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Ch. 2
I wake up when I feel like someone is moving me. I have no idea what's going on, so I try to get up but can't. Unknown force is blocking me. When my eyes are used to the bright light, I realizes that I'm clutching Daryls shirt and he is looking me. I feel how my face is turning red. I'm half on his lap. From the corner of my eye I can see my bare thigh. I back away as quickly as I can. I'm so embarrassed. Daryl gets up and seems awkward. I have a feeling that this is all my fault.
''Ya had a nightmare'', he says. Oh God, have I attacked him? I try hard to remember. I get a dim memory about crying and then it hits me. He woke me up and I just gripped his shirt and didn't let go 'cause I was so scared. The dream was awful. I can't quite grasp what happened in the dream but I remember the horrible feeling I got from it.
''I'm so sorry'', I say to him. Daryl straightens his wrinkled shirt. We fall in awkward silence. I get up and try to pull the shirt to cover my thighs. My face is on fire. I just hope that earth would swallow me. I notice that he is looking everywhere but me. This is so not cool. It's hot in the tent. I'm sweating. I want to leave but I don't want to move. I hear bird singing. It snaps me out of my trance.
''I should probably get my jeans. Are they outside..?'', I say. Both of us head to the tent door.
''Yeah…'', Daryl starts to say when I pump into him so hard that we both fall. Our legs get twisted around each others. When we are off with each other, we lie on the tent floor. I cover my face with my hand.
''Oh my God, I'm so embarrassing'', I say out loud. I feel mortified. I take my hand of my face and look the man beside me. He is silent and scratching his jaw. He seems distant.
''How're feeling?'', Daryl asks. I think about it awhile.
''OK. Little bit better'', I tell. It's the truth. The sleeping didn't do miracles but it cleared my head. Fear of sleeping didn't disappear. I still have hours to burn before I have to sleep again. Last two days are hazy to me. Like it was all just a dream.
''My arms hurt'', I say when I notice them stinging.
''Bet they do'', he says to me. I'm not quite sure what he means. I rise to sit and lift the sleeves. My arms are covered in bloody scratching marks. I hazily remember doing this. I can't believe that I did it but I felt so filthy. I still feel filthy. I'm not sure if this feeling is ever going to go away. I touch my arms. The blood has dried in hard bumps. Daryl takes my hand away from it. I take a huge breath and look at the sealing.
''How bad was I?'', I ask. I really don't want to know but I think I have to.
''Don't worry 'bout it. They'll understand'', he answers to me. It's almost the worst answer he could've given me. I expect the worst. Now when I think about it, I did scratch my arms so hard that they bled and I cut my hair. I think it's time to put my brave face on. I have been messing around few days. It's enough. It's going to be hard and I'm going to want to give up but I have to. It would be easier just to hide in this tent but I don't think Daryl would like that. After all, it's his tent. I get up and offer Daryl a hand. He gets weird expression in his face but takes my hand and I help him up. We go out in silence. He gives me my jeans. They have been drying on branch. I put them on. Morning sun is shining proudly. I feel sad. Yet another beautiful morning without Roscoe. I lean on tree trunk. Daryl comes next to me.
''It's beautiful'', I say. He makes agreeing noise.
''These days you have to see all the little things that are beautiful'', I say sadly. I feel empty. I'm not sure if it's really better that he saved me. I'm messed up. It hurts so much. My throat has swollen up again. I fight back the tears.
''I lost a brother too. He acted stupid and Rick handcuffed him on the roof. They lost the key. We went back for him but he had hacked his hand off'', he says. I'm surprised that he shares this kind of information with me.
''So, you don't know if he's alive or not?'', I asked silently. That sounds terrible. I think it better to know. There is no doubt where he is when you know.
''Yeah'', he answers. I stare the blinding sun. We are silent for a moment.
''I'm sorry'', I say finally. We are silent in the sweet morning. Everything seems so nice and calm. Sadness doesn't leave my body even in the bright sunlight.
''Is it ever going to be any easier?'', I ask and turn to look at him. He turns to look at me. He doesn't say anything but his expression tells it. You just learn to live with it. I nod and the tears fall down. It hurts so much. I feel Daryl moving beside me. I still see only orange/red ball every time I blink. I take a hold of hem his shirt and press my face to his chest. I can feel his going tense. I consider moving away but then he sets his arm around me. I know I appear weak but that's what I am now. I'm crushed. Morning sun warms my back when I'm asking for strength to move on.
