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Dr. Joseph McRae Mellichamp is Emeritus Professor of Management Science in the Manderson Graduate School of Business at the University of Alabama and National Faculty Representative for Christian Leadership Ministries. For 25 years, Dr. Mellichamp combined successful academic pursuits with effective Christian ministry activities.
The Christian university professor or staff member who is serious about having an influence for Christ at his or her institution will quickly realize that to achieve the maximum influence, one must work together with other like-minded Christians on campus. This is the principle of synergy at work -- the simultaneous action of separate agencies that, together, have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects. The author of the Letter to the Hebrews underscores this point by writing, "And let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together as is the habit of some but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing nearer" (Hebrews 10:24,25). That the principle is true hardly requires debate; the question is how does one go about initiating cooperative relationships with other Christian professors and staff in the midst of the demands and pressures of daily institutional activity? The answer is the Christian Faculty/Staff Fellowship, which is described in this section.
What is a Christian Faculty/Staff Fellowship? I like to think of the fellowship in terms of a think tank or research and development activity through which faculty and staff come together on a regular basis to creatively think about, discuss, and plan how they as Christians can individually and corporately impact students, colleagues and the institution for the cause of Christ. Professors are among the most creative individuals in our society. Unfortunately, most professors focus a significant part of their creativity on their academic discipline. If just a fraction of this combined creativity can be focused on the issue of impacting the university for Christ, much will happen. In addition to this creative function, the fellowship should be the umbrella under which all corporate faculty ministry activity occurs; it should be the initiator and sponsor of corporate faculty ministry on the campus.
What is meant by "regular?" Weekly. Anything less than weekly will not be adequate to develop the level of commitment and depth of relationships that will be necessary to profoundly impact the institution for Christ. Many protest saying, "This is a good idea, but couldn't we meet monthly or twice a month?" My response is why would you not want to meet weekly? The only legitimate reason one can offer is that the activity just isn't a high enough priority. For a Christian professor or staff member, this should be a top priority. Each of us will ultimately be required to give an account of our lives and our ministries. I believe that one day I will stand before the Lord and give an account of my life. I believe that He will be considerably more interested in what I did on my campus to influence people for the Savior than in how many refereed journals articles I published. I just don't think that protesting to the Lord that my research commitments and teaching loads prevented me from participating with colleagues in impacting the university for Christ will wash. So the fellowship should meet weekly.
Broadly speaking, the fellowship should accomplish two purposes. First, it is to be the means by which professors and staff determine how to impact students, colleagues, and the institution for Christ and through which they cooperatively work to accomplish this end. Secondly, the fellowship should minister to the faculty and staff who constitute its membership. In this context, the fellowship should promote and foster deep relationships between and among its members. It should impart vision to its members and equip them for the work of ministry. It should help members to pursue excellence in their work within the institution and within the larger community. And it should support and uplift members when they experience difficult times.
Now, before we discuss how the fellowship accomplishes these important purposes, let me offer a word of caution by stating what the fellowship is not. The fellowship is not a faculty and/or staff Bible study! It's interesting, when Christian faculty and staff get together and begin to think about having an impact for Christ in the university, often the first thing that comes to mind is a Bible study. We are not talking about a Bible study. This is an important element of the Christian life, but it is not to be the only or primary pursuit of the fellowship. I am aware of no faculty or staff Bible study that has had a significant impact on a university or college, even though some have been existence for decades. I am aware of many instances in which faculty/staff Bible studies have started and slowly faded away. The focus of a Bible study simply is not global or outward enough. The fellowship must focus on the issue of impacting the institution for Christ and equipping its members to accomplish this task.
Furthermore, the fellowship is not to be a substitute for the local church. People have told me regarding the fellowship, "I don't want to do anything in our fellowship that I can do in my church!" The fellowship should confine its focus to helping its members to (1) become better professors or staff members or (2) become better Christian professors or staff members. If the fellowship confines its focus to these issues, it becomes "the only game in town," that is, the only place I can go to help me succeed as a Christian academic in the university. Thus, if I am at all serious about wanting to be a better professor or staff member or if I want to have an effective influence for Christ in my workplace, I will see the fellowship as necessary in accomplishing these aims and will be committed to it.
A schematic diagram of the faculty/staff ministry in a university or college is shown in Figure 7-1. The focal point of activity for any faculty ministry should be the weekly fellowship. The major goal of the fellowship, as we have discussed, is to impact students, faculty, staff, and the institution for Christ. A necessary secondary goal is to engage faculty and staff in the fellowship. This is done in a number of ways as shown in Figure 7-1. The most obvious way is to identify Christians among the faculty and staff and challenge them to become a part of the fellowship. Persistence is a virtue here. I am aware of one individual, a very committed Christian, who observed our group with detached interest for five or six years before ever seeing the benefit or value of joining with us. Another way to engage individuals in the fellowship is to reach them through various "filter" events that communicate a Christian message to the faculty and staff of the institution at large, i.e., various outreach activities. Thus, the general idea shown in Figure 7-1 is to move individuals from the population of All Faculty/Staff to the population of Christian Faculty/Staff to the population of Weekly Fellowship.
Figure 7-1. Schematic Diagram of the Christian Faculty/Staff Ministry.
Notice from the diagram that Small Groups are a part of the faculty ministry. These will normally be ad hoc groups set up for a variety of purposes that will be identified and described later. Obviously, to undertake such a ministry in an institution of higher learning, there must be a core of leadership committed to the philosophy of impacting the institution for Christ; this core is shown in the diagram as Key Leadership and may be an actual group that meets to oversee the ministry. Or it may simply be the collection of individuals who give leadership to the ministry. One or more of the key leaders may chose to formally affiliate with Christian Leadership Ministries as a Faculty Affiliate. More on the advisability of having an actual planning or steering committee later.
Recall that the fellowship is intended to function in a research and development role; it is to be a think tank. While it is true that research and development activity tends to be serendipitous, it is not recommended that the fellowship be allowed to float willy-nilly along. In fact, a fairly well-established set of activities has been identified that will give the appropriate focus to the fellowship. This set of activities is shown in the diagram as the Generic Schedule and for a semester institution would include the following:
Activity |
Meetings per Semester |
Planning Sessions (first and last meeting) |
2 |
Prayer and Fellowship (one per month) |
3 |
Christian Leadership (or other) Training |
2 |
Faculty/Staff Testimonies |
2 |
Discipline Position Papers |
2 |
Book Review |
1 |
Ministry Update |
1 |
Legal Issues Update |
1 |
Open Session |
1 |
Total Sessions |
15 |
It should be emphasized at this point that these will not necessarily be the only activities of the fellowship, nor are the recommended number of sessions hard and fast requirements. This is a good basic mix of activities that will interest Christian professors and staff and that are fairly easy to put together into a semester program. In fact, I would suggest that a mix of activities is superior to concentrating on any one thing for very long for a practical reason. Suppose, for example, you decide to schedule a six-session sequence on creation/evolution (this happens to be a popular subject for most faculty and staff). If I happen not to be interested in this topic and I'm not absolutely committed to the group, I'll just drop out for a while and stop coming. Once that happens, it will be difficult if not impossible for you to get me back in the group. It should also be obvious from these suggestions that the agenda is not to be a Bible study.
