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As wildfire smoke becomes a part of life on the West Coast, so do its health risks (Washington Post) Every morning for the past few weeks, JoEllen Depakakibo has had a new kind of morning routine. She sets her alarm for 6 and opens the Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow site on her phone. If the Air Quality Index (AQI) passes 150, called “unhealthy” by the EPA, Depakakibo has her employees shut the main door and turn on a medical-grade air purifier inside Pinhole Coffee Shop, the cafe she opened here six years ago. If it passes 200, they close the cafe. She’s had to shut five times in recent weeks because of the smoke that has stubbornly settled over the city. The fires are also having a massive impact on people far from any actual flames. Massive plumes of smoke have converged and covered almost the entire western edge of the United States. It has drifted into the neighboring states of Nevada and Arizona, lowering air quality in some parts. And smoke has even blotted out the sun thousands of miles away in D.C. The haze along the West Coast has created the most polluted air in the world over the past week, forcing millions of residents indoors. And the smoke is creating short- and long-term health risks for everyone exposed, health experts say.

Showdown set as US to declare UN sanctions on Iran are back (AP) In defiance of overwhelming opposition, the United States is preparing to declare that all international sanctions against Iran have been restored. Few countries believe the move is legal, and such action could provoke a credibility crisis at the United Nations. Virtually alone in the world, the Trump administration will announce on Saturday that U.N. sanctions on Iran eased under the 2015 nuclear deal are back in force. But the other members of the U.N. Security Council, including U.S. allies, disagree and have vowed to ignore the step. That sets the stage for ugly confrontations as the world body prepares to celebrate its 75th anniversary at a coronavirus-restricted General Assembly session next week. The question is how the Trump administration will respond to being ignored. It already has slapped extensive sanctions on Iran, but could impose penalties on countries that don’t enforce the U.N. sanctions it claims to have reimposed. A wholesale rejection of the U.S. position could push the administration, which has already withdrawn from multiple U.N. agencies, organizations and treaties, further away from the international community.

MiGs on the campaign trail (Foreign Policy) The fundraising arm of the Trump campaign issued a digital ad centered on supporting U.S. troops, which ran from Sept. 8 through Sept. 12. The only problem? It used photos of Russian fighter jets, Politico reports.

Remote work vs. office work (Bloomberg) A Gallup survey conducted for Wells Fargo found 42 percent of the 1,094 workers it surveyed looked favorably on working remotely compared to just 14 percent who viewed it negatively. Other surveys conducted for large employers have found similar interest in at least partial work-from-home moving forward. When a management consultancy asked 1,000 people in June what they were looking forward to when returning to the office, 20 percent said “nothing at all.” In related news (via Business Insider), the vast majority (83%) of millennials currently living near a major tech hub, such as Silicon Valley or New York, plan to or are considering a move to a more affordable city because of COVID, according to new data from a survey of 500 US tech workers by domain extension provider .Tech Domains. It coincides with US tech giants pioneering new flexible working policies because of the pandemic.

Gulf Coast braces for 2nd round of flooding in Sally’s wake (AP) Homeowners and businesses along the soggy Gulf Coast began cleaning up Thursday in the wake of Hurricane Sally, even as the region braced for a delayed, second round of flooding in the coming days from rivers and creeks swollen by the storm’s heavy rains. In hard-hit Pensacola and surrounding Escambia County, where Sally’s floodwaters surged through downtown streets and lapped at car door handles on Wednesday before receding, authorities went door-to-door to check on residents and warn them the danger wasn’t over. With the Florida Panhandle and Alabama on alert, Sally’s rainy remnants pushed farther inland across the Southeast, causing flooding in Georgia and threatening more of the same on Friday in North Carolina and Virginia. Forecasters said Georgia could get up to a foot (30 centimeters), and South Carolina 10 inches (25 centimeters).

For Mexico, a somber Independence Day (Washington Post) Troops marched in formation across a deserted public plaza in the Mexican capital Wednesday, and military planes rocketed across a clear blue sky to mark the country’s independence from Spain. But while many Mexicans enjoyed the day off, lingering in bars and eateries across the city, the prevailing mood was one of brief escapism from a dark and worrying time, defined by the devastation of a virus that has take more than 71,600 lives and hammered the economy. “We are proud, but we are angry and sad at the same time,” said Laura Santander, 28, a physician who was sipping rum and Cokes with friends at a noisy cafe. “This is our nation’s birthday, and normally we love to celebrate and shout and carry on. But we know the pandemic is not going to go away for a long time. It is eclipsing our pride.”

Back to the past in Bolivia? (Foreign Policy) An opinion poll published on Wednesday suggests that Luis Arce, the candidate representing former Bolivian President Evo Morales’s Movement for Socialism, is leading all other candidates for next month’s presidential election, a sign that Morales’s legacy in the country is still strong. Arce served as the country’s minister of finance from 2006 to 2017, and was a close ally of Morales. According to the poll, Arce’s support stands at 40.3 percent, distantly followed by former President Carlos Mesa and current interim President Jeanine Áñez, the former senator who took over the presidency after Morales’s forced resignation in November.

Lesbos and its migrants (NYT) One week after a fire razed Europe’s largest migrant camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos, few countries have offered to take in any of the 12,500 people who became homeless, and while the Greek government has quickly erected a makeshift tent camp, migrants and aid workers fear it will fall into the same squalid conditions that have symbolized the continent’s failures.

As India’s virus cases rise, so do questions over death toll (AP) When Narayan Mitra died on July 16, a day after being admitted to the hospital for fever and breathing difficulties, his name never appeared on any of the official lists put out daily of those killed by the coronavirus. Test results later revealed that Mitra had indeed been infected with COVID-19, but the virus was deemed an “incidental” factor. “He died because of the virus, and there is no point lying about it,” Abhijit Mitra said of the finding. Such exclusions could explain why India, which has recorded more than 5.1 million infections—second only to the United States—has a death toll of about 83,000 in a country of 1.3 billion people. India’s Health Ministry has cited this as evidence of its success in fighting the pandemic. But experts say the numbers are misleading and that India is not counting many deaths. (Other countries are reportedly guilty of the same.)

U.S. Sending Weapons to Taiwan as Tensions With China Remain High (Foreign Policy) The United States is planning to sell a range of new weapons to Taiwan, deepening its commitment to the island nation amid deteriorating relations with Beijing. Sources told Reuters that the sales include seven major weapons systems, including mines, cruise missiles, and drones; a huge supply of weaponry that represents a major departure from the more conservative approach taken by past administrations. Details obtained by the Wall Street Journal said that the deal was expected to total around $7 billion, and would include $400 million worth of sophisticated drones, complete with sensors, logistics, training, and other equipment. The move is sure to provoke a strong reaction in Beijing. China has long considered Taiwan to be part of its national territory, and it strongly opposes any overtures by the United States to develop deeper ties with the country.

Churches have become South Korea’s coronavirus battleground (Washington Post) In South Korea, Christians find themselves at the center of pandemic controversy, after places of worship and Christian communities were blamed by President Moon Jae-in for two waves of coronavirus infections. The ensuing dispute has mixed religion, epidemiology and politics in a nation where nearly 1 in 3 people identify as Christian and where those who do often lean conservative, putting them at odds with Moon’s center-left government. As a result of the controversy, Seog’s Gyesan Jeil Church—in Incheon city, southwest of the capital, Seoul—was forced to switch to largely online services last month. And the pastor is not happy. “Except for a few rule-breakers, most churches, including ours, have been carefully observing health rules at excruciating emotional and financial cost,” he said in an interview. “Enforcing these restrictions unilaterally upon all Protestant churches, this is nothing short of communism.” Meeting with leaders of Protestant groups in the Seoul area last month, Moon urged compliance with the coronavirus rules.

Under lockdown, Israel faces bitter start of Jewish New Year (AP) Eating apples dipped in honey on Rosh Hashanah is a Jewish tradition to symbolize a sweet start of the New Year. But in Israel, bitterness prevails on the eve of the holiday as the country faces a second nationwide lockdown to stem a raging coronavirus outbreak. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has imposed a three-week lockdown, beginning on Friday afternoon—just hours before Rosh Hashanah starts. Israel’s first lockdown, in March and April, put a damper on Passover, the Jewish spring holiday marking the deliverance of the ancient Hebrews from slavery in Egypt. Now, the Jewish High Holidays look to be similarly subdued. Religious and secular Israelis alike mark Rosh Hashanah with festive holiday feasts with family and friends. They pack synagogues, often spending hours in prayer, especially during the fast of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which falls later this month.

