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I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me
You used to captivate me by your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your faceit haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voiceit chased away all the sanity in me
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along
...me, me, me.
We're married to a color blind person without knowing it, and we spend our whole essence trying to explain "pink".
One of my favorites.
Hugs to everyone. Yes, and yes, and yes! Thank you for inspiring me with your strength and wisdom! Thank you for sharing yourselves.
Ugh, I'm fighting myself. My youngest got a flash of clarity on dad's nature last week and it has been very painful and angry in the house since. He's been complaining about missing the kids, and not getting to see them enough, but ignoring the fact that I haven't put restrictions on, and if he were to suggest a time, I would probably go along with it. I have asked him not to come to the house when planned a few times just because *I* could not deal with him, but that doesn't mean he couldn't pick them up and do something. But he chooses to complain about it instead. It's bit him in the butt. Officially. Now all of the kids are angry with him and avoiding him. It doesn't help that he treats them like extensions of me, and treats me like ... I don't know ... passive aggressive, with his actions hostile and disrespectful, even while his words are all submissive and cloying.
And ironically, I feel bad for the bastard. It must really suck to be so incapable. I know that I can comprehend all he's lost between me and the kids. (Look, I'm awesome, okay. Hard-won self-love, shaky, but there.)But he can't comprehend it, because all he sees are the right-now-not-getting-what-he-wants problems. I need to remember that he has no idea of what all he's lost, because he just doesn't get it. Just can't.
I am wondering where you guys are with calling it abuse. I have gotten to a point where I am sort of debating with myself whether I want to believe it was abuse(please be gentle), whether it will be helpful to come to terms with that for myself, what that would mean, or if I even really have to deal with that now. I'm afraid that acknowledging how badly his behavior affected me for so long (I developed a panic disorder for Pete's sake) will make it impossible to co-parent, but on the other hand, I'm afraid of minimizing my and the kids' experience. But I don't want to be overblowing it either. I'm feeling back in the trap a bit.
Sorry to be all over the place, but, well, I guess that's where I'm at! The good news is that there's been forward motion on legal separation. My shallow breaths are getting a tiny bit deeper.
D-Day: Too many in 17 years of marriage. LAST time 10/17/2013.
Somewhere in my mind I know my WH has been emotionally abusive. In case I didn't know it I've been told by friends, family, IC, and MC.
It's hard to get my head wrapped around it. I don't think he was intentionally abusive and I don't think he would consider it abuse. That doesn't mean it isn't.
For myself, it just means that I am trying to become more aware of what is and is not appropriate and I need a LOT of reassurance. Like, I totally can't trust myself when I think something is wrong. I will probably drive my BFFs crazy before this is all said and done because they are constantly hearing, "is it just me or is this wrong?".
Latest example is my WH texting me this afternoon regarding my DD coming home from the hospital (yay!) after a suicide attempt last week. I warned him she was in a mood because I didn't give her phone back. Part of his response was:
"Maybe think twice before disrupting everyone's life and kill herself."
DISRUPT everyone's life???? Are you kidding me right now?
But I needed assurance that it was indeed inappropriate. (And of course, if y'all want to reassure me too, I'll take it!)
I think emotional abuse is so insidious and subtle that you don't even notice when it creeps in there sometimes. Other times it's blatant (having your A right under my nose and not even trying to hide it when he knows we still had to live together).
I'm looking forward to feedback from the others on your post.
I am wondering where you guys are with calling it abuse.
It is abuse. Straight-up. The further away you get, the more you realize it too.
OK. Time for the picture again ... A photography class assignment. Self-portrait. 1 year post-divorce.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
If our x's didn't set us free - we would never have found SI and ' met'.
When I count my blessings y'all get counted twice!!!!
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What you said is so true, Kajem. Out of this pain have come some of my greatest blessings.
I too have questioned, for so long, "is it abuse???" for years, I have questioned.
Things I told myself to not see it, "sometimes he is so loving", "he doesn't mean it", "he never hit me", "he said he was sorry", "he was drinking", "he is harder on himself than he is on me", "what am I doing to make him think that about me???", "I am too sensitive", "I am making too much of it".
I used to google, "what is abuse", and every other combination of that question I could think of. Then I would shut down that computer along with my thoughts.
