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December 1, 2024Today's Reading: Luke 19:28-40 Daily Lectionary: Isaiah 7:10-8:8; 1 Peter 3:1-22“...Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! (Luke 19:38a)In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Advent = “The coming or arrival of something or someone that is important or worthy of note.” (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition)If you were in charge of preparing a celebration for the grand arrival of a VIP, that is, “someone that is important or worthy of note,” how would you do it? Would you go for classy or flashy? Would it be tuxedos and gowns with symphonic music or a DJ with heavy thumping bass, flashing lights, and smoke machines? Depending on the celebrity and the occasion, I guess you could make the case for either one. But isn't it interesting that when Jesus, the Son of God, shows up to Jerusalem and makes His grand entrance, it was nothing like either of those things? In fact, it isn't what you would expect at all.Jesus rode into town on a colt, the foal of a donkey. His disciples spread their cloaks on the ground before Him, and some waved palm branches. Then, some cried out the words of a familiar hymn (Psalm 118:26). This is neither classy nor flashy. This doesn't project power or grandeur. By the world's standards, this is just plain and unimpressive. Yet this in itself says something about Jesus.Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He is almighty and one with the Father. He has all power and is worthy of all glory. When He arrived on earth in His first advent, He did not come with power and glory. He came in humility. He came as a servant. When people tried to make Him a king, He refused. He didn't come to rule. He came to love and to give, to heal and redeem. He came to give life to a world overcome with death. He came for all people: the high and the low, the influencers and people everyone is talking about, as well as the ones who think no one knows they exist. Jesus knows and loves us all and came in all humility for us and for our salvation. Our Lord's coming into Jerusalem is like His advent to the world itself. Christ's poor little parade into Jerusalem sets the tone for the entire story of this great Savior who humbled Himself for our salvation. No, these are not the ways or ideas of men, but it is the way that God has dealt with us in Christ. From a position of all glory and honor, He humbled Himself to be nothing more than a servant so that those faithful servants who humbly trust in Him may one day partake in His glory.In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.Stir up Your power, Or Lord, and come, that by Your protection we may be rescued from the threatening perils of our sins and saved by Your mighty deliverance; for You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.-Rev. Joel Shaltanis, pastor of Lord of Life Lutheran Church, Plano, TX.Audio Reflections Speaker: Pastor Jonathan Lackey is the pastor at Grace Lutheran Church, Vine Grove, KY.What makes a church "good?" Come join the fictional family as they test out eight different churches in their brand-new town and answer this question along the way. Will the Real Church Please Stand Up? by Matthew Richard, now available from Concordia Publishing House.

Throughout my life journey, I have experienced seasons in which I found out that I was the object of slander which is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as “a false and malicious statement or report about someone.” A chapter-a-day podcast from Ezekiel 20. The text version may be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wayfarer-tom-vander-well/support

April 20, 2024 https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/2024_04_20_The_Scoffers_Are_Coming.mp3 Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, Novelist and Life Coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Saturday, April 20, 2024, and this is episode #10 in Season 2024. This episode is titled “The Scoffers Are Coming!"In 2 Peter 3: 3, the Bible predicts the following: "In the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires." The same prediction is repeated in the Book of Jude 1: 18: "In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”So, what is a scoffer? A scoffer is a person who scoffs. And what does it mean to scoff? According to Merriam-Webster, to scoff means "to show contempt by derisive acts or language." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language states that to scoff means "to show or express derision or scorn."So, a scoffer is a person who shows contempt toward another person or belief by expressing ridicule and scorn against that person or belief. Another word for scoffer is mocker. In short, a scoffer or a mocker makes fun of a person or a belief with which he doesn't agree.The Book of Proverbs describes a scoffer like this: “'Scoffer' is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride." (Proverbs 21: 24) So a scoffer is also arrogant and filled with pride. When the Bible speaks of scoffers, it is referring to people who make fun of the Bible and anything related to God. More specifically, in our day, the term scoffer refers to someone who makes fun of the Bible's teaching about the Rapture. In case you are not familiar with the term Rapture, it refers to an imminent, stunning, and catastrophic event during which Jesus Christ Himself will appear in the clouds to call up from the earth those who are His true followers. First Thessalonians 4: 16-17 describes the Rapture like this:"For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the believers who have died will rise from their graves. Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever." There are many signs today that the Rapture is imminent. Although we do not know the exact date, we do see very clear indications that the Rapture will occur very soon, perhaps even this year.Yet, there are many who are making fun of this Biblical prediction. In fact, as I read in our opening Bible verses, the Bible even predicted that there would be people in the last days who would make fun of those of us who believe and proclaim that the Rapture will occur.But God says to the scoffers, "Be forewarned! You will be punished unless you repent of your scoffing." In Acts 13: 41 NLT, God is speaking through the Apostle Paul: “‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish, for I am going to do something in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.'”The Bible uses the word "perish" in this verse. That means "die." God is warning scoffers that if they do not repent, they will die. In other words, they will be condemned to Hell.The Apostle Peter wrote this in 2 Peter 3: 3-4 NLT:"Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires. They will say, 'What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created.'"We are seeing Peter's words coming to pass right now in our very day. I personally have had people laugh and say to me, "What do you mean Jesus is coming again? You Christians have been saying that for years, yet nothing has changed."Such people are scoffers.

Are our higher education institutions still nurturing true intellectual diversity? Our guest today is Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard, and today, we'll be exploring the growing concerns within higher ed that institutions are turning into echo chambers, stifling dissent and censoring certain perspectives. In this thought-provoking episode, we'll be discovering the challenges to academic freedom in the era of cancel culture. We'll explore how questioning a consensus can now come at a cost, impacting the pursuit of truth within academic institutions. We'll also uncover the story of the Council for Academic Freedom at Harvard, which was formed to combat these challenges. Join us as we delve into policies protecting free speech, and the vital role of civil discourse in the academic community. Together, we'll navigate the complex landscape of universities, grappling with the delicate balance between common knowledge and the suppression of dissenting opinions. Follow Steven on:X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sapinker Follow Heterodox Academy on:Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Fax5DyFacebook: https://bit.ly/3PMYxfwLinkedIn: https://bit.ly/48IYeuJInstagram: https://bit.ly/46HKfUgSubstack: https://bit.ly/48IhjNF 

Attorney Steve® Fair Use Parody Cases - The Mattel Barbie case found to be a fair use for Defendant. This is general legal information only and not legal advice.  "A parody is a "literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule." Id. at 580, 114 S.Ct. 1164 (quoting AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY 1317 (3d. 1992)). For the purposes of copyright law, a parodist may claim fair use where he or she uses some of the "elements of a prior author's composition to create a new one that, at least in part, comments on that author's works." Id. The original work need not be the sole subject of the parody; the parody "may loosely target an original" as long as the parody "reasonably could be perceived as commenting on the original or criticizing it, to some degree." Id. at 580-81, 583, 114 S.Ct. 1164. That a parody is in bad taste is not relevant to whether it constitutes fair use; "it would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained only to the law to constitute themselves final judges of the worth of [a work]." Id. at 582-83, 114 S.Ct. 1164 (quoting Bleistein v.Donaldson Lithographing Co., (1903))." If you have a copyright fair use issue, contact us at AttorneySteve.com or call us at (877) 276-5084.  

945. What was the famous Usage Panel from the American Heritage Dictionary and how did the panel's opinions influence dictionary entries? Steve Kleinedler, who managed the Usage Panel for many years, joins us this week with all kinds of fascinating inside-the-dictionary stories.David Skinner article about the history of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage PanelDavid Skinner's book "The Story of Ain't"American Heritage Dictionary Old TumblrSteve Kleinedler's book "Is English Changing?"Steve Kleinedler on TwitterKory Stamper's book "Word by Word"Grammar Girl interview with Kory Stamper| Transcript: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/steve-kleinedler/transcript| Subscribe to the newsletter for regular updates.| Watch my LinkedIn Learning writing courses.| Peeve Wars card game. | Grammar Girl books. | HOST: Mignon Fogarty| VOICEMAIL: 833-214-GIRL (833-214-4475) or https://sayhi.chat/grammargirl| Grammar Girl is part of the Quick and Dirty Tips podcast network.Audio engineer: Nathan SemesEditor: Adam CecilAdvertising Operations Specialist: Morgan ChristiansonMarketing and Publicity Assistant: Davina TomlinDigital Operations Specialist: Holly Hutchings| Theme music by Catherine Rannus.| Grammar Girl Social Media Links: YouTube. TikTok. Facebook. Instagram. LinkedIn. Mastodon.

Episode 223 – Seriousness of Sin – Part 2 – Hell Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The goal of Anchored by Truth is to encourage everyone to grow in the Christian faith by anchoring themselves to the secure truth found in the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. Script: The rich man also died and was buried. He went to hell and was suffering terribly. … he said to Abraham, “Have pity on me! … I'm suffering terribly in this fire.” Luke, Chapter 16, verse 23, Contemporary English Version ******** VK: Hello! I’m Victoria K. Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. We’re very happy to be with you again. Today on Anchored by Truth we’re going to continue the series we began last time that we are calling this series “The Seriousness of Sin.” This may very well be the most important series that we have ever done because of the biggest challenges confronting Christianity today is a determined attempt to eradicate the concept of sin. We live in a day and time that shuns the idea that there could be a holy God who has given commands to mankind and that He will hold people accountable when they violate those commands. So, we are going to spend several episodes of Anchored by Truth reaffirming that not only does the Bible firmly teach the reality of sin, but also that our ordinary life experiences ratify that sin is a continuing plague and problem for all of us. In the studio as we continue our series we have RD Fierro who is an author and the founder of Crystal Sea Books. RD, why don’t you give us a brief overview of some of the big ideas that we discussed last time? RD: Well, one idea we covered, as you just mentioned, is there are many people today who vehemently disagree that sin even exists. Our broader culture wants to do away with the idea of sin because the concept of sin affirms the existence of God and affirms not only that God exists but also that God has established obligations to which all people are subject. And a third concept that applies to the concept of sin is that of failure – and not just failure but willful failure, willful disobedience. These three elements, at a minimum, all make the notion of sin a very unpopular notion is a society that believes reality is so malleable that there are dozens of genders. As some commentators have put it, when we believe we can establish our own reality the next step is to see ourselves as God. That’s all nonsense, of course, but all we have to do is look around and we see that people are starting to buy into the nonsense. It’s dangerous and eternally deadly. VK: People have chased the idea that they can be like God ever since Satan first tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. In Genesis, chapter 3, verse 5 we hear Satan saying to Eve, “God understands what will happen on the day you eat fruit from [the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil]. You will see what you have done, and you will know the difference between right and wrong, just as God does.” That’s from the Contemporary English Version. RD: Right. People, especially in the west, find the idea of obligatory standards and commands one of the most objectionable ideas possible. In previous decades people at least had a basic understanding that the universe, the created order, could not exist without a Creator. God’s necessity as the Creator formed a common starting point for just about all world views. But today we have embraced deep time, evolution, and uniformitarianism as concepts to explain the universe’s appearance as it is. We have thereby done away with the necessity to believe in God as the Creator much less in God as the ultimate lawgiver. VK: As the prominent atheist Richard Dawkins put it in his book The Blind Watchmaker, “Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” RD: Sadly, yes. So, do away with God as Creator and you’ve done away with God as Lawgiver. Do away with God and you do away with any transcendent moral or ethical standards that bind human behavior. Do away with standards and you’ve done away with the possibility that you might fail those standards or that anyone might judge you and assign consequences for that failure. So, in one short sequence of thought you have done away with sin. VK: This is one reason that what some term “the battle for the beginning” is so important. When God is replaced by evolutionary thought the door to all kinds of mischief swings wide open. RD: Yes. But the door that is swinging open is actually the gate to hell. The God of the Bible is a perfectly sovereign, holy, and just God. He has set standards and given commands to the creature He created in His image. The commission of the first sin by a man and woman resulted in the loss of an earthly Paradise. The commission of all subsequent sins creates the risk of people losing an eternal Paradise. That’s why we are doing this series. We have all lost that original earthly paradise. We don’t want people losing out on an eternal one also. VK: So, today we want to talk about what the Bible tells us is in store for those who do forsake their eternal paradise – who are condemned to hell as a consequence of their sin. RD: Right. There is a lot at stake –an immeasurable amount – when people don’t understand the seriousness of sin. Actually, the simple fact that Jesus had to die on the cross to atone for our sins should be all that we need to understand just how serious sin is. The eternal, almighty Son of God had to leave a throne He had occupied for all eternity, come to earth to assume a human nature, be born in humble circumstances, and then die a miserable death of the worst kind just to make our delivery from sin possible. Just thinking about that straightforward fact ought to be all that we need to say about how serious sin really is. VK: But today, it’s not. As we have mentioned many people today don’t believe in God. They don’t believe in the inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God, the Bible, and even many who do believe in God and the Bible don’t acknowledge the reality of sin and hell. They allegorize the parts of the Bible that plainly talk about hell or treat them as poetic moral lessons designed to teach but without any underlying substantive reality. But, we might ask, if there is no corresponding, underlying reality that is horrible then why would the so-called moral lesson have any moral value or meaning? We warn children about the consequences of making bad decisions because the consequences are real. The child who touches the hot stove knows that the lesson “don’t touch” was important. The consequence reinforces the importance of the lesson. But the child who is told not to touch the stove and touches when it’s cold learns nothing. Or worse the child forms the very dangerous false idea that the stove may be touched at any time without repercussions. If hell is not real with real suffering then of what value is a moral lesson that uses hell as a potential consequence. RD: As I sometimes say in our Life Lessons with a Laugh, “exactamundo.” A little thinking quickly tells you that there must be a real place that possesses the attributes of hell otherwise the idea of hell is of little to no value in teaching a moral lesson. So, the cynics who doubt the Bible’s descriptions of hell as being a literal place are just being silly when they say that the idea of hell was just a way of trying to convey a moral imperative. But there is another and even more serious reason that we cannot reasonably allegorize or diminish the reality of hell. VK: What is that? RD: Because the person in the Bible that talked the most about hell – from whom we get the most information about hell – is Jesus. So, we can’t dismiss the reality of hell without dismissing the sinlessness of Jesus. VK: For instance, in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 13, verses 49 and 50 Jesus said, “That is the way it will be at the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked people from the righteous, throwing the wicked into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” In the Gospel of Mark, chapter 9, verses 47 and 48 Jesus said, “It’s better to enter the Kingdom of God with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, ‘where the maggots never die and the fire never goes out.’” And in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 5, verse 22 Jesus said, “But I say, if you are even angry with someone, you are subject to judgment! If you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court. And if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell.” These are just examples of some things that Jesus said about hell. RD: No one in the Bible talked more about hell than Jesus. That makes sense because Jesus mission on the earth was to provide the means by which sinful people could avoid hell as their eternal destiny. His mission would have made absolutely no sense if hell didn’t exist as a real place and a real possibility. And if Jesus had somehow just been threatening people with a non-existent penalty he would have been the opposite of a great teacher or a good man. And He certainly could not have been the sinless Savior if he had lied to people so many times and on such a serious subject. But since hell is real Jesus had every reason to mention it frequently during his teaching. VK: Just those few verses show how remarkable it is for anyone who claims to be a Christian to doubt that hell exists as a literal place. It is one thing for an unbeliever to doubt whether hell is real, but it is another thing for a Christian to do so. Literally, our salvation depends on whether Jesus was right about hell being a place of real terror and torment. If Jesus was mistaken about hell or He lied about it that would mean Jesus could be wrong or He sinned. But God can do neither. For Jesus to be our Savior He must be fully divine as well as fully human. God cannot be wrong or sin. Fortunately, our salvation is intact because Jesus was not wrong about hell and He was being straight when He warned His audiences to fear it. RD: Right. Some people will object to the reality of hell under the assertion that “a loving God could never send anyone to hell.” But what those people miss is that God is holy and just besides being loving. A just God cannot not punish evil and rebellion. VK: And there is plenty of evil and rebellion in this world. RD: Amen. A perfectly just God (which God is) must punish rebellion, sin, and evil. A holy God cannot tolerate unrighteousness or wickedness in His sight or presence and God does not. Even with respect to the redeemed God has already vindicated His just and holy nature by punishing someone for the sins of the redeemed. It’s just that Jesus has already borne the punishment for the sins of His people. When the Bible says that Jesus “propitiated” our sins it means He willingly accepted the punishment that was due to us and so restored our holy status in the sight of God. The American Heritage Dictionary defines “propitiation “to gain or regain the goodwill or favor of; appease.” As some commentators have phrased it, “God saved us from Himself, for Himself, by Himself.” VK: So, for the redeemed God has already punished their sin through Jesus. That’s why we can say that we possess the righteousness of Christ. Jesus accepted the punishment that we deserve so we can receive the rewards that He deserved. A righteous God cannot punish us because Jesus has already been punished for us. But the story is different for those who reject Jesus’ offer of salvation. Since they refuse to allow Jesus sacrifice to apply to them the will have to suffer for their own sins. But a finite man can never repay an infinite sin debt. So, their repayment attempt must last for all eternity. RD: So, the people who say a loving God would never send anyone to hell are correct. God is loving and God has expressed that love through the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. But to reject Jesus is to reject God’s love and mercy. Those who are unwilling to be examples of God’s mercy and grace will automatically be examples of God’s perfect justice. And that justice demands punishment for sin. VK: So, for people the stakes – the stakes of sin - really don’t get any higher than that. As we said last time, strictly speaking nothing can separate us from God’s presence. God is omnipresent. He is present at all times and all places including hell. But hell is where God’s wrath is eternally present not His goodness, His kindness. Sin separates us from God’s favor and blessing and that is the danger that we must all consider. But in a very real sense God is not sending anyone to hell. God is simply honoring the choice they are making when they reject His offer of mercy. God is willing to save everyone. 2 (second) Peter, chapter 3, verse 9 puts it this way. “The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.” That’s from the New Living Translation. RD: God wants everyone to repent. All who repent and accept Christ are saved. Those who repent receive the consequences of their choice – a life for all eternity with God and Jesus where they live, which is in heaven. Those who reject Christ receive the consequences of their choice. They live for all eternity away from the blessings of heaven and with the misery of hell. C.S. Lewis famously said in his book The Problem of Pain that the “gates to hell are locked from the inside.” Said differently, hell is a consequence of our choices not a consequence of our composition. VK: You are alluding to the fact that hell was not a necessary part of our physical creation. In Genesis, chapter 1, verse 31 we hear that, “Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!” That’s from the New Living Translation. Well, God would not have pronounced everything “very good” if sin and death were present in the original creation. They weren’t. Sin entered the world through Satan’s temptation and death entered the world because of sin. The entrance of sin made the reality of hell an inevitable consequence for those who choose to remain in their sin. RD: So, all of this points out why we need to soberly and honestly discuss the seriousness of sin. Sin and hell are inextricably linked. Sin separates from man from God’s goodness. Those who regret that separation can seek reconciliation through Jesus. That’s why we open every show of Anchored by Truth with the quote from Jesus in John 14:6. “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” Jesus is the way to salvation and heaven. Despite the objections of the world Jesus is the only way to salvation. So, when people reject Jesus they are announcing to the world their preference to continue their separation from God and Jesus. As someone has wryly observed to force an unrepentant sinner to be in heaven in the immediate presence of God’s face would be hell for that person. As some have put it, in the end there are only two choices. There are those who say to God, “thy will be done.” And there are those to whom God says, “thy will be done.” VK: God’s will as we heard in 2 Peter 3:9 is for everyone to come to repentance and thereby go to heaven. But I suppose there are those who say “well, why doesn’t God just end the existence of anyone who rejects Him?” In other words, wouldn’t oblivion just be an alternative to consigning people to a place where, in Jesus’ words, “where the maggots never die and the fire never goes out.” RD: Well, I suppose the immediate response to someone who suggests that oblivion would be preferable to an eternity in hell would be to ask them, “how do you know?” It’s pretty obvious those recommending oblivion are still around. And there is a basic category error that is present in their assertion – that nothing is better than something. Oblivion would be non-existence. Is non-existence better than existence? We can’t ask the non-existent. VK: Because they don’t exist. Fair point. RD: But there is another problem with the assertion that oblivion is a preferable alternative to hell for the rebellious. It diminishes the dignity of human beings. When God made man He made man His image bearer. With that special status came the ability to reason, understand the world around him, and make free choices. Adam and Eve made the free choice to eat from the one tree that was off limits. And if we are being honest we would all have to admit that we have all freely sinned of our own free choice. We may not like the consequences of our sin but we have all chosen to sin. Hell is one of the consequences of our sin. As dire and sad as it may be God confirms the fact that He will respect the consequences of man’s free choices. VK: God told Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The first consequence of their rebellion fell on an innocent animal. This was a foreshadowing of the fact that one day the consequences of their sin would be borne by the innocent Lamb of God. But another consequence of their rebellion was that they were exiled from earthly paradise - Eden. That foreshadowed that one day some of their descendants would be exiled from the heavenly paradise that surrounds God’s throne. Actions have consequences. Adam and Eve found that out. Unfortunately, those who impenitently reject Jesus offer of salvation will also find out that their rejection has consequences. RD: Yes. If God had left Adam and Eve in Eden they would have rightly learned that they could ignore God’s commands without consequence. That would exhibit blatant disrespect for God. But Adam and Eve bore God’s image. Disrespect for the Image Creator also diminishes the image bearer. Just as if we have a bruise and look at ourselves in the mirror we don’t just see our image we see our bruise. Well, a perfectly holy, infinite Being can’t tolerate rebellion, disrespect, or be bruised. So, one of the consequences of Adam and Eve’s rebellion besides being cast out of Eden was to create the possibility of eternal damnation. Similarly, Adam and Eve would have been far less protected from the elements if they had not accepted God’s provision for covering their nakedness – the skin of the innocent animal. VK: I see what you’re getting at. Adam and Eve’s actions in the garden set off a chain of consequences. The skin of the innocent animal partially offset as least some of the consequence. Jesus’ death as an atonement for sin offsets the consequences of sin, one of which is hell, but only partially – only for those who accept Christ as their Savior. Jesus’ sacrifice is sufficient to offset the sins of everyone and God would like that – but many people, even today, continue to reject Jesus of their own free will. God permits free choice but as you say in your Christmas epic poem The Golden Tree: Eagle Enigma “[God] knows that if we [make the wrong choice] we'll suffer though we had good intent. For the [God] permits free choice even when it brings sad events.” RD: Yes. If God simply obliterated everyone who rebels against Him He would be treating people differently. The people in heaven would receive the consequences of their choice to accept Christ’s provision for their sin. And those consequences will go on for all eternity. But the people obliterated would not receive eternal consequences of their choice because they would go out of existence. It is absolutely true that the experiences of the two groups are going to be dramatically different but the duration of the experiences is going to be identical – all of eternity. But that’s why we do what we do on Anchored by Truth. There is no need for anyone listening to ever suffer in hell. Avoiding hell is as simple as acknowledging their sin and accepting Jesus’ offer of salvation. VK: I am always reminded of the thief on the cross next to Jesus. In the Gospel of Luke, chapter 23, verse 42 where we hear “Then [the thief] said, ‘Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.’ And Jesus replied, ‘I assure you, today you will be with me in paradise.’” Jesus didn’t tell the thief to do anything or be anything. The thief recognized that Jesus could save him and simply announced that tiny bit of faith. His faith was instantly rewarded by Jesus with the promise that the thief would be with Him that day in paradise. Eden restored for one lost sinner. RD: Yes. And Eden can be restored for all lost sinners. Hell is not just a possibility, it is a certainty for all who reject Jesus. So, why do that? Why risk eternal fire when there is no need. Jesus would happily save every person alive on the earth today, every person who has ever lived. It is the stubborn refusal to acknowledge that we have rebelled that consigns people to hell. And that alone tells us how serious sin is. Sin is so serious that the 2nd Person of the Holy Trinity left His eternal throne to remove the need for anyone to endure hell. Yet we not only treat sin lightly today, many people try to deny its existence and reality entirely. VK: So, the big idea that we wanted to introduce in this series is that sin is seriousness. Sin’s seriousness is revealed by looking at the provisions that God has made to change the consequence of our sin from eternal damnation to eternal blessing. The stakes of sin have been addressed by Jesus. The question for us is whether we will accept the provisions that He made for us or stubbornly continue to insist that sin is just an outdated concept with no relevance to our modern world. This sounds like a great time to pray. Since we have just been talking about the fact that there are many people who have yet to acknowledge the fact that they are separated from God, today let’s listen to a prayer for the spiritually lost. Peter told us that God wants everyone to come to repentance. This prayer is us setting our hearts in agreement with the Apostle that God’s gracious offer of salvation has not changed for over 2,000 years. ---- PRAYER FOR THE SPIRITUALLY LOST VK: We’d like to remind our audience that a lot of our radio episodes are linked together in series of topics so if they missed any episodes or if they just want to hear one again, all of these episodes are available on your favorite podcast app. To find them just search on “Anchored by Truth by Crystal Sea Books.” If you’d like to hear more, try out crystalseabooks.com where “We’re not perfect but our Boss is!” (Opening Bible Quote from the Contemporary English Version) Luke, Chapter 16, verse 23, Contemporary English Version

Hour 1 * Guest: Dr. Scott Bradley, Founder and Chairman of the Constitution Commemoration Foundation and the author of the book and DVD/CD lecture series “To Preserve the Nation.” In the Tradition of the Founding Fathers – FreedomsRisingSun.com * Juneteenth is a federally recognized holiday that celebrates the end of enslavement in the United States – Not! * Juneteenth: Nothing but A Satanic, Fake News Dishonest Re-write of History! * Are You Free To Act For Yourself In America Today? * Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a state with no property tax. * “Tax Freedom Day” is annually calculated by the Tax Foundation, a Washington, DC-based think tank. * If we are not Slaves now, At what point would we be considered Slaves? * slave, noun – The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. Who is owned as the property of someone else, especially in involuntary servitude. Who is subservient to or controlled by another. Who is subject to or controlled by a specified influence. Hour 2 * Guest: Lowell Nelson – CampaignForLiberty.org, RonPaulInstitute.org * The Deep State Versus Trump – Ron Paul. * Thanks to the Durham Report, we now know the Democrat political machine opposed Trump even before his election in 2016. * they weaponized the FBI, CIA and the rest of the “deep state” to undermine and hobble his presidency. * “they impeached Trump again over the false charge that he led an “insurrection” against the US government on January 6, 2021.” * Now they have “indicted him over some classified documents apparently discovered in his residence in Florida.” * What happened to the boxes and boxes of classified documents discovered at multiple Biden locations? They have conveniently disappeared down the memory hole with the help of the complicit media. “Nothing to see here.” Move along. * Demand an end to Section 702 of FISA * Reports reveal, the FBI abused the FISA Section 702 database to spy on Americans over 3.6 million times over two years – As congressional testimony revealed, the FBI systematically targeted law-abiding citizens at the expense of real law enforcement, and punished those who spoke out. * The Deep State collects a copy of every email, phone call, text messages, Internet search, online purchase, and social media post you make. All without a warrant. And they've been doing it for years, decades. * Campaign Management School in Sandy on June 24 – https://facl-training.org/schools/events/sandy-ut-cms-24jun2023 * Promoting liberty and curtailing tyranny is difficult if we don't have the “right” people in office. And most of our”good” candidates don't know how to run a campaign effectively. We need training! * We must also get a firm grip on the election process–cast paper ballots in our precincts on Election Day, and count them by hand while observed by poll watchers who can then vouch for the veracity of the election in that precinct! * Pfizer Observed 1.6 Million Injuries Following Covid Vaccination – LewRockwell.com “A recently released confidential Pfizer document from 2022 reveals the company observed 508,351 cases reports and 1,597,673 adverse events following vaccination, yet pretended its shot was safe.” “The adverse events spanned more than 10,000 different categories and affected nearly every organ system in the body. Yet, Pfizer still concluded its shot was safe and effective.” Adverse events were three times more common in women than men. The highest number of cases affected the 31-50 year age group. * Your Efforts Make a Difference, And We Can Win This Thing – Caitlin Johnstone. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/loving-liberty/support

* Guest: Dr. Scott Bradley, Founder and Chairman of the Constitution Commemoration Foundation and the author of the book and DVD/CD lecture series “To Preserve the Nation.” In the Tradition of the Founding Fathers - FreedomsRisingSun.com * Juneteenth is a federally recognized holiday that celebrates the end of enslavement in the United States - Not! * Juneteenth: Nothing but A Satanic, Fake News Dishonest Re-write of History! * Are You Free To Act For Yourself In America Today? * Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a state with no property tax. * "Tax Freedom Day" is annually calculated by the Tax Foundation, a Washington, DC-based think tank. * If we are not Slaves now, At what point would we be considered Slaves? * slave, noun - The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. Who is owned as the property of someone else, especially in involuntary servitude. Who is subservient to or controlled by another. Who is subject to or controlled by a specified influence.

