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College to Offer New Courses during Spring Semester
Potomac State College will be offering three new courses for students this spring ranging in topics from Cinderella to Foreign Cultures to stories for children.
"Once upon a time, a course called Fairy Tales, Storytelling, and Adaptation was to be offered for the Spring 2015 semester." This class focuses on fairy tales and how these stories cross cultures and survive through time. Many of the fairy tales you know date back thousands of years.
Cinderella was not always a pretty princess in training. Sometimes she was not kind, and sometimes she was not even a she. Many cultures tell of cinder lads and handsome men waiting for the kiss of a helpful princess.
The course will look at several popular fairy tales including but not limited to Blue Beard, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, the Frog Prince, Beauty and the Beast, Godfather Death, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Pig King, Rapunzel, and Rumpelstiltskin.
Students will also read modern revisions of classic stories and will have a chance to study fairy tales in film and television. The course explores many theories about fairy tales, including the idea that fairy tales are dangerous, restrictive, and a threat to children. Students will also examine the roles of heroes and villains as they consider why some people cheer for the wicked witches and stepmothers.
So, if you want to know why Prince Charming rarely has a first name, why Maleficent is often more interesting than Aurora, and why the Miller's Daughter may prefer Rumpelstiltskin to her prince, this is the class for you. English 293N, CRN 18435, meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. For more information about the class, contact Martha Johnson-Olin at firstname.lastname@example.com
If you are instead interested in traveling the world but just don't have the time or money to do so right now? Cultural Anthropology offers students a glimpse into different ways of living, of eating, of dating, of marrying, of believing.
Many people have no idea that there are still cultures that don't have contact with the outside "modern" world and who still hunt and gather for food. Find out how a flood in China can affect you personally. No matter your major, you will take things away from this class that you will be able to apply to your education, your career and your personal relationships. The instructor will be Catie Snider. The class will meet every Thursday, from 1 to 2:15 p.m. in Science Hall, Room 204. For further information about the course, contact Ms. Snider at email@example.com
The third new class this spring will be Literature for Children . Literature for Children is a survey of children's literature with attention given to historical development as well as current trends in children's literature.
Emphasis will be on the selection, critical evaluation and utilization of literary materials for developmental, recreational and curriculum needs.
This is an upper-level course that may be of particular interest to students working on their Regent's Bachelor of Arts Degree, criminal justice majors, business majors, or elementary education majors.
Professional teachers may also want to take this course in order to keep up with the current trends in children's literature.
Because many of the students taking this class may also work full time during the day, this class will be offered on Wednesdays from 6 to 8:45 p.m., beginning January 14.
The instructor for the class is Heidi Gardner, who has been teaching at the College since 2005. She is the current instructor in religious studies, but has also taught courses in English, speech, communications, and music.
Gardner earned her bachelor's degree in art from Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Va., her master's degree in library science from Clarion University in Pennsylvania and also attended Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Ind.
For more information or to enroll in any of these classes, contact Enrollment Services at 304-788-6820 or 800-262-7332


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In order to achieve the best outcomes for our clients, partnership working is vital. We work with a range of partners and organisations to ensure that our clients are able to access appropriate support to progress to the next stage of their lives without unecessary difficulties.
We have built strong, effective links and projects with local authorities and agencies including Exeter City Council, East Devon, Mid Devon, Torbay and Teignbridge Councils. We enjoy a good reputations with other statutory agencies such as D & C Police, HMP Exeter, Dorset, devon & Cornwall Rehabilitation Company, Job Centre Plus, DWP, Clock Tower Surgery as well as local partners including Exeter CVS, CoLab, Exeter CAB, Community Housing Aid, Exeter Community Initiatives and many more.
We support and participate in new initiatives such as MEAM (Make Every Adult Matter), ICE (Integrated Care Exeter) and Safe Sleep (emergency winter accommodation).
In order to ensure information is shared between key agencies, we hold regular meetings with the city's Assertive Homeless Outreach Team, BCHA who run the city's hostel Gabriel House and Exeter City Council Housing Options.

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Do I Have To?
Writers - Tennant/Lowe
First released - 1987
Original album - Alternative
Producer - Pet Shop Boys
Subsequent albums - Actually 2001 reissue Further Listening 1987-1988 bonus disc
Other releases - b-side of single "Always on My Mind"
Neil says that the title of this song, which served as the b-side of the "Always on My Mind" single, was inspired by a phrase Chris often uses when complaining about something. (On a promo trip in Japan, for instance, Neil reports that Chris said it "about 15 times a day.") He wrote the lyrics as if he were talking to a person who's dating someone who already has a steady boyfriend. The narrator of the song—or at least one of the narrators—is clearly worried that he's watching a situation in which one or more people are going to be badly hurt.
I'll be the first to admit that it's a difficult song to understand, at least beyond these basic generalities. The lyrics seem to raise as many questions as they answer, the key one being "Do I have to… "—what? In fact, it sounds to me as if the narrator actually shifts between the verses and the chorus—that two different people are talking. But only Neil could say that for sure. The only thing that I can say with any certainty is that the song describes an interpersonal situation that I, for one, surely wouldn't want to be a part of.
- "Say you phoned your best friend and Scotland Yard" – Scotland Yard is of course the well-known metonym (a figure of speech in which something is referred to not by its true name but rather by the name of something else closely associated with it) for London's Metropolitan Police Service. It derives from the original location of the London Police Service's central office.
Officially released
- Mixer:
Bob Kraushaar
- Single/Alternative version (5:14)
- Mixer: Stuart Price
- Pandemonium CD live version (3:14)
List cross-references
- Real places mentioned by name in PSB songs
- PSB songs that have been used in films and "non-musical" TV shows
- Songs written by PSB that were inspired by AIDS (plus a few more debatable interpretations)
- Burning questions posed by the titles of PSB songs
- PSB titles and lyrics that are (or may be) sly innuendos
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I wrote last week on estate planning, and well … the response was such that I'm returning to the topic today. This time, for some "bigger picture" words on the subject.
But before I get there, IMPORTANT TAX NOTE:
Personal returns that were extended during "tax season" are due WEDNESDAY, October 15th.
That means that if you're someone we've been working with on an extension, and we are waiting on something from you … well, this week would be a marvelous time to send it our way! And, of course, we're working like bees in a garden to get all of our extended clients finished with the excellence to which you're accustomed.
Which is actually a great segue to what I want to write about today.
In our line of work (as with many, I suppose), it's so easy to get hung up on processes and outcomes — and forget about the big picture.
And while we speak of preserving assets (both financial AND "intangible") from being overly taxed, and developing good procedures and structures for emergency situations — some families (and their estate planners) can forget what's most important in any sound estate plan.