In therapy for the last year, I would ask, over and over, "it really was abuse, wasn't it?" IC would gently, say, "yes Can, it really was". We would go over specific incidences, I still needed to hear it from someone else. It was if I had lost all trust in my own perceptions.
I knew that I would never treat someone, anyone like he treated me. I knew that he would never allow me to treat him like he treated me. I knew I did not like it, it hurt.
Even stbxwh would admit that he had been abusive. His rationale everytime after admitting it was, "but you allowed it". As if that made it okay. As if that took away his responsibility for being abusive.
Yes, I stayed, that is my contribution. I always joked that I have a broken thermostat. "Normal" people would be see the mistreatment immediately but for me it didn't register until the furnace had exploded and the house burned down and the fire department had already been and gone.
Then I would wonder, "did something bad happen?"
I was abused from childhood. It was my normal. When h and I met the first two years were amazing. He treated me like gold. Well, actually looking back, not really, but it was better than I had ever been treated. I could do no wrong as far as he was concerned, everything I did was wonderful. He did a lot wrong but I forgave, rationalized because I did not want to see, could not face the fact of the abuse. I wanted that good too badly.
I wanted to believe that the good was the real him, not the anger and abuse. I wanted to believe that the angry man was the aberration.
In 2010, I remember the exact scene, I came home from work, the night before had been another raging mess. He tried the same tact, the I'm sorry. A wall came up in me, I was shut down. I said, "no, do not tell me you are sorry, don't ever say that again, it has no meaning because you do the same thing over and over. Just stop treating me like that". That was my big stand, so sad. That was all I had in me to stand up for myself.
For two years, I was in a cocoon, trying to not engage at all. I buried myself in books, cleaning, cooking and doing everything I could to not stir his anger. He still raged of course, it was hell. Then his opportunity for new kibbles came along.
When he came back after three months, I was different, I had hit my bottom. He expected me to become the same, quiet, accepting, submissive doormat. She was gone. This unrelenting force was growing in me. The pain had been so intense that I became driven to learn and change, become stronger.
This past year was the hardest of my life. I was fighting myself to not slip back and I was fighting him to not be pushed back into that box. I stood up for myself and demanded more from him than he was capable of. I questioned him about everything, made demands on his "emotions", it was terrifying at times. I knew that if I just backed down, went with the established patterns, all would quiet down, except I would lose myself again. I felt like I was fighting for my life.
He could not take it, he doesn't have the capacity for love, honesty, he cannot bond, he just wanted a thing.
So he found a new thing.
He is trying to recycle, but I am so much stronger this time. The words do not pull as much this time. I learned over this last year that words really have no meaning coming from someone with no feelings. I never knew that before, a bit naive I guess. I always meant the words that I said, so I foolishly assumed that others did too.
The abuse is now my defense, my tool for keeping myself safe. I still feel the pull, my emotions feel the pull, I hurt, I miss the illusion of love. Those words feel like a balm for my heart, but my brain, my brain reminds me over and over, remember the actions, remember the abuse, that is what is real.
So after this long story, yes, it really is abuse. Write it down when you remember something, everytime you start to feel the pull use one of those actions to keep you strong. It is real, the abuse is real.
I guess I have been holding a lot in for a while. Thank you again all for being my safe haven for all of this. I know that you understand and don't judge. It is a gift to have a safe place for this pain and craziness. A place of understanding.
I would now like to be known as Can!
dday October 21,2012
dday December 20, 2013
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attempted R, it was all a lie
Divorced 8/5/14
I'm so glad you are getting stronger. I hope in some small way I am too!!
My FIL was emotionally abusive with MIL. I don't know why I could see that, but couldn't see it from WH.
In fairness, WH wasn't always abusive. He was broken and hurt from things in his past unrelated to me, but he wasn't abusive. That's only been since 2006 or so that we started down this slippery slope.
For us, it started the day that my own abuse within the church was validated by the church. My life as I knew it took an abrupt turn at that moment. Long story short, WH responded to my reaction to having my abuse validated (PTSD) with more abuse of the same kind. He told me I was going to hell and he wished he'd known THAT before he married me. That was just the beginning.
