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The sentencing committee meeting was canceled again today, by the way - I have no idea when it's rescheduled for. I hung out at the Capitol awhile anyway, handing out copies of Tenacious to the women legislators I could find, since it was "Women's Day at the Legislature" today, and I didn't think they'd made any arrangements for state prisoners to participate or talk to their legislators. I also left one for Governor Brewer, with an article done by a woman who had cancer while at Perryville a few years back. She's now with an organization that helps women in prison. I'll post her story here when I get permission.
I hope those legislators I gave the zines to actually bother to read them. I don't know when or how they're going to hear a woman prisoner's voice address their conditions otherwise. Maybe we should try to get them to hold hearings out at the prisons themselves. Given the Arizona Republic and Lumley Vampire reports on the physical condition of the facilities alone, they should have organized an emergency oversight committee to check it out in person. The legislature is responsible, after all, for compromising the safety of state prisoners and corrections employees in the first place. They've now been duly warned that they'll be held liable for failing to follow up on it.
Anyway, the following article is very pertinent to the work of the House Sentencing Committee - and most of the issues I have with Andrew Thomas' office. In fact, this is a very good reason why we don't want that man to be Attorney General. He'll be putting ten times as many innocent people away, while letting the really guilty ones walk by making questionable deals - like the one that put the Scott Sisters away. The innocent don't have anything to fear, they think, nor do they have anything to trade. The guilty, on the other hand - the "triggermen" - can trade them.
There's nothing guaranteed to get you a more severe punishment in America than insisting that you're innocent and losing to the prosecutor at trial - and they make sure you know that when they make their offer. Their job is to prove guilt, not to find truth - don't make any mistakes about that. They're out to get convictions, by and large - not to protect the innocent. Victims are just useful tools to win their cases with, and to use to promote their own tough-on-crime image.
There are a few remarkable exceptions to that rule, of course. Some DA's have been very committed to investigating reports of wrongful prosecutions/convictions. I hope that's the beginning of a trend towards more ethical, responsible prosecutorial conduct. I have yet to see evidence of that happening in Arizona, though.
What is Wrong with the Plea Bargain System in our Courts Today?
Frontline Interview withJohn H. Langbein
John Langbein is a professor of law and legal history at Yale Law School. In this interview, he describes how the plea bargain system pressures people to buckle and accept a plea-even if they are innocent-and how prosecutors, judges and defense attorneys have a role, a stake even, in seeing that this happens. He also talks about the Supreme Court's indifference to the pressures on a defendant in the plea process, and why he believes the rampant growth of pleas is rooted in the trial system's failures.
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Q: "What is wrong with the plea bargain system in our courts today?"
Plea bargaining is a system that is best described as one of condemnation without adjudication. It is a system that replaces trial, which is what our constitution intended, with deals.
Second, those deals are coerced. The prosecutor is basically forcing people to waive their rights to jury trial by threatening them with ever greater sanctions if they refuse to plead and instead demand the right to jury trial.
But every defendant has a right to go to trial; it's a choice they make to plead guilty.
The problem with choice arguments is that they neglect the main dynamic of plea bargan which is the pressure that the prosecutor puts on you to do it his way.
Plea bargain works by threat. What the prosecutor says to a criminal defendant in plea bargaining is, "Surrender your right to jury trial, or if you go to trial and are convicted of an offense, we will see to it that you are punished twice. Once for the offense, and once for having had the temerity to exercise your right to jury trial." THAT is a coercive system.
And the prosecutor has many devices which increase the level of coercion: multiplying the counts, threatening to recommend the most severe end of the sentence range, keeping you locked up in pretrial detention if you're poor - most people who are in the criminal justice system are poor - prosecuting your wife as well as yourself, and things of this sort. The prosecutor can pile it on if you don't play it his way. It is therefore a deeply coercive system. Yes, you have a choice, but your choice is constrained by coercion.
Q: What is the role of the defense lawyer?
Sometimes defense counsel does a very good job for people in the plea bargaining process, and gets you a good deal. But there are many other outcomes.
In the public defender system the defense counsel is representing a hundred other people; the defense counsel can not take every case to trial....
Defense counsel in some circumstances is not very competent and is delighted simply to take his money and run, so to speak."
"So there's no particular reason to think that defense counsel is any serious answer to the intrinsically coercive nature of plea bargaining."
Q: Whom does the system benefit?
The main winner in the plea bargaining process is the prosecutor. I describe plea bargaining as a system of prosecutorial tyranny..."
What has happened is that a single officer, the prosecutor, now is in charge of investigating, charging--that is, bringing formal charges--deciding whether to prosecute, evaluating that evidence, deciding whether or not in his or her judgment you're guilty or not, and then basically sentencing you.
"....what we have now is a system in which one officer, and indeed a somewhat dangerous officer, the prosecutor, has complete power over the fate of the criminal accused."
Q: You let the defense attorney off lightly.
I think defense counsel is to some extent at the mercy of a bad system. There's not a lot you can do when the other guy has all the chips. And the prosecutor has an awesome pile of chips in our plea bargaining system, because the prosecutor can threaten ever larger sanctions if you don't do what he wants.
So I believe that by far the worst failure in the plea bargaining system is the prosecutor, and I think that's in part because the prosecutor is not always as noble as he would like you to believe he is."
"It's a lot easier to coerce somebody into waiving all his defenses than to actually investigate the case thoroughly..."
But, again, the trial is there for anyone who chooses that option.
It is true that one always has the right to go to trial, but the prosecutor can make that right so costly that only a fool will exercise the right..."
