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"You Guys" Is Gender-Neutral
April 12, 2016 Comments Off on "You Guys" Is Gender-Neutral
Did you know there are two ups in English? It's true! Watch, I'll show you. You can say "I walked up the stairs" but you can't say "I walked the stairs up" because this up is a preposition and English prepositions don't work that way. On the other hand, you can say "I looked up the information" and you can ALSO say "I looked the information up" because this up is a particle and English particles do work that way even though most of us have never heard of them.
Descriptive linguistics is the reason we know this: The starting assumption is that anyone who is a native speaker of a dialect has an inherent understanding of its grammatical rules even if they can't put into words why something is right or wrong. If you are a native English speaker, then the sentence "I walked the stairs up" made you do a weird mental double-take even if you have never heard of a particle. Linguists' job is to figure out why something is right, not to figure out what should be right. (That's called prescriptive linguistics and it is largely evil.)
What's cool about this is that it works for any dialect that people speak natively, even so-called "uneducated" ones. The sentence "He shop here all the time" is not grammatical in my native dialect but is grammatical in others. I love this because it's a radically democratic way of approaching the world, and I get all mama-bear when people start talking about wrongness in language. Once you're judging people's language as wrong it's just a hop, skip, and a jump to judging people as wrong, which is where so much of the awfulness in the world comes from. There is Standard English and then there's Chicano English and African American Vernacular English and so on and they are all equally valid dialects. It also hits home because, as I have written before, Wisconsinites' inability to accept the word "pop" caused me a disproportionate amount of stress in college. Similarly, I've tried saying "You should come with" (complete sentence) and "Where are you at?" and have had the same icky feeling I get when I try to say "soda." It feels weird. It's not me.
Now I'm an educator. More than that: I'm a women's self-defense instructor. And it has been on my radar for about a decade that there are a lot of people out there who consider the phrase "you guys" to be sexist, and advise speakers to remove it from their vocabulary. My own training involved some pretty tight attention to language and I am all in favor of watching your words. But in this instance, it's misguided.
English doesn't have gendered second-person pronouns. "You" is still super-safe even in what my Facebook world perceives as the currently ongoing gender-binary-destructive maelstrom; you might not know where on the gender spectrum the person in front of you places himself, or what pronouns she uses, or how hard ze's going to kick your ass for making assumptions about either of those things, but at least you can look them straight in the eye and say, "How may I help you?" That part has always been worry-free, and it will stay that way because English doesn't have gendered second-person pronouns.
On the other hand, most of us have always had problems with plain "you" as our plural second-person pronoun. It happens to sound the same as the singular "you," and we want to be clear, so the majority of us have a fall-back method of clarifying.
You probably read about the Harvard dialect survey that went viral in 2013. The goal was a geographical survey of organic native dialects, expressions that sound just as right to their native speakers as "I walked up the stairs" does to us. (The variety of American English is fantastic! You should check the questions out.) Their question about a term "to address a group of two or more people" listed the following options:
- you all
- yous/youse
- you lot
- you guys
- you 'uns
- yins
- you
- other
- y'all
That's quite a list! And 42.53% of respondents picked "you guys." (Side note: I would bet anything that the majority of the 24.82% who said "you" picked that option because it was correct and they knew they weren't supposed to say y'all or yins. I showed this survey to one friend who was proud that he had "picked all the right answers." *headdesk*)
Notice that the question was ungendered. Those 4,578 people picked "you guys" out of a list of other second-person plural pronouns, which, again, are not gendered in English.
The idea of taking "you guys" out of my vocabulary entirely gives me the same panicked, tight feeling in my throat that I have every time I try to suggest that someone "come with." It doesn't feel right. That is not the language I speak. With my inherent understanding of my native dialect of English, I can tell you with certainty that "you guys" is gender-neutral. I think most people sense this same thing, except that without the linguistic background to argue for it, you feel like you don't have a leg to stand on if someone calls you out on it.
And let me clarify that this isn't the same thing as changing your vocabulary. Terms change all the time, but they don't affect the grammar of your dialect. It doesn't matter if I ask you "Where are the fireflies at?" or "Where are the peenie wallies at?"—if "where…at" isn't grammatical in your dialect, neither one is going to sound right. (Yes, peenie wallies! Seriously, take a look at some of those questions. Language rocks!)
The problem is that "you guys" happens to look and sound a lot like a phrase that you could conceivably use to address a group of men. Just like the preposition "up" looks and sounds a lot like the particle "up." Just like singular "you" looks and sounds a lot like plural "you."
Women in the 1970s re-branded feminist history as "herstory." Of course, "history" derives from Ancient Greek and doesn't bear any relationship whatsoever to the Modern English pronoun "his"—it was just a linguistic coincidence. That didn't mean you shouldn't say "herstory" if it meant something to you or was important for your own growth as a feminist… but seriously proposing that it be widely adopted was ludicrous.
The fact that "you guys" appears to be gendered is a similar linguistic coincidence. And in the same way, you are welcome to eliminate it from your language if it is important to you. But a solid understanding of descriptive linguistics, and why it is critically important not to cast other dialects as vulgar or uneducated, suggests why it isn't right to advocate for its wholesale removal.
The Clown Joke
October 16, 2014 Comments Off on The Clown Joke
It turns out Barbara Kingsolver has only written seven books of fiction! And I have read five and a half of them. So on the one hand, life is good. But she's also written nonfiction (my feelings on which are maybe a topic for another day), and the seventh book of fiction is Homeland, her collection of short stories.
I have categorically hated short stories for a long time. But every time I end up actually reading one, I can't figure out why I'm so dead-set against the genre. It finally occurred to me that it's probably because of the poor examples that were shoved down my throat in middle school, once "Reading" turned into "English."
In ninth grade my class went on a camping trip in the Boundary Waters, and my group's counselor taught us The Clown Joke: A boy is very excited to go to the circus, but a clown pulls him for an audience participation stunt that humiliates him in front of the crowd. He chokes out, "Fuck you, clown!" and is haunted for the next dozen years or so by all the things he could have said instead. This is where you're supposed to draw out the joke for as long as possible, listing graduate degrees in comedy and joke workshops he runs and all the cutting responses he belatedly comes up with. Then the same circus comes back to town, and the man arranges to sit in the same seat, ready to have his revenge. Sure enough, the clown pulls him again, makes the same joke… and the man chokes out, "Fuck you, clown!"
The boys in my group howled, and The Clown Joke quickly achieved legendary status. It never struck me as very funny, partly because of the part where you're supposed to drag the joke out as long as you can. No one ever did it very well, so the listener had to sit through an interminable, very forced list of stupid ideas. It was clearly nothing but a build-up to a punchline, and there was nothing for it but to sit patiently, try to manage a stiff smile when it finally arrived, and excuse yourself as soon as you could.
And these are the kinds of short stories you read in middle school. They don't give you Barbara Kingsolver in middle school. They give you stupid, facile build-ups to a single line that read exactly like The Clown Joke. Middle schoolers don't have the capacity to appreciate fine writing and quiet plots, so instead they fed us glorified Clown Jokes, third-rate drivel where you just had to grit your teeth and wait for it to be over. The first short stories I read I took as personal insults. No wonder I hate them!
Breakthroughs feel revolutionary, but of course there is always a lot of work to be done to follow through on them. Reading Homeland would probably be an excellent next step.
Both Feet
September 17, 2014 Comments Off on Both Feet
In my crazy-intense self-defense class last weekend I commented to the instructor that I was finding I was standing on both feet a lot more often than I usually do, which I associated with blossoming confidence and energy born of new skills. Then at choir, while telling people about my crazy-intense self-defense class last weekend, I noticed myself on both feet when I said the word "ready."