Each of the activities in the Generic Schedule will now be described in a bit more detail.
Planning Sessions. (Two Meetings Per Semester.) Now let's address the issue of whether to have a planning or steering committee. Often, when faculty initiate an activity or program of some magnitude, such as a faculty ministry, a steering committee is proposed to oversee things. I would advise against this approach for two reasons, both learned from actual experience. First, a steering committee requires time; it has meetings. You will be asking every member of the steering committee for several hours of time each semester -- if you can accomplish the planning function without this investment, you're way ahead. Furthermore, when working with busy people, it is usually difficult to find a time when they can all meet. Second, when a steering committee comes up with a program for an organization, any organization, it is the steering committee's plan; it's difficult to engender ownership by the rank-and-file membership of the group.
Both of these important objections can easily be overcome by doing the planning activity within the context of the entire group -- the entire fellowship. By devoting two weekly meetings a semester to the planning function, you obviate the need for a steering committee and the program that emerges is everyone's program -- you don't have to sell it to the group. Now this might not be quite as effective as a planning committee, especially at first, but I can assure you based on 20 plus years of experience, it works, and it works extremely well. However, if you insist on having a steering committee, go ahead -- just know that you are adding a significant overhead burden to your activity.
First Meeting. Attend to basic organizational details; i.e., mission statement; meeting dates, location and times and introduction of members. Allow most of the time for members to suggest topics for future meetings and volunteer to be coordinators (invite speaker, prepare book review, prepare position paper, etc.). The goal for this planning time is to generate a list of potential topics for the following semester and to fill any holes in the schedule for the present semester.
Last Meeting. Firm up the schedule for the following semester; i.e., the last meeting in the fall is when you set the schedule of topics for the spring.
Remember, when selecting topics one, or both of the following criteria should be met:
Prayer and Fellowship. (One Meeting Per Month.) One meeting each month should be devoted to building relationships among the members of the fellowship and praying for the university administration, campus concerns and requests of members. To accomplish these objectives, it is suggested that members introduce themselves to the group and briefly share pertinent personal information. Some light discussion on topics of general interest can also be used to build relationships. A prayer list should be developed and maintained for the group, and it should be used to guide the prayer time. As you probably know, many prayer times devote most of the allotted time to sharing prayer requests with very little time actually spent praying.
Training. (Two Sessions per Semester.) At least two sessions per semester should be devoted to equipping members of the fellowship in ministry and/or professional skills. Ministry skills include testimony preparation, learning to share one's faith, how to have an effective devotional life and prayer life, etc. Professional skills include time and life management principles, teaching effectiveness skills, research skills, etc. Christian Leadership Ministries is in the process of putting together a Core Curriculum that defines a spectrum of capabilities one should acquire as one grows toward Christian maturity. The Core Curriculum is shown in Figure 7-1 as an input to both the Weekly Fellowship and to Small Groups, for example, a discipleship group.
Faculty/Staff Testimonies. (Two Per Semester.) Every Christian professor and staff member needs to be equipped to share his personal testimony in a formal situation, i.e., classroom or meeting environment. An effective way to ensure that the members of the fellowship are thus equipped is to periodically have a member share his testimony with the fellowship.
Position Papers. (Two Per Semester.) Every Christian professor needs to have thought through his academic discipline to determine how the Christian worldview impacts the discipline or to identify the tension points between the discipline and Christianity. This thought process then needs to be formally developed as a white paper or position paper. Each semester, professors who have been engaged in this process should be encouraged to present the results of their assessment to the fellowship for consideration and feedback.
Book Review. (One Per Semester.) Many Christian professors and staff are not well informed of the battle being waged in the university today. I routinely ask how many participants in my seminars have read some of the key books that should be required reading for Christian professors; the vast majority have not. Having a member of the fellowship review a relevant book each semester is a good way to challenge members to begin to read some of the important works. A few suggested titles are:
Christian Student Ministry Update. (One Per Semester.) Many faculty members are not informed about what Christian students are up to and up against in the institution. It is pretty difficult to know how to impact students for the Savior if you don't know what they are experiencing spiritually in the environment. One of the best ways to become informed in this context is to have the directors and student leaders of the various evangelical student ministries come to brief the fellowship periodically on their activities. Students are usually so enthusiastic about their endeavors that their enthusiasm spills over and infects the fellowship members. Having students share about a summer mission project or an evangelistic meeting in a fraternity or sorority can be challenging to members who might never think about getting out of their comfort zone. The number of evangelical student groups varies from campus to campus -- one large Midwestern campus has 55 such organizations.
Legal Issues Update. (One Per Year.) Christian professors and staff need to understand the responsibilities and prerogatives of academic freedom as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Many professors and staff do not understand these issues, and as a result, many Christian academics do nothing for fear of offending. An effective way of equipping fellowship members in this arena is to have a First Amendment lawyer periodically discuss constitutional rights of academics and to summarize national/regional/local cases. Christian Leadership Ministries also has an excellent video workshop in the legal issues area that is available through its Dallas headquarters.
Pastor's Briefing. (Once Every Other Year.) Pastors are usually uninformed as to what it's like to be a Christian professor or staff member in a secular university or college. As a result, they frequently encourage academics in their congregation to minister almost exclusively within the church and fail to realize that for the Christian academic, the campus should be a primary place of ministry. The Pastor's Briefing is a wonderful venue for addressing this problem. Each member of the fellowship invites his pastor to the weekly meeting. The program for that week relates what it is like to be a Christian professor or staff member in the secular university -- the pressures and the opportunities.
Open Session. (One per Semester.) An open session each semester (usually midway into the semester) needs to be left in the schedule to allow flexibility to respond to various opportunities. From time to time things will happen on campus that require a response from the fellowship and necessitate discussion and deliberation. Occasionally, one or more members will suggest that the fellowship explore a particular opportunity, for example, an evangelistic outreach event, and the group will need time to discuss and plan appropriate actions.
