Held each year at Belmont Park in New York, the Belmont Stakes has always been known as The Trial of the Champion as it is the last of the Triple Crown races and also the longest at one and a half miles in length. It’s open to horses, fillies and three-year-olds alike who want to take a chance on completing the Triple Crown (if they’ve been lucky enough to win the previous two races) or take down the leader and favorite.

In some years, the Belmont Stakes can mean the crowning of a new champion, but since there have only been twelve horses in history to take the Triple Crown, the Belmont is usually just one big race between incredible horses facing off in the Run for the Skin tones.

It’s the oldest of the Triple Crown races, with the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes being the other two, and if you don’t live in New York but want to attend, how about chartering a plane to do just that?

Chartering a jet gives you plenty of leg, shoulder, head and elbow room and allows you to get where you want to go on your schedule, not the major commercial airlines. There’s also a reduced security wait time, and you know your luggage will be with you at all times, not headed in the opposite direction.

One of the best things about a charter plane is that they can land at smaller airports while avoiding the crowds at major hubs across the country. This means you spend less time navigating the crowds and more time enjoying your ride.

So who will be the next big star to emerge from the Belmont? The fastest time in history is still held by the great Secretariat in 1973. That year he also won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in record time, something we haven’t seen since. Secretariat also holds the record in the margin of victory category, as he won by thirty-one lengths over the rest of the field.

Who will win the next skin tone blanket? And will you have arrived to see it in style and comfort or have you battled the crowds and commercial airlines and arrived exhausted and tired? Chartering is less expensive than you think and think of all the hassle you save.

If you are a wife struggling to find her way after her husband has cheated on her, I feel like you and I are soul mates. I’m pretty sure I understand some of how you feel and I’d feel pretty comfortable if I knew that one of your biggest wishes right now is to feel a little bit normal in your everyday life and in your marriage.

You want to look at your husband and feel secure in his feelings for you and his commitment to you. But this can be very difficult if she is not acting the way she used to act. I can tell you with full confidence that in the weeks and even months after a husband’s affair, we wives watch our husbands very closely. We look at everything she says, everything she does, and even the things she doesn’t do or say.

So when we notice a change in his display of affection towards us, we become concerned. And we desperately want to know if this is normal and what it could all mean. A wife may be concerned about her husband’s level of affection. She might say, “My husband is done with his affair. I know that for sure and I have no doubts about it. He’s doing just about anything I ask of him. But the affection just isn’t there. He always used to stroke my face, rub my hair and hold me. This was not planned or asked. He just did it because he seemed to want to express his feelings for me and I always loved that about our marriage. We were always very demonstrative with our affection – always touching. I always felt that by doing this, we were we keep close and give our children a good example of how to share feelings for those you love.

Unfortunately, my husband never does these things again. There is no more touching. And if there is, I’m the one who does it. I often reach out and grab my husband’s hand in the hope that he will follow my lead and show more affection. He does not. I have mentioned this to you. I’ve told him that his lack of affection for me makes me think he’s not attracted to me or that he doesn’t want to be around me. He says that neither of these things is true. He says that he is often reluctant to show me affection because he fears rejection. But I think there is more than this. I think he says something about his attraction and commitment. Is what I’m seeing normal?

In my experience, it is. And honestly, what her husband has told her, that he fears rejection, is also extremely common and may be 100 percent valid. From what I have experienced and seen in other marriages, in the weeks and months after the affair, the spouses can almost be circling each other, afraid to act, watching and waiting for the other person to take the lead. This can be especially true in the case of the cheating spouse. My husband and I were circling like vultures, frankly.

Doubts your husband might have: Husband expresses the following when they write to me. A husband may say that he often doesn’t know how you really feel about him and how receptive you really are. If he tries to initiate affection, are you going to get mad? Defensive? Are you going to think that he is genuine or are you going to think that he is just trying to win back your goodwill? Are you going to turn him down to make things incredibly awkward between you? Or are you going to reject him to get back at him?

One very common thing that happens to both people is that they wonder (and worry) about what the other person is feeling. They assume there is anger. They worry that there is no love. And they worry that they are the only ones having these disturbing thoughts.

Honestly, your spouse often has the exact same concerns that you do. Neither of them wants to feel that he is the only one who cares and that he is the only one who feels affection. So, understandably, you hold back. Most of the time, both people expect the other to be the initiator. And when this does not happen, people may assume that their spouse does not feel love or affection when this is not true.

What happens next? Well, you can be patient and you can promise yourself that you’re not going to just assume things. You can continue to show affection to your spouse and you can be receptive when he shows you affection, so that over time he will feel more secure doing it.

And you can try to accept the fact that there is bound to be some discomfort in this process. Until time has passed and the work has been done, neither person knows where they stand, both are afraid, and both can hold back their feelings and affection until they feel a little safer to do so.

This feeling of security often comes over time and happens more often as you progress through your healing. There’s often little point in pushing your spouse more about it, as this can make the awkwardness worse and mean you get less affection instead of more.

Her name is Pamela Williams.

His story begins on a cold winter’s day in early January, the kind of day you wish you could stay home, drinking cups of hot chocolate and just chilling. However, that cold January day was certainly not going to be like that. It was the day of Pamela and Jason’s five-year-old son’s doctor’s appointment.

The pediatric allergist the Williams family had been instructed to see was located near Manhattan. The query went well. They left the office satisfied, but with some reservations about whether or not to stick with the regiment of medications prescribed for Johnny’s rashes.

Being so close to Jason’s business associates gave them a good reason to continue their adventure in the business district of Manhattan. They parked in a city lot and began the long, cold walk to the man’s office. Pamela and Johnny marveled at the various characters that made up the hordes of crowds on the catwalks. As exciting as it was, it left them with an unusual feeling of chaos and disorder.

