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It's like this: I don't want to cut a mitre, but I do want to cut a 60 deg angle (a bevel, say) on each end of several 4"x2" joists across the joist ends across its thickness. The joists sit at an angle to the main deck frame which - unlike most conventional decks - has a footprint in the form of an equilateral triangle. Why? The site has been chosen because it is in a corner of the garden, which faces due South. Unhappily, due to the layout of properties on the development, the garden plot, overall, has no right angles to the rear of the house: one corner has an open angle (about 100 deg) and the opposite corner (in the sun) has an acute, included angle, of 62 deg formed by the 1.8M high boundary fencing. I have designed a small, unobtrusive, triangular deck to provide a sunny, slightly raised area, i.e just off the ground, on concrete piers, to take advantage of early morning sunshine - when it is available. The rear of the house close to the building remains in deep shadow until well after midday during the Summer's sunny months.
My 'A' frame has cross beams (joists) which meet the side frames at an angle of 60 deg: the deck boards will be skewed to give a good visual effect: I tested this out using Google Sketch-Up to check.
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Prosecutors will recommend a sentence of 10 months.
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This video has statements by a key witness "John" who saw Trayvon beating Zimmerman and who heard Zimmerman screaming "help" contrary to liberal speculation. George Zimmerman followed a suspicious individual, Trayvon Martin through a neighborhood that had suffered 11 recent break ins. Trayvon appeared to be looking around at houses in the rain casing the neighborhood. Trayvon pulled his hoodie over his face and ran after he noticed Zimmerman watching him while he was casing the neighborhood. Zimmerman drove after him, but lost sight. Zimmerman got out of his truck and looked, started walking back to his truck and Trayvon approached him. Zimmerman asked him what he was doing in that neighborhood and Trayvon began violently beating him as opposed to saying he was staying with his father which a reasonable person who hadn't been burglarizing homes might say. Trayvon was a six foot three 17 year old high school football player, contrary to the child photos the media keeps showing.
Zimmerman as a private citizen can follow suspicious people in his car and ask them questions. He was under no obligation to obey the rules of other neighborhood watch organizations.
The police operator said to Zimmerman "We don't need you to do that." when Zimmerman said he was following Trayvon. For the many liberals with a poor command of the English language, that was not an order; it was a suggestion. The police try to discourage people from taking risks that police get paid to take. That suggestion has zero legal bearing on this case.
Trayvon committed a felonious, violent assault against Zimmerman –a crime which liberals apparently don't consider a big deal. That violent attack justified Travyon being shot in self defense. Instead of asking why Zimmerman shot Trayvon, why aren't any liberals asking why Trayvon violently attacked Zimmerman? And NO being followed by a Neighborhood Watchman is not a justification for a violent assault on the Watchman even though I've seen many delusional people make comments to that effect.
Here's a more recent picture of Trayvon, you can contrast with the pictures of him when he was 12 that the liberal media is using.
If you want to help spread the truth about this and fight the liberal lies and propaganda, please post the title of this youtube in the comments section of more popular youtubes on this subject and ask people to see the only youtube with an eyewitness being interviewed.
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Zimmerman was on the ground being punched when he shot Trayvon Martin
March 21, 2012
Last weekend in the city of Chicago alone, gangbangers slaughtered ten people and wounded another forty. The youngest fatality is only six years old. The youngest person wounded is only one-year-old. Many of the victim were pedestrians sprayed with bullets in drive by shootings. The national news has said nothing about this.
So why does one shooting in Florida warrant weeks of national news? Why has there been thousands of articles a day, for the last four days, about one single shooting?
Almost all of the news items about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin contains a combination of false statements, opinions presented as facts, transparent distortions, and a complete absence of some of the most relevant details. Almost all news items are written soley from the point of view of the grieving family. The media also fills their articles with outdated baby-faced pictures of Trayvon. Very few include that he was a towering 6'2" football player. Is the media really reporting the news, or is this classic agitation/propaganda to advance a political agenda.
Literally thousands of articles contain at least one false statement in the first couple of lines. They usually read "George ZImmerman, a white man," or "shoot by a white man." Zimmerman is described by family as a multiracial Hispanic. His appearance is clearly that of a Latino/Mestizo individual. However, the media wants him to be white because that better fits the political narrative they are trying to artificially create. Many news articles have also claimed the neighborhood is "mostly white." This is also a lie. The neighborhood is only 49% white. It is over half non-white.
All the way back on February 27th, the local Orlando Fox station interviewed the witness who dialed 911. Almost none of the thousands of articles since have mentioned any of the details described by the witness. Some, however, have attributed false statements to this witness. On March 16th, the Sanford police department released new details to the Orlando Sentinel. Once again, these details have been ignored or changed by the media.
- The witness reports that George Zimmerman was on the ground and Trayvon is on top of him punching him.
- The witness says that George Zimmerman was screaming and yelling for help.
