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bluejester wrote:Stop complaining and start with the funny gifs and lolcat posts then. Those use to be a staple of Woot Offs. If other people don't start to help T. Thighs and myself out, I'm going to have to start breaking out the weird gifs....
i am faling asleep waiting for new deal:d
I'm glad I popped in here - some highly entertaining posts. The cat doing laundry is hilarious.
cata32 wrote:cool. i am watchin the freezing hell in Cleveland, OH where I live ,it's hell outside about 14 degrees.. snowing...wind.. Ill stay inside,hopping to chat a good deal here at woot ( I want a laptop...cheap but good to last me few years)...;)
Heck you are having a heat wave !
I'll see you cleveland and raise you buffalo ! we got single digits here .
it's about 100 in Melbourne though. I can dream......
On the plus side, if this does not sell... Extra-long Woot-off!
ThunderThighs wrote:Anyone here watch Once Upon A Time (ABC)? I love that show. Just catching Sunday's episode now.
Totally! Though I don't typically watch shows when they are on TV, I wait for the DVDs so I can see them all at once. So I'm not up to speed with S2. How is it thus far? As good as S1?
csparkle33 wrote:14 degrees would be nice. Its 3 without the 15mph winds here in Chicago.
-8 here in MSP!
qwerty82 wrote:Totally! Though I don't typically watch shows when they are on TV, I wait for the DVDs so I can see them all at once. So I'm not up to speed with S2. How is it thus far? As good as S1?
Excellent season so far. You can see them on abc.com
ThunderThighs wrote:Excellent season so far. You can see them on abc.com
I'm too old fashioned for that. I don't dig the whole 'streaming' thing. I like DVDs. No buffering or Generation 3 Ponies commercials required!
Studios must love you and your wallet.
frugalfreak wrote:Studios must love you and your wallet.
I didn't say I BUY the DVDs. That's what Netflix is for.
I found it recently (season 1).
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BWW Interviews: Kelly Warne Talks THE RESIDUALS, Stand-Up, Sex Therapy, and Bodily Functions
As a general journalistic rule, if you are going to be writing an article, a stand-up comic is a terrible interview subject if you are looking for controlled, measured responses. However, if you are ok with the interview occasionally going off the rails and having to turn the volume up really loud on the interview tape just to hear answers through the laughter, then go for it.
Recently, I spoke with actress, writer, and comedienne, Kelly Warne as part of my seemingly 100-part series on the incredible webseries THE RESIDUALS. Kelly bounces between numerous types of performance, from stand-up to stage to nearly every webseries you see online. In addition, she is in the process of filming her self-titled webseries, although, she refers to her writing as "a wash of insecurity."
THE RESIDUALS is a web-comedy about actors auditioning for commercials and the hilarity that invariably ensues. The series was created by husband and wife Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle, and co-stars Nick Costa, all of which is information that will come in handy during the interview.
Kelly, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me. I am kind of making my way through the entire cast of THE RESIDUALS.
In a completely non-prostitutional sense.
No, absolutely... well...
We shouldn't use words like "absolutely," because life is crazy and unpredictable.
You are exactly right. Anyway, I wanted to start by asking if there was some sort of rule that says that any webseries that films in the greater-New York City area, must feature you in some way?
(Laughs) It's an unwritten rule that I try to make people aware of. I try to just kind of "incept" anyone who's doing something to think, "You know what this needs? Not tighter editing, not a music score, it needs Kelly Warne. So, let's find out who that is, and let's get her in our webseries."
Obviously, we are primarily talking about THE RESIDUALS, but you've also done a few spots on SUBMISSIONS ONLY, which BroadwayWorld hosts, I've also seen you in THE COFFEE SHOP SHOW, and I saw you did something called DIRECTION, CASTERS, then a few others, and now you are filming your own webseries.
The way it's described is a woman, with no formal training, decides she wants to be a detective. Is that something that you have always harbored a secret desire to do?
No, not at all. My dad was a cop, so I guess there is this whole justice thing in my blood, but I just thought it would be funny to not be that great at something. We think of the bumbling detective as a trope we've seen before and I thought, "I would be excellent at bumbling."
I am describing the show to people as VERONICA MARS meets BRIDGET JONES. We've got the snark, the heart, and the compulsive eating; it's all in there. Basically, it's as semi-autobiographical as it gets, with doing a job I have no idea how to do in life, or in the show.
So, if there is no rule requiring your particpation, how do you make your way onto so many webseries?
The common thread of all these things is, I've gotten all of these things, because they are people that I know, who like me and like what I bring to the table artistically, and have been so lovely to write me into their projects. And I am just so lucky in that respect.
You talked earlier about the insecurity of writing your own show, but it seems to me like doing stand-up might be the most terrifying thing in the whole world...
Right you are Matt (laughs).
So, how do you psyche yourself up to do that on a regular basis?
I still want to throw up while I am doing it. So, I'm probably not the best person to speak to about getting over that. I guess it's like childbirth, like, "Oh god, this is coming. It hurts so bad, I'm just not going to do this today. Oh no, too late. They just called your name, so get on stage and have a godd*mn baby." It's terrifying. The first couple of jokes, you don't even recognize your voice, because you're standing outside your body, being like, "Ahhhhh, why is this happening to me?"
But then you settle into it I guess...right before you're done. That's why my closer is always the best joke; not because it's the best written, but because by that point, I've swallowed the bile enough to that I can actually form a sentence. That's a disgusting image (laughing). Buried the lede on that one.
Well, this is probably as good a time as any to transition back to THE RESIDUALS, since that is what we are supposed to be talking about.
Oh yea, you've got to bring me back, otherwise, I will verbal diarrhea all over your phone.
Good thing we're like 1,000 miles apart. You talked about knowing Mike and Gillian before THE RESIDUALS, so how did you guys meet, and how did they get you involved in the show?
I met them through Nick actually. Nick and I have been friends for about six years; we worked together at a Cheesecake Factory on Long Island, and then remained friends when we moved to the city. Nick and I just get each other. We have very similar senses of humor, and he was living with Mike at the time. And soon after that, Mike started dating Gillian, and then when Gillian and I met, it was like the love that only two heterosexual females can have for each other before people start asking questions. (laughs) I just adore them, they are wonderful, wonderful people.
Then they mentioned that they were doing THE RESIDUALS, and they called me and Nick to their apartment and said, "Look, this is what we're doing, we want you to be a part of it, we just want to have this thing that features people we like."
They are very much of the "let's all rise together" mentality. "Let's all help each other out, and we'll just go up the ladder to fame and fortune together." (laughs)
Good plan. Good plan.
Yea, I'm probably paraphrasing that. I'm sure Mike Smith is more... he has a better way at communicating ideas to people without resorting to poop, or bile, or other bodily functions.
Yea, we've gone there quite a bit already.
I know, now it's a thing. I've got to ride that theme.
I think in comedy you guys call that a "callback," right?
There it is. You don't even need me, you know all about comedy.
Well, let's not get carried away. So, it sounds like you are going to disappoint me, but everyone I've spoken to about THE RESIDUALS has nothing but great things to say about the experience, and I was kind of hoping to at least find someone who is willing to spill some dirt.
