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Why the Santorum Surge?
Santorum is giving Romney a run for his money--of which Romney has a lot. And the Republicans should be damned happy about that.
In the opinion of this Democrat, Santorum has misunderstood why he has surged ahead of Mitt Romney in recent days. "He was beating Romney because he was the conservative alternative, not because he was the social conservative alternative," the Democrat says. "The deeper in he wades, the more he is going to have to walk it back in order to be in a position where he can actually win the presidency. His strength as an alternative has nothing to do with social policy."
In his first surge, in the last days of Iowa caucus campaigning, Santorum shot into the lead on the strength of a platform that featured appealing positions on jobs, on taxes, on national defense, as well as the social positions for which he is well known. Alone among Republicans, Santorum spoke at length about the decline of U.S. manufacturing and the problems of American workers who don't have college degrees. ("The best speech he ever gave was the speech he gave in Iowa on caucus night," says the Democrat.) Those positions, along with his dogged determination on the stump, caused many Republicans to give him a serious look.
What that prominent Democrat does NOT say directly is this: Santorum is rising because he believes what he says. He believes that manufacturing is critical to a healthy economy. He believes that family formation is critical to the future of the country. He believes that every human life is sacred.
It's what's called 'the strength of convictions.' Most voters are sick to death of the BS and foofoodust of such as Obama and the back-and-forthright Romney and they 'get' that the country is headed over the cliff if we have another 4 years of the crapola.
Will "social issues" kill Santorum in the general?
...social conservatism has had a winning track record for the GOP since 1968.
The Democrats who won, including even Barack Obama in 2008, did not play up social liberalism in their campaigns. In 1992 Bill Clinton was a death-penalty advocate who promised to "end welfare as we know it" and make abortion "safe, legal and rare." Social issues have come to the fore on the GOP side in two of the past six presidential elections—in 1988 (prison furloughs, the Pledge of Allegiance, the ACLU) and 2004 (same-sex marriage). "Those are the only two elections since Reagan where the Republican Party has won a popular majority," Mr. Bell says. "It isn't coincidental." --CC quoting Taranto/WSJ
Fuggedabout the "senior Republican Senator" remarks. Santorum can win this.
Gregory said...
"He believes that every human life is sacred."
Santorum is rising because he believes what he says."
?????????? Fufu dust.
Not so sure about this.
Read and see the video at this link....
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2012/02/mr-catholic.html
........So Rick Santorum does an interview with Hannity where he proudly declares that he votes to spend your dough on contraceptives and abortifacients (jump to the 9:05 mark)..........
The Democrats will exploit this soon enough.
Just another bullet for them to take out Santorum when the time is ripe.
Dad, You ignored this post when I brought it up last time.
In the words of Mark Twain
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
.......So we have a non-Catholic candidate ( Ron Paul) who opposes compelling people to pay for what other people choose to do in the privacy of their bedroom, and we have a Catholic candidate ( Santorum)who is "personally opposed" like Cuomo but who chooses to compel people (including Catholics) to pay for what other people do in the privacy of their bedroom, even when it includes abortifacients. He makes a show of opposing the morning after pill. But that's not the only abortifacient...........
neomom said...
I'm going to be a little contrarian here. While I agree that the country is center-right and when presented with the real progressive "values", people balk at them.
However, trying to thread the 24/7 news cycle by leading with social values is a very risky strategy.
Running on the economy and job loss is the winner in this cycle and should be out in front.
Santorum is another nanny state and perpetual war "conservative" who is hardly any better than Romney, if at all. Santorum voted to double the size of the Dept. of Education, voted for No Child Left Behind, voted for Medicare Part D, etc., etc.
Now we are supposed to believe he has found Jesus and will slash the budget by trillions? Sorry. I don't feel like getting hosed again by another RINO.
Yeah, but Santorum brings his still-born fetuses home for family bonding sessions. If for no other reason, he gets our vote!
Two Problems With Romney
Yoo--Hoo!! Calling AG Van Hollen!!!
Now the Propaganda and Spin: Obozo Goes Into Camp...
Another "House Bigot" in Obozo's Gang
Obozo: "We Don't Need No Steeenkin' Defense!!"
Ron Paul: "Liberating" Money, Too
A $10 Million 'Contingent Liability' for Duke Powe...
The Perverted "Theology" of the Media
The Dismal ObozoConomy
Forced Prenatal Testing? Yup. The Reich Demands It!
"Businessman"? MItt's Olympic "Success"
20,000 XL Jobs Killed by Obozo: Twice That Coming...
Steyn Nails It, Again
Beauty, Spirit, Liturgy
Greta Should Stick to the Lost Girl Stories
You Just Don't Know What's Important, You Rubes, Y...
The Reich's Education Takeover
Inane Laws of the Bush Era, Part 22,354
"Tax." "No, Fee." "No, Tax!!!" "No, It's a Fee!"
WIsconsin Senate Recall Failures
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Boehner Does Three-Card Monte and You're the Mark ...
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The Rise and Fall of Liberty: the Church's Error
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Kmiec, a "Really Intelligent Guy", Failed the IQ Test
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Those Cute Little Fuzzy-Bear Banks?
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More on the Unemployment Numbers
Marquette University Fails PC Exam
Time for Ginsburg to Go
Eight Point Three % of Nobody Left in the Workforce
Rombama? Obamney? All the Same, Really
The Real "Petition Problem"
The Brownshirts of "Occupy"

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How many people in NJ have gotten the COVID vaccine? Here's a breakdown by county
Mike Deak
MyCentralJersey.com
Two Central Jersey counties rank high on the list of New Jersey counties with the highest percentage of residents who have received the COVID-19 vaccine.
According to the state Department of Health dashboard on Tuesday, about 3.2% of Hunterdon County's 124,371 residents have received either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.
Only the percentages in Morris and Cape May counties, both 3.5%, are higher in the state.
In Hunterdon County, 3,989 residents have received the vaccine.
In Somerset County, about 2.8% of residents, 9.484, had received the shots.
In Middlesex County, the number falls to 2% of residents, 16,988.
Only 1.9% of Union County residents, 10,861, have been vaccinated. That is the fourth lowest percentage in the state.
As of Tuesday, 233,555 vaccine doses have been administered. Of those doses, more than 212,000 were the first dose, while more than 21,000 people had received their second dose of the vaccine. The dashboard will be updated daily with the latest numbers reported as of 9:30 a.m.
The totals for the rest of the state's counties, based on July 1, 2019 Census population:
Atlantic: 7,296, 2.7%
Bergen: 25,856, 2.8%
Burlington: 11,303, 2.5%
Camden: 12,932, 2.5%
Cape May: 3,276, 3.5%
Cumberland: 3,185, 2.1%
Essex: 19,693, 2.4%
Gloucester: 7,524, 2.5%
Hunterdon: 9,909, 3.2%
Mercer: 16,988, 1.6%
Middlesex: 16,988, 2.0%
Monmouth: 18,061, 2.9%
Morris: 17,290,3.5%
Ocean: 13,043, 2.1%
Salem: 1,101, 1,7%
Somerset: 9,484, 2.8%
Sussex: 3,649, 2.5%
Union: 10,861, 1.9%.
Warren: 2,408, 2.2%
The dashboard also breaks down those who have been inoculated by gender, race and which brand of the vaccine they received – Pfizer or Moderna. You can also see how many doses were given out in each county, as well as a map of open vaccination sites in New Jersey.
New Jersey is currently still only vaccinating health care workers in the 1A category, as well as long-term care residents and staff, police and firefighters. State Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli said Monday that this was because the demand for the vaccine is greater than the supply.
More:Gov. Murphy gives few specifics on promised post-COVID dawn in NJ State of the State
More:These ShopRite stores in NJ will offer the COVID-19 vaccine
The dashboard does not show the total number of vaccines the state has received which have yet to be administered, but according to the CDC, 651,000 doses have been distributed to New Jersey.
Residents who want to be vaccinated can pre-register on the state's online portal and will be contacted later when they are eligible for vaccination. One million residents had already pre-registered on Tuesday afternoon. Of those, 7% are in Group 1A, 31% are in Group in 1B, 43% are in 1C and 20% are in Phase 2.
Candace Mitchell of NorthJersey.com contributed to this story
Email: mdeak@mycentraljersey.com
Mike Deak is a reporter for mycentraljersey.com. To get unlimited access to his articles on Somerset and Hunterdon counties, please subscribe or activate your digital account today.


