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Army Girlfriend
my boyfriend left for the army two months ago. i have seen him once since then after a 7 hour journey. I miss him so much and i'm starting to make up reasons to fight with him so it's not so hard when i don't see him.
All my girlfriends are seeing people and it gets really lonely when i'm the one in on my own on a saturday night.
to be honest, i dont see how our relationship can progress properly from here. i'm going to university next year and it will be even harder.
I'm just putting this out there in the hope that people who feel the same will comment and share their stories
Dont fight with him!! He's freaking out just as much as you girl, don't worry. If you want it to work it will bottom line. The army life is not an easy one, but it helps to imagine your future with him, once all the craziness is over. For now, just try and be thankful for the times that you get to talk to him and be supportive because it not only will make him feel better, but it'll make you feel better too. Good luck!
It's a harsh reality. Things do get better over time as he will be able to keep in touch with you. Advice? If you love him and are serious, marriage is the way to go as you will be stationed with him on or off post (BAH housing) which is very accomadating. There are many perks to marriage in military life. Free or close to free housing, free dental, medical, and resources offered by DOD to help you find employment. Hope this helps as I was in the Army too.
Out of nine months together, my soldier and i have only spent about three of those nine months together. We won't see each other for another three months, he is worth the wait. He will come back to me, and if two people want to make it work they will. You will figure it out, it gets lonely but it's possible. Believe me it's possible.
My boyfriend just got dropped off to go to Basic Training today. I'm already missing him like Crazy. Before he left, he left me some of his things...he told me it's so I know without a doubt in my mind that he will be back for me, no matter what. Earlier in the month of october we had a huge fight and we broke up for a week. i realized it was because i was having trouble dealing with how close his ship date was getting to. we got back together because if he shipped out in the middle of us fighting i knew that this relationship wouldn't work...I want it to work...so I'll wait...and deal with the lonliness until he returns...because He is worth the wait.
I'm going through the same thing, stay strong I'm sure he will be back for two weeks for Christmas!
totally, girl...it's worth the wait :( but I'll be sad again when he leaves :(((
I know I think about that too but just relax he probably misses you more than you Miss him because he cant talk to anyone!
Girl, I know how hard a military relationship is, but you have to understand that this is his job. & In the end it is so worth it! If you need to talk about anything I'm here!
I'm definitely in the same boat as you. My boyfriend just got transferred to Fort Bliss. He can talk everyday, but its been a month since I've seen him and it will still be another month until he comes home. I totally understand how you want to pick fights with him, but its not worth it, it just hurts your relationship so much more. Saturday nights suck, especially when he goes out with all his single friends to the bar, and you're the one stuck home, but you learn to get through it.... If your second guessing making it work now, you have to make a decision, is he what you want, or is it not worth it, I know I will never love someone more than I love my boyfriend, so just make sure you know what you want before you hurt him... and the whole college thing, I also know how you feel, I'm moving to Chicago in the fall to go to school and I don't know how long I'll be able to attend there because were planning to get married and he gets deployed sometime this winter. :/ Let me know if you want to talk, just reply! [:
i understand what you are saying, it is hard and i as well am going off to university next year. me and my boyfriend have been together 3 and a half years and this has been the hardest thing i have ever had to go threw but i know it is what makes him happy and i would do anything for him to be happy and be able to see the smile on his face, you also need to do whats best for you, if your not happy you cant keep going on pretending
AWWWWWWW sweetie! i know this post is old but i wanted to say im sorry ur goin through that i know how painful it is! the imporant thing to keep in mind is u will see him! the ONLY thing ur missin out on by not being single is shallow thing that in the future ull most likely regret.
I am going to college this fall and my fiancee is overseas in iraq. i have 8 years of college ahead of me and he has 4 more years in the military left. we started our relationship in the military and that's all we've known. yes it is hard but you learn to deal. i was the same way abt starting fighting but it makes it easier when you don't. just breathe. learn to find your closest friends and explain to them how you feel. i would be nothing without my soldier and my bestfriend beside me. my bestfriend and i spend nearly 5 days out of the week together and when we're not she's checking on me. that makes it easier. surround yourself with positive people. just don't give up. they need us as bad as america needs them. just remember to breathe.
Hey I'm new to this site and I am feeling the exact same way. It hard I live in florida and everything is so spread out and everyone lives so far away from me and ALL my friends are in a relationship too so i'll be stuck alone.. it sucks but it's not worth to fight him if you love him just enjoy the moments that you talk dont take that for granted. So many people go through this and make it. Don't be discouraged just remember you have something special thats worth the fight cuz its not permanent! Just try and keep busy with little things to distract you. Hang in there!
I feel you about going to college next year ! Im doing the same, and we dont even know if hell be stationed near me :/ But starting fights is no bueno, trust me. Just be happy for him, and strong for him whenever y'all get to talk <3
i get ya.I was gonna actually have a talk with my bf about where he sees this going.I ended up not having that talk because if he had any doubts he would have brought somthing up to me.Hes in south carolina and im in illinois,he goes to arizona in about a month.i plan trips to see him even though I will be going to college.I love him enough to give this all a try.

my friends are supportive but they dont get what its like to have a bf in the army.its hard to talk to those who dont know what its like.

whenever i see a couple all hugging and kissing i get down because I would give anything to just hold my bf hand and know hes there by my side.

its not gonna be easy for you,i wont lie.your gonna think about if being together is the right thing but just think of the times with him and how you felt then.you just need to think of any time you were with him and how that felt.ask yourself then,do i want to let that feeling go? stay positive.dont let go,dont give up.he will need you.
Im going through a similar situation. I dated joe back in feb and we stoppd seeing each becuase he wanted to get his life back together. So we stopped talking to each other up until his birthday aug 16 th, when sent him birthday wishes. From feb until aug there wasnt a moment that i didnt think about him or what would have happend if we stayed together. It was like fate for us to be together again after so loong and since then we've hit it off. I completly feel for him and he has for me but hes leaving oct 21 for basic :(. Hes questionable about our relationship becuase he will be gone for so long. i couldn't imagein my life with anyone else, and feels the same way. What do I do?
My boyfriend just got deployed to Egypt. He left on the plane 3 hours ago and I'm already going crazy. He comes back in 10 months. Which isn't bad, but of course being a girl sucks, because you start feeling lonely. But we will all make it! It's worth it! =D
omg! i no how you feel. my boyfriend went to bootcamp almost 4 months ago. i havent seen him since then. i hear from him sometimes but for a short time. i dont see how its going to work with me here and him there. its like i dont have a boyfriend. im always alone when everyone it out with there guys. its so hard!
omg! i no how you feel. my boyfriend went to bootcamp almost 4 months ago. i havent seen him since then. i hear from him sometimes but for a short time. i dont see how its going to work with me here and him there. its like i dont have a boyfriend. im always alone when everyone it out with there guys. its so hard!
so i am having that same problem my friends all want me to go out and have fun.....but theres only so much i can do you know...i mean right now im lucky enough he has his phone but hes also 6 hours behind me i often find myself making up things to fight about
Honestly..

The "military girlfriend" role isnt for every one..

I wanna be like everyone else and say "dont give up" and everything but in the end it sounds as if you have already made up your mind... in a way...

By that I mean if you were REALLY drawn to him, yeah its tough, but you rather fight than say "I don't think I can do it"..

In the end you really need to do whats best for the both of you. You arent the first and certainly not the last. Its just one of those things you have to power through. Just because of distance and your going to school, babe thats the story of most of our lives.. mine at least.. Some of these ladies are forced to raise kids on their own but they manage..

