text: Thirteen Men In A Closet [UPDATED with More RSCC Perfidy]This week, opponents of same sex marriage and State Senate Republicans worked together on what seems likely to be, at best, a purely symbolic victory for the former and a pyrrhic victory for the latter. Whether or not David Storobin is the ultimate victor in the 27th SD, opponents of same sex marriage have demonstrated in an unequivocal manner the toxicity of this issue, at least among Orthodox Jews. Mr. Storobin got over 69% of the vote in the district's overwhelmingly Orthodox portion of the 48th AD and an even higher percentage in the district's overwhelmingly Orthodox portion of the 49th. Some will also cite the Russian Jewish community. I'm a bit skeptical. I'm not sure that if the positions of the candidates on same sex marriage were reversed it would have affected the Russian vote one iota. The proof of that might be another social issue where Russians are overwhelmingly liberal: abortion. In this debate held in the Russian media, Lew Fidler, clearly having read his polling, raises the issue of choice. How pro-choice are Russians? Well, the first Soviet Jewish immigrant to run for office in Brooklyn as a Republican, Dr. Oleg Gutnik, is so well known for performing abortions that he was attacked during his campaign for City Council by Right to Lifers, even though his Democratic opponent was also pro-choice. He got an overwhelming vote in the Russian community. As Storobin himself said: Why would Russians who are registered Democrats vote for a Republican? Displaying total ignorance of not just the Russian community, but of immigrants in general, they mistakenly believed that Russians would care about abortion, taxation and "community outreach" more than they cared about electing one of their own. The reason that the victory for same sex marriage opponents is symbolic is that even if the vote augers strength for this position outside the Orthodox community (even if not necessarily among the Russians), it does not auger any sort of victory on the issue. I think that it is not impossible that same sex marriage opponents may get enough votes to pass a repeal bill in the State Senate, but they'll never get enough votes to pass such a bill in the Assembly, and certainly they'll never get enough votes in either house to override a gubernatorial veto. The reason it is a pyrrhic victory for Senate Republicans is because the Senate GOP enabled and emboldened opponents of same sex marriage, and now the chickens are surely coming home to roost. That they enabled them cannot be denied. To a large extent, David Storobin's entire campaign, and certainly its most successful element, has been about screaming the word "faygeleh": In what may arguably be Storobin's least tasteful ad, Fidler is attacked for being insufficiently Jewish, with same sex marriage cited as a reason why. As Colin Campbell noted, the photo, style, and logo of the ad is basically identical to advertisements identifiably paid for by the Senate Republicans' campaign operations. Other Republican Senate Campaign Committee (RSCC) materials also emphasized the issue, while RSCC operatives were seem distributing other materials with cloudier origins. In these days of Citizens United, one cannot always trace such money, but it is well worth noting that the RSCC's largest money source, Michael Bloomberg, throws around so much money to so many recipients outside conventional campaigns that he needs a full squad of assistant District Attorneys just to keep track of the leakage. But the idea that Joseph Hayon of "Jews for Morality" a part time tutor, found his funding on his own, is clearly not credible. At any rate, it is clear that the hate literature, even when it was not officially part of the RSCC's campaign efforts, was carefully coordianted with them. A visit to Storobin's Facebook page in December is instructive:: David Storobin: If Torah forbids Jews to vote for Weprin for supporting gay marriage, what about Lew Fidler, who was the #1 front-man for the Gay Lobby in the New York City Council? Torah law forbids you from voting for David Weprin www.thebrooklynpolitics.comDavid Storobin: If David Weprin is so opposed for merely voting in favor of gay marriage, just how much opposition will there be against Lew Fidler, City Council's #1 champion of the Gay Lobby? David Storobin: Intersect Eps. 33: Marriage Equality - Intersect on blip.tvIn the interview, Storobin compares elected legislators enacting same sex marriage to totalitarianism in North Korea, as well to oppression under Stalin and the Nazis.Then there was the time during the campaign (under the tight control of RSCC operatives) when Storobin accused Fidler of siding with Gays instead of Jews: "While I was doing that my opponent was organizing rallies not for the Jewish community but for the gay community," According to Politicker, Storobin said that Mr. Fidler held rallies for gay groups that netted one $85 million in city funding, and another rally for a different group which netted them $3 million in funding per year. POLITICKER: Asked in an interview what he was referring to, Mr. Storobin said that he gleaned the information from YouTube and suggested The Politicker search the website for Mr. Fidler's name. The rallies he is referring to could not be located. As it turned out, the reason that no one could find the videos of the rallies David Storobin accuses Councilman Fidler of holding for the "Gay Community," is that no one was looking for a rally in favor of providing shelter to homeless children. Let me be clear, except for Nazis, "Homosexuals" was practically the only thing the Storobin campaign talked about. One gets the feeling from reading and listening to Storobin that his somewhat nauseating public comments about LGTB people and their supporters are only the tip of the iceberg. In Israel in 2005, the use of inflammatory language similar to that found in Mr. Storobin's rhetoric and literature was deployed in an effort to stop a Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem and probably helped to inspire the stabbing of three young men at a Gay Rights march by an unbalanced ultra-Orthodox fanatic (who coincidentally, comes from the same ultra-Orthodox Moshav as the cousin with whom Domestic Partner's mother spent four years living with in an attic during the Holocaust). The anti-parade activists, using buzz words like "abomination" and "degenerate," comprised both Americans (including Rabbis who supported Storobin), and Israelis. In 2009, many in the press, both here and in Israel, blamed the use by the Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Shas Party of language similar to that which appeared in Storobin's ads for an incident in Tel Aviv, where a masked gunman walked into a community center for gay Israeli youth and opened fire, killing two and wounding ten more. Of course, such a thing could never happen in any Arab country, as gay community centers would have been prohibited at penalty of death. That being said, it was immediately clear that the perpetrators were Jews. While Hamas is both wildly homophobic and motivated to destroy Israel's efforts to improve its image among liberals by appearing to be a beacon of social tolerance (which, in the context of the Middle East, it surely is) an Arab perpetrator would surely have used a suicide bomb. [UPDATE: It turns out that the most devastating act of the RSCC was not merely stirring up dangerous hatred against LGTB people, but railing against tolerance itself. According to people at the highest level of the Fidler campaign, the most devastating ad to appear was one in the Flatbush Jewish Journal which accused Fidler of mandating that same sex marriage be taught to six year olds. This turned out to be about a law mandating that children be taught "tolerance." Clearly, we can't having anyone doing anything which might prevent the assassination of Sodomites. How was this ad paid for? Well, in January, the RSCC gave $15,000 to CITICOM, owned by Mordy Mehlman, who owns the Flatbush Jewish Journal.] But it is not merely in this repugnant manner in which the Senate GOP has gone too far. They have enabled the Taliban to beat the Communists (Storobin thinks it is an act of anti-Russian bigotry for Democrats to point out that they are not Communists), and now it is time for blowback (perhaps not the best choice of words). Opponents of same sex marriage were already mounting primary challenges to three of the four Republican State Senators who supported same sex marriage Dean Skelos is livid and scared, espcially since two of those Senators, Mark Grisanti and Jim Alesi, have publicly embarrassed themselves with their conduct when they are not on official business. If there is one constituency besides Orthodox Jews where helping to pass same sex marriage is a liability, it is among voters in Republican primaries. But if opponents of same sex marriage really are serious, four is clearly not enough. Dean Skelos. It was not four Republicans who delivered this bill; it was at least seventeen. In order to get to the floor and pass, the bill had to get through the GOP conference. There may have been four votes who actually wanted the bill to pass (I suspect there were more), but others had to agree as well. Some just thought it would look bad not to have a vote. Others just wanted to get the issue over with once and for all. Some might have been motivated by promises yet to be disclosed. Some might have thought that next time, they might not be able to negotiate the religious carve out they got in this bill (perhaps the reason the Roman Catholic Church took such a poorly executed swan dive). The important thing is they could have stopped a vote, and they did not. To put this in further perspective, let me note what I said on December 3, 2009 about the prior failure of the bill to pass: Some gay activists are now busy outing an allegedly gay State Senator who voted against marital equality. This has proven problematic in that though there have been many who have been "reamed" by the character in question, most of that activity seems to have taken place in a political context rather than a "romantic" one. And even among those who've engaged in "romantic" liaisons with the pol in question, there is apparently not one person who isn't too embarrassed to admit to it. And that was before he cast his vote. By my count, there are at least three gay members of the Senate who voted against expanding their own rights, possibly because they themselves would never have had the opportunity to use them. As one wag told me, "we've gone from three men in a room to three men in a closet." Three men in a closet. I will not name names, because I do not have the moral standing to do so, and because even though they may deserve it, I still find it distasteful. But they know who they are. They are cowards, whose lust for power apparently exceeds their power for lust. Cowards who are amigos in Lark Street bars, but enemies on the Senate floor. Cowards who tremble in secret at the thought of doing the right thing, and then tremble publicly in the act of doing the wrong one. Cowards who gladly take the Greek position, but bear no gifts. But it is no longer three Senators in a closet; it is at least 13 men and women—all the Republican State Senators who voted yes in the conference to the bill coming to the floor, and then no on the actual vote they enabled.Upon information and belief, one of those Senators is both gay and a member (perhaps not the best choice of words) of the leadership.That leadership must be held accountable for the despicable and dangerous campaign of hatred the RSCC ran in Brooklyn.Who in the LGTB community is going to come forward and out the despicable perpetrators of this hate propaganda?Hopefully, we will not have to wait for someone to die before the guilty are held accountable.Post new comment |


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Weird and Wacky Engineering
David Ashton
There's a thought. Ser up a shooting range with old PCs as targets (you could ...
Frank Eory
I'm surprised nobody mentioned this frustrating curiosity of AC powered smoke ...
Things that go "meep" in the night
Clive Maxfield
Apart from anything else, I hadn't realized just how many "things" we have in our ceilings. When I actually started to pay attention in the wee hours of this morning, I discovered that we have white plastic enclosures with flashing LEDs all over the place… in our bedroom… in our bathroom… in the corridors…
Good Grief! Even when I take things like motion detectors and smoke alarms into account, there seem to be an awful lot of other things up there and I have no idea what they are all doing. It's very, very strange.
But back to my annoying "meep". First of all I attempted to use a low-tech approach… I tried to ignore it. I might have succeeded if the time between "meeps" had been just a tad longer, but another "meep" invariably came just as I was poised to slide back down into the land of nod. So after what seemed to be a year or two, I decided to find the offending unit and either (a) replace the battery or (b) reprogram it with a mallet.
