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Blur's Parklife is 18 years old today! An ode to Blighty aimed at girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they're girls who do girls like they're boys, Parklife was a wry, anthem-filled album that championed mockney Cockneys, a day at the (greyhound) races and…er…the shipping forecast.
All the people (so many people!) went out and bought Parklife that it became a pivotal moment in mid-ninteies UK culture, influencing not only the sound of music for a generation of now mid-30 something indie lovers, but also a revivalist fashion sense that saw all things Union Jack celebrated under the banner of Britpop.
Here, Brandish goes beyond the music to highlight just what made Parklife so seminal. Pop on the Spotify album playlist below and read on!
Britain, Britain, Britain. The Small Faces, The Kinks, the Blitz spirit, Carnaby Street, fish and chips. We've got a lot to be proud of as Brits, but in the early-to-mid 90s we'd all been swept up in a wave of Americana. Dreary grunge dominated the airwaves, and in the immortal words of Morrissey "it [said] nothing to me about my life." However, the 1993 self-titled debut from Suede sent a shiver down the spine of the lumberjack-shirted invaders from across the pond, paving the way for a more sophisticated, theatrical Anglo-influenced sound. Picking up the Brit-focussed imagery of their own 1993 album Modern Life is Rubbish and refining it into flag-waving call for patriotism, Parklife made us all realise it was as cool to be British in the 1990s as it was in the swinging 60s.
The umbrella of Britpop would later open the floodgates for a wave of copycats and bandwagon jumpers (Menswear, Gene et al) and became a contrived export marketing tool of worldwide proportions following the Spice Girls Brit Award performance and Geri Halliwell's infamous Union Jack dress, fuelling champagne socialists and ill-conceived political partnerships. But for a short while, and in no small part thanks to the popularity and imagery of Parklife, Britain was back on the map for all the right reasons.
"We wear the same clothes cos we feel the same " sang Blur's Damon Albarn on End Of A Century. And indeed we did, and Albarn did a fair bit to direct what we were all wearing too. After re-inventing themselves out of the ashes of baggy into Dr Martens-wearing mod warriors for Modern Life Is Rubbish, Albarn and co went a little more Carry On colourful for Parklife.
Clearly inspired by the 1970s sportswear of BBC Superstars, tracksuits from the likes of Kappa and Adidas were in, as well as Adidas Samba trainers, a little bling with a sovereign ring, polo shirts and parkas. Though pulling in brands from all over the world, it was quintessentially a melting pot of UK fashion trends from across the previous 30 years. And not a greasy mullet or plaid shirt in sight..
If Britpop did only one thing well it was its championing of British idiosyncrasies. It's no better illustrated than in the swirling, epic closer to Parklife, This Is A Low. A floating journey around the the British coast, it referenced the antiquated shipping forecast radio broadcast, framing the album's geographical pride. Pop it on now; it'll give you goosebumps.


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This chapter provides a brief overview of the principles of radiation therapy. The topics to be discussed include the physical aspects of how radiation works (ionization, radiation interactions) and how it is delivered (treatment machines, treatment planning, and brachytherapy). Recent relevant techniques of radiation oncology, such as conformal and stereotactic radiation therapy, also will be presented. These topics are not covered in great technical detail. It is hoped that a basic understanding of radiation treatment will benefit those practicing in other disciplines of cancer management. This chapter does not address the principles of radiobiology, which guide radiation oncologists in determining issues of treatment time, dose, and fractionation or in combining radiation with sensitizers, protectors, and chemotherapy or hormones.
How radiation works
Ionizing radiation is energy sufficiently strong to remove an orbital electron from an atom. This radiation can have an electromagnetic form, such as a high-energy photon, or a particulate form, such as an electron, proton, neutron, or alpha particle.
High-energy photons By far, the most common form of radiation used in practice today is the high-energy photon. Photons that are released from the nucleus of a radioactive atom are known as gamma rays. When photons are created electronically, such as in a clinical linear accelerator, they are known as x-rays. Thus, the only difference between the two terms is the origin of the photon.
Inverse square law The intensity of an x-ray beam is governed by the inverse square law. This law states that the radiation intensity from a point source is inversely proportional to the square of the distance away from the radiation source. In other words, the dose at 2 cm will be one-fourth of the dose at 1 cm.
Electron volt Photon absorption in human tissue is determined by the energy of the radiation, as well as the atomic structure of the tissue in question. The basic unit of energy used in radiation oncology is the electron volt (eV); 103 eV = 1 keV, 106 eV = 1 MeV.
Three interactions describe photon absorption in tissue: the photoelectric effect, Compton effect, and pair production.
Photoelectric effect In this process, an incoming photon undergoes a collision with a tightly bound electron. The photon transfers practically all of its energy to the electron and ceases to exist. The electron departs with most of the energy from the photon and begins to ionize surrounding molecules. This interaction depends on the energy of the incoming photon, as well as the atomic number of the tissue; the lower the energy and the higher the atomic number, the more likely that a photoelectric effect will take place.
An example of this interaction in practice can be seen on a diagnostic x-ray film. Since the atomic number of bone is 60% higher than that of soft tissue, bone is seen with much more contrast and detail than is soft tissue. The energy range in which the photoelectric effect predominates in tissue is about 10–25 keV.
Compton effect The Compton effect is the most important photon-tissue interaction for the treatment of cancer. In this case, a photon collides with a "free electron," ie, one that is not tightly bound to the atom. Unlike the photoelectric effect, in the Compton interaction both the photon and electron are scattered. The photon can then continue to undergo additional interactions, albeit with a lower energy. The electron begins to ionize with the energy given to it by the photon.
The probability of a Compton interaction is inversely proportional to the energy of the incoming photon and is independent of the atomic number of the material. When one takes an image of tissue using photons in the energy range in which the Compton effect dominates (~25 keV–25 MeV), bone and soft-tissue interfaces are barely distinguishable. This is a result of the atomic number independence.
The Compton effect is the most common interaction occurring clinically, as most radiation treatments are performed at energy levels of about 6–20 MeV. Port films are films taken with such high-energy photons on the treatment machine and are used to check the precision and accuracy of the beam; because they do not distinguish tissue densities well, however, they are not equal to diagnostic films in terms of resolution.
Pair production In this process, a photon interacts with the nucleus of an atom, not an orbital electron. The photon gives up its energy to the nucleus and, in the process, creates a pair of positively and negatively charged electrons. The positive electron (positron) ionizes until it combines with a free electron. This generates two photons that scatter in opposite directions.
The probability of pair production is proportional to the logarithm of the energy of the incoming photon and is dependent on the atomic number of the material. The energy range in which pair production dominates is ≥ 25 MeV. This interaction occurs to some extent in routine radiation treatment with high-energy photon beams.
With the advent of high-energy linear accelerators, electrons have become a viable option in treating superficial tumors up to a depth of about 5 cm. Electron depth dose characteristics are unique in that they produce a high skin dose but exhibit a falloff after only a few centimeters.
Electron absorption in human tissue is greatly influenced by the presence of air cavities and bone. The dose is increased when the electron beam passes through an air space and is reduced when the beam passes through bone.
Common uses The most common clinical uses of electron beams include the treatment of skin lesions, such as basal cell carcinomas, and boosting of areas that have previously received photon irradiation, such as the postoperative lumpectomy or mastectomy scar in breast cancer patients, as well as select nodal areas in the head and neck.
The dose of radiation absorbed correlates directly with the energy of the beam. An accurate measurement of absorbed dose is critical in radiation treatment. The deposition of energy in tissues results in damage to DNA and diminishes or eradicates the cell's ability to replicate indefinitely.
Gray The basic unit of radiation absorbed dose is the amount of energy (joules) absorbed per unit mass (kg). This unit, known as the gray (Gy), has replaced the unit of rad used in the past (100 rads = 1 Gy; 1 rad = 1 cGy).

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1. Re: MPI on the SCCkeith_chapman Jan 13, 2011 1:24 PM (in response to tedk)
We are certainly interested in having MPI on the SCC. There are some programs that we want to run, we actually use a modified version of RCCE to mock up some MPI like functions that we wanted and having a standard MPI library would really help us.
2. Re: MPI on the SCCsamv Jan 13, 2011 7:02 PM (in response to tedk)
We would also love to have access to the MPI library.
3. Re: MPI on the SCCNil Jan 14, 2011 2:46 AM (in response to tedk)
We are interested in MPI on the SCC. Having a standard MPI library for SCC and subcommunity will be grate.
4. Re: MPI on the SCCandrea.bartolini Jan 14, 2011 4:38 AM (in response to tedk)
We are also interested in having standard MPI on SCC and a related community. Indeed we have few MPI applications in which we are experts and we want to use it as benchmarks.
5. Re: MPI on the SCCcscholtes Jan 14, 2011 7:45 AM (in response to tedk)
We would also appreciate the availability of a standard MPI library for the SCC. The MPI like wrapper functions we currently use are based on RCCE, RCCE_comm and iRCCE. A package with less dependencies would be nice.
6. Re: MPI on the SCCjnfurst Jan 17, 2011 3:21 PM (in response to tedk)
We would also be interested in having access to the MPI .
