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Jeff and Lori Wilfhart lost their gay son, Army CPL Andrew Wilfahrt, to the Afghanistan War last year, but have been fighting for LGBT equality in his name ever since. Yesterday, they launched Veterans United to help oppose Minnesota's proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Jeff called upon fellow veterans to join them, reminding them that they once defended the Constitution "with arms," but "this fall you can do it with an ink pen." Wilfhart is also running as a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate for state representative. WCCO has video from the family's press conference.
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BOOK - Using Maps in Family History Research, Revised and Updated
By Fawne Stratford-Devai
Published by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2005
his book provides insights into the use of maps for genealogical and historical research. The visual representation of the land and communities on a map can offer evidence in its own right. It is the task of the researcher to carefully evaluate every piece of the puzzle in order to identify and understand individuals, families, migration routes, and even settlement patterns. Examples used include Canada, USA, UK, world. Every family historian can benefit from this valuable booklet.
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BOOK - How to Find Your Family History in Newspapers
By Lisa Louise Cooke
You're interested in learning more about your family history, and you've probably heard several people say "be sure to check old newspapers!" Sounds great, right? But which newspapers were around back then? And where are they now? This book provides you with a fool-proof research process, and is stuffed with everything you need for genealogical success. Readers "will find an embarrassment of riches, including an impressive appendix with a comprehensive list of online routes to national, international and local newspapers. This is as close as you'll get to one-stop shopping for learning about historical newspaper research."
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BOOK - Genealogical Standards of Evidence, A Guide for Family Historians
By Brenda Dougall Merriman
Genealogy and family history revolve around issues of identification. Genealogical evidence is the information — analyzed and evaluated — that allows us to identify an individual, and event in his or her life or the relationship between individuals. In describing how we establish or argue points of identification through the use of various sources and information, we often hear or use such words as "evidence" or "proof" or "documentation." This book will tell you about how the genealogical community developed standards of evidence and documentation, what those standards are and how you can apply them to your own work.
ISBN 978-1-55488-451-3(softcover) More information
BOOK - Evidence Explained, Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace - Second Edition
By Elizabeth Shown Mills
Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 2010
There are no historical resources we can trust at face value. Records simply offer evidence, and their assertions may or may not be true. To decide what actually happened, we must understand those records. To analyze that evidence and judge what to believe, we also need particular facts about those records. This reference book is the definitive guide to assist researchers in accurately citing and evaluating sources.
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BOOK - How Do I Prove It?
By Dr. P. Christensen
Published by National Institute of Genealogical Studies, Toronto, 2000
Are you picking your ancestors out of a hat? Or have you really proved each linkage. This practical manual for family historians and genealogists demystifies the requirements necessary for establishing a pedigree.More information
RESEARCHERS' AID: Organize it - Systematic, Safe, Accessible. Organization Tips for Genealogists
By Jane L. Down
Published by Jane L. Down, Ottawa, 2012
It can be more challenging to organize and safely store paper records, photographs, digital records and artifacts than it is to obtain them in the first place. Jane Down shares valuable tips on document and keepsake organization and preservation in this handy 4 page laminated quick reference guide for genealogists. A complete list of included topics can be found in More Information
QUICKSHEET - Citing Online Historical Resources Evidence! Style. First Revised Edition
By Elizabeth Shown Mills.
First Revised Edition with updated sample citations and style changes. Elizabeth Mills's QuickSheet provides a template for citing historical sources on the Internet. It also lays down rules to help you judge the reliability of these sources. Published in the form of a laminated folder, the QuickSheet contains a series of sample citations showing the correct way to identify online sources such as databases, census images, and digital books and articles.
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BOOK - Dictionary of Medical & Related Terms for the Family Historian
By Joan E Grundy
Published by Federation of Family History Societies, London, 2006
Joan Grundy's dictionary is designed to help fellow family historians to understand medical terms that appear in parish registers, on death certificates, and other 18th and 19th century sources. She has forty years' experience as a midwife and practice nurse. During thirty of these years, she has researched her own family history and has been involved with several family history societies. The medical terms defined here are appropriate for most places in the English speaking world, and especially useful for events recorded in countries which were influenced by British medical practise including Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
ISBN 0-9553450-0-6 (Softcover) More information
BOOK - Publish Your Family History, Preserving Your Heritage in a Book
By Susan Yates and Greg Ioannou
Many people want to write a family history, but few ever take on the job of publishing one. If you've done the research, and you want to make a book from it, then Publish Your Family History is for you. It will tell you all the fundamentals of book production, together with the important details that distinguish a home-published book from a homemade one. Even if time is at a premium, you're not comfortable with computer technology, or the budget is tight, you'll learn how to publish a professional-looking family history of your own!
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BOOK - Tracing Your Ancestors Through Family Photographs: A Complete Guide for Family & Local Historians
By Jayne Shrimpton
Published by Pen & Sword, Barnsley UK, 2014
Jayne Shrimpton's complete guide to dating, analysing and understanding family photographs is essential reading and reference for anyone undertaking genealogical and local history research. Using over 150 old photographs as examples, she shows how such images can give a direct insight into the past and into the lives of the individuals who are portrayed in them. Almost every family and local historian works with photographs, but often the fascinating historical and personal information that can be gained from them is not fully understood. They are one of the most vivid and memorable ways into the past. This concise but comprehensive guide describes the various types of photograph and explains how they can be dated. It analyses what the clothes and style of dress can tell us about the people in the photographs, their circumstances and background. Sections look at photographs of special occasions - baptisms, weddings, funerals - and at photographs taken in wartime, on holiday and at work. There is advice on how to identify the individuals shown and how to find more family photographs through personal connections, archives and the internet - and how to preserve them for future generations. Jayne Shrimpton's handbook is an authoritative, accessible guide to old photographs that no family or local historian can be without.
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BOOK - Fashionable Folks: Bonnets and Hats 1840-1900
By Maureen A. Taylor
Published by Picture Perfect Press, USA, 2011
Maureen A. Taylor, expert in historical photography, and author of authoritive books on identifying dates, people and places in old photographs, has turned her attention to headwear in Fashionable Folks: Bonnets and Hats 1840-1900. Throughout history, hats have been a prevalent part of life. Sometimes they served a very practical function and sometimes had only a fashionable purpose. Between 1840 and 1900 hats were worn by nearly everyone on a daily basis. Examining the hats, bonnets, and other toppers in pictures of one's ancestors can surprising information about the individual. Taylor helps unlock these fashionable mysteries through the information provided in this guide.
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BOOK - Fashionable Folks: Hairstyles 1840-1900
By Maureen A. Taylor
Published by Picture Perfect Press, USA, 2009
Using the clues from Maureen Taylor, you can learn a surprising amount about your ancestors by studying their portraits. How they wore their locks for the photographer — whether straight or curled, clean shaven or fringed, oiled or bewigged — will tell you a lot about them. Maureen Taylor's tips for "reading" the clues of clothing and hairstyles will help you discover when those pictures were taken, how old the subjects were at the time, and how wealthy they were. Hairstyles can even tell us a great deal about their personalities: Were they conservative or up on the latest trends? Who were their heroes and role models? What was their relationship to each other. This book is particularly useful to genealogists, social and personal historians, costume designers and hairstylists.
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BOOK - International Vital Records Handbook. 5th Edition (2009)
By: Thomas Jay Kemp. This tome includes information and forms for the United States (all states), Canada (all provinces) plus another 203 countries. A fantastic resource! At one time or another all of us need copies of birth, marriage, or death certificates for driver's licenses, passports, jobs, social security, family history research, or for simple proof of identify. But the requirements and fees needed to obtain copies of vital records vary from from country to country, often requiring a time-wasting exchange of correspondence before the appropriate forms can be obtained. The International Vital Records Handbook puts an end to all that, as it offers complete, up-to-date information on how and where to request vital records. It also includes copies of the application forms, where available, thus simplifying and speeding up the process by which vital records are obtained.
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BOOK - Help! I've Inherited an Attic Full of History - Revised Edition
By Althea Douglas, M.A. C.G.(C)
This is a practical book that provides good, sound techniques for evaluation, conservation, storage and display of family documents, photographs and artifacts in the home enviroment.
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BOOK - Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians
By Elizabeth Shown Mills
Published by Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore, 2002
Professional Genealogy is a manual by professionals for everyone serious about genealogy. For family historians who want to do their own study, reliably, it describes the standards. For hobbyists, attorneys, and medical scientists who seek professional researchers, it's a consumer guide that defines quality and facilitates choices. For librarians who struggle to help a whole new class of patrons, it provides a bridge to the methods, sources, and minutiae of "history, up-close and personal." For established genealogical professionals, it offers benchmarks by which they can advance their skills and places their businesses on sounder footing. And for all those who dream of turning a fascinating hobby into a successful career, Professional Genealogy details the preparation and the processes. Its twenty-nine chapters, written by two dozen scholars, cover the following topic areas: research skills and the analysis of evidence, writing and compiling genealogical research, the core genealogy library collection, genealogical ethics and standards, editing and publishing, and topics relating to the profession of genealogist.More information
BOOK - Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemean Solved the Greatest medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
By Stephen R. Brown
Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The cure for scurvy ranks among the greatest of human accomplishments, yet its impact on history has, until now, been largely ignored. Scurvy is an evocative journey back to the era of wooden ships and sails, when the disease infiltrated every aspect of seafaring life: press gangs "recruit" mariners on the way home from a late night at the pub; a terrible voyage in search of riches ends with a hobbled fleet and half the crew heaved overboard; Cook majestically travels the South Seas but suffers an unimaginable fate. Brimming with tales of ships, sailors, and baffling bureaucracy, Scurvy is a rare mix of compelling history and classic adventure story.
