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Then, we were in for a real thrill! We descended into the valley by cable car where we were able to view a giant rock formation including the famous Three Sisters as we plunged over the cliff face and into an enchanting world of prehistoric tree ferns. Once we reached the bottom we were treated to a guided walk beneath the canopy of this temperate rainforest, and, then, boarded the world's steepest railway, the Katoomba Scenic Railway, which took us to the summit. Before we headed back to Sydney, we were given some free time to explore the enchanting town of Leura with its quaint antiques and arts and craft shops and, of course, we could not miss the famous Candy store where one could find candies that they hadn't heard of for years!
On our way back to the City, the bus took us through the Sydney 2000 Olympic site. Most of the buildings are still being used today. Our last stop was the Rivercat which glided along Paramatta River, under the Sydney Harbour Bridge and past the Opera House to Circular Quay where our tour concluded. A very busy day! Our hats go off to our guide, Bob, who provided us with tons of information and humour.
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LONDON--About 1,400 children were sexually exploited in a northern England town, a report concluded Tuesday in a damning account of "collective failures" by authorities to prevent victims as young as 11 from being beaten, raped and trafficked over a 16-year period.
Report author Alexis Jay cited appalling acts of violence between 1997 and 2013 in Rotherham, a town of some 250,000. The independent report came after a series of convictions of sexual predators in the region and ground-breaking reports in the Times of London.
Reading descriptions of the abuse make it hard to imagine that nothing was done for so long. The report described rapes by multiple perpetrators, mainly from Britain's Pakistani community, and how children were trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten, and intimidated.
"There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone," Jay said. "Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators."
The report's author took great pains to make sure the identities of the children were not revealed, but offered a general description of the cases showing the victims were between 11 and 16 years old. Most, but not all, were girls, who are preyed upon by unrelated older men.
A sampling of case studies showed the victims first came into contact with authorities for a variety of reasons, including being reported missing from their homes, leaving school with unknown men or as victims of stalking. While most of the victims in the older cases were described as "white British children," but the report said that more recently a greater number of cases were coming from the growing Pakistani, Kashmiri and Roma communities.
Attention first fell on Rotherham in 2010 when five men received lengthy jail terms after convictions of grooming teens for sex. A series of other high-profile cases featuring Pakistani rings also emerged in Rochdale, Derby and Oxford— and communities began to look more closely at their child sex exploitation cases.
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Can someone help me find this article re: flash bid??
We haven't covered that pitch — basically, what Curzio is talking about is placing well-under-market-price limit orders for smaller or more thinly-traded stocks, in the hopes that a mini "flash crash" or just a temporary beating will bring those stocks down to your buy price for a short while.
Travis thanks for the reply. I guess that would almost count as finding a co. who's book value per share is below the current pps.
Susan, I don't know what co's Curzio is talking about, however I found LEDS to be trading at $1.27 and the BV is at $2.20. Book Value Per Share (mrq): 2.20. So to the best of my knowledge this means if a co were to go under the minimum one would get per share (in this case) would be $2.20 No??
Robert; If I may add , Travis has long been using what he calls "stink bids" to get right price in variable market, which I think are same as 'flash bids'. Often in thinly traded/low volume markets opening price may rise then fall sharply [or reverse that] as market decides direction. In case you cite, you buy, per share, at price you set or not at all until next chance, which would be $1.27 if that was your limit. Sometimes you get a partial fill dependent on order size vs. shares being 'unloaded'.
Re: flash bids, I've tried these in the past and based on the requirements as told by the author much DD is required to find them and when you do find them, the spread between the pps and book value per sh. is always large . As I said, I've tried this in the past and waited and waited, never to actually catch one. Just my experience. I do however own LEDS.
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The artist Harry Weinberger was born into a well-to-do Jewish family in Berlin. His father, an industrialist, moved the family to Czechoslovakia in 1933 soon after Hitler's accession to power. From the window of his parent's house Harry had seen the Reichstag burn. In 1939, after the Kristallnacht pogrom of early November 1938 and the consequent setting up of the Kindertransport, Harry and his sister Ina caught the final train leaving Czechoslovakia for England. In his 80s Harry was delighted to make contact with Nicholas Winton, its organiser, to whom he felt he owed his life.
He joined the British army in 1944, after a short spell at boarding school in Buckinghamshire. Later in life he returned often to writing a journal about his military experiences. His war was that of the common soldier and his subversive streak brought to an end a brief period of promotion. He recalled how his commanding officer had once remarked to him that Weinberger did not sound a very English name. Harry shyly agreed, confessing to the officer that his name was in reality McWeinberger: the nickname Scotty lingered for some time.
His memories of the allied advance through Italy were vivid, although he was always alert to the comic in the most unlikely situations. Yet his Italian campaign was more that of Nicholas Jenkins than Yossarian. It often chimed in with that of another English war diarist, Christopher Seton Watson. In mid-1944 Weinberger saw for himself the pile of rubble which was once the great Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino and deplored that barbaric and unnecessary act.
In South Wales after demobilisation he entered college ostensibly to study engineering, but finding that there was a life-class run by the painter Ceri Richards, he changed direction. His period at Treforest and Pontypool was a happy one and he later produced evocative paintings of the urban landscape of South Wales. His method of painting would give an art historian difficulty. Small rapid sketches of a place, a roof-line, or a cloud formation would fill his notebooks. Some of these, 30 years or more later, would be transformed into finished paintings.
It was at the suggestion of Ceri Richards that he went to study at Chelsea College of Art. He always slightly regretted that he had not taken up an offer of a place at the Slade which came from William Coldstream. At Chelsea, he found his style was not attuned to the prevailing orthodoxies of tone and colour. "Too many lines, Mr Weinberger, too many lines." It was a critique which irked him all his life. He took private lessons from the émigré German artist Martin Bloch, whom he greatly admired. As his own career advanced, and Bloch's did not, he quietly helped his former teacher.
He spent a period at Reading School and his teaching had a lastingly transformative effect on many pupils. At Reading he got to know several members of the University and began his lifelong friendship with Frank Kermode, who unforgettably portrayed the university of that time, and the intellectual pyrotechnics of D. J. Gordon, in his marvellous Not Entitled : a memoir (1996).
