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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Indictment No.
Plaintiff-Respondent, 10938/96
Michael Thomas Fois, an attorney admitted to practice in front of this Court, affirms and states under penalty of perjury, the following:
- I represent the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom ("NCSF") and file this affirmation in response to the Affirmation of Assistant District Attorney Mark Dwyer, dated January 26, 1999 (the "Dwyer Aff."), submitted in opposition to the NCSF's motion for leave to file a Memorandum of Law as amicus curiae in the above-captioned matter.
- Whether due to negligence or willful misrepresentation, the District Attorney's Affirmation borders on the sanctionable. It contains numerous false statements and the District Attorney has, without using the exact words, accused the NCSF, and myself, of misrepresenting itself to this Court. The District Attorney falsely states that "the so-called NCSF is just such a phantom entity." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 3). At one point, the District Attorney accuses the NCSF, and myself, of listing a "phoney address." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 4). The District Attorney affirmed to this Court that "[f]rom all that appears, the NCSF might simply be one or two people who have a computer, internet access, and the capacity to create a website." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 8). To make these statements, without any evidentiary support, should be enough to raise the ire of this Court; to do so, as the District Attorney does here, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, I believe borders on the sanctionable. As court filings are privileged, this filing provides our only redress to the District Attorney's defamation. While I cannot opine as to what degree of actual knowledge ADA Mark Dwyer had upon filing his affirmation, the Office of the District Attorney, as an institution, possessed information when it filed its affirmation that refutes many claims it subsequently made; information that clearly established that the NCSF is a recognized national not-for-profit organization with a duly constituted board and a substantial membership. Pointedly, the District Attorney had no difficulty effecting personal service upon the phantom it now asks this Court to ignore.
- I note that at no time did the District Attorney attempt to contact me, the attorney of record, regarding the status of the NCSF. One would expect that, if the District Attorney honestly doubted the validity of the NCSF, its first move would be to call the telephone number on the Notice of Motion -- my number. To contact the attorney of record is not merely common courtesy and standard practice; it is also a critical element of due diligence prior to making the type of attack the District Attorney launched in its affirmation.
- Far from a being a phantom, the NCSF consists of twenty organizations, some nearly thirty years old, whose combined membership is 6,500. When it filed the Notice of Motion, the NCSF did not believe it necessary to provide extensive background information. The NCSF, which had been in contact with the District Attorney's office regarding this case, was shocked to have its validity questioned. As its credibility, indeed its very existence, has been called into question, the NCSF now provides the Court with greater detail through this Affirmation and the attached Affidavit of NCSF Executive Director Susan Wright (the "Wright Aff."). I do not believe it is appropriate or helpful to flood this Court with affidavits at this point, but the NCSF stands willing to provide additional documentation and third party affidavits should the Court so desire. Throughout these documents this Court will note numerous contact addresses and phone numbers the Court may use to verify the information the NCSF presents
- It should be noted that the District Attorney, while arguing this Court should ignore the NCSF as a phantom, failed to disclose that it has been in contact with the NCSF on this case since August 1998, and that it had worked extensively with a NCSF board member in a criminal investigation in 1996. NCSF Executive Director Susan Wright first contacted Assistant District Attorney Martha Bashford of the sex crimes unit regarding the Jovanovic case in August 1998. ADA Bashford discussed the concerns of the NCSF with Ms. Wright again in October 1998. (Wright Aff. ¦ 2). While the concerns of the NCSF were not fully addressed, nothing in the NCSF dealings with the District Attorney's office at that time indicated that the District Attorney believed it was dealing with a "phantom" or in any way challenged the validity of the NCSF.
- ADA Bashford's name was not pulled out of hat; the NCSF contacted her because she had worked with a NCSF board member, the Gay Male S/M Activists ("GMSMA"), on a criminal investigation in 1996. (Wright Aff. ¦ 2). The mission statement of the GMSMA is annexed to the Wright Affidavit. Briefly, the GMSMA is a not-for-profit group established in 1982 to create a more supportive community for gay men involved in sadomasochism. The District Attorney's office utilized the resources of the GMSMA in identifying potential witnesses in what the New York media labled the "Dangerous Top" case. See "Dangerous Top" Unmasked: D.A. Investigates S/M Torture Charges, by Guy Trebay, Village Voice 1996, a copy of which is annexed to the Wright Affidavit. More details regarding the GMSMA and its work with the District Attorney's office can be provided if the Court so desires.
- The District Attorney was aware when it filed its affirmation that the GMSMA was a board member of the NCSF. The District Attorney admits it reviewed the NCSF's website (https://ncsfreedom.org) prior to filling its affirmation (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 7). That website clearly identifies the GMSMA as a board member of the NCSF. The NCSF website clearly lists its Board of Directors and provides the ability to contact those organizations. When the board member is an organization, as is the case with the GMSMA, the website lists the individual from that organization presently serving on the NCSF board. The website also provides the names of nine staff members of the NCSF and the ability to contact those individuals. A printout of the NCSF website is attached to this affirmation; the names of the board and staff members appear on page 3. The underlined words are "hyperlinks." With one click on a hyperlink, a browser is taken directly to an individual e-mail address, in the case of the NCSF staff members, or to another website, as in the case of the board members. To the best of my knowledge, the District Attorney made absolutely no effort to contact any of the individuals or organizations listed on the NCSF website.
- These facts of which the District Attorney's office was undoubtedly aware of prior to filing its affirmation more than refute the accusations made in that affirmation. The District Attorney cannot argue that the NCSF's credibility "would be suspect at best" (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 2) when it had in the past relied upon the credibility of one of the NCSF's board members. Nor can it can claim "that the so-called NCSF is just such a phantom entity" (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 3) after having discussions with the so-called phantom's executive director, identifying its board members, and nine of its staff members. And it is absurd to accuse the NCSF of listing "a phoney address" (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 4) when the District Attorney had no difficulty effecting personal service upon the NCSF at the address listed.
