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Its hard to follow whats going on with Biker on ignore. I almost took him off to see what he had to say but then decided i couldn't.
This is a discussion on Question about the "guy jumped out of the dark" thread within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Originally Posted by atctimmy After cooling off a bit I'd like to apologize to Mulle46, Sixto, 64zebra and all the other LEOs here I may ...
Speaking for myself, I've never stated I was better. If you inferred that, well then, that's on you. What I am is a middle-aged guy that wants to go home at the end of his shift. What I'm doing now is not what I have always done, nor am I with the only agency I have ever worked for.
You seem to think, you and many others, that your "rights" are more important than anything. I have news for you, they aren't. Even your beloved Supremes have said the same as me.
There has to be a balance between your rights and the interest of safety. Go read the Terry Stop decision again. Reasonableness seems to be a common theme with those decisions, and what they have deemed as reasonable.
It is NOT unreasonable to have a homeowner disarm when LEO's show up. If that offends you, too bad. Quite frankly I don't think you've ever seen unlimited freedom. If you had it would scare the crap out of you. Your writing of "the people" smacks of the inability to reason logicly and think in a forward manner. In short, I don't think you have thought the situation out to the possible outcomes.
Many people here seem to be real big on chest thumping and fluffing their feathers. Well, I'll just go preen myself now.
Its hard to follow whats going on with Biker on ignore. I almost took him off to see what he had to say but then decided i couldn't.
Since we are merely discussing the details of whatever form he is filling in, he will be on his side of the threshold; namely the 'out' side. I will remain inside. I don't expect that the subject of me being armed would come up. I conceal even in my house and I can't imagine a reason to mention it over the phone in the first place. Assuming he was somehow aware of my weapon and asked me to disarm before he completed his paperwork, I suppose I might consider it, if the report was very important to me.
However, filing a police report is not a traffic stop, a Terry stop, a felony stop, nor any other kind of stop. It is an officer writing some stuff on paper. Nothing more, unless and until someone does something stupid. If I got a whiff of the attitudes present here (Friday Night Smackdown), I almost surely would cancel the report immediately. There's got to be a way to do this over the phone or internet, anyway, and avoid your rights being muddled on a whim.
Well I have not been on here in a few days so I just finished catching up.
I guess my problem is with some officers thinking they have some superior ground to stand on when it comes to carrying a weapon. Okay you walked into the room so you are the only one allowed to carry a weapon, because you wear the badge of civil servant. That makes no sense.
The only time officers have been in my house I was not armed and I invited them in. I was calling to talk about the guy driving his snowmobile down the sidewalk of my street at 70mph with kids next door making snowmen in the yard (suburb type highly populated residential area and If he would have just stayed in the street I would not have cared). I guess I just didn't feel like they needed to take a report standing in the snow and cold outside. I am rethinking that scenario now. I wouldn't want one of them to see my Wife holding a knife while cutting potatoes in the kitchen and react by pointing a shotgun at her.
I feel like the current state of affairs would warrant me putting my weapon away because I don't want to get shot by a jumpy officer. Again that just does not seem right to me. Maybe the root cause is the training of the officers. However, I don't want to assume all of the Officers in my neck of the woods would react the same way as some posters on here. That would be like assuming all people who carry guns legally in a holster besides me are a danger to my life.
You say you are not superior to anyone, but man your posts sure present a different story. I won't ignore you and I don't expect you will change, but you are not helping your cause by writing the way you do. But hey to each their own, that is the great thing about this country. I would say nobody can take that right away, but be careful a cop might take it as confrontational and temporarily suspend your 1A right by locking you up.
Good posts on this topic, thanks for the insight. Also thanks to the poster with the clip from the MSP site.
mind you, i'm not talking about all LEOs, or even most of them. but i've had to deal with enough of them, and i've been to the Domelights.com forum, where many Philly officers have publicly stated that if they saw a guy open carrying, they'd "put two in his melon", or "shoot first, and arrest him later." very professional, yes?
the next time (and i hope there isn't one) i need to call the police, and they ask that i disarm, i'll be sure to ask for an officer whose testicles have fully descended.
The next time I run into a permit holder that thinks this way I'll replace his gun with a squirt gun, pat him on the head and tell him to "Go get 'em Champ."
I'm out.
Now you go ride forth, Biker, Knight o' the realm, and don't let the peasants interfere with your mission.
(even though you are one)? Inferred? I don't think so. Clearly stated is more like it.
I asked you once before if you remember the oath that you swore. Do you?
It IS unreasonable for me to disarm in my own home when I have committed no crime or infraction. To think otherwise is idiotic. In an earlier post you referenced a "lawful order" statute stating that people are required to obey what police tell them. Guess what, they aren't. The key to these laws is that it has to be a "lawful" order. Meaning it has the weight of the law behind it. I am not legally bound to pay for your lunch if you order me to am I? No? Then why would you think I'm legally bound to disarm in my own home if I have committed no offense just because you say so?