Part of the reason why we in this country have criminal sentences that are so much more severe than in the rest of the civilized world, is the need that prosecutors have to threaten people with these huge sentences in order to get them to waive the right to jury trial...."
".... most people (in the system) are too poor to afford bail, and these people are particularly likely to yield to the demand that they confess whatever it is they're being charged with rather than wait for some kind of trial, because they'll be sitting in jail for months and months and months, and therefore there is a very evil interaction of prosecutorial power with poverty, with indigence."
It is very sad that the Supreme Court, which has been so anxious to protect various rights of persons who go to trial, has been so cowardly about seeing the evils of the plea bargaining process."
"...the Supreme Court has been indifferent to the pressures on accused in the plea bargaining process, as exemplified by the famous Alford case, where the fellow actually stood up and said, "I'm innocent, but I'm pleading because the disparity of outcome that they're threatening me with is too great". It's terribly sad."
"...the prosecutor is allowed to coerce people out of trial."
"...what happens is that prosecutors don't have to prove their cases; they're simply allowed to coerce people into waiving their rights. Judges are spared the difficulty of conducting trials and the danger of being found to have erred; they (plea bargains) can't be appealed from .."
"...what actually happens is you're coerced into confessing yourself guilty, whether you are or not."
"The saddest things about plea bargaining is that it is not widely understood. Most people have the television model of Perry Mason or somebody similar contesting for a verdict of a jury."
"Plea bargaining is sometimes justified on the ground that we are giving a lighter sentence to someone who is showing contrition or remorse for the offense. But that's a pack of lies. What is in fact happening is that the accused is being told by the prosecutor, "You accept guilt and confess and bear false witness against yourself and we will then see to it that it gets characterized as contrition or remorse."
The point is that the coercion, which eliminates trial, eliminates our ability to know you were in fact beyond reasonable doubt, guilty or not. And therefore it makes the remorse talk just window dressing by apologists who want to keep this existing system which is convenient for them."
Q: Do you have a solution?
I think the solution is very complex. I think it requires facing the underlying failure of this adversary criminal justice system. The idea that having one pack of lawyers and investigators saying, "You did it," and another pack saying, "We didn't," and nobody actually looking for what actually happened, nobody having an interest in investigating the truth, is a bit mistake."
"No knowledgeable student of comparative criminal justice is likely to fall victim to the notion that our is an admirable system.
It is an appalling system.
We have ten times as large a percent of our population locked up in jail by comparison with the European countries. We have sentences which are draconian. We've just had a 12 year old put in jail for life in Florida. Things of this sort are unheard of in the rest of the world.
There are many causes, but the failure of our adversary system is central, and the political nature of our prosecutorial system is also central"


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When a genial businessman is brutally bludgeoned to death in his hotel room with his own walking stick, it's up to Inspector Gerald Witherspoon's resourceful household servants to piece together the clues and point their master in the right direction.
Prolific New York Times bestselling American author Emily Brightwell (aka Cheryl Arguile) has been penning popular cosy mysteries on a regular basis for the past 24 years. Adding a novel twist to standard detective fiction, her long-running Victorian historical mystery series featuring the incisive Mrs. Jeffries and her invaluable squad of determined, below-stairs novice sleuths has gained a keen international following, with the books proving just as popular in parts of Europe and Asia.
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On an extended stay at the Wrexley Hotel while he secures funding for his consortium's coffee plantation in São Paulo from wealthy aristocrats like the Comte de Valois, the handsome, affable, middle-aged Thomas Mundy seems, on the surface, like a harmless guest. He pays his hotel and restaurant bills with cash and considerately dissuades some of the elderly guests from investing in his overseas business ventures because he doesn't want them to risk losing their savings.
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While attempting a hasty departure from his hotel, intending to catch the night train to Paris, Mundy is clubbed to death before he can pack his belongings. Despite an abundance of hotel staff and guests, there are no eyewitnesses and few clues as to the murderer's identity.
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Alas, Witherspoon is no Sherlock Holmes. Although hard-working and methodical, 'a large part of the Inspector's success was due to the enormous amount of help he received on each and every case.'
As with previous murder investigations, at the end of his long days spent interviewing guests and workers at the Wrexley Hotel, Witherspoon frequently discusses the case with his housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries, over sherry. Naturally inquisitive, Mrs. Jeffries, 'the widow of a Yorkshire policeman,' probes the inspector for details, gleans what she can from his assistant, Constable Barnes, and passes on the information to her fellow servants who then go off on undercover assignments.
Careful, smart, and sociable, Witherspoon's household staff can 'get information out of people who'd sooner spit on a policeman than talk to him.' Although sometimes overly competitive, the desire to contribute useful information when they regroup to discuss their findings helps to make Witherspoon's servants a successful unit.
Constable Barnes, aware of their sleuthing practices, is glad of their input. The dilemma for him is how to get the mass of information they collect to the inspector without revealing his sources.
With Barnes carefully 'dropping hints' to Witherspoon as to whom the inspector should interview again, and Mrs. Jeffries and her colleagues discovering evidence and coercing witnesses to come forward, there's a chance a grave injustice can be narrowly averted and the villain brought to justice.
Well-told and with an absorbing, carefully constructed mystery at its core, Mrs. Jeffries Rights a Wrong is another great addition to Emily Brightwell's robust series.