The prospect of putting together a weekly program for a 15-week semester computes to a lot of work in the minds of most faculty members. However, as the blank schedule in Exhibit 7-1 shows, when you use two sessions for planning and three sessions for prayer and fellowship, there are only 10 slots left to be filled. A couple of training activities, a couple of testimonies, a couple of position papers, a book review, a ministry update, and an open session, and the schedule is booked. An example of a semester schedule that follows this scheme is also included in Exhibit 7-1.
Most universities don't have a formal process for faculty and staff to follow to obtain official university recognition -- it's like if you decide to be an official university group, you are. Even so, it is probably a good idea to check with the people (usually in the Office of Student Affairs) who supervise the process for student organizations. They might ask you to fill out some paperwork and might request something on the order of a statement of purpose. A copy of our statement of purpose from the University of Alabama along with our statement of faith is included as Exhibit 7-2 -- you may use these materials or modify them as desired for your organization.
One word of caution at this point. On very rare occasions, overzealous administrative minions have attempted to make things difficult for faculty/staff groups attempting to get organized. In general, there is very clear legal precedent for Christian groups to have the same access to university and college facilities as non-religious groups. This includes access to meeting rooms (subject to availability, of course), campus mail, electronic mail, and the campus telephone system. If your institution accords access to these facilities to any student or faculty group, it must grant the same access to all groups. If by the remotest of circumstances you should encounter such opposition, a courteous, but firm letter to the person's superior with perhaps a copy to the University Legal Counsel should ensure smooth sailing.
From an organizational standpoint, very little is needed in terms of officers, job descriptions, etc. A fellowship can function effectively with only a few dignitaries. You will need a leader or director; this will be the person who keeps everything going. Thus, he or she should be absolutely committed to the fellowship and see it as a very high priority. The leader is ultimately responsible for the weekly program, although by farming out responsibility for individual meetings to interested members, this turns out not to be a very difficult task. I directed our group at the University of Alabama for 20 plus years and rarely spent more than about 30 minutes a week keeping things on track. You will need someone, preferably with some financial skills, to keep track of the fellowship's money. As we will see, most of the special events that the fellowship undertakes require financing; it is not uncommon for a fellowship to have an annual budget amounting to several thousand dollars per year. You also need someone to be responsible for communication with members each week, i.e., reminding them of the meeting. Good computer skills are helpful here. And finally, you will need someone to oversee student newspaper ads that will normally be done on a semester or yearly basis. If these four or five people will commit a few minutes a week on a consistent basis to attend to their duties, the fellowship should run smoothly.
The meeting time and place for the fellowship are important considerations. Most successful fellowships that I am aware of meet during the lunch hour. Most professors and staff members take a break for lunch, so the habit of spending the lunch hour with colleagues is attractive as a way of accomplishing two purposes at once. I would suggest that you pick a day of the week when most of your people are available and stick with that day on a permanent basis. If your people always know that the fellowship meets on a certain day, say Wednesday, they will begin to block that time out automatically and commit to the meeting even as one would a civic group or other group that meets on a specific day. I am aware of groups that have tried to shift the day around from semester to semester to accommodate most of the members -- I am convinced that all this accomplishes is to foster a lower level of commitment from the members. What we want to happen is for the members, over time, to accommodate their schedules to the fellowship. Several years ago, one of our members called me the first week of the semester, and in a bit of a dither he explained that his department chairman had scheduled him for class at noon on Wednesdays that semester. "Could we change the fellowship this semester to Thursday at noon?" My response was, "I'm really sorry, but the fellowship meets on Wednesdays; it has always met on Wednesdays and will continue to meet on Wednesdays." We lost him for the semester, but he spoke to his chairman and rearranged his schedule to have Wednesday noon open.
For a noon meeting, a centrally located meeting place preferably with dining facilities is needed. Many fellowships meet in the University Center or Student Union so members can pick up something to eat on the way into the meeting or pick up a drink for a brown bag lunch from home. If you can get the same room semester after semester, it will help the consistency of your group. It helps in this regard to know the person who makes room assignments; our fellowship has met in the same room for many years, thanks to a staff person who is supportive of what we are trying to do. We send her a thank-you note from time to time to express appreciation for her help.
For large, geographically dispersed campuses, finding a convenient location might be virtually impossible, and even if one is available, parking can be a problem. In such cases, having smaller fellowships in more than one location might be indicated. I am very reluctant to advocate multiple fellowships. On most campuses, it is a real challenge to get past the critical mass of people necessary for a vibrant group; multiple groups only exacerbate this difficulty. I would go along with a separate group perhaps for medical centers/schools where the environment is very different from the average university or college campus, but, in general, I recommend one fellowship per campus.
If you elect to meet at noon, you might try scheduling your program to occur from 12:15 to 12:50. This way people know they can get through a serving line or arrive a bit late from an 11 o'clock class without missing any of the program, and those who have 1 o'clock engagements can slip out a bit early without missing much other than possibly some Q&A at the end of the meeting. The time from noon to 12:15 turns out to be a good time of fellowship and informal interaction, as does the time at the end of the hour; several people usually hang around past 1 o'clock to interact on various issues.
Since professors and staff members are busy people, you will need some kind of reminder system. Campus mail is effective in this regard, but can be time-consuming if weekly announcements are sent to every member of the group. Electronic mail is an easy way of communicating with members to remind them of the meeting time and place, as well as the specific program offering for the week. As many of us do our weekly planning either on Friday afternoon or Monday morning, a Friday noon announcement probably is the most effective. Unfortunately, many faculty members stay chronically behind with email or they delete messages without reading them. Thus, the most effective way of staying in touch with the group is probably with telephone reminders. For a number of years, we hired an undergraduate student to make weekly calls -- for a very modest financial investment, you get the reminders out and help a needy student at the same time. The best option is probably a combination of email and phone calls.
As a final comment under the heading of meeting mechanics, I would suggest that you not try to meet during the summer. Most people are on and off campus so irregularly during the summer that attendance will be difficult to maintain. You might try to have a social event to keep people in touch, but give your folks a break; it will be good for them.
From time to time, it will be necessary to use small groups to accomplish specific functions of the fellowship. Two generic uses probably cover all the specific instances: task forces to superintend various events and groups set up for training or discipleship purposes.
As we will discuss in the following paragraphs, the fellowship will undertake several activities and events each year to impact the institution. These include such things as bringing in a speaker, hosting a lecture series, placing an advertisement in the student newspaper, and putting on a workshop. In all such instances, a subset of the entire fellowship should be used on an ad hoc basis to do the necessary planning and coordinating.
