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Oh yeah - I had started to read a comment from the person who had originally written about Alli and Brooklyn jumped on my lap and it got deleted. I'm sorry. It wasn't deleted on purpose and now it's bugging me because I really wanted to read it!
Actually, I think there are a lot of good, healthy, eating plans out there. I think any number of them can work for you IF you stick to them. That's the hard part. I absolutely believe that frame of mind is the most important factor in obtaining successful results. I did Weight Watchers after I had my third child and lost about 40 pounds. I've tried it several times since and I didn't lose much of anything any of those times. The difference? I wasn't committed to it those times. Plain and simple. I don't remember where I read this before, but it was about the difference between losing weight and quitting drinking or smoking. You can quit cold turkey and stop drinking or smoking altogether. You never have to have another drop of alcohol or another cigarette. You can't do that with food. You have to eat every day to live. Can you imagine an alcoholic trying to quit and yet having to take three small drinks every day? I'm not saying that losing weight is harder than quitting drinking or smoking or anything else, but after reading that, I saw weight loss in a different light. It can be a really, really hard thing for some people.
There's no one ideal diet that works for all. I think you have to do what works for you, find what motivates you, and stick to it. (Easy for me to say, huh?)
Then there are the constant challenges. My kids love to watch The Food Network. It's killing me this week.
My husband, bless his heart, offered me a cookie last night.
"Do you want a cookie, Hon?" he asked pleasantly.
At this point, I shot laser beams of death from my eyes into his skull. It slowly dawned on him that offering me a cookie was probably not one of his better ideas.
And then there are the commercials. Oh the commercials. Come to Arby's for our French dip. Have a hot, delicious cheeseburger here at McDonalds. Try our new menu at Fridays.
Seriously, is it just me or are there a million food commercials on in the evening designed to make you run to the kitchen and grab the quickest, most calorie-laden food? And speaking of commercials, why, oh why do there have to be erectile dysfunction, herpes, and other such commercials on in the evening when my kids are watching TV? My six year old was sitting next to me watching TV tonight when a tampon commercial came on.
"What is that, Mommy? Is that like lipstick?" she inquired.
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WASHINGTON — The United States is poised to significantly expand its non-lethal military aid to the Syrian opposition as European nations weigh easing an arms embargo to potentially supply the rebels with arms and increase pressure on President Bashar Assad to step down.
The European Union arms embargo expires at the end of May and may be allowed to expire or be modified to only block weapons that are headed to Assad"s government.
If that happens, it will amount to a new threat to give weapons to the rebels, and test whether the Syrian president reacts to the increased pressure — or if stronger international intervention might be tried.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected on Saturday to announce plans to give opposition forces up to $130 million in defensive military supplies — possibly including body armor, armored vehicles, night vision goggles and advanced communications equipment. U.S. officials said exactly what is given, and how much it will cost, will be determined at a Saturday meeting Kerry will attend in Istanbul, Turkey, of the Syrian opposition leadership and their main international allies.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to preview Kerry"s announcement publicly.
On Thursday, Kerry said the conference aims to get the opposition and all prospective donors "on the same page" with how Syria will be governed if and when President Bashar Assad leaves power or is toppled.
"The hope is that that will then create a confidence level about who is getting what kind of aid from whom," he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
With Syria"s civil war in its third year, the U.S. and its European and Arab allies are struggling to find ways to stem the violence that, according to the United Nations, has killed more than 70,000 people. Despite international pressure, Assad has managed to retain power far longer than the Obama administration first expected.
"We need to change President Assad"s calculation, that is clear," Kerry said. He said the government"s survival largely depends on the continued support it gets from Iran, its proxy Hezbollah, and Russia.
"That equation somehow has to change," Kerry said.
He said boosting the size and scope of non-lethal assistance to the rebels is one way to convince Assad that he must go.
Despite pressure from Congress and even advisers within his own administration, President Barack Obama has said he has no plans to send weapons or give lethal aid to the rebels.
Instead, the U.S. has been shipping food and medical supplies directly to the Free Syrian Army since February and later expanded the aid to include defensive military equipment. So far, the U.S. has provided an estimated $117 million in non-lethal aid to the Syrian opposition, said White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden.
Sen. John McCain, one of the top Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee, renewed his call Thursday for U.S. military action in Syria, including airstrikes on government aircraft and weapons but not sending in American soldiers. He said the steps he recommends would give moderate and secular opposition forces a better chance to succeed without having to depend on extremist groups that are supporting the rebels.
"Do the costs of inaction outweigh the costs of action? I believe they do," McCain said at the Center for a New American Security in Washington. "And as much as I hate war and wish to avoid it, I believe this conflict will grind on with all of its worsening effects until the balance of power shifts more decisively against Assad."
The U.S. is not opposed to other countries arming the rebels — provided there are assurances the weapons do not get to extremist groups that have gained ground in the conflict.
In Europe, Britain and France are leading a push to modify the European Union"s arms embargo on Syria to permit weapons transfers to the rebels by the end of next month. The EU embargo is to expire at the end of May unless it is extended or revised.
Those in favor of the change say there have been no decisions on whether to actually supply the rebels with arms. They argue that allowing such transfers would increase the pressure on Assad. U.S. officials say they support testing this strategy.
Germany and the Netherlands, however, are said to be reluctant to support the step because they fear it would lead to further bloodshed.
Amal Mudallali, a Syria scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, said it"s unlikely Assad will leave any time soon. She noted that Syrian forces have stepped up counterattacks against the rebels in recent days, and she predicted the fighting would have to dramatically shift against Assad for him to go.
"If the EU lifts the embargo, maybe this will change things on the ground, but I am not sure it will change the American position," Mudallali said. "But it will put pressure on the Americans because they don"t want to feel they are behind on things. It will show people in the region that the Americans are not leading on this — that the EU is."
In an interview Thursday, the EU"s top official for humanitarian aid said arming the rebels or otherwise giving them deadly aid could create a backlash by the Assad government and, in effect, worsen the situation for the Syrian people.
