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Unleashing Courageous Faith
- Paul Coughlin Author
- 2009 5 Feb
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Unleashing Courageous Faith: The Hidden Power of a Man's Soul by Paul Coughlin (Bethany House).
Chapter One
When A Dog Is More Manly
Heaven goes by favor.
If it went by merit, you would stay out
and your dog would go in.
(Mark Twain)
When I joke during men's conferences that my cairn terrier, Haggis McStitch, has taught me more about what it means to be a man than most men's gatherings, I'm not really joking.
Haggis is the most popular being in our home. He's the same breed as Toto in The Wizard of Oz, though I shudder to point this out because Toto didn't represent the breed well. Like most terriers, Haggis is a mountain of a dog inside a compact body.
When we went to pick him up in Redding, California, the first dog we saw looked robust, winsome, and cuddly.
"Is this Haggis?!" my daughter screamed with delight. "He's so cuuuuuute!"
"No," said Richard, the breeder. "That's his brother, Barley. This," he said, pointing, "is Haggis."
I looked at Haggis and decided Richard had pointed at the most expensive rat in all of history. Haggis was ugly. His coarse hair was pressed down, revealing his scrawny frame. He didn't have his brother's round healthiness, or becoming face, or attractive coloring. I wanted to leave right then and there.
Rip-off, I thought. But thankfully we would find that there's far more to Haggis than meets the eye.
"He's the feistiest dog I've ever bred," Richard added. Nearly four years later, I can only say amen.
A cairn is what the Scottish call a pile of stones. Cairn terriers have been bred to kill whatever is lurking between or underneath those stones: rats, mice, weasels, ferrets. It takes a lot of guts—that's a blue-collar word for "courage"—to go into lightless holes and instantly fight whatever you ambush.
Once, after our family returned from a trip, we found small poop droppings on our living room windowsill. Then we noticed that Haggis would not leave a certain broken TV outlet alone. Then he didn't sleep for days, which etched haggard exhaustion onto his face. (This happens when a dog—or a man—is kept from what he was designed to be and do.) We finally put two and two together and lowered him into the nearby crawl space.
He immediately kicked into action, his brindled coat bristling. Within seconds he found the intruder: a foot-long rat hiding behind the paper backing of fiberglass insulation. He shook it, breaking its neck, and brought it to me.
A family has never been prouder of a four-legged beast. Haggis had rid our home of a troubling invader. We paraded him around the house on our shoulders like Alexander the Great after the Battle of the Hydaspes. Haggis ate what we ate that night. We toasted him with wine, milk, and tap water. I considered having the rat stuffed and mounted for posterity's sake.
Actually, we think it was his third rat that year. Sometimes Sandy, my wife, makes the squishy discovery in the morning with her bare toes. Her screech could set off car alarms as she leaps through the morning air like an epileptic River Dancer. On the bright side, this is an opportunity to teach our children biology.
They also learn criminology as we form a crude circle around the little carcass that's always lying on its side. We proceed to analyze the whole scene—like on CSI, but without HD-grade makeup, flaming egos, or withering sarcasm.
Me: "Not a house rat. It's too skinny. And look at the coarse hair. This one's wild."
We savor the word wild....
Garrett, my thirteen-year-old: "There's no blood. Haggis must have got him and snapped his neck."
Elliot, my fifteen-year-old: "Yeah, Filly usually chews the heads off. You can hear it at night if your door's open." (Filly is our American shorthair cat, a beautiful, natural-born hunter, but one whose tougher nature is unemployable for noble means.)
Abby, my eleven-year-old, with her hands still over her eyes, provides a two-tiered alibi for our other cat. "Hobbes slept in my room last night. Besides, she's a weenie. I love her, but it's true. She can't kill anything." (Somehow, in Hobbes's puny brain, wires are crossed. Instead of bringing us vermin, she delivers leaves, twigs, rubber frogs, and at her best, crunchy dragonflies.)
Hardwired Courage
A dog's courage can be a real pain. For example, we have to sneak into our own backyard, soundlessly, or else Haggis bursts forth, on Secret-Service-level alert, sniffing every molecule of air for any whiff of evil and, often, barking on a rampage from border to border, warding off imaginary foes. Though he's doing his job with bravado and gusto, sometimes we wish he'd take a chill pill.
Sometimes a boy's burgeoning courage can be a real pain as well. I have coached boys for nearly fifteen years. I've written before about the times when it's tempting to kill their manly fire—to squash it, to "break its neck" in order to sidestep disruption and achieve the highly popular state of "compliant comfort." We neuter them early nowadays.
Once I inherited a courageous player from a fellow coach who didn't want him, who didn't see what his born leadership could do, could become. This was the age-old ruse of painting the courageous one as the black sheep.
"He's a dangerous player," the coach told other coaches. But what he and most of our culture consider dangerous, people of eras less obsessed with status-quo comfort have lauded as spirited and vigorous. Though this player was being labeled a "hothead," I noticed that he had never been thrown out of a game (unlike other "more respectable" players).
This boy who was once slandered and reviled became part of the backbone of my team. His spirit and his will didn't need breaking, but direction. Let me tell you this: He's the kind of young man who someday will have the guts, unlike his cattle-herd peers, to stand up and, like a prophet, say NO! on behalf of the oppressed and the weak. He's the white knight our society pegs wrongly as the black sheep because we've forgotten that it takes inner heat—not a big toothy grin—to do the right thing.
When I say things like this in church, it's usually only the oddballs, sadly, who give an amen. In today's timid culture, our average neighborhood church is largely made up of mild people searching for Bible verses to sanctify mildness. Courage as a liability? It is, in our commonly distorted understanding of why we're here, of how we were made, of what we're charged to do.
We were preparing for a 700 Club interview in our home one morning when Haggis somehow slipped out the front door unnoticed. We couldn't find him, and immediately it was hard to keep my mind on anything else. All I could really think about was Haggis, out there by himself. What if he gets hit by a car? What if he's attacked by bigger dogs? ...
That evening, Elliot and I sat on our front porch, weeping.
Elliot: "He's such a friendly dog. What if someone takes advantage of him?"
Me: "I hope he's not hurt."
Elliot, with heat in his eyes: "If someone hurts him, I'll kill 'em!"
My evangelical Protestant upbringing has had me well trained in what it thinks an ideal Christian, especially a man, should be. I'm still a regular Pavlov's dog sometimes, and I hate it. Right there, instinctively, like an old biddy with perfectly coiffed blue-gray hair, with shame-dripping lips ready to pounce on any infraction, I almost launched into a tsk, tsk, tsk lecture of disapproval against my son. I would have corrected his strong language, admonished him that "anger will get you nowhere," and dropped any number of blah-blah-blah warnings a Christian man is supposed to pass on to his sons.