So as they say, strength behind the strong..

If you want it dear, you can do it. TRUST.

If you dont, then well like I said, you already know your own answer.
hey, everything will work out. it takes effort and trust. i have been away from him since november its now august. i have 25 days till i see him for the first time in 10 months. i know that sometimes you feel like the third wheel, it happens to me all the time. just use this to become independant and really find yourself. read books, get a dog and find comfort in your friends. you will find the strength to "carry on". my best wishes to you and all of you guys
i am in the exact same boat. i am going to college in the fall and i have another 42 days till i see him again, but that is only for a day. the hardest part has to be not knowing if i will hear from him, if he has sent me mail, if he is okay.
girl listen.. im an army girlfriend.. im only 17 but thats okay.. i know what love it. not everyone is made to be a soldiers girlfriend.. or wife. it is hard.. ive gone now 10days without him... and its getten eaiser and eaiser by the minute cause i know.. each minute/day/hour/week gone.... just makes it that much closer till ill be in his arms again :) its gonna be hard.. your gonna wanna give up but its not worth it.. not everygirl.. can and will sit back and wait.. knowning it could be weeks/months/and maybe even a year before you talk to him or see him again.. not every girl can sit back and be the strong one.. the one who gives the support and not everygirl can sit back knowing they can get the MIA call.. or even the death call. its hard being an army wife/ army girlfriend but its a big deal!!! you have to remember.. hes serving the country you life in.. and he's not doing it alone.. he's got someone back at home giving his support.. giving him the reason to fight... its not just him babe, its you too. :) yah... you'll be sad to see couples.. but.. its worth the wait. only true love can face deployment u can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you need to talk ill be here :)
i feel ya.. my boyfriend left only a month ago, & it's been by far the hardest month of my life. All my friends are so tied up in their boyfriends & when i go out with them i'm always the third wheel.. it's so hard for me. But i hope after boot camp it'll become easier. If you want you can email me & we can talk more
Hey Girls! My boyfriend left for basic training a month ago. It is very reassuring to read all of your posts for I think we all have felt/are feeling the same way as you are feeling!

Although I am going thru the same thing the way I am handling this is by keeping myself occupied or hanging out with my girls. Although it really stinks...its a great feeling when you receive a letter/phone call. Try to treasure those moments and (as I've heard from many people) it does get better!

If you ever need to vent you can also email me as well!! It will all be okay! :0)
I am an Army girlfriend and my boyfriend leaves for Army basic training at Ft. Bragg on june 4th. Then from Ft. Bragg he is going to Arkansas for his Air Traffic Control Schooling. How long that will be i don't know. It is hard for me . People don't understand that i feel scared and worried about him constantly
i'm really new to this site, but i just wanted to say hold strong. i dont know if your boy is still gone, but mine is. i know its incredibly hard but it gets better. and when you do see him, it makes you love him even more. and when you get those 3 minute phone calls, remember that he could have called anyone, and he decided to call you. think of the small things, they make the distance seem smaller. good luck!
i totally understand what u r going through its normal. when they r away its so hard and ur mind is going to run away sometimes. talking to or comapring ur relationship with some1 not in the millitary is never a good idea these girls simply dont understand

u gotta b positive bc u know if he was home he woould b spending time with u try to find a hobby that u can share together. my bf n i took an interest in the constellations and when i do get to talk to him we try to fnd them together on the phone or in letters and it makes that distance seem a little shorter.

never give up he is doing something amazing that few have the heart to do. b proud and support him

he needs u more than u know

i hope it works out :)
I completely know how you feel but he won't be gone forever. And it's going to be hard for him to come home. Civilian life is completely different from military life. It's a huge shock to the system. Hang in there girl you can do it.
dont give up i know that you feel like no one understands what you are going through. i know that it hurts to be away from him. im away from mine and i wish that i can feel his arms around me and hold me like he does. but you will see him again and that day will be the greatest day of your life. stay in contact with him and let him know you will always be there for him
dont give up i know its hard ive been an army fiancee for about 6 months and it was hard at first but it will get easier i promise you
Stay strong hunnie xoxo
hey, please dont give up.

Sometimes it feels as though your completly alone and noone else can understand the pain you feel when your away from him.

You might not be happy with the situation at the moment but the feeling that cant possibly be described when u see him again by far outways how down u feel at the moment. Just stay strong, keep busy, arrange girlie nights and keep in tuch with him and I promise ull be fine xxx
Hang in there girl im not a army girlfriend im a marine wife and my husband has been deployed two months after we got married our whole first year of marriage and the last two years of our relationship have been spent in seperate states it doesnt get easier but if its ment to be it will find a way it may feel like ur all alone but truley ur not there are many wives from all branches going through the same thing ur going through it will all work out in the end just keep ur head up and stay busy it will pass soon enough
i know how you feel, it may seem hard at the moment but i bet that when he gets back that he missed you every day, every hour, every minute, every second and you guys will be as close as ever when he gets back so don't give up :)
my husband is in the army and it took a long while to get used to, but now i would not have it any other way him being away keeps our love alive and you can keep in contact via emails and phone calls. it is worse when they first join but it does get better i promise they say it takes a special kind of woman to be a squaddie wife gf hang in there and good luck x
Then you'd better vote for Obama so your man can come home alive and well, and soon.
Hey hang in there. My husband and I were just dateing when he left for his first tour in Iraq. I understand what you are feeling. We got through by emailing and IMing. Phone calls were hard to come by in 2004 over there. Remember the good times. Its just as hard on them being gone eventhough they are usually so busy they cannot thing about anything. Just support your man and if ya need to vent and talk I am here.
Hey:) My name is Erin and I know the feeling well... My boyfriend of 4 years joined the army after he graduated college last year... It was quite the jolt, since we're both young (he's 26 I'm 22) and we'd been together for so long, I find it hard to deal with him just up and leaving me...

He was gone for a full 6 months of basic training and OCS... About two-thirds of the way through it, we had a week that I picked a fight each time we spoke...

It broke my heart because I knew I didn't WaNt to fight with him...

Where is your boyfriend?
Don't give up! I know exactly how you feel my b/f left for basic in April and its been very hard but it does get easier..just try not to fight and don't worry about everyone going out on Saturdays, go out with a group of girls every once in awhile and have fun that way! And as for going off to college (I'm going through the exact same thing here too) just remember that you wouldn't see him every day while you were at college anyway and that he is worth the wait! And remember we are all here for you to talk to!
i really like ur advice! its soo true!
yes it's hard to be alone. but if your meant to be then you'll get through it. i'm going through the same thing but i know that i wouldn't change it for the world because i love this man and he's the only one for me. you just need a good support group of people who know what your going through, it really helps. i'm here if ya need me
I know how you feel staying in while all your friends go out! Or even, going out and still feeling alone!

Hang in there!

If what you have is meaningful, it's worth anything you will go through.

How can one fun night match a lifetime of true love?

Your relationship will develop, but on a different track than most people experience. It's full of rough times, but you'll have the most powerful high times ever! I promise!

