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sufficiently shown concerning the celebration of the Dominicum, that only the sacrifice of the Mass can be understood."[25] Observe this last statement. He says though the word has been employed to designate the temple of the Lord, yet in the things here related it can only signify the sacrifice of the Mass. These testimonies are exceedingly explicit. But Baronius has not yet finished. In the index to Tome 3, he explains these words again with direct reference to this very martyrdom. Thus under Collecta is this statement: "The Collecta. the Dominicum, the Mass, the same [A.D.] 303, xxxix."[26] Under Missa: "The Mass is the same as the Collecta, or Dominicum [A.D.], 303, xxxix." Under Dominicum: "To celebrate the Dominicum is the same as to conduct the Mass [A.D.], 303. xxxix.; xlix.; li."[27] It is not possible to mistake the meaning of Baronius. He says that Dominicum signifies the Mass! The celebration of the supper by these martyrs was doubtless very different from the pompous ceremony which the church of Rome now observes under the name of Mass. But it was the 430
sacrament of the Lord's supper, concerning which they were tested, and for observing which they were put to a cruel death. The word Dominicum signifies "the sacred mysteries," as Ruinart defines it; and Baronius, in seven times affirming this definition, though acknowledging that it has sometimes been used to signify temple of God, plainly declares that in this record, it can have no other meaning than that service which the Romanists call the sacrifice of the Mass. Gilfillan had read all this, yet he dares to quote Baronius as saying that these martyrs were tested by the question, "Have you kept Lord's Day?" He could not but know that he was writing a direct falsehood; but he thought the honor of God, and the advancement of the cause of truth, demanded this act at his hands. Before Gilfillan wrote his work, Domville had called attention to the fact that the sentence, "Dominicum servasti?" does not occur in the Acta Martyrum, a different verb being used every time. But this is the popular form of this question, and must not be given up. So Gilfillan declares that 431
his uprightness, it must have been
which it has usurped the place of t
Chapter 1 The Creation Time and ete
On the second day of time "God said
kind, and everything that creepeth
abbis, who are legitimate judges in
Chapter 2 The Institution of the Sa
The blessing and sanctification of
of these days a name which indicate
etc. This sanctification or appoint
The declaration, "God blessed the s
holy use. And in the commandment it
the heavens be no more, they shall
seventh day because he had rested u
We have seen the Sabbath ordained o
that he should "remember the Sabbat
his intelligent creatures. When the
whole moral law is given. The recor
yet the observance of the other and
It was therefore not difficult for
and sanctified it. Gen. 2:3. Moses
8. Dr. Twisse illustrates the absur
Chapter 3 The Sabbath Committed to
(Gen. 2-6; Heb. 11:4-7; 1 Pet. 3:20
the knowledge of divine truth and t
hadst formed the earth and the worl
did mete it with an omer, he that g
people, of their own accord, had ga
day." (Lev. 23:3; Mark 1:21; Luke 4
and we are told why it was such a s
Sabbath; 2. When he brought the peo
Ex.16, which is supposed to give th
Chapter 4 The Fourth Commandment Th
giving of the law, and the service
holy use, at the close of the first
Creator rested, and upon which he p
commandment. And mark the expressio
3. He who created the world on the
Chapter 5 The Sabbath Written by th
and the foreigner must keep it, and
"And the Lord spake unto Moses sayi
Sabbaths TO BE a sign between me an
apart or sanctify unto himself the
did not originate from the fall of
affixed to most of the precepts of
in this record the Sabbath is menti
given him to be properly spent in t
The law within the ark was that whi
of Dr. C. And if this be correct, i
properly enough refer to Moses, if
provocation in the day of temptatio
This language has undoubted referen
their own land; and that one of the
nation, and not a part of the origi
would not conflict with the Passove
keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my
despised the word of the Lord, and
yourselves to the Most High to keep
Yet there is the strongest evidence
then bless and hallow the day. 4. T
in polluting it. Deliverance from a
These texts will explain the follow
to the TEN WORDS of the law of God,
Jacob, his statutes and his judgmen
Sabbath as a Jewish institution, be
Chapter 7 The Feasts, New Moons and
feasts, and occupied but a single d
"And ye shall proclaim on the selfs
these Sabbaths, the following or fi
these Sabbaths of the land came the
when he ordained the festivals and
Hosea carefully designates the annu
13:15-18) and their final restorati
says, 'her Sabbaths.' But the Sabba
violation of the Sabbath caused the
then is proved by the fact that six
OWN work: "Six days shalt thou labo
those who believe that God set apar
When our Lord was called upon to pr
forgotten or lost during the five c
overthrow as a people. About fifty
when they are outcasts, that is, wh
urden on the Sabbath day, nor bring
their children to their idols, then
and also to the festivals of the He
court, this covenant was in part, a
Nehemiah bears testimony to the acc
10. A few words relative to the tim
Chapter 9 The Sabbath from Nehemiah
"Then many that sought after justic
Yet were some martyred after this f
eason of the opposition the Jews wo
Sabbath to walk on green grass, for
frauds by which Sunday is shown to
as the close of the Seventy weeks I
in their synagogues, being glorifie
that were possessed with devils. An
2. That the question raised by the
this reference to the priests, had
God. There must be a time when thes
concerning the Sabbath. He carefull
have one sheep, and if it fall into
Sir, I have no man, when the water
hitherto lightly esteemed the Sabba
from the same point, else the examp
"I must work the works of him that
the glorious things that were done
MERCIFUL institution, and to rid it
the city of Jerusalem with an army,
for life. And pitiable indeed was t
"He pitched his camp at a certain p
therefore, that whether in city or
man thereof judge you in meat, or i
1. The Sabbath of the Lord was made
2:8-12; Matt. 5:17-19; Rom. 3:19, 3
terms. At this point of time it is
In these texts the foundation of th
sat at meat, and upbraided them wit
day of the week and blessed and hal
authority of the texts already quot
substantial frame-work than enters
The conclusion to which these facts
Son of God for sinful men may be sa
never authorized such an act. But a
day of the week, which he has never
slightest evidence that that day or
1. See, on this point, the conclusi
this day? What a false-hearted prof
was not, as to change the rest-day
or advanceth the work of redemption
Gentiles began with Sabbath-keepers
and foreigners, but fellow-citizens
2. The death of the Redeemer for th
great central point in the work of
the law of God in the heart of each
which we may conclude that man in h
Gentiles, and the opening events of
"For they that dwell at Jerusalem,
y other texts. Several years after
in the books of Moses, and the firs
strongly attests the Sabbath as the
esides the few Jews who received th
Sabbath-keeping church of Thessalon
as I have given order to the church
"[6] The Douay Bible reads: "Let ev
Sabbath. Yet Paul omits all titles
this day had become the Christian S
follows the important consequence t
own master he standeth or falleth.
1John 3:4, 5) 3. Because that Paul
of David, "All things are put under
testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in
proving beyond all doubt that that
examined, is found to have no such
from doing thy pleasure on MY HOLY
7. Sabbath Manual of the American T
elative to redemption as an argumen
they had regarded with superstitiou
truth, but that it was left out of
The book of Acts is an inspired his
who taught otherwise were of that c
its origin, it can never cease to b
forward and new modeled the cause."
portion of the people of God were s
passes over the line which separate
challenge them as its abettors. In
tradition, and show the amount of r
It is certain that the first-day Sa
is it decreed that the observation
Chapter 13 The Sunday-Lord's Day
But next to the deception under whi
and is absolutely decisive. But thi
instances of its mention in the Bib
name, for it was not such. But if t
epistle of Pliny, A.D. 104, in conn
were tested by the question whether
Having carefully and minutely exami
"To-day we have passed the Lord's h
But Dionysius does not merely use t
Christians keeps the Sabbath, medit
John's vision upon Patmos, A.D. 96;
and genial spot, and the locality o
this duty in the gospel sense:-- "H
uses the term Lord's Day. He defi
those heathen of whom he now writes
apostolic than is the sign of the c
name for the so-called eighth day.
