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Introduction: GLAMOROUS Fallen Angel Wings
We've all seen them: white, fluffy angels at Christmas time, their gold-painted, aluminum halos on their heads and store-bought, feather angel wings slung gaily down their backs as they sing carols, hymns, and jolly Christmas tunes. Well, being the non-conformist that I am, I thought I would teach you all how to construct another king of angel- the fallen angel. These slightly tattered-looking wings arch up and have a wide wing span resembling the wings of turkey vultures. Of course, I decided to add a twist to this as well by making them BRIGHT PINK and adding some rhinestones, but you could always go for the more conventional dreary, black look if that is more "you." These gargantuan wings are also strapless so the wings look like they are coming right out of your back! It will seriously freak your friends out, not to mention delight, amuse, and fascinate kittens. You can also tweak this tutorial to construct the more conventional down-turned angel wings, or anime-style, short, perky wings. You can extend the design (and use thicker wire) in order to make absolutely HUGE wings. The possibilities are numerous. Have fun with the design and make it your own!
Having made wings on my site Fairywingsandthings.com for 10 years now, been featured in Maker Fair 2007 and the Maker Fair DVD, I thought I'd give back to the community that has given me so much by sharing this FABULOUS feather wings tutorial. Like a good sloppy joe, it's messy but a lot of fun. And unlike a sloppy joe, you can wear these wings out on the town for Halloween, photo shoots, weddings, or to spice up dinner parties. Enjoy!
Step 1: Get Ideas and Get Inspired
As with any costume, the first step is to decide what your wings will look like. This may seem simple enough, but I think once you start to look at lots of sets of different wings (real or not) you'll see that you have lots of options and narrowing it down can be difficult. There are LOTS of different styles of angel wings out there! A quick search on Google Images for "angel" should give you some good ideas and I've included some links below to sites that might help shape your vision. Also, donâ≢t be afraid to sketch your own design too! I made some sketches to modify these wings so they wouldnâ≢t be quite as huge. A sketch can also help you decide how many feathers you will need, of what kind, and where they will be positioned. It's important to have a clear idea of how you want your wings to look in order to choose a pattern that will accommodate it. You should determine the color, size (including wing span), and shape.
Wings, wings, and more wings (feel free to recommend some sites!)
http://www.nati-art.com Natalia Pierandrei (artist)
http://www.enchanted-art.com/catalog.php?category=5 Jessica Galbreth (artist)
http://browse.deviantart.com/?section=browse&order=9&qh=&q=angel - Deviant Art
http://www.animelab.com/anime.manga/pics/Angel_Sanctuary - Angel Sanctuary (anime)
Classic Angels:
http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Renaissance/Raffaello+Sanzio/Painting+details/Raffaello+-+The+Sistine+Madonna+_detail_.jpg.html - Raffaello Sanzio - The Sistine Madonna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Victory_Column - SiegessÃÂäule (Victory Tower) - Berlin
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:William_Blake_-_Christ_in_the_Sepulchre%2C_Guarded_by_Angels.jpg - William Blake - Christ in the Sepulchre
http://www.florin.ms/Jameson021.jpg - Angel by Rembrandt
http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Renaissance/Giotto+di+Bondone/Giotto+-+Angel+5.jpg.html - Angel by Giotto di Bondone
http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Renaissance/Fra+Angelico/Fra+Angelico+-+Annunciation.JPG.html - Fra Angelico - Annunciation
http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Baroque/Bartolome+Esteban+Murillo/Bartolome+Esteban+Murillo+-+The+angel_s+kitchen.jpg.html - Bartolome Esteban Murillo - The Angel's Kitchen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:028MAD_Sphinx.jpg - Sphinx - Delphi
Winged Characters (mostly anime)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokusatsu_Tenshi_Dokuro-chan - Club to death Angel Dokuro Chan (I recommend this one for those who haven't seen it.)
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b45/niwawillow123/TMM/Minto%20Aizawa/Mint9.jpg - Mint - Tokyo Mew Mew
http://www.geocities.com/johnnyfighter/Belldandy.jpg - Belldandy - Oh My Goddess!
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/cerraazizi/Card%20Captor%20Sakura/card_captor_sakura.jpg - Sakura - Card Captor Sakura
Step 2: Make a Big, Ugly Sketch
Now that you know the general shape of your wings and how large you'd like them to be, it's time to come up with a rough life-size outline of your wings. This will help you to plan the amount of feathers and types needed. It will also help you shape your wings once it comes time to glue the feathers to the frame.
*Note: You can skip this step if you are a really good visual estimater and/or are happy returning unused feathers to your local craft store (;
To make your outline, you can use butcher paper, newspaper, or cardboard.
1. Lay the paper flat and draw a nice, life-size outline of your wing shape using your favorite Sharpie. The outline should be just as big as you want your wings to be, and about the right shape. If you mess up, no worries, just draw the correct line over the old one. You do not need to add details to the inside of the shape AND you only have to do this once as your wings are (probably) symmetrical.
2. Once you have your outline, compare it to your original drawing or inspirational photo. Notice in the photo where goose feathers (the large, long sturdy feathers) are used and where plumes (the tiny, fluffy feathers) are used. You will need to approximate how many of each feather will be used in your wings. Because you probably don't want to send a lot of time making a newspaper masterpiece, I recommend simply adding to your outline a 3" long & 1.5" wide oval for every plume and a 6" long & 2" wide oval for every goose feather. If you are using other types of feathers, you will
need to adjust your oval size to match the dimensions of your feathers. You do not need to actually draw in the ovals unless it helps you visualize it better.
