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|2008-12-18, 20:23
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|2009-01-22, 16:21
|Link #142
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Oh, and I would eat the Copy Copy no mi ;-) It's just a matter of not just blindly copying every devil fruit power you meet. Just make your own mix and keep yourself from involuntary copying by wearing gloves.
My mix would be like:
- Gomu Gomu no Mi (Rubber-Power)
- Doa Doa no Mi (Door-Power)
- Suke Suke No Mi (Invisibly-Power)
- Hana Hana no Mi (Flora-Power)
- Nikyu Nikyu no Mi (Paw-Power)
- Goro Goro no Mi (Lightning-Power)
And the reaction time doesn't slow down very much, because I only have got about 6 Powers I can choose from (which are enough if chosen right)
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|2009-01-22, 17:19
|Link #143
I have an idea: Yume yume no mii, the fruit of dreams.
It gives you complete dominion over your and other people's dreams.
-You always have the dreams you want to have.
-You are unstoppable in battle once you activate it.
-anything that happens to either person in a dream happens outside said dream, as well.
-It only works on sleeping targets.
-anything that happens to either person in a dream happens outside said dream, as well.
|2009-04-07, 18:02
|Link #144
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
Lysol Lysol no Mii
Type: Paramecia
The Ability to Control Chemical-Based Products
You can control most chemicals that would be considered a "base" in chemistry. If there are none available immediately, you can take out the elements that form bases from objects around you.
NOTE: You cannot create bases from your own body, but you can carry them within your body.
-You could Febreeze anyone in the face if they annoy you
-You will always smell lemon fresh
-Can't swim
-If there's too much dirt, your chemicals refuse to obey your will.
-You have an irrational fear of closests.
|2009-05-28, 07:08
|Link #146
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2008
the things Luffy directly touches don't become rubber yet when he makes a gomu gomu fuusen (Ballon) u find his clothes stretching as much as he does (also with lucci's suit when he becomes 25 times bigger in leopard form :P )
But if u insist then lets say he will leave a single cell at the bottom of each foot non-permeable & that will stop him
|2009-05-28, 12:24
|Link #147
Join Date: Feb 2006
Hakkyou Hakkyou No Mi
Madness Madness Devil Fruit
Paramecia that allows user to shape enemies nightmares,foes and many illusions.Im not talking about some genjutsu stuff like naruto.These nightmare clones will be seen only by enemy and hurt him like real.Enemy will be forced to fight with invisible monsters that they cant save themselves until they completely defeat the clones, in an other way they will simply go mad.
Example : Luffy will think that he is fighting with Crocodile,Eneru,Lucci and will bleed to death slowly from their attacks, while strawhat crew looking at him and thinking that "what the hell he is just punching the air" like.
- If you'll defeat all the nightmares, you'll be able to see the Hakkyou user.
- As always pain will be your helper for waking up from a nightmare.You'll surely get hurt from the clones and last image you will see before dying will be the user.An instant and great pain can give you a visual of Hakkyou df user as well.
- No logia like defense, all you have to do is to find your way out of nightmare.
- Massive haki usage will reveal the user as well.
|2009-06-02, 20:09
|Link #150
Junior Member
Join Date: May 2009
Location: USA
|2009-06-05, 14:52
|Link #151
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: none of you darned bussness!!! >-<
Age: 23
hi i made a devil fruit my self its pretty awsome too its called the heal heal fruit and you can heal your self or anyone else at any time and can control plants and poisen people!!!!!!!!!! but dont get me mad ill unleash its fury!!!!!!!!!!! [not really] oh "my bad"
|2009-06-27, 20:11
|Link #152
Well Rounded Critic
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: In a class of my own.
Nice fruit though, btw: I like the plant control part a bit.
Anyway, folks: I thought up one more, having to do with my original idea for the Academic Academic Fruit class of fruits.
Academic Academic Fruit; Class: Computer Science; Model: Network Network.
Control and manipulation of any kind of network stream, or network medium. By extension, you can form crude digital signal networks using any metal item in your reach.
By touching any kind of computer that is connected to a network medium of some kind, it is possible to send and receive messages from that computer, and broadcast command signals to other computers that it can send network information to.
By touching, say a rod of metal, and transferring your thoughts into it, you can multicast messages via radio waves into the air, thereby jamming frequencies you bombard. By extension, you can also pick up any network messages passing around you by grasping a metal rod and using it as a receiver/antenna. (Hint: wear a ring at all times ).
Note well that you cannot reprogram devices you touch; you can only send and receive signals from them. So, no: you aren't as cool as Micah from Heroes yet.
I'd also thought up one for:
Academic Academic Fruit; Class: Computer Science; Model: Program Program.
Ability to reprogram devices as fast as your mind can come up with the right structure for the program. The limitation here is how fast you can reason out the steps to the solution to a problem.
Ability to, at a peripheral level, do some network broadcasting on devices that have network capabilities. So you can do mental cracking. (Yea: Now you're cool like Micah. )
You must be in contact with the device in question.
You don't just think: "Do this". The device must be programmed. You have to think out a series of logical steps and send them to the device via thought. So the speed is limited by your own speed of reasoning.
Programs must be complete for a machine to understand them, and not catering for errors will produce the same effect as a machine programmed via a natural method with the same negligence: a system crash.
That's all for now.
|2009-11-06, 18:05
|Link #153
Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
i have two
the mythical zoan fruit, model: thunderbird
(similar to Marco's but with electricity rather than fire)
Pro: immune to physical attacks, can fly, plus tons of offensive potential
Con: Luffy and most earth based df users would be immune to the electricity
the shippou shippou no mi (sliver sliver)
a metal logia df
this logia is made of millions of small metal slivers
through command of the slivers the user can change his density size and shape
(any shape other than the original would have the luster and color of metal)
with the users left hand he can assimilate other metal objects into his "body"
with the users right hand he can permanently reconfigure the slivers into objects
(water does nothing to these objects)
Pro: Immune to Captain Laws Shambles
Cons: Captain Kidd would own you!!!
|2009-11-07, 15:02
|Link #154
WhO PuT BaKOn In My SoUP!
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Around the corner from no where.
Age: 23
i didn't read every post so someone might have said this.
Shift Shift Fruit
You can shape yourself into any object, person, or thing you have a vivid memory of and use their ability to a surtain extent. For example you could turn into a gun and shoot some one(it wouldn't penetrate as far), or turn into luffy and use his power (but you couldn't stretch as long and you would feel pain in your muscles after changing back).
Fish can also be taken shape of but you will imediatly take original form when you touch the water. Your shape can only be as big as the size of a house and as small as a baby ant. If you stay in the form for more than 10 min. you will rapidly fade away into oblivion.
Also i was thinking the same way luffy and chopper have a level up on thier power (luffy's gears and chopper's medicine balls), say if the character assigned this power was to have had a near death experience as a child and seen the land of Gods. Now when ever he went unconcious he took a form of one of the Gods he seen (God of Destruction, God of Creation).
|2010-01-01, 13:54
|Link #156
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: 1431 Highland Drive
Here is another Devil Fruit I made:
Gekido Gekido no Mi
Rage Rage Fruit
This fruit is the absolute opposite of Boa Hancock's Devil Fruit whose powers do not affect it.
Pros: It has the power to turn the user through anger into a hulking monster with tremendous strength for killing enemies.
Cons: Other than sinking in the ocean, the user would not stop killing the enemies even after they are killed.
|2010-04-09, 18:56
|Link #158
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Ok, my idea was partly inspired by this episode of Digimon Frontier...
and the Fight between Ace and Blackbeard...
So i just coulnd't resist, but when i write about this, i will probobly get banned, as people finally find out how mentally twisted i truly am
At the beginning, there was the dream fruit. Or as it was known in the Japanese One Piece universe, yume yume no mi. It was considered the strongest of the extremely rare psychos fruits, wich allowed the eater of these devil fruits to for example read other peoples thoughts
The dream fruit gave the ability to it's wielder to effect peoples subconsciousness, even daydreams. It could be used for both good and evil.