One of the purposes of the fellowship is to help equip members for ministry and for their work within the institution. This purpose can often be accomplished in smaller training or discipleship groups that meet at a separate time from the weekly meeting of the fellowship. For example, a group might be established for a semester to focus on time management principles or to learn how to share the Gospel with students and colleagues. Christian Leadership Ministries is developing a Core Curriculum that addresses the question, "What is a mature Christian professor or staff member?" This document will define the training opportunities that may be undertaken in small groups or in the weekly fellowship.
One final possibility for small groups relates to prayer. In many cases, members will be impressed to pray on a regular basis for campus issues and concerns. It is suggested that a small group be established for this purpose. The prayer group should meet at a time other than the weekly fellowship meeting. Obviously, there shouldn't be small groups for prayer, but commitments being what they are, the small group is the way to serve this function. The small group might actually grow into a formal event such as an annual prayer breakfast.
A number of outreach activities have been developed and used by Faculty/Staff Fellowships to impact their institutions. These outreaches are necessary for the vitality of the fellowship. No matter how effective a fellowship is with the weekly meeting, unless the group is reaching out to students and colleagues on a regular basis, it will lose its zest, its reason for being. The outreach activities will be briefly described below with detailed descriptions including how-to instructions later in this section.
Tenure Workshops. Possibly the most effective way we have of reaching out to colleagues involves the Tenure Workshop. The workshop, which is sponsored by the Faculty/Staff Fellowship, presents a detailed and comprehensive strategy for earning tenure. The presentation may be done by a local member of the fellowship or by a speaker from another university. The formal presentation includes a brief challenge to develop in all areas of life (physical, intellectual, social, and spiritual), in addition to the pursuit of tenure objectives. After the formal presentation, professors from the fellowship share insights that relate to individual colleges and departments, as well as to their own tenure experiences. All new faculty are invited to this annual event.
Newspaper Strategies. One of the most effective ways we as faculty and staff have of impacting our campuses for Christ is by identifying ourselves publicly as Christians. One of the most effective ways of accomplishing this is through regular advertising in the student newspaper. These ads are usually half- or full-page ads, strategically placed, that play on a particular theme, e.g., Christmas or Easter; identify the members of the fellowship by academic or staff titles; and indicate availability to counsel interested students and colleagues. Christian Leadership Ministries has engaged an advertising agency to develop attention-getting ads for the ministry, and these are available from ministry headquarters.
Favorite Faculty Events. This outreach event involves students from various Christian organizations who are challenged to invite their favorite professor or staff member to a banquet (breakfast, lunch, or dinner work equally well) honoring "favorite faculty." The invitations given by the students to their invitee clearly indicate that the event has a Christian flavor stating something like, "Campus Crusade for Christ and the Christian Faculty/Staff Fellowship cordially invite you to a breakfast honoring favorite professors. Dr. James Wilson, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will speak on 'My Search for Significance.'" You might have students introduce their guests, after which Dr. Wilson shares his testimony. Comment cards are used for follow-up.
Lecture(s). Christian Leadership Ministries can suggest a number of academic lecturers available to give evangelistic and apologetic lectures in university settings. These can be effective if planned and advertised well; comment cards are used for follow-up. One particularly effective approach used recently on several campuses is to have a Christian speaker debate an atheist on some topic of general interest, e.g., "Does God Exist?" In some cases, academic departments and campus organizations are beginning to cosponsor these debates and underwriting some or all of the expenses of the debate.
Student Outreaches. A variety of formats are available for enabling the fellowship to reach out evangelistically to various student populations. Outreaches to international student groups using the Jesus film in their own language have been used with success, especially when done around a holiday theme such as Christmas or Easter. Several schools are holding an annual orientation for freshmen at which one or more professors share a brief spiritual challenge, Christian student organizations are showcased, and students have an opportunity to interact with Christian professors on an informal basis.
Faculty Forums. Another excellent campus outreach approach is the Faculty Forum, a series of seminars at which members of the fellowship present talks relating the integration of their Christian faith with their academic discipline. The seminars are open to students and faculty. When the speakers are known and respected on the campus and the topics are judiciously chosen, the forum can attract respectable numbers, both Christian and non-Christian.
The Veritas Forum. The Veritas Forum is a takeoff on the Faculty Forum in which nationally known speakers present a series of seminars usually for four or five consecutive evenings. Lunch presentations and afternoon seminars that relate to the general theme of the forum are also held. The level of publicity used for the Veritas Forum generally causes the forum to be the focus of attention on the campus for the week, generating considerable interest and enthusiasm for the various events. The meetings are usually open to the general public, as well as to the campus community.
Worldwide Web Home Pages. A relatively recent innovation for Faculty/Staff Fellowships is the creation of home pages on the Worldwide Web. These sites contain general information about the fellowship and specific information regarding meeting times, places, and program offerings. Additionally, the sites usually have links to the purpose statement and the statement of beliefs of the fellowship. Perhaps the most powerful attribute of these sites is the linkages they afford to individual faculty and staff who are involved in the fellowship; the individual sites provide biographical information on the individual, his or her Christian testimony and position and/or apologetic papers written by the individual. The fellowship home page concept is definitely a high-tech way of reaching colleagues and students with some heavy information.
Fellowship Potlucks. Fellowship Potlucks are a great way of providing fellowship opportunities to professors, staff, spouses, and friends and to expose prospective members to the Faculty/Staff Fellowship in an informal setting. The potlucks are held on either a semester or annual basis, usually at the home of one of the fellowship members. Invitations to such social occasions should either be by telephone or mailed to the homes of members, never passed out in the weekly meeting with the expectation that they will ultimately find their way into the right hands. Arrangements for food and refreshments for these gatherings should be planned by members of the fellowship and spouses or friends. A light program may be offered but is not absolutely necessary.
Having been involved in a fellowship very much like what is described here for many years, I can say that my involvement was the highlight of my career in academia. Sure, it is difficult to involve busy people. Sure, you might catch some grief from the administration, and you might be misunderstood by your colleagues. For sure, you will attempt things that don't work -- sometimes you might even have spectacular failures. But you will also have great successes. You will see students and colleagues come to know the Savior. You will see lives changed in the fellowship and in the institution. You will see your own life changed in the process. The university is one of the hallmarks of Western civilization. Can we abandon it? I think the Christian Faculty/Staff Fellowship is perhaps the only hope for impacting the university for Christ and for good. Surely the university deserves our best efforts. Doesn't the Christian Faculty/Staff Fellowship deserve your commitment?
