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With more than half of the 16 teams still mathematically alive to make the conference championship game, the Big 12 will command a lot of attention in the final week of the regular season. No. 14 Arizona State and No. 17 Iowa State would play for the Big 12 title and likely College Football Playoff spot on Dec. 7 if they both win Saturday and there's a four-way tie for first place. There are seven other teams that begin this week with hopes, slim in most cases, of getting into the game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Last week it was No. 19 BYU and No. 23 Colorado that had the inside track to the championship game. Arizona State beat the Cougars and Kansas knocked off the Buffaloes, and here we are. "Everybody counted us out, I think, two weeks ago," Iowa State coach Matt Campbell said after his team beat Utah 31-28. "We didn't flinch. We didn't waver. And we just keep fighting." The Cyclones were national darlings the first half of the season as they won seven straight games to match the best start in program history. Back-to-back losses to Texas Tech and Kansas followed. Now they've won two straight heading into "Farmageddon," their rivalry game against Kansas State at home. "Right now they've got the pen and they continue to write the story," Campbell said of his players, "and I hope they will continue to write it the way they've got the ability to write it. Unwavering. Tough, mentally tough, physically tough. This group has stood for it every step of the way." Arizona State has been an even better story than the Cyclones. The Sun Devils have six more wins than they did last season, when they went 3-9. They were picked to finish last in their first year in the Big 12. They'll go for their fifth straight victory when they play at Arizona on Saturday. "These guys came off no momentum and everybody doubting them, and everybody is still doubting them. That's what makes this special," second-year coach Kenny Dillingham said. "Hopefully the expectations become higher. I don't know if there's a way we can exceed expectations more than we're exceeding them right now." Checking in on five of the Top 25: The Ducks were idle Saturday after clinching a spot in the Big Ten championship game with their win at Wisconsin on Nov. 16. Oregon can go 12-0 in the regular season for the first time since 2010 if it beats Washington at home this week. Oregon's only two losses last season came against the Huskies, both decided by three points. The first was a top-10 matchup in the regular season and the second was a top-five matchup in the Pac-12 championship game. The Ducks are 19 1/2-point favorites this time, according to BetMGM Sportsbook. The Buckeyes' showdown with upstart Indiana combined with Michigan's dropoff after winning the national championship have lowered the volume on this week's meeting with the Wolverines at the Horseshoe. If Michigan beats Ohio State a fourth straight time and it keeps the Buckeyes out of the Big Ten championship game and playoff ... well, there'll be lots of noise in Columbus then. The Lone Star Showdown returns to the gridiron for the first time since 2011, when Texas and Texas A&M were in the Big 12. The Longhorns head to No. 20 Texas A&M on a four-game win streak. The Aggies have lost two of three after Saturday's four-overtime loss at Auburn. The winner advances to the Southeastern Conference championship game against Georgia. The Broncos are tied with Notre Dame for the second-longest active win streak, at nine games, and they seem to have adopted a survive-and-advance mantra. They trailed 23-point underdog Wyoming in the fourth quarter before winning 17-13 and clinching a spot in the Mountain West championship game. They won their previous game, 42-21 against San Jose State, but didn't pull away until the fourth quarter. Two weeks ago they beat a three-win Nevada team 28-21. Just when you think Illinois is about to cash in for the season, they do what they did against Rutgers. The Illini were down 31-30 when they lined up for a 58-yard field goal with 14 seconds left. Ethan Moczulski missed. But wait. Rutgers called timeout before the snap, and Bret Bielema thought better of trying another kick and sent his offense back on the field. Luke Altmyer passed to Pat Bryant for the winning 40-yard touchdown. The Illini won't play for the Big Ten title, but they have a chance for nine wins and a nice bowl. Ohio State played in three of the five regular-season top-five matchups and won three of them. The Buckeyes lost to Oregon and beat Penn State and Indiana. ... Kansas' 37-21 win over Colorado made the Jayhawks the first FBS team with a losing record to beat three straight Top 25 opponents. The Jayhawks, who were 2-6 a month ago, will be bowl eligible if they win at Baylor. ... 