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[TazManiac]

HONEY-

(random google searches...)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3609166/
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/medi ... s-of-honey

[AnotherFairportfan]

How rude. Didn't even let him finish the invocation before it dropped it on him.

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From Widdershins. Wonderful Victorian-era (mostly) steam-punkish/magical adventure comic, featuring a magician who really wishes his magic wouldn't keep grabbing small objects from other people's pockets, a professional bounty-hunter/adventurer-for-hire and her siblings (one sister is a police captain who disapproves of her activities), the magical town of Widdershins (one of the magical "anchors" of the world), the Seven Deadlies, and lots of other stuff.

Current page here. (Don't look; the 17 August page has a spoiler for mysterious stuff that's been going on since the first page, five years ago.)

[chicgeek]

Widdershins is a delight, I agree.

[Hansontoons]

HONEY-

(random google searches...)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3609166/
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/medi ... s-of-honey

Delightful movie.

[AnotherFairportfan]

Can't make this stuff up:

This July brought record-breaking heat to the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. In a town called Throop, in the Finger Lakes region of New York, residents began to notice a terrible, unexplained smell wafting their way. Residents complained to the state environmental agency, which determined that a pile of horse manure outside a stable in town had spontaneously combusted in the extremely hot and dry conditions. “It took three local fire departments more than two hours to extinguish the burning manure,” the New York Department of Environmental Conservation said in a press release.

Also, anthrax-riddled reindeer corpses emerging from the permafrost in Siberia and possible nuclear waste from a US base under melting ice in Greenland.

[Catawampus]

Can't make this stuff up:

This July brought record-breaking heat to the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. In a town called Throop, in the Finger Lakes region of New York, residents began to notice a terrible, unexplained smell wafting their way. Residents complained to the state environmental agency, which determined that a pile of horse manure outside a stable in town had spontaneously combusted in the extremely hot and dry conditions. “It took three local fire departments more than two hours to extinguish the burning manure,” the New York Department of Environmental Conservation said in a press release.

Also, anthrax-riddled reindeer corpses emerging from the permafrost in Siberia and possible nuclear waste from a US base under melting ice in Greenland.

Manure or compost piles spontaneously combusting is actually a somewhat common problem. A house just down the road from me had their garden start smouldering for several days when the mulch on their flower-beds caught. It was nice and smokey and smelly for a while.

[Catawampus]

I currently have a houseguest for an uncertain amount of time.

She and her younger brother were adopted by a couple when she was five years old. Their adoptive mother decided that, while she liked the son well enough, she didn't like her new daughter. Over the next thirteen years, the mother was not at all shy about telling her kids and everybody else that, and that she planned on kicking out the daughter as soon as she turned eighteen.

The daughter turned eighteen a few days ago. On the morning of her birthday, her mother called the police, said that her daughter had attacked her, and had her taken off to jail. One of the daughter's friends bailed her out. The mother also got a restraining order issued against her daughter. According to the order, she is not allowed near her former home. She is not allowed any contact with her adoptive family. She is not allowed to have any contact with her brother, which has him very upset. She is not allowed to attend the church that the family goes to. And since the mother works at the only high-school in the region, the daughter has been barred from attending school.

In FaceBook posts and texts to various family friends, the mother has openly admitted that she made up the whole story about the girl attacking her, and that she just did it to get rid of her daughter. Copies of many of those comments have been saved and collected.

For the moment, the girl is staying at my place. Hopefully one of her friends will be able to work out better arrangements for her to stay at soon. She has a court-appointed public defender working on her case, who is trying to work out some way of at least getting her to still go to school.

Any thoughts or ideas?

[Sgt. Howard]

I currently have a houseguest for an uncertain amount of time.

She and her younger brother were adopted by a couple when she was five years old. Their adoptive mother decided that, while she liked the son well enough, she didn't like her new daughter. Over the next thirteen years, the mother was not at all shy about telling her kids and everybody else that, and that she planned on kicking out the daughter as soon as she turned eighteen.

The daughter turned eighteen a few days ago. On the morning of her birthday, her mother called the police, said that her daughter had attacked her, and had her taken off to jail. One of the daughter's friends bailed her out. The mother also got a restraining order issued against her daughter. According to the order, she is not allowed near her former home. She is not allowed any contact with her adoptive family. She is not allowed to have any contact with her brother, which has him very upset. She is not allowed to attend the church that the family goes to. And since the mother works at the only high-school in the region, the daughter has been barred from attending school.

In FaceBook posts and texts to various family friends, the mother has openly admitted that she made up the whole story about the girl attacking her, and that she just did it to get rid of her daughter. Copies of many of those comments have been saved and collected.

For the moment, the girl is staying at my place. Hopefully one of her friends will be able to work out better arrangements for her to stay at soon. She has a court-appointed public defender working on her case, who is trying to work out some way of at least getting her to still go to school.

Any thoughts or ideas?

I'm not sure you want to hear my suggestions... let me get down off a 'full boil' and see if I can come up with something rational...

[Atomic]

At the very least the FB posts admitting the falsehood of the claims leading to the restraining order should be evidence of fraud, perjury, and possibly a Denial of Civil Rights claim, among other things.