And I realized I had lied to the instructor. I stand on both feet all the time. Several of my favorite activities involve both feet—I even have my keyboard adjusted to standing height. All the times in my life I feel happiest, most competent, most relaxed, I'm on both feet. If I tied that balanced stance to the confidence and energy of last weekend, I should start listening to myself more often. It makes me think that even the idea of being slouched over on one hip is a lie. Anything that makes me reel like a melting snowman is out. And anytime I find myself standing balanced, I should tune in to the power and jump in with both feet.
So Bored with Sex
July 24, 2014 Comments Off on So Bored with Sex
I'm reading A Song of Ice and Fire right now, which is very fun and clever and I love the politics and I can't put them down and so on, but I find them very lazy. Martin has bricked himself into a stupid medieval rut that seems to bore even him, but dutifully slogs through soul-sucking tournaments and genealogies only one step removed from "Jaseth begat Horren begat Prian begat…" It's so much effort even to skim a new set of names and a new family history (going much further back than necessary and complete with coat of arms presented in real heraldic jiggamababble) that every time a new narrator is introduced I want to cry. He names half his characters by misspelling normal names like a 12-year-old writing his first story, and the other half are tragically plagued by ys and aes and qs with no us. The characters mostly fit into neat little slots—tomboy, sadist, succubus, square, outcast, drunk, greedy—even if those slots are sometimes up a notch or two from caricature. The characters who do not fit into slots are exciting, but there really are a only a couple.
But mostly, I am SO BORED with sex and rape. They're two of the dumbest shortcuts that exist in fiction. The problem is that in stories like this sex and rape are not used to comment on or depict someone's character, but are a magic plot device with a pre-determined outcome. (Priapus ex machina?) It's like if you chopped up onions and carrots and waved a magic wand and suddenly the pot was full of steaming ready-to-eat stew. If you wave your sex-wand (ha), suddenly a noble, intelligent man is effectively disabled by his need to get with a lady. (Never a man, obviously.) If you wave your rape-wand, suddenly a strong woman is broken into little pieces and can be led around by the nose. Martin uses sex and rape to cut his characters to the desired shape instead of showing how sex and rape caused them to grow into that shape.
And the most irritating thing is the rape culture of his world, and yes, I understand that medieval times were sexist and a terrible place for women and so on. Aside from the irrationality of using the social-realism defense in swords-and-sorcery fantasy, it's clear that Martin is doing it out of laziness and a really thick-headed understanding of sexism. A short story that describes the main character's day by giving equal weight to everything he does would be dull as dirt. By the same token, just because uncouth guardsmen's first reaction to a woman with a sword might really be to make a crack about how their sword is bigger and they'd like to show her doesn't mean that you should include it every time. If it's a joke, it better be funny. If the point is to be "realistic," maybe instead of actually quoting the idiot you could tell how the woman ignored the guards' hilarious suggestions and commanded them to move aside. If the point is to demonstrate sexism by have a talking penis throw around the word "wench" and meditate aloud on how much he would like to get laid, then Martin has totally missed how sexism really works. He puts in these glaring stupid scenes where blackguard mercenaries leer at the serving wench and put their hands down her giggling bodice until they finally suddenly gang-rape her on the table and it makes me want to scream. These scenes do not advance the story I care about, nor do they convincingly portray the men's villainy or do anything at all for the character of the serving girl—if she were ever important. There are other ways to be evil besides raping serving girls. There are other ways to be sexist and privileged besides using the word "wench." There are other ways to be traumatized besides being raped. There are other ways to rape someone besides violently, in a big happy group. It's shockingly, actively un-creative. It was fun when Martin answered that he writes strong female characters "because [he's] always considered women to be people," but it would be nice if he considered all his characters people, instead of NPCs he can puppet around and make hump each other.
Sex is supposed to be some great motivator, but it is almost always a shortcut around having to actually create a character or imagine an interaction. Every good story ostensibly about sex is about a relationship so finely shaded it has tides. Sex is not a replacement for competent character creation. The better the writer, the sadder this is. There is some breathtaking writing in these books, and it makes me wish he'd written a story that he was really interested in, all of it, instead of creating something where he delivers exposition in toneless monologues and defaults to HBO tricks like blood and boobies to give his characters raisons d'être. If he ever bothers to care about something he writes, I'll line right up. In the meantime… I'm off to read a scene where a girl gets raped. (Guess which book I'm on!)
(Hint: It's a trick question.)
Ci vuole un fiore
May 19, 2014 Comments Off on Ci vuole un fiore
"Black thumb" is a little too harsh. Let's stick with "untalented." I don't exactly kill plants, but I coexist with them in some kind of timeless state of distant appreciation from which I occasionally emerge to find, to my constant idiot surprise, that they need water, or light, or less water, or less light. I have exactly the same response every time, the same slow glimmer of understanding that the beautiful green things might need something from me.
I am inching towards setting up my expensive but very cool Windowfarm as if it were a blind date, worrying whether the seedlings will like me and what if I blow my chance with them? There are much more serious matters I should be concerned with—life and death, for instance. If I knew any sentient plants they would be preemptively reporting me to the proper authorities and/or making plans not to come over for the next couple months.
But for what it's worth, I like plants, and I especially like watching them lift their heads after a good watering. It's one of my favorite things, and of course every time it happens I watch raptly, astonished, because I don't ever seem to learn. In a similar way, I should have retained all the articles I've read that say that writers cannot write without reading for fuel. For the first time in a long time, I am reading for pleasure, and my poor parched little writer-plant is straightening its shoulders and brandishing its leaves, and here I am, as usual, gaping at it, as if I'd had no idea this was going to happen. It doesn't take much rain to make a flower happy.
Review: Unplugged
April 30, 2014 Comments Off on Review: Unplugged
I picked this book up because the author is presenting "Scenes and Songs from the Novel Unplugged" the day after tomorrow, and I was curious. Turns out the man has talent! Just not a very good editor, apparently. It's about rock star Dayna Clay, who abruptly deserts her tour, tries to kill herself, then drives aimlessly until she ends up in the Badlands, which speak to her and heal her. It's an enjoyable book in spite of reading very young.
McComas uses too many words. I found myself rewriting as I read, just a little—well, not even rewriting, just crossing out a word here and there—and it was amazing how much tighter the book could have been. There's a lot of "she paid for her groceries, walked to her car, put the bag in the backseat, and got in," a lot of "'I think,' she said out loud, 'that that might be true,'" and he has an embarrassing adolescent infatuation with ellipses and quotation marks. But the talent is apparent even so, and not just as pertains to the style. McComas has great psychological rhythm: he is skilled at creating effortless little significant episodes, something I have always struggled with, and the pacing of these is mostly good. I found myself swinging Tarzan-like from neat vignette to lovely phrase to solid dialogue exchange, and the next vines arrived with enough regularity that I was comfortable reading like that (as opposed to some books, where you reach out, grasp air, and go into free fall).
In a way it's too bad the protagonist is a gritty bisexual rock star struggling with depression and a history of abuse—it looks awfully Mitch Albom, doesn't it, especially when you drop her into a plot where she finds herself by dropping everything and driving west, getting in touch with nature and falling in love—but I have to say, it's well done. The story would be saccharine and corny in most hands, and the Big Reveal would be enormously built-up and anticlimactic, but somehow the book turns out right. One exception is the interview published by a reporter who tracks her down—it's nothing but a soapbox for a bunch of pet topics: defining someone by their sexuality, sugarcoating the truth, the validity of sex vs. marriage, why Biblical literalism is bad, etc. Blah. Occasionally the symbolism gets a little heavy-handed; occasionally the woman-to-woman attraction scenes start to sound a little too much as if they were written by a man; occasionally depression and suicide are portrayed pretty simplistically. But I can't come down too hard on all this because there's a totally outlandish scene at the end of the book, where she strikes out into the wilderness and ends up having a kind of spirit quest, complete with visions and communion with animals, which is just perfect and wonderful and possibly enough to make me want to buy the book. Plus it is indeed true that the Badlands are magical, and I am currently very homesick for them and may need to make a pilgrimage.
