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How I Used my Worldbuilding Skills to Develop Characters
Character development is always something I've struggled with. I think it's because I'm a control freak--something in me is unwilling to let my characters romp around freely and show their true selves.
But last week, in my MFA writing class, I got an epiphany: What if I used my worldbuilding skills (something I'm significantly better at) to develop my characters? Looking more closely at the places I built, I realized they could affect my story and reveal what my characters really wanted.
To read this in full, feel free to check out my full Operation Awesome post earlier this week.
And stay tuned for next week's author feature!
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NO PARKING AT THE END TIMES by Bryan Bliss
I was fortunate to meet Bryan Bliss at a conference a few years back, and I'm happy to report that his debut novel, NO PARKING AT THE END TIMES, will release next week on February 24. I'm so excited about this book that I've already pre-ordered it.
Abigail doesn't know how her dad found Brother John. Maybe it was the billboards. Or the radio. What she does know is that he never should have made that first donation. Or the next, or the next. Her parents shouldn't have sold their house. Or packed Abigail and her twin brother, Aaron, into their old van to drive across the country to San Francisco, to be there with Brother John for the "end of the world." Because of course the end didn't come. And now they're living in their van. And Aaron's disappearing to who-knows-where every night. Their family is falling apart. All Abigail wants is to hold them together, to get them back to the place where things were right. But maybe it's too big a task for one teenage girl. Bryan Bliss's thoughtful, literary debut novel is about losing everything—and about what you will do for the people you love.
Bryan was also kind enough to answer some interview questions:
As well as writing for teens, you also work with them. In what way (if any) does your work inform your writing?
It definitely does. I spent over ten years working as a youth pastor, while also volunteering as a writing instructor for teens. I think it's impossible for those kind of experiences to not shape how you write. And while I definitely don't use actual information from real teens in my writing, I couldn't imagine writing young adult literature without that kind of contact. Teenagers are messy and unpredictable. They're scary and hilarious. They are shockingly mature, but still fighting to hold on to what's left of their child-like innocence and wonder. Even as I'm typing this I'm thinking: "Man, why would you want to write about adults?"
No kidding! And I love the unique premise of NO PARKING AT THE END TIMES. Where did the idea come from, and what do you want readers to take away at the end of the story?
The idea came from my own struggle with religion, honestly. More specifically: the kind of religion that preys on belief and the desire to be better people. From there, I began to build the story with one central question: "What happens when you lose faith in your parents?" I think it's a common realization usually relegated to minor things, those moments when you discover your parents aren't perfect. Maybe they lose their cool and yell at somebody. Maybe you catch them in a lie. But in the case of No Parking, I wanted to up the stakes a bit. What happens when a parent decides - based on religious conviction - to give away everything the family has? As an adult, it is conceivable that you or I could do this and bounce back. That one crazy summer we went fundamentalist. But for a kid, it's the epitome of a life-changing moment. And that's what I most wanted to explore, I think. How does a teenager deal with the loss of faith, family, and everything she's considered true?
All of that said, I want to say that this isn't a religious book. It deals with religion, but it's not making a specific claim about faith or theology. I can't keep people from projecting those feelings onto he story, but my intent was not to create a mechanism for proselytization. I like to say it's similar to Friday Night Lights, if you're familiar with that show. It's not a show about football - it's about the lives of teenagers and their families. But football plays a big part in that story. The same goes for my book. It's not a religious story, but religion is a big part of what's happening. Of who these people are.
And it goes to show that teenage struggles can transcend all demographics. Last month there was a Goodreads giveaway for NO PARKING AT THE END TIMES. What other promotional methods have you used, and what have you learned so far from the lead-up toward your book's debut?
Honestly, I haven't done much yet. I kind of operate under the assumption that people don't want to be seen as marketing opportunities. So, while I'm planning on doing some blog posts around the web and will definitely be Tweeting about my release, I've kept it pretty light. If anything, I feel like I did a lot of my leg work early on in my career. I met people. I made friends. These relationships turned into contacts, obviously. But more importantly, they're friends and writers who genuinely care about my work. So I don't even have to ask for them to retweet links or to market for me. They do it because we've become close, because they think I've written something of value. I think it's very important - whether you're a new or established writer - to connect with a community of like-minded writers. For marketing, sure. But that's the icing. You're gathering fellow travelers for this journey and it's indispensable.
What a beautiful way to describe the writing community. Can you tell us about some of your current projects?
Book number two is called Meet Me Here, and it's currently in the editorial process. It's about two former life-long friends who come together on the night of their graduation. Both of them are dealing with big questions about their future and what happens when the sun rises the next morning. It's definitely lighter than No Parking at the End Times, but I hope the bigger questions - courage, heroism, tradition - will also shine through. Other than that, I'm in the very beginning stages of book number three... I think I'll keep that one to myself for now, but it deals with a topic that I'm very passionate about - one that hasn't received much (or any) treatment in the YA world.
Sounds like intriguing stuff! Thanks, Bryan, for giving such great answers!
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Newest Operation Awesome post, and a sneak peek into next week's author interview!
This week, I was on Operation Awesome discussing how writing relates to music performance, and the extra strides we can take when creative pressures become onerous. For more, feel free to read the full post here.
And here's the link to the Elizabeth Gilbert video that I referenced:
Next week, I'll be featuring NO PARKING AT THE END TIMES by the amazing Bryan Bliss. Have a great rest of your week, and a beautiful Valentine's Day, wherever you are.
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MURDER MOST UNLADYLIKE (aka MURDER IS BAD MANNERS) by Robin Stevens
Robin Stevens's book, MURDER MOST UNLADYLIKE sounds like the perfect read, especially in January when the weather's cold: a cozy murder mystery at an all girls' school, with a protagonist who sets up her own detective agency. And, it takes place in the 1930s! I've already pre-ordered the US edition, set to debut this spring, entitled, MURDER IS BAD MANNERS.
When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they struggle to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate. (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't, really.)
But then Hazel discovers the Science Mistress, Miss Bell, lying dead in the Gym. She thinks it must all have been a terrible accident – but when she and Daisy return five minutes later, the body has disappeared. Now the girls know a murder must have taken place . . . and there's more than one person at Deepdean with a motive.
Now Hazel and Daisy not only have a murder to solve: they have to prove a murder happened in the first place. Determined to get to the bottom of the crime before the killer strikes again (and before the police can get there first, naturally), Hazel and Daisy must hunt for evidence, spy on their suspects and use all the cunning, scheming and intuition they can muster. But will they succeed? And can their friendship stand the test?
Robin was also kind enough to answer a few interview questions!
According to your website, you were born in California, moved to England when you were three, and have an MA in crime fiction. Did any of these factors influence and/or enhance your desire to write, and can you tell us more about your journey toward publication?
I definitely think growing up as a half-American girl in England made me look at British culture from an outsider's perspective. I'm fascinated by the way British people think and behave – most of the time I nearly get it, and then something happens that just floors me. A lot of this has fed in to Hazel's narration – although she's from a different culture than my own, she's an outsider looking in on British life, just like I was.
