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|2012-09-12, 17:16
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Location: New England
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|2012-09-12, 17:17
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Dai Korai Teikoku
In fact, I fear the problem of the opposite: Any education without a religious or ethical basis is bound to be a problem, where it is a breeding ground for intolerant anti-religious sentiments which in itself is basically the most dangerous of them all.
|2012-09-12, 17:26
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Gensokyo
As for the second, many countries has an educational system not influenced by religions and so far it seems they hold well ( at least I never had the pulsion to attack a christian, jew, muslim, boudhist or anything). But of course, if the educational system doesn't have ethical basis, or moral lesson, earlier or later, it will crumble, but you can have those two without religion hopefully. Religions don't have the monopole of "right" and "wrong".
|2012-09-12, 17:29
|Link #23404
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Dai Korai Teikoku
It depends on how you view ethics. In a sense they are forms of religion, in the sense that they teach one how to behave in a certain situation. Human spirituality is interconnected to morality, with religions having a more structured spiritual basis and ethic having more of a moral basis without the accompanying structure related to gods or the afterlife.
|2012-09-12, 17:33
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The Comet has Come
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 40
There was a time that the Western world was not all that different from the Islamic world of today. Perhaps we expect too much to change too quickly over there in a fast paced world when it took our civilizations centuries to get over practical rule by the Church, either with or over the kings and emperors of Europe. Even now there are remains of the vocal Christians that would rather rule by the Bible than by the laws and governments of today.
The Islamic countries and empires use to be ahead of the Europeans when the Europeans were more dominated by the Church than by the governements. But those days have past several hundred years ago. It is entirely possible the European managed to crack the old Muslim states and "blow them back into an earlier age" via Imperialsim and the fall of basically all the old Muslim states by the end of the First World War. While European control over them was not all that long (historically speaking) it seems to have been enough to break them into whatever they have become today.
The Islamic counties of today seem like they are not as well off, culturally, as they were in their prime. Maybe the religious sects have too much power or hold on the people and governments verses back in the day? Sure some countries have taken advantage of Western culture and uplifted so to speak, but others have regressed even more it would seem.
It doesn't help that Islam and Arab are almost interchangable in today's political climate. Some Islamic counties outside the Middle East seem to be doing fine in controlling their more religious half. But the Arabs and Persians seem to be having issues (the Turks to a much lesser extent). It doesn't help that one of the sterotypes for Arabs (and Jews for that matter) is that they like to argue or haggle on everything. Sometimes it isn't a fight they want, just they seem programmed to argue over stuff. It is a stereotype. However, one that, at least on the surface, makes sense.
|2012-09-12, 17:45
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He Without a Title
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The land of tempura
By claiming that you need something to fear (religion) in order not to do evil is casting all humans as fundamentally evil and I do not believe that.
PS: I'm sure I've been pointed to a few studies that tried to prove that morals dependent on religions but I can't recall where sadly.
|2012-09-12, 17:59
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 60
Religions evolve out of inherent moral compasses common to socially cooperative species. And any moral system that discards knowledge in favor of doctrine has probably been hijacked by outliers - you can call them sociopaths, power-mongers, whatever, but power/control has become more important than truth.
|2012-09-12, 18:24
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books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
Obama On Romney's Libya Response: 'Shoot First And Aim Later'
Really appropriate to the situation
|2012-09-12, 18:28
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Dai Korai Teikoku
@ Dextro: First I believe you're misunderstanding quite a few things about my statement, starting from the thought that you need something to fear in a religion (Shinto certainly is not a religion of fearing things). Furthermore, I believe it to be baloney the basic thought that religion is a problem, since I consider such thoughts to be the very essence of the bigoted "liberal" interpretation of the workings of the world. Any sort of thought that concludes one thing is an evil for the sake of being something is at the core the very intolerance that causes religious radical to do the crimes that happened.
|2012-09-12, 19:05
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Philippines
Age: 41
Someone has to hunt down this "Sam Bacile" character, cuff this bastard for provocation and terrorism.
|2012-09-12, 19:21
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 34
|2012-09-12, 19:44
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books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
Origins of Provocative Video Are Shrouded
'It Makes Me Sick': Actress in Muhammed Movie Says She Was Deceived, Had No Idea It Was About Islam
|2012-09-12, 19:45
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: UK
The families of those that died that day as well as the survivors and many others have fought tiredlessly for 23 years to make wednesday's announcement happen and have been vindicated in their efforts. Those that made light of this and tried to antagonise Liverpool fans over it have to look at themselves over this and realise what they did was utterly wrong.
More importantly, those involved in the cover up in the police & ambulance services as well as in the media and beyond must be brought to justice over this. They are the true criminals in this, noone else. Hopefully then, the families of the dead will be finally allowed to grieve in peace.
|2012-09-12, 19:46
|Link #23415
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
Age: 34
I thought that having worldwide information traveling so fast nowadays would help more people seeing what's good and what's bad in other societies so the Middle-East would know where to go and how to do it, but it still isn't enough. Perhaps the Arab world would need of their own version of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, John Paul II or anyone with more than enough charisma to propose something new with respect of others as well. I'm only surprised there was not such character emerging from that region yet.
|2012-09-12, 20:03
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Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 29
This whole incident gets a lot shadier. It's entirely possible that this film is an elaborate piece of "agitprop", a false flag tailor made to inflame muslims. Consider this:
'It Makes Me Sick': Actress in Muhammed Movie Says She Was Deceived, Had No Idea It Was About Islam
Two scenarios seem plausible to me:
1. It was designed by american Christian Fundamentalists/radical anti-Arab Copts to stir up trouble in the middle east and spread negative perceptions of the region in the US, by fuelling attacks on Americans by the far right in the Middle East.
Evidence in favour: The film was first publicised by Terry Jones (of Koran burning fame) and on an anti-islamic copt blog.
2. It was designed by Islamist Arabs to stir up negative sentiment against the US(and Israel) in Egypt and Libya, in a region that is currently better disposed towards the US due to it's support of the Arab Spring.
Evidence in favour: The director seemed to speak Arabic, and it works better in Arabic then in English. The Sam Bacile profile on Youtube has commented on Arabic videos.
Something else to consider is that the film (and Sam Bacile himself) seems to stress it's Jewish origins. There's a prominent section with a "good jewish woman" being killed and raped by Mohammed, and of course Sam Bacile himself has stressed that he's Israeli, and was funded to the tune of $5 million by "100 wealthy jewish donors".
I'm not usually one to go in for Conspiracy theories, but this seems a lot like a conspiracy to me! It's a "false flag operation", intended to create anti-American violence in the middle east. They succeeded in doing so, but the real question is, what's the motive? Whose behind this? How is it that on the one hand you have a well known radical Christian (Jones), and on the other Jihadists.
The timing on September 11 (and during the US election cycle) also seems damn convenient as well. It's entirely possible that the militants who stormed the compound were in on the whole thing.
|2012-09-12, 20:08
|Link #23417
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 34
I hate to say it, but someone like that from the Arab world would most likely be murdered before they gained any real traction. : -\ Once they started gaining some sort of traction, that's it, they're finished. Extremists would make sure to shut him up, and by that, that means taking his life.
|2012-09-12, 20:19
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Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 42
PS. Calling a Persian or a Turk a Arab and you will lucky to just get a punch in the face.
|2012-09-12, 20:46
|Link #23419
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 34
|2012-09-12, 20:49
|Link #23420
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
Age: 34
I thought MLK fought against racism and segregation seen WITHIN his own country. Anyway, that kind of pacifist might pay the price with his life, but it's part of how they achieve immortality if the people follow the ideals. Someone someday will have to come up, raise the right questions and rally the people with a pacific approach. It happened before, it happened in many countries and it has to happen again
Re-PS.: I always separated the Turks from the rest of the Middle East from that knowing how proud they stand now with their more modern society compared to a number of countries in the area. It's funny when you consider the Turks had Persia, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Northern Africa and the entire Arabian peninsula, but then not many of them folllowed progress.
Unfortunately for the Persians (mainly Iranians), they seem to enjoy getting mixed up with all the stuff involving Arabs these days. Anyway, most of the problems do happen in the Arab world; so, I'm not quite off the map here.