ISBN: 0-88762-178-3 [2004] (Softcover) More information
USED & ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS: Misc. Genealogy & History (concerns more than one country or topic):
By Don Steel and Lawrence Taylor, editors
Lutterworth Press, Guildford Surrey, England, 1984. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2. 192 pages. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Both hardcover book and dust jacket in very good condition showing slight shelving wear, never been read. Dedicated and signed by one of the editor. ISBN 0718825306. Click for image
USED BOOK - Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and useful Information 1889.
By Barkham Burrough, compiler
Bonanza Books, N.Y. U.S.A., 1983. 8-3/4 x 11-1/4. 148 pages. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Both hardcover book and dust jacket in good condition showing slight shelving wear, some smudge on dust jacket, otherwise very good condition, never been read. This reprint originally published in1889. ISBN 0517679507. Click for image
USED BOOK - A Primer of Population Genetics.
By Daniel L. Hartl
Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Mass., 1981 . 6 x 9. 191 pages. Paperback, Perfect Bound, some shelving wear, cover cracked on right edge, some pencil notes and underlining on some pages, in good condition. ISBN 0878932712. Click for image
USED BOOK - A Visual Guide to Flags of the World.
By V.S. de Kleer
Nimbus Publishing Ltd, Halifax, N.S. 2005. 5-3/4 x 8-1/2. 54 pages. Paperback, Perfect Bound, in pristine condition. ISBN 1551095173. Click for image
USED BOOK - Historian's Handbook, A Key to the Study and Writing of History
By Wood Gray and other collaborators
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 1964. 6 x 9-1/4. 88 pages. Soft cover, slight shelving wear, in very good condition. ISBN None.
USED BOOK - Our Family Tree A History of Our Family
By Julie Hausner, orig.
Poplar Books, Inc. New Jersey, 1977. 8-3/4 x 11-1/4. 142 pages. Hardcover, record your family tree in this especially designed record book. Some small chips along bottom of front cover, gilt stamping on cover and spine, good clean condition. ISBN 0890091366. Click for image
USED BOOK B - The Library, A guide to the LDS Family History Library.
By Johni Cerny & Wendy Elliott, editors
Ancestry Inc., 1988. 8-1/2 x 11-1/4. 763 pages. Hardcover, dust cover crimped on front edge and chipped on top edge, hardcover in pristine condition. ISBN 0916489213. Click for image
USED BOOK - Annie's Letters.
Edited by Roger B. and David A. Flint
Published by Half Dome Press, Hertfordshire, UK 2000. . 6.0 x 9.0. 289 pages. Black and White photos and illustrations. Appendices and index. , ISBN 0-9528513-0-3. Green card stock cover, perfect bound. Book is in good used condition with some shelf wear on bottom and spine. Annie's Letters, The letters of Elizabeth Annie Kimpton, Written from Canada and the United States to her family in Abbots, Langley, 1937-38. Click for image
USED BOOK The Great Pretenders, The True Stories behind Famous Historical Mysteries.
By Jan Bondeson.
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, USA. 2004. Light and Dark Orange Hard cover, with Red text on spine + Dust Jacket. . 6.25 x 9.50. 326 pages. Book is in excellent like new condition as is the dust jacket. Notes, no index. 0-393-01969-1. Stories behind Impostors and Errors in History. Click for image with dust jacket Click for image without dust jacket
USED BOOK - Family History Made Easy
By Loretto Dennis Szucss
Where do I start? What records should I look for? And what can they tell me about my heritage? Family History Made Easy guides you steadily and easily though the sometimes confusing world of family history research. 215 pages, Softcover 5.5 x 8.5, extensive index. Published by Ancestry in 1998. ISBN 0-916489-72-8. Click for image
TRAINING VIDEOS on CD - Legacy Training Video, Vol.. 2. ( 4 CD's).
By Millenia.com.
Published by Millenia/Legacy in the US. Legacy for Beginners contains the following discs 1. Tagging and Searching Made Easy 2. Creating & Sharing Perfecrt Reports 3. Insider's Guide to Legacy: Tips and Tripcks 4. Picturing Your Legacy: A Video Gde to Working with Digital Pictures in Legacy. Learn Legacy at your own pace from the comfort of your own computer. Click for image
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While paying his old office a weekend visit, Jimsu from Katy, Texas didn't catch the original note (or, perhaps, conversation) that precipitated this huffy screed from the mailman…
…but he did spot the follow-up from the office smartass.
While paying his old office a weekend visit, Jimsu from Katy, Texas didn't catch the original note (or, perhaps, conversation) that precipitated this huffy screed from the mailman…
…but he did spot the follow-up from the office smartass.
Tags: "customer service" · excessive underlining · going postal · note wars · office · oh snap · Texas · you be the judge
Alexa in Texas works in a graduate lab of five students. One Friday, she says, "our advisor came in around 9:30 a.m. looking for us. No dice: except for one poor guy, we were all out." When the hard-working crew finally rolled in around 1:30 (or, um, 3 p.m.), they were greeted by this inspirational slogan pinned to the door.
Tags: CAPS LOCK · college life · lab rats · now that's management · office · Texas
Sure, those luxury condos going up all over downtown Austin might look swanky, but our anonymous Austin submitter says her building offers plenty of exciting local color you won't find in those glass-and-steel towers.
Perks include: 1) the building's property manager, a character known for his impassioned screeds about everything from trash cans to expired vehicle registrations, and 2) a recurring sewage back-up that flows into the downstairs bathrooms of all the units. Rock 'n' roll, dude!
"The roto-rooter has said repeatedly that the backup is caused by roots growing into the sewer system," our submitter says, but that explanation didn't seem to satisfy her tireless PM. Now he's offering tenants flexible lease arrangements, too!
related: A filthy hap pit
Tags: all clogged up · Austin · CAPS LOCK · landlords and property managers · toilet
While you were drunk-texting your latest Eugene Mirman sighting to all your pals, more industrious folk like Bryan from Minneapolis, Betsy from L.A., and Adele from Montreal were documenting the comedic gold being served up by Austin bartenders.
related: Reporting not-exactly-live from SXSW
Tags: Austin · bar · money · most popular notes of 2008 · tipping
Before I pass out, I bring you a few of my favorite more-aggressive-than-passive notes from the music clubs of Austin.
First, from Scoot Inn…
More bouncer sass from (I think) Beerland…
And lastly, from Emo's…
related: I used to be your biggest fan
At Stanly's office in Houston, the team has a whiteboard they update everyday with their accomplishments. Afer accidentally erasing his update, Stanly's boss left him this message.
Of course, Stanly had to return the gesture.
related: the post-it wars
Tags: Houston · now that's management · office · rebuttals
Many offices, it seems, are a regular Disneyland of what only appear to be inanimate objects. The evidence?
From Frank in San Francisco, a sentient sponge:
From Amy in Annapolis, Maryland, a talking toilet:
From Ben in San Antonio, Texas, a talking door:
And then there's my favorite – from an anonymous submitter in Washington, D.C. – a talking (and walking) microwave:
(Most baffling…where on earth did that clip art come from?)
related: I guess that's why
Tags: Annapolis · CAPS LOCK · cleaning · clip art catastrophe · confusion??? · D.C. · irregular capitalization · Maryland · microwave · opening/closing · San Antonio · San Francisco · Texas · toilet
Our anonymous submitter from Dallas works in the creative department of a large corporation that's recently cut back on extras like holiday parties and cake and fruit. This Scrooge-like misanthropy seems to have taken a toll on staff morale — even among the determined breed of office "fun fund" leaders.
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Since we have no more motherly types left (Denise, Andrea, etc.), I have been elected to be the cruise director this year.
We're doing it from next Monday (the 10th) to next Friday (the 14th), since people will start going out of town the week after that.
We have a $20 max. You can spend it however you like. You can get your person a $4 gift every day, a big $20 gift on the last day, or however you want to break it up.
If you' like to participate, please come sign up at my desk by tomorrow by noon. I will be drawing the names at lunch time. It's not mandatory for everyone to play, but just do it. Don't be a grinch!
If you don't care what your Santa gets you that is fine, but if you do, please post a "Secret Santa Wish List" on your cube, so that they will have an idea what you like, and can go shopping this weekend.
Also, don't give people used stuff (the person who gave me the half burned candle two years ago knows who they are!).