Tracking device for UAE visitors (Reuters) International passengers arriving at Abu Dhabi airport will now have to wear a tracking device while they complete a mandatory 14-day home quarantine due to COVID-19, according to state-owned Etihad Airways. Daily infections in the United Arab Emirates rose this month to their highest since the outbreak started, which officials have largely blamed on people not practicing social distancing.

Sudan flooding (AFP) The White Nile and Blue Nile rivers are Sudan’s lifeblood. Heavy rains, however, have transformed them into a force for calamity. More than 100 are dead and more than half a million are homeless in the worst flooding in at least a century. Khartoum is the worst-hit area, inundated by waters from both Nile tributaries. Humanitarian aid has been slow to arrive, and many have been sheltering in schools and government offices.

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damienheads · 5 years

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Florida to Texas

A couple months ago me and a friend I’ve known since school decided to take a road trip across America. Unlike most Brits though, we wanted to try somewhere a little different, so instead of your typical destinations like New York, Las Vegas and California, we chose the deep south - Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas. So just like that, a month and a half after coming up with the idea, we were on our way to the good ole US of A.

Our first stop was Miami, a place we both really wanted to visit. One of the first things you notice about Miami when you get off the plane, is how much Spanish influence there is. Every sign has a Spanish translation underneath, and half the people you hear talking are speaking Spanish. Being Hispanophiles ourselves, we felt right at home. The city itself looked amazing, with beautiful Art Deco style buildings everywhere and a beach that stretched for miles.

We spent the first morning in Miami having a Cuban coffee at a local breakfast joint. From the outside the place looked like a dump, with horrible green looking photos advertising what food they had out the front. However, after closer inspection, we went inside and were pleasantly surprised to find something that looked like it was straight out of a Martin Scorsese film - old school wooden chairs, grainy photos on the wall, and fresh oranges stacked up high on top of a juicer. The coffee was some of the best we’ve both ever had - strong with a touch of sweetness, poured straight into thick, frothy milk. This may sound like a bit of a funny thing to get excited about, but once you try really great coffee, you really never want to go back.

After a day of sightseeing, we then jumped back in the car and headed down to the bottom of Key West, the most southerly point of the US. This part of America is stunning, with beaches everywhere and cool little bars, restaurants and places to visit. A highlight was having my first bowl of acai - a Brazilian dessert made up of berries, nuts, granola, and all sorts of other sweet things, as well as seeing the sun set at one of the few great national parks you can visit there. The remainder of our time spent in Florida, which I could go into great detail with if I didn’t stop myself, included airboating in the Everglades, exploring the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, kayaking in the Ocala National Forest, and visiting both Panama city - a place devastated by a hurricane and taken over by bikers - and our last stop, Pensacola - an immaculate looking city with the most amazing beaches and a really cool looking downtown.

After a night of drinking and stepping into one of the blackest looking bars ever - a place that literally looked like it was out of American Gangster - we were back on the road. The first place we hit outside of Florida was a city called Mobile, in Alabama. Clearly built as a predominantly industrial city, this place you could tell had some serious industry, epitomised by the big shipyard you see when you first arrive in the city. Despite not being that attractive on the whole, the place had some really nice doses of Americana if you went down some of the smaller side streets and avenues, as we did. We decided to stop for a bite to eat at one of the many restaurants they had there - a typical American grill type place, as shown above, serving all sorts of southern style dishes. One of the main things you come across when you first eat this kind of food, is what they call ‘biscuit’, which is actually much more like a savoury British scone. Despite the food being pretty tasty, we decided to move on to our next destination.

After briefly passing through Mississippi - our third state in our trip across America - we ended up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Now this place had some serious style. Despite hearing many good things about New Orleans, I really didn’t know much of what to expect from it. You only really fully get the vibe of what is going on in that place when you first start stepping into the main part of the city - people dressing like they’re from the 70′s with bright colours everywhere, bustling streets with palm trees, and a tram system running straight through the middle of it all. The place is fully alive, like an open heart beating away. And the most exciting time to experience all of this is at night on the famous Bourbon street. Part of the French Quarter, Bourbon street has a long history, and is said to be one of the places that Jazz music really developed. After eating the city’s most famous dish, ‘red beans and rice’, we knocked back a few of the city’s most famous drink, the ironically named ‘Hurricane’ - a sweet cocktail made with rum, lemon juice, and passion fruit syrup. After a few of these we were well and truly buzzing. Hopping from bar to bar, and with live music everywhere, we had an amazing time. This was truly a great place to visit.

Our next stop on our tour across America was the big Lone Star State itself, Texas. Our first call was at the city of Houston. One of the first things you notice when arriving in Texas are the massive oil fields and industry which stretch from miles upon miles. This place has some serious industrial might and is said to have an economy $400 billion bigger than that of Russia ($1.7 trillion in total). The city of Houston reflects this massively, with endless amounts of tall buildings, and restaurants on every corner. The place is not the most beautiful up close, but there are some great little places you can go to. We spent our first night eating at a massive Mexican place called ‘Pappasito’s’ just on the edge of the city, and this place was teeming with life, and the food was great also. However, we had bigger plans in mind. The next day we loaded up the car and headed to where we really wanted to go - the shooting range.

Neither of us had ever shot a gun before, however we were both adamant that this is what we wanted to do; we were in Texas after all. Walking into the place for the first time was surreal; pistols, machine guns, rifles and shotguns, all laid up across the walls as if it were a section of Wallmart - this place was legit. After taking a brief lesson by one of the instructors on how to use a gun, we soon found ourselves on the range with an 8mm pistol. Shooting a gun for the first time is a real experience. It gives you a real adrenaline rush. We both managed a few good shots at a paper target, however, within five minutes or so, it was over. Coming back to the desk of the shooting range, we felt like we still had a little more left in us though, and so after a bit of persuading by both the instructors and ourselves, we decided to give the full automatic machine gun a little pop... Jesus christ... This thing was powerful. Firing a single shot was fine, but once you fully let load on this thing, you really feel the blowback. The shots were a little less clean on this one, however that really didn’t matter. After firing a few rounds on one of these, you truly do feel like a big man!

So we were in Texas, had just shot a pistol, and a machine gun; what was the next best thing we could do? - get a tattoo of course! Another first for me; I had never had a tattoo done in my life. After mooching down what seemed like the tattoo street of Houston, with about six different ones all lined up close to each other, we settled upon one run by a nice enough Filipino guy. After telling him what I wanted, and my budget, he not only offered to do it for a reasonable price, but to do the more complicated, original version also. This could have gone either of two ways - really bad or really well. After analysing him a little while, I decided that he was most likely one of these guys who liked the challenge of doing a really good tattoo and didn’t care too much about the money. How right was I. I ended up with something I was really happy with - a copy of the original Gadsden flag. This was something I associated with in a big way; a symbol of resistance from the original thirteen colonies of America when Britain tried to take away their rights and freedoms - such as what is happening currently with the British government trying to keep Britain locked into the anti-democratic EU.

Our last stop in Texas, and last of the trip, was at the city of Austin. I can honestly say that this was the best place I’ve ever visited in America. Like New Orleans, it was buzzing with energy, except in a totally different way - food vans everywhere, crazy looking shops and restaurants, people dressed like cowboys; this place was the real deal. After booking ourselves into the illustrious Red Roof Inn Plus, we decided to go further down town and visit ‘Barton Springs’. Despite the pool area being shut off, this place was beautiful; a river leading into a lake with great little trails on either side. People fishing, cycling, and even kayaking - this was a great little spot to use up some energy and spend some time with nature. One of the first things you notice about this place is how many turtles there are everywhere, either swimming around the river or lodged at the bottom of a tree somewhere. After a bit of swimming and sightseeing, we headed back to the ole Red Roof.

The next day we went right back near the same spot to a food van park. This place had the most amazing food, including Thai, Italian, Mexican, Venezuelan, as well as your traditional American grill and acai bowl place. We both decided on Thai and weren’t disappointed, as we both had the exact same dishes the very next day. We spent that night exploring Austin’s nightlife by going to it’s famous ‘Sixth street’. This place was buzzing in atmosphere, with all sorts of bars and nightclubs to go to. We spent the night playing a game called shuffleboard - a game in which you push a disc across a table as close to the edge as possible - as well as chasing after plenty of girls. Unfortunately, despite getting what we thought was pretty close, we weren’t so lucky - turns out getting four girls from Brooklyn back to your Red Roof Inn Plus ain’t so easy. The next couple days were rather more peaceful, spent chilling and checking out more of Austin’s interesting and vibrant culture before our eventual flight home. It was a great end to what was an amazing trip, and one that I will never forget. God bless you America, god bless you!

