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Emotional Abandonment: Shut out by your spouse
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It's a complaint I hear regularly from people looking for help for their marriages:"I feel distant from my spouse." "I try to get my husband to open up, but instead he just shuts down." "My wife just doesn't seem interested in me anymore. I feel like we're a million miles apart." "I don't know if I love him anymore."
What we're talking about here is emotional abandonment. Instead of physically leaving the relationship, your spouse simply checks out emotionally. They stop investing in the marriage, leaving their mate feeling detached and unwanted. To the outside world the situation can still look rosy, but in reality the relationship is dying a slow, quiet death.
How does a marriage reach this point? Sometimes it's a slow slide into complacency, and other times it's a little more sudden. Realize that if it's a sudden abandonment, there likely is some precipitating event or incident between the two of you that needs to be resolved. On the other hand, if the deterioration has been more gradual, there are probably a lot of little things that have gone unresolved and are taking their toll on the relationship.
Here are some of the specific, primary causes of emotional distance between mates:
- Unforgiveness. Emotional abandonment is unforgiveness taken to its extreme conclusion. When we feel that our spouse has hurt us and we refuse to forgive them, we look for ways to protect ourselves from being hurt again in the future. Closing off our heart from the other person is an easy way to do this, but it has deadly consequences. Unforgiveness always leads to isolation. Overcoming unforgiveness requires a willingness to humble ourselves and seek forgiveness when we have hurt our spouse, and it also requires that we be willing to graciously extend forgiveness when our spouse has hurt us. This forgiveness step is based on a desire to re-unite.
- Callous treatment. When I am careless in how I treat my spouse, it gets old really quickly. Whether it's discourteousness, unkindness, or something worse, it creates hurt that may start out small, but can grow into deep wounds as it festers over time. To avoid this, each partner needs to look at their own behaviour regularly and consider whether they are treating their spouse well. A mate, above all people, needs to be treated with gentleness and respect. Remember, your spouse is a gift to you, and they deserve to be treated as something precious.
- Lack of effort. Sometimes the problem is a little less obvious than unforgiveness or harsh treatment. It is easy, especially for men, to just assume that the relationship is going along just fine, and so we don't put in as much effort as we once did. We start to take our spouse for granted, leading them to think that they are not important in our lives. When the marriage slips from being one of the top priorities in the heart of one or both spouses, the other person feels abandoned. This causes them to feel unwanted and then to withdraw into their own world.
- Lack of time. Many of us simply try to pack too much into a day. Ruled by the urgent, we fail to make time for the truly important: things like romancing, talking about issues and really developing a friendship with our spouse. We stay constantly busy, erasing quality "couple times" from our schedules. A marriage relationship cannot thrive if our contact with one another is limited to a quick bite of supper or a brief chat before bed. A good marriage requires weekly face-to-face time – both talk and fun.
- Fear of talking through issues. Emotional detachment does not just happen out of the blue; there is always something behind it. If one or both of the spouses has an inability or fear of talking through the issues in their relationship, then this kind of disconnect will be the likely result. Usually both know there is something wrong, but they are hesitant to bring it up because they fear their spouse's reaction. Or perhaps they feel like they've been through this before and it hasn't helped, so why bother? In these cases, there needs to be a clear second look at what it means to resolve conflict in a marriage – how to have a "good fight," as it were, that really bring things to resolution. Without these skills, and a real courage to step up and deal with problems, the emotional distance will just continue to grow.
- Living in denial. A lot of times, when things have started to go a bit sideways in the relationship, we don't want to admit that it's happening. Often the person truly needing to make some significant changes is most content to deny the existence of any real issues. We kind of live in denial, as if it's not really happening, or it's not that bad, or things will get better in time. But living in denial doesn't fix things; it only causes the marriage to deteriorate to the point where the couple just does not feel close anymore.
Working through emotional distance
The first step to dealing with emotional abandonment is to identify the root cause and to begin to deal with it. Don't settle for living in isolation. Ask God for more in your marriage and then trust Him as you faithfully try to make changes. Here are some suggestions for re-establishing a loving connection with your spouse:
- Agree to talk. At some point you have to agree to talk about the problems that exist between you. If you're going to resolve issues, there needs to be a mutual commitment to listen to the other person's concerns and to work towards improving the situation. Don't corner your spouse with an unexpected lecture, but set a time and agree to start to work through your issues.
- Be prepared. Before you have the talk, take the time separately to think through the unresolved issues that you'll be discussing. What are your concerns in the relationship? In what areas do you feel you need to improve? What are your expectations of your spouse? To put your thoughts down on paper may be best, but either way, be prepared to be open and honest with each other about the real issues between you. Be sure to take the time to really listen to what your spouse is saying. Give each other uninterrupted time to share your view on things.
- Be direct but gentle. Neither of you has anything to gain by holding back your true feelings. Remember: unresolved issues lie at the heart of emotional detachment. So lay all your cards out on the table by sharing your hurts clearly. Don't allow things to get out of hand. Be committed to talk through things sensibly. Take breaks to cool it if necessary but agree to continue. Ask each other the tough questions, and talk through the difficult issues that have been eating away at your relationship. Regardless of which partner initiated the wrong, you both need to work at resolving the problem.
- Begin to meet unmet needs. Often a person pulls back from the relationship because, in their mind, their needs are not being met. A healthy marriage demands that both partners actively work to discern the needs of their spouse, and work to meet those needs. Seek to understand your spouse's needs and ask yourself how you can start to better express love by meeting these needs. Make your spouse and sorting things out your new priority.
- Deal with your own stuff. If I am feeling abandoned by my spouse, I need to ask myself a tough question: What have I done to drive my spouse away? Now it may not be only your responsibility. Nevertheless, you have to find out what you are responsible for and take ownership for your actions. Really listen to your spouse. Of course, there are things that your mate needs to deal with, and they may be withdrawing from you for selfish reasons, but that can't stop you from taking the steps that you know you need to take. Both parties must be prepared to make apologies and extend forgiveness as part of your recovery from the emotional detachment.
- Intentionally re-engage. If you are to re-establish your emotional connection, it won't happen by accident and it won't happen overnight. You need to agree to make your relationship a priority and spend some quality time together. Plan a few dates and put each other in your schedules. It's time to re-enter one another's lives again.
- Act kindly. This may not be a revolutionary new idea, but it can have that kind of an effect on your marriage. You must act kindly toward your spouse. Small gestures of warmth, acts of kindness, and efforts to rekindle the romance between you will go a long way toward renewing your bond with one another. Do this from the heart with real commitment to make the necessary changes.
- Love unconditionally. Somebody has to break out of the negative cycle of eye-for an eye, poor treatment for poor treatment. You need to step out of the insult-for-insult cycle and respond differently. You cannot control your spouse's behaviour, but you can control your own. Regardless of how your spouse responds, you must choose to treat them with love. This is not easy to do when your partner is not reciprocating, but it is what you vowed to do when you promised to love each other "for better or for worse." And nothing breaks down emotional barriers like unconditional love.
- Allow God to work. I'm going to challenge you to ask God to change you. God wants your best and He'll always be ready to take full responsibility for any life that is totally surrendered to Him. That also includes re-engaging with your spouse and getting attached in love again. God wants that and He will guide you in that, if you'll allow Him to.
We've all got issues to work through in our relationships. Whether your problems stem from bitterness, unforgiveness, dishonesty, lack of kindness, unfaithfulness, or something else, God offers you His power to enable you to live in a way that honors Him. There's no doubt in my mind that God wants your marriage to work and that you desire to have warmth and a close connection with your spouse. That's His design. Let's go after it.
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269 Responses to "Emotional Abandonment: Shut out by your spouse"
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my mate, puts me down and belittles me. how do i tell him that i know longer want the relationship. i verbally tell him but he won't let me go. so i don't give into him physically. am i going about this the wrong way.
please help me!
