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he Christmas holidays for most people are filled with the joy and excitement of presents, Christmas trees, meals, family and friends.
But for some, the holidays can be a sad and depressing time filled with broken relationships, loneliness and pain. Hearing other people talk about the joy of the season does not go over well with those facing shattered dreams which have overshadowed life and stolen joy.
The brokenness of divorce, abuse, anxiety, grief, marital infidelity or addictions can hit people like a train. Memories of being abused, hurtful words and the lonely darkness of depression can debilitate with tsunami-like destruction.
As discouragement increases, it is easy to react and blame others for the pain, joylessness and emptiness of life. This is when the dense fog of hopelessness sets in. It becomes increasingly more difficult to recognize encouragement, to be comforted, to experience hope, to feel love or to find anything good in this season.
When this happens, what can we do? Where can we turn? Who can help us find the hope and joy of the Christmas season again?
The fact is no one can get out of this darkness alone. God made people for community. And it is in community where people find the ability to work on the struggles of life and find help, healing and hope.
The first step out of this holiday dark place is to recognize help is needed to deal with past hurts, hang-ups and habits. Issues and problems in life should not be allowed to become the definition of who someone is. I have seen many people move away from holiday despair and the circumstances of their lives by allowing the Gospel of Jesus to transform them. This kind of life change and freedom from the struggles, brokenness and pain happens on a regular basis every Monday night at 6 in Celebrate Recovery at Severns Valley Baptist Church.
Attending CR is the first courageous step anyone can take to begin the walk out of the dark cloud of the past and into a new beginning. This journey is a Christ-centered, biblically based approach to dealing with any and all the struggles of life. At CR there are people who have struggled or are struggling with life, too.
These people have found their hope-filled identity in Christ and receive encouragement from one-another on this journey. Attendees begin to find healing from their pasts as they forgive others, ask for forgiveness and forgive themselves. Depression begins to be lifted and real hope starts to break through like a new sunrise.
This journey of change and recovery is not an easy journey, but it is well worth the personal effort it takes to find desperately desired help, healing and hope. The heaviness of life will begin to lift and look much different as attendees grow in Christ and find new ways to relate to those in their lives.
If the holiday difficulties described above are like looking into the mirror, I hope you will find yourself driving to Severns Valley Baptist Church on Monday evenings for Celebrate Recovery. At CR there is help, hope and healing for the hurts, hang-ups and habits people have experienced. Those who attend will meet others who have dealt with every struggle imaginable, even the hurts and issues they are facing. All of us at Celebrate Recovery will walk with one another on the road to recovery.
Confidentiality and anonymity are very important in our meetings and we are not at CR to fix one another.
Fixing is the work of Christ in our individual lives in community. He is the one who helps us find healing in relationships, freedom from a broken past and hope for a renewed future through encouragement, friendship, faith and his word. I challenge all who read these words to take this first step of coming to Celebrate Recovery.
It will begin a journey of walking away from the sadness holidays may bring. And it will enable you to grab hold of the hope, joy and expectation which only Christ can bring to your life.
Dr. Ray Hicks is associate pastor for MemberCare at Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown.
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The British Army's senior legal chief, Lt. Colonel Nicholas Mercer, expressed concerns about the death of Iraq civilians while under control of British troops as long ago as in 2003. Hies repeated warnings were ignored at "all levels" of the government and military. In May, 2003, just as the invasion of Iraq had wiped out large sections of the Iraq Army, Col. Mercer wrote expressing his concern that "there have recently been a number of deaths in custody where Iraqi civiilians have died while being held by various units in theater." This was a year before the alleged execution of 20 prisoners by British troops which was publicly revealed this past week.
Colonel Meercer tried to put into place a detention policy based on one praised by the UN in East Timor that was to be overseen by a UK judge but it was "consistently blocked." He also met resistence to his argument the Geneva Convention should apply to prisoners "at every level.. both political and legal."
The usual response to such charges is although a few hundred thousand soldiers served in Iraq there has only been a handful of cases in which brutality has been claimed. Of course, that same argument could be made about any prison in the world. Abuse is abuse and it can not be allowed by members of armed forces.

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Fiance did training on Sat
Well fiance did his first training on Saturday. The trainer had a martingale on her which he held, and fiance had one which he also held. Did "come to heel", several walks up and down consisting of right turns and left turns and place and stay at place. MJ listened to him quite well, even staying at place. He also had her in "down" position for a bit. Since the whole family watches the training, it wasn't until my son, his gf and my grandson got there that MJ started acting up a slight bit. She was sitting at heel position and then got up and moved about a foot away from fiance and sat back down. And once, she growled at him .... trainer felt that was because her "possie" was there now and she felt she no longer needed to listen to him. But it went well. Trainer taught my son how to help fiance at home and how to follow along with the other leash.
As to what MJ would do if she could get to these 2 family members, I am not sure. I am hestitant to take a chance. She has gotten to fiance, and he has pet her, but then she nips ... nothing like a vicious bite or anything. My little one is petrified and would probably scream and run, which would not be a good scenario, so we won't have that happen. Trainer said he will work with her and MJ when the time is right also.
MJ had her third group session with my son on Sunday, and she did great yet again! The trainer is really impressed on how good she is doing.
My son took her to the vet today for her booster shots. He took her to our vet who has been the family vet for many years ... Vet gave her two shots but refused to examine her and berated my son saying she needs training .... my son said she has really improved. I didn't like the attitude of him ... not all dogs like vets and shots, especially not a 10 mo puppy. I gotta find a new one....
my only issue with her is her barking/lunging
Try this......
Dog is leashed, sitting and ready to heel. Have one of the lunge victims approach the dog. Before the dog can lunge take a left at heel and do a circle back to the lunge victim, not a right it will let the dog complete the lunge. You have to beat the dog to the punch, timing is everything. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
It helped me in the past. If you try it I would be curious to know if it works for you.
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I don't have any words of wisdom for you, but will say this, I commend you for all the training you and your family are going thru!! KUDOS to you all.
I think it's a great idea that the trainer is doing one one with each member and moving them on to group classes..
I really hope you'll update us on how it goes with your fiance, it will be interesting!
