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The Person: An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology, 5th Edition, Dan P. McAdams
The Person provides psychologists with an organizational scheme for personality psychology. This sets the study of the person into evolutionary and cultural context and divided personality up into three broad areas: dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and integrative life stories. The fifth edition has been updated to reflect advances that have occurred in the field of psychology in the past few years. It presents new findings that have been obtained with respect to the correlates of personality traits, the dynamics of motives and goals in human lives, and the meanings and manifestations of life stories. Discussions are included on the new ideas on evolution and morality as well as the role of culture in personality. Psychologists will also find a much stronger and detailed discussion of psychophysiology of extraversion, neuroticism, and the train of sensation-seeking.
From the Back Cover
Experience the story of a lifetime
When you want to truly get to know a person, dates and facts about their life will only tell you so much. You need to look at the stories that define that person's life, as well as their individual traits and characteristics, as defined by human nature and culture.
When it comes to studying personality, the larger story matters most of all. In The Person: An Integrated Introduction to Personality Psychology, Fourth Edition, Dan McAdams presents a bold and integrative vision for personality psychology that puts many different ideas into a meaningful structure. With this text, you can understand the larger story, and discover how powerful and useful studying personality psychology is today.
The text begins with fundamental evolutionary, social, and cultural contexts for understanding personality, followed by an examination of the three different levels of an individual's personality:
- Dispositional traits, a person's general tendencies.
- Characteristic adaptations, a person's desires, beliefs, concerns, and coping mechanisms.
- Life stories, the stories that give a life a sense of unity, meaning, and purpose.
Key Features:
- New streamlined paperback format.
- Updated with recent research findings to engage professors and students alike.
- Presents a clear unifying vision for the field of personality psychology.
- Brings together the best from traditional personality theories and contemporary research.
- Addresses the most important questions that people can ask about their own lives and about human life in general.
Book for Psychology course. Author does include personal stories and intros to make text more interesting. Other than not, not too exciting and engaging to read.
This book had a lot of interesting information in it that many of probably don't know. It really helped with my class.
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- Hardcover: 620 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 5 edition (December 22, 2008)
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8 x 1 inches
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The site for many years has been the home of Roseville Fire Station No. 3, which was closed in a move consolidate the city's firefighting resources. In order to assemble a redevelopment site, the city's Housing and Redevelopment Authority in 2012 purchased several homes surrounding the ex-fire hall.
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Article XVI, Section 6 of the State Constitution, prohibits the state or any of its political subdivisions from making gifts to private parties. It states that the Legislature shall have no power to:
Government Code 11005 - Provides that the Director of Finance shall approve every gift to the state of personal property or real property unless the Legislature specifically provides that approval is not required. (Various departments have been specifically authorized by the Legislature to receive personal or real property without Department of Finance (Finance) approval.) This approval requirement does not apply to unconditional gifts of money. (Note: Many departments overlook their own authority to accept unconditional gifts of money.)
Government Code 11005.1 - Provides that the Director of Finance may accept on behalf of the state any gift of real or personal property whenever such gift is deemed to be in the best interest of the state.
Government Code 16302 - Provides that if a donor designates a monetary gift to the state for the benefit of a fund or appropriation, the donation shall be credited accordingly. Provides that a monetary gift not designated for any specific fund or appropriation shall be credited to the State School Fund. Although the law limits this designation to a fund or appropriation, donors have designated the purpose or program to benefit from a donation and the state has credited the money accordingly.
Government Code 8647 - Provides for the state and any political subdivision to accept from the federal government services, equipment, supplies, materials or funds by way of gift, grant or loan, for purposes of the mitigation of the effects of an emergency. A state department, acting with the consent of the Governor and through its governing body, may accept such offer but must adhere to the terms and rules of the offer of the federal agency presenting such offer.
Requests for acceptance of gifts of either personal property or real property (Government Code Sections 11005 and 11005.1) must be approved by the Director. This acceptance has been delegated to the Chief Operating Officer.
In processing a gift donation request, Finance staff should obtain the following information.
Prepare the staff recommendation for acceptance or rejection of the gift, using the significant points learned.
Attached is a copy of Form DF-581 (Request for Approval of Gift) which may be used by departments to request Finance approval to accept an offer of a gift. The form can also be used by the Finance budget unit to make a recommendation to the Capitol Office (delegation for approval is to the Chief Operating Officer) on acceptance of the gift.
In lieu of the form, Finance may request departments to submit their requests in whatever format deemed appropriate. The recommendation to the Capitol Office may also be via letter or other appropriate format.
For monetary gifts sent to Finance, the Fiscal Systems and Consulting Unit will process the paperwork and deposit the money into the State Treasury as prescribed in Government Code 16302. If another state department receives a monetary gift, they need to deposit the money into the State Treasury as prescribed in Government Code 16302.
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Bald Eagle Facts
- Facts and Figures
- Breeding
- Bald Eagle Nests
- Food Habits
- Migration
- Causes of Mortality
- Bald Eagles and DDT
- Conservation and Management
The bald eagle has been our national symbol since 1782, when Congress adopted the design for the Great Seal of the United States. Ranging from Alaska to the northern border of Mexico, and from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast, the bald eagle is the only eagle found exclusively on the North American continent. Long a key symbol in Native American cultures, the bald eagle has more recently been emblematic of freedom and democracy as well as wilderness and the environmental ethic.
Facts and Figures
The bald eagle is not really bald. "Bald" is from an obsolete English word meaning white. Bald eagles do not attain their white head and tail feathers until their 5th year of age. Immature birds undergo progressive annual changes in plumage pattern from uniformly dark brown their first year to extensive white and brown mottling in their fourth year. Other notable characteristics include a large downward-curving yellow bill, and yellow feet with sharp talons for catching prey.
- Size: Size increases with latitude; Alaskan birds are noticeably larger.
- Weight: Males 7-10 pounds, Females up to 14 pounds
- Wingspan: Males greater than 6 feet Females up to 8 feet
- Age (record longevity): 28 years in wild, 36 years in captivity
Capable of breeding in fifth year of life when adult plumage attained. Pairs mate for life. In the Chesapeake Bay area, breeding activity begins in November and can last through mid- July. Most eggs laid mid-January to late February. Females lay 1-3 eggs, 2-egg clutch most common (79%). Incubation period is 35 days. Males participate, but female does most of incubating (72%). Both parents hunt and feed young. Young eaglets fledge in average of three months (8-14 weeks).
Bald Eagle Nests
Both sexes participate in nest building, which usually begins 1-3 months before egg-laying. Generally built in one of the largest live trees available with accessible limbs capable of supporting the nest. Nests built in top quarter of tree just below the crown, against the trunk or in the fork of large branches close to the trunk. Nest constructed from sticks collected on the ground or broken off of trees. Grasses, mosses, and other material may be added as filler. The nest bowl is lined with finer woody material and ultimately with downy feathers from adults. Additional materials added throughout the year, including daily additions during breeding season. Nests used for multiple years may reach enormous dimensions. Bald eagle nests are among the largest nests of all birds; Typical size is 5-6 feet in diameter and 3 feet tall! Famous Ohio nest used for 34 years measured almost 9 feet in diameter, close to 12 feet tall, and weighed over 2 tons! Record St. Petersburg, Florida nest was 9.5 feet in diameter and 20 feet tall!