Jason, acting as a guide, seemed in control. He skillfully guided Pamela and Johnny through the labyrinth of humanity. They finally reached the building of their destination. He goes up the elevator, down the hall, through the security doors. They had finally made it.

While Jason consulted with the gentleman in the office, Pamela was busy in the anteroom talking to Johnny. Everything seemed to be going quite nice.

It was late as the trio left the gray office building. As impossible as it seemed, the stark reality was that the crowds on the streets and sidewalks of Manhattan had increased at least twice. Stick together, stick together, Pamela thought as panic began to rise.

Pamela and Johnny half ran, half walked to keep up with Jason’s brisk pace. Pamela gripped Johnny’s hand tightly. The crowds made it impossible to walk in a line all the time, but they kept one another on their toes. At last, they reached the busy post office. Together they entered. Together they walked down the steps to the mailboxes. Jason took the key from him, opened the box and retrieved the mail. They braced themselves for another encounter with the mad rush of the human mass.

Leaving the building, Pamela recognized a certain awkward lightness. Something wasn’t right. Pamela instinctively reached for her bag. She wasn’t there!

“Where is my wallet?” Pamela’s voice took on an artificial high pitch. She quickly rummaged through the miscellaneous bag that she had brought her lunch in. No wallet!

As the masses passed, Pamela felt sweat break out and panic rise. Jason’s face reflected emotion.

They retraced their steps. No, post office security had no idea about a missing wallet. No trace of him on the floor, or on the shelf. No wallet anywhere. The crowds surged in an endless stream.

Suddenly, it registered in Pamela’s mind! She had left her wallet-IN HER HUSBAND’S ASSOCIATE’S OFFICE! Pamela’s body heat dropped a degree. Yes, she was almost sure… she had left her purse on the floor next to her chair while she delivered Johnny’s lunch… UNLESS… Pamela knew that she had accompanied Johnny a few times. to… THE BATHROOM!

Quickly, they returned to the office building. The entrance was closed. No sign of any security guard. However, Pamela was sure. Her bag was there, hopefully, sitting innocently on the floor of the fifth-floor office anteroom. The only thing that gnawed at her brain was the thought that she maybe, just maybe, she had left it in the ladies’ room, accessible to anyone…

Pamela pushed the unpleasant thought aside. They made their way through the crowd, pausing for a few moments to put a particular credit card on hold. The rest would have to wait. Pamela wasn’t sure what credit cards she had in her wallet, and besides, she had a feeling, albeit a shaky one, that everything would be all right in the morning.

They traveled home, making light conversation and avoiding the fear that was creeping up on them.

That night honestly passed without incident.

The next morning, Pamela eagerly anticipated the happy news of the discovery of a lone wallet on the floor of her husband’s associate’s office. Unfortunately, the joy never came. Instead of her, a terrible sense of intense fear gripped her heart.

“He didn’t find it? Are you sure? He looked everywhere for it?”

Yes, apparently he had. Persuading him to go in and search the ladies’ room hadn’t been very successful, but Jason managed to get him to at least recruit a woman to look into it. The results: NULL! NOT A THING!

Pamela felt like fainting at that moment. There, in the recesses of her wallet, were credit cards, her passport, her green card, her birth certificate (since she needed it to travel abroad she hadn’t had a chance to put them away, how irresponsible, she told herself. ). now) her checkbook, her health insurance card, her social security card, her children’s social security cards… Pamela’s head took a very severe form of pain.

The phone calls began.

“Yes, I’m canceling,” Pamela heard herself say to customer service for each of the countless credit cards she thought was lost. The strange thing about her asking if recent purchases of hers had been recorded was that she was repeatedly told no. Why, she thought, why wouldn’t a thief use an irresistible credit card? She knew that a lost credit card in the hands of an unscrupulous character was like candy in the hands of a child. The same applied to her checking account. No recent transactions. Weird…

Then he noticed Pamela.

All of his ‘I’ was in that pocket. Pamela imagined her Canadian passport, her social security card, her too many forms of identification dancing mockingly before her eyes. What a fool she had been to walk around with everything when others keep documents like these under lock and key!

As Pamela made the calls to the various agencies involved with identity theft, her mind played back real-life videos of a vile terrorist walking the streets in the guise of a woman with a very Anglo-sounding name.

Pamela eagerly tried to file a police report on her lost (or, I guess, stolen) wallet. It became apparent that a police report would require an in-person visit to the nearest police station to the loss of her. Getting back to Manhattan was not going to be easy.

And as the gravity of the situation took hold of Pamela, she understood that obtaining a replacement social security card meant presenting authorities with a form of identification, such as a driver’s license, a birth certificate, a green card, a passport. . ..and that getting a replacement for the myriad other documents she had lost (or-gulp-stolen) involved presenting…the same various forms of identification. Pamela got lost in a sea, struggling for lifebuoys that weren’t there!

Suddenly, it hit Pamela like a ton of bricks. She was not an entity! A nobody! Without the documents that prove her existence, Pamela Williams officially does not exist. It was a thought that almost made me lose control. Suddenly, she wasn’t supposed to drive, she wasn’t allowed to leave the country… What if her parents needed her in Montreal? What if there was an emergency? And yes?…

Pamela’s mind refused to wander any further. She went to work frantically to obtain a birth certificate. That, she thought, would be the beginning of a passport, a US green card, a social security card, a license… Would the list finally end?

It seemed that all the apps also required a fee. A substantial one at that.