Basically my PTSD and recovery process was more than he can deal with. It stirs his own anxieties and because I wasn't doing what he wanted (despite having support from my IC on what I WAS doing), he chose to leave. Only he didn't leave, he cheated. And according to him leaving had been part of his plan for years. Wish I had known all those expressions of love over those years were just well crafted lies. Unless of course, that's just him rewriting marital history.
Yeah- the guy who is cheating on me is leaving me because he didn't like my stance on God and religion.
He has also said the day he started separating from me emotionally was the day I gave him an ultimatum about his porn use. My daughters had found porn on his phone the day before. We had an agreement in place regarding porn use, since it had been made obvious through theany cycles of broken promises and lies that he was going to use potn with or without my consent, the porn on his phone was a violation of the agreement.
I went apeshit, threw away all the porn in the house and told him to make a choice. Me or the porn. I wasn't divorcing him, but our relationship was going to change in a huge way if he was going to continue to use porn.
He chose the porn. He just didn't tell me that.
So, so sad....
BUT- new beginnings are fast approaching.
If FINALLY staying true to my morals and ethics cost me my marriage, then so be it.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts - notice the push-pull dynamic of the whole. It's like she's leaving, 'going somewhere', yet wanting to leave the message - the crucial thing - before going, before joining the blooming sky future.
That pic is like a good sip of wine to me...
A reminder of the push-pull dynamic that occurs with all of us, as we seek to detach from abuse and abusers. Eyes on the sky. Grasp the new bloom QA.
Making me ponder new art project...
Anything that causes pain that doesn't help foster growth or healing is abusive! They were doing their best to break us emotionally, it is abuse.
Things I told myself to not see it, "sometimes he is so loving", "he doesn't mean it", "he never hit me", "he said he was sorry", "he was drinking", "he is harder on himself than he is on me", "what am I doing to make him think that about me???", "I am too sensitive", "I am making too much of it".
I used to google, "what is abuse", and every other combination of that question I could think of. Then I would shut down that computer along with my thoughts.
I used to google, "what is abuse", and every other combination of that question I could think of. Then I would shut down that computer along with my thoughts.
That is me. Exactly. I had to chuckle a little that I wasn't the only one googling for validation and shutting it down. I too am driving people crazy with reassurance seeking. My oldest told me, "Mom, you don't have to clear your plan with me, I know you've got it. You're the bomb!"
nekorb and Can - You both mentioned the intention thing, and that is kind of a sticking point for me too. I'm realizing that whether that is his stated intention or not, or whether I want to accept that he intended it or not, he still did it.
I think WH inherited NPD from his father, but he also got a lot of passive aggressive coping mechanisms from his mother. Yeah, the family is a hot mess. One of his favorite tactics was acting like a child if he thought I was angry with him. Many times I wasn't even angry, and I would be so lost and wondering what I had done to make him act like I was such a monster. Was I really that mean? No, it was all part of the control. That was why it worked, he came off as passive, and I worried that I was the dominating one, that it was all my fault, which made me work harder to prove it wasn't true, to give him more control, to prioritize him.
So his mom came to visit the kids, and made a comment that kind of sticks in my craw. She said that in DD's bday picture, DD looks disappointed at the small size of the stack of gifts in front of her. Um. No. Never. And then MIL pushed it saying, "Yeah, I noticed that!" DD just sort of blew it off, but now MIL will be here for DS's birthday coming up, and DS told me he's afraid he will not react big enough for her and that she will think he's ungrateful. So yeah, we're definitely not opening gifts in front of her. I'm just sort of blown away at the tactics they use. I advised him to cheese it out if he was really worried about it. He's just not a big reactor, and if they can't accept that, whatever. I'm just feeling like I want to be so far done with these people messing with my kids! What makes them think it is okay to do this stuff?
I feel like such a dork, I just figured out I could expand the typing window.
I love the breakdown of the picture jj. I want to go there.
So, accepting it is abuse. All the times I said I thought so, I was right. I'm going to sit with this for a while.
"it was not that bad"
It seems to drift through my mind when I am not paying attention.
Where does that come from???
It shocked me when I caught it the other day. No wonder this is so hard and painful, a part of me still is fighting the truth.
I've done the same thing over and over about abuse. I'd make excuses for people to treat me badly: "They're upset", "They've had a hard time", "They didn't mean it", "They have a headache", "They're really a good person", etc, etc, ad nauseum.