- Police arrive and find Zimmerman bleeding on his face and the back of his head. He also has had grass stains on his back. All this confirms the story told by Zimmerman and the witness.
- Police play the 911 tape for Trayvon Martin's father, who tells police that the voice screaming is not the voice of his son.
The neighborhood this took place in has seen a lot of crime. Would you be surprised to learn that there were eight burglaries, nine thefts, and a shooting just in the past year?
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"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true…You are what the media define you to be." (Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Watson).
Yes, the death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy.
BUT the Liberal media is hyping this story BEFORE ALL THE FACTS IN THIS CASE are discovered through investigation.
UPDATE: Sanford Police Report
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By Harold Michael Harvey – Yesterday afternoon at a press conference, the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense circulated a "wanted dead or alive" poster for George Zimmerman for shooting to death a Florida teenager four weeks ago.
Zimmerman, a self-proclaimed neighborhood watch captain said he accosted what he alleges was a suspicious looking black male walking through his neighborhood. He further contends the man punched him, and bloodied his nose, so Zimmerman fired a gun shot striking the man in the chest. The "man" was 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who would lie in the county morgue three days before police alerted his parents of their child's death.
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CKA – Based on the information so far, I understand the outrage but for the New Black Panther Party to be taking the law into their own hands with "Wanted Dead or Alive" posters is lynch-mob mentality. Isn't that what the court system is for? Can you imagine the outrage if a white group took these measures? The outrage would shift from this incident to the white groups lynch-mob mentality in a New York minute.
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by KEITH KOFFLER on MARCH 24, 2012
And yet the facts of the case are not clear and, as our readers have pointed out, local reports currently being ignored by the media indicated that Martin's shooter, George Zimmerman, was being beaten by Martin after being attacked by him, and was screaming for help when he shot him.
This doesn't mean that Zimmerman is innocent. He acknowledged following Martin, and it could be Martin was the one acting in self defense, or that he perceived himself to be in danger. The point is, we don't know. If Obama has new information, he should share it. Otherwise his job is to calm the situation, not throw in with those who want to ignite it.
Like Jesse Jackson, who declared that "blacks are under attack," according to the Los Angeles Times.
Jackson predicted that the protests will continue to multiply in number and that the ranks of protestors will swell until Zimmerman is arrested.
This is exactly what is known as "mob justice."
The New Black Panther Party is printing "Wanted, Dead or Alive" posters for Zimmerman.
Al Sharpton is on hand, insisting he doesn't want violence. But if Al Sharpton has ever entered on a scene that subsequently became calmer and less prone to violence, I'd like to know about it.
Obama is the nation's chief law enforcement officer and protector of the Constitution, not its chief moral authority. While it's understandable as a black man he would have a particularly emotional stake in this, Obama must act first as president of all of us and ensure due process and, at the very least, avoid inflaming the situation.
The Death of Trayvon Martin: Is There Nothing Progressives Won't Exploit?
Sharpton and Obama Prostituting Martin Shooting
By Mychal S. Massie
March 23, 2012
As I said, this is a tragic situation for all concerned, but I would be remiss if I didn't point out the sinful duplicity of Sharpton and Obama. These days Sharpton runs from me like a dog running from scalding water and Sean Hannity is typically there to hold his hand. But I want Sharpton to answer a couple questions for me.
He is coming to Florida to lead a rally, and do what he does best, foment discord – but where was he when theblack New York undercover Detectives, Rodney J. Andrews and James V. Nemorin, were brutally murdered execution style by Ronell Wilson who is black? Why didn't Sharpton lead protests or a march in their honor, to show their families and children that New York appreciated their work their to get machine guns off the streets that were being sold by Hispanic and black thugs? I made a promise to myself that I would never forget those two brave officers – but for Sharpton they never existed.
Where was Sharpton when Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, were kidnapped, brutally tortured, raped, and murdered in 2007? Newsom and Christian had been guilty of enjoying a dinner date and minding their own business, when they were carjacked and bound, then taken to a rented home and horrifically raped, sodomized, beaten, tortured, for hours. According to the testimony of the Knox County Acting Medical Examiner Dr. Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan at the subsequent trial of Eric Boyd, Newsom was repeatedly sodomized with an object and then blindfolded, gagged, arms and feet bound and his head covered. Barefoot, he was either led or dragged outside the house to a set of nearby railroad tracks. He was shot in the back of the head, the neck, and the back, and his body then set on fire.
Channon's death came only after hours of sexual torture, medical examiner Mileusnic-Polchan testified. Channon suffered horrific injuries to her vagina, anus and mouth. She was not only raped but savaged with "an object," possibly a broken chair leg, the doctor testified. She was beaten in the head. Some type of chemical was poured down her throat, and her body, including her bleeding and battered genital area, likely scrubbed with the same solution – all while Channon was alive, the forensic expert said. She was then "hog-tied," with curtains and strips of bedding, her face covered tightly with a small trash bag and her body stashed inside five large trash bags before being placed inside a large trash can and covered with sheets. Channon died slowly, suffocating, the medical examiner said. Didn't Sharpton, Obama, the race whores think this young couple was worthy of the wall to wall coverage? Didn't Obama and Sharpton think what was done to them by four black males and an 18 year-old black female warranted their condemnation?
