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"Come awa', Maister Horner, come awa', and help us to hang ane o' thae daamed scoondrels!"
So famously said Lord Braxfield, judge of the Scottish bench, to one of his jurors during the political trials of 1793 and 1794.
The lot of the impartial juror has improved considerably since then but it's still not my favourite thing to do. But that's what last week was devoted to. (Insofar, of course, as I can be said to "do" it at all, since I am absolutely never impaneled. Neither counsel seems to want another JD on the panel and when they learn how often I play pipes for various and sundry police agencies, defense counsel can't get rid of me fast enough.) Still, it's a week for which nothing can be planned and all my engagements have to be given away to someone else. If you're really interested in the details of jurying in Los Angeles County, you can find out here. No. I didn't think you would be. But part of blogging is providing those links.
What really was worth the price of admission was the voir dire. We had 18 folks being queried and perhaps a dozen of them were trying desperately to convince whoever might be willing to excuse them that were far too prejudiced ever to be fair to the defendant. Apparently grandma had had her credit card number stolen. And the brother had his truck broken into. And this other one was personally fed to the teeth with crime. And on and on. One person's English was so bad she couldn't possibly follow a trial in English with all those big words. She was a bank executive and had been in the country for 35 years. The poor soul sitting next to me really did have almost no English. He didn't even have enough to explain that he didn't really know what was going on. He just agreed with whatever was asked of him. I hope for the sake of justice they let him off but I don't really know. They got rid of me first even though I explained that I have led a charmed life, unscarred by rampant crime, and that I am a paragon of fairness.
Helpful legal hints: If you're ever assigned to the Norwalk Superior Court, you can get a tolerable cup of coffee in the ground floor snack bar to tide you over the morning and a couple of sandwich places just south of the court house and across the street provide a cheap lunch.


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By Musa Keilani
Western officials are talking about a deal with Muammar Qadhafi, under which the Libyan leader will leave power and perhaps be allowed to stay in the country without indulging in politics.
Whoever is suggesting that Qadhafi would agree to such an arrangement does not seem to understand one vital element: he will never give up power, but fight to the finish without caring what it takes to hang on to whatever is left of his country and people.
If there are "secret" negotiations on a compromise involving Qadhafi leaving power while he is alive, then whoever is involved in them is fooling himself or is being deceptive in order to buy time for the man who ruled Libya ruthlessly for more than four decades.
Qadhafi and his loyalists know only too well that he has no future in Libya, or anywhere else for that matter, since the international heat on him would be too strong, given the arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court. Any country inviting him to stay there would come under such pressure that it would not want to have anything to do with him. It does not matter whether the host country is an ICC signatory or not.
Nothing that happened so far in the Libyan strife that broke out in February should be surprising, particularly in terms of how Qadhafi handled and is still handling it. He is living up to his reputation of being "the mad man of Africa".
For someone like Qadhafi, it is unimaginable that he would be stripped of power and held accountable for his oppressive and murderous rule that tolerated no dissent.
Those we see on television demonstrating in his support are either beneficiaries of his rule, having got what they could out of him without questioning his actions, or are coerced to take to the streets waving flags and shouting slogans praising him. No one in right mind would ever accept the way Qadhafi dealt with his people, without any regard for human rights.
Whoever questioned or even hinted at criticism of his rule was either thrown in prison and tortured or summarily executed. Qadhafi and those around him, including his sons, were only interested in perpetuating his regime. And they were rewarded for their loyalty to him.
At the same time, we have also seen a steady flow of defections by people who served the regime. They could simply not accept his whimsical, eccentric and often senseless behaviour or decisions, and they could not wait to get out.
Those who incurred his wrath were either liquidated or lived in perpetual terror if they opted to stay in the country.
Any talk about Qadhafi willingly giving up his power is simply a non-starter. There is little doubt that Qadhafi will use the people around him and sacrifice them if need be. A Russian report mentioned that his prime minister, Baghdadi Al Mahmoudi, spoke of setting fire to Tripoli if the rebels come near the Libyan capital. This threat should be taken seriously. Qadhafi would not hesitate to do it and he would take down with him whoever he could.
For the moment, the situation looks more or less like a stalemate, although the rebels are claiming slow advance towards Tripoli and it could be said that the momentum has shifted in their favour. We could expect stepped-up North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) air action to support them along their way, but it would be slow going, given that Qadhafi's loyalists are employing everything in their power to stall them, including planting landmines and deadly chemicals.
Qadhafi's military machine is being decimated by the ongoing Western air strikes, but he retains enough firepower to make a lengthy last-minute stand to defend his stronghold and make it highly painful for anyone trying to gain a foothold in Tripoli.
For the Western leaders lined up against Qadhafi, like Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, toppling the Libyan strongman has become an imperative. They have staked themselves in the conflict to the point where failure to dislodge him or allowing the crisis to get prolonged would have a serious impact on their political future. The cost of the military operations in Libya is steadily mounting and this would be telling on their economies soon.
Qadhafi knows that well and is determined to prolong the conflict as much as possible, in the hope that public opinion would work against his adversaries in the West. And that seems to be his best bet. However, he will not be able to hold out for much longer.
The West is hoping that his military commanders and security chiefs will realise that there cannot be a victory for them and decide that the best course would be to desert their leader and even take control of the country. It is anyone's guess whether and when that will happen.
In the meantime, it is also clear that without closer US involvement, the military campaign against Qadhafi will not be making speedy and effective progress. US President Barack Obama will have to find a way to convince the US Congress to relieve him of the constraints it imposed on the US role in the Libyan conflict.
Any debate about what could happen in Libya should start from the basic point that this war is final for both sides. Given the Western support the anti-Qadhafi movement gets, the only logical conclusion is that Qadhafi will be toppled sooner or later. The only question is how many more lives will be lost and how many will be maimed for life before that happens.
This commentary was published in The Jordan Times on 24/07/2011

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Tag search 'leica'. This is a really wonderful image – and must be seen large. It was taken with a Leica MP, which I am guessing is the only fully mechanical camera in production in the world today.
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DENVER (CBS4) – It was a warm, wet year for residents of the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. In Alamosa, it was the warmest year on record, a mark that was just set two years ago.
Climate records date back to 1932 in Alamosa.
Alamosa's average temperature in 2017 was 44.7°F which beats the previous warmest year of 2015 by 0.1°F.
2017 was the 6th wettest year on record in Alamosa with over 10 inches of precipitation.
Here's a link to the 2017 climate summary for Alamosa.
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F orty-seven years after she graduated from wellesley college, hillary clinton is still having to defend her senior thesis that's because right-wing activists and their media allies are assailing clinton's research paper on saul alinsky, a key figure in the world of community organizing. The democrats, #msm, universities, & soros globalists are complicit in this agenda to create 1 world socialist state kool-aid antitrumpers don't realize they are complicit in this plan #bringdownthering #hillaryindictment #soros #draintheswamp #maga. Hillary clinton's 'secret' alinsky thesis exposed share | reader holly writes: did you know hillary's senior thesis was on alinsky, and she has prevented it from being released ever since she came to prominence well this gave me flashbacks to college, pre-copiers. Former presidential candidate ben carson said wednesday that he linked hillary clinton to a prominent community organizer clinton wrote her 1969 wellesley undergraduate thesis on alinsky we all have people that we admired as a college student at wellesley. M oct 31, 2016 the conventional wisdom is that hillary clinton is reluctant to hillary rodham college thesis talk about religion, which is only half true rodham. Hillary clinton phd thesis hillary clinton phd thesis wellesley, mass the senior thesis of hillary d rodham, wellesley college class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized andhillary clinton's political methods were founded on the theories of a 1960s.
