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South Suburban DUI Arrests, Jan. 13
Driver blows through stoplight • Woman wracks up felony charges • Man was carrying pot, driving under the influence. This week's roundup of drunken driving arrests in the Southland.
JAN. 1: A Chicago man walked away with a list of charges after a ride through Evergreen Park in the early morning hours after New Year's Eve.
On Jan. 1 at 1:05 a.m. Christan Adams, 22, of Chicago, was seen disobeying a traffic light, police said. He then sped off driving through a train crossing against a signal as well, police said.
Adams and his green Chevy were traveling 85 mph in a 30 mph zone as he took off eastbound on 95th Street, police said. Chicago police became involved in the chase and Adams' car was eventually stopped in the 1800 block of 95th Street.
A blood draw was performed after he was taken into custody, police said.
Adams was charged with felony fleeing and alluding, driving under the influence, driving without insurance, speeding and traffic violations.
DEC, 29: 47-year-old Darren Shoulders was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and improper lane usage after police caught him swerving into the opposite lane on 183rd Street and Western Ave. Police say Shoulders, of the 12300 block of LaSalle in Chicago had a blood alcohol content of .265 when officers administered the test.
JAN. 5: A Lisle woman faces felony charges following a traffic stop in Frankfort.
Stacy K. Niemiec, 52, of the 5500 block of Essex Road in Lisle, was charged with three counts of aggravated driving under the influence and one count of possession of a controlled substance, all felonies, at 1:50 a.m. on the 20500 block of La Grange Road.
She was also cited for driving with a suspended license, driving without insurance, improper lane usage and two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence.
A Frankfort police officer was on patrol when he saw the car in front of him weaving from lane to lane.
When he stopped the car, Niemiec smelled of alcohol and couldn't coherently answer questions about her destination, according to police reports. She was unable to provide her license and registration.
Niemiec failed a field sobriety test and was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. A background check revealed that her license was revoked for driving while intoxicated and that she had two previous DUI convictions.
Her court date is Jan. 28.
DEC. 28: Abdulaziz A. Abouelkheir, 27, of the 14700 block of South Arboretum Drive in Homer Glen, was charged with improper lane use, speeding, unlawful possession of marijuana, illegal transportation of alcohol, resisting an officer and driving under the influence of alcohol, according to a police report. Abouelkheir was reportedly stopped at around 12:38 a.m. near 12900 S. Harlem Ave. for speeding and improper lane use. He allegedly failed field sobriety tests. Abouelkheir was booked and given a $3,000 bond.
JAN. 1: Anthony T. Campbell, 48, of the 19100 block of Roy Street in Lansing, IL, was charged with improper lane use and two counts of driving under the influence, according to a report. Police stopped Campbell's car for lane violations, when officers allegedly noticed he had slurred speech and a smell of alcohol on his breath. Campbell was booked after field sobriety tests and a breath test. He was given a $3,000 bond.
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john bruno
11:38 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Stacy is definitely going to be going to jail for 2-5 years or more. Some people never learn.
1:23 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
John, I agree with you, she is a danger to others, because she definitely do not care about herself.
2:04 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Doubtful. There was just a case in Will Co. where a person got 3 DUI's in about 9 months(at least 4 overall). He pled guilty and got only 1 year and $1700 fine.
3:30 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
You're seriously defending drunk driving? Wow. Driving is a privilege, not a right. If you want to drink, do it responsibly. Don't drink too much to drive, or find another way home. It's not difficult. I bet if somebody you knew was injured or killed by a drunk driver, you'd feel differently. And no, I personally do not know anyone directly affected by a drunk driver.
5:28 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
If authorities were really serious then legislation would be passed that every car made would mandate a breathalizer be installed. Then no one would be able to drive under the influence of alcohol ever again.
9:21 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
Yeah, that makes sense. Pass on the cost of installing breathalizers into ever car onto law-abiding citizens, not to mention making everyone have to blow into a device to be able to start their car. That's a joke. That's like making everyone wear a chastity belt so no more rapes occur.
11:22 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
Roger - it wouldn't be on the tax payer but added to the cost of the car. I'd be all for the device in my car and I don't drink alcohol at all.
Tired of the B.S.
11:45 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
Sara, what about all the cars that do not have a breathalyzer? Who would pay to install them on my cars and your cars?
Why is it that your solution is to penalize everybody for the actions of a few?
11:50 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
I said newer cars. Remember when cars didn't have seat belts installed in them?
11:58 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
BS - how is it punishment if you're not breaking the law? Do you count being forced to wear your seat belt punishment? I recall a number of people being upset when that became a law.
12:29 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
OK, so only on new cars. Who pays for them? Obviously the car manufacturers have to spend the money to purchase and install them, guess who gets to pay for them? Anyone buying a new car!!
Seatbelts are logical because everyone in a vehicle has the chance of being hurt or killed in a collision. For people who don't drink at all, or who drink responsibly or use designated drivers, there is no purpose or added protection by having an ignition lock breathalizer installed.
12:47 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
As I stated, it would go into the cost of the car. Who paid for the seat belts? They use to be additional cost. Air conditioning and automatic transmission are still additional cost. Who paid for air bags? Again, the cost of the car. I would be happy to pay a little extra if it was an extra measure to save my life against someone else's stupidity.
12:49 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Roger - you missed my statement that I do not drink alcohol at all and I do not find this to be intrusive. If it means getting me from point a to point b without being killed or seriously injured, then why wouldn't I? DUI's are happening far too often and at all hours of the day. If you read the Patch's posts each time you'd see these crashes happen when kids are coming home from school, people are going to work, etc. It's not just middle of the night.
12:53 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
It doesn't matter if you don't drink and don't find it intrusive. I do drink (responsibly) and DO find it HIGHLY intrusive and unnecessary. Besides, anyone can bypass the breathalizer by having a friend blow into it.
The other features you're describing in cars as being standard such as air conditioning and air bags only became standard because most people don't want a car without those things, and the car manufacturers want to sell cars. The government already costs us way too much money already, I don't need them forcing me to put a feature on my car that will never be needed.
1:32 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Roger - you're taking this discussion way too seriously. The point I was making is it's a good sure way to get drunks off the road. If you can suggest a better way to stop DUI Crashes from happening, please do so.
