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January 13, 2017
The ABC channel Freeform will host another Boss Girls Weekend, beginning Jan. 14. That means, Saturday and Sunday, kick-ass female characters will dominate the screen.
The lineup of movies includes:
•"The Prince & Me"
•"10 things I Hate About You"
•"Love and Basketball"
•"The Blind Side"
•"The Hunger Games"
•"John Tucker Must Die"
•"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"
Time to invite the boss girls in your life over and stay in this weekend. No judgment if you end up having a two-day binge watching fest.

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Where I live, certain ethnic minorities (actually, taken together they are actually a majority) are notorious for screening embryos for gender. Then they abort the females until a male is born first. It's become such an issue that it's now illegal to specify an embryo's gender until the window for legal abortion has passed (I don't remember how many weeks/months that is).
If you're white, the doctor will still tell you if you ask though.
Speaking of Sci-Fi, the lead female character (Mira) in the book "Evolution's Darling [kirkusreviews.com]" is an assassin who targets scientists that have been judged by Mira's AI-overlords as being too close to making undesirable discoveries.
For instance, one of her past targets included a researcher working on teleportation (which they calculate will lead to the collapse of civilization), and much of the story involves her mission to assassinate a rogue AI who has developed a method of making perfect copies of AI minds. All for the protection of society of course.
There would be ethical and humanitarian applications for it, but mere death and pain would be hard pressed to compete with the potential damage of perfect propaganda. If some combination of psychology, hypnosis, drugs in the water, drugs in the drugs, or whatnot made it possible to get people to believe anything you said, that could be the end of all freedom forever.
Successfully making a tasp or droud [wikimedia.org] would probably lead to the end of humanity in a generation or so. At least the end of any non-stone-age parts.
I was playing poker the other night... with Tarot cards. I got a full house and 4 people died. -- Steven Wright


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"At other times, when the sun shone out clearly, they witnessed a most unusual weather phenomeneon, one that none of them had ever experienced, or even heard of before. All of a sudden the pale mist, lit up by the sun, seemed to 'ignite' somehow, shining out a pure white that obscured everything else in the world..."."A matter of mere yards before them, the ground dropped away all of a sudden down into almost a sheer abyss, and below, in front of them, and all around them opened into a massive bowl-shaped valley. It stretched away for miles all around, its floor at least a mile below them, and almost sheer cliffs hemmed it in on every side. Great. towering cliffs soared out of the deeply sloping valley sides, and the light of the golden early morning sun streamed all the way through from the eastern end to set the bare rock of these cliffs afire with a deep orange radiance. At the foot of them, a thick wall of trees plunged farther down into the shadowed depths of the huge valley, shimmering and swaying peacefully in the breeze...". D. Bilsborough
Two favorite quotes that were remembered on this adventure day, as I gaze over some maps of mountains & valleys near here, that I am now dreaming about discovering. What will be revealed, what will unfold - well that then will be much of the mystery... DSD


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A/N: Yeah I know just what I need another Harry Potter fanfic that I'm working on at the same time as a dozen other things. This will be updated slowly due to the fact I'm back to college and have more homework then hands to do it. But enjoy it anyway!
Warnings: Slash HPDM! Anything else my sick brain comes up with. Alternate timeline because I wanna! Sixth year non-existent from book because I'm messing around with things for my own sick devices.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter though I wish I did but really now I'm just a student so don't sue me.
Harry Potter and the Slytherin Prince
Chapter One
Hazy Dreams or Maybe Memories
A whispered name was upon those lips, those lips he just couldn't get enough of. Those lips made him feel like electricity was in his veins and his skin was made of fire. He wanted to have them forever, as his hands wandered over pale flesh that felt as if it were made of silk. He kissed and nibbled at the soft flesh at the neck of the one he wanted more than life itself. He felt hands sprawl across his back and digging in, making him wonder briefly if in the morning he would have marks down his back but he didn't care. The fingers needing into his back was enough to make him moan against that skin.
The moans of the other became louder and louder as his kisses became more passionate, fierce and frantic. He felt himself slip inside his mystery lover as he continued to thrust over and over again. Then in a brilliant moment of lust everything was over and he was once again staring hazily up into the eyes of the person, he knew he could never live without.
Emerald eyes opened to stare around the small compartment on the Hogwarts Express. Harry was on his way to starting his seventh year at the school. He didn't even remember falling asleep but it didn't come as a surprise as he hadn't really been sleeping the last few weeks with the nightmares that plagued him and strange dreams that he couldn't explain.
He glanced around the compartment and covered a smile as Hermione was sitting on Ron's lap with a book in her own lap. Their compartment was a little more filled than usual, meaning she had an excuse to sit there. He rolled his eyes he didn't know why Ron still hadn't asked the girl out; Harry knew he liked her a lot though he had never said anything. Ginny was sitting with Neville talking about something or another he wasn't sure. Seamus and Dean were playing a game and the final member of their merry band was sitting with her magazine flipped upside down. He met Luna's eyes and she gave a knowing smile before going back to the magazine.
Hermione glanced down at her watch and sighed before standing up slowly. She closed her book with a finality, that told them she was done with it. Ron stood as well and Harry shook his head.
"Well we'll see you Mr. Perfect and Miss. Head Girl after you're meeting." Ginny joked. Ron laughed and followed Hermione out the door.
"Yes well at least I'm not bragging about it." He said, peeking his head around the door before he was gone. Ginny gave an unladylike snort.
"That boy hasn't stopped bragging since fifth year that he became a prefect." Ginny muttered under her breath. Harry chuckled before turning his attention back out the window and to his thoughts about the dream.
The dream was strange and haunting like something he had experienced before. He knew that wasn't possible but every time he had that same dream, it felt so real. Every emotion, every touch felt like he had experienced it before, and he yearned for that touch. Though he didn't know why. He let his thoughts continue as the day wore on.
It was late afternoon by the time Hermione and Ron had returned. Ron was livid about something as he ranted down the hall. He threw open the door, startling the occupants into staring at him confused. He growled, sitting down.
"Head Boy! Really, what was Dumbledore thinking?" Ron ranted, turning to Harry for support. Harry looked at Ron confused while Hermione came into the room glaring at Ron.
"Really Ron, couldn't you have waited until after we got back here to start ranting about Malfoy?" Hermione scolded. "I'm surprise he only brushed you off like that. If he wanted to, he could start taking house points from you once we reach Hogwarts." Ron rolled his eyes before turning to Harry once again for support. Harry raised his hands in defence.
"All I heard was Malfoy and something about Head Boy." Harry said, explaining his situation as clearly as possible without taking sides. Ron gave an exaggerated sigh.
"Really Harry weren't you listening? Malfoy is Head Boy. We thought it was bad when he was a prefect but Head Boy. Dumbledore must be barmy to make Malfoy Head Boy." Ron said, making Harry realize why the red-head was so upset. For some reason it didn't bother him that Malfoy was Head Boy so he simply shrugged his shoulder. Ron looked shocked.
"It's good to see that you've matured over the summer, Harry." Hermione said proudly. Harry shook his head.
"It just doesn't matter that Malfoy's Head Boy. It just means Dumbledore can keep his eyes on him without him doing any major damage around the school like when Umbridge took over. It will also keep any major Death Eater problems from rising up with Malfoy unable to make a move without Dumbledore noticing it." Harry responded. "He's still an asshole though." He added as an afterthought. Ron smiled.