Furthermore, we were told the murders of Christian and Newsom were not racially motivated, they were called a random act. If what happened to that couple was a random act, how in the good name of heaven above can Sharpton, the media, the lawyers and Obama call the Martin shooting racist? Oh, I know, the victims were white.
Where was Obama and where was Sharton in 2010 when 41 people were shot in 50 hours in Chicago? Seven of the shootings took place in two hours – 41 people were shot in 31 incidents, including four homicides – didn't Obama and Shapton think they should have injected themselves in that hellish two day period? I guess not black on black doesn't get ratings or pay well.
I don't remember a march or cries of racism when an 16 year-old and 19 year-old black teens shot and wounded a 18 year-old black teen in front of his home, then casually walked up, and stood over him firing until he was dead. The incident happened earlier this month, but maybe Shaprton, Obama, and the mediawhores were busy that morning or maybe it wasn't of interest because the perps weren't white.
It's a fact, neither Sharpton, Obama, or any of the media whores were doing 24/7 programming with cries of racism, in 2011 when a 12 year-old New Hampshire white girl was brutally beaten, her jaw injured, her teeth knocked out, and suffered a concussion. The reason the two black youths savagely attacked, was because she refused to be their girlfriend – which is a non-graphic way of saying they wanted her to be their girlfriend for sexual purposes. They called her a "fat ho, lesbian bitch, and c**t, for a month before the beating took place. The two black children were referenced as "bullying" the little girl. I would think Obama would have been all over this travesty, after all, one of the boys was from Kenya and the other from Somalia. Sharpton, as mentioned was no where to be found. The McLaughlin Middle School did absolutely nothing to protect the little girl, even after threats of violence to her were reported.
Also this month, a 13 year-old white boy was beaten, doused with gasoline, and set on fire, as the two black youths responsible told him: "this is what you deserve, you get what you deserve, white boy." All of this on his doorsteps as he arrived home from school. At least the Kansas City, Missouri Police are attempting to charge the black youths with a hate crime.
What's worst, but from my experience not surprising, is that the incident may have been precipitated by little boy's teacher, Mrs. Karla Dorsey – when she allegedly responded to his raising his hand to answer a question during black history month with: "What would you know about it? You're not our race."
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Birdwatching Natural Areas
Jungles full of the sacred tree, the towering ceiba, where the cry of a howler monkey silences the prowl of a mythical jaguar. Rushing rivers that spill into white waterfalls and dig out deep canyons. Impenetrable blue cenotes and intense turquoise seas. Sanctuaries for birds and the giants of the sea.


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Saint Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople
Saint Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople, was a native of Greece, and accepted monasticism at Epidauros. After the death of his Elder Anthony, he went to Athos, where he occupied himself by the copying of books. The saint was later chosen Metropolitan of Thessalonica, and still later occupied the Patriarchal throne in Constantinople and was primate of Valachia.
Banished under accusation, the saint went to Athos, at first to the Vaptopedi monastery, and then to the monastery of Saint John the Forerunner (Dionysiou). He concealed his rank and held the lowest position. By God's providence, his rank was revealed to the brethren of the monastery. Once, when the saint was returning from the forest where he had gone for firewood, all the brethren went out towards him on the way and solemnly greeted him as Patriarch. But even after this, the saint shared various tasks with the brethren. He died on August 11, 1460 at 90 years of age.


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During an intense acting challenge, one model chastises the group while another reveals something traumatic in her past. The model who expresses herself the best lands a role on a CW hit show. Later, the models freak out when Tyra delivers news of their overseas trip. Things heat up when the models shoot a sultry commercial in a foreign language with a male model. Special guests include director and guest judge Dennis Rovira and acting coach Tasha Smith (#709).


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The island of Jersey, long known as one of the go-to places for high-level finance for both international corporations and the ultra-high-net-worth, has recently made headlines over alleged failures to take action against the purveyors of "blood gold."
Investors with no ties to Jersey and no direct investment in gold still might want to follow the dispute, because so-called conflict minerals could take a toll on their portfolios as compliance scrutiny intensifies on the regulations governing such investments.
Gold is just one of a group of natural assets whose role in financing violent conflicts has made them hazardous investments in more ways than one. Other conflict minerals—including casserite, which yields tin; wolframite, which yields tungsten; and coltan, which yields tantalum—are mined in areas of political unrest and used by warlords to finance war and violent intimidation.
Tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold—known collectively as 3TG—are used in the manufacturing of a wide variety of products. The SEC's Conflict Minerals rule requires public companies that manufacture or contract for manufacture of products to report annually on whether those products contain any 3TG and what the sources for those materials are. The end goal, of course, is to keep financing from reaching the perpetrators of atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the central African countries that adjoin it: Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Companies were required to file their initial reports by June 2.