- More egregious statements, however, exists in the affirmation. The District Attorney affirmed to this Court that "[f]rom all that appears, the NCSF might simply be one or two people who have a computer, internet access, and the capacity to create a website." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 8). The District Attorney also affirmed that the NCSF "does not have a verifiable identity." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 8). These statements are more than misleading, they are defamatory. At the time the District Attorney made these claims, it possessed the names of all seven NCSF board members, nine staff members, and the ability to contact them. ADA Dwyer may believe the NCSF and its website to be no more than a figment of my imagination, but he had an ethical obligation to at least attempt to contact those he dismisses as phantoms before affirming to this Court that the NCSF lacks a "verifiable identity." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 8).
- The District Attorney states that the NCSF "website makes no mention of Michael Fois or his affiliation, if any, with the NCSF." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 7). I am at a loss as to the relevance of this information on whether the NCSF should be allowed to file an amicus brief. Had I believed my personal background to be of relevance I would have appended a resume. It is clear that the only point of this statement is to cast dispersions upon myself. While I believe ad hominem attacks normally not worthy of response, for the elucidation of the Court, I will briefly describe my background and relation to this case. I am not a member of the NCSF or of any of its member organizations and for that reason do not appear on their website. I was first contacted by the NCSF in mid 1998, having been referred to them by another attorney. I had recently left the legal department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, for which I had worked for seven years, the last four of which I was in the Litigation and Enforcement Division. In that capacity, I investigated banking fraud and had occasion to work with the District Attorney's office. I agreed to assist the NCSF, pro bono, because I was concerned that an overaction to a horrendous case could create bad law and reduce the civil liberties enjoyed by all New Yorkers. As has become axiomatic, hard cases make bad law. Northern securities Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197, 401 (1904)(Holmes, J., dissenting). My worst fears were realized when I saw the District Attorney's brief and the broadside it laid into civil liberties and consensual sexual conduct.
- Through the statements discussed above, the District Attorney denigrates the NCSF and myself and attempts to convince this Court that we have misrepresented ourselves and are really nothing more than a pair of computer hackers who lack "recognized reliability, and expertise in legal matters." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 2). This description contradicts the information possessed by the District Attorney at the time it filed its affirmation. Were such statements made outside of a court filing, they would constitute defamation per se.
- The District Attorney affirmed that "a comprehensive review of listings, phone books, and databases reveals no proof that there is such an organization as the NCSF." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 3). We question both the scope and the effectiveness of the District Attorney's "comprehensive" review. It clearly failed to include the District Attorney's own records; if it had, it would have revealed ADA Bashford's contact with the NCSF as well as the involvement of the GMSMA in the Dangerous Top case. There simply are not that many cases dealing with sadomasochism in any context; its hard to imagine that a case less than three years old that generated substantial media coverage would fall through the cracks.
- The District Attorney's "comprehensive" review also could not have included the local media, which has reported on the NCSF. See, Silence of the lambdas, by Katie Szymanski, New York Blade News, September 4, 1998, a copy of which is annexed to the Wright Affidavit. Nor could it have included the national media, for the NCSF gave nearly 50 radio interviews in 1998. (Wright Aff. ¦ 7). And although the District Attorney found the NCSF website, it could not have searched the world wide web. Had it, it would have found reports regarding the NCSF's lobbying and the NCSF's National Survey of Violence & Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities. See, e.g., GenderTalk at http://www.gendertalk.com/GTransgr/iyf897.htm; GenderNews at http://www.ifge.org/news/1998/april/nws4298c.htm. Clearly, the thousand plus respondents to the NCSF's survey had no difficulty finding the NCSF.
- The District Attorney affirmed that "a thorough search of the relevant public records indicates that no organization named the 'National Coalition for Sexual Freedom' has ever filed for non-profit status." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 3). The NCSF is not sure why the District Attorney failed to find the NCSF's filings. Perhaps the District Attorney only searched locally, not nationally. The NCSF's executive office is in New York, but its situs for incorporation and its not-for-profit status is in Washington DC The NCSF would have readily provided copies of the relevant documentation had the District Attorney so requested; it never did. The NCSF now provides, in the Wright Affidavit, contact information for its accountant and the attorney responsible for its incorporation and not-for-profit filings, should the Court desire confirmation of the NCSF's not-for-profit status. (Wright Aff. ¦ 2).
- The District Attorney affirmed that the address provided by the NCSF "appears to be a phoney address." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 4). Here the District Attorney explicitly accuses the NCSF and myself of making a misrepresentation to this Court; an accusation the District Attorney bases solely on the use of a Brooklyn address with a Manhattan phone number. To the best of my knowledge, the District Attorney made no effort to contact anyone at the listed address to determine whether, in fact, it belonged to the NCSF. I am a solo practitioner and do not maintain an office; so, for the purposes of this litigation, I utilized the executive office of my client, the NCSF, which is located in Brooklyn at the address originally listed on the Notice of Motion. (Wright Aff. ¦ 2). Like many not-for-profit organizations, the executive office of the NCSF is located at the residential address of its executive director. While I lack an office, I do have a phone and that information was supplied. Hence the Manhattan telephone number listed on the Notice of Motion. The District Attorney had no difficulty effecting personal service upon the NCSF at the address it insists is phoney.
- The District Attorney notes that the zip code originally listed as part of the NCSF's address on the Notice of Motion was for lower Manhattan while the rest of the address was in Brooklyn. (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 4). The District Attorney misleadingly implies that this bolsters its "phoney address" assertion. The District Attorney, however, fails to disclose to this Court that it is aware the original zip code was a typographical error and that it was made aware of that typographical error the same day it was served the Notice of Motion. The NCSF subsequently provided the District Attorney with the correct zip code. The zip code error was discovered almost immediately after the Notice of Motion was filed -- which was the same day it was served, Friday, January 22, 1999. The District Attorney's office was informed of the error that same day; the specific individual was Carmen Mejia, tel. 335-9342. The correct zip code, the one the District Attorney used and lists in its affirmation, was provided to the District Attorney by the NCSF. The Appellant was also provided with the correct address and I personally corrected the addresses in the court filings.