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Mariachi Hero sounds like it could be a brilliant twist on Guitar Hero. Swap the electric guitar for a classical guitar, add parts for violin, trumpets, and vihuela, and explore the wide range of mariachi music that is the heart and soul of Mexico. Unfortunately, Mariachi Hero is not that game at all. Instead, you control a racist cartoon who has to shoot tequila bottles and squash cockroaches in time with the music.
Unlike most successful rhythm games like Rock Band, Guitar Hero, or Thumpies, Mariachi Hero doesn't let you choose your own songs or difficulty. Instead, this music game is all about getting a high score and surviving as long as possible, even when the songs quickly start to repeat.
Madre de Dios…
To keep time with the music, you have to squash cockroaches– an unsettling accompaniment. In addition, you have to shoot bombs and bottles for extra points, and avoid squashing a walking tortilla chip named Mr. Nacho. There are also two unfun minigames that involve swiping and shooting roaches.
You play as either a poncho-wearing hombre with a cigar, gold tooth, and natty beard, or a heavily made-up seniorita with a missing tooth. What, no chihuahua? There's only one environment, a blasted desert-scape, but a saloon environment is "coming soon".
Maybe we shouldn't expect Swedish developer Pan Vision to be racially sensitive about Mexican culture, but Mariachi Hero is just as offensive as the Frito Bandito. It appears this game exists solely to mock Mexicans, since as a game, it's terrible.
Somehow this might be considered in poor taste.
The endless high score run just isn't a good fit for the music genre. We prefer mastering one song at a time, and adjusting the difficulty level to provide an extra challenge. While the bombs, bottles, and walking nacho in Mariachi Hero are decent additions, it's just not worth listening to The Mexican Hat Dance on repeat.
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Viscous Layers problemPosted by Kristin Newlands at September 29. 2011
I'm having problems with applying the Viscous Layers hypothesis to my annular geometry and I would really appreciate some help.
Originally, I created the annular cylinder with R1=12.5, R2=25 and L=75, as I was under the (wrong) impression that Salome's units were mm. This caused me confusion when I set-up my case in Code_Saturne (which, as far as I understand, uses metres), so I re-created my geometry with R1=0.0125, R2=0.025 and L=0.075. However, when I proceed to mesh it, exactly as I had done for the previous model (see attached Screenshot), it succeeds in computing a mesh when I don't apply the Viscous Layers, but crashes when I enable it.
Is the problem due to the size of my model? I really need to practice a basic case before I increase the complexity, so I wanted to keep the domain small for faster simulations.
Thank you,
St. Michael,
Thank you very much for your reply. I did question whether the thickness of the viscous layers was too high, but even though I reduce it, I am not successful in obtaining a mesh. I don't understand where the problem is, since all I changed are the dimensions of the geometry and I don't know what else to do to avoid the crash.
I desperately need this mesh to work and I attach a python dump of my geometry and mesh setup. Any advice that would help me make some progress would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
If I change
Viscous_Layers_1.SetTotalThickness( 4 ) -> Viscous_Layers_1.SetTotalThickness( 0.001 )
in your script, the mesh is computed OK after replaying your script.
St. Michael
Of course, that makes perfect sense. I was making a very silly mistake.
Thank you for taking the time to help me,
Re: Viscous Layers problemPosted by Jeroen van der Vossen at November 30. 2011
Dear Salome users,
I am actually new to the forum since I recently started using Open Foam, with Salome to make the meshing. A colleague of mine gave me a tutorial for using Salome in combination with Open Foam. This makes a Submarine, which should be calculated. Now at a certain point I have to give the mesh itś viscous layers, but then it tells there is a "segmentation violation in address 0". I have tried practically everything I could think of with my little knowledge of Salome. I am using the the latest version 6.3.1. Is there someone who knows how to solve this problem?
On the Internet I was reading about segmentation violation, and there they say that for some reason my CPU can access a certain memory, or something. I have no idea of what is going on with it.
Please help, I can continue my learning process because of this error.
The viscous layer is set up as thickness 10, number of layers 8, stretch factor of 1.2.
Further I am using Netgen 1D-2D for meshing in 2D, and afterwards I am meshing with Tetrahedron (Netgen) in 3D. on the fourth step I am adding the viscous layers and then it gives an error. With the 2D meshing I am giving Hypothesis in Netgen 2D simple parameters, with number of segments set to 8 for the farfield, and local length of 25 for the body of the submarine, and local length of 5 for the small rounded edges.
I am unable to upload the model because it is about 10 MB.
Thanks a lot,
Re: Viscous Layers problemPosted by Duncan Roy van der Heul at December 01. 2011
viscous layer algorithm
Read this:
You have to download the patch and rebuild the SMESH module.
Re: Viscous Layers problemPosted by DAVID Gilles at December 01. 2011
Or you can wait a little for the next version (6.4.0) to come, in which the bug is fixed.
It should be a matter of days
Re: Viscous Layers problemPosted by Jeroen van der Vossen at December 01. 2011
Ohw thanks. In Salome 6.3.0 it isn't useable is it? Well I am not really sure how to rebuild the SMESH module. I actually don't have a lot of knowledge of programming, or Ubuntu. So I think I will have to wait a few days then.
Thanks for the quick replies.
Re: Viscous Layers problemPosted by Jeroen van der Vossen at December 14. 2011
Well after a little waiting, I am wondering if there is somebody who can tell me how to rebuild that SMESH module? Is there an easy way to do this, a sort of step by step explanation or something?
Re: Viscous Layers problemPosted by sebastian nowak at July 25. 2013
Hello Salome User,
i want to create a mesh with hexahedron (i,j,k) algorithm and insert visous layers (salome 6.6.0); my geometry is a pipe surrounded by a box (pipe cut of the box). But when i try to mesh my case, i am getting a mistake;
My idea is to rise the number of segments in the shortness of the pipe; How would you create a mesh with visous layers close to the pipe? which algorithm and which settings to use?
Thank you!
Re: Viscous Layers problemPosted by William Tougeron at July 26. 2013
Hello Sebastian,
If you want to use the Hexahedron (i,j,k) algo, so you have to create a blocking in the Geometry module.
Enclosed is a dump of a Salome study showing an example of how to do it (but there are many other possibilities). You can adapt it to your case modifying the parameters inside the script.
Best regards
Thank you, William Tougeron
Now i am asking myself how to get information about the mesh structure; the smallest element size; the largest element size; i am playing with viscous layer to create a fine mesh close to the pipe, but how?
what to change at Total thickness; Number of layers; Stretch factor; i changed the factors but nothing seems to change visible?
Any good advices?
Thank you
In Ansys i can select a surface and i can define the number of inflation layers and inflation growth rate, but in Salome under viscous Layers i am unable to do this in a similar way; Can anyone help me, please
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Re: Viscous Layers problemPosted by sebastian nowak at July 28. 2013
in my case study i want to create a fine mesh close to the pipe (A Cylinder cut off a Box); can anybody help me to improve my mesh; i want a viscous layer around the pipe, but i am unable to create it
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From The Heart
Eight year old Bella Swan ignores her parents' rules and goes exploring in the woods next to her house in Forks, Washington. Wandering too far into the forest, Bella comes across a homeless "dog". Having always wanted a dog, Bella somehow manages to lure the "dog" out of the shadows of the forest to get a better look at him. Her new found pet is over six feet tall, and one and a half tons of predator. She names him, finds a way to convince her parents to keep him, and automatically makes him her best friend.
Nine years later, Bella meets Edward, and beings to learn some strange things about her pet "dog", Rohan.
Will be Bella/Edward so no worries. You will have to use your imagination and just accept the fact that a 8 year old can convince her parents to keep a Wolf/Grizzly Bear looking animal without screaming bloody murder, shooting it, and then calling the cops. Whatever you recognize belongs to Stephanie Meyer.
1. Disobeying
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Daddy is always telling me the forest is off limits. That it's dangerous and scary and easy to get lost in there. I tried to tell him how cool it would be to have a clubhouse in the woods, a secret clubhouse that only special people would know about. Daddy said he would build me a clubhouse in the back yard, but I wanted it hidden in the trees. He said no, that there are snakes and big scary spiders and mean animals in the forest. When he mentioned spiders, I decided that maybe staying in the backyard was a good idea.
But then yesterday at school Christopher Rix asked me if I had ever been in the woods next to my house, and when I told him no and that my Dad says the forest is off limits, he laughed at me and called me a chicken which wouldn't have bugged me but he said it in front of all his friends and they all laughed at me too.