Don't you worry, Matt. Do I have a story for you? No, no I don't. I could make something up rght now if you want, but I can't lie to you. To be doing this work with people that you enjoy, and the people they brought on set? People who I have seen in commercials, but never met. Even when I was doing scenes with Emily Tarver (featured in the first picture in the article), who has been in a bigillion commercials, I was like, "Why am I in a show about commercial auditioning, with this chick, who has been in a million commercials?"
The waiting room on that show was the place to be, because everyone was so delightful, and there were no egos, there were no ass**les on that set; it was just super fun. I would hang out even after I was done shooting for the day, just to hang out with my friends and laugh.

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Brilliant location, great breakfast included in room price.
The location of the hotel is ok, and the staff was friendly and helpful. The hotel is in need of a major renovation. Wi-Fi only worked in front of the door to our room (and not in the room which, by the way, I wouldn't call very clean); breakfast was not brilliant either. I would recommend it only if you don't have much of a choice.
The friendliness of the staff and the art deco features It is an interesting hotel which perhaps needs a bit of an uplift. It's a little tired. Good lighting would play a part in giving it a lift, particularly in the restaurants. I'd recommend it with these reservations.
I liked the restaurant and kitchen. Of attractive restaurant. The hotel's location just fine, with beautiful views over the bay ... The original composition of the inhabitants of marine waters - the cod near the entrance. Very comfortable bed. The only regret that no internet in the room. Since there was a laptop.
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Every Africa System is made up of a number of different modules. Africa flow chemistry modules are listed below. Click on the image, text link or right-hand navigation to find out more information about any of the modules.
Each pump module has 2 flow channels. This enables 2 independent continuous flows of substrate/reagent to be pumped into the reactor between 4µl and 2500µl per minute. All the wetted parts are chemically resistant (glass & PTFE) and are user replaceable
Each Heater/Cooler module has 2 temperature plates into which the reactors can be clipped. Each temperature plate can be one of two temperature ranges: 0°C – 150°C and 40°C - 250°C. These can be defined when purchasing.
The Reagent Store contains 4 independent manual valves with accompanying PTFE sample loops and Luer injection ports. This allows reagents (or solvents) to be added in-line.
The Pressurisation module serves three major functions: avoiding bubbles in the flow reactor, inert gas blanket over inputs and enabling superheating of the reaction (by pressurisation).
The Sampler and Dilutor is the interface between the Synthesis system and the Analysis system.
The HPLC Pump Module enables the user to perform isocratic or binary gradient elution at flow rates from 0.1 ml/min up to 2ml/min.
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moving toilet.
Ive got a toilet in the lower level of my house on concrete slab that I would like to move to the left of its current location about a foot.
Im aware I need to cut through concrete etc and have no problems with all of that. My questions revolves around the drain pipe and the closet bend.
Right now the main drain/vent line for that toilet is straight behind the toilet in laundry room (which has a cleanout in it right above floor level) in its current location so there is a short section of pipe coming straight out from it and to a closet bend that goes up to toilet.
The question I have is can I attach a 90 deg bend to the short section coming off the main drain then into a closet bend and up to toilet? Its my understanding you need a cleanout anytime there is more than a 45deg change in pipe direction so would the close proximity of the toilet to the newly added 90 deg bend and the existing cleanout on main line make this a viable solution?
Clean outs are required either before the building drain exits the building or within 10 feet of exterior of building, every 100 ft of pipe and every 40 ft of pipe with more than two 90 deg bends/changes in direction
Just moving the toilet a foot will be ok
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The University of Tennessee keeps its streak alive of former Vols chosen to play in the annual NFC/AFC Pro Bowl game as Peyton Manning and Jason Witten were named to the Sunday, January 31, 2010 contest (ESPN, 7:30 p.m. ET) from Dolphin Stadium in South Florida, also the site of Super Bowl XLIV a week later on Sunday, February 7.
A Volunteer has appeared in every Pro Bowl since 1987, a span of 24 years. This marks the eighth consecutive year in which at least two Vols have made the team. An all-time high of five made it in 1996 when defensive back Dale Carter (Kansas City), defensive back Terry McDaniel (Oakland), wide receiver Anthony Miller (Denver), wide receiver Carl Pickens (Cincinnati) and defensive lineman Reggie White (Green Bay) were named Pro Bowlers.
Four former Vols earned MVP honors including Bert Rechichar in 1957, Doug Atkins in 1959, Reggie White in 1987 and Manning in 2005.
Manning, the starter for the AFC at quarterback, is making his ninth consecutive appearance and 10th overall as a member of the Indianapolis Colts (14-1). He ranks second to Reggie White's 13 appearances in Tennessee history. The MVP of the 2005 Pro Bowl is the second leading passer in the NFL with 4405 yards through 15 games with 33 touchdowns and 15 interceptions. The 12-year veteran has thrown for 50,033 yards and 366 touchdown passes in his career, which rank fourth and third, respectively, in the NFL annals.
Witten, a reserve for the NFC at tight end, is making his sixth consecutive appearance. The leading receiver for the Dallas Cowboys (10-5) has 88 catches for 954 yards and one touchdown. He ranks second in the NFL in receptions and third in receiving yards among tight ends. He is in his seventh season with the Cowboys and has career totals of 5889 yards on 517 receptions with 26 touchdowns.


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text: I have been able to play fading glory about five times now. Only the waterloo game and without any optional rules. Fading glory is a GMT collaboration with Victory point games. It is basically a collection of four games from VP's Napolionic 20 series. The 20 means that each game will never have more than 20 counters on the board. It also uses a basic rule set across each title, and adds five or so specific rules for each game. It has a very short sequence of play were each player on there turn draws a random event then conducts movement and then combat follows. It uses what is referred to as sticky ZOC's so once you get next to an enemy you can't leave unless forced to retreat. All enemies that become engaged must also be attacked. This can make for some interesting situations were one of your units must attack twice, this usually isn't good. I feel I have a pretty good handle on the system but haven't played the same person more than twice so they get a good handle on the it. The combat chart is kinda harsh, it its really hard to get attack bonuses if your opponent knows how to keep a line and use terrain. The random events aren't always good and have a way of foiling your best laid plans. This can be difficult for people especially new players trying to figure it all out. However I think if you use good Napolionic tactics, maintain a line and don't get out maneuvered you can negate the bad events and survive bad roles. Overall I think it is a great way to start out in wargames or even a good "next step" game.


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Is something in your life not working?
Maybe it's a diet thing, there is something that your eating that isn't settling with you. Maybe it's a lifestyle thing where something you think or have been doing, doesn't fit with who you are anymore. Maybe it's your surroundings. Maybe you literally are surrounded by disorganization or things that are literally broken and not working.
So many times in life we put up with behaviors, habits and a life in general that itsn't working. Who knows why--there are a ton of reasons. Battling emotions, lack of time, money, motivation or means can keep us stuck in a rut or stuck where we can't be used for our purpose in life.
If something in your life isn't working--fix it!
