As many of you may have read, there is a case of two missing adopted kids in North Carolina, where remains have been found. The news has reported that their adoptive “mother” is Avantae Deven.
I’m a curious person and started digging up information on Avantae Deven when I first read the story in my news feed and could not believe what I was reading. It seemed like whomever this woman is must have be using an alias; Avantae Deven is not a name like Kim Jones or Mackenzie Smith.
The more I dug, the weirder it seemed to get. I found a property deed to a place in Sedona, Arizona, and figured out that whomever this Avantae person is, she at one point in time had owned a home together with someone named Nicole Adams. So I dug into who Nicole Adams was, and learned that she was the widow of a spiritual leader named Robert Adams. It appeared to me that there would be no way to identify who Avantae really was, unless I could also identify the true identity of Robert Adams.
*******
I've done investigative work for many years, including skip tracing. I can conclusively state that there was absolutely no person actually named Robert Adams born in New York State on January 21, 1928. This is demonstrated by the New York Birth Index. I have combed the census records for 1930, 1940, and 1950, and cross-checked them against multiple databases, and am confident that nobody with the birth name of Robert Adams was born anywhere in the United States on January 21, 1928.
Moreover, there was absolutely no person with the true name of Robert Adams who died anywhere at all in the United States, let alone Sedona, Arizona, on March 2, 1997. This is demonstrated by the Social Security Death Index.
I began this research largely by performing exhaustive searches on the known addresses that are associated with Robert, his wife Leonie (who used to use the alias Nicole), and Avantae Deven (who turns out to be their daughter Michelle who began using the alias Avantae in the mid-1990’s or so). Most of the addresses are PO boxes. Those that are PO boxes are all *private* PO boxes, not PO boxes that one can rent from the United States Postal Service. To me, that spoke volumes. The family were clearly using aliases.
As I explain further below, I eventually determined that “Robert Adams” was Robert Spiegel, born 21 January 1932 in New York. “Nicole Adams” was actually Aileen Beverly Leonie Maxwell, born February 2, 1929, in Jamaica. “Avantae Deven” is actually their daughter, Michelle K. Spiegel, born on October 1, 1960, in California.
One of Robert’s many false stories about Robert’s life that my research has refuted is Robert’s claim that his mother was Jewish and his father was Catholic. That was a lie. Both of his parents were Jewish. It’s also interesting that he claimed that he was “raised Catholic.” There is absolutely nothing to suggest that. His mother always, in New York, lived in Jewish neighborhoods. Moreover, as will be discussed below, his parents had a Jewish wedding. It’s also downright absurd that he would tell people that he was “half Jewish.” If your mother’s Jewish, you are Jewish, pure and simple. Even if Robert’s father had truly been Catholic (which he wasn’t; his name was Samuel Spiegel and he immigrated to America in 1907, lived with his Jewish, Yiddish-speaking cousins, and spoke Yiddish himself), Robert would have been Jewish because the status of being a Jew comes from the mother. Robert’s mother’s name was Fannie (nee Fleisfeder) Spiegel. Fannie’s parents were Itzik Fleisfeder and Esther Libke (nee Rifkin) Fleisfeder. Esther’s parents were Mendel Rifkin and Sarah whose maiden name is lost to time and the disappearance of the shtetls. Robert’s claim to having had a Catholic father was utterly false, but is part and parcel of his ongoing compulsive daily lying about anything and everything.
Here is the story.
*******
Kolomyia, formerly known as Kolomea, is a city currently located in the Western Ukraine.
On January 21, 1892 (the same year that Kolomea tallis¹ workers went on strike for better pay and working conditions), Kolomea resident Rachel Katz, wife of Abraham Spiegel, gave birth to a son, who was given the name Schmuel.
On the date that Schmuel Spiegel entered the world, Kolomea was ruled by the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and almost half of the city’s residents were Jewish.
In June of 1907, fifteen-year-old Schmuel² boarded the Zeeland, which sailed from Antwerp, Belgium, arriving at New York Harbor on June 18, 1907. The ship’s manifest states that Schmuel’s father had paid for his transport, and that Schmuel intended to reside with his father, Abe, in Brooklyn. Schmuel was granted entrance, and took up residence with his cousin Charles Fetner, who resided at 353 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, in Apartment A with his wife Jennie and their baby daughter Ettie. The sparse record that exists suggests that although Schmuel’s father was, indeed, named Abraham, Abraham lived and died in Europe, without immigrating to America.
The 1910 census describes Samuel’s cousin Charles as a carpenter, who had been married to housewife Jennie for six years, and a father of three children-- Ettie age four, Nathan age two, and baby Jacob, who was not even a year old. Eighteen-year-old Samuel was identified by profession as a “Foreman Sailmaker” in an industry described as “pocket-books.”
Three and a half years after being granted admission, on a bitterly cold winter day, January 4, 1911, Schmuel (now employed as a pocket-book maker, and having Anglicized his name to Samuel) signed and submitted his declaration to become a United States citizen. He stated, in that declaration, that he was born on January 21, 1892.
By 1915, Samuel had left his cousin’s abode and was residing as a lodger in the home of a widow named Rose Hammer, who lived with her two adolescent sons, Meyer and Louis, at 531 E. 5^th Avenue; Samuel was now working as a “driver.”
Two years after the 1915 state census was taken, Samuel had moved back to Myrtle Avenue, but this time at building no. 849. On June 15, 2017, Samuel registered for the draft, and described himself as being a pocketbook maker, working for “A. Shoenfeld,” at 101 Crosby Street, New York. He was single. He stated, in his draft registration, that he was born on January 21, 1892.
*******
A woman named Fruma Fleisfeder was born in Beltz, Bessarabia, sometime between July 1, 1893, and 1901, to Itzik Fleisfeder and Esther Lieba Rifkin. Fruma (not living up to her pious given name) provided different dates and years of birth to different authorities on different occasions, making it impossible at this point in time to know her true position in the birth order of her family. Regardless, Fruma, who began using the name Fanny upon her entrance to the United States, did have three brothers and a sister who also came to America-- Louis Fleisfeder who was born April 10, 1890, Max Irving Fleisfeder who used October 10, 1892 as his birthdate, Hersch (later known as Harry), whose official birthdate was December 15, 1901, and Sylvia who was born in approximately 1906.
On December 1, 1919, Fruma arrived in New York Harbor on the ship La Touraine, declaring her intention, at entry, to become a United States Citizen. The ship’s manifest describes her as five feet five inches tall, with fair hair, blue eyes, and a fair complexion. The ship’s manifest states that she was, at that time, age 24. If that were correct, she would have been born in 1895.
Fruma (then going by Fanny) took up residence with her cousin Ethel (nee Ruchlin) and Ethel’s husband Samuel Steinberg, on 15^th Street, Brooklyn. Soon thereafter, Ethel gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Theresa. The 1920 census states that Fanny was Russian, didn’t speak English but, rather, spoke Hebrew, and worked as a milliner in a millinery store. The 1920 census also states that Fanny was age 25, which lines up with her being age 24 in the prior year’s ship manifest.
*******
Sam and Fanny married in Manhattan on January 24, 1925. Their marriage certificate (signed by each of them) identifies Sam as being age 32 (contradicting, by one year, his immigration records which would have placed him at age 33), and identifies Fanny as age 24, the same age that she had claimed to be six years prior, and also contradicting an immigration petition that she would file two decades in the future, which generally placed her birth year at the mid-point of 1893.
If Fanny’s immigration records (which included a petition with her signature on it) were correct, Fanny would also have been age 32 as of her marriage to Samuel, not age 24.
So did Fanny lie in her marriage certificate? Or did she lie in her immigration petition?
The marriage certificate identifies Sam as having been born in Kolomea, Austria, and his father being Abraham, and his mother being Rachel Katz. It identifies Fanny as having been born in Beltz, Russia, to a father named Isaac, and to a mother named Esther Rifkin.
The marriage certificate does not identify Fanny as having any profession, but identifies Sam as being a pocketbook maker.
Sam and Fannie were married at 125 E. 4^th Street, Manhattan, a six-story apartment building with retail units on the ground floor that is now an expensive co-op, with three-bedroom units selling for over $900,000. Present-day real estate advertisements alternatively state that the building was built in 1894, 1903, and 1905.
The first name of the rabbi who officiated was Harry. His surname starts with Reid, but the remaining letters of his signature are illegible. Rabbi Harry identified his residence as 232 Broome Street, which, at the time, was a four-story mixed use building that, among other things, housed Chevrah Ahavath Zedek Anshei Jaskinover.
Witnesses to the marriage were Mayer Budmon and Samuel Steinberg.
*******
Sam and Fanny’s existence was documented next in the 1925 New York State census by census. They were living at 205 S. 2^nd Street. Samuel was still working as a “pocketbook maker.” Fanny was identified as a “housewife.”
Fanny was identified as age 25. This was in accordance with her age as stated on her marriage certificate, but not in accordance with her immigration documents or the 1920 census.
Sam was identified as being age 28, which conflicted with all prior records.
*******
In 1930, the couple were again enumerated, this time in the Federal census. The enumerator, whose signature appears to be “Max Krahn” (or something like that) stated that he obtained the information on April 16, 1930.
Sam was identified as a “framer” of pocketbooks. He was identified as being 36 years of age, which conflicts by two years with the age that he provided to immigration authorities. Perhaps the enumerator was simply sloppy; Samuel was also incorrectly identified in the 1930 census as having been born in “Poland,” with parents who were both also born in “Poland,” notwithstanding other governmental records having identified him as being Austrian. The language he spoke? “Jewish,” according to the enumerator. Was that to mean Hebrew? Yiddish? Both?
Fannie was identified as age 30 (directly in conflict with the information she supplied in her immigration petition, which bears her signature) and as being “Russian,” with parents born in “Russia.” The 1930 census enumerator incorrectly wrote that her year of immigration was 1921. Fannie, too, was identified by the enumerator as speaking the “Jewish” language.
Although later records reflected that Sam and Fannie had a son named Irving who was born in 1926, Irving was not recorded in the 1930 census. Was he missed by the enumerator? Or was he a later-adopted son?
The couple also had a boarder, identified by the 1930 enumerator as one Esther “Larson,” age 40, born in Russia, and similarly a speaker of the “Jewish” language.
*******
The New York Birth Index identifies a baby boy, Robert Spiegel, as one of many babies having been born in the city on January 21, 1932.
*******
On May 21, 1936, Samuel committed suicide by hanging in the family residence, a tenement apartment located at 1168 Union Avenue, in the Bronx. Although, based upon the date of birth that Samuel used for official governmental purposes he was age 44, the death certificate stated that he was age 43.
Fannie engaged the Gordon Funeral Home to prepare him for burial.
Strangely, although Samuel’s headstone accurately identified him in Hebrew as Schmuel Spiegel, son of Avraham, it inexplicably incorrectly stated that he died at age 40.
Fannie of course knew her husband’s real age; both of them signed the marriage certificate that had Samuel’s correct age listed. Furthermore, Samuel had petitioned for citizenship in 1911, and stated that his date of birth was January 18, 1892.
Why would Fannie commission a headstone with a false age? Perhaps she, like her son, was a compulsive liar. Maybe that’s where Robert got it from.
*******
The 1940 census has Fannie (identified as age 38), Robert (identified as age 8), and Fannie’s son/Robert’s brother, Irving Spiegel, age 13, as living with Fannie’s 72-year-old mother, Esther Fleisfeder, at 1537 Fulton Avenue, in the Bronx. Fannie and Esther were identified as widows. Esther was identified as “U” (unable to work), while Fannie was identified as engaged in housework. No source of income for the family was identified.
No explanation is obvious regarding where Irving was living in the census taken a decade previously. Was he adopted?
There is no “Irving Spiegel” listed in the New York Birth Index for either 1926 or 1927. There is an “Irving Spiegal” listed, who was born April 29, 1926. But he is not Irving Spiegel.
I initially thought that perhaps Irving might be one of the unnamed Baby Boy Spiegels born in New York in 1926 or 1927, and that he left the hospital unnamed because his parents were waiting for his bris before naming him. However, Robert left the hospital with the name Robert. Why wait until the bris to name one child, but not the other?
*******
Slightly less than two years after she was enumerated in the 1940 census, Fannie’s mother Esther died, at home, at 1537 Fulton Avenue. The causes of death were “Coronary Thrombosis, Pulmonary Oedema Nephritis, Hypertension, Arteriosclerosis.” Esther left this world on February 6, 1942, the same day that the W. L. Steed was torpedoed, shelled and sunk less than a hundred nautical miles east of the mouth of Delaware River by a German submarine.
She was buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Fairview, New Jersey, the same cemetery where her son-in-law Samuel was interred.
*******
On November 12, 1943, Fannie, now residing at 1985 Bathgate Avenue, in the Bronx, petitioned for citizenship. She claimed, in that document bearing her signature, to be fifty years of age, meaning that if she was telling the truth, she would have been born in approximately 1893.
*******
On January 19, 1948, Robert (having assumed a false date of birth, that being January 18, 1931), enlisted in the New York National Guard. On paper, he had turned age 17 the day before his enlistment. In reality, he would be turning age 16 two days after his enlistment.
On December 9, 1949, Robert was discharged from the national guard, apparently for having been AWOL.
The discharge document identifies his address as being 1985 Bathgate Avenue, New York City.
*******
The 1950 census places Robert again at 1985 Bathgate Avenue, New York City. It correctly identifies him as age 18, and states that he worked as a shipping clerk for a newspaper company.
According to the 1950 census, Robert resided at the Bathgate Avenue address with his mother Fannie, who was purportedly still age 50 (seven years after she had previously claimed to immigration authorities to be age 50), and Robert’s brother Irving, age 24.
Irving was listed as unemployed and moreover, according to the census record, had not worked for the prior year. Fannie was employed full-time as a milliner in a hat factory.
*******
Military records reflect that Irving J. Spiegel, born in 1926 and a resident of 1985 Bathgate Avenue, who had completed two years of high school education, had flown bomber planes over Germany during the war. In his military documents, Irving described himself as single, with two dependents.
*******
On February 2, 1929, a baby girl given the name Aileen Beverly Leone Maxwell was born in Lucea, Hanover, Jamaica, to William Maxwell and Daisy (nee Tibbits) Maxwell. Her birth was registered by her parents.
*******
In 1954, Robert Spiegel and Aileen Maxwell were married in New York City. Their marriage license was given License No. 10284.
*******
The following year, the Kingston, Jamaica, Gleaner reported on June 6, 1955:
Miss Leonie Maxwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Maxwell, was married recently in New York City to Mr. Robert Spiegel of the U.S.A. Both the bride and groom are students at the New York Institute of Dietetics. The bride left the island nearly two years ago for New York. Her wedding gown was chantilly lace and nylon tulle. The bodice was fashioned with a wide, scalloped neckline and elbow-length sleeves. Her three tier skirt of chantilly lace was over pleated nylon tulle. Her fingertip-length veil was adorned with pearls.
*******
If the claim regarding the couple studying at the New York Institute of Dietetics was even true, their studies at this institution didn’t last long. In May of 1956, a number of advertisements bearing Robert’s photograph appeared in the Kingston, Jamaica Gleaner. The advertisements described Robert as a psychologist, author, lecturer, and “practitioner in auto suggestion,” and identified him as “Dr. J. Robert Spiegel.” Readers were invited to come meet Robert on May 21, 1956, at Record Plaza, where he would be autographing his “latest” “world-wide” 33 and 1/3 RPM record, “How to Stop Smoking in 7 days by Auto-Suggestion.”
*******
On May 1, 1959, three residents of 1985 Bathgate Avenue, Bronx, New York, came through customs, having returned from a trip to Jamaica. They identified themselves as “Robert D. Spiegel” born in New York (in addition to giving himself a false middle initial, Robert neglected to complete the I-94-A fully, specifically by leaving his birthdate blank), “Leonie A. Spiegel” born in Jamaica on February 2, 1929, and their minor daughter, and “Sharon S. Spiegel,” born in New York. Someone also neglected to fully complete Sharon’s I-94-A, specifically by leaving her birthdate blank.
*******
Leonie had taken Sharon to Jamaica two years earlier. There are no publicly available records pertaining to their outbound transport from the United States to Jamaica. There is, however, a record pertaining to their return to the United States. That publicly available record does not provide their address, but Sharon is identified as weighing 1 stone 5 pounds (a total of 19 pounds), and Leonie is identified as weighing six stone 5 pounds (89 pounds). Interestingly, Leonie used the name “Aileen Spiegel,” and the records assert that Aileen has no middle initial. Aileen was / is her true legal first name, but it is a lie to say that she has no middle initial.
*******
Almost two years later, on January 5, 1958, the Kingston, Jamaica Gleaner reported:
Staying at the Tamarind Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. Bob Spiegel and daughter Sharon of Miami, Florida. Mrs. Spiegel is the former Leonie Maxwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Maxwell of Lucea and has been in the United States for several years. A welcome party in their honour was given last Saturday night by Messers. Horrace, Ray, and Dennis Maxwell, brothers of Mrs. Spiegel. It was a very enjoyable affair.
*******
In 1963, roughly five years after their 1958 visit to Jamaica, Leonie petitioned for naturalization, in Louisiana. Although I am in possession of the index showing that she petitioned in 1963, I do not possess the petition itself. However, the fact that she petitioned for naturalization in Louisiana demonstrates that that at least she was residing in Louisiana at the time. Since she stated that she didn’t leave Robert’s side for over 40 years, presumably Robert, young Sharon, and also baby Michelle were living in Louisiana at that time.
*******
People who knew Robert personally relate that he stated that Leonie was a Cayman Island heiress. She wasn’t. Not only was she not born in the Cayman Islands, Leonie’s father’s estate was litigated (with the judge ruling against her) long before Robert started telling people that his wife was a Cayman Islands heiress.
Leonie’s father did leave an estate, but not to her. On November 9, 1967, the Gleaner reported that the Supreme Court had upheld the will of the late William Josiah Maxwell, the father of Horrace, Ray, Dennis, and Leonie, and the husband of Daisy Maxwell, who had contended that William’s signature was a forgery and that the person to whom his estate had been bequeathed had exercised undue influence. The court disagreed. The article reported:
The estate, which one of the executors described as “a sizeable one,” included 112 acres of land at Paradise and three houses at Lucea, Hanover.
*******
Robert apparently wasn’t banking on Leonie’s inheritance in any event. In May of 1966, advertisements appeared in the Houston Chronicle with Robert’s photo on them, selling a record that would purportedly assist people in stopping smoking in seven days. He identified himself as “Dr. J. Robert Spiegel.”
*******
On page 55 of the November 15, 1969, San Antonio, Texas Express and News, was an advertisement stating:
SCIENCE OF THE MIND
Dr. J. Robert Spiegel of Houston, director and founder of the Science of the Mind Foundation there, is conducting Sunday evening meetings at 7:30 p.m. in the Sheraton Inn, 1400 Austin Hwy.
*******
On page 4 of the July 10, 1970 edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram was a photograph of Robert, with a brief local news blurb:
GUEST – Dr. J Robert Spiegel of Houston, Science of Mind Foundation director, will speak at the 10:45 a.m. service tomorrow in First Church of Religious Science, 2001 6^th Ave. His subject is “What Religious Science Teaches.”
*******
On page 8 of the June 18, 1970 edition of the Houston Daily Cougar was this advertisement:
HOME OF UNIVERSAL LIFE
“Teaching Aquarian Meditation For The New Age
Meets Every Sunday, 11:00 A.M. At The World Trade Center Auditorium
Houston, Texas
DR. J. ROBERT SPIEGEL (BRAHMADANDA) DIRECTOR - FOUNDER
Aquarian Meditation Initiation for the first time offered through correspondence. For those sincere students wishing to bypass evolution and enter the 5th Kingdom. Initiation includes meditation technique, Mantra, how to "live” 24 hours a day, and much more. Write for application today:
P.O. Box 53328 Houston, Texas 052
*******
From the Galveston Daily News, May 02, 1971, Pg. 31:
AQUARIAN MEDITATION SOCIETY PRESENTS DR. J. ROBERT SPIEGEL AN AUTHOR, LECTURER, TEACHER OF YOGA & SELF DEVELOPMENT WILL SPEAK ON MAN, MIND & THE UNIVERSE WEDNESDAY, MAY 5th AT 7:30 P.M. IN THE RECREATION CENTER HARRIS COUNTY PARK, NASA RD. # 1 ALL WELCOME — DONATION $1.50
*******
The 1972 Spiritual Community Guide lists Robert twice, in the San Diego area. First, on page 117, using his alias “J. Robert Spiegel”:
THE TEMPLE OF METAPHYSICAL ABUNDANCE. J. Robert Spiegel, 1118 Torrey Pines Rd., 92037. Teaches yoga, nutrition, ESP, metaphysics, psychology, mind control
Second, on page 124, in which he, as one might have predicted, was masquerading as some sort of medical man or scholar:
"AQUARIAN MEDITATION SOCIETY, U. S. Grant Hotel, Attn: Dr. Robert Spiegel, 453-7588"
*******
Also in 1972, Volume 25 of San Diego Magazine published in November advertised gift certificates for the “Astrology Research Center.” “Give your loved one the gift of love. Only $50” said the advertisement. Where was this entity located? At 1118 Torrey Pines Road, the same address as Robert’s Temple of Metaphysical Abundance. The advertisement purported that person identified as “Lil Canaan” was the director. The telephone number was 459-6400.
In 2013, the San Diego Union Tribune published the obituary for Lillian Mulonas, who founded the La Jolla “Astrology Research Center.” At this point in time, unless Robert Adams’ only surviving daughter, Michelle/ Prentiss/ Avantae knows the answer and talks, we will not know what relationship, if any, existed between Robert’s Temple of Metaphysical Abundance and Lilian’s Astrology Research Center, both of which were located at 1118 Torrey Pines Road in 1972.
*******
From the July 12, 1973, San Diego Reader:
BRAHMADANDA FOUNDATION
“Teachings of the Cosmic Way” meets Sundays, 11:00 a.m., U.S. Grant Hotel, Crystal Room. Free admission, refreshments served. Call 453-7588 for more information.
*******
On page 51 of the June 29, 1974 edition of Phoenix’s Arizona Republic was the following advertisement:
Speaker from San Diego
Dr. J. Robert Spiegel from San Diego, a traveler and lecturer, will speak at 8 p.m., Friday in Universal Series Center, 4340 N. Seventh Ave., on the topic “Science of Being.”
He is the founder of the “Aquarian Meditation Society” in Jamaica and is founder and publisher of “Equinox,” a philosophical newspaper.
*******
The family (Adams or Spiegel, however one might want to refer to them) have resided in (that I know of) New York, Miami, Jamaica, Louisiana, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Houston, New Mexico, Hawaii, Las Vegas, Scottsdale, Sedona, and a number of cities in North Carolina.
*******
In at least the 1990’s, before he left for Sedona, Robert Adams used the address PO Box 7210, Jordan Avenue, D-30, Canoga Park, CA. He used that address on correspondence he wrote, and on at least one published document. Who else used that address? The data aggregators show that this address was also used by a Michelle K. Spiegel, and a person going by the name Leonie Maxwell. Michelle and Leonie also used other addresses associated with Robert, those being 1815 Willis Avenue Panorama City, and 21551 Burbank Boulevard, Woodland Hills.
*******
The California Birth Index shows that Michelle K. Spiegel was born on October 1, 1960, in Los Angeles County, to a mother with the maiden name Maxwell.
*******
In later life, Michelle used the addresses above that are associated with Robert and Leonie, as well as an address of 12004 Vanowen Street #14, North Hollywood. This is the same address at which Denniston Keith Maxwell, one of Leonie’s younger brothers, resided at, after his immigration to the United States. Denniston was one of Michelle’s uncles.
In a recent Facebook posting, Michelle/Avantae stated: “Never knew anything personal about said uncles, etc. Never asked, never cared.” Really? She shared an address with an uncle? Her uncle lived within a few minutes’ drive from her parents, and Michelle/Avantae never knew anything about him?
As an aside, Michelle/Avantae alleged (or admitted) that she “never cared” about anything personal regarding her uncles. If that is true, what does that tell us about Michelle/Avantae’s fundamental character? Antisocial? Psychopathic? Narcissistic in the extreme?
*******
On August 2, 1996, Michelle, going by the name Avantae E. Deven, married Tyson Ruben Alvarez in Las Vegas. The two had addresses in common in Arizona, Nevada, and Montana.
*******
Robert “Adams” died on or about March 2, 1997, in Sedona, Arizona.
Shortly after that, in the spring of 1997, “Nicole Adams” and “Avantae Deven” (both aliases; the correct legal names are Aileen Beverly Leonie Spiegel and Michelle K. Spiegel) purchased a home together in Sedona, on Navahopi Road. Shortly after the purchase, “Nicole” quit-claimed her portion to “Avantae.”
On July 17, 2001, Tyson, still married to “Avantae,” quit-claimed any interest in the Navahopi property to “Avantae,” and had the county recorder send the deed to “Avantae” in care of the Infinity Institute, at that time located at 9101 W. Sahara Ave. Suite 105 C29 (in other words, a private post box), in Las Vegas.
Avantae divorced Tyson in 2006. She had, by then, moved to North Carolina. She “served” Tyson via publication summons, claiming that she was unable to find him, despite his information being on multiple data aggregators.
You can go to various Facebook groups, and other sources, to pull up the documents that people have uncovered showing who is associated with the "Infinity Institute," and in what fashion, and also the addresses that they have used over the years.
In any event, this is the information regarding Robert that I think that people need to be aware of.
Why turn to a known liar and con man for spiritual guidance?
1A tallis is a prayer shawl.
2The ship’s manifest states that he was age 14, which conflicts by one year with what Samuel identified as his date of birth. These errors are not uncommon; his fare could have been purchased when he was age 14 and the records not updated.