3. Count how many plume ovals and how many goose feather ovals are needed to fill in your outline and multiply by two to get the total you will need (unless you are planning to be some kind of crazy half-angel, half-human hybrid thing, in which case you needn't do the math). You will probably want to get at least a few extra "just in case."
Step 3: Acquire Your Materials
Next, you will need to acquire (buy, steal, or pillage) your materials. You will need the following:
-3 yards of 14 or 16 gauge galvanized wire (available at Ace and most hardware stores)
-48 goose quills* (these are the sturdy long feathers)
-1 oz of plumes* (the small, fluffy feathers)
-1 yard 1" wide ribbon to match or compliment the color of your feathers
-Combination wire cutters / needle-nose pliers (no gal should be without!)
-1/2 yard of felt (the color should match your feathers as closely as possible)
-glue gun & glue sticks
-Elmer's glue
-3 yards of elastic (1/4"-1" width) *optional: you do not need these if you want your wings to be strapless.
-Optional additions: extra ribbon, bells, mirrors, rhinestone gems, glitter & adhesive spray, marabou, sequins, tulle strips
*Number of feathers will vary upon your pattern. Go to step 2 to see how to determine how many feathers you will need.
Step 4: Make a Wire Frame
This third step might be difficult for those who have not worked with wire before. If you find yourself stumped, I recommend getting a friend to help with this part.
Using your wire, construct a wire frame for your wings as shown below. We will do this by using two different pieces of wire, one for the large piece of "u" shaped, curved-up wire on the top, and one for the loop which connects to this larger piece and makes the âharnessâ (which will be used to support your back).
First, bend a piece of wire the length of your wingspan to make a soft âwâ shape. At the two low points of the âw,â attach a second piece of wire approx. half the length of the last. The piece of wire can be attached by wrapping, crimping and twisting the ends of the wire around the âwâ with your pliers to form a loop. Again, the dimensions of the frame may vary according to your design. To modify it, take a look at your wing sketch and decide which areas the wings will primarily be attached to. Make sure your frame will support all elements of your design.
Step 5: Design the Base
Because it would be really frustrating to try and secure all those feathers to the wire itself, we're going to add some felt to cover the wire frame (excluding the support loop which we will cover later in ribbon or marabou).
1. Cut your felt in half so you have two pieces (one for each wing).
2. Take one piece of fabric and fold it in half length-wise (or "hot dog" style as my kindergarten teacher used to say...)
3. Lay the folded piece of fabric under one side of the frame.
4. With your Sharpie draw an outline around the wire. The outline should be at least 4" thick and as long as the length of the wire to the support loop. It does not and probably should not be completely ovular, but should follow the shape of your frame. This will provide the base / support for your feathers. You can use a wider shape if you want your wings to be stronger.
5. Repeat with the other piece of felt for the other wing.
Step 6: Make the Base!
Cut the shapes out with the fabric doubled over so you are left with two pieces of fabric. With the wire sandwiched between two pieces of fabric, hot glue the fabric pieces together as shown below so that the wire is covered in felt excluding the support hoop. Do this for the other side as well. You should have a weird felt antler-looking thing as shown below.
Step 7: Shape & Sort Your Feathers
Before you can apply your feathers to this frame, you will need to shape them. A lot of store-bought feathers can vary in their quality, so you will also want to take the opportunity to toss or cut down feathers which are poor looking. Some ideas for shaping feathers are shown below on the packaging my feathers came in. You will also want to make two piles- one for feathers which turn to the right, and one for feathers which turn to the left. The feathers below, for example, all turn to the right. You should be able to tell by holding the feather curve side up by the tip. You need to do this for both the plumes and the goose feathers. It seems tedious, but it will save you a lot of time in the end.
Step 8: Test Your Design
You should (but do not have to) do a âpractice arrangementâ by laying the feathers out over your wire frame and newspaper sketch. This will help you decide if you a) need additional materials b) need to cut some feathers down or re-shape them c) if all your feathers are pointing the right way. It will also help save time when it comes to glue them!
Step 9: Time to Glue!
Now is the fun and often painful part where you get to cover yourself and your wings in two types of glue! Before you attempt this next step, please make sure you are wearing clothes you wonât mind getting tons of feather dander, glue, and whatever else you're planning to use on the wings on you. Also make sure you know how to handle a glue gun, particularly that you are 100% sure you understand that the nozzle is hot! (I wasn't paying attention a few times when I made mine and have the red fingers to prove it!) You may want to wear gloves of some kind.
Lay out the first side of your wings on the newspaper and begin by hot gluing the goose feathers at the stem to the felt.
BE CAREFUL NOT TO GET THE GLUE ON YOUR FINGERS! You may want to use pliers or chopsticks or something if this happens more than once.
To add length to your design you can double-up the goose feathers by gluing one to the other along the stem as shown below.
The wings will not seem very secure at first, but as you add more feathers, the wings will become sturdier and look a lot better. If the stems of your feathers are too long to hold to the fabric, feel free to snip them.
Step 10: Add MORE Feathers
When you are done adding the goose feathers, you can add the tiny plume feathers using elmers glue to the top of the quill stems and the spaces between the goose feathers to cover up any âgapsâ where the felt shows through. This will also add to the âtatteredâ look of the design. This step can be omitted if it does not suit your design, or you can substitute marabou or other kinds of feathers for the plumes.
Step 11: When You Eventually Finish Adding the Feathers...
When you are done adding your feathers, several hours, days, or weeks later, you can cover that ugly wire loop with the ribbon by bending it in half over the wire and hot gluing it. While youâre at it, you can add some rhinestones, glitter (I recommend buying a spray adhesive and then âdustingâ them by throwing glitter at them), or trails of ribbons hanging from the mid-loop. You can also add feathers to the mid-loop, flowers, marabou, mirrors, etc. Keep in mind, however, that if you are not going to be adding straps, the support loop will not be visible as it will go inside your shirt (in which case you may want to just leave it covered in ribbon).