- The District Attorney notes that "this is the first attempt by the NCSF to inject itself into any legal proceeding." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 6). The point of this statement escapes me, nor do I understand the relevance of this information on whether the NCSF should be allowed to file an amicus brief. Surely the District Attorney does not mean to imply that this Court should refuse to accept the NCSF amicus brief because it is its first legal foray? Under that logic, no organization would ever be allowed to file an amicus brief, for the first one will always be rejected as being the first one! Presumably, the District Attorney means to say that since the NCSF has not sued or been sued, or prosecuted, it must not exist. I do not believe this argument worth commenting on.
- The District Attorney likewise affirmed that the NCSF "does not have a verifiable identity and, for all intents and purposes, is accountable to no one." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 8). This statement is false. The truth is that, at best, the District Attorney chose not to verify the NCSF's identity. As described earlier, its "comprehensive review" was sorely lacking. (¦¦ 11-13, supra). One would think that, if the District Attorney truly doubted the validity of the NCSF, its first move would be to contact the attorney of record, yet no attempt was made to contact me. Nor was any attempt made to contact anyone associated with the NCSF or its member organizations. The information the District Attorney admits possessing, the information provided by the website, was more than sufficient to verify the NCSF's existence and dispel its purported fears of a couple of computer hackers perpetrating some kind of amicus shell game.. (See ¦ 7, supra). That the District Attorney chose not to verify the NCSF's existence is disheartening; that the District Attorney would affirm it could not verify the existence of the NCSF is frightening -- and false.
- Despite the District Attorney's accusations to the contrary, the NCSF is not "accountable to no one." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 8). It is accountable to its members, its Board of Directors, and, like myself, the NCSF is accountable to this Court. We made ourselves so when we asked to be heard. But the NCSF is not accountable to the District Attorney, and that seems to be the true rationale behind the District Attorney's opposition. Had District Attorney believed the NCSF's amicus brief aided them, I doubt they would have spent three pages trying to prove the NCSF does not exist. Throughout its affirmation, the District Attorney denigrates the NCSF. The NCSF is not concerned with these insults, for it is confident this Court will see through the attacks ad hominem to the weakness of the underlying substantive position. The NCSF, however, feels it must address the District Attorney's position that the NCSF, and its members, are not worthy of being heard by this Court. Indeed, it is because prosecutors are so confident that sexual minorities can be ignored that NCSF feels it must be heard.
- The District Attorney asserts that the Notice of Motion was untimely and therefore that the brief should not be received. We disagree. The tight time frame was not created by the NCSF, nor did it work an injustice on any party. The District Attorney's brief was not filed until January 7, 1999, a mere three weeks ago. The need for an amicus brief was not clear prior to our review of the District Attorney's arguments. The NCSF could not have predicted the extreme position taken by the District Attorney in its brief, one that far exceeded any argument made at trial. The NCSF, with substantially less resources than the District Attorney's office, managed to produce and file the Notice of Motion, complete with draft amicus brief, two weeks after the District Attorney's filing. The District Attorney managed to file its opposition, which addresses legal arguments made by the NCSF, with time to spare. The time frame has not worked any unfairness to the District Attorney. The District Attorney's office was informed of NCSF's concerns nearly six months ago; it cannot now claim surprise.
- The Court should note that when the NCSF decided to file an amicus brief, it reasonably believed that oral argument would not be before mid-February. (Wright Aff. ¦ 6). When I filed the Notice of Motion on January 22, 1999, I inquired of the clerk when would be the exact date of the oral argument. I was informed that a specific date had not been set but that the case was on the calendar for the mid-February term. This was, in fact, the fourth time I was informed the oral argument was scheduled for mid-February. The first was from Ms. Wright. The second time was when I arranged for the printing of the amicus brief. Michael Burns of Counsel Press, in my presence, called the First Department's clerks' office to clarify the procedures for filing an amicus brief, including the date for oral argument. This was on January 19, 1999. Once again, I was informed that the case was on the calendar for mid-February. The third time was later that same day, when I inquired in person at the Appellate Division, First Department. I was once again informed that by the clerks that oral argument was scheduled for mid-February. I did not learn that the actual oral argument date had been set for February 2, 1999, until I received the District Attorney's affirmation.
- I recognize that it is counsel's responsibility, not that of the clerks, to ascertain the correct dates and I take full responsibility for any misunderstanding. I am, however, at a loss as to what additional steps I or the NCSF could have taken to ascertain the dates or expedite the process. I believe it would work an injustice to my client to refuse to accept its brief based on timing factors, especially since those factors did not harm any party and were not a result of any strategic decision by the NCSF.
- The District Attorney asserts "the NCSF brief has nothing to offer on the merits." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 10). While taking no position on the guilt or innocence of the Appellant, the NCSF amicus does addresses the merits of the legal issues raised -- the Constitutional right to privacy and the consent defense. The NCSF amicus provides an in depth analysis on Constitutional law as it impacts this case, an area the District Attorney ignored in its affirmation and barely addressed in its brief. Second, only the NCSF amicus addresses the ramifications of eliminating the consent defense to assault; specifically, the criminalization of consensual conduct ranging from body piercing to contact sports, as well as sadomasochism. Third, only the NCSF amicus provides background information and statistics on sadomasochism; material gleaned form respected social scientists and published in academic journals. The NCSF takes issue with the District Attorney's claim that "the NCSF cites only two New York cases that were not addressed in the People's brief." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 11). In fact, the NCSF cites a half dozen New York cases not cited by the District Attorney. The cases the District Attorney failed to count are in the amicus
brief section on the State Constitution, an area of law the District Attorney apparently believes not worth addressing.