EU Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva said she does not advocate a position on whether the international community should arm the rebels or not. She maintained efforts to promote diplomacy through dialogue have not yet been fully exhausted.
"Because the Syrian government, the Assad government, has very strong military and chemical weapons, we have to be fair and say there is a risk in Syria that an external use of force may trigger to the detriment of the Syrian people," Georgieva said. "It may get worse."
Kerry said that Assad, his inner circle and supporters in Iran and Russia have yet to be persuaded to enter negotiations with the opposition and allow for a political transition. He said he had not given up on persuading Moscow to reverse its support for Assad, and would be meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov next week in Brussels on the sidelines of a NATO-Russia Council meeting.
"My hope is still that the Russians can be constructive," he said.
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Therfield, Hertfordshire Genealogy
Guide to Therfield, Hertfordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
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Therfield (St. Mary), is a parish, in the union of Royston, hundred of Odsey, and county of Hertford, it is 2 1/2 miles SW of Royston; in 1848 there were 1224 inhabitants.[1]
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- Joiner Marriage Index - Hertfordshire ($)
- The Genealogist Parish Registers - Hertfordshire ($)
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Probate Records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Hertfordshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
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- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, 1848. Adapted. Date accessed: 12 January 2014.


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Publishers Weekly This effectively spare, lyrical account chronicles Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between Manhattan's World Trade Center towers in 1974. Gerstein (What Charlie Heard) begins the book like a fairy tale, "Once there were two towers side by side. They were each a quarter of a mile high... The tallest buildings in New York City." The author casts the French aerialist and street performer as the hero: "A young man saw them rise into the sky.... He loved to walk and dance on a rope he tied between two trees." As the man makes his way across the rope from one tree to the other, the towers loom in the background. When Philippe gazes at the twin buildings, he looks "not at the towers but at the space between them.... What a wonderful place to stretch a rope; a wire on which to walk." Disguised as construction workers, he and a friend haul a 440-pound reel of cable and other materials onto the roof of the south tower. How Philippe and his pals hang the cable over the 140-feet distance is in itself a fascinating-and harrowing-story, charted in a series of vertical and horizontal ink and oil panels. An inventive foldout tracking Philippe's progress across the wire offers dizzying views of the city below; a turn of the page transforms readers' vantage point into a vertical view of the feat from street level. When police race to the top of one tower's roof, threatening arrest, Philippe moves back and forth between the towers ("As long as he stayed on the wire he was free"). Gerstein's dramatic paintings include some perspectives bound to take any reader's breath away. Truly affecting is the book's final painting of the imagined imprint of the towers, now existing "in memory"-linked by Philippe and his high wire. Ages 5-8. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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(Atlanta - May 8, 2013) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it plans to award four communities in GA with brownfields grants for new investments to provide communities with funding necessary to clean and redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and create jobs while protecting human health.
"Brownfields sites are community assets and a key component of the Obama Administration's efforts to provide tools to sustainably revitalize communities and foster economic development," said Mathy Stanislaus, assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. "Through these grant resources local communities can continue to assess, cleanup and redevelop properties to meet local needs for jobs, housing and recreation while protecting people's health and the local environment."
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EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communities, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. In 2002, the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act was passed to help states and communities around the country clean up and revitalize brownfields sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible applicants through four competitive grant programs: assessment grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup grants, and job training grants. Additionally, funding support is provided to state and tribal response programs through a separate mechanism.
There are an estimated 450,000 abandoned and contaminated sites in the United States. More than 20,000 properties have been assessed, and more than 850 properties have been cleaned up through EPA's Brownfields program. EPA's Brownfields investments have also leveraged more than $19 billion in overall cleanup and redevelopment funding from public and private sources. On average $17.79 is leveraged for every EPA Brownfields grant dollar spent. These investments resulted in approximately 87,000 jobs nationwide. When Brownfields are addressed, nearby property values can increase 2-3 percent. A 2011 pilot study indicated Brownfields site redevelopment increases location efficiency, which means that residents live closer to where they work and play reducing their commute times and greenhouse gas emissions. EPA's preliminary research has also shown that redeveloping Brownfield sites results in an efficient reuse of existing infrastructure and decreasing instances of stormwater runoff. These projects can have a positive impact on community revitalization by leveraging jobs, producing clean energy, and providing recreation opportunities for surrounding neighborhoods.
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The European Commission is investigating Microsoft's failure to offer European users of 28 million Windows 7 PCs a choice of Web browsers, which Microsoft is required to do under a December 2009 antitrust agreement.
Windows PCs on which Internet Explorer is the default browser are supposed to notify users that they don't actually have to use Microsoft's browser. Instead, users are explicitly told they can choose the likes of Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or Opera through a "browser ballot" screen:
Microsoft lived up to its commitment on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and the original version of Windows 7. But when the first service pack for Windows 7 was released in February 2011, the browser choice screen had been stripped out—apparently by accident. The EC announced today that it has opened a proceeding against Microsoft and that the company could face sanctions including a fine of "up to 10 percent of its total annual turnover."
Microsoft has issued a statement admitting the mistake, saying, "Due to a technical error, we missed delivering the BCS software to PCs that came with the service pack 1 update to Windows 7." Microsoft began looking into the problem in July of this year, after the European Commission notified the company of reports that some users weren't getting the browser choice screen. Microsoft is already rolling out the browser choice screen to affected users through its Windows update process and says it expects to "substantially complete distribution of the BCS software to the PCs we initially missed by the end of the week."
Besides fixing the problem, Microsoft has retained outside counsel to conduct a formal investigation into how the technical error happened. A report will be provided to the European Commission. Microsoft has also offered to extend by 15 months the time in which it is required to offer European users the browser choice screen. Currently, the requirement is set to expire in December 2014.
"We understand that the Commission will review this matter and determine whether this is an appropriate step for Microsoft to take," Microsoft said. "We understand that the Commission may decide to impose other sanctions."


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Brock Heimer came up big for Ridgeview Thursday night in leading the Mustangs to the championship game of the Putnam County Sectional.