I've only been an army girlfriend for about five months, but I can tell you... I rarely look back. Send me an e-mail if you need any help! Take care!
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I loved all those presents. But the one Christmas present I remember most fondly was the electric guitar I got in 8th grade. Oh man, was that an awesome present. I guess my lust for an electric guitar began in 6th grade. I discovered music and became a budding audiophile. Favorite bands? The Beatles and Oasis (yeah, Oasis.). In 7th grade my friends and I wanted to start a band. I needed a guitar.
I asked for a guitar that year, but Santa said no. It was devastating and only fed my hunger for one. I remember that for an entire year I would go to the music shop a few times a month to look at guitars. My longing for a guitar was so great that I was excited to get this lame inflatable gag guitar at a carnival because then I could practice fingering guitar chords.
Finally, after a year of waiting, Christmas morning arrived. I walked out to the living room where Santa dropped off our booty. Perched on my "present couch" (each of my siblings had a couch that Santa would drop stuff off on) was a Peavey sunburst guitar with accompanying Peavey amp. It was a glorious sight to behold.
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On October 18th we covered the grand store opening of South Moon Under. Our roving photographers took charge on the floor to capture all of the excitement presented by Westchester Magazine. The evening included cocktails, a DJ and even sweet treats! Additionally there was a stylist on deck from denim brand Citizens of Humanity in order to help you pick out your perfect pair of jeans. The first fifty guests received gift bags filled with all kinds of goodies and two lucky winners got to go home with a free pair of Citizens of Humanity jeans! Overall this was a fun and refreshing event to photograph. The music was hot, the drinks were flowing and the people were beautiful. Everyone had a GREAT time. Check out some pics at the gallery below and be sure to stop by South Moon Under if you are in need of new jeans or accessories. Also take a look at the November issue of Westchester Magazine to see our latest ad!
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No matter when you are traveling to the Disneyland Resort–summer, winter, spring or fall–it is important to be prepared, especially if you will have little ones with you. This FREE download comes with four different one-page lists – a Baby, Toddler, Child (this is a new one), and Adult list and is broken down into the categories: Clothes, Toiletries, Traveling, Eating, Sleeping, Electronics (for adults) and Disneyland. To make it even more specific, I made separate lists for what I would pack if I was driving to Disneyland and what I would pack if I was flying, you'll see the difference in the "Traveling" part of the list.
Click on the link below for the travel option that suits you and print however many you need! I tried to leave a few blank lines in each categories for anything else you may need to add to your list!
Packing Tips:
- Start packing a week early: This gives me plenty of time to see what I need and do the wash.
- Make a separate packing list for each person, keep it with each person's pile.
- Pack shoes and toiletries in separate bags/suitcases, if that's an option: I'm always paranoid about shoes getting clothes dirty or smelly, or toiletries exploding on everything.
- Pack food and snacks in a shoe box that can be thrown away: To keep it from turning into crumbs.
- Pack electronics cords separately in small plastic baggies, and combine them all into a large baggie: To keep them from getting tangled, organized, and prevent accidental water damage.
- Make a scanned copy of my ID, credit card, and insurance cards to keep in a separate location: In case something should happen to my wallet. (Word of advice: Don't leave all of your cards on the scanner when you go! Can you say airport nightmare?)
- The day before I leave, check the weather and re-evaluate: Take out anything unnecessary.
- Tuck extra plastic baggies, shopping bags, and garbage bags in every crevice of my luggage: They always come in handy whether it's for collecting trash, an emergency puker, containing a diaper explosion, holding dirty clothes, bringing back more stuff than you planned on, keeping accessories dry on Grizzly River Run, or making your own poncho for Splash Mountain.
In case you were curious, here is the original post from a few years ago!
P.S. Have you seen this free countdown app by Disneyland Inside Out? So cute! I secretly check it everyday!


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Come tomorrow, we wouldn't be surprised if General Motors posts a first quarter loss. That's far from last year's estimates that new CEO Mary Barra would bring home for 2014 a record $10 billion profit.
Just as losses continue to mount up in recovering Europe and the company faces new challenges in Russia, Australia, Asia and South America, in February came the scandalous recall of almost 2.6 million cars linked to the ignition switch defect that caused 13 deaths and at least 30 accidents with injury.
That's enough to prompt the majority of analysts to seriously downgrade their earnings estimates for General Motors. Some of them even predict GM will have its worst quarter since Q4 in 2009, when the automaker was fresh out of bankruptcy.
"It's certainly been a trying 100 days" since Barra started on Jan. 15, said Brian Johnson, an industry analyst with Barclays Plc. "Since the IPO, GM has executed well in many areas, but overall nowhere near as strong as our admittedly high expectations," Jonas wrote in a note. "There's just no other way to put it — we were off by a country mile."
Besides the mounting difficulties in many markets – which prompted GM in January to say it expected "modestly" improved adjusted earnings before interest and taxes – in just three months the total tally of recalled vehicles has mounted to almost 7 million units.
Now, for the scandalous 2.6 million cars recalled in relation to the ignition switch defect, GM is under investigation from the US Congress, federal safety regulators like the NHTSA and the Justice Department.
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Buenos Aires (Jul. 7)
Anti-Semitic posters, which call for the expulsion of the Jews from Argentina have been found posted on bill-boards in the Jewish section of Buenos Aires.
"The Jews have insulted the honor of the Argentine woman; they do not respect the Argentine laws; Jews should not be tolerated in our schools and universities and should be expelled from the country," the posters declare. They are signed by "The Sons of the People," a mysterious organization which some people here link with the anti-Semitic student group which some weeks ago posted a placard with "Kill the Jews" as its slogan.
The Independent Socialist Deputy Bezhinski, who is himself a Jew, has called upon the police department to investigate the origin of the anti-Semitic posters and to punish the guilty. The Socialist newspaper, "La Vanguardia," in an editorial voices a strong protest against the anti-Semites. Other newspapers of Buenos Aires have ignored the entire incident.
The Jews of Buenos Aires are not over-excited at the appearance of these posters, having as they do full confidence in the democratic spirit of the Argentine people and in the effectiveness of Argentine laws.


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NY House Tour: Design on a Dime Vignettes
Name: Various Talented Interior Designers
Location: Design on a Dime Benefit
Size: a 120 square foot temporary booth
Years lived in: 1 weekend
Rather than a tour through one house, today's post offers a voyeur's peek into 25 different "homes." Top interior designers from around the country were given the chance to design a room using furniture from the Housing Works warehouse....
It's a thrift store fantasy shopping spree, a clean slate, a short deadline all under a watchful eye. Behold the products of the designers' labors of love. Design on a Dime is Housing Works' annual benefit for people living with AIDS.
Get inspired, get jealous, take notes, be impressed! If these designers can create such greatness in a couple of months with a warehouse full of stuff people gave away, there is no stopping you from taking on the world ....or at least your dining room.


