly allowing researchers to compare the planets' early life-friendly environments.
J.P. Grotzinger et al. A habitable fluvio-lacustrine environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars. Science. Published online December 9, 2013. doi: 10.1126/science.1242777.
D.T. Vaniman et al. Mineralogy of a mudstone at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars. Science. Published online December 9, 2013. doi: 10.1126/science.1243480.
S.M. McLennan et al. Elemental geochemistry of sedimentary rocks at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars. Science. Published online December 9, 2013. doi: 10.1126/science.1244734.
D.M. Hassler et al. Mars' surface radiation environment measured with the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover.Science. Published online December 9, 2013. doi: 10.1126/science.1244797.
D.W. Ming et al. Volatile and organic compositions of sedimentary rocks in Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars. Science. Published online December 9, 2013. doi: 10.1126/science.1245267.
K.A. Farley et al. In situ radiometric and exposure age dating of the Martian surface. Science. Published online December 9, 2013. doi: 10.1126/science.1247166.
A. Grant. Life-friendly environment confirmed on Mars. Science News Online, March 12, 2013.
S.C.P. Williams. Traces of inaugural life. Science News. Vol. 181, May 19, 2012, p. 22.


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Jill and I went up to the White Mountains in northern New Hampshire earlier this month. We found some photos of the Kancamagus Highway online and decided to go there, so we did.
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We ski twice a year in our van and have done so sine 2010, just love it. Skiing from the van is great but does need planning. What van do you have as that will change how you plan. We normally go on a site, wild camping is great but not at -20 when it's dark and cold most of the time.
I will respond further when I hear from you but I'm out tonight so will respond tomorrow.
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thanks for all your advice one of the other members suggest i contact you as you go skiing, ! and would know all about it...we just came back from mayrhofen a couple of weeks ago , next time we go i hope to use our new van
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Two documentaries highlight top farmers of yesterday and today
Popcorn is the snack of choice at the movie theater, but wheat is quickly becoming the on-screen star. The crop is featured in two documentaries—one that's complete and another that's in early production.
The completed documentary is called "Harvesting the High Plains." It begins with the confident, even narration of Mike Rowe.
"The 1930s—a time in history that men will never forget, for only the strong survived," says Rowe in the movie's opening scene. "A time when two men came together and learned how to partner with the land, turning dust to fields of gold."
People need to understand what growers and custom harvesters go through to produce food
The two men were Ray Garvey and John Kriss. Garvey, a lawyer-turned-entrepreneur in western Kansas during the Dust Bowl, saw an opportunity in buying and leasing land. Kriss was a self-starter who convinced Garvey to let him manage his newly acquired farmland. Thus began a partnership the two named GK Farm.
"As our two principals were over 300 miles apart, and phone service during that time was a luxury, these men discussed everything by letter," says filmmaker Jay Kriss.
"Add letters with government officials, bankers and manufacturers—and the script was laid before us, enabling their words to tell the story. This collection entailed more than 10,000 documents," he says.
The two men embraced new (at the time) tillage and seeding techniques, and despite several years of hardships, they were finally able to forge ahead and turn a profit.
To help breathe life into the letters and other artifacts featured in the documentary, Kriss recreated Colby, Kan., as it was 80 years ago, complete with 35 vintage vehicles and more than 60 extras garbed in period attire.
"We culminated our re-enactments with the actual harvest of a period stand of wheat that had been planted the previous year with a 1940s self-propelled Baldwin Gleaner combine, the exact model and type used by GK Farm's contract harvesters," Kriss says.
Kriss still marvels at the logistics of a typical GK Farm harvest, given the coordination required—and without today's technology.
"There were no radios," he says. "No cell phones. No telephones, for that matter. And you have 130 harvesters cutting on the same day. How did you even know where everything was?"
"Harvesting The High Plains" was sponsored by AGCO and has already aired on several state PBS networks, with the hope of national distribution by this summer. The film is also planned to be used by the Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom in various teaching curriculums.
Follow along. Meantime, a second wheat documentary is just getting underway. "The Great American Wheat Harvest," which began production in January, plans to track Jim and DeAnn Deibert's JKD Harvesting along with four other custom harvest groups as they move through north-central Texas to North Dakota harvesting wheat, oats, barley and more.
"This story has needed to be told for a long time," says Jim Deibert. "Not only from an historical aspect, but to help the American people understand what wheat growers and custom harvesters go through to produce the food that ends up on their table."
Filmmaker Conrad Weaver says he is prepared for a busy year, thanks to funding from John Deere, MacDon, U.S. Custom Harvesters and the Association of Canadian Custom Harvesters.
"Our plan is to be in production all summer and in post-production this fall," he says. "We have a target release date on National Ag Day in March 2014 in Washington, D.C. We want to release in local theaters all along the Wheat Belt and give people the chance to meet the harvesters in person."
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4 killed after plane crashes in field 1.5 miles from airport
Authorities have released the names of the four people killed when a small plane crashed near a southeast Indiana airport on Sunday.
Greensburg police Capt. Bill Meyerrose said the victims were two Greensburg couples.
The pilot of the plane has been identified as Donald P. Horan, 46. The other three have been identified as Barbara Horan, 44, Stephen Butz, 45, and Denise Butz, 42. All four were from Decatur County.
"Everybody knew these people; in Greensburg, we all know everybody," Meyerrose said.
Authorities said Horan had been flying for about five years and was instrument-rated on the PA-46 Piper Malibu he was flying at the time of the crash.
The wreckage of the plane was found late Sunday evening about 1.5 miles from the Greensburg airport.