It is said that a long time ago a good person ate the fruit, causing him to become the "sand man" giving people good dreams, hopes and visions about the future.
But 1 day an evil version of this fruit was born. It is unclear how it happened. One explanation is, that the person who originally ate the fruit suffered fighting hes "dark side" but eventually won. It is said, that sometimes seeds of the original Devil fruits or even new ones are "reborn" in peoples stomacks and then move through the "back door" back into circulation. It is suspected that this is how the seed of the original "Nightmare Nightmare fruit was first born, and then wondered off in the world, before finding a quiet spot where to land, and started to grow.
The evilest devil fruit of them all! The Nightmare Nightmare fruit! Or as the Japanese would probably call it;"Akumu Akumu no mi!"
This fruit was said to have born, when the original eater the of the dream fruit, the "sand man" won the vicious battle inside him/herself, and the evil was forced to move out of hes body, manifesting itself in the form of a seed, and eventually transforming itself into a devil fruit. While the original eater of the yume yume no mi refused to use it's powers for evil, evil was therefor forced to manifest itself in the form of it's own.
And thus the king of all Devil fruits was born;"Akumu Akumu no mi!"
A Devil Fruit like no other! For hundreds of years no human or animal would dare to eat this fruit, for the evil aura it gave to all the living. But 1 day the fruit found a host. An abandoned "nerdy" boy, bullied, isolated and ultimately abandoned. The fruit "promised" him he would never be bullied again, and that he would surdenly be the most popular boy in school, if he would eat this fruit.
Akumu Akumu no mi is evil like no other! Slowly but surely an aura of evil surrounds all who eat it. Within a year hes own subconsciousness and aura will have submerged with the fruits. A person will slowly but surely lose hes own will, and become a slave to the fruits, so the only way to stop this evil is literally kill that who bares it!
As the name implies, Akumu Akumu no mi has the ability to create nightmares. However it goes a lot deeper then that!
Like the original yume yume no mi, that who "controls" this devil fruit can also affect peoples subconsciousness and daydreams. That is why it is sometimes considered the "God fruit" as the "divine link" between human and god is often seen to be in the subconsciousness.
When in school the boy was still heavily bullied by hes "friends" but he didn't care. He had a "strange glow" in hes eyes, and suddenly the bullies(basicly everyone else)started leaving alone. He was now alone and isolated, but also safe from bullying. "It's just not worth it" the bullies now said.
All the other classmates now wanted to nothing to do with the "freak kid" However they still had to attend class together....
Suddenly strange things started to happen while in class. The biggest and the strongest boy in the class had "something" thrown at him buy the "coolest boy" in the class, who he envied anyway, since all the girls were all over him. The big boy turned around to give "Ace" a fierce look. The "Ace of the class didn't even notice, as he was too busy chatting with the girls.
"I'm gonna kill you" said the big boy quietly to himself. And in the next recess thats almost what he did. A MAJOR fight broke out, and the "Ace" of the class was almost killed. The "Bully" was expelled from school, and "Ace" was forced to go to hospital for nearly a month!
Several similar situations started happening all over the school. Bloody fights broke out. Teachers could no longer hold class. Eventually they too were effected by the "twisted dreams" And 1 day one of the teachers decidet to rape a 14-year old girl...
Eventually the whole school was burned down, and nearly all the students and teachers killed. Except for 1 boy...
He had now learned to "manage" hes powers and no longer returned home. He wondered around the earth. Shops that wouldn't give him anything to eat were mysteriously robbed. He always found money, and never had to sleep on the street. Hes evil grew stronger day by day, year by year...
The strongest DEVIL fruit of them all! Akumu Akumu no mi!
This Devil Fruit has the ability to create subconsciousness nightmares. It feeds off negative energy. The more negative energy there is, the more the fruits powers grow. A bit like insects used to grow based on the oxygen level in the atmosphere. A couple of million years ago they were GIANTS!!!
This little nerdy boy became the great WARMONGERER who pillaged villages, sacked towns, annihilated tribes of people and even WHIPED OUT entire nations! As hes power grew, so did hes fame! Finally he was invited to join the "Shadow council" The highest council of evil in the world, specialized in printing false money, drug tracking and pedophilia...
But not even this was enough for HIM! Nothing was EVER enough! He set a new agenda for the "Shadow council" A world government ruled by the shadow council and it's puppet "world government" and a Shadow council controlled by HIM! And he planned to achieve this by a WORLD WAR, that would annihilate atleast 1/3 of humanity. The more pain and misery he would produce the more powerfull he would become!!!
The Akamu Akamu fruit literally FEEDS off negativity! Greed, jealousy, guilt, hate and fear! It needs them to breath just like oxygen. Only people who allow themselves to be manipulated by evil fall under the fruits evil radius of effect. The bearer of the fruit has the power to literally "leech" 10% of the physical energy of hes victims. This can make him physically stronger, practically immortal, and also give him a haki like forcefield against all other devil fruit users.
When the evil intentions of the "Shadow council" came to being, a group of the most powerfullest haki and devil fruit users in the world united in an attempt to stop hes crazy plans. They were only known only as "the twelve" and in a vicious and epic battle the "great satan" was finally defeated, but the great twelve suffered great loses, as 6 of them were killed and 1 lost hes entire arm. The shadow council was also defeated and forced to go underground, but it is said that before the defeat of "great satan" the essence of hes demonic power sensed the impending defeat, and the seed escaped again, waiting for better times.
And those times have now come. The GREAT SATAN shall rise again!!!
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|2010-04-22, 14:57
|Link #159
Pink Ball!
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Dreamland
Age: 29
Omoi Omoi No Mi
Omoi Omoi No Mi (Mind Mind Fruit)
* This fruit gives you the ability to take over the mind of a victim
* The fruit user can take over the mind and eventually the body of a person/animal and could do anything with the victim, even use his/her abilities
* You are also able use your own mind/body: moving, thinking, fighting...etc.
* You are only able to control 1 mind at a time
* There is a "cooldown" time between choosing different minds
* And obviously you can't swim
|2010-04-24, 13:43
|Link #160
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Munashii Munashii no mi (Void Void fruit)
Apearrance: The fruit takes the form of a black banana with purple designs on it
Ability: The user can open up small, circular areas to a universe of nothing, anything trapped in it is not killed, but is trapped unless released or crushed through a certain ability.
Pros: If 2 or more areas are created, the user can teleport between the two, It can be used on most surfaces with ease.
Cons: The user can be trapped in the area if not careful, also it can't be used on a moving surface (AKA Water) or Spiked surface. Of course you can't swim.
Munashii Kone: The user can grab the portal and move it to another surface.
Munashii Dyou: Summons two only the user can pass through.
Munashii Oni: Summons a creature from the portals that are pure black with purple design.
Yuuen Munashii: The strongest normal ability that can be use, summons a large portal usually 10m in diameter which starts to suck everything in, excluding the user.
Dou Munashii: The user transform to be pitch black with purple designs on his/her body.
Abilities in Italics are the attacks used by Dou Munashii.
Musnashii Tsume: The user uses his hand to claw in and out of The Void.
Munashii Rasen: While jumping in the air, the user sprials very fast ripping into the void along with what ever get in its way
Munashii Kujiki: Anything in the void can be crushed if the user grasps his fist, this is quite weak but can cause damage.
Munashii Fuubi: The user makes a small sphere in their hands and can expand it to cover a 2 mile radiai, anything caught in it is in full control of the user, to only ways to escape is to defeat the massive Munashii Oni which is inside it or the master is killed in any way.
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All of the technical aspects of the 2014 BMW M3 and M4 started trickling out today and the focus has been on the return of the six-cylinder to the M3 and the fact it will still have a six-speed manual, now joined by a dual-clutch transmission. But one noteworthy feature has a fantastic name: "Smokey Burnout Control." Just like a Mustang, maybe!
