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The United Church has sadly come to the decision that WonderCafe needed to close and all new discussion ended June 2014. Read More...
The Emerging Spirit project will officially end on December 31, 2010.
As part of the closing of the project we gathered those who had presented workshops, under the banner of the project, from all across the country. Not all could attend, but 35 gathered at Church House November 23-24, 2010. This reflection formed part of the closing worship.
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During the past few years we have been proclaiming that the prime story of our time is not that the church is dysfunctional or in decline but that God is at work and inviting us to write a new chapter in the story of God's people.
We have used, until it wilts from exhaustion, the quote from Loren Mead:
We are at the front edges of the greatest transformation of the church that has occurred for 1,600 years. It is by far the greatest change that the church has ever experienced in America; it may eventually make the transformation of the Reformation look like a ripple in a pond.
If it is true that we are being called forward, it will not be the first time that we, as the people of God, are called to be on the move. Our earliest stories are of a people on the move.
In a couple of weeks I am to begin a series of presentations named "Stepping Further Out" (Ottawa - Oct 27; Calgary - Oct 30; Vancouver - Nov 6). As a way of summarizing the past I am flirting with these paragraphs. I wonder though whether it is too harsh, not tough enough or just true. I'd appreciate any comments. Thanks.
Three years ago, the situations of The United Church of Canada and General Motors had a lot in common.
Although we made gestures, in the form of motions and policy formation, and talked a lot about innovation we did not really appreciate the depth and speed of a rapidly changing context. We operated with varying degrees of a sense of entitlement, our dealers/paid accountable leaders had grown accustomed to a certain degree of "loyalty" from their customers/parishioners and were fundamentally confused by this new reality.
Part of the trouble with Emerging Spirit was not in its mandate or vision but in failing to appreciate just how difficult it is for local leadership to make significant shifts in a congregational culture. We probably should have known better - and maybe even did - but the timeframe was compact and necessitated certain choices.
By and large leaders were sympathetic to the project's analysis, message and call to radical hospitality. The challenge, in reality, lay in trying to balance the cost in time and energy it would take to engage that question with all the other voices demanding attention. No one says that improving a ministry of hospitality is a bad thing but where does it fit in the lineup of things we should do, like looking at the governance system, renovating the worship service, training leaders, meeting the budget, visiting the sick and doing all the things necessary to keep an old way of being church on its feet while being open to something new. For many there just wasn't time or energy even though we heard 'Amens' from their lips and spirits. (Part of me is still not convinced that making hospitality a priority really takes as much time as it does a commitment but more of that in another blog. For now, I concede the point that it takes time which leaders feel they do not have.)
The modern age was ushered in by the Enlightenment (mid-1600s to early 1800s). One characteristic of the Enlightenment framework was a rejection of tradition and religious sources of authority in favour of reason and knowledge. Over time, the modern age became wed to the idea of progress and the conviction that science had the ability to make things bigger and better and to solve any problem that arose. The deep assumption was that if and when we could control the natural world we would continue to grow in wealth, health, and leisure.
In the modern age religion became private - a personal matter between ourselves and God, a principle enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Reason and knowledge were part of the public realm - this is the time of the rise in public schools, universities, political parties, as well as capitalism. In the modern age we sought certainty, freedom, and progress.
The Christian church seeks to be a community rooted in faith and engaged in the world.
We root ourselves in faith through worship, spiritual practices, caring for each other, and learning together. We yearn to share our faith with those we love and with a world that is hungry for spiritual food. We want our own lives to have meaning, to make a difference for good in God's world.
Share is a website which offers how-to advice on starting, developing, and sustaining fresh expressions of church based on shared experiences. Sponsored by Fresh Expressions and ChurchArmy, two organizations based in the United Kingdom which work toward the development and renewal of Christian community, the Share site is a resource for those involved with innovative expressions of church.
Among Share's growing list of resources includes a helpful overview of café-style churches which are growing in popularity in many places. Share looks at a variety of café / church hybrids, including café-style events on church premises, Christian events in commercial cafés, commercial cafés run by Christians, and doing mission within existing cafés.
See the Share website for the full inspiring collection of church café ideas, as well as additional fresh expression takes on rural ministry, workplace church, children's ministry, on-line fresh expressions, and more.
If you haven't done so already, please check out this video stream from The United Church of Canada's 85th Anniversary service, held June 20, at the More Franchises event in Toronto.
You can also check out the insights from More Franchise participants on the Twitter stream #ucc85 or #mf2.
When aerosol artist Chor Boogie, who was part of the original Paint Your Faith event in Toronto, showed up at the recent Vancouver PYF event, no one expected him to paint. He had come to Vancouver to share his art at the Paint Your Faith show at Ayden Gallery and connect with PYF Vancouver artists Indigo, Titi Freak, Faith 47, and Peeta along the way while they worked on the new PYF mural.
While at the mural site, Chor also connected with Sandra Severs of First United Church Mission, which was co-sponsoring PYF Vancouver along with WonderCafe.ca. Chor asked if he could paint a section of First United's roof and Sandra said "Go for it!" And soon Chor, along with the Paint Your Faith documentary team, were climbing several levels of ladders to reach the steeple of First United Church, high above the Downtown Eastside.
If you are falling short on ideas to attract new people to the church (during the week) you might want to look to what people are doing online.
In fact, the main group that is extremely active online and are into social networking today are the retiring Baby Boomers. What a great audience to attract to your church. Many of them missed the computer age, or maybe worked in a place with a computer at a "dumb terminal" and only learned what the specific work programs required and nothing more. What a great target audience to attract. Of course there are the seniors who are the biggest buyers of laptops and want to find their old friends...dead or alive! Hey, I am not joking here.
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We really enjoyed these delicate cookies. We substituted pecans for the walnuts otherwise recipe was good.