Has your fiance or daughter tried ignoring her , and tossing her treats/food, at the same time, when she's barking/lunging at them?
What do you think or has she done, if she could "get to them", during one of her barking/lunging episodes?
No expert here, but I woud continue on with this trainer and see how things progress
I think she's trying to play with them with the feet biting.
Did you look at --> http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...s-puppies.html
Cause if you worked on the 'engagement' training, with a tug toy (to replace the feet toys), and some trick/clicker training you may refocus her to do GOOD and that you are more a leader in her life.
She needs TONS of crazy out and out play in her life at this age. Miles of exercise and running. A controlled life in the house or on a leash is going to cause her to WHOOHOO and act out with excess energy that plays out as crazy over the top behavior no one would want.
Watch the 2 last videos on the link above that I put up in February. Those are some things you can work on. FUN things. Things you DO want her to do. Any focus training will help (with treats/food/toys) cause when she's about to react, you can re-focus her back to you for the reward.
|I couldn't edit my last post .... during the first month she was ok with my fiance and my daughter, it wasn't until MJ took my daughter's bagel when she was eating then started play biting her feet and my daughter panicked that MJ started being this way toward her and same thing w/my fiance, they were fine until one day he was walking into another room, MJ started biting his feet, he tried to get her to stop and ever since then she reacts this way to him .... he can, however, go outside and pet/play with her and she is fine, as long as I'm not around .... my daughter won't even attempt it tho .... but when she is in the living room on a leash at place and told to stay, she lays down and stays and we all watch tv and interact around her, and she is fine ...
Thanks for your posts and words of wisdom. I really appreciate it.
1. When she INAPPROPRIATELY 'I've her her vicious bark at strangers,' how are you correcting that.
I have her on leash and give her a tug and tell her to "quiet" which she does, then I tell her to sit and stay which she does.
2. I am not thinking she is "protecting" me ... I know that is not the case, and I also don't like that she does it. I have a feeling the previous owners did not socialize her at all, and played very rough with her, and once she got a bit bigger and harder to control and a little scary to them, they got rid of her. She is about 10 months old, I hope that isn't too late to socialize her.
3. How do I show her everyone is "wonderful" ... that is where I am clueless and it still has not been addressed in training. Our trainer seems to think this is just her personality. I want her to know people and know they are ok.
4. Yes, our trainer wants her on leash all the time in the house until she is about 14 months old and earns the privilege of being off leash. I work full time but walk her for about half hour to 45 mins after I get home, she runs around in the yard with her balls/toys and the kids go out and play with her for over an hour a day. We have a long tether in the house and play tug o war with her and teach her to search out various toys. Plus she has training once or twice a week for over an hour and group class once or twice a week, same amount of time, plus my son walks her during the day and plays with her outside.
I could not watch the videos you suggested, but I can tell you she does follow the sit/stay/come/quiet commands, I make her sit and wait for her food, in a group of 10 other dogs/owners, she sits, stays, doesn't bark or act up and can be in a "stay" and then run down the field to me while all others are watching. She is fine with handshakes.
I have had german shepherds before, my last one passed away at 13 but the others were very friendly and this was not an issue so it's all new to me and I'm just trying to figure her out ....
I kind of don't know where to start.....
When she INAPPROPRIATELY 'I've her her vicious bark at strangers,' how are you correcting that.
Because if you are not.
If you, instead, are LOVING that your GSD is 'protecting' you.... then I don't think you are ever going to 'fix' the problem you think you have with family members.
Puppies, and you have a puppy. Have ZERO, I mean ZERO skills and abilities to ACCURATELY know friend from foe. They just don't.
So if YOU have not been showing them that everyone they meet, EVERYONE, is just wonderful... but instead been allowing your UNPREPARED puppy 'decide' scary strangers from not... then you have given permission for your puppy to disregard YOU and it's all up to them. So why are they going to listen to you when you say your fiance is ok?
Either you are in charge and your puppy knows EVERYONE is wonderful cause you say it is... or you are NOT in charge and you've given it over to your puppy to decide.
Your pup is NEVER off leash in the house with your fiance? How many miles/hours of exercise is she able to get? If you have a high drive intelligent bouncing off the walls pup then that may be adding to what you see too.
How far have you been able to go on any of this training? --> http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...s-puppies.html
Will she outgrow this behavior w/training and age?
OK, here goes …. I'm posting again …. Hopefully you all will have some words of wisdom for me. We have had our MJ (approximately 10 months old) in training for over 2 months now. She is making great progress and so are we. Our trainer trains one family member at a time, then when that family member is able to demonstrate they are able to control her and have the training down pat to be ready for the group class, then they and MJ go to group, and he starts training another member of the family.
So far, my sons and I have gone and we are all in group class now (different days), which includes stays, handshakes, etc. MJ does great. Does exactly as told with only minor corrections at times. We spoke with the trainer again last night after group. He said he sees no aggression in her whatsoever, and she behaved perfectly and under control in group which consists of about 10 other dogs/owners (all large breed, shepherd, rotties, pitbulls). Anyway, my only issue with her is her barking/lunging at two of my family members (my 11 yo daughter and fiancé). Our trainer says MJ is a big bully and will try to intimidate them into doing her bidding or her not suffering consequences of her action. It seems she loves scaring them, the more scared they get, the more she does it.
She has never bitten them, or anyone, but we don't let her get close enough. We can control her on leash, but I'm just really wondering if she will ever warm up to them and stop this behavior. Until she stops this, I can't see their fear subsiding (and my fiancé has a pitbull, so it's not like he's afraid of dogs). My fiancé is starting his training with MJ tomorrow, and our trainer says give it time, she doesn't see them as pack members/above her yet, and always treat her like she's in boot camp. We socialize her at home all the time. She stays at place and stops barking when we say "quiet". But if we turn our head and my fiancé goes into the other room, she's fine but when he comes back she gets her "stance" which almost seems like a play stance, she lunges and barks.