The folks at a place called Top Gear say that the new BMWs will come with this feature and that's the official name. We suspect it's something that comes from a much longer German phrase. Still, how awesome is that going to look in the 17th iDrive menu with the performance drive controls?
If this sounds familiar, it's because the 2015 Ford Mustang is rumored to have a burnout control, too. It's a secret system that was described by sources as "launch control for burnouts."
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Way back near the end of May, which feels like a very long time ago, we published a couple of pages of overview on how to classify ownership interests in activities as passive vs. non-passive. Somewhere in that article I promised to mention how real estate interests can qualify as non-passive activities.
This determination is key in the proper treatment of income and losses both for the purposes of the limitations under the passive activity loss rules and also for the inclusion in the calculation of the new Net Investment Income tax.
For an activity to be considered non-passive, the owner must materially participate in that activity and generally meet one of seven tests enumerated in Reg. Section 1.469-5T, explained previously. Despite those requirements, rental activities are per se passive, that is, automatically treated as passive regardless of the level of the owner's participation. There are a couple of exceptions to that default which we mentioned in the earlier article for self-rental activities, holding a working interest in an oil and gas property, and where a grouping election would be allowed with a non-rental activity in only specific circumstances. However, the most frequently used (and risky) exception to the default treatment of real estate income or loss as passive is when an election is made for a real estate professionals.
Special rules are provided under IRC §469(c)(7) for rental activities commonly referred to as the real estate professional rules. If the test is met, the rental activity of a real estate professional is treated as non-passive. Treatment as non-passive is advantageous when a real estate rental activity is generating losses that can be used to offset other income such as interest, dividends and wages. Conversely, the passive losses would not reduce other passive real estate income for purposes of the net investment income tax. Planning to make this election should be well thought out in that it may not always be desirable to treat net rental real estate income or loss as non-passive and the election itself may invite increased IRS scrutiny.
Am I a real estate professional?
The real estate professional must satisfy two tests:
- more than one half of the personal services performed in trades or businesses by the taxpayer during such taxable year are performed in real property trades or businesses in which the taxpayer materially participates, and
- such taxpayer performs more than 750 hours of services during the taxable year in real property trades or businesses in which the taxpayer materially participates.
At first glance, the test seems relatively easy to satisfy until you realize that for an activity to be counted towards the first and second test, the owner must materially participate in each activity to treat the income or losses as non-passive. If there are interests in several real estate activities, this may be difficult to satisfy. To help satisfy the material participation for each activity, a special grouping election can be made under Reg. Section 1.469-9 to treat all interests in rental estate as one activity. Once made, the election is binding for all future years the taxpayer is a qualifying real estate professional and is revocable only if there is a material change in facts and circumstances. In case you missed the election, one can be filed with an amended return under Rev. Proc. 2011-34.
The rental estate activity is owned by a trust. Can the trust be a real estate professional?
The Code nor the regulations address how material participation rules can be satisfied for taxpayers who are trust, estate or personal service corporations. Under IRC §469(c)(7)(B) the requisite amount of service hours must be performed in real property trades or businesses, the performance of which the IRS has previously stated must be by a taxpayer who is a natural person and has the capability for physically performing such services. In looking to case law for guidance, the U.S, Tax court in a recent decision, held that a trust taxpayer could meet the material participation standards through the performance of its trustees and thus qualify for the real estate professional exception under §469(c)(7). [Frank Aragona Trust, (2014) 142 TC No. 9.] In the case, the taxpayer was a trust that owned rental real estate properties and engaged in other real-estate activities. The court ultimately rejected the IRS' argument that a trust is incapable of performing personal services. Rather, the Tax Court held that the trust is an arrangement whereby trustees have a fiduciary responsibility to manage assets for the benefit of the trust's beneficiaries and therefore worked performed by an individual as part of their trustee duties are personal services for purposes of satisfying the section 469(c)(7) exception.
The trust was formed by a grantor who, after his death, was succeeded as trustee by his five children and one independent trustee. All six trustees acted as a management board for the trust and made all major decisions regarding the trust's property. In addition, a disregarded LLC, wholly owned by the trust, managed the trust's rental real-estate properties. The LLC employed several people, some of whom were the trustees. The court ruled that not only were the activities performed by the individuals in their duties as trustee included as personal services performed in a real-estate trade or business, but also their time spent as employees of the LLC managing the rental real estate properties.
Because the requisite hours in real-property trades were met and the trust materially participated in the real property businesses, the trust met the exception to the per se passive treatment of rental real estate activities and was able to treat the income and losses from the activities as non-passive.


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|Peter & I In The Model Room
The club house is located in Knightsbridge, adjacent to Hyde Park, and is full of history.
Among the many canon, flags, trophies and paintings that decorate the club, the main bar has a large half-model of Australia II, Alan Bond's revolutionary Americas Cup winner.
Of course today is the 30th Anniversary of that great victory.
My father Dean, sister Julie and brother Peter have also made the trip, a chance for the Langford clan to visit with distant relatives in England & Wales. Ley has stayed with Crystal Blues in Phuket. Today we move on to Cambridge and beyond.


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Sitting in the police chief interviews Monday night I could not help but choose the applicant I thought would be a good fit for the city.
The three interviews lasted around 30 minutes each. Not a lot can be said in 30 minutes. But I found myself impressed with the qualifications and passion for police work in the first two applicants William Roehl and Michael Uher.
Each man brought an abundance of experience and resources to the table. As the council members questioned them I assumed they were as impressed as I was.
History has a way of repeating itself.
Don't believe me?
Then look at what happened with the recent LaFollette Police Chief selection. There were a slew of qualified candidates vying for the position. A position that will entail curtailing a meth epidemic, raising the morale of the officers and battling the city council for autonomy
In My Perfect World
Whatever happened to Junior High?
By Kathy Jeffers Smith
Welcome to the Commissioners' Corner! This column will be used for informative purposes only and does not intend to stress any point of view. If you have a particular item you would like to discuss, please contact Peggy at the commission office at 562-9961.
Joy can be found in the midst of cold snowy winters
Our Christmas morning snow was so beautiful; it was breathtaking. Something so rare for us here in East Tennessee. Then the snow we had during the second week in January seemed to stay with us longer than usual. Here where I live next to the mountain, we had snow on the ground for 12 days before it all melted.
Reminders that God really does hear us as we pray
"Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart" (Luke 18:1).
How about a remembrance from the hot summertime to provide a little warmth here in the dead of winter?
From The Mountain
Mark J. Tidwell
Giving an answer for the faith within us
"Always be prepared to make a defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that is in you…." (See I Peter 3:13-16, RSV).
The Apostle Peter wrote his first epistle to Christians who were scattered and under persecution. They were being sought-out and harassed because of what they believed and how they lived. In the early going, Rome was not a "Christian Empire."
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- Explain what light pollution is and how it and air pollution affect astronomy.
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- Do the following:
- List the names of the five most visible planets. Explain which ones can appear in phases similar to lunar phases and which ones cannot, and explain why.
- Find out when each of the five most visible planets that you identified in requirement 5a will be observable in the evening sky during the next 12 months, then compile this information in the form of a chart or table. Update your chart monthly to show whether each planet will be visible during the early morning or in the evening sky.
- At approximately weekly intervals, sketch the position of Venus, Mars or Jupiter in relation to the stars. Do this for at least four weeks and at the same time of night. On your sketch, record the date and time next to the planet's position. Use your sketch to explain how planets move.
- Do the following:
- Sketch the face of the moon and indicate at least five seas and five craters. Label these landmarks.
- Sketch the phase and the daily position of the Moon at the same hour and place, for a week. Include landmarks on the horizon such as hills, trees, and buildings. Explain the changes you observe.
- List the factors that keep the Moon in orbit around Earth.
- With the aid of diagrams, explain the relative positions of the Sun, Earth, and the Moon at the times of lunar and solar eclipses, and at the times of new, first-quarter, full, and last-quarter phases of the Moon.