You can also add rhinestones, mirrors, etc. to the wings themselves by hot gluing them to your feathers or glitter with adhesive spray or Elmers glue.
Step 12: Making the Straps
This part is optional. If you want "strapless" wings, simply insert the support loop into a low-back t-shirt like a halter top or a tube top (see below). Otherwise, you will have to make straps.
Cut the elastic into two 18"" pieces. These will work as your shoulder straps for the wings. Attach them by tying them in half around the top of the mid-bar, and then by tying them again around your shoulders. The elastic straps should slip on and off like a back pack. You can use clear elastic to make the straps less visable, or ribbon if you want something more decorative.
Step 13: Show Off
Lastly, celebrate the fruits of your efforts! Dress up! Take some photos! Scare the neighbors!
Step 14: Finished Product
When you are all done wearing your wings, you can store them by hanging them on your wall using a picture frame hook or a couple nails. They make a marvelous conversation piece (;
Thanks to the good people at Instructables and to you for reading! Feel free to submit your questions, comments, and photos!
You can see more of my wing work at Fairywingsandthings.com!
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is there something i could use instead of felt?
ive seen a tutorial using chicken wire as the base
wow!! I was thinking about making wings for my halloween costume but I found these ones and I think I am going to make them.. thanks!!!!
LOve the rhinestones.... Too! Beautiful wings.
Where did you buy feather's? I can't find any in the shade I like
you are pretty
She looks a lot like Kari from Mythbusters in that photo.
How does one clean these wings?
:D They're perfect! Thank you thank you thank you! I've been looking everywhere for a way to make wings for my costume and this is just perfect! *glomps* Uno question though...how much did it cost? A guestimate would be great
Actually not much at all! The main expense is the feathers. The goose feathers were, I believe, $5 a bag and I bought 6 bags of them at Pearl. The wire was only $6 for a 200 ft. spool at Cole Fox in SF (we love Cole Fox and the nice lady who does their awesome window displays). So I'd estimate with the other materials they'll run you less than $40.
Would it be rude to say that I think you're beautiful?
Love it! how cool me and my friends like love the book maximum ride, so these wings say, send some to "max" our friend who moved away, we are aways do maxride projects and sending them to her lol
Maxride ROCKS! And so do these wings.
I love your name -
well, for my taste, there a little too small, and too pink, but that looks easy to change.
great ible. not to be a bible fiend but the bible says nothing about angels having wings or even having a form at all. actually some scriptures say angels are made of light.
the wings are beautiful and so are you! thanks for the 'ible i've always wanted to make some dark angel wings! :)
Hey! I liked your design so much, I made a pair for a wear-white party in Regina. put up pics when they're done ;]
Perfect costume idea. But I, being a guy, wouldn't go for the pink. They're going to be bigger and black and grey.


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Psychic Income of Motherhood
To the extent that women's decisions about developing and investing their human capital are influenced by rational calculations of costs and benefits that seek, as economists put it, to maximize "utility"—sometimes referred to as happiness or selfinterest—why would they ever choose to have children? A ridiculous question, some would say. But consider for a moment that, as Schumpeter pointed out, children are no longer an economic asset. On the contrary, today raising a child through age seventeen costs a two-parent, middle-income family an average of $153,600—and the costs rarely stop there.55 Parents whose children graduated from high school in 2006 are looking at an annual cost of $12,875 for tuition, fees, room, and board at a four-year public college ($30,816 at a private college), and those with infants can expect to pay $35,600 a year for a public university ($85,200 a year for private school) by the time their kids are ready for college.56 Not only are children costly to raise, they are noisy in the process, cumbersome to transport, and magnets for germs. In addition, concern for a child's well-being makes its parents lifetime hostages to fate. In the critical cost-accounting of utilitarian values, the concrete sacrifices of parenthood weigh heavily against the transcendental joys, which are difficult to gauge, especially in comparison to, say, a carefree vacation spent skiing at Squaw Valley or relaxing on the beaches of Santa Monica. The mental attitude formed by this accounting reminds me of a woman I once saw driving a shiny red Mercedes sports car with a license-plate frame that read, "She who dies with the most toys wins." The Mercedes was stopped at a light next to a mother and two children in a Ford SUV with a prominent sticker that read, "Proud Parent of Two Wagner Ranch School Honor Students." Bumper stickers have become a sign not only of one's politics but of the way people score life.
Some even argue that children detract from intimate relationships between adults. According to Daniel Cere, a prominent strand of contemporary scholarship on courtship focuses on "close-relationship theory," which "draws attention to the vexing impact of children on adult close relationships."57 Reviewing a body of courtship literature in which children are either ignored or are portrayed as stressful hazards to marriage, Cere cites an influential book that devotes two chapters to examining the obstacles to satisfactory relationships. The first chapter surveys a variety of problems, such as drug abuse and alcohol, that might undermine relationships; the second chapter is dedicated entirely to children.
Despite the risks and costs of childbearing, many would argue that most, if not all, women really want to have children because that's what they are made to do. Childbearing as a biological imperative conveniently avoids the cost-benefit issue by invoking the authority of Charles Darwin himself. Once it has been established that humans are programmed to propagate their genes (otherwise, we would not be here), then the rational approach to family choices helps explain the different investments parents might make in raising their children after they have arrived.
