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Which is the Best Rift Guide?
Since you came to my site, i have a hunch that this might be your question. First of all let me just say i am a passionate Rift player (more like a maniac) and i have created this blog to help you with finding a good Rift guide that will help you with leveling, building, crafting… you name it!
OK, so there is a bunch of Rift Guides online, but not all of them are actually worth their price. Most of them are okay, some are not up to date, some are better, and then there's these two Top rift guides that i have handpicked for you. You don't need to spend your money buying up every guide there is and figuring out on your own which is the best (there's already other people who have done this for you). I have separated two guides from the crowd and on this blog i will give you my Top Rift Guide picks, complete with reviews.
There's also a whole lot of builds and leveling tips that come from me and/or the Best Rift guides.
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Rift Supremacy – The No. 1 Rift Guide
Rift Supremacy guide is the guide created by the professional gamer that beat the game in beta testing and so far in my eyes this is the Best Rift Guide at the moment. Rift Supremacy guide contains both Defiant and Guardian guides on leveling plus a bunch of the best PvP Builds. All your builds comes with Video, so you can actually watch how to build your class! And this is the only Rift Guides on the market that has this option. Rift Supremacy is Constantly updated for all the Rift patches. Another nice touch is that it includes several maps! Bonus: With this guide you will get special access to their VIP Members only forum so you can exchange builds and tips & tricks with all the other members. If you are looking for a guide that contains everything that you could possibly look for in a good Rift Guide you are on the right spot, the only downside with this guide is that is not very comprehensive when it comes to the beginners. This guides mostly for players that already play Rift.
Read our Rift Supremacy Guide Review here
What is the best Rift Guide: Conclusion
What is the best? Both are very good, but if you know what are you doing in Rift and you have some hours playing Rift behind you then Rift Supremacy guide is right for you. The only other competitor to the title would be the Xerxes guide which in some parts are more geared towards the Rift-beginner . Xerxes is not only a beginners guide but if you have already gotten used to playing Rift a bit, the Rift supremacy guide would be my recommendation. Go ahead and check it out and see if the top rift guide – like it is for many player already – is a good fit for you too.

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The conversation caroms off transnational politics, environmentalism, Obama, Herman Melville, C. L. R. James, literary theory and the dreams of Americans.
The Bush Global War on Terror and Obama's disengagement from that concept is tied to Moby Dick. The work of C. L. R. James analyzing Moby Dick is applied to the Obama phenomenon. The conversation bounces from one thing to another and back again with Obama and the American Dream at the center
This is interview is good antidote to the Obama fatigue besetting media and the minds of many progressives. Obama was a dream candidate, this interview really digs into what that means.
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text: Please do not read this if you do not want to know who wins the Bachelor 2014 Juan Pablo's season. You have been warned. Reality Steve has spoiled the ending for the Bachelor once again. Who wins Juan Pablo's heart? That would be Nikki Ferrell. She is the beautiful 26 year old blonde model from Kansas City, Missouri. She works as a pediatric nurse (which is good because Juan Pablo has a daughter). Realtiy Steve also spoiled the fact that he did not propose to her. That is the first time in a very long while that a lead has not proposed or been proposed to. They are still together as of now but that may change. Do you think he picked the right girl?


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Former city attorney to answer to hit-and-run charges ThursdayMay 01,2013By Brent Curtis
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Former Rutland City attorney Christopher Sullivan has been charged with two felony offenses in the death of Mary Jane Outslay, according to the Vermont Attorney General's Office.
Sullivan, 53, has been issued a citation to appear in Rutland criminal court Thursday to answer to felony charges of leaving the scene of a crash, death resulting and driving under the influence with death resulting. Both charges carry a maximum 15-year jail sentence.
State prosecutors declined to discuss any specifics of the case on Wednesday.
However, court records made public Wednesday that concerned a pair of Vermont State Police search warrants indicated that the drunken driving charge was based in part on statements Sullivan provided to police.
In the search warrants, sought by police for Sullivan's cell phone and the 2004 Lexus sedan he was driving the night of the crash, police say Sullivan told them that on April 10 he visited a downtown bar and consumed three glasses of wine at around 5:15 p.m.
He then traveled to a friend's house in the northwest section of the city where he told police he drank three to four beers and ate some ribs.
At about 7:50 p.m., Sullivan left to pick up his son who works at Hannaford supermarket off Route 7 in Rutland Town.
Sullivan told police that while driving on Strongs Avenue at about 8 p.m. he heard a "thud" and panicked. He told police that instead of stopping, he drove to the Hannaford parking lot where he noticed that his car's hood and windshield was damaged. Seventeen hours later, at 1 p.m. on April 11, Sullivan identified himself as the driver involved in the crash that killed the 71-year-old woman.
The former longtime city attorney also turned over his 2004 Lexus sedan to Vermont State Police and Rutland City police investigators who spent the better part of three weeks collecting and analyzing evidence in the case. While faced with two serious felony offenses, Sullivan remains free and it's unclear whether prosecutors will ask for bail at his arraignment. An assistant attorney general declined to comment about bail or any details of the case on Wednesday afternoon.MORE IN This Just InFree lecture about Full StoryMIDDLEBURY — Operators of a holistic health center are planning a grand opening from 4 p.m. Full StoryCastleton State College present a production of the drama "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad... Full Story
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Hi! I'm Catherine Jannelle and I welcome you to my online home. I'm 24, unabashedly geek and somehow I just woke up one day and found myself working in the fashion industry.
I've always been fascinated by anime, and any form of entertainment coming from Japan. I grew up watching Sailormoon, Dragonball Z and Ghost Fighters (the local version of Yu Yu Hakusho) so it didn't come as a surprise to my family when I said I wanted to be learn animation.
Because of my love of anime and manga I studied multimedia arts. It was during my highschool years that I learned about the then starting cosplay scene in the Philippines. I got hooked and I studied how to make clothes on my own - in order to make myself some costumes. This love for cosplay turned to love for costumes. I started making costumes for friends, then for clients, and after some time I decided to have a career shift and finally took a proper fashion course. I studied millinery at the same time too and so my passion for costumes turned to fashion love.
I was invited by the Asian Institute of Management Policy Center to exhibit my costume work at the State of Philippine Competetiveness 2008 held at SMX convention center on July 15, 2008.
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The Matrix: Reloaded - Movie Review
- Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Bad: This is an R-rated sci-fi thriller for adults over 17. Now I realize there are some parents who might be tempted to take their adolescent kids or young teens to see this movie because it's easier to take them with you than to get a babysitter. Or perhaps you have kids who've seen the first "Matrix" and are begging you to let them see the two sequels. Let me remind you that "Reloaded" is rated R for good reasons. Aside from the complex adult plot layered with intellectually stimulating dialogue that consists mostly of questions posed as answers, there are other things that might make this movie too "adult" for your kids: Kung Fu violence in scene after scene of fight sequences that result in several deaths, characters that shape-change into Agent Smith, mild language, several religious profanities, and a lengthy (and very steamy) bedroom situation between Neo and Trinity. At the same time that the two lovers are shown in the bedroom, the villagers of Zion are dancing and some are gyrating sexually to the same rhythmic drum beat in the cavernous enclave of the city. It's an intense scene that implies a few of the people are having sex, but it lasts for several minutes and contains partial nudity, building to a steamy crescendo. There's no graphic nudity (it's either under sheer clothing or in the case of Neo and Trinity -- only their backsides are shown in dim light).