I been married 9 yrs since i was 16 yrs old hes 10 years older. We have 2 amazing daughters… Hes one of a kind husband. Hes an amzing man but not for me anymore… I feel I want out of this relationship… He dosent he loves me to much that he suficates me… I dnt know what to do?
I want another lifestyle… my children are most important to me.. i dnto wanna scar them for life so does that mean i have to just stay and hope one day it will all be okay…?
AM just 26 Hes know 37… hes a great person, and father and am scared to hurt him…
Hi Bridgette,
Thank you for praying for me. I believe nothing is impossible for God. He will make all things new, its hard for me right now, as my husband rubs it in so much, even with his wondering eye like he is looking for someone new, but God is able. Pray for me to receive understanding and believe in what God says about this situation so I can give it to Him. Pray for me to walk in the spirit and freely receive healing, the power of abuse sometimes overwhelmes me and I forget who I am in Christ. Pray for my husband to come back to Jesus.
Thank you and be blessed.
Please pray for me. I have been married 3 years and my husband says he is not attracted to me anymore. He says his ex-girlfriend was better. We met at the church and we are both christians. My husband calls me fat and tells me to lose weight every day. I have tried to lose weight to a point where I look sick. My weight is normal, I do not have any health problems but I am curvy and he says that is not attractive. He met me at the same weight, but even when I lost weight, he did not compliment me, he wants me to be skinny like the models. He wants me to comb my hair a certain way, he picks my clothes and will not walk with me if I wear abit of color, he will not allow me to wear jewellery, he refuses to visit my parents who live in another country because he says, its not important, since we are married already. He has refused to have children, he looks at me with disgust and is upset everytime we are together. I do not know what to do, he won't let me invite my friends to the house because they are a different race but most of all, he spends more time watching TV and hugging a big teddy bear. If the teddy bear is not in the bed, he will not sleep, he will not touch me, but will caress the teddy bear and hug it all night. I feel so left out. I have been praying, been on so many diets, my body is now all messed up. My focus from the Lord has been diverted to this weight loss issue. My husband wants me to be skinny like a certain race of people, but where I come from women have curves. He tells me that it will be embarassing if we divorce because I refused to lose weight. I have just about had enough abuse, I do not know what else to do but trust in God. Please pray for me and my husband.
hey…. Im having a really rough time with my marriage we decided to live together Bc I got pregnant.. From that point instated noticing how much he liked to drink. He works at a shop owned by his brother and he goes in at 9 ishh and comes home around 9 or 10 sometimes even at 11:30 he says he stays to work on extra stuff or stays to drink a few beers with his friends there but it's way too much I feel like i get up in the morning see him and cook clean the house spend time with my bby Andy only see her dad at night and by that time his too tired to talk etc, I feel really lonely idk what to do I'm getting bitter and moody me and him
Fight a lot. Yesterday he drooped me off at his brothers house and left me there and never came back with his brother he claimed he was going to but it was too late I needed to put the bby to sleep so I got his sister in law to take me home.. I am not sure if I love him anymore I think our marriage needs help… I talk to him & it seemed pointless he goes back and does the same thing I'm thinking of leaving him
Bridgette, thank you for your prayers. I needed that support and understanding. My husband is going to counseling. I still don't understand everything that is going on with him, but at least it is giving me hope.
Hello Claire Colvin, thank you so much for responding. He's not in the military, he is a contractor overseas. I have my side of the family that is here and are very supportive with EVERYTHING, that's a problem with him. He feels as if they try to dictate what goes on in our home, when they are merely helping us out with the maintenance of the household as well as our daughter. The issues as far as the family was there before our daighter was born, it's just being passed on to her. I recently had a discussion with him, and his attitude was well if you want to leave then I am not going to stop you nor will I ask why, now what caring husband tells his wife the woman he is suppose to love something like that? I just don't feel appreciated as a wife or the mother of our child. As far as sitting down with his mother to have a conversation, I think that is something that I would do, because it's getting to a point to where it is bothering me…..What to say?, I pray that God guiudes the conversation, because I don't want her to disrepect me nor do I want to be rude to her. I just feel as if he has given up on this marriage, and now I'm trying to figure out what use would it be for one person to continue trying if the other party isn't. It almost makes me feel as if he is choosing his family over me. Not a good feeling at all. You are right I need a BREAK!!!!
Hello, I'm battling some things right now. My husband is in Iraq and I am in the USA. I just had our daughter 8 mths ago and since then it seems as if we have become very dustant. He doesn't make an effort to call, and when I call him he says oh I'll call you back and he never does. About three weeks ago his family had a reunion and I was unable to go, he got an attitude about that, he didn't display it towards me, but I am starting to see it now. His grandfather passed away earlier in the year, and I didn't go to the funeral because they never called to inform me of anuything until I called them the day prior to. Let alone his family doesn't even respect me as his wife, my name wasn't even in the obituary. He says that I am not supportive while he is away. What pisses me off with his family is that they don't come to see his daughter who is 20 miles in the city with me. Everytime they have seen her was on the account of me going to the country to let them see her. They don't even call to see how she is doing. When I say his family I am talking about his mother, grandmother, brother, aunts, and uncles. It just pisses me off how they treat us. Am I wrong for being distant? For those reasons I think that we are becoming distant, lately I have been wanting to just give up and get a divorce after being married fo ronly almost 4 years. What could be the real problem here?
I am so depressed and lonely from being shut out by my husband. I don't like being around him because it just makes me sad and he is usually just mean anyways. I have 2 kids from a previous marriage that he suddenly says are not his and he does not want to deal with. My five year old son adores him and probably cant remember a time without him in his life because he was so young when we met. I know my 8 year old can see and feel his detachment. No matter how hard I try, nothing works. It seems like he doesn't like me. He hardly speaks to me at all now, even about day to day stuff. I just want to find a way to be numb so his rejection will stop hurting so much. I try not to care and am starting to feel more detached myself, but now I also feel empty and lonely.
I've read on here so many stories of monotony and time ruining a marriage. It seems to me thatthose issues stem from becoming bored with each other and yourselves. As to my predicament, I really can't find resolution.. I'm 27 and this is mytsecond marriage. My first fell apart because my immaturity and age provided lack of knowledge in how to appreciate my spouses needs and my callous behavior. After my divorce at 23 I felt like a complete failure. I knewall of our problems were my undoing. I spent 3 years commiting myself to changing my behaviors, expanding my maturity and really honing my attributes my DNA provided. I did a complete 180 and I truly feel I have come to a place of inner peace and acceptance.
Tossing around the idea of marriage a second time to a different man seemed like such a hypocritical action.. Was I ready? Would I fall back into old habits of unappreciativeness? No, I didn't. I've remained in interest with him, relentlessly patient with his mental illnesses, and quirky unusual reclusiveness.
We've been married 2 months and there is no connection… I am pulling away because I don't want to act like the angry nagging wife I was in my first marriage…, but I cant figure out why HE is pullin away. I've been on my "best behavior" since meeting him — how could he not be emotionally or physically supportive toward me??? I know he is suffering from PTSD from his previous employement with the military, but how do i get him excited to go to counceling, or start a mental awareness program, or seek professional assistance.
Is God punishing me because I was such a young horrible wife and divorced before? I dont know what routes to taketo continue to cater and be patience with my husbands conditions and emotional abandonment — not just towards me.. But to everyone.
In need of suggestions.Unable to pinpoint the problem. Husband and I together 16 years and married for 14. Problems of unattached, unemotional and disconnect from bonding on husband's part started around time of pregnancy of my first son 14 years ago. Husband is great provider for our two sons and myself. Very unhappy and see no way to correct or connect to him anymore.