7. Re: MPI on the SCCtgmattso Jan 17, 2011 8:24 PM (in response to tedk)
The issue of MPI on SCC comes up from time to time.
rckmpb (which will be described in detail in a soon to be published paper in ACM OS review) implements the data link layer of the TCP/IP stack. The result is that anything that uses TCP/IP will just work on SCC. That includes MPI.
So ... take you MPI of choice and rebuild it from source. It will just work. OpenMPI and MPIch just work if you configure and build them for SCC.
Now if I had lots of time, I would do this and put it in a public place where anyone could grab it. I really would like to do that ... but I just don't have time. Maybe I will in a few weeks when my current batch of travel is done, but I can't make any promises. But seriously ... anyone interested in MPI could do this on your own.
Completely orthogonally to the issue of building MPI is how rckmpb is configured. I don't know if how to change the rckmpb confiuration is documented. Maybe Ted could comment on that?
And if its not documented, I will go ahead and make my notes on rckmpb configuration available somewhere (I'm sure Ted can tell me where I could put these notes).
8. Re: MPI on the SCCcompres Jan 18, 2011 2:55 AM (in response to tgmattso)
Indeed, MPI has been possible on the SCC for a long time with the use of TCP/IP. I have tested both MPICH2 and Open MPI, and I can confirm they work flawlessly.
However, Ted is referring to an MPI implementation that is customized for the SCC, and does away with the TCP/IP overhead.
9. Re: MPI on the SCCchristgau Jan 24, 2011 1:11 PM (in response to tedk)
Ted, we are also very interested in RCKMPI.
10. Re: MPI on the SCCSvenB Feb 3, 2011 12:57 PM (in response to tedk)
I'm currently installing the RCKMPI which can be found in the public svn repository. Does someone know where I can get the prereqs.tar.gz the README.RCKMPI is referring to? Thanks.
11. Re: MPI on the SCCapapag Feb 3, 2011 1:34 PM (in response to SvenB)
you can donwload prereqs.tar.gz from: http://marcbug.scc-dc.com/svn/repository/tarballs/.
12. Re: MPI on the firstname.lastname@example.com Apr 30, 2011 6:34 AM (in response to tedk)
Is this full MPI-1 or MPI-2? Either way, I am very much interested in using it.Jeff HammondArgonne Leadership Computing email@example.com / (630) 252-5381
13. Re: MPI on the SCCchristgau May 1, 2011 4:20 AM (in response to email@example.com)
Jeff, it is de-facto MPICH2 with additional CH3 devices for the SCC, so you can (theoretically) use MPI-1 and MPI-2 functionality.
14. Re: MPI on the firstname.lastname@example.com May 1, 2011 9:34 PM (in response to christgau)
I'm looking forward to seeing compliance with MPI-2 validated to the extent possible with the MPICH2 test suite. There is not a single implementation of MPI that is fully compliant with the MPI-2 standard. Every implementation has bugs and there is no set of tests capable of verifying full compliance with the complete MPI-2 standard.


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I think the final is still sponsored by Café Bene.
In February, there was some cup competition that confused me. Maybe the cup was just to determine which teams got into the FA Cup. I have no idea and I cannot translate the KFA notices if there was one.
The league season I was expecting has officially started. Matches are almost guaranteed to be played Friday starting at 15:00.
Today is April 12th. April 15th will be round 4 of the season.
It seems to me the groups have become fixed. Universities will face the same teams year in and year out.
You can find the schedule and results on the KFA website. I have tweeted the schedule for each group on #kfb and sent it to @theKFA. I do not tweet the schedule at the same time each week. I tweet it just to put the schedule into Twitter search for those extremely rare souls who may care or stumble upon them.
I am not tweeting results,yet. I do not have any plan to do so at this time. The KFA tweets a very select few results.
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Quote from: jdawg70 on June 26, 2013, 11:20:55 AMGot one near the chest; them buggers hurt.Don't all tattoos hurt?
Got one near the chest; them buggers hurt.
Religions need books because they don't have gods.
Quote from: Irish on June 26, 2013, 01:07:20 PM<snip>After reading your post, I thought that maybe I should get the tattoos I want on my arms on my wrists instead. It'd look cooler, IMO.
I'd like to get some tattoos on my arms, hands and back, but I'm afraid I won't be able to get a job if I have them.
Don't assume.
<snip>Don't assume.<snip>And scientists are almost expected to have eccentricities.
Any tattoo that can be covered up by a T-shirt is safe. No one at work is going to see you without at least a T-shirt on unless they become your friend outside of work. Tats on your hands are not recommended if employment is a concern, however.
Quote from: Quesi on June 26, 2013, 06:11:21 PM<snip>Don't assume.<snip>And scientists are almost expected to have eccentricities. While I am eccentric, I'd rather not risk it. Being a physicist is my dream job. I don't want anything to screw it up.Quote from: DumpsterFire on June 27, 2013, 12:13:32 AMAny tattoo that can be covered up by a T-shirt is safe. No one at work is going to see you without at least a T-shirt on unless they become your friend outside of work. Tats on your hands are not recommended if employment is a concern, however.I'm afraid for me it's "all or nothing" on this.
Look. I'm not saying that you should change your mind or anything,
but if you were doing research in a lab that terminated you, not for a lack of scientific skill, not for lack of quality of work, not for lack of increasing knowledge, but because of how you look and what you wear...is that a place you think you'd be able to actually live your dream of being a scientist?
Half a dream is better than no dream.
We live as though the world is as it should be, to show it what it can be.
Sorry - I just find one of the irritating things in society to be the 'form over function' mentality that rears its ugly head in the workforce. Part of the reason why that continues to perpetuate is that people are (often time rightly mind you for practical reasons, so I'm not slamming you or anything here) afraid to express themselves as who they are and who they want to be.<snip>
Then what's the point of saying what you're saying?
Quote from: House, MDHalf a dream is better than no dream.(I don't remember the name of the character who said it)While I agree that, in a way, it'd suck to work in such a place, the pros outweigh the cons. My love of physics surpasses almost everything else.
I am reminded of a quote from "Angel":Quote from: AngelWe live as though the world is as it should be, to show it what it can be.While, in theory, that's a good idea, it would only work if virtually everyone liked tattoos and such and weren't afraid to get them. Only a relatively small percentage of people like tattoos and other body modifications. We wouldn't make much of a difference.
Fair enough - I guess I mean to say that I'm expressing my thoughts, and it's your choice of whether or not to incorporate my thoughts in your decision-making process. Incorporation or disregarding of my thoughts on the matter is something that is not subject to any type of evaluation.
Just...be careful there. I know people who have a love of engineering and the place they work forces them to spend more of their time dealing with the pomp and circumstance of looking presentable as opposed to, say, actually engineering anything. Burnt one of them out of engineering entirely. Others - well, they just deal.
Do you think that's due to an actually small percentage of people into body modification, or a perceived small percentage due to the number of people hiding it?No, I have not facts or data to back it up, so it's really more of a 'food-for-thought' statement than an actual argument.


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Sorry, I don't like the new website format. I don't mind the main tab menu at the top, but the main page is too busy and cluttered. I prefer the simplicity of the previous format.
Sorry guys... not liking the new stuff at all. Trying to navigate both the sites and the emails sucks ass.
It would be a huge improvement just to make the view when you click "Read more..." the default.
Nothing wrong with a clear picture with a call to action button, a description that's fun to read, and a quick, above-the-fold tool for getting to the other deals.
We'll all adapt, I'm sure (I'm certainly not swearing off woot!), but dang, I mean, really?
Yep , the new look is way too busy for me.
I think the market research people have probably done their homework, and this will bring more $$s Woot's way in the long run, though.
I like the tabs across the top, it makes navigation through the wootverse easier.
I dislike the layout of the page, way too busy and it makes it hard to actually get the details on the deal. Simple is better in visual design, you want us to be able to get around easier so we can throw money at you without any roadblocks. Please clean up the layout a bit so it is easier to get the info we need about the products without the visual assault on our senses.
Dear Woot:
I love your daily jokes! Is the new site one of them? I sure hope so. It is one of the most frenetic website homepages I have ever seen.
Maybe you were just trying to fit as much clutter on the page as possible rather than attempting a clean design? I feel like I'm looking at an optical illusion.
Specifically: Too much space devoted to the top nav bar and the right side "blocks". The "share" buttons are too crowded and busy. The woot plus deals are not separated well enough and blend into one another. And what's with the green graphics overlaid on the product photos? On an already crowded site, these detract from the content (and look terrible).
In how many places on the homepage do we need the navigate to the other deal sites? Three, apparently: on the top, side AND bottom. Really?
Maybe this is part of a whole new marketing campaign to attract a new demographic of people with severe attention deficit disorder; Personally when I load this new site every morning now my first instinct is to immediately close that browser tab rather than suffer the visual assault.
I'll echo that while the top navbar is nice (albeit a bit big), the new layout is WAY too busy. I dislike the change.