Although the biological imperative may have impelled procreation among the earliest members of our species, the biological imperative seems less vital today. As an explanation of women's behavior, it hardly accounts for the dramatic rise in the proportion of childlessness over the past few decades. The biological imperative, of course, may vary in degree, with some women feeling an overwhelming urge to procreate (the traditional mothers), some having relatively little interest in the process (those in the postmodern group), and many others somewhere in between (spanning the neotraditional and modern categories). The choices of those in-between women would be most sensitive to prevailing perceptions of the costs and benefits associated with childrearing, which bring us back to the question of how the decision to have children is framed within the rational-choice perspective.
Childrearing, as we normally understand it, essentially involves altruistic behavior. Taking a leaf from the pages of Adam Smith, Becker notes that while selfishness is assumed to prevail in market transactions, altruism dominates in family behavior. It is a matter not of biological imperative but of costs and benefits. Parents readily sacrifice for their children, depleting economic resources that might otherwise be put to their own material pleasures, because the well-being of their children increases the parents' stock of happiness. According to Becker it is naive to assume that altruists do not benefit from the transactions that seem to yield only monetary sacrifices. In reality, he explains, "altruists receive psychic income in place of money income."58 Empirically, this proposition is difficult to disprove. When people weigh the costs and benefits of an action and then choose to behave in ways that lead to a measurable gain in, say, leisure time or money, they have exercised rational choice to maximize utility. If they choose to behave in ways that involve sacrifice and loss of measurable benefits, it can still be claimed that they are exercising rational choice but weighing the benefits on a scale of emotional returns, which are not as easy to calibrate as time or money. In a sense, psychic income is a deus ex machina that resolves the potential conflict between the rational-choice model and altruistic family behavior, which might otherwise appear irrational from a cost-benefit perspective.
This is not to say that psychic income, or the intangible personal and emotional benefits that it represents, is imaginary. People frequently engage in calculated behavior that they know will incur measurable costs and tangible sacrifices, and in the end they still feel that they have gained in the bargain. When Jerry Brown was governor of California in the late 1970s, he once advised the University of California professoriate not to complain about their salaries, since the accounting did not include all the psychic rewards they derived from their positions. Publicly most faculty complained that they could not pay the mortgage or dine at Chez Panisse with psychic income. Privately, some faculty probably agreed that the governor had a point—which might explain the behavior of those senior professors who qualify for retirement pensions equal to virtually 100 percent of their salaries, yet continue to remain at their posts.
Undoubtedly, one of the important reasons women have children is the psychic income it is expected to yield. In this regard Schumpeter was correct, if somewhat inarticulate, when he noted that a vital benefit of motherhood was its "contribution to physical and moral health—to normality as we might express it." He might also have included the contribution of motherhood to the fulfillment of emotional life. Children beget one of the few transcendental experiences in life outside of drugs and religion, both of which have their own costs— and, perhaps, music, which ends when the curtain falls. Jewish people have a word for the psychic income of motherhood— nachous, the joy parents get from their children. The traditional congratulatory mantra of Jewish grandmothers—"They should only bring you nachous"—conveys a heartfelt wish for the essential reward of motherhood, which is hoped for but not certain.
Unlike hard currency, psychic income is elusive; we never know which individuals will enjoy it, what source it will come from, and what its worth is on the market. Children as a source of psychic income for motherhood pose a unique
case in that they embody two characteristics—uncertainty and permanence—which combine to form an exceptional risk. The uncertainty about how much joy and emotional satisfaction a child will bring resides, on one hand, in the unknown traits of the newborn and, on the other, in the yet-to – be-established response of the mother. After all of the modern prenatal medical tests are conducted, one of the greatest unspoken fears of mothers-to-be is that their child may be born with severe handicaps or may develop disabilities as they mature, which would raise the intensity of altruism to a level the mothers did not bargain for. That may be an extreme example, but there are all sorts of traits—levels of activity, physical appearance, sex, and personality—that might elicit more or less emotional satisfaction. And while mothers naturally love their children, the depth of their responses—even to perfectly healthy children—varies and cannot be fathomed ahead of time. Some mothers enjoy being around small children and interacting with them more than others. Some mothers who love their children dearly have a difficult time enjoying more than short periods of time with them. There are employed mothers who are soon anxious to return to their jobs and place their children in day care, and others who dread leaving their toddlers. On the subject of childrearing, Calvin Trillin explains that he and his wife, Alice, "agreed on a simple notion: your children are either the center of your life or they're not, and the rest is commentary."59
The level of uncertainty about the psychic income (we might call it joy or emotional satisfaction) to be gained from children is probably greater than with other sources of psychic income, such as employment in highly gratifying work. But even if the uncertainty were the same from all sources, the gamble associated with the benefits of children is compounded
by the fact that children are permanent. In comparison to other sources of joy, the benefit derived from children cannot be entirely imagined until it is acquired, and by then there is no refund available. No other altruistic activity is quite as irreversible—priests can leave the church, social workers can decide to sell real estate, even Mother Teresa could have left the slums of Calcutta if she was so inclined. The probability of divorce in modern times lends an added dimension of uncer – tainty—not about consuming the benefits of children but about sharing the long-term costs.
Having children is a gamble in which the mother's stakes on happiness are high and the risks are evident, but both are difficult to calculate with precision. Who can imagine the long-term pleasures and pains that await, from the ceaseless midnight demands of the early years to the warm routines of the three-to-eleven golden years to the separation struggles of the pestering teenage years to the welcome respite from teenage menace during the empty-nest years, which are interrupted by the intrusiveness of the roommate years when the grown children return home for an indeterminate period? Parenthood is a bewildering journey full of surprises—some more agreeable than others.
