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Feature Requests: Separate Email Account for Digests
neounix (Dark Matter) March 22, 2020, 12:24pm #1
From a novice, today we had an experience of all our email basically shutdown and users could not register, recover passwords or login with email because the weekly digest kicked off after a legacy forum migration and there were over 300K emails in the sidekiq queue; so anyone who tried to login via email, register, recover their password, etc did not get any email and were hosed (as they say)…
The issue was based on the fact that we use GMAIL as our mail relay, and (free) GMAIL set limits on this sort of SMTP relaying and so GMAIL shut us down for the day.
I would like to ask for this feature in the future (unless there is another way to address this).
Add another set of app.yml vars which permit admins to set up a different email relay for digests.
During the setup process, the dialog could add Do you want to set up a different SMTP server for digests? and the user could use the same SMTP relay if they wished.
For large forums with a lot of digest activity, it would be good to have an option to relay these digest emails via a different SMTP relay than the one used for the key tasks, like password recovery, login and registration.
For now, we have turned off all digests. We did see a way to limit this the seen in last X number of days setting. The default, when I was checking it out today, was 365 days. For some reason, our migrated server queued up over 300K messages.
It's not a huge issue, but it would be good, I think, to separate digest vs. mission critical emails; because even if the queuing priority is higher for mission critical emails, if the SMTP relay blocks because of an excessive number of digests, the mission critical email will be blocked as well.
In addition, some forums may be experiencing a similar situation and not be aware of why their SMTP mail is not working; when in fact it was blocked for the reason mentioned.
Thank you for your thoughtful consideration.
TangentialDuck
Stephen (Stephen) March 22, 2020, 12:41pm #2
Please note that using the free Gmail to send any email from Discourse isn't supported. It's again Google's terms of service. Using Gmail on this way borders on an #unsupported-install.
It's hard to see how this feature request makes sense to implement, had you used a supported email mechanism the incident couldn't have occurred.
Stephen:
Please note that using the free Gmail isn't supported. It's again Google's terms of service.
We have a Google domain and free email has been supported for many years and is supported now.
Try to cut me some slack after running a forum to 20 years… We did not just hatch out of an egg yesterday, @Stephen
It absolutely is, communities who ignore our email guide run into this all the time.
Google doesn't allow any transactional email to be sent from Gmail accounts, and we have seen communities lose accounts permanently when trying to do so. Paid GSuite accounts also have hard limits on transactional email per day. You aren't the first person to be in this position and we can't assist you with engineering your way around the terms implemented by Google.
I just logged into our GSuite account and checked the TOS and what you are saying is not true:
https://policies.google.com/terms
@Stephen, you are too quick to pull the trigger. I did not ask for a feature to "get around Google's TOS" and so please refrain from putting words in my posts.
You are too quick to pull the trigger and falsely accuse people @Steven so maybe let others reply to my requests who are not so trigger happy?
There's some inconsistency in what you're saying here:
neounix:
Gmail isn't G-Suite. Paid G-Suite accounts have the following limits:
Limit type
Messages per day
Daily sending limit* 2,000 (500 for trial accounts)
Free Gmail accounts always have the 500 email limit.
That's the Google TOS, it has nothing to do with the above. There's definitely a difference between 'it worked until now' and being allowed to do so. We've seen users attempt this over the past seven years and it has never worked out:
Some more reading on the topic
New setup - errors when trying to send emails through gmail - #2 by pfaffman
Office 365 SMTP settings - #2 by codinghorror
https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-smtp-in-discourse/79173/2
Anyone using gmail for SMTP? - #8 by sam
Gmail SMTP Relay Setup not working - #2 by justin
Can I use gmail smtp? - #2 by fefrei
POP3 polling error - #4 by pfaffman
Sidekiq queue too large - Google email provider problems - #2 by codinghorror
There's an email setup guide with a list of recommended providers. You don't have to follow it, but we can't help you use Gmail or GSuite in ways that weren't intended.
neounix (Dark Matter) March 22, 2020, 1:03pm #7
Yes, I knew all of that before I posted @Steven
You really should refrain from under-estimating the knowledge of someone who has been on line since before there was a mosaic browser, in my view, and be careful of how you reply. Don't take the fun of Discourse and tech in general by making accusatory statements toward others.
First you told me "there is NO free GMAIL" (which I knew was wrong) and you accused me of some malicious activity, then you went and did your homework and found out that GSuite has a 2,500 a day limit, which I have known for a long time since I have managed this GSuite account for years.
You should apologize when you pull the trigger so quickly, start accusing people of bad things and are wrong on the details.
It's not fun, really, to post a simple feature request and have to reply to this negative energy.
pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 22, 2020, 1:16pm #8
This suggests that you're using Gmail and not gsuite, which is against the rules. Lots of people, topically people who don't know what system administration is, try to use Gmail and it is a violation of the terms of service. Telling people that is a good idea, and not mean or rude.
But you're using gsuite, which is totally fine. That was impossible to tell from your original post. So that's why it seems like you're being treated so unfairly.
Except Gsuite doesn't actually work on a forum with much traffic, as you describe. You are asking for a new feature so that Discourse will somehow work with a mail service that limits you to 2500 messages per day.
It's possible, but won't be very easy, to create a plugin to do that. I suspect that it would be several days work for someone familiar with discourse development.
The solution is to use a mail service that will deliver the amount of mail that you need to send.
Stephen (Stephen) March 22, 2020, 1:17pm #9
Just to follow up, this topic is a duplicate. The request for multiple SMTP services has been requested previously:
Multiple transactional email providers with auto-switch between them feature
Mandrill gives 12k free emails per month. Sendgrid gives another 12k free emails per month. … and there are more of such providers. It would be cool to sign up with a few and enter the corresponding SMTP authorization details of all of them in a config file and set a quota, i.e: Mandrill: username, password, 11900 (first 11900 emails) Sendgrid: username, password, 11900 (next 11900 emails) ProviderX: username, password (all the other emails) For a growing community, would save at least $10…
The use case here is a little different, but the problem arose from a digest misconfiguration. Unix.com has 138062 users, a limit of 2000 emails per day even for mission critical stuff like password resets would only account for 1.8% of those users being able to interact on a daily basis.
edit: corrected from 2500 to 2000, to reflect the actual limit
neounix (Dark Matter) March 22, 2020, 1:42pm #10
pfaffman:
That is why @pfaffman that it is best for all on line to not be fast on the trigger to make accusatory statements towards others regarding tech and/or their motives. Normally, we should ask questions before we pull trigger and start firing our gun, LOL.