The OP in the original thread didn't call a white knight to sally forth and save him. He saved himself by being armed. You got that last part, right? HE SAVED HIMSELF. But due to our overactive and perverted legal system he needed to call the police and file a report to cover his behind in the event of the perp playing a fast one. He didn't call a knight in shining armor, he called a glorified clerk to come to his house and file some paperwork.
My name is Frogman46 and I'm tougher than you.
And I don't want the untrained masses running around with guns. There are already restrictions on lots of so-called rights.I take responsibility for the safety of my family and myself. Frankly, I think we would all be much safer with fewer laws and fewer police. I'm not a cowering sheep Biker, it would not "scare the crap out of me". I certainly don't need (or want) guys like you thinking that they are my knight in shining armor.That to me says two things.I'm not a cowering sheep Biker, it would not "scare the crap out of me".
First, that you are foolish and secondly, that you probably haven't seen as much as you claim to.
I'm out. Wrestling with a pig only gets you hot, sweaty and muddy. Also, the pig enjoys it.
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"...trying to get a long gun into play while someone is all over you like a monkey eating a cupcake is not very conducive to good survival techniques." ~Bark'n
Heck ive talked to actual police officers who couldnt remember what kind of gun they carry!
"oh, its some kind of 9mm"
I thank you for your service to the public, but its cops like you who people like myself would rather not deal with.
"...trying to get a long gun into play while someone is all over you like a monkey eating a cupcake is not very conducive to good survival techniques." ~Bark'n
I've come into this thread a bit late, and I'm surprised at what I see here.
I sometimes get nervous around other people with firearms, if I don't know them, their level of training and experience, and their intentions.
However a LEO is not one of those people, I have a little more confidence in their intentions, even if I don't know them personally, or the level of training they have had.
I know several LEOs and of those who I know well, we will both agree, I am a better shot than they are. That said we both agree that we are people first, people who just want to go home at the end of our day.
Not long ago, I found what seemed to be the contents of somebodys wallet scattered around the neighbor. I walk the block, carrying my concealed weapon, as I always do and collected everything I could find. I returned home and called the local PD to turn it over to them, and hopefully have it returned to the owner.
When the officers(none that I know personally) arrived I informed them that I am a CPL holder, I was carrying and although I called them to my home, and was not actually "stopped" I wanted to inform them. They had no problem at all, they genuinely approved of my decision to carry and had no problem with me carrying in their presence. If they had I would have simply come inside and disarmed until we were finished.
I am not a LEO, I don't play one on TV, nor do I ever want that job. But I do know this much, they are people, just like any one of us here, they may have a quite different job, but at the end of the day they have the same goals as the rest of us. I don't do their job, I don't see some of the things they face, but I certainly respect them for what they do and I see no reason to do anything to make their job any more difficult than it already has a potential to be.
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OK so I've been searching high and low for the last few months to find a Jeep in good condition that I can afford. I found a 2000 TJ, 2.5 / 5sp, 104K, black, soft top, 4" rough country lift, some body lift (not sure how much), 33" tires that need replaced, stock gears, axles. The PO doesn't know if it has a SYE or not, he says it has no driveline vibration, rolls down the road smooth.
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To be perfectly honest guys, I'm not much of a "wheeler", I don't really have anything close (within 1 hr) to me where I can "legally" off-road. Pretty much I just want something I can take the top off and cruise around town in with my kids. This is probably all I'll ever do, so should I really be concerned with power? This won't be my daily driver and probably won't even hit the hi-way all that often.
I just know that of all the Jeeps I've looked at, this is by far the cleanest one I've seen...He wants $7000. Everything I've seen (KBB, Black Book) says he's priced about right for the condition it's in. I've spoken to my neighbor who is a car dealer and he says it's a good price...
The 1 million dollar question....What do you guys think?
The 2.5 is a good engine. If you're not on the highway much and just want to cruise it will get the job done. Offroad it can go just like any other Jeep. As for that particular Jeep, it looks clean but you need to definitely check it out in person to see what kind of lift it has and if it was done correctly, how it drives, hear it run etc. Also 33s will slow you down quite a bit but shouldn't be much of an issue on the stock Dana 35 (if that's the rear axle it has) if you're not going to wheel it.
Anyone else care to comment? Going to look at this Jeep Saturday. Thanks!
With him having a 4" lift on the rig, you can easily check and see if he had a SYE installed, which should be. In the picture below, you will be looking at the transfer case and you want to see that extra little bit of extension mounted onto the case itself. It will be right where the driveshaft goes into the transfer case. If you see this mounted onto the TC, then he had a SYE installed. Sort of scary though that he doesn't even know if he did this or not with a 4" lift. Makes you wonder if the angles are even all correct after he did the lift. If you have pics. to post of the undercarriage, we can get a better idea.
