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Are You Addicted to the Internet?
Do you realize that it is easy to get addicted to the internet? Well it is? Is it healthy? I think not.
There was a time when I just couldn't stay off the internet. I especially liked watching You Tube videos, but now I limit my time on certain sites. After the time is up, I turn off the computer and do other things that I enjoy doing that are not internet related.
Many people get on the internet and have online acquaintances, because it relieves stress and helps you forget your problem. I say online acquaintances, because it is easy to call everyone your friend online, when that might not be the case.
When you spend more time on the internet than you do in the real world, then you probably addicted to the internet. Granted, some people make a living online, but even those people know when to turn off the computer and walk away.
Are You Addicted to the Internet?
You're probably wondering if there is a such thing as internet addiction. No need to wonder about this any longer, here are some ways to know if you are addicted to the internet:
- You check your email a zillion times a day.
- The first thing you do upon waking from a good night's rest, is turn on the computer and get on the internet
- You constantly check social networking sites to see what others are saying. You don't want to miss anything.
- You spend more time talking to online acquaintances or friends than you do your own family and friends (offline).
- You spend hours online without taking any breaks in between.
- Whenever you get stressed, you log on the internet to get your mind off the problem.
- You constantly check your email, Facebook and other social networking sites from your cell phone.
I listed a few ways off the top of my head, but I am sure there is more.
Kicking the Internet Addiction
What to do, what to do? Well, the first thing you must do is admit that an addiction exists. Once you admit that you have a problem, then start doing something about it.
Excessive amounts of time spent on the internet cannot be healthy. Think about it, if you're spending excessive amounts of time on the internet, when do you have time to sit back and enjoy a meal, exercise, or even quiet your mind? You never do! The mind is always on go.
Here are some things you can do to end your internet addiction:
- Admit you have an internet addiction.
- Set aside a certain time that you will be on the internet and stick with that time. No cheating!
- Don't eat while on the internet. Enjoy your meal and savor every bite, without reading the latest tweet from those your follow.
- Don't get too personal with people online. It is easy to do, but I've learned, everybody doesn't need to know everything about you.
- Take a digital sabbatical. Don't turn on your computer, stay away from it. Try this on the weekends.
- Go for a walk and breath in the fresh air. Enjoy nature.
- Spend time with your family and friends. Make this something that you always do.
- Watch your favorite TV shows.
- Exercise helps you feel better, not to mention it helps with stress.
- Read those books you've put off reading for a while.
- Dust off your hobbies and interests. Pick them up and run with them. You never know where those hobbies and interests can take you.
Internet addiction is real and it is not healthy at all. Some people lose themselves in the internet. Never lose who you are no matter if it is on the internet or off the internet. Too much of anything can never be a good thing.
It is up to you to recognize the signs and do what you must do to correct the problem.
Healthy living is where it's at. If you are spending more time on the internet, then how can you be living a healthy lifestyle?
Healthy living is more than just what you eat. If any part of you is out of balance holistically, then other things will be out of balance too.
Know when to take a break from the internet. Your mind, body and spirit will thank you.
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I'm used to it and in fact I uses it daily for my blog but not in the sense that I'm really addicted to it. It's just that it's being part of my job and that's what it takes for me to earn.
Hi Evelyn,
Thanks for such an informative post on internet addiction. I agree with you that a person can get addicted very easily. However, it is possible to break from that addiction by first admitting that your are addicted, then take the steps outlined to reverse it. Great post.
Good Post, I actually just took a break from twitter and facebook for a week just to se if i had an addiction, its just hard when you work as a web/graphic/programmer designer so i'm constantly on the internet for work but i figure when your off the clock enjoying the things before that made you happy before all the social network booms are really the best things in life.
I've always used the internet more than others growing up, but as I've began to work from the internet, I find myself making more of an effort to meet friends and family in person instead of the occasional chat over Facebook 🙂
I think in our day and age everyone is addicted to the internet. My husband is glued to his iphone because he is using it for internet. I am glued to my MAC day and night. I don't really check facebook too much, but my email and youtube – yes, I have a problem. But I also get a lot of work done this way.
I'm not sure I would want to be without internet, but it is nice sometimes to get away from it.
Oh dear I am addicted. Thanks for making me realize it though 🙂
I think I cannot consider my self as internet addict since I am only visiting online if I read blogs… But I can say, I am computer games addict! Lol!