I wasn't really told I was controlling (except lately) but always told I was always depressed. He told me, "You act like you are the only victim here! I was a victim too! You were always depressed!!"
Was I always depressed? No, but maybe I wasn't that happy either, because of the emotional abuse and the gut feeling that he was cheating and I was being gaslighted like crazy.
If I called him out on something he said or did that was hurtful, just saying quietly and calmly, "You know when you said x, it hurt" I was told I was too sensitive or it was twisted and turned to the point that I was the one who was apologizing to him!
Too many years of this crap from WH and BPD Mom has made me question my own self and I guess that is why, like a lot of people here are saying that I would have great difficulty self validating and asking others, "Is it me, or is what he said hurtful?"
QA I could have written the same thing about gift giving with NPDX and his family. Towards the end buying gifts for him became a chore because he took the joy out of giving because I would always wonder was it enough, does he feel special enough, is it what he wanted, etc...I can't tell you how many gifts he returned from me, the kids and my family. Then if you didn't respond his gift giving in an exact way you were called out as being ungrateful or the opposite of pointing out how great a gift it was for him to get you and then ask incessantly for the next day or two for kudos for such great gift giving powers. All I can say is that I stopped that cycle being passed down to my kids. They are very grateful for no matter what they receive and they know its not about the material possessions.
Can the statement of "its not that bad" rings true. I am a person that is grateful for what I have in life and know there are so many other people and families that are struggling with finances and health. At one point during false R I said to a friend life could be worse and at least I am not in Hatti. My friend stopped and me and said look at how extreme you had to go to justify his actions. I know pretty bad huh. That was a wake up call.
Honest I was accused of being depressed too when in actuality I was tired and in my shell of unhappiness because of the way I was being treated and gas lighted. There was not a chemical imbalance in my brain just an imbalance in my spouse's immature brain that was projected onto me.
You all are amazing group of survivors and some of the strongest people I know. I do not post often but I draw so much strength from the tribe. Thank you!
[This message edited by GreatRoleModel at 11:37 AM, April 8th, 2014 (Tuesday)]
I can recall - generally, not specifically - hearing from WH that he didn't think I liked gift abc because I didn't seem excited about it.
I remember thinking that I really liked or loved the gift and had no idea what he was talking about, but because it wasn't the reaction he was looking for, I must not have liked the gift.
Huh. Interesting.
Anyway, I was looking at videos from the songs we heard, and this one I feel will resonate with my Tribemates.
Passenger "Holes"
the guy who is cheating on me is leaving me because he didn't like my stance on God and religion.
I often tell people who ask why we divorced that we had aaa difference of religious opinion, he thought he was God, I disagreed.
And it's true!
The abuse is like being the frog in the water. If you boil the water first the frog doesn't willingly go into the pot. The same is true if abusers show their true cord right from the beginning. If you put he frog in he water and then turn on the heat, the frog won't know he's being boiled to death.
We are like the frog finding out he's being boiled only he gets out before death occurs. Depending how long we stayed in the relationship is how deep the wounds are. The deeper the wounds the longer the recovery.


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Researchers at Boston University Medical School and NCI found no association between alcohol consumption and bladder cancer risk in a study of 10,125 people. However, beer consumption was significantly associated with a reduced risk of the cancer, while hard liquor and wine were not.
The results, published in the September 15 Journal of the National Cancer Institute, were based on records from the Framingham Heart Study - an extensive, population-based study begun in 1948 and funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Participants in the study have been repeatedly interviewed about their alcohol consumption and smoking habits.
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I actually like this policy from apple. The last thing I need is for my credit card info. to be made available to 3rd parties when I am dealing with Apple as the front man. As long as the publisher is getting paid, that should be enough information for them.
That's exactly how i feel. It makes you wonder why the Publishers are so eager to get the customers credit card information!
Of course Apple doesn't want them to make an end run. And they don't want to be dependent on Apple. But if they are the outlet, and I, the customer, want to go through Apple, then 'dems da rules'.
Your card info isn't shared with a publisher when you buy through amazon either. What's the problem here? OH! Now I see who wrote this rubbish, I'm not surprised. Stir up a storm where it doesn't exist mr messy? What a hack blogger you are. FYI in most countries where privacy laws are in place, an Etrader CAN'T share personal information without consent of the buyer and in most cases doing so is a breach of law. To extend this point, that would be like going into Walmart, buying a shirt and then Walmart giving my private info to the shirt maker?!?! WTF.