I am very attractive and an educated professional, yet fear leaving this unproductive relationship due to minor children. Yet do not want the boys to learn it's okay to ignore and avoid your spouse. The only physical contact we have is direct sex. No touch, no kiss on cheek or mouth,no nice remark or compliment. Once the act is over there is total disconnect. This is not new and has been going on since May 1998. I frequently touch him, call him handsome, text him something as a nice comment and get nothing or avoidance in return. I get so frustrated and don't ever initiate sex since pregnancy of first child because of the avoidance and him denying my want/need for connect.
When in public, around friends, camping, school and work functions, kid's activities husband races away from the whole family as if we are an embarrassment and avoids eye contact with me.
He frequently ditches myself and the two boys when he has the opportunity to be with buddies, even after he work Monday through Friday with these same friends. Frequently works away from home since we married so the weekends is the only "family" time we get. I do realize he needs alone time too each week. He includes the family to attend an event with him and his friends only to be ignored, ditched or not included is hurtful and a waste of valuable time.
My only outlets are my children, playing organ for church, working out, my nursing career, shopping, church functions. Wish my husband could be another outlet.
Living with bitterness is not my demeanor. No true close friends only colleagues. Fear of failure and embarassment talking to my minister. Past handful of fights with spouse stems from lack of closeness/intimacy. Of course he doesn't see an issue and becomes aggressive and mad leaves to avoid talking or developing a plan. Gave up bringing concern with him for past couple years due to no change. Miss being touched and wanted as prior to marriage.
How do I deal with this and how many years do I stay in this mundane, non connecting marriage? Stay till kids grown? Continue on till death? Just find another outlet? Look for someone that will connect better? How do I fix this? Praying for years for change, God not answering or directing me yet.
My husband grew distance after 25year of marriage and started to see another woman. An 40yrs and he is 60yrs. His brother says that he is having a late mince crises
My husband and I have been married for 8 years and we have a lovely daughter. Before we married and about a year after, we enjoyed being together so much. However, when we had our daughter, my husband became distant. He is always busy and comes home very late at night. We have very little time together, dinner once a week and a Sunday afternoon as a family. When we do have the time, it isn't the quality time–he's around but he is constantly on his computer or watching TV or sleeping. He can't even concentrate being present even during dinner. Alot of times he is talking on the phone or chatting/texting. However, there is one thing he'll always want to do with me every night and that is to have sex. But because of lack of connection, I find it really difficult to make love with him. I am also tired because he would come home when I'm already asleep and wake me up to have sex with him. We used to have fights and try to resolve the issue. When I got sick, he didn't bother me as much about having sex. But 2 years after that, I caught him having an affair. It looked like the end of our marriage but he was sorry and I forgave him. It still hurts to think about it but what hurts more is nothing in our relationship has changed. He still remains busy and not present in this way and I am very lonely. I tried to cope with it by just trying to fill the time I miss him with other things–spending time with my friends, exercising, watching movies, reading books, focusing on my daughter–so that we wouldn't fight like last time but the loneliness is driving me crazy. I feel like a single who is still looking for love and wishing I have a special person beside me–the problem is, I already do but he's never around. Last night we talked about it again and he admitted he realized that he is a person who likes to read new books but doesn't like to go back to the old books no matter how much he liked it. He said I was like a old book that he was happy to keep but he still wants to go out into the world and read new books. Because he knows what is in the old book, he just finds himself not spending time with it much. He is saying it is his personality and he didn't intend to desert me. It's just who he is and if he had known before, he would never have married because he now knows he could never stay fixated on one person long enough. He likes to keep having new relationships. I believe him, because he does that to his friends too. He doesn't have best friends, just alot and alot of friends and colleagues. He feels bounded when he is one person too long but enjoys freedom when he is with new people everyday. I am the exact opposite. I love to stay with one person and connect in a deep way. I am exhausted when I engage with too many new people. So we are mismatched but we love each other so much. We love our daughter too and it's great when we connect as family, even if it's just the rare hour of the week. I pray to God I could be content with just this and not demand so much.
I'm tired of telling my husband the same things over and over. We're going on 20 years with two kids. He doesn't talk to me or touch me. I don't even know him. The kids don't like him. I stay because of them. I know life would be harder if we divorced. He NEVER does anything for OTHERS. If he died today I would have nothing positive to say. He only says he'll try after I get mad but never does. I don't know what to do. I'm still attractive and fun to be around. He's really not interested in being a good husband or father. I'm thinking he doesn't have a soul.
I certainly know what Emotional Abandonment: Shut out by your spouse is all about. My husband and I have been married 45 years and he shut me out the day after the wedding. He moved his things down to the basement, and started work a job on the midnight shift.He never took vacation and worked as much as he could. I asked why did he work so much and leave me alone night after night. He said that our wedding night was disappointing, no excitement, it was disgusting, and totally not worth the effort. So to not make that mistake again he moved down stairs. I told him I wanted a family with kids, love, fun times and intimacy. He just said that will never happen. If you want kids and intimacy find a boy friend. I just want to be left alone and don't talk to me, leave me a note if you need something fixed. I left him a note that I wanted our marriage fixed, in return he said nothing is wrong with our marriage now don't bother me. Were in our 60s now nothing has changed, I'm depressed, still confused, and totally given up on our marriage, its only a piece of paper filled with no hope or love. He retired now and still cooped up downstairs living like a scruffy old man, no TV, phone or computer totally unaware of whats going in the world.
My wife and I met at work when we're 19-20. Within months of dating we found out she was pregnant. It has been almost 10 years and 2 more children in this relationship and it is fundamentally broken. I struggle with addiction and for the first 8 years lied to her about my off and on use. It ate me up inside and kept me from my relationship with god. On top of that I seem to always want reassurance that I am good or loved. The addiction makes it worse, when you are lying and using it is not in accurate to feel like an addict/liar. It is a viscous circle I am trying hard to break. I have been getting myself clean for a little over a year. It feels like every time I am making progress I start wanting her praise. When I don't get it I do something that negates all the good that has been done. She has a very hard time communicating and forgiving. I don't think she will ever be the warm, doting wife I feel I want but I know god put us together for a reason. I have asked her to go to counseling, she has agreed but only to shut me up. I am skeptical that it can help if she doesn't want to be there or even in our relationship anymore. She told me she loves me as the father of her children but nothing more. I have hurt her time and time again and I am scared it has been one too many. She has never forgiven me so every new fight or mistake I make brings up all the old ones. I keep trying to talk to her but it just annoys her. I want to earn her forgiveness and become the man she needs me to be but I have said it all before and it hasn't panned out. What to do? Can counseling help when one person doesn't want to be there, and guards their emotions so tightly? I want her to be happy as much or more than I want that for myself but I don know if I can or she will let me continue to try…
My wife and I had a whirlwind romance, dating only 2 years before getting married. We've been married 4.5 years have 3 amazing kids. Last 2 years have been rough with us focused solely on the kids and work. Now she says we don't have a connection, she doesn't love me and has filed for divorce. We have a lot of unresolved issues between us and I don't know how to create the connection with out her being open to it.
How do you show someone you love them when they want out? How do you show there's more than the kids when they don't care to try?
I know I'll be ok if we divorce but this isn't the life I want for the kids.
Thanks Bob,you are right, life is too short. And I am doing just that..doing things that I didn't do becuase of my prior life..finding enjoyment out once losted loves. Looking back now..I see that I lost alot of what made me "ME" ..I sacrificed..hell,,I GAVE UP..pieces of me and got nothing in return. We shouldn't have to do that..we should be the person who we are..and anyone who is with us, should accept us for who we are, faults and all.
I won't do that again..and for now..I am going to do just what you said. live life to the fullest..cause tomorrow..who's knows whats going to happen.Thanks Bob..Here's to healing for all of us.