Sometimes I think maybe she thinks that how to play with them because when she sees them at a distance, she actually cries to get to them, but the closer they get, she barks...it's not a vicious bark, I've her her vicious bark at strangers, it's not like that. I don't know. We have had her 5 months, and she was 5 or 6 months old when we got her. We know nothing about her or her previous owners other than she had her shots and the previous owners were going to take her to the pound because they couldn't control her. Anyone have any thoughts? Will she grow past this? We love her and want this to work. Our trainer seems to think it will ....
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She earned her Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of California in Berkeley and the focus of her research is on the way emotions affect consumer decision making. This includes how consumers choose what charities to donate to, what brands of products to buy, and what stocks to invest in. Professor Strahilevitz has also published extensive work on cause-related marketing. Her research has been published in the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Business Research, Marketing Letters, the Journal of the American College of Radiology and the Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing.
She has been quoted over 200 times in the media including in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Advertising Age, Brand Week, Time Magazine, the US News and World Report, the Chicago Tribune, the LA times, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle Times, the Denver Post, the Christian Science Monitor, the Miami Herald, the Chicago Sunday Times, CNN.com, CNBC.com, MNSNBC.com and BusinessWorld India. She often appears as a marketing expert on both local and national television and radio programs. Michal blogs for Psychology Today.
- Consumer Decision Making
- The Psychology of Charitable Giving
- Cause-Related Marking
- Green Consumer Behavior
- Investor Psychology
- MBA (Marketing and International Business), Tel Aviv University
- M.Sc. (Business Administration), PhD (Marketing), University of California at Berkeley
- BA (Economics), University of Washington
- 2006 - Present: Associate Professor, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA
- 2001 - 2006: Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Arizona
- 1996 - 2000: Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Miami
- 1994 - 1996: Jointly appointed assistant professor of Advertising and of Marketing University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- The Power of Pink: Cause-Related Marketing and the Impact on Breast Cancer, Jennifer Harvey and Michal Strahilevitz, Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2009
- The Effects of Prior Impressions of a Firm's Ethics on the Success of a Cause-Related Marketing Campaign: Do the Good Look Better While the Bad Look Worse? Michal Strahilevitz, Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing, 2003.
- The Effects of Product Type and Donation Magnitude on Willingness to Pay More for a Charity-Linked Brand. Michal Strahilevitz, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 1999.
- The Effect of Ownership History on the Valuation of Objects. Michal Strahilevitz and George Lowenstein, Journal of Consumer Research, December 1998.
- Donations to Charity as Purchase Incentives: How Well They Work May Depend on What You Are Trying to Sell. Michal Strahilevitz and John G. Myers, Journal of Consumer Research, March 1998.
- Gender Differences in the Perceived Risk of Buying Online and the Effects of Receiving a Site Recommendation. Ellen Garbarino and Michal Strahilevitz, Journal of Business Research 57, 2004.
- Probability and Mode of Acquisition Effects on Choices Between Hedonic and Utilitarian Options. Suzanne OCurry and Michal Strahilevitz, Marketing Letters 12:1, 2001.
- Once Burned, Twice Shy: How Naive Learning, Counterfactuals, and Regret Affect the Repurchase of Stocks Previously Sold. Michal Ann Strahilevitz, Terrance Odean, and Brad M. Barber, Journal of Marketing Research, Special Issue 2011.
- "A Model of the Value of Giving to Others Compared to the Value of Having More for Oneself: Implications for Fundraisers Seeking to Maximize Donor Satisfaction" (2010) in The Science of Giving: Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charity, published by Psychology Press.
- "Share the Good News with Your Customers: What they Don't Know Can't Help You" (2008), Corporate Social Responsibility Guidebook, Public Relations News, 2008.
- "Which Firms Benefit Most from Cause Related Marketing? How a Firms Prior Behavior Affects the Motives Attributed to a Cause-Related Marketing Campaign", (2003), Michal Strahilevitz, book chapter in Nonprofit and Business Sector Collaborations: Social Enterprises, Cause-Related Marketing, Sponsorships, and other Corporate Nonprofit Dealings, Routledge Press Inc.
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- Co-editor (with Baba Shiv and Dan Ariely)of the Proceedings of the Society for Consumer Psychology Conference: February 2006.
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- Co-editor of Special Issue: "Gender Issues in Consumer Research" in the Academy of Marketing Science Review: Fall 2001.
- Editorial Review Board Member of Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing: 2006-present.
- Advisory Board Member: SSRN Journal of Experimental and Behavioral Economics: 2006-present.
- "Understanding Prosocial Behavior Among Consumers and Organizations," round table discussion chair for the Association of Consumer Research, Jacksonville Florida, forthcoming, October 2010.
- "Understanding the Psychology of Charitable Giving," presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association, August 2010.
- "Corporate Social Responsibility: New Directions and Perspectives" Session Discussant, presented in the Annual Conference of the Society of Consumer Psychology, February 2010.
- "Why Might One Feel Guilty for Giving a Homeless Guy a Dollar? Take-Aversion vs. the Joy of Giving," presented at the International Conference on Business, May 2010.
- "Brand Extensions and Rebranding and Sponsorships and Co-Branding," session discussant, American Marketing Association Summer Educator's Conference, August 2009.
- "Understanding Altruism and Prosocial Behavior", Session Discussant, presented at the Annual Conference for the Association of Consumer Research, October, 2008.
- "How Giving to Charity is Like Eating Ice cream," presented at the International Conference on Business, May 2008.
- Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University, 2011.
- Teacher of the Year Award, American Marketing Association, University of Arizona Chapter, 2005, 2004.
- Teaching Innovation Award, University of Arizona (awarded to two faculty members college-wide), 2005, 2004.
- Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Miami (awarded to 6 faculty members university-wide), 1998.
- University of Miami School of Business Teaching Award, (awarded to 4 business school faculty members), 1998.
- Outstanding Researcher Award, Golden Gate University, 2014
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- Eller College Fellowship for Outstanding Overall Contribution (teaching, research, service), 2002-2005.
- Financial Service Exchange: Behavioral Finance Research Grants, 2003-2004, 2002-2003.
- University of Arizona Foundation, small grants program & summer research support, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001.
- The Research Support Award for Business and the Social Sciences, University of Miami, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996.