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sohannabarberaesque · 7 years

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Postcards from Snagglepuss: And the Emerald Coast was rather wonderful

I must admit that our night in Panama City Beach, the jewel of the Emerald Coast, alias the Redneck Riviera, was a rather long and crazy one. Especially with so many bars downtown, and the music at times tending to get rather loud and raucous ... and trying to peddle Wisconsin Dells in such places can manage to be a rather delicate balancing act, trying not to look stupid and yet avoud getting noticed by the police for Vagrancy or Unlawful Solicitation. So, in between the hush puppies and the onion rings and the Red Bull Cola, you try to make it look discreet. And for some reason, Crazy Claws seems to have worked it down to a science--just slip the Dells brochure into their hands, and say nothing otherwise.

Which didn't stop people from requesting at least my own autograph, even with the likes of flimsy-looking napkins or other pieces of scrap paper being offered on which to offer my John Hancock. And Crazy Claws adds his own such in the bargain. But when all is said and done, you need to know the limits for hush puppies--and being out on the town besides. Hence, our sleeping in our Mini Cooper in the car park beside the beach, sending in the breezes off the Gulf of Mexico to keep us lulled into a rather wonderful rest. Yet for some reason--

"Uh--Snagglepuss?" Crazy Claws suggested.

"What exactly are you thinking?" says I.

"Have you considered doing a little snorkelling off the beach before breakfast?"

Somehow, I admit that such was one of the weirdest morning bracers we heard of besides Bloody Marys.

And in any case, with the waters a bit on the still side, and the sun just coming up besides, this feline duo got into our snorkelling getup and walked our way down the beach into the water, which, admittedly, felt rather chilly. Hence, the attraction of such being a wakeup call just before breakfast. And diving in, I couldn't admit at first that this was a rather wonderful way to get up ... and sensing the waters of the Emerald Coast to be that brilliant in the pre-dawn was quite crazy in itself!

So: Towel off, find ourselves a decent little breakfast nookery, a pancake house even ... and boy, were the pancakes rather delectable! No wonder there must have been something special to the batter recipe that made those pancakes rather wonderfully light and buttery-tasting, believe you me....

Back on 98, four lane for the most part ... make the rounds of a few other coastal towns on the western fringes of the Emerald Coast, among them Laguna Beach, Inlet Beach, Seagrove Beach, Seaside, Santa Rosa Beach (where we broke for lunch at a biker bar of the weirdest sort said to have especially wonderful burgers; without doubt they turned out to be such), Destin and Fort Walton Beach. Much to be said about the Boardwalk, or what passed for it, with the inevitable tacky souvenir shops and T-shirt parlours ...

It turns out that Fort Walton Beach is gateway to Eglin Air Force Base, a rather substantial such ... so explaining a lot of jet noise from training manouvers. Not to mention some from Naval Air Station Pensacola. But then again ... time for an interesting little detour, as in leaving US 98 and taking Florida 399 through Santa Rosa Island, something of a sliver of barrier island as happens to be home to Pensacola Beach, sort of the "beach cousin" for Pensacola proper. Decide to walk around on the shore for awhile, encounter a few folks who barely recognised me (let alone Crazy Claws); couldn't resist the sensation of beach sand on our paws ... take up a little bodysurfing as well, which was something of a wonderful little experience (even if it turned out feeling a little funny between my legs) ... find ourselves a rather serendipitious seafood restaurant with a patio set upon the Gulf, the better to be entertained by as much the fresh air and the sea breezes as the dinner to hand, as in sea bass, freshly grilled, with cole slaw and hush puppies. Touch of lime as well. And also find ourselves a decent "old school" motel by the shore, the better so we could have ourselves something of a romantic-looking sunset view on the porch (as well as have some coffee besides).

But not before working the Pensacola Beach waterfront, bound to have a few Navy aviators on leave as well as the inevitable locals and tourists who, counter to what was expected, actually managed to take a liking to our offer. And in at least one not-so-dive bar (actually more of a divers' bar, what with "Diver Down" flags and diver motifs throughout), the questions about Wisconsin Dells especially couldn't get rather ridiculously amazing. Not to mention Crazy Claws' replies, including this retort: "The only Ark Encounter I would recommend taking is that at the waterpark in Wisconsin Dells they call Noah's Ark. You don't get a blatant Biblical message in your face besides." (Which certainly generated some laughs.)

So back to the motel ... and what a sunset it turned out to be, accompanied by some RC Cola and Moon Pies picked up at a convenience store on the way. Incidentally, I like the Chocolate, while Crazy Claws is fondof Banana and the odd Vanilla such. Rather chewy, I have to admit--even if the Cattanooga Cats have that "RC Cola and a Moon Pie" routine in their act. So we made a little toast to them.

... and boy, did that breeze feel rather wonderful as the darkness set in. Which was just when Huckleberry Hound called me on my mobile.

"Snagglepuss--?"

"Yes, Huckleberry?"

"I take it you're still in Florida right now--"

"Pensacola Beach, if you're asking."

"We're still working on that Aquatennial confab."

"Ohhh, I almost forgot about that. Crazy Claws, though, wants to say hi."

"Well, mighty proud of him! And I say 'hi' back!"

"In any case, you're still thinking about making this one of those short-notice meetups?"

"Right. About 72 hours' notice. The element of surprise, you know."

"Which is rather amazing, come to think of it."

(To which Crazy Claws remarked, "I do plan to be over, even if there can be an opportunity to push those Dells in the process!")

"Oh, Huck--Crazy Claws just mentioned he plans to be there."

"And by the way, you won't believe who I'm inviting to address the opening convocation."

"Drooper from The Banana Splits."

"Close, Snagglepuss--Droopy."

"DROOPY--?!"

"Yep, Droopy, that sad-eyed and slow-talking hound."

"How did you come up with him, of all Hanna-Barberadom?"

"Just a flash of inspiration coming across me."

"In any event, see you all in Minneapolis."

"The same here, Snag old boy."

So with that, the breeze couldn't have been more tonic-feeling. And to wind this thing down ... you'll have to tune in next week at this time.

#fanfic #hanna barbera #postcards #snagglepuss #crazy claws #emerald coast #panama city beach #fort walton beach #santa rosa island #pensacola beach

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Wings of Wonder: Thunderbirds and Blue Angels Soar Together at NAS Pensacola Homecoming Airshow

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mattcoder31-blog · 7 years

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sportsmaniausa0 · 5 years

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Top 10 Party Cities in the World

First of all I need to start via announcing that these are my private alternatives. I did no longer do any research on the top cities to party in or something like that.

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So these are my pinnacle 10 alternatives for the incredible cities to birthday party at.

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And yes the golf equipment and nightlife. Being from California and haven't spent an fantastic quantity of time everywhere in the kingdom, my hat flow offs to SF for being so particular. Don't get me incorrect So Cal is exceptional too, but there is some thing approximately the complete Bay environment that hits domestic.

Maybe its because I have become born proper next to SF, however I cant think about absolutely everyone who may want to ever disagree approximately SF. Make sure while you're there you see Broadway at night time, and if you're a chunk seedier motion there may be usually the Tenderloin But I don't endorse that place for the faint of coronary coronary heart or sincerely all and sundry.

04. Portland Oregon - Gotta love this town, land of the unfastened spirits and flower kids. Portland is certainly a younger new wave metropolis. Very modern-day, and notably liberal, its have been given a high-quality nightlife and amazing food. On a facet have a look at, Portland is takes the reins for the most specific Dance Clubs internal a city limits inside the entire United States. Yes loads and plenty of Strippers, its a a laugh town despite the fact that than that.

You a Fan of Whiskey? Check out the Multnomah Whiskey Library. And after a big night time of partying have a few steak and eggs at the identical time as looking the adorable woman of the Acropolis Club in Southeast Portland. Well they'll be cute at 9 inside the morning after a night time of consuming.

03. Gothenburg Sweden - This is in which I clearly name domestic right now. And permit me let you know that in case you're in search of to birthday celebration with the severely stunning human beings, then Sweden is for you. Swedish humans are just lovable in trendy. And they realize a manner to have a laugh; they may be a bit extra reserved within the beginning. But after they open up, its exercise over.