Sometimes we evangelical men are good in the worst sense, when our virtues become so excessive that they become vices. We may not sleep around like the younger brother in Jesus' preposterous story of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11), a revealing of God's grace that is so extravagant and illogical by human standards that God the Father comes off as a seemingly crazy old fool with white and tangled mad-scientist hair that flails in the wind as he runs half-robed down the dirt lane to embrace a son whose decision to return contains not one edifying quality. He's the heartbreaker, the broke and selfish druggy in the family whose God is his appetite and who turns to God, not because He is good and worthy of honor, but because all other options of filling his churlish belly are gone. Prayer, wrote Twain, is the last bastion of a scoundrel, and we need to look no further than the prodigal son for proof. And if we're honest, ourselves.
Unlike the prodigal, we evangelical men are often too dutiful and rule-bound to be so spirited and uninhibited. We're too governed—but by what? Does our goodness come from a love of truth, or from the fear of living, of exposure? Do we refuse to chase after skirts, not because we love our wives and fear our Lord, but because we don't have enough guts to walk on the wild side? Some of us avoid adultery, not because we're gallant and committed, but because we're afraid to.
Do we come home after work, not because we long to fervently know our wife and kids, but because home is where the comfort is, where our bread is buttered? If so, then men who have never darkened the doorstep of a church do that as well.
I fear our "goodness" has a lot more to do with Pavlov's slavish behavior modification than soulful transformation. We're the dutiful older brother, who isn't enslaved by a host of deadly sins, but by a collection of virtues gone deadly. We're the ones who refuse to take part in the party even when God pleads for us to [Luke 15:32]. Instead of gluttony, we killjoys have our "principles" and our practice of self-denial that leaves us and others stone cold.
We're the charitable ones who don't take, not because we fear being a burden, but because we don't want to be obligated. To receive is to be inferior, so we hide behind a charitable spirit instead. Instead of pride, we're falsely modest, pretending to possess a level of humility that is a churchy rouse. Instead of rage, we're indifferent, which gives the appearance of gentleness—the Gold Star of Sunday school behavior today. And instead of being slothful, we're hyper-concerned with other people's business, not because we care much about them, but because we fear what they're behavior might do to us.
The older brother, my fellow evangelicals, is too often the image looking back at us: joyless, trivial, bored, angry, and trapped by religiosity. God implores both brothers, the law-less and the hyper-lawful, to change.
So I fought the knee-jerk reaction to correct my son the way the older brother might and instead affirmed my son's inner heat.
If someone did mistreat or abuse Haggis, I hope Elliot would be angry—I hope he'd be indignant (which means "much to grieve"). If I can't feel grief, I'm either spiritually ill or spiritually emasculated. Grief is essential to a courageous, muscular faith and to a loving orientation toward others. You'd never know it from how we treat it today, but indignation actually is an indicator of a balanced and loving soul. (We'll look at grief in chapter 11.)
So instead I said, "He's probably okay, pal. Someone will take him in. They'll see our posters and call us."
That night, around three o'clock, which is maybe the hardest hour to keep one's courage screwed on, I stepped out onto the same porch and called for Haggis through the slight and dry summer wind. He didn't stir through the bushes or come running from down the street, haggard yet unharmed. No prayers were answered that night.
I was just a middle-aged man with a betraying hairline, standing half-naked on his front step with his heart torn open, unable to rest. My brindle-coated friend, brimming with tenacity and courage and eagerness and fervency and devotion, suddenly was gone. The void was so large that whole facets of me seemed to vanish within it.
After what felt like weeks, we got the "I have your dog" call the next afternoon. We jumped into our Suburban like Marines on a special op. Haggis was home within a half hour and received more hugs and kisses than he ever could have wanted.
Haggis continues to enliven and inspire us to go boldly forward throughout our days. We have grown to appreciate his courage even when it costs us rest, like when he hears a real or imagined bump in the night and fires off a series of semiautomatic warning barks. He is our sixteen-pound sentinel on the watchtower. He monitors our borders while we enjoy blessed REM sleep. He's our happy fighter, our dancing warrior of Celtic lore.
The martial spirit of Haggis affects us the way Vietnam veteran Tom Mitchell was affected by his unit's war dogs:
"When we were sick, they would comfort us, and when we were injured, they protected us. They didn't care how much money we had or what color our skin was. Heck, they didn't even care if we were good soldiers. They loved us unconditionally. And we loved them. Still do."
Haggis's pugnacious nature takes its toll on him. When our children frolic in the pool, he's there, ever watching, his small, Canadian bacon pink-like tongue hanging out. "Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown," wrote Shakespeare, and Haggis is plenty worried when our kids are exposed and vulnerable. Our cats have never guarded or worried about our children.
Recently I visited one of my best friends in his home as he was recovering from an accidental gunshot wound that almost took his life. His dog, Stella, made sure to keep her body between us. She didn't leave his side—no one trained her to be that way, but still there was visible strain on her dogged, worn face. What makes dogs do that?
Before Haggis there was Conrad Lewis, our German shepherd. When Elliot was just a toddler, Conrad put his body between him and two adult Chow Chows in our front yard.
Those were tough dogs—we later found out that the Chows had chewed the testicles off a Rottweiler weeks earlier. And Conrad was still a puppy. He literally put his life on the line for my son. What trait possessed him then?
Masculinity: Unwanted
I thoroughly enjoy Haggis's companionship while hiking, snowshoeing, and fishing, even though his fur only protects against so much—if we're in nature's raw winter elements long enough, he needs extra covering so he won't freeze to death. Have you tried lately to buy a jacket for a dog? It's a real education. Try it, and you'll see how we're even trying to drive the manliness right out of canines.
When we were going fly-fishing on the Klamath River for winter steelhead, I went to Petco and asked the clerk for directions to the dog jackets. She took me to an assortment that mostly were either fake leopard skin or (I kid you not) adorned with colored boas. "Do you have any jackets for dogs that are heterosexual?" I asked. Good night, I'd rather eat my own hair mixed with mayonnaise than put one of those things on Haggis.
And Haggis is a dog. We've gone mad, mad, mad at expecting little boys to behave like little girls. Boys are being gunned down by manliness gone bad and by those who do not accept or appreciate it. Our culture tells young boys that traditional masculinity is bad, that men are stupid and deserve to be the object of disdain, contempt, and ridicule. Then we expect them to grow up and exemplify honor, integrity, and valor.
Boys are vulnerable, and gutting a boy's manly courage is easy. Put him in the care of men or women who don't understand what creates a courageous soul, the kind of people who mistake manners for morals. Give him a Sunday school teacher or pastor who indoctrinates him into worshiping a false god, a gentle Jesus meek and mild.
Give him a mother who was beaten by her father. She'll do the best she can to attack burgeoning manhood in her boys. She'll look at powerful men with contempt and then use her verbal acumen to castrate young male souls. Thereby she condemns a boy's manhood: When she criticizes his father, the boy will struggle with the belief that he's the fruit of defective seed.
Or give him an overprotective parent who fights all his meaningful battles for him.
Give him coaches and teachers who refuse to push him further than he wants to go, or who don't get a kick out of irrepressible and sometimes irresponsible little-guy energy.