- Emotions Affect Stock Picking in Predictably Irrational Ways, Psychology Today Blog, Your Money and Your Heart
- Michal Strahilevitz at the Society of Consumer Psychology Annual Conference 2010 (Discussion on Corporate Social Responsibility Research).
- ABC7 News Looks at Digital Piracy (Its not so simple), Michal Strahilevitz Interview
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- Michal Strahilevitz and Advertising Guru Jeff Goodby Debate about the Super Bowl Ads on ABC7
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Friday, 4 November 2011
I'm a bit dazed and confused that it *is* Friday already, but despite the attack of the Nanovirus (and the pouring rain) I'm pretty cheerful. I'm slightly ahead of my NaNoWriMo target, I'm starting to feel a little better, and most importantly Super Agent LOVES Big Secret Project Book One. Yippee!
So it's time to bust out the RetroFriday goodness, and drag a post from the archives which you may not have seen before or may find interesting to re-read. Given last week's ranting about the problems of Mary Sue in our sexist society, it felt about time to pull out some of my earlier thoughts on the topic. And so I give you:
RetroFriday: SUGAR AND SPICE
Today, as part of my random, FF-is-eating-my-brain programme of entertainment, I present a post on what I think is wrong with the way our society perceives and enforces gender roles. To read the article that inspired this blog post you can click on this link.
In summary: This very clever lady used Zoë-Trope favourite Wordle to create these.
The first one is a Wordle made up of the terms used in advertising boy's toys. The second is made up of terms used in advertising girl's toys.
These toys were marketed at boys and girls between the ages of six and eight - very young. But not too young to already be assessing and questioning their place in the world and who they should be. In fact, this is exactly the period when children are assigning themselves the gender roles that they may carry for the rest of their lives.
By this age I was already rejecting my mother's desire to dress me in sensible jeans and dungarees and begging for pink, flowery dresses. By this age the boys I knew were already wearing mostly blue and bright red and camoflage colours, and saying things like 'Ew, giiiirls!'
These behaviours all seem perfectly natural - until you realise they're not.
Until the age of around eight or nine, boys and girls have precisely the same hormones running through their veins. If you took a group of boys and girls under ten and dressed them in the same grey sack and cut all their hair to the same length, you would be unable to tell boy from girl, even if they spoke or hugged you or danced around the room.
There is no pink gene on the X-chromosone that automatically makes little girls crave flowery dresses and ribbons and baby dolls. There's no blue gene on the y-chromosone that automatically makes boys crave fast cars, swords and buzz cuts. There's definitely no 'Euw, giiirls!' gene that requires boys to treat girls and anything that girls might be interested in with disdain and contempt.
And yet these are all behaviours which are so common, so normal, so 'natural' to us that we not only don't QUESTION them? We get all het up and bothered if kids *don't* conform to them. Like, for instance, when this American blogger helped her little boy's wish come true by allowing him to dress as Daphne from Scooby Do at Halloween, and dozens of people descended on her to say that she was a bad mother.
It's not that either of these Wordles presents any bad words. There's nothing wrong with a child of either sex liking dresses and babies or dragons and heroes. The problem is that the companies creating these toys, and the people marketing them, are making an assumption that girls - and only girls - are vitally interested in fashion, perfect nails, babies, love and hair. And that boys - and only boys - are interested in battle, power, heroes, stealth and beating people.
Which is only true if we make it so, by pushing a narrow, reductive take on what male and female mean onto children and telling them 'this is what you are'. There is simply no reason for young children to be treated or act differently based on their sex, other than the fact that we, as a society, want them to be different.
What a terrible thing to do to a child, right? How awful to bombard them with films, TV shows, music videos, books and toys and toy catalogues (not to mention unconscious assumptions on the way that children should develop and behave) and try to force them to conform to unnatural, artificial ideals of gender, without any good reason.
What are kids, especially kids who don't enjoy the roles arbitrarily assigned to them based on their reproductive organs, absorbing from this?
Looking at these Wordles makes me think of all kinds of other things that worry me. Like the commonly held idea that boys don't read because not enough 'boy books' are on the shelves, and that the dominance of women editors and writers in Young Adult and Children's publishing is somehow hurting boys and preventing them from becoming readers. The arguments about this are summed up beautifully in this article by YA author Maureen Johnson - and the comment trail is particularly interesting.
Why is it so impossible for us to expect a boy to read a book that has a girl main character? Why is the idea of reading about a girl so disgusting to boys that, apparently, they won't even go into the bookstore because they have to pass by books with girls in them? What are we teaching boys - and girls - about the value of their role in society by encouraging this, and by placing the blame on female authors and editors intead of a society that raises boys to look at girls (and anything that may be considered to be 'girly') with contempt? Especially since we're also raising the girls to believe that they must conform to 'girly' behaviour and interests in order to be 'normal' and 'natural'?
It's not normal and natural.
Babies, love, perfect nails and romance are awesome. So are battles, dragons, flames and heroes. What I want to know is, why can't both sexes be interested in both without being shunned by our society? Why, 500,000 years after modern man first emerged as a species on earth, are we still trying to play by the strict rules of a hunter-gatherer society that died out with flint axes and stone circles?
And will people like me still be asking this question in another hundred year's time - or a thousand?
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- Debs Riccio said...
Hear hear, well said!
- 4 November 2011 at 05:18
- Cluisanna said...
My parents were very careful to not expose me to that whole "girly" universe. I had clothes in all colours, and although I wanted to have a Barbie and played with them at a friend's house, this had more to do with the fact that I wanted to be as cool as her.
I had dolls, too, but I found just playing "family" extremely boring. I always created some sort of story where I was a queen who had to flee with her children from an evil tyrant, only to return and fight him ^^
Still, throughout my teenage years (that are not really up yet) this gender-neutral image I have of myself haunted me. I have often felt not female enough, intimidated by good-looking women and absolutely sure that I am an ugly, manly looking person (although a lot of people tell me that's not true).
So I am all for raising children gender neutral, but they have to be prepared that they might get the feeling from society that this is somehow not ok.
- 4 November 2011 at 05:46
- Elizabeth May said...
I heart you. I heart your journal. And I agree with ALL OF THIS! :D
- 4 November 2011 at 11:19
- Zoë Marriott said...
Debs: Thank you!
