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Court of Appeals of Virginia, Chesapeake
March 11, 2014
Alexander J. DENNOS, Jr.v.COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.
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W. McMillan Powers, Assistant Public Defender (Office of the Public Defender, on brief), for appellant.
Susan Baumgartner, Assistant Attorney General (Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.
Present: FRANK, KELSEY and ALSTON, JJ.
KELSEY, Judge.
[63 Va.App. 141] The trial court convicted Alexander J. Dennos, Jr., of two counts of construction fraud, in violation of Code § 18.2-200.1. On appeal, Dennos claims that the evidence was insufficient to find him guilty and that the single-larceny doctrine required the court to merge the charges into a single count. Disagreeing with both assertions, we affirm.
On appeal, we review the evidence in the " light most favorable" to the Commonwealth. Commonwealth v. Hudson, 265 Va. 505, 514, 578 S.E.2d 781, 786 (2003). This principle requires us to " discard the evidence of the accused in conflict with that of the Commonwealth, and regard as true all the credible evidence favorable to the Commonwealth and all fair inferences to be drawn therefrom." [63 Va.App. 142] Parks v. Commonwealth, 221 Va. 492, 498, 270 S.E.2d 755, 759 (1980) (emphasis and internal quotation marks omitted).
In addition, " an appellate court's ' examination is not limited to the evidence mentioned by a party in trial argument or by the trial court in its ruling.' " Perry v. Commonwealth, 280 Va. 572, 580, 701 S.E.2d 431, 436 (2010) (quoting Bolden v. Commonwealth, 275 Va. 144, 147, 654 S.E.2d 584, 586 (2008)).
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Instead, " ' an appellate court must consider all the evidence admitted at trial that is contained in the record.' " Id. (quoting Bolden, 275 Va. at 147, 654 S.E.2d at 586); see also Hamilton v. Commonwealth, 279 Va. 94, 103, 688 S.E.2d 168, 173 (2010).
The evidence at trial showed that Dennos entered into an oral contract on May 18, 2012, with Marilyn Bradley to " seal" the leaks in her roof. App. at 24-25. His contractual fee was $1,000 for the sealing job. Dennos requested a check for $1,000 from Bradley and then promptly cashed it the same day.
The next day, May 19, 2012, Dennos returned unannounced to Bradley's home— not to begin the job, but to explain that the sealing contract would not fix the leaky roof. Instead, he suggested they enter into a new contract to replace the roof. The fee for replacing the roof, he said, would be $3,700. Dennos requested, and Bradley provided that same day, another $1,800 check which Dennos said he would use (in addition to the earlier $1,000) as an advance.
Dennos produced a written contract, which Bradley signed, for the roof replacement. The one-page, standard form contract was inaptly titled " Pest Control Service Agreement" and identified Dennos as an " Inspector" for A-Atlantic Termite & Pest Control. Id. at 102. Two days later, Dennos cashed the $1,800 check.
Dennos never returned to Bradley's home either to seal or to repair her roof, never ordered any shingles, and never hired any workers. Over many weeks, Bradley made fifteen to twenty phone calls to Dennos. On one occasion, about a month after signing the contract, Dennos dropped off a few " sample" shingles. Id. at 30, 38. On the few occasions in [63 Va.App. 143] which Bradley was able to get Dennos on the phone, he would give her a date for delivery of the shingles and " a date that the roof would be done" which would come and go without ...
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Does anyone remember the episode of WKRP where Johnny's daughter has that douche bag boyfriend? I can't really remember the quote (or find it on the web), but his career choice was "Plastic tubing" or some such thing, cuz everyone was getting into it. Great episode.
I couldn't sleep tonight so I went on a short walk. I am still down on Toronto so I am a) trying to do more "Toronto things", b) trying to make sure that I look around while I am out and about and c) moving into a place that I can nest for a bit (while reclaiming the best bed in the world - sorry Alison). Mixed results thus far.
How is it that "Beads" can occupy so much prime real estate on Queen west? Did I miss the gold rush somewhere along the way? Yes, this is was the "fashion" district... but... wow.
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Opponents of DUI checkpoints have cited the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure, or searches and seizures that occur without probable cause, to support the argument that DUI checkpoints are unconstitutional.
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"School choice is where it's at," proclaimed the presumptive GOP presidential nomineeDonald Trump on Saturday as he announced his selection of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running-mate. Pence, who has a long record of promoting educational choice initiatives in his home state, is married to a school teacher and supports bonuses for excellent performance by teachers.
He was elected to six terms in Congress and voted against President George Bush's signature education legislation, No Child Left Behind, because he considered it a move toward federal control over K-12 education. As governor of Indiana, he rejected Common Core curriculum standards and pulled Indiana out of the PARCC multi-state testing consortium in favor of in-state testing.
Here are some of his views on education:
Charter schools:
We are seeking to adjust funding for public charter schools that will allow more communities in Indiana to offer more choices for families and their kids, and attract more investment for education innovation in Indiana – investment that is currently going to other states.
Quality Education Day at Indiana Statehouse, February 2015
Accountability is important, but testing must be reliable and the results fairly applied. Let's take a step back from ISTEP (Indiana's state test) and improve on the test we use to measure our kids and schools every year. Let's also take action to ensure that our teachers and schools are treated fairly with the results of the latest ISTEP test.
Leaders in both parties and the Department of Education are working with our administration, and I promise you we will make sure the 2015 test scores fairly reflect the performance of our schools and will not affect teacher bonuses or compensation.
State of the State address, January 2016, Indianapolis
Merit pay for teachers:
We want to get more good teachers in more classrooms. So how do you get more good teachers like my wife? You get more good teachers by paying good teachers more. And that's just what we have been doing. This year we awarded $30 million in bonuses to teachers in 1,300 schools. Building on that success, we will provide another $63 million for performance bonuses and refocus resources on the classroom. More freedom for our schools and more dollars in our classrooms will pay dividends for generations.
Quality Education Day at Indiana Statehouse, February 2015
Pre-K education:
We will invest $10 million a year to fund scholarships for our new pre-K pilot, because every Hoosier child deserves to start school ready to learn.
Because of the success of our first-ever, state-funded pre-K pilot program, I am committed to opening doors of opportunity to serve even more disadvantaged children in our state. Since the On My Way Pre-K pilot program has come online, we've served 2,300 kids in the five pilot project counties. I am committed to growing this program using state and available federal resources.
Letter to the Indiana Department of Health and Human Services , June 2016
Vocational education:
With nearly $50 million in new funding, Indiana has become the first state in America to make career and vocational education a priority in every high school again.
State of the State address, January 2016
We will improve the largest school choice program in America by lifting the arbitrary $4,800 cap on the dollar amount for (K-8) vouchers and supporting efforts to raise the cap on the choice scholarship tax credit program.
Personal education background:
Michael Richard Pence, 57, was born and raised in Columbus, Indiana, graduated from Columbus North High School and went on to graduate from Hanover College in Madison, Ind., 1981 with a history degree. He was active in Christian organizations, served as president of the Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) fraternity and delivered the senior class address at graduation. He worked as an admissions counselor for two years at Hanover before going on to earn his law degree from Indiana University School of Law in 1986. He ran for Congress twice before winning in 2000. He was elected governor in 2012.