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So is there anything else that could have been done to make the driveline right without a SYE with a 4" lift. He said a mechanic owned it before him...
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Developing Christian Character (13 of 16) by Jim Perdue
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Series: Philippians
Jim Perdue
Philippians 4:4-9
As we continue our study in the book of Philippians, I want you to turn to Philippians 4:4-9. Today we're going to talk about ''Developing Christian Character.'' *I wonder how often we think about developing our character as Christians. We focus on trimming our waistline or making the grade. We focus on earning the money or getting ahead in life. But how often do we focus on becoming more like Christ? I mean, think about this seriously for a second…how much of you day do you literally spend trying to discover how to become more like Jesus Christ?*
The Bible teaches us in 1 Timothy 4:7-8, READ 1 Timothy 4:7-8 The Christian life is a process but the process is about becoming like a Person. If I could put it as simply as I can, the Christian life is about growing to become like Jesus Christ; acting like Him, loving like Him, leading like Him, giving like Him, sharing like Him, teaching like Him, honoring God like Him and sacrificing like Him. Instead of comparing yourself to other Christians all the time, set yourself up against His perfect standard and see how you come out!
*The Christian life is developed over a great amount of time. ''Becoming a Christian is the miracle of a moment, the making of a saint is the task of a lifetime.'' This is not an overnight process, but a lifetime journey. I use this word develop very carefully because it takes time to grow to be like Jesus Christ. The Christian life is journey and a process not an event or a destination…* READ TEXT
Here in Philippians 4:4-9, Paul teaches us several principles about developing our Christian character to become more like Jesus Christ.
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Hello all! Let's see, where to begin? I've had weight problems most of my life, and most recently in the last few years. I was misdiagnosed as a type 2 diabetic two and a half years ago, and spent a year VERY sick as the doctors tried to push me into that "diet/exercise/here's a few pills" pigeon hole. Unfortunately, I was a type *1* diabetic -- in other words, my pancreas was failing while they were telling me to just eat better! I lost 40 pounds in two months as my body cannibalized itself for survival and, while I was sick as a dog, I was very happy with my weight. Then, I went on insulin -- gained it all back.
I have to totally agree with Mark on the whole "it's all about insulin" thing. As a type 1, I know way more about this than the average person -- I know exactly how much insulin my body uses on a daily basis, thanks to my nifty insulin pump. I know how much insulin I'll need for any given meal, and how much I need to "drip" even if I eat no carbs.
I'm also VERY insulin resistant -- I need to inject way more insulin than the average type 1, and it's all the fault of my weight -- and the carbs I was eating.
To start with, I'm a 29-year-old woman, 5'7" and 219 pounds. WAY too heavy. I carry the weight really well and am still not in plus-sizes, but c'mon! I knew about the low-carb thing from my diabetes forums friends and found that going LC kept my blood sugars in GREAT control, but I kept falling off the wagon after a few days. I wound up absolutely addicted to carbs -- like, heroin-addicted. If I swore off sugar, I was shaking by nightfall, unable to think about absolutely anything else except running to 7-11 for Reeses or ice cream.
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Found MDA totally by accident, and didn't just jump in -- I read up on it for a few weeks, evaluating. I'd already read Good Calories, Bad Calories and a few other works on the cholesterol conspiracy, so none of this was shocking -- but it was innovative. My husband and I conferred, and he OFFERED to go on the diet with me! (Usually we just agree that, whatever diet I'm on, dinner has to be diet-friendly, but that's it.)
I was really good for a solid week. I lost 5.8 pounds, felt better, and some shirts that were juuuust a little bit too tight had started to fit again. I had NO cravings -- none, whatsoever. I ate a little bit of sweet each night -- organic full-fat yogurt, a dash of vanilla, and a few dark-chocolate chips. Yum!
My sugars were excellent -- until my insulin resistance dropped and I suddenly needed WAY LESS insulin! Which is a great effect, except it caused me some very dangerous lows for a few days. But my insulin use dropped 40-60%.
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I'm also a caffeine addict. I made a concious effort to quit about three weeks before I started the diet. When I got my caffeine again after that one week, all of my cravings came back full-force and I felt absolutely helpless in the face of them. It took me four days to realize what was going on, another two for the caffeine to leave my system. By that point, all physical progress had been reversed to nothing. And to top it off, my husband's unemployment check hadn't gone through so we had NO money for groceries and had to live on what was in the house -- which was absolutely NOT Primal!
I hit my real low yesterday when there was a birthday at work and someone brought in bagels. I used to eat bagels every day. The one I had yesterday hurt my stomach until I went to bed last night. No more bagels!
I'm taking a deep breath and letting go of guilt. This whole thing was a learning experience. Sugar is bad for me. Caffeine is bad for me. Bread is bad for me. I'm going to plan tomorrow. I'm going to put together a week's menus, and shop accordingly. And hopefully I'll drop some of that re-gained weight.