The new site does not work with my android phone properly. It's too busy and takes away from the ease of shopping here. If woot keeps this site it will certainly effect the level of business I do here.
ganome wrote:*Holds up protest sign*
1 too cluttered
2 ugly font
4 write up too hard to find
5 Needs more funny
6 Too much white space
7 Too much white period!
8 Too corporate blah looking!
9 Really a facebook link? come on...
11 Wheres the funny stuff!
12 Ok the whole site is ugly bland boring!
13 This is a bit older of a complaint but the video podcasts SUCK compared to the old audio only ones
14 the pod cast is hard to find
15 Too many ads
16 The only decent thing with the change is the tabs up top the rest is HORRIBLE!
In summary, just change it back and we will pretend this never happened. I know Woot is in the awkward preadolescent years, but next thing you know Woot will dye its hair green, get a tattoo, paint its nails black with skulls, and start doing drugs! We want Woot to have a bright future, but with the path Woot is headed down currently it will be found dead in an alley behind hooters within 2 years! Think of the Monkeys Woot! do you want Mortimer and Monty to end up as orphans?
Hey woot! Quality Post THAT!
I was hoping this was just some sort of an April Fool's joke....
One of the pleasures of the original design is that is was not overly busy, but just right - in the Goldilocks zone. The new design is WAY too busy, and makes my brain hurt.
Yes, we had a nice relationship and a lot of fun together, but I guess we've grown apart. This change marks the beginning of our trial separation which likely portends our divorce. I do sincerely wish you well, and no hard feelings. HEY, maybe you guys can make a video of Mortimer and Monte singing that Tammy Wynette song D-I-V-O-R-C-E.
Too much to look at now.
I loved Woot! because it was simple. Simple design and 1 item to buy.
Now there is too much and looks like every other site out there.
It won't load on my Chumby. I rarely go to the website and depend on the Chumby app to keep me up to date. If it won't load I won't be checking it out.
Woot you may be gone but are not forgotten. Hopefully your slaughterers bought you a nice coffin, the one from the Wal-Mart site marked down to 49.95 This would be a fitting place of representative of who you were. I love you and will think fondly of you forever. You have been very kind and I consider myself lucky to have known you. I can honestly say nothing will take you place, the fun was lost when you died. (Every good thing will end with a bad idea)
With all my love,
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Oh noes, what happened to the old design!? Haven't been on here for some days, but the new design makes me feel stumped because it's got all information clustered together on a too small area. Sorry, have to leave for now and try again later, but for now I absolutely dislike this "improvement". :/
DaveD1420 wrote:Too much on the page. It looks like AOL threw up.
Excellent description, that is exactly what it looks like.
wait i dont get what happened under the sellout deals there used to be five also what happened to those hundreds of other deals under the top 5 is there any way to get to them
lukepat wrote:wait i dont get what happened under the sellout deals there used to be five also what happened to those hundreds of other deals under the top 5 is there any way to get to them
See, what happened was... a long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, woot decided to sort of merge sellout.woot and deals.woot, by offering the sellout item as a "sponsored" deal over on deals.woot. So people would go to sellout and be redirected to deals (and then back again to sellout).
Looks like they've now separated out sellout appropriately, and no longer force it to be in a sponsored deal on deals (there's a moofi there now). So really, sellout was never more than one deal, it just kind of looked like it was because of the bouncing around through deals.woot.
So I think the site you're looking for with the "5 deals" and "hundreds of others" below it can be found at deals!
escapecar wrote:I like the tabs at the top, allowing a quick switch to the various galaxies of the Wootiverse.
I was on-board with this at first ... then I saw the same listing along the right side of the page (where it's always been) without the need to cursor around to view everything.
And then listed again at the bottom of the page, again in plainview.
How many times do we need to list the same info? Redundantly putting it 3 times on the same page seems a bit redundant.
dpk3062 wrote:Agreed. Woot was simple, Woot was fun. Now it's just another online store.
Totally agree! It has lost the uniqueness, charm, and fun of the old site. Now you might as well paint it blue on top and put "AMAZON" on the top! just another boring site now..
I agree with everyone that says there is too much stuff on the pages.
Second, what happened to my large blown up images of the items? I can't click on an item and get a mostly full page image anymore. Also, just switch back to the old site, you guys didn't take enough time to try this out with staff only first before releasing the redesign to the public. Big letdown.
markltx wrote:It won't load on my Chumby. I rarely go to the website and depend on the Chumby app to keep me up to date. If it won't load I won't be checking it out.
If it's any consolation, your Chumby is probably going to die forever sometime this summer anyway.
I don't really mind the top tab bar, but I think it's hilarious that Woot! needs to explain the sites. Wait, sorry; I misspelled "sad." Anyway, I'm not using the bar, because the photos with the rollovers on the right side are so much easier.
Also, here's the practical reason I'm likely to buy less: Before, I load the page, quickly see whether I'm kind of curious about the product, and scroll down to the list of features to try to talk myself into buying it. I can't do that now; it's become a quick glance to see if the daily product is anything I need, and if it isn't, I'm not going to bother to click to see the features.
As for ads.. what ads? I run three ad blockers. Anyone who isn't using at least one gets what they deserve...
... ads.
New Site = New Coke
Gimme my Old Coke!
(My apologies to those of you too young to remember the "Old Coke" vs. "New Coke" debacle of 1985. If you really want to know the story - Google it.)
I hate the new format, and for some of the same reasons as others mentioned - too busy, looks like AOL threw up, etc. It will make me less likely to visit every day, as I have been.
I wish you'd put some of the effort of your site re-design into creating a mobile site - either a dedicated m.woot.com or a woot.com that uses responsive web design. A quick check on my Android phone suggests you've done neither: it just loads the standard site, which is clearly designed for desktop resolutions and is therefore illegible.
With a reported 20% of web traffic now coming from mobile devices (and growing rapidly), it seems to me a mobile-friendly site would have had at least the same impact on your revenue as any refresh of the existing site.
The new design is cheerful, but so far it has done nothing to increase my satisfaction with Woot or my likelihood to purchase.
What made a deal on woot so good wasn't how much off of retail it was, it was how much cheaper it was than anywhere else on the internet. Woot customers come to woot because they are expecting a deal. The fact that they are shopping on woot pretty much says they are willing to shop on the internet. Listing the savings based on the MSRP has little importance to the woot customer. Unless, of course, woot is trying to get away from the "dirt cheap" deals and is going to focus on being just another corporate outlet site. After all, the rest of the site seems to be headed in that direction as well. Woot devotes more space to the woot plus stuff than is does to the woot stuff. Now the ads for woot plus are showing up in the annoying mouseover popups in the top tabs. I hope this beta trial doesn't work out. It would be nice to see woot return.
And in the woot daily digest, missing today was Mortimer and Monte. I'm hoping someone just called in sick. Or maybe just had a non-funny day. Without the humor, the daily email is simply showing me the same information that I could get from the website. In other words, without the humor, there's nothing added by receiving the email and, therefore, there is no point to the email.
Oh Woot! I will miss you.
Looks like you've jumped the shark.
I cringed when you were bought by Amazon but tried to remain positive and continued my daily visits.
Then the Bouts of Consternation experience changed from an exciting mystery delivery to a predictable dollar store… blah.
Now your simplicity and uniqueness is gone.
So long and thanks for all the Woots!
Woot should be unveiling their new logo any day now.
Having all of the they text line up right against the left border of my browser is awful. Typing this comment is almost making me sick becasue of how the box is lined up with the left edge.
Over all the site feels crazy cluttered. It's as though you want to make it harder for us to find stuff so you get more page views. If you want me to stick around on Woot for hours make more improvements at Deals.Woot.
Woot used to be a fun part of my day. Now just trying to scan a page feels like work.
Sorry Woot, but this stuff needs to be fixed.
The browser hijacking ads on my android phone this morning when I opened up woot to check out today's item? NOT COOL. NOT COOL AT ALL.
There's this job called Information Architect. We use these people all the time where I work. If you hired one, they would tell you that your site redesign needs to guide the user to the most relevant content in a clear way. If you hire one, they'd tell you not to shove so much crap onto the front page. If you hire one, they'll design a clear user path for you. Please, please hire an Information Architect.
kalee11 wrote:The biggest thing I have a problem with on the front page is that I can't see all of the write-up at one time. I don't want to click "read more." The write-up is my favorite thing about Woot, and I want instant gratification when I get to the front page.
I concur! I really miss that as well.
The vertical scrollbar includes the height of the menu at the top of the screen, but that menu always scrolls with you. When paging down you end up a couple of lines farther than you should.
Don't like the nagging to log in. It is causing me to think about skipping Woot to go to my no-nag deal sites. Makes it much to easy to tie my user ID to my browsing activity--across sites. This is why I don't use Facebook logins anywhere.
The power of woot! was in the elegent simplicity of the site. The new site design completely loses that vision.
Giant thumbs down here.
Take a page out of the techbargains.com site and at least give users the option to use the "classic" skin.
Otherwise, I'll be removing the woot! button from my favorites bar.
Such a shame when companies think that change is always good. More often those that believe "if it ain't broke don't fix it" turn out to be correct.
halperez wrote:Woot should be unveiling their new logo any day now.