Yes, I said GMAIL instead of GSUITE, but when I created this domain decades ago, there was no GSUITE and it was just called GMAIL. Moreover, the reason I did not use any precision, because my feature request has ZERO do to with GMAIL. That is a completely tangential discussion.
If I wanted (or you wanted), we could go to any server, as many here can do, and type apt install postfix or apt install sendmail and in 15 minutes or less we could run our own SMTP relay up and running.
Please let's not change the subject of moving the heavy traffic from a digest process to a GMail v. GSuite v. Blah Blah discussion. apt install postfix it's trivial.
The issue is one of reliability. It is basic 101 stuff.
Running mission critical email on the same SMTP relay as digests is not how I would like to run things, so I asked for this feature request.
Let's keep this, please, on target regarding what I am requesting, since I do happen to know what I am talking about when it comes to building mission critical apps.
Here it is again:
I do not want my mission critical email on the same SMTP relay as digest email and I think this is a good idea and makes the system more robust.
Let's move off the very tangential discussion about GMAIL or GSuite or MonkeyMail… blah blah. I am sorry I even mentioned it because the email server is not germane to my feature request.
Slow down. Be Kind to Others… If anyone posts something, and you do not understand something or feel confused, then ask; don't shoot at people @Steven
I can build an SMTP relay in 10 minutes. We all can. apt install postfix done… If I want to use GSuite or postfix or donkey kong mail, that is up to me, not others.As I said…
The Main Point … (again)
It is more reliable to have mission critical email on a different server than on a digest channel. This is just basic stuff for a very busy server.
apt install postfix creates an SMTP relay. I am requesting a feature that permits mission critical email (password resets, registration email, email login) be on a different channel than digests for reliability and performance reasons.
@Steven
That is not the point. That is tangential
Side Note: Actually, we used to have over 500K users, but I pruned them
I am talking about having mission critical email on a different channel (SMTP relay) than digest traffic.
Surely, this simple concept and it is very easy understand the concept of why two channels are better?
This discussion is spinning way off the original idea behind my feature request.
Sorry I even posted and asked…
This discussion subsequent to my original post has been very far off target, IMHO.
Justin_Vega (Justin Vega) March 22, 2020, 2:01pm #12
You really should refrain from under-estimating the knowledge of someone who has been on line since before there was a mosaic browser
You shouldn't underestimate any of the people who are trying to help you. Nobody's against you.
This is my last post on this topic.
On the subject of GSuite (which is not the point at all of my feature request)
The maximum number of messages a user can send in a 24-hour period is 10,000. However, this can vary, depending on the number of user licenses in your G Suite account.
A registered G Suite user can't relay messages to more than 10,000 unique recipients in a 24-hour period.
Ref: SMTP relay: Route outgoing non-Gmail messages through Google - G Suite Admin Help
However, this is totally off topic, for me; because even if GSuite permitted 1000M+ emails a day via SMTP relay, I would still like a different SMTP relay channel for mission critical email versus digest email.
This is the point.
Thank you. Please consider this in a future upgrade. I think it's relatively easy to add this.
This feature request is not about personality and nor it is about the merits or details of email providers
My feature request is about reliability and keeping mission critical email out of the digest channel.
pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 22, 2020, 2:13pm #14
The people who develop discourse have mail systems that work. They aren't going to add a feature for people who want to use multiple unreliable mail systems. You can develop a plugin if you want. It will be difficult to develop and will be troublesome to maintain.
It may be easy to install postfix, but it's much harder to run a functioning mail server now than it was when I ported Sendmail and uucp to Linux. If running a mail server were easy you would have a working mail server and not want two.
I think it's relatively easy to add this.
That's not what I think, but you might know a lot more about discourse plugin development than I do.
itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) March 22, 2020, 2:16pm #15
One simple workaround is to just "disable" digest emails globally if that causes so many issues. The best suggestions may already have been made, I can only suggest use an email provider that doesn't impose any limits. e.g. mailgun.
This way, everyone is going to be happy (unless you have constrains that limit you to using a particular email provider for some reason)
Stephen (Stephen) March 22, 2020, 2:45pm #16
I agree, there's a lot of inconsistency in what @neounix initially posted, and lots of details change in the subsequent responses.
Emphasis mine in the above, the free account restrictions have already been documented elsewhere in this topic. Grandfathered 'free' gsuite accounts have these limits too. If this is a paid for GSuite account, the comment above is misleading and explains my response.
Again you aren't clear as to which service you're using here, if it is the legacy Google Apps on the free tier then you're limited to 500 recipients per day per user, the same as the free Gmail product. If you're using a paid GSuite account then you want to be using the Google SMTP relay service, the limits are 10k/day per user, better but still not great, especially with over 130,000 users who need to request a password reset. It's great to hear that you culled some users in the migration, although I'm not sure how that's really material.
I can understand that you're frustrated here, your testing didn't catch the digests that would be queued. It caused a period of effective unavailability for anyone trying to reset passwords and get back into their accounts.
A couple of times in the above you've suggested that I put words in your mouth, but from what I can see the responses are in-line with the information you provided. Apologies if you don't agree, but re-reading over the posts it's still unclear exactly which product you're using.
Incidentally I'm @Stephen, not @Steven - you're tagging and notifying a totally different user.
codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) March 22, 2020, 10:15pm #17
If so, then feel free to fund it by posting in #marketplace with a budget. There are also some really good suggestions above for reducing email volume, I suggest taking advantage of them.
neounix (Dark Matter) March 25, 2020, 8:13am #18
For now, we ended up just turning off digests completely; and here is the updated back story:
We also have a staging server, and because Discourse enables weekly digests (with a 365 day window) as a default, out-of-the-box when installed, that staging server also kicked off a digest last weekend (which we were not expecting), LOL
So, before knowing this would happen (or might happen)… I tried to do a backup on the staging server and the system refused to do it… giving an error. I forgot the exact error message in the admin console, but I recall there was a clue pointing to the mail queue.