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Tinder are finally making it as easy to find an STI clinic as it is to find a date…
This comes after an awareness campaign from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) put up billboards associating apps like Tinder and Grindr with catching STI's.
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The new health safety page provides prevention and testing information. This move has ending their feud with the California advocacy group, who will now removed all advertisements, according to Reuters.
The new section created by the dating app can locate the nearest place to get tested for STIs and also includes some safe sex tips, like using condoms, talking about your sexual history before you have sex, and getting any appropriate vaccinations.
In a statement, a spokesman for Tinder said:
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Tinder is now referring users to the health safety page on their website, but finding the page from within the app or from Tinder's homepage could be a hell of a lot more user friendly. Not as easy as swiping right, that's for sure…
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Based on data from the Center's Global Terrorism Database (GTD), the world's most comprehensive, unclassified collection of terror incidents, the study claims: "Explosives are by far the weapon of choice for terrorists in New York City."
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The fragility of some of football's new markets has been exposed by the problems at Shanghai Shenhua, the club where Didier Drogba joined Nicolas Anelka this summer, matching his former Chelsea team-mate's salary of a reported £200,000 per week.
There is now some doubt as to whether the pair will turn out in the team's next game in a fortnight's time after the chairman, Zhu Jun, said he will not invest any more money until he is given greater control under an agreement with five state-owned companies who also have an interest in the club.
Zhu Jun, who currently owns just under 30 per cent, claims to have invested more than £60m while the other companies have spent nothing. Like a good capitalist, he now wants overall control.
For all the investment so far, the team are no higher than 10th in the Chinese Super League, winning only five of their opening 23 games and scoring little more than a goal a game. That is made worse by the fact that the other financial superpower, Guangzhou Evergrande – the Manchester City to Shanghai's Chelsea – who appointed the World Cup-winning Marcello Lippi as coach, sit on top the table and are preparing for an assault on the Asian Champions' League, in which they are due to play a quarter-final in two weeks' time.
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Sir Alex Ferguson, furious with the Football Association for revealing that Ashley Young is injured – "Why didn't they name the bloody [England] squad on Sunday?" – has recalled that he used to be more open with Manchester United team news.
"When we played Everton in my first season, we decided to play three centre-backs and we'd been working on it all week. Then on the Saturday Graeme Hogg has a back-page story in the papers saying 'how we are going to beat Everton'! I couldn't believe it." It is fair to surmise that Mr Hogg felt the hairdryer at its hottest.
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Once upon a time footballers would taunt each other with "put your caps on the table". These days it would appear to be their footwear; even though the table would be in danger of collapsing.
Step forward West Bromwich Albion's goalkeeper Ben Foster, revealed as the Imelda Marcos of football after confessing that he owns no fewer than 300 pairs of trainers. Foster has poured good-natured scorn on his Midlands rival Marc Albrighton of Aston Villa for his collection of a mere 60 pairs, calling him "an amateur".
Admitting that he was "obsessive about them", the well-heeled Baggie explained that Nike had produced a limited edition replica of the "MAGS" that Michael J Fox wore in Back to the Future to mark the film's 25th anniversary. They were auctioned on eBay in the United States and Foster persuaded a friend to bid for him, eventually winning them for $6,500 (£4,150). Whoever said some footballers have more money than sense?
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The Sky Sports pundit Chris Kamara has been forced to apologise to Nottingham Forest after a national newspaper listed them as relegation favourites in his preview of this season's Championship.
Kamara claims he said nothing of the sort and that the newspaper in question has admitted as much. Forest supporters were shocked by such pessimism – though not as surprised as fans of Leeds, who Kamara tipped to be champions.
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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors appointed Police Chief David M. Rohrer to a new deputy county executive position that will be focused on public safety.
Rohrer will be responsible for overseeing the police department, fire and rescue department, office of emergency management and the Department of Public Safety Communications.
Deputy County Executive Rob Stalzer has been overseeing public safety, as well as planning, development and transportation. Stalzer will continue focusing on those other areas.
"A dedicated deputy county executive for public safety is better able to quickly respond to events as they occur and to coordinate regional preparedness in advance," County Executive Ed Long said in a statement.
Rohrer has been with county police for almost 32 years and was appointed chief in 2004. He has served two terms as chairman of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments police chiefs committee.
Rohrer has a bachelor's degree in justice administration from George Mason University. His annual salary will be $191,168.
Capital One has the go-ahead to build a headquarters on its Tysons Corner campus and redevelop the surrounding area of its office park into an urban neighborhood oriented toward the new Silver Line Metro station that bounds the property.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the redevelopment proposal Sept. 25.
After a "demonstration project," which was used to test the county's new land-use rules and vision for Tysons Corner, "this was the first major rezoning," Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova (D) said. "It is very much in concert with the vision for Tysons."