(or take steps to start fixing it)
You can tell if something isn't working, but it may take a little sleuthing. In all honesty, everyone gets used to things the way they are sometimes. We can get used to the impatient way we speak to our family, the way we maneuver around clutter in our home and the way we turn to emotional fills or bad habits when under stress.
If you think that there is something in your life that isn't working, don't just pass over it thinking that you will get to it later. Put it on the table, put it up for discussion and see where the issue really is.
Maybe every time you go to get that hand bag from the closet, three more things fall. How many times do you just shove them back up before you stop, think and say "this isn't working." The solution may be to give some hand bags away or to find a better way to store them so it is convenient to reach them. Maybe your closet is big enough, but they need a bin or to be hung. This idea can be applied to everything in your house, garage or office. Can I access it, is it convenient, or do I have too much or things I don't need? Put it one the table and take a look.
For me, every time ice cream ends up in my freezer, it's gone in a week or a day or a sitting. Habits and emotions surrounding food are often times dysfunctional, not working or are being used improperly, such as for escape or stress relief. If you are facing an issue with a certain food, try changing your habits. For me the key is to not buy any and to just go out for a cone when I choose. It may be more pricey, but it happens less often. If it is emotional, pinpoint the issue that is at the core of the behavior and work on remedying that so your habits can get back to normal. Regardless, when we take issue with food, it can take over our lives! Put it on the table and see if you can find a solution to making it work.
In life, we get very swept up in the day to day. Hour by hour we are very busy and with what? Sometimes we are so busy doing things that don't really matter or just take up our time, not really advance our dreams or bring us closer to our purpose in life. Whether it's a habit you have, a relationship, job or even the tasks that take up your day to day. Ask yourself--is this working? Does this BLANK that I am doing, still fit with who I am and my purpose I am striving for? Or are we still doing and following behavior that no longer makes sense, but merely because we have been at it for so long. Maybe list your goals and purpose and then look at what takes up your time everyday and see if they jive or if you need to lay your life on the table and work it out.
What ever you do, DO something! Don't simply exist...we aren't made to be static beings. We are energy and light, we have life breathed into us--so breathe it out!! Do something to make a change in your life so you can make a change in others too!
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The Great Ocean Race
Just came across this article regarding Chesapeake Bay sailors.
Man those guys had some brass ones eh? Things were different then I guess. $15 registration fee? 38 boats for race that would be nearly 4 days long in the best case? Wow!
You'd think with the advent of GPS these types of races would seem less daunting but participation seems to be dwindling for long distance races on the bay that are no where near as daunting as a non-stop DelMarVa circumnavigation.
Thanks for posting this.
It is interesting to read accounts about people not knowing their position before the advent of GPS, almost like reading logs where a ship waits for the wind to begin moving again.
I remembering reading someone say that the GPS system frees sailors to do pure sailing, in other words, not spend time messing around with plotting their position, so indeed it is strange that with all the labor and time-saving devices now available, more people don't take part in adventures like the Great Ocean Race. That said, I find that the more instruments you have on a boat, the more time you spend watching the instruments, not the water or sky. I took a friend sailing once and he spent the ENTIRE time staring at our course on his GPS.
I'm a bit surprised that with 144 views there's only been one comment on the article.
There have a been quite a few threads on this site about attempting or successfully doing a DelMarVa circumnavigation as something of an adventure, so I would have thought there would be some level of interest in guys doing it 30 years ago non-stop in a race.
I'd love to see a lot more cruising type boats doing races like Down the Bay and the Gov. Cup.
Maybe this article is more fodder for SA that Sailnet?
Reading it now...
Fantastic, and yes, personally I'd much rather do the race than the cruise. Would be a pretty big undertaking and require a governing body, more than likely one of which will require certain offshore gear which would probably make it unattainable for a small boat's budget. But I'm listening...
I don't see this taking off though unfortunately. Too much time off from work. People don't enjoy pushing themselves on a boat anymore. They'd rather sit on the beach getting fat.
If you noticed this race took place the same weekend as Down the Bay which to my knowledge is currently the longest distance Race on the Chesapeake currently being held. As you know, that race was only recently resurrected and is today seen as a challenge. Also I've heard rumors that its future is uncertain. I've crewed DTB on a boat that I know is hella' faster than mine, but its wasn't a lot faster than some of the 42+ foot roller furling main equipped behemoths that are prevalent on the bay today. Those boats even with their cruising amenities could do DTB in fine style in reasonable times yet participation is down. Why do sailors today seem to lack the mettle of sailors from decades past?
Reading this article has me really motivated to attempt both DTB and the Gov Cup this year on my 4ksb. Though as I sit here I can think of a 1/2 dozen reason why I probably won't be able to including lack of crew, expense and logistics of getting the boat to the start and back from the finish etc.
Mid, keep in touch, I was able to find a kind person in Annap who let me tie up to their dock last year a week before the start. Really made it posible for me to do the race. Need to look him up again in March or April. What do you draw?
Coastgaurd foundation is putting together an 80 miler that starts and stops in annapolis b/c people are tired of delivering the boats. To me, it seems great if you're from annapolis. Sucks for everybody else. It'll also be a chance for Jim Muldoon to strut up and down the bay and show off.
DTB is a great time, last boat in our fleet finished on SUNDAY around 0700. Get this, they were still in great spirits. If I wasn't sleeping like a baby in a coma, I would've welcomed them on the dock. They were in cruising trim and loved the trip down the bay. Hampton YC is a nice place. Your boat would do just fine, and if I can find 3 guys to crew for me on a 3000 lbs boat that's 24.5' long, than finding 6 to crew a 36' boat should be a cakewalk (bribe them). I can ask around if you decide to do it. SA is a great resource as well. Logistics for a distance race suck. Plain and simple. But ask around, shop for cheap transient slips, you don't need electric, or water, etc. You'd be amazed at what some people pay for a regatta. ARW cost one skipper $2,000 for 32' boat not including entry fees.
[rant]Only thing I didn't like about DTB was that the committee didn't wait around for the race to end for all classes. Like not even the first place boats from each class. I guess after sitting on a boat drinking beer, you really should rush back to the party to...... drink more beer. Instead of giving a horn to those who bashed through bay chop for the past 34 hours [/rant]
Agreed on the reason distance races are dieing. People don't want to put in the time, effort and money into a race and then come in the bottom 1/3 of the fleet. Somewhere a long the lines people stopped competing, and started either winning or losing. I race sailboats b/c its fun. I have more fun when I win, less when I lose, but I always have fun.
Yeah, bribes definitley help but the issue as you touched on is people don't want to burn vacation for a sailboat race much less the delivery legs. I have one friend that's a near Olympic level sailor, but she's a recent mother and working on a doctorate so her availability is nil. I might be able to recruit her husband who has some experience but isn't in her league.
I totally agree about planning events too much around the early finishers. If it takes a lot of boats to pay the freight on your long distance race, you need to arrange the event so the slow guys get to enjoy the event and the party. If there was an earlier start for the C and non-spin fleets so they could finish around the same time as the guys in the faster fleets on these distance races and everyone could enjoy a big party and celebrate their accomplishment I think you'd see a lot more guys like me getting involved.