Bottom Line: I have to admit I enjoyed this movie more than the first one. There's something to be said for the original because it was so unique and unlike anything audiences had ever seen before. But take all of those amazing special effects and choreographed stunts and amplify it with even more characters, technology, and locations and you have a sci-fi trilogy that will long be remembered as a benchmark in moviemaking history. Many will scoff at why anyone would want to see a movie like this with the above mentioned elements. But let me remind us all that mature teenagers and the twenty-something generation will flock to see this movie. It asks some interesting questions about the meaning of life, religion, and man's purpose here on earth. It explores a deeper realm that is intellectually stimulating to today's younger generation who are desperate for movies that make them think outside the box. I know of a young man who became a Christian after he saw the first "Matrix" because the questions the movie raised prompted him to search for "truth." I'm not so sure this second one will prompt that same kind of search or response, but you never know. Now, do I approve of the language and other elements contained in this movie? Of course not. Clearly it could have been a brilliant movie without all of the language and an implied sexual situation. But I recognize that a movie like this is a powerful voice in the pulpit of movie theaters across America, and teenagers who can get in will most likely want to go see it. So once again, it's up to parents to be discerning for their children -- no matter how old they are. What might make a lasting impression is if parents see this movie with their mature teenagers and afterwards discuss the deeper meaning of this movie ... if they can figure out what that is (smile).
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Some 47 percent of Americans identified themselves as Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents last year, compared to 42 percent who said they were Republicans or Republican-leaning, according to the Gallup survey.
"That re-establishes a Democratic edge in party affiliation after the two parties were essentially tied in 2010 and 2011," the polling firm said.
The findings are based on all of Gallup's polling data from 2012, which includes more than 20,000 interviews with adults across the country.
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But in a finding that could spell trouble for both parties, the number of Americans claiming political independence crept up.
Forty percent of respondents last year said they aligned with neither party, up from 39 percent in 2007 and 1995, the poll showed. Thirty-one percent said they were Democrats and 28 percent said they were Republicans.
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The poll had a margin of error of plus-or-minus 1 percentage point.
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I'm more than happy to be called "not trans", I just happen to think "cis" is just an ugly prefix in both sound and appearance.Is this seriously a real issue in your life?
I can see its relevance and use in specific activist contexts, but less so outside of that.I think that's a function of the fact that the general public isn't very aware of or invested in issues of justice for trans people. And that stinks and will hopefully change soon. As soon as the mainstream becomes conscious of trans issues, then cis- isn't going to be limited to "activist contexts," any more than "straight" is. And that will be a good thing.
When I was young, I was not. I wanted to hide my body, I wanted to hide my personality. I was not male and not a man and not a boy and not somebody I wanted people to interact with or talk to or listen to. I was not worth listening to and not worth loving. My person and my body were united: I hated my body and the position in society it granted me, and so I hated myself. I was stunted, undeveloped. Imagine the most embarrassing moment of your life: like you've done something stupid or thoughtless in front of your friends or family and you feel ashamed, panicky, almost frightened; you want to get away from everyone and just curl into a ball until this feeling goes away. Being a boy was like that, all the time, even when alone: even a glimpse in a reflective TV screen or a sideways glance at my own arm would prompt that feeling, like being trapped in a prison of hate. I was not.posted by ArmyOfKittens at 6:26 AM on January 23, 2012 [32 favorites]
Now, I am. I am a woman, a girl, a female. I am alive and I am free. I am a person worth knowing, worth loving, worth being. I love my body and the position in society it grants me, and I love myself. From I am not to I am.
More importantly, the declaration is perfectly equal in addressing both sexual orientation and gender identity without placing limitations or definitions. This isn't just about homosexuality. It's about everyone: homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, queer, genderqueer, transsexual, transgendered, cisgendered, et alia.using "non-trans" there would sure be clunky and weird there. "Normal" would be awful.
If the term bothers you because you don't believe the concept of gender aligning with sex organs, then you effectively don't believe transgenderism exists, in which case I don't think we can have this discussion.No, I am fairly sure we can all agree what the normal sorts of sex organs people are born with are, and the sorts of shapes people come in and the ways in which those shapes have cultural/biological associations to others and themelves, but I do not fully understand/accept this concept of "gender", do not understand the sort of gender a person can have, and do not think this is like, just written down in a book somewhere and beyond question in a thread about trans people undergoing surgeries and hormone therapies to align their physical appearance with their "gender"
So, MetaFilter? When should I transition?I'm about to send loq a note offering a shoulder. But to be frank, I have no experience dealing with what he's going through and am not sure I'd be the best sounding board. If any of you do and can spare him some time, it would be nice if you'd consider reaching out. Thanks.
Every time I've ever asked a close friend this question, or help with dealing with this question the most common answer is "never" or complete avoidance of the issue.
Right now I'm weeks or months into heavily withdrawing and pushing people out of my life and I sincerely wish I was dead. I wish I didn't have a life to have to deal with. I hate my own body to the point that it's making me toxic waste, and I live in a brutal world that doesn't seem to care.
I wish I was dead. I can barely read this fucking thread.
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1. There are all kinds of things I learn that I learn from offhand references from someone else. Since I have only at great intervals encountered learning something that was actually worse than not knowing, a thirty second google search will either give me a tiny nugget of information that I will stick in the vaults with all the other unrelated things or it will give me a chance to learn something fascinating that will unroll a whole new wonderful thing to learn.It is the Internet. I figure there are two default options when confronted with something I don't know. I can either find out about it, or move on. Anything else is generally results in everyone who is familiar with the issue thinking I'm lazy and ignorant. I'm not clear on why people are so keen on owning those labels by making a song and dance about not knowing things when the solution to not knowing things is so easy to solve.
If, after that thirty second google search, I am aggressively indifferent to the thing, like all the times there's someone who mentions the patriots' superior team lineup strategy or why Tim Tebow is a horrible quarterback, I don't have to engage with it any further. But then the next time someone talks about the patriots or Tebow I can use my tiny nugget of information to slot into what they are thinking and roll the discussion along without a bunch of work. So that thirty second google search means that I can address people talking about it without appearing absolutely ignorant, at least so far as being able to nod intelligently while I listen.
2. If there is really a big clash between two groups of people, it is useful to know how not to tread all over their sensibilities. As a knagfuggite, it is just civil of me to know what is happening, and because (in this example) naming me with some name might clarify a conversation. It's not mystic wizardry whereby renaming me is equivalent to pasting a photo of me on a shoe and walking on my face to kill me.