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- Bake at 350° for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool completely. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Freeze, if desired.
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthDay News) -- A new review finds that weight-loss surgery helps very obese patients drop pounds and improve their overall health, even if there is some risk for complications.
"We've gotten good at doing this," said Dr. Mitchell Roslin, chief of weight-loss surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "Bariatric surgery has become one of the safest intra-abdominal major procedures."
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Overall, complication rates ranged from 10 percent to 17 percent and the reoperation rate was about 7 percent. The death rate ranged from .08 percent to .31 percent.
However, the operation improved obesity-related conditions, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and sleep apnea.
Five years after the operation, the reduction in BMI ranged from 12 to 17 points.
The review showed differences between the types of weight-loss procedures. For example, gastric bypass was more effective for weight loss but was associated with more complications.
In gastric bypass, part of the stomach is closed off to prevent the patient from eating too much.
In adjustable gastric banding, in which a band is used to reduce the size of the stomach, the death and complication rates were lower but reoperation rates were higher. In addition, weight loss with gastric banding was less than with gastric bypass, the researchers found.
Among all the procedures, sleeve gastrectomy appeared to result in the most weight loss, the researchers said. In this procedure, a large part of the stomach is removed, reducing it to about 25 percent of its original size. This results in a sleeve or tube-like structure.
Roslin said common complications include bleeding, infection and bowel blockage.
Roslin said everyone who has a BMI over 35 and has sleep apnea, severe heart failure or needs insulin for type 2 diabetes should consider having bariatric surgery.
"Every patient who needs a joint replacement [and has] a BMI greater than 40 should consider bariatric surgery," he added.
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SOURCES: Su-Hsin Chang, Ph.D., instructor, division of public health services, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis; Mitchell Roslin, M.D., chief, weight- loss surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Dec. 18, 2013, JAMA Surgery, online
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One significant lie in a relationship can destroy it forever. But how good is your B.S. detector? The good news is with training everyone can increase their ability to spot lies. The following are the eight most effective ways to boost your skills and determine if someone is spitting authentic or fabricated game to you.
When the stakes are high, people will lie.
Context is everything. Keep in mind that whenever someone stands a lot to lose (like you) or a lot to gain (like you) they are more likely to lie.
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If you're in a situation where you believe the person you're speaking with "did it," directly ask them "how do you feel about doing it." The wrongly accused person will express anger and tell you so. The guilty person will typically express a range of emotions.
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When we naturally smile, frown, or shrug, it's typically even and occurs on both sides of the body. Any gesture that is one-sided may be masking what the person is really feeling.
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Only one in ten people can move the muscles around their eyes to fake a smile. If they're smiling at you but you see no movement (or what's called "crow feet") around the eyes, there is a high likelihood the person you're talking to is masking their real feelings behind a fabricated smile.
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We think a liar is going to look anxious or nervous, but not so. Liars must think harder than normal because they're working to cover up the lie so they will instead do things that make them appear to be needlessly thinking hard and conserving energy like not using many gestures, using a slow or impersonal tone or being aloof. Think politician or used car salesman.
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I'd love it if you'd explain how Midnight is actually about rape! I've never heard that interpretation before, and it sounds really fascinating.
It's one of those "once you see it, you CANNOT UNSEE IT" things. The major connection leading into it is that New Who often uses telepathy as a G-rated metaphor for sex. It's most obvious in Girl in the Fireplace, of course; I seem to recall once hearing that even the cast and crew casually referred to the Doctor digging through Reinette's memories as "the mind sex scene." But even when it's less blatant, there's still a recurring theme that the contents of your own head are the most precious and intimate part of you, and having that tampered with is one of the most horrifying violations imaginable. (Moffat carries that theme still further, into "your perceptions and memories are so crucial that they are actually what determine reality," but that also shifts the source of the horror somewhat: his monsters don't just fuck with your head, they distort the very nature of what's real by doing so, and the reality distortion ends up taking top priority on the "oh fuck no" list.) And s4, in particular, plays up the skin-crawling wrongness of having Something Else (or Someone Else) rummaging about in your head over and over and over.
But, okay, that doesn't mean episodes like Forest of the Dead are actually about rape, though they're darkly fascinating when viewed with that subtext in mind. Midnight, though… oh man, Midnight. I'm not going to lie, Tennant's acting is one of the biggest reasons I cannot unsee it—his face when the thing is possessing him, every inch of his body language when it releases him, "it's gone it's gone it's gone it's gone," the understated but painfully obvious trauma afterwards. It's one of the few episodes where the Doctor walks away traumatized by what just happened, and AFAIK the only one where he's incredibly shaken up over something that happened TO HIM, not some action he feels guilty for or something that happened to a person he feels responsible for. ('42' is a possible other contender—and again with the things that crawl into your head—but it's arguable that what terrified him there wasn't the homicidal sun burning up his mind from the inside, it was the prospect of harming the people around him while he wasn't himself.) It's… well, it's the only episode that sticks the Doctor squarely in the victim role, on which more in a second.
And the other thing is that there are two huge central focal points to the horror in Midnight: the thing that gets inside you and steals your voice, and the way ordinary humans turn into a pack of rabid hyenas and start eating their own when they're scared and under pressure and don't know how to deal with an invisible threat. Neither of those things are… exactly conducive to a "yeah the rapey subtext is interesting but it's completely irrelevant to the main plot of the episode" line of reasoning. The whole thing is about vulnerability, blame, fear of the menacing unknown, the human loathing of powerlessness, words, who controls the discourse.