Valerie McLaughlin's
"Real World" Personal Strategy Note
Estate Planning's Best Outcome
"The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles." – William Penn
The most important product of estate planning isn't only avoiding probate or reducing estate tax exposure, it's achieving family harmony. As a result, we must watch out for personal dynamics that might threaten disharmony when a person dies or becomes incapacitated.
First, think carefully when you choose your executor or trustee. Being selected to manage an estate for someone who can no longer do so because of death or incapacity is an implicit compliment. It shows you trust the person you've named to do the right thing in the right way.
But it is also a very big job. Unfortunately, it can–and often does–feel like a thankless one. And what's worse is that lack of thoughtful planning too often results in irreconcilable family feuds.
We all know that someone must settle our estate when we die. But because people live longer these days, more of us will experience a period of incompetence before our death. We must plan for the possibility that someone will become responsible for our physical and financial well-being long before a final settlement of the estate can be made.
We often choose a close family member, who probably has no knowledge of what's required of a "fiduciary" (the term used to describe a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another). Taking on a new and unfamiliar task is stressful and difficult, especially if your life is already full.
Remember that serving as a fiduciary, whether as an agent under a power of attorney, an executor under a will, or a trustee under a trust agreement, is a post of honor, but it is not an honorary post.
Don't name an oldest child just because he or she was born first. Ask yourself if your oldest has the traits of a good executor or trustee. Is he organized? Is she trustworthy? Will he see a job through to completion? Is she diplomatic and fair-minded? Might he abuse the position to settle old scores and wounds that are sometimes 30 years in the making? Is she sensible? Will he know when he is over his head and needs professional help?
In short, given all your available choices, is this child the best person for the job?
People sometimes want to name more than one executor, so that no child will feel left out. If you're so inclined, ask yourself, "Am I putting two scorpions in the same bottle?" The administration of an estate is not intended to be a therapeutic exercise that will ameliorate 20 years of bad feelings between brothers.
Now don't get me wrong. Co-executors can be a good way to go. But ask yourself first if they are people who can work together. Will they help or hinder each other?
Second, think through how you are leaving your estate behind. Family disharmony provisions are all too common.
For example, if you are in a second marriage, it's sometimes hard to be fair both to your spouse and to the children of your first marriage. In one situation, a 50-year-old man had concerns about his father's will. His dad left virtually everything in trust for his second wife. Such a trust commonly provides limited amounts of income and principal to the spouse during the surviving spouse's lifetime. When she dies, the assets pass to his children from his first marriage.
But because the stepmother is 55 years old, Dad effectively disinherited his kids. Don't set up a plan where your children are waiting for their stepmother to die to get their inheritance. Think of creative ways to be evenhanded to your present spouse and your children when you die. And there could be problems naming either the stepmother or the children as trustee.
Another planned disaster is leaving real estate equally to all your children. In many states, real estate drops like a rock through probate. It's not like money you can divide up equally. If your kids can't agree unanimously on what to do with the real estate, it can be a serious problem, as often the only remedy the law provides is a partition suit. To keep the peace, provide an enforceable mechanism for either one child to buy out his or her siblings or for an executor to sell the real estate and divide the net proceeds up among the children.
Here is another dilemma that requires special consideration. You might recognize the need for one of your children to have his or her inheritance left in trust because of a poor credit record, mental instability, financial instability or a bad marriage.
Suppose that child resents the arrangement, which is quite possible. Who are you going to name as trustee of that child's trust? Are you going to name a sibling as the trustee of another sibling's inheritance? How will that decision affect the sibling relationship?
And if you name a professional trustee, such as an attorney or bank, are you putting your child at the mercy of that professional trustee? What if they provide poor service after you die? Or raise their fees? All those problems go away if you give someone you trust–such as the child you were thinking about naming as trustee–the unlimited power to fire the professional trustee and appoint a new one. It's no surprise how much better professional trustees perform when they know they can be replaced at any time.
Estate planning begins with selecting the trustee who will handle it best. Probate and estate tax avoidance can be easy (with the right expert on your side). But selecting the best trustee is critical.
So be sure you structure everything legally in a way that will create unity, not animosity. Make that decision well, and you are halfway to drafting your estate plan with family harmony in mind.
And, of course, we're here to help.
Valerie McLaughlin
(410) 224-2600


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Quotes About Buying Time
Feeling prosperous means paying your utility bills on time and with a smile on your face. Prosperity means not only giving to the homeless person, but having a smile on your face when you do it. Prosperity also means buying fresh produce with a smile on your face instead of buying day-old bread or bargain overripe fruit with a scowl on your face. Still more, being prosperous means tipping generously with a smile on your face when the waiter has given you great service instead of trying to stiff him with a mere percent, or worse, no tip at all.Send Quote
On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think.Send Quote
Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.Send Quote
I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.Send Quote
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There's only one thing that all of the central banks control and that is the base, their own liability, and they can control that in various ways. They can control it directly by open market operations, buying and selling government securities or other assets, for example, buying and selling gold, or they can control it indirectly by altering the rate at which banks lend to one another.Send Quote
Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules, and rewards.Send Quote
Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value-that they have stopped playing the asset game. They're not buying because it's a company with certain attributes. They're buying because the price is rising. People are playing games not related to any concept at all of what the long-term value of the enterprise is. And they know it.Send Quote
In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.Send Quote
Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact that much of our life is spent buying and discarding, and buying again, things that are not good. Some of us long to have at least something, somewhere, which will give us harmony and a sense of durability""I won't say permanence, but durability""things that, through the years, become more and more beautiful, things we can leave to our children.Send Quote
Buying a share of a good business is better than buying a share of a bad business. One way to do this is to purchase a business that can invest its own money at high rates of return rather than purchasing a business that can only invest at lower ones. In other words, businesses that earn a high return on capital are better than businesses that earn a low return on capital.Send Quote
A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable to look at companies that were aggressively buying their own shares. They were motivated simply to buy below what it was worth.Send Quote
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.Send Quote
This morning take a few minutes to reflect on how you give of yourself to the world. Often we get caught up in the frenzy of buying and giving things. Look at the ways you give appreciation, friendship, energy, time, love, and affection, and give of your own special talents and abilities throughout the year. Acknowledge yourself for having enriched the lives of others. Spend some time loving yourself for the giving light that you are.Send Quote
Men's clothing hasn't changed in 200 years, maybe a lapel gets a little wider or a tie gets narrower from time to time. But it's usually always the same. There is stupidity in men's fashion. But women know who they are. They can change. Clothing is seductive for women. They get different personas by buying new clothes. But men don't.Send Quote
I'm a great believer in everything at the right time. Go on a crazy spree if it's the right time to do it but choose your moment carefully and beware of impulse buying.Send Quote
Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.Send Quote
Christmas is the time for celebration, so I'm not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process.Send Quote
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Democratic candidate for Governor files challenge against candidate Krist
Democratic candidate for Governor Tyler Davis filed with the Nebraska Supreme Court a Petition for Special Proceeding Regarding Elections asking the Court to review the Secretary of State's decision to accept Bob Krist's application as a Democratic candidate for Governor on Wednesday.