Paul."[24] If the Sunday-Lord's D
Rome; or rather that Peter was the
day observance any divine authority
annually; you have a festive day ev
y some in the list. It is certain t
assembling was "to hear the saving
eader judge whether we have correct
the Scriptures. The next father wil
sacrament was given beforehand in s
"Looking forward to this, the proph
modern first-day writers. Or had th
"Similarly, too, in the period of P
festival of Sunday, in the judgment
harmony with the facts already addu
Sabbath. We shall also find that Cl
world shall endure in its present s
to keep in the present state of wic
"Do you see that the elements are n
Such were Justin's reasons for reje
the fact that when the Kingdom of G
not do their own work, but God's, w
Notes: 1. Epistle of Barnabas, chap
39. Apostolical Constitutions, book
Chapter 18 The Sabbath in the Recor
"For God at the first, indeed, warn
ules of our regenerate life," that
RETURN to those virtuous manners wh
"And he says in another place, 'If
during the duration of the world, a
made up rest from our works, for th
unknown in Tertullian's time. Had i
ETERNAL and NATURAL ACTS OF RIGHTEO
in six days."[28] This language has
the eighth, but the seventh, that i
seventh day, but the sixth, and Sun
The act of standing in prayer was o
methods of observing one day. The J
this was that they contented themse
centuries, especially those residen
Provider, the Law-giver, the Cause
of right, and that the Sabbath of t
Spirit, which acts in themselves co
4. Id. BOOK III. CHAP IX. 5. Id. Ib
ecclesiam convenias, lectionibus di
Chapter 19 The Sabbath and First-da
in the Christian church has been al
the Jewish festivals, the Gentile C
Down even to the fifth century the
"The observance of the Lord's Day
the third, is sufficiently attested
enlisted under the banner of Christ
"In this way [that is, by presentin
etween the rival institutions, the
"The first day of the week, which w
abstaining from common business; no
indubitable proof that this law was
On the seventh day of March, Consta
day of the sun. Thus Gibbon testifi
current of opinion, he declared him
Origen, Cyprian, Anatolius, Commodi
"Thus do we see upon what grounds t
"And in the following times, when a
themselves that the ignorant rustic
Constantine. This fact should not b
But now we come to a fact of remark
civil law, given to Sunday a Sabbat
The persons here referred to as the
of this century, was evidently gain
observance to become with many only
inferior to them in good qualities.
unto his worldly business on the Lo
Christians had to say for themselve
and generally since taken up in the
Sabbath of every week, yet the Chri
Notes: 1. Dialogues on the Lord's
festival of Sunday, what the fourth
published by R. Groombridge & Sons,
61. Sunday a Sabbath, p. 163. 1640.
and commanded to keep Sunday -- Fir
their history for the present, let
It should be observed, however, tha
great infirmity. And because they,
neglect and slight the Lord's Day
shame.' "[14] In the conclusion of
Agatho there sat the twelfth counci
with due veneration, and wholly dev
according to Morer, "They entreated
estored to its honor, and for the c
"Where it was ordered more precisel
ead:-- A.D.876. "Alfred the Great,
A.D.967. King Edgar "commanded that
still more strict. Morer informs us
"Of him it is reported that he had
Flaye, returned to England, and pre
ain I will rain upon you stones, an
will I send against you still worse
commissioned to bring it into Engla
III. who filled the office of pope
would pay due reverence to the Lord
it under the ashes, after the ninth
observance. "It shows," as Morer qu
Edmund de Abendon archbishop of Can
obstinate and speak or act against
which has supplanted it:-- A.D.1584
14. Historical and Practical Discou
39. Hist. Sab. part ii, chap. v, se
56. See page 274 of this work. 57.
who were not in the communion of th
the communion of the church of Rome
into England.[5] "The people in the
and on Saturday the ninth of June s
Among the dissenters from the Romis
Jortin dates their withdrawal into
countries of Europe, Benedict thus
"They can say a great part of the O
Sylvester. . . . They hold that non
they distinguished themselves from
follows:-- "Insabbatati [they were
that this statement is founded in e
different Sabbath from the Catholic
speak of the observance of the seve
Another class of witnesses to the t
his first book against heretics, wh
distinctive as beautiful."[47] - Mo
e kept in mind whenever we read of
these heretics he places the Petrob
learned men of the East had put for
there is no evidence that any of th
"They which maintain the Saturday S
the perfect rule of the Christian f
Peter, and the sovereign of the wor
sight of by it. The Catholics of Eu
western world for a thousand years,
author has just spoken. The history
monks, to attach them to her commun
service on Saturdays, eat flesh, an
16. Edward's Hist. of Redemption, p
35. Jones's Church History, vol. ii
62. The Rise, Spring. and Foundatio
Chapter 22 Position of the Reformer
local saints which some particular
up by Melancthon [and approved by L
"If we would have the Lord's day so
proves conclusively that he did not
week. What does he say of the break
one's ability might enable -- that
found him enjoying the recreation o
John Barclay,[28] a learned man of
should come once in seven days, eve
That church now holds Sunday to be
impropriety of making them the stan
18. Calvin's Commentary on Acts 20:
38. Hessey p. 203. 39. Dr. Priestly
the Anabaptists -- Why Carlstadt ha
and Carlstadt on this very subject.
the Spirit was sufficient, there wa
[Carlstadt] rejected the practice o
egard to the ceremonies introduced
and Luther, and that which most emb
Carlstadt, for maintaining the doct
"For three centuries, Carlstadt's m
ut also most OUTRAGEOUS of his cont
" 'He was well acquainted,' says Dr
The various historians who treat of
the body and blood of Christ, and a
20. Id. book x. p. 315. 21. Hist. R
And we have not the word of God for
great number of ministers, and a mu
lamed" for the death of Davidis, "b
Genoldists."[10] Sabbath-keepers, a
speak of those who turn from the fi
"A Jew named Horie preached a mixtu
Passaginians.[17] Is there any reas
een instituted by popes, cardinals,
denomination in that kingdom."[26]
Oxford, 1835. 24. I know of no exce
portent -- none of these, nor all o
liberty to the church of the New Te
esponse, and the result was a most
Puritans fell in with this doctrine
and of the Gentiles, of the law and
eye-witness, Dr. Heylyn:-- "For by
"It is not possible, indeed, if tra
conclude this work. Notes: 1. Hengs
Chapter 26 English Sabbath-keepers
day, and the right use of the same.
"For 'making of conventicles and fa
her long imprisonment, Pagitt says
this day obligeth Christians under
Sabbatarian questions) in the old a
"Because an indefinite time must ei
Sabbath of the Lord."[21] In 1671,
"When he resided in London he forme
Ilchester jail.[31] About the time
idicule. At the scaffold, on the da
persecution was that of their great
8. Pagitt's Heresiography, p. 209.
Chapter 27 The Sabbath in America T
Mr. Mumford, on his arrival, went e
of the church," they "found themsel
1671."[7] "On the 23rd of December,
The American Sabbath Tract Society
State. They originated in 1728 from
The Sabbath was first introduced to
Sabbath reform. But both of them, w
about this time to interest many Ad
Adventist Publishing Association. T
settlement is instituted each year
families scattered all the way from
They have had perils from open foes
earth. The importance of the Sabbat
High is again and for the last time
4. Seventh-day Baptist Memorial, vo
Maine. This article was reprinted i
Schrevelius, and Greenfield. 907


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Cancer Care Connection
A professional new look for this touching non-profit organization.
