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Disenfranchisement Through Divorce? Estimating the Effect of Parental Absence on Voter Turnout
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Does growing up without both parents decrease voter turnout? I extend and improve upon earlier answers to this question. First, I estimate the long-term effects on voter turnout via analysis of a nationally representative sample of adults. Second, I exploit the quasi-natural experiment of parental death to correct for non-random selection into parental absence. Contrary to previous research, I find no evidence that growing up in an absent-parent household effects white voter turnout. I also present evidence suggesting the negative effects are limited to black voters.
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- Disenfranchisement Through Divorce? Estimating the Effect of Parental Absence on Voter Turnout
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Political Behavior
Volume 35, Issue 1 , pp 199-213
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- 2013-03-01
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- 0190-9320
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- 1573-6687
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- Springer US
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Miley can't catch a break! It's hard enough to deal with relationship problems, but the constant media coverage is particularly daunting on the young couple. She's finally reacting to the rumors revolving around her alleged split from Liam.
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are reportedly on the rocks. Their relationship has gone through some serious ups and downs over the past few months and neither party is happy. The young star is expressing her desire to deal with her personal life in private by retweeting a thoughtful post by fellow celeb, Evan Rachel Wood.
Miley Cyrus Saddened By Tabloids' Breakup Reports
Miley retweeted a post by Evan Rachel Wood that read, "The fact that we live in a world which condones the stripping of basic human rights (dignity, privacy, etc.) of people because of their status, is very sad to me. We need to have higher standards for ourselves as people and a society. Please remember that before you pick up a tabloid. Don't fuel the fire or promote the bullying and ridicule of your fellow man."
She clearly is distraught by all of media coverage of her relationship. Being under the microscope has caused tremendous issues with her engagement to Liam, and the star's reaction shows that she's sick of it.
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Miley and Liam are allegedly on the verge of a break. Reports of Miley's partying and Liam's supposed cheating have culminated in a series of disputes between the two. Neither are happy with the others public displays.
Liam can't stand her wild behavior. A source told RadarOnline.com that "they were always arguing about the company she kept and her actions with alcohol and stuff, and it made him especially uncomfortable when he was not home to supervise." However, Miley isn't too happy with his most recent mishaps either. The source revealed, "The second Miley caught wind of Liam being unfaithful she took that as an opportunity to rip into him because he made her feel guilty all the time about her behavior."
With so much evidence built up condemning the stars, it's inevitable that problems would arise. Us Weekly reported that Miley and Liam are dealing with "the worst fight of their relationship. They do love each other, but they also like to create drama in their relationship." In retweeting Rachel's post, Miley is clearly looking for some leeway with the press to work things out in her personal life.
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Simultaneous factor analysis in several populations
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This paper is concerned with the study of similarities and differences in factor structures between different groups. A common situation occurs when a battery of tests has been administered to samples of examinees from several populations.
A very general model is presented, in which any parameter in the factor analysis models (factor loadings, factor variances, factor covariances, and unique variances) for the different groups may be assigned an arbitrary value or constrained to be equal to some other parameter. Given such a specification, the model is estimated by the maximum likelihood method yielding a large samplex 2 of goodness of fit. By computing several solutions under different specifications one can test various hypotheses.
The method is capable of dealing with any degree of invariance, from the one extreme, where nothing is invariant, to the other extreme, where everything is invariant. Neither the number of tests nor the number of common factors need to be the same for all groups, but to be at all interesting, it is assumed that there is a common core of tests in each battery that is the same or at least content-wise comparable.
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- Holzinger, K. J. & Swineford, F. A study in factor analysis: The stability of a bi-factor solution.Supplementary Educational Monograph No.48. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1939.
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- Jöreskog, K. G. A general approach to confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analysis.Psychometrika, 1969,34, 183–220.
- Lawley, D. N. A note on Karl Pearson's selection formulae.Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section A, 1943–44,62, 28–30.
- Lawley, D. N. & Maxwell, A. E.Factor analysis as a statistical method. London: Butterworths, 1963.
- McGaw, B. & Jöreskog, K. G. Factorial invariance of ability measures in groups differing in intelligence and socioeconomic status.British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 1971,24,in press.
- Meredith, W. Rotation to achieve factorial invariance.Psychometrika, 1964,19, 187–206. (a)
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- van Thillo, M. & Jöreskog, K. G. A general computer program for simultaneous factor analysis in several populations. Research Bulletin 70-62. Princeton, N. J.: Educational Testing Service, 1970.
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- Simultaneous factor analysis in several populations
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Volume 36, Issue 4 , pp 409-426
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- 1971-12-01
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- 0033-3123
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- 1860-0980
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Linux in a Windows Workstation Environment, Part II: Local Network Support
This article series covers the development of a Linux-based server that supports a number of workstations running the Microsoft Windows operating system in the computer laboratory of a 55+ RV Resort in Mesa, Arizona. Part I covered the background of our organization, the establishment of our Linux system and the rules for our iptables firewall. This article covers network functions such as IP address serving, a cache-only name server, an intranet Web server and print and file services using the service message block (SMB) protocol.