Food Habits
Bald eagles, like other raptors, are birds of prey. They usually seek out aquatic habitats (bays, lakes, large rivers), as fish are their preferred food, but bald eagles are opportunistic foragers.
In addition to fish, they eat a great variety of aquatic and terrestrial mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. They will also feed on carrion, especially in winter, and are known to steal prey from other birds, such as osprey.
Diet of nesting bald eagles (summary of 20 studies):
Northern (breeding north of 40° N), non-coastal populations including those in Alaska, generally migrate south for the winter between August and January.
Bald eagles in the Great Lakes region and adjacent areas in Canada may migrate eastward to winter along the Atlantic Coast from Maine and New Brunswick to Chesapeake Bay.
Because of its rich food resources, Chesapeake Bay also is host to a large influx of summer migrants from Florida and other Gulf Coast states from May to September.
Most immatures on Chesapeake Bay limit movements to the bay. Less than 10% of radio-tagged individuals moved north in summer.
Northern birds return to breeding grounds as soon as weather and food availability permit, generally January to March.
Causes of Mortality
Most bald eagle mortality is human-related, either directly or indirectly. Of 1,428 individuals examined by the National Wildlife Health Center from 1963 to 1984, death was attributed to following causes:
(impact with wires or vehicles)
Bald Eagles and DDT
Reproduction impaired due to eggshell thinning across lower 48 states during years of DDT use: 1947-1972.
Changes in nest success (percentage of active nests with at least one young fledged) and productivity (number of young fledged/active nest) for Chesapeake Bay:
- Pre-DDT Nest Success: 79%
- 1962 Nest Success: 14%
- Pre-DDT Productivity: 1.6 young fledged/nest
- 1962 Productivity: 0.2 young fledged/nest
- 2005 Productivity: 1.58 young fledged/nest
In lower 48 states, bald eagle populations have shown tremendous growth since DDT banned in 1972:
- 1963: 417 estimated breeding pairs
- 1982: 1,482 estimated breeding pairs
- 1997: 5,000 estimated breeding pairs
- 2005: 7,066 estimated breeding pairs
Conservation and Management
Bald eagles were protected under the Bald Eagle Protection Act in 1940 in Alaska and lower 48 states. The Act prohibited taking or possession of bald eagles or any parts including feathers, eggs, and nests.
Bald eagles were further protected as Endangered Species under 1973 Endangered Species Act, however, expanding populations led to down-listing as a Threatened Species in 1995. In 2007 bald eagles were formally "de-listed" or removed from the federal Endangered Species Act. Bald eagles continued to be listed as a state threatened species by DGIF.
Bald eagle populations have continued to grow in Virginia and across the country. In 2011 the breeding population in Coastal Virginia was more than 730 pairs (more information: Center for Conservation Biology). In addition, DGIF surveys in the Piedmont and Mountain regions of Virginia indicate an increase in nesting in these areas as well. As bald eagle populations near saturation in Coastal Virginia an increasing use of urban and suburban nest locations has been observed. The continued recovery of bald eagle populations in Virginia led the DGIF Board to take action at their August 14th meeting to remove the bald eagle from the Virginia state list of threatened and endangered species effective January 1, 2013. This is a remarkable milestone along an impressive conservation success story. DGIF will continue to work to preserve the gains this species has made.


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January 25, 2009
1. What is this? A half-blazer? A half-cape? A mirage? I LIKE IT.
2. Boxing gloves. That's all that needs to be said.
3. This guy looks like he should be running towards a bull or something, whom he will strangle with his leather cape and choke with the intensity of his ~eyes.
4. Moulin Rouge sequined corsets are only okay if you are a man.1. This dude looks like the creeper in Pretty in Pink that thinks bugging the shit out of a girl and stalking her with gorgeous blue eyes and a questionable semi-mullet is the way to get a date. Also boxers over pants is just fun.
2. So much sweater and knit and grandpa-ness. I love it mostly for the model alone. He looks so mysterious, and like he should be sitting on a bench in the rain reciting Poe or playing a cello on the roof of a train. This entire look actually reminds me of a stuffed bear my friend has. His name is Gabby, because when my friend was little and named him she was gender-confused (probably because for the first 2 years of our friendship I had an unfortunate buzz cut and wore many dresses.)
3. That beard is like Mary Poppins' purse and I would like to meet this man just to see if he pulls a paper pad and pencil out from it whenever he needs to add something to his shopping list. What will come out next? Another awesome colorblock blazer? A stick of dynamite, like some cartoon? Oh, the mystery.
5. How Yohji manages to make fedoras look epic I will never know. The only other people that can do that are Frank Sinatra and a cartoon cat that plays piano and wears sunglasses which exists only in my mind and is technically not even fit for the 'people' category.
6. Pajamas and Buddy Holly glasses somehow make a great combo. Again, Yohji=only person that can make knitted Ugg-like things look epic.
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20 comments:
- Miss Kar said...
ha! you are hilarious
- January 25, 2009 11:02 PM
- Piglet said...
"...just to see if he pulls a paper pad and pencil out from it..."
still laughing over that one.
[i've never commented but read often--your commentary is great!]
- January 25, 2009 11:09 PM
- Chester said...
What an interesting set of collections.
- January 25, 2009 11:17 PM
- Nice and Shiny said...
Love the clothes.
Love your commentary.
A match made in heaven.
I beleive I will be saving every picture from each of those collections. Thanks
- January 25, 2009 11:59 PM
- Bellinda said...
My faculty adviser makes fedoras look epic. Tweed fedoras.
- January 26, 2009 12:16 AM
- KEREN said...
The menswear is awesome.
The first set is incredibly wicked, so much that my mouth watered for the three minutes I took out of my morning to gawk at it.
- January 26, 2009 5:16 AM
- *Deline said...
I'm usually not that interested in menswear but this post kicks ass! Awesome!
- January 26, 2009 8:09 AM
Totes unrelated, but YO. YOU SHOULD WRITE A BOOK. I'd read it. You have that undamaged brain of a child with an extremely vivid imagination. I'm not exactly a kid anymore, and also rather damaged, but my imagination's still limitless. So. Just an idea, sorry for being such a dork.
- January 26, 2009 9:53 AM
- lily jayne. said...
OMG, you are hilarious.
- January 26, 2009 2:42 PM
- Emily said...
this alexander McQueen stuff is soo EPIC
- January 26, 2009 3:22 PM
- My Daily Vintage said...
i am so glad i am not the only one who felt let down by the alexander mcqueen target line .... i had suchhhh high hopes, but it was just disappointing. i'm still hoping there will be items at the stores that are way better than what has already been online? ha.
- January 26, 2009 9:11 PM
yeah, eff duckie!
- January 27, 2009 9:52 PM
- Tavi said...
Anonymous, I love Duckie! I was talking about this guy:
- January 27, 2009 10:55 PM
- .alexandros mohr said...
mcqueen one of my favs....
he and his gorgeous work <3
- January 29, 2009 10:43 PM
- rachie said...
Hi Tavi,
I just featured two menswear collections on my blog that are definitely not all about black suits!
Comme des Garcons and Junya Watanabe- you should come and have a look, I think you would like them (they are all about the clashing earth tones and pastels).
xx Rachael
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one word -EPIC
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Despite what you may think, the original first wave of punk rock was not monolithic as a genre, nor did it have a singular identity.
