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It is man who has given rise to human civilizations - and all because of one small matter: he lacks one chromosome. Woman has not developed civilizations because her personality is complete; there is no chromosome lacking. Such a small phenomenon can cause such an enormous difference in personality! I am pointing this out because this is just a biological occurrence, because one can biologically see how such a little difference gives birth to personalities so different in character. But there are other, more profound inner differences as well.
The child born out of the union of a man and a woman shows how deeply they are in love with each other, how much spirituality exists between them, and with how much purity and prayerfulness they have come together. On this depends how superior, how great the soul is which is attracted toward them, how great the divine consciousness is which makes that body its place of residence. The human race is becoming increasingly miserable and unhappy. Deep down, the distortion of the marital relationship is the cause. Until we have redefined the meaning of marital life and brought it to a healthy state; until we have refined it, spiritualized it, we cannot improve the future of mankind.
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EL PASO - Kevin Huckabee says he feels as if his son's constitutional rights have been violated, this week he is filing documents with the Mexican government in order to try and restore those rights.
Shohn Huckabee and his employee Carlos Quijas were imprisoned for allegedly carrying over 100 pounds of marijuana in their vehicle December 2009.
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Relational dialectics is a concept within communication theory. This concept could be interpreted as "a knot of contradictions in personal relationships or an unceasing interplay between contrary or opposing tendencies."[1] The theory, first proposed respectively by Leslie Baxter[2] and W. K. Rawlins[3][4] in 1988, defines communication patterns between relationship partners as the result of endemic dialectical tensions. In their description of Relational Dialectics, Leslie A. Baxter and Barbara M. Montgomery simplify the concept by posing "opposites attract", but "birds of a feather flock together". Also, "Two's company; three's a crowd" but "the more the merrier." These contradictions experienced within common folk proverbs are similar to those we experience within our relationships as individuals.[5] When making decisions, we give voice to multiple viewpoints and desires that often contradict each other.[6]
The Relational Dialectic is an elaboration on Mikhail Bakhtin's idea that life is an open monologue and humans experience collisions between opposing desires and needs within relational communications.[7] Baxter includes a list of Dialectical Tensions that reminds us that relationships are constantly changing, and that successful and satisfying relationships require constant attention. Although Baxter's description of Relational Dialectics is thorough, it by no means is exact or all inclusive since we all experience different tensions in different ways.
Relational Dialectics is the emotional and value-based version of the philosophical Dialectic. It is rooted in the dynamism of the Yin and Yang. Like the classic Yin and Yang, the balance of emotional values in a relationship is always in motion, and any value pushed to its extreme contains the seed of its opposite.[8]
In the Western world, these ideas hark back to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who held that the world was in constant flux (like fire), with creative and destructive forces on both sides of every process. Mikhail Bakhtin applied Marxist dialectic to literary and rhetorical theory and criticism. He illustrated the tensions that exists in the deep structure of all human experience.[9] For example, he identified that the tension that exists between unity and difference. Bakhtin conceived the human dialectic as two forces analogous to the physical forces centripetal (emotional forces tending towards unity) and centrifugal (emotional forces tending towards divergence). Like the Yin and Yang, Bakhtin's forces have no ultimate resolution.[9]
Baxter took the deep structural analysis of Bakhtin and applied it to communication theory. She found a T-Bangha of axes where this dynamic tension operated.[8] Later authors have added other axes.[10]
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There are four main concepts that form the backdrop of relational dialectics, they are: contradiction, totality, process, and praxis.
Contradictions are the core concept of Relational Dialectics. It is the dynamic interplay between unified oppositions. A contradiction is formed "whenever two tendencies or forces are interdependent (unity) yet mutually negate one another (negation)".[11] For example, in a relationship one can simultaneously desire intimacy and distance.
Totality suggests that contradictions in a relationship are part of a unified whole and cannot be understood in isolation. In other words, the dialectics cannot be separated and are intrinsically related to each other. For example, the tension between dependence and interdependence cannot be separated from the tension between openness and privacy — both work to condition and define the other.
Process Relational dialectics must be understood in terms of social processes. Movement, activity, and change are functional properties (Rawlins,1989). For example, instances such as an individual fluctuating between disclosure and secretiveness. In addition, the individual may move between periods of honest and open communication (Miller, 2002, 2005).
Praxis is a philosophical term for the concept of 'practical behavior' or sometimes 'the experience of practicing'. In praxis the dialectic tensions are created and re-created through the active participation and interaction. In other words, the practical experience of having a relationship exposes one to the imposition of the needs and value of another. As the relationship endures ones own needs and values become apparent. Praxis focuses on the practical choices individuals make in the midst of the opposing needs and values (dialectical tensions). In turn, the choices and actions themselves create, re-create, and change the nature of the relationship and hence the dialectical tensions themselves.
Research has recommended theories which further dialectical understanding in relationships, such as in the marriage, in the workplace, etc.