In 1951 Weinberger had married Barbara Hermann, the daughter of the eminent architectural historian Wolfgang Herrmann. His relationship with his father-in-law, who had opposed the match, was never easy. Another contemporary lodger in the Herrmann household was Rudolf Wittkower. Barbara was also a fine scholar in her own right, producing the still influential Art Students Observed with Charles Madge (1973) and an oral history of English policing. (1996). She died in 1996. It was a loss from which Harry never entirely recovered, although his later years were brightened by a relationship with a former colleague at Coventry.
In the interview which Weinberger gave for the British Library Archival recording project he reflected that paintings he remembered from his Czech childhood resembled icons. Certainly his fascination with Byzantine painting, and particularly later Russian icons, was lifelong. He collected them when he could, often swapping two or three icons from his collection for some yet more desirable example. He travelled to Novgorod and Mt Sinai to see the icons, and he was decided in his views. For an utterly secular Jew he was intensely attached to his icon collection and they provided an important and mysterious theme in his paintings.
Encouraged by Barbara he took early retirement in 1983 from the Lanchester Polytechnic, (now Coventry University), where he had become head of Department. He settled in Leamington Spa and there again made many friends, among the new teachers at the university, including the distinguished mathematician Christopher Zeeman, who founded the department at Warwick. He did a fine portrait drawing of Zeeman, as he did later of Iris Murdoch. Other friends from this period included the social historian Tony Mason and the then lecturer in English, and later rare book-dealer, Rick Gekoski. Harry was a close friend of Iris Murdoch and they often visited galleries together. She wrote the introduction to one of his exhibition catalogues. He was proud that Murdoch spent a good deal of the money she received from the Booker Prize on his paintings, and was hurt when they were sold after her death.
Weinberger was a deeply serious and erudite painter. He revered Rembrandt and Matthias Grünewald: Van Gogh's correspondence was his constant companion. His own painting, despite his vehement protestations, owed something to German painters such as Schmidt-Rottluff, Nolde and Kirchner. His range was astonishing, even if certain themes were recurrent. The large 19th century house in Church Hill, Leamington, was studded with Ibo masks, Indonesian puppets, Buddhas and Tibetan lions.
Collecting masks was a lifelong occupation. They recur constantly in his painting, as does Mr Punch, often with daemonic force. The masks in his paintings were more than a visual metaphor or a fetish. Masks conceal, and yet allow surreptitious scrutiny without betraying the observer's real expression. This appealed deeply to Weinberger's inquisitive mind. A window, or a framing motif within the picture, was another favourite device, enabling him to look out at the world while simultaneously insulating and distancing himself. The prison house was never wholly absent. But besides these vigorous, exotic or brooding compositions he could paint still lives where the influence of his beloved Matisse was joyously evident, and magically serene landscapes and marine views. Iris Murdoch described his "charged, numinous atmosphere, the awkward mystery of space and the spiritual significance of colour," aptly catching the incantatory mood which infuses these paintings.
Music formed an integral part of life, and for many years he and Barbara went regularly to Glyndebourne. Music informed his painting, and the last series of coloured drawings he completed was inspired by Schubert's Death and the Maiden quartet. He was steeped in German literature: Stefan Zweig and Thomas Mann were particular favourites. One of his most exquisite creations was a small volume of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies, in which he had painted marginal vignettes reflecting the movement of the verse and the emotions it stirred. Throughout his career, despite the siren calls of more celebrated galleries, he remained loyal to Duncan Campbell, where he exhibited regularly. He had important one-man exhibitions in Berlin (1973) and elsewhere in Germany. The Pump Room at Leamington Spa hosted a major retrospective of his work in 2003–2004.
His daughter Joanna and her two sons survive him.
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The story of an undercover policeman leading a double life – cheating on his wife and "going native" – was never going to have a happy ending. Mark Kennedy, the policeman who posed for years as an environment activist called Mark Stone until he was "outed" in January this year, will this week reveal how he has lost everything.
He is no longer with the female protester he came to love, nor with his wife and two children, and he is unemployed: "I don't have any future of a job or any prospect of a job... how can I expect people to ever trust me again?" he says.
Mr Kennedy went undercover in 2003 – spending several years establishing a reputation as a committed activist. He was nicknamed "flash" for his ability to produce money and help with transport to protests. Speaking in a documentary, The Undercover Cop, to be broadcast on Channel 4 tomorrow, Mr Kennedy said: "I was meeting interesting people, doing interesting things... I liked the life that Mark Stone had. I also enjoyed the job that Mark Kennedy had."
What began as a job became something more disturbing when he fell in love with a protester called Megan [not her real name]. "We just really connected... I shared my love and my passion and care for her."
But things were not easy. "I couldn't tell her the truth about my family, where I went to school, all those things you share with a partner.
"She fell in love with somebody, I think, who was lying about who he really was, but the love and the care and the affection that I showed for her really existed, definitely. There was no lie about that at all. She meant, and still does mean, a huge amount to me."
The strain of leading a double life took its toll at home. "I couldn't just switch off Mark Stone and crack on to do all the things that Mark Kennedy was expected to do. You'd want to go home and you'd want to give everything that you possibly had to give to your children, and be there as a father and as a dad – you know, do all the things which you were expected to do – and yet I was struggling with that."
And he recalls how he was beaten up by fellow police officers at a protest at Drax power station, in Yorkshire, in 2008: "I got dragged to the ground and punched and kicked and was stamped on... I felt embarrassed to be a police officer."
Allegations that Mr Kennedy was an "agent provocateur" led to the collapse of a trial involving eco-activists accused of trying to shut down the Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station, near Nottingham, in 2009. It was a difficult time. "I had huge anxiety. I wasn't eating or sleeping, and it was really stressful... I felt right out on my own, right out on a limb."
When his subterfuge was exposed, he faced his fellow protesters: "It was definitely an interrogation. I think they felt completely and utterly betrayed... And about half past five in the morning I got up and I walked out of there... and that was it. I haven't seen them again."
He has also left the police: "I was basically told you have no skills and we don't have a suitable job for you... in the end, I thought I can't do this any more, so I resigned."
Mr Kennedy is plagued by guilt. "You're not infiltrating people who are selling crack cocaine or selling a gun or selling children for the sex trade; you're infiltrating people who have a social conscience."
