SIDEBAR #58 - Travis Alexander forum

[GigiG]

OK, you've joined our bus trip, thanks for taking us to China.

I now have laryngitis on top of a sinus and ear infection. This time I don't sound like mickey mouse. My we all are having the after the holidays colds and things aren't we? You'd think having laryngitis would be a blessing for a man wouldn't you?

Shhhhh! Save your voice. Gargle with saltwater, get some rest, and please get well soon...

 

[geevee]

Oh Hope, the adventures you've had! Great story, and I bet the bus passengers have told a version of it often. lol

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

For those that wonder just how big is Dallas - Fort Worth is. This is the metroplex at night, the yellow outline is the state of Connecticut. To us it's a drive across town.





[video=youtu;fTh-4Ss07AE]http://youtu.be/fTh-4Ss07AE[/video]

 

[Hope4More]

Oh Hope, the adventures you've had! Great story, and I bet the bus passengers have told a version of it often. lol

Thank you. And LMAO, I'm sure some of them did!

 

[Zuri]

This is a great idea. I want in. LOL

Seriously, this is a really good idea because of 2 reasons.
1-lots of people have trouble with the larger pills.
2-you could customize the supplements you need

It would be rather simple too to provide a custom order MIX KIT for people. Like let people order in powder form smaller bottles of all the different supplements they need. Then provide them a nice scale, a small measuring spoon, a mixing bottle, and then SMALL empty natural gelatin capsules OR a way to mix into a liquid form to drink.

The mixing kit would be the only thing we need to invent and then we could work with supplement providers directly for our supplement powders. Then we hire a few people and a small office and get a cheap billing system from Quiken. Then we........

Getting carried away....LOL

Seriously though I love this idea and we should have our business up and running in no time. Who is ready for our new job. We can even work from home and use FedEx to process orders for customers.

Check out your compounding pharmacies and see what they have. They can make pills into a more palliative form. Also, some pills you can smash and take with applesauce or empty the capsule contents into the applesauce.

 

[Zuri]

Good to know you are improving, coffeeJ. I am doing better this morning, too. Now if I can keep myself from over-doing today I just may be able to enjoy the weekend.

GigiG, thanks for the tip on B12 tablets. Will look into getting some.

Sending :hug: out to all who would like one, and jingles to all who need them. Enjoy your Friday!

Along with the B12, see if some iron supplement will help in conjunction. I will ask DH what he has seen with his patients.

 

[Zuri]

My DH thought he was immune to all viruses as is he exposed to them all the time. Nope. He has had some laryngeal, hoarse, respiratory mess this week. The week before it was a GI virus. Thank fully, he is relegated to certain areas of the house. Mainly all of it except within 20 feet of me. I wear a mask or hide under the covers and hold my breath. Very scientific.

 

[Zuri]

Last weekend, (not ready to talk about the other just yet) DH and I met up with KCL and her DH in Philadelphia again. We had the most delicious dinner at Buddakhan, an Asian Fusion restaurant. OMG . Fabulous food and wonderful time. We were there for almost 4 hours.

We stayed at the Sofitel, which is one fab hotel. They greet their guests in French, and without thinking I respond in French and start conversing. Unfortunately, I was not intoxicated otherwise I would have been speaking fluently in my head. Now my French is 40 years old, but heh, thanks to Susza it is coming back lol.

They really have some great deals in The month of January at the luxury hotels it seems. It was glorious. Unfortunately, KCL had been exposed to a backed up wood stove, oil furnace soot and liquid pig manure fertilizer while in PA and was coughing non stop. Oh you can't take a city girl and put her in the country that is for sure, especially when they are treating the fields. Fortunately for her, there was a doctor present and an RN friend who never travels without her shoe bag of tricks. (Meds). And said friend is very very bossy, pushy, obnoxious when it comes to taking meds to feel better. Guess who won?

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Last weekend, (not ready to talk about the other just yet) DH and I met up with KCL and her DH in Philadelphia again. We had the most delicious dinner at Buddakhan, an Asian Fusion restaurant. OMG . Fabulous food and wonderful time. We were there for almost 4 hours.