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Malaysian mum losing sleep over son's fate
KEPALA BATAS - The mother of a Malaysian stuck on board a cruise ship for a month has been having sleepless nights, worrying over the fate of her son.
Kamariah Yusof (pic), 67, said she was worried for 39-year-old son Izwan Hilmy.
"I hope he is safe and healthy, " she said when met at their house in Bertam near here.
She said she trusted her son's abilities because he had been working abroad since he was in his 20s, but she was worried he might contract the virus.
"I have never been worried about him before, but this time I feel nervous that Covid-19 might infect him, " she said, adding that her son worked in Singapore and Australia before going to Europe early last year.
Kamariah said Izwan, who is the third among four siblings, recently expressed a desire to come back to Malaysia and find a job in Kuala Lumpur or Penang.
She hoped that the authorities would let her son come home and be tested.
"Please, I want him to come back as soon as possible. If doctors want to test him, please do so, as long as he comes home, " she said.


This is what I'm actually seeing. I thought I had configured the system to warn me of problems but it looks as if I didn't – not good I know!!! As schoondoggy says I expected to see 3 disks, the non-raid version in the top slot and the two mirrored disks. I loaded up Kubuntu to set it up as a media server. Best bet is to use the Kingston site or similar and use their memory checker. Sign in Already have an account? Is Windows showing a mirrored pair as one disk?
Something in between me thinks. However, I have 2 issues. AD domain and email server have the same name – can't get to email server! Posted April 26, Thanks to MatthewL from: Best bet is to use the Kingston site or similar and use their gaid checker.
When i asked about your disks you did not mention a boot drive. The other is listed in hardware but I cannot access it.
Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2. As Windows doesn't show the 4th disk I'm not rxid what this means. Posted April 28, Mine takes ECC laptop style memory. You lost me, what boot drive?
n4l0 Thanks to danbuntu from: Thanks to sted from: They are configured in the BIOS i. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites.
n40p I've only used RAID 1 on it not sure if it supports 5so not much processing overhead to worry about. The time now is As schoondoggy says I expected to see 3 disks, the non-raid version in the top slot and the two mirrored disks.
Firstly, it has only 'seen' one hard drive.
In many respects the microserver is the backup for my main PC but I've been hit with disk failures on that too. Create an account or sign in to comment You need to be a member in order to leave a comment J40l an account Sign up for a new account in our community.
Do you have a good back up of your data? Posted April 27, Thanks to Arthur from: December 17th, 2.
I keep reading different posts, some say it has hardware raid and some say software. I still don't know why. Sign up for a new account in our community.
I don't know if I'm going crazy or just that rais is as terrbile as ever, but I couldn't find a search function on the forum, so sorry if this topic has been answered before. Gone for 2 of these WD 1TB 3. Does the HP Micro server have hardware or software raid?


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Celebrity Lawyer Weighs in on Olivia Newton-John's Legacy
Olivia Newton-John's Legacy: Her Net Worth, Philanthropic Efforts & Beyond
Description: Celebrity lawyer Christopher C. Melcher, who is ranked as a best family law attorney in California, weighs in on Olivia Newton-John's Legacy
Celebrity Lawyer Christopher C. Melcher of top family law firm Walzer Melcher LLP weighs in on Olivia Newton-John's legacy, net worth, and philanthropic efforts
Publication: Fox Business
Publication Date: August 9, 2022
Journalist: Caroline Thayer
Quote: "Olivia made donations to her donor-advised fund during her lifetime, so that property is already in her giving account, says top family law attorney Christopher C. Melcher. "Her estate plan probably includes additional gifts to charity, which may qualify for a charitable set-aside deduction to reduce the taxes on her estate."
Complete Article: Celebrity Lawyer Weighs in on Olivia Newton-John's Legacy


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October 23, 2017 October 23, 2017 | By Olu Showunmi
Bangladesh announced September 2015, that it was moving ahead with field trials of Golden Rice, which in itself represents a big step forward in fighting vitamin-A deficiency, a condition that kills hundreds of thousands globally each year. But perhaps the biggest impact of that decision is that it paves the way for production of other Genetically Modified Organisms, such as an enhanced cassava root crop for Africa.
Despite its life-saving potential, Golden Rice has faced an onerous battle for both public and political support. This struggle, however, was never just about the rice itself; it was about gaining acceptance for GM crops in general. In particular, those created not to enhance profit margins, but instead to better society.
Golden Rice was the trailblazing crop, but others were always destined to follow particularly because they could follow such a successful formula. Pick a nutrient deficiency, then find a food that's already consumed in high numbers by an affected population. For Golden Rice that meant Asia, where vitamin-A deficiency affects as many as 90 percent of its population — and where rice is a cultural staple.
Now, scientists, publishing in the journal Nature Biotechnology, announced they have genetically engineered cassava roots and leaves to produce higher levels of vitamin B6. The cassava plant is a staple crop of many African cultures affected by a significant B6 deficiency.
Currently, the cassava root produces a minute amount of B6, but in order for an individual to receive their recommended daily amount this way it would be necessary to consume roughly 1.3 kilograms (three pounds) per day. Compare that to the GM version, which would require consumption of just 500 grams of roots (boiled, in order suppress naturally occurring cyanide compounds) or 50 grams of leaves — about the amount in a salad.
Vitamin B6 is used as a co-enzyme in as many as 100 different cellular reactions, many of which involve protein metabolism. It's also involved in cognitive development, immune function and sugar metabolism. Deficiency of this vitamin is associated with anemia, EEG abnormalities, glossitis (swollen tongue), depression, cognitive impairment and weakened immune function.
The genes used to successfully make this GMO were from the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana. Researchers inserted two genes that coded for the enzymes, PDX1 and PDX2, which are involved in vitamin B6 synthesis in A. thaliana. The changes did not affect yield of the cassava plant in both field and greenhouse test.
It's unclear when commercial growing of this crop will begin, but we look forward to the new varieties that is possible from these developments.
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Inis Meáin is the middle of the three main Aran Islands in Galway Bay on the west coast of Ireland. It is part of County Galway in the province of Connacht. Inis Meáin has a population of about 160, making it the smallest of the Aran Islands in terms of population. It is also quieter and less touristy than its two neighbours Inishmore and Inisheer. It is, however, one of the most important strongholds of traditional Irish culture. The island is predominantly Irish-speaking and is part of the Gaeltacht.
The island is an extension of The Burren. The terrain of the island is composed of limestone pavements with crisscrossing cracks known as "grikes", leaving isolated rocks called "clints". The limestones date from the Visean period (Lower Carboniferous), formed as sediments in a tropical sea approximately 350 million years ago, and compressed into horizontal strata with fossil corals, crinoids, sea urchins and ammonites.
There are two notable stone forts on the island. Dún Chonchúir (Conor's Fort) is an ancient oval stone fort, dating to pre-Christian times, with views of the island's other ancient sites and the sea. And the stone fort Dún Fearbhaí, which dates from the 4th century A.D. and is unusual in being almost rectangular - instead of circular as the other forts on the island.Clochán na Carraige is a beehive hut, the structure of which is unusual because the outside is circular but the inside is rectangular.
This enchanting island was frequented by the distinguished playwright John Millington Synge. Teach Synge is the house where Synge stayed on the island every summer from 1898 to 1902. It was here he is said to have got inspiration for his plays The Playboy of the Western World, Riders to the Sea, and many of his other works from stories he heard while on Inis Meáin. The house has been restored to its original condition, and has been open to the public since August 1999. Another notable site on the island is Cathaoir Synge (Synge's Chair) which was the writer's favourite place on the island, overlooking Inis Mór and the Atlantic.
Hi Liz
Just thought I would drop you a line or two following our trip to Ireland and our CIE tour (Taste of Ireland Sept. 8 to 13th 2008)
We had the most wonderful driver, Harry Crofton on our trip. He was not only personable, charming (and very handsome,) but his knowledge of the history of Ireland and his general sense of pride in the country and its achievements was most impressive. Everyone on that bus was 'educated' in such a wonderfully positive way, it helped us all forget the terrible weather outside! Nothing Harry could have done about that.
I thought the tour was very worthwhile, marvelous accommodations, terrific food and amiable hosts. An unexpected visit to Jameson's where my husband was chosen as a taster was a nice surprise.
I would certainly recommend this Taste of Ireland to anyone with limited time to spend. I was very impressed with the new and improved Ireland, lovely roads, food and accommodations. Unbelievably expensive though, but for our part, well worth it.
I did phone Paul O'Neil in CIE Dublin to tell him how much we had enjoyed Harry Crofton, but thought it would do no harm to mention it to you as well. If there are commendations out there, Harry should get one.
Thanks Liz for all your help in setting up this trip. Now if I could just get rid of the jet lag I would be fine!
Take care and may you enjoy the golden colours of Autumn in Ireland
Pat & Chuck Benedict, Calgary, Alberta


