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Many shades of beige: Abuses of music and the Fifty Shades phenomenon
"We were all writing erotica at a dollar a page."
Most editions of Anais Nin's Delta of Venus preface themselves with an extract from the third volume of her diaries, to account for its uncharacteristically inelegant tone and, more alarming, its neglect of the "feminine self" in amongst all the fucking. To cut a short story shorter, Nin's lover Henry Miller was offered a respectable salary to compose unrespectable vignettes for an ambiguous "collector" figure and, partly because of the "Dantesque punishment" of the arrangement, but mostly because they were all poor as shit and horny, Nin and her friends decided to get in on the act. The collector was fine with this state of affairs so long as one principle was adhered to: "Concentrate on sex. Leave out the poetry."
Delta of Venus is a collection of the stories Nin managed to write before her prolix got the better of her and she messed it up for the whole gang. "Dear Collector: we hate you," her rather unreasonable resignation letter began. "Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine."
E.L. James's understanding of the business of literature isn't quite as contrary as Nin's – she chooses to insult her paying audience with sentences like "the kitchen tops are smooth concrete, very utilitarian, very now," rather than direct correspondence – but it is similarly unorthodox. Case in point: halfway through the second book in the trilogy, Fifty Shades Darker, her protagonist Ana is made an editor and given her own office by a highly profitable indie publisher just one week into an internship. I suppose this is an inevitable (and frankly, understandable) product of unimaginable literary success achieved without the intervention of either editors or intellectual investment. Publishing is easy. Success is easy!
It's a pity, though, that her idiosyncratic approach didn't extend to insisting upon the inclusion of a fragment of Nin within the 50 Shades blurbs, or as an epigraph. She must have read Delta of Venus; the opium excepted, her work is a strikingly literal fulfillment of Nin's credo as outlined to the shadowy patron. Tears, laughter, jealousy and surprises at bedtime are par for the course with Christian Grey around, brandishing a psychosexual cocktail of abused past, playful present and archaically misogynist future in one hand, while pulling a "Wartenberg pinwheel" from his "butt drawer" with the other. Alternatively, there's a library full of rapey literary allusions downstairs, along with a cellar stacked with somewhat inevitable Sancerre and Chablis. And music? "My taste is eclectic, Anastasia, everything from Thomas Tallis to the Kings of Leon. It depends on my mood."
Of all Nin's surprisingly unimaginative erotic ingredients, music is most central to James's narrative. Indeed, while Tess of the d'Urbervilles, the cultural motif clever-stupidly foregrounded during the first book's opening scenes, is quickly dropped (Ana tries to pick it up again on a plane, later on in Fifty Shades of Grey – but soon falls asleep in the cushioned first class seat Grey has paid for) music accompanies, punctuates and hammers home meaning in a majority of major scenes. Ana's doubts and frustrations are played out to a soundtrack of her "favourite band" Snow Patrol "blaring in my ears." She finally understands the depths of Grey's "unbearable bittersweet melancholy" when she walks in on him playing post-coital Bach – or rather, a "transcription by Bach, but it's originally by … Alessandro Marcello" ("I'm not knowledgeable, Anastasia, I just know what I like" James later humble-brags, via Grey) – naked, on a grand piano in a dark room. Grey's suicidal ex is introduced through the "club mix, techno beats" of Britney Spears's 'Toxic', a song we discover she added to his iPod. His favourite film is The Piano. And the first book's BDSM subplot (for it is, in reality, only ever that) reaches its agonizing, transcendental climax as Grey does "unhurried and deliberate" things "in time with the music" of Tallis's 'Spem in Alium'. "Holy cow, a celestial choir," thinks Ana. "I've always wanted to fuck to it," sighs Grey, spemming vigorously.
And at the beginning of the Fifty Shades Darker, Ana forgives Grey for a vicious beating he delivers at the close of the first book, thanks mainly to a "mix tape in the guise of a high-end iPad" he buys for her. "I know what you want to hear. The music on here says it for me," the giftcard explains, grimly, and before long a (to my mind) pretty opaque narrative of Nelly Furtado and Coldplay lyrics, along with "some world music" by Nitin Sawhney, are convincing Ana she probably did in fact overreact when her new boyfriend went at her with his belt. Enigma's wonderful 'Principles of Lust' is also mentioned, an indication of James's occasional laziness when it comes to thinking up hot soundtracks. See also: "'Sex On Fire'. How appropriate." And later, in an Audi R8 Spyder with the top down, "on interstate 5 heading south, the wind sweeping over our heads," Springsteen's 'I'm On Fire', a hilariously bad choice of sexy driving music assuming Grey has downloaded Born in the U.S.A. in its entirety (and with it 'Bobby Jean' and 'I'm Goin' Down').
One suspects that, as with 'Spem in Alium''s unpleasant almost-pun, James is more interested in titles than she is in music.
The iPad episode, with its neat synthesis of songs, plotting and luxury objects, offers a convenient entry-point into discussion of one of the key functions of music in the 50 Shades books. Namely, its part in what Andrew O'Hagan identified in the LRB review as the "great deal of fun [that] can be had by noting the many comforts offered for a life of mild depravity: people in these novels don't wear underpants they wear Calvin Kleins; they don't wear sneakers they wear Converse; they don't drink wine they have Pinot Grigio; nobody wears sunglasses they wear Ray-Bans." He goes on: "the books invite [readers] to be submissive too, not to punishment, but to a 1980s-style dominance of money and power and products. (The word '?og' has more than one meaning.)"
The supporting role music plays in extending this invitation is probably already clear. Usually, more descriptive attention is paid to the technology Grey uses to play his insane, swerving tracklists than the songs themselves, be that his car's soundsystem, Ana's new tablet ("I shake my head in disapproval because of the expense, but deep down I love it") or the "small, flat device that looks like a very hip calculator" which makes the Tallis thing work without messing up the "soft-boudoir Elizabethan-torture" aesthetic of Grey's "Red Room of Pain". Similarly, one gets the impression that the context for his tortured late-night preludes – "Huge is too small a word" to describe his open-plan, "double-height" living area, with a glass wall overlooking Seattle and "paintings everywhere" – is every bit as important as the playing. "I understand why he lives here, isolated, surrounded by beautiful, precious works of art," Ana muses. "Far away from neglect, hunger and crack-whore mothers." Well quite.