In my first career, decades ago, I worked as an announcer at a radio station in a small, rural town. One of my jobs included doing the emergency broadcast testing on a monthly basis. I can still remember what I needed to say during the test: “The attention signal that you just heard, had it been an actual emergency, would have been followed by official news or instructions. Remember, this is only a test.” Let's talk about the test of income. Someone recently asked us: “What is an immediate annuity?” You will often hear financial professionals talk about annuities. The annuities that they are usually referring to are called an accumulation annuity. Those are annuities where you are accumulating money inside the annuities. That could be an equity index or index annuity, a fixed-interest annuity, or a variable annuity. There are many different options available when a person is putting money into an annuity. What I am referring to is not the accumulation of money within an annuity. What I'm talking about is the payout of an annuity. I actually went to my bookcase today and looked in The American Heritage Dictionary. It gave a pretty good definition of what an annuity is: “1. The annual payment of an allowance or income.” Think of it as your kids receiving an allowance; you are receiving an allowance of income. “2. The right to receive this payment or the obligation to make this payment.” Typically, a person or a company (usually an insurance company) is obligated to pay you on a regular basis. “3. An investment on which a person receives fixed payments for a lifetime or a specified number of years.” You should be very familiar with that structure of an immediate annuity. If you are a lottery winner, you receive a choice of receiving either a lump sum or payments throughout a certain period of time. That is an immediate annuity. If you have a pension program with our local brewery in town, Trane, or with the Wisconsin Trust Fund because you were a teacher or a municipal employee, that is nothing more than an immediate annuity. In fact, you can basically say an immediate annuity is often analogous or the same thing as a pension. Payments from immediate annuities are quite unique. It can be based on the rate of return the annuity can receive from the investments put inside the annuity. It can be based on if you are a man or a woman. Men typically have shorter lives than women. Annuity payments to a woman are usually smaller because she is expected to live for a longer period of time or have a guaranteed payment for a longer period of time as compared to most men. Age also can play into it as well. Here is a great example: Social Security. We know the longer that we wait to receive the payout from the government for Social Security, the higher the payment will be. Some people elect to retire early thinking they'll get more money than if they take the money later. However, everything else being equal, it is exactly the same amount of money as the person who waits and receives a higher payment. If they have the same life expectancy as someone who is younger and takes the lesser payment, it mathematically works out to be exactly the same. You should make a decision based on things like what your health is like at that time. The longer you live with any pension, Social Security, or immediate annuity, the better off you would be. Then, based on the issuing company and the stability of the company, you should be able to have a payment with a lifetime immediate annuity that you cannot outlive. What you will typically find is a person in their 60s or 70s will begin having conversations around immediate annuities. The older a person is the more money they would receive on a monthly basis. The important thing to realize is that everyone's situation is unique. Everyone's health is unique to them. The amount of money that they have is unique to them. When you are trying to decide if you should use an immediate annuity, you must remember that you are giving up the accessibility of money. You are trading that accessibility and purchasing an income, potentially guaranteed, for your entire lifetime.  If you have some specific questions about annuities or in this case immediate annuities, it's important that you go slow. Take your time and see all the possible formulas that can affect your financial situation. If you have some additional questions regarding this or anything else, please reach out to our team. “Annuity.” The American Heritage Dictionary, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1991, p. 112.

Hello and thank you for Listening to Macabre for mortals. My references this week were :- 1.      Probably the feminine present participle of medein, "to protect, rule over" (American Heritage Dictionary; compare Medon, Medea, Diomedes, etc.). If not, it is from the same root, and is formed after the participle. OED 2001 revision, s.v.; medein in LSJ. 2.     ^ as in Hesiod, Theogony 270, and Pseudo-Apollodorus Bibliotheke, 1.10. 3.     ^ "From Gorgon and Ceto, Sthenno, Euryale, Medusa". 4.     ^ Bullfinch, Thomas. "Bulfinch Mythology – Age of Fable – Stories of Gods & Heroes". Retrieved 2007-09-07. ...and turning his face away, he held up the Gorgon's head. Atlas, with all his bulk, was changed into stone. 5.     ^ Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 793–799; Edited and Translated by Alan H. Sommerstein. "Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Prometheus Bound", (Loeb Classical Library) Harvard University Press, 2008, p. 531. 6.     ^ (Pythian Ode 12). Noted by Marjorie J. Milne in discussing a red-figured vase in the style of Polygnotos, ca. 450–30 BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Milne noted that "It is one of the earliest illustrations of the story to show the Gorgon not as a hideous monster but as a beautiful woman. Art in this respect lagged behind poetry." (Marjorie J. Milne, "Perseus and Medusa on an Attic Vase" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin New Series, 4.5 (January 1946, pp. 126–130) 126.p.) 7.     ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.798: "the Sovereign of the Sea attained her love in chaste Minerva's temple" (Brookes More translation) or "in Minerva's temple Neptune, lord of the Ocean, ravished her" (Frank Justus Miller translation, as revised by G. P. Goold) Whether Ovid means that Medusa was a willing participant is unclear. Hard, p. 61, says she was "seduced"; Grimal, s.v. Gorgons, p. 174, says she was "ravished"; Tripp, s.v. Medusa, p. 363 says she "yielded". In the original Latin text, Ovid uses the verb "vitiasse" which is translated to mean "violate" or "corrupt" line 798. Thank you for joining me for this episode of Macabre for Mortals. I hope this has given you some insight into Medusa and the myth and how it related to current times. Next time I will be covering a true crime subject – the case of the missing Heiress. If you have any questions or any suggestions then please send me an email at Macabreformortals@gmail.com.

In this episode I talk about the idea of using intuition before recipes in my daily cooking, and how I've improved my skills by thinking things through more and relying less on recipes and youtube tutorials. intuitive (ĭn-too͞′ĭ-tĭv) -adjective Of, relating to, or arising from intuition: synonym: instinctive. Possessing or demonstrating intuition. Easily understood and simple to use. Seeing clearly Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. Greener Postures Links: Buy Dalia's Book, Let's All Keep Chickens! —> ⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠ Learn more about the Greener Postures workshop replays at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠greenerpostures.com/workshops⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sign up for the Greener Postures Membership today! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠greenerpostures.com/membership⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TRY AZURE STANDARD for bulk organic groceries and skip the middle man: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.azurestandard.com/?a_aid=e26f72d9dd⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GreenerPostures.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email: greenerpostures@pm.me Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Preserving Today on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow @greenerpostures on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Support Greener Postures: PayPal - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠paypal.me/greenerpostures⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and Venmo - search @GreenerPostures Thank you for listening! Disclosure: The links above may be affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase, even if you choose a different item than I recommended! Thank you for your support.

WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God's principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God's manual for life. An invitation for you: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today's blog post on podcast. https://content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/The_Mark_of_the_Beast.mp3  _________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, April 17, 2023, and this is Episode #16 of Series 2023. This episode is titled "The Mark of the Beast: What You Should Know and Why". Quite likely, you have heard of the mark of the beast. If not, you will hear about it in this message. So pay close attention. What is the mark of the beast, what should you know about it, and why? The mark of the beast is a sign of the last days, as predicted in the Bible. Specifically, it is a mark that will be placed on and in the hands or the foreheads of those who will give allegiance to the AntiChrist and worship him during the seven-year period of unspeakable terror known as the Tribulation.   One of the signs that the implementation of the mark of the beast is getting closer and closer is the growing move by the globalists toward trans-humanism. The American Heritage Dictionary defines trans-humanism as the "belief that humans should strive to transcend the physical limitations of the mind and body by technological means."  An article by Christian Evidence titled "The Rise of Transhumanism" and published on February 20, 2023, describes trans-humanism as follows:  "Transhumanism is a philosophical, scientific, and essentially religious movement that seeks to merge humans with emerging technology, such as brain chips and genetic engineering. By doing so, transhumanists believe that we can enhance our intellectual and physical capacities; transcend our biological limitations, including death; and create a more evolved species they call the 'posthuman.'" * Influential globalists, like Jewish historian and social scientist Yuval Noah Harari, and Karl Schwab, founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), are teaching that mankind is moving toward a new level of perfection—a level of immortality, even— where, by using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other modern computer technology, man will no longer die but live forever on a Utopian earth, an earth the globalists are trying to transform through deliberate climate change, the destruction of our food supply, and the promotion of a vaccine that has killed more people than it has helped.  So, what does the mark of the beast have to do with all of this?  It is possible that the mark of the beast will be the means by which a human will be turned into a trans-human. In taking the mark of the beast, a person will receive some kind of substance—whether biological or technological, probably a combination of both—that could possibly alter his DNA from the way God created it to an unnatural DNA that no longer makes him human. This new hybrid creature will be called a "trans-human" and will be the modern-day version of the Nephilim mentioned in the Bible in Genesis, chapter 6. Scripture tells us in Matthew 24: 37 that "as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man." Just as there were Nephilim in Noah's day—hybrid creatures who were part human and part demonic as a result of the sexual intercourse that occurred between fallen angels and human women—so will there be hybrid creatures at our Lord's second...

Brethren, this Short Talk Bulletin Podcast episode was written by RW Bro Ralph B. Duncan, PDDGM 11th – MA, and is brought to us by WBro David Koncz, PM – United #8, ME. The American Heritage Dictionary defines “Heritage” as some idea or material thing that can be inherited or passed down from preceding generations. […]

Sources: New Unger's Bible Dictionary, article: "Easter" Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, p.134 The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000 Encyclopedia Mythica, article: Ostara Encyclopedia International, China: Lexicon Publications, 1973, p.190 The New Question Box - Catholic Life for the Nineties, copyright 1988 by John J. Dietzen, M.A., S.T.L., ISBN 0-940518-01-5 (paperback), published by Guildhall Publishers, Peoria Illinois, 61651., page 554 W.E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger, William White, Jr., Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, article: Easter, p.192 Dictionary.com

Baggage- Emotions or thoughts that stem from painful or unpleasant past experiences and that affect one's outlook or behavior as defined in the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. Time to unpack! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/happilymarried/support

Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He grew up in Montreal and earned his BA from McGill and his PhD from Harvard. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He has won numerous prizes for his research, his teaching, and his books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Sense of Style, and Enlightenment Now. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates, and one of Foreign Policy's “World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals” and Time's “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” He was Chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and writes frequently for the New York Times, the Guardian, and other publications. His twelfth book, published in 2021, is called Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters.https://stevenpinker.com/Works mentioned in the podcastMetaphors we live by - George Lakoff and Mark Johnsonhttps://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3637992.htmlThe Architecture of Complexity — Herbert Simon on Watchmaking, Hierarchies, and Decomposable Systemshttps://athenarium.com/the-architecture-of-complexity-herbert-simon/Alexander Luriahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Luria#Main_areas_of_researchMusic - Bach: Mass in B MinorMonteverdi Choir & John Eliot Gardinerhttps://music.apple.com/nz/album/j-s-bach-mass-in-b-minor-bwv-232/1053521016

THE VASTNESS OF THE INTERNET AND unSOCIAL MEDIA Censorship occurs when individuals or groups try to prevent others from saying, printing, or depicting words and images. Censors seek to limit freedom of thought and expression by restricting spoken words, printed matter, symbolic messages, freedom of association, books, art, music, movies, television programs, and Internet sites. When the government engages in censorship, First Amendment freedoms are implicated. Various groups have banned or attempted to ban books since the invention of the printing press. Censored or challenged works include the Bible, The American Heritage Dictionary, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, To Kill A Mockingbird, and the works of children's authors J. K. Rowling and Judy Blume. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and press, integral elements of democracy. Since Gitlow v. New York (1925), the Supreme Court has applied the First Amendment freedoms of speech and press to the states through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. WHY WE ARE LEAVING YOUTUBE OUT OF PROTEST IN FAVOR OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. Apparently someone had forgotten to tell the administrators of YouTube that the right to free expression (IN ALL FORMS) is a right of passage and an inalianable God given right as a citizen of the free world. I was, WAS that way, and is STILL Is that way. In other words ladies and gentlemen, nothing has changed from that time till now. Literally nothing has changed. NOT EVEN 9/1102001 has changed that. So why does YouTube have the right to freely at will, ban, block, delete and even elimainate people's accounts randomly at will? The short answer is: THEY DON'T. The real answer is much more complicated and quite convoluted. Private actors — for example, corporations that own radio stations — also can engage in forms of censorship, but this presents no First Amendment implications as no governmental, or state, action is involved. Suffice it to say as succinctly as possible, we cannot and we WILL NOT allow ourselves to be BULLIED, BEATEN DOWN or BANNED FROM OUR GOD GIVEN INALIENABLE RIGHT TO LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS NOR WILL WE BE THE VICTIMS OF VERBAL SUPPRESSION OR STIFLING AT THE HANDS OF A STRONG ARMING TACTICS PERPETRATED BY A BRANCH OF THE UNSOCIAL MEDIA'S GESTAPO CENSORSHIP DETAIL. NO. NO MORE. YOUTUBE IS A THING OF THE PAST FOR US. HAPPY DAYS!  

903. A listener heard some jargon, and then got annoyed by "said" jargon, so we explored why.  Plus, who the heck are your kith? And finally, we got excited about the first new Scrabble words since 2018.| Transcript:  https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/a-strange-use-of-said/transcript| Ragan Advanced AP Style Webinar| Merriam-Webster Scrabble WebsiteThe "said" segment was written by Susan K. Herman, a former editor, language analyst, and language instructor for the U.S. Government.The "kith" segment was written by Samantha Enslen, who runs Dragonfly Editorial. You can find her at dragonflyeditorial.com or on Twitter as @DragonflyEdit.| Subscribe to the newsletter for regular updates.| Watch my LinkedIn Learning writing courses.| Peeve Wars card game. | Grammar Girl books. | HOST: Mignon Fogarty| VOICEMAIL: 833-214-GIRL (833-214-4475) or https://sayhi.chat/grammargirl| Grammar Girl is part of the Quick and Dirty Tips podcast network.Audio engineer: Nathan SemesEditor: Adam CecilAdvertising Operations Specialist: Morgan ChristiansonMarketing and Publicity Assistant: Davina TomlinDigital Operations Specialist: Holly HutchingsIntern: Kamryn Lacy| Theme music by Catherine Rannus.| Grammar Girl Social Media Links: YouTube. TikTok. Twitter. Facebook. Instagram. LinkedIn. Mastodon.References for the "kith" segment:Ammer, Christine. Kith and kin. American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Dent, Suzie. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 19th edition. Chambers Harrap, 2013.Oxford English Dictionary, online edition. Oxford University Press. http://bit.ly/1MExZUo (subscription required, accessed November 23, 2022).Etymonline (accessed November 23, 2022). https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=kith

Leadership expert John Maxwell once defined integrity as the “state of being complete, unified…” But I think we should go further. A strong definition of integrity, I believe, is given in the The American Heritage Dictionary. It defines integrity as “steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code; sound.” ‘Sound' is further defined as “free from defect or damage.” The uniting of these two definitions clearly identifies what traits someone should possess before we can say they have “integrity.” Only by “steadfast adherence to a moral code” can a leader realize true integrity.

Bestselling author, journalist, and historian, Eric Alterman, joins us for an exciting conversation discussing his book, Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie -- And Why Trump Is Worse. Eric is a Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. From 1995-2020, he was The Nation's “Liberal Media" columnist and is now a contributing writer to the magazine and also to The American Prospect, where he writes the weekly “Altercation” newsletter. He has been named a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a Schusterman Foundation Fellow at Brandeis University, a Fellow of the Society of American Historians and a member of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Alterman is the author of the national bestseller What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News, as well eleven other books, including We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel, to be published in November, 2022 by Basic Books. He is also the winner of the George Orwell Prize, the Stephen Crane Literary Award and the Mirror Award for media criticism (twice). He holds a Ph.D in US history from Stanford minoring in Jewish Studies, an M.A. in international relations at Yale and a B.A. from Cornell. He lives in Manhattan and tweets at @eric_alterman and has an open Facebook Page.

People often ask why people say "no worries" or "no problem" instead of "you're welcome," and we actually found an answer! Also, we look at whether it's OK to use "whose" for inanimate objects in a sentence such as "The chair whose legs are broken."Transcript:  https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/why-nobody-says-youre-welcome-anymore-whose-chimichanga| Subscribe to the newsletter for regular updates.| Watch my LinkedIn Learning writing course.| Peeve Wars card game. | Grammar Girl books. | HOST: Mignon Fogarty| VOICEMAIL: 833-214-GIRL (833-214-4475)| Grammar Girl is part of the Quick and Dirty Tips podcast network.| Theme music by Catherine Rannus at beautifulmusic.co.uk.| Grammar Girl Social Media Links:https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcastshttps://www.tiktok.com/@therealgrammargirlhttp://twitter.com/grammargirlhttp://facebook.com/grammargirlhttp://instagram.com/thegrammargirlhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/grammar-girlReferences for the "you're welcome" segment by Valerie Fridland:Aijmer, Karin. 1996. Conversational routines in English: Convention and creativity. London et al.: Longman.Dinkin, Aaron. J. 2018. It's no problem to be polite: Apparent‐time change in responses to thanks. Journal of Sociolinguistics  22(2): 190-215. Jacobsson, M. 2002. Thank you and thanks in Early Modern English. ICAME Journal 26: 63-80.Rüegg, Larssyn. 2014. Thanks responses in three socio-economic settings: A variational pragmatics approach. Journal of Pragmatics 71. pp. 17–30.Schneider, Klaus P. 2005. ‘No problem, you're welcome, anytime': Responding to thanks in Ireland, England, and the U.S.A. In Anne Barron & Klaus P. Schneider (eds.), The pragmatics of Irish English,  Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 101–139.References for the "whose" segment by Bonnie Mills:American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style. 2005. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,  pp. 505-6.American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Fourth edition. 2006. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, p. 1965.Burchfield, R. W, ed. 1996. The New Fowler's Modern English Usage. Third edition. New York: Oxford, p. 563.

El episodio de hoy será en inglés, ya que no me siento bien esta semana y no estoy seguro de poder traducirlo también. Por favor, disculpa por cualquier inconveniente y agradezco su comprensión.Did you know that English spelling - that crazy jumble of illogical rules on top of a thousand exceptions - is even more discombobulated than you thought? That's because how you spell many words also depends on where you are. Are you trying to reach an American audience? Then you need to follow American English. Are you hoping to attract the attention of the British? Then you need to use British English. These are the two main variants when it comes to English orthography. But there is a middle variant: Canadian English, a happy hybrid of the two! But never fear - today's episode will explain why these differences exist and will break down the main spelling differences for your ease and understanding! And then we will begin our new cultural tip on the country of Lesotho!LAS NOTAS DEL PODCAST: © 2022 por Language Answers, LLCBlog 73 del EpisodioMúsica de la introducción y conclusión por Master_Service de FiverrMúsica de la transición para el Consejo Cultural editada de la canción por Tim Moor de Pixabay. Los Recursos de InvestigaciónEl Episodio Episodio 35: Los 10 Sonidos de O-U-G-H "American English vs. Canadian English (Spelling Differences)" por GetProofed.com el 4 de julio de 2018 "Canadian, British and American: It's all English, but the spelling is different" por Virginia St.-Denis para Translation Bureau de Canada el 13 de octubre de 2020 "Why Canadian spelling is different" por Sheila Ethier para Translation Bureau de Canada el 14 de noviembre de 2017 "Spelling: American vs British vs Canadian" por Dagmar Gross para MedSci Communications el 22 de enero de 2020 "The differences in British and American spelling" de Oxford International English Schools "Canadian, British and American Spelling" de LukeMastin.com (no es un enlace seguro, con https!) "American English vs. British English Spelling" de The Free Dictionary por Farlex "Canada – a linguistic battleground between the US and Britain" por Amy Thibodeau para The Guardian el 9 de junio de 2010 "Noah Webster's civil war of words over American English" por Peter Martin para Aeon Ideas el 34 de junio de 2019 "Noah Webster" por McDavid, Raven I. para Encyclopedia Britannica, el 24 de mayo de 2022. Accedí el 20 de junio de 2022. Enlaces para los diccionarios: Merriam-Webster, Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, American Heritage Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary, and Cambridge Dictionary El Consejo Cultural "Lesotho" de World Factbook por la CIA, actualizado el 13 de junio de 2022 "Lesotho: Resumen de País" de World Factbook por la CIA, actualiado el 25 de mayo de 2022

El episodio de hoy será en inglés, ya que no me siento bien esta semana y no estoy seguro de poder traducirlo también. Por favor, disculpa por cualquier inconveniente y agradezco su comprensión. Did you know that English spelling - that crazy jumble of illogical rules on top of a thousand exceptions - is even more discombobulated than you thought? That's because how you spell many words also depends on where you are. Are you trying to reach an American audience? Then you need to follow American English. Are you hoping to attract the attention of the British? Then you need to use British English. These are the two main variants when it comes to English orthography. But there is a middle variant: Canadian English, a happy hybrid of the two! But never fear - today's episode will explain why these differences exist and will break down the main spelling differences for your ease and understanding! And then we will begin our new cultural tip on the country of Lesotho! LAS NOTAS DEL PODCAST: © 2022 por Language Answers, LLC Blog 73 del Episodio Música de la introducción y conclusión por Master_Service de Fiverr Música de la transición para el Consejo Cultural editada de la canción por Tim Moor de Pixabay. Los Recursos de Investigación El Episodio Episodio 35: Los 10 Sonidos de O-U-G-H "American English vs. Canadian English (Spelling Differences)" por GetProofed.com el 4 de julio de 2018 "Canadian, British and American: It's all English, but the spelling is different" por Virginia St.-Denis para Translation Bureau de Canada el 13 de octubre de 2020 "Why Canadian spelling is different" por Sheila Ethier para Translation Bureau de Canada el 14 de noviembre de 2017 "Spelling: American vs British vs Canadian" por Dagmar Gross para MedSci Communications el 22 de enero de 2020 "The differences in British and American spelling" de Oxford International English Schools "Canadian, British and American Spelling" de LukeMastin.com (no es un enlace seguro, con https!) "American English vs. British English Spelling" de The Free Dictionary por Farlex "Canada – a linguistic battleground between the US and Britain" por Amy Thibodeau para The Guardian el 9 de junio de 2010 "Noah Webster's civil war of words over American English" por Peter Martin para Aeon Ideas el 34 de junio de 2019 "Noah Webster" por McDavid, Raven I. para Encyclopedia Britannica, el 24 de mayo de 2022. Accedí el 20 de junio de 2022. Enlaces para los diccionarios: Merriam-Webster, Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, American Heritage Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary, and Cambridge Dictionary El Consejo Cultural "Lesotho" de World Factbook por la CIA, actualizado el 13 de junio de 2022 "Lesotho: Resumen de País" de World Factbook por la CIA, actualiado el 25 de mayo de 2022 Todos enlaces: https://es.languageanswers.com/post/episodio-73-diferencias-ortográficas-entre-el-inglés-americano-canadiense-y-británico-en-inglés

Today's podcast, "Taking Control Of Our Emotions," delves into what God says about our emotions. Many of us may say, "I'm just so emotional! I can't help it!". Yet we were created in the image of God and have the power of choice. We have been given authority over our emotions through Jesus Christ, and it is time to walk in that authority and take control of our feelings to live the abundant life God desires for each of us. ******* Today we are going to discuss Taking Control of Our Emotions and Living an Emotionally Stable Life.   What does God's Word say about our emotions? Many of us will say, “I'm just so emotional. I can't help it!” Yet we were created in the image of God who have the power of choice. and we have been given authority over our emotions through Jesus Christ, and it is time to walk in that authority and take control of our feelings. We walk by faith not by sight. (2 Cor 5:7)     Emotions can get the best of us. And how reliable are they really? I know myself, they can be like a roller coaster – up and down throughout a day or even the hour sometimes. Life can throw curve balls and sometimes we can hit a home run and other times we feel we just can't get off the bench.   We won't get into a discussion about if women are more emotionally than men, but I do believe whether we show it or not that we all have emotions and feeling them is healthy - controlling them is another matter & is something we can do! If we can “harness” them rather than be led by them it is a healthy way to live the abundant life God desires for us.   God created us with emotions and it's wrong to become emotionless, to withdraw to a place that we believe nothing can bother us or we work hard at not showing our emotions. The Bible tells us God has emotions. Scripture shows God displaying a wide range of emotions. Our emotions and feelings are normal and natural because they come from God. They are meant for enjoyment, created to be good and they can be controlled by each individual.   One of my favourite Scriptures is Ecclesiastes 3 where God's Word tells us there is a time and a season for every activity under the heavens, including verse 4 which says there is:   4A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance.   God laughed, mourned, hated, loved, rejoiced. (Psalm 37:13, John 11:35, Proverbs 6:6-19, John 3:16, Ps 104:31). He felt pleased and displeased. He felt anger. He felt jealous. And multiple places in Scripture show us His outward illustration of compassion.   God has emotions and feelings. He understands our tears and our joy. We should not be ashamed of our emotions. We can go to Him in prayer when we feel led by our emotions rather than relying on His truth and promises.   The difference between the Lord and ourselves is our emotions can lead us to sin while God's emotions/feelings are righteous and come from a place of love for His people.   We can easily be led by our emotions, whether good or bad but especially when life is not as we would like it to be. Earlier I mentioned harnessing our emotions. The word “harness” according to the American Heritage Dictionary means “to bring under control and direct force of.”  May I suggest that this is what our Lord desires of us. That we have control of our emotions and continually bring them into alignment with the WORD of God.   Every emotion begins with a thought. It is easy to feel defeated when our emotional baskets are continually filled and overflowing.   Two Scriptures come to mind: Isaiah 26:3 (NLT) You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you! We must over & over again fix our thoughts on God and what He says, not what this world tells us.   God has created an amazing relationship between our mind and our bodies, so that the renewal of the mind strengthens our relationship with God but it also improves our emotional sense of well-being. It strengthens our brains and bodies for his service.   Romans 12:2 teaches us to let God transform us into a new person. How does this happen? By changing the way we think! Thinking in alignment with God's WORD and PROMISES. This is easy when things in life are going well. It is more challenging and difficult – some may say nearly impossible when things are really bad! But God's Word also tells us All things are possible with God. They aren't possible in our own strength but they are possible with Him. This is where we call out to God. He hears us and He WILL help us. HIS WAY! HIS TIMING! Our job is to trust.   As we mature spiritually, we'll also see a maturing take place in the natural. One of the most obvious areas will be in the area of our emotions and the ability to control them. Galatians 5 tells us one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit is self-control. The Holy Spirit will help us to maintain this control over our emotions when we seek His help.   I remember as a little girl my favourite animal was a horse. I would often try to draw them or picture in my imagination ~  me riding one, a beautiful horse. Different times I would picture a different coloured horse, but they were always strong, always fast, always beautiful, and always able to jump over anything in their way.  There would be me and my horse riding through this bit field with the strong wind blowing my long brown hair back and me riding full throttle – just me and my horse alone against the terrain.   I don't know a great deal about horses and I did get thrown a couple of times growing up in Louisiana. I have since learned a bit about them and know they are a very powerful force. They've even played a very important part in history and in the development of civilization. They've enabled armies to win battles. They have given people more power, more mobility, and more strength than they could have had on their own. And even with their strength and power they can be managed. A horse out of control can cause a great deal of destruction – so can emotions that are out of control. So like a horse, emotions are powerful. They can be so beneficial, or they can be very destructive, even deadly. That is why they must be bridled. James 3:3 says: Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.   In the physical, I can't control a horse with my strength, but I can control it through my knowledge. I can lead the horse by placing a bit in his mouth which will turn his whole body. This is the way God make a horse. If a horse is lying down, you can sit on its head and hold a two-thousand-pound animal on the ground. A horse cannot get up unless it throws its head up first. If you can hold a horse's head down, you can hold it's whole body down. Um, what does that say about where our head and thoughts need to be? God's Word is the bit, bridle and reins that give us control over our emotions. It takes time and practice, but it is possible when we live by God's WORD, faith comes, and it grows with passing experiences where we lean on and trust on and in HIM. FAITH (Knowing GOD) will override and neutralise any negative emotions. Controlling emotions will be the result of spiritual maturity. We can learn to manage and harness our emotions, with knowledge, with spiritual growth and with practice and time.   Let us pray: Father, we are made with emotions and there is a time to feel them. Help us when our emotions get out of control, and they are leading us away from Your truth and the best life you have designed for us. Yes, there are seasons that are tough, and we can fall into a trap of “What if's? or “Why this, why me or my family?” It is a lie of the enemy's that our emotions are in control. We are in control, and we thank you that YOU have given us authority over our thinking. Give us the desire to study Your WORD, Your truths, Your promises and share it with others. Let our life be a witness to Your Power that comes to live in us when we BELIEVE in YOU Lord. Amen

What is a “Boondoggle” and how did the word come to be?In this episode you discover the surprising origin and real meaning of the word “Boondoggle”.---Timestamps:00:00 - Episode topic: Meaning and origin of Boondoggle:00:11 - Show and host info;01:05 - Investigation of the word "Boondoggle";06:50 - How to learn more about Boondoggle;07:18 - Subscribe / follow for free where you get your podcasts.—-Host:Stephen Carter, CEO of Stress Solutions, LLC. Website: https://www.EFT-MD.com. Email: CarterMethod@gmail.com.—-Resources used for this episode:Dictionary.com: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/boondoggleWordnik that included a link to the “American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language” - 5th edition: https://www.wordnik.com/words/boondoggleWikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boondoggle—Technical information:Recorded with Garage Band. Edits done using Audacity. Leveled with Levelator. Final edits and rendering done with Hindenburg Pro.Microphone XM8500—Boy Scouts, boondoggle, Great Depression, WPA, government waste,

Ed Blount, Executive Director, Center for the Study of Financial Market Evolution, discusses how data-based models can be used to change the negative views of financial markets that are held by some bank customers and regulators, especially in the wake of the pandemic. References: 1. Malfeasance, defined as "Evil-doing; the doing of that which ought not to be done; wrongful conduct, especially official misconduct; violation of a public trust or obligation; specifically, the doing of an act which is positively unlawful or wrongful, in contradistinction to misfeasance, or the doing of a lawful act in a wrongful manner." American Heritage Dictionary, at https://www.wordnik.com/words/malfeasance 2. Hu, Edwin and Mitts, Joshua and Sylvester, Haley, The Index-Fund Dilemma: An Empirical Study of the Lending- Voting Tradeoff (December 22, 2020). NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-52 , Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 647, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3673531 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3673531 Have a smart phone or tablet? Subscribe for FREE to our podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts. For podcast sponsorship/advertising opportunities, please send an e-mail to RMAsponsor@rmahq.org.