Action: press freedom, school lunch nutrition standards, and redistricting.
Amnesty International helps you tell the Burmese government to release two Reuters journalists investigating that government's ongoing extermination of its Rohingya minority. And what bogus charge do these two intrepid journalists face? The Burmese government says that by procuring "important and secret government documents" -- it's a good thing they said the documents were "important" and "secret"! -- they've broken the Official Secrets Act, but legal experts inform us that Burma rarely-if-ever prosecutes anyone under this law, a relic of British colonial rule. And even the Trump Administration has demanded the release of the two journalists; surely the Nobel Peace Prize-winner heading up the Burmese government doesn't want to be outclassed by the Orange Menace just so she can avoid even more PR hits from the genocide she's currently allowing her military to conduct. At least, that's what I'd imagine, as a reasonable, civilized person.
Meanwhile, if you've missed previous opportunities to tell the Trump USDA to abandon its effort to roll back school lunch nutrition standards, then Moms Rising still helps you do that. I'm old enough to remember when the phrase "school lunch nutrition standards" would get laughs from kids and adults alike, but the standards the Obama Administration put in place back in 2014 have actually helped kids get more fruit and vegetables in their diet and have actually helped get junk food out of schools. Of course you already know the key word in the previous sentence for the Republican party is "Obama," and anything with Mr. Obama's name on it must be erased from history. That's not just the Trump Administration's problem, either -- Congress has been hot to repeal the standards since they regained full control in 2015, even though doing so would make them look, you know, objectively pro-childhood obesity. But they don't get all the say around here -- we do.
Finally, the Pennsylvania state Supreme Court ruled that the state's Congressional district map "clearly, plainly, and palpably" violates the state constitution, and gave the legislature about 2 1/2 weeks to submit a new map -- so now's as good a time as any to let Common Cause help you to tell your Pennsylvania state legislator to pass HB 722/SB 22, which would reform the state's redistricting process. If the politicians have proven anything, it's that we can't trust them to draw legislative districts that put the people's needs over their own -- but taking it out of the legislature's hands and putting it into the hands of an independent commission (as HB 722/SB 22 would do) would give us a better chance at avoiding the evil of gerrymandering. We shouldn't let legislators draw districts that split counties and cities apart (let alone districts that exclude single houses and sides of streets!) out of their greed for continued and undeserved power.
Action: voting rights, cable set-top boxes, and school meal reauthorization.
CREDO helps you tell the Election Assistance Commission's Inspector General to investigate the EAC Director's recent decision to let Kansas, Alabama, and Georgia require proof of citizenship to vote. What's that, you say? Shouldn't you have to prove you're a citizen to vote? Here's a better question: do you routinely carry information proving your citizenship around with you? No, that's not your driver's license: it's your birth certificate, your passport, your certificate of citizenship, or your naturalization certificate, and you carry none of these in your wallet. And no, these states do not intend to target "undocumented immigrants" -- they mean to target black and Latino voters. These states have already pulled similar shenanigans, after all -- closing down DMVs in black neighborhoods (Alabama), putting out Spanish-language voting guides with inaccurate info (Kansas), or just plain old sitting on voter registrations from black folks (Georgia). So I'm going to go out on a limb and predict they won't ask any white voters for their paperwork.
Meanwhile, you may not have given any thought to this matter, but your set-top cable box may be costing you as much as $230 annually. But your cable provider won't permit you to use any other device with their service -- instead, they require you to get the box they want you to get and then overcharge you for it every month. The FCC has proposed rules that would force big cable corporations to allow you to use the box you want, even if it's not their box, and if you've watched Hulu or Netflix over your Wii or XBox, you already know this isn't some pipe dream. Of course, the cable corporations are treating it like that, and they're counting on you not to notice all the fees they stick in that bill you pay every month. But President Obama has, surprisingly, spoken out in favor of the FCC proposals, and the FCC is accepting public comments on the matter now, so Demand Progress helps you tell the FCC to protect consumers from excessive set-top box fees and require cable corporations to give us more choice in the matter.
Finally, Congress has been negligent in reauthorizing school breakfast and lunch programs. Obviously Congress hasn't been so negligent as to let kids starve while they're at school, at least not yet, but without an actual sense of what our government will spend on school meals for the next few years, schools won't know what equipment they'll be able to afford or what staff they'll be able to hire, among other things that actually require long-range planning. Of course, Congress likes that sort of chaos, more so now, even, than in Tha Bush Mobb years. But, once again: it doesn't matter what they want, it matters what we want, and that's a stable school lunch program with nutritious meals for kids. Really, you'd have to be a Scrooge McSmallgovernment to disagree. Hence the Pew Charitable Trusts helps you tell Congress to reauthorize the school meal program already. Note that Pew's email action tool helps you demand they keep the USDA's stricter nutrition standards, too, since Congress has been so hot to gut those.
Action: voting rights, clean water, and child nutrition.
Common Cause helps you tell your Reps and Senators to support H.R. 2867/S. 1659, the Voting Rights Advancement Act. Renewing and strengthening the Voting Rights Act used to be a bipartisan cause, but the bill just got its first Senate Republican co-sponsor, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. And the Supreme Court, as you know, struck down a significant part of the Voting Rights Act in 2013. I dare Republicans to say, well, the Supreme Court spoke, and we have to follow their will -- not just because they tend to say the exact opposite when, say, a Kentucky county clerk decides she's not going to issue any marriage licenses to gay folks, but also because the Supreme Court all but invited Congress to fix the Voting Rights Act in a way that would satisfy their concerns. The Voting Rights Advancement Act does that, by applying pre-clearance formulas to any state or municipality that establishes a pattern of voting rights violations, not just Southern states. But clearly we'll need to tell Congress to do the right thing, perhaps many times. Of course, we're Americans, so we're up for that.
Meanwhile, the Child Nutrition Act expires on September 30. You recall that one of the few things the USDA has done well under President Obama is improve nutrition standards in school lunches -- which, naturally, has resulted in the House repeatedly trying to roll back this standard, by promoting legislation letting lagging school districts "opt out," instead of telling them to get with the program, as civilized people would do. And their arguments in favor of this absurdity? That some indeterminate number of kids throw away their school-provided apples instead of eating them, and that government is tyrannical because it sets standards for food provided in public schools, instead of just letting kids eat whatever they like. Because the only thing that says "freedom" more than letting kids pursue the ephemeral sensations offered by junk food without the distraction of discipline? Letting them get obese and suffer from intractable health problems well into adulthood! The Union of Concerned Scientists helps you tell Congress to protect child nutrition standards.
Action: war in Iraq, and healthy food for schoolkids.
If you missed previous action alerts in re preventing America from fighting another war in Iraq, then USAction still helps you tell President Obama and Congress that you oppose any military action in Iraq, including airstrikes, which seems to be Mr. Obama's preferred option. Yes, it's perfectly awful that ISIS fighters have been terrorizing good Iraqi citizens, but Mr. Maliki's government was no model of statecraft either, and that's the whale we found ourselves lashed to back in the mid-2000s, when Our Personal Lord and Savior George W. Bush clearly gave no thought (not an unprecedented occurrence) to whether toppling Saddam Hussein for short-term political gain might actually strengthen the regime of an actual religious dictatorship, that of neighboring Iran. But Sen. Graham (R-SC) has lately told us we need to go attack Iraq again in order to prevent another 9.11. Why, it's almost like that was the idea all along -- to wage war on Iraq so aggressively awfully that we'd have to go back again, thus helping to create even more terrorists to avenge! Didn't Ron Paul warn us about blowback?
Meanwhile, Congress postponed voting on the agricultural appropriations bill last week, perhaps out of embarrassment that the bill would let our public schools opt out of the USDA's new nutrition standards for school lunches, standards that would help keep junk food out of school cafeterias by ensuring that cafeteria food had more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Congress says it wants to help struggling schools, but the USDA is actually already doing that, by providing grants and technical training to schools struggling with the standards. Hence the Union of Concerned Scientists helps you tell Congress to support the new nutrition standards for all schools. And though I don't know if the new nutrition standards really will save over 125,000 lives annually and save $17 billion in health care costs annually, I do know that my parents were right when they told me as a child that if I ate right, I might not enjoy it as much as I would if I ate Little Debbie snack cakes all the time, but I'd certainly enjoy the health benefits later -- health benefits like, you know, not being obese or having diabetes or heart problems.
Interesting story: the Librarian of Congress decided, late last year, to end the exemption of cellphones from the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, thus making cellphone unlocking illegal. But then over 100,000 folks petitioned the White House, saying you should be able to use your cellphone with whatever service provider you want -- and the Obama Administration agreed! Naturally, that's not going to be enough -- apparently unable to force the Librarian of Congress to revisit the decision (the Librarian continued the exemption in 2006 and 2010), the Obama Administration called for Congress to pass a law making cellphone unlocking legal. After all, it's only a cellphone industry artifice that makes you buy a new phone every time you switch providers, and even the big telecoms seem to want to move past it. So Free Press helps you tell Congress to do the right thing. I know, I know, but it's still our duty to tell them.
Meanwhile, the USDA has updated nutritional standards for the snacks and drinks kids get in school from vending machines, school stores, or the a la carte line -- all the food available in school outside of the school meal programs, in fact. And this is the first such USDA update in over 30 years; think how much we've learned about the food that makes us fat since 1979, and you see the need. The new standards would, once finalized, require "any food sold in schools" "(b)e either a fruit, a vegetable, a dairy product, a protein food, a 'whole-grain rich' grain product (50% or more whole grains by weight or have whole grains as the first ingredient), or a combination food that contains at least 1/4 cup of fruit or vegetable." Food would also contain less than 35% of its calories in fat, and total sugar levels would be either less than 35% of calories or 35% of weight. Moms Rising helps you tell the USDA to set the strongest standards possible.