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More Scots business owners anticipate higher turnover in 2025, poll suggestsOllie Schniederjans and a LIV rules official assessing Schniederjans' lie on Friday. LIV Golf/YouTube If you were trying to identify the Next Big Thing in 2015, Ollie Schniederjans would have been on your short list. Until he wasn’t. All of which helps explain why this week Schniederjans is playing golf halfway across the world on a quest to land a new home with LIV Golf , where purses are $25 million and last season only seven players made less than $2 million. Joining Schniederjans at the LIV Golf Promotions event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, were 92 other hopefuls, only one of whom — the winner of the 72-hole event — will earn entrée to LIV for the 2025 season (though the top 10 finishers, including ties, will earn full exemptions into the Asian Tour’s 2025 International Series). We say were because after Friday’s second round at Riyadh Golf Club, the field was whittled down to 20 golfers who will play 36 holes on Saturday to determine the champion. Trimming a field down to a round number typically requires a playoff, and this event was no exception. On Friday, six entrants — Schniederjans among them — finished 36 holes tied for 20th at three under, meaning a sudden-death playoff was necessary to determine which one of those players would advance. When Schniederjans and MJ Maguire were the only players to birdie the first playoff hole — the 396-yard par-4 18th — the 6-for-1 playoff quickly became 2-for-1, which is how it stayed when Schniederjans and Maguire replayed 18 and made matching birdies again. On their third go-around on the home hole (fourth including regulation), Maguire found the fairway, but Schniederjans did not; after carrying the water, his ball settled into a sandy waste area roughly 30 yards short and right of the green. His lie looked wicked — his ball nestled up against the crusty collar of rough on the far side of the sand — and it was wicked, especially given the magnitude of the approach shot Schniederjans was facing. Bad break? Nope, quite the opposite, actually, because Schniederjans was about to get free relief from an unusual rule. Thanks to a local rule instituted by LIV this week to prevent players from hurting themselves when faced with precarious shots like this one, Schniederjans was permitted to identify his nearest point of relief — in this case, the light rough outside the waste area — and drop his ball within a club-length of that spot. “It’s a short enough shot that he wouldn’t really hurt himself, but you can’t take that into account when you’re designing the local rules,” LIV Golf analyst Jerry Foltz said on the broadcast. Su-Ann Heng, LIV’s on-course reporter, called the ruling “a huge break,” later adding of the drop, “MJ is looking pretty closely at it, too.” Schniederjans’ break got even better when during his drop procedure, his ball twice rolled out of the relief area, meaning he was permitted to place his ball on a perfect lie. “Every once in a while, the rules work to your advantage,” Foltz said. To which Heng said: “If you’re MJ, though, I’m sure you’re a little bit disappointed.” Schniederjans didn’t catch his approach as cleanly as he would have liked, leaving himself about 10 feet for birdie. Maguire’s attempt from the middle of the fairway also left little to be desired as it ran 20 feet by the hole from where he failed to make 3. Then it was Schniederjans’ turn: hole the putt and advance to Saturday’s 36-hole finale, or miss it and play a fourth playoff hole. As Schniederjans’ ball rolled toward the cup, there was never a doubt. Bingo . Asked about the ruling after the round, Schniederjans said, “I was assuming I was getting relief, but I hadn’t been in that spot all week. That was obviously a great break.” Of course, for Schniederjans, there is still much work to be done. Thirty-six holes and 19 players still stand between him and a chance to prove himself in LIV’s big-money showdowns in 2025. But that chance is something Schniederjans desperately wants. “I’ve been through a lot,” he said Friday evening as dusk settled over Riyadh Golf Club. “I want to play against the best players in the world again. I think I’m coming back to I’m fully healthy. I just want to prove myself again and get that opportunity.” Latest In News Golf.com Editor As GOLF.com’s executive editor, Bastable is responsible for the editorial direction and voice of one of the game’s most respected and highly trafficked news and service sites. He wears many hats — editing, writing, ideating, developing, daydreaming of one day breaking 80 — and feels privileged to work with such an insanely talented and hardworking group of writers, editors and producers. Before grabbing the reins at GOLF.com, he was the features editor at GOLF Magazine. A graduate of the University of Richmond and the Columbia School of Journalism, he lives in New Jersey with his wife and foursome of kids.