We stayed at the Sofitel, which is one fab hotel. They greet their guests in French, and without thinking I respond in French and start conversing. Unfortunately, I was not intoxicated otherwise I would have been speaking fluently in my head. Now my French is 40 years old, but heh, thanks to Susza it is coming back lol.

They really have some great deals in The month of January at the luxury hotels it seems. It was glorious. Unfortunately, KCL had been exposed to a backed up wood stove, oil furnace soot and liquid pig manure fertilizer while in PA and was coughing non stop. Oh you can't take a city girl and put her in the country that is for sure, especially when they are treating the fields. Fortunately for her, there was a doctor present and an RN friend who never travels without her shoe bag of tricks. (Meds). And said friend is very very bossy, pushy, obnoxious when it comes to taking meds to feel better. Guess who won?

I have a bag that is called my drug bag. My niece called it that one year when on one of our family vacations ( this involves at least twenty human beings) and she was looking for some tums for my brother and said she knew I had to have something in there. So it's called my drug bag for years.

I had an old worn leather hobo bag in the sixties and it was amazing all that I had in there. I had a make up bag, a small sewing kit, deck of cards, a small first aid kit, an extra toothbrush and paste were just a few. I still have a bag that I carry to my sisters each day that weighs a ton. I have my tablet, my gameboy and games, two decks of cards ((good for playing while sitting in a hospital waiting room),pens and paper, a small sewing and first aid kit. matches, and much much more.

Zuri, the small Vera Bradley bags you gave to the Alexanders is like mine but without that much gold. It's about worn out and I'm looking a get carried away tote to replace it since it looks like it can carry all my crap.


So happy to hear you saw KCL and dh again. I can understand the oil fumes, my friends in Pa. and in Richmond used coal oil for heating and I didn't get used to it when I visited, and down here you have to be used to wood smoke, sometimes we have three or four people smoking briskets and pork butts through out the night in our neighborhood (found out today while getting my hair done (are you too young to remember when hair was "frosted" instead of "highlights of today?) and our neighbor (and barber) told me that the neighbors next to us cooked a whole pig in their front yard over the holidays. Which leads us to liquid pig poop? Why and how? Please explain.

 

[Zuri]

Pages, pig poop is collected, filtered, concentrated then water added and sprayed. Pig poop smells the closest to humans... Farmers spread it on their fields as it gets the ground ripe for planting. The smell is as noxious as you can imagine.

 

[Spellbound]

OH, Hope4More, I hope for more stories like this to be told. You made it sound like one fabulously terrific, though equally dreadful, experience. GlD up you shared here.

Pages, do get better!

Zuri, you take care after being around all those horrible ills!

Speaking of which .... last weekend my hubby awoke during the night with uncontrollable shaking of every part of his body, aching joints, and a temperature of only 94 degrees! I wanted to take him to ER, but he wanted to wait. After a few hours the fever was back to near normal andd the shaking was nearly gone. He went to his doctor two days later, and was told he had a virus. It was quite a scare.

 

[Zuri]

Pages, I like Vera Bradley bags very much as they can hold a ton and are soft. I also have a monogrammed one from LL Bean that holds a lot. And of course, because I have to have umpteen of everything, there are bags for horse shows, overnights, elite gatherings etc. And I go very few places.

I asked myself the other day why I had so many shoes the other day. It is beyond ridiculous. But cute shoes are necessary to one's health I say.

Pages, of course I remember frosted through the cap! Now it is foiled.La te da!

 

[Zuri]

OH, Hope4More, I hope for more stories like this to be told. You made it sound like one fabulously terrific, though equally dreadful, experience. GlD up you shared here.

Pages, do get better!

Zuri, you take care after being around all those horrible ills!

Speaking of which .... last weekend my hubby awoke during the night with uncontrollable shaking of every part of his body, aching joints, and a temperature of only 94 degrees! I wanted to take him to ER, but he wanted to wait. After a few hours the fever was back to near normal andd the shaking was nearly gone. He went to his doctor two days later, and was told he had a virus. It was quite a scare.

