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If you are lucky enough to live in an area of Atlanta that is teeming with good looking people, you probably have thought about dating a neighbor. It's so tempting, right? With soaring gas prices, who is more geographically desirable than the hot neighbor? Well, as with all things, this decision should be made carefully.
You have to determine the risks and benefits: Are they insane? Would they stalk me if things don't work out? Are they capable of property damage? Will I wake up to find my poor pet being harmed? I'm making light of it, of course, but I know there are some single people that can give you cautionary tales about dating their neighbors.
My friend Carla said that she would date a co-worker before she dated anything resembling a neighbor again. After things got messy with a fine, fine man in her mother's neighborhood, she has to drive a decoy car to visit her mother. The fine man wasn't worth it.
What do you think? Is it a good idea to use your backyard as your dating pool? Is it a recipe for disaster or simply smart strategy?
Have you ever dated someone who lived extremely close to you? Do you think it was a good idea?
Happy Tuesday!
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
February 26th, 2013
8:07 am
GOOD Tuesday Morning MIA!
What do you think? Not a good idea. You all know the saying, too close for comfort. . . There are pros and cons to every situation. However, I view my home as my peaceful sanctuary and I don't want that disturbed due to a relationship gone wrong. My viewpoint could possible be jaded due to having a stalker before, but yeah I don't do neighbors!
Is it a good idea to use your backyard as your dating pool? Absolutely NOT!
Is it a recipe for disaster or simply smart strategy? I'll take a recipe for disaster for $200!
*Same side of town, ok. Same street no can do!*
February 26th, 2013
8:39 am
Good morning!
Have you ever dated someone who lived extremely close to you? Yes and no, he was my sister's neighbor and we got married. I don't have anything bad to say about dating neighbors. If it works good if not, then I can only imagine living in close proximity with an ex or someone you used to date. The anxiety alone is deterimental. Especially seeing him/her go on with their life dating other people. The sting!
My beau lives 20 minutes away so actually he's my neighbor. I consider anything 60 minutes away a long distance relationship. If gas prices continue to rise we'll have to skpe date..lol
February 26th, 2013
8:49 am
HELLLLL NO! you may as well just give her a Key to your place and put her on the Lease! i made this Mistake once never again.
February 26th, 2013
8:51 am
Good morning,
Living close to someone you're dating can be good and bad. Of course, if it doesn't work out I don't think i'd want to run the risk of keep running into them in all the local stores or whatever. And I most certaintly would not want to run into each other out on a date with someone else. That's just not something I need to see. AWKWARD!
At one point in time, the ex and I lived only 8 miles from each other and that situation got a little hairy a few times. I'll never forget how he popped up over there in the middle of the night when he could not reach me. I guess he felt strongly that I had someone over there.
February 26th, 2013
8:55 am
-Button Interesting that you mentioned Skype dating, apparently there is a population of people in long distance relationships that rely on this as their primary means of communication. :-/
-SlimNu Yeah the popping up in the middle of the night, not good and he probably would have thought about it twice if he was further away, LOL!
February 26th, 2013
8:59 am
Is it a good idea to use your backyard as your dating pool? – Normally, I would say no, but crazy is everywhere if the relationship doesn't work out. Close proximity increases the ability to monitor one's comings and goings if they decide to swallow the infamous stupid pill.
Mem>Is it a recipe for disaster or simply smart strategy? – Probably more a recipe for disaster. Sometimes, convenience is more a negative than a positive.
Have you ever dated someone who lived extremely close to you? – Nope.
February 26th, 2013
9:01 am
MissMoni – I'm not good at skyping, I don't like it! sometimes it's hard to connect or the other person on the other end looks like a robot.
February 26th, 2013
9:04 am
good morning. I have a dating the neighbor story. it sure as heck didn't turn out how I expected. a friend of mine starts sleeping with the next door neighbor. I told her it was too close for comfort, trouble/drama waiting to happen. the neighbor was an on again, off again fling. when it was off she was miserable. countless times she'd call crying because she was sitting on her porch looking next door as he brought the next chick(s) in and out. anyway, fast forward a couple of years, she and the neighbor actually got married and had a baby. I'm still shocked by that one. a bit put off too when you think about what all some folks do to meet someone and then a chick buys a house and marries the guy next door. that ain't right (especially with the janky azz next door neighbor I ended up with). lol.
now, I also have countless tales of folks creeping in the neighborhood. I always wondered why they did that. going out their front door to sneak in someone else's side door but I guess that's not quite the topic.
February 26th, 2013
9:16 am
-Button I too prefer face to face communication. Skype is definitely a last resort.
-disco Prime example of things that make you go hmmmm. . .
February 26th, 2013
9:23 am
Morning good blog people!!
I wouls say this is kinda like dating a coworker, only a bit worse if things don't turn out well. One of my former neighbors messed around with guy that lived in the same subdivision. He was living with his fiance' who traveled alot. He would creep over to my neighbor's house and vice-versa when fiance' was out of town. Well, dude had his fun, but decided he wanted to cut it off and start back being faithful to his fiance'( plus word was he couldn't deal with my neighbor's nasty living habits, her house was borderline Hoarders). My neighbor was livid and started stalking him and fiance' found out and dumped his behind!
I've never had a neighbor I was even remotely interested in dating.
