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Very Good
The evolution of Topspin
posted by Droppo (MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, WA) Jun 25, 2008
Member since Dec 2006
18 out of 19 gamers (95%) found this review helpful
Graphics in this game are noticably improved over last time out. It looks like they did a lot of work to improve the use of their game engine. But the looks and sounds of this game are not the major story here. If you love tennis, you will want to try this game out. The big story here is "what do you think of the new controls?"
We'll have to wait and see what the final verdict of the masses will be, but I don't see it as a big problem personally. I like that it's harder than the old control system and (like MLB 2k8) seems a little more in keeping with the reality of tennis.
The bottom line is that Topspin 3 is much more of a tennis sim than an arcade game. That's probably where the line in the sand will be drawn for gamers. In my case, I always prefer a sports game to be more sim than arcade. Makes it feel more like the real sport.
Really Bad
WOW Horrible
posted by tjohnson (RALEIGH, NC) Sep 2, 2010
Member since Sep 2010
1 out of 1 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
I hate this game! and I Love this game!
posted by beweekly (VALLEJO, CA) Jul 1, 2008
Member since Jan 2007
7 out of 8 gamers (88%) found this review helpful
This is not your typical VT3,TS or TS2.Forget about those easy game controls and get ready to learn and re-think the way you played tennis in the past.
The Love: This game has all the Hi def eye candy(720p) and realism of any tennis game out,hands downs. The sweating faces, the dirty appearance,tiredness,player poor shots,heart pounding fatigue,you name it.
The Love: It's a real tennis game folks,not for the faint of heart. You have to practice and be patience and then MAYBE you can win a game on "normal level." Once you do,(and it will take some time on any level other then "easy")you will feel great!
The Hate: The controls + player momentum is hard to master,if at all. With no computer assist in moving your player from side to side you will miss many returns. "Releasing" the button to hit the ball is not normal.
The hate: The game is slower and the control system is weak. But at the same time, it's PERFECT for this game of tennis because it's like REAL Tennis. Be warned: TopSpin 3 is not for the casual arcade-minded tennis fan.
The Hate: How can you have a Great tennis game WITHOUT the WILLIAM sisters,Sampras,and the other greats in it.
Rent it first!!
1 and done!
posted by FREESTYLE (PORTLAND, OR) Jul 5, 2008
Member since May 2004
4 out of 10 gamers (40%) found this review helpful
posted by boiiii (TARZANA, CA) Jul 5, 2008
Member since Sep 2007
2 out of 5 gamers (40%) found this review helpful
Very Good
be patient
posted by pauly37 (SULPHUR, OK) Jun 25, 2008
Member since Mar 2006
2 out of 5 gamers (40%) found this review helpful
Not Impressed
posted by rflow99 (WINTER PARK, FL) Jul 3, 2008
Member since Sep 2004
3 out of 8 gamers (38%) found this review helpful
not feeling it....
posted by 360Santi (NEW YORK, NY) Jul 4, 2008
Member since Jan 2008
2 out of 6 gamers (33%) found this review helpful
I for one am not a fan of the new hitting mechanism in TS3, I downloaded the demo while waiting on my Gamefly copy to arrive. I wanted to give the full game a shot before i dogged it..i have read other reviews in that you should give it time, appreciate it, embrace it, be patient and learn the new styles, go to tennis school. But with TS2 and VT3 under my belt why should I? I made my bones in those 2 games, i refuse to start off as a scrub again..let alone learn new kung fu styles of button pushing, to me thats the real disappointment of the game. and from the overall game score of 5.9 seems i am not alone.
Kinda reminds me of how the swing stroke changed In Tiger Woods 08 from Tiger woods 07. The 08 title i nicknamed as Slice Woods 2008. 07 still sees gameplay on my 360 so does TW06 and Links 2004..after all Golf titles are not like an NBA/NHL/NFL or Baseball title that i'd need to get each title for trades & such.
Top Spin 3 im sure to the video game simulation Tennis affictionato (not the arcade player) will apreciate it and say its worth going back to school to learn button controls, and the lack of some of the games noteable players is also an issue but can be tolerable if we didnt have the hump of learning new button pushing styles..whatever man.
gamfly is here to further your experience in try b4 you buy!!
in closing I say--> when you give me soy milk instead of regular milk doesn't mean i gotta like the drink either..I'll drink it if i need a liquid to survive mind you..However I wont be drinking the TS3 Kool-Aid no more..Top Spin 3 worth a rental, but not worth hours of learning new button strokes for having been there done that!..NEXT on my queue please..1 title COMING BACK
Weak Gameplay
posted by P0RKCH0P (SUNNYSIDE, WA) Jun 29, 2008
Member since Oct 2007
2 out of 6 gamers (33%) found this review helpful
Really Bad
Just frustrating...not fun at all
posted by Noeckett (VISALIA, CA) Jul 16, 2009
Member since Jul 2009
Top Spin 3
posted by josephb (TREMONT CITY, OH) Apr 17, 2009
Member since Apr 2009
Sent back the same day
posted by Marcelc28 (WASHINGTON, DC) Mar 16, 2009
Member since Nov 2006
posted by Golf16 (ROSEVILLE, CA) Feb 9, 2009
Member since Jan 2008
I'll admit, when I saw this game was coming I was excited. I was looking forward to having a good tennis game. But once I got this game and started playing it. Well all I can say is disappointing. I went to just a freeplay game and couldn't even hit the ball. So then of course I went to the learning class. As much as is involved in this game they could've made it a bit more playable for those of us who don't play tennis and are interested in having a fun game and get you interested in the sport.
Very Good
Game looks great, but play needs work
posted by parakeet (PORT RICHEY, FL) Feb 1, 2009
Member since Jan 2009
Counterintiutive control scheme
posted by hduser (MONTEREY PARK, CA) Jan 22, 2009
Member since Sep 2006
Very Good
Entertaining for a long time!!
posted by Awe4some (Wichita, KS) Dec 30, 2008
Member since Apr 2008
Worst game I have ever played on any console
posted by kpyeahbaby (YARMOUTH, ME) Dec 6, 2008
Member since Nov 2008
Worst Game Ever
posted by KillaDave (WASHINGTON, DC) Nov 11, 2008
Member since Nov 2008
Very Good
More than I expected
posted by 10isPro (Hanover, IN) Nov 7, 2008
Member since Oct 2008
Just aweful!
posted by RedGamer (Buhler, KS) Oct 25, 2008
Member since Feb 2008
Worse than the rest
posted by Sandy85 (BRADENTON, FL) Oct 15, 2008
Member since Oct 2007
Above Average
Spend some time with it...
posted by Yarcod (MISSION, KS) Oct 9, 2008
Member since Jan 2007
Top Spin 3
posted by Aequitas76 (SEATTLE, WA) Oct 3, 2008
Member since Jul 2008
Far better controls, i love not seeing where i'm aiming. i mean that, no cynicism there. All this means is a lot of practice, you really have to spend a bit of time learning how to time everything or you aren't going to go anywhere in the game.
