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This weekend is the second race of our first back-to-back set of events in the 2008 NHRA season. We're heading to St. Louis, or actually Madison, Ill., just on the other side of the bridge from St. Louis to Gateway International Raceway.
We like this track. We won it last year, and in total, I have won it three times: in 1997, 2005 and 2007. So, now that Ed "Ace" McCulloch has the NAPA Dodge back on track, we're looking forward to going there.
But everything is so different this year. You can't really count on taking any information from last year. It's great to go to a track where you've done well in the past, but the thing I'm most excited about right now is just how well we've been running the past couple of races.
You often hear drivers thank their team and thank people back at the shop. I mean, this NAPA team has worked harder than we've ever had to work as a team to get better this year with the rule changes and such in our category, and it feels that much better when you can reap the benefits of working that hard.
Ace has got this car turned around, and now we're running well, going rounds. For me as the driver, when you're going back to a place like Madison, where you won the year before, it gives you much more confidence.
We had a great season in 2007; we won a lot of races and led the points for most of the year. And we just didn't peak at the right time at the end. This season we started off a little bit slowly, but it's good to be going to a track where we've done well. I won the inaugural race there, which was my very first Funny Car win. I'll never forget that weekend.
It's always a pleasure to go back there, and, on top of that, Thursday night a bunch of us NHRA drivers, as well as my teammate Jack Beckman's crew chief Tommy DeLago, are going to race the dirt race at Tri-City Speedway, just a few minutes from the drag strip. That's going to be fun.
It's so much about business now and it's so demanding during the race weekend that it's nice to do some fun things away from the track like we're going to do Thursday night. And better than that, I bet a large number of fans probably will show up to watch drag racers on dirt.
These are crate-motored Late Models. It's like what I run in the Prelude to the Dream, but they have smaller engines. These are engines that you buy and can't touch, to keep the costs down, and they don't have as much power as the ones at the Prelude. It's going to be fun.
Last weekend in Atlanta was a historical race, of course, with Ashley Force winning Funny Car, and she has led the points the past two races, so she has proved herself. In preseason testing in her rookie year, some guys wouldn't line up against her. Guido Antonelli, her crew chief, is a good friend, and I told him, 'Pull her up there, I'll line up next to her.' I knew she had a great head on her shoulders, and it was really neat to see her win.
We lost to her in the semifinals in Atlanta. Some of these other female racers in some of the other categories could take a lot of lessons from Ashley. She's a great role model and she does a heck of a job in the car. I don't think there's one Funny Car driver who doesn't consider her an equal. So, it was a big race in Atlanta, historic I would say, because she's got a lot of pressure. She's got a big last name and a lot to live up to.
Having all the great NAPA Auto Parts folks watching us in Atlanta was a little nerve-racking. Throughout the years we always talked about teams being near their corporate sponsor headquarters at a certain race, and it never fails -- you just don't seem to do well when these people come out. That's the dream of anybody that gets sponsored -- to do well at a race that your sponsors attend. Some of the presidents and vice presidents don't really ever get to come out to a race or have the time, but when they do come out, it's a critical time to do well. And we had one of those weekends last weekend. We had the people responsible for NAPA's success in the marketplace, such as Bob Susor and Gaylord Spencer, Mike Rearden and guys I've visited at the corporate headquarters. They are very much behind our effort, but to get them to come to the track is very difficult. So, when they did come out, putting on a good show for them and doing what we did -- go to the semis -- was more than we could ask for.
As I've told everybody, you can watch drag racing on ESPN2 all you want, but nothing does it justice more than coming to a track and seeing it live. Getting those people out of the office and to the track really sells our sport.
Ron Capps drives the NAPA Auto Parts Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car in the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series and is providing a diary for ESPN.com during the 2008 season.


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I am service engineer in a complex, i am facing a peculiar problem in color laserjet 3600, when we switch on and give a color print command from system it prints black and white print. when i reseat toner cartridges, transferbelt, formatter etc it gives a couple of color prints then its back to its original path starts printing black and white. This is a problem which no one could solve till now in spite of best efforts and suggestions after cleaning developer solenoids and cleaning inside the problem is unsolved.
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If the internal test pages such as supply pages, diagnostic pages PRINTS only in black and if the color boxes are missing
Please verify the engine test page to check if all the color lines are printed ( steps-place a media in tray 2 and push the engine test switch on the rear side of the printer ), if the engine test page is also giving the same issue
It may be due to the Main drive assembly is misaligned , if you are an authorised hp technician ,you can align the MDA to check for improvement . if the engine test page is tested ok with all the coloured lines ,formatter could be the cause of the problem but it very rare that formatter can cause the above issue .Before Formatter is suspected ,Peform cold reset and check the status .
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There is a feature on the CLJ3600 called Mono Printing When a Color Cartridge is Out. If that feature is activated, the printer will only print black and white. There are two things you can do:
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An infinite bent chain of nanospheres connected by wires is considered. We assume that there are δ-like potentials at the contact points. A solvable mathematical model based on the theory of self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators is constructed. The spectral equation for the model operator is derived in an explicit form. It is shown that the Hamiltonian has non-empty point spectrum. The positions of the eigenvalues for different values of the system parameters (the length of the connecting wires, the intensities of δ-interactions and the bent angle) are found.
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Steelport Loses a Beloved Saint
by Jane Balderama
Steelport City - Yesterday, a negligent user brutally erased the Leader of the Saints. She may have only been 60.4 hours old and had a reputation of 47 at her time of death, but she lived a chaotically joyful life. As a well known public figure, she has provided some great deeds for the safety and well-being of the city.
Her death was confirmed at 12:12 a.m. December 14, 2011. The user in question was testing out the Steam cloud feature for Saints Row the Third and loaded up a co-op character from another computer. Satisfied that the character was intact, he saved her. Before going back to the main menu, he walked away to answer a call. When he came back he selected the main Leader's file which had almost seventy-five percent of Steelport under control, and attempted to load her. When the file disappeared and was replaced by the co-op characters' instead, he realized his grave mistake. He was still in the 'Save Menu' and not the 'Load Menu'.
The negligent user in question is regretful of his actions and has vowed to re-create her so she may live and cause joyous havoc across Steelport City once more.
Some of her many accomplishments include:
- Drastic reduction of three of the four gangs controlling the city. She has been seen clearing out pockets of gang activity using her handy Reaper Drone, satellite based weaponry followed up with her trademark dual pistols if needed.
- Delivering passengers safely to their destination for a nominal fee.
- Purchased all available property and businesses to protect them from those notorious gangs and to help fund the Saints so they can continue to protect their intrests.
- Acquired over thirty vehicles, including helicopters and airplanes (that were either abandoned or liberated from their current, abusive owners), and using them to test the current city safety standards
- Appeared in many fashionable outfits to help shape the youth of Steelport what is socially appropriate attire and keeping purchases locally (Planet Saints, Leather & Lace, Nobody Loves Me, and Let's Pretend).
- Helping the local police and S.T.A.G. test their protective equipment and vehicles and increasing their response time to various situations.
- Appearing as a regular on Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax Activity to be a positive role model for children and young adults.
- Cleaned up the city by removing nefarious Drug, Money, and Sex Doll Caches from the streets.
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(The Leader of the Saints Modeling a SuperHeroine costume from Let's Pretend.)
(Here she is in her 'Network' suit with a loyal Saint member at her Downtown Crib.)
(Even the Leader of the Saints pauses at the drastic prices of gas in Steelport.)
(Attending the local Steelport Art House presentation of 'Titanic'. Seen here with two of the inflatable cast members.)
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Skip to comments.Analysis of M.E. Report of Caylee - [Vanity]
Posted on 07/09/2011 3:32:01 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen
From the Medical Examiners Report on Caylee Anthony: _________________________________________________________
Conclusion/Opinion: As often is the case with a skeletonized individual, the exact cause of death cannot be determined with certainty. The manner of death is an opinion based on available information, including circumstances surrounding the death, information from the scene, and examination of the skeletal remains.