February 26th, 2013
9:36 am
moni – hmmm is right. lol. for a while I was actually feeling some kind of way. I think I walked around for months going "she's marrying the next door neighbor". I was in shock and awe. lol. I had to consciously pull myself back from other people's how we met stories. she met her man on a plane? shoot, let me book a flight.
hey kimmie.
February 26th, 2013
9:36 am
kimmie ~ I never had a desirable neighbor either.
February 26th, 2013
9:39 am
Hey Disco, Hey Leggs!!
February 26th, 2013
9:40 am
Is it just me, or is this totally nuts? Apparently everyone is insane, and wants to get with neighbors. Really? What's up with the hot pants?
February 26th, 2013
9:49 am
Hey kimmie
February 26th, 2013
9:51 am
abc – well, let's kick off today's controversial back and forth. just what is insane? dating neighbors? and what's wrong with hot pants? granted not everyone looks good in them but we can't blame the hot pants for that. lol.
February 26th, 2013
9:52 am
-kiimmie & Leggs I agree, no desirable neighbors either. Just old or already married or both, LOL!!!
-disco I like to hear the "How We Met" stories however they can range to both extremes of the spectrum.
February 26th, 2013
9:57 am
Anytime you have able-bodied, consenting adults together in close proximity, something is bound to pop off at one point or another with someone. Work, school, neighborhoods, it's bound to happen. I don't see what could be so shocking about the possibility.
Alot of people get together that grew up in the same neighborhood. It just gets a little more complicated when folks are already grown and decide to explore dating each other. So many things can go wrong. Or so much can go right.
In my old neighborhood, an older gentleman lost his wife. A few years later he started seeing a lady down the street and they married. He now rents out his old house and moved in hers. Perfectly respectable.
February 26th, 2013
9:58 am
This is a big no no. One should not date co-workers or neighbors. Its not a bad idea over-all. While I dont have any stories to share, i can say that getting too friendly with the neighbors in general is not a good idea. I regret hanging out a bit too much with mine. She started getting on my nerves s I found out that she is NOT my type when it comes to friends and now I completely just ignore her ..making it awkward for both of us. My husband even warned me that one should take time, even when making friends with anyone..let alone your neighbors that u see ALL the time.
February 26th, 2013
10:02 am
moni – I love hearing them too (at least the interesting ones). I admit I get kind of perturbed at the regular ones. those are the ones that give folks false hope. lol. you know the grocery store, the post office, the gas station. stuff that you do all the time on the regular and you never meet a single solitary soul. have you walking around thinking this is some bull.
personally I haven't dated neighbors or co-workers. once upon a time I would have said it was a definite no-no. now, no longer being a spring chicken and not seeing eligible men every time I turn around, I'd say make it do what it do. be mature and responsible about it. that co-worker could be the man/woman of your dreams. you can always change jobs if you have to. I've worked at places that were virtual meat markets. everyone was dating someone on this floor, married to someone on that floor. it wasn't a big deal but I think it's mostly because it was handled well.
February 26th, 2013
10:03 am
There are positive outcomes however that can come out of dating a co-worker. What about dating the boss? would you be ok with someone in your office doing that? would you be worried about favorism?
February 26th, 2013
10:03 am
-Hazel Your husband is exactly right! Great advice!!!
February 26th, 2013
10:04 am
I live in an active community so I'm always seeing good looking men/women around walking or jogging…. a lot of them looking all hot with ripped muscles working out in the fitness center. whew lemme stop! Nothing wrong with looking.
February 26th, 2013
10:06 am
Now that I think of it, i've never had any neighbors that I wanted to date either. There was a guy that lived upstairs from me that attempted to go out with me but Ewwwwww!
February 26th, 2013
10:09 am
disco – One of the ladies on my team is married now to a coworker that was introduced to her by another coworker! He works in a different department and now in a different building. They now have 3 kids together.
February 26th, 2013
10:09 am
-disco I'm anti dating co-workers as well, been there done that got 2 t-shirts. The first time was doing my military days and the breakup worked out because he got stationed in Korea. Now my second experience was a little more intriguing. I saw this person every single day for 8 hours and after the breakup he got engaged to his baby's mama (the child was age 10)!!! I must say that I was very professional. However about twice he said something slick and I had to completely shut him down and suggest that he not come at me like that ever again or it will get ugly. On a much happier note, I got a promotion, so I am in a totally different building and I don't have to see him at all. Lesson learned!
February 26th, 2013
10:10 am
Thank goodness, my neighbors are cool. All of them. I'm single and the lady across the way is single. Other than that, everyone else is married w/children.
I love hearing "how we met" stories, but I especially love hearing "how did he propose" stories more.
February 26th, 2013
10:11 am
I don't see the big deal with close proximity….or not. It's not the location, it's the people. If you're mature, you are mature. Whether it's next door or the next state over….shouldn't matter. It's the people involved the reason things are a bust. Either you ain't ready and "the norm" can feel smothering or truly a person is smothering and clingy and not respecting boundaries….literally. You can be next door neighbors and still respect each others need for space and time apart. You can live in another state and put on a pamper cause ya don't wanna stop, you want to get there ASAP to see, snap, get, keep that man or woman!!! lololol
In all seriousness, we're adults and should be respectful of time and space and allowing one another to breath. It's all in how both individuals conduct themselves.