A few things that jumped out at me once I was in "cannot unsee" mode:
- We never do find out much about the monster, but it doesn't pick its targets at random. It unfailingly seeks out the most vulnerable person in the room. Sky was the most afraid of it, so it latched onto her first. The Doctor, trying to flatter himself that he's in some sort of control of the situation, wonders whether it's started copying him exclusively because it wants the cleverest voice in the room, but even he doubts that. The truth is, if you watch the scene closely, it doesn't stop mimicking everyone else and focus in on the Doctor until the precise moment when everyone else has turned against him. At which point it plays on his vulnerability to convince them that since he's the one being attacked, he's the unclean one and all this unpleasantness will be over if they just cast him out.
- The first line of the episode is "I said, NO." The last line is "No, don't do that. Really, don't. Don't." Coincidence, probably. Ditto the fact of the single speech with suggestive undertones ("…and then you came—bodies so hot, with blood, and pain…") being forced out unwillingly from the Doctor's lips. And the gratuitous Goblin Market quotes, which sound creepily sexual even before you remember the REST of the poem.
- Subtext or no, the thing that really appears to freak the Doctor out about this incident is being stuck in the victim role. He's not just taking his lumps in the course of saving the day ("
For your sake I have braved the glen / And had to do with goblin merchant-men"); in fact he's been rudely booted out of the role of saving the day, and is stuck powerless, voiceless, motionless, no plan up his sleeve, having terrible things done to him and just wishing to still be alive when it's over. And he struggles against it, afterwards: in the context of the wider series, "The hostess, what was her name?" isn't just a way to honor the person who ultimately saved his ass, it's an attempt to add another name to the list of people whose deaths he feels guiltily responsible for. Responsibility is a kind of power, and it's the exact kind that was wrested away from him when he tried to assert it in this episode. You're not responsible for things you had no control over. (And ahaha let's not even get started on Ten's issues around THAT, or we'll be here all night.)
- Really though, this is just the rest of the episode completely failing to contradict my gut reaction to Tennant's FACE, which was "whoa—holy fuck, Ten's getting mind-raped and it ain't even subtle." Every time I go "Am I wrong?", the rest of the episode goes "No, you're really, really not."
(Edit: Oh fuck you Tumblr stop eating my line breaks. This isn't even funny anymore.)


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Maisie Dobbs, by Jacqueline Winspear, has been chosen as the City of Sierra Madre 2014 One Book One City selection by the Sierra Madre Public Library.
Author Jacqueline Winspear will speak on Saturday, February 22, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. in the Gooden School multi-purpose room about her mystery novel featuring an extraordinary young woman living through epic times in World War I era England and France. A reception will follow the talk and copies of all the books in the Maisie Dobbs series will be available for purchase and signing by the author.
A month-long series of free events, open to the public, is being planned for February 2014, focusing on WW I. Copies of the book to check out are available now at the Sierra Madre Public Library.
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Racism and c orruption in Camden Delaware. Just like Selma Alabama 1962......
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This is what Tom Coughlin had to say about the Giants after they beat the Packers yesterday:
"I think we're a dangerous team."
Who would have thought the Giants, of all the teams remaining in the playoffs, or even entering the playoffs, would be considered a dangerous team?
Yet here we are two weeks later after wins over a dangerous Falcons offense led by Matt Ryan, Michael Turner, Julio Jones and Roddy White and a very potent and dangerous Packers offense featuring the talents of all pro and pro bowl players like Aaron Rodgers, Greg Jennings, Jermichael Finley, and Jordy Nelson. The combined scores for those two games are Giants – 61, Packers/Falcons – 22.
The Giants can truly say they're a dangerous team. They're dangerous on offense and they're dangerous on defense. It's been a complete team effort on the field so far these playoffs for the Giants and something that can be built upon this upcoming week against the 49ners.
Coughlin also said that: "I like where we are." And how can we blame him for saying that? His Giants team is only one more win away from going back to the Super Bowl. I like where they are too and in the words of Busta Rhymes…
This, is, serious
We could make you delirious
You should have a healthy fear of us
Cause too much of us is dangerous
So dangerous, we so dangerous
My Flipmode Squad is dangerous
So dangerous, we so dangerous
My whole entire unit is dangerous
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Sleepless Cavefish
Cavefish are extraordinary creatures—three different populations have evolved separately to be blind and colorless. New York University researchers have now found they share another common trait—sleeplessness.
The scientists compared the sleeping patterns of the three cavefish and their surface kin, by basically annoying them awake. In one method, they determined that fish inactive for 60 seconds or more were sleeping. This conclusion was confirmed by tapping on the tank—fish inactive for this length of time were slow to respond to the tapping, a behavior consistent with being awoken from sleep. In the second method, the researchers deprived the fish sleep as a way of inducing subsequent sleep behavior. When animals are deprived the chance to sleep, there is a rebound effect, so at the next opportunity, they sleep for longer than normal periods to make up for the deprivation. The researchers tested this rebound effect by disturbing the sleep of fish all night by moving their containers once a minute. When observed the next day, they slept significantly increased amounts of time.
Using these methods, the researchers found that, over a 24-hour period, surface fish slept an average of over 800 minutes (over 13 hours!) while cavefish slept an average of between 110 to 250 minutes. The results are published in Current Biology.
Wired offers a possible reason why the cavefish need less sleep:
He [co-author Richard Borowsky] suspects that the cavefish evolved to be awake more often because of their unique environments. At the surface, fish have to use energy to escape predators during the day, but have plenty of food available. It's the opposite in a cave, where the fish are the top predators but food is scarce. A fish that's awake more has a better chance of snagging the rare morsel as it wanders by.
The researchers also sought to determine if genetics played a role in the varying sleep behaviors. To do this, they bred cave and surface fish and examined the sleep patterns of these hybrids. Their results showed that these hybrid fish nearly matched the sleep patterns of the cavefish, rather than those of the surface fish, demonstrating that cavefish carry a dominant gene for less sleep.