"I'm simply seeking to enforce the law and require all candidates for our party's nomination to comply," Tyler Davis said. "Mr. Krist has expressed an intent to run as a Republican, as an Independent, and as a candidate under "United Nebraska," a new political party, all in the last six months. I just want to protect the integrity of the Democratic ballot and make sure that anyone running for our Party's nomination is a legal candidate," Davis said.
Under Nebraska Law, a candidate must be affiliated with the political party for which he or she seeks the nomination by December 1st, 2017. Krist became a Democrat on February 13, 2018, long after the deadline. Pursuant to a long-standing custom, Secretary of State, John Gale, accommodated the application and expressed an intent to proceed to place Krist's name on the Democratic Primary ballot.
"Nebraska's elections, and the laws that govern them, should not be treated like a game," Davis said.
The Supreme Court will need to rule 55 days before the May 15th primary election or by March 21st.


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COMMENTARY TRACK: "Invincible Iron Man" #1 with Matt Fraction
|"The Invincible Iron Man" #1 on sale now
There's no hotter character in comics today than Iron Man. Fresh off a $100 million US opening last weekend, Marvel released two new Iron Man projects this week. The first, "Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas" comes from the director of the movie, Jon Favreau, with art by Iron Man icon and movie consultant Adi Granov. The second release is the first issue of a brand new ongoing series, "The Invincible Iron Man," by Matt Fraction ("The Immortal Iron Fist," "Punisher War Journal") and Salvador Larroca ("newuniversal," "X-Men").
"The Invincible Iron Man" is an action-packed, futurist alternative to Marvel's existing intrigue and espionage-esque "Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D." In conversation with CBR's Dave Richards, Fraction said of Tony Stark, "His best trait is that he's our vision of the future. He's the self made man, self-evolving. He's the future's pioneer, the Chuck Yeager of human evolution. He's at the forefront of what comes next."
In this week's COMMENTARY TRACK, Matt Fraction talks about the connections "The Invincible Iron Man" has to the movie — both accidental and purposeful — as well as the inspiration for the plot, the art of writing comics, Fraction's take on the characters, and more about the aim of the new series.
As always, SPOILER WARNINGS ARE IN FULL EFFECT.
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Matt Fraction: I came across this little factoid — 35,000 people with landlines in Africa vs. 126,000 with cell phones — and the opening for "The Invincible Iron Man" #1 just fell into my head. I'm fascinated by underground economies, by digital tech transforming the most analog of analog worlds. I was thinking about Gibson's maxim that "the street finds its own uses for things" (a theme that'll pop up later in this issue and this arc). It all swirled around in my head at once and there we were: Let's follow how a little bit of Tony Stark finds its way into the world of someone like Adimu Chiume and then, how a little bit of Adimu Chimue finds its way into the world of Tony Stark.
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MF: Here's the script for Panel 4 — one of those things that's easy to write, but puts a tremendous weight on the shoulders of the artist. When you've got a genius like Salva at the helm, though, it makes you look good:
PUSH IN ON ONE BOY: the burning light where his eyes used to be now catches inside of his mouth. His eyeballs and the soft flesh of his mouth and tongue are igniting here… it's as if a nuclear bomb is detonating inside of him. Which, in a way, it is.
Again, we're not certain what's happening to the boys; we're only aware that they've somehow caused this.
5 CAP They're speaking a language that isn't even human.
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CBR: The visual transition from the cell phone to the Iron Man armor, was that in the script, or was it Larocca's contribution?
MF: Yeah, that was scripted. It's one of my favorite transitional tools, and I've been looking for new ways to use it. Here it's not just as a visual motif — which works okay — but a thematic link, too. The phone is Tony is phone and all that.
Also, Stark is allll about the branding. I think it was in "Mighty Avengers" where he painted the Helicarrier red and yellow? Why wouldn't Tony want the lenses to match the Iron Man chest plate?
CBR: Talk about your vision of Tony Stark. Does he really think of himself as a dinosaur? Is he such a futurist that he's worried he won't see the future coming? Are things moving too fast for him because there are young upstarts in the world glomming onto things so much faster than he?
MF: This issue is really about Tony realizing that his thinking has been too 20th century for too long, and now it's caught the better of him. The dinosaurs are always the last to know they're on their way to extinction, y'know? Even Robert Moses couldn't get the Lower Manhattan Expressway built.
He's not worried he won't see the future coming — he's worried it won't be his future. This is who Tony is, as an alcoholic in recovery. Tony thinks he can control the world, that because he says no one else can use this technology, no one else will try. Tony doesn't get to rule the world, to control the way it spins and drives, simply because he wills it so. And that thought pattern, that behavior, is coming back to haunt him.
And to me it's not an issue that the whippersnappers are listening to the rock and roll with their VCRs, but that the whippersnappers are using VCRs in weird new ways, in post-modern, post-industrial, post-corporate ways. In ways he never thought of. Even William Gibson didn't envision cell phones.
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MF: This was the first image that came to me. I knew immediately — literally, the second I got the book — that we were gonna open with Tony, in space, fixing the belly of the shuttle. Our mission statement, if you will, in both the visual and the written: She'll fly again.
This, to me, is the epitome of Tony Stark, and of Iron Man: he's tomorrow's vanguard, he's Chuck Yeager, rocketing off into the unknown. He is man asserting his right over self-evolution; he's all of us, grabbing our bootstraps and fighting back against biology, against physics, against disease, against… against the way things are.
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CBR: So this is the sexy Iron Man series? Every guy is looking to get laid in the issue.
MF: Heh. Well, here's another essential key to Tony, for me– the cad, the ladies' man. The thing about Bond I always loved is his confidence in social situations — he always knows what to wear and how to wear it, what to order, what to drink, how to play Baccarat… the superspy stuff is a blast, but the character appeal to me — the real aspect of escapism and wish fulfillment to me — is in that social assurance. So I want to play that up in Tony.
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MF: She was a little too naked at first, and the coloring had to be darkened up. I keep trying to convince Marvel to publish a special "Too Hot For The Stands" variant edition and nobody returns my phone calls. Also, I have been fired.
I love Maria Hill. Love her. Love her, love her, love her.