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A playful website full of important information for the Cape Henlopen Educational Foundation.
This was a great client to work with, and their site turned out awesome!
A beautiful and nature-filled website for this non-profit dedicated to protecting Sussex County's natural heritage.
We are proud of how awesome this design came out. The client was too.
This one really tugged at our heartstrings. We have a soft spot for helping kids.
What can we say? We love supporting non-profit organizations providing services for children.
We also developed a custom website for their major event, the Delaware Mud Run. Check out its portfolio piece too.
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Send your workplace conundrums to firstname.lastname@example.com, including your name and contact information (even if you want it withheld for publication). The Workologist is a guy with well-intentioned opinions, not a professional career adviser. Letters may be edited.
I am a full-time receptionist in a medium-size office. For my scheduled 15-minute breaks, other employees fill in for me so that the phones are answered. Last month, this led to an incident that's been bothering me.
It started when I returned from my break five minutes early; I stood quietly behind the reception desk because the colleague who was filling in for me was taking a call. When she hung up, I said something like, "I'm back, thank you." She seemed flustered — I think it was because she was logged on to her personal Gmail account. She seemed to be having trouble logging off, and I offered to do it for her. She became even more flustered. I stood waiting while she finished and gathered her purse.
Later, she sent an instant message, saying in part: "I was having a really happy day until you rushed me out of there. I know you have work to do, but you don't have to be bossy about it."
My first reply was, "What?" And then, "Do you think we could discuss what happened so that I can understand?" She responded that my "body language" had bothered her, as had my offer to close her "private email." She added that she would not discuss this in person, telling me that if I thought about my earlier behavior I'd figure out what upset her. I replied that I was sorry, but when I tried to follow up, it seemed clear she didn't want to discuss the matter.
So was I really being bossy — or, even worse, rude? ANONYMOUS
Intentionally or not, your colleague chose a word, "bossy," that seems to be bugging a lot of people these days. A "Ban Bossy" campaign being pushed by Sheryl Sandberg's LeanIn.org argues that when directed at girls, the word sends a harmful message to pipe down and keep one's place. Others disagree.
In this case, it doesn't sound as if you were intentionally trying to assert power over your colleague. Whatever your transgression, it may well have been one incident in a chain of annoyances — whether personal or work-related — that had nothing to do with you. The point is, having five minutes to check her email may have been a welcome respite. Thus your unexpected arrival might have been the final indignity.
I can only guess what she meant by the "body language" reference, but remember that people can be very sensitive about the feeling that someone is looking over their shoulder, particularly at something potentially private on a computer screen.
I endorse your instinct to try to address the problem in person, as it's easy to misread tone in digital communiqués. But you gave that a shot, and at this point it sounds as if there's not much upside in pushing the matter further. Certainly, trying to explain or defend yourself doesn't sound productive. Stay cordial, and let it go — your colleague seems to want that, and she may interpret any demand for further discussion as, yes, bossiness.
Peer Review: Beauty Tips From Above
Regarding the woman whose boss — also a woman — advised that she dye her hair or get Botox to make her appear more "professional" ("Beauty Tips She Can Do Without," March 9):
It's possible that this supervisor was motivated by a desire to protect a liked or valued employee, though her specific approach might not have been the ideal, or even legally advisable, path.
Sexism is real, and it cuts many ways. Perhaps the boss had inside information on higher-management comments about this employee that aren't based on her performance. Or she was privy to discussions about wanting someone younger or more attractive, discussions that she cannot repeat. It happens more often than one would like to think.
Maybe dropping hints to this employee is politically safer than confronting management about sexist or ageist plans.
Interestingly, that question and answer drew reader responses with sharply varied perspectives — from speculation that the employee in question might benefit from the proffered advice, to the insistence that she should start preparing a paper trail for an inevitable legal battle. Of course, there is no way to be certain about the boss's motives.
But the hypothetical situations offered by this reader strike me as particularly useful in thinking about how to respond to uncomfortable suggestions from a superior: It's a good idea to consider a range of potential motivations, from the most well intentioned to the most nefarious.
So, sure, keep notes or relevant email in case the situation gets ugly. But getting into a final-showdown mind-set, based purely on pessimistic guesswork, drastically narrows the possibility of a happy resolution.


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There are days when scrubbing down is not a need but rather looking great should dependably be considered. Make-up can give you the crisp confronted look you need however a chaotic, slick hair can break the arrangement.
Shampooing each day is bad for your hair at any rate since it goes away your scalp, keeping the solid oils from supporting your hair. With these basic deceives, you can shake your second day hair without appearing as though you just got up.
Here are a couple traps to help you look great with second day hair:
Bun your hair. Most ideal approach to keep your hair from looking dull and muddled? Shroud it. Indeed, not truly. Moving up your hair into a bun conceals the untidiness of it from spectators. A bun is too simpler to oversee considering that second day hair can get everywhere. Indeed, even with an expected chaotic bun or a bun that got muddled before the day's over, you would at present look great and common.
Dry cleanser. In case you're wanting to look crisp with second or even third day hair, dry cleanser should be your new closest companion. Dry cleanser works by tidying your hair and drenching up the abundance oil from your scalp following a day or two without showering. Splash it no less than six creeps far from the foundations of your hair and hold up a couple of minutes before styling. Use on roots and finishes to give a matte composition.
Hold the brush. It would be better not to brush your second day hair, in any event not before utilizing dry cleanser. Brushing would circulate the oil, making your hair look oily and clumpy.
Include a few twists. In the event that you have a dainty, feeble hair, pulling off a second day hair would be harder for you. To battle a shaky looking hair, volume is the best arrangement. What's more, nothing says volume like twists. Splash some dry cleanser on your hair, get your hair curler, and make that wobbly hair look alive.
Headbands or head scarves. You can likewise style your hair with headbands or head scarves to occupy the consideration from your second day hair. Leave your hair down or tie it up, consideration would be unwittingly centered around the head frill rather than your hair.
Shampooing each day is bad for your hair at any rate since it goes away your scalp, keeping the solid oils from supporting your hair. With these basic deceives, you can shake your second day hair without appearing as though you just got up.


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Ian Walsh Referees at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Congratulations to Ian Walsh who is a referee at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia.
Ian's schedule for the the Men's Olympic Hockey Tournament is:
- Thursday, February 13, Finland vs Austria, 3:00am Eastern Time, Bolshoy / NBC Sports Network
- Saturday, February 15, Sweden vs Latvia, 12:00 noon Eastern Time, Shayba / NBC Sports Network
- Sunday, February 16, Austria vs Norway, 3:00am Eastern Time, Bolshoy / USA Network
Ian's comments on the Olympics:
In USA Hockey Officials Reflect on Their Path to Sochi, when asked what it was about officiating that made him choose it as a career and have the Olympics as a goal, Ian said, "I've always enjoyed the challenge of learning and improving. Every game, every night presents a different challenge mentally and physically. I love the intensity of the game and the competitiveness of the players and officials in ice hockey."
When asked, what is his most memorable officiating experience, Ian said, "Being selected to work the Stanley Cup Playoffs and NHL Winter Classic in my hometown."
When asked what advice he would give to other officials who want to achieve the highest levels of officiating, Ian said, "Ask questions and listen when working with senior partners. Have respect for the game and your fellow officials. Have a great attitude and be humble as this job is tough but there are none more rewarding."
(There are a lot of other good quotes in that article from other USA Hockey officials who are officiating in the Olympics.)
In Featured NHLOA News, the National Hockey League Officials Association lists the 13 members and 15 amateur officials who were chosen for the men's Olympic tournament.
In Olympic Hockey from the NHL Official's Perspective, columnist Kerry Fraser names the officials who are working in Sochi and explains how the officials from the NHL, USA Hockey, and Hockey Canada were briefed by the IIHF before the games.