According to the original relational dialectic model, there were many core tensions (opposing values) in any relationship.[6] These were:
Autonomy and connectedness: The desire to have ties and connections with others versus the need to separate yourself as a unique individual.
- Example: As an athlete, wanting to feel a part of a team but also wanting to highlight your individual talents.
Favoritism and impartiality: The desire to be treated fairly and impartially versus the desire to be seen and known as "special".
- Example: As a professor, creating an attendance policy but making exceptions for students who participate in class and have good grades.
Openness and closedness: The desire to be open and divulge information versus the desire to be exclusive and private.
- Example: Chatting with your boss about your weekend, but being sure to leave out certain details.
Novelty and predictability: desire for the relationship to be predictable versus the desire for it to be original and new.
- Example: Relying on a fixed schedule for board meetings, but needing variations in the meeting itinerary to keep you interested and inspired.
Instrumentality and affection: The desire for affection to be genuine versus the desire for affection to be motivated by benefits and perceived advantages of the relationship.
- Example: Being in a romantic relationship based on love and affection, but maintaining it for benefits such as financial security.
Equality and inequality: The desire to be considered as equals versus the desire to develop levels of superiority.
- Example: As a female in the military, wanting treatment equivalent to that received by their male coworkers, but requiring special barracks and adjusted assignments[6]
According to the theory, while most of us may embrace the ideals of closedness, certainty, and openness in our relationships, the communication is not a straight path towards these goals. Conflicts often produce the exact opposites.[9]
|Internal dialect (within the relationship)
|External dialect (between couple and community)
The table above shows typical dialectical tensions experienced by relational partners based on research done by Baxter and Montgomery showing contrasting efforts in two different ways. The column that displays examples of Internal Dialect shows "ongoing tensions played out within a relationship".[9] The column that displays examples of External Dialect shows "ongoing tensions between a couple and their community".[9]
Integration–separation is "a class of relational dialectics that includes connection–autonomy, inclusion–seclusion, and intimacy–independence."[9] Some individual autonomy must be given up to connect to others.
Stability–change is "a class of relational dialectics that includes certainty–uncertainty, conventionally–uniqueness, predictability–surprise, and routine–novelty."[9] Things must be consistent but not mundane. There must be a balance between the expected and unexpected in order to keep a relationship.
Expression–nonexpression is "a class of relational dialectics that includes openness–closedness, revelation–concealment, candor–secrecy, and transparency–privacy".[9] In a relationship, it is important to keep some things between the two parties, while other parts of the relationship are okay to allow the public to know about.
Dialectics in relationships[edit]
Extensive research has been done regarding the role dialectical tensions play in relationships. Through studies of romantic relationships, long distance relationships, and friendships, researchers have observed the existence and frequency of certain dialectical tensions within various types of relationships.
Romantic relationships
A study of 25 heterosexual married couples was designed to determine what types of dialectical tensions were most prevalent in antagonistic conflicts between spouses. Larry Erbert found that the Openness v. Closedness dialectic was most commonly referenced through examples by participants[12] Research conducted by Baxter and Montgomery confirmed this finding, and broke the dialectic down into four subcategories to further analyze its existence in romantic relationships.
- Openness with: Refers to an individual's self-disclosure of information to another. In this idea, three types of information are shared: information deemed to be personal, the individuals feelings or personal opinions, and information regarding one individual's relationship with the other.
- Openness To: Often this form of Openness is labeled as being attentive or responsive. People respond in cognitive, affective, and behavioral ways.
- Closedness with: Describes the type of nondisclosive talk that occurs between individuals. It is most often identified as "small talk", being primarily superficial. The talk is oriented around conversation that requires little or no self-disclosure, allowing for a controlled level informational privacy.
- Closedness to: Some people experience stress and discomfort when listening to others' problems. In response to this, some individuals attempt to distance themselves in order to discourage others from confiding in them.[8]
This refers to the independence one needs or wants from the romantic other, on the contrary also, how dependent the romantic partners are to one another. For example; a couple has been together for an extended period of time and one partner feels the need to distance themselves for a while, the other partner experiences need or dependency, therefore creating tension. There needs to be a clear decision on the amount of connection within a romantic relationship for it to work. Time and activity segmentation are both connected to autonomy–connection by different uses of balanced tension. Exclusive selection and reframing are also important to a healthy romantic relationship. All the following aspects are critical to ensure the needed attention to both individuals.
This occurs when autonomy and connection are in balance and both individuals operate with an understanding of the boundaries of the other. Both are comfortable with the space the other is giving or taking and not only agree with each other but are happy and find the status of the relationship enjoyable. This also allows for change within the relationship, giving up something to benefit the other spouse or partner.
'Time segmentation'
This is the balance of time during everyday life in accordance with your romantic partner. How much time is spent together and how much alone. It also deals with setting aside time for each other to keep the balance of the relationship positive. Time segmentation can vary depending on schedules of the partners. This is based on the time that is spent away from one another or together, not the activities performed.