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Roman Abramovic remains in Chelsea
The English media reported this morning that the Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich decided to leave Chelsea and sell the London club.
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The Great Days > Entertainment > Teyana Taylor & Her Beautiful Family Steal The Show At Sundance
Teyana Taylor & Her Beautiful Family Steal The Show At Sundance
posted on Jan. 24, 2023 at 3:57 pm
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Source: Mat Hayward/Getty Images for Focus Features
Teyana Taylor and her beautiful family took center stage at the Sundance Film Festival where they celebrated the debut of critically-acclaimed Focus Features film A Thousand and One.
The multi-hyphenate star stunned alongside doting husband Iman Shumpert and gorgeous daughters Junie, 7, and Rue, 2, who continue to be the flyest kids in Hollywood.
Other notable attendees included Executive producer Lena Waithe, William Catlett, Director A.V. Rockwell, and more.
Check out Teyana's Sundance interview and all of the pics from the premiere below:
In A Thousand and One, Inez De La Paz (Teyana Taylor) kidnaps her 6-year-old child Terry (Aaron Kingley Adetola) out of the foster care system knowing what's in store for him if he stays with the city as a former product of the system.
But as they try to lead normal lives in New York City her actions soon catch up to her and her tenuous stability is threatened.
"I'm from Harlem so when I saw that, I thought it was super dope," said Taylor about starring in the film.
"I've never really had a serious role. I felt like I never got the perfect opportunity to be able to show people what I can do. This is going to change everything for me."
"It was scary and fun at the same time. I had just had a baby. I was six months postpartum. As a mom, I was dealing with that. Life can come at you, but A.V. (the film's writer/director) can protect you. She told me to put everything I was going through into Inez. I feel like I needed to go through that to be able to bring Inez to life. If she did this a year before, I probably wouldn't have even been the same person I was when we actually did it.
"I even brought in things from the past, all the people that didn't believe in me, all the people who never gave me the opportunity or even stopped to watch my tape. Like, 'Oh, this is Teyana Taylor and she's a celebrity and she's used to playing this kind of role.' I put all of that into the person that I feel like believed in me at a time when I didn't even believe in myself. I didn't think I could do it. I put my hands up, I surrendered, I prayed. I felt like it was already written."
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A few months ago Cinestill held a Kickstarter to bring their film to formats larger than 35mm. The packages intrigued me so I picked up 2 of the deals they offered. I also just so happened to be randomly chosen as a lucky person given a roll of their cinestil 800T 120 film. I felt unprepared for making use of that new film so I picked up a roll of the 35mm 800T from the local camera store and loaded my Canon Eos 1N. I was right to assume there would be some needed practice, there are many more options for light sources at night and it requires a bit more effort to figure out what is not a tungsten light source. The mixing of daylight or fluorescent lighting really messed with the colors when I was trying to just shoot with ambient light.
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These days, it's like I blink and six months are gone. That's certainly how it felt for me this year—2015 was a whirlwind. Every year around this time, I like to sit down and reflect on the last 12 months, not only to remember that they actually happened, but to think about what I've learned as a marketer, and—more specifically — as a CMO.
You're probably thinking, what's the meta takeaway? What's the one thing that I should carry with me as I round out my marketing plans for the year ahead?
You, my fellow marketer, will discover that the following findings boil down to one common theme: We are truly in a new era of marketing—the era of engagement marketing.
This year, a number of key changes came into focus for all of us—contextual changes and imperatives for us to fundamentally reimagine how we connect with our potential and current customers and how we set up our organizations for success.
For our organizations to connect with today's always-on digital consumers and thrive in 2016 and beyond, we marketers need to evolve, innovate, lead and be change agents in our organizations. We need to create a "Marketing First" world, if you will.
This is an incredibly exciting time. This year, I said over and over that marketing has changed more in the last five years than it has in the last 500 and will change more in the next five than it has in the last five. What lies in front of us is the opportunity to shape this change and be a pioneer for all the marketers, sales teams, customers, partners and CEOs to come.
This has been a central theme for me in years past, but I really saw it come to life in 2015; smart brands that were not targeting consumers with the same messages over and over again were the most successful.
Some of the organizations that I saw executing this best were sports teams. Franchises have succeeded in creating an ongoing dialogue with their fans to engage beyond game attendance.
In terms that may sound too "inside baseball" (pun intended), this shift is captured in a move from a "third-party" world (pushing generic messages to someone else's audience) to a "first party" world where the marketer and the organization are the keepers of individual behavioral and demographic information.
This allows them to make every interaction—even paid advertising—completely relevant and personal. Just think of the potential!
Over and over this year, I saw—and felt personally in my own day-to-day role—a shift toward the marketing organization being responsible for, and a driver of, the entire customer life cycle, not just the top of the funnel.
I met with customers whose "acquisition" marketing teams weren't even in the same building as their "loyalty and retention" marketing teams. And then I watched them dismantle those constructs to bring them all together.
Yes, we want to think of innovative and engaging ways to obtain new customers, but we must place equal, if not greater, importance on keeping the customers we have happy. More engaged customers spend more with us, they renew at much higher rates, and they advocate for us to bring in new customers in a way that our "clever marketing" could never do.
Investing in that this year is just good business.
It's no longer about how we see ourselves (e.g., "We sell to consumers" or "We sell to businesses"), but about how consumers see us. Not only does this mean that marketers are "crossing the aisle" to learn from each other's best practices, it means that they're taking a more personalized approach to their interactions with the "humans" on the other end of their marketing messages.
Dedicating ourselves to this broader definition of "must-haves" or best practices will drive higher conversion rates and more revenue for all of us in 2016.
One marketer expressed to me his "aha" moment of realizing that the mobile device "actually contained a minimum of five different channels" as he described the fact that on "mobile" you and I could be in email or a social network or on the web or watching a television channel — all in addition to possibly interacting with an actual mobile app — all in the very same device.
A focus on marketing by channel creates disconnected—and, really, really annoying—experiences for customers. We need to think of our marketing systems holistically. For 2016, it's not just about mobile or email or social—it's about how these all intertwine and drive a customer forward on his or her journey.
Building on the above, there's a need for today's marketers to be a master of many talents, instead of specializing in one area or channel. The topics of people, skills, and the prototype for the new marketer were perhaps the most frequent discussion I had with CMOs and marketers in 2015.
Mostly recently, Lara Hood Balazs, SVP, head of North America marketing at Visa, in a Q&A with Marketo (my employer) on Mashable described her talent search as looking for "human Swiss army knives," i.e., "people who … can easily move between multiple work projects." These folks are rare, which is why I predict that there will be greater emphasis on educating tomorrow's marketer in the year ahead.
This education will go beyond traditional marketing tactics to include mastering marketing technology.
Prior to this year, "martech" and "ad tech" might as well have been on different planets as far as marketers were concerned. "Programmatichttp://marketingland.com/library/display-advertising-news/display-advertising-programmatic-media-buying" was the big buzzword with advertisers in 2014, but in 2015, the buzz was all about the convergence of advertising technology and marketing technology.
This was a particularly enlightening lesson from 2015—that the world of paid advertising can andshould directly be tied to direct marketing and the ability to connect with individuals. The result is the ability to personalize ads like never before.
For example, sending a specific, relevant message to someone via a paid ad in their Facebook feed should be no different than sending them an email. In fact, wouldn't it be great if I could send that person a relevant email based on their behavior on my website showing interest in product X, and then if they open that email, automatically put a follow-up paid ad message in their feed—but, if they don't open that email, I could put the original message in that paid ad?
This also means that, as a marketer, our marketing spend will be tracked in new and improved ways. Instead of throwing dollars at programmatic and customers who fit a specific profile, but may or may not be interested in our product, we'll now be able to better target our dollars to the people who really do care and are therefore are more likely to buy.
In many ways, this is the "aha!" moment we've all been looking for.
I was all over the place this year—mentally, and physically! From France to Japan to the UK to Australia to Germany and over to New Zealand, I was meeting with marketers of all backgrounds and industries.
What struck me was that no matter the location, all of today's smart marketers are grappling with the same challenges that this new digital era presents. They were all talking about the lessons and issues that I identified here—things were not isolated to a specific geography or segment or vertical or size of company.
Despite changes and challenges, it was universal that the marketers that were diving head-first into a Marketing First mindset were the ones who were seeing the best results and making the most waves. This won't happen for all us overnight—it takes a lot of hard work and planning—but if we invest now, and if we commit to drive just one of these lessons in 2016, the results will be worth it.
I hope these insights provide a little bit of guidance and luck as you head into 2016. Happy holidays, Happy New Year, and happy marketing!
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Q: PIG UDF to convert tuple to multiple tuple output I am new to PIG and I am trying to create a UDF which get a tuple and return multiple tuple based on a delimited. So I have written one UDF to read the below data file
2012/01/01 Name1 Category1|Category2|Category3
2012/01/01 Name2 Category2|Category3
2012/01/01 Name3 Category1|Category5