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My review of Mrs. Jeffries Rights A Wrong by Emily Brightwell (aka Cheryl Arguile) was published in the Lancashire Post on May 4, 2017, and syndicated to 25 newspapers across the UK. Archived online access to these reviews as they originally appeared, featuring my byline, can be found at these weblinks:
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Bosphorus Yacht Charter Experience with Sunrise 1 Cruise Boat
The cruise boat Sunrise 1, listed in the Bosphorus Tour rental boats category, is 21 meters long. The Sunrise 1 yacht was launched in 2010 and was renewed in 2020.
The Sunrise 1 yacht, with 3 cabins in total, offers yacht charter services in the Bosphorus daily or hourly for a maximum of 36 people. These include hourly rentals such as weddings on the boat, birthday celebrations, marriage proposals, engagement on the yacht, iftar on the boat, breakfast, business meetings and graduation celebrations on the yacht.
The boat Sunrise 1 is for rent in the Bosphorus and Princess Islands regions in Istanbul and provides hourly boat rentals to our guests with or without food. The boat Sunrise 1 has a main engine of 2x450 Hp power. Please contact us for daily or hourly rental prices for the boat Sunrise 1.


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Two more analyses of S. 510 to ponder
Yesterday, I posted comments from the Consumers Federation of America about the latest version of S.510. With luck, the Senate will vote to pass this bill in September and will reconcile its version with the House bill passed a year ago. Here are two comments based on Senator Harkins' staff analyses:
1. The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) says that the latest version of the bill includes these improvements (my emphasis):
- The amendment sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pertaining to farms that engage in value-added processing or that co-mingle product from several farms. It will provide the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with the authority to either exempt farms engaged in low or no risk processing or co-mingling activities from new regulatory requirements or to modify particular regulatory requirements for such farming operations. Included within the purview of the amendment are exemptions or flexibilities with respect to requirements within S. 510 for food safety preventative control plans and FDA on-farm inspections.
- The amendments sponsored by Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) to reduce unnecessary paperwork and excess regulation. The Bennet language pertains to both the preventative control plan and the produce standards sections of the bill. FDA is instructed to provide flexibility for small processors including on-farm processing, to minimize the burden of compliance with regulations, and to minimize the number of different standards that apply to separate foods. FDA will also be prohibited from requiring farms and other food facilities to hire consultants to write food safety plans or to identify, implement, certify or audit those plans. With respect to produce standards, FDA will also be given the discretion to develop rules for categories of foods or for mixtures of foods rather than necessarily needing to have a separate rule for each specific commodity or to regulate specific crops if the real food safety issue involved mixtures only.
- The amendment sponsored by Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) to provide for a USDA-delivered competitive grants program for food safety training for farmers, small processors and wholesalers. The training projects will prioritize small and mid-scale farms, beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers, and small food processors and wholesalers. The program will be administered by USDA's National Institute for Food and Agriculture. As is the case for all of the provisions in S. 510, funding for the bill and for this competitive grants program will happen through the annual agriculture appropriations bill process.
- The effort championed by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to strip the bill of wildlife-threatening enforcement against "animal encroachment" of farms is also in the manager's package. It will require FDA to apply sound science to any requirements that might impact wildlife and wildlife habitat on farms.
- An amendment proposed by Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to amend the traceability and recordkeeping section of the bill that will exempt food that is direct marketed from farmers to consumers or to grocery stores and exempt food that has labeling that preserves the identity of the farm that produced the food. The amendment also prevents FDA from requiring any farm from needing to keep records beyond the first point of sale when the product leaves the farm, except in the case of farms that co-mingle product from multiple farms, in which case they must also keep records one step back as well as one step forward.
2. Bill Marler provides additional information:
Here is Chairman Harkin's mark-up and section by section summary – this is the version of the bill voted out of the HELP Committee in mid-November and here is the most recently approved version as of last night.
Senator Feinstein has not released a copy of her BPA amendment — however, she is now saying it will only be baby bottles, sippy cups, baby food, and infant formula.
Here's the Senator Tester amendments as they were introduced in April (I'm sure the version they're working with now looks quite different after months of negotiations, but the principle is likely the same).
Marler also points out that only foods that are already regulated by FDA will be subject to S. 510, as its Section 403 maintains the existing firewall between FDA and USDA-regulated foods and agricultural products.
Keep reading. This is critically important legislation to help the FDA ensure food safety.


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The ZTE MF110 / MF190 is a USB modem which combines 3G+/3G with EDGE/GPRS in one compact device. It has an integrated micro-SD card reader. It can send data at speeds up to 4.5 Mbps on 3G+ networks and receive data at speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps.
Switch from CD mode to modem mode on the device
When you first plug the device, it is identified as a USB SCSI CD-ROM. You can find out the name of the device by using dmesg:
# dmesg | tail
[ 6102.172283] usb 1-5: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd [ 6102.300560] scsi24 : usb-storage 1-5:1.0 [ 6103.302591] scsi 24:0:0:0: CD-ROM ZTE USB SCSI CD-ROM 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 6103.305000] sr1: scsi-1 drive [ 6103.305422] sr 24:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
The dongle is identified this way:
$ lsusb | grep -i zte
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 19d2:0150 ZTE WCDMA Technologies MSM
The easiest way to switch to modem mode is by ejecting the CD-ROM:
$ eject /dev/sr1
After that, the led will turn off. A few seconds later, it will turn on again and it will be identified as modem by the kernel:
$ lsusb | grep -i zte
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 19d2:0124 ZTE WCDMA Technologies MSM
Disable CD mode on the device
Using a Windows machine, plug in the USB device and go through the short install wizard. Once done, close the Rogers app that starts up, then head into the Device Manager (Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager). Under the Ports section, find the COM port that's connected to the USB modem (ignore the Diagnostics mode). Connect to that COM port through Hyperterminal, found in the Accessories area of the Start Menu. Connection parameters are:
Bits per Second: 115200 Data bits: 8 Parity: None Stop bits: 1 Flow Control: None
Once connected, type the following commands:
This tells the modem not to use CD mode when it is first plugged into a computer. Now exit Hypterterminal and remove the USB modem. You are done with Windows.