UK punk was about social injustice and being on the dole. New York punk (except for the Ramones) was linked to the art scene. And LA punk was mostly a style based movement.
But in Orange County, California, punk rock was about anger, violence, and danger. The epicenter of that danger was a dingy roadhouse bar in Costa Mesa called "The Cuckoo's Nest."
The clip above is from a fascinating film called "We Were Feared" which chronicles the story of the Cuckoo's Nest and its iconic owner Jerry Roach.
It seems odd that in an upper middle class area like Orange County punk would take such a hard and vicious turn, but you could hear it in the music and feel it in the presence of those that played it.
One of the factors that made the Cuckoo's Nest such a volatile place though had to do more with what happened outside than inside.
Directly adjacent to the Cuckoo's Nest was a country western bar called Zubie's, that catered to the ranks of wannabe cowboys that mushroomed out of the "Urban Cowboy" craze. It created an interesting equation…
Alcohol + Punks + Alcohol + Rednecks = A shit load of fighting.
For those who were there, it almost seemed like going to the "Nest" was as much about fighting as seeing a great band. Usually the punks got the best of the cowboys as Jack Grisham, lead singer of the band TSOL relates;
"They'd come out of [Zubie's] drunk, and there'd be fights every night. There's a videotape of me beating up these two cowboy guys, and I was wearing a dress at the time. I was trying to [tick] my dad off for a while, and [wearing a dress] was working good."
But there were actually some great bands that played the Cuckoo's nest like SoCal favs Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Social Distortion, D.I. The Adolescents, The Crowd, The Vandals, and Fear.
Even bands from the UK like XTC, The Damned, and 999 played there as well as East Coast bands like The Ramones and The New York Dolls.
It was like CBGB's east, but with the possibility of getting your face smashed in.
Alas, things that burn so strong also burn out fast, and after numerous legal challenges by the city and county, Roach eventually gave up the Cuckoo's Nest, with a final indignity being that the owners of Zubie's bought it and opened up a pizza parlor in its place.
Wikipedia entry for The Cuckoo's Nest
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Panama City, Panama - May 20, 2011 - In support of the country's national sport, Copa Airlines has announced special fares and flight options so Panamanian soccer fans can travel to Barranquilla and Cartagena to root for Panama's Under-20 national team.
The airline will operate extra flights in addition to its regularly scheduled service from Panama to Barranquilla and Cartagena, to provide soccer fans with increased travel options. Copa will consider adding more flights, if demand exists.
The promotional fares are available on copaair.com, at all Copa Airlines sales outlets, through wholesalers and at travel agencies throughout the country. Information will be available on flexible combinations for return travel, as well as hotel promotions to give Panamanian fans more travel options.
Copa and TVMAX also launched a promotion to take 100 soccer fans free (Centurions of the Red Tide), where the best cheer composed by 100 people will travel free to Cartagena to see the Panama vs Austria game scheduled for July 29.


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Clothes can be so distracting...
Aug 25, '08
I'll vote for anyone promising not to make a big mess!
Aug 25, '08
You got my vote.
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The right time, the right choice. Go Thomasilly/TheDoctor!
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The art world pauses this week to remember Theo Wujcik. The Tampa artist died Saturday at the age of 78 from complications relating to cancer.
A rebel in the tradition of James Dean, Wujcik refused to be defined by a single genre. But regardless of style, Wujcik's work contained two common denominators: bold, in-your-face color and the unabashed, often-irreverent use of metaphors to express poignantly insightful commentary on the human condition and the state of art in the world today.
Wujcik credited friend and GraphicStudio colleague James Rosenquist with the latter. "I wanted to do a picture of a tornado destroying the world," Wujcik explained during a Gallery Talk that marked the opening of a 10-year retrospective of his work at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery in 2012. "But I couldn't draw. James Rosenquist suggested I work in metaphors, and while I was visiting an archaeological site in Tampa, I came across a cyclone fence that was in the form of a tornado. I did a thumbnail ballpoint sketch and that's how my chain link fence imagery was born."
Wujcik went on to use the device to reinterpret works by van Gogh, Theodore Gericault, Rodin and Robert Rauschenberg, and a number of his Chain Link works were subsequently displayed and acquired by prestigious museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.
Following the success of Tampa Tornado in 1984, Wujcik went on to explore a number of other metaphorical constructs, including blind contour drawing (in which he drew the contours of his muse without looking at the paper, a process that served as a metaphor for all the things we don't see and of which we're unaware in our daily lives); his Asian Invasion series of super heroes; his Zhang Huan series (which prophetically foretold that just as the abstract expressionists took the center of the art world away from Paris, the Chinese are today replacing New York as the vortex of the global creative realm); and
his uncharacteristically small scale Jade series (in which Jade and bottle caps symbolize the marriage of Asian and western influences in the world of contemporary art).
To finish reading this article, please read Part Two.
Suggested Links
- Theo Wujcik retrospective reflects a career of working in metaphors
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The Oseberg finds
On 8 August 1903, professor Gabriel Gustafson of the University's Collection of National Antiquities in Oslo received a visit from a farmer: Knut Rom from the Lille Oseberg farm in Slagen in Vestfold.
Excavation of Oseberg ship in 1904
Photo: Museum of Cultural History (Photographer: Væring)
The excavation of the Oseberg ship
Rom had dug into a large burial mound on his property and had come across what he believed was a ship. Two days later, professor Gustafson started his investigation. He found several parts of a ship, decorated with the ornamentation from Viking times. The archaeologist was certain the mound was a ship burial from Viking times. But to avoid problems with the autumn weather, they waited until the following summer before starting the dig.
The excavation of the Oseberg ship drew great interest from the public. It became necessary to secure the dig with a fence, signs and a guard to ensure that nobody disturbed the work or got too close to the remains. In his diary, Gustafson complained of having to work in an exhibition.
When the excavation was finished, the longest and most demanding work was still to come. The excavation itself took less than three months, but it took 21 years to prepare and restore the ship and most of the finds. The ship was dried out very slowly before being put together. Great emphasis was placed on using the original timber and more than 90% the fully reconstructed Oseberg ship consists of original timber.
The Oseberg burial
In the year 834, two prosperous women died. The Oseberg ship was pulled ashore and used as a burial ship for the two ladies. A burial chamber was dug right behind the ship's mast. Inside, the walls were decorated with fantastic woven tapestries and the dead women lay on a raised bed. The women had a number of burial gifts with them. There were personal items such as clothes, shoes and combs, ship's equipment, kitchen equipment, farm equipment, three ornate sledges and a working sledge, a wagon, five carved animal heads, five beds and two tents. There were fifteen horses, six dogs and two small cows.
Investigation of the skeletons showed that the older woman was about 70 to 80 when she died, probably of cancer. The other woman was younger, a little over 50. We do not know what she died of.
Both of them must have held a special position in the community to have been given a grave such as this; were they political or religious leaders? Who was the most prominent person in the grave? Was one a sacrifice, to accompany the other into the kingdom of the dead? Were they related? Where did they come from? The two women from the past remain a mystery, but continued research may tell us more.
The Oseberg ship
For whoever built the Oseberg ship, it must have been very important to make it a particularly handsome vessel. He or she used great resources in having the ship decorated. Beautiful animal ornamentation has been carved from the keel, down below the waterline, and up along the bow post, which ends in a snake's head of twisting spiral. Such a richly decorated ship must surely have been reserved for special members of the aristocracy.