The project includes about a dozen new buildings in four development areas, arranged around a new street grid. Including the existing facilities, the project represents about 5 million square feet of development, including offices, apartments, shops, restaurants, a hotel and parking garages. A community center, indoor basketball courts and community parks also are incorporated into the development.
Officials from Kecioren, Turkey, visited the Board of Supervisors meeting Sept. 25 to sign a memorandum of understanding with the county under the sister city program.
Kecioren is in the Ankara province and has a population similar in size to Fairfax County. Like Fairfax, Kecioren is extending rail through its urban areas and is investing heavily in revitalization and beautification efforts.
Fairfax County also has sister jurisdictions in China and South Korea. According to the county's Web site, the purpose of the program is to find areas that share many of the same attributes as Fairfax and look for opportunities for collaboration.
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Why Wanting To Get Married Doesn't Make Me Any Less Independent
I want to get married some day.
Not tomorrow, not a week from now, not five months from now – not even five years from now – but I do hold on to the hope that one day, marriage will happen for me and to me. (And no, this isn't a subliminal message to my partner. Don't worry, dude! We don't want no engagement ring yet! We're on the 20-year plan, so let's just stick with that.)
I have never been the girl who's dreamed of the big white dress, the roses and rose petals, the first dance, the matchy-matchy bridal party and the handsome man waiting for me at the altar.
It's not that there's anything wrong with dreaming of and wanting that (there's not), but just because I've never held that dream doesn't mean I don't want to get married.
For so long I'd fought the notion of nuptials. Modern feminism had made me feel that if I did want that dream for myself to come true, I'd somehow be surrendering the fight for feminine freedom altogether.
Collectively, the She-Man-Woman-Haters made me feel that wanting this was a sign that I had lost everything and that I'd foolishly turned a blind eye to the unfair advantages that men get; that I would somehow instantaneously become second rate; that I'd unfairly fitted myself to tradition's fashion and donned the white dress out of conformity instead of a desire for coupledom — that I'd let myself down or worse, that I'd somehow "settled."
Marriage isn't "settling." It isn't lazy or a decision you when you're bored and home alone on a Tuesday afternoon.
It isn't something that you just say you want because you think it's the next logical step. It's something that you need to want in order to have.
I'd always felt I should feel ashamed by my desire to get married and that it would make me feel like less of a woman and less of advocate for women if I submitted myself to actually wanting the white dress, the vows, the cake-cutting, the first dance and the mushy mess of so-happy-you're-delirious tears that comes with the entire event.
So I hid from marriage, even though it's an institution I believe in, respect and hope for. I ducked and covered with an intensity that's laughable now, afraid that if anyone saw the flicker of hope in my eye, I'd be exposed.
Exposed as what? I never really paid much mind to what they would unearth me as — a dreamer, a believer, a hopeless romantic?
Looking back, I'm embarrassed that I leaned so earnestly on an viewpoint of marriage I didn't, at all, side with.
Like an addict coming clean, I want to make it known: I do believe in marriage and of everything it brings.
I believe that it's a union and a choice between two people who are committed to upholding and honoring that choice every day from now until forever (or, at the very least, for as long as "forever" can legitimately last).
I believe in the vows, the "I dos," the process of picking another person to be your mate through every rough patch, easy swim and hard decision that comes my way.
I do want someone to raise children with, to argue and fight with, to cry with, to succeed with. I want someone to come home to and I want someone to come home to me.
Marriage isn't a concession of ideas and womanly aspirations. I don't look at my mother and my grandmothers and think that they are stupid for aspiring to be a wife — to trade their "Miss" for a "Mrs." as if it is something to be ashamed about.
To be honest, I respect them for knowing themselves well enough to know that this is what they want. Hat tip for them for knowing that they can wear the ring and still be the Queen.
The union, the partnership and the House That Marriage Built is as much a compromise for men as it is for women and yes, even though the institution of marriage is traditional and unwavering, that doesn't mean a modern marriage has to adhere to those same habitual beliefs.
I don't want to get married because I think it will make me love my partner more; I know enough – and have seen enough – to know that a piece of paper that legally binds two people to each other isn't enough to congeal a lasting relationship or to keep love alive and thriving.
I'm not looking for a lawful agreement, but I am looking to spend my life, my laughter and my love with another person. I am looking for a home to give that love, to keep it alive and thriving, to keep its heart beating.
There are some people who don't need or want marriage – they don't think it's something that they need to make their partnership legitimate or real.
It doesn't work for them, it's not in their plans. Good for them. I'm not that person, and though it's taken me a long time to realize that, I'm happy that I finally have. I do want marriage, even as much as I don't want the retro picture the white dress paints.
Leah Hager Cohen, author of the book, "I Don't Know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance Except When You Shouldn't," penned an editorial toward the tail end of 2013 at the peak of marriage rebellion on the "6 Reasons Never to Get Married."