On the subject of skyping….ummmm NOT!!! Unless I'm sick and bedridden and he's stopped by already to see about me and wants to check up midday or something, that ain't happening. Either show up….or not
Toodles….for now
February 26th, 2013
10:12 am
hazel – truth of the matter is you likely have to be concerned about favoritism whether folks are dating or not. not everyone is as objective and neutral as they are supposed to be.
leggs – well you know about me and my neighbors. lol.
February 26th, 2013
10:12 am
Hazel – I agree with your husband, one should take the time to get to know people esp neighbors. I've had the neighbor from hell and let me tell you, I was too happy when they moved! the noise was unbearable, all hours of the night, thomping, dragging and running and some aweful smell! Now my new neighbor is a tab bit talkative so I keep it at hi and bye when I see her, I dare say anything outside of that and it's on, she'll talk nonstop for what seems to be an hour.
disco – I love those how we met stories too. Some are so romantic.
February 26th, 2013
10:13 am
Morning All!
I would not want to date a neighbor for the reason many of you pointed out; if it does not work out, I wouldn't want him to "stalk" me nor would I want to see him with the next boo on a regular basis. When I left my ex, he deliberately moved around the corner from me a month later and brought his mistress to stay with him while she was on maternity leave. Despite having her there, he would constantly show up in my driveway, looking in the garage window when I was out or checking to see if cars were in the driveway and asking my son about the cars. My niece came to visit and he took down the car info to question my son. He asked when he saw a repairman truck in the driveway, he went to our neighbors and asked questions; it was not a good time.
As far as dating a coworker- absolutely not!!! I always say, you don't get your puddy and your paycheck in the same place. Yes, that is a recipe for disaster.
February 26th, 2013
10:13 am
-kimmie For some people it really does work. A lady at my job married a co-worker (after he divorced his wife who also works for the same company) and it worked out. The man retired and his ex-wife and new wife work in totally different buildings and don't have to see each other. Now the company Christmas Party is a different story, LOL!!!
February 26th, 2013
10:15 am
-Leggs Those "How He Proposed" stories are the BEST kind!
February 26th, 2013
10:17 am
well if the blog gets slow today (and it likely will) some of you can grace us with your "how we met, how he proposed and, if applicable, I knew it was over when" stories. lol.
February 26th, 2013
10:19 am
disco – true. It could happen regardless, but when u r in with the MAN or WOMAN.. you may get a pass or two for things other folks may not.
Button – Yes..Its crazy how folks can be. Trying to compete with the Jones's. Mine was more of her just getting too creepy about my personal life, asking crazy questions about finances etc. I had to pull the plug and go cold turkey. "I ain't got time for dat"
February 26th, 2013
10:21 am
sorry, it should've read, "Ain't nobody got time for dat".
February 26th, 2013
10:25 am
Disco/Hazel – you are so right about the favoritism. Most if not all of the companies I have worked for have been very careful about guidelines for folks dating & marrying and whatnot. But when it comes to showing favorites, that's rather obvious everywhere and have nothing to do with romantic entaglements.
February 26th, 2013
10:41 am
I actually dated a coworker that lived (still does) about 3 or 4 miles or so from me. It worked out well for years. When the split happened, it had nothing to do with location. Matter of fact, living close ALWAYS seem to be one of the pluses for us We were together for a few years. I didn't "show up" at his spot and he didn't "show up" at mine….well he did after we decided to part ways. Yeah, he did that a couple of times. I just left him out there…lol I get the feeling though he would have done that whether I was there or living in Timbuktu…..lololol
February 26th, 2013
10:42 am
Letter #90 – Three months ago, the woman who was having an affair with my husband died suddenly from an accident. I found out about the affair only two days after her funeral. I thought she was simply a co-worker and I was wondering why my husband was so disturbed and emotional. He quit his job, saying it was too traumatic to go to work. She was in the early weeks of pregnancy when she died and my husband doesn't know whether he or her husband was the father. So, on top of everything, he's also grieving for a baby which may or may not have been his. I find it extremely difficult to be emotionally supportive when he wakes up at 3 a.m. crying and trembling—yet I don't have the heart to yell at him like I want to. He says she's dead, so there's no reason for me to feel jealous or threatened, and asks for my understanding as he grieves. We've barely talked these last weeks because I don't know how to respond to my husband when he cries and says he misses her and wishes she were here, then also how much he loves me and that he never intended to leave me. I asked him to visit a marriage therapist together and he said he's "not ready" to work on our marriage, and thinks he needs to see a grief therapist instead. Do I need to give him time to mourn the loss of his mistress? Or should I demand he focus on our marriage?
February 26th, 2013
10:43 am
February 26th, 2013
10:45 am
A hoax? Are we on candid camera??? I KID I KID….back to work…lolol
February 26th, 2013
10:48 am
button – really??? that chick is too nice. hubs would be laying in the plot next to old girl. him, her and the maybe baby could all be together eternally. comfort him? ninja please. how'd he like to be grieving and homeless at the same time? it takes all kinds.
February 26th, 2013
10:50 am
Button – DAMN! And I thought I had problems…
February 26th, 2013
10:51 am
Button is this a REAL letter???
February 26th, 2013
10:56 am
That's my thoughts disco and SlimNu the hubs has some nerve! The wife is too kind and yet still try to work on her marriage. I would be livid with his act alone let alone him crying and moaning in my face everyday for his mistress.