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Jodi Lyn O'Keefe to Practice Medicine on The Vampire Diaries Season 6Matt Richenthal at . Comments
Another day, another new face added to the cast of The Vampire Diaries Season 6.
Following the news that Colin Ferguson will join The CW drama as the mysterious head of a local militia, Marco James will come on board as a medical student, Entertainment Weekly now confirms that Jodi Lyn O'Keefe will also appear on multiple episodes.
Look for the actress (Prison Break, Hit the Floor) to portray a demanding doctor at the university hospital.
The character will be especially hard on her students and will first show up on The Vampire Diaries Season 6 premiere.
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Seatbelt scandal
As few as one in ten teenagers here are wearing seat belts on school buses and unless the trend changes a tragedy involving a school bus could happen on Donegal's roads, it has been warned.
Garda spot checks are being carried out to highlight the problem and the Donegal Road Safety Working Group has warned the possibility of withdrawing bus passes from students who don't wear seat belts could happen.
The legal responsibility for the wearing of seat belts lies with the vehicle driver when carrying children but Donegal County Council, garda, the Donegal VEC and Bus ireann are involved in a joint effort to tackle the problem.
Five school girls died and 46 were injured in a bus accident in Co. Meath in 2005 and since then school buses were involved in two serious accidents in Donegal where students have narrowly avoided serious injury. After one of the accidents garda expressed concern about the large number of school children that were not wearing seat belts on the bus.
The Donegal Road Donegal Safety Working Group is planning a survey of the number of children who wear seatbelts on school buses in Donegal.
Donegal County Council Road Safety Officer Eamonn Brown says there are no official figures on children wearing seat belts on school buses.
"We would guess that it is about ten per cent and even that is being optimistic," he said.
"It's not fair and we don't expect it to be the driver's responsibility to be enforcing it," he said. "The potential on a school bus for injuries does not bear thinking about and over the years we have had a number collisions involving school buses in service. The potential is always there for students on a bus to be seriously injured. If you look at the eight fatalities in Inishowen being the worst road tragedy nationally - well given the capacity of some of the buses we could very easily have something like that again."
Withdrawing bus passes is an option," he said. "Education is the main tool but there is the potential for the passes to be withdrawn but it is probably not the road we want to do down at the moment and we would want to use the carrot rather than the stick. But that option is there in the future if education fails."
Head of the Garda Traffic Corps in Donegal, Inspector Michael Harrison, said: "We have to remember, we have had accidents involving school buses in this county and it is something we are very conscious of. A huge onus is put on the driver and we are very sympathetic to that. If you have an accident on a bus - if a bus goes off the road - the consequences are dreadful as we have seen from the accident in Meath. We are only doing this to keep them alive."
Acting CEO of the Donegal VEC, Mary Ann Kane, said the problem is that teenagers don't like wearing seat belts on school buses.
"It is not seen as cool in a lot of cases for that age group. We have been trying to get the views of young people as to what would make it more acceptable for them to be seen wearing a seat belt. We have had a few close shaves (with accidents) but we know it is about changing a culture and that is going to take time."


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Yay! Site views are getting there and I'm considering starting SMCT, which is a competition I've been wanting to hold in my blog for a while now but lacked the views..
This needs lots of participation from lots of people (voting polls and nominations, etc.) so I need to know how many people will be participating? it's not official participation, but I need to know how many will be looking at my blog and participating all through the competition.
If you're thinking of participating in SMCT because you like shoujo manga or clamp shounen manga (which i will allow), please reply to this post!


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Jun 18 2015
Bruce Returns to The Space Show Friday June 19
It's a pleasure to announce that I'm returning to The Space Show, hosted by Dr. David Livingston on Friday, June 19, 2015 at 9:30 am PDT.
On Friday we'll explore the increasingly compelling evidence that we're rapidly approaching a new, international renaissance in space. Long-term trends, as well as current directions in international space activities, macroeconomics, and geopolitics, point toward a new, international, Apollo-level space age that's right around the corner.
We're currently experiencing the often disorienting economic and global challenges of a 1960s-style "critical state" that previously stimulated President John F. Kennedy to give birth to the 1st human spaceflight to the Moon. All indicators suggest another transformative JFK-style decade with unprecedented activities in space and on Earth is in our near-term future.


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I'm writing this at 1 a.m. and am completely exhausted.
Yesterday evening, the sound of my seven-year-old screaming outside launched me out my front door in my socks. I ran towards him in the park, heart pounding. "I hit Kyle by accident!" he screamed. "I hit him in the head with my golf club."
I kept running, my son Kyle's body ahead on the ground. I braced myself: Would he be conscious? Would his teeth be scattered all around him? Would the side of his head be smashed in?
Kyle was lying on the grass screaming and holding his head. I pulled back his hand briefly – blood poured everywhere. I pulled him to his feet and walked him quickly to the house. Grabbed a towel and told him to hold it. We had to get to the hospital fast.
Luckily, my girlfriend was at my house – her and her kids had come over for lasagna. I drove as fast as I could to the ER, all the while making Kyle talk to me so he wouldn't lose consciousness.
Long story short – Kyle needed four stitches in his head behind his ear. The doctor had to glue his ear back together again too. They ran a CAT scan on him to check for internal bleeding. And the images came back with two contusions and a fracture to his skull.
Thus continued a night from hell. Kyle needed to be monitored. Nurses came in every hour to wake him, check his lucidity, and administer antibiotics.
Around lunch time today the neorosurgical team came in to assess, Kyle seemed perfectly fine – he was hungry and talkative and had no symptoms of brain trauma. The team said they'd reviewed the X-rays from last night – and they didn't see signs of a fracture or hemorrhaging. The ER doctor had been overly cautious.
A few hours later, Kyle was released.
So the main crisis has passed. All is going to be OK…and this here single mom needs to sleep something fierce. But first, a very very big thanks to my girlfriend Tracy and neighbors who were my angels during this emergency. I am so full of gratitude for so many things right now – that, and complete and utter relief.


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Documentary Of The Week: Japan Risks Fading Away
Written by John Lounsbury
Econintersect: Eighteen months ago we had a Documentary of the Week asking the question: Will the Japanese Become Extinct? The video in that article is no longer available to the public so we are posting a new one.
Graph from Japan Pensions Industry Database.
With a plummeting birth rate and a rapidly aging population, Japan is facing an unprecedented population collapse with vast economic, social and political implications. This sixteen and a half minute video examines the dangers facing the nation and the apparent lack of action to address the problems that exist now and appear to be growing unchecked. Japan's population peaked in 2007 at 127.771 million and has declined every year since. The projected population for 2100 is about 47 million, declining at a rate of about 2% per year. If that were to continue to 2200 the entire population of Japan would be a little more than 6 million, and by 2300, a little more than 800,000.
In recent weeks Japan has showed the first sytemic approach to address the demographic problem. See here and here. Immigrants for many occupations are likely to follow. Sufficient immigration could stabilize the country's population.
In the meantime, the Japanese are struggling with an increasingly aged population.
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TACHIGUISHI RETSUDEN is an upcoming Japanese animated film by Mamoru Oshii (GHOST IN THE SHELL) and Production IG. It is yet another example of the type of innovative animated features that are being produced in seemingly every corner of the world nowadays except the United States. I was really impressed with the film trailer. The film's visuals are comprised largely of digitally manipulated photo cut-outs mixed with some straight-up CG. It's worth noting that the filmmakers don't hide the fact that these are flat photos, and the animation style emphasizes the flatness when characters are turned and moved around. The last film I saw that innovated this much with photo cut-outs was Virgil Widrich's mind-bending FAST FILM.
A synopsis of the film at Twitchfilm.net is both confusing and intriguing for its nuttiness: it is apparently some type of historical comedy/fantasy about "fast-food grifters." At least that explains why people continuously yell 'Hamburger' in the trailer. Catsuka.com offers some other interesting details about the production. The film uses 30,000 photos, taken in only five days, and a lot of the digital animation was created by students. Most of the cast was made up of folks who work in animation: the actors include the CEO of Production IG, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki, ESCAFLOWNE director Shoji Kawamori, and storyboard artist Shinji Higuchi. One can sense that the filmmakers and crew were truly having fun on this project. This anything-goes spirit of experimentation and playfulness is one of the primary factors that makes cartoons from the Golden Age of Hollywood animation so appealing, and it's something that's largely absent from contemporary animation. It's nice to see the spirit is alive and well in Japan.