I couldn't turn on the light because I didn't want to wake my wife (Gina the Gorgeous), so how does one go about determining the origin of the sound? I don't know why, but for some reason the source of the "meeps" is not easy to pin down. Is it just my imagination, or are the duration of the "meeps" and the spacing between "meeps" designed to make it almost impossible to determine where the noise is actually coming from?
Following a "meep" you take a few steps and then stand there for ages waiting for the next "meep" (it may be only 10 seconds or so, but it seems much longer), and then off you go again.
This really is very annoying. Do the people who create these products ever actually "field test" them in any way?
WHY is this so difficult? It would be much easier if the %^#$# thing went "meep … meep … meep … meep …" so you could hone in on it. Or how about augmenting the "meeps" with a rapidly flashing LED – would that really be so hard? And what about incorporating some sort of sensor or timer so that the thing only starts "meeping" around dawn or dusk, which would mean that there would be a good chance you are in the house to hear it along with a reasonable chance that you wouldn't be fast asleep when it goes off?
But do you know what the really frustrating thing is? I couldn't track down the offending unit in the dark, so I ended up sticking cotton balls in my ears. Then, when I awoke this morning … the #$%@# thing had stopped "meeping"!!!
All I can say is that I am not wearing my happy face…
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David Ashton
I have a watch that does that. Every so often I get it into a mode where it "meeps" every hour, and I have to find and read the manual (no small task, especially the finding) to work out how to switch the hourly "meep" off.
And they always seem to make the "meeps" at a frequency where your ears are not very directional...
In my case the "meep" was cell phone in my wife's purse. No flashing displays would have helped and the muffled sound gave no directionality at all.
Max the Magnificent
My wife bought me a watch for Christmas -- it looks like the control panel for a 747 -- it has so many knobs and dials that it's difficult to find the ones that tell the time (grin)
There's some sort of alarm function that goes off at 2:00am every morning -- I have no idea where I put the instructions -- so every night before I go to bed I have to bury the watch at the bottom of my sock drawer...
... I tell you, t=you wouldn't believe my life if you saw it as a sitcom on TV :-)
I had a watch like that, but the instructions didn't seem affect the way the watch worked. It also just beeped in the middle of the night. It aslo had a compass (just a magnet on a pivot) and it couldn't find north. It always pointed in the same direction, just not north. Uswed to tell the time OK, but I am not sure which time zone.
I have an alarm clock that every now and then ignores the switch setting (cured by a shpritz of switch cleaner) and beeps when it is off. I normally get up before the alarm anyway and turn it off. But it gets the wife... (nasty chuckle).
Are you telling us that you are the human incarnation of Dilbert and a reality show is in the works . . .
;-) LoL
I agree with the statement, that the frequency of lowVoltage Battry warning could be improved. I have assumed that is intended to provide the longest warning possible to get our attention eventually, like a whining child.
Max the Magnificent
I'm starting to think that Dilbert was modeled on me :-)
Re the warning signals -- I just think something could be done better -- it seems that everyone I talk to has spent hours trying to work out just which "thing" is beeping :-)
And of course it's always at night since batteries operate less efficiently at lower temperatures. Perhaps the need to latch the low battery trigger until a light sensor indicates it's no longer night time? ;-)
I remember long ago when every night about 3am my fire alarm would actually go off (no fires, though). I replaced the batteries, checked the wiring, everything I could think of. One night I was so annoyed I threw a shoe at it (luckily a slipper, not a boot). A cockroach fell out. A shot of Raid fixed the problem.
Max the Magnificent
When I was a student I lived in a block of flats that had cockroaches ... I HATED them...
In Arizona, we have crickets that lead to midnight-annoyance.... but crickets are self-propelled.
When you look at those lights, just imagine that each is probably 25mW. You own ten, I own ten, everybody owns 10, and there are 300M Americans. That makes 75MW of glowing LEDs!!!
I was spending the night in my sister's guest/junk room, about to fall asleep when I hear what sounds like a cricket chirp. Try to ignore it, but it keeps repeating. Grab my shoe and try to find him, but hard to localize the sound, too brief.
Get my watch and time the period between chirps. Exactly the same, so it's artificial.
Knowing when the next chirp will be, I eventually find the general area of the sound: a group of moving boxes. After searching through several, I finally discover a smoke detector carefully packed away, battery on its last legs...
A truly evil prank: hide a detector with an aging battery where someone will never find it.
David Ashton
A friend some time ago gave me an electronic "Cricket" which he built from a kit and it didn't work. It beeps occasionally when it is dark, but it has a photocell on it and shuts up if it gets light on it. Object: to annoy the crap out of anyone who is near it. I gotta fix it sometime (after Max's atmosheric monitor and my HP counter and my calibrator and my DMM that doesnt work on ac and...and.....)
A friend and I spent a weekend trying to discover from what and where this cricket-like sound was coming from.
He told me a month or so later he had tracked it down to a smoke detector.
Max the Magnificent
You can get an "anoyathon" from ThinkGeek.com that you slip into someone's office and it makes random sounds...