We strain our necks to get a glimpse of dogs that exhibit noble masculinity, whether in the Iditarod or in the backseat of a police car. Conversely, masculine-lite dogs lie on laps and shun uncomfortable weather. They cause no man to offer them his respect. Manly, courageous dogs are determined to pack multiple lifetimes into one, very much like manly men.
This same dogged attribute exists in you as well, and it will emerge and thrive if you will go against wrong-headed spiritual training to nurture and grow it.
Our Unnamed Spiritual Need
What is it about a dog that captures us so? Why, for example, is it usually guys in their twenties and early thirties—often an exceedingly fearful time in a man's life (underreported and under-ministered to)—who feel a deep inner need to get a big dog? Children yearn for them too. I read a few years ago that the number one topic kids look up in the encyclopedia is dogs.
I believe it, but why? What is it that captivates us? What quality, what trait, what x-factor are we trying to get from a creature whose bargain includes biting fleas, insidious ticks, smelly carpets, and outrageous vet bills? Is there an element we're trying to graft into our deficient, trivial, boring lives?
There's something that makes the words of animal rights activist Roger Caras ring true: "If you don't have a dog—at least one—there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life."
Many of us, when we get a dog, think that our objective is somehow to make them semi-human. But have you noticed that there's a part of you that longs to be more like them? "The more I see of men," said Madame Jeanne-Marie Roland, "the more I admire dogs." Me too. Some people think animals will be in heaven, and some don't. But I admit that if there are no dogs in heaven, then there's a part of me that wants to go wherever they're headed!
When Haggis ran away and got lost, he took with him a trait that I could sense I needed as much as I need air. I couldn't name it then. I can name it now.
This name, this container, answers a riddle that plagued me for a long time. Here's an example. A seminary professor's mind can ponder wisdom, order, and justice. His brain can help him to discern the weightier matters of theology and assist him with understanding sacred text in its original language. His heart can affirm what is valuable and beautiful and stir a desire within him to love God, his wife, his children, and his neighbor. It can inspire him to lift his hands toward heaven as he praises God in corporate worship.
But if he has no animating urge, no motivating courage or gumption compelling him to take the risks that are required to create and establish justice, he becomes a paper lion, a punch line, a cautionary tale. If he has no fire burning in his belly, no tenacity to inflate his chest and lungs, he won't be able to withstand, genuinely and authentically, the turmoil that accompanies the realities of loving people on earth or God in heaven.
What good is such a person who earnestly studies God with his mind, sincerely praises him from his heart, but fails to actualize either his thoughts or his emotions? Where is his fiery faith put into being—which, by the way, is something God expects from us? What if a man does not labor to put feet on the good desires born in his head and heart? Doesn't that make him the noisy gong that the apostle Paul denounces? Isn't he what James would call a talker but not a doer?
Maybe I just described your father. Or a sibling. Or a friend. Or you. I know this much: I just described the life I lived for far too long.
For years and years I was not connecting with or activating a special region within me, a dimension that my spiritual training didn't even address or, when it briefly touched on the matter, told me was off limits and sinful. It's a God-designed area, within me and within you, where courage and its fruits—unsentimental love and a martial spirit (to name just two)—are forged and stored.
This is a soul region that the ancient Greeks studied, praised, and placed warning signs around. It's a place that is a gift to those we love—if we'll do the soul-work required to grow it and unleash it. It's also a curse if it isn't seasoned and disciplined. At times it appears elusive. It's a lost piece in our spiritual puzzle. For many of us, it's our absent ingredient, the missing link in our spiritual journey.
The Greeks called it thumos (sometimes spelled thymos). This powerful word bulges with meaning, and it doesn't translate into English without some hitches. God created men and women with thumos, a "fight drive," a courageous and animating spirit, without which we don't grow in spiritual breadth and depth, are unable to deeply love, consistently fail to lead or surmount the sins of our flesh.
Think of thumos as a Thermos container of spiritual heat and spiritual juice. It's a pugnacious yet playful drive, an attribute that separates the men from the boys, the women from the girls.
Thumos, wrote the ancient Greeks, is one of three main parts of our soul, along with logos (head and logic) and eros (heart and emotions). It's found—or at least should be found—more in men than in women, making a man's spirituality and his earthly responsibilities similar but also different. It is largely due to this difference that men have become a cultural target of bigotry, resentment, even hatred. Thumos is a mighty gift and, like many giftings, can also be a burden.
Thumos is the reason two preachers will talk about God's requirement for social justice and mercy, yet only one will commit the deeds required to usher them in. It's why some men think that their men's ministry group at church should do more than flip pancakes every fourth Saturday morning. It's why one guy stands and denounces brutality while others pretend to have lost their vision and their speech.
Most Christians leave far more than their sin at the cross: We are admonished by the church and, in a different sense, by our culture to forsake our thumos and its fruit, courage— which is essential to deep and abiding love—as if they were a scarlet T covering our genitals. The church doesn't give us spiritual swords and other martial weapons for battle when we become Christ-followers. It gives us acoustic guitars and open-toed sandals, and then shows us how to become pacifist folk singers. "Jesus is our Savior," we're told in Sunday school. "Now let's make some rainbows!" No wonder leadership is so rare and elusive.
And this makes sense, given the hair-model Jesus many of us grew up with. He has a killer smile and is very popular with the gals ... just not so popular with the guys. A neutered Jesus doesn't garner another man's allegiance and faith but rather his irritation and scorn.
It's Neither Heart Nor Mind
Your thumos is not a subset of your feelings or emotions. An awakened heart is invaluable for our spiritual life, but when overemphasized, it actually can lead us away from a rounded-out understanding of our God-created design. Hearts alone do not lead us into worthy battle. And hearts sometimes lead us astray. Rudolph Hess, swearing in the Nazi party in 1934, exhorted his hearers in a manner that should make all of us carefully evaluate our fickle home of emotion: "Do not seek Adolph Hitler with your brains; all of you will find him with the strength of your hearts."
Thumos is where our head and heart converge, quarrel, and then put feet underneath our courageous intentions. This is an integral part of our fulfilling the good works that God has prepared for us in advance—if we have the guts (a blue-collar definition of thumos) to play our part by being obedient to transcendent causes larger than our own ego and appetites. It's the place where we talk to ourselves in the age-old effort to "screw on our courage." Men talk to themselves more than women, and again, this is not a coincidence.
Just as our heart alone isn't adequate to enliven our spiritual growth, reason (thoughts, mind) provides clarity but doesn't provide strength and impetus. Our lives are only strong, purposeful, and meaningful when we do something loving, beautiful, freedom-giving, redemptive, and worthy of respect. Or as J. D. Salinger's troubled Franny puts it,
"Everything everybody does is so—I don't know—not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and—sad-making. And the worst of it is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way."
Go and do, the prophets and other malcontents tell us—don't just think and feel.
Those who have been shot at in the line of military duty will tell you that if they'd waited for courage to flow before they responded, it would have been far wiser just to have stayed in bed. Something else within them, from another region of their soul, kicks into action. Rarely does one feel courageous in the face of opposition, and so over-reliance on one's heart or mind can be a trap. Courage must be manufactured within another inner place.