O'Hagan is less good on a couple of ways in which this particular dimension is inflected within James' trilogy, which takes it into slightly different territory to the Jackie Collinses and Jilly Coopers he cites in his review – and closer, perhaps, to something like Alan Partridge's appreciation of Roger Moore-era James Bond as the apex of intellectual sophistication. Primarily, there's the almost endearing modesty of James's representation of ultimate luxury, betraying nothing so much as a lack of imagination (and the kind of one-way love affair with American affluence most British people leave behind around the time they, erm, grow out of the Twilight books – which of course inspired James to write 50 Shades of Grey). Sure, Grey has a helicopter and a jet, but what's a man of his means doing wearing the same pants and sunglasses I used to wear when I was sixteen?
Second, there's a strand of quasi-intellectualism that grounds the vulgarity in something, I think we're supposed to think, less vulgar. We're explicitly told, for example, the value of Grey's first gift to Ana, a set of first edition volumes of Tess ($14,000 – I suspect they're worth more, actually) but only after Grey has demonstrated his ability to locate creepy quotations in the classics: "Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks," this accompanying message winks.
Music plays a part in both detoxifying processes, as will become immediately apparent if one considers a nice fiction-becoming-real response to the meeting of music and money in James's work, namely EMI Classics' shamelessly scooped up "curation" of recordings lying dormant in their backlist – into 50 Shades of Grey: The Classical Album, released last month. Placed next to one another, James's and Grey's eccentric selections are shown up for what they actually are: a particularly unimaginative Classic FM DJ's drivetime playlist. The Lakmé 'Flower Duet' is quickly followed by Pachabel's 'Canon' before – you guessed it – Rachmaninov's 'Piano Concerto #2' kicks in, along with Fauré's 'Requiem'. Delibes is a delightful surprise for Ana, which made me realise that one advantage of audaciously setting a novel in the States (James has never been to Seattle) is that your characters probably won't have had the 'Flower Duet' ruined for them by the British Airways adverts. (And also may not have seen Brief Encounter, for that matter.)
Clearly, James's popular music references are similarly short-sighted, which is disappointing considering that the Twilight films have surprisingly decent soundtracks, and one can therefore assume the likes of Thom York, Grizzly Bear, Lykke Li, St Vincent and UNKLE are all on her radar. Thing is, you quickly get the impression such a limited palate is enough. The admittedly brilliant 'Toxic' is described, for example, as "the perfect song … Britney's at her most sultry." O'Hagan's suspects "the book has taken the world's mums by storm because there's no mess on the carpet and there are hot showers afterwards," and I'm tempted to agree: the fantasy here is bourgeois contentment, rather than the extremes James thinks she's writing about. That a list of fragments of music including numbers one, three, fifteen and twenty-five of Classic FM's 2012 "Hall of Fame" of the UK's "best-loved classical pieces" is presented as a mysterious and intoxicating display of erudition, is just one misjudgement among many that might be understood in terms of this disconnect.
EMI Classics, perhaps realising that a novelty re-release of the LPO playing Vaughan Williams's 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis' isn't all that much of a novelty (although actually, including this on Grey's iPad is one of James's better jokes) came up with a quite brilliant ruse: frame James's selections as a diverse but linear revisionist rewriting of 500 years of music history along transgressively erotic lines. "There has always been a dark side of Classical music," the liner-notes begin, promisingly, before steamrollering the nuances of Tudor culture by implying that Tallis (a lifelong Catholic) resisted a "Catholic Church" ban on "sensual" music (in fact it was the Lutherans who were most suspicious of elaborate composition) by ensnaring "audiences" in the "alluring web" of works like 'Spem in Alium'. (It's unfortunate that EMI Classics didn't realise that the text of 'Spem in Alium' is adapted from the Book of Judith, one of the Old Testament's more florid narratives, melodramatically rendered by the likes of Caravaggio. That subtext might have been an easier sell.)
It gets better. Pachelbel's 'Canon' has "pulsing rhythms and dark hued harmonies" which, apparently, hint "that there was something going on underneath," a description that made me reflect, briefly, on whether this piece, so singularly ruined by repetition, constitutes the Baroque equivalent of pornographic muzak, with its cyclical patterns of slap bass and saxophones diluted irredeemably by their context. Disappointingly, the books don't explore this possibility: "the gentle strains of Pachelbel's Canon fills the space" between Ana and Grey's manservant, the "avuncular" Taylor, during the peaceful foreplay of a car journey to Grey's palace – and don't reappear. I suppose it probably reflects well on the EMI Classics people that they didn't read the books, or at least didn't read them closely enough to accurately represent each track's specific role in James's narrative.
At least they get La Traviata sort of right. In the "torrid anguish" of Verdi's opera, "music made love into something larger than life, something for the world to see." This is, when you think about it, a bewildering assertion, but it does hint at the scale of Verdi's broad brushstrokes which Grey (or rather, James) uses to once again beat down Ana's cultural autonomy – residing, as we're frequently reminded, in literature. Dumas is dealt with even quicker then Hardy:
"La Traviata? I've heard of that. I can't think where. What does it mean?"
Christian glances at me and smirks.
"Well, literally, 'the woman led astray.' It's based on Alexander Dumas's book, La Dame aux Camélias."
"Ah. I've read it."
"I thought you might've."
But that doesn't mean she's going to say anything more about it. The fact of Ana's having read a book with a French title is enough; it is an accomplishment – in the eighteenth century sense of the word. Talking and knowing about art, though, is something Christian does, or rather something only Christian (and the other alpha males in the books – Ana's psychopathic boss, Jack Hyde, for example) is given space to do. Especially when it counters (with a "smirk") something Ana has read. If Ana had ideas, it would no doubt spoil the sexy power dynamic. James equips her, instead, with a "smart mouth", which brings a combination of provocative colour and never-more-than-token resistance to proceedings.
The shunting out of Ana's specialist subject, literature (and with it her intellectual integrity) in favour of Grey's, represents music's most unpleasant purpose in James's text. That one culmination of this process is Ana placing herself "completely at the mercy" of a blur of Grey and Tallis ("the music stops. And so does he") before a "fall … free fall" into exhausted, brainless pillow-talk should already be obvious. Even more problematic is the fact Grey – or rather his hegemonic masculinity – inhabits music itself to such an extent that, by the beginning of the second book, even in his absence, it paralyses Ana: "And the music … so much music – I cannot bear to hear any more music. I am careful to avoid it at all costs. Even the jingles in commercials make me shudder."
Which all begs the question, why is so much of the 50 Shades books' blatantly misogynist (and materialist) project played out to, and through, music? And what does this say about the place and status of music, both popular and "classical", in contemporary culture.