Gothenburg is 2nd to Stockholm in period, and even as I have not been to Stockholm but to evaluate. Gothenburg will always maintain a place in my coronary heart. If you're seeking out a few true stay rock there may be generally Stick Fingers. And in case you're covered in tats like me, theres the rock bar this is right up your alley. On the opposite hand if you're looking for a greater membership scene kind component move except, you wont be upset.

02. Austin Texas - I modified into very amazed by means of the downtown area of Austin. Wow, this area had a exceptional nightlife, and hundreds and plenty of clubs and bars. Fridays and Saturdays they shut down all of Sixth Street and the location is complete of par-stages for blocks and blocks.

If you are trying to some girls dancing on the bars, take a look at out the world famous Coyote Ugly. This place is extraordinary amusing, proper drinks, and wild as ever. I certainly had been given hand cuffed there and took frame pics off of a bartender, it became quite humorous.

01. London England - OK, this is the peak of it desirous approximately quite an entire lot the entirety. London is like San Francisco jacked up on juice. No comedian tale, there are too many locations to name right here, however you gotta ensure and go to Piccadilly Circus. Whatever you're searching out London has it, I've never visible a greater culturally diverse town. There are humans from everywhere in this town, and at a few degree in the day there is lots to see.

I propose earlier than you go out partying test out the open market on the Camden Lock. This marketplace had the entirety and remarkable road food. I may additionally need to imagine what the open markets must have been like 2000 years in the past. It turned into kind of just like the troll marketplace from Hellboy 2, minus the trolls.

So These are the pinnacle 10 cities for partying in the international for my part.

I'm sure anyone has their very very own. And I cant say whatever about Asia or Australia as I even have not been there yet. Bali is subsequent on my listing; Ive grown into some exceptional interest nowadays. But I though love a superb birthday celebration.

OK so I cant omit my non-public preferred celebration town. Chico California, its my hometown. It may not be the most important within the world, but it packs a punch. And can cope with the top notch of them. Halloween and St. Patricks day are via some distance the wildest in Chico. Or if you're seeking to flat the river with about 15,000 college students, do not omit Labor and Memorial Day.

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Floribama Shore: MTV Reveals New Location For Season 3!

http://tinyurl.com/yxl32hl9 It is puke and rally time, y’all. The Floribama Shore crew is again! MTV introduced on Tuesday that it has renewed the hit actuality present for a 3rd season. And whereas the total forged is about to return, they’re switching up the location! The crew is bored of Panama Metropolis Seashore, okay? They want new surroundings, new sandy seashores and naturally, new bars. So now, they’re transferring the celebration to the streets of St. Petersburg, FL! The show premiered on MTV in 2017 and was dubbed the Jersey Shore for the south. Contemplating their quantity of alcohol-induced fights, hug-it-out apologies, and sexual encounters filmed in evening imaginative and prescient — yeah it is a tad nostalgic of the OG collection in Jersey. However viewers members appear to really benefit from the revamped iteration and are prepared for extra. “Viewers’s favourite southerners will reunite and head to St. Petersburg, FL, bringing the drama, the romance, the friendship, and enjoyable together with them for the most well liked time but,” the press launch learn. Including that the original boisterous bunch will all be there bringing the warmth to the brand new season. Together with Jeremiah Buoni, Codi Butts, Kortni Gilson, Aimee Corridor, Kirk Medas, Nilsa Prowant, Candace Rice, and Gus Smyrnios. “After a dramatic wrap up in Panama Metropolis Seashore final season, the gloves are off,” the press launch continued. “From hookups and breakups to laughs and tears, they have been by means of all of it collectively.” “Now, in a brand new metropolis, there are recent tales to inform because the crew events it up and places actual life on maintain for one more summer time.” MTV has but to disclose why they’re transferring the present’s filming from the Florida panhandle to the St. Petersburg space — nevertheless, a number of media shops had been completely satisfied to supply explanations. In response to the Pensacola Information Journal, many PCB locals haven’t loved the forged filming on the town. (Think about that?) They felt as if it gave them “a nasty status.” However the Bay County movie commissioner Julie Gordan advised the Tampa Bay Instances that the present “had an incredible financial impression” and the locals “barely observed they had been there.” “In fact, you’ll be able to ask native officers, they usually’ll say it is probably the most god-awful factor they ever noticed,” she stated of the truth present. However she’s received one thing for the haters: “Properly, it is not for you, it is for the 25-year-olds.” “I’ve talked to many Uber drivers who say folks wish to see the shore home, or the bars they hang around at… The present just isn’t all pure nasty.” One more reason the present could have relocated is because of the important harm the town suffered from Hurricane Michael again in October 2018. A number of of the present’s foremost filming places sustained damages, whereas some had been utterly destroyed. In response to the Pinella County movie commissioner Tony Armer, the forged started filming season Three earlier this week. The present’s official “Shore Home” is someplace within the southern a part of the county and Tony additionally added that they are going to be filming in and round city. “It may very well be [filmed] wherever from downtown St. Petersburg to the Clearwater seashores,” he stated. “I am guessing they’re going to have some outings in Tampa as nicely.” The Tampa Bay Instances additionally reported that the manufacturing firm, 495 Productions, utilized for and was granted permits to shoot in public places by means of July 15. The identical manufacturing firm additionally shot the present Social gathering Down South on this location just a few years in the past. MTV has but to launch a premiere date for season 3, however as acknowledged within the press launch, followers can count on it to air someday this fall. Edit Delete Source link

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100 Best Brunch Restaurants in America for 2019

OpenTable, the world’s leading provider of online restaurant reservations, has released its annual list of the 100 Best Brunch Restaurants in America for 2019. OpenTable data shows that 81 percent of diners book their Mother’s Day reservations two weeks in advance, so the list comes at the perfect time to help diners find the best brunch eatery to celebrate the mother figure in their lives. Featuring restaurants coast-to-coast, across 24 states and Washington, D.C., the list is a comprehensive look at the best brunch spots in the country. The Best Brunch Restaurants in America list was culled from more than 12 million verified diner reviews of over 30,000 restaurants in 50 states and Washington, D.C.

From restaurants with magnificent views like Geoffrey’s Restaurant in Malibu, Calif., to brunch institutions like Sadelle’s in New York, to acclaimed eateries like Somerset in Chicago, the Best Brunch Restaurants list features a wide variety of restaurants. California is the most recognized state on the list with 16 restaurants honored, followed by New York with 12 winning restaurants and Illinois and Pennsylvania with eight each. Florida, Texas and Washington, D.C. each boast seven winning restaurants and Louisiana claims five honorees.

The annual list comes on the heels of OpenTable’s national #DiningMode campaign, a challenge to diners to set aside their phones while dining with mom and connect with those around them this Mother’s Day. Diners are now encouraged to give moms the gift of being truly present at a celebratory brunch at any of this year’s winning restaurants making honoring the mom in your life easy and more rewarding.

“On Mother’s Day 2018, we seated more diners than any other day that year and recognize that celebrating mom is a priority for our diners,” said Caroline Potter, Chief Dining Officer at OpenTable. “The honorees on this year’s best brunch list are creating experiences that will dazzle her and make embracing our #DiningMode challenge a snap, with sublime drinks and dishes and friendly service. You won’t be tempted to pick up your phone on May 12 at any of these spots.”

The 100 Best Brunch Restaurants list is generated solely from diner reviews collected between March 1, 2018 and February 28, 2019. All restaurants with a minimum “overall” score and number of qualifying reviews were included for consideration. The overall score is made up of unique data points, such as overall diner rating, user klout, total number of reviews and regional overall rating. Qualifying restaurants were then scored and sorted according to the sum of tags for which “brunch” was selected as a special feature.