So I called him a big stupidhead. And then he called me a baby. I yelled at him and told him I wasn't, but he just laughed some more. Christopher Rix is a big stupidhead.
He said that his Dad had heard from Jimmy Nelson's Dad who goes hunting out in the woods, that there is something big and black lurking in the forest, sort of like a bear, but taller, and bigger, and that got me real scared. But Christopher Rix told me to prove I wasn't a baby and dared me to go into the forest and bring back a special leaf from a special tree that is only in the forest in the really deep part. So I said ok.
And now I am thinking that was a really big mistake, because I am standing in my backyard right at the edge of where my grass stops and the trees start. Daddy is inside watching Tv, and Mom is in town running errands.
Quietly staring at the trees, the forest seems pretty calm, no loud noises or weird things moving, but those big scary spiders can sneak up on you so quick. I take a deep breath, I have to prove to the big stupidhead Christopher Rix that I am not a baby. Closing my eyes, I feel my feet leaving the safety of my backyard, and entering the unknown.
At first, it's not so bad, I can still see the house, and my backyard, but every stick and leaf I step on makes cracking and crunching noises and fear runs through me that Daddy is going to hear me and catch me disobeying his rule. About ten steps in I decide to stop to see if I could find the special leaf that Christopher Rix wants me to find, I couldn't find it. So I take another ten steps and stop, still no luck. Four ten steps later, after stopping to check nine times to make sure what ever touched me was just a branch and not a spider, the house is looking really blurry, but I promised Christopher Rix I would prove to him that I was not a baby and bring back that special leaf that has five points with little triangles at the end of it. So I decide ten more steps, and if I can't find it, I'll turn back. Right around step number seven a giant crack echo's through the woods from next to me. I whip around faster than lightning. Freezing dead in my tracks, I feel my legs turning to jello, and my hands and arms start to shake. At first, it's really only a shadow, a very big, dark shadow, but then it starts moving, coming closer to me. My head is screaming at me to run, turn and run, run home, run as fast as I can, but my legs don't move. Then I see its eyes, big glowing green eyes. I tried to scream, but my throat feels like sandpaper, my eyes are watering, and I feel my lips shaking. I remember Christopher Rix telling me about Jimmy Nelson's Dad. The big black bear thing, it is here, in front of me, wanting to eat me.
Not only is it cloudy outside, but the trees are so thick where I am they are blocking whatever light is outside. The big black bear thing is now only about five steps away from me. He stops and lifts his head higher to sniff the air near me, he testing to see if I smell good enough to eat. He moves forward again, now he's right in front of me, if I wasn't frozen like a popsicle I could reach my hand out and touch him. He sniffs me again, his nose brushes against my shoulder, and then my cheek. I accidentally let a whimpery yelp escape from my lips which causes the big black bear thing to stop sniffing. I feel my body tense up even harder. He lowers his head to stare at me, right in the eyes. He's got stand up ears and a wet nose just like a dog. Then I remember when I went over to my friend Nicole's house, she has a big dog with stand up ears, she told me what it was called, she said they use them for police dogs, German Shepherd! That's it. This big thing in front of me looks just like Nicole's German Shepherd! He's a lot bigger than my friend Nicole's German Shepherd, but he has stand up ears just like it. I swallow hard and take a deep breath. Wiping my sweaty palms against my jeans, I decide to speak.
"Hi doggy." I barley whisper.
He lowers his head a little further to sniff my hands.
"Are you a nice doggy?" I ask him.
He cocks his head to the side, just like my friend Nicole's German Shepherd does when you ask him if he wants a treat. I swallow hard again, and slowly lift my shaking hand.
"Can I pet you doggy?" My voice is really shaky now, if this giant dog wanted to, he could grab me and toss me like a bean bag.
I leave my hand raised a few inches in front of me, he looks from my eyes to my hand, lowers his head, and leans in so my hand makes contact with his forehead.
I breath out a loud sigh of relief. He looks up and cocks his head again.
"You're a nice boy huh?" Thankfully, my voice doesn't sound as pathetic.
The big dog opens his mouth to smile, his big tongue flops out the side of his mouth and he pants hot air right into my face.
"Ew! Gross your breath smells bad!" I giggle.
He slurps his tongue back in and shuts his mouth. I slowly lift my hand again to pet the thick fur on his neck. I weave my fingers through his long thick fur, scratching him slowly, just in case he decides if he doesn't like it, I can jump away real fast. But to my surprise, he takes two more steps forward, and lowers his head so it's leaning on my chest. I go to touch his ears and they twitch, so I stick to stroking his neck. I watch him very closely while I am petting him, his eyes are closing so I guess that means he's enjoying me petting him. After a few minutes I realize he is lying down in front of me. I am not short, I am one of the tallest kids in my class, and it made me a little nervous to realize that this dog is eye level with me while lying on the ground.
I take two steps back to observe this giant creature in front of me. From what I can tell he is all black, and blacker than night. His eyes are a beautiful shade of green, and are slightly glowing in the dark forest. His fur is thick and shaggy, he's not a long haired dog, just, fluffy.
"Bella!" Oh shoot!! My Dad! He obviously pulled his attention away from the Tv, and realized I was gone!!
"Bella!" My Mom too!! Oh no, this is going to be bad. The dog turns his head towards the direction of the voices.
"You must be hungry." I tell him. He turns back to look at me.
"You want some food?" He stands abruptly lowering his head to look into my eyes.
"Okay then, let's go!" I turn to head back towards my house, trying to walk as quickly as I can without tripping. I can feel the dog moving behind me, his steps are loud and heavy. I turn back to look at him once or twice, and every time I do he stops.
"What's a matter boy?"
"BELLA!! Where are you!?"
The house is barely in sight now, I decide to run as fast as I can through the woods, the dog heavily trotting behind me. I break the trees just before my dad unleashes another scream for me.
"Right here Dad!" I pant.
"Bella! What were you doing in the forest!?" My mother all but shrieks.
"I was just-"
"Why were you outside at this hour? Unattended?" She yelled before I got to finish.
"I was just-"
"Charlie, where were you instead of watching our child? Let me guess, in front of the damn tv."
"I thought she was up in her room reading!"
"Well you thought wrong! She could have gotten hurt-"
"Mom!" I yelled at the top of my lungs, if I didn't stop them now, they would go on like this forever. "I was up in my room reading, but then I snuck out."
"Why would you do such a thing sweetheart? You could have gotten hurt in the forest."
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As the years go by 'reality' is hitting more. He had an actual A
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MrsDoubtfire posted 6/7/2013 11:44 AM
My profile explains our timeline in relation to when I suspected, found out and found myself in a false R for months and months so I won't rehash all that as you can read it if you want ..... But....
It's been over 3 years since we R, (4 years since false R started and 6 years since his A and this roller coaster started)
Year 1 was spent getting over the shock and hurt and learning all aspects of FWH and OW LTA
Year 2 was attempting to survive counselling and enjoying life as a stronger couple than we ever were pre fwh's A.
Year 3 was when I was diagnosed with PTSD and took steps to 'get well again.
Now? I'm FINALLY being struck with the knowledge FWH screwed someone else for almost 3 years and I find I'm not okay with that!
Don't get me wrong. FWH is one of the WS's who got it, who owned his shit and who has walked through heaven and hell trying to amend for what he did.
But, he had an A and I'm not okay with that fact.
I think about aspects of their A every day again now..... The more normality has returned the more I find myself thinking, "did you do/ say that with/ to her?" whenever he does/says anything!!
The first few months and the first year were abnormal times. When I think back now I didn't get angry, I didn't do anything! People kept telling me that the anger would come in a blinding rage.... But it never has.
And now, I have more questions than I have answers simply because EVERY situation has the capacity to remind me that he had an A and I'm not okay with that fact!! He's answered each and every question as I've asked it but now I have a hundred more...
Gaaah!! Time heals? Really? Granted that gut sucking pain has eased so very much..... But I find I think about the fact FWH had a LTA more now than I ever did and did I mention that I'm not okay with that fact?
FWH has noticed these last couple of months and keeps reassuring me. He also asks what's causing me to distance myself from him now? What can I say?
"Gee honey- right after Dday you were my biggest trigger but that soon eased but guess what? You have gone back to being my biggest trigger again!"