Law enforcement agencies received a report of an aircraft that went down at 6:15 p.m. Sunday.
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the flight took off from Destin, Fla., at about 2 p.m., but they lost contact before it reached Greensburg. The plane had been flown to Florida on Friday.
Authorities said Horan had radioed his intention to land at Greensburg, but the plane never arrived.
Greensburg police, Decatur County Sheriff's Office deputies and Indiana State Police were called out to search for the craft after it never arrived.
The plane apparently hit a tree line and came to rest in a farm field, officials said.
Officials said they determined the plane was one of two planes flying back from Florida. The other plane landed in Columbus, Ind. It's unclear why Horan tried to land in Greensburg.
Investigators said the airport has runway lights the pilot must activate. Those lights were never activated at the time of the crash.
Family friend Brian Wenning spoke for the two grieving families.
"God has called four of our loved ones home," Wenning said. "Don Horan, Barbara, Stephen Butz, and Denise, they leave behind six children."
Neighbors said Horan owned Collection Associates in Greensburg. The business employs almost 50 people.
"We will miss them, our part now is to help the family grieve and get through this," Meyerrose said.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation by the FAA and NTSB.


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What Your Monopoly Properties Say About You
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We have shown you how to become an M&M and South Park character, tested your knowledge on the Daily Lunchtime quiz, and now this online psychoanalysis cracked us up to the point we had to share. "Jessica" is an incredibly astute writer who has found the reason why we choose certain Monopoly properties. We are almost embarrassed to tell you where we stand, or rather rent, but take a peek at her discovery at the link. Leave a comment if you think she is accurate and she may live up to her promise to analyze why we choose a certain path playing the board game "Life."
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Developing countries often presume, for a variety of reasons, that they have limited or no capacity to influence the outcome of negotiations of a loan agreement with an international lender. They often feel that international lenders generally do not subscribe to the viewpoint of borrowers or amend the clauses of the loan agreements. This is a serious misconception. Once the parties are committed to the negotiating process, the existence of convincing reasons, may be guided by national financial and economic considerations, for proposed amendments in the clauses of a loan agreement are difficult to ignore and often find acceptability with the lenders. The preparation and strategy of negotiation plays an important role in determining the outcome.
At the end of the course, the participants should be able to:
- Recognize the importance of foreign capital and the various methods for raising such;
- Name the international lending agencies how to negotiate with each;
- Explain with clarity the various provisions of national and international loan agreements and the purpose and intention behind various clauses of loan agreements; and
- Prepare a draft loan agreement with effective negotiating clauses.
The course consists of the following modules:
- Lesson 1: Methods of flow of foreign capital
- Lesson 2: Introduction to International Lending Agencies
- Lesson 3: World Bank Loan Agreements
- Lesson 4: Loan Agreements of Other Lenders
- Lesson 5: Conditions Precedent under a Loan Agreement
- Lesson 6: Financial Obligations - I
- Lesson 7: Financial Obligations - II
- Lesson 8: Financial Obligations - III
- Lesson 9: Covenants (Parts I and II)
- Lesson 10: Representations and Warranties
- Lesson 11: Events of Default - I
- Lesson 12: Events of Default - II
- Lesson 13: Other Miscellaneous Provisions
- Lesson 14: Resolution of Disputes
- Lesson 15: Guarantee Agreements
In order to ensure the best possible outreach, the course will be delivered through e-learning. Through a multiple-instructional setting, the goal is to achieve the learning objectives by means of learning technologies that match personal learning styles and by the inclusion of non-linear learning that aims at the development of just-in-time skills of adult learners. At the same time, in order to allow participants maximum flexibility of scheduling , the learning will be conducted in an asynchronous manner. Using a state-of-the-art training architecture, UNITAR will combine self-learning with assessments and online discussions. The pedagogy - adapted specifically to professionals in full-time work - will help train participants through various experiences: absorb (read); do (activity); interact (socialize); reflect (relate to one's own reality).
The course is designed for government officials, policy makers, negotiators, economists, financial analysts, accountants as well as lawyers.
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Accountants and auditors prepare and examine financial records. They ensure that financial records are accurate and that taxes are paid properly and on time. Accountants and auditors assess financial operations and work to help ensure that organizations run efficiently.
Work Environment
Most accountants and auditors work full time. Some work more than 40 hours per week. Overtime hours are typical at certain times of the year, such as at the end of the budget year or during tax season.
How to Become an Accountant or Auditor
Most employers require a candidate to have a bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field. Certification within a specific field of accounting improves job prospects. For example, many accountants become Certified Public Accountants (CPAs).
The median annual wage for accountants and auditors was $70,500 in May 2018.
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Employment of accountants and auditors is projected to grow 10 percent from 2016 to 2026, faster than the average for all occupations. In general, employment growth of accountants and auditors is expected to be closely tied to the health of the overall economy. As the economy grows, more workers should be needed to prepare and examine financial records.
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Jimmy Fallon appeared on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" on Thursday and told host Andy Cohen about his bizarre encounter with Lindsay Lohan during Hurricane Sandy.
Fallon, who was staying at an uptown Four Seasons hotel after his downtown apartment was left without power and water, ran into the actress at hip, uptown eatery, Tao.
As he walked into the restaurant, Fallon heard someone shout his name.
"It's Lindsay Lohan, and she goes 'What's up?' I go, 'What do you mean what's up? It's a hurricane. ... What are you doing here?' She goes, 'Are you here by yourself? ... How embarrassing.' ... And she goes, 'Why don't you just eat with us? Hang out with us?'" So that's exactly what the "Late Night" host did.
Fallon said Lohan was "loose and cool" and "totally sobes"—as in sober—throughout their meal.
