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Redemptive Spaces: Magdalen House and Prostitution in the Novels and Letters of Richardson
Various constructions and themes in Samuel Richardson's novels and his early letters to Lady Bradshaigh, examined in the context of mid-century reformist writings about prostitution, such as the Magdalen narratives, reveal his ambivalent treatment of fallen women. These constructions include the distinction between seduced and hardened women in Pamela as well as the undoing of that distinction in Clarissa, the irreducible nature of women's partiality for libertines and its corollary, the desexualization that becomes the condition for Clarissa's paragon status, and the distinctively female vice of moral indignation against women in Sir Charles Grandison. In this essay, I show that Richardson's sympathetic and progressive impulses towards Magdalens could not keep pace with those impulses that were traditional and misogynistic.
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Koehler, Martha J.
"Redemptive Spaces: Magdalen House and Prostitution in the Novels and Letters of Richardson,"
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Martha J. Koehler, associate professor of English at University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, is the author of Models of Reading: Paragons and Parasites in Richardson, Burney, and Laclos (2005).


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Quite simply, I am a woman, a mom and a daughter in God's Kingdom. This site provides me the opportunity to write down the thoughts that keep me up at night or dreaming during the day. My primary goal is to vent the emotional, spiritual, physical and mental ups and downs of being a "supermom" who doesn't want to lose her individual identity as a woman, from a Christian world-view. In the process, I hope you can enjoy or even be blessed by what I have to say.
I am a stay-at-home mom of two: My daughter, Avery, is 10 and Charlie is 8. I also am a freelance writer/editor, previously managing editor of GCI magazine. For my professional resume and portfolio, visit Sara's Words. I also do graphics design and desktop publishing but that is more of a hobby because I enjoy it so much! I'm also a runner and I enjoy the occasional craft.
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There's an art to booking a golf vacation, beyond the travel logistics and accommodations. You have to create a rhythm to your rounds.
Fresh off the plane or out of the car, don't play the toughest track on your list. Those two dozen balls you packed need to last, along with your patience. Ease into the vacation with a round where you can hit a loose shot here and there without severe penalty, where there's a challenge but not a mental grind.
In Orlando, start the golf vacation at MetroWest.
Many online trip reviewers and MetroWest's own staff play up the fact that this Robert Trent Jones Sr. design (one of just two in the greater Orlando area) is exceedingly generous off the tee, perfect for those first swings on vacation.
Add in some nice elevation changes for Central Florida and solid greenside bunkering and the course is a good test, especially from the 7,051-yard gold tees (par 72). It's just not one that will wear you out before your golf trip picks up steam.
MetroWest advertises itself as 2.5 miles north of Universal Studios; let the record show it's also three miles from world-class shopping at the Mall at Millenia. While I played golf recently, my wife and daughter shopped. Winners, all of us.
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Guys! We didn't forget about you! Grab your finest black duds and join the ladies as we black out Soho with this returning pub crawl theme! We don't buy this orange is the new black thing, wear anything black. Any and all black attire is welcome.
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What is the most painful lesson you experienced and you wish other people to avoid your experience
Some people when came a cross painfull experience they wish every one in the face of the Earth get the same level of pain
other people they wish all other people to avoid such pain
The Question is
What is the most painful lesson you experienced and you wish other people to avoid your experience?
what did you learned?
and what people should to avoid the same situation?
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We can not avoid the feeling of pain it good feeling if we know how to use it
and as the wisdom says " there is hiden treasure buried inside each tragedy"
but we can learn from each other mistakes and save time and efforts
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May 1 2012: Painful is to see wrong and not be able to make it right. I know so many people suffering because they have been wronged by the society, their own family, friends or love; for religion, cast creed or money. They do nothing because they fear to lose them. I try to give them the support to fight for what is right, but somehow it never works out.
I have realized that I can't fight someone else's fight for them. What's painful is that I am not able to give them the hope.
As Brian Cerda here said "Giving up is harder on you than continuing on". I hope this message goes to all of them so they stand up against the wrong.
My personal experience: Injustice in the name of religion/community. For someone's notion of a closed knit community and religious tenets, I'm in a state of dispair.
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MultiMac MULTITASKING!
|Author: Tony Jacobs
Date: 28 Years ago21 Nov 1985 12:12 pm
MulitMac is a multitasking program that lets you run more than one job
at the same time. Haven't you always wanted to listen to your favorite
MusicWorks tune while you compose a letter in Word? Now you can.
No this isn't a paid announcement and I have no connections with the author.
I've seen up to 6 applications running at the same time. The program installs
another apple menu at the left of the bar and has the manager as the first
item with the applications loaded following. The manager shows you how much
memory each application is using along with the priority. Also shown is how
much free memory and casche memory there is. It also showes you how much
memory is purgable. You can also set the delay for writes from 1 to 60
seconds (I assume this is for the casche.)
You can go back to the finder any time. Other applications windows are
sometimes visible. This depends on whether an application refreshes the
whole screen or just a window.
The version I saw didn't have any release number in the "About..." so I can
only assume it is a beta. It doesn't work with some programs (like MacPaint)
and some apps need to be the first app loaded to work (like MacDraw.)
When you run multiple sound apps the first one run is the one that works,
the rest will run but you don't hear a them. It ran on the Bernoulli system
but it hasn't been tried on a HyperDrive yet.
The Switcher is a darn nice program but with polish MultiMac is going to
leave it in the dust. You can set MultiMac as the startup and it just comes
back to the finder with the second apple menu.
Also, the manager has a "lazy menu" switch which makes the menus pop down
when the cursor is over them without having to click (similar to the
Atari ST.)
