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"Social Studies educators teach students the content knowledge, intellectual skills, and civic values necessary for fulfilling the duties of citizenship in a participatory democracy. Within the school program, social studies provides coordinated, systematic study drawing upon such disciplines as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology, as well as appropriate content from the humanities, mathematics, and natural sciences. The primary purpose of social studies is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world."
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Tony Clifton was discovered by the late comedy great Andy Kaufman, who found Clifton performing in a seedy Las Vegas lounge in 1969. Captivated, Kaufman recruited Clifton to open for him on a string of engagements, most notably his Carnegie Hall Concert. Later, Kaufman insisted on Clifton being hired for what would be a controversial appearance on the hit TV show "Taxi" in 1978.
Clifton went on to open for Rodney Dangerfield, play to capacity crowds in soccer stadiums throughout Central and South America, share the stage of the Hollywood Bowl with R.E.M. and, in a twist of fate, appear opposite Jim Carrey in the critically hailed Kaufman biopic "Man on the Moon."
Cantankerous as ever, Clifton continues to entertain, appearing recently as a guest on Late Night with David Letterman and The Jimmy Kimmel Show, in addition to taking the spotlight as the "Official Grand Marshall" of the Hangout Music Fest, addressing tens of thousands of beachside fans annually. Similarly, Clifton has been active as the emcee for concerts by The Flaming Lips, Primus, Umphrey's McGee, Dirty Projectors and more, in between recording sessions for his album of duets with music luminaries including R.E.M., Billy Corgan and others. Having just premiered to a packed NYC house at the PS1/MOMA gallery, "Tony Clifton: The Movie" is currently storming the film festival circuit here and abroad.
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"He deserves to be dead," she continued. "But he was our father. If we can't put him in his grave, it means we are still scared of him, which means he still controls us. We have to put our hatred in the grave with him. We can't let him win." ~pg. 247 (eGalley)
Kim White: The White Oak (Imperfect Darkness, #1)
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back and badder than ever lool I've been on a loooong hiatus due to personal reasons but I've missed th blog scene, i have sooo much to say and never anywhere to put it so here you go. i have A LOT of new ideas coming soon, street fashion segments, vlogs here and there, fashion for less, oh soooo much so stick with me ;)Fashion is life!


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- fresh cherries
- amaretto liqueur
- almond bark, melted
Cover cherries in amaretto. Allow them to soak for a few days. I soaked mine for 2 days.
Dry off the drunk cherries.
Dunk each cherry in melted almond bark.
Allow cherries to harden on wax paper.
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Defending the land – From Turtle Island to Palestine March 13, 7pm
- Closing panel- Israeli apartheid week
Presentations by Arthur Manuel and Monira Kitmitto
Wednesday, 13 March, 7pm
Location: Moot Court, New Chancellor Day Hall
McGill University 3644 Peel (metro Peel)
This closing panel will highlight Indigenous land struggles and resistance on Turtle Island and will make links with the Palestinian struggle of defending the land and resisting Israeli occupation. Land defense as a way of resisting ongoing occupation and colonialism is integral to Indigenous decolonizing movements both in Turtle Island and Palestine.
Arthur Manuel: Arthur is a spokesperson for the Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade and Defenders of the Land network. Former chairperson of the Interior Alliance of BC First Nations, Manuel has been a leading voice of opposition to the Canadian government's agenda to "extinguish" Aboriginal and Treaty rights and assimilate Indigenous peoples into the Canadian body politic. Active locally in Secwepemc land struggles, and at the national level, he has also taken the struggle international at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues,following in the path of his father, the late George Manuel, Presidentof the National Indian Brotherhood and founder of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples.
Monira Kitmitto is a Palestinian activist, a member of the coordinating committee of Coalition Against Israel Apartheid, she is also a board member of Palestine House in Toronto. She was a former international anti-apartheid activist— supported the ANC and the people of South Africa in their fight for liberation. she has worked in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and was an active member in Palestinian Women movement.


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Vivitek's attempt to 'break' the UK has met with rather mixed fortunes so far. Its ultra high end H9080FD, the first projector we've seen to use three LEDs as its light source, blew us away. But the brand's ultra low-end H1080FD, despite catching our eye with its knock-down £850 price, was rather underwhelming.
To be fair, Vivitek has been tinkering with the H1080 since I saw it, and is promising to send me the tweaked version for a reassessment soon. But in the meantime it's hoping to prove that it really "can" do budget as well as high end with the DLP-based H1085 – a step up model from the H1080 that still costs a mere £900.
First impressions of the H1085 are pretty good. It's a reasonably attractive box, for a start, with its glossy black, boldly angular exterior cutting quite a smart dash on your coffee table or projector mount. Oddly, the black finish makes it look slightly plusher than the white finish found on the H1080FD.
The only catch with the design is the light that the spills from the large grilles down both of its sides. Still, to be fair I personally didn't find this light spillage noticeable when actually watching a film; it just stands out when you look directly at the projector rather than the film/game it's projecting.
One side point worth raising here is that the H1080's design and layout has much in common with BenQ's recently tested and similarly priced (£999) W1000, reminding us that although there are a startling number of projectors around right now, they all start out from quite a limited number of places. Though as both BenQ and Vivitek would doubtless be quick to point out, surface similarities merely hide the inner differences that each brands' respective engineers are paid to achieve.
This perspective is given extra weight, in fact, by the way Vivitek has been able to get stuck into the H1080 in order to – hopefully! – deliver a much improved performance by the time we see an updated 'production line' sample.
All of this talk is deeply interesting, of course (!), but let's now get back to the H1085's specifics – starting with the fact that as with the H1080, it's superbly well connected for its money. Its two HDMIs, for instance, is in line with projector's costing 20 times as much, while other highlights include a dedicated D-Sub PC port, an RS-232C control jack for system integration, and even a 12V trigger output for driving external kit – most likely a motorised screen. This latter tool is really unusual to find at the sub-£1k price level.
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Pack away your old knee warmers and get pinch-free warmth with the Pearl Izumi Men's 3/4-Length Pursuit Attack Tights. Boasting breathable fabrics, a chamois designed for long ride comfort, and a comfortable waist band, these knickers pair perfectly with your favorite gilet and long-sleeve jersey to weather chilly days in the saddle.
Made from SelectTransfer fabric, these knickers provide support while effortlessly wicking moisture away to keep you comfortable and dry through shifting intensities and terrain. They include Pearl Izumi's Select Pursuit 1:1 Chamois with medium density cushioning and a moisture-wicking backing for increased comfort without unnecessary bulk. As an added bonus, reflective elements increase visibility to motorists in low light and dreary conditions.
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I'm generally a Pearl Izumi fan and these 3/4 tights fill the slot for those not so warm, but not so cold days of fall and spring. Great material, fit and performance.