"You mean the Ferret won't actually be able to do any harm to us this year because Dumbledore will have his eye on him. Oh this year will be heaven!" Ron said triumphantly.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." A voice said from the doorway. Malfoy's eyes scanned the room landing on Harry whose emerald eyes stared back at him intently, readying himself for a fight like always. Crabbe and Goyle were in another compartment farther away and he knew he didn't have much help if he picked a fight. "You may be safe, Weasel but Potter, on the other hand, doesn't have any luxuries if he breaks the rules, now do you Potter?" Harry locked eyes with Malfoy and a chill ran down his spine. He gave a small smirk at Malfoy.
"Don't worry, Malfoy. If I can help it, I won't need to break any rules." Harry replied. Malfoy stared at him.
"Potter, you always break the rules because you believe the rules don't apply to you. Just watch out, I'll make sure I'm there to catch you this time and I don't have to worry about the repercussions." Malfoy sneered before a smirk curled his lips. Harry gave a nod in understanding for a moment and turned back to the window as if the blond didn't exist anymore. Ron looked at him in shock as he saw his friend continue to look out the window at the darkening sky as if his rival didn't exist. He turned to Hermione in shock. Hermione turned to Malfoy with a slight smile.
"If you don't need anything else, Malfoy, I'm sure you have more pressing matters to attend to." Hermione replied smoothly, giving Malfoy the invitation to leave. Malfoy nodded and turned leaving the group.
Draco sighed as he walked away from the compartment holding the Golden Trio and company. He felt a pain in his chest as he got farther away from them. He found the only empty compartment left and was far enough away from any Slytherins that he may get just a while without having to deal with any of them, especially away from Pansy, though it was all an act to appease his father. He slipped into the compartment and sighed, looking out the window feeling a familiar feeling spread through his body like so many times from before over the last few months. That confusion, the overall sadness of loss and the want to be there with him.
'Why Potter? Why? Why did you do this to me?'
To Be Continued…
If you like this let me know because I'll continue then. I do hope you liked it as this was an idea I had a long time ago before the sixth book came out and I've been meaning to get it down because I kind of forgot about it. Please Review.


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First, I wanted to make a gingerbread house. Specifically, I wanted to make this one:
Then I made royal icing and went to work...and that's when the wheels came off. Here's the result:
Clearly, decorating isn't my thing.
Second, I wanted to make candied almonds. I've done this many times in the oven, but I was intrigued by the simple instructions for making them in the crockpot from this Pinterest tutorial.
What I wanted vs what I got:
I think we'll stick with the tried-and-true oven method from now on.


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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
IMDb - 77%
Rotten Tomatoes - 90%
Roger Ebert - 100%
McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American Western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is based on Edmund Naughton's 1959 novel McCabe. Altman referred to it as an "anti-western film" because the film ignores or subverts a number of Western conventions. In 1902 Washington, a gambler named John McCabe (Warren Beatty) arrives mysteriously and mumbling to himself in the town of Presbyterian Church (named after its only substantial building, a tall but mostly unused [in the film] chapel), in the north-west United States. McCabe quickly takes a dominant position over the town's simple-minded and lethargic miners, thanks to his aggressive personality and rumors that he is a gunfighter. McCabe establishes a makeshift brothel, consisting of three prostitutes purchased from a pimp in the nearby town of Bearpaw for $200. British cockney Constance Miller (Julie Christie) arrives in town and tells him she could run a brothel for him more profitably; unknown to him she is addicted to opium.


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The 1911 Census has been released for some parts of England, including the areas I'm interested in so, as I said in my last post that I'd have to wait for the 1911 census to find out more about my great grandmother Celia Limb, I found I didn't have as long to wait as I thought I would.
For the moment I've only been looking at the transcripts rather than the original pages because it is a lot cheaper but there is lots of information to be gleaned from these. As with previous census returns you can find out all people in the household, their ages, marital status, place of birth and occupations. A new addition is the number of years married. For instance on the entry for my great grandparents Thomas and Sarah Ann Edwards it states that they had been married for 36 years. Also, with this census, you get a clearer address for where they lived.
I found the site quick and easy to use. I was already registered on Find My Past (Link on my side panel) and I just had to purchase some credits on-line and the searching began.
Rather disconcertingly one set of my great grandparents is missing. I know they were still alive and that they were buried in Newhall, Derbyshire and had lived there all their lives but they don't appear on any searches I've done so far. I doubt they were missed out or that they had travelled very far from home so I expect that it is a spelling or handwriting issue and that they are hidden somewhere, with the computer unable to find them.
Back to Celia. Her children are living at 30 Warren Terrace, Shirebrook. The eldest is 23 and considered to be head of the household. The youngest is 9 years old. So where was Celia? Yet again she has thrown up a mystery as I eventually found her visiting a family by the name of Edwards - no relation to the Edwards I mentioned earlier as they were on my father's side of the family and Celia is on my mother's side - in Attercliffe, Sheffield. I've found on the list of mourners at my great-grandfather's funeral a Mr Edwards of Sheffield, so I'm guessing this must be the same one and that they were friends of the family rather than relatives. There are also other morners from Woodhouse, Sheffield so there must have been some connection with Sheffield somewhere.
Interestingly, Celia's future second husband is lodging with my grandparents. Also in that household was my Aunt Gladys, aged 4. The photo below shows my grandmother Florence Limb with my Aunt Gladys which looks to have been taken around 1911 or 1912.


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Topic : Policy and Politics sponsored by Policy & Politics Journal
Chair : Hendrik Wagenaar - email@example.com
Second Chair : Baogang He - email@example.com
Thursday, June 29th 08:15 to 10:15 (Block B 3 - 1 )
Hendrik Wagenaar - email@example.com - University of Sheffield - United Kingdom
PU NIU - email@example.com - Department of Urban Studies and Planning - United Kingdom
China has been experiencing profound and massive social and urban transitions following the capitalist expansion of the last 30 years. One aspect of those transitions is a concerted program of urban regeneration in many cities. However, the standard practice of the land-centered "demolish and rebuild" urban village regeneration has proven to be controversial. It soon caused more social problems, such as social exclusion, injustice, and uneven development between rural and urban society. This has attracted attention from both academia and government officials. To treat these problems and balance the uneven development between urban and rural society, the Chinese government has implemented a so-called "human-oriented" urbanization policy since 2014. . This new policy emphasizes the integration of villagers into the city rather than physical site developments. Under that context, democratic deliberation became a key instrument for Chinese local government to address the problems around urban village regeneration.
This research focuses on two primary goals of urban village regeneration: to redevelop the urban village into an urban community and to integrate the various groups of urban villagers into the urban society. The main objectives of this research are to explore the role of democratic deliberation as a tool of governance both during and after the urban village regeneration process. It looks at both the Chinese government's changing governing discourses (from land-centered urbanization to human-oriented urbanization) and daily practices in the regeneration process and regenerated communities governance, as well as the citizens' reactions to these governance technologies. In this paper, I will provide an in-depth investigation of how different actors negotiate with each other through the deliberation institution, and the results of the process of the urban village regeneration program in the context of the New Type Urbanization Plan.