Why You Should Look at Toastmasters Debate Clubs We've all been there.  That discussion that you want to have, that we need to have.  Whether it's politics, society norms, or the intrinsic value of moosetracks ice cream – you want to discuss it.  You want to explore it with friends, family, or the person in front of you at the ice cream stand.  You want a debate – an honest-to-goodness discussion with facts, explanations of why these facts are important and the impact of the topic on the world – ok, your ice cream choice.  You want a debate. Debate often has a bad smell to it.  In the US, we have these abominations called “presidential debates” which are nothing more than people slinging sound bites at each other for the media.  Then we have the current “social media” debate, which appears to focus on insults and accusations. Whatever happened to civil discussions?  Have we lost the ability to have them? Today on Toastmasters 101, we're going to talk about an increasing need for the ability to communicate with discussions where people don't agree, and a terrific rise in the Toastmasters grassroots community to discover the power of debate. INTRO Do you want to find your voice and change the world?  Then Toastmasters is for you.  In one hour a week, we can teach you how to develop your public speaking skills and your leadership skills to have an impact on the world.  This is Toastmasters 101, and I'm your host, Kim Krajci. Debate vs. Discussion Let's start out by saying:  moosetracks is a flavor of ice cream in our area.  I have no idea if you're familiar with it.  Locally, it has fudge swirled into vanilla ice cream with peanut butter and chocolate candies mixed in.  For me, that's one too many ingredients.  I don't disapprove of people eating it, I'm just kinda… not sure why people like it. It's not a very debatable topic.  Discuss, yes, and certainly we can agree to disagree. People can disagree.  Will disagree.  It's the nature of human nature and free will.  People can disagree about almost everything, not just about taste.  I may believe a certain policy will achieve a goal.  That doesn't mean I get to assume that the person who disagrees with that policy I prefer is a person who is evil or bad or doesn't deserve respect. Let's define our terms.  (That's a debate joke – you'll get it in a minute) I like the Heritage Dictionary's definition:   Consideration of a subject by a group; an earnest conversation.  I think that a discussion allows each participant to free-range around a topic:  to look at the topic from several perspectives and to concede the other's points as we come to an agreement.  That doesn't mean that a discussion is going to end on agreements. I want to make it clear:  I don't see disagreement as a bad thing.  I see it as a human thing.  It's how we treat each other in the discussions that can make a disagreement offensive or hurtful.  I believe that people of good will can look at a topic and have few or no points of agreement and both be good people who want a good solution for a problem. Debating Holes in the Ground For example, last week my son and daughter-in-law were removing the deck from the back of their home that they just purchased last fall.  As we dug out the supporting posts and concrete foundation block, we left 30 big holes in the ground.  One person wanted to go get fill dirt right away to protect people from breaking legs or ankles by stepping in them.  Another person pointed out that they intend to build a patio and they'll have to remove significant amounts of dirt, so buying dirt seems unnecessary.  I personally liked the idea of throwing buckets over the holes for now – they'll be very visible.  Another suggestion was to put sticks with flags on them to help people know where the dangers lie. Were any of us wrong?  No, none of us were.  Our discussion ended with a decision that the homeowners were happy with – they dug up dirt from where they'll be laying the patio and filled the holes the next day. Debate is something different from a discussion.  According to  the American Heritage Dictionary.com, debate means To engage in argument by discussing opposing points. To engage in a formal discussion or argument. Debate can have a negative connotation to it.  I get that, because in a true, formal debate, each side must defend their stand absolutely without any concession to the other side.  It can look acrimonious.  It can look defensive and ugly.  A debate can be vicious and attacking.  It can look personal and soul-crushing. It can also be an incredibly valuable tool to help us understand critical issues. We need to take technical look at a debate. First of all, it's a formal engagement. I don't think we often have true debates randomly.  We may have arguments, but a debate isn't usually the thing we see on the street.  I'll agree that sometimes, there are spontaneous debates in situations, but the word can be abused.  Like presidential debates.  Those aren't debates.  Those are posturing for the media events. Debates start by making clear what the topic is – and what it isn't.  That's why definitions are so important.  Making sure that it's clear what the debate is about establishes the parameters of the debate and keeps it on point.  If you're talking about filing holes, you're not talking about dinner, or about the nature of the universe.  It keeps you focused and on topic. Second, A debate is focused on a resolution. A question.  A choice.  It's persuasive speaking, using logic and facts as the primary material.  This isn't to say that emotion and character aren't parts of the discussion, especially on fraught topics that generate ill-will or fear. The point of focus in a debate is that resolution.  There will be two sides.  One side is called the affirmative.  The other is the negative.  Some debates call it pro and con.  Potato, potato.  But there are two sides. AFF and NEG A discussion can have multiple perspectives presented.  In debate, the affirmative always agrees with the resolution.  The other side takes an opposing view. For example, the backyard holes.  If the resolution is:  “The holes in the backyard require Mom to go to the store and buy fill dirt” then that's what the AFF has to defend – all parts of it, including Mom going to buy dirt. Neg, on the other hand, has the world to draw on to fight against the resolution.  Neg can contend that Dad should go.  They can contend that nothing should be done.  They can contend that filling the holes with pizza is better. That is the key difference between a debate and a discussion.  In one, you're locked into specific roles and you never concede an inch to your opponent.  In the other, as a less formal and hopefully good-natured way, you can change your mind. It's this difference that gives debate a bad name.  That… and bad debaters. When we enter a debate, we have to be able to explain why our position is the best one.  When a debate doesn't do that, it can devolve into name-calling, questioning the ethics of another speaker, or cheating.  Then debate looks ugly and unproductive. Which is horrible, because, done right, Debates are fun. I have a copy of a handbook about Debate from Toastmasters that I bought years ago.  I was working as a debate coach and purchased it thinking I would learn a lot about debate from it.  Unfortunately, it didn't help me very much because it was too general and I was working in a very specific category of high school debate.  But I always wanted to see more Toastmasters debate because sometimes, very rarely, I'd see a table topics challenge that was a debate. The very first Toastmasters meeting I attended, the table topics leader pulled out a tomato and challenged the volunteers to debate whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. This is not the type of debate I was used to, but I was up for the challenge. This is the other common type of debate:  one thing versus another.  For example:  cars vs. bikes.  Houses vs. apartments.  Mountains vs. beaches.  Socialism vs. capitalism. Not a very clear resolution, but often it can be structured into one:  Tomatoes are a fruit. And that's where the debate begins. Toastmasters Debate Clubs Maybe 5 years ago, a club in District 10 decided to try debates.  I attended and thought it was great.  The club… didn't.  The debates took time away from them completing speeches toward their education awards.  The debates were scrapped. A couple of years ago, I heard about a club in the middle east that focused on debate.   I wanted to attend! Then the pandemic hit and every club moved to online meetings.  And I found out that there are Toastmasters who are doing debates.  I didn't know about them because we didn't have any way to find them and attend. With everything now online, I found out about a start-up club in Texas, USA, that wants to focus on debate. Then they told me about two clubs in New York City that have an annual debate between the clubs.  And two more on the western coast of the United States. It looks like debate clubs are springing up all over the place!  And I can attend them! Why should you check out a debate club? Right now, it's hard to have a civil discussion because we're in a volatile position right now.  Communication skills are critical.  If you want to change the world, you have to be able to communicate your vision. At its core, that's what Toastmasters is about.  Communication skills.  Learning how to debate – essentially, how to defend your point effectively. That people are starting Toastmasters clubs that focus on debate – that's a clear indication that I'm not the only one who sees that being able to debate effectively and persuasively is important. That we want to have conversations that don't become shouting matches where there is no communication. Where the end goal isn't to grind your opponent into the ground, but to understand them and help them understand you. I hear there's a path being submitted to Toastmasters International focusing on debate.   I want it.  NOW. The main reason to join a Toastmasters debate club is that you – that we all need to improve our ability to communicate with logic, with emotion, without crushing our opponents with insults and insinuations that they're bad and evil people.  To be able to respectfully discuss and disagree is what everyone needs.  That's why you should check out a Toastmasters debate club.  You'll learn the skills and have fun doing it. Debating isn't easy.  It requires preparation and an understanding of both sides of the topic. That's the superpower of debate. That's how good debaters win – they know what the arguments on the other side will be and prepare for them.  That's how to be persuasive – know the opposition's position.  In sales, it's the ability to show why a reason not to buy isn't valid before it's been brought up.  Inspirational speeches use ethos, logos, and pathos to create a memorable and effective speech.  Debate hones those skills and improves your message.  Debates are work, but they yield results. In the meantime, I invite Toastmasters clubs who are doing debates to send me a note so I can add them to the list in my show notes.  I'll add a link to your Toastmasters.org Find a Club page to help others discover how much fun debate can be, and that everyone can learn how to do it! Wrap it up, Kim Toastmasters 101 is a podcast production of Toastmasters District 10. Our music is from incompetech.filmmusic.io.   You know someone who needs to hear this podcast.  How about you tell them about Toastmasters 101 this week? 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Words matter. At its best, etymology gives us insight not only into the origins of words, but why they remain so important today, especially in medicine, where we’ve been accruing jargon for millennia. In this episode, we’re delving into four specific words -- doctor, cerebrovascular accident, rounds, and zebras.  And along the way, we’re going to discuss pre-historical pastoralists on the Eurasian steppes, medieval universities, Octagonal air-ventilated chambers in 19th century Baltimore, and of course, early 21st century sitcoms.   Works cited: OSLER W. THE NATURAL METHOD OF TEACHING THE SUBJECT OF MEDICINE. JAMA. 1901;XXXVI(24):1673–1679. doi:10.1001/jama.1901.52470240001001 Fair, A 2014, 'A Laboratory of Heating and Ventilation: The Johns Hopkins Hospital as experimental architecture, 1870–90', The Journal of Architecture, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 357-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2014.930063 Engelhardt E. Apoplexy, cerebrovascular disease, and stroke: Historical evolution of terms and definitions. Dement Neuropsychol. 2017 Oct-Dec;11(4):449-453. doi: 10.1590/1980-57642016dn11-040016. PMID: 29354227; PMCID: PMC5770005. Coupland AP, Thapar A, Qureshi MI, Jenkins H, Davies AH. The definition of stroke. J R Soc Med. 2017 Jan;110(1):9-12. doi: 10.1177/0141076816680121. Epub 2017 Jan 13. PMID: 28084167; PMCID: PMC5298424. An Updated Definition of Stroke for the 21st Century Ralph L. Sacco, MD, MS, FAHA, FAAN, Co-Chair, Scott E. Kasner, MD, MSCE, FAHA, FAAN, Co-Chair, Joseph P. Broderick, MD, FAHA, Louis R. Caplan, MD, J.J. (Buddy) Connors, MD, Antonio Culebras, MD, FAHA, FAAN, Mitchell S.V. Elkind, MD, MS, FAHA, FAAN, Mary G. George, MD, MSPH, FAHA, Allen D. Hamdan, MD, Randall T. Higashida, MD, Brian L. Hoh, MD, FAHA, L. Scott Janis, PhD, Carlos S. Kase, MD, Dawn O. Kleindorfer, MD, FAHA, Jin-Moo Lee, MD, PhD, Michael E. Moseley, PhD, Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH, FAHA, Tanya N. Turan, MD, MS, FAHA, Amy L. Valderrama, PhD, RN, and Harry V. Vinters, MD on behalf of the American Heart Association Stroke Council, Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention, Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease, and Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism Harrison F, Roberts AE, Gabrilska R, Rumbaugh KP, Lee C, Diggle SP. A 1,000-Year-Old Antimicrobial Remedy with Antistaphylococcal Activity. mBio. 2015;6(4):e01129. Published 2015 Aug 11. doi:10.1128/mBio.01129-15 Furner-Pardoe J, Anonye BO, Cain R, Moat J, Ortori CA, Lee C, Barrett DA, Corre C, Harrison F. Anti-biofilm efficacy of a medieval treatment for bacterial infection requires the combination of multiple ingredients. Sci Rep. 2020 Jul 28;10(1):12687. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-69273-8. PMID: 32724094; PMCID: PMC7387442. American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, third edition, 2011 Oxford English Dictionary Online Johnson S, Dictionary. Retrieved online: https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/doctor-noun/ Riva MA. No renaissance for doctors in Shakespeare's plays. BMJ. 2017 May 22;357:j2223. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j2223. PMID: 28533302.

From the archives: Steven Kleinedler, an editor for the American Heritage Dictionary

The Precincts Of Thorsby © 2020 Vol. 1 2020 Edition ISBN 978-976-96579-2-2 PodcastContextualising The Precincts of Thorsby© 2020 Vol. 1Documentary is analysed and philosophise within a cultural sense through a metaphoric lens creating an ethos which helps to recognise why this locale whether virtual or pragmatic in context feels like a therapeutic nuance William Anderson GittensAuthor, Cinematographer, Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ Editor in Chief Devgro Media Arts Services Publishing®2015 License Cultural Practitioner, Publisher, Student of Film, CEO Devgro Media Arts Services Publishing®2015"Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden.Classical Excursions (February 2017). "Classicism in the Caribbean: Great Houses and Gardens of Barbados" (PDF).Cooke, F.; Bruce, J. (2004). The Encyclopedia of Animals: a complete visual guide (1st ed.). Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-520-24406-1."Crown-of-Thorns (Euphorbia milii)". Veterinary Medicine Library. University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Archived from the original on 2017-03-23. Retrieved 2017-04-08. Don Burke (1 November 2005). The complete Burke's backyard: the ultimate book of fact sheets. Murdoch Books. p. 269. ISBN 978-1-74045-739-2. Retrieved 9 March 2011. Duke, Jim (2007): Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases - Hamelia patens. Retrieved 2007-09-19.Forshaw, J. M.; Cooper, W. T. (1981). Parrots of the World (2nd ed.). London, England: David & Charles, Newton Abbot. ISBN 978-0-7153-7698-0. Gittens,William Anderson,Author, Cinematographer, Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ Editor in Chief Devgro Media Arts Services Publishing®2015 License Cultural Practitioner, Publisher, Student of Film, CEO Devgro Media Arts Services®2015"Green-throated Carib (Eulampis holosericeus)". Handbook of the Birds of the World. Retrieved 17 August 2016.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Barbadoshttps://www.adorama.com/alc/abstract-photography-for-beginners-9-tips-for-capturing-stunning-abstract-images/ https://www.thespruce.com/purple-fountain-grass-2132874#:~:text=Purple%20fountain%20grass%20is%20named,seasons%20out%20of%20the%20year.https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=c257https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/foliage/purple-fountain-grass/grow-purple-fountain-grass.htmhttps://www.atozflowers.com/flower/begonias/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamelia_patenshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delonix_regiahttps://www.gardeningknowhow.com/houseplants/bromeliad/growing-bromeliad-plants.htmhttps://www.atozflowers.com/flower/lantana/https://www.atozflowers.com/flower/celosia/https://www.visitbarbados.org/discover/barbados-heritages/historical-architecturehttps://www.morflora.com/crown-of-thorns/https:///wiki/Green-throated_caribhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BougainvilleaHuxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. ISBN 978-0-333-47494-5.Joseph, L.; Toon, A.; Schirtzinger, E. E.; Wright, T. F.; Schodde, R. (2012). "A revised nomenclature and classification for family-group taxa of parrots (Psittaciformes)" (PDF).Jussieu, A.L. de. Genera Plantarum Ombrello, Dr T., Crown of Thorns, Plant of the Week, UCC Biology Department, archived from the original on 17 September 2009, retrieved 1 October 2009 Ridley, Glynis. "A Female Explorer Discovered On The High Seas". All Things Considered. National Public Radio (NPR). Retrieved 19 February 2012."Psittacine". American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4tSupport the show (http://www.buzzsprout.com/429292)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Pt.8 Love, Grace & Healing Sunday, September 20, 2020 Ephesians 2:1-10 “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” It is mind blowing to me how something so absolutely amazing as The Grace of God can be resisted with such passion by the very ones it was extended to. There are few things that ignite debate and draw lines in the sand like Grace. When you think about it it makes sense though because Grace draws a line in the sand between The Father and religion! Weather we are talking about forgiveness of sin, healing, provision, restoration, etc… In order to truly live in the fullness of what Jesus accomplished according to the will of The Father, WE MUST UNDERSTAND, BELIEVE AND RECEIVE THE GRACE OF GOD IN OUR LIFE! We have a hard time receiving Grace because we have been taught by society that we have to work to be valued, accepted, and approved. Our nation was built upon hard work and independence. In the Kingdom of God we are not valued, accepted or approved because of our works, but because of the Love of God! We don’t work to become valued, accepted, and approved, we work because we are valued, accepted, and approved! There is a huge difference. Love is the motivation, Grace is the action. You could say it this way; love is the noun (person/place/thing), Grace is the verb (action). From The Fathers perspective, He IS Love and the resulting action of Love is Grace toward the object of that Love! Grace is Gods response to us. Faith is our response to His Grace! Our faith is not in our faith. Our faith must be rooted completely in the Love of God and the Grace of God! Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response. When we start talking about Grace without fail there are those who say, “Well, you better not focus too much on Grace or you will have people living in sin!” Or “You’re just giving people a license to sin!”, “God doesn’t just wink at sin! He takes sin serious!”… He takes sin so serous the He paid the highest price to redeem us from the dominion of sin! Grace doesn’t overlook sin, it empowers righteousness by paying the price to set you free from the dominion of sin. Thereby, giving you the freedom to resist sin! Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners. Some people need a works based salvation to justify their works mentality driven by a need that be recognized. The Love and Grace of God must be the foundation upon which our belief system is built. Love and Grace led to the finished work of Christ which is where we find our VICTORY! Salvation, which includes healing, is a gift from God. The American Heritage Dictionary defines “gift” as “something that is bestowed voluntarily and without compensation” Titus 2:11 says, For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.. Salvation has been provided for all… Grace has appeared to all men, but not all men have appealed to grace! Without faith, God’s grace is wasted, and without grace, faith is powerless. Faith in God’s grace has to be released to receive what God has provided through Christ! Jesus hasn’t saved, healed, delivered, or prospered a single person in the last 2,000 years! What God provided by grace 2,000 years ago now becomes a reality when mixed with faith. Healing is a product of grace, not a result of works. Our faith, not our works, positions us to receive all that God wants us to have. Then the question becomes “How do I get healed?”. That question is usually followed by: “I have been praying, reading my Bible, going to church, and paying my tithes, yet I’m still…. In that question and explanation lies the root of the problem: They have fallen into the trap of linking God’s response to their performance. WE ARE saved, SOZO’d by GRACE…. We are not saved by works, we are saved unto works! There is a vast difference between being saved by good works and being saved unto good works. Good works do not gain us salvation, but they do affirm that salvation has been received into our lives. Good works cannot produce a new nature, but a new nature should produce good works We have been taught that we must obey the law to be right with God, but this is a religious teaching that contradicts His Word. Our trust in the finished works of Jesus allows us to take possession of what He already did. Our healing—both physically and emotionally—is already done. By definition, one aspect of the word grace means unmerited, unearned, undeserved favor. That means grace has nothing to do with you. Grace existed before you ever came to be. Grace is God’s part. A simple definition of Faith is a positive response to what God has already provided by grace. In other words, faith is your positive response to God’s grace. Faith appropriates what God has already provided for you. Could it be that we’ve been a little off in the “faith” camp? Maybe it’s not that faith moves God, but that faith moves what God has done and made available into your situation. Without faith, God's grace is wasted, & without grace, faith is powerless. A few weeks ago Kelly touched on something so profound that I think many of us missed it. We have been taught that healing is a process, but if healing is part of what Jesus paid for, it is a finished truth, accomplished and made available by Grace! Healing then, is not the process. The process is renewing my mind to the it can appropriate by faith what has been made available by Grace! Whatever we focus our attention on is what will dominate our thoughts (Proverbs 23:7). If our thoughts are dominated by the things of this world then we are going to get worldly results in our lives. We need to focus on God to get godly results.” The problem is most believers won’t let the word get in the way of what they believe! We must make a decision to believe in Jesus’ finished works concerning our healing. When we get a bad doctor’s diagnosis, we need to go to the Bible and study every Scripture concerning our healing. We have a choice as to who we trust with our healing. Until God’s will is known, faith will not work. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. (Ephesians 2:8). It is God’s will for us to be healed, but His will does not automatically come to pass. We must first choose to respond positively to what is available to us. Luke 5:12-13 And it happened when He was in a certain city, that behold, a man who was full of leprosy saw Jesus; and he fell on his face and [a]implored Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” 13 Then He put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately the leprosy left him. The leper questioned if it was God’s will to heal him and Jesus answered that question emphatically! We look to the standard!

AEMind.com | Algia, Ase, Blastoma, Cyte, Derma Medical Term Suffixes #1 Free Medical Student Mastery Guide ▶ http://www.MedStudentMastery.com Full List at ▶ http://www.aemind.com/MedTerms In today's episode, I broke down for you the Medical Vocabulary words, -algia = algae pain = feeling pain Story The algae was in deep pain after being split open Term Use epigastralgia = pain in the epigastric region [Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012] ——— -ase = ace of diamond (card) enzyme = angel slime Story The angel won all the slime after having all aces in poker Term Use luciferase = An enzyme present in the cells of bioluminescent organisms that catalyzes the oxidation of luciferin and ATP, producing light. [The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary. © 2007. Houghton Mifflin Company] -blastoma = bazooka blast tumor of cells = turmeric on cells Story bazooka was blasting turmeric on the cells Term Use archiblastoma = a tumor composed of cells derived from the layer of tissue surrounding the germinal vesicle. [Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 9th edition. © 2009, Elsevier.] -cyte = eye sight (glasses) cell = cell phone Story I was looking at the cells in my cell phone with my eye glasses on Term Use Leukocyte = white blood cell [American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. © 2011. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company]   -derma = door + mouse skin = skin Story The door had all of the skin that the hairless mouse was shedding over the years The key idea with being able to memorize med terms and vocabulary words is the create pictures for those words. Just take both the picture for the word and the picture for the definition and visualize an interaction between the two. That's It! Just review a little bit and you will have these words fully memorized come test day. Free Medical Student Mastery Guide ▶ http://www.MedStudentMastery.com ▶ Medical Terminology Full List at: http://www.aemind.com/MedTerms --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/premed/support

Anxiety is a state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation, often impairing physical and psychological functioning (American Heritage Dictionary). Are you experiencing regular bouts of anxiety? Do you have a loved one who is plagued with this? What if we told you that you could be free of this and find a real peace that would guard your mind and mental health? In this teaching, we will give you real answers and solutions that have worked for millions of people who have suffered from this debilitating mental illness. You too will find hope, faith, and freedom!

Anxiety is a state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation, often impairing physical and psychological functioning (American Heritage Dictionary). Are you experiencing regular bouts of anxiety? Do you have a loved one who is plagued with this? What if we told you that you could be free of this and find a real peace that would guard your mind and mental health? In this teaching, we will give you real answers and solutions that have worked for millions of people who have suffered from this debilitating mental illness. You too will find hope, faith, and freedom!