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MISSION, Kan. , Nov. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (Family Features) Once your holiday feast comes to pass, you're almost certain to find your refrigerator stuffed with leftovers. However, that doesn't mean you want to eat the same meal again and again in the days that follow. The star of many seasonal celebrations, turkey can be reused in a variety of post-holiday dishes to cut down on food waste and create fresh new meals your whole family can enjoy. Featuring a unique blend of 100% natural chili peppers, lime and sea salt, Tajín pairs perfectly with turkey, making it a go-to for creative leftovers. Gone are the days of simply reheating turkey and stuffing or making a turkey sandwich. Instead, reinvent your holiday extras through fresh takes on classic dishes like this comforting Leftover Holiday Biscuit Pot Pie or spicy Leftover Turkey Carnitas Tacos. For more holiday recipe inspiration, visit tajin.com/us . Leftover Holiday Biscuit Pot Pie Total time: 45 minutes Servings: 4 Biscuits: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 1/2 teaspoons sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons cream of tartar 1/2 cup cold unsalted butter 2/3 cup buttermilk 1 tablespoon butter, melted Turkey Pot Pie Filling: 1/2 cup turkey fat 1 1/2 cups diced onion 1 1/2 cups diced carrots 1 1/2 cups diced celery 1 bay leaf 1 tablespoon minced garlic 1 tablespoon chopped thyme 1 tablespoon diamond crystal coarse salt 1 tablespoon coarse black pepper 1 cup all-purpose flour, divided 8 cups cold turkey stock Tajín Clasico Seasoning , to taste (about 1 tablespoon) 6 cups leftover cooked turkey, chopped To make biscuits: In mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and cream of tartar. Grate butter and mix with dry ingredients. Carefully add buttermilk and mix until incorporated. Fold over 5-6 times, roll out and cut into 10-12 rounds. Place cut biscuits on floured surface. Refrigerate 30 minutes. To make turkey pot pie filling: Preheat oven to 375 F. Heat large pot over high heat and add turkey fat. Add onions, carrots, celery, bay leaf, garlic, thyme, salt and pepper; gently sweat. Add 1/2 cup flour and cook 2-3 minutes. Add turkey stock 2 cups at a time, allowing to thicken before adding more. In bowl, mix remaining flour with turkey. Add turkey pot, bring to simmer until thickened. Add seasoning, to taste. Add pot pie filling to casserole dish and gently place biscuits closely together on top. Brush biscuits with melted butter and bake 25-30 minutes. Remove from oven and cool 10-15 minutes before serving. Leftover Turkey Carnitas Tacos Total time: 25 minutes Servings: 2 (2-3 tacos each) 4-6 garlic cloves, peeled and separated 1 pinch salt 1⁄2 cup fresh bitter orange juice or fresh lime juice with fresh orange juice combo 1⁄2 cup olive oil 1 teaspoon Tajín Clasico Seasoning 1 cup leftover turkey, shredded 1 cup duck fat, ghee or high smoke point oil of choice 4-6 tortillas Toppings (optional): pico de gallo pickled onions cilantro pomegranate seeds avocado With mortar and pestle, crush together garlic cloves and salt, make paste and place in medium bowl. Stir in juice, olive oil and seasoning. Fold mojo into shredded turkey meat. In large, heavy-bottomed pot over high heat, melt duck fat and wait until it forms a wave. Add turkey, in batches, stirring often, until meat turns light golden brown, then lower heat to medium. Turn off heat. Heat up tortillas, place turkey carnitas on top and add pico de gallo, pickled onions, cilantro, pomegranate seeds or avocado as desired. Note: Once browned in duck fat, carnitas can be stored in the fat overnight and reheated over low heat to melt fat and warm carnitas. Michael French mfrench@familyfeatures.com 1-888-824-3337 editors.familyfeatures.com About Family Features Editorial Syndicate A leading source for high-quality food, lifestyle and home and garden content, Family Features provides readers with topically and seasonally relevant tips, takeaways, information, recipes, videos, infographics and more. Find additional articles and information at Culinary.net and eLivingToday.com . View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/transform-holiday-leftovers-into-vibrant-flavorful-meals-302315651.html SOURCE Family Features Editorial Syndicate