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Der Konstrukteur
Der Konstrukteur competently and informatively reports on drive technology, fluid technology, CAD/CAM/PLM, construction elements, automation technology, materials and connection technology. With a print edition of 25,000, the specialist magazine appears 10 times a year, targeted at construction managers and constructors, decision-makers in cross-discipline construction and development processes in engineering and electrical engineering. The magazine has one special issue per year.
All issues are also available as an e-paper.
In addition to the print version, the website at www.derkonstrukteur.de and the 10 annual newsletters offer the benefits of additional information channels and extra service.
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I will make a personalized poem for any special occasion or person in your life. I produce the poem on a card, with a photo you provide, or I will match it with a photo myself. I have written poems for Christmas, weddings, baby showers and more. I am quick and can find just the words to express the feelings you want to convey. Sometimes you don't need a special occasion to tell someone how you feel with a poem made just for them. Contact me and tell me what you would like, and we will work together to make it perfect.
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The sound of giggles
And Christmas-wrap crinkles,
Of cooking fat popping
And bicycle-bell tinkles
The smell of candles and
Pine needles, cinnamon and cloves
Dinner in the oven
And dear cousins' clothes,
The feeling of chills up my spine
When I sing with a choir
And fur slippers, a warm hug
And a crackling hot fire,
The sight of big dimply grins
And bright twinkly eyes,
Lights wrapped around trees
In endless supplies
The taste of crisp winter air
Candy and spiced wine
Sweet dates and oranges
And your hand in mine.
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I will read from my own books and talk about what it's like to write a book and give tips to aspiring writers. Or I will read any story aloud to any group, and I also read for the blind.
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Okay, there is something I really need to talk about with Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. I have not confirmed this in any way, but I SWEAR TO GOD MEL GIBSON DUBBED OVER SYLVESTER STALLONE'S LINES. Hear me out. We all know what Sylvester Stallone sounds like right? Basically that he has serious issues with enunciation. Although I didn't really find him hard to understand in Rocky, I think Stallone is sort of known for being hard to understand. I'm not a huge Mel Gibson fan but I've seen Pocahontas enough times to recognize his voice immediately. And Stallone sounds just like Mel Gibson in this movie! It's insane! I was so distracted by it. If Mel Gibson did not dub Stallone's voice, then I swear they did something to him. Like was he wearing something inside his mouth? Did he have veneers? What the hell was going on? Something's up. I'll find out someday.
Other than that, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot is juuuuuust about as horrible as you think. I thought there was a chance that it might be like Rocky working with Sophia from The Golden Girls but it was not like that at all. Instead it was Sylvester Stallone playing some kind of weird man child whose mother, Estelle Getty, is a weird, terrible person. I felt sort of bad for his character, but I also didn't really care that much.
Also, the first thing I think about now when I think of this movie is this weird but short scene where we see Stallone in bed. He's alone, wearing a giant white shirt and black tight underwear. And then he just sticks his ass in the air. It's not overtly sexual or anything, but it's just weird. Just. Weird.
This movie was one of those films, that if you just changed the music it would have been a very scary horror movie. But I love that Ole Sly decided that he should be a part of it!!
What I took away from this movie is that Sylvester Stallone's character is good at shooting chains, men shouldn't take orders from female bosses, they should just date them, and that watching a movie, Sylvester Stallone might be colorblind, and that buddy cop comedies never work when the wacky character is someone like a crazy mom/person.


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In conversation with Devi Murthy of Kamal Kisan
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference
Kamal Kisan designs, develops and manufactures relevant agricultural equipment that can save money and time for the farmer. Learn more about Kamal Kisan https://kamalkisan.com/
What inspired you to start a social enterprise in agriculture?
The desire to use my skill in mechanical engineering to create social impact was the inflection point for me. My interest in agriculture was co-incidental, it started as a casual chat with my general inquisitiveness over an unknown area, the story of farmers struggling with labor issues and not having access to technology was echoing from every corner I had visited and this compelled me to start Kamal Kisan.
What is your fondest memory since starting Kamal Kisan?
During one of our first installation of our mulch layer, our customer was very happy with the performance of the machine. After the demo, I was able to help the farmer prepare a flat bed with plastic sheets over it as our dining area. We shared a sumptuous meal with all the laborers under the shade of a tree. I was welcomed with open arms without any prejudice and the meal was the most satisfying experiences in spite of it being very basic.
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Venerable Sailomat 3040 for Venerable Sailboat
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Every proper cruising boat needs a windvane self-steering gear. Right? This is one of those things I thought I'd go full-mad-scientist on, some time in the future when other needs were taken care of. Those things are expensive, but plenty of people have successfully brewed up their own. However... I noticed this old Sailomat unit - it its day, the "Cadillac of Windvanes," gathering dust in the back corner of a local marine consignment store. For years. But the price was a bit too much to justify and my "need" for one a bit too remote. Eventually, the owners decided to liquidate the store inventory and go cruising themselves. When I was in there, picking up my junk that they couldn't sell, I mentioned the Sailomat. They mentioned a fraction of the current asking price. I reached for my wallet. I scurried out to the parking lot with it, before they could change their minds. They ushered me out the door, before I could change my mind.
From page 12 of the manual: "The SAILOMAT installation could be done in a couple of hours by any handy yachtsman." Ruh Roh... I've been at it for a couple of years. Not continuously, of course. The first order of business was to disassemble, clean, and lubricate everything. Strange... the housing seemed to be full of sand and pea gravel. Hmm... actually hardened salt crystals. Previous owners weren't big on rinsing their toys after use, apparently. Dozens of tiny roller bearings had to be kept track of. But once cleaned up and lubricated, all of the parts seemed to operate correctly, with no obvious worn pieces. A few spots of corrosion though, where stainless fasteners were used in the cast aluminum.
Next, the auxiliary rudder and the servo-oar needed some work. I spent a couple of weeks stripping-off decades of other people's clashing and weird ideas of paint, until I had bare fiberglass. Then I used some insulation foam and West System stuff to repair the broken tip and chipped fins. And a couple of weeks trying to fair my work reasonably well and slap on a few coats of IP2000. Then finished it off with some rustoleum. Also painted the housing to match Arcturus.
This week I make the leap of actually mating the unit to Arcturus. (I think I'll call her "Veronica.") I moved the boarding ladder to starboard and drilled a bunch of new holes in the boat. Hmm... it's not actually easy to figure out exactly what is "vertical" in this set-up, since everything is curved and sloped. Finally, I made it perpendicular to the chord of the transom at the backstay. Hey, presto, in this configuration, the auxiliary rudder ends up perfectly parallel to the main rudder. (As far as I can till with my big T-square) Like it was planned that way! Sorry for the complex background in the photo. (Yes, time for Spring Cleaning.) I'm not sure what's special about that angle, but it's worth noting that the boat and the windvane were manufactured at approximately the same time.
Backing plates were made from pieces of fiberglass left over from previous projects that involved cutting access hatches in the liner. With some thickened epoxy to try to fill the gap due to hull curvature. The intermediate mounting bracket did not come to me, so I made a prototype copy of the proper dimensions. Prototype 2 will be machined more carefully, and if all seems cool, I'll take it to the machine shop and have them weld up a solid unit. By mounting the Sailomat while the boat is on the hard, I was able to fiddle around and align all the foils perfectly* when in the neutral position. You wouldn't be able to do that while the boat was floating. (Pic doesn't look quite perfect because the wind was actually moving the servo-oar around at the time.) It's supposed to work even if it's not centered, but this gives me a good feeling. Hopefully it won't cause some sort of destructive harmonic effect!
So now it all comes off again, so I can peel off the old lettering, touch-up scratches, repair old holes, and properly caulk everything. I'll probably leave the brackets in place, but store Veronica in the garage, after "sea trials" and until an actual cruise happens. Also need to fix those dings in Archie's rudder and grease-up the tube.
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Americanizing the War in Vietnam
Because U.S. President Lyndon Johnson continued to expand U.S. support to South Vietnam, the U.S. military presence continued and took a more aggressive posture in 1964. The American advisory effort remained the same, as did the shipments of American military and economic assistance to the government and armed forces of South Vietnam. Changes in American envoys to South Vietnam occurred when vacancies opened at the American Embassy in Saigon and MACV headquarters. This article discusses the changes that occurred soon after Johnson took office.
Militarizing the American embassy: A Taylored response
In June 1964, Johnson selected General Maxwell Taylor to take over as U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam. Taylor had been serving as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and, prior to that, served as a special advisor to President Kennedy. Taylor had made several trips to Vietnam, including one in 1961 and another in 1963. After the first trip, Taylor recommended an increase in the American troop presence in South Vietnam and asserted that a protracted ground war in Vietnam was highly unlikely. Within a year, the U.S. troop presence in Vietnam swelled from almost 700 to more than 15,000. After the second trip, Taylor reported "great progress" in the war against the communists but cautioned against continued U.S. backing of President Diem, who lacked the popular support of the South Vietnamese people. Within weeks, Diem was dead. Although Taylor didn't order the troop increase or coup, himself, they stand as a testament to his influence in the Kennedy administration and, subsequently, in Johnson's.
Getting a facelift: Westy takes over MACV
Military Assistance Command-Vietnam (MACV) received a boost in June 1964 in the form of a young and vibrant new commander, General William C. Westmoreland. Referred to as Westy, General Westmoreland served as deputy commander of MACV for six months under General Paul Harkin before taking over as commander in June.
The appointment of Westmoreland meant that South Vietnam gained a strong ally who had experience as an artillery commander in WWII. Westmoreland came away from his WWII experience as a firm believer in conventional warfare; he ultimately concluded that such strategies and tactics could win in Vietnam. Westmoreland endorsed and implemented a strategy that reflected his military training and WWII experiences and that focused on using firepower and conventional military tactics.
How to start a war: The U.S. Navy in the Gulf of Tonkin
The U.S. also implemented a strategy of sending American naval vessels to the South China (PRC) Sea and to the Gulf of Tonkin, where they gathered electronic and signals intelligence on North Vietnamese Army (NVA) radar sites and communications systems. U.S. naval forces also supported South Vietnamese military attacks along the coast of North Vietnam as part of OPLAN 34A and The Desoto Missions. These joint U.S. and South Vietnamese navy operations brought North Vietnamese and American boats and ships into close proximity, making a confrontation likely.
And that is exactly what happened on August 2, 1964. The USS Maddox, an American destroyer, came under fire from three North Vietnamese PT (patrol torpedo) Boats, four miles off the coast of North Vietnam. The Maddox returned fire and received support from U.S. Navy fighters, forcing the PT boats to flee. Two days later, it was alleged that the North Vietnamese again attacked U.S. ships, which are alleged to have counterattacked.
Since then, U.S. personnel who served on those ships have refuted whether this second attack ever took place. Nevertheless, Johnson took this "evidence" to Congress and the American people and requested their authorization and support for taking all necessary means to protect U.S. forces in the area. Although information was readily available at the time, only years after the U.S. started fighting in Vietnam did anyone question the validity of Johnson's claims concerning the second attacks. On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Southeast Asia Resolution, better known as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and Johnson received a blank check to take whatever action he deemed necessary to secure and safeguard U.S. forces in and around Southeast Asia. Ultimately, this meant introducing U.S. ground forces into South Vietnam, and that led to the American escalation of the Vietnam War.
At first, taking all necessary action meant bombing targets in North Vietnam to punish them for allegedly attacking the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy. The American retaliatory air strikes over North Vietnam involved military and industrial targets. From the perspective of the ground war in Vietnam, the increase of American air operations ultimately meant that the U.S. had to expand existing American airfields and create new airfields, and this meant sending American ground forces to provide security for those air bases. But first, Johnson became very preoccupied by a domestic event: the election of 1964.


