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A Request From The Other Side
I respect the rights of all asexual people not to have sex as it is not part of their make up and they do not desire it.
But if you are asexual, I would ask you to think VERY carefully about becoming involved in any relationship with a person who IS sexual. The outcome of these relationships is extremely distressing for one (or both) sides and makes for unhappiness and lack of a satisfactory relationship for both. It may also impact on any children you may have . . . .
If you are not sure what I'm talking about, I encourage you to read stories and forum posts in "I live in a sexless marriage". The majority of posters there are sexual people whose partners do not want sex - for a variety of reasons. You will find it sad reading, but it may help you to understand my request.
I encourage you to be open and honest with prospective partners about your asexuality. I do realise that, as asexuals are in the minority in the community, that you may find yourself with limited partner options. But I can assure you that, if you become involved in a relationship with a sexual person, your incompatibilities will eventually destroy your relationship.
I wish everyone a happy, healthy and rewarding life - a life that is lived on your own terms and without compromise. And relationships that are satisfactory and fulfilling to BOTH partners.
This is a fair note and I do think very carefully about it and usually just turn people down because of it(giving them reason of course). But its not fair to me that I don't get a relationship, someone to love, or someone to love me at all because everyone else feels sex=love. I desperately want love and touch but I'm afraid of sex and its not my fault, so why do I have to suffer for it? Not saying there's a great solution to the problem, where everyone gets to be happy...
I just don't know why it always has to be all or nothing
Were you responding to someone?
Just the post
I agree i'm hetero romantic and when I was younger I made the mistake of dating because I liked feeling like someone cared about me. I eventually got over the idea of having a guy who wanted to love me without having sex with me so I stopped dating all together. Breaking up gets old when you know it's going to happen.
I understand completely that it'd be horrible to have a relationship where you don't want sex and the other does.
My options for finding love are very limited. Which is why I've accepted that I may be alone for life. It doesn't mean I won't search for non-sexual romance but it's better that I'm alone rather than making someone I love miserable.
I am in one of those marriages. We are both 44yo and married 13years. We have been struggling with my desire and his lack of since we were engaged. Since we'd had lots of good sex prior to the engagement we figured it was temporary. Every now and then he would just say "I'm a eunich" or "I'm asexual". I thought it was a psychological issue that could be "worked out"--that by simply being human we are all sexual beings. He has mother issues that I thought may have been part of the "problem". Twenty years ago when he would have been trying to figure this out, this was not identified yet (except as an illness in the DSM) and frankly, as a man, he wasn't really trying to figure it out (especially since he had no problem with it!) A few days ago I found the AVEN website and I am so relieved!! He is normal---just on a different end of the spectrum than I am. Now we don't have to fight it any more. No more blue pills, **** or therapy. This is just who my husband is. Of course back to the issue mentioned in this story. The ultimate issue has not changed. I am miserable for lack of intimacy and he feels so bad about it. Please be sure of who you are before you marry or commit. This is heartache for both of us. Enna is right--we ALL deserve to be happy whatever our sexual orientation (or not).
An issue that needs more attention, and generally gets lost in the crowd.
I see someone bumped this on my feed. Worth another bump even.
People whom are physically or emotionally ill usually may have a slow or non existent sex drive. There a number of reasons for this, past experience, hormonal changes, arthritis issues and the list go on. Be sure of course the one you are with doesn't have any issues then again can develop them as they age too. Somehow we find ourselves rolling with the punches.
I was never asexual until i married Her
Wtf are you talking about
That's very good advice. I would suppose that often people don't consider the effect on others that their actions will have. Of course, you can't begin a friendship by stating availability but it does require discussion. Unfortunately there ar people who assume a sexual motive is the driving force in all interactions between a man and woman.
I think your comment was very kind and spot-on , enna30. Having such differing desire levels can potentially destroy a relationship. In my case, I didn't find out about my husband's "possible" asexuality until only 1-2years ago; after a 19 year marriage. I kept thinking maybe I did something wrong, or that I was crazy for wanting something he did not. It is a lonely place for a sexual person to be with an asexual person, because that ultimate degree of intimacy between partners is absent.
I certainly respect this lifestyle choice, if that is what it is, but it is not my subscription. I, like the previous post, hope that those of whom make this choice inform their prospective partner of this to avoid heartbreak for either person.
I wish everyone well.
In the interest of better understanding, two points:
Point one: For a sexual person, sex is the "ultimate degree of intimacy." For an asexual person, it's anything but that. It's a fairly boring bodily function like sneezing or going to the bathroom. That is the crux of the problem. If sex were no more than an uninteresting bodily function to you, with no pleasure reward, how motivated would you be to do it? Not very, I'd warrant.
Point two: Asexuality is not a "lifestyle choice." Who in their right mind would *choose* to live their life that way? Asexuality is a hard-wired orientation that cannot be changed, no matter how much we might wish it. Just as attempts to "convert" homosexual people into heterosexuals have failed, so attempts to change an asexual person into a sexual one, or vice versa, are doomed to failure. (Although I am given to understand there are drugs that can knock out a person's libido. In fact, sexual criminals have won parole for themselves by agreeing to "chemical castration" that squelches their desire to have sex. But that's not exactly the same as a permanent conversion to asexuality.)
While I can understand your distress and wanting to spare other people the pain, I don't think that telling asexual people to not be in relationships with sexual people is entirely correct. I have been with my husband for 4 years and we have never had problems. I am asexual, but I am okay with having sex.

But sex is only one part of our relationship, and I don't feel that it is fair to say that just because of one thing two people can't be together. Also, I don't think that most people in sexless relationships are in sexless relationships because one partner is asexual, especially since asexual people are a very small minority and the number of virtually sexless marriages seems moderately large.
this person shouldn't have even posted in this group given how they feel about "outsiders" coming into the sexless marriage group. they don't want any advice from those that aren't sexless so they shouldn't offer advice to those that are asexual. hypocrites.
darlin, i am happy so you needn't worry your little head about that. but you know my previous comment is true; you and your sexless cohorts don't appreciate hearing from so called outsiders and tend to get very vicious when you do so it is hypocritical for you to offer advice to people in this group. if you're not asexual you shouldn't be here anymore than you'd want them in the sexless marriage group.
Enna hit the nail right on the head when she pointed out your negativity. It isn't that we wouldn't want you in an exclusive group. You would be welcome in any group that you want to take the time and energy to contribute to, in my opinion. Let's talk!
But the point is not that we wouldn't want you in our sexless marriage group, we just wouldn't want you in our sexless marriage. To many "asexual" partners seemed to be quite sexual when dating. They manage to be very sexual as a means to get something they want. Then they realize they are asexual. Actually, that type of "asexual" is just a crock of sh1t.
fr your information, i'm not asexual and i've been in a sexual relationship for years now. call me whatever you like but people like enna do get pretty hostile when so called outsiders invade the sexless marriage group but think it's ok to offer advice, the advice that they don't want from anyone else. hypocrites.
my man is very happy with me as his partner, in every way. how about yours? or do you have one?
i've seen some comments you've made to others in the past, you and other sexless people, and that's all i need to know about you. and since i'm not in a sexless marriage/relationship, i have no interest in that particular forum. my sex life is just fine and always has been.
I am asexual and I've gotten that comment before from people: that I looked very sexual when we started dating. I don't know what that means. Because I'm not having sexual thoughts and am not seeking sex, I literally don't see the 'signals' that people are always talking about. If not explicitly told, sometimes I will miss flirting entirely. It's not that asexual people are trying to look sexual to lure you (at least not most of us); it's more that we don't know that we're sending 'signals' in the first place. Let me know if this is not clear.
Also, being asexual does not mean a person is "sexless." There are what we call sex-positive asexuals who do not find sex completely aversive. Some of these people will even engage in sex to satisfy their partner. It is something that needs to be discussed by both people in a relationship so that everyone's needs are met.
I never pretended to be anything other than what I am to any of my former boyfriends, including the boyfriend who ended up being my husband for considerably more than two decades. He knew I didn't care about sex and got no pleasure out of it, other than the pleasure of making him happy. I never thought about sex, and he knew that about me. He was crazy about me and didn't want to think about life away from me. He loved me, I loved him, and so we got married and eventually had two beautiful children. At some point he became resentful that I had no sex drive, even though I would have sex whenever he asked me. In other words, it was he who changed his sexual ex<x>pression without any prior warning, not me.

I really resent the implication that I would ever let someone MARRY me without his being crystal clear about my sexual nature, or rather my lack of a sexual nature. I believed my future husband when he said he could never be happy with any woman except me, exactly as I was. Also, we were happy together for quite a long time. Then he got this idea that he wanted me to WANT to have sex on my own behalf, not just have sex to please him. I thought, wtf? Did I not explain from the beginning that I have no sex drive, and that all the doctors I've seen about this issue say that having no libido is perfectly normal and far more common than people suppose?