... I stand corrected. I just tried out 1.4 MacPaint and it worked! This
program is sorely AMAZING! I quit MacPaint and it returned to the finder
immediately, and I WATCHED THE TEMPORARY FILES DISAPEAR!!!!
The author appears to be Jwa Van der Vuurst and (C) 1985 Aubrac Systems.
Mr. Van der Vuurst where are you. I want to buy this program RIGHT NOW AT
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Reports released Monday showed that scores for the SAT college-entrance exam fell again in the Carolinas, but increased seven points in Georgia.
South Carolina's graduating seniors posted lower scores on the SAT college entrance exam for the fourth consecutive year. But more students than ever are taking college-level Advanced Placement courses. Participation in after-course tests for those classes increased by more than double the national rate.
The average composite score for the Class of 2012 on the SAT's math, critical reading and writing portions was 1,431. That's five points below last year and 23 points below 2007-08. The national average dropped two points to 1,498.
Meanwhile, nearly 22,000 AP tests received scores high enough to earn college credit. That's up by more than 10 percent from 2011. The number of tests taken increased by 14 percent.
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction said that average scores on each of the three sections of the SAT fell by two points compared to 2011. Critical reading scores dropped to 496, math scores fell to 514 and writing dropped to 488.
The number of students taking Advanced Placement exams increased 7.8 percent and the number of scores high enough to get college credit increased 7.2 percent.
In Georgia, SAT scores for high school seniors jumped seven points.
The state's average score was 1,452. This year's average score marked the end of a five-year slide in scores in the state.
The report showed that the state's rate of participation in the test increased by one percentage point to 81 percent, well above the national rate of 31 percent. That gives Georgia the seventh-highest participation rate nationwide.
The scoring gap between the state's black and white students was 270 points, down from 272 last year. Black and Hispanic students in Georgia outperformed those subgroups nationally.
Nationally, the average score was 1,498. The average score for critical reading fell one point to 496 and scores in the writing sections fell one point to 488. Math scores remained steady at 514. The maximum score on each section is 800.
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The Prince and Me is a 2004 romantic comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge, and starring Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, and Ben Miller, with Miranda Richardson, James Fox, and Alberta Watson. Though its title recalls that of The King and I, the film is a loose adaptation of The Student Prince, a 1954 MGM musical, which was in turn an adaptation of the 1924 operetta, The Student Prince which was in its turn an adaptation of the German play, Alt Heidelberg.
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|Fall 2013 TV trends: Motley crews and more adorkable ensembles
Here's what you can expect this upcoming season
By Michaela Sinclair
With dozens of pilots set to premiere this fall television season, we've caught on to the many trends that have emerged to help you navigate your upcoming viewing experience. In this fifth part of our series, we take a look at fun-filled casts as seen in the upcoming series "Super Fun Night," "Undateable" and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
Somebody was bound to notice the big void left by ensemble comedies that took their final bows last spring and from those preparing for their upcoming farewell season. The Matthew Perry-led series "Go On," about an eclectic group of people in therapy, wasn't able to go on; Michael Scott and his team closed "The Office" and the doors to the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company; and Liz Lemon's "The Girlie Show" ended with the finale of "30 Rock." (Nerds!) Even the "Happy Endings" crew had no happy ending when it was canceled last spring after three seasons. And this fall, we actually meet the mother in the final season of "How I Met Your Mother" as Ted Mosby and the MacLaren's gang begin their swan song.
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"Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right." -- Igor Stravinsky
Monday, October 29, 2012
The Lighter Side of Sandy...
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Hmm, this guy doesn't really nail what is happening. (In fact, you couldn't in text -- you need audio.) Bloomberg most definitely does NOT speak some pidgin Spanish or Spanglish. What he does is speak perfectly correct Spanish that *sounds* exactly like English. The closest I can come to conveying it in text is to imagine you were told you were to read an English text, but it would be filled with unfamiliar words:Delete
"Yoh esstoy mwee beayen."
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You will see guest posts popping up here and there from some of our friends in the blogging community. They have generously donated their time to write a post for the Lil Blue Boo blog as Ashley goes through chemotherapy. We are incredibly grateful to these wonderful people, and we are excited to share their posts with you. We gave them a subject to write about: how do you find joy in blogging or crafting? They were welcome to interpret that however they wanted. Enjoy!
To read past guest posts please click here.
we are so thrilled to be visiting all of you lil blue boo (ers)!
we are jennifer, jamie and jodie.
three sisters that have 11 kids (between us), not a lot of time but a lot of fun when we are together.
and we are from eighteen25.
a place that we compile all of our creativeness.
the three of us just love ashley!
and like you, we are inspired by her through her blog.
isn't she just the most talented, funny and cutest blogger out there?
of course she is!
so, the questions is…
how do we find joy in crafting or blogging?
a little bit about us:
in a little brick house with the numbers 1825 hammered onto our mailbox.
that's where it all started.
joy to us is being together.
for fancy valentine dinners.
for back to school dinners and fashion shows
or talent shows
it doesn't really matter what it is (unless it's cleaning out jen's pantry), we are happy.
and if we think it'll make you happy too…it goes on our blog!
{free} printables
"thanks a latte" gift card holders
simple sewing how-to's
easy projects for your home
"i love us" canvas
really, blogging brings us joy because it keeps us creating and doing what we love.
and an added bonus: we get to share it with sweet people, like you!
why don't you come visit us sometime?
thanks so much ashley for letting us be a part of the awesomeness that happens here at lil blue boo.
and for sharing your friends with us, too!
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Mini Peppermint and Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes Recipe. 3-2-1 Funfetti Cake Batter Dip. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles. Oh.
My. God. If you could take perfection, roll it in a ball, and dip it chocolate, this would be it. I'm not joking here folks. I'd strongly advise you to put down the mouse and get your butt to the kitchen, stat. After-School Butterscotch Brownies | Recipes | NESTLÉ® Meals. These rich and chewy butterscotch brownies make for a special after-school treat.