It's questions like this which make reflecting seriously on 50 Shades of Grey a worthwhile activity: these three books have sold faster than any other novel in the history of novels. They have caused paper shortages in the US. Lumber mills in Canada have been forced to rehire laid-off workers. More people have read, and wanted to read, E.L. James's prose, over a shorter period of time, than any equivalent narrative. All of which makes its depiction of a number of things significant. It would, indeed, be imprudent not to assume that it captures, reflects and makes sense of – and will to some extent now influence – a genuinely popular yearning, a cultural consensus, in a manner that perhaps no other book does. Just as the ridiculously widespread appetite for the romanticisation of public schools in Harry Potter revealed striking truths about an audience that, a few years later, was also willing to elect a cabal of Old Etonians into government, so the implications of the central role played by music in the 50 Shades phenomenon should not be underestimated. Or to put it another way: the presence of Snow Patrol in 50 Shades of Grey probably merits more urgent analysis than the presence of Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 in The Corrections. More's the pity.
Some potential conclusions of this necessary analysis, and the pop-cultural diagnosis that might be drawn out from them, are already clear. It's not an exaggeration to say that possibly since Steve Jobs birthed the iPod, and certainly since the iPhone followed, the musical medium has become every bit as important as the message. By encouraging this trend to penetrate musical spaces that the more pathetic among us might have thought were still a little bit sacred – the lover's mixtape, say, or the music we sometimes play when we have sex – all James is doing is stretching a truism into the territory of comfortingly plausible bourgeois fantasy. As is her wont. Similarly, the Classic FMification of instrumental and choral music in the UK (I'm suspicious of the word "classical" at the best of times, but here, no fucking way: the Hall of Fame also finds a place for the Lord of the Rings soundtrack and Gareth Malone's Military Wives within its top 50) is, along with the bracketing together of all non-Western (or in the case of Sawhney, non-Western-sounding) "world music" into a nonsensically homogenous "genre", a fact of modern life. In other words, James both highlights and points to dismally possible futures for the techno-materialistic philistinism that makes sense of so much of the contemporary musical landscape.
Other conclusions require a little speculation – hardly a legitimate form of analytical hypothesis, it's true, but neither are these remotely stable texts. And so I'm tempted, for instance, to account for James's troubling success assigning music a central role in facilitating Grey's abuse, by suggesting that this may well be a product of the fact much of the Classical Album isn't really music at all: it's musical extracts. Like the National Front attempting to co-opt Vaughan Williams's status as collector, arranger and figurehead for English "National Music" as somehow proving the truthful and beauteous purity of their vicious dogma – only remotely possible if one wilfully closes one's ears to, say, the explicit teutophilia in various of his compositions from the 1930s and 40s (a dangerous time to be paying tribute to the Vaughan-Williams' German heroes: Brahms, Bach and Wagner) – James, Grey and EMI Classics are willing to wrench into isolation a fragment of Fauré's 'Requiem' in the hope of making it sound sexist and sexy.
Whether or not they are successful (the former, yes; the latter, no) is beside the point. Grabbing a chunk of a choral setting of the Catholic mass of the dead, potentially inspired by the death of Fauré's parents, in order to frame it as amorous background music, quite simply strips all meaning out of the subtleties of Fauré's composition. It becomes little more than an empty vessel to be "interpreted" however one sees fit. In short, none of this recurring unpleasantness is Fauré's fault, or indeed Verdi's or Rachmaninov's – and it's certainly not Chopin's, that guy was in love with proto-feminist George Sand for goodness' sake. No, it's James's; or rather, it's the fault of a cultural moment in which it's become increasingly acceptable to extract an Adagio or a Prelude from a concerto or an opera, and engage with it like it's a stand-alone three-minute pop song. I reckon James managing to force poor old Bach to participate in a love story modelled on Tess Durbeyfield and her rapey cousin is a the logical end-point of this ubiquitous tendency.
Oh, and be assured, Classic FM is again partly to blame here. Decontextualising music is very much in the station's commercial interests: it makes it possible, for example, to stick a movement from Mozart's frolicking 'Piano Concerto No. 21' on a CD entitled The Ultimate Piano Chillout Album.
One particular conclusion remains elusive, though. It's the answer to a very simple question that I don't want my Englishness to stop me asking: what does 50 Shades of Grey tell us about sexy music? Or rather, what does James's prose reveal about the real, visceral relationship between sex and music? Implicitly reveal, that is: what can be understood via her repeated failure to work out a connection that is in any way legitimate? What, for example, does a catastrophic commingling of a little BDSM horseplay and a Thomas Tallis motet tell us about what a legitimate connection might actually look like, sound like?
Certain that there was an answer, but unable to find one in the books themselves, I turned to what Susan Sontag identifies in The Pornographic Imagination as three of the great works of pornographic art: Delta, Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye and Pauline Réage's Story of O. But alas, scenes balanced precariously on an intersection between music and sexuality in these genuinely erotic books are few and far between. There are dancers in Nin, I found, and wherever there are dancers there is also "rhythmic motion". And in Elena, towards the end of Delta, pianos languidly "pour out music," like Elena's own "honey". It's not long, though, before the same instruments revert back to "bourgeois staleness".
Bataille was more promising: "A gramophone rescued us from our predicament. Simone, dancing a frenzied Charleston by herself, showed everyone her legs up to her cunt." But while this sequence admittedly catalyses Story of the Eye's legendary teenage orgy, it's Simone's dancing that does the hard work, not the musical accompaniment. Simone is not a character who needs music in order to dance, if you know what I'm saying. As for Story of O, mostly it ignores music altogether. There is a "music room", certainly, but that name, and the presence of a "record player and radio, with shelves of records" is a gothic joke: "the walls are lined with cork. Don't worry, no one can hear the slighted thing that goes on in here. Now lie down."
I was left with a single clue, a quotation from Roland Barthes's famous essay on Bataille, The Metaphor of the Eye. "The world becomes blurred," Barthes explains, carefully. "Properties are no longer separate; spilling, sobbing, urinating, ejaculating form a wavy meaning, and the whole of Story of the Eye signifies in the manner of a vibration that always gives the same sound." And this, surely, is closer to the reality of a legitimate connection than Nin's piano, Simone's gramophone, James's lamely prescriptive soundtracks. It's not a question of specific songs or scenarios; music here can only mean texture, a peculiar vibration that blurs the meaning of the world around until it becomes the context for a sexual encounter. This, presumably, is part of the reason why certain combinations of tracks convince strangers in clubs to fuck each other, and the only reason why a girl I met a couple of times thought the Bad Seeds' cover of 'Sleeping Annaleah' was the most erotic thing she'd ever heard. It is, I think, something essential we all of us only halfway understand.