I've been a crime fiction fan since I was a child, so I think choosing to write my MA dissertation on crime novels was a sneaky way to spend more time with the books I was already obsessed with. I wrote about the golden age crime novels of my three favourite authors, Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey and Dorothy Sayers, and the way they use real historical crimes in their books. I had an indecent amount of fun with the essay, and although I had already written the first draft of Murder Most Unladylike before I began it I think it was incredibly helpful to the book. It's so useful to know about the conventions and history of any genre you're trying to write in, so you can decide what works for you and what you want to alter.
After I'd finished my MA I reworked my manuscript and began submitting to agents. After several rejections I had interest from an agent, Gemma Cooper, and I signed with her in January 2013 – it's one of the best decisions I ever made. I got my contract with Random House in March of that year and Murder Most Unladylike came out in June 2014. It's been a crazy, exciting adventure that I'm not sure I quite believe in yet. It still amazes me that I really am a published author!
With books as good as yours, I'm glad that you are! And I love the premise of ARSENIC FOR TEA, the follow-up to MURDER MOST UNLADYLIKE. How does it add on to what you created in the first book, and how does the Detective Society develop in this newer installment?
Thank you! I had a huge amount of fun writing it, and I hope readers enjoy it just as much. It takes place four months after the end of Murder Most Unladylike, during the Easter holidays – Daisy and Hazel are still pupils at Deepdean, but the action of the book takes place at Daisy's big country mansion rather than at school. I love country house murder mysteries, and this was my go at writing one of my own. In Arsenic for Tea, you get to meet all of Daisy's mad, aristocratic family members and get a better understanding of why she is the way she is. It's a tough book for her, actually – when the murder happens, it doesn't take long for the girls to realise that the killer might be one of Daisy's relatives.
Hazel and Daisy's friendship is just as strong as ever, but Hazel's becoming more confident and there are changes for both of the girls and for the Detective Society. I want Arsenic for Tea to follow on from Murder Most Unladylike, and feel very similar to it – but nothing ever stays quite the same in life, and Daisy and Hazel aren't quite the same as they were at the beginning of Murder Most Unladylike. I think that's a good thing!
It definitely is, and I'm glad that Daisy and Hazel will continue to grow! In Spring 2015, the US edition of MURDER MOST UNLADYLIKE (titled MURDER IS BAD MANNERS) will debut. How has marketing the book for North American audiences differed from the books you've released in the UK, and what advice (if any) do you have for authors publishing in different countries?
It's amazing that the book will finally be out in the US this year! I can't wait. The marketing effort hasn't quite kicked in for me yet, but I'm already noticing a practical difference – with the best will in the world I can't connect with bookshops in the personal way I can in the UK. I can't just walk in to my local Barnes & Noble and say hi! I am planning a short trip to the US towards the end of this year, though, and social media has been wonderful for making me feel part of what's going on over there. I think being active on places like Twitter is really crucial for authors whose books are selling globally – through it I've heard from readers from Singapore, South Africa and America, which is an incredible experience.
I'll bet it is--and I'm sure word will spread fast. What are some of your current projects?
At the moment I'm deep into edits for Daisy and Hazel's third adventure, First Class Murder. It's set on the Orient Express, and it's coming out in July this year, just less than 200 days away (I know this daunting fact from checking on Waterstones.com). I need to really focus on finishing it!
Promoting the first two books (by doing events, workshops and school visits and writing blog posts and interviews like this!) also takes up a lot of my time. I love doing it, but it's something you just don't realise before you get published – how much time you'll spend not writing your books. Oh, and I've also got a full-time job: I work as an assistant editor at a children's publisher (not the one who publishes my books). Luckily, I like being busy.
Thank you, Robin, for such great answers! We appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience with us!
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I would like to take this moment to say hello to all the GS'ers still around. I would also like to announce my first ever published GA adventure using a storyline I have been developing long before Spore ever came out.
This takes place within my "Peacekeepers Saga" storyline and is only the first of many to come. I invite everyone to check it out and please dont be shy with the comments and / or ratings (Good or bad!).
Bauder and Nauceans? That should be interesting.


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Hymn Story – UMH 400
On Sunday, January 10, in celebration of the Baptism of Our Lord, we sang the hymn, "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" — UMH 400.
*** Anybody curious who wrote this hymn?
The lyrics to this hymn were written by Robert Robinson (1735-1790). Although his pious mother had hoped her son would become a priest of the Church of England, his father died and she lacked the means to support her son to achieve this goal. Thus he wound up indentured at age 15 to a hairdresser. However, he was freed early from the indenture, due to his tendency to read books rather than dress hair. As a teenager, Robinson went to hear Whitefield preach a sermon on "the wrath to come" based on Matthew 3:7. This sermon disquieted him and led to much soul-searching. At length he found "peace by believing," and at age 20 became a Christian, baptized by immersion. He listened to the preaching of Wesley, and answered the call to serve a Calvinist Methodist Church in 1758, the year he penned the hymn lyrics, "Come thou fount of every blessing…". In 1759, the Baptists called Robinson to supply for a Sunday. His preaching led to them calling him to accept the pastoral charge. He made "open communion" a condition of his acceptance. In 1761, the Baptists opened their communion, and he accepted their pastoral charge. His preaching over the years became gradually more Unitarian, possibly influenced by the preaching of Priestley. By 1790, the Baptists were seeking his resignation. However, he died suddenly without resigning. Robinson remained a nonconformist. While preaching for the Baptists, he did receive a call from the Church of England, but he refused to accept it. His life of independent study and reading led him to write many scholarly works. {source: www.hymnary.org}
*** Anybody curious who or what an Ebenezer is?
The lyrics in verse two state, "Here I raise mine Ebenezer, hither by thy grace I've come; and I hope by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home." (UMH 400, tune Nettleton.) Why would one raise an Ebenezer and who – or what – was one? Consultation of great-grandpa Samuel's "Teacher's Edition" Bible Dictionary (copyright 1884, Porter and Coates, p. 154) explained:
"Ebenezer (stone of help), a stone set up by Samuel after a signal defeat of the Philistines, as a memorial of the "help" received on the occasion from Jehovah."
*** What was the "help" mentioned?
It gets to be a long story… 1 Samuel Chapter 6 reveals that the Ark of the Covenant had been at Shiloh, but the Israelites were defeated by the Philistines at Ebenezer. So the Israelites brought the Ark to Ebenezer to strengthen them for battle. But despite the Ark with them, they lost the battle, and the Philistines captured the Ark. However, the Ark struck the Philistine people dead and gave them deadly tumors afflicting old and young. Death and tumors followed the Ark wherever they took it, until none would receive it for fear of it. The Philistines decided to return the Ark to the Israelites to whom it belonged, along with the land they had won in battle, and guilt offerings for each place stricken by the dreaded tumors. A rock marked the place where the Philistines returned the Ark.
1 Samuel 6:18b — "The great stone, beside which they set down the ark of the Lord, is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-she'mesh."
70 were slain at Beth-she'mesh for looking into the ark of the Lord, so they sent it on to Kiriathjearim, where it remained some twenty years. This was probably as close as they could get it to Shiloh, where it started out, since Shiloh had been destroyed. But receiving the ark wasn't enough.
Samuel 7:3 — "Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, "If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and Ash'taroth from among you, and direct your heart to the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."
Samuel 7:7 — "Now when the Philistines heard that the people of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. The Israelites called on Samuel to pray without ceasing.
In 1 Samuel 7:10 — "Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel; but the Lord thundered with a mighty voice that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion; and they were routed before Israel."