Ingredients: 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour1 teaspoon baking powder1/2 teaspoon salt1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened3/4 cup packed SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend1 tablespoon vanilla extract2 large eggs1 2/3 cups (11-oz. pkg.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Butterscotch Flavored Morsels, divided1/2 cup chopped pecans. Pumpkin Oatmeal Scotchies. I go pumpkin crazy every fall.
I can't help myself. There are so many fantastic pumpkin recipes to fit in. Oatmeal Scotchies | Recipes | NESTLÉ® Meals. The two ingredients which make these extraordinary cookies special are the combination of oats and butterscotch chips.
These Oatmeal Scotchies will disappear from your cookie jar in no time. Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour1 teaspoon baking soda1/2 teaspoon salt1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened3/4 cup granulated sugar3/4 cup packed brown sugar2 large eggs1 teaspoon vanilla extract or grated peel of 1 orange3 cups quick or old-fashioned oats1 2/3 cups (11-oz. pkg.)
NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Butterscotch Flavored Morsels. Easy Peasy} Chocolate Peanut Butter Bar. I've never been one for patience especially when it comes to making desserts.
I enjoy an amazingly decadent treat but usually it takes me way too long. When it doesn't come out I'm left with tears and nothing but a mess. Fruit with jelly in Recipes for babies, children and adults parties, such as birthdays, celebrations, anniversaries or dinners. Inside-Out Neapolitan Layer Cake. I have great news!
My temporary cake-diet, you know, the one during which I stopped eating cake, is over, and I've resumed my more permanent cake-diet, the one where all I think about and often indulge in cake. And, let me say, I ended it and restored order just in time: 3 layers of rich Southern Devil's Food Cake stacked between fluffy Neapolitan flavoured Swiss Meringue Buttercreams: Belgian Chocolate, Vanilla, and Strawberry, and topped with pure dark chocolate sprinkles from Holland. If you read the past post of mine, Neapolitan 5-Layer Birthday Cake with Strawberry Frosting, you'll recall that I adore Neapolitan. In that case, the cake itself was Neapolitan. The icing on the cake with salted butter caramel Macarons. Finalmente riesco a parlarvi del contest al quale facevo riferimento qualche post fa.
Si tratta di un concorso organizzato dalle Fattorie Fiandino in collaborazione con Sandra di Un tocco di zenzero e, come avrete già intuito, il protagonista è ancora una volta il burro 1889 salato. Alcuni di voi ricorderanno che per il precedente contest avevo preparato un gelato al caramello al burro salato. Questa volta, dopo le iniziali esitazioni, ho scelto di seguire l'istinto ed utilizzare il burro salato per fare dei macarons. Si, in effetti ci voleva solo un concorso, unito alle vostre numerosissime richieste, per spingermi a rifare i macarons dopo il fallimento dell'ultima volta.
E pensare che mi ero ripromessa di non farne più fino a quando non avrei cambiato forno. Chocolate caramel shortbread bars. Non so perchè ma sono convinta che il soggetto di questo post dividerà i lettori della ciliegina, staremo a vedere.
Intanto vi avviso, se siete messi maluccio con il colesterolo o siete semplicemente dei salutisti convinti, beh, questo post ad altissimo contenuto di calorie non fa decisamente per voi, e credo basti la foto per farsene un'idea. Scommetto che i golosi incalliti invece saranno felicissimi di trovare questa bella "botta di vita" sottoforma di dolcetto :-) Io stessa ho indugiato a lungo su questo lussuriosissimo dolce, lo ammetto, del resto un dolce che viene comunemente chiamato The millionaire's shortbread fa anche un po'paura, no?
Per essere ricco è ricco, non vi dico di no, ma quando fuori fa freddo, piove o c'è la nebbia, bisognerà pur concedersi un piccolo vizio?! Ovviamente è un dolce che va mangiato a piccolissime dosi, almeno per me, e magari non dopo un pasto sostanzioso, ma tanto che ve lo dico a fare? Blueberry Cream Cheese Butter Cake. At a party for Noodles who is my friend Esther's youngest, I had a blueberry cake that was utterly moist and delightful.
Shame on me for not realizing the key ingredient that made it so different until someone mentioned it out loud. It was cream cheese. It was not dense like a cheesecake and not dry or crumbly like a regular cake. It was just perfect. You can imagine what googling "blueberry" and "cream cheese" would have resulted in. Summer Recipe: No-Bake Strawberry Icebox Cake | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn. See this?
This is such an easy dessert. It looks a little fancy, doesn't it? Don't be put off. It only takes a few ingredients, and it doesn't even involve turning on the oven. I am a huge fan of icebox cakes (I even wrote a book about them!). Reese's Peanut Butter Cheesecake Bars. You don't even need me to tell you these are good, do you? Sometimes you just read the name of something and you know it's going to be good. That's how I felt about these. I wasn't wrong. Babble - {Grapefruit Cupcakes with Honeyed Italian Meringue Buttercream}
One thing that I really like about college is that, for the most part and in the best way possible, no one knows anyone else. No one knows who you were in third grade, and no one cares. No one cares about the once infamous "popular kids" or all "popular things" they used to do. How to Make Sugar Cookies That Look Like Ice Cream. Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » in the kitchen with: spike mendelsohn's milkshake. We thought that in the height of the July heat, to accompany your outdoor parties, you might like a very cold treat. To satisfy that craving, Top Chef favorite Spike Mendelsohn has offered us a recipe for an Almond Joy milkshake. (Well, for you non-Americans, an Almond Joy is a Bounty with one whole almond in it, and for the Americans in the crowd, a Bounty is a Mounds! Ah how intriguing is international candy bar language!)