Cluisanna: For what it's worth, having been an intensely girly girl and having been brought up by quite traditional parents (my mum might have wanted to put me in jeans, but they were pink jeans with flowers on) I STILL feel that way sometimes myself. I think the standard of femininity that we see held up as the idea in our day to day lives is so unrealistic and unattainable that trying to feel good about yourself - no matter what you look like - is always going to be an uphill struggle.
Elizabeth: He he! Thanks :)
- 4 November 2011 at 11:26
- Rebecca Lindsay said...
1) Well done on your agent loving Big Secret Project One! We all knew she would though because you worked so hard on it and of what we've seen so far, it sounds really good! *hugs*
2)I completely agree with what you are saying. Until somebody says it though, I don't think many people think about it, including me. But I think people should think about it, because it are attitudes like these that give the sexist attitude power, whether it is against males or females.
So what if a guy likes to read female heroine books or cry at a good "girly" movie. So what if a girl loves blood and guts books and films.
Children's manufacturing companies should spend more time on showing how girls and boys can get along equally and can both do the same things, even if they choose not to do so.
Take me, for example. In primary school, I was a complete tomboy and loved football, but I still liked to be girly at the same time. You can do and be both.
- 4 November 2011 at 11:35
- Isabel said...
Such an honest and true post. And I'm so happy that your agent loved Big Secret Project!! Congratulations! :)
- 4 November 2011 at 12:55
- Jenni (Juniper's Jungle) said...
This post is awesome! You're so completely and utterly right, this is something that gets me so frustrated time and time again.
- 4 November 2011 at 15:36
- Zoë Marriott said...
Rebecca: Honestly, I think we're making such a rod for our own backs with this. We teach boys that the worst insult in the whole world is to be called a girl, and then wonder why they're so disrespectful to their mothers, sisters and female teachers. We teach boys that they mustn't like anything that girls like, and then wonder why they don't want to read. No one in the whole wide world is *benefitted* by this insane divide, but everyone fights for it tooth and nail. Eugh.
Isabel: Thank you :) I'm hopeful I'll finally be able to spill the beans about BSP soon, so keep your fingers crossed.
Jenni: Thanks. Once you start really seeing what's THERE instead of what you think you SHOULD, it's amazing how little sense so many of our ideas about The Way Things Are make.
- 5 November 2011 at 07:12
- Megha said...
I'm glad Big Secret Project is going well!
I've always loved this post, since the first time I read it.
And I can't WAIT till you spill the beans about BSP - if it's getting official and all!
- 5 November 2011 at 09:36
- Robin said...
Nice post, and thanks for the link to Maureen Johnson's post. I agree that the culturally encouraged gender divide and fear of liking anything 'girly' is part of the reason for the split in reading habits, but I think it does have to be acknowledged that there are some differences in how boys and girls are wired. I think culture creates some of this, but not all of it. If you looked at cross-gender preference for video games, I think more boys than girls will buy strictly action/ first-person shooters, while character and plot-driven games might be more evenly split. But the debate over nature and nurture might never be resolved. It's always interesting to read different debates over this, though.
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Fox News correspondent Doug McKelway falsely suggested that increased offshore drilling would prevent high gas prices. In fact, even the Bush administration Energy Department said that expanded offshore drilling would not substantially affect oil prices any time soon.
McKelway Falsely Suggests Offshore Drilling Is Solution To High Gas Prices
McKelway Ties Rising Gas Prices To Offshore Drilling Permits. From the January 19 edition of Fox News' Happening Now:
JENNA LEE (co-host): Bush hasn't been in power for two years now. So has anything changed in the Obama administration when it comes to this and gas prices going higher?
McKELWAY: Well, the United States still has no comprehensive energy policy. Critics of the Obama administration say since the gulf moratorium on oil ended three years -- excuse me -- three months ago, only two new drilling permits have been issued. New drilling permits are down 88 percent from their historical average. But is there oil available for drilling in the U.S.? Listen to this.
JOHN FELMY (AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE): There's a vast amount of oil available to drill for, well in excess of 100 billion barrels. So you could produce a lot more oil with that.
McKELWAY: That's enough oil according to the petroleum institute for about 30 years at the present level of usage in the United States. [Fox News' Happening Now, 1/19/11]
In Fact, Expanding Offshore Drilling Won't Protect U.S. From Price Increases
Politifact: Experts Agree That Expanding Offshore Drilling "Would Have Little Effect At The Pump Any Time Soon." On December 1, Politifact evaluated Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's (D-FL) statement that a "5 percent increase in domestic production would increase the world supply by less than 1 percent and do almost nothing to our dependence on foreign oil. This would also have virtually no effect on the price of gas at the pump." Politifact rated Wasserman Schultz's claim "true," saying that experts agreed that such drilling would not have much effect on gas prices in the near future:
The political momentum for offshore drilling has always risen and fallen along with gas prices. But while there are strong arguments that can be made in favor of offshore drilling, reducing the cost of gas "here and now" isn't one of them, according to oil experts and economists -- many of whom support the plan.
For starters, the lead time for oil exploration takes years. Even if offshore drilling areas opened up tomorrow, experts say it would take at least 10 years to realize any significant production. And even then, they say, the U.S. contribution to the overall global oil market would not be enough to make a significant dent in the price of gas.
"Drilling offshore to lower oil prices is like walking an extra 20 feet per day to lose weight," said David Sandalow, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and author of Freedom from Oil. "It's just not going to make much difference."
We ran Wasserman Schultz's claim by Jamie Webster, a senior consultant with PFC Energy, which tracks oil production and demand globally and whose clients are governments, including the United States., and oil and gas companies. We also heard from Daniel J. Weiss, who has written extensively about oil prices and policy and is a senior fellow and director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress, which describes itself as a progressive think tank. Both Webster and Weiss agreed with Wasserman Schultz.