Very nice! I guess after they introduce the new logo, they'll have to squeeze in another box on the home page advertising the Kindle.
I think this is the beginning of the end of the Woot! that we all know and love. I don't want a mini Amazon site with all the percentage off lists and all the clutter. I want more Woot!
A large chunk of us stay up late to see the new Woots! available. We don't need to be lighting up the entire neighborhood when we pull up the page in the dark.
OK...so I've given the new site a chance to "sink in", but I'm still not liking it very much. It just feels weird. I've actually found myself sneaking peeks at other deal sites each day. Ones I haven't visited in months. The last time I looked at 1sale a day was well over a year ago. But now that Woot has joined the ranks with those "other" sites...I figure what the heck. I'll just do a LOT of comparison shopping and see what catches my eye.
Also, as if the busy screens aren't enough to mess with my head, I apparently have to sign in again and again throughout the day. I signed in this morning to track a package, and this afternoon I had to sign in again. I usually don't have to sign in for DAYS. Can't there be an option to "stay signed in" or at least "stay signed in for 24 hours"? Geez.
Geethatsgr8 wrote:OK...so I've given the new site a chance to "sink in", but I'm still not liking it very much. It just feels weird. I've actually found myself sneaking peeks at other deal sites each day.
I've done the same thing, I saw the new site the night of the 28th and left a post on the 29th full of distaste for the new design. I let it "sink in", still don't like it. I now visit this site less and slickdeals.net more. RIP Woot!
Classic... love it. Derby shirt idea? :P You can make it relevant to the perspective one they got going I'm pretty sure.. if not.. sub it anyway so they see it to reject it. haha
Remember Facebook Lite?
People loved it.
Now look at facebook.
Why is craigslist so successfull?
Because they didn't change visibily. We don't come here to be wowed by imagery.
You have a real opporunity here Woot. Do something no other important site has done:
Listen to your users.
Let them choose.
You should have built this in a way that both the old and new formats could run in tandem.
Let the users change back and forth with a simple link, and let them save their setting.
If, after 6 mos, more than 50% of your users are using the old version, well...
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NOTICE: For your convenience, you can e-mail your bulletin board notices to email@example.com as well as mail to 1944 Warwick Ave., Warwick, RI 02889, or fax to 732-3110.
Warwick Historical Society
The Warwick Historical Society meets weekly at the John Waterman Arnold House on Roger Williams Circle Wednesdays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and every second Saturday of the month at 11 a.m-2 p.m. All are welcome and urged to become member and volunteer. Visit www.warwickhistoricalsocietyonline.org, join them on Facebook, or call 737-4617 for more information.
Pilgrim Senior Center Trips
The Tuesday Pilgrim Senior Center singing group is sponsoring the following trips: Aug. 30, a seven-night cruise to Bermuda with ex-mayor Buddy Cianci. Also, a nine-night cruise to Puerto Rico, Bermuda, St. Marteen and Haiti on April 24-May 3. Call Diane at 738-8588 for prices.
Free Community Lunch
There will be a free community lunch and food pantry Saturday, Aug. 31 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 111 West Shore Road, Warwick. All are welcome. Please don't arrive before 10:30 am. RIPTA #3 Warwick Ave – Hoxsie Four Corners stop at West Shore Nursing Home next to St. Mark's.
Gaspee Seniors
On Sept. 3 at 1:15 p.m. Gaspee Seniors will be meeting at the Buttonwoods Community Center, 3027 West Shore Road. We will be playing bingo; please bring a marker and small bills. Refreshments will be provided by Ruth Abbott, Delores Bartoszewicz, Helen Blair and Joan Briggs. They are looking forward to getting back together again. New members are welcome. Call Mary Nolan at 941-5507.
Blood Drive
There will be a blood drive at the Church of Christ the King Church Hall, 124 Legris Ave., West Warwick, Sept. 4 from 4-7 p.m. "Give the Gift of Life."
Instructional League
Fall Ladies Only Instructional League at Tin Cup Golf Course will be held Sept. 6, 13, 20, 27, Oct. 4 and 11. The Summer League is a huge success, so they are having a Fall League for those who enjoy the cooler temperatures. The league starts with a Sept. 6 clinic. Six holes of on-the-course instruction & league play each week begins Sept. 13 Fridays at 11 a.m. Lunch and prizes on Oct. 11. Featuring Rhode Island's top golf instructors. Register early by calling Tin Cup at 823-4653.
Bingo will be held at St. Kevin's Church hall, 333 Sandy Lane, Sept. 7. Doors open at 5 p.m., bingo starts at 6. Air-conditioned, fun, prizes, refreshments.
Chicken Dinner
Lakewood Baptist Church, 255 Atlantic Ave., Warwick, will hold a chicken dinner Sept. 7 at 6 p.m. Menu includes roasted chicken, baked potato, corn on the cob, salad, coffee and dessert. Adults are $8, children 6-10 $6, children under 5 eat free. For reservations call Donna at 828-8011 or Marge at 828-3764.
Wine Tasting Silent Fundraiser
The third annual wine tasting silent fundraiser at Beso's will be held Sept. 8 from 5-8 p.m. to benefit London Bridge. Send ticket requests with payment to 165 Duke St., East Greenwich, RI 02818.
Memorial Cancer Walk
The fifth annual Kerri McClean Memorial Cancer Walk to benefit women with gynecological cancer and their families will be held Sept. 8 at Warwick City Park on Asylum Road. Registration is at 9:30 a.m. Proceeds go to "Women in Need" and "Integrative Care Service" programs at Women & Infants' Hospital in memory of Kerri McClean, who succumbed to a five-year battle with cervical cancer in 2009. Complimentary Reiki, reflexology, massage, chiropractic and astrology services will be offered. Refreshments will be provided. Baskets and gist cards will be raffled. $25 registration fee; survivors walk free. For more information call 463-7895.
Swinging Squares
Swinging Squares Dance Club of RI's Fun Night, open to all singles or couples who want to learn to square dance, will be held Sept. 9 from 7-9:30 p.m. at East Smithfield Neighborhood Center, 7 Esmond St., Smithfield. Free for this night. Contact Louise at 724-7295.
Women's Bowling League
St. Peter's Women's Bowling League has several openings for this year's bowling. They meet Monday evenings at 6:15 p.m. at Meadowbrook Bowling Alley, Warwick Ave. First week of bowling is Sept. 9. If you are interested in joining please call Dot McGuinn at 463-9535, Karen Shields at 463-0004 or Monique Lavallee at 780-9855.
Beginner Line Dance Classes
Starting Sept. 9 and running through June 9, 2014, Tri-City Elks #14 will be holding beginner line dance classes every Sunday night from 7-8:30 p.m. at 1915 West Shore Road. All ages are welcomed. Cost is $6 per person. For more information call Lori at 821-4361 or the lodge at 737-9510.
Collecting Electronics
On Saturday, Sept. 14, from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m., Goodwill Industries of Rhode Island will be collecting donations of old electronics, clothing, leather goods and small toys at Saint Luke's Episcopal Church, 99 Peirce Street, East Greenwich. Goodwill takes all items that have a plug, including TVs, even if they no longer work. One hundred percent of the revenue generated from this program helps to provide job training, education and social services that result in employment and economic opportunities for residents of Rhode Island with disabilities and other barriers to employment.
Moving & Shaking Zumbathon
There will be a Moving and Shaking Zumbathon in memory of Hortence Cotta to benefit A.L.S. Sept. 14 from 9-11 a.m. at Elks Tri-City Lodge #14, 1915 West Shore Road. Tickets can be purchased at the door for a $10 donation or register online at webri.alsa.org/site/TR?px-1623506&fr_id9394&pg=personal.
Steak Fry
Saints Rose & Clement Parish will be hosting a steak fry Sept. 14 in the church hall. Come and enjoy a delicious dinner of steak, baked potato, mixed veggies and dessert. Cocktails (cash bar) will begin at 6:15 p.m., dinner at 7:15. Tickets are $20 per person and may be purchased at the Parish Office or by calling 739-0212.
Apprentice School Registration
Rhode Island Master Plumbers Association, Inc. will hold apprentice school registration 6:30 – 8 p.m. on Sept. 12 and Sept. 17 at St. Paul School, 1789 Broad Street, Cranston. Any questions call 225-4129.
Square Dance Workshops
Swinging Square of RI weekly dance workshops will be hled Mondays September 16, 23 and 30 from 7-9:30 p.m. at East Smithfield Neighborhood Center, 7 Esmond St., Smithfield. Fee is $6 per person.
Contact Louise at 401-724-7295
St. Rita's Autumn Bazaar
St. Rita's Women's Club is looking for vendors for their autumn bazaar, to be held Saturday, Oct. 12 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at St. Rita's Church. Tables cost $20. Call Joan at 739-0239.
Girl Scouts Registration
Registration for Girl Scouts for the school year 2013-2014 can be done online at www.gsri.org. Girls entering kindergarten through grade 12 may register. Both renewal registrations and new registrations are accepted. All girls will be placed in troops during the summer and early fall. The are actively seeking new leaders and provide full training and support. Visit their new location at 500 Greenwich Avenue in Warwick. For more information visit www.gsri.org or call 331-4500.