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Paul Manduca, Touche's chairman and chief executive, said poor equity market conditions had meant the SocGen deal had not produced the volume of business that the firm had hoped for. It is understood that the deal with the French bank also cost Touche pounds 500m of business which it had through a link with the Bank of Tokyo.
Henderson intends to finalise the details of its purchase by early November. Andrew Ripper, a Smith New Court analyst, estimated Touche is worth pounds 30m- pounds 32m, at which price it will improve Henderson's earnings.
Mr Ripper said Henderson had been under pressure to find a better use for its pounds 55m cash pile.
The enlarged group will have pounds 9bn under management. Mr Manduca, chairman of the Association of Investment Trust Companies, said it would be the largest investment trust group, with funds of pounds 2.3bn.
Jeremy Edwards, Henderson's managing director, said the group would retain the 'very good' Touche name where appropriate. This is likely to include the 10 TR investment trusts where there is little overlap with Henderson.
The group will have nearly pounds 1bn in unit trusts, which Mr Edwards described as 'good critical mass'.
Mr Manduca is expected to join Henderson in a senior position, probably as Mr Edwards' deputy.
Mr Ripper said the success of the deal 'really depends on how much cost they can strip out'.
Henderson's share price jumped 37p to 655p, though few shares were traded.
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Since the dawn of time, during at least one time in their lives, women always leave a good guy for a complete asshole. Even beautiful, talented, reefer-loving women with lots of money and devoted fans. Reading about Drake's recent radio interview–in which he handled himself in a better manner than Chris Brown ever will simply by not throw furniture around–proves that even famous, incredibly good-looking and wealthy celebrities can still be involved in love triangles of despair. And we all love a good celebrity feud.
Drake = The Good Guy in this scenario. I'm even kinda getting why Amanda Bynes would want him to kill her cooch and why every teenage girl Instagrams Drake quotes 5x a day. Even though he refused to say Rihanna's name directly, he pointed out that he treated her "with respect." Crazy! Yuck, who would want that? Certainly not a couple who breaks up and gets back together more often than Jenelle Evans and… everyone. But there's more:
"Don't ask me shit about that man when I come up there and leave that man alone. Stop preying on his insecurities. His insecurities are the fact that I make better music than him, that I'm more popping than him and that at one point in life the woman that he loves fell into my lap."
Awwww shit, son! While I think that Chris Brown's insecurities are the least of his problems and that a personality disorder or two is probably a better focus, I think this was a good answer. Thoughtful, appropriately hip-hoppy enough, and still got a dig in. Since that's pretty much the exact order in which I answer all of my major life questions, I'm inclined to agree.
When egged on for a response to a lyric from Chris Brown's "R.I.P. Remix" last month where he says something on the level of ignorance that's become atypical of him about Drake "coming out of the closet," Drake said: "I don't wanna hear that man rap, nobody wants to hear me rap against him. I really do this shit."
Oh-Em-Gee, you guys… what if there was a West Side Story rap-off between Chris Brown and Drake someday? And they're just going at it–rapping and snapping and plié-ing all over the place? And Rihanna would be all "Tonight, tonight" while sitting on a fire escape ledge while getting high to forget about it all.
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Music on opening day will feature The Carlo Adames Group from 10-noon. See you at the Market. Stormonth School, west lot, 7300 N. Lombardy.
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Valerie Trierweiler 'ready to forgive' Francois Hollande
Valérie Trierweiler is "ready to forgive" François Hollande for having a secret affair with Julie Gayet, a 41-year old actress, but only if she receives "clarification" about his intentions, it was reported today.
Miss Trierweiler has been in hospital since Friday following revelations in Closer, a glossy weekly, that the French president has been having regular nocturnal trysts with Miss Gayet.
She has made no formal comment since the allegations over Mr Hollande's infidelity. On Sunday, her office announced that she had been admitted to hospital due to depression and extreme fatigue.
On Monday, Le Parisien reported that the Paris Match journalist and unmarried mother-of-three had no intention of immediately ending her relationship with the Socialist leader, despite the furore over his affair – which was carried out in a flat a stone's throw from her bedroom.
"She seems prepared to forgive (him), she doesn't want to slam the door on a whim," a 'close friend' told the French capital's daily.
Full story from Daily Telegraph here
My Partner Cheated and Says It's All My Fault
From Huffington Post
"When I discovered my husband had an affair I was both devastated and furious, but what I didn't expect after confronting him is that he would blame me for his infidelity!"
In my private practice as a relationship therapist and infidelity expert, I hate to tell you how often I hear reiterations of this statement from my clients. A revelation of an affair is a devastating blow to any relationship, but when the cheater blames their partner for creating a situation that "made them" vulnerable to the affair, that usually puts the shock and hurt over the top.
Quite often the men say it's because their partner has lost interest in them, sexually. Women most often blame a lack of emotional intimacy for why they suddenly became erotically entangled with another man. "He understands me and listens to me in a way that my husband (or boyfriend) doesn't," is the common refrain.
As much as the cheater would like to cast off their guilt by blaming their partner for their bad behavior, it really doesn't work that way.
When infidelity occurs, the cheating partner bears the brunt of owning most, if not all, of the blame. Not only did the cheating partner choose to ignore or downplay the pre-existing problems, behaviors and conditions that made the relationship vulnerable to cheating, but they actively made the decision to betray their partner instead of facing up to those problems and working through them.
However, since a relationship is the creation of what two people put into it, when cheating happens, both partners must take a serious look at their own responsibility and contribution to the downfall of their closeness. An emotional indiscretion or physical affair is really a loud wake-up call to both partners that there is something seriously amiss in the primary relationship.
Why Cyber, Physical and Emotional Affairs Happen.
From my book, Chatting or Cheating here are a few of the reasons why most cheaters say they strayed:
1. We share an address, but little else. Statistics show that couples who lead separate social lives are much more likely to cheat than couples who spend more time enjoying common friends and interests.
2. I feel misunderstood or under-appreciated. Frequent criticism and complaining is a big red flag that your relationship needs work…NOW.
3. We're more like roommates than sexual partners. When this happens, partners may begin to look outside of the relationship for physical or emotional fulfillment.
4. Our lives are changing or in transition. Children, retirement, a mid-life crisis, a new job, loss of parents…you name it. Big life changes are often catalysts for cheating.
