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When I decided to pose for a naked centerfold, it seemed like there could be no happy ending. I was not an actor in search of marquee appeal, nor was I interested in becoming a masturbation toy for an imaginary body of readers. I hoped that a series of naked pictures of a writer, presented in a short essay collection on a variety of mostly nonsexual subjects, would be a hallmark of how a naked body welcomes erotic adornments and postures but can never be defined by them, especially when viewed in context of the subject's writing. I also thought the accompaniment of nakedness would make clearer the dumb, objective seriousness we often project on writing.
I called the essay collection Poshlost, a Russian word Vladimir Nabokov defined as "corny trash, vulgar clichés, Philistinism in all its phases, imitations of imitations, bogus profundities, crude, moronic, and dishonest pseudo-literature." Nowhere are these qualities more entrenched than in pornography; the false strains of dignity are shown in its bisection into soft and hardcore varieties—a distinction that has its echo in writing, divided into good and bad, serious and not serious.
I wanted to see if it was possible to create a form that joined the imperial truth-making of writing with disjunctive artifacts of nudity. And that was how I came to be naked one day, having pictures of my penis taken.
Writing is the opposite of physical nudity: it is a form in which a person is most insulated from the prejudices of the audience. Yet all writing is a confessional revelation. Even considering impersonal ideas in an objective voice, a writer draws those ideas in a particular voice. Writing is an invitation to self-criticism, and the best writers can do is to make themselves as open as possible to a reader interested enough to engage them. Self-criticism is, in that light, a gift to the reader. Which is a lucky thing, because posing naked for photos is a terrifying experience that can only be negotiated by the solemn conviction that writing about it is also a gift. The opposite thought—"This is a career-ending experiment driven by a self-destructive ego"—would simply be too much.
And while nudity isn't ultimately much of a gift, its stigmatization—especially of the male variety—has given it a peculiar sociopolitical currency that makes it seem more unusual than it is. The first proscriptions were a product of political and religious collusion that flourished alongside the Enlightenment, beginning in the sixteenth century with the removal of Fra Bartolomeo's naked St. Sebastian from a church in Florence, after some women admitted they had fantasized about the comely martyr. Subjects for male nudes painted in that era increasingly became heroes of mythology, instead of the contemporary figures, taking cover in the privileges of the unreal. Soon even the unreal became objectionable, culminating with the absurd fig leaf covering of Michelangelo's David. This was prompted by the unwelcome feelings Queen Victoria experienced after gazing upon the legend's member.
Anthony Weiner, Brett Favre, and Kanye West thought their genitals spoke so impressively for their whole selves that they sent photos to women as a seductive prelude. In each case, the leaked penis became cause for public mockery.
In more recent times, discomfort with the public revelation of man-sex has acquired the disfiguring tint of sociopolitical power relations, transforming the penis into a vessel embodying all of the structural and political antagonisms toward women that have been a part of Western civilization since time immemorial. As the Leopold Museum's spokesperson Klaus Pokorny observed, after agreeing to cover three penises visible on posters for the museum's "Nude Men" exhibition, the naked man "unfortunately is often still associated with sexual abuse in a way that pictures of naked women aren't." Penis is patriarchy, and patriarchy is violence. To show one's penis is to endorse its metaphorical power and the historical privileges that have come with it.
I was afraid of these implications, that one must always interrupt the personal flights of experimentalism in deference to the deeper tidal sway of politics. I didn't want a fight with patriarchy, nor a re-entrenchment of it. I wanted to try and strip myself out of it, to enter a vacuum where my being and body wouldn't be seen as relative to anything other than the words I had written. Of course this was futile, and the desire to not be attached to the time, place, and culture that produced me was a cliché of suburban self-actualization. Not everyone gets to pick fights of such little consequence, and that I'd chosen to fully invest in this particular battle against the prohibition of male genitals, relevant only to the narrow culture of leisure-class straights who shrink the struggles of the world into coy-guy-in-a-towel shots of Cosmo and the stiff and leaking pornography of Playgirl. And yet I wanted to create something to enshrine, and if possible celebrate, the absurd distinction between dialectical seriousness and mammalian irrationality.
In recent years, the boundary between public seriousness and impulsive vulnerability has been weakened by a regular parade of public figures caught in private moments of genital self-regard. Public figures like Anthony Weiner, Brett Favre, and Kanye West thought their genitals spoke so impressively for their whole selves that they sent photos to women as a seductive prelude. In each case, the leaked penis became cause for public mockery, not for any unusual traits in the organs but because their deluded owners presumed it could speak for a person's desirability as a whole. Each had the same absurd incongruity of, say, an applicant for an office job including a photo of their hands against a keyboard with their resume. And yet this is the implication of the male centerfold, our most basic sexual trait becomes the one that is most insistently withheld from view, and those who are caught with their penis in plain sight are secret egomaniacs or exploited models willing to sell images of their body to an anonymous masturbator waiting in the wings.
If someone says you wrote a stupid sentence, there's a way to reasonably answer. If a person says you have a stupid penis, what can you say in response?
Self-exploitation and egomania were familiar qualities to me as a writer. There are no doubt other important qualities involved, just as there is no shortage of other important body parts beside one's genitals. But the unwillingness to acknowledge the egotism of telling other people's stories seemed to me a variation on the deceptive posturing of Cosmo's centerfolds, who bathe in the suggestion of male sexuality but can never expose the instrument itself. As a writer, I'd come to mistrust objectivity and careful elisions I sensed in other writers' work. In science, one states one's biases and the limitations before presenting any experimental data, but in other forms of writing, admitting subjective limits is impermissible, an affect of the narcissist incapable of addressing a subject without neuroticizing the world into a personal metaphor. And even in the wallows of confessional narcissism, writerly deceit is at work, creating aphoristic certainty where there is only disorder. I wanted to see if it was possible to create a form that joined the imperial truth-making of writing with disjunctive artifacts of nudity meant to intrude on that process from a world where critical analysis is as superficial a pastime as breaking wind or stretching a limb. And that was how I came to be naked one day, having pictures of my penis taken.
I knew a very good documentary photographer who was willing to work for free and wouldn't be put off by seeing a friend naked on a Saturday afternoon. I had known her for years and yet I stammered and stalled as she finished setting up the basic arrangement of lights and held the camera at ready. I suddenly felt a wild surge of inadequacy, like every micrometer of fabric covering my nubby penis, doughy stomach, and bicep-less arms were life preservers keeping me from falling into a vacuum of physical ridicule. If someone says you wrote a stupid sentence, there's a way to reasonably answer. If a person says you have a stupid penis, what can you say in response? Please accept my penis and its diminutive stupidity as a gift. By the time my hands reached the top button on my pants, no such thoughts were left in my head, and my fingers searched the edge of the cold metal disk on my jeans as if it might be hiding some good reason not to move forward.