One important assertion made by Kerry was that the Olympic officials were discouraged from having family travel with them, "Aside from the fact that it will be mostly business for the refs and linesmen once they arrive in Sochi, it is a much different world today than it was in 1998. As such, the current group of officials was strongly discouraged from having any family members join then for this Olympic event. It will be all business with heightened security measures in place!"
More information about Ian's work at the Olympics will be posted in this article as it becomes available.
[ Photos: Screen shots from the NBC Sports Live Extra Application for the iPad. Those images are Copyright © 2014 by NBCUniversal Media, LLC as the U.S. rights holder for the 2014 Winter Olympics. ]


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No teasing, well not too much I hope. We've developed a set of free ground combat rules that we'll make available as a PDF download. Called Dystopian Wars: Armoured Clash the rules are all about controlling Armoured Battle Groups that are supported by Army level units (artillery, large flyers and so on) and part of these rules are ground troops that can destroy AFVs, but also capture bunkers and hold objectives.
We've got part of the forum primed for their arrival, finishing off the PDF with examples and images, and we aim to have them out in early to mid June. Well that's what Andy tells me.
Spartan Neil
Spartan Games is pleased to announce the imminent arrival of Armoured Clash, our first set of community rules that we are making free to download from our web site at www.spartangames.co.uk. During the development of the Armoured Battle Group boxed sets it became clear that not only do we LOVE to play large games, but we believe our customers do as well!
This is where Armoured Clash steps in. Centred in the world of Dystopian Wars, the rules are designed for large scale land combat with commanders pushing numerous units around a battlefield, the command and control of which is key to their success. So if playing with one Armoured Battle Group excites you – think what 2-3 boxes, plus support models, will do to your blood pressure!
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|Spark It, mixed media textile collage
My heart candle started off as a vague 'what if' session of scrap play. Once the basic idea sifted out I challenged myself to push the embroidery but relax. Think of the wonderful people in my life and translate those warm fuzzies into stitches. Lots of them. Lots of pleasurable poke and pull colorful stitches. And then add beads. Because sparkly stuff is pretty too.
Although this was not intended for someone in particular I do plan to try it as a reproducible picture for cards. Which means trotting out the tripod-mounted camera and 5500K studio lights. That'll be awhile. I'd rather just sew another one or 10 of these.
Eventually it'll live in the fabric book I have in mind as a catch all for textile collages not meant for splashy wall display. Quiet pieces that one can cozy up with while sipping tea and daydreaming.
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The panel found that Wilson's report, rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, as he has said, bolstered the case for most intelligence analysts. And contrary to Wilson's assertions and even the government's previous statements, the CIA did not tell the White House it had qualms about the reliability of the Africa intelligence that made its way into 16 fateful words in President Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address.
Yesterday's report said that whether Iraq sought to buy lightly enriched "yellowcake" uranium from Niger is one of the few bits of prewar intelligence that remains an open question.
Why does this matter? Well, as Lorie Byrd points out on PoliPundit, this was really the drop of blood in the water that began the "Bush lied" frenzy.
After Joe Wilson wrote his op/ed piece declaring the uranium story false, the President said he regretted it was included in the SOTU. The Democrats, like sharks in a sea of red, declared that Bush had admitted he lied. That was all it took. From that point on, the "Bush lied" mantra was repeated daily, and when WMD was not found in significant quantities in Iraq, the volume of those chanting it grew deafening.
While it doesn't mitigate other intelligence failures, I think it does illustrate the tendency to rush to judgment when considering things political.
Many of those who have opposed this administration looked upon Bush's "apology" for including the yellowcake in his SOTU address as some kind of admission of guilt. Can we expect apologies from them if this uranium story turns out to have some validity? Even begrudging acceptance would be a start.
UPDATE: Over at the Chicago Sun-Times, Mark Steyn, as always, says it better than I.


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Richard Spencer, Alt-right poster boy and president of the National Policy Institute, a white supremacist think tank, was at a Virginia gym working out when he got busted by a Georgetown professor.
C. Christine Fair, who was also present at Alexandria's Old Town Sport&Health gym, noticed Spencer and went up to him to confront him. Apparently, members and trainers of the gym had just the same day shared with that Fair that Spencer had joined their gym and that sharing the space with a known white supremacist made them upset and uncomfortable.
"I said also, 'I'm going to go to corporate, because this is a hostile work environment for you all,'" Fair told Jezebel.
But when she asked him "Are you Richard Spencer?" the coward immediately denied it, saying "No. I am not." But that wasn't true.
In a post on Tumblr, Fair wrote all about her encounter with the white supremacist who thinks no end of himself.
"I exploited the full range of my First Amendment entitlements by telling him that this country does not belong to white men. As a white woman, I find his membership at this gym to be unacceptable. I found his membership at this gym to be an unfair burden upon the women and people of color — and white male allies of the same. I also loudly identified him as a neo-Nazi," Fair wrote.
She also pointed out Spencer, who otherwise scorns people of color, had the audacity to ask an African-American trainer to help him.
But a white woman who had no idea about what a toxic man Spencer is tried to intervene and call Fair out — until the professor told her Spencer's background.
Just to remind everyone why Fair and others hate Spencer so much, in December last year, the white supremacist boasted that because of the conquest of North America by European invaders, "America belongs to white men."
"We won. America belongs to white men." - Richard Spencer pic.twitter.com/3LTiBSILiv— Josef (@josefgoldilock) December 7, 2016
On the same day , he also took to the opportunity to praise President Donald Trump for being an "alt-right hero" and for reminding white Americans of what makes "the white race truly unique and truly wonderful."
Richard Spencer praises Donald Trump as an alt-right hero pic.twitter.com/0LTGTXK6NW— Josef (@josefgoldilock) December 7, 2016
Spencer has also given Nazi salutes at public events while shouting, "Heil, Trump!" and marched in Charlottesville, VA, carrying torches to protest the removal of monuments to former Confederate war heroes. It doesn't get worse than this.
These are only few of the many instances Spencer has voiced his white supremacist, racist, neo-Nazi ideologies and blatantly discriminated against people of color.
Following the incident, Spencer — who said: "I'm really a model-gym goer. I don't bother anyone. I don't talk to anyone. I really just go and lift weights." — had his gym membership revoked.
He also claimed he denied being Richard Spencer when Fair asked him because he wanted her to "go away" and that he was only "peacefully working out" when the confrontation took place.
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These funny Halloween costume ideas can help you to inject some humor into your next Halloween party.
Halloween parties are usually full of good food, great guests, and loads of amazing costumes. But have you had your fill of vampires, ghouls, and witches? Maybe you should think about being the 'class clown' this year and find something hilarious as your Halloween costume.
You could go as a banana split, or perhaps you could plaster yourself with cut-out question marks and, when people ask what you are, you can simply shrug your shoulders and say you don't know.
There is inspiration all around you for ideas, and also ideas for every budget. Here, we will give you a few funny Halloween costume ideas to get you started in finding the perfect humorous Halloween outfit.
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Patience, patience dear reader, there are so many things you could do in 20 minutes, you could capture the secrets of the Zeitgeist in your feeble fist, like an ephemeral firefly whose wings are loaded with the power of the now, indeed, you could skim the surf bubbling at the top of the wave before precipitating into the oblivion of the forgotten.
Or you could stay with me, sit in that noble chair over there and listen to Year After (Entering Into Nothing) with the utmost concentration, for the 20 minutes that it lasts, watch layer after layer of beautiful freeform cha-boogie melody and rhythm mingling in the air like specks of diamond dust, sinuous tributaries converging into a golden river which is a piano which is the beginning of dawn, that moment when, through an uncanny alchemy, the darkest night breaks into day.