Aphasia Group
On the second Tuesday of each month from 6-7:30 p.m., Sargent Rehabilitation Center, 800 Quaker Lane, Warwick, holds an aphasia conversation group. This group provides a supportive meeting place for people with aphasia to socialize and share their communication challenges and strategies. There is no charge for participation. Attendance is limited to individuals with aphasia only. For more information contact Lucia Watson, MS, SLP at 886-6600 or visit www.sargentcenter.org.
Womens Golf League
Women Golfers Wanted Harbor Lights Ladies League is looking for women golfers for a Thursday night 4:30 league. Golfers should call Dee and 391-9957 for more information and/or with their GIN.
The Village Singers
The Village Singers, an adult vocal ensemble, is seeking new members for all voice parts: soprano, alto, tenor and baritone. Rehearsals will be on Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. at the Scandinavian Home, Broad St., Cranston. Their mission is to share musical experiences and appreciation across generational and socio-economic lines in a variety of settings, including community centers, health care facilities, etc. Contact Dennis Robbins at 465-6342 or email villagesingers2012@
Sing the Blues Away
Winter blues have you down? Time for something different? Join us every Tuesday from 7-9 p.m. and learn four-part a capella harmony. Reading music not required. Learn music from prepared tapes. Bring enjoyment to others by entertaining at Retirement centers, clubs and parties.
There will be bingo every Friday at 6:45 p.m. at Meadowbrook Terrace on Warwick Ave. in the Community Hall.
Donate Shop
The Donate Shop is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit thrift store that provides free clothing to families in crisis. They are an all-volunteer organization that relies solely on the support of the community to continue this endeavor. The shop has a new location at 400 Warwick Ave., Unit #14, between Dunkin Donuts and Shaw's. They are open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The phone number is 533-9944, the website is www.thedonateshop.
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Free Sunday Lunch
St. Paul Lutheran Church, 389 Greenwich Ave., is offering a free lunch for anyone in need of a meal or companionship. All are welcome every Sunday from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. For more information call 737-6758.
Rhode Island Pet Bird Club
The R.I. Pet Bird Club welcomes anyone who owns birds or has an interest in exotic birds. Meet other people who have birds, listen to guest lecturers and more. The meetings are held on the first Monday of each month. For more information call Michele at 739-7290 or visit www.orgsites.com/ri/ripbc.
Photographic Society of RI
The Photographic Society of Rhode Island welcomes camera enthusiasts of all abilities. Meetings are held on the second, third and fourth Tuesday of each month, September through May at Lakewood Baptist Church, 255 Atlantic Ave. For more information visit www.psri.us.


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The Visual Arts Center - Edward Larrabee Barnes Architect
"The Visual Arts Center matches the Walker Art Building's size but offers a Modernist reply to McKim's entrance stairs and to the terrace on which he placed his building."
- Lawrence Biemiller in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Beam Classroom is uniquely equipped with an advanced digital projection system that allows for dual image presentations for ease of comparison/contrast. This classroom is designed to help professors and students give elaborate multimedia presentations.
Picture Study Classroom is an intimate space equipped with a digital monitors that allows for image presentations for ease of comparison/contrast.
Kresge Auditorium was newly renovated for the Fall of 2011. From top to bottom, and wall to wall, a complete freshening-up of the space includes a new ceiling system, seating, paint and carpeting, as well as new sound and lighting systems. The space is used for lectures, concerts and other events
The following essay was published in "The Architecture of Bowdoin College", an illustrated guide to the campus by Patricia McGraw Anderson, 1988.
The Visual Arts Center
"Originally I was expected to hook the new building onto the McKim, Mead and White structure. I insisted that it had to be one more separate building and not a wing, to respect the open-close, open-close perimeter of the Quadrangle."1 Edward Larrabee Barnes's decision as well as his rationale are typical of the architect of the 1970s. Such architects had a studious respect for the past that was expressed in a curious blend of academic and artistic styles. Many of them were splendid lecturers and dazzling theoreticians. The country was in a historical mood - the Bicentennial was celebrated the year the Visual Arts Center was dedicated.
But Bowdoin needed no reminder of her architectural heritage. President Roger Howell wrote in his Report of 1968-1969: "Not only must a building placed in close proximity to the Walker Art Building be architecturally of superior construction, but it must also be flexible enough in interior design to meet changing needs and methods of instruction."
Even before the construction of Hawthorne-Longfellow library in 1965, McKim, Mead and White had submitted drawings of proposed additions to the Walker Art Building. The 1894 building did not have spaces for instruction in either studio art or the history of art. Yet these disciplines had grown at Bowdoin, as had the collections and the consequent development of museum programs as distinct from, but complementary to, academic programs. During the twenty years of deliberation and planning and building, the staff grew from two to eight. But until the fall of 1975 all academic and museum programs were run from the lower floor of the art museum. Parts of the art collection were stored in quite unconventional places around the campus, and art instruction took place on the top floor of Adams Hall and in other temporary locations.
Thus, although the need had been acknowledged (as in the earliest days, the boards still voted to erect structures when the money shall be forthcoming), it was not until the admission of women as undergraduates in 1970 and the launching of the 175 th Anniversary Campaign Program that planning for the new building began in earnest. After five years of work, a clear enough idea of needs had been formulated. A model and plan of a proposed solution to visual art needs was produced by Walker O. Cain and Associates (the new name of McKim, Mead and White) at the request of the College. The firm proposed a new gallery wing added at the rear of the Walker Art Building, a separate building to the north, and underground connections.
Shortly thereafter a special Committee to Select an Architect for the Art Building was formed. The committee chose eighteen architecture firms from which to request proposals.
In April of 1972 the committee chose to meet with eight of the original list. In June, having chosen Barnes as architect, the committee was formally discharged, and a building committee was constituted to oversee construction. The fall issue of the Bowdoin Alumnus, which announced the inauguration of the 175th Anniversary Campaign Program, included a special supplement, a handsome color brochure with drawings of the proposed art instruction building.
In March 1974, two years after the architect had been chosen, the excavation was begun. That same fall there was a much-publicized delay of structural steel, and a year later, in the fall of 1975, there was another controversial delay. In October of 1975 the building was open for use, and that same month the 175th Anniversary Campaign Program made its goal of $14.5 million. The formal opening ceremony was in April 1976, at which time the name was settled. The Walker Art Building, which had been closed for a year, reopened at the same time.
Two considerations guided the process of choosing the architect for the Visual Arts Center. The first was the existence of McKim's Walker Art Building, considered a treasure even though appreciation for the Beaux-Arts tradition was then at its lowest point. The second was the building's use: the study and practice of fine art. These factors put more than a little pressure on the choice of architect.
Edward Larrabee Barnes was trained at Harvard University, where he studied with Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius. After World War II Barnes opened his own practice in New York City. During this early period he also acted as design critic and lecturer at the Pratt Institute and Yale University. In 1962 he designed the Haystack Mountain School in Deer Isle; from 1965 to 1974 he created both a master plan and several buildings for the State University of New York at Potsdam; and in 1973 he designed the Crown Center in Kansas City. At the time of his Bowdoin commission, he had just completed the new museum for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Barnes's problem in designing the new building was to provide space for history of art and studio classes, a library, slide storage, picture study, exhibitions, and offices above ground as well as to create underground exhibition, auditorium, studio, storage, and office spaces; and to remake the entire lower floor of the Walker Art Building.
Barnes did not have to design a museum, but he did find himself in competition with McKim, Mead and White next door, and in avoiding a direct confrontation, put himself in competition with the Class of 1875 Gateway and Richard Upjohn's Chapel. These two influences on the site challenged him to work out rather complex solutions.
The size and shape of the Visual Arts Center are echoes of the neighboring museum. Its brick walls are defined by narrow, horizontal channels as those of the older building are articulated by moldings. A broad and shadowy entrance area on the quadrangle side and a projection on the roof are also attributes the two buildings have in common. But whereas the museum rises gracefully, elevated first by a terrace and then by a high basement, the Visual Arts Center rises severely from the ground, anchored by the unrelieved corner cubes.
The museum building, in good nineteenth-century fashion, has only one principal aspect - the entrance facade. The twentieth-century architect does not hesitate to provide two different but equally compelling facades. Barnes has made the building itself a gateway. The obvious method for achieving this is the central portal, which allows pedestrians to walk through the center. A more subtle method is the very large studio window, placed directly above and of the same proportions as the portal itself. This creates a monumental vertical accent, one that he has used in other buildings.
The street facade offers no preparation for the quadrangle facade, where the central half is hollowed out beneath the third floor. The angled walls focus the pedestrian into the opening while exposing a gallery for student work.
What might seem like a severe brick box is a complex building. Its sharp, clean, and sometimes unexpected angles and measured surfaces announce an architecture of the plane. It is not sculptural, and in many ways it appears more fragile than the Walker Art Building. The Visual Arts Center relies on visual tensions in much the same way as non-representational painting and sculpture do. The shape of the hollowed quadrangle facade and the studio window are cases in point.
This once controversial building is quite typical of Barnes's canon. Its visual and intellectual demands challenge even the dedicated student of architecture.