''Eggs?'', woman named Maggie asks me. Roscoe loved eggs. He could've eaten them all the time. He got so happy when we founded two chickens and they actually made few eggs. I feel like stabbed and want to throw up. I shake my head to Maggie. She takes the eggs away. I still try not to throw up. I hold my stomach and concentrate on breathing. I have been with them few hours and I'm already losing it. Everybody is treating me weirdly. I'm not blaming them. I feel like suffocating all the time. They're talking all the time. It hurts my head. All the words -
I just don't want to hear them. My hands are shaking. It's like I have this shaking inside and I just can't stop it. It gets much worst every time somebody is talking to me. I want to say something, I really do but nothing comes out. Then I just stare them like dead fish. Then it just gets awkward. I get up. Everybody turns to look at me. I swallow a lump in my through.
''Going to… pee'', I cough out. I walk in the woods and fall to my knees. I double over and try to remember to breathe. When I have calmed down, I sit on my ass. What was I thinking? I can't take this. I try to remember my pep talk. Now it's just mocking me. You can do I just put your big girl pants on, right? My brother was murdered in front of my eyes. I almost got raped. Last night was the first night I got any sleep. I take a deep breath. Maybe it's going to get easier with time. I get up and walk back to camp. Just hold on, I tell myself.
''Want to came and do some laundry with me?'', blond girl named Beth asks me. I nod to her. I have to try doing something for them. I have declined the food they have offered to me. I just can't eat. Even the thought of food makes me gag. She leaded me to pond. I automatically touched my arms. I shake the feeling off and try to act normal. As easy as it sounds, it's really hard in this state of mind. We sit down and start to rub the clothes. It was easy enough.
Beth looked at the girl beside her. She was quiet. She made thorough work washing the shirts. Her hair looked awful but Beth didn't want to say anything about it. Maybe when she would be more relax with them. Maybe Maggie could cut it even. The silence was eating her. She started to sing to fill the silence between us. Girl doesn't seem to notice, so she continues.
I'm crushed by memories. Roscoe liked to do the laundry. He always started to sing and I had to hush him. He never did. I hear a far away sound and it's bringing me back. I turn to look Beth. Her mouth is moving but I can't hear the words. I'm still hearing Roscoe singing in my head. Finally when I hear the words, tears well up in my eyes, she is singing. I turn my head down. Only a little curtain falls to my face.
''I can stop'', she says to me. I shake my head. She has noticed my tears. I clear my trough.
''My brother used to sing when we were doing laundry'', I tell her. We are silent for a moment.
''I'm sorry'', she says. I just nod to her. Then we continue washing while she is singing. This is small group but there is lot to wash. We are maybe half way to washing everything. Beth takes deep breath.
''You can go'', I tell her. She turns to look me.
''No'', she says.
''Cleaned ones have to get to dry or their going to smell. You should go. I'm going to be just fine'', I tell her. I seriously need to be alone. My arms are itching and I'm not going to lift the sleeves while she is there. It's enough that Daryl saw them. Well, he saw me doing them. Beth stares me awhile. Then she nods and leaves with the clean clothes. I take a deep breath, finally alone. I lift the sleeves up and look at the scratches. They look fine, itching but fine. I slowly start to wash the clothes again. I don't have to hurry. They'll be waiting me when I'm ready.
When the dark comes I'm still washing the clothes. Nobody has come looking for me. I don't mind. I've noticed that the birds have stopped singing. In silence I hear stick snap. I turn slowly and see a shadow of a human. I wait to see if it's going to eat me or talk to me.
''Are you ready?'', I hear familiar voice. I put the rest of the washed clothes to bucket and get up.
''Yeah'', I answer.
''Let me help'', she says and takes two other buckets. We walk back to camp without a word. They had built a fire. Silently I put the clothes on the wire. They cooked some meat in the heat of the fire. Even the smell of the food made me nauseous. The old man named Hershel gave me a plate when I had put the clothes to dry. I took the plate and sat down. I let the little hairs to fall to my face. I took one of the three pieces of meat and put it in my mouth. It was so hard to bite it so I could swallow it. It tried to come back up when I finally swallowed it. I tried to wash the taste off with water. I only was capable to eat two pieces and then I had to stop. I gave the plate back to Hershel. He looked at the plate and then me.