The circumstances of death are that this toddler child, with no known medical history, was not reported missing to authorities for approximately 30 days. This childs remains were eventually found in a wooded, overgrown area, discarded with two trash bags and a laundry bag. Although there is no trauma evident on the skeleton, there is duct tape over the lower facial region still attached to head hair. This duct tape was clearly placed prior to decomposition, keeping the mandible in place.
The clustering of vertebrae at the scene separate from the location of the bags and skull indicate animal activity occurring at this location after decomposition started, but before complete disarticulation of the skeleton. This indicates the body was put in this location prior to complete skeletonization. The roots growing into the vertebrae and bags indicate that the body was placed there months prior to being found. There is nothing inconsistent with the body being placed there soon after the date of being last seen alive.
It is, thus, my opinion that, although the cause of death cannot be determined with certainty, the manner of death is homicide.
a) Manner of death is described as circumstantial by the conclusion/opinion itself in the first paragraph. People have taken to assuming that the Medical Examiners report provided physical evidence of homicide and that all the other evidence in the trial was circumstantial, when, in fact, even the Medical Examiners report was circumstantial and the report itself clearly states how it is based on circumstantial evidence in the first paragraph of its conclusion/opinion.
b) Also in the first paragraph, it states that the cause of death cannot be determined with certainty, but no possible cause of death is offered anywhere in the report. So saying it cannot be determined with certainty is a misrepresentation which would tend to imply that the cause of death is determined by the report with at least some small amount of certainty. But no cause of death is given in the report - thats not uncertainty, thats an unknown. Since no cause of death is offered in this report the conclusion/opinion should simply state that the cause of death cannot be determined in order to be clear to the reader.
c) In the second paragraph, this conclusion/opinion notes that there is no trauma evident on the skeleton. At that age, bones are softer than those of adults and children can often suffer physical trauma without breaking bones. Therefore physical trauma can not be ruled out as a cause of death. For example, a brain injury from a fall is within the realm of possibility, but cannot be supported or ruled out without brain tissue to analyze. However, given that the conclusion/opinion only notes the absence of trauma evident to the skeleton, and does not note that there may have been trauma that is not evident, the conclusion/opinion opens up the possibility that the reader may assume that physical trauma is ruled out as a cause of death. Of course the conclusion/opinion does not rule out ANY cause of death, and, with a careful reading one can see that it technically offers absolutely no cause of death.
d) Also in the second paragraph, the duct tape is noted to have been placed prior to decomposition. One must be careful to note that it does not say that it was placed prior to death. Everyone in this case has argued all along that the duct tape is the murder weapon. But this conclusion/opinion of the Medical Examiners report clearly does not go so far as to conclude or speculate that the duct tape was the murder weapon - it only states that it is clear the duct tape was placed prior to decomposition.
e) Referring back to point b), the second paragraph provides an opportunity for the reader to incorrectly infer that suffocation due to the duct tape being placed over the nose and mouth is the cause of death, if they dont clearly separate the difference between what the paragraph says, prior to decomposition and prior to death, which the paragraph does not say.
f) In the third paragraph, there is no assertion that the body was placed in the wooded area soon after being last seen alive; it says that there was no evidence inconsistent with that. The third paragraph does state that the body was placed there months prior to being found. These statements allow for placement in the woods any time between the second half of June and early October.
General comments:
This report was followed shortly by a homicide charge, as its manner of death determination of homicide provided the basis for that charge.
If this report did not offer as its conclusion/opinion that the manner of death was homicide, there would be no basis for a murder charge.
The combination of points b) and e) is where this conclusion/opinion is obviously designed to provide a manner of death of homicide based on a cause of death that is implied even though no explicit cause of death is given. Such subtley calls into question the integrity of the Medical Examiners office. A few years ago there were very prominent stories circulating in the media about M.E. offices that would give in to pressure from prosecutors to be less than forthright in their investigations in order to get arrests or convictions. One in NY, IIRC, was actually completely shut down.
Medical Examiners reports should never imply anything, but should state facts explicitly. M.E.s must never base their reports on what a prosecuter desires. When an M.E.s office starts going down this road it sometimes results in wrongful convictions and other times results in charges filed that ultimately become extremely difficult to get a conviction on, thereby wasting millions of dollars.
A few posters here have stated: Justice was served, the jury lawfully found her not guilty. Blame the prosecutors. Don't blame the jury. Of course, they also say justice is for the accused not the victim. So it doesn't matter how the child wound up a skeleton in a desolate swamp; justice was served. They say justice is not for the victim.
Note to all - important message received !
Speaking of justice for Caylee. I just received a VERY important message on this post.
If this was the work of a child molestor while Caylee was left unattended, there could be a child molestor on the lose at this time and no one suspects them.
That is another ingenius part of our legal system which is concerned with not convicting the wrong person. Once that happens the true perpetrator is never even searched for.
Big hat tip to person who sent me the message !
One of the big questions I have had.
Will the investigators close this case?
People have been convicted without the victims even being found. These jurors had more evidence than some cases, but since an insurance policy or huge estate wasn't involved, motive wasn't obvious enough to them for conviction.
I have no clue why a logical conclusion would find that Caylee was the victim of a homicide at the hands of her mother. Without a REASONABLE DOUBT, she was murdered, and her mother was responsible. Lucky for the beatch I wasn't on the jury. I could have easily found her guilty of first degree murder, and sentenced her to death. The evidence was very clear.
It would require a complete lack of common sense to eliminate homicide when the body was inside a laundry bag & garbage bags.
Are you saying the cause is a natural death? Why would anyone put the child in these bags & toss her away like garbage - instead of calling 911?
I, too, say that the prosecution did not prove their case. Here in Tennessee a Janet March's wife "disappeared" in August 1996. No body has ever been found and no evidence of foul play was ever found, yet the prosecution was able to convict her husband of murder in 2005.
I'm glad you brought up natural death. Notice the conclusion of the report states "no known medical history". There are many cases of death with children every year where they die of natural causes from undiagnosed diseases. So, it is possible the death was natural. I tend to think the chances of that are remote, but they are not zero.
It is very common for people to feel guilty when someone dies under circumstances where they feel they MIGHT be held accountable, even though they did not murder them. For example, an elderly person under your care where you stand to inherit from them.
In this case, Casey lived a partying lifestyle with men who were partiers. It is entirely plausible that she could have been with one of these boneheads and her daughter at the same time, but let Caylee completely out of her sight while she did some crazy things or involved Caylee in some of the crazy things. Suddenly, someone abducts or attacks Caylee, threatens Casey, or Caylee has a fall, a strangulation in a cord, sometimes ignorant people toss babies around (check out youtube for videos), all sorts of things where Casey should know better. Perhaps she and her friend are snorting coke and do not want to call 911. Suddenly she feels very guilty, because she was guilty of negligent homicide, or her friend tells her she is, or her parents tell her she is - who knows ? This would set the whole game in motion to appeal for help with hiding the body. Caylee actually may have died naturally from an undiagnosed condition and Casey may only think that she has guilt. There are countless plausible possibilities that a public who is very angry with Casey refuse to even think about. Based on what I've read, it's even quite possible that Caylee died while under the care of one or both of the parents - and George said to her on no uncertain terms that she should have been watching Caylee and she was going to jail, then offering to help hide the body and get her off. He could have reasoned that once the wooded area was searched, they could hide the body there because the searchers would not search there twice. We have absolutely nothing that proves that this was not what happened.
That's why I tried to show the subtle deception in the M.E. report here - this report, if you go through sentence by sentence, stands on it's head to IMPLY (not outright say) that the duct tape is the murder weapon. And it worked, because everyone BELIEVES the duct tape is the murder weapon BECAUSE THE M.E. SAID SO - BUT THEY M.E. NEVER DID SAY SO.