From what I understand it's real MissMoni.
February 26th, 2013
10:59 am
If God don't/didn't like ugly, then neither should she, the wife.
February 26th, 2013
11:00 am
Button – Are you able to share the site where you're getting these letters? I would live to save in my favorites and read when it's slow here.
February 26th, 2013
11:00 am
I dated a guy at work moons ago. We worked in the same bldg, but different law firms. He even proposed to me (w/ring in hand). No doubt a Zirconium back then. Got my dumb a$$ all giddy with delight that WE called Mama and he spoke to her for some time then asked for her permission. When I tell you I was naive to the game, that's an understatement. Got to work late the next day and told my boss and showed him my ring. Mind you now, we dated a little over a year before he asked. Anyway, things quickly shifted after he asked. I saw less and less of him, went to lunch together less and less.
Lo and behold, he was separated and his wife moved back to town (which I heard through the grapevine). Finally got a chance to sit and talk and, of course, ended everything. To make a long story short, there's a record to this day that I never listen to and always change the station when it comes on = Denise Williams' "Silly."
Before anyone throws eggs at me, I was young, foolish and impressionable (22).
disco ~ you can laugh now.
February 26th, 2013
11:02 am
Morning all……
I had a thing a few years ago with a married woman that lived 3 floors down from me…. We would see each outher at building sponsored events and smiles became flirting and that lead to …… Well long story short, turns out her and her hubby had an open relationship, but she was not cool with me seeing anyone besides her…. Crazy right?????
February 26th, 2013
11:03 am
Button- he would move out and grieve on his own. I would not offer my shoulder for him to cry on; that goes above and beyond, sorry.


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Well, I used to like playing the drums a lot… well, okay, I'll admit it… the RockBand drums. I did that non-stop for probably almost a good year and a half? Maybe longer. I become obsessed with it. My perfectionism kicked into high gear and I had to be perfect at it. I would play all day and all night, sometimes for 14-18 hours straight. Yea, I realize now, that most of this was done in my major manic phase, but I was very successful and good at it. :) I have RB1 and RB2, and there is no telling how much money, hundreds of dollars, I have put into that game. I haven't played it in forever!
- I really used to love to scrapbook. I was very good at that and spent many, many hours doing that and many dollars as well. I have tons of stuff that I have bought and haven't even opened and used because my desire just left me. Being bipolar, it did play in my favor because I artistically produced many great pages.


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Food banks in Morgan County say poverty and hunger are growing in the county, and they are fighting to keep up.
Carpenter's Cabinet food bank in Falkville has doubled the number of people it feeds every year since it opened in 2010. The food bank fed 1,200 mouths in 2012, up from 660 in 2011 and 300 in 2010.
"We've tried to make it a good situation," Carpenter's Cabinet President Chris Wornick said. "We're always looking for food donations, financial donations and volunteers."
Another food bank, the Neighborhood Christian Center in Decatur, gave away 53,000 food items in 2012, up from 41,000 in 2011.
Morgan County's poverty level in 2011 was 17 percent, up from 14 percent in 2010. Residents younger than 18 living under the poverty line was 27 percent in 2011, up from 21 percent in 2010. According to information from Carpenter clients during the past month, 79 percent had income at or below the poverty level. In the past year, 53 percent of its clients said they had to choose between food and utilities, 35 percent had to choose between food and paying rent or mortgage, and 46 percent had to choose between paying for food or medicine.
Wornick believes Carpenter's Cabinet is prepared for an increase in hungry people, but the charity has come close to running out before. Its bank account once dipped as low as 27 cents.
Carpenter's Cabinet has shelves for stocking food through 2015 and a commercial fridge and freezer.
It has strict rules about giving out food, including removing barcodes from packages to prevent drug addicts from returning the food to stores and using the money to buy drugs, and limiting handouts to once every three weeks.
"But we know every situation is different," Wornick said.
Pamela Bolding, administrative director for Neighborhood Christian Center, said her center will hold more food drives. She said the center had to spend $3,000 a month during the first few months of the school year to keep food stores stocked.
"We've almost doubled what we spend on food," Bolding said.
Bolding said the center used to feed about 20 families a day but now serves up to 35.
"It might be because there's more awareness," she said. "But the stories you hear are about people losing their jobs or having to take jobs that pay less."
Wornick grew up in Chicago during hard times. Living briefly in poverty when he was 12 led him to pledge to help others if he ever had the means.
The charity had a rough beginning. Wornick didn't have enough cash to purchase the Railroad Avenue building it now occupies. But the organizers found $5,000 in grant money and raised $11,500 in six weeks through word of mouth.
Now the charity plans to expand its operation to include clothing donations and Bible classes like Neighborhood Christian Center. Glenn Byrd, an outreach coordinator for the center, will teach at Carpenter's Cabinet on Tuesdays.
Carpenter's Cabinet distributes food on Tuesday mornings. Neighborhood Christian Center distributes on Mondays and Wednesdays.
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Personal, but You Suck:Accepting and Delivering Criticism with Openness and
I'm writing this column from my dorm desk at the 2006
Clarion workshop. This week, we began the dreaded process of critiquing stories.
has a reputation (perhaps exaggerated) for producing either award-winning authors
or crushed spirits. Each weekday for six weeks, the students sit in a circle and
comment in turn about each specific story. Traditionally, the writer can sit wringing
a stuffed blue mascot bunny if he or she chooses.