The Oseberg ship could be both sailed and rowed. There are 15 oar holes on each side, so fully-manned the ship would have had 30 oarsmen. There would also have been a man at the tiller and a lookout in the bow. The oars are made of pine. Traces of painted decoration have been found on some of them. There are no signs of wear on the oars. Perhaps they were made especially for the burial.
The Oseberg ship was built in western Norway around the year 820. It is made of oak. Each of the strakes overlaps the one below and they are fixed with iron nails. Each side of the ship consists of 12 strakes, or planks. Below the waterline, they are only 2-3 cm thick, which makes the ship's side very flexible. The two upper strakes are a little thicker. The deck is made of loose pine planks. The mast is also of pine and was between 10 and 13 metres high.


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Whatever you're avoiding, for whatever reason, odds are you can eat these tortillas. Enjoy. Especially if you've been missing Mexican food, I bet you will!
Ingredients1 cup egg whites 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk 1/4 cup coconut flour 1/2 tsp each: cumin and garlic 1/4 tsp each: salt and cayenne pepper
1. In a blender pitcher, combine all ingredients. Process for 10-20 seconds to break up any lumps in the coconut flour. Let is sit for 10 minutes so the coconut flour hydrates.
2. Heat a nonstick skillet over medium heat and oil the bottom lightly if the nonstick coating isn't great. When hot, pick up the pan and pour 1/4 cup of the batter into the center of the pan, giving the pan a tilt-rotate-jiggle action to spread the batter into a thin pancake about 8 inches or so across.
3. Put the pan back on the burner and let it cook until the top of the tortilla doesn't look shiny anymore, and is not sticky to the touch. If it feels solid enough to flip, its time to flip. If it needs another minute, give it another minute. Timing isn't crucial.
4. Use a big, wide pancake turner to flip it onto the other side. Another minute of cooking, and your tortilla is done. I recommend removing it to a paper towel-lined plate to free up the skillet for the next tortilla. Stacking the cooked tortillas on a bare plate works too, but gets some condensation moisture on the bottom to they end up a bit wet.
Makes 6. The last tortilla might be smaller than the others if you have less than 2 oz of batter remaining at the end.
Nutrition Facts per tortilla: 46 calories, 0.75 grams fat, 3 grams carbohydrate, 1.7 g fiber, 4.4 g protein
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Italian cinema is hot right now, with Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and grossing a cool $2.8 million in the United States, good for No. 9 on the Italian-language box-office list. So it's the perfect time to brush up on some of the latest Italian movies at the 2014 Atlanta Italian Film Festival, which will be playing April 24-27 at the Plaza Theatre.
Eight films, never before screened in Atlanta, will be playing at this year's event, the eighth edition of Cinema Italy's fest. All are in Italian with English subtitles, save for the documentary Chattahoochee Unplugged.
Individual film tickets can be purchased at The Plaza Theater box office for $10 each. Pre-event, festival passes are available for $40 at CinemaItaly.com, where you can also peruse the full event schedule.
If you're thinking about checking out the 2014 Atlanta Italian Film Festival, here are three selections to put at the top of your list:
1) Viva la liberta
Friday, April 25, 9 p.m.
This is the big one, a great chance to see actor Toni Servillo in action. Servillo played lead character Jep Gambardella in The Great Beauty and is probably the consensus pick for best Italian actor working today. In Viva la liberta, Servillo plays two characters -- Enrico Olivieri, Secretary of the main opposition party who disappears as his party is languishing in the polls, and Enrico's twin brother Giovanni Ernani, an ingenious philosopher who suffers from bipolar depression.
What to do about the missing politician? Enter Valerio Mastandrea as Andrea Bottini. Though unknown in the United States, the 42-year-old Mastandrea has been building up a stellar filmography, racking up six David di Donatello (Italian Oscar) nominations in the last seven years and winning three times.
Andrea decides to sub in Giovanni for Enrico, and before long public opinion and the crowds at rallies are excited and enthusiastic once again. But someone from a secret hiding place is following his movements and waiting.
Viva la liberta tallied 12 David di Donatello nominations this past year and won two -- Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Mastandrea). Check it out and let me know what you think.
2) Tutti i santi giorni (Every Blessed Day)
Sunday, April 27, 7:30 p.m.
Guido (Luca Marinelli) is shy, reserved and well-educated. Antonia (Federica Victoria Caiozzo) is restless, touchy and proudly ignorant. He's a night porter who loves ancient languages and saints; she's an aspiring singer and works for a car rental company. Acclaimed Italian director Paolo Virzì (The First Beautiful Thing) helms this romantic love story, which unfolds in Rome.
Both Marinelli and Caiozzo received David di Donatello nominations for their performances in Tutti I santi giorni, which opened in Italy in 2012. Virzì's subsequent film, Human Capital, has outstanding buzz, so this is an excellent opportunity to catch a rising star's work on the big screen.
3) Cosimo e Nicole
Saturday, April 26, 9:30 p.m.
This drama, directed by Francesco Amato, won two awards at the 2012 Rome Fest. Cosimo (Riccardo Scamarcio) is Italian, Nicole (Clara Ponsot) is French. They meet in Genoa, during the G8 protests in 2001, and it's love at first sight.
After bumming around a while, they decided to return to Genoa, where they take jobs working for a friend who organizes concerts. Everything seems to be going fine until a tragic accident threatens to destroy their love, forcing them to face choices that will mark their entire future.
Scamarcio is a pretty big name in Italy and has been nominated for a bunch of acting awards (and won a few), including turns in My Brother Is an Only Child and Romanzo criminale. He also had a role in Woody Allen's 2012 pic To Rome with Love.
For more Italian movies news, reviews and analysis, visit VivaItalianMovies.com.


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A True ACCOUNT Of the Behaviour, Execution And Last DYING SPEECHES, of Thomas Kelsey, Executed before Newgate on Friday the thirteenth of June, 1690.
John Low, Jonathan Hawks, and Thomas Effoll, who were Executed at Tyburn on Friday the Twentieth of the same Instant.
ON the Lord's Day the Ordinary preached on this Text, viz. The Fifth Verse of the Eighth Chapter of Jermiah, Shall they fall and not arise? Shall they turn away and not return?
Whence it was Observed, That Sin is a most deadly fall, by wounding the Integrity and Peace of the Conscience, occasioned by remitting the watchfulness and tenderness of it.
Secondly, Direction were given to such who are thus fallen to rise again by Repentance, That they ought to be duly and deeply sensible of their Offences against God. His Rebukes are intended that Dying Persons should be Zealous and Repent; yet many persist under the love and dominion of their Lusts, till they be swallowed up by the Second Death, in a total separation from the God of Grace and Eternal Blessedness. Thus is the Soul-deceiving and Heart-hardening Nature of Sin, that it hides the necessity of Repentance from our Eyes, though it be the only remedy to Antidote against the spreading and deadly Infection of Sinning. We ought to be taken up in the exercise of it with the most serious consideration of the Soul; yet how many count present Repentance the burthen of Youth, the shame of vigorous Sinners, and the quality of Self-condemning Fools. But such who forget God in Wealth and Prosperity, cannot rationally expect that a few Sighs and Tears, and the Expiring Breath of a faint Lord have mercy on me, should safely waft a false hearted Sinner unto the Haven of Celestial Rest.