Martin and Voorhies to my knowledge were the first to refer to the North American, male-bodied "beardaches" as a third gender and to their female-bodied counterparts as a fourth gender, implying that they constitute part of cultural constructions of gender that recognize additional genders apart from man and woman (Martin and Voorhies 1975:92ff). Such "cultural expressions of multiple genders (i.e., more than two) and the opportunity for individuals to change gender roles and identities over the course of their lifetimes" (Jacobs and Cromwell 1992:63) are termed gender variance in recent anthropological literature.To me, some people seem to be saying not that they don't "believe in" gender, but more that they "don't see gender", oddly akin to people saying they "don't see race"... and thus denying, or attempting to universally homogenize difference (this is bad to me, studies show that we thrive, and all share the profits, and boosts in efficiency that come of accepting difference, rather than managing, or stifling difference).
Apart from gender constructions, the roles and statuses of individuals who are neither men nor women in Native American cultures are embedded within the worldviews that emphasize and appreciate transformation and change. Due to the scope and subject of this contribution, such religious aspects cannot be discussed in detail here but have been elaborated upon elsewhere (Lang 1994, 1997b, forthcoming). Within such worldviews, an individual who changes her or his gender once or more often in the course of her or his life is not viewed as an abnormality but rather as part of the natural order of things. As Tafoya has observed, the emphasis on transformation and change in Native American cultures also includes the idea that an individual is expected to go through many changes in a lifetime (1992:257).
People who are familiar with their culture's traditions of gender variance emphasize elements of spirituality that were crucial to the roles of women-men and men-women and still are important where such roles continue to exist. This even holds true for contemporary "two-spirited" Native Americans who for that reason may feel restricted by categories like "gay" or "lesbian." These categories are defined in terms of sexual behavior instead of personhood, spirituality, and specific, complex identities deriving from the experience of being Native American (cf. Tafoya 1992:257), as opposed to being white or any other ethnic heritage.
cissexismI usually find people using cissexism to mean, basically, the attitude that my sex, as a transsexual person, is less valid than that of a cissexual person, less real; that because I had to take pills and have surgery to achieve what other people managed on their own -- to become a reasonably normal adult woman -- I am somehow "less" than them, that I am to be allowed into their spaces on sufferance, that I am somehow motivated always by my transsexual status and my opinions, beliefs, and actions are less valid because of my history. Believe me, this sort of stuff happens commonly enough that it needed a word.
The belief that transsexual genders are less legitimate than, and mere imitations of, cissexual genders. Cissexism is most typically enacted through one or more of the following processes: trans-fascimilation (viewing or portraying transsexuals as merely imitating, emulating or impersonating cissexual female or male genders), trans-exclusion (refusing to acknowledge and respect a transsexual's identified gender, or denying them, access to spaces, organizations, or events designated for that gender), trans-objectification (when people reduce trans people to their body parts, the medical procedures they've undertaken, or get hung up on, disturbed by, or obsessed over supposed discrepancies that exist between a transsexual's physical sex and identified gender), trans-mystification (when people use the relative infrequency or taboo nature of transsexuality to mystify, artificialize or to "other" transsexuals), and trans-interrogation (when people bring a transsexual's identified gender into question by asking them to answer personal questions about their life story, their motives for transitioning, medical procedures they have undertaken, or when they obsess over what causes transsexuality - such questions reduce transsexuals to the status of objects of inquiry).
Those two terms have normalized to the point that they aren't used to foment division as much as a neologism that divides people into a false, binary identity model, and which also carries a lot of ugly political baggage that does sometimes come to the surface in discussions, such as this one. Maybe in a decade or two, "cisgender" will no longer be around, replaced with something else. Or, perhaps, it will have normalized to the point that the people who use it have learned to understand the context of its use as a means to divide and other, and they will endeavor to avoid that usage, in the same way we all have to take care about the contextual use of "gay" and "straight" as labels.Oopsie! Doesn't look like that's all you said, BP. That's no problem - people often don't really remember what they've said.
I'm not 'cisgendered', I'm not a 'homosexual', I am not the oppressor or deviant that either language other's me into: I'm a gay man, and I am happy and would prefer the dignity of being called one, where discussions of sexuality, humanity and identity come up.So, you want to be called a man, not cisgendered, which is the parallel to being called gay, not homosexual ... which I think is fine, but not mutually exclusive. If you want, you can be a transgendered man, or a cisgendered man. No problemo. Most of the time, it won't come up, though. You'll just be a man. It's so rare, in fact, that most people don't even know the term, let alone use it. The binary you think you are being forced into, which prevents you from being described a man, doesn't exist. It's odd that you think it does. If you hadn't popped in here demanding not to be called cisgendered... you would have been at little to no risk of being called cisgendered, except in the most abstract sense.
Using 'cis' is artificial in the same way that a subset of right-wingers go out of their way to call gay people 'homosexuals' on comments sections on local newspapers, for example. It is used not only to 'other' gay people and make their participation unwelcome, but it is a signifier that communicates which subset of the group has decided to own the conversation and dictate its terms to the rest of us. That's bullying, and it shouldn't be acceptable, regardless of the plight of whoever is doing the bullying.So, an example of that would be awesome.
: In other words, more is communicated by someone jumping into a thread and saying, "Hey, everybody. I'm cisgendered!" than just the functional aspect.Again, it would be interesting to see this happen in a thread on Metafilter which was not already about gender or trans issues. I mean, what you did here was jumping into a thread and saying "Hey, everybody, I'm not cisgendered!" But the thread was already about gender or trans issues, so that's not super surprising.
I don't particularly want to be labelled. In this sense, it seems odd that the 'call me what I'd like to be called/don't call me something I'd prefer not to be called' doesn't work both ways.Then you've got joeclark, in the MeFi thread, who suggests that the term is considered hate speech. So, yeah. It seems like (a) the level of offence contained in goy is highly questionable (b) it's not very useful for this reason and because the postulate - no goy would be truly offended by being called a goy does not map to no cisgendered person would be truly offended by being called cisgendered. That's a demonstrably falsifiable statement.
Another source of the discomfort and anger that Whites often experience [when first considering the concept of "White Privilege"] stems from the frustration of being seen as a group member, rather than as an individual. People of color learn early in life that they are seen by others as members of a group. For Whites, thinking of oneself only as an individual is a legacy of White privilege. . . .[so] they are sometimes troubled, even angered, to learn that simply because of their group status they are viewed with suspicion by many people of color. 'I'm an individual, view me as an individual!'It's possible this kind of thing might be one contributing factor to the resistance some people feel about having others encompass them in a "cis" designation. Again, I say this thinking about the general tenor of past and present conversations online and IRL. Not about anybody here. Especially considering that I'm sure some objectors here are plenty familiar with being treated as a group member first and an individual later.
"It's a tiny bit of welcoming and acceptance to people who are shut out in ways that make me hurt to think about by making an equivalent description of who people who are not transgendered are that relates to who people who are transgendered are."I would like to express my sincere respect for DU up here, who didn't like the look or sound of the word, but realised it was about much more than himself, and gave a little way, in recognition that others' needs are sometimes bigger than his own. No talk of guilt, or shame, or provocation, or privilege. Just, caring about other people:
Trans- people can use whatever word they want to refer to non-trans people. They have enough trouble already without having to defend word prefixes.That's all it took.