'Activity segmentation'
This is when activities are used to separate the partners to fulfill their independent needs or allow them to do what they want for a short period of time. An example would be a guys/girls night out. It can also be activities that are performed together when time allows. These activities are meant to keep the tension in a positive state. This could possibly mean an activity that one spouse enjoys but the other does not. The next activity will be one of the opposite's preference, turning around the role of who is comfortable, causing positive relational tension.
'Exclusive selection'
This refers to the selection of either being connected with a spouse and acting as one or being dependent and acting on one's own terms. When this concept is misunderstood, relational tension becomes unbalanced and the relationship tends to fall apart on a personal level, whether visible or not. Couples are more stable where both agree on the degree of closeness in the relationship and are less stable when they cannot agree.
This is the idea that parts of the relationship need to be evaluated and looked at in a different way. When parts of a relationship are reframed, it can make the relationship stronger,causing issues to be looked at in a new light. It can go the other way too, positive aspects of a relationship might not be as beneficial as perceived. This concept allows for flaws to be addressed.
Long distance relationships
Based on research by Sahlstein, the uncertainty v. certainty dialectic is the most prevailing dialectic found in long-distance relationships. Her work exposed uncertainty v. certainty as a competing yet complementary need. In interviews conducted with couples engaged in long distance relationships, contradictions emerged. For example, couples were found to plan interactions in order to obtain a level of spontaneity. Within this, three different forms of the praxis of Relational Dialectics emerged: segmentation, balance, and denial. Segmentation refers to the partners' ability to live separate, independent lives when they were not together. Balance involved the couple's ability to plan conversations about the future of their relationship. Denial is the couple's refusal to admit the role distance is having on the relationship.[10]
William Rawlins has examined the role of Relational Dialectics in regard to friendships. The tension of instrumentality v. affection was found to be the most central to this type of relationship. Within friendships, importance is placed on the ability to discern the level of affection for "real" friendships opposed to instrumentality for "fake" friendships. Aristotle's "friendship of virtue" notion of caring for friends without instrumental purposes exemplifies this point. The dichotomy of instrumentality v. affection cannot be ignored within friendships, as affection may be offered in order to receive instrumental aid from friends. This interweaving of concepts is what distinguishes different types of friendships. While this remains true, the subjectivity of the friends in question ultimately determines the outcome of how heavily instrumentality v. affection is applied.[4]
In the workplace
Blended Relationships are close friends that are a part of the same work environment. Dialectical tensions occur in organizations as individuals attempt to balance their roles as employees while maintaining established friendships within their occupations. It is not necessary, however, to have a friend in organizations to experience Dialectical contradictions. Stress occurs frequently on the individual level as human needs and desires oppose. Impartiality vs. Favoritism: Friends within organizations desire to provide each other with special support and assistance but organizations strive for equitable treatment and discourage bias. Openness vs. Closedness: It is a tendency of close friends to be open and honest with one another, but organizations often expect a level of confidentiality that places strain on friendships that value the sharing of information.[13] Novelty and Predictability: Feeling excited about a restructuring of your organization but anxious since it may interrupt your routine and put stress on your current relationships. Instrumentality and Affection: Inviting a coworker to lunch with the intention of asking for support on a project at work.[6]
Dialogue is typically a conversation between two or more people, but to be more specific, there are several components of dialogue. These are: Constitutive Dialogue, Utterance Chains, Dialectical Flux, Aesthetic Moment, and Critical Sensibility.
'Constitutive dialogue'
While some theorists, along with Baxter, may argue that communication is simply a feature in a relationship, examining constitutive dialogue suggests that communication is actually what creates and maintains a relationship instead. When initial researchers studied relationships, they found that similarities, backgrounds, and interests are usually what hold people together while self-disclosure is the root of these components. Dialogic researchers would argue that differences are just as important as similarities and they are both discovered through dialogue.[9]
'Utterance chains'
To understand utterance chains, we must know that an utterance is what a person says in one turn of a conversation. When utterances are "linked to competing discourses", they are considered utterance chains. Baxter believes that there are "four links on the chain where the struggle of competing discourses can be heard."[9] These are: cultural ideologies, relational history, non-yet spoken response of partner or utterance, and normative evaluation of third party to utterance.
'Dialectical flux'
A dialectical flux is "the unpredictable, unfinalizable, indeterminate nature of personal relationships".[9] Relationships are complicated and intertwined with dialectical tensions. Spiraling inversion and segmentation are two strategies that Baxter and Montgomery have established to respond to this complexity. Spiraling inversion is generally a no-win situation; a struggle between two different thought processes. For example, if you were to do something your parents did not approve of, you could lie about it, but your parents might yell at you for lying. And on the other hand, you could tell them upfront, and they could be completely quiet in shock. Segmentation is pertaining to more than one role in a relationship that must be altered depending on the situation. For example, if you were working at your father's shop as a part-time job, he would be considered your father AND your boss. This could mean that he has different expectations of you in different circumstances and his attitude towards you might change between roles.