I saw the bunny yesterday.
It has patches. Which means it had holes. Which means that some of these critiques
were so intense that people tore or gnawed HOLES in a stuffed bunny.
to save the bunnies, I offer you these hard-learned tips on giving and receiving
Criticism is hard to take. It may be even
harder to give--correctly.
I'm convinced that several of my classmates from
the Borderlands Boot
Camp earlier this year would stab me with a broken bottle if they ever saw
me in public again, mostly because by the end of reading all those stories, I
was writing things in the margins like, "Why would somebody write this? Better
still, why would somebody read it?" I rose from my chair to humorously perform
the illogical action from an ungrammatical sentence, and the writer flinched like
I was going to hit her.
That's when I figured out that I had to work on
my critiquing style.
What can I say? Writing is important to me, something
done with full dedication and passion. When I detect a lack of caring, a desire
to just rattle off a story to get in a magazine or impress the other kids in the
death metal band, it sets me off.
I've had to learn how not to take critiques
personally. Not the ones I receive so much as the ones I give.
After research
and contemplation, these are my personal guidelines for offering criticism:
This week, I was one of the fortunate recipients
of criticism. My story received the drubbing it deserved from all present, and
I soon understood the desire to twist a bunny in one's hands until it snaps in
half. I sincerely hope the Michigan State groundskeepers never find that real
So here, then, are the lessons I learned about taking criticism:
Accepting criticism of
your art is a delicate balance. On one side, you need open-mindedness to improve.
On the other, you need integrity to reject criticisms that deviate from your vision.
of indoctrination into the military is a breaking down of a recruit's previous
mental order to make way for a new one. So, too, will criticism shake your confidence,
turn your thoughts inward, and make way for growth. It is natural to fear this
uncomfortable process, but remember that you are always in control. You choose
whether to change, and how to do so. You choose how criticism affects you. At
a certain level, you are indoctrinating yourself, allowing certain new ideas to
come through and rejecting others.
You'll do best at both ends of the critique
by being open-minded, positive, and dedicated to a single goal: taking whatever
horrors you see and making the best of them. When you read a terrible story, help
the writer's salvage efforts. When your own story crashes against the rocks, accept
the help of others in putting it back together.
I've discovered this week
that I have a long way to go with my writing, and I'm grateful. I wish I'd known
that before--that I'd been critiqued more heavily, that I'd been competing more
with myself than with others, that I'd been treated more like a craftsman with
potential than an artiste to be encouraged.
It hurts to be criticized. It
hurts worse, though, to never know your full potential because nobody ever prodded
you into achieving it.
Ludwigsen is at Clarion, atoning for the stories he inflicted on readers in a
variety of magazines. You can follow his progress and learn more about him at
his website, www.will-ludwigsen.com.
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In December, Beyonce announced the release date for her third fragrance, called Rise. Now, the singer has issued the official commercial for her newest line, which will officially hit shelves in February.
"You can let yourself disappear. Or you can stir things up," she says in the glittering 30-second ad. "Never settle, shake loose, embrace the elements, Because from now on, you will always rise."
The clip was directed by Jake Nava , who is also responsible for racy videos from the singer's latest self-titled album, including "Partition" and "Flawless."
To date, Beyonce has sold $400 million in fragrances with her first two scents, Pulse and Heat.
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Sources tell KFGO News the two suspects are a man and woman from the Twin Cities area. The victim is a teenage girl. Criminal charges are being prepared by the Clay County Attorney's office.
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Paul Sanford still has six clear burn marks on his body, 10 days after the alleged stun gun attack. He says it was his step-daughter who did this to him.
The step-daughter was apparently coming after her mother, Enola Sanford, who had an angry, threatening voicemail on her phone from her biological daughter.
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Paul intervened on that threat, and took the shock of a stun gun not once, but six times. He says it "felt like a lightning bolt." Paul is also disabled and walks with a cane; the shock knocked him to the ground.
Meanwhile, Enola calls 911. She tells Savage she was screaming on the phone, and the dispatcher could hear screaming in the background. The Sanford's 8-year-old daughter was also around and saw the whole thing.
She tells Savage, "It was like I didn't want her to be my sister no more. Because she was shooting my daddy with a stun gun."
But Enola says police never showed up, so Enola finally drove Paul to the police station and filed a police report.
Savage spoke with two officers who have no previous knowledge of this case. They say if no one has been shot or stabbed, the calls aren't as much of a priority as the calls for someone who has been shot or stabbed.
The Sanford family is still waiting for police to follow-up on the report they filed.
Stun guns are legal in the state of Michigan. A stun gun is not the same device as a Taser. A Taser can be used at distances, while a stun gun can only be used with direct physical contact.


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Is Facebook IPO hot or not?
Sources are spinning the issue wildly, giving conflicting reports about interest in the coming offering.
With just about every bank on Wall Street involved in this IPO, I suspect there is wild spinning on both sides of the issue.
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Bloomberg seems to have more credible information, reporting that institutional investors are worried about the company's growth prospects. Facebook says its advertising growth isn't matching user growth, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources.