Now that we have overviewed the concept of the fellowship, including how it functions and what it does, we are ready to describe in detail how to go about organizing some of the outreach events of the fellowship.
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Janeane Garofalo | |
Garofalo in 2012.
Born | Newton, New Jersey, United States |
September 28, 1964
Medium | Stand-up, television, film, radio |
Nationality | American |
Years active | 1988–present |
Genres | Alternative comedy |
Subject(s) | American politics, celebrities, feminism, body image |
Spouse | Robert Cohen (m. 1992–2012) |
Website | www.janeanegarofalo.com |
Janeane Garofalo (/dʒəˈniːn ɡəˈrɒfəloʊ/; born September 28, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, liberal political activist and writer.
She began her career as a stand-up comic in the late 1980s. In 1992, she made her television debut on the Ben Stiller Show, and followed this up with roles on The Larry Sanders Show and Saturday Night Live.
She moved to film in 1991 with an appearance as a fast food restaurant counter person in Late for Dinner, and also starred in The Truth About Cats and Dogs.
Garofalo is an outspoken progressive and feminist activist. From March 2004 to July 2006, she hosted Air America Radio's The Majority Report with Sam Seder.
Early life[edit]
Garofalo was born in Newton, New Jersey, the daughter of Joan and Carmine Garofalo. Her mother was a secretary, in the petrochemical industry, who died of cancer when Janeane was 24. Her father is a former executive at Exxon.[1][2] Garofalo was raised as a conservative Catholic[3] and is of Italian and Irish descent. She grew up in various places, including Ontario, California; Madison, New Jersey; and Katy, Texas. Garofalo is quoted as having disliked life in Texas because of the heat and humidity and the emphasis on prettiness and sports in high school.[1][2]
While studying history at Providence College, Garofalo entered a comedy talent search sponsored by the Showtime cable network, winning the title of "Funniest Person in Rhode Island." Her original gimmick was to read off her hand, which was not successful in subsequent performances. Dreaming of earning a slot on the writing staff of the TV show Late Night with David Letterman, she became a professional standup comedian upon graduating from college with degrees in History and American Studies.[4] She struggled for a number of years, working briefly as a bike messenger in Boston.[5]
Garofalo has described herself thus: "I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."[6]
Entertainment career[edit]
Stand-up comedy[edit]
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Garofalo began her career in stand-up comedy in the late 1980s during the pre-grunge era.[citation needed] Her appearance was often in line with late 1980s style: disheveled with thick black glasses and unkempt hair.[citation needed] Her comedy is often self-deprecating;[citation needed] she has made fun of popular culture and the pressures on women to conform to body image ideals promoted by the media.[citation needed]
Garofalo's comedy shows typically involve her notebook, which is filled with years' worth of article clippings and random observations she references for direct quotes during her act.[citation needed] Garofalo has said that she does not tell jokes as much as make observations designed to get laughs.[citation needed] She was part of the alternative comedy scene in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, appearing at Un-Cabaret and other venues and co-created the Eating It comedy series which ran at Luna Lounge on the Lower East Side of New York City between 1995 and 2005.[citation needed] She did a one-hour stand-up special, "If You Will," at Seattle's Moore Theatre, that aired on Epix in June 2010 and was released on DVD in September 2010.[7]
During her filmed stand-up show in Seattle, she proclaimed herself as asexual, and brought up her ten-year celibate relationship with her boyfriend.[8]
Garofalo's big break came in 1990 after meeting Ben Stiller at Canter's Deli in Los Angeles, where they were hanging out with stand-up friends. They bonded over their "love of SCTV, early Saturday Night Live, and Albert Brooks."[9]
Her television series debut was on the short-lived Ben Stiller Show on Fox in 1992, on which she was a cast member alongside longtime friends Bob Odenkirk and Andy Dick. A chance meeting on the set of that show led her to be offered the role of Paula on The Larry Sanders Show on HBO, earning her two Emmy Award[10] nominations in 1996 and 1997.
After The Ben Stiller Show was cancelled, Garofalo joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (SNL) for its 1994–95 season. She left SNL in March 1995 (mid-season) after only six months, saying that the experience left her "anxious and depressed" and that a sexist attitude pervaded the show and she called many of the sketches "juvenile and homophobic". According to New York Magazine, Garofalo was "largely stuck in dull, secondary wife and girlfriend roles" and her friends said that she considered the stint "the most miserable experience of [her] life."[11]
Following SNL, Garofalo appeared in a plethora of guest star roles: the grown-up daughter of the Buchmans on the final episode of Mad About You; Jerry Seinfeld's female counterpart (and, briefly, fiancée) Jeannie Steinman on Seinfeld; a correspondent on Michael Moore's TV Nation and a former girlfriend of Dave Foley's character on Newsradio. Two television pilots starring Garofalo, the 2003 ABC show Slice O'Life about a reporter consigned to sappy human interest stories appearing at the end of news broadcasts, and the 2005 NBC program All In, based on the life of poker star Annie Duke, were not picked up by their respective networks.
Throughout the 2005–2006 television season, Garofalo appeared on The West Wing as Louise Thornton, a controversial campaign adviser to the fictional Democratic presidential nominee. Garofalo participated in the series' first live episode, most of which was a debate televised live on the East Coast and then reshot live for the West. Garofalo's character can be seen walking backstage advising before the start of each debate. In 2006, she provided the voice for the animated character "Bearded Clam" on Comedy Central's Freak Show. In 2007, she wrote a dedication for the mini-book included in the six-DVD box-set of the 1994 cult series My So-Called Life.
Garofalo had a segment in several episodes of the 2007 season of The Henry Rollins Show. These took place in her apartment, much in the same way Rollins' take place at his house.[citation needed]
In 2009, Garofalo joined the cast of 24, where she starred as Janis Gold.
Garofalo was a cast member of the Criminal Minds short-lived spinoff TV series Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior.[12]
In 2010, Garofalo joined the cast of Ideal as Tilly.
Garofalo's breakthrough into film came in 1994's Reality Bites as Winona Ryder's Gap-managing best friend Vickie. The role helped solidify Garofalo's status as a Generation X icon. In 1996, Garofalo earned a starring role in the critically acclaimed The Truth About Cats & Dogs, a variation on Cyrano de Bergerac which featured top-billed Uma Thurman in the lead role as a beautiful but dim-witted model, while Garofalo played the larger role of Abby, a highly intelligent radio host. Initially an independent film, it became a studio movie when Thurman was signed. The film was a modest hit, but Garofalo disparages it to this day, saying:[13]
I think it's soft and corny, and the soundtrack makes you want to puke, and everybody's dressed in Banana Republic clothing. The original script and the original intent was very different than what it wound up being when it became a studio commercial film. It was originally supposed to be a small-budget independent film where there would be much more complexity to all the characters, and Abby and the guy don't wind up together at the end.