I heard about this book through publicity for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but that's not really what it's about. It's a surprisingly quiet little read, considering how loud the characters and plot should be…but if it were that loud, I would never have finished it. Despite constant internal criticism of the editing, I am very glad I read it. But dude, if you're looking for an editor for your next book, drop me a line.
Review: Harlot's Ghost
March 21, 2014 Comments Off on Review: Harlot's Ghost
And now, after years of piecemeal reading, long hiatuses, and a rant I couldn't keep down, I am not sure what I think of this book. Go figure.
Let's start with this: I will not take back anything I said in my rant. Not only do Mailer's characters talk completely unlike real people, they talk so completely unlike real people that I was totally alienated for several hundred pages. The narrator gradually acquires experience but he never grows up and is always kind of an idiot boy, even at the end.
But I wonder what I would have thought of this book if I had known from the beginning that it doesn't really have a plot. It's more like a three-hour movie shot on a handheld camera focusing on the back of someone's head—around the sides you can see classified conversations and dull fiddly Agency politics, Marilyn Monroe and Fidel Castro, Florida and Berlin and Uruguay, but clearly that isn't what the movie is about, it's just the backdrop against which you watch the narrator's head bob and occasionally make out with a stewardess.
By the end of the book it becomes clear that nothing is going to resolve the way you might expect it to. Instead of joining the weave in an orderly manner, the plot threads in this book swing in like comets, leave a blazing trail over a hundred pages or so, then arc back out into space, never to be heard from again. Getting to the end of the book was amazing, because the first thing you do (after reading a paragraph of Mailer's afterword and decided nothing will ever be worth listening to him talk about himself and closing the book) is take stock of all the loose ends that were not tied up. But in the course of making the list you realize that none of them actually touched on what was important to the narrator—he hasn't quite figured out himself just what that is—and that he is letting all these things go in favor of the mission he states on the last page …and the reader, at least, has to let that go as well.
It's an odd way to tell a story. But it is not necessarily an odd way to tell a character. And for all their unrealistic bombast, the characters are very good: complex and multi-dimensional and uniquely shaped. The question I'm left with is whether the characters in this beautifully executed character sketch were worth getting to know. I have the bothersome idea that it is a waste of time to spend any energy on pretentious, self-righteous people who preen themselves on their intellect and take it for granted that they are high, high above the peons who comprise the rest of humanity. It's true that these people are the most likely to be, say, extremely high-ranking officials in the Central Intelligence Agency, and arguably it is worth understanding the extent to which they are willing to play god, but, particularly taking into account that this is fiction, it is a profound waste of perfectly good life-time to follow their shenanigans.
The worst part is thinking that Mailer probably thinks he won. One character is a little unhinged toward the end of the book, and it ends without divulging whether he committed suicide or not. And as I wonder whether he did, I can hear Mailer laughing snidely and thinking with insufferable smugness that if I were an astute judge of character, I would know, without being told. Granted, I do sometimes worry excessively about what dead authors think of me, but I have such a strong impression that Mailer expects the reader to be SO IMPRESSED by how awesome his writing is, and what a subtle mind to come up with so many genius characters with amazing thoughts! and weren't you just blown away by how he subverted all your expectations about the ending?! that I feel that I need to take a stand for all Harlot's Ghost readers everywhere, and roll my eyes and say loudly that it was okay, I guess.
There are many, many things about it that are superb, but all those things that were stuck in my craw way back on page 600 are still stuck in my craw. I resent that the reader's role is to be as obsessed with Harry Hubbard as Harry Hubbard is and to care about what Harry Hubbard cares about. This book is excellent but it is full of the kind of people I take pains not to know, and I don't care to take on the worshipful role Mailer wrote for me.
I read an article once about what a perfect jerk Mailer was, and I thought, what an odd thing for people to get hung up on. Almost no one is famous for being a good person, and if you like the work they do or their acting or the way they write, who cares what they're like? You're not looking to them for moral guidance. But Mailer's choice of major characters says a lot of very unflattering things about him, and I'm afraid I find myself hung up on them.
So…it was okay, I guess.


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William Zorach: Moonlight
September 27, 2012
Modern Art to my generation was a spiritual awaking, a freeing of Art from the idea of copying Nature. We entered into a whole new world of form and color that opened up before us. —William Zorach, 1931
In the early 20th century, William Zorach was in the vanguard of American art. His paintings, prints, and sculptures reflected his interest in European modernist art. With its vivid color and stylized, angular forms, Moonlight is a perfect example—a fusion of Fauvism and Cubism, inflected with the artist's own decorative sensibility.
Zorach discovered modern art with the help of his wife, the artist Marguerite Zorach (1887–1968). The Zorachs met at a progressive art academy, La Palette, in Paris. Marguerite was the more radical of the two, introducing William to post-impressionist art and frequenting the salon of Leo Stein. Returning to the United States, they settled in Greenwich Village, then a hotbed of artistic and literary innovation. Both Zorachs exhibited works in the Armory Show of 1913, the landmark exhibition that introduced European modernism to a broad American public. In 1915 they befriended Max Weber and were drawn into the circle of modern artists around Alfred Stieglitz's New York gallery, 291. The Zorachs spent the summer of 1916 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where they designed sets for the avant-garde theatrical troupe, the Provincetown Players. The decorative composition of this work—which would seem at home in an Art Deco theater—reflects that moment.
By 1916, the Zorachs were gaining national attention. They were called "the most futurist of the futurists" in the Boston Globe, but William Zorach would paint few more radical canvasses. Within the year, he was experimenting with sculpture, and that is the medium for which he would become most famous. The Delaware Art Museum owns three other works by William Zorach—two sculptures and a relief print—and three drawings by Marguerite Zorach.
Heather Campbell Coyle
Curator of American Art
This Curator Corner was posted on September 27, 2012.
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TIM BROWNE (Director) – Managing DirectorTim has 33 years of experience in the Electrical industry, including 10 years International Management experience in the UK and Australia, and 14 years management experience in New Zealand. Tim has also worked in high end Electrical Companies employing up to 1000 staff. Based in our New Plymouth head office, Tim oversees all activities within the business including new business development, stream lining current business, keeping up with market changes and ensuring that all employees work effectively and safely. Tim has an overall responsibility to drive target growth with P&L accountability. He is enthusiastic and totally committed to the future goals and aspirations of NPE-Tech, our clients and partners. Tim believes in a hands on approach to increasing business growth, customer relationships and forging new partnerships.
GRANT MAJOR (Director) – Network & Field Services SupervisorGrant took up an apprenticeship with the New Plymouth Electricity Department and has continued to work in the Electrical Industry ever since. While employed at the NP Electricity Department Grant worked predominantly as a day rural faultsman. With the development of NPE-Tech, Grant's role extended into Field Services for a number of energy retailers.
Today Grant is the Network Connections Manager and Field Services Supervisor. NPE-Tech is an approved Powerco contractor, allowing Grant and his team to carry out Network Connections across Powerco's Central North Island network. Grant oversees the Field Services and Network Connection teams, while also being involved in Inspection Services and Retailer Tariff Meter Installation – a recently developed "one stop" electricity connection service.