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MF: S.H.I.E.L.D. recovering the chest ring was suggested by the book's editor Warren Simons. In initial drafts, that Tony just goes off and whoops a little ass was a bit too harsh, a bit psychotic and revenge-driven… tying the mechanical mystery in, this early on, gave Tony a mental puzzle to work around, and it rooted the attack in his intellect.
Anyway. It's notes like those why I love working with Warren.
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MF: This is me talking. Astronauts should be goddamn national heroes and they should have parades and baseball cards that kids trade on the playground. Now the only time anybody sees their faces is after they die.
When did we stop looking up? When did we stop aspiring to space?
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MF: So here's Zeke Stane. Let's talk about him for a second. When I was planning my Los Angeles superhero comic "The Order," it was announced that Jeff Bridges would be playing Obadiah Stane in the upcoming Iron Man movie. Now, longtime "Iron Man" fans know Stane melted his head off in "Iron Man" #200 and hasn't been around since. But I had a California book, a California team that was Tony's crown jewel, and so I thought, well, let's make a Stane the big bad, and get him back on the board in time for the movie.
I wasn't writing "Iron Man" then, I didn't know that "Invincible Iron Man" was in my future. I was just– like– looking out for the sandbox, y'know? Trying to predict things of use to the greater good.
(Now, for a while I wasn't sure if it would be Stane himself, somehow resurrected ((Quoth Warren Simons: "Stane, I believe, is dead, though. Or are you taking that into account?")), or a son-of-Stane. Eventually, the idea of having Tony face his, like, fifteen years younger worst nightmare opposite number won me over. It'd be an attack on his vanity and narcissism that way, y'know?)
Anyway, so I thought it'd be cool to have a Stane back in the Marvel Universe, screwing things up for Tony. He messed with the Order to test himself, to test Tony, to study his methods and his works… and now he's making his move.
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I used the Howard Johnson's from "2001 A Space Odyssey" as a reference for the JRJ waiting room, and Salva completely one-upped it. It's like Gerry Anderson designed an airport lounge or something. I almost feel bad for blowing it up.
Panel 5
I've been told that Salva is using Carlos Pacheco as the model for Stane. I've never met Mr. P. — can anyone confirm?
Page 10
MF: You heard it here first, folks: big tobacco execs are the new Nazis.
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MF: This was a great bit of business that Salva added, and it turned a pedestrian reveal into something really noteworthy and villainous. In the script, as Zeke was rattling on, he was digging in his backpack and pulls out the little finger cap death machine deals (modeled in my notes on Tom Waits' bizarre finger rigs from his role as Renfield in Francis Ford Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula").
But Salva gave him this fake skin stuff, and it's just soooo much cooler. And weirder. And, like, perfect.
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CBR: We love visuals of people jumping out of high-rise windows. Larroca's used a great couple of angles in these shots, particularly with the falling shards of glass looking to bring that close to the reader.
MF: I really relied on looking through the "newuniversal" book to get a kind of up-to-date state of Salva's chops, even though we'd worked together before on the (Eisner Nominated!) "Sensational Spider-Man Annual," he'd really gone to some great, crazy new places. I love the sense of motion frozen in time that Salva can achieve. This was a chance to flex some of those muscles.
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CBR: You're not going to crash the Helicarrier, are you?
MF: Pssh. That's so 2006.
CBR: The rest of the page gives us a great, succinct introduction to Rhodes and his relationship with Tony.
MF: Rhodey has his hands full in "The Initiative," so he'll be a bit of a cameo presence here for a while, so it's one of those things where we needed to hit it and quit. I was delighted to see how much our version of their interaction jibes with the movie.
I should say that here — I knew nothing about the movie ahead of time. I didn't see it early, didn't read the script, had no insight that Variety didn't offer me. So the tone here, with Pepper, and there's even a scene in issue #2 that echoes a scene from the film — totally a case of me making my best guess and sticking the landing.
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CBR: Can you name the characters in the hologram on that spread?
MF: This room — the Armormap Room — is important. Clearly there was some editorial help here. Here's the script for the panel, where you can see the limits of my thinking, and every Marvel writer's secret weapon:
THE BIG PANEL. Tony stands in the center of a round room, surrounded by a holographic map tracing every single armored character in the Marvel Universe. Around him, projected in a ring, are holographic images of them all; beneath him is a Mercator map of the world, tracing the current whereabouts of all these characters.
The characters are:
IRON MAN, WAR MACHINE, CRIMSON DYNAMO, CONTROLLER, BEETLE, STILT-MAN, BLACKLASH, BLIZZARD, THE MANDROIDS, STINGRAY, GHOST, THE GUARDSMEN, FIREPOWER, SPYMASTER, STILT MAN… I should call Slott and brainstorm more.
Lines lead from beneath them all to their current global locations; text blocks hover next to their heads and at where the lines terminate on the map. Tony has, in effect, spied these people entirely without their knowledge, and he keeps tabs on them at all times, living or dead.
It is a stunning visual array of computer holography, and an amazing sight to behold.
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MF: I wish I could get all my nutritional needs from a tube of goo.
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MF: This little bit of elevator chit-chat was a bit of foreshadowing for "Secret Invasion" #1. You know how when you have a machine about to fail, you catch little warning signs? This was me kind of nodding to that. Again, just another instance of trying to bring harmony to the sandbox.
(Now in terms of story continuity, "Secret Invasion" happens in-between our first and second story arcs.)
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CBR: How would you describe Pepper's relationship with Tony? It's a little flirtatious here.
MF: Yeah, I really came to love Pepper in "The Order." Any chance to write strong, confident, smart and fierce women that can stand toe-to-toe with all these dudes that are all over the place I jump at.
Tony and Pepper. Let's see. Can she be the one that got away if they see each other every day? Pepper's the only woman Tony's ever met that's as sharp as he is. Not "smart", necessarily– they're not going to go arguing integrated circuit designs or advance AI developments or stuff like that– but she's the only woman in the world Tony has to actually try and keep up with. And he loves her unconditionally for that.
I think the flirting waxes and wanes, but I think it's a very real part of their relationship. Or at least it will be when I write them. Sometimes it's all business, and sometimes — well, she's gonna flash you her waistband, wiggle her ass, and get back to work.
I loved writing this scene. I loved writing them in the last issue of "The Order." I went so so so so so so long. So long. Because I get them together and they just banter, it goes into "My Girl Friday" territory. I had to trim like twice this much dialog out before it went to lettering.
And she is the one that got away. She's the girl he should end up with. Because she's the best he will ever get, as good as he can ever possibly hope to earn. But Pepper will have kings and generals and men of great fortune and destiny beating down a path to her door. And she doesn't stick around waiting for him. When he's done being 15, will she still be there? Who knows.