1:41 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
I don't feel I'm taking it way too seriously. You're proposing that all new cars should be manufactured to include a breathalizer ignition lock device, and I think that is a terrible idea. I didn't come here to offer ideas to curb drunk driving. That doesn't mean I can't critique yours.
1:49 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
That's fine. But I feel if you took a poll of every driver in America, you'd find the majority are against the seat belt laws. Far too many people feel it infringes on their rights.
I suggest you stop by an event that MADD or AIMM hosts. Visit with the victims. There are far too many permanently brain damaged. Then visit with the parents who had to bury their child way too soon. If something so simple as blowing into a device to start your car can save just one life, save someone from permanent disability. Then it's worth it.
1:54 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Do you have a reliable source to back up your assertion that most drivers are against seatbelt laws? I find that to be highly unlikely. Besides, nobody has a "right" to operate a motor vehicle, it is a privilege.
There are a lot of laws that could be passed relating to a variety of issue that could save lives. That does not mean that they should exist.
2:00 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
No data, that's why I suggested a poll. I am basing this off the complaints from when "Click it or Ticket" became a law. The outrage over their rights! To this day when there are seat belt enforcement stops, there's always people complaining (mainly due to them getting a ticket) that it shouldn't be a law. The point is, everyone complains, then everyone gets over it. Why not save a life if we can?
2:09 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Everyone complains because they got caught!! You don't hear many people complaining about laws or cops until they get caught doing something illegal, then suddenly it's a stupid law or the cop's fault for enforcing it.
3:42 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
First, excuse my mistype of a word. Lord knows no one else here ever has a typo. I would never suggest banning the sale of alcohol. I don't care who drinks to excess. I do care when they take it out on the streets.
11:49 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
Put knock out devices in peoples steering wheels so when you try to start car drunk a device flys out of the streeing wheel and knocks out driver and activates a 911 signal to police . Or maybe ejects driver into street hey someone has to come up with something eh lol


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This is our house. Kind of. We have been living here for the past six weeks since we moved from Minnesota to Hampton, VA. We took a flyer on the house, not having the chance to check it out before agreeing to move in. Quite frankly, our landlords took a flyer on us as well.
We arrived on my birthday, a sweaty August afternoon spent unloading our uhaul and putting together our dismantled furniture. Our initial impression of the house was not good. We were used to a luxury apartment in one of the country's finest cities. This was not it. There were holes in the walls, missing baseboard, and the bathroom door was nowhere to be found. But as I was the impetus behind our relocation to the area, it fell to me to be Mr. Positive. And positive I was as I installed our toilet, previously kept on the front stoop. And positive I was as I helped repaint the living room to cover the holes. And positive I was as I strategically placed furniture over cigarette burns in the carpet. And positive I was as I trapped mouse after mouse. And positive I was as I removed a backyard "water feature" so ill attended that it's only remaining function was to provide Mosquitos a place to breed, all while smelling strongly enough to knock you out at ten paces.
Positive I was.
But as the cost of renovations added up, and as the hours of my labor ticked past, and as my lovely wife who deserves the world did her best to hide her discontent, I found it difficult to remain so positive.
I began to realize how much I was investing into someone else's house — a value we would never see. And what's more, the owners of the home seemed disinterested in, or at least incapable of, putting the work in themselves to make this house livable once more. By five weeks in we still had not seen a lease agreement to sign. We still had not had our locks changed, with known copies hanging on past tenants keychains. We still had no bathroom door.
We were told "sorry" when our kitchen floor was damaged, followed by "just so you know, we won't be fixing that." We were told the pile of mouse droppings was "just a bit of dirt." And we were told that when the old custom fit fridge went bad, it was replaced with the cheapest one off craigslist, explaining the 5 inch gap between the fridge and the walls on all sides.
Finally, I said to Lyra "you deserve better, and we shouldnt be doing all of this work ourselves, paying for it all ourselves. Lets find a new place before we are presented with a lease." And so we looked, and within 3 days found a beautiful apartment with the same square footage as the livable portion of our house. And to boot it would be cheaper in base rent, and we would have half the utilities on top of that. Needless to say, we applied, were accepted, and then were faced with a very difficult phone call to our landlords. How do you tell someone "Your house isn't worth half the rent you're charging, especially if we're doing all the work around here, so we found a new place and will be out in one week" in a kind way?
Well, I'm not sure you do. But I tried. And the week passed quickly, and with no contact from our landlords, who were understandably upset at the sudden loss of expected revenue. My texts went unreturned as I tried to keep them updated on our expected move out date.
And now the move has arrived. We spent the day loading up, and will unpack in our new apartment tomorrow. We could not be more excited. Yet as I sit here in this house, as unfinished as it is unfurnished, I can't help but reflect on my interactions today with it's owners. They left us a note on our door this morning, letting us know we were expected to pay compensation for leaving, that we had five days to vacate the house, and that if we failed to comply they would seek legal recourse.
Frankly, I was pretty taken aback when I saw the notice. It read like a threat, and we had always been cordial with the owners to this point. My initial response was anger. I felt they had no legal claim to compensation, as we have never in six weeks seen a lease contract. I felt it was bold to expect so much when the reality is that they have disregarded this property for years and are now paying the price for not investing in its upkeep. I felt they should be happy we are leaving the house better than we found it. I felt we were showing the same commitment to the house that they were, and that it was fair for us to leave. I felt justified to feel these things.
But now I have to wonder what the proper response, the Christian response, should be. Surely Christ would not have us create conflict with one another. And even more surely Christ would want us to be sacrificial, loving, and selfless, even in this process of leaving. As a follower of Christ, there really isn't an excuse for cheating someone. I don't think he would mind us leaving at all. I hardly think it matters. But what does matter is our attitude, our spirit in this whole process.
Our landlords know we are Christians. Heck, they know about my plan to start a ministry (www.stealthforceseven.com). So they are watching us, consciously or otherwise, and judging our actions as representatives of the Church. Woah. Suddenly I don't feel my anger is so justified.