Two in-depth case studies of Zhengzhou urban village regeneration programs will be carried out, and the data will be collected according to qualitative methods including document analysis, interview and participant observation. Interpretive policy analysis will be used to describe and analyze how different actors negotiate with each other through the traditional rural deliberation institution, within the context of the New Type Urbanization Plan. In addition, this study develops a new conceptual framework for understanding the Chinese government's shift towards deliberation in China's social and urban transition, which combines elements from both Chinese Confucianism and western theories around democratic deliberation and social justice. This research will fill gap of research in urban village regeneration and democratic deliberation in China. It will contribute to the knowledge around Chinese urban governance and democratic deliberation within non-western and non-liberal contexts.
Carolyn Hendriks - email@example.com - Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU - Australia
John Boswell - firstname.lastname@example.com - University of Southampton - United Kingdom
Deliberation is shaped and influenced by a range of non-deliberative activities in the pubic sphere and market. To date deliberative scholars and practitioners have tended to 'quarantine' such activities from public deliberation, preferring to foster deliberative norms in contained structured forums. This paper steps beyond the forum to consider the role and impact of non-deliberative activities on public deliberation understood in broad terms. Taking a systems view of public deliberation we explore three sets of non-deliberative activities that are prevalent in shaping contemporary policy debates:
1) disruptive actions such as protests and social media campaigns
2) non-verbal communication such as the use of visuals, silence, and presence; and
2) market signals such as stock prices and trends in global commodities.
Using real-world examples, we discuss how non-deliberative activities can play an important sense-making role in deliberative systems, particularly before and after claims are made. The paper also identifies the conditions under which non-deliberative activities might enable or hinder the democratisation of political debate. We argue that non-deliberative activities can help realize the core aspirations of deliberative democracy if and when they open up new domains of inquiry and reflection on the issue at stake.
Xi Chen - email@example.com - Newcastle University - United Kingdom
Drawing on author's experience as the initiator and designer of two public events in Jiangxin island in Wenhou, a coastal city in China, this paper will revisit the critical spatial practices, and expose the roles of different agencies, being the architect, the government and the people, played in the process. It is to examine boundaries of the agencies across the policy, to review the possibilities of making things public through citizen's participation, and to rethink the power relation within the production of public space in the local context.
In Chinese society, the public space/sphere usually lie on the controversial relationship between the state power and the citizen, say the insider and the outside. By re-examining the notions of Habermas's public sphere, Philip Huang has discovered the third realm[1] which functions as the public sphere in traditional Chinese society. Historically, the third-realm helped to resolve the public business such as building infrastructure for the community. Today, the practice of authoritarian deliberation in political realm somehow has reflected the legacy of third realm. It was argued that in China, the public issues are often facilitated by the power of third realm that integrates the agencies of the state and the people. Further to that, the process of making things public also witness the hybrid natures of democracy in Chinese political context. It is also the case in this paper.
In order to facilitate the public event, the author had accessed to the third-realm as a spatial agency[2] with the help of a local NPC delegate. The spatial agency held an in-between role that moves across the boundary of political systems, and intermediate between the authority and the public. The exploration in this paper aimed to rethink the research questions: what is the limitation of making things public, and what are the key political and cultural qualities of public space in China?
[1] Huang has outlined a conception of the 'third realm', which is a space intermediating between the state and the folk society in which both participated, as he put "free us of the value-laden teleology of Habermas' bourgeois public sphere.'
Huang, P.C.C., 1993. "Public Sphere"/"Civil Society" in China?: The Third Realm between State and Society. Mern China 19, pp.216–240.
[2] In the realm of architecture, the spatial agency refers to a body of power who is able to build up networks and solve problems through (critical) spatial practice.
Awan, N., Schneider, T., Till, J., 2011. Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon England ; New York, NY.
Beibei Tang - firstname.lastname@example.com - Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University - China
Social unrests have become one major challenge to the rule of China's party-state. To effectively resolve disputes and conflicts at local level before they escalate to larger scale social unrests, is a key criterion for local government performance evaluation in China today. With a particular focus on neighbourhood governance, this paper examines the mechanisms of deliberation and conflict resolution in Chinese urban middle-class residential communities. Along with the rise of private home ownership and urban middle-class residential estates, disputes and conflicts have risen between the residents, resident self-elected organisation (homeowner associations), real estate developer and property management companies, and the local government. The local state, through their agent Residents' Committees, actively intervenes and mediates the conflicts in those neighbourhoods. Based on empirical findings in middle-class neighbourhoods in Suzhou and Shenyang, this paper analyses 1) how and to what extent deliberation is introduced to and employed as an instrumental tool by local government to achieve their goal of maintaining social stability. 2) in what ways and to what extent deliberation has served as part of governance strategies. and 3) whether and how the state and non-state actors interact with each other during this process to produce more democratic governance under the party-state's authoritarian rule. The findings suggest that 1) deliberation has become an instrumental tool for conflict resolution introduced by local government to middle-class neighbourhoods. Residents' Committees, on behalf of the state, become key coordinator and mediator during the deliberation process. 2) Recruitment of resident volunteers has become a crucial strategy through whom Residents' Committees mobilise resident participation, to facilitate not only deliberation meetings, but more importantly, the pre- and after-meeting informal talks which contribute significantly to the deliberative outcomes. 3) Those deliberative practices on the one hand improve deliberative capacity of neighbourhood governance by showing more tolerance of different opinions, more inclusiveness of participant groups, and more effectiveness of achieving agreements. On the other hand, those practices to a certain extent reinforce the party-state's leadership through mass mobilisation led by the local state.
Thursday, June 29th 10:30 to 12:30 (Block B 3 - 1 )
Baogang He - firstname.lastname@example.com - Deakin University - Australia
Tingting Li - email@example.com - Civil Aviation University of China - China
Ya Li - email@example.com - School of Public Administration, Beihang University - China
Authoritarian Deliberation Revisited: The Case of Beijing'sHutong Service
Tingting Li
Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, P. R. China
Ya Li
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. R. China
With the concept of "authoritarian deliberation", He and Warren (2011) not only brought a novel framework into the theory of democracy and comparative politics but also provided a new understanding of Chinese political development in the past two decades. Since then, there have been some prominent trends in China's politics. Most notably, after the 18th party congress in late 2012, more concentration of power has become increasingly evident. Under such circumstances, does the framework of authoritarian deliberation still work well for China? What's the new dynamics of the interaction between authoritarian decision making and deliberative communication? This paper attempts to address these research questions with a fresh case about Beijing's effort of introducing hutong service.
Hutongs are a kind of narrow streets or alleyways in the old town of Beijing, representing a unique residential culture of this city and carrying rich historical elements. In 2016, Dongcheng District started to introduce government-purchased service, which is provided by property management companies,into hutong areas. As claimed, the policy tries to provide services like alleyway cleaning, parking, and security enhancing. However, the primary purpose behind such thing is to expel migrants and control population, which has become an overwhelming goal of the Beijing Municipal Government. The formulating and implementing of this policy was an authoritarian act, without any open-door public involvement. But at the grass-roots levels, some sub-district offices and community neighborhood held deliberative events to promote dialogue among individual residents, service providers, and the local government cells. Those deliberative efforts are designed to connect the needs of inhabitants to the supply side, so as to reduce the risk of the policy adventure and smooth the policy implementation. With this case, we can see that the framework of authoritarian deliberation still stands but new dynamics has emerged.