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Why investors don't care about corporations' environmental performance
Inflection Points
Why investors don't care about corporations' environmental performance
Faithful and attentive readers will notice that a single thread of logic (I hope) runs through most of what I have written (and said) over the past two decades: the capital markets, i.e. investors, represent the single greatest -- and most underutilized -- weapon in the armories of those who seek improved environmental conditions.
The logic here is pretty straightforward -- if generally completely ignored in practice:
- Major corporations are arguably responsible for 70 percent or more of the environmental degradation going on around us continuously.
- Those very same corporations, however, may well represent 80 percent or more of the potential solutions.
- Corporations tend to be extremely sensitive and responsive to what they perceive to be the priorities of their investors, particularly those of the large, institutional variety.
- If major investors made it clear that they demand improved environmental performance from companies, ergo that improved performance would become a high priority for corporate boards and executives, and environmental conditions would improve dramatically.
There is, sadly, just one tiny, microscopic flaw in that otherwise impeccable logic chain: At present, notwithstanding a growing volume of rhetoric to the contrary, major investors do not, in practice, pay much attention at all to companies' environmental performance. As a result, the entire argument falls apart, and excellent work by organizations including the UN Environment Program Finance Initiative and the U.N. Principles for Responsible Investment falls well short of its considerable potential impact.
But why don't investors really care? I have written an entire book attempting to answer that question, but to save Green Biz readers the punitive $9.95 price tag, it boils down to this: the vast majority of investors either:
- See no direct connection whatsoever between companies' environmental performance and their financial results; or
- Worse still, believe that there is one, but it is unambiguously a negative one.
Sadly, the fact that there is virtually no academic or empirical evidence to back up the latter belief is apparently of no consequence whatsoever. And the real tragedy of the situation is that investors are leaving both financial returns and potential environmental improvements on the table.
Which brings us to the core subject of today's article: the lamentable fact that there are no more egregious miscreants in this regard than the charitable foundations, particularly in the United States. My good friend and colleague Steve Viederman, himself a former foundation president, has been particularly forceful and articulate on the subject. As he has pointed out on numerous occasions, there is a complete disconnect at present between the two halves of the organizational "brain."
On the one side, we have the operational, grant-giving side, which typically dispenses 5 percent of the foundation's assets each year on worthy and important projects -- many of them environmental. Some of the bigger ones dole out hundreds of millions per year to environmental causes. The real problem emerges on the other side of the house: the investment arm.
That part of the operation, entirely and unnecessarily divorced from the program side, is charged with investing the other 95 percent of the foundation's assets to generate the best risk-adjusted returns possible so that the program people can continue with the grant-giving. The problem is that the synapses between the two organizational brain hemispheres have been severed -- or, more accurately, they never existed in the first place.
Given that U.S. foundations control over half a trillion dollars worth of investable assets, this is not a trivial problem. As a general rule, 95 percent of the organization's asset base is invested with no regard for the nature of the other 5 percent, which defines the foundation's mission.
One extreme but not uncommon example is health-oriented foundations investing in tobacco companies. Closer to home, almost no environmentally-driven foundations scrutinize their investment activities to ensure that, where possible, investments are made in the companies with superior environmental track records, systems, and contributions. I know personally of one major foundation that cheerfully pours tens of millions of dollars in operating grants into promoting greater awareness of the environmental and social impacts of investing -- but it does not yet systematically assess such impacts in its own investment activities! In fairness, a number of the most progressive foundations do participate in so-called "program-related investments," but these typically make up only a tiny fraction of their investment programs.
Why don't charities make a greater effort to harmonize the two elements of the foundation's activities? It all goes back to the point made earlier: The investment professionals managing the foundation's assets remain locked into an increasingly obsolete (and usually entirely unexamined) investment paradigm that views the search for environmental excellence in companies as at best a waste of time, and -- more frequently -- as a recipe for reduced returns.
In adopting this approach -- almost always by default and without questioning its core assumptions -- foundations run a very high risk of reducing both their financial returns and positive environmental impacts. Foundation donors, beneficiaries, and even the general public (upon whose tax concessions foundations rely) deserve much, much better.
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`Boogie' Man Does the '70s / Mark Wahlberg is a porn star in film that catches spirit of an era
BOOGIE NIGHTS: Drama. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. (R. 152 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)
"Boogie Nights" is the first great film about the 1970s to come out since the '70s. It tells a story about the era's porno industry, but that alone wouldn't be worth 152 minutes of screen time. This is a film about the American dream, '70s style.
It gets all the details right, nailing down the styles and the music. More impressive, it captures the decade's distinct, decadent glamour. It conveys the rush of walking into a thumping nightclub on a Saturday night, the feel of sex and electricity in the air. Along the way, "Boogie Nights" also succeeds at something very difficult: re-creating the ethos and mentality of an era. The '70s were a time when people believed in the possibility of their own perfection. They wanted to heal the self, preserve the self, enrich the self, express the self. The idea of sex as the ultimate form of self-expression was something assumed so deeply that few thought to question it. People didn't just want to have sex -- they believed in it, like a religion. In "Boogie Nights," writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson presents the porno industry as the ultimate expression of those ideals. He shows why they were corrupt and why they were alluring, while never losing sight of the heartaches and concerns of individual characters. Anderson is only 26, and his one previous film was the not-so- hot "Hard Eight." But somehow he has pulled off a wonderful, sprawling, sophisticated film.