- Do the following:
- Describe the composition of the Sun, its relationship to other stars, and some effects of its radiation on Earth's weather. Define sunspots and describe some of the effects they may have on solar radiation.
- Identify at least one red star, one blue star, and one yellow star (other than the Sun). Explain the meaning of these colors.
- With your counselor's approval and guidance, do ONE of the following:
- Visit a planetarium or astronomical observatory. Submit a written report,
a scrapbook, or a video presentation afterward to your counselor that
includes the following information:
- Activities occurring there
- Exhibits and displays you saw
- Telescopes and instruments being used
- Celestial objects you observed.
- Plan and participate in a three-hour observation session that includes using binoculars or a telescope. List the celestial objects you want to observe, and find each on a star chart or in a guidebook. Prepare an observing log or notebook. Show your plan, charts, and log or notebook to your counselor before making your observations. Review your log or notebook with your counselor afterward.
- Plan and host a star party for your Scout troop or other group such as your class at school. Use binoculars or a telescope to show and explain celestial objects to the group.
- Help an astronomy club in your community hold a star party that is open to the public.
- Personally take a series of photographs or digital images of the movement of the Moon, a planet, an asteroid or meteoroid, or a comet. In your visual display, label each image and include the date and time it was taken. Show all positions on a star chart or map. Show your display at school or at a troop meeting. Explain the changes you observed.
- Visit a planetarium or astronomical observatory. Submit a written report, a scrapbook, or a video presentation afterward to your counselor that includes the following information:
- List at least three different career opportunities in astronomy. Pick the one you in which are most interested and explain how to prepare for such a career. Discuss with your counselor what courses might be useful for such a career.
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MDA Muscle Walk is a life-changing event that empowers families and communities.
MDA Muscle Walk is a life-changing event that empowers families and communities.
MDA Muscle Walk empowers individuals in hometowns across America to raise critical awareness and funds for muscle-debilitating diseases that severely weaken muscle strength and mobility.
This is more than a walk. MDA Muscle Walk is a life-changing experience that unites families, friends, neighbors and local businesses to forge powerful connections, celebrate the strength of MDA families and transform hope into answers.
"Instead of sitting there and wallowing and feeling bad about myself," Melanie says, "why not go out there?" So, she started an MDA Muscle Walk team. One of Melanie's friends came up with the team's name — Melanie's Indomitable Will. It suits her perfectly.
In MDA, Destiny found the support and community she needed to live fully as a 12-year-old, as a college student and now as a mom to two kids. "I support MDA because MDA has supported me so much in my life," she says. "When someone gives to you on that level, you've got to give back," says Destiny.
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Driving along Boon Road, Matt Klope spots a large, dead bird on the side of the road.
He pulls his truck over, steps out to take a closer look, then grabs his gloves and a plastic bag to scoop the barred owl up. Once tagged, he puts it in his truck.
Back at his home south of Oak Harbor, Klope puts the carcass into a large freezer filled with dead birds, where the owl will remain frozen in time until he has a chance to pull it out and put his taxidermy skills to work.
"People don't want dead birds in their freezer," said Klope, "But I do."
Klope sends processed bird specimens to museum and education institutions far and wide. Birds he has collected have been sent to nearby destinations such as the Burke Museum of Natural History in Seattle, or across the country to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Some of his specimens have then been traded by the Smithsonian in international exchanges.
Other birds brought in and prepared by Whidbey Audubon Society members may stay closer to home and get used in Audubon educational activities, or sent on to other museums in need.
Depending on how mangled the roadkill carcass is, Klope may prepare the entire body, or just the bones or feathers.
The barred owl Klope found may yet fly again.
If it is not needed locally for educational purposes, it will be loaded into a special box packed with about 20 other bird specimens that are being sent to the Smithsonian.
A red-tailed hawk and great blue herons were requested by the museum for this shipment, said Klope. He will also stuff the cooler's cracks and crevices full of smaller songbirds, which will be a welcome surprise at the institution, he said.
Museum curators depend on people like Klope to provide them with the display specimens they need.
In the distant past, museums got their specimens from people who went out and shot live birds. But those days are long gone, Klope said.
"It's not politically correct to go out and shoot them anymore," he said.
But collecting specimens requires more than simply gathering up roadkill and preparing it for display.
The Smithsonian and other organizations typically have strict rules about documentation, so Klope must provide information about the date and location each animal was collected.
"The person who found it, their name stays with the bird for eternity," Klope said, adding that there are a lot of birds residing at the Smithsonian tagged with the names of Whidbey Audubon members who discovered them.
While federal law prohibits most people from collecting roadkill birds, Klope, who serves as the Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard Coordinator for the U.S. Navy, holds a special permit from the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife.
"You can't just pick up a hawk or a great blue heron on the side of the road and keep it," Klope said, adding that most birds – alive or dead – are protected by the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
The permit requirement prevents people from bringing a carcass to a taxidermist saying they found it as roadkill, when in fact they hunted their prey, he said.
This provides the birds with some protection so that they don't become a decoration mounted on the wall in someone's home.
If people happen to stumble across a body, they can pick it up – provided they transfer it to a permit holder for proper care, he said.
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Ubuntu installation guide
Use this guide at your own risk!
- 1 Plan of action
- 2 (Re)Partitioning the drive
- 3 Install a temporary Debian system on /dev/hda3
- 4 Configuring your Ubuntu system
- 5 Boot your Ubuntu OS
- 6 How could this guide be improved
Plan of action
Installing Ubuntu from scratch is a complex and lengthy process. This is our plan of action :
- Partition the drive
- boot to a temporary debian system on /dev/hda3, so we can
- debootstrap ubuntu, chroot to it, configure it and
- compile a vanilla mainstream kernel
- reboot and see if everything is all right
For this guide, you need to have the newer Uboot version, with the netconsole working, available in Kurobox support in stock 2.6 kernels. The guide also assumes you are using foonas-em.
(Re)Partitioning the drive
Get on EM mode
Get on EM mode. On foonas-em this is done by pressing the Power button one time after the device powered on, and while the power light is still slowly blinking. If you can't get on EM mode by this way, you can enter 'run fooflboot' on the netconsole.
Partition the disk
We will create 3 partitions : one with about 3GB for the Ubuntu system, another one with 256MB for swap, and another one that takes the rest of the disk.
# fdisk /dev/sda -> o ( enter ) (clean the partition table on the disk) -> n, p, 1, (enter), +3000M; (New Primary partition in position 1, from start to 2048M after it) -> a, 1; (Set partition 1 as bootable) -> n, p, 2, (enter), +256M; (New Primary partition in position 2, from the first free spot to 256M after it) -> t, 2, 82; (set Type of partition 2 as 82 (Linux Swap) -> n, p, 3, (enter), (enter); (New Primary partition 3, taking the rest of the disk) -> w (write the changes to the disk - THIS WILL REFORMAT YOUR HD! BACKUP YOUR DATA! - ) # mkfs.ext3 -j /dev/sda1 (Create a new journaled ext3 filesystem on /dev/sda1) # mkfs.ext3 -j /dev/sda3 (Create a new journaled ext3 filesystem on /dev/sda1) # mkswap /dev/sda2 (Create a swap filesystem on /dev/sda2)
Install a temporary Debian system on /dev/hda3
If you already have a working installation of Gentoo, you can debootstrap Ubuntu from there without having to first install Debian. See Debootstrap Ubuntu from Gentoo
If you have the newer foonas-em mode installed, it should be possible to debootstrap and chroot from the EM mode, since it does have a 2.6 kernel.
Now we will prepare to boot a pre-made image on /dev/hda3, so we can use the debootstrap tool later on to create our final system on /dev/hda1. One could chroot to the image, using the EM Mode, and try to deboostrap from there, but to be able to chroot to the Ubuntu partition, you need to be running a newer kernel, so it's mandatory to boot on a newer kernel. (It said "FATAL : Kernel too old" for me when I tried it)
Get the Debian image and a kernel image from Debian_sylver. Be sure to grab a kernel image that supports U-boot.
