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UNFAIR: Christians and the LGBT Question
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5″, direct from John Shore, autographed by John Shore and inscribed per your request.
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The touching, brave, and frequently heartbreaking letters in UNFAIR should be required reading for any Christian who claims that gay people can't also be Christians–and for LGBT people who feel there's some conflict between their sexual orientations or gender identities and their faith. John Shore is sharp, he's funny, and he's right. To find out why I've called him America's preeminent non-douchey Christian, buy and read this book. And I challenge anyone who believes that the Bible justifies the persecution of their gay and lesbian neighbors–particularly those on the religious right who've made lucrative careers for themselves out of bearing false witness against their gay and lesbian neighbors—to read this book's opening essay, Taking God at His Word: The Bible and Homosexuality. — Dan Savage (American Savage, Savage Love, founder of the It Gets Better Project)
John Shore (who is straight) is one of America's leading Christian writers on the subject of the relationship between LGBT people and Christianity. His pioneering, galvanizing essays are widely credited with being central to the sea change in Christian thinking that has occurred on this issue in recent years. UNFAIR offers the best of Shore's writings on homosexuality and Christians/Christianity, along with thirty extremely moving life stories from people telling what it's like to grow up both gay and Christian. The book's opening essay, "Taking God at His Word: The Bible and Homosexuality," is a must-read for anyone seeking clarity on the relationship between the Bible, Christianity, and LGBT people. If you read only one book on this subject, make it this one. (This is the revised and updated edition of Shore's book, UNFAIR: Why the 'Christian' View of Gays Doesn't Work.)
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For most of us, the fact that gay kids growing up in evangelical homes are made to feel worthless, unloved and unwanted is just plain depressing. For John Shore … it's a challenge–an opportunity to teach, to preach, to gently mock, and, most importantly, to throw the love of Jesus right back at evangelicals. — Randy Roberts Potts
Amen! A book that gives voice to the thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning people who have been told they must sacrifice their identity to be Christian — Believe Out Loud
John Shore writes a very popular blog on religious and social issues. Early in 2011, I observed as a few folks began emailing John about their struggles with the church's position on homosexuality and the prejudice they faced from the church because of their sexuality. Without fail, John responded with grace and love to those letter writers, and in his responses, issued numerous challenges to the church to repent of their sins.
Sensing the power of these personal stories, John issued a call for folks to share their stories, to share the pain inflicted upon them by the church, and their struggles to reconcile faith and sexuality. Those letters form the framework of this book. Each of these letters tore at my heartstrings as I read of the hatred and abuse heaped upon the writers, and I am angered by the fact that this abuse was committed in the name of Christ. Yet there is liberation in the letters as well, as some of the writers relate wonderfully touching, amazing personal experiences of a God that offers no condemnation, but only love and welcome.
Interspersed between these letters are John's own reflections, in articles that challenge the church to actually inhabit the gospel of grace and share that grace with others.
Finally, John and his wife Cat systematically lay waste to all so-called "biblical" opposition to homosexuality, taking each of the so called "clobber passages" and stripping them of the rhetoric that has been attached.
As a former conservative evangelical, and now progressive pastor; I have studied the issue of homosexuality for years. I can say that without a doubt, this book is the best treatment of the subject that I have ever read. This should be on the desk of every pastor, every teacher or youth leader. — Roger McClellan, The Progressive Christian Alliance
I just finished reading John Shore's UNFAIR: Why the 'Christian' View of Gays Doesn't Work.
I'm not trying to exaggerate, but anyone who reads this book and still has a hard heart towards gay people defended by a christian worldview, I would seriously question the existence of their soul, conscience, heart or ability to reason.
Shore presents a collection of letters that he's received over the years from GLBT individuals who have had a first hand experience of the Church's discrimination against gay people (he writes a blog, so he gets a lot of mail/email from readers), interspersed with essays written by himself, all ultimately demonstrating "Why the 'Christian' View of Gays Doesn't Work". The last chapter is an essay written by Shore and his wife entitled Taking God at his Word: The Bible and Homosexuality, which addresses the 7 specific verses in the Bible that appear to refer to homosexuality.
The letters themselves are what I found most powerful about this book. Personal accounts of people who have lost relationships, livelihood, and love because of the Church's insistence on defending the lie that God does not accept gay people as they are. Some of them lost hope and lost their faith. But a very good many of them learned to separate the Church (humans) from God, and found that God loved them and wanted to have a relationship with them. It is really beautiful, and this testament supports the overwhelming truth of this book. God loves everyone, he created everyone to be exactly who they are, and he intended gay people to belong in his Church body.
Shore's essays are sharp and clairvoyant. He has a gift for seeing the true nature of things, and expressing it concisely with words. He clears the cloudiness in our minds of why this issue makes people uncomfortable, why they fight it so strongly, why this topic, hardly discussed in the Bible, is blown SO COMPLETELY out of proportion as to destroy people's lives. He exposes the blatant hypocrisy in the church on this issue, that should leave just about anyone who identifies as Christian, not just a little embarrassed. He is confident that things are changing, and that it is only a matter of time before the church hardly remembers a time when it excluded gay people.
John Shore is a straight, married man. He didn't become a Christian until he was 38 years old, but he is very earnest about his faith, and I think that's why this is so important to him. He came into the church later in life and was horrified to see that this was going on in communities of believers. People who grow up in the church I think become immune the appalling attitudes of the church towards GLBT people.
Please, for the Love of God, read this book. — Fish out of Water: The Life and Times of a Gay Girl in the Midwest
John Shore, a straight, humorous, insightful man has written UNFAIR: Why the "Christian" View of Gays Doesn't Work. The "quotes marks" around Christian are on purpose, in case you were wondering. Now, lest you think this is John's only book about Christianity, what works and what doesn't, think again. He's been writing these thought provoking page turners for a while.
UNFAIR offers thirty powerful pieces of writing that ran the gamut of personal persecution stories to gays by people who feel the Bible justifies them and makes them right in their thinking, and an additional eighteen pieces of writing by Mr. Shore that point out why what these "Christians" are doing in the name of Christianity is so wrong. It's pretty potent stuff. The beautiful thing is that much of the book is done with insight and humor, which make it eye opening without being inflammatory — Shelly's LGBT Book Review Blog
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- April 14, 2012 at 3:21 pm
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- December 18, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Did you read the book? Most of us here can spew back what we've heard from our pastors regarding homosexuality. That does not mean that the spewage is correct.
The line, "Sometimes, repentance means deliverance from a lifestyle a person thinks they were born with," is just downright rude, since it is obvious that you are referring to gay people, as opposed to sinners or other bad folks.
Why not hang around and read John's blog, and maybe read the book. Then get yourself some gay friends and family members and then shoot us another comment.
Susan in NY
- December 18, 2011 at 5:40 pm
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- December 18, 2011 at 4:45 pm
John is this available in Canada?
- December 24, 2011 at 4:14 am
I was trying to find it at Chapters/Indigo in Canada too, but, it wasn't there. Canada NEEDS this right now John.
- December 2, 2011 at 9:33 am
Love your insight, John. As always, thanks.