Basically i am trying to read $2 field
Category1|Category2|Category3
Category2|Category3
Category1|Category5

to get the output as :-
Category1, Category2, Category3
Category2, Category3
Category1, Category5

Below is the UDF code i have written..
    package com.test.multipleTuple;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import org.apache.pig.EvalFunc;
    import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;
    import org.apache.pig.data.TupleFactory;

    public class TupleToMultipleTuple extends EvalFunc<String> {

        @Override
        public String exec(Tuple input) throws IOException {

            // Keep the count of every cell in the
            Tuple aux = TupleFactory.getInstance().newTuple();

            if (input == null || input.size() == 0)
                return null;
            try {
                String del = "\\|";
                String str = (String) input.get(0);

                String field[] = str.split(del);
                for (String nxt : field) {
                    aux.append(nxt.trim().toString());
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                throw new IOException("Caught exception processing input row ", e);
            }

            return aux.toDelimitedString(",");
        }
    }

created Jar --> TupleToMultipleTuple.jar
But I am getting the below error while executing it .
 Pig Stack Trace
    ---------------
    ERROR 1066: Unable to open iterator for alias B

    org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.FrontendException: ERROR 1066: Unable to open iterator for alias B
        at org.apache.pig.PigServer.openIterator(PigServer.java:892)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.processDump(GruntParser.java:774)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParser.parse(PigScriptParser.java:372)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:198)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:173)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt.run(Grunt.java:69)
        at org.apache.pig.Main.run(Main.java:547)
        at org.apache.pig.Main.main(Main.java:158)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)
    Caused by: java.io.IOException: Job terminated with anomalous status FAILED
        at org.apache.pig.PigServer.openIterator(PigServer.java:884)
        ... 13 more

Can you please help me in rectifying the issue. Thanks.
Pig script for applying the UDF..
REGISTER TupleToMultipleTuple.jar;
DEFINE myFunc com.test.multipleTuple.TupleToMultipleTuple();
A = load 'data.txt' USING PigStorage(' ');
B = foreach A generate myFunc($2);
dump B;

A: You can use the built-in split function like this:
flatten(STRSPLIT($2,'[|]',3))as(cat1:chararray,cat2:chararray,cat3:chararray)

and you will get 3 tuples named cat1, cat2 and cat2 typed as chararray and delimited by the current delimiter of the relation which they belong to.

A: Found the issue .. Issue was while parsing DayaByteArray to String.. used toString() to fix it
package com.test.multipleTuple;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import org.apache.pig.EvalFunc;
    import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;
    import org.apache.pig.data.TupleFactory;

    public class TupleToMultipleTuple extends EvalFunc<String> {

        @Override
        public String exec(Tuple input) throws IOException {

            // Keep the count of every cell in the
            Tuple aux = TupleFactory.getInstance().newTuple();

            if (input == null || input.size() == 0)
                return null;
            try {
                String del = "\\|";
                String str = (String) input.get(0).toString();

                String field[] = str.split(del);
                for (String nxt : field) {
                    aux.append(nxt.trim().toString());
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                throw new IOException("Caught exception processing input row ", e);
            }