So what to do, then? We are leaving, that much is certain. We couldn't be more excited to get out of this house. But how can we handle this situation graciously? We don't feel we owe all that much to anyone for our stay here, considering the condition of the house and the time and resources we invested in it. But it isn't our house, and we lived here for six weeks, lease or no lease. Although legally we could most likely move out and never look back without so much as a penny in consequences. But is that right? Is that moral? Does that help to further Gods kingdom? It is this last question, I think, that is most crucial. Ultimately the money we save or don't save is meaningless. It is our work to further the kingdom that really matters. If our actions save us money now, but hurt the general perception of the Church, it profits us nothing. It does us no good either to handle this with bitter words and resentment. Though to instigate would fuel that inner desire to serve ourselves, it would destroy any good image our landlords may have of Christians. And it is this that should concern us most gravely in our day to day decisions and interactions, yet so often I forget.
How scary it is to realize this outside of a sermon setting. That ultimately, things don't matter. Money does not matter. People, and the way we treat them, is what matters. This realization became more profound tonight as I watched the movie Contagion. At one point a blogger has people believing this one drug will cure the rapidly spreading disease, so people line up to buy it. Supplies are limited though, and people resort to rioting. A woman catches the sickness and arrives at the bloggers house, hoping to acquire some of the medicine before the virus claims her. He days he has none, so she presses him by offering money. A lot of money. He really doesnt have any, and he turns her away. She dies within 24 hours. What struck me was the realization that, in the face of death, that stack of money is worthless. What will it buy you that you may keep after you stop breathing? It was more important to this woman to live without money than to die with it.
Anyway, this post isn't supposed to be about money or paying rent. It's about being in a situation in which it is easier and more desirable to act selfishly, but much more important cosmically to serve others first. In this case I think that means working cooperatively with our landlords to find a workable middle ground that addresses our concerns about the value of the house and the work we did while honoring the fact that it is their property we used, regardless of it's condition, and that we are leaving them in a tight spot, all while treating them with the love and grace we receive from Christ. And with that thought, I take my leave.


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One of the wimmin who responded to my freaking out i have a boy baby post suggested that I look back at this post in a few weeks, months, years, decades.
I agreed. What I didn't tell her is that this is my normal habit as a mama/writer. I wrote quite a few pieces during my pregnancy with my first child and in the years immediately following that all had to do with me rolling over in my head what sort of mama I wanted to be.
Last night, after reading some of the posts, I went back and looked at this piece. I have a slightly editted (can't keep from doing that) version cut and pasted in below...
A version of this piece is on my website darkdaughta.com, but that sit is down while my server makes changes and repairs. A version of this piece has also been published at: http://familypride.uwo.ca/articles/transgressing.html
Mama Work:
Transgressing Toward The Future
It's the year 2002.
First Nations people have been forced to live under a genocidal system of apartheid in the nations known as canada and america. They have been dominated on their own land for hundreds of years. Kidnapped African descended people have lived in and around Turtle Island, first Nations' land for a few hundred brutal years. Through globalisation multinational corporations threaten to destroy the environment and exploit the world's under-classes and dark peoples on an international scale. The gap between the haves and the have-nots widens.
Twenty-six years ago, at the age of eight, I left the island of my birth. I have been a noisy, out queer for over ten years. On December 7, 2001, my child came into this world. I have been a Mama for about eight months. My child's future is now.
The clock is ticking...
When I realized I was pregnant, I grappled with the idea of having a baby and bringing another human being into this already overcrowded, cutthroat world. I decided that I would carry my baby to term with hope and let those around me know who was coming to join us. Then I rolled up my sleeves and continued on with my chosen work - influencing the future through politically conscious acts of transgression - only this time with a difference.
A friend and fellow radical mama pointed out to me recently that there is a big difference between alternative and politically radical parenting. Alternative parenting includes practices such as natural childbirth, refusing to vaccinate, birthing children at home, breast feeding past six months, same sex parenting using the nuclear family model, parenting in groups, etc.
Politically radical or transgressive parenting can involve any or all of the above. But where you can always locate a staunch right wing, politically and socially conservative faction among people practicing elements of alternative parenting, radical parenting is solely the domain of the left minded, the politically radical, the conscious shit disturbers.
I am a radical mama who thinks of herself as a cynical utopian. This world sucks. Oppression is a hellish reality for too many of my friends and family. But thankfully, I understand that the future is malleable. It can become a better place. This transformation is something I can influence through my will, through my writings, through my erotic and through politically conscious mama work.
This work, love work, mama work, is part of my chosen path. As my little one sleeps, still half suckling at my breast, I continue with my various schemes to change this society into a less oppressive place.
I influence the future when I speak at length to those who question my choices and to those who have internalized widely accepted parenting styles as the only template for child rearing and family building. These models are prevalent, romanticized and oppressive. They persist stubbornly alongside a societal reality - that even in the most evolved situations, primary responsibility for child rearing still falls mostly on the shoulders of wimmin by default.
Verbalizing, bearing witness to the everyday factuality of my own parenting model is transgressive in that I choose to follow a template designed by me, specifically tailored to my own context and needs. Claiming this truth, the truth of my mama work is an investment in the future. When I speak, I break the silence and invite others to come out of denial as well. When I speak, I often bring the chaos and confusion that comes when certitude grounded in stereotyping and mythmaking is destroyed.
And so, destroyer and creatrix, I write and speak rebelliously about mama work, dangerous work. But as a Black conscious queer woman, I don't have the luxury of simply performing radicality; my daughter's understanding of the world is hinged on me living my politic. As a sexually radical queer gyal who got knocked up the fleshy, bombastic way - with the sperm of a straight male lover ten years my junior - I'm ready to manage the disbelief and opposition of those who bear witness. I'm ready to do battle for my beliefs.
Many people need to see mamas as soft, gentle wimmin who push strollers, blushingly expose their mammary glands for public breastfeeding, change lots of shitty, pissy diapers, who always treat their children with vulnerability, humour, patience and care. Contrary to popular belief, even these seemingly basic day-to-day aspects of mamahood are not universal. Mamas aren't all the same. We aren't cardboard cut-outs or undeveloped characters out of fairy tales. Our experiences are many and varied.
There is no universal, Pampers commercial perfect, white, young, obviously hetero, able-bodied, middle/upper class, serene mama, her left hand strategically sporting a wedding band, her clothes crisp, clean, her hair impeccably styled, her cheerful, attentive peer-aged/older hubby hovering nearby as they both dedicatedly watch over their healthy, smiling, well-dressed, good-sized, blue eyed, blonde haired child. This image is grossly inaccurate. A billion mamas consciously or unconsciously bucking imposed cultural norms as they mother with a difference can't all be wrong.