I love all the options there are as far as clothing, equipment and well...face morphing is a game in itself.
Smooth graphics, players getting sweaty the harder they play during a long match. the slide marks on clay courts along with the players clothes getting dirty from the clay court dust shooting up from the slides. just awesome.
Really Bad
A step backward
posted by Sirharper (MAINEVILLE, OH) Oct 2, 2008
Member since May 2006
I enjoyed this game for a few days
posted by IhateOSU (LOCUST GROVE, GA) Sep 12, 2008
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We are here with Chef Jordan Stein from Pond House, at the Glastonbury location. Jordan actually mentioned that this is the second location and the Pond House started up in West Hartford. Could you tell us a little more about that?
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Stroke secondary to carotid dissection
A stroke secondary to carotid dissection is a type of stroke due to a tear in the lining of a major neck artery, called the carotid artery.
A stroke is an interruption of the blood supply to any part of the brain. When a tear in the lining of the carotid artery occurs (carotid dissection), blood flows in between layers of the blood vessel. This causes narrowing of the vessel, which makes it hard for blood to travel properly.
Stroke secondary to carotid dissection, unlike many other forms of stroke, may occur in young people, usually under 40 years old. Dissection accounts for less than 5% of strokes.
The risks for stroke secondary to carotid dissection include a history of disorders that cause weakness of the blood vessels, such as Marfan syndrome and fibromuscular dysplasia. Injury to the neck and certain medical procedures involving the carotid artery (such as an arteriogram) also raises your risk.
- Pain in the neck, which may travel to the eye
- Pulsing in the ears (pulsatile tinnitus)
- Weakness or total inability to move a body part
- Numbness, loss of sensation, or tingling
- Horner's syndrome
- Eyelid drooping (ptosis)
- Abnormal pupils
- Abnormal facial sweating
- Trouble seeing, may occur in one or both eyes
- Problems talking or understanding speech
- Inability to recognize or identify sensory stimuli (agnosia)
- Loss of memory
- Vertigo (abnormal sensation of movement)
- Loss of coordination
- Swallowing difficulties
- Personality changes
- Mood and emotion changes
- Change in consciousness such as sleepiness, stupor, or lethargy
- Loss of consciousness
- Coma
Exams and Tests
A complete physical and neurological exam should be performed. This includes testing of all neurological functions, including vision, ability to feel sensations, movement, and mental function. The exam may reveal problems with vision, movement, sensation, reflexes, and speaking. The signs depend on how much blood flow is blocked at the time of the exam.
The doctor may hear an abnormal sound called a bruit when placing a stethoscope over the neck arteries. Blood pressure may be high. Some patients should signs of Horner's syndrome, such as drooping of one eyelid, lack of sweating on one side of the forehead, and a sunken appearance to one eye.
Tests may include:
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Stroke is a serious condition. The sooner treatment is received, the better the person will do, and the lower the chance of permanent disability or death.
Treatment depends on the severity of symptoms.
Medicine may be needed to control high blood pressure. Blood thinning drugs, such as Coumadin or aspirin, may be needed for 3 to 6 months. Surgery to repair the carotid dissection may be required. Other therapies may be needed if there are any underlying disorders of the blood vessels.
For more information on treatment, see Stroke.
Outlook (Prognosis)
The outcome for stroke secondary to carotid dissection may be better than for stroke from many other causes, especially if the dissection is discovered and treated promptly.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Stroke is a medical emergency. Immediately go to the emergency room or call the local emergency number (911 in the United States) if signs of a stroke occur.
Care should be taken to protect the neck from injury, especially if you have any conditions that increase your risk for this type of stroke. Wearing seat belts while riding in a vehicle and helmets for various activities may somewhat reduce the risk for a stroke secondary to carotid dissection.
Aspirin therapy (81mg a day or 100mg every other day) is now recommended for stroke prevention in women under 65 as long as the benefits outweigh the risks. It should be considered for women over age 65 only if their blood pressure is controlled and the benefit is greater than the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding and brain hemorrhage.
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"This transaction will provide Maytag shareholders with superior value compared to the current offer," said Jeff M. Fettig, Whirlpool's chairman, president and CEO. "Equally important, the combination fits Whirlpool's strategy and capabilities, will create strong value for our shareholders and provide direct benefits to consumers and trade customers."
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"Together we can achieve substantial efficiencies that will deliver cost savings, increased innovation and better asset utilization," Mr. Fettig continued. "With these efficiencies, and Whirlpool's track record of -- and commitment to -- investing in innovation, quality, and customer service, our combined company will be well positioned to offer great value to consumers and to trade customers. And as part of Whirlpool, we can ensure that Maytag remains a trusted brand for years to come."
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"We and our advisors also are ready to immediately negotiate a definitive merger agreement with you. We anticipate that our agreement will be based substantially on your existing merger agreement with Triton," Mr. Fettig said in the letter.
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If the terriers and barriffs (sic) are torn down, this economy will grow.George Walker Bush
Some material things make my life more enjoyable; many, however, would not. I like having an expensive private plane, but owning a half-dozen homes would be a burden. Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends. My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest. Both my children and I won what I call the ovarian lottery. (For starters, the odds against my 1930 birth taking place in the U.S. were at least 30 to 1. My being male and white also removed huge obstacles that a majority of Americans then faced.) My luck was accentuated by my living in a market system that sometimes produces distorted results, though overall it serves our country well. Ive worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions. In short, fates distribution of long straws is wildly capricious. The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not guilt, but rather gratitude. Were we to use more than 1% of my claim checks on ourselves, neither our happiness nor our well-being would be enhanced. In contrast, that remaining 99% can have a huge effect on the health and welfare of others. That reality sets an obvious course for me and my family: Keep all we can conceivably need and distribute the rest to society, for its needs. My pledge starts us down that course.Warren Edward Buffett
This is my chance to help this lady put some money in her pocket. Let me explain how the economy works. When you spend money to buy food it helps this lady's business. It makes it more likely somebody is going to find work. So instead of asking questions, answer mine: are you going to buy some food?George Walker Bush
Today, having come far in our own historical journey, we must decide: Will we turn back, or finish well? Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage. Like Americans before us, we will show that courage and we will finish well. We will lead freedom's advance. We will compete and excel in the global economy. We will renew the defining moral commitments of this land. And so we move forward optimistic about our country, faithful to its cause, and confident of victories to come.George Walker Bush
Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.Bill Gross
Our economy is robust and will remain strong as more Americans who want a job find one. Republican economic policies based on tax relief are working for the American people.Dennis Hastert
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.Douglas MacArthur
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.Douglas MacArthur
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.Clara Barton
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.Christopher Bond
We had patience in our fighting with the Soviet Union with simple weapons for 10 years. We exhausted their economy, so they disappeared. We will not abandon our fight until the weapons run out.Osama Bin Laden
When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.Peter L. Berger
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.Hannah More
We can be energy independent, have affordable health care and a strong economy. All it takes is a commitment in Washington to put progress, not politics, first.Harry Reid
It is also 10 percent of your population without food and facing starvation -- that is going to challenge any economy.Douglas Keatinge
If the administrative phase is conducted in two different courts and it leads to two different verdicts, then prudence and judicial economy would tell us that these proceedings should be consolidated into one court. It only makes sense.Robert Hager
In the long term, the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature.Mollie Beatty�
...the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.Richard Cobden
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.Bob Schieffer
Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.George Walker Bush
Americans are sacrificing. I mean, we are. You know, we pay a lot of taxes. Americans sacrificed when they, you know, when the economy went into the tank. Americans sacrificed when, you know, air travel was disrupted. American taxpayers have paid a lot to help this nation recover. I think Americans have sacrificed.George Walker Bush


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The Inspired Call: Overstating the Case?