When the fee schedule caught Jason’s eye, he decided they should wait, just a little longer. Maybe the wallet still turned up at the office. Maybe someone had found it and would still report it. Nobody had used the credit cards, nobody had tried to withdraw money from the bank…

It was a glimmer of hope, but dim in light of the fact that Pamela was now having nightmares of a shadowy underground figure with her identity making her (or could it be him?) sinister rounds in the dingy nightclub hangouts where other terrorists. They meet to conspire.

Pamela put off applying for a green card for a short time. However, her task of retrieving her Canadian birthright continued. Enlisting the help of her former teacher, who was now principal of the school she had attended, she managed to receive a letter stating that she was Pamela Williams, known as such for x number of years. The precious letter was waiting on Pamela’s dining room table along with the many other apps she had purchased. She waited. For the time being.

Life took a different shape. It evolved around Pamela’s situation. She got up in the morning with the fear of having problems with her identity. She feels that children go to school with the same fear. While she was doing the laundry, Pamela dreamed of being rescued by a hero who had located her wallet. And while she was shopping, she decided to live in the shadow of an alien who had her precious documents. Though life danced happily around her in the form of health and family life, she was missing the beat altogether. Not only, it seemed, had Pamela’s identity papers been taken from her, but with them her inner happiness had been taken away.

Life went on. One morning, when Pamela was ready to submit the application that would be the catalyst for others once she was processed (her birth certificate), she picked up the ringing phone.

“Hello. “

“Pamela?” Jason sounded more cheerful than usual.

“Yes, how are you?” Pamela replied in the monotone that had recently taken over her voice.

“I have good news,” he said.

“Good news? What is it?” she asked.

“Guess what,” he said.

“Guess what? I can’t guess right now,” he said. “I’m so busy, what’s up?”

“Just guess,” he pressed. What would be good news now?”

“Who won the playoffs? I really don’t have time for games right now. What’s up?”

“It’s not about games,” Jason said. “It’s about something you lost.”

There was a long silence as Pamela paused to digest his insistence.

In a very low voice, almost a whisper, he said, “My wallet? Has anyone found my wallet?”

“They found him in the office. Sitting there, Pamela.”

“Wow,” he said quietly. “They really found it. Thank God! But, I don’t understand. Why did it take three whole weeks for them to discover my wallet lying on the corner of the floor?”

There was silence from the other end.

“Wow!” she kept repeating. “I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Thank you.”

Pamela placed the receiver on its cradle and sat down. It had been three long weeks since she’d disappeared her bag. Three weeks filled with apprehension and dread. Pamela wanted to dance, celebrate, sing. Instead, she sat thoughtfully and simply basked in her new relief.

In fact, life has taken a refreshing new wave. Since that heavy moment in Pamela’s life, she has learned to be much more careful with her personal data. Her passport and her documentation are kept under lock and key. Credit cards and the Internet are treated with reverence. She and even she added identity theft coverage to her NJ homeowners insurance policy.

The incidents regarding the panorama of life are nothing short of amazing. Small but important changes are needed to acquire the priceless gift of peace of mind.

Planet Earth did not come into existence by accident, nor did God create this magnificent sphere through a great chaotic explosion in the Universe. Rather, the book of Genesis specifies God’s intricate fabrication of our planet and everything in and on it, through a carefully planned and detailed order of design.

And where order exists, priorities must also exist.

God was working with a precise intention, preparing a place to carry out the greatest story ever told. Planet Earth was being prepared to manifest His glory and teach His created beings about the benefits and blessings of a relationship with Him.

The word “prepare” means to prepare, arrange, organize, plan, establish, practice, and put in order.

“Let everything be done decently and in order.” (1 Corinthians 14:40)

Preparation is the hallmark of God, the significant quality of character that defines His nature. He is a God of order and has exhorted us to follow his example.

“In you, O LORD, I trust; never let me be confounded.” (Psalm 71:1)

The opposite of order is confusion, and in the Scriptures, confusion is always presented in a negative way by describing it as sin or something to be avoided.

Life and death priorities, as defined by our Creator, have more to do with our survival than with the complex time management choices we hear so much about today.

Unless our own priorities are in harmony with God’s specific priorities for our lives, we may be heading in the wrong direction and not even realize it. Taking the wrong path on this journey we call “life” could cost us our physical life, but it could also cost us something even more valuable: our eternal life.

Whether we believe in God right now or not, we are powerless to stop the destructive consequences that await us at the end of the wrong path.

Chaos does not produce order; chaos begets more chaos and in the midst of chaos evil thrives. The devil is committed to our demise and understands the power of priorities. That is why he works to hide the value of order and has become the author of confusion, fragmented thinking and thoughtless and impulsive actions.

However, everything in life testifies that order comes from the mind of God and is essential to access, nurture and develop all that has been created. Where would we be without the ordered systems found in biology, botany, mathematics, physics, computer technologies, art, music, language, and even our simple alphabet-based filing system?

Somehow we all know in our hearts when our priorities are not in order. Eventually, the consequences of the chaos catch up with us. The sad news is that we have learned to silence our own hearts and disconnect from the Voice of God in order to catch up with this world’s system. Many of us have traded godly order for man’s substitute, believing that somehow chaos, multitasking, and burning the candle at both ends is the path to success.

There is only one way we can safely stop the mad chaos and get out of the sinking ship that is bobbing back and forth on the stormy sea of ​​life.

We simply must realign our priorities with the Word of God. This is a life or death decision and the most important decision we will ever make.

How can the book called “the Holy Bible” and “the Word of God” transform a chaotic life into a life that flows with balance and order?

We must first understand that the Word of God is the Voice of God, that God really resides in His Voice.