5. I deserve it. If they're working too hard or their needs are going unmet, and they feel all they do is sacrifice for others, they may end up having an affair to satisfy some unmet desires "because they deserve it."
Whatever the reason for the affair, it's important to note that while both partners may have contributed in some degree, there is a lesson to be learned and an opportunity to understand, mend, forgive and heal. And if desired by both of you, it's even possible that your relationship can be better after an affair if you both do the necessary deep work (as a couple and individually).
Even if it's too late and the relationship can't be mended, or if you're already divorced, to successfully move on and take control of your life back, it's important to own what happened, learn the lessons of what went wrong, and then forgive your partner and yourself for whatever events lead to the affair.
Forgive My Cheating Partner? No Way!
"My Ex-husband left me for my best friend. They had been having an affair for two years before I found out. The two people I loved and trusted the most betrayed me. I'm still devastated. I'm not sure I'll ever trust again yet alone forgive."
Hey, I get it!
Getting past the pain of betrayal can be difficult and forgiveness can seem impossible. I've seen friends in this situation — locked in an endless well of bitterness, hurt and blame that's left them untrusting, depressed and lonely. Some remained single for years after a breakup, unhappy and convinced that there were "no good people" out there. Long after the divorce, the betrayal kept affecting them and their choices, over and over again.
This is why forgiveness is so important when you've been betrayed. Forgiveness is not about them as much as it is about you and creating a better, emotionally healthier future for yourself. After infidelity, you are the one that lives with the rage, jealousy and feelings of victimhood, not the cheater.
Forgiveness is the choice NOT to suffer.
Maybe you're telling yourself that you want to feel better first before you extend forgiveness. What I'm suggesting is that you'll feel better faster if you forgive first!
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."
Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiveness is not saying "What you did to me was OK" it's declaring, "I'm not carrying this anymore!"
To start the process of forgiveness you must first give yourself permission, out loud, to heal and move on. In doing so, you are acknowledging that you are ready to see beyond the pain of today and project a brighter, more joyful future where you are loving, happy, and clear of anger and guilt. What happened is in the past and cannot be changed or controlled. What you can control is your current actions and emotions. You can reflect on what happened and make wiser decisions in the future.
The way back to love is choosing peace over anger, love over hate and forgiveness over blame and resentment. Remember, forgiveness is not about the person who hurt you. It's about you, your future and opening your heart to receive love and trust again.
Sheri Meyers, Psy.D is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Los Angeles, CA, and author of Chatting or Cheating: How to Detect Infidelity, Rebuild Love, and Affair-Proof Your Relationship. For a free chapter of Chatting or Cheating, please go to: chattingorcheating.com
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Chinese official shamed over adultery 'contract' that fines bad behaviour
A Chinese official has become an online laughing stock after the publication of a bizarre "love-affair contract" which he had obliged his mistress to sign.
The six-clause code-of-conduct, which was published by the Beijing News, set out the ground rules for a secretive affair between Tao Yi, a senior tax officer from Guangxi province, and a married woman who was named only as "Ms Fan".
The contract – drawn up on a lined piece of A-4 paper dated March 2013 — stipulates that the adulterers should meet at least once a week and should refrain from engaging in sexual activity with any third parties.
If either signatory fails to honour those commitments or causes "mental distress" to the other, a fine of 10,000 yuan (around £1,000) will be levied.
Full article in the Daily Telegraph
We asked our subscribers a few days ago following the news that a Pastors wife is being "treated" following adultery.
Your unanimous response – nope, not a psychiatric illness
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THE REAL LIFE ANSWER TO TVs "SCANDAL"
Kerry Washington plays Olivia Pope, a glamorous, crisis management consultant in the TV drama " Scandal," who is compromised by her adulterous affair with the President of the United States. Christine Beatty is the woman at the center of the real-life scandal that engulfed former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
In the latest issue of Essence magazine, Beatty writes movingly about the wages of adultery and being labeled, in her words, "home wrecker, opportunist, mistress, whore." Her article, "How Sexting Ended My Marriage," also taps into society's tendency to "forgive" philandering men but "punish" adulterous women.
Beatty's is a cautionary tale of a woman struggling to move on after a highly publicized scandal.
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Apologies for the long delay – laid up in hospital for a while.
TIP 3 & TOP TIP – If you can manage it, make your alibi sports related. Not only does this give you a chance to go home looking a bit flushed, it also explains why you are just showered as tell
Throughout the time we were together, Rebecca had been in an on/off/on again relationship with another guy, which occasionally gave an added frisson to our time together – he never actually caught us in flagrante, but it was a damn close thing once or twice.
Over time, Rebecca was coming under more and more pressure from her family to settle down – in her culture, being a single divorced woman was much frowned upon.
This all coincided with the other guy finally making his mind up to propose to her.
As she wasn't going to break up my marriage, and under immense family pressure, she accepted his proposal, and being the fundamentally moral person she was, our relationship ended on her engagement.
I am godfather to her children, and we still see each other regularly, so although I lost a lover, I gained a lifetime friend (and I'll be brutally honest, I'm sort of hoping that if her husband ever pops off early, we might still get back together, although that's a very distant hope)
My marriage continued until our children had left home, at which point we mutually and amicably agreed to call it a day.
So to summarise, adultery did not destroy my marriage, but it DID allow me to stop blaming myself or my wife for our relationshsip shortcomings – we were just too sexually incompatible.
In my day, there were no Ashley Madisons to steer me to like minded souls, so I was exceptionally lucky to find Rebecca.
Separation and/or divorce no longer has the stigma it did in years past, so my dispassionate advice to any couple (where no children are involved) would be to call it a day and move on at the earliest opportunity.
If there are children, then you need to talk frankly about what you perceive to be wrong, and either negotiate a solution, or at least raise the prospect of seeing other people via sites like Ashley Madison – who knows, you may have your very own Rupert Holmes "Do you like Pina Colada" moment
To stray or not to stray. A personal view from the Adulterer in Chief – Part 4
During the time we were together, time and again we talked about the future.
Rebecca (not her real name), having got divorced due to a cheating spouse, was adamant that she would not inflict that pain on another woman – it was one of the few things we ever argued about.