- November 29, 2011 at 10:47 pm
When is the exact date that this comes out on paperback?
- November 29, 2011 at 3:03 pm
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- November 29, 2011 at 1:54 pm
I am very interested in acquiring your book. I have been looking for something like this on the B&N site (I have a nook) and couldn't find anything!
- November 29, 2011 at 8:57 am
John, Sherri doesn't even deserve a response. No need to get into a pissing match with the delusional. She hasn't read the book. She doesn't get it. And I'm not speaking of your book. I'm speaking of the Bible. The whole "multiple marriage partners" statement… Obviously shows her lack on biblical scholarship.
- November 29, 2011 at 11:06 am
I disagree. I don't think Sherri has the capacity for meaningful dialogue and her "defense of faith" is nothing more than an emotionally-fueled rant by someone who uses Jesus as a hiding place from her own rage and homophobia. I certainly understand your intent but the world watches those of us who are also Christian in these moments. When she's not countered, our silence means approval.
- November 29, 2011 at 8:16 am
"Grow up" "That's how the grown ups do it"
This is how you respond to respectful criticism? Who's the childish one. Seriously.
- November 29, 2011 at 10:58 am
Sherri what you fail to realize is that your initial posture upon entering this forum was aggressive, hostile and frankly very rude. But you won't see that because as we've discovered before a thousand times, people who enter into conversation just like you did believe they are fueled by the righteousness of God. That you've encountered people who are "hurting" Him and it's obedient to speak in the ways you do.
Your zeal for God – the God we serve too – makes you blind to your own bad behavior and then once your bad behavior is raised to your awareness? You will either dismiss it or you will justify it or simply ignore it all together and leave. We've seen it a million times. Perhaps you'll be different but I hold absolutely no hope that Christians like you have the capacity or even the desire to take ownership for how you're received in these kinds of conversations. So there you go.
- November 29, 2011 at 10:59 am
In short? That you actually characterize your comments as "respectful criticism" is creepy and unsettling. You don't even see how rude you were. It's scary.
- November 29, 2011 at 1:51 pm
I don't believe that this is how he responds to respectful criticism.
Do you have any respectful criticism?
- November 28, 2011 at 1:05 pm
So the Bible is open for interpretation for our purposes? Laughing at "Woe". Sir, Woe to twisting the scriptures to suit our own "itching ears" is not something to laugh at.
Will your next book support multiple marriage partners? That's the newest way society is perverting the sanctity of marriage. After all the many verses that say Marriage is to be between one woman & one man surely must have MEANT something else? right?
- November 28, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Oh. My. God.
Grow up already. You say that like we haven't heard it from a million other ignorant fundies like yourself. Who told you the Bible could only be taken one way? Go educate yourself before passing judgment on something you know absolutely nothing about.
- November 28, 2011 at 8:49 pm
Multiple marriage partners is absolutely NOT a new concept. In fact, it's older than the 1man 1woman concept we have today. When Paul writes that each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband he is making a revolutionary statement. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, kings Solomon and David (among many, many others) all had multiple wives and concubines. Plus, he's writing to Ephesus, a town plagued by pagan rituals involving sex and has nothing to do with marriage as we know it 1900 years later. In fact, Paul probably wouldn't recognize the romanticized version of marriage we have become accustomed to in the last 150 years.
- November 29, 2011 at 11:03 am
Christians, take note. This is exactly why people can't stand us. Sherri has entered this forum, inserted extensive meaning into what John has written while at the same time, asking him to defend this meaning she's inserted (that he didn't even offer).
It's symptomatic of people who are threatened and give themselves license to do this kind of thing in the name of "Jesus. And Sherri is our mess to clean up because she's the reason why people won't thoughtfully engage us. We can't sit back silently and allow people like Sherri to treat people with such disrespect – she won't change, she doesn't have the capacity to but as we counter her and call her on her manipulative behavior? Online or off? Reasonable people watch us do that and we redeem their hope that Christianity isn't just a place for the emotionally unstable and character-challenged of our world.
- November 27, 2011 at 10:27 am
Thank God, finally, someone who knows the bible and is able to intelligently express what is said without the "Cherry Picking" that most people do. I think the LBGT society is totally discrimanated against, and it is just wrong. Anyone I know who is gay, has known it since they were young. I don't think they chose their orientation, it's just who they are. We bend over backwards to be politically correct about everything else – sometimes to a ridicolous degree – except this. An elderly friend of mine (who I've never know to go to church or to read anything but Vouge & House Beautiful & those Tabloids) told me it says it's wrong in the bible. When I asked her what verse or what exactly does it say, she hesitated – most likely because she hasn't read the bible – then said with much certainty: "The bible says it's wrong" Oh, ok – can't tell me where or what it says exactly……to cut her a break, she is in her 80's, although my mom is in her late 70's and she's more live and let live, & she doesn't think it's a random choice they made. I grew up in the sterotypical family from the late 50's; Mother, Father & 2 kids, a boy & a girl, a dog and a cat. It was an extremely dysfunctional and abusive, terrible way to grow up – due to my Dad, when he passed away, I cried a little – he was my blood father, and I am human, but – I had dreams for about a year that he was alive, and I'd wake up and remember he was gone, and can't come back and hurt us ever again & then I'd feel so relieved. The gay friends I have who've adopted children are wonderful parents, they had to try so hard to get their child(ren). So what if some kids have 2 moms or 2 dads, if they're loving, giving, teaching right from wrong, preparing the kids for the real world without breaking them down & killing their spirit (as my bro & I were) they are very lucky kids. It's so refreshing to have someone who actually knows what they're talking about regarding the bible, to not use God against them. And, what about that crazy cult who goes to soliders FUNERALS and make a mockery of these poor people who hve lost a loved one who was fighting for our rights and freedom for everyone…..except the LBGT community. I don't get the cult, or what is there screwed up reasoning? What does a poor dead soldier have to do with LBGT? Is it because we have the "Don't ask and don't tell"? I just don't get the connection, even If I did get the connection it is so disrespectful, and crazy, and horrible for the families. Can someone tell me please – what is in their tiny minds that has them doing something so horrible to people who have just lost a loved one, a very brave loved one fighting for the rights of everyone…….even that idiotic, off the wall, disgusting, dispecable, cult? I apologize for my rambling & going off on tangents, I wish I could say things more succinctly – but, I can't. I talk this way also, which, people who don't know me well are sometimes bewildered at my point, and what is it, and will I ever get there? FYI, I usually do, but it's like a road trip, where we stop at places that catch my attention along they way. Raise your hand if you think it's ADD! Thank you for your time!
- November 18, 2011 at 12:46 pm
John Shore – is it for the pastor who you met with some weeks or months ago who said he couldn't be open with his beliefs re: LGBT & Christianity because the congregation would flip out?
- November 16, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Personally, its my mission to educate, inform and build bridges between the LGBT community and the church. Its an ongoing process…
- November 16, 2011 at 5:32 pm
We need to keep on educating and informing…its a mission.
- November 16, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Some are giving up the fight to educate…… both gay and straight. Never, never, give up. What if the Freedom Ride never happened because they all just gave up….? Come on!