1 Samuel 7:12 — "Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Jesha'-nah, and called its name Ebene'zer; for he said, 'Hitherto the Lord has helped us.' 13 So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel."

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Hello once again! today i have a little treat of an update. All those deathguard minis I've been painting up no longer have to foot slog it from one side of the table to the other. Here i have a rhino converted for the deathguard faction of my chaos space marine army painted similarly to the model i used in the death guard plague marine painting tutorial i posted awhile back. Painting a large boxy model like this can sometimes be a challenge with all the flat surface area on the model. I find the best method of painting tanks like the rhino is develop a theme over the model and use a large brush, work on the big areas to begin with and then pick out the detail later.
I've decided to use a light natural mint green paint (knarloc green highlighted to dehneb stone) for the armour plates and shading with purple wash, then painting the depressions with chardonite granite and a sort of faded pestilent pattern. The detail on the side door was hand sculpted to symbolise that this in fact is a deathguard rhino. a few details have yet to be picked out. Weathering was achieved by stippling scorched earth paint with a spare piece of foam that you find packaged with the blister packs of your minis. Other areas were drybrushed to achieve the appearance of soot. Each of the bolts were picked out by a dot of devlan mud which was trailed downwards. all the metal areas received a coat of scorched brown before being painted with dwarf bronze and mythril silver.
Here's the other side of the tank panted the same way, along with another deathguard mini i also painted last night. This gives a rough idea of scale as well.
Here is one of my favorite parts of this model, the exposed brain of the gunner! So cool!
I'm looking forward to getting this out on the table some time soon.


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Am I My Brother's Keeper? The Questionable Ethics of Fraternities
October 24, 2018 by Thomas G. Fiffer 10 Comments
An article about a string of accidents leads the Ethics Editor to some disturbing questions.
Caitlin Flanagan's recent Atlantic article, The Dark Power of Fraternities, opens with a stunning first paragraph, stunning not in the beautiful sense but in the more literal meaning of stunned—dazed, stupefied, astonished, shocked to the point of being unable to react.
One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Virginia, and was struck by what seemed to him—under the influence of powerful inebriants, not least among them the clear ether of youth itself—to be an excellent idea: he would shove a bottle rocket up his ass and blast it into the sweet night air. And perhaps it was an excellent idea. What was not an excellent idea, however, was to misjudge the relative tightness of a 20-year-old sphincter and the propulsive reliability of a 20-cent bottle rocket. What followed ignition was not the bright report of a successful blastoff, but the muffled thud of fire in the hole.
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Reading that first paragraph, my own 48-year-old sphincter reflexively tightened, and I read on, aghast and curious, as the author and I together maintained a safe intellectual distance, supported by a healthy measure of detachment …
Flanagan's intent, no doubt, is to light a fire under, if not in, the ass of the reader, to rocket the ridiculous risks of frat life deep into the reader's … consciousness, to explode the myths, shatter the misconceptions, and blow what she sees as the flotilla of fraternal ships of fools—"vessels populated by human inhabitants who are deranged, frivolous, or oblivious passengers aboard a ship without a pilot, and seemingly ignorant of their own direction"—out of the water. Reading that first paragraph, my own 48-year-old sphincter reflexively tightened, and I read on, aghast and curious, as the author and I together maintained a safe intellectual distance, supported by a healthy measure of detachment, from the world of fraternities. She had investigated that world intensively for the article, but I had never experienced it, attending an Ivy League university where the frat system was virtually nonexistent during my undergraduate years. It was, literally, all Greek to me. So I flew along smoothly with Captain Flanagan as she turned off the fasten seat belts sign, enjoying the view of statistical generalities—if not from 35,000 feet at least from the third-story sleeping porch of the SAE frat house at the University of Idaho—the same porch where a drunk and disoriented 19-year-old sophomore named Amanda Andaverde fell out an open window next to a bed and onto the concrete 25 feet below, ending up with lasting brain damage as a result of her inadvertent act of self-defenestration. I practically fell out of my seat as I read the description.
According to the complaint, shortly after arriving at SAE, Andaverde ran into a friend of hers, and he took her up to the sleeping porch, where he introduced her to a pal of his named Joseph Cody Cook. Andaverde and Cook talked, then climbed into Cook's bunk, where the two began kissing. It is at this point that the language of the suit finally frees itself of euphemism and reveals the fearsome power of the unambiguous, declarative sentence: "Amanda rolled onto her shoulder toward the exterior wall, and suddenly, quickly, and unexpectedly dropped off Cook's mattress into the open exterior window, falling from the third-floor 'sleeping porch' to the cement approximately 25 feet below."
But it wasn't Amanda's devastating fall that nearly knocked me from my chair. It was the following passage describing the result of her lawsuit.
The inevitable court case—in which the Andaverde family named not only SAE and Tri Delta as defendants, but also the University of Idaho and the Idaho State Board of Education—was dismissed on summary judgment because there was no dispute that Andaverde fell out of an open window, and because there was no evidence of an inherently dangerous condition in the house: that the window was open was obvious to anyone who walked into the room. The court determined that no other person or institution had a duty to protect Amanda from the actions and decisions—the decision to drink alcohol, as a minor; the decision to climb into a bunk bed; the impulse to roll over—that led to her accident.
As the losses from alcohol-sodden activities on Flanagan's list piled up, I moved past the sobering numbers to some numbing ethical questions.
And then the paragraph following that one revealing that the same fate had literally "befallen" 20-year-old Shane Meyer just two weeks before, placing him in the same hospital ICU as Andaverde. Suddenly, I found myself wondering if the young man from my town who had died tragically in a mysterious fall during his first week of college a few years ago had been in a fraternity and met his death in a similar manner. As the losses from alcohol-sodden activities on Flanagan's list piled up, I moved past the sobering numbers to some numbing ethical questions. Did the preponderance of past accidents or their propensity to repeat themselves obligate fraternities to institute safeguards, and were there any already in place? Could I stomach the court's dismissal of Andaverde's case as correct jurisprudence, even though the finding left me nauseated and retching? Was falling out of a frat window simply an occupational hazard of walking in the door, or were frats themselves an attractive nuisance, making these precipitous plunges evidence of gross negligence or even willful misconduct?
Our society conscientiously protects citizens from relatively unlikely risks with life-altering or life-ending consequences … So how is it that not one but two college students could fall and suffer grievous injuries within two weeks of one another, and the court could rule it was the victim's fault?
Flanagan addresses most of these questions later in her piece. But I started thinking about all the things we legislate on regularly to protect people from harm, to minimize or eliminate risks and dangers of which we're marginally, if even, aware. Parts per million of pollutants and toxins in air and water. Potentially tainted Tylenol. Sour milk (by requiring freshness dates). And recently, in my own state of Connecticut, a law addressing the snow and ice that slides off moving cars and causes accidents when it lands on other vehicles. Our society conscientiously protects citizens from relatively unlikely risks with life-altering or life-ending consequences, such as fires and earthquakes through our building codes. Fires in hotels are rare, but sprinklers are ubiquitous. A major earthquake in the U.S. might occur once or twice every century, but structures near fault lines are reinforced and ready. So how is it that not one but two college students could fall and suffer grievous injuries within two weeks of one another, and the court could rule it was the victim's fault? Because, as Flanagan explains, fraternities have fought hard to shift responsibility onto the victims and liability onto their families. Rather than instituting safeguards to protect the brothers and their visitors from harm, fraternities have instituted policies, procedures, and post-accident protocols designed to protect the institution, essentially creating, encouraging, condoning, and failing to correct a set of conditions conducive to dangerous, damaging, and even deadly outcomes for members and their guests.