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HARMAN International Industries, International, announced today that Miri Ben-Ari, the GRAMMY Award-winning violinist known for her pioneering fusion of classical, jazz and hip-hop styles, is the next musician named as a Beautiful Sound artist for the Harman Kardon brand. The Israeli-bred Ms. Ben-Ari will be featured globally in advertisements and in special appearances as an ambassador for the Harman Kardon "Beautiful Sound" brand campaign.
Miri Ben-Ari, Brand Ambassador for Harman Kardon(R) Beautiful Sound Campaign (Photo: Business Wire)Additionally, Ms. Ben-Ari will launch the Miri Ben-Ari Beautiful Sound Tour at New York City's Gramercy Theatre on February 20. Ms. Ben-Ari will compose a beautiful-sound song to debut on the tour. "I am honored to be working with Harman Kardon," Ms. Ben-Ari said. "I feel very strongly about the audio legend's approach to music and style. I work very hard to create beautiful music for my fans and in my collaborations with many of music's brightest stars. Harman Kardon designs audio equipment where beauty and sound go hand in hand to create an environment that is as memorable as the music." Ms. Ben-Ari studied violin under the late classical master Isaac Stern and has shared the stage with many artists, including Jennifer Lopez – the first Harman Kardon Beautiful Sound artist – Jay-Z, Wyclef Jean, Alicia Keys, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny G, Janet Jackson, Maroon 5, Aventura and John Legend. Ms. Ben-Ari has been dubbed "The Hip-Hop Violinist" and has expanded her repertoire to collaborate with artists across genres. She has performed for President Barack Obama and was named a Remarkable Woman by First Lady Michelle Obama in 2011 at the White House. "Miri Ben-Ari is the ideal ambassador for Harman Kardon's Beautiful Sound message," said Dinesh C. Paliwal, Chairman, President and CEO of HARMAN. "She is an elegant, creative woman with high standards for the unique music she creates. Harman Kardon is synonymous with incredible sound and attractive design, and we are extremely pleased that Ms. Ben-Ari will help us share that message."

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Life is a Rollercoaster
Since summer last year I have started my carrier as freelance journalist and social media consultant. I love writing and I love earning my money with that!
I am happy, when you like me on facebook or follow me on twitter: Just look for
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Recently I have also been very active writing a Travelblog mainly about China:
I have been travelling since I was a little child. I love to have a look around the next corner.
In the last 20 years I travelled mainly alone. A woman travelling alone?? Yes, it is the way to travel completely independent. I can decide whether I want to make an organized tour for a few days or whether I want to cope with the hardships of public transfer and run down hotels. I really love this way of travelling. I always felt very safe and it is up to me to meet nice people along the way.


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"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is the first novel in The Millennium trilogy. It was published in 2005, one year after the author Stieg Larsson's death.
It received The Glass Key Award form Crime Writers of Scandinavia in 2006.
According to figures from June 2011, the Millennium Trilogy has together sold 60 million copies in more than 50 countries.
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired by Henrik Vanger to investigate the disappearance of Vanger's great-niece Harriet. Henrik suspects that someone in his family, the powerful Vanger clan, murdered Harriet over forty years ago.
Starting his investigation, Mikael realizes that Harriet's disappearance is not a single event, but rather linked to series of gruesome murders in the past. He now crosses paths with Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker, an asocial punk and most importantly, a young woman driven by her vindictiveness.
Together they form an unlikely couple as they dive deeper into the violent past of the secretive Vanger family.
she is my dream image, motorcycle and everything.
– boop boop not sarah, 10 April 2014
Best books ever
– , 19 August 2013
Bought the book for a flight 3 years ago, finally got around to reading it. I can't believe I deprived myself of this book for so long! Amazing story, even translated into English it was brilliant. Ate TGWTDT in 3 days!
Watched both American and Swedish movies. Thought they were both pretty good
– Daniel C, 15 August 2013
I watched all 3 movies. I love each one more and more! I usually don't do subtitles but it's a must see. The American version sucks!!! Please make a 4th movie. I hope they hook up again. They have so much chemistry!!
– Suzanne s, 11 June 2013
I just saw the sweedish version and then fast fowarded the us one. The original was great, the us sucked. They made the girl look week and the full focus was on the man (daniel craig)…
– M., 27 December 2013
Really, The US version of the film is so much more accurate and encompasses the real Lisbeth. Try reading the books and tell me the Swedish versions are better.