'Aesthetic moment'
Aesthetic moments are brief incidents in a relationship that bring participants together through the use of dialogue. There is a temporary feeling of wholeness felt between partners involved in this dialogue. It is easy to see examples of aesthetic moments in romantic relationships, such as a first kiss or a reciting of wedding vows, but these moments can be experienced by anyone.
'Critical sensibility'
According to Griffin, critical sensibility is "an obligation to critique dominant voices, especially those that suppress opposing viewpoints; a responsibility to advocate for those who are muted."[9] This means that both sides of a dialogue are equal to one another. No one person is more powerful or dominant than the other, and they are able to communicate without these imbalances interfering. This does not mean that the dialogue is free of competing discourses as listed in Utterance Chains
Ethics in relational dialectics[edit]
When communicating, we must understand that morals do not apply for all people. Sometimes lying can be entirely minor in communication, but there are oftentimes that lying can majorly affect the perspective of those being lied to. There are several times where most people would justify a "white lie", or a lie that causes no harm. For instance, if your mother was in the hospital, you could tell her she still looked beautiful, even if her appearance was far from it because it would make her feel better. Other actions that are only followed through based on whether they have a positive or negative outcome are called "consequential ethics".[9] According to Sissela Bok, "lies drag around an initial negative weight that must be factored into ethical equations". Bok believes in the "principle of veracity" which says that truthful statements are preferable to lies in the absence of special circumstances that overcome the negative weight.[9]
Criteria for an interpretive theory[edit]
- A new understanding of people
- A community agreement
- Clarification of values
- Reform of society
- Aesthetic appeal
See also[edit]
- ^ Griffin, Emory. "Chapter 12: Relational Dialectics." First Look at Communication Theory. [S.l.]: Mcgraw Hill Higher Educat, 2011. 153–67.
- ^ Baxter, L. A. (1988). A dialectical perspective of communication strategies in relationship development. In S. Duck. (Ed.) Handbook of personal relationships (pp. 257–273). New York: Wiley.
- ^ Rawlins, William K. (1988). "A Dialectical Analysis of the Tensions, Functions and Strategic Challenges of Communication in Young Adult Friendships,"Communication Yearbook 12, ed. James A. Anderson (Newbury, CA: Sage), 157–189.
- ^ a b Rawlins, William K. (1992). Friendship Matters: Communication, Dialectics, and the Life Course. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
- ^ Baxter, L. A., & Montgomery, B. M. (1996). Relating: Dialogues and dialectics. New York:Guilford.
- ^ a b c d Cheney, G., Christensen, L. T., Zorn, T. E. and Ganesh, S. (2011) Organizational Communication in an Age of Globalization. (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press), pp 147–151.
- ^ Baxter, L. A. (2204). A tale of two voices: relational dialectics theory. The Journal of Family Communication, 4(3&4), 182–192.
- ^ a b c Baxter, L. A. & Montgomery, B. M. (1996) Relating: Dialogues and dialectics Guilford Press, New York, ISBN 1-57230-099-X ;
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Griffin, Emory A. (2003) A First Look at Communication Theory McGraw Hill, Boston, ISBN 0-07-248392-X.
- ^ a b Sahlstein, Erin M. (April 2006) "Making plans: Praxis strategies for negotiating uncertainty-certainty in long-distance relationships" Western Journal of Communication 70.(2): pp. 147–165
- ^ Miller, Katherine (2002) Communication theories: perspectives, processes, and contexts McGraw Hill, Boston, ISBN 0-7674-0500-5 ;
- ^ Erbert, L. A. (2000). Conflict and dialectics: Perceptions of dialectic contradictions in marital conflict. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 17 (4–5), 638–659.
- ^ Baxter, L. A., & Bridge, K. (Summer 1992). Blended relationships: friends as work associates.Western Journal of Communication, 56, 200–225.
- Adler, Ronald B.; Proctor, Russell F.; and Towne, Neil (2006) Interpersonal communication: from Looking out, looking in Wadsworth Publishing, Belmont, CA, ISBN 0-495-08346-1 ;
- Griffin, Emory. "Chapter 12: Relational Dialectics." First Look at Communication Theory. [S.l.]: Mcgraw Hill Higher Educat, 2011. 153-67.;
- Knapp, M.L., & Daly, J.A. (2002). Handbook of interpersonal communication. USA: Sage
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- Pawlowski, D. (1999). Rubber bands and sectioned Oranges: Dialectical tensions and metaphors used to describe interpersonal relationships. North Dakota Journal of Speech & Theatre, 1213–30. Retrieved from International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text database ;
- Rawlins, William K. and Holl, Melissa (1988). "Adolescents' Interactions with Parents and Friends: Dialectics of Temporal Perspective and Evaluation," Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 5, 27–46 ;
- Sahlstein, E., Maguire, K. C., & Timmerman, L. (2009) Contradictions and Praxis contextualized
by wartime deployment: wives' perspectives revealed through relational dialectics. Communication Monographs, 76 (4), 421–442.