I get that it's racing so it's about getting there first, but you'd think some changes to keep the event healthy might be in order.
The first time I sailed around the Delmarva I had a 10-year old for crew and my GPS died about 60 miles into it while still on the Bay. It didn't make a difference; that what ATNs, binoculars and charts are for.
Good story. I understand that one complaint among the racers is difficulty in managing the C&D time allowance. I'm not a racer, but it does seem to be a classic, glaring in its absence. Sailing to Bermuda isn't practical for most, so this should be a very practical ocean racing opportunity.
Re: The Great Ocean Race
Maybe - but back then that was ALL sailing - no GPS and LORAN was fairly new for sailboats too. We found Bermuda using DR, sun sites, and an RDF the next year!
(weird sailnet rule made me take the link out of the quote :confused:)
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My husband cheated on me while on a trip overseas two years ago. I believe affair lasted for around 5 6 months. He confessed to what happened and she texted and called for months. Last year I had a miscarriage in Apr and found out they talked for 60 minutes after that. I am still very hurt. He tells me that was nothing he loves me, I went for counseling he didnt. I cant seem to get over this.
I feel betrayed and meaningless and I dont think that he is for real. He says that he regrets this that he is sorry. I accuse him and throw this back at him every time I am angry. I feel terrible
Hello, I am Rafael. Thanks for asking your question - I'm here to support you. (Information posted here is not private or confidential but public).
I am very sorry to know about these devastating situations you have been experiencing.
What you describe is very serious, since what you found out, as limited as it could be, clearly shows they have been sharing at least from the time you traveled overseas to the time you had your miscarriage. To find out a spouse is betraying you uses to be an overwhelming experience for most people, and to know it has continued just after you had a miscarriage could be traumatizing and push most people to depression, anxiety disorders and many other serious mental health problems, specially because of how vulnerable the person feels physically and psychoemotionally after such painful experience.
When words do not consistently match reality, they become manipulative and sued to neglect and abuse people, specially those one trust. You looked for counseling and he did not, and the affair has been there. Obviously he denies it, but he is not trustworthy at all, since if he was able to keep this communication - affair even when you had the miscarriage, then you could expect anything from him, and this is not pessimism but reality.
It would be unrealistic, naive and self-sabotaging to trust a spouse presenting such abusive, neglectful and manipulative behaviors. You have the right and need to feel hurt, because he hurt you so much, and it was not an isolated episode, they keep it for long and it'd be reasonably to believe they are still together.
When a person makes a mistake and is truly honest and remorseful about it, he fully acknowledges it, ends every unacceptable behavior and commits to work on healing marriage, deserving spouse's trust and affection back , and gets professional psychological support to work on his personal issues and to marriage counseling to work on trying to heal what was damaged. He has not done any of these things, then there is nothing concrete and valid for you to trust and feel hopeful about him; and coming to terms with that reality is overwhelmingly painful for sure.
Does it make sense?
My husband does not believe in counseling. He denies affair as serious and labels it as flirting. He apologizes and says he would never do something like that again. I have access to his accounts and emails texts and there is nothing there. He says I should try to give him a change to redeem himself. I am trying. I have become very anxcious and nervous. How do I come to a closure? I am 41 and we have been together for 23 years. This is very hard.
I am sorry, but the fact your husband does not believe in counseling only shows his unwillingness to truly take full responsibility for his actions and do necessary work to gain back your trust and love. It's very easy to say ask you to work on yourself and trust him back without him doing anything at all , when it's him who led your marriage to current crisis. If a person has cancer and states that he does not believe in medicine and refuses treatment, it does not help him nor those around him affected by his decision. Ultimately he is the one who needs to take full responsibility for his actions and the consequences from them.
Let's say that he wants the marriage to heal, that he really wants that, but remains passive not doing what he can and should do to make this happen, what includes getting individual and marriage counseling, then I confirm that his words and good wishes would remain only as such and would not help this situation to improve at all, since he would continue to totally disregard reality and remain in passive and neglectful position, expecting you to forget and move on.
Reality shows us that without real effort, work and responsible commitment from spouses who were not loyal, it'd be unrealistic to expect significant improvement in a damaged marriage. It is also true that many times women in your shoes, who commit to therapy, working on themselves to heal and move on, to trust back and love their spouses who betrayed them, many do not happen to be able to heal and feel able to trust and continue married, or if they stay married to rebuild the relationship, keeping it at a very poor and dysfunctional level, due t the impossibility to heal from the past wounding, and this happens even in cases where spouses who were not loyal, do everything in their hand to gain back their trust and affection. This shows that even in those cases, what the person betrayed experiences could never lead to heal the marriage. Thus if the dishonest spouse chooses no to work with real responsibility, caring and sensitivity on making the relationship heal and growth, the chances for real reconciliation are much lower.
OK then. If I set up counseling session and he agrees to come do you think he will be able to cooperate if truly not believing in counseling service.
He says he is willing to go.
Only you know how tough and painful it feels to be in your shoes, and this is why you need to get all the help you can from your support system and professionals. You are wise committing to psychotherapeutic work. This way time would allow you to gradually heal and feel stronger to cope and know what you truly want and are willing to afford or not. Unhappily there is nothing anybody could do to make the other person understand, change or do the right thing, thus you need to focus on taking good care of yourself, being unconditionally patient, gentle, compassionate, understanding and supportive with yourself, getting all the support you can, and that would ensure the best possible outcomes and progress.
That's a good first step for sure, but he would need not only to be willing to physically attend a session, but to be truly honest, open, accountable, empathetic and proactive, willing to work on making concrete changes to help you and the relationship to heal. Counseling and psychotherapy by themselves are only tools, without the clients' conscious and willing active participation and work right there during sessions, and specially between them, there is no chance for nay significant change and improvement.
Thus he would need not only to attend a session, but to commit to work on himself as an individual and as a spouse, to make changes, to support you and to do everything necessary to make your marriage heal, being truly honest and open, otherwise no therapy would be helpful.
Please look for a very competent, ethical and experience marriage and family therapist to support you, hoping he would be willing to listen, reflect and take consistent action benefiting from professional support and the chance you are giving to him.
I will try. I don't know what else I could do. Thank you for assisting me.
You're very welcome. There is nothing else you could do about it. Please do not push yourself, since this time in your life is for healing and growing and not to add further stress in your life.
Thank you for your trust.
I understand. I am trying to do the right thing.
Right, and the right thing is what you feel and truly believe is fair, healthy and consistent with what you really need and wish inside yourself, while fully acknowledging reality and that for a marriage to heal and grow as a heal;thy and fulfilling experience, both spouses need to feel truly comfortable, respected, understood. loved and supported. You have been grieving the loss of all these core ingredients in your marriage, and that's why you feel the way you do. Now only time would show you how your situation evolves and depending on how you feel and what your husband doe about it, you would know what's the best for you to continue taking good care of yourself and life.
Please feel free to contact me back for any further assistance, since I'll be ere willing to support you.