"In some ways, the sleep phenotypes of cavefish are similar to those of humans with sleep disorders," explained Borowsky. "They go to sleep, but only for relatively short periods, then they awaken and remain awake for relatively long periods."
"The next job is to identify the genes which are responsible for sleep modification in the cavefish. They would be good candidates for the genes responsible for insomnia and other sleep disorders in humans," he added.
Image courtesy of New York University


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As of Jan. 22, the Columbus Blue Jackets sit 8th place in the Eastern Conference—currently the last wild card playoff spot were the season to end today. Granted, there is a whole lot of season left to play, and after hosting five of their next six games, the Blue Jackets will have a daunting challenge in playing three vaunted Pacific Division foes in the Anaheim Ducks, the Los Angeles Kings and the San Jose Sharks—all prior to the 2014 Winter Olympics break.
But their recent performance suggests they can handle it.
Columbus has won a franchise-record seven consecutive games and have gone 15-6-1 in their last 22 games, an eerily similar stretch to their 19-5-5 frenetic finish at the end of the last year's lockout-shortened season.
And they have done this with the National Hockey League's 2nd youngest team — the average player is about 26 years old — after not resigning their leading scorer of last season, Vaclav Prospal, and enduring the some of the most "man games lost" because of injury, including star players, such as Nathan Horton (offseason shoulder surgery), Marian Gaborik (knee, then broken collarbone), during the first half of the season.
Through the early-season struggles, there was a small group of fans clamoring for a major move or two to jump-start the Blue Jackets and make an "all in" push to get into the playoffs. Granted, for a fandom that has experienced only one playoff appearance in the Blue Jackets' 13-year history, such impatience is somewhat understood, but this is a management regime that truly embodies Blue Jackets President of Hockey Operations (PHO) John Davidson's mantra, "brick-by-brick."
In the past, this organization has either gone to drastic and risky measures to salvage a season — i.e. trading speedy winger Jason Chimera to Washington for Chris Clark during a major swoon, much less a playoff berth — making no moves during a collapse following a 14-6-0 start, or winning meaningless games when making the playoffs was well out of reach.
Instead, Blue Jackets General Manager (GM) Jarmo Kekalainen has taken a patient approach, opting to wait until he had a core group including Horton and goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky who are healthy and able to mesh together with emerging, elite talent in Ryan Johansen and rookie defenseman Ryan Murray, who has displayed poise well beyond his years.
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It took a great leap of faith to wait through the struggles.
Perhaps the greatest example was to not bite at obtaining a new backup goaltender during Bobrovsky's six-week groin injury, instead allowing Curtis McElhinney — a backup goaltender who played sparingly behind two of the greatest workhorse goalies in the league, Mikka Kiprusoff and Jonas Hiller — to stem the tide until Bobrovsky returned.
The easy thing to do would have been to succumb to the pressure of the "quick fix"; however, Kekalainen repeatedly stated that he and his staff had to allow themselves the chance to see how the team was playing at close to full strength before they could assess what changes, if any, had to be made.
The results have been nothing short of stellar: The Blue Jackets have won eight of their past nine games, including seven wins in a row, since Horton joined the squad. And Bobrovsky has been near perfect, fully returning to his Vezina Trophy-winning form of last season, posting a 8-0-0 record, a 1.68 Goals Against Average (GAA) and a .941 Save Percentage (Sv%) during that span.
As previously stated, there is a lot of regular season left to play, and injuries and lulls do occur during an 82-game regular season. But if the Blue Jackets do make the Stanley Cup playoffs this season, you can point to that critical juncture, when the team was struggling with injuries and consistent play, and when patience, exhibited by Kekalainen and the Blue Jackets management trust, was indeed a virtue.


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The third time was a charm for the Republican presidential debates.
After an initial debate that most of the big names skipped, and a bizarre second debate undone by its own format, Thursday night's debate in Ames, Iowa, had everything. Well, everything but a discussion of entitlements and the person of Rick Perry (although the Texas governor, about to enter the race Saturday, was mentioned by name). Still, it was a lively and worthwhile affair.
The candidates were combative: with one another as well as with the journalists asking the questions. The two big stories coming from the debate will surely be Tim Pawlenty's sparring with fellow Minnesotan Michele Bachmann and the exception Newt Gingrich took to some of the questions he was asked.
Gingrich was feisty from the beginning, calling out panelist Chris Wallace for a "gotcha question" after the candidates had been asked to leave their talking points at the door. A question about a two-month-old story — the mass resignations of much of Gingrich's campaign staff in June — hardly qualifies as a "gotcha question" in my view. But it set up Gingrich as a candidate ready to take on the media (even friendly Fox News), and he later took on the idea of the "super committee" tasked with designing $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion in deficit reductions. He came off much better Thursday night than perhaps any time since his May speech at the Georgia Republican Convention — two days before he stumbled badly by calling a House GOP plan to reform Medicare "right-wing social engineering." The debate performance was, in all likelihood, too little, too late.
Pawlenty and Bachmann tangled a few times, over the former governor's contention that Bachmann's record in Congress lacks accomplishment, and the congresswoman's argument that Pawlenty forced her and other state legislators (at the time) to choose between creating a cigarette tax or weakening abortion restrictions. As has been the case throughout the campaign when the two have butted heads, Pawlenty seemed to come out looking worse despite making more substantive points. (But the biggest damage? That belongs to the notion that there is such a thing as "Minnesota nice.")
In fact, Pawlenty seemed ready to take any shot that was open. Granted a do-over from the last debate, he challenged Mitt Romney head-on for the latter's health reform law in Massachusetts and reclaimed his epithet "Obamneycare" to describe the law's similarities with President Obama's federal health reform. He also had perhaps the best line of the night, offering to cook dinner at the house of anyone who could find Obama's deficit-cutting plan. He clearly had a sense of urgency Thursday night, but the debate did little to question the widespread belief that his campaign's prospects rest on his performance in the straw poll that takes place in Ames on Saturday.