The paper is organized into four parts. The first section briefs He and Warren's theory and China's recent political development and brings the research questions. The second part introduces the case of Beijing's hutong service and discusses it by employing the authoritarian deliberation framework. In the next part, we focus on the hypotheses about why the deliberative mechanisms were adopted. After examining those raised by He and Warren,We present several new hypotheses regarding this issue. The paper ends with some thoughts for democratic governance and future work.
Keywords: authoritarian deliberation, hutong service, China
He, B.,& Warren, M. E. (2011).Authoritarian Deliberation: The Deliberative Turn in Chinese Political Development. Perspectives on Politics, 9(2): 269-289.
Lu Zhen - email@example.com - University of Sheffield - United Kingdom
Since the economic reform started in the late 1970s, China has greatly upgraded its economic structure, and profound changes have taken place in China's society. During the past three decades, more than 200 million rural migrant workers (nonminggong) have migrated to cities for a living (NBS, 2012). This large-scale, persistent, internal migration phenomenon is one of the main drivers of China's economic growth. It is also a representative manifestation of the urbanisation process in this country (NBS, 2012). However, rural migrant workers have found that settling down and assimilating to the cities can be very challenging for them (Zhu, 2007). Among all the social problems that have been brought by internal migration in China and the difficulties migrants have encountered in their integration process, the problems of rural migrant children to gain access to education in cities have attracted extensive attention not only from the government, but also from social media, scholars, and even stimulated protests in China. Along with the increasing migrant population, the development of citizenship and perceptions of it, a fast-developing civil society, especially the growing collective action and louder voice for better conditions of migrant workers, have emerged. When this country looks like a huge monolithic one-party-state to an outsider, mainly because the position of the Chinese Communist Party and its direct control over key areas in the country remains unchallenged, there are spaces left for democratic activities within an authoritarian setting. China's highly decentralized government system, the variegated policy behaviour of state actors, and complicated relationships between governmental and non-governmental actors, are examples of such potential spaces for the democratic activities.
Using the problem of educational inequality, my research focuses on revealing the spaces for democratic deliberation in China, through investigating how different groups, especially disadvantaged groups like migrant population, protest and acquire their identity as citizens claiming educational rights. Using theories of policy implementation, my research also aims at examining how have governments in China cope with increasing resistance and attempt to transform a largely authoritarian, tightly controlled relationship to its citizens, to a different but more open and collective form of governance that listen to collective action.
This research adopts an interpretivist strategy, drawing on semi-structured interviews, direct observations, review of documentation and archival records. It is designed as a case study in the context of Changsha city. Qualitative interviews, direct observations, review of documentation and archival records will be the main sources of evidence in my study to support the research conclusion. This research will contribute to understanding around how different forms of citizenship begin to emerge in this changing society, and how the ruling party deals with the dilemma between development and decentralization in the issue of addressing educational inequality of migrant children.
XUEJUN WU - firstname.lastname@example.com - National University of Singapore - Singapore
Over the past decades, there has been an ongoing debate around the state-society relations in China. Whether the Chinese government becomes more responsive has divided scholars into two major camps. (Yang 2004; Pei 2006) However, what is missing in the debate, as argued by its critique, is the explanation for the selectiveness of the government's behaviors. In other words, "why would an authoritarian state with the capacity to suppress public protests use this power only selectively?" (Reilly 2012: 41) Instead of delineating the growing responsiveness, such selectiveness shows a more nuanced picture by revealing the logic of the Chinese government. (Weiss 2014)
Contrary to the research which mainly focuses on the government to explain the selectiveness, this article contributes to the existing research by bringing the society into the debate. Although many scholars have noticed that there is an emerging independent civil society in China, (Teets 2013: 19-39) few researches have been conducted to scrutinize its impacts on governmental behaviors.
Based on the theory of threat, this article argues that how the society presents its demands also profoundly affects the government response. This is because political threat, one decisive factor of authoritarian government behaviors, (Kang and Han 2008: 36-55) involves both material factor and perception. The material factor refers to "what the society asks for" while the perception deals with the information received by the government. The latter is seriously affected by the interactions between the government and the society and can distort the threat to a degree that it largely reshapes the outcomes. (Klaus 1976) In other words, this article argues: instead of merely focusing on "what the society asks for," we need also pay attention to "how the society asks" when analyzing the selectiveness of the government response.
Acknowledging the significance of the society, our analysis proceeds in three steps. Firstly, I will discuss how my analysis bridges the gap of current research on the state-society relations in China and clarify the concepts of the presentation strategy of social demands and the governmental response. Secondly, I am going to introduce two cases, namely the "Poisonous Land" case in Changzhou in 2016 and the "Para-xylene Project" (hereafter, PX Project) case in Xiamen in 2007, to delineate the selectiveness of the government behaviors caused by different presentation strategies. Finally, besides reemphasizing the importance of "bring the society back," I describe and explicate the limitations and the possible direction for further research.
Kang, Xiaoguang and Heng Han, 2008. "Graduated Controls: The State-Society Relationship in Contemporary China," Modern China 34(1): 36-55
Klaus, Knorr, 1976. "Threat Perception," in Knorr Klaus, eds., Historical Dimensions of National Security Problems (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas)
Pei, Minxin, 2006. China's Trapped Transition: the Limits of Developmental Autocracy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press)
Reilly, James, 2012. Strong Society, Smart State: The Rise of Public Opinion in China's Japan Policy (New York: Columbia University Press)
Teets, Jessica C., 2013. "Let Many Civil Societies Bloom: The Rise of Consultative Authoritarianism in China," The China Quarterly 213: 19-39
Weiss, Jessica C., 2014. Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations (New York: Oxford University Press)
Yang, Dali, 2004. Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and Politics of Governance in China (Stanford: Stanford University Press)
Kaiping Zhang - email@example.com - Stanford University - United States
Political elites' conception of democracy has been largely shaping China's prospect of democratization. Over the years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) remains cautious about political reform notwithstanding transition into market economy. The "socialist deliberative democracy" marks one of China's most recent political reforms. How do Chinese officials perceive and practice deliberative democracy? What are the implications for China's prospects of democracy?
I argue that the Chinese deliberative democracy inherits, rather than import, its core concept from the native political tradition. It serves functional purposes of enhancing governing capacities through consulting the non-ruling parties and the public. Using a new national survey of Chinese officials, I find that officials align views of deliberative democracy with their latent democratic orientations. The orientation yields powerful explanations for officials' behaviors of public engagement.
Mass Line, often summarized as "from the masses, to the masses," stands among the CCP's core political principles from the revolutionary era. It embodies the CCP's ideal relationships with the people, emphasizing that officials should listen closely to people's needs and serve the people through benevolent policies. I argue that socialist deliberative democracy upgrades this old-fashioned working guideline into a modern form of democracy. At the core, both highlight decision-making through consulting the people; they share the goal of collecting public support and supervising local officials. Yet borrowing semantic similarities with the western notion, promotion of deliberative democracy appears a remarkable advancement in political reform that does not challenge the CCP's leadership.