Tags: actions speak louder · Dallas/Fort Worth · holiday spirit · office · party planning committee
Karolina in Dallas says she typically tries to wait her husband out in situations like this one, but she almost always ends up caving — "particularly when mold is involved."
related: 10 people, 1 kitchen
Tags: Dallas/Fort Worth · dishes · mold · sig o
Carlina in Texas is close with her parents, but she's been having a bit of a rough time lately. Apparently Carlina's mother has grown tired of her daughter's apathy/hostility/general malaise, and slipped this classic mom note under her door.
If that note didn't remind you of your own mom, perhaps you can relate to this one from Alexandra (or rather, her friend) which displays a more familiar variety of maternal guilt trip. it's like your teenage years condensed into note form!
P.S. Carlina says she definitely plans to take her mom up on the dinner.
related: Cleaning party!
Tags: cleaning · family · guilt trip · Moms & Dads · signed with love · Texas


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DULUTH, Minn. (AP) -- A lawsuit filed on behalf of a man who claims he was sexually abused by a priest in the Diocese of Duluth in the 1970s is asking the diocese to release its list of 17 priests accused of molesting minors.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in St. Louis County District Court.
It alleges the diocese was negligent because it failed to protect children from a priest who had been previously accused of molesting boys. It says the diocese gave parents no warning that the priest was a risk.
In 2004, the diocese compiled a list of 17 priests who had been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors. Attorneys for abuse victims want that list to be public.
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It's not very often the concept of restorative justice gets much play outside scholarly publications or reformist criminal justice circles, so first, some credit for Max Fisher at The Atlantic for giving it an earnest look last week. In seeking to explain Norway's seemingly measly twenty-one-year sentence for remorseless, mass-murdering white supremacist Anders Breivik—a sentence that is certain to be extended to last the rest of his life—Fisher casts a critical eye on the underlying philosophy that animates that country's sentencing practices, finding it to be "radically different" from what we're used to in the United States.The Effectiveness of Restorative Justice Practices: A Meta-Analysis [more inside]
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Immediately after the Supreme Court's decision in Rasul, The Center for Constitutional Rights and cooperating counsel filed 11 new habeas petitions in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of over 70 detainees. These cases eventually became the consolidated cases of Al Odah v. United Statesand Boumediene v. Bush, the leading cases determining the significance of the Supreme Court's decision in Rasul, the rights of non-citizens to challenge the legality of their detention in an offshore U.S. military base, and the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.


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enhance disaster management. In 1995-1997 he was a AAAS Science, Engineering, and Diplomacy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development, where he worked on environmental management, technology transfer, and information and telecommunications policy issues. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Washington in 1996 and a B.S. in physics with honors from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1988.
David Padgham rejoined CSTB as an associate program officer in the spring of 2006 following nearly 2 years as a policy analyst in the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM's) Washington, D.C., Office of Public Policy, where he worked closely with that organization's public policy committee, USACM. Previously, he spent nearly 6 years with CSTB, working on—among other things—the studies that produced Trust in Cyberspace, Funding a Revolution, Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress, and The Internet's Coming of Age. Currently, he is focused on the CSTB projects related to telecommunications R&D, software dependability, and privacy in the information age. He holds a master's degree in library and information science (2001) from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a bachelor of arts degree (1996) in English from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C.
Cynthia A. Patterson (study director through June 2004) was a study director and program officer with the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. She worked on a diverse set of CSTB projects, including a project on critical information infrastructure protection and the law, a study on the future of supercomputing, and a study on telecommunications research and development. She was also involved with the congressionally mandated study on Internet searching and the Domain Name System. Prior to joining CSTB, Patterson completed an M.Sc. from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her graduate work was supported by the Department of Defense and SAIC. She was also employed by IBM as an IT consultant for both federal government and private industry clients; her work included application development, database administration, network administration, and project management. She received a B.Sc. in computer science from the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Jennifer M. Bishop, program associate, has been with the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board since 2001. She is currently involved in studies on policy consequences and legal/ethical implications of offensive information warfare and assessing the information technology research and development ecosystem. She also maintains CSTB's contact database, handles updates to the CSTB Web site, coordinates the layout and design of Update, the CSTB newsletter, and designs book covers and promotional materials. Prior to her move to Washington, Bishop worked for the city of Ithaca, New York, coordinating the Police Department's transition to a new SQL-based time accrual and scheduling application. Her other work experience includes designing customized hospitality industry performance reports for RealTime Hotel Reports, LLC, maintaining the police records database for the city of Ithaca, and freelance publication design. She is a visual artist working in oil and mixed media. She holds a B.F.A. from Cornell University.


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The Newspaper Guild of New York says New York Times management "took a slightly less offensive approach to contract talks" on Monday, but "most major proposals were unchanged: Management still wants to freeze Guild members' pension accruals and eliminate Guild trustees from the plan; still wants to cut severance pay and buyout terms; and still wants overtime pay to be on a weekly rather than a daily basis." The bulletin is after the jump. Read More
Daily Archives: March 26, 2012
Afternoon report
* NYT public editor weighs in on the cookbook ghostwriting kerfuffle. (New York Times)
* Will Bunch: How is it "civic duty" to eviscerate your future newsroom with more job cuts? (Philly.com)
* New York Daily News managing editor Bob Sapio leaves the paper after 40 years. (New York Observer)
* "Are you or are you not sleeping with me?" Drake asks GQ writer. (Los Angeles Times)
* Brian Lamb admits that C-SPAN is "not the greatest name around." (TV Newser)
* Cincinnati Enquirer loses its top two sports editors. (Cincy CityBeat)
* From waitressing to writing for NYT: Interview with Jennifer Mascia. (Community College Success)
* Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call to close after a century of publishing. (Leader-Call)
* Recall of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School paper sparks confusion and controversy. (Bethesda Magazine)
* Florida Times-Union reporter arrested for misusing 911 system. (Florida Times-Union) || UPDATE: She shouldn't have been arrested, says chief.
* "I miss the newspaper industry and I love McClatchy," says Anchorage paper's new hire. (Duluth News-Tribune)
* Chicago Reader to post 40 years of long-form film reviews. (Chicago Reader)
Society writer by day, stripper by night
Houston Chronicle society writer Sarah Tressler moonlights as a stripper, reports Houston Press's Richard Connelly, who hears that her newsroom colleagues aren't pleased. His source says it's "because she barely bothers to conceal her identity and they're worried about the reaction from the 'ladies who lunch' when they inevitably find out that they've been hosting an active stripper at their benefits. And furious because she "flaunts" her "stripper money" around the office in the form of expensive designer clothes and handbags. And furious because the Chron staff feels like she's just using them as fodder for a future roman a clef."
I called Tressler (@chrongossipgirl), got her voice-mail, and left a message inviting comment.
* Houston Chronicle society writer by day, stripper by night
* "Diary of an Angry Stripper" on Facebook
Thank you for setting that straight
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***EXCLUSIVE: CHRIS HANSEN from "Dateline NBC" called THE MOJO IN THE MORNING SHOW (WKQI/ Detroit and KOHT/ Tucson) to "make good" for an interview during which he hung up on show hosts Mojo, Spike & Shannon after they asked him about his alleged affair with Florida television reporter Kristyn Caddell.
During the "make good" interview, Hansen explained what was REALLY going on in the photos and videos that The National Enquirer printed, of Hansen and Caddell together at a hotel.
Interview audio: http://www.mojointhemorning.com/pages/show_archive.html?feed=184218&article=9942567
How about giving this artist some credit?
Letter to JimRomenesko.com
From JEFF HARLEY: I'm a creative that runs Chicago-based urbaneyez.com in my free time. It's a local art-house blog that features all my original video, photo and writing work that I discover throughout the city.
Some of the stories that I have covered are starting to gain traction. Some of the videos I have created — by myself and without pay — are now being featured on sites like The Guardian, GQ Mag, The Reader and a slew of other blog type sites. The one thing I've found is that bloggers have always been kind with hyperlinks and credit, while the major sites have not even mentioned me as the creator of the video that is displayed prominently on their website. The most recent example may be found this week [on GQ.com].
Do you think I have any standing to demand any type of video credit or at least attribution via a link back to my site for this type of embedding? Or am I on my own? I didn't want to demand something for which I'm not even sure I have a right to demand. I was just curious if there is a book or guidance anywhere that can help shed light on the Ps & Qs of these things. Obviously, I'm very proud that my work is being featured on bigger sites, but I also feel a little left out because I'm not given any credit in a major publication. [I told him he should let the sites know he wants credit. Your thoughts on his inquiry and the big sites' handling of his work?]
The worst 'reporting assignment' ever?
What?! A reporter has to hang out with a chef in his or her kitchen and then "put together an article on the experience" for an advertorial?
I called Cape Gazette editor and co-owner Trish Vernon to find out more.
"The woman who does this is a freelancer — she's not one of our staff reporters," says Vernon. The ad is "written as a news story but as far as it's presented in the paper, it's not in the same typeface as our news stories."