Yet thumos-courage is not only part of the physical life, it also can have a moral dimension. When Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel Prize and with it the opportunity to deliver a speech to expose the lies of the former Soviet Union, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was mortified by Pasternak's lack of thumotic energy.
Solzhenitsyn's response, much like Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," shows us the elegant strength of thumos—the prophet-like justice it demands, the sacrifice it often requires from those who flex it, and the need for us, when necessary, to overrule our heart, because though love can flow from that region, so can life-stopping, love-freezing fear.
"All the more vividly did I see [the Nobel Prize], all the more eagerly did I brood on it, demand it from the future! I had to have that prize! As a position to be won, a vantage point on the battlefield! ... I should resolutely accept the prize, resolutely go to Stockholm, make a very resolute speech. ... [I would] touch off the explosive charge ... [and] speak for all those who had been stifled, shot, starved or frozen to death! Drag it all to the platform of the Nobel Prize ceremony and hurl it like a thunderbolt."
Those are passionate, heart-drenched words, but they are more than passion. They drip with courage as well, born from the thumos-place within the man that binds emotion and intellect together. The place where a man stands and says what he stands for is right, and that those who stand against him are wrong. It's the place from which Jesus was able to say, "He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters." Minus an appreciation for thumos, these are the ravings of a lunatic.
In Unleashing Courageous Faith, we'll explore the many facets of thumos: where we find it, what kills it, what fuels it, and so forth. For now, let me offer this hopeful insight up front: It's already in you. The potential is there.
We want men to have a heart so that they can more tenderly express love. Likewise, we need to help men, as the Wizard of Oz did for the Cowardly Lion, to have thumos so they can create a more muscular, manly form of love: that practical, unsentimental, no-strings-attached, kingly, prophetic, forceful love that lays down its life for another without fanfare or an arsenal of publicists—the kind that makes nations weep, faith grow, and God be glorified.
The Soul's Third Dimension
Gentler virtues, tougher virtues—we need them both— but they are found and forged in different places and through different practices and disciplines. The church, and some para-church organizations like Ransomed Heart, Promise Keepers, Iron Sharpens Iron, and Women of Faith currently are helping the Tin Men: those who need to find their hearts. This is a remarkable and noble accomplishment of immeasurable impact. But we also need to help the many, many Cowardly Lions find their courage as well. And note the three—not two—main characters who need to rediscover their essence: more than just brain (Scarecrow) and heart (Tin Man)! We're so familiar with this third facet of being that often we don't even notice or consider it.
These three soulish "parts" of us have been hiding for a long time. And, as the song by the band America goes, Oz never gave them nothing that they didn't already have. It's there, in you, simmering but elusive, like your last moment of déjà vu. We need each other to find it, grow it, and honor it, so that someday we can say, like the Cowardly Lion, "What makes a king out of a slave? Courage!"
This force inside us is one that's shrouded in mystery like a mighty wind. Wind is an ancient symbol for thumos, and it's one of the ways the Holy Spirit is revealed in Scripture. This is where our heroic instinct is grown and where it's housed; this is where our innate longing to act nobly is found. We desperately need to tap it—this power that's missing in our culture and mostly missing in the church—but we don't know how. And, truthfully, we aren't even sure that we should. Our spiritual training has us believing it's a kind of Pandora's box, maybe best left untouched.
Listening to the well-meaning but naïve and spiritually negligent voices of mildness will lead to our demise. If you treat thumos as if it's just another flavor at the ice-cream counter of ministry, you will forgo love and the protection of what is good, right, and honorable. You will miss out on much growth and adventure, and the ability to subdue the cravings of your flesh. You will not have the skills you need to be the leader you want to be. You will remain fragmented and unstable in your nature.
All of us—and especially men—must lay claim to thumos so that God's grace in us can construct a new and dynamic person. Most of us will never fight a physical battle against an enemy; we will use our thumos, or not, for moral courage against both the evil spirit of the age that erodes human dignity and also against our own tendency to take the easy way through life, which halts spiritual growth. We must harness thumos to rise above the mediocre, trivial, social-club Christianity in which we too often find ourselves, shaking off the fearful and uninformed critics who worship comfort instead of truth. Because a shift is taking place: God is calling his people to fight for justice, and more and more of them are answering the call.
We have flexed compassion the world over to combat poverty and disease. But one of the most underreported reasons people's lives are so desperate isn't that they don't have the ability to feed and educate themselves—it's that others oppress them, rob them, maim them, and enslave them. Many don't need more bags of rice—not ultimately. They, like the estimated twenty-seven million people in actual slavery, like the 160,000 kids who stay home daily from American schools for fear of being bullied, need justice to rain down upon them from the hands of righteous people who will fight on their behalf. That's right, fight—one of evangelicalism's most feared words and even more feared actions. We need the men to move first—that's almost always how it works.
Thumos has a sinister side as well as a noble side, which should lead a man to embrace, not crucify, his martial spirit (that's the subject of the next chapter). Before we get into that, I need to give a disclaimer.
One of the hazards of being a writer, and there are many, is that you never quite live up to your words, especially if you write about spiritual matters. You always fall short. So just let me say straightaway that I do not hold myself up as some giant when it comes to thumos.
This will not shock those who know me. I've lacked thumos for much of my life. At the same time, I've undertaken a good amount of soul-work to grow it, season it, deploy it. I am guilty of cowardice, though I don't think this sin (yes, sin) defines me.
In this book I will share with you my victories and the victories of others. And if my thumos is strong enough, I will share with you my defeats, because it's not our strengths that make us relatable and lead to fellowship and even brotherhood or sisterhood. It's our weaknesses, through which we're perfected, that bond us.
And while we have sibling-hood on our minds, now's a good time to point out a distinction about this book that, like thumos, is bound to raise eyebrows. Both genders possess thumos, and it tends to express its animated spiritedness differently. Generally speaking, a woman's is expressed most strongly in intimate relationships, especially with children, and a man's tends to be deployed upon the world "out there," that is, outside the house. Of course there is overlap, and of course there are exceptions, and those exceptions should be honored instead of being used as material for jagged punch lines. We should applaud the good side of thumos wherever we can find it. (We'll talk about the other side in chapter 4.)
Here's an example. A friend of mine and his wife were having dinner with another couple and talking about gender roles. The other couple was more liberal, so they had a more general, less specific interpretation. In fact, the well-educated husband thought their understanding was so broad that if at nighttime they suspected someone was trying to break into their home, he said, it would be the responsibility of the person closest to the bedroom door to get up and investigate. His usually-just-as-liberal wife looked at him first with horror and then with contempt.
Liberal or conservative, theist or atheist—a man, muscular or weakling, is expected to confront the intruder. This has to do with more than innate physical strength. It's also because men possess a palpable thumotic energy that can either be valorous or sinister, depending on how it's used. God is thumotic, and as his image bearers, so are we.