''Thank you. Give it to somebody'', I told him. I got back to my sleeping bag. The feared night had fallen. I could hear my breath hitch. Pieces of meat rolled on my stomach and I felt like throwing up. I close my eyes. I have to try to keep this food inside. I try to concentrate on their quiet talk. How can eating be this hard? I let a big breath out. All the work with the laundry had made me tired and sneakily the sleep takes me away.
I wake up gasping for air. I get up and run for the trees. I throw up. When there is nothing to get out of me, I fall to my knees. I'm shaking hard. Is this ever going to be easier? I'm hungry and at the same time I can't even bear the thought of eating. I lean on the tree and watch the billions and billions stars in the sky. Nights are going to get colder. I don't know where they are going to go shelter for the winter. Am I going to be with them? Maybe I'm not even alive then. With my dark thoughts I continue the dark night.
Morning sunshine wakes up people. Slowly they get up and start the fire. I should go there, I tell myself. It's only the black guy – T-Dog - and the Chinese guy – Glenn? – who are there. I get up and clean my jeans. Maybe I should have washed then yesterday. Well too late to think to that. My hands start to shake when I take steps closer to them. I wished that Daryl would be there. I haven't seen him sense yesterday morning. I heard that he brought the meat, rabbit. I feel better when he is around. I stop when I'm close to them.
''Morning'', Glenn says to me and I smile to him. T- Dog nods to me and I nod back.
''Can I help?'', I ask silently. Glenn strangest his back and looks around. He looks like he is thinking hard.
''Öööm.. We – could – use somemorewood'', he says. I furrow my brows.
''Okay'', I say and turn. Am I really making them act this weird? I walk to forest and then look back. He is still looking in my direction. I walk deeper in the woods and all the light sticks I found. You always know of the woods weight if it's dry or wet. I take them so much that they hardly stay in my arms. I walk back to camp and drop them near the fire place.
''Well, you sure brought wood'', Hershel says behind me. I jump a little and then fall to my ass. From the ground I look to him. He is smiling down to me.
''I'm sorry. Didn't meant to startle you'', he says. I get up from the ground.
''It's ok'', I tell him. Glenn comes with Maggie. He smiles to me when he noticed the wood I brought. They start to talk about something but I tune them out. At least one good thing done for today.
For two days they have stared the map. We need gas and food. Only yesterday I noticed that here is woman who is pregnant. Her stomach is quite big already. I yawn. I haven't slept much. I want to do something for them but everything seems so hard. The hardest thing is to speak to them. I feel like my vocal cords has been clued close when I even think of speaking to them. Same thing happens when they come to talk to me. My trough is closed and my mind is empty. I just can't think of anything to say. And no, I don't want to talk about the weather. That's just lame. And by the way I hardly even notice what the weather is. I lay my head to a tree. They are still talking where we should go. Hope they decide something. I feel like throwing up again.
''Ya okay?'', I hear Daryls voice near me. I open my eyes and look where the voice came. Daryl is eating his thumb nail again. He is looking at me. I take a huge breath.
''Just tired, I guess'', I say.
''Ya haven't slept?'', he asks. I don't know what to say. I try to sleep but it's not that easy. It's like can't sleep. And if I magically fall asleep, I wake up in horrid dream and go throw up. Not good habits, I can tell.
''Not much. I..'', I tell him, ''I can't sleep at all after the nightmares''. I look the ground. Somehow I feel like I'm disappointing him. It's weird.
''Have ya eaten?'', he asks. I wipe my face. God, does he really have to ask?
''Yes but...'', I curse myself for saying the but-word, mistake.
''But what?'', he asks sharply. I look to the ground.
''I hardly can keep anything in, it useless to eat. I'm wasting good food'', I say silently. It's disappointing, really disappointing. I was ashamed. Before he could say anything Rick called him. He looked conflicted. I realized that he didn't know if he could leave me.
''Go'', I said and nodded to him. He looked me again analyzing me and scratched his chin. I tried to smile to him but I wasn't sure if it looked right.
Daryl walked away from the girl. She was still pretty bad shape. But she looked like she really tried. Daryl walked to Rick still in his thoughts.
''Could go get some suplies'', Rick asked.
''Yeah'', he aswered straigt. It would do good to get away for a while. Then he remembered Raya. Shit.
''I'm taking Raya with me'', Daryl said. Rick furrowed his brows.
''You sure she's up to it'', he asked. Rick was surprised that Daryl would take her of all the people around.
''Don't know'', Daryl answered.
''Well, ques you'll find out'', Rick said and looked away. Daryl turned to look at Raya. She was still leaning on the tree. Now he wasn't sure if he had made a mistake.