– woty1515, 27 April 2014
the whole series is just like a drug, u just have to go back to it even though u try remaining away from it even during the semester exams. the interwoven characters are like just black and white colors mixing together to give a perfect grey, just love wish there was more to Lisbeth Salander and her adventures into black, grey and white of the world. hats off to Stieg Larsson, just wish that u were alove to see ur work become such a sensation and such a masterpiece.
Steig Larsson u are the legend.
– Arachnidvector, 18 May 2013
you mispelled "from"
– xavier, 7 May 2013
i just finished reading TGDT by S. Larsson.
all i can say is i need to read the 2nd & 3rd installment.
– psykhe.en.cu, 18 februari 2013
You won't be disappointed. The second book as well as the second movie, are the best of the two trilogies in my opinion. But all three books and movies are well worth experiencing.
– Jack, 13 May 2013
I still say the movies do not do justice to the books and one has to read them all either before or after seeing the movie (your own preference). The second book and movie I did kind of simultaneously and even though the movie spoiled the suspense for me of the ending, I still enjoyed reading all the details of the book! I would definitely recommend these books to anyone!
– Rory, 1 August 2014
Will never understand why crime drama is so popular. All fiction is enjoyed by people with boring lives, what makes these any different?
– Name/signature, 18 januari 2013
Well, with that sort of assumptions we could generally say that all movies and books are enjoyed by people with boring lives. Fiction is enjoyed because it's different from reality, drama – because it relates to reality. In this way, they are different.
– Viewster, 26 November 2013
I have read all of the Millenium books and found it quite gripping. The writing style is quite unique and leaves the reader wanting to read more. I couldn't believe it when i heard that Larsson had died the same day as giving his editors the manuscripts of these brilliant books. I find Salander as a brilliant role model for women everywhere as she does not allow men to push her around. The events in the second book lead brilliantly to the third book. I am hoping to read The Girl with the pearl earring, although it is not linked to the Millenium series, the author follows Larssons style of writing quite clearly.
– Naomi Robinsons, 28 juli 2012
Without a doubt, this trilogy was the most thrilling, gripping and addictive series I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Larsson sucked you into his novels, and at the conclusion of the third book – left you desperate for more.
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Macaroni With Ham & Asparagus
|Small asparagus
|1 1⁄2 Pound
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|2 Medium, thinly sliced
|Boiled ham
|1⁄2 Pound, diced
|Whipping cream
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Freshly ground pepper
|To Taste
|1 Pound (Medium Sized, Such As Penne)
|Parmesan cheese
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs), grated
|Parmesan cheese
|1 Tablespoon (Additional)
|To Taste
Wash asparagus and cut tips off stalks.
Reserve stalks for another use.
Fill a medium saucepan half full with salted water.
Bring water to a boil.
Add asparagus tips.
Boil about 1 minute or until tender but firm.
Drain asparagus.
Melt butter in a large skillet.
When butter foams, add onions.
Saute over medium heat until pale yellow.
Add drained asparagus and ham.
Saute 1 to 2 minutes.
Stir in cream.
Simmer 2 minutes or until cream begins to thicken.
Season with salt and pepper.
Fill a very large saucepan two-thirds full with salted water.
Bring water to a boil.
Add macaroni.
Bring water back to a boil and cook macaroni uncovered until tender but firm to the bite, 8 to 10 minutes.
Drain macaroni and place in skillet with sauce.
Add 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese.
Toss macaroni and sauce over medium heat until sauce coats macaroni, 20 to 30 seconds.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 3681 Calories from Fat 1385
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 156 g239.7%
Saturated Fat 91.6 g457.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 485.2 mg161.7%
Sodium 1292.2 mg53.8%
Total Carbohydrates 428 g142.6%
Dietary Fiber 36.1 g144.3%
Sugars 56.1 g
Protein 129 g257%
Vitamin A 135.1% Vitamin C 114.7%
Calcium 107.6% Iron 172.7%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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Update: Jessica has some ideas about what you can do.
Claire Hoffman, a staff writer for the LA Times, got a little more than she bargained for when she took an assignment to write an article for the paper's magazine about "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis:
Joe Francis, the founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" empire, is humiliating me. He has my face pressed against the hood of a car, my arms twisted hard behind my back. He's pushing himself against me, shouting: "This is what they did to me in Panama City!"
It's after 3 a.m. and we're in a parking lot on the outskirts of Chicago. Electronic music is buzzing from the nightclub across the street, mixing easily with the laughter of the guys who are watching this, this me-pinned-and-helpless thing.