Knowing that would probably devastate him!
It's like that plain of lethal flatness is back. I don't want to S and I don't want to D but I cannot reconcile with the fact FWH had an A and I have finally come to a place of understanding where I realise that I don't want to be M to someone who fucked someone else day after day after day after day after fucking month for almost 3 years REGARDLESS of whether he treated her like dirt and didn't see her for weeks on end etc!!!!!
I need advice, I need wisdom here and possibly I need 2x4's.
Is this normal ??
ETA, I really apologise for using the F word but it fits so I'll leave it in
[This message edited by MrsDoubtfire at 11:47 AM, June 7th (Friday)]
MoreWould posted 6/7/2013 12:01 PM
Mrs D
I am so sorry for you. I think this might be a side effect of fucking PTSD. OK, I said it, you can drop the F-bomb as often as you need here.
In our sitch, FWWs A was over 30 years ago. No Dr Glass or SI to guide us, and MCs were worse than worthless re infidelity at the time. Rugswept, Revenged, R'd, "Got over it", had kids, still married and glad we are.
Then, I had a brutal PTSD attack triggered by two coworkers' A, and took a second ride on the roller coaster. Quicker, but just as brutal as the first time.
Got FWW (now, just W) to help me work through it, and she was much better than the first time, even if "I don't remember" deserves a bit more respect than it did the first time when events were fresh.
But here's the thing, some of this shit, fresh for the second time, I don't know if I can live with. Loving W totally mystified, like "You got over this a long, long time ago, why it is suddenly not OK anymore?" Actually, I can't blame her, but it is what it is. Sounds a lot like you, and sounds a lot like PTSD. Damn this sucks.
unfound posted 6/7/2013 12:06 PM
sounds like there's still some unresolved anger going on. also sounds like your H is stepping up and trying to help you through this time.
it sucks when you're brain gets soley focused on that realization so far out. and it's hard to broaden that focus to all the good that's happened since then, and where your M is NOW.
"Gee honey- right after Dday you were my biggest trigger but that soon eased but guess what? You have gone back to being my biggest trigger again!"
yeah, that might be devastating, but if it's the truth, then it's best to share it with him. maybe find a more gentle way to say it, but personally, I don't think it's mean or nasty or anything but what you're feeling right now.
those thoughts do come up, and can from time to time years after. it's important to own those thoughts, and also remember how hard he's worked, how hard the both of you have worked. if you truly believe he's remorseful, it might be a good time to revisit counseling for you (if you did it after dday) or revisit how the two of you worked through the same shock and realizations after dday.
talk with him. you can work through this together.
Tred posted 6/7/2013 12:08 PM
Mrs. D,
I wish I had advice, but I don't. I do understand though. I've been seeing a brain trauma expert for the last 5 months for PTSD. I don't know if you get well again, not in the sense that you can accept this. I'm just trying to find a way to live with it. I don't know if there is a normal in my future.
Rebreather posted 6/7/2013 12:13 PM
Uhhh, maybe I might have Facebook stalked the OW yesterday. Randomly, I was pissed off for the same reason. I'm six years out. I usually am ok. But then I saw her on a balcony in Maui standing over the beach where we spent our MFing honeymoon. Really? Really?! Why did she have to be THERE? Why does it look like she lost weight, and maybe got new boobs? Total self inflicted mindfuck.
Occasionally, it will just COME OUT OF THE BLUE.
But last night I was thinking it is kind of like any type of loss or grief. My friend Jimmy was killed the night before we left for college, in 1986. And occasionally I will still get a moment of SHOCK that he is gone. He didn't get to live his life, make his mom a grandmother, and see the rest of us accomplish all we have. It's just so UNFAIR.
Maybe your lack of anger early on is coming out now? I think if anger isn't a part of your healing, it can be a problem.
I've never been 6 years out before. I have no idea what is normal. I'm happy most of the time. Are you? Perhaps acceptance comes in waves, like grief does.
It happened. It's part of our history, our story, our lives. I don't want it to be. It's unfair. But it *is*.
All I can say is to keep turing toward him. Ensure he is still worthy of you. And I think you should talk to him about how you are feeling. Don't shield him. He made this your reality. He should share it with you.
PinkJeepLady posted 6/7/2013 12:23 PM
(((Mrs. D)))
May I add a quick 2 cents here?
Hell no, it's not freakin' (don't mind the f bomb but I am more comfy with freakin') ok that he had an A!
It's great that he has walked heaven and hell, I really do admire people who own up to their mistakes. To me when you say, "it's not ok", means that you are being true to your values and convictions. You are being truthful to yourself. It's not OK and never will be ok with you for your H or my H or anyone else to cheat. Is that what I am hearing?
I don't think what you are saying is about getting a D at all, I think you are simply saying it's not ok and it still bothers you. It's OK to say it's not OK, in my opinion.
I completely understand about H being the actual trigger, strangest thing isn't it? Somedays I wake up and look over and think, "what the hell are you still here for", but then I want to be close to him. I find it confusing for sure.
I do wonder if you are asking the same questions now or are they different? Have you ever tried writing them down and then taking a look the next day to be sure you still want to ask them? I am all for getting the facts, believe me, but I have had success with writing them down at this point. Sometimes I will still feel the need for an answer and then sometimes I don't care so much, so I throw the paper away.
Just want you to know you are sure not alone with your thoughts. I am wishing you BOTH the best on your journey out of this nightmare!
Take care of yourself!
so_lost posted 6/7/2013 12:46 PM
I totally understand being 8 years out myself. After an extremely stressful year, I fell back into thinking about my FWH's affair non-stop. I felt like I had made a mistake by staying despite him being 100% remorseful. We now have two kids and have worked so hard for so long at healing so leaving was not the option I wanted. I sought counseling.
The counselor seems to think I trigger back to the affair so I don't have to deal with issues in the present. Some of these issues are ones we had pre-affair ie I wanted my husband to spend more time with me and look what happened when I expressed my feelings to him back then. I feel if I express myself now he'll just go and cheat on me again so...I go back to my safe zone, the affair. I can get mad at him and put up my wall. That way I'm protected from future harm, right? Well, sorta. It's making me miserable in the process!
What's helped me is realizing I've been behind a wall of varying heights for the last 8 years. I've really started focusing on the present and trying to stay here. I'm trying to trust him with my heart again. I'm trying to forgive him. What's helped me get closer to forgiveness is empathy. Neither of them would've accepted their behavior towards each other in a real relationship. It was about every thing but love. It kind of makes me feel sad for them. Thank god I don't walk around with that baggage. It's hard mental work. Some days I'm better then others...but I keep trying. (((MrsDoubtfire)))
rachelc posted 6/7/2013 13:58 PM
I'll have to admit that this thread scares me a little, as I've followed many of your posts and you seem to be so together, inspirational and your attitude has been something to shoot for.
i'm so sorry you're going through this. Are you still going to IC and might this be a residual affect of the PTSD or just, you know, more acceptance issues?
I so understand the issue of not wanting to S or D but not wanting this as part of your marital history either. It's the shit that comes with it. What would your life look like without him in it?
Alex CR posted 6/7/2013 14:11 PM
(((Mrs.Doubtfire))) First, the F*&k word is so helpful...please use as necessary.
Sorry you are feeling this way....I am not as far out as you so I can't offer advice from my experience, but I wonder if not going through the anger stage is something you might need to do.
For me, anger and rage were a daily event about 6-9 months out from DDay....It was really year three before I came to 'acceptance'....that this is our life with all its warts and scars among the good memories.
Working this out with your H is really important .....although time has passed, that doesn't mean the pain of betrayal has and as he has been a WS who 'got it', there's more he needs to get to help you through this stage.
I broke a stash of dishes almost 10 months out...smashing them against the wall, one after the other, swearing and screaming as I threw each one. Scared the heck of my H but it felt damn good to me. I felt like something ugly crawled out of me that night.
After that, the anger just wasn't as intense and the rage almost non-existent.
You don't need 2x4's but what you might need is to break some 2x4s.....
Notmetoo2011 posted 6/7/2013 14:12 PM
It's like that plain of lethal flatness is back. I don't want to S and I don't want to D but I cannot reconcile with the fact FWH had an A and I have finally come to a place of understanding where I realise that I don't want to be M to someone who fucked someone else day after day after day after day after fucking month for almost 3 years REGARDLESS of whether he treated her like dirt and didn't see her for weeks on end etc!!!!!