The M.E. report says the tape must have been applied BEFORE DECOMPOSITION. It is SILENT - IT SAYS NOTHING - about whether it was applied BEFORE DEATH.
It therefore IMPLIES (because it does not SAY this explicitly) that the tape could have been applied EITHER BEFORE OR AFTER DEATH.
The report makes the reader think the duct tape was the murder weapon - IF YOU READ IT'S CONCLUSION ABOVE - it never actually says that the duct tape WAS, IN FACT, the murder weapon.
That's a real hum-dinger of an autopsy, IMHO.
That should read "Perry March's wive, Janet".
But why would you put duct tape on a dead child's mouth?
You'd put it on her while she was still alive. To keep her quiet.
After she is dead is serves no purpose.
So I think she was duct taped prior to dying.
Here's a task for you.
REASONABLY explain how this body got to the location and condition described above WITHOUT it being a homicide.
If I give 6 weeks of my life (that I will never get back), sequestered, to do my civic duty...the evidence presented is sketchy, virtually every major witness is guilty of perjury and there is conflicting testimony by all the "expert" witnesses, I will be in jail myself.
I don't believe that convicting a person to life in prison or death should be a matter of...probability. Anthony did not present a sympathetic character.
The prosecution, for whatever reason, over charged and failed to prove their case. I read that there is an election coming up so the DA went for the "Gold".
That being said...I think if Anthony didn't do it herself...she definitely knows what happened. Even with the lame defense...the prosecution couldn't get a conviction.
Not meaning to butt into the conversation..
I just wonder if you have indisputable evidence that the mom transported the child's body there?
I say that in sincerity. If there was evidence that you saw or heard, I'd be interested.
I guess that is why I asked earlier..will the investigation continue?
Sorry, I tried to do a courtesy ping, but kept misspelling your moniker.
She was the mother.
She was the primary caregiver.
She was the last one seen with the child.
She didn't report her child missing.
She repeatedly lied about what happened.
Absent any new information pointing AWAY from her, I have Casey Anthony for manslaughter
Well, we can agree on a few things.
She was the mother, she didn't report her child missing. and she is a liar.
But how do we know that she was the primary caregiver? Looks to me like the parents had a big part of the little girl's upbringing. I am not pointing a finger at them. I have no idea what kind of people Ms Anthony ran around with. Having a "wild child" on my life..I know how very little control you have.
How do you know that Anthony was the last one to see the child? Did you see something I did not?
Not really. While I'm not suggesting this is my theory, if the death was the result of negligence on Casey's part, she may have wished to stage it to look like an abduction and murder...ergo, the post-mortem use of duct tape.
can you even begin to imagine a little child being torn apart from animals while you are out partying??? Dear God...some people have no souls. They are deep, dark and dangerous.
The mother already said the kid died and it was an accident.
The kid was put in a bag like they bury their dogs and dumped in the swamp. Then she went out to party.
There won't be anymore investigation because there is nobody else to investigate.
Well, I don't know if I agree.
They may have not been able to prove that Mom did it.
But somebody did. Why stop the investigation?
So it was an admitted accident. I can live with that. But who the heck participated?
And very possible.
Ping for tomorrow
"ergo, the post-mortem use of duct tape. "
ah, so.
Evidence consistent with human decomposition was found in the trunk of a car belonging to a Florida woman charged with killing her 3-year-old daughter.
"Both odor analysis and LIBS results appear to be quite consistent with a decompositional event having occurred in the trunk of the vehicle," said the report from Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Testing was conducted on air and carpet samples from the vehicle. The tests indicated "the presence of the five key major compounds associated with human decomposition," the report said.
The tests also found "an unusually large concentration of chloroform" in the trunk, according to the Oak Ridge report.
The report also says evidence of possible decomposition was found on a hair located among debris in the trunk. The hair is "microscopically similar" to one recovered from Caylee's hair brush, the report said.
FBI test results show hair and a stain in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car belong to her daughter, 3-year-old Caylee Anthony. Eyewitness News was also told the evidence found proves that she is dead.
The released court records reveal how Orange County Detective Yuri Melich grilled her, saying she could seem "cold, callous and a monster who doesn't care, who's just trying to get away with something." He told her Caylee "may not be the way we or the way your family last remembers her. We need to find out from you where Caylee is. This, this, this right now is just, this has gone so far down hill and this has become such a mess."
Casey replied, "Uh-huh." Then Melich said, "We need to end it. It's very simple. We just need to end it." Casey answered, "I agree with you. I have no clue where she is."
The documents also show Casey's parents actually led investigators to search a new depression in the dirt near their backyard pool after they had done their own search and that they had their own lawyer the day after her arrest. The documents include a poem Anthony wrote on July 7, eight days before she reported her daughter missing: "What is given, Can be taken away. Everyone lies. Everyone dies."
The State Attorney's Office released the more than 400 pages of documents Monday. Eyewitness News found out Casey wanted to give little Caylee up for adoption before she was born, but her mother, Cindy Anthony, was against it. Casey's own mother called her a sociopath and warned friends to stay away from her. Casey's ex-fiancé told detectives she had deleted more than 200 pictures of her with her daughter Caylee that were posted online.
According to the transcripts, hours before Casey's arrest one detective told her, "Caylee's out there somewhere and her rotting body is starting to decompose." Casey replied, "I know my mom will never forgive me. I'm never going to forgive myself because there's that chance that I may not see Caylee again and I don't want to think about that."
The documents also show investigators grilled Casey about what happened to her daughter, telling her after the lies she told them they were thinking either she "gave Caylee to someone that you don't want anyone to find out because you think you're a bad mom or something happened to Caylee and Caylee's buried somewhere or in a trash can somewhere and you had something to do with it."
Casey kept insisting to investigators the last time she saw Caylee was June 9. The detective told her, "The longer this goes the worse it's gonna be for everyone, everyone."
Casey kept insisting she doesn't know what happened to her except that she was last with Zenaida the nanny, who no one knows. She also told investigators she's absolutely petrified.
Friends told Eyewitness News Casey celebrated Independence Day with her boyfriend Tony Lazarro. She partied and cooked dinner for him and his roommate.
Friends said Lazzaro believed she worked as an event planner at Universal Studios for the two months they were together. She told him her boss allowed her to work from her computer at his Winter Park apartment.
They found out later from her family she wasn't earning the money she was spending. Instead, Casey was running up her mother's credit cards.
When Casey called Lazarro for a ride from the Amscot where she abandoned her car, she claimed it had broken down and that her father was going to get it to a shop later. That car holds some of the most significant evidence investigators have revealed, possible evidence of Caylee's hair, a suspicious stain and the odor of human decomposition, all in the trunk.
Why would anyone duct tape a little girls mouth after she was dead? Her mother is guilty of criminal negligence, criminal abuse, and at the very minimum, manslaughter. When a friend of a person going into a grocery store to rob, and kill a clerk drives away, he is guilty of murder, or manslaughter at minimum. The woman is guilty, and easily proven to be in a court. The fact that the jury could not even go that far proves that they were incompetent.
How could they overcharge, when they presented evidence for murder, manslaughter and lying to authorities? They were given an out with the manslaughter, but could not convict because the girl was attractive and female. If it was an unattractive father, he would be looking at the gallows now.
BING BING BING.....we have a winner, and a logical mind.
Did you even read my first post ?
Same way it would get there if it was a homicide. Someone had to "package" that poor baby and dump her in the trees. That still doesn't give a cause of death. To folks like you and me it seems obvious that indicates murder- trouble with that is many, many times people have hidden dead bodies that weren't murdered- for different reasons, mostly mental.
The duct tape is puzzling to me- why murder a child with duct tape when she had a pool to drown her in to make it look like an accident? If she killed her in a rage at her mother like many think then why didn't she just physically strangle her or something like that? Seems like a lot of trouble to do the duct tape thing, strange murder method.