According to pathbreaking research by Noble prizewinning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleague Amos Tversky on what they called "prospect theory," people have psychological tendencies that distort efforts to make rational choices under conditions of uncertainty.60 One such tendency, identified as the "certainty effect," is commonly expressed when we are faced with a choice between a course of action that will lead to a guaranteed gain and an alternative course that will lead to a larger gain that is only probable but that on average will yield the better return. Although people are likely to be more highly rewarded by selecting the probable outcome, most are firmly inclined to take the guaranteed benefit. Consider, for example, the choice between being given $400 or taking a chance on $700 by playing a game of roulette that is set up to let you win eight out of ten times. Preferring the certainty of the smaller gain, most people will take the cash and run. We tend to be averse to risk, at least when the probability of gain is high.61 When we hear that the proverbial bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, we rarely question under what percentage of the bushes we will find the two birds.
How well the certainty effect applies to decision making in the broader context of lifestyle choices, where nothing is really certain, remains an open question. Laboratory findings that people tend to underweight the value of outcomes that are probable in favor of those that are guaranteed are at best suggestive when it comes to decision making about motherhood. What they suggest is that when weighing the probable gains in psychic income from motherhood against the human capital that they will almost definitely accrue by staying in school for a few more years or against the paycheck that assuredly will arrive each week by going to work, young women will tend to choose the more certain outcome (even when the utility of motherhood would be higher than the other options).
Women's decisions to have children, however, are rarely a choice of now or never (at least not until the terminus of their childbearing years). For most women it is usually a choice of now or later. Therefore, to the extent that the certainty effect applies in this context, it would tend to encourage the postponement of childbearing. But the more time spent accruing education and work experience, the higher the costs of childbearing in terms of foregone wages. Moreover, if a woman waits until she is in her thirties to have her first child, it may not be possible to have a second.62 At the intersection between capitalism and motherhood, as noted in Chapter 1, there is a trade-off over time between the rising value of human capital, which increases the capacity for production in the market, and the declining efficacy of biological capital, which reduces the odds for reproduction in the family.
But something is missing from this assessment of human behavior. Do women really sit down with a pen and list all the costs and benefits of childbearing, assign probabilities, verify certainties, and then calculate the opportunity costs in comparison to alternative choices regarding work, education, or taking a year off to be a ski bum in Aspen? And if they did that, how would they attribute precise values to the immediate costs, benefits, and probabilities that come to bear on this irreversible lifestyle decision? The answer, I think, is that surely certain highly specific calculations are made: Can we afford to pay the current rent? Will we need to move to a larger house? But, more generally, some vague reckoning is taken in which the values attributed to far-reaching lifestyle costs and benefits of childbearing are informed by normative expectations about what awaits one on the paths to motherhood, education, employment, and professional life.
Although economic considerations bear on choices about motherhood and commitments to work and family life, these personal decisions involve more than a rational processing of empirical information about costs and benefits. In advancing a socioeconomic view of human behavior that incorporates the nonrational aspects of decision making, Amitai Etzioni argues "that the majority of choices involve little information processing or none at all, but that they draw largely or exclusively on affective involvements and normative commitments."63
Consider the choices facing Michelle and Becky. Michelle,
a stay-at-home mother, is feeling bored and unchallenged. She is thinking about returning to full-time employment. She expects that her family's income would increase, as would her skills and knowledge (what economists consider human capital). She could not tell us, though, exactly how much the family income would increase after discounting taxes, work expenses, child-care costs, and the economic value of her reduced household labor (and adding the value of the anticipated increase in her husband's household labor). She hopes her husband would be pleased with the decision and willing to cook meals several nights a week—but she is not sure. His job dealing with psychiatric patients takes its toll; he seems to rely on her steady emotional support and enjoys having her make coffee for him each morning. At the same time she recognizes that this decision would seriously reduce her daily relationships with all the other young mothers with whom she has been volunteering in her child's classroom, organizing swim meets, visiting at the playground and at their monthly book club meeting, and discussing the advantages of being able to supervise and socialize their children, while silently confirming the disservice of mothers whose children are raised five days a week by day-care workers—the very group Michelle would be joining.
Becky, a working mother, is feeling tense and pressed for time. She sees her kids growing up before her eyes, with little daily input from their mother. Her husband complains that she no longer makes his coffee in the morning and the house is a mess. She is thinking about returning home full-time. Becky knows that her family's income would decline—though, like Michelle, she could not say by exactly how much. At the same time she recognizes that her professional relationships (sometimes considered social capital) will decline as she loses touch with her friends and colleagues at the office, with whom she has been attending meetings, going to out-of-town conferences, trading advice on social and legal issues, and socializing at office parties. And she expects to miss the lively lunches at the local cafe during which her female colleagues debate the intellectual issues that animate everyday life in their firm, while silently confirming the utter, mind-numbing boredom of daily life for women at home (whom Becky would be joining) who spend their time cooking, cleaning, and changing diapers.
Michelle and Becky are facing hard decisions. The choices they contemplate violate their peer group's expectations and defy their hierarchy of values. But what if Michelle's decision was being made in 1965, shortly after her book club read Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex? And what if Becky's decision was being made sometime in the future, say 2013, when the opt-out revolution is in full swing?
In both cases economic considerations come to bear as well as affective involvements and changing social norms and values. Seen strictly from an economic perspective, notions of human behavior based on utility and rationality lead us to conclude that the benefits of motherhood are consistently undervalued by the prevalent sensibilities and habits of mind attuned to the opportunities in modern capitalist societies, and that this happens for two main reasons. First, the deep – seated emotional pleasures and transcendental rapture of childrearing are not as tangible on the cost-accounting ledger as the material comforts and alluring amenities of a childfree lifestyle. Second, the indeterminate psychic income, those joys and emotional satisfactions, of motherhood is discounted by psychological preference for the certainty of alternative outcomes.