- The NCSF does not believe it would be helpful to the Court for us to engage in a point to point response of the District Attorney's response to our arguments; our legal arguments are in our brief. Notably, the District Attorney choose to spend nearly half its affirmation addressing the NCSF's "meritless" position. (Dwyer Aff. ¦¦ 10-15). In fact, the District Attorney submitted 7 pages requesting the Court not read 18! In light of the some 300 pages of briefs submitted by the District Attorney and the Appellant, the NCSF humbly requests this Court accept an additional 18 from the NCSF. The District Attorney concludes that "at bottom, the NCSF's claim is one not of law but of policy." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 16). The NCSF believes our claim to be both of law and policy; it only ask this Court to address the law.
- The NCSF does apologize to this Court for our failure to include in parenthetical information that one of the opinions cited, Mercury Bay Boating Club Inc. v. San Diego Yacht Club, 150 A.D.2d 82 (1st Dept. 1989), aff'd, 76 N.Y.2d 256 (1990), was a concurrence by the Justice Rubin. The NCSF strongly urges that this Court read Justice Rubin's opinion, as he traces the interaction of sportsmanship and law from Pierson v. Post, 3 Caines 175 (1805), through the consent defense to the modern day. Justice Rubin's opinion forced the District Attorney to admit that, in sports at least, "the courts would be required to determine whether consent might be a valid defense [to assault]." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 13).
- The NCSF believe it should address the one new legal citation the District Attorney added in its affirmation. In refuting the plethora of New York case law provide by the NCSF in the amicus brief, the District Attorney refers only to the Restatement (Second) Torts for the proposition that consent is not a defense to a criminal prosecution unless such a defense is provide by statute. (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 15, citing Restatement (Second) Torts ¤ 892C, cmt. a and ill.1). This "majority rule" summary of the general trends in American law is not linked by the District Attorney to the laws of the State of New York. In the face of an unbroken common law tradition, continuing to the present, the District Attorney bears the burden of proving that these decisions on the consent defense to assault have been overturned either by the courts or the legislature. The District Attorney has utterly failed to do so. They fail even to reconcile the Restatement's position with that expressed by Justice Rubin in Mercury Bay Boating Club Inc., a position the District Attorney quoted only two paragraphs earlier. (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 13).
- The District Attorney states that the NCSF's belief that the position urged by the District Attorney would result in criminalizing all sadomasochistic conduct is an "absurd mischaracterization." (Dwyer Aff. ¦ 10). The District Attorney still does not get it. Without the consent defense, the Penal Law effectively criminalized not only sadomasochism but a host of other activities, including contact sports, body piercing, even a Rabbi performing a circumcision of an adult convert to Judaism! Such a result, the NCSF argues, would violate the State Constitution. The decision as to what conduct falls within the confines of the statute is, in the first instance, made by the District Attorney in the drafting of the indictment. While an indictment, of course, is a mere accusation, on the strength of such accusations defendants are subject to the risk, exposure, and expense of trial. As the Court noted in People v. Anonymous Female, 143 Misc.2d 197 (City Ct. Buffalo 1989), even innocent defendants will be reluctant to contest ill founded accusations in the glare of publicity. The assault statute can be expanded or contracted at the District Attorney's whim - and the District Attorney's disingenuous behavior in this case strongly leads the NCSF to distrust the District Attorney's whims. The NCSF requests this Court permit the filing of an amicus brief and to consider the argument that the consent defense recognized by Justice Rubin also applies to sadomasochism.
Dated: New York, New York
February 1, 1999
Respectfully submitted,
Attorney for Amicus Curiae
381 Manhattan Ave.
Brooklyn, New York 11211(212) 353-8984


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Dear Abby: Nurse objects when mother threatens girl with a flu shot
Dear Abby: I'm a nurse who has been providing flu vaccinations for customers in a big box store. Most of them regard us healthcare workers as people who want to keep them healthy. My problem is parents who use me as a threat of punishment for their kids.
I have had parents drag their screaming, crying kids over to me, telling them that if they don't behave they are going to "make me" give them a shot. One woman pulled her daughter by the arm, sat her in the chair and said, "OK, give her a shot!" The little girl's eyes filled with tears and she panicked.
I looked the woman in the eye and told her I didn't appreciate her making her daughter afraid of me. I told the little one that sometimes we have to take medicine that might hurt us or taste bad, but ONLY because we hoped it would make her better. Then I assured her I wasn't giving her a shot. The woman laughed nervously, said she was "just joking" and rushed her child away.
I worked hard to become a nurse and my goal is keeping people healthy. Parents: PLEASE don't use healthcare workers as punishment. You're not helping us to do our job when you can't do yours.
Not the bad guy
It's unfortunate, but some parents do this not only with healthcare workers, but also with police officers, and it's an unbelievably stupid practice. To make a child fearful of the professionals they may at some point need is counterproductive and poor parenting.
If a child is acting up and being disruptive in a public place, a better solution is to remove him or her from the premises until you have regained control of the situation.
Dear Abby: My 18-year-old daughter was killed in an auto accident a couple of months after she graduated from high school with honors. She had planned to go to college and become a nurse.
Right after graduation she went on a senior trip to Mexico. Two days later she called me wanting to come home. She said everyone was drinking, doing drugs, having sex with strangers and she didn't like it. I bought her a plane ticket and she came home the next day. She died two months later.
Eight months went by and I was having a particularly hard time one night. I prayed for a sign from God that she was in heaven and doing well.
The next day, the day before Good Friday, I went to my mailbox. Inside was a postcard from my daughter. She had mailed it from Mexico the day before she returned. It was in mint condition and had been lost in the mail for 10 months.
The card read: "It is beautiful here. I'm OK. I miss you and love you, Mommy. Love, Brandi." I was so happy and relieved! I was able to move on with my life after that. I signed up for college a few weeks later and earned my degree four years later.
Thank you, Abby, for letting me share my "miracle" with you.