A person with no sex drive can certainly have sex, and I did that regularly out of love. But can I manufacture a sex drive that doesn't exist? No. In other words, i can change my behavior to work with someone's sexual needs, but I can't change the way I feel...I can't change who I am.
This is sort of how things are between my Wife and I. She does, indeed, have a desire and need for physical intimacy but mine seems so much stronger. She is THE most beautiful and sensual woman when she is "in the mood" but many other times I get rejected. Thanks because your words remind me that we are different people. We are very much in love after 16 years of Marriage but we are individuals
The thing with us is...I am the first-long-term relationship my wife had. She didn't know that she's close to entirely asexual, and neither did I. I seemed to be making her happy sexually at first, too, if she'd turned me down I would have figured we were not compatible and moved on.
I find the non-asexual side of a sexless relationship interesting, however I found it very heard to keep reading. I myself am an asexual. I just started telling my friends about it, but I haven't told my parents because I'm not sure if that is information that is needed to be shared with my parents. Anyways, reading how sexually active people are having trouble with a sexless relationship has REALLY started to annoy me. Everyone does have a voice and I understand that if you are in a sexless relationship that it hurts people. But does no one stop and think how hard the asexuals struggle with relationships? It's difficult on both parts. No one should pretend to be something they are not, that is just unhealthy. I think that personally if you are sexually active and are fully aware that your partner is asexual, then you and your asexual partner should either come to a compromise where you both can find happiness in the relationship, or maybe you shouldn't be together. It's so much easier for you to get out of that relationship and find a partner who is sexual. For us asexuals, it's not that easy. I don't know if you've noticed, but asexuality isn't THAT common. I feel as though I have two options in life. Either I have sex with my future partner even though I really don't want that, or I can bare the chances of probably ending up alone. I'm not trying to say that the sexual side is easy, because I have read your stories and I really wish that all of you find what you are looking for. But all I'm trying to say is, talk to your partner about your feelings and about what you want. Asexual or not, it isn't easy dating someone of even being married to someone who wants different things then you. Take it from someone who has been there.
wow now i understand what happend in my marriage i couldnt understand why my wife never wanted sex and was so cold never made no advances 14 years i was very unhappy we are apart but not divoiced . is it ok to divoice.will god forgive me..?
I like intimacy.

I NEED intimacy.

Sex is good (sometimes a whole lot of other things too but ... :) ) But I don't really walk around thinking about sex. I think about intimacy though. For me intimacy leads to sex.

Can people be intimate but still asexual? I guess so because there are all kinds of people but at what point does intimact turn into sex? Or foreplay for that matter?

When people say that they LIASM I get that they are not getting sex but if we start from the beginning is it mostly an intimacy issue?
Thank you enna!
So true. I just had to tell my partner of 11 months - I tried, I really tried to get into things, but it just doesn't happen. He is utterly devastated. I have to be 100% honest and unashamed about this from this moment on. x
I agree Enna. I don't bother getting in a relationship, I avoid it!! :)
I think I may be in a similar situation to Enna30, and would be grateful for any opinions on whether my husband may be asexual. (Apologies - I appreciate that there is a significant crossover with the "I live in a sexless marriage" group.) Anyway, here goes...

When we first got together, there was what I consider to be a "normal" level of intimacy, much of which he would instigate. However this feels like a distant memory now. So much so that we have separated.

In the last few years, he has just completely lost interest in being intimate with me. However he must still have some desires, as he waits till I go out to pleasure himself while looking at internet sites.

He has given me an array of reasons for not wanting to be intimate. One of his more recent ones was that he just didn't have any interest in it - he had simply "run out" of desire. He has also given me the following reasons:

I was too fat (UK size 10 at the time, dropped to a 6 but made no difference)

I didn't dress well (started to wear the clothes he wanted but made no difference)

He thought I might have an STI (I went for a check and it turned out I didn't)

He had stuff on his mind

His job wasn't going well

I was working too many hours (I reduced them - it made no difference)

I was unattractive, both in appearance and behaviour (for "behaviour" read "crying when upset" - in my mind a normal human reaction)

He doesn't like the way I eat

He's too full

It's "dirty"

He insists that he loves me, and we have tried counselling but it has not worked. Has he evolved into an asexual person? He says that when he was younger he was very active that way, but now there is nothing. I have now accepted that we are incompatible, and that I must also walk away from this unhappy marriage. However it would be good just to get some answers, and if he is asexual then at least I could finally satisfy myself that this isn't all down to what a repulsive individual I must be.
Don't assume that people who have stopped having sex are asexual. Some people simply lose their desire for it. My friend was a sex crazed maniac before he got married but now he tells me that he couldn't possibly care less about sex and doesn't really want it. He says he still does it only to make his wife happy.
Traveller Thinker,

Your right, he is under no obligation at all and he shouldn't have to beg.

I understand that completely. But as a Married person I do think he is "Obligated" to at least hear me and try to understand where Im coming from.

I didnt say that I was an "ASEXUAL" I said that I think that I may be and that I am looking for any help or understanding from this site to help me better understand and gather info for my research into this.

As stated in one of my previous comments, I am going through therapy and since that last comment I am discussing this with my therapist.

I have also asked my husband to be open to the thought that I may be "ASEXUAL".

He wont even look up what it means and still thinks that "I have a problem" He is not willing to even try to understand.

On the other hand, I have done everything possible that I can think of and that he has asked me to do to figure out if I really do have a problem or if this is just "NORMAL" for me.

I am trying to hold onto my marriage..
Thank you for your comments on this issue. " sendittome" -thank you for your insight from the other side "so to speak". You sound frustrated and much like my husband. I am sorry for that. I guess its difficult for a sexual person to see from an ASEXUAL point of view and also difficult from my point of view as well.

"enna30"- Thank you also for that insight. I am in the middle of Therapy for my marriage (not for the sexual issues though) I will have to seek out and researce more before I try that avenue.

My husband is very frustrated and I do feel for him and what he is going through. I know that he doesnt understand how I feel. He has tried everything he can to impress me. Dinners out, jewellery, gifts, massages,etc,etc... Every time he attempts something I put my wall up higher because I dont know how to deal with rejecting him again.

I know that he wont be able to last much longer without it. I just dont see how I can do this without feeling like Im doing something against my will and have him understand how I am feeling...

Hi there,

I am married 10 yrs and I think I may be ASEXUAL. My hubby is very very sexual and cant get enough of it.

On the other hand I don't want to have any sex at all. He thinks I'm crazy and there's something wrong with me. I have been to doctors, checked my sex drive etc.. with no answers.

He becomes very frustrated when I turn him down and our marriage has been horrible for the past 6 yrs or more. We have a 9 yr old together also.

I don't dislike sex, it feels good but I have no desire to have it or initiate it.. EVER... Were on the verge of a divorce and I don't know what to do or say to him. I don't think he would understand if I told him that I thought that I may be ASEXUAL.

I have had many sexual relationships but they were all the same and there was always a lack of interest in sex after the honeymoon period was over..

How do I know if I am and how do I approach my husband about this ??

Confused in CANADA....
thank you enna,
please guys i need your help, ive just turned 21 and have been with my boyfriend for the past 8 months but over the past 2 or 3 months i have found that although i love him their is no sexual atttraction or sexual desire ithought maybe i had just fallen out of love with him until i let my eyes wander but even then looking at other males i used to find attractive does nothing for me either.

the same goes for females i am soo confused and depressed as i dont know where i belong and dont understand how i have come from a young lady that was enjoying sexual activity to where i am now. ive only just told my partner how ive been feeling and obviously he is distraught i dont know who to turn to and am in what i feel is such a mess but until now i never knew anything about asexuality, please can some1 help me would from the passage i have wrote any1 say that i fall under the asexual group of people ? thank you
I think I am asexual because it has been sooooo long since I have met a man who is both available and sexually attractive to me. And no, I not attracted to other women. I fear I will not have sex the rest of my life!
I think I am asexual because it has been sooooo long since I have met a man who is both available and sexually attractive to me. And no, I not attracted to other women. I fear I will not have sex the rest of my life!
don't always assume either that if you have disclosed the truth about your asexualism that your partner will be able to embrace it or deal with it, even if they are trying to. i tried this. my partner was honest with me from the beginning that she wasn't that sexual. i am still unsure whether or not being a transperson had anything to do with it, but i hung on for years in hope that this would change as we got more deeply involved with one another. be adamant if this is who you are. please make sure your partner understands that this WILL NOT CHANGE for you. so many sexual people continue in relationships where they realise there is a sexual incompatibility because they believe their partner will adapt over time. i am no longer with my partner. go figure.
MBD,

Your life sounds difficult and your plea for help sounds amazing. In fact, I think that what you are seeking ( an asexual man ) has made me think that there actually is some good that come out of this nonsense.

A solution to your life-long problem may be easier than you think. Start by telling men that you are not interested in sex. It might be embarrassing and awkward at first but you have no choice. It may be the only way that you find a match.