With that clue, now looking at sidekiq - and sure enough there were over 300K digest messages in the queue from the default digest configuration of 'on' and 'last 365 days'
So, I cleared the mail queue from the command line, went to the backup admin panel again, and the backup worked fine.
Because the Discourse email system is built on sidekiq, this must be the reason why setting up a different channels (different email servers) for mission critical and digest might be tricky. I see it is not so simple like I originally thought (just set up two email servers in environments).
Here is the funny part… LOL
At first I thought it would good idea to disable digests by default OOTB instead of having them enabled with a 365 day login window; but then I recall the error was all mine; and that was not a good suggestion to post to meta, LOL.
When Discourse was installed, it set all the migrated users (from our old vB3 forum), by default, to last_seen_at around 50 years ago.
I went into the database and manually changed all users to last seen 10 days ago! LOL. I had no idea at the time about the digest configuration; and thought it was a migration error to have all the users last seen 50 year ago after migration. Haha… I was wrong. There is a good reason for this.
Discourse kicked off a massive weekly digest process that overwhelmed sidekiq on both our production and staging servers; because I did the "last seen 10 days ago" DB change hack on the staging server, and exported to production. This was the mistake which caused this issue.
Since most people do not go into postgres and hack around like me and do things like:
UPDATE users SET last_seen_at "today minus 10 days"
… on a legacy migration with many users…
they will not have this kind of massive digest issue.
I apologize for creating all this tension because of my UPDATE hack to the users table.
Still, I think it is reasonable to have the mission critical email and the digest email on two different email servers, but looking at sidekiq it's not yet clear to me if there is a simple way to do it, as I have no experience (yet) with sidekiq
However, I can advise migrators, if you are migrating a forum to discourse (which is a great idea), leave the default last_seen_at in users to the default
Stephen (Stephen) March 25, 2020, 9:13am #19
I would usually recommend putting Mailhog between a staging instance and the outside world. It's excellent in this type of scenario.
pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 25, 2020, 12:29pm #20
I'm going to add DISCOURSE_DISABLE _DIGEST _EMAILS to my staging instances. But with disable emails set to non staff this isn't a big issue.


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Bible gets sued
As the gay marriage fight unfolds in California, some gays (and others) are fighting back: one gourp is boycotting a rich hotel owner, others are standing apart and one is suing the Bible (who gets subpoenaed for that one?). Meanwhile, a key opponent to gay marriage keeps its doors open (and its ballot committee going) despite being suspended. They say they're working on it, but no changes yet.
posted by nospecialfx (34 comments total)
Apparently Wisconsin makes marriage outside of your home state illegal:
Myers and his partner, Steve Brondino, learned of an obscure state law that makes it a crime for Wisconsin residents to enter into marriage in another state if the marriage would be prohibited here. The law imposes a penalty for those who enter into a marriage that's prohibited or declared void in Wisconsin of up to $10,000 and nine months in prison.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:48 AM on July 10, 2008
The lawsuit against the Bible publishers is, shall we say, a bit de trop.
posted by blucevalo at 11:49 AM on July 10, 2008
The Bible's also pretty hard on witches, widows and shellfish.
posted by klangklangston at 11:55 AM on July 10, 2008
California should give Orange County back to Mexico and be rid of it once and for all.
posted by three blind mice at 11:57 AM on July 10, 2008 [1 favorite]
Hasn't the fight already unfolded? And then refolded and put back in the glove compartment?
In the future, I'll be embarassed to admit I was alive now. I'll be stereotyped, in non-3D films starring people who haven't been born, as being a narrow-minded, torture-happy bigot the way they do with B&W films about the 50s now.
posted by DU at 11:59 AM on July 10, 2008 [1 favorite]
Hey, news agencies? Don't interview Focus on the Family for any stories about anything besides Focus on the Family. Also, don't run stories about Focus on the Family. Kaythanks.
posted by roll truck roll at 12:05 PM on July 10, 2008 [4 favorites]
In California, the fight won't be over till after the November ballot. Most polls I've seen put it as a 50/50 chance that it will be re-banned, so it's definitely not over (sadly). Of course, even if they lose I suppose they could keep trying to ban it in future elections, but I think if it fails people will be even less likely to support it next time around. If it's going to get overturned, this fall would be the time.
On the flip side of the links from nospecialfx, here's the link to the main group opposing the initiative: Equality For All.
posted by wildcrdj at 12:21 PM on July 10, 2008
Suing the Bible reminds me of the case United States ex rel. Gerald Mayo v. Satan and His Staff. Good times, good times.
On a more serious note, I have a feeling that Wisconsin law probably runs afoul of the Article 4 Privileges and Immunities Clause of the Constitution.
posted by jedicus at 12:22 PM on July 10, 2008
Any state that doesn't recognize gay marriage from another state would, too, then, correct?
posted by nospecialfx at 12:34 PM on July 10, 2008
Since this is all about upholding the sanctity of marriage - or so they say - why not add a rider to the bill that makes adultery a felony. Who could argue with that? Gay marriage isn't even one of the ten commandments. Isn't it time to get tough with those adulters who are destroying the bond between one man and one woman. Isn't it equally important, when defending marriage, to go after the adulters as well?
C'mon California. No half measures here. Marriage is too important to leave to individual choice. We need more government regulation and oversight.
And harsher penalties.
posted by three blind mice at 12:37 PM on July 10, 2008 [11 favorites]
Well, the Defense of Marriage Act says no, but there's never been a real trial case brought to see if DOMA is constitutional. I expect that will not be the case for very long (hell, I'm sure there's already people who have come to CA to marry and are in the process of challenging their home state). With MA only in-state residents could marry, so the first test cases for DOMA would be starting now.
Arguably it's one thing for a state not to recognize a marriage from another state. It's quite another to criminalize it. The courts may strike down the Wisconsin law while allowing others that merely prohibit marriage to stand. We'll have to see what happens if a test case comes out of California.