A couple of months ago, I received a new calling. I'd sufficiently recovered from certain previous callings to feel that I could yet again give church a chance and make my availability known. In many respects, I was extremely fortunate in the way that process played out. A woman I know and like had recently been called as RS president, and one Sunday I happened upon her in the foyer and explained both my willingness to serve and the limitations of my current situation. Because of circumstances involving my own health and my husband's inactivity, I can't fulfill a Primary or weekly teaching calling right now and probably won't be able to for the next couple of years. So I suggested that a Relief Society committee might be appropriate.
Several weeks later a member of the bishopric asked if he could speak with me, and after we sat down in the bishop's office and went through the conversational preliminaries, informed me that the bishopric was calling me to the Enrichment Committee. I immediately accepted, since it was precisely what I myself had just requested. The good, kind man who extended me the calling first said, "We'd like to call you to…." and then corrected himself, no doubt as he's been instructed to, and said, "We feel inspired to call you to…."
It's not that I have the slightest sense that the calling was flatly uninspired or in any way contrary to the will of God. But at the same time, I just wanted to laugh. It felt as if this member of the bishopric and I were playing a game, both of us reciting our well-rehearsed parts, even though of course I knew better than anyone that I'd engineered the whole thing myself, and it's possible he knew that as well.
I do believe that callings are sometimes inspired. In the various church stewardships I've had over the years, I've occasionally known exactly who needed to occupy a particular position. Once as education counselor in an RS presidency, I knew that we needed to call a woman to teach Relief Society, and I pushed for it even though the other members of the presidency were somewhat hesitant (possibly because the woman in question was Korean-American; this was in the heart of Utah Valley more than a decade ago). After the woman was called to teach, she told us she'd been praying for a calling that would help keep her active. Similarly, when I was YW president and had to call a counselor, I found myself sitting in gospel doctrine one day behind a young couple that had just moved in and knowing that the wife was the person whose name I should give to the branch president.
But for me those experiences, beautiful as they are, are the exception rather than the rule. I've been involved in far more calling extensions about which I felt nothing in particular, or felt that they were simply "fine" or "acceptable," not "imperative" or "the personal will of God that must immediately be enacted in the sixth ward." This calling certainly falls in the first category; I studied it out in my own mind, the powers that be in my ward acquiesced. No irrefutable burning in the bosom has followed, and frankly, I think it would be a bit ungrateful and demanding of me to expect one.
On the one hand, I love it that as Mormons and Christians we reject what Weber called the disenchantment of the world. But on the other hand, the thoroughgoing enchantment of the world we Mormons and Christians sometimes assume simply trivializes God and paralyzes us with the expectation of superhuman intervention in even our minutest affairs. Some callings are inspired, many others are simply acceptable, and some few–I myself have accepted one or two–are downright disastrous. But if we insist on speaking of all callings as if they enacted the personal will of God on earth, we lay an almost unbearable burden of significance on our own inevitably human decisions. To ask to be released as the ladies' restroom toilet-paper straightener then becomes an affront to deity.
Personally, it would be a great help to me if bishoprics and stake presidencies could get past the church-talk (saying, "We feel inspired to call you to…" regardless of the actual decision-making specifics) and be a little more candid about the degree of inspiration under which they're operating. If the bishop or stake president genuinely feels that God very much wants me to do X, well, hey, I definitely need to know that. But if they're just desperate to fill a slot and think I might be willing, or if the call is based on some sort of demographic calculus (infertile woman with inactive husband will represent diversity in this presidency/on this committee), I very much need to know that as well.
- 8 September 2008
27 Responses to "The Inspired Call: Overstating the Case?"
Our Bishop actually did that at a baptism this last Sunday. He explained to the woman being baptized that usually he sees a need and tries to get someone to fill that need. He recommended that she (because she is moving) go to her Bishop in her new ward and ask for a calling so that he can focus on her and not just on current needs. He never claimed callings were uninspired, but admitted what I've always assumed everyone knows: lots of callings are extended simply because there's a primary class that needs to be taught or a piano that needs to be played.
(I should add that I can't ever recall having been told that the bishopric member felt inspired to call me to something. Which isn't to say that he has or hasn't–just that the formulation "I've been inspired . . ." isn't, fortunately, a universal one. I agree in general with what you say, though.)
I think the term "inspired" is vague enough that it can be correctly used to describe plenty of situations with varying degrees of *divine* origins. In other settings, we are perfectly comfortable using the word "inspired" without implying God's intervention.
For example, on a rare occation, I might feel *inspired* to, say, clean the garage. I'm not claiming that "God told me to clean it," just that based on my own analysis, I believe it's best for me, my family, my garage, my car, my sanity, and my bicycles that I clean the garage.
or an architect might be inspired by existing buildings, or an artist's painting might be inspired by earlier artists paintings… or a poem might be inspired by a tree or something, etc. Plenty of things can be the source of "inspiration." It's only at church that we assume "inspired" means "inspired by God."
I use a secular understanding of the word "inspired" at church and everything seems to make a lot more sense to me.
I would beg to differ a little. Not all inspiration needs to come with burnings in the bosom, glorious senses of urgency or lightning strikes of unusual insight. Sometimes God gets our attention that way, and sometimes he gets our attention by just encouraging someone to come up and explain how things are. And then it all makes sense and seems right, because we now have the information that was missing.
The member of the bishopric that said he was inspired may or may not have been parroting a phrase that he thought he was supposed to use, I don't know. But I have had plenty of experiences where, after being informed by someone else about what I needed to know but didn't know before, the solution to a need became clear and reasonable and felt right. Mind and heart knew without any big strikes of heavenly input or amazing choirs singing in my head.
While I appreciate amazing inspirations, I also feel like it is very important that I recognize the more mundane ones. They may not be quite as spectacular, but I have had enough experience with the Holy Ghost to have to say that it is definitely involved in those too.