—Janeane Garofalo, Interview with the Onion A. V. Club
Based on the success of this film, a producer then offered her the leading lady role in Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise if she could lose weight; after trimming down, however, she learned that Renée Zellweger had won the part instead.[14] Garofalo turned down the role of Gale Weathers in Wes Craven's Scream because she thought the film would be too violent: "I said I didn't want to be in a movie where a teen girl was disemboweled. I didn't know it turned out so good, and it was a funny movie."[15] Garofalo had also been David Fincher's first choice for the role of Marla Singer in the film Fight Club, but she turned it down, uncomfortable with the film's sexual content.[16]
Before The Truth About Cats & Dogs, she was visible from television work and supporting roles in films such as Reality Bites, Bye Bye Love and Now and Then, and a leading role in I Shot a Man in Vegas. Garofalo has had a variety of leading, supporting and cameo roles in Cop Land, Wet Hot American Summer, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Dogma, The Cable Guy, Half-Baked, Mystery Men, The Wild, and Clay Pigeons.
Garofalo played the leading role in the The MatchMaker, a 1997 film about the misadventures of a cynical American woman who reluctantly visits Ireland. In 1998 Garofalo starred in her first voice-acting job playing Ursula the Artist in Disney's English dub of Studio Ghibli's Kiki's Delivery Service. In 1999, she starred as "The Bowler" in the film Mystery Men, about an underdog group of super heroes in the not too distant future. In 2002, she played Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project. A puppet version of Garofalo appeared (and was graphically killed off) in the movie Team America: World Police; while Garofalo was irritated by the parody, she was more upset by the filmmaker's lack of correspondence. "I ran into them in the street, Trey and the other guy, and I said to them, 'The least you could do is send me a puppet.' And they said OK, took my address down ... and never sent me a puppet! So while Team America bothered me, the fact they didn't send me my puppet, that bothered me even more."[17]
In 2007, she provided the voice of Colette, a chef in the Pixar/Disney feature film Ratatouille. Garofalo affected a pronounced French accent in the role, highlighted by her character's soliloquy about being the only female chef in the all-male kitchen.[citation needed]
She made cameo appearances in The Guitar in 2008 and Labor Pains in 2009.
Political views[edit]
Garofalo has been open and outspoken regarding her liberal political views. She is a staunch feminist. In an interview for Geek Monthly magazine, she stated that she grew up conservative in a conservative family.[18]
She has appeared with political figures such as Ralph Nader (whom she supported in the 2000 election, but opposed in 2004[citation needed]) and Jello Biafra at various events. In 2007, Garofalo described herself as an atheist,[19] and participated in a radio interview by Freethought Radio, a show by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.[20]
She became more prominent as an activist when she voiced opposition to what became the 2003 Iraq War, appearing on CNN and Fox News to discuss it. She said that she was approached by groups such as MoveOn.org and Win Without War to go on TV, because these organizations say that the networks were not allowing antiwar voices to be heard. Garofalo and the other celebrities who appeared at the time said they thought their fame could lend attention to that side of the debate. Her appearances on cable news prior to the war garnered her praise from the left and spots on the cover of Ms. and Venus Zine. Garofalo has had frequent on-air political disputes with Bill O'Reilly, Brian Kilmeade, and Jonah Goldberg.[21][dead link]
Prior to the 2003 Iraq War, she took a position on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. For example, in an interview with Tony Snow on a February 23, 2003 episode of Fox News Sunday,[22] Garofalo said of the Iraqi dictator:
Yes, I think lots of people are eager to obtain weapons of mass destruction. But there's no evidence that he (Hussein) has weapons of mass destruction. There's been no evidence of him testing nuclear weapons. We have people that are in our face with nuclear weapons. We've got Iran and North Korea. We've got a problem with Pakistan. You know, I don't know what to say about that. There's a whole lot of people that are going nuclear. And I think that Saddam Hussein is actually, with the evidence, the least able to use nuclear weapons and the least obvious offender in that area at this moment.
— Janeane Garofalo , Fox News interview
In March 2003, she took part in the Code Pink anti-war march in Washington, D.C. That fall, she served as emcee at several stops on the Tell Us the Truth tour, a political-themed concert series featuring Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello, and others. Throughout the year, Garofalo also actively campaigned for Howard Dean.
While on Fox News' program The Pulse, O'Reilly asked Garofalo what she would do if her predictions that the Iraq war would be a disaster were to turn out wrong. Garofalo stated:[23]
I would be so willing to say, 'I'm sorry'. I hope to God that I can be made a buffoon of, that people will say, 'You were wrong. You were a fatalist.' And I will go to the White House on my knees on cut glass and say, 'Hey, you and Thomas Friedman were right ... I shouldn't have doubted you ...'
— Janeane Garofalo , Fox News interview
In April 2009, Garofalo drew criticism from The Washington Times when she denounced the Tea Party protests, calling them racist.[24] Garofalo has continued to criticize Tea Party protesters.[25]
Air America Radio[edit]
In late March 2004, Garofalo became a co-host for Air America Radio's new show The Majority Report alongside Sam Seder. The early days of Air America Radio are chronicled in the documentary Left of the Dial, which includes a debate between Garofalo and her conservative father Carmine, who was initially a regular guest on The Majority Report.
