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Date Joined Oct 2006
Total Posts : 20
Posted 11/10/2006 9:17 AM (GMT -6)
I turned 30 this past year, getting ready to turn 31 in January, & have found myself recently contemplating what my purpose in life is or how I am contributing to life (for all).
A little background on me...I tried the "college" thing (twice), after graduating high school but it did not work out. Instead, I began working administrative/clerical type positions with a number of different companies (Depression, Bi-Polar & relocating due to my husband's career caused the high number of jobs). All in all, it was good work for me & with the computer/organizational skills I possessed was a good fit.
At any rate, after this most recent re
location, my husband & I decided to put me going back to work "on hold". Also, we are trying to start a family (w/infertility issues). So, without a real job/career or college diploma, it is sometimes very hard to figure out what my purpose is...Is it just to be a great wife, Mom (hopefully soon), daugter, friend, etc...?! If so, I am totally happy & fine with that. I just need something to work for & have goals for.
Does anyone else wonder these things about
themselves/your lives?!
P.S. I know, I know this will be great fodder for therapy.
DX: Clinical Depression-12/95 & Bi-Polar Disorder-10/03
RX: Wellbutrin XL-150 mg. & Abilify-5 mg.-11/06
Metformin ER 1500 mg. (Fertility)-04/06
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Date Joined Nov 2006
Total Posts : 1
Posted 11/10/2006 9:45 AM (GMT -6)
Yes, I contemplate lifes purpose alot. 31 is young. At 40 I still ask alot of questions. One thing that helps me the most, is helping someone else. Things seem to fall into place when I do that. Perhaps some "light" volunteer work would help you to feel good about
yourself until stronger answers prevail? Good Luck and God Bless! Poopiejoe.
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Date Joined Oct 2006
Total Posts : 41
Posted 11/10/2006 10:02 AM (GMT -6)
yep, I know exactly how you feel, thus I am trying to find some sort of charity work to do that makes me feel "useful" it is hard when you don't know your place and try to find it but I think it is also this illness that makes us think this way as most people are able to just "live" and are content with it. We just need to keep searching until we find it. good luck to you, keep us posted as to how you are feeling, I am glad you finally found a good doctor, what is Abilify, I never heard of that.
take care of you,
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Date Joined Sep 2006
Total Posts : 122
Posted 11/10/2006 3:55 PM (GMT -6)
You could be taking the words right out of my mouth in some ways, except that some of the circumstances are a little different. I am 30 in February. I have two kids but I was 19 when I had my son. Since he was born my life has been run by the needs of my family and the natural ebss and tides of life. I have tried to go back to school but without success, mainly because of financial reasons. I want to start my own business but once again financial reasons have forced me to put that on hold. I often feel like my life is at the mercy of every one elses. And unlike you, I work in a clerical position and I hate it!!!!! With a passion!!!! It's not a natural thing for me. I am a very creative person and I find clerical work drains all my creativity. Anyways, my point is (I'm not really sure I had one, but I'll try!!!) that I have been struggling with the same question(s) as you. Is being a mom and wife all there is to the purpose of my life and should I just be happy with that? Problem is even if the answer to that question is yes, I am not happy with it. And I do do charity work. In the last two years I've raised nearly $3,500 for Breast Cancer, and I have another fundraiser planned for next year. I love fundraising work but when you don't have the time to commit to it, it's very hard. And I guess that's where my problem lies, I feel like I spend the majority of my life being the servant of others, and very little of my life looking after my own needs, and if I do, I feel guilty for it... The question is where do you draw the line between your needs and theirs? Who knows, it's different for everybody. I just know that had I been given the choice, I'd have drawn the line much further out from me and there'd have been more room for my choices and my needs along the way, but as it was, that choice was ripped from me when I was 18/19 by a careless ***hole who couldn't keep his sexual desires under control..... Sorry, did that sound angry at all to you!!!!! Even ten years later I still feel a lot of anger over that one. Unfortunately it's an angry emotion that conflicts with the fact that I love my son dearly and wouldn't give him up for anything now. So should I be thankful to "him" or continue to be angry? I'm still looking for that answer. Anyways, I got off on a tangent there.
Fundraising and charity work can definitely help. But it sounds like you've lived a good life up til this point and have few/no regrets, and that if you started a family now and committed yourself to that, you'd be able to live with it. I hope everything works out for you. Good luck!