- November 16, 2011 at 2:09 pm
I NEED this for my church…
- November 16, 2011 at 1:21 pm
Great work John – you really hit on the important messages and meanings with this one.
- November 16, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Thanks John…much appreciated. It will be extremely useful.
- November 16, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Sue: as Pat says: download the kindle e-reader ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_ipad_mkt_lnd?docId=1000493771), which you can then use to read any kinde book. Or wait for the paperback, due out in, I believe, a a month.
- November 16, 2011 at 1:04 pm
WANT! put me down for one.
- November 16, 2011 at 12:49 pm
ok thanks
- November 16, 2011 at 12:49 pm
sue, you can download Kindle for PC from Amazon for free. I don't think there is a hardcopy…
- November 16, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Will Wings on a Pig be available in hard copy? I don't have a kindle.
- November 16, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Maybe God at God's Word?
- November 16, 2011 at 12:27 pm
cool – just got the Kindle book…..
- November 15, 2011 at 5:47 am
Thanks, Michael D. Watt!
- November 15, 2011 at 4:05 am
Great book, John! I finished it yesterday.
- November 14, 2011 at 11:23 pm
I don't need this book to tell me what God says about homosexuality. All I need is what God wrote to us Himself. The Bible. It's very clear in there. There are many, many passages that tell us His attitude toward His creation and those who pervert it. There's also many passages that tell us what happens to those who lie about His Word. Woe!
- November 15, 2011 at 2:55 am
Marianne – are you new to this blog? If so, please take some time to read some of John's recent posts (including all the comments) dealing with Christianity and homosexuality. I know that you think the Bible is crystal clear on this, but please allow yourself the possibility that some of what you have always thought is clear is actually clouded by CULTURAL issues (both in Biblical times, and in the ages since), and that many, many people who love Jesus just as much as you do have come to a different conclusion to your own. While there are *some* Bible passages that have historically been used to teach that homosexuality is a sin, there are vastly MORE passages that deal with issues of love and grace and not judging others and not marginalizing those who are 'different'.
- November 15, 2011 at 6:16 am
But what if you are wrong, Marianne? God asks us to be discerning….which means weighing and considering all the information available, not simply following what we have always been told. If we never consider another point of view, how can what we have be called faith? How is what we believe a choice of free will? If all you are ever served is spaghetti, how do you know that spaghetti is the only right type of pasta to eat? That's not faith. That's just eating what you have been given.
PS: God didn't write the bible. This is why nuance and accuracy are important.
- November 18, 2011 at 2:40 pm
"All I need is what God wrote to us Himself. The Bible. It's very clear in there."
what God wrote??? Ha Ha 😀 Ha Ha 😀 Ha Ha 😀 Hee Hee 😀 Ho Ho 😀
It's very clear??? Hee Hee 😀 Ha Ha 😀 Hee Hee 😀 Ho Ho 😀 Hee Hee 😀
I'm laughing because that kind of childish ignorance is so sad. I don't want to cry.
- November 11, 2011 at 4:59 pm
This may be the best review I've ever read about anything. Perfection!
- November 11, 2011 at 4:29 pm
It's TOO BAD that many Evangelicals don't have the backbone to admit that their attitude toward LGBT people is the product of BADLY misguided thinking! More power to folk like John Shore!!
- November 11, 2011 at 3:19 pm
I downloaded and started reading… Wow…
- November 10, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Here's where to get the Kindle reader app for any computer or device: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_ipad_mkt_lnd?docId=1000493771
- November 10, 2011 at 6:04 pm
I downloaded this today for my mac. It worked beautifully.
- November 10, 2011 at 1:47 pm
I'm looking forward to the print book. I recently donated several progressive books on "homosexuality & the Bible" to my church library (which were welcomed enthusiastically & have been much in demand since). I'm glad that the subject is still being researched in a scholarly fashion by people like yourself, against the backdrop of the understanding that a diversity of people has always existed, and no "God" would have damned His "creations." Thanks.
- November 10, 2011 at 1:40 pm
I have a Kindle on order as a Christmas gift to myself, but I downloaded the Kindle app for my computer so I could read this TODAY. I'll take time to write more later, but this book is definitely worth it, folks.
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Re: 9 tuner installationshannon01 Aug 6, 2014 5:27 PM (in response to mdh12)
You will need a standard LNB and 4 coaxes total to the SWM16 then you can connect the Genie to either one of the SWM ports then connect the SWM splitter to the other for the rest you can have only 8 tuners on each SWM port on the SWM16.
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When connected using the standard LNB, I assume I will not need the power inverter. Is that correct?
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You will need a standard LNB and 4 coaxes total to the SMW16 then you can connect the Genie to either one of the SWM ports then connect the SWM splitter to the other for the rest you can have only 8 tuners on each SWM port on the SWM16.
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Re: 9 tuner installationpeds48 Aug 6, 2014 7:11 PM (in response to mdh12)
the 4 cables from the LNB will go to the SWM16 switch which requires a 29v power supply
Re: 9 tuner installationbufmufr Aug 7, 2014 6:34 PM (in response to mdh12)
ok..so I don't understand..
You have swm3 lnb..but you also have swm16 multiswitch? you either have one or other.
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if you have swm 16 multiswitch...you are good as long as tuners are balanced on it...(meaning no more then 8 tuners on one side of the multiswitch)
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Re: 9 tuner installationlitzdog911 Aug 7, 2014 9:58 PM (in response to bufmufr)
bufmufr, I think shannon01 made it pretty clear. mdh12 will need to replace the SWM LNB with a standard non-SWM LNB with four coax outputs. Those four coax outputs will connect to the 4 SAT inputs on the SWM16.
Re: 9 tuner installationpnorm Aug 10, 2014 3:36 PM (in response to mdh12)
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Why Farrell doffs its caps to Christys', plus GQ.com's hat factory tour photo diary
By Jamie Millar 17 April 12
GQ.com recently went on a field/road trip aboard a "luxury Winnebago" to the Christys' factory in Witney, Oxfordshire . There Farrell's head of design Ben Dickens, formerly design director at Burberry, revealed why the clothing brand founded by Robbie Williams had elected to work with the storied hat-maker for everyone from Winston Churchill to Don Corleone.
Founded in 1773, Christys' was originally based in London, then
Stockport. Aside from that, not much has changed. Indeed, the
factory is practically a working museum, with the youngest piece of
machinery at least half a century old. The handmade hat-making arm
was bought by Liberty
last year, separating it from the Christys' group, the chief
interest of which had become Far East-sourcing and making Disney
costumes, with the promise to sustain and eventually perhaps even
resurrect the dying trade.
As well as its own hats (available to buy, unsurprisingly, in Liberty), Christys' has also made headgear for fashion brands as diverse as Paul Smith and Karl Lagerfeld. For two seasons now it has also collaborated with Farrell, for spring/summer 2012 in the various shapes of baker boy, Panama and foldaway trilby. As Dickens explained, the quality and heritage of Christys' chimes particularly well with Farrell, inspired as it is by Robbie's grandfather Jack "The Giant-Killer" Farrell. (He earned the nickname boxing, FYI.) Here are some other things we learnt along the way.