I'm glad you spoke to your friend/RS president. I really appreciate it when my sisters tell me what they are thinking and the pieces of a puzzle come together with a gentle touch of the Spirit.
Whether or not she and your bishopric member were going that route, I don't know. Some people do not listen to the Spirit when they try to administer the gospel. But knowing that they may well have, though in a less amazing way, it would be a shame to discount it unnecessarily.
You are right that we sometimes get the notion that every inspiration, in order to be real, needs to be urgent, specific to one's personal destiny, life-changing, and the one and only true inspiration on the face of the earth. But that is our own fault for telling too many such stories. Most heavenly inspiration, in my experience, is less urgent and more flexibly lovely. Really, quite delightful.
Eve, have you ever considered that, in this case, YOU were the one who received the inspiration to make your desires known? If that is correct, the calling certainly was inspired.
Mary B, I had typed a long comment that said essentially what you said, but felt "inspired" to delete it. I had no idea why until I read your comment. Yours said it much better than mine, and mine would have been completely redundant.
There are very mundane things that are inspired. Too often, we just don't recognize them because of their simplicity.
A bishop or a stake president should be inspired or moved by the spirit in all things to do with the church. If not he should get his house in order or step down from the position.
Henry B. Erying, Conference 2002:
And so, to everyone, man or woman, girl or boy, who has been called or who will yet be, I give you my counsel. There are a few things you must come to know are true. I will try to put them in words. Only the Lord through the Holy Ghost can put them deep in your heart. Here they are:
First, you are called of God. The Lord knows you. He knows whom He would have serve in every position in His Church. He chose you…..The person who was inspired to recommend you for this call didn't do it because they liked you or because they needed someone to do a particular task. They prayed and felt an answer that you were the one to be called.
The person who called you did not issue the call simply because he learned by interviewing you that you were worthy and willing to serve. He prayed to know the Lord's will for you. It was prayer and revelation to those authorized of the Lord which brought you here. Your call is an example of a source of power unique to the Lord's Church. Men and women are called of God by prophecy and by the laying on of hands by those God has authorized.
Mundane things can be inspired, but when I was called as librarian it was presented apologetically as if we need someone to fill the slot and well, you need a calling. Actually I enjoy the calling but the approach was a let down.
Thank you for posting this topic; it is something I have wondered about.
"A bishop or a stake president should be inspired or moved by the spirit in all things to do with the church. If not he should get his house in order or step down from the position."
Hand #7, aren't you pushing the Lord a bit much on that one? Do you really think it's necessary for God to be involved in calling every hymn-book coordinator? The Spirit bloweth where it listeth, and all that.
As for me, I am often just as (flattered?) honored to know that the ward needs my help and I am deemed responsible and capable enough to be able to provide it, even if the hand of God was not involved.
I'm not in a position to know whether a call is deeply inspired by God or not. So, I give the Priesthood Leader the benefit of the doubt, and I don't worry about it. His job is to make callings based on his judgment plus what ever inspiration he has received. My job is to fulfill the calling. I let him do his job, and he lets me do my job. He will be accountable to the Lord for his actions, and I will be accountable for mine.
I agree with Eve in the OP.
My wife needs an adjustment in her calling, which is really two. That was ok in the summer, but now she's in school full-time plus working part-time, and she can do one or the other or not both (or she needs an assistant or something). I often see the bishop on the train, and I mentioned this situation to him. His response was that she should discuss it with the Primary President. His approach is to let the presidents govern theri own organizations, and he generally follows their recommendations.
I frankly told him that I thought that was a terrific approach, and that were I in his position I think I would do something similar. And this approach has the virtue of really making the Primary and YW and RS Presidents responsible in a more significant way for the success of their own programs.
My husband is the EQP and admits to not being inspired when he issues callings. I think it's honest, he just says, "I needed someone to fill this calling, and I think you're a good fit."
Thanks for all the comments!
Sam B., I really like your bishop's suggestion–that by taking the initiative the woman can shift the focus from the need to fill slots to her particular situation, what she has to offer, where she might need to be at this point in her life. A great idea.
SingleSpeed, Mary B, and Ray all essentially (if I'm reading you correctly, and if not, please don't hesitate to correct me) propose a broadening of the term "inspiration" to include such processes as rational analysis of a situation and the arrival at a solution–the garage is a mess, it's time to clean it, or given her current circumstances the enrichment committee does indeed seem an appropriate place for Eve. I'm not completely averse to this broadening, and indeed, I think it can allow a more realistic and a more subtle view of God's intervention and presence in our daily lives. There's much to recommend this kind of divinely attuned awareness–not least of all, scriptures such as D&C 59:21.
On the other hand, this broadening of the term inspiration isn't without its risks, chief among them the confusion of our own thoughts and feelings with communication from God. Clearly neither every emotion nor the outcome of every reasoning process is divinely sanctioned; the counterexamples range from the trivial (I have an old friend who's obsessive about money and who tends to think that every markdown on chew toys in the check-out line is an answer to her prayers) to the chilling (the Lafferty brothers). We've all known earnest, well-meaning, in some cases mentally ill people who inappropriately claim revelation based on such confusions, and sometimes they do immense harm, as when a woman informs a neighbor whose child has just been killed in an accident that her loss is God's rebuke for choosing to work outside the home. That kind of horror story should give all religious people pause, I think.
AE HandofGod, I'm with BinV and jessawhy on that one. It seems way too much to put on a bishop, SP, EQP, RS president–on any human being–to demand that their every decision about every aspect of their organization be inspired. There was only one perfect human being, and all of that. The rest of us are just muddling along the best we know how.
ed, I don't know. In some cases that's certainly true, but again, I think it's an awful lot to expect of a human being that his every call be inspired. Clearly in some cases there is inspiration, but I've now seen enough disastrous counterexamples in my own life to subscribe to the idea that calls are always inspired.
Howard, thanks for bringing up an angle I hadn't considered in my original post. It certainly is much more inspiring to be called of God than to be told that the ward needs an X and you need a calling, ergo, you're the new X. I can definitely see how that kind of call would feel like a let-down.
Allen, there's much to recommend your approach, and I think for me it works–to a certain extent. However, I have been extended callings that turned out to be complete disasters for me, causing me months of misery, derailing my relationships with God and the church, and driving me into desperate demands to be released and periods of inactivity. Those experiences have made me want much more candid up-front assessments of the degree of inspiration involved in the callings I'm extended. For minor callings I'm fairly confident I can handle (hymnbook coordinator, committee member, toilet-paper straightener) I certainly don't need the reassurance that the calling is God's imperative for me at this time, or anything on that scale. But for a major calling that is going to be time-consuming and emotionally and spiritually demanding, particularly one involving administration–at which I decidedly do not excel–I really do need to know it's the will of God. If my call was just the outcome of a slot-fitting exercise, or a demographic analysis, well then, I'm unlikely to accept in the first place, knowing now from experience the effect it's likely to have on my spiritual well-being.