As noted in the previous article, our computer lab is connected to the Internet by way of a T1 line, which is shared with the business and sales offices and the Wi-Fi connections of the RV resort, all of which share a single IP address. An upstream router handles the necessary network address translation (NAT) to and from non-routable addresses in the 10.10.x.0 networks. Before installation of our firewall, all machines in the computer lab were assigned addresses on the 10.10.4.0 net. Now, only the external interface of the firewall belongs to that network. The internal address of the firewall, the printers, all of the computers in the lab and any laptops temporarily connected to the network are assigned addresses of the form 10.10.10.x. The firewall/server interface has a fixed address of 10.10.10.1, and the printers are fixed at 10.10.10.253 and 10.10.10.254. All other machines get their IP addresses from the DHCP server running on the Linux system. For ease of maintenance, I prefer to control the addresses of the desktop computers. Thus, our DHCP control file assigns fixed addresses based on the MAC address of the client.
The DHCP server in the SuSE distribution is controlled by the file etc/dhcpd.conf. An annotated listing of part of our file is shown below. The first statement defines the name for the network. This name is registered; however, no external DNS entries point to this system. Its use here, therefore, is fictitious.
option domain-name "mesaregalcc.org";
The next entry enumerates the name servers for this network, starting with the IP address of our server, which caches DNS entries. The configuration of this facility is described later in this article. The backslash (\) indicates that the command is continued on the next line.
option domain-name-servers 10.10.10.1, 188.8.131.52, 188.8.131.52, \ 22.214.171.124;
Next we define the gateway/router for the network.
option routers 10.10.10.1;
The next stanza defines the network and the range of dynamic addresses to be used. As shown, we have 50 IP numbers that are dynamically assigned. These addresses are issued to notebook computers that are brought into the computer room and temporarily attached to the wired network.
subnet 10.10.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { option broadcast-address 10.10.10.255; range 10.10.10.50 10.10.10.199; max-lease-time 3600; }
The next stanza keeps the DHCP server from issuing any addresses on the external interface. The upstream router handles this function.
subnet 10.10.4.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { }
The final group of statements defines the fixed addresses for the workstations, which are assigned as follows: the instructor's computer has an IP address equal to 10.10.10.200; the computer named mrlab1.mesaregalcc.net has an IP address of 10.10.10.201; and so on. The # character starts a comment.
group { option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option broadcast-address 10.10.10.255; max-lease-time 100000; # host MRLAB1 { hardware ethernet 00:0F:FE:02:C2:12; fixed-address 10.10.10.201; } ... }
As noted above, the workstation clients first contact the Linux computer when they attempt to resolve a network address. Our name server does not attempt to resolve any unknown addresses, but caches the addresses resolved by the external name servers. This facility is used for two reason. First, it speeds name serving for the external machines frequently accessed. Second, the SuSE distribution configures this functionality with essentially no changes. The only line of the configuration file, /etc/named.conf, that needed to be changed is presented below:
# The forwarders record contains a list of servers to which unsatisfied queries # should be forwarded. Enable this line and modify the IP address to # your provider's name server. Up to three servers may be listed. # ******* This next line is the only one changed at Mesa Regal. forwarders { 18.104.22.168, 18.104.22.168, 188.8.131.52; };
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Rurouni Kenshin Book 8
Posted in Manga Reviews on February 8, 2006 by Johannaby Nobuhiro Watsuki; adaptation by Gerard Jones
published by Viz; $7.95 US
The series' new direction begins in earnest with this volume. Kenshin has left his friends to go to Kyoto to prevent an assassination. They react as suits their temperaments: the fighter Sanosuke with rage, the caring Kaoru with depression. They feel abandoned, although duty prevents Kenshin from doing anything else. He's trying to protect them, in his way.
I was impressed by the author's confidence in his characterization. Kenshin doesn't even appear until halfway through the book, yet the reader has a good picture of him through the others' reactions. My favorite chapter was the one where Kaoru and Megumi compare their hurts out of jealousy. Both have feelings for Kenshin, but he only said goodbye to one. Their passions take different forms but are both deeply felt.
As always, there are plenty of battles, symbolizing the deep emotions held by the characters, inspired by Kenshin's example. The distinctive character designs carry through the action, humor, and drama with flair, and the bold type fits the approach and makes the story easy to read.
Later in the book, Kenshin reappears with a new character, a spunky young thief. She has his fighting talent and determination, but she's pledged to the other side in a situation fraught with eventual conflict. She's also very cute with her long braid and huge eyes.
This series consistently raises questions of honor and duty, lightened through humor and the cast's zest for life. It's a good read, especially for those seeking the excitement of adventure comics presented with a fresh approach. I have previously reviewed Book 7.
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- Worron
10/31/2007 at 2:25 PMJust as amazing as the rest of the series. VIVE RUROUNI!!!