The 13,000-circulation, twice-weekly paper has seven reporters, says the editor, and they're not expected to do the advertorials. Vernon says she doesn't know how many advertisers have taken advantage of the offer. "I'm not on that side of the business."
* Professional restaurant profiles!
UPDATE: Cape Gazette news editor Laura Ritter sends this email:
I know you called Trish Vernon to ask her directly about a Cape Gazette promotion, but as she told you, she is not involved in it and was not aware of the post on our website promoting it, written by one of our advertising reps. The problem is really with the wording of the promotion, which is erroneous.
The Fresh Sheet is an idea pitched by the woman who is going to write the advertising copy; she asked our ad staff to consider it, and the ad staff agreed to try it. She is a freelance writer. This is not an assignment at all, let alone the worst assignment ever. Our promo should have called the page a paid advertisement, not a feature. When it runs in the paper, it will be clearly marked "Paid advertisement" at the bottom, and there is a second disclaimer at the top. Our error was in the wording of the promo, not in the ads, which have not yet been published.
The Cape Gazette is vigilant when it comes to maintaining a clear distinction between ads and stories; any ad that could look like a news story is required to use fonts that are distinct from our copy and must prominently carry the words "Paid Advertisement." When this new ad appears in our paper, I am confident readers will have no confusion that it is anything other than a paid ad.
I suggest those who can't wait to slam the Cape Gazette on your blog wait until they see the ad in the paper and judge for themselves whether there is any confusion.
Thanks for raising these issues; we are in full agreement that there should be a bright line of distinction between advertisement and news.
Paper's 'Best of Burlington' results tainted
Calkins Media vice president Thomas Spurgeon tells readers that he hired lawyers to investigate the Burlington County Times's "Best of Burlington 2011 Readers' Choice Awards" and they found that "voting results for several of the categories were not accurately reflected in the special advertising section in which the results were announced" and "the results did not reflect the high ethical standards that we set for ourselves." Did advertisers pay someone at the paper to "win"? A Romenesko tipster says: "Employees used to openly joke that these things could be bought. For this to be disclosed on A1, the shit must have really hit the fan somehow."
I'm hoping Spurgeon will tell Romenesko readers more. I've left a phone message for him.
The paper says it's set these new rules for the 2012 contest:
* Readers' votes will be directed to a third-party accounting firm, Kreischer Miller, to tabulate and confirm the top vote getters.
* The paper will no longer sell advertising in the section where the voting results will be published.
* A corporate ombudsman has been named to oversee the voting process.
What 'The Daily Show' can teach j-students
The way that "Daily Show" writers put together their fake news isn't so different than the way college journalists write real news, Michael Koretzky discovered after hearing two of Jon Stewart's writers at last week's NYC12 college media event.
I booked [Hallie] Haglund and [Zhubin] Parang as the opening keynoters. And I caught some flak for it.
A few professors (and even some students) thought this was a trivial topic for such an august gathering. What can The Daily Show teach daily reporters?
As it turns out, a lot.
Philly.com 'doesn't much like news'
Former Philadelphia Inquirer metro columnist Tom Ferrick calls Philly.com "an anomaly among the newspaper-related web sites in America in that it doesn't much like news." The people behind the site know they can't get millions of unique visitors with news stories, he says, because "news is dull." They think, "Sports is better. Gossip is better still. Showing a woman with big breasts is good." That harms the print newspapers, says Ferrick.
The Inquirer and Daily News are brands built on good journalism — and good journalistic practices. Their value is in their truthfulness and reliability.
Philly.com doesn't share those values. It doesn't work under the same rules. Therefore, it runs the risk of pulling the papers down to its level. That cheapens the brand.
Philly.com editor Wendy Warren tells me that Ferrick is wrong about Philly.com staffers' view of news.
"I want to make emphatically clear that news is the lifeblood of philly.com — we absolutely care very much about news." She points out this morning's lead stories on the site are about a priest's trial, an FBI sting, and the Trayvon Martin case.
There have been cheerleader galleries on the site, but "finding a balance between light and heavy is something journalists have done in my 20 years in the business and certainly before that," says Warren.
"News is what brings people back to the site and we are extremely conscious of that. We have increased our staffing for breaking news" and will continue to. "News could not be more important to us."
Santorum accuses NYT reporter of 'distorting my words'
I ask Santorum if Romney is "worst Republican" to run. He says: "Quit distorting my words It's bullshit." He says he was talking health care
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) March 26, 2012
The Santorum-Zeleny exchange starts at 00:42.
After cursing at New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny, Rick Santorum told Fox News that he "had enough of you know what" and said that "if you haven't cursed out a New York Times reporter during the course of a campaign, you're not really a real Republican. || Maggie Haberman writes in a Politico post that "the notion that politicians don't swear is almost as entertaining as the faux shock whenever they do publicly. But, it never goes unnoticed, and it's not exactly common for recent presidential hopefuls."
* Rick Santorum curses New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny (USA Today)
* "What speech did you listen to?" Santorum told the New York Times (NYT)
The newspaper that rules Britain
What we learn from Lauren Collins' piece on The Daily Mail ("The newspaper that rules Britain") in this week's New Yorker:
* The Mail sees itself as the defender of traditional British values. Its detractors call it the Hate Mail or the Daily Fail. It's considered the most powerful newspaper in Great Britain, with a daily readership of 4.5 million.
* "The Mail's closest analogue in the American media is perhaps Fox News," writes Collins. "In Britain, unlike in the United States, television tends to be a dignified affair, while print is berserk and shouty."
* Editor Paul Dacre believes American newspapers "forgot that there's a huge market out there of people who are serious-minded but also want some fun in their reading."
* "The Mail takes a skeptical view of celebrities. It covers them, maximally, but often its stories are about their fading looks, their failing marriages, their hypocrisy, their illegitimate children."
* Mail Online brought in $25 million last year — up 65% from the year before — but it still isn't profitable because of expansion investments.
* Mail Online editor Martin Clarke contends his site adheres to fair-use rules. (It's often accused of lifting others' work.) "We never like to follow a story without improving it, with either new facts, graphics, pictures, or video." Clarke says the site will soon be introducing features "that will allow us to link easily and prominently to other sites when further recognition of source material is needed."


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|21 Nov 2012
BSOD when streaming video
Hello everyone, for the last 3 days Ive been having some problems with my computer, when Im streaming videos online the computer randomly crashes or restarts by itself. Ive been trying to find some info about it but nothing has actually help. Attached are the .dmp files, if anyone can help I would really appreciate it
thank you for your time
|My System Specs
|22 Nov 2012
Welcome aboard.
Your display driver is very old.
lmvm atikmpag start end module name fffff880`04a3b000 fffff880`04a76000 atikmpag T (no symbols) Loaded symbol image file: atikmpag.sys Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\atikmpag.sys Image name: atikmpag.sys Timestamp: Wed May 12 06:54:19 2010 (4BEA0343) CheckSum: 00044ACB ImageSize: 0003B000 Translations: 0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4
There are a lot of USB related errors.
For the port, first, uninstall and reinstall the USB ports drivers.
USB Selective Suspend - Turn On or Off
For the devices, first, detach all the USB devices other than the keyboard and mouse.
Then, Update the drivers for them all, including the keyboard and mouse, if any third party drivers are installed for them.
AMD AHCI Compatible Controller driver
fffff880`02ffadc8 fffff880`00db1720Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\amdsbs.sys, Win32 error 0n2 *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for amdsbs.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for amdsbs.sys amdsbs+0x7720
Ralink RT2860 series Wireless LAN Card (you may have a different manufacturer)
fffff880`02ffa268 fffff880`02d70616Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\netr28x.sys, Win32 error 0n2 *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for netr28x.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for netr28x.sys netr28x+0x15616
Let us know the results.
|My System Specs
|22 Nov 2012
i really appreciate your answer and time
i will try this but now, i try to turn on my pc and it boots but the screen goes to sleep mode right away and the keyboard and mouse wont work, what could be causing this?
|My System Specs
|22 Nov 2012
Boot into safe mode. Is it behaving the same?
|My System Specs
|22 Nov 2012
it wont even let me go to safe mode, when i turn on the cpu the monitor does nothin, just says "no signal, goin to sleep mode" somethin like that, and the keyboard and the mouse look like they get no power
|My System Specs
|22 Nov 2012
First make it sure that the power chords are properly connected, and try to understand ... is the PSU fan working?
|My System Specs
|22 Nov 2012
the computer boots normally now, it might have been one of the rams that was loose, hopefully i wont have that problem again
now back to the other problem, i updated the catalyst
followed the steps to fix the usb errors
but now on the amd drivers website i couldnt find the AMD AHCI Compatible Controller driver so i download the app to autodetect but im not sure if it did fix that and i went to this website and i found this DriverUpdate.net - ATI Technologies Inc. AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller Driver
but im not sure if it would be ok with my HP cpu
and for the wireless card you said it was a RT2860 but my specs say it is a RT3090 but they only have an update for winxp for the rt3090...should i download the one for the RT2860 anyways?
thank you for your help
|My System Specs
|23 Nov 2012
IMO, it is better to not use RAID. IF possible, disable RAID.