In it, she writes that "real security comes from being known for who you are and cared for no matter what." She goes on to say that, "feeling known and adored by the people around you – be they lovers or co-workers or chums – provides the greatest security of all. And you don't need a spouse to rely on it."
I agree and disagree with Cohen so many times in that two-sentence span that my fists hurt from constricting. Yes, real security does come from being known for who you are.
The problem sits in the fact that Cohen says that you don't need a spouse to rely on for "real" security. It plays into that same assumption that marriage somehow makes you need a spouse for security.
What happened to choice? What happened to being a grown-ass woman and wanting a spouse? What happened to being a woman who recognizes her own real security and yet still wants someone to share that with?
Cohen makes the assumption that women who want to get married are doing so out of some "need" to find things in themselves and also insults women by asserting that you can't be married and still be an individual.
She ignores the fact that women, much like everyone else on the planet, possess the capacity to want things for themselves – and then the ability to go out and get them.
I want to get married, I want to wear that ring, I want to don the white dress and worry about the something old and something blue and if it's going to be sunny or rainy and if that means good luck or bad luck because I am an individual.
I know that marriage is not the second part that makes me whole. It's not something that I need to do to justify and assert myself in our culture and in our society.
I don't need a man, a woman or a partner to vindicate and solidify my place in this world.
What Cohen and so many others like her do wrong is that they pit women against tradition by saying that if we're modern and contemporary and if we recognize the ways that society has faulted our fights for freedom then we shouldn't want to turn back the proverbial clock by giving in to these long-held norms.
But "giving in" to marriage doesn't steal away the glass slipper of our existence and wrinkle our skin. It doesn't turn us from CEOs into casserole-baking housewives.
Wearing the ring, saying the vows, wanting a future with someone, it doesn't turn us into the Betty Drapers of tomorrow or somehow lessen our feminine experience.
We can be women and wives. We can be responsible for our own self-discovery and vacation with our husbands. We can read "Lean In" and "Good Housekeeping" and be fascinated by the firsthand stories and the recipes.
The mistake is buying into the idea that we can't – and then blaming it on the "I dos."
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Dawn Neesom, the editor of the Daily Star, has a calendar of topless women pinned to her wall, and her perfect weekend involves knocking back the Stella Artois and heading off to the football.
It would be fair to say that she is not the most obvious feminist, and yet she is adamant that she is turning the famously laddish red-top into a product that appeals to aspirant young women. "Most young girls don't tend to buy newspapers full stop now, they tend to buy magazines. So it's encouraging that they are reading the Daily Star," she says, claiming a surge in female readers since she became editor six months ago.
The Daily Star has become one of Fleet Street's few success stories. With a circulation of 883,084, it is the only red-top able to report an annual growth. Since she arrived last December, Neesom has delivered 55,000 new sales, many of them to female readers.
She claims to have given the paper "a bit more attitude, a bit more cheek". More cheek but less bottom, you could say. "I've taken some of the sexier pictures out. We used to have a lot of bare bottoms in the paper. There are fewer now," says Neesom.
This is hardly the case on the morning we meet, when a female punter at Royal Ascot makes the front page as she exposes her derrière in a picture to promote a special offer of a "free £1 bet for every reader". Page five features George Best's ex-wife Alex sunbathing in Majorca and points out that, "she took off her bikini top and sported a tiny thong to make sure she got an even bronzing on both cheeks."
Neesom defends this sort of content by claiming that women, as much as men, like looking at photographs of undressed women. "I just went through Heat magazine and there's more breasts and bottoms than in the Daily Star because women like looking at women's bodies more than men - you are constantly comparing yourself," she says.
This explains why Neesom's arrival at the Star has not coincided with the disappearance from the paper of the large-breasted model Katie "Jordan" Price, who became ubiquitous on its pages under the previous editor, Peter Hill. This particular morning, Jordan dominates the front of the paper, while the whole of page three is devoted to new pictures from the model's calendar.
"The interesting thing about Jordan is that she is more popular with females than males," argues Neesom. "People perceive her to have a nice celebrity lifestyle and our female readers want to be Jordan. They want to go shopping, to go to parties, to enjoy themselves and have a nice life."
Neesom, 39, has known the model since she was 17, and points out that a Jordan cover is seen by celebrity magazines as a guaranteed circulation winner. "That's not men buying that, it's women," she says.
In Neesom's estimation, it is not nudity that demeans women but the misogynistic lecturing from other quarters of the national press. "As a woman, I think that the Daily Mail is fairly hateful," she says. "I think it is patronising, demeaning and it constantly tries to tell me that I should be pregnant, barefoot and in the kitchen. I don't want to be."