            return aux.toDelimitedString(",");
        }
    }

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~BBW, ~XWG, Occult - Author's note: It's that time of year again! A blend of horror and WG story combined. Lets see how this tale goes...and happy Halloween everyone!
Inside Every Thin Girl
Dr-black-jack
I'll have you know that I wasn't always like this
In fact, there was a time when I was just like you.
I know so because I've recorded it in my diary.
Anything can become a diary so long as you write honestly, but even so, I prefer a book with a lock to something electronic. Everything you write about yourself is like a snapshot in time, like a memory of yourself that you have refused to let fade. Consider this a cautionary tale from me to you about the dangers of electronic records and why they are not to be trusted.
Oh and before we begin, I'd prefer it if you didn't call me by my real name.
For the sake of this story, let's just call me 'Paranoia'.
Paranoia Tale – 001 "Inside every thin girl…"
"The question is, how to die-"
Paranoia grimaced at the words she had written into the bathroom mirror mist. Such a morbid message had not been her intent, but had come about simply because of too little space to accommodate her finger. She wiped it down with the back of her arm and started again, using her pinky this time until she had conveyed her message correctly.
"The question is, how to DIET"
This time she smiled. They were the mantra which she had been following for the past six months as she did her best to shed the extra pounds. Now over 200 pounds lighter, she had never felt better in her life. The once obese and frumpy girl she had been for almost all her teenage years was finally gone, leaving in her place a slender and stunning figure of beauty. She took a little longer to admire herself in the mirror as the steam began to clear from her bath.
At twenty two years of age, Paranoia was in her prime. She had long and luxurious blonde tresses that cascaded down her back like a golden waterfall. Her face was pale and pretty with eyes the shade of deep amethyst. People had always commented on her unusual eyes in the past, but even more so did about her weight.
After hitting several low points in her life that lasted through collage she had managed to eat herself to a hefty 343 pounds. Being a relatively short girl didn't help her much either as her wide hips and large breasts could only hold so much of that excess poundage before her rounded dome of a belly took centre stage. When she was at her fattest it jutted out before her so far that she could no longer see her toes, her fat refusing to sag but continued to wobble with an unmistakable coating of softness.
But though things were different now, Paranoia knew that if she didn't remind herself of the past every so often that aspects of her former figure would slowly begin to creep back in. That's where she got the idea to keep a weekly photo diary on her cell phone during her journey down the mountain of obesity and into valley of the slim and sexy. Seeing how much progress she was making week by week was what motivated her to stay on track and with one final image, she would have finally reached her goal.
"I can't believe it fits!" Paranoia exclaimed as she admired the little red-cocktail dress she had managed to slip into. Oh how long she had waited to finally be able to wear this. The long, crimson silk clung to her shapely figure, diving across the smooth contours of her new body. "No more jelly rolls for me."
She could not help but admire herself as she struck several sultry poses. A flustered starlet, a saucy dancer, even a catwalk queen were just but a few images which came to mind as she ran her hands down herself. Seeing as how this would finally be the last picture to go in her diary, she had to choose something with flair. After smiling and playing around with herself for a little while longer, she finally settled on something which she deemed most fitting. She raised the camera to her reflection in the mirror and lined it up to take the picture.
"Oooh, isn't that sexy?! Big night out, here I—"
Her reflection through the viewfinder was interrupted by a flashing screen and the upbeat melody of the default ringtone which she never bothered to change. A new message had interrupted her photoshoot.
"Yoa Miu….who is that?"
Paranoia flipped through the message to try and find out more.
"There's no subject…only an attachment…"
It was a photo of her favourite restaurant. Well, it WAS her favourite restaurant back when she was still fat. The little Italian place in the heart of the city where she used to stop by every day after work was really a sight for sore eyes. She remembered stumbling home, drunk and bloated, everything so good and cheap that she just ate and ate and ate. She remembered waking up on lazy Saturday mornings, surrounded by takeout boxes that she never remembered ordering supplemented by ice-cream cartons she never remembered licking clean.
As a part of her diet training, she had dissociated herself with all things that reminded her of food and thus went so far as to rent an apartment in the outskirt suburbs so that she would not be tempted to return. Even from the low resolution image she could still make out the displays in the window which had sustained her gain over the years. She had definitely made the right decision as the message written below it was already causing her mouth to water.
"I'm waiting for you to come and have a meal with me. What would you like to eat?"
Paranoia smiled to herself sweetly. Either this was the restaurant's new way of check up on its best customer or she had managed to catch the eye of some guy whilst she was out. Either way, she had made her resolve never to return to that place for even a moment lest her bad habits come back in force. She had worked long and hard to be able to fit into that dress and she wasn't going to be bursting out of it any time soon.
"I'll just message them back saying I'm not interested in that place anymore. If it is a guy, I'll have to apologise since I really don't remember his name. I'll tell him to try the salad bar across the street instead. But seriously, what sort of guy even asks a girl out through SMS?!"
Her finger hovered over the 'send' button for a moment longer after she pressed it. Indeed, what sort of guy would do that? Either he was a complete amateur that just picked out a picture of the fanciest place he could find, or he had the wrong number entirely. Paranoia's high spirits began to sink as she realized that she had read too much into the message out of sheer overconfidence with her new figure and may have just done something incredibly idiotic. Her finger quickly moved as she began to tap out a shorter, more realistic message instead.
"I'm sorry, I didn't remember. Could you please give me a call."
"And that's all I'll write I guess…"
Paranoia set the phone back to camera mode and re-attempted to take the shot. After making such a fool out of herself with what could be a complete strange, she no longer felt so self-assured. An unseen heaviness hung over her as she looked back at her reflection through the viewfinder, taking up a more sensible pose in an attempt to salvage her pride.
Her phone wouldn't let her have it. It began to chime once more.
"So soon?" Paranoia thought to herself as she checked her inbox.
"Due to an error in the following address, your message was unable to be sent. Please verify the address and try sending again."
"Wait a sec, it bounced? What is going on here?"
Still staring at the phone, she began to ponder to herself.
"A prank text?"
If it was, she may have just spared herself a world of embarrassment. Sighing heavily, she could feel her burden begin to lighten with false hope as her psyche did battle to make her conclusion a reality.
Her phone rang once again. It has another text from Yoa Mui.
"I think I'll have this today, how about you?"
The picture this time was of the inner city train station. Or rather, it was the noodle stand directly out the front. Many a time did Paranoia recall herself eating there both to and from her commute to work, unwittingly gorging herself on bowl after bowl of piping hot food. Even now she could almost taste it all at the back of her throat, drinking down that oily soup which was no doubt responsible for the devastation that had been done to her once broad hips. Sitting on the train for several hours, feeling her ass get fatter whilst she waited, the very last time she had ever sampled that salty broth was the day she had moved away for good. But why could she still taste it like it was right in front of her?
That's when she noticed.
"Ooff, maybe I'm not quite ready to throw in the dieting towel yet," Paranoia lamented as she looked up at herself in the mirror. A small roll of fat she had not noticed before bulged out from the side of her dress. She turned to her side, passing her hands down over her body to feel that her hips weren't quite as thin as she had thought they were.
"At least I never lost these from when I was big," she muttered as her hands cupped around her full breasts. Somehow they looked slightly bigger than she had remembered them.
The phone began to ring once more.
This time the accompanying photo was of the local bakery not a few blocks away from her home. She remembered the wafting scent of freshly baked bread and puff pastry, the thick creamy centres of caramel cupcakes and the splendour of buttermilk cookies. It had been the site of her last pig out when she had arrived in her new home, where she had eaten for nearly five straight hours and cleaned out the entire store in a single day. She had remembered the looks which the locals gave her as she rose from an empty pie tin, astounded with the appetite of a city girl. Paranoia groaned as she recalled the fullness.
"W-why does it feel like I just ate a whole birthday cake by myself," she groaned. "I haven't binged like that in months, but still I—"
She looked down at herself. The single roll around her gut was definitely larger. Her stomach was definitely bigger than it was a few minutes ago, just beginning to hang down. Her hips flared out and her breasts had grown larger. She ran her hands down her thighs.
"C-cellulite?" she spluttered, feeling the undeniably flabby surface that was joined to the swell of her ass. "H-How could I have missed this?!"
She began to angle herself in the mirror, taking in and acknowledging the enormity of her ass. This was an absolute nightmare. Having deluded herself into being thin all this time and not bothering to have looked at the back, she only grew more and more repulsed with herself as she watched her cheeks jiggle about. The little zipper where she could do her dress up wasn't even all the way down. In fact…it was starting to unzip.
"W-what the hell?!"
Her struggles with the zipper were cut short as the familiar jangling melody began to play.
Another text message and another photo, but this one was somehow different. Rather than a reminder of her fattened past, it was an image of the health food store which she had come to rely on to keep her cravings at bay. It was where she discovered healthy alternatives to her mindless gorging, food that would fill her up but not out. It was her first step down the long path which turned her from flab to fit, but for some reason it looked different. There was a large red and white sign plastered out the front.
"O-out of business?"
No sooner had she uttered her words then the zipper by her side popped clean off. The rows of jagged, metallic teeth strained to hold her dress together as one by one they began to part. Roll after thick roll of pale flab rose to the surface as Paranoia watched herself getting larger, her hips widening, her stomach beginning to sag. Her thighs gently began to knock together as her weight quickly began to climb. Her face was growing puffy and cute.