NO. 25 ILLINOIS 87, MARYLAND-EASTERN SHORE 40WASHINGTON--President-elect Donald Trump has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to pause implementation of a law that would ban popular social media app TikTok or force its sale, arguing he should have time after taking office to pursue a "political resolution" to the issue. The court is set to hear arguments in the case on Jan. 10. The law would require TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the platform to an American company or face a ban. The U.S. Congress voted in April to ban it unless ByteDance sells the app by Jan. 19. TikTok, which has over 170 million U.S. users, and its parent have sought to have the law struck down. But if the court does not rule in their favour and no divestment occurs, the app could be effectively banned in the United States on Jan. 19, one day before Trump takes office. Trump's support for TikTok is a reversal from 2020, when he tried to block the app in the United States and force its sale to American companies because of its Chinese ownership. It also shows the significant effort by the company to forge inroads with Trump and his team during the presidential campaign. "President Trump takes no position on the underlying merits of this dispute," said D. John Sauer, Trump's lawyer who is also the president-elect's pick for U.S. solicitor general. "Instead, he respectfully requests that the Court consider staying the Act's deadline for divestment of January 19, 2025, while it considers the merits of this case, thus permitting President Trump's incoming administration the opportunity to pursue a political resolution of the questions at issue in the case," he added. Trump previously met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in December, hours after the president-elect expressed he had a "warm spot" for the app and that he favored allowing TikTok to keep operating in the United States for at least a little while. The president-elect also said he had received billions of views on the social media platform during his presidential campaign. TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company has previously said the Justice Department has misstated its ties to China, arguing its content recommendation engine and user data are stored in the United States on cloud servers operated by Oracle Corp while content moderation decisions that affect U.S. users are made in the United States as well. Free speech advocates separately told the Supreme Court on Friday the U.S. law against TikTok evokes the censorship regimes put in place by the United States' authoritarian enemies. The U.S. Justice Department has argued Chinese control of TikTok poses a continuing threat to national security, a position supported by most U.S. lawmakers. Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 22 attorneys general on Friday in filing an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to uphold the national TikTok divest-or-ban legislation.
NoneWarning: This post contains mentions of assault and physical harm. Please proceed with caution and take care of yourself! One thing that unites us all, I believe, is having a god-awful, wish-you-could-forget-about-it dating horror story. From a situationship from hell to a long-term S.O. who fucked around and found out (perhaps literally, TBH 👀), nothing brings girlies together like an awful relationship story. So, I asked the women of the BuzzFeed Community to share their "last straw" moments when they realized they had to end things for good. Here are 28 stories they shared: Hey, you! Yeah, you reading this! Do you have a "last straw" story to share? If so, drop it in the comments below or via this anonymous form and you might just see it in an upcoming BuzzFeed Community article. 1. "My last straw was when my partner of seven years said that 'any ounce of attraction [he had] for me was extinguished' because of my weight gain. Mind you, I was only ten pounds heavier, and it was because I carried and birthed our baby girl! This was after I almost died during labor and did the majority of the parenting and household tasks. He never offered to help, and anytime I asked, he always had an excuse. The fact that he could say that to me when he had a daughter made me realize I would never want my daughter to end up with a guy like her father." —Anonymous 2. "I got a new job offer at a reputable firm, and my new salary was nearly on par with his. When I told him my remuneration package, he said, 'I think you’ve got your figures wrong.' He couldn’t stand the fact that I was nearly at his level with less experience and was getting job interviews here and there. We worked in the same industry." —Anonymous 3. "Our landlord