This whole case is so strange, problem is we are trying to make sense of something that a mentally ill person did. Casey is without a doubt mentally ill- that doesn't in any way excuse whatever she did- lots of folks in prison and even death row with mental issues. She was determined to be sane enough to stand trial but she is far from sane.
The very least she did is trash her baby even if the baby didn't die as a result of anything she did to her. From there it goes to leaving the child alone for someone else to harm, or her to harm herself, die from heat in the car- drug the baby so she could party and overdose given- some combination of that all the way to cold blooded murder. Casey is definately guilty- but of what?
If I had been on the jury I would have fought tooth and nail for at least the child abuse conviction. I don't know that I could have fought for the other charges but I wouldn't have caved all the way. I do think the prosecutor and jury dropped the ball.
Or perhaps someone wanted the skull to remain intact knowing that the mandible would separate after decomposition in hopes of identification of the remains at some point in the future they put the tape there. A nurse would understand that wouldnt they? Who was the nurse?
Chloroform dissipates upon exposure to air. There is no possibility that chloroform could be detected from an instance that occurred months before. Chloroform is formed when chlorine is combined with moisture and heat. When you open the door to a dishwasher and steam escapes there is probably chloroform present because of the chlorine in the detergent. If there was laundry detergent residue in the trunk and moisture was present chloroform could have been produced in the Florida heat. Besides, the detector used was not proven or even peer reviewed to prove effectiveness.
Most of the other results were refuted by other so called expert witnesses.
I don't remember that. Could you give me a cite please?
That is what the defense team was claiming in opening statements. They blamed George for getting rid of the body.
Never offered any evidence of either.
"How in the world can a mother wait 30 days before ever reporting her child missing? That's insane, that's bizarre... The answer is actually relatively simple. She never was missing," Baez said. "Caylee Anthony died on June 16, 2008 when she drowned in her family's swimming pool." Baez also claimed that Casey Anthony's father, George Anthony, found the body in the backyard pool and indicated that he helped dispose of the body.
Well if George was helping somebody, which may or may not be true, he sure the hell wasn't helping OJ.
Why did the medical examiner declare Caylee's death a homicide? Because the poor baby had duct tape on her face for which there is no REASONABLE explanation except that somebody killed her and since Casey's defense attorney told the jury that it was CAsey who dumped the body, along with George and OJ, the only rational and reasonable conclusion is that Caset, alone or in league with others, put the duct tape on her baby.
To think otherwise is irrational or retarded.
Everything "dissipates upon exposure to air" and yeat levels of chloroform in that trunk were about oreders of magnitude higher than normal. No chlorine or bleach in the trunk.
Most of the other results were refuted by other so called expert witnesses.
You mean like the moron who claimed the duct tape was put on later but in fact the duct tape was holding the mandible to the skull when the kid was found?
A few possible points, taken from the website http://www.justice4caylee.org/t1208-who-s-who-in-the-anthony-case :
Early police investigators included a team from the Sex Offenses unit;
The Sawgrass Apartments, where Casey said the nanny lived, was home to the employer of Casey's sometime 'boyfriend' Lazaro/Lazzaro/Lazarro and this person, who was a 'director' of 'Society Entertainment' also did some work for that 'Fusion' club which Casy frequented and where she met Lazaro.
Casey had expressed an interest in possibly having Caylee 'adopted'.
Did Casey sell or 'rent' her child to pornographers or child predators? Therefore she didn't want to expose them to the police? Did those people kill Caylee?
I hope the police don't give up investigating. This whole case is so odiferous.
Casey did kill Caylee. This sex offender thing may be true, but Casey killed Caylee.
Impossible for chloroform to stay present for months and months in an area. They didnt even do tests on the garbage that I can find. How can you say there was no substance containing chlorine.?
>>You mean like the moron who claimed the duct tape was put on later but in fact the duct tape was holding the mandible to the skull when the kid was found?<<
You evidently didnt see the interview Greta had with the prosecutor who admitted that the tape could have moved given the high water, violent weather and animal invasion. If the prosecutor himself admits that its likely even they had reasonable doubt about the time the tape was put on and where it was put.
Several witnesses have testified that in the summer of 2008 Casey Anthonys car contained a strong odor that resembled the stench of a decomposing body.
This is where the distinction between trash and garbage becomes crucial. Defense lawyers say the stench in Anthonys car was a result of her mistakenly leaving that plastic bag of garbage in her car trunk for several days in Floridas hot summer sun.
Prosecutors counter that the stench is the lingering evidence of the mothers crime against her daughter. A plastic bag of trash is incapable of producing such a strong and distinctive smell, they say.
The issue is further complicated by the fact that investigators found maggots and other insect activity on a wad of paper towels in the white plastic bag. Prosecutors have suggested that the paper towels may have been used to clean up fluid that had flowed from Caylees decomposing body while it was still in the car trunk.
Dr. Haskell was asked a hypothetical question that directly tracks the states theory in the case. If the body of a young child was stored in the trunk of a car for some time and then moved, would that fit with the insect activity he had found?
He said based on the type of insects hed found in the paper towels he estimated the body would have been in the car trunk three to five days.
On cross-examination, Defense Attorney Jose Baez challenged Haskells assumption that whatever was on the paper towels that attracted the insects must have come from human decomposition. Wouldnt left-overs from a restaurant forgotten in a hot car attract the same flies, Mr. Baez asked.
Not that quantity, Haskell said.
Thats when Assistant State Attorney Jeffrey Ashton asked Haskell the difference between trash and garbage.
To my thinking garbage is primarily decomposing organic material, he said, versus trash which is any inorganic stuff you are throwing out.
Haskell said the insects he studies are searching for decomposing organic material, both animal and plant, to colonize and try to raise their kids in it.
He said the white plastic bag contained trash a collection of inorganic materials that were not decomposing.
Orange County Deputy Jason Forgey first explained how dogs are trained to detect human decomposition, and then what happened when his K-9, Gerus, got involved in the Anthony case.
Defense attorney Jose Baez tried to block jurors from seeing certain evidence about Forgey and Gerus, but Orange-Osceola Chief Judge Belvin Perry allowed the state to admit the items, saying that the jury has to decide if police dogs are reliable.
Forgey told jurors that on July 17, 2008 two days after Caylee's grandmother reported her missing Gerus alerted to the trunk of the car after it was taken to the Sheriff's Office.
The deputy also noted that the smell of death, which he is familiar with, was obvious from Anthony's car.
"I smelled it. Clear as day," he said.
Forgey also said Gerus alerted once to a spot near Caylee's playhouse in her family's backyard, but after investigators scraped the ground and the dog was sent out to the location a second time, he did not alert.
FBI examiner testifies about chloroform
Prosecutors also called Dr. Michael Rickenbach, a forensic chemist examiner with the FBI, who told jurors he was surprised that residue of chloroform was detected on fabric from a spare tire cover taken from the trunk.
Rickenbach also said a chemical consistent with chloroform was found on fabric from the left and right sides of the trunk liner.
Chloroform can be deadly if inhaled, and investigators said someone at the Anthony's home searched the Internet for the term on the family computer.
Rickenbach said chloroform is a volatile substance that doesn't stay around long. He told prosecutor Jeff Ashton he would have expected the chloroform to dissipate by the time the fabric was tested.
"I was surprised to even get any results for chloroform," he said.
Rickenbach also told Ashton he detected an odor when he opened the can containing the fabric from the spare tire cover.
Vass and fellow scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee found that while not conclusive, nearly all the compounds present in early human decomposition were detected in the trunk of her vehicle.
You had no idea the evidence would be altered, Baez asked.
No, he said.
The routine drying may have undercut the states investigation as much as defense efforts.
Had they been preserved as found and immediately tested, the maggot-covered paper towels might have provided a direct link between Caylees dead body and her mother.