I don't go to a news stand, buy a copy of Time and then hand over my info for the publisher to have, why would I want my privacy violated when I buy an Emagazine?
The evil trade of selling of private information should be stopped, NOW! Why should anyone be allowed to profit from selling MY private info???????
Maybe they will look into utilising the awesome (or so we keep getting told) HTML5 to produce a web version of the magazine, then they can control who has access and also open the market to extra tablets like the Android ones etc.
I'm glad Apple is standing firm . On the other hand, it's difficult to see how these dying publishers are going to make any money without Apple getting richer and the consumer getting the shaft. A new world has emerged. Wonder how it'll play out?!?
isnt iOS 4.3 supposed to add subscription services? I dont know how it all works, but I am sure apple gets a cut from in app purchases and (other than JB devices) I dont see how any publisher will be able to get anything on the iPhone or iPad without paying a chunk to apple. Even if you pick up your fav magazine at you local grocery store or newsstand, there is still a chuck taken from the publisher. Only way the publisher gets (close to) 100% is thru direct mailed subscriptions and that just cant happen on an iDevice...yet
I'm glad I don't have credit card plus all the news I read are for free :-)
I also dont use a credit card. i live in germany and im VERY HAPPY that we have regular EC Debit Cards.
In America everybody uses credit cards and pays theyre *** off and stumbles into debt.
And we here on the other side of the pond use debit cards for a long time and i hope credit cards get vanished of the surface of the earth xD
Never used a credit card, wont do , only if im going to us, but thats utopian since i am no criminal and therefore wont give away my fingerprint!!!
Credit cards and visa/MasterCard debit cards are often mixed together when talking about credit cards. There are many Americans, myself included, that pay for this stuff on debit cards and don't have credit cards. Let's not confuse the two, I don't swipe a credit card at starbucks...it is my debit card
oh ok, i was thinkin TOOO EVIL of american banks
its just this general sense here in europe that we think . americans only use the real credit cards, cuz thats what we see on tv. americans with 15 credit cards to pay the interest of the others.
But you dont have direct debit in america or do you ?
because EVERYTHING i see in america, f.e. online shops , you can ONLY use credit cards, ryanair uses ONLY credit card (even though its uk^^)
in germany your card is tied to an account number, so when you order something online, you either send the money from an account (wire transfer) or you give them the account info and they withdraw it.
Most of our debit cards are branded by credit card companies so that we can use them to buy the latest and greatest gadget that we don't need online or via tv. However, they are tied to our bank accounts and if u ain't got the money u don't get the goods.
Don't get me wrong, there are many who have multiple real credit cards and use them to pay each other off...lol. If they can't they just file bankruptcy and start over, no sense of personal responsibility that's for sure.
Nice job apple keep my info out of their hands they don't get my info when I purchase physical media there not gonna get it with digital stuff either
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia tells the story of an anonymous man's journey from impoverished rural boy to tycoon in an unnamed contemporary city in "rising Asia," and of his pursuit of the nameless "pretty girl" whose path continually crosses but never quite converges with his. Stealing its shape from the self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over "rising Asia," the novel is genre-bending and playful but also reflective and profound in its portrayal of the thirst for ambition and love in a time of shattering economic and social upheaval. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Mohsin Hamid's third novel, confirms that this radically inventive storyteller is among the most important of today's international writers.
Mohsin Hamid grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, and attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School. In addition to How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, he is the author of the international bestseller and Man Booker Prize finalist The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the PEN/Hemingway Award finalist Moth Smoke,which was also a New York Times Notable Book and was awarded the Betty Trask Award. Hamid contributes to Time, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, Granta, and other publications. He lives in Lahore with his wife and children.
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This Week in Fiction: Mohsin Hamid
September 17, 2012
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This week's story, "The Third-Born," opens with a sick young boy curled up on a packed-earth floor under his mother's cot, whimpering in pain. When did this image first come to you?
The week of my multi-day marriage in Pakistan, my wife wasn't herself. She was tired, drained, out of sorts. She loves dancing but could barely get to her feet. A doctor said she was fine. My aunts said, "It happens. Just nerves." Eventually, though, my wife started crying, and I told her to pull herself together, no one was forcing her to get married, and this was starting to get ridiculous.