The 2006 film Blood Diamond, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio, illustrated the role diamonds—often another conflict investment—played in financing the Sierra Leone civil war. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), adopted in 2003, is supposed to prevent blood diamonds from coming onto the market and contributing their considerable value to ongoing conflicts, but there is ongoing debate about how effective the strategy is.
But back to Jersey, which made headlines a couple of years ago. Threatened crackdowns on loopholes that allow protection of both corporate and private assets against taxation caused it to threaten to break its ties with the U.K. Jersey is what is known as a "peculiar possession" of the British Crown, accountable directly to the Queen, and has its own parliament, legal system and treasury. While it's treated as part of the European Union and is included in many U.K. international agreements, it's had its own constitutional rights since 1204. And while it is quick to point out that it has signed on to a number of international agreements regarding the sharing of financial information, its business is still the care and preservation of vast fortunes.
Allegations that Jersey regulators, and the island's police as well, have failed to take action against a company selling gold tied to a rebel militia group in the DRC have renewed public scrutiny on how the island makes its money. The controversy has also pushed conflict investments back into the spotlight.
Hussar Ltd., a Swiss company that is nominally owned by Jersey company Osiris Trustees Limited, is being investigated by Swiss authorities on charges that it sourced gold it provided to Switzerland-based gold refiner Argor-Heraeus SA during 2004–2005 from middlemen in the DRC connected to rebel militia.
Argor-Heraeus has denied the charges and Jersey's Financial Services Commission has said that Hussar was not a regulated financial company. However, the Conflict Awareness Project (CAP) has said that it provided evidence to the Jersey authorities that was sufficient for the Swiss to launch an investigation, but no action was taken in Jersey.
The question of conflict minerals is not, of course, only a problem in Jersey or only a problem with gold or diamonds. Those initial reports filed by public companies with the SEC indicate that many companies have not dug deeply enough to uncover potential sourcing problems in their supply chain, far less taken concrete steps to improve the situation. Others didn't bother to file at all. Of those that did file, IBM and HP were among dozens of firms that found gold sourced from North Korea, which is under sanctions, in their supply chains.
It's true that with conflict minerals necessary for the manufacture of so many products—from smartphones and other electronics to jewelry and even clothing and accessories (such as metal zippers)—identifying where minerals originate can be challenging. However, the risk of doing nothing about it is growing.
While the SEC may be lenient as companies embark on the process of learning whether conflict minerals are in their supply chain and considering what to do about it, other risks lie ahead for those companies. Few companies have conducted the required independent private sector audit (IPSA) to uncover conflict minerals, and by 2016 the grace period to do so will expire. That puts companies that failed to file way behind the curve. In addition, some states have passed or are considering the passage of legislation that would bar companies failing to file from obtaining state contracts.
However, companies engaging in conflict mineral trade not only court legal risk but also reputational risk. Bobby Kipp, PwC's conflict minerals leader, said that it's important for investors to be aware of the conflict minerals issue because "Some investors care about responsible sourcing and this is a responsible sourcing issue. How a company deals with conflict minerals might also be reflective of how they deal with other responsible sourcing matters."
PwC's most recent conflict minerals study reveals that "almost half (45%) of respondents have plans to become conflict free, with 7% planning to do so within the next two years, Kipp said. However, most others had not yet made any decision on this, so of the respondents who had, the number planning to become conflict free is a much higher 92%."
Kipp added, "The drive toward conflict free correlates closely with the number of respondents expecting revenue-impacting consequences if they are not ultimately found to be conflict free. These include 36% concerned about loss of customers, 31% concerned about the risk to their brand and 8% concerned about product boycotts. This is not really a regulatory risk that companies are worried about although they do have a regulatory requirement to file. The key risk here is reputational and customer risk—including any potential impacts from the state procurement guidelines that may change based on some of the state legislation that has passed."
Companies that can't avoid conflict minerals—if the minerals, Kipp said, "need to be there for the product to function"—have to make a decision, as do investors, about how much they care about sourcing. "And for companies that sell products to other companies (vs. consumers), whether their customers 'care' about the source of those minerals, if companies aren't paying attention to what their customers want, they could have a business problem."
And NGOs will likely make sure that noncompliant companies will have that business problem by publicizing the results—something that's already occurring. The good part is that companies that take the necessary steps to comply will also come in for publicity that can boost their brand. As companies have repeatedly learned the hard way, social media campaigns can do extensive damage to a brand over a company's failure to live up to expectations. Investors should keep up to speed on the potential for that risk within their portfolios by watching companies' progress with regard to conflict minerals.


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A feast day is an annual day of religious celebration.
September 29 traditionally was set aside as Michaelmas, the Feast Day of St. Michael the Archangel. Then the Church made it the feast day of all the Archangels.
Note: The word "saint" simply means "holy" — as indeed are the Angels who choose to be true to God instead of, like Lucifer and the other fallen angels, pride in themselves.