Chocolate Rum Cake. Share this image Share It Pin It I made my first frosted classic cake a month ago and it was one of the better things I've ever baked, but it took a lot of time to get just right. Chocolate Chip Oreo Cookies. {Food Dish} Cookie Recipe Contest Winner + Recipe. Deluxe Stuffed Rice Krispies Treats. Margarita Cupcakes « Good-bye Gluten. Cadbury creme egg inside a cupcake and butter brickle cupcake by Zoey Cakes. Cupcakes Take The Cake: Cadbury creme egg inside a cupcake and butter brickle c. Creme Brulee French Toast Casserole. International Incident Party! (Boston Cream Pie Cake Pops)
Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars. Recipe Diaries » Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites. Lemon Cherry Scones with a Sense of Humor and a Purpose. Lemon Coconut Cupcakes. Buttery Cream Cheese Bars, Yum! Blue Velvet Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting. Lemon and Strawberry Cream Mini Cupcakes. Orange Creamsicle Cupcakes. French Toast Muffins and an Announcement! Chocolate and Peanut Butter Squares. Hil's Blog: PB and Chocolate Lovers Only. Margarita Ice Pops. If I can change, then anyone can change. I promise on we heart it / visual bookmark #2279362. Marshmallow Frosting. S'mores Candy Bars. SoNo Cheesecake. Saltine Cracker Toffee. Brownie Cookie Dough Sandwiches. Sea Salt Caramel Brownies… Cake Batter Truffles. Mango Berry Macarons.
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"No matter: with words, the Other reappears."
"Qui est là? Qui est là?"
"Ché Coco, Ché Coco."
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David Fromkin
Holt Paperbacks
Published with a new afterword from the author—the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created
The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts—including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects—are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War.
In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time, showing how the choices narrowed and the Middle East began along a road that led to the conflicts and confusion that continue to this day.
A new afterword from Fromkin, written for this edition of the book, includes his invaluable, updated assessment of this region of the world today, and on what this history has to teach us.
"One of the first books to take an effective panoramic view of what was happening, not only in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and the Arab regions of Asia but also in Afghanistan and central Asia....Readers will come away from A Peace to End All Peace not only enlightened but challenged—challenged in a way that is brought home by the irony of the title."—The New York Times Book Review
The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
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Expedia Review
Expedia is a huge UK based online travel company. As such you can find a lot of information, advice and holiday ideas on their website. It offers a huge range of functions and features that are extremely useful for anyone who is thinking about travelling abroad.
Do you need to book a flight, car hire or a hotel perhaps? No problem – Expedia can take care of all of these for you. But they can also provide a lot of information on other things too, including ideas for destinations and activities to do once you get there.
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It couldn't be easier here is the link you need - Expedia.
What does the site offer?
Pretty much anything you could ever want when it comes to sorting out your holiday!
It's an amazing site and everything is tabbed at the top of the site to make it easy to figure out where you need to go and what you want to do. Only need to book a hotel? That's easy enough – but you can easily go for a flight and a hotel or even a complete package holiday if you like. You'll find all the tabs just where you need them, which is perfect.
There is even a feature called the "inspiroscope" that allows you to select keywords from a soothing background of blue skies to try to inspire you to find a destination that is right for you. This is great if you really don't know where you want to go on holiday.
Expedia wants to be a one-stop-shop for individuals seeking to arrange their holidays or travels. It even caters for corporations arranging their business travel. And it manages to do all that and more.
You don't just get standard flights and charters, as an online specialist they are able to offer exceptionally short dated deals where you can pick up some real bargains.
Check the home page for the latest links to the latest deals. Check out their lists of Top Tens too – this popular section might even inspire you to try somewhere different on holiday next time! And don't forget the hotel reviews either.
What is their currency converter like?
Compared to the main pages, and especially compared to the colourful inspiroscope, the currency conversion page is very modest. It is purely functional, but it doesn't really need to be anything but functional. It has a simple job to do and it does it well.
The converter itself is very easy to use. The easiest way to get to it is to click on the link which takes you to the site map. This link can be found just underneath that blue bar at the top of any page you are on. You'll see it written on the right hand side, at the beginning of that line of information. Strangely enough, the currency converter appears in the centre of the page for the site map, right underneath all the guides. No worries though – it's super easy to find.
Leaving the units box containing the number 1 will give you the straight exchange rate between most currencies, but if you have a specific amount you'd like to exchange (e.g. 400 USD) enter the number of units (400) in the units box.
Next choose your "currency to convert from" in the drop down list of the same name. Then choose your "currency to convert to" using the second drop down list. Finally click "display the results" to see the conversion rates.
The results do not display the cross rates, only the exchange rate from and to as requested, not the inverse. It is worth noting that the exchange rates quoted are the approximate tourist rates you can expect to receive.
None of the currencies listed - or their results - are displayed along with the 3 letter international currency code.
The currencies were able to convert from major to minor, minor to major and even minor to minor. This means that no matter what you want to know – or which far flung place you might want to visit – the Expedia currency converter is top dog when it comes to helping you out.
You'll find it by using this link.
Supposing I need some help and advice – can they help me with that?
Absolutely – go for the customer support link at the top of the page and you'll find the answers to plenty of different questions.
There is also a handy phone number on the home page so you can easily call them up and ask anything to help you book the trip of your dreams. You won't be stuck with nothing more than an email address.
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Expedia really does provide everything you need. If you want help choosing the best holiday, it can do that for you. The website can answer most of your questions or provide support for those it can't answer straightaway.
It is not only useful, it is also accessible and enables you to easily open your own account with the site to make it even easier to use in future. While Expedia does offer package holidays they are experts at providing the chance to book exactly the right type of holiday you need and want.