Francis isn't laughing.
He has turned on me, and I don't know why. He's going on and on about Panama City Beach, the spring break spot in northern Florida where Bay County sheriff's deputies arrested him three years ago on charges of racketeering, drug trafficking and promoting the sexual performance of a child. As he yells, I wonder if this is a flashback, or if he's punishing me for being the only blond in sight who's not wearing a thong. This much is certain: He's got at least 80 pounds on me and I'm thinking he's about to break my left arm. My eyes start to stream tears.
Francis turned on Hoffman for no apparent reason; they'd just spent five hours inside a nightclub with 2500 very drunk people, holding a "Top Bod" contest (photos here) and recruiting girls willing (or simply drunk enough) to go out to the "Girls Gone Wild" tour bus (they were not allowed to photograph half-naked women inside the nightclub; go figure) to flash their tits or kiss another girl on video in exchange for T-shirts, GGW panties or the odd trucker hat. Francis himself has gotten very rich from these images: GGW generates about $40 million a year in sales.
But back to that rather ill-considered assault on an LA Times reporter:
I wriggle free and punch him in the face, closed-fist but not too hard.
"Damn," bystanders say. Francis barely blinks. He snatches at my notebook. He is amped, his broad face sneering as he does a sort of boxer's skip around me, jabbering, grabbing at my arms and my stomach as I try to move away, clutching my notebook to my chest. He stabs a finger in my face, shouting, "You don't care about the 1st Amendment. I care about the 1st Amendment, but you are the kind of reporter who doesn't care."
Not content with the riches he has made off the bare breasts of drunk underage girls (who might well have thought differently about exposing themselves for a wide-release video sold on TV in exchange for a little swag had they been sober — wonder if those model releases are valid if they're signed while impaired), Francis wants to take his empire into the mainstream:
At 33, and after almost a decade as the king of soft porn, Francis says he wants to leave this twilight existence and wade into the mainstream. He is quick to list the projects he says he has in the works: a feature-length film, a series of "Girls Gone Wild" ocean cruises, a "Girls Gone Wild" apparel line and a chain of "Girls Gone Wild" restaurants. He says he's producing a new line of videos called "Flirt" that will be racy, but not explicit, and could be sold in mass-market retail outlets such as Wal-Mart and Target.
In short, Francis wants to insinuate himself and his view of the world into the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the vacations you take and the entertainment—filmed and glossy—that you consume. He sees "Girls Gone Wild" as the ultimate lifestyle brand. "Sex sells everything," he says. "It drives every buying decision . . . I hate to get too deep and philosophical here, but only the guys with the greatest sexual appetites are the ones who are the most driven and most successful."
This is how he sells that success:
The call center, just past Los Angeles International Airport, is staffed by rotating shifts of 250 employees who earn $9 an hour, plus commission, to hawk "Girls Gone Wild" videos, which sell for as little as $9.99 each. A whiteboard on the wall sets the agenda: "Push That Porn!!!"
The workers are mostly young and African American, and the videos they're pushing are almost exclusively of twentysomething white girls. "You like watching triple-X, right? You seen our doggy-style videos? Well, I'm going to send you out eight of the hottest videos of the year," goes the pitch.
Francis and his company are under investigation for what went on in Panama City:
In Panama City Beach, his lawyers successfully fought another battle. Authorities had filed a 77-count complaint in state circuit court that accused Francis and his crew of gathering a group of minors—a 16-year-old and four 17-year-olds—and taking them to the Chateau Motel. There Francis paid two of the girls $100 each to make out in the shower while his crew videotaped them and told two of the girls he would pay them $50 each to touch his penis, according to the complaint. Francis pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Francis, poor baby, doesn't like how his empire has changed the girls he exploits:
But the women are changing, Francis tells me, and that makes him sad. In the beginning, when "Girls Gone Wild" cameramen first popped up in clubs, the women who revealed themselves seemed innocent—surprised, even, by their own spontaneity. Now that the brand is so pervasive, the women who participate increasingly appear to be calculating exhibitionists, hoping that an appearance on a video might catapult them to Paris Hilton-like fame.
The question of why these young women do this for a T-shirt is pretty complex. It's not simple exploitation of drunk young women, but it's also not simple enjoyment, empowerment or calculation:
I know that Francis' assertion that women bare all for "Girls Gone Wild" because they enjoy it—while undeniably self-serving—is at least partly true. But I find myself asking the same question I had put to my friend back in Iowa: Why?
