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As they prepare to launch their 2013 world tour, Queens of the Stone Age delivered a brutal, uncompromising set heavy with new songs from their stark new album, …Like Clockwork, last night (May 23) at the Wiltern in Los Angeles.
Despite persistent indications that frontman Josh Homme and his band would perform the new album in its entirety complete with rumored special guests ranging from Dave Grohl to Trent Renzor, QOTSA followed …Like Clockwork opening song, "Keep Your Eyes Peeled," with "You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire," from 2002's Songs for the Deaf to start what would be a cameo-free show.
With a dazzling video backdrop flashing eye-popping graphics (many from U.K. artist Boneface, who is responsible for the arresting artwork of …Like Clockwork), QOTSA roared through a career-spanning set, touching on most of their studio releases over the course of the two-hour show.
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Hi,On a server that still has lenny, I was getting a message (started on 27th June) as follows each day (from /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin script:
Jul 2 15:16:26.778 [17797] warn: netset: cannot include 127.0.0.0/8 as it has already been included
The /etc/spamassassin/local.cf had 127/8 in trusted networks, I've now removed that as it seems to be included by default now -- or at least it stops the warning at least.
I broke the following line into two lines and commented the 127/8 line.#trusted_networks 192.168/16 127/8 # all in 192.168.*.* and 127.*.*.*
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By Xenophon
Translation by H. G. Dakyns
Dedicated To Rev. B. Jowett, M.A. Master of Balliol College Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C. The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and March 399 B.C.
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books The Anabasis 7 The Hellenica 7 The Cyropaedia 8 The Memorabilia 4 The Symposium 1 The Economist 1 On Horsemanship 1 The Sportsman 1 The Cavalry General 1 The Apology 1 On Revenues 1 The Hiero 1 The Agesilaus 1 The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2
Text in brackets "{}" is my transliteration of Greek text into English using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The diacritical marks have been lost.
Darius and Parysatis had two sons: the elder was named Artaxerxes, and the younger Cyrus. Now, as Darius lay sick and felt that the end of life drew near, he wished both his sons to be with him. The elder, as it chanced, was already there, but Cyrus he must needs send for from the province over which he had made him satrap, having appointed him general moreover of all the forces that muster in the plain of the Castolus. Thus Cyrus went up, taking with him Tissaphernes as his friend, and accompanied also by a body of Hellenes, three hundred heavy armed men, under the command of Xenias the Parrhasian (1).
(1) Parrhasia, a district and town in the south-west of Arcadia.
Now when Darius was dead, and Artaxerxes was established in the kingdom, Tissaphernes brought slanderous accusations against Cyrus before his brother, the king, of harbouring designs against him. And Artaxerxes, listening to the words of Tissaphernes, laid hands upon Cyrus, desiring to put him to death; but his mother made intercession for him, and sent him back again in safety to his province. He then, having so escaped through peril and dishonour, fell to considering, not only how he might avoid ever again being in his brother's power, but how, if possible, he might become king in his stead. Parysatis, his mother, was his first resource; for she had more love for Cyrus than for Artaxerxes upon his throne. Moreover Cyrus's behaviour towards all who came to him from the king's court was such that, when he sent them away again, they were better friends to himself than to the king his brother. Nor did he neglect the barbarians in his own service; but trained them, at once to be capable as warriors and devoted adherents of himself. Lastly, he began collecting his Hellenic armament, but with the utmost secrecy, so that he might take the king as far as might be at unawares.


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Kerry Butler, Julia Murney, and More to Sing Old and Cut Songs by Musical Theater Favorites
Bethany Rickwald • New York City • Feb 1, 2013
Kerry Butler (Gore Vidal's The Best Man), Julia Murney (Lennon), Bryce Ryness (Leap of Faith), Kate Shindle (Wonderland), Etai BenShlomo (Wicked), Jason Danieley (Next to Normal), Kevin Earley (Thoroughly Modern Millie), and Jill Abramovitz (9 to 5) will sing old and cut songs from Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family), Sara Cooper and Zach Redler (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner), and Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner (First Date) in a Songwriter Spotlight concert on February 11 at 54 Below.
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre, who will be presenting the concert, is a national service organization dedicated to musical theater and its advancement through nurturing the creation, development, production and presentation of new musicals. The organization also provides a forum for musical theater professionals to share resources and exchange information.