Based on this methodology, the 100 Best Brunch Restaurants in America for 2019 according to OpenTable diners, are as follows (in alphabetical order):

100 Best Brunch Restaurants in America for 2019

Ambar – Multiple Locations Atchafalaya Restaurant – New Orleans, Louisiana Balthazar – New York, New York Bartolotta’s Lake Park Bistro – Milwaukee, Wisconsin Beachcomber Cafe – Crystal Cove – Newport Coast, California Beatrix – Multiple Locations Brennan’s – New Orleans, Louisiana Brennan’s of Houston – Houston, Texas Bristol Seafood Grill – Multiple Locations The Butcher, The Baker, The Cappuccino Maker – West Hollywood, California Bud & Marilyn’s – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Café Ba-Ba-Reeba – Chicago, Illinois Cafe Fiorello – New York, New York Cafe Luxembourg – New York, New York Cafe Monte – Charlotte, North Carolina Cappy’s Restaurant – San Antonio, Texas Carmine’s – 44th Street – New York, New York Catch LA – West Hollywood, California Chart House Restaurant – Weehawken, New Jersey Chez Zee – Austin, Texas Cookshop – New York, New York The Copper Hen – Minneapolis, Minnesota The Dandelion – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Dining Room at Salish Lodge & Spa – Snoqualmie, Washington Duke’s – Huntington Beach, California Emmaline – Houston, Texas Farmers & Distillers – Washington, D.C. Farmers Fishers Bakers – Washington, D.C. Farmhouse at Roger’s Gardens – Corona Del Mar, California Founding Farmers – Multiple Locations The Gage – Chicago, Illinois Gandy Dancer – Ann Arbor, Michigan Geoffrey’s Restaurant – Malibu, California Gertrude’s – Baltimore, Maryland Giada – The Cromwell – Las Vegas, Nevada Grace’s – Houston, Texas The Grand Marlin of Pensacola Beach – Pensacola, Florida Great Maple – San Diego, California Green Valley Grill – Greensboro, North Carolina The Hamilton – Washington, D.C. The Hampton Social – River North – Chicago, Illinois Harbor House – Milwaukee, Wisconsin Hell’s Kitchen – Caesars Palace Las Vegas – Las Vegas, Nevada The Henry – Phoenix, Arizona HEXX kitchen + bar – Las Vegas, Nevada Ida Claire – Addison, Texas The Ivy – West Hollywood, California Jake’s Del Mar – Del Mar, California Kyle G’s Prime Seafood – Jensen Beach, Florida Lafayette – New York, New York Lake Elmo Inn – Lake Elmo, Minnesota Le Diplomate – Washington, D.C. Le Moo – Louisville, Kentucky Lindey’s – Columbus, Ohio Little Goat – Chicago, Illinois Lola Seattle – Seattle, Washington Louie Bossi Ristorante – Fort Lauderdale, Florida The Love – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Maggiano’s – South Coast Plaza – Costa Mesa, California Mama’s Fish House – Paia, Hawaii Mere Bulles – Brentwood, Tennessee Mon Ami Gabi – Las Vegas, Nevada Muriel’s Jackson Square – New Orleans, Louisiana Oxford Exchange – Tampa, Florida Palace – Miami Beach, Florida Palace Café – New Orleans, Louisiana Parc – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Perch LA – Los Angeles, California Pier W – Cleveland, Ohio Poor Calvin’s – Atlanta, Georgia Print Works Bistro – Greensboro, North Carolina The Rotunda at Neiman Marcus – San Francisco, California Sadelle’s – New York, New York Salty’s – Multiple Locations Sarabeth’s Park Avenue South – New York, New York Shaw’s Crab House – Chicago, Illinois The Smith – Multiple Locations Somerset – Chicago, Illinois Spencer’s Restaurant – Palm Springs, California Stanford Grill – Columbia, Maryland Succotash – Penn Quarter DC – Washington, D.C. Summer House Santa Monica – Chicago, Illinois Suraya – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Talula’s Garden – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Tavern on the Green – New York, New York Terrain Garden Cafe – Glen Mills, Pennsylvania The Tropicale – Palm Springs, California Top of the Hub – Boston, Massachusetts Tower Oaks Lodge – Rockville, Maryland Town – San Carlos, California Tupelo Honey – Downtown Asheville – Asheville, North Carolina Ulele – Tampa, Florida Unconventional Diner – Washington, D.C. Upland – New York, New York Whiskey Cake – Plano, Texas White Dog Cafe – Wayne, Pennsylvania Willa Jean – New Orleans, Louisiana X2O Xaviars on the Hudson – Yonkers, New York Yank Sing – Rincon Center – San Francisco, California Yardbird – Multiple Locations

The complete list may also be viewed at: https://www.opentable.com/lists/us-best-brunch-restaurants-2019.

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Perdido Key Florida condo for sale at Lost Key. This resort property with approximately 1,740 sq. ft. is located in a gated community with 24/7 security. Community amenities include a gulf-front Beach Club with a bar & restaurant, pool, beach chairs , and umbrellas, an 18 hole Arnold Palmer designed Golf Course with a restaurant & bar. Swim in the Geo thermal controlled pool, hot tub and pool side gas grills with an outdoor kitchen area. Enjoy the exercise facility, tennis courts, pickle ball, bike trails and more – enjoy the best of the popular coastal lifestyle – done miss seeing this condominium.

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Perdido Key Condo For Sale, Purple Parrot

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Purple Parrot Condominium Home For Sale Price: $168,000Misc: 1 BR, 1 BA Resort Home with 650+/- sq. ft. Property Location: 13555 Perdido Key Drive, Pensacola Florida 32507 Purple Parrot condo for sale in Perdido Key FL. Ideal opportunity to own a 1-bedroom, resort condominium in the gated community of Purple Parrot. This property is totally furnished and move-in ready – would be the perfect beach getaway and/or real estate investment. This residence is complete with a screened-in porch with partial views of the Intracoastal Waterway. The Purple Parrot is a genuine island resort with community amenities than include a heated all-seasons indoor pool, multiple hot tubs, saunas, an exercise facility and more…such as the 5k s.f. free-form outdoor swimming pool which features a swim up tiki bar, waterfall and stream. All of these incredible amenities and convenient to the white-sand beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf Islands National Seashore, Historic Downtown Pensacola and much more….come see this one! Visit: Perdido Key Florida Real Estate Sales

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Hi, Dori,

You are one of the most abused children in America. There are children in hospitals right now with broken bones who are far less abused than you. People think because your arm hasn't been yanked out of its socket and you're not bleeding, your problems are no big deal. But they're wrong. Your problems are a huge deal. I don't mean to sound callous, but an injured child can recover from their injuries and have a happy life. Psychological damage, however, may last forever. And that’s what has happened to you: horrific psychological damage.

Dori, the social workers know that you are lying about sexual abuse. And they know who manipulated you into lying. They don’t care.

The person who manipulated you into lying is a child abuser. I believe it’s your mother. I believe you have been emotionally abused for years by her. Emotional abuse is child abuse, Dori.

You used to love me with all your heart. I believe your mother was jealous. So she poisoned you against me. I believe she told you lies; for example, that I didn’t love you and that I tried to poison your food, amongst other nonsense. You mentioned those things on your blog. I believe she told you lies about how I treated her while we were married so you would view her as a victim. I believe she told you lies until you hated me and didn't want to visit me anymore. After you completely hated me and had been successfully isolated from me, you became her puppet.

I believe your mother knew you wouldn't go along with her scheme if you were a good person, so she corrupted you. If you’ve done anything you’re ashamed of the past couple years, blame her, not yourself.

You were a good child your whole life until she ended visitation in December of 2015. I believe you still have a good heart. You can become good again, if you tell the truth.

You told the lie, Dori. Only you can tell the truth and undo the harm you did to me and your sisters who live with me. You can continue pretending that you were sexually abused, but if you do, you are hurting yourself. People can sense evil, Dori. If you don’t help yourself, the last bit of goodness remaining in you will go away. My fear is that eventually no decent person will want to have anything to do with you and you’ll gather wicked people as friends. You are at a crossroads, my child. Your decision will determine your future, for good or ill.

I believe you mother controls you through fear, and that she makes you fear things that you shouldn't fear. She will try to make you afraid to tell the truth. She will tell you that you'll be arrested. She'll tell you that nobody will ever believe anything you say ever again. She'll tell you that it's evil to tell the truth because the truth may get her in trouble.

From the Bible, book of Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”

Over the past two years, all the goodnes in your life has been exchanged for evil, and all the light has been exchanged for darkness.

After you tell the truth, Dori, everything will change for the better. The light will return.

You’ll move to Pensacola, Florida, to live with me and your two older sisters. We have a new, much bigger house.

There are a lot of reasons to move to Florida (beaches, sunshine, friendly strangers, etc.). The most important reasons, though, relate to you personally.

1) You should move to Florida to make up for lost time. I haven’t seen you in two and a half years!

2) You should move here because you frequently make posts on your blog about feeling lonely. Every time I read that, my heart aches. You won’t be lonely here. At the very least, you’ll have me and two sisters to keep you busy. We do stuff. The mall is 20 minutes away. Plus you’ll make friends.

3) You should move here because, according to your blog, you’re a lesbian. Pensacola has a lot of lesbians. It’s no big deal to see two girls hand-in-hand, walking the mall or on the beach. I know a teacher who is lesbian; everybody knows and nobody cares.