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For its 2016 February Festival, the Gainesville Theatre Alliance will perform Once on This Island, winner of the 1995 Olivier Award for Best Musical (Great Britain's equivalent of the coveted Tony), and Dracula, adapted for the stage by Gay H. Hammond.
GTA will present a stage tour of Once on This Island on Tuesday, Jan. 26. The behind the scenes preview begins at the Hosch Theatre in the John S. Burd Center for the Performing Arts at 6 p.m. A sneak peek of Dracula takes place two days later, with another GTA stage tour planed for 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28, at the University of North Georgia's Ed Cabell Theatre.
Both productions will run Tuesday, Feb. 9 through Saturday, Feb. 20. Brenau faculty and staff are eligible for free tickets for themselves and in-house family for certain performances and $5 tickets for all other GTA performances.
For showtimes and ticket information, call (678) 717-3624 or visit www.gainesvilleTHEATREalliance.org.


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20 Mei 2016
RMAF assets (photo : AIN)
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) -- A comprehensive audit on Royal Malaysian Air Force's (RMAF) assets will be carried out by a third party to ensure that all the assets are in the best condition.
Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said the audit process would be done as soon as possible to prevent any untoward incidents.
"We will look at the asset maintenance record, continuous training of pilot, and that requires a lot of job," he told reporters at the Parliament lobby here Thursday.
He said this in response to the RMAF Aermacchi MB-339CM jet crash in Kampung Serun near Nenasi, Pahang, last Tuesday, in which its two pilots sustained injuries.
Hishammuddin said initial investigation found that the incident was caused by technical glitch and that the jet's service would not be suspended as it only involved training aircraft.
The minister also refuted the allegation that the jet was carrying a bomb during the incident as alleged by certain quarters.
"I can confirm that there was no bomb, it was just a training. Those who came up with that story should have verified with us first," he said.
Meanwhile, Hishammuddin said the ministry had identified coastal areas in Sarawak to be developed into forward operating base, but the matter had yet to be finalised as it also involved the Indonesian province of Kalimantan.
"On our side, we are ready to move forward. We have identified the areas and it depends on the affordability, who is to going to come onboard, unity and bilateral diplomacy between the countries involved," he added.
20 Mei 2016
Comprehensive Audit On RMAF Assets To Be Done By Third Party
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Why you don't have to 'find' God's will for your life
Sep 21, 2010 by Phillip Cary
A large strand of contemporary evangelical theology—what I call the "new evangelical theology"—emphasizes the need to "find God's will for your life." This challenge turns out to be a terrific source of anxiety for the students I encounter. They're young, which means they have a lot of life ahead of them and a lot of big decisions to make. When they hear about the importance of "finding God's will for your life," they conclude that it's not enough to learn how to make good decisions about what career to pursue or whom to marry. On top of all that, you have to figure out whether this is exactly the decision God has in mind for you. And how do you figure that out?
The will of God is an important biblical concept, but it turns out that what my evangelical students are trying to find is something different. The commandments and promises of God, in which he tells us what he wants us to do and believe, are easy to find: they're right there in the Bible. But that's not what my students are looking for. They have something else in mind when they refer to "God's will," though it's not easy to say what. And it's certainly not easy to find. Given all the effort it takes to find it, it must be awfully easy to miss.
And that's where the anxieties come in. The way my students talk about it, God's will is out there waiting to be found, like the one person they're convinced God has picked for them to marry. But how do you know where to look? And how do you know when you've found it? (The "how do you know?" questions, with their accompanying anxieties, are a sign that something's gone wrong.) What happens if you mistake the will of God and don't marry "the one" that God has chosen for you? (Do you wonder why evangelical Christians have as high a divorce rate as everyone else?) Or what happens if you only get God's "second best" will for your life? (Do you wonder why "disappointment with God" is so common among evangelicals?) A whole boatload of anxieties is tied up with this notion of "finding God's will."
The good news is that the will of God is not really like that. It's not the kind of thing you have to look for and find, and therefore it's not the kind of thing you can miss. What you can do is disobey God's will. That's easy to do—it's called sin. But in another, quite different sense you can never miss God's will, no matter how badly you sin or disobey God. For in addition to God's will revealed in his word, there's also his hidden will, as it's called, which means his providence governing the universe and all of history. His word we can disobey, but his providence is sovereign over heaven and earth, and we cannot overcome it or even escape it. It's not something we are capable of disobeying, much less missing.
So the will of God that my students are trying to find is some third thing: not God's revealed will (because it's something they have to "find") and not his providential will (because it's something they might "miss"). It's an extra kind of will of God that is not found in the Bible. That is to say, it doesn't really exist. And that's good news. It means—if they only knew it—that they are allowed to make their own decisions like responsible moral agents, like adults seeking to grow in wisdom and understanding or stewards learning how to invest their talents. They don't have to find what God has hidden.
If you want to know God's will for your life, here it is: "He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" (Mic. 6:8). The will of God for your life is justice, kindness and a humble walk with him. Nothing more is required of you. Of course, what this verse has to teach us takes a lifetime to learn, but it will make a good lifetime, one that honors God.
There are other biblical passages with the same basic message. Most important of all is the teaching of our Lord Jesus, which he derives directly from scripture. "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it: you shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Matt. 22:37-39, based on Deut. 6:5 and Lev. 19:18).
Again, if you obey these commandments, which are the heart of the law of God, then you are doing all that is required of you. Anyone who tells you that you need to do more in order to be "in the will of God" is teaching you falsehood. Be free of such falsehood. Obey the law of God instead and you have enough to do for a lifetime.
In this way, as the great Reformer Martin Luther taught in his Treatise on Good Works, the law of God reinforces the gospel of Christ. It frees us from doctrines cooked up by human beings and from self-chosen works by which we try to prove how spiritual we are—all the techniques that are supposed to make us more spiritual but that mainly make us more anxious, as we keep trying to figure out whether we've done a good-enough job. Instead, after the gospel of Christ sweeps away all such anxieties, the law of God gives us all sorts of good work to do. This is the good work that God has prepared for us to carry out (Eph. 2:10), yet it is work that truly becomes our own as we increasingly learn to walk in love, kindness and justice.
Yes, God has told us what is good. And he does tell us a lot, not adding to our burden but filling in the details about what justice, kindness and love amount to in practice. So to grow in the knowledge of God's will we have the whole of God's word to study and learn from, not only the law of Moses but also the words of the prophets, the writings of the apostles and the teachings of our Lord Jesus himself. These are words to strengthen the soul, for they give us the will of God to live by instead of subjecting us to human fantasies and make-believe. In this respect the law of God is very good news indeed.
The best place to start, once we have learned Jesus' two great commandments, is the Ten Commandments in the law of Moses. Luther recited them every morning in his prayers to remind himself why he didn't have to believe the decrees of the pope or the rules of the monks, with their supposedly superior spirituality. Christians in our day could scarcely do better than to follow his lead, contemplating the Ten Commandments daily so as to know why they don't have to play the anxious games that the new evangelical theology seeks to pressure them into playing. That would certainly be much better than what actually happens now, when many young people who couldn't recite the Ten Commandments if their life depended on it get up in the morning and "listen" for God to tell them what to do that day. For them, the revealed will of God has been replaced by the thoughts of their own hearts.