I was so overjoyed that they handled the two of them like this in the movie. I figured that since they cast Gweneth Paltrow, and not some Maxim boob-bot for the role, then the world at large was going to get to know a Pepper Potts that had some game.
Panels 2 and 3
This is another one of those transition things I was talking about, the idea of clothes coming off and clothes coming back on… playing around with conceptual links between scene cuts…
See, this is the dumb crap that I obsess and sweat and think about constantly, and then you type it out and realize how ridiculous a human being you are.
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Check out them H.A.W.K.s, yo. As this is the second time they've shown up in my work (The Contessa rocked one in "Punisher War Journal" a few issues back), I clearly have a fetish.
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MF: I was worried that things had been a little bit too real world, a little too heavy. And then I got to this scene and was like– oh, yay! A.I.M. goons! Superheroes! Hooray!
Well, A.G.M. goons, I should say.
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MF: They should call this pose "The Granov."
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MF: This was one of those shots I knew from seeing Salva in "newuniversal" would be cool. Like — it feels like the luckiest photograph ever taken to me.
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MF: Well, here we are. Tony comes full circle, and realizes four of his five nightmares have all come true, all at once. No matter how well he's run S.H.I.E.L.D., no matter how smart his tech is, no matter how hard he punches the bad guys and screams and yells and calls himself the smartest guy in the room…
…there's always gonna be someone that doesn't care.
I've been hesitant to use the phrase "asymmetrical warfare" but that's really what we're talking about, on all fronts. From Tony's archaic and arcane business philosophies, his draconian development practices, and his strategic insistence on rational actors… he's been skunked.
This is really the start of a long reckoning for Tony Stark. I've spoken about this book being his redemption arc. It was immediately assumed I was somehow referring to "Civil War" — which, I mean, okay, maybe a little, but doesn't that assume that Tony hasn't been a weapons designer, maker, and manufacturer his whole life? (Also, Bendis' excellent "Civil War: The Conversation" says all that needs to be said on that score, and say it beautifully)
Isn't Tony the guy that pilots a four billion dollar A-Bomb in the interests of the American way? I'm talking a reckoning that will see Stark's entire legacy being reexamined, about Tony taking a long hard look at who he is, how he got there, and what he needs to do to survive — both literally and figuratively — into the 21st century.
And he's going to face what a Tony Stark could look like today — one born without national allegiance, without moral allegiance, without allegiance to anything but getting paid to administer death at the behest of the highest bidder.
What makes Tony good — what makes Tony great — is that his goodness is hardwired to who he is… there's just a lot of other stuff hardwired in there, too, that gets in the way sometimes. So what if Tony Stark was a bad guy? In Stane we have a man as vile and wicked as Tony is good, if flawed? This isn't a matter of Tony and Iron Man having to face bigger, or just different versions of themselves… this is a threat Tony really can't even comprehend.
I love Tony Stark. I think he's the most complicated character in the Marvel Universe. To get a shot at writing someone so great and so flawed is a dream come true. And to come out of such a fantastic film — really, I think "Iron Man" was the best of all the Marvel movies to date — I couldn't ask for a finer launch pad.
I hope you check out "The Invincible Iron Man" #1 this week, and I hope you love reading it as much as I loved writing it.
Thanks to Matt Fraction for taking the time to participate in this week's COMMENTARY TRACK. You can find "The Invincible Iron Man" #1 on sale now. You can also read more of Fraction's work in "The Immortal Iron Fist," "Punisher: War Journal," "Uncanny X-Men," and his own "Casanova" from Image Comics. Additionally, Fraction and Barry Kitson's "The Order," which serves as a kind of lead-in to "The Invincible Iron Man," is available in collected editions from Marvel.
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Unconstrained investing, one of the latest buzzwords in asset management, means nothing more than being flexible in one's investment universe and approach in order to deliver the objectives that clients set. For some investors, the use of sophisticated tools to profit in both up and down markets may be new - but for Western Asset, this approach is business as usual. Read about how it all started - and how you can profit from this strategy today.
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Unconstrained investing is the biggest development in the industry over the last 10 years, but it is also the most misnamed asset class of all time: it means so many different things to so many different people. I believe that the most important thing is to determine which assets one wants to invest in; then, with what level of volatility, and third, select the sources of risk. We have strategies where the risk comes from spread products, but in others, it comes from the macro strategies. Some strategies have volatility of 4%, in line with the U.S. market, while it's 8% for others. The key is that in each case, the strategy has defined its asset base, its volatility range and its risk sources. So it's not all that unconstrained. We believe more in defining the characteristics well, so our expectations are completely aligned with the client's.
The Pasadena, California, based manager has been successfully managing unconstrained programmes for over two decades, having been a pioneer in the mid-1990s with its global multi-sector strategies. These strategies opened the world of High Yield and Emerging Markets (EMs) to many institutional investors who had traditionally focused on developed markets only. The move came as a natural evolution from the growth of the manager itself: When Western Asset established its first overseas office in London in 1996, the investment team added to the global strategies the opportunities they found in European credit and local markets – it just made sense to expand the sectors and sources of return available to investors. This meant that some of the global strategies evolved to become a solution that could generate returns from both capital gains as well as income.
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The reason this design has stood the test of time so well is because each sector has distinct risk drivers that are not always highly correlated. For instance, an unconstrained strategy can include corporate bonds (which bears corporate default risk), mortgage-backed securities (prepayment and convexity risk), emerging market securities (developing country sovereign credit risk), and global government bonds (industrialized country interest rate and currency risk)."
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EMs have evolved as an asset class: currencies and volatility swap direction over the past decade
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It may seem commonplace today, but the introduction of a programme that would have half of its assets in high-yield and EM debt was considered extraordinary at the time. High-yield markets were still developing while EM debt management was in its infancy. Western Asset's focus on surrounding the better expected return asset classes with high-quality bonds and duration to seek the benefit of lower correlations and help protect drawdown during periods of credit market volatility was considered very novel.
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One on One with Faurice Harley from Studville TV Lesbian Web-series
"I kept waking up, debating – should I go, not go. In my mind, I said, you might as well go, your hair grew back".
After recovering from hair loss caused by months of chemotherapy, breast cancer survivor, Faurice Harley aka Anise on Studville TV gets ready for a 10 AM casting call. Faurice's hair grew back and it inspired her to audition for Studville TV, a hot, new edition to lesbian web-series. Get an insight look to overcoming life obstacles with Faurice Harley.