I found 39,100,000 or so results on Google for "gendertypical".If I put the word in quotes (to force exact matches), the number drops to "About 318 results."
It should be qualified somewhat: this was the biggest revelation of 2011 to a cisnormative audience and to cis people individually. For trans people who have (with gruelling patience) watched all of this cis fascination over trans children suddenly entering the cisnormative consciousness, one superlative of all superlatives emerged: this was the biggest non-story of our trans lives.This isn't othering? If someone was saying "I was talking to my cis friend the other day and ..." no, that has nothing to do with me and I wouldn't have an objection. Talking about cis culture an what "it" is doing to you is far different
As trans people, we've been shrewdly aware of this knowledge for generations. ...
For trans people, perhaps the only noteworthy step forward about 2011 was knowing that cis people — who have collectively upheld this cisnormative social order in which we all find ourselves — have begun to recognize our life-long realities as plausible, if not entirely probable. It's a small concession by cis people — not some great leap forward.
Regarding her late-in-life sexual orientation switch, the "Sex and the City" star said:Huh. It's almost as if people generally don't like it when others define who they are based on concepts they don't agree with
I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line 'I've been straight and I've been gay, and gay is better.' And they tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice. And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people it's not, but for me it's a choice, and you don't get to define my gayness for me.
Writer Alex Witchel reports that "her face was red and her arms were waving" as she continued, "It seems we're just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don't think that they should define the terms of the debate," Nixon said. "I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn't realize I was gay, which I find really offensive."
Many of us reject racial whiteness as a personal identifier when we are ready to say that we disagree with the divisions that race perpetuates, the false categorizations that do not offer exact, accurate self-reflection. We do this believing that we are striking back against prejudice and racism. Through this argument, we hope to demonstrate that we will not be fooled into continuing a fundamentally flawed system of naming.-Shelly Tochluk, Witnessing Whiteness
Deciding that we are not white allows us to . . . move on with our lives, imagining that issues of race are taken care of as far as it relates to us. Sure, there are plenty of people who identify with race and prejudiced viewpoints -- but we are no longer part of the "race problem" because we are not part of the race. Those of us taking on this approach generally are philosophically opposed to prejudice, so we do not see ourselves doing anything that would cause distress in anyone from another group.
Unfortunately, there is also a subtle implication in this approach that often goes unnoticed by white people, but it is hardly lost on a good number of people of color. The implication is this: If we reject being called white, we also reject the idea that we are connected to a broader, white culture.
. . . If we are not white, then there is absolutely no reason why we should concern ourselves with what people of color have been saying for generations about the features of white culture. If we are not white, then we have nothing to gain by investigating how our country's history of racism shapes us. If we are not white, then conversations about our unwitting participation in perceived racism in our classrooms, on our school campuses, or in communities of color are irrelevant. All of these statements become possible when we take our whiteness off the table.
. . . The problem is that whiteness is related to a lot more than fair skin and we cannot deconstruct its effects by simply walking away from race.
. . . Although we hope that the distance [from the "white" label] excuses us from being a part of the problem of race, our denials do not stop us from being treated as white. Philosophically rejecting whiteness does not stop us from escaping racial profiling. We will never have to deal with the frustration of being passed over by cab drivers due to our race. We will never be mistaken for gardeners when working in our front yards. . . .
Worse, in our lack of investigation, we cannot recognize that benefits come with our whiteness. We remain blind to the myriad ways that our whiteness opens doors for us. . . .
I think everyone who reacted simplistically, with a half-cocked idea of trying to control other people, by method of subjective 'aesthetics'Wow... OK, just to be 100% clear, I never said (or "asserted," or "demanded") that we not use the word "cisgender," or that it was somehow wrong or bad. I'm not trying to "control" anyone, I don't think the superficial associations I described "trump" anything, and I'm certainly not fearful of the word being applied to me because it sounds like "sissy." I never said anything like that, and yeah, it *is* pretty offensive to have my narrowly-focused and heavily-qualified linguistic spitballing described as "ignorant, sexist, anti-Woman."
that some ignorant, sexist, anti-Woman (and harmful to adjustment of Men), hyper-limited definition of masculinity based "sound association" (sissy=girl=icky-weak) should trump accuracy of terminology is something that would be just laughed out in any other topic.
I'd laugh, if so many people didn't express that fear of using a word to self-identify, because it might sound like sissy.
I was never more aware of how many people are actually super linguistic-experts and Aestheticians; until someone upsets the privilege of blissful ignorance of their status in a dominant linguistic hegemony.
Suddenly people seem to assert that their subjective, linguistically inaccurate, first blush "impressions" should trump... everything else.
Sexual differentiation is the process of development of the differences between males and females from an undifferentiated zygote (fertilized egg). As male and female individuals develop from zygotes into fetuses, into infants, children, adolescents, and eventually into adults, sex and gender differences at many levels develop: genes, chromosomes, gonads, hormones, anatomy, and psyche.What I often say is that while there may be an idealized way in which this all plays out into "complete" sexual differentiation, what happens in practice is that these disparate and complex processes don't really reach that supposed ideal in a complete way and so, as the article points out, while some aspects are dichotomous, others are simply statistical.
Sex differences range from nearly absolute to simply statistical. Sex-dichotomous differences are developments which are wholly characteristic of one sex only. Examples of sex-dichotomous differences include aspects of the sex-specific genital organs such as ovaries, a uterus or a phallic urethra. In contrast, sex-dimorphic differences are matters of degree (e.g., size of phallus). Some of these (e.g., stature, behaviors) are mainly statistical, with much overlap between male and female populations.
Nevertheless, even the sex-dichotomous differences are not absolute in the human population, and there are individuals who are exceptions (e.g., males with a uterus, or females with an XY karyotype), or who exhibit biological and/or behavioral characteristics of both sexes.
Sex differences may be induced by specific genes, by hormones, by anatomy, or by social learning. Some of the differences are entirely physical (e.g., presence of a uterus) and some differences are just as obviously purely a matter of social learning and custom (e.g., relative hair length). Many differences, though, such as gender identity, appear to be influenced by both biological and social factors ("nature" and "nurture").
The early stages of human differentiation appear to be quite similar to the same biological processes in other mammals and the interaction of genes, hormones and body structures is fairly well understood. In the first weeks of life, a fetus has no anatomic or hormonal sex, and only a karyotype distinguishes male from female. Specific genes induce gonadal differences, which produce hormonal differences, which cause anatomic differences, leading to psychological and behavioral differences, some of which are innate and some induced by the social environment.
The various ways that genes, hormones, and upbringing affect different human behaviors and mental traits are difficult to test experimentally and charged with political conflict.