The collective experiences of this I Am Asexual group and the I Live In A Sexless Marriage group would imply that you can find your match. All you have to do is muster up the courage to tell any guy you date who you truly are.

Good luck.
Hello Enna. I didn't really know where to turn to and ask for help. I've been surfing the internet and i've just come across this interesting site.

I am in despair; on the verge of depression.

If anybody could help me i would be immensely grateful.

First of all i am not an asexual but a lesbian. I've turned out 18 this year. It took me many years to learn and accept that I am like this. Yet, i am adamant: i do not want to lead the life of a lesbian. I am not homophobic. I totally approve those who decide to live a homosexual life if this is how they can find happiness. Actually, i think that they are very courageous because i can assure you that you really need to have guts to take this decision. On the other hand i am lesbian but i cannot imagine my life with a woman. I've had so many dreams about having a husband; about being somebody's wife, to just turn the page - it's not only a part of my life, but my whole self that i would have to change!

I also don't care about having sex. Sexual pleasure is a momentary illusion and i am looking for something deeper and more 'permanent'.

Therefore, my only way is to get involved with a man who is asexual so that i am sure that he will not ask me for what i cannot give him.

Or, i could simply live in celibacy - but i refuse because this is not the image of life for me!And i badly need to live - i am tired of being a living corpse who's just waking up every morning because it's my duty. I want my dreams to come true and i want to LIVE!

If you have any comments to make; questions to ask; or the much desired - answers to grant, i would be most welcome and grateful to help and be helped.
You're just 18.And you are planning your whole life without sex. You may not want it now but maybe some day you might. Sex drive comes and goes for a variety of reasons I've heard. I really support enna30's suggestion to see a therapist. If only just to completely know what you want.
I would just like to point out that there is a difference between sex drive and sexual attraction. Asexuality is the the lack of sexual attraction to another, a lack of desire to have sex with another. This is different from the sex drive, which is the urge to experience *******. An asexual person may very well have a sex drive, and ********** regularly. I know this is not MyBrokenDreams's issue specifically, but this sex drive stuff comes up a lot, and as an Asexual person myself, I wanted to address the misconception.
Very heartfelt post Enna. thanks.
Good post enna30
I agree with you fully enna30. I have lived in a reasonably sexless marriage for 20+ years. My wife didn't want to have sex before marriage and really didn't want that much after marriage,... much to my dissapointment. I guess I'm a little old fashioned and don't really want to have to separate because of it and we do get on in other ways. But I think I will be a disapointed old man in regard to sexual satisfaction one day. We haven't had children either which is another story.
I've always been sexual, but sex is somehow, for some reason I can't quite understand, forbidden in my life. Three years ago I married my hubbie and in that time we've had sex, probably like, hmmmmm 3 times. One per year!!!!!! My sex drive is intact, but he just doesn't want to get into all that time/energy consuming boring stuff. Plus, he has a problem *********** really fast, so the few times we get intimate, last very little. Definitely not enough for me.

I ignored it, or at least tried to, for a couple of years. But as I'm telling you, I've always always always been really sexual, so it it a very hard thing to ignore.

My husband is a wonderful man, really affectionate in kisses and loving words, but never sex. I wonder, could he be asexual?

Lately with EP I've understood I need to do something about this, or else I'm gonna live a very unhappy life. I cannot even count the times I've tried to seduce him in sexy lingerie. I've tried drugs like viagra etc etc... Now I'm thinking we can look for counseling. I really love my man, but sexually, I'm really unhappy and frustrated, and when you're not an asexual person... this can be really tough to handle.

daisy hope ur life took a turn for good :)
my hubby phase me out. he dislikes any intimacy.. kisses/ sex/ holding hands etc but he loves receiving massages from me.. sex is a 15 min thing 2 times a month.. he whines if i say " first me then u"
but he is a really great guy. takes care of me in every other way. but i m a sexual person and it really really hurts me when he refuses. even when he does have sex its like charity.. breaks me .. :(
my frustration changed me and not in a good manner.
I feel your pain, I pray that things work out for you. I feel as tho a crime has been committed on you. (sorry for being so blunt)
I really hope it gets better for you, It hurts my heart to see a woman who is naturally ready for a life time of love making, sex ( be it mad or make, spur of the moment,quickie or what ever and she can't get it. (so tragic)
Enna, absolutely right, as I have seen you to be before! I wish I had taken on board some of your previous comments, and left him earlier!
This is so true. I have hurt many people, not meaning to. I really believed that this time make I could make myself change somehow. These are people that I deeply deeply love. I am particularly sad about my last spouse; I know I hurt her deeply and that hurts me deeply. She acts angry but I know she is hurt, I wish I could fix it but I can't, all I could do was tell her the truth which she didn't really accept. I honestly want her to find an appropriate partner and be happy, I really really really do!
It is good to have input from the asexual partners.
It helps me to understand that just as I am a sexual person and Ican't make that go away, for some asexual people, it may never ever go away. For some, if the could make it go away maybe they would, even if just to make their partner happy, but they can't.
He tells me the truth. I have to learn to accept it. He loves me but he is asexual. It is who he is. It is all that he can be.
Thanks for your side :)
So you are single now? Marriage is usually an institution for sexual people. I wonder what is it that keeps the asexual ones from feelings of lonelyness.


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Unoial Villa News...
Well blow me down that was a saga! Had a lovely bumper Villa Times set up on Friday and my computer decided to turn itself off. Now I'm very computer literate and I realise that if a computer turns itself off there is 'something' wrong. Therefore, one re-boot later, we are back up and running. Not sure why I said 'we' when it is only me. Well, me, myself and I, so I guess 'we' is correct.
The Sunday Mirror claim that Reading boss Steve Coppell wants Villa midfielder Steven Davis as Steve Sidwell is highly likely to leave on a free in the summer. Sidwell has been linked to Villa (even today the NOTW is linking him to us) but this report suggests a £2m bid will be incoming for our Northern Ireland international.
West Ham midfielder Nigel Reo-Coker has also been linked.
Gabby Agbonlahor has injured his knee playing for England Under-21's in the 3-3 with Italy. The extent of the injury is yet to be ascertained. Gary Cahill made his Under-21 debut in the same match, nice debut to make christening the new Wembley as well! Liam Ridgewell was unused and Ashley Young got just two minutes at the end of the game.
The papers are once again linking Neil Warnock's Sheffield United with our very own midfielder Lee Hendrie, currently on loan at Stoke. Hey, I said we were back, not that the news had got any more exciting.
The Vital Villa auction is now finished (albeit there is a programme of the 1982 cup final that I can get signed by Sir Dennis of Mortimer + a 2004 signed Villa ball if anyone wants to bid). Winners: £25 for the keyring!!! Rocky7 (From Vital Arsenal) £20 for a pen Gordonsleftboot. £10 for a pen IanRobo £10 for the badge IanRobo, £20 for the scarf PENFOLD17, £150 for the shirt - Steve64k, £12 for the crest. spit-fire and £20 for the DVD - merlin (Vital Chelsea).
John Robertson, who won the European Cup twice with Nottingham Forest, has spoken about our history and the decision by Martin O'Neill to put up photographs of the 1982 winning team to remind the current players where Villa have been before and where they want to be again. "We don't think that the history of the club should be put to one side. It should be something that today's players can aspire to. Villa is a big club, but there are bigger clubs who haven't won the European Cup. You cannot deny a club's history and I don't see a point in trying to do that. Martin has put pictures up of the 82 team in the dining room. They weren't there before and they should serve as a reminder. Whether the players get there or not, it is something that can be strived for." Full article: Robertson on Villa pedigree
The weekend press have linked Villa and Manchester United to 22-year-old Dutch player Wesley Sneijder. The tough Ajax midfielder has played 121 times with 38 goals for Ajax and also has 31 caps with six goals for Holland. Full article + youtube video clips: Dutch Midfield General Villa bound?
Looks like Jlloyd Samuel has come to the inevitable conclusion that he will have to leave Villa Park this summer. Jlloyd Samuel Admits Villa Defeat
Quotes from Shaun Maloney about his move from Celtic. Click Here
Criticism of Martin O'Neill seems to have increased slightly recently. We've had Matthew Le Tissier and Andy Gray saying the team is Martin O'Neills and should do better and now former Villa striker Milan Baros, who moved to Lyon in exchange for John Carew (and what a great deal that was, although I'd loved to have seen them BOTH play in the same team I must admit!) has slated the Villa boss. The former Liverpool striker and Czech Republic international said; 'To be honest, the last six months at Villa was a kind of survival. Neither I nor the club was doing well and everything was much more difficult.' Adding 'We play football at Lyon, not long ball tactics. ' Full article: Villa Manager Slated
Villa have said they will start contract talks with defender Olof Mellberg and midfielder Gavin McCann after the Everton game on the 2nd of April.
Martin O'Neill has hinted that no matter how hard some of our players try, they aren't quite good enough. 'This season, regardless of what our abilities are, I could not fault the effort of the team. We've been found wanting on a few occasions this season without doubt, but in terms of effort on the field, it's been there - even if it's misguided.' Full article: Misguided players at Villa?
Good news, Martin O'Neill says Villa fans will see a different Stiliyan Petrov next season. Great, as the one we've seen this season hasn't been up to much and often I've forgotten he has been on the pitch. His debut against West Ham showed an 11/10 player, he made an outstanding contribution, so - apart from some brief glimpses - I'm not totally sure what has happened since. Maybe it is just going to take him time and a good pre-season to fully settle in? On his debut I thought we'd got ourselves a new Magic Merse, since then I've wondered if we've not landed the next Mark Draper! Full article: Bench Stiliyan Petrov?
Hope you don't like 3pm Saturday kick offs as we have no more until next season I'm afraid! Full details of game changes: http://www.astonvilla.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=58002
Thought for the day: Steve McClaren - England manager? Got to be a joke right? If he is better than Big Sam Allardyce of Martin O'Neill then my name is Sheila and I ride a uni-cycle to work.