Garofalo commented on her April 28, 2006 show supporting the Scientology-linked New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a controversial treatment for workers suffering ailments from 9/11 clean-up efforts in New York City.[26]
Personal life[edit]
Garofalo married Robert Cohen, who was then a writer for The Ben Stiller Show, in Las Vegas in 1991. She later explained it was intended to be a joke, not thinking it was legal unless filed at a local courthouse. It was revealed later, when Cohen tried to actually marry someone else, that the marriage was indeed legal. The marriage was dissolved in 2012.[27]
In Garofalo's 2010 stand-up show If You Will, she describes herself as asexual. Garofalo says, "I don't have a fear of intimacy, I have sort of a genuine lack of interest", adding jokingly, "which is not good for my boyfriend of ten years".[28]
- Late for Dinner (1991)
- That's What Women Want (1992)
- Reality Bites (1994)
- Bye Bye Love (1995)
- I Shot a Man in Vegas (1995)
- Coldblooded (1995)
- Now and Then (1995)
- The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) (Abbey Barnes)
- The Cable Guy (1996)
- Larger Than Life (1996)
- Sweethearts (1997)
- Touch (1997)
- Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) (Heather Mooney)
- The MatchMaker (1997) (Marcy Tizard)
- Cop Land (1997)
- Clay Pigeons (1998)
- Kiki's Delivery Service (1998) (voice — English version)
- Thick as Thieves (1998)
- Permanent Midnight (1998)
- Half Baked (1998)
- The Thin Pink Line (1998)
- The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999)
- Torrance Rises (1999)
- Can't Stop Dancing (1999)
- Mystery Men (1999) (The Bowler)
- Dogma (1999)
- The Independent (1999)
- 200 Cigarettes (1999)
- The Minus Man (1999)
- Dog Park (2000)
- Steal This Movie! (2000) (Anita Hoffman)
- Titan A.E. (2000) (voice)
- The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000)
- What Planet Are You From? (2000)
- The Laramie Project (2001)
- The Search for John Gissing (2001)
- Wet Hot American Summer (2001) (Beth)
- Martin & Orloff (2002)
- Big Trouble (2002) (Officer Monica Romero)
- Manhood (Showtime; 2003)
- Wonderland (2003)
- Nobody Knows Anything! (2003)
- Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004)
- Duane Hopwood (2005)
- Nadine in Date Land, Oxygen Network; (2005) (Nadine Barnes)
- Stay (2005) (Dr. Beth Levy)
- The Wild (2006) (voice)
- Ratatouille (2007) (voice)
- Southland Tales (2007)
- The Ten (2007)
- Girl's Best Friend (2008)
- Labor Pains (Made For TV Film) (2009)
- General Education (2012)
- Satan, Hold My Hand (2013)
Short films[edit]
- Suspicious (1994)
- "Angel Mine" (1996 music video)
- The Cherry Picker (2000)
- Housekeeping (2001)
- Junebug and Hurricane (2004)
- New York: A Documentary Film (1999)
- Outlaw Comic: The Censoring of Bill Hicks (2003)
- Dangerous Living: Coming Out In The Developing World (2003)
- Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (2003)
- Left of the Dial (2005), HBO
- I Am Comic (2010)
- The Tom Green Show
- The Henry Rollins Show
- My Big Big Friends, FOX
- Outlaw Comic: The Censoring of Bill Hicks (2003)
- TV Nation, NBC, Fox
- The Chris Rock Show, HBO
- The Larry Sanders Show, HBO (Paula)
- The Ben Stiller Show, Fox
- Tales of the City, BBC/PBS (Coppola Woman)
- Small Doses, Comedy Central
- Saturday Night Live, NBC
- Seinfeld, NBC
- The Simpsons (Herself)
- Newsradio, NBC
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Cartoon Network
- Law & Order, NBC
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien
- Now with Bill Moyers, PBS
- The Daily Show
- Janeane Garofalo, HBO (1997) (hour-long standup special)
- Behind the Scenes at Daria, MTV (2000)
- Late Show with David Letterman (Guest Host)
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
- The King of Queens, CBS (Trish)
- Shorties Watching Shorties, Comedy Central
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC
- Primetime Glick, Comedy Central
- Mad About You (series finale) (Mabel)
- Home Improvement
- The Belzer Connection, SciFi Channel
- The Minnesota Half-Hour Smile Hour
- Pilot Season
- Tanner on Tanner, Sundance Channel (Herself)
- Stella, Comedy Central
- Felicity
- Hannity & Colmes, Fox News
- Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO
- Comic Remix
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show
- Dennis Miller Live
- The Sopranos, HBO (Herself)
- King of the Hill, Fox
- Ellen, ABC
- Dinner for Five, IFC
- Mr. Show with Bob and David: Fantastic Newness, HBO (1996)
- The West Wing, NBC (2005) (Louise Thornton)
- In the Life, PBS (2005)
- Strangers with Candy (Cassie Pines)
- The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Nickelodeon
- Two and a Half Men, CBS
- Tom Goes To The Mayor (2006)
- Rove (2007 & 2009)
- 24 (2009)[29]
- Head Case, Starz (2009)
- Greek (2009)
- Spicks and Specks
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Series 23 Episode 1), BBC 2 (2009)
- John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show (2010)
- Stella (Episode 8)
- Ideal (Series 6), BBC Three (2010) (Tilly)
- Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (Series regular, 2011) (SSA Beth Griffith)
- Delocated (2012)[30]
- Metalocalypse (2012) (Episode 55, 58-61)
- Match Game (2012), The Comedy Network
- Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction ISBN 0-694-52146-9 (with Ben Stiller)
- ^ a b Westbook, Bruce (June 22, 2007). "Garofalo talks politics, 'evil oil empire' and life in Houston". Houston Chronicle.
- ^ a b Westbrook, Bruce (June 24, 2007). "The world according to Janeane Garofalo". Zest Magazine, Houston Chronicle. p. 10. Retrieved August 8, 2009.
- ^ Span, Paula (2005-04-27). "And Don't Even Get Her Started on the War". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
- ^ "Janeane Garofalo Biography – Yahoo! Movies". Movies.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ NINA WILLDORF. "Funny Girl: The real Garofalo". The Boston Phoenix. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ "Janeane Garofalo Quotes". Brainy Quote. 1964-09-28. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ Jamie S. Rich. "If You Will". DVD Talk.
- ^ Suarez, J.M. (October 4, 2010). "'Janeane Garofalo: If You Will': 'Life Is Too Long to Worry About the Afterlife'". PopMatters. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
- ^ Muhlke, Christine (August 1999). "The Ben Stiller Show 'N' Tell". PaperMag.
- ^ Janeane Garofalo Emmy Nominated
- ^ Smith, Chris (1995-03-13). "Comedy Isn't Funny: How Saturday Night Live Became a Grim Joke". New York Magazine. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- ^ Episode of Sam Seder's political podcast The Majority Report
- ^ Robinson, Tasha (2003-12-24). "Janeane Garofalo". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- ^ "Q & A With Janeane Garofalo". Inked Magazine. January 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
- ^ "'Matchmaker' helps Garofalo fall for Ireland". Boston Herald. 1997-09-30.
- ^ "The Story Behind Fight Club". Total Film. 2009-11-20. Retrieved 2010-05-11. "The studio wanted Winona Ryder. Fincher wanted Janeane Garofalo, but she was "uncomfortable with the idea of all this sex"."