''You better go'', Rick said.
''Yeah'', Daryl answered and left him. He walked straight to Raya. She didn't even open eyes when he approached her. Did she even hear him?
''Come on'', Daryl said. Raya opened her eyes and looked at him. She pushed herself from the tree.

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Giants break stalemate vs. Brewers with big 7th
SAN FRANCISCO -- Ehire Adrianza's two-run single was the biggest hit in a five-run, seventh-inning outburst Wednesday for the San Francisco Giants, who bested the Milwaukee Brewers, 5-0, at AT&T Park.
The Giants, who concluded a 5-1 homestand, shattered a scoreless tie as Matt Duffy singled and came home on Hunter Pence's double off Milwaukee starter Mike Fiers (5-9) to begin the seventh. Brandon Belt singled, Brandon Crawford launched a sacrifice fly and Hector Sanchez doubled before Adrianza, replacing injured second baseman Joe Panik, grounded his hit to right. That hastened San Francisco's 13th win in its last 15 games.
Adrianza, 25, was appearing in his 76th Major League game and supplanted veteran utility player Joaquin Arias just earlier this week.
Video: MIL@SF: Adrianza plates two with a single, pads lead
"It's not easy to have that role, especially for a young player," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said, referring to Adrianza. "That [hit] should do a lot for his confidence."
Milwaukee moved only three baserunners into scoring position against Giants starter Jake Peavy, who worked six innings. Fiers pitched respectably, yielding two hits before San Francisco's big seventh. The Brewers completed a 2-5 trip while going 6-for-47 with runners in scoring position, including 0-for-8 on Wednesday.
"We didn't get anything going today," Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. "There was no real inning where we had multiple guys on and a big rally. We struggled today. Peavy did a nice job. He was kind of just getting you to chase something at the edge of the zone, and the [Giants] bullpen did a nice job."
Video: MIL@SF: Peavy surrenders four hits over six scoreless
Defense does its part: Before contributing his key seventh-inning hit, Pence made a breathtaking third-inning catch of Hernan Perez's drive to the right-center-field gap. One inning later, Pence unleashed a one-hop throw that apprehended Jonathan Lucroy, who was trying to advance to third base on Ryan Braun's flyout.
Video: MIL@SF: Pence catches fly, fires to third for two
"That was probably our opportunity, really," Counsell said. "But Pence makes a great play."
Said Pence, "I just tried to get rid of it as quick as I could." More >
For Brewers, too: The Brewers' defense preserved Fiers' shutout bid in the fourth inning after the Giants' Gregor Blanco worked a walk and stole second base. Shortstop Jean Segura made a diving stop of Pence's infield single up the middle, preventing Blanco from scoring on the play. Then catcher Lucroy completed a strikeout, throw-out double play by retiring Pence on the back end of Brandon Belt's check-swing strikeout.
Video: MIL@SF: Brewers strike 'em out, throw 'em out in 4th
Strickland straightens out: Relieving Peavy in the seventh inning, Hunter Strickland missed the strike zone with his first six pitches. Since the game was still scoreless, this looked like a possible breakthrough for the Brewers. But the hard-throwing right-hander recovered to retire the next three hitters.
"It seemed like, initially, he was out of rhythm," Bochy said. "But he found it, and he found it at the right time."
Parra stays hot: After finishing a home run shy of the cycle Tuesday, Brewers leadoff man Gerardo Parra collected two more hits Wednesday to extend his hitting streak to 13 games, matching Parra's career high and extending the longest streak for a Brewers batter this season. Parra's bunt single in the sixth inning and his single through the right side of the infield in the eighth helped the Brewers put runners in scoring position in each of those innings, but Milwaukee was unable to cash in.
"It's always so impressive to me when guys are able to reinvent themselves and have a lot of success. A perfect example on our team is Frankie [Francisco Rodriguez]. The guy used to throw 97, 98 mph, now he's 90 mph two-seamers and changeups and does a lot to keep hitters off balance. Obviously, Jake's pure stuff isn't what it was five or six years ago, but he's still having such success." -- Braun, on Peavy
Braun returned to Milwaukee's lineup after missing the first two games of the series with back spasms and endured a difficult afternoon, going 0-for-4 including a pair of inning-ending strikeouts, both with two runners on base. He fell to 2-for-17 lifetime against Peavy after making a trio of outs against the veteran.