Getting the news she was chosen as a cast member for Studville TV web-series:
It was actually like an accident, I guess or faith or something…". "I went to the casting call, read through it. I had on a button down with my shoes I call, the Charlie Brown, private school shoes. I didn't think I would get the part due to a "Stereotype of the urban stud". I worked nights and woke up to a message. I was shocked and excited to get the phone call. I have never been in front of the camera. I have always worked with different networks doing television background; oversight, editing, behind the camera things".
Any similarities between you and the character you play on the show?
"Overall she likes making her girlfriend happy. I like peace in the household and recognizing what it means to be head of the household.
Any drama on the show?
"Well, there has been some romance so – not with me – but other things where there's romance and not. So, those things have happened. And, you know, we signed contracts and it was like, in the contact you can't do that. What's funny though is, during the contact somewhere within shooting we kind of find out. The first season it happened and then in the second season somebody else, they just boot that out the contract".
Past cast members not returning to this Season of Studville TV:
"That's not why Toni Fields is not on the show, that is an honest question. She is actually in the process of really becoming a fireman. Getting that rolling. She is doing other projects. In fact, she and I have been collaborating to try to do other things. She will be back. In the last couple of years, we have all changed. What I can say about Toni is she changed".
Favorite Scene or Episode:
"The one that deals with Riley, her girlfriend, and the little boy in the marriage scene. We shot that before marriage became legal. What's important in that is to really recognize what your deeper boundaries are and are not in reference to marriage and marriage rights. There are some things that different states recognize that others state don't. When someone gets married to see exactly what it is they are able to do and not to do and how it will affect their lives…
Studs NOT getting tested for Breast Cancer:
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Finding out she was diagnosed with breast cancer:
"I found out on a Thursday but on a Tuesday the doctor called, I didn't answer, on Wednesday he called back. That's the worse. The other part of getting tested is early detection. My survival and my health, I was in really good shape physically and could have been how I responded to everything. So, studs go get tested". Everyone that I knew who had breast cancer was under 30. My friend who unfortunately passed away, she did a self-test.
She wasn't here in Atlanta and went to visit a local free clinic and they told her she wasn't old enough. If you feel something, you tell them you feel something and demand they do the test".
On uplifting other cancer patients:
"Take it one step at a time. Best to know, worst case scenario and best case scenario. After getting chemo, you get tired but it doesn't kick in until a couple of days later".
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"To answer your question! I support Between Women".
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The creator of that is Annette Bennett. That came from the idea of having conversations, get-togethers, you know kickbacks in the East Coast is what they call it. She thought particular topics, with people from different backgrounds, from an executive to someone on a grind working at the waffles house. Currently in the process of starting my own TV network. In production is, The After After, it's a mystery about a gay boy who's parent found out about him being gay… He ends up committing suicide. If someone parents are not supportive of their children there are ways in which this can be handled.
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"What I learned from Sheri, the director of Studville TV, is respect in going to go do it. Do a little bit extra to find your resources and ask. When Sheri Johnson came to introduce us to the project, she had on her Charlie Brown shoes, too. I was like, OK! She brought out an entrepreneur in me, I didn't know I had.
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They're awesome. The Colonel recognizes his area of the couch, is able to nest, and knows when to "get on your blanket." He's pretty good with parameters. So, they did what they needed without being bulky and take up space like the past "couch beds" we used. Plus, we can wash them on hot with our rags. (More on our rag consumption here)
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Children's Responses to Television Violence.
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A paper-and-pencil measure of aggressive resonse was developed to study the effects on children of exposure to television-mediated violence. Using this measure, a series of experiments was conducted using actural television programs as stimulus material. The results of these studies suggest: 1) Although the majority of children understand the motivation and consequences of aggressive acts as they are presented on television, subsequent aggression is more affected by the amount of violence per se in the program than by the way in which the violence is presented; 2) aggression presented as being performed with good motivations may lead to greater subsequent aggression on the part of the viewer than aggression presented as being performed with bad motivation; 3) justification manipulations are effectively transmitted to all viewers, but these manipulations fail to influence the viewer's later level of aggression; 4) temporal separation between event and consequence may make it difficult for young children to see the relationship between aggression and the motivation for and consequences of aggressive acts. A general conclusion from these studies is that children, as they grow up, understand more about the television programs they view, but this understanding doesn't influence their aggressive tendencies. (JY)
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Gurgaon – Jaipur – 1 day trip (Oct 2009)
This trip came in almost immediately after our Haridwar–Rishikesh trip. It so happened that the day after returning to Gurgaon happened to be Election Day. So all offices were shut down. So we made use of the opportunity to go to Jaipur.
We set off early in the morning , around 5.30am. The drive was uneventful, and we mostly slept in snatches through the entire journey. Unlike most road trips, the road-sides were not dotted with fields, but were mostly dry and arid. So it make for some un-awe-inspiring views…
By 9am we reached the outer limits of the city of Jaipur. The first place we passed by was the Amber Palace. We however didnt stop here. The driver suggested that this being at the very outskirts of the city, it should be our last stop.
Our first stop was the Maharaja Sawai Mansingh Museum, The City Palace. We entered through the Virendra Pol (gate) which leads directly to the reception area.
The first building we saw saw here was the Mubarak Mahal. Here the clothes of all the Maharaja's past were put up. It was really beautiful. The embroidery and zardozi work on the garmets made them a visual treat.
One thing must be said here: no effort has been spared on the architecture and stone lattice work in the palace. Everywhere you look, there is something so beautiful to look at that you stop to gaze on it at least for a few moments..
We then stepped into the Diwan-i-Khas, the private audience hall of the Maharajas. The entrance is flanked with 2 huge silver urns. They were made by Maharaj Sawai Madho Singh II to hold the water from The Ganga during his trip to meet the Queen in England.
Next stop was the Pitam Niwas Chowk. This is an open courtyard with 4 doorways, each one designed to represent a season: Peacock Gate representing Autumn, Lotus Gate showing Summer, Green Gate (also called Leheriya or waves) to show Spring, and the Rose Gate showing winter. From here we can see the private residences of the Jaipur Royal family.
Next was the Baggi Khana, which was a collection of carriages, palenquins and European cabs modified as baggis.
The final stop was the Maharani's palace, now the Sileh Khana or Armoury. Name the kind of hand-held weapon you want to see, and chances are high that you'll find it here. Elaborate and beautiful, its a definite must-see.
Right next door to the Palace is the Jantar Mantar. The name literally translates to "Calculation Instruments".
The observatory consists of fourteen major geometric devices for measuring time, predicting eclipses, tracking stars' location as the earth orbits around the sun, ascertaining the declinations of planets, and determining the celestial altitudes and related ephemerides. Each is a fixed and 'focused' tool. Built from local stone and marble, each instrument carries an astronomical scale, generally marked on the marble inner lining. Bronze tablets, all extraordinarily accurate, were also employed. Thoroughly restored in 1901, the Jantar Mantar was declared a national monument in 1948. An excursion through Jai Singh's Jantar is a unique experience of walking through solid geometry and encountering a collective astronomical system designed to probe the heavens.