As such Expedia gets a great rating from us! It is no surprise that Expedia is one of the first names to come to mind when you want to book something online. It has earned that reputation and has the best website to back it up with.
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Expedia definitely gets a five out of five rating. It has everything you could want and it manages to make it all super easy to access too. And with additional quirky features like the inspiroscope, you really can't go wrong – even if you have no idea where you want to go when you arrive on this holiday website!
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When Gods People Lose
When Gods People Lose
Being defeated in the kingdom of God is much more serious than losing a ball game. Its a wake-up call to the fact that something is very wrong on a deeper level. The children of Israel were taught that lesson at a little place called Ai, where they learned a thing or two about sin, in particular that it:
If we were among the children of Israel, having just witnessed the collapse of the walls of Jericho and the utter destruction of that civilization, that little city-state, we would have been the most surprised of all at what would await us up the hill at Ai. It would have astounded us.
Youve read Joshua 7. This, by the way, is not the episode they write songs about because fresh from an overwhelming victory in Jericho, Gods people were whipped at Ai. They were shamefully defeated. Were going to discuss those first nine verses of Joshua 7.
Some of you will remember film footage from years ago that introduced ABCs Wide World of Sports where the contrast was graphically struck between the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. In my minds eye, I can still vividly see that poor unnamed individual who evidently caught an edge just at the lip of a competitive ski jump and went off kind of sideways, one of those deals where he crashed and took out a bunch of markers and then was up and you think for just a split second . . . then down again. The agony of defeat, as whoever that was went tumbling in a certain amount of disgrace I would guess.
In terms of normal competition, and in our culture, its everywhere, being defeated or being whipped on could be attributed to a number of factors. We can lose a ball game simply by having an off day. We can be outnumbered and lose a contest, or overwhelmed, or outmaneuvered, or out-thought, out-schemed. We can lose by being cocky, being favored to win and then entering a contest unprepared. We can be out of shape, we can be careless, we can be a lot of things. We can lose the game, theres always a loser and theres always a winner and very, very few people can even remember who won the last two or three Super Bowls because that kind of thing doesnt necessarily stick with us for life.
Its not so at Ai. In this case, were not playing a ball game. Its not so when God has clearly spoken, when God has guaranteed He would do His part, when God has provided a mandate, and when God has issued the marching orders. If after all of that we are defeated, theres much deeper and much more serious reason as the children of Israel found out in this episode long ago.
We need a little bit of background. Lets picture the Jordan River valley. Not too far north of the Dead Sea sat this little town of Jericho, the fortress. The next strategic obstacle facing Gods people in their divide and conquer strategy was to march up onto the ridge route, the hills of Ephraim, and then conquer south and then conquer north. Its fairly standard military strategy.
Standing at the crossroads though, that north southeast west route was this little town of Ai. Not much of a place, but had to be dealt with before they could move either north or south from the middle of the country. It had geographic, strategic significance and by the way, just thinking in terms of the amount of effort that would go into something like this, probably depending on which way the road would wind, 10 to 15 road miles would separate Jericho from Ai, probably 3700 feet of elevation, however.
So picture a strenuous climb from the valley to the top. Jericho is about 850 feet below sea level and Ai is about 2700 feet above. So its a considerable climb, but geographically, strategically, is secondary to what has to be on the minds of Gods people regarding the theological position that theyre in.
Ai was no insignificant place. Im going to read a couple passages, one from Genesis 12 and the other from Genesis 13, just to set the background for whats about to happen. Because whats about to happen is a tragedy of the first order, not just because the Israelites got beat, but because of the way it should have gone.
Genesis 12:6-8
6 Abram passed
through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was
then in the land.
This place now has spiritual significance. We have a pile of stones, an alter signifying a promise of God that He has guaranteed, this belongs to your people. I will give it to you.
Genesis 13:3 says, Abram went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai. God then speaks to him. By the way, this is where Abraham and Lot had a falling out, and Abram says theres not enough space for you and me and all of our stuff, so you choose. Lot looked to the east and looked down on the Jordan and he saw the green and he saw the water and he saw the vegetation and said, Ill go there. Abram said, Fine.
Genesis 13:14
The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him.
Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, (Theyre
standing right near Ai.) northward and southward and eastward and westward; for
all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever.
Strategically, militarily, geographically, but so important -- theologically you might say, they should never, ever have lost at Ai.
Back to Joshua. We know why they lost. Were going to survey these verses and were going to see what happens when sin is in the camp, what we might call the disastrous influence of sin as it affects the institutions, even those God has set up.
When Gods people go down in shame, in any arena -- personally, domestically, in the home, in the family, in the business, socially, relationally -- whenever God has set something up and provided the instruction and the resources and the accountability, and Gods people still bite the dust, the problem is not with God. The problem is with Gods people and the problem is sin.
Were not talking about disasters that come in life. Were not talking about the trials and the tests that come our way. Were talking about times when the problem is us.
Lets look at these verses. Were going to talk about these various principles, how sin weighs in on the defeat of Gods people.
1. Sin involves more than me (7:1)
Achan stole things that were Gods, hid them in his tent. He thought perhaps that this was a personal issue. No big deal. Just me and maybe one or two others.
They did wrong. His anger is with them. Something seems to be wrong with the picture. Achan stole. Why is it that God would be upset with everybody? There are a couple ways of looking at that, that I would suggest. One is that Achan probably was not the only one who knew. Well talk more specifically about Achans theft in a week or two. I dont know how you could pack all that home, dig a hole in your tent floor, and bury it with no one else knowing about it. Its very difficult to imagine in a community this crowded.