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Vacation in Utrecht
Please ignore this post if you are at all squeamish or otherwise appropriate. I fully intend to offend people like you.
OK, so here's the thing about family vacations, at least for me. They make you lose your genitals.
Seriously, I've misplaced my vagina, and for the life of me I can't find it, or even remember when I last had it. I can barely remember anything at all about it.
This has happened to me before, on numerous occasions. It's nothing new. It happened a couple of days after I landed in Orlando with the family for spring break a few years ago, and it happened within seconds of entering Great Wolf Lodge about a year ago.
Have you been there? It's an indoor waterpark, and something about the chlorinated air and hundreds of dripping wet and screaming children made me instantaneously lose contact with my genitals. I know I'm not the only one, I polled the other grownups there and I got serious resonance with this sentiment.
In fact, I walked around for a day and a half (in order to get the most out of my one expensive overnight room) asking people if they'd seen my vagina anywhere. The reactions were mixed and were not always good. In fact once or twice the stares I got were so weird and intense that I was forced to blurt out, "Oh, here it is! In my purse! Just where I left it." True story.
Conclusion: family vacations are the ultimate birth control.
Honestly, there should be a law that anyone who is thinking of getting pregnant should spend a couple of days at Great Wolf Lodge. If they are still horny after that experience then they deserve whatever they get.
Why, oh why, did we decide to have so many kids? And how can it be so incredibly expensive to pay for them to complain about every moment of the day that doesn't contain wifi?
Here's another reason there's no physical joy in family vacations. The food. The disgusting food you end up eating when with your entire family prevents you from feeling sexy. Never mind sexy, it makes you borderline suicidal.
Yesterday we had pannekoeken for lunch, poffertjes as a snack, and sausage wall frikandels, loompjes, and french fries for dinner. Just in case you are wondering if anything I just listed isn't fried, the answer is no.
Seriously, it was hugely disgusting, although temporarily delicious. I now know exactly why people declare diets for New Years, it's because of the food situation in the week beforehand. It's not that you want to lose weight, it's that you never want to eat again.
And yes, I know that you can technically eat better food here in Utrecht, but not, as it turns out, if you're traveling with a 6-year-old. In that case, you have a tiny little hunger striker on your hands, and the longer the strike goes on, the more crying and whining you've got, which, since you're sharing a small hotel room, is a huge hassle. It's a cost benefit analysis, and the costs always outweigh the benefits. In other words, you decide to forgo actual food for one more day and give in to warmed up waffles with smeared nutella. Breakfast this morning, thankyouverymuch. Kill me now.
Dear readers, please do not judge me. Or at least, if you judge me, then be compassionate. Or at least, if you're not feeling compassionate, keep an eye out for my vagina, I know it's around here somewhere.
How to ignore your family on Thanksgiving
There has been lots of advice lately on how to have a civil conversation at Thanksgiving – NPR ran a piece yesterday on "topics both Democrats and Republicans enjoy", for example, which made me slightly annoyed and amused – perhaps because I am neither – and inspired this somewhat alternative list of ways to enjoy or otherwise ignore your family today.
- Football, obviously. Few people actually know the rules of this game, never mind the names of the various positions of the players on the field. I personally have been watching football for more than 20 years and I still really don't know what a tackle or a tight end is, nor exactly how to recognize a blitz. No matter, that's not the point. The point is to choose a team and root for them blindly. Ignore the long-term brain damage.
- If you don't like football, may I suggest An Idiot Abroad, a ridiculous travel show from Britain created by Ricky Gervais. It's embarrassing and awkward, obv, so relative to those situations dinner with your family will seem seamless and well-meaning. I say this even though The Office, also developed by Ricky Gervais, was on NPR's list. Also, having a The Office marathon is really not a bad idea either.
- Drinking. Adults can go for beer and spiked eggnog, but kids can get totally spaced out with just the normal eggnog. I've seen it before, it has a crazy high, especially if you add nutmeg. Buy tons.
- The above suggestions should keep you busy up to and including the beginning of dinner. Be sure you don't actually talk before dinner, because then you'd run out of things to say during the eating part.
- For the actual dinner conversation, may I suggest keeping things light. For example, I plan to provoke a fun-loving conversation on who thinks the Ferguson grand jury's lack of indictment serves justice and who thinks it exposes a broken system. It comes down to who trusts the system and who the system works for.
- If that seems awkward, move on to white privilege in general. If there's a denier at the table, throw out some data: black teenagers are 21 times more likely to be killed by a cop than white teenagers, for example, or if that seems hyperbolic, move on to the social mobility matrices for blacks versus whites in Figures 8 and 9 of the appendix of this paper. Nice and aggregate. I plan to use a projector.
- Hahaha, just kidding! We don't want to scare the kids. Instead, we'll stick to the usual, where we enormously overconsume and simultaneously discuss upcoming diet plans, and/or vivaciously and competitively plan our impending holiday shopping whilst worrying about money.
- For a nice surprise, sign up your whole family for spots on the bus to participate in a Black Friday Walmart protest tomorrow morning in North Bergen, New Jersey. Bus leaves at 8am. Come one, come all!
Is tourism in Haiti inherently exploitative?
I recently returned from Haiti, where I was a tourist traveling around the country for 6 days with my friends Jamie and Becky. As I spent time there, I felt increasingly aware of the difficult if not miserable spot that the country as a whole finds itself in, even though there are of course wonderful and incredibly beautiful and creative things happening too: art is everywhere.
Everyone knows about the 2010 earthquake which devastated the capital Port Au Prince – which was indeed terrible and its ramifications are still being felt – that natural disaster is really only one more thing for the Haitians to deal with, on top of a long and excruciating history of manmade, political and human disasters.
I read the book Mountains Beyond Mountains while I was traveling, upon the recommendation of a bunch of my friends. It's putatively the story of a white doctor from Boston, Paul Farmer, who is trying his best to enlist a growing group of doctors and philanthropists to help the deeply impoverished town of Cange in Haiti achieve state-of-the-art healthcare. It's an impressive book, and beautifully written, and doesn't shy away from frank discussions of how the United States has meddled with and manipulated the politics of Haiti to its own advantage. You should all read it.
One of the most memorable scenes from the book, at least for me, is when the writer discusses the juxtaposition of spending one day in Cange in Haiti and then flying directly to New York, or maybe Paris, but in any case a glamorous, rich, first-world city, and how it seems like two bizarrely separate worlds. Farmer says that no, in fact, it's exactly what you'd expect – that there's a direct line between the poverty of Haiti and the richness of New York. New York is rich in part because Haiti is poor, and we New Yorkers depend, even if invisibly, on exploitation of places like Haiti to stay rich. When you concentrate wealth in one place, you are concentrating poverty as well.
That brings me to my question today. Is it inherently exploitative to be a tourist in Haiti?
Reasons it is:
- First and foremost, as Americans we can choose to visit Haiti, and then return after 6 days. Haitians cannot choose to visit us for 6 days, even if they had the money to do it. And again, that discrepancy is directly due to U.S. foreign policy.
- American tourists like myself are impossibly rich and powerful compared to the people we interact with in Haiti. That creates a weird and deep distance between people. It means that everyone on the street is aware of me and nobody fucks with me because the consequences for them would be dire. That's what power looks like. As a result, t may be impossible to actually have a normal human relationship with a native Haitian.