Finally, a warning: Thumos is disruptive. Many people think disruption is sinful, and it's certainly unmannerly. In a church culture dominated by female sensibilities that make it wired more for safety than for battle, morality and manners are pervasively put forward as one and the same. That Jesus was mighty unmannerly is just one indicator of our drift and diminishment.
Thumos bites into what's wrong with the status quo and will not let go, much like Haggis with a bone. There are people, lots of people, inside and outside the church, who love the status quo. They do not take kindly to anyone messing with what is—even when what is is killing them and others. So know that when your thumos urges you onto whatever battlefield has long been awaiting you, you're going to make some enemies. Jesus said to pray for your enemies, and he wouldn't have said this if you weren't going to make some. And he never said you couldn't have any.
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The nationwide average price of gasoline some seven days ahead of the Memorial Day weekend is almost identical with price levels seen in 2013 and 2012, but dramatic differences are observed when one moves beyond the average and examines detailed fuel prices in states and cities. The nationwide average this weekend is likely to be between $3.60-$3.64 gal, or within a few pennies of the $3.64 gal average from Memorial Day 2012 and the $3.63 gal average on the holiday in 2013. But statewide averages should range between $3.35 gal and $4.35 gal, reflecting the widest regional diversity in recent memory. Vermont is at $3.72, or about 15 cents higher than a year ago. What's more, the diversity is bi-directional with some states kicking off the driving season with much lower price offerings, while other areas find stiff increases versus previous years.
Example: One year ago, Minnesotans faced average unleaded regular prices of $4.20-$4.30 gal ahead of Memorial Day weekend. This year, those same Minnesotan drivers find average prices of $3.50 gal.
The rest of the US heartland finds distinctly advantaged prices when compared to last year. Average price decreases of 10-30cts gal regularly show up in Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
In contrast, consumers in about half of the fifty states now see average gasoline prices that are 10-30cts gal higher when compared to last year. Pennsylvania motorists are the most adversely impacted, paying about 30cts gal more than what they meted out for fuel one year ago. Smaller, but considerable, year-on-year increases show up at every East and Gulf Coast state as well as a few western states such as California and Nevada.
What's behind this incredibly diverse U.S. fuel picture?
GasBuddy compiled a short list of the key steering currents which have acted to depress prices for many inland markets, while lifting values on the coasts. Examples include:
- Uneven refining operations. Last year saw nothing less than a major reconfiguration of large refineries in Great Lakes and Great Plains' states. A much lighter schedule of maintenance has prevailed in 2014. On the other hand, Gulf Coast refineries have seen one of the most aggressive spring maintenance schedules in recent memory.
- Huge differences in crude costs. Refiners in the Rocky Mountain and upper Midwestern regions could buy heavy Canadian crude for about $85 barrel recently. Robust new production coming from the Canadian oil sands has delivered some of the most advantaged crude in North America. In contrast, West Coast refiners are disadvantaged. Prices for Alaskan North Slope (ANS) crude currently fetch a price that is just shy of $110 barrel.
- Diminished imports. Three years ago, U.S. ports typically handled 1-million barrels per day or more of imported gasoline from Canada, Europe, and the Caribbean and most of that fuel came in to East Coast cities. More recently, the U.S. has turned into a net exporter, regularly sending more gasoline offshore than it brings in from foreign destinations.
GasBuddy analysis suggests that the prognosis for the first two months of the driving season is for continued temperate prices. The restart of major refineries that are moving through second quarter maintenance should insure that gasoline production is near record levels. Meanwhile, efficiency gains in the light vehicle fleet and demographic changes in the population (older people tend to drive less) should combine to keep motor fuel demand flat at best.
Gasoline prices for the latter part of the driving season will be tied to the 2014 Hurricane Season. The U.S. has added plenty of refining capacity this century, but most of the additional capacity lies between Corpus Christi, Texas and Pascagoula, Mississippi. An active storm season could inspire precautionary shutdowns that might tighten supplies through the broad geography that is supplied by Gulf Coast refiners. Refinery shutdowns could resonate loudly through several dozen states, since some Gulf Coast refiners have export commitments to foreign countries.
Postscript: Most people inaccurately assume that gasoline prices rise from Memorial Day through July 4th, but in fact, GasBuddy data shows that motor fuel prices have dropped in nine out of the last fourteen years in this century. The last year that saw higher prices on July 4 than on Memorial Day weekend was 2009. The national average price has drifted lower in each of the last four years by 23cts gal.

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Watch the sky transform into a rolling, cigar-shaped cloud formation during the annual Morning Glory and bird migration in September.
You can go back to the gold mining days in Croydon and visit explorers' Burke and Wills Camp in Normanton or walk into the world's longest volcanic lava tubes formed 190,000 years ago at Undara National Park, and overnight in a restored railway carriage.
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A lot of my three years at Cambridge reading English were spent at Kettle's Yard and at the Fitzwilliam. I had come up straight from an eighteen-month pottery apprenticeship with a Leach school potter, Geoffrey Whiting. I had followed this with a few months in Japan, visiting famous kilns and elderly potters: my canon of favourite pots felt pretty secure and the Fitzwilliam had everything I needed. English slipware, small Chinese tenmoku teabowls, Medieval pitchers. It took me a long time to see beyond these pots into the other collections. When I started to look it changed the ground under my feet. I can still remember looking at eighteenth-century porcelain for the first time, rather than striding past the vitrines.
I've chosen three pots from the collection. I could have chosen a Samuel Palmer landscape, a Dutch still life of asparagus, all the Chinese porcelain, various bits of eighteenth-century furniture: these three have been wrung out of me.
The first is a giant charger from Japan. It is Imari ware from the late 17th century. Imari, with its intricate patterns of underglaze colour, overglaze enamel and gilding, became ubiquitous in European collections in the eighteenth century, the perfect porcelain to use in garnitures on furniture. This piece is unfinished, the blanks that would have held more peonies showing nothing but the porcelain itself. I love this. Apart from loving the site of white porcelain in itself, unfinished ceramics rarely survive - a few wasters from kiln sites, odd fused glazing accidents aside. This piece is as expressive as a sketch. Through these absences it shows how these great, grand confections of colour were put together.
My second piece is stoneware celadon mallet vase from Korea. Korean ceramics share so much with Chinese ceramics, but there is a quality that is subtly different. Here with this vase, echoing archaic Chinese bronzes that echoed the mallets used to beat cloth, you can feel affinities with Chinese court porcelains. But where the Chinese versions achieved a sort of glassy perfection, an untouchability of rarified splendour, here is a pot that leans. And in that tilt is a huge amount: it allows me to think about the potter as a kindred maker. Here is a pot, beautiful and austere certainly, but one that is not totally perfect. The magnificent Korean moon jar made in white porcelain gives me a similar frisson. I look at the way that the two great bowls have been joined together to make that vast volume and see the almost imperceptible signs of the join. It matters and does not matter simultaneously.