I know you are trying to be helpful and I appreciate your positive thoughts and looking out for others like us. But quoting from a book that you believe to be the end all doesn't help ME in particular…it may help others who believe like you do..but for people like myself, thinking that Jesus,Shiva, Vishnu, Buddha, Ra,Muhammad ,Musikavanhu,Lord Xenu, Ahura Mazda,Izanagi and Izanami,etc…my list can go on.
My point is..I don't find solace in a bible, yours and anyone's. I do find it in the hearts and thoughts of others, in comradely, well wishes and actions. I do this all with power of my own mind. I mean this with the utmost respect for you and your beliefs..I know we all don't believe in the same thing on this planet and I accept that..that's what makes life interesting. So i am very appreciative of your concerns present yourself.
So I take what your saying about selfishness to a point…that point ends when it depends on "some" god. I hope I didn't offend you or your beliefs..these are my personal outlook on life…and I would not say yours is wrong..or what you are doing is wrong becuase I believe differently. I would accept your beliefs for what they are, they are "yours". And wish you and everyone on this site the best of luck and happiness in their new lives.
Been there buddy. It sucks. Invest in yourself, do not be afraid to be selfish. Rediscover who you really are and forget the person you were as a married man. Above all, do all the things your wife would never let you do. You will find that you will do things that you really enjoy, but want someone to be there to enjoy it with you. That will pass. I promise. Enjoy the experience of life for what it is, a very fleeting thing.
Kate, thank you for your prayers. My relationship with God has become a lot stronger during this time in my life. I am so thankful for my saviour. However, my husband is not the same person at all. I am worried about his heart. Thank you for praying for him and please continue to pray for him. I don't even recognize him. I miss my husband and he know longer exsists at this moment in time.
God is great and is helping me through this rough patch. For anyone going through something similar, turn it over to God and feel his presence and strength. Until I fully did that, I was a mess, but now, I feel much more at peace and God is the reason why. He has a plan. I don't know what it is yet, but I know it will be great. I have faith in him.
Kate, I want to thank you for all your prayers and concerns. I have had real hard last several weeks. I found out my husband was and is having an affair, living a double life (living with her and me), and telling lies to everyone. I was and am shattered. He is now living with her full time and I filed for divorce. I need to protect me and my children. I just wanted to keep you updated because you were great through this whole process. Please continue to pray for us. Thanks
My wife has always needed much less intimacy, and I have always respected that. Now, sex hurts her and we have a "platonic" marriage. It's huge to me, but after a lot of discussion, it's a dead issue. Even the touching and cuddling is pretty much gone now. My father was active into his 80's — I'm not looking forward to the decades of sexless marriage ahead of me. I don't want an outside relationship, and fortunately I haven't gone there, but I think about it regularly. Bummer, dude!
Hi Kate, just wanted to take a couple of min to let you know where I'm at with all this. I want to let you know that I appreciate your advice in this difficult time, but when it comes to religion, I don't believe.
I grew up in a Christian home, went to Sunday School, was a Alter boy in my teens,went through the whole conformation process, followed my parents to what ever church function that was happening. Church was a big part of life growing up and I never questioned it.
Then I moved out on my own and I didn't have my parents pushing me to go to church and I didn't feel the need to go. I did still go with my parents when I returned home, but that was about it. At this point I still believed everything the bible had to say, even if I didn't attended services regularly.
I guess around the age of 32 I started asking questions, where do I stand in life? whats this all about? I started to look not only at my own religion but religions from all around the world. Am I just a Christian becuase I was born into a Christian family?…If I was born in India, would I be a Hindu? If I was born in the middle east, would I be Muslim? Did I really have a choice of what I was suppose to be? Which religion has it right? With millions of different followers all around the world, they all can't be right?….but when speaking to the ones i did…each one had as a strong will that their belief was the right one, just as strong as the next…that to confused me.
So it came down to..what is right for me. I'm an adult now and I wanted to believe in something…So I stuck with what I knew..Christianity. I actually went to a local pastor and talked with him about certain things in the bible that I didn't agree with. We had a back and forth for almost 2 years before I made my decision.
In the end, the bible has alot of things that I don't agree with in regards to how certain minorities are treated,life styles, to the more archaic beliefs like in the old testament, knowing that alot of the people follow the king james version. But alot of the beliefs overlap. Beliefs that I just can't accept as a good person, I know they are wrong.
I asked my pastor that if I really wanted to be accepted by my religion, do I have to follow, even the things that I disagree with it?! Know that today..alot of the more modern followers don't follow some of the older views, such as eating shellfish, the right to slavery, the right to sell you daughter, stonings, etc.
In the end, its up to the God almighty to deem how fit we are in regards to well we followed his word. Its up to the individual to choose what he or she beliefs…but my question was still steady."Can I be a true follower if I don't belief everything the bible says?". He said in the end..I guess not.
That was the beginning that sent me on a quest to look more into , just not my religion but others…and what I found were alot of the things I never knew about, verses that alot of people skim over or are rather taboo, more or less understood but not spoken about. Conflicting beliefs even within the realm of Christianity, from Mormons, to Pentecostal, Catholic, each with large variations in their core beliefs. Speaking to different believers, each one said without doubt that, theirs were the right one.
In the end…I didn't like any of the answers that people were giving me. Don't get me wrong, there are some good advice within the bible..but there are some nasty stuff there too that contradicts alot of "being good". If I have to belief the bad parts of the bible and accept that…I can't live with myself knowing that..it just doesn't seem right. Something in me..knows that its not right to be that way.
It was during that time..that left my religion. So your advice that you give, I appreciate..I really do. But when it comes to believing in a God, or Jesus, or Ali, or Vishnu and praying…I have just as must comfort in believing in myself, that I have the will power to overcome, that my inner thoughts will get me through this. Saying that there is a God behind that confuses me,, since I ask, which God?..how do you know its your god and not someone elses?..perhaps its not a god and its just free will, my own mind inner thoughts, working how it should?
So I appreciate and I am not trying to minimize your help, but I just can't seek solace in a God, or Gods, from any part of the world. But I know people believe what they want..what works for someone doesn't always work for someone else. That's just life..we are all different..I hope that despite our differences, we can all still help each other and get along.
All the best to everyone here and the troubling times that we are ahead, but stay strong, think positive, be positive, tell yourself that it can only get better, above all …be happy with yourself and happiness with others will follow.
I appreciate the kind words. But it is too late, like a wild fire that is outta control, it doesn't wait around to be put out.
But I take ease in the fact that we both are in agreement, that it is the end. True unconditional love is wanting my wife to be happy. If that means she has to be without me,…than so be it. Im sure one day I will look back on this and say," That was the right thing to do, I am a better person for it and so is my Ex" But for right now….its hurts like hell.
I've already started the process of moving out, we are being very respectful of each others feelings and opened to conversation if either of us want to talk a little more. But not about how we can fix it, becuase to her…its beyond fixing…she is done. She does not want too….all I can do is respect that decision. We are in the end, our own people..I can't make her do something she doesn't want to do..and I never would think of doing such a thing.
I'm scared and frighten, and a soup of other emotions flow through me every min of the day. But with each day, its closer and closer to being healed.
Here's to all of us being stronger and happier people from all of this, regardless which direction life happens to us.
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World Cinema Foundation launch to open with Moroccan Transes
Martin Scorsese's May 22 Cannes launch of the World Cinema Foundation will include a rare Moroccan film entitled Transes, shot in 1981 by director Ahmed El Maanouni and restored by Italy's Cineteca di Bologna.
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The night has always been more alluring to me,
Than the day could ever wish to be.
But I never knew I'd go this far,
I never knew I'd enter the dark.
I turn around to find the light,
But I cannot find it in my sights.
When life gives you lemons make lemonade?