It would be easier to tell people I have cancer than it is to tell them I am severely depressed.....
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Date Joined May 2003
Total Posts : 48
Posted 11/11/2006 7:06 AM (GMT -6)
i do feel the same way indygirl. in fact the major reason why i am depress is because i feel like i'm a useless piece of crap! i know, i'm kinda hard to myself but that's the truth though. i'm 31 and with nothing really. i feel alone, bored and basically living with no purpose at all. it sucks a lot, i'm as good as dead you know. i do sometimes wish i am dead, and it's not good and i know that but that's just reality. i do wish i can get out from this life that i have right now... good luck to you and all the best!!!
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Date Joined Oct 2006
Total Posts : 20
Posted 11/12/2006 8:17 PM (GMT -6)
Thank you all for your input & advice. I am definitely giving the volunteering/charity work consideration. I am also contemplating taking a college course of some sorts to help maybe figure out what it is I want to do. In the past, my major was going to be Elementary Education. I am also thinking that I may try to get a part-time/temp job after the holidays (for some structure/routine, to help meet some more people & make some extra spending money). Also part-time/temp may be good in case I do become pregnant....I should be saying "when" I (we...whatever) get pregnant.
Slowlygoingcrazy-I hope that you find peace & can move past how your son was conceived. You made a totally brave decision & you need to give yourself a lot of credit for that. He is yours...1/2 of you & you gave 9 months of your life/body to give him life. We are having fertility issues right now, so please feel blessed that you were able to have children. I would definitely try to give yourself some more time for you. Even if it's a 20 minute bath or a phone call to a friend. You deserve it. If there is any way you could work out maybe just take one class or something, that may help you as well. Best of luck & let me know if/when you ever need to talk.
Scaredycat-Abilify is an antipsychotic used to treat Bi-Polar (which I suffer from in addition to Clinical Depression).
Thanks again for each & every one of your posts. I sincerely appreciate it.
Take Care.
DX: Clinical Depression-12/95 & Bi-Polar Disorder-10/03
RX: Wellbutrin XL-150 mg. & Abilify-5 mg.-11/06
Metformin ER 1500 mg. (Fertility)-04/06
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Total Posts : 248
Posted 11/12/2006 8:50 PM (GMT -6)
I have been totally lost one "What I want to be when I grow up". The sad thing is I'm 37, only done high school, have three kids a wonderful husband, but feel totally worthless. I have done NOTHING with my life. I've been a stay at home mom for 15 years and can't even seem to keep my house clean. Sad.
I did get a part time job about
a month ago, just doing the grocery clerk thing, four days a week, four or five hours a day. It's not much, but I was in such a bad state I had to get out and do something, anything.
I don't plan on doing this forever, but I just don't know what to do, ya know.
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Posted 11/13/2006 11:06 AM (GMT -6)
I am 61 years old and break my life into three sections, one was pretty bad coming from a dysfunctional family, two was great with the wonderful hubby but no kids, three is now and I do a lot of volunteer work and study and am busy but feel unhappy and lost. I miss my husband very much. My physical health (pain/asthma/ibs/hypertension and maybe reflux) is not that great either and that adds to my problems.
best of luck to everybody.
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Most of the ancient mystics, seers and sages of long ago knew that our higher Self resided in our heart center. They intuited that the state of unconditional love, which lives in the heart center, is our true nature – our soul. These teachers wrote poetry that expressed the longing to break free from the ego and live entirely from the heart's highest intelligence. They used love as the main tool for connecting to the Divine. (Learn How to See the Ego for What it Is.)
The spiritual heart – not to be confused with the organ of the heart – is our access point for deep transformation, even enlightenment. Yogis, Sufi poets, Toltecs, Greeks – all these wisdom traditions knew that the intelligence which resided in the spiritual heart is far greater than the intellectual intelligence of the mind. They knew that inside this spiritual heart lived limitless love, unbounded wisdom and a consciousness that was higher than anything we could experience through our ego.
When you read a poem by Rumi or Hafiz and feel your heart ache with love, you're tapping into that unconditional love and higher wisdom. It should come as no surprise then, that even modern Western science has proven the magnetic field around the heart to be hundreds of times greater than that around the brain. The Heartmath Institute continues to do research in the field of heart intelligence which shows that if you can start talking to your heart, and accessing its intelligence, you'll see your life open and expand in amazing ways. (Learn a Heart-Opening Visualization Meditation.)