The next stop was the Hawa Mahal. It is located on the main thoroughfare of Jaipur.All the shops on the raods around the Hawa Mahal are all in pink colour, and this is where Jaipur gets its moniker "Pink City"
The original intention of the lattice was to allow royal ladies to observe everyday life in the street below without being seen, since they had to observe strict "purdah" (face cover). The exterior of the palace is covered with interice lattice work in honeycomb fashion, and also the reason the palace is very pleasant, as the lattice work allows a light breeze blow through the palace keeping it cool.
We wanted to shop in the markets on the main road. A gentleman stopped us on the road, and suggested we go to a shop which was run by the Maharani's trust, and that it would have great stuff. He even called us a rickshaw and gave the guy directions for us to get there, and also bargained the price to take us there!! It was a nice experience, and not one that we come by often.
For lunch we stopped at a small restaurant on the way to Jal Mahal. Food was simple, and very tasty. nothing very great or fancy, but it was a pleasant stop.
Jal Mahal was the only disappointment in the whole trip. TGhe palace was going throough some renovations. That was ok, but the lake was left uncleaned. It was dirty, and definately stank. Not good.
The final stop of the day was Amber Palace.
Our driver here refused to take the car up the hill, saying the roads are not good, and they would spoil his car. So we had to hire a jeep to take us up. On the way however, we stopped at a small ancient temple. It was mid-noon, so the priest was not in, and the diety was behind closed doors. That didnt detract from the beauty of the temple though. It was a pleasant 15 mins that we spent there, esp after the disappointment of Jal Mahal.
Amber Fort, also called Amer Fort, is located on a hill about 11 km from Jaipur.
The fort is divided into four main sections each with its own entry gate and courtyard. Main entry is through the Suraj Pol (Sun Gate) which leads to Jaleb Chowk, which is the first main courtyard. An impressive stairway from the Jaleb Chowk leads into the main palace grounds.
The second courtyard, up the main stairway of the first level courtyard, houses the Diwan-i-Am or the Public Audience Hall. Built with double row of columns, the Diwan-i-Am is a raised platform with 27 colonnades, each of which is mounted with elephant shaped capital with galleries above it. As the name suggests, the Raja held audience here to hear and receive petitions from the public.
The third courtyard is where the private quarters of the Maharaja, his family and attendants were built. This courtyard is entered through the Ganesh Pol or Ganesh Gate, which is embellished with mosaics and sculptures. The court yard has two buildings, one opposite to the other, separated by a garden laid in the fashion of the Mughal Gardens.
The building to the left of the entrance gate is called the Jai Mandir (Sheesh Mahal), which is exquisitely beautified with glass inlaid panels and multi-mirrored ceilings. The mirrors are of convex shape and designed with coloured foil and paint which would glitter bright under candle nights at the time it was in use.
The other building seen in the court yard is opposite to the Jai Mandir and is known as the Sukh Niwas or Sukh Mahal (Hall of Pleasure). This hall is approached through a sandalwood door with marble inlay work with perforations. A piped water supply flows through an open channel that runs through this edifice keeping the environs cool, as in an air conditioned environment. In a previous visit, my husband and inlaws were able to go in and see these 2 buildings closely. Now however, it is closed off, and the public can view if from behind a barricade.
A nice wallk-through the palace finally brought us to an end to our trip here at Jaipur. Memorable, short, and sweet!


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1. Does the Orthodox Church place tradition above or equal to Scripture?
The Church sees the Scriptures as inspired and authoritative Holy Tradition: the word of God. The key here is to see how the word "tradition" is used in the New Testament, which condemns the tradition of men but calls us to follow apostolic or holy tradition.
Tradition of Men
a. First of all, Jesus warned against holding to the "tradition of men" and "your tradition" in the strongest possible terms (see mark 7:6-16). All Christians agree: The Bible says no to the tradition of men.
b. Secondly, Saint Paul warns in Colossians 2:8: "Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ." Here again, the phase "tradition of men" stands out, which the Orthodox Church condemns.
Holy Tradition
c. In distinction to the tradition of men, the Bible calls us to obey tradition which has God as its source. In II Thessalonians 2:15, Saint Paul writes, "Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle." In contrast to man's tradition, apostolic tradition is our foundation in the Church.
d. Further, in II Thessalonians 3:6 we read, "But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us." Here again, we are dealing with Apostolic tradition, the tradition which God planted in the Church. Thus the Church is "the pillar and ground (or support) of the truth" (I Timothy 3:15).
e. All true tradition comes from the same source: the Holy Spirit in the Church. The same One who inspired holy Scripture prompted the on-location teaching of the Apostles, whether written or oral (II Thes. 2:15). Further, it was on the basis of Church tradition that the Biblical canon was determined.
f. Tradition is giving our ancestors a vote. It is walking in the "path of righteousness for His name's sake" (Psalm 23:3). Or, as Jeremiah writes, living by holy tradition is a call from God Himself. "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls" (Jer. 6:16).Thus, there are two kinds of tradition: that of God and that of men. It is to the former that the Orthodox Church is singularly committed.
2. How does the Orthodox Church view communion?
Some Protestant groups teach that communion, or the Lord's Supper, is only a sign or symbol. Most all of Christendom, however, believes it is far more. The Orthodox Church has always believed that we, in a mystery, receive the body and blood of Christ. Let us look at Holy Scripture concerning Communion.
a. Jesus said at the Last Supper: "This is my body" and "This cup is …my blood" (Luke 22: 19 and 20, italics added). The Lord is clear that His gifts to us are more than just sign or a mere memorial.
b. In I Corinthians 11:29, 30, we read of people who became sick and even died for receiving communion hypocritically. People do not die over something merely "symbolic." The bread and wine is, in mystery, the body and blood of the Lord.
c. In I Corinthians 10, Saint Paul is comparing the manna and water in the wilderness with the true bread and drink of the New Covenant. In I Corinthians 10:4 he writes, "And all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ." The question is, was the Rock Christ? Under laboratory observation, the rock was still most likely granite. But the word of God says, "The Rock was Christ." We do not subject the gifts to chemical analysis, but to the word of God. It's mystery, but never magic. Christ was present in the Rock as He is present in the Holy Gifts.
d. In John 6:53 we read, "Then Jesus said to them, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.'" The Church receives this passage at face value — nothing added, nothing taken away. In communion we become partakers of the body and blood of Christ. Just as the new birth (John 3) gives us life through water and the Holy Spirit, so the body and blood of Christ sustains His life in us.
e. Christ our High Priest enters the Heavenly Sanctuary with His own blood (Hebrews 9:11-12), and it is in this Heavenly Sanctuary that we worship (Hebrews 10: 19-25). There is only one Eucharist, the one in heaven, and we join in that one feast.