Also, before proceeding, have your netconsole running, we'll need to enter special boot parameters. (Run "nc -u -p 6666 -v -v 192.168.0.100 6666", replacing 192.168.0.100 for your Kurobox Ip. Make sure your kurobox/desktop are ready to use the netconsole)
Have the Debian image ready for boot
$ mount /dev/hda3 /mnt -> Use your favorite tool to FTP the debian image to /mnt/ -> Use your favorite tool to FTP the kernel image to /mnt/ $ cd /mnt $ tar xvfz debian_image.tar.gz $ tar xzf linux-kenel_image.tar.gz $ cp boot/uImage boot/vmlinux.UBoot (U-Boot is configured to boot from vmlinux.UBoot) $ vi etc/fstab (make sure everything is ok - /dev/hda3 should mount on /, hda1 should mount on /mnt)
Before rebooting, you should check the network settings for this temporary Debian installation. In particular, the contents of:
- /etc/network/interfaces
- /etc/resolv.conf
(The necessary contents of these files are described below in 'Configuring your Ubuntu system')
$ write_ok (the box won't boot normally if you don't issue that command) $ reboot
At this point, have your netconsole running on your pc, be ready to stop the boot procedure hitting 's'.
Running debootstrap on the Debian Image
These steps are done on the netconsole :
-> Hit 's' before the timeout comes => ext2load ide 0:3 800000 boot/vmlinux.UBoot (load the kernel on the memory) => setenv bootargs root=/dev/hda3 (set that the root file system is on hda3) => bootm 800000 (finally, boot from that memory address)
Hopefully the Debian image will boot. Back on the normal shell, telnet to it :
$ telnet 192.168.0.100 (username and password : tmp-kun ) $ su (root password : root ) $ apt-get update
Note that we need to use a special version from debootstrap, one that has the ubuntu scripts :
$ apt-get install debootstrap $ wget http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_0.3.3.2ubuntu3_all.deb $ dpkg -i debootstrap_0.3.3.2ubuntu3_all.deb $ debootstrap --arch powerpc feisty /mnt http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ (place to pickup mirrors)
This will setup a base system on /mnt, and it will take a while. Nice time for a coffee :)
Configuring your Ubuntu system
At this point, we will get your Ubuntu system ready to be booted on.
$ cp /etc/fstab /mnt/etc/fstab (just a template that will help us configuring fstab later) $ chroot /mnt /bin/bash $ mount -t proc proc /proc
Note that we will use the mainstream kernel on this system. This means that we have to use the PATA drivers, instead of IDE. So edit your fstab file, make sure sda1 goes to /, and sda3 goes to /mnt. Ensure we have no "hda1", "hda2" or "hda3", replace for "sda1", "sda2", "sda3".
$ vim /etc/fstab
We have to ensure the box will connect to the network. So edit the /etc/network/interfaces file.
$ vim /etc/network/interfaces (configure to use with dhcp or static config)
If you use DHPC :
auto eth0 lo iface eth0 inet dhcp iface lo inet loopback
If you use a static setting (replace the ips to fit you) :
auto eth0 lo iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.100 network 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 iface lo inet loopback
Ok, let's move on :
$ vim /etc/resolv.conf (make sure that is has your nameserver/router) $ echo NameOfYourBox > /etc/hostname (this is the coolest part - name your host! ) $ vim /etc/hosts (Update your hosts file with your new IP & hostname (if using static IP) 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.100 NameOfYourBox $ vim /etc/apt/sources.list ( you can generate one for you on http://www.ubuntu-nl.org/source-o-matic/ ) $ apt-get update $ apt-get install console-data (reconfigure keyboard, if needed) $ dpkg-reconfigure console-data $ vim etc/hosts.allow (you should add your network there) ALL : 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 ALL : 127.0.0.1
$ dpkg-reconfigure tzdata (adjust your timezone) $ adduser YourUserName $ passwd (change the root password) $ visudo (add the following to the file, and save, so your user can use sudo) YourUserName ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL $ apt-get install ubuntu-standard (This set of packages provides a comfortable text-only Unix-like environment) $ apt-get install ssh (you'll need this to login to your Kurobox later)
Building the kernel
# apt-get install git git-core make patch unzip bison flex libncurses5-dev gcc (install the additional packages for compiling kernel) # update-alternatives --config git (choose #2: git-scm - we need git to get the sources for dtc) # chown -R YourUserName:users /usr/src (you need permission to write on that folder) # su YourUserName (this part is meant to be run as a normal use) $ cd /usr/src $ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.21.tar.bz2 (get the most recent from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel) $ tar xjf linux-2.6.21.tar.bz2 $ ln -sf linux-2.6.21 linux $ git clone git://www.jdl.com/software/dtc.git dtc (the dtc tool is used to compile a required special hardware database file) $ cd /usr/src/dtc $ make $ sudo ln -sf /usr/src/dtc/dtc /usr/local/bin/ $ sudo apt-get install uboot-mkimage (that is needed to produce kernel images that the u-boot can boot into) $ cd /usr/src/linux $ cp arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig .config $ make menuconfig $ make uImage modules $ exit # cd /usr/src/linux # make modules_install # cp arch/powerpc/boot/uImage /boot/vmlinux.UBoot # cp arch/powerpc/boot/dts/kuroboxHG.dts /boot/ # cd /boot # dtc -f -I dts -O dtb -o kuroboxHG.dtb -V 16 kuroboxHG.dts # reboot
(User:Mflint suspects that 'jigit' package is not needed -- indeed, maybe it's really not, removed from the guide)
Boot your Ubuntu OS
$ sudo apt-get install avr-evtd $ sudo vim /etc/default/avr_evtd (tweak the configuration to suit your needs)
Make Hwclock work
Hwclock only reads from /dev/rtc, but the system makes /dev/rtc0. Add this command to have udev to link rtc->rtc0 every time the system boots, so you can use the hwclock command. Just add the line to the file:
$ sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules KERNEL=="rtc0", SYMLINK+="rtc"
If you see the following error when running perl:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Then run:
# locale-gen en_GB.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
(be sure to choose an appropriate locale)
Install popularity-contest
Inform the repository that you are using the packages related to the Kurobox, so they don't get forgotten, run :
# sudo apt-get install popularity-contest
How could this guide be improved
- Provide a very slim base system, already using the newer u-boot kernel, and already having debootstrap installed;


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Lyle Lovett is as mystified about what to expect from this weekend's Lauderdale Live music festival as its promoter is sure about it. But both agree it's an extraordinary step for a city trying to develop a reputation as a live-music destination.
Lovett, the four-time Grammy winner known for his literate folksiness and ambitious flirtations with country, blues, jazz and western swing, is the Sunday headliner for the inaugural Lauderdale Live, taking place Saturday and Sunday on the New River at Huizenga Plaza. The festival will kick off with a VIP yacht party on Friday at Esplanade Park, up the river and across from the Museum of Discovery and Science.
The eclectic bill of 14 acts includes pop stalwarts Huey Lewis and the News, blues-jam favorites Robert Randolph and the Family Band, chick magnets the Indigo Girls, and fast-rising indie performers such as Jason Isbell, Shovels and Rope, the Wild Feathers and Holly Williams, daughter of Hank Jr.
Lovett says the decision to play Lauderdale Live was simple: His tour with John Hiatt was winding down, he got a call from his agent, and his dance card was open. But in a recent phone conversation from his home near Houston, now done touring, Lovett wanted to know more.
Told he would be playing on a stage set up in a small park next to a working river, across the street from the Museum of Art and under a regiment of high-rises, he reacted the same way you probably did when you heard Lyle Lovett was playing downtown Fort Lauderdale.