August 23-25 there is a LGBTQ film festival in downtown Pensacola. Check out this link: https://stampedfilmfest.com/

Did you know your oldest sister is LGBTQ? Well, she is. Do you know what would be awesome? If you and your sister attended the LGBTQ film festival together.

Your oldest sister would love to get your advice on LGBTQ things, also. A lot of the LGBTQ world is new to her and it seems like you have given a lot of thought to many LGBTQ issues, judging by your blog.

4) If you’re a lesbian, you need to get out of that small town. Seriously.

Your blog gave me the impression that you’d like to go on dates with a few different girls and eventually get a girlfriend. That will NEVER happen while you live there. Even if there are a few lesbians in the area, that doesn’t automatically mean you’ll be attracted to them or them to you.

5) At the time you stopped coming to Florida, you were mad at one of your sisters about something. Whatever the problem was, I’m sure you two will get along great now. She is an adult. She has a job, a driver’s license and goes to college. Today she bought me and her sister lunch at a restaurant called Bagelheads, and also put gas in the car. You will enjoy her company, when she’s not too busy doing adult stuff.

6) You should come to Pensacola to escape the future planned by your mother. Your mother decided years ago that you would be the one to take care of her in her old age. We talked about it. Patti took care of Gram. Your mother will take care of Patti. And you will take care of your mother. Your sisters had ambition and dreams, but you would be “the bird who never flew far from the nest.”

I think that’s one of the reasons she stopped visitation. I think she was afraid that if you kept coming to Pensacola, you might imagine a life beyond working in the local grocery store.

If you come to Pensacola, I’ll help you make your dreams come true, whatever they might be. I always thought one of my daughters would be an animator. Maybe it’ll be you? I taught your older sisters how to animate and they enjoyed it, but they didn’t have any passion for it. Whatever you want to do with your life, I’ll help you do it. It doesn’t have to be art-related.

7) I can tell by your blog that you are sick of being bored. Pensacola is where the excitement is.

8) Do you like to laugh? Living here, you’ll laugh several times a day. Crying will become a distant memory, I promise.

9) I’m not mad at you for lying, because you were manipulated into it. But you are fifteen years old now. You know right from wrong. You don’t need to apologize for lying, but your lying days are over.

You said some gross things when you lied, things that probably make you cringe now. I promise you, I don’t care. All your lies were so bizarre and preposterous, you may as well have accused me of being a robot. Your accusations were nonsense. I’ve never been able to take them seriously. You don’t need to be embarrassed.

10) It’s a crime to file a false police report. I recently contacted the police. Maybe you’ll be arrested. It’s better for you to confess now than later, after you are behind bars. If you refuse to do the right thing, I’m sorry but you deserve to be in jail. If you decide to be a good person and tell the truth before you are arrested, I won’t testify against you, so you probably won’t be prosecuted. Finish this letter, then read it again, and then leave the house immediately to tell the truth.

11) I believe the two social workers who interviewed you knew you were lying about sex crimes. It was obvious. But they didn’t care. I believe they are anti-Semites and didn’t want you raised a Jew, so they ignored the huge pile of evidence so you would remain in your mother’s house and continue going to a Christian church.

A civil rights investigation has been started to investigate the social workers. You and I need to talk about this. For example, Did the social workers ask you about Judaism? What did they say?Did they ask you about church attendance or God? Did they say anything about Jews going to hell? Try to remember if they said anything racist. If they did, they violated your civil rights — and mine. Violating civil rights is a serious offense. You and I could sue Social Services for millions of dollars, depending on what was said. Start writing down everything you remember and email it to me at (my first name)[email protected].

Dori, a lot of your suffering could have been prevented if those social workers had done their jobs. Ashlee Hodges was the social worker from 2017. Angela Mosby was the one from this year. I believe they decided it was better that you were emotionally abused and went to church than live with me and go to hell.

Jews don’t go to hell, by the way — in case you forgot.

Anti-Semitism is common in rural Missouri, Dori. I hope you haven’t become an anti-Semite. Your mother made anti-Semitic comments, so I am worried that you think negative things about Jews, too. I believe your mother made you hate everything about me, and since I am Jewish, she could’ve made you hate Jews as well. If you decide to keep lying and stay with her, I guess I’ll have my answer.

12) According to your blog, you want a lot of attention. There’s nothing wrong with that. Politicians and celebrities love attention, after all. But there is something wrong with wanting a lot of attention and lying about abuse to get it. But here’s the ironic thing, Dori. You were abused! Not sexually, but emotionally. What happened to you was so extreme, if you wanted attention, you could get more attention from the media than you could handle. Sex crimes are a dime a dozen, unfortunately. But being compelled to lie about sex crimes by your own mother, that’s remarkable. That is Front Page News. That is an appearance on “Ellen.”

I believe some good can arise from the nightmare you lived through. If you choose to, you can shed light on the emotional abuse of children. You could give talks or write a book or something.

I already have ideas for legislation to better protect children. These laws, if passed, would probably be called the Dori Laws, after you. The laws would discourage parents from using their children as weapons during a divorce and afterwards.

13) I am deeply concerned that your mother might hurt you if she suspected that you were going to tell the truth. I told the police that she might poison you and make it look like you intentionally overdosed on prescription pills. On your blog you recently mentioned suffering from horrific stomach pains and vomiting. I was afraid she had poisoned you. Please be careful.

14) You mentioned on your blog a few times that you wish you weren’t mentally ill. I believe a lot of your emotional issues would be resolved if you were here. If you moved to Florida, I would take you to a doctor to see if we could wean you off of all your medications one by one to see if you truly needed them.

Remember, before your mother cut-off your visitation to Pensacola, you had no mental problems.

15) I could include a lot of proof that you used to love me. You loved me with all your heart. Your emails were filled with love, up until a few weeks before your mother ended visitation. But instead I’m going to ask you to remember the love. Remember it, please. I have never done anything to hurt you in your whole life. All I have done is love you.

16) I haven’t mentioned Xennn yet. I believe that your mother turned Xennn against me as well. So please help Xennn by telling the truth. I’m hoping both of you will come to Pensacola. You can have a bedroom to yourself or share one with your oldest sister, which might be fun.

17) Coming to Pensacola will end the gaslighting.

Gaslighting is when an adult tells their victim that something happened when it never happened. The victim knows it didn’t happen, but the abuser keeps talking about the fictitious situation until the victim begins believing it. Basically, it’s implanting false memories.

Did your mother tell you that something bad happened to you, but you knew it wasn’t true? But she kept repeating it until you remembered it? That’s gaslighting. The way the brain works is, when somebody keeps telling you something happened that never actually happened, you eventually think it happened. If your mother told you, for example, that you had a bad nightmare about a man throwing you off a cliff, you would deny it and say that you never had a nightmare like that. But if she brought it up again a few days later, and then again a few days after that, your memory would change. You would recall the mental images she had put in your head and would think that yes, maybe you did have the nightmare. Later, if you were asked about the nightmare again, you would probably state that you remember having the nightmare, but what you are really remembering is the memories of the conversations you had had and the images you had imagined. This happens to easily to children and young teenagers.

If you think you have any memories of abuse, someone implanted those memories into your head.

By the way, sometimes this also happens in therapy by accident. For example, assume you have a disturbing dream and you tell your therapist. She says that maybe you dreamed about something you saw on the internet or in a movie, or maybe it happened to you. She tries to get you to recall if it happened. You say you don’t remember it. She tries again later, thinking maybe you repressed the memory. If you keep trying to remember something that never happened, you will eventually convince yourself that you remember it. What you are actually remembering, however, is all the thinking and visualizing that you did previously while trying to remember. I have an interesting book on the subject. Except in rare cases, repressed memories are false.

If your therapist makes you visualize being abused in an effort to uncover repressed memories, or if she thinks sexual dreams are reliable evidence of abuse, you should find a different therapist, in my opinion.

You can get therapy here in Florida, of course.

Dori, please come to Pensacola, where nobody knows you except your family. Start fresh in the Sunshine State.

You could be here as soon as tomorrow.

After reading your blog and talking to police officers, social workers and your sisters, these are the abusive things I think happened to you: your mother showed you pornography, she made you lie about sex crimes, she got you hooked on opioids, she starves you, she hits you, and she emotionally abuses you. When you start telling the truth, tell EVERYTHING.

Police officers thought I had given you XXXXXX, an incurable virus. I guess you told them I did. I have never had XXXXXX and took a test which proved it, so they know you lied. Not only do they know you lied, they know your mother lied, because she told them that I had XXXXXX.