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Losing weight may be the new fountain of youth: It makes you look and feel younger.
Losing weight may be the new fountain of youth: It makes you look and feel younger.
So say several dieters who have been featured in the USA TODAY Weight-Loss Challenge and obesity experts who study weight loss.
Tom Slater, 42, of Olmsted Falls, Ohio, who now weighs 162 pounds, down from a high of 288, says his face looked "swollen" when he was heavier, "almost like I had been stung by 1,000 bees."
"When you have so much excess weight, your face shows it most," Slater says.
He started to look younger and healthier as the weight melted off and he developed better eating and exercise habits, he says.
Sue Hentschel, 54, a dog groomer in Harrison Township, Mich., says she has been told she looks 20 years younger since she lost 146 pounds. She now weighs 173, down from a high of 319 in August 2009.
"Clients come into the salon and think I am my younger sister, which is delightful to me and helps keep me on track," she says.
At 6-foot-1, Jim Stone, 53, of Madison, Ala., weighs 207 pounds, down from 282. "Since the weight loss, lots of people often assume my wife and I are the same age, even though I am almost nine years older. The weight loss has really taken years off my appearance."
Experts agree that losing weight can make a big difference in how people look and feel. Donna Ryan, an obesity researcher at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, says she recently remarked to her husband that the single best thing she could do to make herself look younger is lose 10 pounds.
One reason for this phenomenon may be that excess weight is associated with aging, she says. Heavy older women often look matronly, and older men often gain in their mid-section, she says, so "losing weight would give you a more youthful body."
Jennifer Lovejoy, president of the Obesity Society, a group that includes weight-loss researchers, says that a lot of the change in how people look may be that they feel better after they lose weight. Feeling less fatigued and more energetic could certainly make someone look younger, she says.
Also, data suggest people age physiologically because of obesity, mainly because of the inflammatory effects of excess fat tissue, she says. Fat is not an inert blob but metabolically active tissue that produces hormones and chemicals that can wreak havoc: They can damage blood vessels, increase the risk of blood clots and cause insulin resistance that makes people prone to diabetes, she says. "While some of these effects definitely reverse with weight loss, it's not clear whether that would cause people to look younger or not."
But Hentschel, for one, says she now has more energy than she ever had. "I feel like nothing is impossible anymore. Friends old and new tell me all the time, 'You look so happy these days.' "
Stone says he is now better able to participate in activities such as hiking in the mountains and water-skiing.
And Slater says his face reflects his new energy level. "Looking in the mirror is like rewinding to my high school days sans the head of hair I used to have."


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This programme is designed for any young person who wishes to train for a career as an electrician within the electrotechnical industry and who is currently employed as an electrical apprentice.
A Level 3 course, it is a stepping stone towards obtaining the full and latest qualification for JIB registered electricians. The programme could take up to four years to achieve.
All candidates should have GCSE English and Maths at grade C/4 or above. You should also preferably have a GCSE grade C/4 or above in Science.
You will be required to undertake a literacy and numeracy screening test at your interview.
This Level 3 qualification covers various areas within electrotechnical technology. Units include:
Candidates will be assessed throughout the academic year via multiple choice tests, written assignments and practical assessments set by the awarding body.
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There is more to France than just Paris and the Opale Coast region is dedicated to proving it. Here you will find an abundance of diverse landscapes from the seashore to gentle hills and plains. Whether you are staying for a while or just the weekend Opale Coast has plenty to offer in natural beauty and resorts. The hotels in Opale Coast are more than adequate for a pleasant stay. Many visitors choose to stay in one of the discount hotels Opale Coast has to offer. The Opale Coast cheap hotels are never a disappointment.With the huge emphasis on the fishing industry, you can take advantage of the ocean yourself and catch some big ones. Other outdoor activities include horseback riding, hiking, and biking. The Opale Coast hotels often serve wonderful food in addition to being great resources about the area's attractions. Who needs the City of Lights when you have the Opale Coast?


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Students have the option to pursue research under the direction of a GWSB faculty member and earn from 1-3 credits. Consent to supervise BADM 4995: Independent Study is at the discretion of the faculty member and is not guaranteed. Students are strongly encouraged to talk with their GWSB advisor before pursuing this option in order to see if BADM 4995 can be used to fulfill a degree requirement.
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The Akismet team would like to send a hearty congratulations to the Germany national football team for their victory over Argentina yesterday in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Our own Akisbot was busy celebrating and showing his support last night.
The Akismet team would like to send a hearty congratulations to the Germany national football team for their victory over Argentina yesterday in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Our own Akisbot was busy celebrating and showing his support last night.
Extry, extry, read all about it! Version 3.0.1 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available!
Even though it's not a big round number like our 3.0 release, we've worked hard to make Akismet even better in 3.0.1:
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To upgrade, visit the Plugins or Updates page of your WordPress dashboard and follow the instructions. If you need to download the zip file directly, links to all versions are available in the WordPress plugins directory.
This post is part of a monthly series summarizing some stats and figures from the Akismet universe. Feel free to browse all of the posts in the series.
In June, Akismet caught 5,349,305,000 pieces of spam – that includes spam comments, forum posts, contact form submissions, etc. If each piece of spam were one meter (that's about three feet), that would be enough spam to tour around the Earth 130 times!
Even so, the number of spam pieces caught this month is 18% less than the number caught last month. But, we caught 69% more spam pieces this month than last year in June. Here's a breakdown of the amount of spam and ham (that is, real) messages detected by Akismet this month:
As usual, there is much more spam going around than ham – there were only 2,847,015,00 non-spam messages detected by Akismet in June, which makes up just 5% of all the messages reviewed by Akismet. If each real messages were one meter, they would only be enough for 7 tours around the Earth.
This month, same as last month, there weren't any big dips or spikes in spam numbers. The busiest day of the month was June 11th with about 201 million spam messages caught, the slowest day was June 22nd with about 144 million spam caught. In June we missed only 1 in about 2,956 spam comments.
There were no service interruptions this month, so the fluctuations of in the numbers of spam comments detected are part of spam's natural ebb and flow. For service interruption announcements you can visit our Akismet API status page or follow us on Twitter.
The spam statistics you see on your own site may resemble those we see in aggregate, or they may have larger spikes or troughs. If you're seeing much more spam than usual, please contact us so we can help you sort things out :).
Spam Reading We Enjoyed
Akismet is a distributed team with members from all over the world (from Australia to Ireland to South Dakota). So, a couple of times each year, the team gets together to hang out and work on some fun projects. This past week, we all got together in Kansas City, Missouri (mainly for access to Google Fiber!). We were pleasantly surprised by how much there was to do around the city and found its midwestern charm quite lovely. The area of town we stayed in, known as 'The Crossroads', was full of great food and interesting sights to take in.
Once we were finished with our projects and made sure that the world was safe from spam, we went searching for fun. We discovered that Kansas City is home to the world's only subterranean paintball course, where an old limestone mine was converted into a colorful battleground. It was a really unique and fantastic experience – minus the bruises! Highly recommended if you ever visit.