Alex really wanted to take you out for a drink, because you're awesome. However, seeing as that's off the cards at the moment, he decided he'd take you on a virtual night out instead. Go on, you know you want to. Let's go on the (etymological) lash. Just, don't tell his mum... Credits: Mylène: Charlotte Mangel Yelena: Kat Soloviev Piotr: Egor Gavrilin Barman: Alex's Father Darren: Also Alex's Father Alex's Mother:...Alex's Mother Music and effects by Epidemicsounds.com References: 1. RAMMINGER, JOHANN. (accessed 16 July 2016). Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2]. Pre-publication website, 2005-2016 2. HARDY A, WALTON R, VAISHNAV R Int J Environ Health Res. 2004 Feb;14(1):83–91. Composition of eye cosmetics (kohls) used in Cairo. 3. DOUGLAS HARPER. Etymology Online. Online. 2001-present. Viewed May 2020. https://www.etymonline.com 4. EMMA. A Brief History of Gin and Tonic - Flaviar. Online. July 2018. Viewed. May 2020. https://flaviar.com/blog/gin-tonic-history 5. BRUCE MOORE (1999). The Vocabulary of Australian English. Australian National Dictionary Centre. 6. REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA (2014). Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición. Real Academia Española, 2014 7. Trésor de la langue Française informatisé. Online. Viewed May 2020. http://www.atilf.fr/tlfi, ATILF - CNRS & Université de Lorraine. 8. Findwords.info. Word finder 2020. Viewed May 2020. https://findwords.info/term/cognac 9. BARNHART, ROBERT ED., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology. H.W. Wilson Co., 1988. 10. Whiskyforeveryone.com. Whiskey or whisky? Online blog 2012. viewed May 2020. http://www.whiskyforeveryone.com/whisky_basics/whisky_or_whiskey.html 11. European Waterways, Whisky Business: The Celtic Love of the ‘Water of Life'. Online 2020. Viewed May 2020, https://www.europeanwaterways.com/blog/whisky-business/ 12. Arcanum adatbazis. Online. Viewed 2020 https://www.arcanum.hu/hu/online-kiadvanyok/Lexikonok-magyar-etimologiai-szotar-F14D3/b-F1794/bor-F1966/ 13. VinePair Inc.,The Oddly Interesting Origins Of Wine Words 2014-2020. Online. Viewed May 2020 https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/etymology-wine-words/ 14. Voxy, Why is Spanish cerveza So Different? Online. April 6 2012. Viewed May 2020 https://voxy.com/blog/2012/04/spanish-cerveza-english-beer/ 15. WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language vol. 1. 16. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language(5th ed.). Boston: . Retrieved 18 May 2019

As a Author,Student of Film, License Cultural Practitioner, and Media Arts Specialist I am a proponent of the theoretical abstract Mise en scène. When I first became acquainted with the technique Mise en scène during my academic tenure as a media arts major and a student of film I discovered that metaphorically it’s application has to do with “placing on stage” in French – is a common term in film analysis and criticism circles since all the world's a stage,. Although Mise-en-scène isn’t strictly a production term, it’s definitely something that filmmakers consider throughout the creative process! Think of it as the convergence of many different departments’ efforts, as guided by the director, culminating in a singular visual impression that impacts and gets analyzed by audiences and critics alike. There are five aspects of Mise-en-scène that represent an opportunity for global citizens to tell their story visually. Mise en scène refers to what I see on screen in a film even on the virtual global stage which becomes the film’s visuals; meaning, and all of the elements that appear on my camera and arrangement.William Anderson GittensAuthor, Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ License Cultural Practitioner, Publisher, CEO Devgro Media Arts ServicesWORKS CITED"Biggest Islands In The Mediterranean Sea By Area". WorldAtlas. Archived from the original on 12 May 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018."Discorsi del Presidente Ciampi". Presidenza della Repubblica. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013."Economy of Renaissance Florence, Richard A. Goldthwaite, Book – Barnes & Noble". Search.barnesandnoble.com. 23 April 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2010."Firenze-del-rinascimento: Documenti, foto e citazioni nell'Enciclopedia Treccani"."GaWC – The World According to GaWC 2008". Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Retrieved 1 March 2009."Mykonos – The Island of the Winds". Travel Wide World. 2014-02-11. Retrieved 20 February 2015."Mykonos". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 8 July 2019."Mykonos". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Retrieved 8 July 2019."Popolazione residente al 1° gennaio"."Principal Agglomerations of the World". Citypopulation. January 2017."Rapallo". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 30 July 2019."Spain | Facts, Culture, History, & Points of Interest". Encyclopedia Britannica."The Most Populated Islands In The Mediterranean Sea". WorldAtlas. Archived from the original on 12 May 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018."What is the smallest country in the world?". History.com. Retrieved 27 September 2018."storia della lingua in 'Enciclopedia dell'Italiano'". Treccani.it. Retrieved 28 October 2017.Archived 6 January 2011 at the Wayback MachineBertrand 2008, p. 204.Bilancio demografico anno 2013, dati ISTATBrucker, Gene A. (1969). Renaissance Florence. New York: Wiley. p. 23. ISBN 978-0520046955.Gittens, William Anderson Author, Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ License Cultural Practitioner, Publisher, CEO Devgro Media Arts Services ISBN978-1-64570-044-9ISTATIsrael". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 5 January 2017.Kallikratis law Greece Ministry of Interior (in Greek)Minder, Raphael (3 November 2010). "Polishing Gaudí's Unfinished Jewel". The New York Times.National Geographic Atlas Support the show (http://www.buzzsprout.com/429292)

Comedians Godfrey and Andre Kim (joined by their producers Bobby Hutch and Alex Scarlato) hang out for another episode of In Godfrey We Trust Podcast! The guys discuss the best and worst aspects of 4/20, the high schoolers expelled for their use of the n-word in a TikTok video, Italian comedian Vic DeBenedetto’s YouTube videos, and some vulgar language in the American Heritage Dictionary. Real Talk (twice a week!) with Godfrey and Andre Kim, ONLY on In Godfrey We Trust Podcast! Air Date: 04/21/20Support our sponsor! Go to Ridge.com/GODFREY and use promo code GODFREY for 10% off your order with FREE Worldwide Shipping & returns!If you have a product or service that you'd like to advertise on a GaS Digital Network show, go to GaSDigitalNetwork.com/advertise and use show code GODFREY to let them know we sent you.New episode available for FREE on iTunes & YouTube every Sunday & Wednesday. Please like, subscribe, and leave a review on iTunes to support the show.Watch In Godfrey We Trust LIVE for FREE every Tuesday & Friday at 9:30pm(ish) at GaSDigitalNetwork.com/LIVE.In Godfrey We Trust T-Shirts are available at PodcastMerch.com/Godfrey!For full episodes on demand four days sooner than iTunes and YouTube, subscribe to GaSDigitalNetwork.com. Use promo code GODFREY30 for a 30 Day FREE TRIAL! There, you'll get access to the HD livestream, the live chat, and all episodes On Demand in HD. You'll also have access to all the other amazing podcasts that GaSDigitalNetwork has to offer!FOLLOW THE SHOW@godfreypodcast (instagram)@comediangodfrey (instagram) / @godfreycomedian (twitter)@andrethecomedian (instagram)@iamalexscar (instagram & twitter)@thebobbyhutch (instagram & twitter)@gasdigital (instagram & twitter)

Godfrey and Andre Kim hang out for another episode of In Godfrey We Trust Podcast! Godfrey discusses terminology from the American Heritage Dictionary, while Andre and Alex air some minor gripes with one another. Plus, the guys remember comedian Vic Henley after his recent passing, discuss French scientists who have suggested using Africans as human test subjects, and more. Real Talk (twice a week!) with Godfrey and Andre Kim, ONLY on In Godfrey We Trust Podcast! Air Date: 04/10/20Support our sponsors! Go to VessiFootwear.com/GODFREY and use proomo code GODFREY for $25 off your order!Check out BlueChew.com and use promo code TRUST to receive your first order for FREE with just $5 shipping!If you have a product or service that you'd like to advertise on a GaS Digital Network show, go to GaSDigitalNetwork.com/advertise and use show code GODFREY to let them know we sent you.New episode available for FREE on iTunes & YouTube every Sunday & Wednesday. Please like, subscribe, and leave a review on iTunes to support the show.Watch In Godfrey We Trust LIVE for FREE every Tuesday & Friday at 9:30pm(ish) at GaSDigitalNetwork.com/LIVE.In Godfrey We Trust T-Shirts are available at PodcastMerch.com/Godfrey!For full episodes on demand four days sooner than iTunes and YouTube, subscribe to GaSDigitalNetwork.com. Use promo code GODFREY30 for a 30 Day FREE TRIAL! There, you'll get access to the HD livestream, the live chat, and all episodes On Demand in HD. You'll also have access to all the other amazing podcasts that GaSDigitalNetwork has to offer!FOLLOW THE SHOW@godfreypodcast (instagram)@comediangodfrey (instagram) / @godfreycomedian (twitter)@andrethecomedian (instagram)@iamalexscar (instagram & twitter)@thebobbyhutch (instagram & twitter)@gasdigital (instagram & twitter)

These are some recent comments sent to me via social media: “Your theology is man-centered…” “You are a humanistic Pelagian…” “You start with man and build your view of God around humanistic reasoning.” “Making God in your own image is not theology, Mr. Flowers!!!” And those were the nice ones. First, I would like us to try and objectively consider which soteriological perspective is actually more “humanistic.” To do so we need a good working definition. The American Heritage Dictionary defines humanistic as “one who is concerned with the interests and welfare of humans.” I’ll objectively concede this point: When compared to the claims of Calvinism related to God’s ultimate desire for self-glorification it does appear that our soteriological perspective does put more emphasis on God’s concern with humanity over and above His concern for self-glorification. Notable Calvinists are known to argue that God’s primary concern is not the welfare of man, but for Himself and His own glory. In my journey to becoming a Calvinist, I was very drawn to the teachings about God’s desire for His own glory. This was especially attractive to me coming out of the more “seeker-sensitive” movement that seemed to put way too much focus on pleasing man rather than on glorifying God. And quite honestly, Calvinistic authors introduced me to many texts within scripture which so clearly supported the doctrine of God’s self-glorification that I could not begin to understand how any Bible-believing Christian could deny such truth. They would have to be selfish and humanistic to do so, right? Regardless of what some of my Calvinistic friends may think; in my journey out of Calvinism, I did not abandon the truth that God seeks His own Glory. Instead, I realized that God’s Glory is best revealed in His self-sacrificial love for all. I came to understand that God does not sacrifice creation for the sake of His own glory, but instead He sacrifices Himself for sake of His creation, which in turn reveals Him as the most glorious of all. For more go here: https://soteriology101.com/2019/11/05/is-man-centered-theology-bad-theology/

Viktor Devonne is back w/ Petra Fried, his partner in Wednesday Nights at Rockbar NYC. Petra is a drag queen who runs a full length cabaret revue as part of Petra Fried Presents. Petra has been featured on Mic.com, Mashable, and Thotyssey, been nominated for nightlife awards (Go Magazine, GLAM), and has won 2 Silver Tusk Awards from White Elephant Burlesque's audience and peers: 2017's Best Mug (makeup/look) and 2018's Chanteuse Supreme (best singer)... topics: drinking in the morning, shots to the stage, The Drowsy Chaperone after party, the Joel Grey tableau, This Club is a Haunted House at the McKittrick Hotel, Sleep No More, Drag Race queens, Roxxxy Andrews, mean people on the internet, How I Met Your Drag Queen at Rockbar, Deep Fried Tart, what are we doing, Millennials, nihilism of today, songs about love, the Joni Mitchell song, return of Saturn*, oil and vinegar, the connectedness of burlesque and drag, Kiss Me Deadly, formative body image, the bodies that we're in, innate abilities, Jenifer Lewis, Seth MacFarlane, "equal opporuntity," Amy Schumer, Rufus Wainwright, pedal pushing fetish, "Why do gay men like ______," and a lot about The Golden Girls... shoutouts: Lewd Alfred Douglas, Little Miss Rollerhoops, Sharon Needles, Emma Story, Heidi Glum, Alexis Michelle, Bob the Drag Queen, Precious Envy, Hazel Tart, Lee VaLone, Switch n' Play, Sasha Velour, Misty Meaner, Chris Harder, Stormy Leather, Holly Ween, Broody Valentino, Jack Barrow, Esmerelda May, Doll Body, ... recorded: February 18, 2018... You can see Petra Fried Presents, with Petra Fried and multiple guests throughout the month, Wednesdays at 7pm at Rockbar - 185 Christopher St in Manhattan. White Elephant Burlesque immediately follows. @petrafriedpresents.. Check out the Mashable article/video: https://mashable.com/2017/11/30/day-job-drag-queen/ ... *footnotes: • sure enough in March of 2018, we in fact cancelled the show twice due to weather... • Viktor totally calls it a "return to Saturn" repeatedly. Whoops... • watch Bea Arthur on Graham Norton here: https://youtu.be/fg3C0VGWRcY?t=5m33s ... • "Ebbtide" means the period between high tide and low tide during which water flows away from the shore, according to the American Heritage Dictionary... • Indeed, Debbie Reynolds plays Truby in "There Goes the Bride" - not to be confused with Trudy, from "From Death Do We Volley," who was played by Ann Francis. • We quote "Just Between Friends," Bea Arthur's one woman show a lot, which is available on CD and digital at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bea-Arthur-Broadway-Between-Friends/dp/B00005YTRL ... intro/outro music: "On A 45" This Way to the Egress (http://www.thiswaytotheegress.com) ... used with permission ... download it at: https://www.amazon.com/This-Delicious-Cabaret-Explicit-Egress/dp/B005D1GROO ... interlude music: "Doobly Doo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ... Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/weburlesque

Steven Pinker in conversation with Amol Rajan on Enlightenment Now. Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He grew up in Montreal and earned his BA from McGill and his PhD from Harvard. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He has won numerous prizes for his research, his teaching, and his nine books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and The Sense of Style. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates, and one of Foreign Policy’s “World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals” and Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” He is Chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and writes frequently for The New York Times, The Guardian, and other publications. His tenth book, is called Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Amol Rajan is the BBC Media editor and former Editor of the Independent. 5x15 brings together outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. Learn more about 5x15 events: www.5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

What is the definition of”happiness?¨Is it material wealth filled with fancy cars,a dream house,exteravagant furs and jewelry? Or is happiness simply having a roof over your head? “幸福”是什么？幸福是拥有豪华的汽车、梦想的居室、名贵的裘皮和珠宝等物质上的富足嘛？或者，幸福其实很简单一一有遮风避雨的住所 Food inthefridge?Having a child? A pet?A swimming pooI?A designer Gucci bag? Parents? Grandchildren? Love? Money? The perfct job?Winning the Lottery? 冰箱里有食物，有孩子、宠物、游泳池、Gucci的包，有父母、子孙、有爱情、金钱和理想的工作，彩票中奖了呢？ According to the American Heritage Dictionary,”happiness”is derived from the Middle English word hap-meaning¨Luck.¨ 在《美国传统字典》中，幸福是从中古英语“Hap”一词演变而来，“Hap”意为“好运”。 But does happiness really have anything to do with”luck?¨Based on this description,one could assume that if you avoide*水a:stal traffic accident but got fired by coming late to work,you would be fdled w...

Welcome back! On today's show, we are continuing the discussing on the Wisdom of Symbolism. Enjoy! “Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, but if you write as true to life as you possibly can, people will see symbolism. They'll all see different symbolism, but they're apt to because you can see it in life. ― Carolyn Chute Symbolism: "The representation of something in symbolic form or the attribution of symbolic meaning or character to something" (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition) New book from JC Johnson, The 40 Day Fire, now available on Amazon! Get it today! https://www.amazon.com/40-Day-Fire-Burning-Resemble-ebook/dp/B07MHB6JJP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547829307&sr=8-1&keywords=the+40+day+fire   Show Theme Verse: Psalm 90:12 – “Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts” (Christian Standard Bible [CSB]). The original meaning of the word philosophy comes from the Greek roots philo- meaning "love" and -sophos, or "wisdom." The theme song was written by Jason C. Johnson aka Vytal MC. For more from JC Johnson including exclusive music, books, and videos visit his website at http://www.oneplanmedia.com    Theme music produced by Yung Kartz @yungkartz Background music produced by Ryan Little, Audio Binger, Daniel Birch, and Yung Kartz. More of their music can be heard on SoundCloud at @danielbirch @iamryanlittle @yungkartz and @audiobinger

Good afternoon, Good evening, and Good night! On today's show, we are discussing the Wisdom of Symbolism. Enjoy! “There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.” ― Kenzo Tange Symbolism: "The representation of something in symbolic form or the attribution of symbolic meaning or character to something" (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition) New book from JC Johnson, The 40 Day Fire, now available on Amazon! Get it today! https://www.amazon.com/40-Day-Fire-Burning-Resemble-ebook/dp/B07MHB6JJP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547829307&sr=8-1&keywords=the+40+day+fire   Show Theme Verse: Psalm 90:12 – “Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts” (Christian Standard Bible [CSB]). The original meaning of the word philosophy comes from the Greek roots philo- meaning "love" and -sophos, or "wisdom." The theme song was written by Jason C. Johnson aka Vytal MC. For more from JC Johnson including exclusive music, books, and videos visit his website at http://www.oneplanmedia.com    Theme music produced by Yung Kartz @yungkartz Background music produced by Ryan Little, Audio Binger, Daniel Birch, and Yung Kartz. More of their music can be heard on SoundCloud at @danielbirch @iamryanlittle @yungkartz and @audiobinger

Last week, I tuned into CBS Morning News and the lead story was about active shooter training at an elementary school in Florida.  The reporter was in the classroom of 4th grade students when the school was having an active shooter drill.  The viewers got to witness first hand as the principal came over the intercom and stated “we are pretending that there is an active shooter in the school.”  Pretending?  That didn’t seem like the best choice of words.  Then as the drill instructions continued the 9 - 10 year old children quickly, as CBS news reports “sprang into action, barricading the door to their classroom, lining up along a wall out of sight from the door and arming themselves with whatever items they could grab, including pencils, scissors and water bottles.” After the drill was complete, when the reporter asked if they were scared during the drill, almost every hand went up.  These drills have become a normal part of life for many students in the United States.  Realizing that this is a “normal part of life” for school aged children and witnessing their robotic spring to action under the guise of making them safer even though the majority still admitted to being scared, spoke volumes to me about how our young children are influenced from the earliest of ages to live and act out of fear.  I realized too, that schools are no longer bastions of safety and protection that they once were thought to be. This week in the news we heard of the explosives mailed to twelve leading Democrats and other officials and leaders who have been critics of President Trump.  Thankgfully, the individual thought to be behind the bombs has just been taken into custody and no one was hurt but could have been. It is startling that someone was so manipulated by the rhetoric of political leaders, by their own bigotry and prejudice as to react in the most negative and potentially destructive ways as to take the time to plan, purchase the materials, make explosives and send them to those whom they disagree with, whom they see as the “other”, the “enemy”, the “problem” because certain leaders have always cast their critics in that light. It is precisely because of reactions like this and the potential for more people to be so manipulated as to desire harm and destruction of those who disagree with them, who they’ve been told are the “other” that Spei Lumina came into being.  The goal of this podcast and of imaginal prayer is to take the negative effects of media and news, those effects that only stoke reactions and respond with meditation, prayer, imaginal prayer imaging Divine Light in the darkness of all that rhetoric.  A practice done to illuminate in our mind that True Self the Divine has called us to be.  The better self that we are.  Or, as Henry Corbin described in his cosmology, “our angel out ahead” whom we will be reunited with someday and who leads us to our highest, illuminated, self.  In his book The Way Back to Paradise: Restoring the Balance Between Magic and Reason, the philosopher Joseph M. Felser, PH. D., discusses doppelgängers and how the universe sometimes works in such a synchronistic way as to give us a glimpse of our doppelgänger — not just the common understanding of the“double of a living person” but the fuller American Heritage Dictionary definition of “a ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its fleshy counterpart” (Felser, Joseph The Way Back to Paradise, 51).  Dr. Felser goes on to explain that sometimes we are presented a glimpse of our doppelgänger by the universe in ways that may not make sense at the time, but later as we reflect we become aware of that’s who we risk turning into if we continue along the present course, feeding our present reactions and not taking time to respond to the situations we are in.  For some it might be seeing an obese version of themselves if they don’t change their diet, or exercise more.  For others it might be seeing a glimpse of a bitter version of themselves if they do not change the current occupation they are in that they no longer find fulfilling and squashes their creative side.   For others, it may be as simple as not taking time to be in nature and observing first hand the interconnectivity of all creation and not bothering to recycle, to pay attention to taking care of the earth, etc… Felser’s Doppelgänger fits in well with Corbin’s “angel out ahead” cosmology when we put it into the perspective that our doppelgänger is who we risk becoming when we have lost touch with, lost sight of or no longer are in communion with our “angel out ahead”. The current polarity facing our country between the right and the left, Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals is greatly fed by our reactions to the news we hear and our lack of taking the time to mindfully, prayerfully, purposely respond in a way that is part of the solution of the problem not further spewing of diversionary rhetoric on the situation. For this episode, I would like to focus our imaginal prayer exercise on ourselves and our young who are in our life and how we might participate in the Anima Mundi — the soul of the world —safety net of protection, of hope, of love.  Rather than risk giving more life and credence to the reactionary destructive energies of our cosmic doppelgänger may our imaginal prayer exercise help us foster and nurture a closer relationship with our “angel out ahead”.  May it help us discover how to counteract the influences that encourage our young to live out of fear.  May the Divine Light of God inspire within our consciousness, our mind, our imagination how to brightly go about spreading divine hope, divine love, divine light and further empower the Anima Mundi protecting our world, our cosmos.

If "irregardless" isn't a real word, then why the hell is it in my dictionary?!? It's a matter of philosophy. Steve and Kory give a primer on descriptivism and prescriptivism, two approaches to describing language, and how modern dictionaries are descriptivist (which is exactly the opposite of what everyone believes). They recap the culture wars of the 1960s, which gave rise to the American Heritage Dictionary; discuss the AHD Usage Panel and what it does; lament the state of modern dictionary marketing; and gab extensively about where people can get themselves some of that sweet, sweet prescriptivism they long for.  BONUS FEATURES:- Kory and Steve offer to stage-fight at your conference; - Steve introduces you to the best dictionary marketing video known to humanity (and YOU ARE MOST WELCOME); - Steve amazes Kory w/r/t Romanian; - Stamper Mispronunciation Rundown: "biases" TRANSCRIPT BELOW: ----more---- Kory:                     Hi, I'm Kory Stamper Steve:                   and I'm Steve Kleinedler. Kory:                     and welcome to Fiat Lex, Steve:                   a podcast about dictionaries by people who write them. Kory:                     That would be us. So last episode, we talked a little bit about how words get into dictionaries and how dictionaries are written, but we wanted to sort of backtrack and give you an underlying philosophical basis for how modern dictionaries are written. Steve:                   Right. And one of those perceptions that are held by the public who pay attention to the brand of dictionary, which we-- admittedly is a small subset of people who actually use reference works. Is this distinction, this dichotomy that doesn't really exist between, for example, the American Heritage Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's. Kory:                     Mm-hmm. So lots of people assume that we are mortal enemies. That American Heritage and Merriam Webster, we are competitors. We have always been set up mostly by our marketing departments and other people as direct competitors. But, in fact, we are not really direct competitors of each other. That's just been something that has been sort of formulated because of this philosophical difference that we're going to talk about. Steve:                   And also, the editors at the different companies -- we're all colleagues, most of us belong to the same learned societies such as the Dictionary Society of North America, where we meet together with much conviviality -- we're friends, Kory's my friend. Kory:                     And Steve is my friend. Steve:                   And even though we keep threatening to attend conferences and stage fake duels, with the weaponry that Kory has assembled, we have not yet done this. We may do it someday. Kory:                     Let us know. Let us know if you want us to come to your conferences, stage a fight Steve:                   We'll stage a fight or we'll just do a normal q and a section. And with this, this, this, this frame of reference that there is somehow this distinction is borne out of a concept of prescriptivism versus descriptivism. Kory:                     Right? So let's just define terms very loosely. Prescriptivism and descriptivism are these two approaches to language that are common in modern linguistics. Steve:                   A prescriptive approach is one that claims there is a right and wrong. There are rules that prescribe how one should use English or any language properly. Kory:                     Right. And descriptivism is the idea that all languages, all varieties of a language are an equal footing, and it's really, you're just describing usage, not passing judgment on usage. So, so if you, if you say ain't and that's native to your dialect, then that's a matter of context and not a matter of right and wrong. Steve:                   And truthfully, this is how most modern dictionaries in the United States are in fact produced. They're very descriptive. However, due to incidents that happened in the 1960s, in the public consciousness, there's this idea that the American Heritage Dictionary is this prescriptive dictionary and Merriam Webster is descriptive. There's this -- this argument raises its head from time to time.The New Yorker about five or six years ago, had this string of essays, followed by letters to the editor about this dichotomy that it's -- it seemed to be that the journalists were still thinking that this is the case. There's a really good article by Steven Pinker called the activist tours that you can find in the New Yorker that describes that kerfuffle in some detail. But! The original kerfuffle, how this all got steeped in the consciousness, goes back to 1961. Kory:                     1961. At that point, Merriam Webster, which was one of the main dictionary companies in America, released its Third New International Unabridged Dictionary. Now, this was a dictionary that had been eagerly awaited by the public. It was 12 years in the making, over a hundred editors, over 200 outside consultants helped with it, and people assumed it was going to be in the style of all of the 19th century dictionaries we wrote where we had sort of given this idea that the dictionary is the sum of all human knowledge, and therefore is sort of this intellectual tool. 1961 comes around, and the book is released. Now the book was informed by modern linguistic thinking, and so it took more descriptivist stances on things than most people thought it should. For instance, instead of saying that something was uneducated or illiterate, we would say it's substandard or nonstandard. Those are linguistic terms, but the general public knows that linguistic terms don't really matter in the real world. So when the book was released, it was kind of roundly panned by the general press as being way too anything goes, way too, you know, just throwing aside its role as the guardian of the language-- Steve:                   Often revolving around one word in particular-- Kory:                     That would be the word ain't. Steve:                   Ain't. Steve:                   Oy. So in fact, there is a great book about this controversy that is called The Story of Ain't by David Skinner -- it's a great book if you want to know more about this. It gets into a lot of the culture wars that were going on at the time too, which I think is frankly more interesting than dictionary history, but it all ties together. So, 1961, The third comes out. It has panned in the general press and then, Steve:                   and then in these pre internet days, publishing companies could make a lot of money off dictionaries and as such, the fact that Merriam Webster was being excoriated in the press for its inclusion of ain't and other, kind of these liberal approaches, other editors thought, hey, we can write a dictionary that is in response to this and take a more prescriptive approach. One editor at American Heritage named -- affiliated with American Heritage -- named James Parton, came up with a plan to create a competing dictionary, that would be in response to Merriam Webster, and it is in the early sixties when he is going forth with this plan that, this, this, this concept of prescriptive versus descriptive approaches was really embedded in the consciousness of people who are paying attention. The interesting thing though, is as the dictionary -- as the American Heritage Dictionary was compiled in the sixties, the editors who were working on it, and even members of the Usage Panel who were brought into service to give their opinion on style issues, came -- well, they didn't come to the conclusion most of them had this conclusion -- is, well, no, a dictionary in fact, does to a large degree describe how words are being used. And in, in the earlier podcast we talked about corpus -- corpora material, that, that the editors were using to make definitions, craft definitions, the, the evidence is there in print as to, well, this word is used this way, this word is used this way. It's our duty to report that. So even though the genesis of the American Heritage Dictionary was thought of to be this prescriptive approach, it ended up being fairly descriptive almost as much as Merriam Webster Kory:                     It was. And you know, Steve and I -- we have a party trick that we like to do when we speak together. And that is we put together a slide with the American Heritage Definition of irregardless, and the Merriam Webster definition of irregardless, side by side, and you will see that they treat the word almost identically. Steve:                   The note covers the same amount of material. And you can find a lot of information about the word irregardless in Kory's book Word By Word, The Secret Life of Dictionaries. She has a whole chapter devoted to irregardless. Steve:                   Thank you for that plug, Steve. Steve:                   Well, you're welcome. On one hand, dictionaries do serve the purpose of pointing out style issues so that, for example, even though people might think inflammable means not flammable, it actually means flammable, which is an important thing if you were the manufacturer of cushions or children's pajamas, you don't want that mistake coming up because in this, you know, it can be fatal. So there are certain style issues where there -- all dictionaries will point out, use this word, not this word, but then nowadays you know, something like whether or not to split infinitive or use a singular they. And we will get into these in later podcasts in greater detail, what dictionary say nowadays might surprise you. Kory:                     So I want to talk a little bit about the Usage Panel that Steve mentioned about the American Heritage Dictionary. So that was the American Heritage Dictionary's big hook was Parton, who Steve had mentioned earlier, Parton originally actually wanted to buy Merriam Webster and his plan was to pulp the Third and reprint the Second which was released in 1934, and just move straight onto the Fourth, and the Fourth was not going to be this sort of hippie Commie, pinko, anything goes dictionary. It was going to be a right proper dictionary, and he couldn't buy out the company. So he started his own dictionary and the Usage Panel was the hook. This was a group of editors, writers, journalists, linguists -- Steve:                   -- linguists, poets. In later days we added crossword puzzle makers, basically people who made their living off using language in, in, in some fashion. I mean we all use language but as you know, as part of, as part of their life's work. Kory:                     And this usage panel is queried pretty regularly to -- basically American Heritage will send them questionnaires and say, how would you use, or is this particular example of decimate, let's say, correct or incorrect, or in what context would you consider this incorrect? Steve:                   And these ballots are tabulated and these percentages where relevant, find their way into Usage Notes at various words throughout the dictionary. I'm sure there's a note at various, which I probably just used incorrectly, but check out the Note and see. So, if you go to a word that you think has a styler usage issue, if you go to ahdictionary.com, look up that word, you'll probably see a Usage Note, you know, and you might see the Usage Panels' responses, and with some words like impact or contact where we have looked at these repeatedly over the years, you can see what the percentages were like in the sixties versus, you know, three years ago, if it was, you know, depending on whenever the last time it was balloted. And through this you can see how perceptions about languages change. If I could give a brief anecdote. Steve:                   Yeah, absolutely. Steve:                   So for example, tracking whether you pronounced the word HAIR-US or huh-RASS, 20, 30 years ago, the predominant form was HAIR-US. Steve:                   Huh! Steve:                   And then in the late nineties it was very split. And then the last time that we balloted it, huh-RASS was by far the preferred term. And you can see-- Kory:                     It was split as late as the late nineties? Steve:                   Yes. Steve:                   Well, I'm a hick, so I grew up saying huh-RASS-- Steve:                   Well, I'm a hick too. I was -- there will be a podcast where Kory and I talk about our variety of English we used growing up-- Kory:                     [laughter] About how they let hicks write dictionaries, too. So one of the interesting things though, I thought this was fascinating about the Usage Panel, is most people, and it was actually kind of advertised this way early on, most assumed that the Usage Panel's advice changed how the word was actually defined in the dictionary. And -- Steve:                   And that is so not the case. Steve:                   [[laughter] Steve:                   Uh, the Usage Panel had very little to not at all effect on the definition. Usually the definition within the Usage Note comes from the definition -- the Usage Note will repeat that definition and then talk about what the Usage Panel thinks about it. Sometimes the Panel results, when there's change over time, might cause the editors to look how a word is being defined and cause the editors to consider revising it or revising it, but that is one piece of the evidence and the definition isn't being rewritten on the basis of a judgment from the Panel alone. Also, the Panel is not deciding what words go in, what words are taken out. They are basically, there's maybe 400 words or so, 500 words, where they have weighed in on over the course of the past 50 years, and that information is included in the Notes, but this Panel is not responsible for the editorial decisions that are made. Kory:                     And I as a lexicographer did not actually realize that until I started learning more about the history of the American Heritage Dictionary. Because the perception is that Usage Panel is there to be prescriptive and that makes the dictionary itself prescriptive. Which my mind, I thought, well, that means that every part of that dictionary from, you know, the front matter to the back matter must be prescriptive. And in fact, it's not. The way that we define at Merriam Webster and the way that they define it American Heritage is pretty -- I mean, it's almost identical. We were all trained by the same people, Steve:                   Right? And, or the people who trained us, were trained. I mean there's this very small tradition, and we're not the only dictionary company that has these types of -- I mean we're the only one that calls them a Usage Panel, but the New Oxford American dictionary back when it was called that had an advisory panel that they got this type of information from. So we're certainly not the only dictionary to do it either. And by the same token, Oxford editors, were defining and they weren't being dictated how to define definitions based on what NOAD's advisory panel said. Kory:                     Right? So, so long story short, American Heritage / Merriam Webster actually very similar in spite of all of the marketing that would tell you otherwise. Steve:                   Speaking of marketing-- Steve:                   Oh, you're going to talk about one of my favorite things. Steve:                   So, about eight or nine years ago, when we were moving floors between the building that we were in, someone in marketing uncovered this footage from an ad campaign that was undertaken in the early seventies at the American Heritage Dictionary. It's like a 15 minute clip and it's done in the style of Laugh-In [[Kory laughs]], marketing the dictionary. It's ridiculous. Oh, there's a link on Youtube which we'll include it on our podcast twitter page. We encourage you to check it out because it is a lot of fun. And I think part of the reason it was made was to in part combat this image that the dictionary was stodgy and you know, finger wagging. It's a lot of lighthearted, ridiculous fun, and it's very seventies. Kory:                     It is so 70. So Steve and I will, when we're working, we usually have a chat window open and every once in a while we just send each other random links and usually it's to like eighties new wave or drag parodies of eighties new wave-- Steve:                   --or pharmaceutical ads. Steve:                   Oh, gosh, lots of those. Steve:                   One of the things I do for the American Heritage Dictionary is the pronunciations, and one way to find out how, various generic names of drugs are pronounced is by going to the pharmaceutical company's website and seeing their, their promos about them, but they're ridiculous. So we'll share these links back and forth. Kory:                     But so Steve, you know, chat window is open and I'm working and I get a random link from Steve and I look at it and then I get a text from him that says, did you get that link? You have to watch the link. And I watched the link and I, I watched it twice, all the way through and I was shrieking through it, which caused great -- my dog came running in and wanted to know what was wrong. It is phenomenal. So if you do nothing else but watch that video after this podcast, then Steve and I can both die happy people. So, okay, so if that's how dictionaries are written and everyone assumes that dictionaries are prescriptive, then the question is why don't dictionary companies give the people what they want and write a prescriptive dictionary? Steve:                   Um, I think in part the audience would be far smaller than most people realize [[Kory laughs]] and dictionary companies have essentially done that with various style guides that have come out, which focus on the do this, not that. The problem is, and the author and linguist and educator Steve Pinker discusses this in A Sense of Style, is that there are some rules that, well, where do you draw the line? For some people, you know, they will never split infinitives for other people, it's totally cool because this is a part of what you do. Uh, so there, there's this, every style guide becomes this where the line is drawn, we accept this but not this, and you can say this, but you can't say this. And it comes down basically to that editorial board or single author's opinion. Kory:                     Right? And you know, modern dictionaries are staff written and they're staff written specifically so that there is not any individual person's bias present, either with regard to cultural mores or with regard to language. And we all have these biases -- biaSEES? biaSIS? I've suddenly gone British, we all have them, anyway, even lexicographers. So, the idea of a prescriptive dictionary not only goes against all of the training that modern lexicographers have, but you know, really that's not what a dictionary should do. If you want prescriptivism, get a style guide, get a usage dictionary, get a bunch of usage dictionaries, and compare them. That's the best way really. Steve:                   In my book, in the book that I wrote Is English changing -- there's a chapter about style guides and usage books and other reference sources. And in there I distinguish between the types of rules. A rule of grammar is one that you don't have to be taught if you're the native speaker of a language, you just know it. You know, as a native speaker of English that the proper sentence structure is "The cat is on the mat" and not "The the on mat cat," for example. That-- Steve:                   Wow, you did that so naturally. Steve:                   --is no one really, no one has ever taught you that that is the rule. Steve:                   Right. Steve:                   But if you were learning Romanian, as an English speaker, you would learn that words like "the" go after the noun and not before. Kory:                     They do? Steve:                   Yes. Kory:                     I didn't know that. Steve:                   Yes. Kory:                     Dang Romanian. Steve:                   Yeah. Steve:                   Oof. Yeah. You also, the other thing that is so fascinating about dictionaries is that a lot of people, when they want prescriptivism, Steve, has alluded to this, but they don't actually want word level prescriptivism. They want sentence level prescriptivism. They want us at the entry for "infinitive" to include a thing saying don't split them or at "preposition" a note saying don't end sentences with them, and that's actually -- dictionaries only work on the word level. We do not talk about these broader style issues. We don't even talk about whether you should hyphenate "terracotta" or not. Decisions go into that. Steve:                   Actually, the two examples you mentioned are the two exceptions [[Laughter.] to that. At American Heritage, we do have a note at "split infinitive" and one at "preposition" about that just because-- Kory:                     Editorial notes not Usage Notes? Steve:                   Oh no, Usage Notes. Kory:                     Oh, Usage Notes I think are different. I mean, like when people, you know, people go buy a paperback dictionary for a dollar and they want this in there. Yeah. They and they want that kind of advice. They want someone to say don't split infinitives. They want someone to explain the difference between restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. They, and that's not, I mean, dictionaries really have never done that. That's always been the province of grammar books and what we now call usage dictionaries. So, so what we're saying is just buy more dictionaries. Steve:                   Right? And to further to the point, for example, where I grew up, I did not distinguish well between "lie" and "lay." Kory:                     Right. Steve:                   And when it comes to the past tenses, I still have to look them up every time. This is an example of a type of speech that people expect you to use in certain contexts. And for that, there are style guides, or in the case of verbs where you actually show inflections in the dictionary matter, that is kind of their point. The part of Michigan where I grew up in, your past participle form of "buy" is "boughten" and I, and I speak not only of store boughten bread, but I will utter, "I have boughten blah, blah, blah, blah, blah" if I'm not thinking about it, because that is a quote unquote rule I had to unlearn. Kory:                     Right, and dictionaries don't, I mean, you're a general dictionary, you are trying to cover as much of the language as generally as possible, and if you start squeezing in on the prescriptive ideas of what language is, yes, you, you alienate a bunch of people, most of whom do not speak standard English, because standard English is actually a written form and we can have a whole podcast about that, too. But you know, you want to be broad and that means that you can't get into style guide issues because those change constantly. Steve:                   And, and they do change constantly. I think the Chicago manual style is just up to its 17th printing. The Associated Press Style Book is updated every single year. And there are so many different style guides and usage dictionaries. And, you're right, why pick one? You should get a variety of opinion there, see what different people are saying. There are a few issues pretty much everyone agrees on. Try to get everyone to agree on an Oxford Comma and you'll start a fight. You know, everyone has an opinion about that. So part of it is if you work for a place that has a communication staff, chances are they either have an internal style guide or they say follow the AP or the Chicago Manual or what have you, and refer to those to arbitrate decisions. And not every style guide is absolute. You can say you're going to follow the AP, and the AP editors say this all the time: "We're a guide, you know, for our AP editors, if you follow AP, but you're in-house style has a different thing, fine. Use It, use it. Just be consistent. Right? Kory:                     Right. So to sum up dictionaries, descriptive, we're sorry, that upsets you. We will actually tweet a bunch of links to some of these usage dictionaries and style guides we've been talking about. We will tweet links to Pinker's book and to David Skinner's book. Steve:                   And to this wonderful ad from the seventies. Steve:                   Oh my gosh. It really, guys, really is the most amazing ad. It really -- oh, it's so good. See you next time! Steve:                   Thank you! Bye!  