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Oh how lovely it is to email all of the people that you love so dearly. I have finally gotten the swing of this thing that you call missionary work. It has defiantly been a marathon of learning and every day is a journey, but i wouldn't trade any of the experiences that i have had for anything else. I have learned first and for most how to trust in my father in heaven and to rely on my savior Jesus Christ. He really is my best friend. I come closer to him through reading the Book of Mormon. As i was reading this week i was in 2 Nephi... oh which can be rough.. especially for me because i am trying my hardest to really understand Isaiah and it is HARD. BUT it was really cool because each morning right before i read i would pray and ask Heavenly Father to just show me one thing that i could learn and he totally did. Awesome! I know that god hears and answers our prayers.
This week we were blessed with miracle after miracle after miracle. It was the craziest thing. was filled with the love for this people more than i had ever before felt. I truly felt like Nephi this week. In 2 Nephi ch. 33:3 we read
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yep. i have felt that this week. its been really neat but also really hard. I so wish that every single person could just grasp on to the gospel and would listen to us. But it really isn't that easy. We were out the other day and we had the neatest experience. Lets begin. We came to a door and Monica answered. She began to tell us that she went to local church around here and that she had already tried to listen to the Mormons before and that she just wasn't interested. all of a sudden the next thing i knew was that she asked for a phamplet and wanted to learn more. Its moments like those where you just know that it wasn't you talking it was the spirit and those moments are priceless. it makes up for all those hard days. those 5 minutes when someone listens, it turns your whole world around.
Elizabeth. WOW SHE DID IT. She quit smoking. She is amazing and is on track to be baptized in the first week of December. It is the coolest thing to work with someone who has all these outside forces that are working against them and yet they know that this is the path they need to take in their life.
Silver family. wow. Saturday For the past couple of weeks we have been trying to see this family in the ward who are less active. We decided to see them on Saturday and to our surprise we got in! don't know how that happened but we did and we were able to teach their son who is not a member who is 10 the restoration. It was the neatest thing because as we taught we saw the light turn back on in this mothers eyes. When we got to the picture about Joseph Smith this little boy got quiet. For a moment i thought he had stopped listening. Then he sat there for a moment... looked up at us and said. "wow.... so this really happened to him?" the spirit filled the room and we were able to testify to him how we had come to know and how he could do the same thing. We then had him say our closing prayer and it was the first time this little boy had prayed. such a sweet prayer and right after the mom invited us back over next Saturday
i have been a little bit all over the place in this email. SORRY! I want you all to know how much i have been able to see how the gospel of Jesus Christ truly blesses families. it is so much fun to be able to go into different homes and see how families work. oh the things you learn on a mission. Its life changing and i have no clue where i would be without this experience. Its been an amazing year! i know that with the Strength of the Lord i can do hard things.
i love missionary work. Let us all try a little harder this week to reach out to those that are in need. become TRUE disciples of Jesus Christ.
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I accomplished something major on the to-do list yesterday. Here's the before:
And the after, plus the 10-inch ponytail that will be going to Locks of Love.
I've been procrastinating on a haircut for a couple of years. I was rather severely traumatized by my last one when the stylist practically pinned me down and insisted on straightening my hair over my objections. Then it got to be kind of fun seeing how long I could get it and doing some fancy things with it occasionally. And then I realized that a haircut would involve chopping off a lot, so I might as well do some good with it. A lot of the little girls at church were growing their hair out and getting it cut off to donate, and I figured if they could do it, so could I, so I let it go a little longer so it wouldn't be too short when I cut off the required amount. It's still a little shorter than I'd ideally have it, but it grows pretty fast and I'll live. It's just at the length where it all falls forward over my shoulders and gets in my way. It still looks pretty long in the photo, but that was soon after the cut before it started curling up a lot more. Now that it's settled down, it's falling to just barely past my shoulders, and it feels really weird. However, I do have a little more versatility without all that length. I can still put it in my usual bun with fewer pins, but I can also do a bouncy ponytail again, and I can do a braid that doesn't get caught in the waistband of my jeans or strangle me in my sleep.
The weird thing is, last night I wore my hair down when I went to choir, and nobody noticed that my hair was more than ten inches shorter. I do wear it up most of the time, but I had it down or in a ponytail for much of the music and arts camp, and there were people in the choir who saw me there. I'd have thought that going from past my waist to barely below my shoulders would generate some comment, but I guess people just see "long."
I should weigh myself and see how much weight I've lost. My head certainly feels lighter.
The major items remaining on the to-do list involve some shopping, but I don't much feel like going out today. I want to focus on the work. I figured out that part of the reason I hit a brick wall was that I put something that should have happened later in the book in too early in a fit of overeagerness, and that kept things from going forward because there was nowhere to go from there. Once I fix that, I should be able to move forward. However, I keep forgetting that with each revelation that's made, there's an implied revelation that goes with it, and so I'm also forgetting to have the characters react to both the big revelation and the implied revelation, which then should change all the interactions. I knew this plot would be complicated when I came up with it, but I didn't realize I'd need to wallpaper the house with Post-It notes to remind myself of all the things that are going on.
But I have no errands, no classes, and no rehearsals today to distract me, so I'm hoping to get things fixed and then get some momentum going.


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Whether she is supporting the day-to-day network operations at Rochester Institute of Technology or building new networks at RIT's Croatian campuses halfway across the world, Angel Male has become an emerging leader at the university.
For these efforts, she was awarded the Gender Diversity Award at the 2015 Internet2 Global Summit held April 28 in Washington, D.C. She was one of four women in information technology honored at the Internet2 event.
"The conference gave me the opportunity to connect with peers around the globe who are facing the same challenges with technology in higher education that RIT faces," said Male. "As colleges work to meet the demands of international, domestic and distant learners, the technology that supports every student needs to be ahead of the game."
As a network engineer II in RIT's Network Communications Group, Male is involved with several major networking projects, including operations in the new data center located in Institute Hall and replacing the network firewalls around campus. She has also traveled to RIT's campuses in Zagreb and Dubrovnik to help deploy network infrastructure improvements and expand wireless connectivity.
Her work in Croatia has allowed students, faculty and staff to collaborate more easily among the three locations. She also recently began an initiative to advance the use of the network testing toolkit perfSONAR within RIT.
The Internet2 community provides a collaborative environment for U.S. research and education organizations to solve common technology challenges and to develop solutions in support of their educational, research and community service missions. The Gender Diversity Award was created to shine a spotlight on the women who are making outstanding contributions to advanced technology disciplines.
"Internet2 is committed to ensuring the IT field is diverse and inclusive," said Ana Hunsinger, Internet2's vice president of community engagement. "We congratulate this year's winners and look forward to watching their career accomplishments for many years to come."
Male began her career in the United States Marine Corps in 1996 where she served as Tier 3 support for a portion of the East Coast Military Institutions. After consulting for nine years, she joined RIT's Network Communications Group, where she has been for the past five years.
"I am excited to take advantage of this opportunity and apply my newfound knowledge to the future of RIT," said Male. "The relationships and knowledge built because of winning the Gender Diversity Award will help enable RIT to provide the critical technology for the next generation of innovative students."