But I couldn't find any and so I slid the button through its loop and down went my pants. The first hour was agonizingly awkward. I was stiff and afraid of looking at my own body. I desperately stared at my friend after each click of the iris, hoping to catch in her reactions some cryptic opinion on whether I looked pathetic or not. She offered minimal guidance and I struggled to think of something to do with my body. I grabbed a stuffed animal a roommate had given me and tried to play with it. I made wobbly attempts at yoga poses. After each nervous movement I looked back into the lens waiting for approval.
In the second hour I ran out of anxiety. I let myself take longer glances at my body as I moved around, played with different props—a puffy winter coat, a gooey piece of cake that I thought would look good on camera, matching the sense of indulged artificiality. I was less concerned with imagining how other people would judge my body and slowly became aware of how pleasurable it felt just to be naked, the spotlight-warmed air blooming around my skin as I moved through postures that had no functional purpose. My rhetoric abandoned me and I became a simple body for a short while, not in the lathered sportsman sense, but in the restful comfort of an early morning alone, nerve endings and muscle tissue slowly merging back into wakefulness.
To me, my posing naked felt reckless and inappropriate and to anyone born after 1985, I imagine it would seem anti-climactic and regressive, a rebellion against social standards that no one really takes seriously anymore.
When it was over I rushed to the computer to look at the hundreds of photos we'd shot to see what was usable. They were absurd, offering a parallax view of my own body, parts of which were overly familiar and others of which seemed totally alien (my god, the bottoms of my feet!). All of the tension and stress of the early photos translated as emptiness on camera, like a mannequin left in a slightly unnatural pose. The shots looked inhuman. Then the smiles started, at first massive fissures of teeth and fleeing tension that made of my face a kind of metaphysical fire hydrant shooting out a burst of subterranean relief.
Then I was a person again, not quite myself in the flattened frame and stark light, but human, a lost celebrity who never made it out of the star factory, a textured canvas awaiting the intrusive brush strokes of my public. I don't know what the consequences of these naked pictures will be and have only the rhetorical flotilla of an essay collection to keep them from being turned against me.
Is there any fear more universal in the time of sexting and Hunter Moore than having one's naked self appear as the first entry in a Google search? This fear is as much a generational affect as a warning of impending risk. When I was going through my own pubescence in the early 90s, the Internet hadn't yet turned porn into a public utility. Plastic surgery procedures more than doubled every year during the late 90s. People freeze-framed Sharon Stone's barely visible vulva in Basic Instinct. Howard Stern prostrated himself before strippers and sex actors. The suggestions of nudity were everywhere, but the only worthwhile forms of it seemed to be outside of my own body, and the bodies of everyone I knew. Nudity was a privilege of the already perfect, and we were surrounded by laughingly happy examples of how imperfect we were.
This sickness seems to have lost its potency in the generations that followed. The sacred commodity of nipples and genital roughage was irrevocably cheapened by the Internet, while the tricks of perfecting the body were made obvious, both in Photoshop and at the gym. Soon most middle-class fourteen-year-olds possessed the tools to capture and distribute their own nudity, and they did. And my fearsome awe of genitalia seemed more absurd with each passing year. To me, my posing naked felt reckless and inappropriate and to anyone born after, say, 1985, I imagine it would seem anti-climactic and regressive, a rebellion against social standards that no one really takes seriously anymore.
The technological membrane separating public and private selves has become translucent, making visible the inelegance of SMS nudity, Skype-flashing, and Tumblr gifs of naked pelvises rising and falling in perpetuity. And yet the more conditions change around me, the more I discover I'm married to my own fearful questions, artifacts of what my nudity would have meant twenty years ago. Will these pictures automatically disqualify me from any job I might ever apply to again? Am I taking a swan dive into the gnashing teeth of corporate America's pious human resources machine? Is it too late to invent a fake name for the whole project? M. Scott Rubywad, or Theodor Woodthrust III? I probably should. I put my clothes back on, after all. But even clothed, these nagging fears outline a mental nakedness around which my social being contorts. Why else would a grown man sit in a cake without any pants on? This is the kind of absurdity that requires grand rhetorical accompaniment, the compression of an entire lifetime of experience into one frozen pose, even while the sagging tubules at the bottom of the frame reminds everyone that even the heartiest metaphorical vessel eventually collapses on itself.
Visit this website to view the photos discussed above.
Michael Thomsen is a writer in New York. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, The Believer, n+1, Slate, The New Inquiry, and Bookforum. He's author of the sex memoir Levitate the Primate: Handjobs, Internet Dating, and Other Issues for Men.


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Virginia Ann Reder Triggs, 90
Virginia Ann Reder Triggs
of Bremerton
May 20, 1923
to July 4, 2013
Virginia Ann Reder Triggs, 90, passed away July 4, 2013. She was born May 20, 1923 in Olympia to Henry and Ada (Turner) Reder. She graduated from Olympia High School and later married Thomas J. Triggs, Sr. at St. Michael Catholic Church in Olympia.
A lovely, energetic person with a genuine regard for everyone she met, Virginia treasured her role as a wife, mother, and homemaker. She was a woman of faith, and was an active member of Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church Altar Society and was a past president of the Young Ladies Institute at the church. Virginia loved baking, quilting, and traveling, and her favorite travel adventure was a Hawaiian cruise in her 80s with her friend, Eunice.
Preceding Virginia in death were her husband, Thomas Sr.; infant daughter, Mary Ann; and youngest son, Dennis. Left to grieve are sons, Thomas Jr., Michael, and Gregory (Joanne); and daughters, Patricia Triggs (Jim Trindle) and Theresa Wheaton (Tim).
A Rosary will be held at Our Lady Star of the Sea on Monday, July 22 at 9:30 a.m., with a funeral Mass following at 10 a.m. A private burial will be held at Miller-Woodlawn Memorial Park at 1 p.m.
Memorial donations in Virginia's name may be made to Hospice of Kitsap County or the Thomas Triggs Scholarship in care of Olympic College Foundation.
Special thanks to the staff and medical personnel at Bay Vista Commons, Hospice of Kitsap County, and Miller-Woodlawn Funeral Home.
May God hold Virginia in His hands until we meet again.

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Cara Devon has always suffered curiosity and impetuousness, but tangling with a serial killer might cure that. Permanently.