Francis doesn't have an answer. "I've never focused on why they do it," he says. He rattles off suggestions: "It's empowering, it's freedom." Would he do it, I ask? "Probably not," he responds. "I'm too shy."
I call Vicki Mayer, a sociologist and Tulane University assistant professor, for guidance. Mayer teaches a class on the nudity rituals that take place on New Orleans' infamous Bourbon Street. She has studied and written about "Girls Gone Wild," and she contends that it's simplistic to say that Mantra takes advantage of women. "For some women this is liberating, for some women this is something they do on a goof or for a lark to show friends they can, for some it's a way of flirting with the cameramen," Mayer says.
Francis and his staff maintain that it's the "girl next door" they seek out for their videos. In reality, the "Girls Gone Wild" girl is almost always slender and young, with nice teeth and very carefully groomed private parts. At the same time, Mantra recruits hard-working and attractive young men who will be able to sweet-talk women into taking their clothes off for the cameras. (Mantra has released several "Guys Gone Wild" DVDs filmed by female camera crews, but they have not sold as well.)
Mayer has studied the young cameramen, who, she says, often sign up because they hope to break into Hollywood. Usually, she says, they end up disillusioned after spending night after night with women who lose their inhibitions for a T-shirt. "As much as it would be easy to see this as a simple relationship of men treating women a certain way, there are mutual relations of exploitation. I kind of feel like both sides could be seen as exploited."
She's concluded that the winners are "the owners of these companies who are contracting cheap labor and free talent for a media product."
It would be bad enough if Francis left it at just exploitation of the images of these young women. But what makes him even more of a scumbag is his willingness to use their physical bodies for his own purposes. Hoffman writes of an awful encounter with a very drunk, barely legal girl whose description of what happened sure as hell sounds like he raped her:
Above the dance floor, the stage is full of girls who rotate, twist and shimmy their way up and down three strip poles. One of them is Jannel Szyszka, a petite 18-year-old who prances around the stage like a star. At her feet, a crowd of hundreds is gyrating to the pounding house music. Dozens of polo-shirted boys shout up to her, making requests like "shake your titties" and "get crunk" (meaning crazy-drunk).
Szyszka tells me later that as she was spinning around the strip pole that night, Francis appeared, grabbed her arm and pulled her toward him. "You are so going on the bus later," she recalls Francis saying. "I was like, 'Um, OK.' I was shocked. I was like, 'Whoa—Joe's, like, trying to talk to me, like out of all the girls in here.'" Francis invited her back to the VIP area to do shots with him, she says, and she said yes.
Szyszka says the more shots she drank, the cloudier her judgment became. She says she agreed to join Francis and his crew on the "Girls Gone Wild" bus. "I thought 'Girls Gone Wild' was like flashing, and I thought I would flash them and be done. And so when I'm walking to the bus, that's all I'm thinking is going to happen."
At first she felt comfortable, she says. Inebriated and excited, she says she was led to the back of the bus, to a small bedroom. The double bed, with its neatly folded iridescent purple sheets, takes up most of the room. A flat-screen TV faces the bed, and cabinets are filled with remote controls, lubricants, condoms, sex toys in plastic bags, baby oil, a DVD called "How to be a Player" and a clipboard full of waivers for girls to sign. A small bathroom is off to the side, with a half-sized shower with faux marble tiling, and on the floor of the shower is a crate holding cheap and fruity-flavored rum, whiskey, tequila and Kool-Aid.
Footage from that night shows a close-up of Szyszka's driver's license, proving she's not a minor. The camera then captures Szyszka lying on the bed. Her nails are chipped, her eyes coated with makeup. Following a camerman's instructions, she shows her breasts and says, "Girls Gone Wild." She seems shy but willing. She smiles. The unseen cameraman asks her to take off her shirt, her skirt, then her underwear. She sprawls on the bed, her legs open. At his suggestion, she masturbates with a dildo, saying repeatedly that it hurts but also feels good. Francis enters the room at certain points and you hear his voice, low and flirtatious, telling her, "You are so adorable." When she says she's a virgin, he responds: "Great. You won't be after my cameraman gets done with you."
When I talk to Szyszka seven days later, she says she "didn't quite realize" she was being filmed. "But I didn't care because I was drunk and who cares?" Then she adds: "It didn't feel good to me at all, but I was totally faking it because I was on 'Girls Gone Wild.'"