I don't feel old. Society expects 70 year old to sit in front of a TV and watch Matlock. I want to be 30 so I can go to med school and get married. I'm trans-mature, so I'm getting age reassignment surgery so my physical age will match my internal maturity.All fine up until now. Maturity is a concept I can understand and accept at least colloquially. People can define themselves however they want
And since you're 70 and haven't had and don't want age reassignment surgery, you're cis-mature. What this means is, your external physical age and internal mental maturity are in alignment.But maybe I feel this hazy concept of maturity just doesn't have much relevance to my life, and since it's a label describing my own internal mental state, it seems like I ought to get to decide whether it's applied to me. But instead everyone who hasn't had/doesn't want reassignment is classified as having an aligned maturity and age
However, we can identify some key elements of prescriptivist metabolism, in terms of five different motivations that may be given for strictures about usage:It's okay that you don't like how cis- sounds to you in cisgendered. As I and others have written, most of us have word aversions. It's not okay that you are attempting to universalize your particular aversion with various arguments about how the word itself, because of that prefix, is inherently, objectively unpleasant.
1. Tradition -- how our forebears talked. Innovation is degeneration.
2. Fashion -- how an admired group talks. Deviation is alienation.
3. Rationality -- how one ought ideally to talk. Inconsistency is illogical.
4. Standards -- how we should agree to talk. Variation confuses communication.
5. Revelation -- how God taught us to talk. Alteration is transgression.
Particular cases are usually a mixture of these. Such [...] processes may cooperate or conflict depending on details -- thus an appeal to fashion may point in the same direction as an appeal to tradition, or in the opposite direction, depending on whether the prescriptivist admires the old ways or prefers the latest thing.
I wrote the song to think about things in a way I never had before. I had never met a transgendered person, or really even thought about them, until my friend told me how she felt. I started to realize that lots of other people could be living with these horrible feeling inside of them – that they are not the right way on the outside, the way they feel they should be. So I thought about them. I say sometimes that I wrote the song as a tribute to her. She did inspire the song, but I did write the song for myself, to deal with the news and explore the subject matter and wonder what it's like for those who live with the secret and for those who are brave enough to make the change.Despite those few misgivings, I very much love the song and find it extremely haunting, actually. She has a real talent for evoking want and sadness with a light melodic touch that superficially seems ironic, but ultimately reinforces the melancholy.


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SmallHer heart is much too large and feeling to be trapped in such small, metal ribs. It has blood, emotions, delicacy, but it is too constricted by the mechanical processes she is conditioned to perform. The robot girl is governed by rules so concrete that her heart swells against its cage.The first rule is to be beautiful. She's been taught that boys don't want to hear the sounds her lips shape; they only want the feel of those lips on their skin (but they'd only want the hands and the mouth if she were beautiful). She's been told that her emotions are frightening, but her ass and her thighs make up for it.In her experience being called "whore" is more time-efficient than being called "girlfriend."The second rule: keep love to herself. Through experience she's discovered that affection hurts; ends in betrayal. She cries too much as it is, so the more she lets the pain liquify, trickle down brown skin, the more dislike she'll gain, the more fright she'll instill in the man holding her.
HopelessI cling to his hand (sometimes with a few fingers, sometimes with both hands) as we browse vegetables and fish in the supermarket, for I am hopelessly attached to his gentle touch. People have always said that my fingers are long and my hands are big for a girl (proving their point by aligning their palms and digits with mine. I usually feel like a giant when this happens). But in his hands they are small, feminine, soft, my thumbs dwarfed, slender.And I am hopelessly out of control when we cook dinner together, when he looks deep into my eyes as he touches me, kisses me, and oh, God, when he listens, laughs (God, to hear his laugh). In these brief moments I can forget the truth, the way of life I have adopted years ago.Because, on other occasions I grip my pillow hard, attempt to silence the sobs, shiver in the cold of the dorm room (in the dormitory of a college not meant for me, never meant for me). I feel like I am nothing wanting to be nothing (a word permanent in the tremors of
ChildrenChildren covet their wounds. Band-aids, they implore as they cradle scabs and bruises, tears engorged like dew at the corners of their eyes. They ask you for the remedy, for the kisses to make it feel better. They don't know how to fix it themselves.So, like a child I think of how the fucker drowned me in alcohol for a night that, once excitement and a girl with a lovely name, will fade as the night he took it from a girl who never even kissed anyone before him (too easy, he would say). The chokehold of the taste of Bacardi lips, the two days of bleeding afterwards beckons childlike whimpers and tearful sobs late into lonely nights (and I just don't know how to fix it).Like an injured child I cry and cry and cry.I'm sure he joked with his friend the next morning, told him that it was my first everything, that I didn't shave down there and that I tried whispering his name to get him off quicker (James, James). Like a little boy and his first trophy, he probably b
Taboo"You ready?" he asks, rubbing her wrist with his thumb, the drone of the needle loud in her ears.She nods, clenches her fist, unsure what to expect because of so many different stories and her low pain tolerance, but this tattoo means a lot to her so she could suck it up. Fixated on his steady hand, his careless attitude (probably deals with way too many first-timers on a daily basis), she watches with parted lips as the silver pinches her limb, black ink gushes upon young, brown skin."It's not that bad," she laughs.He makes quick, efficient work of this delicate, skinny part of her body, keeps his mind on his iPod on shuffle. She takes it well, relaxes her wrist, her fingers, watches in fascination the perpetual testament forming on her skin. Lady Gaga is in her ears and she hasn't had sex in so long (just a few days, really) and he's the type of tatted up man she's always wanted to experience.It's over quickly and he hardly looks higher than her neck. "Check it out."In the mirro
RepeatShe can't help but think how much prettier the girl before her was and how she ends up saying stupid things that don't make him laugh, and how she, again, finds herself more vulnerable than him.This seems to be a repeat.She's young, inexperienced, and he's been with many more women than she's been with boys. She must seem obnoxiously innocent, annoying, even. She's someone so unbelievably into him that he can have a little fun with her if he wanted to.Already, he could really fuck her up (this seems to be a repeat).She ought to be honest, ought speak her mind (as she tells everyone else to do) but it really is much harder to do than say. Goddamn. This is the point where she begins to avoid eye contact, pick out all her flaws and covet them in her arms and turn her back to him before she throws herself all in (though the infatuation was what she wanted, wasn't it?).It's hard for her to take his words as the truth, continually asks how good she is and distorts her image into one of