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All contact is lost with the first human colony on Mars during a violent sandstorm. Satellite imagery of the aftermath shows extensive damage to the facility, and all fifty-four colonists are presumed dead.
Three years later, a new mission sets down to investigate what remains of the colony. But it's not long before they realise it's not as dead as everyone thought. Someone is still alive — hiding out somewhere.
However, before they can find the elusive colonist a strange illness starts to affect the crew. Pressure now mounts on Biologist, Dr. Jann Malbec, to locate the source and find a way to fight it. Yet, as she investigates she begins to suspect a dark and deadly secret lurking within the colony. One that threatens not just the crew but the entire population of Earth.
Jann must now find some answers and find them fast. Because if she doesn't, none of them will be going home.
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Dr. U Bapputy Haji(1929-2003)
Founding General Secretary
Dr. U. Bapputty Haji, a traditional physician by profession, was the founding General Secretary of Darul Huda Islamic Academy. Born in 1929 to Kunjaalan Kutti Vaidyar and Puthukkutti Kunchi Kadiumma, his real name was Kunjavaran Kutti while Bapputti is the nickname.
Starting from his father, his school education was from Nilimavungal A.M.L.P School and Tirurangadi A.U.P. School. His religious training was completed from Tirurangadi Noorul Islam Madrasa, Parappil Madrasathul Muhammadiyyah and Tirurangadi Orphanage. From the Kottakkal Ayurvedic College, he won the certificate of an Ayurvedic physician.
From the early teenage, he exhibited a keen interest in the social and religious activities. He was the founding president of Jama'ath Khidmath al-Islam, an influential Islamic platform of his native town which runs mosques, religious schools etc. He is one of the key proponents of Sunni Mahallu Federation, a platform to coordinate different regional religious authorities. When the seeds of disunity appeared in Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyathul Ulama and it started to influence the community corruptively, he put big efforts to solve the issue.
Dr. Haji played a vital role in the establishment of Darul Huda Islamic Academy. In the wake of the failure of Ideal Dars System that was proponed by himand his colleagues, he realized the idea of an alternative implementation of the same in a separate campus. He, Chemmukkan Kunjappu Haji and K.M. Zaid Alawi Haji collectively carried out the leading role of the acquirement and landfill of a wider area of wastelands in the suburbs of Chemmad town, popularly known as Manippadam. Although some people around him ruled out the possibility of a successful campus in such a wasteland and blamed him, his painstaking initiatives and consequent success transformed the same people into his supporters.
The essence of his vision of Darul Huda can be clearly perceived from the following passage extracted from his speech at the first convocation ceremony in 1998: "Out of this institution I dream of a bunch of highly talented scholars quintessentially grown up and groomed under sublime directives of Islam, in whose veins flow the sheer favor of Allah the Almighty, who are capable of steeling the hearts of society with sterling behavior, eloquence and writing ingenuity. Days will come, when the meadows of this institution will be crowned with white Europeans, black Africans, and blond haired Americans, who reached to get sheltered in this pleasure chest of knowledge."His demise was on 22 nd July 2003 at his own residence in Chemmad. His body was laid to rest at the Darul Huda campus itself.
M.M BasheerMusliyar(1929-1987)
Founding President
M.M. Basheer Musliyar was the founding president of Darul Huda Islamic Academy. Born to Ahmad Musliyar and Khadiyya on 3 rd February 1929 in the British India, he is considered among the most ever visionary leaders of Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyathul Ulama, the most influential religious organization of Kerala Muslims. He remained as a visionary reformer of Dars system (Muslim seminaries based at regional mosques) in Kerala. He was one of the key proponents of Sunni Mahallu Federation, a platform to coordinate different regional religious authorities.
Having completed his primary education in supervision of his father, Musliyar simultaneously earned secular education from Govt. L.P. School of Cheroor, studied his upper primary in U.P. School of Vengara, and then JDT Islam Kozhikode. He was admitted in the Dars of Achanampalam village and later referred to Madrasa Baqiyath al- Swalihath in Vellore, Tamil Nadu for the higher education. Same like a typical Alim of the then Kerala, he started teaching in Dars system in many regions of the state like Achanambalam, Mattathur and Kondotty. Later, in 1972, he was invited to Rahmaniyya Arabic College at Kadameri in Calicut as Principal.His pioneering role in the foundation of DHIU is perceived as his most noteworthy contribution. He continued to be the Principal of Darul Huda Islamic Academy until his demise on 22 nd January 1987.
C.H. Aidarus Musliyar(1933-1994)
Founding Organizer
C.H Aidarus Musliyar (1994–1933) is a Sunni Muslim religious scholar of 20 th century Kerala. He was the Vice President of Samastha Kerala JamiyyathulUlama, the supreme religious organization of Muslims in the state. He served as the President of Darul Huda Islamic Academy from 1989 to July 1993.
He was born to an Islamic scholarly family of 19 th century Malabar in 1933 September 3 in the village of Puthupparamba near Kottakkal. His father Cheerangan Muhammad Musliyar was a Khatib and Imam in the Central Juma Masjid in Kottakkal.
After the primary education in his native place, Aidarus Musliyar joined the Madrasa al- Baqiyatas-Salihat Vellore, one of the earliest centres of Islamic higher study in south India. After he was awarded the degree of Maulawi Fadhil al Baqawi, he engaged in teaching Islamic Sciences in the regional mosques of Orakam and Edakkulam villages in Malappuram District. Through his teachings, he trained a big number of highly qualified Islamic scholars including Dr. Bahauddeen Muhammed Nadwi, P.P Muhammed Faizee etc. In the last decades of his life, he resigned from all teaching commitments and the rest of his life was exclusively submitted for full time activism in the field of the spiritual and educational empowerment of Muslim community in Kerala.
As the senior Vice President of Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyathul Ulama, he played a vital role in popularizing the scholarly organization. Being an organizer of Samastha, he established many mosques, regional religious authorities popularly known as Mahallu Jama'aths, orphanages and religious schools in various villages of the Kerala state. He was one of the key proponents of Sunni Mahallu Federation, a platform to coordinate different regional religious authorities. When disharmony appeared among the scholars of Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyathul Ulama and it started to influence the community corruptively, he was out to put big efforts to solve the issue.
Being one of the six founding fathers of Darul Huda Islamic University, he served as the President of Darul Huda Islamic Academy from 1989 to July 1993. His demise was on 7 th May 1994, and buried at Puthupparamba Juma Masjid.