The Mail, she complains, specialises in case studies about "my life as a career woman and how I couldn't cope so I had to move to the country and buy an Aga and have two kids and now I'm very happy". "Get real! Most of us don't live in that world," she says. By comparison, the Daily Star is now about "encouraging young women... if you want to be a model, a pop star, a celebrity, you can do it. Go out and live life".
Neesom says she has introduced more "female-orientated features", citing a piece that morning about the £12,500 "bling" watches being brandished by the wives of England footballers in Portugal.
"In today's paper, our centre spread is our Search for a Beach Babe contest," she says. "That may sound sexist on the surface [but] we had well over 2,000 entries from beautiful young female readers who want to be a beach babe. They want to be Jordan."
She is a true Cockney, born in Bow and raised in Stratford. Her mother was a cleaner and her father was a lorry driver. The closest she came to having familial connections to the media was when her father moonlighted as a newspaper delivery driver. "He used to sign his tax forms as Mickey Mouse, and he got away with it an' all," she says.
A fervent West Ham United fan since the age of four, she still lives in east London, in Wapping, just round the corner from News International. "If Rebekah [Wade] gets fed up, I'm there, ready and waiting," she blurts out.
Pressed as to whether she sees herself as a future editor of The Sun, where she previously worked for five years (including a spell as women's editor), she claims that the rival paper has "lost its sense of humour big time, and is getting too pious".
Then she adds "but I'm not going anywhere, I love the Daily Star, it's got potential and I want to be there when it's outselling the Mirror and The Sun."
At the next election, she says, Neesom will not be backing any party. "The general feeling of Daily Star readers at the moment is that they don't trust any politicians." This is a markedly different approach from the Daily Express, which has come out for the Conservatives. "That's right for the Express. We may be sister papers, but we're totally different.
"What the Daily Star doesn't do is tell people what to think, how to vote. We don't preach to people. We think our readers are bright enough to make up their own minds," she says.
Neesom's paper has little interest in politics and not much more in news as a whole. "I want people to finish reading the Daily Star every day and be happy and cheerful and have a smile on their face," she says. "I personally don't want to get up in the morning and read 12 pages of doom and gloom and Iraq. It's hard enough at the moment living life here; you don't want to face that travelling into work. It makes you feel impotent and it just depresses you. What's the point in doing that?"
Given that an event as globally significant as the Iraq crisis is seen as being too dull for her readers, can Neesom see the day when populist newspapers will give up on conventional news altogether?
"I don't think it will happen in our lifetime, but I think that's the way things are going and newspapers will have to adapt," she says. "Our generation of readers can get the news and the information they want from television news and the internet, and they're getting their fill of news from that."Reuse content


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When it comes to attending concerts they can be some of the most exciting events we have scheduled on our calendars on any given month. There are few things better in life then seeing one of your favorite music artists perform live and letting all that special music move you. Live concerts are a chance for people to come together and enjoy themselves participating in one of most universal passions of humanity and that is music. Concert are supposed to be fun and the experiences are meant to last a lifetime. If you are hoping to increase the fun and memories at your next concert going experience here are a few accessories you may want to consider bringing.
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On March 1st, students, faculty and community members met in the Student Learning Centre for a rally and march against sexism, racism and Islamophobia in the workplace. The event was put on by the Sam Gindin Chair, the Anti-Racism Coalition at Ryerson, CESAR, the Jack Layton Chair and the Ryerson Feminist Collective. The event was in response to recent incidents within Ryerson and the Ryerson Students' Union, including the firing of Gilary Massa, who was on maternity leave.
The event began with a rally in the Student Learning Centre, with close to one hundred people gathered in the lobby. Anne-Marie Singh, from the Anti-Racism Coalition at Ryerson, spoke first drawing parallels between the outdoor climate of wintry weather and the climate women experience. She commented that "it's not just chilly outside; it's chilly in courtrooms, our work spaces, our offices…" Singh cited racialized women on maternity leave being restructured out of their jobs as an example of this chilly climate at Ryerson. She also discussed Indigenous faculty being questioned about their credentials and racialized staff being harassed with impunity at Ryerson. Singh also spoke to those who hold privilege on this campus stating that, "if fighting racism seems racist, if equity feels like oppression, check your privilege". She also called out the Ryerson Students' Union for needing to check their privilege if they think the firing of Gilary Massa was fair.
Massa also spoke at the event and was joined by the lawyer representing her for the Ontario Human Rights Complaint against the Ryerson Students' Union and its current executives. Massa described what happened to her as putting the rights of working women back 20 or 30 years; she didn't think it was possible to be fired while on maternity leave and neither did most people she has spoken to following her termination. She also discussed the business decision made by the Ryerson Students' Union as anti-woman and anti-worker, and asked what kind of message this send to students and women who are entering the workforce and want to start a family. Massa's lawyer, Saron Beresellasi, thanked the Massa family for their decision to obtain council and fight this as well as encouraged people to pay attention to the case in hopes it will serve as a public education example for the RSU and others.