Kevin, that sounds like an excellent approach to me!
I remember feeling, the first time I served in a presidency (which was not until I was 34 years old – I was active, just not used a whole lot – with no complaints from me) that the process of making callings was not so much inspired as "organized" – and I was a little disappointed.
Now that I have served for over 25 years in administrative callings, I know that it's a mix of all the above situations and suggestions.
But often in retrospect I can see the inspiration – it just wasn't identified as such at the beginning.
For example, I am Stake R.S. President. I wasn't real keen on the calling but accepted it – I always do – and then felt impressed to ask for guidance in choosing counselors. A member of the stake presidency replied with the name of a sister I hardly knew when I said I wanted a single sister in the presidency.
She has been the most wonderful counselor and I have grown to love and appreciate her. And she has been able to bring the single sisters to the forefront and it has strengthened our small stake. And she has lifted many burdens from my shoulders that had worried me when the call was extended.
My husband then suggested that I call a younger woman who could be trained to be a ward R.S.President – so I did. And she was great -and a year later she was called to be a ward R.S. President and she's doing a great job.
I guess if I keep working long enough, I will figure it all out.
Part of the reason the Lord put us here is to think and learn for ourselves. If we are told what to do in all things, we are being led by the nose, never growing or maturing.
I think some callings are directly inspired. I think that others are plug-the-hole callings and it is up to us and those who call us to make them inspired by our actions.
When the Lord gave the authority to "bind on earth". etc., I think he trusted us to do our best, much like we do when we give our kids the key to the car. When I had to choose a secretary in a stake calling no names to mind as much as I prayed about it. FInally I asked a friend in another ward if there was anybody in his ward that liked to work with youth, but presently had no calling. He gave me a name of a mostly inactive man. I got no positive or negative feeling about it, gave the name to the SP and the man was called. He magnified his calling to such an extent that some people came to me and asked whatever inspired me to call the man. I just smiled and the said the Lord works in mysterious ways. And it is still a mystery to me, sometimes.
you wrote:
"On the other hand, this broadening of the term inspiration isn't without its risks, chief among them the confusion of our own thoughts and feelings with communication from God. Clearly neither every emotion nor the outcome of every reasoning process is divinely sanctioned;"
Precisely true. I, like many others, would like for my discernment of the Spirit to be more accurate than it is. Nevertheless, as the years go by, with much practice, trying it to see what happens, and loving listening, it does get easier to recognize it. And God is patient with the times I get it wrong; more patient than I am.
I take comfort in Paul's words that we see through a glass darkly. If it was challenging for him I can expect it to be challenging for me to be able to clearly recognize spiritual promptings and directions every time in all their varied forms and sort them out from among my self-generated thoughts and emotions. And it requires more leaps of faith as I test what I think I've received and more forgiveness of self when I find that I've confused the message.
It's harder this way, but it also requires more thoughtful reflection on each successive encounter with divine inspiration as I become more familiar with it. And I think that makes me learn more from it.
And it does get easier, over the decades, to recognize the real thing, though I've still got a loooooong way to go and I still need to learn to trust it more.
Thanks for an interesting, post, Eve.
ed (#8), thanks from the quote from Elder Eyring. I don't know, but that sounds pretty far out to me. He really knows that not only have all callings at all levels of the Church been inspired, but all future callings will be too? Does this include the calling of markawhy (jessawhy's EQP husband) who freely admits to making uninspired callings? I'm completely with Eve on this one–to claim that all callings are inspired requires that we loosen the definition of inspiration until it's effectively meaningless.
But Elder Eyring's quote nicely illustrates what may have motivated Eve's bishopric member to correct himself: the worry that if members know how often we're called primarily based on something other than inspiration, we'll be less likely to take our callings seriously.
This is a complete tangent, but I wonder if shrouding the level of inspiration in local callings in order to preserve the illusion of equal inspiration equally dispensed is related to vagueness at the general level about what constitutes revelation.
Okay, that's probably too strong. I guess a better statement is that the one reminds me of the other. The vagueness of what gets to be called revelation came up, for example, in the first few comments on Kevin Barney's Most Challenging Mormon Issues post on BCC a while back. Official Declaration 2 was based on a revelation. We're clear about that. But since then, what is? The decision to build smaller temples? The Proclamation on the Family? The Perpetual Education Fund? The (I'm sure forthcoming) decision to reduce the 3 hour block to 2 hours?
Anyway, as I said, just a tangential connection.
A bishop or a stake president should be inspired or moved by the spirit in all things to do with the church. If not he should get his house in order or step down from the position.
If a bishop asked to be released on the grounds that he did not feel he was receiving inspiration for every single calling he issued, he would be laughed out of the stake president's office. OK, not really, but he would be told to get over it and get back to work.
As a current bishopric member I wrote a guest post about this exact thing over at VSOM. The key paragraph in that post is the last:
Now, there are two forces at work here, 1) God determining who would best fill a need and 2) the bishopric determining who would best fill a need. It's nice to believe God called you because you can be assured that there is a profound reason behind it. I'll let you in on a little secret, when the bishopric calls you out of desperation, there's also a profound reason behind it, and it's usually probably the same as Gods: there are people who need to be served.
It seems that most of our discussions about callings focus on us. If we were to shift that focus to the actual purpose of the callings (the service we render) then I'm not so sure we'd get as hung up on whether or not they were "inspired" or not. Ultimately, it's all the same to God as long as we're serving others.
It seems that most of our discussions about callings focus on us. If we were to shift that focus to the actual purpose of the callings (the service we render) then I'm not so sure we'd get as hung up on whether or not they were "inspired" or not.
I would have to agree here. I would say a many times callings are "confirmed" by the Lord, not necessarily "inspired" by the Lord. If there isn't a reason why one couldn't do something, why would the Lord, or anyone else, have a problem with it.
Perhaps we should accept that both things could be true: you could have asked for this calling, AND your bishopric could have felt inspired to extend that calling to you. Even if the RS president brought them the name, we need not discount the inspiration that they felt in actually agreeing and extending the calling.
That said, I would appreciate candor in some callings–occasionally callings can be exactly the wrong thing for our lives, yet we accept because they were "inspired." It would be better to know that they just need a warm body, so I can decline the calling that would drive me nuts.
I was once in a branch where I was given no callings for 7 months (!) and was going crazy, so I dropped some heavy hints about needing something to do. The next week, I was called in and given an "inspired" calling–I was literally told the Lord wanted me to teach youth Sunday School–I accepted, and then I was asked my name. Maybe the inspiration was visual?
I know a man who was newly called as a bishop and was determined to get strong spiritual confirmation for every decision he made in connection with the ward. He would go to the temple and meditate in the celestial room over every calling, and spend hours alone in the bishop's office praying. After about three weeks, he decided it was about the stupidest idea he everr had.