The ensemble cast is headed by Mark Wahlberg, whose boyish yet defiled look makes him a natural to play a porn star. He is Eddie, a young man of unique physical en dowments. "Everyone's blessed with one special thing," he says. In Eddie's case, his thing is his thang. A running visual gag shows various people reacting with bug-eyed wonder each time Eddie, just outside the frame, drops his nylon bikini briefs. "Boogie Nights" is a movie about pornography that's not pornographic. Yet Anderson manages to make each cut away from the sex seem like something besides a chaste crossing of the directorial legs. Eddie's first on-camera sex with reigning porn diva Amber Waves (Julianne Moore) is many things at once: crude and absurd, a genuine love scene and an initiation, too. Moore plays the scene as though welcoming her son back into the womb.
The picture follows a handful of characters as they leave the hedonistic yet oddly innocent '70s and enter the more cold-blooded, commercial '80s. Typical of that journey is Burt Reynolds as a sleazy but paternal porn director who starts off wanting to make "artistic" porn films and winds up making them on cheap video.
The rise and downward spiral of Eddie's story drives the plot. Wahlberg is superb as a kid who goes from a high school dropout to a porn attraction along the lines of the legendary superstar John Holmes. But it's Moore who gives the film its twisted heart.
On the surface, Amber is a dazed, cocaine-addicted, no-talent, whiny porn star. Yet Moore takes the viewer deep into this woman's pain. The first time Amber looks at Eddie, there's no question that she connects with him as though he were her lost child. In fact, it's a disappointment when the film later says as much in words. No need for words here.
Moore comes up with astonishing ways of just looking at Eddie. A close-up of her at a party, watching him stand by a pool, is one of those beautiful moments that echoes in the mind for days. We see in that one shot Amber's simplicity, her confusion, her fragility, her purity of focus. It's the kind of moment that can happen only in movies. Described in words or seen from a little farther away, it wouldn't have the same impact.
Anderson likes close-ups. He takes a tense scene in which Eddie, down and out in the early '80s, tries to pull off a drug swindle, and interrupts it with a long close-up that has a poetic kind of logic. It's a chance for us to contemplate what Eddie has become. Anderson also shows a knack for tweaking an audience's nerves and for coming up with ghastly comic bits: William H. Macy plays a beleaguered film technician who can't go to a party without his wife having sex with someone on the floor.
As the film goes on and the characters move in separate directions, Anderson follows several stories at once. He holds them together with a good instinct for the telling incident -- and also because he has gained the audience's confidence early on.
With "Boogie Nights," we know we're not just watching episodes from disparate lives but a panorama of recent social history, rendered in bold, exuberant colors.


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CHICAGO - Federal District Judge Milton Shadur has entered a consent decree resolving a sex hiring lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The case, 11-CV-879, was filed in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.
The EEOC had charged that Illini Precast, a manufacturer of prefabricated concrete construction panels, failed to engage any female temporary laborers at its Marseilles, Ill., facility. The company, which is involved primarily in providing prefabricated components for parking structures, is headquartered in Westchester, Ill.
Based upon the findings of an EEOC administrative investigation managed by Chicago District Director John Rowe, the lawsuit claimed that in October 2008, a qualified woman applied for a general laborer position, but was denied employment due to her gender. In its answer, Illini claimed that it was not an "employer" as defined by the civil rights statutes because it had fewer than 15 employees and that it was not responsible for the placement of laborers at its facility because it had contracted with a staffing agency.
EEOC guidance, and relevant case law, holds that temporary workers may be counted when determining if a company has enough employees to come under the provisions of the civil rights laws and that companies can be held responsible for the discriminatory hiring practices of the temporary agencies on which they rely.
"Employers are mistaken if they think they can 'contract away' their obligations under Title VII," said John Hendrickson, regional attorney in the EEOC's Chicago District Office. "Temporary or staffing agencies are acting as their agents in providing them with workers. If the staffing agency is sending them only employees of one sex or one race, this should set off alarm bells. Employers should realize that this is likely a problem that they have to fix."
Under the terms of the decree, Illini will pay $27,682 to the applicant. The applicant had previously received $60,000 as part of a conciliation agreement with the staffing agency that placed workers at Illini. Among other relief provided under the decree, within 60 days Illini will enter into a relationship with a local high school or vocational training program in order to encourage women to apply for work through staffing agencies used by Illini. Illini will also have to notify its staffing agencies that it is an equal opportunity employer and ensure that any advertisements also notify applicants that it is an equal opportunity employer.
Supervisory Trial Attorney Gregory Gochanour and Trial Attorneys Ethan Cohen and Laura Feldman led EEOC's litigation efforts.
The EEOC's Chicago District Office is responsible for processing discrimination charges, administrative enforcement, and the conduct of agency litigation in Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. Further information about the Commission is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.


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It's Friday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint Real Life Story [1] from a Mark's Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark's Daily Apple community please contact me here [2]. I'll continue to publish these each Friday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading!
I know I sound crazy. Like, Hare Krishna, ran off and joined a cult, crazy. But this is all true, and I know it is, only because I experienced it firsthand. Am I a good example, or a horrible warning? Hopefully, if I play my cards right, I can be both.
My memories of childhood are hazy. Especially names, places, and dates. I spent a lot of time, just sort of "drifting" with the current. I remember images, and faces. And I remember being sick a lot. Not like "I HAVE THE SCARLET FEVER!" sick, but just a runny nose, and teary eyes. Since I grew up in California's Central Valley, no biggie: seasonal allergies were legendary there. Hay fever was just assumed. The fact that it turned into sinus infections on a regular basis was just a given- right? As I got older, it would last year-round. Inevitably at the first cold snap, I would lose my voice. There was always a chalky pink bottle of amoxicillin in our fridge door, right below the milk.