Because it is then when the music bursts with the utopian zest of the Boredoms at the apex of their psychedelic glory. This is the progressive answer to Juan MacLean's Happy House, and the song that Lindstrom and Prins Thomas didn't have space to fit into their last album. It is incredible.
Have patience, it will be worth it.
Iblis Kotor- Year After (Entering Into Nothing) (feat. Anes Guo)
Iblis Kotor's Year After (Entering Into Nothing) is included in the latest release by Indonesia's most awesome Space Rec.
O Brassica, through which deft exercise of the dark arts do you tap into the ebbing and flowing recesses of 20Jazzfunkgreats dark imagination? You have invaded our nights with invisible terrors, feline eyes glaring from the murky space beyond a door ajar, you have transformed our Cold Pumas into satanic titans lashing in the corridors of a concrete bunker, what now, we ask?
Well, you speed out the tempo and quote Goblin at their coke-addled most euphoric best, Discocross rather than Suspiria, you have produced an undead synth-boogie anthem for mysterious cat-people to breakdance to in the back alleys of the decaying metropolis, and a candidate for the soundtrack for Marathon Man if it had been directed by John Carpenter, we surrender, what next, what next?
Venom Season is included in a record soon to be released by Nocturnes.
And as promised, here you have the mixtape that Teeth of the Sea have put together for us in order to celebrate the launch of Hypnoticon Viva, their new 12". I am listening to the record (which you can, for example, fetch here), 2 minutes into the title track and a simmering halo of progressive power has already started to take form around the turntable, unspeakable forces peek from the other side. What can I say that Julian Cope hasn't?
Check out the mixtape: Fly like Jodorowsky, Kick like Peckinpah. That's the way it's done.
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Missing the Spirit!!
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There's one thing that made me forget myself, filled me with enthusiasm and energy, and made every single effort worth the hard work; it's being in class inspiring, and getting inspired! And I miss that one thing enormously 😦
I made a choice last year and I am not regretting it a bit. I am starting a new chapter full of new challenges and sought for achievements and success stories. But that doesn't deny the fact that I was never greatly rewarded, and will probably never be, the way I was as a teacher (beside of course being a proud mother 😉 ).
Well, to tell the truth, I do not miss the long long hours of corrections, but I do miss reading the amazing stories and thoughts of those bright young minds. I do not miss the hectic working hours and the never-ending preparations, but I do miss all the interaction with my students, the workshops, the activities, the events, the projects, and all the crazy, funny, creative moments we shared. I do not miss correcting hundreds of quizzes and exams, but I greatly miss the proud shiny eyes, the big smiles and the Hoorrays of my students when they get good grades or they improve their average. I do not miss at all the disappointment and sadness of some who could not perform well (for it broke my heart), but I definitely miss their strong will to move on, their determination to work harder and ambition to achieve.
Well, there were definitely some bad days, but also a much greater number of good and wonderful days. I learned from the first and cherished the second, but currently miss both! I miss every student, every creative thought, every inspiring moment, every laugh, every smile, every morning hug, and most importantly, I miss the whole SPIRIT!!
In fact, there is no greater pleasure than seeing the eyes of my students shining! There's no greater reward than a group of amazingly creative young minds interacting enthusiastically, and craving for more. There is no greater job than being a leader, a follower, and a partner at the same time.
I truly wish, and more positively hope, and optimistically know, that all teachers would focus on developing the great potential of the great young minds, rather than injecting information in their heads to be 'ejected later upon request'!
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MOSCOW — Mikhail S. Gorbachev told his people today that U.S.-Soviet relations have improved, but it is still too early to talk about a fundamental change.
He told Soviet television viewers that differences over the U.S. "Star Wars" program for developing a space-based missile defense remain among the issues that could halt further improvements in the superpower relationship.
The Communist Party chief addressed Soviet citizens on the results of his trip last week to Washington, where he and President Reagan signed an agreement eliminating U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
Gorbachev spoke for 20 minutes at the beginning of the nightly news program Vremya.
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"If one is firmly based on the facts and is not given to exaggeration, it is yet early to speak about a fundamental improvement of Soviet-American relations," Gorbachev said.


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Went on a hike a few weeks ago up bell canyon. Hike with Ann up to the waterfall and she told me of a guy that got stabbed with a spear a few days earlier. I didn't believe her till another girl confirmed it.
Hiking with her was great it was my first time out this year and my hiking legs hadn't set in yet, the Falls was enough and I should have stopped there.
After a nice snack at the falls I joined three others guys for an adventure up to the a lake I wanted to look cool and tough for the girls also I wanted to go. It was supposed to be about twice as far as the Falls...boy was that wrong...we got up to snow level and my calves did their traditional cramping up and I had to slow to the pace of a snail. I felt like a wimp the other guys were just fine. Luckily none of the girls came and saw me in this sad state.
Anyway after six hours or up up up up up then down down down...I was so soar and beat I was walking like a grandpa. None of us even made it to the lake. I can't remember the last time a hike kicked my butt, but bell canyon did! It woke me up and rang my bell. I heard it loud and clear, it said you need to get out and hike more, and I do to prep for the Sawtooths and Tetons which I am doing both in August...pray for my calves.
Lesson 6...I learned in the end I was glad I did it even if it wasn't pretty I felt I had accomplished something really hard and that made me feel good. Sometimes pretty is over rated. Knowing your limits is also a good thing.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Lesson 6: Knowing you limit is far better than looking tough.
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Lesson 7: Girls will like you even if they can hike better than you:) I speak from experience.ReplyDelete
Ha Ha thanks stace...good to know cause I'm going with some girls to Sawtooth's in August backpacking and I'm totally not in shape yet.ReplyDelete
I actually almost talked one into going with us past the falls...told her it wasn't much further. Boy that woulda' been a lie and a half. :)
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Recently our powerhammer came home to rest on a nine tonne floating concrete block in a pit in Col's workshop that he had dug 13 years earlier. In fact, she was in the workshop long before we actually met her. In Col's mind she was always there – it just took a while for this vision to become reality. And perhaps this is the mid point in our powerhammer's journey. She is a grand old girl and I like to imagine that, in another 90 years, she will still be banging away with all the grace and vigour she has now. Inspiring yet another generation of sculptors and blacksmiths.
This is a little hammer by industrial standards – just 100cwt – and was made in the 1920's by "Alldays and Onions Pneumatic Engineering Co" of Birmingham and shipped to Melbourne. Brand new and beautiful, she was dropped on the docks and her casing cracked. It turned out to be cheaper to recast her casing at McPherson's Machinery Merchants of Melbourne rather than get a new one shipped so she has a unique cast scar in the moulding and no longer has the Alldays and Onions logo.
The powerhammer started working life at the Hawthorn Men's Institute until the Institute merged and became the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. It was moved to the Melbourne campus of RMIT where apprentice blacksmiths continued to learn their trade on her until the early 1960's when she was replaced by a bigger model and came to rest on the landing. She then became the smoko spot, where students gathered around her, resting their cups on her ample form.
One of those students was Daniel Jenkins who bought her when he left and took her to a new life at Whitehall Enterprises, and arts collective in Footscray. Around about that time Col and I were moving from Melbourne to a bush block in Gippsland and starting to make work together. When Daniel moved to East Gippsland he sold her to Tony Summers in Central Victoria, who kept her safely under wraps for a decade but never installed her. By then, across the other side of the state, we had moved from our bush block into the heart of the tiny (but very arty) town of Briagolong and Col had built his workshop. He had decided that, one day, he would own a powerhammer so had included a 2.5m x 2.5m x .6m pit in the floor of the workshop. He explained that in the pit there would be a floating slab of concrete with very special sound and shock absorbing rubber insulation. No one knew what he was talking about, it all sounded a bit far fetched – but sure – you can have a pit if you want a pit Col.