Let's review: Wasserman Schultz's math adds up -- Gulf drilling does indeed represent about 5 percent of current domestic production, and a 5 percent increase would barely register in terms of the world supply. And the experts we found for this Truth-O-Meter as well as ones cited in the past about McCain's claim agree that expanding drilling now would have little effect at the pump any time soon. We rate this claim True. [Politifact.com, 12/1/10]
Energy Department In 2009: Reinstating Offshore Drilling Ban Would Increase Prices By 3 Cents Per Gallon. From the 2009 Annual Energy Outlook produced by the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration:
The U.S. offshore is estimated to contain substantial resources of both crude oil and natural gas, but until recently some of the areas of the lower 48 OCS have been under leasing moratoria [56]. The Presidential ban on offshore drilling in portions of the lower 48 OCS was lifted in July 2008, and the Congressional ban was allowed to expire in September 2008, removing regulatory obstacles to development of the Atlantic and Pacific OCS [57, 58].
To examine the potential impacts of reinstating the moratoria, an OCS limited case was developed for AEO2009. It is based on the AEO2009 reference case but assumes that access to the Atlantic, Pacific, and Eastern/Central Gulf of Mexico OCS will be limited again by reinstatement of the moratoria as they existed before July 2008. In the OCS limited case, technically recoverable resources in the OCS total 75 billion barrels of oil and 380 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
The projections in the OCS limited case indicate that reinstatement of the moratoria would decrease domestic production of both oil and natural gas and increase their prices (Table 9). The impact on domestic crude oil production starts just before 2020 and increases through 2030. Cumulatively, domestic crude oil production from 2010 to 2030 is 4.2 percent lower in the OCS limited case than in the reference case. In 2030, lower 48 offshore crude oil production in the OCS limited case (2.2 million barrels per day) is 20.6 percent lower than in the reference case (2.7 million barrels per day), and total domestic crude oil production, at 6.8 million barrels per day, is 7.4 percent lower than in the reference case (Figure 13). In 2007, domestic crude oil production totaled 5.1 million barrels per day.
With limited access to the lower 48 OCS, U.S. dependence on imports increases, and there is a small increase in world oil prices. Oil import dependence in 2030 is 43.4 percent in the OCS limited case, as compared with 40.9 percent in the reference case, and the total annual cost of imported liquid fuels in 2030 is $403.4 billion, 7.1 percent higher than the projection of $376.6 billion in the reference case. The average price of imported low-sulfur crude oil in 2030 (in 2007 dollars) is $1.34 per barrel higher, and the average U.S. price of motor gasoline price is 3 cents per gallon higher, than in the reference case. [U.S. Department of Energy, accessed 1/19/10]
Bush Administration Energy Department: Additional Offshore Drilling "Would Not Have A Significant Impact" On Crude Oil Prices Before 2030. Earlier, in 2007, when President Bush was in office, the Energy Information Administration said:
The projections in the OCS access case indicate that access to the Pacific, Atlantic, and eastern Gulf regions would not have a significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices before 2030. Leasing would begin no sooner than 2012, and production would not be expected to start before 2017. Total domestic production of crude oil from 2012 through 2030 in the OCS access case is projected to be 1.6 percent higher than in the reference case, and 3 percent higher in 2030 alone, at 5.6 million barrels per day. For the lower 48 OCS, annual crude oil production in 2030 is projected to be 7 percent higher--2.4 million barrels per day in the OCS access case compared with 2.2 million barrels per day in the reference case (Figure 20). Because oil prices are determined on the international market, however, any impact on average wellhead prices is expected to be insignificant. [U.S. Department of Energy, accessed 1/19/10]
Experts: Recent Rise In Gas Prices Is Due To Speculation And Boost In Global Demand
WSJ: Rise In Oil Prices "Has Been In Anticipation Of Improving Supply And Demand Conditions." The Wall Street Journal reported on December 30: "The 12% rise in crude oil since mid-November has been in anticipation of improving supply and demand conditions. Demand in China and better-than-expected data on the U.S economy helped push oil to fresh two-year highs this month. Now, investors appear more cautious heading into 2011." [Wall Street Journal, 12/30/10]
AEI Scholar: "We Probably Couldn't Produce Enough To Affect The World Price Of Oil." From a January 1 Greenwire report:
If gas prices keep increasing, Republicans probably will make a push on increased fossil fuel production, said Ken Green, resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute think tank.
But experts disagreed about how much impact additional drilling could have. Crude oil is a global commodity, Green said.
"The world price is the world price," Green said. "Even if we were producing 100 percent of our oil," he said, if prices increase because of a shortage in China or India, "our price would go up to the same thing.
"We probably couldn't produce enough to affect the world price of oil," Green added. "People don't understand that."
U.S. production could be negated by decisions that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries makes, said Philip Verleger Jr., energy economist, and David Mitchell EnCana, professor of management, at the University of Calgary's business school.
"Suppose the U.S. were to boost production 1 million barrels a day," Verleger said. "OPEC has the capacity to cut 1 million barrels."
The oil industry has been able to convince people there is a connection between U.S. drilling and prices, Verleger said. [Greenwire via NYTimes.com, 1/4/11]
FoxNews.com: Experts Say "Consumption Growth In Developing Countries," Rather Than Drilling Policies, Caused Increase In Oil Prices. From a December 3 article on FoxNews.com:
The rise in oil comes on the same week that the Obama administration announced it will not allow offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic coast for at least seven more years because of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in April that killed 11 workers and unleashed about 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf.
That decision was cheered by environmental interests and Democratic lawmakers along both coasts but slammed by Republicans and the oil and gas industry who say the move will kill jobs and make America even more dependent on foreign oil.
Energy analysts though did not blame the announcement for the surge in oil prices. Instead, they pointed to consumption growth in developing nations.
Kevin Book, managing director of Clearview Energy Partners, told FoxNews.com that his firm sees oil rising to $107 a barrel in 2013 "if economic growth follows its current trajectory."
Book explained that his firm's forecast implies that there is substantial non-OPEC slow downs at the same time as there is significant demand growing in emerging economies in Asia and other places.
"What it does is draw inventory down and lowers capacity in the system," he said. "It also pulls more OPEC oil into circulation."
The Obama administration's announcement reversed it's decision to hunt for oil and gas that the president himself announced three weeks before the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The oil and gas industry and many Republicans say the Obama administration is stifling domestic oil production and contradicting the will of recession-weary voters eager for new jobs.