- Altman, I., Vinsel, A., & Brown, B. (1981). Dialectic conceptions in social psychology. In L.Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (pp. 106–170). New York: Academic Press
- Baxter, L. A., & Simon, E. P. (1993). Relationship maintenance strategies and dialectical contradictions in personal relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 10, 225–242.
- Scarf, M. (1987). Intimate partners: Patterns in love and marriage. New York: Random House.
- Rusbult, C. E., & Buunk, B. P. (1993). Commitment processes in close relationships: An interdependence analysis. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 10, 175–204.


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• David Wright. Michael Young. The list of third basemen on the block at the trade deadline should have Arizona's attention.
The D-Backs' front office hacked $20 million out of the payroll in the off-season, and now it's time to spend some of it on some more pop for the lineup, a seventh-inning setup man (to take over for this staff of six-inning starters) and maybe another dependable starter at the top of the rotation.
• Don't take your eye off the ball, Cardinals. Kevin Kolb should be the target. Not a washed-up Marc Bulger. Not a beat-up Carson Palmer. Not a jacked-up Kyle Orton, who has proven in two cities that he's not the kind of quarterback that can get you over the top.
But Arizona fans shouldn't get too excited about this year. No matter who is calling the signals, teams with new quarterbacks will be at a severe disadvantage without OTA's and likely part or all of training camp due to the lockout.
Even in a wide-open division with only one team settled at quarterback, the Big Red's goal is to find a quarterback you can have moving forward. If that costs you a first-round pick, Tim Hightower and $25 million in bonus money, so be it. Do we have to rerun the Derek Anderson/Max Hall video?
• No one likes to see a guy like Buster Posey go down for the year, but Giants GM Brian Sabean was definitely running out of the baselines with his comments toward Florida reserve/battering ram Scott Cousins. If you want to champion changing the rule against home-plate collisions, that's fine. But to say that his team will "have a long memory" and intimate some sort of revenge is necessary for a clean baseball play... Now the Giants have not only lost their catcher and their cushy lead in the NL West, they've lost their integrity as well.
• How would you like to be Plaxico Burress - you walk out of the lockup and right into a lockout.
Word is the Philadelphia Eagles are interested in Burress. Sounds like a good plan. The Michael Vick-to-Plaxico-Burress connection would be lights out - by 9 p.m., of course.
Let's hope whichever team that takes a chance on Plax doesn't wind up shooting itself in ... OK, I'll stop.
• Word is Terrelle Pryor may have driven as many as eight different cars during his three years at Ohio State. Eight rides in three years, and Jim Tressel needed an email to know his star quarterback was on the take? Jay Leno hasn't had that many cars.
It's not a question of whether Tressel should have been bounced; the question is how Gene Smith still has his gig at this point.
Do you really need to cheat to win at Ohio State and USC? If that's the case, about three-fourths of the other 117 Division I-A football programs in the country should discontinue the sport.
• Win or lose in this series - and I still think he's going to lose - Dirk Nowitzki has raised his stock among the superstars in his sport. And can we now stop talking about Chris Bosh's defense? I'm not sure the guy could guard David Hasselhoff.
• I was going to say a few things about Shaquille O'Neal, but he has already said everything for us. He was fun to cover, fun to get to know, he worked hard and he answered emails promptly. Bet Russell, Wilt and Kareem didn't have writers on internet speed dial.
Shaq wasn't always the best person, but you always believed he wanted to be. And in an age where so many athletes fall short of the mark, O'Neal stayed out of serious trouble, understood the business of sports and exploited his name and brand as successfully as any athlete of his era.
• Donnie Walsh is out as the GM in New York. Jay Triano is out as the head coach in Toronto. Mike D'Antoni is on thin ice and could be fired this summer, and Bryan Colangelo needs some help before he gets sent to the penalty box in Canada. Can we all connect the dots from here?
Not a bad deal for D'Antoni. He got famous in Phoenix. He got rich in New York. And now he goes to Canada when the dollar is worth more here than there. And compared to New York, the Toronto media will be a clam bake - it's not like he's coaching the Maple Leafs or something. Things could be worse.
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text: Easter can be a challenging time for progressive Christians. We have let go of much of the traditional Christian doctrine that contains the answers to Big Questions, but the questions themselves remain. What happens when we die? Is there anything else and if so, what? What form are we in? And how was that any different, if it was different, for the extraordinary spirit person that was Jesus? We undoubtedly each have our own answers, which then influence how we read the stories of the first Easter morning. Enduring stories usually have some kernel of truth, however much they have been elaborated on over the years. Something happened to Mary Magdalene and the disciples on that first Easter morning, something they couldn't explain. What do you think?