It became a bit of a running joke – Col and his boarded over pit – as a decade passed and we raised children and worked in other careers. But all the time, Col is talking to blacksmiths and looking at powerhammers. Now, there arent too many powerhammers around nowadays – at least not in Australia – people tend to hang on to them. And the ones that he could find were all too big, too small, too expensive or not solid enough.
Then, early this year, we visited Little Newsham Forge home of Artist Blacksmith Brian Russell, and what an inspiration that was! They make extraordinarily beautiful work there. We had turned up right at the end of the day in Little Newsham – which is a little town in the north of England – and the only light left on in town was at the forge. They were just packing up and so Brian showed us around and demonstrated his hammers. We talked about how we were in the middle of town and he said "Oh, well, you need one like this then" and showed us his 100cwt Alldays and Onions. He then heated up a piece of metal for Col and said "Have a go on her". And that was that. Col fell in love with the hammer. As he described it, it is still a beast – still able to do the hard work, but very 'touchy feely'. It had a degree of manageability that you can lose with a bigger machine.
When we returned to Australia, Col started asking around the blacksmith networks to see if anyone had a 100cwt Alldays and Onions, and eventually struck gold! He bought the hammer from Tony and we started the journey of transporting her across the state and installing her on the (logistically quite tricky) floating concrete slab.
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If you haven't heard already, there is a competition currently running where you can nominate your favourite teacher. The winning school wins a computer, the teacher an iPad Air and the whole class an iPod shuffle. Currently our Miss Sunny Mutton from Prep. M is in the top 4 - so lets get behind her and help our school win an iMac computer! Parents please vote for our school and click on the link below:
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From Gundam Seed Astray comes the Gundam Astray Blue Frame D of Gai Murakamo. This was released as a 1/100 Master Grade model kit by Bandai. Always loved the design of the Astray's, they remind me of an outdoor sneaker, rough and rugged and always ready for a hike. Then of course there is the homage to Japan's Samurai heritage as evidenced by the design of the head.
The 1/100 Master Grade Gundam Astray Blue Frame D is selling for $ at Amazon
Construction Manual & Color Guide for the 1/100 Gundam Astray Blue Frame D was translated to English from the Japanese manual posted at Dalong's Gunpla & Model Kit Review site. For the meaning of the symbol found in the model kit's manual, kindly refer to this post.
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Extreme Sports: How Violent Weather Impacts Our Favorite Games — And The …
by Max Frankel
As Roy Oswalt toed the pitching rubber to deliver a pitch in the fourth inning of a scoreless game in Arlington, Texas on Sunday, a lightning bolt striking just outside the stadium sent the players and umpires scrambling for cover. Check it out:
Ranger's catcher Mike Napoli ran for the dugout without hesitation; Josh Willingham, the runner on first at the time, fell to all fours; and Ben Revere, a Twins outfielder who wasn't on the field at the time later tweeted: "My heart stopped when I heard the thunder at the stadium. Glad no heard me scream like a little girl too!!! Lol."
Rain and lightning delays have always been common in baseball and every other outdoor sport. But an increase in extreme weather has the potential to dramatically alter the sporting landscape.
You may recall two years ago, the heat that marred the Vancouver Olympics (see "Is that airlifted snow on your Olympic ski mountain, or is your enormous helicopter just happy to see me?"). As Tim Gayda, a leader of the Olympic organizing committee, said at the time "Hopefully, winter will come back."
The UK just experienced their wettest June on record, and the London Olympics are only a couple weeks away, so there has been (fast and) furious planning:
A quarter of a million rain ponchos, an army of volunteers equipped with umbrellas and rain jackets, and five dedicated weather forecasters….
Across the pond, in late June, Tropical Storm Debby sat over Florida for four days, inundating the state with torrential rains. Some areas of Florida received more than 20 inches of rain. On June 24th, Debby reached Clearwater, Florida, where it dumped enough water to turn Bright House Field, home of the Clearwater Threshers of the Florida State League, into a small inland sea.
Some of that rain would have been helpful in Colorado, where the Waldo Canyon Wildfire is now 98% contained after burning some 18,000 acres since June 23rd. The fire destroyed roughly 350 homes and will costs tens of millions of dollars to fund a recovery.
On June 27th, organizers of the 90th annual Pikes Peak International Hill Climb announced the delay of the race from July 8th until August 12th due to the fire. The Climb is a unique motorsports even that draws competitors from all over the world. While certainty certainly a superficial impact compared to the real tragedy of deaths, destruction, and displaced residents, the situation is an example of how extreme events can impact outdoor sports.
The Colorado fire was exacerbated by an intense heatwave that set thousands of high temperature records across the U.S. The Midwest was hit with triple digit temperatures and Washington, DC set a record for number of consecutive days above 95 degrees. The impact was not lost on Washington Nationals Pitcher Stephen Strasburg.
Strasburg, the first-place Nationals' best starting pitcher, had to be removed from a game on June 30th after only 3 innings due to heat sickness and extreme dehydration:
"'He was white as a sheet," (National's Manager Davey) Johnson said after the game, the concern still evident on his face. 'I said, 'That's it.' He wasn't going back.'"
The game-time temperature in Atlanta, where the game was played, was 104 degrees. But the on-field temperature at Turner Field was closer to 120.
Heat has been a major story in baseball this year and dangerous playing conditions like those that sidelined Strasburg are becoming more common. There is evidence to suggest that this problem is only going to get worse.
Heat stroke, dehydration, and other disabilities plague athletes in extremely hot conditions and can and do lead to death.
The heat, in combination with a debilitating drought, was also a problem for sports in the Southwest last summer. Friday night high school football is a tradition in Texas, but it may be under threat:
"The effects of climate change, so far, have been most noticeable in Texas, where a terrible drought has dried up football fields in small towns that used to look forward to Friday nights above all. But climate change will have a terrible effect on communities throughout the cradle of football in the Southern and plains states.
Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas. The home states of the last five college football champions? Yes. But these are also states that are projected to experience 150-180 days a year with peak temperatures over 90 degrees Fahrenheit by the final decades of the 21st Century. That's almost six months of the year."
Rising temperatures can also be a problem for winter sports. In 2008, the National Hockey League played its first annual "Winter Classic"– the one hockey game each year played outdoors, usually right around New Year's Day. In 2012, the game had to be delayed for two hours due to warm temperatures and risk of the damage to the ice. By the time the puck finally dropped, it was still 41 degrees.
Outdoor sports are facing some major changes. Athletes, organizers, and spectators better be prepared since it's only going to worse (see M.I.T. doubles its 2095 warming projection to 10°F — with 866 ppm and Arctic warming of 20°F ).
Max Frankel is a senior at Vassar College and an intern at the Center for American Progress. He also helps run the baseball blog Off the Bench. Joseph Romm contributed to this story.
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Mentioning health effects from rising temperatures without including the fact that ozone tends to rise as well – and ozone is a significant factor in hospitalizations and deaths during heat waves – is simply neglecting a major part of the picture. Ozone is why the National Weather Service issues different levels of danger in those "ozone alerts".
Ozone also damages trees when they absorb air pollution through their leaves, which is a likely explanation for the increasing dangerous incidents in which wooden bats split, and the difficulty manufacturers face in locating maple and ash of suitable quality.
I am surprised you guys did not mention about the massive rain/thunderstorm in the Ukraine during a Euro 2012 game between France and Ukraine which delayed it by an hour. But there was lots of rainy days during that tournament.
I would also suggest you check about the 2011 NHL winter classic, that was delayed to night time because it was warm in Pittsburgh and also raining. In fact when they switched the game to night, it still was raining.