Ridgeview handled the host Panthers 65-54 to earn a spot opposite Illini Central in the Class 1A state tournament series tourney.
Heimer scored 15 points and had 9 rebounds for the Mustangs. Cory Winterland added 14 points and Trevor McIntosh grabbed 8 rebounds to aid the Ridgeview cause.
Harold Fay collected 21 points and 5 rebounds for Putnam County. Cody Veronda added 17 points.
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The Academy of Country Music has handed Gill 8 awards, including their prestigious "The Home Depot Humanitarian Award" and the 2011 "Career Achievement Award."
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Is "SLOTS!" the message to transform Rockford?
Frank Beach, the dean of Rockford's City Council, asked me to speak last Thursday at the neighborhood association meeting at First Covenant Church.
Beach, R-10, was first elected alderman in 1981. Many mayors have come and gone throughout that time, and Beach's ward still retains its quiet, residential character. But some residents at the neighborhood meeting - about 30 attended - are worried about changes that don't reflect that, specifically a proliferation of gambling emporiums in the area.
Take East State Street between Fairview Boulevard and Alpine Road, and even east of Alpine. What is happening along that strip does not make Rockford more attractive to people coming in from out of town, or for people who live around there.
A quick drive along East State shows a former restaurant that's been converted to a bar and video gambling shop, another gambling shop up the street whose name sounds like a bordello, cash-for-your-firstborn stores, a cigarette store.
Signs that say "SLOTS!" do not indicate a thriving community.
I asked the audience what they thought of this phenomenon.
"Potterville," said one woman. That's the nasty town in "It's a Wonderful Life" that would have replaced virtuous Bedford Falls, N.Y., if good old George Bailey hadn't lived. If she thought of that strip as Potterville, others do, too.
I've supported a casino for Rockford, and still do. Such an attraction would likely have a restaurant and offer entertainment, making it a tourist attraction.
Instead of that, we've got the worst of the worst because of a recent state law that allows a bar to have five, state-sanctioned gambling machines on premises. The idea was to give neighborhood pubs another source of cash, lest they go out of business due to changing behavioral trends - people just don't go out as much as they used to.
The original proponent of this law was Rockford's own Zeke Giorgi, a 29-year state House member who wanted to make life better for the "little guys" who own small bars.
Zeke probably didn't foresee what's taking place now. New places are springing up mainly to take advantage of gambling machines and serve some drinks on the side. That's all I can figure, because people sure weren't lining up to open small taverns before the gambling machine law took effect. Small taverns were closing.
The neighbors who spoke up at the meeting last week were against a proposed bar/video gambling shop in Rural Oaks. They said it's out of character with the neighborhood and with other retail stores there. They're hopeful the bar will be stopped by the Zoning Board and the City Council.
I'm not against gambling on moral grounds, although the delays at the gas station caused by future losers buying lottery tickets occasionally makes me think evil thoughts. But I figure if people want to throw money into the wind, that's their business.
I have gambled exactly $5 in my life, at an Indian casino in northern Wisconsin, and that was to be polite in the presence of the avid gambler I was with that day. The bright, flashing lights were fun, but the house always wins.
There's an element of truth to what the woman at the neighborhood meeting said. East State is beginning to look like Potterville. Is that how we want to transform Rockford?
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Even after giving up a season-high 80 points against Arkansas on Tuesday, Florida remains second in the nation in scoring defense at 52.4 points per game.
But Florida coach Billy Donovan doesn't want to hear about rankings after a flat defensive effort on the road against the Razorbacks.
"As of today, we are a really bad defensive team," Donovan said. "Right now, because that was our last game, we are a bad defensive team."
No. 2 Florida will try to regain its lost defensive focus today at home against Mississippi State. Signs of UF's defensive slippage started in its 78-64 win over Ole Miss last week. Though the Gators held the Rebels to 38.2 percent from the floor, Ole Miss also shot 41.2 percent (7-of-17) from 3-point range.
The 3-point line was again a problem in UF's 80-69 loss Tuesday at Arkansas. The Razorbacks started the game hot, making seven of their first nine 3-point attempts, and finished 8-of-18 from that range.
"It comes to that point in a game you can't do anything about that, but just focus on just trying to make them feel uncomfortable and try to have them take tough shots," Florida senior guard Mike Rosario said. "I felt that we let them get too comfortable from the beginning of the game, shooting the ball from behind the arc and they took advantage of that."
Donovan said he felt like his players could have challenged more Arkansas 3-point attempts early by getting their hands up. Also, Arkansas consistently beat Florida defenders off the dribble.
"We were a little bit loose on the defensive end as far as keeping those guys out of the paint," Rosario said.
With the loss of one of its top defensive players, Florida will have a tougher time regaining its defensive swagger. Junior forward Will Yeguete underwent surgery Friday to remove bone chips in his knee and is out for four to six weeks. Without the 6-foot-7, 240-pound Yeguete in the post, Donovan said the Gators may be forced to play more double-teams in the post when freshman DeVon Walker or junior Casey Prather play at the power forward spot.
"A lot of it is probably going to be more based on who we are playing against and where help needs to come from on certain matchups," Donovan said.
Florida is facing Mississippi State for the second time in two weeks. In the first matchup in Starkville, Miss., on Jan. 26, Florida downed Mississippi State 82-47, handing the Bulldogs their second-worst loss at Humphrey Coliseum. Yeguete had four points and eight rebounds in the game.
Mississippi State has lost seven straight and is rebuilding under first-year coach Rick Ray. But given the upsets in college basketball this week, including No. 1 Indiana losing at Illinois and No. 5 Kansas falling at TCU, Florida players are wary of overlooking any team at this point in the season. The Gators have responded from their previous two losses this season with wins.
"They're a college team that's capable of beating us so we have to approach them just as we would approach any team, with a level of respect," Florida freshman guard Michael Frazier II said. "We have to look at film and see where we could get better and go into that game mentally prepared."