My goodness, you don't have to thank me. Your letter moved me to the point of tears. Although I have printed many letters about pennies from heaven, this is the first time I have heard about a postcard. I'm glad it gave you the comfort and validation that you needed.

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ThredUp lets parents swap kids' used clothes, toys
ONLINE BARTERING Parents turn to website to swap kids' used gear
Katy Crain's daughter Makena just turned 1, but she's already started to burst out of some of her size 12-to-18-month clothing and needs to wear the next size up.
To solve her wardrobe needs, the Santa Clara mother packed up her daughter's outgrown clothes to swap them online through ThredUp. The trade-off: Another family gets a box of Makena's clothes, while she gets a package of babywear in her daughter's new size.
"It's kind of a gamble, but I think the community wants to make it worth your while," she said. "You go through outfits so fast that it seems wasteful that they'll wear something two or three times and then outgrow it."
San Francisco's ThredUp is tackling the high cost of raising children, one box of hand-me-downs at a time. Through the site, parents trade their children's used clothes, toys, books, DVDs and other media.
"By definition, these clothes no longer fit. You need to acquire new ones," said James Reinhart, Thred Up CEO, co-founder and a father of a 6-month-old. "It's not optional. Despite your emotional attachment to the onesie, you need a new onesie."
Children are expensive. By age 17, kids have outgrown more than 1,300 pairs of jeans, T-shirts, jackets and other articles of clothing, ThredUp found in a survey. Parents spend between $10,000 to $20,000 on clothes alone by the time their children turn 17, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which calculates the cost of raising children each year.
Cutting costs
Last year, the average family was expected to spend $606.40 on clothes, shoes, supplies and electronics, according to the National Retail Federation's Back to School survey. Much of that was for clothes, with families with school-age children shelling out $225.47 for their wardrobe.
ThredUp is looking to help its 60,000 users cut back on that cost. Members fill a standard U.S Postal Service 12-by-14-by-6 box with clothes and accessories and post a description online. When another member selects the box, they ship it directly to the recipient at no cost. For the receiver, it costs $5 for the trade, plus $10.95 for standard shipping, for a total of $15.95.
Last fall, Crain packed up and sent a box full of her daughter's 6-month-old clothing, including a dress that her daughter had worn only once that came with matching booties. In return, she picked out a box of 12-to-18-month old clothing. Inside were about 15 items, a mix of onesies, dresses and other outfits.
"It was like Christmas. It was so much fun," she said when the box arrived.
Started in Boston
ThredUp started in Boston as an online swapping site for grown-up clothes. But Reinhart and co-founders Oliver Lubin and Chris Homer soon realized that adults weren't interested so much in trading their clothes online but they wanted to exchange their children's.
Parents, they realized, were already doing this in some shape or form, giving away their children's used clothing and paraphernalia to their family and friends, or selling them at consignment stores or online on Craigslist or eBay.
ThredUp makes the process easier, said Homer. "They can do it cross-country," he said. "They can pick exactly what they want and they can get something back for those hand-me-downs."
Moved to S.F.
They re-launched the site for children in April. A few months later, the startup raised $1.7 million in funding, lined up Netflix's Reed Hastings as an adviser and moved its headquarters to San Francisco.
It began by first letting members trade clothing. It then added Halloween costumes in the fall and toys in time for the holidays. In January, it also expanded to books, DVDs and other media. It is contemplating adding other categories, such as maternity clothes.
Its sweet spot is in the 12-month to 5-year-old range, though it aims to offer clothing to trade as large as size 12. The most popular brands traded are Carter's and Baby Gap.
Some complaints
Just as in other online marketplaces, there have been complaints. One member said she received a box full of stained clothing that smelled like smoke. Others have questioned if the $15.95 cost is worth it.
Reinhart said that of the nearly 20,000 boxes shipped so far, 96 percent have been rated three or four stars out of four. For members who have a poor experience, it offers to let them pick a new box. It also occasionally intercepts boxes for quality control.
For the most part, though, he said the moms on the site seem to want to help each other.
"You'll get a lot of satisfaction and joy that another mom will get a lot of use out of these things," he said. "You can't underestimate the psychic benefit of these things."


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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
15 comments:
- Claudia said...
What the heck were people thinking? I have to go to this site - very, very funny! And truth be told, I've seen a few of these in my family. Thanks for a great morning chuckle.
- June 10, 2009 at 11:32:00 PM GMT+8
- Katie Runnels said...
I have really been enjoying this site too! That poor poodle! Thanks Linda- also for your kind comments on my blog! xo
- June 10, 2009 at 11:37:00 PM GMT+8
- Julie said...
HeeHee ~ hilarious!
- June 10, 2009 at 11:48:00 PM GMT+8
- Sweet Cottage Dreams said...
....now that first one stopped me dead in my tracks!!!!!
- June 10, 2009 at 11:59:00 PM GMT+8
- Joan@anythinggoeshere said...
I can just imagine that it is very popular. How do you kind these places?
- June 11, 2009 at 12:56:00 AM GMT+8
- Ki said...
Too funny! I stopped by over my lunch break. Thanks, I needed that!
- June 11, 2009 at 1:48:00 AM GMT+8
- Tumble Fish Studio said...
Oh how funny! The top one is my fav! I have at least one of my family that should never see the light of day let alone let the whole world see it! The things we once thought were cool or cute . . . that's what I tell my kids but do they listen?
- June 11, 2009 at 2:42:00 AM GMT+8
- Coco said...
Very funny. Maybe I should go there daily just to get my laughs for the day.
- June 11, 2009 at 2:43:00 AM GMT+8
- KitschKrafts said...
My mouth literally dropped open in horror while viewing these. My fav is the one of the boys in the "library". I must see this site!
Kitsch Krafts
- June 11, 2009 at 4:07:00 AM GMT+8
- Rebecca Ramsey said...
Thanks for the link. I'm horrified--in a good way.
- June 11, 2009 at 5:02:00 AM GMT+8
- Dawn Supina said...