The economic perspective is useful in that it opens a partial window to the dynamics that influence women's lifestyle decisions; however, the view from this window excludes important social considerations that weigh on decisions about motherhood and family life. For a fuller picture, we must examine the values and expectations that have been most widely conveyed by those who speak publicly for women's place in modern society.


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God once ordered a man to marry a woman who would become a harlot and engage regularly in adultery all to illustrate His love and longsuffering for us? Stick around and we'll talk about it here on 5 minutes of truth.
The Old Testament is filled with amazing stories taking place with amazing people under amazing circumstances. Whether it is a Sea that parted, an axe-head that floated, bones that resurrected, or a donkey that talked, the Old Testament includes a huge number of unusual and often difficult to understand events to show God's love for His people.
One of the most interesting of these stories is often one that is overlooked because of the near anonymity of the person involved. Yes, he was a prophet, but he was a minor prophet. Yes, he's in the Bible, but he's kind of stuck in the middle there with a bunch of other prophets most people have never heard of. His name? Hosea. His claim to fame? God ordered him to marry an unfaithful wife who may have even been a prostitute. The big question is: Why would God do this?
First, let's look at the story. Hosea was a prophet called by God to minister between 755-710 BC. Other than that. We know very little about him with the exception of who he married and how his marriage unfolded. At the beginning of the book, God commands Hosea to, "go, take a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the Lord" (Hosea 1:1-2). The Bible then tells us that Hosea does exactly that by marrying a woman named Gomer who would be exactly what God said she would be.
Many scholars think that Gomer was not yet a harlot at the time they married but that God was telling Hosea what would happen as a result of their union. Also, by calling the children she had "children of harlotry" it is strongly suspected that the children named in chapter one are not Hosea's children, but Gomer's via her many episodes of unfaithfulness. To say that this was a difficult marriage would be an understatement. But that leads us back to the original question we had. Why would God tell a man (a prophet, no less…a holy man) to marry a woman whom God knew would be unfaithful?
Well, in part God gives us the answer in the original command. He states the reason is because, "the land has committed harlotry by departing from the Lord" (Hosea 1:2b). In other words, Hosea's marriage to Gomer was to be an illustration of God's relationship with His people. How could this possibly be? We can better understand that by understanding that relationship a bit better.
In Genesis, God began His relationship with His people by establishing an everlasting covenant with them through Abraham. God told Abraham, "I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great" (Genesis 12:2). Later He also states, "look now towards heaven and count the stars if you are able to number them. So shall your descendants be" (Genesis 15:5). God was establishing an everlasting covenant with people that from that time on would be His people. But that relationship would sour.
Embedded in a single comment, would be the disease that would plague the relationship between God and His people. At the end of Judges we read, "In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes" (Judges 21:25). That became the problem. God's people would regularly and continuously ignore and reject God's truth and His teachings by following after false gods. In other words, they were committing spiritual adultery on God. The very first of the Ten Commandments states, "you shall have no other gods before Me" (Exodus 20:3). There is a reason He put that one first.
Just as Gomer broke the sacred covenant of marriage and turned her back on her husband, so had God's people broken the sacred covenant with God and turned their back on their God. Gomer's marital adultery was a picture of Israel's (and our) spiritual adultery. And if God had left the picture like this, it would have amounted to little more than God pointing out their infidelity. But He didn't end it there.
After Gomer left Hosea, God instructed him to do something interesting. He tells Hosea, "go again, love a woman who is loved by a lover and is committing adultery" (Hosea 3:1a). After Hosea is rid of his cheating bride, God tells him to go after her even though she is actively engaged with committing adultery and she has not changed her ways. How far had she fallen? Hosea states, "so I bought her for myself for 15 shekels of silver" and said to Gomer, "you shall stay with me many days" (Hosea 3:2-3). His wife's harlotry had led her to slavery, and her jilted, betrayed husband actually paid to get her back. Why?
"Afterwards the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the latter days" (Hosea 3:5). God told Hosea to remain faithful to Gomer no matter what, because He will remain faithful to us no matter what. The covenant is His, not ours. We try to break it with our sin and disobedience, but He cannot and will not break the covenant He made with us. There may be temporal consequences for our sin, but ultimately, He will separate our sin from us as far as the east is from the west. He will toss them into the sea of forgetfulness and remember them no more. He paid a price for our freedom on the Cross and secured the victory via the empty tomb…despite our unfaithfulness to Him. How cool is that?
On behalf of myself, Robert Houghton and all of us here at Growth Project, keep reading God's Word.
Dr. Purvis started Growth Project after spending 20 years on active duty as a Chaplain in the United States Navy. After many moves and multiple deployments, he settled in St. Cloud, Florida to do God's will. A glutton for educational punishment Danny has a BA in English from Carson-Newman College, an MDiv from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; a ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary; and a PhD in Organizational Leadership from Regent University. He has been married to his wife Kimberly (whom he met when they were 6 years old) for nearly 30 years and they have four wonderful children.


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What is casual dating?
"I'm just looking for something casual", is something you hear a lot from people on online dating sites. And there are many people seeking casual encounters, online as well as at sex clubs.
But what is casual dating? What are these people really looking for?
For most people, casual means that they aren't looking to enmesh their lives with someone else, but beyond that, there's a huge spectrum of possibilities in terms of what the relationship looks like. Enmeshment includes things like living together, combining finances, but also implies a monogamous commitment. Casual dating, on the other hand, comes with the expectation that both people can continue to have sex with others.