Haskell said it is possible to retrieve human host DNA from lice, maggots, and even bed bugs. It is unclear whether the procedure was attempted given the state of the evidence.
The crime scene investigator didnt know that evidence could be altered when drying it? Then it was unclear whether tests had been attempted. Can you imagine sitting in a jury and the crime scene investigator is shown to not know what he is doing? That alone would cause reasonable doubt about anything those investigators say.
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It seems that there are many ways to prove the Sylow theorems. I'd like to see a collection of them. Please write down or share links to any you know.
I love Wielandt's proof for the existence of Sylow subgroups (Sylow I). Isaacs uses this proof in his books Finite Group Theory and Algebra: A Graduate Course. As Isaacs mentions, the idea of the proof is not very natural and does not generalize to other situations well but it is simply beautiful. First a lemma:
Lemma: Let $p,a,b$ be natural numbers where $p$ is prime and $a \geq b$. Then $$\binom{pa}{pb} \equiv \binom{a}{b} \pmod{p}$$
Proof. Consider the polynomial $(x + 1)^{pa} = (x^p+1)^a \in \mathbb{F}_p[x]$. Computing the coefficient of the $x^{pb}$ term in two different ways yields the result.
Proof of Sylow I: Let $|G| = p^nm$ such that $p \nmid m$. Let $$\Omega = \{ X \subseteq G: |X| = p^n\} $$
(Note that we are taking every subset of $G$ with $p^n$ elements).
Let $p$ be a prime dividing the order of the finite group $G$. The existence of a Sylow $p$-subgroup can be proved in a standard manner by induction on $|G|$. Let $x \in G$ be a non-central element (i.e. $x \not \in Z(G)$). If the index of the centralizer $|G:C_G(x)|$ is not divisible by $p$ then we may apply induction and find a Sylow $p$-subgroup of $G$ inside $C_G(x)$. So we may assume that $p$ divides the indeces of the centralizers of the non-central elements. By the orbit-stabilizer equation $|G| = |Z(G)| + \sum_i |G:C_G(x_i)|$ where the $x_i$ are representatives of non-central conjugacy classes. In particular $p$ divides $|Z(G)|$. By Cauchy theorem there exists $x \in Z(G)$ of order $p$. By induction there exists a Sylow $p$-subgroup $H/\langle x \rangle$ of $G/\langle x \rangle$, implying that $H$ is a Sylow $p$-subgroup of $G$.
Now let $P$ be a Sylow $p$-subgroup of $G$, and let $\Omega$ be the set of conjugates of $P$ in $G$, $\Omega = \{P^g\ |\ g \in G\}$. $P$ acts on $\Omega$ by conjugation, with $P$ as unique fixed point. Indeed, if $P$ fixes $R \in \Omega$ then $P$ normalizes $R$, so that $PR$ is a $p$-subgroup of $G$ containing $P$ ($|PR| = |P| \cdot |R|/|P \cap R|$), hence by maximality $P=R$. Note that each orbit of an action of a $p$-group has size a power of $p$. In particular partitioning $\Omega$ into $P$-orbits gives $|\Omega| \equiv 1 \mod(p)$. We are left to prove that every Sylow $p$-subgroup of $G$ belongs to $\Omega$. Suppose by contradiction that there exists a Sylow $p$-subgroup $Q$ of $G$ such that $Q \not \in \Omega$. $Q$ acts on $\Omega$, and by the previous argument there are no fixed points under this action, thus $p$ divides $|\Omega|$, contradiction.
Here is a proof by Keith Conrad. In fact, just googling "sylow theorem proof" produces many examples.
Check out Artin's Algebra book. He proves all three of them. The book is just called Algebra. The Artin I'm talking about is Michael, not Emil. It's a great book, and covers a lot of material.
Look Hungerford proofs, he uses the same idea for prove all Sylow's theorems. Which uses the same Lemma of $p$-groups actions.


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JR (Riverhead, NY)
What's the biggest challenge with joining up and praticing with the rest of Instinct?
Neighbor (4:05 PM)
The biggest challenge so far is just getting used to playing with them. It's always difficult playing with new people. I just LAN'd in Chicago yesterday.
Justin (Toledo, Ohio)
Do you plan to stick with Instinct as long as you can, or is teaming with them only temporary?
Neighbor (4:06 PM)
When I joined Instinct, I was first very excited to join the team. We're sticking together for the whole year. We came up with a contract outside of the league to maintain our team for the whole year. We have little details that we put in. It will help us, even if we place poorly to try and come back.
Zack, Wilmington, NC
How does Instinct plan on stopping Str8 Rippin's dominance? Do you think you guys can take the number 1 spot?
Neighbor (4:07 PM)
I do think we can take the No. 1 spot. Str8 Rippin is not unstoppable. They can be beat. Instinct lost to Str8 in Vegas, but that wasn't when I was on the team.
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how is ur team chemistry coming together what lans have you planned?
Neighbor (4:08 PM)
The team chemistry is coming great. We've been practicing much more then the top teams. It's going really well. I'm really enjoying myself. I really didn't know Lunchbox and Roy before we teamed up. I'm just really looking forward to this year.
KillSpill93-Rolla, Missouri
On average. How much time does it take you to practice to learn something new about your gaming performance?
Neighbor (4:08 PM)
I don't know how long it actually takes me. I usually learn things pretty quickly. I would say probably 30 minutes, if it's a jump or a button push. It doesn't take me long to learn.
Arcaos (Cooper City, FL)
What advice would you give to players who feel stuck and can't find ways to improve?
Neighbor (4:09 PM)
I think every player gets to that point once in a while. The only way to get through it is to practice harder or change it up. You get into the ruts because you're doing the same thing every day. You need to work on different aspects of your game all the time.
Nick (Wisconsin)
I just started eating sour patch kids while gaming and i have improved greatly they keep me awake and alert. Are there any other secrets i need to know about the power of the sour patch kids?
Neighbor (4:10 PM)
Well, the sour patch kids is a delicate subject for me. They're kind of like my power, you could say. I would make sure you eat them moderately. But definitely do it.
Randy (Chicago)
You are known as a great 1v1 player. what are some of the things you do that average players don't do?
Neighbor (4:11 PM)
I think the edge I have over the other players is my confidence. I remember back when I was playing Halo 2 professionally, I was nervous going against top pros. But I've been in the league a while. So the experience in tournaments has given me the confidence that no one can beat me.
Nick, the Netherlands
A while ago you said in a post you were going to improve your no-scope for next season? How did you manage to do this and how long did you practice a day?
Neighbor (4:12 PM)
No-scoping is kind of 70% luck and 30% skill. Unless you're on fire then you can consistently no scope. The way I work around it is I'm always confident. I think I can never miss a shot.
Alejandro Matus (Miami, FL)
Do you guys ever get tired of Halo 3? What other games would you like to see in MLG?
Neighbor (4:13 PM)
I don't get tired of playing Halo 3. The game is always different. I learn something every day, even though I play every day. Playing other teams, you learn how other people move around the map. That's one thing that I take away from practice, the game is always changing.
Neighbor (4:13 PM)
One game I would like to see on the MLG tournament scene is Tiger Woods golf.
Jacob (Barbourville, KY)
Do you agree that you are the best player in the league, if not who is, and if so, who follows you at 2nd place?
Neighbor (4:15 PM)
The top players, they all consider themselves to be the best. In every kind of sport. In basketball, the top pros think they're the best. You need to have that mindset to be No. 1. Other pros, there are a few pros that are extremely skilled. On any given day, they can be the best pro. It's hard to say. I consider myself the best, but so do other people. On days they're better and on others, I am.
Michael (FL)
Hey Mason. Can you tell us how you got started in MLG and how you stayed dedicated to Halo?