Wow. Just Wow.
- June 11, 2009 at 2:07:00 PM GMT+8
- Sweet Repose said...
Love the poodle shot...been a groomer for 30 years...ha!
Anyway, come on to Iowa, Sisters' is near Iowa City and we are near Cedar Rapids, 30 minutes apart...so just drop a line for directions.
Sisters' has been around for 15 years and was featured in Country Living way back when, an icon in the area, I've been selling out of there for 14 years...a must see!
Thanks for stoppin' by...
- June 11, 2009 at 7:29:00 PM GMT+8
- Green Girl in Wisconsin said...
Disturbing--I can't go on that site!!!
- June 11, 2009 at 10:16:00 PM GMT+8
- Saucy said...
I suppose it was my evil older brother who submitted that photo of me with my pets.
- June 12, 2009 at 1:45:00 PM GMT+8
- one gal's trash said...
Cringe indeed!
These are just so fabulously awful. The zucchini lady is my personal favorite. Thanks for stopping by!
- June 20, 2009 at 12:56:00 AM GMT+8


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Mixing ActiveX with Java
Al Williams, a longtime Dobb's contributor and our resident tinkerer, has been making waves recently with his one-instruction CPU (you can click here to watch a video demo). Back in 2004, he was busy playing with robots and servos, and in this article from DDJ, he shows you how to use JACOB (a library for running Java code under Windows) to connect with ActiveX objects for robotic control.
Mixing ActiveX with Java
by Al Williams
Mimicking Microsoft's JVM interface
With the demise of Microsoft's JVM, Java programmers can't easily access ActiveX objects. Or can they? Although the Microsoft JVM is no more, the JACOB ("Java COm Bridge") open-source library essentially duplicates its ability to allow Java code running under Windows to connect with ActiveX objects.
Many specialized libraries are only available as ActiveX (or COM) objects, so using them from Java is an important trick to have in your toolkit. I recently encountered this problem when trying to integrate a custom hardware board with a Java program. The custom board's interface expected to talk to an ActiveX DLL. Rather than rewrite the library in Java, I decided to interface the existing library to my Java code.
There are several commercial solutions available, but I selected JACOB (written by Dan Adler and available at http://danadler.com/jacob/) because it closely mimics the Microsoft JVM's interface. This is both a strength and a weakness. The Microsoft JVM has plenty of documentation, so there are lots of examples and resources. The weakness is that the Microsoft JVM is disappearing, and JACOB depends on Microsoft documents for its primary documentation. However, there is an active user's group for people using JACOB, and the necessary files are available from the group.
If you are a Java purist, you've probably already stopped reading. After all, mixing anything with Java-and Windows-specific code, in particular-is sure to flare tempers. However, politics aside, it is often necessary to interoperate with other software. Like it or not, there is a large body of ActiveX code out there and being able to call it from Java simply expands the number of projects you can do in Java instead of using some other language.
Using JACOB
To show how JACOB works, I wanted to control the robot in Figure 1 from a PC running a Java program.
Figure 1.
Admittedly, this robot isn't a commercial project, but I use it to demonstrate a board that controls servo motors from a PC. Like a lot of commercial devices, the robot's wheels are servo motors, and the board provides an ActiveX DLL that lets you control up to eight motors. (For more information, see the note at the end of this article entitled "Robots and Servos.")
Understanding ActiveX
If you've worked at all with JavaBeans, you won't find ActiveX mysterious. At the lowest level, an ActiveX object is simply any piece of code that exposes one or more interfaces. These interfaces are tables of function pointers. So an object might publish an interface where the fifth function in the table causes the object to, say, generate a report.
By itself, this provides encapsulation, but little else. The secret to ActiveX is that each interface contains at least three pointers (the first three, obviously) that perform the same function. In particular, these three functions make up the IUnknown interface.
This shows one form of ActiveX polymorphism. By ignoring all but the first three functions of an interface, you can treat any interface as an IUnknown interface (just as you can treat any Java object as type Object).
However, there is another, more common form of polymorphism used by ActiveX. One of the functions defined by IUnknown is QueryInterface. So suppose you are building a database for your local brick and mortar library. You have an object that exposes an imaginary IMedia interface. Because IMedia is a superset of IUnknown, you can call QueryInterface to discover if the object also has an IBook interface. If it does, then it must be a type of book. If it doesn't, then it isn't a book (perhaps it is a CD with an ICDRom interface). So by exploiting QueryInterface, you can treat a CD or a book as a type of media, which is, of course, polymorphism.
This is ActiveX at the core level. If you are a C programmer, there isn't much more to it than this. There are many predefined interfaces you can provide (or use), but they all assume that you know which slot in the interface table has the function you want to use.
For programming languages such as Visual Basic (a major user of ActiveX technology), this is too great of a restriction. Foreknowledge of the interface table amounts to early binding-the language tool has to know about the object you wish to access. So how can ActiveX perform late binding (where the runtime system resolves the function reference)?
The answer is through a specialized interface, IDispatch. This is a special interface that lets you refer to functions in an object via name or number. Because early binding is more efficient, some objects provide custom interfaces in addition to IDispatch. In fact, some objects provide dual interfaces that are IDispatch interface tables followed by custom functions. After all, programs expecting IDispatch will just ignore the extra functions.
IDispatch provides for three main items: properties, methods, and events. As you might expect, properties are quasi-variables, while methods are simply function calls. An event is a way to register a function with an object. The object can then use the function to communicate with the original caller. For example, a button object might call a programmer-defined function when users press a button.
ActiveX also supports many common data types. However, most variables used by IDispatch-implementing objects will be variants. This is very similar to an untyped Visual Basic variable. It can contain nearly anything (numbers, strings, dates, currency, object references, and even arrays).
Most ActiveX objects of interest will provide IDispatch and work through various properties, methods, and events. JACOB allows you to very easily access these parts of an ActiveX object. If the object doesn't support IDispatch, you won't be able to use JACOB to access it.