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One last thing! Do you like the new May Header? :) I'm thinking of changing the header on the 1st of every month. Let me know what you think of it.
Beautiful shots! I'm starting to learn how to shoot in manual mode too :) Love your new header!ReplyDelete
Thanks Bella!!! It's so exciting to learn new things with the camera :)ReplyDelete
Those are fantastic photos! I personally need to get myself out of 'auto' mode - perhaps what you've read, will help! I'm off to check!
Your header is lovely! When I created my own, I would change them quite often! Go at it!!
I just found your blog.
It's great. You're very talented :)
I'm off to click the follow button now....
Oh my goodness! When I posted this, I didn't realize you were my newest follower! Thank you sooo much!ReplyDelete
Thanks Mandy! I love making headers but I try not to change things up too often ;) That post really did help me! Thank you very much Natalia! It means alot :) You are very talented as well! And thanks for the follow :)ReplyDelete
Oh and no problem! You're blog is wonderful :)ReplyDelete
What lovely nature photos! And they're all taken manually to top it off! Great shots :)
P.S. I'm from Canada too :)
Beautiful photography Hope! And yes, I really like your blog header for the month! :)ReplyDelete
How exciting!! And I love the 5th picture :)ReplyDelete
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Zac Posen. Genevieve has apparently been his muse for a while now.
Elise Overland & Bonnie Morris.
Julia Restion-Roitfeld, Genevieve's best friend.
Jewel. I'm so glad she's getting better, no more crutches. I have to credit Jewel for really helping me discover other music genres. I remember borrowing the Pieces Of You CD from a friend in 8th grade and being obsessed with it.
Samantha Harris. She should really play down the eye makeup, I always wonder if she's had some sort of surgery on her face because she seems to have this surprised look on her all the time.
Jessica Lowndes. She has gorgeous eyes, nice look overall.
Katie Cassidy. This dress reminds me of Alexander McQueen a few seasons back. She did the pink and black look very well with a touch of Futuristic.
Monica Raymond. This is definitely what I would have worn, it's fresh, fun and sophisticated at the same time.
Cameron Richardson. I wonder what it would have looked like with black shoes, nice look overall probably one of my favorites at this event.
Tia Mowry. Stunning! She makes me want to go and get this hair cut, actually I've wanted it since Rihanna had it, but I'll probably do it for when I turn 30.
Tamara Mowry. She should lose the necklace it looks a little out of place, but the rest of the outfit is nice.
Kourtney Kardashian. Honestly, this is probably the best I've seen her. The belt makes it look very Balmain.
Kim Kardashian. Change the shoes.
Simon Baker. I've had a massive crush on him for ages! I normally don't get all gaga over celebrities, but he makes me want to put a giant poster of him on my wall. *sigh*
Karina Smirnoff. Too much makeup and hair, it's not for me, but whatever floats her boat...
Lisa Rinna. She's like a walking advert for bad plastic surgery.
Jennie Garth. Something is off, I'm not sure what it is...maybe she should cut her hair shorter.
Beth Riesgraf. I normally hate this color green, especially on the red carpet, but the combination of red lipstick and blonde hair made it work.
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So it is the evening of the 25th of May and I am frantically getting ready,obviously wanting to look my best,and Lacey is raising her eyebrow at me in the background.I know its going to be a classy affair,the cello and acoustic-ness just shout it out.I dress up and Lacey dresses down to balance me out and we're walking out on the streets of D.C.She knows her way around,so I follow.We stop at Coci to eat,which by that time I'm freaking out and muttering under my breath 'we're late,we're late,we're late,we're late'.So she gives in to my whining and we start our 'long and perilous journey' to 6 blocks down the road.I'm walking fast to keep up with her long legs as she leads the way and motorcyclists make their way noisily past us.We stop at 17th Street to wait for the light to green for pedestrians when madam decides she wants a smoke.So we're still standing and waiting and I'm absolutely exasperated because its five minutes to 7 and I know there's going to be a line and I have made a mental note to forgive her if we're late.I look to my left while thinking all these thoughts,and watch the people on bicycles creating a sort of breeze for me on that hot evening.I look at the most amiable one of the lot,and my stomach does a funny flip flop.It's Damien Rice.
I look at him strangely,causing him to wink,smile and wave at the same time.I am astonished at how well I recognize him despite the fact that he's completely dressed as a tourist.Obviously,my mind is unable to form any sort of word combination till after he leaves,after which all I can say is '*pant pant pant pant* it's HIM *pant pant* I SWEAR',and Lacey being Lacey doesn't give a rat's ass and the Indian woman standing with us at the light gives her that 'you-do-realize-that-your-friend-belongs-in-a-mental-instituition-and-not-on-the-streets-of-D.C' look.So basically I'm skipping my way towards the venue and Lacey's smoking in my face to calm me the fuck down.
It is exactly the kind of classy I thought it'd be.Seated hall,lots of wine,and dressed-up couples.The stage is dimly lit with (electronic) candles and I'm sitting alone with a bunch of couples.He comes on stage wearing the same shirt he was bicycling in and it causes me to grin,cause I obviously know something no one else does.I don't think I need to go deep into detail as to how completely amazing the entire experience was,people shouting random stuff from the crowd 'My boyfriend is in love with you!' to 'I'll have your babies!' to 'Your initials make you a doctor!'.It was a much more entertaining show then I expected it to be,minus couples making out and the fact that Lisa Hannigan and Vyvienne Long weren't there.Yet it doesn't change the fact that he's still Damien Rice.He was funny,energetic,angry,comfortable,and breath-taking in all his glory.I hope he climbs further than he intends to.
And she may cry like a baby
And she may drive me crazy
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Speaking at the Loyola Institute of Business Administration during the critical analysis of the Budget, Chidambaram said the nation can see a grim picture for the immediate future of the Indian economy.
"Inflation will rise and fiscal deficit will widen. Macroeconomic stability has been compromised. Distress in farm sector continues. Young men and women will be left unemployed. Exports are way below. Every which way you look at it, this Budget has failed this country. In conclusion, all I can say after seeing this government's fifth Budget is that thank god this government will not present a sixth Budget," he asserted.
Former Union finance minister added that the government could have chosen to solve one of the challenges of fiscal consolidation, acute distress in the farm sector, delivery of welfare and job creation.
"As far as I am concerned, this government has turned out to be a thoroughly incompetent in managing the economy," he said.
Chidambaram further criticised the National Health Protection Scheme (NHPC), saying the government had no way to fund it.
"This scheme will not see the light of the day. If it does, it will be in a rudimentary form. Most diseases, procedures will be excluded. It will be so difficult to access the scheme that 90% of the people will not even make an attempt to access it," he added.
Earlier on February 8, the Congress leader slammed the latest Union Budget presented by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and shot questions in this context at the leading dispensation, at the Rajya Sabha.
Claiming the budget worsened the fiscal deficit, Chidambaram said, "Shall we tell the people, NDA government believes that we must tax the hard-working middle class rather than the rich corporates?"
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I was accepted as an Uber rideshare partner this week, and today I gave my first Uber ride over lunch. It was fantastic.
My passenger was a vision impaired man with a guide dog, and his pick up location was quite close to where I work in Middleton. He was standing by the opposite side of the road with his dog, waiting, when I arrived.
I rolled down my driver's side window and asked, "Did you call Uber?"
"Yes, I did," he said. "That was fast."
