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Skip to comments.Leftist bloggers cyber bully pollster for calling Romney momentum early
Posted on 10/21/2012 7:27:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Left-wing bloggers and activists declared war on an independent pollster, who dared to pick up on Romneys positive momentum, both nationally and in the states.
I dont run fake polls, said Douglas J. Kaplan, who owns Winter Springs, Fla.-based Gravis Marketing, and who has been polling and releasing polls on the presidential election.
It is ridiculous, he said. We have no power. We put out polls.
They are trying to shut me down because they think Im a pro-Romney pollster, he said. They said Karl Rove was funding me, I wish I knew Karl Rove.
In an Oct. 17 post, the blogger grantcart posted the following on DemocraticUnderground.com:
This is not a victimless crime. Anybody who bought into Gravis Marketing and their status as a pollster is going to have their reputations tarnished. Bloggers on the right that embraced every poll (and hundreds did) will be tarnished with the brush of being gullible .There is a straight line from Nixons plumbers to James OKeefe. It appears, members of the jury, that we found a potential new OKeefe in the making. For that reason we are not going to simply discredit Gravis Marketing the polling company but we are going to use the disinfectant of transparency to expose Douglas Kaplan and all of his known associates. We are not going to stop when we have made our point. We are not going to stop when we have achieved absolute agreement by all observers that we have found a low level con trying to cheapen our political process.
Carmen Russell-Sluchansky, the host of the Washington-based radio show Capitol Affairs, said the war on Kaplan came as a complete surprise. Kaplan has been a regular guest on the program, which in addition to being carried by other stations, is also carried on Voice of Russia radio service.
Kaplan is not a part of any Republican or conservative scheme to manipulate polls or news about polls, said Russell-Sluchansky, who is a professional political consultant and pollster, who works exclusively on campaigns for progressive Democrats. Kaplan and Russell-Sluchkansky have partnered on election polling this cycle.
Kaplan said the attacks against him are personal and not just against his business.
In addition to smears online, for a 15-minute period Oct. 15, thousands of emails and comments were sent to his website in an attempt to shut down the site, he said.
Listen here to a voice mail left on Kaplans machine.
Kaplan owns an auto-call facility and created a get-out-the-vote software program used by both Democrats and Republicans, he said.
The pollster entered into his current occupation when national name-brand pollsters contracted him to make their calls, he said. Looking at their mark-up on his calls, he decided to ask his own questionsmaking the transition from wholesale to retail.
I hired my own statistician and started putting out my own polls, he said.
Some of the first polls were not great, he said.
Kaplan said as he learned the polling business from scratch, he recognized that he needed help. He now has a political adviser who works in Washington, along with other personnel to help facilitate the polls.
Business was good and in addition to polling for clients, his polls became part of the rolling average of polls used by Real Clear Politics and were quoted by the Huffington Post and Nate Silver in The New York Times FiveThirtyEight column, he said.
While Kaplan is targeted as a gear in the GOP machine, one of his clients is the very partisan former Democratic congressman Alan M. Grayson, who is campaigning to return to Capitol Hill.
Everything was fine until September, when a Kaplan poll showed an advantage to Romney in Virginia right after the Democratic National Convention, he said.
All of a sudden, the left-wing, they just went out to destroy me, he said.
Remember, Gravis was making the move from wholesale to retail, so nobody really knew who they were, except the pollsters and consultants who hired them.
The first serious mention of Gravis as a Republican front operation came Sept. 7 on the financial news blog AngryBear.com. The posting was by Robert, who was expanding on previous posts about polling and how polls by Republican-leaning pollsters need to be calibrated to remove the house effect.
Robert posted a link to the Aug. 29 FiveThirtyEight column, where Silver points out a Republican bias in Gravis polls. Silvers case in point is the Gravis Ohio poll that showed Obamas lead at less than one full percentage point. Taking into account that Gravis at the time showed leads for Romney in Florida, Colorado and Missouri beyond what the consensus of other polls showed, Silver argued that Obamas one point advantage translated into a four or five point lead. Thus, Mr. Obamas chances of winning Ohio rose somewhat based on this survey.
It is worth pointing out that the headline on Silvers Oct. 19 column was: After Romney Gains, Should Obama Concede Florida? and the while most October polls of Ohio show Obama with a one to four-point lead, the Gravis poll for Oct. 18-19 has the Buckeye State tied.
Until the progressive activists got involved, the online discussion about Gravis was within the context of methods and talk of a GOP bias was just house effect that all pollsters deal with to one degree or another.
On the progressive website DemocraticUnderground.com, DemocratSinceBirth posted the following Sept. 27 in the article This Gravis Marketing Clown Is A Real Piece Of Work: He puts out a bunch of Republican leaning polls in the swing states and then puts out a poll for Washington that shows the president with a huge lead. Of course Washington isnt a swing state and has never been seriously contested by Romney.
Then, again on DU, grantcarts post Oct. 7 began an attack with an expose. First, he compared the stock photo of a professional-looking man in his 40s to Kaplans own photo. Then, he pointed out that Kaplan had just showed up on the scene and had no professional or academic credentials to be a pollster.
grantcart also dug up records of business disputes between Kaplan and other companies, including Disney, who apparently sued him for using the word magic in the name of his travel promotion company.
Beyond the muckracking, there was a shift in tone with grantcart from the discussion with AngryBear, where Kaplan and a few others hashed out some of their differences in a comments section of the posting.