The day after our wedding, we found out she had hepatitis E, probably from eating contaminated food. It took her a month to recover. We cancelled our honeymoon. Even now, when I think about the look she gave me as we heard her diagnosis, I'm sheepish-and if looks were uppercuts, well, I'd be curled up on the floor, whimpering in pain.
So I'd say, to the extent I can, that the image came in parts, and congealed when I started writing. For me, creating a character is like acting. I have to imagine being them. Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. And when I imagined being the boy in this story, these were some of the echoes I found.
The story is taken from the opening chapters of a novel you're working on, How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, which follows this boy from childhood into adulthood. Your first two novels were set in Pakistan, yet you never specify your protagonist's homeland in this case. Was that a deliberate choice? How specific and how universal have you been in your account of the boy's surroundings and situation?
My first novel does have a few pages set in New York, and my second is largely about events in New York, even though it takes the form of a one-sided conversation in a Pakistani café. So this is the first time I've set a novel entirely in one country. I wanted to use Pakistan as a template, but not be bound by it. Not having any names in the novel, except for continent names, was a way for me to de-exoticize the context, to see it fresh. You have to think differently when there's religion but no words "Islam" or "Christianity," food but no Afghani tikka or Wiener schnitzel, beloveds but no Laila or Juliet. I wanted to find my way to something universal, and since I work with words, I tried to teach myself through selective abstinence.
The story, like the novel, is told in the second person. As a result, the reader is both privy to the protagonist's innermost thoughts and yet often allowed to understand the implications of events that the boy (and later man) is not yet aware of himself. Did you always know you were going to tell his story in the second person? Did it present any particular challenges?
I've tried to avoid the second person in all three of my novels, and versions of it have found their way in every time-increasingly so, in fact. I suppose it's because I can't shake the idea that a novel is like a dance, with two people dancing, writer and reader, and it's a bit strange to pretend I'm doing it by myself. This time around, after a couple of failed drafts, I gave in to the second person completely, and I found it pretty liberating as a form: you can move from a hyper-intimate first-person-like perspective to a cosmically removed third-person-like one very easily. It seems to invite that kind of riffing.
The boy lives with his mother, his two older siblings, and his father's extended family in a small village, while his father works in the city as a cook. The boy's mother persuades his father to take her and the three children back to the city with him. "You embody one of the great changes of your time," you write. "Where once your clan was innumerable, not infinite, but of a large number not readily known, now there are five of you. In the history of the evolution of the family, you and the millions of other migrants like you represent an ongoing proliferation of the nuclear. It is an explosive transformation-the supportive, stabilizing bonds of extended relationships weakening and giving way, leaving in their wake insecurity, anxiety, productivity, and potential." Do you think the nuclear family, rather than the clan, offers more potential for the fiction writer?
Nuclear families are easier to write, at least for me. They have fewer moving parts. But the clan is important. It's vital to understanding the world. The problem is that I gravitate toward compression. Slender books. So a writer like me doesn't have natural recourse to one of the usual clan-writing options, which is to approach it through a big, sprawling, multitudinous novel. Without open spaces for narrative and characterization, clan-writing can become essayistic. But I think there are ways to re-appropriate essayistic writing in fiction. Certainly I'm trying to figure out ways to do so. Tell, don't show. Sometimes. Then again, there are writers who make clan-writing on a compressed canvas look effortless: Lampedusa, Achebe. Wow.
You grew up in Pakistan, but spent part of your childhood in the United States, and as an adult, have divided your time between Pakistan, the States, and Britain. Your first novel, Moth Smoke, was about a young banker in Lahore, your second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, concerned an American-educated banker who has returned home to Pakistan. The boy at the center of "The Third-Born" has little chance of leaving his homeland to study abroad, or of becoming a banker in his twenties. What was it like to examine the way society functions from another part of the spectrum? Does chance play as powerful a role in those lives as it does in this one?