Spellbound, the low temp is usually indicative of a virus. When this happens, alternate Tylenol and Motrin every two hours and push the Gatorade. Shivering is the body's way of generating heat. So glad he is better. In the ER you would have probably had to wait awhile to be seen so IMO, you all did the right thing.

DH went through that and he looked grey! I was like whoa. He never gets that sick.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Pages, pig poop is collected, filtered, concentrated then water added and sprayed. Pig poop smells the closest to humans... Farmers spread it on their fields as it gets the ground ripe for planting. The smell is as noxious as you can imagine.

So, is that what they're aiming for? A big outhouse smell?

 

[coffeejunkie]

Let me tell you about my week...the steroids have me so hyped-up I could climb walls! My brain will not shut down! So far the week I have burned my hand, broke 2 drinking glasses, cracked my knee on dining room chair, ran my elbow into the door jam, bumped into about everything in this house...and top it off! I fell! I don't think Calgon can take me away.
Taking some adavin for the nerves, but not helping much. Maybe, double the does? Tomorrow is my last pill, hopefully it will soon leave my system and I can get back to normal.

OK! that's All Folks! I can't set still any longer. LOVE YA ALL!!

 

[Spellbound]

So, is that what they're aiming for? A big outhouse smell?

I don't know, but it works. There are a few places we know not to drive during certain days/seasons out here in the country. Never quite figured out what the awful smell in the fields was, but blamed cows. Ha! Zuri, you are brilliant! It surely must be pig poop!! Ahhhh, the fresh scent of country living.... sometimes.


CoffeeJ, sit down and stay there!

 

[YESorNO]

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The weather channel is reporting that lake-affect snow is coming this afternoon to my area.

Hope there's not going to be a lot of snow. :snowflake::snowflake::snowflake:

:snowball:

Going out today to scout-out some jewelry for my son's GF for Valentine's Day. He 's a babe-in-the woods when it comes to jewelry for woman, so should be interesting. :facepalm:

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Judge: Parallels in toddler death cases (with clip)
Casey Anthony trial judge sees similarities in Lonzie Barton case

"...Lonzie Barton was nearly 2 years old when he disappeared last July. Police announced Monday that they believe they found his remains in a garbage heap in a wooded area of Jacksonville.

State Attorney Angela Corey noted similarities in the cases after the remains were discovered.

Former Judge Belvin Perry, who is now an attorney with Morgan & Morgan, said the most difficult aspect is the similar six-month time frames...

Corey said after the remains were found that more charges were likely coming in the case, but she declined to say how many or who those charges would be filed against.
Ruben Ebron, the man police have long called their prime suspect in the boy's disappearance, is already awaiting trial on charges of child neglect, lying to police and tampering with evidence. Lonzie's mother, Lonna Barton, who was Ebron's girlfriend when the toddler was reported missing, pleaded guilty last week to charges of child neglect and lying to police..."

http://www.news4jax.com/news/judge-parallels-in-toddler-death-cases

WS thread: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...e-Barton-2-Jacksonville-24-July-2015-9/page56

Link: http://www.fccrimestoppers.com/Pictures/201507301253480.jpg
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McStay family murder suspect demands trial, may lose attorneys

"SAN BERNARDINO >> Attorneys for McStay family murder suspect Charles “Chase” Merritt asked to be relieved as his counsel during a pretrial hearing Friday in San Bernardino Superior Court after Merritt told the judge he did not want to waive any more time and wanted to go to trial...

Merritt’s request prompted Maline and attorney David Askander to request they be relieved from representing Merritt, but Merrit’s lead attorney, Jimmy Mettias, was not present, so Smith set a hearing for Tuesday, where it will then be decided if Merritt’s trial will proceed in April, without Merritt’s current attorneys. Askander is an attorney at the Mettias Law Firm, which has offices in Victorville and Rancho Cucamonga...

Maline said it is highly unusual for a capital murder case to go to trial within 17 months of the defendant’s arrest and being charged, and even more unusual when the case is built on mainly circumstantial evidence.