Using JACOB
JACOB uses a special class to represent an IDispatch interface. The constructor for this class takes a string that is usually the ActiveX server's progid. This is simply a short name that identifies the server (for example, Microsoft Excel's progid is Excel.Application). If you want to use the classid (a 128-bit number that is unique for each server), you can provide it using an alternate syntax.
There are several ways you can handle properties, methods, and events in JACOB (although events are handled a bit differently than in the original Microsoft JVM). In addition, JACOB provides classes to represent variants and other specialized ActiveX types.
For example, consider accessing data from Excel, as in:
ActiveXComponent xl =
new ActiveXComponent("Excel.Application");
xl.setProperty("Visible", new Variant(true))
You can also call static members of Dispatch to achieve the same effect. When you call a method, you must provide an array of Variant objects that represent the arguments. Here, for instance, is a call to the robot's servo controller board:
new Variant [] { new Variant(chan),
new Variant(pos) });
There are also helper methods of the Dispatch class that take a varying number of arguments, if you prefer to use them. This, for instance,
iant f = new Variant(false);
Dispatch.call(workbook, "Close", f);
is essentially the same as writing this:
new Variant [] { new Variant(false) });
You can find other syntax examples by reading the JACOB source or referring to the Microsoft documentation.
A Java Wrapper
The robot's servo controller board (a GP4; http://www.awce.com/gp4.htm) has an ActiveX object that provides several methods and a property to set the active COM port. Obviously, it would be possible to just write the robot controller program to use the ActiveX object directly via JACOB.
However, I will eventually write an actual Java object that interfaces with the board. With that in mind, I wrote a wrapper around the ActiveX object that simply provides the same methods and properties. Eventually, I'll replace this class with one that is pure Java and the remaining code will not require any changes.
Listing One is the result. The constructor creates the ActiveX object (the progid is AWCGP4DLL.GP4DLL).
Listing One
/* Java wrapper for GP-4 ActiveX DLL. Requires:
JACOB -- http://danadler.com/jacob/
GP4 -- http://www.awce.com/gp4.htm
import com.jacob.com.*;
import com.jacob.activeX.*;
public class GP4
private ActiveXComponent servo; // The COM object
// Create ActiveX object
public GP4()
servo=new ActiveXComponent("AWCGP4DLL.GP4DLL");
// Reset servo controller
public void reset()
servo.invoke("Reset",new Variant[] {} );
// Set servo position
public void setPosition(int chan, int pos)
new Variant [] { new Variant(chan), new Variant(pos) });
// Enable channel
public void enableChannel(int chan, boolean enable)
new Variant[] { new Variant(chan), new Variant(enable) });
// Turn groups of servos on/off
public void setMask(int mask)
// Another way to do this
// servo.invoke("SetMask", new Variant [] { new Variant(mask) });
Dispatch.call(servo,"SetMask",new Variant(mask));
// Enable/disable all servos
public void enable(boolean enflag)
servo.invoke("Enable", new Variant [] { new Variant(enflag) });
// Set the COM port
public void setComPort(int port)
servo.setProperty("Comport",new Variant(port));
Each method corresponds to a method or property in the original object. For variety, I commented out the invoke call in the setMask method and replaced it with a Dispatch object method that does the same function.
Armed with this wrapper class, it is easy to use it to control the motors. Listing Two is a command-line program that does the job.
Listing Two
/* The robot driver */
public class ServoDrive
// General-purpose pause
try {
} catch (InterruptedException e) {}
// Convert a string into a speed number
private static int setSpeed(String v,int defspeed)
int speed;
try {
speed=Integer.parseInt(v); // read integer
catch (Exception e) { speed=0; }
if (speed==0) speed=defspeed; // or use default
return speed;
// The main code
public static void main(String[] args)
GP4 servos=new GP4(); // create a servo controller
int servoA=7; // the wheels are on servo #7 and #6
int servoB=6;
// read speeds
int speedA=setSpeed(args.length>0?args[0]:"",25);
int speedB=setSpeed(args.length>1?args[1]:"",-speedA);
// set the COM port
// Turn servos on
// Set them to run
pause(3000); // 3 seconds
// disable all servos so they stop at once
// Reset both servos
// And reenable them (although they are stopped now
The program accepts one or two speed arguments (which can range from -50 to 50). If you provide one argument, the motors move the robot forward (or backward if you use a negative number) with a speed proportional to the magnitude of the argument. With two arguments, you can set the speed and direction of each wheel independently. In either case, the program runs the motors for about three seconds and then stops them.
If you read the command-line program's source code, you'll notice that the code has no idea that the servo manipulation is being handled by ActiveX. All the JACOB code is restricted to the GP4 class in Listing One.
Pros and Cons
I could have rewritten the servo controller's library using javax.comm and handled it in native Java. I have no doubt that would be a better solution. After all, with the ActiveX component, the program only runs under Windows. With javax.comm, the program would operate with Linux, Macintosh, or Windows.
However, rewriting the module would take time-time to rewrite it and also time to test it. In this case, I had the luxury of having the source code to the ActiveX components, but if it were from a third party, it might be even more difficult to reproduce. What's more is that changes from that third party could be difficult to incorporate.
With a JACOB wrapper, it is fast and easy to incorporate the ActiveX code into a Windows-only Java program. Even if the ActiveX object added features later, it would be simple to either ignore them or add them to the wrapper with a minimum of effort.
Politics aside, there are times when you need to absorb some ActiveX code. The unfortunate legal wrangling has made that more difficult than it used to be. But thanks to JACOB, it's only a little more difficult.
Note: Robots and Servos
The robot used in this article is a model of simplicity. The frame is made from Radio Shack perf boards and a small piece of bass wood (available from almost any hobby shop). The large wheels are also from a hobby shop and are made for model airplanes. A few angle braces and a small caster from Home Depot complete the mechanical construction.