📢 MEETUP PLAN
DATE : Sunday 19th May 2024
VENUE : C21 Mall + Malhar Mall
LOCATION : https://maps.app.goo.gl/wPErS48H5zi8K4yy5
TIME : 05.00PM
OPTIONAL : Dinner at 09.00pm at a nearby good restaurant on contri basis, for those who want to.
OUR PREVIOUS SUCCESSFUL MEETUPS :
28th April 2024 at Treasure Island Mall and Dinner at Nafees Restaurant:
https://www.reddit.com/Indore/comments/1cfb9yx/indore_meetup_april_2024/
5th May 2024 at Meghdoot Garden & Chowpatty and Dinner at Baapu ki Kutia :
https://www.reddit.com/Indore/comments/1ckz1sk/meetup_success_sunday_5th_may_2024_meghdoot/
12th May 2024 at ThunderStrike Bowling Arena & Mr. Singh's Restaurant
https://www.reddit.com/Indore/comments/1cqvswa/reddit_indore_meetup_success_12th_may_2024_at/
ABOUT US:
We are all Redditors, who decided to host MeetUps every Sunday. No more boring Sundays!! Woohoo!! 🥳🎉🎊
We are more than 210+ active members who have hosted multiple successful meetups and have collectively made a telegram group to allow for communication before, during and after the meetup.
The aim of the meetups is to socialise and meet all the wonderful folks of our lovely city Indore. This will also allow for networking (based on common careers), friendships and adventures.
So, stay connected and updated about the latest plans through the link here:
https://t .me/+YMxpFda6SUFlNGY1
Remove space after "t".
Alternatively, DM me you Telegram ID and I will manually add you to the group.

Quinn's character was certainly changed to accommodate the fact that Nicole was scrapped from the series, but does anyone else find it weird?
Quinn is the dorkiest character, like Stacy level, but then season 3 she somehow is a LOT more competent socially.
It's weird in the episode "Son of a Dean", Quinn is giving Zoey advice like "the third date is where you figure out if you are truly compatible".
Anyone else notice this?

Homeworld 3 is on track to becoming my least favorite HW game. Is it terrible? No. Is it great? Also no. Is it *good*? Eeeh... also no, not really. But it's also not bad. It's very mid.
Homeworld 3 *definitely* does not have the original’s gripping story or sense of mystery and player freedom.
It also does not have Cataclysm’s incredibly rewarding rags-to-riches feeling.
It also also does not have Homeworld 2’s polished gameplay.
And it also does not have Desert’s of Kharak fresh new take on the genre and franchise.
It’s okay. That’s about it.
Visuals and UI
It's stunningly beautiful, like every HW game. Space is gorgeous, filled with visual spectacle and lovingly detailed ships and environments (though frankly, space battles in this game are visually far less impressive than any previous installment). I'm not a sound guy so I have very little to say except that for my money the sound design is actually more impressive than the graphics. Everything from explosions to weapon effects to the background chatter sounds lovely.
UI is clunky as hell, I'm about six hours in and I'm still not friends with the camera and I can never orient myself quickly. Ships often feel like they're not responding to orders – I might be wrong, but I find myself going back to double-check that I definitely ordered those corvettes to guard that frigate etc. It feels much more micro-managey than previous installments.
Gameplay
Lots of features introduced in HW2 are gone: Fighters and corvettes no longer belong to squads, you’re back to each fighter being an individual unit. Modules are gone – you don’t build certain types of sensors or research modules or cloaks or fire control modules etc. I’ve not played around with carriers much yet but it seems they also come out of the construction bay completely finished, without any additions you can make, unlike in HW2 where you could specialize them. If there is an equivalent to the Research Module from HW1 or any other way to affect research speed or to give you more options the game hasn't introduced it yet (I'm on mission 8).
The number of units in the game also seems a little disappointing. I've unlocked three types of fighters, four types of frigates and at least one capital ship but only one type of corvette? Leads me to believe there only is one type, which would be very disappointing.
Minor detail but the ship design is for the most part really dull, too. Even quite closely zoomed in it's hard to distinguish one ship from another - their silhouettes just blend together.
In short, HW3 has less choices you can make and much more to keep you constantly busy. In 1998 this gameplay was fine (although far better executed) and in 2003 the sequel gave it a much-needed polish that honestly holds up OK to this day, imo. But HW3 has regressed back to what HW1 did in ’98 and then stripped off some of the polish so beware this plays like a very dated game.
Player agency
The game takes a lot of liberties with player agency: They've opted to remove the option to let you decide when you’re done with one level and proceed to the next. Unlike previous games (at least unlike HW1 and Cata) once you complete the last mission objective you enter a cutscene and the level ends. No time to gather resources or replace casualties taken.
One of the missions also takes a break for the Mothership to be repaired off-screen and when you are put back into control the game gives you a bunch of mine-laying corvettes, defense turrets and a carrier - units you've not researched, not built and that the game decided you should have for the next mission. The mission after that provides you with a small fleet of ships to conduct a raid – you have no hand in selecting these ships, they’re not taken from your own fleet, they’re just magicked into existence because the game decided you needed them for the story. Disappointing for a game series that used to let you build your own fleet more or less uninstructed and make it work (or not) on your own terms.
Furthermore this raid is set up to you as the player in the following way: Intel tells you to capture two disabled enemy ships - but doesn't explain why, just that he 'has a plan'. Later, during a cutscene, that plan is revealed: They are going to use these ships to sneak a strike force into the enemy camp and deliver a knock-out blow. The cutscene transitions to a cutscene where these two captured enemy ships hyperspace in, deliver said strike force and then hypserspace out. You as the player don't get to prepare for the plan, you don't get to experience sneaking in with your stolen ships, avoiding patrols or anything like that - you're not even told what the plan is until it's happening. The game tells you to do something without telling you why. Then you get to watch the plan you weren't told about begin to unfold in a cutscene and then you get to execute the plan with some resources the game created specifically for this mission. You are not a part of this plan until the very end.
Story
The story is a bit messy - though this isn't entirely its fault. HW2 already made a mess of the story of this world. The motivation for you being in control of *another* mothership and once again being given a mighty starting host of a Resource Collector and five scouts despite the Hiigarans by now being major galactic player is no more or less ham-fisted than it was in HW2. HW2 was the game who leaned fully into mysticism and Chosen One prophecies and muddled up the genre, can't really blame HW3 for not course-correcting.
However the game is *way* too in love with exposition dumping. One mission involves navigating the Mothership through an asteroid field and am not kidding when I say that playing through the mission only took marginally longer than the cutscene once I reached the end. It was five minutes if not more. The cutscenes are gorgeous and the voice acting great, but they end up becoming more distracting than rewarding. They also do not go at all for the classic Homeworld look, nor do they attempt for a twist on them like Deserts of Kharak; they’re just pre-rendered full-on cutscenes with people carrying out full conversations to advance the plot.
Honestly I half-expected for there to be a dialogue wheel after a while. The plot is fairly unsurprising so far. Everything is just very predictable and uninspired.
The story focuses on Imogen S'Jet, a descendant of Karan S'Jet. I didn't mind this switch in narrative to follow single individuals so clearly in Deserts of Kharak because that game felt so different overall (in a good way, I very much enjoyed DoK); a prequel not set in space exploring Kushan society rather than Hiigaran society like Cata did. But in a full-blown 'proper' Homeworld game I much prefer the inner workings of the ships to be a little more mysterious and up to the imagination, and for the story to follow the epic tale of *a people*, not of *persons*.
Conclusion
I backed this game on Fig years ago and I’m glad I did – if I’d paid €59 for it now and gotten it in the state it’s in I’d have felt cheated. I can’t comment on the Multiplayer or the War Mode – I only really play HW for the Singleplayer Campaigns.
Fans of Homeworld *might* enjoy it if they go in with low expectations. New players will probably find this game enjoyable enough, if a little basic and clunky to play. Neither should pay €59 for it, though.
Presentation - stunning. Gameplay – disappointing. Story - meh. 6/10