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Alpha Nail, for a more masculine nail polish option
Alpha Nail, a cosmetics company that claims it is for "Men and Fighters," is filling the gap in the market for a male-oriented nail polish. What, you didn't know the market needed male-oriented nail polish?
Well, clearly you were mistaken, because men apparently have very specific nail polish needs that cannot be satisfied by mere normal lady polish.
For starters, Alpha Nail is "Designed by Men. Worn by Warriors." Oh, okay. I can see how a nail polish designed by men would differ dramatically from—oh no, wait, it's still just nail polish.
At first I thought the distinction was that the nail polish was matte (although of course regular old ladies' companies make matte polish too), but no. Alpha Nail also has a Metallics line.
So why do men need Alpha Nail? Let's let the company tell us: "Designed specifically for men, Alpha Nail is technologically and biologically superior to anything on the market." That's right. This nail polish line designed for men is biologically superior to everything else. No implications about gender differences there!
And of course, regular nail polish companies haven't spent years perfecting their formulas for perfect coverage and application, or anything. Because why would any company expend effort if only women are buying?
It's like hiring an interior designer for a doghouse, am I right?
Sarcasm aside, the Alpha Nail web site gives no real information on why this nail polish is different from the hundreds of existing brands of nail polish. Instead, it focuses on making sure men know that buying any other brand will emasculate them.
See, men can't paint their nails because the act of painting is too feminine, so Alpha Nail has accommodated their specific needs: "Our unique click pen applicator does away with those dainty little brushes and girly nail polish containers. Just click, paint, put the cap on, and its [sic] ready to go for another round."
What a relief that someone invented Alpha Nail! Before this innovation, women didn't have anything like that at all.
On the subject of the "clean slate remover," or as we ladies call it, "nail polish remover," Alpha Nail has this to say: "Finally our clean slate remover wipes eliminate the need to ever buy a fluffy sack of cotton balls."
It literally never occurred to me to think of cotton balls as feminine, but now that Alpha Nail has pointed it out, it seems obvious. Everyone knows men hate things that are soft or fluffy, which is why all men sleep on beds of pointy rocks every night.
The kicker is in the fact that most of the web site isn't about the product at all. Instead, it's an attempt to convince a male customer that nail polish is something he needs. The point of Alpha Nail is not that it's a superior product—it's the marketing.
I'm not an expert, but I can't imagine that marketing this transparent is very effective. It reminds me of the SNL "Maybelline Man" sketch. Just because the box says "for men" doesn't mean anyone is fooled into thinking it's a different product.
If a man is comfortable being seen wearing nail polish, my guess is that he's probably okay buying a bottle of Revlon like the rest of us.
Magdalena Newhouse is a senior at Oberlin College, where she teaches a class on body positivity and fat acceptance.
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8 Responses to Alpha Nail, for a more masculine nail polish option
Alice on 11-23-2012It's a shame the marketing's so awful, because I rather like some of the colours. Great article :)
jenjennijennifer on 11-23-2012Thanks, Alice!
Jennifer on 11-26-2012LOL, "nail armor". Really?
Jennifer on 11-26-2012Also -- wish I had seen this before my other comment -- they have a color named "Cocaine". What a great marketing statement! *rolls eyes*
justme on 12-11-2012LOL--because drugs are so MANLY!
David N on 12-11-2012Speaking as a guy, this really makes me want to use nail polish. Especially if they have colors like concrete, iron, blood, and maybe bruise grey. Unnhh. I feel manlier already. Now if they'd only bring out rouge in colors like Nazi Pallor and Desert Drought Tan, my masculinity would be complete.
justme on 12-11-2012Love the pic of the guy and two women.
woman #1: Are... are you wearing nail polish?
man: not nail polish--nail polish is for women. I'm wearing nail ARMOR, baby!
woman #2: oooh, I love a man who's not afraid to wear nail polish! Can I borrow this white one? I need to re-touch my french manicure, and my white nail pen is dry.
man: ARE YOU KIDDING?! Nail armor is specially designed for a MAN! If you used it, it would burn right through your delicate little fingers! Plus, it's in a high-tech pen format that's too complicated for a woman to use. Like a... pen, I guess. There's a schematic on the website, and everything. And besides, that's not white, it's "cocaine".
woman #2: Cocaine? Like the drug?
woman #1: Or like the way Urban Decay were named back in the nineties?
Holy crap--Alpha Nail should pay me, I just wrote them a commercial. Seriously, though. When I first saw their website, I thought it was a joke (and I'm still not entirely sure it isn't). This reminds me so much of the SNL Maybelline Man sketch.


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June 15, 2006
Court: evidence allowed despite police violation
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled
on Thursday that evidence can be used even if the police
violated the rule requiring them to knock on the door and
announce their presence before entering to search a suspect's
that the officers' failure to knock did not disqualify evidence
seized under a valid search warrant.
The ruling was the latest in a series by the court's
conservative majority to expand police powers to conduct
searches and seize evidence.
The court's newest member, conservative Justice Samuel
Alito, who was appointed by President George W. Bush,
apparently cast the tie-breaking vote in favor of the police.
Liberal justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth
Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer dissented.
"Today's opinion is thus doubly troubling. It represents a
significant departure from the court's precedents. And it
weakens, perhaps destroys, much of the practical value of the
Constitution's knock-and-announce protection," Breyer wrote.
In the 1998 case, seven Detroit police officers executed a
search warrant for drugs and weapons at Booker Hudson's house.
They shouted, "police, search warrant," but did not knock on
the door. After waiting only three to five seconds, they
entered the house.
The police found five rocks of crack cocaine in his pants
pocket and plastic bags in the house that contained cocaine.
They also founded a loaded revolver in a chair.
Hudson was charged with possession of cocaine and a
firearm. He was convicted on the drug charge, acquitted on the
firearm charge and was sentenced to 18 months of probation.
Hudson moved to suppress the evidence because the police
had violated the constitutional knock-and-announce requirement.
In 1995, the Supreme Court ruled that police officers
executing a search warrant generally must knock and announce
their presence before entering a house.
Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the court majority in that
the evidence should not be suppressed. He said the illegal
entry was too attenuated to justify excluding the evidence.
He said the knock-and-announce rule has never been
interpreted to prevent the government from seeking or taking
evidence described in a valid warrant.
Scalia warned that excluding incriminating evidence would
have various social costs, generating a flood of lawsuits
claiming violations, causing police officers to refrain from
making a timely entry and resulting in the possible destruction
of evidence.
He said any police misconduct can be deterred by civil
rights suits. He also cited the increasing professionalism of
police forces, including a new emphasis on internal police
Besides Alito, the court's other conservatives -- Chief
Justice John Roberts, who also was appointed by Bush, and
Justice Clarence Thomas -- joined the ruling, along with
Justice Anthony Kennedy, a moderate-conservative.