The two drive wheels are inexpensive servo motors made for radio-control vehicles. These make motor drive very simple. Each motor shaft connects internally to a potentiometer that controls a pulse-generating circuit. To move the motor, you send a pulse to it approximately every 20 ms. The motor generates its own pulse and compares the two pulses. Suppose the potentiometer in the motor (which is connected to the shaft) is set so that the internal circuit generates a 1-ms pulse. If you send a 1-ms pulse, the motor will not move. However, if you send, for example, a 1.2-ms pulse, the motor will move until the internal circuit is also generating a 1.2-ms pulse. Or, if you sent a 0.8-ms pulse, the motor would move in the opposite direction to make the internal pulse match the pulse you supply.
Normally, these servos don't rotate. They simply move in an arc (useful for an airplane's control surface or a car's steering wheel, for example). However, it is possible to modify the servo so that its potentiometer is not connected to the shaft (you also have to remove the stops that prevent it from rotating through 360 degrees). If you adjust the potentiometer so that the servo generates a 1.5-ms pulse, you can easily control the motor. A 1.5-ms pulse makes the servo hold position. A shorter pulse makes the motor rotate in one direction and a longer pulse makes the motor rotate in the opposite direction.
You can even control the speed of the motor by controlling the length of the input pulse. A 1.6-ms pulse makes the motor move more slowly than a 2-ms pulse because the motor perceives more error with a 2-ms pulse. Of course, with the potentiometer disconnected from the shaft, the motor can never correct the perceived error, so the motor just continues to turn as long as you keep supplying pulses.
This is perfect for controlling a small robot. Since the two servos are mounted back to back, if you feed the same pulse to both motors, the robot will spin in place. That's because if you rotate both motors clockwise (for example), they will spin in opposite directions since they are back to back.
The solution is to turn one wheel clockwise and the other one counterclockwise. This requires two separate signals, one to drive each wheel. Of course, if you want the robot to turn, you can send identical pulses to each wheel.


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Of course, if you're an outspoken Putin critic, it's not a good move. But it could be repurposed. Or what else are you going to do with it? Wait, don't answer that.
It's still easy to make the leap —Wacko— made:
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Someone should tell them it's pointing the wrong way
Jason's conclusion in making that chart was that not all the F1 cars look dick-ish. You can strap an ancient greek helmet on to the front of your car and it'll look just like the one McLaren is racing. Sort of.


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With the advent of higher throughput instrumentation and more robust amplification technology, the bottleneck in the forensic laboratory has shifted from sample processing to data analysis. GeneMapper® ID-X Software is a complete software solution which combines Expert System and Expert Assistant capabilities to alleviate the time consuming tasks associated with data review. Depending on whether you are processing databasing or casework samples the user defined thresholds and automated tools can either allow the software to make the final genotype call or support review, editing and further processing of the sample. Regardless of the nature of the sample, the final interpretation decision can be made more quickly, easily and with confidence.
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Besides the portability of the e-reader, students can look forward to spending less time deciding which books to bring to class, or making runs back to the dorm to swap the books needed for morning classes to books needed for afternoon classes. If you have your e-reader with you, you have a bookshelf in your backpack.
The frantic, last-minute run to the college bookstore also becomes obsolete. If an online store offers the text you need, you can tap on the screen and download it just seconds after a professor hands out the required reading list. Or right before he scolds you for showing up without it. Done, you overachiever, you.
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If you're the type of person who sees a crisp new textbook more as a blank canvas than a complete piece of work, you might want to think twice about going with an e-reader.
Although almost all e-readers include the option to annotate and highlight text, none of the examples we've tried come anywhere close to the ease of simply putting pen to paper, or swiping a highlighter across a few lines. In fact, some of them make it downright tedious. Unless you consider yourself extraordinarily patient and willing to invest extra time to record your thoughts and comments in the margins, a traditional book might make a better notepad.
Plato's Republic doesn't really benefit much from illustrations. But that color pie chart in your economics book? The photo of indigenous tribes from New Guinea in your anthropology book? The Rembrandt painting in your art history book?
Yea, they're all going to be in black and white on a dedicated e-reader, like a Kindle or Nook. Of the e-readers available on the U.S. market today, only the iPad really offers full color, which will make the rest of your reading quite monotonous. Pun intended.
We pointed out when evaluating the cost of e-books above that you can't sell them, which strikes a major blow against a form of media that most people would just assume convert directly to beer money once they have a grade in a book. Well here's a left hook to follow that uppercut: You can't lend e-books. Your plan of splitting a book with two friends in your class and sharing it? Fat chance.
Sure, some e-readers claim they allow you to lend books, but not really. On the Nook, you can "lend" a book, but only if the publisher greenlights it, only for a period of 14 days, and only once, ever, for the lifetime of the book. Yes, we're serious.
Other companies don't even allow that much. Once you buy an e-book, you might as well tattoo it to yourself, because nobody else is going to use it – simultaneously or after you.
Comparing an e-reader with dead-tree books isn't really fair unless you point out all the extra things an e-reader can do that books can never hope to touch. The Nook has games like chess. The Kindle can deliver blogs. The Alex can display Web pages. The iPad – if you group it with e-readers – is more like a full-blown computer that also displays books very nicely.
Depending on how much you'll use any of these additional features – and which ones the reader you choose offers – they may tip scales in favor of the e-reader.
You will not be able to coast through college with an e-reader instead of a stack of pulp. Not yet, at least.
The scant textbook selection in e-book libraries will mean that your fancy new reader is more a supplement to your other textbooks than a replacement, and the tiny discount retailers offer for digital books will take years to justify the cost of the hardware. If you just want to get the books you need as cheaply as possible, buy as many of them used as possible, then sell them afterward.
That said, if you see yourself reading novels in your spare time outside class, playing chess before class starts and reading Digital Trends on your coffee breaks, an e-reader can easily make up its lack of educational prowess with fun factor to spare.