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You know, for all the talk of this being the "HD generation", we've got our suspicions that many of you are still toiling away on standard definition TV sets. It's time to turn those suspicions into science.
Below you'll find some polls. The second allows you to select multiple options, since there may be more than one factor contributing to your decision. We'd be ever so grateful if you could respond (honestly!), and help give us an idea of the breakdown between HDTV ("High Definition Television) and SDTV (Standard Definition Television) users out there among our readership.
By participating, you'll be contributing to science. And who knows. We may even be able to do something useful with all this data...


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Jackal is Coming Review - Woohoo.. Jaejoong oppa first movie is so amazing! Well, I am a big fan of DBSK and even though he wasn't in DBSK anymore *and I was so hurt seeing them breaking apart* I still support him and his first movie. Today I wanna review his movie, Jakal is Coming. This movie [자칼이 온다 : Jakali Onda, literally means "Jakal is Coming"]is a Korean comedy film starring Kim Jaejong and Song Ji Hyo. If you are a big fan of Running Man, you should know her. Well, she is the ace of that famous variety show.
Comedy is a genre which is easy to assess whether it was success or not. If the viewers laughed a lot when watching this drama, then we can count that this movie is a success. All I can say was Jackal is Coming can make you both laugh hard and annoyed.
The storyline of this movie is simple. We can see Choi Hyun (Kim Jae Joong), an actor and a K-Pop idol, who was bored with his daily life as idol even though he always surrounded with his fanatic fans. One of them is Angela (Kim Sung Ryeong). Angela is a fangirl who frequently bought expensive gifts for Choi Hyun. She already have husband, a middle-aged rich man. Because of that, Hyun chose to escape and take a rest in a small hotel called Paradise.
It turned out that Hyun got a big problem because of his action. Bong Min-Jung (Song Ji Hyo), a clumsy and off-the-wall hit man, was requested to kill Hyun. Unfortunately, one group of polices which has five members led by Shin (Han Sang Jin) and Detective Ma (Oh Dal Su) also entered the hotel to reveal serial killer that they call "Jackal". Three fortresses in one hotel sound easy. But the problem is Min Jung recently aware that Hyun is actually her favorite idol.
When I watched this movie, I was welcomed by an exciting opening. But in the middle of the movie, there were some "missed" that made this movie lost its intriguing aspects. I don't know if all viewers have the same opinion as me but the screenplays were just weak. Even though the ending was pretty good, it would be complete if the middle of the movie was a little bit fixed. Overall, this movie is still recommended to watch!


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Five Loaded Heiresses: Who is the Greenest of Them All?
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Paris Hilton may be the most recognizable heiress on the planet, but is she the greenest?
It's not easy being green, Kermit once said, but then again, he wasn't talking about being born with a billion dollars. For heiresses, all that green paper should make it easier to live green too, but it's rare to come across an heiress who cares more about sustainable living than sustained partying. Still, there are a few who go beyond attending benefits to keep the earth happy and healthy, and here at TreeHugger, we think that's hot.
5. Francie Rehwald
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Coming in at number five is Francie Rehwald, the Mercedes-Benz heiress who had her Malibu house built out of a scrap Boeing. The fuel costs of transporting the junked jet can be debated, but the home itself is a model of sustainable living. We don't know what she did with her last 59 years, but choosing our number one heiress's green architect, Studio of Environmental Architecture founder David Hertz, definitely wins her the number five spot.
4. Yuki Oshima-Wilpon
Our fourth-place heiress, Yuki Oshima-Wilpon, daughter of a billionaire Korean-Japanese financier, resides in London, a hop, skip, and a jump from everyone's favorite department store, Harrod's. According to an article in Daily Mail , Yuki and her husband do not wear any leather or animal-derived products, drive hybrid cars and buy clothes online from vegan Web sites or Stella McCartney. A London Times article reports that not only does Oshima-Wilpon avoid leather and fur products but that, when looking for a new home, she requires a certified pesticide-free garden with organic plants, energy provided by solar panels, and a pool naturally cleaned with marine salts rather than chlorine. Exacting eco-friendliness, certainly, but Oshima-Wilpon still employs a private jet, and with that carbon footprint, madam will have to be satisfied at number four.
3. Anna Getty
Anna Getty, great-granddaughter of J. Paul Getty, whose museums are everywhere, and sister to Brothers & Sisters' hunk, Balthazar Getty, is a former actress turned yoga guru. An eco-Renaissance woman, Getty not only runs PureStyle Living, which sells instructional yoga DVDs and other eco-friendly gear, she's also Eco Editor for Healing Lifestyles & Spas magazine. She chooses to eat organically, maintains a home free of harsh chemicals, supports eco-sustainable fashion and trends, and endorses and supports fair trade and like-minded companies. And apparently Getty never sleeps because she also sits on the boards for Healthy Child Healthy World and the Environmental Media Association and works tirelessly with the Organic Center. 2009 will see the publication of Anna Getty's Green Organic Cook Book and I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas.
2. Teresa Heinz Kerry
A current board member of the Environmental Defense Fund, ketchup heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry inherited her vast fortune from her late husband, Senator Henry John Heinz III, and she has since put a considerable amount of that money towards eco-philanthropy.
In 1990, Teresa co-founded what is now called the Alliance for Healthy Homes through the first environmental grant of the Vira I. Heinz Endowment. In 1992, she was the presidentially-appointed member of a delegation representing NGOs at the Earth Summit. In 1993, Teresa, Senator Kerry, and Dr. Anthony Cortese co-founded Second Nature, an organization dedicated to bringing "Education for Sustainability" to college campuses. The next year, she founded the Heinz awards, which includes a category for outstanding contributions to the environment. Later, she founded the Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research program, which annually awards eight $10,000 awards for doctoral dissertation support and eight $5,000 awards for master's thesis support, for research having "public policy relevance that increases society's understanding of environmental concerns and proposed solutions."
Kerry also recently co-authored This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future with her husband, Senator Kerry.
1. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Though she's best known as the sitcom actress who gave us Elaine Benes and Old Christine, Julia Louis-Dreyfus doesn't actually need those Seinfeld residuals. Not only is Julia funny, the girl's an heiress too. Her father, Gerard Louis-Dreyfus, is a French billionaire with a capital B, and the Louis-Dreyfus family's net worth, according to Forbes magazine, is estimated at approximately 2.9 billion dollars. The Louis Dreyfus group, of which Gerard was president and CEO until 2006, is, according to our good friends at Wikipedia, "one of the world's largest commodities trading and merchandising firms" and has interests in everything from shipping to sports management.
Julia, for her part, has been green for years. Thanks to architect David Hertz, who also designed Francie Rehwald's supersonic Malibu home, Julia and husband Brad Hall's Montecito residence is built from sustainably harvested tropical woods. The house also features a retractable roof clad in solar panels, recycled newspaper insulation, and a natural ventilation system. Besides providing eco-tips to USA Today and promoting clean water and land preservation through her involvement in environmental organizations like Heal the Bay and The Trust for Public Land, Louis-Dreyfus drives a hybrid.
When it comes to green heiresses, you can't get much greener than Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
For more on green heiresses:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Teresa Heinz Kerry
Paris Hilton
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Where did communicative language teaching go wrong?
If the communicative approach is dead, what do I use instead?
Why did the grammar/translation method fall out of favour?
Is the language teacher a trainer, facilitator, role model or what?
Can I teach translation without teaching grammar?
What is blended learning and how can I exploit it?
How do I find the time to set up interactive online lessons?
Are virtual worlds important for language learning?
Can I teach English in Second Life and why should I?
Should I teach culture and if so, which?