Reminds me of the retaliatory prank played on the late Jim Williams:
"To get back I bought 8 watches that beeped only once every 24 hours, they were expertly installed in his walls, bed, heating ducts and on his dog. He never found all of them.... they beeped for 5 years until the batteries died."
Not 'meep', but speaking of long term retaliatory did you ever hear about the woman who just before she left her husband and his girlfriend stuffed his curtain rods full of raw shrimp? Eeeuuu!
One of my kids once left his cordless phone in the living room under the newspaper basket. Of course when the battery got low it meeped, I hunted for the darn thing for hours and didn't even know what I was looking for. Wonder why they don't make every 10th meep longer duration?
David Ashton
I once worked on a project refitting a shop. The Project manager had a PC with a screen saver that had crickets, owls hooting and various other nocturnal noises. He also had one (only one) CD, of Simply Red, which he had on repeat play.... now, whenever I hear Simply Red songs, I wind up wondering where the cricketa and owls are....
The BBC engineers in london had a gadget that sounded just like their pagers but bleeped only briefly every so many minutes, just enough to stop whichever senior engineer was staying overnight in an office from sleeping but short enough burst to ensure they never found it. Apparently these evil pranks had been going on for some years, indeed they may still be doing so now. It was a fun place to start my career but I'm glad of the quieter life now. :-)
Max the Magnificent
I wonder how many intentional "meeps" and "beeps" have been perpetrated over the years...
Ralph E_#1
Hello Max,
Wasn't Meep the little alien on Phineas and Ferb? Sorry about that. This actually happened to us about six weeks ago. Turns out the fire alarm in my son's bedroom in our recent addition had a faulty hot wire connection to the 110 volt house wiring. So the alarm ran off batteries for about six months and then complained. Since my meter didn't show the 110 volts present, I climbed into the attic to hunt down the problem. Then realized all I had to do was take the unit apart from the hallway to fix the wire. My wife says this is because I always expect the problem to be a worst case scenario. Bummer. But at least it was a low cost problem to fix.
Max the Magnificent
## Wasn't "Meep" the little Alien...?
I don't know, but "Max" is the name of every dog and every robot on every science fiction film :-)
My own meep story came to a conclusion fairly recently. Literally for years, something would meep at exactly midnight for exactly 1 minute in our basement rec room. As David A noted, the frequency was just high enough to conceal its direction. Since the room got second billing to our living/home-theatre room, it got little use and I just never bothered to try finding the source. One late evening as I sat down there, the "meep" commenced as usual, and I finally resolved to find it.
Deductive reasoning led me to suspect that the sound came from a closet full of now unused ski clothing and winter jackets. It took two nights due to the short duration of the meeping (gotta be a watch), of systematically unloading the closet during the sounding minute. The first night, the final meep was still in the closet and not in the pile of jackets on the nearby sofa. All hung back up and deemed "clean", the next night saw the remaining "unclean" items frantically dumped out before the source extinguished. It was definitely in that pile but stopped before I could zero in. One by one I checked pockets; a thigh pocket in an old pair of boarder pants yielded the culprit; a wristwatch. There was a moment of indescribable satisfaction in finally silencing the little bugger (by its buttons, not a hammer, of course).
Max the Magnificent
I have a warm glow knowing that I am not alone -- when you are wandering around in the wee hours of the morning, there's a tendency to think that you are the only one who has this sort of a problem :-)
PS Why do you say "of course"? Personally I think reprogramming these little rascals with a mallet is a viable solution to the problem...
I had a similar problem with a smoke detector recently - beeping to indicate low battery. Even though I know the location of the three units in the house - standing under one and waiting a few minutes for the next beep - it was still frustratingly difficult to tell (due to echoes) if that was the one!
I certainly agree with the comments about inadequate usability design, for an object meant to be noticed!
The problem is the short duration of the beep - by the time you turn your head to get a fix on the direction, it has stopped. Also the high frequency is difficult to get a direction fix on.
They should make at least two sounds (beep-beep) to be more detectable.
Similar thing for an hourly chime on watches: many give a brief "pip" - just enough to disturb you, but too short for you to realise what it is. Again, they should use a beep-beep to be properly noticed - or turned off. [Bumping one button on my watch toggles chime on/off - annoying.]
When our children were younger (pre-school), it seemed that just about every toy played a tune, made beeps or spoke when touched. Invariably, while trying to move about quietly after bedtime, someone would bump a pile of toys and trigger sounds. A talking toy nearly gave their grandmother a heart-attack.
Most old toys in storage have now had their batteries removed, but sometimes I still hear a noise when moving boxes!
It must have something to do with solar flares.
Simply amazing the timing of this article, we had 3 meeps yesterday afternoon and then last night and all were traced to smoke detectors.
The bird was chirping back at the smoke detectors, the Cats were curious about the bird chirping and the dogs were being wimps due to the constant meeps.
All of these are AC powered with 9 volt alkaline backup battery.
Why can't the designers of these smoke detectors put a 9 volt rechargable battery in them with a suitable charging circuit that keeps the battery topped off all the time.
Max the Magnificent
@Why can't the designers of these smoke detectors...
Because then they wouldn't have anyone to laugh at :-)
True it is pretty humorous except when it happens at 3AM.
My house sounded like an insane punk rock version of Old McDonalds Farm, what with the smoke detectors all out of sync, the bird chirping and flapping around, the Cats Meowing and the dogs wimpering.