I was also prone to ear infections, and vividly remember a procedure at around age 5 where they made me swallow "something that glowed" and then not being allowed to move so they could get a better idea about the bladder infections I couldn't seem to kick.
I seemed to outgrow most of it: with the exception of the lethargy and the sinus stuff. Poor Mom knew something "wasn't right" and dragged me to so many doctors: to have my thyroid tested, to check for allergies, and everything came up "fine". The ENT guy finally just said, "This kid is sniffling constantly because she has teeny nasal passages, and gigantic adenoids. She might grow out of it, or she'll need surgery as an adult." Great. By default, I became a chronic mouth-breather.
School was OK. I was quiet, usually characterized as a "dreamer" and by teachers who paid attention, an "underachiever." Since I wasn't a behavior problem, what would now probably be diagnosed as "ADD" was never noticed. I tested well, but in a noisy classroom, I had the attention span of a gnat, unless I could focus on one thing at a time. Two things I was great at: reading books or watching TV. If I was on my own playing with a friend, I was fine, but slumber parties were a disaster: all my high-pitched peers in a room together talking at once were absolutely overwhelming. I viewed these rites of passage with dread, as I knew I didn't fit in, and my involuntary snoring was something humiliating I would be teased about later on. And I was always tired, so I'd be the first to fall asleep.
The first recollection I had of sneaking food would have been around the age of 10. Maybe it's just that I was embarrassed to be caught at that age: I think it probably started earlier, but was written off as just being a kid. I was always hungry, and was getting "chubby". My parents didn't say anything about it: just implemented family walks after dinner, or I would ride my bike while Dad jogged. It just seemed to make me hungrier.
My first official diet was in the summer between 6th and 7th grade. I begged Mom to send me to Weight Watchers. Kids had been teasing me at school. I wasn't 12 yet, so I needed a note from my doctor. I remember the scornful faces of the other kids in my group when they heard I only had 10 lbs to lose. They wanted to know just WHY was I there? They had been forced to attend these humiliating meetings, by their parents, by medical professionals. Back in the mid 80's, there was usually only one kid at school who resembled Augustus Gloop, which was the limit of my experience until then. There they were, all gathered at Weight Watchers in an obese and resentful horde. They had 40, 50, 60 lbs to lose. To this day, I hope I wasn't smug. I do remember thinking, in my 11-year-old ignorance, "If I ever get that heavy, I would just want to die."
So Mom encouraged me to fill in my nutritional log. She joined with me for moral support. We went to the store together to shop for special diet food, and I learned to count – this was before points, I think they were called "exchanges" back then. I got more exchanges because as a kid, I was still growing. I checked off my boxes, and rejoiced because I could have peanut butter on my rice cakes for breakfast every morning. Which may be the most depressing food-related sentence ever written.
I lost 8 lbs that summer, writing everything down, checking off boxes, exercising faithfully. Between that and my graduation from thick glasses to contact lenses, I was evidently unrecognizable. When I went back to school, I was like Clark Kent, except my phone booth was a diet center, and instead of spandex and a cape, I had ankle-zip acid washed Guess? Jeans, Reebok hightops, and an Esprit book bag. Mom was excited not to have to shop in the "Big Girl" section, and we had gone all-out.
At my 12th birthday in November, I got a clown sundae from Farrell's, and devoured it under the disapproving eyes of my father, who said, "You're not going to eat that, are you?" And of course, by the time Christmas rolled around, I ate a pizza pocket or three from the snack bar, and had gained all that weight back plus more. Mom was still packing a nutritious lunch: carrot sticks, celery, a sandwich on white diet bread with turkey breast and a slice of low-cal plastic cheese (mustard only!) along with a little bag of pretzels (lowfat!), sometimes a non-fat yogurt sweetened with aspartame and flavored with God-knows what, and a diet cream soda. I would say 50% of the time, into the trash it went. My peers could eat pizza pockets with no problem, and I desperately wanted to be like them. But metabolically, I just wasn't. At 12, this was difficult to understand.
This is around the time I started having problems with cystic acne. I didn't know what it was, just told dad that my ear was hurting me. I do remember the look on his face when he peered inside my ear and recoiled. The next thing I knew, there were needles and matches and alcohol and pressure and pain and blood and yelling. OH the yelling! Mostly from me.
After a few more incidents like this, my long-suffering mother took me back to the pediatrician. He peered into my ears with his trusty otoscope, and said, in his German accent: "I don't like this. Usually, this is an indicator of outbreaks as a teen and young adult." I sat sullenly through this, and as a gesture of pre-teen hostility, refused to let him draw his trademark duck on my arm with a ballpoint pen.
So I religiously swabbed my ears with alcohol, and tried to avoid chocolate. The acne continued, and worsened, and spread. And inevitably, every summer, and sometimes in-between, I was on a diet. Slim-Fast, Weight Watchers (multiple times), Low-fat on my own, you name it. Some of them worked for awhile, but I would inevitably take a break and get discouraged, and BOOM: twice as much to lose next time around. I remember lying in my bed, listening to my stomach rumble, and looking at the tiny pink hearts on my wallpaper in my bedroom, and just wishing. My weight became something I prayed about, a constant reminder that Something Was Wrong With Me.
As I got closer to college, and gained and lost, and gained it all back plus more, I got more discouraged. I needed to lose 40 lbs, then 50 – my parents got more concerned. Bribery: promises of money, of new clothes, of the choice to attend the private university I had fallen in love with on my visit there – they were all dangled before me. And oh, by God, I tried. When conventional methods failed, I tried to make myself throw up – and am now thankful for the fact that it didn't work.