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Welcome to Fiat Lex, a podcast about dictionaries by people who write them! Yes, really. Meet Kory and Steve, your intrepid and nerdy lexicographer-hosts who will give you the drudge's-eye view of English and dictionaries in all their weirdness. In our first episode, we: - blow your minds by telling you that "the dictionary" doesn't exist;- talk about how new words get into dictionaries (not by petition, so STOP ASKING) and how that's not as straightforward a process as you would think; - explain how lexicographers find new words, which sometimes involves beer and diapers;- touch on how words get taken out of dictionaries, and how that's not as straightforward a process as you would think, either. Assuming you think about such things. (Who are we kidding here?) BONUS FEATURES!- Kory spells a word aloud correctly, which will probs never happen again;- Steve channels Chumley the Walrus and then goes right into fancy linguist talk about velars and coronals;- Tennessee represents! TRANSCRIPT BELOW ----more---- Steve:   Hi, I'm Steve Kleinedler Kory:     and I'm Kory Stamper. Steve:   Welcome to Fiat Lex, Kory:     a podcast about dictionaries by people who write dictionaries. Steve:   We're so glad you're here listening to us talk about this. So we've been thinking about doing this for while. Kory:     Yeah, and we just want to give you a little intro. What's the whole point of doing a podcast about dictionaries? Well, dictionaries have lots of interesting information in them and everyone uses them. Steve:   And who are we, you might be wondering? Why should you be listening to us as opposed to anyone who has a concrete thought about anything under the sun? Kory and I have both worked on a dictionaries for several years. I was on staff with the American Heritage Dictionary for over 20 years, Kory:     and I was on the staff of the Merriam-Webster dictionaries for over 20 years. Gosh, we've probably got 50 years of editing experience between us. Steve:   Yeah. Especially if you count all the stuff we did beforehand. I worked on a lot of dictionaries for a company that was called National Textbook Company that has since had been eaten and subsumed by other media conglomerates. They might be part of Tronc now for all I know. Kory:     TRONNNC Steve:   The Tribune group. And my background is I have a degree in linguistics. I took a lexicography course at Northwestern and I started getting freelance work from my professor after I graduated, and one thing led to another, as they say. Kory:     And I have no degree in linguistics. I have a degree in medieval studies and I fell into this job-- literally, almost tripped on a newspaper which had the want-ad for the Merriam Webster position. Steve:   Well, medieval studies though, are hugely important in this field from the standpoint of etymology or just understanding how words work. Kory:     Yeah, that's true. There are a lot of medievalists in dictionary companies. We could run our own Ren Faire. Steve:   Yes. And that ties in also--we have both written books. I have written a English textbook called "Is English changing?" published by Routledge and the Linguistic Society of America, Kory:     And I have written a not-textbook, regular-book, called "Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries," which is out in paperback this year. Steve:   And in that book you can find out how Kory literally tripped over a newspaper and ended up in the position that she did. Kory:     So to speak. All right, so again, dictionaries. What are they? Why are they? Who uses them? Who cares? Steve:   Everyone uses them to some extent, whether-- Even though people may not use print ones as much as people used to, certainly people look up words all the time, whether they enter terminology into a search bar or look it up in print. That content comes from somewhere. Kory:     And we are the people who write that content. One of the questions we get all the time and we thought would be a great question to address today in our inaugural podcast, is how words get into the dictionaries that you use Steve:   and how they get out of them. Kory:     Yes. Yeah. Let's talk about--let's talk about how words move in and out. Steve:   Well, it's important to note that some people-- you hear people refer to "The Dictionary" as if there were only one in one authority, kind of like the Bible--which is also laughable because there's multiple versions of the Bible as well. Dictionaries are still in the process of being written, compiled, dictionary entries are being drafted, edited, written, and existing ones change over time. Kory:     Yeah. And not only do they change, but different dictionaries serve different purposes. So different definitions are going to look different depending on who the audience is, who's--which companies writing those dictionaries. You know, Steve and I wrote for different dictionary companies though everyone assumes that we wrote "The Dictionary." Steve:   Everyone also assumes that we're constantly at war. Kory:     We're not, we're buddies. Steve:   We are. We're friends. Kory:     Yay, friends forever! Steve:   And as Kory mentioned, there are different audiences for dictionaries, not just different companies. So you could, for example--there are several different legal dictionaries out there and they are going to take a more ingrained approach to the legal defining than a general purpose dictionary will. And you will find all sorts of dictionaries. Slang dictionaries, for example. Kory:     Yep. So, so with that in mind, we'll just talk about general dictionaries, which are dictionaries that we've both worked on. So how do words get into the dictionary? Steve:   The answer is not whimsy. Kory:     Sadly. So quit asking me to put your damn word in the dictionary Steve:   Oh, actually: we're talking about how words don't get put in dictionaries, but a good way to not get a word included in a dictionary is to write to a dictionary company and say, "Hey, I invented this word," or "I think we should add this word." Even if you are a third grader who writes a very cute, plaintive letter. Sorry, but that's not how it works. Kory:     Those are the worst letters, too, because we have to write back and say "no,: which is, you know...I mean. Steve:   Who wants to to shatter the dreams of a third grader? Kory:     Yeah. We are basically just autonomous thesauruses, but we still do have feelings. We don't like hurting other people's feelings. The way that words get in generally is through usage. Not usage as in, like, "I'm writing a dictionary and I've used the word now in print once, and so, enter it," but sort of sustained and widespread usage. And, generally, written usage, which is kind of a bugbear, but that's what we got. Steve:   It also depends on the kind of word: you know, what realm it is, what category it falls into. Some words--and these are in the vast minority--have a very easy path. So if you are a scientist who has a synthesized a new chemical element, you and your team get to name that, and as long as the governing board approves it, that's the name. And you know what? In it goes, because the people in charge said so. So tennessine, for example, which was synthesized by researchers in several universities in the state of Tennessee, [they] named element 117 that. And uh, there you go. That's all you need. Kory:     Tennessine? Steve:   Tennessine. Kory:     T-e-n-n-e-s-s-i-n-e? How do you spell it? Steve:   [Chumley the Walrus voice] That's right, Charlie. Kory:     [laughter] The amazing thing is that I just spelled that aloud, and I can't actually spell aloud. Steve:   And that was a Chumley the Walrus imitation. I'm dating myself there. [Chumley the Walrus voice] Sorry, Tennessee. Kory:     Alright, so usage. I said "written usage" and this is a bugbear. But the reason that we use written usage is it's a standard way that we can do it. So why don't we take spoken usage? Because that's actually that's how words get created first, is usually in speech. They usually don't get written down first. Steve:   The words that are used in the spoken vernacular are completely 100 percent valid. And there are outfits out there that track this type of thing. Corpuses, which are large collections of words. There's some corpuses that compile a written documentation and other ones that compile samples of recorded speech. Dictionaries, however, tend to focus on words that have been written. Generally, but not always, and more so in the past than now. Not just written, but from edited sources. Kory:     Yeah. Edited, prose sources. So poetry doesn't really count, because you can use a word with a really nonstandard meaning in poetry--or with no meaning in poetry, you can just use it for sound. But the part of the reason that's difficult is because we now have access to more transcripts of spoken English, and the problem with that as a lexicographer is, it's really actually hard to transcribe a word you've never heard before from speech into print. You can misspell it, you can mishear it. You can not understand the context. So. That's one of the reasons why we focus on written, edited English. Though the "edited," even that's kind of going away these days. Steve:   More and more, you will see references to things in blog posts which aren't always edited, or even, you know, the comment section, or that kind of thing. And as to the spoken ones, you can phonological determine the phonemes that are used. But if you were transcribing-- it's the same problem that newspaper journalists have in quoting people. Usually the quoted English in newspaper articles is written out in standard English. Even though when you speak informally, you're changing the velar "-ng" at the ends of words like "going" to the coronal "-n," like "going" to "goin'", and you're probably not going to write "g-o-i-n-apostrophe" in most examples of written transcriptions. However, that is what is being said. So, would you include that? Would you not? In the past when you had the finite print page, that limited what you could put into a book. Especially when there's a regular phonological change like that velar to coronal nasal pattern that I mentioned. Kory:     Right. So the other thing that's interesting about this is, this is how all words get in, and the way that you find new words to put into the dictionary has also--I think it's changed over even the last 10 years. Steve:   Absolutely. In the past, when I first started, you had boxes and boxes of note cards on which someone had dutifully typed or printed out and pasted onto that note card, a usage of that word, also known as a "citation." But even in the nineties when I started, that shoe box of cards was already supplemented with returns from what we call a KWIC concordance. This program that overlays on top of a large corpus. You can search on a specific word and it will show you every instance of that word with five or 10 or 12 words, whatever you decide on either side of it, to get some context by it. So even in the nineties--and before then, I just wasn't working before then-- you're juggling these cards and these citations in your concordance. Kory:     But even the way that we got citations I think has changed. It used to be--so at Merriam Webster, it used to be that all of the editors read for at least an hour, maybe two hours a day. We had a source list that was a list of magazines, journals, books--not just journals and magazines, but trade journals, specialty journals. And we would go through as an editorial floor and divvy stuff up and say, "You're going to be the one who's reading _National Review_ and _The Nation_, and you would read-- I mean, ideally you read every issue that got delivered to you, and you read looking specifically for words that caught your eye, which were generally new words or new uses of old words. And that's how we used to get citations. This was before these, these big corpora were available. I mean, not just available for purchase, but just available, period. Steve:   The first edition of the American Heritage Dictionary back in the sixties used a corpus called the Brown Corpus, from Brown University. But in addition to these collected citations. So corpus material had always been used. However, editors still read in the manner Kory described and collected citations well into the mid-2000s, by which time, you know, much like every other corporation in the world, outside pressures meant more people were doing more things. And that was one thing that, because information was so much more easily obtainable, reading time for markup decreased over the years. But it wasn't just books or periodicals that you were assigned to. I remember once when we were discussing what the proper plural of "pierogi" is--is "pierogi" a plural? You know, those little Polish potato dumplings? Is the singular "pierog," which is what it would be in various Slavic languages, but not in English? I took a box of Mrs. T's Pierogies and cut the carton and pasted that onto a note card as citational evidence. And you will find in the files, not just handwritten stuff from way back when or, taped or glue- on photocopies. But sometimes you will find like portions of boxes or whatnot appended to these note cards. Kory:     Oh yeah. I used to bring in things. At Merriam Webster, we had a filing cabinet where you put all of your marked materials, and we had a typists room--these poor women, their whole job was to type up citations and put them in our database and put them on cards. And I remember one day coming in--it was really early, early on in my time--coming in and someone had put like a Lean Cuisine box in the marking pile, and I went to go throw it away because I thought it was trash, and I saw someone had marked it. And then I went crazy. I think I've marked beer bottles and left them there. I remember marking diaper boxes when my kids were little. People mark menus, take-out menus-- Steve:   What's with the focus on food that we're all marking? Kory:     I'm really hungry. Yeah. Steve:   Speaking of those poor women, we had a poor intern in the early 2000s--for some reason we had our main citation file, but there was also a separate one that had been started for a separate purpose. And it was annoying because you'd always had to check in two places. So over the course of three summers with three different interns, they had to alphabetize this smaller set of cards into the main ones--which, not only putting it in the right place, but then that of course forces everything back. Kory:     Right. Steve:   So it was, for three summers, this is basically what a college student did. Kory:     That's life skills right there. I'm sure that's worth some kind of college credit. Steve:   Yeah. And so through examining these citations, you find evidence of how long a word might have been used, how widespread it is. We generally don't enter terms that are hyper-specific to one, you know, one occupation or one location. It's a general purpose dictionary. So there's usually some type of general frequency. By the time a specialized term has also reached the general public, that's one indication that it's time to go in. Kory:     Yeah. And I think the rate at which some specialized terms sort of become widespread is different. So I remember, both "AIDS" and "SARS" got into Merriam-Webster dictionaries really quickly, because it was, just sort of--all of that evidence was there right away. You knew that these were syndromes and diseases that were not going to go away. Steve:   Ditto with us for "Zika." Kory:     Yep. But the other thing that's really interesting is that, when you've got sort of this big body of words in front of you, you also see these really weird patterns of usage. Like, sometimes you'll have a word show up in print once every couple of years or once every five or 10 years, and then boom. And other times you have a word that shows up and booms right away, and then drops out of use really quickly. And particularly in the old days, when everything was dead-tree publishing, you couldn't justify entering a term that was brand-new unless you could justify that it was going to be around for another 10 years, because that was the lifecycle of a dictionary revision. And I mean, it sounds ridiculous, but in print publishing, you can't afford two or three lines on a page for a word that is just not going to be common in five years. Steve:   It's this test of ephemerality that used to be very important. Of course, nowadays you can just add a term online, and it won't necessarily make it into print. I remember one of the very last words we entered for the fourth edition of the American Heritage College Dictionary was "dotcom," and it was, this was still in the late '90s. It was, I think, right before or during the bubble. It was probably a little sooner than we normally might have, but it was like, "all right, this is now or never. This word is probably going to stick around." In that case, it's like, let's err on the side of caution and put it in. But even at that point, the writing was on the wall, as they say. Kory:     Yeah. And often, I mean, I don't know if it was like this for you, but I often found whenever we did revisions and we started looking through the citational evidence, I would always find more and more and more words to enter. And then you have to do this very weird--you have to get very choosy in weird ways. Steve:   Or, if you're working on a printing--and again, this refers back to the day of... Did I just use "refer back" right? Is someone going to ding me on that? Kory:     Sure, I don't care. Steve:   I don't care either. Ding me if you want. Kory:     Sense two! Sense two of "ding." Steve:   yes. Uh--what were we talking about? Referring back? What am I referring back to? Kory:     To print. Steve:   Oh, right. So if you're doing a new printing and, say, someone has died and you have to "open that page" to fix the death date, then you can go anywhere on that page! It's like, "oh, I can add this, I can add this." So just by the sheer alphabetic accident of where the word falls, it's like, "This page is open, I can insert this word." Whereas if it was spelled slightly different and fell on a different page, you might not have been able to do that. Kory:     Right. And which kind of--so, this underscores something that's really interesting too about dictionaries: that nobody realizes dictionaries are a commercial proposition. Everything is driven by how much will it cost, how much time will it take, will we recoup our expenses? And that's just, you know, that just doesn't happen very much with language. Steve:   Here's an anecdote. The fourth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary was in full color. Kory:     oh ho ho Steve:   Which of course was expensive, but one thing it did: because the headword was in its own color, it meant that you didn't have to reverse-indent the entry. Kory:     Ooooh. Steve:   And because of that, the entries could be flush on the left margin, which gained us, like, two characters for every line of an entry after the first line. The Savings in space by getting those extra two characters aligned was one of the things that offset the cost of going into color. But of course, then we ate it up by just cramming that much more into it. The amount of space--I mean, when people...And this ties into our next bit about how do words come out of a dictionary (and the short answer is, not often), when we talked about all the new words that were added to the Fifth Edition that weren't in the Fourth Edition, and people said, "Where'd the space come from, it's the same length?" A lot of it was interesting design choices. Oh-- I'm sorry, that was between the Third and the Fourth. The fact that you didn't have to take up that space for the indent saved us, you know, allowed us to keep thousands of words. I mean, when you, look at two characters per line, over 2000 pages, that really adds up. Kory:     And you know, when people ask about getting a word into the dictionary, one of the other parts of the commercial bit that no one realizes is that, you know, we are _never going to be caught up_ with getting words into the dictionary. We are always, always, always behind, always having to make these weird editorial choices that are half-based on, is this page going to be open? Or if you're going online, even, how many people can we get on staff who are going to be able to do this kind of defining quickly? And then we need to have someone proofread it, and we have to have someone copy edit it, and then the pronunciation editor needs to go through it, and then the etymologist need to go through it. It's not just me farting around at my laptop saying, "I'm going to enter the word 'CRISPR' today!" That doesn't happen. It still needs to go through, you know, anywhere from five to 10 other sets of eyes before it makes it online. Steve:   "CRISPR" the gene editing? Kory:     Oh yeah. Naturally. Steve:   Shout out to Carl Zimmer. We can tweet at him after this podcast now. Kory:     So, so that's how words get in. It's through written usage. That's not historically always been how it is. The earliest English dictionary, the word lists were just sort of... In the 1600s and early 1700s, they were mostly just words that the single author thought of. So whatever they thought was worth entering, whatever they thought was worth studying. So early dictionaries were hard-word dictionaries mostly, and they were written mostly by wealthy white dudes. Steve:   And then, we're, of course, talking about living languages. If you are writing a dictionary of a dead language, it is possible to include every word. Because, you know, again, I always go back to Tocharian B. We know what words were used and unless there's another archaeological find where they find more inscriptions, the words that we have are the words that are there. And so you can have that finite list. Kory, how do words come out of a dictionary? Kory:     With difficulty. So I don't know what the criteria at American Heritage is, but generally speaking, once a ,word gets into the dictionary, people keep using that word or people feel like they now have license to use that word more. They feel like the word has been made official even though that is not at all what the dictionary does. Steve:   And like you said earlier, just that test for ephemerality. Because we're not adding words until we think they're going to stick around, there's, there's less chance of a word having to come out because it hasn't stuck. And you never know when it's going to come back to life. Kory:     Oh God. "Snollygoster"! Steve:   Oh yeah--you do "snollygoster" and then I'll do mine. Kory:     "Snollygoster!" So very quickly, the way that we determine whether a word is eligible to be removed from the dictionary at Merriam-Webster is, you need to prove that it has had no significant historical written usage, and that it has no current written usage. And that's within a timeframe of, it really depends, but I think when we were doing the Collegiate, we were aiming for 50 years of no written use. Which, that's actually impossible to find now that everything is digitized. Now you can go on Google Books and you can find one dude in 1956 who has used this word consistently in every article he's written and...so now it breaks it. So, actually, we enter far more words than we end up taking out. And when we do take words out, it has to be well considered. Enter "snollygoster." So "snollygoster" is a word that's a noun, it refers to a shrewd or unprincipled person. And it was removed from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate dictionary for the 10th edition, I believe. So that would have been '93. And at that point, you know, they reviewed the evidence and said, eh, has a lot of use back in the forties and fifties, but not really much since. And we need the space. You always need the space. So they pulled it out and then it turns out that William Safire _really_ loved the word "snollygoster" and began using it in his columns. And then Bill O'Reilly_really, really_ loved "snollygoster" and began using it on his TV shows. And so for the 11th edition, pretty recently, we had to put "snollygoster" back in, because now people are using it again. Steve:   And the example I like to use about the danger of removing words: in the late nineties when we were finishing up work on the Fifth Edition and we needed space on this one page, we talked about dropping the sense of "chad" associated with punch cards. Because usually when we do drop things for space, they tend to be geographical entries that are suburbs of Los Angeles or Chicago or something that's encyclopedic information. The space is much better used for a vocabulary word. But obsolescent technology is-- Kory:     Oh yeah, that's a big one-- Steve:   It's a fertile ground for possible deletions. And we almost deleted "chad." And then I remembered when it was going back and forth among the editors, I remembered that there were still some states that used punch cards for voting, and we're like, oh, well we should keep it in then. And lo and behold, one year later, right after the book came out, uh, _Florida_. And it's good that we kept it in, because suddenly "chad" was on everyone's lips. Kory:     Yeah. Hanging chads, pregnant chads-- Steve:   all those chads. Oh Chad. Kory:     _Chad._ Steve:   So, it's about that time. We hope that you have found this entertaining. Kory:     Yeah. And if you want to tweet at us, you can tweet at us. We are @FiatLexPodcast, F-I-A-T-L-E-X podcast. One of us will answer you. If you have things you want to hear on the podcast, let us know. Actually,both of these questions, how do words get in and how do words get taken out, were suggested by faithful Twitter followers. Steve:   Don't tweet at us that "FiatLex" is combining Greek and Latin. We know that and we'll talk about that in a later podcast. Kory:     Yeah, you'll have to get over that. So thanks for joining us. We'll see you next time. Steve:   Bye.  