I can sooo relate to this ^^^. Sorry I don't have any great advice or insight but know you are not alone in your feelings. Maybe IC could help as someone else suggested.
((( MrsDoubtfire)))
annb posted 6/7/2013 14:13 PM
Mrs. D, glad you posted this.
It sounds like you might be experiencing PTSD symptoms. I have it, and it can be f*cking brutal, I think it got worse with time.
Eight years out, had a bad morning, sent WH a text that I "am divorcing his cheating ass." An A is really difficult to accept as part of your marital history, I don't think I can ever reconcile WH had an A. He is a traitor to me and our family. A very, very hard pill to swallow.
My WH was also extremely remorseful, but the TT was deadly. When I think about the lies, I can easily slip into a PTSD mentality. It s*cks.
When I get stressed about anything, the damn PTSD rears its ugly head. Is there anything else going on in your life?
I'm not okay with that
^^I don't think anyone of here is ok with it, some are able to accept it more easily than others.
((((Mrs. D)))
cds22 posted 6/7/2013 14:22 PM
I am not clear on how to differentiate PTSD from just flat out not being OK with being in a marriage with someone with a past affair. Certainly, I would explore the PTSD angle and see if you can ameliorate things that way.
But *and I am new here so take this with a grain of salt* you are getting closer to the time where you need to forgive/rebuild or leave. I don't know where that precise point is and certainly it varies between couples and situations. But I think at years 4 or 5 if one if feeling ongoing (not just triggers or occasional flares) feelings that this is not right and they cannot accept it, it is time to leave.
I am a betrayed spouse and am on your side here! But at some point relatively soon I think you need to figure out whether this is something you just cannot accept, and in fairness to both of you, leave the marriage if that is the case.
sisoon posted 6/7/2013 14:22 PM
My experience is that A stuff keeps cycling around, even with my remorseful WS. That's the nature of trauma, after all.
I urge you to talk with MrD - give him a chance to help.
rachelc posted 6/7/2013 15:26 PM
slight t/j:
Eight years out, had a bad morning, sent WH a text that I "am divorcing his cheating ass." An A is really difficult to accept as part of your marital history, I don't think I can ever reconcile WH had an A. He is a traitor to me and our family.
are you really? so sorry to hear this.. but as with all of us, we can live with only so much...
speaking as a wayward, if my husband came to me tonight and told me he just couldnt do this i would understand. I really would.
Flatlined posted 6/7/2013 15:51 PM
Oh Mrs D., I sure do understand. I see you have just come thru another anti-versary. Idk, but there seems to be something about those yearly dates that triggers us on a primal level.
I am approaching year 4... My FWH had two A's, with women I knew well (I no longer call them friends), each A was a few months long. I had the further exasperation of 18 months of trickled truth after DDay. My FWH sounds like yours in that he really has made the 180.
ITA with the others who say you definitely have to talk it out with Mr. D. I used to tell my H that he is the one who made the unilateral decision to book us on this (hellish) cruise. When the water gets choppy he is not allowed to pull the covers over his head. I need him to do his best to hold on to me until the sea calms.
Our R has gone well. But lately I have just been feeling sad. I spent quite a bit of time cyber stalking O(utside)W#2 last year. I was finally able to forgive her earlier this year and that feels so good. (She was really stinking up my brain!!!) Four years ago this month, when FWH was just gettin hot-n-heavy with her and the 2 or 3 months that followed will probably forever be remembered as the worst time of my life. (And I have also lost a 14 yo child to suicide.) I totally understand when you say, it's not okay. As so_lost said, this is hard mental work... learning how to be ok inspite of what isn't (wasn't) ok. I also agree with sisson, trauma is quite cyclic.
I don't think this is an issue of do I want to be married to a cheater or not? I think we both already made that decision. I think it's just an issue of how to live with the recurring emotional pain. Our Hs did a terrible, stupid and horrific thing. It still seems unfathomable. Some of the best advice you've been given is to let him in so he can share the burden of your current struggle.
Best to you ((Mrs. D.))
MrsDoubtfire posted 6/8/2013 01:40 AM
Thank you so much for all your replies. Sometimes, to gain perspective you need to sound off people not so closely linked to your situation.
To answer some questions: I am in this M with both feet and with eyes wide open so don't worry that I might be wavering with wanting a D. It's just that reality seems to have smacked me hard upside the head..
I didn't actually equate these feelings with the realisation I've just been through another anti versary and that resonated so thank you. You've helped me put this into perspective a bit more. My thoughts and feelings have probably been influenced by that a lot. That I can deal with.
As for PTSD? I really thought that, once it had been dealt with, that it would be solved so I might just call my IC and ask her opinion as I am a great believer in "if there's something out there (that's legal and morally acceptable) that can sort your ailments out then for goodness sake take it!"
I just want my feelings to be gone or changed into something more healthy.
To answer the question about the fact I now have 100 questions I want to ask FWH: yes, we too use a book so I can keep all his answers. These questions are different ones.... Ones that just add bulk to the backbone of the ones already known to me I guess.
I looked at FWH earlier and thought to myself, what would it feel like to tell him that his A isn't acceptable in my life and that I want a D? My gut felt sick and I knew I still am in this M 100% and that I made my choice already.
Life without him would be happy as I don't look to him to make me happy- that's my job! But, he does add the sprinkles and cherry on top of my (already) lovely cup cake life
I'm hoping this current feeling will pass and I really hope it passes soon as I hate feeling 'indifferent' and detached.
Maybe, just maybe this is a step towards something better as I hate that he's become my number one trigger once more.
I wish I could get angry to the point I'm red in the face and drooling so I could let whatever poison this is out!! My lack of anger really surprises me still.
sudra posted 6/8/2013 05:49 AM
It's like that plain of lethal flatness is back. I don't want to S and I don't want to D but I cannot reconcile with the fact FWH had an A and I have finally come to a place of understanding where I realise that I don't want to be M to someone who fucked someone else day after day after day after day after fucking month for almost 3 years REGARDLESS of whether he treated her like dirt and didn't see her for weeks on end etc!!!!!
That's where I am, one month short of the three year anniversary of Dday. Sucks and I wonder if that will ever change.
catlover50 posted 6/8/2013 06:32 AM
I also wanted to add that you have helped me with my journey.
I have a narrative that I tell myself, and have written it down, that helps me. I understand the whys, etc. But sometimes, sitting at a traffic light, I am crushed by the realization that my H fucked another woman for almost 4 years!! Then I slowly have to rebuild my story, etc. Gahhh!
It helps me that I learned about my H's CSA. But really, every WS has some significant damage to be able to do what they did. Even the "selfish" excuse--how could they be so selfish? What about their makeup allows that? That is where compassion comes in. We are all flawed, but for some of us our flaws do not allow us to ever go there. We had intimacy modeled to us growing up, learned about being unselfish, etc. For some reason I always had a strong moral code and good will power. Am I a better person because of that? Well, in that way perhaps; in other ways no.
Assuming that the WS was broken, it wasn't our fault, then all they can do now is try to fix themselves and the marriage. If they have truly given their all, and are committed to work for ever, what more can we ask? They can't change the past or the fact that they were broken.
Of course sometimes we can't live with it regardless. But IMHO compassion for human failing can help---it does me most of the time.
Good luck.
[This message edited by catlover50 at 6:33 AM, June 8th (Saturday)]
MrsDoubtfire posted 6/8/2013 06:38 AM
Sudra. I hope it can change for both of us.
I don't know if there's anyone way out the other side who still posts here but, if there is, I hope they can offer some insight into this. Maybe it's all part of the process ?
I don't know. I had a talk with FWH earlier and admitted how I was feeling. He said he knew something was up and then told me " what hurts you now hurts me and vice versa. We need to work through it together and not with you pulling away!" Then he told me to keep on asking any questions and he would always answer them.
The old FWH wouldn't have bothered asking what my problem was let alone share the burden with me!!