I was so embarrassed by my seeming lack of control over my body, of my appetite that strove to thwart me, of the fact that I constantly felt like I was starving, of my figure, which was an exaggerated hourglass that was impossible to shop for in the junior section. It was also impossible to walk to the bathroom in a TGI Friday's without some dudebro at the bar trying to pick me up. Dad would walk me to the bathroom when we went out to eat. I was 16, and I looked like a 30 year old cocktail waitress.
This is also when the long-awaited facial breakouts started to happen. I ping-ponged back and forth from the allergist, to the endocrinologist, to the ear, nose, and throat doctor. I didn't get any answers, but actually did lose some weight, due to the mass quantities of antibiotics I was taking, both orally and topically (I constantly had stomach acid). And then on my last checkup before college, I went to see the same gynecologist my mother went to: an old-school gentleman, who ordered my mother out of the room, asked if I was sexually active (NOPE) and gruffly handed me a prescription for birth control pills, with the instructions, "You're a lovely girl: don't ruin your life." Then he added, as an afterthought, "These might help with your acne, too."
I coasted through college. I was still drifting through life like a jellyfish, but now I was away from my family and still not technically an adult, so I had zero guidance or parameters. Luckily, I made some great friends, and learned how to fake it. I grew up: I got a little edgy. I threw parties, and went to more parties, and then everything just came to a screeching halt.
I just sort of abandoned any kind of responsibility in my life. To this day, I couldn't tell you what happened. There wasn't any sense of choice about it: I evidently had coasted for so long, I just traveled straight into a brick wall. I am guessing what I was dealing with was depression, although I didn't know that at the time, and couldn't explain it when my parents wanted answers – WHY?!! I couldn't get enough sleep, and I stopped returning calls. I checked out.
Back to the endocrinologist. Back to a doctor, who was a friend of the family, who had been briefed beforehand. Also, a psychiatrist. My parents were frantic for any explanation. Alien abduction? Hormonal imbalance? I had only ever been marginally present in my own life anyway, and I look back at this entire time through a haze. There is no real answer. I couldn't tell you if I blocked it out in the interest of self-preservation, but that is a guess. I was in a dark place, just drifting. I just remember the reaction of the endocrinologist the most, when he reassured me that I was normal and there was nothing wrong with me, and I burst into tears. He patted me on the shoulder sympathetically, and said, "I do not think the problem is you. I think the problem is something else."
I moved back in with my parents briefly, realized immediately that it wouldn't work, and moved out again as soon as I got a job. A super-cheap two bedroom apartment with a roommate was my salvation. I was half-heartedly attending a local college because I didn't know what else to do, and somehow ended up playing swing music on the college radio station at 1 AM. This dovetailed nicely with my job doing graphics and filming the news at a TV station. I also started to "wake up" – with a vengeance. I had gone into my coma at 180 lbs, and come out of it at…I would estimate, 260. I don't know for sure, because I refused to get on a scale. I lost some of it on my own, but the solution for the rest was to go to a "medical weight center" and they hooked me up with a pill called Bontril. They weighed me weekly and took my blood monthly, and for the first time in my life, I could wake up for work on time and lose weight, spend an hour on the elliptical at the gym every day, and clean my grout at 4 AM with a toothbrush. In the plainest sense, it was probably a lot like crack. However, my thoughts had a crazy sharpness. For the first time in my life, I had some clarity. I remember wondering, "If everyone functions at this level all the time, why can't I?"
I met the man who would become my husband when he called into the radio station late one night. A lot of guys would call: they evidently found my 2 AM rants about Cheez-Its and my husky and congested voice strangely alluring – but he was the only one who had asked me about the music I was playing, not what I was wearing. I remember being shocked when I met him – what I thought would be just a funny story for my friends later, ended up being someone who I hit it off with immediately. We will celebrate our 10 year anniversary at the end of July, 2012.
By the time we had gotten engaged, I had gotten down to 200 lbs, which for me is about a size 12. I'd done it thanks to the looming threat of the impending wedding, my willingness to exercise like a crazed hamster on a wheel, the fact that I had no appetite thanks to chasing the Bontril Dragon, and the fact that surviving pretty much solely on reduced-fat Smart Pop microwave popcorn didn't kill me first.
I got married. I think I gained back 20 lbs over the course of my Bontril-free honeymoon. My husband was deployed for six months, and when he got back, we started trying to start a family. And trying. And trying. Once again, after a full workup, the doctor said there was nothing technically wrong with either of us, but suggested weight loss would help with my fertility. I tried Bontril again, but it didn't work. I tried anything and everything I could think of. We went through horrible fertility treatments. At the end, we were emotionally and financially drained. I was back in depression central, and all I could do was eat cookies and cry. I never had much direction in life, except wanting to be a mother, and this seemed like the ultimate betrayal of my body. It could not even do this, something that every woman should inherently have the capacity to do, and what I had always wanted.
Surely, this should be the motivation I needed. Motherhood was my brass ring. But the weight, which once would disappear (albeit, briefly) if I followed the rules, had begun to defy the guidelines I had so carefully drilled into myself. I would get down to a certain weight, 215, and exercise faithfully, lift weights, count every calorie – and gain. I bought a pedometer, I bought a polar heart-rate monitor, I bought a Go-Wear Fit, I tried eating more whole grains, I went to the doctor, I did the math, all to no avail. The doctor I went to actually said I wasn't being honest with myself, and tried to explain how to do circuit training to me. Me, veteran of many gym memberships, personal trainers, and hour-long sessions on the elliptical! Pfft! But what was worse, I was getting debilitating migraines once or twice a week, crazy PMS, my acne had branched out into rosacea, and my hair started falling out! I blamed stress.