I'm thinking of when I retire from electronics I may open up an electronic device skeet shooting (or MEEP shooting) range.
David Ashton
There's a thought. Ser up a shooting range with old PCs as targets (you could use old CRT monitors as well) beeping for bad POST tests or showing blue screens of death. I reckon the world would beat a path to your door. Who hasn't wanted to shoot their PC at some point??
Frank Eory
I'm surprised nobody mentioned this frustrating curiosity of AC powered smoke detectors with backup batteries -- they also meep when they need replacement, presumably when their tiny amount of radioactive material is no longer sufficiently able to ionize the air in the detector.
More than once, I have been awakened in the middle of the night by the meep noise and had to locate the offending detector, unplug it from the AC connector dangling through the ceiling and then yank the back up battery too. Only then would the meeping stop!

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Here in New York, we just recently had our first snowfall of the season. But out by Denver, Colorado, ski enthusiasts and snow-sports manufacturers are already preparing for next winter. According to the Denver Post, apparel featuring bright colors and bold patterns will continue to dominate next year.
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Red hot (Simisear) (M) @ Focus Sash Trait: Blaze EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk) - Nasty Plot - Flamethrower - Grass Knot - Hidden Power [Fighting]
Trollin (Emolga) (F) @ Electric Gem Trait: Static EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) - Spark - Acrobatics - Iron Tail - U-turn
Sharp-pedo (Basculin-A) (M) @ Life Orb Trait: Rock Head EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Waterfall - Double-Edge - Crunch - Taunt
Take a smoke (Vanilluxe) (M) @ Choice Specs Trait: Weak Armor EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk) - Ice Beam - Flash Cannon - Hidden Power [Ghost] - Water Pulse
Exterminator (Raticate) (M) @ Flame Orb Trait: Guts EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) - Facade - U-turn - Protect - Zen Headbutt
Happy China (Leavanny) (F) @ Leftovers Trait: Swarm EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SDef Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk) - Calm Mind - Energy Ball - Bug Buzz - Attract
Simisear: I agree with Hex on the Timid Nature. You have Nasty Plot, so you don't need Modest so much. You might also want to run Focus Blast and HP Grass, as there aren't as many heavy Pokemon in NU. However, you can keep Grass Knot to deal with some of the heavier eviolite users and Wailord.
Emolga: I'd run a Flight Gem so that when you want to use Acrobatics at full power, you won't have to first use Spark. I'd go Motor Drive over Static. You aren't wanting to take a hit with Emolga, so I don't think Static is the way to go. Finally, with Iron Tail, you might want to switch it out for Pursuit, Quick attack, or even something like Encore. Iron Tail is mainly for Rock types, who I don't think you'll want to stay in on and hope to have Iron Tail hit. And anyways, even if it does hit, it will be unlikely to KO, seeing as most Rock types you'll be facing will run Eviolite and have a high defense, at least high enough to easily survive Emolga's low Attack.
Basculin and Vanilluxe are good.
Raticate: Reversal is always awesome. You could replace Zen Headbutt for it. Your Facade can handle Poison types better than Zen Headbutt anyways, and Fighting types aren't so much a problem in NU. Nor are Ghost types, the most common one you'll see being Yamask, who you do not want to try to take down with Raticate anyways. Burn on a physical attacker without Guts is something you don't want to deal with. You also might want to have a Speed boosting nature.
Leavanny: Swadloon gets Eviolite. However, it doesn't get any recovery, even the slight recovery of Leftovers. And it won't hit as hard as quickly as Leavanny. And it doesn't get as good an ability. But still, Defense in the 400s and Sp Def in the 300s unboosted is very tempting. You could also just run Grotle and not have that x4 Fire and Flying weakness.
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Conferences, Forums, and Workshops
The office of Conferences, Forums and Workshops presents a broad range of high-quality programs that address issues of historical and contemporary significance as well as focusing on the decorative arts, material culture, historic trades and horticulture. Colonial Williamsburg's skilled professionals are joined by distinguished members of the academic and professional communities to present these programs.
Join us for the Garden Symposium, Working Wood, the Antiques Forum, and other programs for a rewarding learning experience.
Please bookmark this site and check back frequently for new offerings. Special conference rates are available for programs at Colonial Williamsburg's official hotels. To make room and dining reservations, call (757) 220-7255 Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m to 5 p.m.
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May 19-21, 2013
The Chesapeake House:
Architectural Investigation by Colonial WilliamsburgTo mark the publication of The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg by the University of North Carolina Press, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation will offer a three-day conference focusing on the methods used by architectural historians at Colonial Williamsburg to investigate buildings as well as review new discoveries in the field. The Chesapeake House is a major scholarly landmark that will set the standard for the analysis and history of early Virginia and Maryland architecture for the coming decades. The seventeen essays are based on the collective scholarship of nine authors who have been involved in research in this field for the past three decades. Participants in the conference will receive a copy of the book as part of their registration.
Through a series of lectures, conversations, and specialized tours of the Historic Area of Colonial Williamsburg, The Chesapeake House conference provides an insider's view of how Colonial Williamsburg's experts examine historic buildings. The program will appeal to teachers, students, preservationists, and other professionals in the field as well as friends of Colonial Williamsburg and members of the general public with interests in old houses, American history, restoration, and historic preservation. Presentations will explore the practice of architectural fieldwork, the nature of regionalism in building design, and the development of a distinctive framing system in the colonial period. Specialists will discuss the latest techniques of dendrochronoly and paint analysis.