Transgressive mamas, militant mamas are situated at different points along the continuum of mamahood. We consciously define our relationship to notions of mothering, to our children, to our families, to other mothers and to society, in order to radically shift prevailing societal customs and conventions.
As bio mamas, our roles are infused with layered significance. Everyone on this planet has had a biological mother. Every human being was carried in the uterus of a woman who is their biological mother. All of us were birthed into this world via a biological mother.
Life after birth, the unfolding of the mother/child relationship is varied. Mothers and their children traverse the terrain between joy and pain, presence and absence, openness and distrust, care and neglect, love and hate, excitement and boredom, contentment and sadness, memory and forgetfulness, truth and denial.
I myself have only begun to scratch the multi-layered surface of my relationship to my own mother so shattered by immigration, so rooted in patriarchy, so founded in the destructive historical legacy of African people's experience of slavery in the West. As the biological mother of a new human being I observe many of my fellow community members attempting to deal with my presence in their lives as it triggers them around their own mother/ mothering issues.
I'm sensing that some allies may have difficulty reconciling my mamahood with my stance as a sexually radical queer or as a fellow revolutionary bent on future change. To them I offer these words: Unless you support the mamas who pass on the concepts of defiance and revolution, without mamas to raise babies-to-tots-to- children-to-teens-to-adults to fight the power, you're just conducting temporary skirmishes in the streets. You will loose the war. The changes you struggle and die for will disappear when the last of your peers passes over. You will not bring about lasting societal metamorphosis because you will have failed to recognize and support those warriors, us militant mamas, who will bring on the future.
Cheups. Anywayz...
Now that I've given birth, recovered from labour and have some energy again, I work feverishly with increased commitment to struggles against domination. My babe-in-arms comes with me wherever I go, not as a burden but instead as a tiny sistren in gurgling, giggling solidarity.
She attended her first woman of colour conference in-utero. She's been to my readings. She's been to a pro-Palestinian demo. She's been to an anti-war conference. She's attended workshops on queer community and racism, fat phobia and internalized racism. She went to the Dyke March and slept in her stroller as I marched topless. She went to Queer By Nature so she could have an environmentally conscious Pride. She slept on a comforter as her Mama helped coordinate Pride radio programming for one of the city's campus radio stations. Already this one is more politically active than I was at her age.
I raise my child with future sight. She is a phenomenal gift and thats what I've named her. I see her not just as built-in company or as a daily responsibility for the next twenty or so years, but also as a gift to future times and generations. She was born bearing a destiny that will unfold over time. It's my job to make sure she discovers who she will be. I rear her with hope for something different to come when I am long gone from this place. It is my chosen task to transmit my value systems so that she will one day have enough awareness to contribute to this society in some meaningful way...even if it means burnin' the whole corrupt sham to the ground and rebuilding it piece by piece.
But I'm not the only mama with a dream. All parents hope their children will grow up in a particular way. My dreams are just a little more left of centre than most. Like my vision of baby heading Microsoft and funneling their capital into affordable housing projects for the working class and poor. Or maybe she could become president of the whole world and turn the white house into a massive squat and its lawn into a tent city. Or maybe she could take over NASA and start space-busing people of colour, third world people, wimmin, the poor, the disabled and all other dispossessed peoples to whatever planet the rich, powerful and famous are saving for themselves when this earth finally gives up the ghost.
My dreams may seem a little too politicized for some. I've even had folks accuse me of being a cult leader because I'm bent on at least trying to teach my politics to my child. What about the millions of people who encourage their children to follow the herd everyday?
Surfing the net and meeting other mamas made me realize that so many parents have been indoctrinated into homophobia and heterocentrism, white domination and racism, imperialism, classism, capitalism, elitism and conservatism, transphobia, misogyny and patriarchy, erotophobia, ableism, fat phobia, lookism, ageism etc, in their early years. And although they may not always be able to articulate their agendas and though they may go to great pains to seem "progressive", "liberal", "open-minded" or "tolerant", one of their primary roles in their children's lives is to inculcate them with the stuff dominance, oppression and privilege are made of. But these people are not cult members. They're obviously concerned citizens and upholders of traditional family values.
Non Cult Members Include:
* consumerist, capitalist parents who fight against social reforms that offer even distribution of wealth and access to all people. Instead they hope their children will be among the few to get well-paying jobs and that they will never be laid off or that they will grow up to be CEOs of large corporations;
* classist, conservative parents who deny their own class privilege while sending their children to the most elite schools they can afford in the hopes that their progeny will rub elbows with the offspring of the supposed "elite", thereby accruing some sort of power or privilege by association;
* parents of colour with internalized racism who often knowingly try to raise their children to disassociate from their darkness and from their cultures in the hopes that they will assimilate into white dominated society;
* white/north american/western/euro parents who hire third world wimmin as nannies and proceed to exploit their vulnerability, their time, they energies in the service of raising their own children. As an added bonus these children often grow up to expect care from wimmin of colour/third world wimmin whom they see as mammy figures and caretakers;
* euro descended parents who raise their children in environments where hatred/fear/exoticization/domination of people of colour is considered acceptable.
* christian/religious parents who have been known to enforce the beliefs of whatever god or religious leader they themselves follow in the hopes that their children will do their own missionary work when they grow up.
* parents with unresolved sexuality issues who may opt to raise their children to be ashamed of their bodies and unwilling to see sexualness as anything more than a monogamous prelude to procreation;
* parents who believe fervently in the patriarchy and raise their boy children to despise powerful wimmin and their girl children to obediently follow the dictates of men;
* and parents raised in the confines of families with strict rules around gender expression who attempt to raise children obsessed with outward manifestations of masculinity and femininity rigidly corresponding with biological maleness or femaleness.
Of course, this is not to say that these non-cult members always succeed. Who birthed and raised me? Who pushed all my lefty, queer, poly-lovin', anti-oppression minded peers out into the world?
This conscious parenting is by no means an exact science. For all I know I could be raising a Black Martha Stewart or a little, female Clarence Thomas. But I'm not willing to abdicate my responsibility as a militant mama just because the results may not be one hundred percent predictable. And since the work of maintaining and passing on values and belief systems largely falls to those who breed, I figure the future is contingent on lefty parents doing our part to shamelessly raise our children with our politics. Future change is not going to simply be legislated or demonstrated into being, it will also be born.