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UO student's 'Steubenville trial' response video goes viral
EUGENE, Ore. -- The rape case and conviction of two Ohio high school football stars last week captured national attention - and now a counter message is also grabbing plenty of attention since it was posted on Youtube by a University of Oregon student.
Filmed by UO sophomore Samantha Stendal, the 26-second video simply entitled "A Needed Response" is fast approaching 700,000 views after only two full days on Youtube.
The Cinema Studies student said she felt compelled to take a stand on the Steubenville rape trial issue. So she wrote, cast and directed what she calls a response video in the style of a public service announcement.
In the video, a man (UO student Justin Gotchall) points to a woman passed out on the couch (played by actress Kelsey Jones) and says "Guess what I'm gonna do to her?"
Gotchall then brings the woman a blanket, pillow and glass of water and says "Real men treat women with respect."
KVAL News talked to Samantha over the phone Saturday night while she was on a train home to Sammamish, Washington for spring break. She said the video is meant to deliver a simple message.
"The message I hope that people can get from this video is that we need to treat one another with respect," said Stendal. "No matter what gender, we should be listening to each other and making sure there is consent."
Stendal, who is the events coordinator of the University Film Organization, posted the video with a simple tag line - "To the Steubenville rapists...or any rapists out there."
In that case, two high school football players were convicted a week ago of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl in Steubenville last summer after an alcohol-fueled party. One was sentenced to a minimum of one year in juvenile detention, the other to two years.
Stendal said her interpretation of how the media covered the Steubenville trial motivated her to make the video.
"What really upsets me is what the news is going to, what the internet is going to which is asking what the victim could have done differently," said Stendal. "I'm upset that in our culture that is one of the first questions asked."
Stendal said she was shocked to see so many people have seen and shared her video.
"I'm so surprised with how quickly this has grown, so I'm still trying to figure out exactly what comes next!" said Stendal.


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Christmas leads off a series of feast days that refer us to Jesus infancy, childhood and growth to manhood: the feasts of the Holy Innocents, the Holy Family, the Epiphany and the Presentation. Yet we know so very little about Jesus origins and first 30 years. Matthew and Luke offer us the so-called infancy narratives, two chapters at the start of their Gospels. No other New Testament authors bother to say anything at all about the life of Jesus as a baby and a boy.
This lack of information can seem depressing, irritating and even unfair. It prodded some early Christians into inventing details to fill up the gaps. What became known as the Apocryphal Gospels let fantasy run free in fashioning stories. In one account, Jesus is seven and playing with other children of His own age. They are all making mud pies in the shape of donkeys, cows and birds. Each child boasts about how good his mud bird is. Suddenly the little clay figures fly out of Jesus hand, circle overhead and then settle back on His hand to everyones amazement.
In another such story, robbers capture Mary and Joseph when they are fleeing from Herod into Egypt. One of the robbers turns out to be none other than Dismas, which is the name given to the Good Thief in this Apocryphal Gospel. When Dismas sees the baby Jesus, he recognizes that this is no ordinary child and says: 0 most blessed of children, if ever there comes a time for having mercy on me, then remember me and forget not this hour. Then Dismas pays the ransom price for the holy family. The church saw these Apocryphal Gospels for what they were--the spurious exercises of curious minds. It excluded these products of free fantasy from the New Testament.
Do we, then, simply have to put up with our lack of knowledge about the boyhood and formative years of Jesus life? At this point, some Christians take refuge in what must have been the case. Being like us in all things but sin, He must have gone through all the normal stages of social and psychological growth to manhood. Being the sinless child of a sinless mother, He must have enjoyed utterly untroubled relations with her. Theologians and others have pushed this line of argument. They have built up a set of conclusions about things which must have held true of Jesus.
This approach, however, crashes into two perennial difficulties. First, its results remain peculiarly empty. What did Jesus untroubled relationship with His mother look like in practice? How can we possibly press beyond vague generalities and make our argument yield some concrete details about family life at Nazareth? Second, not everyone agrees about what must have been the case. It all depends on what one considers appropriate in giving an account of the early life of Jesus. Some have argued that He must have enjoyed all possible forms of human knowledge. Others vigorously deny this. Such an endowment would make His human existence suspect and unreal. Some maintain that Jesus must have passed through the normal sexual crises of puberty. Others reject this conclusion as downright distasteful.
Neither the free fancy of the Apocryphal Gospels nor efforts to deduce what must have been the case take us very far. It can be discouraging that the first 30 years of Jesus life remain so shadowy and elusive.
Some information, however, can be drawn from a monotonously neglected source--the language used by Jesus in the first three Gospels. Let me make my presuppositions here perfectly clear. I am not maintaining that all the language attributed to Jesus by Matthew, Mark and Luke necessarily goes back to the actual ministry. (Some of the language may come from the Gospel writers themselves, from the early church or from the risen Christ.) Nor am I alleging that the Gospel writers necessarily present an exact transcript of the words Jesus employed in His preaching. But I am agreeing with many scholars that Matthew, Mark and Luke preserve the flow and flavor of the language chosen by Jesus. I wish to appeal to passages that plausibly seem to derive from His preaching.
My case is this. The imagery and language used by Jesus suggest some things about the way His imagination worked and the way His sensibility had formed during the hidden life at Nazareth. Let me single out two features of His preaching. They indicate lines along which His imagination had grown and revealed itself.
First, Jesus shows Himself aware of, and responsive to, many forms of human activity, suffering and happiness. He observes what happens when farmers sow crops, sees how they may build extra barns to house the proceeds of a bumper harvest and recalls their methods for forecasting the weather. When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, A shower is coming; and so it happens. And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, There will be scorching heat; and so it happens (Lk. 12: 54f.). Jesus has also noticed how people put patches on torn cloaks and use fresh wineskins for new wine. He speaks of taxation, loans of money, of the role of stewards in administering large households, of the work of fishermen, of shepherds guarding their flocks, of the soft clothing of the wealthy, of dogs waiting for scraps from the table, of travelers turning up late at night and looking for food, of the workings of the law, of the current price of sparrows and of much else besides. Jesus eye sweeps across a very wide range of human activity. If we put together all His images, we would have a fairly adequate picture of daily life in ancient Galilee.
His imagination does not flinch from facing human suffering. One of His most memorable stories features the traveler who is robbed, beaten up and left half-dead on a country road. Jesus points to the greed of the rich men who ever indulge, even though sick men lie starving at their door. He recalls the calculations made by princes before leading their armies into war. Human happiness does not pass Jesus by. He speaks of the joy of a father when his runaway son returns, of celebrations at weddings, of a housewife delighted to have recovered some missing money. All in all, Jesus preaching reveals an imagination that has grown to be sensitively aware of all that is going on in His world.
Second, we throwaway any right to comment on the way Jesus perceives reality, if we ignore the earthy particularity of His language. Characteristically, He answers general questions like Who is my neighbor? by telling a story (Lk. 10:29-37). Of course, other rabbis have done this both before and after Jesus. But the fact that they also display this habit does not make it any less His. He thinks from below, not by way of deduction from above. He offers cases from which His audience can draw general principles, if they want to. Even His generalizing remarks stay close to the earth. No one after drinking old wine desires new (Lk. 5:39). There is a common touch in the proverbial sayings He cites. In the synagogue at Nazareth He tells the congregation: Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, Physician, heal yourself. (Lk. 4:23). He invites His hearers to perceive the particular things around them. His imagination is attuned to the earthy wisdom of ordinary folk. All of this makes Him the supreme preacher with the common touch. He speaks with us and to us, not merely at us.
The language that Jesus employed in His preaching suggests some things about the way His imagination and perception of the world worked. At the same time, these insights into His adult imagination will give us clues to the way His sensibility formed during His boyhood. In short, the preaching of Jesus is our richest source of information about His so-called hidden life at Nazareth.


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A reporter does her first remote live radio broadcast from inside a block of ice, a celebrity impersonator's first international trip teaches her what it really means to be "Big in Japan," and a Japanese translator leaves her family for the first time only to get shipwrecked on a movie set in the Antarctic. For our final episode of the season, we hear the origin stories behind of some of the strangest, and yet most formative, work experiences people have had in their lives. We go back to where it all starts: the beginning.
Erin Stanfield is a wardrobe stylist, dressing actors for film and television. But she began her career wearing a costume of her own.
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The owner of a vintage retail store recalls how she made a career out of the eclectic clothing in her closet, and a doctor grapples with his community's vehement protests against his plans to open a medical cannabis dispensary. In this episode, two stories of peace, love, drugs and counterculture in '60s San Francisco.
Dr. Floyd Huen didn't expect a community meeting earlier this year in San Francisco's Sunset District to be contentious. The 70-year-old Asian-American community organizer and physician planned to explain his proposal for a bilingual, community-centric medical marijuana dispensary that would also offer traditional Chinese medicine treatments such as acupuncture. But the crowd was hardly supportive. Someone shouted, "You're supposed to be a role model!" At one point, a chorus of, "Get out! Get out!" filled the room.