- Kenshin14435
01/30/2009 at 7:13 PMI have loved this series for many years. (hence my display name)
The action is edge of your seat in some places and then calm in others. I sometimes try to picture myself in a characters situation. Early on, when Yahiko is trying to learn Kaoru's style of swords,(Sorry, don't remember how to spell it)I sometimes want to strangle Kenshin for not passing on Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu to Yahiko. I also sometimes wonder what would happen if Kenshin does infact go back to the assassin way. I think that would make a good spin-off series, kind of like an alternative ending. I have all 28 volumes and the little extra part of Yahiko's adventure in Shonen Jump Magazine. After reading this series, i have made Watsuki at the top of my list. I have all 3 of his series released in the US. I have all of Rurouni Kenshin, Buso Renkin, and Gun Blaze West. After reading Gun Blaze West, I had really wished the original manufacturing company for Watsuki in japan had not ended that series after only 3 volumes.
I could go on for a long time about this series. I have tried to find all the other books 9-28 on here but have had no luck.
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Closing arguments were made earlier this week in a high-profile but secretive lawsuit filed by a retired Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent against his former employer.
Jay Dobyns was an ATF agent for 27 years. As an undercover agent in ATF's Operation Black Biscuit, he infiltrated the Hells Angels motorcycle gang between 2001 and 2003. In 2008, his Tucson home was destroyed in a fire that appeared to be arson. Two months later, Dobyns filed suit against the Department of Justice and the ATF. Initially, he sought $4 million. The claim has risen to about $10 million since then.
Among the many allegations Dobyns has made: The ATF delayed investigating the fire.
"No one from the ATF showed up here at the fire for 36 hours," Dobyns said Wednesday. On his blog, Dobyns posted an Internal Affairs report that showed ATF officials in Phoenix also tried to pin blame for the fire on Dobyns after fire investigators had already cleared him.
The case has been sealed in federal court since 2010. Closing arguments were made Monday morning in Tucson and both sides await the judge's decision. The ATF has declined to comment on the case because of the pending litigation.
The suit is only one of the criticisms levied against ATF's Phoenix bureau. The ATF officials named in the suit, William Newell and George Gillett were also key figures in the flawed gunwalking program, Operation Fast and Furious. Newell, since moved to Washington, D.C., was one of the brainchilds behind Fast and Furious. The government-sanctioned operation was revealed after two Fast and Furious rifles, AK-47 variants, were found at the murder scene of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in December 2010.
Newell at the time denied his agency was letting guns be trafficked into Mexico. Since then, ATF has admitted to the gunwalking program and dismantled its Phoenix staff that created the operation. Gillett is currently under investigation by the Office of Inspector General. In January 2010, Gillett purchased a FN-57 semiautomatic pistol from a Phoenix gunstore. He lied about his address on the registration form. That gun turned up at the scene of a shootout between gangmembers and the Mexican military in the state of Sinaloa in November 2012. Among those killed in the shootout, Maria Susana Flores Gamez, a beauty queen crowned the 2012 Woman of Sinaloa.
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Spaghetti with Spinach Pesto and Turkey Meatballs. Whew…that was a stressful weekend…who would have thought a simple update would turn into a nightmare.
There we were on Friday night updating our site, when all of a sudden it disappeared! Gone…vanished… it was awful … We had wiped out our whole blog, no more recipes, no more comments, no more statistics… nothing. Healthy Dinners in 40 Minutes or Less : Recipes and Cooking. Chicken and Tortellini Soup. Broccoli and White Cheddar Mac & Cheese « The Craving Chronicles. Mac & cheese.
Oh how I love mac & cheese. It's one of my favorite foods on the planet (besides chocolate). Lemon Spaghetti Recipe by Giada De Laurentiis. Exhibit #5978b on why I've lived in suburbia for too long: I found it more than a little bit exciting that they recently redid our Target.
New carts! Fresh groceries! Better Than Takeout Orange Chicken. Yesterday as I stood in the kitchen trying to figure out what to make for dinner I wondered to myself, how do those people do it on those shows where they are given random ingredients and are suppose come up with something genius.
I think I stood there for a solid 20 minutes looking in the cupboards and staring into the freezer hoping that I would be struck by some ingenious idea. Then I saw the oranges, and it hit me "O-raang Shh-ikun"….that is orange chicken if you can't understand the accent. I love orange chicken, and I almost always order # 14 Orange Chicken when we order Chinese take out and I wondered to myself if I could make it better at home. This recipe most definitely delivered! Ha ha Chinese food…delivered….get it? Recipe: Spicy Oven Fries. Parmesan Roasted Potatoes.
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I'm officially ready to make the transition to fall. And I thought, what better way to do it than with my all time favorite Parmesan Roasted Potatoes! These are like candy. 100% addictive. The Best Broccoli of Your Life. November 10, 2008 | By Adam Roberts | 331 Comments You know you've done something right with broccoli when the person you made it for describes it to someone else the next day as "better than biting into a steak."
Those were Craig's words and they were a marked change from the first words he uttered about the broccoli, before he bit in: "You made broccoli for dinner? Broccoli and sweet potatoes?" Fried chicken. Last night was an absolute, spectacular dinner fail.