Romney, on the other hand, comes away as the winner of the debate by default — he entered it as the front-runner, and nothing happened during the debate to change that.
Bachmann looked human Thursday night. She nearly flubbed a question about Christian "submissiveness" to her husband — her face froze, but sustained boos from the crowd bought her time to collect her thoughts (and deliver a strong answer about mutual respect between spouses). She is still using the "blank check" line to describe the debt-ceiling deal, even though she named who signed the check (Congress), to whom it was made out (Obama), and for how much ($2.4 trillion). She is making an undeliverable promise in saying the economy would show signs of a turnaround within the first 90 days of a Bachmann presidency. And at one point she actually failed to reappear on stage before the telecast resumed from a commercial break; I half expected Wallace to ask her, "Are you sure you're not a flake?" but he demurred.
There were also a couple of volleys between Rick Santorum and Ron Paul about foreign policy (because Santorum is for having one…I kid, Paulites, I kid!) and exactly what issues should be left up to the states (short answers — Paul: most of them; Santorum: nothing that relates to morality). It was entertaining, but ultimately the time would have been better spent hearing what all the candidates would do to fix Social Security and Medicare, two elephants in the room that remained unmentioned.
The elephants in the room that were mentioned were Sarah Palin and Rick Perry. Nothing of consequence was said about either one (Bachmann insisted once again that she and Palin are friends, not potential Jello-wrestling opponents), but the main consequence of the debate is to prove there's an opening for someone. As Palin remains unlikely to enter the race, that someone would seem to be Perry. He'll certainly spice up the next debate: Sept. 7 at the Reagan Library in California.
Oh, I almost forgot: Herman Cain and Jon Huntsman also appeared at the debate. Cain had a good line about immigration — "high fences and wide-open doors" — but otherwise failed to demonstrate he's really a first-tier candidate. Huntsman is rapidly turning into this year's version of Fred Thompson, if only Thompson had failed to generate any excitement before entering the race as well as afterward.
(Note: To give folks more time to read and comment on this post, Poll Position will run a little later than usual this week.)
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August 12th, 2011
12:19 am
Wow, that was the best debate of this season with Santorum and Paul getting heated. Not to mention T-Paw and Bachmann.
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August 12th, 2011
1:13 am
BETTER POLL: Who cares?
August 12th, 2011
2:53 am
That the field of GOP contenders for the presidency should include buffoons like Cain and Bachmann is an embarrassment to the party and the country, and proof that our system is too broken to heal itself.
August 12th, 2011
3:10 am
Not a single candidate would end the Obama/Bush tax cuts, even for 10 times as much in spending cuts. Pathetic pandering. If everyone remembers those taxes were in place during all of America's best years. When we had growth, jobs and at the end of Clinton's term we even had a balanced budget. Pathetic.
August 12th, 2011
5:36 am
Is Newt still running, or is he just invited to the debates until his one year membership runs out?
August 12th, 2011
5:50 am
confederacy of dunces!
August 12th, 2011
6:07 am
and the congresswoman's argument that Pawlenty forced her and other state legislators (at the time) to choose between creating a cigarette tax or weakening abortion restrictions
And people who've done the research have determined that Bachmann… lied.
The budget deal included a $.75 cigarette tax and provisions that the anti-abortion folks wanted to make it more embarrassing to get an abortion. So when forced to choose between being anti-any-tax and anti-abortion, she voted FOR the budget deal after trying to get the cigarette tax stripped from the bill (that vote failed by a wide margin).
So… she lied by claiming she voted against the budget deal. And she lied that the deal would weaken abortion restrictions.
August 12th, 2011
6:21 am
Michele is a lot like Palin in their propensity to make up "facts" as they go along. But George W. Bush did that, too. What is it with Republicans who think that if they repeat something over and over it becomes fact?
August 12th, 2011
6:30 am
Agree with AntiBoortz above. Don't see anyone that provides enough detail on how they are going to balance the budget. I want specifics, and that probably will need to include higher taxes either by closing loopholes or raising rates. Preferably the former.
August 12th, 2011
6:37 am
The only thing I did not see in last night's debate was the wearing of white robes. A burning cross in the background would have been a nice touch.
August 12th, 2011
7:56 am
"There were also a couple of volleys between Rick Santorum and Ron Paul about foreign policy (because Santorum is for having one…I kid, Paulites, I kid!) and"…………..probably not enough "shock and awe" for most people, but it is decency writ large——(and Iraq was gonna be a cakewalk…….right?)——-
Our current foreign policy is a joke but diplomacy by gunpoint,mass murder, and death and destruction isn't nothing to kid about.How come the people with cushy office jobs are always the ones that are most war-crazy?
.There is a reason why our military overwelmingly supports the godd doctor.
Herein lies Dr. Paul's foreign and national defense policy ——–
Today, however, hundreds of thousands of our fighting men and women have been stretched thin all across the globe in over 135 countries – often without a clear mission, any sense of what defines victory, or the knowledge of when they'll be permanently reunited with their families.
Acting as the world's policeman and nation-building weakens our country, puts our troops in harm's way, and sends precious resources to other nations in the midst of an historic economic crisis.
Taxpayers are forced to spend billions of dollars each year to protect the borders of other countries, while Washington refuses to deal with our own border security needs.
Congress has been rendered virtually irrelevant in foreign policy decisions and regularly cedes authority to an executive branch that refuses to be held accountable for its actions.
Far from defeating the enemy, our current policies provide incentive for more to take up arms against us.
That's why, as Commander-in-Chief, Dr. Paul will lead the fight to:
* Make securing our borders the top national security priority.