In all likelihood others knew. His family knew. But no big deal, thats Achans problem. Let him speak for himself. We just wont worry about it; we just wont deal with it. Thats one side of it. Maybe thats the side thats a little easier for us to lay hold of; but theres another side that goes like this: When God ordains an institution and He has ordained several -- marriage and family, the church, national government -- Scripture bears these out. It seems according to Scripture, when God ordains an institution, part of belonging to that institution goes with it corporate liability. What affects one affects all.
In our culture thats difficult to grasp. We are the nation of rugged individualists, but in Gods economy its not that way. He much more readily identifies the individual with the group. For instance, an individuals behavior in the home affects the whole home, the whole family, or his church or his society or his business.
Paul addresses the Corinthian church in the New Testament in I Corinthians 5 because there were some immoral relationships being carried on in that church between a man and a woman and nobody seemed to care. So Paul said, Youd better deal with this. Dont you know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? And so God has a way of dealing with the lump. You say, Well, that doesnt sound very fair. On a broader scale, realize that the Bible teaches in Adams sin the entire race is tainted and has fallen. We think, Thats not right. I wasnt there. I would have stopped him. I would have done something. Look what Adam did, bringing this curse upon the whole race.
Some would say, If you or I had been there, we would have behaved the same way. In all likelihood thats true. And we may think, God isnt doing it fairly here. In Gods economy its perfectly right. By the way, you werent there either, nor was I, when Jesus died on the cross for our sins and yet were more than happy to be included in His saving work
He represents those who are His on the cross. Thats good news. We love corporate identity in salvation, we wonder about it, however, in judgment. In this point, however, it is very clear, more than just Achan is affected. And folks, Im sure you dont need me to tell you thats true with us as well. Our behavior affects other people in a rippling sort of way, in a generational sort of way whether we think it does or not.
2. Sin ignores normal
calculations (7:2)
2. Sin ignores normal calculations (7:2)
Verse 1 is kind of in a parenthesis, telling us whats happened, telling us that Gods upset. Verse 2:
They made their way there. They secretly went around doing their reconnoitering, checked things out, probably took some notes, paced a few things off, made careful study of the topography of the land, maybe even captured somebody and said, Tell us whats going on inside. We dont know what they did, but they went up there and they checked it out. You would think that with such careful planning in advance, forethought, that they would have a victory waiting for them.
Theyre not just charging in there blind, theyve looked things over. Everything is completely penciled out. Almost everything. They just didnt seek God.
Statistically, it should work. Theoretically we should be fine. Weve done our homework. Even in the case of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5 where they had it kind of worked out. Were going to sell this land, they said. And were going to say were giving the entire sale to the apostles, but were going to keep back some for ourselves. They were condemned for that, they were judged for that. Not for the holding back, but for the lying about it.
At face value, the calculations would have worked just fine. They did the math, they figured it out. We give this much, we keep this much. No problem. What did do, however, is account for Gods weighing in on the issue. And neither do we see that here with Joshua scoping out Ai.
Even a business plan, for instance, on how to start or maintain a business or some sort of enterprise can pencil out beautifully. The resources can line up, the personnel can be there, marketing issues can be taken care of. But I would suggest that if such a plan is motivated by greed or something else that would run contrary to the character or God, that the plan is already in jeopardy, even though it pencils out just fine.
3. Sin often includes presumption (7:3)
They sent spies out to look at Jericho, now theyre sending spies out to look at Ai and the spies return to Joshua.
Bible scholars estimate there may have been ten to twelve thousand residents of Ai, of whom only a certain percentage would be fighting force. So theyre counting on a lesser fighting force than they had at Jericho and they know that its in the bag. So they say to Joshua, Dont let all the people go up. Why should everybody have to hike that hill? Only about two or three thousand to go up and take Ai, dont make everyone toil up the hill. Theres just a few of them.
What do we read? We read presumption, which seems to me to be basically automatic when God isnt consulted. If we dont take the time to dial God into our plans in a serious, contemplative, focused fashion, we will proceed in presumption. Well just figure Hell be there and everything will work out. And thats exactly what we see these folks doing long ago.
Theres just a few of them and they havent read the Bible far enough because Judges hasnt been written yet. But Gideon only needed a few. Since when does a few matter to God? He does great things with just a few over and over and over again. So they are being quite presumptuous.
There are a couple passages that I suggest you make note of out of Proverbs, which give us a little bit of insight as we look at these folks from long ago, but we need to look at us too.
Proverbs 14:12 says, Theres a way which seems right to a man but its end is the way of death.
Mere human calculation isnt necessarily enough. Looks right, feels right above all else, must be right. No, not necessarily.
Proverbs 28:26 says, It is a fool who trusts in his own heart. There is a way which seems right but look down to verse 16, A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil but a fool is arrogant and careless.
Now we may think, A wise man, thats a guy who is smart and a fool is an idiot. No, these are Biblically defined terms. A wise man is any individual who orders his world around the presence of God. God is relevant to the wise man. God is the focal point of the wise mans life. God makes the rules for the wise man, his life is ordered around the rule of God. A fool isnt necessarily a dumb person or someone with a certain I.Q. A fool is someone who does not order his or her life around the centrality of God.
And so it makes sense if a fool is going to do this, a fool will be arrogant and careless. Why not? We might even say presumptuous because if God is not in the equation, lets go. What does it matter? Our friends from the book of Joshua would certainly point to this verse and say, Theres something to this.
4. Sin identifies winners and losers (7:4)
We are individuals who function in the win loss column. We understand that. People get uneasy with things like cold war d�tente. Whos winning? People want to know. With gradual withdrawals and things like that, its not that way in Scripture The scoreboard never lies and its never vague. When one or more of Gods people bites the dust, when theres shameful failure and defeat, it shows. People know it.