His ex sent me this message. Sorry it’s so long! Has anybody else gotten a similar message in the past? How did you react?
Message below: “It’s been over a year of me wondering whether I should just come out and ask you or message you… but being afraid that if I do, and I’m wrong, it’ll be a the biggest mistake of my life. I have begged and begged him to tell me what you are to him, and he denies having anything more than a platonic friendship with you.
I want to preface this message with, I have no ill will towards you, I just want some answers… answers I don’t believe I’m going to get from Jared. I don’t know if he’s mentioned anything about me. So here goes…
November 2022, I sent Jared an email, telling him I loved him, missed him, and though I didn’t require a response back, I wanted him to know how sorry I was for everything that had happened and things had ended. He responded with a lengthy email telling me he still fervently loved me and how he too was sorry for how things had ended. That email lead to the last year and a half of events.
December 2022, I drove down to Roanoke and surprised him at the Carilion garage. He left the hospital as fast as he could that night, and we spent the rest of that evening together, catching up, and he left for Key West two days later. Two weeks later, he came up to DC and we had a late birthday celebration for him at Clyde’s in Georgetown and went to see A Christmas Carol at the Ford Theater. A few weeks later we drove to Jersey to see Matchbox20, by now it was the end of January 2023. Almost every week off, for the last year, he would come up and see me, if even for only two days, or I would drive down to Roanoke and spend the week with him. We spoke about our past, the hurt, and future, he told me numerous times that when he pictured marriage and children, it was only with me, but he needed time. This part is important, and I’ll come back to it later. We celebrated my birthday at a restaurant in Navy Yard, two weeks before you guys left for London. Chris video chatted with that night while we were at the restaurant eating Wagyu, and they discussed the new shipment of sunglasses Chris had gotten for Miggieswear.
The weekend of the Super Bowl, he had come seen me earlier that week, the day after he left I came to Roanoke and left the day of the Super Bowl. He told me his parents were having a viewing party and he had to go home and cook. I’m now assuming he left my Airbnb and came to your place.
That February he planned a trip to London, with Nicole, Ryan and Chris, and what he told me were, Nicole’s “friends.” Nicole happened to post a picture of you guys sitting on the plane and I was shocked, why would Nicole’s friend be sitting between him and Ryan. I sent him a message while you were on that 6 hour flight, telling him that if he had been seeing somebody, then why didn’t he tell me? There was no point in us spending time together if he had moved on. His response to me was “do you even know what you’re looking at? I’m surprised you don’t recognize her, that’s Nicole’s friend. You’re jumping to a lot of conclusions right now and don’t know what you’re talking about.” Something in my gut didn’t believe it but I wanted to trust that, so I did. I put you out of sight, out of mind. When he got back, he told me how he wished I’d been there with him, we both love history and old buildings, it’s a place we would have found magical together. I don’t know who came up with the idea of going to London, but part of me always thinks I’m the one who put it there when I shared the pictures i had taken when I went there the year we had been no contact.
We went to a Kenny Chesney concert in Charlottesville that March when I got back from my family trip to India, and he got back from London. Between work, us both traveling with our families, we were excited to see one another. We were going to go to St Augustine, but because of the weather, we stayed in Roanoke and saw Kenny Chesney in Charlottesville. The original plan had been to spend the night in Charlottesville at a hotel, but we couldn’t get one last minute so we ended up driving back to Roanoke and sneaking into the basement at his parents house and sleeping in his bed at 3am.
A few months later, we went to Richmond, and stayed the weekend, exploring the city, and watched Hamilton at the Altria Theater. A few months after that, we went to Savannah and Atlanta, where he got a flat tire driving into the garage, and spent the rest of the weekend at a yoga retreat. July, he asked me to go to Boston with him and his brother, for 4th or July weekend, but I couldn’t because my siblings were in town. Every single week, he came down and either stayed with me, or made a quick trip to spend time with me…
This past September, I found out he took you to Justin’s wedding, and I broke. I needed more from him. I have known him, been intimate with him, shared my every fear, worry, I have brought him home cooked meals from DC and surprised him at work with dinner, I’ve made him care packages. I’ve made Ryan Easter baskets and sent him birthday presents and encouraged Jared to put him in academic classes, I’ve helped Jared look into private schools for Ryan, and weighed the pros and cons of the options. I had no expectations in return from him other than, at the very least, a mutual respect and HONESTY.
I’ve seen him quite a few times since September and I last saw him in Roanoke at the beginning of March 2024. We sat in front of each other, in his car before he went into work that Monday night, and he told me, again, that when he thinks of marriage and a future, I’m the only one he pictures a marriage and children with. I’m not saying this to hurt you, or to make a point, I’m saying it because i don’t know what to believe anymore.
I became suspicious of his relationship with you, when he mentioned going to Macchu Picchu and hiking through the mountains. As all women have the ability to find out details they might later regret, I did the same thing. Except I didn’t believe he had actually gone to Macchu Picchu. I knew his passport had been long expired since around or before COVID, and I knew he had renewed it before he went to London. But that was when I realized you were the girl in the photo that Nicole posted. When I confronted him about Macchu Picchu, he told me he had been joking and he had also already told me he’d been joking. He had NEVER told me it was a joke, he had actually refused to show me photos when I asked him for pictures from the trip… he had then proceeded to change the topic, which is what had even raised red flags in my head.
My point is, I have asked him point blank so many times whether you two have a relationship. You tell me you still love me, that you picture marriage and a family with me, but this girl is a part of your life, and you took her to a wedding with you, while I was on a trip with my siblings, you took her to London with you, and you continue to tell me she’s just a friend. I asked him again on Tuesday night/Wednesday Morning after he left work, if you two are dating, and he said no. He asked me why I’m so hyper-fixated on somebody who’s just a friend when he has a million other female friends.
In September, he told me he needed a month to clear his head, that he wanted to commit to me, but he was afraid and that he needed to get over the fear and roadblock of our past break up. I gave him grace and understood. So we took a 4 week break. Some time during that time period, he sent me a snap of doves, and said “doves, and swans mate for life.” He sent me Ed Sheeran songs telling me he wants to find his way back to me. “No Strings Attached… you are the one I love”
In November, he messaged me and told me he had a surprise for me and to look for something in the mail. He loves the Count of Monte Carlo, it’s one of his favorite movies, and he told me it was in reference to that. A few weeks later I got a candle, a silver 400 dollar Buddha candle from Thomson Ferrier. I didn’t understand the reference to the Count of Monte Carlo, but it was a beautiful gesture and present… especially because he knew how much little gestures from him mean to me.
Fast forward to January, I got another 350 dollar black skull candle from him, from Thomson Ferrier. At this point I was upset, angry and livid. I called my sister in tears that evening. I had come back to him because he told me he loved me, that he “has a fire that burns so deeply” when he thinks of me. If i had known that wasn’t true, i would have closed the chapter a year and a half ago. I don’t want $700 worth of gifts and candles, I want more. I want marriage, I want children, I want our lives to move forward, I want communication. Out of anger, I packed up the candle, his sweatshirts and clothes that he had left at my place this past year, and mailed them back to his house. I’m sure it’s sitting somewhere in his basement closet/ bedroom… along with his white Huq sweatshirt, a picture of us I had up in my house, and various articles of clothing.
What upsets me is that he didn’t just involve me this year, he involved my family. He sent my mom presents, my parents in return sent him gifts. My sister, parents and cousins messaged him asking him to come around more. There was no point in involving my family, if he was going to involve himself with you. There was no point in involving himself with me, if he was going to involve himself with you. Those leather Indian shoes sitting in his room, my dad bought those for him. That blue sweater, those green pants and that maroon shirt, my parents bought those for him just this last year.
I don’t know what he’s told you about me, but I will say this. I was your age when we started dating. I was 29 years old. He was single, that’s what everyone in our residency program thought. He would tell everyone how Shari left him one day, all of a sudden just got up and left. “I saw the look behind her eyes just change when she looked at me.” He would tell everyone his horrific dating stories. When i started dating him, there was no doubt in my mind he was single… but I was wrong. He wasn’t single, he was dating Devon, one of the nurses from Carilion, and he had been for the past 4 years prior to that. At one point when he moved to Norfolk, she had even moved in with him. Even Shari was visiting him in Norfolk during this time period. I would have never suspected it, nobody in our residency program did. It wasn’t until one day, when he told me his friends were visiting from home, and they were all going to a concert together, that I found out. Her profile picture was of the two of them together, and her Facebook relationship status said “in a relationship.” Out of my own naivety, i believed him when he told me she was crazy and obsessed with him. He told me, to him, they were just friends but she wanted more. Women do a lot of things, but no woman is dumb enough to think she’s your girlfriend when she’s not. When we moved back to our hometowns, Devon was there waiting for him. He disappeared one day for 24 hours, told me that he was helping his dad’s friend who was stranded in NC. A year and a half later, i would find out that was a lie and that he had been at a concert Florida Georgia Line concert with her. She had been visiting his grandmother with him, staying at his parents home. The irony is that a few weeks after he took her, he took me to the same concert in Scranton. Him and his family didn’t bat an eye when a month later, I showed up and was the “new girlfriend.”
Eventually Devon found out about his lies and left him, but again, stupid me thought she was a crazy girl who just wanted so badly to be with him, that she built their relationship up in her head.
Dignity, respect for humans, empathy, are the most important qualities in a human being.
What I don’t wish is for you to be in my spot in 5 years. He will paint you in his colors, make you fall in love with MB20, and take you to Augustana concerts, he’ll tell you that you understand him, and his heart in a way that nobody else does. He’ll bond with you over music, and send you songs that make you feel he’s talking about you. He is so good at making you feel seen, and involving you with his family. He’ll say he had a vision of a girl that looks like you, coming into his life, and here you are, his soul mate. And one day, the same way that Shari, Devon and I got lost in him, the reality of everything will come pouring down on you. Be careful, there are signs between the lines, and the smiles, and good times. Make sure you don’t miss those, whatever you decide.
My relationship with him, started off just like yours. Another girl on the periphery, and teetering the line of inappropriate. Everything you call him out on, will always have an excuse, and you will believe him because he’s the “good guy” who goes above and beyond for people.
I don’t wish for any woman to go through the pain I’ve gone through, the manipulation, the lies and the emotional abuse. I can’t tell you what to do, but I will say, be careful and don’t be blind to the small things that will one day become huge. The novelty will fade, and though Jared isn’t the devil, he has a lot of growing up to do at 40. It was not okay to toy with me and drag me through the mud this year. It wasn’t okay to minimize his relationship with you and lie to me about it. It’s not okay to, to this day claim to see a life with me and not commit to it. I deserve better, and you deserve better.
How men talk about their ex’s and other women is an indication about how they will one day talk about and treat you. That is the worst and best lesson i have learned. I’m 34, years of my life wasted, and he took another year of my life knowing full well, this is how it would end. He’s sat on the phone with me for hours talking about how stupid PA’s are and if you were going to not be a doctor, at least become an NP, who has better bedside knowledge. Why would he say that, because i suppose you’re a PA and it minimizes the significance of even having a relationship with somebody who isn’t as intelligent as he is. The lack of respect will always be there, you just have to look for it.
Dishonesty, and manipulation are a plague, and if that’s who you are at 40, it is who you will always be unless you recognize that something needs to change. Where there is no accountability, there can be no change. I’m not the exception, I’m the same as the two girls before me. He’ll show you text messages where he never responded to me, even though he replies on Snapchat where every thing is erased. I cannot believe i didn’t see the signs. He will make me look crazy and laugh at me, the same way he showed me messages from Jen, and Elisabeth, and Devon, and made them sound crazy to me. I guess that’s his MO. The same way he told me you were nothing to him.
I was going to send you this message, two months ago… i then decided not to because he convinced me he wasn’t dating you… I saw him less than a month ago in Roanoke, i begged him to tell me that he was in a relationship with you. He said he wasn’t, again, he told me he was going to a wedding alone with only Ryan and that he wasn’t taking you. I then begged him to tell me that we were done and that he didn’t love me anymore. His response was idk what’s going to happen a year from now, i know I’ll see you again. His response every time has been when im ready for a relationship, emotionally, do you want me to finally let you know? I don’t care to be with him anymore. I’m so over it but i really think you should know the type of person you’re dealing with.
He has put me through so much hell for a year and a half of my life, stringing me along acting like he’s doing me a favor while he works on his own mental health and claims to still love me when we are together.”
TLDR: my SO’s ex messaged me saying he’s been seeing both of us for the past year and a half. Has anybody experienced this before. She sent me pictures from the past year of them and their text exchanges

Hello! 39f here looking for a steel tip darts buddy. I haven’t played for years, and then only on electronic boards, so I’m relearning from the ground up. Looking for preferably a female/femme person of a similar age to play down at Nicole’s a couple nights a week. Men/masc folk ok too if you’re not a sleezeball. Edit*** I’m a jerk, all genders are cool so long as you are too! I’m not free Wednesdays but most other days I’m free after 7pm.
Nicole’s has house darts so don’t worry if you don’t have equipment. Also, I’m probably pretty terrible so definitely don’t worry if you’re unskilled! I’m a very laid back queer identifying white lady that is unfortunately in a dating dudes only phase. I brake for baby ducks and squirrels, am a self professed dork, and turn just about anything into a dirty joke if given half the chance. Come hang out with me!

I can't commit to an AMA, but I thought this would help others. Don't mean to boast/flex as you'll see from my description below:
Why you might want to listen to me:
I'm just a hair short of 5'4", a school teacher who was broke as in had less than <$1K USD in savings and $50K in debt in my mid-thirties, small dick, no muscles, no game, can't sing or dance, & a jungle Asian (think Cambodian, Filipino, Burmese). The latter is meant to point out it's not the Korean trend that's driving this.
My girl is 5'6"—5'7", 10+ years younger than me, slim, blue-eyed blonde from one of the wealthiest Western European countries with a C/D chest, long legs that go above my stomach, a nice, shapely ass, and perfect hourglass waist/hips. Face-wise, imagine Nicole Kidman and Taylor Swift had a baby. To top it all off, she has a fancy job and makes much more than me, and her family is wealthy, while I grew up on food stamps and attended a low-income school.
My Advice:
The bad news is that I attribute getting her to luck, but here are some things I did right:

1. This sounds counter-intuitive but pursue only physical 8s and higher. The most attractive women are less impervious to the social stigma of dating a guy who looks like me; they know they can pretty much get any type of guy they want; they don't need the social validation of an attractive man because they get the validation every day. In contrast, a guy like me will only remind an average woman of her plainness.
   
2. Geographic arbitrage. Yes, passport bros get a bad rep, but you can be a passport bro to another wealthy country (I'm US-based, so I'm using the US as a baseline). It doesn't have to be Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, or LatAm.
   

I would avoid the Anglo countries and focus on women from more egalitarian countries or ones that aren't as hung up on status and prestige (so avoid the big capitals or any city that's sexy).
If you're in the US, NYC, Boston, or SF are big no-nos. In a place like Boston, where you went to school matters so unless you've got the Ivy pedigree, I would skip.

1. Related to geography is to consider women from smaller towns/villages. They'll tend to be more down-to-earth, and you might be more of a novelty.
   