"I-I'm getting fat again?!"
This was far too much. With phone still in hand, she burst from the bathroom, the hem of her dress splitting loudly as she pumped her chubby calves and collapsed into the living room. She looked down and gasped.
Her stomach was resting over her thighs. It was growing larger, swelling like a crimson orb. It was so large and soft that it eventually began to hang down completely. Her belly button became deeper as it hugged the material of her outfit, sucking the cloth into its rapidly expanding void. As she ran her hands down to inspect herself, she could tell that her already large hips had now grown huge. She was wide, a full and ripe pear. Her ass was rippled with cellulite and thick with a network of pale, purple stretch marks after growing so big so quickly. Her panties had become a thong.
She was starting to feel light headed as she absentmindedly began to cup her growing breasts. They were getting so very large and full. Paranoia was continuing to grow by the second, feeling her skin stretch as she shot through the numbers. 250, 255, 260, 265.
"N-NO!"
Panic gripped her as she squeezed the phone tightly. Her eyes were wide and wild as she turned her gaze from the phone and stared around the room.
"Wh-what should I do?! H-how do I reject incoming calls?!"
Her fingers were growing plump before her eyes, the sausages of her past coming back to haunt her as she neared the 300 mark. She was now unmistakably fat, her dress in tatters around her as she flexed her flabby arm. She fumbled across the keypad looking to power it off, catching sight of yet another message coming in from Yoa Miu with that same message now as the subject.
Paranoia didn't even open this one and still she was growing huge. She felt so unbelievably full and bloated, her cheeks puckering into a gasp as she felt a double chin beginning to form. She was just as fat as she was before she had started her diet and still continuing to grow!
Her hips were so wide that she could hardly believe they were hers. She touched them and was rewarded by her fingers sinking into dimples of cellulite. As far as they bulged out, they were still no contender for her hanging gut, now clearly the largest part of her body that jutted out like a snow capped mountain. It swelled away from her body, overshadowing her feet beneath an array of bright new stretch marks from that rapid gain. Standing up, she noticed that it completely covered her private parts. She lifted it up and let it fall, sending ripples and waves across her obese body.
With all this touching of herself, she had again reached up to find her breasts had expanded out once more. Her perky tits were now swollen udders filled with fat. They were absolutely enormous, her nipples the size of car dials surrounded by puffy, pink areola. Her mind began to wander as she contemplated the possibilities of finding a bra to fit such huge jugs.
"T-this is just too weird!"
Sliding of the back cover, she tore out the battery and threw the set against the wall. The phone's screen went black as it hit the wall with a crunch. She picked herself up and slowly dragged herself to a corner, huddling her knees as close as she could, with her fat surging out either side of her thighs and between her legs. Her dress was hanging to her by ragged strands, looking more like a two piece set as her gut had obliterated the centre. She began to sob softly whilst lamenting the loss of her perfect figure.
The phone began to ring….and ring…and ring….
"Incoming messages 3/3"
"STOP IT! STOP IT!" Paranoia wailed, pressing her hands against her ears as she felt herself beginning to grow again. She was now definitely fatter than she had ever been, her legs being forced apart by her expanding belly and the fibres of the carpet parting for another wave of her ass.
The bottom of her dress was now completely split. Her body had grown even larger still. A morbid curiosity was welling up inside of her as she laboriously gathered herself up to return to the bathroom mirror, noticing a definite waddle to her step. Excitement and fear gripped her as she noticed that her hips were now wider than the door, forcing her to move through sideways to face herself.
"Oh…my…god…"
The woman gazing back at her in the mirror was GARGANTUAN. It was an even larger version of herself by well over 100 pounds. It wouldn't be long before she wouldn't be able to fit through the doorway sideways thanks to the great belly sticking out in front of her, seeming to go on forever as she felt their underside slap against her thighs. Her breasts could no longer retain their firmness as they began to sag a bit, looking like hyper-inflated water balloons which reached down to where her skinny navel had once been. A cold sweat began to trickle down her neck as moisture began to pool between the valley of her thighs. She reached down and was horrified to find herself soaked.
"NOOOOOOO!!"
Paranoia struggled through the doorway as she burst back out of the bathroom. Her thighs were caked in enormity, swallowing her knees and taking her calves and ankles hostage. Even such a short run began to tire her, her months of cardio training evaporating with her gain. She felt so lazy, unfit and gross. She could never be turned on by such a disgusting figure.
"I-I'm not like that! I'm not a pervert! I-I hate being fat! I HATE IT!"
Collapsing back into the living room, an eerie silence was all that followed her cries. The phone in the corner had gone dead once more, and with it so too did her gain. Opening one eye and then the other, she gingerly crawled her way towards it, her gut dragging across the carpet beneath her. Paranoia knew full well what she was about to do was wrong, but she couldn't help herself. Her trembling fingers extended before her as she picked it back up and put the battery back into place.
"W-what happened…"
She began to cycle through the messages. The first was of a vacant lot. Staring curiously, she recognized the address of the street sign in the corner to be the local gym which she had religiously attended over the last six months. For such a picture to have been taken, it must never have existed. That would explain why she had grown so huge so quickly and become so lethargic and slow. Gasping shallow breaths, Paranoia continued on.
"What…what is the next message…"
The next image was enough to chill Paranoia to the bone. The salad bar which she used to curb her cravings was set ablaze. Through thick plumes of dark smoke, she could see the wilted lettuce leaf symbol at the front amidst it all together with the people caught amidst the flames. Twisted looks of agony filled her screen, the imagery of tortured souls engraving their hollow, soundless screams into her mind. Who could have done such a terrible thing, and why was she being shown these horrifying images? She slammed the 'next' button without thinking, anything to get that terrible picture out of her sight.
"Stairs….and…my door…"
Her flabby hand cupped around her mouth as she realized what was going on. She began to break down and sob again, hugging her flab for support. Looking around her wildly, she eventually locked eyes with her front door. It was still bolted and chained. What was going to happen to her?
A flick of her thumb, and the final image was displayed. Paranoia's grip tightened around her breasts as her eyes went as wide as saucers. There, on that little LCD screen, was a picture of her enormous self, huddled up in terror and well over 400 pounds.
She was so unbelievably fat now. Her belly pooled over her knees like she was clutching a beanbag, her breasts were so ripe and full that their bottoms were nearly halfway to the floor. Roll after roll cascaded and flowed down her body, swallowing her up in an ocean of fat. Her ass was like a throne behind her that lifted her body up from the ground.
As terrifying as having her figure ruined beyond recovery was, the final message which came with the image was one which would be forever seared into her memory. She began to sob even harder as she clutched the phone in her flabby fist.
"I don't know what I want today...how about you?"
Paranoia screamed. She cried and yelled until her throat was sore. Failing to stand several times, she eventually dragged herself back into the corner of the room, eyes wide with terror as she looked around. Rationality would take its time to return to her as she tried to make sense of what was happening to her body.
"B-but there's nobody here…how was this picture taken…"
There was a loud thump. It was coming from the kitchen. Slowly but surely, she managed to gather up the courage to see who was there, still holding onto the phone like it was a club as she crawled across the carpet. Trying to still her breathing so as not to make a sound, she approached the corner and took a peek.
Emptiness and nothing more.
She was still completely alone. Sliding up the wall and back onto her feet, the only thing amiss was the refrigerator door being open just a crack…and the sound of creaking floorboards beneath her feet. That unnerving sound causes her to hold her breath, inciting a childish urge for her to run to her bedroom and pull a blanket over her head. But she just had to know.
"It…It…It can't be…"
A dangerous thought began to brew in her terror-addled mind. She hit the camera button on her phone to bring up the viewfinder and carefully began to pan it across the room. From her microwave to the pantry, the stove to the wall, she scanned each and every segment of the kitchen. Her fingers began to tremble again as she closed in on the refrigerator and caught a glimpse of a pale figure standing by the open door. Paranoia's heart seizes her chest.
She is greeted with a face staring back at her with a grin stretching ear to ear. Dimly lit sockets where eyes once resided stare intently at her quivering form. A text message begins to scroll across the screen beneath.
"I want you."
Daylight streamed in through Paranoia's kitchen window as she found herself in a heap on the floor. Empty wrappers surrounded her together with empty food boxes of almost every time imaginable. The fridge, the pantry, all her cupboards were open and bare.
"It feels like I've eaten everything in the neighbourhood…" Paranoia mumbled to herself as she rolled her naked flesh off the floor. "Boy do I know how to binge…"
Her breasts, belly and ass were caked in crumbs and plastic wrappers were lost between the folds of her fat. She wobbled her way to the bathroom, every step sending waves of jiggles around her equator. Her tummy was soft and plush, her arms flabby and huge, her breasts and ass were clearly on display as she sleepily shuffled about her morning routine. It was that time of the week again and her phone was resting by the sink.
Flipping through the photos, she could see that she had a lot of fun last night. She licked a splotch of cream that rested across her broad nipples, her entire body tingling with the erotic gluttony of what she had just done. This would certainly make an interesting addition to her gaining diary.
Since her parent's didn't approve of her unhealthy lifestyle, she had been forced to move away from her family home in the city in order to keep up her eating. She had binged her way from a measly 350 to a gloriously huge 550+ in only six short months and had the pictures to prove it. Flipping through her photos, she could see just how big she had grown with every passing week. This picture would mark her next milestone at a grand 600.