My daughter isn't the first or the only one being raised in an anti-oppression environment. Mamas transgressing toward the future are many. I'll never forget a particularly hilarious conversation I had with a Black conscious, African, activist, professor, writer and political ally who is also a mama and a friend. With a tone of mingled frustration and proud amazement, this mama pointed out to me that her pre-teen daughter exercises her own free will by stubbornly resisting her parents whenever she disagrees with their decisions and that she recently challenged a white, male peer's blatant racism by letting him know she would not be speaking with him again until he did some sort of anti-racist workshop and dealt with his race issues.
I perceive this nine-year-old's resistance to her parents' wishes and her willingness to speak out against oppression as linked.
I remember...
pain infused by political awareness, as a formerly childless, young(er), queer woman who observed many children of potentially radical mamas, mostly daughters attempting to develop their ability to resist initially through fighting their own mamas' dictates. The choice to squash them and the seedlings of their defiance or to support them, represented a frustrating challenge for their parents and to their parent's supports, myself included.
Did we choose to raise stubbornly intelligent children with their own ideas, equipped to survive consciously in this society even if it meant sacrificing our peace of mind in the moment? Or did we decide to enforce societal hierarchies at the family level by forcibly bending them to our will? Often we chose the latter and failed to give precedence to the larger picture.
Some would say this dilemma is the crux of transgressive mama work. This is where we show our commitment to social change or to convenience in the short term. I know at some point, my chile will be old enough to demand liberation in her own words. Initially I will be the power she must fight. I prepare myself as best I can for the time when I must differentiate between guiding and protecting her from harm as she grows into a human being of integrity or having her do my will in all things thereby instilling her with a fear of/respect for (my) power simply because I'm her mama. I will have to decide which kinds of dominance I will defy or support in a family context on a daily basis. I understand that my actions will not be particularly inspiring or perfectly politicized at all times. The best I can hope for is that I'll always be real.
Until she can speak in words, sentences and paragraphs, I move through communities and society demanding revolution for us both. Usually my work goes unnoticed or misunderstood. Each day as I feed baby, play with her, bathe her, dress her and leave the house, I know the stakes are high. There is very little margin for error. This is dangerous work.
There are those who maintain a fierce investment in keeping things the ways they are. They are scared of a future too markedly different from what they've grown up with. Instinctively they see my approach to mamahood as a threat to be neutralized. No single or polyamorous mamas. No kinky queer wimmin getting pregnant while fucking straight men. No matriarchal families. No substituting the nuclear family model with a fluid, extended/chosen family. No men as purveyors of sperm but not intrinsically central to the family unit.
But these terror stricken people don't rule me and they don't get to control my dreams. I've just got one really basic hope for my pride and joy: that she grow into a powerful individual whose world view has moved so far from mine, so far into the future, that I will have to study and ask questions of myself and her if I am to ever understand her. If I do my mama work well, she will one day push me to grow as she challenges my perceptions and my politic. When this time comes, and it will, I hope I will recognize it and encourage her to commence her own struggles for change as I content myself with once more bein' bad by myself.
In the meantime...
The clock is ticking and I've got nuff work to do.
Below, I've included a proactive list of everyday revolutionary acts for militant mamas who want to make sure their child-rearing packs a punch and kicks the hell out of the powers that be. If messing with notions of family, motherhood and parenting throws a wrench in the basic workings of society, then I'm opening my toolbox and giving away all my tools.
Politically Transgressive Mama-work Tips:
#1 Change the future through guerilla spam attacks. Search the net for writings by other aware mamas and spam the hell out of friends, family and strangers, alike. This lets people know you're not an isolated, oddity-turned-mama, but that you have lots and lots of sistren with similar ideas out there. This makes folks stop and think: If it isn't you making these ideas up, then what the hell is going on in the world?
#2 Write, draw, sing, dance, take photos! Whatever your medium, draw attention to what you're doing and question parenting norms as loudly and publicly as you can.
#3. If you are one, come out as a sexual, non-monogamous or poly, leather lovin, s/m mama whose family is under attack because of prevailing oppressive morals, assumption and conservative understandings. Demand that monogamous, vanilla sexin', married mamas who define as radical, alternative or lefty, question their privilege and deconstruct their social positioning not solidify it, romanticize it or justify it.
#4 If the kind of support you need doesn't exist, do it yourself. If you're feeling isolated and in need of other lefty mamas start a group for politically active mamas and their tots. The now defunct one I started in Toronto was called Militant Mamas.
#5 My child isn't old enough for me to test this one out yet. But don't drive your child crazy with your politics. Power struggles with any child leads to polarization. I'm going to try modeling my beliefs to her not enforcing them.
#6 Be prepared for those old-fashioned blue and pink colour-coded clothing junkies. Practice lying about your child's gender. Go on! Try it! Say your child is a boy when it's wearing lots of baby pink, even as you know child's little genitals are screaming female. This never fails to attack people's pre-programmed notions of masculinity and femininity at a really core level. Just watch for the confusion on their faces as you happily jump back and forth between male and female pronouns.
#7 Never take the expected route. Always come out of left field. Throw everyone, even your political friends, for a loop as often as you can. A mama who avoids pre-packaged roles by choosing her own path is a thinking mama who will raise thinking children. This is considered extremely transgressive in a world where the powers that be would like us to close our eyes, say we're too tired to reflect, shut up and just follow.
#8 Breastfeed as long as you possibly can. It's cheap. It's portable. It also really pisses the hell out of a lot of people. My pediatrician, an authoritarian if I ever sniffed one, damn near lost her mind when she realized that my daughter is still mostly drinking breast milk. Doc must have been wondering how the big formula and child food manufacturers who make billions off feeding trash to our children, would ever survive without my money.
#9 If time permits, don't put your newborn on a sleeping or eating schedule. Routines are about regimentation. They prepare your child's mind and time for the capitalist, corporate work world. Besides, don't you think your little one knows when it's hungry or ready to sleep?
#10 Get together with other parents and start an anti-oppression daycare co-op, day-camp or school grounded in the precepts of social change and justice. Basically you'd be creating a child friendly learning and development atmosphere not just for your child, but for many children where they can all grow and play without being systemically oppressed in their educational environment.