Video: MIL@SF: Peavy fans Braun to escape a jam in the 6th
Brewers: The Brewers return home Thursday to host the Cubs for the start of a four-game series. Jimmy Nelson will work opposite the Cubs' Jake Arrieta in a 7:10 p.m. CT game, the Brewers' last before Friday's non-waiver Trade Deadline.
Giants: San Francisco on Friday makes its first visit to Globe Life Park since the Game 5 clincher of the 2010 World Series against the Rangers. First pitch is scheduled for 3:05 p.m. PT. Madison Bumgarner, who pitched eight shutout innings in Game 4 of the 2010 Fall Classic, will return to the mound to start this series' opener.
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Last month I ran a guest post, One Man's Rugged Reality of ADD, by Dylan Rosen. As the outpouring of supportive comments demonstrates, this first-person account of late-diagnosis ADD touched many minds and hearts among ADHD Roller Coaster blog readers. The ensuing comments are all well worth reading, but the one from "Brandy" stood out for me in particular, because this late-diagnosis adult and mother faced some hard realities that many might prefer to avoid.
I often hear from parents in distress and even angry about the school pointing out the red flags of ADHD in their child. They never saw the signs, these parents say; how dare the school suggest such a thing! Of course it's true that schools or teachers sometimes overstep their bounds and/or mis-perceive behavior as ADHD-related. In my experience as a longtime advocate, however, I more typically hear stories of schools denying the reality of ADHD. The first question I ask of the parents who write to me with such concerns: "Is it possible that you or your co-parent have ADHD, too? And maybe that's why you didn't realize that ADHD might be an issue for your child at school?" This question sometimes comes as a shock, and isn't always well-received. That's why I so admired the compassionately courageous path of inquiry followed by Brandy, below, as explained in her comment on Dylan's story:
Hello Dylan. Many of the aspects of your story really hit home for me. I saw more of myself in your parents than I am comfortable with.
I took my son to a psychiatrist to be tested for ADHD/ADD about a month ago. He has just turned thirteen. I've known that he has a tough time following multi-step instructions and has struggled with inattention since he was small.
I didn't suspect he had ADHD/ADD at first because the only kids I knew that had it were like those little spring-loaded pop-up toys. They were always jumping up and down, unable to sit still. My son is very well behaved and not overly hyper. He does fidget but he is able to sit still in school, church, etc. Besides, even if there was something wrong I was afraid medication would change his personality. I like how my son is funny and witty and a bit of a smartas*. He is extremely chatty but even though that annoys me at times I can't really complain since he most definitely gets that from me.
He has chores every day that should take him 10 to 20 minutes to complete. At one point I broke his chores down into a very detailed list in an attempt to help him to remember to do everything. (Our dog really likes it when he is given food on a daily basis.) The only way I can be sure that his chores get done is if I take his list and call out each step to him one at a time. I firmly believe he means to do his chores he just gets easily distracted. Of course he still gets griped at about his chores because most days I forget to go over the list with him.
"Now I know that all of those times
we thought he was just being lazy
he really was trying his best
and all we did was remind him constantly that
it was never good enough."
Homework is another issue I try to be very diligent about. He will do it on his own if its Science, History, or practicing a song on his snare drum for Band. (If he remembers he has an assignment.) If he has homework in Math or English he will do anything to get out of doing it. Of course if I go to his school's website I can see his homework list. If I ask him to bring it to me so I can check over it once he is done then it gets done. So, naturally he gets griped at for not turning in homework at school because I usually forget to check the website and it doesn't get done.
When he was in the second grade his teacher told me that he had the highest grade average in the entire second grade class. His IQ was tested and let's just say his score was impressive. He was entered into the gifted program and he loved that class. (they meet a few times a week)
By third grade his grades started slipping. I started getting calls from teachers.
By fourth grade he hated going to school. He started off the school year trying to be the class clown. His teacher decided day one that he was going to be a problem and no matter how hard he tried after that she never changed her opinion of him. Her treatment of him was so bad that at the end of the year the fourth grade class had a concert. Every student had a small solo through out the program. Every student besides my son and two others. This was a huge blow to his self esteem.
His grades in Math and English have gotten progressively worse. When he brought home his last progress report , his grades ranged from high nineties in three classes and a D in math and an F in English. There was a notation from the teacher saying he had scored an 8 on an English exam. (An 8?!?! How is that possible? You can score an 8 for remembering to write your name down.)