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Notwithstanding the stagnant economic promise of Barack Obama's America, the president's left flank remains determined to see in him the same singular greatness he doubtlessly sees in himself. All flaws, failings, and ambitions unrealized are the fault of maleficent Republicans tilting bitterly at the windmills of Hope & Change™ because they hate minorities or something. The president's approval ratings are impressively high on the afterglow of his re-election, and liberals have already carved his place in the 21st-century Pantheon of the "post-Rushmore Rushmore." While the media remains complicit in the impression of progress on jobless "hot button" issues, this polling advantage might persist for a time. But eventually, the ultimate questions will crescendo: Where is the progress? Where are the (good) jobs?
The flying unicorn mythology of Obama's legend — a hodgepodge of truth, legerdemain, and outright fantasy — was a problem evident in that early rebuke of Eric Cantor: "Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won." It continued in a pattern of unanimous rejections at the Supreme Court through the recent judicial rebuke of the unprecedented expansion of executive authority to declare when the Senate is not in session — a step even George W. Bush did not take. Most recently it emerged in the fantastic notion that a skeet-shooting photo has any more relevance to a discussion on the right to self-defense than "American Idol" balloting has to the right to suffrage.
Obama's cool hubris is a fascinating extension of the atmospheric self-infatuation that characterizes his young American bulwark of support. It's small wonder that a generation raised on social promotion — as opposed to demonstrable merit — and feel-good pop moralism — as opposed to substantive ethics and results — would increasingly rate itself "above average" while clinging to a commander-in-chief who simultaneously embodies and enables the party of lip-service responsibility amid spiraling insolvency.
The sad irony is that Obama's governance is in many ways the instantiation of the America of my generation. The staggering self-absorption prevents the kind of raw but earnest self-reflection that would reveal a rather inconvenient but obvious truth: we would rather convince ourselves and others that we love and represent humanity than undergo the hard, unflattering work of ensuring that anyone but ourselves is substantively better off. Thus the focus on "hot button" issues to the neglect of a broader, practicable vision of the world. As William Kremer put it, "Narcissists may say all the right things, but their actions eventually reveal them to be self-serving."
To the degree that young America is the Obama demographic, we are The Post-Everything Generation of Internet activists, community organizers, and It Gets Better. Our leaders are terrified of civilian weaponry they don't bother to understand and yet are comfortable deriding a prince in active military service. They borrow endlessly with no regard for our future or our children, and we dutifully enable them with paeans to "intersectionality" and "kyriarchy" (neither of which, according to Windows and Chrome, are even words). Our philosophy is post-reality, our metric post-results, and our outlook post-narcissism. We are a cesspool of vanities anathema to pride or consequence. We are the generation of Hope, which is but reified wind.
But nothing is forever. One day soon, Obama's colossal pride will stumble in the ever-quaking rumble of reality, and my generation will discover its liberalism is at odds with its entitlement. In the end, we all just want to do right by our convictions. As my eighteen-year-old self discovered the world wouldn't change my ruined tire, no matter how much I valued and deserved my weekend, there will be a day of reckoning for the big-government activism of the Obama coalition.
Anthony Rek LeCounte is a Yale-educated conservative. He blogs at Token Dissonance, where this essay originally appeared.


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@BitFlipper: I would point out though that what is cool on WP with Xbox Live is that the games are integrated with Xbox Live, not that we have an app that connects to your profile. That (game integration) hasn't been brought to iOS with this app, just the ability to interact with your profile/messages. That is a pretty small piece of Xbox Live compared to the integration on WP7. One of the commenters on that post said it pretty clearly.
"They are not running XBOX Live Games, only the Hub. I understand the hesitation, but this is an extension of the profile and messaging aspects of XBOX Live, which only increases it's value as a communications platform. All good. You'll still be earning achievements on your WP7."


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McLoughlin Will Not Return
Walsall today suffered a major blow with the news MK Dons will not allow Ian Mcloughlin back to the club on loan.
Mcloughlin had become our 4th goalkeeper of the season, prior to that we had Aaron McCarey, Karl Darlow and of course our very own David Grof.
MK Dons require his services so we now require our 5th goalkeeper of the season....if its not assistants, it's goalkeepers!
It remains unclear whether Deano will now allow David Grof to become number 1 once more.


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The blossoming stars of Hollywood literally bloomed on the red carpet at last night's Young Hollywood Awards. The Carrie Diaries star AnnaSophia Robb (in Emilio Pucci), Teen Wolf's Holland Roden (in Ted Baker) and Crystal Reed (in Carolina Herrera) all chose pretty prints and floral finishes for the show that celebrated emerging talent, held at the Broad Stage in Los Angeles. "It's just so wonderful to meet everyone," Robb told InStyle.com before she took the stage to accept her Female Superstar of Tomorrow award. "I think it's important to create and follow relationships and work on collaborations. There are so many talented young people." Hosted by actress Aisha Tyler, the night's honorees included Selena Gomez, Kelly Osbourne, Lucy Hale, Aimee Teegarden and more. Click to see more of last night's winners and attendees.
• 2012 Young Hollywood Awards Photos
• AnnaSophia Robb's Best Looks Ever
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1. AnnaSophia Robb
in Emilio Pucci dress, Jimmy Choo clutch, Stuart Weitzman shoes and David Yurman jewels. She won the Female Superstar of Tomorrow Award.
2. Aimee Teegarden
in Notte by Marchesa, BCBG shoes and Judith Leiber clutch. She presented the cast of Teen Wolf with the Best Ensemble Award.
3. Cat Deeley
in Etro dress and Bulgari shoulder bag.
4. Holland Roden
in Ted Baker, B Brian Atwood shoes and Rachel Zoe clutch. She and her 'Teen Wolf' cast mates won the Best Ensemble Award.
5. Alyssa Milano
in Stella McCartney, Saint Laurent clutch, Marissa Webb shoes and Jennifer Fisher jewels. She presented Kelly Osbourne with the Style Icon Award.
6. Aisha Tyler
in All Saints dress and Camilla Skovgaard shoes. She hosted the awards show and presented Miguel the Best Male Artist Award.
7. Lucy Hale
in Joy Cioci and Edie Parker clutch. She received the Crossover of the Year Award.
8. Kit Harington
in Armani. He received the Actor of the Year Award.
9. Selena Gomez
in Versace and Jimmy Choo sandals. She received the Fan Favorite Album and Most Anticipated Tour Awards.
10. Anna Camp
in Lorena Sarbu. She took home the One to Watch Award.
11. Crystal Reed
in Carolina Herrera and Graziela Gems earrings. She and her 'Teen Wolf' cast mates won the Best Ensemble Award.
12. Kelly Osbourne
in a dress picked out by her father, Ozzy, and Lana Jewelry earrings. She accepted the Style Icon Award by saying, "I have to thank my father because he styled me this evening. When he found out that I was winning this award he took me shopping and we went and got a manicure together. He said you have to wear this dress!"