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Hasbro in Talks With Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay For 'Transformers 4'
Posted on Monday, October 17th, 2011 by Russ Fischer
Despite the fact that several Hasbro projects once set up at Universal (like Ouija and Clue) have been put into turnaround, the company is still trying to make movies. During a third-quarter earnings call this morning, Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner said today that developing projects Micronauts (with the involvement of J.J. Abrams), Ouija, Candyland, Risk, Stretch Armstrong, Clue, and Monopoly all continue to putter along. The company won't try to emulate a company like Marvel and form its own studio, but rather continue to partner with others, and the projects that some studios have put into turnaround are being shopped to other studios, which we've known for a while.
The biggest news out of the call, however, was spurred by the huge box-office performance of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Goldner said the company is in talks with Transformers series producer Steven Spielberg and director Michael Bay to make a fourth film in the franchise.
THR reports on the call, and while I don't think the possibility of a fourth film comes as a surprise to anyone, given the performance of the prior three, this is the first official word on the subject.
Michael Bay has suggested that he would not direct a fourth film, and while Hasbro is in talks with Bay, I expect he'll remain on the series as a producer while moving on to direct something else. Star Shia LaBeouf has said that he would not return to the franchise, and until a script is turned in it will be too early to make any calls about what other characters and their respective actors may or may not return.
I guess there's someone who's happy about this. The third film raked in $1.1 billion worldwide, so it's probably the accountants at all companies involved that are the most happy. Hasbro's CEO said that he hopes to have more Transformers 4 news next quarter, and the company will be announcing more film projects in the future, as well.


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Meditation on God's Word
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:7
These words were written by the great King Solomon, son of King David whom God called "a man after My own heart."
All scripture is inspired by God through the Holy Spirit working in the hearts of men of old, who loved God.
Here the Spirit informs us that to fear God is the beginning of knowledge!
This is an area to spend long hours of meditation in.
Why should He be feared? Does He have Power to use, and if so why doesn't He use it how we think He should?
These are good questions to ask and seek out answers to. He has answered them in the Holy Bible - we can go there and seek out His word, His answers, as we meditate on the Word.
Fear of the Awesome Power alone will bring us to a love for Him. In fear we recognize His Goodness and His Justness towards us. We find we can trust Him to use His Power righteously.
The Spirit says that it is a fool who despises wisdom and instruction. Is that a fool in our eyes or is that a fool in God's eyes? God's eyes, He has said it in His Word!
Ask yourself - "Am I a fool or wise person in God's eyes?"
Lord, forgive my foolishness, help me to know You and all Your attributes so I may be considered wise in Your sight. Amen.


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Technology has been changing the landscape of higher education textbook publishing over the last several years, and the textbook that is just a textbook -- with no software or other digital accessories -- is becoming a thing of the past. Many of the largest college textbook publishers' products now run the gamut from hard-copy textbooks to fully online course learning materials.
John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, commonly known as Wiley, began in 1807 as a small print shop in Manhattan. After many years of publishing mainly literary titles, the company shifted to nonfiction in the latter part of the 19th century, with science and technology becoming the company's focus, especially with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Post-World War II, Wiley expanded its offices to other countries and began to focus on college textbook publishing. It acquired other publishing companies such as Pearson and Jossey-Bass and developed an online platform, Wiley Online Library.
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McGraw Hill did not start out as a college textbook publisher; rather, it began in the first half of the 20th century by publishing trade books and by midcentury had moved into secondary and elementary school book publishing. In 1988, after buying the college division of Random House, McGraw Hill expanded into higher education textbook publishing. In the past decade, it has launched a few major technology initiatives with its LearnSmart and SmartBook tools, and, most recently, with its Connect higher education platform.
Macmillan Higher Education
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Stanton's wife opted not to appear on camera but agrees to read from her own journal, at one point saying that watching her husband's metamorphosis has been "like a slow death for me."
While the first portion deals with Stanton's decision and the community's response — including footage from the hearing on whether he should retain his position, with impassioned pleas from both sides — the filmmakers continue following him as he struggles to find work and, eventually, prepares for sexual-reassignment surgery.
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- This topic has 8 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 10 years, 11 months ago by Bluedave.
November 9, 2009 at 9:36 am #300423
Anybody know where I can get some reasonably priced lamprologus multifasciatus?
I tried all my LFS and can't get any – not had a chance to pop over to pier aquatics yet though! There was a bloke in Southport that had some a couple of months ago but not anymore it would appear.November 9, 2009 at 10:08 am #315487
aquabid?November 9, 2009 at 10:24 am #315489
David MarshallParticipant
Hey Dave
I have seen the fish you are looking for in Yorkshire branches of Maidenhead so try your closest branch.
Regards DavidNovember 9, 2009 at 5:36 pm #315492
Cheers David – don't know where my nearest maidenhead is but i'll find out!
Hey Malti, I'll check aquabid out.November 9, 2009 at 8:10 pm #315496
Is it not Neolamprologus?November 9, 2009 at 8:48 pm #315499
Whats a neo between friends eh?
Not seen that one mate – is that the other side of leyland?November 9, 2009 at 10:37 pm #315501
Yeah, probably the best shop your side of Pier. It's in a garden centre (think it might be a Wyevale these days…).November 9, 2009 at 10:58 pm #315502
Have you tried Oasis in Manchester? They tend to stock a selection of Tanganyikans and Malawis at various times. Give them a ring to check as with all shops stock changes from week to week.
JohnNovember 10, 2009 at 8:11 am #315506
cheers John, drove past there the other day but was on my way to a meeting , didn't have a chance to stop – bummer!AuthorPostsViewing 9 posts - 1 through 9 (of 9 total)
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This article, Highschool DxD: Яe-birth, is the sole property of Houki Minami and cannot be used or even edited, without her permission, you have been warned. (i just did)
Highschool DxD: Legacy is a fanfiction story written by Houki Minami. An OC-centric story in an alternative dimension about Ichijou Tsukino, the holder of the Boosted Gear after Issei Hyoodou's death in his final struggle against 666(Trihexa).
- 1 Synopsis
- 2 Author's comment
- 3 Volumes:
- 3.1 Volume 1: The lad and the legacy of the Red Dragon Emperor.
- 3.2 Volume 2: Red Dragon Emperor's bizarre everyday life.
- 3.3 Volume 3: The Cheesy Sekiryuutei and the crimson Kings.
- 3.4 Volume 4: The hammy sekiryuutei and his lovely friends
- 3.5 Volume 5: The threat of the Dragon Kings!
- 3.6 Volume 6: Sekiryuutei and the heiress of the Great King!
- 3.7 Volume 7: Red Dragon Emperor's romantic School life!
- 3.8 Volume 8: A not-so-healthy trip to the Underworld!