“The voice of the Lord is over the waters… The Lord is over many waters.” (Psalm 29:3)

“The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; the Lord shakes the desert of Kadesh.” (Psalm 29:8)

These verses contain more than poetic symbolism. They reveal the truth about creation and are verified in Genesis where we are told that the world was created when “God said…” or by the power that resides in the Word and Voice of him.

As you look up all the words in Scripture that refer to the power found in God’s Word, it becomes obvious that God wants mankind to know the awesome power that resides in His Word.

Our brain was designed to be affected and is perfectly compatible with the Word of God. As we listen to the Word and read the Word, it can discipline our minds to focus and follow the thoughts of the Creator. These are thoughts based on all that is good, wise and beneficial for every dimension of our life; thoughts based on the intended order and maintenance of all that He has created. He knows how his creation works best and wants to pass on that knowledge to us.

While this process is based on the content of what we find in the Holy Bible, we also benefit from the role we must play to access God’s wisdom and Spirit when we read and listen to His Word.

The Holy Bible is not like any other book on the shelf.

The true God of the Bible wishes to communicate with His people through His Word, just as we communicate and reveal our thoughts and our true nature with those we love, through the words we speak and write.

Our brain was created by God to flow complete thought patterns through electrical impulses in the brain. From the moment we are born, our brain is learning and perfecting all the various thinking techniques.

Most of the time, the brain just flows with random thoughts, but it must also learn to intentionally compose thoughts, retain one thought and insert another, as well as review thoughts and connect a series of related thoughts. This is also how we build our basic spiritual and mental frames of reference.

The Word of God tells us that our first priority is the Word of God. What God says must be preeminent in our life. When this happens, our hearts and minds harmonize with God’s heart and mind, and when we hear His Voice and follow Him, He will reveal the specific priorities He has ordained for each dimension of our lives.

This is the only path to true success, peace, order, and abundant life.

Jesus, the Living Word, confirmed this when he said: “…the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.” (John 6:63)

Urban Rivals is a browser-based massively multiplayer online (MMO) card game, similar to traditional collectible card games like Magic: The Gathering and Legend of the Five Rings. Your goal in Urban Rivals is to collect as many cards as you can and use them to defeat your opponents. The following is a guide to help you understand the finer details of the game and put you on the path to becoming an Urban Rivals champion!

game formats

In Urban Rivals, there are four different game formats to play. Each of the formats has rules regarding deck building and gameplay. The Type 1 and Type 2 formats differ in the number of “stars” or character points allowed in your deck. Type 1 decks allow a maximum of 25 stars, while type 2 decks are for 26 stars or more. The Survivor format is an offshoot of Type 2, and the goal is to have as long a winning streak as possible.

The most popular format is known as ELO, which has a tournament ladder. Its rules are similar to Type 1, but it includes a list of cards that have been banned for being dominated. The ELO format has weekly prizes depending on how well you rank on the tournament ladder. Each game format will have its own deckbuilding strategies, but this guide provides general game and deckbuilding strategies that should apply to all game formats.

terrace construction

Your deck of 8 cards, 4 of which will be randomly used in each battle, is the key to winning battles. No matter how good you are, a bad deck is sure to cost you the battle. As such, deckbuilding strategies are very important, and most decisions are made before battles take place.

* Clans – The first thing you have to decide is which clan to choose. Each clan has a bonus that applies to all its members. The Bangers, Junkz, Rescue, Sentinel, and Ulu Watu clans all have attack power bonuses. The All Stars, Montana, Sakrohm and Uppers penalize their opponents’ attack power. The Fang Pi Clang and La Junta clans have damage boosts, while the Pussycats reduce opponents’ damage. The Gheist, Nightmare, Pirana, and Roots clans cancel opponents’ powers, while the Skeelz clan protects their powers from being canceled. The Freaks clan deals poison damage to their opponents, while the Jungo clan gives themselves more health. The clan you choose will depend on your play style preference.

* Clan Identity – Not only does the bonus clan have to fit your playstyle, but you also need to think about the identity, backstory, and ideals of the Urban Rivals clan that resonate with you. If you don’t like gangsters and guns, the Montana mafia clan is definitely not going to suit you, no matter how good their clan bonus is. Similarly, if you like the idea of ​​military superiority and guerrilla warfare, the La Junta clan will appeal to you.

* Mono vs Dual: There are 2 deck compositions that are played most often: Mono-Clan and Dual-Clan. Mono-Clan means that your deck of 8 consists of characters from a single clan (plus perhaps a leader). Dual-Clan means that your deck contains cards from 2 clans. The choice between the two arises because a card’s clan bonus only works if you have at least 2 cards from that clan in play. So using a Mono-Clan deck ensures that your clan bonus is always active, but it suffers due to a lack of diversity. A dual-clan deck, on the other hand, will find battles where one of the cards won’t have its clan bonus. However, this disadvantage is offset by the fact that you are using 2 clans whose bonuses work well together or cover each other’s weaknesses.

* Card Cost: Once you’ve decided which clan you want, the next step is choosing which cards go into your deck. When you’re starting out, you’re unfortunately limited by the cost of the cards. Powerful cards usually cost a lot of money in the Urban Rivals game, but you will be able to pay for them the more you play and the more tournaments you enter.

* Star Allocation: In Type 1 and ELO games, you are limited to 25 stars or points in the deck. Choosing which combination of star levels goes in your deck is important. Do you want more 5-star power in your deck, knowing you’ll have to put a lot of weak 2-star cards to balance them out? You could get lucky in battle and have all of your 5 stars on the line, or you could end up playing with 3 or 4 2-star cards, pretty much handing the game over to your opponent. The other option would be to fill your deck mostly with 4 and 3 star cards to ensure you make a decent team in every battle. Once again, the choice will depend on your style of play.