Andrew got the summer plague – the kind that makes you achy all over and forces you to want to sleep most of the day, or at the very least just convalesce on the couch. We were hoping to make dinner at home, but the kitchen sent us a blunt do-not-attempt message –eventually we got it. We were elbows deep in the Season 2 of "The Wire", and I was all, "What?! Pampered Chef Chicken Broccoli Wreath Recipe. Soup for Supper: 25 Nourishing, Delicious Soups. Buffalo Chicken Bites. It's football season and I'm ready for some party food!
Let's take a quick time out from baby food posts, shall we? We had friends over this week for Monday Night Football and I immediately knew I had to try these Buffalo Chicken Bites that I had bookmarked. I also knew that if they turned out as good as I thought after reading about them on Stephanie and Melissa's blogs, then these were going to instantly become a favorite – or should I say a staple – for our football parties. Homemade Crispy Potato Tots (Tater Tots) Homemade Crispy Potato Tots (Tater Tots) I went to a Sonic Drive In for the first time a few weeks ago and was surprised to see that they served tater tots.
I just had to order some, and believe me I enjoyed every last tot. Half-Assed Cooking: Wok-Free Chinese. It's not fast food.
It's not slow food. It's...half-fast food! Elephantine: the baked mac and cheese. My favorite thing to eat, hands down, is noodles. Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai... whatever way you make it, I like it. But mac and cheese is high up there on the list, especially baked mac and cheese. Is there anything more comforting? Sweet Potato Risotto. So, last Monday, I promised to serve up some warm, scrumptious, holiday-worthy, meatless meals over the next few weeks – meals that would be right at home on a Thanksgiving table – and someone asked a very good question: Why can't vegetarians just make a meal out of the sides? If this were the height of the summer, then a veggie plate would be a great option, but Thanksgiving sides are usually … not peak produce. They're hefty. Starchy. Thanksgiving's the one day when we all think it's perfectly normal to have mashed potatoes, rolls, two kinds of sweet potato casserole, broccoli-rice casserole AND cornbread dressing in one meal.
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Dexter Pittman Briefly Succeeds in Making People Aware He Exists With Three-Game Suspension
He has briefly succeeded, as the NBA has suspended him for three games.
Yes, somehow people are talking about Dexter Pittman thanks to his ridiculously inconspicuous strike against Lance Stephenson.
Pittman had wasted his previous chance of being a part of this series back in Game Three. In a move that doesn't help dispel the notion that Erik Spolestra really has no idea what he's doing, Pittman started game three of the series. CBS Sports started their story about the lineup change with "Dexter who?" Exactly. He played three minutes and sat the rest on the bench.
"Maybe they'll give me some sort of cool nickname. Something that represents how much of a ruthless badass I am. How people fear me. Hmm, is there like some famous fictional Miamian who people are afraid of that has a name kind of like mine. Like some sort of infamous gangsta. Or, wait, no a serial killer. Like a serial killer who kills serial killers. That's how badass I am. If only there was some sort of serial killer killin' serial killer who was associated with Miami whose name sounds like Dexter. Whatever, I'll let the media figure it out."
"Man, plus the Heat fans are gonna be so pissed after I get suspended. And I will get suspended. I'll even wink to let everyone know I'm cold-blooded like that. Then when I come back they'll be chanting 'Dexter! Dexter! Dexter!' Yeah, this is gonna be awesome."
Unfortunately, there was one fatal flaw to this plan: Udonis Haslem was handed a one game suspension as well. And that's all that anyone really cares about. Pittman is a footnote to a footnote. To quote our own NBA muse Chris Joseph, "Pittman is a pair of lumpy tits so it doesn't matter if the Heat lose him." His single best game as an NBA player was scoring six points. Six points against the Charlotte Bobcats. Michael Jordan could still get on the floor against his own team and score six points in a 5-on-1.
So, the entire sports world is now reminded that Pittman exists, but he probably wasn't going to play in those three games anyway. He's so far back on the bench he sits in the third row.