Lack of enmeshment and non-monogamy are two fundamental aspects of casual dating, but there's a lot more to it that's less obvious. Someone who is only seeking casual encounters, rather than casual dating, usually doesn't want to get to know the people involved all that well. You can find casual encounters at sex clubs with people you've just met, and may never see again. But casual dating implies an ongoing connection, even if it's not of the usual sort.
What this usually looks like is actually a lot like friendship. People who are casually dating may go out to dinner together, have a picnic in the park, take in a ballgame, or even travel together. And of course, have sex as much as they feel like, which is often a lot--the casual dating only works when there's a lot of chemistry to go around.
And yet, despite having all this fun together, there remains no expectation that the relationship will escalate or grow into anything else. In many ways, this makes casual dating one of the purest forms of relationship, in terms of having so little influence from external factors. Whereas traditional dating comes with societal expectations to eventually escalate to engagement, marriage, kids, house, and so on, casual dating exists just as it is. And these connections can continue to exist for years, never evolving, and yet always maintaining all the fun and fantastic things the two people love to do together.
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A Derby City Council led project is helping to boost skills amongst young people in the city.
Year nine Engineering students at Derby Moor School have completed a brand design project with full service creative agency Burnthebook.
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The company is also a Cornerstone employer – working as part of the Derby City Council and D2N2 programme to tackle social mobility under the city's status as an Opportunity Area.
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Sharing our skills and knowledge with young people at this critical point in their educational journey, has highlighted the realities, challenges and opportunities of working in a creative environment.
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The stellar third season of Netflix's Daredevil broke a lot of conventions for the streaming service's Marvel Universe, like it's lack of crossovers, it's almost art-house black-and-white mind-delving, and the fact it hasn't been canceled yet. But one of the most genuinely thrilling experiments this season was its tenth episode, simply titled "Karen", which used the bulk of its runtime to flashback to the shockingly violent early days of Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll), living as a part-time waitress, part-time drug dealer.
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For more on Daredevil season 3, check out the links below:
- 'Daredevil' Season 3's Only Crossover Is a Perfect Example of Subtle World-Building
- 'Daredevil' Season 3: Netflix's Aversion to Marvel Crossovers Is Undermining Its Best Characters
- Vincent D'Onofrio on Season 3 of 'Daredevil' and the Return of Wilson Fisk
- 'Daredevil' Season 3 Review: A Return to Basics Puts Netflix's MCU Back on Target


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Whether you're an Atlanta native, resident, or visiting our beautiful city for the holidays, there are plenty of fun, family-friendly holiday events taking place. From local craft markets to pictures, with Santa, we've created a guide to help you make your holiday plans! Read on to learn more about what's going on in and around Atlanta!
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The German American Cultural Foundation's Christkindl Market is a unique experience unlike any other in town. From November 23 to December 23, you can browse an assortment of hand-crafted German, Austrian, Swiss, and other European foods and other items that make great holiday gifts. You'll also have the chance to learn more about German culture and German Advent traditions while sampling bratwurst, glühwein, beer, and other authentic food and drink. Daily entertainment and events will take place, and workshops and story time for kids will also be available. For a full list of events taking place each day, including live music, symphony performances, and more, view the Christkindl Market website at the link below.
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With three gorgeous backdrops designed to provide a place for you and friends to snap photos and plenty of crafty workshops to help inspire your inner DIY goddess, the Merry Makers Holiday Pop Up at Atlantic Station is the place to be if you're looking for Instagramming opportunities. Swing by the swanky ski lounge and enjoy winter cocktails, tasty snacks, and complimentary gift wrapping. Entry to the lounge is free, but workshops may require registration.
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Hi Dave, well done, I really like the fact that you do actual statistical testing on the results and thus try to remove bias. Since you, or someone on your team, apparently has sound knowledge of that, I hope you will take into account the following feedback for an update of your results.davedej wrote: ↑Mon May 21, 2018 9:49 pmMore of the same here:
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There are a number of possible biases: number of riders, number of sessions, location on the board of the WOOs, that you'd need to account for in order to make a statistically sound statement about Woo's accuracy between versions. And then there's different WOOs...
First, I'd like to know how many riders participated. It seems 1? In a follow-up, a larger number of riders would account for possible rider-related bias. You may set up a board and lend it to as many riders as possible to eliminate this factor. If you'd organize something like that on a day at Wijk or even Schellinkhout, you will get a huge session with a lot of data points. Best would be to do this at both places so you will have both a flat water spot and a wave spot. Second, of course, the more sessions the better. One session results can be skewed for whatever reason so more sessions will eliminate bias there.Third, the location on the board of the WOOs. It seems that this can impact the results so you would need to alternate the WOOs between locations in order to eliminate that. Fourth, and you rightly point that out already in your article, more WOOs are needed of all versions in order to eliminate their influence. Let alone the different software versions.
I know, this is much harder to achieve than a simple one-day test with some statistical analysis. But your statement "WOO: game over" is quite serious and with the current data you cannot claim that with any trustworthy backup. Some hotheads above are talking about class action suits against the company, which I find stupid, but in that light statements like this might entice others to stake claims against you.


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Young woman's dreaming of being very loyal to others suggests that she is very pure and will get married to a good husband.
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McDermott Realigns Its Nuclear Unit (MDR)November 27, 2007 by Douglas A. McIntyre
McDermott International Inc. (NYSE:MDR) is undergoing a bit of an interesting restructuring in its Babcock & Wilcox Company subsidiary. It is reorganizing into four groups including the newly formed nuclear power group and launch a new brand identity. The focus here seems to be more nuclear, and the company mentions more of a focus to lead the development of new clean coal and carbon capture technologies. These are key buzzwords for "going greener" for alternative energy investors and this is on the infrastructure side of it.