So Nate, Huffington Post, Real Clear Politics have all been punked, grantcart wrote.
Doug probably hasnt made any money off of it yet but next time around the Republicans will be happy to throw some bucks his way to get some good PR numbers, he said.
I know Gravis is a fraud, he said.
The media can pick up this work and get a story out of it, he said. Now Doug Kaplan is going to scream like a stuck pig.
The DU posts were cross-posted at TheDailyKos.com.
grantcart posted at DU again Oct. 15 and the next day TheDailyKos.com ran its own summary of the case: UPDATED Gravis Marketing Exposed AND Eviscerated by AnnetteK.
AnnetteK includes new information including a series of IRS liens for payroll taxes from Kaplans previous businesses.
For those new to the story, AnnetteK explained that Kaplan runs Gravis Marketing, which she said publishes tilted poll results. This has helped to cause the narrative since the 1st debate in Romneys direction.
It does not end.
Here are examples of tweets sent by Kaplans cyberbullies:
@JedStryke: .@GravisMarketing THE FIRST BOMBSHELL UNWINDING THE WEB OF ILLICIT ACTIVITES BY AMERICAS GREATEST POLLSTER http://t.co/5BDLuvNz #Obama2012
@JedStryke: .@GravisMarketing You are being investigated and someones even been to your office: http://t.co/m1UlJs0f @demunderground #GOP #tcot #Obama
@JedStryke: .@GravisMarketing you know youre being disected on @demunderground, right? http://t.co/NNiby6Bi #GOP2012 #Obama2012 #Dems #GOP
@DKElections: #FL09 Why is Dem Alan Grayson using sketchball Republican marketing firm Gravis to conduct his polling? http://t.co/1AHoZScG
@galacticasitrep: Daily Kos: UPDATED Gravis Marketing Exposed AND Eviscerated http://t.co/o3JgugA0 via @dailykos
@OleHippieChick: Why is #Gravis credible, Nate? @fivethirtyeight Daily Kos: Gravis Marketing Exposed AND Eviscerated http://t.co/x8FEkwfU via @dailykos
@pollbuster: Gravis Marketing Exposed AND Eviscerated http://t.co/uo5rNiFg via @dailykos
@RosannaLopez101: @fivethirtyeight Nate, one potential problem in your forecast: you keep including Gravis Marketing polls. They are a GOP-front organization.
@josephowusu: list of fraudulent rightwing pollsters: Suffolk, Rasmussen, Gravis Marketing, WeAskAmerica, ARG, Susquehanna, McLaughlin/ACU (R).
Now, fast forward to Oct. 19, when grantcart posted Kaplans mugshots from 1998 and 2002 for drunk driving. The posting also included the Oct. 27, 2011 mugshot of Alan Giandinieri, an account executive with Gravis, for drug possession.
1998 Mugshot of Douglas J. Kaplan posted at DemocraticUnderground.com
Kaplan said he has seen nothing like it.
They said my poll was faked, thats been debunked, he said. They called my family members, my friendspeople I havent talked to in years. Theyre trying to destroy my friends, any of my associationsits unbelievable.
Understandably, Kaplan said he did not want to get into the details of his past transgressions.
The IRS liens have been addressed and he said he is making regular payments, which have reduced his obligation to less than 5 percent of the original amount.
For the rest, he only said that he was younger and made mistakes. I take care of my family and I had businesses that failed.
Having said all that, the fact remains that the Gravis polls pointed out trends before other polls, he said.
There were two tracks for the attacks on Kaplan and Gravis Marketing. The first was personal. This amounted to public record searches for problems Kaplan and his employees had with law enforcement, other businesses and the IRS. While certainly awkward, nothing in the fire hose of embarrassing information the attackers doused on him helped anyone better understand his polls.
Kaplan could be both a drunk driver in 1998 and still have good pollspolls that caught the countrys pro-Romney move a month before it showed up in other polls.
The second line of attack is on the methods and legitimacy of the polls.
Kaplan said himself he has no training or experience in polling. But, you do not have to know how to make meatballs to own a restaurant.
The most direct criticism of Gravis polls was posted Oct. 14 on the polling blog logarchism.com by dawolf. In the post, dawolf points out a Sept. 29 to 30 Florida poll. The poll surveyed 914 likely voters, so each respondent was worth .1094 percent of the total, dawolf said. Yet, on page 12 of the polls crosstabs, there is a result entry: .07 percent.
Next, at 4:47 p.m. Oct. 14 dawolf sent his posting to Princetons Prof. Sam Wang, who runs the Princeton Election Consortium website:
Sam this is something I put together. I believe its solid, but would welcome your thoughts (and, of course, if it is fraudulent, it stops you using them )
Wang replied at 4:59 p.m.: I actually think theyre on the level. They could get their results by bad weighting.
Michael Weiss, the editor-in-chief of logarchism.com, promised readers his own review of Gravis Marketing polls based on his own interview with Kaplan. It has not been posted as of our deadline.
Kaplan said based on his conversation with Weiss, the editor will validate that the polls are real.
The key difference in Gravis polls is the methodology, he said. Pollsters have to choose a model for their poll that best anticipates the demographics of this years voter turnout.
Most are using a combination of turnout from 2004 and 2008, the last two presidential elections, he said. Gravis uses 2010 and 2008, which is unusual because mid-term elections tend to have lower overall turnout.