Chance plays a powerful role in every life-our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously-but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down. The new novel is about seventy years in a man's life, but because it's all set in the historical present, it could also be the stories of a dozen different people at a dozen different levels of society, all occurring right now. I wanted to see what happens when you fuse a lifelong saga with a society-wide one. Two segmentations: one along time, the other along class, operating simultaneously. Like slicing an apple on two axes, the vertical of an individual and the horizontal of a community, to see what kind of fruit it really is on the inside. What kind of fruit I really am. A nutty one, clearly.
- Why do you think the author chose to write this novel not only in the second person but also in the form of a self–help book? What effect did these choices have on your experience as a reader?
- How does the transition from rural to urban life affect the family? What challenges does it alleviate for them, both individually and as a unit, and what new challenges does it create?
- What first intrigues the hero about the pretty girl? In what ways does her rise parallel—and diverge from—his? Were you surprised by the course of their affair? Why do you think the author chose to give it this form rather than craft a more conventional romance? What does the book ultimately have to say about love?
- What happens to morality—for the hero, his father, and the pretty girl—in the pursuit of ambition? What happens to love?
- Apart from continents, no place is named in the book and all of the characters are anonymous. Why do you think the author chose to forgo names? What effect does this anonymity have on the telling of the story and on your experience reading it?
- The story spans the hero's entire life, from early childhood to death. How does the author convey such a broad sweep of time in so few pages? What insights about mortality does the story offer?
- The book is set against a backdrop of massive and often brutal economic and social change. In what ways does this context limit the hero's life choices? In what ways does it liberate him? What might this story look like played out elsewhere in the world?
- At one point the hero becomes affiliated with a group of "idealists," and at other points his father's faith and his wife's religious–minded activism are discussed. What do you think the novelist's attitude toward religion is?
- In Chapter 9, "Patronize the Artists of War," the role of "information" and its less–than–benign uses emerges, and the tenor of the narrative shifts as well. How would you describe this shift, and how are these two developments related?
- After finishing the book, what do you think of the title? In what sense does the novel ultimately offer "self–help"? How does it blur the boundaries between genres—fiction, nonfiction, self–help, and even sci–fi?
- What did you think of the ending of the book? Was it surprising, given the title? Satisfying? Where did it leave you as a reader, and where do you think the author intended it to leave you?


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Don't speak too soon about HK-47 having nothing to do with the 51, ladies and gents. Here's some fun with KotOR II cut content: HK-50's hunt the PC throughout the game. Originally, you were supposed to let the re-assembled HK-47 interrogate one of the 50's, leading him to the HK factory on Telos while Darth Nihilus is busy bombing the planet. Within HK finds that there's an entire army of these HK-51 units already mass produced but offline due to some behavior core problem or other. He provides a fix from his own programming, then uses the 51's to wipe out the remaining 50's and then finally, stopping G0-T0 from killing Bao-Dur's remote on Malachor V during endgame.
So, I'd imagine it would follow that we might have to scan him in one of his current incarnations or something. Only way to know for sure is to wait until he's patched in during 1.3.
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See this version of HK-51 for companion quests and affection gain.
From http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=1519879#edit1519879 :
Hey folks,
I just wanted to clarify: There is no quest for an HK companion currently in the game. I have seen people claiming sightings but these are incorrect. The information you're seeing is from data mining sites that deep dive into files that - as many of you correctly pointed out - are often shells for future work or parts of the game that were removed. Always read any of these with a healthy degree of skepticism.
Hope that helps!
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As far as i know... there is a quest at lvl38 on Hoth to get him, people say its history quest (i didnt find it). Other people says npc isnt spawned yet (i and some clanmates mapped all Hoth and didnt saw the droid T3-like that gives the quest) so it seems this theory is correct.
There are some theories that tells it must be repaired with pieces of HK-45, havent done Foundry yet, so i guess this theory cant be discarded yet... I hope if someone read this and got it reply because im getting tired of search and havent found anything yet.
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That being said, good luck to you man. I started training last April, took the summer off, and ive progressed tremendously. I love it.
That being said, good luck to you man. I started training last April, took the summer off, and ive progressed tremendously. I love it.
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Good luck bro! I'd like to do that myself eventually. The timing isnt right for me right now with a new baby. But I enjoy working with the new people at the gym and showing tecniques. I dont know how your school works but my instructor has lots of affiliate schools and thats how a lot of guys get their starts, by renting a space at a local gym or fitness studio and teaching a few classes a week. I hope it works out for you!