Interestingly, Wisconsin does not recognize common law marriages, so theoretically a heterosexual couple who became a common law man and wife in, say, Iowa and then moved to Wisconsin would also be guilty of the same crime.
"Arguably it's one thing for a state not to recognize a marriage from another state. It's quite another to criminalize it."
Perhaps logically, but not necessarily legally.
And really, this isn't a privileges and immunities issue (constitutional law that prohibits a state from unjustly depriving non-residents the same benefits or provisions it provides its own) because this rarely has any basis on civil rights. It's more of a due process and equal protection issue -- things that like priviliges and immunities, are embodied in the constitution.
posted by nospecialfx at 1:34 PM on July 10, 2008
In 2006, 59% of Wisconsin voters supported a constitutional amendment that reads: "Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state.
I still find this really weird. I always thought this state was more progressive than that. I mean, I seem to remember that there was a time in the '90s when Madison was considered one of the most lesbian friendly places in the US. (Though, how that was measured, I have no idea.)
posted by quin at 1:58 PM on July 10, 2008
In related news -- Efforts Underway to Repeal 1913 Massachusetts Marriage Law.
"State lawmakers are expected to vote next week on repealing a 1913 law that prevents out-of-state gay and lesbian couples from getting married in Massachusetts, reigniting a divisive debate on an issue that has stirred passions and put the state in the national spotlight....Advocates of same-sex marriage rights said they are hopeful the repeal will pass, given the support from the legislative leadership and from Governor Deval Patrick, whose position is much more sympathetic than that of Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican who was a staunch opponent of gay marriage."
posted by ericb at 1:58 PM on July 10, 2008
...there was a time in the '90s when Madison was considered one of the most lesbian friendly places in the US.
Unfortunately Madison is not representative of all Wisconsin.
posted by Floydd at 2:03 PM on July 10, 2008
Actually jedicus, fewer and fewer states recognize common law marriage these days. Only 11 states currently permit it, whereas it has been abolished--or was never permitted--in 39 states. This has little to do with what people think or don't think about marriage as an institution; it's part of the overall trend of moving from uncodified common law to codified statutory law. This trend is most notable in the contexts of contract and civil law, but marriage law has been affected as well.
And this is neither a Full Faith and Credit nor a Privileges and Immunities issue. The former has been held to mean that states may not refuse to honor the court judgments of other states. Out-of-state judgments are subject to the laws of the state in which they are enforced, so if a court finds that state law bars a claim it need not enforce it, but it may not decline to do so simply because the judgment is foreign.
The Privileges and Immunities Clause has been fairly narrowly construed to mean that a state may not generally discriminate in favor of its own citizens, i.e. a right available at state law may not be denied to a foreigner on the basis of his citizenship. If that right is not available at state law it may not be enforced there.
posted by valkyryn at 2:05 PM on July 10, 2008
The lovely, tolerant folks at the american family association want you to boycott mcdonalds.
It is about McDonald's, as a corporation, refusing to remain neutral in the culture wars. McDonald's has chosen not to remain neutral but to give the full weight of their corporation to promoting the homosexual agenda, including homosexual marriage.
I'm doubling up on the big macs from now on.
posted by jenkinsEar at 2:31 PM on July 10, 2008
I know common law marriage is not recognized in most states, but as you point out it is still recognized in a sizable fraction. I was using it as an example of a form of marriage that many (if not most) people consider legitimate that Wisconsin's silly law would nonetheless criminalize.
I think a P&I challenge to the Wisconsin statute could be made. For one thing, the crime cannot be committed by a Wisconsin citizen who never leaves the state, but it can be committed by non-Wisconsin citizens and Wisconsin citizens that do leave the state. That sounds awfully discriminatory against everywhere other than Wisconsin.
As far as the P&I Clause being narrowly construed, I would suggest otherwise. At least in connection with the Commerce Clause, the P&I clause has been interpreted broadly to prohibit almost all regulation based on the state of origin of a product. There is a health and welfare exception, but it's a strict one.
You know, the wedding industry is a big one, and destination weddings are some of the most expensive. Maybe someone can claim that not recognizing marriages performed out of state is tantamount to a state regulating interstate commerce or otherwise discriminating against wedding services performed out of state. (Okay, that arguments a bit of a stretch, to say the least).
posted by jedicus at 2:33 PM on July 10, 2008
I'd be shocked if the suit against the publishers ever sees the inside of a courtroom.
posted by oaf at 2:48 PM on July 10, 2008
"You know, the wedding industry is a big one, and destination weddings are some of the most expensive. Maybe someone can claim that not recognizing marriages performed out of state is tantamount to a state regulating interstate commerce or otherwise discriminating against wedding services performed out of state. (Okay, that arguments a bit of a stretch, to say the least)."
That's on the wrong side of 5-4.
posted by klangklangston at 3:17 PM on July 10, 2008
Most polls I've seen put it as a 50/50 chance that it will be re-banned, so it's definitely not over (sadly).
Actually:
For the first time in over three decades of polling on the issue of same-sex marriage laws, The Field Poll finds more California voters approving than disapproving of allowing same-sex couples the right to marry and having regular marriage laws apply to them. In a survey completed May 17-26 among a random sample of 1,052 registered voters the idea of allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry is now approved by a 51% to 42% margin statewide.
Anyone have a more recent one? Also, since our muscular governor has come out and said that he thinks gay marriage should stand, I think the fight is pretty much all over but the shouting. I'm just disappointed that we're second... California is often first on this kind of thing.
posted by Huck500 at 3:33 PM on July 10, 2008 [1 favorite]
It does suck to be a Wisconsin resident and have this hanging over my head. But, according to the rest of the state (read; northwestern and south western wisconsin) think that everyone in Dane county and specifically everyone in Madison is going to hell because we overwhelmingly vote to the left of center.
Humorously everyone in Dane county who doesn't live in Madison thinks we're evil liberals who are all going to hell and quietly ignore the fact that the rest of the state thinks that they're evil liberals who are going to hell...