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Accessing your heart's intelligence can be as simple as beginning a dialogue with it. When you're in a relaxed state – after a yoga class or while taking a hot bath – start asking your heart yes or no questions and see what comes up. Sometimes there's no clear solution to be found in the whirlwind of the mind, but in that clear, still voice of the heart, you might find the answers and solutions you most need.
Becoming attuned to your heart's wisdom can sometimes be painful and complex. We might feel pangs of heart ache as our heart breaks more and more open. That's okay, too. Sometimes it takes deeply painful experiences to happen before your heart is able to be so open and clear that its knowledge flows forth with light and vigor.
The Buddha also knew what heart intelligence was. If you were to ask him what the definition of bodhicitta was, he'd probably say it was the way of moving through life with a heart so open it could take in and hold absolutely every person and situation it came into contact with. (Learn more in The Meaning of Om Mani Padme Hum.)
When the heart can hold it all – the dark, the light, the pain, the suffering, the love and the sorrow – it can become so big that you begin to live solely from its higher intelligence. You can even open the hearts of others that are closed in immense fear. (Read more in Love Versus Fear.)
When we live from our hearts, life becomes more free and less of a struggle. We learn to let go and surrender. We forgive everyone. We allow all the barriers shielding our hearts to fall away so that we get to love everyone we meet without condition. This is what the spiritual heart knows to do. We get to be vulnerable, which allows for deep self-love and self-compassion, as well as deep love and compassion for everyone else. (Experience The Freedom in Letting Go.)
The highest intelligence of the heart knows no separation like the ego does. It becomes one with all so that we don't cling to people, places or things anymore. We know that we're all one, and that is one of the primary aims of yoga – to experience that universal oneness. Previous limiting beliefs fall away and we live from a place of softness and surrender, much like the Tao.
We get out of our own way and experience life as a flow of innate universal intelligence. We can trust that everything is happening for our own good and for the good of others. Walking through life with the spiritual heart as our best friend and confidant is the wisest thing to do. Of course, we can still seek guidance from our friends, teachers and mentors, but we also know that our heart knows best, and the more we cultivate that deep friendship, the more we'll know that simple truth in the core of our very being.
There are all sorts of heart meditations out there, as well as heart-centered yoga practices to follow. Some spiritual teachers and gurus are dedicated to teaching how we can all get more deeply in touch with our heart's highest intelligence. If this sounds like a path to enlightenment that resonates with your heart, then seek out those teachings. You'll be so glad you did! (Read on in Integrating Feelings of The Heart.)


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New Mexico's highest court has ruled a horse trainer can be prosecuted again on charges that he beat a colt to death with a whip handle in 2006.
A spokeswoman for the district attorney's office in Dona Ana County said Monday no decision has been made yet on whether Greg Collier will be tried again on animal cruelty charges for the death of a 10-month-old colt.
Collier was acquitted of felony animal cruelty in 2009, but jurors deadlocked over a misdemeanor charge.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that double-jeopardy protections and the statute of limitations do not prohibit Collier from being retried on a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge.
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Here's a fact that's not so brilliant: one tiny gold ring is responsible for some 20-60 tonnes of toxic waste, contaminating water resources and threatening the lives of the people involved. But fear not, lovers of fine jewellery: our body adornments don't have to be that dirty, as these precious metals, gems and other rare materials can be recycled over and over again.
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Gentle winds of change in the jewellery world are blowing playfully from Australia, where adventurous designer Tanya Coelho found her passion for using recycled materials to create the eco-jewellery of her dreams. Her company Zefyr Jewels upcycles brass and sterling silver to produce exquisite pieces, inspired by the intricately embroidered textiles of Laos' tribal peoples, whose stories are full of enchanting spiritual symbols.
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The brand's designer Monica Ruzansky explores light in all its forms, in both photography and jewellery. She studied metalsmithing in her home-country of Mexico and later in the USA, where she currently crafts her collection with recycled metals and gemstones. Her classical pieces with a subtle touch of ethereal sensibility emanate timeless simplicity, which works wonderfully at every occasion of everyday life and under any lighting.
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Humanitarian activist Ana-Katarina Vinkler-Petrovic seeks perfection in fine jewellery in the pursuit of her passion for social justice. This former war correspondent strives for peace through art and sustainability: her guilt-free eponymous line is crafted in the USA with recycled gold and reclaimed diamonds. The sensual curvature of the new jewellery collection accentuates the body with striking elegance, enhanced by a kaleidoscope of bright fair-trade gemstones.