* Avoid long and expensive land wars that bankrupt our country by using constitutional means to capture or kill terrorist leaders who helped attack the U.S. and continue to plot further attacks.
* Guarantee our intelligence community's efforts are directed toward legitimate threats and not spying on innocent Americans through unconstitutional power grabs like the Patriot Act.
* End the nation-building that is draining troop morale, increasing our debt, and sacrificing lives with no end in sight.
* Follow the Constitution by asking Congress to declare war before one is waged.
* Only send our military into conflict with a clear mission and all the tools they need to complete the job – and then bring them home.
* Ensure our veterans receive the care, benefits, and honors they have earned when they return.
* Revitalize the military for the 21st century by eliminating waste in a trillion-dollar military budget.
* Prevent the TSA from forcing Americans to either be groped or ogled just to travel on an airplane and ultimately abolish the unconstitutional agency.
* Stop taking money from the middle class and the poor to give to rich dictators through foreign aid.
August 12th, 2011
8:22 am
That's an insult to dunces.
August 12th, 2011
8:25 am
Seeing all these candidates and listening to the debate only confirms how well the Dumbing Down of America is proceeding.
August 12th, 2011
8:32 am
The only one among them with even the faintest grasp of American reality is Romney, the millionaire son of a millionaire. Now, isn't that wierd?
August 12th, 2011
8:33 am
The internal sniping I can do without. Bachmann, Pawlenty, Santorum (although I agreed) and Paul did not impress.
Huntsman is a no-go. His responses were vague, at best. His only redeeming quality? He's a Flat Taxer. THAT, I liked.
Romney and Cain held firm on the issues. Cain's honesty is refreshing…"I know more now than I new then." Romney gave Herman a nod as being the only other person with business experience. Since our problems lie within the business community, I can see Herman negotiating with business leaders in his capacity as Mitt's VP.
Newt's still the ideas guy. His ideas warrant attention.
Reagan's 11th Commandment goes a long way with me. Mitt and Herman adhered to it. Newt would do well to remember it.
August 12th, 2011
8:37 am
My favorite part was all of them raising their hands to say they would walk away from a debt deal that had $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases. That kind of consistent ignorance does not come easy. Congrats Grover!
August 12th, 2011
8:43 am
Is anyone really interested in an Iowa straw poll that has only predicted the winner once since 1979?
August 12th, 2011
8:51 am
Governor Romney clearly demonstrated both during the debate and earlier in the day why he should be the next President of the United States.
As a businessman, I appreciate Governor Romney's understanding and importance of corporate American. You can jump up and down and shout all you want about the big, bad rich and their corporate partners but the bottom line remains as it always has – the business of America is business and what is good for corporate America is good for America.
IF the republicans don't get bogged downed in silly social issues (what was Bachmann's shinning moment last night – she saved the light bulb for America?) and bravo macho Texas foolishness, they will choose Romney to lead the ticket and he can throw a bone to the social issue voters by picking someone that appeals to them as his running mate.
I have no use for personal attacks on the President – I admire him as a person and think that he and his wife model the behavior that I wish all parents would model BUT I could never vote for him because of his anti-business democrat policies.
If the republicans want to follow the social issue silly section of their party and nominate sojmeone like Perry, Palin or Bachmann, I will leave the top line on my ballot blank and contribute to down ballot business republicans.
August 12th, 2011
9:29 am
WHY is no one talking about Ron Paul? Why are all media outlets shunning Ron Paul? His remarks on foreign policy and eliminating the federal reserve were brilliant. I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ARE NOT RECOGNIZING HIS POLITICAL APTITUDE AND COMMON SENSE SOLUTIONS. Come on America.
August 12th, 2011
9:46 am
After seeing last night's performance, you can stick a fork in Huntsman, Santorum and Pawlenty. Gingrich is already past due, but keep him in there to keep things lively. I don't think he has any money left for campaigning, but he is so refreshingly blunt. The question to Bachmann about being a submissive wife was way over the top. Hillary would have b*&#h-slapped whats-his-name for that one! He's lucky that Bachmann is actually a lady. Romney didn't flub anything, so he stays on top for now. 800 lb elephant in the room was the – well elephant not in the room. Perry will really shake things up. My guy Herman looked solid and I think cemented himself as a solid VP choice at least. I liked Ron Paul's answers on many topics – but cannot understand how he is so naive as to think we have absolutely nothing to fear from a nuclear Iran. Really?
August 12th, 2011
9:52 am
Nobody on AJC wants to blog about the U.S. Post Office so I'm doing it here. The postal service has too many post offices and too many employees. Where I live, there are 6 post offices within a 20 mile radius. One post office would be sufficient, maybe two. How does a company that loses $8 billion per year not make changes ? To read that there are over 500,000 people on the retirement plan tells you that their system is screwed up.
August 12th, 2011
10:15 am
Oh, and what is all the fuss about Perry being a Christian? Come on – of the candidates at the debate last night, which of them is not a Christian? Ok, you could make a pseudo-case for the 2 Mormons, but that religion is still centered around Jesus. So what's the big deal with Perry? Prayer? I would say most of the candidates up there also do that too!
August 12th, 2011
10:54 am
While I agree with most of the views regarding the economy and taxes, most of these candidates views on social issues scare the ever living crap out of me. Michelle Bachmann is too far right-wing for me to ever even consider. When you have a candidate that makes Palin look moderate, that goes into the wack-o zone for me. She will not be getting my vote, and I pray she doesn't upset Romney.
August 12th, 2011
10:57 am
The Gallup poll just release showed the Dems with a 51 to 44 advantate in generic polling.
In 2010 Gallup had the Rep wining 52 to 42 in a high turnout election and the Republicans won 52.6 to 44.8.