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text: Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity "The Passing of Richard Roe" first appeared in the March 2004 issue of Touchstone. The Passing of Richard RoeA Primer for Effective Evangelism by Francis Gardom I buried Richard Roe at the local cemetery last week. He had died of lung cancer at the comparatively early age of 52. As they lowered his coffin into the ground and threw earth upon it, I read the words of committal from the Book of Common Prayer: "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground . . . in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ." It was those last words that brought me up with a jolt: What earthly reason was there for hoping that the "sure and certain hope of resurrection to eternal life" applied to Richard? I decided to find out. Because he had died comparatively young, I was able to trace quite a number of his contemporaries. His mother was still alive, as was the pastor, now retired, who had actually baptized Richard as an infant. It was in fact that pastor's insistence that baptism is something really important that was nearly the cause of Richard's not being baptized at all. He had a policy that all those parents bringing their children for baptism should be obliged to attend just one instruction on the meaning of their child's baptism and the duties it would lay upon them. This so annoyed his parents, Mr. Roe in particular, that they nearly refused to bring him along for baptism at all. "I think it's disgusting," said Mr. Roe to his friend in the local bar, "telling us he won't 'do' our Richard unless we go for some sort of talk or instruction. Anyone would think we were the ones being baptized! Mind you, he was quite nice about it—he said he'd make it any day to suit us—but what right has he to dictate terms to people like us? I've a mind to write to the Echo about it." And Mrs. Roe was no less indignant than her husband. "I call it a shame," she said. "They never used to make all that fuss. We'd have called the whole thing off if I hadn't already made the cake and bought the booze for the party." So Richard Roe was baptized, but only because the cake had been made and the drink purchased. And in the course of the baptism service Mr. and Mrs. Roe solemnly promised that they would bring up Richard as a practicing Christian. In the end, as we shall see, they did almost nothing about it. A Golden Bell When Richard Roe was five years old, a number of his friends started to go to various Sunday schools. It so happened that Richard chose to go to a local church's Sunday school because there were no roads to cross. Mrs. Roe was glad to have him out of the house. He went to the Sunday school on and off for a couple of years. Then he got wind of the fact that another Sunday school in the neighborhood gave its pupils free packets of candies for regular attendance. So, not unsurprisingly, in company with a number of his little friends, he transferred his allegiance. Mrs. Roe wasn't worried. She was still feeling sore about the baptism incident. So when the Sunday school superintendent from the church called to find out the reasons for little Richard's absence, she just said, "Oh, didn't you realize, Richard now goes to the Golden Bells Mission—it's all more or less the same, isn't it?" And before the superintendent could open her mouth to say that it wasn't quite the same, Mrs. Roe added, "Anyway, it's in the afternoon now and that gives Dad a chance for a nap." So the superintendent had to withdraw empty-handed. Richard went from time to time to the Golden Bells Hall. Indeed, when I visited him many years later, he proudly showed me a little certificate that he had been awarded there, which read, "This is to certify that Richard Roe is now a Little Golden Bell." But then, like a great many of his friends, he got tired of it. And from the age of ten he never went anymore. He grew up. He joined a gang. Like most of his contemporaries he had a succession of girlfriends, and with most of these he had sexual intercourse on a number of occasions. From one of them he picked up a venereal disease and passed it on to her two successors before he was treated for it. Finally he met a girl who conceived a child by him, and it was generally agreed that it would be well if they got married. So that was the occasion of Richard Roe's next appearance at the local church. Not, mind you, that the church had been entirely idle in the meanwhile. At one stage Richard had joined its youth club and found a firm friend in one of the young assistant pastors. But to him "religion" and "church" seemed to be a whole lot of people from a different social background from his, talking posh and singing posher. He might indeed have come to terms with this, but before long it became obvious that he was faced with a choice between God and girls. And not surprisingly, he chose the latter. Three Encounters I first met Richard Roe in the course of a systematic visit to the block of apartments where he lived. I introduced myself. He was quite friendly and asked me in. He must have been about 50 at the time. His marriage had evidently been a success. He had three grown-up children, all married, and several grandchildren. I asked him if he'd ever had any connection with a local church. He made the same reply I had already heard at least six times that evening. "Oh yes, we always went regular to Sunday school," followed by, "and all my kids have been baptized." After a few more remarks about the weather, the apartment, the younger generation, it became clear to me that I was not going to get very much further than that. I took my leave. A year or so later I visited that apartment block again. This time I got no further than the doorstep. He was still polite but a shade more offhand and less forthcoming. Yes, thank you, he was well. Yes, the wife/children/grandchildren were well. And now if I didn't mind he had to get ready for night shift. My last encounter with Richard was in the local hospital on what was, though he didn't realize it, his deathbed. In fact, he had lung cancer. His breathing was a bit labored but he was quite cheerful. Quite well thanks. Yes, he remembered my calling on him. Yes, the wife/children/grandchildren were well. No, he didn't think there was anything I could do for him, thank you. By the next week he was dead. A few days later, I buried him in the local cemetery. Which brings me back to where I started. How does God regard Richard Roe? What did God intend his Church in the area to do for him that it had neglected? What does God intend us to do for the likes of Richard Roe who are still alive? Zero Effect I would be the last person to claim that the ministry of the local church to Richard Roe during his lifetime was in any sense satisfactory. It wasn't. Nevertheless, it simply would not be true to say that the church had contentedly sat back and done nothing for him in his lifetime. Or that we simply hadn't cared. Every church council meeting, every annual meeting and leaders' retreat, someone was sure to point out, quite correctly, that in the area around the church some 75 percent of the people, including whole streets and blocks of apartments, were apparently entirely unaffected by the Christian faith. Some, like Richard, will have had some experience of the Church, but many others won't even have had that. So although church budgets and church education and church worship and church magazines were often discussed and sometimes modified in light of that discussion, the visible effect of the local church on Richard Roe was zero, or even negative. Consider, for example the matter of the Sunday schools. A great deal of time and a fair amount of money had been spent over the course of years in trying to see that at least some children had a minimal grounding in the Christian faith. That seemed an admirable objective until one considered the following: 1. Only a very few of the total Sunday school intake become regular adult practicing Christians and remain so all their lives. 