The hard-learned truth: when you eff with Mother Nature, Mother Nature effs right back with you. 25 years of yo-yo dieting and chronic cardio, not to mention a constant barrage of pharmaceutical crap in the name of health, had trained my body to hang on to whatever it could for the upcoming famine ahead. I know that now.
I was at rock bottom, and had been flailing for awhile, when I found The Primal Blueprint [3].
There's a sentence in the book that details the many things gluten sensitivity can cause: Brain fog. Infertility. Migraines. Congestion. Acne. Lethargy. Depression. Those are the things I can remember. Because when I read them, I screamed, and threw the book against the wall. It was like opening a dictionary, and seeing my face. All I could think of was all the stress, the doctor visits, self-flagellating behavior, the pills I had taken and shots I had given myself and money that had been spent. Could it really boil down to this? The recurrent infections and depression and congestion and ditziness since childhood? This whole acne/infertility weight loss nightmare? Was it true that a change this simple could have seriously changed my entire life?
I just thought, well, I just thought it was me. But that long ago Indian endocrinologist, maybe he was right. It wasn't me, it was something else. Maybe grains and sugar were that elusive "something else"?! I looked at myself, a thirty-five year old woman, who loves her technology, her smartphone, her curling iron, high heels, jewelry, and cosmetics. Underneath that sophisticated (albeit, obese) veneer, could I really be a cavewoman?
It was time to find out. I chucked grains. All of them. I cut drastically back on sugar.
Within three days, my rosacea was noticeably diminished. Within a week, my snoring was quieter, and I was waking up refreshed for the first time in years.
In two weeks, my skin was clear. I get the occasional zit, and the scars still remain, but this in itself is a minor miracle. Also, I had lost 5 lbs. And I was not constantly hungry. My eyes, which were always, always bloodshot, like I had been hotboxing in someone's VW van, suddenly revealed that they had white sclera!
A month in, I was 10 lbs down, and I had my waist back. News flash -you typically look better and it's a lot easier to wear clothes when you are no longer shaped like a potato. This is also when I realized that my debilitating migraines were blood-sugar related, because they stopped happening. I also was waking up in the morning before my alarm. I had amazing amounts of energy.
Two months in, I could breathe through my nose. This is still something I have to focus on, as I have been conditioned by decades of having to breathe through my mouth. Those teeny tiny nasal passages and giant adenoids? I am guessing that was chronic inflammation, even as a kid.
That winter, My "hair guru" reported that my hair was thickening back up, and no longer falling out. And my seasonal depression just didn't happen. My husband called me a pet name, his "little black raincloud" – or at least he started to, and then he said "You know, that really doesn't suit you anymore." "My little piranha" also seems to have disappeared from the repertoire without comment. Thank God.
Another traditional winter hallmark: my horrible recurrent sinus infections: didn't make any appearance. And let me tell you, I sure as hell don't miss them. I haven't had one since. I have a familial history of high cholesterol: While I did get a big scary number recently, my ratios are good and my triglycerides, after decades of being elevated, are nice and low.
After 6 months, I went home for Christmas, and saw a friend of the family, who asked, "What are you doing? You look so…healthy. And happy!" And without thinking, I smiled and said, without thinking, "Thank you! I AM happy!" And it's true. I am. Nobody is more surprised about that fact than I am. When I run into people I haven't seen in awhile, they will inevitably ask, "What are you doing?!" And I am happy to tell them.
I almost didn't write this because, well, I didn't magically get skinny. There's no "big reveal" with me wearing a crop top to show off my 6-pack abs. I do still have bad days, when I have to remind myself that skinny and healthy are not the same thing. I do occasionally get the "stink eye" from some poor deluded schmoe when I throw uncured bacon into my shopping cart. While I haven't lost a lot of weight, I am able to eat like a normal human being and maintain. I am repairing decades of damage that I did to myself, and it's just going to take time – and patience.
By that token, I have been spared adding another 30-50 lbs to my grand total for the 2.5 years I have been eating this way. Which is no mean feat! And I am getting stronger, and exercising more because I enjoy it now, not because it's a chore. Life is short. I do what I love: Zumba classes, walking, riding my bike and playing active games on the Wii. And occasionally go on new adventures. The last one was going opal mining in the Nevada desert over Memorial Day weekend. My (new, awesome) doc says she will clear CrossFit when I get a little lighter. I know, you can scale, but as she says, you only get one pair of knees. Can't argue with that.
There are so many gifts I have gotten from following the PB. My health, my motivation, my identity, the ability to buck the system and go with my gut, self-worth, and respect and love for my own body and what it can do. Hopefully, motherhood is next. All of those things are beyond price. Thanks a million, Mark, for what you do!!!


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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
It Makes Me Wanna Take a Back Road
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Hey my lovely and gorgeous readers!! So my little T Pain is being entered to win the cutest kid contest in my area amongst other stay at home mom's like myself. So I'm reaching out to you girls (since erasing my cookies on the computer doesn't work!) to help vote for my little man.
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Of Course!
I miss my longer hair, WAAAAH! I like having something different, but seriously, I miss the length. I was just browsing my current LEGAL addiction, Pinterest, and what do I come across? How to curl your hair with a sock! A SOCK! Sounds crazy, right? Check out the how to video
I have looked at a bunch of other videos and pictures, and this shizz is legit. I have envied women's hair who can have those beautiful curls, since I can't remember. I have never been a hair curler master. Ive maybe curled my hair successfully and had the curls stay all day maybe 4 times in my whole life! No joke. I said on one of my last posts, that I have figured out how to curl my hair with the straightener, so I plan on really perfecting that since I feel like I have some sort of grasp on it.