- As a white person, you pay something like 10 times the normal costs of anything, which is both strange and totally understandable, but in any case it means that you are seen as a piggy bank by anyone with a service or a good to sell, which is pretty much almost anyone you meet.
- There aren't very many tourists in Haiti. All the white people we met there were there on religious or charitable missions, or worked for the UN, or were trying to set up businesses along the lines of Etsy for Haitian folk art, or are themselves art collectors. That adds to the uncomfortable sense of dependency you feel as a tourist.
- When you are at a hotel, you are being served by Haitians. It's impossible not to see the historical racial symbolism of this, given that Haitians were brought from West Africa as slaves to the French, and not to mention the more recent history which has made American influence so undermining.
- There's a reverse sex tourism industry in Haiti, which is to say that middle-aged white women are known to go to Haiti as well as the Dominican Republic to pay for sex with young men. That fact further clouds the possibility, at least for me, of even having a single conversation in which the goal is non-transactional. How do you know if your joke is actually funny? Or if the cultural exchange you are happily engaged in is truly reciprocal? How could it be?
- Conclusion: it is in fact inherently exploitative to be a tourist in Haiti, and it's not something you can choose not to participate in.
On the other hand, here are a few reasons I'd argue against my own conclusion:
- First and foremost, you are what you are as an American, even if you're not in Haiti. You are just more aware of what that means to Haitians when you are in Haiti. In other words, if the decadence of ample food, and wifi, and excellent health care is in part due to the impoverished state of Haiti, maybe it's good you are made aware of that.
- Haitians desperately need money, and tourists have money. If lots of tourists went to Haiti, it might be better for Haiti than a bunch of money coming in the form of aid.
- My friend Becky came with us to Haiti, and she stayed a few extra days and connected with a Haitian biologist and nerded out completely in a national park (she's a huge biology nerd and nature photographer). It seems to me that, if it is possible to cross the human divide, and get out of a transactional conversation and into another place, it might happen in the context of a scientific discussion.
- I'm not a biology nerd, but I love music. I felt like the closest I came to normal human interaction was through discussing and enjoying live music.
- It's really fun to travel, even if you learn sad things. You become more aware and more grateful, and you bring that back to your community and your family. There's something to be said for simple cultural awareness. Plus, now I really care about Haiti, which maybe is irrelevant, but may someday become relevant, who knows.
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Update. A comment from Jamie:
Fundamentally, I do and always have agreed to your point of exploitation. I knew we would be weird voyeurs going in to the trip, and as we discussed on the last day, Cathy, we were both acutely aware of how it would look if we started taking pictures of Haitians and the streets from inside of our fancy 4-by-4. It's a complicated dynamic. And I think you're right that it is nearly impossible to have a normal, balanced relationship there; I felt similarly while traveling around West Africa. It's like we have a bank account and a green card attached to our foreheads, and it can be difficult to trust that someone is seeing us beyond that. Even if they have no ulterior motives other than being our friend, that trust is hard to grasp and hang on to.All of that said, however, I do believe that it is incredibly important to spend time in countries and cultures that are different from our own. And I believe even more fervently that we should visit those countries with a mind to experience and enjoy rather than "save" it through mission-based organizations. That's not to say that all aid is bad aid (on the contrary, many aid orgs and NGOs are very, very important!), but I do push back against the notion that one should always attach a mission to a visit. I've found that going somewhere as a volunteer or aid worker puts an even bigger wall between cultures ("I am here to help you because I have the means to help you and it is clear you can't help yourself"). I strongly believe that just sitting, listening, and learning without the motive to "save" is one of the only ways of conducting a fair and balanced cultural exchange. I want to listen first, not fix first. Once I listen, and begin to understand (as if I ever could…), only then do I feel comfortable enough to think about working in/for a country.Additionally, on the notion of choosing to vacation in a non-traditional spot that is so clearly economically and politically struggling, is it better to only travel to first world, highly developed countries and ignore that others exist? Should we blindly trust the media (and all of our friends, relatives, etc) that constantly tells us that a country is "bad" and avoid them? How will we change the discourse surrounding cultural and economic imbalances without having any first-hand experience? Are we perpetuating a notion that we are "too good" to visit a country that is struggling to stand on solid ground?It's all a complicated notion. And on a specific note, I'd love to open the floor a little on your #5 exploitative point ("When you are at a hotel, you are being served by Haitians. It's impossible not to see the historical racial symbolism of this, given that Haitians were brought from West Africa as slaves to the French, and not to mention the more recent history which has made American influence so undermining."). True. I think it's important that we are aware of that dynamic. On the other hand, what would it look like if we were being served by ex-pats? Would we not be rebelling that we are not supporting Haitians and the native economy? That the ex-pats are just making a place for other ex-pats to work and remove all Haitians from the operation? Tricky. I'm interested in hearing both of your thoughts on that.
I am old in Haiti
I am old in Haiti. This fact dawns on me slowly over the six days I am there, because there is so much to take in. Mostly I figure it out because I am constantly amazed by how beautiful and healthy everyone looks. But then again, I keep finding myself thinking, people who are 24 often look healthy and beautiful. It's when you're 54 that you begin to show signs of wear and tear. I will reserve judgment until I see older folks.
But then, after a while, I realize how few people I've seen that are 54, or even 44, or even 39. Almost nobody, in fact. Every now and then a very old person will cross the street slowly, hobbling with a stick for support. On my 6th day there I tried to figure out exactly how old such people were. Maybe not much older than me, in fact.
The statistics, which I don't look at until afterwards, back up my observation. A third of the population is below the age of 15, half of the population is below the age of 20, and 70 percent of the population is below the age of 30. Probably the places I went, the cities, skew even younger. It looks like about 25% of the women of childbearing age are pregnant, and all of the women are of childrearing age. The population has tripled in Haiti since 1950 and it isn't slowing down. If anything it's bumping up because of the devastating 2010 earthquake – women tend to replace their lost babies by even more babies after such events.
This matters because the Haitian land is overpopulated. In fact it's worse than that: the land suffers from a severe erosion of its topsoil, due to deforestation over the years. In part – get this – Haiti was deforested to repay the debt to France for letting them be free back in the early 1800's after the (world's only successful) slave revolt. But it's continued since then, and when you chop down all your trees, the rains take away your topsoil, which means your land slowly becomes desert. For the most part that's what it looks like when you drive through. The result is not very much agriculture, and when you combine that with a fast-growing population, you get an horribly unsustainable situation.
In spite of all these problems, and in part because of them, the Haitians I came across seem incredibly nice to me and to each other. Trucks, people, motorcycles, cars, and 4-by-4's compete for space in the one-lane roads in Port Au Prince but everyone stops dead when a young child needs to cross the street. It is a society that cherishes safety and looking out for one another.
When the water and soda sellers come to our public bus window to offer us drinks, and someone wants a cake instead, or to buy minutes for their cell phone, there's a scramble by the nearby vendors to find the cake seller or the roaming Digicelwoman. The sellers at each stop form a collective that look out for each other, because if they didn't look out for each other they'd all be screwed.
The same is true for with any resource. A UN worker we met explained that microfinance researchers are frustrated by Haitians when they try to estimate the impact of their loans, because they keep finding that a family has borrowed money and given it to another family. But if they didn't share resources locally, all the families in a given neighborhood would be risking too much. It is better to be known as a generous person so that in a time of scarcity people will be generous to you. Your reputation is your most valuable asset.