Eventually, Szyszka says, Francis told the cameraman to leave and pushed her back on the bed, undid his jeans and climbed on top of her. "I told him it hurt, and he kept doing it. And I keep telling him it hurts. I said, 'No' twice in the beginning, and during I started saying, 'Oh, my god, it hurts.' I kept telling him it hurt, but he kept going, and he said he was sorry but kissed me so I wouldn't keep talking."
Afterward, she says, Francis cleaned them both off with a paper towel and told her to get dressed. Then, she says, he opened the door and told the cameraman to come back, saying, "She's not a virgin anymore."
Francis told her to keep what happened between them, but Szyszka eventually told her parents and sister what happened. They were angry, but kept quiet at her request. But she finds herself confused and, as women have been conditioned to in this culture, guilty about what happened:
She's confused, she admits, about what happened. She feels guilty, she says, for getting herself into the situation in the first place. She says she never would have undressed for the cameras if she hadn't been completely drunk. And she is adamant that she said "no" to Francis. She says she's haunted by that night.
"I feel like it was planned," she says. "Sometimes I'm driving along, and I think about it and all of a sudden feel weird."
Francis, let's remember, took her to the VIP room and fed her shots and only then took her out to the bus to be filmed. She might be old enough (as evidenced by the creepy closeup of her driver's license) to pose for porn, but she's not old enough to be served at a bar.
For his part, Francis angrily denies that he even had sex that night — hey, if it didn't happen on camera, it didn't happen, right?
Six weeks after that night outside Chicago, when I call Francis on his cellphone and ask him about the incident, he says he doesn't remember Szyszka and that he didn't have sex with anyone that night. He seems to lose control, repeatedly referring to me by a crude word for female genitalia. "If you print that, I will [expletive] sue the [expletive] out of you. If you print that, baby, you just put the nail in your own coffin," he tells me. "You are a [expletive expletive]. You decided to blast me . . . You are a [expletive] bitch . . . I will get my last laugh on you. I will get you." He then refers me to Burke, his lawyer.
Burke, for his part, allows that his client had consensual sex with Szyszka, but denies that he fed her alcohol and claims that any pain was simply due to Francis' endowment.
This anger and revenge has been on display throughout Hoffman's encounters with Francis. He assaulted her, after all. Not only that, his jokes and anecdotes all had a barely concealed undertow of hostility and anger that belied his claims to "love" women.
But he doesn't appear to be equipped to deal with women who aren't very young, very drunk and shedding their inhibitions for a chance at some kind of fame. Hoffman scares him, and in an attempt to neutralize the threat she poses to him with her ability to use his own words and actions against him, he tries the "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty" tack:
Francis sounds scared in the message he leaves on my office voicemail: "I've seen some excerpts from your article that I guess you've sent to the photographer and, um, I want to talk to you about it."
No photographer has been assigned to the story, and no excerpts have been sent to anyone.
I don't call Francis back right away, so he calls my editor. He tells her that I have a crush on him, that I have an ax to grind because I am jealous and angry.
"I just felt that Claire may have had a little affinity for me," he says as she takes notes. "It may have come out when she had a few drinks." He describes my behavior as aggressively romantic. "Originally she hit on me. That's how I met her. I took her to a lunch. She called me all the time and it wasn't about work. It was about me. I know when a girl has a crush on me."
He tells her I was drinking heavily—"we all were"—and offers to send photographs to prove it. When my editor asks if he put his hands on me that night, he doesn't hesitate.
"I did absolutely get physical with her—but not romantically," he says. "We were outside standing by a police car. The officer told her to quit taking notes on what he was saying. I said, 'There's no freedom of the press here.' I took her arms behind her back and said, 'Let's take her to jail.' I said she should go to jail and the officer agreed with me. She didn't get the sarcasm. She listened to him. She stopped writing. Can you believe that? That's the 1st Amendment. She's not a journalist. I stand up for the 1st Amendment. But she didn't." My problem, he tells my editor, is that I "wasn't smart enough" to "get" what he was saying.
Oh, she's smart enough. And she's smart enough to check out whether he's done this kind of thing before. And he has: police and court records allege that he's responded to women who haven't complied with his every whim by making threats, attempting to break into their homes, screaming obscenities at them and harassing them at work.
But here's where things get scary and depressing, because even though Francis attacked Hoffman on a public street, in front of witnesses (who included law enforcement officers), it was initially dismissed as affectionate play:
I phone Ementi Coary, a Melrose Park, Ill., police officer who witnessed Francis roughing me up. He says he didn't intervene at the time because he had been told by "Girls Gone Wild" crew members that Francis and I had "hooked up" and that we "had a thing going" and that I was "just jealous."