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The villi are important because they absorb nutrients into the body. For someone with celiac disease, eating gluten — in a piece of bread, for instance — causes an immune system reaction. Your immune system ordinarily keeps you from getting sick, but in someone with celiac disease, the body starts damaging and destroying the villi. Without villi, the body can't absorb vitamins and nutrients from food. Without enough nutrients, a kid's body has a tough time staying healthy and growing properly. Even if the person eats a lot, he or she still might lose weight and could develop anemia (say: uh-NEE-me-uh) from not absorbing enough iron. Why Do Kids Get Celiac Disease? No one is sure why celiac disease happens, but it appears to run in families. You have a 5% to 10% chance of getting celiac disease if someone in your family has it. It's common in people from the northern European countries and the United States. How common? About 1 in every 133 people in the United States has celiac disease. Many people who have celiac disease do not know it. If all these people were diagnosed, celiac disease would be more common than type 1 diabetes. Fortunately, awareness is growing about the problem, and there are better ways of testing people for it. Signs and Symptoms Some common symptoms of celiac disease are diarrhea, decreased appetite, stomachache and bloating, poor growth, and weight loss. Many kids are diagnosed with it when they're between 6 months and 2 years old, which is when most kids get their first taste of gluten in foods. For some people, the problems start slowly and the symptoms may be terrible one week and not as bad the next. Because of this, some people aren't diagnosed with celiac disease until they're older. The problem is chronic, which means that although symptoms may come and go, people who have celiac disease will always have it. Someone with celiac disease may feel tired and could be irritable. Some also have skin rashes and mouth sores. The problem is sometimes mistaken for other digestive problems called inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or lactose intolerance. And in some cases, a kid won't have any symptoms and then will all of a sudden start having problems during a time of stress, such as after an injury. How Do People Know They Have It? Someone who has a lot of stomachaches, diarrhea, weight loss, or any of other symptoms of celiac disease should talk to a doctor. It may or may not be celiac disease, but a doctor can help sort this out and will usually order a screening blood test. If the screening tests show a person might have celiac disease, the next stop usually is to see a gastroenterologist, a doctor who specializes in digestive problems. This specialist may decide to take a sample of the small intestine to look at under the microscope. This small sample is called a biopsy. If a biopsy is done, the doctor will give some special medicine to help the person stay comfortable during the procedure. How Is It Treated? Celiac disease is treated by not eating gluten. This can be difficult because gluten is in many foods, but a dietitian can help adjust someone's diet to cut out gluten. It is important not to start a gluten-free diet unless you are truly diagnosed with celiac disease. Following a gluten-free diet allows the small intestine to heal. But that doesn't mean the person can start eating gluten again. For someone with celiac disease, gluten will always irritate the intestines and, if this happens, the diarrhea, belly pain, and other problems will return. If you're diagnosed with celiac disease, it can be a challenge to learn which foods contain gluten. You may not be able to remember them all, but you can keep a list with you and ask about menu items at restaurants before digging in. Before you know it, you'll be a pro at knowing which foods are safe and which are not. Gluten-Free Foods Here's a quick quiz: Which of these foods contain gluten? pizza fried chicken pasta If you said all three, you're right! Pizza was the easiest choice because you know the crust is bread. But did you know that battered foods like fried chicken and even some French fries contain gluten? Pasta also contains gluten because it is made from wheat. Luckily, you can make or buy gluten-free pizza crust, make fried chicken with a gluten-free batter, and find gluten-free pasta. In fact, nearly all of the foods we eat can be made gluten free. Besides foods that contain gluten, you'll need to watch out for foods that may have been contaminated with gluten. This is called "cross-contamination." It means a food doesn't contain gluten as an ingredient but came into contact with gluten-containing foods. This is most likely to happen at home in your own kitchen — for instance, wheat bread crumbs in the toaster, the butter, or jar of peanut butter. If you have celiac disease you will need your own toaster and you should also have separate spreads and condiments to avoid cross-contamination. Some foods are contaminated during processing, so your mom or dad can help you by finding certified gluten-free foods. For instance, gluten-free oats are now available for people with celiac disease. The best approach is to read labels, but here are a few foods to steer clear of until you can make sure that they are gluten-free: packaged rice mixes lunchmeats sausages instant cocoa canned soups There's also a labeling act that requires the labeling of wheat-free products. But a "wheat-free" food isn't necessarily a "gluten-free" one because wheat-free products may have barley and rye (gluten-containing grains) in them. Support Groups A diagnosis of celiac disease does not mean giving up all your favorite foods. It just means adapting them to be free of gluten. Many different gluten-free products, baking mixes, and recipes are available. A support group is a great resource for finding out which recipes and products are best. A support group can help keep you up to date, too. For instance, a few years ago it was recommended that distilled vinegar be completely avoided on a gluten-free diet. Now we know that the gluten molecules do not appear in the distillate. Huh? What this means is that distilled vinegar is now an OK ingredient. That made a big change in the allowed foods someone with celiac disease could eat. If you're part of a support group, you hear of these kinds of changes right away. A support group is also a great place to get to know other kids who have celiac disease and to learn that you're not alone. Back to Articles Related Articles Inflammatory Bowel Disease It's normal to get a stomachache once in a while, but some kids have something more serious called inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Find out more about it. Read More Lactose Intolerance Kids with lactose intolerance have trouble digesting a type of sugar found in milk and other dairy foods. But by making smart choices, they can eat delicious foods without feeling sick. Read More Indigestion Got tummy troubles? Indigestion is a common condition that many people - even kids - have at one time or another. Find out more in this article for kids. Read More Nut and Peanut Allergy A growing number of kids are allergic to nuts and peanuts. Find out more about this problem and how allergic kids can stay healthy. Read More Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor. © 1995-2021 KidsHealth®. All rights reserved. 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Citi to Cut 11,000 Employees
Citigroup today announced it will be laying off some 11,000 employees as it seeks to to streamline operations and increase business efficiency, the bank said
The majority of the job losses, around 6,200, will come from Citi's consumer banking unit. Approximately 1,900 positions will be lost from the bank's institutional clients group, of which more than half are in the Operations & Technology functions that support the business.