The word angel, in Greek, is angelos; in Hebrew, malach; in Arabic, mala'ika — which all mean "messenger."
Angels are incorporeal (without body, material form or substance) spiritual beings who act as messengers and intermediaries between God and humanity. St. Augustine said that although Angels are defined by their function as messengers or message-bearers, their activities are not limited to just this function, messenger being one of their functions, but not their nature. St. Thomas Aquinas maintained that each Angel is unique, a species unto itself — truly a mind-boggling idea.
Major philosophers — such as Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, John Locke, and most recently, the American philosopher Mortimer Adler — had put forth compelling reasons for the existence of Angels.
Note: For the conversion of Adler, a Jew, to the Catholic faith, see "A philosopher-pagan comes home: The conversion of Mortimer Adler".
Theologians maintain there is a hierarchy of Angels, their belief stemming from allusions in both the Old and New Testaments (Genesis 3:24; Isaiah 6:1-7; Ezekiel 1, 10; Romans 8:38; Ephesians 1:21, 3:10, 6:12; Colossians 1:16, 2:10, 2:15) to "seraphim," "cherubim," "thrones," "dominions," "mights," "powers" and "principalities" in the "heavenly places".
Dionysius the Areopagite and St. Thomas Aquinas delineated three hierarchies of Angels, and three orders within each hierarchy, totaling nine orders in all:
- 1st hierarchy: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones.
- 2nd hierarchy: Dominions, Virtues, Powers.
- 3rd hierarchy: Principalities, Archangels, Angels.
Of the nine angelic orders, five are sent by God for external ministry among bodily creatures, as indicated by their names of Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels, and Angels—all of which refer to some kind of administrative or executive office. Of these five orders, only the last three minister to human beings:
- Principalities are in charge of the whole of humanity.
- Archangels minister to nations, their leaders, and those persons whom God tasks with special work to do on Earth.
- Angels, the last order, are God's messengers to and guardians of individual human beings.
That leaves the orders of Virtues and Powers who, by logical inference, minister to other bodily but nonhuman creatures — a category that would include animals, whom St. Bonaventure insightfully and rightly called "creatures without sin," as indeed they are without the concupiscence of Original Sin that stains every human. That our pets and other animals have their own Angels is a happy thought indeed!
Three Angels are named in the Bible:
- Michael: in Hebrew, the name means "Who is like God?".
- Gabriel: "God is my might".
- Raphael: "God has healed".
Notice that all three names end with "el" — which means God, in Hebrew. Thus, each Archangel's name ending in "el" means they are "of God."
St. Gabriel, the Archangel
Gabriel's name means "God is great." The angel Gabriel appears to at least three people in the Bible:
- To the prophet Daniel (Daniel 8:16).
- To the priest Zechariah to foretell and announce the miraculous birth of John the Baptist (Luke 1:19).
- To the Virgin Mary to tell her that she would conceive and bear a son (Luke 1:26–38). As the angel of the Annunciation, Gabriel is the one who revealed that the Savior was to be called "Jesus" (Luke 1:31).
St. Gabriel is recognized as the patron saint of all messengers, including telecommunication and postal workers.
St. Raphael, the Archangel
The angel Raphael's name means "God heals." This identity came about because of the biblical story that Raphael "healed" the earth when it was defiled by the sins of the fallen angels in the apocryphal Book of Enoch.
Raphael appears by name only in the Book of Tobit where, disguised as a human named "Azarias the son of the great Ananias," he accompanies Tobiah, son of Tobit, in travels. When Raphael returns from his journey with Tobiah, he declares to Tobit that he was sent by the Lord to heal Tobiah's blindness and deliver Sarah, Tobiah's future wife, from the demon Asmodeus. It is then that Raphael makes himself known as "the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord" (Tobit 12:15).
Although only the archangels Gabriel and Michael are mentioned by name in the New Testament, the Gospel of John 5:1-4 speaks of a healing pool at Bethesda where "An angel of the Lord descended at certain times into the pond; and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond after the motion of the water was made whole of whatsoever infirmity he lay under." This passage is generally associated with Archangel Raphael.
St. Raphael is the patron saint of travelers, the blind, bodily ills, happy meetings, nurses, physicians and medical workers. He is often pictured holding a staff and either holding or standing on a fish.
St. Michael, the Archangel
The name "Lucifer" means "morning star," "son of the dawn," or "light carrier." For that reason, theologians believe that Lucifer was a high-order Angel, most likely the highest order — a Seraphim. Aquinas thought him to be "probably the highest of all the angels."
But Lucifer admires and loves himself more than his Creator and thinks himself to be "as God." And so, swollen with narcissism and grandiosity, Lucifer rebelled, taking a third of the angelic beings with him.
A lower-order angel, full of courage and love of God, rallied together two-thirds of the angelic ranks against Lucifer and the other apostates, in the First War that began the enduring conflict between good and evil. As related in Revelation 12:7-9:
Then war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels battled against the dragon. The dragon and its angels fought back, but they did not prevail and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it.