When I think about how we live here in New York – where I don't know most of my neighbors' names, and nobody can see what happens behind closed doors, and we hoard resources except in our most immediate family – I feel like we're missing out on something valuable. At the same time, privacy is nice, and I don't think most Haitians have much of that. Not to mention a healthy middle age.
Inflation for the rich
I'm preparing for my weekly Slate Money podcast – this week, unequal public school funding, Taylor Swift versus Spotify, and the economics of weed, which will be fun – and I keep coming back to something I mentioned last week on Slate Money when we were talking about the end of the Fed program of quantitative easing (QE).
First, consider what QE comprised:
- QE1 (2008 – 2010): $1.65 trillion dollars invested in bonds and agency mortgage-back securities,
- QE2 (2010 – 2011): another $600 billion, cumulative $2.25 trillion, and
- QE3 (2012 – present): $85 billion per month, for a total of about $3.7 trillion overall.
Just to understand that total, compare it to the GDP of the U.S. in 2013, at 16.8 trillion. Or the federal tax spending in 2012, which was $3.6 trillion (versus $2.5 trillion in revenue!).
Anyhoo, the point is, we really don't know exactly what happened because of all this money, because we can't go back in time and do without the QE's. We can only guess, and of course mention a few things that didn't happen. For example, the people against it were convinced it would drive inflation up to crazy levels, which it hasn't, although of course individual items and goods have gone up of course:
Well but remember, the inflation rate is calculated in some weird way that economists have decided on, and we don't really understand or trust it, right? Actually, there are a bunch of ways to measure inflation, including this one from M.I.T., and most of them kinda agree that stuff isn't crazy right now.
So did QE1, 2, and 3 have no inflationary effect at all? Were the haters wrong?
My argument is that it indeed caused inflation, but only for the rich, where by rich I mean investor class. The stock market is at an all time high, and rich people are way richer, and that doesn't matter for any inflation calculation because the median income is flat, but it certainly matters for individuals who suddenly have a lot more money in their portfolios. They can compete for New York apartments and stuff.
As it turns out, there's someone who agrees with me! You might recognize his name: billionaire and Argentinian public enemy #1 Paul Singer. According to Matt O'Brien of the Washington Post, Paul Singer is whining in his investor letter (excerpt here) about how expensive the Hamptons have gotten, as well as high-end art.
It's "hyperinflation for the rich" and we are not feeling very bad for them. In fact it has made matters worse, when the very rich have even less in common with the average person. And just in case you're thinking, oh well, all those Steve Jobs types deserve their hyper-inflated success, keep in mind that more and more of the people we're talking about come from inherited wealth.
Going to Haiti next week
I'm off to Haiti next week, for a week, with my buddie and bandmate Jamie Kingston. I was trying to figure out what to do with the blog while I was gone, and so I asked sometimes-guest blogger Becky Jaffe to cover for me (some of you may remember her Hip Hop's Cambrian Explosion series which to this day gets traffic) but by the time I'd explained my trip, she'd decided to come along too! Which is awesome. We're staying at the Hotel Oloffson in Port au Prince:
So two things. First, if you know of fun stuff to do in the Port au Prince area, please tell me. I tend to like talking to people, and music and crafts, and Becky and Jamie are more into nature and insects.
Second, if you have a lovely or inspiring suggestion for what should happen to mathbabe next week while we're away, please tell me!
Workplace Personality Test for the NY Fed
I've got a list of things to write about here on mathbabe, and they include the Carmen Segarra secret tapes as well as workplace personality tests. I've decided to do a mash-up just for fun, imagining what Carmen had to go through to get her job.
Update: you can send someone the link to this personality test here.


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$30m for NSW medical training facilities
New student-led health facilities will be built in southern New South Wales as part of a combined medical training project by the University of Canberra, Australian National University and the Southern General Practice Network.
The Federal Government has announced $31 million to build sites for trainee doctors and allied health professionals at Moruya, Bega and Cooma.
UC Professor Diane Gibson says construction will begin later this year and the sites should start operating in 2014.
She says the new facilities will combine medical, research and educational services for students.
"What it means in the opportunity of rural placements. It means the opportunity to work in multi-disciplinary teams and it means the opportunity for a greater number of placements," she said.
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Teachers at USP were allowed to read the case histories of our students and other inmates with whom we dealt. Case histories were pretty depressing, but in most cases less colorful than the stories the officers and inmates concocted. The most bizarre story I heard was about Big Ed, a burly inmate who had supposedly killed his girl friend and kept her body in a freezer—taking her out for a drive in his car occasionally. In the official version, he met a woman in a bar, went home with her, had sex, killed her, and kept the body in the trunk of his car.
Big Ed was trying to get himself declared insane and moved to the State Mental Hospital in Provo by the disgusting technique of throwing urine and feces on officers approaching his cell. He applied for a job as a tutor for my students, but I hired a more stable inmate. The prison grapevine informed me that Big Ed had it in for me. I noticed he kept asking to come out into the visitors' area to use the phone when I was teaching in his building. One day while he was out, the officer on the floor disappeared. Big Ed walked behind me and stood whispering hoarsely, "F__k! F__k! F__k!" while I collected homework from my students.
Was he trying to scare me? Would he attack? Big Ed was half a foot taller and 100 pounds heavier than I was. Officers could see the visiting area from the control station, but I could be dead before they arrived to pull Big Ed from my battered body. Three students were working with me, but the first rule for prison staff is, "Never expect an inmate to defend you." No, I couldn't expect help from my students if Big Ed struck. They probably feared him as much as I did, and they had to live with him. I fought back hysteria that welled up in my stomach, advanced to my chest, and gripped my shoulders and neck. School was the only bright point of my students' lives. If I broke and ran, they would have no class until the following week.
I stayed, hoping God would protect me since I couldn't count on anyone else. I launched into my writing lesson, hoping my voice sounded close to normal. "Vincent, will you read this newspaper clipping?" Vincent read with great expression the news account of a man who was showing his young son how to handle rattlesnakes. The snake bit him and the enraged man put the snake's head in his mouth and bit it off, but not before receiving multiple bites on his tongue and mouth. "Jeez! That guy was either drunk or crazy, " Marco said. I agreed and wondered about the crazy behind me. Where were the damned officers?
I proceeded mechanically through the lesson. "Who besides the man might have seen this event?"
"The kids."
"The snake."
"Maybe his wife."
"The ambulance driver."
My students suggested several possibilities. Fortunately, this activity held their attention without much direction from me. Should I look over my shoulder at Big Ed or might that set him off? Should I move my students to another table? Would Big Ed follow?
I forced my attention back to my students. "Choose a person or animal that could have been there and pretend you are that person and you're telling somebody else what happened.
"But snakes can't talk."
"Well, be the kind of snake that can talk. This is a freewrite, so don't worry about your spelling or punctuation. We'll write for five minutes." And I hope I live that long.