I also think we need to revise our definition of what inspired means. I think the entire process of a lay ministry is a stroke of inspired genius. And I think that occasionally, our leaders do receive very strong promptings, but they are often unexpected and not the result of prolonged fasting and prayer. And I also think this post was inspired.
then I'm not so sure we'd get as hung up on whether or not they were "inspired" or not.
As rank and file members of the church, I feel it our right to get hung up on whether a calling is inspired or not, or even what the source of the inspiration was.
I'd like to give an instance to illustrate the point.
I was extended a calling by a member of the stake presidency to be the stake computer specialist. After he extended the call, I declined on the spot. He was taken back and then emphasized to me that the stake presidency was "inspired" to extend the calling to me. I informed him that I was moving out of the stake in less than a weeks time. Our discussion quickly ended.
Often, as members of the church, our well meaning leadership are all too willing to play the "inspiration" card when there either wasn't any to begin with, or their source of inspiration came from somewhere other than the spirit. The rank and file, especially those raised in the church, are conditioned to always say yes, even if by doing so it would be the wrong thing to do. And when declining a calling, the leadership tends to pull out the "inspriation card" and beat us on the head with it.
If you're going to use revelation or inspiration as a motive for offering a call, it better well be real. I grow tired of dishonest leadership who use "inspiration" to justify their spiritual lazyness. If it's desparation, then say so. Just don't lie to me.
Interesting points. Just to chime in as someone who does callings:
1. I like to tell people the process we went through in issuing the calling. Usually it's something like, 'We had a need, and we thought about you because you seem to have the skills needed for this calling. As we thought about it and prayed about it, we felt like this was a good calling for you at this time.' Or 'The RS president mentioned you as someone who could do this, and after thinking about it and praying about it…' In other words, there's no harm in telling what 'inpiration' really means, and if it is something more significant, then by all means say so. But don't pretend the magnets on the bishop's wall get moved around like a Ouija board.
2. This is from the Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting: Building Up a Righteous Posterity:
Sister Tanner
I appreciate priesthood leaders who look at family situations before they make calls. I know calls are inspired, but they also require wisdom and judgment on the part of priesthood leaders.
So there's a sort of 'chicken inspiration' from the HQ.
Just started reading this blog site. A lot of open dialog here something my ward lacks. Is it even remotely possible for a bishop to be inspired in all 1-2 hundred callings they extend in a year? I think sometimes we expect so much from our leaders that we get let down. We are as inspired in our own lives as most bishops are in their role as ward leaders. We should listen to the spirit ourselves isn't that why we were given the Holy Ghost? I have taken positions that I did not want but the spirit was there to help me feel comfortable. The times I accepted without that comfort I did a very poor job and nobody benefited. I really think the ward and I benefit more from open dialog with no whining of course. The great thing most bishops get better with this as time goes by. Once they realize it is the lords church and not theirs they grow into their own position just like the rest of us.


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"The Hero's Journey" is a pretty standard narrative structure. It is also known as the monomyth or the underlining, cross-cultural structure of how we tell certain stories. There's a lot about Joseph Campbell that is grossly overblown but it is an incredibly helpful model for understanding stories and why we tell them. When it comes to mythology of this nature, we think of the grand epic poems like The Iliad and The Odyssey or The Wizard Of Oz or Star Wars. We don't really think of porn as ever stepping into the territory of mythology despite the fact that sex is fucking epic and we inextricable to the human and personal saga.
There was a time when The Training Of O was a hardcore, XXX, BDSM manifestation of the hero's journey. Given that it's about BDSM and leather sex, we'll call it the slave's journey because in this instance it plays out to similar ends. A lot of great work has been done on the website and I am not alleging that this is a list of "the best" TTOO shoots. I have no idea what "the best" would be. I would say that out of what I've viewed, these would be the shoots that best exemplified the hero's journey and took on an ethereal quality where it was evident you were watching something different than your average porn.
In contrast, I would say that content currently being produced on TTOO under a new director is something more a "Slut Soldier's Bootcamp." It's infinitely less Jungian and much more military in nature. Thing of it is, even during Mogul's tenure the creative winds changed direction and that alone indicates a kind of intellectual and artistic merit. If it were just 4 days of a chick being beaten and fucked, it would look and feel exactly the same ESPECIALLY under the same director. Even someone without film training can pick up on the changing flow of production. In the case of TTOO, members debate to varying degrees of civility the evolution of the website and its evolution over time and leadership.
What is the slave's journey and how is it composed?
1. Setting as character
The above shots are from Julie Night's 4 Day Training Of O. The shoot opens with Julie in street clothes on Mission in front of the imposing Armory. Kink.Com has not always been housed in the former House of War. In fact, TTOO came about as Kink was in the process of acquiring the Armory. Bobbi Starr, now a director at Kink.Com, was the first slave to be trained and her shoot is the pilot of the series. You can see all of the power and potential of the shoot to come but in retrospect it is missing a member of the training staff: the armory itself.
In a "hero's journey" the setting is vital to the story. We have to establish that the protagonist has exited the ordinary world and has gone somewhere new where the rules don't follow a familiar logic. Alice must go to Wonderland for her coming of age and Dorothy travels to the Oz. The setting is full of strange characters who may be friends, enemies, or an ambivalent mix of the two but moreover the setting itself somehow breathes with its own energy and intentions. The landscape of the journey is a teacher just as much as its occupants. It is a reminder that who we are is highly contingent upon our context.
The start of this training really nails the departure from the "ordinary world." Julie Night, a seemingly ordinary girl, walks up to the giant building and almost like magic the massive door rolls open. The exterior is bright and brilliant, the interior is dark and dank. Waiting just on the inside is our host, James Mogul, wearing all black and waiting for her on the other side of the threshold. Even though it's just a dramatic establishing shot, it communicates a lot. We get to see Julie Night take in the darkness in front of her, accept it, and cross into it. Watching the door roll down slowly to seal her inside the belly of the beast with James as a guide makes the scene intense from the get-go. We know we've left the ordinary world and we're following her as she goes to the underworld.
When you're looking at 5 days in the Armory-the first two dedicated to active training, a break, and then the last two for second half of the training-and full days of diving deep into some crazy ass BDSM, you've moved into total consciousness altering territory. People pay thousands upon thousands of dollars to have this kind of experience at spiritual retreats, martial arts training, etc. When you're holding the space that way for 5 days, you aren't just two models. You are forging a mutual reality and little by little the cultural programming you came from starts to feel like a memory and you are endowed with new logic and reason. It's behavior modification. The hero's journey is something we not only use to frame stories, it's how we frame our own life experiences and we often seek out opportunities to shatter our egos in search of a greater personal truth and relationship to the world.
Claustrophobia is the the focus of the training and because of some interesting editing and shot composition, what James does in the immediacy of the scene's actions is flattered by the way the space of the armory is interacting with her as well. We make our own monsters and both James and The Armory are like chameleons of fear always changing their color to match the interior of her phobia.