Best of luck to you man! Always follow your dreams dude. You don't wanna look back and regret never knowing what could have been. Follow your passion my man, stay focused and best of luck.
That's called a broment right there.....
Roadblock... Need a new gi old one don't fit.
not even sure how to fucking size these things.
ok just a little update.
My quest for BJJ greatness was derailed about 3 months ago because of a sprained knee.
It's on the mend now and I've been hitting the weights pretty hard since then. Feeling pretty good and almost ready to get back out there. exited.
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Today, empowered developers are forcing a fundamental change to ALM—especially as it relates to tools. Developer populism is the term that describes these developers bringing in the open-source tools that they prefer to use in their jobs, according to Tasktop's CEO Mik Kersten and chief product officer Dave West in a talk about developer populism given today at Microsoft's ALM Summit.
Tasktop, an application life-cycle management solution provider, sells software that integrates lightweight development tools into one place so that developers don't have to jump around from tool to tool. Because the fact is, Kersten said, the developer has disproportionate control and influence over the way that software is built in the enterprise. "If you use tools, platforms or ALM systems that don't factor in developers, you tend to fail," he said. "The whole idea of developer populism is that the way that we create these tools have to embrace the way that developers work. We have to marry, basically, the more-lightweight and informal tools of developers with this corporate need for control and traceability and visibility."
West first introduced the notion of developer populism while working as an analyst at Forrester. Now, Kersten said that developer populism is no longer just a prediction; empowered developers have already changed the ALM landscape today.
"Developer populism has happened. We're not going to find this far off in the future—it's the reality now," he said. "Developers are already bringing in their preferred development tools to their companies. The question now is how we connect these tools for large-scale software-delivery with the tools that developers want to use to keep themselves productive. To do that, we need this integrated life cycle."
Developer populism is already forcing companies to give developers more control over what they're doing. "It's almost too late; developers have already got control," Kersten said. "And it's happened that way because the tools that they use will often not be provided by IT. They'll be these open-source tools that they'll use to make themselves more productive because they were not getting what they needed from the standardized toolsets."
The worlds of management and of developers need to come together for ALM to move forward, Kersten said. "We actually need to marry these two worlds at some point. That is, marry the view that management had of The Rational Unified process—that control and traceability—to what really works in terms of developer productivity and developer happiness if developers are increasingly setting the agenda.


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MISSION – Seven police officers were promoted last week during a special pinning ceremony at the Mission Police Department. Five officers were promoted to corporal and two were advanced to sergeant.
Promoted to sergeant were Teodoro "Ted" Rodriguez and David Meza.
Officers promoted to corporal were Jorge Saenz, Marco Ramirez, Roel Valasquez, Estaban Jara and David Garza.
Interim Police Chief Robert Dominguez said this is a very special day for the Police Department. He continued, saying these promotions were a work in progress since last year the budget planning and other promotions had left vacancies.
"We're very proud of these fine young men," said Dominguez.
Interim City Manager and Ex-Police Chief Martin Garza said it seemed like a long time since he had seen some of the faces at the station.
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Garza said he was honored to stand next to the men in blue that were being promoted. He added that he has had the opportunity to work with them on several occasions.
"I applaud them for their work and dedication," said Garza. "They're going to be good teachers, good counselors."
Garza told them the goal is not for leaders to develop followers, but for leaders to develop future leaders.
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Compiled Utah's best overall record of 14-6 (a .700 winning percentage) after joining the Utes in January 2013 ... went 5-2 in conference play, including an upset over USC's 87th-ranked Michael Grant ... longest winning streak of seven matches ... played mostly at the No. 5 singles position, going 8-3 ... went 5-12 in doubles play with partner Ben Tasevac and 3-2 with Slim Hamza.
Prior to Utah
Transferred from Clemson University, where he played the Nos. 4-6 singles positions and Nos. 2-3 doubles slots in the spring of 2012...posted a 9-14 record in singles and went 3-10 in doubles...won the Dutch Junior National Indoor Championship title in 2011...was consistently ranked in the top 10 in the Netherlands throughout the juniors divisions...has been instructed by renowned Swedish coach Martin Bohm...in the summer of 2012, reached the second round of qualifying play at an ATP challenger event in Scheveningen, the Netherlands.