I scribbled away wondering whether Big Ed's venting was relieving his frustration or building it up to a fatal (for me) climax. After five minutes my students shared their writing. Big Ed continued to whisper, but did nothing more. Maybe the point of view stories entertained him. Maybe his blood sugar was down just before lunch and he didn't have the energy to launch a physical assault. Maybe God does watch over fools and prison teachers. "Finish the packets at home and I'll see you next week," I said as I scooped books, packets, and papers into my bag. I moved to the outside door, and my students headed back to their cells. Big Ed followed them. Their door clicked open and they re-entered their section. When they were locked back in, the outside door clicked open and I escaped.
Once I returned to my office and collected my wits, I phoned the lead officer and told him I refused to teach in that building if they let Big Ed out while I was there. "Don't worry," he said. "Big Ed's getting moved to Uinta 2." In order to convince the staff he was insane, Big Ed had cut a vein and thrown blood all over his cell that morning. He was moved to Uinta 2, the most secure building, that week and I never saw him again.


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My car has an automatic transmission.
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Thanks for taking the time to read about the changes taking place within our business. You may have noticed some changes to the way we look, but don't worry; the changes we're making will only go towards improving the service you receive.
Over the last 18 months we've experienced major growth which has been driven by the acquisition of PHS Waterlogic, Hepscott and Watering Well. The coming together of these businesses has enabled us to improve the products, skill and area coverage taking our offering to the next level.
Now that we've integrated the businesses, the rebrand is the last piece of the puzzle to bring it all together. That being said we're pleased to announce that Waterlogic is now the new name for Angel, Hepscott and Watering Well.
Waterlogic International is a leading water cooler company that has been merged with Angel and offers mains-fed, bottled and professional drinking water solutions to businesses and workplaces worldwide.
Our business will continue to provide drinking water solutions to all businesses. Our products range from bottled water coolers provided by Angel, mains fed water coolers featuring the latest in water purification technology, hot water dispensers and hospitality solutions.
Our culture at Waterlogic is about putting your needs first and ensuring we provide you with only the best products and services. As the UK's number one water cooler company we have made a commitment to continue to be innovative and customer focused.
There will be a number of changes across our websites and to the visual presentation of our branding over the coming weeks, including a launch of our new website www.waterlogic.co.uk which has been developed to give you a new and improved user experience.
We're keeping the Angel website the same for the time being although you may notice a few small changes at some point.
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Re: Isaac Wager and Rebecca Sizemore
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albert wages 9/09/03
Albert, I purchased the book put together by your daughter, Feye Bartholomay, in 2004. I am ordering the new 2006 one.My question is where was the information that Isaac Wager was the father of Benjamin Wages discovered, and how was proof found that William Wager and Elizabeth (Abelard)/Smyth, William's wife, were married at All Hallow's Church on Feb. 18, 1703/4 in Ann Arundel Co., Md. found?Did you discover it, or someone else, please? I cannot find it through my ancestry.com search.who and where was the info about Elizabeth's parents dying of plague in england found, and who discovered that Elizabeht had siblings, George and Samantha Smyth/Abelard?Were all three Smyth siblings indentured servants in Va and when were they transported to Va, and who held their contracts for service, please?
Thanks, from Diana Igo of Bloomington, IN
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Amir Nathan
Business and social entrepreneur, expert in the fields of employment and social businesses. Among other things, I established Strive Israel, a unique and highly successful program [led by the JDC] which sought to promote the career opportunities of thousands of Israelis that were out of the labor force or that were unemployed for many years. Prior to Strive, I was the co-founder of Edeologic – an internet marketing venture that was sold to Publicis. Over the past three years, I'm leading several of social business in Israel aimed to promote rights and life opportunities of people from minority groups such as elders and people with disability. For example, I established and manages 'Abiliko', the Israel social-networking website on disability. Other SE I involved in are: 'By the People', a Hi-tech social enterprise aimed to empowering professionals on their journey to establish their own independent business and 'Rainmakers', a new initiative to create new strategies for employment inclusion of excluded populations.
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What a weekend we had here in E20! Everywhere you turned there was something exciting to see, taste, buy or do. With the first ever East Village E20 ...September 26, 2014
Once known as the 'Piccadilly of the South', Elephant and Castle is a misunderstood area. But, thanks to Delancey sponsored Elefest, which returns this October, we're able to ...September 24, 2014
This weekend, the E20 calendar is positively overflowing with exciting events and things to do around East Village – so much so you may feel a little confused ...September 19, 2014
This month, ever popular arts festival, MERGE Festival, is set to return to Bankside for a month of rather unusual free events – where else will you be ...September 17, 2014
Ladies and gentlemen; roll up roll up! Vintage Festival's Classic Car Boot Sale is coming to Stratford, and it's going to be full of vintage glamour, bargains – ...September 12, 2014
If you love history, walking, art and crafts, conservation, or all of the above then Pop up Pop up is certainly for you. This September, Sugar House Studios ...September 11, 2014


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This is the cover to "Sci-Fi San Francisco", a new anthology of 20 comics set in the future of our fair city. It's from Skodaman Press who published "The Comic Book Guide to the Mission" a few years back. This one hae been a while in the making, but it looks like publisher Lauren Davis has done an incredible job of putting together the work of some fantastic local comic creators. Check it out here:
Resistance is Useless
Congressman Crow Explains the New Tax Bill.
Survival of the Fittest.
Super slack
Only just under the wire with this one… I am terrible, I already burned through my buffer. OK, I will try to get caught up this week. I forgot how much work it is to do it daily. If you want to help support the strip, go back me on Patreon here: http://www.Patreon.com/cartoon


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We eat and drink and dance and have jobs , goto school u name we do it.theres only one difference from ur guys reg brains u experience everything normal. Now our brain we experience I a little different . now how do I explain like when in a high mood everything is like in 3d graphics everything is poping out at you. thats why people say they always wanna spend money when there in a high mood.and when there low they feeling like a storm is rolling the dark black and gray clouds falling from the sky.lighting lighting up the sky and when the storm is gone the sun comes out.and u have ur average normal person.of course people that have been diagnosed with bipolar should be on medication prescribed by doctor. Thanks if u do read.this my way trying to explain highs and lows of bip


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Deus Ex Machina – n. An unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation
Alfonso's mother was born in Missouri and she told us that her French ancestors founded a community near Fredericktown. We decided to make a visit. When we arrive, we notice a memorial of the town's founders which does indeed have the LaChance name on it. Around the corner, there is also a street named LaChance. Coincidence or not, it is the street in which the original jailhouse was located.
We spend almost an entire day climbing Elephant Rocks. I sketch on the warm boulders and we squeeze between the maze of them. We find a free place to camp at the Huzzah Conservation Area. In fact we find free campsites all week in Missouri. For dinner one night, we boil water over a fire and cook spaghetti. This is our first attempt at a warm, "home-cooked" meal. Even though the noodles are a bit al dente, they are quite the reprieve from living off 99¢ nuggets and side salads.
St. Louis becomes one of my favorite stops so far. We enter into a small blue capsule that takes us to the top of The Gateway Arch. The windows are placed so that you can see straight down to the ground below and we watch the tiny people wander around the base of the arch. Also in St. Louis, we visit the free Science Center and discover the Laumeier Sculpture Park. After leaving the city, we snag lunch for under three dollars at Griff's Hamburger Bar. They sell two burgers and two fries for $2.22! Nutrition aside, we are killing it with our food budget of under $10/day!