"Facebook is also telling analysts that sales may not meet their most optimistic projections," Bloomberg added.
Facebook and its selling stockholders are offering a little more than 337 million shares in its IPO, which is expected to price on May 17. The price range is $28 to $35 each, giving the company and its underwriters less than a week to drum up enthusiasm from major investors.
If there isn't that much interest, the price will end up closer to the bottom of the range, bringing less money to everyone involved.
So naturally, the theatrics are just getting started.
Enter Reuters, which has one anonymous source saying the IPO is already oversubscribed. CNBC reports the same thing. All of the concerns about growth and Facebook's problems in getting revenue from mobile are being cast aside, apparently. "Institutional investors have so far indicated demand for more shares than Facebook has available," Reuters reports.
The source even says Facebook may raise its price range beyond $35 if demand is healthy enough.
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he must apply for a license to use the internet- as a public company- he must also put up money to covere every stock
offered- i did plus insurance - i never got a dime - black i guess
people hated on google when it came out the same way they are now doing to facebook you people will be in for a rude awakening lol I got 400 shares at ipo price and expect the stock to triple easily.
First off, google had solid profitability and were offering an even smaller number of shares and has a completely different business model from search engine to navigation to platform building.
Facebook is a fad. And it is already slowly diminishing. As soon as something comes out better, it's over. However, I do see stupid individuals like yourself falling over themselves to do the google thing. So by all means you probably will if you can actually get your hands on such shares. It will be pump and dump.
As for advertising businesses in general, if the economy continues to return to a dud. I expect most of the advertising money to dry up. Advertising doesn't work when no one can buy.
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Should a drug that produces sexual dysfunction for the majority of users and which doubles the risk of a suicide attempt be labeled an antidepressant ? No, argues a recent Scientifica article, " Relabelingthe Medications We Call Antidepressants." The article's authors, David Antonuccio, psychologist at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Nevada School of Medicine, and David Healy, psychiatrist at the Department of Psychological Medicine, Bangor University in the UK, point out that "to call these medications antidepressants may make sense from a marketing standpoint but may be misleading from a scientific perspective." They conclude that "it may make just as much sense to call these medications antiaphrodisiacs as antidepressants because the negative effects on libido and sexual functioning are so common."
If a greater percentage of antidepressant users suffer from sexual dysfunction than are relieved of depression, in a scientific sense, it is not silly to label the medication in terms of the condition that it affects most? And while Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft are antidepressants for some people, for other people they are suicidality inducers, agitation enhancers and mania stimulators.
Antonuccio and Healy offer six reasons why Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa, Lexapro and other so-called antidepressants should not be labeled antidepressants.
1. An Actual Antidepressant Should Not Interfere with Sexual Functioning
Loss of interest in pleasurable activities such as sex is one symptom of depression, and so it is odd that a medication that results in a loss of interest in sex could be labeled as an antidepressant.
Antidepressant manufacturers estim ate that 2% to 16% of antidepressant users experience sexual dysfunction. However, a 2001 study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry examined 610 women and 412 men with previously normal sexual functioning who were being treated with antidepressants, and it found that 59% reported sexual dysfunction, 62% of the men and 57% of the women (women reported more severe symptoms). Dysfunctions included decreased libido and inability to have an orgasm . Comparable rates of sexual dysfunction have been found in a 2010 Psychiatry Investigation study.
In antidepressant trials, 30% to 40% of subjects routinely gain relief from depression, and so the percentage of antidepressant users who suffer from sexual dysfunction is higher than the percentage who gain relief from depression.
2. An Actual Antidepressant Should Not Increase Suicidal Thoughts and Attempts
The Food and Drug Administration analysis of antidepressants trials in 4,400 depressed young people found that antidepressants doubled the risk of "suicidality" (suicidal thoughts and suicidal attempts), which occurred in approximately 4% of those taking antidepressants compared with 2% of those taking a placebo. Antonuccio and Healy note that, "While the risk of increased suicidality appears to be relatively low (i.e., two extra suicidal patients for every 100 treated with an antidepressant compared with a placebo) and no patients actually completed suicide in the FDA database of controlled trials, the stakes are clearly high." The risk is serious enough to warrant FDA "black box warnings" about increased suicidality for patients under the age of 25.
If, for many depression sufferers, one reason to take antidepressants is to prevent suicidal thoughts and attempts, and if antidepressants even slightly increase such suicidality rather than decrease it, does it make sense to label these drugs as antidepressants?
3. An Actual Antidepressant Should Be Clearly Superior to a Placebo
"To be labeled an antidepressant," Antonuccio and Healy argue, "a medication should be consistently and clearly superior to a sugar pill." Earlier this year, CBS' " 60 Minutes" reported on what antidepressant researchers have long known about antidepressants: placebos do almost as well as antidepressants, even in drug-company studies that are biased toward antidepressants. Antonuccio and Healy state, "To be clear, it appears that many depressed patients improve on antidepressants, but this is also true of those who take placebos."
Research psychologist Irving Kirsch used the Freedom of Information Act to study published and nonpublished results involving 6,944 patients from the FDA database trials of the six most popular antidepressants (Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor, Celexa, and Serzone), and he found that only 43% of the trials favored the antidepressant over placebo. Kirsch concluded that the impact of antidepressants "are relatively small even for severely depressed patients...the relationship between initial severity and antidepressant efficacy is attributable to decreased responsiveness to placebo among very severely depressed patients, rather than to increased responsiveness to medication."