August 12th, 2011
11:04 am
August 12th, 2011
9:29 am
WHY is no one talking about Ron Paul? Why are all media outlets shunning Ron Paul? His remarks on foreign policy and eliminating the federal reserve were brilliant. I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ARE NOT RECOGNIZING HIS POLITICAL APTITUDE AND COMMON SENSE SOLUTIONS. Come on America.
It's obviously a conspiracy against political aptitude and common sense. I have notice when people say somone has common sense it is usually someone who agrees with them. If he had such political aptitude it seems he would be able to get the press to cover him.
August 12th, 2011
11:08 am
August 12th, 2011
9:52 am
To read that there are over 500,000 people on the retirement plan tells you that their system is screwed up.
Could you clarify why this is screwed up. Are you saying there are 500,000 people who are retired from the post office who are collecting retirement? If you downsize the post office even more people would be on their retirement plan just like if you down size the government there would be more people on government retirement plans. I am not sure I understand where you are coming from.
August 12th, 2011
11:50 am
If anyone besides Romney is nominated Obama will win reelection. The rest are just too nutty for independents. Perry can brag about Texas jobs but when the stats for poverty,education, etc. etc. come out, Texas will be seen for the barely functioning state that it is.
August 12th, 2011
12:50 pm
I'm saying that they have always had too many employees. They still do. Just another form of government waste and not balancing your buget.
August 12th, 2011
12:52 pm
The postmasters sit in an office and do nothing making $100,00 a year. The post office is a losing business to start with. They pay postmaster & 3 employees $1,00 a day collectively and take in $400 a day (example from my post office).
August 12th, 2011
12:54 pm
Obama stands very little chance of re-election. Gas at $3.50 a gallon,unemployment at 12%,stock market busting,no new jobs. He's done.
August 12th, 2011
12:55 pm
The only way to stabilize the economy is for gas to go down to $2.00 per gallon.
August 12th, 2011
12:57 pm
The politicians are all screaming about finding ways to cut spending. They can start with cutting their salaries 25 %…
August 12th, 2011
12:59 pm
Ron Paul's like the last guy chosen to play on a middle grades p.e. softball team. He doesn't fit in physically or mentally with everyone else. There's no moderates. You're either conservative or liberal.
August 12th, 2011
1:02 pm
Let me explain about being no moderates. Let's say a Democrat propses a Liberal bill. It goes thru congress and gets voted on. You agree,you're Liberal,you disagree you're conservative.
August 12th, 2011
1:08 pm
Of the 22 states that voted for McCain only 4 pay more in taxes than they receive.
August 12th, 2011
1:31 pm
Ron Paul completely won that debate. Michele Bachman was a close second. I love her response to the submission question and his to the issue of Iraq. He is consistent and principled, even when it's not popular. I read the most hilarious blog on PoliticalChamber.com this morning calling Santorum out for being a cry baby. "Weee weee weee, it's my turn . . . " still laughing.
August 12th, 2011
3:01 pm
Yeah, Santorum's comment about morality and state rights was ridiculous. Why does he always harp on social issues? The economy, jobs, the debt, and unemployment are more important than two guys getting hitched.
August 12th, 2011
4:06 pm
I just love how these tea party people think they represent all America: white liberals, african americans, all people of color all going to come out in huge numbers, do you think these people have not been watching the bigots attacking President Obama?
Wait till President Obama start going from state to make his case against the anti Americans on the right, I know I felt safer the last 3 years then the whole 8 of George Bush.
August 13th, 2011
9:04 pm
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August 13th, 2011
9:43 pm
Ike – Please explain why we SHOULD worry about a nuclear Iran. Iran has not invaded another country for over 800 years (while the US has invaded dozens in just the past century. Iran has no air force, no rocket technology, and the CIA says that they have no nuclear weapons program. Iran has signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and allows weapons inspectors into their country routinely. Israel refuses to sign the treaty, practically denies that it even has a nuclear weapon despite having stolen the technology from us and possessing over 300. Even the US refuses to allow inspectors as the treaty requires. Iran is surrounded by nuclear countries – Israel, Pakistan, India, Iraq (US), Afghanistan (US), China (not far away), and Russia (not far away). As soon as N. Korea got a nuke we stopped treating them like garbage and started negotiations with them. They learned well. Within a few minutes of the launch of a nuclear weapon against the US, the country would vanish from the face of the earth.
If we were willing to trade, negotiate, etc. with Russia when they had 40,000 nukes, why should we be so afraid of a non-nuclear Iran. We certainly have become craven cowards in this respect. Virtually every other candidate on the stage would be willing to start a war against this nation of nearly 50,000,000 people all because they MIGHT want to get a nuclear weapon. Many would likely use a nuclear weapon against them to stop their development of such a weapon. That smacks of the grossest level of immorality I have ever heard. The US is the only country to ever use a nuclear weapon against another country and we dropped them on cities full of innocent women and children – all because our worthless president wanted to impress the Soviets.
There certainly is one country worth fearing on this planet, but it is not Iran…it is the US (well, rightly the US government).
August 16th, 2011
11:04 am
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Made in 1956, Roger Vadim's senstaional feature directorial debut is the the film that catapulted French actress Brigitte Bardot into international stardom as a sex icon.
Vadim's scandalous film is set in the French Riveiera, specifically St. Tropez, though the plot is slender and secondary to the cynical, amoral tone of the tale an dits visual pleasures.
Signaling a new, more daring era of cinema, "And God Created Woman" presented the gorgeous body iof Bardot, then married to Vadim, in an unabashed colorful way (in more senses than one, as the film was shot in Cinemascope).
By standards of today, the movie is tame. But back in the 1950s, Bardot's semi-nude posturing, seductive behavior, and pouty lips generated a lot of discussionand controversy.
The first part of the film is far more interesting than the second, partly because the notions of "daring' sex and amoral youths get repetitive.