It wasnt too many weeks
ago I read in the paper of an incident of alleged immorality in another community in
Montana. Headlined was Ministers son accused. Had this boys Dad
been a farmer, plumber, anything, it wouldnt have made the headline. When Gods
people hit hard, its evidence shows. We may think, Nobody wins. We talk
about the fifty percent of Christian homes being divorced homes, broken homes and people
say, Thats terrible, thats just like the world. In some polls
its actually worse than the non-Christian polls.
It wasnt too many weeks ago I read in the paper of an incident of alleged immorality in another community in Montana. Headlined was Ministers son accused. Had this boys Dad been a farmer, plumber, anything, it wouldnt have made the headline. When Gods people hit hard, its evidence shows. We may think, Nobody wins. We talk about the fifty percent of Christian homes being divorced homes, broken homes and people say, Thats terrible, thats just like the world. In some polls its actually worse than the non-Christian polls.
You hear, Everybody loses. Well, not everybody loses. The devil wins. You see, theres a winners bracket and a losers bracket when Gods people hit the dirt. The devil wins, the world wins, at least in their own eyes, those who rejoice when Christians have problems. They love it. They thrive on it. They win. We need to be careful about the win lose thing. its there.
When Gods people say, Oh they only have about 3,000. Thats a lot. Three thousand is a fairly good-sized troop. And when theyre running down the hill from the men of Ai, everybody knows who just won and who just lost.
5. Sin inflicts pain, loss, discouragement and fear (7:5)
Sin inflicts pain and loss and discouragement and fear every time, always. Romans 6:23 says, The wages of sin is death. Event single time and theres no way around it. Its the way our fallen world is. Until the Lord returns and sets it right, this equation is here to stay.
Shebarim is the deep, steep cliff country. They took them right to the edge. Ill bet there were Israelites tripping and falling when they hit the steep ground. Id have been one of them. Those people from Ai -- can you see them -- theyre waving their spears and swords and theyre taunting Gods people whove been given this land. And the devil is somewhere going. Yeah, this is great! Gods people just lost.
They were not only struck down, they were pursued. The hearts of the people melted. They became as water. We have problems now, dont we? Thirty-six funerals, thirty-six families, thirty-six widows. Because when sin is in the camp, theres a price tag and its serious. This price tag can be both physical and emotional as the verse tells us.
We have lost and now weve lost heart too. The hearts of the people melted and became as water. We dont want to do this any more. Can you imagine if youre among them? Whats going on? Confusion. How could this go wrong? What a mess. And theyre thinking, If this is what Ai is like, I can hardly wait to get to Hebron or some of those places where there are real armies. Were in trouble.
Isnt it interesting how defeat just takes the wind out of our sails? And so frequently we think, I cant go on. I cant keep trying. Its not worth it. And thats exactly where these people are. Its hard to try again once weve bit the dust.
6. Sin ignites our spiritual passion (7:6)
The camera shifts now to Joshua. Hes the leader. Hes the one who took over from Moses. All eyes are on Joshua, and they should be. He is the one before God who is responsible.
Sin should ignite our spiritual passion, it better ignite our spiritual passion. If we can go down in flames, having grieved the heart of God and created all kinds of damage and mayhem and have a heart that doesnt care, we have a serious, an eternally serious spiritual problem going on. Joshua is a believer. He has the spirit of God. He knows what the Bible says; he knows what should have happened. He did almost everything he was supposed to do to make sure something like this didnt happen and now hes surrounded by corpses and grieving people and angry and upset hoards.
Whats he to do? He does the right thing. He takes the first step toward recovery following a, fall; and that is, he goes to God. He is stirred in his spirit. Hes whipped, hes down, hes discouraged, hes confused, but hes going to the right place for help and hes doing it in all sincerity with torn garments, with dust on his head and in company of his leadership team. Hes seeking God with everything that he has.
Hes doing the very best thing he could do. This is what David did when hes caught in his sin with Bathsheba. Read Psalm 32, read Psalm 51. David went to his face when confronted with his sin. Isnt it interesting who isnt repenting at this point? The perpetrator.
What an interesting contrast, at least here, between Achan and Joshua. If we were Achan we would be falling apart. It doesnt say he was, it doesnt say he wasnt, but they had to go find him, as we will learn. Joshua is on his face before God. Achan seems still to be holding out. Its a bad, bad indicator spiritually. If we get ourselves in trouble like this, if we face defeat and we arent turning to God, were not caring.
A friend of mine did years and years of youth work in the same area, working with families on into more than one generation. There was one gal in particular who was raised in a solid Christian family and yet who reached a certain point in life and began to throw off the traces, go her own way and brought upon herself and into her familys life and eventually into the church all kinds of grief and trouble.
This youth worker told me once that she left him a note on the steering wheel of his car. It said something like this, I know Im causing trouble, but I dont care. And I dont care that I dont care and thats what scares me.
If we dont care, if we want to take the bit in our mouths and run and create our own problems and grief and take our own way -- fine, but it better bother us. It better twist us hard on the inside and bring us to our faces before God, or else theres every likelihood our heart isnt soft at all anyway.
There are times, perhaps every time, that the only redeeming side of shameful defeat is the recovery God brings about on the other side. And He will.
7. Sin always infects our judgment and perspective (7:7)
Sin always infects our perspective, messes up our point of view. Joshua said:
Folks, this is Joshua! Joshua, be very strong and very courageous. The Lord your God is with you wherever you go. This is Joshua who has the Bible. This is Joshua who crossed the Red Sea. This is Joshua with a direct mandate from God. Hes all confused now.