Viktor Devonne is back w/ Petra Fried, his partner in Wednesday Nights at Rockbar NYC. Petra is a drag queen who runs a full length cabaret revue as part of Petra Fried Presents. Petra has been featured on Mic.com, Mashable, and Thotyssey, been nominated for nightlife awards (Go Magazine, GLAM), and has won 2 Silver Tusk Awards from White Elephant Burlesque's audience and peers: 2017's Best Mug (makeup/look) and 2018's Chanteuse Supreme (best singer)... topics: drinking in the morning, shots to the stage, The Drowsy Chaperone after party, the Joel Grey tableau, This Club is a Haunted House at the McKittrick Hotel, Sleep No More, Drag Race queens, Roxxxy Andrews, mean people on the internet, How I Met Your Drag Queen at Rockbar, Deep Fried Tart, what are we doing, Millennials, nihilism of today, songs about love, the Joni Mitchell song, return of Saturn*, oil and vinegar, the connectedness of burlesque and drag, Kiss Me Deadly, formative body image, the bodies that we're in, innate abilities, Jenifer Lewis, Seth MacFarlane, "equal opporuntity," Amy Schumer, Rufus Wainwright, pedal pushing fetish, "Why do gay men like ______," and a lot about The Golden Girls... shoutouts: Lewd Alfred Douglas, Little Miss Rollerhoops, Sharon Needles, Emma Story, Heidi Glum, Alexis Michelle, Bob the Drag Queen, Precious Envy, Hazel Tart, Lee VaLone, Switch n' Play, Sasha Velour, Misty Meaner, Chris Harder, Stormy Leather, Holly Ween, Broody Valentino, Jack Barrow, Esmerelda May, Doll Body, ... recorded: February 18, 2018... You can see Petra Fried Presents, with Petra Fried and multiple guests throughout the month, Wednesdays at 7pm at Rockbar - 185 Christopher St in Manhattan. White Elephant Burlesque immediately follows. @petrafriedpresents.. Check out the Mashable article/video: https://mashable.com/2017/11/30/day-job-drag-queen/ ... *footnotes: • sure enough in March of 2018, we in fact cancelled the show twice due to weather... • Viktor totally calls it a "return to Saturn" repeatedly. Whoops... • watch Bea Arthur on Graham Norton here: https://youtu.be/fg3C0VGWRcY?t=5m33s ... • "Ebbtide" means the period between high tide and low tide during which water flows away from the shore, according to the American Heritage Dictionary... • Indeed, Debbie Reynolds plays Truby in "There Goes the Bride" - not to be confused with Trudy, from "From Death Do We Volley," who was played by Ann Francis. • We quote "Just Between Friends," Bea Arthur's one woman show a lot, which is available on CD and digital at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bea-Arthur-Broadway-Between-Friends/dp/B00005YTRL ... intro/outro music: "On A 45" This Way to the Egress (http://www.thiswaytotheegress.com) ... used with permission ... download it at: https://www.amazon.com/This-Delicious-Cabaret-Explicit-Egress/dp/B005D1GROO ... interlude music: "Doobly Doo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ... Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/weburlesque

Show notes for Parts 2 and 2 of The Rest is Silence will be updated —— In the meantime enjoy the episode(s)! *** Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @MorbidPod *** Morbidians! If you enjoy our podcast show us some love by leaving us a review on iTunes, saying hello on our social media pages, and if your pocket allows team up with us as we create new content. • More episodes per season- • New segments, film reviews, and guests to feed your morbid curiosities • Audio/Video Blogs • Serialized mini-documentaries covering thought-provoking issues, criminal cases, the psychological/behavioral aspects of morbidity. What would you like to see us create? www.patreon.com/morbidpod * * * Audio Clip Sources/Credits Teen Livestreams Suicide The Young Turks Published on May 11, 2016 “A French teenage girl broadcast her suicide live on Periscope via her smartphone, French judicial sources confirmed on Wednesday, in the latest controversy to hit the streaming web application. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. —— Hundreds of horrified viewers of Periscope - which lets individuals broadcast live via mobile devices - could only look on while the unnamed 19-year-old died at Egly, a suburban train station south of Paris, on Tuesday afternoon. She took her own life minutes after apparently naming an ex-boyfriend she said had raped her before publishing pictures of the act on Snapchat, the image-sharing application, France Info reported. "Analysis of the telephone and recovery of the video are underway," said a judicial source, adding that the dead girl had "allegedly identified an assailant" during the video before committing suicide. However, the source said that the details of why she took her life were subject to confirmation.” Read more here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/... Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian The Largest Online News Show in the World. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE STREAMING weekdays 6-8pm ET. http://www.tytnetwork.com/live Young Turk (n), 1. Young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party. 2. Young person who rebels against authority or societal expectations. (American Heritage Dictionary) *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzOfcjBeV1s New York Daily News Published on Jan 25, 2017 A Miami teenager committed suicide, and is said to have used the Facebook Live video streaming service to broadcast it online. The Florida Department of Children & Families confirmed that 14-year-old Nakia Venant took her life overnight Sunday by hanging herself in the bathroom of her foster parents' home. *** Clip: The Truman Show Marlon talks to Truman as Truman is starting to find out the truth about his life. No copyright infringement intended, produced under Paramount. *** "Epic Emotional Orchestral Music| The Call" Mattia Cupelli Published on Nov 12, 2014 Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download/7rg... - Official Mattia Cupelli Music Website: http://mattiacupelli.weebly.com/ © Music Copyright 2014 Mattia Cupelli. Royalty Free License Standard YouTube License *** Hammock Music 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MZgCfAz8eg ''Sinking Inside Yourself'' *** 2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI22WV5SNwQ "Holding Your Absence" From the Album: Oblivion Hymns Hammock Music Published on Feb 5, 2014 On Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1bZd8sX LPs, FLAC, CDs, shirts, posters: http://bit.ly/19JxR3S License Standard YouTube License *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk3qFu6L1Nk 13 Reasons Why||Saturn Creator [Fanmade Video]: "L." Audio Clips from: 13 Reasons Why [Netflix] "Why would a dead girl lie? 13 Reasons Why is now streaming only on Netflix." Based on the best-selling books by Jay Asher, the Netflix Original Series 13 Reasons Why follows Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) as he returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who tragically committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Will Clay be one of them? 13 Reasons Why comes from executive producers Tom McCarthy, Brian Yorkey, Selena Gomez, Joy Gorman and Kristel Laiblin. Watch 13 Reasons Why on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80117470 SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/29qBUt7 About Netflix: Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 100 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series, documentaries and feature films. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments. Connect with Netflix Online: Visit Netflix WEBSITE: http://nflx.it/29BcWb5 Like Netflix on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/29kkAtN Follow Netflix on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/29gswqd Follow Netflix on INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/29oO4UP Follow Netflix on TUMBLR: http://bit.ly/29kkemT 13 Reasons Why | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix http://youtube.com/netflix Category Entertainment License --- *Song: "Saturn" is from "Atlas: Year One" by Sleeping At Last Spotify: http://spoti.fi/291ne5p iTunes: http://bit.ly/1mDritn http://sleepingatlast.com Category Music License Standard YouTube License -- Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Category Film & Animation *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCH9mt0Pow Fla. Teen Commits Suicide With Live Web Audience Associated Press Published on Nov 21, 2008 http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Warning: Video contains one graphic image which some might find disturbing. There is shock and sadness after a college student committs suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live webcam. (Nov. 21) The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. AP's commitment to independent, comprehensive journalism has deep roots. Founded in 1846, AP has covered all the major news events of the past 165 years, providing high-quality, informed reporting of everything from wars and elections to championship games and royal weddings. AP is the largest and most trusted source of independent news and information. Today, AP employs the latest technology to collect and distribute content - we have daily uploads covering the latest and breaking news in the world of politics, sport and entertainment. Join us in a conversation about world events, the newsgathering process or whatever aspect of the news universe you find interesting or important. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Category News & Politics License Standard YouTube License *** Clip: "I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory..." Hamilton: An American Musical "The World Was Wide Enough" A sung- and rapped-through musical about the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Music: Lin-Manuel Miranda Playwright: Lin-Manuel Miranda Lyricist: Lin-Manuel Miranda Orchestrations / Co-Arranger: Alex Lacamoire Director: Thomas Kail Inspired by: Ron Chernow's book "Alexander Hamilton" http://www.hamiltonbroadway.com *** Christine Chubbok [Movie Clips & Reports] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBi1OK99swU Boulevard of Broken Dreams, 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnEjvAFlKVw Christine Trailer: Rebecca Hall Plays Christine Chubbuck FilmIsNow Movie Trailers Published on Sep 17, 2016 CHRISTINE, the story of a woman who finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a spiraling personal life and career crisis. Christine, always the smartest person in the room at her local Sarasota, Florida news station, feels like she is destined for bigger things and is relentless in her pursuit of an on-air position in a larger market. As an aspiring newswoman with an eye for nuance and an interest in social justice, she finds herself constantly butting heads with her boss (Tracy Letts), who pushes for juicier stories that will drive up ratings. Plagued by self-doubt and a tumultuous home life, Christine’s diminishing hope begins to rise when an on-air co-worker (Michael C. Hall) initiates a friendship which ultimately becomes yet another unrequited love. Disillusioned as her world continues to close in on her, Christine takes a dark and surprising turn. FilmIsNow your first stop for the latest new cinematic videos the moment they are released. Whether it is the latest studio trailer release, an evocative documentary, clips, TV spots, or other extra videos, the FilmIsNow team is dedicated to providing you with all the best new videos because just like you we are big movie fans. Category: Film & Animation License: Standard YouTube License *** *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-oTGdc2rgY FREE AUDIO: What you feel just takes over (suicide awareness - trigger warning) created by: aelura Published on Sep 8, 2017 - feel free to use, but leave me a comment and credit me in the description box :) - feel free to use the lyrics - love yourself Song: Message to bears - You Are a Memory (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=715WY...) Spoken Words: Mark Henick - Why we choose suicide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Qoy...) Megan Shinnick - truth about teen depression (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txJGm...) Dylan O'Brian as heard in Teen Wolf 2x11 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4ATJ...) Agnes Deyn - We found love intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnrmz...) ***** THEY THINK WE ARE CRAZY.... Imagine Dragons - Thunder *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKPJ8dpRrMQ Survivors of Suicide *** Project Semicolon Published on Jul 9, 2016 Survivors of Suicide was produced and directed by Table Sixteen Production in memory of Dylan Muldoon in collaboration with Project Semicolon. For more information about Project Semicolon you can find us at: www.projectsemicolon.com ‪#ProjectSemicolon‬ Category Nonprofits & Activism License Standard YouTube License *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSc0C-VNaCY Day 12 | 31 Videos For Mental Health In my twelfth of 31 videos during the month of May for Mental Health Awareness Month, I talk about Amy Bleuel and Project Semicolon. I hope you enjoy the video and please share, comment and join the conversation this month on mental health and mental illness. Thank you. What is "31 Videos For Mental Health"? It's a mental health and mental illness awareness campaign I started in 2014. I will create 31 videos in the month of May (Mental Health Awareness Month) to promote mental health awareness and get a conversation started about mental illness. Every day this month you can expect a video on this channel on the topic of mental health or mental illness. How does mental illness relate to you? I was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder when I was 12-years-old and developed an anxiety disorder as I grew up that took me to the hospital three times. Mental illness is something that has dictated my life since I was a young and I was afraid to talk about it. What can I do to help? The most important thing this month is getting a conversation started about mental health, share these videos with friends and family, share them on your social media pages, get a conversation started about mental health and mental illness. SAM'S LINKS Website | https://www.414films.com Facebook | http://www.facebook.com/samkirkegaard Twitter | https://twitter.com/414_films Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/414films Tumblr | http://414films.tumblr.com --- Music: Acoustic Meditation 2 | http://audionautix.com Category Nonprofits & Activism License Standard YouTube License *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DF0sU0uQlU *** Oscar Nominated Short Films 2015: 'CRISIS HOTLINE: VETERANS PRESS 1' ShortsTV The Dam Keeper: Official Trailer #2 The Dam Keeper Trailer Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 SilvestreLPV 0:43 Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 (HBO Documentary Films) HBODocs Cast: Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Dana Perry, Geof Bartz, Jacqueline Glover, Sheila Nevins Release Date: 11/11/2013 Studio: HBO Documentary Rating: Not Rated Category Entertainment License Standard YouTube License *** More credits/sources soon!

Show notes for Parts 1 and 2 of The Rest is Silence will be updated —— In the meantime enjoy the episode(s)! *** Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @MorbidPod *** Morbidians! If you enjoy our podcast show us some love by leaving us a review on iTunes, saying hello on our social media pages, and if your pocket allows team up with us as we create new content. • More episodes per season- • New segments, film reviews, and guests to feed your morbid curiosities • Audio/Video Blogs • Serialized mini-documentaries covering thought-provoking issues, criminal cases, the psychological/behavioral aspects of morbidity. What would you like to see us create? www.patreon.com/morbidpod * * * Audio Clip Sources/Credits Teen Livestreams Suicide The Young Turks Published on May 11, 2016 “A French teenage girl broadcast her suicide live on Periscope via her smartphone, French judicial sources confirmed on Wednesday, in the latest controversy to hit the streaming web application. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. —— Hundreds of horrified viewers of Periscope - which lets individuals broadcast live via mobile devices - could only look on while the unnamed 19-year-old died at Egly, a suburban train station south of Paris, on Tuesday afternoon. She took her own life minutes after apparently naming an ex-boyfriend she said had raped her before publishing pictures of the act on Snapchat, the image-sharing application, France Info reported. "Analysis of the telephone and recovery of the video are underway," said a judicial source, adding that the dead girl had "allegedly identified an assailant" during the video before committing suicide. However, the source said that the details of why she took her life were subject to confirmation.” Read more here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/... Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian The Largest Online News Show in the World. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE STREAMING weekdays 6-8pm ET. http://www.tytnetwork.com/live Young Turk (n), 1. Young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party. 2. Young person who rebels against authority or societal expectations. (American Heritage Dictionary) *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzOfcjBeV1s New York Daily News Published on Jan 25, 2017 A Miami teenager committed suicide, and is said to have used the Facebook Live video streaming service to broadcast it online. The Florida Department of Children & Families confirmed that 14-year-old Nakia Venant took her life overnight Sunday by hanging herself in the bathroom of her foster parents' home. *** Clip: The Truman Show Marlon talks to Truman as Truman is starting to find out the truth about his life. No copyright infringement intended, produced under Paramount. *** "Epic Emotional Orchestral Music| The Call" Mattia Cupelli Published on Nov 12, 2014 Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download/7rg... - Official Mattia Cupelli Music Website: http://mattiacupelli.weebly.com/ © Music Copyright 2014 Mattia Cupelli. Royalty Free License Standard YouTube License *** Hammock Music 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MZgCfAz8eg ''Sinking Inside Yourself'' *** 2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI22WV5SNwQ "Holding Your Absence" From the Album: Oblivion Hymns Hammock Music Published on Feb 5, 2014 On Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1bZd8sX LPs, FLAC, CDs, shirts, posters: http://bit.ly/19JxR3S License Standard YouTube License *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk3qFu6L1Nk 13 Reasons Why||Saturn Creator [Fanmade Video]: "L." Audio Clips from: 13 Reasons Why [Netflix] "Why would a dead girl lie? 13 Reasons Why is now streaming only on Netflix." Based on the best-selling books by Jay Asher, the Netflix Original Series 13 Reasons Why follows Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) as he returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who tragically committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Will Clay be one of them? 13 Reasons Why comes from executive producers Tom McCarthy, Brian Yorkey, Selena Gomez, Joy Gorman and Kristel Laiblin. Watch 13 Reasons Why on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80117470 SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/29qBUt7 About Netflix: Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 100 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series, documentaries and feature films. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments. Connect with Netflix Online: Visit Netflix WEBSITE: http://nflx.it/29BcWb5 Like Netflix on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/29kkAtN Follow Netflix on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/29gswqd Follow Netflix on INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/29oO4UP Follow Netflix on TUMBLR: http://bit.ly/29kkemT 13 Reasons Why | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix http://youtube.com/netflix Category Entertainment License --- *Song: "Saturn" is from "Atlas: Year One" by Sleeping At Last Spotify: http://spoti.fi/291ne5p iTunes: http://bit.ly/1mDritn http://sleepingatlast.com Category Music License Standard YouTube License -- Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Category Film & Animation *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCH9mt0Pow Fla. Teen Commits Suicide With Live Web Audience Associated Press Published on Nov 21, 2008 http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Warning: Video contains one graphic image which some might find disturbing. There is shock and sadness after a college student committs suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live webcam. (Nov. 21) The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. AP's commitment to independent, comprehensive journalism has deep roots. Founded in 1846, AP has covered all the major news events of the past 165 years, providing high-quality, informed reporting of everything from wars and elections to championship games and royal weddings. AP is the largest and most trusted source of independent news and information. Today, AP employs the latest technology to collect and distribute content - we have daily uploads covering the latest and breaking news in the world of politics, sport and entertainment. Join us in a conversation about world events, the newsgathering process or whatever aspect of the news universe you find interesting or important. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Category News & Politics License Standard YouTube License *** Clip: "I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory..." Hamilton: An American Musical "The World Was Wide Enough" A sung- and rapped-through musical about the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Music: Lin-Manuel Miranda Playwright: Lin-Manuel Miranda Lyricist: Lin-Manuel Miranda Orchestrations / Co-Arranger: Alex Lacamoire Director: Thomas Kail Inspired by: Ron Chernow's book "Alexander Hamilton" http://www.hamiltonbroadway.com *** Christine Chubbok [Movie Clips & Reports] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBi1OK99swU Boulevard of Broken Dreams, 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnEjvAFlKVw Christine Trailer: Rebecca Hall Plays Christine Chubbuck FilmIsNow Movie Trailers Published on Sep 17, 2016 CHRISTINE, the story of a woman who finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a spiraling personal life and career crisis. Christine, always the smartest person in the room at her local Sarasota, Florida news station, feels like she is destined for bigger things and is relentless in her pursuit of an on-air position in a larger market. As an aspiring newswoman with an eye for nuance and an interest in social justice, she finds herself constantly butting heads with her boss (Tracy Letts), who pushes for juicier stories that will drive up ratings. Plagued by self-doubt and a tumultuous home life, Christine’s diminishing hope begins to rise when an on-air co-worker (Michael C. Hall) initiates a friendship which ultimately becomes yet another unrequited love. Disillusioned as her world continues to close in on her, Christine takes a dark and surprising turn. FilmIsNow your first stop for the latest new cinematic videos the moment they are released. Whether it is the latest studio trailer release, an evocative documentary, clips, TV spots, or other extra videos, the FilmIsNow team is dedicated to providing you with all the best new videos because just like you we are big movie fans. Category: Film & Animation License: Standard YouTube License *** *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-oTGdc2rgY FREE AUDIO: What you feel just takes over (suicide awareness - trigger warning) created by: aelura Published on Sep 8, 2017 - feel free to use, but leave me a comment and credit me in the description box :) - feel free to use the lyrics - love yourself Song: Message to bears - You Are a Memory (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=715WY...) Spoken Words: Mark Henick - Why we choose suicide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Qoy...) Megan Shinnick - truth about teen depression (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txJGm...) Dylan O'Brian as heard in Teen Wolf 2x11 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4ATJ...) Agnes Deyn - We found love intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnrmz...) ***** THEY THINK WE ARE CRAZY.... Imagine Dragons - Thunder *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKPJ8dpRrMQ Survivors of Suicide *** Project Semicolon Published on Jul 9, 2016 Survivors of Suicide was produced and directed by Table Sixteen Production in memory of Dylan Muldoon in collaboration with Project Semicolon. For more information about Project Semicolon you can find us at: www.projectsemicolon.com ‪#ProjectSemicolon‬ Category Nonprofits & Activism License Standard YouTube License *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSc0C-VNaCY Day 12 | 31 Videos For Mental Health In my twelfth of 31 videos during the month of May for Mental Health Awareness Month, I talk about Amy Bleuel and Project Semicolon. I hope you enjoy the video and please share, comment and join the conversation this month on mental health and mental illness. Thank you. What is "31 Videos For Mental Health"? It's a mental health and mental illness awareness campaign I started in 2014. I will create 31 videos in the month of May (Mental Health Awareness Month) to promote mental health awareness and get a conversation started about mental illness. Every day this month you can expect a video on this channel on the topic of mental health or mental illness. How does mental illness relate to you? I was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder when I was 12-years-old and developed an anxiety disorder as I grew up that took me to the hospital three times. Mental illness is something that has dictated my life since I was a young and I was afraid to talk about it. What can I do to help? The most important thing this month is getting a conversation started about mental health, share these videos with friends and family, share them on your social media pages, get a conversation started about mental health and mental illness. 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Science, magic, words, love potions, we cover them all Wednesday, December 9, 3 pm ET on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show when joining Halli at her table is the esteemed science correspondent with The Economist and author of a fascinating new book SCIENCE OF THE MAGICAL, FROM THE HOLY GRAIL TO LOVE POTIONS TO SUPERPOWERS, Matt Kaplan, and the venerated executive editor of the AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY out with their 500 new words of 2015, Steve Kleinelder.Matt Kaplan is a science correspondent with The Economist and has contributed weekly articles to its science and technology section for a decade. He has also written for National Geographic, Nature, and the New York Times. Kaplan takes us on a tour across the world to explore the nexus between science and magic in his fascinating new book SCIENCE OF THE MAGICAL, FROM THE HOLY GRAIL TO LOVE POTIONS TO SUPERPOWERS.Steve Kleinedler is executive editor of the reference group at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publishers of AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY and Webster's New World reference works. Steve earned a BA in linguistics from Northwestern University and attended graduate school at the University of Chicago for linguistics. A professional lexicographer, he familiarizes himself with the vocabulary in specific subject areas, researches and analyzes new developments and usage, and works with expert consultants to ensure that the content of the dictionaries is as accurate and as up-to-date as possible. So, what's new in 2015? A lot, as you'll soon discover.The magic of science and the enchantment of words Wednesday, December 9, 3 pm ET on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show. For more information visit Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.

When we hear the word sacrifice, we often think of completely selfless acts in which someone does something for another entirely for the other person’s benefit. The image of a soldier sacrificing his life for his comrades frequently comes to mind. But sacrifice isn’t purely altruistic. The best definition of sacrifice is this: “To forfeit something for something else considered to have a greater value.” (American Heritage Dictionary, emphasis mine). Sacrifice does not mean giving up something for nothing; it means giving up one thing for something else we believe is worth more.

Did you ever wonder why we capitalize the pronoun "I," but not any other pronoun? There's a reason, and it may not be what you think. Also, the romantic story behind our term "halcyon days," the origin of the phrase "like white on rice," and the linguistic scuttlebutt on the word scuttlebutt. Plus, a pun-laden word game, hold your peace vs. hold your piece, nixie on your tintype, and no skin off my nose.FULL DETAILSListeners have been posting photos of themselves with their favorite words on our Word Wall, including some that are new to us. For example, epalpebrate might be a good one to drop when describing the Mona Lisa in Art History class, since it means without eyebrows. And Menehune is a term for the tiny, mischievous people in Hawaiian folklore.If it's no skin off your nose, there's no harm done. This idiom, which the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms suggests may come from boxing, means the same thing as no skin off my back or no skin off my ear. If you have other idioms in this vein, share them with us!What's the difference between speak your piece and speak now or forever hold your peace? While speaking your piece refers to a piece of information you want to share, holding your peace relates to keeping the peace. This is a simple case of a collision of idioms.For years, teachers have warned against using the word ain't, apparently with some success. Emily Hummell from Boston sent us a poem that may have contributed: Don't say ain't/ your mother will faint/ your father will fall in a bucket of paint/ your sister will cry/ your brother will sigh/ the cat and dog will say goodbye. Did your parents or teachers have another way of breaking children of the habit of saying ain't? Have you heard the latest scuttlebutt around the water cooler? This term for gossip, which comes from the water-filled cask in a ship, is a literal synonym for water cooler talk! On our Word Wall, one listener fancies ginnel: the long, narrow passage between houses you find in Manchester and Leeds. Have you shared your favorite word yet?Our Puzzle Maestro John Chaneski has a great variation of his classic Tom Swifty game, based on adjectives that fit their subject. For example, how did the citizens feel upon hearing that the dictator of their small country shut down the newspapers? Beware of puns!Does capitalizing the pronoun I feel like aggrandizing your own self-importance? Timna, an English Composition professor at an Illinois community college, reports that a student contested refused to capitalize this first person pronoun, arguing that to do so was egotistical. But it's a standard convention of written English going back to the 13th century, and to not capitalize it would draw even more attention. When writing a formal document, always capitalize the I. It's a pronoun, not a computer brand. If you want to sound defiant, you could do worse than exclaiming, Nixie on your tintype! This phrase, meaning something to the effect of spit on your face, popped up in Marjorie Benton Cooke's 1914 classic, Bambi. Kristin Anderson, a listener from Apalachicola, Florida, shares this great poem that makes use of the phrase.Do you know the difference between flotsam and jetsam? In an earlier episode, we discussed flotsam, which we described as the stuff thrown off a sinking ship. But several avid sailors let us know that jetsam's the stuff thrown overboard, while flotsam is the remains of a shipwreck. Thanks, crew.Paula from Palm City, Florida, wants to know: What's so cute about buttons, anyway? Like the expressions cute as a bug and cute as a bug's ear, this expression seems to derive from the fact that all of these things are delicate and small. She raises another interesting question: Are the descriptors beautiful and attractive preferable to cute and adorable after a certain age? We want to hear your thoughts!  The weeks on either side of the winter solstice have a special place in Greek mythology. In the story of Alcyone, the daughter of Aeolus, she marries Ceyx, who arrogantly dares to compare their relationship to that of Zeus and Hera. Such hubris is never a good thing in Greek myth, and Zeus causes his death. But the gods eventually take pity on the mortal couple, changing them into birds known for their devotion to each other. Those birds, named after Alcyone, were said to nest on the surface of the sea during calm weather, giving rise to our term halcyon days.Is white on rice a racist idiom? No! It simply means that if you're on top of your tasks like white on rice, it means you've got it covered the way rice is covered in whiteness. In Geneva Smitherman's Talkin and Testifyin, she relays a lyric from Frankie Crocker that goes Closer than white's on rice; closer than cold's on ice. Now that's close!If something's got you feeling ate up, then you're consumed by the notion that it didn't go perfectly. You're overwhelmed, obsessed, or maybe you're just exhausted. However, among members of the Air Force, ate up has long meant gung ho, as in, that pilot's ate up, he loves flying so much.Via Maud Newton's Twitter feed comes this gem from The Sea, by William John Banville: The past beats inside me like a second heart. If you see a great quote somewhere, tweet it to us!How conversational fillers such as like and you know creep into our vernacular? Like most verbal ticks and pieces of vocabulary, we pick these things up from those around us. But contrary to some folks' opinions, the use of like and you know don't decrease one's credibility. When used appropriately, they actually make it easier for people to relate to us.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.....Support for A Way with Words comes from The Ken Blanchard Companies, celebrating 35 years of making a leadership difference with Situational Leadership II, the leadership model designed to boost effectiveness, impact, and employee engagement. More about how Blanchard can help your executives and organizational leaders at kenblanchard.com/leadership.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2014, Wayword LLC.

The English language is a living thing, growing and changing with the passage of time and evolving to match the culture of its speakers. On today's HearSay, we'll explore aspects of our language that have fallen out of prominence but might be deserving of a resurgence. Also, Cathy Lewis is joined by the editor of the American Heritage Dictionary for a look at the new words making their way into our lexicon and the more obscure ones that are deserving of a place in your vocabulary.

100 Words Every 4th Grader Should Know...Steve Keinedler from American Heritage Dictionary...Iowans have a few words 4th graders should NOT know.   Elizabeth Morgan, former Iowan, has a daughter who may benefit from medical marijuana tells her story.  Then,  how to handle a scam artist bill collector.  Wendy McElroy, "individualist feminist",   says the 1 and 5 myth is alive and well on Iowa college campuses. She calls it the fake rape crusade..  And voting machine failure in a local election?