And as 50 Shades reveals all too starkly, that means it's also something it's difficult, verging on impossible, to write about. Even Barthes himself struggled: "a vibration that always gives the same sound," he began, but that was as far as he got. "But what sound?"


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CAS220 Proj Mngmnt - Begin MS Project
Introduces MS Project, including building entry tables, generating reports, resolving resource and time conflicts, importing data, and tracking budgets. Includes the design and creation of accurate Gantt charts for use in project management. Recommend: Placement into RD 115 and WR 115; experience with project management or MSD 279; working knowledge of Windows and file management. This course is part of the Project Management series of classes that includes MSD 279, BA 255, and CIS 245. Audit available. (For detailed information, see the Course Content and Outcome Guide ).
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- Beginning MS Project CRN: 12759
Course Prerequisites
We strongly recommend that you have some experience with project management or MSD 279 and a working knowledge of Windows and file management.
Please Note: If you do not have some working knowledge of project management, this course will likely be difficult for you. - Course Specific Requirements:
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Chatfield, Carl & Johnson, Timothy (2013). Microsoft Office Project 2013 Step by Step. Microsoft Press . ISBN: 978-073569116
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Thai arts and crafts centers have been established across the kingdom for various purposes. H.M. the Queen of Thailand has played an active role in promoting the development of Thai arts and crafts, and many of these have in turn become popular tourist attractions, providing visitors with the opportunity to witness the production of Thai arts and crafts.
Kad Suan Kaeo Art & Cultural Centre (ศูนย์ศิลปะการแสดงกาดสวนแก้ว), located in Kad Suan Kaeo Shopping Mall. As the name indicates, it is a centre of art and cultural performances. The Kad Suan Kaeo theatre is eq...
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Uh, Mr. Daniels? It's me, Diamond Girl. I'm back. You may remember me from our you-are-the-Dreamy-Team-GM-no-forget-you-aren't-okay-you-are-again days. Yeah. Those.
Anyway, today I'm calling to talk to you about something else entirely. First of all, when you saw my name on the caller ID, why didn't you pick up?
Second of all (and this one is less important but still), is Nolan Ryan real rich or is Nolan Ryan real rich? If you or Nolan find that a rude question or whatever, no need to answer, but 51 million is just, well, a lot of money. Or maybe it isn't and my perception is warped because the Giants are so seriously (and mysteriously) low-income at the moment. It's probably that.
Still, I can't lie, Jon. I mean, Mr. Daniels. I am a little skeptical of Yu. I mean, Yu and you. His ERA (an average of 1.72 over the past five years) made me stop and stare- yep, à la Justin Timberlake- but then I get all suspicious and have to say (puts on ESPN commentator voice here), Can he succeed in the US? Can the Rangers gain the upper hand in the AL West or is it the Angels for-eh-vah and always?
Basically, I just wanted to check in. In Rangers Management We Trust and all that so if you are feeling good about this, then I can too. But if you have reservations? I am always here to talk things out. My psychology degree is indefinitely pending, but I'm pretty good all the same. And hey, it might be helpful to both of us. Seeing as I could use a little talking out about Yu too.
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Hyundai Elantra 2007: Compact or Mid-size?
The 2007 Hyundai Elantra is rated by the EPA as a mid-sized sedan, based on interior volume. It actually has more interior room than some of the standards of the mid-sized class, e.g. the Accord EX and the Mazda6. So... is it a compact car or a mid-sized car? If you are looking for a mid-sized four-cylinder car, would you consider the Elantra?
backy Twin CitiesPosts: 18,787By interior room, Elantra is mid-sized. By exterior dimensions, it's a compact. Hyundai actually markets it as a compact, based on their ads touting "most interior room in its class." If its "class" were mid-sized sedans, it wouldn't have the most interior room in that class. So the class Hyundai is aiming the Elantra at is the compact sedan class, e.g. the Corollas, Civics, Foci, and Cobalts of the world. That's smart I think because the Elantra has a huge (no pun intended) advantage in that class in interior room, and compared to most cars in the class in safety features. Moving up to the mid-sized class, the only advantages the Elantra has are price and fuel economy. It's literally out-classed by other mid-sizers in power, room (by most cars in the class), comfort, and safety features.
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Chloe Spring 2013: See Every Look Here
Runway collections run the gamut from totally avant-garde to sickeningly commercial, but the truly successful ones strike a balance between the two. For Spring 2013, Chloe's newish designer Clare Waight Keller hit just the right note, creating a wardrobe of dresses and separates that I'd be happy to weave into my closet. The standouts, though, were the showiest pieces: a scalloped peach one-shouldered dress, a frilly lavender organza frock, and a cream gown pleated into near-oblivion. It was all very dramatic, without being over-the-top. (It also helped that the venue, a tent inside the Tullieries, was designed to let the beautiful Paris light shine through. I swear it made the clothes look even prettier.)
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Seems like EotE treats lightsabers the way they deserve to be treated Deadly.
Lets imagine an Imperial Marauder [Brawn 4 / Melee 3, Frenzied Attack, Feral Strength, Lethal Blows] armed with a lightsaber.
His attack pool is (after suffering 1 strain): 4 [Proficiency] + 2 [Difficulty] + any Defense and/or situational modifiers
His Damage is 10 + 1 (Feral Strength) + any successes vs. 0 soak (Lightsaber's Breach eats up to 10 soak)!
Also any [Advantage] is a Crit, with extras adding 10 to Crit roll (with +10 already from Lethal Blows)
Lemme just roll for fun… I'll add a Boost and 2 Setbacks…
1 Success + 1 Triumph + 1 Advantage (not the best really but ok)… that is 13 wounds & Crit Injury at +20
Now, when I think about giving the marauder 2 sabers (Ventress style), I shudder…
…for a Triumph or 2 Advantages I probably hit for 13 more unsoakable wounds, unless the extra Difficulty somehow messes with my roll.
And that is using the rules as we know them, without ANY Force support to combat skills.
Behold the awesome power of the elegant weapon


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Color Code: Red
By Tim McKeough
Matthew Patrick Smyth
"When you get the right red, it just perks everything up," says New York designer Matthew Patrick Smyth. "There's something energizing about walking into a red room. It can be a really happy color. Red is exciting, glamorous, and vibrant."
Color Code: Red
"I have a red living room, and I've had it that way for about 15 years," says Smyth. "The nicest compliment I've received was from a friend who came to my house for a party. She said, 'I wish I could go through life with these walls behind me.' Everyone looks good in red."