The most visible change around here as a result of the meetup is our new and improved home page. The old version had been around for quite some time, and our designer, Dan, had a really great vision for moving it forward. Super clean, a great flow, and with some awesome custom illustrations. There is even a little easter egg for you to discover (hint: contra)!
Welcome to the second post in a series of monthly articles summarizing some stats and figures from the Akismet universe. You can find April's post here.
In May, Akismet caught a total of 6,562,229,410 pieces of spam – including comments, forum posts, contact form submissions, etc. To visualize this number, picture each piece of spam as a sugar cube – that'd be enough sugar cubes to fill about 6 and a fifth Olympic swimming pools.
The amount of spam we caught in May is up 4% from last month, and up 269% from May 2012. Here's a breakdown of the spam and ham we detected each day:
There weren't any big dips or highs during the month of May. The busiest day of the month was May 8, with just over 230 million spam messages detected. The slowest day was May 25, with 'only' about 178 million pieces of spam caught. You may have seen similar ups and downs in the spam activity on your own site.
We had no service interruptions this month, so any fluctuations in spam numbers we attribute to the natural way spam is posted. If you want to hear about any service interruptions you can subscribe to this blog, or follow us on Twitter.
As usual, there's much more spam going around than real comments (which we call ham). You can see this by looking at the purple bars in the graph.
Akismet detected a total of 294,312,590 real messages in May. If each real comment were a sugar cube, they'd only enough be enough to fill about 10% of one Olympic swimming pool.
In May, we missed only about 1 in every 7,404 spam messages. If you've seeing lots of missed spam comments on your own site, we are happy to help with that, so feel free to contact us about it, and please include your website & your API key in your message.
Some reads from the month that we recommend:
This month, we rather enjoyed reading this piece by Adrienne LaFrance about the history of spam (going back to snail mail!), and how it affects us nowadays. We also liked Seth Godin's sage advice (as always) on how not to spam people as a business, but still get business. In fact, in July Canada's Anti-Spam legislation will come into effect (similar to CAN-SPAM), making the suggestions Seth Godin recommends, and even stricter rules around emailing, into law, which should make Canadians much happier with their inboxes :). We like where this is going!
Just a little something for the weekend.
Chris Hemedinger, a technical architect at SAS, recently published a great post on his personal analysis of Akismet's effectiveness across an entire network of company blogs.
He uses his own company's software to connect to his WordPress database and aggregate data from all Akismet-protected sites on the network. He then produces some really interesting charts and graphs for the purpose of analyzing spam activity and Akismet's performance. Chris also makes it clear that having to manually deal with all that spam can be quite time-consuming.
And we tend to agree. 🙂
This is the first in a series of monthly posts rounding up some basic stats and figures from the prior month. Because we thought that you may like to know how we've been doing and also get a better perspective of spam activity across the web.
This was a special month, as April 12 marked the 20-year anniversary of commercialized spam, which is attributed to two US immigration lawyers. Happy Birthday, I guess?
Akismet caught 6,284,116,547 pieces of spam content (comments, forum posts, contact form submissions, etc.). That's down around 6% since last month and up around 103% over April 2013. The peak of spam activity was Tuesday April 15 (the same day that Akismet 3.0 was released, coincidentally), when our service blocked over 252 million pieces of spam content. The daily breakdown goes a little something like this:
There was a bit of an interesting lull at the end of the first week, though nothing much of note to discuss. You may have certainly noticed some corresponding trends on your own site. We experienced no downtime or service interruptions throughout the month, so any dips in the chart simply manifest lower periods of general spam activity.
We missed only about 1 in every 6,904 pieces of spam content (0.0145%).
So, what does over 6 billion pieces of spam content really look like? If you assigned each piece of spam content its own seat, you could fill nearly 125,000 Yankee Stadiums.
Some reads from the month that we recommend:
+ A reluctant 'happy birthday' to spam
+ The rise of bad bots
+ Zombie spam!
+ Is spam the latest weapon of the US government?
+ Spam sushi is real
One of our favorite additions to Akismet 3.0 is the new discard setting. Previously, our plugin featured an option that allowed site owners the ability to automatically discard spam on older posts. But, as some may certainly agree, it was rather confusing and had little effect on the world's smarter spammers.
After giving thought to how we could improve that particular setting and the overall user experience, we found that approximately 80% of spam could be flagged as "pervasive", meaning that it is the absolute worst of the worst (of the worst!). In fact, that 80% is so bad that there is simply no benefit in paying any attention to it at all. Not even for kicks and giggles. Trust us.
We came up with something that would allow you to automatically and silently discard all of that pervasive spam attacking your site so that it never even appears in your "Spam" folder. The new setting identifies the worst and most pervasive spam (which can certainly change over time) on our side during the comment check and will immediately discard it if you've configured the plugin to do so.
If you're new to Akismet, these spam comments will be stored by default; you must activate the new feature from the plugin's configuration page (if you upgraded to 3.0, Akismet will use the previous value of your 30-day discard setting) :
It's all very ninja-esque, we think. What's more, enabling the feature can result in significant reductions in your storage and resource usage requirements.
This is a great step forward in our mission to make the web a cleaner place. We tested the feature on WordPress.com and received excellent results and feedback prior to rolling it into the plugin. So, we think (and hope) you'll enjoy it. We are also working on an enhancement to the feature, which will highlight the pervasive spam comments in the "Spam" folder for users who choose to store them.
If you have any feedback on the new feature, we would love to hear from you.


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We're over halfway through 2014, so I wanted to give our users a quick update on the progress of the iOS version of Scrivener. We receive emails and forum posts daily asking how it is coming along, and because of how long it seems to have been in development, we've even had users assume that it has been abandoned (we've even been accused of lying about it being developed at all, but I promise that's not the case, even if we have continually underestimated the time involved).
The short version – the "tl;dr" version as the cool kids say – is that we still expect it to be finished this year, but now very much doubt it will be released until next year (2015) because of the amount of testing we need to put it through before letting it loose on the world. Don't misunderstand – we are closing in on the final stages of development right now. But these final stages can still take a while, and I'd rather tell users now, in the middle of August, that we might be pushing into 2015, rather than keep my fingers crossed that we can squeeze it into 2014 and then only announce a delay at the last minute when we realise we aren't going to make our target. Thorough testing of the iOS version is crucial, because it is designed to sync with desktop projects, and syncing can be a dangerous process – we want to ensure that any bugs that could cause data loss or corruption are truly ironed out before putting it into users' hands.
I'm aware – if only because we've had it pointed out a lot! – that we have been saying "later this year", then "next year" for two years now. Naturally, users wonder how so many delays can be possible. For a start, there's a fairly obvious rule of software development: software development takes time (and developing good software takes a good amount of time). And then there's the corollary to this rule: software programmers always underestimate how much time it will take (myself included).
Take the sync code, for example. Most iOS apps can take quite a simple approach to sync, using the built-in features that Apple provides for iCloud. Or they can use the Dropbox API to manage uploads and downloads. Nothing is so simple for Scrivener. One of Scrivener's main features is that it allows you to bring in research files – photos, PDF files and so on – so that you can view them next to your text and keep everything together in a single project. In order to achieve this, Scrivener requires a file format quite different from most writing software. Scrivener, in fact, is something of a hybrid between a document-based program and a shoebox app.