"Oh my, now who could have sent this?"
Expecting to find the next in her sequence, Paranoia grimaced at the sickening image before her. It was a girl who looked sickly pale, thin to the point of being almost anorexic with long blonde hair and eyes the shade of deep amethyst. Her face was contorted into a horrific scream, her bony fists seemingly pounding against the screen. Not wanting to spend a minute longer on such a morbid prank, she swiftly hit the delete button and erased it from her memory.
"Poor girl, I do hope she gets some help. She really could use a good feed. You know what they say, inside every thin girl, is a fat girl just dying to get out."
(Paranoia, as illustrated by the ever talented Mihai1988!)
dr-black-jack, Oct 30, 2010
Burke_Rakers
That was a GREAT story!
Burke_Rakers, Oct 30, 2010
fatgirl33
Just doodlin'
Very neat for Halloween! Spooky!
My only criticism is that it could have used some additional editing... but the action was great!
fatgirl33, Nov 2, 2010
Pinkbelly
amazing story, i loved it
Pinkbelly, Nov 3, 2010
Doobie Keebler
Wow! What a vivid story...definitely chilling for the Halloween holiday....and sexy, too! Keep up the great work!
Doobie Keebler, Nov 6, 2010
IrishBard
womble/leprechaun hybrid!
love it. it's great, tense, heart-pumping.
IrishBard, Nov 6, 2010
Jul 23, 2015 #7
love it shows why you shouldn't diet
grasso, Jul 23, 2015
What Are You Listening To? Redux
goodman4ssbbw, May 16, 2009
goodman4ssbbw
Funny Pictures, Cartoons, and Memes Thread
RVGleason, Feb 10, 2017
RVGleason
Delicious over eating.
sarahe543, Nov 26, 2018
sarahe543
BBW The Uncontainable - by Marlow
Tad, Mar 10, 2019
What are you happy about today?
LarryTheNoodleGuy, May 1, 2009
LarryTheNoodleGuy
goodman4ssbbw replied Jul 17, 2019 at 6:39 PM
Funny Pictures, Cartoons, and...
RVGleason replied Jul 17, 2019 at 6:16 PM
sarahe543 replied Jul 17, 2019 at 5:07 PM
The Uncontainable - by Marlow
Tad replied Jul 17, 2019 at 4:28 PM
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Question with a Question
wrenchboy replied Jul 17, 2019 at 2:25 PM
Getting tired....anyone else too?
BigElectricKat replied Jul 17, 2019 at 2:11 PM
"What ever happened to..."
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The best articles from the New York Times.
In Praise of Progress
David Brooks: Unemployment is high, and there's suffering, but global poverty is at its lowest point in human history. Afghanistan is depressing, but there are fewer wars these days than ever before, mostly because a sharp drop in civil wars. In short, everything is better, or nearly everything, and I say that as someone typing with his thumbs while getting eaten alive by mosquitoes in the back yard.Gail
Collins: Wow, the lack of power has really cheered you up. I remember just a few months ago, you were practically suicidal over the toxic politics in Washington.
Building Smarter Machines
Synthetic speech, autonomous robots, computers beating the best humans at chess and checkers. As computers grow ever smarter, a look at developments in the field of artificial intelligence.
Hints of Earth Splash a Saturnian Moon Landscape
However, if prolonged spells of 90-degree temperatures have you yearning for a refreshing icy dip, there are still plenty of bathing opportunities on Titan.
Of course the lakes there are made of liquid methane — and the 90 degrees of temperature are on the Kelvin scale, near enough to absolute zero to challenge even the most cosmically adept polar bear. The atmosphere is nitrogen and methane.
Four Ways to Kill a Climate Bill
But efforts to genetically engineer algae, which usually means to splice in genes from other organisms, worry some experts because algae play a vital role in the environment. The single-celled photosynthetic organisms produce much of the oxygen on earth and are the base of the marine food chain.
"We are not saying don't do this," said Gerald H. Groenewold, director of the University of North Dakota's Energy and Environmental Research Center, who is trying to organize a study of the risks. "We say do this with the knowledge of the implications and how to safeguard what you are doing."
The Limits of the Coded World
In one set of experiments, researchers attached sensors to the parts of monkeys' brains responsible for visual pattern recognition. The monkeys were then taught to respond to a cue by choosing to look at one of two patterns. Computers reading the sensors were able to register the decision a fraction of a second before the monkeys' eyes turned to the pattern. As the monkeys were not deliberating, but rather reacting to visual stimuli, researchers were able to plausibly claim that the computer could successfully predict the monkeys' reaction. In other words, the computer was reading the monkeys' minds and knew before they did what their decision would be.
On the Origin of Species (Annotated Text)
Darwin packed this paragraph with all of the elements of the process of natural selection. The phrasing reflects his incomparable knowledge of natural history and his revolutionary new view of nature:
"…variations useful in some way…" – the words of a lifelong collector who appreciated that individual members of a species exhibited variability.
"…the great and complex battle of life…" – unlike his predecessors who viewed nature as a peaceful, harmoniously designed landscape painting, Darwin had observed that nature was a battlefield in which there was tremendous waste and death.
"…thousands of generations?" – Darwin's grasp of time was critical, his knowledge of geology made him confident that the planet and life were much older than people had once thought, such that there was plenty of time for the process of natural selection to play out.
—Sean B. Carroll, molecular biologist and geneticist; and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin.
The Errors of Our Ways (Book Review)
Schulz begins with a question that should puzzle us more than it does: Why do we love being right? After all, she writes, "unlike many of life's other delights — chocolate, surfing, kissing — it does not enjoy any mainline access to our biochemistry: to our appetites, our adrenal glands, our limbic systems, our swoony hearts." Indeed, as she notes, "we can't enjoy kissing just anyone, but we can relish being right about almost anything," including that which we'd rather be wrong about, like "the downturn in the stock market, say, or the demise of a friend's relationship or the fact that at our spouse's insistence, we just spent 15 minutes schlepping our suitcase in exactly the opposite direction from our hotel."
Take Ivy (Slideshow)
Time has done little to dim the allure of "Take Ivy," with its guileless snapshots of handsome, fit and presumably bright young lugs disporting themselves in dining halls, on the College Green at Dartmouth, along Nassau Street in Princeton and in Harvard Yard. Credit: Teruyoshi H Girl
Pop's Lady Gaga Makeover
Furthermore, the thing that most separates Lady Gaga from the bubblegum sirens of a decade ago is that her capacity for seduction has been neutered, recontextualized. Near the end of her recent Madison Square Garden show she emerged onstage with sparklerlike contraptions on her chest and crotch, spitting out tiny, angry, smoldering bits. "You tell them I burned the place!" she shouted. It was a straightforward repudiation of hypersexualized imagery. There was nowhere to touch without getting hurt.
Plus-Size Wars
Perhaps nowhere is the cultural confusion surrounding the larger woman more pronounced than in the clothing industry's efforts to dress her. According to a 2008 survey conducted by Mintel, a market-research firm, the most frequently worn size in America is a 14. Government statistics show that 64 percent of American women are overweight (the average woman weighs 164.7 pounds). More than one-third are obese. Yet plus-size clothing (typically size 14 and above) represents only 18 percent of total revenue in the women's clothing industry. The correlation between obesity and low income goes some way toward explaining the discrepancy — the recession was particularly hard on this segment of the market, with sales declining 10 percent between 2008 and 2009, a drop twice that of the women's apparel industry over all — but it doesn't explain it entirely. That figure has been fairly constant for the past 20 years.
Everybody's a Critic of the Critics' Rabid Critics
But then a second round of notices tarnished that luster. David Edelstein of New York magazine, Stephanie Zacharek of Movieline.com and Armond White, the reliably oppositional critic at The New York Press, published pans that ranged from frustrated to weary to vitriolic, decrying the rush to inscribe "Inception" in the pantheon of cinematic greatness. For their efforts these and other similarly unimpressed writers were treated like advocates for national health care at a Tea Party rally, their motives, their professionalism, their morals and their sanity questioned, and not always politely. What seemed to provoke the most ire was that these critics had shown the temerity to mention what other critics had written, and to respond to the aggressive marketing and the early effusions.
Facebook Is to Power Company as …
"I worry that we'll end up with solutions that are familiar but not correct if we start from the wrong metaphor," she said. "And I'm not sure there is a good metaphor for Facebook."
Married, but Sleeping Alone
Technology is an even greater intrusion. Forget the tired debate about TV in the bedroom; how about your ex's Twitter feed? Anyone who's around teenage girls or techy men knows someone who checks e-mail, text messages or Facebook pages after turning out the light at night and before going to the bathroom in the morning.With all this commotion, it's no wonder the bed has become such an unappealing place to sleep. Between whining kids, buzzing BlackBerrys, stacks of unpaid bills and overturned bottles of Evian and Ambien, the bedroom has become more crowded than the kitchen. If my house is any indication ("You get up early with the kids on Monday, I'll move the car on Tuesday"), my bed needs its own Outlook calendar.
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But with women like Palin claiming they're the real feminists, the public might grow to think of "feminism" as a movement that only supports women if they're lucky enough to be independently wealthy, married mothers.
A Short History of "Feminist" Anti-Feminists
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A Basic Feminist Thought on Film
Tagged feminism, lindy west, reviews, Sex and the City 2, the stranger
We've been thinking it for two long years. All of us. Gnawing our cheeks at night, clutching at sweaty sheets, our faces hollow and gray, our once-bright eyes dimmed by the pain of too many questions. Sometimes we cry out, en masse, to a faceless god and a cold, indifferent universe that holds its secrets close. What… rasps the death rattle of our collective sanity. What is the lubrication level of Samantha Jones's 52-year-old vagina? Has the change of life dulled its sparkle? Do its aged and withered depths finally chafe from the endless pounding, pounding, pounding—cruel phallic penance demanded by the emotionally barren sexual compulsive from which it hangs? If I do not receive an update on the deep, gray caverns of Jones, I shall surely die!
Please don't die. The answer is… fine. Samantha's vagina is doing fine. She rubs yams on it, okay? She takes 48 vagina vitamins a day. It accepts unlimited male penises with the greatest of ease. Now let us never speak of it again.
Lindy West, Burkas and Birkins (Review of Sex and the City 2, in The Stranger)