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Further, Citi will pursue a reduction in branches as it seeks to optimize its branch footprint in the most profitable areas, the company said. The markets affected by the reductions include Brazil (14 branches), Hong Kong (7), Hungary (4), Korea (15) and the United States (44).
Citi's CEO, Michael Corbat, who replaced former chief executive Vikram Pandit in October, said the company expects that the moves will generate $900 million of expense savings benefitting 2013 results and that the annual expense savings will exceed $1.1 billion annually beginning in 2014. Citi also expects the actions to have a negative impact on annual revenues of less than $300 million.
"These actions are logical next steps in Citi's transformation," said Corbat in a written statement. "While we are committed to – and our strategy continues to leverage – our unparalleled global network and footprint, we have identified areas and products where our scale does not provide for meaningful returns. And we will further increase our operating efficiency by reducing excess capacity and expenses, whether they center on technology, real estate or simplifying our operations."
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The recording industry has spent (and continues to spend) millions of dollars on its litigation campaign against accused file-swappers, but if two lawyers have their way, the RIAA will have to pay all the money back. Not content simply to defend Jammie Thomas-Rasset in her high-profile retrial next week in Minnesota, lawyer Kiwi Camara is joining forces with Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson to file a class-action lawsuit against the recording industry later this summer.
The goal is nothing less than to force the industry to pay back the alleged "$100+ million" it has collected over the last few years. Perhaps the RIAA had good reason not to send those settlement letters to Harvard for so long.
Stopping the lawsuits
Ars spoke with Camara on Tuesday as he rode to the airport for the flight to Minneapolis, where he will defend Jammie Thomas-Rasset after only two weeks of preparation. But the time crunch has in no way restricted his vision; Camara says that he is intent on dismantling the entire RIAA litigation campaign by going after its legal underpinnings.
Camara's firm doesn't do easy cases, and even in pro bono cases, "we want to fix a problem for a lot of people, including our client."
That means doing more than getting Thomas-Rasset off without a guilty verdict, and it's why Camara has already gone after the two fundamental pieces of RIAA evidence in these cases.
First up was the evidence from hired investigator MediaSentry, which tracked down IP addresses of file-sharers and provided the only evidence of observed copyright infringement. Camara has argued that MediaSentry was not licensed as a private investigator in Minnesota, that it ran an illegal "pen register," and that its evidence should be barred. Such a move would essentially destroy the RIAA's main evidence of copyright infringement, and it's no surprise that the trade group has pushed back hard.
But Camara goes even further back in the evidence chain. To prove copyright infringement, the RIAA needs evidence of that infringement, of course, but it also needs to prove it owns the copyrights in question. If it can't establish that fact, the case also falls apart.
This sounds like a long shot—surely the record labels did something as basic as register their copyrights?—but Camara tells us that it's not so simple.
"They basically committed a technical screw-up," he says of the RIAA. That's because lawyers provided the court with "true and correct" copies of their copyright registrations (perhaps accurate but not "official), but these are not the "certified copies" required under federal rules of evidence.
The RIAA seemed taken aback by Camara's pretrial complaint and asked the judge in the case to simply take "judicial notice" of the validity of its forms. But, after a telephone conversation on Monday, the judge refused to do that.
He also rejected the RIAA argument that "hey, these forms were good enough for Thomas' first trial, so they're good enough now." The judge pointed out that "the Court's Order granting a new trial in this matter granted an entirely new trial on all issues. The fact that Defendant did not object to Plaintiffs' evidence of registration in the First Trial does not preclude Defendant from putting Plaintiffs to their burden of proof on this issue in the retrial."
The RIAA admitted that "it will be difficult and expensive to now attempt to obtain certified copies from the US Copyright Office in time for trial." Whoops.
Even if the RIAA comes up with the documents, though, Camara still has objections to their contents (or lack thereof). The registrations don't include the actual "specimen," for one thing (in this case the actual sound recording filed with the Copyright Office), so Camara says he has no way to know what was actually filed and whether it truly is identical with what Thomas-Rasset is accused of sharing.
He will also charge that the registrations are simply invalid, since they were all done in the names of the various record labels, not of the artists. But the "work for hire" law under which this was done has been improperly applied in these cases, he says, and the registrations are therefore defective.
Taken together, the two lines of attack on the RIAA's main evidence are an attempt to cripple the recording industry case before it even reaches the question of whether Thomas-Rasset actually "did it." Which is probably just as well, since there is some fairly compelling evidence against her, evidence good enough to secure a guilty verdict the first time around.
Getting the money back
But not even this sort of attack on the RIAA's methods goes far enough for Camara. He tells Ars that he and Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson will file a class-action lawsuit against the industry at some point after the conclusion of the Thomas-Rasset case in an effort to make the labels pay back all monies taken in from settlements with file-sharers.
Or, in Camara's words, he's going to "get the $100 million that they stole." (The RIAA tells Ars that the $100 million figure is inaccurate, and RIAA general counsel Steven Marks indicated in a recent Ars op-ed that the labels had lost money on the campaign.)
The idea behind the suit is that the RIAA has illegally threatened people, using void copyright registrations, and scared them into paying an average of $3,000 or $4,000 apiece to fend off the threat of federal litigation.
Big picture thinking
If all of these arguments weren't enough, the Nesson/Camara tag team have a couple more eyepoppers to make: P2P file-sharing of copyrighted material is fair use, and huge statutory damage awards against noncommercial users are unconstitutional.
Clearly, "thinking small" doesn't interest either man—Nesson has the nickname "Billion Dollar Charlie" for a reason, and it's not surprising to learn that Camara studied with Nesson at Harvard and calls him "the smartest person that I know." Camara, for his part, is a sharp lawyer who was the youngest person ever to enroll in Harvard Law.
As he prepares to fly up to Minnesota today, Camara says, "We're ready for trial." He also says that he plans to win.


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PASADENA, Calif. – Since captivating the world with its acrobatic landing, the Mars rover Curiosity has fallen into a rhythm: Drive, snap pictures, zap at boulders, scoop up dirt. Repeat.