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The Inquisition of Mark Steyn and Maclean's
by David J. Rusin • Jun 11, 2008 at 11:18 am
Two years ago Maclean's, the oldest newsweekly in Canada, published an excerpt of Mark Steyn's book America Alone, which sharply critiques the ascendancy of Islam in a Western world suffering from "civilizational exhaustion." Activists led by Canadian Islamic Congress president Mohamed Elmasry filed complaints against both Steyn and Maclean's in multiple human rights courts last December, charging that the magazine "subjects Canadian Muslims to hatred and contempt."
From June 2 to 6, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal heard arguments in the case. National Post correspondent Brian Hutchinson compiled daily summaries (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) of what he called a "bizarre and frightening spectacle." Kathy Shaidle has offered a more succinct overview.
Perhaps the Tribunal's most disturbing aspect is the plaintiff-friendly landscape that has allowed such courts to become instruments for silencing critics of Islamism. "Strict rules of evidence do not apply," the chairwoman noted at the outset. According to Hutchinson, "the complainants were under no obligation to prove harm, or malicious intent; all that is required … is a reasonable determination that the excerpt did express hatred and contempt toward Muslims, and likely caused it to spread. That's the test."
Entered into evidence were reams of internet posts "inspired" by Steyn's excerpt. Then Faiza Hirji, a university lecturer whose thin CV highlights deconstructionist research on rapper Queen Latifah and television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, was permitted to testify as "an expert in analyzing stereotypes in the media." She proceeded to dissect Steyn's article, claiming evidence of negative stereotypes in paragraph after paragraph.
Co-complainant Naiyer Habib described how the aforementioned internet posts had caused him pain. "It's humiliating, dishonoring, questioning our morals in Western society where we live," he said. Habib insisted that Maclean's is partly to blame, as the posts "were influenced by the article." Finally, Habib's lawyer asked that the Tribunal order Maclean's to publish a "counterview article … [or] a summary of at least the Tribunal's judgments and findings and a declaration [that the excerpt] was hatred and contemptuous."
Steyn, who expects to be found guilty, was characteristically defiant:
Yes, Canadians may be freeborn. But faced with a coordinated assault from Islamists and multicultural do-gooders pushing censorship, how long will they remain that way?
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Over my fall break for school, my girlfriend and I are going out to Blythe CA to visit her grandfather who is in very poor health. We are only staying for three days and plan to be with her grandfather for two of those days and go to Joshua Tree for one day. I know that's not much time to really experience that place, but I want to know what would be a good climbing area for that one day. I'm not comfortable enough with trad climbing yet, so I'm just interested in top-roping areas and sport climbs (if there is any there). What would be a one stop place to climb there with an array of different rated climbs that's easy to find and get to?
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This is why I always suggest flying into port a day early because stuff happens. But if want to fly in the day of departure, you'll always want to make sure you purchase travel insurance. I don't necessarily suggest that which is offered by the cruise line because independent policies are better and usually less expensive (except for those over 80). Plus, they'll always provide you a reimbursement in cash and not credit towards another cruise.
As far as Princess not helping you, that's really not a surprise. People booking directly with the cruise line often have the misconception that the cruise line will look after their passengers in these situations. While some are better than others, it's basically best to look after yourself and work with an agent who has contact information not readily available to the average passenger. Often their assistance when problems occur can be invaluable.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A couple dozen people gathered at McMillen Park Sunday afternoon for a bike ride to raise awareness to the need for more urban trails. The group is pushing to get trails into the inner city to make it safer and easier for people living on the southeast side to travel around the city.
The ride was hosted by leaders from the Urban Trails Project and Omotayo Rite of Passage. It was the third annual Father's Walk for Fitness. The bike ride and walk was an idea to get fathers out with their children in a healthy and active way, showcasing the positive role fathers have in their children's lives as well as to bring awareness to the lack of urban trails on the city's southeast side.
People rode about five miles along the Rudisill bike lanes from McMillen Park to Foster Park which are two areas of the city they'd like to see be connected by trails. Community members who live on the southeast side want to have the option they say their neighbors in other areas of the city have to take bikes as an alternate form of travel or an easy way to exercise.
"The Urban Trails is definitely needed," said Diana Rogers, the founder of Omotayo Rite of Passage as well as a Fort Wayne police officer. "One of the things we do have is we have beautiful parks, but there's not a lot of ways to get there safely, so having a trail would give us that vehicle to do that safely and get our children out of the streets,"
The complaint is that the current bike lanes are narrow, and some riders have had a few close calls, especially with the traffic right hand turn lane cutting across the bike lane on Rudisill Blvd.