There is true rawness in this journey. We travel without a specific route and follow direction from those we connect with along the way…yet we aren't without purpose. We contact galleries, send out media kits and update our website daily from the road. In a single week, we tour a state, I create a painting and find a gallery to display it in. Sometimes, as in Kansas city, a sea of "no's" pour in before a single "yes," and I lie exposed…an open book…arms open to this pyromania world. Rejection. It is like sitting in a room of flames which bathe the skin that once sheltered my now ember-charred spirit. Though disheartened at times, the doubt of others becomes fuel for our stubborn dedication to finish what we started.
The day before we are scheduled to leave Missouri, we find ourselves in Springfield and wander into a small brick building off Olive Street. The sign above the door reads Good Girl Art Gallery. Inside, the pink walls are covered with unique, experimental and contemporary art. We get a first hand account of a talented underground art scene outside of St. Louis. The gallery owner is full of life and excited to learn about our project. Her enthusiasm makes us grateful that the Kentucky painting is not hidden in some stuffy room in Kansas City. This gallery may not be written about in posh art magazines, yet it certainly makes it into the memories of its visitors. During this deus ex machina, I am reminded that this project is about the adventure, good or bad. Both are equally important. In order to survive this journey… and any journey, I must openly welcome the flame. All I can hope is that I have the resilience to recover from the burns.


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Richa Gangopadhyay, who was also roped in for an important role, opted out of the film, due to changes in the script and role.
Now, the latest news we are getting is that UK born actress Mandy Takhar has replaced Richa in the film. Mandy Takhar has the experience of acting in few Punjabi films before. She rose to fame with her sizzling performance in the bollwood film 'Bumboo'.


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Could Newcastle's relegation have an impact for Rangers?
Supporters of a historic and iconic club like Rangers would normally sympathise with another giant like Newcastle United suffering relegation.
While to some extent there is some empathy, all bets are off, in the hope that Newcastle owner Mike Ashley may be forced to sell his shares in Rangers.
Gers fans do not, broadly speaking, want Ashley to have a controlling interest in the club, with him currently owning nine per cent.
A previous STV report indicated that Newcastle being relegated would have a big impact on Ashley.
It reads: "As far as the English Premier League are concerned, their rules do not forbid Ashley from having any form of influence on a club outside of England.
"The Football League, which operates the second-tier Championship competition down to the fourth-tier League Two, have far more stringent rules.
"Their regulations state consent is required if an owner of an English club has the power to influence affairs at a Scottish team, or has any shares in them."
This would mean Ashley would either have to apply for consent to hold both stakes from the Football League, or simply to sell one.
Rangers fans appear to hope that Ashley would prefer to sell his minority stake in the Light Blues rather than his majority shareholding in Newcastle United.
Here is a look at how fans reacted on Twitter to Newcastle's relegation...
Gutted to see a great club like @NUFC get relegated. Hopefully we can get #ashleyout of both our great clubs this year. #Newcastle #Rangers— Iain Glen (@glen1873) May 11, 2016
Gutted about Newcastle going down but if that's what it takes to get Mike Ashley out of Rangers then so be it— Gaz (@GaryCurran2) May 11, 2016
Sad to see #Newcastle relegated but I'm praying it ends Mike Ashleys involvement with #Rangers .— Greg (@GregRudder) May 11, 2016
Ashley has ruined Newcastle hopefully Rangers can get rid of him now.— Kylegib (@Gibson20Gibs) May 11, 2016
So with Newcastle going down, hopefully Mike Ashley will be forced to end his bizarre interest in Rangers. We won't miss him.— Chris McCoy (@C_McCoy72) May 11, 2016
As a Rangers and Newcastle fan all I will say is Mike Ashley is class A C**T !!!!— GJCRangersViews (@RangersGJCViews) May 11, 2016
Perhaps Rangers can loan Newcastle some players next season— Foxy (@foxster1977) May 11, 2016


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Mondrya Lauend Eucaristia
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1. Pegadas de Jesus (03:32)
2. Fonte Viva (04:12)
3. Confiarei (04:38)
4. Como Eu Vos Amei (04:42)
5. Estou em Seus Braços (03:50)
6. Maria (03:50)
7. Foi pelo Amor (03:15)
8. Seguindo os Passos de Jesus (04:04)
9. Senhor do Meu Ser (03:13)
10. Ser Livre (03:31)
11. Jesus Esta Voltando (03:14)
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601 is an enigma I don't know where to start with it, but there will never be anything like it again. It has a street name which I won't mention since someone else lives there now, but we never used the street name anyway. Practically every gay man in Midland knew what you were talking about if you got an invitation to 601.
When I first laid eyes on it I wasn't that impressed. It was 1978 and my friends Todd and Rick had just purchased it, or rather Rick's grandmother had purchased it for them. It was simply a beige house built in 1938 with brown trim and a one car garage. It extended almost to the back of the lot since additions had been made to it over the years. I'm sure it started as a two bedroom one bath, but a master suite had been added to the back of the original house. It had a small kitchen with white tile countertops and the front bathroom was tiled in pink. It has central air and heat, but the back bedroom had a window unit in it.
It really wasn't much to look at. The day they drove me over there it was in winter, so the grass was dead and there were still clothesline poles in the backyard. I pretended to be pleased for them as they told me of their plans for it, but I really couldn't see much potential for it, boy was I wrong!
After a few months and several thousand dollars the place was transformed. Todd had a U shaped drive way put in the front, an eight foot privacy fence surrounded the entire front yard and even enclosed the front porch. He removed old trees and planted new ones, landscaped the yard, added an in ground hot tub, hauled in rocks, added lighting, statues, fountains, patio furniture and the place became a beautiful oasis. It was pretty during the day, but at night it was magical. The hot tub had a red light in it which seemed appropriate considering what went on in there most of the time. He even had speakers from the stereo inside the house disguised as rocks and hidden in the ceiling of the porch. They filled the house with beautiful furniture that was quite in vogue at the time. Oriental rugs on the hardwood floors, new appliances in the kitchen, oatmeal colored sofa with pillows covered in real fur, mink, opossum, fox, and beaver. There were wing back chairs, beautiful tables, lamps, a teak dining room set with a new chandelier, beautifully framed Japanese fans, Sarongs, and framed posters of the works of Marc Chagall, Monet, and Renoir. There was no television in the living room, but a huge Sony Trinitron in the bedroom with a VCR player and the entire house was wired with stereo speakers. I didn't know it then, but the place would become legendary.
The glory years of 601 lasted from 1978 to 1983 and there will never be another time like that again. Disco music seemed to play continuously, liquor poured like water and sex was available any time you wanted it. There seemed to be a party going on all the time especially on weekends and you didn't really have to have an invitation you could just stop by and Todd would make you a drink. The only rule was he'd make the first one then after that you had to make your own. He didn't care how many you had, he just didn't want to have to be getting up and down making drinks for people. Usually whoever was up would offer to make drinks for others, so you never really had to get up at all. Music played constantly on the stereo and often there was an old movie on television in the bedroom like "Rocky Horror Picture Show", but more often than not a porno tape was playing on the VCR.