* Card Skills: The next step is to figure out which cards work best in your deck. It’s best to choose cards whose abilities complement your clan bonus. For example, if your clan bonus gives you a large attack bonus, then you could use cards whose attack power is not that great but deal a lot of damage, since the clan bonus is already increasing your attack. You should also add cards that are more specialized, like ones that stop abilities or bonuses, or walls that reduce damage taken. As a whole, you should have an overall goal for your deck, and most of your cards should support or work toward that goal.

how to play

Now that the deck is ready, the next thing to focus on is how to fight well. Both you and your opponent start with 12 life and 12 pillz, and your goal is to end the battle with more life than your opponent. As you might expect, there are many ways to achieve that result.

* Poker – You can treat a game of Urban Rivals as if it were a game of poker. The person who is able to read his opponent best and bet wisely usually wins. The pillz you use to increase your attack or damage are like poker chips. Go all-in with a powerful card? Or do you save your pillz for a time when you expect your opponent to launch his big attack? Just remember that pills are actually more important than life, and should be stored and used wisely.

* Objective: When the battle begins and the cards are revealed, the first thing you need to do is decide on your objective and plan of attack. Do your cards have enough damage to do a 2-hit KO (i.e. deal 12 damage using only 2 cards)? If so, then you should focus your pillz on those 2 cards. Do you intend to open with a poison card and defend while dealing damage? Next, you need to make sure you have enough walls and defensive cards to pull it off. In any case, you must also know your opponent’s plan of attack and be ready to counter it.

* First turn: The first turn of the battle is possibly the most crucial. The player with the most stars/points at the table will start first, giving the weaker player a chance to see their opponent play before deciding what to do. It is common to open with a bluff, playing a strong card using very few pillz. If the opponent reacts by using a lot of pillz, he could have won the first round but would be at a pillz disadvantage. If the opponent doesn’t spend pillz to defend themselves, you would have done a fair amount of damage with only a small investment in pillz.

* Pillz Advantage: During each round, the player with the most pillz available usually has the advantage and can dictate how the battle will play out. The player with the fewest pillz has the fewest options and usually has to go all-in or concede a round. Therefore, it is very beneficial if you can spend pillz more efficiently than your opponent (as long as you keep winning battles). This stems from the first-turn bluff strategy: if you bluff successfully, you’ll have a huge advantage and can extend it throughout the battle, constantly putting your opponent on the defensive.

Hopefully this guide clears up some of the less obvious aspects of the game and makes your experience playing Urban Rivals more enjoyable! As you would expect, practice makes perfect and you will start to see how others play and will be able to change your strategies accordingly. And don’t forget that there are almost 20 different clans that you can experiment with, so don’t be afraid to play with them!

From the correspondence I receive, I find that there is a perception that a man who cheats on his wife will stop having sex with her. I sometimes get letters from “the other woman” asking if he should believe a husband who claims he is no longer intimate with his wife. I’m not sure why, but this is usually very important to her. She might say, “The guy I’ve been dating has told me that he didn’t sleep with his wife for six months before he met me and that he hasn’t slept with her since we got together. They have children, which is the only reason why he stays. However, I have a friend who is also a friend of his wife. And she says she wouldn’t be surprised if they still have sex because they both act normal and somewhat affectionate when they’re together. She said she just saw them taken hand in hand walking around the neighborhood. Could he be lying to me?”

Along the same lines, a wife may suspect that her husband is cheating on her, but ultimately decide that he probably isn’t because their sex life is still active and pretty good. She might assume that since the husband has good, frequent sex at home, then she has nothing to worry about in the cheating department. She might say, “My husband has been away from home a lot more than usual lately. He works late. He goes out. He answers more phone calls than usual and takes them where I can’t hear what he says. I would suspect him of cheating, except for the fact that we’re still having pretty good sex.”

From my observation and experience, these assumptions are not always correct. Many men who have affairs continue to have sex with their wives without anything changing or appearing to be friends. In fact, sometimes the sex is more frequent or even better while he’s having an affair. He may do this to avoid suspicion or he may do this because he is still involved in his marriage and still very attracted to his wife.

In fact, it is my opinion that most men never intended to leave their wife and still don’t while the affair is active. So for them, nothing is going to change. And because of that, there is no reason to stop having sex. Sure, they very convincingly tell the other woman that they want to or they’re going to leave. They will tell you that they are married in name only and have not been intimate in years. They tell you these things even when they are not true because they want to make it easier for you to cheat. They don’t want her to identify with her wife or for her to realize that she is in a relationship with no real future.

Frankly, it’s not fair to the other woman. They are lies that they are telling you. But this scenario is very common and many “other women” eventually put two and two together and realize they are being lied to. And many wives eventually find evidence of cheating and have to face reality even when their sex life still seems active and wonderful.

So the answer to the question is yes, the man very often continues to have meaningful and good sex with their spouses while they are having an active affair. That’s wrong. And he mixed things up. And often the wife and the other woman don’t understand this because women are less likely to understand how you can have sex with two people.

I don’t really have a definitive answer on this because I couldn’t pull this off either. When I love someone, I could never be unfaithful. But obviously, as a woman, I don’t think or act like a man. From the correspondence I receive, it seems pretty clear, at least to me, that men are much better at separating the two relationships and compartmentalizing their feelings and thoughts. If I were the one having an affair, I’d be so paralyzed with conflict and guilt, but some men can juggle it quite convincingly.

Again, this is just my opinion, but if I was dating a married man and he told me he wasn’t having sex with his wife, I would have serious doubts about it. From my observation, most of the time, this is simply not true. Most likely, two people under one roof and in one bed with a shared commitment have sex. Many men tell the other woman that they sleep on the couch or in the guest bedroom. This is often not true either.