Some believe it should be buyer beware, while others argue that risks should be labeled.
The next question I asked myself was what responsibility we have as a society to address conditions that lead to harm. Some believe it should be buyer beware, while others argue that risks should be labeled. We tend to legislate after overwhelming tragedy but not before. The overcrowding, insufficient ventilation, and lack of exits that caused so many to die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire led to reforms. The loss of fingers, hands, and limbs in meat processing plants led to safer factories and workplaces. When the health risks and societal cost of smoking became evident, the Surgeon General stepped in, and when we finally acknowledged the damage caused by racial and ethnic discrimination, we outlawed it. We had no compunction about passing laws to rectify these conditions, and there is substantial legal precedent behind it, along with an implicit obligation through the social contract to ensure safer and less harmful outcomes for our citizens.
Why do we treat some harms as tolerable and others as intolerable? The cynical and unfortunately true answer is that our tolerance for harm and injustice has mostly to do with who has a vested interest in tolerating it and the relative financial and political power of those being harmed.
So what's different about drunk college students falling from windows, or for that matter suffering sexual abuse and the other depredations that are reported frequently in the frat houses? Why do we treat some harms as tolerable and others as intolerable? The cynical and unfortunately true answer is that our tolerance for harm and injustice has mostly to do with who has a vested interest in tolerating it and the relative financial and political power of those being harmed. Falling through a skylight and landing 40 feet below may look cool in a James Bond or Bruce Willis movie, but it was anything but cool for the MIT student who injured his head and his genitals in such a fall. It wasn't just dust off the glass fragments, stand up, and keep on fighting for this young man, who was fortunate that his injuries were not life-threatening or debilitating.
New vulnerabilities are usually precipitated by shifts in our social structure that expose them.
So why haven't we legislated yet? The falls that Flanagan documents in her article appear to be a relatively new vulnerability, and new vulnerabilities are usually precipitated by shifts in our social structure that expose them. Before the industrial revolution, when most work was done in homes and small workshops, a disaster such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire wasn't possible. Before urbanization and the heavy population concentrations that accompanied it, earthquakes did not present the same risks of mass death they do today. In the case of fraternities, Flanagan points out that the demise of in loco parentis policies at colleges and universities in the 1970s along with the rise in the drinking age from 18 to 21 nationwide during the 1980s rendered fraternities, by virtue of their independent stature, safe harbors for the unsupervised consumption of alcohol that educational institutions quietly condoned after they could no longer legally serve drinks to students. And as Flanagan points out, when you mix the traditions of hazing with the availability of alcohol and the absence of adult authority, you have accidents—multiple accidents—waiting to happen.
They've created a framework that shifts punishment and liability onto the individual students—most of whom lack the adult judgment or mental acuity to be responsible for much of anything or to understand the risks they are taking.
Here's the ethical problem raised by the article that bothers me the most. Instead of clamping down on drinking, ensuring the safety of students, and policing to prevent accidents, it seems the fraternities, if we believe Flanagan's characterization, are focused primarily on preventing themselves from being bankrupted, or having to pay damages, or even from being sued at all when bad things happen to students within their walls. Perversely, they've created a framework that shifts punishment and liability onto the individual students—most of whom lack the adult judgment or mental acuity to be responsible for much of anything or to understand the risks they are taking—a position I find both ethically irresponsible and morally repugnant. Sure, fraternities offer a wealth of wonderful opportunities to students in terms of social life, community service, leadership training, and post-graduation support. But their stance on these accidents strikes me as just plain wrong. It relies on the argument that it's going to happen no matter what we do, so we might as well protect ourselves instead of trying to prevent it. To me, this is no different from schools issuing bulletproof vests to teachers and students and abandoning all efforts to prevent tragedies involving firearms.
At the end, we are left with too many students—and even one is too many—whose lives have been damaged or cut short, and many more questions, including this one. If ethics are an essential component of leadership, what ethical behavior standards are fraternities modeling for their members? It appears the answer is not "hold out a helping hand to someone who's tumbling," but "save your own skin and make it someone else's fault." Let the chips—or kids—fall where they may. And let the other guy take the fall.
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Thomas G. Fiffer, Senior Editor, Ethics, at The Good Men Project, is a graduate of Yale University and holds an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a professional writer, speaker, and storyteller with a focus on diagnosing and healing dysfunctional relationships. You can find out more about his publications and services at Thomas G. Fiffer, and connect with him on Facebook and Twitter. His books, Why It Can't Work: Detaching From Dysfunctional Relationships to Make Room for True Love and What Is Love? A Guide for the Perplexed to Matters of the Heart are available on Amazon. He lives in Connecticut and is working on his first novel.
James Bickmore
Thomas, I am curious as to your feeling about the voting age. Since you state: "individual students—most of whom lack the adult judgment or mental acuity to be responsible for much of anything or to understand the risks they are taking", by that statement it must be ipso facto that the age be returned to 21. How can someone that lacks adult judgment or mental acuity be responsible or rational enough to determine the the political or legal direction of the state or country? Let alone the fact that you are referring to college students. What then whould you make… Read more »
I would be curious to know how many alcohol related deaths and sever injuries were suffered by non-Greek letter association members or guests on college campuses or at off campus homes of college students over the past decade and then compare that data to reported incidents at Fraternity and Sorority houses at the same time. I believe it would be a wonderful idea if Fraternity & Sorority houses were made safer so that unneeded accidents occur less frequently. However, I believe such regulation should be expanded to all housing for college students. Greeks aren't the only college students that are… Read more »
Thomas G. Fiffer
Jimmy, I agree. There's no reason to limit sensible safety measures to the frat houses, and there are surely alcohol-related accidents that occur in other buildings. Thanks for adding this.
I came from the generation that invented car surfing. We did a lot of stupid and dangerous things when I was younger. It's almost a wonder we survived. Some of it was under the influence, but most of it including kick boxing / playing football was done stone sober. In one match, I got kicked in the side of the neck and couldn't move half my body for about 15 seconds or half a minute. Do you draw a distinction between dangerous things we may do when we're inebriated and the things we willingly do when we're sober?