MrsDoubtfire posted 6/8/2013 06:42 AM
Cat lover. We cross posted
When I'm alone the feelings become more intense ( especially at traffic lights and when I'm in my car). I try to do mindful thinking and stay focused on the present as it doesn't do good to dwell on the past. Generally I'm able to stay in the present but, lately, I find myself wallowing back there again. I know my thoughts direct my path and I need to look to the present and to look forwards to the future. But I feel a bit stuck. Like someone's taken my steering wheel and driven me back in time against my will!!!
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On my third playthrough now and on Ch8 of tree hugger route, just finishing a few sidequests before I start Ch9. Just managed to complete both demonfolk maps and I really look forward to using them in the next ng++, that Cross Ciel spell was crazy good. Going to be doing a fourth later so I can finish up Yuela's CGs and such.
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From its canals -- which turn 400 this year -- to the newly reopened Rijksmuseum, the Dutch capital offers plenty for tourists in search of history and beauty.
The Begijnhof is a small grassed courtyard surrounded by beautiful 17th- and 18th-century houses that were originally built for pious Catholic single women. It's right in the middle of town and reachable by a gateway at the end of a lane leading off one of the city's busiest shopping streets, but it is almost eerily silent. (March 12, 2013)
One of Amsterdam's newest landmarks is a stark, white film institute called the EYE, perched on northern bank of the Ij waterway. (April 21, 2012)
The EYE Film Institute's is perched on northern bank of the Ij waterway. (April 21, 2012)
The EYE Film Institute's cafe and its terrace offer front-row seats for watching barges chug along the Ij waterway against a backdrop of the city skyline. (Jan. 9, 2013)
Workers push a container holding Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The painting, which hung in the Philipsvleugel for nine years while the Rijksmuseum underwent renovations, has been returned to its home museum. (March 27, 2013)
The exterior of the Rijksmuseum, as preparations are made for the return of Rembrandt's "The Night Watch."
A canal cruise boat passes underneath one of Amsterdam's many bridges. (March 18, 2013)
A horse-drawn cart turns onto one of Amsterdam's many bridges. (Jan. 17, 2012)
Amsterdam's canals are 400 years old this year, but strolling along the waterways never gets old. (March 20, 2013)
People sit in the courtyard of the Amsterdam Museum. (March 12, 2013)
A waitress cleans a table at the Amsterdam Museum's cafe Mokum. (March 12, 2013)
A somewhat hidden -- and free -- gem in Amsterdam is the Schuttersgalerij, or Civil Guard Gallery, of the Amsterdam Museum. The a short, covered passageway is home to, among other things, a handful of smaller portraits of civil guards. (March 19, 2013)
A sculpture by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso titled "The Fish" (1965) sits in Vondelpark. Amsterdam's most famous park is 116 acres filled with ponds, tree-lined pathways, kids' playgrounds an open-air theater and cafes. (March 18, 2013)


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It's the last week to buy coverage through Colorado's health insurance exchange — barring some life-changing personal event — and what had been a steady stream turned to a frenetic surge at some enrollment sites Monday.
"I had 20 people waiting here when I opened the door at 11 a.m.," said Michelle Decker, the official who handled incoming customers at an enrollment center on the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver.
"It has been crazy," Decker said. "I've been here every day (for weeks), and this is the first time people have really had more than a 10-minute wait."
The wait at midday for an insurance guide or broker was an estimated 90 minutes. It was taking people anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour to select a plan and enroll, Decker said. Coloradans also can enroll at the Connect for Health Colorado website.
Four years of political battles over the 2010 Affordable Care Act come down to this: How many of the uninsured (more than 740,000 in Colorado) will be insured when open enrollment ends March 31?
Figures aren't available for the state, but nationally the ranks of uninsured fell by 2.2 percentage points since late 2013, according to a Gallup survey. There are disparities along racial and ethnic lines. The uninsured among African-Americans dropped by 2.6 percentage points. The drop among Hispanics was 0.8 percent.
"This is the sense of urgency we're trying to give people," said Linda Gann, an outreach coordinator for the state exchange. "This is it."
As of Monday morning, Connect for Health chief executive Patty Fontneau said, 106,000 Coloradans had signed up for private insurance. About 24 percent of enrollees were in the prized young (and presumably healthier) adult category of ages 18-34.
That group makes up 27 percent of enrollees nationwide. Health care experts have said 35 percent to 40 percent need to participate to check insurance price increases in 2015.
Kristen Moree, 23, took time between two jobs last week to visit an enrollment center and browse plans. She'd been on her parents' plan in North Carolina until recently.
"I ended up not getting anything," Moree said of her first attempt to sign up. "It's not that I don't want insurance, but because of my schedule it was hard to get there. Then it was a little bit overwhelming. It's a big decision and one I've never had to make before. I didn't want to impulsively choose one."
She said Saturday she would go back this week to close the deal.
More than 151,000 Coloradans had been added to Medicaid rolls by March 17.
Of those enrolled in private rather than public insurance, Fontneau said, 56 percent received tax credits to effectively reduce their insurance premiums. The average tax credit was $277 a month.
"We've had some big challenges," Fontneau said, explaining why an upper-end projection — an "aggressive" goal of 200,000 enrollees — was not reached.
Insurers granted early renewals of more than 337,000 policies that otherwise would have been canceled in 2014 because they didn't meet minimum standards for coverage under the new law.
"We lost a lot of enrollments because of early renewals," Fontneau said, "but out of the total population of 1 million in our target market, we've enrolled more than 10 percent. It's a very, very nice start."
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- Talks resumed Wednesday evening, senior Palestinian official says
- Israel releases Palestinian prisoners ahead of new peace talks
- But Palestinians are angered by Israeli plans for new construction in East Jerusalem
- The issue of Israeli settlements derailed the last round of direct talks in 2010
The long-awaited peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians resumed Wednesday evening in Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official told CNN -- three years after the last direct negotiations stalled over the issue of settlements in disputed territory.
As a gesture of goodwill, Israel began releasing more than two dozen Palestinian prisoners late Tuesday on the eve of new peace talks that have been complicated by Israeli plans for new housing in East Jerusalem.
Some of the Palestinians had been held for more than 20 years. But as the vans rolled away, a group of demonstrators waved signs condemning the release, complaining that the prisoners had Israeli blood on their hands.
The prisoner release came after Israel said it would forge ahead with a plan to build 900 housing units in East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians hope will be the capital of their future state.
The issue of Israeli settlements derailed the last round of direct talks in 2010, and critics of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say building on disputed territory could derail the new talks.
"Netanyahu has to decide which government he is heading: a government that is trying to reach a peace agreement, or a government that is trying to undermine all possibilities of this agreement," said Shelly Yachimovich, head of the Labor Party and the Israeli opposition.
In January, the United Nations Human Rights Council said Israeli settlements amount to "creeping annexation" of Palestinian territories by Israel and have taken a "heavy toll" on the rights and sovereignty of Palestinians.
And in Washington, where American leaders have pushed both sides to return to the table, the State Department said it had "serious concerns" with the new announcement.
"We've encouraged both sides broadly speaking to refrain from taking steps that could undermine trust. We said that from the beginning," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said. "We've also been clear that these are complicated issues, and there will be bumps in the road."
Daoud Kuttab, a columnist for the online Middle Eastern news site Al-Monitor, said the released prisoners are a bargaining chip to make sure the Palestinians don't back out of the talks despite their anger over new settlements.
"They're trapped, and Mahmoud Abbas has egg on his face today because he can't get out of the talks," Kuttab told CNN.
Both sides agreed to resume talks for nine months under American mediation, said Rami Khoury, a veteran Middle East analyst at the American University of Beirut.
"This is a significant gesture, so therefore you're going to hear a lot of noise from both sides -- complaints, grievances," Khoury said. "But you can pretty much discount most of what you hear in public, because they're both clearly committed to doing this for nine months. And we really need to give it time to see what's going to happen."
Abbas and Netanyahu are "hemmed in by domestic constraints," leaving neither side likely to make significant changes on its own, Khoury said.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said last week that "many difficult choices" lie ahead for both sides, but held out hope that "reasonable compromises" could be reached.
Khoury called that a "weak statement" that downplayed expectations for the talks.
As a result, most observers have little hope that the talks will produce a breakthrough in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But he said the U.S. role in the talks is a "wild card" that could defy those expectations.
"What is the United States going to do?" he asked. "Will it push both sides? Will it pressure them? Will it cajole them? Will it entice them, and will it make serious bridging and endgame proposals? We have no idea about any of that."