2. You'll be rejected most of the time, so you need to keep at it and not become resentful, bitter, or angry. The negative emotions will surface in your future interactions with women.
   

Keep approaching because you won't match with most women, even if you get along.

1. The most important trait I think I had (and I only acquired this in my early 30s) was being comfortable with myself/not caring what others thought. I don't like the word "confidence" because it's too vague. This means not trying to be someone you're not, not trying to show off. Don't mention your job or educational pedigree unless it comes up naturally and definitely not as a way to convey your value.

I conveyed my "value" by making quips, observations, and stories about mundane conversation topics that made her laugh. I asked lots of questions that invited her to delve into what she really thought about various topics and asked for her advice/opinion to get her to open up, feel comfortable, and show that I consider her a peer even with our age gap.
You're doing it right if she's doing most of the talking. Don't mansplain, talk at her, or lecture.
As luck would have it, I quoted from a book that she happened to like. Don't try to force something witty you have in your head. Let your conversation flow naturally.
Don't be self-deprecating in the beginning. If you're short or overweight, don't bring it up. You can joke about that later.
Don't shit-talk others; people who shit on strangers who aren't hurting them are insecure/projecting something rotten about themselves.

1. Talk to and compliment (sincerely) strangers (cash registers are the best) whether it's someone you're romantically interested in or not. This will sharpen your conversation skills. Talk to other men just to shoot the shit. This will put you in a good frame of mind/mood.
   
2. Aim for coffee dates rather than dinner, or if the latter, you will be the one to cut the evening short. Have the mentality that you have enough to talk about that it can wait until the next date.
   

Hope y'all find some of these helpful.

His ex sent me this message. Sorry it’s so long! Has anybody else gotten a similar message in the past? How did you react?
Message below: “It’s been over a year of me wondering whether I should just come out and ask you or message you… but being afraid that if I do, and I’m wrong, it’ll be a the biggest mistake of my life. I have begged and begged him to tell me what you are to him, and he denies having anything more than a platonic friendship with you.
I want to preface this message with, I have no ill will towards you, I just want some answers… answers I don’t believe I’m going to get from Jared. I don’t know if he’s mentioned anything about me. So here goes…
November 2022, I sent Jared an email, telling him I loved him, missed him, and though I didn’t require a response back, I wanted him to know how sorry I was for everything that had happened and things had ended. He responded with a lengthy email telling me he still fervently loved me and how he too was sorry for how things had ended. That email lead to the last year and a half of events.
December 2022, I drove down to Roanoke and surprised him at the Carilion garage. He left the hospital as fast as he could that night, and we spent the rest of that evening together, catching up, and he left for Key West two days later. Two weeks later, he came up to DC and we had a late birthday celebration for him at Clyde’s in Georgetown and went to see A Christmas Carol at the Ford Theater. A few weeks later we drove to Jersey to see Matchbox20, by now it was the end of January 2023. Almost every week off, for the last year, he would come up and see me, if even for only two days, or I would drive down to Roanoke and spend the week with him. We spoke about our past, the hurt, and future, he told me numerous times that when he pictured marriage and children, it was only with me, but he needed time. This part is important, and I’ll come back to it later. We celebrated my birthday at a restaurant in Navy Yard, two weeks before you guys left for London. Chris video chatted with that night while we were at the restaurant eating Wagyu, and they discussed the new shipment of sunglasses Chris had gotten for Miggieswear.
The weekend of the Super Bowl, he had come seen me earlier that week, the day after he left I came to Roanoke and left the day of the Super Bowl. He told me his parents were having a viewing party and he had to go home and cook. I’m now assuming he left my Airbnb and came to your place.
That February he planned a trip to London, with Nicole, Ryan and Chris, and what he told me were, Nicole’s “friends.” Nicole happened to post a picture of you guys sitting on the plane and I was shocked, why would Nicole’s friend be sitting between him and Ryan. I sent him a message while you were on that 6 hour flight, telling him that if he had been seeing somebody, then why didn’t he tell me? There was no point in us spending time together if he had moved on. His response to me was “do you even know what you’re looking at? I’m surprised you don’t recognize her, that’s Nicole’s friend. You’re jumping to a lot of conclusions right now and don’t know what you’re talking about.” Something in my gut didn’t believe it but I wanted to trust that, so I did. I put you out of sight, out of mind. When he got back, he told me how he wished I’d been there with him, we both love history and old buildings, it’s a place we would have found magical together. I don’t know who came up with the idea of going to London, but part of me always thinks I’m the one who put it there when I shared the pictures i had taken when I went there the year we had been no contact.
We went to a Kenny Chesney concert in Charlottesville that March when I got back from my family trip to India, and he got back from London. Between work, us both traveling with our families, we were excited to see one another. We were going to go to St Augustine, but because of the weather, we stayed in Roanoke and saw Kenny Chesney in Charlottesville. The original plan had been to spend the night in Charlottesville at a hotel, but we couldn’t get one last minute so we ended up driving back to Roanoke and sneaking into the basement at his parents house and sleeping in his bed at 3am.
A few months later, we went to Richmond, and stayed the weekend, exploring the city, and watched Hamilton at the Altria Theater. A few months after that, we went to Savannah and Atlanta, where he got a flat tire driving into the garage, and spent the rest of the weekend at a yoga retreat. July, he asked me to go to Boston with him and his brother, for 4th or July weekend, but I couldn’t because my siblings were in town. Every single week, he came down and either stayed with me, or made a quick trip to spend time with me…
This past September, I found out he took you to Justin’s wedding, and I broke. I needed more from him. I have known him, been intimate with him, shared my every fear, worry, I have brought him home cooked meals from DC and surprised him at work with dinner, I’ve made him care packages. I’ve made Ryan Easter baskets and sent him birthday presents and encouraged Jared to put him in academic classes, I’ve helped Jared look into private schools for Ryan, and weighed the pros and cons of the options. I had no expectations in return from him other than, at the very least, a mutual respect and HONESTY.
I’ve seen him quite a few times since September and I last saw him in Roanoke at the beginning of March 2024. We sat in front of each other, in his car before he went into work that Monday night, and he told me, again, that when he thinks of marriage and a future, I’m the only one he pictures a marriage and children with. I’m not saying this to hurt you, or to make a point, I’m saying it because i don’t know what to believe anymore.
I became suspicious of his relationship with you, when he mentioned going to Macchu Picchu and hiking through the mountains. As all women have the ability to find out details they might later regret, I did the same thing. Except I didn’t believe he had actually gone to Macchu Picchu. I knew his passport had been long expired since around or before COVID, and I knew he had renewed it before he went to London. But that was when I realized you were the girl in the photo that Nicole posted. When I confronted him about Macchu Picchu, he told me he had been joking and he had also already told me he’d been joking. He had NEVER told me it was a joke, he had actually refused to show me photos when I asked him for pictures from the trip… he had then proceeded to change the topic, which is what had even raised red flags in my head.
My point is, I have asked him point blank so many times whether you two have a relationship. You tell me you still love me, that you picture marriage and a family with me, but this girl is a part of your life, and you took her to a wedding with you, while I was on a trip with my siblings, you took her to London with you, and you continue to tell me she’s just a friend. I asked him again on Tuesday night/Wednesday Morning after he left work, if you two are dating, and he said no. He asked me why I’m so hyper-fixated on somebody who’s just a friend when he has a million other female friends.
In September, he told me he needed a month to clear his head, that he wanted to commit to me, but he was afraid and that he needed to get over the fear and roadblock of our past break up. I gave him grace and understood. So we took a 4 week break. Some time during that time period, he sent me a snap of doves, and said “doves, and swans mate for life.” He sent me Ed Sheeran songs telling me he wants to find his way back to me. “No Strings Attached… you are the one I love”
In November, he messaged me and told me he had a surprise for me and to look for something in the mail. He loves the Count of Monte Carlo, it’s one of his favorite movies, and he told me it was in reference to that. A few weeks later I got a candle, a silver 400 dollar Buddha candle from Thomson Ferrier. I didn’t understand the reference to the Count of Monte Carlo, but it was a beautiful gesture and present… especially because he knew how much little gestures from him mean to me.
Fast forward to January, I got another 350 dollar black skull candle from him, from Thomson Ferrier. At this point I was upset, angry and livid. I called my sister in tears that evening. I had come back to him because he told me he loved me, that he “has a fire that burns so deeply” when he thinks of me. If i had known that wasn’t true, i would have closed the chapter a year and a half ago. I don’t want $700 worth of gifts and candles, I want more. I want marriage, I want children, I want our lives to move forward, I want communication. Out of anger, I packed up the candle, his sweatshirts and clothes that he had left at my place this past year, and mailed them back to his house. I’m sure it’s sitting somewhere in his basement closet/ bedroom… along with his white Huq sweatshirt, a picture of us I had up in my house, and various articles of clothing.
What upsets me is that he didn’t just involve me this year, he involved my family. He sent my mom presents, my parents in return sent him gifts. My sister, parents and cousins messaged him asking him to come around more. There was no point in involving my family, if he was going to involve himself with you. There was no point in involving himself with me, if he was going to involve himself with you. Those leather Indian shoes sitting in his room, my dad bought those for him. That blue sweater, those green pants and that maroon shirt, my parents bought those for him just this last year.
I don’t know what he’s told you about me, but I will say this. I was your age when we started dating. I was 29 years old. He was single, that’s what everyone in our residency program thought. He would tell everyone how Shari left him one day, all of a sudden just got up and left. “I saw the look behind her eyes just change when she looked at me.” He would tell everyone his horrific dating stories. When i started dating him, there was no doubt in my mind he was single… but I was wrong. He wasn’t single, he was dating Devon, one of the nurses from Carilion, and he had been for the past 4 years prior to that. At one point when he moved to Norfolk, she had even moved in with him. Even Shari was visiting him in Norfolk during this time period. I would have never suspected it, nobody in our residency program did. It wasn’t until one day, when he told me his friends were visiting from home, and they were all going to a concert together, that I found out. Her profile picture was of the two of them together, and her Facebook relationship status said “in a relationship.” Out of my own naivety, i believed him when he told me she was crazy and obsessed with him. He told me, to him, they were just friends but she wanted more. Women do a lot of things, but no woman is dumb enough to think she’s your girlfriend when she’s not. When we moved back to our hometowns, Devon was there waiting for him. He disappeared one day for 24 hours, told me that he was helping his dad’s friend who was stranded in NC. A year and a half later, i would find out that was a lie and that he had been at a concert Florida Georgia Line concert with her. She had been visiting his grandmother with him, staying at his parents home. The irony is that a few weeks after he took her, he took me to the same concert in Scranton. Him and his family didn’t bat an eye when a month later, I showed up and was the “new girlfriend.”
Eventually Devon found out about his lies and left him, but again, stupid me thought she was a crazy girl who just wanted so badly to be with him, that she built their relationship up in her head.
Dignity, respect for humans, empathy, are the most important qualities in a human being.
What I don’t wish is for you to be in my spot in 5 years. He will paint you in his colors, make you fall in love with MB20, and take you to Augustana concerts, he’ll tell you that you understand him, and his heart in a way that nobody else does. He’ll bond with you over music, and send you songs that make you feel he’s talking about you. He is so good at making you feel seen, and involving you with his family. He’ll say he had a vision of a girl that looks like you, coming into his life, and here you are, his soul mate. And one day, the same way that Shari, Devon and I got lost in him, the reality of everything will come pouring down on you. Be careful, there are signs between the lines, and the smiles, and good times. Make sure you don’t miss those, whatever you decide.
My relationship with him, started off just like yours. Another girl on the periphery, and teetering the line of inappropriate. Everything you call him out on, will always have an excuse, and you will believe him because he’s the “good guy” who goes above and beyond for people.
I don’t wish for any woman to go through the pain I’ve gone through, the manipulation, the lies and the emotional abuse. I can’t tell you what to do, but I will say, be careful and don’t be blind to the small things that will one day become huge. The novelty will fade, and though Jared isn’t the devil, he has a lot of growing up to do at 40. It was not okay to toy with me and drag me through the mud this year. It wasn’t okay to minimize his relationship with you and lie to me about it. It’s not okay to, to this day claim to see a life with me and not commit to it. I deserve better, and you deserve better.
How men talk about their ex’s and other women is an indication about how they will one day talk about and treat you. That is the worst and best lesson i have learned. I’m 34, years of my life wasted, and he took another year of my life knowing full well, this is how it would end. He’s sat on the phone with me for hours talking about how stupid PA’s are and if you were going to not be a doctor, at least become an NP, who has better bedside knowledge. Why would he say that, because i suppose you’re a PA and it minimizes the significance of even having a relationship with somebody who isn’t as intelligent as he is. The lack of respect will always be there, you just have to look for it.
Dishonesty, and manipulation are a plague, and if that’s who you are at 40, it is who you will always be unless you recognize that something needs to change. Where there is no accountability, there can be no change. I’m not the exception, I’m the same as the two girls before me. He’ll show you text messages where he never responded to me, even though he replies on Snapchat where every thing is erased. I cannot believe i didn’t see the signs. He will make me look crazy and laugh at me, the same way he showed me messages from Jen, and Elisabeth, and Devon, and made them sound crazy to me. I guess that’s his MO. The same way he told me you were nothing to him.
I was going to send you this message, two months ago… i then decided not to because he convinced me he wasn’t dating you… I saw him less than a month ago in Roanoke, i begged him to tell me that he was in a relationship with you. He said he wasn’t, again, he told me he was going to a wedding alone with only Ryan and that he wasn’t taking you. I then begged him to tell me that we were done and that he didn’t love me anymore. His response was idk what’s going to happen a year from now, i know I’ll see you again. His response every time has been when im ready for a relationship, emotionally, do you want me to finally let you know? I don’t care to be with him anymore. I’m so over it but i really think you should know the type of person you’re dealing with.
He has put me through so much hell for a year and a half of my life, stringing me along acting like he’s doing me a favor while he works on his own mental health and claims to still love me when we are together.”
TLDR: my SO’s ex messaged me saying he’s been seeing both of us for the past year and a half. Has anybody experienced this before. She sent me pictures from the past year of them and their text exchanges