Awo Abokor, from the Ryerson Feminist Collective spoke about being frustrated by the lack of support for women, especially women of colour, in the workplace at Ryerson. She went on to say there is no justice in the decision made that lead to Massa being fired and that intersections of class, race and gender were at play here. Abokor sent a clear message to the entire Ryerson community: "if you don't know what equity is, learn it". She described the firing of Massa as taking multiple steps back and not something that the RSU can simply apologize and move on from.
Social Work Professor, Akua Benjamin described her pride for Ryerson but was disappointed the school had not taken a stand. Ryerson University has been quiet on the issue, but Benjamin urged the school to take a stand as this is not just something between Massa and the RSU. She also urged people to stand in solidarity for change beyond coming out the rally; this issue is ongoing and women are continuously suffering from racism on this campus. Benjamin described the decision to fire Massa as not in the best interest of Ryerson and not what Ryerson stands for. Benjamin ended by speaking about Massa's baby, who was present for the rally, and calling them a "social justice baby".
Pascale Diverlus, from the United Black Student's at Ryerson and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto, described seeing first hand of what it's like to be a Black woman on Ryerson's campus and the terrifying culture that is being created. Diverlus expressed concern for future students and the community as the RSU is currently not a place of equity; Massa was the only Black full-time worker at the RSU. "Black lives matter, Black women matter, Black Muslim women matter, Black families matter".
Following the rally, we marched to the Student Campus Centre, which houses the offices of the Ryerson Students' Union. We gathered on the third floor of the building, outside the executive team's offices. Winnie Ng and Janet Rodriguez lead the crowd in a number of chants; none of the executive members came out to address the crowd.
This rally can't be the end; we need more action beyond March 1st. Ng encouraged the crowd to write letters to the Ryerson Students' Union and to bring this issue to the attention of Ryerson administration. The injustice in the decision to fire Massa is clear to anyone with a basic understanding of human rights and equity, but this is not an isolated incident. It's a clear and blatant action that is representative of what racialized women experience in the workplace daily. The workplace in general is a chilly place for racialized women across this country, but we have an opportunity to start changing that at Ryerson.


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There is something unashamedly luxurious about this magnificently armoured crustacean that brings out the snob in all of us and our native lobsters are the finest in the world. Here are five restaurants where the lobsters are in the pink...
28-32 St Martin's Court, WC2 (020-7240 2565). Mon-Sun £80
If lobster is mentioned among the menu specials at J. Sheekey it's worth ordering despite the horrendous price tag. Otherwise the lobsters here are strictly seasonal. In the spring they may be small (350g) 'canners' from the US - small, sweet and, as the name implies, usually sold in tins! Early summer sees the best lobsters (natives from Dorset) and the rest of the year it's back to Canadian.
14-16 Queensway, W2 (020-7227 9468). Mon-Sun £70
A restaurant where the service is brisk at best and brusque at worst, where bookings aren't allowed (making queueing inevitable) and where the most charitable interpretation of the prices as 'firm but fair' shouldn't be a top recommendation. But the Mandarin Kitchen is worth a visit. It is rumoured that this place sells the most lobsters in London. The simple dish of lobster with noodles is worth the wait (and the expense). Try your lobster with black bean sauce. The scallop and crab dishes are also very good here.
55 Jermyn Street, SW1 (020-7629 9955). Mon-Fri £100
Wilton's is a very senior restaurant indeed. Jacket and tie formality, service that glides with butler-like inscrutability, luxury ingredients and wallet-hammering prices. As a starter how does a 'lobster, crab and truffle omelette' sound - a snip at £22? Scottish lobsters are on the menu at 'market price' - a phrase which strikes fear into even the most spendthrift heart. If you wish to lunch on a perfect Dover sole, genuine wild salmon or perfectly cooked Scottish lobster this is the place to come, always providing that you can a) afford the price tag and b) get a table.
Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road, SW3 (020-7589 1480). Mon-Sun £60
The Oyster Bar at Bibendum occupies what was once the original garage space under Bibendum proper. Part of its appeal is the way that the flower stall and the camionette selling crustacea spill out towards the roadside. At present the Crustacea Van is selling cooked 1lb Maine lobsters to takeaway for just £12.50 and that includes a dollop of lemon mayonnaise. A smart dinner party to go! The Oyster Bar itself features light dishes and specialises in a very decent plateau fruits de mer.
36-40 Brewer Street, W1 (020-7734 8649). Mon-Sat £65
One of Aldo Zilli's signature dishes is 'spaghetti all astice' (£25). This is a simple combo of luxury and simplicity - lobster with spaghetti - a dish for the media crowd. Following the success of lobster spag, the menu now adds 'astice al forno, salsa di prezzemolo' a 'roast whole lobster with chips and a garlic and parsley sauce' (£28).
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