Then what can you make when old scars won't fade?
I'm a broken heart, you can't truly fix me,
I'm hanging on the edge, soon to be falling.
A blood stain on the wall, a reminder of my past,
My arm is open with one quick slash.
The blood, it trickles down my arm,
There's so much of it, though I don't feel alarm.
Only fascination with the crimson liquid,
And then I realize what I just did.
I hit the vain that'll end my life,
now I can no longer be called alive.
Maybe it won't be that different after all,
I'm thinking through things when I hear death's call.
"Awaken," he said. "Your time has come"
As I close my eyes, my life is done.
I Am Over,
I Am Broken
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|Hyponatremia and hypernatremia in the newborn: in medio stat virtus.
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|PMID: 22201859 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review
|Hyponatremia and hypernatremia are complex clinical problems that occur frequently in full term newborns and in preterm infants admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) although their real frequency and etiology are incompletely known. Pathogenetic mechanisms and clinical timing of hypo-hypernatremia are well known in adult people whereas in the newborn is less clear how and when hypo-hypernatremia could alter cerebral osmotic equilibrium and after how long time brain cells adapt themselves to the new hypo-hypertonic environment. Aim of this review is to present a practical approach and management of hypo-hypernatremia in newborns, especially in preterms.
|Maria Antonietta Marcialis; Angelica Dessi; Maria Cristina Pintus; Viviana Marinelli; Vassilios Fanos
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Menu: Tools -> Options -> Environment -> DocumentsVersions: 2008,2010Published: 9/15/2010Code: vstipEdit0074
Make sure to check out the Windows Phone Developer Portal!
When you open a read-only document you will get an indicator that looks like a tiny lock on the file tab:
If you make changes and try to save them you will (by default) be met with the "Save of Read-Only File" dialog:
At this point you can save your changes as another copy of the file, overwrite the existing file, or cancel. If you don't like these options you can turn this feature off by going to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Documents and uncheck the "Allow editing of read-only files; warn when attempt to save" option:
Now if you attempt to make any changes to a read-only file you will see the "Edit of Read-Only File" dialog:
Edit In-Memory-will allow you to make edits and then display the "Save of Read-Only File" dialog when you go to save changes.
Make Writable-turns off the read-only attribute of the file if possible so it can be edited.
Well, now it's all clear to me. I'm glad I read your article.
I'm working on a project that uses Team System and that is connected to a server in my company. When willing to work on at home, i just change the connection string in order to make it connect to my local database. But some files in Visual Studio are Read-Only, although the option "Allow editing of read-only files" is checked.
Someone can help me please.
fennoo -- that sounds like a server-side issue perhaps. Did you try the TFS forums?
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The following marriage licenses were issued by County Clerk Lisa Freiberg as of May 4, 2012:
n Todd Joseph Zivkovich and Heidi Nicole Senecal, both of Fond du Lac.
n Anthony Lee Braker, Beaver Dam; and Elizabeth Ann Leeds, Fond du Lac.
n David Jon Martin and Roilyn Denise Tompkins, both of Fond du Lac.
n Glen Richard Merten and Kelly Lynn Stieg, both of Fond du Lac.
n Paul Joseph Johnson and Heather Marie Wieting, both of Fond du Lac.
n Jason Michael Fideler and Nicole Joy Beisbier, both of Campbellsport.
n John Andrew Voit and Tina Marie Grider, both of Oakfield.
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Virtual Flannel
"Now There's More Triangles"
Canada's favorite "indie" beats specialist Chris Bridge, a.k.a. Virtual Flannel a.k.a. ᏉᎥᏒᏆuᎪᏞ fᏞᎪᏁᏁᎬᏞ, coming at you TODAY via digital shelf with his new Self Titled album on Noorden. The release includes 3D glasses, (3) 3D posters, 24 stickers "all in [a] really cool envelope," and — oh, right: it's in CD format. Hoping it's a lot like this here "Now There's More Triangles" track too. Love that combination of beats and 100% Silk-style runway synth sounds. Kind of like that Azealia Banks mixtape this year, only Chris brings that funk in a more hackk'd glitch sort of way. The man is a hard worker; he came out with two cassettes on his own this year, and from what I've heard, he's "working" with Justin Kelly, who is planning on popping Virtual Flannel on his label WTR CLR sometime soon too.
In the meantime, snag a copy of his amazing piece of Self Titled and bump it until it skips. Then you got the Virtual Flannel footwork/juke remix!
• Virtual Flannel: http://virtualflannel.bandcamp.com
• Noorden: http://noorden.org
Post Radio
So. After talking to NYKDLN (Scott Michael) on Facebook while driving in the most unexpected shit, I left a 20-page-long text message hate-rant on my phone about how New York fucked up and left me for dead, and how posting it on Facebook would mean just as NOTHING as all the other complaints on there. In light of that, I hated how perfect Post Radio fit my situation. If Michael had sent it to me while I was in the car, instead of before I left work, I'd have though he was patronizing my patience in the weather. But the release is just so desolate and confined in its subjection that it's hard to deny NYKDLN as a FUTURE-MC-style noise radio warpism. And out from the past comes the newest form of, I dunno, post-drone?
Like, the idea that I'm sitting here and listening to a mesh of noise and static and somewhat nostalgic-sounding music makes it spectacular to zone out to. As if Michael made the perfect background music using background music. OH FUCK!!! This is a double tape? NASTY, Sunup Recordings. OMG: "Poison" is totally my morning jam, too. Umm, I'm starting to think Michael just beat me to the punch and recorded over the rest of his Diskette Romances tape and sent it into Sunup immediately. Or maybe he's just directly exposing listeners to influences. I dunno. This release will definitely be reeled to death while still trying to figure out if Michael is James Joyce or Lil B.
Post Radio will be shipping out December 1 as a double cassette for $8 via Sunup Recordings. Hit it or quit it.
• NYKDLN: http://nykdln.bandcamp.com
• Sunup Recordings: http://sunuprecordings.bandcamp.com
Dean Blunt meets James Ferraro
"Watch The Throne"
Just another Friday night waiting for another reason to write about either Dean Blunt or James Ferraro, and what do I get? A Blunt/Ferraro collaboration called "Watch The Throne"! The 18-minute performance, recorded live to an incredibly talkative audience November 3 at the Soho House in Beverly Hills (after Blunt's puzzling "White Flight" performance at the OHWOW Gallery earlier that day), features Blunt on vocals/Fender Rhodes and Ferraro on grand piano. Yes, you read that right: rather than being some sort of odd meeting between Blunt's gritty comatose aesthetic and Ferraro's crisp HD visions, "Watch The Throne" is marked instead by impressionistic chords, spacious phrasings, and suspended rhythms. Blunt's vocals are as disconnected as the mood, with both artists seemingly feeling their way through this pensive, meandering number.
It's unclear whether "Watch the Throne" refers to the collaboration, this particular performance, or something else (like, say, a collaboration between Jay-Z and Kanye West?), but in any case, there is a "Watch the Throne" tour coming soon, and I'm going to be all over it. Check out the performance here:
Meanwhile, Hippos In Tanks released James Ferraro's new album Sushi earlier this week and is set to release a remixed/remastered version of Blunt's The Narcissist II mixtape on November 26. Life is good.
• Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland: http://youtube.com/pollyjacobsen
• James Ferraro: https://twitter.com/#!/JFerraro_zip
• Hippos In Tanks: http://hipposintanks.net
Chocolate Grinder Mix 66
Positive Vibrations for the End of the World
I can see sunlight breaking through all of the dead and dying branches in that tree. It hums a warm tune and falls down between the cracks in the concrete where footsteps skid and thump like broken drum beats.
"Outta the street kid!" the neighbor yells at me, as he skids his car, filled with his family, around me. "We don't have time for your prancing around!" The car disappears around the corner into the long line of cars trying to get out of town.