Why is the concept of International English misguided?
Should I talk about sex in the classroom?
Why is humour important in English language teaching?
Should there be taboos in the language classroom?
How can I teach my students intimate language?
What is the secret of being a good English teacher?
Can you learn a language from a dictionary?
Which is better: teacher-
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Are native English speakers really better teachers than non-
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My students want everything translated. What should I do?
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What makes a good translation?
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What is the importance of content in language teaching?
How can I explain how items of vocabulary interact?
Why don't grammar rules work?
Are interactive whiteboards an indispensable tool?
What is Superlearning?
Do suggestopaedic techniques work?
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Why don't words have fixed meanings?
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How does context affect meaning?
How do the dynamics of language affect my teaching?
Why are there no right answers?
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Ace is on a mission. On the run from his old pack, the enforcer is determined that cat shifter Teric must die. In his head it's the only way he can regain his place in the Washington pack and the Bound and Bonded club. In an effort to meet his needs for Domination in the human world, Ace visits Whips, a predominantly human BDSM club and gets the shock of his life.
Devin is a five hundred year old vampire who has been searching for his one and only for the longest time. Working as a house sub at Whips was fine until one Master over steps his boundaries and Devin is left with time on his hands. Deciding on a whim to track down the delicious wolf shifter he had smelled at the club, Devin soon tracks down Ace...and then promptly wishes he hadn't. Ace is a wolfist and refuses to accept Devin as his mate.
Misunderstandings are just one hurdle these two need to overcome, if they are ever to have their HEA. The enforcers from the Washington Pack are still looking for Ace, and when they find him it might prove the end for both Devin and Ace.
Warnings; this is a gay erotic romance about a wolf shifter and a vampire. The book includes graphic sex scenes between men, BDSM elements and coarse language.
Categories: BDSM, Erotica, Fiction, Gay Fiction, M/M Romance, Paranormal, Romance
Author Bio:
Lisa Oliver had been writing non-fiction books for years when visions of half dressed, buff men started invading her dreams. Unable to resist the lure of her stories, Lisa decided to switch to fiction books, and now stories about her men clamor to get out from under her fingertips.
When Lisa is not writing, she is usually reading with a cup of tea always at hand. Her grown children and grandchildren sometimes try and pry her away from the computer and have found that the best way to do it, is to promise her chocolate. Lisa will do anything for chocolate.
Lisa loves to hear from her readers and other writers. You can friend her on Facebook here, or email her directly at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Publisher: Oliver Group Publications
Cover Artist: Lisa Oliver
"This is not a scene. Not this time. This is us, together. Mate. Amatus. No rules. No restrictions. Just two men who will be together for a lifetime."
Devin's eyes flashed a brilliant red, the sight almost shocking Ace with its intensity and then it was gone just as quickly.
"I want that," Devin said softly, as his hands came up from where they had been resting on the bed and gripped Ace's biceps. "I want that a lot," his voice finishing on a growl that set Ace's wolf on edge as though not sure whether to challenge or submit. But that growl left Ace in no doubt that the man underneath him was as much a predator as he was.
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McDermott Library's 2012 National Library Week celebration was a great success, thanks to plenty of student and community participation. Events during the week included a kick-off party with cake and library giveaways; a photo session for library users to star in their own "READ" posters; and a "Show the Library Some Love" event in the student union, which included student testimonials about the library, prizes and treats. The week was capped by a symposium co-sponsored by the library and the Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology. In all, more than 500 library friends and supporters attended the various festivities.
Dr. Kevin C. Elliott, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, gave one of the keynote presentations at the Center for Values Symposium co-sponsored by the Library as part of National Library Week.
McDermott Library served more than 200 slices of cake to patrons in the main lobby during the 2012 celebration. Below, Loreen Henry and Linda Snow offer cake to UT Dallas students.
Reference Librarian Sumathi Raghavan looks on as students comment on what makes the library great. The most common responses were "books," "study rooms" and "quiet!"
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The Humanist Society of New Zealand (Incorporated) ["HSNZ"] incorporated in 1967, was registered as a charity with the Charities Commission on 30 June 2008 (Charity No. CC36074).
Its 2010 and 2011 financial statements available on the Commission's website, reveal that this lobby group – noted for its "perpetual advocacy" of humanism – received $24,895 in donations between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2011, money solicited from the public to specifically fund its "NZ Atheist Bus Campaign".
Only 56% ($13,948) of the donations received over this period were spent on the advertising campaign and no transparent explanation appears to be provided in the financial accounts as to how the remaining surplus ($10,947) was used.
Most of the surplus appears to have been absorbed in what has been labeled cutely, if not disingenuously, as an "investment loss" of $5,657 in 2010 and $716 in 2011 (total $6,373) – caused by the NZ bus company's refusal to carry HSNZ pro-atheism 'advertising'.
The bus company's officials considered the HSNZ controversial advertising signs potentially offensive despite claims to the contrary by HSNZ that they were "friendly" and "innocuous". NZ Bus officials took the view that the signs might negatively impact on their business and/or infringe advertising standards.
On 1 July 2010 the "NZ Atheist Bus Campaign" website (www.nogod.org.nz) announced that all donations received after that date would now be used for the transportation and installation of fixed billboards in cities around New Zealand. "Tax-refundable donations" were called for via the website and the "Givealittle Service" website "for more billboards with atheist slogans across all New Zealand."
These billboards contained the same "innocuous" and "friendly" message intended initially for the exterior of buses, namely:
"There is probably no god, now stop worrying and enjoy yourself". [Read more…]


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James (JC) Scott, 61, of Bastrop, passed away Friday, March 23, 2018, in Clifton Forge, Va. A memorial service was held Friday, March 30, 2018 at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Bastrop from 6 to 8 p.m.
James was born March 22, 1957 in Sacramento, Calif., to James and Hazel Scott. After the passing of his mother, the family moved to Santa Anna, Texas, where he grew up and attended school.
On July 22, 2000, James married Evadne (Sissy) Abercrombie. They made their home in Sealy until 2005 after the passing of son (step), Terry.
James spent majority of his life on the road, driving 18-wheelers from state to state, which he was doing at the time of his death. While on the road, he enjoyed the company of his fur baby, Daisy Mae, who was by his side until the very end.
Survivors include: wife Sissy; daughter (step), Tanya Schroeder; stepsons, Leonard Roberts and family of Alaska and Jerry Abercrombie and family of San Antonio; son, James C. Scott of Modesto, California; three brothers, James E. Scott Jr. and Larry Scott both of California, and Paul Scott Sr., of Brady, Texas; two sisters, Marie Moore of Virginia and Tina Scott Watson of Santa Anna, Texas; several nieces (great) and nephews (great) and grandchildren.
James was preceded in death by his parents and son (step), Terry Schroeder.


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The whole pregnancy/birth/baby life event has definitely been a very humbling experience for me. You feel this tremendous love for the baby and for your wife, while at the same time you realize that you have absolutely no control over anything. By that I mean regarding the health of the baby and the conditions of the delivery. All I can do is pray my heart out, keep up with the doctor visits and prenatal care, and hope that everything comes out just fine. Its just another reminder to me that so much of life is not within my control.
I remember the various scenes in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto that whenever a warrior was going to die, another warrior offered a "blessing" of sorts to the effect of "have a safe journey to the other world." I think of our baby's time in the womb in the same vein, that the baby is an another world right now (the womb) preparing for his journey into this world. So I am constantly praying to the higher powers that be for my baby's safe journey into this world, my world.