The wooden box is now a cliche on the Kink.Com website but in this early manifestation it is endowed with incredible power. At first, it is the box of the armory with the one cutaway entrance and the rolling gate. Then it is the the claustrophobic dark boxy boiler room and the one spotlight directed on her face. A box over her head with a window. Perception and framing are visual motifs as well as tangible manifestations of fear. It's not just the Mogul is putting her in boxes, the rooms are boxing her in and so is the camera–so is our gaze.
2. Mogul as a trickster guide.
James Mogul is definitely the dominant in the situation but he has a kind of humility the re-positions not only his place in the hierarchy but the whole hierarchy itself. He's in charge of the scene in front of us but he's a part of something bigger himself. Sometimes he is the sadistic psychologist, other times like an orderly who has read over an asylum inmate's case notes, or perhaps a conductor in an orchestra of pain. His personal kick is a devoted slave who will suffer beautifully for him. Whatever his kick might be, he's quite bound to something. "We all answer to someone…" Desire humbles us all. It's one of those physical reactions we have no power over experiencing. Whether or not we can act on a desire reveals our privilege but feeling that wave of desire wash over you is reminder that your ego is not always in the driver's seat. Human nature is bigger than our conscious mind can handle.
The TTOO has these moments where the slave is bound, beaten, and being fucked and still manages to push one of his buttons with her eyes, tone of voice, or understanding of what is transpiring between them and you can see his cock get hard in his pants. There are times when his face takes on an appreciative smile or he whispers something to her that is beyond our earshot. The 4th wall of porn is momentarily and deliberately shut down because he was not addressing us, the audience. He was speaking just to her.
3. Descent Into The Underworld, The Slave's Journey
The TTOO is introduced with glass shattering. The shattering of the ego and the slave identity that is built up can be seen in stages that really reflect the monomyth. There is a rapid crossover from the known world into the unknown world of the Armory and the return to the known world is often signified with a return of "normal" privileges. The model will often be dressed in lingerie or fetish clothing, the scenes are more traditionally sexual in nature, and the confidence of the woman going through the acts is high lighted often by a brighter room that is slightly less stark than it was at the beginning.
The training of Sabrina Fox is a wonderful depiction of this. Much like Julie Night, Fox puts in earnest and good faith effort into transparency and articulation. Julie Night is wildly successful in her phobias and tribulations but Sabrina certainly has her struggles particularly in Day Two. The physical exertion leads to her becoming ill but she recovers and returns to the training. At 28 minutes into the video we can see her come to the edge of a full on panic. With a hood over her head and buckets filled with water over a large bamboo beam, she still steps up onto a block to balance them under incredible stress.
Those instances are almost like the cycle happening in a moment. It's no longer just an ordinary physical act. How often do we balance unstable weight on our shoulders in the darkness? When does it cross the threshold and become endowed with greater meaning? There's a period of time where it is the dealth/rebirth mark. Sabrina sobs into the hood and just a hair away from everything coming to a sudden end, Mogul compels the camera closer and has Sabrina remain in that claustrophobic tomb of a moment before unveiling the hood.
There on the other side, he puts out his hand to catch her tears from the catharsis which is an incredible gesture and one much unlike any seen in later shoots, Mogul or no Mogul. Maybe no one else needed to have their tears held in the hand of their trainer the way that Fox did that day. Either way, he allows for the moment to overwhelm her into a form of transformation before we see her face change and resurface for the next bout of training and the next set of skills to be learned.
The 3rd day is often very intense because it is the halfway mark. This is when pain and protocol are more smoothly integrated into the subject's sexuality rather than being practiced in isolation. (Wax-on, wax-off into a smooth martial arts skill, if you will.) It's also when more warmth and color start to enter the shoot. The model slowly earns more clothing, the settings become a little lighter, and a unique relationship between the trainer and the trainee starts to become forged. The 4th day is about showcasing the prize. It's like the return to more traditional porn, as well, although far from being vanilla.


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HUNTINGTON BEACH, D. Davenport: The New York Times article "Long border, endless struggle" [Focus, March 18] tries to limit the real border-security debate. First, the writer tries to personalize it by citing a single person's viewpoint. Then efforts to control the border are completely dismissed by saying "illegal immigrants scale the wall or walk around it." No statistics are given on how many get over the fences as opposed to how many get around them. Logic tells me that getting around a fence means it isn't long enough. And, if the fence is tall enough, it will substantially limit those who are physically able to get over it.
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The real "endless struggle" involved is the effort to chase illegal immigrants across the desert nightly – a task that would be made far easier if we limited the numbers who are crossing the border in the first place.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Gretel Hines: So, there are too few hands to help farmers ["Farmers could use guest-worker program," Editorial, March 14]? With so much domestic unemployment, would it not seem more logical to use our own unemployed? Furthermore, doing this could ease the unemployment subsidy costs that we taxpayers contribute to. Ah, yes, there may be some who feel overqualified for those lowly jobs – they would rather sit and collect.
College students could use a little extra money, too, since college has become so prohibitively expensive. Working on farms could be a useful and broadening experience for them.
Palin's pot shots
COSTA MESA, Andrew Gallagher: Sarah Palin thought it would be appropriate to take shots at President Barack Obama at the Conservative Political Action Conference with her trademark one-liners, as if that alone would qualify her to be president ["Palin speech promotes Republican insurgents," News, March 17].
If Obama, David Letterman or Bill Maher talked about her the same way she did about Obama, she would have a hissy fit, play the victim, say they are attacking her family and demand an apology.
Protect our police
LAGUNA HILLS, Pete Tomaino: Peace officers should be allowed to draw weapons when making traffic stops at night ["Fullerton officer shot during traffic stop," Local, March 18]. Too many people take for granted that peace officers are constantly putting their lives on the line to protect us.
I admire peace officers. Thank God that they are willing to take the risk to protect our society. I wish all peace officers the best in their endeavors.
Iditarod's ugly underbelly
NORTH TUSTIN, Joe DiStefano: While Cindy Abbott's spirit and sense of adventure is admirable, including unwilling animal participants in her Iditarod race is not ["Irvine woman's great race ends," Front Page, March 15]. Forcing dogs to run 1,150 miles in eight to 16 days over harsh terrain in unforgiving temperatures below zero, with wind, snow and ice, is cruel. According to the Sled Dog Action Coalition, at least 142 dogs have been run to death or have died from other causes in the Iditarod.
Adding to the toll is at least one more victim from this year's race: a dog unable to finish the race died horrifically, asphyxiated after being covered in severe wind-blown snow. Animals should never be abused or exploited for our fun, entertainment or, as often is the case for the Iditarod, personal goals.
Focus on U.S. security
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Dáil Éireann - Volume 507 - 30 June, 1999
Written Answers. - Pension Provisions.