Topping its to-do list in the new year: Set off toward a Martian mountain – a trek that will take up a good chunk of the year.
The original itinerary called for starting the drive before the Times Square ball drop, but Curiosity lingered longer than planned at a pit stop, delaying the trip.
Curiosity will now head for Mount Sharp in mid-February after it drills into its first rock.
'We'll probably be ready to hit the pedal to the metal and give the keys back to the rover drivers,' mission chief scientist John Grotzinger said in a recent interview at his office on the sprawling NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory campus 15 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
The road trip comes amid great expectations. After all, it's the reason the $2.5 billion mission targeted Gale Crater near the Martian equator. Soaring from the center of the ancient crater is a 3-mile-high peak with intriguing layers of rocks.
Curiosity's job is to figure out whether the landing site ever had the right environmental conditions to support microbes. Scientists already know water flowed in the past thanks to the rover's discovery of an old streambed. Besides water, life as we know it also needs energy, the sun.
What's missing are the chemical building blocks of life: complex carbon-based molecules. If they're preserved on Mars, scientists figure the best place to hunt for them is at the base of Mount Sharp where images from space reveal hints of interesting geology.
It's a six-month journey if Curiosity drives nonstop. But since scientists will want to command the six-wheel rover to rest and examine rocky outcrops along the way, it'll turn into a nine-month odyssey.
Before Curiosity can tackle a mountain, there's unfinished business to tend to. After spending the holiday taking measurements of the Martian atmosphere, Curiosity gears up for the first task of the new year: Finding the perfect rock to bore into.
The exercise – from picking a rock to drilling to deciphering its chemical makeup – is expected to last more than a month.
'We have promised everybody that we're going to go slowly,' said Grotzinger, a geologist at the California Institute of Technology.
Curiosity's low-key adventures thus far are in contrast to the drama-filled touchdown that entranced the world in August. Since the car-size rover was too heavy to land using a parachute and airbags, engineers invented a daring new way that involved lowering it to the surface by cables. The risky arrival proved so successful and popular that NASA is planning an encore in 2020.
Curiosity joined another NASA rover, Opportunity, which has been exploring the Martian southern hemisphere since 2004. Opportunity's twin, Spirit, stopped communicating in 2010.
After nailing the landing, Curiosity fell into a routine. The first month was dominated by health checkups – a tedious but essential prerequisite before driving. A chemistry laboratory on wheels, it's the most high-tech spacecraft to land on another planet so extra care was taken to ensure its tools, including its rock-zapping laser and robotic arm, worked.
Once it got the green light, it trundled to a waypoint that's home to three unique types of terrain to perform science experiments. Every time Curiosity roves, it leaves Morse code tracks in the soil, providing a visual signal between drives. The message spells out JPL, short for Jet Propulsion Lab, which built the rover.
So far, its odometer has logged less than a mile. Despite the slow going, scientists have been smitten with the postcards it beamed home, including a stylish self-portrait and tantalizing glimpses of Mount Sharp.
Huge expectations weigh on the mission with NASA balancing the need to feed the public's appetite while pursuing discoveries at its own pace. Last month, the space agency quashed Internet speculation that Curiosity had detected complex carbon compounds in a pinch of Martian soil by issuing a statement ahead of a science meeting where the team was due to present the latest findings.
American University space policy professor Howard McCurdy said Curiosity is currently in a transition, caught between the viral landing and the scientific payoff expected at Mount Sharp.
'It is interesting, but slow,' he said in an email. 'I expect public interest will rise as the rover gets closer to its destination.'
Curiosity's prime mission lasts two years, but NASA expects the plutonium-powered rover to live far longer. A priority for its human handlers is to learn to operate it more efficiently so that it becomes second nature. Before heading to Mount Sharp, engineers plan a software update to Curiosity's computers to fix remaining bugs.
'We'll need to be pretty careful,' project manager Richard Cook said of the upcoming drive. 'We may find terrain that we're not comfortable driving in and we'll have to spend time driving around stuff.'
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The price of a ticket at Disneyland is creeping closer to triple-digits.
A single-day ticket for either the Magic Kingdom or California Adventure is now $96 for those 10 and up.
The $4 hike went into effect Sunday and is about the same as previous boosts, which usually happen about once a year. Single-day ticket prices have more than doubled since 2003.
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Abandoned Rockford houses creep people out
On Thursday morning, I forgot that part of West State Street is closed for revamping.
So, on my way to the Register Star News Tower along the Rock River on East State Street, I hit a roadblock on Central Avenue. I'd just appeared on TV at the WREX studio on Auburn Street to talk about fun things to do for the weekend before Halloween. To circle back to Auburn, I turned onto Irving Avenue and then onto Andrews Street.
That's where a tidbit of news I'd read earlier that morning struck me: that more than 27 percent of houses are vacant in an area bounded by School Street, Preston Street, Daisyfield Road and Kilburn Avenue. I was right in the thick of it.
And for every half dozen or so homes along the street and intersecting ones hauntingly decorated with ghouls and pumpkins, it seemed there was a way creepier house — an abandoned one, with broken or boarded-up windows.
"There are too many of them," Anthony Purifoy, 35, an unemployed machinist told me.
He'd just dropped off his toddler at his mom's house on Oakwood Avenue when I stopped to talk with him.
"There are a lot of slumlords; kids vandalize the houses and drug guys are using (in them)," Purifoy said. "The city should tear them down and make the slumlords rent to decent people."
Indeed, many, if not most, of the 100 or so houses that have been abandoned for more than six months in that area will be torn down, though it may take up to 10 years to revitalize the entire area, Ron Clewer, chief executive of the Rockford Housing Authority, told me.
The area, where 52 percent of households live below the federal poverty level, has the largest concentration of boarded-up homes in Rockford, he said. Throughout the city, Clewer said, about 5,000 houses are vacant or are "incredibly unhealthy."
He said every one of the 1,600 dwellings within the School-Preston-Daisyfield-Kilburn boundary has been assessed by the housing authority and assigned a color: Red means it's bad; yellow, it needs improvement, and green "is a go."