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Stormy's StoryThis recipe starts with bisquick baking mix. It is easy and has all three kinds of chocolate chips or you can switch up for different chips. My favorite is Chocolate mint instead of the milk chocolate ones
1/4 c
milk chocolate chips
1/4 c
vanilla or white chocolate chips
1/4 c
semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 c
chopped walnuts toasted (see below)
1/2 c
dark brown sugar packed
1 c
1/2 c
light brown sugar, firmly packed
1 c
Directions Step-By-Step
1In 1-quart wide-mouth jar, gently layer and pack ingredients in the order listed, beginning with the white chocolate or vanilla chips. If there is any space left after adding the last ingredient, add more semisweet chips to fill the jar. Place lid on top. Cut an 8-inch circle of fabric to cover the lid. Place fabric over the lid; secure in place with ribbon or raffia. Decorate as desired.
* To toast walnuts, place in a microwave safe dish and microwave on HIGH for 4 to 5 minutes, stirring every minute.
** After measuring the brown sugar, crumble it between your fingers for uniform texture. Be sure to pack the brown sugar firmly in the jar to prevent the baking mix from sifting down through it.
2Make gift card to attach as follows:
Chewy Chocolate Chip Bars:
Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Empty contents of jar into medium bowl. Stir in:
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Press into 8-inch square baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake for 18 to 22 minutes, or until bars are light golden and center is almost set. Makes 16 bars.
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Hey Stormy, I was wondering if you meant to list the bisquick twice on this recipe?
Stormy Stewart karlyn255 - Dec 7, 2011
Yes Holli. it is how you put the ingredients in a jar for visual effect. You can just put the two cups together if you want or are just making them but there is two cups in all
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Thanks Stormy for getting back to me so quickly. Hope you enjoy your holidays!(:


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1965 Birth Born on January 9, 1965.
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1983 18 Years Old In 1983, she graduated from the Thacher School in Ojai, California, then returned to London to study at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
1985 20 Years Old Possessing an early ambition to become a professional tennis player, she spent two years at a tennis academy in Florida. Richardson then turned to acting. In 1985 she portrayed, via flashbacks, the younger version of the leading character played by her mother in the film Wetherby.
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1993 28 Years Old In 1993, Richardson appeared in BBC's Lady Chatterley opposite Sean Bean.
1996 31 Years Old In 1996, she played fashion designer Anita Campbell-Green in the Disney live-action remake of the animated 101 Dalmatians opposite Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil.
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Pretty sure none of us will forget the meaning of the word "reinforce" after this. Teach us more, Joe!
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Rihanna - Rihanna gets new henna-inspired tattoo
Rihanna has got a new henna tattoo which is incorporated into the Maori tattoo on the star's right hand.
Rihanna has got a new tattoo - inspired by henna designs.
The 25-year-old star got the Indian-inspired inking incorporated into the Maori tattoo which is etched on her right hand during an 11-hour session on Sunday (27.10.13) with celebrity tattoo artists Bang Bang McCurdy and Cally-Jo.
Bang Bang told E! News: ''We drew on her hand from 7 pm to midnight. We were drawing and changing things.
''I'd take a break and Cally-Jo would draw, then I'd draw ... The inspiration was henna art, we wanted something really decorative, feminine and sexy. We thought that was the closest in style where we could shift and make it look decorative.''
The henna pattern allowed Rihanna to decorate the existing Maori design which she got done earlier this month using the excruciatingly painful yet traditional Ta Moko method to mark her trip to New Zealand.
Bang Bang explained: ''She had something pre-existing on her hand. So it was a little bit of a cover up, but also making it look good, wanted to make sure it flowed. We needed to work with what she already had. [It was] difficult, because the stuff she already had was a pattern on skin. We were trying to fit the body with what she already had. Mend the two styles with a new style.''
Rihanna was delighted with the outcome of the inking, with Bang Bang saying: ''Ri flipped out! Absolutely loved it, loved it!''