I don't understand why they're trying to get out of here, I think to myself. I thought it was the entire world that was ending, not just our city."
Looking up, I see that a large cloud has moved in. It has nearly covered up the entire sun. Only two solitary beams of light still shine through. I can't tell if they reach the Earth or not.
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[02:58] aaronmaxwell - "highschool crush"
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Mykki Blanco
Cosmic Angel: Illuminati Prince/ss [mixtape]
OH FUCK. Acid punk rapper Mykki Blanco has just dropped her debut mixtape, Cosmic Angel: Illuminati Prince/ss. Production by Brenmar, Gatekeeper, Gobby, Flosstradamus, Le1f, and more. Download it here (UNO NYC), here (DatPiff), or stream right here:
In other news, Blanco has just joined Death Grips' US tour. OH FUCK.
• Mykki Blanco: http://www.mykkiblancoworld.com
Monopoly Child Star Searchers
"Aviary's Black Satin Stargate"
Leave it all behind, and arrive at the glass temple of melt. At dusk, the fortress is worn from winds of the night before. As the day turns, the interior drumming attracts friends who come bearing conduction gifts to help support the evening ahead. Plumes drift out of various holes and entrances of the structure, signaling those beyond our stretches of imagination. And as ritual presents itself in art amongst the walls, floatation occurs on the rocks above and, slowly, fluid conduction encapsulates the exterior. Flying friends flee and "Aviary's Black Satin Stargate" opens above, striking down blots of light and might. The finest sands harden to the consistency of glass, and through the shell, faces both like and unlike humans peer through. Gazes so deep that these attached visages seem almost unhindered by force of weather surrounding the area. Star searching is complete; the birds have signaled the dimensional pathway; and beyond has returned. Are we on our way home? November 16, you can find out through Underwater Peoples.
• Underwater Peoples: http://underwaterpeoples.com
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I don't know if you are being deliberately obtuse or if you are just incapable of abstract logic. In either case, I will make yet another attempt to explain myself.
I am not comparing or attempting to equate the Holocaust with this girl's situation. I was trying to get you to try to understand that the road to tyranny starts out very subtle. It's like the proverbial frog in the pot of boiling water. My point that obviously escaped you was that the tyranny in Germany that became the holocaust started out very benignly and the people did not recognize it until too late.
Again you seem to be unable to grasp the concept of variance; with you it's all or nothing. If I say to be vigilant and exercise our rights under democracy, you take that as " loosing sleep over every legal and social injustice" honestly, you seem to lazy to uphold your responsibities as a citizen in a democracy. You are living in a self delusional bubble, refusing to see the world for what it is and too lazy to put forth the effort to preserve it.
Oh now I get it. Yeah, we are definitely on the road to to next Holocaust. The evidence of that is overwhelming!
Your paranoia is alarming.
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It may be hard to fathom, but during its 6-year dalliance here Yugo sold over one hundred and forty thousand cars in the U.S.. For today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe contest we have eight Yugos - one for each side of an octagon. But will their package price prove a similarly shaped stop sign? »


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November 28, 2015
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - DeKalb County police are investigating why
an officer released a prosecutor after arresting him on DUI charges.
Master Patrol Officer C.J. Lee charged DeKalb Assistant Solicitor Wystan Getz with DUI, fleeing and eluding, reckless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle on Saturday.
A police report says the officer never booked Getz into jail and allowed him to leave the hospital after taking a blood test.
Police spokesman Officer Jason Gagnon says DUI suspects typically are booked.
Gagnon says Lee remains on duty. Getz is on unpaid administrative leave from the solicitor-general's office during an internal investigation.
A phone listing for Getz could not be located.
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I bought something for you today. You'll love it.
I'm okay. We got a prayer rug sent to us with the face of jesus on it. From Tulsa Oklahoma. Kinda weird.
I let a blind guy feel me up. All he kept saying was "oh fuck yeah!"
I gave him a handjob while watching the presidential address. Needless to say, it was weird.
Let's not fuck on an air mattress tonight...I'd rather get rug burn.
grandma shit on top of the toilet
We had car sex in the parking lot of the dispensery while he blasted Tony Bennett. It was so fucking romantic.
i wasnt laughing because you were puking, i was laughing because three yards away there was a couple seriously getting it on
I'm more impressed with the spaghetti smoothie at the present moment.
If I threw up, how do I still have the same piece of gum in my mouth from the beginning of the night?
omg i wish you could see the front of my car.
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"a great part of pleasure lays in the subsequent fall from grace" â R NyswanerBlue days, Black Nights.
Turn Ons
men with body hair where there should be hair. mans" expressions during sex. wit. regular bodies, nothing to the extreme.
Turn Offs
closed minds.
those way too verbal during sex.
the moral majority..which is neither.
all Almodovar movies.
Factory Girl.
Streetcar Named Desire.
Blow. Love Forbidden.Running With Scissors.
art works..painting, photo
everything from Lady Gaga to Marianne Faithful, September, Cesaria Evora,...too many.some music pretty much from any decade. except for hard rock and rap, sorry.
Blue Days, Black Nights-Ron Nyswaner
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Ideal partner
the kind that gets me in bed by midnight and i"m home by 3. the kind that knows some of many things. a sense of humor. laugh out loud. greets with a smile.
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thanks for the comment on my video man!
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thank you very much for invitation. it's a pleasure . a very nice thin cock . hugs and kisses
KINOKO, gracias. solo asi aprendemos mas de uno al otro.
rafname, i believe the catagory was 'Turn-on', referring to mine, not yours. you are welcome to have your own. perhaps if you were not so quick to jump on the high horse you would still be with your ex. i like all types of men, with hair or with out. i just prefer when a man has hairy legs and chest, he should also have pubic hair. what all this comes down to is that you are one type, i am another. deal with it.
Your comment "grown men should have hair like grown men" is puzzling. Why? Is there a list somewhere of things grown men should and should not do? Sorry, but you sound a bit like the bigot I was married to for 23 years.
Lo de "americanadas" no lo digo con la intención que tu piensas. Aquí en españa se utiliza la palabra "americanada" para definir cierto tipo de peliculas, las cuales no tienen porqué ser americanas. Hay muchas pelis españolas que son muy "americanadas". No se si me explico pero te puedo asegurar que muchas de mis pelis favoritas son americanas.
People post videos saying "Asian" because everyone has a specific type
same reason why people say "tinks" or "muscle" "bears" daddies" etc etc.
It's nothing raciest or anything, everyone just has their types so to make sure they're clicking on something they actually want to view they have it in the title.
exactly the point! if you're hot, you're hot. who cares what you are. so why the extra info????
most Asian' videos are of hot, fit guys. so, why mention nationality?
it just seems no other race does. unless they feel they wanna make sure they "fit in" somewhere.
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A plant in Danville plans to cut 200 jobs.
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The plant will move the Danville positions to two Ohio plants, due to tax incentives made by that state.
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City administrator on board two more years
Council split on decision to extend Yanez's contract
Eudora's first city administrator is back for another two years despite heated discussion among members of the Eudora City Council at its meeting Monday night.
The majority of the Council voted to extend Mike Yanez's contract for another two years. Council members Dan Gregg, Rex Burkhardt and Don Durkin voted in favor of the contract; Council members Tom Pyle and Scott Hopson dissented.
Mayor Ron Conner said it was not surprising that challenges would spring up during a city's first experience with an administrator.
"I think we continue to meet those challenges and have already met a lot of them," Conner said.
Part of the question was whether a two-year contract should be passed, because with elections coming up next April, the new Council and possibly new mayor would be locked in to this Council's decision, Pyle said.On the other hand, Council member Dan Gregg said having the institutional memory of an experienced city administrator would be a benefit.