Most writing software packages are document-based programs. A document-based program allows you to create, open and save documents, showing different documents in different windows. They use single, flat files that contain all the text and any graphical data for each document. These files are loaded entirely into memory when opened, and written out in their entirety as completely new files when saved.
A "shoebox app", in contrast, usually has a single window that allows you to interact with many different files, opening them inside the one window. There will be a single folder on disk storing all of these files, but you usually won't touch that folder at all. iTunes and iPhoto are examples of shoebox apps.
Scrivener is a bit of both. As a user, you interact with your Scrivener projects as though they were documents – each project is opened in a different window, and you have a .scriv file on disk for each project. But those .scriv files are really folders containing many different files – they are not flat files at all – and you navigate between them in the project window via the binder. This means that Scrivener doesn't have to read these files entirely into memory on opening them, or save the whole file when saving. This is very important for projects that have a lot of research in them – you don't want Scrivener storing a gigabyte of PDF files in memory while you are typing, or having to write all of this data to disk every time auto-save kicks in. This file format allows Scrivener to load into memory only the data that the user needs for a particular session, and it only ever needs to save what has changed (which also reduces the chances of catastrophic data loss caused by file system save errors).
The only downside to this file format is that whenever Apple introduces new technologies – Versions, iCloud, Handoff – it only provides out-of-the-box support for simple document-based apps. All of which to say: we have had to put together, from scratch, our own syncing solution so that our iOS version syncs with our desktop version. (We will use the Dropbox API, and hopefully other syncing APIs as time goes on, but all the conflict resolution handling has to be done by us.) Over the past couple of years, we've spent a great deal of time discussing how this could work, hashing out various ideas and solutions that could deal with the conflicts that will inevitably arise if someone works on both the iOS and desktop versions while offline so that the changes become out-of-sync. (Everything has to be considered: what happens if the user edits scene A on the mobile version but then also edits it on the desktop before there has been a chance for them to sync? What if the user's kid opens up the app on the iPad and hammers away at their precious novel? How can we tell the difference between a scene that's been deleted from one device and one that's been added on another? And so on.)
Once most of this had finally been hashed out, it then took me a month to write out the design document that covers how the code will work (a design document is necessary for our Windows team to follow as well as for me and our iOS developer). And then yet another month to write the code itself, cross-platform for Mac and iOS (our Windows team will need to write this code separately). This has been what I've been doing for the past couple of months, and there is still work to do on getting all the sync components that have been written into place on the Mac and on iOS and then thoroughly tested (then testing on Windows).
So, that's between three and four months on a single (but integral) feature. (And while I've been doing this, Tammy, our iOS developer, has been adding various "smaller" features that had to wait until late in development – printing, basic compiling, import and export, statistics, split and merge, find and replace… The sort of features that it's easy for users to forget when suggesting that Scrivener for iOS should just be simple and only have the basics, but without which, Scrivener for iOS would feel crippled. And even some of these smaller features can take a couple of weeks each to implement, of course.)
The trouble is that it's not only non-programmers who (understandably) don't appreciate how long seemingly simple things can take to code – we do it ourselves. We'll often think that a feature will only take us a day or two to complete, then find ourselves growling at the screen, desperate to have done with it, two weeks later. (This is no doubt why software and games are so notorious for being delayed throughout the industry.)
In a program as complex as Scrivener (even on iOS it requires a degree of internal complexity if it is to work with the desktop version), where various features can take a month or more to implement, the time creeps up on you and suddenly two years have passed… There are certainly programs out there that can be written in three or four months, but sadly, Scrivener isn't one of them.
Not that "development takes time" is the whole picture. Something like Scrivener can easily take a couple of years to develop properly, but it has now been two and a half years since we started work on it; we had hoped it would be finished by now as much as anyone else – we don't enjoy frustrating those of our users who write on mobile devices. The other big factor for us has been scaling up. Scrivener started out as a hobby – the software I wanted for my own writing. I wanted it so much that I taught myself how to code in order to create it. For the first couple of years, L&L was a one-man operation, and we are still a very small team. I work alone on the Mac version, two programmers work as a discrete unit on the Windows version, we have a couple of other full-time team members who write and maintain the manual and tutorials and handle all QC testing and some support, and we have a couple of part-time support staff. We have no central offices but are scattered across the world (the UK, US, Australia and Bulgaria). None of which is unusual for shareware, "artisan" software such as Scrivener.
The wonders of the information age make it easy for geographically-scattered teams to stay in constant touch and work together, but as a small company with such a setup, it meant that it was not possible for us just to hire some programmers and stand over them until the iOS version was finished. I was always adamant that I would not write the iOS version myself, because I've seen too much Mac software suffer as its developer has spent all his or her time working on iOS, and that would have been unfair to our existing user base. (Moreover, the Mac version is where I live for my own writing, and Scrivener is always going to be predominantly a desktop program.) So it was key to find someone self-motivated, with a good understanding of Scrivener, who could develop Scrivener for iOS and keep on developing it into the future, beyond version 1.0.
As I announced last year, unfortunately our first developer had to step away from the project because of family health issues, which had also stalled development progress throughout the eighteen months she had been working on it. We were very fortunate to find Tammy Coron, an experienced iOS developer and Scrivener user, to take over development. When she took over, she made the painful decision to rewrite much of the existing code, in part because of new technologies that had been introduced with iOS 7.0 (a rich text system at last!). Which means that while our iOS version has been in various stages of development since the end of 2011, the form it is in now has only been in development for just over a year.
We are really looking forward to releasing the iOS version – in many ways it's become the proverbial albatross around our necks.* But it is getting there, and we hope the subsection of Scrivener users who are eager for an iOS version will be patient for a little while longer. We are genuinely grateful for your enthusiasm. I'm not known for great reserves of patience myself, so I do understand the frustration of some users who are more vocal in their eagerness, but to those I would say, please do try to remember that we want to get our iOS version into your hands as much as you want it. We're a tiny company but we have put a lot of energy and resources into the iOS version (and for all we know it could be a loss-making venture), and we think Scrivener users will be happy with the final product.
I'll post later in the year more on what sort of features to expect, but suffice to say that it has full rich text editing, a corkboard, an outliner, an inspector and, on the iPad version, the ability to view research alongside your text as you type. It is, essentially, Scrivener on iOS.
P.S. For anyone interested, I've uploaded a sort of developer diary for the iOS version here:
A Scrivener for iOS Developer Diary
If nothing else, it should show at least that the iOS version has been in continual development, hitting snags along the way, even if progress has seemed glacial to the outside world.
[*] "Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint."


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This is a discussion on VCDL meeting in Annandale January 10th within the Member Meeting Place forums, part of the The Back Porch category; From a VA-ALERT. [Re-posted with prior approval of VCDL] ***** The monthly membership meeting in Annandale will be held on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at ...
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[Re-posted with prior approval of VCDL]
The monthly membership meeting in Annandale will be held on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at the Mason Government Center.