I don't generally talk to my dad about my feelings or worries (I am a Chicano, remember, and Mexican dads from his generation don't talk about feelings–which is a whole other post right there). However, I mentioned to him that I had been praying my butt off for my son's safe journey into this world- that he be full of health and feel lots of love and peace. I also told him that I would give anything in this world within my power to be able to protect my son through the whole birth process, but that I am relegated to watching everything from the sidelines. My dad then responded with some of his old-school wisdom, that once you become a parent, there is constant worry about protecting your kids, and that as a father, you wish you could protect them from all harm and hurt. At the same time, you have to release your kids to the world so that they can live their own lives and experiences. So as a dad and parent, you end up in constant prayer–asking God to protect your children from all the harm in this world. Random thought: maybe this was the concept behind having your own "Guardian Angel".
The whole pregnancy/birth/baby life event has also been a very spiritual experience for me so far. It has forced me to take time out of my busy day and reconnect with my spiritual side. Mostly through introspection, meditation, silent prarer and through music. I am definitely trying to learn to let go, as GOVINDA says to do. Learning to listen to the voice of the RIVER, just like SIDDHARTHA had to learn in order to get to the next level. I have found myself praying to the Gods, for a beautiful entry into this world for our baby, and for a beautiful and pain-free delivery with no complications for my wife. All done from the sidelines because I have no control over any of these matters. I am just a passenger in this car being driven around by forces of nature and God, and it is very humbling


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The sewing bug came back this week, but instead of clothes I actually sat down and made a doll. Which I don't think I've done in...years? It's funny, because dolls were kind of my thing back in 2005 when I started this blog. I just haven't been thinking dolls. Until last Friday. And then suddenly a little bunny emerged.
Like the Bundlies I made so many years ago, I imagined a doll wearing a snowsuit so just the face would be exposed. I'm Canadian through and through - everything I make has to do with keeping warm. But this time, instead of little children, why not an animal? I thought having ears popping out could be fun. And it was - it really, really was. Using up small bits of wool to make tiny scarves is pretty fun too, so there's a good chance I'll keep going. There's an almost finished fox waiting patiently on my work table.
Speaking of Canada, I've finished another novel for this year's challenge. The Emperor of Paris by CS Richardson was wonderful. Much like Richardson's other novel, the lyrical, fairytale quality of his writing really appeals to me (that this tale took place in Paris was pretty magical too). The cast of characters were charming: storytellers who couldn't read, booksellers who couldn't sell, bakery assistants who couldn't see. It's a tale of love and destiny, art and literature. I only wish I hadn't exhausted Richardson's catalogue already.
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Folks, if you've worked or presently live in the enterprise software world, you know that proving that you system generates a worthwhile return on investment is tricky. Sure, vendors sales staffs usually offer some neat calculators that prove you'll see 1000% return by next Tuesday, but internally, even they admit that making such estimates is more black magic than science.
While some of you may have different experiences, it seems to me that proving that an EMR can generate a return on investment reasonably soon is particularly difficult. Sure, most hospitals and medical practices know their annual revenue run rate, and have a good breakdown of their expenses in hand, but are they set up to detect the effects going electronic can have?
After all, while some enterprise software directly helps companies generate revenue — most obviously, lead-generation monsters like Salesforce.com — others earn their keep but preventing problems from happening or improving quality. And if a provider organization doesn't know what their mistakes are costing them, and doesn't pay a direct price when patients fare poorly, how can they pin down how much financial benefit their EMR produces?
Admittedly, as the quality data reporting bandwagon continues to roll faster, everyone from small practices to giant hospital systems are likely to have a better idea of where they're slipping — they can't afford not to, as they're likely to forfeit incentives paid by Medicare or private insurers. And most cases, it will take an EMR to organize, analyze and report out that data effectively.
Unfortunately, providers can't expect huge bonuses just for buying an EMR. (OK, let's be honest and admit that HITECH dollars are nice to have but not enough to make or break a viable business.) So they're having to make a leap of faith and invest in a system, sometimes a very expensive one, on the still-unproven assumption that it will offer tangible financial and organizational benefits in the near future. That's gotta hurt.
Aggressive providers have been taking this risk for years now, and many have been very glad they did. Not only have there been some nice examples of how hospitals and health systems have benefitted by their EMR investment, I've met doctors in small practices who absolutely rave about how productive their shift to EMRs has been. So there's at least anecdotal evidence to support EMR buy-in.
Still, it sure would be nice if there was a one-size-fits-all ROI we could offer providers, or even a decent series of estimates. Right now, many are just going to have to fly blind.


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|New York State Assembly member Robert Castelli called for the removal of these billboards in Westchester County, NY.
Therefore, I respectfully request that you consider, out of respect for the many Jewish members of our community, and people of Israeli origin living in our community, the prudence of removing this, post-haste.
You have always been very receptive in the past. I hope this matter can be resolved quickly. Should you wish to discuss the matter with me further, I am, as always, at your disposal.
Howard Berman would prefer not to have to drive past this billboard every
morning. He doesn't any more. The ads were canceled by CBS Outdoor.
Paul Engelmayer believes this ad from the AFDI represents "core political
that must be "afforded the highest level of protection under the First Amendment."
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Just one billboard
There's supposed to be a two-day series of performances at Plaza Saltillo on March 17 and 18 or something like that. The tag is "Tejano vive," but I can't find out anything about it. I think there's a billboard by Fiesta that's been up for a while. Note to self: check this out.


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Barn Swallow: Medium swallow with glittering blue-black upperparts, red-brown forehead, chin and throat. Dark blue-black breast band, belly is white to orange. Tail is deeply forked with long outer streamers. Black legs and feet. It is the most abundant and widely distributed swallow in the world.
Range and Habitat
Barn Swallow: Breeds from Alaska east across Canada to Newfoundland and south throughout most of the U.S.; spends winters in the tropics and Eurasia. Preferred habitats include agricultural lands, suburban areas, marshes, and lakeshores.
The Barn Swallow has a fairly large range, reaching up to 10 million square kilometers. The population of the Barn Swallow is thought to be around 190 million individual birds. The Barn Swallow is native to numerous countries throughout the world. At the current time there is not any concern that the population of this bird species will face serious decline during the next few years. The Barn Swallow has a Least Concern rating due to its population and size around the world.
Females prefer to mate with males that have the longest and most symmetrical tails and a dark red chest color.
The killing of Barn Swallows for their feathers was one of the problems that led to the founding of the Audubon Society and the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.MW
When building the mud nest, both male and female make up to 1000 trips collecting mud.
A group of barn swallows are known collectively as a "kettle" of swallows.
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Fashion photographer Remi Rebillard presents his latest series of photos called 'Too Brightly Burns.' It features a collection of battered women that have been through the ringer one too many times.
The concept behind these photos follows the popular phrase: "With great power comes great responsibility." Rebillard presents the difficulties stars face due to the struggles from living a hectic and wild lifestyle. This pressure manifests itself in many different ways, as seen by the collection.
Too Brightly Burns sheds light on drug abuse, violence and sexual acts of aggression. Rebillard does not shy away from bluntly revealing reality and this gritty photo shoot is no exception. In reality, many onlookers have seen celebrities fall from fame because of their inability to keep that flame burning. Remi Rebillard's collection of photos is a poignant artistic rendering of this common occurrence.
'Too Brightly Burns' Show How Stars Run Out of Fuel
Deborah Kim — July 28, 2011 — Pop Culture
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Monday, February 9, 2015
The Girls of Gettysburg ~ and a give-away
by Bobbi Miller
160 pages; ages 8-12
Holiday House, 2014
Take three girls from three very different backgrounds and put them in the center of the decisive battle in the Civil War - that's what Bobbi Miller does. There's Grace, a free black living in fear that soldiers will come north and capture her and her family as "runaway slaves". There's Tillie, the genteel daughter who believes the Rebels wouldn't dare come this far north. And there's Annie, who takes her brother's rifle and dons her father's woolen pants and cotton shirt and sells her service to replace a rich man's son.