"I'll turn around so you don't have to cross the road," I told him. I turned around in the nearby parking lot of the Claddagh Irish Pub and pulled up at the curb next to him.
"I can get out and assist you," I offered.
"No need," the man said. "Are you OK with a guide dog?"
"Oh, sure," I said. "I have a dog of my own." In fact, by law I could not refuse a guide animal in my car, but I wouldn't even if I could.
He was going downtown to meet a friend for lunch and we had a nice conversation as I drove him. He was a very friendly guy. He liked good music and we talked a bit about Nashville and country music. He works in the hearing/vision impaired industry, which makes sense. His dog was a golden retriever. It took me about 25 minutes to drive him downtown and I made $16 via Uber, after they extracted their cut of the fare. If I had had time to pick up another fare downtown, I could have possibly cleared $25 for an hour's work.
I think Uber will be a fairly lucrative and fun supplement to my side business income. When I am not playing gigs with the band(s), I can offer Uber rides and probably make a lot more money than I do at music (or even my day job…it's about the same per hour…). Because Uber is app based and all monetary transactions are online, the risks are minimal. No money changes hands and there is no tipping. Everyone involved is registered with Uber and both drivers and passengers are rated on a five point scale, so it behooves everyone to be cool and cooperative. My passenger at lunch gave me full marks, the full five stars, so I am off to a good start. I am sure there will be some dickheads occasionally, but you'd really be biting the hand that feeds (or killing the goose that laid the golden eggs) if you treated Uber drivers poorly. But there is no way to get stiffed on a rideshare fare, because the passengers have to be enrolled in Uber with a legitimate form of electronic payment. So I am getting paid whether the person is difficult or not.
I am officially now a private contractor in the transportation industry. So far it's a blast. Kind of addictive actually. I want to do it again ASAP. When I leave work today, I will probably turn on the app. Who knows, maybe a co-worker needs an Uber home and I will be right there to get them. Rush hour has got to be a high Uber time of day, right?
This weekend is also graduation at the UW Madison, so there will likely be a lot of families trying to get around town for various things. Since I have no gigs or pressing responsibilities, I will make myself available to give rides and begin filling the business coffer.


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Being a stay-at-home mom has been my goal my entire life. I have always felt that it is the most important job a person can have. SAHMs shape the lives of little people, ensuring they will be whole, responsible, giving, and not make their teachers regret the profession.
I've been a SAHM for 9 months now. I've been both fulfilled and unrequited. Some moments are filled with loving children, tired from play, curled around me. Others are filled with my 4 year old yelling for her butt to be wiped while the poop stench wafts from my nearly 2 year old – as my infant screams for his pacifier. I stop and wonder what it is I'm doing that I used to think was so important. There have been good and bad mothers since the beginning of humanity. It all balances out. Unless my children specifically do something that alters human life in a significant way; What, I wonder, have I accomplished?
My Facebook friends list is filled with people more educated, more popular, more in shape, more artistic, more altruistic than me. They are all busy as I sit in my pajamas reinserting a pacifier.
As I close in on who I am, it becomes more glaringly obvious that I do not have a "thing." I do not possess overwhelming skill, talent, faith, learning, or money.
I'm a mom. Which is, thank God, more than I was before these babies gave me purpose.


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You, because you wish to take a selfie or a groufie with some friends, painstakingly make sure your hair looks great, your face powder isn't too white, and your smile is perfect. However, there is such a thing as photobombing and what you thought would be a great picture suddenly becomes too hilarious because of photobombers. See my Top 6 Picks below – prepare to grin or to laugh ;)
To Kill or Not to Kill
To kill or not to kill that guy at the back?! That is the question. These two girls gave out their best smiles and poses, not knowing that the guy at the back had "other plans". LOL
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Preaching this coming Lord's Day.
God willing, I shall be preaching at Bethel Chapel, Guildford, this coming Lord's Day. Services are at 10.45 and 6.00. Bethel is a welcoming traditional strict Baptist Church. The Authorised version of the Bible and Gadsby's Selection of hymns are used. The more we use Gadsby's (which is a lot lately, as we attend the Wednesday evening prayer meeting at Zoar Chapel, Norwich, as well as preaching at Barrow and Zion, Leicester - all places that use Gadsby's), the more we find that it is one of the best hymnbooks in use today - quite a feat, considering it is also the oldest!
And there is tea and cake after the evening service!!!
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DELTONA -- City commissioners will take a first look at two projects when they meet Monday.
Lankford Funeral Home in DeLand wants to build a facility with a crematorium on Deltona's eastern edge.
Earlier this month, the Planning and Zoning Board rejected the proposal because Deltona's code does not allow for crematoriums within city limits.


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Several years ago I saw Biscuits and Duck Gravy featured on Food Network at a restaurant in Chicago. I knew in that moment that I had to eat that plate of food. Flash forward to now, I still haven't been to Chicago. A co-worker suggested a locally owned meat market and specialty store to me and I'm so glad she did. This place has all of the hard to find ingredients — things not kept in stock at normal grocery stores. When looking at their website, I saw that they carry duck confit and I was reminded of how much I really wanted to eat that dish. I started looking online to see if I could find the episode that this restaurant was featured in and I couldn't. I tried looking at the menu for the restaurant, but they no longer have this on it. I tried looking through reviews of the restaurant to see if anyone at least described what was in it, but no one really did.
So I decided to make it my own. I have no clue how this compares to their version, but this really hit the spot. It was everything that I dreamed it would be over the past several years.
What is duck confit? Duck confit is generally duck legs that have been salt cured and slowly roasted and it is delicious. Duck meat is very fatty and just about any foodie or chef will tell you that duck fat is liquid gold. It can be used in so many things in place of butter, bacon grease and oils. Duck is very rich and flavorful and a little expensive. A little goes a long way and I think it's worth the splurge. The package of duck confit I purchased had 2 legs in it, was frozen and cost about $13.00. I thawed it in the refrigerator overnight.
Biscuits and Duck Confit Gravy
In order to time it all right, I made the biscuit dough before starting the gravy. I started baking the biscuits once I added the milk to the gravy.
Biscuits — recipe here — I used a single recipe, resulting in 7 biscuits
Duck Confit — 2 legs
2 tbs Butter
4 tbs All-Purpose Flour
2 cups Whole or 2% Milk
1/4 tsp Salt
Lots of Freshly Ground Pepper
About 30 minutes before you're ready to start cooking, pull the duck confit out to allow it to come to room temperature.
Using a knife (or your fingers) peel off as much duck fat as you can and drop it all in a small pot over medium-low heat
Let the duck fat cook until it is dark brown and super crispy
While the duck fat is crisping up, start removing all of the duck meat from the bones
Tear it into small pieces and set aside
Remove the crispy pieces, leaving as much liquid behind as possible
The crispy pieces are like bacon, but better. If you can keep from eating them all while the gravy cooks, they make a great garnish.
Add the butter to the duck fat and allow it to melt
Whisk the flour into the butter and duck fat to create a roux
Slowly pour in your milk, stirring constantly
Turn the heat up slightly and bring the milk to a low boil, stirring frequently — be sure to scrape the bottom and edges of the pot
Once the milk is at a low boil, reduce the heat to medium-low and add half of the duck meat
I wanted all of the duck fat for this gravy, but the meat is too much. Stick that in the fridge and throw it in something else. It would be great on pizza, sandwiches, crackers, a baguette, etc.