Madeline Stuart
"In all its various permutations, red can be a fantastic accent color with almost any other color," says Los Angeles designer Madeline Stuart. "Yves Saint Laurent said some wonderful things about red, noting that it can be the color of love, battle, death, and warmth. It really is amazing that red can convey so many more emotions than other colors do."
Color Code: Red
"This room is a library, and there's something about incorporating a red sofa that makes it feel cozy and inviting, in a way that only red can," says Stuart. "The color just exudes warmth. The sofa uses a spectacular red crushed linen-velvet fabric, which plays off the colors in the vintage 1930s wallpaper that we found."
Miles Redd
"Red, for me, is a great clarifier," says New York designer Miles Redd. "It makes light colors look sharper. The perfect example is a lady wearing red lipstick—she can have no other makeup on, and suddenly her features pop."
Color Code: Red
"The red leather door in this entrance hall adds a strong contrast to the cobalt blue lacquer," says Redd. "We wanted something special for the front door, but not too serious, and just a little bit witty—much like the people who live in this apartment."
Katie Ridder
"I think every room should have a touch of red—in a welt to offset a paler color, in a pillow, or a trim on a lampshade to add some jazz," says designer Katie Ridder. "My favorite color combinations usually include red—red and hyacinth, red and black, red and melon orange. It makes colors around it more interesting."
Color Code: Red
"This client wanted autumnal colors," Ridder says of this parlor she designed in Virginia. "This cherry red is pretty mixed with the yellows and oranges. We started with the antique Oushak rug, and made the room old fashioned, but in a fresh way."
Alex Papachristidis
"I love red because it's happy and exhilarating," says New York designer Alex Papachristidis. "You can also mix a variety of reds and they look great together; I don't even mind if they clash a bit. Red is dynamic and adds life to a room. I agree with a quote from Diana Vreeland: 'All my life I've pursued the perfect red.'"
Color Code: Red
"In my own apartment, I've used red everywhere: on upholstery and curtains, objects, and lampshades," says Papachristidis. "In my library, I used a bold red and white wallpaper with Chinese vases; I also used red as an accent on the daybed fabric and pillows. This room uses a lot of tobacco, a color that looks chic with red."


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I'm clearly ZehnWaters from those old boards (my screen name stays the same almost everywhere I go (I'm ZehnBrooks on one board)). Who all has imported from the OCR/RCR/Saga Edition?
Who all here is from the old Wizards of the Coast Boards?
Posted 19 January 2013 - 07:55 AM
Posted 19 January 2013 - 09:50 AM
Posted 19 January 2013 - 10:01 AM
I was Stormtrooper on the WotC boards. I played a lot of Star Wars Minis and still do. I didn't play much of Saga edition RPG as I still prefered West End Games' D6 Star Wars system. I haven't yet made a judgement about this Star Wars RPG version.
The Imperial 777th Fleet - waiting for Armada
The 731st Imperial Flight School - "The Vornskrs" - 2 VT-49 Decimators, 1 TIE Advanced, 3 TIE Interceptors, 10 TIE Fighters, 1 Lambda - 26 Victories, 1 Defeat - 79 kills versus 49 losses
The 721st Imperial Assault Stormtrooper Regiment - 4 Victories, 1 Defeat
Posted 19 January 2013 - 11:18 AM
I'm from there (same name). I didn't play much Saga, though I have all the books and countless minis. I'm a diehard WEG-holdout (I go way back to swrpgnetwork.com, starwarsrpg.net, and even Empress Jae's mailing list), and I'm addicted to Star Wars RPGs in general and love what FFG is doing with the license, compared to WotC. Only time will tell if FFG tops WEG in my eyes…
For the record, I immediately recognized you guys' names, as well!
Posted 19 January 2013 - 04:25 PM
Sturn also a long time ago in a forum far far away. It's been so long I don't think I would recognize anyone at all sorry. I was hanging around there when SAGA first came out. Was pretty vocal at the time when SAGA was being formed and spit out some playaids.
Aren't the old wizard SAGA forums missing from a certain point in the past (and further back)? I went searching once for an old post I had made regarding a hope that the upcoming 4th editon d20 would take note of what SAGA had done and wished I could get a copy, but failed to find it.
Sturn's FFG Star Wars Resources
"That Dewback won't hunt"
Posted 19 January 2013 - 04:30 PM
Hey Samophlange, Stormtrooper72 & Sturn I recognize you too!
Samophlange, I'm glad my name is so memorable
Posted 19 January 2013 - 05:05 PM
Long time WotC forumite. . . not that people are likely to recognize me . . . I mostly lurk, piping up from time to time.
Posted 20 January 2013 - 05:16 AM
I was over on the WotC boards for a while, under this very handle, and even contributed on a regular basis, but the whine to content ratio took too much of a nose dive for me to continue posting over there, especially once the D20 Radio forums got up and rolling.
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 05:32 AM
I was Imperator58 on the WotC boards. You'll see Hothie here periodically, too.
Posted 20 January 2013 - 07:21 AM
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 08:31 AM
Guess this includes me (TildenThorne on the old boards)…
Posted 20 January 2013 - 01:39 PM
IG-58 said:
I was Imperator58 on the WotC boards. You'll see Hothie here periodically, too.
Hey I remember you Imperator! I don't recall if that is a good or bad thing though.
Sturn's FFG Star Wars Resources
"That Dewback won't hunt"
Posted 22 January 2013 - 03:09 AM
I was on there under the same name. Been a while.
People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
Posted 23 January 2013 - 08:48 AM
I've appeared on the WotC forums during SE times, not before that I think - maybe I did, maybe I didn't, not sure. I am Jegergryte, and I will forever be Jegergryte - until some new nick is required. Which has happened once before, in the mid-90s.
Make sure your brain is engaged, before putting your mouth into gear.
"What about the future...? We can only hope, we cannot however account for the minutiae of the quanta, as all accidents in an infinite space are inevitable."
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Posted 23 January 2013 - 01:15 PM
I was on the mini's forums myself, but mostly lurking as well…
Posted 23 January 2013 - 02:03 PM
I was Jedi Master Leif over on the old boards. I'm still reading up on the new system.
Posted 25 January 2013 - 12:05 AM
I used to be on the WOTC boards, though I mostly posted in the Miniatures forum.
I also post as Sithspawn on SWRPGHolonet.
Posted 27 January 2013 - 05:34 PM
Went by McSham on those boards.
Posted 28 January 2013 - 06:38 PM
Eli the Tanner here (of the same name on the WotC boards), My group and I have just got the beginner box to try our hand at this rather intriguing version. We played the RCR and Saga edition fairly extensively so hopefully this one keeps us hooked too.