But Book says that announcement was not a surprise and had no effect on the rise of oil. While the U.S. has an abundant supply of its own oil, environmental concerns go hand in hand with domestic production, he said.
"We're going to use OPEC's oil," he said. "The problem isn't doing business with OPEC. The problem is doing business in a world where OPEC is becoming less relevant."
"The true value of OPEC from a price stability standing to its members is predicated on the idea it has to do what it has to do or Saudi Arabia will flood the market with cheap oil," he said. [FoxNews.com, 12/3/10]
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The current "wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan have to rank among the most unusual in American history. They are fought by a group of volunteers numberings about 1,500,000 who daily risk their lives even as the remaining 300,000,000 go about their business of work, leisure, schooling and safety. At least during the Korean and Vietnam wars, there was a draft to ensure a wider range of Americans actually participated in the task of defending their nation. Those who serve return home in an anonymous fashion to people who didn't even realize they had left. Tim Nolan who lives in Vermont encountered an even more dramatic example of indifference on the part of Americans when he lost his job because of being deployed.
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The scientists do not want to put into question the rise in sea level during a global warming. During the last interglacial period 125.000 years ago, temperatures in Greenland were 5 degrees higher and global sea level was 4-5 meters higher than it is today. However, since the new scientific results show that the ice sheet also covered southern Greenland, the melting of the Greenlandic ice cap can only have caused a sea level rise of about 2 meters. Therefore some of the ice contributing to the sea level rise must have come from other sources, for instance the Antarctic. Furthermore, thermal warming of the oceans will cause expansion of the sea water and result in a sea level rise of half a meter, and the melting of small glaciers around the globe will result in an additional half meter rise.
This is very similar to the discussion of Eemian sea levels seen in the IPCC report, and so it is very unclear to what extent these new results 'overturn climate theories'. And of course, the central finding – that southern Greenland was indeed deglaciated at some point in the last half million years – implies that Greenland is indeed unstable – though with a sensitivity that is still uncertain.
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Six years ago, Tony Blair had an opportunity to strike a blow for freedom by placing pressure on George Bush not to rush for judgment into the ill-fated war in Iraq. Instead, he played stooge to an ignorant president and an evil vice president whose desire was blood and destruction in the name of democracy. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, after initially stating the inquiry into why a war on Iraq would be held in secret, backtracked and made clear major portions of the inquiry would be open to the public. Tony Blair tried his best to avoid such a spectacle because his current dream is becoming the first president of the European Union who would hold the position for a fixed term of office instead of the current rotation process.
Once Europeans learn how Tony Blair lied and disguised reasons for Great Britain entering the war in Iraq it is doubtful if his candidacy will proceed on schedule. His supporters fear open hearings will lead to "mob justice" although the truth more likely will never lead to any real justice, simply people shaking their heads in disbelief.


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I have never posted here but I got a ton of great ideas and templates that I used from WOF, so i figured since I'd post. Well here is my hasbro fett helmet redo for my 7 year old sons Halloween costume. Still a ton of work to do and I will post more info when I am done if anyone is interested. I will be posting the entire fett costume soon as I am done. I pretty much done with the whole costume just trying to finish up today.
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Mani Friday: Radiant Orchid
Happy Mani Friday! Today my look is inspired by what else? The Color of the Year! It was pretty much a given when I saw all of the gorgeous Radiant Orchid products that there would be a mani in my future. What do you think?
What are you rockin' on your tips this weekend? Show and Tell!
Cute, cute, cute! What glitter is that, Candace? Is there a touch of gold in there too?
My nails are naked right now, I had a gel mani a few days back, thinking of doing a gel French mani tonight (if I don't fall asleep first, ha!).
I'm sorry @lylysa , your nails...ARE NAKED? Who are you and what have you done with lylysa?
So funny story about the glitter. It's Pantone, but it's not released yet, which I didn't know when it showed up on my desk and I used it for this mani. So I will keep you updated on the release date but a good similar polish is this Nails Inc glitter (on sale)!
Haha! I promise my nails will be back to painted by this weekend! It was bad news bears a few weeks back, they were at a nice length and then bam, pointer finger nail chipped! I managed to salvage some length so they weren't super short but it'll be back to gels in no time flat!
I'm keeping my eye out for that glitter! Orchid is one of my favorite colors and flowers, not to mention I'm a sucker for glitter!
I did a fun orchid pink for vacation. I'm loving the Radiant Orchid in general!
I am headed to Disneyland next week so I decided to do a simple Minnie and silver on my nails.
Yesterday was the first time I've done my nails in weeks!
I can't paint my nails at work due to the fact that I work with food...and they do some weird strippy line things that I peel and file after...sigh..I need some strengthening stuff on them. Anyways since I can have the luxury of having nice nails without the paint...I decided to get fake nails.
You guys are so creative! Not sure how you paint the flowers. Super cute. Anyone have pics of the radiant orchid Pantone nail set? Would love to see what you come up With. Happy Friday!
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Bull River Marina
Savannah, GA 31410
Bull River Marina is a full-service, 100-slip marina in the beautiful salt marshes of Wilmington Island along scenic Highway 80 in Historic Savannah, Georgia. Bull River Marina offers a panoramic view of one of the largest estuaries on the Eastern seaboard as well as the Savannah River shipping channel. If you are looking for great family fun, then look no further.
Bull River Marina offers boat rentals, dolphin eco tours, water taxi services, sunset tours, inshore-offshore fishing and more. In addition, we offer fast deep-water access to the ocean & ICW with NO No-Wake Zones. We are located close to the Intracoastal Waterway via St. Augustine Creek just off the Savannah River. We have deep-water dockage in a sheltered harbor with 50 and 30 amp services. Ethanol-free gas and diesel are available as well as short and long term dockage. Pump out service is also available. We offer daily, weekly and monthly dockage. We have snacks, sodas, beer/wine in our Dockhouse. Come and see us!
