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My breath caught when I was asked if the Duggar girls’ memoirs—Jinger’s Becoming Free Indeed and Jill’s Counting the Cost—are a ploy. The two books are not the same. The authors are, however, Jim Bob’s daughters. It’s a fair question. A ploy is a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage. If there was any doubt left that the Duggar show franchise was a ploy after Shiny Happy People, the documentary exposing Bill Gothard’s Institute of Basic Life Principles (IBLP), Jill’s book certainly seals the deal.

Be sure to join the Discord channel to talk hockey with our writers and subscribers. Get 30% off for 1 year The New Jersey Devils opened the season as one of the most likely teams to win the Stanley Cup. Sportsbooks unanimously had them in the top-10, and some had them as high as 3rd. Public analytics models generally had the Devils as a 100-point team, but went as high as making them President’s Trophy favorites.

[TRANSCRIPT] We all speak in codes that can only be fully understood by people within our groups. Whether it’s industry jargon or inside jokes with our friends, we all sometimes say things that make no sense to or are misunderstood by those outside our group. Hi everyone. Welcome to Digital Hope Talk. I’m Lauren Hug and I thank you for listening and being willing to explore better ways of navigating our digital world together.

A lot has been said and written over the years about the question, “Are we born sinners?” Some other names that this question is sometimes called is: Romans 5:12-21 is a section often referred to regarding the idea of being born sinful or born with a sinful nature. So before we dive into that section in our study, I’d like to consider the question, “Are we born sinners?” I don’t expect what I write here will answer all questions and thoughts about this subject.

Noah Smith writes, To borrow Imre Lakatos’ terminology, “America bad” was the core of Chomsky’s foreign policy thought, and everything else was an expendable periphery. When I was in high school, I accepted Chomsky’s explanation for the Vietnam War, which is that it was motivated by corporate America’s insatiable desire for markets. Within a few years, I had grown out of this nutty conspiracy idea. Chomsky never outgrew it. And today there are people on the left and the right who have a need to believe that foreign policies they disagree with come from dark, evil motives.

A common mycorrhizal network (CMN) is established when the mycelium of a fungus colonizes two plants (of the same species or different species). This means there is a continuity of mycelium from one plant to the other, a direct connection that does not involve a ‘step’ that goes through the soil rather than fungal cytoplasm. The definition is thus very clear, as recently explained in a must-read article by Karst et al.

A little while ago, a Saturday Night Live skit depicted a multiracial group of teens communicating in what was depicted as “Gen Z slang,” with the doctor they were talking with having to “translate” his thoughts into it to communicate with them. A lot of people didn’t like it, because the slang in question was mostly of Black English origin. The complaint is that the skit was denying the black roots of these terms, and instead ascribing them to Americans in general – i.

I’m on a high from spending time with 10 women on a yoga retreat. Some of them I knew, most of them I did not. We ate breakfast, lunch and dinner by the Caribbean Sea with our feet in powder-soft sand, slapped mosquitos on our sun-kissed skin, drank hibiscus tea, and talked about very real life obstacles. I listened to and participated in stories about suicide, cancer, chronic illness, race, privilege, complex relationships with our spouses, fears about screwing up our kids, aging and female adulthood.

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