Personally I say "Go California! Get this one Left!"
posted by Sam.Burdick at 3:41 PM on July 10, 2008
Procedurally, when the bible gets sued, the subpoena goes to god. They tie it to an arrow, take it to the top of the nearly completed Burj Dubai tower, shoot it into the sky, and see what happens. Historical note - the last time this occurred was at around 600 BC in ancient Babylon. (I would cite my sources...but I might get sued.) The person who delivered the last subpoena was - appropriately to the present context - Nimrod.
posted by ThusSpakeZarathustra at 3:49 PM on July 10, 2008 [2 favorites]
...since our muscular governor has come out...
Thanks to anti-gay marriage actions like this, discrimination is still alive and well.
posted by Navidson at 4:09 PM on July 10, 2008
From your own link:
Hey guys, I just called Rite Aid and they stated that it was vandals that actually put that sign up at different stores. It has been reported to the police.
I went there today after seeing this. There was no posting anywhere.
posted by Krrrlson at 6:03 PM on July 10, 2008
wildcrdj said "With MA only in-state residents could marry..."
Nope. Try again.
posted by jock@law at 6:38 PM on July 10, 2008
one gourp is boycotting a rich hotel owner,
well, that hotel dosen't serve gourps anyway.
posted by jonmc at 7:12 PM on July 10, 2008
He's right.
Only Massachusetts residents right now can legally be married in our Commonwealth. The 1913 law (which I mentioned above) is this week being challenged.
Mitt Romney invoked the law while in office to overturn any out-of-state residents betrothments. And the Supreme Judicial Court (the same court which interpreted Massachusetts Charter/Constitution as legalizing same-sex marriage) ruled in his favor:
Mass. High Court Says Nonresident Gays Cannot Marry in State.
"Same-sex couples from states where gay marriage is banned cannot legally marry in Massachusetts, the state's highest court said Thursday in a ruling that left the status of many unions in legal limbo.
The Supreme Judicial Court, which in 2003 made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage, upheld a 1913 state law that forbids nonresidents from marrying in Massachusetts if their marriage would not be recognized in their home state.
Massachusetts 'has a significant interest in not meddling in matters in which another state, the one where a couple actually resides, has a paramount interest,' Justice Francis Spina wrote in the 38-page opinion.
'Massachusetts can reasonably believe that non-resident same-sex couples primarily are coming to this Commonwealth to marry because they want to evade the marriage laws of their home states, and that Massachusetts should not be encouraging such evasion,' he wrote....Gov. Mitt Romney applauded the ruling.
'We don't want Massachusetts to become the Las Vegas of same-sex marriage,' Romney said. 'It's important that other states have the right to make their own determination of marriage and not follow the wrong course that our Supreme Judicial Court put us on.'"
I avoid McDonald's alright, but it has nothing to do with homosexuality.
posted by telstar at 9:35 PM on July 10, 2008
I think it's hard to tell for sure until the end of the summer. Personally, my thing is: the best form of gay activism is living your life without apology amongst the general population. It's easy to hate gays who live 3000 miles away, dressed in chaps on a parade float; it's harder to hate them when they're working next to you or living next door. I think this is the big reason for the failed push to hold the California Supreme Court decision until the election. What's happening this summer is that many straight people are going to gay weddings of people they know, and they're seeing that those weddings are pretty much like any other, and the sentiments are as valid; so it's going to be more difficult for them to vote for a ban down the line. This is what the anti-gay groups did not want to happen.
The thing is, too: thousands of gay couples getting married this summer (me and bobtroy included) aren't just going to roll over no matter what happens in November...
As a teenager in the 80s deep in southern-baptist Georgia, I never thought this would be possible; now that it is, I relish the possibility that in my lifetime, the anti-gay crowd will come to be viewed the way we view segregationists today.
posted by troybob at 12:04 AM on July 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
Apparently Wisconsin makes marriage outside of your home state illegal
My guess is that the obscure and ridiculous 'we'll put you in prison and take all your money' law may well have been an attempt to control another issue altogether. It would have been a fabulously horrid way to ahem discourage interracial couples from marrying anywhere. Given that the law was passed in 1915 (five years before women even had the right to vote, btw), it'd make sense.
My non-legal spousal unit and I talked recently about taking a road trip to CA to be married all official-like, but have agreed that it isn't quite worth the trip... yet.
FWIW, (in great part due to the inner workings of collective bargaining) the city of Madison WI now allows employees domestic partner benefits, as do several mega-employers (Kraft Foods, American Family Insurance, Miller Brewing, etc.). This was supposed to be true for the University of Wisconsin system as well but isn't yet. The UW loses brilliant professors who leave for jobs elsewhere where they can get benefits for their partners. With incoming UW chancellor Biddy Martin there is renewed hope that the outdated benefits rules will change once she begins her new job September 1st. Meanwhile, the semantics game continues.
I'm proud of the movers and shakers in my LGBT community, and the people who love and support us, for standing up and demanding equality.
posted by mcbeth at 11:21 AM on July 11, 2008
'We don't want Massachusetts to become the Las Vegas of same-sex marriage,' Romney said. 'It's important that other states have the right to make their own determination of marriage and not follow the wrong course that our Supreme Judicial Court put us on.'
Fuck you, Mitt Romney.
posted by five fresh fish at 5:48 PM on July 11, 2008
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Upon opening my Apple Music, I can't help but click on Lilith's Smile under recent downloads before making it to any of my favorite playlists. The catchy alt-rock song has been playing on repeat on my phone since its release on November 22. Olivia Barnes, a sophomore at Tulane University, is the musical mastermind behind her debut single. I sat down with Olivia to learn more about her experience writing and recording her song, Lilith's Smile.
Olivia began writing music around the age of eight. She recalls filling journals upon journals of "bad songs" imitating her favorite artists' break-up songs. To this day, she finds songwriting to be a great stress reliever and says that it is a therapeutic way to communicate her thoughts and feelings, especially when it comes to boys: "I put pen to paper, baby" Olivia joked, taking a page right out of Taylor Swift's playbook, which makes sense since she is one of her biggest influences. Added to that list are Tyler Childers, the Grateful Dead, Leon Bridges, King Princess, Miranda Lambert, Citizen Cope, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the Arctic Monkeys. This Georgian native is a self-described evolving artist and describes her own sound as a mix of classic rock and modern alternative music, with a little southern Americana tossed in.