My hair needs to grow out ASAP, check out these curls from a sock! Anyone ever try this?
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Keeping it Real
And honestly, last season, I was sorta over it. Maybe because it seemed like they were having season after season and I was just burned out. I have heard that Anna Kournikova as a trainer is sorta a joke. Super nice? Yeaaaaaaa, I need some mean tough in your face until until you black out Jillian Michaels. Sometimes when Im running, I seriously imagine Jillian Michaels running at me screaming that she will break my arms if I stop. Sounds harsh? This woman has said much worse to me in my fantasy land. I would not be able to deal with these coaches tho.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tired has a face...
and this is what it looks like...(BTW, totally figured out how to curl my hair with my flat iron, SCORE!)
My fellow readers, I am le' tired. Yesterday I got supa' crazy with the workouts - a 3.27 mile run on Tread, a 1.32 mile run/jog with Troy on crazy inclines, and then I did the level 2 shred after I put him to bed. Yeah I'm crazy...and tired. Since Nick is working overtime and doesn't get home until late, I figure why not just shred after T money goes to bed. Kills time, kills calories.
Well today I am planning on doing another walk/jog on hills with Troy & shredding when he goes to bed, BUT I just cannot get the energy. Ive done water, green tea and a coke zero & nothing is working. So Im going to have to pull out all the magic to get myself to accomplish these goals.
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Running back into it
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Saturday, October 15, 2011
I Wish you a Merry Christmas
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Friday, October 14, 2011
Short and Straight to the Point
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Photos from Pinterest Friday
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Never go to bed without curling your hair....huh?
So got back from the doc ma' lova's ......
I have gangrene..... kidding! Wouldn't that be the pits? But I do have a pretty messed up poison oak rash that needed steroids and a special steroid cream. The steroid of choice was Prednisone. Before going to pickup the said Prednisone, I dropped by my moms and raided their gauze, vet tape (works like a charm with sticking good!), and medical tape. I am so over oozing through my shirts (sexy, no?), so I'm wrapping my stomach and arm up so I can't get little T stuck with this crazy ass rash.
Once I got home, I googled Prednisone side effects. These were some of my favorites
inappropriate happiness ----- so will this be a bad time to attend any funerals?
changes in personality ------ Ummmm, this already happens. My personality changes day to day. Depends on how much sleep I get of course.
bulging eyes------ Just FYI Nick, that isn't a giant toad in your bed, it's your wife! MUA HAHA HA
changes in the way fat is spread around the body--- SWEEET!! Finally something that will make sure all the calories go straight to my boobs!
Another side effect? Insomnia!
Insomnia? What insomnia? You mean curling my hair before I crawl into bed to only mess it up isn't normal? At 11 at night? Are you sure? Hmmm.....
***Things to note in the pics - 1. due to all my super Charlie Sheen energy, I will be cleaning that messy mirror tomorrow when I clean the rest of the case. 2. Ignore the toilet, but doesn't everyone have one? ****
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Sunday, October 9, 2011
Paying it Forward
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Friday, October 7, 2011
Someone get me a bristle brush
I have poison oak....joys of living in the country. Oh, but I don't just have a smidge. I have a whole crap load of the devil on my stomach, on my wrist and it climbs up my inner arm, oh and on the corners of my arm pits. I'll spare you pictures, its pretty nast. I swear, I have no idea how this happened. I wore TWO shirts, and the top one was a long one. Nick trimmed back a ton of it, and I hauled it up in a pile. We may or may not have thrown it over on our neighbors side of the fence? No one lives there anyways, pfft....
So due to this fabulous shade of red (and nasty scratches), I am taking a pause in running/working out/bow chicka bow wow, since I read sweating can cause it to spread. And mama don't need that. I am already paranoid enough as it is that when I wipe my arse, my wrist will touch my butt cheek, then it's all over! ....You still with me?
Im sure Im gonna get a lot of "Your a nasty bish" comments about this, but we are letting Troy cry it out at night. Or as I like to think of it "sing himself a 20 minute song in the middle of the night". Yup. He's 8 months old, he has shown me plenty of times he is capable of sleeping through the night, no. more. Miss. Nice. Mom. So tonight will be night 3. Last night was better than the first, so I hope that is the pattern that keeps. Its tough to listen to him, I sure as heck don't want to have to deal with abandonment issues when he's 15 due to the fact, I let him cry for 20 minutes when he was 8 months old. I've talked to a TON of moms who have done this. You seriously wouldn't believe the number of moms who have come out of the woods who've done the same thing and were so encouraging. It's kinda crazy too, cause I have been beat ever since I've started this "cry it out" deal. You'd think I'd get more sleep...FALSE. I have not gotten more sleep, I lay there listening to him, telling myself over and over "this is for the best, this is for the best, I wonder if I have another bottle of wine in the cupboard?, this is for the best, this is for the best"
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Board of Education member Stephanie Dodd adds a woman to the Schiavoni ticket as he faces a female-dominated primary field in May. It also solidifies the central role of education in Schiavoni's push for the Democratic nomination to replace term-limited Republican Gov. John Kasich.
Dodd, 38, represents about 1 million constituents of an elective district spread across 13 central, southeastern and Appalachian Ohio counties. She lives in Buckeye Lake east of Columbus.
"She's dedicated, driven, and makes it clear through her work that she cares as much as we do about Ohio families," Schiavoni said in a statement. "Stephanie and I both worry about what the future will hold for our young kids. Together we can work to give every child a chance at a quality education, a good paying job, and a successful life."
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