His ex sent me this message, should I believe it? I don’t know what to do. Sorry the message is really long!
“It’s been over a year of me wondering whether I should just come out and ask you or message you… but being afraid that if I do, and I’m wrong, it’ll be a the biggest mistake of my life. I have begged and begged him to tell me what you are to him, and he denies having anything more than a platonic friendship with you.
I want to preface this message with, I have no ill will towards you, I just want some answers… answers I don’t believe I’m going to get from Jared. I don’t know if he’s mentioned anything about me. So here goes…
November 2022, I sent Jared an email, telling him I loved him, missed him, and though I didn’t require a response back, I wanted him to know how sorry I was for everything that had happened and things had ended. He responded with a lengthy email telling me he still fervently loved me and how he too was sorry for how things had ended. That email lead to the last year and a half of events.
December 2022, I drove down to Roanoke and surprised him at the Carilion garage. He left the hospital as fast as he could that night, and we spent the rest of that evening together, catching up, and he left for Key West two days later. Two weeks later, he came up to DC and we had a late birthday celebration for him at Clyde’s in Georgetown and went to see A Christmas Carol at the Ford Theater. A few weeks later we drove to Jersey to see Matchbox20, by now it was the end of January 2023. Almost every week off, for the last year, he would come up and see me, if even for only two days, or I would drive down to Roanoke and spend the week with him. We spoke about our past, the hurt, and future, he told me numerous times that when he pictured marriage and children, it was only with me, but he needed time. This part is important, and I’ll come back to it later. We celebrated my birthday at a restaurant in Navy Yard, two weeks before you guys left for London. Chris video chatted with that night while we were at the restaurant eating Wagyu, and they discussed the new shipment of sunglasses Chris had gotten for Miggieswear.
The weekend of the Super Bowl, he had come seen me earlier that week, the day after he left I came to Roanoke and left the day of the Super Bowl. He told me his parents were having a viewing party and he had to go home and cook. I’m now assuming he left my Airbnb and came to your place.
That February he planned a trip to London, with Nicole, Ryan and Chris, and what he told me were, Nicole’s “friends.” Nicole happened to post a picture of you guys sitting on the plane and I was shocked, why would Nicole’s friend be sitting between him and Ryan. I sent him a message while you were on that 6 hour flight, telling him that if he had been seeing somebody, then why didn’t he tell me? There was no point in us spending time together if he had moved on. His response to me was “do you even know what you’re looking at? I’m surprised you don’t recognize her, that’s Nicole’s friend. You’re jumping to a lot of conclusions right now and don’t know what you’re talking about.” Something in my gut didn’t believe it but I wanted to trust that, so I did. I put you out of sight, out of mind. When he got back, he told me how he wished I’d been there with him, we both love history and old buildings, it’s a place we would have found magical together. I don’t know who came up with the idea of going to London, but part of me always thinks I’m the one who put it there when I shared the pictures i had taken when I went there the year we had been no contact.
We went to a Kenny Chesney concert in Charlottesville that March when I got back from my family trip to India, and he got back from London. Between work, us both traveling with our families, we were excited to see one another. We were going to go to St Augustine, but because of the weather, we stayed in Roanoke and saw Kenny Chesney in Charlottesville. The original plan had been to spend the night in Charlottesville at a hotel, but we couldn’t get one last minute so we ended up driving back to Roanoke and sneaking into the basement at his parents house and sleeping in his bed at 3am.
A few months later, we went to Richmond, and stayed the weekend, exploring the city, and watched Hamilton at the Altria Theater. A few months after that, we went to Savannah and Atlanta, where he got a flat tire driving into the garage, and spent the rest of the weekend at a yoga retreat. July, he asked me to go to Boston with him and his brother, for 4th or July weekend, but I couldn’t because my siblings were in town. Every single week, he came down and either stayed with me, or made a quick trip to spend time with me…
This past September, I found out he took you to Justin’s wedding, and I broke. I needed more from him. I have known him, been intimate with him, shared my every fear, worry, I have brought him home cooked meals from DC and surprised him at work with dinner, I’ve made him care packages. I’ve made Ryan Easter baskets and sent him birthday presents and encouraged Jared to put him in academic classes, I’ve helped Jared look into private schools for Ryan, and weighed the pros and cons of the options. I had no expectations in return from him other than, at the very least, a mutual respect and HONESTY.
I’ve seen him quite a few times since September and I last saw him in Roanoke at the beginning of March 2024. We sat in front of each other, in his car before he went into work that Monday night, and he told me, again, that when he thinks of marriage and a future, I’m the only one he pictures a marriage and children with. I’m not saying this to hurt you, or to make a point, I’m saying it because i don’t know what to believe anymore.
I became suspicious of his relationship with you, when he mentioned going to Macchu Picchu and hiking through the mountains. As all women have the ability to find out details they might later regret, I did the same thing. Except I didn’t believe he had actually gone to Macchu Picchu. I knew his passport had been long expired since around or before COVID, and I knew he had renewed it before he went to London. But that was when I realized you were the girl in the photo that Nicole posted. When I confronted him about Macchu Picchu, he told me he had been joking and he had also already told me he’d been joking. He had NEVER told me it was a joke, he had actually refused to show me photos when I asked him for pictures from the trip… he had then proceeded to change the topic, which is what had even raised red flags in my head.
My point is, I have asked him point blank so many times whether you two have a relationship. You tell me you still love me, that you picture marriage and a family with me, but this girl is a part of your life, and you took her to a wedding with you, while I was on a trip with my siblings, you took her to London with you, and you continue to tell me she’s just a friend. I asked him again on Tuesday night/Wednesday Morning after he left work, if you two are dating, and he said no. He asked me why I’m so hyper-fixated on somebody who’s just a friend when he has a million other female friends.
In September, he told me he needed a month to clear his head, that he wanted to commit to me, but he was afraid and that he needed to get over the fear and roadblock of our past break up. I gave him grace and understood. So we took a 4 week break. Some time during that time period, he sent me a snap of doves, and said “doves, and swans mate for life.” He sent me Ed Sheeran songs telling me he wants to find his way back to me. “No Strings Attached… you are the one I love”
In November, he messaged me and told me he had a surprise for me and to look for something in the mail. He loves the Count of Monte Carlo, it’s one of his favorite movies, and he told me it was in reference to that. A few weeks later I got a candle, a silver 400 dollar Buddha candle from Thomson Ferrier. I didn’t understand the reference to the Count of Monte Carlo, but it was a beautiful gesture and present… especially because he knew how much little gestures from him mean to me.
Fast forward to January, I got another 350 dollar black skull candle from him, from Thomson Ferrier. At this point I was upset, angry and livid. I called my sister in tears that evening. I had come back to him because he told me he loved me, that he “has a fire that burns so deeply” when he thinks of me. If i had known that wasn’t true, i would have closed the chapter a year and a half ago. I don’t want $700 worth of gifts and candles, I want more. I want marriage, I want children, I want our lives to move forward, I want communication. Out of anger, I packed up the candle, his sweatshirts and clothes that he had left at my place this past year, and mailed them back to his house. I’m sure it’s sitting somewhere in his basement closet/ bedroom… along with his white Huq sweatshirt, a picture of us I had up in my house, and various articles of clothing.
What upsets me is that he didn’t just involve me this year, he involved my family. He sent my mom presents, my parents in return sent him gifts. My sister, parents and cousins messaged him asking him to come around more. There was no point in involving my family, if he was going to involve himself with you. There was no point in involving himself with me, if he was going to involve himself with you. Those leather Indian shoes sitting in his room, my dad bought those for him. That blue sweater, those green pants and that maroon shirt, my parents bought those for him just this last year.
I don’t know what he’s told you about me, but I will say this. I was your age when we started dating. I was 29 years old. He was single, that’s what everyone in our residency program thought. He would tell everyone how Shari left him one day, all of a sudden just got up and left. “I saw the look behind her eyes just change when she looked at me.” He would tell everyone his horrific dating stories. When i started dating him, there was no doubt in my mind he was single… but I was wrong. He wasn’t single, he was dating Devon, one of the nurses from Carilion, and he had been for the past 4 years prior to that. At one point when he moved to Norfolk, she had even moved in with him. Even Shari was visiting him in Norfolk during this time period. I would have never suspected it, nobody in our residency program did. It wasn’t until one day, when he told me his friends were visiting from home, and they were all going to a concert together, that I found out. Her profile picture was of the two of them together, and her Facebook relationship status said “in a relationship.” Out of my own naivety, i believed him when he told me she was crazy and obsessed with him. He told me, to him, they were just friends but she wanted more. Women do a lot of things, but no woman is dumb enough to think she’s your girlfriend when she’s not. When we moved back to our hometowns, Devon was there waiting for him. He disappeared one day for 24 hours, told me that he was helping his dad’s friend who was stranded in NC. A year and a half later, i would find out that was a lie and that he had been at a concert Florida Georgia Line concert with her. She had been visiting his grandmother with him, staying at his parents home. The irony is that a few weeks after he took her, he took me to the same concert in Scranton. Him and his family didn’t bat an eye when a month later, I showed up and was the “new girlfriend.”
Eventually Devon found out about his lies and left him, but again, stupid me thought she was a crazy girl who just wanted so badly to be with him, that she built their relationship up in her head.
Dignity, respect for humans, empathy, are the most important qualities in a human being.
What I don’t wish is for you to be in my spot in 5 years. He will paint you in his colors, make you fall in love with MB20, and take you to Augustana concerts, he’ll tell you that you understand him, and his heart in a way that nobody else does. He’ll bond with you over music, and send you songs that make you feel he’s talking about you. He is so good at making you feel seen, and involving you with his family. He’ll say he had a vision of a girl that looks like you, coming into his life, and here you are, his soul mate. And one day, the same way that Shari, Devon and I got lost in him, the reality of everything will come pouring down on you. Be careful, there are signs between the lines, and the smiles, and good times. Make sure you don’t miss those, whatever you decide.
My relationship with him, started off just like yours. Another girl on the periphery, and teetering the line of inappropriate. Everything you call him out on, will always have an excuse, and you will believe him because he’s the “good guy” who goes above and beyond for people.
I don’t wish for any woman to go through the pain I’ve gone through, the manipulation, the lies and the emotional abuse. I can’t tell you what to do, but I will say, be careful and don’t be blind to the small things that will one day become huge. The novelty will fade, and though Jared isn’t the devil, he has a lot of growing up to do at 40. It was not okay to toy with me and drag me through the mud this year. It wasn’t okay to minimize his relationship with you and lie to me about it. It’s not okay to, to this day claim to see a life with me and not commit to it. I deserve better, and you deserve better.
How men talk about their ex’s and other women is an indication about how they will one day talk about and treat you. That is the worst and best lesson i have learned. I’m 34, years of my life wasted, and he took another year of my life knowing full well, this is how it would end. He’s sat on the phone with me for hours talking about how stupid PA’s are and if you were going to not be a doctor, at least become an NP, who has better bedside knowledge. Why would he say that, because i suppose you’re a PA and it minimizes the significance of even having a relationship with somebody who isn’t as intelligent as he is. The lack of respect will always be there, you just have to look for it.
Dishonesty, and manipulation are a plague, and if that’s who you are at 40, it is who you will always be unless you recognize that something needs to change. Where there is no accountability, there can be no change. I’m not the exception, I’m the same as the two girls before me. He’ll show you text messages where he never responded to me, even though he replies on Snapchat where every thing is erased. I cannot believe i didn’t see the signs. He will make me look crazy and laugh at me, the same way he showed me messages from Jen, and Elisabeth, and Devon, and made them sound crazy to me. I guess that’s his MO. The same way he told me you were nothing to him.
I was going to send you this message, two months ago… i then decided not to because he convinced me he wasn’t dating you… I saw him less than a month ago in Roanoke, i begged him to tell me that he was in a relationship with you. He said he wasn’t, again, he told me he was going to a wedding alone with only Ryan and that he wasn’t taking you. I then begged him to tell me that we were done and that he didn’t love me anymore. His response was idk what’s going to happen a year from now, i know I’ll see you again. His response every time has been when im ready for a relationship, emotionally, do you want me to finally let you know? I don’t care to be with him anymore. I’m so over it but i really think you should know the type of person you’re dealing with.
He has put me through so much hell for a year and a half of my life, stringing me along acting like he’s doing me a favor while he works on his own mental health and claims to still love me when we are together.”

Both Lakshay and Siwet are beyond wrong, because Siwet had already given a warning to Lakshay that do not spread negativity against Anicka otherwise I'll reveal something you won't like. After this Lakshay shouldn't have taken the chance and put his girlfriend at risk after already participating in a dating show.
We all know what a big baby Siwet is. You can not take your chances with this guy. Already during the broadcast fight between Anicka and Lakshay last time. Siwet revealed in Adit's live that he wanted to say something but Anicka made him swear on her life. So if you already knew this is the toxic disgusting pro max Kabir Singh you're dealing with it should've been your responsibility to protect your girlfriend as a boyfriend. The least you can do after pretending to be single and go on a dating show.
And people should really start boycotting Siwet.

I (22f) was dating said (32m), we will call him Pete. Pete and I lived in a smaller town that almost everyone knew eachother. When Pete and I started dating, I would frequently go over to his house. I would hangout there for hours and I mean all day. But I need to give you some background of what his house looked like so you can picture what I’m talking about. He had a 2 story 4 bedroom lake house. Based on what I knew about him, he was very close with his 4 year old “niece” and had one of the guest bedrooms downstairs set up with a childs room containing a princess bed, toys everywhere, etc. I knew for a fact that his sister did have a daughter and he did not have any children so I thought it was actually kind of cute. He would go on to tell me all the time how close he and his sister was and how she would come over almost weekly since her divorce and would stay with Pete. However, this one particular day, it was Christmas time and we had plans to go to a holiday party. I mentioned the idea of spending the night because we would both be drinking and the party was in his neighborhood. At this point, I never spent the night at his house before since we haven’t been dating that long (3 months) and I was still in college which my campus was a 40 minute drive away so between classes and working, it wasn’t ideal. He seemed very happy with the idea once I brought it up and we kept having casual conversation until it was time to get ready. I went into the guest bathroom upstairs to take a shower and I noticed some black fuzzy slippers. I assumed they were his sisters but when I went to reach for a towel underneath the sink, it looked like a tornado went through his bathroom with all these feminine products and shampoos thrown under the sink and I mean thrown like in a rush to be hidden. At this point, I knew something was up because even if your sister comes here, she isn’t going to have hundreds of products kept here. So after I shower, I mention to him about the slippers and the disaster under his sink. He looked confused (of course) and said that the women who does his pedicures gave those to him??? So me being the FBI investigator I am, I start looking through the rest of the house. As I went to open the 2nd guest room door, I was able to see in enough and he came and grabbed the door knob saying I couldn’t go in there. I asked why even though I already saw once again, a tornado of clothes, shoes, purses, etc. all over the floor. He said because his safe was in there (as if I knew the code to get into it or like would anyway?) So I just play dumb. I’m like “yeah Pete of course! I know it’s your sisters.” So everyone who knows Pete (remind you I lived in a small town) knows what his bedroom looks like and he has this super interesting and easy to identify mirror because of all of his selfies on social media. I get glammed up and go take selfies in his mirror. Once I am ready for the party, he faked a phone call saying his “niece” is having an emergency and needs to go to the hospital and I need to leave asap. I kind of already knew this was coming based on everything I discovered so far but the way he was trying to literally kick me out of his house confirmed that someone was on their way. So I smiled, told him I knew, and that I always get the last laugh. He looked very puzzled as I walked out of the house into my car and said “you’ll be hearing from me very soon.” After a night of investigating, I found out a lot of things about Pete such as that he didn’t really have a sister, his job was a fraud, and most importantly, I found his girlfriend. We will call her Nicole. Before reaching out to Nicole, I uploaded my brand new Facebook profile photo and sent her a request. Immediately she accepted me and asked why was my profile photo in her boyfriend’s bedroom. And it begun. Pete immediately starts blowing up my phone and of course at the same time so is Nicole. Nicole asked if she can call me and I accept. I told Nicole the truth and asked her if she had a daughter. She said yes I have a four year old and Pete does not in fact have a sister. I explained to Nicole that Pete and I have been dating each other for several months now and he told me that she was his sister and that her daughter was his niece. She was stunned. She said they have been dating for 10 months but she never understood why he never posted her on social media and only her daughter but now she did. Nicole shared with me that she works nights as a vet tech and that is how we never ran into each other. Nicole wanted to know all of the details and at first I didn’t feel comfortable sharing with her, but she really wanted to know the truth so I did. Nicole then went to post our messages and called Pete out for cheating via Instagram. I was mortified. She did not paint me in a bad light but was giving me my flowers for telling her the truth. I thought that was a weird way of showing it but I understood she wanted to expose Pete to everyone in our small town. Fortunately for me, I did not get any backlash from people but empathy and could not wait until this passed over. After being cussed out and threatened by Pete, and him telling me I ruined a four-year-old’s life, he showed up to my apartment throwing a temper tantrum. He wasn’t violent but he started crying and screaming how I ruined his life and his sisters (LOL still going with that) and eventually, he left me alone for the rest of that night. I found out later that evening that Nicole packed up all her things and left him. He continued to text me for the next several months how I ruined his fake life and how lonely he is. I blocked him. 2 years later I heard he eventually moved to the same state I did and was trying to get ahold of me. We ironically saw each other at top golf (I think someone told him where I was obviously) and came begging for me back. I kindly declined. To this day, Nicole and I stayed acquaintances and she told me I was the most clever person she ever met. But like I told him, I always get the last laugh.

Father's Day is a holiday honoring one's father, as well as fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. In Catholic countries of Europe, it has been celebrated on 19 March as Saint Joseph's Day since the Middle Ages. In the United States, Father's Day was founded in the state of Washington, United States, by Sonora Smart Dodd in 1910. The day is held on various dates across the world, and different regions maintain their own traditions of honoring fatherhood. Sikhs celebrate Father's Day (ਪਿਤਾ ਦਿਵਸ) on 29 December, birthday of Guru Gobind Singh. Father's Day is a recognized public holiday in Lithuania and some parts of Spain and was regarded as such in Italy until 1977. It is a national holiday in Estonia, Samoa, and equivalently in South Korea, where it is celebrated as Parents' Day. The holiday complements similar celebrations honoring family members, such as Mother's Day and, in the United States, Siblings Day, and Grandparents' Day.

The Govt is backing out of allowing people who had their Indian passports revoked to apply for OCI's. Elections are over now so they can go back to the normal business of not giving a fuck about your votes or your issues.
...