My third pot is a strange early teapot from Meissen. It is from the period when the first experiments by the failed alchemist Bottger to make porcelain in Europe had resulted in a red stoneware clay and a white porcelain body. Both were equally special: this teapot in 'red porcelain' proclaims its status even more loudly with its ring of semi-precious stones. It is an absurd object. It is not beautiful. It is a mass of different competing styles and surfaces: it tries far too hard. But it is trying to make a small and special object out of a new material and it needs honour.
Edmund de Waal FRSA (b. 1964)
Born in Nottingham in 1964, Edmund de Waal started to pot when he was five. Close to clay throughout his school years, he was taught by Geoffrey Whiting when a scholar at King's School in Canterbury. A disciple of the 'Anglo-Oriental' potter Bernard Leach, Whiting introduced de Waal to English ceramics as well as to ceramics from China, Korea and Japan. Leaving school, de Waal knew that he wanted to be a potter. He continued to train with Whiting, read English at Trinity Hall in Cambridge and then set up his own studio, first on the Welsh border and then in Sheffield. Having completed a postgraduate diploma in Japanese language at the University of Sheffield, de Waal spent one year at the Mejiro Ceramics Studio in Tokyo. Following his return from Japan, he set up a studio in London in 1993 and gradually focused his work from functional wares executed in clay to installations worked in porcelain. As much influenced by Sung dynasty wares as by the Bauhaus movement, de Waal is also a prolific writer and has been Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster since 2004.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 1996, de Waal's work has been the subject of numerous group and solo exhibitions in Britain and abroad and can be seen in public collections in Cambridge, Edinburgh, London and Oxford, as well as in New York and Tokyo. He also acts as an advisor to museums and regularly curates exhibitions. Considered one of the finest potters of his generation, de Waal was awarded the silver medal at the World Ceramics Exposition in Korea in 2003.
Edmund de Waal lives with his family in London.
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Selected Bibliography
E. de Waal, Bernard Leach, Tate Publishing, 1998 (2nd edn. 2003)
E. de Waal, Design Sourcebook: Ceramics, New Holland Publishers, 1999
E. de Waal, Twentieth Century Ceramics, Thames & Hudson, 2003


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NEW YORK – FreshDirect is donating a total of 1,900 turkeys this week to various groups throughout New York City and Philadelphia in anticipation of the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Welcome to the world of options investing, advisors. Now put on your thinking cap and figure out how you can make your visit to this competitive marketplace worthwhile.
That was essentially the message to registered investment advisors (RIAs) at an equity options conference held by the Options Industry Council (OIC) and the Futures Industry Association this week in New York.
Still, the focus placed on welcoming RIAs into the options fold sent an equally strong message that advisors are viewed as an increasingly important segment of the market by the market makers themselves.
"We're really just getting started with options in the RIA community," said Jeff Chiappetta, managing director of Institutional Trading and Fixed Income at TD Ameritrade Institutional, in a panel on the new generation of markets. "Retail investors are so much smarter than they were 10 years ago. Those people are challenging their advisors to use products like covered call spreads."
Uphill Climb
But as RIAs flock to this alternative marketplace, gaining a foothold can be tricky.
While it's true that clients are demanding high rewards along with low risk in this yield-impoverished economic environment, advisors face a big uphill climb in learning about how options can be used as a portfolio hedge. The challenge comes not just from understanding which options products are best from a risk management standpoint, but also from gaining liquidity in a marketplace that has seen a proliferation of trading venues in recent years.
Growth of U.S. options exchanges has exploded over the last few years, with the number of venues for trading equity options expected to double from six in 2008 to 12 within the next year.
"All of these venues are jostling for a share of the market at a time when total volume has been shrinking," writes Rachel Koning Beals in Futures Industry magazine's September issue.
Indeed, options volume has seen a huge decrease. Cleared options contract volume plummeted 43% in August to 313.8 million contracts this year compared with 554.8 million contracts at this time a year ago, according to the Options Clearing Corp. (The OIC notes, however, that although options volume dipped in August, it is still the second highest August on record, after last August, which was the all-time highest monthly volume recorded. This August marked the 24th consecutive month the options industry has recorded at least 300 million contracts in trading volume.)
Confusion About Liquidity
Meanwhile, there's some confusion among advisors about where they can find liquidity in these increasingly fragmented exchanges, Chiappetta noted, adding that new technology and increased regulation have added another level of complexity to the options market.
Joanne Draper, managing director of equity and options trading at Schwab Advisor Services, said that because RIAs are fiduciaries, and not speculators, their interest in investing in options comes from a desire to find basic hedging strategies.
RIAs also tend to avoid frequent trades because they are cost-sensitive on their clients' part, Draper noted. And, she said, they typically stay away from new and trendy products such as weeklys while gravitating more toward tried and tested products such as S&P 500 SPX Index Options.
"RIAs are conservative, risk-averse investors," Draper said, adding that many RIAs who want to use more complicated strategies may sub them out.
Chiappetta agreed, saying, "Even if they're sophisticated, RIAs may sub out work to managers who do options overlays because advisors want to spend their time talking to clients and not trading all day."
After the panel, Eric Cott, the Options Industry Council's director of financial advisor education, stressed that options are a sound risk management tool, but that continuing education is essential for advisors who want to keep abreast of the options market.
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The Village of Sand Lake is hosting a solemn parade of emergency vehicles on Sunday, September 11, 2011. The public is encouraged to attend and show their support for their local police, fire and EMS personnel.
All police, fire and EMS across Michigan are invited to be a part of the parade. According to Sand Lake Police Chief Ken Williams, about 20 agencies have said they will participate, including Cedar Springs Police and Firefighters, Howard City Police and Firefighters, and more from surrounding townships. "There could be up to 60 vehicles," he said.
The parade lineup will begin at 7:30 p.m. and the parade will start at 8 p.m. at Lake and 7th Street, and end at Lake and 4th Street. The vehicles will make two passes. The first time through they will run lights and sirens, and the second time through it will be a silent, remembering time.
After the parade, everyone is encouraged to stay and meet local emergency personnel, and bring a lawn chair or blanket to Salisbury Park and watch a special outdoor large screen showing of news and documentary footage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and heroic responses.
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The financial industry hasn't had a data breach as big as the one that hit Target recently, but it still needs to do more when it comes to protecting investors, a recent survey found.
More than 40% of financial professionals surveyed last week believe investors are "at greater risk given the pace of tech advancements and the challenges of remaining compliant with regulations," according to Finect, a social-media platform for those in the industry.
In addition, nearly 60% say technology is changing "as fast as the markets or faster," which puts great pressure on firms, regulators and advisors to keep up.
"It's a New Tech World Order, and the businesses that thrive in the future will understand how to use technology that's changing almost as quickly as markets themselves," said Finect President Jennifer Openshaw, in a press release.
There are new kinds of problem as tech capabilities expand "exponentially," Openshaw explains. "Systems are designed to move faster and manage larger amounts of data than in the past, from institutional trades to the smallest text messages. And everything must be preserved for compliance, as well."