Three girls. Three stories. One big battle - and everything changes. While this is historical fiction, it is based on situations and people who lived at that time. There were female soldiers who fought in the Civil War - some in the Battle of Gettysburg. They went undetected until they were carried off the battlefield, wounded or dead.
This book raises lots of questions, and might inspire young readers to look further than what they read in their history texts. Beyond that, it's plain good storytelling, and a fun read to boot.
Today we're hanging out at the Marvelous Middle-Grade Monday round-up. Drop by Shannon's blog to see what other reviewers are talking about. Review copy provided by publisher.
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I like the story line with its three diverse characters. Many tweens are just beginning to have some knowledge about the Civil War so this would be a great introduction. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Right or Left — it's still empire
The tragic decisions of American Christianity to align itself with a political party has now landed in a pool of manure with a plop. You may be thinking of the Christian Right, and you'd be right. You may be thinking of the Christian Left, and you'd be right again. Exhibit No. 1: the so-called "debate." Gone are the days of dignity.
Progressives, in sometimes insufferable prose, align themselves and the church and especially the "red letters" of Jesus with the Democrat or Social Democratic party. For them, Jesus' being for the poor ineluctably means Jesus is for centralized government and federal relief, aid and support for the poor, and that, for them, means Vote Left.
Conservatives, in sometimes insufferable prose, align themselves and the church with the Republican party (or its Tea Party variation). For them, to be Christian means to be anti-Left and pro-Right. Jesus and the whole Bible, they seem to claim in one variation after another, are for decentralization, free markets, and the platform list goes on.
Recently (the penitent) Wayne Grudem's buddies have declared that Christian Progressives need to repent. Here is the statement from the American Association of Evangelicals, which clearly has Jim Wallis and George Soros as its worried center:
Each of us is called to repentance. Our entire nation will be revived as we return to the Lord. We, the evangelical and Catholic signatories below, know we are sinners forgiven by the saving work of Christ. And believers who normally turn the other cheek are, at times, also called to overturn tables. This is a moment for such believers to speak truth to power.
After years of earnest but less public attempts, it is now with heavy hearts, and a hope for justice and restoration, that we Christian leaders urge 'progressive' evangelicals and Catholics to repent of their work that often advances a destructive liberal political agenda. We write as true friends knowing that most believers mean well. We desire the best for you and for the world God loves.
Randall Balmer, ironically enough, has called for evangelicals (conservatives are his focus) to become again what they once were: the vanguard of progressivism in the USA. (Progressivism, of course, changes over time.) He's also argued time and time again that the church works best when it works from the margin, when it ceases its grasping of power, and when it concentrates on its mission of redemption through Jesus Christ. He's reargued this in his newest book, Evangelicalism in America, and I commend the book for a good reminder.
What to say? The progressive and the conservative are two sides of the same coin: Yes, Jim Wallis and Wayne Grudem are two sides of the coin. Seek the Powers, bend the nation toward one's particular vision of the Christian vision through the Powers, call the other names and call them to repent from their unChristian ways, and bring in the kingdom.
Their primary mode of operation is to stimulate the amygdala.
One simple observation: the closer progressives or conservatives get to seeing the way to change the world is through the Powers in Washington D.C., the closer they become to being Constantinian — a conservative Constantine or a progressive Constantine is still a Constantine.
American Christianity, during election season especially (and since it lasts so long and occurs so often, that means always) spends its energies on who will be the Next Apocalyptically-crucial Power in DC, and in so doing is failing to use its energies — a zero-sum game, seemingly — for the mission of God in this world and to this world.
The alternative is not Left vs. Right, but Left-Right Powermonger vs. kingdom politics embodied in gospel living and church living.
Evangelical-conservative and Progressive Christianities are corrupting themselves day by day into a pollution of the Body of Christ by becoming variant versions of Constantinianism.
Scot McKnight is a professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lombard, Ill., and the author of The Jesus Creed. He blogs at Jesus Creed, where this post originally appeared.
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History of the Breckenridge Police Department
135th Anniversary Breckenridge Police Department 1881 - 2016
In 1881, The Breckenridge Town Board hired Sam Blair as its first Town Marshal. He served in the position until 1895. He then served several stints as deputy marshal, night marshal, and ended up as the Town Police Magistrate. Blair served Breckenridge in that position through 1824. Early records indicate that Marshal Blair ordered a Town Marshal's badge and two Deputy Marshal badges. The Marshal's badge was utilized until 1908, when Breckenridge Marshal H. F. King ordered a new badge at a cost of $3.50, and three Deputy badges for $1.50 each.
There are many interesting and somewhat humorous stories about the exploits of our early Marshals and Deputy Marshals. The first crime known to be reported in Breckenridge was in 1881. Marshall Blair received a telegram about two horse thieves on their way from South Park to Breckenridge, riding stolen horses and armed with a Henry Rifle and revolver. Marshal Blair and others apprehended the two men in Breckenridge inside Scott McLarren's Saloon. A bit later, one of the thieves jumped on a stolen horse and took off toward Washington Street. The horse thief escaped, but only after Marshal Blair fired at him with his own revolver and gave chase, although without effect.
The most infamous early story involving a Town Marshal occurred on August 11th, 1898 when Pug Ryan and his gang entered the Denver Hotel on Main Street in Breckenridge. After robbing the establishment and several gamblers, Pug and his thugs fled to a remote cabin near Kokomo (near Fremont Pass, then part of Summit County). Summit County Sheriff Jerry Detweiler deputized Ernest Conrad, who served as a Breckenridge Deputy Town Marshal, and charged him with apprehending the gang. With the Assistance of longtime Kokomo resident Sumner Whitney, Conrad traveled to the cabin where the gang was hiding out. After gaining entry, the two were fired upon. Both died instantly, while Pug escaped unscathed. Pug Ryan was later apprehended and died at the state penitentiary in Canon City in 1931.
Some things never change! In 2016, we fret over speeding vehicles on Main Street. In 1908, it was speeding horses. According to the Summit County Journal, June 6, 1908 edition, the Marshal was charged with looking after speeding horses on south Main Street. The Journal reported: "Some horse owners are trying to break the ordinance by fast riding."
Again, some things never change! The summit County Journal, July 11, 1908, carried a post-4th of July celebration article: "Now that the observance of the Fourth is past, it is well to mention the fact that Marshal Blair is entitled to credit for keeping cool and even-tempered during the little episodes of the day."
The May 20th, 1911 edition of the Summit County Journal & Breckenridge Bulletin carried a polite plea from Marshal J. W. McClelland: "As the winter is nearly over and as the disappearance of the snow has posed to view not a few piles of rubbish - tin cans, old brooms, chicken feathers, heaps of old clothes, etc., by the power vested within me, I respectfully ask the citizens of Breckenridge to root out and rid up their trash and rubbish."
The roots of the modern day Breckenridge Police Department go back to 1881 with the appointment of Sam Blair as the first Marshal. Since 1881, Breckenridge has been served by 43 chief law enforcement officers. The Town of Breckenridge is currently hiring for its 44th Chief.


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AUTOMOTIVE INSIGHT: GM to Add Battery Engineers
March 29th, 2008 at 9:00am
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Even though GM has been getting rid of thousands of employees there is one area where it's hiring people and it all has to do with advanced batteries.
Right now there is a major technological race going on world wide in the auto industry. It all has to do with coming out with advanced batteries that could make plug-in hybrids and electric cars a reality.