Did you ever wonder why we capitalize the pronoun "I," but not any other pronoun? There's a reason, and it may not be what you think. Also, the romantic story behind our term "halcyon days," the origin of the phrase "like white on rice," and the linguistic scuttlebutt on the word scuttlebutt. Plus, a pun-laden word game, hold your peace vs. hold your piece, nixie on your tintype, and no skin off my nose.FULL DETAILSListeners have been posting photos of themselves with their favorite words on our Word Wall, including some that are new to us. For example, epalpebrate might be a good one to drop when describing the Mona Lisa in Art History class, since it means without eyebrows. And Menehune is a term for the tiny, mischievous people in Hawaiian folklore.If it's no skin off your nose, there's no harm done. This idiom, which the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms suggests may come from boxing, means the same thing as no skin off my back or no skin off my ear. If you have other idioms in this vein, share them with us!What's the difference between speak your piece and speak now or forever hold your peace? While speaking your piece refers to a piece of information you want to share, holding your peace relates to keeping the peace. This is a simple case of a collision of idioms.For years, teachers have warned against using the word ain't, apparently with some success. Emily Hummell from Boston sent us a poem that may have contributed: Don't say ain't/ your mother will faint/ your father will fall in a bucket of paint/ your sister will cry/ your brother will sigh/ the cat and dog will say goodbye. Did your parents or teachers have another way of breaking children of the habit of saying ain't? Have you heard the latest scuttlebutt around the water cooler? This term for gossip, which comes from the water-filled cask in a ship, is a literal synonym for water cooler talk! On our Word Wall, one listener fancies ginnel: the long, narrow passage between houses you find in Manchester and Leeds. Have you shared your favorite word yet?Our Puzzle Maestro John Chaneski has a great variation of his classic Tom Swifty game, based on adjectives that fit their subject. For example, how did the citizens feel upon hearing that the dictator of their small country shut down the newspapers? Beware of puns!Does capitalizing the pronoun I feel like aggrandizing your own self-importance? Timna, an English Composition professor at an Illinois community college, reports that a student contested refused to capitalize this first person pronoun, arguing that to do so was egotistical. But it's a standard convention of written English going back to the 13th century, and to not capitalize it would draw even more attention. When writing a formal document, always capitalize the I. It's a pronoun, not a computer brand. If you want to sound defiant, you could do worse than exclaiming, Nixie on your tintype! This phrase, meaning something to the effect of spit on your face, popped up in Marjorie Benton Cooke's 1914 classic, Bambi. Kristin Anderson, a listener from Apalachicola, Florida, shares this great poem that makes use of the phrase.Do you know the difference between flotsam and jetsam? In an earlier episode, we discussed flotsam, which we described as the stuff thrown off a sinking ship. But several avid sailors let us know that jetsam's the stuff thrown overboard, while flotsam is the remains of a shipwreck. Thanks, crew.Paula from Palm City, Florida, wants to know: What's so cute about buttons, anyway? Like the expressions cute as a bug and cute as a bug's ear, this expression seems to derive from the fact that all of these things are delicate and small. She raises another interesting question: Are the descriptors beautiful and attractive preferable to cute and adorable after a certain age? We want to hear your thoughts!  The weeks on either side of the winter solstice have a special place in Greek mythology. In the story of Alcyone, the daughter of Aeolus, she marries Ceyx, who arrogantly dares to compare their relationship to that of Zeus and Hera. Such hubris is never a good thing in Greek myth, and Zeus causes his death. But the gods eventually take pity on the mortal couple, changing them into birds known for their devotion to each other. Those birds, named after Alcyone, were said to nest on the surface of the sea during calm weather, giving rise to our term halcyon days.Is white on rice a racist idiom? No! It simply means that if you're on top of your tasks like white on rice, it means you've got it covered the way rice is covered in whiteness. In Geneva Smitherman's Talkin and Testifyin, she relays a lyric from Frankie Crocker that goes Closer than white's on rice; closer than cold's on ice. Now that's close!If something's got you feeling ate up, then you're consumed by the notion that it didn't go perfectly. You're overwhelmed, obsessed, or maybe you're just exhausted. However, among members of the Air Force, ate up has long meant gung ho, as in, that pilot's ate up, he loves flying so much.Via Maud Newton's Twitter feed comes this gem from The Sea, by William John Banville: The past beats inside me like a second heart. If you see a great quote somewhere, tweet it to us!How conversational fillers such as like and you know creep into our vernacular? Like most verbal ticks and pieces of vocabulary, we pick these things up from those around us. But contrary to some folks' opinions, the use of like and you know don't decrease one's credibility. When used appropriately, they actually make it easier for people to relate to us.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.....Support for A Way with Words also comes from National University, which invites you to change your future today. More at http://www.nu.edu/.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2013, Wayword LLC.

The English language is a living thing, growing and changing with the passage of time and evolving to match the culture of its speakers. On today's HearSay, we'll explore aspects of our language that have fallen out of prominence but might be deserving of a resurgence. Also, Cathy Lewis is joined by the editor of the American Heritage Dictionary for a look at the new words making their way into our lexicon and the more obscure ones that are deserving of a place in your vocabulary.

Right-Click the "pod" icon (top left) to download this episode (click to listen, or right-click to "save as" an mp3 file on your computer). Notes, References, and Links for further study: Tragedy and Hope dot com Invitation to the Tragedy and Hope online community (link expires monthly) Log in page for the Tragedy and Hope online community Peace Revolution primary site (2009-2012)* Peace Revolution backup stream (2006-2012)* Includes the 9/11 Synchronicity Podcast (predecessor to Peace Revolution) *These 2 podcasts and lectures amount to 400+ hours of commercial-free educational content, which formulate a comprehensive and conscious curriculum. The Ultimate History Lesson dot com (the film, notes, references, transcript, etc.) IMDB Page for The Ultimate History Lesson Facebook Page for The Ultimate History Lesson Twitter feed for Tragedy and Hope The Ultimate History Lesson Official Playlist (on YouTube) UHL Research Bonus Pack and Gatto Fundraiser Pack(fundraiser for media partners and JTG) Partner Coupon Codes (MUST BE IN ALL CAPS): GNOSTICMEDIA CORBETTREPORT MEDIAMONARCHY REDICERADIO SCHOOLSUCKS MERIAHELLER FREEDOMSPHOENIX Reference Map to Episode 070: (1m-4m) Despotism vs. Aaron Dykes (Infowars Nightly News clip) by R.G. (4m-6m) U.S. Army Kills Kids by Abby Martin (RT) (6m-9m) Robert F. Kennedy did not agree Oswald lone assassin (ABC News) (9m-13m) U.S. Government Found Guilty of Murdering Martin Luther King by Lee Camp (13m-19m) U.S. Court: Martin Luther King Killed by the Authorities by Barrie Zwicker (19m-28m) Richard's introductory monologue (28m-2h50m) Debate: Larken Rose (Anarchy) vs. Tom Willcutts (Authority) History… So It Doesn't Repeat (2h50-5h25m) Briefing: Kevin Cole (Classical Trivium vs. Trivium Method) History… So It Doesn't Repeat (5h25m-6h50m) “Behaviorism in Disguise” School Sucks Podcast #150 Hist ory... So It Doesn't Repeat (Official YouTube Series Playlist) Timecodes, notes, links, and references are posted just below the HD video: Notes, Links, & References for "The Trivium Method vs. The Classical Trivium" (recorded February 17, 2013) 1m “The Great Chain of Being and the Organic Unity of the Polis” by Kevin Cole (Winter 2013) 2m “The Trivium Method” by Jan Irvin and Gene Odening @ Gnostic Media dot com 3m “The Trivium Method of Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving” vs. the innate method of learning, and comparing it to how the Classical Trivium (as a method of institutionalizing individuals) has historically been used prior to the 21st century. 4m History of the Classical Trivium is the history of the Great Chain of Being, useful in shaping cultures. The Great Chain of Being is defined in classical terms. 5m The concept of “balanced” government and civil society itself, The Ominous Continuity of the “education” system we know as schooling 6m The changing of terms as a means of gaining power over unwitting minds 7m The Occulting of Knowledge to create Power 8m Legacy of 2,500 years of the Noble Lie being used to create Power 9m Romantic Nationalism & Germany vs. Limited Government System, continued definition of the Great Chain of Being (3 estates) 10m Caste System, Divine Right of Kings, and the Classical Trivium; specifically the artificial scarcity of the “7” liberal arts 11m Enkyklios Paideia and the Caste System, Arnold Toynbee “it allows each empire to be immortal” 12m Great Chain of Being and the Classical Trivium in context of Organic Unity 13m United Nations Charter provisions, Positive and Negative Rights, staying knowledgeable about the first principles and jury nullification, Thomas Jefferson and First Principles Article 29: 1. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. 2. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. Article 30: Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein. 14m Logical foundation of Negative Rights, Irrational foundation of Positive Rights 15m Definition of Organic Unity 16m Scott Buchannan quote on the Classical Trivium to create Organic Unity, Cardinal and Ordinal structures of the story (Buchannan was a Rhodes Scholar) 17m Definitions: The Auctors, The Polis, The Polity, Episcopal, hierarchical structures of authorities, Anglicanism (Church of England) 18m Comparison and Contrast the Trivium Method vs. the Classical Trivium, 7 Liberal Arts, Plato, Aristotle, educational philosophy and Isocrates, 19m The “general education” of the inscribed circle of the Enkyklios Paideia, foreshadowing Fichte and Hegel of the Prussian Education System encyclopedia (n.) 1530s, "course of instruction," from Modern Latin encyclopaedia (c.1500), literally "training in a circle," i.e. the "circle" of arts and sciences, the essentials of a liberal education; from enkyklios "circular," and paideia “education”. According to some accounts such as the American Heritage Dictionary copyists of Latin manuscripts took this phrase to be a single Greek word, enkuklopaedia. 20m plunder v. production and human livestock, classical Trivium as a system of creating production to be plundered… farming plunder 21m Latin education and the Divine Right of Kings, organic unity and feudalism, legitimizing the great chain of being (methods of authority), using the battlefield and education to subjugate individuals for lack of Knowledge. 22m Legitimizing the storyteller as the authority of the day, group-think, authority to control human resources. Any citizen can become an individual through learning habits of self-reliance 23m “Authorities” (educators, sophists) define the “Grammar” of the Classical Trivium, thus making the “Logic” a belief, not an understanding. No knowledge is necessary for belief, in fact belief is often what fills the void created when Knowledge is absent. 24m Unified systems of knowledge, cybernetics and the ship of state (Plato), first principles and common ground (Logic) necessary for linguistic communication. The use of these ideologies to create state systems. 25m Richard Haklyut and Queen Elizabeth, propagating organic unity as “natural”, even though it depends on people ruling over others. Scott Buchannan papers from Harvard University, “Poetry and Mathematics” (foreshadowing role of Rhodes Scholars) Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552 or 1553 – 23 November 1616) was an English writer. He is known for promoting the settlement of North America by the English through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation (1589–1600). 26m Dorothy Sayers and removing the myths to get to the facts of her claims, Reinhold Niebuhr, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Milner Rhodes Roundtable Group, secularizing values to continue organic unity 27m Dorothy Sayers quotes in favor of British Empire building and Cecil Rhodes / Milner Roundtable Group and Organic Unity 28m Origins of the systems which create and facilitate organic unity, cybernetics, using the knowledge of self-learning to dissect the history and identify the contradictions of our public educations 29m Gnostic Media interview with Gene Odening, how the human being learns, removing the dogma from the process of learning for one's self 30m Asking substantial questions and using a method to find valid answers consistently vs. the Classical Trivium (prescribed “Grammar”, mandated “Logic”, rhetoric which reinforces servitude) 31m Isocrates and literacy as a form of slavery (i.e. sophism) until the reader learns how to identify reality and remove unreality (i.e. logic). 32m closed systems of learning to maintain the city-states, aristocracy, and ruling class to manage the polity (public); educating the kings, adopting education systems to gain power over the polity, dichotomy of control, creating knowledge gaps to create “power”. 33m focus on significant and substantial, discard the arbitrary, dismiss the irrational. Sayers' biases and the basis of Christian Homeschooling in America. 34m Sayers' system as the “closest to the perfection of Plato's Republic” – Freemasonry 35m Christian Homeschooling and predefined grammar, infecting the logic by not asking preliminary questions to identify that which exists, reality from unreality (Sayers' seeds of irrationality) 36m History of Ideas in relation to the Trivium Method contrasted to the Classical Trivium and the history of creating organic unity 37m The Classical Trivium, Freemasonry as a feedback mechanism for creating organic unity through empire, “Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism (1717-1927)” by Jessica Harland Jacobs 38m “Origins of Freemasonry” by Thomas Paine, 39m Johann Joachim Christoph “J.C.” Bode, Nicholas Bonneville, Philo's Reply to Questions Concerning His Association with the Illuminati by Jeva Singh-Anand, Illuminati Manifesto of World Revolution (1792) translated by Marco de Luchetti, 40m King Elfwad, Charlemagne, and the origins of the word “Trivium” by Alcuin of York 41m Ancient Greece, systems of preserving itself against surrounding piranha states 42m Enkyklios Paideia created by Isocrates preserves organic unity until Thomas Jefferson recognizes what it is, and what it does 43m Scott Buchanan and Stringfellow Barr (Rhodes Scholars) and Freemasonry, origins of “Classical Trivium” revival veiling the Enkyklios Paideia 44m filling in between Isocrates and the Freemasons, Jesuits and the Ratio Studiorum, which was rejected by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Ratio Studiorum as continuation of organic unity under godhead of theology. 45m Thomas Jefferson (post-revolution) goes to William and Mary and has the Classical Trivium removed from the curriculum, breaking the mechanism of British perpetuation of their organic unity 46m Thomas Jefferson addressing the Educational Perennialists of his day, accepting the theory before inspection, condemnation prior to observation, “putting your logic before your grammar” as Jan Irvin says 47m Education as a tool of creating culture, its how the state reproduces itself, “reality” filtered through he prescribed rhetoric of the state, 48m Ignatius Loyola, Alumbrados, the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola as the origins of the esoteric organic unity progressed by the Jesuits, various flavors of organic unity (various empires through time), sacrifice of the individual to the state 49m Bavarian Illuminati, Thomas Paine, Nicholas Bonneville, and connections to the origins of America, May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt (1911 Encyclopedia Britannica entry for Illumati), Baron Adolph ‘Philo' Knigge as Weishaupt's #2 in the Bavarian Illuminati 50m Bavarian Illuminati as intellectual group fighting against organic unity and divine right of kings in Europe. “Philo's Reply to Questions Concerning His Association with the Illuminati” Reply by Jeva Singh Anand reveals the personal conversations between Adam Weishaupt and Baron von Knigge prior to Knigge's resignation from the Bavarian Illuminati and the promotion of revolutionary publisher J.C. Bode. 51m Thomas Paine's references to Samuel Prichard's “Freemasonry is based on the foundation of the Liberal Arts” quote, Illuminati as a system trying to do away with the state, Isidore of Seville and the creation of civil polity by limited education 52m Bavarian Illuminati vs. Religion and the State, Freemasonry as the genitalia of the state and the injection of organic unity throughout indigenous populations, Illuminati plans to use for the state to reproduce itself via taking over Freemasonry. 53m the Strict Observance Lodge of Freemasonry in Bavaria, Degree Systems above traditional York Rite degrees, transcending nationhood. Reinhard Koselleck's “Critique and Crises : Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society” (published by M.I.T.) on Freemasonry and creating organic unity 54m Original members of the Illuminati influencing American education, The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto 55m Juxtaposing internet lore vs. actual artifacts and evidence of the Bavarian Illuminati, similar to Jesuits in seeing value of controlling education, 1610 Wood Manuscript (The Hiram Key by Lomas and Knight) 56m Individual Liberty based on that which exists vs. irrational illusions of Authority, Bonneville, Jefferson, and the unknown history of Bavarian Illuminati influence in America's origins. 57m Social Circle Freemasonic Lodge, papers published by J.C. Bode of the Bavarian Illuminati, promoted after Knigge's resignation, connections to Prussian education. 58m Johann Fichte's references to Johann Pestalozzi's organic unity method of schooling and creation of the Prussian education system, giving birth to Romantic Nationalism as opposed to the Jeffersonian ideas of nationhood. 59m Milton Peterson's works on Thomas Jefferson, rejection of classical forms of the Trivium as being connected to the Great Chain of Being, i.e. a caste society subjugating individuals to illusory authority 1h1m ideas of creating a balanced government based on first principles subject to existence, not dogma; derivative proofs of non-aggression undermined by changes in education system which Jefferson feared, J.J. Rousseau, John Locke, The Meaning of Meaning, particularity and universiality, from Charlemagne through to the 21st Century. 1h5m Jefferson displacing the Classical Trivium at the University of Virginia, Jefferson laments genocide of indigenous languages and loss of etymology. 1h6m encryption of language enables selective power transfer 1h8m how to preserve the first principles which inspired the Constitution 1h10m Ben Franklin's education in the liberal arts and secret societies 1h11m parallels of Isocrates and Freemasonic organic unity, “Builders of Empire” as blueprint for how Freemasonry assumes authority throughout the world 1h14m philosophic corruptions of reality, claims of authority break down under scrutiny and defined terms, taboo to discuss because you might perceive the ruse of organic unity 1h15m Thomas Jefferson displaces classical Trivium as being tied to the Great Chain of Being 1h16m Legacy of Alcuin of York, creating a duality in Christianity, “othering” of the natural world, Basil Bernstein's work on the classical Trivium, Noah Webster, John Adams, Thomas Paine, Emerson and Thoreau, Rousseau's social contract, liberal arts as chains of garland flung over reality, Bavarian Illuminati 1h17m Epistemological cartoons instead of getting into the details and artifacts, Techne (Technology) as a Craft to propel Culture (see: Freemasonry), Thomas Paine quote on education and knowledge of language vs. knowledge of things, Syntax and Statecraft in history 1h18m Destutt De Tracy “Elements of Ideology”, science of ideas from Condillac's Statue of Man, solidifying a science of ideas to map out human resource control 1h19m Destutt De Tracy: how to define and identify in order to think clearly and progress to understanding 1h20m Prussian Nationalism, Hegel and the obsolescence of the Divine Right of Kings and “Authority” in general, discovering that life is not how we were taught it is as a result of the Prussian education system changing America away from natural rights liberalism 1h21m systems of natural rights and state education are not compatible 1h22m unitary education by congress is in direct contradiction to the founding principles of America, collectivism, pre-amble missing from Constitution, ambiguity therefore included unnecessarily 1h24m Classical Trivium imparting language without defense against unreality, thus creates a system of control 1h25m without defense against unreality, society becomes skewed and actions in conflict with needs of survival, as a result of Enkyklios Paideia introduced into England by the Venetian Black Noblity 1h26m Webster Tarpley's 1981 article on the Venetian Black Nobility, how to fill in the blanks when history has been purposely omitted, creating cognitive dissonance 1h28m Wilhelm Wundt and the “Clockwork Orange” mentality of treating people as mechanical toys, to be manipulated; and how asking questions is the key to circumventing Wundtian control systems 1h30m Frederick the Great and the Gymnasium of Prussian Education, Obama's recent references to the value of Prussian industrial training 1h31m John Taylor Gatto's “Underground History of American Education” referring to Prussian indoctrination methods being used in America, Prussian principles displace American first princples imparted in Constitution 1h32m Prussian education creates a strong nationalistic fervor, at behest of “national” interest, parallels between Nazi Germany and America today via the Prussian education system 1h33m Frederick the Great, Freemasonry, Education, and Illuminati connections; going after our youngest through compulsory schooling, creation of schooling in America by secret societies 1h34m Frederick the Great May 1, 1786 creating constitutions of Freemasonry, similar degrees to draw people into the Illuminati plan by imitating Freemasonry 1h35m Reworking masonic texts to re-present the ideas to foment revolution, Amis Reunis, Lodge of the Nine Sisters, and the Social Circle, French Revolution, Congress of Wilhelmsbad, Baron Knigge and the attempts to recruit powerful figures into their stable of talent. Hegel, Herter, Mozart, Goethe, Zeitgiest (spirit of the age) 1h36m origin myth of the Nine Muses / Nine Sisters lodge of Freemasonry in France 1h37m Rev. George Washington Snyder letter to George Washington, Oct 24, 1798 regarding the Bavarian Illuminati, spores dispersed into America, Anti-Freemasonic Party to drive Freemasons from power 1h38m Cecil Rhodes and fellow Freemasons creating British organic unity via a Secret Society based on the methods of the Jesuits (Ratio Studiorum) 1h39m Ben Franklin and the Lodge of the Nine Sisters, representing the Nine Muses (9 liberal arts) as set down by Martianus Capella, Destutt De Tracy, Voltaire members of the lodge, Jefferson's rejection of their first principles, Positive vs. Negative origins of Government 1h40m Napoleon rejected the first principles as Jefferson did, Destutt De Tracy deposed from his educational system, Grammar, Logic, & Ideology (instead of rhetoric) 1h41m Jefferson's own contradictions (not perfect) but noted the success of America dependent on independence from British linguistic controls 1h42m Cecil Rhodes and the Jesuits, organic unitycommon to plans of monopoly, power, and empire, tracing back to the Indian (of India) monitorial schools (pedagogical control of group by authority at the front of the room), another brick in the wall as the craft of masonry Cecil John Rhodes PC, DCL (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was an English-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, and an ardent believer in British colonialism, he was the founder of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him. He set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate. Rhodes and his legacy are memorialized in the 1966 textbook “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time” by Dr. Carroll Quigley, professor at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. 1h43m Cecil Rhodes goal to change American Constitution to bring America back under control of Britain by rings-within-rings, using Rhodes Scholars to create organic unity. 1h43m Cecil Rhodes plans grow roots in America, proliferating Anglo-Saxon Nationalism (everyone else was a “barbarian”) 1h44m Equal rights only for “civilized” men (positive rights) vs. natural rights inherent to all human beings 1h45m Cecil Rhodes Last Will and Testament, seeking to decontextualize the history and create amnesia in the American polity 1h46m Cecil Rhodes' band of merry men, bring in Prussian ideals via Rhodes Scholars, creating a spacial-temporal consciousness shift 1h47m Carroll Quigley's books addressing Rhodes and organic unity (Evolution of Civilizations, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, The Anglo-American Establishment), Porter Sargent's books on the same topic 1h48m Clarence Streit's “Union Now” plan to merge America with Britain, Andrew Carnegie's “Triumph of Democracy”, Linus Pauling's “Union Now” speech, Harris Wolford of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), Rhodes Roundtable group seeking to create a union of democracies, origins of Globalism, collaboration between Rhodes Roundtable, Rockefeller, Carnegie trusts. 1h49m undoing Thomas Paine's “Common Sense”, to reverse roles and undo common sense to say America is subservient to Britain 1h50m Clarence Streit, Stringfellow Barr, and Scott Buchanan, (all Rhodes scholars) reviving the Classical Trivium, indoctrinating Anglo-American values and organic unity 1h51m Rhodes Roundtable supports “Union Now”, via Pilgrims Society, also seeking Organic Unity with Britain, origins of Apartheid in South Africa, Jan Smuts and Wholism as the philosophy of the British Empire (plunder rebranded as freedom) 1h52m “Union Now” as a Fabian Society for Federalists to create organic unity, Embers of World Conversation (Buchannan), origins of The Great Books of the Western World with Richard McKeown 1h53 Marshall McLuhan and I.A. Richards work on the Classical Trivium, James Bryant Conant 1h54m Poetry and Mathematics by Scott Buchanan (Rhodes Scholar) rediscovers the Classical Trivium, John Erskine, Nicholas Murray Butler, St. Thomas Aquinas, Great Chain of Being, and Mortimer Adler and logic existing within systems, Dr. Randall Hart “Classical Trivium” book 1h55m John Erskine bringing selective reading into the U.S., Woodbury and the X Club (see: Huxley), Matthew Arnold and Cecil Rhodes 1h56m Alfred Zimmern, William Benton, Benton and Bowles Advertising trending organic unity 1h57m “Union Now” and the liberal education at St. John's University and the University of Chicago, Leo Strauss, Neocons, Robert Maynard Hutchins, and the origins of the Great Books of the Western World 1h58m Legacy of Cecil Rhodes, Pilgrims Society, RIIA, CFR, and creating organic unity in America 1h59m Arthur Balfour, Cecil Rhodes, Baron Rothschild and Palestine; Pilgrims Society as Anglo-American Alliance to usurp national government of the U.S. vis a vis Organic Union 2h re-branding British Empire as part of organic unity and role of St. John's university in revival of the Classical Trivium within the Anglo-American tradition. 2h2m “Fat Man's Class” and William Benton, J. Walter Thompson Company, Denise Sutton's “Globalising Ideal Beauty: How Female Copywriters of the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency Redefined Beauty for the Twentieth Century”, De Beers Diamond Cartel, behaviorism (via John Watson) included to manipulate populations 2h3m Encyclopedia Britannica bought by William Benton vs. The Great Books of the Western World, Benton worked with R. Gordon Wasson, Bank of International Settlements 2h5m Benton and “Fat Man's Class” sought to proliferate sophism into the business community, Henry Luce's support, “The Romance of Commerce and Culture”, Walter Paepke, importation of Prussian/German culture into business and politics, boxing up our culture to bring concensus by de-individualizing and holding conflicting thoughts is the norm. 2h7m Great Books of the Western World and Eugenics, signers of the GBWW project (several Union Now supporters & Rhodes Scholars among other collectivist groups seeking organic unity for Anglo-Saxon Establishment power structures) 2h9m Society for the Cincinnatus and the ominous continuity of these ideas, Mirabeau as a member of the Social Circle, hereditary orders to create organic unity, Walter Paepke as founder of the Aspen Institute which funded the GBWW, founded on commemoration date of Goethe, ex-Bavarian Illuminati; origin of Aspen's popularity and the Noble Lie 2h10m Leo Strauss at St. John's University as a Scott Buchanan Scholar 2h11m GBWW to impart culture to common man, a scarcity not circulated in 70 years, a legacy of organic unity being propagated via Classical Trivium 2h12m Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (Rhodes Scholar, Harvard), Power and Interdependence 2h13m London School of Economics (Fabian Socialist institution), Rothschild family funding LSE 2h14m “The Real New World Order” (Foreign Affairs Publication) by Anne-Marie Slaughter, Office for Policy Planning, CFR driving organic unity 2h15m “The Real New World Order” is published by the Council on Foreign Relations 2h16m David Rockefeller, Memoirs, p. 505 quote, Admiral Chester Ward on CFR quote from Barry Goldwater biography “With No Apologies” chapter 33 “Our Non-Elected Rulers” 2h17m H.G. Wells, Fabian Socialist, Open Conspiracy, Island of Dr. Moreau, organic unity through Eugenics (see: G. Stanley Hall quote on organic unity in “NEA: Trojan Horse”), erasing of national borders, ethically responsible to control the many, “The Shape of Things to Come” by H.G. Wells H.G. Wells' most consistent political ideal was the World State. He stated in his autobiography that from 1900 onward he considered a World State inevitable. He envisioned the state to be a planned society that would advance science, end nationalism, and allow people to progress by merit rather than birth. In 1932, he told Young Liberals at the University of Oxford that progressive leaders must become liberal fascists or enlightened Nazis in order to implement their ideas.[35]In 1940, Wells published a book called The New World Order that outlined his plan as to how a World Government will be set up. 2h18m Technocracy to control the thoughts of the polity, C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards “The Meaning of Meaning”, imparting of Liberal Arts to create civil polity, language as technology to control polity 2h20m Inherent rights (negative rights) vs. Positive Rights (arcane laws of governance and authority), “Fire in the Minds of Men” by James H. Billington (Rhodes Scholar & Librarian of Congress), the need to preserve oral traditions and the attack of our culture to manipulate our perceptions, thus to create organic unity, the use of cybernetics to wage psychological warfare, using the mind as the harness of human resources, Stephen Biko “the most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor are the minds of the oppressed.” 2h22m Ludwig Wittgenstein, I.A. Richards, and manipulating language to control perceptions in cybernetics, Macy Conferences of cybernetic applications, and “New Criticism” to decontextualize historical documents, thus re-defining liberty by separating literature from history. Rhodes/Milner Roundtable participation in supporting “New Criticism” and decontextualizing history to create organic unity; which evolved from the Prussian Nationalism which preceded it. 2h25m Frank Aydelotte (Rhodes Scholar) on Classical Trivium and Organic Unity, “spelling” to use words to further “liberty” in British terms. 2h26m Lord Percy v. Thomas Jefferson, 2h27m Arnold Toynbee and analogical reasoning using the Classical Trivium to promote British organic unity 2h28m Eugenics, Rockefeller, and organic unity vis a vis “The Molecular Biology of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology ” by Lily Kay (M.I.T.) 2h29m Frank and James Angell, G. Stanley Hall, and others instrumental introducing the Prussian education system into America, John Taylor Gatto's work, Max Weber and scientific dictatorship 2h30m Population Control, Eugenics, and the Rockefeller “Science of Man” project rebranded as “molecular biology”, Linus Pauling's support of Lily Kay's book, Mr. and Mrs. Pauling support “Union Now” and other Anglo-American plans of unification, Delphi Technique of mind control, managing consent, Walter Lippmann 2h32m Rockefeller “Science of Man”, Edward Alsworth Ross' “Social Control”, mapping the individual to destroy individuality, Lily Kay unmasks the eugenic agenda of the elites, culling the polity to create organic unity. Artificial scarcity of technology, planned economies (Agenda 21) 2h33m SUMMARY: By changing the terms and definitions throughout history, the theme of controlling the polity by means of irrational means has thus far been successful. Our voluntary servitude to ideas which are unreality, continues to be the problem; learning and asking substantial questions and finding valid answers continues to be the solution. 2h34m Kevin Cole's closing statement, the logic behind the liberal arts education, slavery vs. free minds, the perpetuation of organic unity throughout time to create slave vs. free dichotomy. In America rights were inherent, not because you're become a subservient slave to the state. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? CHECK OUT "THE ULTIMATE HISTORY LESSON: A WEEKEND WITH JOHN TAYLOR GATTO"! 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So It Doesn't Repeat (Official YouTube Series Playlist) Timecodes, notes, links, and references are posted just below the HD video: Notes, Links, & References for "The Trivium Method vs. The Classical Trivium" (recorded February 17, 2013) 1m “The Great Chain of Being and the Organic Unity of the Polis” by Kevin Cole (Winter 2013) 2m “The Trivium Method” by Jan Irvin and Gene Odening @ Gnostic Media dot com 3m “The Trivium Method of Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving” vs. the innate method of learning, and comparing it to how the Classical Trivium (as a method of institutionalizing individuals) has historically been used prior to the 21st century. 4m History of the Classical Trivium is the history of the Great Chain of Being, useful in shaping cultures. The Great Chain of Being is defined in classical terms. 5m The concept of “balanced” government and civil society itself, The Ominous Continuity of the “education” system we know as schooling 6m The changing of terms as a means of gaining power over unwitting minds 7m The Occulting of Knowledge to create Power 8m Legacy of 2,500 years of the Noble Lie being used to create Power 9m Romantic Nationalism & Germany vs. Limited Government System, continued definition of the Great Chain of Being (3 estates) 10m Caste System, Divine Right of Kings, and the Classical Trivium; specifically the artificial scarcity of the “7” liberal arts 11m Enkyklios Paideia and the Caste System, Arnold Toynbee “it allows each empire to be immortal” 12m Great Chain of Being and the Classical Trivium in context of Organic Unity 13m United Nations Charter provisions, Positive and Negative Rights, staying knowledgeable about the first principles and jury nullification, Thomas Jefferson and First Principles Article 29: 1. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. 2. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. Article 30: Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein. 14m Logical foundation of Negative Rights, Irrational foundation of Positive Rights 15m Definition of Organic Unity 16m Scott Buchannan quote on the Classical Trivium to create Organic Unity, Cardinal and Ordinal structures of the story (Buchannan was a Rhodes Scholar) 17m Definitions: The Auctors, The Polis, The Polity, Episcopal, hierarchical structures of authorities, Anglicanism (Church of England) 18m Comparison and Contrast the Trivium Method vs. the Classical Trivium, 7 Liberal Arts, Plato, Aristotle, educational philosophy and Isocrates, 19m The “general education” of the inscribed circle of the Enkyklios Paideia, foreshadowing Fichte and Hegel of the Prussian Education System encyclopedia (n.) 1530s, "course of instruction," from Modern Latin encyclopaedia (c.1500), literally "training in a circle," i.e. the "circle" of arts and sciences, the essentials of a liberal education; from enkyklios "circular," and paideia “education”. According to some accounts such as the American Heritage Dictionary copyists of Latin manuscripts took this phrase to be a single Greek word, enkuklopaedia. 20m plunder v. production and human livestock, classical Trivium as a system of creating production to be plundered… farming plunder 21m Latin education and the Divine Right of Kings, organic unity and feudalism, legitimizing the great chain of being (methods of authority), using the battlefield and education to subjugate individuals for lack of Knowledge. 22m Legitimizing the storyteller as the authority of the day, group-think, authority to control human resources. Any citizen can become an individual through learning habits of self-reliance 23m “Authorities” (educators, sophists) define the “Grammar” of the Classical Trivium, thus making the “Logic” a belief, not an understanding. No knowledge is necessary for belief, in fact belief is often what fills the void created when Knowledge is absent. 24m Unified systems of knowledge, cybernetics and the ship of state (Plato), first principles and common ground (Logic) necessary for linguistic communication. The use of these ideologies to create state systems. 25m Richard Haklyut and Queen Elizabeth, propagating organic unity as “natural”, even though it depends on people ruling over others. Scott Buchannan papers from Harvard University, “Poetry and Mathematics” (foreshadowing role of Rhodes Scholars) Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552 or 1553 – 23 November 1616) was an English writer. He is known for promoting the settlement of North America by the English through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation (1589–1600). 26m Dorothy Sayers and removing the myths to get to the facts of her claims, Reinhold Niebuhr, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Milner Rhodes Roundtable Group, secularizing values to continue organic unity 27m Dorothy Sayers quotes in favor of British Empire building and Cecil Rhodes / Milner Roundtable Group and Organic Unity 28m Origins of the systems which create and facilitate organic unity, cybernetics, using the knowledge of self-learning to dissect the history and identify the contradictions of our public educations 29m Gnostic Media interview with Gene Odening, how the human being learns, removing the dogma from the process of learning for one's self 30m Asking substantial questions and using a method to find valid answers consistently vs. the Classical Trivium (prescribed “Grammar”, mandated “Logic”, rhetoric which reinforces servitude) 31m Isocrates and literacy as a form of slavery (i.e. sophism) until the reader learns how to identify reality and remove unreality (i.e. logic). 32m closed systems of learning to maintain the city-states, aristocracy, and ruling class to manage the polity (public); educating the kings, adopting education systems to gain power over the polity, dichotomy of control, creating knowledge gaps to create “power”. 33m focus on significant and substantial, discard the arbitrary, dismiss the irrational. Sayers' biases and the basis of Christian Homeschooling in America. 34m Sayers' system as the “closest to the perfection of Plato's Republic” – Freemasonry 35m Christian Homeschooling and predefined grammar, infecting the logic by not asking preliminary questions to identify that which exists, reality from unreality (Sayers' seeds of irrationality) 36m History of Ideas in relation to the Trivium Method contrasted to the Classical Trivium and the history of creating organic unity 37m The Classical Trivium, Freemasonry as a feedback mechanism for creating organic unity through empire, “Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism (1717-1927)” by Jessica Harland Jacobs 38m “Origins of Freemasonry” by Thomas Paine, 39m Johann Joachim Christoph “J.C.” Bode, Nicholas Bonneville, Philo's Reply to Questions Concerning His Association with the Illuminati by Jeva Singh-Anand, Illuminati Manifesto of World Revolution (1792) translated by Marco de Luchetti, 40m King Elfwad, Charlemagne, and the origins of the word “Trivium” by Alcuin of York 41m Ancient Greece, systems of preserving itself against surrounding piranha states 42m Enkyklios Paideia created by Isocrates preserves organic unity until Thomas Jefferson recognizes what it is, and what it does 43m Scott Buchanan and Stringfellow Barr (Rhodes Scholars) and Freemasonry, origins of “Classical Trivium” revival veiling the Enkyklios Paideia 44m filling in between Isocrates and the Freemasons, Jesuits and the Ratio Studiorum, which was rejected by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Ratio Studiorum as continuation of organic unity under godhead of theology. 45m Thomas Jefferson (post-revolution) goes to William and Mary and has the Classical Trivium removed from the curriculum, breaking the mechanism of British perpetuation of their organic unity 46m Thomas Jefferson addressing the Educational Perennialists of his day, accepting the theory before inspection, condemnation prior to observation, “putting your logic before your grammar” as Jan Irvin says 47m Education as a tool of creating culture, its how the state reproduces itself, “reality” filtered through he prescribed rhetoric of the state, 48m Ignatius Loyola, Alumbrados, the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola as the origins of the esoteric organic unity progressed by the Jesuits, various flavors of organic unity (various empires through time), sacrifice of the individual to the state 49m Bavarian Illuminati, Thomas Paine, Nicholas Bonneville, and connections to the origins of America, May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt (1911 Encyclopedia Britannica entry for Illumati), Baron Adolph ‘Philo' Knigge as Weishaupt's #2 in the Bavarian Illuminati 50m Bavarian Illuminati as intellectual group fighting against organic unity and divine right of kings in Europe. “Philo's Reply to Questions Concerning His Association with the Illuminati” Reply by Jeva Singh Anand reveals the personal conversations between Adam Weishaupt and Baron von Knigge prior to Knigge's resignation from the Bavarian Illuminati and the promotion of revolutionary publisher J.C. Bode. 51m Thomas Paine's references to Samuel Prichard's “Freemasonry is based on the foundation of the Liberal Arts” quote, Illuminati as a system trying to do away with the state, Isidore of Seville and the creation of civil polity by limited education 52m Bavarian Illuminati vs. Religion and the State, Freemasonry as the genitalia of the state and the injection of organic unity throughout indigenous populations, Illuminati plans to use for the state to reproduce itself via taking over Freemasonry. 53m the Strict Observance Lodge of Freemasonry in Bavaria, Degree Systems above traditional York Rite degrees, transcending nationhood. Reinhard Koselleck's “Critique and Crises : Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society” (published by M.I.T.) on Freemasonry and creating organic unity 54m Original members of the Illuminati influencing American education, The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto 55m Juxtaposing internet lore vs. actual artifacts and evidence of the Bavarian Illuminati, similar to Jesuits in seeing value of controlling education, 1610 Wood Manuscript (The Hiram Key by Lomas and Knight) 56m Individual Liberty based on that which exists vs. irrational illusions of Authority, Bonneville, Jefferson, and the unknown history of Bavarian Illuminati influence in America's origins. 57m Social Circle Freemasonic Lodge, papers published by J.C. Bode of the Bavarian Illuminati, promoted after Knigge's resignation, connections to Prussian education. 58m Johann Fichte's references to Johann Pestalozzi's organic unity method of schooling and creation of the Prussian education system, giving birth to Romantic Nationalism as opposed to the Jeffersonian ideas of nationhood. 59m Milton Peterson's works on Thomas Jefferson, rejection of classical forms of the Trivium as being connected to the Great Chain of Being, i.e. a caste society subjugating individuals to illusory authority 1h1m ideas of creating a balanced government based on first principles subject to existence, not dogma; derivative proofs of non-aggression undermined by changes in education system which Jefferson feared, J.J. Rousseau, John Locke, The Meaning of Meaning, particularity and universiality, from Charlemagne through to the 21st Century. 1h5m Jefferson displacing the Classical Trivium at the University of Virginia, Jefferson laments genocide of indigenous languages and loss of etymology. 1h6m encryption of language enables selective power transfer 1h8m how to preserve the first principles which inspired the Constitution 1h10m Ben Franklin's education in the liberal arts and secret societies 1h11m parallels of Isocrates and Freemasonic organic unity, “Builders of Empire” as blueprint for how Freemasonry assumes authority throughout the world 1h14m philosophic corruptions of reality, claims of authority break down under scrutiny and defined terms, taboo to discuss because you might perceive the ruse of organic unity 1h15m Thomas Jefferson displaces classical Trivium as being tied to the Great Chain of Being 1h16m Legacy of Alcuin of York, creating a duality in Christianity, “othering” of the natural world, Basil Bernstein's work on the classical Trivium, Noah Webster, John Adams, Thomas Paine, Emerson and Thoreau, Rousseau's social contract, liberal arts as chains of garland flung over reality, Bavarian Illuminati 1h17m Epistemological cartoons instead of getting into the details and artifacts, Techne (Technology) as a Craft to propel Culture (see: Freemasonry), Thomas Paine quote on education and knowledge of language vs. knowledge of things, Syntax and Statecraft in history 1h18m Destutt De Tracy “Elements of Ideology”, science of ideas from Condillac's Statue of Man, solidifying a science of ideas to map out human resource control 1h19m Destutt De Tracy: how to define and identify in order to think clearly and progress to understanding 1h20m Prussian Nationalism, Hegel and the obsolescence of the Divine Right of Kings and “Authority” in general, discovering that life is not how we were taught it is as a result of the Prussian education system changing America away from natural rights liberalism 1h21m systems of natural rights and state education are not compatible 1h22m unitary education by congress is in direct contradiction to the founding principles of America, collectivism, pre-amble missing from Constitution, ambiguity therefore included unnecessarily 1h24m Classical Trivium imparting language without defense against unreality, thus creates a system of control 1h25m without defense against unreality, society becomes skewed and actions in conflict with needs of survival, as a result of Enkyklios Paideia introduced into England by the Venetian Black Noblity 1h26m Webster Tarpley's 1981 article on the Venetian Black Nobility, how to fill in the blanks when history has been purposely omitted, creating cognitive dissonance 1h28m Wilhelm Wundt and the “Clockwork Orange” mentality of treating people as mechanical toys, to be manipulated; and how asking questions is the key to circumventing Wundtian control systems 1h30m Frederick the Great and the Gymnasium of Prussian Education, Obama's recent references to the value of Prussian industrial training 1h31m John Taylor Gatto's “Underground History of American Education” referring to Prussian indoctrination methods being used in America, Prussian principles displace American first princples imparted in Constitution 1h32m Prussian education creates a strong nationalistic fervor, at behest of “national” interest, parallels between Nazi Germany and America today via the Prussian education system 1h33m Frederick the Great, Freemasonry, Education, and Illuminati connections; going after our youngest through compulsory schooling, creation of schooling in America by secret societies 1h34m Frederick the Great May 1, 1786 creating constitutions of Freemasonry, similar degrees to draw people into the Illuminati plan by imitating Freemasonry 1h35m Reworking masonic texts to re-present the ideas to foment revolution, Amis Reunis, Lodge of the Nine Sisters, and the Social Circle, French Revolution, Congress of Wilhelmsbad, Baron Knigge and the attempts to recruit powerful figures into their stable of talent. Hegel, Herter, Mozart, Goethe, Zeitgiest (spirit of the age) 1h36m origin myth of the Nine Muses / Nine Sisters lodge of Freemasonry in France 1h37m Rev. George Washington Snyder letter to George Washington, Oct 24, 1798 regarding the Bavarian Illuminati, spores dispersed into America, Anti-Freemasonic Party to drive Freemasons from power 1h38m Cecil Rhodes and fellow Freemasons creating British organic unity via a Secret Society based on the methods of the Jesuits (Ratio Studiorum) 1h39m Ben Franklin and the Lodge of the Nine Sisters, representing the Nine Muses (9 liberal arts) as set down by Martianus Capella, Destutt De Tracy, Voltaire members of the lodge, Jefferson's rejection of their first principles, Positive vs. Negative origins of Government 1h40m Napoleon rejected the first principles as Jefferson did, Destutt De Tracy deposed from his educational system, Grammar, Logic, & Ideology (instead of rhetoric) 1h41m Jefferson's own contradictions (not perfect) but noted the success of America dependent on independence from British linguistic controls 1h42m Cecil Rhodes and the Jesuits, organic unity common to plans of monopoly, power, and empire, tracing back to the Indian (of India) monitorial schools (pedagogical control of group by authority at the front of the room), another brick in the wall as the craft of masonry Cecil John Rhodes PC, DCL (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was an English-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, and an ardent believer in British colonialism, he was the founder of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him. He set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate. Rhodes and his legacy are memorialized in the 1966 textbook “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time” by Dr. Carroll Quigley, professor at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. 1h43m Cecil Rhodes goal to change American Constitution to bring America back under control of Britain by rings-within-rings, using Rhodes Scholars to create organic unity. 1h43m Cecil Rhodes plans grow roots in America, proliferating Anglo-Saxon Nationalism (everyone else was a “barbarian”) 1h44m Equal rights only for “civilized” men (positive rights) vs. natural rights inherent to all human beings 1h45m Cecil Rhodes Last Will and Testament, seeking to decontextualize the history and create amnesia in the American polity 1h46m Cecil Rhodes' band of merry men, bring in Prussian ideals via Rhodes Scholars, creating a spacial-temporal consciousness shift 1h47m Carroll Quigley's books addressing Rhodes and organic unity (Evolution of Civilizations, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, The Anglo-American Establishment), Porter Sargent's books on the same topic 1h48m Clarence Streit's “Union Now” plan to merge America with Britain, Andrew Carnegie's “Triumph of Democracy”, Linus Pauling's “Union Now” speech, Harris Wolford of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), Rhodes Roundtable group seeking to create a union of democracies, origins of Globalism, collaboration between Rhodes Roundtable, Rockefeller, Carnegie trusts. 1h49m undoing Thomas Paine's “Common Sense”, to reverse roles and undo common sense to say America is subservient to Britain 1h50m Clarence Streit, Stringfellow Barr, and Scott Buchanan, (all Rhodes scholars) reviving the Classical Trivium, indoctrinating Anglo-American values and organic unity 1h51m Rhodes Roundtable supports “Union Now”, via Pilgrims Society, also seeking Organic Unity with Britain, origins of Apartheid in South Africa, Jan Smuts and Wholism as the philosophy of the British Empire (plunder rebranded as freedom) 1h52m “Union Now” as a Fabian Society for Federalists to create organic unity, Embers of World Conversation (Buchannan), origins of The Great Books of the Western World with Richard McKeown 1h53 Marshall McLuhan and I.A. Richards work on the Classical Trivium, James Bryant Conant 1h54m Poetry and Mathematics by Scott Buchanan (Rhodes Scholar) rediscovers the Classical Trivium, John Erskine, Nicholas Murray Butler, St. Thomas Aquinas, Great Chain of Being, and Mortimer Adler and logic existing within systems, Dr. Randall Hart “Classical Trivium” book 1h55m John Erskine bringing selective reading into the U.S., Woodbury and the X Club (see: Huxley), Matthew Arnold and Cecil Rhodes 1h56m Alfred Zimmern, William Benton, Benton and Bowles Advertising trending organic unity 1h57m “Union Now” and the liberal education at St. John's University and the University of Chicago, Leo Strauss, Neocons, Robert Maynard Hutchins, and the origins of the Great Books of the Western World 1h58m Legacy of Cecil Rhodes, Pilgrims Society, RIIA, CFR, and creating organic unity in America 1h59m Arthur Balfour, Cecil Rhodes, Baron Rothschild and Palestine; Pilgrims Society as Anglo-American Alliance to usurp national government of the U.S. vis a vis Organic Union 2h re-branding British Empire as part of organic unity and role of St. John's university in revival of the Classical Trivium within the Anglo-American tradition. 2h2m “Fat Man's Class” and William Benton, J. Walter Thompson Company, Denise Sutton's “Globalising Ideal Beauty: How Female Copywriters of the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency Redefined Beauty for the Twentieth Century”, De Beers Diamond Cartel, behaviorism (via John Watson) included to manipulate populations 2h3m Encyclopedia Britannica bought by William Benton vs. The Great Books of the Western World, Benton worked with R. Gordon Wasson, Bank of International Settlements 2h5m Benton and “Fat Man's Class” sought to proliferate sophism into the business community, Henry Luce's support, “The Romance of Commerce and Culture”, Walter Paepke, importation of Prussian/German culture into business and politics, boxing up our culture to bring concensus by de-individualizing and holding conflicting thoughts is the norm. 2h7m Great Books of the Western World and Eugenics, signers of the GBWW project (several Union Now supporters & Rhodes Scholars among other collectivist groups seeking organic unity for Anglo-Saxon Establishment power structures) 2h9m Society for the Cincinnatus and the ominous continuity of these ideas, Mirabeau as a member of the Social Circle, hereditary orders to create organic unity, Walter Paepke as founder of the Aspen Institute which funded the GBWW, founded on commemoration date of Goethe, ex-Bavarian Illuminati; origin of Aspen's popularity and the Noble Lie 2h10m Leo Strauss at St. John's University as a Scott Buchanan Scholar 2h11m GBWW to impart culture to common man, a scarcity not circulated in 70 years, a legacy of organic unity being propagated via Classical Trivium 2h12m Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (Rhodes Scholar, Harvard), Power and Interdependence 2h13m London School of Economics (Fabian Socialist institution), Rothschild family funding LSE 2h14m “The Real New World Order” (Foreign Affairs Publication) by Anne-Marie Slaughter, Office for Policy Planning, CFR driving organic unity 2h15m “The Real New World Order” is published by the Council on Foreign Relations 2h16m David Rockefeller, Memoirs, p. 505 quote, Admiral Chester Ward on CFR quote from Barry Goldwater biography “With No Apologies” chapter 33 “Our Non-Elected Rulers” 2h17m H.G. Wells, Fabian Socialist, Open Conspiracy, Island of Dr. Moreau, organic unity through Eugenics (see: G. Stanley Hall quote on organic unity in “NEA: Trojan Horse”), erasing of national borders, ethically responsible to control the many, “The Shape of Things to Come” by H.G. Wells H.G. Wells' most consistent political ideal was the World State. He stated in his autobiography that from 1900 onward he considered a World State inevitable. He envisioned the state to be a planned society that would advance science, end nationalism, and allow people to progress by merit rather than birth. In 1932, he told Young Liberals at the University of Oxford that progressive leaders must become liberal fascists or enlightened Nazis in order to implement their ideas.[35]In 1940, Wells published a book called The New World Order that outlined his plan as to how a World Government will be set up. 2h18m Technocracy to control the thoughts of the polity, C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards “The Meaning of Meaning”, imparting of Liberal Arts to create civil polity, language as technology to control polity 2h20m Inherent rights (negative rights) vs. Positive Rights (arcane laws of governance and authority), “Fire in the Minds of Men” by James H. Billington (Rhodes Scholar & Librarian of Congress), the need to preserve oral traditions and the attack of our culture to manipulate our perceptions, thus to create organic unity, the use of cybernetics to wage psychological warfare, using the mind as the harness of human resources, Stephen Biko “the most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor are the minds of the oppressed.” 2h22m Ludwig Wittgenstein, I.A. Richards, and manipulating language to control perceptions in cybernetics, Macy Conferences of cybernetic applications, and “New Criticism” to decontextualize historical documents, thus re-defining liberty by separating literature from history. Rhodes/Milner Roundtable participation in supporting “New Criticism” and decontextualizing history to create organic unity; which evolved from the Prussian Nationalism which preceded it. 2h25m Frank Aydelotte (Rhodes Scholar) on Classical Trivium and Organic Unity, “spelling” to use words to further “liberty” in British terms. 2h26m Lord Percy v. Thomas Jefferson, 2h27m Arnold Toynbee and analogical reasoning using the Classical Trivium to promote British organic unity 2h28m Eugenics, Rockefeller, and organic unity vis a vis “The Molecular Biology of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology ” by Lily Kay (M.I.T.) 2h29m Frank and James Angell, G. Stanley Hall, and others instrumental introducing the Prussian education system into America, John Taylor Gatto's work, Max Weber and scientific dictatorship 2h30m Population Control, Eugenics, and the Rockefeller “Science of Man” project rebranded as “molecular biology”, Linus Pauling's support of Lily Kay's book, Mr. and Mrs. Pauling support “Union Now” and other Anglo-American plans of unification, Delphi Technique of mind control, managing consent, Walter Lippmann 2h32m Rockefeller “Science of Man”, Edward Alsworth Ross' “Social Control”, mapping the individual to destroy individuality, Lily Kay unmasks the eugenic agenda of the elites, culling the polity to create organic unity. Artificial scarcity of technology, planned economies (Agenda 21) 2h33m SUMMARY: By changing the terms and definitions throughout history, the theme of controlling the polity by means of irrational means has thus far been successful. Our voluntary servitude to ideas which are unreality, continues to be the problem; learning and asking substantial questions and finding valid answers continues to be the solution. 2h34m Kevin Cole's closing statement, the logic behind the liberal arts education, slavery vs. free minds, the perpetuation of organic unity throughout time to create slave vs. free dichotomy. In America rights were inherent, not because you're become a subservient slave to the state. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?CHECK OUT "THE ULTIMATE HISTORY LESSON: A WEEKEND WITH JOHN TAYLOR GATTO"!Subtitled: A 5-hour journey examining the history, root-causes, and consequences of public schoolingAlternatively, you can also find The Ultimate History Lesson listed on Amazon.com.