One of the main goals of the group is to add a trail down Hanna Street because it less busy and safer and would give people direct access to downtown. Members of the Urban Trails Project have brought the issue up to city council members during a few meetings. Their hope is to use Legacy Fund money to widen the sidewalks in the area and create the trails.


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Within the Context of No Context
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Within the Context of No Context may be simply described as the reissue of a book first published in 1981. The description would, however, be misleading in its simplicity. Before there was the book, there was the essay in The New Yorker; the book actually consisted of two essays from The New Yorker, one of which has been dropped from the current edition. It is the title essay of the book, by critical consensus the stronger of the two, that is now reprinted, along with a new introduction that can be called an essay in itself. The topic, simply put, is television; again, however, the simple way of putting it may not be the most accurate. To reissue sixteen years after a first appearance in book form what was originally a magazine piece, ostensibly on a topic that many would consider ephemeral at best, is a step sufficiently exceptional as to suggest that some rather strong claims are implicitly being made for George W. S. Trow's essay. To what extent does the essay justify such claims?
A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, Trow is also an accomplished playwright, writer of short stories, and novelist. Before the original publication of Within the Context of No Context, Trow had had two plays produced off-Broadway; short stories originally published in The New Yorker were gathered in book form as Bullies in 1980. A short novel, The City in the Mist, was published in 1984, three years after Within the Context of No Context. Trow's work has been favorably reviewed, although some critics seem troubled by what they regard as an elitist air. The critical question may be whether his work as a whole exposes elitism or exemplifies it. The same issue can arise very specifically in relation to Within the Context of No Context. Readers may eventually forget some of Trow's subtler points, but no one who reads this book is ever likely to forget that Trow, as he repeatedly reminds readers, attended Exeter School and Harvard University.
Yet it would be too easy to dismiss Trow's frequent references to his relatively privileged background as mere one- upmanship. Trow is offering in this book a global critique of what he sees as the failings of an American culture that has television at its center, but he never pretends to pure objectivity. He is, on the contrary, careful to define his perspective. He is, first of all, a member of a particular generation, the one that grew up in the years following World War II. The malaise of this generation, their sense of abandonment, is his deep subject. He never claims that the culture he sees will be seen in the same terms by someone whose generational frame of reference is radically different from his own. He is also the product of a particular family history and bears the burden of expectation that comes from that background. In a defining image, Trow recalls his father's fedora and the expectation that, as his father's son, he would on arriving at manhood don a fedora of his own. Yet he has never been able to wear a fedora except ironically. Finally, he is self-consciously the product of privilege. In short, what Trow offers is cultural criticism, intended as generally valid, yet honestly uttered from a particular perspective.
These observations, however, do not entirely resolve the issue of elitism. When someone of Trow's background and accomplishments turns his attention to television, or to popular culture in general, suspicions immediately arise. Are readers in for yet another denunciation of popular culture for being popular? When he makes the sweeping claim that no good has come of television, Trow opens himself to the charge of aristocratic prejudice. If readers, especially readers who do not share Trow's background, are to be dissuaded from that charge, Trow's critique must transcend attitude. What does Trow offer in the way of ideas?
The idea of no context (in the book, sometimes rendered as "no-context") seems an appropriate place to start. According to Trow, "The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it." The state of no-context to which Trow refers seems to be the consequence of a loss of a sense of history. History, as summarized by Trow, is the record of growth, conflict, and destruction, and all of these are interfered with by television. The benefits of history reveal themselves in a deepened sense of context, a sharpened awareness of the relations of background and foreground. That, at any rate, is the old history. The New History (Trow's capitalization) is the history of demographics, the history of no-history. This New History is little more than a record of preferences, in which nothing is judged, everything is merely counted. It scarcely matters whose preferences are recorded; those of a child weigh as much as those of an adult.
Trow finds a telling instance of no-context in a moment from Family Feud, a highly rated show at the time of the essay's original composition. Family Feud was a quiz show; yet this quiz show did not test the contestants' knowledge of any body of information. Rather, in a moment representative of the show, and if Trow is right, of a major tendency in American culture of the late 1970's and early 1980's, the host "asked contestants to guess what a poll of a hundred people had guessed would be the height of the average American woman. Guess what they've guessed. Guess what they've guessed the average is." As Trow comments, there is no reality, not a fact in sight.