Despite the attacks, Kaplan said Silver continues to quote his polls, including the Oct. 19 national Gravis poll that showed Romney up by two points.
At Real Clear Politics they told me it was part of the game, he said. RCP continues to use Gravis polls, too.
Most people losing a competition will resort to name-calling and ad hominem attacks.
These people are sick. Imagine the threats Gallup is receiving right now?
>> Imagine the threats Gallup is receiving right now?
Frankly, it's more fun to visualize the headaches and depression of the left the morning after the election, when all the +Romney polls turn out to have been true.
In obama, these RATs thought that they had a combo of FDR & JFK. They thought they were unbeatable. So they are going insane now.
Those haters aren't worth spit.
Look at what they did to Sarah Palin and she bested all of them.
The argument doesn't even make sense. If he's trying to get nice fat contracts from the GOP next time around to publish rigged polls, he needs to publish polls this time that are super accurate or slightly Dem.
If it turns out that he really is an overly Republican firm, no Republican is going to want to hire him because his polls will only be taken seriously when they show BAD numbers for the GOP. Kinda like how we ignore PPP unless they have bad news for O, when we say, "Holy cow, even PPP has Obama losing Florida!"
Thus, if Gravis is intentionally rigging their polls for future marketing purposes, the target most likely would be the Dems (who could then point to his polls and say, "look, in 2012, he proved he had a R+2 house effect and despite that, he STILL has our guy up 110%!).
Of course, in reality, like pretty much every other independent, non-media poll, he's just trying out a different model that makes sense on paper.
[I'd point to Zogby as a perfect example. He developed a new likely voter screen that gave him "bad" results until Election Day. Then everyone realized his likely voter screen was RIGHT and he could use that reputation to get clients to hire him for push polls. But, he didn't do the push polls until AFTER he got the good reputation. That model won't work anymore for Zogby because now his reputation is shot. He HAD to do the push polls AFTER he had some great legit polls to showcase.]
DUmmie Alert!
If Obama is doing so great, why are the DUmmies so angry? Could it be that they just can't face up to the horrible truth. After Nov. 6 there will be a BIG call for mental health professionals.
The next couple of weeks the DUmmies will become even NUttier than normal because the polls will be FORCED to reflect reality. A lot of the polls now are static and ridiculously show no big change after the first debate. However, since they don't want to end up with egg on their faces they will now be forced to reflect polling reality. It will be FUn to watch the DUmmies.
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"Most are using a combination of turnout from 2004 and 2008, the last two presidential elections, he said. Gravis uses 2010 and 2008, which is unusual because mid-term elections tend to have lower overall turnout."
This is rather interesting. I wouldn't think using a mid-term election would be a good idea, as I would expect them in general to be more +GOP than presidential election, and particularly so when a Dem is president.
It seems to me that 2000 and 2004 would be good guesses as to turnout. 2008 seems like an outlier.
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Am overly nice ill do pretty much do anything if asked nicely. I never really mind givjng someone a hand as long as it doesn't effect me or slow me down.. which it never does at work. But today a few of my friend's &my girlfriend the none drunk driver showed up to my job drunk as hell give me money and asked if i could get them something to eat and i argeed being who i am. One of my co friend who kind of a friend got alil mad and felt like they were taken advtantage of me and could have come to get the food themselfs. people always ask me if i need help at work but i always say no since i get my work done 6x faster then any one while helping every one else.. pretty much anyone they have asked to try taking over to do my job it takes them 3-5 hours longer which makes no sense to me. I get all of my work done in 1 hour amd 30min flat everyday
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Lol no the drunk people were my friends... my girlfriend come to vist me at work and brought our friends over for the ride.
Ohhh, then, yeah, I might've done the same. Gotcha..
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- Maldives is a small island state in the Indian Ocean, about 1,000 kilometres southwest of Sri Lanka. A middle-income country with a small population inhabiting some 200 of its 1,000 islands, Maldives relies on its tourism and fishery sectors for economic growth. About 70% of its population is involved in the fishery sector. Maldives gained full political independence from the UK in 1965, and became a republic rather than a constitutional monarchy in 1968.
- With the country endowed with a unique natural environment, the tourism sector accounts for about one-third of Maldives GDP and 20% of its employment. In order to diversify, the country is developing a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the hope of enhancing its off-port shipping, IT and financial services resources. Nevertheless, this low-lying country is already facing threats from rising sea levels and climate change amid continuing concerns over global warming.
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- Maldives acceded to the WTO in 1995, and it is also a member country of the regional South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA). The average applied tariff rate of Maldives is about 20%.
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When my father passed away he left a will and my brother is the executor. My brother gave me a copy of the will and it says the estate is to be split 50/50. My brother and I are the only next of kin. He did not file it into probate/will says he does not have to. He did not split the estate. He kept everything of my fathers. Even the proceeds of selling my father's home which had no mortgage. I have no documents to back up what my father owned just pictures and my brother has everything incl. all documents/personal items/stock info/checking acct info/ he sold what he didnt want. So how would I go about persuing this matter and is it possible? I have no contact with my brother. It has been 2 yrs but I have not money to hire an atty. Is it possible to do it on my own?
Sounds like your brother stole from the estate and from you. You cannot possibly do this on your own, so you must retain an estates litigation attorney. You need to do this right away since the longer you wait the less chance you have to recover what is rightfully yours.