#11 Get a bunch of your lefty, academic friends together and propose that they donate two and a half hours every week to help you home school your child. This is much less time consuming than starting a whole school. It also has the added bonus of showing you who among your friends is willing to put their time where their politic is.
#12 Gently encourage your child to spend time with the children of other lefty families. This may offer your child acquaintances who might be less likely to send self-esteem damaging messages about fitting into the dominant society. And as lefties cut across all ethnicities and cultures, your child will also be exposed to different kinds of people.
#13 Become a midwife or a doula (birthing assistant). How many healthcare practitioners dealing with pregnant mamas do you know who have anti-oppression politics, meaning they are queer positive, anti-racist, anti-classist, sex positive, anti-ableist, have an analysis of fat phobia (which comes in really handy with pregnant wimmin) and lookism, etc. Yeah, our midwives and birthing assistants know how to birth babies, but wouldn't it be nice to find someone who could deliver a breech and has an oppositional world view, too? That person may just have to be you.
#14 Refuse to vaccinate your child. Mass child vaccination is a booming money maker for pharmaceuticals who have also been responsible for testing new medications on third world people, conducting increasingly hideous and unethical animal experimentation, unnecessarily prescribing antibiotics, trying to stifle/control homeopathic practitioners and medicines and attempting to stop free/affordable distribution of AIDS medication. Vaccinations have been proven to contain mercury and formaldehyde among other things that are causing infant deaths and autism. Some have likened the pharmaceutical/medical establishment/state cover-up of vaccination side effects to the way information about cigarettes causing cancer was initially buried. There is no actual proof that they work. It's more likely that disease stats have gone down due to increased hygiene, sanitation and nutrition.
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#15 Don't stop your child from watching television. A child who doesn't know how to recognize media manipulation is a sitting target out in the larger world. Instead, sit down and watch Buffy The Vampire Slayer or The Young & The Restless with your child. Point out how scrawny Buffy looks and that she must be malnutritioned. Ask your child why all the wimmin on the Y&R have fake bleach blonde hair when truly blonde white wimmin are so rare? Talk to your child about the fact that not many folks can afford the clothes and cars in the commercials and that the advertisers would really like to see Mama in debt. Ask your child why men and wimmin always feel the need to suck face everywhere they go when queers have to hide. Ask your child if that�s fair? Don�t forget to do the nightly news, too. Rip 'em to shreds with your child. Then teach your child to do the same.
#16 Ask your supports not to buy brand label baby things. This always freaks out folks who'd like to see your child keep up with the Joneses. Instead, encourage them to seek out second hand stores or to find mamas who don't need their babies' things anymore. Reason? Baby-oriented consumerism is a big business. Sifting through my child's numerous day and evening wear ensembles I discovered that there is such a thing as Roots Girl, Gap Baby, even dyam DIOR Baby. Gotta instill some self-esteem and nip that need to become a walking billboard ASAP.
#17 Have lots of sex. When your baby is sleeping, choose to get your phreak on instead of washing the dishes. Get childcare and go to fetish nights, orgies or play parties if that's your thang. A well-boinked mama is a mama who feels and is in touch with her own body. And of course, a mama who likes her body, feels comfortable with sex and has good physical boundaries will raise children who grow into sex-positive, guilt-free beings. And eventually, by sheer force of numbers, they will put institutions like marriage and the catholic church that exploit and perpetuate relationship dysfunction and sexual shame, out of business.
#18 Leave baby with trusted friends/family a few times a month. Go out. Have a beer. Watch a movie. Play some dominoes. Shoot some pool. Dress up and go dancing. Behave like a suck if no one will stay with baby so you can go out. A social mama is a networking, vibrant mama who resists the unbelievable isolation that has become a cornerstone of mothering in the western world. That maxim about the village and raising kids is no bleeping joke. Take a woman with or without partner, cut her off from adult company, make her run a house and care for her children on her own. Watch her get extremely irritated, then depressed, then psychotic as her children become increasingly unhappy and demanding of more attention. Then when she cracks, charge her with murder and line her up next to the rest of the wimmin on death row. Sure, free Mumia. But don't forget my sistren, are in the big house, too.
#19 Wimmin, find your voice and use it often. In a child negative society where children are maimed, abused, kidnapped and just generally emotionally damaged everyday, a militant mama's first line of defense is her voice. Speak to folks who try to touch you child if you don't like it. If they don't listen, explain to them in graphic detail how nice their heads and hands will look on your mantle.
#20 Take up self defense, if you haven't already. Learn to box or kick or go for the jugular. As wimmin in a patriarchal society we're not safe. As wimmin with children in tow some will see us as fair game. These ones must be terminated.
#21 If you have stopped going to demos and marches because you thought they were just too 101, now is the time to start hitting the streets again. Baby needs to do Anti-Oppression 101. IWD/Pride/ Take Back the Night and all other leftie demos will give him/her insight plus an understanding that lots of people feel the same way as Mama. Note: Try to go to marches with other militant mamas so you can be visible as a unit should Five-0 decide to get nasty. Or alternately, go with a group of friends who are willing to stay close by and protect you and baby if necessary.
#22 Ask for solidarity, support and, if necessary, protection from those with left politics but without children. How far beneath the surface of their buttons, slogans, demos, workshops and attestations of community does their political awareness go? Find out if they're for real or just perpetrating. Point out that babies and mamas are politicized beings and community members, too. Watch to see who steps forward and stays there.
#23 Have meetings/discussions with those who would count themselves as family. Define your goals and expectations to family and friends. Make yourself clear because you can't assume your peoples will automatically understand where you're headed. Let them know that you plan on raising your child(ren) with a difference. Expect friends/family to misunderstand your ideas anyway. As long as you see they're trying to co-operate correct them if they cross your boundaries. But be prepared to deal with those friends/relatives/ lovers who even subtly in word or deed purposefully defy the choices you're making. Parenting for change isn't easy and even the most well-intentioned support may (un)knowingly mess with your programme as you attempt to step with your child(ren) into the future.
#24 Love yourself and your child(ren) fiercely.
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hi darkdaughta. i had to
hi darkdaughta. i had to sign up for a new account just to post a comment here. you may remember me, moonbrain, the much hated mama here on hipmama for bringing up some of these very topics. wow, i just want to say, i wish we lived in the same town. i wish i could find mamas like you in my town. my eyes are peeled, though. and i may be slow in acting, but my mind is there. your words resonate with me, mama. thanx for posting this.