Your mother got XXXXXX while we married, but she didn’t get it from me. I never contracted it from her. I was super careful.

If you have XXXXXX and you got it from her, you need to tell the police that as well.

You need to tell the police every secret.

Tell them you want to live with me immediately. According to the Parenting Plan, you are supposed to be in Florida now anyway. I expect that your mother will be arrested when you tell on her, but maybe not.

Even if you have already confessed to the police that you lied about sex crimes and your mother had nothing to do with it, go back and tell the truth. You need to take responsibility for what you did, and your mother needs to take responsibility for what she did. Don’t take the blame for her. In my opinion, she is 100% to blame.

If she recently hit you or threatened your life, tell the police. She will be arrested. If she hit you or threatened your life, I suggest that you fill-out an Ex Parte Order of Protection against her. It’s a form that’s easy to fill out. If you request the Order of Protection, she will be instantly forbidden from being near you or talking to you for two weeks or so, until a hearing in a courtroom occurs. Then it may be extended for a year or more. The judge will probably tell her to move out of the house right away. If your mother approaches you or tries to talk to you during that time, she will be arrested, so she will leave you alone. I will come get you before she will be allowed to talk to you again, so you don’t have to worry about her hurting you.

If Social Services becomes involved, remember that they failed you already. Remember that they intentionally left you in that house for over a year. The social workers knew you were being forced to lie about sex crimes, but they didn’t care. They don’t care about you, they only care about your mother. She charmed them and they like her. Insist on somebody else besides Ashlee Hodges and Angela Mosby. I suggest that you ask for Steve Corsi to help you. He’s their boss. I have written him a few times.

When you get a new social worker, tell them that you want to go to Florida immediately.

My phone number is (850) 503-(Xennn’s birth month)80, but I don’t always have my phone on me. Cxxxxx’s phone number is (850) (your age times two, minus two)5-9776. I suggest you call her. Once you’ve talked to the police, call Cxxxxx and tell her that you need us to come get you. Give Cxxxxx an address. You could be at a friend’s house or anywhere and we’ll get you.

Dori, it took a lot of guts to lie to the police. It will take a lot of guts to tell the truth, but I know you can do it.

Your whole life is a lie. But you have the power to end it. Be your own hero. A whole new world awaits you in Florida, Dori. You can bring your pets, of course. Pack the most important stuff. The rest we’ll get later, plus we’ll buy new stuff.

Write down Cxxxxx’s number. Go to the police. Tell the truth. Then call Cxxxxx. She and I will come get you. Your abuse will be over, just like that. You will be free.

Your mother fears that you will tell the truth to people — that’s why she doesn’t want you to talk to your sisters in Florida, or attend school or make friends. She’ll give you money or gifts to make you happy, so you’ll keep her evil secret. Please don’t be a sell-out, Dori. What she did to you is too horrible to be forgiven. Don’t absolve her of blame because she gives you money and toys and bakes you tasty food. Adult abusers manipulate their abused children by acting remorseful and spending money on them. Please don’t fall for it. She doesn’t want you telling on her, so she acts nice. Hold her accountable.

I am so sorry that I have never been able to rescue you from the abuse. You have no idea how hard I tried. I have written dozens of letters to police officers, social workers, teachers, even the governor. Until you tell are brave enough to tell the truth, there is nothing they can do.

I love you. You’re my daughter. I can’t leave you to suffer in that house. When I read your blog posts, my heart breaks. I’m going to remind you of the sequence of events that led to your filing of the false police report. Some years have gone by, so your memory is probably getting foggy. As an adult, I can remember the past few years with clarity, plus I have plenty of documents.

February, 2012. Your mother put into motion her plan to end the marriage. She directed you and your sisters to get in the car. She lied to me and said she was going to come back soon. Instead, she called the police and filed an Ex Parte Order of Protection and had me thrown out of the house. That’s when I learned that she wanted a divorce and didn’t want me to see my own children.

A few weeks later, there was an Order of Protection hearing in City Hall. She committed perjury. The judge believed her lies and granted the Order of Protection for one year. Note that she admitted in court that I had never threatened her or hit her during our 20-year marriage. I have the audio file. The judge also told us to work out a schedule for me to see you and your sisters.

Your mother refused to do as the judge said. She didn’t let you or your sisters visit me in March, April or May of 2012. She didn’t let you come to Florida the summer of 2012. You later told me that you were very upset because you couldn’t see me and you thought about starving yourself. You thought if you starved yourself, your mother might stop being mean and let you see me.

I had been a stay-at-home dad. I raised you and your sisters. I had a special bond with all of you. Being kept from my four daughters was beyond cruel. I think she hoped I would kill myself out of despair. I almost did.

Eventually your mother decided I could see you and your sisters a little bit. We met at Dairy Queen and had a good time. Your mother was supposed to allow us to visit for an hour, but she abruptly cut it down to 30 minutes. I believe she was angry that you and your sisters were telling me how much you loved me and missed me. I drove 30 hours round-trip for that brief visit. It was one of the happiest times of my life.

Your mother later let me visit you and your sisters in her lawyer’s office. We had a great time then, too. That visit was a little longer. Then she allowed us to visit in a church for a little bit.

During the divorce, your mother cut off my health insurance. That’s how cruel she was.

I asked her for my wedding band. I had left it in the house. She told me that everything she paid for during our marriage belonged to her. I didn’t think that was fair. She had bought almost everything we had, because I raised the children while she worked a job. Of course she had paid for almost everything.

We divorced in July, 2013. Your mother signed a Parenting Plan. She was made the primary custodian of you and your sisters and I was allowed visitation during holidays and over the summer. I had joint authority in matters of education and health concerns (she ignored this part).

Regarding our belongings, your mother kept all the good stuff and gave me the junk that had accumulated in the basement. I threw all of it away except for a couple things. She did spiteful, petty things to hurt me, like giving me empty music CD cases, while she kept the CDs.

My favorite painting, the only one I truly liked from my college years, was returned to me completely destroyed. Earlier, I had asked her to take special care of it.

Following the divorce, I got a job teaching children with disabilities. A person has to be very calm to work with children who may bite you and stab you with scissors. I saw other teachers get mad and have to leave the room and calm down. Me, I was always calm. I loved teaching disabled children.

After the divorce, you and your sisters visted me regularly in Pensacola — for a while. We had fun in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Your oldest sister, Cxxxxx, moved-in with me in 2013, after her 16th birthday.

We had a great summer vacation in 2015. I didn’t spend much money that summer because I was saving-up for a down payment on a house. We still had a blast, though.

Over a year later, you claimed that you had been violently raped that summer. You told the police that was the reason why you never returned to Florida — the reason wasn’t that your mother decided to end your visitation, it was because you were too upset about having been violently raped.

Well, after you returned to Missouri following 2015 summer vacation, you didn’t seem upset. Not with me, at least. You were upset with your mother. We spoke on the phone often and you always complained about her. One conversation you said that you had spent hours curled-up on the floor in your room crying because of her. I think you were hoping you could move-in with me before you turned 16.

I suggested you talk to Ms. Lavy, the school counselor. You were afraid to do so. You were worried that Ms. Lavy would tell your mother and you’d get in trouble for complaining about her. You mother is a teacher in the school district, so that was a reasonable concern. I asked you if you wanted me to get the ball rolling on counseling, and you said “yes.”

I emailed the principal of your school, Ms. Pund, and explained the situation: you wanted to talk to the school counselor but you didn’t want your mother to know. I still have all these emails, of course. So do the police. Anyhow, Ms. Pund talked to Ms. Lavy like I asked and you started counseling.

By the way, rapists don’t send their victims to a school counselor. That is one reason why the social workers knew you were lying.

After seeing Ms. Lavy, you emailed me that evening about the counseling sessions. You were happy and thanked me for getting counseling started and wrote that you loved me.

We talked on the phone later and you told me that you and Ms. Lavy had a secret Google Doc online, that way you could communicate after school hours. When you were at home, you explained, you could write in the document and Ms. Lavy could reply. You asked me if I wanted the password to the Google Doc, and I declined.

Ms. Lavy eventually betrayed you. She told your mother that you were crying in her office, talking about how badly you were being treated at home. I guess Ms. Lavy thought she was helping you. The thing is, she shouldn’t have told your mother. Ms. Lavy is a Mandated Reporter of Abuse. She is required BY LAW to file a child abuse report after you complained about emotional abuse at home. If she had done what she was supposed to do, you would not have been emotionally abused for the past two and a half years and made to file a false police report by your abuser.