Get depositions from as many people as possible supporting your claims about her falsehoods.

Good luck with that!

[jwhouk]

And I'd suggest getting a real lawyer, not a Public Defender - but that's just me.

[Catawampus]

At the very least the FB posts admitting the falsehood of the claims leading to the restraining order should be evidence of fraud, perjury, and possibly a Denial of Civil Rights claim, among other things.

Get depositions from as many people as possible supporting your claims about her falsehoods.

Yeah the mother pretty much shot herself in the foot with all of her talk about faking the charges to get the girl out of the house. The daughter has never had any trouble with the law, has a good school record, and lots of friends volunteering as character witnesses and volunteering the mother's texts. It's pretty much certain that the whole thing will be thrown out. . .but it will take a good bit of time before the legal process grinds its way to that point. Until then, the kid's stuck in place. She can't afford to hire a lawyer, and nobody's offered to go pro bono. And if she misses too many days of school, she'll have to start her senior year over again next year (her friends at school are giving her copies of all the notes and work and such, and I'm trying to help her with the studying, but I'm not a Certified Home Schooling Teacher or whatever the laws require so it won't count as anything official).

[AnotherFairportfan]

I can't recall - where are you located?

[Warrl]

I currently have a houseguest for an uncertain amount of time.

She and her younger brother were adopted by a couple when she was five years old. Their adoptive mother decided that, while she liked the son well enough, she didn't like her new daughter. Over the next thirteen years, the mother was not at all shy about telling her kids and everybody else that, and that she planned on kicking out the daughter as soon as she turned eighteen.

The daughter turned eighteen a few days ago. On the morning of her birthday, her mother called the police, said that her daughter had attacked her, and had her taken off to jail. One of the daughter's friends bailed her out. The mother also got a restraining order issued against her daughter. According to the order, she is not allowed near her former home. She is not allowed any contact with her adoptive family. She is not allowed to have any contact with her brother, which has him very upset. She is not allowed to attend the church that the family goes to. And since the mother works at the only high-school in the region, the daughter has been barred from attending school.

In FaceBook posts and texts to various family friends, the mother has openly admitted that she made up the whole story about the girl attacking her, and that she just did it to get rid of her daughter. Copies of many of those comments have been saved and collected.

For the moment, the girl is staying at my place. Hopefully one of her friends will be able to work out better arrangements for her to stay at soon. She has a court-appointed public defender working on her case, who is trying to work out some way of at least getting her to still go to school.

Any thoughts or ideas?

Prosecute for filing a false police report. And I think it's likely there was some perjury involved in getting the incredibly-broad restraining order. Neither this girl nor her brother deserves being saddled with a "mother" like that.

[GlytchMeister]

I'm not sure you want to hear my suggestions... let me get down off a 'full boil' and see if I can come up with something rational...

I can't recall - where are you located?

...Shit like this makes me want to come out of "retirement"...

If you are within my sphere of influence, I'll gladly help however I can. This has already entered the courts, though, so I don't want to mess things up by running the woman out of town. I doubt you are in my area, though, so I don't know how I can help... If things get bad enough and the girl has to leave town, Peoria is a friendly enough place, and I can put her up in a safehouse until she is ready to live on her own. I can probably help her get a job, too.

[Alkarii]

I was gonna post something implying violence, but I stopped myself, because I need all the good karma I can get right now.

[Sgt. Howard]

Those who demonize another's life live in a hell of their own creation... is this Woman insanely jealous? It dawns on me that I have seen this scenario before...

[lake_wrangler]

Here's another quote my wallpaper setter threw up:

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

- Orson Welles

[Alkarii]

I had to come home during my lunch break to rescue my cat from a tree. He snuck out, and the damn neighborhood dogs chased him up there. We had no way to climb up there, so eventually mom brought out a telescoping pole for hanging Christmas lights. I used it to break a skinny part of the branch. I was directly below him, but he didn't fall straight down.

He and his stubby little tail are intact and fine, so hopefully he learned to not sneak out with our dogs.

[lake_wrangler]

Another quote from my wallpaper setter:

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thriteenth or the fourteenth.

- George Burns

And another one:

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

- Oscar Wilde

[Catawampus]

I had to come home during my lunch break to rescue my cat from a tree. He snuck out, and the damn neighborhood dogs chased him up there. We had no way to climb up there, so eventually mom brought out a telescoping pole for hanging Christmas lights. I used it to break a skinny part of the branch. I was directly below him, but he didn't fall straight down.

He and his stubby little tail are intact and fine, so hopefully he learned to not sneak out with our dogs.

I had a very large cat, and the first time that she decided to climb a tree also ended up being her only time doing so. She got about twenty feet up, then tried going out onto a branch. The branch snapped. There were many further branches between her and the ground, and I'm sure that she hit every one of them on the way down.

She kept trying to yowl on the way down, but kept getting the breath knocked out of her so it ended up sounding like, "MRRRRRRAAAA-*thunk*-gaspMRRRRROOOO-*thunk*-gaspMRRRRAA-*thunk*-wheezeMRRRAAAaaa-*SPLAT*". Very dignified.

She avoided trees after that.