Usually there was just a small gathering of people in the living room in the winter and six could fit in the hot tub when the weather allowed. At larger parties you might walk through the house and someone would be having sex in one of the bedrooms, or there would be a pile of naked guys on the king size bed in the master bedroom. Rick was terribly jealous and would throw fits and tantrums whenever he thought Todd was about to be involved. A fight would ensue, or he'd get in his car and peel out in the driveway. Todd had silver 1976 Coupe De Ville they named "The Whale" and later traded it for a dark blue 1977 Cadillac Fleetwood limousine. Now that was a sight seeing "The Limo" parked in the front driveway of 601. You have to remember most of the years of 601 were pre AIDS and in those days you couldn't catch anything a big shot of Penicillin couldn't cure. I remember being in the hot tub and some guy would crawl in and be passed from lap to lap as we drank our cocktails and enjoyed him. Rick would get so jealous of Todd's indiscretions that he took every opportunity he could to get back at him. When a group of us would be going somewhere in two cars Rick would always say, "I want to ride in Sam's new Cadillac.", or whatever I was driving at the moment. Then he would proceed to give me a blow job on the way there getting out and wiping his mouth as he smile at Todd. Once, when Todd went to get a bag of ice Rick wanted me to fuck him on the hall floor while telling me, "Hurry up, hurry up!" just so he could feel he'd gotten revenge for one of Todd's escapades. Rick and I had dated before he met Todd and Todd didn't care who did who he just wanted Rick to stop his jealousy and join in on the fun.
I remember one night in particular when there were just four of us at the house in the hot tub, Todd, Rick, Ken, and I. When Rick realized where things were heading he excused himself and went in the house. After quite some passed Todd got out to see what he was doing. Ken and I kept talking and touching one another and soon thirty minutes had gone by and no one came out of the house. I wanted to get up and see what was taking so long, but Ken kept telling me not to worry. Then the front door opened and there stood Todd fully dressed as he looked back into the living room and screamed "ASSHOLE!" then slammed the door. I swear he slammed the door so hard I don't know how we ever got it open again. Ken and I looked at each other and I said, "We'd better go in and see what's going on." He said, "No, I'll go, you stay here." "I'm not letting you go in there alone." I said, as we both got out and put on robes. When we walked into the house we could tell all hell was breaking loose in the kitchen. We rushed in and Todd was on top of Rick on the floor choking him. Rick was fighting back until he saw us then he pretended to faint. After dating Rick I knew what kind of anger he could arouse in a person and I honestly didn't know whether to get Todd off him, or join in choking him. Ken ran over and got Todd off as I helped Rick to his feet. Ken and I had no idea what had happened in the thirty or forty five minutes since Todd had gotten out of the hot tub, but later Todd told us he'd found Rick dressing to leave. Todd got dressed too and Rick grabbed the keys to Todd's car and started outside. Todd tried to stop him and ended up chasing him down the ally and tackling him. They both rolled around in the dirt and stickers. After Todd finally got the keys from him they went back inside the house, that's when Ken and I saw Todd open the door.
The majority of the parties there were pleasant and without problems. People would show up who didn't even know who owned the house. Once Todd walked out on the front porch, some young good looking guy asked, "Who are you?" Todd said, "I'm your host." The kid said, "My, aren't you the Gatsby type?" Todd took him by the hand and led him to the bedroom. Todd could talk the pants off anyone and he liked them young. He wasn't a pedophile, but even in his mid twenty's he liked guys who were barely legal, Rick was only eighteen when they met. I once asked him, "Just what in the hell do you say to these guys? Hello little boy, now pull down your pants?" It was like he hypnotized them, or something.
On New Years Eve 1980 Todd and I stayed at 601 while everyone else drove to the bar in Odessa to celebrate because he'd seduced a guy I'd been trying to get into bed for two years. Todd knew how I felt and asked my permission first. I said, "I don't know how you did it, but I don't care as long as you share." So we took turns ringing in the New Year with him.
Often I would go over and make Jambalaya, or Spaghetti for a group of friends and we'd all have a nice dinner and an enjoyable evening. Once, Todd had an old boyfriend of his over for drinks. As usual Rick had to show his ass and excused himself to go to bed while they had a guest. Todd was sitting in the wingback and Steve was lying on the sofa talking quietly when after about an hour or so, Rick got up and tip toed to the mini blinds looking and see if they were in the hot tub. As Rick carefully pulled the blinds apart Todd said, "Yesssss?" from the behind him. It scared Rick so badly, he played those fucking mini blinds like a harp and turned and went back to bed without saying a word.
Once at a rather large party there were people all over the house in the yard and in the hot tub. Todd and I were inside and suddenly he noticed the music had changed from disco to something scratchy and horrible. "Go see what the hell's in the stereo." He said. I walked to the front of the house where the stereo was located. It could play LPs, eight tracks, or cassettes, but by that time Todd was using cassettes almost exclusively. There was a homemade eight track stuck in the player with "Andrew Sisters" written on it, so I removed it and started the cassette again. I opened the door to go outside and there stood Rick with his best friend Jim. They were in the middle of toasting each other with glasses of pink champagne. It suddenly dawned on me who'd changed the music and I said, "Oh I'm sorry, did you put that in there?" Without saying a word Jim threw his glass of pink champagne on me. I was wearing cowboy boots, jeans, and a white pearl snap western shirt with a western belt and buckle. Rick immediately rushed me to the bathroom and began trying to clean me up. When I caught sight of myself in the mirror I went berserk. I ripped my shirt completely off, since it now stank of cheap champagne and was stained pink. I charged for the front door and looked around, "Where's James?" I yelled, as I stood there shirtless. Someone pointed to the garden area behind the hot tub and said, "Over there." I ran for him and started beating the shit out of him. I had him flat on the ground and I was trying to shove his head in the hot tub. I was on top of him and he was face down. I was determined to drown his sorry ass, but every time I had his face within an inch of that water somehow he would pull his head up. Someone went and got Todd he came out and broke us up. Todd didn't have a clue as to what had happened, but all of us were quite drunk by that time and I wanted Todd to make Jim leave. He wouldn't do it, so I went in the house got my shirt and headed to my Cadillac. Todd was standing by the car trying to keep me from leaving while I screamed at him for not being loyal to me. Rick wandered outside and saw Jim sitting in his car, disheveled, and drunkenly asked, "Did you know Sam got in a fight with somebody?" Jim looked up at him in disbelief and said, "Hell yeah, it was me!"
There were quiet times there too. I can remember Todd calling me after Rick had moved out and saying, "Hey I'm doing some planting around the drive way. Why don't you come over and keep me company?" I was restoring a green 1957 Cadillac Seville at the time so I drove it over there, and polished the chrome with chrome polish and steel wool while he planted "Monkey Grass" and "Dollar Plants". I drank rum and Coke and he drank rum and Dr. Pepper while we talked about anything and everything that came to mind. I guess it's the wild things that just stick in my mind.
In all the years I've known Todd I probably haven't seen him visibly drunk more than four, or five times. Most people slur their words, or stagger, but the only way I can tell Todd is drunk is that he'll start making obnoxious noises, bird calls, and start slapping his hands on furniture, shaking his foot, or twirling his ring. Not that he hasn't been legally drunk hundreds of times he just doesn't show it and it usually catches me by surprise.
