Xander ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I hated the name Freedom Tower.
Freedom is so passe at Ground Zero.
Once hailed as a beacon of rebirth in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the Freedom Tower's patriotic name has been swapped out for the more marketable One World Trade Center, officials at the Port Authority conceded today.
Happy Birthday Grace and Noah! It's unpossible you're two years old!
I'm not a bath person, either. I get bored. (Don't suggest I take a book in with me. You're talking to a librarian who knows what book mold is, and does. Not going to risk introducing it to my shelves.)
I once took all my mother's old saved fancy soaps. I didn't have to buy soap for about two years. Now I can't use anything with plant ingrediants (I only use Ivory soap), so I only buy yummy smelling soaps to put in plastic bins with my yarn.
I had to tape over the overflow thingie to make my bathwater deep enough.
I like hot baths - they're a good way of helping me get to sleep when I have insomnia.
cereal:
Julie - our police precinct used to have a noise complaint line, check online, otherwise I would call the precint direct #, NOT 911.
Unless the door's locked, I'd just go inside.
Shir, really? into a neighbor's place? No way, no how - 1) illegal, yes? 2) I'd fear violence.
Bookstore porn: [link] (with a special bonus for tommyrot!)
(with a special bonus for tommyrot!)
Awwww... it sounds like that cat is more famous that his bookstore home.
"Honor killings" just make me so angry....
'Honor Killings' Have Morphed Into 'Honor Suicides' in Turkey
When Elif's father told her she had to kill herself in order to spare him from a prison sentence for her murder, she considered it long and hard. "I loved my father so much, I was ready to commit suicide for him even though I hadn't done anything wrong," the 18-year-old said. "But I just couldn't go through with it. I love life too much."
All Elif had done was simply decline the offer of an arranged marriage with an older man, telling her parents she wanted to continue her education. That act of disobedience was seen as bringing dishonour on her whole family - a crime punishable by death. "I managed to escape. When I was at school, a few girls I knew were killed by their families in the name of honour - one of them for simply receiving a text message from a boy," Elif said.
So-called "honour killings" in Turkey have reached record levels. According to government figures, there are more than 200 a year - half of all the murders committed in the country. Now, in a sinister twist, comes the emergence of "honour suicides". The growing phenomenon has been linked to reforms to Turkey's penal code in 2005. That introduced mandatory life sentences for honour killers, whereas in the past, killers could receive a reduced sentence claiming provocation. Soon after the law was passed, the numbers of female suicides started to rocket.
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A woman's fate is usually decided during a "family council", when the extended family meets to discuss breaches of honour. In these meetings, it is agreed how the victim must be killed. If it is not to be a forced suicide, a killer is chosen. The youngest member of the family is often ordered to kill, in the belief they will be treated more leniently if caught.
Mehmet was 17 when he was handed a gun and told he would have to kill his stepmother and her lover. "I didn't want to do it. I was so young and so scared," he said. Mehmet ran away, but his family tracked him down and warned him his own life would be in danger if he refused to kill.
He shot dead his stepmother's lover, but his stepmother survived the attack. He was given a two-and-a-half- year prison sentence.
People suck.
Anyone have any experience with on-demand water heaters?
When our last water heater failed we looked at getting one (a gas model), but it was just so expensive compared to a tank that we passed.