- ^ Kettle, James (2009-08-01). "Seriously funny". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
- ^ "Janeane Garofalo". Geekmonthly.com. 2009-01-13. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ Michael Janusonis (2007-07-06). "Just the right spice". projo.com. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ "Freethought Radio". Ffrf.libsyn.com. 26 May 2007. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ Jonah Goldberg (2003-02-28). "Garofalo's World". Nationalreview.com. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ "Transcript: Janeane Garofalo on Fox News Sunday". FOXNews.com. 2003-02-24. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ "Hollywood Celebrities Pull Out the Punches on Iraq – The Pulse". FOXNews.com. 2003-04-09. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ Carpenter, Amanda (2009-04-17). "Liberal actress says tea parties were racist – Hot Button Blog". Washington Times. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ "Garofalo Stands By 'Racist' Remarks – Hannity". FOXNews.com. 2009-05-12. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ Walls, Jeannette (2006-05-02). "Garofalo gushes over Scientology-linked project". MSNBC (NBC). Retrieved 2009-04-08.
- ^ Stanhope, Kate (2012-11-13). "Janeane Garofalo Had No Idea She Was Married for 20 Years". TV Guide. TVGuide.com. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
- ^ Clip shown in (A) Sexual, 2011 documentary film.
- ^ "Time right for Garofalo on '24'". Reuters.com. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ "Janeane Garofalo Heading to Adult Swim". nymag.com. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
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April 12, 2012
Interview with Melissa from Sigh...Gush...Gasp!
Interviews are my favorite!
I love asking lots of random questions and getting to know someone through their answers! Don't you?
Today I invite you to get to know Melissa...
a style/fashion blogger who's also a new mom... take it away g-friend!
Tell us a little bit about you and your blog:
I am an Atlantic Canadian gal, recently turned new mom, who has a huge love of shoes and fashion! The name of my blog, Sigh...Gush...Gasp, comes from my 3 reactions to clothing, shoes, pretty much anything that has to do with fashion! I am from Saint John, New Brunswick where I am a high school teacher. I teach mathematics and dance. I am also a dance teacher in the community. I have been married for 6 years to my wonderful husband, Greg; we have one fur baby named Huggie and a beautiful 4 month old daughter named Adele. Where do you get your style inspiration?
I get my style inspiration mostly from other bloggers and photos in magazines and on the internet. A few of my favorite bloggers are Kate of O My Heart, Tieka of Selective Potential, Kendi Everyday and Veronika of Girl and Closet. There is such a great and inspiring community of fashion bloggers to draw from!What trends are you loving this spring?
I am loving the coloured jean trend this spring! I think it is a great way to add colour to any outfit and a colour that may not look great on you when worn as a top can usually be done as a bottom. I am also loving colour blocking and am hoping to experiment with this in my wardrobe more!What's one trend you wish would go away and never return?
The one trend that I wish would go away and never return is fringe on jackets and vests. I just don't like the look of it.Who is your fashion icon?
I don't know if I have a particular fashion icon, but a designer that I love is Michael Kors. He makes the most gorgeous bags and shoes! It is a dream of mine to own one of his gorgeous totes! Where did you score your favorite maternity clothes during the pregnancy?
When I was pregnant there were no maternity stores in my hometown so I had to scope out maternity stores on the trips we were going on. Some of my favorites are Destination Maternity for their great prices (they carry a lot of sale items from Motherhood maternity and A Pea in the Pod), Queen Bee Maternity, Target and Kohls! I also found a lot of the time the way some of the clothes are made now can be used for maternity clothes, so just because you are pregnant doesn't mean you can't shop at your favorite places! I still shopped at my favorite local boutique (Je Suis Prest) throughout my pregnancy! I am also happy to say that now there is a maternity store in my hometown called Belly Beautiful so if we decide to have another child I will be shopping there!What's one of your style secrets?
As a new Mom I no longer have as much time or money to put into my outfits, but that doesn't mean you have to sacrifice looking stylish! One of my tips is if you want to dress up an outfit, have a great pair of neutral heels and a great bag; they can dress up any outfit in a snap! Also shop sales and use your coupons wisely! In Canada we have very strict couponing laws but I live an hour away from the US border so we shop down there a lot. If you shop at places like Kohls that give you Kohls cash to use later you can snag some really great deals! My latest deal was a dress for me for $0.61 and one for my daughter for $0.25, and that was online... with taxes and shipping the total was $2.88! Do you prefer to match or mix it up?
Lately I have been prefering to mix it up; experimenting with colourblocking and with mixing colour and different patterns!Shoe therapy can get expensive. How do you shop smart?
Shoe shopping can definitely get expensive, and I love shoes! I am lucky because I live close to the US border and we have a store called Marden's. They have some fabulous deals on shoes. Most pairs are no more than $50 and when they are that expensive you know originally they were at least 3 times that. My best shoe deal from there is a gorgeous pair of Michael Kors for $15!Let's say it's your hubby's birthday weekend...but you just won an all expense paid trip to NY Fashion Week!
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For me this would be the trip of a lifetime! So what I would do is convince hubby he should come with me and we would celebrate his birthday while away too! I would make sure to plan a few things that he likes. It would be easy to convince him to tag along as he loves the stock market and would love to see the NASDAQ building! I would even see if we could extend our stay or go early to make it more of a celebration for his birthday!
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Clowns stroll down Main Street during last year's county fair parade. The parade is always a highlight of the Plumas-Sierra County Fair (Aug. 14-18) and takes place this Saturday, Aug. 17 at 10 a.m. in downtown Quincy. Photo by Laura Beaton |
The iconic county fair parade takes place this Saturday, Aug. 17 in downtown Quincy at 10 a.m. (not 10:30 as reported in last week's Fair Guide.) The Quincy Fire Department hosts its annual pancake breakfast immediately before the parade from 7– 10 a.m. at the fire station on Lawrence Street.
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Gabriel Burt, desktop developer at Novell, has reported progress with his PDF Mod tool. The new GNOME program allows for switching pages and other useful trickery with PDF documents.
In its new version 0.4, PDF Mod can not only remove, extract, rotate and reorganize PDF pages, but it also allows drag-and-drop of external documents and exporting of JPG and PNG graphics. Pages can be reordered across multiple open documents.
Burt and his colleagues fixed a number of bugs and translated the GUI into 10 languages. The concise user guide was translated into five of them.
Further details on PDF Mod, which had its first ever release the end of July, are on the live.gnome.org project page. The app is written in Microsoft's C# and therefore depends on the Mono runtime environment. In addition to a tarball of the GPL source code, packages for openSUSE 11.1 and SLED 11 are available on the project page.
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