was threatening to evict us because my husband had been lying about paying his share of the rent, and we were behind. When I got home from work and found out, he wasn’t home. Two days went by, and he never came home — no answers to my calls or texts. I got worried he was hurt and called people he knew, asking if they had seen him. Turns out, he'd gone on vacation to St. Louis with his family without telling me. My cousin was in law school and stepped in to wrangle the landlord, and I wound up having to take one of those shady payday loans to pay off his rent debt. But without my cousin's help, it would have been way worse, as in thousands of dollars worse. He came home while my cousin was still there, and when I told him how grateful I was for her, he turned to her and said, 'Nobody needs you; I could have handled it on my own. You did a bad job.'" "My cousin was so insulted. I just realized if he would leave me high and dry with no communication just to have fun and spit in the face of someone who had just saved him thousands of dollars, he wasn’t a kind person. I moved out." —Anonymous 5. "The last straw for me was when I cut my hair from my hips to just above my shoulders. It was somewhere strong of two feet of hair, and my husband didn’t notice until I pointed it out a week later. That’s when I made my exit strategy. I left my ring on the counter and my stuff was gone a week later. He didn’t even try to fight it. He simply didn’t care anymore." —Anonymous 6. "My last straw was learning that after four years of marriage, my husband had given me an STD. He denied that he had cheated on me, and instead insisted that I must have cheated on him and gotten it! I realized then all of the lies, neglect, and verbal abuse from him was how the rest of the marriage was going to be, so I left him." —Anonymous 7. "My last straw was when he called me stupid in the drive-thru line at Burger King. The day before, I found out he had gone behind my back and told his mom not to help me get loans for school (which she had been fine with doing). She told me he was worried that if I got educated, then I'd leave him. When I brought it up in line at Burger King the next night, I had intended to tell him I didn't plan to leave him once I had completed my studies. But he opened his mouth first. He said I was stupid, and I didn't need to waste my time and money on going to school. So, I got out of the car and walked away, because I was done." — aprilp13 8. "I was taking pre-reqs for nursing school, working full-time and doing my classes at night. One day I dropped my 3-year-old and 6-month-old off with their dad and headed to class. I came home five hours later — about 10 p.m. — and could hear my infant screaming bloody murder as I pulled into the driveway. Rushing inside, I found my (now ex) sleeping on the couch while my 3-year-old was dirty and running all over the place and my baby had soaked through her diaper and was covered in feces. After cleaning her up and putting both kids to bed, I woke up my husband to ask, 'WTF?!' His response: 'Well, you know I don’t change diapers.' Then, he went to bed. Nope, that was it. I was done. It’s been 16 years since my divorce. Best decision ever!" —Anonymous 10. "We dated for eight years, were married for 18, and had two kids and a house in the suburbs. The gaslighting and fighting had been escalating for years, but we stayed together for the sake of the kids. My last straw was one Christmas morning. We always filled the children's stockings, then I would fill my husband's, while he filled mine. Tradition. He was in his recliner pouting that last Christmas we were still together. We were opening gifts (everyone except me). My 7-year-old son noticed mommy didn't have any gifts to open, so he went to get my stocking, which had always been filled in the past. It was empty. The empty stocking did not bother me. What hurt me was the way I watched my son's face drop and turn very somber. He didn't know what to do. In his mind, 'Santa' didn't fill mommy's stocking. My ex was trying to hurt me, but hurt my son instead. Never again would I allow that to happen." —Anonymous 11. "In 2015, my family lost my 36-year-old brother suddenly and unexpectedly in a car accident. My husband at the time would not comfort me in any way — would not hug me, would not pick up the slack with housework, etc. We had to go to another state eight hours away for the funeral. My brother died on the 11th of the month, and my husband's birthday was on the 19th of the same month. When his birthday rolled around, my husband said, 'I'm just really sad that I don't get a call from your brother today on my birthday.' My husband's handling of the whole situation was the beginning