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*Those flat AP runes are important! You need AP to help snowball early-game as you won't have alot of +AP items early-game.
Item Build Explanation
Doran's Ring. Since the buff to it's AP its the best item to start with. Rush a Sorc boots as soon as possible and take advantage of your faster MS and gank the side lanes. Build a Tear to solve your mana problems and to prep your mana pool for your eventual Archangels Staff. RoA will be next to buff up your HP and Mana pool along with more AP. DFG for even more burst allowing you to insta-gib squishies. Finish your AA Staff. Rush an Abyssal Scepter for the additional AP, MR and also a nice debuff to enemies. Zhonya's Ring to finish.
Why Cleanse?
Kassadin is the best chaser and runner, we all know this. So why Cleanse? Because if you get hit with a strong CC(Stun/bind) you can't escape and Kassadin is like paper. Use cleanse whenever you get CCed and riftwalk out.
Whats my job in team fights?
Your job is being an anti-carry. Your team should initiate the fight, never you. Your job would be to find a bad positioned target(should be a squishy) riftwalk in, burst him down with a DFG>Q>E combo, Zhonya's or riftwalk out, lose any chasers, then repeat. simple as that. Kassadin is a hit-and-runner, you don't have sustained damage. As such you should Aim for the lowest HP squishy in a teamfight, never a tank as it is a waste of your cooldowns. Also, never place your self in a situation that you will die in, that includes rift-walking into the enemy team. Thats just stupid.
Thats how you play Kassadin, Hardcore-Assassin Style.
Why a DFG?
Kassadin was created by Riot in the intention of being a hybrid, but we all know AD Kassadin sucks. Hybrid isn't as bad, but AP is ALOT better. DFG is used in this build as you only have 3 skills as a source of damage, 2 1/2 IMO as Riftwalk should be used as utility, the damaging aspect just being a plus. As such, DFG is there to give you another source of damage and additional burst to ensure those kills.
What about Magic Penetration?
Ahh, another important topic. Note this is a guide/build, which is not something you should follow strictly, I placed no Magic pen in my build besides runes/masteries because of this. Magic Penetration is an important stat for casters, its more valuable than AP. But because of Kassadin's playstyle and the conditions of the game if a Kassadin is played correctly the need for Magic Penetration is not there. You'll hit hard regardless and integrating magic penetration would only gimp yourself. HOWEVER, Do buy a Void Staff if you see any non-tank targets building MR. This is crucial and is what effectively differentiates from a bad player. Casters have bad scaling, failure to notice opponents building MR and not counter-building will only highlight this.
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Infestations of giant salvinia, one of the world's worst water weeds, might be more easily detected using airborne color-infrared photography.
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I'm not saying this to be snarky or mean or insulting, but I think I've become immune to vagina jokes.
They don't make me laugh anymore. I don't know when it happened. Or why.
But I'll tell you when I noticed it. During last night's MTV Movie Awards show with host Rebel Wilson when she said this line about Lena Dunham.
Setting up the category for "sexiest beard," Rebel said: "Nominees for that include Ben Affleck for 'Argo,' Daniel Day-Lewis for 'Lincoln' and Lena Dunham's vagina."
After a few audience members audibly gasped, Wilson responded: "What? It's been on a lot of faces."
My reaction to both lines? "Meh."
And yes, I feel the same way about the overuse of dick just to say dick jokes, if you were wondering.
Nowadays what makes me laugh tends to involve almost nothing R-rated because a joke that does not involve a dick or a vagina actually SURPRISES me.
I wasn't even offended, honestly. My brain almost read it as simply predictable noise.
It's like when I watch comedic roasts nowadays, I find that the people who make me laugh are often the cleanest of the bunch.
I guess perhaps I should be offended at the question of sexism in such a joke. Is Rebel implying that Lena slept her way into her position?
But what bothers me most of all is just how overused these kinds of jabs are nowadays. And yes -- including by myself, very lazily.
What do you think? Am I alone on this?
Did you laugh at this joke? Do you think Lena was offended? Did you think Rebel did a good job?