Using a spoon instead of a whisk, stir the gravy occasionally until it starts to thicken — just a few minutes
Remove from heat and allow it to cool for a few minutes
Ladle over biscuits and garnish with crispy duck fat
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20 December 2009
A bit over two months after leaving Audrey back in San Francisco, I am finally reunited with a two-wheeled friend that I can pedal forward of my own doing. There are many differences, mind you, but the smile on my face today would not have let on.
The last ride I took on my road bike (Audrey) was on the 12th of October 2009, just one day before we left on our RTW trip. Casey came with me, and we pedaled through the City from our flat in Po-hill…along the Embarcadero, through a few back streets to avoid most of Fisherman's Wharf, then parallel to the Marina Green, Crissy Field, past Sports Basement and up the small hill to cross over the Golden Gate Bridge to the Headlands. About a 20-mile ride round trip, and I knew it would be one of the things that I would miss over the next 5 months of travel.
I was reminded of that familiar ride today as we pedaled ridiculously heavy old clunker bikes along the Indian Ocean on the other side of the world. It was my first time back on a bike; the mode of transportation that I have found freedom in, and a love for a sport that I knew not that I had the capacity for.
And today's ride was incredibly different. I wasn't decked out in my loud biker gear. I was absent helmet, water, training program and ride route. I was riding just to ride. The two-wheeled contraption that I pushed with my legs weighted at least ten pounds more than I am used to, contained no gears to shift, brakes that you could squeeze with your hands but needed to supplement by dragging our feet on the ground if you really wanted to stop, and was complete with ringing bell on the front so I could warn the African ladies with heavy loads balanced on their heads that I would be passing them. No need to yell, "on your left" here – partly because they drive on the other side of the road in Kenya so it would really be "on your right" (which has gotten me a little mixed up a time or two when trying to cross strange intersections here), and partly because bicycles are common modes of transportation here and people are just plain used to them. Further, no one is trying to beat the other person to their destination to claim the unspoken imaginary prize amongst competitive cyclists/triathletes alike. These guys just need to get their groceries, firewood and/or water to the other side of town. They mosey willfully to their destination, in this beach village, with the common thread of a beach town – it is low key. Their motto: "Hakuna Matata." No worries in Swahili. If in Hawaii, it would be "Hang Loose," and it is no different here on the coast of Kenya where time also runs slower and people seem pretty chill.
I utilized muscles in ways that they had forgotten to move in. It felt damn good.
The smile on my face said it all: It doesn't matter today what bicycle I am on, just that I am able to ride, however little, in Watamu Kenya, with my husband today. Lovely. And no, I haven't any pictures of it. Our last camera – we brought two, but one of them has likely been stolen in C's still missing baggage – was eaten by the Indian Ocean this week, so I have a mental picture of which to remember these moments.
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My Grandma (my mom's mom) went through the temple this past weekend! What an amazing opportunity to witness that! My grandma has been a member of the church for about 7 years and felt now was the time to get her endowments. My grandpa is not a member and has been supportive about this step my grandma has taken. We are all so proud of my grandma. What an example she is to me!
The gang in front of the temple after the session.


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Sunday, December 04, 2011
Yes, Utopia is the title and More is the originator of the meaning that we now have for the word. It is hard to imagine this strange bit of fiction being written 500 years ago. It begins with a lament of consumerism, but picks up on ideas from Plato's Republic and the stories of the founding of Sparta, mixes them up with other notions, and gives us a new island nation in the New World which he calls Utopia - which actually means nowhere. More's Utopia isn't intended to be understood as perfect; just much better than the current European societies.
One of More's laments is the practice of executing people for theft. More's Utopia is much more humane in that any thief is made a slave and forced to do hard work for life, which he is grateful to have because his life was spared. This reminds me of the laments of Victor Hugo in Les Miserables.
An intriguing bit in Utopia seems to prepare the way for the much later political writer, John Locke, of whose work I have recently listened to:
"But if the natives refuse to conform themselves to their laws they drive them out of those bounds which they mark out for themselves, and use force if they resist, for they account it a very just cause of war for a nation to hinder others from possessing a part of that soil of which they make no use, but which is suffered to lie idle and uncultivated, since every man has, by the law of nature, a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence." - Utopia
The point of similarity between More and Locke is the "law of nature" and the derived arguments about unproductive use of the land, but More's work predates Locke's by more than 150 years. The Just War notion is also tied into both works. The path from More to Locke might be a strange one, but it seems clear that there must be such a path and that Locke wasn't the originator of many of the ideas I had presumed him to be the author of.
6 comments:
- Inklings said...
Hmm, I guess I live in the middle of Utopia. :0)
- Dee Ice Hole said...
HMMMM---perhaps this explains the neighbor to my property in Idaho who thinks there is nothing wrong with him farming my place since I am not---
- Max Coutinho said...
Hi Looney,
Well, this is one of those books that I had to read when I was in the 10th grade (History class) and I loved it because it makes us think when we begin to compare it with modern societies.
More was disappointed and I think he dreamed of a better world, but his disappointment didn't allow him to be optimistic about the future (hence the title "Utopia" = nowhere).
But I must read it again now that I am an adult.
Les Miserables is an interesting book (although I prefer Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notredame) as it confirms that humans may never change - they may get rich, they may wear luxurious garments yet they always have the need to confess their deeds (good [under the form of boasting] or bad [as a form of atonement]).
Is there really an unproductive use of the land, nowadays? No.
As for Just War: this notion is very true when it comes to certain nations, but so very non-existent for others.
- Looney said...
@Inklings, I would love to move to utopia also! Maybe after I retire.
@Dee Ice Hole, philosophers are everywhere!
- Looney said...
@Max, I have to wonder if More's book can really be appreciated in 10th grade. Aristotle said that philosophy was only for older people, yet it seems that most will only get a slight exposure to philosophy when they are young. It is good to come back to the books at an older age.
I haven't read any of Victor Hugo's work. Just saw the movies. Do the movies approximate the books?
- Max Coutinho said...
I agree with you that most kids do not have the maturity to appreciate and grasp not only More's book but other authors' work; however Portugal doesn't care.
I like going back to my books as I get older (experience gives us another perspective).
"Do the movies approximate the books?"
Do they ever? The books are much much better (Les Miserables, for example, offers two intense volumes which are like a thesis on the human behaviour - awesome) because the movie leaves out interesting details.
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I was at the airport, pacing the terminal, waiting for the plane to be boarded. I was at the airport in record time. I went and asked for a new flight to Bridgeport or Sunset Valley, neither had any earlier flights. So, I paced. I was pacing a little over an hour when I heard my phone go off. I stumbled for the phone as people around me looked at me with quizzical glances as to why Billionaire By Travis McCoy was playing on my phone. "DAD!" I yelled frantically.
"Nope, it's me." Sally answered. "And I have a small little blonde boy here looking for you."
"Oh thank God!" I sighed and rested my head on the wall, allowing my heart to finally slow. "Can I talk to him?"
I heard the phone being handed over. "Dad?"
"Parker, are you okay?" I asked relieved to hear his voice.
"Yea. I went on an adventure today, you know, to see you. Sally said you're gone though? Where are you?"
"I'm in China, heading home. You have a lot of explaining to do when I get there, you know that right?" A tear trickled down my cheek. "Grandpa and I have been worried sick."
"He didn't get my note?" Parker asked panicked. "I left him a note saying I was going to Bridgeport, and that I wanted to live with you."