of the end. He barely knew my brother and acted so victimized by the whole thing. What an odd thing to say and think." —Anonymous 12. "I was with a guy for 10 years, and we had a 6-year-old daughter at the time. I suspected cheating after he started spending more and more time away from home. On one of his days off, he took our daughter to an arcade. Later that night, I was giving her a bath, and she told me that Carla went with them. He had his girlfriend hang out with them! I told him that I knew, and he said, 'Well, I'll just move out then,' and I said, 'Great!' It was hard adjusting at first, but I'm so glad we're not together anymore." — lanamarie 13. "The moment I was done was when this moron of a man screamed, 'You are a woman! Know your place!' during a ridiculous argument. I just felt it immediately, and when those words came out of his mouth, it was over. I really liked that man, but thank God he said it when he did, as we were looking at apartments together at the time." — elisaday 15. "I’d been with my significant other for seven years when I was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer. I was immediately given chemo and radiation to shrink the tumor prior to surgery. During the fifth and final week, I was hospitalized with a blood clot, and when I was released nine days later, my boyfriend wanted to go out partying that night, leaving me alone. He went 'dark' for the next 24 hours, not answering calls or texts. I had to ask his sister to go pick up meds at the pharmacy because he was MIA! I told him we were done shortly after." —Anonymous 16. "I was in a long-distance relationship that was abusive in every way except physical. I had taken the leap to follow my dreams and move away to finish college on a hard-earned scholarship. School was going really well, and I was making new friends and having great experiences. My boyfriend and I video-chatted every night, mostly because he had trust issues, and made it very clear that seeing me every day was mandatory. One night, I was talking about my day and explained some good news I had received. He got angry and told me, 'When I hear about how well you're doing, it really pisses me off. You shouldn't be that happy when you're far away from me, because I'm miserable when I'm not with you.'" "I don't know why, but that statement just broke something in me. That was the exact moment I finally realized this person was going to ruin my life and that I would never have a chance at joy if I ended up with him. I broke up with him that night and never looked back. One of the best decisions I ever made!" —Anonymous 17. "I was in couple's therapy, and my now ex-husband told the therapist that sometimes he wished he could punch me in the face. I told her I felt unsafe because he had assaulted me before. The next morning, I got an order of protection based on his threat and the physical assault, changed the locks, and ended the relationship." —Anonymous 19. "We were married for 20 years. I moved across the country for his job, had three children, managed the house and the kids, and worked full-time. During that time, I developed a chronic autoimmune disease, and my physician wanted to meet with my husband and me to discuss it. I cleared the date and time for the appointment with my husband beforehand. On the morning of the appointment, he was walking out the door to go to a work meeting. I reminded him of our appointment in half an hour, and he said he had to go to the work one because it was more important. I knew then I meant nothing to him." "On top of this, he'd taken vacations without me. We had been to marriage counseling unsuccessfully several times. He was selfish, critical, and manipulative in so many ways. He was so surprised when I left." —Anonymous 20. "My husband and I had just hit our 15-year anniversary, and I was not feeling celebratory at all. We went to counseling, and it was obvious my husband was telling the therapist what she wanted to hear, but his actions at home stayed the same. We tried going on a date to continue working on our relationship, and while eating pizza, I saw a glimpse of his phone. The screen looked like it had a sexy woman on it. I asked about it, and after some questioning, he finally let on that he had started watching porn. He then decided to blame me for him getting addicted to it since we weren’t having as much sex." "He was literally yelling at me in the middle of the restaurant, saying, 'What do you expect me to do?!' We were devout Christians, and I finally had an out that was 'acceptable.' I never told anyone in the church, so they still don’t know the real side of him. I was relieved to finally be done." —Anonymous 21. "After five years of dating my