The movie became an instant success all over the world, especially in the U.S Its audacity and personal elements are credited with opening the doors for the young directors of the French New Wave, such as Truffaut, Godard (who cast Bardot in his masterpiece "Contempt," where she gives a creditable performance), Chabrol, and Louis Malle (who paired Bardot against Jeanne Moreau in "Viva Maria!").
In the U.K. (and other countries), the movie was cautiously released as "And Woman Was Created."
Ultimately, "And God Created Woman" is a significant work in Vadim's subsequent poor output, but it's a minor footnote in film history.
In 1987, Vadim remade his own picture in an English version, starring Rebecca De Mornay, who proved she could act and was abetter actress than Bardot, but not nearly as sexy and seductive.
Vadim discusses the making of this picture quite frankly in his juicy 1986 memoir, "Bardot, Deneuve, Fonda: My Life with the Three Most Beautiful Women in the World."


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A study released by West Virginia Kids Count revealed seven out of ten students in West Virginia are not reading proficiently at the end of third grade.
According to the data, only five of the state's 55 counties had more than 50 percent of their students reading on level at the end of the third grade. Clay county had the highest percentage of proficient readers at 63 percent. Kanawha County, the state's largest county, only had 48 percent of students reading proficiently. Monroe County had the lowest percentage with 29 percent of students reading on level by the end of the third grade.
To combat this problem, many schools have hired reading interventionists. Their job is to help students catch up and reach their respective reading grade levels.
"My job is to help some of those students that aren't quite where they need to be get where they need to be," said Linda Williams, a reading interventionist at Stonewall Jackson Middle School in Charleston, West Virginia.
Williams only has eight students in her classroom. Her goal is to teach students the basics of reading and help them reach their reading levels.
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"What they do is they learn to compensate for it so they figure out what they do know from the passage and they kind of make it up as they go," she said. "Usually within the first week you can pick up on it because they'll be the students that aren't volunteering to read or are sitting quietly not saying anything or even your behavior problems because they are compensating for the fact that they can't do it."
Williams said the best way to help children with their reading abilities is to get them started reading early. She said it does not matter if it is a newspaper, magazine or book, it is just important they become accustomed to words.
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A registered sex offender went before a judge Saturday morning after police say he tried to lure a teenage girl into his car.
On Saturday morning, a Lee County judge set Mark Wiseman's bond at $15,000. On top of the bond, the judge also ordered that Wiseman have no contact with the victim or any other child.
Wiseman's father tells us his son has a mental illness, but he would never hurt anyone.
Mark Wiseman didn't speak a word during his first court appearance.
Cape Coral Police say he tried to convince a 14-year-old girl to get into his car Thursday afternoon.
"Maybe he just needs help. I don't think he's all there anyway, you know. Maybe he just needs some help," said Chaquan Jackson, a friend of Mark Wiseman.
Wiseman is a registered sex offender.
His father says his son has a mental illness that causes him to think and act like a child.
"He's always trying to help somebody, anybody. But he has poor judgment about who he befriends. He doesn't seem to understand that you don't stop and talk to young girls, especially with the convictions that he has," said Bruce Wiseman, Mark's father.
Bruce Wiseman says his son would never hurt anyone.
"I don't think he's malicious or out hunting. But he doesn't seem to know any better," he said.
The 34-year-old is charged with interfering with the custody of a minor. While his father believes it was a misunderstanding, he says he has no intention of bailing his son out of jail.
"He's 34 years old, and we've done everything we can for him. He's just going to have to face the consequences himself," said Bruce Wiseman.
Days after police say Wiseman tried to pick up a young teenage girl next to her bus stop her parents are still feeling the fright it caused in their child.
"It's hard, it's my baby girl. She's innocent, she's only 14," said Frances Garcia, the mother of the girl. "My daughter can't sleep, nothing, she doesn't want to go outside, she's always crying, she doesn't even want to go to school."
Garcia says she was at work when she was told about what had happened to her daughter. She called police, who then arrested Wiseman.
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By Jack Crider: In a country in which the great American Dream can come true, one dream has come true for former Female World Boxing Champion, Jacqui Frazier-Lyde. Who in their wildest dreams would be watching two beautiful females trying to knock each other out would ever think that one of the opponents would someday become a judge..
The daughter of former famous World Heavyweight Champion, Joe Frazier has accomplished something most boxing fans would consider inconceivable. Jacqui Frazier- Lyde has recently been elected Municipal Court Judge of Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia District. In her lifetime, Jacqui has juggled a career as mother, wife, and lawyer and World Champion boxer. Being a mother of two children both young teenagers and married to her husband, manager and best supporter Pete Lyde.
Jacqui has finally accomplished a dream come true. Instead of being judged in the boxing ring, she now will have the opportunity to be a positive force in our judicial system.
Over the last eighteen years Jacqui has served graciously as an attorney in the Philadelphia area. Educated at American University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Justice and Villanova School of Law where Jacqui earned her Jurist Doctor Degree and graduated in 1987. She was a professional boxer starting in February 2000 and had her last professional fight in September 2004.
During her tenure as a boxer she held titles as both Super middleweight Champion and Heavyweight Champion. Jacqui had an impressive (13-1-0) record with the only loss coming to Laila Ali back in 2004. This bout was a recreation of the historical Muhammad Ali verses Joe Frazier bouts of the 1970s. This time it was featuring the famous daughters against each other.
On November 6, 2007 Jacqui Frazier-Lyde, Esq. was elected Judge at age 46. Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. she will be taking the judicial oath of office. Jacqui Frazier-Lyde will then be known as the Honorable Jacquelyn Frazier-Lyde.
Jacquis future dreams are to bring equality to our judicial system for all people both rich and poor. She would like to see one set of standards for all mankind. Congratulation to great champion.
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