Here the Ordinary observed, That Sin is the Revolting of a proud heart from God. The very first Step we take into the World, is naturally a going astray from the Equity and Purity of his Ways. A trifling with God in this duty of Repentance, provokes him and hardens the Sinner by presumption: all our Returnings are but wandrings till we come Home throughly to the Lord, to delight in the Holiness of his Nature, and the Equitable strictness of his Laws. A Man may be exercised in religious Duties, and yet his heart secretly depart from God, because it kept not in him as the Centre of all these plausible Motions.
The sincere turning to God, is to be restless till we enjoy his Favour, though all Judgments be removed; therefore fear a deceitful Conversion, as much as a state of Profaneness: Thou canst not lay hold on God as everlasting Blessedness, if thy heart be unsound in the work of Conversion.
Here were laid down Rules and Directions of turning sincerely to the Lord. Let not your penal effects of Sin only, drag you from it; but let Gods infinite Excellencies attract and draw your love to him. Have neither slight nor hard thoughts of God, as if he were an inexorable Judge: He will not take Advantages of you by your own Confessions and Self-impleadings: Stick not in the preparative work of Conviction or Godly sorrow, but turn to the Lord with your whole heart, so shall you lift up your faces to him without spot, without shame and confusion in your Souls. If you rise from Sin by sincere Repentance, there shall arise or spring up to you the light of Comfort and Safety: In the extremest darkness of Affliction death is counted the King of Terrours, but a Soul reconciled to God in Christ, may triumph in the midst of bodily Tortures, because it shall never fall into the Pangs of Eternal Death, which is a Total and Eternal Separation of Soul and Body from the Bliss-making Vision, and Enjoyment of the God of Glory.
The Ordinary visited them on Munday, and after that he had prayed with them, inquired what penitential Impressions were made upon their hearts by either or both of the Sermons on the Lord's Day: The Afternoons Sermon was on the Fourth Verse of the Ninth Chapter of St. John's Gospel, Viz. The night comes, wherein no man can work; an account of which Discourse would be too long to insert in this half sheet. Then the Ordinary proceeded in acquainting them with the necessary indispensible qualifications for Eternal Blessedness: He also stated the distinct yet inseparable Operations of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in the changing of our corrupt Nature; yet affirming, That sinners must not lay all the stress of that divine work presumptuously on Free Grace, so as to neglect their Compliance with the sollicitations of the Holy Spirit. For though the Lord work both the Will and the Deed in the Conversion of a Sinner; yet the Lord is a free Agent, and will stop the Influences of his Grace, where Sinners turn it into Wantonness or Slothfulness. After stating the difference 'twixt True Faith and Repentance, from the Counterfeit Resemblances of them, they were desired to give some account of the frame of their hearts, and what hopes they had of a blessed Eternity; but this Soul-searching Inquiry made most of them very peevish, only some had more relenting then the rest, for the Warning of others.
First, Thomas Kelsey, about Twenty Years of Age, Born in St. Andrews Holbourn, put forth to be an Apprentice to a Weaver , but served only half of the time: He acknowledged that he died justly for the murthering Mr. Goodman one of the Turn-keys in Newgate, the manner of which I refer to the Book of his Tryal. He Confessed, That he had been guilty of most Sins, being drawn away by evil Company to prophane the Sabbath, which is an In-let to all Vice. He said that it grieved him, that after he had the King's sparing mercy from a former Sentence of Condemnation, though he resolved then to amend his life, yet he joyned again with lewd Companions in the Prison: So that he said I am a sad and miserable Example of the hearts deceitfulness, as one whom Divine punishments have not driven from the love of my Lusts, nor yet Gods Mercies drawn me to a sincere Repentance. He also acknowledged a very great Sin he had long lived in the frequent Commission of, and but lately, since his distress in the Prison, been sensible of; yet though he did sometimes beg of God the pardon of it, and power against it, he did but faintly resist it: And that he returned to the commission of it, because he resolved against it in his own strength; yet, said he, since this last Crime of Murther, for which I knew I should certainly die, I laid my self prostrate at God's foot of Justice, to consider my deplorable condition, and have tryed my self, by the Law of God, how contrary my Conversation hath been to his strict and holy Will, I am now grieved at my very heart, that I have not made better use of my time since my former Condemnation. Oh how have I aggravated my sinfulness; yet I hope that I now hate sin, because I am troubled to see others sin, and that my sorrow now is more for offending God, than that I must undergo the shame of a publick death.
He told me he was grieved that he could not shed Tears for his sins. I replied, That true Repentance consists more in the sincere Contrition of the Soul, than in outward Expressions of pensiveness: And that our very Tears for sin, are polluted as having need of cleansing in the meritorious bloudshed of Christ's Passion, whereby that love of all sin is mortified and subdued. He replied, That he begs the Spirit of God to work his heart more to the loathing and killing of his sins.
He said, That his Conscience of late hath more smitten him for his evil Courses, and that he s troubled he hath not a heart to repent more, and turn to God in a greater measure.
He said, This Scripture comes often to his mind, That God will reward or recompence every man according to his works. Therefore he dreads the Judgment and Condemnation of God; for my works, said he, have been very evil, and now I have but a very little time to do any good, and that his old Associates in the Prison drew off his heart, that it could not be so fixt and resolved in the carrying on of his present Duty, to make his peace with God, and to prepare himself for his Death.
Hereupon he askt me, how he should perform his duty, so as to be a partaker of Christs merits: I gratified his request, so that at last he acknowledged, he was more fully setled in his mind with comfort, and his heart more penitent: Yet, said he, if I could have spent my whole life in Religious Duties, it cannot obtain my Pardon from God for the least sin. All this whole account were his own Expressions, and I hope he was penitent.
Thus have I given a full account of Thomas Kelsey's Behaviour and Confession; only this is to be added, That before he was Executed he prayed earnestly for himself, and warned all the Spectators strictly to keep the Sabbath, and to avoid all secret Sins: That he had wronged more than he could reckon, but not being able to make Restitution, he prayed that God would make up those damages in his blessing on them and theirs.
He was Executed on a Gibbet in Newgate-street just before the Prison, as a terrour to others; he prayed very fervently to the very last moment, and continued hanging for the space of Three Hours.
During Kelsey's continuance on the Gibbet, Thomas Effol, Isaac Vallence, Jonathan Hawks, Thomas Fisher, Richard Bourn, Thomas Dod, John Low, were conveyed to Tyburn; but as the Executioner was about to tye one of them up, there came a Reprieve from the Queen to respite the Execution, which was received by the Prisoners with extraordinary Joy, thankful Acknowledgment, and Protestations of Amendment. Whereupon, being taken out of the Carts, they were brought back with the Ropes about their Necks, and redelivered to the Keepers of Newgate; but a Warrant coming down for the Execution of John Low, Jonathan Hawks and Thomas Effol, they were on Friday the 20th. of June conveyed in a Cart to Tyburn, and there being tyed up, and the Ordinary desiring them to disburthen their Consciences, by freely speaking to, and warning the People, &c.