Disable CD mode on the device with wvdial
First remove the usb_storage
module then run modprobe usbserial
# rmmod usb_storage # modprobe usbserial
Edit /etc/wvdial.conf
[Dialer Defaults] Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 Modem Type = Analog Modem ISDN = 0 Init1 = AT+ZOPRT=5 Init2 = AT+ZCDRUN=8
Run wvdial
, it should use those commands and fail to connect. Once it exits, unplug the stick and plug it back in and it should be seen as a modem.
Setup udev rules
Create the following udev rule:
# This is the Modem part of the card, let us load usbserial with the correct vendor and product IDs so we get our usb serial devices ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="19d2", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0124", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe usbserial vendor=0x19d2 product=0x0124", MODE="660", GROUP="network" # This is the ZeroCD part of the card, remove the usb_storage kernel module so it does not get treated like a storage device #ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="19d2", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0150", RUN+="/sbin/rmmod usb_storage" # This is the ZeroCD part of the card ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="19d2", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0150", RUN+="/usr/bin/eject /dev/sr1"
Create a wvdial configuration
Wvdial is an easy-to-use frontend to PPPd. The configuration is fairly easy to comprehend. Make sure you replace the /dev/ttyUSB2
line with the node that your USB modem is connected to, you can see that with dmesg. Save as /etc/wvdial.conf
[Dialer Defaults] ; Disable usb CD-ROM ; Init1 = AT+ZCDRUN=8 ; Enable usb CD-ROM ; Init1 = AT+ZCDRUN=9 Modem = /dev/ttyUSB2 Modem Type = Analog Modem ISDN = 0 Baud = 7200000 Dial Attempts = 3 Username = MOVISTAR Password = MOVISTAR APN = movistar.es Phone = *99***# Auto Reconnect = off Stupid Mode = 1 Init1 = AT+CPIN=YOUR PIN HERE! Init2 = ATZ Init6 = AT+CGEQMIN=1,4,64,640,64,640 Init7 = AT+CGEQREQ=1,4,64,640,64,640
Connect to the internet
Now just run wvdial
to connect:
# wvdial
If you see output reporting your PPP local and endpoint IP addresses, then it worked.
See also
- USB 3G Modem
- Thanks to the following web pages that gave me all this information: [1][dead link 2024-01-13 ⓘ][2]


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Welcome to the Carnival of MS Bloggers, a bi-weekly compendium of thoughts and experiences shared by those living with multiple sclerosis.
Emergencies, Love at First Sight, Beyond Denial, Peapod
It's been a little more than six months since Dan and my trip to Walt Disney World. My memories from that um, memorable trip are still pretty fresh. Let's see, I remember theme park rides, amazing fireworks, images of Mickey Mouse everywhere and having a great time with my family and Dan. But really what I remember most is my late-night visit to Celebration Hospital in Orlando.
To treat my MS, I take a subcutaneous injection ever day, which is supposed to lessen the frequency and severity of my Multiple Sclerosis. After giving myself injections every day for the last 12 years, I guess it was bound to happen: I had to have an incident to remember.
And remember this one I will.
It was a little later than when I usually take my shot, but we were on vacation – getting away from it all. The day was pretty packed with activities. Eating dinner, taking my shot, and crawling into bed sounded like a perfect ending to a busy Disney day.
I took my pre-filled syringe from the refrigerator, pulled off the cap, inserted the needle into my stomach, and pushed on the plunger. But the plunger didn't budge. This sometimes is typical because I've developed scar tissue from taking so many injections. And as usual, I asked Dan to push in the fluid. He pushed on the plunger, but it still didn't move.
I gave it another try and in my brilliance, I thought, "Oh, just give it a little twist." And the next thing I knew, I had a syringe in one hand, and a needle in my stomach. Understandably, I started to freak out. But I tried to stay calm, looking at Dan to fix it. I was pleading with my eyes, "Fix this," and he was looking at me with confused, "I wish I could" eyes.
Just then, he took his fingers and tried to grab the pointed metal piece and well, you know how quicksand in movies looks? That's how the needle disappeared into my belly.
Poof. It was gone.
"Oh no! Oh no! What am I going to do?" I frantically questioned.
Dan was as mystified as I was. What could we do? I tried to regain some calm and call the hotel front desk. They transferred me to safety, where I give the same story I just told you. Safety was as mystified. They told me to call paramedics, which I did. When the paramedics arrived I went through the whole story, again, and they said, "We've never heard of that. You should probably go to the hospital, and at least have an X-ray."
So off to the hospital we went. X-rays were taken. At least three times, between doctors and nurses and X-ray techs, I heard, "Wow, never heard of that before." Comforting, isn't it? By about 2 a.m., after several X-rays turned up nothing, the doctor told me that he was going to let the needle work itself out, kind of like a sliver. After all, it would be more dangerous to perform surgery to remove something they couldn't see.
And guess what I said?
"Really, hmm, I've never heard of that before." But I trusted him, and besides I just wanted to go home; home to Michigan, that is.
Because the reality is, when you live with a chronic illness like MS, you never really can get away from it all.