And many wives want to believe that as long as she’s having sex with him, he doesn’t need to look elsewhere for it. The truth is, she’s getting a different reward out of this than just the sex. He often uses adventure as a way to feel better about himself. Sex often has a lot less to do with it than people think.

Why do guys come back when you ignore them? Doesn’t make sense, does it? After a breakup, all you really want is to talk to your ex to convince him to get back together with you. However, listen to all this advice that suggests doing the opposite is the best way to go. How the hell can ignoring a man work? It’s not logical. It just so happens that matters of the heart are rarely logical. The fact is that ignoring a man after a breakup will drive him crazy with desire for you again. Once you understand why this works so well, you’ll be eager to try it out on his ex.

Whenever a woman asks why guys come back when you stop paying attention to them, they’re actually looking at it from a female perspective. We believe that to win him back we have to be constantly in contact with him. Sending her gifts or love letters seems appropriate. The problem is that those things can work if the situation were reversed. If your guy was trying to win your love back, being romantic is the way to go. However, in men, none of those things push the right psychological buttons for him to want you back. Only one thing does and that is to ignore it.

A man’s ego plays a huge role in getting him back after the relationship has ended. You have to learn to play with that ego in such a way that it finds you irresistible again. If you consider the fact that playing rough is the ticket when you want to get a guy’s attention, then it makes a lot of sense that playing rough now will also get his interest. That’s why ignoring it works so amazingly well.

The moment you start ignoring a man, you change the dynamic of your relationship with him. The emotional control he had over you is gone. Now you have that control all to yourself. By stopping all contact, you are showing him that you are no longer his. You have your own life and you are ready, willing and excited to start living it.

No man wants to wander through the wreckage of his broken relationship with a shattered ego. He wants to feel that his ex needs him and wants him back. If she disappears into thin air and he feels that she has moved on, he will be hurt by the bitterness of her rejection. He will do anything to get rid of that feeling, and luckily for you, there is really only one cure. He will need you back if you ignore him. That’s why so many women will tell you it’s the best way to get a man back.

This recent exchange with a gentleman on the History Channel forum comes just in time for Thanksgiving Day…

The twelve tribes themselves are not of European origin.

The Twelve Tribes of Israel, the Anglo-Saxons and the white peoples of northwestern Europe, are of Israelite origin. We are the so-called “Ten Lost Tribes”. We were taken captive by the Assyrians and later, as prophesied, migrated north and west in Europe and King David’s dynasty continues on Scepter Island.

Of the 12,000 from each tribe who will be taken away on judgment day, how many do you think will be half-breeds?

If they are so mixed, the Holy Spirit would not have inspired John to write specifically about the unique tribes of Israel. Obviously, they are not “mixed” enough to disqualify them from being considered, in God’s eyes, this or that specific tribe of Israel. We have undoubtedly intermarried, but still dominate this or that tribe in our ancestry, having sifted through various countries (we can say we are English, Irish, Dutch) but still ISRAELITE.

When Revelation was written, the author probably had no idea that the Jews would have scattered throughout the world as they have or intermarried as they have with other peoples.

John was a prophet and the Holy Spirit undoubtedly inspired him to learn about the other prophecies of the Law and the Prophets that clearly foretold the reach and expansion of the Twelve Tribes to the ends of the Earth: not only the Jews! The Jews are only a small part of the great family of Jacob-Israel.

It is written in Amos that we (the northern 10-tribe Kingdom of Israel) would migrate, examine the nations, and yet not lose our identity (in regards to our ethnic makeup, our basic DNA).

assuming you’re a gentile

God’s mercy extends to all peoples, even though his plan calls first for the Jews (and Israelites) and then for the Gentiles. God has called our peoples, the Jews and the Joes, Israelites, so that they finally become his servant nation to bless all nations.

I am Joe (descendant of Joseph/Anglo-Saxon heritage) as well as a Jew, a descendant of King David, as our family traces back to the British and Scottish royal families. I am also a descendant of two Mayflower Pilgrims, John and Priscilla Alden, and a collateral descendant of three American Presidents.

[The Scripture] it does not apply to the United States because they did not give us anything. WE TAKE ALL WE HAVE FROM THE NATIVES

The United States was given primarily to the descendants of Joseph and the other northern tribes of Israel, with some Jews living among us (although God has given them a Jewish homeland). Just as ancient Israel had to be willing to fight to secure their inheritance, so do we. Sometimes we were more honorable than others, like Jacob with Esau, but even though Manifest Destiny was going to be and was fulfilled in us. We do not take from the natives because it was not theirs to begin with—it belongs to our Great Creator God and to whom He gives it, as is His divine prerogative.

The various natives took each and had a violent history towards different tribes and was carried away by their crude paganism. Some were more advanced than others.

Deuteronomy 6:10-12

10 “So it will be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land of which he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you great and beautiful cities that you did not build, 11 houses full of all good things that you did not fill, dug wells that you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant;when you have eaten and are satisfied, 12 then be careful, lest you forget the LORD…

we build the cities, we invent our gadgets and things, we build a gigantic economy, we pave the roads, we assemble a massive army, etc. all for us. God had nothing to do with these things.

God works in, through, and for people at the same time. He warned us not to develop such an unhealthy and pompous attitude of vainly imagining that we were doing all these things without his help and inspiration, even giving us the health to achieve great things. God has blessed our efforts. It is true that God helps those who help themselves. The “Protestant work ethic” is a biblical work ethic.

Deuteronomy 8:9-20

9 a land in which you will not eat bread with scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are made of iron and from whose mountains copper can be extracted. 10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.
eleven Be careful not to forget the LORD your God, not keeping his commandments, his judgments, and his statutes that I command you today, 12 except when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built beautiful houses and live in them. 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, 14 when your hearts are lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God… 17 then you say in your heart: ‘My power and the strength of my hand have earned me this wealth.’