About the network driver, may be I read it wrong, but can you find an update for the card? If so, install it.
|My System Specs
|23 Nov 2012
If i disable RAID wouldnt I lose all my data? and im just curious, why would it be better to disable it? and where can i find how to do it?
about the network card, i went to the website and they only have an update for RT3090 for xp not for Windows 7 so i have to look somewhere else
|My System Specs
|23 Nov 2012
Windows 8.1 Pro x64
Hello totumin01,
What type of RAID are you using?
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Michael J. Astrue
Michael J. Astrue has served as a Director of the Company since July 2013 and was elected to be non-executive Chairman of the Board on July 22, 2013. From 2007 to 2013, Mr. Astrue served as Commissioner of Social Security and as one of the six Trustees of the Medicare and Social Security Trust Funds. He also served as the interim Chief Executive Officer of Epix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2005 to 2006, as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. from 2003 to 2005, and from 2000 to 2003 as its Senior Vice President – Administration & General Counsel. Prior to joining Transkaryotic Therapies, Mr. Astrue was Vice President and General Counsel of Biogen, Inc. from 1993 to 1999 and from 1992 to 1993 was a partner at the law firm of Mintz, Levin, Glovsky, Cohn, Ferris & Popeo P.C. Mr. Astrue received his J.D. from Harvard University Law School and his B.A. from Yale University.
J. Martin Carroll
J. Martin Carroll has served as a Director of the Company since May 2013. From August 2002 through March 2013, Mr. Carroll served at Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH (BI), a pharmaceutical company, most recently as Head, Global Strategy and Development. After joining BI in August 2002, Mr. Carroll was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Boehringer Ingelheim US in January 2003 and served through 2011. From 1985 to 2001, Mr. Carroll served in various marketing, business development, sales and administrative positions at Merck & Co., Inc., a public pharmaceutical company. From 1984 to 1985, Mr. Carroll served as a Merck Executive on the President's Commission on Executive Exchange at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. From 1976 to 1984, he served in various operational roles at Merck & Co., Inc. From 2004 to 2005, he served on the board of Accredo Health Group, Inc., a public company acquired by Medco Health Solutions, Inc., which provides specialty pharmacy and related services. Mr. Carroll holds a B.A. from Holy Cross College and a M.B.A. from Babson University.
Samuel F. Colin, M.D.
Samuel F. Colin, M.D. has served as a Director of the Company since July 19, 2013. Dr. Colin is currently a Senior Managing Director at First Manhattan Co., which provides investment management services to individuals, partnerships, trusts, retirement accounts and institutional clients. He has been employed at First Manhattan since 1994, and has served as the sole portfolio manager, since inception, of two pooled investment vehicles, beginning in 1998; the vehicles currently have assets under management of over $500,000,000. From 1992 to 1994, Dr. Colin was an intern and resident in dermatology at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Dr. Colin earned his M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine, where he researched molecular neuropharmacology, and his B.Sc. Human Biology from Brown University.
Alexander J. Denner, Ph.D.,
Alexander J. Denner, Ph.D., has served as a Director of the Company since July 2013. In 2012, Dr. Denner founded Sarissa Capital Management LP, a registered investment advisor. Sarissa Capital focuses on improving the strategies of companies to better provide shareholder value. From 2006 to November 2011, Dr. Denner served as a Senior Managing Director of Icahn Capital, and prior to that, he served as a portfolio manager at Viking Global Investors and Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Dr. Denner has been a Director of Biogen Idec Inc. since 2009 and Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since 2009. During the past five years, Dr. Denner has also served as a Director of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., ImClone Systems Incorporated, a company where he was Chairman of Executive Committee, and Adventrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Denner received his S.B. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.S., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University.
Seth H. Z. Fischer
Seth H.Z. Fischer has served as Chief Executive Officer and a Director since September 3, 2013. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Trius Therapeutics, Inc. and BioSig Technologies, Inc, and an advisor to MedHab, LLC. Mr. Fischer served in positions of increasing responsibility with Johnson & Johnson from 1983 until his retirement in 2012. Most recently, Mr. Fischer served as Company Group Chairman Johnson & Johnson and Worldwide Franchise Chairman, Cordis Corporation from 2008 to 2012, and as Company Group Chairman, North America Pharmaceuticals from 2004 to 2007, which included responsibilities for Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals, Janssen and Scios. Prior to that, Mr. Fischer served as President of Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals from 2000 to 2004. His operating responsibilities encompassed the commercialization of products in multiple therapeutic categories including Topamax® for epilepsy and migraine and products in the analgesic, anti-infective, cardiovascular, neurologic, psychiatric and women's health areas. Mr. Fischer earned a Bachelor of General Studies from Ohio University and served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force.
Johannes J.P. Kastelein
Johannes J.P. Kastelein has served as a Director of the Company since July 2013. Since January 2003, Dr. Kastelein has been a Professor of Medicine at the Department of Vascular Medicine at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, where he holds the Strategic Chair of Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease. In 2012, Dr. Kastelein founded Dezima Pharma B.V. and he currently serves on its Board of Directors. Dr. Kastelein was also one of the founders of Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics, Inc. (currently, UniQure B.V.) and currently serves as the major consultant for the distribution of the gene therapy in the European Union. He also is an executive consultant to the cardiovascular and metabolic franchises of many leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Kastelein also serves on the Board of the Dutch Atherosclerosis Society and as Chair of the National Scientific Committee on Familial Hypercholesterolemia. He is a member of the Royal Dutch Society for Medicine & Physics, the Council for Basic Science of the American Heart Association, the European Atherosclerosis Society and is a fellow at the European Society of Cardiology. Dr. Kastelein received his medical degree in Amsterdam in 1980. Between 1986 and 1988, he was trained in medical genetics, lipidology and molecular biology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and in 1997 and 1998, he served a visiting Professorship at the Center for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Upon his return to the Netherlands, he was awarded a doctorate (Cum Laude) and in 1989 he founded the Lipid Research Clinic at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam.
Mark B. Logan
Mark B. Logan has served as a Director of the Company since March 1999 and served as Chairman of the Board through July 2013. From November 1994 until his retirement in 2001, Mr. Logan served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VISX, Inc. Mr. Logan was also Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Insmed Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he served on its board since its founding in 1988. Prior to Insmed, Mr. Logan was a principal at McManus Associates, Inc., and prior to that served as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and as a member of the board of Bausch & Lomb. Since November 2010, Mr. Logan has also served on the board of STAAR Surgical Company, a public company that designs, develops and manufactures intraocular lenses, and since 2011, on the Board of Gencia Corporation, a private biotechnology company. In addition, since 2002, Mr. Logan has served on the advisory board of The University of Virginia Heart and Vascular Center and has been a Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Southern Environmental Law Center since 2002. In 1999, Mr. Logan was inducted into the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame. Mr. Logan holds a B.A. from Hiram College, was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at New York University and completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School.
David York Norton
David York Norton has served as a Director of the Company since July 2013. Mr. Norton was Company Group Chairman, Global Pharmaceuticals for Johnson & Johnson, until his retirement in September 2011. Mr. Norton began his Johnson & Johnson career in 1979, and held a number of positions at the company, including Company Group Chairman, Worldwide Commercial and Operations for the CNS, Internal Medicine franchise, Company Group Chairman for the pharmaceutical businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Company Group Chairman for the pharmaceutical businesses in North America. Mr. Norton also serves as a Director of Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc., where he has served since September 2011, Director of the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development since December 2012 and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Since 2012, Mr. Norton has served as Senior Advisor to Tapestry Networks. Mr. Norton is a graduate of Control Data Institute, Australia and the College of Distributive Trades, London UK.
Jorge Plutzky, M.D.
Jorge Plutzky, M.D. has served as a director of the Company since May 2013. Since 1996, he has served as the Director of The Vascular Disease Prevention Program, which includes the Lipid/Prevention Clinic, in the Cardiovascular Medicine Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he is also Co-Director of Preventive Cardiology. Since 1995, he has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Plutzky has been a member of the scientific advisory boards of the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation since 2009 and Ember Therapeutics since 2012. Dr. Plutzky has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Plutzky has been recognized with the Eugene Braunwald Teaching Award, the University of Cologne's Klenk Lecture, Vanderbilt University's Rabin Lecture, Northwestern University's DeStevens Lecture, and Harvard Medical School's Tucker Collins Lecture. Dr. Plutzky holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He completed research fellowships at the National Institutes of Health and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Herman Rosenman
Herman Rosenman has served as a Director of the Company since July 2013. Mr. Rosenman was Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Gen-Probe, Inc. (currently, Hologic, Inc.), a molecular diagnostic company, from June 2001 to October 2012. Prior to joining Gen-Probe, Mr. Rosenman was President and Chief Executive Officer of Ultra Acquisition Corp., a retail chain and consumer products manufacturer, and prior to that he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of RadNet Management, Inc., and as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Rexene Corp., a Fortune 1000 company in the petrochemicals industry. Mr. Rosenman was previously a partner at Coopers & Lybrand (currently, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP), where he served numerous Fortune 1,000 clients, principally in the pharmaceuticals and telecommunications industries. Mr. Rosenman currently serves on the Board of Directors of BioFire Diagnostics, Inc., a private company. Mr. Rosenman received a B.B.A. in finance and accounting from Pace University and an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.