Olivia's process starts with a feeling which guides her songwriting. She plays around with a chord progression to align with the feeling driving the songwriting process. Lastly, Olivia writes the lyrics to the chord progression. For Lilith's Smile, Olivia wrote the song in April and kept it private until June, when she showed her guitar instructor, Eric Stallings. As they played around with different strumming patterns and chord progressions, Olivia realized that the song had potential. Stallings realized this too and proposed she record and release the song as her first-ever single. The two worked together and recorded it. Stallings produced it from June to August at Groove Studio. Olivia heard her song for the first time at Madison Records after being sent home from Tulane during Hurricane Ida. Upon hearing the song for the first time in the studio, Olivia said she "felt like everything [she] had worked towards finally paid off. It was very satisfying, [she] felt like [she] finally found [her] style." The song was ready by October, but the cover photos took more time than Olivia originally expected. Luckily, she had her close friends by her side helping her to promote the song on social media and take photos for the cover. She explained that working with friends allowed her to be honest, making the whole process feel more original and genuine.
New Orleans is a hotbed of live music: on any given night, you can walk through any number of bars and find every type of music. Olivia expressed her interest in breaking into the New Orleans music scene in the near future. She explained, "Playing live is such an adrenaline rush. It's definitely terrifying to some capacity but it's such a rewarding experience. I love it!" Hopefully, we will be seeing Olivia take over Frenchmen or Tchoupitoulas in the near future!
Olivia is currently working on her first EP which she will release in 2022. All of the songs are already in production at a studio in New Orleans. Olivia's experience in releasing her first single has given her confidence as she works toward completing her first full album. So far, Olivia has received positive feedback on Lilith's Smile with over 2,500 monthly streams on Spotify. The song is available on all streaming platforms!
Cover photo: Olivia Barnes
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Jess Richmond was born in Philadelphia and was raised with an innate although unnatural love of cheese wiz. She is now based in NYC and lives in and works from her studio in Brooklyn.
After earning her degree from Parsons The New School for Design, she has worked with various clients as well as exhibiting her own fine art.
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This is one of the paintings that will be in my show at the Hendrick Hudson Library, 185 Kings Ferry Road, Montrose NY. The Opening Reception is this Sunday, September 30, from 3-5pm. If you're in or around the Hudson Valley, I'd love to see you there! The show will be up until October 28 if you cannot make it to the opening.
This stunning view of Stony Clove was painted on site from a field on a private estate. Below is an image you can click on for a slightly larger view of the painting.
This is one of the paintings that will be in my show at the Hendrick Hudson Library, 185 Kings Ferry Road, Montrose NY. The Opening Reception is this Sunday, September 30, from 3-5pm. If you're in or around the Hudson Valley, I'd love to see you there! The show will be up until October 28 if you cannot make it to the opening. I've framed up a dozen watercolors for the show, in addition to my oils and acrylics.
Yes, it's really me! I've been painting lots of florals lately. Flowers have always been outside my wheelhouse. I've painted them in still lifes, in a more realistic/illustrative style, but always felt they were foreign objects that I didn't really understand. I have the blackest thumb around and can't even grow them! (Though I am determined to try to change that next year…) I wanted to take on a new challenge this summer as well as do more watercolor work, so I combined the two. I've been purchasing flowers every week, and working toward finding my own expressive style by filling a sketchbook with studies, and doing watercolor paintings from these weekly bouquets. I think I'm really going to enjoy painting florals when the winter chill makes it hard for me to get outside for plein air work.
This is one of my favorite spots on the planet to paint, meditate, or just listen to the sound of the rushing water. Serene! Below is an image you can click on for a slightly larger image of the painting.
This little oil painting was done in late fall on location. My friend Trish and I hiked out to the boardwalk at Constitution Marsh to spend a gorgeous day out on the Hudson River. The property is an Audubon Preserve, and there are always eagles and interesting wildlife around. I had to pick out a few bugs and do some touchups afterwards, so it's taken me awhile to finish it up and get it posted. The atmosphere was so quiet that day, with barely a ripple in the water and a cloudless sky. Dreamy!
Painting is in a sealed polybag, matted, with backing board. The painting has a custom ivory, archival 12×16″ mat with archival backing, ready to go into any standard 12×16″ frame.
North South Lake is one of my favorite painting spots for birches and atmosphere. In this painting, I got both. The Hudson River School painters also favored this location. I love the way pinks and violets play together, so I explored that interaction in this painting. You can click the image below for a larger, clearer view of the painting.
12×16″, watercolor on paper. Includes mat and backing board (7 1/2 x 11″ painting size, matted to 12×16″).
Will fit any standard 12×16″ frame, or I can frame for you for a small additional fee.
This was painted a couple of weeks ago beside one of my favorite creeks in the Catskills. I can't seem to stop going there! There are endless compositional possibilities and color harmonies to explore in these quiet, meandering banks.
This painting features another atmospheric day at my favorite place for painting atmospheric days — North South Lake! The Great Blue Heron flying over was a nice accent to the dramatic sky. Click the image below for a larger, clearer view of the painting.
This painting of a moored boat with dramatic skies was painted from a photo I took a few years ago. I made several attempts at a watercolor rendition of this scene before coming up with this one, and hope to do more. I like the drama of it, and the way these colors work together. Below is an image that you can click on for a larger, clearer view of the painting.
12×16″ including mat and backing board (7 1/2 x 11″ painting size, matted to 12×16″). Will fit any standard 12×16″ frame.
While out hiking in early spring, I came upon this stream with several arched trees extending from the shorelines over the water from either side. As the creek meandered, the shoreline trees formed arches through the various planes of the scene. I took a lot of photos to do a series of these arched tree forms, and hope to return soon to paint some of them on location. They present interesting compositional opportunities focused on the arches, and reflections in the distance, and/or transparency of the water as it nears the foreground. Below is an image you can click on for a larger, clearer view of the painting.