I employ a new national survey of over 2000 Chinese officials to examine how public officials perceive and practice the "socialist deliberative democracy." I identified questions that were conceptually related to relations with the people. Principal Component Analysis suggests a dominant latent trait exists in their responses. I performed Confirmatory Factor Analysis to test the hypothesized structure of the orientation, and validated the results using Latent Trait Analysis. Results show that Chinese officials vary along a spectrum of democratic orientation: While some believe the public should participate in decision making, a considerable body indeed holds paternalistic views that officials should make decisions for the people. The orientation varies by the levels of education, time in office, and administrative levels.
Roughly one-third of officials interpret democracy according to the mass line. Democratic-oriented officials consider deliberative democracy as a benevolent means to consult the public, monitor public officials, and scientific policy-making. Paternalistic-oriented officials, contrarily, value its utilitarian function for collecting public support, mitigating conflicts, or believe it is merely a political show for career advancement without yielding substantial impacts. Regression analyses further show that democratic-oriented officials are significantly more likely to engage people in decision making through channels such as public hearings and online forums.
This study suggests that the "socialist deliberative democracy" deeply coincides with the CCP's political philosophy. Local officials perceive and practice deliberative democracy in accordance with their latent democratic orientations, which may open up a promising ground for public participation, or turn it into window dressing.
Xuan Qin - firstname.lastname@example.com - Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
China, a country with a long history of authoritarianism is permeated with various deliberative democratic practices during the past 20 years, such as public forum, public hearing and resident's meeting. However, most of the existing researches on Chinese deliberative democracy are qualitative analysis focused on single cases; it is hard to see quantitative studies dealing with a large number of cases to provide a comprehensive picture. My study attends to fill this gap. This study collects data of 207 public price hearings in China to test the correlation between "authoritarian level" and "public concern". Using the authoritative theory of Mark Warren, this study comes to the conclusion that both of the efficiency and legitimacy will be improved if the authoritative resources could be distributed more to the "settled" issues with less controversies.


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Today it is my pleasure to Welcome romance author Darcie Wilde to HJ!
Hi Darcie and welcome to HJ! We're so excited to chat with you about your new release, The Accidental Abduction!
Do you think you could have survived in the regency romance era? Why or why not?
Survived? Certainly. The question is, as who? I would have definitely been middle or working class. My mother would have been a teacher and "charity worker." My father would have been an engineer. So, I would have had a decent upbringing, and probably some schooling. Had I married as I have married in modern times to a university lecturer, we would have had a good income, enough for a modest home, a few servants, etc. Nothing fancy, but decidedly above the poverty level. If I stayed "hardy" and had easy pregnancies, I would have had as good a chance as anyone.
If you had to summarize the book for the readers here
It is a book about attempts to run — from family, from self, from feeling, from past and secrets, and how that all changes when you begin to run towards something rather than away.
Please tell us about the characters in your book?
Both Harry and Leannah are feeling constrained by the expectations they feel their families have for them. Harry that he will always be the stout and steady fellow. Leannah that she will always sacrifice to save others who depend on her. Their coming together is both a rebellion against these expectations and a need for someone to support and understand them. That it grows into true love comes very much as a surprise to all concerned.
As you wrote your protagonist was there anything about them that surprised you?
Leannah is a widow. She was married young to a much older, much richer man. Her relationship with her first husband was in some ways a very good one, although it was very complicated. The depth of it, and the echoes of it that reverberated for the character all through the book did surprise me. The strength of Harry's personal rebellion was another shocker. I really had expected him to be a more mellow sort.
Please share a few fun facts you learned from your research into this particular era? Anything weird or totally unexpected?
The Panorama at Covent Garden was really strange. It was a large, and really complex arrangement of painted screens and lights that people walked through and got the illusion of walking through some famous scene, like the Battle of Waterloo. A very big deal at the time, with thousands of people visiting every day. Also, hostesses giving balls would sometimes commission artists to decorate their floors with elaborate chalk drawings that everyone would see and exclaim over when the doors were opened, and then would gradually be destroyed over the course of the evening as everybody proceeded to dance on top of them.
Did any scene have you crying or laughing while writing it?
I could cop out and say the whole book. I'd only be exaggerating a little. Harry and Leannah really took hold of their story strongly. I really did enjoy writing the scene at the beginning where Harry thinks he's rescuing Leannah from a runaway carriage:
Harry gritted his teeth, and didn't let himself think about what he was doing. With the carriage rocking at breakneck speed, the horses straining against rein, bit and bridle, he clambored over the carriage seat trying to get to the driver's box. His hand slipped and his elbow buckled and he was staring at the rushing pavement, but he caught the edge of the box again, and pulled and swung himself around just so, and he was up beside the woman.
He slapped his hands down over hers; had just enough time to realize she wasn't wearing gloves and that they were skin to skin, before he pulled back hard.
"What are you doing!" she cried.
"Let go!" he shouted. "I've got them! They're slowing!"
"I don't want them slowed, you idiot!"
The butt of her whip caught him in the guts. The blow, aided by sheer and complete shock — toppled Harry backwards, onto the seat, and then onto the boards.
"Get up! Get up, there!" The woman cracked the whip over the team's head. The horses charged forward.
Harry pushed himself to his knees again. Outrage cleared the last of the fog from his eyes. It also let him see the situation. The woman — bent low, lashing the space between her horses ears — was not panicked. She was not trying to hold onto runaways. She was driving at the absolute the limit of the horses' speed and the carriage's endurance.
"Stop!" Harry shouted.
"No!" she shouted back. "Sorry!" she added.
"You'll crash us!"
"Watch me!"
Did he actually hear pride in her voice?
I'm being abducted, Harry thought as he pushed himself back into a sitting position. By a madwoman.
If your book was optioned for a movie, what scene would you use for the audition of the main characters and why?
There's a scene in a stable where Harry and Leannah have every rational reason to say good-bye to each other, but both make a very different choice. It would take some seriously good acting and chemistry to convey the internal realities and reasoning of the characters at that moment.
If you could have given your characters one piece of advice before the opening pages of the book, what would it be and why?
Never underestimate yourself. Or your little sister.
What are you currently working on? What other releases so you have planned for 2014?
I have a couple of new projects going that I'm very excited about, both mysteries. The first is a new series set in the Regency that begins with a murder inside the sacred precincts of Almacks. It's been such fun delving into Regency England from, for me, an entirely new angle. The second is a contemporary cozy set in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with magic, and cats.
Where can readers get in touch with you?
My website is www.darciewilderomance.com. I'm also on Facebook and Twitter (Darcie_Wilde). I'd love to have some more tweet-peeps!
Thanks for blogging at HJ!
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There was a soft knock at the door. Leannah looked up, expecting to see Mrs. Jessop again, but instead, it was Harry Rayburn who shouldered his way into the parlor. He had doffed his rain-drenched coat and now wore just his shirtsleeves and waistcoat. The wooden tray he carried was loaded with clean cloths, towels, a steaming kettle and a tin basin. He'd draped a thick, white wool shawl over his arm as well. She noticed how his fair hair was badly touseled from having been rubbed dry, as were his wiskers. Really, they were a sight to behold. Despite her worries, Leannah felt herself smile.