New England, says Trow, is history. A complex of personalities, events, conditions adds up, over time, to New England. Yet within the context of no context, New England is merely a complex of characteristics, put on display in a television commercial in which a properly costumed "New England" woman stands on a carefully chosen, or skillfully constructed, "New England" porch and pours some sort of artificial dessert topping (the product advertised) over her New England cherry cobbler. Gertrude Stein is supposed to have said of Oakland, California, that there isn't any there there. Within the context of no context, it seems, there is no there anywhere.
The degeneration of the historical sense is reflected also in the degeneration of gossip. People as well educated as Trow might be expected to despise gossip, or at least to regard it as a paltry thing compared to history. In fact, Trow does explicitly place gossip beneath history, but, he insists, the current age is beneath gossip. Gossip, he points out, depends on violation. The best gossip of the century arose out of the relationship of England's Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, later the duke and duchess of Windsor, and what made it delicious was the clarity of the violation involved. What made it interesting, moreover, was a clash of contexts, a rejection of inhibiting contexts, which included the context of British history itself.
In place of gossip, what one has within the context of no context is merely synthetic talk. When one turns to People magazine, one may be looking for gossip, but one will look in vain. The people in People are not properly subjects of gossip, because their actions violate nothing, occur in no inhibiting contexts. Nor is the discourse of People a violation in itself, since its revelations are not made within any context of propriety, reticence, or discretion.
The place of celebrity within the context of no context is another of the key ideas of the book. When people still lived in history, they lived within a multiplicity of contexts, in the realm of the middle distance. Now, as the middle distance has fallen away, there remain only two grids, the grid of two hundred million and the grid of intimacy. There is national life, or the shimmer of it, and there is intimate life, with nothing between. The power of celebrities, the source of their fascination for others, is that for them there is no distance between the two grids. Thus they, and only they, are complete.
The replacement of history by demographics is the replacement of the record of growth, conflict, and destruction by the record of the expression of preferences. Choice, as one might expect, assumes a peculiar role within the context of no context. In its noble form, now largely abandoned, the aim of choice is to choose successfully; in its debased form, dominant in the late 1990's, the aim is to be endlessly choosing. Trow does not apply his observations to the pro-choice movement, but is it a symptom of where Americans are that one of the most recognized movements of the period Trow is writing about brackets the question of whether abortion is the right choice in favor of the declaration that choice itself must be defended?
Clearly, Within the Context of No Context is a book provocative enough to impel the reader in intellectual directions that might surprise and disturb the author. The provocation can be located in the book's manner, in which one discerns the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche and Roland Barthes, as well as in its matter. Sustained, coherent argument is not for Trow. The book is divided into brief segments, some as short as a single sentence, none longer than a few pages. The style is often aphoristic. There is no amassing of evidence. Even factual examples are rare. The categories into which Trow divides his material can seem arbitrary or mystifying. This is the rhetoric of a writer who will not stoop to persuade. Either the reader gets the point or not. Can this fairly be restated in elitist terms: either the reader is one of us or not?
All of this is often brilliant, always provocative, yet not ultimately satisfying. Surprisingly, perhaps, the book's gravest weakness may lie in the author's failure to deal adequately with context. In the introductory essay, "Collapsing Dominant," Trow tells of an encounter in Alaska with a man who is frighteningly certain that all films are made from one political motive: to strip Americans of their freedom. Trow responds by pointing out that the purpose of films is to make as much money as possible, and this, rather than some political agenda, determines most of what is seen on the screen. It is ironic, then, that at times in the book Trow himself sounds like a highly and expensively educated urban version of his man from Alaska, in need of someone to coach him in ordinary cynicism. Television, such a mentor might point out, is primarily an advertising medium; it can be understood only when placed in the context of consumer capitalism. Yet it is precisely in this sort of contextualizing that the book most obviously falls short.
It falls short, if less obviously, in other respects as well. How much, finally, does Trow know about the lives of people who read People, or indeed of people who watch Family Feud? How deeply does he care about these people? Although one senses a passion in the author, it seems a passion aroused by offenses to his refined sensibility, a passion that has little to do with compassion.
In his introductory essay, Trow offers his own evaluation, from the perspective of seventeen years later, of the original Within the Context of No Context. He now finds in the essay the expression of an informed confusion. He also finds that the period for which the formulation of the essay was valid is coming to an end. This raises again the question introduced at the beginning of these remarks. If, in the judgment of the author, the essay expresses an informed confusion about a period that is coming to an end, why does it appear in a new edition in 1997? Perhaps Within the Context of No Context is the sort of book best appreciated when it is happily discovered on a library shelf or in the aisles of a used book store. It certainly deserves to be read. Whether it had to be reissued is another question.