“He wants to vindicate himself and go on with his life,” Maline said of Merritt. “I agree with the fact that it should be done as soon as possible; however, April is too soon.”..."

http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/2...rder-suspect-demands-trial-may-lose-attorneys

WS thread: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ew-Facts-from-CM-s-Preliminary-Hearing/page48
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Probe underway after Camden County woman found dead in woods

"...New Jersey State Police on Thursday identified Danyelle Minerva, 19, of Atco, as the woman whose remains were found in a wooded part of Salem County.

The cause of death remained unknown Thursday. Investigators are considering her death potentially suspicious because of where the body was found, said Sgt. Jeff Flynn, a state police spokesman..."

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/b...ay_after_Camco_woman_found_dead_in_woods.html

WS thread: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...Danyelle-Minerva-19-Waterford-14-October-2015
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[YESorNO]

The Father of Mass Murder

"Like many people, Howard Unruh had a beef with his neighbors. So he killed them.

It was the morning after Labor Day, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 1949, when the gaunt 28-year-old World War II veteran decided he had enough, enough of the whispers, the taunts, the irritating noises that never end when other people live nearby...

In his interrogation, Unruh calmly admitted that, infuriated by the actions and "derogatory comments" of his neighbors, he had laid his plans the night before. "I had been thinking about killing them for some time," he said...

I'd have killed a thousand if I had bullets enough," he said.

If ever there was a case where the death penalty applied this would have appeared to be it.

But there was never a trial. Psychiatrists slapped on the label of paranoid schizophrenic, and said the illness had been festering throughout his life..."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/father-mass-murder-article-1.324326
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Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind

"So Howard Unruh is finally dead. I think I've been waiting for the news all year, ever since his longtime lawyer, James Klein, informed me some time ago that Unruh's health was in very bad shape - evidently to the point of no longer being lucid. He'd spent the last 60 years of his life in various mental institutions, most recently the Trenton State Hospital...

For some, a bogeyman of sorts will be put to rest, as Unruh is no longer a living symbol of mass horror in a recognizable place. He's no longer the representative of post-war attitudes on justice and mental health, which ruled he was incompetent - a far cry, I suspect, from how his case would have been handled had it happened in the present day. But for me, it's a bit more complicated, as I wrote in a post this past January, the day after his 88th and final birthday:.."

http://www.sarahweinman.com/confessions/2009/10/on-howard-unruh.html
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Last survivor of Unruh massacre dies

"It was Charles Cohen's fervent wish to close a 60-year chapter in his life with the death of Howard Unruh.

It was Unruh who brought mass murder into the modern lexicon when he shot to death 13 people -- including Cohen's parents and grandmother -- in a Camden rampage 60 years ago last Sunday.

Instead Unruh outlived Cohen, who died of a stroke last week at 72..

Editor's Note: Howard Unruh died at age 88 just about a month after this story was published, on Oct. 19, 2009..."

http://www.courierpostonline.com/st...ast-survivor-of-unruh-massacre-dies/15066261/
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[YESorNO]

S. Korea prosecutors seek 20 years for American in new trial

"SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean prosecutors have asked for a 20-year prison term for an American charged with fatally stabbing a South Korean university student at a Seoul Burger King restaurant in 1997.

Prosecutors made the request Friday at the end of the new trial of Arthur Patterson from California, according to spokesman Joon Young Maeng at the Seoul Central District Court. Maeng said that the court verdict was set for Jan. 29..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-...-us-murder-suspect/?utm_hp_ref=world&ir=world
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New Orleans to Poor Criminal Defendants: We Can't Defend You

"The office responsible for providing free legal services to defendants in New Orleans who can’t afford lawyers will start turning clients away this week. The city’s public defender’s office warned last fall that this day was coming. And it came on January 12, when the office announced that it would have to stop taking on indigent clients charged with serious felonies, particularly those facing life sentences. The office no longer has enough staff or resources to handle the heavy load of criminal cases coming across its desk, a problem largely attributable to a paucity of funds from the state.