That 8 was the turning point for me as his parent. I realized I needed to find help for him…for us. I took him to the psychiatrist. After having us take the quiz and talking to the two of us for an hour, the Dr. said that my son had ADHD Combined Type. (And then the kicker.) He said he was pretty much positive he inherited it from his mother.
Now all I can think about are all of those long conversation my husband and I had with my son telling him that he was capable of much more than he was doing. I've told him countless times that he has great potential and if he didn't start getting it together he was going to waste this opportunity to build the academic foundation on which his future dreams could be built on. (I know this from experience. I was on the deans list my one and only year of college. Now I'm a bank teller. I lack follow through.) I'm so scared that I have damaged his self esteem. Because now I know that all of those times we thought he was just being lazy he really was trying his best and all we did was remind him constantly that it was never good enough.
We are both starting medication. Strattera is what we are trying first for him. (So far, no real improvement) Adderall for me. My main goal is to work with our Dr to find the best help for both of us. That way I will better equipped to be the kind of mother my son needs me to be. Plus, now I know to take action immediately if I see any of the same symptoms start to emerge in my now 1 year old daughter. Maybe the things my son and I have always struggled with can be easier for her because of the lessons we are learning now.
Thank you, Dylan for sharing your story. And thank you for allowing me to have the opportunity to share with strangers things I have been ashamed to say out loud. It was very therapeutic.
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Does Hue provides the management of user directories.
For e.g. If I login through HUE as <user-name>,my user directory would be created as /user/<user-name>/ and under that only all the files, data transfers or any other manipulation done by me would be present.
What if when I sync LDAP group and if I want to create a common directory for all of them like /user/<LDAP-group-name> and all the users present in that group can access the same folder other than their home directories?
Is it possible in HUE?
Also i tried syncing a LDAP user without checking on create user directory while syncing the user ,but it still makes the /user/<user-name> directory.
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Their unique matching system is quite promising, and they surprisingly have a reasonably decent accuracy rate. However, there isn't a desktop version. When you first visit the SpeedDate. It is also another avenue that you can use to put yourself out there.
Most thorough eHarmony This is the website to use if you're looking for a meaningful connection with someone. The site gives you handpicked matches every day, rather than encouraging you to go out and find people yourself. Like the profile you created, those you flip through are monitored and used by the friends of the person actually going on the date. In fact, the longer online dating continues to evolve the more information there is to study.
Launched by clinical psychologist Dr. Instead, the filtering is done by sexual preferences and tastes. Curious about one in particular? Along with selecting the most flattering photos of your friend, online dating aj you get to write their bio.
This is a location-based app, so it's likely to work best in large cities. Let this review of the best online dating sites guide you to make the right decision. This is one of the best online dating sites for seniors.
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Additionally, paid members are genuinely looking to connect with someone. With a paid membership you can see read receipts on your messages, share photos and videos and get access to advanced filters for your potential matches like income and ethnicity. But not all paid sites are equal.
It displays a person's photo, age, name, physical attributes and intention right up front, but lacks any kind of personalization or biography. It links to your Facebook. Use caution in sharing personal information about you and your family members. This site gets the job done without the bells and whistles that other dating sites have.
Bank, and Barclaycard, among others. If you feel like most of the people you match with don't end of looking like they do in their profile, there's science to back that up. Now although a website says that they are free one must remember that nothing in life is ever completely free. Reasons to Buy Limits your daily matches so you consider profiles more carefully. As the website puts it, it believes using technology to meet someone should feel safe and exciting.
- If you want more than your allotted five matches, you'll need to upgrade your membership, which costs more.
- The messaging feature also has a seven-day time limit for conversation between two people, which kind of forces you to decide whether you want to take action on that potential love connection.
- In our tests, the maximum number of profiles we could like before running out of beans was five a day, which we would think keeps most people from being flippant about their matches.
- As a member, you also have to agree to a code of conduct in an effort to keep interactions respectful and cordial.
We're guessing it's also not very effective in less populated rural areas, as it relies on a lot of people having the app on their phone. This is one of the best online dating sites for free. The whole setup process took our reviewers about three minutes and was far less comprehensive than sites like eHarmony and Plenty of Fish.
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You then fill out a comprehensive survey regarding what you want in a partner. First, you fill out an application, which is then reviewed by a committee of people and an algorithm. In some cases, it is well worth it. You can avoid having that happen to you by joining a reputable site like BeNaughty. The downside to this app is it's built-in elitism.