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Banks are lobbying to extend a special crisis-born bailout, today's Wall Street Journal editorial explains. The Transaction Account Guarantee socializes banks' risks by extending unlimited government guarantees to checking accounts, in effect. The Journal explains how some of those progressives who posture as enemies of banks are the champions of this bailout:
TAG has largely flown under the media radar because some of its most prominent backers have often postured as opponents of the giant banks. Congressman Barney Frank (D., Mass.) promised "death panels" for too-big-to-fail banks, but his 2010 Dodd-Frank law quietly extended TAG for two years.
Today, one of TAG's most ardent champions is Senator Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio), who is running for re-election as a champion of the little guy. Give him credit for nerve. His website proclaims that a bill he recently drafted "would eliminate government subsidies enjoyed by trillion-dollar megabanks."
This bash-and-bailout is standard Democratic banking politics. Recall the mortgage bailouts in 2008 and 2010. Think of the unanimous Democratic support for the Export-Import Bank, which guarantees private-bank loans to foreign buyers. Or all the Solyndra-style loan guarantees for unproven green-energy companies. Or the loan guarantees for nuclear power. Or the taxpayer lifelines for Fannie & Freddie. Or the sweetheart Freddie settlement with Bank of America.
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A ruling from the Rhode Island State Labor Relations Board, on North Kingstown's firefighters' hours and wages, is being challenged by the Town Council.
Monday, the council held an emergency meeting to discuss the ruling which was handed down by the state board late Friday afternoon.
The ruling found the town improperly changed firefighters' shifts. In March of 2012, the council changed the shifts from between 10-14 hours to 24 hours. The ruling also found the town has to pay the firefighters back wages at an 12% interest rate within 60 days.
"Our firefighters are working 48 hours, you know 72 hours straight. They are being mandated to stay on excessive shifts," said IAFF Local 1651 President Ray Furtado.
Furtado says these long shifts are a safety concern.
"To perform EMS functions at 2, 3 in the morning on the heels of a 24 hour shift, properly dose medications, thinking clearly, making rational medical decisions. It's an incredibly difficult task," said Furtado.
The town is standing by their decision and says it save tax payers money.
"We believe what we have done is legal under our charter with our rights and we strongly believe as a council that if we don't have the right to do what we did," said Town Councilor Elizabeth Dolan.
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We now have the first public release of goodies from Osama bin Laden's redoubt at Abbottabad: 17 letters to and from bin Laden and his crew that spell out vision, plans and tactics for the global jihad. The letters span a decade and outline the dimensions of a would-be caliphate – a truly global theater of war conceived, plotted and executed by bin Laden. They also reveal bin Laden to be a highly accomplished orchestrator of a global network struggling with the challenges of collaboration. Three issues consume him, and they happen to be the classic political tasks in the management of collaboration.
First, and most important: keeping everyone on track. For bin Laden, the primary management task was clearly holding everyone to a solitary vision, staying true to values (Islamic law, as he read it), and aligning deeds with words. Across his network bin Laden had little command or control over who operates in the name of Allah or even al Qaeda. As a result, nothing bugged him more than dummies among al Qaeda's formal franchisees, loose affiliates or allies getting distracted from killing Americans; or butchering innocent Muslims; or blowing chances for alliances he sorely wanted to create. Bin Laden's advisers were astounded, for example, when al Qaeda in Iraq attacked Catholics in an attempt to pressure Coptic Christians into releasing prisoners. It's as if, one wrote, someone took Sunnis hostage to pressure Shias – "Does this satisfy any sane person?" The sheer horror of the geopolitical and historical error left bin Laden's deputies shaking their heads.
Second: managing franchise relations. Getting second-rung leadership right is important for any enterprise, and for al Qaeda that meant assuring the brand and building network capacity for terror. Bin Laden was careful about deciding who would be anointed with two powerful gifts – his blessing of leadership, and formal affiliation of groups to al Qaeda central (a term he heard used by the media and, amazingly, appropriated). Bin Laden was no pushover. In fact, the letters show that he was hands-on and prickly about all such organization matters, going so far as to require memoranda of understanding with affiliates. As for appointments, bin Laden was a stickler for a good résumé that detailed education, battlefield experience, and religious training.
"How excellent would it be," bin Laden wrote, "if you ask brother Basir to send us the résumé, in detail and lengthy, of brother Anwar al-Awlaki." And don't forget the career goals and cover letter. "Also ask brother Anwar al-Awlaki to write his vision in detail in a separate message." This, for the man nominated to run al Qaeda in Yemen.
Third: delivering on the promise of his brand and staying in the headlamps of his political support. Managing both the Arab street, upon which he counted for support, and his franchises, which were tasked to execute plots, required careful negotiation. The key was right-sizing terror. Too much wrist-chopping would serve only to alienate the street, whereas anemic targets would demoralize his men in the field. Violent, cataclysmic, high-value American kills like the Twin Towers, the USS Cole and the Nairobi embassy bombings worked for both, and for bin Laden.