"Wow, that sounds really cool. Now that I have a sense of it, I'm really looking forward to it," says Lovett, who may lean his set on the critically lauded 2012 album "Release Me," which includes the sly "Girl With the Holiday Smile" and the jazz standard "Baby, It's Cold Outside."
"Release Me" was the final record on the contract Lovett signed with Curb Records in 1985. The parting was mutual, he says, but "now I'm just trying to figure out what to do next."
Lovett, who was walking his guitar around the country even before he taught freshman English comp at Texas A&M University more than three decades ago, can remember his first visit to South Florida like it was yesterday.
"We were opening for Bonnie Raitt, in 1986, touring with the 'Nine Lives' album," Lovett says. "Me and James Gilmer and John Hagen in a rented camper-top pickup truck. We played the Miami Zoo. It was October, a beautiful, sunny day. … But, I'm sorry, I have no picture of [Fort Lauderdale]."
Lovett says he's happy to be part of a push to create more music-friendly environments, whether or not it's part of a business model.
"It sounds great, and I hope people come out," he says. "One of the first obligations of any performer is to go out and play a good show. And you want everybody to do well. You need to make money for the promoter. And you hope it takes off from there."
Nashville-based music-management veteran Don Donahue believes the festival business is one of the few growth areas in the industry, and that Fort Lauderdale is poised to be a player. He says the Tortuga Music Festival on Fort Lauderdale beach in April, with headliners Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Ben Harper, the Avett Brothers and Grace Potter, created a lingering buzz among artists and booking agents.
"Fort Lauderdale is starting to step out as a place known for its live music culture," he says.
Donahue, a vice president with Be Live Events, the festival promoter in partnership with the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, has been the Nashville firm's man on the ground since the idea for Lauderdale Live developed 18 months ago. Donahue says he was approached by local tourism officials through connections made during the Key West Songwriters Festival, a Nashville-heavy event that this year hosted two of Lovett's best pals, Robert Earl Keen and Guy Clark Jr.
Donahue said that creating a short list of talent to play Fort Lauderdale was tricky because the city is "maturing its reputation … becoming more sophisticated." But, in the first year of a festival, there should be "something for everyone," he said.
Saturday is "slightly more pop," with headliner Huey Lewis closing out a day that includes Mat Kearney and "American Idol" winner Lee DeWyze. The lineup on Sunday with Isbell (ex Drive-by Truckers), Shovels and Rope, the Wild Feathers and Holly Williams is "very cool," Donahue said, though he was at first skeptical of Lovett as the headliner.
"I thought it was an interesting fit, but I had two people helping me on the music side in their late 20s, and I could see how excited and enthusiastic they were about [Lovett]," Donahue said. "They told me he put on the best show they'd seen in the last three years."
Donahue attended the Tortuga Music Festival, calling it "a fantastic festival at every level" (it was produced by a Nashville acquaintance, former Fort Lauderdale resident Chris Stacey), and he hopes to achieve a complimentary vibe with an annual event on the opposite end of the calendar, on the opposite side of Las Olas Boulevard, in a venue that offers a more intimate connection with the bands.
"It'll be an up-close experience, almost like a listening room," he says.
When Lauderdale Live was announced in October, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler acknowledged that "other cities are competing very hard for our tourists, and creating a more vibrant downtown experience is an important way to compete."
Like at Tortuga, proximity to water was a key selling point for Donahue.
"I did want to promote yachting and boating, which is what makes the city so interesting," says Donahue, who created a Friday-night VIP party on three yachts at Esplanade Park. "The water culture in Fort Lauderdale is really special. You can take an artist to their hotel or a restaurant by boat. It's unique."
Donahue points out that the festival location is walking distance to upscale bars and restaurants, younger-skewing lounges and a "vibrant artist community," all of which would appeal to out-of-towners like himself. He compared the Himmarshee District favorably to Nashville's Lower Broadway.
"Our goal is to introduce this city to live music fans," Donahue says. "The secret to success in the festival business is not what you do in Year 1. It's Year 3. We want to establish a brand and get artists talking."
Friday, 6-9 p.m.: VIP yacht party at Esplanade Park with Lee DeWyze, Dave Barnes, Andrew Ripp, Jillette Johnson and Jackopierce.
Saturday, noon-11 p.m.: Performances by Andrew Ripp (12:15 p.m.), Jillette Johnson (1 p.m.), Sons of Bill (2 p.m.), Lee DeWyze (3 p.m.), Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors (4:30 p.m.), Mat Kearney (6 p.m.), Robert Randolph and the Family Band (7:30 p.m.) and Huey Lewis and the News (9:15 p.m.).
Sunday, noon-10:30 p.m.: Holly Williams (12:15 p.m.), the Wild Feathers (1:30 p.m.), Shovels and Rope (2:50 p.m.), Jason Isbell (4:15 p.m.), Indigo Girls (5:45 p.m.) and Lyle Lovett (7:30 p.m.).
Where: Huizenga Plaza, Las Olas Boulevard and Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale.
Cost: $59 (one-day pass), $89 (weekend pass), $199 (VIP weekend pass), $379 (VIP weekend pass plus Friday yacht party). Tickets allow for unlimited re-entry. Box office will open at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Contact: LauderdaleLiveMusic.com.
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Monday, July 22, 2013
How I Love a Cheater
There have been plenty of posts on this site, and corresponding comments, revealing that many of us thought we'd respond that way. But when it actually happened to us, suddenly the future wasn't quite so crystal clear.
And, frankly, I think that black-and-white, if-this-happens-then-I'm-gone thinking doesn't always serve us well.
Syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage (he of the wonderful "It Gets Better" campaign) puts it bluntly in his book American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics where he writes, "Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of a monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage."
While I don't always agree with Savage, I do here. Absolutely there are cases where the only sane response to a spouse's cheating is to get the hell out of the relationship. Yet statistics indicate that 80% of people who divorce after betrayal regret that decision.
I suspect I would be one of those 80%. Which is why, when it happened to me, I waited.
I've often wondered if my ability to see both sides of a story is a blessing or a curse. I can't quite imagine doing what my husband did...but I can imagine how HE did it. I get how he deluded himself into believing it was harmless in the grand scheme of things. He never felt it threatened our marriage. He never believed it changed his love for me.
Clearly the guy had issues. BIG issues. A lifetime of unhealthy relationship issues.
But I had chosen him for clear-to-me and, no doubt, sub-conconscious reasons. And he was the father of my three children.
He needed my help.
He had made choices that had begun to disgust even himself, who was so adept at rationalizing his behaviour. Like most addicts eventually do, he was approaching bottom. He didn't want to be that person anymore. In hindsight, he had never wanted to be that person.
I offered my help.
At first that was all I could offer. I certainly couldn't promise that our marriage would survive. I had no idea if I could ever move past so much betrayal, so much lying, so much recklessness where my physical and emotional health – and that of my children – was concerned.
What I saw was someone incredibly sorry for the choices he'd made and desperate to find a better way. I saw my children's father. My best friend.
That was six years ago.
In that time, we've both fought our way back from hell.
He's had to face some truths about his family that he'd spent a lifetime denying.
I had to face that I still had serious issues around trust. That I really didn't know what a healthy relationship looked like as I'd never had one and never seen one up close.
And I've certainly thought at times that it would have been so much easier to just walk away and start over.
This was HARD work.
But I've come to realize it's work I would have had to do anyway if I'd hoped to have a healthy relationship in the future. And it struck me as prudent to try and create that healthy relationship with the father of my children. The guy who shares my bank account. The person who sleeps beside me.
But, some people cry, he's a cheater. He lied to you. How can you ever trust him again?
And the thing is, they're right.
Semantically speaking, he might not BE a cheater, but he WAS a cheater. He lied to me. How can I ever trust him again?
I can't.
But I also understand that I can never totally trust anyone ever again. I never could. People behave in all sorts of strange ways under different circumstances. Frankly, we don't even really know what we're capable of until put in that situation.
That said, he put himself in those situations. He sought out those experiences.