That braveheart's name is Micha-el, which means "Who is like God?" — Michael's battle cry.
St. Michael the Archangel is the prince of the heavenly hosts and the most beloved of all the angels. He is mentioned in Daniel 10:13,31; 12:1 (where he is said to be the prince of the people of Israel); Jude 9 (where he disputed with the Devil about the body of Moses); and in Revelation 12:7 (where he led the heavenly armies against those of the "great dragon").
Described in Revelation 10:1 as a "mighty angel…with a halo around his head; his face was like the sun and his feet were like pillars of fire," St. Michael is generally portrayed by artists as wearing full armor and carrying a sword or lance, with his foot on the neck of a dragon. (Pictures of the martyred St. George are often similar, but only Michael has wings.)
Michael has four main titles or offices. He is:
- Patron of the Chosen People in the Old Testament.
- Patron saint and defender of the Church.
- The Angel of death, who assists Jesus in the final judgment (thus, Michael is sometimes depicted with a scale).
- Leader of the good angels against the fallen angels or demons. For that reason, Christians consider St. Michael the most powerful defender of God's people against evil. As such, Michael is also the patron saint of soldiers and policemen. (For the Prayer to St. Michael, go here.)
All of which is why St. Michael, the Braveheart of Angels, is my most favorite saint, whom I admire and love with all my heart. He is my commander in chief. As you can see from this blog's masthead, he is also the patron and protector of Fellowship of the Minds.
Happy Feast Day, St. Michael, St. Raphael, St. Gabriel!
Thank you for inspiring us with your humility, courage, goodness, and love of God. Please help us in our struggles in this present darkness.
Since you, as Archangels, are tasked to minister to nations and their leaders, I humbly and fervently ask that you assist President Trump in his debate tonight with our foe, the pro-abort Joe Biden, and continue to protect and instruct the President in our present war against the forces and minions of darkness.
Thank you, God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, for creating the marvelous Angels!
For a fascinating account of a U.S. Marine's encounter with Archangel Michael in the Korean War, click here.
- Mortimer J. Adler, The Angels and Us (New York: Macmillan, 1982).
- Matthew Bunson, Angels A to Z: A Who's Who of the Heavenly Host (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1996), pp. 181-184.
- Michael H. Brown, Prayer of the Warrior (Goleta, CA: Queenship Publishing Co., 1993), p. 34.
- René Descartes, Meditations On First Philosophy, trans. by Donald A. Cress (Indianapolis & Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1979).
- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited with an introduction by A. D. Woozley (Cleveland & New York: Meridian Books, 1968),
- Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume One (New York: Benziger Brothers, 1947).


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Here is the CARES Act Bill from the Senate. Let's dig in together and see what we just bought for 2 trillion dollars. Please make your comments as they come to you. Link found here: https://www.scribd.com/document/453273118/Cares-Act-Final-Text
54 thoughts on "20200326: The "CARES"Act, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act"
I can't even get through the table of contents without my eyes glazing over. Sheesh!
All the extraneous crud in this bill should be targeted for extirpation. These are things the Democrats feel are more important than American lives and ruined finances. Burn them with fire.
JDAM the Kennedy Center.
Have to say, I got pretty upset with our pres last night when he was touting that Kennedy Center money, how he liked it. It doesn't belong in this bill, besides which I think the rich who like to use the K.C. can fund it, same with NPR. But my current point is it doesn't relate to the alledged purpose of this bill.
Somewhere in my files is a pic of Donald Trump the citizen donating $50K to the Kennedy Center. He was/is a patron.
This was the dumb stuff that went into the bill.
Does not sit well with middle America.
And Congress got a raise.
The stage at the Eisenhower Theater in the Kennedy Center is the first big one I ever stood on.
I'd like to see a roll up of line items on what they plan to do since there was just a capital campaign for renovation in the nine figure range. I mean, as venues go, that sucker is pretty big with a lot more involved than you might imagine, but what sort of retro-fitting would they be doing?
Daughn it seems like them Congress critters are always giving themselves a raise at our expense…
Seriously didn't they just recently give themselves a raise not to long ago?
I am so fed up with DC, after November President Trump had better burn it down and salt the earth before he rebuilds OUR house….
Forebearance without interest accrual for 180 days, renewable an additional 180 days. Starts 567. h/t tracybeanz to start digging there.
People can raid their retirement funds with some kind of forgiveness. Page 157 and 158 it begins.
(a) TAX-FAVORED WITHDRAWALS FROM RETIREMENT PLANS IN GENERAL
—Section 72(t) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall not apply to any coronavirus-related distribution.
Riddle me this: @NPR gets millions to "battle" #COVID2019 on the same day they announce they'll no longer broadcast daily #coronavirus press conferences? So they're being paid to silence @realDonaldTrump @VP @SecAzar @HHSGov @StateDept @Surgeon_General? @AjitPaiFCC🧐 https://t.co/j0dl8AQ23Q
— Rosie memos (@almostjingo) March 26, 2020
NPR can survive on its own if they tried. PBS could die on the vine and no one would notice.