Posted 29 January 2013 - 02:52 AM
Rarely posted but lurked there, like here, for years lol
Im really hoping this version scratches my Star Wars itch, I really like Saga but I'm soured on d20 and it doesn't quite fit the feel.


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Charleroi mayor steps down from beleaguered theater board
With restorations to the Coyle Theater in Charleroi stalled for more than a decade, the board that owns the building is moving in a new direction to bolster the project.
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CHARLEROI – The mayor of Charleroi stepped down this week as chairman of a nonprofit organization that has struggled for more than a decade to raise money to restore an historic theater in the borough.
Barry Cassidy, a consultant appointed by the Mid Mon Valley Cultural Trust to seek money for the Coyle Theater project, confirmed Charleroi Mayor Nancy Ellis is no longer associated with the trust.
"The trust has no comment," Cassidy said.
Ellis has since 2002 led the trust, which purchased the building at 331 McKean Ave. originally built in the late 1890s as a burlesque house. The Coyle family later converted it into a 1,000-seat movie theater, which closed in 1999.
By 2009, the trust owed $14,000 in unpaid property taxes. In January, the Washington County Redevelopment Authority pulled a nearly $180,000 grant from the local share of the pot at The Meadows Casino in North Strabane Township from the trust because it failed to show it had raised enough money to see the work through.
Ellis, who resigned Monday, was replaced as trust chairman by Adele Pireaux, Cassidy said.
Cassidy said the trust will recruit new board members and focus immediately on raising $60,000 to replace the theater's leaking roof. The building has no electricity and a basement holding water.
He said borough council plans to approve an arts and economic development strategy he developed around the downtown enterprise zone, which offers eligible investors tax credits.
"We're going to utilize those credits on getting artists to locate in the downtown," Cassidy said.
He said an arts community would help to improve the outlook for supporting a theater.
The trust also is preparing to kick off a capital fundraising campaign and apply for a $500,000 zero-interest state loan to raise $1.4 million to reopen the building.
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Italy | Stickers have strong backing
Modena, Italy | Collectible football stickers (figurine) have achieved such cultural cache in Italy that they are afforded dedicated museum space and now a comprehensive exhibition running into February. "Mondo calcio—Campionati e campioni della storia del calcio in figurina" (The World of Football: Championships and Champions in the History of Football, in Sticker Form) at the Museo della Figurina celebrates the pastime that took hold in fin de siècle Europe and became institutionalized in Modena in 1961 with the creation of publishing concern Panini S.p.A.
Gazzetta di Modena includes 30 images from the exhibition in an online gallery, including the first Panini volume of Calciatori. (Pubblicato da Gazzetta di Modena)
Enthusiasm for football collectibles dates to the 19th century and cigarette cards (see Mar 16), but volumes of glue-backed or, in the Panini tradition, self-adhesive stickers purchased at newsstands and then inserted into annuals proved more long-standing and easier to organize. One precursor, shown in the Modena exhibit, originated in Argentina: "caramelos combinados." These were pictures of sportsmen on candy wrappers that could be rolled out and affixed to an album page (see Massimo Ciuchi, "Una mostra da collezione," La Gazzetta dello Sport, Dec 17).
In Italy, the collecting craze extended originally to images of film stars and to propagating interest in commercial products. One contest offered a Fiat 500 ("Cinquecento") to those who met the criteria for filling sticker books and for finding or trading for the inevitably rare item that would fill in the last blank space.
But the two world championships under manager Vittorio Pozzo in 1934 and 1938 made football the pursuit of collectors, primarily young boys. Newspaper distributors Benito and Giuseppe Panini started their collectibles business by reselling abandoned lots of old stickers they acquired in Milan. They placed the stickers in small white bags with red trim and charged 10 lire for each.
Diego Maradona in standard figurina size (4.9 x 6.5 cm), Napoli colors (1987–88) and available for purchase on ebay.it. Bidding starts at €0.01.
For the 1961–62 season, Panini initiated Calciatori Panini, the signature line of calcio albums that would expand, over time, to incorporate European competitions, leagues abroad as well as Disney figures, Barbie and animal life. Stickers were sold in batches, with between four and seven per set, at a standard size of 4.9 x 6.5 cm. The self-adhesive sticker model proved more sustainable than the glued-on variety in the UK.
The Panini family sold the concern in 1988, but it remains in Italian hands, reporting €579 million in turnover in 2006. From almost anywhere worldwide, one can now commission, at MyPanini, a personalized sticker design and accompanying album of one's dog, wedding or amateur XI.
Panini stickers in Germany historically have paid homage to the Bundesliga mullet, in accordance with the saying "business in the front, party in the back." Trash mag Bild provides a Sept 08 retrospective.


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'Freud's Last Session' is a compelling, gripping play
By Betty Mohr Theater firstname.lastname@example.com August 29, 2012 3:08PM
Mike Nussbaum (right, as Sigmund Freud) and Coburn Goss (C.S. Lewis) star in "Freud's Last Session" in Chicago. The show runs through Nov. 11.
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As the Nazis marched into power in Austria, Sigmund Freud made his escape to England.
It is now 1939 and Freud, listening to the radio, learns that Germany just took over Poland.
As the father of psychoanalysis sits in his London suite (a replica of his Vienna office) he hears the screaming assault of bombs as the Germans attack London.
It seems that the whole world is coming apart.
So begins the compelling and gripping "Freud's Last Session," which runs through Nov. 11 at Mercury Theater in Chicago.
The gem of a play, subtly directed by Tyler Marchant, is the brainchild of Mark St. Germain.
He has written an intriguing work about a fictional meeting between Freud and C.S. Lewis, the author of "The Chronicles of Narnia," "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and "The Screwtape Letters."
At the time of the men's meeting, though, Lewis' major works are still in the future.
There is no evidence that the two intellectual giants ever met, but St. Germain pits the two historical figures against each other.
He likely thought their conflicting ideas would make for an exhilarating dramatic experience, which it does.
Lewis had converted recently from atheism to belief in God and had written a scathing article on Freud and his belief that science trumps the existence of God.
Curious to have a talk with Lewis, Freud invites the man for a visit.
The conflict that erupts between the two great minds makes for delicious ideological fireworks as Lewis and Freud battle over free will, good and evil, the meaning of life and the existence of God.
Their explosive conversation goes further than a discussion of ideas, though.
Here we see the humanity of the men as they take turns on Freud's famous couch to discuss their own personal and psychological problems.