"I've had a word with the stable lad, Martin," Mr. Rayburn told her as he set the tray on the table by the fire. "He confirms what the landlord said. The only trade this evening's been the mail coach and some farmers stopping by for a pint before the rain came on. But they were in fact expecting a Mr. Dickenson and a young lady, and they were to have separate rooms ready."
"Which means Genevive at least planned to come this way."
"And that this Dickenson meant for them to stay the night, within bow shot of London." Mr. Rayburned frowned as he poured hot water into the basin. "Not something I would have expected for an elopement."
Genny, what are you doing? Leannah automatically pushed her hair back from her cheeks and winced again. Mr. Rayburn moved toward her, but stopped in his tracks. Their landlord might be be mistaken as to their exact identities, but they weren't alone anymore. He couldn't casually touch her now. Someone might see the violation of propriety.
Leannah didn't want propriety. She wanted someone else to be strong, just for a minute. She wanted to collapse and cry. But that wasn't allowed either.
"However, that's neither here nor there," Mr. Rayburn went on. "It's safe to assume they've been delayed by the rain. All we have to do now is wait for them to turn up."
"Oh, is that all?" Leannah repeated wearily. "I'd rather be trying to run them down."
"Believe me, I understand the sentiment. Here, you'd better get this shawl around you." Mr. Rayburn was trying to sound brisk but the words were kept catching in his throat. "Mrs. Jessop is seeing about some dry clothes. I told her the luggage was delayed with the servants. And we need to get those cuts washed." He indicated the basin. "It's been my experience that dirt can slow down the healing."
"Thank you." She stood to reach for the shawl he held out at arm's length. It was thick, undyed wool, made soft by time and much wear. She took it carefully, so as to not let her hand touch his. Her body had come too close to betraying her enough times tonight. She could not court fresh tempatation. "I seem to be thanking you a great deal, but you've done so much." She drew the shawl close about her.
"All part of the service," he answered with what she was coming to think of as his habitual smile.
Leannah found did not want to look at Mr. Rayburn anymore. She did not need to see him with his collar and cravat loose, exposing the intricate lines of his throat with its sprinking of golden stubble, or the swell of his Adam's apple. She especially did not need to see the curve of his shoulders and arms beneath the plain white linen of his shirt. Instead, Leannah got to her feet and turned her attention to the basin of steaming water. She plunged her hands into it. The heat was scalding, and Leannah hissed and jerked her hands back.
Of course Mr. Rayburn was right there. "Here," he said and she knew she did not imagine the tremor in his deep, patient voice. "Let me."
Leannah knew exactly what she should say in this moment. No. Thank you. I can do this myself. You needn't trouble. Truly. But she didn't say it. She only held out her hands. Mr. Rayburn dipped a cloth into the water and wrang it out. He took her right hand in his. With infinite gentleness, he dabbed at the raw, straight gash on her palm, clearing away the caked grime. It hurt, but the pain was nowhere near as powerful as the sensation of his skin against hers. She could feel every nuance of his fingers. If she'd been a properly bred miss, his callouses would have made her cringe. Instead, they fascinated her. She wanted to know what those rough hands would feel like caressing her bare arms, and tracing a warm line across the sentive skin of her throat, or her mouth, or her breasts.
Leannah couldn't even grit her teeth against the image, because she didn't want him to think he was hurting her. Mr. Rayburn took up a long strip of clean white linen. Quickly and efficiently, he wrapped it around her injured hand.
"You've had practice at this," she remarked, struggling to find some kind of intellectual distance that would keep her from slipping away with the rising tide of her need.
"Well, working in a warehouse, you see a few injuries."
"I would not have thought to find myself in such capable hands on this night." Now it was her words that made Leannah wince. The list of things she should not have said was growing unforgiveably long. She told herself it didn't matter. There was no one to hear. No one, except of course Mr. Rayburn himself. What would she do if he decided she was flirting with him?
What was she going to do if it turned out she was?
Book Info:
A headlong flight across London to stop an elopement leads to a hasty wedding between strangers….A sizzling new romance for fans of Sarah MacLean and Elizabeth Hoyt.
Harold Rayburn is about to be taken for the ride of his life…
After having his proposal rejected by a beautiful but flighty woman, Harry vows he is done with unpredictable and impetuous women for good. Until beautiful and fierce Leannah Wakefield barrels into his life, inadvertently kidnapping him while on a wild carriage ride and leaving him all too eager to get back in the saddle…
Leannah would sacrifice everything to protect her family. So upon hearing of her sister's intended elopement, she races across London to stop the ill-advised ceremony before it can happen. However, when her mad journey picks her up an unlikely stowaway, one who ignites her desire beyond all reason, she's the one who ends up hastily wedding a handsome and secretive stranger.
But as Leannah and Harry immediately encounter opposition, jealousy, and suspicion of their hurried nuptials, they begin to doubt that their unquenchable passion can truly lead to a happy marriage—especially when both the bride and groom have devastating secrets to hide…
Author Bio
A longtime resident of the Great Lakes State, Darcie Wilde writes her sizzling-hot romances in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is the author of Lord of the Rakes and The Accidental Abduction. When not actually writing, she lives out her own happily-ever-afters with her husband of fifteen years, one rapidly growing son, one cat, and one writer's group of infinite patience.


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I recently conducted a "classroom observation" of a colleague. This involves taking a seat in the back row, with the students who are streaming Netflix and, perhaps, passing a flask, and then "observing" the fellow at the lectern for an hour or so. It's not entirely clear what one is supposed to be on the lookout for, but my policy is to make sure that he doesn't expose himself, tell off-color jokes, or forget to show up. Within those limits, I figure it's his class.
I do try to follow the drift of the lecture, not so much because it is interesting as because an hour is a long time. In my recent observation, the professor had occasion to allude to the obscure and hypothetical process of abiogenesis, and to mention that this process "no longer operates." This piqued my interest.
I should mention that no student visibly started at this arresting statement. The diligent ones scribbled away in their notebooks, just as they have since the second grade. The negligent ones displayed their usual negligence.
As a Christian, I am, of course, committed to some sort of "creationism." I'm disinclined to dogmatism when it comes to the precise manner in which the creative act took place, or the precise circumstances in which the Creator delegates matters to secondary causes, so the implausibility of abiogenesis is not the lynchpin of my faith. At the same time, I do find it curious, and perhaps of theological significance, that abiogenesis appears no longer to occur, if it occurred in the first place.
Before commenters begin pelting me with lectures on proteins or peptides or whatever else the specialists see as relevant, let me confess that my knowledge of abiogenesis rests entirely on the Disney movie Fantasia, specifically the dramatic scenes that accompany Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. You know: primal ooze, bolt of lightning, slithering salamanders, and then mighty T Rex rears his head and roars. No doubt the science has moved on a bit since 1940, but that's my idea of abiogenesis.
And with that idea in mind, it does seem very odd that the process should have stopped. If it were not odd, it would have to be because we have a good explanation why it stopped. But based in my colleague's rather offhanded remark, I take it that we don't. After all, if primal ooze in the past was more abundant, or of higher quality, it would be a simple matter to mention this fact. The same is true of prehistoric lightning.
So, what occurred to me as I sat in the back row making my classroom observation was that my colleague had rather nonchalantly stepped across an intellectual crevasse that was, perhaps, only three feet wide, but which was at the same time about one thousand miles deep. And the diligent students scribbled away while the negligent students were negligent.