John, Those are great stories. All sorts of people do all sorts of risky, dangerous things at all ages when under the influence or not. Skitching—the name we used for car-surfing in the midwest, where there was always plenty of snow and ice in winter—was considered risky, but I never heard about lots of kids dying or being paralyzed from it, and there was almost surely a law concerning it that may even have placed some responsibility on the driver to stop the car. I do think risks that adults knowingly and willingly take differ from those taken as children… Read more »
Casey Loufek
You're conflating a lack of legal responsibility with "saving your own skin" and confusing lawsuits with safety measures. "So how is it that not one but two college students could fall and suffer grievous injuries within two weeks of one another, and the court could rule it was the victim's fault?" That wasn't the ruling. The ruling was that it wasn't anybody else's fault. Our society always wants a target to blame even when things are purely accidental. Sometimes a tragedy is just a tragedy. Our mistake is thinking everything can be solved with lawsuits and regulations, not in not… Read more »
Casey, This is exactly the comment I expected to receive from those who believe it's buyer beware. I think we reserve the adult right to disagree with each other here and leave it at that, but I am compelled to take issue with one statement you make. You say "The under-aged drinking WAS the victim's decision so you can't blame anyone else for that." The purpose of establishing a legal drinking age is not to create a self-policing system in which those under that age responsibly decide to eschew alcohol when it's offered simply because it's illegal. We know kids… Read more »
Jonathan G
To pick a nit– it's a matter of public record that the drinking age was established to reduce the teen traffic-fatality rate, which it did quite well. However, it has had the unintended side-effect of keeping college-age kids out of bars and other venues where older people can police their drinking and provide guidance. It's sent them off into house parties, where binge drinking and overdoses, plus assaults and accidents are getting out of hand. So, this sort if incident can, in part, be put down to the effects of the drinking age.
Jonathan, Caitlin Flanagan your point in her article, and I reinforce it in the paragraph about how the end of in loco parentis and the raising of the drinking age caused college alcohol consumption to stop being supervised, with problematic results. Laws often have unintended consequences. The only possible benefit I see of lowering the drinking age (which I don't recommend) would be to make the fraternities legally responsible as the servers of the drinks.


Rent's going up. Again. – "Purchasing your first home is quite possibly one of the biggest decisions you'll ever make. "
"Purchasing your first home is quite possibly one of the biggest decisions you'll ever make. "
You shouldn't be doing it alone.
You're all about hanging out with your friends after work and where you "keep your stuff" isn't really that important. You'd rather let the landlord worry about fixing the broken toilet and the leaky roof. I get that. How nice is it to not have to remember to have heating oil delivered? It's so easy to just leave all the headaches to someone else.
Until those other little things start creeping in.
You love your hobbies- kayaking, biking with your friends. But that trip to the storage unit to get the kayak- (that storage unit that's costing you a hundred bucks a month) every weekend is just getting old.
That flyer on the board at work with the adorable, floppy earred puppy keeps calling to you every time you walk by. It would be nice to have a pup waiting to go for a walk when you get home after work. When you signed the lease agreeing to no pets, it didn't seem like a big deal. It does now.
These little nagging things are annoying – yes. But you can deal…….
UNTIL- You go to your mail box and there it is. The LAST STRAW.
The Rent is going up….AGAIN!
It would be nice to have a basement or maybe a shed to keep the kayak and you wouldn't have to drive to the storage unit (or pay for it!) every time you want to use it. Not to mention how awesome it would be to not have to have the bike hanging from a hook in the livingroom.
How about that cute, cuddly puppy? Having your own place, being your own landlord- setting the rules. Hmmmm.
Rental prices are rising across the country. Many people are paying rents upwards of $1200-$2000 a month and higher. These could very easily cover your monthly mortgage including homeowners insurance AND taxes. But, while you're still paying the rent, how do you save for your new home? Sounds next to impossible, right? WRONG.
Stay tuned, my friend Tasha Booth, also known as The Frugal Fit Girl has lots of great ways to "almost pain-lessly" save for that new home.
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Case Name Lebron v. Secretary of the Florida Department of Children & Families PB-FL-0006
Docket / Court 6:11-cv-01473 ( M.D. Fla. )
State/Territory Florida
Case Type(s) Public Benefits / Government Services
Attorney Organization ACLU Chapters (any)
Florida Justice Institute
On September 6, 2011, a resident of Florida and applicant for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) assistance filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action against the Florida Department of Children and Families in the Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division. The plaintiff, represented ... read more >
On September 6, 2011, a resident of Florida and applicant for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) assistance filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action against the Florida Department of Children and Families in the Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division. The plaintiff, represented by the ACLU of Florida and the Florida Justice Institute, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that Florida's TANF application requirements violated the Constitution. Specifically, the plaintiff claimed that the requirement that all applicants undergo suspicionless drug testing in order to be considered for assistance constituted an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment. Judge Mary S. Scriven was assigned to the case.
The plaintiff moved on September 6, 2011 for a preliminary injunction and on September 13, 2011 for class certification. The plaintiff proposed a class consisting of all individuals residing in Florida who were applying for, or would in the future apply for, Temporary Cash Assistance (Florida's program to distribute TANF benefits) and who would be subject to defendant's suspicion-less drug testing. Defendant opposed both motions.
On October 24, 2011, the District Court granted the plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction but denied his motion for class certification. Lebron v. Wilkins, 820 F. Supp. 2d 1273 (M.D. Fla. 2011). The court found that the plaintiff was likely to succeed on his Fourth Amendment claim and issued an injunction that barred the defendant from requiring the plaintiff to take a suspicionless drug test. Since the defendant stipulated that it would apply the court's ruling to all people similarly situated to the plaintiff, the Court found that class certification was unnecessary and dismissed the plaintiff's motion to certify without prejudice.
Defendant appealed the injunction to the Eleventh Circuit. But the Circuit Court (Barkett and Jordan, Circuit Judges, and Hall, District Judge sitting by designation) affirmed the District Court's injunction in an opinion issued on February 26, 2013. See Lebron v. Sec'y, Florida Dep't of Children & Families, 710 F.3d 1202 (11th Cir. 2013). Defendant petitioned the Eleventh Circuit for a rehearing en banc. Defendant's petition was denied on April 23, 2013.
On November 4, 2011, the plaintiff renewed his motion for class certification, arguing that certification would avoid litigation over mootness should the plaintiff find employment. The District Court (Judge Scriven) agreed and certified the class in an order dated December 7, 2011. Lebron v. Wilkins, 277 F.R.D. 664 (M.D. Fla. 2011). The parties continued with preparing for trial.
On September 10, 2012 the plaintiff filed for Summary Judgment on the grounds that Section 414.0652 of the Florida Statutes, which requires all applicants for TANF benefits to submit to suspicionless drug testing, is not constitutional under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. On the same day, the defendant filed a cross motion for summary judgment, arguing that TANF applicants consent to the drug testing and, even if the consent argument failed, that the State had a special need to drug test applicants. On December 31, 2013, the District Court issued summary judgment for the plaintiff on the grounds that the State had failed to establish a special need to drug test all TANF applicants. In the same judgment the Court declared the statute facially unconstitutional and permanently enjoined the State from reinstating and enforcing the law.
The defendant appealed the District Courts issuance of Summary Judgment to the Eleventh Circuit. And on December 3, 2014, the Circuit Court (Hull and Marcus, Circuit Judges, and TOTENBERG, District Judge sitting by designation) affirmed the District Court's decision on the grounds that the State failed to meet its burden of establishing a substantial special need to drug test all TANF applicants without any suspicion of drug use. Lebron v. Secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Families, 772 F.3d 1352 (11th Cir. 2014). The Circuit Court granted appellate costs for the plaintiff and against the defendant, but the plaintiff did not move for attorney's fees. The case is now closed.