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Seventy-six-year-old Joan Didion, an eminent American novelist and essayist, began her writing career as a promotional copywriter at Vogue. Her National Book Award–winning memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking ( Selection Jan/Feb 2006), intimately describes her grief after the death of her husband, fellow writer John Gregory Dunne, on December 30, 2003.
The Topic: Twenty months after she lost her husband to a heart attack, Joan Didion's only child, 39-year-old Quintana Roo Dunne, succumbed to complications from pancreatitis. Adopted by the couple in March 1966 and named after a state in southeastern Mexico, Quintana enjoyed a glamorous, celebrity-filled lifestyle with her jet-setting parents. However, the pampered and petted child began to exhibit symptoms of mental illness at a young age and continued to suffer from mood swings, anxiety, and depression throughout adulthood. "Was I the problem?" Didion groans, questioning her maternal skills. "Was I always the problem?" Part memoir and part rumination on parenthood ("the enigma of pledging ourselves to protect the unprotectable"), aging, and loss, Didion relives moments both joyful and agonizing in this melancholy supplement to The Year of Magical Thinking.
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"In this memoir of her daughter's death and her own aging, Didion has given us life, her own and her daughter's, and an earlier time, re-created with words and details artfully--even musically--arranged. If this book at times reeks of privilege, it also reeks of pain." Jeffrey Ann Goudie
New York Times
"Ms. Didion's heartbreaking new book, Blue Nights, is at once a loving portrait of Quintana and a mother's conflicted effort to grapple with her grief through words: the medium the author has used throughout her life to try to make sense of the senseless. It is a searing inquiry into loss and a melancholy meditation on mortality and time." Michiko Kakutani
NY Times Book Review
"The new book, no less than its predecessor, is honest, unflinching, necessarily solipsistic and, in the way of these things, self-lacerating: Did she do her duty by her daughter, did she nurture her, protect her, care for her, as a mother should? Did she, in a word, love her enough? ... Blue Nights, though as elegantly written as one would expect, is rawer than its predecessor, the 'impenetrable polish' of former, better days now chipped and scratched." John Banville
Houston Chronicle
"At times the book has the feel of a fractured emotional travelogue, as Didion empties an overstuffed suitcase of the unspoken. ... It's a frank and unflinching book that offers little warmth as the blue nights pass and winter approaches." Andrew Dansby
Miami Herald
"Blue Nights is poignant and honest, but I would have liked to know more of Quintana. She is almost veiled by name-dropping: the theater and literary and movie people who were friends of her parents, the names of upscale hotels and restaurants." Betsy Willeford
Wall Street Journal
"This book is unlikely to resonate as The Year of Magical Thinking did--the story it tells is less focused and less universal. ... Still, the potency of her prose remains in place as Ms. Didion, determined to avoid pat conclusions or easy salves for the anguish she feels, confronts the passing of her daughter and her own aging. The book that results is raw and unsettling, a meandering [meditation] rather than a polished version of events." Clare McHugh
USA Today
"Despite writing that is lovely and wrenching, it is disappointing. ... Blue Nights is less focused [than its predecessor]. It's filled with unanswerable questions. It's less about Quintana ... than it is about Didion's growing sense of frailty." Bob Minzesheimer
Critical Summary
"One of the most astute observers and skilled chroniclers of her time" (Kansas City Star), Didion has composed a powerful and sincere exploration of grief as well as a mournful meditation on old age and the transience of life. In elegant prose that throbs with pain and self-doubt, Blue Nights covers much the same emotional ground as The Year of Magical Thinking, but, notes USA Today, the comparisons are not entirely fair: whereas the earlier book celebrated her husband's life, Blue Nights focuses more closely on Didion and her growing infirmities than on her daughter. Other critics were put off by Didion's meandering focus and constant name-dropping. Nevertheless, Didion's searing account of her daughter's life and untimely death will likely resonate with readers, even though, as the Miami Herald notes, "Grieving is not a team sport."


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SAISD bond under fire
Published 12:00 am, Monday, September 20, 2010
A week after civic leaders launched a campaign to coax San Antonio Independent School District voters into approving a $515 million bond proposal, another community group raised opposition to the bond package.
On Sept. 12, former Mayor Henry Cisneros and state Rep. Mike Villarreal, D-San Antonio, lauded the bond proposal on the Nov. 2 ballot. But on Sunday, a dozen members of the Homeowner-Taxpayer Association of Bexar County gathered before the Bexar Appraisal District to vocally disapprove.
Association members claim the bond funding will not fix the district's academic challenges and that the controversy regarding Alamo Stadium's potential use for professional soccer has left them wondering whether the bond initiative puts students' needs first.
The bonds' proponents argue that, if the bond passes, it will be an important investment in students' future. The bulk of SAISD's proposed bond would fund extensive renovations to 22 schools.
"This bond is a brick-and-mortar tax hike," said association president Bob Martin, adding, "Bricks don't teach."
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Martin said he believes the bond allocations will do little to remedy the district's issues, such as the state's recent rating of SAISD as academically unacceptable because of its completion rate.
District spokeswoman Leslie Price said SAISD officials are appealing that rating.
"We want to have a very good teaching and learning environment for our students," she said of the need for renovations and infrastructure repairs at many of the district's aging schools.
The bond also funds items such as safety and security upgrades, vocation and career instruction enhancements, and improvements to Alamo Stadium and Convocation Center.
Controversy has swirled around the $35 million renovation plans for the stadium and Convocation Center. The bond conversation became heated over questions about a potential partnership between the district and Spurs Sports & Entertainment to bring professional soccer to the area, as previously reported in the San Antonio Express-News.
Martin and Janet Ahmad, the association's vice president, said they had begun to question whether that money would truly benefit children rather than professional soccer interests or private enterprise.
Price said district officials are not currently in discussions with Spurs Sports & Entertainment or other partners pertaining to the bond.
Celina Peña, co-chair of the VOTE YES to Students, Community and Schools bond campaign, said that although partnership discussions are not occurring now, it is critical for both public and private entities to investigate collaborative opportunities.
"If they're concerned about taxpayer dollars, I'd be concerned about how are we leveraging our investment with other resources," Peña said of the association's concerns. "You can't do things in a bubble anymore."
If voters approve the bond issue, they will see an increase in their property tax bills beginning in 2012. The monthly tax increase for an owner of an average home — valued now at $80,882 — would peak at $9.97 by 2027, according to district calculations.
"Calling for a tax hike during these hard economic times is, frankly, stunning," said Martin, who added that businesses may pass on those increases to residents by raising the costs of products and services.


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Jose Mourinho reportedly attempted to sign Barcelona's Ivan Rakitic this summer
Manchester United made an attempt to sign Barcelona midfielder Ivan Rakitic this summer, according to reports in Spain.
Despite landing Paul Pogba in a record-breaking deal, El Mundo Deportivo has suggested that Jose Mourinho enquired about signing the Barcelona midfielder.
The Portuguese manager reportedly picked up on reports that the Croatian international had grown unsettled at Barcelona.
In July, the Catalonians announced the signing of Valencia midfielder Andre Gomes, who joined in a deal worth around £50m.
The transfer prompted speculation over Rakitic's future at the La Liga club, which was further intensified when the player's representative Miquel Sors tweeted: "It's time to go."
Ratikic was quick to dispel the rumours though, posting on his Instagram: "Getting ready for the new season and really up for it. By the way, my only agent is Arturo Canales."
United may well have registered their interest amid this period but they weren't the only ones.
The Spanish reports suggest Chelsea boss Antonio Conte was also keeping tabs on the player over the summer.
Serie A champions Juventus were similarly interesting in signing Rakitic as a replacement for Paul Pogba.
This interest waned, however, once they had secured Roma's Miralem Pjanic from rivals Roma.
The Croatian now looks set to extend his contract which currently runs to 2019.
Ratikic has featured in all of Barcelona's games this season, including the 6-2 thrashing of Real Betis, and the 1-0 win over Athletic Bilbao last weekend in which he scored.
Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez are also believed to be on the verge of being offered new deals by the club.
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The website Stadium Journey, released its 2013 review and rating of Joseph L. Bruno Stadium, home of the Tri-City ValleyCats. The review takes into account concessions, atmosphere, neighborhood, fans, access, return on investment and other intangibles. Their "FANFARE" score gives it a 3.6 out of 5.0.
I thought it was pretty fair, with a few nitpick things here and there. Pretty spot on with the affordable pricing, variety of concessions and ballpark access. Speaking as someone who works these games as the official scorer, as the review notes, I wish there were more replays too.
Of course I would've rated our fans and the ballpark atmosphere higher too. There's always something going on for everyone at "The Joe," it's very inviting and there's never a dull moment. This notion that fans only come when there's fireworks is a little overblown for me, the joint is pretty much always packed regardless these days. That would be akin to saying people only go up to the track at Saratoga to bet, with the horse racing being an aside.
Other corrections I should note that the article has wrong, the 'Cats dugout is located on the third base side and the Brown's Brewing Co. booth is on the first base side. Overall though, a pretty decent review.