- 3.9 Volume 9: Halcyon days
- 3.10 Volume 10: D²×D²
Synopsis[edit | edit source]
"It all started with a girl with long red hair calling me the new host of a thing called Boosted gear. And, since then, things went downhill... Pretty fast"
Ichijou Tsukino is a normal freshman in Kuoh Academy with no friends, four bully sisters, parents abroad on honeymoon and a negative view on women in general, thinking they're moody, violent, cruel and strange. On his first week of classes, however, he's dragged to a desert room by a girl with red Crimson hair, illegally large breasts and unholy body. She introduces herself as Berolina Gremory, descendant of the Great Gremory clan, and says that he's the current Holder of the Boosted Gear, a mid-tier Longinus Sacred Gear and the legacy left by the late Hero of the Underworld, Issei Hyoodou. Ichijou didn't believed a single word, and tried to get rid of her, only to ended up dead, pushing himself out of the window and smacking down the floor.
The next day, however, he finds himself naked and completely unharmed on his bed, thinking it was all just a crazy dream sequence, only to find a naked redhead girl next to him. She says then that she used one of her pieces of the Evil Piece System, and now he's a queen piece and a servant of the house of Gremory. What follows is a bizarre, strange comedy story about Ichijou trying to adapt himself and learn about the new world that he's now in, poking fun of the plotholes, mythologies, cliches and the whole DxD universe as a whole. The story will eventually turn a little more mature later on, of course, as well as action packed.
Author's comment[edit | edit source]
Hahahah... Putting my story as a slice-of-life OC-story in a wikia. This is really fun! But, yeah, this story is very meta in a sense, and pokes fun of the DxD series as a whole. You can say is a parody, but not a hurtful parody... At least for now. If you're interest, you can always follow the link of the title of this article to the fanfiction(dot)com site or just read it here. Anyway, thank you for the interest, you guys are golden!
As always, Highschool DxD does not belongs to me, all copyrights and characters by their original owners. Please support the official release of this anime/manga/novel series.
Volumes:[edit | edit source]
Volume 1: The lad and the legacy of the Red Dragon Emperor.[edit | edit source]
- Prologue: She can't be for real, right?
- Ch. 1: I can't be that Good, right?
- Ch. 2: Recruiting is easy, right?
- Ch. 3: This is a joke, right?
- Ch. 4: Ninjas are cool too, right? Part 1
- Ch. 5: Ninjas are cool too, right? Part 2
- Ch. 6: Ninjas are cool too, right? Part 3 (End of volume 1)
- EXTRA: My dark secret!
Volume 2: Red Dragon Emperor's bizarre everyday life.[edit | edit source]
- Ch. 7: Unlucky is not quite the word.
- Ch. 8: Doubt is not quite the word.
- Ch. 9: Call me auntie Kyou!
- Ch. 10: Sekiryuutei is not quite the word.
- Ch. 11: Melancholy is not quite the word.
- Ch. 12: I'm Gremory's knight, after all.
- Ch. 13: Meta-concepts are hard, after all.
- Ch. 14: Extras are always smiling, after all.
Volume 3: The Cheesy Sekiryuutei and the crimson Kings.[edit | edit source]
- Ch. 15: I'm just Tsukino Ichijou, but still!
- Ch. 16: I just want some silence.
- Ch. 17: I want...!
- Ch. 18: Alice Gremory, shipper extraordinaire!
- Ch. 19: Let's just end this and go home.
- Ch. 20: Crimson Queen Gear Drive!
- Ch. 21:A batllefield filled with poetry.
- Ch 22: You liar.
- Extra chapter: A not-so-nice doctor
Volume 4: The hammy sekiryuutei and his lovely friends[edit | edit source]
- Ch. 23: It's salty
- Ch. 24: Strange morning, strange day.
- Ch. 25: Tsukino's new friends.
- Ch. 26: Between flat-chest and AA-cups.
- Ch. 27:Ice-creams, ointments and drinks(Oh,my!)
- Ch. 28: You're forgiven!
- Ch. 29: Life is epic!
- Ch, 30: Just kidding.
Volume 5: The threat of the Dragon Kings![edit | edit source]
- Ch. 31 Surrounded by weirdness
- Ch. 32: Stress and relief.
- Ch. 33: The first way, new girl Bael.
- Ch. 34: Mysterious girls and strange proposals
- Ch. 35: A reason for tears
- Ch. 36: A trip to Okinawa![
- Ch. 37: Ever again!
- Ch. 38: Can foxes, witches and warlords kiss me?
- Ch. 39:The Legacy of the Breast Dragon emperor!
Volume 6: Sekiryuutei and the heiress of the Great King![edit | edit source]
- Ch. 40: And I'm not afraid to use them!
- Ch. 41: Welcome gift.
- Ch. 42: Sick-ryuutei for the day.
- Ch. 43: Conflicting emotions and loose ends.
- Ch. 44: A farewell song to my past self.
- Ch 45: A withered life in a bousterous summer.
- Ch. 46: Seasons Яe-birth one by one.
- Ch. 47: So proud of you.
- EXTRA: Arc epilogue- New Gremory girl!
Volume 7: Red Dragon Emperor's romantic School life![edit | edit source]
- Ch. 48: Rina's box!(Not a lemon)
- Ch. 49: Meeting the unexpected
- Ch. 50: Breaking some boundaries
- Ch. 51: Relationship advices for dummies!
- Ch. 52: Hey,Ichijou! It's your new (girl)friend!
- Ch. 53: Real men solve their issues with fists!
- Ch, 54: Punishment for the naughty dragon(lemon)
- Ch. 55: Between Dragons and Heroes!
- EXTRA: I rather have friends.
Volume 8: A not-so-healthy trip to the Underworld![edit | edit source]
- Prologue: A place to call...
- Ch. 56: Home, family and other disasters!
- Ch. 57: Going deep into
- Ch. 58: A well-loved boy.
- Ch. 59:Nice to meet you again.
- Ch. 60: THE SLASHDØG RETURNS(part 1 & part 2)
- Ch. 61: the Joy of your company
- Ch. 62: A night with the Enemy
- Epilogue: Halcyon days
Volume 9: Halcyon days[edit | edit source]
- Arc Prologue: Temptation, truth and will
- EXTRA: The reasons to love the worst you
- EXTRA: An extra life with my beloved
- EXTRA: Semi-charmed love
- EXTRA: Closer to You.