There will be a special audience participation session entitled "How old is your house?" Often, it is one of the first questions homeowners ask and it is always essential for architectural historians to determine. Yet, such a basic query is often hard to answer. Assessing the age and alterations made to buildings is challenging since the process involves piecing together disparate kinds of evidence found in many different parts of a house, from the attic to the cellar. How was the frame constructed? What kind of bonding pattern does the chimney have? What sort of hinges are on the doors? Some details provide solid diagnostic clues while others are less helpful. However, when combined, they can provide plausible dates to within a few years or decades.
Curious about the age of your old house or one you know? Here is your chance to start the process of figuring it out. "Making Sense of the Evidence" will provide an interactive opportunity to review and analyze the material you submit with other participants. This session will demonstrate how the experts read the evidence from the field to make a reasonable estimate of the age of a house based on its form, construction, and style of various features.
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May 30 - June 2
2013 joint meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS) and the Historical Keyboard Society of North America (HKS-NA)
The 2013 joint meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS) and the Historical Keyboard Society of North America (HKS-NA) will convene in Williamsburg, Virginia, within the timeframe of May 30 to June 2, 2013. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is host for a program of concerts, recitals, papers, meals, and museums.
Step into an eighteenth-century landscape including restored colonial architecture, historic trades, period costume, and many other extensively researched aspects of life and culture in colonial Virginia. See and hear period instruments in period spaces. Look behind the scenes at study collections of instruments and other historic objects, conservation laboratories, library collections, and other research facilities.
The featured exhibit, "Changing Keys: Keyboard Instruments for America 1770-1830," elegantly presents 27 examples from the collection, most exhibited for the first time.
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October 20-22
Symposium: Threads of Feeling Unraveled: The London Foundling Hospital's Textile Tokens
In association with Threads of Feeling, the loan exhibition of eighteenth-century textile tokens from the London Foundling Hospital that opens at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum on May 25, 2013, Colonial Williamsburg is hosting a symposium that will explore these objects in context. When a mother left her infant at the Hospital during the mid-eighteenth century, she was asked for a token that was attached to the paper record, allowing her to later identify and reclaim her own child if her circumstances improved. Most of the tokens took the form of scraps of fabric, ribbons, or cuttings from the baby's own clothing, identified in the record by their period names. The textile swatches are an invaluable source for identifying everyday textiles and the clothing of infants. As part of the symposium, exhibit guest curator and noted author John Styles will present two lectures. His keynote lecture will give a "behind the scenes" look at the development of the Threads of Feeling exhibit that received rave reviews in London. Styles will also discuss the history of the Foundling Hospital, the London scene, what is known about the identity of the infants, and the various meanings that can be unraveled from the evocative tokens. Other lectures will discuss clothing for infants and children, what women wore during pregnancy, childhood and orphans in America, the use of similar textiles by adults in Britain and America, and the processes by which the textiles were created.
The Threads of Feeling exhibition was organized by the Foundling Museum in London and curated by John Styles. The artifacts are owned by Coram and stored at and cared for by the London Metropolitan Archives.
The Colonial Williamsburg exhibition of Threads of Feeling was supported in part by a grant from Mary and Clint Gilliland of Menlo Park, California, through the Turner-Gilliland Family Fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
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November 3-5
Painters and Paintings in the Early American South
Mark your calendars and plan to join us November 3-5, 2013, for the Painters and Paintings of the Early American South symposium. Organized in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, the conference will bring together scholars and lecturers on the topic of early southern painting.
Scheduled speakers include:
- Carolyn Weekley, Colonial Williamsburg's Juli Grainger curator emerita.
- Ellen Miles, curator emerita of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
- Elle Shushan, noted dealer in portrait miniatures.
- Robert Leath, chief curator and vice president, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.
- Angela Mack, director of the Gibbes Museum of Art.
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First I'll tell you what they are and then I'll tell you the story that is the reason behind this stupid post.
My first round Christmas cards are for everyone in my phonebook that I have current addresses for. My second round cards are probably like what a lot of people do in that I get cards from people who I didn't have their address or they had moved and I didn't have the current info I needed to send the card. I save those and send out a card to those people and hopefully they get it before Christmas. I'm sure you all do that, too, right? (holy run on sentence, grammar nazis.)
Anyway. I didn't get around to it because someone shot me in the lungs. Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration, but let me tell you, it sure as heck felt like someone had shot me in the chest!
See, one fine Saturday morning, the 17th, to be exact, I woke up and did my usual routine. Dressed in "not fit for public" clothes and got a cup of joe before heading to the couch to sit on my big 'ol butt for the morning.
Everything was fine until I had a tickle that signaled, "you need to cough." I coughed. And holy crap, the ground opened up and demons screamed and small children cried. Or. It hurt like hell. What the...? Where did that come from?
Fast forward through the weekend where I felt sort of blah but still made it to church before coming home Sunday afternoon, plastering my behind to the couch and not moving for the rest of the day.
Monday, after having a horrible fever filled night, I went to the store and stocked up on DayQuil, NyQuil, cough drops, Mucinex, and a plethora of crap sold for too much money designed to make you at least feel like you've done what you could to feel better short of knocking yourself out with a sledgehammer. Which, by the way, would have been cheaper.