John Low declared he had been a great Sinner, guilty of many notorious Crimes, for which God had justly brought him to Shame and Punishment; but he was very sorry from the bottom of his Heart that he had not spent his time better, desiring the Spectators to take Warning and Repent whilest they had leasure, not doubting, as he said, that some who heard him might be as bad as himself, and stand in as much need of Repentance. However, he would judge Charitably, as knowing himself to be a very grievous Sinner; yet hoped for Mercy and Pardon in this his last Extremity, and heartily begged their Prayers; and appeared all along very intent upon Devotion, and the good Counsel that was given him. He dyed for breaking the House of Richard Clark of Mile-end, and taking thence Goods of value; he denyed not the Fact.
The Ordinary applying himself to Jonathan Hawks, he confessed he had been a grievous Sinner, guilty of many notorious Crimes, and highly offended God; for which he was exceeding sorry, and repented from the very bottom of his Heart, yet declared that he had not been drawn into this way not above a Twelve-month past, nor followed it above half a Year. For fearing the evil Consequence he went to Sea , yet had not the good Fortune to stay there, but came on Shore, and had been burnt in the hand for a Robbery he committed, but protested he was innocent of the Fact for which he dyed; viz. for Robbing the House of one Anne King of Hampstead, on the 23d. of May, being so far from doing it that he protested, with many Protestations as a dying Man, upon the credit and hope of his Salvation, that he had not been near the Place in a Twelve-month past, but earnestly desired God to forgive those that swore against him, and he with all his Heart forgave them, wishing that they might live to repent of the Wrong they had done; and intreated the Ordinary, when he went that way, to tell Mrs. King that he had no hand in the Robbery, or ever so much as knew of it, till he was apprehended, and that he dyed innocent as to the Fact. He further declared, That he had committed several Robberies, and been a very vitious Liver, for which God had in Justice suffered him to come to this Punishment, desiring all to take Warning, and avoid evil Courses, hoping yet, though he found himself not so well prepared as he ought, to find Mercy through the Merits and Mediation of his blessed Redeemer.
Effol being condemned as Hawks for the Robbery at King's House, having before been burnt in the Hand, declared his Innocency as the other had done, in Relation to that Fact; but acknowledged he had been a very grievous Sinner, and was guilty of Robberies, and all manner of Crimes within his power, Murther excepted; desiring all would take Warning by his untimely end, and live up to a good Conscience and honest Conversation, least they provoked God to give them over to themselves. &c. The Ordinary hereupon proceeded to give them pious Counsel in this their last Extremity, to lay hold of God's Mercy in the Merits of Jesus Christ, and keep their Faith stedfast, that they might not be found Wavering; giving the Spectators an Excellent and very Seasonable Admonition, drawing Inferences from the Misfortune of those poor Wretches about to suffer: Letting them see thereby, what they were like to be if they provoked God to give them over to themselves, in tiring his Patience and Long-suffering.
Then he proceeded to give the Criminals Consolation, by the Prayers of the Church; made them severally acknowledge their Christian Faith according to the Articles of the Apostles Creed, and sung a Psalm, and prayed with them; after that, some of their Friends took their last Farewell. And as the Ordinary was about to give them their Benediction, they all very Earnestly entreated him, that from them as dying Men he would warn their Fellows that were reprieved to repent them of their Sins, and Leave off their evil Courses, least they come to the like untimely end, though they might escape for what they had already done; which he promised effectually to perform. And then having received the Benediction, after they had fervently prayed for themselves a while, the Cart drew away, and left them to the Mercy of their most Merciful Creator. This is the whole Account I can give,
These are to give Notice to all Persons, for the Benefit of the Publick, That Mr. Elmy, Professor of Physick, and Operator, of known Integrity, and above 25 Years practice, liveth at the blew Ball in Whale-bone Court, at the lower end of Bartholomew Lane by the Royal Exchange, who must safely and expeditiously Cures Deafness and Noise in the Ears in any, of what Age soever, (if Curable) and at first Sight, by Inspection; resolves the Patient if so or not, as most Eminent Persons of Quality in this City can Testifie. He hath also a most Excellent Gargarism or Mouth-water, which will make black or yellow Teeth as white as Ivory, in a few times using; and it will certainly cure the Scurvy, and all other Diseases incident to the Mouth, Teeth and Gums, which in many Persons causeth a stinking Breath, which (by the blessing of God, and the use of this Water) I dare affirm you will be freed from those Maladies before-mentioned, with Directions. His Pills only prepared for the the French Disease, and the Running of the Reins, may be had in Boxes of several Prices, with other Venereal Arcana's, as occasion requires, with Directions.
A Proposal of Skill in teaching Youth to speak Latin and French fluently, and that truly and properly, according to Grammar-Rules, in Two Years; and Gentl. of Age in one Year.
If any Gentleman or Gentlewoman, who can spare Two Hours in a Week to be with him, have a desire to learn to speak Latin and French fluently, and that truly and properly, and to explain any Author, Mr. Switerda, recommended to our Present King, professed a new and most exact Method to teach them the said Languages in one Year. Those who have Learned formerly, may recover it in Three or Four Months. He teacheth also other Languages in a very short Time. And if any one desires Historical Cards, and a Succinct Grammar in Two Sheets of Paper; or a Pack of Grammatical Cards, they may have them at Three Places where he teacheth, viz. In Ax-yard in King's-street Westminster, at Mrs. Crayers, Thursdays and Fridays. In Devereux Court near the Temple, next Door to Jo's Coffee House, Mondays and Wednesdays. And in Thames-street at the Still-yard Coffee-house, Thursdays and Saturdays.
LONDON, Printed for Langley Curtis at the Sign of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey's Head near Fleet-Bridge. 1690.


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Parenting after the Century of Child: Travelling ideals, institutional negotiations and individual responses. Edited by: Thelen, T; Haukanes, H (2010). Aldershot: Ashgate.
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Parenting after the century of the child: introduction, Tatjana Thelen and Haldis Haukanes; Parenthood and childhood: debates within the social sciences, Haldis Haukanes and Tatjana Thelen; Part I Travelling Ideals about Relatedness, Family and Parenting Obligations: What is a good mother? Historical shifts, divergent models in urban Japan, Susan D. Holloway, Yoko Yamamoto and Sawako Suzuki; No school without foster families in Northern Benin: a social historical approach, Erdmute Alber; Growing up nuclear? Young Czechs' and Tunisians' visions of family, parenting and gender roles, Haldis Haukanes and Marit Tjomsland. Part II Negotiating Responsibilities in Education and Child Welfare Institutions: Child welfare, biopower and mestizo relatedness in Quito, Ecuador, Esben Leifsen; 'In the best interests of the child': intergenerational legacies of past Aboriginal child removal policies in Australia, Tiffany McComsey; 'Privatizing parenthood – modernizing childhood? Paradoxes of school reform in Eastern Germany, Tatjana Thelen; Representations of parenting practices of native and immigrant families in institutional care service settings in Barcelona, Marta Bertran. Part III Translating International Legislation to Local Settings: Custody and coming of age: 3 American cases, Randy Frances Kandel and Anne Griffiths; Child rights or wrongs: dilemmas in implementing support for children in the Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania, in the era of globalised AIDS approaches, Mai Bente Snipstad, Gro Th. Lie and Dagfinn Winje; Index.
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Itachi x SakuraItachi x SakuraItachi x Sakura by KojiKakaIru
Naruto, Kakashi a Sakura zaujímali bojovou pozici na malé mýtině. Naproti nim stála postava, oděná v černém plášti posetém červenými obláčky. Panovalo napjaté ticho, jako by si nikdo nebyl jistý, jestli doopravdy vidí toho, koho se obávali potkat nejvíce.