“Our workload has now reached unmanageable levels, resulting in a constitutional crisis,” said Chief Defender Derwyn Bunton in a January 12 press release. “OPD’s caseloads far exceed national caseload standards, and we simply don’t have the capacity to ethically represent the most serious offenses.”..."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...inal-defendants-we-cant-defend-you/ar-BBocDyc
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Florida Asks Court to Deny Inmate's Execution-Delay Request

"Florida asked the state's high court on Thursday to reject a condemned inmate's request to delay his execution based on the U.S. Supreme Court's finding that its procedure for imposing the death penalty is illegal.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi's office said the U.S. Supreme Court's finding should not be applied retroactively to already-settled death penalty cases.
Ruling on the Hurst v. Florida case Tuesday, the nation's highest court ruled 8-1 that Florida's procedure is flawed because it allows judges, not juries, to decide death sentences.

Michael Lambrix is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Feb. 11, and there are questions about how the Supreme Court's ruling will affect his case and those of Florida's 390 death row inmates. Lambrix was sentenced to death for the 1983 slayings of two people he met at a bar. Prosecutors said he killed them after inviting them home for a spaghetti dinner..."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/florida-asks-court-deny-inmates-execution-delay-request-36289654
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Florida Supreme Court refuses to halt next scheduled execution

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article54978185.html
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[YESorNO]

3 Important Takeaways About The Criminal Justice System From Netflix's 'Making a Murderer'

"1. At every stage in the criminal justice system, poor people in the United States, disproportionally people of color, receive less justice than anyone else...

2. Police officers, prosecutors and other people in authority are not inherently good -- or bad...

3. Criminal defendants -- like victims -- have innocent family members who are deeply affected by the level of fairness in our criminal justice system..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-a-cooper/three-important-takeaways_b_8982914.html
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The Tragic Gunshot That Ruined Lucille Ball's Childhood

"...Ball's story is a different kind of gun violence tragedy than the ones we are--in our dystopian reality--accustomed to hearing about. It was an accidental shooting on private property, not an inexplicable mass attack in a public space. It didn't leave anyone dead--but it did leave two families in ruins...

And I wonder how our country has become accustomed to mass killings of children and young people at schools and colleges. When 13 people were massacred at Columbine High School in 1999, the effect on the country was comparable to that of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. When Virginia Tech was locked down in 2011, people asked how this is still happening. Now, it seems, people have simply accepted that these things happen; that's the world today. Or at least our country. I don't have children, but if I did, I would have a hard time sending them off to school knowing that they might not come back..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david...at-r_b_8937908.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
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Murder she wrought
Female thrill-killers are rare in crime fiction. Why is it hard to imagine a woman who murders for pleasure not revenge?

"As a crime writer, I think a lot about violence – and I get quizzed about it at literary events and festivals in a way that my male colleagues don’t. One question that comes up often is: have you considered creating a female thrill-killer? That is, a female perpetrator who kills for pleasure rather than in revenge or self-defence. They’re a rare breed in crime fiction, yet readers seem fascinated by their fictive potential. Most often they’re seen as purely literary creations, the inventions of a writer’s dark mind. Readers want to see women thrill-killers in fiction without necessarily believing they exist in real life. In many reader’s minds, they inhabit the same category as vampires or superheroes..."

https://aeon.co/essays/why-are-so-few-crime-novels-about-female-thrill-killers
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Justice: Not as Seen on Television

"Network TV shows present a highly biased view of the criminal justice system. In shows like Law and Order, Chicago Police, and others, the police are portrayed as noble and heroic figures rushing to thwart nefarious criminal elements with an undying passion, driven by a sense of love for the community. Prosecutors are cast as dedicated justice advocates whose desire to convict is driven by an overriding sense of responsibility to do right by the victims on whose behalf they are working.

The consequences of these kinds of one-sided portrayals are that the general population is lulled into a sense of complacency through the lens of fictionalized accounts. The media then becomes an agenda setter, giving credence to a flawed system and the failed polices that keep it functioning..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brand...sion_b_8894538.html?utm_hp_ref=crime&ir=Crime
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