P.S. It really turned out to be a great trip.
P.P.S. Yep, the needle is still there
Where to start…..at the risk of sounding like a newbie at an XY Anonymous meeting…
Hi, my name is John, and my wife has MS. I'm compelled to share our story in many hopes….in hope that it can bring a tad more attention to the fight MS patients and their families go through every day, in hope that it can help others dealing with this dreaded disease, in hopes that it can help me think through the challenges we face and make the right decisions, in hopes that it can show other caregivers they aren't alone in their fears and that the cross we bear is one of love not disease, and that it's our love that pulls and pushes us forward. There are so many things I want to talk about, but first, here's our story.
It was love at first sight. I was working in a kiosk at the Golden Triangle Mall in Denton, TX one afternoon 13 years ago when this incredible girl passed by. She was wearing a camouflage t-shit that let her shoulder tattoo barely show under the sleeve, ripped up jeans, short dark brown hair, and had the most beautiful smile I had ever seen. She was smiling at me. About a half hour later she stopped by my place of work and there was the ever so awkward moment of sales clerk trying to help a customer who didn't really need help.
I kicked myself for days not getting her number.
She wouldn't get out of my head, all I could think about was this woman I saw at the mall, and my friends were definitely tired of hearing me talk about her. Little did I know she was at that same time telling her best friend she saw the guy she was going to marry. Luckily Denton, TX is a fairly small college town and it didn't take long for us to run into each other again, this time she was with someone that knew me who drug her to my kiosk and made an actual introduction. Courtney…. I now had a name to dream about along with the face.
Still no number, and I was yet kicking myself again.
You see, although I sometimes pretend otherwise, I'm really quite shy, and it wasn't until about a month or so later with the assistance of copious quantities of alcohol that I was brave enough to approach her at a bar I frequented (where she happened to be on a blind date..ha!) and got her number. I believe the line was "If I let you get away again without getting your number, I'll have to kick my own ass"……although I bet it sounded more like "Ish I vet you geet away again wishout hetting your number I'llll have to kish own ash"….I'm surprised she answered when I called. She did, and we've been together ever since.
We've had many wonderful experiences over the last 13 years, with our 7 year wedding anniversary coming up on April 13th as a reminder of one of the best. Although life was kind enough to put us in each other's paths, it isn't always kind. 2006 saw Courtney starting to experience some balance issues, which we explained away as being tired or perhaps a bit out of shape. She's a photographer you see, and if you've never shot a wedding before you don't realize the toll a wedding photographer's body goes through. I assisted as a second shooter a couple of times and was crying like a baby the next day complaining how sore I was. It seemed legit, it's a taxing profession, and her balance wouldn't get bad until towards the end of the weddings.
Well, it continued to get worse, and we couldn't explain it away anymore. She had tingling in her right hand and a bit of numbness, her right leg was showing signs of foot drop (we didn't know what that was back then), she had been experiencing bladder evacuation problems for a long time already, and the wall-walking was beginning. After two sets of MRIs (3 days apart) and EVP testing she was diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. We had her tested for heavy metal poisoning and Lyme as well, both of which came back negative. Lumbar Puncture was offered as a final confirmation of diagnosis, but she was very afraid of the procedure and we were told it wasn't necessary to clinically diagnose her (not to mention she had a wedding to shoot the day after they wanted to do the LP).
Over the last three and a half years, Courtney has slowly progressed in disability, going from wall-walking to a cane and now to a walker (which still hasn't stopped her from falling at times)…….this progression in spite of using MS drugs like Copaxone and Tysabri. She has the common MS bladder issues like urgency, not being able to fully evacuate, having to get up 5-6 times a night. Spasticity is pretty bad in her right leg, sometimes even popping up like a Pink Flamingo when she's trying to take a step and locking into that position. Lately she's been having dizzy spells many times a day along with slight slurred speech (try saying that that 5 times real fast!).
No matter the challenges we face them together. She bears the brunt of the disease, I try to make it bearable.... the best I can. I used to wonder what our life would be like without MS, now all I really care about is that we're together, and doing the best we can with the situation we've been dealt. Don't get me wrong, we're fighting this thing tooth and nail, and in the days to come I'll be sharing our current journey into CCSVI diagnosis and hopeful treatment.
Thanks for reading, and please come back……I have so much to talk about.
We Might Have Sold Our House!
by Joan of A Short in the Cord
A lovely young couple came to visit our house today.
She likes the view from the window.
Of course, they had to discuss it with their agent. Not sure if they'll want to move in.
Stay tuned!
by Joan of A Short in the Cord
A lovely young couple came to visit our house today.
She likes the view from the window.
Of course, they had to discuss it with their agent. Not sure if they'll want to move in.
Stay tuned!
What does it mean to be disabled? I received the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) nearly twenty years ago and I'm still learning.
In the early years (and many of the latter ones too) I was too scared to admit to anyone I had an incurable illness. Denial worked well for me -- like the Law of Attraction in reverse -- out of sight, out of mind, and out of my conscious reality.
But MS must have remained in my subconscious reality because its strange and mysterious symptoms continued to arrive at sporadic and inconvenient times. Like when I woke up thinking I was hungover one morning and was completely blind in one eye by noon. Or the time I was pregnant and lost vision in both eyes for several weeks. Or the day my dog died and I saw the world in duplicate through crossed eyes for the next month.
Don't even ask about my ever present clumsiness, bruises from tripping and falling over nothing, slurring my words when perfectly sober or forgetting even the simplest words and names. It helps to have a sense of humor, and I often blamed these deficiencies on being blonde.