CosmicI fell hard for him when we talked about the universe and I realized how amazing it was to find myself tucked under the crook of his neck. Because here I am, spending all this time at his house while college classes churn their way along without me, friends live their lives without me, and for all I know what we have is the galaxy.Matter stops spinning. We're on this little spot of a planet in his bed underneath light made by stars that have died thousands of years before us in horrible, catastrophic ways. Yet the only things that exist are him and his offer to me to keep shoes at his place (an offer that may lead to new shampoo bottles by the shower and panties and spring dresses in once empty drawers).On Jupiter's moon Io, sulfur dioxide freezes and volcanoes erupt as gravity abuses Io's mass and geological destruction creates unimaginable beauty. There are nebulas larger than our solar system, formations in the sky that render us breathless--But, did you know? His eyes are bright
Casual SexHe is not the type she would date. The only reason she enjoys him is because he always shows up when she hates herself a little less and can tolerate company. He is too nice, cares for her too much and is not creative enough."Friday was kind of a big deal for me."She has caught him in hands that can never hold him. She does not have feelings for him, she can only tolerate him because he touches her body as if she is perfect. But she is going to tell him that her feelings are real, it's just that she has too many other priorities right now, too many things to figure out on her own.Thanks for being there for me, though.Friday night is his first time. She hates sex but lets it happen when she is sick of herself, and Friday night she cannot take it anymore. He keeps touching her, she wants to please him, it is a lonely night (she gets herself in a lot of trouble with this thought process)."I've just had a lot of times when it was close..."Honestly, she just likes the way he ge
VainMost would consider her vain."Tell me I'm beautiful."She wants to get lost in his eyes and his bed and his limbs. She wants to create obsession, prevent progression and stay between his heart and priorities all night.She wants to be a bad influence with her hips and her hair and her breath on his neck. She wants all of him in all of her and all around her because he's heaven."Please."Apathy creates lust and abandonment produces love and they'll stay burning under the sheets all day and forget phone bills and day jobs. He'll bite at curves and crevices of mint and vanilla and melodies will cascade from her mouth. She'll treat him with just the bit of manners he hates, bring him to the precipice of pleasure and blindness, then clasp her lips tight to make him hers forever.Throat filled with ecstasy, trust on her tongue she'll kiss him and beg him and scatter nail marks on his back."Tell me I'm beautiful." She'll breathe.He'll obey because both of them are brainwashed by sw
WakeEyes meet, hands no longer touch. Smile meets grimace and the hope for compassion and understanding meets cynicism and a broken heart.She's ruptured him, but there's no turning back.It's been weeks since she's ever directly said something to him. It's been a few days since she didn't call him for Valentine's Day and it's been years (it seems) since she's let him touch her. And still she wonders why he brushes her away, doesn't make eye contact, doesn't create conversation.She has ruined him.So long ago they were something, so short of a time ago they were just about to start and they were going to last. Yet without any sort of explanation she flies away; leaves him in the winter cold for a new spark, for a flame that is stronger than anything she has with him.She wishes she could apologize, but that's just how things happen. She did not mean to fall in love, did not mean to forget him so easily, did not mean to take his body and his trust and his time in an embrace that she knew w
DarknessI have no oneIn my darkest hourAs I silently cryThere are no wordsI could ever want to speakNo person that would everWant to listenI may be there when my fellow"Friend" is in needBut any time I'm in painNot a single person is in sightIf i tried to see through the Blurred haze of my visionI would find nothing butThe bitter darkness.
Enemy InsideIt's deep inside of meHaunting my every moveTaunting me, wanting meCraving for the life that wasIts claws rake down my sidesBut no blood can be foundScars etched into my skin forming sadistic patternsLeading me to my damnationIt holds my hands in its ownAnd takes all control of motionsEnrapturing my deepest desiresBringing them to lifeTears come forth from the bleeding skyLost in the grief of my actionsDevastated by the sound of desperate pleasAnd the consequences soon to comeRain falls on my battered skinBringing me back to my shattered worldMy desperate acts of foolishness come to the lightStriving for acceptation among perfectionI would lose myself sometimesLost within the walls of my fortress of protectionFormed with pillars of salt and sandUntil it came back for meIt came crashing in the waves of the seaIt came striking through bolts of lightningIt came echoing in my head like thunderIt came tearing my weak walls downLeaving me dying on the floor ---- h
ForeverI thought I'd wait forever for youBut it turns out I can'tI would've let you have my heartIf you'd only given me that chanceI thought I'd wait forever for youBut it would seem that I was wrongI was lonely while I lingered by your sideAnd I'd been there for so longI thought I'd wait forever for youBut then another found meTook my hand and brought me to lifeHe made me everything I should be.I thought I'd wait forever for youNo matter how far you ranBut even though I'm with someone elseDeep down I know I still am.
you may not want to hear this.the most beautifulthings in life are found in thesmall imperfections.
tongue slipstell me what it's liketo know that your life is insomeone else's hands
God's Willyou know how in embroidered cloth, from the bottom under the design, all you see are knots? her honey-like, crying voice lulls me to sleep, that's what we see of God's plan. just the knots. when in reality, it's the design on top; beautiful and flawless that he has in store for us...bullshit.i learnt that word when i was three years old.but every time i said it, my face hurt and mom's hand fell. "god will put you in hell. do you want that?"i knew better than to say it again.it pains me only to know that the sky i once soared through now mocks me with red stains of war. but pain probably isn't the right word.for that would require for me to feel.you're an estimated fallacy.the perfect misconception, because you don't need to exist for people to believe in you. they make you real with dancing tongues behind a crowd of murmuring lips of god's will.i never wanted to be who you made me.contrary to popular belief, you don't make me who i am. but if it really is writte
Late Night Lament One recent night I decided to walk, read and watch three movies.Why not? I couldn't write and had the popcorn and hours to myself.Spent most of the time on a Will-Smith-movie-night. Watched"Enemy-of-the-State" when my daughter called, blithelyinterrupting though she hates that if I do, only to say,"Hey, Mom! You get to see Will Smith naked now! Woohoo!" Dear child, I watched it for Hackman though I have nothingagainst Will Smith. It was Will-Smith-movie-night,but I like Gene Hackman too, maybe more if I kept score.About this flick she was wrong, Will just stripped to his underwear,not disappointing, Hackman's great, though younger stars tend to 'share.'Then I watched "I, Robot" and you know? I've seen all these films before.But daughter's right about this one, Will's nude in the shower,fair sci-fi stuff, a good line first by Asimov, with lots of'bot action and more-than-enough of the fine-buff-stuff.Then a walk in the dark for me, sli
Poem for a MotherWhen I was fourI'd follow you into the bathroomon sticky feet,press my little bird handsinto the back pockets of your jeanswhile you were washing dishesat the sink,babbling on: Mommy, Mommy,I love you.Then there was the youthwho played Simon Saysto your aerobic routine.I took jumps to your steps,laughing as I tripped,I wanted to gowhere you wentI practiced to bewho you were.The world split sidewaysand I stumbled outa teen traumatizedby the gory birth.I'd've sworn you did it to me:the red plague of my face,the heartache,the inexplicable serrating rage,I beat at you as an extensionof self.These years are quieterand the miles between us achefor your back pockets again,to be in my adolescent womb,that dumpy-brown carpeted housewith the over eager rose bushes,all those rooms where I'd screamMommy! I love you!