"It takes a while to get your feet on the ground," he said. "I don't believe newly-elected officials can presume to come in here and know how it works."
Among Pyle and Hopson's concerns was the amount of money spent on engineering fees, including one expenditure that exceeded the administrator's authority -- an engineering study for a new public safety building.
Hopson also criticized Yanez's speed in expediting potentially money-saving projects for the city, his willingness to share information with the Council, and his rapport with city employees.
Yanez told the Council during his two years in Eudora he had few, if any, regrets.
"It's tough to make everybody happy," he said.
However, there were black-and-white policies for city employees that he enforced "to the letter," he said.
Hopson and Pyle critiqued the chain of command policy instituted last year that has department heads reporting to the city administrator rather than to Council members. Despite a motion to rescind the policy, the majority of the Council voted to keep the policy intact.
During his time in Eudora, Yanez said he had seen the city make great strides, crediting department heads and a forward-thinking Council. Yanez countered the belief he was in Eudora only to pad his resume. He conceded his job had become more difficult during his tenure in Eudora.
"It's getting harder to be city administrator than it used to be," he said. "It seems in the last few weeks I've had to fight harder to defend my people."
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A lot of things transpire between inmate and C.O. as a result blatant disrespect. Just two days ago, I was locked up and going through a normal search, which I had no problem with, when the C.O. demanded that I take my boots off outside. Looking at the bigger picture and not wanting to allow them to trap me off, I complied and began taking off my boots, one boot at a time, and handing them to the C.O.
When done searching my last boot, he removes the insole of my shoe, then throws my boot in a different direction and commands me to pick them up. This was in no way a possibility for me, as I am nobody's "lil boy". My refusal landed me in the hole. As you can see I'm out, but I ask- Do you honestly believe the blatant disrespect was warranted? Absolutely not! But we prisoners have nobody to turn to. We can only suck it up and move on, or allow the mental games to be played and find ourselves in more of a situation. This is in no way to say that what transpired at USP Canaan in Pennsylvania and resulted in the death of a corrections officer and Bureau of Prisons employee on Monday was justified. I'm just saying some of these corrections officers lack serious professional skills.


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WL-320 WiFi Access Points
ASUS on Friday revealed its WL-320 line of WiFi access points for users seeking greater range without resorting to more expensive 802.11n hardware. Both the WL-320gE (bottom left) and WL-320gP (upper right) feature a 20dBm signal amplifier that can maintain a connection as far as 850m away when unobstructed, according to ASUS' claims. Either access point can alternatively serve as a bridge for Ethernet-only devices or repeat the signal from a host router. The gE variant is a basic model with a single 5dBm antenna; the gP adds a second antenna for better signal strength as well as support for power-over-Ethernet when a dedicated power source isn't available. Pricing and release details weren't mentioned as part of the announcement.


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Yesterday we brought you the story of a 2L at Cardozo Law School who has taken out Google ads promoting himself, in an attempt to find a summer associate job. Here's what his ad looks like (as displayed to an Above the Law reader who alerted us to his campaign):
We reached out to Eric Einisman to ask him: What was he thinking?
We spoke with Eric by phone yesterday. Here is the (slightly edited and condensed) transcript of our conversation:
ATL: What gave you the idea to set up your own website and promote it with Google ads?
Originally I wanted to do something that would show up when an employer was just Googling me. I set up a simple website — basically my résumé, not much more — and bought Google AdWords for my name and related searches, like "eric einisman" or "eric einisman michigan."
After OCI interviews took place, and after a lot of the Biglaw jobs came and went, I thought I should expand my campaign, going beyond just search terms for my name. Google AdWords suggested some additional terms, and I picked out some of my own — mostly law-related terms and practice areas I'm interested in, such as litigation and entertainment law.
ATL: How much have you spent — and how much are you planning to spend — on the effort?
I haven't spent much so far. The whole campaign has cost me less than if I had done a mass-mailing campaign, in terms of printing and sending out cover letters and résumés, in hard copy. If I get some results, the money would be well spent.
ATL: So are we talking several hundred dollars?
No, less than that.
ATL: In an update to our story from yesterday, we mentioned a guy in advertising who got a job after a $6 Google ad campaign. You've spent more than that, I'm guessing?
More than $6, yes. I should mention that Google gives me a lot of flexibility in terms of my campaign. Some commenters were speculating that they could click on my ads and cost me a lot of money. But with Google, I can customize my budget and place limits on my ad spending in a single day, for example.
ATL: Have you started to see results from your campaign yet?
Initially I got a lot of clicks back in August, when interviews were taking place. I could see that people were looking for me; I was getting a lot of clicks at that time.
Then interview season wound down, and I was getting less and less in terms of clicks. So that's when I decided it was worth a shot to do some advertising, especially given how tough the economy is and how my résumé might not necessarily stick out. So I decided to increase my range.
ATL: Have you started to get inquiries from employers?
I've been on quite a few interviews, but I'm not sure if it's because of my website or ad campaign. It hasn't been brought up, so I can't tell what role the ads have played.
ATL: But you haven't had employers reach out to you and say they saw your ad and want to interview you?
Not yet — but I'm hopeful!
ATL: How would you respond to people who would criticize your ad campaign as "too much" or "over the top"?
As I was saying earlier, coming from where I'm coming from, it's tough to stick out. If there's any reasonable way that I can do that, then it's worth it. Some people have called my approach "desperate," but I don't think it's desperate — just different.
I think there is some line out there that could be crossed, but I don't think what I've done crosses that line. I'm not going out there handing out t-shirts that say "hire me"; I'm not putting up posters all over lower Manhattan.
As I said, I don't think this is that different from a mass-mailing campaign, which people have been doing for a long time. I have spoken to lawyers at large firms, graduates of Cardozo and similar schools, who got their jobs through large mailing campaigns. What I'm doing now isn't that different.
ATL: Given the challenges of the job search, do you regret going to law school?
I made the right choice in coming to law school. I'm glad I'm here, and I'm happy with my school. I'm looking forward to the practice of law.
The truth is that I got a little bit of a late start in terms of being serious with my studies in college. I didn't really focus on my grades until my third year. I had a 3.8 in my last two years at Michigan, but that was too late to outweigh some of my earlier grades.
I think it's important to maintain a positive outlook. This can be hard to do, given the bleak employment numbers, which can be scary to a lot of people. But it's not productive to focus on them.
I did get some good news today: I learned that I was selected as an Alexander Fellow, which means that I'll be working for a federal judge next semester. It's a competitive process and quite an honor.
ATL: Congratulations!
Thanks! I'm excited.
ATL: You're in the middle of your 2L year, so perhaps it's a bit early for this, but do you have a sense of what you might want to do long-term in your legal career?
Right now I'm keeping my options open. I'm just a guy trying to get a job.
UPDATE (2/28/12): And succeeding. We're happy to report that Eric Einisman has secured summer employment at an immigration firm, Wildes & Weinberg. Congrats!
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ASUS launches first GeForce 3D Vision notebook
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ASUS G51J 3D also has Core i7
ASUS today officially took the wraps from the first notebook to use NVIDIA's GeForce 3D Vision. The G51J 3D uses both NVIDIA's special glasses and a 120Hz LCD to add spatial depth to games that support it, such as Arkham Asylum and Borderlands. The combination of a 1.6GHz Core i7 and a GeForce GTX 260M help run the games at the 15.6-inch notebook's native 1366x768 resolution.
In keeping with ASUS' usual practices, the company doesn't provide concrete specs or pricing but instead provides a range of possible options. As much as 4GB of RAM can fit in the system, while hard drive storage varies between 250GB and 500GB. Blu-ray and DVD are both options for optical drives.