But on Autoline, GM's chairman Rick Wagoner, said the United States is woefully behind in battery research. He's concerned that Japan and China are getting a lock on being the places where these batteries will get made.
So GM is building up its own in-house capabilities to develop these batteries. Toyota already has 300 engineers working on advanced batteries, and while Wagoner wouldn't go on the record saying GM is going to match Toyota's effort, he also said he would not rule it out.


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By Rita R. Robison
While I don't think I'd want to live in Boise, Idaho, one of the cities recommended by Money magazine's article "Five Great Low-Cost Places to Retire," the retirement guide has numerous tips worth considering.
In addition to this article, Money's October issue includes these suggestions for a scaled-back retirement:
- Fine-tune your budget to cut expenses.
- Turn time into money by comparison shopping and cooking more at home.
- Live smaller by downsizing your home.
- Move to a low-cost area such as Marquette, Mich., Cape Coral, Fla., or Danville, Ken.
- Work part time.
- Become debt free.
For more information, look for copies of Money magazine's October issue at newsstands or your local library.


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The Woman (Israel) is pursued by the dragon for 1260 days. She flees to a place in the wilderness where she is taken care of for time times and half a time.
144000 Jews are sealed from the 12 tribes of Israel.
The saints are given over to be persecuted by the beast for 42 months. The Beast will be given power to make war against the Saints and conquer them.
When Christ comes at the last trumpet on the 1260 day of the great tribulation, the church will be raptured to be with Christ in the clouds. The first resurrection also takes place at this point.
The Gentiles are non-believers (pagans) from the Nations who for the most part worship the beast and accept his mark. They will persecute the Saints and trample the Holy City for 42 months. Some will refuse the mark of the beast and help the Christians.
God will separate the Nations into the Sheep and the Goats (Matt 25)


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Back in June of 2013, I discussed in the post Lessons from Medical litigation in oral surgery practice several lessons that can be learned upon exploring lawsuits occurring in an oral surgery setting.
An interesting post on the same topic but applied to dentists as a whole was just written earlier today in DrBicuspid, titled "When a dentist becomes the defendant," by Meghan Guthman (October 7, 2013, source: http://www.drbicuspid.com/index.aspx?sec=sup&sub=pmt&pag=dis&ItemID=314397&wf=1660") Apparently this article was already written in the American Student Dental Association in their summer 2013 issue and was just a reprint.
The article discusses some data gathered by Medical Protective which is a malpractice insurance company. Their data shows that the average payment to a plaintiff in a dental malpractice lawsuit is $65,000. Around 20% of their dental malpractice cases between 2003 and 2012 involved a tooth extraction with the average compensation to the patient reported at $48,600. A case study of an extraction related dental malpractice case is provided where a dentist failed to obtain adequate radiographs showing the entire tooth and it's bulbous root.
The article provides a figure by Medical Protective which shows that dental implant malpractice cases have the highest payouts with the average compensation being over $70,000. Extractions have the second highest payouts of the categories used (extractions, root canal, implant, crown, others).
The article also includes some informative advice from Mario Catalano, DDS. She encourages dentists to put their patient's interests first and recommends new dentists build positive relationships with their patients.
I have previously explored dental malpractice issues with a focus on wisdom teeth extractions, see http://www.teethremoval.com/dental_malpractice.html. In a sample of 48 cases used in that article (at present) there was an average award to the patient of over $800,000. I was forced to do some cherry picking of data in this case as I don't have access to the same amount of dental malpractice information as an insurer. However, the average award was much higher here than indicated by Medical Protective. Part of the issue could be that Medical Protective insurers primarily dentists and not oral surgeons and dentists don't take on more risky and complicated extractions.
Nonetheless, the average patient award of over $800,000 from the cases on http://www.teethremoval.com/dental_malpractice.html is well under many of the non-economic damage caps in many U.S. states see http://www.teethremoval.com/legal_standpoint.html.
For more on the damage cap issue see for example, The War on Healthcare: Patients Who Hate Doctors.


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Las Cruces, N.M. — A final design for the downtown civic plaza got the go-ahead from city councilors on Monday, setting the stage for the transfer of ownership and for the groundbreaking at the site of the Bank of the West drive-thru.
The council in a 4-1 vote adopted a few site plan changes that had been recommended by Mayor Pro Tem Greg Smith, who has a background in architecture, but rejected others that he proposed.
Overall, the adopted changes to the previously existing plan were small enough to avoid further delaying the project, the plaza developer and designer said.
Plaza design consultant Susan Henderson of PlaceMakers, said the work could get underway in "less than six months," depending on how long it takes for the impending sale of land for the plaza to be completed.
Developer Bob Pofahl of Las Cruces Community Partners said the changes approved by councilors on Monday will require some tweaking of architectural and engineering plans, but not large-scale changes. Las Cruces Community Partners has a contract with the city to buy the land for the plaza from Bank of the West and to build the improvements for it.
"It was a key step forward," Pofal said of the vote.
A change proposed by Smith that was passed by councilors was related to the artwork for two key features in the plaza proposal: a water splash pad on the north end and a sun dial planned to be built into the pavement at the center of the courtyard.
Smith proposed holding off on the final appearances of those features so the city can find an artist or artists to design them.
Henderson said LCCP would basically leave space in the plaza for the artwork to be added, either in conjunction with the construction or after it.
Councilors also adopted Smith's proposal to incorporate one of two utility boxes for the plaza into the design of the stage. Smith had sought a revamping of the architecture for a second utility box proposed for the northwest end of the plaza, but other councilors didn't support it.
They also didn't back Smith's proposals to eliminate one of two proposed new streets that would line the east side of the plaza or to shrink the size of a planned stage for the plaza.
City staff said, however, it's possible for the street to be closed off to vehicles when it's not needed.
Smith, in a presentation to the council, said he wanted to avoid mistakes of decades past when an attempt to revitalize downtown failed. He also said he wanted to avoid mistakes made in other civic plazas, such as Albuquerque's. He said he didn't feel councilors had been given enough input into the proposed plaza design before Monday's meeting.
"The process to this point has not been as inclusive as I would have liked it to have been," Smith said.
Henderson argued against several of Smith's proposals, saying the existing design was crafted after a lot of public input over the past two years. It also incorporated some City Council-supported additions, such as the proposed water feature.
Doña Ana County Commission Chairman Billy Garrett, a non-voting member of the TIDD board, said he thought councilors were on the right track with the plaza design.
Hilary McDaniel-Douglas, artistic director for Project in Motion, a nonprofit aerial dance group, advocated for the stage to be built to accommodate aerial dancers and other types of unique performances, which are becoming a trend.
"There are a lot more nontraditional forms coming in," she said.
McDaniel-Douglas said she was also concerned about the use of paving stones in the plaza, which can be hazardous to dancers.
Smith proposed using pavers or bricks as the plaza's main surface, instead of scored concrete in the existing plan, but that proposal didn't gain attention.
Former Las Cruces Mayor Ruben Smith, unrelated to Greg Smith, asked if the roof of the planned performing stage could be angled to boost the acoustic projection.
Henderson said that could be included. Also, she said steps will be added around three sides of the plaza, a request of Smith's.
There was also debate about the type of trees that should be planted in the plaza. Some people advocated for cottonwood trees, which would give off maximum shade but use more water than the alternative, Chinese Pistache tree. But Garza said he recommended the Chinese Pistache, which has a smaller canopy but is one of four tree types on a list of recommended trees for planting in the city.
City Councilor Miguel Silva participated in the meeting by phone. Councilors Olga Pedroza and Ceil Levatino were absent.