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Intel's X79 platform plays host to the fastest CPUs currently available. So the MSI X79A-GD65 8D kicks out some monster benchmarks numbers when you drop in that Core i7 3960X processor.
What it doesn't do, however, is put significant distance between itself and cheaper X79 motherboards in stock clocked benchmarks.
If you want a reason to spend more, therefore, it'll be features like MSI's OC Genie overclocking tool that will have to win you over.
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Top interviewing tips: Part 8 - how to handle your first interview
Top interviewing tips...
Top interviewing tips from Lisa Jobson (pictured), director of talent at Harvey Nash:
First interviews tend to be biographically focused; a walk through of your CV to gain a better understanding of your experience to date and career progression. They can take a number of formats, so being prepared for each potential scenario will eliminate any stumbling blocks on the day.
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Phone interview
This is generally used as a pre-interview screening exercise, so always take it seriously, as this is when the interviewer makes an initial selection.
- Give yourself time to prepare for it as you would a traditional interview.
- Try not to phone from outdoors or in a busy place. Find a quiet room and make sure that you have all the time you need to conduct the interview properly.
- Use a fixed phone if possible to avoid network problems or running out of battery power.
- Find out more about the person you are talking to if they do not introduce themselves spontaneously.
- Be direct and succinct, use action verbs and short sentences.
- Don't speak too quickly or for too long, and listen carefully.
- Never rush things, and smile while you're speaking.
The interview panel
This usually includes an HR manager and the hiring manager plus a team member.
- Identify exactly who is who and their position in the company.
- Do not be thrown if someone interrupts you and answer all the questions in turn without losing your concentration.
- Address and make eye contact with everyone, even if one person seems to be leading the panel.
The group interview
This is where several applicants are interviewed at the same time so the client can assess their teamwork skills and how well they interact. Your behaviour during the different exercises is considered predictive of your behaviour once working for the company. Exercises vary from talking about yourself, your skills and your reasons for applying, to more complex role-play type situations.
- Try not to come across as aggressive or intimidated by the other candidates.
- Listen carefully to the others to develop a good argument.
- Be natural and attentive to how you express yourself, taking care not to get carried away.
- Stay within the frame of the exercise and remain coherent.
- It is better to speak when you have a valid point to make rather than to speak just for the sake of speaking.
The multiple interview
You may be asked to attend several interviews over the course of the day, so remain focused, even if you have the impression that you are repeating yourself. The aim is to test your resistance and your ability to adapt, and to get different points of view. Later on, they will check to see if everyone has the same opinion about you.
Informal interview
Every meeting in a recruitment process provides an opportunity to find out more about you.
- Don't lose sight of this, even during informal discussions over a drink or during a meal which may pre-empt the formal process.
- Stay alert and perform to the best of your ability at each meeting.
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:53:19PM -0500, Vinai wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > } if you want macos, then you do need to first partition with the macos > } partitioner but you must create the placeholder partition for linux at > } the BEGINNING of the disk *NOT* the end. > } > } otherwise you can't put the bootstrap partition first and i get > } craploads of mail about how to fiddle with OF. always always put the > } bootstrap partition BEFORE any macos partitions, > > Actually, you _CAN_. Your utility seems to work better than you give it > credit for. My partition table looks like: you can, but you should NOT. ybin will set the boot-device variable, but if OF ever gets reset you get booted into MacOS and the only way to recover is booting manually from OF. which i am sick of explaining. if you put the bootstrap partition FIRST where it belongs then it will be booted when OF gets reset to its default values. > As you can see, I have the bootstrap partition after all my MacOS stuff > and it works perfectly, as I am writing this on that very machine under > Potato, running my own 2.2.18 kernel. This is on a Lombard PB. I don't > think you will be getting "craploads of e-mail" about this ... i already DO. please follow my instructions and put the bootstrap partition first if you want to save hassle. if you know what your doing and won't bother me with rtfm question then do it however the hell you want. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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I'm A Frantic Romantic
Sometimes I wonder how any of us ever learned about love and romance. Or how we learned, at the very least, to adjust our expectations to conform to reality. I started thinking about this after I inadvertently got Olivia Newton John's song "Hopelessly Devoted to You" stuck in my head. As I was singing the song out loud while puttering about the house, I realized that it's gooey sentiment — not to mention its unflappable loyalty in the face of rejection — was how my 8-year-old self imagined love to be.
Watch a clip from the movie Grease. Alas, if only our loves appeared to us in ponds.
As much as movies, books and television shape our youthful definitions and notions of love, it's music — with its lyrics ripe for memorization and repetition, and often written for and about the beloved — that becomes our guide and our adoptive ode. We insert ourselves into a song's narrative — which, of course, we can do with film. But with a song, it's neatly packaged inside of a scant few minutes; the story is brief, fleeting and, best of all, instantly gratifying because of its quick conclusion. For our young, impressionable hearts, a love song is just a metronome that keeps the time until a new beat comes along.
Below is part one of a treacherous journey toward a vague understanding of love.
First up for me was Huey Lewis & The News. The band's albums Sports and Fore were pretty much the soundtrack to my elementary-school years. Lewis was something of a Jersey dreamboat (totally not an oxymoron, in case you were wondering), and after he serenaded me for years, he ultimately broke my heart when my Walkman, containing a Huey Lewis tape, was stolen from our family car at Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C. Also, my baby blanket was stolen. If you are wondering why I had a Walkman and a baby blanket in the same tote bag, let's just say that I was very complicated. It's only occurring to me right this second that perhaps my parents staged this theft in order to rid me of my threadbare patch of comfort. Dad?
Anyhow, here is Lewis' "Stuck With You," a song which let me know that true love involves being stuck, but also being sort of happy about it. After all, it's such a pain to have to change your address.
Up next were songs that alluded not just to love, but to making love. It doesn't get more romantic than these lyrics, courtesy of Air Supply:
Every time I see you all the rays of the sun
are streaming through the waves in your hair;
and every star in the sky is taking aim
at your eyes like a spotlight,
The beating of my heart is a drum, and it's lost
and it's looking for a rhythm like you.
(Somewhere at an All Songs Considered desk, Robin Hilton is crying and asking Bob Boilen to hold him. Bob won't.)
The words "making love" still make me cringe, and I blame this Air Supply song.
George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" erased every lesson taught to me in health class. This, by a man later arrested for having sex in a public bathroom — twice! In lieu of Michael's true sexual preference, I like to imagine a different meaning for the line, "I can't take much more, girl, I'm losing control." What at first sounded like a man brimming with desire was really just a guy saying, "I'm over it, at least with women."
But let's end with something truly romantic: New Kids on the Block's "I'll Be Loving You Forever." In middle school, I went to the Puyallip Fair and flung myself at Jordan and Jonathan Knight. Why? One, because I had a better chance of still scoring in case one of them rejected me; and two, because the concept of forever means nothing to a 13-year-old. Therefore, it sounded like a pretty cool time.
Feel free to share your early journeys into the forays of love and romance courtesy of song.


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I have to use a 2x16 LCD COG (Chip On Glass) Display with ST7032i IIC driver chip.
Datasheet: http://akizukidenshi.com/download/ds/si ... st7032.pdf
Pics: http://esp8266-projects.org/2015/03/dis ... play-html/
I'm using Rogers core on a STM32F103VE.
at the moment, I am trying and testing with this library: https://github.com/weizenbock/ESP-ST7032
I just inserted here
for using the IIC2 of the MCU.
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//for use of IIC2
TwoWire WIRE2 (2,I2C_FAST_MODE);
#define Wire WIRE2
Everything works fine so far - I can display text and custom symbols - control the contrast - and so on ...
So it seems that the IIC communication is fine,
something strange happens after (different kinds of) a reset (using hello-world sketch):
- power on the board running through Rogers bootloader first (0x8002000) => in about 25% of all attempts the display starts (shows letters)
- power on the board without any bootloader (0x8000000) => in about 10% of all attempts the display starts (shows letters)
- (automatic) reset after uploading with Rogers bootloader => in about 80% of all attempts the display starts (shows letters)
- (automatic) reset after uploading with STLink => in about 50% of all attempts the display starts (shows letters)
I think something is wrong with the initialization routine of the display,
so that it sometimes "accidentally" works and sometimes not (?)
(as you can see (from my list above) the initialization succeeds more often if the board is already powered)
or may be it is some kind of "race condition" regarding the startup of the IIC or whatever (?)
(variation of the "timing" (the used delay() and delayMicroseconds() -calls) within the initialization routine make no difference)
In any case, the loop() routine is reached - so the SW does not get stuck somewhere in the setup() or the initialization of the LCD..
I have no idea what to do, so I am looking here for some experienced user


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Mayor Rahm Emanuel is moving to take back the broad authority he gave one of the city's top financial aides to buy insurance in the wake of his former comptroller's federal indictment in an alleged kickback scheme tied to his old job in Ohio.
Shortly after taking office, Emanuel pushed a measure through the City Council allowing then-Comptroller Amer Ahmad to buy insurance without putting the business out to bid. Now the administration will obtain coverage through a competitive bidding process overseen by the Department of Procurement Services, mayoral spokeswoman Sarah Hamilton said Wednesday.


