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Me too

Originally shared by Buddhini Samarasinghe

Me too

My head is reeling from the information overload over the past 24 hours. By now many of you would have seen the linked article, calling out an abuser in our community. I’m writing this to say, I believe the authors, I believe the other victims who have come forward, because he did this to me too. I blocked him about 3 years ago and I thought it was just me he did this to but I am heartbroken to see that there are others he similarly abused. It’s terrifying to read that article and see the same thing he did to me done to others. I can’t even begin to explain what that it feels like.

Scott and I worked a lot on Google Hangouts back in 2012/2013. He was a really good friend at first, and as we got close he talked a lot about his problems. I felt really sorry for him. Now I realise how I was manipulated, I feel sick. I even invited this guy to my wedding – ugh.

Towards the end of 2013, as I was unemployed and living off savings while waiting for immigration paperwork to join my husband in the UK, Scott told me how he can’t pay rent and how he doesn’t have any money for food. I offered to lend him some money but he refused, but kept talking about how worried he is. Eventually he said yes and I lent him $1500 from my savings. A few weeks later he needed more money for something else (textbooks I think) so I again lent him another $1500. He said he would pay me back in a month or so when his student loans came in.

Meanwhile because I was so bored waiting in Sri Lanka for my immigration paperwork, I started writing more and more science posts. Scott invited me to partner on his website Know the Cosmos and I happily agreed, expecting us to be equal partners. But it turns out I ended up doing the bulk of the writing for free while he didn’t really contribute much. It stopped feeling like a partnership and we fought a lot. Eventually I successfully pitched my Hallmarks of Cancer series to Scientific American and he was livid. That’s when the emotional abuse really started. Constant arguments and put downs. He would say things like how naive and stupid I was for giving away my writing for free to Scientific American, how this is not the way to do it etc. It’s partly why I wrote this post (https://goo.gl/jJwu7q) to address him and anyone else who questioned my decision to write it for free.

Things just reached a point where we could no longer work together. I remember the last Google Hangout we did together where just before we were supposed to go on air, he yelled at me about something I had done wrong. I was on the verge of tears that whole time, it was awful. But by that time I had moved back to the UK and thanks to a stronger support network around me, I was able to remove him from my life. Before that I sent him several emails asking for my loan back, but he never replied. I gave him a week and then I blocked him on all social media, considering the $3,000 as the price I had to pay to have him out of my life.

I am horrified that there are so many other victims. Chad Haney  has a post here (https://goo.gl/UqISLJ) listing some of the others who have come forward. Please share this out, and please warn others. I had no idea he kept doing this after me, and I wish I had said something sooner rather than waiting until now.

I’m going to leave comments open while I am around but lock comments when I am away because I don’t want derails from Scott-apologists.

H/T to Pamela L. Gay and Rugger Ducky for bringing this to my attention.

https://medium.com/@SLabusehelp/scott-lewis-what-lies-beneath-77648aa65ec4

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This guy knows what he is talking about…

Originally shared by Keith Wilson

Don’t Wash the Dishes Before Washing the Dishes

All too often I talk to customers who spend a great deal of time and effort pre-washing their dishes before loading them into the dishwasher. If you’re using a dishwasher manufactured in the last 10-15 years, pre-washing is probably not necessary. If you’re using a dishwasher manufactured in the last 5 years, pre-washing is definitely not necessary. Scrape the major food particles from your dishes and load them into the dishwasher. If the dishes have been sitting long enough that the remaining food had dried completely, wet each dish thoroughly before placing it in the dishwasher, again making sure the major food particles have been removed. Some food is necessary for the enzymes in your dishwasher detergent to work properly. Make sure the incoming water is at least 120°F by running the hot water at the kitchen sink until it gets hot. For best results, don’t use gel dishwashing liquid. Use powder or pods instead. The powder and pods contain enzymes that do a great job cleaning your dishes. The gel just contains soap and sand. Soap and sand do not clean dishes well and scratch your glasses.

 

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The Martini glass….

There are few symbols in the drink world more powerful, more recognizable or more American than the Martini glass. An angular monument to Deco design, its characteristic V-shaped bowl and fine stem have long represented that most iconic of drinks, so much so that there is arguably no other image that better communicates the very notion of the cocktail.

There is also no glass more despised by today’s bartenders.

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“Just as architecture moved in the direction of brutalism, so the Martini became excessively dry, flavorless vodka replaced gin, and the ritual of mixing was abandoned in favor of the Martini on the rocks,” writes Edmunds. “In both cases, the esthetic impulse of modernism was carried to a self-defeating extreme.”

What had once been, in effect, an emblem of the middle-class cocktail party was by the ‘60s being outwardly shunned as disagreeably dry, too spirituous and representative—both literally and metaphorically—of American corporate values as epitomized by the advertising culture of Madison Avenue.

“The purity, transparency, and lack of messiness of the perfect American cocktail now seemed to mirror a sterile lack of messiness in life and work,” explains Rudin, “won at the expense of emotional involvement and the realities of life.”

Following its nearly two decade-long decline, the Martini would fall out of vogue entirely by the early ‘70s. In 1973, Esquire derided it as “a bitter, medicinal-tasting beverage” that represented “everything from phony bourgeois values and social snobbery to jaded alcoholism and latent masochism.”

http://punchdrink.com/articles/the-life-and-death-of-the-martini-glass-history/

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Just had to share…

Just had to share…

Originally shared by StonedZar “StonedZarSG”

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3616930.html?_utm_source=1-2-2
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Well, this is interesting.

Originally shared by Furo Jumbo

Well, this is interesting.

In a study published in Nature’s Nutrition and Diabetes Journal, researchers from the IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed in Pozzilli Italy looked at pasta’s effects on health when consumed as part of the typical Mediterranean diet: olive oil, nuts, fruits and vegetables, moderate amounts of fish and poultry, and small amounts of dairy, red and processed meats, and sugary sweets. That diet has shown many health benefits, including “primary and secondary prevention of chronic diseases since the mid [19]50s,” according to the study.

http://bigthink.com/laurie-vazquez/for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-show-that-eating-pasta-makes-women-skinny