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Amanda And Jakes Wedding Cake
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This cake was made for my old nephew and new niece's wedding. I had license to do what I wanted but she liked buttercream ruffles and swirl roses. I added the sparkly sugar coated, fondant draped tier to separate them some and accented with a silver heart locket (like bride's necklace) and sparkly hello kitty bow. The decor was cream and white with blue Gumpaste roses, calla lilies and yellow filler flowers which were fashioned to look like bouquets. I had some leaning problems but overall it turned out okay. TFL.
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The mayor is calling a special meeting to address new voter district lines in Washington.
Mike Hefner with Geographic Planning and Demographic Services, a contractor with the city, told the Washington City Council Monday that based on data from the 2010 U.S. Census, two of the town's voting districts exceed the 5-percent population deviation allowed and will need to be remapped before this year's regular elections.
As of 2010, 964 people lived in Washington. That means each of the four voting districts must have within 5 percent of 241 residents. ...


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These five words capture our way of thinking – and our way of doing business – at Hoff Miller. Since 1985, we have been providing interior design professionals with both the high level of product they need, as well as the high level of service they deserve, to ensure that they shine in the eyes of their own clients.
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Polsby on Changes in Law School Rankings
As U.S. News & World Report contemplates a change to its law school ranking system by combining day and evening program statistics, law school deans, including Mason Law Dean Daniel Polsby, caution that the action could have an unintended negative effect on law school evening programs.
Currently U.S. News calculates its rankings using the LSAT and GPA for full-time students only. A spokesman for the publication cited a concern that schools were admitting students with lower test scores and grades to evening programs to avoid having to report their statistics as a factor in considering the change in reporting methods.
Polsby says evening programs typically accept students who further enrich the law program by bringing life experience with them to class. "At every law school I know with a part-time program you are talking about [students who are] older, racial or ethnic minorities, people with jobs and families, people with interesting life experience that kids who are just past adolescence can't be expected to have," he said. "Their college records are many years in their past and a less impressive measure of the law student he or she will be. Shutting them out will damage the profession."
Change Ahead for Law School Rankings? The National Law Journal, July 7, 2008. By Peter Page.


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I don't understand what all this whining over the demolition of the downtown mall is all about.
The community had meetings with Mayor Andrew Halverson and the city council, but the mayor didn't like your way - why should he?
The city council wasn't happy either but, as always, the mayor has his "yes" votes and it is not going to change.
You all voted for him so stop crying and remember the old saying, "You get what you pay for" and now you have to live with it.
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I have a WCF service running as a Windows service on my local machine.
When I try to attach VS2010 to the process. It throws the following error.
Microsoft WCF Service Host
WcfSvcHost encountered a critical error and must exit. This may be caused by invalid configuration file. Please inspect additional information below for detail.
System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information. at System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes(RuntimeModule module) at System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes() at Microsoft.Tools.SvcHost.ServiceHostHelper.LoadServiceAssembly(String svcAssemblyPath)
But still I can attach to the process and debug it.
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Lots of Dots
posted on: 1/02/2013
110 comments:
- jennifoundinmyclosetJanuary 2, 2013 at 9:31 AM
Gorgoeus! I love the dots on dots...so fun!ReplyDelete
- Megha VarshiniJanuary 2, 2013 at 9:35 AM
love the sweater..ReplyDelete
very pretty, love the sweater.ReplyDelete
- LadiesinnavyJanuary 2, 2013 at 9:39 AM
beautiful! loving your polka dots and the gold necklaces!ReplyDelete
kw, http://www.ladiesinnavy.com
haha man I could jump on the year of not improving band wagon with youReplyDelete
- sealedwithstyleJanuary 2, 2013 at 9:41 AM
I love you dots on dots on dots ;) Happy New Year Kendi!ReplyDelete
You look darling. Loving the polka dots! As always.ReplyDelete
xo Hannah
I love lots of dots!!!ReplyDelete
- Carly G.January 2, 2013 at 9:43 AM
Love your look! Which hotel did you stay at on vacation? ...it had such a cool retro feel to it :)ReplyDelete
- Leslie L.January 2, 2013 at 9:43 AM
Welcome back to the internet! Happy New Year and I love your dots!ReplyDelete
Xo, Leslie
- JenniferJanuary 2, 2013 at 9:45 AM
Can you get any cuter than double polka dots?ReplyDelete
xo Jennifer
- Annika BenitzJanuary 2, 2013 at 9:47 AM
Happy new year! May you resolve to stay as witty and peppy as ever. Your blog has been a delight to read and I can't wait to see what the new year brings.ReplyDelete
Ditto on the whole resolutions thing. I feel like resolutions are just doomed to fail. So I don't make any. Problem solved, right?ReplyDelete
P.S. Love the play on dots here and your beautiful brown accessories!
- Dina KarivalisJanuary 2, 2013 at 9:54 AM
I'm a huge polka dot fan so I love your dot on dot look. Your outfits are so inspiring for everyday wear! Thanks!ReplyDelete
xo Dina
Sweetest Somethings
- GlamourGirl_bgJanuary 2, 2013 at 9:54 AM
awesome look!ReplyDelete
- Natali KarppinenJanuary 2, 2013 at 9:57 AM
Fabulous boots and sweater!ReplyDelete
I LOVE the dots together!ReplyDelete
Love the dots on dots and those super fab boots! Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
xo, Yi-chia
Always Maylee
Dotty hottie. Love this!ReplyDelete
Great outfit! I love the double dots!ReplyDelete
The Purse Snatcher
love the dots! and the look on you! :) I would also be satisfied with some wine and cheese. Sounds like a perfect holiday to me :) I haven't made any resolution yet. Don't know if I should :)ReplyDelete
- Charlee AnneJanuary 2, 2013 at 10:21 AM
I love this cute casual look! Happy new years!ReplyDelete
Charlee Anne @ thepreppygraduate.com
- Janine BakeGlueandTrendJanuary 2, 2013 at 10:21 AM
I love this outfit, since Dressember I have been yearning for a chic selection of jeans, jumpers and boots. I may start a pinterest board (called 'beyond Dressember') and have this outfit on it as my first pin if that is ok by you?ReplyDelete
Sounds like a delightful little trip you had, cheese is the best, I think I have eaten about 2kg of cheese since 20th December (no lie) I should be about 6 dress sizes bigger but cheese is the one thing I can hoover up and just about get away with it! Any excuse eh?!