Volume 10: D²×D²[edit | edit source]
- Ch. 63: A×A(Alliance × Assault)
- Ch. 64: B×B(Blazing × Battle)
- Ch. 65: C×C(Chaos × Charisma)
- Ch. 66: W×W(Warlord × wanderer)
- Ch. 67: F×F(Frantic×Fangs)
- Ch 68: S×S(Shadows × Swords)
- Ch. 69: R×R(Rogue × Regret)
- Ch. 70: G×G
- Ch. 71: D×D
- Epilogue: Tender tears sweetens a bitter life.


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- Country: Scotland
- Region: Speyside
- Distillery status: Operational
- Type: Single Malt Whisky
- Size: 70cl
- Delivery weight: 2.00kg
- Strength: 48.2%
About the distillery
The Macallan distillery is a single malt Scotch whisky distillery in Craigellachie, Moray. The Macallan Distillers Ltd, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Edrington Group which purchased the brand from Highland Distillers in 1999.
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This is the second in a planned annual limited release, born from a collaboration between Master whisky maker, Bob Dalgarno, and El Teller De Can Roca, twice voted best restaurant in the world.
A collectable Limited Edition that reflects the personality and creative spirit of the collaborators, represented by their personal selection of casks. The dried fruit and sherry noted of the Tevasa Casks selected by Bob Dalgarno; the spicy ginger of the Jose Miguel Martin Casks chosen by Sommelier Josep Roca; the rich green wood and toffee flavours of the Diego Martin Casks selected by head chef Joan Roca; and the light vanilla and citrus notes of the Vasyma American oak casks selected by pastry chef Jordi Roca come together in Edition No.2 to form rich layers of warmth and complex flavours.
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I thee Wed – Nicola & Marcus
On this rather cloudy Wednesday, we bring you a wedding which has country garden chic written all over it. From the hay bales in the marquee to the beautiful flowers and gorgeous bride and groom, this wedding just makes me want to go out for a long picnic with bunting hanging from the trees, listening to the birds singing …. over to the lovely bride, Nicola:
We got married on the 4th September 2010 in a village called Hamstall Ridware (in Rugeley in Staffordshire). We got married in St Michael & All Angels Church, a quaint 11th century church on a hill! Our reception was held in a marquee in the garden of Marcus' mum's farmhouse.
After looking at numerous venues and discussing that none of them seemed suitable with Marcus' mum, out of the blue she said why don't you have it in her garden?! We thought she was joking, but she was deadly serious, we didn't have to think twice we said yes straight away before she could change her mind – it's a beautiful old English country garden about an acre in size with little archways leading to different parts! We knew it would take a lot more organising than having a traditional venue but what really appealed was that it was a blank canvas and we could therefore make it completely personal to us.
I had this idea I wanted a dress that covered my shoulders & arms, but when I started to try some on, the choice was quite limited and this style didn't suit me as well as I expected. I'd booked 4 bridal shops to visit with my mum, sister and sister-in-law trying on numerous styles and colours and on the visit to no3, Lori G in Allestree, Derby, I tried on this satin/lace strapless gown – it was lilac & black (only colour they had) and was too small but immediately we knew it was the one – sweetheart neckline with a slimline fit to show off my curves with a unique gather/train to the left of the dress, it was perfect! Although, when we ordered it I went for traditional ivory!
First of all I had a meeting with Leah from Your wedding Angel to discuss ideas, although we had picked where we wanted to have our reception we weren't sure what theme we wanted. We took Leah to the venue and immediately Leah suggested it had to be a Country Garden theme as that would look amazing and totally match the surroundings and tradition of the house and garden! So we went from there…..we had a large marquee, decorated with country bunting, Cath Kidston fabrics, old fashioned birdcages & vases/jugs filled with lots of colourful flowers (many from the garden as well as the florist) & lots of pretty hanging decorations etc. Around the garden, Leah had made focal points and decorated with lanterns and tea lights along with pretty hanging decorations – the place looked beautiful and really exceeded our expectations! Our guests loved it too and we got lots of great feedback.
There were many quirky bits and bobs, especially with it being our own venue, but 3 stand out for me…..
1 The seating Plan – Leah designed this, it was a 6ft wooden trellis, decorated with ivy, coloured gerberas & decorative birds. From one end to the other were wooden letters reading TABLE PLAN with each table listing made from a birdcage design in between each of the letters – gorgeous and totally fitted with the theme!
2 The Hay Bales seating – we had a chill out area near the bar in a separate section of the marquee, we used hay bales as a seating area covered by blankets – they were perfect and what was even better, they were donated by the farm down the road!
3 The wedding cake – We bought the 3 tiered cake from M&S, and a friend of the family, Ann, decorated it to fit in with our theme with sugar iced flowers of all designs and colours – it was amazing and totally unique!!
Wow, what a wedding. Doesn't it just make you want to head off to your nearest Hobby Craft and get creating!?
A huge thank you to the lovely Nicola for her words and to the amazingly talented Leah Lyons from Your Wedding Angel for her inspirational creativity (and for letting us know about this fabulous wedding!)
All the fabulous photography by The Studio, Mickelover
What a beautiful wedding! Absolutely love the colours! The venue looks fantastic as well…yay for Marcus' mum offering her garden!


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How to Connect a Butcher Block to a Laminate Counter
A butcher block is traditionally a wooden cutting surface, separate from the rest of your countertop, where meats and other ingredients are prepared before cooking. They can be made of nearly any wood or combinations of woods and are sealed to protect and preserve the wooden surface. Lacquer and polyurethane finishes are common sealants for butcher blocks, as are mineral oil, Tung oil and blends of oils, waxes and varnishes.
Find your ideal location. Measure your available counter space and pick a location that provides adequate surface area for your butcher block. Consider the area's proximity to your regular food preparation area as well, and place the butcher block where it will best facilitate your cooking and prep work. Lay your butcher block on the new space and use a carpenter's square to align it with the counter top beneath.
Reshape your butcher block if necessary, to account for overlap of a sink or cooktop. Measure the amount to cut away and outline your cuts with a pencil. Cut along your pencil lines with a hand-held saw to reshape the block. Sand the cut edges with medium-grit sandpaper, then with fine-grit sandpaper until it is smooth and resembles the rest of the block. Wipe away any dust with a damp cloth and allow the surface to dry, then seal it with a finish that matches the rest of the block.
Apply aluminum reflective tape with attached insulation on any sides that will face a cooktop. This will prevent heat damage to the finish or the wood.
Place the butcher block back on your countertop and trace its edge with your pencil. Hold the tip of your pencil tightly against the wooden edge and press lightly to create a faint line as close to the board as possible. Once it is traced, remove the block again and set it aside.