Again, it is not exactly their fault: this is what they think they're supposed to do to be good Christians. It's like the host of medieval superstitions that Luther confronted: people got tangled up in them because that's all they knew. They were anxious about getting everything right, and they were never really sure they had, but they didn't have anything better. The preaching of the gospel of Christ gave them something better to trust, and the teaching of the law of God gave them something better to obey.
beying God's commandments is enough to do. But this directive doesn't tell us exactly what to do in every situation. That's how the notion of "finding God's will for your life" gets its foothold. We have specific decisions to make about things like career or marriage, and the law of God doesn't tell us to choose this job over that one or this potential spouse over that one. So how do we know what to do?
Once again, the "how do you know?" question is a sign that something's wrong. If you're looking for a formula or method for making decisions, then you're looking for the wrong thing. There is no recipe. There is only wisdom, the heart's intelligent skill at discerning good decisions from bad ones. This skill is not a method—not a formula you can apply to particular situations simply by following the rules, but a habit of the heart you have to develop through long experience of your own, which includes making mistakes from time to time. The concept of wisdom is what every method for finding God's will leaves out of the decision-making process. It's left out precisely because the project of finding God's will is an attempt to guarantee that you won't make a mistake. All such guarantees are falsehoods, attempts to short-circuit the hard work of acquiring wisdom.
Think of the work of a steward, beginning the day after his master leaves town. He has been given a commandment to do business (see Luke 19:13), which means that his master expects him to make good investments with his talents. What he hasn't been given are instructions about which investments to make. Those decisions are up to him.
Conceivably he could learn to make good investments by following a formula or detailed instructions from his master. But learning to make good investments really means acquiring the kind of skill or virtue that the Bible calls wisdom, which is centered on the ability to discern between what is good and what is bad. In this case, it's the ability to discern between good and bad investments. To develop this ability, there's no substitute for practice—making many decisions and learning from experience which kinds of investments are profitable for his master's kingdom and which are not.
So there's a major reason why the new evangelical practice of finding God's will is not in the Bible. It would defeat the purpose of stewardship, which is to learn in our own hearts how to carry out God's work in the world. For this we need to acquire the virtues and wisdom needed to do God's work well, so that his work becomes ours and we become co-workers with God, as Paul says (1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor. 6:1). We can't learn this if we don't make our own decisions—which includes making our own mistakes and learning from them. "Finding God's will" is an attempt to short-circuit this learning process by taking our own decisions out of the loop. That's why God disapproves of it; the steward who tries to avoid making his own decisions is the one he condemns as disobedient—the one who buries his talent.
o make a good decision, you need to start with a good question—a question about what is good: Is this a good way to invest my talents? Is this a good person to marry? Can we be good parents together? and so on. But in answering such questions there is no formula and no substitute for wisdom. Which is why when young people have to make a big decision—say, about marriage—it is utterly appropriate that they learn from the wisdom of those who have had to make such decisions before. They need help from outside themselves. Above all, they need help from God, which is why they should pray. What they need to pray for is help in discerning between good and bad ways to invest their talents and their lives. But that's simply another way of saying they must pray for wisdom.
Pertinent here is the famous prayer of Solomon, the son of David, when he becomes king after his father's death. As king, he is the steward of Israel's true King enthroned in heaven, the Lord God himself. But he's just a young man—"only a little child," he says—and he's worried that he's not up to the job (2 Kings 3:7). But when the Lord appears to him in a dream, Solomon does not ask God to tell him what to do. He does not ask about God's will for his life. He already knows that: God has made him king, so God's will is for him to be a good king and govern well. He doesn't need God to tell him that. What he needs is wisdom.
Solomon's description of what he's asking for shows us what we should be asking for too whenever we face difficult responsibilities: "Give your servant therefore an understanding heart," he prays, "to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil" (1 Kings 3:9). Wisdom means discerning between good and bad, like a king discerning between good and bad decisions in governing his people, or like a steward discerning between a good and a bad investment of his talents.
What Solomon realizes, and the new evangelical theology does not, is that the crucial terms to use when making decisions are "good" and "bad" (see also Heb. 5:14). This includes moral good and evil, for which our guide is God's revealed will and his commandments. But it includes many other things as well, for there are many ways of making bad decisions that are not immoral, as, for example, in making a bad investment. It is not a sin to make a bad investment—unless, of course, you're motivated by greed or some other immoral purpose. But if you're a steward who's still learning how to make good investments, you're bound to make a few mistakes, and that's not a morally evil thing to do.
So everything points toward the Lord's wanting us to make our own decisions and even our own mistakes, rather than ask him what to do. Learning from Solomon, we need to see that when we're faced with tough decisions, what we need to pray for is not how to discern the Lord's will for our lives, but how to discern good from bad. For we already know the Lord's will for our lives: he wants us to learn how to discern good from bad, including how to make good investments for his kingdom.
This is a crucial point that the new evangelical theology gets wrong. We shouldn't be praying to discern the Lord's will in our situation; we should be praying to learn how to discern good from bad. That's the kind of prayer that makes us co-workers with the Spirit of Christ, who is working in us, reshaping our hearts so that they will be hearts of wisdom. To ask what the Lord's will is distracts us from the task our Lord has given us, which is to learn how to make good decisions. Learning this takes time and effort, and the Lord does not short-circuit the learning process by making our decisions for us.
This article is adapted from from the book Good News for Anxious Christians, just published by Brazos Press.
Copyright © by the Christian Century. "No Secret Plan" by Philip Cary is reprinted by permission from the October 5, 2010, issue of the Christian Century. http://www.christiancentury.org.
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Top: Primark
Bomber jacket: New Look
Jeans*: George at Asda
Watch*: Daisy Dixon
Trainers: Puma
Necklace: Primark
I feel like I haven't done an outfit post in SO long. Up until recently, the weather hasn't been 'spring-like' at all, and so I've literally been living in jumpers and leggings. Over the past few weeks, however, spring has finally sprung in the UK and so I've been digging out my spring/summer wardrobe as well as purchasing a few bits and bobs for the new season.
Bomber jackets are everywhere right now, and they are totally a trend I can get on board with. Of course, I opted for the ultra pretty floral version, which is ideal for making these rather masculine jackets a touch more feminine (plus, you guys know I just love florals!). As soon as I saw this floral bomber jacket on the New Look website I had to have it, and I think it looks a lot more expensive than it was.
I decided to team it with a simple white tee from Primark, my trusty ripped skinny jeans from George and my brand new Puma trainers. I absolutely love the whole 'trainers and jeans' thing that's oh-so-fashionable at the moment, and after looking for a pair of 'wow' trainers for a while I stumbled across these and fell in love. They are so comfy and the perfect peachy pink colour, which just happens to go perfectly with the bomber jacket - it's like it was meant to be!
Finally, I decided to finish the accessories off with my trusty Primark statement necklace and another new addition - my gorgeous Daisy Dixon watch. The Cara Multidial Watch is the most perfect alternative to Michael Kors' offering at a fraction of the price - it screams luxury and looks seriously amazing on - I never want to take it off! I decided to opt for yellow gold as opposed to rose as I already have a rose gold watch and wanted to try something a bit different - and I'm so glad I did. It also comes in silver and rose gold, and I love how it has the date and the day of the week on there too!
I absolutely love this outfit and feel as though this jeans and trainers combo' is going to be a staple in my wardrobe for spring. What trends are you loving at the moment?