Uncertainty for Goans who took Portuguese citizenship after MEA modifies memo

While a passport ‘surrender certificate’ has so far been mandatory for those who want to apply for OCI, an April 4 office memorandum issued by the MEA had raised hopes that a ‘revocation order’ would also be accepted as an alternative document.
Written by [Pavneet Singh Chadha] Panaji Updated: May 12, 2024 07:33 IST
People from erstwhile Portuguese territories in India (Goa, Daman and Diu), whose Indian passports had been revoked after acquiring Portuguese citizenship, could be stuck in limbo after the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) revised its recent circular that had been expected to pave the way for them to apply for an Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) card.
While a passport ‘surrender certificate’ has so far been mandatory for those who want to apply for OCI, an April 4 office memorandum issued by the MEA had raised hopes that a ‘revocation order’ – a document the memo said would be mandatorily issued to those whose passports were revoked – would also be accepted as an alternative document.
However, a corrigendum by the MEA dated April 30 has brought uncertainty in the matter. While the MEA had said in the April 4 memorandum that the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has “decided to accept ‘revocation certificate’ as an alternative document in lieu of surrender certificate”, the April 30 corrigendum said this is only “under consideration” by the MHA.
The revocation of passports has caused considerable anxiety among people in Goa. In the past 18 months, the issue assumed significance in the state after an even earlier MEA memorandum, dated November 30, 2022, instructed authorities to revoke passports (instead of issuing a ‘surrender certificate’) of people for “suppressing material information” regarding their Portuguese citizenship.
Passport authorities then stopped issuing surrender certificates to such people, thereby rendering them ineligible to obtain an OCI card.
Portugal offers those born in Goa before December 19, 1961 – the day Goa was liberated from Portuguese rule – and two future generations the option of registering as Portuguese citizens. Since a Portuguese passport provides the holder visa-free entry to several countries, including the UK and the EU, many in Goa in the last few decades have been transcribing their births in the Central Registry in Lisbon and acquiring Portuguese citizenship to avail employment and educational opportunities overseas.
In response to a written question by AAP MLA Venzy Viegas during the recent Goa Assembly session, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said that around 10,129 Indian passports have been surrendered in the past five years by persons who obtained Portuguese citizenship.
Earlier this week, while disposing two petitions where petitioners had been declared ineligible to apply for OCI registration on the ground that their Indian passports were revoked, the High Court of Bombay at Goa referred to the April 4 memorandum and directed the FRRO Mumbai, MEA and the regional passport office in Goa to dispose applications “in accordance with law, including, in particular, the statements made before this court and the OM (office memorandum) dated April 4, 2024”.
Kennedy Afonso, convener of Goans for Goa, a citizens’ collective which has been raising the issue, said people have been suffering due to the uncertainty surrounding the issue. “It has been a month since the MEA circular was issued. While we are awaiting a notification from the MHA, the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) is refusing applications stating they are yet to receive official communication regarding acceptance of revocation certificates for OCI card applications,” said Afonso.
Thomas Fernandes, a resident of Candolim in North Goa, who acquired Portuguese citizenship in 2015 and whose Indian passport was revoked last year, said, “The earlier office memorandum said the production of a revocation order would suffice for OCI card application. As per the orders of the High Court, I shall be re-applying for an OCI within four weeks.”

Hey all, wow its been about a month since I last was in here and finally it's my turn to share my "success" getting over your ex story. I will skip the cliche "it does get better" etc. and would rather tell you how my journey went for those past 4 months and what's next ahead, because self improvement is constant effort guys! Buckle up this will be a different kind of ride :)
Just an important part of this journey is that literally the day after I last saw my ex I got laid off work...
Month 1: I was an absolute wreck, constant crying, not being able to sleep, not eating, barelly functioning my weekly therapy sessions kept me going pretty much getting stitched-up on a weekly basis. Looking back now I'm kinda happy I lost my job which allowed me to take my time to "suffer" and feel it all. This whole month I joined an online community about people struggling with breakups because my closest friends are in another town and couldn't support me much besides picking up my calls and giving me a listening shoulder. Having a support system in the begining was a crusial step, having a space space on a daily basis to share what you're going through with people in similar situation is priceless. (I haven't joined this sub back then yet).
Month 2: I was still a wreck, crying 70% of the time, still barelly getting though the days, weekends were hell, I was constantly thinking about my ex swithing between anger and disappointment. Around this time I found this and another subs and joined it and started reading more and I got to see more about attachment styles. I've talked about it all with my therapist but we obviously can't deep dive into the whole theory and specifics. On top of it my ex has very prominent and strong narcissistic tendencies. I really started to go back and try to look at the relationship rationally and really the outcome would always be the ending of the relationship (I was the dumper but I couldn't stay anymore for my own emotional sake, I was emotionally drained) Anyways, I started reading more about attachment styles, theory and looked up books and podcasts. What worked for me personally is obviously the classic book Attached by Amir Levine as well as the book How to be the love you seek by Nicole LePera. Podcasts wise, Mel Robbins and Matthew Hussey have made most sense for me and helped me understand better attachment, trauma bonding, secure/insecure dating, maybe controversial for some but it worked for me. During this time out of spite I rejoined the dating apps to look for outside validation and started texting and going casually out with people. Not needed to mention but obviously nothing let to anything good or meaningful, besides me seing that there are people out there that could potentially have an interest in me but then ghosting me or rejecting me because I wasn't emotionally available. So I got myself exposed for the first time to ghosting and avoidants now conciously and learned how to spot them quick enough and how to handle them better, and yes! it sucks big time the first couple times being ghosted or rejected but I needed that exposure to learn how to cope with it.
Month 3: Still crying most of the time, but started to eat slowly and even rejoined the gym and started going now and then, also still dreaming and thinking a lot about my ex alsmost all the time, I was asking friends for their phones to stalk her socials cause I forced her to block me so I can't stalk her... Kept reading the books and podcasts and discussing the topics with my therapist, connecting the dots and learning how to handle loneliness now more than ever. I started dating someone new and for the first time I've found someone secure to date and got to see what it feels like. It was a bit trigerring and scary at first but I really appreciated the experience. I also finally got the guts to go out on a "solo date" to a small concert of a performer I really like. Well.... didn't go how I imagined, something happened to me and I blacked out in the crowed before the performance even started, thank god for good strangers who helped me get myself back on my feet, probably low blood sugar...
Fast forward to now Month 4: Crying only during my therapy sessions now mostly and still trying to cope with the loneliness while still seeing the securely attached girl. I kept dating this her, been casually going out on about now 7-8 dates, but I still wasn't feeling the attraction... unfortunatelly and I knew it but I tried to convince myself if I keep seeing her with time I would get attracted. Until couple weeks ago when I just opened tinder again and swiped a bit and a day later matched with the prettiest girl I could even imagine matching with me. She even opened the conversation and we start texting and I completelly got ahead of myself and fallen for her in a matter of days (yes, red flag), cause we were vibin and I know she's out of my league but here we are texting and seting up first date. At this point I knew I'm getting myself into a huge mess and that feeling the way I do for this tinder beauty is a recipe for dissaster but I said yolo and karma got back to me. Long story short, we went on 2 dates within 2 days apart and while I thought its going well and her sending me mixed signals, she tried to ghost me right after this 2nd date. Now, luckily not my first rodeo... I see what she's doing and I'm trying to get her to come clean about it but she breadcrumbs. So, I had to ask if it's one sided and she confirmed and threw in some bs "its not you its me"... unfortunatelly or fotunatelly for me this happens the same day I've set up to meet the secure girl I've been dating to come clean about me not being asttracted to her and not wanting to waste any more of her time. Obviously she was much more mature about it and we had a lenghty conversation and I did feel super bad for hurting her but we split amicably. Maybe you already noticed that last month I didn't even mention my ex... because getting myself into this "beatiful" mess of dating multiple people at the same time in a short time span and still stingle, I got maybe the best "healing" experience I could've dating a secure person and insecure one at the same time... I really got to experience and see simultaniously what both are like and feel like and in the midst of this whole situation I learned a lot about myself too and I got examples of how to handle toxic situations the secure and insecure way. I also learned that it's not that scary to be vulnerable and put myself out there honestly even though I didn't get the same in return. I also learned I still have insecurities and issues to work onto to be able to be with a secure person next time.
So, I know this is not the typical post and maybe not what most of you expected, maybe some will judge me, that's ok, I am far from saying I've handled myself and the mess I created in a good way but it happened and because of it I actually was able to move on, I did get to see that it really isn't the end of the world and I am capable of being liked and liking people again and open to make a connection and be vulnerable.
I will stay in here for couple days maybe and try to answer as many of you who have questions or try to give advice if asked for but this is my story of my "crazy" healing journey and yes, my therapist is probably about done with me at this point but that woman is trying her best! There's no formula to this healing part what matters is that after each experience we take away the learnings and try to be better next time. I still have a lot of healing ahead but I can say confidently today that my ex is in the past and I have closed the door for good now. BTW if you've gotten this far, yes I'm also still looking for a new job... yey me!

HaileysOnIt - The Biggest Luger / An Imposter is Born

Please use this thread to discuss today's episode of Hailey’s On It. Stream every episode on Disney+ and on the DisneyNOW App.

EPISODE	DIRECTED BY	WRITTEN BY	STORYBOARD BY	ORIGINAL AIRDATE
S1 E29A - The Biggest Luger	Cat Harman-Mitchell	Mary Gulino	Ryan Agustin, Brad Goodchild, Morgan Shandro & Rhya Voskuil	May 11th, 2024

> Scott receives an invitation to a prestigious luge academy.

EPISODE	DIRECTED BY	WRITTEN BY	STORYBOARD BY	ORIGINAL AIRDATE
S1 E29B - An Imposter is Born	Leslie Park	Karen Graci	Inbal Breda, Wickus Coetzee, Nicole Fridrich & Kaden Westbrook	May 11th, 2024

> Hailey lives the life of her favorite pop star but finds out it’s all work and no play.
If you are willing to create a post outside of this discussion thread, please note that all posts must have a spoiler tag after 72 hours of the episode's premiere date.
We also do not allow any piracy in this subreddit [via Rule 6]. You can watch episodes of Hailey’s On It on Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney+, and on the DisneyNOW App. Full episodes of Hailey will be pinned in the comments of this discussion thread.
Want to discuss more about the show? Come join our official Discord partner. You can always find our server link in the About/Sidebar menu of the subreddit.

Shams Rehman
I came back to Mirpur from UK after a decade and so much is changed that requires a book to cover the processes and aspects of the change. Not only the depressive markets appear buzzing with economic activity despite the price hike or inflation, but it seems that politically this region is entering into a new phase. Youth is marching away from the Valley centric to the AJK centric politics. From the irrelevant and abstract ideological rhetoric to the life- issues based activism reflecting the lives of AJK people. The Mirpur division in general and the city of Mirpur in particular which was the cradle of independent Kashmir politics since 1950s, is presenting a hope for leading the home of Beitish Kashmiris towards a new kind of progressive and inclusive politics amidst concrete walls of tribalism and sectarianism. I leave the wider analysis of Mirpur for another time and focus on what seems to be a clear evidence of political change in this part of the divided and disputed state of Jammu Kashmir.
Right now, there is an interesting debate going on between the government and ‘Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), an amalgamation of diverse groups and opinions formed last year, about the deployment of 600 personnel of Punjab Constabulary (PC) in ‘azad’ (free) Jammu Kashmir (AJK). While the PM and Home Minister of AJK claim that we requested Punjab Civil Armed Forces (CAF) to increase the security of Chinese nationals working on various hydro power projects across AJK, leaders of the JAAC are circulating on social media the request letter dated 22nd April 2024, sent by the chief secretary of AJK government to the IG Punjab. The letter does request the deployment of ‘six additional platoons of CAF to strengthen the capacity of AJ&K police to ensure foolproof security of Chinese nationals and our strategic national infrastructure such as Neelam-Jehlum Powerhouse, Mangla Powerhouse, [and] Gulpur Powerhouse.’
However, in the next paragraph it also states that ‘we are also now faced with the calls of shutter down and wheel jam strikes from May 11th onwards given by the sub-nationalists and disgruntled subversive elements.’ Why the prime minister of AJK needs to deny in public that the CAF are invited to deal with the JAAC activism when the request letter clearly uses the JAAC activities as an additional factor to justify the deployment of the civil armed forces from Punjab? And What is actually going on in ‘azad’ Kashmir?
The only reason I can think of the denial by AJK PM of inviting forces from Punjab to deal with the planned JAAC activities is the peaceful nature of the JAAC movement and widespread public support it enjoys. This is an old tactic of the era when public had little access to the happenings in the government corridors. They fail to realise that now almost every official correspondence is leaked out because many officials within government offices are actually also fed up of the corrupt nature of governance.
While the Awami Action Committee was formed in 2014 on the lines of a similar people’s movement in Gilgit Baltistan, another part of the Kashmir Dispute under a relatively greater control of Pakistan, the current phase of ‘People’s Movement’ was initiated in July last year from Rawalakot city of AJK where few civil activists and traders started a ‘Sit In’ outside of the flour depot to protest against the shortage of subsidised flour. The act was soon followed by Sit Ins in other parts of Poonch Division and then spread to Mirpur and Muzaffarabad divisions with more demands added including ‘free electricity’ for AJK. The first ‘Jirga’ of the Action Committee was held in Kotli district where it was decided that ‘Sit-Ins’ will be increased, and a boycott of electricity bills payments will be launched till the government agrees to provide electricity free of cost. Some people mentioned the ‘No Revenue Movement’ against the increased rates of Maharaja Hari Singh government in 1930s to crush which the British troops were sent to Mirpur and four activists were hanged. However, people still did not pay the unjustly increased revenue rates which Maharaj was forced to take back. Awami Action Committee convened its consultation meeting in Muzaffarabad, the capital of AJK which was attended by hundreds of activists from all ten districts of AJK and issued a formal list of demands after a marathon discussion lasted more than 24 hours.
The name of the committee was changed from ‘Awami Action Committee’ (AAC) to ‘ Joint Awami Action Committee’ (JAAC) and a core body of 30 leading members was elected with three members from each district. They called the list of demands the ‘Charter of Demands’ with the demand of free electricity changed to the provision of electricity on ‘cost price’ from Mangla Dam. Other main demands included the price of flour subsidised to the rates of Srinagar and Gilgit Baltistan, withdrawal of luxurious privileges to the ruling classes, restoration of students’ unions, construction of a grid station in AJK, implementation of the court decision regarding Neelum Jhelum Dam, and completion of all projects across AJK. In short, the movement is against inflation, subsidies and better use of local resources for AJK people.
After some protests and shutter downs across AJK, the government formed a negotiating committee, and several rounds of negotiations were held with the JAAC. In a joint press conference after the last round of negotiations spokespersons of both negotiation committees announced that agreement is reached on all issues except the electricity bills. In principal government committee agreed on the provision of electricity on cost price but required time for working out how much is the cost price per unit of electricity from Mangla Dam.
According to the leadership of the JAAC, government was supposed to issue notifications on all other demands to the relevant departments and move bills in assembly for implementation. However, this was not done and the PM speaking to Mirpur Bar Council few weeks later claimed that demands are met, and matter is resolved. He claimed that the main demand of the JAAC was to freeze electricity bills to the pre 2022 prices which has already done.
The JAAC instantly issued statements that our demand about electricity bills is to take out all the daft taxes and provide the electricity at the cost price. They also stated that the matter is not resolved and wont be resolved until notifications about each demand in the Charter of Demands is issued and implementation process is meaningfully initiated in accordance with the agreement in all relevant departments. When no practical step was taken from the government to implement the agreement the JAAC announced that protests will be organised on 5th of February 2024. Since 5th February is marked every year in Pakistan, Azad Kashmir and amongst diaspora Kashmiris across the world to show solidarity with the Kashmiris in the Indian Occupied Kashmir, the government of AJK denounced this decision of JAAC as against the ‘Tehreek Hurriyat e Kashmir’ (Kashmir Liberation Movement).
The leadership of the action committee rebutted by saying that so called solidarity is mere hypocrisy of the AJK rulers who always abuse the plight of Kashmiri in the IOK to hide their mega corruption and inability to provide a responsible government in AJK. Therefore, the purpose to organise protests against the AJK rulers on this day is not to undermine or damage the cause of Kashmir’ but to expose the AJK rulers.
On the night of 4th February 2024 another round of negotiations was held between the negotiating committees and the government once again greed to take necessary steps regarding the Charter of Demands. However, the JAAC waiting some time announced that if the government does not take required steps by 30th April 2024 they will call for People’s March on 11th of May 2024 from all towns and cities of AJK and gather outside of the Azad Jammu Kashmir assembly in Muzaffarabad where they will stay till the demands in the Charter are addressed properly. On the arrival of CAF protests are being held in different towns across AJK and preparations for the 11th of May march are enhanced. Now news of potential arrest lists is being circulating on social media and JAAC has announced multi layers of activists to lead the march if the top leadership is arrested.
The key point they are making is that during one year of the movement not a single incident of violence happened anywhere in the AJK or as they say ‘ not a single vase is broken’, eik gamla naheen toota. Then why invite civil armed forces from Punjab? One reason offered by some activists is that the AJK police is not trusted by the government because the demands of the JAAC including electricity on cost price and flour subsidies are also echoed by the AJK police and all employees who are not privileged and get affected by the high rates of electricity, gas and flour subsidies etc.
Naghman Arif, a lecturer of English literature at Mirpur Degree College who have recently resigned to participate fully in the progressive politics to improve the conditions of the downtrodden population in Mirpur stated ‘the current AJK leadership is increasingly becoming irrelevant. They did not expect people to come out in such large numbers to participate in the protest calls of JAAC.’
He made an interesting point stating, ‘the AJK government and obscurantist leaders tried to contain the movement by using typical tactic of branding the movement as ‘anti-Pakistan’ and ‘backed by India’ or ‘Indian will use the unrest in AJK against Pakistan’. They do this to divert attention from their irresponsible and blatantly corrupt governance. However, now the youth of AJK has understood these tactics and are no longer willing to tolerate the politics of divide and rule rooted in the tribal and feudal super structure. The younger generation is rallying around the JAAC and people’s rights politics and is ready to make any sacrifices to replace this expired and outdated system with a more responsible government through healthy, positive, constructive, and progressive system of government. What Pakistani rulers need to understand is that the movement in AJK is not against Pakistan but is for the basic right of the people and to expose the corrupt and outdated system of government in AJK.’ He further stated ‘hitherto ‘azad’ Kashmir has been ruled through restrict, lofty statements and sweet promises. Now we have entered in the era of deliverance. Younger generation no longer is interested in charming speeches but practice. That is what I will work on along with the youth of Mirpur from all shades of opinions.’
Saad Ansari, one of the main leaders of the JAAC in Mirpur warned the Pakistani authorities that ‘any use of force against the peaceful march on 11th May will make the situation worse and seriously damage the image of Pakistan at international level as diaspora Kashmiris who hitherto protest against Indian atrocities in the IOK will also stage protests outside of Pakistani embassies and their links with the AJK will be weakened further.’
While JAAC is fighting against the unjust electricity bills and wide inflation in the streets, lawyer of Jammu Kashmir majority of whom while standing with the JAAC also fighting inside courts. The legal battle has started giving positive results. Yesterday ( Tuesday 7th May) the High Court of AJK has directed AJK government to explain the list of taxes collected with the electricity bills in writ petition titled “District Bar Association Mirpur President Imtiaz Raja Advocate (Time) and Faisal Manzoor President Mirpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Time)”.
The court of AJK also directed the AJK government to respond its stance within 15 days over an identical writ petition filed by Imtiaz Raja Advocate about inordinate delay in construction of much-prolonged Rathuaa-Haryam Bridge over Mangla Lake in Mirpur and the payment of compensatory funds to additional families of Mangla Dam effectees.