In fact, covering up my symptoms became a source of pride. I even went back to school to become a naturopathic doctor so I could advise others about how they too could cure their "incurable" illnesses with the "right" attitude and lifestyle choices.
But then I became a lawyer.
Everything I had preached about "balance" and "stress management" went right out the window, and the endless hours writing legal briefs for corporations I cared little about (for an employer who cared less about me) made me finally admit that MS is a serious dis-ease. Many times while sitting my office the intense itching/burning in the nerves of my hands and arms made me wish I were a wolf caught in a trap so that I would at least have the option of gnawing my wounded limbs off to be free.
But sadly the only "trap" I was caught in was the snare of working for BigLaw with its lure of financial reward through endless billable hours. So my body solved the problem for me by protesting ever more loudly, and my mind finally had to admit the label "disability" really means something.
It is a humbling experience.
I reluctantly asked for (and begrudgingly received) the accommodation of a reduced hours work schedule. Four months later I was laid off.
My hope for this blog is that by sharing my thoughts and personal experiences about losing a career, fighting for disability benefits, and facing an entirely new lifestyle will encourage others facing major transitions to share their stories too.
One of my biggest obstacles and annoyances is grocery shopping. I have to admit that when it's a small order I don't mind trekking to the A & P for some things, but when I have to do a big run I get very stressed. I don't enjoy grocery shopping to begin with: all the decisions, navigating the crowded parking lot (I don't yet have a handicapped parking placard, but it's getting very tempting..), navigating the crowds in the store, trekking everywhere for items– oh my goodness! Just talking about all of it is making me tired! Worst is the lugging of heavy bags from the cart into the car and then into the house. I HATE it. I've tried to accomplish this during bad stretches with a cane in hand. UGH. I can only imagine using one of the store's scooters with the ridiculously small basket attached to the front. Nobody moves for me now as I lurch through the aisles, often trying to keep my balance and not crash into someone like what would appear be a drunken sailor. LOL. I can only imagine the added annoyance of a scooter. So the discovery of grocery store home delivery systems has been a sanity-saver for larger orders.
I've been utilizing Peapod online shopping as of late. It delivers from Stop n' Shop, which is one of my local stores. The delivery fees are reasonable: $9.95 for a $60+ order and $6.95 for a $100+ order. The website is easy to navigate and weekly specials are listed. I can also create a bare bones list of regular items that I can continually refer back to in order to save time. Other grocery delivery programs abound. Below is a small list of regional chains (the U.S.) and their programs. Some provide online shopping and home delivery while others allow you to pick up your online order from the store. For your own area of the world, consider calling or looking up local and regional stores online and learning about their online shopping / delivery programs. I find myself much more at ease because of this fantastic concept:
AUL Superstore
Homeland Delivery
Giant Food Stores
Acme Food Stores
This concludes the 59th edition of the Carnival.
The next Carnival of MS Bloggers will be hosted here on April 22, 2010. Please remember to submit a post (via email) from your blog of which you are particularly proud, or which you simply want to share, by noon on Tuesday, April 20, 2010.
Thank you.
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Junk Removal in Tampa – An Introduction
According to a 2018 research by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average American produces 4.9 pounds of junk each day. The total amount of solid garbage generated in that calendar year was 292.4 million short tonnes in the United States. According to Statista, Americans generate twice the amount of waste per capita as Japan does each year, at slightly more than 800 kilogrammes.
The average American produces 202.92 pounds of plastic waste each year, which comprises durable and non-durable plastics, plastic cups and plates, plastic trash bags, plastic bottles and jars, plastic PP, PS, HDPE, PVS, LDPE/LLDPE containers, plastic bags, shacks, wraps, and packing, and so on.
Global warming continues to accelerate, resulting in heat waves, tsunamis, floods, and forest fires that have killed hundreds of people worldwide. Climate change is a reality that is occurring continually all around us.
To mitigate the threat of escalating global warming, every resident on our planet must practise junk removal and energy conservation on renewable and non-renewable energy sources. 42 per cent of the United States' greenhouse gas emissions are generated by producing daily resources, disposing of waste, and transporting those resources, significantly more than the electricity generated in the United States. Recycling is critical in this case since it inhibits the manufacture of new materials, and so reduces energy consumption. However, with a growing population and a general lack of awareness, recycling cannot be the only option.
This is where improved garbage management and efficient junk removal come into play. Together with recycling and junk removal, we can significantly reduce pollution. A concerted effort in this direction can significantly enhance our environment and protect it from the approaching global extinction of life.
This article will discuss junk removal, the many junk removal methods, and how we can use junk removal to benefit the environment.
Junk Removal
Typically, the phrase 'junk' refers to obsolete or discarded materials that serve no purpose and have little to no economic value. The old television set in your home that you no longer use after purchasing a new one is referred to as 'junk'. While junk can sometimes be resold at a discount, it frequently contains objects that cannot be easily disposed of. Assume you're cleaning up your old basement; which container do you put your old furniture pieces or your children's toys in? Additionally, junk can comprise leftover flooring, drywall, and other sorts of construction debris.
When it comes to junk removal, the junk is not a single object but a collection of discarded items that no longer serve a purpose but for which you have no idea how or where to dispose.