"I was under the impression that you guys knew each other, that something was going on between you and that you guys were playing around," Coary says. "I changed my mind when he was grabbing your arm. That didn't look like playing around anymore." That's when Francis' bodyguard physically separated us, escorting me to the edge of the parking lot, and when Coary called for backup; a patrol car arrived moments later. "He's one of those guys who has money and does whatever he wants to," Coary continues. "I would've been happy to put the guy in jail." He had advised me to press charges that night, but I declined.
Then I phone Leland Zaitz, who was working for Francis in Melrose Park as a producer and was in the parking lot during the episode. Zaitz says he interpreted the whole thing as Francis being affectionate toward me, despite the fact that the pressure he applied was so intense that hours later, my arms were covered in red hand marks.
"He starts having fun and he realizes that most people can't keep up with him and he gets a little rough. I think it was just Joe's version of being playful and goofy," Zaitz says. "I think he was trying to bring you in closer."
Boys will be boys, after all. If he's teasing you, it means he likes you. Amanda, not surprisingly, also sees the hostility, the possessiveness and the coercion. She's also anticipating that she's going to get the kind of emails she got when she wrote about Dov Charney, the scum who runs American Apparel and treats his staff as his personal harem. Because it's all in good fun, they said. What, are you some kind of prude?
Hoffman's piece ends with a perfect example of how intertwined violence, sex and power are in the minds of a lot of people in this culture:
When I think back on that night, our very public scuffle isn't what seems the most revealing. Instead, the moment I saw Francis most clearly—his charm, his rage, his cunning and even his regret—came later, when no one was looking. I was waiting, still shaken, outside the club for a cab to take me back to my hotel. Francis, who had disappeared inside the bus, returned.
Ignoring the two policemen who hovered a few yards away, he tiptoed past them to stand over me. He rubbed my shoulder. His gestures were oddly gentle—even fond. I felt sick.
"I'm sorry," he said, reaching over to tousle my hair. "We love our little reporter. Don't we guys? We love our little reporter."
I stared down at the dirt as he whispered in my ear, "I'm sorry, baby, give me a kiss. Give me a kiss."
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- 1/3 cup olive oil
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- 1/3 cup Feta cheese, crumbled (3 oz.)
- 1 tbs. minced fresh marjoram, oregano, or basil, or a combination
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- Juice of 1 lemon
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Preheat grill to medium-high. Arrange eggplant and bell pepper slices on large baking sheet, and brush both sides of all pieces with olive oil. Season with kosher salt and black pepper. Transfer eggplant and peppers to grill, in batches if necessary, and cook, turning occasionally to promote even browning, until softened and nicely marked, 15 to 20 minutes.
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Transfer eggplant to platter and top with pepper strips. Garnish with Feta and marjoram. Drizzle with olive oil and lemon juice. Serve warm or at room temperature. Makes 8 to 10 servings.
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My dried tears,
mean nothing anymore.
My faded laughter,
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Genre: Horror
love it. O.O great job!:D and if you like sad poems or horror poems, check out my work:) thanks, keep up the great writing, bye:D
This is quite sad. Not everything in life is happy and peachy. Good work.
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A lover is a liar
But mine stands higher
And I often get tired
From playing with fire
A lover is blind
But mine sees with her eyes combined
As she tries to read her very own mind
It's not like I mind
A lover knows
But mine foreknows
And she knows me down to my toes
No use in 'I suppose'
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And allows no room for question
A lover is in the eyes of the beholder
But mine just stands on my shoulder
And weighs of a boulder
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That is enough
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I might also add,no game is likely to ever be sold out again ,all developers offer some form of digital download,but if it is the box copy you desire and feel it will be limited,then i guess that might be a decent excuse.
Unless the game limits how many they sell of the digital download or whats called a "Limited Release". Which Xsyon is doing just FYI.
Either way, I say if you dont want to support it, and fear about the game. Dont preorder and wait.
At least wait a few more weeks before pre-ordering, they may release some videos.
I took the gamble, the way I figure it if everyone took a wait and see approach, there'd be no player feedback to go on. Besides like I've said before, I've spent money on games that had tons of video and player feedback before only to be disappointed. So I don't really see how videos are gonna prove anything to me about how I will feel actually playing the game.
Originally posted by Cochran1
...So I don't really see how videos are gonna prove anything to me about how I will feel actually playing the game.