Janine xxBakeGlueandTrend
- Morgan LitiJanuary 2, 2013 at 10:23 AM
Love all the dot action today! And I made quite a few New Year's resolutions, but tried to stay vague and small so that no one will know I'm not breaking them (wink). Happy New Year!MorganReplyDelete
- Mai Linh NguyenJanuary 2, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Simple things make me happy too ;) Cute outfit, I need a sweater like that! Happy new year to you!ReplyDelete
- JessicaJanuary 2, 2013 at 10:32 AM
Love the polka dots!! Here's to making and breaking new year's resolutions! :)ReplyDelete
- Ivyanna AdamsJanuary 2, 2013 at 10:38 AM
Really like this outfit, very fitting for our weather over here. Its very Western meet city chic. So far I've only made 2 resolutions-to learn to drive and to ride a bike at the age of 22. Happy New Year.ReplyDelete
- MsPeachPlusJanuary 2, 2013 at 10:39 AM
simply love this outfit!ReplyDelete
Cute dots! I love it :)ReplyDelete
love that sweater and double dotsReplyDelete
- Margaret ShepardJanuary 2, 2013 at 10:46 AM
Love the layered dot look. I got some great dot sweaters from Old Navy this fall, so this will be a great new way to try them out.ReplyDelete
I like lots of dots :) And your boots! Gorgeous!ReplyDelete
I love the sweater!! You look lovely! xo, ChristinaReplyDelete
I'm a little late to the resolution game too! Glad to hear you had a nice relaxing holiday -- underrated way to spend the holidays if you ask me!ReplyDelete
And of course, I'm loving the dots on dots!
cute look, no resolution for me this year.ReplyDelete
Kendi, where is your bracelet from???ReplyDelete
Polka dots on polka dots? Genius! I'm glad to hear that you and B had a nice break with cheese and wine galore, as far New Years resolutions, I don't have any... yet, I'm still deciding on what I really would want to see happen. Anyway, love your outfit and I can't wait for another year filled with fun fashion!ReplyDelete
You know what's usually missing from polka dots? More polka dots. I think "more polka dots" should be your one and only NY resolution. Congrats, you've already succeeded.ReplyDelete
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Haha, always hilarious, Kendi. Love the dots on dots! I've been trying to find something polka dotted lately, and can't find anything I really love!ReplyDelete
I didn't make any resolutions because I know I'd break them.ReplyDelete
- chioma anosikeJanuary 2, 2013 at 11:29 AM
loving the dots on dots and that bag :)ReplyDelete
happy new year!
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Beautiful as always!ReplyDelete
Always love lots of dots! Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
- Stephanie LamJanuary 2, 2013 at 11:50 AM
Who can resist dots on dots!!! Love this look!ReplyDelete
This is so cute - love the variation in the sizes of dots and that the colors are different here...this would be a great weekend look for me :)ReplyDelete
Every year I make so many resolutions and some of them get accomplished and some of them don't.ReplyDelete
This year I decided to want less and accomplish more.
To do more and expect less.
- DearpoetdesignsJanuary 2, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Love this look. And love that necklace. I just got one similar to it!ReplyDelete
- Count To FourJanuary 2, 2013 at 12:09 PM
love all the polka dots! and that getaway sounds so good and relaxing!ReplyDelete
Fredericksburg is the best! I went there recently to do a wine tour with a bachelorette... classy-ish and so much fun. The night life was not to die for, but the lights were cool. Love the dots!!ReplyDelete
- Brittany KyteJanuary 2, 2013 at 12:18 PM
Beautiful outfit! I have just one thing that I have purposed to do, but it is more of a life-goal and less of a "New Year, better me" goal. :)ReplyDelete
Such a great little outfit for rainy weather. Love the initial necklace too!ReplyDelete
xo Jessica
dots on dots was a stroke of genius! That little getaway must have served you well!ReplyDelete
hahaha, cheese is a fabulous distraction! so far so good on my resolutions... 1 day strong! ;)ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!! p.s. love the dots on dots.
It's from Madewell but it's no longer listed online.ReplyDelete
- Caroline L.January 2, 2013 at 1:04 PM
Yep, I knew I wouldn't stay with the whole "get fit, get healthy" thing so I broke it into two tiny little goals... 1) Stop going to Starbucks every. single. day. and 2) Drink more water! So far, so good although I practically had to drag myself away from Starbucks this morning! And cheese is the best distraction there is ;) Glad you're back!ReplyDelete
oo i love the layering of dots over dots!! super cute!! i also didn't really make any resolutions for this year... i never really keep them anyway... i say just try your best daily and that's what matters! :)ReplyDelete
- Carole StrawnJanuary 2, 2013 at 1:20 PM
I love dots and dots on dots is twice as nice. I enjoy your posts as much as your outfits. No resolutions though I'm going to try to get more exercise that involves a little more effort than turning the pages of a book or operating the remote control.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
I've only made one resolution... to get dressed at least once on each of the remaining winter weekends. The snow makes me wish I owned a Forever Lazy, so I could be just that. That's ambitious enough, right?
Love the outfit. My new year's eve was all right. I mostly spent the evening at home watching Dick Clark's New Year's Eve Celebration while munching on pizza. As for resolutions, I haven't made one yet either haha.ReplyDelete
Ooh, I love all of the polkadots, but that sweater in particular is SO pretty. It's the perfect brown.ReplyDelete
I hope you have a wonderful New Year!
Lessons learned from Kendi today: Wine and cheese are always a good distraction, you can never have too many polka dots, and resolutions were made to be broken : ) I love your monogram necklace!ReplyDelete
Oh love the polkadots over polkadots! Wouldn't have thought about it, what great idea!ReplyDelete
I broke one resolution to eat healthier when I stumbled upon a bacon-wrapped hotdog ten minutes after midnight on January 1st. Did I mention bacon?
Nice look, you are perfect always!!!ReplyDelete
- TheresaTranJanuary 2, 2013 at 2:46 PM
Love the polka dots! (:ReplyDelete
- photosbyjaanaJanuary 2, 2013 at 2:46 PM
dots on dots. just love it. and don't worry about the resolutions. we have so much time to make goals and fail. doesn't have to be all on one day ;) http://www.thismomsgonnasnap.comReplyDelete
- LaurakasbaumJanuary 2, 2013 at 3:07 PM
I absolutely love the color of your hair! That is the color I have been striving for since I was 15 to no avail.ReplyDelete
A weekend of wine, cheese, and trashy TV sounds like the perfect getaway!
aww love dots! so sweet!ReplyDelete
- KryplosJanuary 2, 2013 at 3:19 PM
i like your outfit!ReplyDelete
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- lizybethJanuary 2, 2013 at 3:28 PM
Very similar to my weekend getaways! Except replace winery with brewery :)ReplyDelete
I can not get enough polka dots right now. Love that you doubled up!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a lovely way to spend new years :) Happy New Year :)ReplyDelete
Really like the layered polka dots with the jeans :)
- RebekahhlimJanuary 2, 2013 at 3:49 PM
kendi, def been following you for a while. so. do you really look at all the blogs that ppl leave in their comments? just wondering! btw, u are so cute! your style is def unique. you inspire me to do a style blog too, but i need to lose weight. anyways, HI :)ReplyDelete
- julia martinJanuary 2, 2013 at 4:27 PM
happy new year kendi! love the gap polka dot blouseReplyDelete
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- Chloe MmoonJanuary 2, 2013 at 4:41 PM
What an adorable outfit!! I love the polka dots and your boots!! =)ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!