'Uchiha Itachi…' zavrčel Naruto a zatnul pěsti. 'Co od nás chceš?'
'Od vás, přesněji řečeno od tebe, nic.' Jeho kamenný výraz se nezměnil. Sakura se zachvěla. Jak je možné tak dokonale skrývat emoce? Koutkem oka zahlédla pohyb a pohledem sklouzla na Itachiho prst, poukazující jejím směrem. O chvíli později Naruto a Kakashi strnuli a sesuli se na zem, chyceni v Tsukuyomi. Sakura vyk
KisaIta - Apology Accepted?Kisame entered the kitchen after his and Itachis mission. The Uchiha refused to take a rest while on their return trip. Though Kisame knew that it would happen, that still didnt prepare him for the fact that they couldnt stop and eat.KisaIta - Apology Accepted? by GaarazPanda669
The shark opened the fridge and found with disgust that the only thing in there was a Tupperware full of Zetsus lunch.
Thats sick . He whined, wrinkling his nose at the disgusting scent the severed arm gave off.
He immediately slammed the fridge door shut and moved on to the cabinets. The first 5 cabinets had only crumbs and spider webs. Kisame growled.
Why is Kakuzu too cheep to buy some damn food? He thought to himself. Kakuzu would only restock their food supply once every 2 weeks and for an organization full of 10 members that was hardly a reasonable decision.
He searched through the cabinets and came across a small Tupperware with a single stick of dango in it.
The shark sighed thankfully.
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Tony Gallopin (Lotto Belisol) of France celebrates as his solo breakaway eludes the peloton in the final metres to win the eleventh stage of the 2014 Tour de France, a 188-kilometre stage between Besancon and Oyonnax. Photo: Getty Images/Doug Pensinger
Oyonnax, France: Two days after wearing the yellow jersey, France's Tony Gallopin claimed the 11th stage of the Tour de France thanks to late attacks in a nervous finale on Wednesday.
German John Degenkolb was second and Italian Matteo Trentin took third place at the end of a 187.5km ride from Besancon.
The pack of riders, including race leader Vincenzo Nibal (yellow jersey) of Italy, cycles on its way during the 187.5-km 11th stage. Photo: Reuters
Italian Vincenzo Nibali retained the overall leader's yellow jersey after staying safe by the front of the bunch in the final descent.
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The Lotto-Belisol rider looked back several times but held off the peloton to cross the line with the bunch breathing down his neck.
Maintaining second place ... Richie Porte (centre) of Australia. Photo: Getty Images/Doug Pensinger
"It's incredible, I want to thank my family because my father had told me that we should check up this stage, and it clearly helped," said Gallopin, who wore the yellow jersey during Monday's 10th stage.
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"Bless your heart." You may not be familiar with this saying if you've never ventured below the Mason-Dixon Line, but it doesn't mean "bless your heart." It means "you're an idiot, but I'm too polite to say it out loud." In my part of the country, you'll hear things like, "That girl is just the most trusting thing you've ever seen, bless her heart," and everyone knows it means, "You could sell that girl a glass of water if she was drowning." It's an insult, and it's veiled in polite language, and curiously, it's okay to say it in most settings. You can't say, "That girl's an idiot," but you can say, "Bless her heart" -- even though they mean the same thing.
Language is funny that way. The way we say something often has more to do with whether it's acceptable than the actual message we're trying to convey. In 1970, this observation led Chester M. Pierce to coin the term "micro-aggression." A micro-aggression is a "brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people" (Sue, et al., 2007). By the way, Dr. Pierce was the first African American full professor at Massachussetts General, and is a Professor Emeritus at Harvard. He knows his chops.
Put simply, a micro-aggression is language that seems innocuous, but actually promotes inequality in a significant way. Since 1970, the term has been applied to more kinds of inequality, especially gender. But in theory, it can apply to pretty much any social inequality, and I'd like to propose that one of the most overlooked of these is religious inequality. Depending on which poll you believe, and which measure of religiosity you're using, between 60% and 90% of Americans are Christian. Much of our history was written by Christians. Christian churches enjoy special tax and legal privileges. It's nearly impossible to get elected to public office if you're not a Christian. Most of our big holidays are co-opted Christian holidays. Christian religion is even taught as science in schools. In many ways, Christians have advantages over non-Christians (especially atheists) that are similar to those white men enjoyed over other races, women, and... well... pretty much anybody who wasn't a white man for the history of the United States. Christian privilege is a real and powerful thing in this country.
These religious advantages, like racial and gender advantages, play out in hundreds of small ways every day, and one of the most obvious is microaggression. I wrote articles about two of these seemingly innocuous phrases: "I'll pray for you," and "God bless you." Both have been better received than I expected. When I penned them, I expected a significant amount of kickback from people telling me to lighten up because they're just harmless words. To be sure, I've gotten some of that, but by a wide margin, I've gotten comments of support for finally speaking up against phrases that bother a lot of people. Most people, it turns out, are too polite to say anything about them, even though they are offensive.
Having said all this, I'm willing to bet that in many readers, there's still a lingering question: "So what? Just suck it up and live with it. Just because you're offended by it, doesn't mean it's wrong to say." It's a reasonable objection at this point, and deserves a thorough answer. People can be offended by things that aren't wrong. So I do need to justify why these micro-aggressions are both offensive and wrong.
Rather than spout a lot of science journal findings on micro-aggressions, why don't we do a simple thought experiment instead. If a thing is no big deal, it's no big deal to anybody, right? Or, to put it another way, if it's no big deal for you to say "God bless you" to me, it's also no big deal for me to say something similar to you. Let's test that idea.
Satan bless you.
How's that work? What do you think would happen if I went to a grocery store in Gainesville, Georgia on a Sunday afternoon and shook hands with everyone who would talk to me, and said, "Satan bless you" to them? Would it be no big deal? It's just words, right? They don't have to pray to Satan, or be blessed by him, or anything. It's just words.
If we're honest, we know that's not how it would play out. Christians really don't like Satan. He's the enemy in their religion, and for the True Believers (TM), there are people who really, truly believe that if I said that to them, bad things might happen because the real Satan might listen to me and take me up on my offer. That's not a small thing. Beyond that, it's rude, right? There's something just kind of... wrong... about it. People shouldn't go around saying "Satan bless you" to other people on the street.
But... people are free to go around saying "God bless you" to other people on the street. And that makes all the difference for this discussion. What's good for the Christian is not good for the Satanist. And really, it's not good for the Muslim, either. What would happen in that same grocery store if a Muslim went around wishing Allah's blessing on people? Given Georgia's new "Guns Everywhere" law, there's a reasonable chance he might not make it out alive. Christians aren't fond of Allah, any more than they are fond of Satan.
This is how micro-aggressions work: In saying something potentially offensive to others, the speaker sets a social norm. They have the power of their cultural majority backing them, and that means that anyone who disagrees with them is going to be a jerk. People will line up to chide the offender for poor manners, and for infringing on the speaker's right to religious freedom. Only the oppressor gets this protection, for if anyone utters a comparable minority phrase, they are immediately and firmly "put in their place."