Neighbor (4:16 PM)
MLG came to my hometown in Seattle in 2005. It was my first tournament. I made the team two days before the tournament. I didn't know what to expect. We came in 7th. The top 8 was considered good. Even though I wasn't making any money, I stuck with it. I went to my local LAN center and they sponsored me. It turned out well. Even though for about 5 straight tournaments I didn't make any money at all.
Will, Greece NY
Neighbor, what do you believe that you can bring to the table to make Instinct a Top 2 team throughout the '09 season?
Neighbor (4:18 PM)
I'm hoping that I can bring first place to the Instinct team. I bring experience. I'm really happy with the team. Walshy is just like Tom, captain wise. I feel like I don't have to do everything, which is what I felt like on FB.
Cole (W.V.)
In 2008 there was a huge increase in the fanbase of MLG. Do you think that this boom will continue in 2009?
Neighbor (4:20 PM)
I do think it will continue. Every year, MLG has been growing. This gaming thing is actually something people are looking too. In my home state, people are excited about going to MLG and going pro. It doesn't really bring the celebrity life, but you're a superstar when you're at the top of the league. Random people are saying happy birthday to you. It's a very exciting profession and this year will be even better.
Neighbor (4:20 PM)
I just want to say thanks for your support. Instinct in '09!
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It Happened One Night
Hi everyone! I'm so happy that you guys all enjoyed the blurb of Vivienne's thoughts! I didn't include it in this chapter…maybe the next one hmm...idk yet lol! Tell me if you are just dying for some VPOV lol! As usual I hope you all enjoy this new chapter and please, pretty please review and leave me some suggestions for future ones! I absolutely love reading them! ~ Ava
~ We Can Fly! – 8:50pm ~
The weather was beyond frustrating – the temperature felt below freezing, the numbing cold intensified by the strong winds that blew about. Someone next to me muttered something about expected rainfall. That would be my fucking luck!
She had stopped her power walking a few blocks back but I was certain that she would have left me if she could - if I hadn't paid for her precious time. She told me not to pretend it was something other than what it really was and I had grown so cold that I was starting to do just that. Let's get this all out in the fucking open why don't we? She was a prostitute, a whore, a goddamn whore! And I fucking paid for her. That's all it was – all that it would have been if I could have just seen her as what she took herself for. Deep in my heart, I didn't think of her as a whore. She was too beautiful, too kind, and too wondrous to ever be such a nasty thing. A prostitute – yes, but a whore – no and all the evidence to support my claim came from her own sweet mouth. She had gotten "personal". I was more than $700 and an easy lay to her. I was laughter, I was caring, I was feelings, I was listening – everything she had never had before. Everything that I didn't even know existed until she came along.
"Stop," I told her when we reached the end of the city square.
Surprisingly she listened; stopping several paces away from where I stood, she still refrained from turning to face me. I could see she had wrapped her arms around herself and it made me worry that she may get sick or something from being out here too long in that very tiny dress. If I hadn't been in such an urgent mood to say what I needed to say, I probably would have gotten hard just looking at her in that tastefully short dress. You have some serious issues, can't you see she's fucking freezing?! One voice shouted in my head as another commented on how I could warm her up…
"I paid the $700 which means I decide how this night goes," she shook slightly at my harsh tone but I did not even pause to dwell. "I already paid in full; you don't have to be here go wherever you please. I'm deciding to let you decide. You fucking choose." I was really angry and really hurt, but most of all really scared. I gave her two options – to stay or to go, and I was truly terrified that she would choose the latter.
At my words she had spun around to look at me, tears forming in her twinkling green eyes. They made my brain travel elsewhere to the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us the very thing that had annoyed me so much about The Great Gatsby. This Gatsby guy loves the unattainable and yet he still tries to attain it. Would that be me, forever trying to find love in those green eyes but knowing that it was never meant for me? Would I become that pathetic? Somehow I didn't care how pathetic I might grow because I had already decided that I'd do anything to win her love. Even if it meant letting her go back to that apartment she calls home with its pimp and whores and nightly visitors.
"Don't be ridiculous, I have to stay here, I can't just go back," she defended. Oh no, the only way you're staying with me is if you want to.
"You think that fucking asshole gives a shit what you do tonight? He got his, now you can get yours. You can go do whatever the fuck you want. You can be as personal as you want." I sneered. God I was really making it difficult to want to stay with me! But if she really did like me then she wouldn't be put off when I acted like a dick.
"I shouldn't," she breathed as I ceased to do so. It was over, she was leaving.
"But I want to," she whispered suddenly pulling me from my self-pity.
"You're gonna stay?" I asked trying to get the hope out of my voice. Way to be subtle there, Teddy!
She nodded. Nope, that's not good enough, baby!
"Tell me; tell me you wanna stay here with me." Demanding little prick aren't you, Teddy?
"I wanna stay with you. I'm going to stay with you," she clarified. That's my Vivienne!
"Why?" I had her reeled in this far, I wasn't about to let go of the line just yet!
"I wouldn't wanna be anywhere else," she mumbled, her eyes downcast.
I smiled widely and when she noticed this, she frowned.
"Teddy, you don't get it this isn't sup-" But I wasn't about to listen to that bullshit. I stalked over to her and collided my lips with hers, cutting her off.
She was so soft, so sweet, and so thought-stopping! Who am I? Where was I? It didn't seem to matter anymore, I didn't even exist! It was only her, she was my everything. She was kissing me back! I had feared she wouldn't…
It was her choice now, she could have pulled away but she didn't. She desired to kiss me as I desired to kiss her. I tried to spread the heat that had suddenly come over me by wrapping my arms around her. I pulled away instantly!
"You're a fucking ice sculpture! Come on we've gotta get you someplace warm. You hungry?" I wondered if my dad's psychotic nature was thrown into the gene pool because I sure did sound like him. It didn't even bother me at this point since I couldn't afford to be too careless when it came to Vivienne.
"Famished," she clutched her waist in exaggeration.
"I'll take you anywhere. What are you in the mood for?" I tried to think of all my mom's favorite restaurants, though we would have been in danger of running into one of my dad's fellow executives if we went to any of them, but I really didn't give a shit at this point.
"I know just the place! Come on, kiddo we don't wanna miss the bus!"She exclaimed, pulling me back down to central Seattle.
I groaned in exasperation, "I thought we already established that I'm not a bus kinda guy."
"How could I forget? Let me go grab the limo for you, Your Highness," she bowed her head, her voice thick with sarcasm. When I crooked my eyebrow in response she nudged me playfully with her arm and giggled. I could feel my eyes growing wider as I was graced with the most beautiful melody in the world.
Her attitude was just too infectious and I couldn't help but join in on the banter. I wrapped my large arms around her in a tight hold, her back to my front. She tried to struggle out of my hold, whining my name, her sweet ass occasionally bumped into my crotch area, waking my toy soldier up to salute.
"Are you trying to attack me, crazy woman?" I mocked as I tightened my grip which only made her laugh and thrash around more. "That's it! You're a serious hazard," and she was. Everyone who met her was in danger of falling in love with her, and I had already taken the plunge.
I spun her around quickly, making her dizzy I think, before I slung her over my right shoulder and continued to walk towards the bus stop. The pedestrians all stopped to look at us; I impulsively turned to make sure Vivienne's ass wasn't completely exposed. Bad idea, bad idea! My brain shouted as my cock grabbed his binoculars to enjoy the show. Thankfully she was covered, not that it made her any less scrumptious. Her squeals only made me more horny thinking about all the ways I could make her squeal. Yeah, you and your virgin sexpertise, my subconscious snickered.
When I finally came to the stop, nobody was there which suited me just fine. I didn't need anybody else trying to get a piece of what was now inches away from my face. Abruptly pulling me from my twisted train of thoughts were Vivienne's frigid hands gliding up my back under my sweater. I contorted my body several ways trying to escape her icy touch which jostled her along with me.