You can see each user's age, interests and several photos. Its setup process is thorough and the free mobile app is comparable to several others on the market. Fast forward to today, and you will notice that the world of online dating has changed. Raya There's even a specialized app for creative people looking to meet other artists and creators. Which is more important to you, sex or true love?
Ask the experts, and they'll be the first to tell you that if you truly want to fall madly, deeply, truly in love, put your money where you want your heart to be. Read the full eHarmony review. Instead of uploading your own information, you select a photo of a celebrity or famous person.
- In addition, you have to pay for some features, and some people didn't like that they only found that out after downloading the app.
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- BeNaughty is a hookup site that is among the cream of the crop.
- This feature makes it one of the best free dating sites on the web as it serves as an online matchmaking tool.
Coffee Meets Bagel limits the number of profiles you can view at one time, forcing you to consider the profiles you do see more carefully. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. On top of that, does jack you have to fill out an application and then are placed on a waiting list for an undetermined period of time that varies by the city you live in. Do you know any site where women are looking for black guys? Although they are not as large as Plenty of Fish they certainly do have a large membership base which makes testing out this site worthwhile.
If you want more, they're available for purchase. Well, it has a different personality quiz of its own, which is really fun. Depending on what you are looking for, these might be the best online dating sites for you and what you are looking for.
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Also, according to the Pew Research Center, public perception of online dating has become more and more positive. On top of this, we also spoke to several insightful people, including dating experts and typical users, hongki to get a clear view of the modern dating landscape. Tinder's unforgiving approach has made it one of the most popular dating sites available right now and it almost feels like a game while you're doing it. The websites that have the best success rates in successful relationships are match.
Plenty of Fish Plenty of Fish is a free and easy way to try online dating. Part of it involves evaluating images, and, at the end, you get a personality type, which is an amusing form of self-reflection. Do you go with something that shows your adventurous side? No other dating website has been responsible for more dates, relationships, and marriages than Match.


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A panel of judges selected Thompson as the first-place winner based on her presentation "Is There Iron-y in the Cure for Cancer?" Thompson, who is advised by Dr. McKale Montgomery, also won the People's Choice Award and earned a total of $600 in prize money. She will move on compete at the university-level 3MT competition on November 19, at 3:30 p.m. in the Student Union Theater.
Tina Sergi, a master's student in nutritional sciences, placed second in the competition and took home $200. Sergi presented "Policy, Systems, and Environment: Creating Sustainable Changes for Police Officers." Dr. Jill Joyce serves as Sergi's advisor.
Alejandra Barrera Curiel, a Ph.D. student in kinesiology, applied health and recreation, and Erik Dewey, a Ph.D. student in educational foundations, leadership and aviation, tied for third place, each earning $100. Barrera Curiel's presentation was titled "It is about the Fall" and Dr. Jason DeFreitas is her advisor. Dewey presented "Using Games to Increase Classroom Interest." His advisor is Dr. Mike Yough.
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Mets RH reliever Erik Goeddel is dealing with biceps tendinitis and is day-to-day, the team announced on Wednesday.
He allowed one run in 1.0 inning against the Braves on Monday after allowing four runs in 1/3 of an inning during his prior appearance, which came on Sept. 20 against the Marlins.
Goeddeln dealt with dizziness and blurred vision earlier this month, resulting in him not pitching from Sept. 6 to Sept. 17.
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There are three overarching data protection trends that I expect to define 2019.
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The biggest of the data protection trends for 2019 is going to be increased acceptance of multi-cloud. Multi-cloud is nothing new, but there are still a number of backup providers that specialize in backing up to or from one specific cloud. Eventually, however, such providers are going to be left out in the cold unless they embrace the multi-cloud trend.
This actually brings up another important point. Backup providers and network administrators alike will need to place an increased emphasis on cross-cloud, software-defined networking. This will be essential if an organization is to centrally manage its backup operations. It's one thing to set up a virtual backup appliance in the AWS cloud and set up another virtual backup appliance in a different cloud, such as Microsoft Azure. It is quite another thing for those virtual backup appliances to be able to communicate with one another and for a backup administrator to be able to centrally manage all of an organization's cloud backups. To put it another way, backup software will need to become cloud-agnostic.
2. Better support for SaaS
Over the last year or two, companies have finally woken up to the idea that the data within their SaaS applications needs to be backed up. Even so, support for backing up SaaS applications still leaves a lot to be desired. In the case of Microsoft Office 365, for example, backup providers commonly offer protection for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, but support for lesser-known Office 365 applications, such as Flow, Planner and Stream, is almost nonexistent.