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Having enjoyed creating Micah's birthday board so much I thought it would be the perfect gift for our little man so I created a similar sign, on a smaller scale for the special man in my life, our little boy Baby B who turned one on Sunday!
We had a Gruffalo themed birthday, including my first effort at a decorated cake (which was surprisingly successful as I seriously lack the focus baking requires) but I thought that the board, which we intend to hang in his bedroom, would be better off without any 'theming' as I think it'll stand the test of time a little better. I'm so pleased with how it came out but what do you think…?
Only problem now is my family seem to think I'm going to be doing one of these every year for his birthday…Um…!?!
I have now listed my birthday chalkboards on my Etsy shop so take a look and let me know if you'd like one for your special somebody! It doesn't have to be a little one, just a special someone with an important birthday 🙂
As always, if you see something you like or would like to discuss your requirements then get in touch at email@example.com.


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You are interested in finding the top male enhancement product on the market. I have some bad news for you. Magna RX is not it. In fact, this is a very disappointing male enhancement supplement.
In a way, being told this news is a good thing. Since you can now identity a product that might deliver less than exceptional results, you know which product to avoid when you make a purchasing decision on a for a male enhancement product.
What is Magna RX?
My Magna RX review has to be a fair one and I do owe it to the manufacturers to provide clear details on my assessment of the product. For those wondering why this particular supplement might not deliver on expectations, here is a closer look at this male enhancement product:
Magna RX is a capsule form male enhancement supplement. The purpose of the product is to help increase the hardness and firmness of an erection. It is also intended to help increase the size of the penis. While the product is not "awful" per se, there are other products on the market that can deliver much better results.
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One of the main selling points in the advertising for this male enhancement supplement is that it has been available on the market since 2001. Honestly, the amount of time a product has been on the market is really only a middling indication of how effective the product is.
A poor quality product could very well last many years on the market simply because it has the right marketing campaign and distribution network. Granted, Magna RX definitely has its fans and repeat customer so calling it an outright poor product might not be fair.
That said, the amount of time it has been on the market is not an indication of quality.
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Horny goat weed, oat straw, oyster meat, asian ginseng, l-arginine, and pumpkin seed are among the ingredients in this supplement. The ingredient stack is generally a good one but the way the ingredients are blended might not be the best process.
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ROXBURY CROSSING, Mass. / MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Freshman Kaitlyn Mooney won the Open New England Championship in the 3K as Coast Guard competed at the Open New England Championship and the Wesleyan Invitational.
Mooney crossed the line in 9:53.71 setting the school record by 18 seconds and moving into 10th place in all of Division III in the event. She was the only runner in the event who was not from a Division I school.
At the Wesleyan Invitational, Coast Guard claimed three first place finishes led by senior Ashlee Johnson who took home first in the 600 crossing the line in 1:38.28. Johnson just missed her school record of 1:37.87. Sophomore Adora Lawrence finished in second place, running the third fastest time in program history in 1:39.47.
Johnson and Lawrence teamed up with freshman Maeve Roach and junior Anita Green for first place in the 4x800 (9:54.68).
Green also had another first place finish, winning the 1000 in 3:06.89. Her time moves her into fifth place on the women's indoor top 10 list. Roach was third in the event (3:15.01), followed by freshman Mia Huncharek in seventh (3:17.63).
The Bears 4x400 also ran a program best time finishing in 4:11.64, for the fifth fastest time in program history. The quartet was made up of senior Alexandra Cobb, sophomore Anna Beck, sophomore Madeline Colwell and junior Caroline Jenkins.
Senior Gabbie Troise had two top five finishes, taking second in the weight throw (49-11.75) and third in the shot put (39-10.5).
Other top finishers for Coast Guard is freshman Emma Sims (fourth, 19:11.70) and senior Rachel Burchill (seventh, 19:18.50) in the 5K, Beck (fifth, 1:00.70) in the 400, freshman Alexis Willis (fifth, 16-3.25) and sophomore Hollis Roush (seventh, 15-10.25) in the long jump and Jenkins (sixth, 9.98) in the 60 hurdles.
Coast Guard is back in action on Saturday, February 10th, when they travel to the Dave Hemery Invitational at Boston University and the MIT invitational.


