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POPSEmail Etiquette 101 Sending e-mail is almost like picking up the phone and having a conversation nowadays, but how can you be sure you're using it as you intend and without offending anyone? Not so much about not 'offending anyone' but being more considerate to people we are bothering. The web is mostly shared space and we all need to be less annoying.
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POPSGeorge Washington's Rules of Civility
Insightful precepts of civil social behavior; as applicable now as ever. As a young schoolboy in Virginia, George Washington took his first steps toward greatness by copying out by hand a list of 110 ' Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation .' Based on a 16th-century set of precepts compiled for young gentlemen by Jesuit instructors, the Rules of Civility were one of the earliest and most powerful forces to shape America's first president.... Most of the rules are concerned with details of etiquette, offering pointers on such issues as how to dress, walk, eat in public and address one's superiors. But in the introduction to the newly published Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace , Brookhiser warns against dismissing the maxims as "mere" etiquette. "The rules address moral issues, but they address them indirectly," writes. "They seek to form the inner man (or boy) by shaping the outer."
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POPSWhatever Happened to Online Etiquette? Maybe as the Internet becomes as predominant as air, somebody will realize that online behavior isn’t just an afterthought. Maybe, along with HTML and how to gauge a Web site’s credibility, schools and colleges will one day realize that there’s something else to teach about the Internet: Civility 101. Also see: Why are we so nasty (online)?
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POPSWhere Are Our Manners? Sophisticated technology doesn’t mean that good manners have to be a thing of the past. In fact, Post says she defines good manners using three simple, everyday principles: consideration, respect, and honesty. “Apply those to any situation and toward all the people involved—including yourself—and will make sense.”
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POPSTips for Safe Sneezing The new etiquette? I don't believe that the practice is new at all. Haven't we all seen others do it, or have been guilty of doing it ourselves? :?: Sneezing and coughing into your sleeve helps prevent airborne transmission of viruses and bacteria, but there is a certain yuck! factor in having saliva-and-snot-caked sleeves. The good doctor should have mentioned the obvious need to handle infected clothing carefully and wash it thoroughly...and promptly!
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POPS"No Free Lunch" With The President at WH “I’m sure they have their political reasons for doing that, but I think it’s not what quote, hospitality, unquote is all about,” said Letitia Baldrige, who headed Jacqueline Kennedy’s White House staff in the early 1960s. “We’ve got to relax about this. To have people to the White House and worry about the price of things is laughable.” http://www.politico.com/singletitlevideo.html?bcpid=1155201977&bctid=31267189001
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POPSChina's Wild & Crazy Judges An end to the judges' tattoos, shaved heads, and "frolicking" with colleagues? It boggles the mind to think of how the judges apparently have appeared and behaved prior to this imposed ban on improprieties. I guess the phrase "sober as a judge" has not applied to the judges in China...until now.
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POPSGet Real in 2008 "We just can't take all this bad news, so to some degree you start to understand the 'let's fiddle while Rome is burning' attitude, which will only increase. "People will be eating more red meat, drinking, smoking. But the big repentance will come," she cautions. Just not now. "Look for that in 2009."
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POPSIs It Wrong to Correct Someone's Grammar? My kids and grands get so angry at me when I correct them ... but like the article says, "As standards decline, civilization declines." Maybe this makes me a stickler, or a prude ... but this is the way I operate. I can speak slang and I keep up with the meanings of all the new youth and tech lingo. That doesn't mean I have to say (this on top of my list of phrases that make me cringe), "I'm done!"
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POPSWhy royalty sucks This is from a 1991 news story about Queen Elizabeth II's visit to the US. For a photo opportunity, she visited an elderly black woman's government-subsidized home in Washington, D.C., and the woman violated etiquette by hugging the queen. In a follow-up story, Alice Frazier told a reporter that ``If I was a queen I`d try my best to bring everybody together and let them know that we all were created equal." Obviously, Elizabeth Windsor disagrees with her. This was inspired by gzyra's clip that touched on the ridiculous etiquette surrounding the Dalai Lama ("Never turn your back on him. Don't touch him. Don't speak to him unless he speaks to you.").
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POPSMistakes Men Make In Bed With Women There are 7 more mistakes in the list (40 in total), with brief explanations for each one of why it's a bad move. Also, some of these will probably also apply to homosexual intimacy as well...
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POPSI've got an idea! Fundamentals of fiction I've never had anything published, though I haven't tried, but thought if I was going to write something like a novel that would make much sense, I would need to get organized, and learn what other writers did. Every writer will develop a style but there are some good tips that can make turning an idea into a book easier.
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POPSLiberalism and human sinfulness Jon Ebel for the Revealer on the surprising sympathy between liberal values and an old-fashioned Christian view of human frailty and fallenness. Liberalism claims, he says, that everyone is messed up and that we all need to help one another heal. So do Luther and Calvin.
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POPSEtiquette lessons for gay & transgender monks continues: Thailand has a very large and visible population of transgender men, and Phra Vajiramedhi acknowledged that it was difficult to exclude them from the monkhood but he hoped his course could at least persuade them to curb their more extrovert habits.
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POPSRespect For The Flag It's all spelled out in Title 4, United States Code, Chapter 1 (see http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode04/usc_sup_01_4_10_1.html).. (By the way, that's former President Bush desecrating a flag in that photo). This morning, in the neighborhood park where there was a fireworks display last night, dozens of rumpled flags were everywhere - on the ground, in trash cans, along with flag-imprinted paper plates, napkins and other such stuff. Take a look at one photographer's view of how the flag is respected at http://www.sethbutler.com/tattered/. Fortunately for the armchair patriots and chickenhawk generals, there are no criminal penalties associated with Title 4 USC1. If congress were to enact some stiff fines for violations, the federal defecit would disappear overnight. The full statute, also known as the Flag Code, can be found at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode04/usc_sup_01_4_10_1.html.
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