ex-boyfriend, I finally asked him one night over dinner, 'Where is this going?' His exact response was, 'Whoa...don’t put a timer on me.' It was right at that moment that a switch flipped in my head, and I knew I was done. I broke up with him soon after. He did try for a long time to rekindle things, but I couldn’t get back to how I felt before he said that." —Anonymous 23. "My long-term boyfriend took off work to take me to the doctor to remove a pre-cancerous lesion. He bitched because he hadn’t slept well. When we got home, he went right into the bedroom and was snoring almost instantly. I went to the couch so I could get some rest. When I woke up a few hours later, I asked him to help me warm up some lunch. He kept putting it off, and I waited for over two hours. I was the one having surgery, and the whole day, it was all about him! I woke him up and threw him out of our apartment and never looked back!" —Anonymous 24. "He was in a club when I went into labor. I had been showing signs for days, but he still went. When I said I was leaving, he told me I should fight for our relationship. Ha! No thanks. Bye." — emmac4032e3792 26. "The beginning of the end was when my grandmother passed away. Her funeral was on February 14. My now-ex offered little support during this time. As February 14 approached, he asked me what our plans were for Valentine's Day. I just looked at him for a minute, confused and stunned that he had actually asked me that. I replied with, 'My grandmother's funeral.' He said we could go out after it or on the weekend. I should have left him then and there, but we had just bought a house together. I had lost all respect and feelings for him at that point, though, and things drastically got worse. We went our separate ways later that year." —Anonymous 27. "I was with my (now ex) boyfriend for over two years at this point. We didn’t live together, so occasionally (like, once or twice a week) if I saw something fun or interesting that made me happy or that I thought he’d enjoy, I’d text him about it and sometimes send a picture. For me, it was a good way to stay connected and show I was thinking about him. He would never respond to what I sent with much excitement or feeling, which wasn’t completely abnormal for his personality, but I figured he at least appreciated the thought behind it. One day, there was a really cute dog next to me at a stoplight with custom gear in a custom van, which I thought was just all-around unique and funny. So, I sent a pic and joked about how this was such a cool dog and setup. His response was, 'Why would I care, it’s not my dog. I don’t get why you send me stupid stuff like this.'" "There were plenty of red flags before this, but his response was such a blatant example of his selfishness and lack of empathy or any interest in my life. I ended things a few weeks later. I have no time for people who shame me for having joy and excitement for life." —Anonymous 28. And finally, "I was with my husband for 10 years when I finally figured out that even though he was brilliant, he was essentially an incurious person. We were on the brink of ending our marriage, not sure if it could be saved, when my sister (whom I am very close to and who had kept her opinions about him mostly to herself) finally told me that my husband had never asked her a single question about herself. In that moment, every dissatisfying piece of our relationship came together like a puzzle, and I suddenly had laser focus on something that had eluded me for years. So many of the problems between us stemmed from the fact that at his core, he simply wasn't interested in seeing things from any perspective other than his own." "Once I figured that out, it became abundantly clear that I wasn't going to have any success at making our marriage work. He would never really *see* me. I was done contorting myself to meet his narrow expectations, when he would never meet me even close to halfway. I packed my things and left less than a month later, and I haven't looked back." —Anonymous Women of the BuzzFeed Community — do you have a "last straw" relationship story? If you feel comfortable doing so, you can share your own in the comments below or via this anonymous form . Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity. If you or someone you know has experienced sexual assault, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 (HOPE), which routes the caller to their nearest sexual assault service provider. You can also search for your local center here . If you or someone you know is in immediate danger as a result of domestic violence, call 911. For anonymous, confidential help, you can call the 24/7 National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) or chat with an advocate via the website.