"Parker." I only sighed. "Look, we'll discuss everything when I get home. Stay with Mr. and Mrs. Riley until I get there. And put Mrs. Riley on the phone."
"Hey." She answered as she took the phone.
"Look, I'm getting on the plane for Bridgeport in a few minutes. Can you watch him till I get there? "
"Sure. Mark has the game on. So, I'm not doing anything. I'll see you when you get here."
NOT IF HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE DEAD! I heard in the background. "Tell Mark to go screw himself." I said with a smile. I could hear Sally smiling.
"I will. He's gonna be gone tomorrow morning, so just come by then. And don't worry about Parker, Mark likes kids." Great, just what I need, Mark around my nine year old.
As soon as I landed I called Sally and then Jake. Sally said that Parker was asleep and she would be dropping him off in the morning. Mark didn't like the idea of me returning to the building, he didn't like any of this. He wanted me out of Sally's life and out of his, I couldn't blame him. Jake told me where the apartment was. It was on the Southside of Bridgeport, in a nice, but industrial area of town. The building from the outside looked nice. I looked up and looked back down at the scribble I made on my hand, floor 18, Apartment 1815.
I walked into the new apartment and took a look around first. It was pretty nice. Jake did a nice job decorating. There wasn't any naked women on the walls, not that I would have minded. "Hey!" He yelled as I entered the door. "How was China?" His eyes didn't drift away from the TV.
"Pretty good, until the whole thing with Parker?"
"What about Parker?" He asked, looking up from his show.
"He ran away, didn't dad call? He's up at Sally's. He ran to my old place. She's gonna let him stay the night and bring him by in the morning."
I sat on the couch. "Are you shitting me?" He asked, dumbfounded. "He ran away? And to you?" I nodded. I was still pretty pissed off. "That boy has some balls running away from Dave."
I laughed. "Yea he does. Dad called me from the airport and blew a gasket when I told him I found him. That kid's ass is gonna be red by the time he's done with him."
"David won't smack him." I looked at Jake and laughed. "Okay, he smacked you, but he'd never touch Park."
"I dunno." I looked back at the television and the commercials ended. "What episode is this?" I knew it was old, one of the characters that Jake killed off was on it.
"The one where Amy and I sleep together. . . On and off screen." He smiled.
"Ah. Okay." I got up and yawned, "Well, I'm off to bed. I have a long ass drive tomorrow."
"You just don't want to see my white ass on the tube, huh?"
"Nope." I laughed. "Night Jake."
"Night Trav."
The next morning I woke and made myself some pancakes. Jake came out from his room, wide awake and dressed. "Morning." He said cheerfully.
"Sup." I said in reply. "Could I borrow your keys?" I asked.
He walked and searched the fridge for a beer. I heard the bottle cracked and watched him take a swig of beer at seven in the morning. "To the truck?" He asked.
I nodded. "I need to drive Parker home today."
Jake just stood there and took another swig. He was contemplating on whether or not to let me drive his "baby." Finally he pulled his keys out from his pocket, "Alright, but you have to promise me you won't scratch her."
"Promise." I said. He placed the keys on the counter and I went to plating my food.
The phone rang just as I finished cleaning up after myself. I ran into the bedroom and grabbed it off the nightstand. I looked and saw that it was dad calling. I headed out of the room and to the kitchen to grab a glass of water. "What's up dad?" I answered.
"Is he there yet?" He asked in a panicked voice.
"No, they're on their way. Just relax dad." I heard the console buzzer ring by the door, it was Sally. "Look, that's them now. I'll be there in a few hours. Just go out and harvest your crops."
"Alright. I'll see you guys when you get here." He hung up and I answered to console. I told Sally what floor and room number and unlocked the elevator. I quickly ran and grabbed some clothes on from the bedroom so that Sally didn't see me in my boxers.
I let her wait for a bit as I fixed my blazer. Parker and I would be leaving soon after she dropped him off. I opened the door and found Parker slumped against the wall, pretty upset. I hugged Sally. "Thanks so much for bringing him Sal." I said after we broke our hug,
"No problem. He's a sweet kid."
I looked down at him and smiled. "I know." I ruffled his hair, and he swatted at my hand.
"Get away!" He spat, and slid with his hands crossed down the wall.
I finally turned to him, "Parker," I said almost in a shout. He looked up, his eyes were red. He knew he screwed up, "Parker, I want you in that apartment and on the couch until I come in, got it?"
"No." I almost laughed. It was just like when he was toddler, telling me no after everything I told him.
"Now!" I pointed the door. "And say thank you and goodbye to Mrs. Riley."
He looked up at her, "Thanks Sally, and I'm sorry Travis' such a jackass." He walked through the door and slammed it before I had time to yell at him.
I wanted to laugh, almost. "Thanks." I told Sally. "Again."
"You know, he just want's his dad." She said to me.
I nodded and rubbed my head. I had fucked up royally with Parker, I knew that. I didn't want to screw up any other children's lives. I looked at Sally, rubbing my neck, "About fatherhood, any word?" I asked looking at her belly.
"Still don't know. Sorry. After my first trimester we can do the test. Although, they say its safe till we wait until the baby is born. Mark and I want to wait, but we want to know what you think."
Crap, nine months to wait? "I can wait." I told her with a sigh. She knew that I didn't want to. She knew I wanted this to be over with.
"Sorry." She laughed at me and then hugged me, "Well, I'm off. I have some work to do at the old apartment. I'll catch you around."
"Alright." I said and gave her a peck on the cheek. She smiled and walked away towards the elevator.
I walked into the house and found Parker sitting with Jake watching E! News. It was the only news Jacob watched. He needed to know all the scoops on all the stars, including himself. "Jake, turn it off." I said walking in. Both of them looked up at me, Jake mumbled something, but flipped off the set.
"We were watching that!" Parker said. I walked closer to him.
"Parker, get your things, we're going home." I looked down at him and I was finally at the couch. I stood in front of him.
"We are home." He said. Jake tried not to laugh. I could tell he was biting his tongue.
"No we are not. I am taking you back." Parker looked up with me, mouth open and was about to protest. I stopped him, "Parker, there is no buts in this. You ran away. You skipped school. You punched out your own aunt. I am not going to endorse this by letting you stay here. You are going to have to face the music with grandpa."
"NO! I hate him." He screamed at me. "He took all my posters and all my toys!" He proceeded to cry.
"Parker we are going. NOW!" I grabbed his wrist and lifted him off the sofa. Jake stood there and tried to ignore everything.
Parker started to throw a fit as soon as he stood from the couch. "I AM NOT GOING! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME! YOUR NOT MY DAD!" He slammed his foot and looked at me. I was crushed, and showed it.
"Listen Parker! If you don't get into that truck downstairs, I will drag you by your arm kicking and screaming. You can hate me all you like, but this is going to happen! And you know why?" I asked string right into his eyes, "Because I AM YOUR FATHER! And you, young man, will do as I say, just as you will do what your grandfather says."
I grabbed him by the arm and dragged him out, kicking and screaming. Jake waved at me and yelled as I closed the door, "Good luck! I'll have a cold one waiting for you when you get back!"
"Thanks!" I cried out, slamming the door behind me.
I dragged him into the elevator and he pushed me off of him. He didn't run though he just stood in the elevator and cried as we waited for the doors to close. "I hate you Travis."
"Good, I'm doing something right." I said. He just glared at me. "You can look all you want at me like that, you can call me Travis all you want, and you can hate me, but I'm still taking you home."