For further insights on the subject, see the article, "The Eucharist" in the Orthodox Study Bible — New Testament.
We must neither add to nor subtract from the word of God. Therefore we confess with Holy Scripture that the consecrated bread and wine is the body and blood of Christ. It is a mystery: we do not pretend to know how or why. As always, we come to Christ in childlike faith, receive His gifts, and offer Him praise that He has called us to His heavenly banquet.
3. Why does the Orthodox Church emphasize the role of Mary?
Let us turn to the New Testament and see what God says about Mary. A key passage is Luke 1:26-49.
a. The Archangel Gabriel calls the Virgin Mary "highly favored" with God (see also Luke 1:30) and the most "blessed" of all women (Luke 1:28). We must never do less.
b. In Luke 1:42, 43, Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, also calls Mary "blessed," and "the mother of my Lord." Can we make the same confession? For centuries, the Church with one voice has called Mary the mother of God. If God was not in her womb, we are dead in our sins. By "mother of God" we do not mean, of course, that she is mother of the Holy Trinity. She is the human mother of the eternal Son of God. Mary bore God in her womb, and thus we can rightly call her the Theotokos, or God-bearer.
c. Not only does Elizabeth call her blessed, Mary herself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, predicts, "All generations will call me blessed" (Luke 1:48). This biblical prophecy explains the Orthodox hymn, "It is truly right to bless you, O Theotokos." Tragically, our generation has forgotten to call her blessed. Orthodox Christians bless her in obedience to God, fulfilling His holy words.
d. It is important to secure Mary's identity as the mother of God to protect the identity of her holy Son, "the Son of the Highest" (Luke 1:32), God in the flesh. If we cannot face up to Mary, we will miss the incarnation of the Son of God.
e. The Old Testament Prophet Ezekiel writes, "This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the Lord God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut" (Ezekiel 44:2). The early Church Fathers consistently saw this gate as a picture of the womb of Mary, shut after Jesus' birth. We do not worship Mary.
Worship is reserved only for God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We honor or venerate Mary, the mother of God, as the Scriptures teach.
4. Why do Orthodox Christians honor the saints?
The Scriptures themselves call us to honor other Christians, both the living and departed.
a. In Acts 28:10, St. Luke writes, "they honored us (the Apostolic band) in many ways." The biblical injunction concerning Mary, "All generations will call me blessed" (Luke 1:48), is an example of how we are to honor the saints for all time (see also Heb. 11:4-40).
b. We are to honor all believers and true authorities, not just departed ones. This is why Saint Paul exhorts us to honor one another (1 Timothy 5:17), and why Saint Peter tells husbands to honor their wives (1 Peter 3:7). May we gain back true honor, both in the Church and in the culture.
c. In Orthodox worship, we see pictures or icons of the believers of history all around us. This is, in part, how we honor our forerunners in the faith. In Hebrews 12:22-24 we read that in worship we join with the heavenly throng to praise and worship God. We come to join "an innumerable company of angels," "the general assembly and church of the first- born who are registered in heaven" and "the spirits of just men made perfect." And as "in spirit and in truth" we join these angelic and redeemed heroes of the faith, we do give them proper honor as the Scripture teaches.
d. Some modern Christians tend to give notice primarily to living Christian heroes, often newly-believing athletes, beauty queens and political figures. But throughout Church history, honor went to those who finished the race (I Corinthians 9:24-27), not to those who have merely begun or who are still on the earthly track (Galatians 5:7). These saints of old are not dead, but alive in Christ forever!
5. Do the icons of Orthodoxy border on idolatry?
In Orthodox Christianity, icons are never worshipped; but they are honored, or venerated.
a. The Second Commandment says, "You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth" (Exodus 20:4-5). The warning here is that we are not to image things which are limited to heaven and therefore unseen, and we never bow down to or worship created, earthly things such as the golden calf. Does this condemn all imagery in worship? The Bible speaks for itself, and the answer is no.
b. Just five chapters later, in Exodus 25, God gives His divine blueprint, if you will, for the tabernacle. Specifically in verses 19 and 20, he commands images of cherubim be placed above the mercy seat. So true imagery is not condemned in Scripture, but false imagery. Also, God promises to meet and speak with us through this imagery! (Exodus 25:22).
c. In Exodus 26:1, Israel was commanded in no uncertain terms to sew "artistic designs of cherubim" in the tabernacle curtains. Are these images? Absolutely! In fact, they are Old Testaments icons. And they are images God commanded.
From the beginning the Church imaged heavenly things brought to earth: Christ Himself, the Cross (Galatians 6:14), and the saints of God (Hebrews 11 and 12). Worship is reserved for the Holy Trinity alone. Icons depicting Christ, the primary subject of Orthodox iconography, help make Christ more present. Christ is worshipped, not wood and paint. Likewise, we honor the great men and women of the faith by remembering them in the Orthodox Church via visual aids, called icons or windows to heaven.
6. What do Orthodox Christians believe about liturgy?
Biblically and historically true worship consistently has been liturgical. "Spontaneous" worship is an innovation of the last century or so.
a. Liturgical worship, written Prayers (the Psalms) and feast days were the norm throughout the history of Israel (see Exodus 23:14-19; 24:1-30:38; etc.).
b. The worship of heaven is liturgical (Isa. 6:1-90; Heb. 8:1-3; Rev. 4).
c. The foundations of liturgical worship in the Church are apparent in the New Testament. The most oft-repeated prayer of the Church is there (Matthew 6:9-13). The words we say at baptism are there (Matthew 28:19). The words spoken at Holy Communion are there, with St. Paul repeating Jesus' words (I Corinthians 11:23-26). Further, the believers in Acts 13:2, about 49 A.D., were seen in a liturgical service to the Lord: "As they ministered (Gk: leitourgouaton, our root word for liturgy!) to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said…." Note, too, in this passage that the Holy Spirit speaks to us during liturgical worship. Thus praise to God must never become dead form, but rather living worship, "in spirit and truth" (John 4:23-24).
d. Documents like the Didache (70 A.D.), the writings of St. Justin Martyr (150 A.D.) and Hipploytus (early 200s) all show the worship of the early Church was, without exception, liturgical.
Because of their disdain for Rome, some Protestant groups have reacted by dismissing liturgical worship (though everyone has patterned worship, "spontaneous" or not!) But the Bible and Church history are clear; liturgical worship is the norm for the people of God.