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined Barclays Capital $3.75 million last month for its systemic failures to preserve electronic records and certain emails and instant messages in the manner required for at least 10 years. Six months earlier, FINRA fined LPL Financial (LPLA) $9 million for 35 separate "significant email system failures" related to arbitration proceedings and for making material misstatements to FINRA during its investigation.
The Finect survey finds that most professionals, 66%, work for or with firms that have adopted new technology to keep up with compliance rules developed over the past two years; 20% say their firm did not.
Furthermore, 71% say their firms do update their compliance policies when new technology advancements are made, such as mobile apps or social media, while 16% say their firms do not.
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For firms to avoid regulatory issues and better protect investors, these three suggestions could prove highly beneficial, according to Openshaw.
- Speed is the new normal. Thus, managers need to understand that technological change is growing at rates unseen before and expect new tech problems.
- Incorporate flexibility. Managers should design systems and platforms that are able to adapt quickly to change rather than using the same tech solutions they've used in the past.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik are confirming on social media that their romance is over.
The 22-year-old model and 25-year-old musician each posted on Twitter Tuesday about the end of their two-year relationship.
Hadid wrote that she is "forever grateful for the love, time and life lessons" she and Malik shared, adding that "there is really no way to put into words what two people experience together over a few years."
Malik said the two "had an incredibly meaningful, loving and fun relationship" and that he continues to respect and adore Hadid "as a woman and a friend."
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One of the continual challenges facing secondary and postsecondary vocational educators today is the development of relevant curriculum for their programs. This is especially true in many of the newly-emerging occupational areas of information and computer technology. The ability to offer up-to-date curriculum becomes a critical component for determining the success of these programs at winning employment for the students.
However, the curriculum challenge is not simply concentrated on the task of keeping up with changes in technology. With the growing recognition that vocational education should prepare students not just for entry-level work, but for career pathways, it is important to develop courses and programs that enable students to understand how the technology is used within the particular occupational context. Computer applications are found in almost all occupations, but even similar computer devices are used very differently. For example, knowledge of a Geographic Positioning System (GPS) as used by civil engineers making technical changes in the design of a highway is very different than the use of GPS by farmers in determining precision agriculture production. In both cases, preparation of a student involves not only mastery of the technology, but also knowledge of how it might be used in specific occupations.
If being both "technically up-to-date" and providing "context" for particular career pathways matter, where do vocational administrators turn for the expertise? Certainly good instructors ultimately base the curriculum upon the specific needs of the industry or employers. However, at the secondary level, it is difficult at best for vocational instructors and administrators to cultivate these ties. In many cases the instructors themselves are unfamiliar with the new or emerging technology and the specific context in which it is used.
The federal government has attempted to respond to the need for relevant occupational curriculum in a number of ways. The work of the National Skill Standards Board (NSSB) has been to develop and disseminate industry-based skill standards. While these standards are not curriculum, they provide a road map on which to construct curriculum. The Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) provided initial support for state vocational education agencies to jointly develop curriculum focused around career clusters.
However, there may be other federal sources for vocational curriculum. Many of the major agencies of the federal government are in need of specialized skills, often similar to skills needs in the private sector, and some introduce specialized training programs for these occupations. In addition through carrying out their legislative mission, the agencies interact with the private economic sector and are often knowledgeable about the current and future workforce demands within a key occupational area. For example, it is logical that the Federal Aviation Agency would assume the task of delineating the skills of airport security staff, and perhaps would even develop the curriculum that could train staff to achieve proficiency in performing these tasks. The Department of Defense, a large employer with a workforce engaged in diverse tasks, may find it worthwhile to develop curriculum and course programs to train staffprograms that would have applications outside of the armed services.
The purpose of this brief paper is to review the sources of vocational curriculuminstruction that provides the skills necessary for individuals to perform entry-level jobs at the sub-baccalaureate levelthat may be available from selected federal agencies other than OVAE. The research method relied on an investigation of the Web sites of specific agencies. The paper outlines the relevant content of these sites, as well as some challenges policymakers and practitioners may face in accessing the available curricula.
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Japan became the first of the non-European nations solicited to contribute to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to commit funds to do so, and said it will provide $60 billion to the institution.
Reuters reported Tuesday that the announcement preceded the formal commitment, which will come at the G20 meeting of financial leaders later in the week. The pledge boosts overall commitments to about $310 billion, with approximately $200 billion coming from euro zone countries and another $50 billion from other European Union countries. The U.S. has said it will not commit any additional funds to the IMF.
Earlier in the year the IMF had said it could need as much as $600 billion in new funding to fulfill its role as lender of last resort to assist "innocent bystanders" who could be caught up in the economic and financial fallout from Europe and its debt crisis. Last week, however, Christine Lagarde, who heads the IMF, said that perhaps not so much would be necessary because economic risks had fallen.
That is a good thing, because not only the U.S. but Canada as well have no intention of making contributions, with the latter saying that the IMF has enough funding to do its job. China, Russia and Brazil are holding out, saying that they want more bang at the ballot box in exchange for contributions.
And even Japan says that Europe could do more to fight the debt crisis, despite its willingness to contribute. However, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said in the report that Japan hoped its example would encourage other countries to follow with their own contributions.
He was quoted saying, "Following a series of euro zone's policy responses, it is important to strengthen IMF funding and pave the way for ensuring an end to the crisis not only for the euro zone but also for Japan and Asian countries." He added, "I am confident that many other countries will pledge contributions to the IMF."


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Wine lovers, "Cougar Town" will return Feb. 14.
The Courteney Cox sitcom will premiere its will premiere its 15-episode Season 3 at 7:30 p.m. CT, the time slot held briefly by the now canceled "Work It." ABC made the announcement Tuesday.
The news comes less than two weeks after the multi-city "Cougar Town" tour launched by show co-creator Bill Lawrence came to Lincoln Park bar Racine Plumbing, where fans watched the two episodes from Season 3, played Penny Can and chatted up star Busy Philipps and writer Melody Derloshon.
"We're trying to keep a show going that people want to watch," Derloshon told me that night. "And the bottom line is it's just funny. We just want people to laugh and have fun, and we're having fun, and we hope everyone who watches has fun."
Valentine's Day is a perfect launch date for the new season, considering that heavy romance is in the air for two of the characters. (Do I spoil? Nah.) But you can expect some surprise visits from former "Scrubs" cast members. Cox and Philipps star with Josh Hopkins, Brian Van Holt, Ian Gomez, Christa Miller and Dan Byrd.
Since debuting in 2009, "Cougar Town" has been rather abused by the network, facing a series of scheduling changes and this 10-month delay. Last season, the series was slotted for a spring return after more than two months off the air on a Monday night before continuing in its usual spot on Wednesdays two days later.
Fans were pissed, letting ABC know their displeasure. Derloshon was more polite about the crappy scheduling.
"ABC is running the business and whatever information they had to hold off [on the premiere], maybe that means they have more faith in us," she said. "Maybe they know they can push us off and then bring us back later and we're going to ramp it up. I don't know...
"Whatever time we're going to be on we'll be alright."