My favorite part of the MTV Movie Awards show was when a drunk Aubrey Plaza tried to grab the comedic legend award from Will Ferrell then later tweeted: "thanks for the advice @kanyewest went better than planned! #mtvmovieawards #chrisbosh #thesecret."
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I am 42 years old. I was having Type 2 symptoms (frequent urination and thirst) beginning 4 months ago after a tough tennis match. My blood glucose was 408 which then declined to 130 several weeks later thanks to two different diabetes pills. Several weeks later, I was told to drop both of them.
After a sharp sudden rise, then lowering to normal levels (between 90-110 random or fasting), do you think it is cured by a great diet and exercise? I weigh 170 pounds and am 5 foot, eleven inches tall. Nobody in the family has diabetes for sure.(living or deceased). Doing SMBG every other day.
Your recent experience with newly found diabetes demonstrates the positive effects of exercise and diet changes. Does this mean your diabetes has gone away? Not really. It means that with your current exercise and eating changes, your blood sugar returns to normal range. It is very possible that if you stop either one, your blood sugar will slowly rise again. This is a very good incentive to keep it up!
Continue to check your blood sugar randomly to be aware if things change. Diabetes is a progressive disease and your ability to manage your blood sugars without medication will most likely change over the next few years. This is not a failure on your part but the gradual decline of your pancreas' ability to produce the amount of insulin your body needs. Stay aware of your blood sugar, keep up the exercise and eat the foods you enjoy within moderate amounts. This will set you up for a successful journey with your diabetes.
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Accessing the Quarantine
To log in to your quarantine go to http://spam.vermontel.net/ and use you email address and password to log in. Be sure to enable cookies on your web-browser if they are not already enabled. When you log in the page it opens on is your quarantine page: b
The quarantine page is very similar to the HTML email notification, except that there are a couple more selections that can be made here that can be found in Status and Action column. The additional selection are as follows:
- Reject and Report Phish/Fraud: This selection can be made if you see an email that you believe to be particularly malicious. If reported Roaring Penguin will take a look at the email and the sender and act accordingly.
- Block Domain: The opposite of allowing a domain.
- Side Bar:
- Pending: These are the emails that are quarantined and awaiting your decision.
- Note: you do not have to make a selection for every entry.
- Spam: This is a list of 100% verified spam emails. The scores on these emails usually exceed 2000.
- Non-Spam: This is a list of emails that were quarantined due to various reasons, but are not typical spam. These usually score under 10, but over 5.
- All: All the emails.
- Specific Incident: Using an Incident ID (every email is given one, can be found by clicking on the time it was quarantined) you can bring up a specific incident to see what happened with it.
- Search: This searches the entire quarantine. Even emails that were quarantined before.
- Reject/Accept/ and Do Noting to all: At the top of the quarantine page there are 3 icons: a blue one with a question mark in it, a green one with a check mark, and a red one with an x in it. The blue on sets all emails on the page you are viewing (50 emails) to do nothing. The green one sets them all to Accept, and the red one sets them all to Reject. Also there is a 'Reject All as Spam' button that will reject all t he emails and train them as spam.
- Note: Don't forget to click 'Submit Changes' on either the top or bottom of the page to finalize your selections.
- Links on the Quarantine Page:
- Date: Clicking the time in the date column will bring you into the Incident Screen on that specific email. From here you can see a number of things including why the filter scored it like it did.
- Subject: Clicking this will bring you into a preview of the actual email. Any external images will be blocked, but if the email includes text you will be able to see it here.
- From: Clicking on the Sender's username will bring you into a screen which allows you to create a rule for that specific sender. Clicking on the sender's domain will do the same, but the rule is referring to the sender's domain, not the sender itself. Also the sender's country of origin is listed here in the form of a flag. If you hover your mouse over the flag it will tell you what country it belongs to.
- Relay: Clicking on this will give you information about the origin of the specific email.
Configuring your Spam Filter
Very similar to the Quarantine screen, but from here you can add email addresses and domains to your Accept and Reject list by manually typing them in. At the top of the page is the 'Accept and Always Reject List'. Simply click on the drop-down and select what you'd like to do, either 'Always Accept' or 'Always Reject', then type the email address or domain in the field to the right of the drop-down and click 'Add'.
Note: You can view every rule created by going to 'Rules' (from the black bar at the top of the screen) and selecting either 'Senders' or 'Domains' from the left-hand menu, whichever one corresponds to the rule you are looking for.