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There are several possibilities, based on your question. I can't tell without further checking what your rights might be. You should contact an attorney immediately. This is not the kind of thing you should try to do on your own.
First, your brother would not normally be able to sell the house without probate if it was still in your dad's name. This suggests that your father may have transferred it to your brother prior to dying.
Your attorney should be able to get the information about stocks, bonds and bank accounts after suit is filed. He will also be able to get information before filing suit about the way the home was sold.
Your time left to do anythig is very short. Please get started by contacting an attorney right away.
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West Monroe, Louisiana
West Monroe is a city on the Ouachita River in Louisiana. Located in Ouachita Parish, West Monroe has a population of about 13,200. West Monroe has developed since the early 19th century, first agriculturally and then industrially, thanks to close ties with its "twin city" across the river, Monroe. Today, West Monroe offers a mix of industry and culture in a scenic setting. Notable employers include Voith-Sulzer, Louisiana Plastics, and Bancroft Bags. West Monroe is also home to the 1022nd Engineer Company of the 225th Engineer Brigade, which is headquartered at Camp Beauregard.
Settlement began in West Monroe in the late 18th century, but substantial growth began with the establishment of a ferry service from Monroe in 1815. Cotton farms, sheds and warehouse quickly sprung up along the river. In 1851, one such property became the town of Trenton. Just south of Trenton, the community of Cotton Port was developing at the Texas Railroad terminus. In 1883, with the railroad bridge completed, the towns were ready to incorporate; as the name Cotton Port was already registered, they became West Monroe. During the 20th century, papermaking became as dominant an industry as cotton was in the 18th century. The Brown Paper Mill was established in 1923 as the first American kraft paper mill. Despite severe flooding in 1927 and 1932, the mill was successful, and produced corrugated Victory Board boxes for the military in World War II. In 1955, the Brown mill was purchased by Olin Mathieson Chemical Company as part of its Forest Products Division, which became Olinkraft in 1967. The mill changed hands several more times before being acquired by Riverwood International, and is currently operated by parent company Graphic Packing Holding Company. Georgia Pacific also has a manufacturing facility in West Monroe.
West Monroe's history of manufacturing and construction make asbestos exposure a cause of concern for workers and their loved ones. Individuals exposed to asbestos-containing materials may be at risk for mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases. If you or a loved one were diagnosed with mesothelioma in West Monroe, you may also benefit from seeking the advice of a mesothelioma lawyer.
Asbestos Exposure at Jobsites in West Monroe
The Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance has compiled information obtained from a number of sources to identify the following jobsites in West Monroe where asbestos exposure was known to have occurred. These sites are listed below.
- Brown Paper Mill Company
- C.A. Zilker
- Georgia-Pacific Corporation
- International Paper
- Olau Paper Mill
- Olin Matheison Chemical
- Olin Paper Mill
- Olinkraft, Inc.
- Paper Mill
- Pulp Mill
- Riverwood International Paper Mill
- Riverwood Paper Mill
- Tennessee Gas Transmission Company
Filing an Asbestos Lawsuit in West Monroe, Louisiana
Don't lose your rights! If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma and were exposed to asbestos in Louisiana, you may be entitled to compensation. You may have limited time to file a claim. If you have been diagnosed with mesothelioma and have a pathology report in hand to support that diagnosis, you are eligible for financial assistance.
Asbestos Related News in Louisiana
Asbestos Found in New Orleans Courthouse
Asbestos was recently discovered in the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse, causing it to shut down while contractors remove it. Read more at Mesothelioma.com.
Avondale Shipyard Being Sued By Former Employee For Asbestos-Related Disease
Former employee of ten years at Avondale Shipyard is suing the company for damages from asbestos exposure, which has led to silicosis disease.


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Rosalie and Emmett's story: Left for dead by a vicious and unloving fiancé, will Rosalie ever find what she so desperately needs?
Rated M for a reason. Sexual in nature. Strong language. You have been warned.
Disclaimer: Obviously, I own nothing. If I did, I would be rich.
Song for the Chapter: "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead
I remembered that first morning. It was to be the morning of my wedding. I should have been in my mother's home, fretting over my wedding dress, my hair, the caterers, how much Royce had drunk the night before, the flowers. I should have been walking down the aisle to a string quartet playing the Wedding March. It should have been the beginning of my life as a King.
Instead, that morning, a pale face peered down at me from above, searching my eyes for signs of life. Others moved in the room though I could not see them.
I could feel the sheets beneath me grate over my skin like a course sandpaper. The linen was soaked through with perspiration and an acrid tang held firm in the air. Body sweat, urine, vomit, possibly. All were thickly present and noticeable to my nose.
Moments before, the pain of the previous days (or had it lasted months) seemed to lessen for the slightest moment. Then the world, stopped. Like my chest had been gouged with a rusty ice pick, it seemed to deflate, momentarily, before violently exploding out.
Now, in the darkened room that held the world as I knew it, I lay unmoving.
"You might as well see if everything is working," a voice spoke to my left. I swiveled my head slowly, afraid of the pain that I had been so used to feeling in recent times. None came. Not even the twinge of a sprained muscle.
"Where am …" the question caught in my throat. Edward Cullen sat before me on a couch of black leather.
Edward Cullen, the bane of my existence, watched me. Was it possible that I was in hell? All that I had endured could have easily been an initiation into the ranks of the damned.