Lewis questions Freud's desperate attachment to his daughter Anna, and Freud grills Lewis about his having lived with a woman who was old enough to be his mother but wasn't his mother.
Of course, we're treated to Freud's theory that all psychological issues stem from sex, that all humans are bisexual and that God is a man-made myth.
The play is not just an intellectual exercise, though.
We see the humanity of the two men as Freud struggles with the oral cancer that will soon take his life and Lewis displays a Christian kindness as he comes to Freud's aid.
The only thing missing from this intriguing work is the answer to the question that hangs in the air and permeates the show.
What was it exactly that transformed Lewis from atheist to believer?
It's no fault of Coburn Goss, who does a fine job of portraying Lewis, that we never get a full explanation.
Indeed, Freud gets the best of Lewis in the drama. Maybe that's because St. Germain tipped the scales in Freud's favor, giving him the most penetrating and funny lines of dialogue in the show.
Or maybe it's because Mike Nussbaum, a living legend in Chicago theater, delivers such an exquisite and masterful portrayal of Freud that he brings the character to flesh-and-blood life.
Those who believe that theater is at its best when it's about ideas will relish this fascinating "Freud's Last Session."
Betty Mohr is a local freelance writer.


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BY RICK MORRISSEY firstname.lastname@example.com January 3, 2013 11:34PM
Phil Emery might conclude his search for a new coach sooner than later, perhaps in time for the East-West Shrine Game next Saturday. | Andrew A. Nelles~Sun-Times Media
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If you have some time on your hands, go back and watch Phil Emery's news conference from Tuesday. The video is available on chicagobears.com, and in it, you'll see a reasonable person answering questions without sounding like a parent who says, "Because I said so.''
The Bears' general manager has been lauded for his openness during that gathering and, well, OK. Good for him. But all of us — fans, media, collaterally damaged bystanders — are so beaten down from listening to Lovie Smith all these years that we treat any acknowledgment of our existence by a Bears representative as nothing short of a miracle.
The GM talking? And laying out a plan to find the next coach? And being specific about what a good coach should be?
But substance matters, and what Emery actually said proved that we weren't idiots for thinking that life under Smith was not the way life is supposed to be in the NFL. We lost sight of that with the non-answers and the deadpan face waiting for a joke that never came.
This might strike some of you as peripheral, beside-the-point stuff — the grumping of a sports columnist who prefers a bigger-than-life personality in a coach. Trust me, any personality would suffice. I'll take Jon Gruden, even if he turns out to be insufferable.
How a coach carries himself is important. He represents an entire corporate entity. What board of directors would want vacant looks out of its leader, especially when other, better brands are beating him on a consistent basis?
As Emery said, the coach sets the tone for the franchise. Smith was as warm as something forgotten in the freezer, and that spread throughout Halas Hall.
"I want somebody that has high energy,'' Emery said. "Somebody that pulls people together in the building. Whatever his personality subset is, or however he approaches it, I want somebody that has some warmth that pulls everybody together and that we have synergy, not only with our players but with everybody in the building to work toward our common goal. Upbeat and positive. Everybody has a different personality. Everybody represents themselves in a different way. But those qualities are paramount. We all want to work together in a positive environment toward winning championships.
"I want somebody that's good on their feet. I think working with the media, not only in Chicago but in a national sense, is very important. I want this person to stand up and represent us well.''
Smith's defenders love to point to New England's Bill Belichick as an example of a coach who is as tight-lipped as a Secret Service agent. Two things about that: One, Belichick has Super Bowl rings, plural. Lovie doesn't have one, singular. Two, when Belichick coached the Browns in the 1990s, he got run out of town for not winning and for having the personality of a beat-up wingtip.
Smith's defenders say his players play hard for him. I didn't realize that was such an unusual accomplishment in the NFL.
In a column earlier in the week, colleague Rick Telander told a wonderful story about Smith that he had heard through back channels. It seems Smith had overcome a fear and learned how to swim, in secret, at the pool inside Halas Hall. I wanted to cry. How much more human would Lovie have been to us had he shared that publicly? Why the need to keep everything under lock and key?
I'll never understand it. If you come back at me again with Belichick or Tom Landry, I'll point again to Super Bowl titles. You can get away with anything, even antisocial behavior, if you win. Smith didn't win championships. By the way, Belichick has opened up enough to say he's a big Bon Jovi fan. Come to think of it, points off for that.
Emery is in the middle of an intense coaching search. Names of candidates are leaking out, though probably not from him. Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians is the latest on the list. There's the strangest vibe around Chicago that anyone who cares about the Bears is in on the search process. Cool, even if it's not real.
Be careful what you wish for —isn't that what people are saying as the Bears move in a new direction? No worries. I'll take the chance they'll find a coach who can speak and win at the same time. I had forgotten that was physically possible.


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There is a level there like Unstability, but with only 1 dynamic, covering the goal area and not the goal pc, ...
Anyways, my point is that you overdid it. Either edit it or remove it.
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This is the first in what I will call the How To Fight Boredom series, which I will simply add to whenever I have new ideas and the time to sit down and write about 'em. I'm still getting a feel for this new blog and will soon return with my zine reviews and What I Got In The Mail This Week – now with photos!
I'm writing to you from the top bunk in one of about twenty bunk beds that are set up in this particular dormitory in a Montreal pharmaceutical research centre. As long as I am here, I am known not as Amber Forrester, but as Vingt-Cinq. There are thirty-nine other women in my group. Some of them are in bed in front of their own laptops and some of them are out in the common area, watching television, reading magazines and socializing with each other. I'm the Quiet One, as I've always been. The flirtier nurses call me Mean Girl when they spot my tattoos.
This is my second weekend participating in a study on Plan B. I haven't experienced any negative side effects, in case you're wondering. The pharmaceutical studies that I participate in are low-risk and generally involve staying at the clinic for two separate weekends, two to four weeks apart. The clinic is testing name brand medications versus generic. Basically, I'm a lab rat and I totally love it. I always bring something of a to-do pile with me, containing zines, letters, my agenda and a novel or two. And things get done! Since this morning, I've read three zines (Show & Tell #6, All I Want Is Everything #2 and the Dig Deep #2 / Your Secretary #10 split, all of which will be available shortly through Fight Boredom Distro), written seven letters to friends and kept up with my journal. I've also had fifteen vials of blood drawn (which frankly, I enjoy), half my debt is about to be paid off, and only one of the nurses switched to English on me. I'm a very happy girl. My weekends in the clinic are almost a vacation for me – a little tiny break from the distractions of the real world. I always come out feeling refreshed and inspired. Tonight, I know that I am going to write all night long – well, after my snack of applesauce and graham crackers.