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Hours of Operation
Sunday: 8:00AM - 6:00PM
Monday: 8:00AM - 6:00PM
Tuesday: 8:00AM - 6:00PM
Wednesday: 8:00AM - 6:00PM
Thursday: 8:00AM - 6:00PM
Friday: 7:00AM - 7:00PM
Saturday: 7:00AM - 7:00PM
Facility Amenities
Bus / Motorcoach Parking on Site, Equipment Rentals Available, Free Parking, Meeting Facilities
General Information
Family-friendly, Open Year 'Round
Group Amenities
Special Tags
Meeting Rooms
Name Dimensions Ceiling Ht Sq. Feet Banquet Cap. Theater Cap. Classroom Cap. U-Shaped Cap. Exhibit Cap. Conference Cap. Reception Cap. Marina Lounge 15x40 9 - 25 - - - - - -


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Some of you may have already tried this, but I seen this method used for the first time a couple of weeks ago.
Go to a hardware store and buy some of the silicone rubber water pipe insulation(looks like an extruded tube). Put that on the bottom edge of the shell and drill small holes approx. 3 - 4" apart all the way around and strap the pipe insulator with those plastic wire ties. Tie your weight to the bottom of the neck and now you have a floating shell goose decoy. Now you can use you shell in the field and on the water.
I will worn you, you cannot stack them as well as they will start to bend out of shape.
Hope this helps and saves somebody some money.


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text: I own a Smith & Wesson SW99 which is identical in operation to the Walther. It's still one of my favorite handguns. The trigger and it's operating "modes" are unique, but make for a sweet shooting gun. I would recommend that you spend considerable range time with it to familiarize yourself with it's operation, especially the mag release. I used to shoot mine at IDPA matches. Once you chamber a round, the trigger is set in "SA" mode. If you are holstering the gun, I would recommend manually placing the gun in "DA" mode with the de-cocker. If you are going from chambering to firing, then leave it in "SA" mode and fire away. BTW, you might want to check out the PPQ. If you like the P99, you will love the PPQ. It has all the same cool features, but feels even better in the hand.


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Before I fill you in on my blueprint, here are a couple of spoiler alerts. First of all I have two trades that are part of the plan. I feel that either one of the trades has the possibility of being made. Bill Smith has shown some initiative when it comes to making trades but both of the trades that I suggest could be seen as make-or- break deals. The Twins usually hang-on to their prospects but as part of both of these deals there would need to be some younger players involved. The Twins usually take a very quiet approach to the offseason so this approach might be a little proactive.
After saying all of that here is a look at my blueprint and what my 2011 Opening Day Roster would look like.
2. Say goodbye to Nick Punto, Orlando Hudson, Brian Fuentes, Jesse Crain, Jon Rauch, Ron Mahay and Randy Flores. Thanks for your services guys but we are going in another direction.
3. Sign Matt Guerrier and offer arbitration to Matt Capps. No one knows what Joe Nathan is going to look like in his first year back from Tommy John surgery. Capps can be the Twins insurance policy for Nathan. Guerrier has been Gardenhire's workhorse over the past three seasons. Gardenhire will want him back and the Twins will agree to that request.
4. Trade Jason Kubel, an outfield prospect, and a pitching prospect to the Royals for Zach Greinke. There has been a lot of rumors in recent weeks over the possibility of the Royals parting ways with their former Cy Young winner. (Read this post to see my thoughts on the deal) I think this package would work for both teams. The Royals would get some young talent to help in their on-going rebuilding process and the Twins would get their ace.
5. Trade Kevin Slowey and a prospect to the Reds for Yonder Alonso. The Twins need an insurance policy for Justin Morneau. They also need someone that can fill-in at the DH spot since Kubel was traded (see trade mentioned in #4). Alonso can fit both of those roles.
2011 Opening Day Roster
Starting Line-up
C: Joe Mauer ($23M)
1B: Justin Morneau ($14M)
2B: Alexi Casilla ($0.8M)
3B: Danny Valencia ($0.5M)
SS: JJ Hardy ($6.5M)
LF: Delmon Young ($5.25M)
CF: Denard Span ($1M)
RF: Michael Cuddyer ($10.5M)
DH: Yonder Alonso ($0.6M)
Starting Line-up Total: ($62.15M)
C: Drew Buetera ($0.45M)
IF: Matt Tolbert ($0.45M)
IF: Luke Hughes ($0.42M)
OF: Jason Repko ($0.75M)
Side note: Also paying Brendan Harris ($1.75M) to not be a part of this team.
Bench Total: ($3.82 M)
SP: Zach Greinke ($13.5 M)
SP: Fransisco Liriano ($4M)
SP: Brian Duensing ($0.45M)
SP: Scott Baker ($5M)
SP: Nick Blackburn ($3M)
Rotation Total: ($25.95M)
CL: Matt Capps ($7.5M)
RP: Joe Nathan ($12.5M)
RP: Matt Guerrier ($2.5M)
RP: Pat Neshek ($0.8M)
RP: Jose Mijares ($0.45M)
RP: Jeff Manship ($0.45M)
Bullpen Total: ($24.2M)
Total 2011 Payroll: Approximately $116M
Line-up: The line-up that I have developed for the 2011 season looks very similar to the 2010 season but there are a few significant changes. The addition of Alexi Casilla is one that will add more speed to a team that was largely lacking in that category a season ago. A healthy Justin Morneau would be a great addition. By adding Yonder Alonso the Twins will have added an insurance policy for Morneau and a prospect that could really flourish with a change of scenery.
Starting Rotation: Fans will be excited for the addition of Greinke. Having his arm at the front of the rotation, along with Liriano, will give the Twins two aces to make another playoff push. It will be very interesting to see how Duensing reacts to being in the rotation for an entire season. Baker and Blackburn will get their spots out of spring training but don't be surprised to see Kyle Gibson getting the call-up if either one of these starters isn't up-to-par.
Bullpen: Nathan won't be ready to be the closer on Opening Day. That is why the Twins need to keep Matt Capps around. I also don't think that the team wants to get rid of the player that they got in return for Wilson Ramos. There might be a massacre by the fans. Neshek will hopefully be back to form after his surgery. The rest of the bullpen is role players that should be able to get outs when they need to.
There you have it. The team that I created as the GM of the Minnesota Twins.
Any thoughts on what you see? Leave a comment below. There are a lot of ideas to discuss.