This painting features the fabulous view from the hills above Garrison, looking over West Point, and north through the Hudson Highlands to Bannerman Island. It is a stunning vista at any time of day, but sunsets are magical!
Framing available for a small additional cost.
I have been wanting to paint this scene ever since I saw it for the first time a few years ago. No matter what time of day or season, this view in the Catskills is spectacular. My husband and I drove past a few weeks ago and I took some photos. During the big snowstorm last week, I started the painting; it seemed appropriate! I'd like to do a large format horizontal of this view also….someday.
Below is an image that you can click on for a larger, clearer view of the painting.
I love this scene and have been playing with it in various color combinations for nearly two years. There are so many ways to interpret the composition in terms of light, season, focal point, and color palette, that I can't seem to get tired of it! It's a view of the lake at Innisfree Gardens. This most recent rendering is in fall colors, with the late day light striking the eastern hillsides and distant mountain before sunset. Below is an image you can click on for a slightly larger view of the painting.
It's not often that I find a vertical composition I really like of a Boscobel scene. I usually paint that vista in a panoramic fashion, but the path of the marsh channels works well this way too. Maybe there is a new series of verticals coming!It would certainly be a different way for me to explore this landscape that I've been painting for so many years.
This was painted on location at Boscobel Restoration in Garrison, New York, toward the end of one of those stellar, long, summer days. The scene overlooks Constitution Marsh and the Hudson River. Helicopters were flying overhead in formation from West Point as I painted!
I spent a magical day painting at Boscobel. The weather was ideal, and a huge buck was staring at me from the distance. (Expect to see a painting of him soon!) There was tug and barge traffic out on the river, helicopter formations flying overhead from West Point, and good company with other artists. It's hard to beat a day like that.
Below is an image you can click for a larger view of the painting.
My husband and I were out hiking on a beautiful fall day in the Hudson Valley. I snapped a photo of this couple walking down the trail, which became a great painting subject. This painting went out to my Hudson Valley Hues solo show at RiverWinds gallery before I had a chance to put it up on my website, and has sold at the show. Thank you, RiverWinds! The show will run until July 3 for anybody who has not yet had a chance to go see it. The gallery is at 172 Main Street, Beacon, NY. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Monday, 12-6pm, closed Tuesdays.
My husband and I love to go on sunset expeditions with our cameras. This is Croton Point Park near sunset, facing south. The cold, bare winter trees provided an elegant contrast with the warmth of the colorful sunset. Their graceful silhouettes add so much to the composition, and allow for plenty of color to come through until the spring leaves fill out the forms and obscure the view.
This was possibly my last fall hike up to the base of Kaaterskill Falls, one of the Hudson River School painters' locations that I love the most. It was a cold day, and I was the last of my painting group to leave the spot. One of the park rangers was up there with me, with occasional hikers coming along to view the magnificent waterfall. I was glad to see they finally had a ranger there to try and dissuade hikers from venturing up the sides of the falls, where two have already died this year.
I've done so many paintings up here, but I think this was the first time I did a 2:1 ratio at this spot. I really like the way it works with these proportions. I think this layout gives a truer impression of how tall the falls are.
Rain threatened on the day I ventured out to do this painting, but we hiked up to Newman's Ledge anyway, and then settled in for lunch and some painting time at Sunset Rock. This was a favorite painting spot of the Hudson River School artists, and I think you can see why. Kaaterskill High Peak and Round Top mountains are in the distance, with North South Lake stretched out below. We figured we'd be able to spot the rain coming in from the west before it got to us, and we headed down the mountain when the front started moving in.


GBP/USD was stable this morning, trading slightly above 1.2850. The pair fell yesterday to its lowest rate in three weeks (1.28424). The dollar on Monday hit a 2019 high in the eighth day of its longest rally in two years, as concerns about a trade deal with China and an economic slowdown in Europe sent investors into the safe-haven currency. China struck an upbeat note on Monday as trade talks resumed with the United States, but also expressed anger at a U.S. Navy mission through the disputed South China Sea, casting a shadow over the prospect for improved Beijing-Washington ties. On Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May is seeking to buy time to renegotiate her Brexit agreement with the European Union, as her opponents in Parliament plot to take control to stop the U.K. plunging out of the bloc with no deal. She will make a statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Early this afternoon, BoE Governor Mark Carney will at an FT event as Brexit nears and the world economy slows. Later this afternoon, US JOLTs Job Openings for December will be released. Also this afternoon, Fed Chair Jerome Powell will speak on "Economic Development in High Poverty Rural Communities" at the Hope Enterprise Corporation Rural Policy Forum.


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Creative Corner: Perspective
October 8, 2018 By SIN Staff
By Seán O Donnell
I made breakfast for my wife and child, while the former undertook the infinitely more difficult task of waking the latter from his peaceful slumber. They entered the kitchen and I remember faintly how full of joy I felt when I saw their faces, illuminated by the morning sun. Hers drank in the light; it accentuated her features, framing them almost. Her eyes twinkled as she met my gaze, her smile following a half – second later.
His was the image of innocence, drowsiness clearly visible in his mouth, which was elongated in an enormous yawn, and in his eyes, which blinked incessantly as they adjusted to the sharp morning light. They left for school at nine, at which she was a teacher and he was a pupil. I think they waved at me from the car as they left. I don't remember waving back, I wish now with all my heart that I had.
I own a corner-shop which sells groceries and general goods. I opened the shutters, re-stocked the shelves and chatted with the local customers who habitually frequented my store.
At around two o'clock, I heard a deafening blast. The shop was plunged momentarily into darkness, the suns rays obscured by a sinister artificial cloud that rose ominously skyward following the explosion. Then the harbingers of doom let loose their sombre song; piercing sirens penetrated deep into the confines of my mind, animating the darkest and most terrible fears fostered there, the fears we all secretly harbour, submerged beneath a facade of self-delusionary logic that posits that horrific things happen only on television, only to other people, never to us. The sirens droned on with merciless implacability. I was frozen by that vicious melody, for the sirens promised horror. The sirens promised death.
I saw my own fear reflected in the eyes of the customer before me.
"It's the terrorists again," he said.