Having dropped her off at home a number of times after business trips, I had got to know and like her parents and brother. Her brother and I became friends and started playing squash together. He never knew it, but on a couple of occasions, I used hanging out with him as an excuse when I was really spending time with his sister.
TIP 2: If you are going to use a person as an alibi for time you spend with your lover, in many ways it's far better if that person A) does not know your other half b) does not know you are using them as an alibi. From a purely practical point of view, firstly this prevents your other half easily checking up on you and secondly the alibi-er (if you know what I mean) does not experience any guilt as they are unaware of their role
To stray or not to stray. A personal view from the Adulterer in Chief – Part 1
From time to time I get irate comments from self righteous types who believe that facilitating any sort of adulterous behaviour is inherently wrong, immoral etc etc.
I thought it might be instructive to set out my personal experience, which has guided my views on the subject, and in part explain why I host this site.
I will also be setting out what I see as the pros and cons, and handy hints and tips from my own life aimed at reducing the risks of discovery and family break-up.
All the basic facts that follow, including the most intimate, are absolutely true; only fine details have been edited to protect the identity and privacy of all concerned.
My wife and I met at work, fell in love and married within 9 months of our first meeting. We were very young when we married, so young that we were both virgins (it was a long time ago!). Even on our honeymoon, it was fairly obvious that my wife did not really enjoy sex – at the time, I thought it was just that we didn't know what we were doing, that things would improve over time.
That never happened, and very soon our "sex life" (if you can call it that) was a grudging, once a month duty submission on my wifes part. At this time, I was still blaming myself for my lousy technique.
I briefly considered divorce, but it was much rarer and very expensive then, and carried a real stigma of failure with it, so it didn't happen.
Whatever I lacked in skill and frequency, I more than made up for in fertility, and before too long, we had 4 lovely children.
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Should Milwaukee voters always vote for someone who looks like them?
The uproar over state Senate candidate Elizabeth Coggs' statement at a community forum last weekend that black voters should "vote for someone who looks like you" sparked a number of reactions. It also set into motion some political maneuvering by her opponents, along with a debate about the role race plays in elections.
Coggs, a state representative, wasn't talking about her own race for the 6th Senate District in the Aug. 14 primary, where she's pitted against a field of black candidates. She was alluding to the 10th Assembly District - her old district, which she gave up to run for state Senate - where three African-American candidates and one white candidate are on the ballot.
It was pretty clear Coggs was talking about state Rep. Sandy Pasch, the only white person in the field.
Nikiya Harris, an African-American candidate running against Coggs, denounced the remarks as racially offensive. For full effect, she did it Monday in front of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. statue that stands on King Drive near downtown Milwaukee during a hastily called news conference.
"I want to make it clear, people should be voting based on a person's skills, not their race," said Harris, a Milwaukee County supervisor, who praised Pasch as an effective legislator. Harris supported the need for more black leadership, but said she didn't think voting solely on the basis of race was the best way to achieve that.
"I don't vote based on race, never have."
She criticized Coggs for attempting to divert attention away from "25 years of failed leadership" with her remarks.
Coggs could not be reached for comment Monday.
Pasch has garnered support from some black politicians in Milwaukee, including Mandela Barnes, a candidate in the 11th Assembly District, who also showed up at the news conference to criticize Coggs.
"We should pick merit over melanin," he said, a phrase destined to become a campaign slogan for someone.
It's slightly ironic some of Coggs' political opponents immediately jumped to criticize her choice of words. After all, most are African-American candidates running against other African-Americans in predominantly black voting districts.
Frankly, the idea of urging residents to "vote for someone who looks like you" is already a foregone conclusion in some parts of the city.
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on Dec 28, 2007 at 1:43 pm
What a soap opera
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on Dec 31, 2007 at 3:08 pm
I'm a tolerant person but I do not want to live in an eruv. I feel that having my home encircled by a religious boundry is an invasion of my personal rights. Is it possible to find out the exact location of the line, since it is in the public domain?
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Concerned athiest--the eruv is not actually all in the public domain--in many places it crossed private property, with the permission of the owners and some of it is natural--the freeways and the creeks.
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Respect for Kinesin Grows
The Discovery Institute video "Workhorse of the Cell: Kinesin" premiered last year on YouTube. Since then, additional facts about these molecular motors have come to light. Some highlights:
Relay Handoff
Kinesin-II, one of the extended family of kinesin motors, is involved in a "relay race" on a micro-miniature scale. It demonstrates how different families of molecular motors cooperate. This one works in synergy with other cargo-carrying motors in the important complex function known as "intra-flagellar transport" (IFT) that builds and maintains cilia and flagella. An important example occurs in the neurons of the eye.
O'Hagan and Barr, writing for Nature Cell Reports, describe "A motor relay on ciliary tracks" between kinesin-II and another motor. It turns out that kinesin-II is the marathoner running up the neuron into the crowded transition zone (TZ), where it "hands off" its cargo a sprinter named OSM-3 that runs it up to the cilium tip.
Peterman, Scholey and colleagues have now discovered a previously unappreciated complexity in the cooperation of anterograde motors using advanced techniques ....
They find that kinesin-II acts as an import motor that transports cargos from the distal dendrite into the ciliary TZ (Fig. 1). Because the TZ is cluttered with obstacles such as Y-link attachments, kinesin-II (with its tendency to frequently detach from microtubules) may easily sidestep obstructions, switching to an adjacent microtubule protofilament to continue on its path to deliver cargo to the PS [proximal segment]. A similar model of obstacle avoidance was proposed to function in axons, in which kinesin-2 binds the same cargo as kinesin-1 to allow the complex to sidestep around Tau protein obstacles.
The authors then observed gradual acceleration of IFT in the PS, accompanied by a gradual decrease in abundance of kinesin-II and concurrent increase in OSM-3 (KIF17) (Fig. 1). The acceleration resulting from changing the ratio of kinesin-II to OSM-3 did not match previous predictions from in vitro data. Instead, a biased contribution model, in which OSM-3 outcompetes kinesin-II ten-fold, fitted the acceleration observed in vivo. These results suggested a 'handover zone' in the PS, in which kinesin-II gradually hands over its transport duties to the faster and more processive OSM-3, which then acts as an efficient long-range motor to bring IFT complexes to the ciliary tip. [Emphasis added.]