It still will be interesting to see what happens to outdoor sports and climate change, namely winter sports.
OMG! If climate change threatens mass entertainment, _then_ I will really stand up and do something about it!
Seriously though. The points are quite good, but since the scope of change we need is on a different scale, it's a bit hard to take seriously.
Redefining prosperity to something we can actually make sustainable will require as much change to professional sports as climate-turbocharged weather will.
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This post has been trying to hit the page since Monday night, but its timeliness hit me with such force I had to catch my breath first. I subscribe to a few yoga, Buddhism, and "New Age" sorts of blogs, and there is one that always seems to have something spiritual crossed with science. Being a bit of a geek, but a free-spirit at the same time…well, I really enjoy this one. The topic of the webinar was "Love, Sex, and Yoga". Ok, you've got my attention.
Here is a link to the webinar in case you're interested. http://lifespa.com/webinar-love-sex-yoga/?inf_contact_key=c13677e407f8f769ebf0e1b57031f5b06eb06ceba82a5f61f88a7fc32bb99c06
If you aren't into Ayurveda or yoga, some of the terms will seem quite hysterical or just plain bizarre, but that's okay; I'll try to sum up some of what I heard/learned in more simple terms as we work through this. Ready? You'll have to endure the backstory first; bear with me. This is some deep shiznit….
If you've been keeping up with the rekindling of this blog/my journey, you are aware that I am now technically still separated, but right at the edge of finalizing my divorce from my husband of 29 years. Loads of reasons, some will be implied, but I'll try very hard to refrain from placing blame either side, as truly, it rarely ever is one-sided. The marriage ended, for me, emotionally, about 5 years ago with a major event on his part. I absolutely hit rock bottom then, and I spent the next 8 or 9 months in therapy to figure out why and how to fix it. But instead of learning how to repair a broken relationship with my spouse, I learned a far more valuable lesson: how to fix the relationship with myself. I cried more than I've ever cried, was angrier, more indecisive, more disappointed, more every negative emotion you can come up with…then I started to take the therapy sessions to heart and really listened. I did hear him challenge me to answer honestly, but I finally listened to what he wanted me to know. Mainly, that this marriage was probably over, but that if I was ever going to have a snowball's chance in Hades of having a healthy relationship in the future, I had to get honest with myself…I had to acknowledge every shitty thing that happened in the marriage as it came to my mind, ask myself what my role was in it, decide how to not do that again, then let it go and move on. Oh yeah, and while I was at it, wake up every morning and do two things:
1. Forgive myself and my ex and,
2. Make a checklist of who I am, what I need to be happy, and what that would look like.
Shit, he didn't want much from me, did he?
But I did…over the next few years I started working on my own version of these, as well as a flow chart of progression of a relationship. My therapist shook his head and laughed out loud with me at the daughter-of-an-engineer's approach, but he let me own it. Goes a bit like this:
- Like: You like someone or something, but you could take it or leave it. It/they don't typically cross your mind unless you put direct effort into it.
- Want: You are interested in something/someone, would like to have/experience it, but you don't require it in order to live. Bit of fun. Nice to experience, but not on the Bucket List.
- Need: Now we're getting deeper. The choices of needs are fewer, and you are more selective. Without it, life would be more challenging or unpleasant. You think about it often and create goals in order to achieve it. You cannot see yourself as complete without it.
- Love: Absolutely must have/do/be with. A choice to the exclusion of all others (isn't that the most Unromantic B.S. you've ever read in your life? Yeah…it really was). Not certain you can breathe without it.
As I type these words even now, I'm laughing at myself…how I thought of these. I still think somewhat in terms of this progression, but I experience it so differently now. At the time though, I also worked on what it might look like to fall in love again. I thought he (therapist) was an ass for making me work through this too, but I did it anyway. I won't share that partly because it has evolved the most, yet started off the most concrete of the checklists. I just knew I would be in love if I could check X percentage of items on this list. As I worked through this list of "me", I began to realize what he was trying to get me to do: admit to myself what I really wanted in life, from a partner, what I needed in order to be happy and content…and ready for this?
…to accept who I am, for what I am, make no apologies for it, be content that I am enough, and to just be satisfied knowing who I am. Celebrate THAT, experience THAT, share THAT, and in time, someone will recognize it in me, and fall in love with the real me. But if I didn't love me first, then it was foolish to expect anything but the same shit results again. Powerful stuff…about like being smacked in the face with Truth. Painful. Enlightening. Liberating. You name it. I felt it.
Some of the things that became even more apparent to me as I stuck a toe back into the dating pool helped me clarify even more what I needed in a relationship. I have found myself returning more and more to my southern roots and being more proud and comfortable with them. I truly am a very simple person, needing very little to make me happy and content. Give me a bit of dirt to dig in, good friends, a faithful dog, the room to grow spiritually in my own way, a fluffy down quilt, a cold Belgian wheat beer and someone to share them with….
So that "someone to share them with" bit…as I started meeting up with guys for coffee dates, it became clear that some were looking for fun (that's cool), some were looking for a replacement for the spouse they no longer had (hummm…replacement, sounds like a recall), or just someone to roll in the sack with (MAYDAY!!!) And for a couple, I just didn't click for them, and that was okay too. No harm, no foul right? But here is where I seriously took another look at dating…what role did I see sex playing in this new chapter? I had to sit back and really re-examine this new "concept" for me. I mean, seriously, I had been completely monogamous throughout the entire marriage. Completely. Heart and soul. It was that important to me, and I took those marriage vows seriously.
Here is what I knew in my heart based on now knowing myself; I didn't want to give myself so completely to someone again without there being a connection of the heart. Connection in spirit. I needed to bond with someone, care about them, want to care for them, and have them not be "in it to win it" so to speak. I believe I have a gift to give someone, the gift of me, my heart and spirit, and I was not willing to just toss those parts of me out the window for a cheap thrill. But how was I going to tell the difference between a deeper connection, love, and its yin: lust? I figured I would pull out the handy-dandy checklist and start mentally keeping score. It helped to be honest. I could remind myself that while, heck yeah the guy on the other side of the table was easy on the eyes or saying all the right things, there wasn't that real want to know more. Things didn't go from "like" to "want", and I am thankful.
I continued to share on Facebook my journey to rediscovering myself, my fears when I had a health scare, things that made me laugh, the massive weight loss on what I affectionately call the "Happy Diet". Life was good.
Then out of the blue. I got a private message. On Facebook. From a former high school alum. My life got flipped. This guy reached out with such a simple, from the heart honest message: he had spoken to my sister in church, and had mentioned how much he enjoyed reading my posts, that he admired my attitude, that I was fast becoming a favorite of his to read. Oh, cool. I said thank you, and let it stay at that.
A week later, I had been having a bit of an "off" kind of day for a multitude of reasons…none really worth getting excited about. I looked for a positive to pull me out of the funk, and there was the earlier conversation. I had not deleted it for some reason so I replied back that I had a bit of a down day, and had read his note to give me a boost, and thanked him for it. Shoot, if someone makes you smile, and they don't know, I figure they ought to know they've done something good, right? He replied back quickly, and the rest as they say, is history. We'll skip all the in between chatter that led to the first date, but that first date went from first coffee to first dinner to first kiss over the course of an afternoon and evening. Whoa. Pull back and regroup.
I'm going to fast-forward again a bit, to the main topic of this post. Perhaps in time, I'll share more of the getting to know you stage if you think it may help you connect with someone, but for now, that's all ours. So when do you know, I mean really know in this ultra-jacked up fast-paced society, that sex should become part of your dating ritual? Conundrum…I mean, here was this absolutely amazing guy, treating me like a princess/lady, respecting all the boundaries I was throwing out there, but at the same time, eliciting a response from me I didn't think was possible…or at least, I had told myself wasn't possible. How the heck did he do that?