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From Stephen James Taylor and Aaron Rapoport comes a new SciFi short that applies some of the musical principles of Transcendent Tonality to the world of narrative fiction.
I AM HERE chronicles a female astronaut's solo journey into inner and outer space aboard a new class of spaceship that responds to musical data and the emotions of the pilot. Due to an unexpected gravitational anomaly that diverts her course she is faced with the possibility of being stranded in space. She ends up working her way into an altered state in what turns out to be a vision quest in outer space..
This film represents a marriage of story, symbology and musical cosmology. It is driven by music written from the transcendent tonality paradigm , incorporating a broader universe of frequency relationships than those available on conventional instruments (as examined in Surfing The Sonic Sky). Additionally, most of the superimposed artwork and iconography in the film draw from the musical graphics of Ervin McDonald Wilson. This even includes the patches on the astronaut's uniform.
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Police ID man who left bar with missing U.Va. wigger student
When wigger white girls take up with blacks, bad things happen
to them. They get the **** beat out of them and they get dead.
But first they get drugged up, ****ed up, knocked up, and
sometimes cut up. While they are still alive.
Charlottesville, Virginia (CNN) -- Investigators have pieced
together the movements of a missing University of Virginia
student the night she went missing, with the police chief saying
Friday they believe she got into a car with a man.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Police who searched a car and a condo
Friday in connection with the disappearance of a University of
Virginia student almost a week ago say they have identified the
man who was with Hannah Graham when she was last seen.
Witnesses saw Graham, 18, of Alexandria, Va., inside a downtown
restaurant and bar early Saturday with a 32-year-old man who had
been observed earlier on surveillance video tailing the
sophomore, Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo said.
Before the two entered the bar, witnesses saw the man, dressed
in all white, put his hands around Graham's waist. At the bar,
the man bought alcohol, and he and Graham left after 15 minutes,
Longo said.
"People saw Hannah, and people saw him, and people saw them
together," Longo said.
Shortly after that, the man's 1998 burnt orange Chrysler coupe
left the city's Downtown Mall area, a seven-block pedestrian
strip lined with shops and restaurants. Longo said he believes
that Graham was in that car.
"There was no probable cause to arrest him, no legally
sufficient reason to detain him," the police chief said. "He's
not in custody, but we know who he is."
Longo would not release the man's name nor call him a suspect.
He would not say whether the man has a criminal record but did
say he has had "contact" with police.
Officers, who were granted the search warrant overnight for the
car, spent several hours examining the vehicle Friday.
"Originally, they were here for a vehicle to search and seize.
While they were here, they found enough probable cause to then
search the home," Carter Johnson, public information officer for
the Albemarle County Police Department, told The Cavalier Daily,
the independent student newspaper at the University of Virginia.
When authorities searched the home, the man that witnesses had
mentioned about 6-foot-2, 270 pounds with a black complexion
and long dreadlocks was one of three people there, Longo said.
Authorities spoke with him briefly, but at an afternoon press
conference, they would not reveal what he said.
Note that the self-hating racist liberal media ****s from
usatoday won't call a spade a spade and say black male. They
say "black complexion".
"I spoke with him early this morning, and I want to speak to him
again," Charlottesville Detective Sgt. Jim Mooney said. "And I
want to speak to anybody who has spoken to him since Saturday
Police also are interested in gathering more potential evidence
from private surveillance cameras, not just in downtown
Charlottesville but between downtown and the man's condominium
complex about 3 miles northwest of the center city and even
elsewhere in the area. They've already received more than 400
tips in the case.
TUESDAY: Police resume search for missing Virginia student
MONDAY: #BringHannahHome: UVa. community fights to locate
missing student
Longo said he met with Graham's parents just before Friday's
news conference.
"They want to know what happened to their little girl," he said.
"They're hurt. They're concerned. They're frustrated. But not
for one second have I discerned that they've lost hope."
Plump white girl with a big booty. Definitely jigaboo bait.
On Thursday, police said they were looking for a different man
that they described as a person of interest in the case who was
seen walking with Graham on the Downtown Mall around 1:15 a.m.
ET Saturday. He is in his late 20s or early 30s, black, 5-foot-
10 or 5-foot-11, 250 to 285 pounds with a close-shaved head,
goatee and slight belly.
At the time, he was wearing black jeans and a white T-shirt. He
and Graham had started talking in the minutes before she
disappeared, according to businesses' surveillance video, and it
appeared that they either knew each other or the man was trying
to help her, police said.
Graham's friends last heard from her via text message at 1:20
a.m. Saturday after she told them that she was going to a party
but was lost. She had met friends for dinner at a restaurant
Friday night, dropped by parties at two off-campus locations and
left the second one alone, Longo said earlier. Graham had been
drinking and may have had impaired judgment.
Graham is 5-foot-11 with blue eyes, light brown hair and
freckles. She was dressed in black slacks and a gold and black
crop top when she disappeared.
On Saturday, the Virginia Department of Emergency Management is
organizing volunteers for a mass search in hopes of finding
leads in Graham's disappearance. More than 1,500 volunteers
registered in advance and are subject to background checks.
A $50,000 reward now is being offered in the case. The reward
includes $10,000 from the City of Charlottesville, $10,000 from
the University of Virginia, and contributions from individuals
and local businesses.
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Published 6:25 am, Tuesday, December 18, 2012
After missing out on "admission" last year, Jeannie Smith has finally been enrolled as a Board of Education member.
Board of Education members unanimously voted Monday to appoint Smith to fill the seat vacated by fellow Republican Jim Marpe, who resigned last month from the board to run for first selectman. She will serve out the remainder of Marpe's second term, which runs until November 2013.
"I'm just so thankful, honored and excited to be a member of this board, serving our students and the Westport community," Smith told the Westport News after Monday's board meeting.
As mandated by the town's charter, a registered Republican had to succeed Marpe. Three Republicans and four Democrats presently comprise the Board of Education.
The board worked with the Westport Republican Town Committee to vet several candidates. The RTC followed an "independent" process and made recommendations to the board, according to board Chairwoman Elaine Whitney. Education board members then interviewed the candidates, "taking into account the RTC's recommendations, while also conducting an independent assessment of the candidates," she added.
The school board makes the final decision, and is not required to appoint a candidate recommended by a political party's town committee.
Smith joins the school board with extensive experience in the education field. She worked 11 years as a public school teacher in Westchester County, N.Y. She also served in Westchester County as an academic interventionist, specializing in literacy development and as an educational consultant at a Manhattan private school.
Smith ran for a seat on the Board of Education in last year's municipal election. She fell short of winning a seat when she finished fourth among the four candidates vying for the three slots available then on the board. Now, she will serve with those three winning candidates, Democrats Mark Mathias and Michael Gordon and Republican Jennifer Tooker.
Smith was nominated Monday by Republican Michael McGovern, who is the education's board vice chairman. He noted that she had also earned the full endorsement of the RTC.
"Like many of you, the board was impressed with her knowledge of education, which she described as her profession and passion," McGovern said. "I don't know that we've had a more prepared candidate to step forward to fill a vacancy."
Gordon, the education board's secretary, seconded McGovern's nomination.
"Today is a good day for Westport's schools," he said. "Today the Board of Ed is getting someone who understands what happens in the classroom and the community we live in."
The addition of Smith to the education board follows the appointment of Democrat Brett Aronow in September to succeed Don O'Day, who resigned in August after nearly seven years on the panel to focus on his professional career.
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This is a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon fan fic, and also a reboot of my original fic, Through the Thunder and the Lightning. I decided that it'd be easier just to wait a while and post a new thread entirely. The alternative would be to keep redoing ones in the original thread, and the cliffhangers would never fall in the same place. So this easier and better on the eyes. Okay, that's enough explanations.
Ratings and Warnings
-Cartoon Violence (Pokemon kind, not Tom & Jerry kind)
-Mild Language (Salsa-mild kind, not... pepper-jack-cheese-mild kind)
-Maybe Death (Playing-your-heartstrings-like-harp-kind, not Texas-chainsaw-massacre kind)
-Ridiculous Warnings (comedian-kind, not warning-label-on-a-three-year-old's-pudding-cup kind)
And the PM List is back! Although, if you were on the old one, you'll have to re-request to be put on it.
PM List
Meeker ; Cometstarlight ; JX Valentine ; Azurus ; Saph~ ;
Shadow Lucario 50 ;
Feel free to catch any mistakes I make, I'm not perfect.
I'm just kidding, I'm freaking amazing. No really. I am. Shh.
So here's the Prologue, and the new Chapter 1 should be up soon too, within a day or so. The Prologue hasn't changed much since the re: version that was put up on the in the last version, with the exception of about two lines in the middle.
Watching myself when I'm taking strides
but here comes the moon
and it feels and it feels like an informer
quick, run away, hide before they see you
you know it is all a glow
-Tyrant, One Republic
Chapter 0
The panting. The pounding. The stomping. The roaring.
These were the only things that I could hear.
What did this beast want with me? I was a nobody - just a small town teen, too scared of change to leave on Pokemon journey like the rest of my friends. I was just out for a walk under the moonlight, despite my mother's warnings. She, much like the rest of the town, had superstitions that a monster would eat them if they were out at night. I guess the legends were true. I had always assumed they had been silly stories told by those with less knowledge of the world than us. However, silly stories don't chase you around the woods.
There was nowhere to run. Directly ahead was a small cave that I could hide in. I knew that it probably wouldn't save me, but I had something I needed to do before the beast got me.
I heard the black monster begin to charge an attack. It was a clap of thunder like the ones that would roar high above Lacunosa Town in the stormy months. It wasn't a storm though. If only it was just a storm.
And why was nobody around to help? While I knew that most of the townsfolk would be indoors by now, the forest was usually crawling with Rangers.
I ran with all of my might and ducked into the small opening in the cliff side. The familiarity of the cave was comforting, despite the circumstances. I used to come here when I was small. It was a safe place - a haven from the school yard bullies who pestered me day in and day out. I never thought that it could become my grave.
I crawled as far back into the cave as I could go, but the gouged out hole wasn't very deep. Another rumble of thunder sounded. The beast was getting closer.
Swallowing my fear, I pulled out a pencil and the small sketch journal that I kept inside my jacket pocket and hurriedly opened it to the last page. It was the only page left blank. I had drawn on all the others. I knew I wasn't going to make it out of here, so I thought that I might as well take care of one last promise in this world. She probably didn't even remember what that promise was, but it didn't matter. I remembered it. A friend had bought this for me on my last birthday. I vowed to her that I would fill every page of this book with meaningful memories and art. I told her I would finish it, even if it took my whole life. That was just before a car crash killed her. Ever since then, I had been holding off on from the last page. I wanted to save it for something important. I hadn't taken into account the fact that my own deadline might be coming up faster than I had originally thought.
The mouth of the cave was suddenly illuminated with the fury of a lightning bolt. I shielded my eyes with my arm and squinted away. When the blast dissipated, I seen that the mouth of the cave had been charred by the attack. I wasn't harmed, but I knew the electric beast wouldn't miss a second time. I quickly tried to think of something to sketch for my last journal. Anything, really. It didn't matter what; the journal just need to be finished. A white squirrel came to my mind's eye, and I quickly started drawing it. The Pokemon was a common sight in the trees of my hometown. It was reassuring and felt like home. It was a good last feeling to have.
I heard a growl and then a sort of guttural laugh from outside the mouth of the cave. A quick glance revealed that the beast was looking me over with its massive red eye. The living nightmare was too large to fit in through the opening, but that didn't matter. I hurriedly tried to finish my drawing, but my fear was now suppressing my will. My hand was shaking too much to draw anything comprehensible.
I didn't want to die.
There was another roar of thunder - so close and loud that it nearly burst my eardrums. Through the ringing left in my ears, I heard the crackling of electricity. It sounded like a short circuit.
And suddenly everything went white.
Author's Note:
So in the new versions, there will be song lyrics before the chapters. I'll try to stay away from mainstream songs, but that's not always possible. Most of the time, I include them because it's kinda neat to show what song represents my mindset when writing that chapter. I include it before the Chapter title so that it feels apart from the main work and doesn't feel so awkward.
That said, One Republic's Tyrant is probably TTL's overarching theme song. So whenever it appears at the top of a chapter, you know you're in for an important and fun ride.
And I'd like to thank a few of my friends on here for looking it over and giving their opinions. It's much appreciated, and you all know who you are, you amazing people you.
Well, what can I say? Chapter 1 is gonna be out soon, so stay tuned!