This section is everything to do with the rules you have added or want to add. There are many options on the left-hand side of this section, but we are going to cover the ones you are most likely to use.
- Senders: This is a list of all the rules that have been created for your filter regarding specific senders. You can filter by the Action from the 'Action' drop-down. Or by entering the specific email address in the 'Sender' field. If you type an address in the field titles 'Enter a specific Sender's email address you can create a rule for that address. Just search it then choose the desired Action. You can also click the small 'Show Changes' link which will list the changes that have been made in chronological order, so you can see when you've made certain changes.
- Domains: This list is exactly like the sender list but it refers to rules created for domains specifically. Can be manipulated the same way the Sender Section can be.
- Countries: From here you can create and view rules regarding entire countries. Example: if we wanted to create a rule that made it difficult for emails coming from Qatar to get into our inbox we would set it up like this or something similar: Under Coutry select Qatar. QA (the abbreviation for Qatar) will appear in the small square to the left of the drop-down where you selected the country, then put a numerical value into the Score field. Whatever number you put here (negatives work as well) will be added or subtracted from the email's score. By default the filter automatically rejects any email scoring over 2000, so lets put 2000 in the Score field. The comment firld can be left empty, it is optional, but it can be useful to remind ourselves whyw e created the rule. For this one I put 'Country rule for Qatar'.
- Custom Rules: Possibly the most useful section of the Rules. From here you can create specific customized rules. For example the email account I am using to write this gets many emails with the subject line 'EMPLOYMENT OFFER'. It's clearly bogus and we don't want to see it anymore, but the sender is never the same and neither is the domain making it impossible to just block the sender or domain. So this is what we do: Select 'Subject' for the 'Field' column. The 'Field' Column represents what field of the email the rule is made to look at. In this case it's the subject line. For relation we can select 'is' because the subject line is EMPLOYMENT OFFER and never changes. For 'Data' we will type 'employment offer' (it's not case sensitive). Put 2000 into the score, since we know the filter automatically rejects anything scoring above 2000. We leave expiry blank because it's a permanent rule, and we can leave comment empty if we want. Then click 'Add Rule' and the rule will appear. Now any email that comes in where the subject line is 'employment offer' will have 2000 added to the score, automatically rejecting it.
- Relation Field
- Contain: When the 'Data' is contained in the Field. For example: if there is an offensive word in a subject line, but the subject line is not always the same you could make the 'Field' the subject line and put the offensive word in data. You would set the 'Relation' as contains because the word is contained in the subject line each time.
- Starts With: The field starts with whatever is in the 'Data' field.
- Ends With: The field ends with whatever is in the 'Data' field.
- Does not Contain: The field does not contain whatever is in the 'Data' field.
- Is: The field is exactly what is in the 'Data' field.
- Relation Field
This section is where most of the filter settings are made. Again I will point out the most-used parts of this section.
- Preferences: Some miscellaneous settings. Some useful ones are 'Number of entries per page' which is how many emails are displayed on each page of the quarantine. The default is 50 and it can be set all the way up to 1000.
- 'Help level' and 'Hide help by Default': There is a help menu in the upper-right hand corner that is minimized by default. If you set 'Hide help by Default' to no then submit your change, you will see a nice little help menu show up in most sections of the spam filter.
- Opt in/Out: If you simply do not want spam filtering enabled you can Opt out, or opt back in if you'd like to reverse that rule. Without spam filtering you will receive every email addressed to you, regardless of who sends it.
- Quarantine Settings: The first part of this section titled 'Filter Settings' will be where most selections are made here. Some useful ones:
- Automatically reject messages scoring more than this amount: By default it is set to 2000, so anything that scores over 2000 is automatically rejected by the spam filter.
- Auto-reject messages scoring more than this amount without creating an incident: By default set to 10,000. Anything that scores over 10,000 is automatically rejected and no incident is created.
- Spam Threshold: By default set to 5. Anything scoring above a 5 is marked as spam. The lower the score you use here, the stricter the filter will be.
- Notification: This section is everything to do with the notification email that gets sent out daily. This includes the frequency that it gets sent, what is contained in it, and wheat address it gets sent to. Here are some useful settings in this section:
- Do not include messages scoring above this threshold in notifications: By default this is set to 2000, which means that any message that was quarantined and scored over 2000 will not be included in the daily notification, but it will still be quarantined. You can set this number to anything you'd like.