Promises for a FoolDeath lied to her.It told her walking barefoot through the forest would be as safe as a fairy tale. It said her skeleton was strong as steel, that windstorms would not break her bones. Death made her reckless; death made her a daring, rule-breaking dreamer who lived in a house of cards.Winter deceived her.Winter told her it meant no harm, told her all she needed was a jacket made of thistles to protect her from its sharp bitter claws. Winter turned her skin pale, her lips blue. Winter nearly killed her, it weakened her. Winter played a dangerous game, but it never lost, Winter was cunning, Winter was a cheater in a game with no rules.Time would be the end of her.Time made her run, quick as eyes blink, with steps that crushed the autumn leaves that had already fallen victim to time's deceitful tricks. TimeDeath's best friendturned her from a daredevil to a weakened child who hid from her fears instead of facing them, made her hide from danger, made her run while looking
CageI ask him if he would put his hands around my throat. As a beginner model I'm a little apprehensive taking my clothes off for a stranger, after all.As an experienced photographer he wants more. "Do you mind if I spank you first?" he laughs. "I got an idea where your torso is in a dog crate, bone in your mouth, ass in the air. Very objectified."I tell him that it's humorous that it would take less trust and comfort for him to smack my ass than touch my neck."I thought maybe it'd be good to get used to putting hands on you in another way first."He refuses to acknowledge that it's going to be his hands and I find myself grinning. Innocence:"I totally agree. Hands on delicate places like the throat..."I taper off.He explains the process as if it is another day at work. "I'll try to smack you until you're sore and teary, but I won't fuck you up. Makes sense?"I find him intriguing in the beginning. He wants to objectify me first, keeps me distant, keeps me at a safe level so he doesn
Poetic PsychosisIn thirty seconds, the next shell would fall. Every night was the same, but every night Lorenzo experienced it as if it were the first time. His throat felt swollen; breathing was hard. He glanced around at the others; young men like him who had been shipped out in the name of honour and freedom. There was no honour in this, no freedom. Only death behind your eyelids, and a fear so gutting, that it carved out your innards and left you a hollow husk. Lorenzo tried to breathe, tried to assure himself that he was still whole, still made of flesh. They had lied when they told him he was ready.Matteo ran towards him, arms out, rifle swinging uselessly at his side. He shouted for him to run, but Lorenzo remained motionless, unable to move as his friend's warning was lost in the constant blare of gunfire. None of them were ready."The cycle is repeating. It is not safe." The voice was soft and weak, yet it carried over the gunfire and battle cries without impediment.Lorenz
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Eva. Dumb as she looks. Always has that brain dead, deer in the headlights look on her face. If these women want a real war on women, try looking on the other side of the world with the religion of peace. Yeah, the people we are always trying to appease. Never hear much about that, do we?


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Sifted through some old sketchbooks today and found this little anxiety doodle.
Yep, that looks about right.
Postcard From A Tumbleweed
The past few days I spent swept up in a whirlwind rendezvous with Chicago. Will it always be my favorite city? I found myself silently asking the streets and the lake and the endless reel of impassive faces, rolling the question around in my head like a marble. Time lived elsewhere has pulled it off the pedestal I built for it years ago. No single place can offer everything, an admission I'd never been able to make until this weekend, or more precisely, the moment I stood in a tangle of sidewalk construction, feeling crushed by passing bodies and the scream of the train, and found myself missing somewhere else, another more demure city. Nashville, of all places. The same Nashville I loathed and stewed in regret over during my first months freshly arrived. The same Nashville I meanly pegged as too small and too scattered, nothing close to Chicago's infinite sprawl, its chaos that I sometimes feel like a phantom limb, an absence aching between my shoulders. And still, I stood in the thick of my favorite city and felt homesick for its opposite. It's unnerving when your heart turns on you without the decency of some notice. No warning, just the shock of love and hate trading sides for mere seconds, a minute or more, the flicker of a coin flipped and slapped flat too quickly to see the motion itself. So quickly that heads and tails seem no longer separate but interchangeable, the same.
Of course, this micro-epiphany lasted less than a breath before I was back, unfazed and thrilled to be bowled over by the barrage of city life. A seasoned urbanite knows no sensory overload. It wasn't until now, writing this, that I've begun to recognize the meaning in that jolt. I will always love Chicago without fail because I found myself there for the first time. Self-discovery leaves its scars and the magnitude of that shift - that first clumsy grapple with accepting myself, the whole wonderful mess - begs a certain loyalty to the circumstances that cultivated it. The place, the people, the experiences. For years and at this very moment, I've felt indebted to Chicago. Leaving was necessary but the odd guilt that came with that decision shriveled my roots, so that I've simply existed, uneasy and ungrowing, in every other place, a visitor clinging limply to the surface. That is, until now. I never expected Nashville to lure affection out of me. I never expected it to teach me so much, to be so generous, to foster a new shift entirely. When anyone asks how the transition here has been, I unconsciously reach for the same word every time: serendipitous, because no other definition comes close. A string of pleasant surprises, a sudden, slow-rising warmth. To call it home feels less like a lie and more like a possibility. Home, a good home, for the time being.
What I learned in Chicago last week is an obvious idea: you don't belong to any one thing. You can't, however vehemently you try to anchor your identity to a someone or somewhere or some time. I knew this before but vaguely, the ghost of an understanding. Why it took spitting out these words to resurrect the truth of it, to give it clarity and weight to throw around, is another question. Adulthood so far seems built on the concept of mental thrift shopping. Your adult brain scours the bedlam of its own decades-wide flea market for gems, bits of wisdom gleaned too young and left to gather dust. Over time, we find one and then another and wipe them clean for appraisal, by life, by our own maturing intuition. We are always surprised by their worth.
What I've learned in the process of writing this are a handful of obvious ideas: In most situations, most of the time, you have the answers to your own questions. Belonging, identity is forever subjective and subject to change and that is okay. I love where I've been as much as where I am and, come what may, I won't shy away from making anywhere a home, one of many homes, every one important. I'm letting my roots grow.
by Alexander Chee
I don't even know what to tell you
about the fog
or anything else for that matter
what did you think was coming
what did you think mattered what did you think
there was something we were all going to do right
something we made in pieces in the dark
we kept it secret we said it would be better that way
we didn't even look
we forgot the way that was better
we forgot all the other ways too even all the shitty ones
but the pieces are there
what would it take for you to really give up on someone
I wrote this in my journal about 7 years ago
I give up on the journal more than I give up on other people
every few months I write an entry and I say ok every
day now an entry and
the journal is all like this guy again really
really the journal is always there for me though it is like me
but I suppose as these other people experience me
this one or that one I won't give up on and who doesn't know
how I wait the journal is not a record then but a mirror
a trap a friend a place it all goes if I can only get there
and maybe that is what this person thinks of me but
that would mean I am the mirror too
that of course would be awful
why even keep the journal you ask why does it matter
it matters because it is where you figure yourself out
why abandon the journal
because you can't figure yourself out or you can't
bear to figure yourself out or you can't bear
to watch yourself figure yourself out
you are like the beat cop watching the robber
who always comes to that one house and he never quite gets in
the cop can't bear to arrest him it all just seems too stupid
look he fell down again he'll never rob that house
and of course you are also the robber and you are the house
why can't you bear to figure yourself out
well that is really a good question
it would mean you are the pieces in the dark
you are the whole thing taken apart
and hidden so as to be safe and secret
you are the secret and the ways lost to the makers
and to figure yourself out would mean all the lights would come on
and you would know the thing you didn't want to know
and the secret would be in danger again and all that could be made
could be made would be made
you are a message to yourself can you write this down sure
you are a message you left to yourself at some other time you will
remember if you could sit here long enough
you are a code and the thing hidden in the code and the code breaker
breaker breaker break break codebreaker break codebreaker break
break codebreaker break
just like that like some machine just like that
what is the secret is it is a loyalty to others
that never breaks machine of loyalty
no one believes in it they test it all the time all fools
what would it take for you to really give up on someone well
the someone would have to be you
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In his 2010 NFL debut, Panthers quarterback Brian St. Pierre tossed an 88-yard touchdown pass to bring his team within a touchdown of tying Baltimore.