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More Losses in 2010 Could Push GOP to Brink of Collapse (www.eyesonobama.com)
It couldn't happen again, right? Republicans have gotten slaughtered in two straight elections. 2006 saw a fifteen-seat majority in the House evaporate, leaving nothing behind but a minority of the same size. In the same year, a five-seat majority in the Senate turned into a 51-49 minority. Just two years later, Democrats delivered another crushing blow, taking an additional 21 seats in the House, and eight more in the Senate. In just two years, the GOP population on Capitol Hill decreased by 52 Representatives, and 14 Senators. In both houses, Republicans are dangerously close to being rendered politically irrelevant by supermajorities that could override any attempts to block Democratic legislation.
First of all, we're still in "Obama Bliss Mode" at the moment. He has been in office like what? A week? The left wingers are so happy right now and so full of bliss. Obama can't do any wrong. Things are so perfect… blah, blah, blah. Enjoy it while it lasts because it ain't going to last too long. It will for a while, but Obama's inexperience will shine though soon enough.
Second, the GOP was not slaughtered. Obama got 53% of the vote. That's not a slaughtering.
But at this point, Republicans aren't cohesively mounting any kind of new strategy. Instead, they're the opposition party, attacking a stimulus plan that has overwhelming support among voters. The only difference between now and last year is that today, Republicans don't have enough votes in Congress to block or even really stymie legislation in either House. That could get worse over the next two years.
Again, "at this point"…yes, we're not even a month into the new leadership. Hello?
Give it time. They're loading their guns still. Republicans know that for a new revolution to begin, they're going to need some momentum. If they attack now (which wouldn't be wrong), then they're going to look like winers. I say step back (but still hold to our guns) and see what happens. It's scary, yes – VERY scary, but the American voters won't know what they're missing until they get a healthy dose of the poison that Democrats spill (wow, there's a line). Things will have to get worse before they get better, unfortunately. The nation will have to bottom out – but the only fear there is that things will get so bad that there could be no swift recovery. Things are looking that way already, which is why Republicans are beginning to react already.
That's the long and short of it.
Time will tell and we'll have to wait and see what happens. It's really scary for us and we're not going to take it lying down. We'll mount an attack, be more bold and take back our nation. We're getting sick of how things are and if we're able to change things, we will. I'm speaking more about Conservatives than Republicans right now, actually.
I think things will get so bad with Democrats at the helm that the return of Conservative ideas will come much sooner than 10 years. Things move faster now. Information travels very fast – remember that.
Collapse? No, but we're looking for a leader. That's for sure.


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Before Tuesday at Central Gwinnett, Meadowcreek's baseball team had ripped off four straight wins.
In a vacuum, this seems a shrug. Baseball teams play plenty of games, sometimes two in a day, so four in a row means little, right?
But like the sport itself, plenty happens below the surface.
Consider: When Chris Reeves left the mortgage industry eight years ago to head the Mustangs, his team won just two games, barely scoring one run a game and often trailing by enough to shorten the game.
That's when the re-building began, and like Rome, it took some time. Reeves convinced the administration to let him play a non-region schedule the following season to ease the pressure and increase the competition for his players.
"We said let's play some teams we can compete with," Reeves said of the decision of dropping out of Region 8-AAAAA with state powers Brookwood and Parkview. "If we lose 8-4, at least my kids got to play seven innings, they got to know what it's like to compete and maybe in a couple of years that's a game we can win 8-4.
"It wasn't teaching our guys anything and it wasn't benefiting our guys ... to play three innings, your guys got one, maybe two at-bats. It wasn't doing anything for us."
The next year, Meadowcreek won three games. The most the Mustangs have won under Reeves were nine games in 2009, so to win nearly half of that total in a row early in the season is notable. Underneath that top-end success, modest as it may be, lays a foundation set during the Reeves' years.
This is the first season Meadowcreek has a junior varsity team, a tribute to rising interest in the program and, Reeves hopes, a harbinger of a strong future.
"That way we get some of the younger guys who might not play every day on the varsity level, they can play 10, 12 games at the JV level," Reeves said. "Gain them some playing times and at-bats and give them a chance to compete and learn the game in a game-time situation."
And with the youth and interest, the wins are coming for the young team. First baseman Eric Arp is the team's only senior and an invaluable asset.
"He leads the way," Reeves said of his senior. "He knows the way we want to do things at practice, the way we want to set things up, the ebb and flow of how practice should go. He relays it to the younger guys that way I don't have to go in and yell."
On offense, John Arnold leads the team with a .308 batting average and junior shortstop and pitcher Shea Wilkey has the team's only home run, a grand slam against Central Gwinnett on Tuesday as the team rallied from down 6-0 before falling 13-11 in eight innings. Football player and sophomore DeAndre Smith, in his first season playing baseball for the Mustangs, is hitting .296 with a pair of doubles in nine games.
"He is just a raw athlete, where if he gets a couple more years under his belt he's going to be a great ball player," Reeves said of Smith.
On the mound the younger Wilkey, Austin, is 1-4 with a 2.94 ERA and 28 strikeouts. The freshman also has a save.
For Reeves, the combination of the youth, the rising interest and, now, the wins makes this early part of the season fun. His only complaint was the rain. He wants more games.
"It's nice now that we have the success and we have a good foundation," Reeves said. "We have a good foundation of freshmen and sophomores that play a substantial amount and they contribute. It's something that we've waited a long time for, to have that youth that we can kind of build upon and we are enjoying it."
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