"There are very few greens," Clewer said.
He said he'll talk with Rockford Fire Department officials to see whether firefighters might burn down some of the houses for training purposes. Other houses might have parts that can be salvaged. If an abandoned house is in a block where most of the houses have been assigned green and yellow status, the red-colored house might be rebuilt.
City and Winnebago County housing authorities have applied for a $28 million grant, part of which would be used to tear down boarded-up houses and to rebuild others in the area. And private investors are being sought to aid in the transformation that calls for tearing down the Fairgrounds Valley complex and replacing it with new homes and apartments for people who need financial support for housing and those who pay market rates.
The federal money also could be used to address concerns about the Concord Commons complex and to help build a grocery store and health facilities. Officials will find out after Jan. 1 if the grant is approved.
It can't be soon enough. Abandoned houses haunt the area and Rockford as a whole. Neither kids nor adults should be exposed to such creepiness.
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My newest project for Moda Bake Shop is a quick & easy gift bag. Just fill it up with a matching charm pack and maybe even a cute teddy bear too. You could also add any quilt notions and more fat quarters if you like. What a fun gift to give to your quiltie peeps.
Other ideas:
- I've also made the gift bag as a birthday present for my daughter's friends and filled it with things like make-up, nail polish, jewelry and candy. I've even put a Webkinz inside the bag along with other treats. The girls are crazy about these bags.
- Give it as a party favor filled with treats at your child's birthday party.
- You could also fill the bag and give it as a gift to your quilt group.
So Let's Begin:
- 4 fat quarters from the Snippets Collection by American Jane
- 1 Snippets Charm Pack by American Jane (this will be put inside the bag as a gift)
- Cereal Box Cardboard (to put in bottom of bag for stability)
- Cardstock (to cover cereal box cardboard)
- Double-stick Tape (to stick fabric to cereal box cardboard)
Cutting Instructions:
The picture below shows the pieces you will have when you're done cutting your fabric, cereal box cardboard, and cardstock according to the list below.
- Red Floral Fabric (outside of bag): Cut 2 pieces @ 7″ x 8″
- Paper Doll Fabric (bag lining): Cut 2 pieces @ 7″ x 8″
- Red Plaid (Handles): Cut 2 pieces @ 2″ x 10″
- Red Polka Dot (Pleated Edge): Cut 2 pieces @ 4″ x 12″
- Cereal Box Cardboard: Cut 1 piece @ approx. 2 1/4″ x 5 1/8″ (trim to fit if needed)
- Cardstock: Cut 1 piece @ 2: x 5″
1. Take the Red Floral Fabric with right sides together and sew the two (7″) sides and the (8″) bottom of the bag. Clip corners.
2. Take the Paper Doll Fabric with right sides together and sew the two (7″) sides and the (8″) bottom of the bag. Clip corners.
3. Take the Red Plaid fold with right sides together and sew. Then turn right sides out, press, and sew two lines of top stitching on both sides of each handle. Then sew a wavy line down the middle if you desire.
4. Take the inside and outside pieces and press the seams open as seen below.
5. This is a view of the open seams looking into the bottom corner of the bag.
NOTE: The next steps are kinda tricky to explain so you will want to look closely at the pictures to help you follow along.
6. You will take the side seams and match them up while moving your fingers down the bag. This will create the bottom of the bag when you're done. Repeat for the outside of the bag too. Let the top edge of the bag fall to the right (see picture below).
7. Turn the outside and the lining pieces over so it looks like the picture below.
8. Now you are going to place the outside bag on top of the inside of the bag as seen below. Lay the top edge of the bag down so it mirrors the (lining) bag below it.
9. Measure 2″ across the pointed edge (as seen below) and draw a line.
10. Sew on the pencil line and then cut off the points.
11. It's time to pull the outside up and around the inside lining.
12. Set aside the bag while you make the pleated trim.
13. Take the red polka dot fabric for the pleated trim and sew the side seams then press the seams open as seen below.
14. Fold the fabric in half making sure the seams match, then press the fold. Mark the center for each side of the pleat (in between the side seams). You will also make a mark at 1″ and 2″ on each side of the center.
15. Fold and pinch the fabric at the two inch mark and bring it to the center mark. Press and repeat for the other side. Baste the pleats in place.
16. Make a pencil mark at 1 3/4″ in from each side of the back and then pin the handles in place. You may stitch them down to keep them from moving.
17. Now take the pleat and make sure that the pleated side is facing the inside of the bag. Match the side seams and then pin in place. Now sew around the top of the bag.
18. Pull the pleat upward and fold over the top of the bag. Pull the handles out too. Then press the top edge.
19. Now you will make the bottom insert by taking your cardboard and covering it with a piece of fabric. I used heavy duty double-stick tape. Then I place the cardstock over the back of the fabric to finish it off. Now place it into the bottom of your bag for stability.
20. This is what the inside of the bag will look like.
21. You're DONE! Now you can fill it up and give it away.
- 3 Charmed Gift Bags out of 4 fat quarters.
I will then pick a WINNER on Saturday, August 1st.


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Charles Carreon, the Tucson lawyer currently suing Oatmeal creator Matt Inman, the National Wildlife Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and anyone impersonating him on Twitter, is something of a poet. (And, when we spoke to him last week, we learned that he loves The Ramones.)
So when Inman cranked out his infamous drawing of a mom seducing a Kodiak bear, Carreon took his displeasure to the blank page and churned out "Don't Mess With My Mom."
In case the subtext here wasn't clear, Carreon dedicated the verses to "Matthew Inman of the Oatmeal." Here's a small hors d'oeuvre—just imagine the lines set to a pumping, palm-muted set of power chords.
Your allies are the fools
Who cut and paste all day.
They think they're important,
But their anger is impotent.
They say nasty things,
But they don't get paid.
Their ignorance is deep,
So ya' get 'em on the cheap.
Your humor's scatological,
Your mind is pathological.