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ravenwing110 wrote: And the fight at the end, when Edward's face cracked, was so cool. I could never really imagine the whole "they're stone!" thing, but that helped a lot.
Definately!! The crack was great, I couldn't imagine them as stone either! And the sound that went with it and the general vampire being ripped to pieces (the X vampire from the Volturi's story and Laurent) helped too.


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..was yesterday.
Just like Microsoft.. a day late and an API short.
Will I have to upgrade to Windows Blue for this Internet Explorer 11, or will Windows 8 be enough? Somehow I suspect it won't be the latter.
Windows Blue = Windows 8 SP1, The name is a marketing trick
That ain't gonna change the fact it has a bullseye the size of Texas painted on it Hoss. Every malware writer knows that IE is the "grandma browser" and grandma is clueless so if you want your malware to last longer and infect systems where it won't be found for ages? Go after IE. The fact that it takes a seriously nasty bug to get MSFT to patch IE out of cycle just makes it that much more of a juicy target since the other guys patch the second they have a reason to.
This is why I give my customers a coupl
Who cares. Nobody encodes to WebM.
I have just tried it on Win8, and yes, it does work.
It is a standard. At least in name. The Khronos group manages it here [khronos.org].
It's a spec...but it seems to be turning into at least a defacto standard.
The "the security and stability implications of exposing the most volatile piece of computing hardware through the browser" is exactly why every browser exposes WebGL through a wrapper/translator library that acts as a validator to prevent bad behaviour. WebGL-based exploits have been shown in the past.
The issue is that video driver crashes are one of the most common causes of system crashes, so driver stability is a major issue and not going to be fixed by a translation layer. The other is security, especially given you are writing to GPU memory, having that sort of access to hardware through the browser is potentially a huge security issue with the ability to exploit driver bugs, cross domain image hacks using fragment shaders, de
It could be the awesomest ever, but in my Windows 7 shop, it's irrelevant.
Thank goodness there's Chrome, Opera and Firefox.
IE10 is out for Win7. Have you seen any documented evidence that IE11 won't be available for Win7? I mean, I have no evidence either way, but since they're now releasing browser versions on a more accelerated schedule it seems likely they'll support them on the current generation most-popular Windows variant.
"it seems reasonable to guess that the implementation maps OpenGL to DirectX, thus avoiding Microsoft having to endorse OpenGL use."
No, more likely MS doesn't want to have to rely on vendors providing a working OpenGL driver, since that can be problematic (looking at you here ATi). If you have an accelerated Windows driver, a WDDM driver, it has DirectX support. That is how it works, just part of the spec. OpenGL, however, is an addon. Vendors can provide an OpenGL driver, or any other API they like, if they wish but it isn't an inherent part of the driver. They can choose not to provide them, or can provide broken ones.
So, would make sense for WebGl support to have something that does translation, so it works as long as you have a WDDM driver installed.
Even Firefox uses Google's ANGLE to translate WebGL to Direct3D.
From the ANGLE site [google.com]: "The goal of ANGLE is to allow Windows users to seamlessly run WebGL and other OpenGL ES 2.0 content by translating OpenGL ES 2.0 API calls to DirectX 9 API calls. "
You don't want to rely on a host OpenGL driver since OpenGL isn't the native interface for Windows.
Heck translation might be good even on a GL system, since ES isn't directly compatible with normal OpenGL unless you have a 4.1 or better setup which requires a fairly new card (GeForce 400 or newer in nVidia's case). I don't know of any Intel GPUs that do GL 4.1 yet, even Ivy Bridge is still 3.1.
So regardless of platform, it could make a lot of sense to implement it as a translation system, and then just choo
> Even Firefox uses Google's ANGLE to translate WebGL to Direct3D.
Whether that's a smart thing to do is another thing, because then they have a different code base on Linux and Mac and OpenGL was designed to be cross platform.
OpenGL ES is a subset of OpenGL, in other words it's fairly trivial to get an OpenGL ES program to work on OpenGL. EGL is a complementary library, but not part of the OpenGL standard
No, more likely MS doesn't want to have to rely on vendors providing a working OpenGL driver, since that can be problematic (looking at you here ATi).
Particularly since it's an OpenGL ES driver, Chrome and Firefox do the same thing i believe.
Now correct me if I'm wrong but isn't OpenGL ES a much wimpier subset of OpenGL cooked up for cellphones and consoles NOT for desktops? That was the way I had always heard it explained which if so makes all the hubub just one more "ZOMFG we can be like the iPhone!" as far as I'm concerned.
Is anybody else tired of the mobile bubble yet? I personally can't wait until it pops, its getting about as asinine as the height of the dotbomb. You got VCs throwing money at pretty much anything with iPhone or Android in
Well, and again correct me if I'm wrong, just a humble fixit guy here...ain't that what a fork is for Hoss? if a company just isn't running a project in the direction the majority wants the project gets forked and either the original stays the champ or it withers and dies ala Open Office?
Because what you are describing to me sounds like OpenGL is ripe for a good forking, let those that need the old cruft support the original version while a new version that takes the best gaming stuff from the desktop and
OpenGL is not an opensource project. It's an open standard managed by a group that's composed of experts from hardware and software corporations, and sponsored by those (and maybe other) companies. The group's name is Khronos. and yes, THEY decide what OpenGL looks like, and who can use the OpenGL logo. Of course you could create a LibreGL, that bases itself on OpenGL, but flows in a different direction, but then you will NOT be sponsored by all those large corporations, who will most probably ignore your e
Forking is fine for code, slightly less so for standards.
Car analogy;
Forking code is like copying a car design and changing it slightly; it may look and work differently but can still drive on all roads.
Forking standards is like copying the road design and changing it slightly; no existing car can drive on the new roads and future cars can't drive on the old roads.
(Actually a train analogy would have been a better fit, since they actually have forked the trainrails design and have ended up with those proble
Now correct me if I'm wrong but isn't OpenGL ES a much wimpier subset of OpenGL cooked up for cellphones and consoles NOT for desktops? That was the way I had always heard it explained which if so makes all the hubub just one more "ZOMFG we can be like the iPhone!" as far as I'm concerned.
Kind of, ES doesn't have a lot of the - now deprecated or removed - cruft in OpenGL like the Begin/End calls in favor of the more modern techniques. It isn't quite as cutting edge as the full OpenGL desktop version that you get in the latest desktop hardware, there are some features like geometry shaders that it omits - i don't think there is support for bindless graphics either - but it has pulled in features like multiple render targets and a lot of new texture format options. Generally ES gets the most u
So, how is it that Rage and Quake, and most 3D creation apps use OpenGL without any problems?
Yes, let's include another gaping security hole in Internet Explorer that allows direct access to a system's hardware from the browser!
You mean like the alleged hole that supposedly left Microsoft with no choice but to remove NPAPI plugin support from IE back in the 1990s?
Frankly, this is huge. Direct3D is probably Microsoft's second most effective tool for locking-in users (behind MSOffice) and the single most effective tool for locking-in developers. To officially support its open competitor -and in a way that would allow apps (read: games) to actually be played on other platforms, no less- is uncharacteristic of them, to put it mildly. Are they so afraid of WebGL's potential that they see simply supporting it as less risky than embrace-extend-extinguish?
The other option is that they're in step one of the embrace-extend-extinguish dance.
I don't get why no one else has called this... They're actually already at step 2
1. Embrace WebGL
2. Extend WebGL by supporting HLSL shaders
Uhhh it OpenGL ES and its being supported in the BROWSER which unless they changed things by default is running in low rights mode anyway...yeah I really don't think anybody is gonna be seeing performance that rivals a DirectX game installed on the hardware Hoss.
It will be a WebGL wrapper around DirectX, just like Firefox and Chrome do on Windows, so I don't expect there will be anything to hinder performance there.
Uhhh...any time you add layers to something performance is gonna suffer friend, if it didn't everything from your browser to your video player would just be throwaway VMs so bugs would be a thing of the past.
Again for Plants Vs Zombies, Angry Birds and Cut The Rope? I'm sure this will be fine and dandy, heck it'll probably be fine and dandy for older games to like Q3 Arena but until I see something with the graphics quality of Just Cause II or Bioshock Infinite running on this? Well just color me skeptica
Uhhh...any time you add layers to something performance is gonna suffer friend, if it didn't everything from your browser to your video player would just be throwaway VMs so bugs would be a thing of the past.