2. Of the few who do remain faithful, the vast majority come from a totally different social background than Richard Roe, and very often have parents who are practicing Christians anyway. 3. In the case of those like Richard Roe who fall away, Sunday school is just sufficient to persuade them that "Religion is kids' stuff," a conclusion reinforced by the fact that their parents and adult brothers and sisters will have nothing whatever to do with it. Or take the case of house-to-house visiting. Was that slight off-handedness I noticed on my second visit (an experience that could be paralleled many times over) only my imagination? Did I say the wrong things or fail to say the right ones? Granted all the insufficiencies and shortcomings that together make up a pastor, how should he best use such visits (and every other personal contact) to reach those he is appointed to serve?Or take the case of Richard's baptism. Was the pastor of the day so wrong in stipulating that his parents should at least hear once what baptism really means? And yet that was nearly the cause of Richard's not being baptized at all! Or what about the stumbling block of chastity and continence? Is it really the case that God wishes us to tell Richard that to continue to indulge his sexual appetites is compatible with turning to Christ? I earnestly hope and pray that Richard Roe may be raised to life immortal, "to glorify God and enjoy him for ever," as the Shorter Catechism says. But I can see no reason whatever for supposing that he will be. The Remedies I hope that I am wrong. I may be. That is why we mustn't judge others. That is why we must certainly never treat anyone as if he were beyond redemption (even though he may in fact be so). For all I know, Richard Roe and a hundred others like him whom I have buried may now be infinitely more acceptable in God's eyes than you who are reading this or I who am writing it. But I must insist that my observation and reason, defective though both no doubt are, give me no grounds whatever for supposing that this is the case. But even more to the point, I believe that many of the suggested remedies for bringing the Richard Roes of this world to Christ—new services, new ministries, more clergy, more visiting—however right in themselves they may be, are likely to be useless if we undertake them for the benefit of Richard Roe and his colleagues. Take, for example, changing the services of the church. There are good reasons why such things should be lengthened, shortened, brightened, solemnified, modernized, simplified, or left as they are. But the good reasons for taking such action are not related in any way directly to the spiritual needs of Richard Roe. Ring every change in the book and you won't get Richard one inch nearer committing himself to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. There are reasons for change, there are reasons for stability. But Richard is not affected by either of them. Or consider what happened when I visited him in the hospital. I knew he was dying. Probably he did, too. What should I have said to him? Should I have said, "Look Richard, you don't have much longer to live. Why not make your peace with God?" Or should I have done what I did: offer my services, try to give him a little comfort or diversion by passing the time of day, and move on to the next patient? Bringing men and women to Christ is a great deal more tricky and complex than most people realize. Christians must be evangelists, messengers of the Good News, but they must bear in mind at the same time that ineffective evangelism, whatever its shortcomings may spring from, appears to be worse than no evangelism at all. How many people I know have been alienated from the faith by experiencing it in an unacceptable, muddled form! This is a hard conclusion to accept. Every church knows that there are large areas around it where the message of Christianity appears to be totally disregarded and ineffective. (And this can be true however well off the neighborhood.) Imagine what it must be like to be the pastor of a church where the entire population is made up of Richard Roes! How tempting it must be in such a place to try to start up this group and that association and this club and that fellowship in the hope that some people may join and it will then be possible to influence them into accepting Christ by the back door, so to speak. The Truth But is this really honest? There may be good reasons for starting up a club or a fellowship or an association in a given neighborhood. But having started it up, the church's next job is to make such an organism self-running and self-supporting. Otherwise, it may be creating a dependency culture in precisely those places where people need to accept responsibility for themselves or, in wealthier areas, training people to think of the church merely as a provider of services, particularly for their children. The truth is that we have been brought up on a gigantic half-truth: that the Christian faith will and should always be attractive. It is attractive, surely, to the person who is weighed down by his circumstances, whose life has been dogged with a sense of sin or failure. It is attractive to the cultured, sensitive person who has a taste for the dramatic and a modicum of imagination. It is attractive to the wise man who is wise enough to know that he doesn't know everything. It is attractive to the simple man who knows that he knows nothing and is willing to learn. It is attractive to a certain sort of hearty extrovert. But what possible attraction can it have for the uncultured, secular-minded, self-centered Philistine like Richard? Or for the envious, the slothful, the dishonest, or the lustful? It's not so much that we are in the business of condemning people; we take as much trouble as possible to win people's confidence, and to begin by accusing them is not to get off to a good start. But then what have we got to offer Richard and his friends? Friendship? I hope so, but I don't think he will have much in common with us. Fellowship? Yes, but he can get that in the local saloon. Love? Yes, but the kind of love he's interested in at the moment tends to take place in the dark between the bedclothes. So what do we have to offer him, or rather, what has God to give him? Forgiveness, reconciliation, sanctification: all the things he needs most but wants least. How do we come to terms with Richard Roe and his needs? I think that "coming to terms" is the wrong expression to begin with. We are not in the business of evangelism to strike a bargain with a sinful world in the hope that people like Richard Roe will be grateful to us. They won't. And there is not the slightest hint in our Lord's teaching that he intended us to trim our moral sails to the prevailing secular wind. So what do we do for him? What to Do? In the first place we follow St Paul's precept and offer prayers for him and his fellow men systematically: street by street, apartment block by apartment block, trade by trade, profession by profession, school by school, college by college. In so doing we lift Richard and his colleagues up to God in admission that we have very little idea as to what he wants us to do for them. Second, we listen very carefully to any suggestions that may be made about how we should proceed. Sooner or later a suggestion will be made that will have come directly from God. Third, we make the fullest possible use of what sociologists and others have to tell us about the personalities we are dealing