- KristinJanuary 2, 2013 at 4:49 PM
Cute! I have that same sweater in black...it's so cozy! Happy New Year! I'm like you...better off making no resolutions :)ReplyDelete
- kristian satterleeJanuary 2, 2013 at 5:19 PM
Love the dots on dots look and am glad you had a nice getaway/internet-break.ReplyDelete
I love how your layer your looks! I tried to do a button down under a sweater today (which happened to have polka dots) but just couldn't get my shirt to sit right. You are a master at layering:)ReplyDelete
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Love the mix of polka dots :)ReplyDelete
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This may be one of my favorite outfits you've ever posted!ReplyDelete
- sihijauJanuary 2, 2013 at 6:23 PM
pretty boots! :)Irene WibowoReplyDelete
- Kacie EllisJanuary 2, 2013 at 6:30 PM
I don't make new years resolutions either. I made one in third grade (to be able to pronounce my R's), accomplished that goal and haven't made one since. Now I can say I have a perfect record when it comes to sticking to my resolutions :)ReplyDelete
- MikelleJanuary 2, 2013 at 7:14 PM
My husband and I were JUST talking about taking a little trip to Fredericksburg! (We're also in north Texas!) Any recommendations on where to stay, things to do, places to see? Thanks! :)ReplyDelete
- Jacqueline OkaJanuary 2, 2013 at 8:02 PM
Love the dots on dots :)ReplyDelete
xo Jac
- Anna D KartJanuary 2, 2013 at 8:04 PM
great looking polka!ReplyDelete
I have the same sweater!ReplyDelete
- HappinessatmidlifeJanuary 2, 2013 at 8:36 PM
I love all the polka dots! Sounds like you had a great time with much needed R & R and wine & cheese.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!
So cute! I love polka dots!ReplyDelete
xo Allie
- nathynessJanuary 2, 2013 at 10:45 PM
Dots on dots- love it! I'm not one to make resolutions, but I have a ton this year. They mainly revolve around my blog. Haven't broken any thus far! And not planning on it.ReplyDelete
Loving these BIG dots with SMALL dots! Loved the look, great one to start 2013!ReplyDelete
Awesome look. Boots and bag are hot.ReplyDelete
- Catherine Lea AndersonJanuary 3, 2013 at 3:18 AM
Love the idea of mixing dots with dots...great look!ReplyDelete
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- ChristianaJanuary 3, 2013 at 5:37 AM
I LOVE this outfit - every single element! You look adorable (not that this is a big shock, but especially adorable) I usually only like polka dots when I'm pregnant (no idea why) but I LOVE this.ReplyDelete
- Kim WindykaJanuary 3, 2013 at 5:59 AM
i want those boots!! the whole outfit is fab.ReplyDelete
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I've had my eye on that Madewell sweater for a while! Love the way you styled it!ReplyDelete
- timelessJanuary 3, 2013 at 9:52 AM
Love different sizes of polka dots. They are so much fun.ReplyDelete
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I love the polka-dots so cute! By the way I love the way you do your eyeliner, what product do you use?ReplyDelete
Love this outfit!ReplyDelete
Cute mix of polka dots! I love your jewelry, too.ReplyDelete
- KK McDougallJanuary 3, 2013 at 12:03 PM
I absolutely love this outfit. I love the way you pair the polka dots with polka dots, I have both these items and never would have thought to put them together!!!! thanks for the inspirationReplyDelete
I just got that madewell tote and I feel like I should weather proof it or something. Did you? If so, any products you recommend. I'm scared to ruin it! I like my bags to last me a long timeReplyDelete
gorgeous, love the polka dotted shirt!ReplyDelete
Love the dots on dots in this look!ReplyDelete
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- jumpolondonJanuary 3, 2013 at 10:36 PM
No doubt this dotted outfit is looking awesome. Your boots are giving you a great look with this polka dotted outfit.ReplyDelete
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You look so good in jeans, Kendi!!! This is one of my fav looks of you!! Love it how you played w/ the different dots!ReplyDelete
*Beijos from a Brazilian
- Sheree HJanuary 4, 2013 at 10:37 AM
Love this :)ReplyDelete
Love the dots on dots! :)ReplyDelete
XO Nat
- CharismainbklynJanuary 4, 2013 at 3:18 PM
Love the hair Kendi!!ReplyDelete
- Coreen KJanuary 5, 2013 at 12:06 AM
This outfit is cute. It gives me inspiration to be daring with polka dots myself (don't have a lot)! I love your hair colour too! I had to share it with my StyleSays Community girlies (http://www.stylesays.com/look/10515?first=1), and on my blog (http://www.lazarusstr.blogspot.com)! Thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
- EllesotnasJanuary 6, 2013 at 3:58 PM
It's really cute! I love it!ReplyDelete
I feel it very important to let you know that I have been stalking these boots for about a year, ever since I first discovered you wearing them last fall, and I finally bought the last pair in my size, online, last week and I'm kicking myself for living so long without them. If you understood the relationship I have with my boot collection, it would all make sense, but in any case, THANK YOU, and I hope you're having a marvelous new year!ReplyDelete


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USU basketball: Aggies starting early in first Mountain West season
Logan •Â On Wednesday, the first snow of autumn settled on the mountain tops clustered around Cache Valley.
It's not as if Stew Morrill needed another reminder that basketball season is right around the corner, beginning on Friday. With new NCAA rules, Utah State men's basketball will start practice a lot earlier than it used to, spacing 30 practices over 40 days.
Even though it seems school just started, the Aggies will be grateful for a few extra days to prepare for their first season in the Mountain West.
"I'm not naïve to the challenge of the Mountain West," said Morrill, entering his 16th season at Utah State. "I also think that we've got to feel like, 'Hey, we can compete.' I do feel that way, and I know our players feel that way that we're going to prove that we belong."
The challenge is this: Find a way to compete in a league that, by some measures, is one of the nation's best. The Mountain West was one of the top two conferences in RPI nearly all of last season and sent five teams to the NCAA Tournament.
The Aggies, meanwhile, are eager to put last season behind them.
After starting out 14-1, a glut of season-ending injuries caused Utah State to stumble to 21-10, finishing a disappointing fifth in its final WAC season.
Preston Medlin, the team's leading scorer with 16.3 points per game, was one of two key starters lost for the year early in conference play. After recovering from his wrist fracture, Medlin sometimes doesn't know whether to forget all the nights he was confined to the bench, or use the memories as motivation.
"You kind of what to look over it and kind of forget it a little bit," he said. "It was tough all those injuries, starting the way we did and finishing the way we did. It was tough, but you want to remember the good stuff."
The positive for Utah State is that it returns a lot of players who logged many minutes last year. Aside from losing forward Kyisean Reed to graduation and two transfers, the Aggies will have plenty of experience.
That includes Medlin, a feared shooter at guard who was on a scoring tear before he was injured last year. Guard Spencer Butterfield and center Jarred Shaw were both all-WAC honorees last season, combining for 26.4 points and 15 rebounds per game.
Although Utah State will be missing forward Ben Clifford early on, it will have point guards Marcel Davis and TeNale Roland, reserve center Jordan Stone, even wing Danny Berger, who survived a heart attack last December. A number of Aggies should make their debut this fall, including Southern Utah transfer Kyle Davis and local high school star freshman Jalen Moore.
Utah State will start its season with a bang, welcoming USC on Nov. 8 to the Spectrum. The conference season begins Jan. 1, with Air Force.