"Fuck, baby! Quit it!" I yelped as her hands reached higher, clearly enjoying my response. I prayed a silent prayer up to God that she wouldn't dwell on the pet name I called her when my brain wasn't working properly. When the fuck was it working when she was around?
"We need exact change for the bus, here." She removed her hands from my body (which both pleased and saddened me greatly) and pulled out two fives from her jacket.
"I'll pay you back," I promised feeling like such a scrub.
"Nonsense," she reached for my back again, her hands warmer this time. My body made them warm; it was my heat on her hands.
When this godforsaken bus finally appeared and I hopped on, I swore the bus driver thought we escaped from some mental institution. A few teens were riding tonight, probably coming home from the movies or something. All the juvenile punks were staring at my little beauty. I tensed automatically. I made a little show of how much she was mine when I slid her body provocatively down the front of mine and then crashed my lips with hers, wrestling with her expert tongue for only a short moment before we sat down. A few other riders were still jumping on board. Noticing Vivienne panting made my dick stir, it really was never this responsive to anything but then again, this girl was pretty exotic and it was probably just a little shocked.
"Nutcase," she whispered in my ear as she pulled gently on the lobe with her teeth. Fuck!
I shrugged in response, I obviously couldn't deny it. She made me fucking crazy, she'd make anyone crazy if they spent enough time with her. As if to back her statement, I wrapped my arm around her shoulders and stroked her hair between my fingers, casually twisting a little piece into a tight curl before letting it fall back to a pin straight lock among the rest. I was right; it was like the finest silk. Like a baby's hair…
The vibrating in my back pocket woke me from my Vivienne-induced daze. Who the fuck was bothering me now? The caller ID read "Phoebe" and the picture of her from last Christmas sliding down the ski slopes flashed on the screen. Of course it would be her; she always knew when the worse times to bother me were.
"Whataya want you little parasite?" I answered with a huff.
Parasite she was indeed, she sucked the life out of everyone, especially her security guard, Brady. Poor man must be on the brink of a stroke by now. I liked Brady – the crazy Irishman. If there was a rainbow and he was driving the car we'd be speeding towards it to find the pot of gold. My mom absolutely adored him which, of course, made my dad keep him at arm's length.
Whoever was crazy enough to marry Phoebe would certainly gain my utmost respect, I sure as hell wouldn't want to live with her, especially "in sickness". She was the second worst patient to take care of, the first being my dad. Flu season, otherwise known as kill-yourself-to-spare-you-the-aggravation season, was marked by the chiming of two bells ringing constantly around the house from the King and Princess of Annoying. Yeah, Phoebe was the carbon copy of my dad. I at least had some of my mom's level head to balance out the crazy.
"Where are you? You left without security? Are you nuts?!" she whisper-shouted into the phone. I rolled my eyes, she wouldn't blow my cover I had enough dirt on her to fill a landmine.
"Who's that?" Vivienne asked her eyes wide with curiosity.
"Who's that?" Phoebe hissed through the phone.
"My sister," I mouthed to Vivienne. "My date," I informed Phoebe.
"You, you have a date? Since when do you have a date?" Phoebe really knew how to make a guy feel good about himself.
If Vivienne knew all the right things to say then Phoebe knew all the wrong. My heart started to beat a little quicker, maybe she would blow my cover and not even mean to do it!
"You better not say anything to Mom and Dad; they think I'm hardcore studying and wouldn't dream of disturbing me." I growled into the phone.
"Let me talk to her and I'll think about it." She really should go into politics; she's such a great negotiator, mainly because you never want to deny her. I rolled my eyes and shook my head from side to side, but eventually complied, handing a very surprised Vivienne the phone.
"Hello?" she asked in that sweet voice of hers.
"Vivienne," she stated then silence. "Seventeen…well yes I'm quite the cougar" she winked at me.
So she was only seventeen? Wow only a year older than me…and still illegal, especially for her line of work.
Vivienne's laugh pulled me from those disturbing thoughts, replacing them with rainbows and sunshine, yeah, mushy, I know.
"I've been trying to figure that out all night…Me, too! Okay I'll give you back to him, thanks Pheebs, I appreciate it." Vivienne handed the phone to a now very shocked me. Phoebe doesn't even let me call her "Pheebs" since that incident with the silly string two summers ago…
"Alright so she's clearly got some brain damage if she's going out with you. I won't say anything to Heckle and Jekyll, but if you get caught I had no idea. Comprendes?" she gets one "A" in Spanish and she suddenly thinks she's an expert.
"Yeah, yeah, just call me if they get suspicious. Goodbye, you little twit." I hung up before she could make anymore snarky remarks.
"You really are such a kind and loving sibling, Teddy." Vivienne shook her head.
"If you lived with her, you'd be annoyed, too, trust me." I thought back to when she would steal my toys when were just tiny tots and I would always get mad and threaten to tell Daddy, cause Daddy was a lot scarier than Mommy. Of course I was only trying to frighten her into giving me my toys back; I wasn't really the tattle-tale type. Phoebe would get so angry that she'd bite deep teeth marks into her arm and then make herself cry before running to Daddy saying that I was the one who bit her. I spent a lot of my childhood standing in the corner. Then one day Taylor showed my parents a security video of the real Phoebe, I don't think my dad ever apologized so much in his entire life than when he begged me for my forgiveness.
No matter how much of a pain she was, I still loved her. She was a little prissy bitch when she wanted to be, but that didn't mean she wouldn't fight my dad to allow her on a dirt bike. She used to roll around in the mud a lot when she was younger and laugh when she made little brown track marks on the white carpet. I taught her how to ride a "big girl" bike when she was six because I was tired of the kids making fun of her training wheels. I cried to my mom when the girls in her kindergarten class said they didn't want to play with her because they didn't like her clothes. The next day she came home with a note from the teacher saying that during play time she punched one of those bitches in the face, just like I taught her. Sometimes I even forgot she was a girl she was so much fun to be around.
It finally hit me that she was almost a woman about three years ago. My best friend, Austin, invited me to swim in his indoor pool every other weekend in the winter because it was too cold to go to the beach. Every once in a while we decided to ask Phoebe to join us because she was a really good swimmer and could play pool games like an Olympian. One day I knocked on her bedroom door, asking if she wanted to come along. She threw the door open, punched me in the gut, screamed that I was a jerk, and then slammed the door in my face. When I ran downstairs complaining to my mom that my sister was a total bitch, she told me about what had happened at school that Friday. Phoebe's strict Catholic school only let them wear their normal clothes on special occasions. That Friday happened to be such a day and Phoebe was so excited to wear her new white denim jeans that she had spent the entire night before bleaching them to perfection. Mom said she had to go pick Phoebe up at school and the new pants had to be thrown away – they were drenched in her blood. She had gotten her period. Mom said that she was so mortified that she cried the entire way home.
I just remember thinking that I would never take Phoebe to Austin's house again. I didn't want him to see her in a bathing suit. I didn't want any of my friends to look at her. She wasn't a little girl anymore. The inevitable would eventually happen – she would meet a boy, one she liked enough to kiss. Only kissing wouldn't be good enough, so she'd let him feel her up while she felt him down. She would've liked the way it felt so they would put their mouths where their hands had been. Until the day would come that she would have sex and she would like a lot, and she would do it again. Maybe she'd only do it with that boy or she'd find another one, and maybe another after him, and so on and so forth.
It killed me; it just fucking killed me to think about it because if a guy could fuck her then a guy could leave her. If he could leave her, then he could hurt her. I ran into my dad's office because I felt that only he would truly get what I was feeling. That was one of the few times I ever told my dad my deepest, most personal thoughts. I remember looking up at him when I finished my rant and thinking that he looked like he was about to cry. He closed his eyes and whispered,
"Get used to feeling worried, Teddy, because it never goes away…"
"Earth to Teddy! We're here, kiddo let's go!" Vivienne exclaimed as she grabbed my hand and towed me off that sticking bus.