Thanks for posting this.
I've been lurking about all weekend, reading yours and Trula's exchanges here and there. And also the above post. I've got about a million things I'd like to say, but, unfortunately, I'm getting my ass seriously kicked with a few deadlines, projects, and my kid learning to walk (and busting his ass/head at least three times a day). So I can't respond to this post, now, in the way it deserves. Still. I just had to sign on for long enough to tell you that this is terrific, I enjoyed it very much, and I'm REALLY happy that you've begun posting here. Thanks! Elizabeth
Quick P.S.
I made time to read your birth plan on your blog as well. What a wonderful and amazing document. So glad I read it. Again, wish I could say more here, now, but just have to get this work finished. Now. But, thank you--for creating it and for posting it.
much hated?
moonbrain, surely you exaggerate. :)
I don't hate you, for what it's worth.
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Great list! While I don't
Great list! While I don't agree with a few things on it, most of it resonates with me.
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yeah i was kind of surprised
yeah i was kind of surprised by this too. I don't hate you.
* I'm all fight and no flight *
thanx mamas. i also want to
thanx mamas. i also want to add... because ya know i can't help myself... that i really believe in my hearts heart that all the mamas here are amazing. we all care enough to care for our minds and reach out to others. that is political and radical in itself. yes, i parent in a lot of the ways being mentioned in this post. and for me, this is refreshing to read because it is not often that it comes up and comes up so passionatly. i don't think she's dissing on mamas it seems like she's making suggestions - in a very stong way. thats my take, anyhoo. if someone else were to post the exact opposit parenting suggestions so passionatly i wouldn't think "oh, she thinks i suck, screw her." i would just think, "wow, that mama is passionate about her parenting!" and being passionate about parenting regardless or how you parent is radical. be proud and always know that what you are doing is with love and reason and with the future of your child in mind and it will never matter to you that someone is passionate in a different way and for different reasons.
Hi Moonbrain...
I posted this because of what you wrote about diversity. i hate to see a mama/woman using her brain and asking questions fight alone. I spend too much of my time being her. So, I was definitely hoping your ears would prick up and that you'd smell me and feel me and come back.
Yeah, I wish I had a few hardcore political and livin' it mamas here, too. Very lonely here...online generally and geographically. I don't go out much...actually at all without someone from my shrinking community of Black queer lefties.
I'm completely freaked over the possibilities for my daughter finding playmates who won't undermine her self-esteem because their mamas don't know how to work any sort f political questionning of privilege into their parenting...or don't value that as a main part of childrearing.
I'm exhausted and sleep-dprived with raising her, braiding her hair, doing laundry, dressing her, holding her, negotiating with her, protecting her, dealing with tantrums, cooking food, teaching community members how to nurture her, listen to her and speak to her. I don't bathe on the regular and I dont go out much, but supporting her consciousness is high on my to-do list because the safety of her psyche and self esteem in a conservative, oppressive world that could chew her up and spit her out is that important to me.
For those of you who reacted with obvious rage, that makes sense because his post was part grenade to bring the ones who don't get it, won't get it, out of the wood work. I'm trying to get a clear picture of who is here. So thanks for making yourselves known more clearly than you would have otherwise. I couldn't wait for my ass to on the line before I caught sight of you. So, accept my post as a gift. Now you know exactly who I am, too. :)
More importantly, I sent this post as a sweet rose genetically modified specifically to appeal strongly to those mamas who dare to speak with conviction about systemic oppression and to make this speaking part of their mama work. It was me saying, who is there that I might be able to convince to have my back or who would just voluntarily of their own volition have my back. Like I said up above, I'm really exhausted as you all are. There's just no time to beat around the bush or play coquette or peekaboo.
So moonbrain? Thanks for drawing closer to the fireworks. I'm a bit of a pyromaniac. And I'm not of the goodgirl school, so I don't mince my words. So, if that doesn't scare you or faze you, we can definitely talk cuz that's what I came here to do.
And Moonbrain thanks for the (metaphorical) word hug. I could have cried. Here's one straight back at ya.
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well I am hoping the nudity
well I am hoping the nudity and stick waving will at least move outdoors when he gets to his teen years, but we will see.
everyone is an ignorant asshole about something. we should all make a list of things that we just don't understand and post them like disclaimers. it would save so much time.
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I had a hard time getting to set high enough for set neck guitars. It would work great for bolt ons. Some of the parts on the one i got were stuck so bad that when i went to lossen the nuts to adjust it, they bent and wanted to strip out. I just use the cauls on my drill press, seems to work better that way
I have to say, this is my first disappointment when purchasing from StewMac. I don't know if this makes any difference but in the pictures and videos the lock-down screw is shown in the bottom hole but mine is in the top hole. Every single nut on the unit was loose and needed to be tightened. I was not able to install the fret press caul on the first attempt. When the Ram was tapped and threaded for the set screw it left a larger bur on the inside that prevented the press caul from going in far enough. I had to drill it out and then I was able to install the press caul. Not a huge deal but I would think standard QC would make sure the caul would fit prior to boxing it up for shipment. My other beef is with the fretboard table. The directions say "to retract the pin out of the way, simply back out the Allen screw on the other side of the fence." Well there is no allen screw. The pin is a solid piece which is held in place by a machine screw threaded into the back of the plastic fence. The screw head is just barely large enough to hold the pin in place. I'm not using the fret scale templates so I don't need the pin but this is very hokey at best. Just not the quality I would have expected from StewMac. All this being said however, I used it to install frets on a tenor ukulele neck and it did seat the frets much better than when I was using the press caul in my drill press. I have a guitar repair vise coming this week and I'm hoping the quality is much better on it.
The quality is good enough. This tool will not solve all of your challenges. Be aware of back bow and be prepared to deal with it.
This is so much better than pounding frets with a hammer. Some initial setup is required and making a 1 1/2" base made it very portable. This does require a little thought and inventiveness. If you can't do this, I'm not sure one should be fretting at all. Other reviewers complaints were paint chipping...mine isn't chipping and I don't care if it did. Made in China...yes, it is. I priced USA made and it was over $400, without the StewMac mods and accesories. The StewMac metal label had to be stuck back on and it's still there. One does have to clean cosmoline off the ram, removing the front plate to do so, and then adjust, and reassemble. This is not hard for someone that builds guitars. I highly recomend this unit but don't expect to lift it out of the box and throw ebony into its jaws. Learn to set up and use it just like you did with your table saw and spray equipment. Hugs....