18 “And you shall remember the LORD your God, for he it is who gives you power to get riches, to establish his covenant who swore to your fathers, as on this day. 19 And if in any way you forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and serve and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish. 20 Like the nations that the LORD destroys before you, so you will perish, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

As Abraham Lincoln warned, he said that we had forgotten our Great God and encouraged everyone to repent and pray that God would save our nation. We were saved so that God could fulfill his many prophecies, his wonderful promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob about peace and prosperity for his offspring because of THE OBEDIENCE OF ABRAHAM. But God has given us so many things and wonderful years and we have forgotten it as self-made men and women who in vain imagine that we do not need God and this is all our doing, the work of our hands, so God, who controls the weather – He will take these things off our hands and show us how we are at His mercy to humble us and bring us back to Him and remind us to keep Their commandments, Their Holy Saturday and biblical holidays, the “Jewish holidays”, and reject the replacement theology and the pagan holidays of bloody Rome!

If we have God to thank for the invention of the airplane, then we have to thank him for 9/11.

That is just ridiculous. What we do with a gift is our responsibility. Everything has the potential to be a blessing or a curse. God gives us free will to determine what we want of ourselves, what we will do with what we have been given: whether we will squander our inheritance or use it wisely, with an attitude of gratitude and loving obedience.

I see you conveniently didn’t refer to the other verse I quoted, verse 24 which says:

1. Behold, the LORD empties the land, desolates it, and turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

2. And it will be, that as it is with the people, so with the priest; as it is with the servant, so with his master; as it is with the maid, so with his mistress; as it is with the buyer, so with the seller; as it is with the lender, so also with the borrower; as it is with the usury taker, so with the usury payer for him.

3. The land will be completely devastated and completely plundered, because Jehovah has spoken this word. 4 The earth mourns and fades, the world languishes and fades, the haughty people of the earth languish.

13. When this happens: in the midst of the land among the peoples, it will be like the shaking of the olive tree, and like the grapes that are picked after the harvest. 14 They will raise their voice, they will sing to the majesty of the Lord, they will cry out from the sea. 15 Therefore glorify the LORD in the fires, the name of the LORD God of Israel in the islands of the sea. 16. From most of the earth we have heard songs, glory to the righteous. But I said: My thinness, my thinness, woe is me! treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yes, treacherous dealers have dealt with much treachery. 17 Fear, pit and snare upon you, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it will come to pass that he who flees from the voice of fear will fall into the pit; and whoever comes out of the middle of the well will be caught in the snare; for windows from on high were opened, and the foundations of the earth shook. 19 The earth is completely broken, the earth completely dissolved, the earth greatly shaken. 20 The earth will stagger like a drunkard, and shake like a hut; and her transgression will be heavy on her; and will fall, and will not rise again.

These verses prophesy the destruction of everything and everyone who does not agree with what you are telling me.

I didn’t ignore it and tackled it. Humanity will reach the point of no return: except for divine intervention, no flesh would be spared alive, no human being would remain, just as Yeshua and the Prophets predicted. Within that Scripture is revealed survivors who are praising God, which I have highlighted.

Matthew 24:21-22

21 For then there will be great tribulation [Time of Jacob’s Trouble], such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, nor will there ever be. 22 and unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the sake of the elect [the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob] those days will be shortened.

Isaiah 1:9

9 Unless Jehovah of hosts

He had left us a very small scrap or remains,

We would have become like Sodom,

We would have been made like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 43:1-3

1 But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob,

And he who formed you, O Israel:

“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;

I have called you by your name;

You are mine.

two When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;

And by the rivers, they will not drown you.

When you go through the fire, you won’t get burned,

Not even the flame will burn you.

3 For I am the LORD your God,

the Holy One of Israel, your Savior;

I gave Egypt for your ransom,

Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

God always saves a remnant to keep alive His promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that He would be their God and the God of their descendants (meaning they must always have some descendants). East GOOD NEWS That’s why the first chapter of Beyond Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Europe is appropriately called “Guaranteed Survival!”

Loyang has become the new capital of the Han dynasty in ancient China, and it’s time to make your mark at the gates of Loyang. As a farmer, you must supply the growing city with your harvested crops. Buy and sell seeds, expand your land, hire traders and experts, and sell your harvested products to all kinds of customers. Compete against other farmers on the Road to Prosperity and become the most successful farmer in this economic strategy board game!

At the Gates of Loyang is a board game from Uwe Rosenberg, the creator of Agricola, one of the most popular strategy board games of all time. Loyang is Rosenberg’s third board game with an economic theme, following Agricola and Le Havre, both of which have become hugely popular with legions of fans. Loyang continues this tradition, but this time with a different scenario: Chinese farmers are looking to make as much gold as possible. Additionally, the game is less complicated than Rosenberg’s other games, with fewer mechanics and victory paths to worry about.

The game takes place in ancient China and you are one of the many farmers who supply the new capital city of Loyang. With a rapidly growing market, this is your chance to make it big and put yourself on the path to prosperity, earning loads of money and securing a life of luxury for you and your family. But what is a business without a little healthy competition? In Loyang, the winner is the player who finishes the game the furthest along the Prosperity Path and thus becomes the most prosperous and successful farmer.