Then, the Ravens collected two of his passes, returned them for touchdowns, and gave the Panthers the worst record in the NFL. With Sunday's 37-13 loss, the Panthers fall to 1-9, while Buffalo's 49-31 win over Cincinnati improved the Bills to 2-8.
Appalachian State ends the regular season with its toughest match in recent history. The Mountaineers travel to Gainesville, Fla., this week for a regular-season finale against the Florida Gators.
The Gators (6-4) need to beat the Mountaineers (9-1) to avoid their fourth-straight home loss. Florida has lost four of its last six games.
"Make no mistake about it, the team we're playing isn't some clown show," Florida coach Urban Meyer said. "This is a real one."
The tallest starter for the Newton-Conover Red Devils girls basketball team grew into a new role for the upcoming season. Kadesha Gibbs, a 5-foot-11 forward, has shifted from playing like a small forward to more of a power position — occupied last season by graduated senior Renee Lewis.
"I know I have some tough shoes to fill," Gibbs said. "I just have to work hard and give everything I got."
Hickory soccer coach Brian Jillings had a message to his team Wednesday night before taking the field at home against Charlotte Catholic in the 3-A West region final. He wanted his team to make it memorable.
"Now we have to do it all over again," he said.
The Red Tornadoes scored two goals in the first half and hung on the rest of the match to defeat Charlotte Catholic 2-1. Hickory plays at 1 p.m. Saturday at N.C. State against the winner of the 3-A East final between Jacksonville and Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons.
The Fred T. Foard Tigers wrestling team made a quick turn around in the past three seasons. The Tigers went from a struggling team before coach Mike Carey got there in 2008 to sharing the 2009-10 Northwestern 3-A/4-A conference title with St. Stephens and Alexander Central in his second season as coach.
"I think we have a really good chance to be one of the state contenders," senior Caleb McRorie said. "We started from nothing, and now we are one of the top teams in the state. Hopefully, we can keep going up."
The Catawba Valley Buccaneers attempted a furious comeback, but they fell short. The Buccaneers hit several 3-pointers in the closing minutes of their game Monday at home against Spartanburg Methodist College and pulled close.
Spartanburg Methodist made 1 of 2 free throws, and the Pioneers defeated the Buccaneers 59-55 at CVCC's Multi-Purpose Complex.
Spartanburg Methodist was 16-of-18 shooting Monday night from the free-throw line, and CVCC made only 3 of 11 attempts.
Bennie Mozingo led Spartanburg Methodist with a game-high 14 points. D.J. Brown scored 10.
The first round of the state 2-AA West playoffs did not go as planned for Bunker Hill. The Bears rolled into Shelby on Friday night a lot of momentum, but they sputtered offensively losing 38-6.
Bunker Hill was limited to 200 yards of total offense and was pinned on its half of field most of the night.
"They came in and played very hard, very physical," said Shelby head coach Chris Norman. "They gave us a challenge. That three-headed monster gave us a scare all week, but our defensive unit played well, and we won the line-of-scrimmage battle against them."
The Owen Warhorses rode their workhorse to a first-round win over the Newton-Conover Red Devils, and he is a big one.
Running back Austin Davis, a 6-foot-3, 185-pound senior, had a game-high 197 yards rushing and three offensive touchdowns for Owen in a 28-25 win at Gurley Stadium.
Davis scored 26 points Friday — four touchdowns and a 2-point conversion — and called his performance a "career night." Owen coach Ken Ford said Davis has made "big plays" the entire season.
Home-field advantage is a luxury, and there is no place like home for Newton-Conover. Heading into this week's playoff game, the Red Devils have won six straight home playoff games and their last 24 games at Gurley Stadium.
"Home-field advantage helps you out — even in the regular season," Red Devils head coach Nick Bazzle said. "Hopefully, we can get some of the fans in the area who don't want drive a long way to come to our game, sit on our side and help us out even more."
The Fred T. Foard Tigers' 2010 season ended Wednesday in the third round of the 3-A West playoffs. Gastonia Ashbrook tied Foard 1-1 in overtime, but it beat the Tigers 4-3 in penalty kicks to advance to the region semifinal.
Ashbrook plays at 7 p.m. Saturday at Hickory. The Red Tornadoes beat Asheville 1-0 on Wednesday to advance.
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i had a similar idea...
each orb could increase your shadow spell power a bit, and increase your shadow resistance a bit. But you can use them as a "shadow power dump".
1 orb + spell = crit (a guaranteed crit, as the ones below would be, too)
2 orbs + spell = crit +25% more bonus damage
3 orbs + spell = crit + 50% more damage
I don't think that would be too outlandish, since DKs already have much extra damage to their crits as baseline, and that's all their crits, if i'm not mistaken.
You can also choose: Do i want a damage spike now, or better damage overall?
If it's OP, then one could either adjust the damage bonus, or adjust the rate the orbs pop up (or or both...)


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The 3rd episode of Hyperboy. This one dwelves deeper into the plot of the series. You might wanna read the comic to get the cartoon.
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Another funny episode of Hyperboy you really work on the comedy script I can tell made me laugh a few times and the plot was really well laid out and held quite some suspense for the viewer the script needs some work but nice voice acting.
The animation as I've said before was pretty trippy and a little to sketchy for viewers. The audio was a little muffled during most parts and hard to hear it.
Lots of action and such great episode very thrilling and holds lots of suspense!
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Surrounded by family at his home in Berthoud, Colorado, Quentin Lee Glass was welcomed into the arms of the Lord, January 15, 2011. Quentin was born May 18, 1931 in Worland, Wyoming, to Simeon E. Glass and Ruth Stroud Glass. He graduated from Worland High School in 1949. He then attended one year of college at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas. In 1951, he received an appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy and graduated in 1955 as an Ensign with a degree in Mechanical ... Full Story
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Grondski played a big part in giving Rutgers its first two wins of the season. On Tuesday, Sept. 10, Rutgers earned its first victory of the season, 2-1, in overtime at Fairfield. Grondski scored the only regulation goal for Rutgers against the Stags, converting a penalty corner shot from junior Megan Cech (Moorestown, NJ), with less than 12 minutes remaining. After carrying a 1-1 tie through two scoreless overtime periods, Grondski fired the winning penalty stroke in the third series to give the Scarlet Knights their first win of 2002.
On Friday, Sept. 13, the Knights kicked off the BIG EAST/ Big Ten Challenge with a 2-1 overtime win against Indiana. With another 1-1 tie at the end of regulation, Grondski scored on a penalty stroke 1:36 into the first overtime period to end the match and give RU its second win.
Grondski, a 2002 preseason all-BIG EAST selection, leads the team with four points this season. She has six career goals and four assists (16 points). Her conference honor is the first weekly award for the Scarlet Knights this season.
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