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text: Tech A hands-on look at the BlackBerry 10 Add to ... The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Nov. 20 2012, 6:53 PM EST Last updated Wednesday, Jan. 30 2013, 11:52 AM EST The Globe's Iain Marlow sits down with Jeff Gadway, senior manager of product marketing at Research in Motion, to take a closer look at some of the new features in the company's BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Watch More Video: Investing outlook for 2015 from Purpose Investments' Som Seif French jobs numbers darken festive mood Market Call Tonight: Top picks from Contra The Heard's Benj Gallander Are low oil prices here to stay? U.S. economy sets blistering pace in third quarter Why little Lithuania wants the euro Russia's ruble crisis hits the middle class Heads up for touch-free smartphone Cigar rollers in Havana thrilled with warming U.S.-Cuba relations Market Call Tonight: Top picks from Curvature's James Hodgins Inside UPS's busiest delivery day in history Market Call Tonight: Top picks from ValueTrend's Keith Richards Investors to watch Abenomics closely in 2015 Help or handout? Parents giving kids an assist with home buying North Korea says it did not hack Sony, wants joint probe with U.S. In a booming industry, medical marijuana company makes problematic claims How technology is changing the way we bank Market Call Tonight: Top picks from BBSL's John DeGoey Sweet deal? The $120-million bet on iconic Canadian snack cakes Big tobacco and the race to cash in on Canada's marijuana boom Comments AA More Related to this Story Gallery In pictures: Five key features of RIM's BlackBerry 10 Three of your BlackBerry 10 questions answered Market View Video: Market View: Wary analyst grows keener on RIM


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This item was written by Larry Bleiberg, former travel editor of The Dallas Morning News and Coastal Living magazine. Bleiberg is serving as Guest Editor of The Cruise Log while USA TODAY Cruise Editor Gene Sloan is away.
While the Caribbean remains the most popular destination for cruisers, Europe has edged out Alaska for second place in an annual report on travel trends from Cruise Holidays, one of the biggest cruise sellers.
The results are based on Cruise Holidays' 2011 bookings and from a survey of more than 100 of the agency's top cruise consultants. The company is part of a network that includes nearly a third of all travel agencies in the country.
Other findings include:
The survey results show that nearly three of five cruisers picked the Caribbean as the top cruise destination in 2012. Within the region, Western Caribbean cruises are the most popular, followed by the Eastern Caribbean and then Southern Caribbean.
Coming in second place is Europe, favored by more than 11%. (Last year the Continent placed fourth.) Alaska ranked third at nearly 7%, and Bermuda came in fourth, well above its seventh place ranking last year.
READ MORE: River cruises gain favor with scenery, culture, intimacy
The other destinations in order of popularity were Hawaii, Panama Canal, Mexican Riviera, Trans-Atlantic, Canada/New England and South Pacific.
The survey also showed that passengers are drawn to luxury ships. The most popular new ship in 2011 was the Celebrity Silhouette, and the most anticipated 2012 debut is Celebrity's Reflection.
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Surprisingly, the second most anticipated launch is a small upscale European river cruise ship: AmaWaterways' Amacerto. The other most popular ships for 2012 are the Disney Fantasy, Oceania Cruises' Riviera and Viking River Cruises' Freya, also a river-cruise ship.
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The survey also found that while prices are edging up in 2012, they remain a relative bargain compared to earlier years. It suggests the biggest deals will be found in the most popular destinations: the Caribbean and Europe. However there are values to be found on west-coast Mexico cruises, as well.
In addition, the survey found that the average lead time for booking a cruise has lengthened. In 2011, 52% of travelers booked their cruise at least six months before sailing. In 2010, it was 48.5%. However, the proportion of people booking at the last minute has climbed too: More than 7% of cruises were booked less than a month before sailing.
Cruise Loggers, what do you think? Do these results reflect your thoughts about cruising in 2012?
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In your article written by David Giuliani, Miguel Angel is quoted as stating; "It doesn't matter how many laws you make. If you don't have a social solution to a social problem, you are only marginalizing the people in question."
We don't have solutions for people who are incarcerated in prison and we know for a fact that prisons do not reform people, so should we do away with prisons and let everyone go until we decide what works? One can theorize and philosophize all day, but at whose expense?
Ray Martinez
I grew up in Mora, my family is from Buena Vista. The men on both sides of my familia were honored, almost obligated, to join the military, like my Uncle Moises Solano, Ernesto and Louie Garcia, my tio David Ulibarri Sr.., to include my niece Ethni Valdez from Las Aguitas whom just got extended again after six years as a Marine. All of these U.S. soldiers placed our lives for our little parts of Heaven here in Northern New Mexico.
When it comes to fighting crime, the sum of law enforcement agencies is often greater than the parts. That's especially true in rural areas such as Mora County.
As such, it's troubling to find out that the Mora County sheriff and the state police aren't getting along. Indeed, their leaders aren't even talking.
In Mora County, all 911 calls go to the state police. That makes sense because the Mora County Sheriff's Department doesn't operate around the clock. There are only five deputies, including the sheriff, and no detectives.
I am concerned with the Mora Independent Schools administration and school board's decision to post all the jobs for the coaching positions. A coach's job is one of the most important positions in a school district. They are teachers, counselors and mentors.
Earlier this year, the sexual allegations against Robertson High School Principal Richard Lopez and teacher and golf coach Jay Quintana made big headlines. Both were put on leave, and the matters were referred to the police. A woman alleged that Lopez harassed her a couple of times when she was trying to apply for a job. And Quintana was said to have sexually abused a golf team member for five years, starting when the alleged victim was 14.