- Notification Times: From here you can check off what time of the day and what day of the week the notification is sent. Note: you can select multiple times.
- Send Pending Notification Now: At the bottom of this page is a button that will send the pending notification email.


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Discussion in 'Site Discussions & Suggestions' started by joeywheeler1992, Apr 1, 2005.
How come its invite only, and how do I get invited?
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Really? Its been well alive last time I was on.
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haha. ya. thaught I'd do an April fools. Then thug went all "YOU SIR ARE TEH DEVIL!" and ruined it
The Fire Emblem thing seems to be working out better.
it's not a april fools :\
because as we all know, according to gbarl and gbadat, april fools was actually a day ago
yeah, this was the big april fool: april fool's day was moved on march 31st
Still april fools here.
I'm a lesbian.
Wait.. or are you!! dun dun dun
yeah I know, lately he seems to get smitten over all the admins


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Why Is David Lynch Pimping This Handbag?
The new trend of "advertising films."
How would all you film fanatics like to see this movie? Creating his typically unsettling atmosphere, David Lynch directs the beautiful Marion Cotillard in a romantic thriller set in old Shanghai. Or how about: In his last turn behind the camera, Dennis Hopper directs Gwyneth Paltrow in an Antonioni-inspired dash through Rome. Or maybe you'd like a reprise of the Jean-Pierre Jeunet/Audrey Tautou collaboration you loved so much in Amélieand A Very Long Engagement, this time with a Brief Encounter-style love story to keep you on the edge of your seat.
If any of those taglines are to your taste, you're in luck, because they've already been made. But here's the catch: Instead of cinema-release feature-length films, they're between three and 20 minutes long, and they're all promotional pieces for high-end fashion houses. In other words, they are commercials, or at least some new brand of commercial that's becoming increasingly popular. Lynch's Lady Blue Shanghai is the third in a series promoting the patent leather Lady Dior bag; the first, The Lady Noire Affair, was directed by Olivier Dahan of La Vie en Rose fame, the second, Lady Rouge, by Swedish music video director Jonas Akerlund, and all three star Cotillard as Lady Dior. Hopper's Roman romp is called Pashmy Dream, and it has Tod's Pashmy bag at its center, while the Jeunet/Tautou story is for Chanel No. 5.
Fashion films such as these have been appearing here and there for several years, but they've reached a crescendo this summer. On May 15, the 17-minute Lynch film was screened at the World Expo in Shanghai before the line debuted its 2011 cruise collection. Meanwhile, Chanel had just screened a short film before its cruise show in St. Tropez. Remember Now, directed by Karl Lagerfeld, features suave French leading man Pascal Greggory as well as a dancing, mewling multitude of Chanel models who reenact scenes from St. Tropez's past; Brigitte Bardot, the Jaggers, and Coco Chanel all make appearances. This week, Four Play, a two-minute film "inspired by" Donna Karan's Eldridge bag, which stars Christina Ricci and was directed by Jake Sumner (aka Sting's son), will open the Los Angeles Short Film Festival. And to top it all off, September will mark the online premiere of Martin Scorsese's film for men's fragrance Bleu de Chanel, which he shot in Williamsburg last winter.
What are these things? Are they films or commercials? Should we be horrified that a string of first-class directors are lending their talents to pimping bags and perfumes, or does this collaboration exist in some other, more rarified realm where fashion and high art coexist? When Baz Luhrmann's Chanel No. 5 commercial starring Nicole Kidman came out in 2005, Chanel's PR department snootily proclaimed that it had to be a film because "Baz Luhrmann doesn't do adverts." It seemed like a dubious assertion, considering the similarities between this two-minute bit of celluloid prominently featuring a product, and what we earthlings call commercials. But it did signal a new kind of ambition that later collaborations have more closely lived up to.
Chanel likes to call them "advertising films," while others just go for the art-centric "short film" or the oddly Austin Powers-derived "mini-movie." The fashion world has always danced with Hollywood's artier side; Lynch himself directed four literary-themed commercials for Calvin Klein's Obsession back in 1988. (The first of these featured a younger and dewier Benicio del Toro alongside Heather Graham, who always looks exactly the same.) While those commercials had a certain edgy sexiness that charted new TV territory, there was no doubt that they were indeed commercials, and that Lynch was acting as hired gun. Since then, houses have been carefully shifting the emphasis from advertising to filmmaking, making the films longer, giving their big-name directors carte blanche or close to it, taking the central focus off the product, and packaging them as "art" on their Web sites and in film venues. In other words, they've relinquished branding control of the films, which must make them a lot more fun for the directors.