The meeting will be called to order at 8 PM and run until 9:30 PM. Fellowship starts at 7:30 PM.
We will be discussing the January 16 Lobby Day agenda, and the bills VCDL is working on for the upcoming legislative session.
The meeting is open to the public, so bring friends, family, and co-workers.
Afterward we will adjourn to a local restaurant for continued fellowship.
Directions to the meeting can be found at:
Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL)
Anyone who supports the RKBAs is a welcome guest.
VA-ALERT is a project of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL).
VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right.
VCDL web page: http://www.vcdl.org [http://www.vcdl.org/]
FYI -- It is legal to carry at a local park in Virginia -- Open or (with a recognized permit) Concealed.
VCDL does not take a position on Open vs. Concealed carry -- or even care if you attend our events w/o carrying. Your call.
However, safety mishaps, particularly with firearms, expose the organization to liability issues and could significantly damage VCDL.s credibility as a gun rights organization. At all events, the rules and requirements of the sponsor/promoter shall be strictly observed.
Therefore, whenever the sponsor/promoter permits loaded firearms, and at all VCDL-sponsored meetings, events, or gatherings, at non-range sites, loaded firearms shall NOT be handled; they will remain holstered or otherwise secured at all times.
Re-posted with permission of VCDL
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I am neither an attorney-at-law nor I do play one on television or on the internet. No one should assumes my opinion is legal advice.
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Celebrating the Sheep
While most pagans were celebrating Imbolc this past weekend, in my household we were doing something a little different. Neither my partner nor I has any connection with Brigid, and while we might be okay honoring a less-than-familiar goddess as guests in a larger group setting, as hard polytheists in our own small rituals at home we tend to stick with deities we have a personal history and relationship with. Since we are also (more or less) Heathen, in our own two-person tradition the beginning of February is time for Ewemeolc. This is an Anglo-Saxon holiday whose name means exactly what it sounds like. That's right: it celebrates the annual lactation of the ewes.
In Anglo-Saxon England, the agricultural year began on or around the beginning of February (a tradition that lingered into medieval times and became Plough Monday, the official resumption of farming work after Christmas). The 7th century English scholar Bede referred to February as "Solmonath," or "the month of cakes, which in that month the English offered to their gods." This most likely referred to the AEcerbot ("Field Remedy") Charm (which we know in a Christianized form from the 10th century Anglo-Saxon manuscript Lacnunga), a ritual to bless the fields for the planting season ahead. It may also help explain why pancakes seem to be a traditional meal for this holiday.
Then as now, however, English agriculture was hugely dependent on sheep, dairy production, and wool, and for the Anglo-Saxons it's likely that the primary significance of this holiday was that it marked the beginning of lambing season. As a handspinner who honors Frigga, this of course suits me just fine and meshes very nicely with both my spiritual and artistic priorities. We first began celebrating Ewemeolc as essentially a celebration of the lambs and their gifts a few years back, and it clicked so well that we even added a second sheep-and-Frigga focused holiday later in the year (in June, to coincide with our local sheep and wool festival).
Since we are car-free (both by choice and necessity), we have a hard time finding sheep's milk, which would be our preferred offering for a Ewemeolc faining (drink offering). Instead, we adorned our hearth shrine with a card depicting a pair of North Ronaldsay sheep walking by the shore in the Orkney Islands, a ram's horn that I will be cleaning and polishing to make into a drinking horn, tea lights, a little lamb plushie, some fresh pink daisies, and a bit of Merino lamb's fleece, hand dyed by me in a vibrant shade of spring green, and we filled our household drinking horn up with milk from locally raised goats. I blessed the horn with the rune Berkano and we toasted Frigga, the mother ewes, and the new lambs being born, thanking them for their marvelous gifts of wool and milk. Then I also thanked the tree spirits who provide wood for the making of spinning wheels and other fiber tools, and the earth for allowing us to mine the ore that becomes steel for wool combs and drum carder teeth. After going out to the garden to libate the milk, we sat down to a dinner of crusty bread, a good sour sheep's cheese, and sheep's milk yogurt. (The pancakes would come the following day, for the second part of our holiday celebration, Candlemas—but more about that in a moment.)
Besides our holiday feast, the second component to my customary Ewemeolc celebration is a blessing of my spinning tools. I first got the idea of devotionals for tools from my friend Silence Maestas (whose writings on the topic I was unable to find online in order to provide a link). An an animist, I don't just believe that my spinning wheels, my drum carder, and the other tools important to the practice of my craft have a life and spirit of their own; I know that they do, a spirit independent of the metal and wood that makes up their working parts. And so, it only makes sense to honor that spirit, and all of the hard work they do for me throughout the year, with a special ritual, which I have been practicing on Ewemeolc for three years now. First, I sweep out the bedroom (which is where I spin), clean all of the extra bits of fiber out of the drumcarder (as much as possible), and make sure all three spinning wheel are dust-free, prior to polishing the wooden wheels with jojoba oil until they shine. Then I oil the moving parts of the wooden wheels and drum carder (my metal Columbine wheel has sealed ball bearings and does not use oil), light a beeswax candle, and bless all of my gathered wheels and fiber tools in Frigga's name. For this purpose, I adapted a loom blessing that I found in the Carmina Gadelica, a collection of charms, hymns, and blessings collected by the amateur 19th century folklorist Alexander Carmichael in the Gaelic-speaking regions of Scotland. (I first learned of the existence of the Carmina Gadelica, and got the idea for adapting charms from it, from The Witch of Forest Grove, Sarah Lawless, on her blog a couple of years back.)
Bless, O Frigga, Lady of the Distaff,
My spinning wheels and all my fiber tools.
Bless me in every action, make Thou me safe while I live.
From every brownie and fairy woman,
From every evil wish and sorrow, help me, gracious goddess,
As long as I shall be in the land of the living.
In the name of Odin, Lord of Asgard,
In the name of Thor, the champion of earth,
Consecrate the frames of my spinning wheels
Til I sit down to begin my work.
Their treadles, their footmen, their legs and their wheels,
Their flyers, their drive bands, and their break bands,
Their maidens and their mothers-of-all, bobbins and hooks and orifices.
Bless also the frame of my drum carder, his drums and his crankshafts
and all of his working parts.
Every fleece, black, white and fair,
Moorit, gray, cream and red,
Give Thy blessing everywhere,
On every thread passing through the orifices.
Thus will my spinning wheels be unharmed
Til I sit down to begin my work.
Gracious Frigga will give me of Her blessings,
And there shall be no obstruction I shall not overcome.
If you are a spinner, you are more than welcome to use or further adapt my blessing if you like, but please credit me appropriately if you do, and link back to this post.
I mentioned earlier that there was a second half to our holiday festivities; it took place the following morning (on Sunday) and honored the emergence of the bear from hibernation, which was celebrated in pagan Northern Europe on the festival date that later became Candlemas. (Now, who would have guessed that the original groundhog was actually a bear?) More about that, though, in my next post!
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But this fall, the fashion patrician is wading, couture-less, into the muck.
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