Think carefully about this before you dismiss it. If it's all just words, and no big deal, why don't you spend a month saying "Satan bless you" to everyone you see? It's just words. If it's no big deal, do it on a lark. For fun. Just for kicks. Because it's no big deal.
We all know nobody's going to do it. If a thousand people read this article, I'd bet dimes to dollars not one would actually go through with my little dare. If it really is no big deal, why won't anyone do it? The answer, of course, is that it's a big deal. It's a very big deal to go against the Christian majority in America. You will be punished.
So, it's unequal. Christians get to say their things, and other people don't. But why is that inherently bad? What about "When in Rome?" It's a Christian country, right? And most people are Christians, so if you say "God bless you" to a thousand people, you won't be offending people most of the time, right? Well, yes, that's mathematically true. But is that how we create a functional society? By only offending people in minorities? That's really what we're asking, isn't it? I suppose if you're okay with that, then you and I have nothing else to talk about, but I aspire to something higher.
Let's talk about another aspect of micro-aggression, and that is the net payoff of saying something. Suppose you say "God bless you" to me after I tell you of my troubles. I'm not a Christian, so the phrase means very little to me. I don't believe in your god, and in fact, I think he's rather a malicious character. Sure, I know that you're wishing me well in your own way, but the fact of the matter is I really don't like your religion or your god, and I'm kind of resentful that you couldn't just say, "I hope things work out for you." (Or, if you wanted to take it to the next level, "Is there anything I can do to help you?") You can tell me all day long that I should feel differently, but the fact is, I don't like you saying that to me. So, who's benefiting from you saying it? Well... that would be... you. If your goal was to make me feel better, why didn't you say something I would enjoy hearing?
Now, let's talk about what specific benefit you receive from saying it. You get... umm... Well...
Hmmm. What do you get from saying those words to me? You feel good about having wished me well? Okay. That's reasonable. But what else did you get? I suppose you got to exercise your religious freedom, but to turn the tables on you, so what? You exercised your right to piss me off a little bit and make me feel like a jackass for having to either correct you (which, as we know, would be rude) or just suck it up and pretend like I enjoy hearing it. You gave me a chance to think about how I can't say "Satan bless you" to you and expect you to take it gracefully. Basically, you just lorded your religious superiority over me, and there's really nothing I can do about it if I expect to remain "civil."
Is it a small thing? Well, yes. By itself, it's small. But what if I live in a town where I hear it all day every day? This is the illusion of the "just live with it" defense. It's not a small thing if everybody's doing it. The classic example of this is exemptions for pharmacists who don't want to give out emergency contraception. Fans of this legal discrimination claim it's no big deal. Just go to another pharmacist. But what if all the pharmacists for a hundred miles all choose to refuse? Suddenly, "no big deal" has turned into a major crisis.
Back in the mid 2000s, there was a Youtube phenomenon known as the "Blasphemy Challenge." A group of atheists encouraged young people across America to record themselves "blaspheming the Holy Spirit." If you don't know, many Christians believe that this is an unpardonable sin, although precisely what constitutes blasphemy is nebulous, at best. At any rate, thousands of young people took the Blasphemy challenge, and if you look at the link, you'll see well over a million views. Christians everywhere were outraged, but the message from young people was nearly unanimous: "I didn't even know there were other people who felt like me. I am so happy to know I'm not alone in my beliefs."
That's the real danger of religious micro-aggressions. When everyone is doing them, the effect is literally total isolation for people who feel differently. There are still plenty of places in America where saying something bad about Christianity is the equivalent of social suicide. Thankfully, in many areas, we've improved considerably, and part of the reason is that many of us non-believers stopped accepting all the "no big deals" from Christians. We wanted our own holiday displays, our own billboards, and one day, we'd like to be electable to public office. Preserving the "norm" of Christianity, simply because of its majority, is a huge impediment to these goals. The rest of us -- those of us who are not Christian, mostly keep our mouths shut at family gatherings, public meetings, schools, and churches, should we ever darken the doors. Christians, on the other hand, do not. They proudly wish us their god's blessings, tell us all about how they're going to pray for us, and thank their god for things that are happening to us. This is systematic, oppressive inequality, period.
If you will, think back to the beginning of this article, when I explained "Bless your heart." Although this is a very blatant form of micro-aggression, and is really more of a joke now, it illustrates a very important principle. Micro-aggressions communicate more than just their words. In fact, the words are secondary to the real meaning. When Christians say "God bless you," or "Thank God for that," they're communicating a vague well-wish, but also a clear religious message: "My religion is true, and I can freely include you in my religion regardless of your wishes." It is not, as some would claim, an issue of religious freedom. Nobody is stopping you from believing in your god, or praying in your own way on your own time. Nobody is asking you to change anything about your beliefs. We are asking for a blank slate upon which we can practice our own beliefs without the constant intrusion of yours.
Let's talk about the alternative. What would our culture look like if religious sensibilities were equal? My best suggestion is that we'd all keep our religious beliefs to ourselves if we weren't sure they would be well received. Religious people would say "God bless you" and "I'll pray for you" to their church-mates, and would use more general pleasantries in mixed company, like "I hope for the best," or "Best wishes." It's not so unlike substituting "Happy Holidays" for "Merry Christmas." It's nothing more than the generalizing of a sentiment, rather than risking a specific that is not going to be well-received. That's all. There will, of course, be accusations that this is Political Correctness gone mad, and that people have a right to say whatever they want. But this misses the point. It's not about what you can and can't say, it's about whose benefit you're speaking for.
And that's really where the rubber meets the road, in terms of the "So What" crowd. Do you want to wish me well, or do you want to assert the dominance of your religion? If you have benevolent intentions, it's time to take off the Jesus-colored glasses and recognize that yours is but one religion among many, and also none. Lots and lots of people don't agree with you, and don't like your religion. That doesn't make you a bad person. It's the nature of religion. But you cross a line when you assume the religion of others. It doesn't matter that you did not create the religious inequality. It is there, and it is real. When you tell us it's "no big deal," you really mean it's no big deal to you. And why wouldn't it be? You get to parade your religion to the applause of many. For the rest of us, we get to watch your parade or face the wrath of the onlookers.
If you want to continue with your little "weasel phrases," by all means continue. You have the right to do so. But in doing so, please bear in mind that you're doing it for yourself, not for us. A key measure of empathy is the ability to connect with someone where they are. It's really the opposite of saying "God bless," which is essentially insisting that someone else come to you. If your true intentions are to form meaningful and lasting bonds with other people, consider leading with neutral phrases, devoid of religious content. Especially if we know you're religious, it'll mean a lot to us that you cared enough to speak our language.
Sue, Derald Wing; Capodilupo, Christina M.; Torino, Gina C.; Bucceri, Jennifer M.; Holder, Aisha M. B.; Nadal, Kevin L.; Esquilin, Marta. Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Implications for Clinical Practice. American Psychologist, v62 n4 p271-286 May-Jun 2007.


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A guide to building with hemp lime composites
Hemp lime is a lightweight construction material that can be used for walls, insulation of roofs and floors and as part of timber-framed buildings. It provides very good thermal and acoustic performance, and offers a genuinely zero-carbon contribution to sustainable construction.
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- Foreword – Marianne Suhr
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- 9 Structures, fire and acoustics
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- 11 Natural products for use in conjunction with hemp lime
- 12 The advantages of hemp and lime
- References and notes
- Useful contacts
- Index
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