with. Fourth, from time to time we need to have an information-gathering assault on the area. This might well take the form of a census, followed perhaps by a mission or teaching week. Some areas change rapidly over a short space of time, and things that were true only a few years ago are no longer true now and vice versa. One often hears people say to any suggestion, "We've tried that and it didn't work." Quite true, it didn't. But things may have changed so dramatically that it now stands a much better chance of working. It was an idea whose time had not yet come. Now is the acceptable hour for it to work. Last, and most important of all, we need to be constantly reminded of the fact that we who are regular worshipers of God through his Son Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit are in fact representing all those who are not, including Richard Roe. How we worship—well, badly, carefully, carelessly—and the way we express our love towards our fellow Christians will inevitably have some effect on Richard whom we are representing. The effect may be good or bad. Pagans at the time of the persecutions were astonished by the fact that Christians were prepared to die for one another. But if we are backbiting or talebearers about our fellow Christians, Richard is sure to draw his own (unfavorable) conclusions. In the end, what goes on in church, and, most importantly what goes on after church, is bound to be of ultimate importance. Careless worship by choir, congregation, servers, preacher, or officiant is bound to produce careless Christians. Christians who could not care less about Richard Roe, for example. If we avoid knowing and being known by our fellow Christians, what chance does a complete stranger like Richard stand of feeling at home should he ever stray into our midst? He may come expecting to find a society at least as cordial as the club or the saloon where everyone knows everyone else. What if he finds a handful of people who don't even know each other's names? So there the case rests, as they say. I have tried to explain why Richard Roe doesn't come to church, why so many of the suggestions for prevailing upon him to do so are misguided. I have tried to show that a waiting game, waiting, that is, for God's direction in this matter, is often the only thing possible. But so far from suggesting that we do nothing while we are waiting to discern what the will of the Lord is, I have tried to show that we should use this necessary waiting period to set our own house in order, so that when God's will comes to be known, we may be found an acceptable people in his sight, those who have been ordained to bring about the sanctification of the many by the few. Francis Gardom is a priest in the Church of England and Honorary Secretary of Cost of Conscience, an international association of Anglican priests committed to safeguarding the deposit of faith. "The Passing of Richard Roe" first appeared in the March 2004 issue of Touchstone. 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text: | AFC West rivals sit 1-2 in latest power rankingsOctober 17, 2013 - Andy HeintzThe NFL is fun because we never know what to expect. The Seahawks beat the Niners, the Niners beat the Packers, the Colts beat the Seahawks but lost to the Chargers, the Patriots lost to Cincinnati, which also beat Green Bay and New England also beat New Orleans. The Bengals also lost to Cleveland and Chicago, but the Bears couldn't beat Green Bay or Detroit. You just never know what you are going to get each Sunday. No one predicted Atlanta to be 1-4 and Kansas City Chiefs were likely still thinking ahead to next year when the season began. It will be a fun but count on the cream to rise to the crop in the coming weeks, especially since some of the high-level teams are welcoming back their stars in the coming weeks. The NFC will come down to Seattle, San Francisco, New Orleans and Green Bay when the dust settles, while New England, Denver, Kansas City and Indianapolis will be the top four in the AFC. Here is my new top 10 this week. There was plenty of movement last week. 10. Green Bay Packers, 3-2 Two straight wins after their bye week have the Packers back on track. The wins also came against two potential playoff teams in Detroit and Baltimore. The next two against Cleveland and Minnesota should make it easy to get to 5-2. 9. Cincinnati Bengals, 4-2 The Bengals remained on the winning track after a victory over Buffalo. The road win over the Bills started a stretch of four out of five away from home. This weekend's game against the Detroit Lions could be toughest of them all. 8. Chicago Bears, 4-2 The Bears head into a big road date with Washington coming off a narrow win over the winless Giants. There are still a lot of questions about this team, but a win is a win and 4-2 is 4-2. A win this weekend at Washington sends the Bears into the bye week with momentum and out of the bye against the Packers for a shot at first place in the division. 7. Indianapolis Colts, 4-2 San Diego sent Indianapolis down a rung with an impressive performance, but were the Colts looking ahead to the showdown with Denver this weekend. After hosting the Broncos and taking a week off, the Colts play three of four on the road. That should tell us where this team will be at the end of the year. 6. New England Patriots, 5-1 Just when the general public counts out the Patriots, Tom Brady hands Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints their first loss of the season. It wasn't pretty but with so many injuries it may not be pretty all season. 5. San Francisco 49ers, 4-2 The 49ers responded to a big challenge from the Arizona Cardinals with dominant fourth quarter. The Niners are banged up but still finding ways to win games. This week, Colin Kaepernick used his best offensive pass catcher in Vernon Davis to pull away from their division rival. Four of their next five are away from home, including a big game with Tennessee this weekend and a trip overseas the following Sunday. 4. Seattle Seahawks, 5-1 Tennessee nearly handed the Seahawks a rare home loss but Seattle survived. That kind of an effort will not be good enough on the road against rivals Arizona and St. Louis the next two weeks. 3. New Orleans Saints, 5-1 The Saints failed to execute defensively in the latter part of the road loss to New England, but they are still one of the best teams in the NFC. After a bye this week, the Saints should be able to regroup with three straight wins against Buffalo, the New York Jets and Dallas, two of which are at home. 2. Kansas City Chiefs, 6-0 The start to a three-game homestand went as good as it could with a dominating win over rival Oakland. I still don't believe in this Chiefs offense, but the defense is the real deal and will keep them in most games this year. 1. Denver Broncos, 6-0 It was going to be pretty tough to get up for a winless Jacksonville team, but the Broncos should have no issue with finding emotion Sunday in Indianapolis. Peyton Manning's return to the team that drafted him should end well, but the Broncos have to lose at some point right? Bottom Five 5. Minnesota Vikings 4. Pittsburgh Steelers 3. Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2. New York Giants 1. Jacksonville Jaguars Rising: Rams, Eagles, Chargers Falling: Texans, Falcons, Colts Article CommentsNo comments posted for this article. Post a Comment | |


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A USER-FRIENDLY INTERFACE is paramount if you want employees and external users to adopt an enterprise application. But what, precisely, makes an app user-friendly? That's a complicated science, with detailed books and research papers devoted to it. But if your app has any of the following three elements, that's probably not a good sign.