"Lok Sabha：印度人在酷暑中投票，氣溫超過攝氏 40 度
當 32 歲的卡蘭·沙阿 (Karan Shah) 前往西部古吉拉特邦投票時，他和他 59 歲的母親將攜帶水瓶和水果來消暑。為了避免排長隊，他們計劃一大早就到達投票站。
沙阿先生和他的母親是數百萬印度人中的一員，他們將在周二的大選第三階段投票，屆時 12 個州的 94 個選區將進行投票。
印度大選通常每五年在四月和五月舉行一次，選民和投票官員已經習慣了應對酷暑。但今年，印度以及亞洲其他地區正在經歷有史以來最熱的夏季之一，與近年來的情況一致。上個月，由於高溫襲擊該國，至少有九人因與高溫相關的問題死亡。
4月，聯邦部長尼廷·加德卡里(Nitin Gadkari)在西部馬哈拉施特拉邦的一次競選集會上發表講話時暈倒，後來解釋說，擁擠的場地和高溫讓他感到不安。幾天前，東部城市加爾各答氣溫飆升至攝氏 43 度以上，一名電視主播在播報天氣預報時昏倒。她後來說，由於冷卻系統故障，工作室變得非常熱。
而且目前還看不到喘息的機會──印度氣象部門預測五月的熱浪時間會更長、更強烈。
選舉當局正在採取措施解決這一問題，在投票站提供飲用水並延長投票時間。
但一些專家推測，極端氣溫可能會影響選民投票率。
熱浪席捲印度，德里氣溫高達攝氏49度
席捲亞洲的創紀錄夏季
前首席選舉專員戈帕拉斯瓦米上週接受《今日印度》新聞頻道採訪時表示，今年的選民人數減少「可能與炎熱天氣有關」。與2019年選舉相比，4月19日和4月26日舉行的前兩階段投票的選民投票率各下降了至少3%。
戈帕拉斯瓦米先生還建議，從長遠來看，調整投票時間表——在較涼爽的二月和三月之間舉行選舉——可能會鼓勵更多人投票。
4 月 19 日，在距離恰蒂斯加爾邦丹特瓦達鎮約 33 公里（21 英里）的杜吉利村，印度大選第一階段投票期間，選民們在投票站外避暑投票。隨著世界上最大的民主國家於4月19日開始為期六週的選舉，巴斯塔地區（納薩爾叛亂分子最後的據點之一）村莊裡的數千人參加了投票。 （攝影：IDREES MOHAMMED / 法新社）/ 與“印度投票衝突毛派”一起，Bhuvan Bagga 的《聚焦》（攝影：IDREES MOHAMMED / 法新社，蓋蒂圖片社）蓋蒂圖片社
四月，選民在恰蒂斯加爾邦的投票站外躲避陽光
由於天氣炎熱，各政黨今年也一直在調整競選行程。上週，印度人民黨（BJP）議員拉傑什瓦爾·辛格（Rajeshwar Singh）告訴當地媒體，該黨工作人員只在早上和晚上拜訪選民家，而下午的會議則在室內舉行。
肺科醫生阿米特·P·高德 (Amit P Gawnde) 博士表示，長時間處於高溫下會導致電解質失衡，從而導致疲勞、頭暈和昏厥。
「患有心臟病或高血壓等合併症的患者面臨與熱相關問題的更高風險，」他說。
選民表示，他們對高溫感到擔憂，但會採取預防措施。
住在馬哈拉施特拉邦浦那區的蘇卡達·坎吉 (Sukhada Khandge) 表示，週二出門投票時，她會遮住臉和身體。
浦那是馬哈拉施特拉邦最熱門的地區之一，該地區將於 5 月 13 日至 20 日分兩階段進行投票。過去一周，浦那的氣溫一直在攝氏 39 度至 42 度之間，氣象官員表示，未來幾天這種情況可能會持續下去。
坎奇女士表示，她將在清晨投票，以避免人群擁擠和炎熱。
在西部古吉拉特邦，投票將於週二在 26 個選區舉行。
「到了下午，天氣變得很熱，你必須開車出行，」他說，並補充說，他知道如果不小心，可能會中暑或脫水。
同樣來自蘇拉特的31 歲迪皮卡·吉加爾·圖姆達瓦拉(Deepika Jigar Tumdawala) 表示，她覺得每年的這個時候投票都很不舒服，尤其是因為她住在工業區，工廠排放的煙霧加劇了炎熱的天氣。
「但投票是我的民主權利，所以我會冒著酷暑去投票，」她補充道。
2024 年 3 月 31 日，印度加爾各答郊區，男孩們在炎熱的夏日跳進池塘納涼。至少到五月為止。
孩子跳進池塘納涼
未來幾週，選民對高溫的擔憂也可能持續存在。
在南部特倫甘納邦，定於5月13日進行第四階段投票，炎熱的天氣已成為人們談論的話題。
40 歲的普拉蒂巴只用一個名字，她告訴 BBC 泰盧固語，她幾天前中暑了，並且感到嚴重頭痛。
她說：「在這樣的溫度下出去投票很困難。帶老年人去投票站將是一項挑戰。對他們來說，投票應該早點開始。」她補充說，她計劃帶她70 歲的老人去投票所。
負責監督該國選舉的選舉委員會今年首次允許 85 歲以上的人和殘疾人在家中投票。該委員會還在三月發布了指導方針，以盡量減少高溫對選舉的影響。
它指示選舉官員在投票站提供飲用水和口服水化鹽，隨身攜帶醫療包，並配備足夠的投票工作人員以防止延誤。
特倫甘納邦的選舉官員也將某些地區晚上的投票時間延長了一個小時，以使人們更方便地投票。
46 歲的欽塔拉·拉梅什 (Chintala Ramesh) 將在該州投票，她表示，該州變得如此熱門，以至於粉絲們不再有效。他希望在投票站設立大容量冷卻器和分配冷水的站。
但和圖姆達瓦拉女士以及全國數百萬人一樣，他表示高溫不會阻止他投票。
拉梅什先生說：“我們不應該讓高溫阻止我們行使投票權。” “這是我們作為公民的責任。”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68963549
—
今日亞馬遜優惠（聯盟）- https://amzn.to/3FeoGyg
成為天主教徒將為您永恆的命運奠定堅實的基礎。天主教信仰代表了人類所有相互競爭的哲學中最複雜、最一致、最完整的思想體系。這是名副其實的人類思想大教堂。天主教會教導說，上帝如此愛我們，以至於祂派遣祂的獨生子為我們的罪而死，並為我們的救贖而復活。透過相信耶穌基督為我們的主和救主，我們可以接受上帝的恩典並與祂永遠生活在天堂裡。 - https://www.vaticannews.va/en.html
瑪麗亞電台大中華區（中國大陸、香港、澳門、台灣） - http://www.voiceofmary.org.mo/ - 「瑪麗亞電台是聖母的禮物。透過節目編排、每一份社論產品以及我們所有的活動，我們必須成為帶有強烈瑪麗亞印記並呼籲皈依的祈禱和福傳的電台。 （利維奧神父）
瑪麗亞電台回應耶穌不斷的邀請：「你們往普天下去，向萬民傳福音」（谷16:15）。
我們節目的主題是：
禱告;
呼籲轉變；
傳福音；
人類和社會的形成；
來自教會和社會的新聞。
VisitMalta：取得馬耳他之旅所需的所有資訊！預訂門票、發現新的遊覽地點、發現令人驚奇的事情等等！ - https://www.visitmalta.com/
免責聲明：本網站僅供參考，不應被視為法律[健康、稅務、職業]建議。我們對因使用本部落格而可能產生的任何損失、損害或責任不承擔任何責任。本部落格無意取代專業醫療建議。本部落格所表達的觀點可能不代表主持人或管理階層的觀點。
https://www.reddit.com/SinoMaltaNews
http://sinomaltanews.freeforums.net/
"
"Lok Sabha：印度人在酷暑中投票，气温超过 40 摄氏度
当 32 岁的卡兰·沙阿 (Karan Shah) 前往西部古吉拉特邦投票时，他和他 59 岁的母亲将携带水瓶和水果来消暑。为了避免排长队，他们计划一大早就到达投票站。
沙阿先生和他的母亲是数百万印度人中的一员，他们将在周二的大选第三阶段投票，届时 12 个州的 94 个选区将进行投票。
印度大选通常每五年在四月和五月举行一次，选民和投票官员已经习惯了应对酷暑。但今年，印度以及亚洲其他地区正在经历有记录以来最热的夏季之一，与近年来的情况一致。上个月，由于高温袭击该国，至少有九人因与高温相关的问题死亡。
4月，联邦部长尼廷·加德卡里(Nitin Gadkari)在西部马哈拉施特拉邦的一次竞选集会上发表讲话时晕倒，后来解释说，拥挤的场地和高温让他感到不安。几天前，东部城市加尔各答气温飙升至 43 摄氏度以上，一名电视主播在播报天气预报时昏倒。她后来说，由于冷却系统出现故障，工作室变得非常热。
而且目前还看不到喘息的机会——印度气象部门预测五月份的热浪时间会更长、更强烈。
选举当局正在采取措施解决这一问题，在投票站提供饮用水并延长投票时间。
但一些专家推测，极端气温可能会影响选民投票率。
热浪席卷印度，德里气温高达49摄氏度
席卷亚洲的创纪录夏季
前首席选举专员戈帕拉斯瓦米上周在接受《今日印度》新闻频道采访时表示，今年的选民人数减少“可能与炎热天气有关”。与2019年选举相比，4月19日和4月26日举行的前两阶段投票的选民投票率各下降了至少3%。
戈帕拉斯瓦米先生还建议，从长远来看，调整投票时间表——在较凉爽的二月和三月之间举行选举——可能会鼓励更多人投票。
4 月 19 日，在距离恰蒂斯加尔邦丹特瓦达镇约 33 公里（21 英里）的杜吉利村，印度大选第一阶段投票期间，选民们在投票站外避暑投票。 ，2024年。随着世界上最大的民主国家于4月19日开始为期六周的选举，巴斯塔地区（纳萨尔叛乱分子最后的据点之一）村庄里的数千人参加了投票。 （摄影：IDREES MOHAMMED / 法新社）/ 与“印度投票冲突毛派”一起，Bhuvan Bagga 的《聚焦》（摄影：IDREES MOHAMMED / 法新社，盖蒂图片社）盖蒂图片社
四月，选民在恰蒂斯加尔邦的投票站外躲避阳光
由于天气炎热，各政党今年也一直在调整竞选日程。上周，印度人民党（BJP）议员拉杰什瓦尔·辛格（Rajeshwar Singh）告诉当地媒体，该党工作人员只在早上和晚上拜访选民家，而下午的会议则在室内举行。
肺科医生阿米特·P·高德 (Amit P Gawnde) 博士表示，长时间处于高温下会导致电解质失衡，从而导致疲劳、头晕和昏厥。
“患有心脏病或高血压等合并症的患者面临与热相关问题的更高风险，”他说。
选民表示，他们对高温感到担忧，但会采取预防措施。
住在马哈拉施特拉邦浦那区的苏卡达·坎吉 (Sukhada Khandge) 表示，周二出门投票时，她会遮住脸和身体。
浦那是马哈拉施特拉邦最热门的地区之一，该地区将于 5 月 13 日至 20 日分两阶段进行投票。过去一周，浦那的气温一直在 39 摄氏度至 42 摄氏度之间，气象官员表示，未来几天这种情况可能会持续下去。
坎奇女士表示，她将在清晨投票，以避免人群拥挤和炎热。
在西部古吉拉特邦，投票将于周二在 26 个选区举行。Dipakumar Hasmukhbhai Patel 表示，他的目标是早上骑摩托车前往苏拉特市的投票站。
“到了下午，天气变得很热，你必须开车出行，”他说，并补充说，他知道如果不小心，可能会中暑或脱水。
同样来自苏拉特的 31 岁迪皮卡·吉加尔·图姆达瓦拉 (Deepika Jigar Tumdawala) 表示，她觉得每年的这个时候投票都很不舒服，尤其是因为她住在工业区，工厂排放的烟雾加剧了炎热的天气。
“但投票是我的民主权利，所以我会冒着酷暑去投票，”她补充道。
2024 年 3 月 31 日，印度加尔各答郊区，男孩们在炎热的夏日跳进池塘纳凉。根据印度气象部门 (IMD) 的报告，印度可能会经历一个温暖的夏季，今年的热浪天数会更多，至少到五月为止。盖蒂图片社
孩子们跳进池塘纳凉
未来几周，选民对高温的担忧也可能持续存在。
在南部特伦甘纳邦，定于5月13日进行第四阶段投票，炎热的天气已经成为人们谈论的话题。
40 岁的普拉蒂巴只用一个名字，她告诉 BBC 泰卢固语，她几天前中暑了，并且感到严重头痛。
她说：“在这样的温度下出去投票很困难。带老年人去投票站将是一项挑战。对他们来说，投票应该早点开始。”她补充说，她计划带她 70 岁的老人去投票站。老妈妈一早就去投票。
负责监督该国选举的选举委员会今年首次允许 85 岁以上的人和残疾人在家中投票。该委员会还在三月份发布了指导方针，以尽量减少高温对选举的影响。
它指示选举官员在投票站提供饮用水和口服水化盐，随身携带医疗包，并配备足够的投票工作人员以防止延误。
特伦甘纳邦的选举官员还将某些地区晚上的投票时间延长了一个小时，以使人们更方便地投票。
46 岁的钦塔拉·拉梅什 (Chintala Ramesh) 将在该州投票，她表示，该州变得如此热门，以至于粉丝们不再有效。他希望在投票站设立大容量冷却器和分配冷水的站。
但和图姆达瓦拉女士以及全国数百万人一样，他表示高温不会阻止他投票。
拉梅什先生说：“我们不应该让高温阻止我们行使投票权。” “这是我们作为公民的责任。”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68963549
—
今日亚马逊优惠（联盟）- https://amzn.to/3FeoGyg
成为天主教徒将为您永恒的命运奠定坚实的基础。天主教信仰代表了人类所有相互竞争的哲学中最复杂、最一致、最完整的思想体系。这是名副其实的人类思想大教堂。天主教会教导说，上帝如此爱我们，以至于他派遣他的独生子为我们的罪而死，并为我们的救赎而复活。通过相信耶稣基督为我们的主和救主，我们可以接受上帝的恩典并与他永远生活在天堂里。 - https://www.vaticannews.va/en.html
玛丽亚电台大中华区（中国大陆、香港、澳门、台湾） - http://www.voiceofmary.org.mo/ - “玛丽亚电台是圣母的礼物。通过节目编排、每一份社论产品以及我们所有的活动，我们必须成为带有强烈玛丽亚印记并呼吁皈依的祈祷和福传的电台。” （利维奥神父）
玛丽亚电台回应耶稣不断的邀请：“你们往普天下去，向万民传福音”（谷16:15）。
我们节目的主题是：
祷告;
呼吁转变；
传福音；
人类和社会的形成；
来自教会和社会的新闻。
VisitMalta：获取马耳他之旅所需的所有信息！预订门票、发现新的游览地点、发现令人惊奇的事情等等！ - https://www.visitmalta.com/
免责声明：本网站仅供参考，不应被视为法律[健康、税务、职业]建议。我们对因使用本博客而可能产生的任何损失、损害或责任不承担任何责任。本博客无意取代专业医疗建议。本博客所表达的观点可能不代表主持人或管理层的观点。
https://www.reddit.com/SinoMaltaNews
http://sinomaltanews.freeforums.net/
"
"Lok Sabha: L-Indjani jivvutaw fi sħana qawwija hekk kif it-temperaturi jaqsmu l-40C
Meta Karan Shah ta’ 32 sena jmur jivvota fl-istat tal-punent ta’ Gujarat, hu u ommu ta’ 59 sena se jkunu armati bi fliexken tal-ilma u frott biex jegħlbu s-sħana. Biex jaħarbu mill-kjuwijiet twal, qed jippjanaw li jaslu fil-post tal-votazzjoni kmieni filgħodu.
Is-Sur Shah u ommu huma fost miljuni ta’ Indjani li se jitfgħu l-vot tagħhom fit-tielet fażi tal-elezzjoni ġenerali nhar it-Tlieta, meta 94 distrett elettorali madwar 12-il stat imorru jivvutaw.
L-elezzjoni ġenerali tal-Indja normalment issir kull ħames snin f’April u Mejju, u l-votanti u l-uffiċjali tal-votazzjoni huma mdorrijin jindirizzaw is-sħana ħarxa tas-sajf. Iżda din is-sena, l-Indja – flimkien ma’ partijiet oħra tal-Asja – qed tesperjenza wieħed mill-aktar sjuf sħan li sseħħ, f’konformità ma’ dawn l-aħħar snin. Ix-xahar li għadda, mill-inqas disa’ persuni mietu minħabba kwistjonijiet relatati mas-sħana hekk kif temperaturi qawwija laqtu l-pajjiż.
F'April, il-ministru federali Nitin Gadkari ħass ħażin waqt li kien qed jindirizza rally ta' kampanja fl-istat tal-punent ta' Maharashtra, u aktar tard spjega li l-post iffullat u t-temperatura għolja għamluh iħossu skumdità. Ġranet qabel dan, fil-belt tal-Lvant ta 'Kolkata fejn it-temperaturi għola 'l fuq minn 43C, ankra televiżiva spiċċat waqt li ppreżentat aġġornamenti tat-temp. Aktar tard qalet li l-istudjo kien sar estremament sħun peress li s-sistemi tat-tkessiħ tiegħu fallew.
U m'hemm l-ebda serħan fil-vista - id-dipartiment tat-temp tal-Indja bassar mewġiet ta 'sħana itwal u aktar intensi f'Mejju.
L-awtoritajiet elettorali qed jieħdu passi biex jindirizzaw dan billi jfornu l-ilma tax-xorb fil-kabini tal-votazzjoni u jestendu l-ħinijiet tal-votazzjoni.