Before I go any further, I suggest you read the review left on 3-15-2011 by Smokie in IL; that review pretty much nails my overall opinion of this Arbor Press. I would add that I had high expectations- not only based on all my previous purchases with Stew-Mac, but also based on my experiences with an older Stew-Mac Arbor Press at a repair shop I worked at in the past. I am now on my own, slowly building up my own supply of specialty tools. This current Stew-Mac Arbor Press is a newer/updated version with a few nice additions, such as the spring-loaded arm and fretboard table attachment. However, the overall build quality it not even close to the older Stew-Mac press. Again- read Smokie's review for more detail. This is my first, and hopefully only, disappointing Stew-Mac experience. -Joe
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I am not very happy with this press. It is very crowded, limits my possibilities, i need to use hammer, where the press is not useful. Quite expensive.
Such a simple idea but this works perfectly. It is very easy to set up but really needs a very thick plywood base to enable the use of table. Not a difficulty but you will want to play with your new StewMac 'toy' straightaway, won't you? The DHL shipping to the UK is fantastic, relatively cheap for this sort of weight, and parcels can take just three business days from ordering.
A must have tool for anyone building or doing fret repair,esp. on older instruments with fragile finishes and glue joints.
This press indeed is a vey handy tool, although one should be carefull not to press too firm, which can be done easily. I use it a lot. The main backdraw are the shipping costs to Europe
This press is not only a time saving tool, il helps you to make an absolutely PERFECT fretting!
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Purchased the adapter to connect an Apple TV to a VGA projector. I teach at the high school level and having to be tethered to a computer to show videos, presentations or photos was not practical. The setup was simple and to the point. Connected the Apple TV and VGA cable to the Kanex adapter. I have my Apple TV connected to a wifi network so I can use airplay on my iPad. The added feature of audio out is a great benefit when showing videos from my iPad. Picture quality is definitely not HD but it gets the job done. This is a great, small, lightweight product for connecting devices to a VGA. …
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ICIT's Technology Resource Center (TRC) has 2 mobile carts available for use in classes, meetings, and conferences throughout Hunter's 68th Street campus:
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"We purchased this about a week ago and there was a guy living here taking care of the property," said Carl Goff. "I told him 'you guys will have to go.'
Goff returned a few days later and discovered the woman and what he assumed was about 15 dogs inside the small building.
"I didn't know that there were any dogs or a lady living here," said Goff. "I pulled up one night and saw the woman and I called my wife and told her were going to have to call the state or somebody to get her some help."
Goff described the woman, identified as Rachel, as very skinny and looking like a "zombie." Rachel eventually did speak to Goff, telling him that she had lived there for almost two years.
"I asked her how many dogs did she have and she said about 12 or 13," said Goff. "I had never been inside the building.
Goff located some of Rachel's relatives who in turn notified the missing caretaker, who was identified as Danny Mounts. Rachel is reportedly Mounts' sister.
"They come back today and got her," said Goff. "I didn't want to call the dog pound; I wanted someone to adopt them. Little did I know what I would find today."
Inside the two story building, dozens of dogs were kept on each floor with the windows covered. Animal hair and feces covered the floor and the stench was overwhelming. But surprisingly, there were no dead animals and the animals, although underweight, did not look starved.
"I only made it in about two feet," said Goff. "I'm a Marine Corp veteran and it took my breath. It was unreal."
Inside the building there are several items of furniture, including a couch and chair, and the television had been left on. There was no water to the building, but the electricity and an air conditioner was working.
Following a call for volunteers on facebook, the Logan County WV Pound Adoptable Animals and SAFE (Saving Animals From Euthanasia), food and water was brought in for the animals. Total animal count was more than 50 dogs and one cat.
Logan County Administrator Rocky Adkins came to the location and spoke with Goff about removing the animals.
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Goff has plans of reopening the motel and has been doing cleanup on some of the rooms. Although he knew of more than 15 dogs that were kept chained outside on the grounds, Goff said there was no indication of the total amount of dogs kept inside the small building.
"My wife and some of her friends have been up here cleaning for four days," said Goff. "They didn't know anything about the lady. She didn't have any bed or anything."
"We were planning to put a restaurant in that building," said Goff. "Now I'm sure it will have to be torn down."
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Golbat evolves by happiness, actually 220. So it doesn't evolve at a certain level... It can be at level 23 to 100, actually.
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Now with most updated packages on this KDE fresh #9 install Not Installed. I am finding my install of New Packages Painfully Slow.. and mirrors are synced for Speed.
My first Update after Install failed and Quit.
Then I let it be and installed Netbeans and Eclipse both at 50mb or better in size.
The installs through Rigo weren't lightning fast but acceptable.
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I have a video of a player that I think you should take a look at. It clearly shows he is using some kind of wall hack to me. The video is self-explanatory. I made a post on the server's website regarding this issue as well. Thank You....
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In August my wife and I are spending five days in Ireland. We will fly in and out of Belfast and will be spending one day with relatives in Rivertown, Sligo. We have booked a hire car and want to do a round trip staying at a couple of places en route. We would like to visit the Giant's Causeway. If anyone can suggest a route and a couple of good places to stay that would be fantastic. Thanks in anticipation. Phil.
Hi, I am a single mother to a 4 year old boy and i would love to move to Ireland. My Grandads parents were born there and he visited Ireland when they left and he always said i should go! So ever since i can remember i have wanted to live in Ireland. I currently live in Blyth which is near Newcastle and i hate it here. I would love somewhere that has a decent school so my son could have a good education and that is walking distance from a town etc so i could find work (which is hard to find wherever you go) I don't want to be in a big city like Newcastle, the population of Blyth is 35,818 which is the kind of size i would like to move to. I am looking for a fresh start in life and i have always wanted to live in Ireland and would love my son to grow up there. I have read a lot on different forums and some people ask about religion etc but i don't really think its a problem anymore according to what i have read from other people. I would really appreciate any information i can get as i really want to choose the right place. Also if there is anywhere that i should not move to i would appreciate the feedback on that as well. Also if i wanted to go out of the UK and move to the Republic Of Ireland what would i have to do?
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