Sometimes I have good stories to tell, like the time I did a study on genital pain (actually, I did it twice), or the researcher who was studying couples and told me that it sounded like I love pizza more than my previous partner (true), or the time I did a study on stress that involved doing a mock job interview and it was worse than any interview I've had in real-life. I'll share more with you in Culture Slut #25, which will hopefully be out early in 2012.
The pharmaceutical studies that I do are through Algorithme Pharma (this is not an endorsement of big pharma, just my alternative means of payin' the billz). I also participate in many of the research studies listed on McGill Classifieds, and I check Flat Broke MTL on a regular basis. Beats workin'!


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Creation cannot explain away its creator, it merely tells part of the story of him. The danger comes when we only need God for what we don't know, and, conversely, we don't need him in what we do know.
In the early 1700s, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz famously disagreed about whether God periodically "corrected" the orbits of the planets. Why their disagreement matters for today's debates about God and evolution.
Originally posted in 2011: Reconciliation is a much more demanding task than integration because it means an ongoing conversation between us and the unpredictability of how that ongoing conversation may affect each of us and our view of things.
For McGrath, nature is an "open secret...though open to public gaze, its deeper significance lies hidden."
Originally posted on June 11, 2012. Scientism is a rather strange word, but for reasons that we shall see, a useful one. Though this term has been coined rather recently, it is associated with many other "isms" with long and turbulent histories: materialism, naturalism, reductionism, empiricism, and positivism.
Is it possible to value humanity's place in the universe too much?
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If discussions of science and religion sometimes get bogged down in Genesis, perhaps that is because they have not made the preparatory journey through the rich material of the Wisdom books.
"The lack of a nuanced and public dialogue about how science can inform and deepen faith…is problematic for those who, like me, hold to the conviction that science and religion are not just compatible — they're soul mates," says outgoing BioLogos Web Editor Emily Ruppel.
This week's news features volcanoes, skeletons, and stars, as well as a thought-provoking new book from InterVarsity press.
All of science's discoveries are undergirded by beliefs about the true, good, and beautiful, which makes it all the more tragic when scientists claim to have risen above the search for these things.
We need to hear stories from others who have wrestled with evolution and Christian faith. What arguments made them change their views on science? How did they hold fast to their relationship with God? The essays in this series will eventually comprise a book, provisionally titled, "Evolving: Evangelicals Reflect on Evolution."


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What was your opinion of the Virginia Tech Massacre? In my opinion, it was as a result of a lack of social support, as well as inadequate resources at school to help this man face his many problems such as his anxiety disorder, selective mutism and severe depression. Overall, I think it was a preventable tragedy.
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Is it time to stop chasing investments that provide high(er) yields? But where else should you invest?
For many months now, investors have told me they want to find investments that can give them a yield that's greater than what they can get with treasuries or certificates of deposit (CDs). The business media has suggested high-yield bond funds, dividend-paying stocks, preferred stocks and master limited partnerships to name a few. Earning a higher yield seems to have become a national obsession.
If you invested in these strategies, you've been rewarded well so far and have earned an attractive yield and return on your money. If you're just starting your search now, you should exercise caution about putting all your funds in these strategies as many investors likely beat you to it. As more money goes into these investment vehicles, they become more bubble-like and you could be getting in at the top, which means they could lose value soon.
I am particularly concerned about the high-yield and master limited partnerships losing the most value if and when the bubble pops. I cannot predict if this will happen or when. However, I have learned over my 20 years in this industry that one needs to back away when the crowd is rushing in to an investment.
Remember that there's no free lunch–that yield does equal risk. So your 'reward' for maximizing yield may not be so rewarding.
Some people try to balance obtaining yield with 'safer' investing, choosing dividend-paying stocks.
The main reasons individuals invest in dividend-paying investments are:
1. Once you reach retirement, you'll generally want to live off of dividends, thereby
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2. The federal government currently taxes dividends at a low 15-percent rate. Even if you aren't a retiree, you may want dividend-paying stocks for the double benefit of the dividend and (hopefully) price appreciation.
If you're like the majority of people invested in the market crash during 2008, you were hit with losses and hopefully you were able to harvest those losses so as to offset future investment gains. Because the market is up, now might be a good time to take advantage of those gains.
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I recommend that you now allocate a portion, depending on your comfort level, of up to 50 percent of your portfolio for total return instead of dividends. Of course, you will have less income but you will be investing in strategies that have fewer bubble characteristics and better opportunity for price appreciation. Then when you need to take income, you only need to sell an amount equal to the appreciation, thereby leaving your principal intact. And those gains can be offset by the investment losses you carry forward on taxes so you won't pay any tax.
So what are some investment ideas that may be worth considering? Many excellent large capitalization companies' stocks don't pay any dividends or only a small one. You can access these by buying the S&P 500 exchange-traded fund (ETF) (symbol SPY).
I believe it's a good time to consider a small allocation (3 percent) to mid- and small-cap stocks, and an allocation to the fast-growing emerging markets (that pay virtually no dividends). As I mentioned in my last blog, Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) have low yields but have had good returns.
As always be sure that you diversify your investment portfolio and invest in a position slowly over time.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and should not be interpreted as individualized investment advice. Investment objectives, risk tolerances and the financial situation of individual investors may vary. Please consult your financial and tax advisors before investing.


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An Illinois State Police crime scene investigator works the scene of a suspicious fire at 15230 S. Central Avenue in Oak Forest Tuesday, December 18, 2012. | Brett Roseman~Sun-Times Media
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The strangulation of an Oak Forest woman, found Tuesday in her fire-ravaged house, remains under investigation, but Police Chief Greg Anderson said Friday that police were able to talk to the woman's husband, who had his throat slashed.
No one has been charged in the death of Erica Rodriguez, 40, of the 15200 block of Central Avenue, Anderson said. Her death was ruled a homicide by the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Anderson declined to say what police learned from Martin Rodriguez and has not divulged other details of the investigation, including how he was wounded. The chief would not say whether someone broke into the house.
"I can't get into specifics of the evidence," he said. "We've never had a crime like this in Oak Forest before. There are a lot of theories out there. We are investigating every potential angle."
On Friday, he reminded residents to ask for identification if a stranger comes to their door.
"If you see something suspicious, give us a call," Anderson said.
The Rodriguezes have three children. Oak Forest police and Erica's family and friends have established a fund at Carlinville National Bank, 5459 W. 159th St., Oak Forest, to aid the family. New clothes and toys are being collected at the police department, 15440 Central Ave.