Noting that different kinds of cilia in various species have different families of motors acting together, the authors describe "an emerging theme" in IFT research. They sugest that "kinesin-II plays an essential role in ciliogenesis, whereas accessory motors are associated with specializations in ciliary form and function." Many debilitating diseases are known to occur from mutations in IFT.
It's amusing how they used the word "evolution" only one time. "Why did evolution add another anterograde motor when heterotrimeric kinesin-II seems capable of doing the job alone in algae?" As it turns out, this relay race is an efficient way to get the job done. Kinesin-II and OSM-3 each have their strengths, and each one is matched for its environment. Then, at the ciliary tip, another molecular motor -- dynein -- takes cargo back down.
The paper by Scholey and Peterman and colleagues in Nature Cell Biology doesn't have anything to say about evolution. Instead, the scientists explain why "functional differentiation" provides the best way to get cargo delivered on time:
Dissociated kinesin-II motors undergo rapid turnaround and recycling to the ciliary base, whereas OSM-3 is recycled mainly to the handover zone. This reveals a functional differentiation in which the slower, less processive kinesin-II imports IFT trains into the cilium and OSM-3 drives their long-range transport, thereby optimizing cargo delivery.
Kinesin-II is no slouch as a runner. In our video, it appears to walk slowly and deliberately, but remember: the narrator says it can take a hundred steps a second. The researchers seem to like the word "optimize," using it four times in all, such as:
We propose that the functional differentiation of kinesin-II and OSM-3 into an import motor and transport motor, respectively, optimizes sequential steps of anterograde IFT to build the cilium. The system thus exploits each kinesin-2's specific motor properties and requires that the number of motors on the cargo, that is, the IFT train, is well orchestrated, resulting in a gradual exchange of the different motors to ensure reliable handover of cargo (Fig. 7). In a broader context, the deployment of similar, same-polarity yet functionally differentiated motors may represent a common strategy for optimizing intracellular transport.
"Optimize" is a design term. Evolutionists, by contrast, are fond of "tinkering," wherein natural selection supposedly cobbles together parts just to get by. Which word is a better match to the observations?
Myosin Mimicry
Another walking motor is myosin, which walks along actin filaments instead of microtubules. Bioengineers at Emory University weren't quite able to imitate its motion, but they did improve on previous attempts by inventing a DNA-based motor that rolls like a wheel. At first, the news from Emory makes it sound like they bested nature:
"Unlike other synthetic DNA-based motors, which use legs to 'walk' like tiny robots, ours is the first rolling DNA motor, making it far faster and more robust," says Khalid Salaita, the Emory University chemist who led the research. "It's like the biological equivalent of the invention of the wheel for the field of DNA machines."
But then they have nothing but praise for natural myosin:
The field of synthetic DNA-based motors, also known as nano-walkers, is about 15 years old. Researchers are striving to duplicate the action of nature's nano-walkers. Myosin, for example, are tiny biological mechanisms that "walk" on filaments to carry nutrients throughout the human body.
"It's the ultimate in science fiction," Salaita says of the quest to create tiny robots, or nano-bots, that could be programmed to do your bidding. "People have dreamed of sending in nano-bots to deliver drugs or to repair problems in the human body."
So far, however, mankind's efforts have fallen far short of nature's myosin, which speeds effortlessly about its biological errands. "The ability of myosin to convert chemical energy into mechanical energy is astounding," Salaita says. "They are the most efficient motors we know of today."
The engineer makes this blunder in his reasoning, though:
"Our DNA-based motor can travel one centimeter in seven days, instead of 20 years, making it 1,000 times faster than the older versions," Salaita says. "In fact, nature's myosin motors are only 10 times faster than ours, and it took them billions of years to evolve."
For one thing, myosins are present in the earliest cells we know of, so it didn't take them "billions of years to evolve." For another, if he applied intelligence to build a cheap mimic, wouldn't that be evidence that the superior product required an intelligent cause?
Molecular Ruler
We see myosin at work in another role described in a paper in
The ability of cells to change shape underpins physiological processes from embryonic development through pathogen clearance in the immune system. The plasma membrane of cells exhibits high mechanical resistance yet permits enormous changes in cell shape. This apparent paradox is resolved by a dynamic network of actin and myosin filaments beneath the plasma membrane that forms the cortical cytoskeleton. Stress fibres, bundles of actin fibres and myosin II motors traverse the cell between focal adhesions that anchor the cell in the extracellular matrix. Actomyosin contraction against these anchors generates the force required for shape change and cell motility. Phosphorylation of regulatory myosin light chain (RMLC) stimulates myosin activity, leading to contractile force generation. The Rho-associated coiled-coil kinases (ROCK) are essential for the maintenance and integrity of stress fibres in the cell by directly and/or indirectly phosphorylating RMLC. A null mutant of the Drosophila Rok gene or deletion of ROCK1 or ROCK2 in mice results in prenatal lethality.
Their diagrams show that ROCK acts as a "molecular ruler" due to the length of its coiled coil. "This represents a new type of spatial control, and hence a new paradigm for kinase regulation."
They try to make a case for ROCK evolving at the origin of multicellularity, but it's little more than speculation. "Given the role of ROCK in regulating actin dynamics at focal adhesions, it is tempting to speculate that the emergence of ROCK together with the integrin-mediated signalling machinery was a crucial event in metazoan evolution." Exactly how machinery "emerges" by blind processes is not clear. One thing is clear: it is "evolutionarily conserved throughout the animal kingdom." In fact, it is "remarkably well conserved across more than 600 million years of evolution." That's hardly something to make an evolutionist cheer. We'll take their concluding automotive analogy instead. It sounds more like design.
Our findings indicate that the activity of the Rho kinases is regulated by the spatial positioning of kinase and substrate in the cell, much like the clutch in a car engine determines whether the car is in gear or not. The engine, or kinase, is always running, but the car, or cell, doesn't move unless the clutch, or substrate, is engaged. This represents a new paradigm in kinase-substrate regulation, whereby substrate specificity and corresponding activity are simply governed by the precise spatial positioning of enzyme and substrate.
So there you have it. Cells are inhabited by molecular motors and engines with precision parts operating under tight regulations. Now you can watch our video animation with a little more appreciation for what these amazing molecular machines do for all life, including you.