Measure and mark your drill holes. Prefabricated butcher blocks are typically shipped with existing drill holes, so use your carpenter's square to measure their position relative to the block's edges and note these measurements. Align the carpenter's square with your pencil lines and mark the countertop for drilling at the corresponding points. If you measure correctly, the marks on the countertop will line up with the holes in the butcher block.
Drill screw holes into your counter top. Avoid damaging the laminate by using a new wood drill bit, of a slightly smaller diameter than your wood screws, and drilling at your drill's highest speed setting. Prevent the drill tip from slipping or skidding across the surface by placing one or two strips of masking tape over your target points. Drill through the tape, allowing its rough adhesive surface to act as a stabilizer and to keep your drill from slipping.
Place your butcher block on the countertop again. Align the drill holes in your butcher block with those in your counter and drive one wood screw into each hole. Use your screwdriver or power drill with a screwdriver bit on a low setting for this, and drive the screws in until the butcher block and counter are firmly attached to each other.
Fill in the holes above your screw heads with wood putty and allow it to dry, then sand it flush with the rest of the wood. Sand carefully to avoid damaging or sanding away the surrounding finish. Once the wood putty is flush, clean the area and apply a small amount of additional finish to match the rest of the wood.
Things Needed
- Butcher block
- Wood screws
- Power drill
- Wood bits
- Screwdriver bits
- Hand-held saw
- Tape measure
- Carpenter's square
- Pencil
- Wood finish
- Medium-grit sandpaper
- Fine-grit sandpaper
- Cloths
- Wood putty
- Aluminum reflective tape with attached insulation
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- Hemera Technologies/PhotoObjects.net/Getty Images


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Cook the Book: Clay-Pot Ginger Pork with Figs and Pickled Fennel
It's a little late today, but I guess I wanted to wait a bit before parting with The Breakaway Cook for the week. It's a little chilly, windy, and rainy today as I'm writing this so Clay-Pot Ginger Pork with Figs and Pickled Fennel looked like just the antidote. As the book's author, Eric Gower, notes, this recipe takes little in the way of assembly but it does need about two hours to cookit's a good weekend dish for that reason.
- Yield:8 generously
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 1 large onion, minced
- 1 cup minced peeled fresh ginger
- 2 pounds pork butt (also called pork shoulder), cut into 1-inch cubes
- Liberal dusting of kosher salt
- Liberal dusting of freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup Ume-Pickled Fennel Juice (recipe follows) or umeshu (plum wine)
- 10 dried figs (such as Mission figs), roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup carrot juice
- Several tablespoons Ume-Pickled Fennel (recipe follows), for garnish
- 1 cup umeshu (plum wine)
- 5 meaty umeboshi, pitted and roughly chopped (about 1/4 cup)
- 1 cup rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons orange blossom or other honey
- 1 large fennel bulb, stalks removed, sliced as thinly as possible (about 3 cups)
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Melt the butter with the olive oil in a large clay pot over medium-high heat. Add the onion and ginger; cook until the onion softens, about 5 minutes. Add the pork, salt, and pepper; stir, and cook for 10 minutes more.
Add the plum wine and figs, bring to a boil, mix thoroughly, cover, and roast for 1 1/2 hours. Remove from the oven and, using a wooden spoon or a spatula, break apart the pork chunks a bit. Add the carrot juice; return to oven for 30 minutes more. Taste and adjust the salt. Serve from the clay pot or transfer to warm individual plates; garnish with a mound of pickled fennel.
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Combine the wine, pickled plums, vinegar, and honey in a blender; purée. Place the fennel slices in a large bowl, pour in the liquid, and cover tightly. You can eat it right away, but the flavors only get better after a few days in the fridge. Keeps for several months.
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By GREGG ELLMAN — Twitter.com/greggellman
It's become a yearly ritual of mine, a year-end office cleaning of great tech products I wanted to, but never really got to reviewing this year; it's still this year so here are few more great products you should know about.
The Jabra Supreme UC is one of a long line of consistent, well-performing Bluetooth hands-free devices from the company.
It's built with Active Noise Cancellation for your caller, eliminating the distracting background ambient noise.
A Flip-Boom makes the handsfree headset stand out since you can position the built-in microphone and talk directly into it so others hear you crystal clear.
Other features include Voice Control and Voice Guidance for hands-free operation and the ability to connect two Bluetooth devices simultaneously.
A Jabra LINK 360 Bluetooth USB adapter for an easy connection to a PC
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It's a complete system, including the charging base, which connects to the included USB cord for power and a protective case.
The unique system is "complete" thanks to the case, built with an extended lithium-ion battery for up to 40 more hours of iPhone use.
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Chargers for the iPhone 5 and other devices are planned for 2013.
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Taking photos with your smartphone is pretty easy but getting yourself in the photo with a large group of people can be a challenge.
The BT Smart Pointer is a pocket-sized portable remote built with an internal lithium-ion battery and Bluetooth technology to control selected Apple iOS and Android devices along with PC and Mac computers built with Bluetooth.
It has buttons to control selected functions on your devices and trigger a device's camera shutter to allow the whole group get in the photo before the image is taken.
The remote can also set the volume or control presentations in PowerPoint and even has a built-in laser pointer.
For iPhone iOS users, just hit the home button to activate Siri without touching the phone itself. It also works in iOS apps such as Keynote and iBook.
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Amazon's Alexa just got a taste of Twitter power.
Twitter has rolled out an app that they're calling Twitter Reader, which lets people have their Amazon Echo smart phone speakers or other Alexa-enabled device recite their Twitter feeds. This app, which seems to be the first Alexa app from a big social network like Twitter, seems to be coming from Twitter the news company more than Twitter the social network itself, since Twitter Reader serves mainly as an audible news reader.
Not only will this app recite people's main timelines, the Twitter Reader app can read aloud what topics are trending on Twitter near where the person's location or somewhere else. Users will be able to ask for a sample of tweets corresponding to one of these trends.
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Many people are interested in losing weight, especially with the portrayals of body image that we see in the media.
Consistent and balanced dieting is more important than fad diets that cause inconsistencies in weight. While we should avoid spending much energy in being depressed about not having that perfectly toned body, we should also avoid surrendering to the unhealthy lifestyle.
We had a conversation with a renowned doctor about the importance of healthy eating habits. What he shared with us is that moderation is the key to a healthy and balanced diet. He helped create a program which serves to help educated people in the science of weight loss and maintenance. The program is a mixture of counselling on diet and exercise, and medications that are clinically proven to aid in the weight loss program for each patient.
Is there any truth to the whole "more protein and fewer carbs" viewpoint?