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An environmentalist burns the midnight oil volunteering to preserve decades of climate change data amid a major government clampdown, and a Syrian medical student learns how his family's chocolate-making business can equally be a cure for heartbreak. This week, stories about survival and the lengths people go to preserve a life's work.
Tareq Hadhad always wanted to be a doctor. In Damascus, Syria, where he grew up, school grades can determine someone's entire career trajectory. Hadhad worked hard to earn the necessary grades. But shortly after entering medical school, the would-be physician had to help his family relocate to Antigonish, a small town in Nova Scotia, Canada. And there, his career took a very different turn: he had to help restart the family business, a chocolate company now called Peace by Chocolate.
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An enterprising retiree becomes a bustling cafés' new favorite server, and a former Wall Street banker finds renewed inspiration after accepting a summer internship with a group of college students. This week, stories of people who have proved that it's never too late to find professional, and personal, fulfillment.
One afternoon last summer, Paul Critchlow watched in awe as a fellow intern at Pfizer scrolled through her Facebook feed. "How do you get to the bottom of this?" he asked. Critchlow had never noticed the bottomlessness of social media. He wondered: if there is no end to information, how did his colleagues ever draw a conclusion about anything?
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Meet the three New York Times machinists who've printed every single issue of the paper for the last 30 years, and an investigative reporter who waged war on mayoral misconduct from the front page of the Toronto Star. This week, stories of people whose lives (and careers) have been indelibly marked by the business of getting the story right.
Investigative reporter Kevin Donovan has built a sterling reputation over the past three-plus decades at The Toronto Star. He's covered two wars and currently leads team of eight journalists, the biggest investigative unit of any Canadian print publication.
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A freshwater ecologist tasked with making his research more accessible discovers an unlikely muse in Bruce Springsteen. A medical ethnobotanist seeks new cures for super bugs in the natural world after her own near-death brush with a bacterial infection. This week, stories about the noble pursuit of knowledge—and how that often leads to some surprising discoveries about ourselves.
Freshwater ecologist Ian J. Winfield studies lake fish such as char and carp — not exactly the sort of climate change-adjacent topic that gets much media attention. He also happens to be a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. "Scientists are humans, so this kind of interest in things other than science is not unusual," he jokes.
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Dive into the daily hustle, juggle, and struggle of the freelance life in this special episode. Meet a freelance farmer with a novel approach to traditional work; a writer, mother and animal keeper bitten by the travel bug; a sweet-talking freelance collections agent whose business is to get freelancers paid; and a private forensic pathologist who finds the untold stories of the dearly departed.
Lola Augustine Brown has what many would call a dream job, being paid to travel to exotic destinations and experience the best they have to offer. On a recent assignment to Anguilla, for example, the freelance travel writer spent several days savoring gourmet meals and delicious sunsets. She was working, but it didn't feel like work.
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A jetpack inventor rejects his position as an ivory-towered executive to stay grounded as an entrepreneur. A Jamaican-American chess player becomes the first black international grandmaster in history. This week, stories of childhood dreams and the realities of rising through the ranks.
When Maurice Ashley was trying to become a chess grandmaster, there were about 600 of the top-ranked competitors in the world. His aspirations went beyond just earning the title: he wanted to become the world's first ever black chess grandmaster.
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A college student's sweepstakes win paves the way for her lifelong dream to reform U.S. immigration policy. An academic lands a rare dream job as the 'Wikimedian in Residence' for one of the oldest libraries at the University of Oxford. This week, stories of modern day jobs with a historical twist.
The path that Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez's life has taken is paved with improbable milestones.
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The head of purchasing and IT at America's largest fortune cookie supplier takes on a new role as head fortune cookie writer. A baker with Down syndrome has to break the law to lead an independent life and career. This week, two stories of remarkable people in who fight the odds to pursue their passions.
Collette Divitto says the hardest thing about having Down syndrome is having her family tell her what she can and cannot do. But the 26-year-old cookie-baking entrepreneur has her family's full support in Collettey's Cookies, her Boston-based business that's become a viral success story.
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Explore the hidden world of seemingly unremarkable jobs in this special episode with double the stories, including: a video store clerk who gets knocked out of his monotonous comfort zone by a suspicious visitor, a call center agent who finds renewed purpose in how she serves customers, a supermarket chain manager who comes down with a bad case of "bore-out", and a man whose job literally involves watching grass grow. And he loves it.
Going to the Super Bowl was a lifelong dream, and a peak professional achievement for Sean McLaughlin. But McLaughlin is not a football pro. He's a student in turf management, and watching grass grow is his passion, as well as his profession.
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An instagram star bullied for the color of her skin turns the teasing into the fuel behind her fashion modeling career; a professional British rugby player confronts "jock" stereotypes when he comes out to friends, family, and fans as gay.
Being drafted into the United Kingdom's rugby Super League is a lot like being drafted into the National Football League in the United States. It's the highest level a professional athlete can achieve, something little kids dream about.
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We meet a chef who can't wait to walk away from her prestigious Michelin star rating and a web developer who singlehandedly orchestrated one of the biggest fast food comebacks his hometown has ever seen.
Most people have fond nostalgia for the chain restaurants of their childhood, but Christian Ziebarth found his calling in those affectionate memories. The web developer and early food blogger, who had no actual restaurant business experience, made it his unlikely mission to reopen Naugles, a beloved Mexican food chain that closed in 1995.
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We meet a woman teaching doctors good bedside manners by acting sick when she's feeling perfectly fine; and a neuroscientist at odds with her own brain after she's diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Not everyone we encounter day-to-day is as helpful as we'd like them to be in certain situations.
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An outspoken corporate downsizer learns a harsh lesson after being surprised with her own exit package, and a loyal cop that has to choose between fighting the war on drugs and his criminal brother. Sometimes practicing tough love at work and at home isn't always the best policy.
Peter Muyshondt is a high-ranking police officer in Antwerp, Belgium with over 20 years of experience in law enforcement. In that time he quickly rose to deputy chief of police while watching over the country's second largest city.
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A journalist discovers a scarf with her byline imprinted in its design and embarks on an investigative journey to track down its makers; a former futures trader stumbles into her calling as an internet hoax buster with a specialty for empathizing with the perpetrators. Following your curiosity can lead you to some pretty interesting work, or at least a very good story.
It can be hard to spot fake news, but some people have a knack for sniffing out untruths, like accidental internet hoax buster Taryn Wright.
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Meet a woman who's made a career out of professional cuddling; and an engineer, lawyer and open-source advocate who grappled with her own values in order to save her life.
What if someone told you there's a chance the electronic pacemaker defibrillator implanted in your heart — the one that monitors your heartbeat and revives you in case of sudden heart failure — could be remotely manipulated by a hacker? It sounds far-fetched, but Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the not-for-profit organization Software Freedom Conservancy, assures that, though improbable, it's not impossible.
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A Kung-Fu master honors his father's legacy; a frustrated musician's chance meeting with a mentor leads to a powerful lesson in self-acceptance. Sometimes, the best thing to happen to your career is finding your guiding light.
Romeo Candido got his first big break playing a "singing, dancing Vietnamese person" in the original cast of hit Broadway musical Miss Saigon, even though he's actually Filipino. "It was like winning the American Idol for Asian singers," he says. "The show was like a beacon of possibility for Asian performers."
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A woman starts a dating site for single farm workers, and an exiled army colonel launches a revolution from the aisles of a hardware store. What happens when your life's work is deeply connected to where you're from?
British sisters Lucy Reeves and Emma Royall spent a lot of their young adulthood putting distance between themselves and the countryside where they grew up, first to different boarding schools and then to university; after school, each spent several years living abroad, Royall getting into scuba-diving off tropical islands and Reeves exploring the local nightlife of cities far from home.
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An entrepreneur learns the cost of putting his work ahead of his relationship; a young developer flees her war-torn homeland for a chance to pursue her dream career. What happens when your professional ambitions put your personal life at stake?
Entrepreneurship is a tough gig. It can be volatile and unpredictable, and even in America where resources abound in tech-centric cities, around 75% of startups fail.
Read More of Episode Fifteen
A woman discovers her cranium-tingling voice is the stuff of YouTube stardom; a visually impaired man happens upon his special sightseeing abilities at night. What happens when your senses become your super-powers at work?
Tim Doucette spent the first 18 years of his life in Quinan, Nova Scotia, population: 320. There were even fewer residents while Doucette was growing up. As a result of its remoteness, there's very little light pollution, making it an incredible place for stargazing.
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A Wall Street trader's climb to the top proves too gut-wrenching to continue; a classical pianist grapples with a career-ending injury. What happens when you're suddenly physically incapable of doing your job?
It never occurred to Keith Porter-Snell that life could come without piano. With a pianist for a mother and a childhood of non-stop practicing, conservatory training, and major competitions, there was never any question as to how he'd spend his life.
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A prison superintendent ordered to oversee two executions struggles with his beliefs that the punishment doesn't fit the crime and a former Vegas drug dealer finally finds his place in the high life--sober. Sometimes the only way to find your true calling is to pull a complete 180. This episode also features Slack customer Bump Boxes - a subscription service for mom and baby that covers every stage of pregnancy to your little one's first birthday.