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Hey all, my 08 2 door wrangler is only 4 months old and until 2 weeks ago has been tip top.. But recently after i start it or even stop at a light, the idle goes down and it almost stalls out.. And sometimes when stopped the engine will just run rough and shake the whole truck. Anyone have any idea what this could be.
This exact same thing happens to my 2005 Wrangler X. I got it in May 06 and it had 8,500 miles on it. It now has 13,000. It does not do this often just ever now and then I will stop at a light and the engine will idle down and I think it is going to shut off. I tend to give it some gas just in fear of that. I took it in for service (still under warranty at the time) they told me they replaced the idle control module (??) However, it is still doing this!! :banghead: Not under warranty now! Any help or suggestions on this matter for me would also be appreciated.
Run a bottle of Techron or Seafoam?
Check and see if the O2 sensor wire has rattled or pulled off (or any of the sensors).
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Why sure Hilldweller....do you want me to wait in the hall or can I stay and watch!:pop:
And, thanks for the info. :)
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I agree, i am bringing it in first thing on tuesday. I have only had it for about 4 months and have no complaints, this has been the only issue.
Ironically I read this thread at work yesterday and on my way home today my 08 did this sh*t while I was sitting at a light. Awesome... Did anyone get an answer from their stealership?? I just don't want to go in without a clue.
It takes a good tech to really figure out why it's doing it; there are too many possible reasons.
The engines these days are set to run very lean (read: hot) to save gas; that usually means they they're very dependant on sensors to tell them how much 02 they're getting, temperatures, etc.
Earlier Chrysler engines (also Toyota, Audi, and a few others) were prone to excessive sludge formation that would foul the 02 sensors and clog oil gallies; this would lead to very costly repairs. That's the main reason that Jeep says to change the oil at 6K intervals when most of the rest of the planet can go to 15K these days (mandated by the EU).
So you have to look at all the easy stuff first and trouble-shoot from there. Make sure that there are no vacuum leaks, the fuel purge canister isn't damaged/clogged, no danling wires off sensors, clean & unrestricted air filter, etc. You'd be surprised how quick a mouse can build a nest and have babies in your air filter or how tasty a squirrel thinks your plug wires might be...
But if you're under warranty, check the obvious stuff and then make it the dealer's problem.
Is the engine hot or cold when this happens?
I'm guessing hot.
This exact problem hasnt been a concern to date however we have had a batch of bad Camshaft Position Sensors that prompted a bulletin about hard start and MIL illumination......this could also cause a rough Idle and stalling however you should have a Check engine light as well......Most any tech should be able to figure out you concern IF they can duplicate the problem which is always what makes intermitants so tough to diag
As to the TJ with a stall out problem.....Check you vacuum lines the ones located on the drivers side by the front of the hood ALWAYS age very quickly and cause exactly the problem you state....its literally the first place we look for a rough Idle stall concern on 6 cylinder TJs......Chrysler vacuum lines SUCKASSS......be thankful you dont have a Liberty:D
good luck guys wish ya lived near me
That is the problem I was having with my TJ ...the technician could never seem to duplicate the problem when he had it. Will defintely check the vacuum lines thou. Thanks!
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Mike Higgins, father of Hebe, five; Minna, two
For other fathers out there with small children and too little time to read further, here's the top line: being a dad, it helps to know when to act like a kid. But that's not exactly helpful, is it. It's easy to say that I should stay calm when my five-year-old is screaming the supermarket down because I won't buy her a magazine, and that I should locate my inner child when my kids want to turn the Christmas tree into a slide. The reverse has often been more true for me: howling blue murder back in front of alarmed bystanders, and seeing if I can detach myself for 10 minutes with the paper when they're playing/wrecking the iPad/engaged in Darwinian fight to the death.
As much as I wanted children, I found that when Hebe, the first of my two daughters, was born, I was basically the home help. I did all the mucky, practical stuff, and happily. But all the raw emotion – that was going on between mother and child. Which, I recall, was fine.
Then my wife went back to work after nine months and I was looking after Hebe two days a week, and it dawned on me – parenting wasn't just keeping the baby happy enough while I got on with something else vaguely practical (building cots, sorting through bags of gifted baby clothes, listening to Test Match Special). Nor was fatherhood, as a few dad friends had led me to believe, a holding pattern until the child could walk, talk and interact. It was an opportunity to spend time with a person changing week by week, physically, mentally, psychologically.
I'm not saying I always coped with that opportunity very well. My wife didn't like it when she rang me in B&Q one afternoon and asked where the baby was: "In the car. She's asleep. I, er, didn't want to wake her." I've dropped each of them on their heads at least once – Minna at a playground last summer. But the girls do seem to turn to me as much as to my wife for a cuddle – though Minna calls me "mamma" as she does so.
I was fortunate: I was working part-time when Hebe was born and was able to continue to do so, and my wife was part-time, too. Many of my dad friends found themselves working longer and harder than ever as their partners gave up work, but plenty have been quite happy retreating to work, and just as happy to wave through all executive decisions made by mum regarding matters inside the front door. I try to have at least a conversation (or "pointless row") with my wife each week about some aspect of child-rearing.
The other thing dads always ask is whether I miss not having a son. No, I don't. And, in a household of three females, I definitely think I can, now and then, play up the outnumbered daddy card. But I could do without the constant hairbrushing and the long-hair garnish most meals seem to come with.
But anyway, down to the nitty-gritty (what dads like, right?): keep your in-laws on-side, they become not just helpful, but indispensable; get your man-pinny sorted (pair of old jeans, an k old sweatshirt and boots without laces); put at least two dates a month in the diary for you and your wife to go out in the evening (and don't call her "Mum"); and always offer to change every nappy – you'll never know when you'll be able cash in that urine-soaked cheque.
Chris Maume, father of Tom, 12; Eve, nine; and stepfather to Charlotte, 20
Until I met the love of my life I never wanted children. I didn't want to fuel the population explosion, and I certainly didn't want the responsibility. When love came calling, all that went out of the window, and now I find myself in possession of two children of my own and a stepdaughter for good measure.
Charlotte and I entered each other's lives 15 years ago when she was five. From the beginning, and as she moved into her teens, I was guided by my own experiences; my father died when I was eight, and my stepfather was soon on the scene (too soon for my liking). Remembering how I resented his efforts to replace my dad, I was determined not to make the same mistake – especially as Charlotte's father, unlike mine, was very much around.