Isn't the more important aspect of a video for this game so that it will prove there is actually even a game and it's not a scam. Seeing if you think you would fit well with the game play seems secondary to that.
Although even with a video it can still be a scam, it will just have to be a more intricate scam. Note: I'm not saying this game is a scam, I have no idea of course - as well as hope it isn't. I also think that people who pre-order based on a feature list and screenshots have extra much money to burn with zero evidence of a game except a "friend of the developers" forum mod's word.
It's their money to gamble however. Hows the proverb go, "A fool and his money....?"
I will not be pre-ordering the game. I will stick with EVE as my sandbox game of choice for now. But i really do hope people pre-order and hopefully make this game a success as it sounds really cool.
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Originally posted by Maverz290
Erm, yeah. I'm considering pre ordering, purely because the risk vs reward system of whether it pays off or not is quite intriguiging.
Has anyone else taken the gamble? Anyone else brave enough to pre order without any (ANY) footage or example of gameplay?
Not just no but hell NO!
This to me is a ploy to get people to blindly preorder. If you ask me I would say no don't preorder. wait and see if the game really exist and what happens with it.
With how they are limiting thier player base to 500 in april and 5,000 over the summer. Again I say if this game really does exist. This is looking like Dark and Light all over again to me.
If you don't remember what Dark and Light and what happend with it a few years ago Google it.
Such small numbers are indeed suspicious. It would be oh so easy for them to fake 500 people playing, giving feedback etc and thus control the hype and videos released.
Time will tell, but for now i won't touch it with a bargepole.


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-3421?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13072380#comment-13072380 ] Robert Elliot commented on AMQ-3421: ------------------------------------ It may or may not be relevant, but we also see null pointer exceptions as the queue fills up: 2011-07-27 19:56:23,509 [ActiveMQ Task-145-13] WARN o.a.a.b.TransportConnection.Service - Async error occurred: java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException: null at org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnection.processAddProducer(TransportConnection.java:500) ~[activemq-core-5.5.0.jar:5.5.0] at org.apache.activemq.command.ProducerInfo.visit(ProducerInfo.java:105) ~[activemq-core-5.5.0.jar:5.5.0] at org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnection.service(TransportConnection.java:306) ~[activemq-core-5.5.0.jar:5.5.0] at org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnection$1.onCommand(TransportConnection.java:179) [activemq-core-5.5.0.jar:5.5.0] at org.apache.activemq.transport.ResponseCorrelator.onCommand(ResponseCorrelator.java:116) [activemq-core-5.5.0.jar:5.5.0] at org.apache.activemq.transport.TransportFilter.onCommand(TransportFilter.java:69) [activemq-core-5.5.0.jar:5.5.0] at org.apache.activemq.transport.vm.VMTransport.iterate(VMTransport.java:218) [activemq-core-5.5.0.jar:5.5.0] at org.apache.activemq.thread.PooledTaskRunner.runTask(PooledTaskRunner.java:127) [activemq-core-5.5.0.jar:5.5.0] at org.apache.activemq.thread.PooledTaskRunner$1.run(PooledTaskRunner.java:48) [activemq-core-5.5.0.jar:5.5.0] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [na:1.6.0_17] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [na:1.6.0_17] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) [na:1.6.0_17] > Deadlock when queue fills up > ---------------------------- > > Key: AMQ-3421 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-3421 > Project: ActiveMQ > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 5.5.0 > Environment: Tomcat 6.0.29, Spring 3.0.5, Oracle Java 6, Centos 5 > Reporter: Robert Elliot > Priority: Critical > Attachments: JStack Output.rtf, jmsMessageQueues.xml > > > We are running a queue to do asynch audit updates, configured via Spring 3.0.5. > When the queue fills up Tomcat locks up with all catalina threads waiting on an object monitor in Spring. This object monitor is held by the "ActiveMQ Connection Executor: vm://localhost#2986" thread which is itself blocked for ever awaiting the stopped CountDownLatch at TransportConnection.stop(TransportConnection.java:930). > There are no "ActiveMQ Task" threads running, which suggests that either the task created by stopAsync has completed or did not run. > A code review leaves us baffled as to how this latch cannot have counted down, but it hasn't. Could Tomcat possibly be silently discarding the thread that was meant to do the stop without throwing an exception?! It seems unlikely but (as I understand it) TaskRunnerFactory is breaking the Servlet spec by running up its own Threads. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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