One evening in 1982 we planned a dinner party and I was going to make Jambalaya. He'd invited eight people and we usually split the grocery bill three ways with another friend while I did all the shopping and cooking. By this time Rick had moved out and Todd's elderly grandmother had bought the house next door, so he could help keep an eye on her. I was in the kitchen chopping and cooking while I sipped a rum and Coke. One of the guests was a friend named Andy, he was in the kitchen keeping me company as I prepared our meal. Everyone else was in the bedroom with their drinks watching a movie. It was hot as hell in the kitchen, so I opened the door so some air could come in through the old screen door. I had just enough to drink that I was getting a headache and I asked Andy to go turn the stereo down since no one was in the living room anyway. Apparently Todd walked in just as Andy was turning it down and confronted him. They both hated each other and only tolerated one another because of me. Todd went over and started shouting at Andy, "This is my house and I'll decide when the music is too loud." as he turned the volume back up. I started wiping my hands on a towel and went into the living room and stood between them. I told Todd, "He's turning the music down because I asked him to. I don't care if it is your house, I'm in the hot kitchen and no one's in here listening to it anyway." We got in a slight shoving match and I realized he was drunk, but I pushed him aside and turned down the volume then returned to the kitchen. He followed me and continued ranting about it being his house, etc. He started shoving me backward and every time he'd repeat himself as if trying to make his point. The kitchen was small, so it only took three shoves until my back was against the counter. I'd been trying to reason with him up until that point, but when he shoved me the forth time I quietly reached up took off my glasses and sat them on the counter. Later he would say that was when he knew he was in trouble. I tore into him and began beating the shit out of him. I knew from years of experience with my heart problems that I had to win a fight quickly before I went into tachycardia. He kept body slamming me into the wall, but I finally got his arms pinned behind him and had him on his knees in the floor. I begged him to stop, but he kept screaming at me to get out of his house. In the meantime, all the other queens made a mass exodus out the front door and screeched away. Andy was the only one who stayed. I told him if he'd calm down I'd leave and this would be the end of it. I made him promise, but as I helped him stand up he body slammed me into the wall while yelling, "Get out of my house!" I'd had it by then, grabbing him by the collar and the back of his pants, I said, "Not until you go first!" and threw him through the latched screen door. He landed on the back porch in a pile of dusty screen and broken wood, but he got up and started at me again. My heart was already in tachycardia and I was loosing my breath, so I knew I wouldn't last long. I beat him to the floor and since I didn't want to risk him getting up again I kicked him repeatedly until I split the side out of one of my expensive anaconda loafers. I turned off all the burners on the gas stove and Andy and I walked out to our cars just as it began to rain. I was living with Kate again by that time and he and I drove over there and went to my room. As I was in the floor doing everything I could think of to stop my tachycardia, Andy was in the bathroom drying his hair with my blow-dryer. I was upset and crying because Todd wasn't moving when we left. I was afraid I'd killed him. I asked him, "If I drive you back over there will you go in and see if he's OK?" "No!" he said. "Why not?" I asked. "Because if I go over there and find out he's not dead I'm going to finish the job you started!" He screamed. "Why did you stay then?" I asked. He said, "To see if you were going to need any help and obviously you didn't. I don't give a shit, I hope you did kill him. I'll testify it was in self defense." After more begging and pleading he drove me over to a friend's house who agreed to go back with us and check on Todd. Andy parked several feet away in case Todd decided to attack me again. The friend came back and said, "Todd is OK." and we all went home.
The next day Todd called me and asked me if I wanted to come over for dinner. He'd put all the food in the refrigerator and saved it including the garlic bread I hadn't baked yet. I went over and we had dinner and never mentioned the fight. Later we went to a movie and ran into a couple of our dinner guest. We could tell by the looks on their faces that they were shocked that we were there as if nothing had happened. Todd and I are like brothers and ten years later when he and I were having a huge screaming argument his lover at the time tried to step in and take Todd's side. Todd stopped in mid sentence, turned to him and said, "Shut up, and keep out of it. Tomorrow we'll be over it, and you'll still be pissed, so just go back to bed." Somehow we've just always accepted the fact that we will always be friends and no matter what happens we'll get over it.
The next year Rick and his mother finally made Todd move out. Todd went to her house and tried to get his dog back, there was an ugly scene and he finally let her have the dog and moved out. He kept all the furniture since he'd done so much work landscaping the house he deserved it. There were many parties and fights, to come over the years, but there will never be another 601.
Molested by an Army doctor at thirteen, having my first sexual experience at fifteen, coming out to my parents at sixteen, a failed attempted suicide, with an alcoholic Green Beret father, a "Drama Queen" mother. Told through short stories, and anecdotes, I look back on my life's hilarious and poignant moments, with the realization that you have to take the good with the bad, life does get better. Please remember to read the stories from bottom to top.The older post were actually first.
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South-Korea - Busan
Monday 1 june 2015
We enjoyed the hotel pretty much: the Aventree Hotel Busan. Nice breakfast clean, wifi, laundry possibility,...
So we took the bus the the UNECSO UN - war memorial and cemetery: UNMCK.
Impressive. You see all the nations that fought over there or gave logitisc and medical support. We saw the names of the Belgians that died there and watched a short documentary.
After that we went to Haeundae beach. We had free time all over. And there we went. Exploring the markets, the streets, the beach ;-) and searched some good lunch.
We met again with the group to make a stroll around the coastal line. Great view on the ocean.
Then in the afternoon we took the bus to the sea-temple: Haedong Yonggungsa temple. One of the most famous temples of Busan and a spot for masstourism. I was not quite impressed lol.
I did put my feet in the water, and thought is was pretty cold haha!
schoolkids having fun on the beach
In the evening me and my mate went eating but I forgot where and what.
We joined some others afterwards to get soe drinnk in a pub where we got served little snacks too :-)
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South-Korea - Hadong - Busan - Jagalchi Fishmarket
Sunday 31 may 2015.
Today is the last day in Hadong. This morning we have free time till we leave with the noontrain to Busan, the second big city of South-Korea.
As we have nothing to do, we stroll the park behind our hotel. It's a sunny and hot day again, it fels nice but very warm after the days of cloudy and wet weather. Of course the park is a steep hill again... And again beuatifully decorated, clean, nicely gardened. We enjoyed the viewpoint.
At noon we took the train to Busan. Not teh KTX. So the train made a few stops. we could enjoy the scenery of the agriculture from the window. Around 16u30 we arrived at the Busan station. we took some cabs to drive us to our Hotel. The problem is the hotel seemed to be in a carfree pedestrin zone and the driver who didn't talk english seemd not to be albe to know where to put us off and wanted to call our guide. It took some phonecalls here and there to get DJ's number and then finally he knew where to deliver us. OK we checked in in this beautiful hotel in the hear tof the shopping streets of Busan. Busan seemed lots more busier then Seoul. Lot's more traffic, lot's more people, lot's more noise in the shopping streets where every shop had someone outside: shouting, calling publicity to attract customers, even fortified with microphones... imagine the noise.
But hey this city is vibrant and vivid and seemd even more endless then Seoul.
So we freshed up, and gathered to go for a walk to the most famous fishmarket: the Jagalchi fish market. Not only in the open air but also in two buildings were you can eat.
Alaways nice to stroll around see those kind of weird fish, see the local streetfood and smell it and taste it. We ended up in a tourist trap. hahaha.
When I asked what the difference was between all those restaurants our local guide said: "there's no difference, 'cos they are the same, all the fish comes from the same sea."
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