1. Too many places to make choices, especially on the same screen. "If you're ever working with a screen that has 40 input dialogs and drop-down menus and radio boxes, it's not really because you have to do 40 different things," says Brian Fino, managing director of Fino Consulting, which advises companies on I T investment. "If you're designing a simple, well-thought-out interface with just a couple of discrete controls, that's easier to use and also easier to test. So hopefully it will be a more stable app."
2. Too many screens. "There are application development principles that really transcend the question of enterprise or consumer," says Gartner analyst Bill Clark. "One of them is the 'three-click rule.' Any time a population has to click on a link or traverse through to another screen, you lose about half of them, in terms of their paying attention or keeping the context of what they were doing in their heads. So after three clicks, you've lost most people."
3. Too much functionality. Consider the first two itemsin combination. If you can't bunch too much on one screen,And that's a good approach, according to Mike Croucher,head of IT architecture and delivery at British Airways. "Youcan't make these things too complex," he says. "You've gotto really think about the amount of data and options youcan ask people to select in any one transaction. If you starttaking people through too many transactions, they startlosing the will to live. So you have to look at the value ofeach piece of information you put on the screen."The solution, he says, is not to try to create an app thatwill solve all problems for all users. "Our applications tendto be delivered on the 80/20 rule. That is: Deliver some-thing that does 80% or 90% of what you need well, andignore the rest so that you don't overcomplicate it."— MInDA Ze TlIn
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There was a time when updates, upgrades or any sort of changes to the software used at work were met with a general groan. But that time is well behind us. These days, employees expect, and even want, frequent updates to the applications they use.
"That's been a really dramatic change in the industry," Fullersays. "Google's probably leading the way, with their incremen-tal changes released nearly every week. You don't know whenthey're coming — you go to the interface and it's different. Andmore than 90% of the time, it's better."He adds, "We used to use the waterfall method. We would createa specifications document, argue about it until it was etched instone, and then the developers would work on it and release it."Now, he says, that way of working is "turned on its head." Instead,he and other experts favor an agile development approach, in whichnew application versions are routinely released every other week,with user input sought between releases. "We make incrementalchanges," he says. "And because the software is cloud-based, there'snot the hassle of sending out disks. You've tested each version thor-oughly, so you just push it out to users. And their expectation is thatit's OK to have changes. The response is ' What does this do? Let'stry that!' instead of 'Oh no, you changed my interface!' "In fact, Croucher says, it's a good idea to experiment with differ-ent user interfaces, changing them frequently. British Airways evenconducts an in-app form of A/B testing, in which some users aregiven one interface version, and other users are given another, tosee which works better. "You need to get that segregation of back-end functionality and business services, which need to be correct,and front end, where you can be more experimental," he says.
That doesn't mean, however, that you should expect the back end to remain static. While you may not want to make changes on an every-two-weeks schedule, it's likely impossible to create truly user-friendly and appealing apps without overhauling the underlying functions and databases.
In British Airways' case, that meant changing the way fares were calculated, because the complex tangle of rules involving Saturday stay-overs and many other elements were nearly impossible for customers booking tickets online to understand. "It never made sense why some fares were more than others," Croucher says.
There was no way to do that by improving or changing the userinterface alone. "We learned from our customers that you have tosimplify the back end overall," he says. "If a process is too complex,you can't make a simple and user-friendly interface for it."And if you can't make a simple and user-friendly interface,you're sunk. With mobile devices proliferating, screens in everydirection, and more and more competition for mindshare, thetime when you could count on anyone stopping to learn an ap-plication is over. As Fuller puts it, "You have to be aware that theuser today has a very short attention span." u
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