I believe Ms. Lavy told the superintendent about your abuse and asked him what to do, and he told her to contact your mother. If that could be proven, he would be arrested. He is also a Mandated Reporter of Abuse. I think he acted in the best interests of your mother, not in your best interests. Down here, an assistant superintendent was recently arrested for not reporting child abuse. Being a Mandated Reporter is serious business.

What happened to that Google Doc? My attorney asked for it but the superintendent refused to send it. If you still have it, please send it to me.

You came to Florida for Thanksgiving in 2015, so you DID return after the summer of 2015. I have photos of you at the beach with your sisters, and you wrote about being in Florida and stuffing the turkey on your blog. You had a great time.

I believe your mother became furious when Ms. Lavy told her what you had been saying about her. I believe your mother decided that you must never see me again, or else you might tell me about how she abused you and I would get a lawyer and try to get custody of you to protect you.

You never came back to Florida.

After you returned to Missouri following the Thanksgiving visit, your mother decided that you wouldn’t come to Florida for Winter Break, even thought you were supposed to. To keep from getting in trouble for ignoring the Parenting Plan, she got you to do her dirty work. She is an expert at that.

She told you that she dearly wanted you to spend Christmas with her. She used a lot of emotional pressure, talking to you about how much fun you would have with her over the Christmas holidays since it would be just the two of you, as all your sisters would be in Pensacola. You were convinced. Over the phone, you told me what she said, and asked me if you could skip Winter Break. I politely said “no.” You sent me a long email asking again. I wrote back, again saying “no” and saying that I missed you and besides, you lived with your mother — you see her a lot already.

In December of 2015, we all met at the halfway point in Mississippi for the custody exchange. You refused to get in my car. I asked your mother to say something to you. Your mother refused. You didn’t come to Florida.

You posted on your blog several times over the Winter Break that you were lonely and crying. I have copies of the blog posts. They are very sad to read. You were manipulated into missing your Florida vacation to spend time with your mother, and then you were ignored by her.

Throughout 2016, you grew increasing disrespectful toward me whenever we spoke on the phone. I believe you mother was poisoning you against me. Do an internet search for Parental Alienation Syndrome. I believe that’s what happened to you. In my opinion, you have the most severe case of PAS that’s ever happened to a child.

According to your blog at the time, SOMEONE told you that I poisoned your food with substances that you were allergic to; that I didn’t believe you had food allergies; that I hated you before you were born; that I punished your mother for two years for giving birth to you; and a whole lot of other nonsense. Unfortunately, you believed every horrible thing you heard. You began to hate me with every fiber of your being. You began viewing your mother as a victim and began feeling like she needed revenge.

Near the beginning of the divorce, back in 2012, your mother wrote several pages of complaints about me. Based on your blog posts, I’m sure she gave them to you to read, so you know what I’m talking about. In those pages she complained about the way I cleaned the house; that I didn’t finish an animated cartoon I had been working on for years; that I was not good at pottery; that I didn’t use some art supplies she bought me; and other stuff along those lines. There were also a bunch of lies, like I threw away her antique sewing machine and tore up the carpet for no reason.

I have a letter from your allergist, by the way. She wanted me to remove the carpet to help your health, so I did. Your mother liked the carpet and was mad that I removed it. She accused me of getting rid of it so I wouldn’t have to vacuum. I think that’s why your mother mentioned the carpet in her letter of complaints. She was still mad.

She stays mad for a long time. Years, usually. As her husband, I learned to accomodate her every whim so she wouldn’t get mad at me. I also accomodated her every whim after the divorce. When I wouldn’t agree to let you stay in Missouri for Winter Break of 2015, that was a rare act of defiance on my part. And I paid the price. But I was worried about you and wanted to talk to you in person, not over the phone. In the multi-page letter to the judge, your mother claimed that I once called her a name, something like “stupid-face.” That was a lie. I never called her a name — not while we were married, at least.

Your mother was filled with hatred while she wrote those pages. She wasn’t writing only for the judge, she was also writing for me. She wanted to break my heart when I read her hate-filled words.

But think about this. If there was anything else your mother could’ve complained about, it would’ve been in that letter. She was venting and wanted to screech about everything that bugged her throughout our marriage, no matter how trivial. She was scraping the bottom of the barrel of her memory for incidents. She went all the way back to when we were dating, more than 20 years earlier. Nothing she wrote is 100% true. Many of the things she wrote were outright lies, and even the stuff with a kernal of truth were gross exaggerations. Nonetheless, think about what she DIDN’T write.

Did she accuse me of threatening her? NO. Did she accuse me of hitting her? NO. Did she accuse me of being an alcoholic or anything like that? NO. Did she accuse me of using drugs? NO. Did she accuse me of being addicted to pornography? NO. Did she accuse me of infidelity? NO. Did she accuse me of spending too much time on the internet? Yes, she did say that. But I disagree with her opinion.

I was obviously a pretty good husband, if those complaints were all she had to complain.

Anyhow, your mother ended your visitation in December of 2015.

At some point in early 2016, you started seeing an off-campus therapist in O’Fallon.

You blogged about feeling suicidal. I called and asked you if you were going to come to Florida for summer vacation of 2016. You said, “Don’t count on it.”

I called your mother and threatened to get a lawyer to force her to resume sending you to Florida. She threatened to stop sending Xennn as well. I backed down.

You refused to come to Pensacola for summer vacation of 2016. You blogged about hating me. You blogged about enjoying it when you mother talked bad about me.

Another one of your sisters turned 16 and moved to Florida. So now I had two daughters living with me and your mother had two.

You blogged about having nothing new to talk to your therapist about. It sounded like therapy had run its course. The end of therapy was near.

But…then you started blogging about sexual abuse. A whole new topic! Did your mother suggest it or did you come up with it? I bet it was her.

You didn’t come to Florida for Thanksgiving of 2016 or Winter Break of 2016. Xennn did, though. She mentioned that her mother may never let her come back to Florida. She said she wanted to live with me.

Early 2017: Your therapist contacts social services after you accuse me of a sex crime. You blog about it, expecting that I’ll be arrested. I’m not. It’s obvious you’re lying.

Your mother is mad. I believe she tells you to contact social services in Florida and accuse me of raping your sisters who live with me. Social workers and police officers come to our home. They interview your sisters. I am not arrested.

The social workers in Florida are way better than the ones in Missouri, by the way.

Some weeks later, a police officer in Pensacola asks me to come to the station to be interviewed. I go talk to him. He tells me that you accused me of sex crimes. I tell him that I’m innocent and that your mother put you up to it. I am not arrested.

I think your mother was furious that her plan wasn’t working. She ups the stakes. She provides the police with a medical document that indicates you contracted XXXXX and suggests that you got it from me. Your mother tells the officer that I have XXXXXX. The officer asks me get tested to prove that I don’t have XXXXXX.

I wait a while, then get tested. While waiting for the results, I am arrested. I spend 30 days in jail. I lose my job teaching children with disabilities. The charges against me are dropped.

The test result come back negative. Yes, the charges were dropped before the state prosecutor even had the results. That’s how obvious it was that you were your mother’s puppet.

Of course, your mother doesn’t send you or Xennn to Florida the summer of 2017, violating the Parenting Plan, which is a felony. Unfortunately, I no longer have a job, so I can’t get a lawyer to take her to court.

Your mother doesn’t send you or Xennn to Florida for Thanksgiving or Winter Break of 2017.

Your sisters have stopped communicating with your mother as a way of supporting you. They are angry with her for what she is doing to you and to me.

In February of 2018, I wonder where you got XXXXXX and ask social services to investigate. You blog about giving blood for the test. Social services tells me that you don’t have XXXXXX after all. I ask the social worker Ms. Mosby to remove you from your mother’s house. I provide her with ample evidence that you are being abused. Ms. Mosby doesn’t care. She leaves you in your mother’s house. I believe she is an anti-Semite and doesn’t want you to be raised by a Jew. The weird XXXXXX test doesn’t concern Ms. Mosby, even though XXXXXX is incurable and you evidently got cured of it.

A few months later my arrest was expunged, so it no longer appears on background checks. Yay.

Summer vacation of 2018 starts. Your mother refuses to send you or Xennn to Florida. At this point, I haven’t seen you in over two years. I haven’t seen Xennn in a year and a half.

I contact the police and tell them that you filed a false police report and to arrest you and that I will testify against you.

And here we are, in the present. I am writing you this letter.

I love you!

Do the right thing!

PS: Was this letter sent by daddy or one of his daughters who loves you?

#Dori #We love you

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