Sources for Further Study
Library Journal. CXXII, April 1, 1997, p. 134.
Los Angeles Times Book Review. May 18, 1997, p. 10.
New York. XXX, May 12, 1997, p. 59.
The New York Times Book Review. CII, April 6, 1997, p. 6.
Vanity Fair. March, 1997, p. 182.


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Princeton's WordNet
holier-than-thou, pietistic, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious, self-righteous(adj)
excessively or hypocritically pious
"a sickening sanctimonious smile"
Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.
Holy, devout.
Webster Dictionary
possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly
making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious
Origin: [See Sanctimony.]
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sanctimonious in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sanctimonious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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How did you choose your area of graduate study?After graduating from college, I found myself in a less than ideal work situation and realized that if I had the knowledge and tools at my disposal, I could make the workplace a better environment to be not only for myself, but also for others. As a result, I decided to pursue Industrial/Organizational psychology.
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Hobbies: My hobbies include practicing martial arts (taekwondo), spending time with my pet rabbit, exploring New York City, and utilizing my amazing flight benefits to see some exciting new places every chance I get.
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Class: 2013
Favorite class: Methods in Human Measurement
Professor who influenced you the most: Dr. Mark Bowler
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The advertised promise of Obamacare was, according to Obama "If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor, too. The only change you'll see are falling costs as our reforms take hold." Everybody now knows this was a lie. Costs have skyrocketed and your plan and doctor disappeared the instant the bill was signed, replaced with Obama's plan for your health care.
People on the Western Slope of Colorado have already been beggared by rising insurance premiums and now it is being reported that Anthem, one of the few remaining providers in western Colorado, may soon be pulling the ripcord on it's golden parachute.
The abandonment of the health care insurance market is happening all over the United States as company balance sheets finally tip over into the red due to the rising costs of providing mandated coverage and by consumers abandoning the market without any parachute at all because they simply cannot afford the monthly premiums.
What you need to understand is that the disintegration of the private health care insurance market is not accidental; the socialists and their progressives in government and in Congress meticulously planned it. What these socialists want is Great Britain's government run, government paid health care, no matter that the UK's system is bankrupting the country and results in health care rationing, delays, inferior care, doctors and nurses leaving the country to find better jobs and outright denial of care to people who are too expensive to treat.
The socialists who support this system don't like the idea that some people can afford to pay for "Cadillac healthcare" while other people get only basic emergency care, so they want to make everyone equal in the name of "social justice," which is a buzzword actually meaning "making everyone equally miserable." One look at the current state of affairs in North Korea proves how badly this works out.
It's past time to understand that Obamacare was never, ever intended to provide health care for anyone. It was specifically designed to lard-up health care insurance with so many government mandates that insurance companies would necessarily abandon the market because they can't make a profit. And that's exactly what is happening.
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Plan A was that shortly after Hillary Clinton took office she would be able to declare a national health care emergency and impose government-run health care by executive fiat. Plan B is that it would fail during a Republican presidency and could be spun to lay the blame on the incumbent, paving the way for a Democrat takeover four years later, with the result again being socialized medicine imposed by fiat.
And it may well be that this will occur despite President Donald Trump's and the Republican's attempts to prevent it, as Paul Ryan discovered to his dismay. The most cynical and Machiavellian aspect of Obamacare was its sub rosa intent to create a new entitlement that the public would claim as a right, thereby achieving the socialist goal more than a century in the making of creating the public perception, and therefore the reality, that the government is responsible for providing for the economic needs of the people and must therefore be empowered to do so without constraint.
The objective of making everyone dependent upon the largess of the government is fundamental to controlling the lumpen proletariat, as Karl Marx said. When the government provides and controls your housing, your food and your medical care, the government controls your life and most importantly in the sham-democracy endgame of state socialism, it controls your vote. By controlling whom you are allowed to vote for, the term "social democracy" becomes nothing but propaganda.
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For the majority of my last relationship, my partner was in the throes of a slowly unwinding nervous breakdown. He moved to New York at the same time I did, and lived for a brief period in a state of almost too much togetherness, bound because we loved each other, but also because we didn't know what else to do. There is a strange thing that happens when you first move to a new city. Stripped free of your usual comforts, you cling readily and fiercely to whatever is available. For us, it was one another, and that felt fine to me, but less so to him. With the stress of living in a new city and delving into a new relationship, his anxiety and depression blossomed beyond the average quarter-life crisis into something much more serious.