With a smug, holier-than-thou attitude, Edward Cullen sat, leaning back, hands clasped behind his head, one ankle propped upon the knee of the other. "Good morning, Rosalie," he greeted with an edge of annoyance.
"Where am I?" I began, again. Movement seemed to come easier the less effort I put into it. I pulled myself upright on the bed. Around me, I heard the linen shift and chafe, sounding like so many thousands of drill bits boring into sheets of rock. Looking to the sound of the noise, I noticed stains, some older and some more freshly made.
"Did I do that?" I wondered touching the bright crimson stain by the pillow. A supple pool of liquid had gathered and leeched through the top sheet and into the mattress, feathering outward like a star burst, though irregular in shape.
A chuckle came from the couch where Edward still sat, splayed out as if waiting for something.
"Miss Hale, I'd like to welcome you to the Cullen summer house," he said, his voice dropping with sarcasm. "Wolfeboro, New Hampshire." I shot him a glance wondering why he was mocking me. Did he expect me to believe that we were no longer in Rochester but 400 miles away on the banks of Lake Winnipesauke?
He smirked as if I had voiced my question. The hairs at the back of my neck stood on end. Something was wrong. Something was very, very wrong. Where was my family? Where were my brothers? Where was Royce?
Edward's posture noticeably stiffened as the image of my finance, my lover, popped before my eyes. "Royce," I whispered, as my body became rigid. Flashes of a dark sky, a rain slicked street, a group of men holding uncorked champagne bottles danced in my mind as the visible world about me spun.
"Carlisle," Edward called out, rushing to the side of bed I lay on. "Come quick and bring some valium."
The carousel-like movement of the room gained momentum. Flashes of memories popped and sizzled before my closed eyes. Hands, all over my face, my chest, my … A dry sob wracked my chest.
"Hurry," someone shouted and as arms encircled me. Royce's face taunted me, and I felt them again. Hands, all over me, hold me down, tearing off my blouse, pulling the pins from my hair. Royce's words, slurred under the influence of a bottle and a half of booze.
"CARLISLE! DO SOMETHING!" the voice in my ear shouted. And my hands shot from their mooring at my side, slapping, slashing, balling into tight fists and pounding those arms that held me.
I felt someone else walk in the room. "Hold her, Edward. She needs you," a soft feminine voice spoke. "Carlisle can do nothing for her. She must ride this out."
The arms, I realized were Edward's, wrapped around me more forcefully, holding me firm against him. "No, please," I begged. I needed to be free. I needed to run. Arms held me fast while imaginary hands roamed the length of my torso.
My movement became sharper, more violent. I needed to be free. Why couldn't these people understand?
"I can't hold her much longer. She's far too strong," his voice raised above my thoughts.
"Newborn," a feminine voice intoned as if stating a fact.
"Rosalie," a whispered plea reached through the wall of haze my mind had thrown up in defense. "Rosalie, I need you to stop. You are safe."
Safe. It was such a relative term. I had felt safe at home. I had felt safe with Royce. I had been wrong. So, so wrong.
Edward's arms around me. I tried to focus on them and them alone.
"That's it," he said. "Now, breathe deep and clear your mind."
I did.
Images of the deserted street fled me to be replaced with the memory of the boy who was currently holding me. Edward walking through the park the edged my parents' property, his head was held high like a prince, his feet finding a sure and measured footing, his clothing, his manner, all immaculate.
I hated him.
He was everything I wanted, everything I envied, everything I would never be.
The squeak of the bed woke me from the memory. Edward had released me and was standing with a woman.
"You remember me…" he said, half statement, half question. He searched my features as if I were an open book for him to peruse. "We don't usually remember after …"
"We?" I interrupted.
"Where are my manners? Rosalie Hale. This is Esme Cullen," Edward motioned towards the woman to his side.
Even through the windowless darkness of the room, I could see her. Swaddled in a simple shift, she glowed. Esme Cullen. She must be the reclusive sister that I had heard about. She was truly beautiful. A beauty I could never hope for. It was a singular beauty that oozed out of her pores. And what disgusted me the most was she had no idea.
"Miss Cullen," I nodded my head and extended my hand in a reluctant greeting. Something was off here.
She smiled and moved to my side. "Mrs. Cullen, dear. But please, call me Esme," she asked.
"Missus?" I asked in confusion. "I thought you were Edward's sister?"
She smiled. Devastatingly perfect lips drew back over the most gorgeous teeth I had ever seen. Edward laughed.
"I am and a mother, of sorts."
"I remember her better than my own mother. She is all I've known," Edward admitted as the two watched each other. The smile they shared was that of a parent and a child not brother and sister. It was warm and inviting. It was a smile I'd never given my mother. A smile I'd never received in return.
Until, Esme turned to me. The smile remained. "Rosalie, my husband, Carlisle, will be here momentarily, but we need to talk. We need to explain … this," she finished, gesturing around her to the darkened room.
"Yes," I said crossing my arms and standing from the bed. My legs screamed as I stood. Not in pain but as if every cell, every fiber of my being was suddenly awake.
"Stretch," Edward commanded. "It will ease the tension in your muscles."
I paused and thought about his words. Without hesitation, I adopted second position and shift my weight to the balls of my feet. As if an instructor had barked "revelé stretch" in my ear, my arms lifted above my head, my calves and thighs pushing the floor downward. Finally, my well toned legs sighed. Years of forced ballet lessons had certainly paid off.