So yes, I can never totally trust him again.
But I have learned that I can trust myself. Not to always behave in ways that I think I'll behave (this point became clear to me when I was jet-skiing with a friend in Thailand. I had always believed myself to be an altruistic type. And yet, when we both fell off the jet-ski into waters rumoured to be popular with sharks, I practically clawed over my friend to get back on the jet-ski. So much for altruism!). But to respond in ways that are the best for me.
And frankly, if I thought he would cheat on me again, my marriage would be over.
So while I don't know if he'll ever cheat again, I believe he won't.
I also believe our marriage is stronger. I believe we have a far deeper understanding of each other, which has given us a deeper appreciation for each other. Our marriage is something we've chosen to rebuild. To create something that will never be as shiny and promising as it once was, something that shows signs of struggle, but that still stands firm and likely will for decades more.
I've learned to respect my husband for the battles he's waged and lost, not just the victories.
I've learned to see the pain that drove the choices he's made.
I've learned, contrary to anything I could have ever imagined, to love a cheater.
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Hi Elle,ReplyDelete
I'm an editor with NBC News, and I'm working on a follow to the latest news of Anthony Weiner's troubles. You probably heard about the press conference yesterday afternoon, where Weiner confessed to his latest sexting dalliances -- and Huma was not only at his side, but took the microphone to share her words of support.
Today, people seem to be asking about Huma: Why would she continue to stay with him? We were interested in hearing from people who might be able to answer that question: Why someone would choose to stay with their partner after infidelities surfaced - and what it's like to have to hear from friends and family members who don't understand.
I'd either love to talk to you, and then I could write something for online -- or, we could even take your lovely, thoughtful post here and reshape it into a personal essay that we would publish on NBCNews.com. (We'd pay you for your work, of course!)
I hope you're interested - you have such a way with words and I'd love to hear more of your story.
Contact me at melissa[dot]dahl[at]nbcuni[dot]com if you're interested and available this afternoon.
Thanks so much,
Melissa Dahl
Loving a cheater....I'm able to do that with little effort these days, but for a year after Dday, it was a major struggle. What surprised me then was that I was walking a very jagged line between love and hate. I loved my cheater so much! I had not recognized that deep, passionate love for my FWH for a long time. At the same time, I hated him more than I knew I had the capacity to hate! There was a vast spectrum and these emotions occupied opposite ends of it and my pitiful, confused self ventured back and forth for so long! Stay...go...love...hate...anger...compassion...confusion...understanding. Jekyll...Hyde!!ReplyDelete
I stayed. I gathered my multiple personalities together and I think now I'm at the same place you are. I don't think my FWH will hurt me again. If I did, he'd be gone. I don't just love my cheater, I appreciate him. I need him. I want him and I feel such an emotional bond with him.
Today we're pretty great. Damn shame it took infidelity to get us here but if I dwell on Then I can't fully embrace Now.Replies
So beautifully articulated Shawn. Exactly!!!Delete
- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2014 at 5:38 AM
Amazing Elle.... Thank you for all the beacons of light you throw my way and use to guide people like me thru this darkness of betrayal. You and this blog and the members in it have given me so much more than just hope....its been the education you dont realize you must learn to understand to try and find a path to peace and love again.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2013 at 4:20 PM
Thanks for the ray of light, Elle.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 15, 2013 at 6:36 PM
My husband's affair helped me realize how much I really did love him. His addictions and behavior before the affair had driven an almost invisible wedge between us... A wedge that at some times did nothing, leaving us to enjoy each other and at other times bringing on terrible fights and the desire to be away from each other. We grew accustomed to this new "normal" of not always liking each other. In fact on really bad days I imagined how peaceful life could be without him. When the affair was found out I was shocked at how much it hurt, how much I cared that I could lose him. It's good I did, right?! It's good he finally hit bottom and realized the same thing. As he was racked with the painful guilt of what he did I felt sympathy for him. I know to some that sounds sick, but I too am cursed with seeing both sides. What I saw was a fallen man who had not only betrayed me but let himself down in ways he never imagined. I saw the pain that put him through and I, in all my kind humanity comforted him and together we take the steps to heal this.ReplyDelete
I don't think he'll do it again. In fact I'm pretty sure he won't. I do question his motives, whereabouts, privacy, etc often... But I'm still vulnerable and scared 6 months later.
That being said, I've had my big emotional disasterous moments. I've lashed out with some "minor" violence. I stood for over half an hour in the face of the OW calling her names I wouldn't even say the some of the most horrible people in history. But we both keep moving forward. I keep moving forward. I must heal. -KateReplies
I think you hit on a really important point that is often lost: your understanding that he let himself down deeply. I too recognized that and it allowed me to feel compassion for him, even in the midst of my own deep, deep pain.
Thank you SO much for putting this better than I've ever been able to.Delete
The deep anguish that my husband has continually expressed for the pain he caused me and for the many mistakes he made, is a large part of why I knew early on I wanted to make things work. He has had to work hard to not hate himself.
I would have felt there was something missing in him if he hadn't been so upset with himself for doing this. I wouldn't have wanted to stay with him if he hadn't hated every action that led him deeper into an affair.
I won't discount my pain - not by a long shot! But I can't help but see his pain, too. I think part of beginning to rebuild our marriage – TOGETHER - was recognizing that both of us were in pain.
And yet again, Elle, you seem to speak from my own heart.ReplyDelete
It boggles my mind just how similar our stories are -- our reasons for staying, our way back from the brink. I am a different woman today than I was two years ago. I no longer live in a beautifully constructed fantasy marriage that I worked damn hard to create. I now live the real thing -- a complicated, somewhat damaged, intense love with my best friend, husband and father of my children. It is real, it is honest, it is painful and it is joyful. It has been a long road to get to this point and there is still so much ground to cover before I know I can get to a point of feeling really OK.
Your words are so blunt (How can I ever trust him again. I can't.) and when I read them I hear your compassion, your realism. Not an ounce of anger. But an acceptance. They resonate so deeply with me -- they bring me so much comfort even though they are so hard to read, they are exactly what I needed to hear tonight.
It's been a mess and sometimes I don't know how we've made it. But we are both so committed to making our marriage work and the love between us is still so deep. Thank you for being here for me tonight. I needed to read this.Replies
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. They bring tears to my eyes because I know how damn hard so many of us work to rebuild a marriage from the rubble. It will never be easy...but it never was, even when I didn't realize it. There's something to be said for living life with eyes (and heart) wide open.
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2013 at 12:41 AM
This is such an awesome blog! Elle, you sound like a great and graceful woman, how you handle all this.ReplyDelete
I don't understand how you can live with a cheater though. I have never been married but I had a relationship once where the guy cheated on me. He confessed what he did himself but after considering staying with him because I loved him so much for a little while I ended up ending the relationship shortly after. It hurt like hell, but he showed his true colors to me and I knew deep down I couldn't allow such an unsafe Person so close to my heart in the long. Not anybody would cheat. I wouldn't! And I expect my partner to be the same. I think cheaters lack empathy and are very selfish, this is no basis for a shared life.
On a different note: I have been reading up on affairs recently because I briefly had a crush on a married man and he had a crush on me. We met through work. For a very short period of time I thought I mind have found my soulmate. We spoke everyday, but except for one short kiss it didn't get physical.
Why am I not the other woman now? I realized very quickly that he was not going to do the right thing and speak to his wife about it - it would have had to happen extremely quickly after we met. I realized he would have had a full-blown affair with me if I let him, WITHOUT moving out of his home and separating from his wife. I was the one constantly reminding him of his marriage and turning down his offers to meet up with him after work. I was the one saying we can't do this. He tried to make out with me with a picture of his wife on his desk. He got so ugly in my eyes. I know I could never trust him, so now I feel even repelled by him. He Claims to be in love with me. He sends me Messages all the time although I told him to stop. He watches my every move during work. I am done with him but he doesn't want to see it. I keep telling him though.