Did someone drop you on your head,
When you were in your baby-bed?
Did they take away your rattle,
And teach you how to tattle?
Whatever the reason,
You have committed treason
Against decency and sanity,
You're offensive to humanity.
Carreon and his wife, Tara, are furious about Inman's online campaign, which was designed to mock Carreon and his initial demand that Inman pay $20,000 for allegedly defaming a client. And they're even angrier about the behavior of Inman's followers and supporters, who have been peppering the Carreons with e-mails that say things like:
You are the biggest fucking asshole I have ever seen. I hope you do the world a favor and die soon.
Others have taken Carreon's pretty-easy-to-find e-mail address and signed him up for all sorts of things, including Club Nintendo, the Olive Garden newsletter, and porn sites like Tube8. The prospect of having a Tube8 user account linked to his e-mail address terrifies Carreon. As he put it in his amended legal complaint this week:
On Tube8.com, members are allowed to "upload" explicit sexual images and video. Thus, Does 2 -100 have the ability to upload child pornography to Tube8.com, using Plaintiff's name, that could lead to his criminal prosecution. Criminal prosecution for child pornography is swift and devastating, often resulting in the seizure of a defendant's computers, the total destruction of their livelihood, long terms of imprisonment, and the total ruination of the defendant's life. Indeed, filing this action is the only way to prove, conveniently and quickly to investigating law enforcement, that Plaintiff is not a Tube8.com user.
Convinced that Inman has been instigating the madness, Carreon has sued him for inciting "cyber-vandalism." And he continues to struggle with the mystery that is Matt Inman's popularity—as in his follow-up poem, "Psycho Santa":
His prehistoric origin's a mystery—
Did he escape from the lavatory?
Was he made by the Pentagon and NSA
A living drone that shoots mind rays,
Makin' zombies of his followers—
Internet slaves!
What we need, Carreon says—and it's hard to disagree—is "thoughtful people / Who are decent and sincere."
Unfortunately, decency and thought appear to be in short supply. In a five-page thread on her website The Ralph Nader Library, Tara Carreon has spent the last ten days tearing into her husband's detractors. If you want to understand the Carreons' worldview—and why the suit against Inman goes ahead—it's an enlightening read. It may also teach you some brand new insults.
It's also a reminder—always useful on the Internet—that real people sit at the computers behind e-mail and Twitter accounts. And sometimes those people get very, very upset.
"Nazi scumbags"
Complaining about "Mike Masnick Retard Wannabe Lawyer Writer at TechDirt" and his commenters, Tara Carreon disagrees with the view that much of the hate directed at the Carreons is typically over-the-top, unserious Internet ranting. No, she says that hyperbolic denunciations like those directed at Carreon dehumanize one's opponents and prepare the way for actual violence. (Carreon has made the same claim in interviews.) And you know who else engaged in hyperbolic denunciations? Hitler.
These Techdirt nazi scumbags are doing to Charles what they did to the Jewish lawyers in Nazi Germany. Accusing him of greed and being responsible for the entire economic mess that our country is in. I mean, that is crazy!...
In addition to working for himself, Charles is working for You the People on this one, because who in the world would want this to happen to them? It's a very, very bad thing that's happening on the Internet right now to us, and it could happen to you. They're even threatening our children. One girl was so violent and threatening, said she was going to make my daughter lose her job, that she had to take the entire conversation to her HR manager. These people are BAD, BAD PEOPLE, these Matt Inman people. They are true Internet terrorists. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't involve a lot of the Anonymous people.
Tara was reacting to commenters who complain that Carreon contributes "nothing to society" and then say things like:
Your ego and greed are the reason millions are out of work right now. You are a contemptible butt baby that managed to live from out of the anus of mankind, polluting our lives with pre-restraint of our own imaginations and paranoia for those who have already created beautiful things. If I had 10+ billion dollars I would try to forcibly use you as a space monkey for early colonization of Mars, at least then we'd get valuable data out of your pathetic existence.
And to such commentators, Tara gave as well as she got. "This is one of the little lying bitches working for Matt Inman," Tara wrote about an apparently female commenter. In an exchange with another online commenter, Tara "jokingly" (her words) threatened that Carreon might subpoena him and search his hard drive. The bewildered commenter asked why he might possibly be subpoenaed. Tara replied:
For all of that illegal content on your hard drive. You'll have to seek a protective order to keep your porn stash private. What's your preference—het, gay, bi, BDSM?
The commenter responded, "Wait. Did you just vaguely threaten to try and out me to the general public using a subpoena and use that as a tool to embarrass and humiliate me? WOW. You, darling, have sunk lower than your husband."
Tara responded by pointing the commenter to an "archive of Italian spanking imagery, and to its screencap gallery of the lesbian bondage classic scene from Sexus, original music by Chet Baker, directed by Jose Benazaref, and you tell me which you like better." [Tara posts hundreds of screencaps from films, often with subtitles.]
This is a fight that is rapidly regressing into truly hateful territory; if there's a high road, everyone involved appears to have lost sight of it. Piled on by random Internet e-mailers and commenters, Tara kept lashing out, often against Inman personally. "You are a cancer, Matt Inman," she wrote.
This attack against FunnyJunk and Charles Carreon is an attack against law and order. Matt Inman is an Internet anarchist. Fascists always love an anarchist.
And the claims got odder over time. Who, she wondered, was behind this Matt Inman guy, anyway?
I don't know why we can't get a simple yes or no from ANYONE about whether Matt Robert Inman is related to [retired US admiral and intelligence agent] Bobby Ray Inman. Apparently, every journalist in the world doesn't seem to think that knowing WHO Matt Inman is is important. He's a man without parents, brothers and sisters, or childhood friends. A man without a past, just like Barack Obama. Sure, there's lots of famous people like that in the world! Usually, they are children of Intelligence Agents, or Intelligence Agents themselves.
Or, you know, mobsters. "What kind of connections does someone have in the world to be this arrogant towards a lawyer?" she asked. "Think about it. Inman is WELL-CONNECTED! To me, that just means one thing: mafia."


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