I seem to recall the Gov't contribution is only about 3% of their budget.
ANYONE can make do with a 3% budget cut.
Yeah. They have an advertising business model. They really don't need the money.
PBS, OTOH, EVERY program has sponsorship for production in addition to the membership drives and still they need a government check to operate. That should tell you something about the popularity of their programming.
TWIN FORCES of DEBT DESTRUCTION … sewn by Powers-before-Trump
• Stock Buybacks
• Foreign Labor Substitution
POTUS was setting up to terminate those forces, and he'll complete his mission after winning the ChiComVirus War.
Why not …
• OUTLAW STOCK BUYBACKS that
(1) Enrich Corporate Leaders & Boards with UNEARNED BONUSES & STOCK OPTIONS triggered by Increased-Share-Price Hurdles and
(2) Eliminate Incentives to boost Earnings by INVESTING in PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS
… unless and until a company has LIQUIDATED its DEBT?
• ELIMINATE the FOREIGN INFLUX of Illegals, Migrants and Visa-Holders that
(1) Allow Employers to LOWER the WAGES and DISPLACE the JOBS of Citizen-Workers with Lower-Cost Foreign Labor and
(2) Eliminate Incentives to INVEST in PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS
… unless and until we have WIPED OUT the UNEMPLOYMENT and government-DEPENDENCY of able-bodied Citizens?
RE: The "Chicken-Little Fear-Mongering" WITHOUT SOLUTIONS from Zero Hedge.
I think this is the Bend over Act because were about to get another you know what where we don't want it.
The $2 Trillion package will have an effect on households and workers, business and banking, and personal finance and taxes, as follows:
• $250 billion to make unemployment insurance available to more categories of workers and to extend the duration of benefits to 39 weeks from the 26 weeks typical in most states. It would also provide an extra $600 a week for four months.
• $301 billion in direct payments to households.
• $349 billion in loans to small businesses, with the amount spent on payroll, rent or utilities converting into grants that don't have to be repaid.
• $500 billion for loans, loan guarantees or other aid to businesses, states and municipalities—including the possibility that the government will take direct equity stakes in distressed companies. Of the total,
• $29 billion is set aside for cargo and passenger airlines, and
• $17 billion is for businesses deemed critical to national security, such as Boeing.
• The remaining $454 billion would go to backstop losses in lending facilities established or expanded by the Federal Reserve.
• $32 billion in grants to cover wages at
• passenger air carriers,
• cargo air carriers and
• contractors.
• $150 billion in direct aid to states, distributed according to population size. A municipality could apply to receive aid directly, reducing the amount available to the rest of the state.
• $221 billion in a variety of tax benefits for businesses, including
• allowing businesses to defer payroll taxes, which finance Medicare and Social Security, for the rest of the year.
• It would also temporarily allow businesses to claim deductions using today's losses against past profits to claim quick refunds for cash infusions.
• $340 billion in supplemental spending, which includes
• $117 billion for hospitals and veterans' care. It also includes
• $25 billion mostly for public transit to make up for revenue lost because of dwindling ridership.
Thank you for providing that. I've seen a lot of pork deals like the shovel ready one of Soetoro – this one is reasonably well targeted and is not over the top with pork chops.
This is helpful, thank you. I just hope people like me who work on private contracts pretty much for cash get some help as well. I've had a number of gigs go POOF! I'll get a couple back eventually, but I know one isn't coming back until September.
Cuomo and de Blasio blast $2 trillion coronavirus relief plan as 'terrible' for New York
Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio accused federal lawmakers Wednesday of not earmarking enough cash for New York as part of a $2 trillion coronavirus relief package, slamming the measure as "terrible" and "nowhere close to what we need."
They're using this as a bailout for their states.
NY gets 3 billion
NYC gets 2 billion
Billions and billions for hospitals, etc.
Billions for workers, biz, etc.
Where are the rainy day funds for the Blue State Governors?
So, how is everybody enjoying your free 30-day trial of socialism?
"Congratulations America"#ThankYouBernie #ChineseVirus19 #COVIDIDIOT #Bernie2020 #ThankfulThursday #thursdaymorning #ThursdayThoughts #thursdayvibes pic.twitter.com/R560kwlVr8
— GratefulAmerican (@JayChpJones) March 26, 2020
Blatantly unconstitutional.
And pretty shitty.
They're not punishing Trump, they're punishing people who work for him.
But Congress gave themselves a raise……
You may wonder what a raise for congress has to do with rescuing the average worker? It's in the bill. You may also wonder why anyone working for Trumps business gets nothing? Restaurant workers, bar tenders, etc. targeted? Hotel workers. Anyone connected to Trump is out of luck?
— Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) March 25, 2020
I don't think it includes the workers. I could be wrong but I believe they will get what we get.