We had a very frank discussion about sex beyond the "can you get pregnant" and "are you clean" (we have spent a lot of time sharing our histories…no judgment implied). I ventured into my thoughts on sex, that I believed for me, sex needed to be the ultimate expression of my caring, bonding, and giving of myself to someone. That while it may physically feel really good, and some would argue that sex is a basic animal urge (which I don't disagree with in principle) that I had to know that this was not a one-nighter. I wasn't asking for a ring and a promise of the altar in exchange for all of me, but rather a knowledge that giving myself would be met with the respect and understanding of the commitment from me that it would mean.
If he was going to run for the hills, this was certainly the time to do it…no call came from a "friend" to rescue him from a flat tire at an awkward moment…no sudden need to write a report or head to the gym. There was simply, understanding. He understood, and said it might be tough, since he is a guy and all that (said with this whole face smile he does so well…lights up a room…seriously), but that he completely understood and would respect my needs. So here it was, I had laid out bare my thoughts on needing to bond, connect, touch, laugh, share, be with this man, and he was still texting and calling throughout the day. There was, and still is, a somewhat animal urge that creeps up on me at times…I love to bury my face in his chest and just breathe him in… He said perhaps the most romantic thing I've ever heard when he hugged me in the kitchen. He put his chin on top of my head and said, "I love how you just fit perfectly here." Nearly melted, died on the spot. I mean honestly. This guy has a quirky obsession with Star Trek, loves all things sci-fy, yet is as big a gentleman and romantic as they come. Awwww…
So are we in fact, in love? That's an excellent question. I know that if I should wake up tomorrow to his voice telling me that it was time to continue our journeys apart, I would be terribly sad for a bit, but would genuinely wish him well and be grateful for the amazing memories, as well as a fantastic time spent reaffirming that I am worth someone's attention and affection. He made me believe by being so freely giving of himself, that I deserve to be pampered and that all roads do not in fact, lead to instant gratification and sex. He will always hold a special place in my heart for that. So, I would say that we love each other as we would any other fellow human we care about. But as for having reached the level of love that is reserved for the person who completes you, then no, we aren't there. If that love comes, it will come when it is ready, and when we are both ready.
So where do the oxytocin and dopamine mentioned in the webinar come into play? Where was I going with all of this in the first place? Briefly, the webinar explained that the body releases oxytocin, the bonding hormone, when the mind and body enter into bonding sorts of activities: actively being kind (specific acts), holding a newborn baby, touching, remembering pleasant events…in short, being kind and available emotionally releases this hormone (which incidentally, our physiology appears to be happy with, regardless of the frequency or duration). Oxytocin appears to be the hormone we need to take a relationship to the next level. Now here is the part that stopped me in my tracks. The speaker said that relationships that start off with sex as a primary focus of the relationship, we in fact tying the act of sex to acceptance. Sex, releases dopamine, the "addiction" hormone if you will. It is the feel-good, gotta have more hormone released with thrill seeking, high energy behaviors. When we go straight to sex, we often are looking for that instant high; if we do that as a first response, we are essentially dopamine junkies. The more we release dopamine, the more of it our bodies require to still get that same sensation, that rush. It's why thrill junkies often do more and more dangerous shit until it kills them: they're hooked. Oh, and awful news of the day…coffee causes us to release trace amounts of dopamine. Oops….
The speaker went on to say that many of us will have those moments or periods in our life where the instant thrill or satisfaction from sexual release is all we want, but that to make a habit of it, makes it hard to retrain the heart and brain that bonding is the ultimate goal; the sex will come as an expression of having bonded so completely with someone that you need to give yourself completely to them, without expecting anything in return, yet knowing that your heart will be returned.
How is that for a big ol' punch in the gut? The speaker went on to say, that a new relationship that may have started off with early sex, recognized that there may be more to it, still had time to pull back, regroup, and start fresh with oxytocin activities. Making those the priority would lead to more bonding and develop a need for the bonding…bonding (not "bondage"…get your mind out of the gutter…) is what carries you through life's ups and downs. It allows you to trust and love and disagree and forgive without any reservation. But also of importance, it would allow you to part as friends if that is the path that ultimately proved to be necessary; you would have developed a relationship based on trust and understanding that each is their own person who would be loved and respected for that, not to be molded into what you think you need or want. Go watch the webinar for yourself if you like; understand that he is speaking from an Ayurvedic wisdom and practice and listen for the deeper message and information.
So, as I reflect on this post, which has now taken several days to write, I can smile as I think about all the oxytocin I must have bopping around in my brain right now…gardening, cooking, snoozing, spooning and snoozing, relaxing, laughing, smiling….
I don't know about you, but an oxytocin addiction seems like a great one to have….


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This probably sounds sentimental and lame, but I was so sad the other day when I was reading in a community about blog awards and passing them on and etiquette and so on. I felt like a three year old but I wanted to put up a pouty post about how no one loves me enough to give me a blog award!
I resisted the urge.
Then today? Sandy sends me a note to let me know she gave me a blog award!
Bet she didn't know it would make my day!
I actually think I am just over the top, but I shall play along anyways!
The rules:
1. Answer the questions below..you can only use one word answers.
2. Pass along to six of your favorite bloggers.
3. Alert them that you have given them this award.
4. Have fun!
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1. Where is your cell phone? here
2. Your hair? braided
3. Your Mother? awesome
4. Your Father? serious
5. Your favorite food? spaghetti
6. Your dream last night? creepy
7. Your favorite drink? water
8. Your dream/goal? farming
9. What room are you in? bedroom
10. Your hobby? blogging
11. Your fear? semis
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? farming
13. Where were you last night? bed
14. Something you aern't? fancy
15. Muffins? blueberry
16. Wish list item? laptop
17. Where did you grow up? minnesota
18. Last thing you did? facebook
19.What are you wearing? clothes
20. Your TV? Tim's
21. Your pets? cats
22. Friends? supportive
23. Your life? good
24. Your mood? content
25. Missing someone? No
26. Vehicle? love it
27. Something your not wearing? makeup
28. Your favorite store? target
29.Your favorite color? purple
30. When was the last time you laughed? today
31. When was the last time you cried? hmmmm.....
32. Your best friend? human
33. The one place that I go to over and over? grocery
34. One person who emails me regularly? YahooGroups
35. Favorite place to eat? Olive Garden
Wow I stink at one word...maybe it should have been called the talks too much award?
Ok...pass it on:
1. Meredith because she is over the top like me and always has something witty yet full of love to say (and maybe the award will push her over the top into labor!)
2. Rachel because she always makes me smile (even when she is down) but probably doesn't realize she does it.
3. Janis because she goes everywhere and does everything
I know its only 3, but Sandy only did 3 too...so together its kind of like we did 6!
My first blog award!
4 comments:
- Meredith said...
Gee, thanks, Heidi! I'd post this on my blog tonight if I wasn't so tired and needing to get to bed, "just in case." Hopefully in the next day or so - it'll be great to post to let everyone know that I'm. still. here.
- October 28, 2009 at 10:39 PM
- Sandy Hop said...
Hooray! I'm glad I made your day!!! Yes, I like that we can equal 6 together!
- October 29, 2009 at 6:47 AM
- Leptir said...
You deserved this award! :-)
- October 31, 2009 at 7:36 AM
- lilpeasinmypodfrom~God said...
Oh Heidi I have 3 words, I LOVE YOU! You are a great blogger and a great person. I always think of your Kenna when I talk to my Kenna. Xoxoxoxo. I know your Kenna is in Heaven looking down on you, wishing she could have made it down long enough to play with the boys:-/ even if just for a short while
- November 1, 2009 at 9:04 PM
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