This unimportant incident points to a fundamental problem with the modern university. It's not the football team, although that is a problem. It's not the binge drinking, although that is a problem, too. It's not even the fraternities. It's the fact that there is no sun at the center of the universe. It's the fact that what lies at the center is a crevasse. This crevasse may be only three feet wide, but it is a thousand miles deep, and all that professors do is nonchalantly step across it, while the diligent students scribble and the negligent students neglect.
Obviously I believe that the sun at the center of a university should be a true theology, since I believe that theology is the queen of all sciences, and that it is in relation to theology that all other sciences take their proper place and significance. But that's not the point I wish to make here. I will concede the possibility of a university built around a stern and manly atheology. What I deny is the possibility of a university built around a crevasse.


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Great story from Nicole D. in The Great White North! "I was bicycling in the country when I spotted a little black ball huddled against a guard-rail post on the side of a busy road. I checked in with local wildlife experts who told me it was probably orphaned and assured me they'd take it if I could capture it and deliver it to them –200 kilometers away! With the help of an old pair of leather gloves, a plastic bin and family members who each drove a part of the way, we relayed the little critter to the Toronto Wildlife Centre where they will take care of it until it is old enough to be released back to the wild."
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One of our clients is a pet food company. As such, I spend quite a bit of time looking at pictures of dogs and cats.
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RAILA, MUDAVADI and other political big shots to sign MoU in December - ODM saysOther Political News, Politics 00:11
Saturday, 29 October 2016 - Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) senior officials have said that CORD leader, Raila Odinga, and Amani National Congress party leader, Musalia Mudavadi, are going to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in December so that they can form a formidable alliance to oust the Jubilee Government in 2017.
Speaking to journalists on Thursday, CORD Chief Executive Officer, Norman Magaya, said Raila and Mudavadi will seal the deal in December where they will decide on who will be the opposition's presidential flag bearer.
"The relationship among all principals is very cordial, all are working aggressively to galvanise the alliance. They consult very regularly and plans are underway to put pen and paper and agree on a campaign plan of action from December to August 2017," said Magaya.
Political analyst, Edward Kisiangani, of Kenyatta University said the opposition will pose a serious threat to Jubilee if it chooses one flag bearer.
"Yes they can send Jubilee home if they rally behind one candidate and mobilize their bases to register as voters," Kisiangani said.


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#21 Jun 24, 2013
Oh I agree with you. She shouldn't have gotten snippy. That was way out of line, but I rather suspect that is common for her and not restricted to just one incident.
I must have missed what Rush said about Kirk, but I'm not surprised. We have a double standard for almost everything in this country.
#22 Jun 24, 2013
Do you really think those "readers choice" contests are real? I have swamp land in florida to sell you! The newspaper picks a business that advertises with them or that they are pretty sure they can convince to buy a ad in their "special section". It would tick off advertisers if a non-advertiser won the title- no matter how many votes they received. Know for a fact It has always been rigged!!!
#23 Jun 25, 2013
I am not sure where Madori's does their advertising and you may be correct about the award being "rigged." I do know that you completely missed the point of what I stated, which is the person that claimed the store was dirty could not/did not provide any details as to what was actually dirty about the store. Furthermore, based on the subsequent comments to mine very few, if anyone agrees with the comment that the store is dirty.
#24 Jun 25, 2013
I didn't miss anything. Just didn't care to comment on that portion of your response. I haven't been in madoris enough to have a solid opinion on their cleanliness. But I do remember wondering how old their lunch meat is?? Based on the volume of sales I wouldn't risk buying it.
I did comment about your impression of madoris built on fake and manipulated reader poll results, though. They are totally faked so the southtown can optimize their ad sales.
5yr Midlo Resident
Since: Apr 09
#25 Jun 25, 2013
I can't attest to "fake" or not, but a local business posted this on their FB page today.
You can vote for the best in the southland for 2013. If you don't have a suggestion you can put N/A.
#26 Jun 25, 2013
So you are saying that.you haven't been in enough to comment on their cleanliness but you have been in enough to know what volume?
#27 Jun 25, 2013
Didn't notice if the floors, cutting boards, slicers, employees hands, knives, or counter tops were clean but
You only have to go in once to see a deli counter with no customers!
Wouldn't that make most people question how old their lunch meat is? How long has it been there?
Would you eat lunch meat from a little deli that sell a couple orders a day??? Go to jewel where they sell tons of it and its not sitting around for a month.
So yes, volume of sales was my concern as it should be all their customers. And the health inspector !
#28 Jun 25, 2013
I understand completely what you are saying in comparison with Jewel.
I went to McDoalds on Saturday...nobody in drive thru..nobody at inside counter...foes that mean they don't do any business?
When Madoris doubled in size a few years ago there was a substantial add on done to the deli area. That leads me to believe he is doing pretty well in that department. He also employs 2 girls full time at all times to work the deli. Most times I call ahead when ordering and they always thank me(except for the witch) which leads me to believe they are busy doing something besides leaning on counters waitting for meat to spoil. Just guessing here, he probably just runs to Restaurant Depot right up the street and may have a better handle on inventory then Jewel does. Maybe not...I don't know.for sure. I like supporting small businesses, especially small Midlo businesses, but again, I understand your concerns.
5yr Midlo Resident
Since: Apr 09
#29 Jun 26, 2013
I'm sure a counter like that is busy cyclically.
#30 Jun 27, 2013
Right. You don't care if it sounded racist. Because you're racist and you don't care!
See how easy that was?
OK ... let's review shall we?
So far we've seen you:
1) Respond with a link showing the mental hospitals you obviously post from;
2) "Ramble" on and on in a medical stupor when only ONE word SKIN COLOR was necessary;
3) Blame your phone (and it's auto-correct feature) for your own habitual remediality;
4) Post questions in response to questions rather than post A-N-S-W-E-R-S to the questions you're asked;
5) LIE and say you weren't going to waste your time responding to me before continuing to respond in an attempt to "argue and debate" with me;
6) Try to change the topic - the latest one being whatever Bobby Rush said about Kirk - when it has nothing at all to do with anything you've been asked about;
7) "Spin like a top" (just like I said you would in post in post 11) to somehow justify your continued racism via whatever Bobby Rush said about Kirk - again ... when nobody on here asked you a God damn thing about it;
8) Pat yourself on the back for how fairly you deal with things and "moving on" which apparently translates to harassing female employees and trying to justify it with "But I'M the CUSTOMER who's always right!";
and (my personal favorite)...
9) Cry "WAAAAAAAA ... but (sniffle) she (sniffle sniffle) got snippy first, mommy!"
WOW! That's quite a list there!
Now tell me which of the 9 above answers my question? You have nine options to choose from there.
Here, I'll ask it again: What is the skin color of ALL the perpetrators in the examples I listed?
Surely at least one of the NINE above must contain an answer, right?
I'll reduce it to a one-word fill-in-the-blank again ...
The skin color of ALL the perpetrators in ALL those examples I listed was ______.
C'mon ... fill in that blank there loudmouth!
I'll bet you add a tenth item to the list before you add the ONE word SKIN COLOR to the blank at the end of that sentence.
Anybody know the Vegas over-under on this one?