I would suggest that this is an all time low for this brother. He knows why God brought them across. He understands. But now that hes in the midst of this defeat, hes not thinking straight and hes asking the wrong questions. Hes asking from the right posture and, by the way, because his heart is broken, even though hes asking the wrong questions, God is going to give him the right answers. God is going to fix it.
But for now, hes not thinking clearly. And thats why we need so badly the perspective of God and the accountability and counsel of Gods people when were in the midst of these issues. We dont think well then. We arent objective. We dont have all the facts. Our emotions ball us up and we get confused as is happening here.
The reason thats so is fairly simple. Joshua has taken his eyes off the Lord. Hes looking around, hes looking at his circumstances, hes looking at his own position, hes seeing that hes under pressure, hes under the gun, hes under the light and hes wondering, Where in the world could God be?
God hasnt gone anywhere. The root of sin is always self, always. My self-centeredness, my desires, something to do with myself. And when were in sin we somehow manage to put self at the center rather than God. And now that everything is falling apart on him, he has no answers in self. And hes coming to see that.
When our eyes and our values and our faith are on ourselves, everything is messed up. Now the good news is that God will adjust it. His Word holds the principle, his Spirit has the power. Hell adjust it. But for right now, Joshua is registering his confusion in his defeat. When we get on into verse 10, well see God basically unpacking Joshuas suitcase and fixing him.
Our perspective is always adversely affected by sin.
8. Sin invites a wrong view of God (7:8-9)
Finally, verses 8 and 9. Sin, on the part of Gods people, always misrepresents God. Joshua prays:
I thought we were supposed to whip them! And now weve turned our backs and run from them. O Lord, this is so bad, this is so wrong, this is so confusing.
9 " For the
Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and they will surround us
and cut off our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?"
The promise was, remember Abraham -- look north, south, east, west, its all going to your descendants. Oh really? Well, were looking east and running that direction too. Where does God weigh in on this? And Joshuas concern is accurate. What will the surrounding nations say? What will they think? How will that register in the great name of God?
God covets and is jealous for his reputation but hes perfectly capable of vindicating his own reputation. He will do that. Nevertheless He calls His people to represent Him well and Joshua has made that connection. Lord, we havent represented you very well and now all the people are going to get the wrong idea.
The fundamental issue here, and Joshua has put his trembling finger on it -- do Gods people represent Him well or do they represent Him as just being like all the other options. Remember when the armies of Assyria threatened Jerusalem and the prophet was Isaiah and the king was Hezekiah and the Assyrian army sent an envoy to Jerusalem to try to get them to surrender.
As they stood before them and Hezekiah is up on the wall and all the people were listening to these threatening words of this mighty, horribly vicious, heathen empire, the Assyrians, and the envoy is saying, Who do you people think you are? Have any of the gods of any of the other people weve ever come up against been able to help them, protect them from us? No. And neither will your god be able to.
In other words, the heathen nation, the Assyrians in that case, saw Yahweh, the God of Israel, as just like all the other ones. What are the options in our society? Oh, there are many. They may be religious, they may be humanistic, they may be utterly secular, they may be philosophical, they may be a lot of things. Folks, one thing that Gods people need to be careful is inasmuch as lieth within us, we need to represent the God of the Bible as the Bible represents Him.
This is where Joshua is concerned. He is the God who makes and keeps His promises. That promise business is what Joshua has called into question. Isnt this our land? And what he will learn is the very next verse is, Joshua, the problem isnt Me. The problem is in your camp and you have to deal with it. Whether they lived back in these days in 1300 B.C. or A.D. 2003, it doesnt matter. Sin always brings these things on.
In a fallen world, thats a given. Jesus said, In the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
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In Praise of the Guardian: Finding strengths in Nick Clegg
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Today the Guardian writes NHS shakeup: From malignant to muddled and outlines the difference Clegg has made in government. It shows some strengths for Clegg which are worth highlighting:
Nick Clegg is making a real difference. These are not common words to read these days, and yet they are becoming hard to dispute with the stalled English health reforms. It is true that the deputy prime minister would be better placed to claim credit if he had not initially nodded Andrew Lansley's bill through, and true, too, that not all the sweeping concessions he now demands fit with the scepticism about the NHS he has sometimes shown in the past. Nonetheless, Mr Clegg has responded decisively to his party's democratic will, and is training his sights on the heart of the Lansley plans.


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Last month, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force urged death penalty opponents to ask the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board to recommend clemency in the case of Wanda Jean Allen, who was sentenced to death for the shooting death of her lesbian lover. On Dec. 15, 2000, the board voted against granting clemency. (Details on the case are provided below.)
Without a favorable recommendation from the board, Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating does not have the ability to grant clemency, but he does have the power to postpone the execution for 60 days. A stay in the case would give Allen's attorneys valuable time to find other ways to halt her execution and may give the Oklahoma Legislature an opportunity to vote on HB 1013, legislation that would impose a one-year moratorium on executions in the state. Beginning on January 4, 2001, nine executions in 30 days are scheduled in the state.
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After two years of being involved in a violent relationship, Allen, an African-American lesbian, admitted to shooting her partner, Gloria Leathers, on Dec. 1, 1989 just outside Oklahoma City. On Dec. 5, 2000, NGLTF along with several other GLBT organizations issued a statement calling upon the Pardon and Parole Board and Gov. Keating to grant clemency to Allen. The groups urged clemency in her case both because of opposition to the death penalty and because of questions that have been raised regarding whether Allen received a fair trial. If she had been granted clemency, Allen would have served a life sentence in the Oklahoma State prison system.
Allen's attorney failed to investigate fully Allen's background showing that she has an IQ of 80 and has neurological problems that cause her to lose control in stressful situations - factors that were not introduced into court. In addition, according to a review of court records, prosecutors attempted to use Allen's sexual orientation and her relationship with her partner to prejudice the jury against her.
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