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I've been on a low-carb diet for about 3 weeks now- no rice, bread or pasta. Except on weekends :) My eggplant Lasagna!
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A mother who tells her story about how she found out her 2 year old daughter was being sexually abused by a neighbor/babysitter.
"I figured it out on my own by how my daughter was starting to act and behave.
She had only been going there 3 weeks or so when I finally put two and two together. I will never forget those 3 weeks for the rest of my life.
At first there wasn't much to notice. She loved going there and didn't want to leave when it was time to pick her up because she had been having so much fun with their daughter (who was the same age). Every mother's dream right? To have a child who loves going to daycare? I felt completely at ease leaving her there. They were a very family-oriented, suburban, middle-class family. I had even met both of their parents and a couple of their siblings.
After about a week she started coming home with these horrible diaper rashes, which was very rare because she did not have a sensitive bottom. She was also in pull ups at the time so it did seem a little odd for her to be even getting a rash in the first place. The mother told me that M (this is what I'm going to refer to my daughter as) was having bowel movements quite frequently and that sometimes they would actually be liquidy, diarrhea-like, greenish in color or even solid black. I assumed that she was ill and made an appointment for the doctor. She wasn't ill but my doctor did suggest that it could be from stress. That even though she appeared to love it at her sitter's that she could still be internalizing the stress from being away from me for the first time (I was a SAHM up until then). I took the rest of the day off and noticed that she only did number two one time that day. I thought it was weird but rationalized it to "of course she only went once, she's only stressed when you're not around silly".
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The weekend came and I kept her butt lathered in Destin and Resinol all weekend long. The rash was virtually gone by Monday morning. When I went to pick her up Monday evening her rash was back. Ten fold. The mom was growing really concerned because M had filled up a diaper with pure black liquid poop. I called my doctor when we got home and she said that if it happened again then to bring her back in and she would take another look and maybe run some allergy tests to see if she was allergic to any foods.
Because the doctor mentioned something about food allergies I had the mom start to document what she fed M every day in case the doctor needed to know. A few days passed with no incident and no rashes It wasn't until later that I realized that her husband wasn't home those days.
The weekend came again and I noticed her playing quite sexually with her dolls. Touching them in inappropriate places and manners. At first I didn't think much of it because kids that age are starting to explore their body but I didn't know to what extent was normal. I did some research on the internet and found out that she was just being a normal 2.5 year old so I shrugged it off. It wasn't until Sunday evening when I heard her talk to her dolls and say things like "we have to be quiet shh shh", "that feels nice doesn't it?" and "you are so so so special". That raised up a big flag and I started documenting everything in case I ever needed to go back to each individual day. I wrote down how long she was in their care for the day, stapled the note that the mom would give me everyday, what she ate for dinner that night, how long she was in the bath for and what time she went to bed at night. I did it for every day prior that she was in their care as best as I could remember. I do tend to over-react a lot or make mountains out of molehills, so I kept it to myself for a few days. I was trying to think of a rational explanation and honestly at that point it didn't really occur to me that she could be being abused. Or maybe it did but not consciously. She wasn't scared to go there, she loved the family very much, sure she might have been a little stressed out and at best she wasn't getting her diaper changed enough. For all I knew she could have picked up the "doll play" from something she saw on TV and was just mimicking it.
This is now the third and final week that she went there. She started to become very aware of her private parts and would touch them pretty frequently. I called my doctor (who was probably sick of me at this point) and she assured me that it was normal behavior for a girl M's age. Monday she was fine - the husband also wasn't home this day. Tuesday she came home with a bit of a rash but caked with baby powder. She kept telling me that her "tootie" itched really bad so I threw her in the bath. When I took her out there was baby powder seeping out from inside of her. I brought it up with my husband and he said that maybe they have been using baby powder this whole time and M is allergic to it. Maybe that is what is causing the rashes. It seemed like a logical explanation. We never used baby powder and it would explain why she wouldn't be pooping or rashing up when she was in our car. This is when I think my subconscious was soaking everything in and starting to add them all up.
Wednesday came and I talked to the mother in the morning about the baby powder and asked her that they just use the desitin. She made sort of a funny face, like she was poking fun at her husband, and said that "__________ is the one who uses the baby powder because he doesn't like to touch the girls' private area so he just opens up the bottle and pours it on - that way he doesn't have to actually touch them because it makes him uncomfortable. He says it isn't right. He's a big tard." I kind of laughed it off with her but in my mind I thought that was totally strange. My husband had no problem changing baby's bottoms - male or female. And honestly I couldn't really think of anyone I knew who did. He came into the living room at that point and he was very polite and warm. He greeted me like usual but this time he wouldn't really look me in the eyes. I told him that M had another rash and he said that I should try a milk and oatmeal bath to soothe her. He seemed really concerned, a little too concerned when I thought back on it. He was always trying to be Mr. Perfect Dad and Husband and Friend. Like he was trying a little too hard. I think by this time he suspected that I was getting a little weirded out because Wed and Thurs evening M came home with no rashes and only went number 2 twice that day.
Friday was the day my world fell apart. I was running late from work and didn't get to their house until 7. The mom cooked M dinner and was running bath water so the girls could take a bath together. M still had her clothes on and wanted to play in the tub with their daughter so I decided to stay and have a glass of wine with the mom. Her and I had become pretty good friends at this point. We had a lot in common and I almost always stayed for 30 minutes or so to chat when I picked M up. We would even talk on the phone in the evening after our kids went to bed. We had just sat down at the table and I heard a really loud scream come from the bathroom. It was M. She was screaming so loudly and saying "my tootie is burnt my tootie is burnt!" The mom and I both ripped off her diaper and she had this huuuuuge rash everywhere. From top to bottom, I don't think there was an inch of skin not covered in rash. It just so happened that M had peed and the urine burned her bottom she was so raw. She assured me that it wasn't like that 2 hours prior when she last changed her but she did say that M had EIGHT bowel movements that day. She said they weren't bad though, like little rabbit poops and she figured M was just constipated. I believed her because I trusted her. I still do trust that she was telling me the truth. We laid M down on the changing table and she wouldn't let us wipe her down and put cream on her. We had to hold her down while she screamed and cried out in agony. I will never forget the blood-curtling sounds that came out of her mouth. She kept saying "no no mommy don't hurt me no no". We both couldn't take it anymore so we just put her in the tub. I was in tears by the time we were done and the mom was pretty upset as well. I let her soak for about 30 minutes to soothe her and when we were getting the girls out of the tub her husband came home. We told him what had happened and he said "oh yeah she didn't seem to be in any pain when you were at the store ______" It wasn't until we got home later that night that that sentence made my hair stand on end. He was alone with her. With both the girls. The mom told me that she had changed M right before she left to go get dinner and she said she was fine then. So whatever happened, happened from the time the mom left until the time M peed herself.
When we left M was in good spirits again so I decided to meet my parents at the mall. My mom made a comment about how M was walking funny and I told her about the rash. Again M wasn't showing any signs of pain so we decided to take her to the carosel and let her ride once or twice while dad tried on some jeans. She couldn't sit on the horse because it pressed against her privates and made her cry out. Mom and I decided that it was best to take her home and put her to bed and that I was going to call the doctor in the morning.
When I got home, my husband and his best friend, M's Godfather, were just getting in and I told them both what had happened. I undid M's diaper to show them the rash and it had progressed to actual open sores in some spots. My husband just said to take her to sick clinic at our Doctor's office in the am and went to go get some dinner. I went to spread her a little to see if it was inside her as well and that's when she grabbed my hand and made me rub her down there. She leaned her head back and closed her eyes like she was experiencing pleasure. I freaked out and screamed for my husband and his friend and they came running. I told them to watch and went to put my hand down there and again she grabbed it and made me rub her. I didn't even think twice. At that exact moment everything started to fall into place. My husband held M while I went to the computer to google "sexual abuse in children - signs and symptoms". While I was on the computer I saw that everything she had been displaying the past few weeks was a sign of sexual abuse. The frequent bowl movements, the rashes, the sexual behaviors, hurting when she peed and the attachment she had for them. The husband in particular. She always made sure to give him a hug and kiss before she left and told him she loved him. At the time I didn't think anything of it because my daughter is a very loving little girl. I kept reading and the more I read, the sicker I felt. I went and sat down with M and asked her as calmly as I could why she moved Mommy's hand down there. I didn't want her to think it was bad or feel shameful or else she wouldn't tell me. I also didn't want to lead her to say anything so I asked very direct questions. She said that that's how Mr. B loves her and she wanted Mommy and Daddy to love her like that too. She said it in a really coy, flirty way. Like she had a schoolgirl crush. I had to run to the bathroom because I got sick.