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It's a popular debate lately: are these social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.) bad for us? Recently an Oxford professor, Baroness Susan Greenfield, made some rather provocative speculations about the cumulative effect frequent use of these sites can have on our physical brains. As reported by ars technica:
Greenfield said that sites like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and Twitter may be forcing kids' brains back into an infant-like state, as infants need constant stimulation to remind them that they exist. She added that she worries that "real" conversation will eventually give way to these little snippets of text dialogue, indicating that our normal language might eventually turn into pokes, wall shout-outs, and 140-character snark fests.
She's also shown explaining her view in the video below (though to be honest I had a hard time following her).
As a result of her statements, a debate was born on a British news show. On February 24th, BBC Newsnight aired this segment:
They go back and forth about the issue. Sort of. I actually think the anchor, generally, did a good job.
Here's what I learned from this debate:
- Even with a British accent, snarky people are annoying.
(For the record, I know absolutely nothing about these individuals beyond what I see here.)
Both of these guys have useful things to say. It's a shame they're not having the same discussion.
This whole debate seems a bit twisted, actually. It's supposedly about Susan Greenfield's statements, but she's not there to defend them—instead they got Aric Sigman (the 'conservative'), who apparently has never met Susan nor was he involved in her research (or lack thereof). He did apparently also write something that was taken as alarmist on a similar subject, though he does a fairly good job, I think, of clarifying that his point is simply that there is reason to examine whether Social Networking sites, among other activities that reduce "face time," could possibly have a negative effect on attention development. He cites similar studies (that no one refutes) on the effect of TV watching. More research is warranted. That pretty much seems to be his point.
He also gets around to parental responsibility in monitoring and limiting children's time on the computer.
Honestly I'm not sure where the argument is here. Aric's statements don't sound alarmist to me. A bit of responsibility seems reasonable to request.
Ben Goldacre, on the other hand, won't let go of talking about Susan Greenfield's statements. He's making valid points about policy setting, in the end, but they are not really directed at Aric as much as they are at Susan, who isn't there. Childish looks of superiority abound.
What bothers me the most about this is that I think people will see this and relate more to Ben (as the "individual" raging against "The Man") and discount Aric's point almost out-of-hand. It's not that most people would disagree with Aric's points if they listened, it's that they won't really hear what he's saying. Who would disagree that we need to pay attention to the amount of time our kids spend on the computer? That it would be helpful for them to cultivate 'real life' friendships and ensure that the proper time is spent on them?
What they'll probably hear instead is that Ben is arguing that Facebook will not melt your brain and cause developmental disorders, so they'll assume that Aric's point is that Facebook will melt your brain and must be shut down. Which is nowhere near what he's saying.
Gotta go… I need to Tweet about the problems I'm having coming up with my Facebook statuses.
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Drivers are encouraged to avoid northbound Interstate 5 through Lakewood this weekend while crews finish work on the Clover Creek Bridge.
Lane closures begin at 9 p.m. Friday and extend through 5 a.m. Monday. The ramp from Gravelly Lake Drive to northbound I-5 will also close, as well as a single southbound I-5 lane.
State Department of Transportation workers are replacing two bridge slabs and repaving the bridge deck. This is the fourth and final closure for the $995,350 project.
Here's more on the closures and the project.


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text: When premium carmakers such as BMW and Audi put so much focus on their four-cylinder powerplants, it's only reasonable that mainstream brands like Mazda do the same. Currently, the Japanese carmakers offers a larger V6 engine on its Mazda6 sedan and CX-9 crossover, but that won't be the case with their successors. Speaking to Car & Driver magazine, Robert Davis, Mazda's senior vice president of U.S. Operations, told the publication that it has no plans to develop a next generation V6 under it SkyActive program. Instead, it will focus on making its larger cars lighter and offer turbocharged versions of its four-cylinder engines. Davis was also asked about the future of Mazda's Rotary engine. According to the Mazda official, the company will continue its development applying the same core technologies found in other SkyActive products including more-efficient transmissions. He added that Mazda is also exploring the idea of using a new rotary engine as an electric generator. When asked about the next generation of the popular MX-5 / Miata, Davis said that it too will benefit from the firm's SkyActive program and that it will be lighter than the current model. In addition, he said that the company is preparing some very special editions of the compact roadster model.


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Artist's Statement
Are we sure this isn't a real artist's statement? I have heard this over and over again, glad someone translated this for me.
Sweet Dreams
A stalwart cupcake yearning to find something beyond his world of sugar cube skyscrapers and frosting-covered friends. When his makeshift boat crashes on foreign shores, he makes a shocking discovery that changes him forever.
A stop animated short film by Kirsten Lepore.
Watch Sweet Dreams.
Dollar Bill
Pecunia olet in this short comedy film by Marco Aslan, where our hero ultimately discover his superpowers (which incidentally is the same superpower shared by pornstars, prostitutes and Justin Bieber).
Watch Dollar Bill.
Daniele Celona – Distance
Watch it. (Dir. Alessio Fava)
A short stop animated film by Jorge Piquer and Julie Galland AKA La ignorancia.
Watch it. (via 1nspirational)
When The Time Is Ripe
Shion Takeuchi's fourth year thesis film from Calarts is just pearfect jewel. "It was made using puppets, Flash, and motion tracking."
Watch When The Time Is Ripe. (via antiheroe)
La partita lenta (The Slow Game)
Director Paolo Sorrentino's film is about a rugby match as a metaphor in order to show how self confidence allows, even in a difficult situation, to move towards the goal.
Up There
A beautiful documentary on the lost art of painted advertising produced as part of The Ritual Project sponsored by Stella Artois and directed by Malcolm Murray.
In the aftermath of an atrocity, Peter, a paramilitary, is confounded by a detective's questioning. An answer might offer a kind of redemption to both men but threatens to condemn Peter to a long prison sentence. Does he know the answer?
A short film by Billy McCannon.
Lightheaded is a journey we take with temperature sensitive candle creatures who sacrifice what they know to become who they are.
Watch Lightheaded by Mike Dacko. (via Cartoon Brew)
To Build a Home
The short film To Build a Home (directed by Up the Resolution) is made from the music videos for two songs of The Cinematic Orchestra: To Build a Home and Breathe.
A beautiful song and a beautiful video. I'll leave to the music and the images because there is really nothing I can add.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
We Walk
Commissioned by creative agency DixonBaxi, We Walk is a short film by Christopher Hewitt which stumbles into the journey of a young girl desperate to leave the city in search of isolation and, in turn, sleep. Shot in LA and Palm Springs, the film is based on a new poem by writer Brett Darling.
Watch We Walk.
Two flowers (voiced by Whoopi Goldberg and Christy Scott Cashman) grow on the edge of a clearing next to one another. One is old and jaded by a mysterious history – the other one still young, vivid and curious. Destiny has brought these two together and it seems as if they would exist without possibility for change, until one day a visitor to the clearing brings something unexpected to their lives.
A short film written and directed by Heiko van der Scherm.
Watch Descendants.
via Ehrensenf
Poni Hoax – Antibodies
Just got a comment on this post from 2008 and thought it would be appropriate to give it some more airtime.
Watch Antibodies. (Warning: nudity)
I'm Here
Spike Jonze's film for Absolut is here. If you don't have a VIP invitation (and in that case you already know everything you need), you'll have to wait in line, like at a real premiere. In that case, you might find this interesting. Google is your friend.
Watch I'm Here.


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Two men have been bailed by police as the investigation continues into an attack on a 48-year-old man outside the PamPurredPets shop in North Street, Havant.
The victim, from Havant, required hospital treatment for a serious injury following the assault on June 6.
Two men, aged 18 and from Havant, were rebailed and must return to Havant police station on September 12.