Moral of the story: cheaters are a selfish lot and he is not the first married guy I or my female friends got approached by. They are no decent men. If all of us just stopped trying to make it work with cheaters, maybe they would one day have to face their issues for real, I don't know. But everyone in this blog let's them get away with it :(. Believe me one thing, no matter how much he throws the other woman under the bus, there was a special world between him and here where he threw you under the bus like it was nothing. This is his real self. I am sorry if I sound harsh but it makes me sad to see that so many great women on here are so delusional :(...
Great post. I am surviving...deciding...living a little. I stay for my kids and probably because I am trying to figure out how I contributed to this. I am trying to work through my anger- disappointment - this betrayal.ReplyDelete
His betrayal - co-worker. She has made poor choices, yes my opinion, but 3-children with 3-last names.....what was he thinking!!!!? Oh wait! He wasn't.
I always thought WE would be the couple that made it through anything and I know now that it can happen to anyone. The good news is that you own your destiny and being above ground is a great day!
As a child, I was ashamed of what i thought was wishy-washyness, but it was really an ability to see all sides of things. I count on that ability now, which is what is allowing me to see why he did what he did.ReplyDelete
Reading this helps me to see that we have what it takes to heal from the affair. I am not sure if we can heal other things in our marriage though. But the compassion is there, and it is so important.
- AnonymousMay 14, 2014 at 12:10 AM
I have been reading these blogs on and off for just over a year now. I wrote to Elle shortly after finding out that my husband had an affair ten years ago. The thing is I know he loves me ... he tells me all the time. He didn't leave me ten years ago even though the other woman tried her utmost to get him to. She knew me, had met me in social situations and didn't care. By the same token, at that time neither did he. He says he was going through a mid life crisis, his father had died and things were not going well at work. I was suffering depression. He got depressed sometimes and I always supported him but the one time when I needed support he went off and found someone else. He ended it and has tried hard to be a good husband since then. When I found out I was blindsided. How could this kind, wonderful man do something so shabby. The worst part is he can't remember when it was exactly. It lasted about two years but I don't know which years so two becomes 3 or 4 as I troll through trying to remember that time and how I missed all the clues. Now in retrospect some things were right in my face. I even asked him once if he had an affair and he said he didn't have time! Hah!!! I still love him and try to remember the good times but I am obsessed with trying to figure out when it was. When I first found the cards from her he told me it was another woman who had left town 10 years ago. I wrote to her and she said she never had anything with my husband. When I confronted him he admitted who it was and I found out that they remained friends for years afterwards. I have read the emails and I believe that they were just friends. I asked him why he stayed friends with her and he said she is not a bad person, I don't hate her. He said he was the bad person and he felt bad because he felt like he used her. He says he is ashamed of what he did and he doesn't want to talk about it any more. He wants to look forward and enjoy what time we have left together. He says looking back is destroying us. I have considered writing to her and asking her when the affair was exactly but I am afraid I will find out more ugly details and be back to square one in the grieving process. You always say not to contact the other woman so do you have any advice for me. I have really good days and then I feel myself sliding back into the dark hole and I think I am going crazy. I went to a therapist and he made me feel worse. Our insurance doesn't cover therapy and I really cant afford $100+ a week. I know I have so much to look forward to. We are expecting our first grandchild in August. How do I banish the dark thoughts and enjoy the now? I'm not even worried he'll go off with someone else. I truly believe he is a good person who lost his moral compass for two years and then got himself back on track and tried to make it up to me. So any advice all you wonderful ladies out there? I have to say that I have been having dark thoughts about all women and how we can be so mean to each other. But then I have to remember that I would never go out with a married man and reading this blog reminds me that there are good women out there who actually did move on from the high school mentality.ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm sorry for the pain you're still in. I wouldn't advise contacting the other woman, though I know it's tempting.Delete
I have two conflicting thoughts about what you're going through. On the one hand, I do think it might be time to accept that there are some things you won't know (and don't really need to) and that the best thing for your own emotional health is to move forward and focus on the joy in your life right now.
On the other, I know how important it is for us to go back and rewrite our history with our new knowledge in order to make sense of our lives. So that compulsion is real and, I think, important. Can you husband understand that this is important to you because it helps you make sense of your past the same way a victim of trauma needs to keep going over her story in order to process it? When there's a missing piece, we're almost prevented from moving past. Can he recall anything?? Movies that were popular at the time? A restaurant that may have since closed? Songs on the radio? If he absolutely refuses (which I think is lousy because I'm a firm believer that the betrayed spouse gets to the be the one to determine what she does and doesn't hear about ), then I think you may just have to let it go.
Let me share my own experience: my husband gave me a LOT of details, which I asked for over and over again. I honestly forget 90% of them, including, the other day, the woman's last name. I just couldn't think of it. That might mean that I have early stage Alzheimer's. Or it might mean that, when it's all said and done, all that really matters is the relationship we've created since then. That's what's real. That's what's important.
Elle, I know this is a very old post but what the hell. Just in case you see this, I wanted to thank you for that Savage quote. Because of that I ordered that book and devoured it in about 2 and a half days. Like you, I don't always agree with him either (probably on the same things for the same reasons) but he does have plenty of worthy insight. Just had to read the Tina fey auto bio just to distract myself til my next dan savage publication arrives in my mailbox because I felt so book-lonely when I finished it lol. I've been excited all day to hopefully see that the next one I ordered off Amazon will be there tonight when I get home. I'd recommend it to any fellow bleeding-heart liberal haha.ReplyDelete
I was a little disappointed when I read his chapter on infidelity, but the further I got into it: I was able to entertain the idea that maybe he's not talking about us when he says cheating can be the best thing for a marriage. He endorses open marriages and pre-agreed upon terms more than anything. Also that in cases of adultery (the betrayal kind), the examples he uses are not ones where, like many of us, the women would be shocked and were lead to believe that everything was fine. I still don't agree that it's okay when it's deceitful, but my advice when you read that chapter would be to take on the perspective that it might not be your situation he's talking about.ReplyDelete
This is the post I have been searching for. My FWH of ten years had a brief but very deceptive physical affair. He was broken and in a very dark place. He is showing so much remorse and genuine desire for change. While I've forgiven him in the sense that I've given up my responsibility for judgment and punishment.....and I desperately want to move forward, I struggle with looking backwards and still in shock that he was capable of such deception. So thank you for your words!ReplyDelete
This is the post I have been searching for. My FWH of ten years had a brief but very deceptive physical affair. He was broken and in a very dark place. He is showing so much remorse and genuine desire for change. While I've forgiven him in the sense that I've given up my responsibility for judgment and punishment.....and I desperately want to move forward, I struggle with looking backwards and still in shock that he was capable of such deception. So thank you for your words!ReplyDelete


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Bob Harris: I avoided Jimmy Savile, he grabbed my wife and just kissed her
DJ BOB HARRIS has recalled how he avoided Jimmy Savile and was appalled when the disgraced presenter grabbed his wife and kissed her.
The 67-year-old former Old Grey Whistle Test presenter, known as Whispering Bob for his hushed tones, was unequivocal in his dislike of Savile but insisted he knew nothing of his crimes.
"For me personally it was just this was somebody I didn't like," he told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. "I never spent any time in his company.
"The last time that I saw him was probably about six or seven years ago at a radio academy event. He was in his shiny jumpsuit with the medallions and everything and I was sitting with my wife, Trudie. He came up and grabbed her arm and kissed her all up her arm. It was just, eugh!
"You just didn't get a good atmosphere off him at all so he was never somebody that I spent any time around."
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Harris has had three wives and eight children. He remains good friends with his first wife, Sue. He has had two bad illnesses. "I got seriously ill in the winter of 1978/9," he said. "It was a form of Legionnaire's disease and it was unbelievably vigorous. I have never been in so much pain. I was in a five-day coma. When I emerged I thought, you know what, maybe I should straighten up my lifestyle a bit."
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