I lived on Tylenol and water on Monday and again fought the same damn fever that night. Tuesday and Wednesday nights were awful and I had to take a shower as soon as I rolled out of bed because I was soaked. Ew.
But it was just a virus, I was sure, for if I went to Urgent Care and forked out $90, they would have said, "That sucks for you, thanks for your money, go home and die quietly."
Remember this was the week before Christmas. Our schedule was packed with fun things that I didn't want the kids, or being selfish, myself, to miss out on! So I continued to live on Tylenol and water and soldier on.
When I woke up Thursday morning with no fever but the most uncomfortable, painful, irritating feeling in my chest, now even worse than before, I decided I'd had enough. I needed to go to the Dr. I hate going to the Dr. when I'm sick.
I called my primary care physician and she was on vacation. The nerve! Kidding, guys! Anyway, they were shuffling her patients to the jackwad down the hall. I mean, Dr. Jackwad.
Okay, that'll do, I need to see someone. I go in and do my mandatory 1 hour wait in misery, wearing my "not fit for public" clothes. I usually change out of those even when I am super sick and have to go somewhere, like the Dr. We're talking orange and red in the same outfit. Okay? That's bad.
Anyway, finally Dr. J walks in and first thing he does is shake my hand with the limpest handshake ever. I take that as a bad sign right away.
Then he says, "Do you smoke?"
"Okay, good. Then I would have to refuse treatment."
Is that supposed to be funny? Don't people who smoke sometimes get legitimately ill? Even in the lungs?
Anyway. He does the whole "feel you up" to listen to your lungs thing and asks all the questions: Do you have a headache? No. Sore throat? No. You been sleeping? No. Diarrhea/Vomiting? Yes/No. (you're welcome for that, btw.) Fever? Yes. Lasting more than 24 hours? Yes.
So...diagnosis..."You have one heck of a flu bug. I'll give you codeine so you can sleep. I'm almost positive you have a secondary lung infection, but your file says you're allergic to 2 different kinds of antibiotics, so I don't wanna waste any on you. Your cough will linger longer and your chest will hurt but that's all. If you wake up tomorrow not feeling any better, call me and I might think about calling you in an RX for antibiotics."
Um. Thanks?
I wake up Thursday morning with no fever (finally) but my lungs are even worse. I sit here all day in a fog, feeling like crap, wondering what to do. The Dr. seemed so hesitant to treat me that I really don't wanna call, but it's a couple days before Christmas and we're travelling the week after so I really need to get better.
I make the call and tell the nurse what he told me when I was in the office.
6 hours later I am at Myya's place* when I get the call from the nurse:
"Hi MiMi, Dr. J wanted me to call you and tell you that he did not say he would treat you if you called today. He wants you to know that he said he'd think about treating you if you called tomorrow. Because you didn't get it right, he is really hesitant to treat you and inclined not to, but since your lungs are so painful, he will, just this once, call in an antibiotic."
Aaaaannndddd....I'm stunned. What the heck just happened? I just got my butt chewed by a 3rd party over the telephone for having the nuts to call and tell them my symptoms (note, i did not ask for an rx, but it was assumed if i wasn't better that i'd need one.) and maybe wanting a little kindness and possibly a prescription.
For antibiotics. ANTIBIOTICS. Not narcotics. Not pain pills. Not something even addictive.
Is it me or is it ironic that he was so quick to give me codeine...?
Now, I understand that these days Dr's are hesitant to prescribe antibiotics because they over prescribed them in the past. Is that my fault? Nope. How many times have I been on antibiotics in the past 6 years? Twice. And one of those was because I had my tonsils cut out of my throat and they were a preventative thing.
I think what is more pressing here isn't his lack of wanting to treat me with antibiotics. It was his clear lack of bedside manner and I can not wait until the next time I go in there. Now that I'm feeling a little better, (thank you antibiotics that knocked the lion's share of that nasty thing out!), I think I will voice my opinion to the fine professionals at that particular office.
Yes. I'm pretty sure I will.
What do you think?
ps: no, i'm not going to be all b/a to the nurses or receptionists, after all, you can't shoot the messenger. and since they are the ones who do most of the work there anyway, and are usually very sweet, i will save my tirade for the rude dr. or. by the time i get back to the office i will have gotten over it and let it pass. yeah. that's probably more like it.
pps: sorry for the long post. long posts suck.
ppps: also. when re reading this post i see that i mixed up some days...i can't remember now if i went to the dr on wednesday or thursday...it was all a blur!
*don't worry, i wasn't spreading anything, it was an infection.


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A Sanford police officer told a jury Tuesday about the night he was shot during the first day of an attempted murder trial.
Henry Lee Baker, 19, is standing trial for the attempted murder of Officer Brandon Worrall, who was out on what sounded like a routine call three years ago.
A security guard at an apartment complex thought there was a suspicious man who needed a visit from police.
Worrall said when he arrived on scene, Baker, who was then 16, ran from him.
When Worrall rounded the corner, shots were fired.
Worrall said the first two shots missed, but the third shot hit him just above his protective vest.
"I felt the third shot. It went in under my right arm and out my back and caused me to fall to the ground," he said.