The only thing that matters is how much it suffers in the particular case we're talking about, the answer is that it is negligible. I'm not sure why you're comparing to VMs, a VM is a lot more heavyweight than a simple API wrapper. Even around 15 years ago we had 3d API wrappers (most notably Glide OpenGL wrappers) that had negligible performance impact and these days with so much work done in shader code that is pre-compiled the performance impact is even less.
Uhhh...any time you add layers to something performance is gonna suffer friend, if it didn't everything from your browser to your video player would just be throwaway VMs so bugs would be a thing of the past.
Not necessarily.
Additional layers hide complexity. In some cases, they hide a sort of complexity that is too specialized for most developers to be able to handle well.
Stuff like hardware drivers, the TCP/IP stack, runtimes and even the BIOS are abstraction layers too.
In theory, a smart programmer can get much better performance out of coding his entire 3D hardware accelerated game directly on the BIOS in assembler.
In practice, I dare say no programmer is smart enough to actually outperform all those abstrac
Yeah, looks like they might not be so worried about those security issues [duckduckgo.com] after all. Or maybe they only come in play when you turn your free non-WebGL'd Windows Blue into Windows Blue Super-Clouditized And Also Actually Plays Games Edition with monthly subscription.
...but seriously--long side rant follows--their Windows 8 insolence motivated me to get a laptop and make it Arch Linux-only (I have a desktop with Windows 7 and Arch in some crude tandem dualboot way, but I wanted to try non-secure-boot EFI and
...and whaddya know, I open Steam juuuuust after the comment to check, and as if to vindicate me I see the GUTS editor and other fun stuff for TL2 were released [steampowered.com]. (Sorry my comments ended up becoming a whole big TL2 ad, just saying.)
There's a huge difference between being concerned about security issues and delaying the inclusion of potentially security-risky features, and omitting them entirely even after having enough time to thoroughly examine the risks, develop mitigations, test extensively, and so forth.
Microsoft did the former (they were concerned - and probably rightly so - about allowing incredibly untrusted code [anything on the web] to interact with incredibly delicate system components [video drivers]).
Microsoft is not doing
May I assume that Windows 8.11 for Workgroups will be out soon?
" LOOK how FAST ie10 is. You can play a GAME on it. TOUCHSCREENS!!!!. We are FINALLY SECURITY!"
Man all those ads were quite annoying, and rather false.
I'm sure both users of IE11 will be thrilled to hear it.
Give it up, Microsoft. Your time was Windows 95, and that time has passed.
The biggest problem with IE10 as far as modern web apps go is its lack of WebGL support
wrong. the biggest problem with ie10 is ie10.
what's the meme for crap like this, "first sentence made no sense whatsoever;dr"?
Although I do hope that IE11 gets released to Windows 7.
Here is my thinking - I love WebGL, but I don't see it really taking off unless IE supports it (granted, IE is loosing market share, but that's another topic). However, Windows 8 seems to be a bigger bust for Microsoft than Vista and ME was. So, if IE11 is exclusive to Windows 8, that still means that the default webbrowser used by a good portion of the web users won't support it.
Probably why many webpages still look like they did 10 years ago, website
.. which means that as usual IE will be holding back web development for another 5 years. I am being serious. This is an ongoing problem for anyone who developers client-facing sites especially when long-term support is part of the requirement. Most companies simply can't justify having one group of engineers working on WebGL and then another group working on some other IE-only implementation... they do not have resources like this. You have limited resources and need to choose one solution that works acros
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A cell phone tower just off of West Washington Street could lead to changes in city ordinances, but unfortunately for a handful of adjacent residents, there won't be any action that will relieve their situation.
In April, residents along West Washington, whose properties back up to the old Lee jeans' plant where the 250-foot tower now stands, appeared before the Fayetteville Board of Mayor and Aldermen, expressing their dissatisfaction with the tower's presence in their back yard and asking officials for help.
Board members had asked City Attorney Johnny Hill to study the matter and return his opinion to the board during their May work session. In that session Thursday morning, Hill said the city's planning commission had acted appropriately in relation to city ordinances when the proposal for a cell tower was approved.
"Had the planning commission denied the request, there would have likely been a lawsuit, which would have been drawn out and costly to the city," said Hill Thursday, adding that he would not have recommended that the planning commission act any differently.
There was a 60-day window during which an appeal could have been filed prior to the tower's erection, he said, but that would have been more of a process to determine if the city had acted appropriately.
"If the board requests removal of the tower, we would be opening ourselves up to removal costs and potential damages," Hill continued. "I can't find any legal footing for removal – it would be an improper use of eminent domain."
In regard to an FHA loan that had been sought to assist in the purchase of one of the properties, Hill said he did find that there is a process that could be used to maneuver around the issue.
Alderman Danny Bryant asked whether the city could change guidelines governing such towers, and Ryan Tyhuis, responsible for planning and codes, indicated that the city could modify regulations.
"I think we ought to do that," Bryant said.
"If we did do that, we need to know it's rock solid … that they can't get around it," added Alderman Marty Pepper.
The possible action, though, will not remedy concerns for residents living in the tower's shadow, who expressed their dissatisfaction with the lack of a remedy in the situation.
"Don't be concerned about a lawsuit from a cell phone tower company," said Olen Mitchell, one of the property owners impacted. "Be concerned about the residents – your citizens – who you are responsible for protecting."
"I think you were negligent when you failed to see how this would impact your residents," added Martha Brown, who sees and hears the tower clicking everyday, going on to add that she had planned to downsize and buy a smaller home, but the tower's presence will make selling her property at a fair price less likely.
"Maybe it won't happen again," said Mayor John Ed Underwood. "It would be nice if we all had a crystal ball, but we didn't."
"You need to be proactive instead of reactive and take care of the citizens," added Mitchell, admonishing the board for not having investigated the tower's potential impact on residents.


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The Godfather-Goodfellas Pasta Sauce Smackdown
And (RELEVANCE ALERT) both movies feature painstakingly-described onscreen recipes for pasta sauce.
In the NFL, when two teams tie for a playoff spot, the league uses a system of 12 tiebreaking procedures, each becoming less significant than the previous one (head-to-head record, strength of the opponents you played, the most touchdowns you scored) until finally, if teams match up perfectly on the first eleven, the 12th is a coin toss.
The way I see it, we're at the eleventh tiebreaker right now - the Goodfellas/Godfather question is so close to call that we're fast approaching coin-flip territory. So I decided to do what any cook in my position would do: make film history.
I've made both, made a hybrid or three, and tomorrow night will launch off into new experimentation — using bison or ostrich, using a different pasta, switching up the cooking times. Whatever hits me as I'm at the supermarket.
For the record, to my taste, the Godfather sauce was better, save for it being overly sweet. My later tests and hybrids ditched Clemenza's sugar, and it worked out very nicely.
That being said, Vinnie's addition of some onions ain't bad, but he uses too many onions. (I used one Vidalia. It was enough!)
The biggest issue, if you can dig it, is whether to brown the meatballs and sausage or cook them in the sauce. People get derpy over this. SRSLY. (My mom is adamant that you have to brown the meat before it goes into the sauce. She yelled at me when I told her about the preliminary Goodfellas experiment. Out of character, to say the least!)
I've tried both separately, and together (in the hybrids).
I gotta come down on the Godfather side here: brown your meat.
And de-glaze, for Jebus Haploid Christ's sake! Preferably with a decent red wine; don't splash it in like Clemenza does. Put the de-glazing fluid and yummy bits right into the sauce. (Me, I'd use a decent but affordable Chianti or Merlot, but pick what's best for you.)
It makes a huge difference in the umami flavor.
Lastly, pasta choice: Don't use delicate pasta for this — no angel hair, even no linguine or spaghetti. (Screw Coppola on this point*.)
Go with bowties, fettuccine, cavatappi, rigatoni, penne… You want a solid pasta for this sauce; otherwise, when the sauce overwhelms the pasta, you have stew.
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Also, Charles, there's no Food category. I pine, because I want to see some of VB's recipes she's always flaunting!
* Granted, Coppola was probably thinking of fresh, homemade pasta (which has different characteristics from mass-produced boxed pasta) which is not always easily available today. Salt this opinion liberally.