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Two big volcano's that will blank out the Sun for days followed by earth quakes in 6 different countries killing millions of people, things then get back to some normality when half the World is flooded and millions drown, I hope this cheered you up greatly.
really, what makes you think that?
I might actually get that Redhead I've been eyeing ;)
I expect us to be more full of love. The hate will just be a dark flicker in the light. A shift from hate to love. We will all be our true self.
Well sure...huge events happen every year. Of course, the word "huge" is a relative term to most people. If you're asking me "Do you believe the world will end according to the Mayan calendar bullshit?" Then no.
no, but I do worry about true believers trying to bring about their apocalypse. That's true every year though.
that its the end of the world, war against other countries. maybe-
I am expecting my taxes to go up... lol
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Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Deployment – Part 4
Welcome to Part 4 of this article series. In Part 1, we started off by discussing the goal of this lab. That goal is how to deploy a single Enterprise Edition OCS Server which is connected to an x64 SQL Server 2005 SP2 Back-End Server. We first discussed what the lab setup is going to be using VMware Workstation, and then proceeded to the configuration of our Enterprise Certificate Authority. In Part 2, we went over the preparation and installation of a Front End OCS 2007 Server Pool which were the first few steps in deploying OCS in an Enterprise Deployment. In Part 3, we went over the remaining steps required to deploying our Front End Server in an Enterprise Pool Deployment.
In this Part, I will go through the installation of our Office Communicator 2007 client and get it connected through OCS by configuring DNS. I will then begin preparation of our Edge Servers followed by configuring our ISA 2006 Server.
Part 4
Front End OCS 2007 Server Installation
When installing OCS in a consolidated Enterprise Edition deployment, you would perform the following steps:
- Prepare Active Directory (Completed in Part 2)
- Create an Enterprise Pool (Completed in Part 2)
- Configure a Load Balancer (Completed in Part 2)
- Configure Pool / DNS (Partially Completed in Part 3)
- Add Server to Pool (Completed in Part 3)
- Configure Certificate (Completed in Part 3)
- Configure Web Components Server Certificate (Completed in Part 3)
- Verify Replication (Completed in Part 3)
- Start Services (Completed in Part 3)
- Validate Server and Pool Functionality (Partially Completed in Part 3)
Microsoft Office Communicator (MOC) 2007
Installing MOC
Installing MOC is a rather straightforward process. I won't go over the installation steps as it is like installing any other application.
Logging onto MOC
In Part 3, we talked about holding off on DNS additions so when we install MOC, we can see what DNS is required to allow our client to log on. So let's try logging on with one of the users we created in Part 3. The user we will log on as is OCS User 1 that has a SIP Address of firstname.lastname@example.com.
When we try to log on, we will get the following error message:
So let's start adding DNS by entering our DNS MMC by going to Start > Administrative Tools > DNS. We will then create a host record for our Pool (ocspool.shudnow.net).
Note: If you have multiple Front End Servers and are deploying behind a hardware load balancer, the IP Address in this host file will be pointing to your hardware load balancer.
After that host record has been created, we will need to create an SRV record so MOC clients can find DNS and automatically locate the OCS Front End Server. But because we are using a separate namespace of exchange.shudnow.net, we will need to create either a new Primary DNS Zone for exchange.shudnow.net or by creating a new domain called exchange within our shudnow.net zone. I elected to create an entire new zone.
Once your exchange.shudnow.net zone is created, we will then need to create a host record inside our new exchange.shudnow.net zone for sip.exchange.shudnow.net.
Create an SRV record within the exchange.shudnow.net zone that contains the following information.
Note: Internal clients can connect using either TLS or TCP while external clients can only connect to TLS. If you want to allow your clients to connect to TCP, change the above to _SipInternal and change the port to 5060.
So let me explain what is going on here. We created our DNS Pool record in our shudnow.net zone. OCSPool.shudnow.net points to 192.168.119.151 which is the IP Address of our Front End Server. Because our users are SIP Enabled for exchange.shudnow.net, we needed to create a new zone. Typically, if you would have SIP enabled them for shudnow.net, we would just create our OCSPool A Record, and then create the SRV record to point to OCSpool.shudnow.net.
If you recall, when we retreived our certificate, it had DNS names of OCSpool.shudnow.net and sip.exchange.shudnow.net. Because SRV records have to point to a DNS name within its own domain, we created our sip.exchange.shudnow.net A record within the exchange.shudnow.net zone. We then created the DNS SRV record for automatic client logon to point to the sip.exchange.shudnow.net name which is a name in our certificate request.
So essentially the following happens in order:
- Client logs on using automatic logon
- Client looks for an SRV record for _sipinternaltls._tcp.SIPDomain (in our case _sipinternaltls._tcp.exchange.shudnow.net)
- DNS Server successfully returns sip.exchange.shudnow.net as the service from the SRV record
- Client connects to sip.exchange.shudnow.net and resolves that to 192.168.119.151
- Client is successfully enable to start communications with the Front End Server
Adding Distribution Groups to MOC
I have created a universal distribution group named Sales. Our Sales distribution group was created within Exchange. A user named Simo notified me that a distribution group doesn't necessarily have to be created within Exchange. As long as the distribution group has the e-mail attribute filled in, OCS expansion will function.
Searching for Sales, we will see that it will display our Sales group. We can add this group to our contacts list and we can expand the group information.
Your Communicator client will refresh the membership information every so often to determine for distribution group modifications. After some messing around with this, I see this is separate from the Address Book syncing as I attempted to manually syncronize the Address Book service and even went as far as deleting the GalContacts.db file on our client to force a re-download of the Address Book files.
I did some research and found this post here. Unfortunately others are seeing the same and no answer has really been provided on how the distribution group information gets updated or how to force it; if even possible.
For those that do not know, the Address Book files is what allow our clients to search for SIP enabled users and Distribution Groups. It also providers other functionality such as Phone Number Normalization when doing Remote Call Control. This information gets stored on our client as GalContacts.db in "%userprofile%\ Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Communicator\." The Address Book gets updated in OCS every 24 hours which can be expedited by navigating to the following directory and running the following command:
Preparation of OCS 2007 Edge Node
Network Interface Card (NIC) Configuration
In Part 1, I put the Internal NIC on our VMNet8 which is our NAT Network. I stated that I would put all other NICs on VMNet7. When bringing up this server, I put all NICs on VMNet8 to ensure that there is IP Connectivity all around. The reason for this is I don't have VMNet7 and VMNet8 routed with each other. In a production network, I would following the OCS Planning Guide to ensure your networks are configured properly. For example, your Internal NIC would be placed on your Internal Network while external adapters would be on a separate subnet such as a DMZ.
The first thing I always do is rename the NICs appropriately so you know what NIC you are working with.
On our Internal Edge NIC, we want to configure the IP Configuration as follows. This NIC will contain the default gateway and DNS Settings. Becuase of this, we will later ensure that this NIC is at the top of the binding order.
Our Audio/Video Edge NIC will be configured as follows.
Our Access Edge NIC will be configured as follows.
Our Web Conferencing Edge NIC will be configured as follows.
Binding Order
Set the Internal NIC to be at the top of the binding order. This is because this is our internal corporations communications NIC. It is the NIC that has DNS applied to it and will be talking to the rest of the internal servers.
ISA 2006 Configuration
Root Certificate
The first thing we will want to do is take the root certificate from our internal CA and place it into the Root Computer Certificate Store on ISA. If your ISA box is part of the domain, if your CA is an Enterprise Root CA, your ISA box will automatically retrieve this certificate upon rebooting. For any other type of CA configuration, you must manually obtain the Root Certificate. The reason we we need this Root Certificate is because when we Bridge our external connection to our internal connection via SSL, we will need to trust the internal FQDN which has a certificate requested from our internal CA.
To do this, go onto your the Certificate Authority (CA) Server. Our OCS-DC1 server is our CA. Open the Certificates MMC by going to Start > Run > MMC. Go to File > Add/Remove Snap-In > Add > Certificates > Computer Account.
Go to our Trusted Root Certification Authorities and find our Root Certificate. Once you find it, Export the Certificate and transfer this exported certificate to ISA 2006.
Back on our ISA Box, open the Computer Certificates Snap-In just as we did on our CA. In the same location (Trusted Root Certification Authorities > Certificates), we will import the certificate that we exported on our CA. Once you choose Import, navigate to the location of the exported certificate and import it.
External Web Farm Certificate
Now let's go ahead and get a certificate that matches the external Web Farm FQDN that we specified when deploying our Pool. This name is ExtWebFarm.shudnow.net. To do this, I installed IIS on ISA to request the certificate.
In IIS, go onto your Default Website > Properties > Directory Security Tab.
You will see a section entitled Secure Communications. Click Server Certificate to begin the process of requesting a certificate.
Choose Create New Certificate. Click Next to Continue.
In a production environment, you will choose to Prepare the request now, but send it later and submit the request to a 3rd party certificate authority such as Entrust. This is because you'll want internet clients to be able to automatically trust this certificate. For purposes of this lab, I will just choose to Send the request imediately to an online certificate authority to expedite the process. Click Next to Continue.
Note: I left the Prepare the request now, but send it later selected by default. If you are doing a lab scenario like I am, feel free to select the second option (like me) to expedite the process. The rest of the screenshots will be using the second expedited method.
By default, the Certificate Name will be set to your web site name. Change this to the FQDN of the External Web Farm FQDN. Click Next to Continue.