Each player gets a “board”, which is basically a T-shaped panel that contains the Path of Prosperity track, as well as an individual market shop where they can buy and sell their crops. You also get a local field card and a stack of 9 semi-random field cards that can be used to plant different types and amounts of vegetables. There are 6 types of vegetables, ranging from the cheaper wheat and squash to the more expensive and rare beans and leek. The game lasts a total of 9 rounds, and at the start of each round, each player reaps a crop from each of their fields that are not empty or fallow. They then reveal a new field from their personal pile, ready to plant new vegetables.

The next part of the round involves drawing cards from a deck. There are additional field cards that allow you to plant more crops. There are market stall cards that allow you to exchange one or more of your vegetables for another specific type of vegetable. There are various support cards that produce a wide variety of effects that generally involve making your crops more efficient or interfering with your opponents’ plans. And then there are 2 types of customer cards. Regular customers accept up to 4 sets of 2 vegetables, paying you each time you sell them a set of vegetables. However, they will get angry if you don’t sell to them every round. The first time you don’t sell them crops, they just get mad. Afterwards, you are charged a penalty fee of 2 gold for not being able to supply them. The second type of customer is the occasional customer. They are patient but require a set of 3 vegetables and disappear once you fulfill their request.

The act of getting the cards is interesting. Each player draws 4 cards and starts a drawing session. The first player discards an unwanted card on the table. After that, players take turns discarding an unwanted card or taking one of the discarded cards from the table. Once you take a card from the table, you are out of the draft and must immediately play the card on your board. At the same time, you must also choose one of the cards remaining in your hand and play that card as well. The rest of your hand is discarded and available for other players to choose from. Therefore, each player ends up playing 2 cards each round during this phase.

The next phase is the action phase, and the order of play depends on which player played their cards first in the previous card selection phase. In a single turn, each player performs ALL of their actions before the next player’s turn comes. This isn’t too bad, as there aren’t many cards that interact or interfere with other players. Available actions include planting crops; buying, selling and trading crops in the market or stalls; using prompt cards; sell vegetables to your customers; and paying gold to draw more cards from the deck.

The money you earn here is crucial. It is used to buy more crops to grow, but more importantly, it is also used to progress along the Path of Prosperity. The Path of Prosperity is a fun mechanic, being more difficult to advance in the late game compared to the early game. The Path goes from 1 to 20, which represents the cost of moving to that position. So going from step 1 to step 2 costs 2 gold, while going from step 15 to step 16 costs 16 gold. However, your first move each round only costs 1 gold. This opens up a few different strategies on how to go for the win. After the game is over, the player furthest along the Path of Prosperity wins the game.

Loyang is a very simplified game. Unlike other similar games, there are not many different paths to victory here. Money is your main focus, as it is used both as currency to expand your empire and to earn victory points through the Path of Prosperity. The game isn’t too interactive either, being similar to games like Dominion or Race For the Galaxy. You focus primarily on maximizing the efficiency of your farms with little interference from other players. However, a big plus for Loyang is its high production quality. The boards and cards look great, and each vegetable and trail marker has its own well-designed wooden tokens.

Loyang is a fun game that doesn’t take long to learn and acts as a good introduction to more complex economic strategy games. It is also appropriate for players of all experience levels. You will enjoy At the Gates of Loyang if you like similar farming or economic games like Puerto Rico and Agricola.

Complexity: 3.0/5.0
Playback time: ~1.5 to 2.0 hours
Number of players: 1 to 4 players

dark star safari by Paul Theroux is the story of the author’s overland journey from Cairo to Cape Town with all the adventures, people and places he encounters across the continent.

Paul Theroux traveled across Africa from north to south in the first half of 2001. Starting in Cairo, he traveled up the Nile in Egypt, through Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland. . He traveled primarily by public transportation, including trains, boats, taxis, buses, cattle trucks, rented Land Rovers, canoes, and hitchhiking. As a young man in his 20s, Theroux had come to Africa to teach in rural Malawi as a Peace Corps volunteer, so this trip 40 years later was partly a sentimental journey, but also to see how much has changed since then.

The book begins in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, and heads south to the land of the Nubians, Sudan. Theroux travels to Kenya and then heads west to Uganda. He catches up with friends in Kampala, where he had lived several years before. He takes a ferry across Lake Victoria to Mwanza in Tanzania and then the train to Dar es Salaam. Another train takes him to Mbeya in southern Tanzania before entering Malawi, where he visits the school where he taught as a young man. This is probably the most demoralizing point of the entire trip, as he assesses the impact of foreign aid during the 40 years since he’s been there. After the treatise on development (or lack thereof), he travels across the Zambezi River to Mozambique. The next country is Zimbabwe, where he experiences the effects of the Mugabe regime on white farmers. He finally reaches South Africa and the luxury of the Blue Train between Johannesburg and Cape Town. Theroux’s summary after this trip reveals a disappointment at the “aid” that foreigners have showered on the continent, but also the joy he experienced meeting people while he was travelling:

“Africa is materially more decrepit than when I first met her, hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can’t tell the politicians from the wizards. Not that Africa is a place. It is an assortment of motley republics and seedy chiefdoms. I got sick, I was stranded, but I never got bored. Indeed, my trip was a delight and an eye opener.”

dark star safari is an interesting account of Theroux’s travels, especially as he travels through Africa by means most dare not. It is very negative about the work of foreign development organizations, which is not entirely unfair, I agree. Yet throughout the book, Theroux’s style remains witty and entertaining.

Paul Theroux’s account of his journey overland from Cairo to Cape Town in dark star safari follow his other stories of epic journeys overland as Riding the iron rooster in China and two books on the Silk Road. She can enjoy contrasting Theroux’s wit and insight with Sihle Khumalo’s. dark continent my black ass. Khumalo has also traveled across Africa from Cape Town to Cairo by public transport, but he has a rather different perspective being a native of the continent, focusing more on the journeys than the impact of foreign intervention.