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Tue Nov 28 06:00:01 EST 2023 ======================================== Slept from ten to seven. Woke briefly a couple times in the night. Partly cloudy early in the morning, then a slight chance of snow showers in the late morning and afternoon. Highs in the upper 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of snow 20 percent. # Work * 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM IIPA presentation workshop * 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM IIPA standup * 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Path analyais process and how to * 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM IIPA sync with Tah * 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM CTO standup with Dane Wortley * 02:15 PM - 02:45 PM Gartner interaction (IIPA, Appian, etc.) * 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM RPE CoE check in * 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Review "what is IT" with Cindy Ryle * 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM IIPA funding discussion with Ben McGrane # Home * [ ] AWS cert * [x] AWS study * [ ] schedule AWS cert exam * [ ] schedule dentist appointment * [ ] schedule optometrist appointment * [x] Exercise, even a little. * [ ] Eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables. * [ ] Create something, even something tiny or a bit of something bigger. * [ ] Go to bed at least eight hours before I needed to wake up. Read more of Guards! Guards! https://www.history.pcusa.org/blog/2014/10/john-knox-and-monstrous-regiment-women > Before John Knox returned home from exile to become a hero of the Scottish Reformation, he penned a shocking polemic against women in roles of authority: The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. The diatribe, which he planned to follow with a second and third blast, set the stage for a tumultuous relationship with four ruling queens: Mary of Guise (1515-1560), Mary Tudor (1516-1558), Mary Stuart (1542-1587), and Elizabeth Tudor (1533-1603). > > Knox used “monstrous” and “regiment” in an archaic sense to mean “unnatural” and “rule,” arguing that female dominion over men was against God and nature. He lamented that the future of the Protestant faith lay solely in the hands of a female monarchy largely hostile to its precepts. Echoing the era’s widespread assumption that women were inferior to men, capable only of domestic acts such as bearing children, Knox placed blame on the "abominable empire of wicked women" for the trials and tribulations of the Reformation. > > The events which led Knox to write The First Blast likely began in 1556, when he penned a letter to Mary of Guise, Queen Regent of Scotland, simultaneously praising her for saving him from facing charges of heresy in Edinburgh and criticizing her Catholic faith. Mary of Guise was not impressed. Calling his letter a “pasquil” (an abusive lampoon), she revived his heresy trial and Knox was publicly burned in effigy in Scotland. The following year, Knox attempted to return to Scotland but found his invitation home withdrawn by Queen Mary when he reached the French port of Dieppe. It was during this time, stranded in France, that Knox expressed his frustration by composing The First Blast. In 1558, after publication of The First Blast, Knox continued his pasquil by also publishing his original letter to Mary of Giuse as part of a trio of open letters to the Scots, further denouncing the female monarchy and appealing to his right to return and preach in his native land. > > Knox wrote in opposition to arguments made by John Calvin and Heinrich Bullinger, who called upon Deborah and Huldah as examples of God’s willingness to suspend the natural order and raise women up to positions of authority. Knox refused to acknowledge a woman’s natural right to rule—even in cases when there was no male heir to the throne. Unlike Knox, Calvin thought it unlawful to interfere with long-standing practices of inheritance established by God. > > In 1558, Mary Tudor’s half-sister, the Protestant-leaning Elizabeth Tudor, succeeded to the throne of England. Though not the intended target of Knox’s First Blast, Queen Elizabeth took great offense at the publication, and in 1559, repeatedly refused Knox passage to Scotland through England. Knox attempted to apologize to the queen, writing a series of letters to her chief advisor, Sir William Cecil, but again managed as much criticism as praise. Like Mary of Guise before her, Elizabeth Tudor became more agitated with the reformer. Rode the exercise bike for five minutes. Servings: grains 3/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 1/2, meat 1/3, nuts 0/0.5 Breakfast: coffee, carrots Brunch: left-over Indian Lunch: cupcakes, orange, cheese Afternoon snack: Dinner:

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