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Lalu Prasad taken to jail
Ranchi: RJD President Lalu Prasad was today taken to jail after being convicted by a special CBI court here in the fodder scam case. 65-year-old Prasad was taken to the Birsa Munda Central Jail here.
The court has fixed October three for pronouncement of sentence against Yadav, former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra and others convicted in the case.
While coming out from the court, Yadav appeared calm and did not take any question as his car sped away to the jail located at Hotwar on the outskirts of Ranchi, adjacent to the National Games Village.
Besides Prasad, the court of Pravas Kumar Singh convicted another 44 accused, including Mishra, six politicians and four IAS officers, for fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 37.7 crore from Chaibasa treasury.
Later, the court sentenced IAS officer K Armugam, former Bihar AHD and Labour Minister Vidya Sagar Nishad and former MLA Dhruv Bhagat and five fodder suppliers for up to three years.
Earlier, Prasad, who arrived in the court by a white Ambassador car, appeared relaxed and waved to his party supporters. He sat in the second row in the court room as the judge began reading out the judgement against him.


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As I log on to my computer every morning, I watch the dates slowly change on my calendar, and it's finally starting to set in. My wedding is almost here. It's hard to believe it's been eight months since Tim got down on one knee in the gardens behind the Governor's Palace… and asked me to marry him.
I don't want to bore you with the details of his proposal (I could tell the story over and over)… so I'll stick to the abbreviated version. It happened one brisk fall day last November, with help from the Making History Team. They had planned a blog shoot and I was under the impression we were going up in the Cupola (something we've always wanted to do!), to get sweeping shots of Palace Green. Little did I know what would actually unfold that day…
As we rounded the corner behind the Palace, Tim walked out from behind some Boxwood and started heading toward us. As you can see in my expression captured by photographer friend Fred Blystone in the above picture, I was initially extremely confused. It definitely took a minute for me to process what was happening. In fact, I was so much in shock, I actually failed to let Tim put the ring on my finger. I simply said "yes" and immediately threw my arms around his neck—knocking the ring out of his hand and flying on to the ground! And let me tell you, trying to spot a diamond ring in an oyster shell path isn't easy. I kept yelling behind blurry tears, "Don't step on it!'
Once the ring was securely on my finger, Tim informed me he had another surprise waiting. That's when we headed to the Restoration Bar at the Williamsburg Inn where our friends and family were waiting to celebrate. Between toasts of champagne, Executive Chef Travis Brust stopped by to give his congratulatory wishes and handed us a sweet, plated surprise. I'm lucky to be able to call our chefs friends after working together with them on so many blog shoots, and this simple gesture really touched me. It was late on a Friday afternoon and I knew how busy they were behind the scenes.
After the initial bliss had time to sink in, Tim and I started to seriously discuss wedding venues. Initially, given our mutual love of wine, I thought we should exchange our vows at a winery, but after looking into (and even touring one of) our top contenders, we decided it wasn't for us. A big challenge we discovered was finding a site that is handicap-accessible. My mother has secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) and will be in her wheelchair that day. We don't want her to miss out on a single thing—from me getting ready to giving me away at the alter to living it up on the dance floor! So any site that couldn't accommodate us, and her, was immediately checked off our list.
Just a few days after our latest venue letdown, event coordinator Michele DeRosa approached me and asked if I'd considered a Colonial Williamsburg wedding. Now, here's where I feel like I need to be totally honest with you guys. Of course, we knew we would LOVE to have our wedding here; I just assumed there was no way it could be in our budget. But after talking to Michele, she assured me there were several different options and packages from which we could choose. In the end, we opted for the Williamsburg Inn for both the ceremony and the reception.
Michele also guaranteed my mom would have no issues participating in any part of our day… and she even had a unique way to tie in our love of vino! Instead of a cocktail hour, we are planning to have a wine tasting immediately following our exchange of vows. Mike Harper, the sommelier at the Inn has paired some unique choices with our chosen hors d'oeuvres and will be on hand that day to explain the selections to our guests.
It's been a whirlwind of planning as Tim and I try to incorporate several different Colonial Williamsburg details into our day. Our invitations actually just went out! We decided to seal them with an 18th-century touch and even included a custom Historic Area map for out-of-towners.
We plan to serve hot apple cider and American Heritage hot chocolate to guests as they arrive. They'll leave with signature fresh-baked gingerbread cookies from the Raleigh Tavern Bakery.
There will be a horse and carriage to whisk us off for an intimate carriage ride minutes after we become Mr. and Mrs. Wauhop. And we'll even have a Fifer and Drummer to escort everyone from the East Lounge to the Regency Room for the reception (Because come on, what's more CW than that?!?).
Ultimately, we want our friends and family who've never visited to see why we love this place so much and why we're so blessed to call this area home. Tim and I also recognize how precious everyone's time is and getting married in a vacation destination is a win-win for us.
We're now just two months away from the wedding and just a couple of weeks ago we had a menu tasting with the amazingly talented chefs at the Williamsburg Inn (major props to Chefs Travis, Scott, Melissa, and Michelle!). It happened to be on my birthday and instead of taking our family out to a nice restaurant, we decided to include them in what turned out to be a fun (and delicious) step in our planning process.
Everyone walked away saying this is going to be hands down the best food they've ever had at any wedding. Huzzah! Our hope is for good food, good wine, and even better memories!
We're also working with chef Tony at Shields to create an unforgettable experience for our wedding party and out-of-town family during the rehearsal dinner. It's going to be an outdoor barbecue in the picnic area behind the tavern. We want to make sure everyone gets a literal taste of the Historic Area, as well as the hotels.
That brings me to today—as I sit here typing this post. It won't be long before my byline will read "Wauhop" instead of "Ross." Local photographer extraordinaire Lisa Martin Lee has agreed to capture our big day so I can share it with you once we get back from our honeymoon. I hope it will prove a way to help other brides and families of newly engaged couples consider using Colonial Williamsburg as a backdrop for their big day.
Please, stay tuned…. #WauhoppilyEverAfter
(Engagement pictures by Blink of an Eye Photography)


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...were made for walkin' (channeling Nancy Sinatra there; if you don't know what I'm talking about it, you might be too young to read this blog. Just kidding. If you're reading this blog, please don't stop now.) God bless these boots, for they got me through up to 10 miles a day of walking over and through bogs, the Burren, mountain passes, fields of high grass and/or rain, and estuaries at low tide, with nary a blister, sore ankle or soaked sock.
Ireland is as green, lovely, rainy and windy as they say (note the photo of the sexy, form-fitting, waterproof rain pants that go "swoosh, swoosh, swoosh" as I walked, creating my own sound system; those pants never came off all week!). But hiking in Ireland is worth the effort and energy (and sound effects).
And Dublin? It was full of charm, students, Trinity College, pubs, the Abbey Theatre, Temple Bar, Merrion Square, St. Stephen's Green, history, poetry, architecture, music and the nicest people I've ever encountered in a big city.
Here are some of my hike's views (and some new friends I made) along the way.
Note the gray skies (and that was when it was clear enough that I could pull the camera out of its Ziploc baggie). I will admit that I knew very little about Ireland before this trip. This was the best way I can imagine to have gotten the education I just received. That, and the fish and chips.
- and the book "How the Irish Saved Civilization," by Thomas Cahill, which I was reading throughout the trip when I wasn't sitting in a hot bath. (However, on the flight back, I got totally sucked into the six-hour HBO noir melodrama "Mildred Pierce," and the flight ended a half hour before the end of the movie - argh! I had to Google search the rest of it - not quite the same thing, if you know what I mean, especially since most of the movie is so unbelievable anyway.) But, back to Ireland...
It does seem that, even before this - my first ever hiking vacation - a few others have felt this way, about Ireland and about hiking.