#31 Jun 27, 2013
I have been in there twice. Both times the deli people were not very nice. Like I was bothering them. I go elsewhere. The first time when my husband and I went in there, she rolled her eyes at my order. I gave them another chance. I was not impressed with the service. I do try to support local businesses, but I won't put up with that.
#32 Jun 30, 2013
Why are you infatuated with Midloguy's appraisal of Antique Farm Equipment ?
Welfare entitlements and abortion are now the weapons of choice used by the Leftist Democrat's. Prior to the welfare state, the strong arm of the Democrats was the KKK.
Those racist Democrats would host Mississippi Wind Chime parties and cling to Jim Crow.
Remember the "Segregation Forever Speech" by Democratic Governor George Wallace ?
Midlowuss, you Leftists have no deductive reasoning. Your ideology gets in the way of FACTS !
You are only a Useful Idiot to the Mulatto in Chief and the Democratic Elite.
#33 Jun 30, 2013
"Infatuated with Midloguy's appraisal of Antique Farm Equipment?"
I'll make it really easy for you since you clearly can't read ..
And I even listed the many reasons why previously on this thread and several others.
But the best part is that now I get to go after you since you stuck your nose in ... and I'm gonna love every second of it too!
Why did you conveniently forget to mention that the vast majority of "welfare" is CORPORATE welfare - the kind you guys are in love with?
Got an answer?
Tell you what ... when you repukes stop handing that out like candy to the already filthy rich, then we'll talk about all the trash (red state conservatives) who are addicted to social welfare. And if you don't like so many people being increasingly dependent on social welfare, then put an end to the "elitist" republican corporate-ass-kissing policies that have made more and more people dependent on it.
Then there's your budget-exploding and deficit-creating tax breaks for the already insanely rich. You said those rounds of tax breaks were needed for them to hire HERE. And now you bitch and moan constantly about the unemployment rate that you said exploding the budget was supposed to miraculously fix.
Why did you lie and say if the job OUTSOURCERS got all those tax breaks they would hire?
Got an answer?
You guys ran on "JOBS JOBS JOBS!" to get elected and take over the House (where bills originate) right?
Well, where are the jobs? Hell, where are the jobs BILLS? Why did you guys lie and say you would focus on "JOBS JOBS JOBS!" just to get elected and then spend all your time going after Obamacare, obstructing Obama every way you possibly could, and trying to restrict a woman's CONSTITUTIONAL right to abortion?
Got an answer?
The KKK was born from racist Dems who then ran over to the GOP side of the political fence after civil rights laws were passed.
Why didn't you mention that fact?
Got an answer?
C'mon ... let's see your "deductive reasoning" loudmouth!
This is gonna be great watching you spin like a top instead of post some answers. I'm gonna show everybody on here what happens when you uneducated conservative cowards try to out-debate a liberal by making you my new red-headed Topix stepchild!
It's time to "man up", grow a pair and start answering.
You're on!
#34 Jun 30, 2013
False: ""The KKK was born from racist Dems who then ran over to the GOP side of the political fence after civil rights laws were passed""
Fact:Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They all remained lifelong Democrats. As we know, Al Gore is a Democrat like his Racist Father.
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan. He never ran to the Republican Party. He was a U.S. Senator until his passing in June of 2010.
President Bill Clintons mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
The last time I checked Clinton and his Benghazi debacle wife remain Democrats.
Midlowuss you truly are a Useful Idiot ! LOL
#35 Jun 30, 2013
Yep .. there's that "spinning like a top" rather than answering I was talking about - ZERO answers to four questions.
"False: "The KKK was born from racist Dems who then ran over to the GOP side of the political fence after civil rights laws were passed"
See, that's not an answer, coward.
Are you a conservative by chance who's "conservative" with his literacy, education and his recollection of history?
Jot this down: Your convenient recollection of historical facts won't work here - this is not Faux "news".
Here, I'll ask those questions again, coward. And I'll even number them for you so you can't say you didn't see them.
1) Why didn't you mention that the KKK was born from racist Dems who then ran over to the GOP side of the political fence after civil rights laws were passed?
2) Why did you conveniently forget to mention that the vast majority of "welfare" is CORPORATE welfare - the kind you guys are in love with?
3) Why did you lie and say if the job OUTSOURCERS got all those tax breaks they would hire?
4) Well, where are the jobs? Hell, where are the jobs BILLS? Why did you guys lie and say you would focus on "JOBS JOBS JOBS!" just to get elected and then spend all your time going after Obamacare, obstructing Obama every way you possibly could, and trying to restrict a woman's CONSTITUTIONAL right to abortion?
That's the last 4 all over again right there.
Now let's look at the following link here:
And here's the next question for you to run from.
Did conservative media not tell you any of this because they were too busy lying to you about: Romney's "surging in the polls" to an "electoral landslide"; you teapukes gaining more seats in the House or taking back the Senate; that fake ACORN video that just cost O'Keefe $100,000 dollars in court; the splice-job Breitbart video about Sherrod; or Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller lies about Menendez and that escort who said she paid to make up the bogus claims and never even met or seen the senator?
5) Well? Is that why you don't know anything about the incriminating republican history of civil rights and the KKK?
Yes or no? This is not an essay question! One word is all I need there.
Let me know when you can "man up" (probably after you learn how to pull your skirt down) maybe then you can answer those questions for us!
You're 0-1 with your responses so far. But don't worry ... I'll count off your increasing number of CUT AND RUNS each time you post.
#36 Jun 30, 2013
Go back and read my post. I answered your statement/ question as False.
I then backed up my answer with Facts.
Your ideology gets in the way of rational thought.
Debating with a Useful Idiot only makes me a Idiot.
#37 Jun 30, 2013
That'a boy!
Run away like a typical conservative coward who can't count to 5.
You sure showed me ... just like your buddy midlo did when he tucked his tail between his legs and ran in the other direction as fast as he possibly could!
This just gets easier and easier with you uneducated conservative morons.
But thanks for playin'...
LOL! I win again!!!
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I'm back. Marketing efforts for #RiteOfRejection are still going strong with the Blog Tour and more. I'll be keeping you updated on those. For now, I'm itching to get back to my regular blog schedule.
For new readers, Agency Lessons is a weekly post where I share a bit of insider literary agent information for writers looking to make their book dreams come true. This week, let's talk about historicals.
All kidding aside, I think books set in the past can be wonderful. But like most trends, a lot of writers want to hop on the train without really understanding where it's going. References to the Care Bears, molded plastic lunch boxes and baggy sweatshirts cover the pages, but the essence of that time period is missing.
Before you launch into a novel lauding all things flannel, grunge and heavy black eyeliner, ask yourself why. Does your book need to be set in the 1980s or 1990s? Why? What about that time period impacts the story line? How does the culture of those days change how your character responds to the conflicts and tensions in their life? What moments in time play a role in your plot? These decisions should be made with a reason.
There is nothing wrong with writing a book that takes the reader back in time. I'm all about reliving the glory days of Adidas shoes and Umbro shorts. But your story needs more than just the occasional reference. It needs to capture the reality of living during that time period, which means it should be ingrained in every part of your story.


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Here's where all the pain and suffering of receiving critiques finally pays off. You get to sit down with your writing project and make it even better.
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