Maybe getting an early start won't be so bad.
"The schedule this year is definitely the toughest we've had since I've been," Medlin said. "Hopefully the fans will come back out, and I believe they will. It should be a fun year."
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Lead returners for Utah State
Preston Medlin, sr., G • 16.3 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 3.3 apg
Jarred Shaw, sr., C • 14.2 ppg, 8.4 rpg, 53.9 FG%
Spencer Butterfield, sr., G • 12.2 ppg, 6.6 rpg, 2.7 apg
Marcel Davis, sr., G • 7.1 ppg, 2.1 rpg, 3.3 apg


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London Dover Cruise Port
Once a chic seaside resort, Dover has never really recovered from being bombed during World War II and these days most people choose to stay further along the lovely south-east coast in the pretty Georgian town of Brighton or in medieval Rye or in Canterbury with its famous cathedral, or to head up to London which is a couple of hours travel north.
Within Dover the main attraction is the castle built by Henry II in the 12th century, one of the oldest in England. In 1539, Henry VIII built nearby moated Walmer Castle, also worth a visit.
How to Get to London
Dover is very well-served by links with London. By train the trip is around two hours and from Dover Priory Station you can choose to go to either London Victoria – the closest for Buckingham Palace, or London Charing Cross – the closest for the Thames River, Trafalgar Square and the West End. There are also regular bus services to London Victoria which are cheaper but slower. Gatwick Airport is the closest air link and has an excellent train service.
Private rental cars are easily organized. Taxis are available but will be prohibitively expensive to travel all the way to London although to move locally in Dover they are inexpensive. A taxi from the port to the rail or bus station or between docks is easy and recommended, also to visit the castles. Cruise ships come in at the western docks, ferries to France leave from the eastern docks.
One Day in London
London has so much to see it's good to have a list of priorities before you set out. Both London Victoria and London Charing Cross Stations have many underground train (Tube) links to get your around the city. If you have one day, buy a Day Travel Card which means you can use all train and bus routes. Pick up a tube map at the station. Bus routes can be more of a mystery although the view from the top of a double decker bus is wonderful.
For a good overview of London's iconic sights head for the Thames River's Victoria Embankment (Charing Cross or Embankment Station) and walk across one of the bridges. Waterloo Bridge gives wonderful views from Big Ben to the Tower Bridge. The London Eye also has great views.
There are open top bus tours you can do and if you like walking you can head from the river, past the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, across to The Mall and St James's Palace, to Buckingham Palace and on to Hyde Park. Or reverse this order (start from Victoria or Green Park tube station) to see the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, which happens every other day (check the schedule) at 11.30am. Between London and Dover are some interesting places to visit such as the grand house Sissinghurst with its lovely garden.
Port Information
The language is English and the currency is the British Pound (or quid in local slang). Dover is a well-equipped tourist city with internet cafes and currency exchanges at both the port and in the city, and ATMs (which take only 4 digit numeric PINs). Some taxis at Dover port may accept your euros or dollars but at an unfavorable exchange rate so it's best to use local currency.


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Local organizations are volunteering their time on Thursday to provide warm meals to neighbors in the community.
Different churches such as the First Presbyterian Church in Franklin will be offering free meals to the public, which require no reservation. For the ninth year, on Thursday, from noon to 2 p.m., the community is invited to Tartan Hall on 26 Church Street in Franklin for a sit-down meal. Jim Jeary, who serves on the church's community relations team, said that the meal isn't focused on anything religion, but instead is a way for the church to give back to the community. "I think events like these do a world of good for the community, plus it helps get the church out there," said Jeary. "We want to be able to offer a meal to those who may not be able to celebrate Thanksgiving and for those who may not get to see their families. Anyone who comes through our doors are treated just like family."
Jeary said that the church will be serving a traditional Thanksgiving meal with all the fixins' like gravy, cranberries, mashed potatoes and of course, turkey.
In addition to offering meals to those who come on Thursday, the church will also provide transportation to and from the church for anyone needing it on Thursday. Take-out for shut-ins will also be available. For more information, call the church office at (828)524-3119.
Volunteers at Green Street Mission Chapel on Green Street in Franklin will be hosting a Thanksgiving festival with games, fun, fellowship and a warm meal from noon to 6 p.m. "We believe that it is imperative in our beliefs that we share the holidays with people in the community," said Pastor Shannon Sayer. "This is not a hand out, but instead, we are inviting people to come and be a part of our family."
According to Sayer, this is the church's second year hosting the Thanksgiving festival, which is centered around family togetherness. "We are going to have a bunch of children's games and family activities," he said. "We want the day to be family oriented. We will be frying turkeys all day and passing out meals to anyone who wants to stop in."
Take-out meals will also be available upon request. For more information, contact Pastor Shannon Sayer at 421-2165.
For those who want to spend Thanksgiving in with their families, CareNet is offering Thanksgiving dinner boxes, which can be picked up from now until Thursday.
According to CareNet's new executive director Shaina Adkins, CareNet has prepared boxed dinners for families in Macon County that include either a turkey or ham, two boxes of stuffing, cranberry sauce, two cans of green beans, a box of mashed potatoes and a bakery item such as a cake or other pastry. "We were a little late getting started this year because our turkeys hadn't come in yet, but we are passing out boxes now," said Adkins on Friday. She noted that on the program's first day, CareNet distributed nearly 20 boxes.
Adkins anticipates that this year will exceed the 2011 number of 164 boxes. "We started getting calls in at the first of the month about the Thanksgiving program," said Adkins. "I believe we will give out more boxes and be able to cater to more families this Thanksgiving.
CareNet will continue distributing Thanksgiving dinner boxes until Wednesday, and then will be closed on Nov. 22 and 23. For more information about the program, call CareNet at 369-2642.


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The new Tui Lifestyle showroom at 136 Greene Street in Soho and (left to right) brokers Brenda Powers and Louise Sunshine, who are fans of the brand; designer Tui Pranich
Less than two months after the debut of their Soho showroom, the founders of Miami-based Tui Lifestyle, the two-year-old interior design start-up that promises turn-key luxury home furnishings in a span of 72 hours, are thinking about moving their corporate headquarters to New York City.
Tui, the brainchild of entrepreneur Jason Atkins and designer Tui Pranich, timed its 2008 launch with that of Jorge Perez's Icon Brickell in Miami and has since made a name for itself in the South Florida region by marketing its affordable, yet high-end, furniture and accessories collections to developers who use them to furnish their model apartments and incentivize buyers.
Among the takers so far: Canyon Ranch Miami Beach, Trump Hollywood, Trump Towers in Sunny Isles Beach and Miami's Viceroy condominium. But in Atkins' own words, "Miami is nothing compared to New York." … [more]


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Update (March 7): The article previously stated that SingPost's annual profit was US$29.4 million. That is incorrect. It is US$111 million.
As snail mail fades in relevance, the US Postal Service is sinking along with it. But SingPost (SPOS.SI), the Singapore equivalent which is privately-run rather than government-driven, has avoided the same fate.