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I realized just how serious his condition was when I found myself in a cab on the way to the psychiatric ward, where he was waiting to check himself in after a day of suicidal thoughts. I sat with him until they admitted him, and then waited for a couple of hours until I was allowed to see him again. Leaving him in that room, when visiting hours were over, was one of the hardest things I ever had to do.
After a night in the psych ward and a diagnosis of GAD (generalized anxiety disorder), OCD, and clinical depression, they let him out of the hospital, and entered him into an outpatient program that consisted of daily, intensive therapy. During this period, he was alternately short-tempered and sluggish, depending on the cocktail of drugs he was taking. Our relationship wheezed along, but I could see there was an end in sight when I went with him to a therapy session and he winced when his counselor referred to me his "girlfriend." Our end was much less spectacular than our beginning. He moved back to the city he came from, and I stayed here.
To date someone who is suffering from mental illness, who falls into moods at the drop of a hat, is stressful and can be hurtful, but it's a learning experience. You will learn how deep your reservoirs of empathy and care are. You will learn how strong your boundaries are. You will learn just how much you can take and you will learn that it's okay to stick by your person, but it's also okay to want to get out.
Learn about the mental illness. Go to therapy sessions, be an open and available ear for conversations. Make sure that you are being as kind and as caring and as understanding as you can be. The thing with mental illness is that it's hard to explain to someone on the outside, someone who doesn't know what it's like. You can ask for an explanation or an answer all you want, but you probably won't get it very readily, nor will it be something that makes sense to you.
It is important to remind yourself that it is not your fault, and that ultimately, it's not about you. Try hard to parse out what you know in your heart to be true from what you think is the illness talking. It's hard to weather these kinds of storms, but it's doable. Keep lines of communication open and honest. Be strong for yourself, and also for them, but don't be afraid to know when it's time to take yourself out of the equation. It's easy to fall into the mindset of wanting to save or fix the person you love, but it's important to recognize when you simply can't. Care for yourself and care for the other person. That's all you can do.
This post originally appeared on The Frisky. Republished with permission.


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Though it struggled to put up runs early in the season, the Boston University softball team has gotten a much-needed offensive boost in recent games.
Earlier in the year, the Terriers (11-19-1, 2-4 America East) struggled as a team to hit, and only batted a collective .242 going into a March 28 doubleheader against Providence College. However, the squad has been turning it around as of late.
After getting shut out in a mercy-rule defeat at the hands of Binghamton University March 31, the Terriers appear to have made a breakthrough, and have been getting more consistent efforts from their hitters at the dish.
In a loss to the University of Connecticut Wednesday, the Terriers had little trouble producing on offense, as they banged out eight runs on 13 hits. Despite losing 11-8, BU coach Kathryn Gleason noted after the game that it was a good sign for the offense, and would lead to success against Boston College.
"I told them after the game, it's tough to have 13 hits and eight runs and lose the game," Gleason said following the loss. "But … I think that that's a great boost for us going into BC tomorrow."
Her words seemed prophetic, as the team seemingly used its performance Wednesday to propel it to victory against Green-Line rival BC (9-21).
Thursday, the Terriers produced eight hits in a 3-1 victory. Although the Terriers scored the eight runs and recorded 13 hits against UConn (11-10), they left a significant number of runners on base, totaling 11 by the game's end.
Thursday saw a different Terrier team, as they only scored three runs, but made the most of the opportunities they had. In the loss against UConn, sophomore center fielder Mandy Fernandez missed out on a golden chance in the bottom of the sixth when she struck out swinging with the bases loaded and her team only down by one run.
However, against the Eagles, the struggling Fernandez stepped to the plate with freshman first basemen Lauren Hynes on, and hit a two-run homer, giving the Terriers the lead.
"It was a huge lift to us," Gleason said. "Mandy has been struggling at the plate a little bit and for her to attack the first pitch was just a big lift for us."
The home run was enough for the Terriers, and the team came out with a 3-1 over BC.
After BU split its first two games at home on the year, it ventured to Connecticut to take on America East foe, the University of Hartford. The offensive did not skip a beat as the Terriers pounded out eleven hits in a 4-1 win over the Hawks (12-21, 4-5 America East).
In the win in the opening game of the series, BU had four of its players record multiple hits. Fernandez, Hynes, junior third baseman Megan Volpano and junior center fielder Jayme Mask all recorded two hits in the win.
"Jayme continues to be our spark plug and Megan has settled in at our three spot," Gleason said. "We continue to tweak our lineup and try and get everyone settled in spots. We have so many options despite our limited roster, which is exciting for me."