Iżda xi esperti spekulaw li t-temperaturi estremi jistgħu jkunu qed jaffettwaw il-parteċipazzjoni tal-votanti.
Delhi ssofri f’49C hekk kif il-mewġa ta’ sħana qed tiġri lill-Indja
Is-sajf rekord li ħaraq l-Asja
F'intervista l-ġimgħa li għaddiet mal-istazzjon tal-aħbarijiet India Today, N Gopalaswami, eks kummissarju elettorali kap, qal li s-sħana ""setgħet kellha rwol"" f'numru ta' votanti aktar baxx din is-sena. Meta mqabbla mal-elezzjoni tal-2019, l-ewwel żewġ fażijiet tal-votazzjoni li saru fid-19 ta’ April u fis-26 ta’ April raw tnaqqis ta’ mill-inqas 3% kull wieħed fin-numru ta’ votanti.
Is-Sur Gopalaswami issuġġerixxa wkoll li tweak fl-iskedi tal-votazzjoni fit-tul - li jsiru elezzjonijiet bejn ix-xhur aktar friski ta 'Frar u Marzu - jista' jħeġġeġ aktar nies jivvutaw.
Getty Images Il-votanti jieħdu kenn mix-xemx barra stazzjon tal-votazzjoni biex jitfgħu l-vot tagħhom f'ġurnata sħuna matul l-ewwel fażi tal-votazzjoni tal-elezzjoni ġenerali tal-Indja, fir-raħal ta' Dugeli xi 33 Km (21 mil) mill-belt ta' Dantewada fl-istat ta' Chhattisgarh fid-19 ta' April. , 2024. Hekk kif l-akbar demokrazija fid-dinja bdiet elezzjoni ta’ sitt ġimgħat fid-19 ta’ April, eluf ta’ nies fl-irħula madwar id-distrett ta’ Bastar, waħda mill-aħħar fortizzi tar-ribelli Naxal, tefgħu l-vot tagħhom. (Ritratt ta' Idrees MOHAMMED / AFP) / TO GO WITH 'India-vote-conflict-Maoist', FOCUS minn Bhuvan Bagga (Ritratt ta' IDREES MOHAMMED/AFP permezz ta' Getty Images)Getty Images
Il-votanti jieħdu kenn mix-xemx barra kabina tal-votazzjoni fl-istat ta’ Chhattisgarh f’April
Il-partiti politiċi, ukoll, ilhom jirranġaw l-iskedi tal-kampanja tagħhom din is-sena minħabba s-sħana. Il-ġimgħa li għaddiet, il-leġiżlatur tal-Partit Bharatiya Janata (BJP) Rajeshwar Singh qal lill-midja lokali li l-ħaddiema tal-partiti kienu qed iżuru d-djar tal-votanti biss filgħodu u filgħaxija, filwaqt li l-laqgħat ta’ wara nofsinhar kienu qed isiru ġewwa.
Dr Amit P Gawnde, pulmonologu, jgħid li tqatta’ sigħat twal fis-sħana jista’ jwassal għal żbilanċ fl-elettroliti, li mbagħad jista’ jikkawża għeja, sturdament u qtugħ ta’ dawl.
""Pazjenti b'komorbiditajiet, bħal mard tal-qalb jew pressjoni tad-demm għolja, jiffaċċjaw riskju ogħla li jesperjenzaw problemi relatati mas-sħana,"" jgħid.
Il-votanti jgħidu li qed jibżgħu dwar is-sħana iżda se jieħdu prekawzjonijiet.
Sukhada Khandge, li tgħix fid-distrett ta’ Pune fl-istat ta’ Maharashtra, tgħid li se tkopri wiċċha u ġisimha meta toħroġ biex tivvota nhar it-Tlieta.
Pune huwa wieħed mill-aktar reġjuni sħan f'Maharashtra, li se jivvota f'żewġ fażijiet oħra fit-13 u l-20 ta' Mejju. Għal din l-aħħar ġimgħa, Pune ilha tesperjenza temperaturi bejn 39C u 42C u l-uffiċjali tat-temp qalu li dan x’aktarx ikompli fil-jiem li ġejjin.
Is-Sinjura Khandge tgħid li se tivvota kmieni filgħodu biex tevita l-folol u s-sħana.
Fl-istat tal-punent ta 'Gujarat - fejn il-votazzjoni se ssir f'26 distrett elettorali nhar it-Tlieta - Dipakumar Hasmukhbhai Patel jgħid li għandu l-għan li jivvjaġġa lejn il-kabina tal-votazzjoni tiegħu fil-belt ta' Surat bil-mutur tiegħu filgħodu.
“Lejn wara nofsinhar, issir tant sħuna li trid tivvjaġġa bil-karozza,” jgħid, filwaqt li jżid li hu konxju li wieħed jista’ jkollu daqqa ta’ sħana jew ibati minn deidrazzjoni jekk mhux attent.
Deepika Jigar Tumdawala ta’ 31 sena, li hija wkoll minn Surat, tgħid li ssib li l-votazzjoni f’dan iż-żmien tas-sena hija skomda, speċjalment peress li tgħix f’żona industrijali u d-dħaħen mill-fabbriki jżidu mas-sħana.
""Imma l-vot huwa d-dritt demokratiku tiegħi u għalhekk se nissaħħaħ is-sħana u mmur nivvota,"" żiedet tgħid.
Getty Images Is-subien qed jaqbżu ġo għadira biex jiksħu f'ġurnata sħuna tas-sajf fil-periferija ta' Kolkata, l-Indja, fil-31 ta' Marzu 2024. Skont ir-rapport tad-Dipartiment Meteoroloġiku tal-Indja (IMD), l-Indja x'aktarx tesperjenza sajf aktar sħun b' aktar ġranet tas-sħana din is-sena, mill-inqas sa May.Getty Images
It-tfal jaqbżu ġo għadira biex jiksħu
L-apprensjoni dwar is-sħana x'aktarx ser tippersisti fost il-votanti fil-ġimgħat li ġejjin ukoll.
Fl-istat tan-Nofsinhar ta’ Telangana, li se jivvota fit-13 ta’ Mejju fir-raba’ fażi, is-sħana qawwija diġà saret suġġett ta’ konversazzjoni.
Pratibha, ta’ 40 sena, li tuża biss isem wieħed, qalet lill-BBC Telugu li ġarrbet daqqa ta’ sħana ftit jiem ilu u kienet qed tesperjenza uġigħ ta’ ras qawwi.
""Huwa diffiċli li toħroġ tivvota f'dawn it-temperaturi. Se tkun ta' sfida li tieħu nies anzjani fil-postijiet tal-votazzjoni. Il-votazzjoni għandha tibda qabel għalihom,"" qalet, u żiedet li qed tippjana li tieħu 70 sena. omm anzjana biex tivvota kmieni filgħodu.
Għall-ewwel darba din is-sena, il-Kummissjoni Elettorali – li tissorvelja l-elezzjonijiet fil-pajjiż – ħalliet persuni li għandhom aktar minn 85 sena u dawk b’diżabilità jivvutaw minn djarhom. Il-Kummissjoni ħarġet ukoll linji gwida f'Marzu biex timminimizza l-impatt tas-sħana fuq l-elezzjonijiet.
Hija tat struzzjonijiet lill-uffiċjali elettorali biex jagħmlu l-ilma tax-xorb u l-imluħa ta’ idratazzjoni orali disponibbli fil-postijiet tal-votazzjoni, iżommu kits mediċi fil-idejn u jkollhom biżżejjed persunal tal-votazzjoni biex jipprevjenu dewmien.
L-uffiċjali elettorali f’Telangana estendew ukoll il-ħinijiet tal-votazzjoni b’siegħa filgħaxija f’ċerti żoni biex jagħmluha aktar komda għan-nies biex jitfgħu l-vot tagħhom.
Chintala Ramesh ta’ 46 sena, li se tivvota fl-istat, tgħid li tant saret sħuna li l-partitarji m’għadhomx effettivi. Irid li jitwaqqfu coolers ta’ kapaċità għolja u stazzjonijiet li jqassmu l-ilma kiesaħ fil-kabini tal-votazzjoni.
Imma bħas-Sinjura Tumdawala – u miljuni madwar il-pajjiż – jgħid li s-sħana mhux se twaqqafh milli jivvota.
""M'għandniex inħallu temperaturi għoljin iwaqqfuna milli neżerċitaw id-dritt tagħna għall-vot,"" jgħid is-Sur Ramesh. ""Hija r-responsabbiltà tagħna bħala ċittadini.""
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68963549
—
L-Amazon Deals tal-lum (Afljat) - https://amzn.to/3FeoGyg
Li ssir Kattoliku jagħtik pedament sod għad-destin etern tiegħek. Il-fidi Kattolika tirrappreżenta l-aktar sistema ta’ ideat kumplessa, konsistenti u kompleta fost il-filosofiji kollha tal-umanità li jikkompetu. Huwa katidral veru tal-ħsieb uman. Il-Knisja Kattolika tgħallem li Alla tant iħobbna li bagħat lil Ibnu l-waħdieni biex imut għal dnubietna u jqum mill-ġdid għas-salvazzjoni tagħna. Billi nemmnu f’Ġesù Kristu bħala Sidna u Salvatur tagħna, nistgħu nirċievu l-grazzja t’Alla u ngħixu miegħu għal dejjem fis-sema. - https://www.vaticannews.va/en.html
Radio Maria Greater China (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan) - http://www.voiceofmary.org.mo/ - “Radio Maria huwa rigal mill-Madonna. Permezz tal-programmazzjoni, kull prodott editorjali, u l-attivitajiet kollha tagħna, irridu nkunu radju ta’ talb u evanġelizzazzjoni b’impronta Marjana qawwija u sejħa għall-konverżjoni.” (Fr. Livio)
Radju Marija jwieġeb għall-istedina kontinwa ta’ Ġesù: “Mur fid-dinja kollha u ħabbar l-Evanġelju lil kull ħlejqa” (Mk 16:15).
It-temi ewlenin tal-ipprogrammar tagħna huma:
Talb;
Is-sejħa għall-konverżjoni;
Evanġelizzazzjoni;
Formazzjoni umana u soċjali;
Aħbarijiet mill-Knisja u mis-soċjetà.
VisitMalta: Ikseb l-informazzjoni kollha li għandek bżonn għall-vjaġġ tiegħek lejn Malta! Ibbukkja biljetti, skopri postijiet ġodda biex iżżur, sib affarijiet aqwa x'tagħmel u aktar! - https://www.visitmalta.com/
Ċaħda ta' responsabbiltà: Dan is-sit huwa għal skopijiet informattivi biss u m'għandux jitqies parir legali [saħħa, taxxa, professjoni]. Aħna m'aħniex responsabbli għal kwalunkwe telf, ħsarat, jew obbligazzjonijiet li jistgħu jinqalgħu mill-użu ta 'dan il-blog. Dan il-blog mhux maħsub biex jissostitwixxi parir mediku professjonali. Il-fehmiet espressi f'dan il-blog jistgħu ma jkunux dawk tal-host jew tal-maniġment.
https://www.reddit.com/SinoMaltaNews
http://sinomaltanews.freeforums.net/
"