Does that mean that sometimes I didn't get involved with disciplinary matters and left it to her mum? It did, I think: I was often too happy to let Nicole slug things out with Charlotte, especially in her teens. I feared the words, "You're not my dad!" (only uttered once, thank goodness). Even now when they argue I leave them to it.
Pusillanimous? Possibly, but I think it worked: Charlotte has always felt she can confide in me, if she wants. I'd never have dreamt of confiding in my stepfather. It also helped that Charlotte's relationship with her dad's partner (now ex) was acrimonious, not least because she tried to be a second mum. I shone by comparison.
I'm not sure this reflects well on me, but it feels as if Charlotte's adolescence was, in some senses, a dry run for Tom's – he's nearly 13 (perhaps when nine-year-old Eve gets to that stage I might finally have cracked it). Charlotte didn't do as well in her exams as we'd hoped – she didn't get into university, but is getting on fine, working in a nursery and studying for a diploma in childcare and education – and that's made me determined not to let Tom's academic career falter. I'm much more on his case than I was with Charlotte, though I'm certainly no Tiger Dad.
On Charlotte's first day at secondary school, she left home in the morning a child and came back in the afternoon an adolescent. That didn't happen with Tom, and still hasn't – partly just because they're different people, and perhaps partly because he attends a school that heavily emphasises what they refer to as "traditional values" (zero tolerance on bad behaviour, mobile phones banned, teachers standing guard at bus stops at going-home time).
Charlotte followed her dad to become a born-again Christian. Though I'm proud to be an atheist, this was fantastic news. It meant we had no worries about drink, drugs or teenage pregnancy. She's grown up with an ethical backbone that I know will serve her well in life.
And it required no input from me – although I'd like to think I'm typical of how fathering styles have changed: present in mind and body, not semi-detached, not leaving everything to mum (though mum might have a different perspective). Do I have any advice? In one sense, I think, the die has already been cast by how you were with them years before. So don't back down, don't be deflected by the din of protest – you may get a quiet life now, but you reap what you sow.
But given that, when they're in their teens Rule One is: choose your battles; don't start a fight you can't win. Rule Two: accept that they're going to have some kind of life internally and externally that doesn't include you. Don't be a helicopter parent. Don't go on their Facebook page. You wouldn't read their diary – I hope – so unless there are sufficiently alarming contraindications, have faith in them. Support where necessary but know when and where to keep your distance. Trust them. Rule Three: if in doubt, get them converted to Christianity sharpish.
Andy McSmith, father of Joshua, 16; Tamsin, 20; Imogen, 22; and Nick, 24
Three of mine have left their teens behind, entering adulthood without a criminal record or any serious medical or social problems – good fortune not shared by every parent of young adults that I know: so, on the first and most important point, I have no grounds for complaint.
There are four in all – Joshua, still at school and living with us; Tamsin, away at Sheffield University during term time; Imogen, teaching English in Hungary; and Nick, who was abroad most of last summer but is back with us until he can raise the money to go abroad again.
Actually, when I say the elder three have left their teens behind, that is perhaps too sweeping. The teenage obsession with fiddling about with bits of hand-held electronic equipment has not disappeared, and they still find it inexplicably hilarious to remind one another of the time when dad said "Grand Auto Theft" or pronounced the name of Beyoncé with two syllables. And they still have that teenage habit of staying up very late and sleeping through the morning, unless there is a compelling reason to get up.
A great bonus that comes with seeing your children past their 20th birthdays is the sudden drop in the parental workload. It is a strange but pleasant experience to come downstairs in the morning and find that your children have cleared up the kitchen while you slept.
And the days are gone when mum and dad would plan a family outing in minute detail, only to be stymied by a recalcitrant child who does not want to be there and is determined to be miserable. Now they can join on an evening out, if they choose; if not, they can look after themselves.
I could never have socialised comfortably with my father, a Tory in the Enoch Powell mould, who left school early, and believed that a father's role was to be an infallible figure of authority. I was well into my thirties before we were anything like friends.
However, the occasional problems that young adults now put before their parents will generally be very expensive or intractable, born as they are of the well-known phenomena that student loans do not cover the true cost of being at university, and that there are insufficient jobs awaiting the newly graduated that pay enough to cover the huge cost of housing, particularly in London.
Tamsin is the least embarrassed of our three twentysomethings about asking for money or help. That is not simply because she is still a student; it is also a matter of temperament: a total confidence that she is going to be self-sufficient one day. The older two hate to ask. Imogen tries to avoid it through careful forward-planning, Nick lives from day to day. He loved coming back from France flush with money that he had earnt, but when it was gone, he was back in the grim business of borrowing and asking.
Sometimes I miss the small people they used to be, who would so guilelessly share whatever was on their minds. Young adults will tell you as much or as little about their lives as they choose, but they are also companions, who talk about things that we older folk might never have known about, and work gadgets you would never have known existed.
There is always the nagging anxiety about where the kids would go if financial disaster hit and we had to downsize the home, but I am not sorry to be a father of the boomerang generation. It is surprising how quickly some couples age when the children move out and they settle into an old folks' routine with no one to mock them for being out of date. Having young adults clattering in and out is disruptive – but it is fun.
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Hebe Higgins, five
"Daddy is very cuddly, and reads me stories. He is good at bicycling, scooting and playing horsies. I love cuddles with him the most. He is not good at winning gold medals in our races. He's good at making cakes. He is not good at cooking sausages. I don't like his guitar - I hate his songs, but I love his flamenco and I can dance to it. I love my daddy."
Tom Maume, 12
"My dad is really helpful and concerned most of the time. He listens if I want to tell him something - unless he is listening to The Archers - and is interested in what I tell him. Most of the time. He always pretends he is sleeping if I start talking to him about videogames. He always wants me to try my best in school, but he knows what I can achieve and doesn't push me too hard. He really supports me and tells me how I can improve."
Nick McSmith, 24
"Just when you think you're free there's a strong chance you end up, like me, back with the parents. Luckily, my parents are good at offering advice and understanding decisions I take. Occasionally, a little push is needed. For example, before a work placement in France, I was fearful of working in a foreign language, but after reassurance from the folks I was convinced, and all the better for it now."Reuse content