Despite suffering two consecutive years of decline in mail volume, SingPost's bottom line has received a boost from its logistics, retail, and ecommerce operations. Its revenue now stands at S$628 million (US$494 million) in the three quarters of the latest financial year, up from S$476 million (US$374 million) in the previous period. Ecommerce, which includes its shipping and services for retailers, now makes up 28 percent of total revenue.
The venerable company's transition from traditional postage into modern ecommerce has been stunning. Founded in 1819 – the same year Singapore was founded as a British colony – SingPost's transformation only took root in 2003.
In that year, it launched vPost, a delivery service that enables Singaporeans to shop from US websites using a virtual address. Then in 2011, it unveiled luxury brand store Clout Shoppe, its first foray into direct online selling. But SingPost only truly emerged out of its cocoon in 2013 when it unwrapped its vision of how it will play a role in Asia's fast-rising e-commerce landscape.
SingPost as a startup
There is no signage pointing the way to SingPost's ecommerce division, a 70-person outfit tucked away in a newly constructed office building just a block down from SingPost's Singapore headquarters.
A construction site sits next door, ostensibly for another office building, just one of many that are popping up around the area. A pounding machine reminds the team that everything is still a work in progress.
"We have a BBQ pit and a ping pong table," says Marcelo Wesseler, the senior vice-president of ecommerce at SingPost. "We're trying to recreate a startup atmosphere so as to attract the young engineers and technology guys."
SingPost's ecommerce plans have been solidifying in the past year. The centerpiece of its major push is SP eCommerce, a comprehensive ecommerce product that launched in April 2013 and now has over 200 paying clients including big brands like Adidas, Groupon, and Quiksilver. These are brands that want to sell online in South Asia and Australia but lack the knowhow to do so.
Rocket Internet's Zalora is a customer too, but in this case, it's about melding its e-commerce expertise with an existing logistics network.
Essentially, what SP eCommerce does is provide everything a retailer could ever need to start selling online. Think of it as ecommerce consultancy that trims the bullshit and does the actual heavy-lifting, going heavy on analytics and technology.
The service amalgamates three components – web store fronts based on Hybris and Magento, an order management system called Supplizer, and a warehouse management and shipping system – all built on top of its logistics and warehousing network.
"It's about helping clients find the most ideal way to ship from point A to B," says Wesseler.
The integration means that retailers could, for example, prevent consumers from ordering items when they're out of stock. The system could tell customers that a product – say a particular shirt – is running out and exactly how many of it is available in the warehouse.
SingPost offers complementary services to assist in digital marketing and performance tracking: there's ExactTarget, Google Analytics, and Coremetrics for analytics, SAS for business intelligence, and Gigya for social media management.
Finally, SingPost owns Omigo, an online marketplace which is essentially a 'lite' version of its offerings for brands who are not ready to commit to 'monobrand' stores.
Startups are scrambling to fix ecommerce
Despite the obscene amounts of money being pumped into e-commerce in Southeast Asia, the industry is still light years behind the United States. According to Wesseler, conversion rates from visitor to customer for online retail sites in the region is significantly lower, at less than one percent in Southeast Asia compared to nine percent in the US.
There's no easy way around it, but one fix is improving the underlying infrastructure to make ecommerce affordable and profitable.
Multiple efforts are under way to do so, and these startups are offering something similar to SingPost: modular ecommerce services that can be customized to suit a client's needs, priced either on a revenue share model or a monthly service fee. There's Anchanto, a Singapore outfit that is offering logistics, fulfillment and web storefronts to customers like Robinsons and Wine Connection.
ACommerce is doing the same in Thailand, and it is already working with over a hundred brands, including cosmetics companies like Maybelline, Khiehl's, and L'Oreal. Launched in the middle of 2013, the startup has already expanded to four warehouses in the region (versus SingPost's twelve) and secured US$3.1 million in funding from a couple of Japanese venture capital firms.
The startup is currently working on a widget that can be installed on web publications to instantly turn them into online stores. A mobile gadget review site could, for instance, sell mobile phones, accessories, and other related items through this widget, and then collect referral fees from the sales.
ACommerce is headed by Paul Srivorakul, a Thai serial entrepreneur who has started and sold three startups (one ecommerce and two marketing related) and has seen first-hand the shortcomings of Southeast Asia's ecommerce industry.
"While it's easy for brands to go online and buy ad space, the bottlenecks are in logistics and fulfillment. We want to jump in there to solve their last mile fulfillment problems," says Srivorakul.
SingPost's secret weapon
While there's probably room for more than one ecommerce enabler to thrive in the region, SingPost isn't a national institution for nothing. With an annual profit of S$141 (US$111 million), the publicly-listed company has room to acquire assets or sell them quickly given the startup-like environment of its ecommerce division.
It bought Sample Store for around US$1.2 million (subject to hitting post-acquisition targets), adding another marketing channel for clients, and acquired the intellectual property for Supplizer from a US startup.
It recently sold Clout Shoppe, its own luxury goods online store, because selling direct to consumers undermines its mission of becoming a pure ecommerce enabler.
SingPost's logistics network is something to be reckoned with. It owns 12 warehouses spread out across South Asia, Australia, and as far as the US and UK. It recently launched POPStation, which places lockers all over Singapore for consumers to pick up items they've purchased online.
"SingPost is in a lucky situation. We already own the most capital intensive part of our operations. We already have good partnerships with local networks," says Wesseler.
(Editing by Steven Millward)


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Climate Change Exam Part One
Science Grade 10 (SNC 2P)
Exam Review 2012
Part 4: Climate Change (Earth and Space Science) Review
You must be able to define the following Major Terms:
L1 Climate Change
ð Climate
ð Weather
ð Weather Systems
ð Atmosphere (troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere)
ð Landforms
ð Water cycle
L2 Climate change
ð Three spheres that play a role in weather (biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere)
ð Identify and label drawings of Refraction (index or refraction(n), Incident Ray, Normal, Refracted Ray, plane, medium)
L3 Climate Change
ð 5 factors that affect climate (at spheres, land masses, hydrosphere, jet streams/prevailing winds, suns energy & earth's revolution)
ð Seasons (Earth's tilt vs Distance from sun)
ð Natural greenhouse effect
L4 Climate Change
ð Greenhouse gases (Ozone (ground level vs. atmospheric), Water Vapor, CFCs, Methane, Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide)
L5 Climate Change
ð Anthropogenic
ð Anthropogenic greenhouse gases & greenhouse effect
L6 Climate Change
ð Climate change vs. Global Warming
ð Greenhouse Gases vs. Ozone layer
ð Indicators of Climate Change
L7 Climate Change
ð Canadian Climate Change
L8 Climate Change
ð Carbon footprint
ð Active transport
Lab1- Does your breathing ass gg to the atmosphere?
1. What are the three parts of the earth that influence weather? /1K
2. What allows for the earth's global temperature to remain a constant 24C? /1A& /0.5C
3. What are the major gases in the earth's atmosphere? /1K& /0.5C
4. Why do planes fly in the stratosphere rather than the troposphere? /1A & /0.5C
5. How do ocean currents affect weather? /1A & /0.5C
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