Let's make one thing abundantly clear: Both of these men are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
We appreciate the way in which Highlands University officials are proceeding with plans to build a new student center — by hosting a well-attended community meeting for public input and promising to seek student input as well. A student center isn't just another construction project for the school, it's a big deal for a lot of people, so it's only right to involve as many people as you can along the way.
Sometimes even the experts simply have it wrong. I'm staring at a dozen grammar and style books trying to locate some of the most common errors people commit in writing and speech.
We concede that because people speak about 10 times faster than they write, the ear tunes out some — but not all — of the errors we hear. Because we have more time to read things, we can be more critical of errors in print.
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Marla Dial wrote:
This sounds like a good topic for today's video ... I'd like to shape my
thoughts a bit more, and was wondering if we could in any way make
reference to the Visegrad meeting Obama had last Thursday in terms of
how important that region is as a whole, for both Russia and others --
but the spotlight right now is obviously on Poland above all others.
Strategy and opportunism collide. What think?
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On Apr 12, 2010, at 6:08 AM, Marko Papic wrote:
We have information that Obama is going to attend Kaczynski's funeral.
We still don't know the date because his wife's body has not yet been
retrieved. May be another day or two before we know the date.
I think we should address the interplay between Russia-Poland-US
following this tragedy. Basically lay out how Russia has outreached to
and why this is geopolitically relevant, primarily because it is
giving Moscow a way to continue to divide the Poles on the issue of
how anti-Russian their foreign policy should be -- policy that began
much before the crash
We need to point out that this is only going to be successful so far
as the U.S. remains uncommitted. Obama moved to reassure Central
Europeans on April 8 with a dinner. Note that paying for a meal is not
necessarily the sort of reassurance Central Europeans want... although
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Thanks for the article. Is this supposed to be in draft still?
I've given it a basic subedit for wiki style and English. Can you please check that I didn't lose any of your meaning? In addition to making the images easier to see I've explained a little more clearly what it does - and given it some structure
In terms of room for improvement this is a little bit of a "code dump". It would benefit from some more explanation. For example, in the first section you show how you define the class object - its worth saying that this maps to the XML structure directly, and possibly putting a fragment of that data inline as well as linking to the file in the zip. If there is any official documentation you referred to on the DevCenter then it is also worth having references and links to those too - so others can find the same information you learned from.
Other sections that need "help" are "Code for search functionality" - this is just a code dump of the remainder of the code behind. IMO it is worth pulling out the code which does search and explain how it works. Again with references/links to the documents that helped you learn how to do this.
Does that make sense?
hamishwillee (talk) 08:25, 19 September 2013 (EEST)
Hamishwillee - Title changeAlso suggest we change the title to "Scrollable and searchable list with image streamed from XML definition in Windows Phone"
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Definitions for iffyˈɪf i
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
if•fyˈɪf i(adj.)-fi•er, -fi•est.
full of unresolved points or questions:
an iffy situation.
Origin of iffy:
1915–20; if+-y1
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chancy, fluky, flukey, iffy(adj)
subject to accident or chance or change
"a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition"
Of dubious authenticity, legitimacy or legality.
He's selling new CD players for u00A320 each - that sounds a bit iffy to me.
Uncertain or chancy.
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It lasted almost four hours.
The Mobile City Council meeting ended shortly before 2:30 Tuesday afternoon.
Much of the time was devoted to speeches from citizens and council members about Council Member Fred Richardson's nomination of former Mayor Sam Jones to the Mobile Area Water and Sewer Board.
Then, the council voted.
About half a dozen people spoke on behalf of Sam Jones as a former mayor and nominee to the water board.
Then, Richardson re-emphasized why he was again nominating Jones to the board.
Richardson said, "Whenever they bring their appointment to me, I'm supportive. I wouldn't care if they had a blind dog. If you want to bring him down here and put him on, I'm voting for him. If that's what you think is the best person you can find in your district, that's all gone."
He also said the division over Sam Jones showed there was no "One Mobile."
Richardson said, "'One Mobile' is not what you say, 'One Mobile' is what you do. It's more than what you say. You could train a parrot to say 'One Mobile."
Then, Council Member Bess Rich and other council members spoke.
Rich said, "The legal way is for Council Member Richardson or any council member to have an automatic appointment with the use of their signature would require an amendment to the Zoghby bill. I don't want to overstate this, but, my views haven't changed since two weeks ago."
At one point, Council President Gina Gregory stopped the proceedings, asking a person speaking out loud from his seat to leave.
Then, came time to vote.
The vote was four to three against, so, the appointment failed again.
Afterwards, I asked Richardson, what now?
He said, "The statement that I made that it was 'Sam Jones yesterday, Sam Jones today, Sam Jones tomorrow."
When asked if he was going to continue to bring Jones name up, Richardson said, "Yes. I'm not going to allow anyone to elect for me who to nominate and appoint to the MAWSS board or to any other board."