The G51J 3D should be available in early December and comes bundled with both the glasses and the necessary transmitter. Other companies with 3D notebooks, such as MSI and contractors like Clevo, should have their notebooks available next year.


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I am very disappointed that our recently elected champion of change and hustler of hope, President Obama, has dismissed as a joke the suggestion that legalizing marijuana might offer a boost to the economy.
The suggestion apparently came not from just a few crackpots but from several thousand of the 100,000 who submitted questions to his recent virtual town hall. A mainstream magazine, The Economist, recently offered the same opinion.
Most certainly the economy would get a boost. We could save about half of the $68 billion devoted to corrections institutions. We would no doubt tax and regulate the sale of those drugs, much as we do cigarettes and liquor, and collect income tax on the profits.
Let's face it folks. We have lost the war on drugs. Every statistic points to this as a fact.
Are we going to continue our insanity — doing the same old thing expecting new results — or finally wake up, throw in the towel and set a new course?
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Naked woman wearing only a fanny pack disappears from camp
SKAMANIA COUNTY - A 19-year-old woman who went on a "spiritual quest" wearing only a fanny pack is now missing and a search and rescue effort is underway to find her.
Maureen Kelly, 19, of Vancouver left Canyon Creek Campground (located east of Amboy, Wash., in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest) just after 5 p.m. Sunday.
According to Undersheriff Dave Cox with the Skamania County Sheriff's Office, the woman walked away from the campground around 5 p.m. Sunday. She was in the nude and had only a fanny pack with her and little, if any, equipment or supplies with her.
"We had a fairly mild evening last night with temperatures in the lower 50s," Cox said. "We have set up a command post in the area and currently are utilizing ground search teams in the immediate area in an attempt to locate her this morning."
The Canyon Creek area is steep and mountainous with heavy timber and brush. Searchers don't know whether she was on a road or trail or if she is moving cross country.
Searchers swept the area for Kelly until nightfall. They will continue the search Tuesday, according to the sheriff's office.
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Slick newspaper design is a passion of mine. Here are what's considered the five best in the world. // Physical history gets the digital touch. Ten amazing letters from United States Presidents. // If you like The Simpsons, you can't not read this. // And the best cameos in Simpsons history ...
★ "I think that there's too much sugar in the world and not enough salt." Read the story of Buzz Williams.
★ The best part of messageboards (can't believe I just wrote that) is the memes. Kansas fans went wild on Steve Moore.
★ The Summit League's diamonds.
★ Big week for Temple, even if it doesn't seem like it from the outside.
★ Dan Wolken opines on the long-term problems that could be facing UConn.
★ Michigan State's defense is a lot of fun to watch this season. Why?
★ Staying with the Spartans, some more perspective on Draymond Green's ridiculous season.
★ If the Big East tournament started today ...
★ Immediate reaction to BracketBusters and a check-in on how it didn't immediately affect seeding in prognostications. Long-term, by Selection Sunday, will there be impact?
★ The chase for the final two No. 1 seeds is great and up in the air, but I think Missouri's almost definitely got that third top line locked up.
★ The player I talked to who's had the 10th point three straight years at Taylor University's Silent Night was chosen for the same award as Andrew Luck.
★ This is how Vegas sees the differences between the top 20 teams in the country.
★ Wherein Seth Davis takes up on behalf of the RPI, unfortunately. Smart guy; don't get why he's antediluvian when it comes to this.
★ As for the RPI, listen to this takedown of the system by Scott Van Pelt.
★ Rhode Island is the worst state in college basketball.
★ I don't know John Shurna too well -- I've only met him once -- but from all I've seen and heard, this column nails who the kid is.
► Take a time lapse through Hinkle.
♬ No band rec today. Instead, let's look at a cover. What makes covers worthwhile? The twist on the tune's original recording, of course. When an artist can pay tribute to another by making a song their own, that's when a cover's at its best. And this is a cover of a cover. Cornell's one of the 10 best -- in terms of control and range and power -- voices in the history of rock, by the way.


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Rajendra K. Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, has become among the world's most visible, outspoken voices on fighting climate change. Following a speech at the Worldwatch Institute launch of State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World, Dr. Pachauri stepped aside for a conversation with Worldwatch staff writer Ben Block.
Ben Block: Climate scientists have been making more-severe findings over the 14 months since the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report was released in 2007. What do you think has changed since that assessment?
Rajendra Pachauri: I don't see any changes. I mean, there's always new literature that's coming out, and one should really look at the balance of all the evidence that you get. Certainly a year or two is not a lot, really, for you to come up with a reasoned, objective, and comprehensive assessment of what's happening. We are not in the business of forecasting the weather. We're really projecting climate change.
BB: Based on the lessons you learned from the Fourth Assessment or the events that have transpired since then, how will the next IPCC report be different from previous projects?
RP: One of the things that we're certainly going to focus on is much greater regional [effects] because the impact of climate change has to be essentially studied in the respect of specific locations and regions. Unless we do that, we're only generalizing something that's not factual.
BB: The Fourth Assessment include examples of likely effects in Asia, Africa, and other regions. How will the Fifth Assessment compare?
RP: A great deal depends on the research that's carried out in those locations. One hopes that with all the interest that's been generated on climate change, you get a lot more research out of it in a number of regions in the world that were not covered earlier.
BB: The next report is due to be published in 2014. With many scientists saying that climate change has become more severe since the 2007 assessment, and with the international climate negotiations taking place in Copenhagen this December, do you think a more recent report is needed? 2014 seems like a long time from now.
RP: There's no way you can cut short the process. We have an extremely elaborate procedure designed for a very good reason. It's not easy to go through tens of thousands of pieces of literature and assemble thousands of scientists to come up with a reasonable assessment of what's happening and what's likely to happen. Anything you do in a year or two is going to be suspect. It's not going to be complete. And I don't think it will carry the credibility that a comprehensive assessment of the IPCC actually does.
BB: You don't have an easy job. Is there anyone competing to replace you?
RP: If they do, they're more than welcome.
BB: The IPCC makes estimations on how climate change could be limited to increases of 2 degrees Celsius. How do you feel about this limit - is it too high?
RP: That really has to be seen in relation to what 2 degrees will do to different places of the world. I think Article 2 of the [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], which essentially highlights the need to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, has to look at "dangerous" in respect to different situations and different regions of the world. You can't have climate science which is uniformly dangerous for the entire world. If you talk to people in locations that are really dangerous, you get response from those people that they are probably close to a state of danger - if they have not already crossed it.
So this whole issue of 2 degrees versus 1 degree or 1.5 degree is something based on a value judgment that essentially relates to what is dangerous, what is a threshold that would define danger in terms of making it almost impossible for some people on this planet not being able to live in those locations. So it's difficult to say if it should be 2 degrees or 1.5 or 1, but this is an issue that needs a great deal of discussion or debate. There's an ethical discussion which should not be ignored at all, and it really hasn't been brought out in the [climate convention] debates.
BB: Have you had a chance to speak with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama?
RP: No... I hope some day in future I get to talk to him.
BB: If Obama were in front of you right now, what would you say?
RP: I would tell him he has the unique opportunity of saving a large part of the human species and several others, because unless the U.S. takes the lead, I'm afraid we will not get an adequate global response. In absence of that, there will obviously be climate change that will go unmitigated. And we're pretty close to the stage where impacts start to turn very serious and very negative.
BB: That's a lot of weight on one man's shoulders.
RP: Well, he ran for the presidency of the United States, so he assumed the responsibility.
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Well, he ran for the presidency of the United States, so he assumed the responsibility.
Very well said.
And that implies, for all of us, that we have the right and the duty to put as much pressure on Obama to respond appropriately as we possibly can.
There is no time for a honey moon period. action must start today or at least as soon as possible.
To not do so, on Obama's part, would be tantamount to a crime against Humanity.