"A ballerina," Esme sighed. There it was. In that breath of a comment, I found it. Esme was jealous. A smile crossed my face and just as quickly guilt surged within me erasing all other emotions. It tightened into a knot in my stomach.
"For years, my mom thought I should have lessons. She liked me to be … on display," I admitted.
Esme nodded. Behind her in the door way, I caught a flurry of movement. Edward and Esme swiveled.
"Rosalie, Carlisle," Edward introduced.
In the doorway, poised like a model straight out of a catalogue, stood a devastatingly handsome man. Most captivating of all were his eyes. Golden, blazing eyes watched me from their home in the ivory hued face of the man. "Good morning, Miss Hale," he said. The fluidity and breathy tone of his voice added to the lilting British accent.
"Would you like to explain to me why I've been kidnapped and tortured?" I asked, propping my hands on my hips. Slender before, they felt even more voluptuous.
"I wondered when you would notice," Edward chuckled.
"Notice what?" I asked.
"Miss Hale …"
"Rosalie, please," I insisted.
"Well, yes. Rosalie, then," Carlisle began again. "I have some explaining to do."
I waited, watching him as he paced back and forth. Edward and Esme must have slipped from the room when I wasn't watching for it was not until now that I noticed that they were missing.
"Rosalie, you see, I have to make my apologies to you. Three days past, I was walking home from my office at the clinic. I was thinking about … dinner … when I heard the low grunts of men. A group of them, in fact. But above all that, I could hear the dying cries of a woman. Over and over again, all she said was 'no' …'"
"Was she alright?" I interrupted.
"As I approached, the men had already wandered off. There were empty champagne bottles smashed about the girl. I worried that I was already too late when I noticed shards of glass embedded in her skin, driven deep under it. Her lip was spilt open and oozing. She had been punched so hard that the men had broken her orbital bone, and her eye hung precariously loose. She was missing teeth, and those that she had, were clipped or broken at the gum line. I can't even begin to explain what they did to the rest of her body. But though everything, she never stopped speaking. With each raspy, blood filled gasp, she managed to say "no … no … please stop…"
He paused, gauging my reaction to his tale. I listened, staring at my hands perfectly manicured, waiting to hear the inhale of his breath. When it came, the sharp intake drew my attention back to his face.
"Please stop … Royce."
Numbness crept through my body. "Royce? Mu …" I caught myself and exhaled the breath I had been holding. "My Royce? My Royce hurt someo…."
I never finished my sentence. The look in Carlisle's eye told me everything. The hands on my body, the hard blows to my back, the slickly sweet breath in my face, everything had been real. It wasn't a dream.
"My God," I heard a male voice bellow from outside of the room.
"Edward, privacy please," Carlisle chastised, in a quiet yet soothing voice. "Can you take Esme out for a while? Perhaps a walk?"
With the close of an exterior door, Carlisle turned his angelic face back to me. "There's more. You see, medically, there was nothing I could do for her … err, you. Even I am not that good a doctor. Medically, you were just bidding your time until death found you. I thought … I guess I supposed …"
He trailed off.
"How am I here? How am I alive?" I asked, sincerely confused.
"That is the thing, isn't it? You aren't technically … alive," he answered, ashamedly. I tried to catch his eye but he didn't raise his gaze from my feet where they had dropped at Edward's outburst.
"I'm confused," I admitted.
"Yes, well …" he paused. "As it is, Rosalie, we are … vampires. Which would … make you a vampire, as well."
Was he serious? Did he expect me to believe this tripe? "Ok, then why are Edward and Esme outside IN THE SUN?!" I shouted.
He smiled, taking my anger in stride. "Where did you hear that? Been reading Bram Stoker again? Silly Irishman. I always knew that book would become the bane of my existence. No, Rosalie. We can go outside in the sun. It doesn't hurt us. Our skin is like marble or diamond and because of the composition of it we tend to … um, sparkle like polished glass."
"So, you expect me to believe all this? Just to take your word for it?" All he was telling me sounded like a load of bull. I had been kidnapped. That was the only explanation.
He reached for me, slowly, moving with the grace of a skilled surgeon. "I'm just going to take your hand, if you'll allow me?"
I nodded and his hand continued towards me. Grasping mine, he moved towards my chest, finding a final destination at my breast plate. "Now, can you feel that?"
I waited. I felt nothing, and said as much. "Exactly," he smiled. "Where is your heart beat?"
His hand left mine which still clasped at my chest. Nothing. There was no beat beneath my palm. The reality of it slammed into me like the attack of a wild beast, vicious, swift, and stunning in the same breath.
"I'm a vampire?"
He nodded.
"I'm a vampire," I repeated.
"Rosalie, I'm sorry. I really am. There was no other choice," Carlisle's eyes filled with remorse but no moisture glistened on his eye lashes.
"No other choice? You could have let me die. You could have left me there. You could have …"
His eyes, tainted with the black edging of black, glowed gold. "Would you rather I had? I do regret taking the choice from you. This is true, but I do not regret changing you."
"You changed me." I did not ask. I accused.
"Yes," he answered, unrepentant.
"I see," I paused to think.
"Carlisle?" I heard a door close once more and Esme and Edward appeared in the doorway. "Will you be joining me for … dinner?"
"She knows, dear," Carlisle explained taking Esme by the hand. "Do you feel the thirst yet? Like a scratching at the back of your throat? Something you might have written off as a sore throat or a cold just a week ago?"