He said Baker tried to take a fourth shot, but the gun didn't fire.
"I heard the click, and when I heard the click, I attempted to stand up," he said. "I thought the subject was trying to kill me."
Worrall eventually picked Baker out of a photo lineup. He couldn't pick him out from a group of full-face photos, but he could from a group of side shots. The officer says he got the clearest look at the suspect from the side.


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Jacob Leigh, Week 1 and 2
I have other things to post about that aren't baby related, but I want to share some pictures of Jacob Leigh! He turned two weeks old yesterday, and I can't believe it. It both feels like our time has gone by really fast and like we've had him in our lives for much much longer than two weeks. He's been such a little blessing and joy to have around. Maybe I'm jinxing myself by saying this in public, but he's such a good baby! He's only cried a handful of times and he's all smiles! We've taken him on a few outings already, and he's been perfect through them. He's slept through some grocery shopping and a long lunch, and has also spent lots of time awake while I carry him in the Moby wrap while out and about. Maybe it sounds weird because he's obviously my child, but it's just finally settling in that I'm a mother! I have lots and lots (and lots!!) of experience with babies, so aside from the intense bond I have with Jacob Leigh, it kind of felt like babysitting the first week or so...Like we were going to have to give him back to someone at some point. But he's all ours! I couldn't be happier. I wouldn't want to be without his sweet snuggles, his little grunts, and his tender baby smell.
Week 1:
Josh took a week off of work, so after Jacob was born, we got to hang out at home as a new little family. It was so nice to have dad home so we could all bond. Josh is just incredible with his son, and I've fallen in love with him all over again. He likes to take him downstairs while I catch up on sleep and watch hockey games and action movies with him. He calls it their "man time" and I think it's adorable. I'm so glad our little guy has a dad that puts a lot of importance on bonding with him!
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I can't believe how quickly Jacob's face has changed! He's like an entirely different baby than we met two weeks ago. He makes the funniest little faces and smiles so much. At first we thought they were just gas smiles, but now we're sure he's just a happy little guy. Jacob has gained just about two pounds (chub!) and has grown one entire inch already!
I was a little bit nervous about Josh going back to work, but aside from a couple of rough moments, Jacob and I are doing great hanging out by ourselves all day! My life is pretty much lived in two hour increments right now, since that's his feeding preference. By the time he feeds, gets his diaper changed, and gets burped, it's pretty much time to feed again! We have to time any outings or errands around his feeding schedule, although I'll totally nurse in public if he's hungry. Nursing has been challenging and painful at times, but it's honestly my favorite part about being a mom. Nothing compares to the feeling I get from giving my little son the nourishment he needs to grow. Plus, he always snuggles right up to my breast when he's done eating and gives me the sweetest pats with his little hand. Ok, I don't love the milk getting everywhere...I mean EVERYWHERE, but everything else about nursing is rad.
Also: I'm on the hunt for dresses with button fronts so I can nurse easily in public. If you have any in your shop, let me know!
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Oh, he is just too cute for words! I'm having my first boy in just a few weeks and looking at pics of yours gets me so excited to see his face!! You're right- those first few weeks feel like "when do we have to give him back?" I don't think it clicked for me until about two weeks also. Are you totally loving your Moby Wrap? I have one for my little girl, we used it till she was about a year old and it's great!! My hubby and I love to go antiquing and it was always nice to have her in the wrap so we didn't have to worry about big strollers in crowded antique shops. I'm with you on the nursing dresses too! I have a whole list of patterns I'm using to sew up some cute vintage dresses with front buttons and zippers before the little man gets here! So far, I've had a lot of luck with thrift store button-up blouses and dresses. Ebay and etsy both have a great selection of front-opening clothes. You may be able to find good deals on brand new nursing wear on ebay. I found a lot of maternity clothes there. Also, I think Target online has nursing blouses, although I always just wore regular blouses to nurse in public. It really helps if you wear a camisole under your top so you can pull your blouse up and your cami down, unhook your nursing bra clasp and you're good to go without exposing hardly anything! Good luck, momma!! xoxo


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People must think I listen to nothing but U2 hehe
But at least it's good music, not shit you're listening to. Like the song goes 'Shit On The Radio'.
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We've been hearing lots of good news about the housing market lately. Nationally, we hit a bottom in October 2011, Zillow says, and home values ended 2012 up another 5.9 percent over year-end 2011. The current national median is $158,100.
Of 260 metro areas, 239 have already hit bottom and are climbing out. But that still leaves 21 metro areas that haven't seen their low point yet.
And Zillow predicts that nine of those areas aren't going to hit bottom anytime this year.
Whether that's bad news is somewhat a matter of perspective: If you're a prospective home buyer in one of these markets, there's a very good chance that you have time to get a property for the cheapest it's been in years (or will be again). But homeowners in those areas who are underwater and/or hoping to sell are likely to continue suffering for some time.
Below are the nine metropolitan areas that Zillow doesn't expect to hit bottom before 2014.
This 3-bedroom, 3-bath home in Hartford is listed at $201,900, about $5,000 below the area median. Click the photo …9. Hartford, Connecticut
Metro-area median: $206,800
Forecast through Jan. 2014: -0.3%, for a projected median of $206,282
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Home values in the Hartford metro area are already down 18.2% from the market's 2006 peak, $252,800.