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Some say it's a young person's world.
In the Gutter, age always trumps beauty.
In the Gutter, age always trumps beauty.
Professional Courtesy by J.M. Taylor
The job took me north of Boston, over the Zakim Bridge, towards Revere.
Near the town center, a couple of teens were making out on a bench. Go get her, tiger, I thought. Then it occurred to me that a year from now she'd be pregnant or already a mother, and the boy wouldn't have a better job than pumping gas to take care of them. I almost stopped and told them both to get the fuck home, clean up, and start doing their schoolwork. "Fucking idiot," I said to myself. Sentimentality doesn't work in a job like mine.
I wove my way deeper into the neighborhood. Nothing seemed alive. No kids played in the yards and no shades twitched to see who was disturbing the silence of the neighborhood. Every single yard had one of those Madonna on the half shells, surrounded by rusty fences that depressed me enough to slit my own wrists. Several had FOR SALE signs on their rotten lawns. Who the hell could live like this? Well, not Steve Coady. Not for much longer, at least.
That reminded me that my cousin wanted me to take care of a guy for him. It's like being a lawyer: everyone you know thinks you're willing to give free advice. But I'm a professional, and pros don't work gratis.
At last, I parked in sight of the house.
While I sat in the car finalizing my plan, someone knocked on the passenger fender. I leaned over to roll down the window. A woman shoved her head in. She could have been thirty or fifty. She had been pretty once, but now her skin had the texture of wrinkled paper, and it was so red her brown eyes were like cool embers in the middle of a fire.
"Yeah?" I said.
"Got a light?" She held out a cigarette, and I pushed the button under the radio. While we waited for it to heat up, she said, "You lookin' for the meth lab, it's a few doors down."
As a matter of fact, I was. I shook my head. "You got me wrong," I told her.
"So I guess you don't need to know he's got the back porch booby-trapped. Step on the top stair, a mounted shotgun shoots right through the damn door."
"You got me wrong," I said. "I got a package for this address." I pointed to the house across from where I parked. The place was as run down as any, with an ancient Chevy Nova in the driveway.
"That slut Lori?" The woman spat.
"She dates a friend of mine."
"That don't narrow it down any. Every night, a different car, sometimes two. I woulda thought you were one of them, except she don't work days."
Some neighborhood. "You live here long?" I asked.
"Born in that house over there. Then when I got married, we moved into his house there." Her arm swung from one house to another three doors down.
The lighter popped and I held it up to her greedy fingers. She touched the end of the cigarette to it. A second later, smoke curled into the car. "You must've seen some changes, then," I said.
The woman sucked deep. "Not really," she said ruefully. " 'Cept that bitch took half my customers away. God damn age discrimination." She blew me a kiss. "I don't suppose you…?"
I shook my head.
She wandered away, singing like the rusty hinge on a gate.
I looked at Lori's house again. Who could get it up in there? Not that it was any of my business. Still, I had to make it look good, now that there was a witness. In the footwell was an old Stephen King book I'd been working through. I ripped up a brown paper bag I found in the back seat and wrapped the book as tightly as I could. The result was big enough that it could have been a box of anything. I got out of the car and crossed the street to Lori's. I pretended to knock on the door.
I waited another minute, looking around. The old whore had disappeared. Nothing else stirred. After a few more seconds, I shrugged, then tossed the book back to the car. No sense wasting a good read. Instead of getting behind the wheel, I swung around behind the shack of a place that housed the meth lab. Coady was using his own product and the quality had gone down precipitously. My employer thought maybe it was time for new proprietors in a new location.
As the old whore said, the bozo had rigged the back door. I scoped out the trap, avoided the step, and went in. I gave the failed chemist a bullet between the eyes, took down the gun, and walked out.
Back at the car, I studied Lori's house again. My cousin came to mind. I never worked for free. But that old whore had done me a hell of a good turn, one pro to another, and professionals don't hold with age discrimination. I went up to the door, and this time I knocked for real.
A sleepy-eyed skank poked her head out. "Whatcha want?" she yawned.
A sleepy-eyed skank poked her head out. "Whatcha want?" she yawned.
"You Lori?"
She nodded.
"Know the meth lab across the street?"
She nodded again, confused.
I let the butt of my pistol show. "The bastard inside met an unfortunate end. If you're not out of this neighborhood in five minutes, I'll make sure you're framed for it beyond a reasonable doubt." I looked at my Rolex. "I'm counting."
Her eyes flew open wide and she disappeared into the house. A minute later, she reappeared carrying a sloppy bundle. I heard the rumble of the old Chevy starting up. She was gone before I got to my car.
I heard a familiar cackle behind me.
"How'd you know about the shotgun?" I asked the old whore leaning on my car.
She winked. "Bitch didn't take all my customers."


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The school year has begun in Chicago, and all those attending have switched gears into that focused mode. We all love and enjoy fall, but for many this is the time to get things accomplished and prepare for the next year. On September 26-27, 2013, Navy Pier welcomes back the Midwest MBA Career Fair!
This event only comes around once a year and it is a fantastic opportunity for students who are looking for the next step to take in their careers. Candidates will find the Midwest MBA Career Fair an excellent place to connect with top tier companies and opportunities at organizations that value the talent in the Midwest. This career fair encourages meaningful connections both with employers and other candidates.
In addition to accessing top companies and opportunities, here's what candidates can expect from their participation:
• Exposure through a secure resume database
• Job board with job postings and ability to apply in advance of event
• Networking receptions with employers
• Onsite interviews (by invitation)
Here is the list of partner schools represented:
Michigan State University
The Ohio State University
Pennsylvania State University
Purdue University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Iowa
University of Minnesota
University of Notre Dame
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Washington University in St. Louis
Candidates are also invited to participate in a networking event on Thursday, September 26, 2013 from 7 to 9 p.m. This will be a great opportunity to engage with recruiters and create early connections prior to the fair on Friday. If you plan to travel to Chicago on Thursday, we strongly encourage you to consider attending this event. The registration page will ask you to indicate whether you plan to participate.
Use this as an opportunity to grow your professional network. This event is open to the public. Visit www.midwestmba.com for more information. Tickets for the full conference are $185 for two days of networking events, seminars, and meals! They can easily be purchased online.