Mr. R. Bruton Mr. R. Bruton
194. Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science if all retired teachers, pensioners and widows on bereavement will be presented with a full statement of their standing and entitlements within the pension scheme. [16883/99]
Mr. Martin Mr. Martin
Minister for Education and Science (Mr. Martin): Superannuation benefits of retired teachers and the dependants of deceased teachers are calculated in accordance with the teachers superannuation schemes. There are no specific rates of pension. Each individual pension is determined not only by reference to the teachers pay at retirement but also by reference to the length of the teachers pensionable service.
Each teacher who retires on pension and each widow-widower who is awarded a pension following the death of a serving teacher or a pensioned teacher, when being awarded pension, is given particulars of the award in writing. Thereafter the payslip, which issues with each pension payment, shows the gross and net monthly pension, deductions for income tax, PRSI and voluntary deductions. In addition, any pensioner who requests additional details on his or her pension [756] is provided with this information either by phone or in writing.
Requests for additional information are few in number. However, following correspondence from the Retired Teachers Association, my Department is now providing teachers who retire from May 1999 with more detailed information regarding the make-up of their pensions. This more detailed information will enable teachers to confirm that their pension has been correctly calculated and to confirm that subsequent increases in the salary and allowances of serving teachers are correctly reflected in the pensions of retired teachers.
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Putting condoms in the hands of high schoolers is not telling them "here, have sex!", but more "If your going to have sex, please be safe." Imagine if your child was a high school student, struggling with the urges and temptations to have sex, but is to embarrassed to go buy a condom, wouldn't you want them to be safe, instead of unprotected? Every day thousands of teens are putting themselves at risk for pregnancies, sexually transmitted disease, and high school drop outs.
Not every teenager is going to have sex. Not every teenager is going to remain abstinent. Whether or not they do is not going to be affected by condoms being available. Because, hey. There are already places that give out free condoms, and even in the face of this, some teenagers have actually made their own decision to not have sex. And stick by said decision. And obviously, if the lack of condom availability stopped teenagers from having sex, there would be a lot less pregnancies, sexually transmitted disease, and teen pregnancies going around. And is there something wrong with sex? No, so long as there is some form of birth control and maturity about it going on. So, if condoms are provided, it increases the likelihood of making smart decisions and not ruining their lives for those who are/ will have sex anyways.
People, including adults want to have sex! Its a simple fact of life. Only if that's true then why not have teens really know everything there is to know? Teaching teens to knot have sex is important, but whats more important is teaching them how to be safe and not get something that they cant get rid of. Be smart and realistic, its going to happen. We need to make it safe for teens now so that they will be safe when they get out of high school so that they can have a good and healthy life.
The schools have sex education, child development, ant parenting. They are practically encouraging us to have sex, so why with all of that would they not encourage SAFE sex? People have sex. It's natural. Plus it might be embarrassing for the kids to ask their parents for contraceptives, so by offering contraceptives you are encouraging safe sex, preventing pregnancy, and most importantly you are preventing STDs
I am currently a 15 year old who lost her virginity at 14. I'm still sexually active with my current partner and we do manage to get condoms, but as a teen its Uncomfortable. Everyone answers are right: Teens ARE having sex. Unfortunately not all of them have the money or capability to obtain contraception. Schools should be helping teens, not scaring them away from a natural part of life.
The taboo of kids have sex too early hasn't stopped them yet. The least we can do is make it easy, and less embarrassing to get the protection they need to prevent disease and teen pregnancy. No matter what your personal view of young people having sex is, they are having it, and they should have easy access to contraception, so it doesn't turn in to an abortion.
Teenagers have legal rights and should be able to make decisions about what happens to their body. The medical, mental and physical risks of adolescent pregnancy and childbirth cannot be discounted and if teenagers aren't getting sexual health services anywhere else then offering them at school is the only logical option.
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Whether we like it or not, teens are going to have sex. You can teach them all about contraception and abstinence but that doesn't always mean something to them. If you have contraception in schools they will have easy access to something they actually need. If teens are able to access contraception easily they are less likely to get STDs and pregnant.
Young males don't think with their top head and teen girls don't know how to close their legs. When it comes to having sex at a young age consequences don't matter to them. No matter how many talks they have listened to they are going to have sex anyway. Best way to prevent them from having children and getting any disease is by giving them the right tools.
Because it will help teens not get pregnant and its a smart idea to have it in the school. Helps them not get STD's and get all gross and help them not ruin their lives and who wants a kid that young? NOT ME! So yeah have it in the schools!
It should not be available at the school but it should be taught about. We need to teach about safe sex because we are having problems with younger and younger kids being involved in those activities. We need to educate them on the risks and how to prevent unwanted problems as a result.
Personally, am a 16 year old female but still a virgin. Its all about having self control and still don't want to lose my precious virginity to some jerk.
From a teenagers point of view, placing a condom in a teenager's hand, is like giving a child a mug of sugar and expecting it wont eat it.
I would think that many parents would want to know what their child is bringing home from school. They are their parents for a reason, they've been making choices for their children since day one, mostly because parents feel it's in the best interest of the child! I know if I had a child that came home from school with ANY form of contraceptive/birth control/condoms someone would be getting a phone call and it's possible I would take my child to a different school district!


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Charles Vance and his daughter Jackie, a Queen's Guide, in 1976
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Sunday, January 20, 2013
FAMILY of theatre impresario Charles Vance say they have been moved by the response to news of his death, and told the Herald: "He touched more lives than we ever realised."
Loved-ones of "larger than life" Charles, 83, who died peacefully in his sleep in hospital on Sunday night following a chest infection, have received tributes from across the country.
His daughter Jackie described the support as "overwhelming".
"I've never known such a response," she said. "One person said it's the end of an era."
She has been told of how her "unique and debonair" father started the careers of people that she didn't even know - and always kept his promises.
"He was a larger than life character, a loveable rogue," said Jackie.
Charles was best known in Sidmouth for his repertory company, which is one of the last in the country and entertained audiences in the Manor Pavilion.
Last week, his wife Imogen, the company's artistic director, said their Summer Play Festival would be leaving the theatre after 26 years.
Imogen said her husband was impossible to sum up, but he will be remembered as being a lot of fun.
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Imogen added that they always had every faith in their Summer Play Festival at the Manor Pavilion, and were surprised that it ended.
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They lived for a time in Farway, and Imogen said they always enjoyed coming into Sidmouth, so she is keen to return to Devon's countryside.
Tricia Barclay, one of the co-producers of the Summer Play Festival, said: "Every theatre you go to you can mention his name and people will have met him or worked with him."
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Party Recap
My nephew love's action movies and his parents asked me if I could create an all Super heroes party. They made the background for me whilst I did the rest of the detailing at the party. From using his own personal items like the cartoon drawing, buying cheap comic books from the op shop to baking the desserts.
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