I decided to call the rape hotline or the sexual assault hotline ( I can't really remember now) because I wanted a professional's opinion. I told the person on the other end the exact story as I wrote it above and she told me that it definitely sounded like abuse and that I would have to take her to the ER to be sure and to have it documented. Looking back I should have just called the Sherriff's office right then. We didn't take her until Monday. I will always regret that. I guess I was in denial and wanted to still give the family or moreso the husband the benefit of the doubt. These were serious allegations that I was about to bring forth. They would be documented, social services would be called as well as the department of children's services. I didn't want to go pointing fingers or wrecking a family until I was absolutely sure. I thought about what it would do to me if someone brought forth such allegations against my husband and I knew that it would cause serious pain and turmoil.
It didn't take long to convince me. I stayed up all night researching sexual abuse in toddlers. Saturday morning I had her on the couch and was changing her diaper from the night and she got up on all fours, in the doggy position (it makes me sick to just type that out even two and a half years later) and pointed at her booty hole. She told me that I had to "get the bugs out". I asked her what that meant and she said that Mr. B would tell her that he had to get the bugs out for her. I got sick again. The counselor from the hotline told me to make sure that I don't tell her it's wrong, or make her feel bad about it. To just ask questions in a happy tone and leave it alone when she answered. She said that when we took her to give a statement, DCS would want to ask her a lot of questions and she wouldn't answer them if she felt like she would get in trouble. It was horrible to let my daughter continue to think that what happened was acceptable. Saturday we just curled up on the couch and watched movies. I think moreso for me than for her. She would bring my hand down there and I would just have to pull it away. One time she threw a tantrum because I wouldn't touch her that way. I tried to ignore it as best I could. I didn't know how to explain to my daughter that Mommy couldn't touch her like that without her thinking it was bad. Sunday I think was the worst day. I had stayed up all night again, laying in her bed, holding her and watching her while she slept. Crying quietly and praying to God for strength to get through this. Sunday afternoon M did something that completely broke me into dust. She put some of her play jewelry in her privates and came into the room I was in and asked me if I would play her and Mr.B's game. I was scared to even ask what that was and when I did, she replied "Mr.B tells me to hide my treasures here so he can find them for me" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. The rage that boiled inside of me. I was in a fog for the rest of the day. My husband had to care for M because I was at my breaking point. I still don't know why we didn't go to the ER right then. I will always, always, regret that decision.
I'm sorry this is so long and that it took me so long to type this all out. I had to stop for a bit to compose myself since this is the first time I have sat down and put it on paper (or screen) and it all just came flowing out. I didn't think I could explain how I came to find out accurately if I left any of this out. Please feel free to ask me anything about the above or any other questions. I just ask that you don't judge me or if you do, that you do it silently. There a ton of things I wish I had done differently, I was apprehensive, scared, and in a state of shock when it all came into light for me. It's really easy to say how you would react when you are on the outside looking in. " -Mommy2her (author: reddit)
Best/disturbing/interesting but NASTY story on reddit, that I have read by far..
I dont know why Asian parents don't believe in therapy.
BY: /u/disturbedfamily
"I'll start at the beginning, give you a little background, and I am begging you guys for advice.
My parents, in their early 60s, adopted my sister 32 years ago, and me 22 years ago. They are average middle-class small business owners. We have a nice house, a nice car, and a pretty good life.
The deceased, let's call her Sue, was a troubled woman. She had sever manic-depressive disorder, had three children from three different fathers. Her middle child, Jack, is living with his deadbeat father after she caught Jack stealing her painkiller prescriptions from her bedside table while she fought cancer. The eldest wanted nothing to do with her. Sue chain-smoked and continued to do so even after her diagnosis with lung cancer, until her death in December 2010. She begged my mom to take custody of her daughter, Lee, who was eleven years old then. My mom had been friends with her for thirty years, so she had a hard time saying no. We didn't really know what we were getting into.
Apparently, Lee was left alone by herself growing up, since Sue was working full-time. Lee survived by ferreting food and stolen money (from her mother's various hiding places in their filthy house) in her room and mooching off her neighbors. When we found out, we obviously felt sorry for her. My parents thought, "We can give her a good life." Lee seemed like your average 11-year-old (talks your ear off, cute, was initially sad to leave her old friends, liked to draw).
So my parents took legal guardianship of her in January 2011. They didn't adopt her, they are just her "legal guardians." At the time, I was living at my sister's.
Funny little things started happening around the house. First of all, Lee showed no grief over her mother's death. She cried once. Perhaps she grieved privately, but immediately upon moving in she started telling my parents how much better their house is and how much she hated living in squalor. Great, so she's happy, right? Then my mom started noticing that things in her closet had moved subtly. Nothing significant was lost or stolen - except her sapphire ring her company had given her as a present for working there for 25 years before she retired. She didn't want to accuse anyone of stealing it - she just figured she misplaced it. She asked my dad and Lee if they'd seen it, and they said no.
Then she would notice the tv was on after Lee's bedtime (multiple times). She'd open the door, and there was Lee, seemingly sound asleep. But the tv was warm. She would make Lee get up and ask her if she was watching tv. Lee innocently denied it. Mom figures she's imagining things, goes to bed.
Then she started finding food wrappers in the upstairs garbage. Mom is kind of a neat-freak, so she asked Lee to stop eating upstairs. She told Lee that she can eat whatever she wants, as long as she eats it downstairs in the kitchen. Lee agrees.
Then more things in her closet got moved around. More things went missing. Mom started to suspect Lee, who adamantly denied everything. Dad told Mom that she was being ridiculous, that Lee wouldn't go into their bedroom. Lee starts realizing that my dad is the lenient one, so she starts cozying up to him. One day my mom came upstairs to find Lee nestled on his lap, resting her hands on his legs. When Lee saw my mom, she sprang up and ran for her room. My dad was oblivious - he just thought she was trying to get comfy with her new family. My mom thought that if Lee didn't think she was doing anything wrong she wouldn't have run.
Things escalated after that. Mom started viewing Lee with suspicious eyes - whenever Mom disciplined Lee, Lee would just stare at her, not saying a word. The instant Lee saw my dad, she would start crying hysterically and pleading innocence. And as soon as she was out of trouble she would stop crying instantly, tears still on her face, and ask what's for dinner. She confided in my dad and treated my mom with cold indifference.
I moved back in with my parents in August 2011. I had a hard time believing an 11-year-old was taking things or driving a wedge between my parents. It has been a ROUGH year. We have continually discovered giant stashes of things under Lee's bed: stolen items (makeup which she isn't allowed to use, clothes she took from me and my mom, a lot of nail polish and jewelry she outright took from my room), empty soda cans, empty capri-sun bags, rotting apple cores, and a notebook full of "I HATE YOUNGSO I HOPE SHE DIES I WANT TO DIE I WANT TO DIE I WANT TO DIE" written over and over again on twenty pages. (Youngso is my mom.) In the computer room, we found more of the same. My mom yelled at her every time, made her clean it all up, made her promise to not do it again.
The sapphire ring mysteriously turned up downstairs, on the living room table, on top of a book, and Lee absolutely maintains that she did not touch it. She swears up and down that she never took it.
I thought maybe my mom yelling at her was making things worse. So I made my dad sit down with Lee and me, and talked calmly with her and asked her why she was doing these things. She said she didn't know. I kindly told her I wanted to help her out and didn't like coming home to yelling every day, and asked what she thought we should do. She said she was sorry and would stop, and that she liked it better when my dad and I talked to her. And the next week, we found more trash under her bed, along with some diabetes syringes she stole from my mom ("I just wanted to look at them").
One week later, my mom came home early from work and found Lee in her room with a plate of pizza and more stolen things under her bed. My mom grounds her from computer use and puts large padlocks and chains on her bedroom door and gives me one to use too. Two nights later my mom was out of town on business, and at 3am (three hours after her bedtime) I got up to go to the bathroom and found Lee in the computer room, on the phone with someone, trying to get the computer to work (but my dad had removed the computer and left the monitor there). I asked her what she was doing, and she basically told me to fuck off. I told her I was sick of dealing with her shit and told her to just go to bed. Eventually she did. After that the computer room was locked up, too.
My parents are sick of getting upset with her. Mom decided she is just going to take away Lee's privileges instead of screaming at her every time something goes wrong. And my dad is being a fucking spineless coward. He'll say things like "Well I didn't see it happen and she didn't take my things so it doesn't effect me", and cowers in the bedroom watching TV while my mom is yelling at Lee. He defends Lee to my mom. He still doubts that Lee is stealing and lying, even though we literally found two garbage bags' worth of proof.
I don't know how to convince my parents that professional help is the way to go. My mother is Asian and believes that only people who are "sick in the head" (aka psychopaths, mentally retarded people, or serial killers) go to the "crazy doctor." She's one of those people who believes that people with depression can just "stop being so sad because it's stupid to be sad". Believe me, as a a young woman with depression this PISSES ME OFF. My dad in no way helps my mother or me try to fix things. He thinks Lee is just a misunderstand, falsely accused, poor little girl. He gives her money behind my mother's back when she's grounded and lets her use the computer when my mom's not there. He COMPLETELY undermines my mother's authority and until Lee starts seeing my dad, my mom, and me as a family and as a team that she cannot divide and break, nothing constructive will happen. :/ First my dad needs to stop being a stubborn ass and open his eyes to the fact that 12-year-olds can, in fact, be manipulative. I have no idea how to help him do that.