Warren Buffett gives away another US$1.1B and plans for distributing his US$147B fortune after his deathSANDPOINT — Bonner County has agreed to pay a resident $200,000 to settle claims of unlawful battery, arrest and imprisonment after he was detained during a county commissioners meeting earlier this year. Former chair of the county commission Luke Omodt made citizen’s arrests of David Bowman at public meetings in January and February after Omodt declared Bowman trespassed for sending emails he said were threatening. Omodt resigned in August after losing his primary election. The settlement agreement says $199,999 is for physical injuries Bowman sustained during and after the arrests, but does not describe those injuries. The remaining $1 is for violating his civil rights. In his tort claim, Bowman had asked for $1.5 million. Bowman said he negotiated that down for the county to publicly apologize. County Chair Asia Williams, who opposed the arrests as they were happening, read the formal apology at the commission meeting Tuesday. “Bonner County recognizes the damage done to Mr. Bowman, as he was not only deprived of his rights and injured, but subjected to criminal prosecution, his rights restored only as a result of seeking legal redress through the courts,” the statement said. “Bonner County takes this opportunity to formally apologize to Mr. Bowman for his illegal and unlawful treatment at its hands. Bonner County uses this opportunity to reaffirm its long-standing commitment to the rule of law and to the Constitutional rights of the People.” In January, Bowman sent emails to county officials complaining about the use of a sergeant-at-arms at meetings to enforce restrictions against public comment. Bowman denied those emails were threatening and said he was advising officials to de-escalate the situation. In one of those emails, Bowman described a recent attempt by the sergeant-at-arms (at the direction of Omodt) to remove Bowman while he was giving a public comment, by moving into his personal space. “I would have been well within my rights in that moment to take offensive action to defend myself,” Bowman wrote in his Jan. 15 email, which was provided to The Spokesman-Review. “Instead I retreated; if it happens again I will not retreat.” In reply to those emails, Omodt said Bowman and fellow resident Rick Cramer were trespassed from county meetings for one year for disruptive behavior. At the Jan. 26 meeting, Omodt called Sandpoint police to arrest Bowman and Cramer for trespassing. The men were transported to the Bonner County Jail and released without citation. Sheriff Daryl Wheeler and County Prosecutor Louis Marshal publicly criticized the arrest, saying the board didn’t vote to trespass them. Omodt argued that he had authority as chair to remove people who are disruptive. Bowman returned to the next meeting Feb. 6 and again refused to leave. This time, Omodt called for a vote to formally trespass him, which passed 2-0. Bowman was arrested again and this time charged with a trespassing misdemeanor. Marshal later dropped the charge. Bowman said the county refused to settle unless he agreed to drop Omodt from individual liability. “That’s unfortunate, because the county and therefore the taxpayers are picking up the tab,” Bowman said. Cramer has a separate lawsuit against Omodt, Commissioner Steve Bradshaw and the county in federal court. Bowman also has a separate tort claim against the City of Sandpoint and Sandpoint Police Department, who he said should have refused to enforce the arrests. In an email Wednesday, Omodt said Bowman’s statements and conduct speak for themselves. He responded to the settlement saying Williams, who was granted a restraining order against Commissioner Steven Bradshaw earlier this year, has her own history of litigation against the county. “After telling us that Bonner County has no money for EMS she’s filling her cronies stocking with 200K of taxpayer cash,” Omodt wrote. “Elections have consequences, so does math.” Bowman said Omodt used his position to silence him as a political opponent. Bowman lost a primary election to Omodt in 2022, and Bowman said he might have run against him again in 2024. He said it took nerve for him to show up to the meeting and refuse to leave, knowing he might be arrested. He wasn’t trying to grandstand or set up a lawsuit, Bowman said. “I went back in that room to challenge him for acting outside his authority,” Bowman said. He said he would do it again if he had to. “I am going to speak truth to power even if it costs me,” Bowman said. “The law is on my side.” To remove this article -
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