Despite losing the second game of the series, the Terriers did have some offensive success, piling up seven hits and plating four runners in the one-run loss to the Hawks. Junior shortstop Brittany Clendenny hit a three-run homer, which was the highlight of the game for BU.
In the rubber match, BU fell again to Hartford, but did have a bit of success on the offensive side. The team only recorded six hits, but made the most of its opportunities, scoring three times and leaving only three runners on base. In a three-run fifth inning, Hynes ripped a bases-clearing triple, bringing home two runs for the Terriers.
Since that series against Providence (12-18-1), the Terriers have vastly improved their offense, and have raised their team batting average 12 points to .254.
"The thing I like is that we have different people contributing at different times," Gleason said. "We've seen our batting averages rise, we felt good about that going into this weekend. Now we just have to work on getting our girls across the plate."


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I put together a little sizzler video of my last destination wedding that I photographed down in Mexico at the Azul Sensatori Resort Hotel just outside of Cancun in Puerto Morelos Mexico.
I love coming down several days in advance so that I can spend a lot of time with the couple, the wedding party, the family, and the friends.
I was so pleased with this wedding even though a big storm came through right after we did the couples beach photos. So the ceremony had to be under a patio and the reception was in the ballroom. Neither was ideal or what the bride and groom wanted, but we managed to still get some great photos and everyone was having so much fun dancing that they forgot about it. The free flowing tequila helps as well.
We even got chance to do a Trash The Dress photo shoot in the pool since the water was so murky. We had a blast together and I loved all the photos.
Hope you enjoyed the glimpse into my life as a Seattle Destination Wedding Photographer.
I recently did a road trip from Seattle down to Los Angeles to do some fashion photography. I wanted to just wing it and see what I came up with once I got down there.
I knew of the fashion designer Bri Seeley http://www.briseeley.com who's stuff I have been seeing all over the place lately and I've always been a big fan of her stuff. So I knew that it would center around her designs.
On the way down I decided to make a bit of a detour out to Tokeland Washington where the wood artist Jeffro Uitto lives. http://www.jeffrouitto.com I called him up and said I was going to swing by and see if he had any thing for me to incorporate into the shoot. He had two amazing hand carved masks that he had made. I knew I had to use them somehow because they were so impressive.
Once I got to Los Angeles I skimmed through Bri's website again to see what her new Chrysalis collection had in it. The next morning I swung by Mannfolk Public Relations http://www.mannfolkpr.com to make some selections. It was hard to do because there are so many that I loved.
Later that evening I scouted a few locations that one of my producer friends had recommended. One of them ended up being perfect and had several options for backgrounds. Plus the colors just went so well with the wood and the fabrics.
Early the next morning I was off before the sunrise to pick up the model Viktoria Belany. I loved her look and she had no problem being up before sunrise to do the shoot.
Sam Cheng is an aspiring photographer who I met at a destination wedding in Mexico who came to help out for the shoot. We got there at about 630 AM and managed to wrap it up by 830 AM. Everything went so well.
After my trip back from Australia I had an engagement shoot to do at 1000 Steps Beach in Laguna Beach California. So I decided to make an extended lay over and hang out instead of flying back again. Why not right.
It's a really nice secluded beach with big waves, nice sands, over hanging cliffs, and more spots to shoot than I had close to time wise to photograph.
Originally they told me the last thing they wanted was some beach engagement photos at sunset. They liked movie posters, zombies, ninja turtles, and comic books. To which I thought awesome. Finally something original is gonna happen with these engagement photos.
We were going back and forth on ideas for the movie poster look and then the day before the shoot they hit me up and said they were thinking of just doing beach photos instead… AT SUNSET. Hahaha.
The 180 was hysterical but I can't blame them because the beach was so nice and it was a gorgeous day out with a beautiful sunset.
This couple is hysterical I tell you. Never has there been so much "air humping" and innuendos flying back and forth on a shoot.
I am glad they are happy with the photos and got what they wanted, even though it wasn't what they originally wanted.
This is a behind the scenes video of a professional photo shoot that I did for Gressa Skin. It shows the entire process from packing up at 5 AM and driving to find the perfect locations. Getting set up and working with the model Svetlana Sanchez, who also happens to be the owner of Gressa. And not only the entire shoot but also the editing that I did in Lightroom and Photoshop.
The photos turned out amazing and she did a great job modeling and listening to my suggestions. Even overcoming her fears of water by getting onto a floating log in the water.