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Looking through some photos it appears that we have been doing more 'work' than I thought, so quick catch up to round the year off.
We've continued with looking at prehistoric people. We've been watching 'The Incredible Human Journey' and read 'Maroo of the Winter Caves'. This lead on to looking at homes in prehistoric times.
We made a snow house like the one described in the book from icing and marshmallows instead of snow.
And a cardboard cave.
We also took a Sam led trip into a look at navigation. We have a couple of these Thames and Kosmos Little Labs kits. They are very expensive for what they are and you could do it all better and cheaper but we like them and more importantly sometimes I don't want/haven't the motivation to do it myself. Sam found it in a cupboard when we were sorting out and moving into the conservatory and was motivated enough to spend two days doing the activities so no complaints here.
We started with scales and plan drawing, inc of the rec.
Much to amusement of the neighbours we did a trail around the area – me following chalk arrows at a discrete distance.
We also had fun looking at maps and playing with the compass.
And although there has been no recording on paper we have been reading and talking about the Victorians. We started with a group session at Fareham Museum,
had a lovely trip to Farnham (on to do list to go back in nice weather and do the town trail)
a day at the Victorian Festival of Christmas and finished back at Fareham Museum looking at life in the workhouse.
We also had group sessions on Twas the Night Before Christmas and Germany and trips to Funcity and the park.
Oh and some work on seasons.
And a closer look at Autumn.
There has also been a lot of storytelling; verbally, written and the Kindle and not forgetting comic strips
And if this is a dry spell, think how much we can do when I am motivated 😉