"I'm never gonna call you dad again!" He put his arms across his chest as we rode the elevator down. "Ever!"
"I like Travis. It suits me." I said as the doors open to the lobby. I took his hand and we walked out.
We were an hour into the drive, stuck on the 5 freeway, in traffic, when Parker finally said something to me. "Do you think he'll forgive me?" He asked, tears started to form in his eyes.
"Of course." I looked down at him. "He's your grandpa, he'll always love you and forgive you."
"Will you?" He asked.
"Already have." I said with a smile. He looked up at me and rubbed his eyes with the sleeve of his leather jacket. "Is that an Indiana Jones jacket?" I asked. He nodded. "Cool. I like it. Very adventurous."
"That's why I wore it, for my adventure. I hope that I can get his hat someday and wear it on other adventures."
"Tell me about your adventure. Where did you go?"
"Sunset Valley and stopped at a restaurant first. Met a blond lady named Rose and she brought me to Bridgeport. She liked my name, said her son was named the same name." I gulped. I knew of one Rose in Sunset Valley. "
"Does this Rose have a last name?" I asked almost with a smile. Thank the heavens he found her.
"Conner. She said she was Rose Conner. She was pretty looking. I bus dropped me off at a Hogan's and I was hungry. I saw her eating a burger and I asked her for some cash. She asked me my name and bought me a burger. I told her my name, and she smiled and said her name was Rose Conner. Then I told her about my mission to find you and she offered to help. She even gave me her cell number!"
"Can I have it?" I asked with a smile. "So I can thank her?" Parker nodded. He fell asleep in the car shortly after and I drove the rest of the way to Bridgeport, thinking about Rose.
We finally arrived and I pulled the truck into the drive. The car was missing. "Parker get in the house and I want to see your ass on that couch." I told him. He nodded. "I'm gonna go get grandpa."
I walked around back where I found dad trimming his tomato trees and humming to an old song from mom's band. "Wow, that's old." I laughed.
He nodded. Then it hit him, he turned around, "Did you find him? Is he here?" He was still panicking.
"He's inside dad." Dad gave me a hug and started to cry. "It's okay dad. He's okay."
"I thought I lost him." He cried. I took him by the shoulder and walked him out and around the house as he just cried. "I am so sorry Travis. You trusted me."
"Dad, it's not your fault." I reassured him. "He ran away. You didn't misplace him, HE ran away. It isn't anybody's fault but his." Dad nodded.
Dad and I walked in and found Parker watching a cartoon on the television. Dad walked right up to the television, took the remote and turned it off. I stood right next to dad and was glaring at Parker, even I knew he wasn't allowed to watch television. Dad turned and crossed his arms. We both did. "Parker, explain." Dad said.
Parker didn't look up at either of us. "I'm sorry." He cried.
"That's not an explanation young man. Do you realize how sick and worried I've been?" Parker nodded. "Will you tell me why you decided to run off to Bridgeport?"
"I want to live with dad." He said and looked up at me. "Please." I sighed. Parker was crying. I looked over at dad, he looked hurt and pissed off. Yet he didn't say anything. "Please dad, can't I stay with you? I promise you I won't be a problem anymore." He looked only at me with his tears in his eyes.
I finally sat down next to him and placed my hand on his knee. "Parker it doesn't work like that. You can't just run away, and expect to move in with me. Look, I have a lot of issues back in town. I have a really hard job, and it won't seem right to you. You have grandpa here to care for you. Hell, you have his cooking." I laughed, they laughed as well. "I burn my toaster strudels. Maybe, someday, when your older we can revisit the moving in thing."
"Why not now?"
"Because, you ran away. You have to show grandpa and I a bit more responsibility."
Parker nodded. "Can I at least come visit you?"
I looked at dad.
"Please, grandpa?" Parker asked dad. "Please."
"Maybe in a few months." He said finally. "But first you have to start acting like the boy I knew before Christmas. No more ditching school, no more fights, and no more taking off."
"And what about Susan?" Parker asked. "What if she hits me or does something mean?"
"You tell me and I'll talk to grandma. I don't want you anywhere near her to provoke her."
"And my toys and posters?" He asked.
"When I see that your starting to behave I'll give them back. Now I want you in your room while I talk to your father. He's also in a lot of trouble." Dad looked at me, followed by Parker. I just looked dumbfounded. What the hell did I do?
Parker slid off the couch, "Yes sir." He mumbled. "Good luck dad." He looked at grandpa and the two stared for a moment. It was eerie seeing them, it reminded me of my childhood. Yet, here I was about to get into trouble, and I'm a freaking adult. How the hell did that happened?
Dad sat down next to me after we heard the door close. "So, tell me what the hell did you do?" I looked at him, not sure what he meant. "Don't give me that dumb look. When I called you about Parker in China, you were trying to justify something." Crap!
"It's nothing." I said too quickly. Dad just glared at me and waited. He wasn't going to let me leave without telling him. "My landlord's wife. . ." I paused and looked at dad for a second, "well, she's pregnant."
"Go on." He said already knowing where this was going to lead. I knew I was so dead.
"And she's not sure who the father is." I gulped. "And I. . ." I couldn't finish.
"You idiot!" He smacked me in the back of the head. "I told you not to go and do this!"
I rubbed my head, "Hey, it might not be mine." I said defensively.
"When the hell are you going to learn Travis? Didn't knocking up a teenager in high school teach you anything?" He smacked me again, this time harder. Jake was right, they weren't gonna be able to identify my body. "Let me ask you something. . . ." He paused. "Is she the discovery your landlord made? Is she why you were evicted?"
"Yup." I said as I nodded. He smacked me again, harder. I was already feeling a bruise on the back of my head. I am so happy I have hair, last time he hit me like this my ass was red for a month.
"How long?" He asked. "How long was the affair?" Now I really was in trouble. Dad hated affairs. Mom had cheated on him for only God knows how long. Now, here I was, sleeping with a married woman. I could blame it on my uncle and mom, maybe he'd go easy on me and kill Mike, the guy he's wanted to kill forever. 'HOW LONG?" He smacked me again.
"Six months." I blurted out, rubbing my head. SMACK!
"Dad will you quit smacking me?" I finally yelled. "Geesh, I'm already bruising."
"Good." Smack. "I don't know what the hell you were thinking. All I know is, that I know where your landlord is coming from. You know, if I was him, you'd be dead."
"Mike's not dead." And as I said it I wanted to take it back. Smack. "Sorry."
"No, he's not. But I got a fucking piece of him when I got the chance. I hope for your sake your landlord never sees you." We sat in silence until his laughter broke it. "You know, the tabloids were the first to say something about it. I never wanted to believe it. That she was sleeping around. Hell, I'm now surprised I didn't see it." He looked at me again. I had seen a clipping once on the internet about mom and dad. . . and me.
"Do you think I'm still your son?" I asked. He looked me dead in the eye and without any hesitation he said, "Yes." I smiled at him. "I love you dad."
"I love you too knucklehead." He tousled my perfect hair. I laughed. "Now go say bye to your son. I'm sure Jake is wanting his precious truck back."
"Yea, he probably is going crazy." I stood bent low and hugged and kissed my dad.
I found Parker in his bedroom. It had changed a lot since the last time I was in it. "Cool room." I said to him.
He looked up and I could see tears in his eyes. "How much trouble are you in?"