In 2005, Prada debuted the Ridley and Jordan Scott-directed "Thunder Perfect Mind," at the Berlin Film Festival. The film intercuts shots of model Daria Werbowy navigating Berlin with scenes of her discovering her wild side through swing dancing, all to a free jazz soundtrack and voiceover recitation of a Gnostic text celebrating the divine feminine. The film was cut up into shorter segments for television airing. This was a first, both because Prada had never done a television campaign before, and because, at six minutes, the film really was longer than a TV commercial. But in spite of its length and the fact that the perfume doesn't make an appearance until the final frame, it still feels like a commercial. It's just so fashiony in that pretentious, model-obsessed way, and the flimsy narrative in which a supposedly plain girl is transformed into a glamorous creature of the night isn't treading any new territory.
The good fashion films have a sense of humor about what's really going on here. Lynch shows his sly humor with the ta-dah!-style revelation of the bag in a burst of light and smoke. Once she's discovered the Lady Dior in her hotel room, Cotillard suddenly recalls what might be a past life. As she drifts into this other world, she and her lover, played by the actor Gong Tao, blur and double amidst the lights of the old city. There are disorientingly cavernous lobbies and long hallways, extended pauses between oddly empty lines of dialogue, ominous fish-eyed close-ups on Cotillard's lovely, frightened face, eerie music … in other words, it's a David Lynch film. The final shot once again puts the Lady Dior bag front and center with a blue rose given to Cotillard in her dream-memory reappearing inside of it. One blogger noted that "it almost seems as if Lynch envisioned the film with just a flower, but then threw the bag in there when Dior came a-calling." That may well be the case, and the over-the-top symbolic weight placed squarely on the bag might be Lynch's way of winking at his audience.
Hopper's quick little fairytale, in which fire-breathers, mimes, and clowns lurk behind every corner, also teases the connection to the brand. "Gwyneth, your bag! Your bag, Gwyneth!" shouts the journalist played by Daniele Savoca, his earnest cry repeated to the point of absurdity. The director gave a wry summing up of the film/brand relationship: "Cinderella has her shoe. Gwyneth has her Tod's Pashmy bag." Hopper paid lip-service to the bag, but it was ultimately more peripheral to the film than the heart of it.
This may well signal a disturbing cynicism on the part of the directors. You can imagine them muttering "I'll throw whatever bag they want in there," as they sign off on the budgets the houses are offering them to make their vanity projects. And audiences might not mind or even notice, since, over the years, movies have buckled in other ways to commercial demands. A slogan for a bag in a Hopper flick is not so far away from Absolut Vodka product placement in a Sex and the City movie. We've gotten used to advertisers intruding on our storylines.
But the real reason these feel natural is because of where they're shown. The Internet has also revived the great music video, offering a wide-open space for innovative collaborations between artists and musicians. That DIY spirit has been on display at fashion houses with less money at their disposal than Dior or Chanel, as they invite viewers to enter their websites and their way of life for a little while. Whether it's an insider glimpse of models prepping for a runway show on Victoria Beckham's site, or zippy hipsters showing off the new looks from Rogan, these little films body forth the spirit of the brand. And if those guys can experiment online, well so can Dior and Chanel, with all the resources and names that are available to them. The line between making cool stuff and selling out just isn't as clear as it used to be.
Critics sometimes compare the shorts to student films, and a few of them feel like that. Viewing Remember Now, you do wonder, what am I watching? A music video? Boring footage of a party I wasn't invited to? A documentary about the real lives of models? In the end, though, it's the vagaries about defining these films that make some of them worth watching. It's as if Lynch and Hopper have been liberated by being asked to create on a smaller scale with a well defined gimmick, set free to see what they come up with.
In his 2006 book on transcendental meditation and creativity, Catching the Big Fish, Lynch talked about his creative process, comparing ideas to fish.
The beautiful thing is that when you catch one fish that you love, even if it's a little fish – a fragment of an idea […] Then you're on your way.
In Lynch's film, Cotillard sits in front of a screen decorated with fish leaping in and out of a golden pond. That's what these films are, pretty little fish tossed into the big digital sea.
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