Recently did a beauty and glamour shoot for no reason other than to have fun and get together with my hair and make up team. If we don't do something for a bit we get antsy and needing a quick fix.
When I saw Morgan one day I spotted those crazy gorgeous eyes of hers and that frizzy hair and knew she would have to be part of the next shoot. Justine & Juan couldn't have agreed more. She was a little hesitant since she had never modeled before. I saw the potential though and glad she agreed to it.
We glammed her up pretty good for the shoot but it's not like she needed it. But we decided to really make those eyes pop by accentuating them even more. Mind you that's her real eyes. No photoshopping done.
Poor Juan said he never wants to see another pair of wire hangers again though after those 3-4 hours of crimping.
A behind the scenes video of one of my latest beauty photo shoots. Model Kirsty Nicole came up from Portland Oregon to allow my makeup and hair team to turn her stark white and almost albino.
As you can see in the first photo displayed on screen which is the raw file straight from the camera and compared to the very next shot, I did very little photoshop to this photo. I like to keep my photos as true to life as possible. I did of course wash out her skin and hair, I blended out the tattoo a bit, and I shifted the color of her eyes to math her tattoo and give it a bit more of a true albino look.
I think it's a strikingly beautiful photo and I love the way it turned out.


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Ever tried the who's viewing, "stalking" your page? Think it works?
My friend linked me an article about online stalking, viewing whatever on FB. An there is three ways to do it, well I I tried a way they said was one. You wrote a letter in th search, whoever pops up if it's not someone you've searched for it's them. I found my ex, babies father on there and know I haven't looked at his profile any time soon. Why bother, I had the mother trucker blocked so he couldn't even find me lol. I unblocked him, I'm 30 yrs old come on now. If this is true, fact he may be on my page he's wasting his name. I don't keep anything open, it's just friends and I am now refusing to put a picture of any of my kids. As the default, just pics of me. I had one of my youngest, the ex's child I have with yet I thought hells no. He isn't going to see her that easily, funk him. I noticed his brother was one, yet I did contact him some in December when their mom passed away.
Anyone ever did that, and found out someone was viewing them that you weren't even sure what was the point?
Same here.
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I heard it's a scam...
I had mine blocked Carlie, but I thought why bother. He won't do crap to give me contact, so why worry and not like he bothers me. He'd need to give me attention for that, and he has a mute stone cold man. I have stated on my about me, being a devoted mother and with someone I'm happy with.


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All the apartments have nets, perhaps to deter birds, yet few are so well used.
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The Bingham Center has partnered with TriCounty Health to promote air quality in the Uintah Basin. Jordan Mathis, TriCounty Health director, and Seth Lyman talked recently on KLCY 105.5 Eagle Country about what individuals and the oil and gas industry can do to reduce air pollution. You can hear a recording at https://goo.gl/2xgoFp. Click below to learn more about air quality from TriCounty Health.
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We are engaged in several projects to measure emissions of organic compounds from oil and gas sources, with an eye towards filling gaps in current understanding. We also work to incorporate existing emissions inventories in air quality models to determine theimpact of changes to emissions on simulated air quality. You can find out about our extensive work to characterize emissions of organics from produced water ponds athttps://goo.gl/RFtrNA, and publications relating to additional studies are available on our Papers and Reports page.
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The former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder could make a move back to Amsterdam this summer.
Last month it was reported by The Scotsman that Celtic were keen on the signature of former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Rafael van der Vaart. The Dutchman has made his intention to leave Hamburg SV in the summer clear and that has alerted the attention of several clubs across Europe, including, it seems, Celtic.
RVDV, something of a cult hero at Tottenham Hotspur after his two-year stint at the club, has over 100 caps for the Dutch national team and has also played for the likes of Ajax and Real Madrid - so he would undoubtedly be an incredible signing from The Bhoys.
His agent however has now opened up about his future, admitting that a return to Ajax is a likely option.
Robert Geerlings told De Telegraaf yesterday:
"Rafael has indicated that Ajax is a serious option.
"But at this moment he is only concerned with one thing: Saving Hamburg SV from relegation. There lies his full focus."
Hamburg are one of a few teams never to have been relegated from the Bundesliga and survived last season by a relegation play-off. This term they also looked in trouble, but two wins from two has seen them rise to 14th in the table - but still just one point outside the relegation zone.
With three games left in the German season, the Celtic target is likely to make a deicision on his future soon after it's conclusion.
However, it looks increasingly likely that the Celtic rumours were hot air.