Christopher Schad - 06/28/2012
Erin Pamukcu - 02/15/2016
Nathan Santoscoy - 04/24/2019
Benefit Source
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Content of Injunction
Implement complaint/dispute resolution process
Public benefits (includes, e.g., in-state tuition, govt. jobs)
Plaintiff Type
Private Plaintiff
Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Defendant(s) The State of Florida
Plaintiff Description A class of all individuals residing in Florida who are applying for, or will in the future apply for, Temporary Cash Assistance, Florida's program to distribute TANF benefits, and who would, absent the District Court's Order of October 24, 2011, be subject to Defendant's suspicionless drug testing as a result of Fla. Stat. § 414.0652.
Indexed Lawyer Organizations ACLU Chapters (any)
Class action status sought Yes
Class action status granted Yes
Public Int. Lawyer Yes
Nature of Relief Injunction / Injunctive-like Settlement
Source of Relief Litigation
Order Duration 2011 - n/a
Case Closing Year 2015
Case Ongoing No
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Drug Testing of Welfare Applicants and Recipients
https://www.uvm.edu/~vlrs/EconomicIssues/
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By: James M. Jeffords Center, University of Vermont (University of Vermont)
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6:11-cv-01473-MSS-DAB (M.D. Fla.)
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Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]
Verified Complaint: Class Action [ECF# 1]
Order [Granting Plaintiff's Motion for Preliminary Injunction and Denying Plaintiff's Motion for Class Certification Without Prejudice] [ECF# 33] (820 F.Supp.2d 1273) (M.D. Fla.)
PB-FL-0006-0003.pdf | WESTLAW| LEXIS | Detail
Order [Granting Plaintiff's Renewed Motion for Class Certification] [ECF# 48] (277 F.R.D. 664) (M.D. Fla.)
Opinion [Ct. of App. ECF# 98] (710 F.3d 1202)
Opinion / Order [of USCA as to 106 Notice of appeal] [Ct. of App. ECF# 110] (772 F.3d 1352)
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People fishing from the left side of the dock. All photos by Tamar Chanidze
Batumi: The Las Vegas of the Black Sea
by Tamar Chanidze
AUBG student photographer Tamar Chanidze takes us on a journey through her city Batumi in Georgia.
Batumi, also known as the Las Vegas of the Black Sea for its many casinos, is quite a popular travel destination in Georgia. Located on the south-east coast of the Black Sea, Georgia's second largest city attracts a lot of tourists every year. The seaside part of the city includes the Black Sea beach, the boulevard, and the sea port.
The Black Sea Beach
Batumi's rocky shore is a mixed blessing. Even though it is hard to walk on, it is not as messy as the sandy beach. There are a few cafes, clubs, and lounge areas located on different parts of the beach that are only open during the summer.
The furthest (north) part of the shore
Every time the sun sets over the Black Sea, it paints the sky with different colors. You either see many shades of orange stretched across the horizon or a combination of pink and purple shades reflected on the water.
People on the beach enjoying the sunset
But even after the sun sets, the sea landscape is still strikingly beautiful. A few people stay on the beach to enjoy the last minutes before dark.
The sun has set. A single ship is sailing on the water which reflects the combination of purple and pink shades in the sky
Right before you step onto the rocky sea shore, you will see many different sculptures. They all represent love in their own unique ways.
The statue of Ali and Nino
One of the most remarkable statues you will see near the shore is called "Ali and Nino." The name of the statue comes from the eponymous novel by the Azerbaijani writer Kurban Said. It depicts the love story of Ali, a young Muslim Azerbaijani man, and Nino, a Christian Georgian princess during the First World War. The statue not only represents eternal love but also the relationship between these two nations. The man and the woman in the statue are constructed so that they change positions every ten minutes until they become one whole piece.
A sculpture of a man carrying a red heart
A sculpture of a couple holding hands
Batumi Boulevard
Batumi Boulevard was first built in 1881. It has been reconstructed multiple times and currently covers 7 kilometers. The boulevard follows the whole length of the beach in the city. It is a vibrant green space which displays cafes and bars, exercise paths, dancing fountains, various amusement rides, sculptures and monuments.
The Ferris Wheel located in the north part of the boulevard
A sculpture of Iason Gordeziani, the main gardener and decorator of the boulevard
Batumi Sea Port
Batumi Sea Port was built in 1878 and has since then become the logistics center of the Caucasus region. Batumi Sea Port is the deepest-sea port in Georgia and plays a crucial role in the development of the region.
A man fishing on the right side of the dock
With its beautiful sea cost, sub-tropical climate and interesting architecture, Batumi is certainly a must-see destination all year round.
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Before He came to public attention, John had previously proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
Then as John was completing his life work, he said, 'Who do you think I am? I am not the One. But look! Someone is coming after me, and I am not worthy to untie the sandals on His feet.'
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_40 3:1-17
In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the Wilderness of Judea
and saying, "Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near!"
For he is the one spoken of through the prophet Isaiah, who said: A voice of one crying out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord; make His paths straight!"
John himself had a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Then [people from] Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the vicinity of the Jordan were flocking to him,
and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to the place of his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance.
And don't presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
Even now the ax is ready to strike the root of the trees! Therefore every tree that doesn't produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
"I baptize you with water for repentance, but the One who is coming after me is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to take off His sandals. He Himself will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out."
Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him.
But John tried to stop Him, saying, "I need to be baptized by You, and yet You come to me?"
Jesus answered him, "Allow it for now, because this is the way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed Him [to be baptized].
After Jesus was baptized, He went up immediately from the water. The heavens suddenly opened for Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on Him.
And there came a voice from heaven: This is My beloved Son. I take delight in Him!
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
A voice of one crying out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord; make His paths straight!"
John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were flocking to him, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
John wore a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.
He was preaching: "Someone more powerful than I will come after me. I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the strap of His sandals.
I have baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, God's word came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
He went into all the vicinity of the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,
as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah: A voice of one crying out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord; make His paths straight!
Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be made low; the crooked will become straight, the rough ways smooth,
and everyone will see the salvation of God."
He then said to the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance. And don't start saying to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
Even now the ax is ready to strike the root of the trees! Therefore every tree that doesn't produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."
"What then should we do?" the crowds were asking him.
He replied to them, "The one who has two shirts must share with someone who has none, and the one who has food must do the same."
Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they asked him, "Teacher, what should we do?"
He told them, "Don't collect any more than what you have been authorized."
Some soldiers also questioned him: "What should we do?" He said to them, "Don't take money from anyone by force or false accusation; be satisfied with your wages."
Now the people were waiting expectantly, and all of them were debating in their minds whether John might be the Messiah.
John answered them all, "I baptize you with water, but One is coming who is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to untie the strap of His sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
His winnowing shovel is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and gather the wheat into His barn, but the chaff He will burn up with a fire that never goes out."
Then, along with many other exhortations, he proclaimed good news to the people.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_43 1:28-51
All this happened in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
This is the One I told you about: 'After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because He existed before me.'
I didn't know Him, but I came baptizing with water so He might be revealed to Israel."
And John testified, "I watched the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He rested on Him.
I didn't know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'The One you see the Spirit descending and resting on-- He is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'
I have seen and testified that He is the Son of God!"
Again the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples.
When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, "Look! The Lamb of God!"
The two disciples heard him say this and followed Jesus.
When Jesus turned and noticed them following Him, He asked them, "What are you looking for?" They said to Him, "Rabbi" (which means "Teacher"), "where are You staying?"
"Come and you'll see," He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day. It was about 10 in the morning.
Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Him.
He first found his own brother Simon and told him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which means "Anointed One"),
and he brought [Simon] to Jesus. When Jesus saw him, He said, "You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which means "Rock").
The next day He decided to leave for Galilee. Jesus found Philip and told him, "Follow Me!"
Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.
Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the One Moses wrote about in the law (and so did the prophets): Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth!"
"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Nathanael asked him. "Come and see," Philip answered.
Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, "Here is a true Israelite; no deceit is in him."
"How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you," Jesus answered.
Jesus responded to him, "Do you believe [only] because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this."
Then He said, "I assure you: You will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."
until the day He was taken up, after He had given orders through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom He had chosen.
After He had said this, He was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
And with great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on all of them.
You also will testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him.


Sumitra Mahajan, speaker of Lok Sabha has referred the sting operation by the editor in chief of Naradanews.com in its video titled ' X Files ' against several Trinamool Congress leaders, to the Ethics Committee for further investigation into the bribery allegations.
Ever since the expose by Naradanews.com the TMC leaders are in a spot of bother after being captured on camera accepting money . Mahajan made the said announcement to this effect immediately after the question hour ended.
The 15-member Ethics Committee headed by BJP vetaran L.K. Advani includes Arjun Meghwal, Kariya Munda (both BJP), B. Mahtab (Biju Janata Dal), Ninong Ering (Congress) and Akshay Yadav (Samajwadi Party).


1 SHP = 13.19 STR at the rate on 2019-04-26 .
The page provides data about today's value of one pound in Stellars. The interactive form of the currency calculator ensures navigation in the actual quotations of world currencies according to "Open Exchange Rates" and displays the information in a graph.
The online converter will clarify the ratio between different currencies. For example, you can instantly convert 1 SHP to STR based on the rate offered by "Open Exchange Rates" to decide whether you better proceed to exchange or postpone currency conversion until better times.
The value of 1 SHP in Stellars for the week (7 days) increased by: +1.95 STR (one stellar).
The value of 1 SHP in Stellars for the month (30 days) increased by: +0.98 STR (zero stellar).
The value of 1 SHP in Stellars for the year (365 days) increased by: +9.60 STR (nine stellars).


The second Somero from Curly`s Cecille is in stores, 2 years after the first installment, and brings with it a combination of some new and some not that new names in the industry, in a double vinyl or digital format. And, as always, we can expect great music from the German label.
The 12 tracks are almost pure tech-house, at 124/125 BPM, with the exception of Circus Passin` By, that has a techno feel but is a weird track, and other 2 or 3 tracks that go towards the deep-house genre, like Slow Down or Ro-Number 6. Don`t expect Livio & Roby kind of tech-house, most of the songs are very chill and in some rare moments minimalistic, with the exception of In the Morning and Deal For Shine, which will probably blow your head off. To sum up, an interesting array of songs to remind us of the summer that passed. Sadly it does not come close to Cecille 2Y for example.


The stage-coach service to and from Southwold was erratic in the early 19th century, always struggling to make a profit. James Martin, landlord of the Red Lion started a very basic, open 'Wain' service to Norwich and back in about 1820. Henry Foyster took it over in 1826, picking up custom from the main stage-coach service which had ceased that year.
In 1828 a new 'proper' coach service to Nowich, known as the 'Pilot' started up. But it only operated in the summer. In the winter, just when passengers would have appreciated a bit of cover and comfort, they had to revert to the open wain service. Iin 1830 the 'Old Blue' coach provided a service to Halesworth, Saxmundham and London. The same year the 'Shannon' also ran but only for six weeks. Both stopped operating in October of that year because of a lack of trade . People had to wait another 14 years before there was a stage-coach service again. In 1844 a summer- only service from the Crown Hotel ran to Norwich and connected with the London coach at the Angel Inn at Wangford. This survived until 1850.
Competition was fierce, not only with other coach operators but also with the burgeoning railway system which had expanded across Suffolk in the 1840s. As a result, long-distance services were discontinued and operators focused on services to rail heads. In 1847 a Mr Elliot started a coach running from the Crown Hotel daily to Lowestoft returning in the evening. In 1849 he also ran a 'Fast Omnibus' three days a week from the Red Lion in Southwold to Beccles to connect with the Norwich trains. On the other three days it connected with Moore's Railway Bus to Haddiscoe (on the Norwich/Lowestoft line) which operated until the1850s. A railway from Halesworth to Ipswich opened in 1859.
In 1860 Mrs. Catton ran a public omnibus service from the Swan Hotel to Darsham railway station which continued until the Southwold Railway opened in 1879.


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NCAA Ends Deal With EA, Remains Unaware Of Own Hubris
by Kyle Neubeck on July 18, 2013 Gaming News EA Lawsuits NCAA Sports
The NCAA announced yesterday that they would not be renewing their partnership with EA, depriving the gaming world of official college sports titles. Their press release was short and sweet:
The NCAA has made the decision not to enter a new contract for the license of its name and logo for the EA Sports NCAA Football video game. The current contract expires in June 2014, but our timing is based on the need to provide EA notice for future planning. As a result, the NCAA Football 2014 video game will be the last to include the NCAA's name and logo. We are confident in our legal position regarding the use of our trademarks in video games. But given the current business climate and costs of litigation, we determined participating in this game is not in the best interests of the NCAA.
The NCAA has never licensed the use of current student-athlete names, images or likenesses to EA. The NCAA has no involvement in licenses between EA and former student-athletes. Member colleges and universities license their own trademarks and other intellectual property for the video game. They will have to independently decide whether to continue those business arrangements in the future.
O'Bannon is leading the charge against the NCAA.
To understand the move, some background info on their legal issues is needed. The governing body of collegiate athletics is facing a serious lawsuit led by former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon and a laundry list of former stars who claim the NCAA has profited off current and former student athletes without sharing a penny. O'Bannon has gained steam and credibility as men such as Oscar Robertson and Bill Russell join his fight. As the list of plaintiffs grows daily, the NCAA has opted to retreat to their shell and cling on to any amateurism they have left.
There's a point where that becomes an exercise in futility, and this is it. Two sentences at the end of the first paragraph are jarring. "We are confident in our legal position regarding the use of our trademarks in video games. But given the current business climate and costs of litigation, we determined participating in this game is not in the best interests of the NCAA." Read that again: the NCAA is so confident in their legal position that they're cutting off a multi-million dollar revenue stream. Wouldn't that, you know, help subsidize the "costs of litigation"?
The reality is that major college sports are not the least bit amateur. College athletics are a draining, time-consuming activity that supersede the rest of the demands a student-athlete faces. Take for example the dreaded ritual of class scheduling. While their non-athlete peers can schedule at their own leisure, student-athletes have to work everything around a rigid practice and game schedule.
But that's just a drop in the bucket. Even ignoring the nationwide travel, strict diet and fitness plans, and loss of social life, the ugly truth of professional marketing is everywhere in college sports. Think about the major college football bowl games: the FedEx Orange Bowl. Rose Bowl Presented by Citi. Nokia Sugar Bowl. Marquee bowls steeped in tradition have sold the naming rights to the highest bidder. It's big name sponsors like this that allow the NCAA to pay out sums as large as $18,000,000 a piece to schools who participate in bowl games. While universities build new fitness centers and libraries and the NCAA lines the pockets of its executives, the kids who earned that money are patted on the rear and whisked out the door.