I nodded. My throat was parched and dry. The saliva pooling on my tongue did nothing to alleviate it.
"Venom," Edward stated.
"Excuse me?" I asked.
"It's not saliva. It's venom."
"How do you …" I began.
"I can hear you, them," he said pointing to his 'parents.' "Everyone. Constant voices. Your every thought. I guess you would call me telepathic. Though, I like to call myself 'cursed.'" He cracked a smile.
"You see some of us have special powers. It's not as common as you would think, but there are a few. Want to hunt?"
"Now or later," Edward answered. "Whenever you are comfortable."
"Yeah," I paused trying to take everything in. I'm not sure at what point in the morning my mind had disconnected from my emotions but I was desperate to process everything. "I just … I just want to be alone for a while. Is that alright?"
"Would you like to see your room?" he asked, genuine interest in his face.
"This isn't it?" I asked, gesturing to the small room which I had awoken in. The damp taint of bodily fluids hung heavy in the air.
"No," he answered, curling his nose against the smell. "Unless you'd like it to be?"
"Most definitely not!" I cursed. A smile broke out across his face.
Edward extended his hand. Soft and warm, I took it. Weeks ago, I would have baulked at his touch. But in this foreign world that I had been thrown into, I clung to the familiar.
His lip curled back. "Do I repulse you so much that even now you find it hard to be near me?" he asked as we began up a flight of stairs.
"No," I answered honestly. My words fell like I drank a truth serum. I knew that even if I didn't speak them, he would "hear" them nonetheless. "It's just that … you always thought you were better than me."
My words halted him in his steps in a room that had to be a kitchen. Mid-morning light streamed in through two large bay windows flanking a scrub board table. He turned to me, staring right into my mind with his flickering ochre eyes. "Yes," he confessed. "I did."
I nodded, knowing I had sized him up right from the beginning.
"Did you notice that I used the past tense? I did. Now, I know better."
I watched him shifting, changing positions as he stood. He looked nervous, conspicuously nervous.
"You know?" I asked.
Ashamed he looked away, "yes."
"How much?" I had to know. What had he seen in my head?
"Everything, even the parts you won't remember?"
I walked to kitchen sink and turned the spigot on cold. The water ran over my skin but I could not feel the temperature. "I remember everything," I whispered.
Edward sighed. "Believe me, Rosalie. You can't have remembered anything. The pain from the change erases all but the most indelible human memories."
I turned in a snarl of teeth to face the boy before me. The sun glinted off his porcelain skin, glowed in his bronze hair, and reflected in the granite surfaces around us.
"I remember everything," I roared. "Every touch. Every slap. EVERYTHING!"
Using my new found knowledge of his mind-reading skills, I shot my memories. Unlike a movie, closer to a slideshow, Edward saw the whole brutal attack from my perspective, felt the different sets of hands slide under my dress, smelled the liquor on their breath, tasted the blood on my lips, and heard the grunts and the blows of pavement on flesh.
He stumbled backwards, grasping the wrap-around countertop. "I saw before but I didn't think you knew. I didn't think you'd remember," he babbled.
In a blink, he rushed forward, taking my hand in his, and pressing his arms around me in an embrace. Like someone had flicked a switch into the "on" position, electricity charged through my brain as my emotions caught up with me.
"Oh GOD, Edward," my body shuttered with dry heaves against his. "He tried to kill me. He let them kill me."
Edward remained silent allowing me my moment of insanity. His response was to tighten his arms around me.
I screamed, crying out the Lord's name, over and over again. In my rage and grief, I wracked my brain, trying to recall a name to call out, someone to hold in my thoughts while I sobbed. Oddly, the vision of Vera's son stuck in my head, his black curly hair unruly and wild as he played on his mother's lap. No one was as precious to me as Vera's son was to her. Still, I could think of no one to comfort me. I had no one.
"You have me," Edward said. "You have Esme and Carlisle. They will love you like a child of their own blood."
I gasped, short of breath from sobbing. "And you?"
"I'll always be here for you, Rosalie," he said, stroking his boy's hand over my hair. It felt good to be soothed, to be tied to someone.
"Shower?" I asked.
"Yes," he said, pulling away from me. "Your bedroom is upstairs."
I followed him up a second flight of steps. At the top, we turned right. "This is the master bedroom," Edward said, gesturing to the large room to the left.
We walked on. "This is my room," he explained, pointing to a closed oak door. "And this is yours."
I nodded at my own door in acceptance.
At the far end of the hallway, Edward stopped before a closet, removed two fluffy yellow towels, and handed them to me.
We walked on and stopped before an open door with a cross hanging above the frame.
"What's that?" I asked, pointing to the wooden icon.
"Carlisle's legacy," Edward answered, matter-of-factly. I nodded.
"Can I go in there?" I couldn't help but wonder if the cross would keep a vampire out of a room.
Edward laughed. "Watch," he instructed. He stepped inside the blue tiled room and then out again. "In, out. In, out. In, out," he repeated with each movement.
I looked inside the room without stepping in. It was smaller than the private bath I had had at hom … in Rochester.
"This will be your home," Edward said, reading my thoughts. "If you want it to be. If you can accommodate our lifestyles, you shall always be welcomed with open arms."
"Lifestyle? There is a subculture to vampirism?" I asked with a smirk.