Yesterday my mom saw the school bus pass and Lee didn't come off. Then Lee called, asking if she could stay at school for Homework Club. My mom demanded to know where she actually is, and threatens to call the school and find out. Lee confessed she was at her friend's house, and Mom calmly told her that her birthday party (Oct 1) was off and hung up. Lee eventually showed up, asked my mom how her day was like nothing happened, did her homework, and went to bed. We found a set a screwdrivers in her closet and have no idea what the fuck she was doing with them. I gave her my office chair because my boyfriend gave me his, and she promptly took the glue gun from my dad's workbench and completely fucked up the desk and chair by getting glue everywhere. I knocked on her (open) door to tell her dinner was ready and found her huddled over a stash of nail polish, hair ties, and my hair straightener. So now I have to keep all my bathroom shit in my (locked) room.
Reddit, I don't know what to do. I tried to treat her with kindness and compassion right from the beginning, and gave her the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes she is just a normal 12-year-old kid, who likes watching New Girl with me and fishtail-braiding my hair and chattering about her friends. And other times she just stares at my parents with a blank face, evidence of things she has stolen right in front of her, with no remorse or guilt on her face, just chagrin that she's been caught. I've tried taking her aside and talking with her, treating her with respect and advising her that it'd be in her best interests to stop eating upstairs and stop stealing. And she just won't stop. She just does whatever she wants.
I know that punishment isn't working, because eventually we just run out of things to take away from her (computer, TV, allowance, hanging out with friends). I started staying at my boyfriend's place more and more throughout the year, and now am barely ever at home but I still get to hear about all the shit going on at home because my mom calls and tells me. And she screams at me whenever I give her my opinion because apparently I'm "not supporting her", even though I do agree that Lee is stealing and that something needs to be done about it. I've suggested that Lee see the school counselor - but my dad is working all the time at our store and isn't able to pick up Lee after school, and if Lee doesn't take the bus she'll have to walk home, and my mom doesn't trust her to actually walk home because we know she will go to a friend's house instead. I've suggested Lee go to therapy, since her dad (who is out of the picture since he tried to shoot himself with Lee in the next room when Lee was two years old) has insurance. Similar story, my mom doesn't have a car/can't drive and doesn't want to go to "all the extra effort" when she thinks she can just punish the badness out of Lee.
We are not forcing Lee to stay here, by the way. We told her, "Nobody is making you live here, Lee. You can go to another family whenever you want." When we suggested that, she covered her ears and screamed wordlessly like an animal… it was eerie.
PART TWO: (few months later)
"You guys may remember a post around here where I described the thirteen-year-old we took in after her mother died and we began to experience some issues regarding her stealing things from us, hoarding food, and lying to us. Let's call her Lee. Someone made a comment describing her as a "kleptomaniac" which made it to /r/bestof. I created a throwaway so as not to overwhelm my main account, but here is the original post.
Well, after that incident, shit kept happening. Stolen makeup. Half-empty coke cans. More lies. She started wearing my shoes to school until we locked those up too. She wrote me an apology note and said she was sorry and that she should have asked first. After she was caught skipping classes one day, her principal confronted her and Lee screamed at the principal "DON'T YOU KNOW MY GRAMPA JUST DIED" (for the record it was my father's father who died, and Lee had only met him maybe twice). She wept tears of remorse over stealing and promised she would stop. At one point she was literally packing her bags to leave but then had a change of heart and wrote us an apology note and promised to change if only we would keep her. So we gave her a "fresh start". And then a week later we found her stealing more things. And it's not like she's just USING the things, either. She leaves the lids off of makeup jars and creams. They're stuffed with dirty cotton balls or completely dried out.
Throughout everything I have been BEGGING my parents to get her to therapy. I asked my dad to email her school counselor to make sure the counselor knew what was going on at home. I asked him to look up therapists. I reminded him that Lee's dad's insurance would cover it. He kind of waved it off, said "maybe you left it out" or "it's not stealing if she puts it back, it's borrowing" (regarding the shoes). I disagree, if she doesn't have permission (and I TOLD her to ask me before touching things and I'd probably lend her stuff but she had to ask first) then it's stealing.
Anyway, I thawed a little over Christmas. I thought, "Okay, Christmas is really difficult for her because her mom died just after Christmas a couple years ago. I'm going to show her kindness and try to get along with her again."
Two nights ago I come home from my boyfriend's (I stay with him on weekends) and my mom was leaving with her sister to visit her other sister in Olympia. As my mom was leaving I ran outside down the driveway to give her the canister of coffee she had made herself and forgotten. I came back upstairs and realized I had left my bedroom door unlocked for ~3 minutes. I shrugged it off and figured she couldn't have done much damage in three minutes. Later that night I was putting together a work outfit for the next day and tried to put on a bra only to find that the straps had been drastically shortened. I scanned the little knob my bras were hanging off and found that one I kept stored in a cupboard (as it didn't fit me anymore) was now hanging with the others. But it was past her bedtime so I didn't wake her. I confronted her the next day (yesterday) when I got home from work. I asked her if she wore them. She said yes. I asked her when she took them. She quickly said the night before, when I'd brought my mom coffee. I asked her if she knew what she did was wrong. She nodded. After that she didn't speak.
I finally unloaded. I told her how she had made me feel homeless, like my own things were not safe in my house. I told her that I spent most nights at my boyfriend's because I didn't feel comfortable here anymore. I told her that she hurt my feelings so badly when I tried to be sisterly towards her and she shoved it back in my face by stealing my stuff. I asked her if she understood and she just nodded. I asked her if she felt bad about it and she nodded. I asked her if she was going to do it again and she shrugged. I told her I just wanted an explanation. I asked her if I'd treated her badly or made her feel unwelcome, asked her if she thought this was how she should treat the people who took her in and are taking care of her. She shook her head or stared at the walls. Finally I just let it go and went back into my room and she presumably went to bed.
I opened my underwear drawer to find everything in disarray. A swimsuit I have not worn since last summer was spread out across the top of everything. Things were missing. With a sinking sensation in my gut, I started tearing through my other drawers.
Here is the absolute fucking worst part that made me feel like barfing. My vibrators were sitting on top of everything else in their drawer. They were COVERED IN MENSTRUAL BLOOD. There were CHUNKS. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. It wasn't my mom, she's super prude and she passed menopause looong ago. It wasn't me, I haven't had a period in ~2 months because I am on the pill. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK REDDIT.
All of our doors have locks on them. I don't know how the FUCK she got in or how long she was fucking around with my stuff. My parents' room and my room have the same key so if my dad accidentally left his key out or forgot it in his door then she could have access to my room AAANYtime she wanted. Currently I have a giant chain and padlock on it too.
I furiously strode over to my parents' room and woke up my dad. I told him what I had found. He said he'd handle it in the morning. This morning before work I told him that if he did not either get her into therapy or kick her out of the house then I was moving out. I finally made him choose, her or me. Today at work he fucking FINALLY sent her counselor an email giving the counselor a bare outline of the stuff going on here and asked for a recommendation for a therapist. Finally. Jesus christ.
So when we finally got home from work we marched into her room to see if she stole anything. We found a fuck ton of more used/stolen makeup, a box of swiffer duster replacements that actually reeked so badly that it made me cough and my eyes watered, and just TRASH. EVERYWHERE. I reached under her desk to pull more stuff out and my hand got stuck on the back of a fucking USED PAD. And underneath there were more. All the while she was just staring at us with raised eyebrows like we were crazy. I confronted her about the vibrator - I asked her if she did it, and she said "Yup". I asked her if she knew how ridiculously unsanitary and disgusting that was and she just shrugged like we were bothering her or something. What the fuck.
This time she didn't cry. She just watched us.
Right now my dad is making her clean everything up.
When I walked out I told her that we were NOT friends and said "don't talk to me." She said "OKAY" like "duh". Like I was being unreasonable or whatever. I can't look at her without wanting to barf. My stomach is all in knots.
You guys wanted an update? Here's your update. I think what she did is incredibly fucked up and crossed so many lines. She could have cleaned the vibrators off and put them back and I'd never have known. She could have kept them or thrown them away. But the fact that she put them back COVERED IN BLOOD tells me she was trying to send me a fucked up little message - "I can get in and out of your room whenever I want and you can't do anything about it." I would move out if I could but the job market sucks and I can't afford to live with roommates/by myself. My dad at least FINALLY got around to putting her in therapy. I have the vibrators ziplock-bagged as evidence. In the meantime I am moving ANYTHING I hold valuable to my boyfriend's (underwear, books, private journals, it's fucking lucky she has metal allergies or she'd be swiping my jewelry as well). She may someday get better, but that's years down the line and in the meantime I am fucking sick to my stomach."