"More than you. He actually smacked me. I have a welt forming on the back of my head." Parker smiled at me. "I'm leaving, I thought maybe you'd want to give your dad a hug before I go."
He shook his head. "No." The tears ran down his cheeks.
"Please?" I pleaded. "It'd make me happy."
He jumped off his bed and ran into me, hugging me. I could feel his tears soaking my blazer. "Daddy, please don't go." He cried.
"I have to." I gave him a kiss and continued to hug him.
He took a step back and released the hug. "Can you call me? Can I call you? And will you promise to see me soon, please."
I laughed. "We're grounded, you know that right? We can't see or speak to each other until grandpa says we can." I tried to make it sound like we were both in trouble. I knew dad was disappointed at me, but if Parker thought I was actually in trouble, maybe he would see we were acting rationally about all this. He wasn't buying it. He sighed and another tear ran down as cheek.
"Please? I need someone to talk to!"
"Alright, but you have to be quiet about it. If he finds out, I'll deny it." I handed him my cellphone, but not before punching in my work number and erasing all the other contacts. "Call me, day or night. Okay? If grandpa finds you with it, I'm not responsible. I didn't give you it, alright." Parker nodded in delight. I couldn't believe I gave him my cellphone.
"Thanks dad!" He was ecstatic about the phone. He kept looking at it, checking out all the apps. Mostly business ones. I could see him deleting them. Luckily my phone had backed up on my new home computer before I left this morning. I had everything there. I was about to turn when he spoke again, "Goodbye dad. I'll miss you."
"I'll miss you too son." I tousled his hair and walked out.


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What is asthma?It is a chronic disease characterized by inflammation of the respiratory system.The moment of an attack the respiratory tract of the patient to respond to different stimuli (allergens).There is a spasm, narrowing them, it begins to produce large amounts of mucus.Such a reaction of the body interferes with normal breathing, coughing and choking occur.
emergence of diseases
atopic bronchial asthma can occur at any age.On the appearance of the disease is influenced by many factors, which are divided into domestic (family history, and obesity) and external (the presence of infections, allergens, poor diet, smoking, air pollution, occupational hazards).Also, the disease can occur for several reasons.
allergens that enter the body through the respiratory system, can be divided into several types:
- household.These include feathers (from the pillows), dust and home library;
- pollen.Asthma can be a reaction to a variety of plants, trees and flowers.The most common allergens such aggr
- fungal.Quite often there is a man who lives in a place where there is mold on the walls;
- epidermal.These include dander, feathers, feces, saliva and hair of various animals (cats, dogs, rabbits, goats, guinea pigs, hamsters, etc.).It is also possible reaction to insects and fish feed;
- food.Are extremely rare, but possible.
main symptoms
atopic bronchial asthma in contact with the allergen in the upper respiratory tract is shown as follows:
- the patient is shortness of breath;
- choking occurs;
- appears bad cough;
- noticeable when breathing wheezing and whistling in the chest;
- during exercise can be shortness of breath.
Symptoms usually occur only during the attack.They can all be observed simultaneously or in part.Therefore, during the initial appearance of disease in a mild form of the person may not even know that he had asthma.Diagnosis of the disease - the task of the doctor-pulmonologist and immunologist who prescribed examination for detection of allergens.
disease treatment
After the survey and to identify the factors that are the causes of seizures, the doctor prescribes the necessary therapy.Atopic bronchial asthma requires a careful approach to the choice of medication.They are available as inhalers and sprays, if necessary, appoint and antibiotics.
Alleviate the disease will also help proper nutrition, exercise, breathing exercises and the creation of a hypoallergenic environment.
disease prevention
Knowing their allergens is to avoid them in any way.If possible, give up any of the content of domestic animals and birds.It is also necessary to keep clean the living room.Spent much time outdoors.
advisable to give up bad habits, start a healthy lifestyle.And to atopic bronchial asthma attacks, and it bothered less need to take medicines prescribed by the doctor.


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Well, I was wrong. I am not exactly in Pachacutec. I'm in Barranca! It's like Pachacutec, but the opposite: It's green! Well, ok, my area is Paramonga, and it's a town of about 20,000 people just north of Barranca. (You can all check if my guess on the population is wrong.) My companion is Elder Peña, and he's from (drumroll please) Davi's mission! His town is called Ignacio Escudro Sullana. Yes, THE Ignacio Escudro Sullana! Anyway, he's 18 and he's been out for 5 months. He's a good boy.
I am excited out of my mind to be here, too. Paramonga is a branch—one of six branches in the Barranca district. President wants Barranca to be a stake very soon. So help me, if we don't get the job done here, I will have to move here after my mission just to be a tithe-paying priesthood holder. Honestly, I am so excited to be here.
We have a very confusing ward directory, which probably means that the missionaries who were here before lacked the patience to sift through it all to find some lost folks. We are also handing out a copy of the Family Proclamation to every family that we see. I may have already told you all about this, but it's amazing how different the response is when the dad, mom, and child are all together. We just have to say that we want to share some things on how to have a happy family, or eternal family, or whatever, and a lot of them just don't have the heart to say "No, I am so busy every day of the week that I can't listen to you." It's exciting. Tonight, we'll be teaching a MARRIED couple that likes the church and just desperately needs to watch the Restoration and be baptized on the 15th. Even if they don't know it.
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This weekend I spent strolling the streets of Berlin, Paris, and New York and I did not even leave my sofa. You know when you have found a great book when everything is piling up -laundry, dishes, housework- and you are engrossed in pages of words and not really caring about those piles. That happens to me a lot. I always say I will read for only one hour. I even set my alarm. Then the alarm goes off and I'm wanting to know more and more. So I set it again, 30 minutes. I should just accept the fact that when I'm ready a really good book I'm down for the count!
I started this book Saturday afternoon.
I could not put it down. That fact that I have been to basically all of the places that the author talks about made this book real to me. Ms. Weiss was born in West Berlin in the mid 1970s. Her father is American and mom is Italian. She describes what it was like growing up in Berlin and when her parents divorce about growing up shuttling back and forth from Boston to Germany. Each chapter is intertwined with her love of food and cooking.
Why does this resonate so much to me? Of course, I live in Europe. I realize a lot of people do not understand that I really consider this my home. This is where I became an adult. Our daughter was basically raised here. When I'm visiting the states, even though I'm excited to be there, I long for the relaxed slower pace of Europe. I love that in the spring I can stop on the side of the road and cut my own flowers and that I can be trusted to pay. I love walking the downtown streets and venturing into shops- not malls. I love traveling by subways and trains. I am able to view the country side. I love watching the ladies hop on their bicycles to go into town every single morning during the summer for the day's food supplies. They are always dressed nicely with their hair done. I want to be like that when I grow up.
I love that fact that Hubby and I can go for a walk and hear nothing at all except for our voices. For me, Christmas is about gluwein, Christmas markets, and advent candles. Easter is about braided bread and hand painted eggs. Walking along cobblestone streets looking at century old buildings is how I want to spend a Saturday afternoon.
I totally understood this author as she followed her heart and gut and moved from New York back to her home of Berlin. I did a lot of "Amen sister!" as I was reading. Her home is mine.
I am torn also because I'm a very proud American. I miss things about the states- Whole Foods, HEB Central Market, football. However, I have come to realize this is my true north. This is where I belong.
The book is fabulous! The recipes are interesting. I will be trying out a few before long. But now, it is time to really look at those piles….