Did you ever wonder why we capitalize the pronoun "I," but not any other pronoun? There's a reason, and it may not be what you think. Also, the romantic story behind our term "halcyon days," the origin of the phrase "like white on rice," and the linguistic scuttlebutt on the word scuttlebutt. Plus, a pun-laden word game, hold your peace vs. hold your piece, nixie on your tintype, and no skin off my nose.FULL DETAILSListeners have been posting photos of themselves with their favorite words on our Word Wall, including some that are new to us. For example, epalpebrate might be a good one to drop when describing the Mona Lisa in Art History class, since it means without eyebrows. And Menehune is a term for the tiny, mischievous people in Hawaiian folklore.If it's no skin off your nose, there's no harm done. This idiom, which the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms suggests may come from boxing, means the same thing as no skin off my back or no skin off my ear. If you have other idioms in this vein, share them with us!What's the difference between speak your piece and speak now or forever hold your peace? While speaking your piece refers to a piece of information you want to share, holding your peace relates to keeping the peace. This is a simple case of a collision of idioms.For years, teachers have warned against using the word ain't, apparently with some success. Emily Hummell from Boston sent us a poem that may have contributed: Don't say ain't/ your mother will faint/ your father will fall in a bucket of paint/ your sister will cry/ your brother will sigh/ the cat and dog will say goodbye. Did your parents or teachers have another way of breaking children of the habit of saying ain't? Have you heard the latest scuttlebutt around the water cooler? This term for gossip, which comes from the water-filled cask in a ship, is a literal synonym for water cooler talk! On our Word Wall, one listener fancies ginnel: the long, narrow passage between houses you find in Manchester and Leeds. Have you shared your favorite word yet?Our Puzzle Maestro John Chaneski has a great variation of his classic Tom Swifty game, based on adjectives that fit their subject. For example, how did the citizens feel upon hearing that the dictator of their small country shut down the newspapers? Beware of puns!Does capitalizing the pronoun I feel like aggrandizing your own self-importance? Timna, an English Composition professor at an Illinois community college, reports that a student contested refused to capitalize this first person pronoun, arguing that to do so was egotistical. But it's a standard convention of written English going back to the 13th century, and to not capitalize it would draw even more attention. When writing a formal document, always capitalize the I. It's a pronoun, not a computer brand. If you want to sound defiant, you could do worse than exclaiming, Nixie on your tintype! This phrase, meaning something to the effect of spit on your face, popped up in Marjorie Benton Cooke's 1914 classic, Bambi. Kristin Anderson, a listener from Apalachicola, Florida, shares this great poem that makes use of the phrase.Do you know the difference between flotsam and jetsam? In an earlier episode, we discussed flotsam, which we described as the stuff thrown off a sinking ship. But several avid sailors let us know that jetsam's the stuff thrown overboard, while flotsam is the remains of a shipwreck. Thanks, crew.Paula from Palm City, Florida, wants to know: What's so cute about buttons, anyway? Like the expressions cute as a bug and cute as a bug's ear, this expression seems to derive from the fact that all of these things are delicate and small. She raises another interesting question: Are the descriptors beautiful and attractive preferable to cute and adorable after a certain age? We want to hear your thoughts!  The weeks on either side of the winter solstice have a special place in Greek mythology. In the story of Alcyone, the daughter of Aeolus, she marries Ceyx, who arrogantly dares to compare their relationship to that of Zeus and Hera. Such hubris is never a good thing in Greek myth, and Zeus causes his death. But the gods eventually take pity on the mortal couple, changing them into birds known for their devotion to each other. Those birds, named after Alcyone, were said to nest on the surface of the sea during calm weather, giving rise to our term halcyon days.Is white on rice a racist idiom? No! It simply means that if you're on top of your tasks like white on rice, it means you've got it covered the way rice is covered in whiteness. In Geneva Smitherman's Talkin and Testifyin, she relays a lyric from Frankie Crocker that goes Closer than white's on rice; closer than cold's on ice. Now that's close!If something's got you feeling ate up, then you're consumed by the notion that it didn't go perfectly. You're overwhelmed, obsessed, or maybe you're just exhausted. However, among members of the Air Force, ate up has long meant gung ho, as in, that pilot's ate up, he loves flying so much.Via Maud Newton's Twitter feed comes this gem from The Sea, by William John Banville: The past beats inside me like a second heart. If you see a great quote somewhere, tweet it to us!How conversational fillers such as like and you know creep into our vernacular? Like most verbal ticks and pieces of vocabulary, we pick these things up from those around us. But contrary to some folks' opinions, the use of like and you know don't decrease one's credibility. 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