The death warrant came about 18 months into Frank Thompson's tenure as superintendent of the Oregon State Penitentiary.
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To gain credibility in a case, a police officer reveals his identity as a practicing pagan. After 30 years of performing as a man, a veteran comic takes the stage for the first time...as a woman. This week, two enlightening stories of people who took big risks to bring their true selves to work.
The call to the police came on a Sunday morning. Officer Andy Stuart picked up. A citizen was concerned that the Ku Klux Klan were meeting in a neighbor's garden.
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Sometimes, the way to find out who we really are is to become someone else. Like the struggling author who's already sold millions of books and the Vietnam war vet who carries out a do-or-die promise by becoming Santa Claus.
Nearly 50 years ago, in a foxhole in Vietnam, Scott Serafin made a vow that would alter the course of his life.
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A nun chooses solitude over social work and a highfalutin Wall Street recruiter quits the corporate life to work with former felons.
Nearly 20 years later, Margo Walsh still remembers the moment, sitting in a rehab facility in Portland, Maine, like it was yesterday.
Read More of Episode Nine
A historian recounts the tale of an escaped slave who launched Toronto's first taxi service and a loyal London Black Cab driver takes to the radio to unite his industry in revolt.
When Thornton Blackburn arrived in Canada in 1833, like so many immigrants to the New World, he carried with him the dream to create a better life than the one he left behind.
Read More of Episode Eight
Sometimes the most profound things we say and do at work happen when we don't say anything at all. This week: A librarian's shushing earns her superhero status and a young hospital chaplain learns that sitting in silence brings great comfort to ailing, ageing patients.
If Nancy Pearl was ever going to write a memoir, it would begin like this: "I went to Mukilteo to be digitized."
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Every job has its freedoms and limitations, but sometimes all you need to endure the ups and downs is a noble purpose. This week: A man who saves airline passengers from errant wildlife and another who's made it his life's work to build a country for the nationless.
A few years back, Mohamed Alborno was standing in a kitchen in Manchester, England, talking about his first film, about a man who wants to start a new country because he can't return to his own.
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Parents have high hopes for their children, many wish their progeny will follow in their footsteps. This week: A son trades in building new towns for building software and a college graduate contemplates her fateful career slinging smoked fish with her legendary family.
A hundred years ago, before there was a bank and drug store on every Manhattan street corner, Jewish delis and appetizing stores were commonplace. Delis sold things like knishes and sliced meats. Appetizing stores specialized in bagels, spreads, and smoked fish.
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This week: career breakthrough moments. A 17-year-old female baseball player faces off against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. An architect takes on the daunting task of rebuilding Sandy Hook Elementary after one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
On December 14, 2012, a disturbed young man with a high-powered rifle forced his way into a local elementary school, and began shooting. Sandy Hook was left to deal with the seismic shock of senseless violence and its aftermath.
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From working in finance to servicing HVAC units, prosecuting despots for war crimes to pursuing life as a bootstrapping standup comedian...our careers can take some sharp left turns.
"I used to be a war crimes lawyer in the Hague before I decided it was time to get serious."
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When it comes to envisioning what we want to do with our lives, we set our sights high. In episode 2 of Work in Progress, we hear two very different stories of a dream (job) coming true, whether by a random stroke of luck or through decades of perseverance.
One summer evening in July of 1969, 13-year-old Jean Wright stepped outside her house and stared up at the night sky. The moon above Flint, Michigan glowed as brightly as ever that night, but Wright looked at it differently. Moments earlier she had watched Neil Armstrong on TV as he took his first historic steps on its barren surface, and suddenly the dark sky brimmed with possibility.
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Some people know exactly what they want to do when they grow up, while the rest of us take a different approach—flying by the seat of our pants, dipping in and out of jobs not giving too much thought to any master plan because frankly, it doesn't exist. Going with the flow can change your life forever and take you to some pretty unexpected places—whether backstage with David Bowie or onto the set of one of TVs' biggest sci-fi thrillers. Welcome to the debut episode of Work In Progress, Slack's new podcast about the meaning and identity we find in work. Hosted by Dan Misener.
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" Most people have been asked that question (hopefully, expectantly) at some point in their youth. Some people have a clear-cut answer, others leave matters to fate.
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AMERICUS, Ga. – On the strength of their second-straight shutout victory, the Georgia College soccer team (3-5, 2-0 PBC) improved to 2-0 in Peach Belt Conference (PBC) play Saturday with a 2-0 win at Georgia Southwestern State University (3-5, 0-1 PBC).
GC got one goal in each half to take down the Hurricanes. With just under 15 minutes left, freshman Abby Dalton (Macon, Ga.) netted the second goal of her young career to give Georgia College a 1-0 halftime lead.
With 39:44 remaining in the second half, Dalton got involved in the offense again with a cross from the left side, finding a sliding Erica Padula (Panama City, Fla.) from three yards out for the senior's first goal of the season. Dalton now shares the team lead with two assists. For Padula, a transfer from Auburn University-Montgomery, it was her first goal in a Bobcat uniform.
Rookie Taylor Cornelius (Dacula, Ga.) picked up her second career victory and first career shutout. She made three saves, while her counterpart Amber Bahri stopped five.
The Bobcats out-shot the Hurricanes 24-4, including a 7-3 advantage in shots on goal.
GC soccer is back in action Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 4:30 p.m., traveling to Lander University (6-1-1, 1-1-1 PBC). The Bearcats most recently tied Columbus State University today 2-2.
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Marcello Lippi made history as Guangzhou Evergrande clinched the AFC Champions League on away goals after a 1-1 draw with Seoul at the Tianhe Stadium on Saturday.
The draw was enough to secure Lippi's side the trophy on away goals, after a 2-2 draw in the first leg, with the Chinese Super League champions completing a domestic and Asian double.
Evergrande also became the first Chinese club to win an Asian title in 23 years and the first from their country to win the competition in its current format, while Lippi becomes the first coach to win Champions Leagues in both Europe and Asia as well as the World Cup.
Dario Conca went close for the hosts after 15 minutes in a low-key opening, hitting the post with an effort after Zhang Linpeng produced a cutback from the right byline.
Two minutes into the second half, Evergrande threatened again, but Kim Yong-Dae saved well from Muriqui's close-range effort before the goalkeeper made himself equal to Huang Bowen's strike from outside the area.
Ha Dae Sung almost put the visitors ahead seven minutes before the hour mark, with a chip that needed to be touched over by Zeng Cheng.
However, Seoul's limited amount of threat was punished by Brazilian Elkeson, who slotted home after taking Muriqui's through ball in his stride after 57 minutes.
It was the Brazilian's third goal in two matches, after clinching a brace in his side's final Chinese Super League game of the season on Sunday - a 5-0 win over Wuhan Zall.
The lead lasted just four minutes however, when Dejan Damjanovic expertly turned a Sergio Escudero pass home, after dribbling well to carve out an opportunity.
However, the visitors were unable to carve out any further chances as Evergrande finished the competition unbeaten at home, allowing Lippi to add the AFC title to the Uefa Champions League he lifted with Juventus in 1996 and the World Cup with Italy 10 years later.


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Dear Carolyn: A good friend recently ended a years-long relationship because of her boyfriend�s emotional limitations. After they broke up, I let her know I had always wondered whether he was right for her.
She feels disappointed that, as a good friend, I had not been more forthcoming about my own doubts.
My negative opinions were about his personality and personal style, things my friend and I had discussed, but only insofar as she had mentioned problems with those things. There were never any concerns about safety or abuse. I had often wondered if I should offer my opinion, but decided that if she was happy, then who am I to criticize her choices?
She is surprised I would see sharing my opinion as criticism and feels let down. I feel genuinely confused about whether her expectation that I weigh in (and that I could have helped her avoid wasting years on a bad relationship) is reasonable.
Am I a bad friend or is this dear friend placing too much responsibility on me for bad decision-making (or luck)?
� Trying to Be a Good Friend
As with the imploded relationship itself, the assignment of blame isn�t so tidy.
Well, one part is: The notion that you extended the life of these time-wasting relationships by not speaking up is just buck-passing bunk. Someone reeling from a fresh breakup does get a pass for floating this idea. Once. But the people who start and stay in unhappy relationships are fully accountable for any time wasted.
Meanwhile, there�s a fine line between withholding your objections and creating the impression that you have no objections. If my closest confidants put on a show of liking a partner of mine about whom they privately had concerns, I wouldn�t blame the relationship on them, but I would feel lied to by people I trusted. Chronically so. So, it�s worth asking yourself on which side of this line you�ve stood.
Next, there�s the matter of holding in all your doubts and concerns ... until you let them seep (or tumble) out as soon as the breakup�s official. There�s a fine line there, too � the told-you-so line. On one side, there�s useful debriefing; on the other, there�s telling everyone who�ll listen that you were right about this guy all along.
And finally, when in doubt: �Do you want my opinion, or just an ear?� From now on, invite friends to state their preference while you have a chance to provide it ... lightly, at first, to be sure. However, if they punish you for telling truths they punished you to extract, then you can safely assume you�re not the main problem here.
E-mail Carolyn Hax at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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