B&W has formed a new subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W NPG) that has aligned the resources and capabilities of the overall company to provide nuclear power plant products, services and construction for utilities worldwide. Other units being renamed are as follows:
- Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG)…. focuses on providing steam generating equipment and emissions control systems for utilities and industries worldwide, as well as services and parts for the existing fleet of fossil-fueled power plants.
- Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Group, Inc. (B&W TSG)…. provides management, operational and technical services for government and industry customers, which include the Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration.
- Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. (B&W NOG)…. specializes in design engineering and manufacturing of nuclear components for the U.S. government.
The truth is that none of these units are actually new as they have been inside McDermott. In fact, if you visit their website you'll see that they have already designed and manufactured more than 200 nuclear steam generators. This appears to be more of a rebranding and realignment for reporting. It is also unlikely that this would generate a break-up or spin-off candidate because unlike other conglomerates being discounted by Wall Street, the more and more vertical an infrastructure player can become in power generation and facility related construction the better.
Jon C. Ogg
November 27, 2007
Jon Ogg produces the 24/7 Wall St. Special Situation Investing Newsletter; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.


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In an opinion piece for The Australian newspaper (12 January 2010) Henry comments on Margaret Thatcher's legacy, particularly in regard to economic liberalism.
"Ideas are not the grappling hooks that attach electorates to political parties; rather, it is whether they have credible answers to the questions of the day. Yet the questions posed and the answers given are shaped by ideas about the world and how it works. Greatness in politics is the ability to change those ideas, redefining the scope of the possible."
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Maris Strombergs Podium ride at the European Championship in Holland
The comeback continues for Maris, another podium after being out 7 months with injury back on his build up to the World Championships in Denmark late this month.
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After being bundled inside all winter, many Central New Yorkers take this time of year to clean and update their home. Of course large renovations and remodels can create a new look, small projects can be done to create or add curb appeal to your home, as well. Whether your selling your house or staying there another 20 years – keeping up with improvements and updates benefit the look and functionality of your home. Small projects could include:
- Makeover your mailbox: Mailboxes should complement the home and, in some cases, may express the homeowner's personality. Paint the wooden post to match the house's exterior color, or add a flowering garden around the base.
- Adding outdoor art: Choose water-resistant pieces that complement your home's natural color palette – birdbaths, sculptures and wind chimes make good choices for outdoor art.
- Updating your gutter and downspout system: An older gutter system may have peeling, rust spots, cracks or other problems that can convey a sense of neglect. Replace old systems with new, gutter systems that not only look better, but will operate better during those rainy days.
- Creating symmetry on your home: Symmetry is pleasing to the eye – adding symmetrical compositions of light fixtures and front-door accents create welcoming entryways and boost curb appeal.
Thinking bigger? Try:
- A new entry door system: Your front entry door is the focal point of your home. Make a statement by replacing it with a colorful door and reflect on the home's interior by adding a wreath or decoration.
- Replacing old windows: Older windows tend to have painted exteriors that peel and may become difficult to open over the years. Replacing your old windows with new vinyl replacement windows will add a clean look to the exterior of your home, make your home more energy efficient and are easy to clean, maintain and operate.
- Replacing your siding and trim: An exterior facelift automatically transforms the look of a home. Any obvious defects, such as cracked or rotting material, can downgrade the aesthetic and are overall displeasing to look at. Vinyl siding not only improves the look of the home, but doesn't require continuous painting and up-keep. It's easy to clean and, if insulated, provides additional energy-efficiency to the home!


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Systems Level Liveness with AnonSystem
Live programs can be modified while the program is executing in order to provide a more reactive experience for the programmer. In demanding applications, such programs traditionally utilise pre-defined function calls to compiled libraries. We present a system that enables demanding live programs to be built where the supporting stack of libraries is, itself, live. In such situations, the top level code might be thought of as a simple
live environment'' that can be created live and that encapsulates code that hasbubbled-up'' from the supporting libraries. Our system enables this bubbling up to be achieved in an ad-hoc way and with minimal performance penalty. The deep, systems-level liveness that it exhibits is described and compared with other approaches to Live Coding and liveness generally.
The work described here has its origins in artistic Live Coding of computer music and multimedia. As well as this application area we will also discuss its wider uses including the development of interactive multimedia installations and the harnessing of scientific simulation.
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13:30 - 15:00: Onward! Papers - New Languages at Regency B
Chair(s): Adrian SampsonCornell University
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Christopher Hall, Trevor StandleyStanford, Tobias HollererUCSB
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Christoph KirschUniversity of Salzburg
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Andrew SorensenAustralian National University, Henry GardnerThe Australian National University


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President Trump accomplished something remarkable this week: He sent his harshest critics and closest allies running to the Constitution. In an interview about immigration, the president argued that the "ridiculous" policy of birthright citizenship has to end—and that he can do it through an executive order.
In response, Democrats and Republicans alike have raised the banner of the 14th Amendment: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside." They claim this means anyone born in the U.S. has a constitutional right to citizenship. But a closer look at the language and history shows this is not the Constitution's mandate and should never have become national policy
The crucial phrase is "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." As originally understood when Congress proposed the amendment in 1866, that referred not merely to the obligation of following U.S. laws but also, and more important, to full political allegiance. According to Lyman Trumbull—who was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a co-author of the 14th Amendment—being "subject to the complete jurisdiction of the United States" meant "not owing allegiance to anybody else."
That reading is supported by the 1866 Civil Rights Act, also written by Trumbull, which Congress passed over President Andrew Johnson's veto before proposing the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court endorsed this reading in the Slaughter-House Cases (1872) and Elk v. Wilkins (1884).Read the rest from Matthew Spalding HERE.
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