Those four simple words roused me from my stupor. Wordlessly, I hurried to my car. I saw smoke in the distance, black and foreboding, rising upwards like a wave of evil, come to consume the world. I drove towards the wave. I felt helpless, knowing with instinctual certitude that the smoke was rising from the general direction of the school where my wife and child were located.
A corporeal nightmare greeted me when I reached the school. Many of the surrounding buildings had been obliterated. The school itself had sustained heavy damage and looked perilously close to collapse. A fire blazed all around and the air was thick with the pungent aroma of acrid smoke. There were people everywhere; the lucky ones were stumbling around in disarray, unable to comprehend the scene before them.
The unlucky were lying on the ground; many were dead, more were dying. The schoolyard must have been tranquil once; alive with the chatter of exuberant children frolicking on the warm tarmac, but it had been transformed in a single callous instant into a hellish necropolis.
A group of men emerged from a building to my left, which was miraculously unscathed. They pointed frantically to the sky, before running with deliberate uniformity towards the school. Hope filled my heart, help had arrived. I braved the abhorrent smoke and followed the men.
I was halfway across the tarmac when I saw them. Her face was illuminated much like it had been that morning, but by the flames now. They created a different image entirely, her once gentle features contorting in fear and anguish. His was unrecognisable, for he lay still as a summer breeze in her arms, his body limp, blood streaming from a vicious wound above his eye, a monstrous yawn of grim proportions.
I forgot about the smoke, about the flames, about the men who had now reached the school and were making their way inside. I focused on them, and I ran. She shouted something at me, but her words were snatched away by a peculiar whizzing sound which seemed to originate from thin air. Then the school was enveloped in an inferno of cataclysmic magnitude, its walls shattered, its roof collapsed, and like phantasmal remnants of a dream they were gone, and the world itself was on fire.
Six-thousand miles away, a small room garnished with a multitude of computers and littered with wiring and other technical equipment erupted with joy. The cheers of jubilation and raucous applause reverberated around the room, echoing off sound-proofed walls. Everyone in the room was male, some were in uniform, most wore suits. All were momentarily united in the euphoric celebration that was customary after a successful operation. All except one.
The young man at the drone's controls was sweating profusely; his hands shook uncontrollably, just as they had moments earlier, when he had activated the kill switch. He had noticed the school beside the strike location and recognised the risk splash damage posed to its inhabitants. He had requested that they delay the operation for another hour, at which point the school would have been vacated, but the commanding officer had refused, stating that there was too great a risk that the targets would be gone by then. What transpired next would haunt him for the remainder of his days.
At two o'clock Syrian time, he was given the green light. He locked on to the building in which their intel had placed the insurgents, and he fired. In a cruel twist of fate, the drones targeting systems miscued and the targets escaped the kill-zone. He was ordered to fire again. Now as he sat there, shell-shocked, he began to question his assumption that he was on the side of justice, of righteousness, of good. As the smoke dissipated and the full scale of their 'victory' became apparent, it struck him that the people around him, still engaged in rapturous celebration, believed themselves to be entirely and exclusively in the right. And ultimately, perhaps they were. However, he knew now, with unequivocal conviction, that they were not innocent.
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February 2019 – GODs Team! Be encouraged.
TRUST in GOD!!! Let GOD lead YOU!!
I do pray that you all will have a blessed day today. For this is another day that they LORD has given us to live and give HIM praise!
Each one of us that walk the face of the earth will have our ups and downs. It is how we deal with it and to whom we head to for help.
We maybe going through something where we are out of money to pay our bills like the federal employees that were going through the shut down , or laid off from any other type of job.
We maybe sick going through such a pain and sickness you can not see the end of it as you pray for relief, or it could be a loved one going through a sickness. You may be in tears as you pray to the FATHER GOD for relief from all of this because you can not bear it any longer.
We could be going through something where a person at school, work or even at church is out to get even by trying to steal your joy because they do not have joy in their heart.
I have learned to trust in the LORD more and more each day of my life because not only of what I may do, but what others may try to do to me just becasue I am a child of GOD.
See there are many people who do not know of GOD. They do not know JESUS and why He came to earth. They have no clue. I need to keep my faith on check each and every second of the day.
Any one who loves the LORD will be distracted from our direction, but we do not have to get off track. We just regain our focus and keep trusting in GOD. For there is where the true comfort and joy we all need rests. Some of us may not understand that yet, but I do pray that we all will before JESUS has to return.
Distractions will lead to slipping up. Doing our best to be right can not be done alone. We need JESUS to hold up like training wheels on a bike as we pedal along on the JESUS track. And I will tell you sometimes the peddling gets so hard and almost impossible for me that I need JESUS to make it possible holding me steady and giving me a gentle comforting push! Amen!!!!
Praise GOD and thank you dear GOD for JESUS!!!
Find peace, and patience as you pray and ask our beloved GOD for help. HE will help you in all that you do in life, but better than you will ever imagine.
GOD has helped me make it through the things of this world that I could never have done alone, and on my own accord. My understanding on things is limited as a human being. GODs wisdom is beyond our understanding, this is why we NEED to trust in GOD. There is no way we could ever get the whole picture, we as humans have no way of doing so ever.
Trust in the LORD, pray, let GOD be GOD, wait , be patient, and listen to what GOD is telling you to answer your prayers. Part of the holy communication with you and the LORD is to sit back and listen too!
Be blessed and never stressed, keep hold onto GOD, keep your focus and walk away from distractions that will cause your to get off of the pass to JESUS who will be the mediator between you and GOD.
May all who read this blog with the words of GOD in it be blessed, and those who pass it forward for others to be encouraged as well.


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Soap box derby set for next month
Columbia Daily Tribune
The Mid-Missouri Soap Box Derby will kick off this year at 8:30 a.m. June 10 downtown at Seventh Street and Broadway in Columbia.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the event in Columbia, organizers said in a news release. This year's race will be the largest ever with nearly 50 young racers competing for the chance to advance to a week-long racing event in Akron, Ohio, organizers said.
This week is the first of three weeks of clinics where drivers and their pit crews will fine-tune their cars.
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