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Ready for a challenge? Go Dry this February and help raise vital funds for the Canadian Cancer Society.
Dry Feb is an online third-party fundraiser that challenges people to go booze-free for the month of February and collect donations in support of the Canadian Cancer Society.
Through Dry Feb, we are looking to raise awareness about the link between cancer and alcohol, promote the idea that we can modify our alcohol consumption to reduce cancer risk and to raise funds to support the Canadian Cancer Society's work.
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The newest expansion on Nicollet Mall doesn't involve a new corporate headquarters or a hip eatery. It's affordable housing pitched by the Westminster Presbyterian Church.
The downtown Minneapolis institution confirmed Thursday that it has purchased 1221 Nicollet Mall, an office building next to the church, from Presbyterian Homes of Roseville. The purchase price was $8.7 million.
The glassy office building along the city's commercial spine will be torn down to make way for the church's ambitious expansion strategy, a good chunk of which involves building affordable apartments at a time when the number of luxury units planned downtown has exploded.
It's unclear what the 1221 Nicollet site will ultimately become, but the church has pledged $3 million to spur construction of 150 affordable units in the south mall area over the next three to five years. In July, the church purchased the Marimark apartment building at 1226 Marquette Av. S. for about $5 million. The historic church building, which dates back to 1897, already has a large footprint in the area at 1200 Marquette Av. S.
The church's project dovetails with other development on the far end of Nicollet Mall, including the $45 million renovation of Orchestra Hall, the $10 million overhaul of Peavey Plaza, and a recently completed $25 million rehab of the Hyatt Hotel.
The news comes as the Downtown Council, a local business association, pushes the city to double its downtown residential population to 70,000 by 2025. Already the number of residents downtown has surged in recent years as baby boomers to millennials snap up apartments in the Mill District and North Loop, shunning the wiles of home ownership in a tough economy.
"Do I like luxury apartments in the city? Yes, of course," said Mark Stenglein, president of the Downtown Council. "But I like having affordable apartments equally as much. This news thrills me."
Westminster's senior pastor Tim Hart-Andersen said the church "wants to work very closely with the city and neighbors to ensure that whatever we build is open, accessible and inspiring." He said the church, which now has about 3,000 members, is growing in both membership and attendance, especially among people in their 30s and 40s.
"We are definitely seeing more attendance from people on both sides of river," Hart-Andersen said. "A number of our people moved into the city from the suburbs, and younger people are moving in the warehouse district or our church's neighborhood."
The church sees the influx as a means to reach residents through its "expanded ministries." However, the move to evict some 60 residents from the Marimark to prepare the site for demolition next year drew criticism last summer from some residents of the building and from City Council member Lisa Goodman. At the time, she said the church's plan will shrink an already-limited supply of low-cost housing downtown. Goodman was not available to comment on Westminster's most-recent purchase on Thursday.
Hart-Andersen said about 58 percent of the Marimark apartment residents have relocated from the site, which will serve as a temporary parking lot until a broader master plan is devised for the area. The church has extended about $350,000 in rent assistance to residents as they move, he said.
The 1221 building was originally part of the Westminster campus in the 1970s. According to Hennepin County property records, the two parcels on the site have a market value of $8.2 million.
The funds to buy the building came from members of Westminster's congregation, which will engage downtown neighbors on a "listening tour" next year to determine how the new properties can best serve the city and its residents.
Many of the apartment buildings proposed for downtown have appealed to upscale tenants, with rents reaching upwards of $2,900 a month. They include Opus Development Corp.'s 27-story, 250-unit apartment tower at Fifth Street and Nicollet Mall, the renovation of the historic Soo Line Building into a 250-unit upscale apartment building, and a $70 million luxury apartment project being developed by Ryan Cos. at 222 Hennepin Av. S. that will be anchored by a Whole Foods grocery store.
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By definition, memory refers to both the impression of something that has been retained and also to our capacity for retaining it. A memory is not so much the remembrance of something once experienced, merely the recall of the last time that we remembered it. With each remembrance we are prone to degrading the original resemblance in our mind to the event lived. Memory will continue to diminish each of them, despite our best efforts to preserve them for posterity.
There is a fog that eclipses so many of my lived moments. Like a video tape that has suffered too much wear, they have become distorted, fuzzy and unreliable in playback. I don't quite trust all that I recall. They are splinters of things, barely with enough flesh and weight to remain permanent. And yet I could turn to the memory of others, to a brother of identical years, months, days and hours in age. Or to an older brother, more than one thousand days my senior. I know their recollections include much more than mine, and that they could backfill so much. But the gaps and the graininess are all part of a sense of self that it's taken me many years to adjust to and feel comfortable with. The loss of each moment from our past – and there is something new from this bank of old that disappears each day – is a fact to which I have long been resigned. I don't care to have things 'restored' by producing new prints from the negatives held by another. These moments will one day be lost. The slow erosion of memory and memories is inevitable.
So I am left with these few fragments: I wonder if they might become a stop in the developing process. Words borne from pictures to create new pictures.
So, to the reissue of a memory of my father:
I was eleven years old and my father was in the last year of his life, when I followed him to the cold, white bathroom and helped him to wash, in what was the first time I had ever seen him take a bath. He was ill, frail: old. I don't know if my help was requested or volunteered, but I understood the value of what I was doing. He could not have coped in that room, that bathtub, on his own. I don't have a beginning-to-end narrative of events, instead, merely the recapture of two distinct images, still sharp in my mind.
The first of those images shows my father huddled into an awkward position, water so scant in the tub around him, seated, with alabaster arms and legs outstretched; skin that had not been exposed to light in a long time. He was unable to straighten his back, and his head would remain dipped throughout most of what we were about to do. The effort for him to lift his head and turn to peer back at me over his shoulder – as he did, just before we began – must have been considerable. That stare I receive now, conveying both sadness and gratitude: it was a look that seemed to permit his son to begin and which also apologised for his wretched naked form in front of me. Such a great loss of time between then and now; it distresses me to think that I might have embellished this particular idea of what passed between us with that glance (and this is the danger of trying to claw onto things which must be released). Perhaps something far more prosaic or meaningless transpired with this look from my father, but I cling to it because it is the look I recall that most forcefully came close to telling his son that he was loved.
And there is a second image: my hand rubbing a flannel against his back; watching the dirt, the dead skin and the sweat clump together into beads and scrapes of detritus. I remember them sticking there when I rinsed his back, resistant to the water like globs of fat congealed to a pan. I applied more soap, then more water, and then more soap, until the now-filthy flannel glided down his spine. The water now running down the white skin of his back with ease. He was able to wash his front without my help. I cleaned the flannel and then ran it over his neck and behind his ears. And that was all that was needed. I remember the fat bobbing on the water, finding its way to the edges of the bath, where it hemmed grey against the white enamel. The water was cold. The room was cold. Dad was shivering.
That's all there is.
Nothing else to develop. That's all these negatives show. A quarter-century between collecting and then pinning these two memories down, like butterflies to a board. Now, only a few other butterflies left to capture.


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"Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence." – Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water
by Tom Darin Liskey
Spring returns
The winter bare trees
Bud with succulent red fruit
A feast for the cedar waxwings
Returning from the south.
The crested birds gorge
On the berry-heavy limbs
In my front yard
Ascending and descending
In torrents of trilling air
Plucking nourishment
From the groaning boughs
And I can't stop thinking
About Christ's parable
Concerning these careless sojourners
How they want not and worry not
Creatures clearly oblivious
To my fretting
Over unpaid taxes, feverish children
And dimming career opportunities
Calling out to their creator
In strange hosannas
From juice stained beaks
A joy I cannot comprehend
Tom Darin Liskey, Features Editor at Literary Life, is an author, poet and photo-journalist. More than twenty years of international journalism and business experience gives Tom a unique perspective. That experience abroad has given him a keen eye to appreciate different cultures and locations. His fiction, non-fiction, and poetry has been published in literary magazines, both in the US and abroad including two published books.
Images by Tom Darin Liskey