"Now, you believe us?" he said smirking right back at me. "Yes, we, Carlisle, Esme, and I, don't hunt as regular vampires do. One of the few things humans have gotten right about vampires is that they are our main food source."
I sighed. I knew it would come to this. I would be a monster like the books I had read.
"No. You won't. We are 'vegetarians'," he said with a slight chuckle.
"Vege-what?" I asked.
"Vegetarians. If you were a human, you'd only eat vegetables, no animals."
"No meat?" I asked. I had heard about vegetarians in other towns but I'd never met one.
"If you were a human," he corrected. "Being that meat is a huge portion of their meals, we equate humans to meat," he said pausing.
"Then, as vegetarians, you eat …?" I waited for his answer.
"Drink … we drink from animals. It's a moral choice and one which you can decide upon on your own. We will not think any less of you if you do not choose to follow our ways. It's your prerogative. So, think about it."
I blinked trying to take in the ethical and moral dilemmas the choice offered me.
"I'm not going to lie to you. You are going to want to drink from humans. You will salivate at their smell. More than likely, you will have to be held back. We will be there, though. I promise. We will be there for you," Edward finished, his slight hand resting on my own.
"Thank you," I said with sincerity and Edward turned to walk off.
"You're welcome," he answered. "If you need anything, just call out."
I took the towels and placed them on the closed lid of the toilet. Turning on the tap in the shower, warm mist began to fill the air. My dress, stiff with dried blood, sweat and excrement, dropped from my frame. I pulled off my stockings, ripped and bloodied, throwing them, along with my dress, panties and bra, into the rubbish bin.
Pulling back the cloth curtain, I stepped into the stream. Different from the cold water of the kitchen tap, it felt good against my skin which was parch and tight over my bones. At my feet, water colored with the run of from my body, pooled at the drain.
I scrubbed at my hair, figuring that cleaning from the top down would be the most logical step. Matting fell loose as the sticky adhesive of dried blood sloughed away with the suds of the shampoo that I found under the sink. I watched as the tresses between my slender fingers turned from burnt umber to its golden blonde. As soon as it was dry, it would curl and shine.
I rubbed my hands down my shoulders and over my arms, trying to grate the grime free with sheer force of friction. Down the planes of my body, I noticed an obvious change in what I was feeling.
Firm before, my body could easily be called glorious now. Tight stomach muscles rolled upward to the pert rosy buds of my breasts. Creamy skin followed south, as well, to the lighter hairs that disappeared between my thighs. I allowed my fingers to roam over my body, searching for any dirt, any speck of the violation that might remain. The cleaning became ritualistic and cathartic.
The flick of my fingers against my skin was magnified. I felt every pore open to the steam and inhale the soothing fragrance of the soap I scoured across my flesh. I wondered if I would ever truly come clean.
After what seemed an eternity, I stepped out of the tub and began drying off my body. A movement to my right drew my attention. Above the sink, there was a face that I almost recognized.
Ghostly pale, the apparition was surprised to see me standing in front of her, completely naked. She glanced over my body, while I took in hers. She was beautiful and unreal. Jealously, immediately, reared its ugly head and I turned to look away. She mimicked my actions. A hand reached up, touched the china doll skin of her face and moved to push the sparkling golden hair away from her vibrant red eyes.
I reached out and touched the mirrored looking glass. She followed suit.
It was me. The gloriously beautiful woman in the looking glass was me. Royce had tried to take everything from me and had succeeded. His one failure was this: he hadn't taken away my beauty.
I rubbed the towel against my face watching the mirror image of me copying and I smiled. I thought of Royce and let the rage build deep in the pit of my stomach. It turned over and multiplied with every passing second. Thoughts of my family waiting in Rochester, the life I would never lead built up and threatened to spew forth like an erupting volcano. Royce had taken away my world, my future, my life.
So help me, I'd see to it that the last thing he saw before he died would be my beautiful face.


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Discussion in 'Locker Room' started by Jonathan, Jan 16, 2013.
For those that might not have seen them all.
How long did it take you to do this? Lol.
You don't even know
Is it just me or is Google down?
It's just you. Google never goes down.
It was down for like 2 minutes while I was searching for Jeff Hardy for this facebook pic. Strange. Back up now.
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So Easy Tuna Noodle Casserole
READY IN: 55mins
Recipe by ratherbeswimmin
This one is very nearly like the way my mom used to make TNC. Using Ruffles potato chips is a must.
Top Review by tara_stahl
Really yummy.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 1⁄2 cups egg noodles (or macaroni, fusilli, or penne)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1⁄2 cup chopped onion
- 1 (10 3/4 ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- black pepper
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1 (6 ounce) can albacore tuna in water, drained and flaked
- 1 cup potato chips, crushed (Ruffles)
Directions See How It's Made
- Prepare noodles by following the package directions (make sure to season the water with a little salt); drain and set aside.
- Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat.
- Add in the onion and stir/saute 2-3 minutes or until soft.
- Whisk in the mushroom soup, milk, and lemon juice.
- Season to taste with pepper; stir and cook about 4 minutes or until sauce is smooth, thickened slightly , and bubbling; remove pan from heat.
- Add the noodles, frozen peas, and tuna to the mushroom sauce; stir to combine.
- Tranfer mixture to a greased 2 quart casserole; smooth top with a rubber spatula.
- Scatter the potato chips evenly over the top.
- Bake in a 425° oven for 20-25 minutes or until bubbly and the potato chips turn golden brown.