Waste Management's Evolution:
In the United States, Benjamin Franklin founded the first cleaning service in 1757 and urged the populace to dig trenches to bury their garbage. It was effective at the time because wastes were generally biodegradable, i.e., material that could be digested by living bacteria or other organisms, so preventing contamination. However, the drive waned quickly, and in the 1800s, residents of Washington, D.C., began openly throwing rubbish on the streets, clogging them and threatening the development of various illnesses. Sir Edwin Chadwick, a social reformer, wrote 'The Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population in the mid-1800s. Sir Edwin argued in this study for the need for garbage disposal and management to improve public health and living conditions. England passed the 'Nuisance Removal and Disease Prevention Act of 1846′ in London four years later. The growing need for an efficient waste disposal system resulted in the first incineration plants, colloquially referred to as 'destructors.'
New York City was the first city in the United States to implement public-sector garbage management in the late 1800s. However, establishing numerous incineration plants did not resolve the issue, as people continued to dump rubbish everywhere in the early 1900s, effectively filling up waterways and highways. After the Supreme Court prohibited municipal waste from being dumped into the ocean in 1934, sanitary landfills were established. In 1937, Fresno, California, established the first sanitary suited for processing, compacting, and concealing garbage beneath the soil. By the 1950s, the Clean Air Act had restricted waste burning.
In 1965, the United States Congress passed the Solid Waste Disposal Act. President Richard Nixon signed the Protection of the Environment Act into law in 1970, bringing the recycling of obsolete objects into the spotlight.
Today, two of the world's largest landfills are located in the United States: one in Las Vegas and another in Los Angeles. Together, they process over 11,000 pounds of rubbish every day.
Various Ways of Junk Removal:
In the year 2021, the following is a full list of several methods of junk removal:
- Selling used stuff online: Craigslist is one of the largest online marketplaces for vintage and used goods, ranging from worn clothing to movie props for collectors. Clothes, electronics, furniture, musical instruments, spare parts, and books frequently resold products online.
- Gazelle is an excellent website for selling secondhand phones and other electrical products such as old CRT televisions, computer displays, UPS systems, and CPUs, as well as spare components.
- ThredUp, Poshmark, and Etsy are excellent online markets for selling gently used clothing, shoes, and accessories. Nowadays, Facebook Marketplace and Instagram are also effective platforms for selling items you no longer use but are still in good condition so that others can benefit from them. Numerous tiny enterprises have sprung up in response to the pandemic, including online thrift stores maintained via Instagram profiles.
- Facebook Marketplace is not restricted to selling vintage clothing; it can also be used to sell vintage furniture, such as an old desk that takes up the majority of your living room area or a filing cabinet that no longer fits your household aesthetic.
- Amazon is another viable option for selling your used books. Powell's Books offers both in-store and online assessments for your gently used books.
- Donating
Selling products can be a pain, as marketing is critical to sales. If you are willing to forego the additional revenue generated by reselling outdated items, you can contribute to less fortunate members of your community. Each town has its own orphanages and shelters where you can contribute gently used clothing, shoes, accessories, books, food, functional technological gadgets, and musical instruments, among other things. This procedure frees up space in your home and contributes to the development of your sense of community and coexistence.
Giving away your junk to students is another method to simplify your personal space. Students who live in dorms are the most frugal people one will ever meet. College tuition and living expenses are already prohibitively expensive, which is why college students are constantly on the lookout for freebies. You can distribute leaflets advertising 'free items' around a college campus or on dorm boards, or you can post on any internet message boards that you are a member of. Freecycle and Nextdoor are two websites where you can do the same thing.
Upcycling, often known as 'creative reuse,' transforms waste items, ineffective resources, and by-products into new materials or high-quality products. A nice example of upcycling is repurposing a work desk by changing the paint or the top cardboard rather than purchasing a new one. The internet is brimming with millions of videos demonstrating how to upcycle your goods into various products. The majority of our junk, such as outdated clothes and furniture, may be saved.
Recycling is the process of repurposing items such as paper, metal, cardboard, glass, plastic, tyres, fabrics, batteries, textiles, and electronics. Recycling should be the primary method of removing junk and waste because it benefits the environment and the community. Because landfills can only hold a finite quantity of waste, recycling is an effective strategy to reduce waste delivered to landfills each year. Additionally, the less garbage burned in incinerators, the less gas is released into the atmosphere, thus protecting various natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals. Additionally, it conserves electricity. Newspapers, aluminium cans, motor oil, vehicle bumpers, paper towels, carpeting, cereal boxes, comic books, egg cartons, glass containers, nails, steel goods, laundry detergent bottles, and garbage bags are just a few examples of everyday products made from recycled materials. Recycling also generates jobs since recycled materials must be processed, organised, and cleaned in recycling factories before being given to producers as raw materials. As a result, recycling benefits the economy by lowering the cost of goods and creating new jobs.
Hire junk removal services
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However, dissolving the junk is merely the ultimate stage; the initial step must be accomplished together. Before the breakdown stage of the process begins, we must actively remove, recycle, upcycle, and reuse our trash.
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose winning persona boosted the lackluster campaign of John McCain at last month's GOP convention, is on the ropes after a series of subpar interviews left her looking ill-informed – and some conservatives in open revolt against her. After some stumbles by Senator McCain when Wall Street fell into crisis, the Republican ticket has been losing ground and now trails in most polls.
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"This [debate] can bury any bad memories or create a whole bunch of them," says Republican pollster David Winston. "It will be very much a high-wire moment for her."
Sen. Joseph Biden (D) of Delaware, Barack Obama's running mate, faces challenges of his own. He is famously long-winded and gaffe-prone. So far, he has not uttered anything unduly damaging, but with the whole world watching, Thursday will be a big test.