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Canucks wave white flag: make deal with Devils for Schneider
Admitting defeat with goalie soap opera, Vancouver nets young centre Bo Horvat with New Jersey's No. 9 pick
Vancouver Canucks' goaltender Cory Schneider, who was called the team's goalie of the future, was traded Sunday to the New Jersey Devils.
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NEWARK, NJ - The contract still sucks and the Vancouver Canucks still own it after the National Hockey League team admitted defeat today on the year-long Roberto Luongo trade mission and instead dealt starting goalie Cory Schneider to the New Jersey Devils.
It was a stunning end to a goaltending soap opera that became stranger by the month since Schneider replaced Luongo as the Canucks' starter in April of last year.
The Canucks used the first-round draft pick the Devils surrendered to chose highly-regarded London Knights centre Bo Horvat ninth overall today. With their own pick, Vancouver selected high-scoring Medicine Hat Tigers' winger Hunter Shinkaruk 24th, leaving the first round with two players for the first time since the Canucks drafted Daniel and Henrik Sedin in 1999.
But the impressive prospects do not obscure the uncomfortable truth that Canuck general manager Mike Gillis' solution to solving a festering goaltending problem was to trade the one who was younger, cheaper and - based on play - better.
Both Luongo and Schneider was shocked by the trade.
A lot of people in Vancouver were shocked that Gillis did not get more than one high draft pick for a 27-year-old goalie who has proven he can start in the NHL and may become a superstar.
"For the last year, we've explored every option that we could possibly have," Gillis said. "Things were heating up this week and we just felt we couldn't wait any longer with the situation we were in and felt for our organization. . . we had to do something to get this situation resolved, and this was the best opportunity we had.
"We have a situation we didn't want to drag into the summer. We just felt this was our best opportunity to get a couple of really good young players out of the first round of the draft."
Until a couple of days, the chances that Gillis would capitulate, keeping Luongo and trading Schneider, seemed tiny. But Schneider's name suddenly buzzing in trade speculation Saturday.
TSN insider Pierre LeBrun reported that the Canucks, stymied by Luongo's $64-million-contract, held a summit meeting before the draft and decided their only solution was to explore trading Schneider. And Gillis made it clear to reporters Saturday afternoon that he was listening to offers for his starter.
But there was still disbelief - and roars from an apporving New Jersey crowd here - when NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced the Devils had traded the ninth pick for Schneider.
The situation for the Canucks was part comedy, part horror. But beyond the embarrassing optics, the team must now convince Luongo that he's valued and wanted in Vancouver and can still be a trusted starter.
To that end, Canucks' owner Francesco Aquilini was en route late Sunday to Florida to meet with Luongo, 34.
"I think Roberto is a professional," Gillis told a crush of reporters at the back of the draft floor here. "I think he is an outstanding person. He's an outstanding goaltender. I anticipate him being one of the front-runners for the Sochi Olympics playing goal for Canada. I don't expect (the relationship between the Canucks and Luongo) to be a problem, but I haven't spoken to him yet.
"I need to have a conversation with him and explain what happened. We've already talked to his agent, Gilles Lupien. I'm not anticipating there being issues, and if there are we'll deal with them."
Schneider, who like everyone else had been waiting for Luongo to be traded, said the deal was "pretty stunning."
"I was hoping to spend the rest of my career in Vancouver," Schneider said in a television interview. "It's nice to have some resolution here so we can finally move on. I'm hoping for (Roberto) that he can come back to Vancouver and be the goalie we all know we can."
Gillis said he tried to get a player as well a draft pick but couldn't.
Good or bad, it's going to be a defining day for the Canucks' GM.
"I can't look into a crystal ball," Gillis said. "Obviously, we had an established player (in Luongo) with a no-trade clause who had to participate in a trade. We had a changing landscape with a lockout and new CBA. If I had a crystal ball, would we have done things quicker or earlier? I don't know. Maybe. But I don't have one. If you have one, let me know."


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A man has been left in a critical condition after accidentally hanging himself on a noose that had been set up as a Halloween prop at a nightclub.
The 25-year-old was taken to hospital from Pink Punters in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire just after 11pm on Saturday, Thames Valley Police said.
His condition has since improved at Milton Keynes Hospital and he is now talking to staff. Officers said they will work with the local council to investigate the safety of the event.
The owner of the club, which attracts gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender people, said it was a "freak accident" involving a low-hung prop that had been safely used for several years.
Superintendent Barry Halliday said: "I appreciate that this incident may have caused some concern in the community. However, I would stress that it appears to be a tragic accident and is not any type of hate-related crime.
"Fortunately, the man's condition has improved considerably in recent hours. Police will work with the local council and other partner agencies to investigate the safety of the event."
Club owner Frank McMahon said: "There was an accident involving a Halloween prop which had been in use for several years at the club. It is a safe system.
"It's just a rope with a large noose which doesn't go tight around the neck. People use it so they can have photographs taken. We've never had a previous incident with it.
"It's one of several props that we use, and is low down to the ground. We do have an excellent safety system in place and we believe it to be a freak accident."


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Strategies to Relieve, Prevent and Manage Stress: Part A
If your methods of coping with stress aren't contributing to your greater emotional and physical health, it's time to find healthier ones. There are many healthy ways to manage and cope with stress, but they all require change. You can either change the situation or change your reaction. When deciding which option to choose, it's helpful to think of the four As: avoid, alter, adapt, or accept.
Since everyone has a unique response to stress, there is no "one size fits all" solution to managing it. No single method works for everyone or in every situation, so experiment with different techniques and strategies. Focus on what makes you feel calm and in control.
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Stress management strategy #1: Avoid unnecessary stress
Not all stress can be avoided, and it's not healthy to avoid a situation that needs to be addressed. You may be surprised, however, by the number of stressors in your life that you can eliminate.
- Learn how to say "no";
- Avoid people who stress you out;
- Take control of your environment;
- Avoid hot-button topics;
- Pare down your to-do list.
Stress management strategy #2: Alter the situation
If you can't avoid a stressful situation, try to alter it. Figure out what you can do to change things so the problem doesn't present itself in the future. Often, this involves changing the way you communicate and operate in your daily life.
- Express your feelings instead of bottling them up.
- Be willing to compromise.
- Be more assertive.
- Manage your time better.
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The multiclass feat for wizards in the PHB says you gain a 1st level wizard at-will ability. Now, the cantrips in there are gained at first level, and they are at-will. I'm guessing that, since they aren't designated as 1st-level specifically, they don't count for the purposes of the feat and thus cannot be gained. Is that right? If so, is there any other way for a non-gnome to gain them? (Not hating on gnomes; I just know they can!)
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On Tuesday, the passage of Proposition 30 helped California dodge more than $8 billion worth of education and other public service cuts.
The proposition appeared at first to be failing on election night. But as midnight approached, the balance shifted, and the "yes" votes began to pull ahead.
Here's a reminder of Prop 30's highlights—the background, the arguments and how the measure will affect California's path.
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