"Here where?" I threw her words back at her. I loved doing that!
"The most delicious eating establishment Seattle has to offer," she grinned as she gestured to a neon-lighted restaurant with the name "Doo-Wop Diner" written in pink fluorescent lights.
"It looks like a fifties-themed diner." I said skeptically.
"Hey this place comes complete with a jukebox and waitresses in poodle skirts and roller skates!" she exclaimed as if this made all the world of a difference.
I decided to not be such a shit since this place really seemed to make her giddy. I would appreciate anything that made her happy. Besides she knew I could afford the best of the best and she didn't want that. Isn't that what I had always dreamed of, a girl who didn't give a shit about the finery I could offer? The place was alive with teenagers laughing, music playing, and a few cute old couples chatting. It smelled like good old-fashioned fried food. It was the kind of place my dad would have his own health inspector check out, the very thought made me warm up to this joint even more. A brunette chick with little streaks of blonde in her hair smiled warmly at Vivienne.
"I haven't seen you around here since we changed from black to pink skirts." The hostess giggled.
"Well a lot has changed in two weeks," Vivienne quipped. Her arm weaving through mine as she asked for her usual table. A fleeting jealous thought crossed my mind, how many other guys had she brought here? Was this place her "usual" pre-fuck stop? Get a grip, you irrational asshole.
"I'm guessing you want your usual, too?" our hostess said with a smile.
"We both will," Vivienne giggled when she saw my shocked expression. "You're a Doo-Wop virgin so we have to make sure you get the full experience," she winked.
Well she's not totally off now is she? My subconscious laughed while my dick sprung up, fully alert. If she was included in the "full experience" package, then I would certainly not be leaving here a virgin…
"You're the expert," I shrugged, my dick still throbbing from my wayward thoughts.
The hostess left after taking us to our small booth to sit. My heart clenched with the idea of having to let go of my hold on her, but I quickly shook away that thought. Vivienne removed her jacket finally allowing me to inspect her upper half without the extra layer of fabric to obstruct my view. I was not disappointed. She had perky, little breasts that just stared right out at you. Through the dress I could see the outline of her bra which made my brain picture her, first, in only the lacy material and then, second, in nothing at all. The outfit didn't hug at her curves like it was meant to, probably because she was so thin. She probably had not eaten a decent meal in a long while and it would do her body good to gain some ten pounds. She wasn't taking care of herself properly, it bothered me so because she deserved to be taken care of. If there was one thing that I was certain of it was that she was a good person, even if she hadn't made some good choices. Maybe she needed somebody to help her realize just how amazing she was. Maybe I could be that somebody. I sure as hell wanted to be.
"Do I have something on my face?" she asked as she fidgeted in her seat. She was obviously uncomfortable. Way to go, jerk-off!
"No. Why?"
"You're staring at me…" she mumbled as she tried to look anywhere but at me.
"I find you extremely captivating," she seemed completely shocked but I wasn't finished yet, she needed to hear it all. "The way you look, the way you sound – I could listen to your voice all day – the things you say, it all just fascinates me. I know what makes a girl pretty, but I didn't know there was so much more than looks when it came to beauty - until I met you."
I gave her a few seconds to process all that I had just revealed. When she finally looked up at me she smiled her heart-stopping smile. She grabbed my hand and laced her fingers through mine, the soft touches made breathing impossible. We were in our own little world for those precious minutes; I couldn't bear to think of when I would have to let her go.
The waiters came and ripped us from our intimate moment, setting about our large plates of – what the Hell did she order? A huge burger coated in grease and melted cheese sat in the middle of a sea of french-fries and onion rings.
"I call it the Blood-Clotting Platter," she smirked. She released my hand from her clasp and began to dig in. The sadness I felt at her release only lasted for an instant before it was replaced with utter joy.
I don't understand why girls are so afraid to eat anything that doesn't have zero fat, calories, or sugars in front of guys. When Vivienne feasted it made her all the more adorable. Occasionally she would bite into her burger and hum in appreciation as her eyes rolled to the back of her head. I wanted to make her behave like that! Maybe I could…in your dreams.
I was surprised by how amazing the cheap food actually was. It was better than five-star lobster, when I told Vivienne that she laughed and shook her head. Everything about what we were doing felt so normal. Nothing in my life was ever normal. How could it be when you were backed by more money than the Fort Knox Depository? Hell, how could it be normal with Christian-control-freak-Grey as your father? It couldn't be, it wasn't, and it never would be. No matter how amazing she was, Vivienne wasn't normal, either. Our situation was definitely not normal! Perhaps normalcy was overrated because if I had to trade in Vivienne for the chance at a normal life, I wouldn't. If I had to trade in my mom, or Phoebe, or – fuck me – even my dad, I wouldn't. Fuck being normal, I just wanted to be happy. Vivienne made me happy, happier than I had ever been. Strange how she could make me feel all these emotions and we hardly knew each other, I wanted to know her – everything about her.
"Tell me a secret, something no one else knows." I demanded in a whisper. My question dragged her into the crevices of her brain as she thoughtlessly swirled a fry in the dollop of ketchup. She was so gorgeous, so mouthwateringly gorgeous, when she was contemplating something. Hell, she was gorgeous all the time! But even more so when I could see the wheels turning and I wondered what on Earth she could be thinking.
"When I was little I used to sleep with my bedroom window open because I wanted Peter Pan to fly in there. It would always be opened, when it snowed or rained or was unbearably hot. I'd get so upset when I'd stay at my grandparents' house because I was afraid he wouldn't be able to find me. When I was nine I realized he was just a character in a story and I cried because he'd never take me to Neverland," she looked around us and then lowered her voice to a soft whisper. "I'm still waiting for him to come and take me away from all this shit."
Take me away…
It all became so clear to me that she hated what she did. Though I didn't know why she felt she had to do it, I knew she'd do anything to get out of this fucking city. I could take her away from it all. I could make her happy, as happy as she made me. At the end of our night I wouldn't return her to that fucking pimp, she would never see that place again, of that I would be certain. I would lock her in my closet for the rest of her fucking life if it kept her out of his greedy clutches.
"Are you really only seventeen?" I asked quietly.
"Yes, but please, please, don't say anything. Someone saw me and they must've called the police or something 'cause they raided the entire apartment looking for me. I wasn't there, though. This is the first…umm…night I've spent with anyone in about a week." She told me a lot more than I expected her to, it made me feel like she really did trust me. The words she had spoken still angered me, she's underage for fuck sakes and that piece of shit is selling her out to strange men to do God knows what -
"You make me feel seventeen. It's very refreshing," she smiled and reached for my hand once more. Every angry thought disappeared; she always made me feel so light and airy. Her touch was like being on cloud nine.
"I was thinking about something – something I'd like to do tonight. If, of course, you're up to it…" she looked nervous all of a sudden. The feeling that swept through me was like watching a kitten being frightened by a large dog.
"Anything, we can do anything you want," I breathed.
"That dance, the ones your friends were talking about, well why don't we go?" she looked so embarrassed. I chuckled softly, all that worry over nothing, baby.
"You wanna go to some lame high school dance?" I scoffed.
"I wanna go to some lame high school dance with you," she clarified. That was all I fucking needed! My heart couldn't take the onslaught of warm fuzzies that she had created.
Yes, I would take her to the dance and I would get her to trust me completely. And then, I would take her away from all the pain in her life. I'd take her to the edge of the world if that's what it took to make her safe and loved, because she most certainly was loved. I would just have to work on the safe.
Wait…wait...hold on there, Teddy! Did you just hint that you love her?
Yeah, yeah I guess I did…because I do.


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Joint damage assessments by the state of Kansas, SBA and FEMA were made earlier this week and it was noted that damages will likely qualify the communities for SBA help.
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In order to qualify for SBA loan, a certain amount of structural loss not covered by insurance must happen.
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