Note: The Certificate Name is not the Subject Name (SN) / Common Name (CN) of the certificate, but I always match the SN / CN of the certificate to the Certificate Name.
You will be asked for your Organization information. Enter it appropriately. Click Next to Continue.
You will now be asked for your SN / CN. Specify the name to be ExtWebFarm.shudnow.net Click Next to Continue.
You will be asked for your Geographical information. Enter it appropriately. Click Next to Continue.
Since we specified the OCS Certificate Request to send the request immediately to an online certificate authority, OCS will search for an Issuing CA. The name of our CA (not server name but the name of the CA) is OCS-ROOTCA, OCS will display this server as the CA to use. Choose OCS-DC1.shudnow.net\OCS-ROOTCA as our CA. Click Next to Continue.
Now in a production environment where you submitted your CSR to a vendor such as Entrust, they will provide you some text information back. You will take this text, place it into a text file, and save the file as a .cer file. You will then go back into IIS and Assign the .cer file to your request. What essentially happens is when you create your CSR, you create a private key on your IIS Server. The vendor will take some information appropriate to your private key and create a public key that associates itself with your private key. When you assign your certificate, you essentially bind your public/private key to form a certificate.
Once the certificate is properly assigned, you will see the View Certificate button light up.
If you click on View Certificate, you will see the certificate has a CN of ExtWebFarm.shudnow.net
If you performed these procedures on an IIS instance located on a server that is not your IIS Server, you must ensure you export the certificate with its private key and import it into the Local Computer Certificate Store on ISA. This will allow you to attach the certificate to the web listener we will be creating. The procedures for importing a certificate are listed above. The only difference is the store you import it into.
Once you are finished with your certificate request, if IIS is still enabled on ISA, make sure you turn it off (uninstall) otherwise ISA will fail to proxy due to a port conflict between IIS and the Web Listener.
ISA Configuration
We will need to configure ISA to proxy requests for the following three functions:
- To enable external users to download meeting content for your meetings
- To enable external users to expand distribution groups
- To enable remote users to download files from the Address Book Service
The Web Components Server will use the following directories to allow external clients to connect through using the External Web Farm FQDN.
To start creating the configuration for ISA, we will want to create a Web Site Publishing Rule. We will name it OCS External Web Farm.
Select Allow. Click Next to Continue.
Select Publish a single Web site or load balancer. The reason why we only publish a single website is because the server we connect to will be our pool name (Ocspool.shudnow.net). This will essentially load balance our ISA request to both of our Front End Servers. Click Next to Continue.
Select Use SSL to connect to the published Web server or server farm. Click Next to Continue.
Enter our Internal Site name which is the Internal Farm FQDN we specified when we created our Enterprise Pool. This internal site name should match our pool name. Enter the IP Address for our Enterprise Pool. Since we only deployed one Front End Server, this IP Address is the address of our Front End. If we are deploying multiple Front End Servers behind a Hardware Load Balancer, this IP Address would be the Virtual IP (VIP) of our Hardware Load Balancer. Click Next to Continue.
We will want to use /* for our Path so we can create one rule to allow us to proxy all data destined to our External Web Farm FQDN to our Front End Server. Click Next to Continue.
We will want to enter our External Web Farm FQDN as our Public Name. Click Next to Continue.
We are now prompted to select a Web Listener. Because we haven't created one, go ahead and select New. Name this Web Listener OCS External Web Farm. Click Next to Continue.
We will definitely want to require SSL secured connections with clients. Click Next to Continue.
Select External since we will allowing Internet Clients to use this listener in which the DNS will be pointing to the Selected IP Address for our External connection. To select the IP Address for our External connection, Click the Select IP Addresses button.
Select the IP Address that we will be using for our External NIC. The reason why it doesn't show the IP Address for our 192.x.x.x address is because our 192.168.119.x network is selected as our Internal Network. You select your internal subnets when installing ISA. Click OK and then Next to Continue.
We must now choose our ExtWebFarm.shudnow.net certificate for this listener. Choose Select Certificate and choose our ExtWebFarm.shudnow.net Certificate. Click OK and then Next to Continue.
No Authentication will be used. Click Next to Continue.
When back in the rule configuration, you will want to ensure that you select No Delegation, but client may authenticate directly. Click Next to Continue.
All the remaining options should be left at default. All you need to do now is configure a HOST (A) record on your external DNS solution so ExtWebFarm.shudnow.net points to the IP Address of your ISA Server whether that is with a public IP Address directly on ISA or through a NAT'd Address.
The last modification we need to make is to go into the properties of our rule (not listener) and go to the From Tab. Remove Anywhere and add External. Click OK to Finish.
Note: Again, if IIS is still enabled on ISA, make sure you turn it off (uninstall) otherwise ISA will fail to proxy due to a port conflict between IIS and the Web Listener.
Well folks, that is all for Part 4 of this article. For Part 5, I will go through the installation and configuration of our Consolidated OCS 2007 Edge Server
Elan Shudnow :: Jul.29.2008 :: OCS, Server 2003 ::
15 Responses to "Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Deployment – Part 4"
on 31 Jul 2008 at 8:45 pm1akatz0813
Amazing posts so far!! Can't wait for Part 5. Could you post a visio network topology diagram of how the interfaces should be setup? I am particularly interested to know whether the ISA should bridge the outside and internal or dmz and internal.
on 31 Jul 2008 at 10:21 pm2Elan Shudnow
Thanks! The way I would configure ISA in a production environment is:
2 NICs
1 NIC in NAT DMZ
1 NIC in Corporate Subnet
Corporate NIC on the top of the binding order and with DNS configured
DMZ NIC second on the bidning order with no DNS configured with default gateway
Static Routes so all internal subnetted trafic goes to an internal router that can route to all internal subnets
Have a public internet routable IP address NAT'd to your DMZ NIC
Have the ExtWebFarm.domain.com DNS point to the public IP which will get NAT'd to your DMZ NIC and will then get proxied to your internal servers through the rule you have configured.
on 14 Aug 2008 at 3:41 pm3DariusCyrus
Another great article man!
I have a question with the Web Listener part…
I followed your steps and selected "External" and then clicked on "Select IP Address"..
however, there are no IPs in the "Available IP Addresses" field…
Could you please advise?
on 14 Aug 2008 at 5:17 pm4Elan Shudnow
Probably because when you installed ISA and chose your internal IP range, you included your DMZ IP range. IPs that belong to your internal subnet range only show up as Internal and all others show up when you select External. If one NIC is in DMZ and 1 is in Internal Network, make your sure DMZ subnet isn't included in your Internal Subnet information in ISA. If you have no DMZ, then you can just choose Internal instead of External and have the static NAT with the Internet IP go to the IP that's specified as Internal on your Listener.
on 15 Aug 2008 at 9:58 am5DariusCyrus
I'm sure I included the 192.x.x.x range when installing ISA.
I'll do internal to see that. And dig in more to find out the problem. If I find out more information, I'll let you know.
on 25 Sep 2008 at 5:02 am6bharat c
It is a very nice post .. thanks for helping us out.
I went to develop OCServer with my virtual server , i have completed most of the steps described above. but i got stuck at one step that is configure SRV for server.
when i try to create a SRV record i could not find _sipinternaltls service in dropdown list. how it could it possible? i have installed DC & OCS on diffrent VPC. Is this the problem to figure out _sipinternaltls?
on 25 Sep 2008 at 7:41 am7Elan Shudnow
Thank you for your kind words. Please check out the following blog post which gives great instructions on creating the SRV record:
on 01 Apr 2009 at 11:25 am8Pablo
Very great posts!,
Thank for this material
Pablo Bertrão
on 23 Jun 2009 at 1:56 pm9Pablo
By trying to install in another server, I got a very strange sympthom that I couldn't find any answer.
I've installed succesfuly the OCS 2007 in a consolidate topology.
I have an SQL server, and AD/DNS succesfuly configured, and every services ( the 5 services of OCS) in a front-end server working well.
When I finished to install the OCS, I verifyed my active directory, right clicking in a user, and verifyed that the function "Enable user to Office Communications Server" does not exist, or not show up. And not this one, no one of the OCS functions have showed.
I'm running a WIN2K3. my backend is a SQL Server 2005 service pack 2.
I veryfied the services, restarted the AD and front end servers. Nothing make this function show up.
I verifyed on some sites that this problem may occur due to 64bit OS. But that was not my case.
Due you have some Idea why this is happening?
Thank you again,
Pablo Bertrão
on 25 Jun 2009 at 10:01 am10Elan Shudnow
Try installing the Administrative Tools provided on the CD. OCS 2007 R1 should install them as a part of the regular install process and OCS 2007 R2 needs to have the Administrative Tools manually installed.
on 01 Sep 2010 at 7:33 pm11Dan
Hi Elan,
I have Office Communicator 2007 Standard Server installed. Everything works fine but the Archiving Server is not function properly. I check on the Archive server status, it says running but nothing was being logged. The size and date on LCSlog is never changed.
Also, how can I import contacts from Outlook to Communicator client?
Thanks for your expert help!
on 12 Sep 2010 at 7:21 am12Elan Shudnow
Anything in Event Logs? It's kind of hard to answer a question like, "Archiving Server is not function properly" when there's nothing else to go off of. The only answer I can give back to a statement like that is, re-install it and follow all the steps properly.
As for importing Outlook Contacts. Communicator will show Outlook Contacts when doing a search. If those Outlook Contacts have an e-mail address, Communicator will attempt to do SIP communication with that address. If it's a valid SIP Address, Communicator can shiow presence information and you can add it to your Communicator contact list. You can actually add an Outlook contact this way without any SIP address to Communicator, but that's pretty useless as the process I just explained above won't work as it doesn't have an e-mail address/sip address associated with that so you obviously won't be able to IM this contact.
on 25 Jun 2009 at 12:01 pm13Pablo
Thank you, this solution solved the problem.
I've installed the administrative tools on my AD and worked.
Thank you again,
Pablo Bertrão
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