"But they give them room and board and a free education!" cry the traditionalists. Belittling a free education is unwise, but a college degree is not the luxury item it once was. More people than ever are attending four-year undergraduate programs, so the relative value of that diploma has plummeted. Congratulations to the NCAA for preventing 20 somethings from being in crippling debt. Way to shoot for the stars.
Heisman winner, game seller, or both?
The cherry on top is sheer ignorance on the NCAA's part. When someone picks up an NCAA Football title and plays as Texas A&M, the undersized quarterback with dynamic playmaking ability is not "QB 2". Though the NCAA would like you to believe it's a total coincidence that the Aggies quarterback bears resemblance and shares ability with Heisman winner Johnny Manziel, people purchasing the game know better.
You can slap a pseudonym on him, or bury your head in the sand, but you can't change reality. Johnny Football, and those of his ilk, drive sales of these sports games. EA shows with the Madden cover vote each year that tens of millions of people care enough to vote for whose face will appear on the cover of the game they will buy in the fall. You're telling me the same company produces a football game for the NCAA and completely ignores the star power that drives other titles? Please.
Open challenge to the NCAA: put out your own official game with the following quirks for player models:
Uniform gray skin color
No facial features
Names on jerseys blacked out
Universal measurements and player attributes
If you're going to pretend you treat your competitors like faceless drones, go all the way. Until then, stop with the posturing and work towards solving a clearly broken system.
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If you have been hanging around here or facebook or instagram, you may have noticed me mentioning The Alphabet Dance, my e-course! I thought it would be a good time to share a little backstory, why the course rocks, and starting your own daily creative practice.
To start I am super passionate about art, and wanting to teach it. I haven't had a ton of chances in my life yet to teach, but I am turning that around slowly but surely. This e-course started out as a vision to start teaching, and yes I really do prefer in person sessions but for right now this is where I am at. Back in August I finally settled into my new studio and wanted to get back into making art again after almost a two year hiatus. I thought of how I could keep myself motivated, have a daily challenge, and make art everyday. It started with the alphabet, setting a few rules and then just beginning! Today I am starting round five of the challenge, and this e-course blossomed out of it because I wanted to share my excitement with you.
One of the best parts about working through the alphabet with limits to art supplies and what media you are going to tackle is that there is always an end in sight. You work through the letters, look back at all 26 paintings and can move on knowing that you just learned a whole lot about creating in a certain style. It has been a way for me to use art supplies around my studio I haven't touched in years, hone in on styles and ways of creating, exploring my ability to create digitally as well as traditionally. Needless to say this has been a journey.
I'd love for you to join me on this adventure and work through one round of the alphabet in mixed media. It's actually quite simple, and I'll be here to encourage and support you along the way. Today is the last day to get in on the boxed version, where you will get all the supplies you need to create your entire alphabet. Have a bunch of supplies? Just sign-up for the un-boxed version and you'll still have access to all the great content i've created for you!


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After I pay the 15% premium, do I need to set up payments with you for the balance? No, and that's the great thing about hiring a Henderson or Las Vegas bondsman. After you pay the 15% premium (the percentage of the bond you as the customer must pay by Nevada law), you're not "on the hook" for any more money as long as the defendant doesn't violate the terms of the bond, and he/she shows up for all court dates on time.
Why can't you just do 10% like these other places I called? If a Nevada bail bondsman quotes you 10% total as the fee, he or she is breaking the law. NRS states that the premium collected must be either $50 or 15% of the total bail amount, whichever is greater. Companies trying to earn your business by disregarding the law are not worthy of your business. This agency will have arresting authority over your loved one once he or she is "out on bail," so would you trust a company that just side-stepped Nevada law with your loved one's freedom?
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Ichabods set to host Missouri Western in MIAA twinbill
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Washburn's men's basketball team will try to build off last Saturday's dramatic comeback MIAA victory over Emporia State when it hosts Missouri Western on Thursday while the Ichabod women will be looking to get back on track after a double-digit loss to the Hornets.
Washburn's women, 7-5 overall and 1-2 in the MIAA, will host Missouri Western (11-2, 3-0) in a 5:30 p.m. contest at Lee Arena, followed by a 7:30 p.m. men's game between the Ichabods (7-5, 2-1) and the Griffons (7-8, 3-1).
The Washburn men rallied from a 15-point deficit in the second half to edge Emporia State 80-78 on Saturday and Ichabod coach Brett Ballard is hopeful his team can gain some carry-over benefit from that win.
"It is only one, but it's a rivalry game and it's a big one for us," Ballard said. "I do hope that it will give us the confidence that we need and give us a boost moving forward, just to show our guys that hey, 'We've got some pretty good players if we believe in each other and believe in what we're doing.' "
Junior Tyler Geiman leads the Ichabods in scoring with a 15.8 average and in assists with 6.4 per game. Sophomore Jalen Lewis averages 13.2 points and scored 25 points with five 3-pointers against Emporia State while junior Drew Maschoff averages 11.8 points and sophomore Jonny Clausing 10.2 points and 8.2 rebounds.
Missouri Western defeated Northeastern State 76-71 in overtime Monday night, the Griffons' third straight win.
Tyrell Carroll leads the Griffons in scoring at 17.6 points per game and in assists at 6.3 per game. Tyus Millhollin is scoring 14.7 points and has hit a team-high 44 3-pointers while Will Eames is Missouri Western's leading rebounder with a 7.2 average and is averaging 11.4 points.
The WU women are coming off a 69-57 loss to No. 20-ranked Emporia State, with the Hornets opening up a 19-point halftime lead (46-27) and holding off the Ichabods the rest of the way.
"After that game they're going to be challenged hard and they should challenge themselves hard," Washburn coach Ron McHenry said of his team. "I told them, 'We're much better than what we showed (Saturday).'
"I know that was a good basketball team we were playing, but we didn't show anything of what we are about or any of our grit, our toughness, our togetherness. We're better than that and I told them that, but talk's easy and you better just come out and work at it."
Senior Reagan Phelan leads the Ichabods in scoring with a 14.2 average and leads the MIAA in assists with a 5.5 average. Phelan is fifth on WU's career list for assists with 371.
Junior Hunter Bentley is averaging 12.9 points and 7.1 rebounds while senior Shelbe Piggie is averaging 12.8 points.
The Griffons are coming off an 86-63 win over Northeastern State for their sixth straight victory. After falling in their season opener to Concordia-St. Paul, the Griffons have won 11 of their last 12 games.
Chris Wilson paces the Griffon offense with a 15.6 scoring average while Corbyn Cunningham averages 15.1 points and 7.2 rebounds.
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Events in the year 2017 in Madagascar

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you did on your weekend?
I love the anthro measuring cups!!!
what a rad weekend. all those fresh veggies are making my mouth water!
e - beets!! i used them last night actually (pictures are forthcoming) in a roasted beet & feta salad. it was SO yummy... i got it from my williams-sonoma bride & groom cookbook but it's pretty straightforward - roast the beets in a pan full of water, peel & chop, coat in red wine vinegar. mix with greens (butter lettuce is recommended) and toss in olive oil, red wine vinegar, sherry vinegar... top with feta (i suggest LOTS). yum!


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