Over the next year, I look for backup vendors to provide more comprehensive support for SaaS applications. In fact, given these data protection trends, backup vendors may even begin competing with one another based on the number of applications that they are able to protect.
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Although most of the talk about data protection trends these days centers on cloud backup, hyper-convergence has gained significant traction over the last year for its use as a backup platform. I look for hyper-converged systems to become the go-to platform for organizations that are creating backups on premises.
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Some years ago, we had settled on using the term Danxome (Dahomey) or Danxomean to refer to the various Gbe speaking people of Southern Benin republic. However, this is fairly inaccurate as Danxome was only created in the early 17th century, and the "Gbe-speaking" people have been around for thousands of years. The problem arose from the effort of trying to find a collective name for these ancient people; as with collective names like Yoruba, Igbo, Akan, kwk.
A little history sheds light on the proper collective name for the people and the culture they live. what follows is the current popular current narrative. However, this is but a partial truth.
The Common Accepted Narrative
Directly on the border of the current countries of Togo and Benin, in Southern Togo, is a very ancient city called Tado. Originally, this city was called Ezame which means surrounded with Eza trees. Around the early 13th century CE, there was great famine, disease, and drought in the city. Then arrived a mysterious man named Togbui Anyi. Togbui Anyi said he could cure all of the ills of the community and raise Ezame back to a great state. The people accepted his offer. In time, he did exactly what he said and the city became whole again. For this, he was made king. Shortly thereafter, he renamed the monarchy Tado, which means "step over". This was to represent that all misfortunes would step over the monarchy. According to this common narrative, from this Aja group came the Ewe, Fon and other people of similar culture; a culture misnomered as "Gbe-speking people" by the yovo. The word gbe itself simply means "language".
Another narrative mentions a wave/migration of fairly recent times that has the Aja originating in Ifẹ́ and implying they were originally Yoruba. The latter is untrue since this particular Ifẹ́ had several groups in a cosmopolitan type of situation. One can say that the Yoruba were originally Aja in that case. The fact is that these people have made several migrations and cross migrations for at least 6000 years.
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The truth of the matter is that the Aja have been here for thousands of years, and the above narrative is only one of many incidences of migrations and feats of the Aja. This is one of the narratives that the yovo (Europeans in this case) chose to popularize and thus has been accepted as the spread of what they call the "Gbe-speaking people". For instance, one of our most sacred texts, the Gànhúmehàn, is dated back to 1329 AX (AX stands for "year of the clan"); 4920 years ago. The Aja are mentioned throughout several chapters of the Gànhúmehàn, as well as several other of what the yovo misnomer "Gbe -speaking people".
Further proof comes from the fact that the monarchy of Xeviè, now a small town in southern Benin Republic, is dated to the year 5055 AX; 814 CE of the European calendar. This is at least 400-500 years before the time-frame of Tado and the great King Togbui Anyi. Thus, the only real question is a matter of the antiquity of the Aja people – the narrative that the Aja know of themselves or the one Europeans promote. Without a doubt, the Aja people know who they are. The Europeans did get it right that these related people (Ewe, Fòn, Seto, Ayizo, kwk) are offshoots of Aja. They just had the dates wrong and they took one big event in the history of the Aja, the creation of Tado, and attributed this as their origins and the spreading of the branches of these ancient people.
Based on the research we have done, we propose the much more appropriate and 100% accurate collective term for our culture to be Aja. Therefore, a monarch from the cultures of Southern Benin, Togo, and Ghana, who share the same this culture and rooted in Vodún, is referred to as an Aja Monarch just the same as when one refers to an Akan king or queen mother, or a Yoruba king.
* It should be noted that the Fon are the result of the Aja mixing with the local Gedevi people of what is now Agbome, once the capital of the Danxome Federation. Thus, much of what we refer to as Fon language and culture is the product of an admixture of several cultures that scholars have misnamed "Gbe" or "Gbe speaking". The word gbe simply means language in Aja/Fon/Hula/Seto/Xwla, kwk. In its golden age, between the 15th and 17th century, the monarchy of Tado was a confederation; in 1627 the Spanish Jesuit Alonzo de Sandoval described it as "a powerful kingdom that extends over an immense territory inland, with a coastal area where there is a safe harbor, governed by a black called Eminence".
So, it should be made clear that just as the various Akan groups have different dialects of the same Twi language but are referred to collectively as Akan, so it is the same with the various Aja groups; having different dialects of the same Aja language.


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