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The biggest challenge of all for the 35-year Senate veteran – going up against a first-term woman governor who has struggled when she's unscripted – may be to avoid looking condescending or patronizing.
Biden has reportedly consulted with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, against whom he debated 12 times during the Democratic primaries, and with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) of California about how to debate a woman.
Their replies were not reported, but one need look no further for clues than to former New York Rep. Rick Lazio's debate against Senator Clinton during their race for the Senate in 2000. Mr. Lazio walked up to Clinton and demanded she sign a pledge to ban large donations from the race. Lazio's aggressive posture may have contributed to his defeat.
"Biden has to be strong and take on Palin, but not in a condescending way or a put-down way," says Democratic strategist Peter Fenn. "McCain was quite condescending [in last Friday's debate], and it hurt him tremendously."
Other strategists have suggested that, given Palin's recent struggles, Biden should use his debate platform mainly to go after McCain and leave it to the media to comment on any missteps by Palin. As much as the Palin phenomenon has attracted enormous public attention – and could spur unusually high TV viewership for the 9 p.m. (EST) debate at Washington University – the vast majority of voters ultimately cast their ballot based on the top of the ticket, not the running mate.
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Scoring the Thursday debate may not be as obvious as it seems. Given Palin's recent track record, she could even emerge with a victory of sorts just by appearing marginally credible.
"For Palin, we've been hammered for some time by the opposition about how insubstantial she is, how she's an 'empty-suit,' " says Mitchell McKinney, professor of communication at the University of Missouri, Columbia. "It's really created the expectation that if she just gets up on the stage and strings words together and doesn't fall out of her chair, some may go away from that thinking, 'Wow, she's not as bad as they say.'"
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PASADENA, Calif. ? The two students in Southern California had just been introduced during an experiment to test their "interpersonal chemistry." The man, a graduate student, dutifully asked the undergraduate woman what her major was.
Bogart and Bacall it was not. But Gian Gonzaga, a social psychologist, could see possibilities for this couple as he watched their recorded chat on a television screen.
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Once upon a time, finding a mate was considered too important to be entrusted to people under the influence of raging hormones. Their parents, sometimes assisted by astrologers and matchmakers, supervised courtship until customs changed in the West because of what was called the Romeo and Juliet revolution. Grown-ups, leave the kids alone.
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Another company, Perfectmatch, is using an algorithm designed by Pepper Schwartz, a sociologist at the University of Washington at Seattle. Match, which became the largest online dating service by letting people find their own partners, set up a new matchmaking service, Chemistry, using an algorithm created by Helen E.
As the matchmakers compete for customers ? and denigrate each other's methodology ? the battle has intrigued academic researchers who study the mating game. On the one hand, they are skeptical, because the algorithms and the results have not been published for peer review. But they also realize that these online companies give scientists a reounts of data and test their theories in the field. EHarmony says more than 19 million people have filled out its questionnaire.
Its algorithm was developed a decade ago by Galen Buckwalter, a psychologist who had previously been a research professor at the University of Southern California.
The result was an algorithm that is supposed to match people on 29 "core traits," like social style or emotional temperament, and "vital attributes" like relationship skills. (For details: nytimes/tierneylab.)
"We're not looking for clones, but our models emphasize similarities in personality and in values," Dr. Buckwalter said. "It's fairly common that differences can initially be appealing, but they're not so cute after two years. If you have someone who's Type A and real hard charging, put them with someone else like that. It's just much easier for people to relate if they don't have to negotiate all these differences."
Does this method actually work? In theory, thanks to its millions of customers and their fees (up to $60 a month), eHarmony has the data and resources to conduct cutting-edge research. It has an advisory board of prominent social scientists and a new laboratory with researchers lured from academia like Dr. Gonzaga, who previously worked at a marriage-research lab at U.C.L.A.
So far, except for a presentation at a psychologists' conference, the company has not produced much scientific evidence that its system works. It has started a longitudinal study comparing eHarmony couples with a control group, and Dr. Buckwalter says it is committed to publishing peer-reviewed research, but not the details of its algorithm. That secrecy may be a smart business move, but it makes eHarmony a target for scientific critics, not to mention its rivals.
In the battle of the matchmakers, Chemistry has been running commercials faulting eHarmony for refusing to match gay couples (eHarmony says it can't because its algorithm is based on data from heterosexuals), and eHarmony asked the Better Business Bureau to stop Chemistry from claiming its algorithm had been scientifically validated. The bureau concurred that there was not enough evidence, and Chemistry agreed to stop advertising that Dr. Fisher's method was based on "the latest science of attraction."
Dr. Fisher now says the ruling against her last year made sense because her algorithm at that time was still a work in progress as she correlated sociological and psychological measures, as well as indicators linked to chemical systems in the brain. But now, she said, she has the evidence from Chemistry users to validate the method, and she plans to publish it along with the details of the algorithm.
"I believe in transparency," she said, taking a dig at eHarmony. "I want to share my data so that I will get peer review."
Until outside scientists have a good look at the numbers, no one can know how effective any of these algorithms are, but one thing is already clear. People aren't so good at picking their own mates online. Researchers who studied online dating found that the customers typically ended up going out with fewer than 1 percent of the people whose profiles they studied, and that those dates often ended up being huge letdowns. The people make up impossible shopping lists for what they want in a partner, says Eli Finkel, a psychologist who studies dating at Northwestern University's Relationships Lab.
"They think they know what they want," Dr. Finkel said. "But meeting somebody who possesses the characteristics they claim are so important is much less inspiring than they would have predicted."
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