For us Singaporeans, this is a generally accepted concept – but it's important that we remember everything must be consumed in moderation.
Carbs are critical to the functioning of the human body as the body's primary source of energy. They are made up of sugars and starches, and we know that excess sugars can be problematic in our diet. These sugars can be made into fat and cause not only increases in weight, but also can lead to increased risk for heart disease and diabetes. In the case of protein, it is critical to the development of muscle in our body. Muscles are important to overall health as they help keep us lean by increasing our total metabolic rate – so muscle helps keep us lean. Thus, it is generally a good idea to limit carbs and increase consumption of lean protein.
How about the argument that it is better to eat several small meals during the day as opposed to three large meals?
What that does for the body is keep the blood sugar levels consistent throughout the day and keep the levels from spiking. This can help prevent overeating and aid in the reduction of the total caloric intake for the day.
What advice do you have for someone looking to maintain their good figure?
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The Cisco 7970G IP Phone is by far one of the nicest VoIP Phones i have ever used. However, getting it to work outside the standard Cisco Call Manager environment with Asterisk can be a challenge. After weeks of testing various configurations and tweaking settings on both the phone and Asterisk, i was able to finally get a working configuration that works for both local network connections and NAT as well.
As with any setup there are some prerequisites that must be met to perform this setup. It is possible that other configurations and software versions will work, however this is what I have currently working. You are welcome to let me know if you have other setups that work.
My Configuration & Setup
I successfully tested the following configurations with the phone:
The NAT Setup*
7970G <–> 1811 (w/ NAT) <–> Internet <–> 1811 (w/ NAT) <–> Asterisk
The DMVPN Setup (Same as a local network)
7970G <–> 1811 <–> Internet (VPN) <–> 1811 <–> Asterisk
The DMVPN setup was the most trivial as it was essentially a local network with the Asterisk server. The NAT setup was the harder one to get working, however, once I got a configuration file that worked with NAT, the same configuration worked for the DMVPN or local setup as well.
*I believe that one of the keys to getting the 7970G working over NAT was the fact that it was behind a Cisco router (the 1811). Because this router's NAT implementation is SIP aware, it is able to properly handle SIP messages over NAT from the 7970G. This being said, the 7970G may not function properly over NAT on other routers.
XML Configuration File
Below you will find the link to my XML configuration file (with passwords and IP's of my private network removed of course)
NOTE: The file should be in the form "SEPmac_address.cnf.xml" when you place it on your TFTP server. where mac_address is the MAC address of your Cisco IP phone.
Asterisk Configuration
In order to get the Cisco 7970G to register to asterisk (either over NAT or VPN) the NAT flag in your sip.conf (or in FreePBX) must be set to "never" and qualify must be set to "yes". I know it seems counter intuitive to keep NAT turned off when you are behind it but for some reason Asterisk's NAT implementation breaks Cisco phone connections. Qualify is needed because it keeps the NAT translation open between the Cisco phone and the Asterisk server. Should the translation be allowed to close, Asterisk will not be able to reach the Cisco phone.
MWI Fixes
The second part to this was making sure that MWI worked on the phone. This has become somewhat of an issue due to a couple reasons:
Cisco firmware version 8.0.2SR1 is able to handle the extra information and thus this is the firmware that many people using this phone have stuck with despite the numerous newer releases that have come out. Any version after that must use one of the following methods to get MWI working again.
I opted for option #2 for two reasons. First, it just seemed cleaner to make the change once and not have to worry about it again (until i upgrade that is) and secondly, FreePBX does not provide an easy way to add the "BUGGYMWI" flag into extensions.
In order to remove this from chan_sip.c permanently, go to your asterisk source code and then go to the "channels" folder. From there open up the chan_sip.c file and search for the following:
/* Cisco has a bug in the SIP stack where it can't accept the
(0/0) notification. This can temporarily be disabled in
sip.conf with the "buggymwi" option */
ast_build_string(&t, &maxbytes, "Voice-Message: %d/%d%s\r\n", newmsgs, oldmsgs, (ast_test_flag(&p->flags[1], SIP_PAGE2_BUGGY_MWI) ? "" : "(0/0)"));
Now all you must do is simply replace the last line with this:
ast_build_string(&t, &maxbytes, "Voice-Message: %d/%d\r\n", newmsgs, oldmsgs);
And then compile Asterisk.
I hope this guide helps everyone that loves the Cisco 7970G phone to get it working with Asterisk. It can be a difficult task but is well worth the effort once it is working. Please feel free to leave comments with any suggestions to this article and let me know if you have gotten any other configurations working!
I have tried your instructions, line by line, did the never for NAT and yes for Qualify in asterisk. I have even changed network environments where I have a different router and different internet connection. but no luck
However the template you posted has the following
I apologize for the above format, i tried to put in the XML tags but they dont make it through
Does this need to be changed?
I have also tried the following
I also did one variation where I put in my external IP, that too did not work
But that too does not work, is there any other field that is missing that I need to put in?
Please let me know, so far without VPN or being on same network I am not seeing this phone register remotely. I am even using the same Firmware version on the config file.
Please let me know if i am missing something
I would like to try your instructions. For some reason I dont see the firmware you mention on cisco site. Is is possible you can point me to the right direction on where to get this firmware?
Thanks in advance,
I tried the cnf.xml and it says error verifying config info. I have tried a couple of other firmware and XML files and had them work successfully. Any idea on what should I check? This is the latest version of the XML/firmware I could find out there.
Josh… try taking out the Nat stuff from your SEP.cnf.xml & you'll see that your "error verifying info" goes away. Of course, you won't be nat'ing, but the error goes away. /;)
I'm pounding on it right now trying to figure out the magical incantantion.
Did you make any progress?
Could you possibly provide details of the NAT setup on your 1811?
I'm particularily interested in the NAT config on the 1811 and how it is "SIP Aware".
I'm also interestd in seeing the DMVPN config if you could provide that.
I'm having this NAT issue… What commands did you issue to IOS to make it play nice and bridge the gap between your asterisk box and your 7970?
guys im noticing these phones send this sip message:
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 192.168.0.2.:5060;
compared to say the 7940 which sends this and registers fine:
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 133.334.556.6:5060;branch=z9hG4bKa9abf37a
First one sends VIA internal IP the second (working case) send VIA external IP.
ignore this, the nataddress wasnt set correctly


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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska state officials are preparing for their first execution in two decades and their first-ever lethal injection with an untried combination of drugs that includes a powerful painkiller responsible for much of the nation's opioid epidemic and a paralyzing drug that could conceal whether something has gone wrong.
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