Correction, if it punishes the owners of the business, it also punishes the viability of the business, and therefore, it punishes the workers.
SO – Are we going to have to fund MASSIVE BAIL-OUTS like this every time there's a WHO-declared pandemic???????
Pork sandwich (h/t comments section CTH):
$350M for Migration and Refugee Assistance – page 820
$13M for Howard University – page 771
$7M for Gallaudet University – page 770
$50M for Institute of Museum & Library Services – page 773
$75M for NPR – page 773
$25M for Kennedy Center – page 725
$75M for National Endowment of Arts – page 726
$425M for Substance Abuse – page 736
Pelosi also slipped in a 400 million dollar package to the states that demand mail in election ballots and more…this is a ruinous bill. People are suffering and the Congress is stealing taxpayer's money- billions. This should have been a clean relief bill. It isnt!
— Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) March 26, 2020
Isn't this the one we want to call and write congress and and President about?
Personally, I can take the Kennedy Center funding if it means passing a bill, but not this.
Frankly, arts funding had been scarce this last year or so. The production I'm involved in which is now slated for September, we couldn't get a grant to be able to light it from our regional arts council. Money is scarce right now, and finding friends to underwrite is such a time consuming endeavor, it's just not always done.
Harvard does not Care™
Harvard University, which has an endowment of $40B, is laying off their lunch room workers rather than paying them through this crisis. These are the same Woke Folk that are teaching us about the evil corporations and moral superiority of enlightened academia.
— Stark Reboot (@StarkReboot) March 25, 2020
h/t DirectorBlue
It seems like none of this applies for disaster relief when a storm or earthquake hits….government help is there.
Why can't the President declare the entire country a disaster and allocate money without
Please forgive me if this is a stupid question….I am not a lawyer.
People staring to pour over the bill.
3)Adding a caveat here. Am now seeing something in bill that looks very fishy–a body called the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee. Needs a lot more explanation.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) March 25, 2020
Looks like Nancy wants to steal the election again
I hope she wasn't!!!!!!
Unless Trump can block that??!?! He knows they'll try anything to rig the election.
I don't understand how she could add something like this (I mean she's evil and I know why they want this but via law?)
Tangentially relevant: it's worse than you think. Anyone (anyone, anywhere, at any time, over and over and over again) can go to the website of the US Census (https://2020census.gov/) and fill out a census online. You can use a nickname and a neighborhood or description of a building ("over the corner store," or something like that is the example given). There is no security at all. The census is used to allocate Congressional representation and other vital matters.
The census is open borders. I wonder how often and by whom this is being rigged.


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The Bethesda ruins are located northwest of Washington, D.C. They are inhabited by raiders and ghouls, and are divided into three sections: Bethesda offices west, Bethesda offices east and Bethesda underworks.
Background[edit | edit source]
Prior to the Great War of 2077, Bethesda was a major town in the DC area. There were metro and city liner services for this city, and north of Bethesda is an old monorail train. As the west-east highway ends in the city, another highway traveling north passes through the area. The city has a local park, named after the largest employer in this city, where baseball was regularly played.
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The raiders have barricaded most of the streets leading to the ruins with crudely constructed structures and derelict vehicles. There are also some mines in a small, grassy area to the south, next to Bethesda offices east.
In between the two office buildings is a walkway connecting them with a raider carrying a sniper rifle near two ammunition boxes containing a random amount of .308 caliber rounds. Further east (roughly east by southeast) is the metro entrance to Bethesda underworks.
West of the entrance to the Bethesda offices west, at the Red Rocket gas station in the outskirts, there is a random encounter location.
Bethesda offices west[edit | edit source]
Mostly reception and office space, Bethesda offices west is home to a considerable number of raiders. The cramped confines of the building render most hard-hitting long-range weapons ineffective, as they become unwieldy when turning corners and investigating small rooms.
In the reception area, there are two raiders and a Mark VII automated turret in the center of the room. On the semi-circular desk next to the turret terminal lies a Big Book of Science. Upstairs there are at least three shotgun traps that are activated by the same pressure plate and aimed at the same place, as well as two grenade bouquets. The Lone Wanderer may encounter a raider with a flamer sleeping in the bed within this room.
Bethesda offices east[edit | edit source]
Much of the east building is made up of small offices, with more cramped fighting conditions as a result. Extensive damage to the building also includes large gaps and holes in the floor, making fighting on the upper floor treacherous in places. In the small room with two cubicles, the Lone Wanderer can find a Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual laying on top of the desk in the left cubicle. There is a raider boss here, armed with a flamer and carrying a U.S. Army: 30 Handy Flamethrower Recipes skill book in their inventory, as well as the lockpick bobblehead behind them. There is also a workbench in the room with some miscellaneous supplies. The raider respawns after 72 game-hours.[1]
Bethesda underworks[edit | edit source]
Notable loot[edit | edit source]
Bethesda offices west[edit | edit source]
- Big Book of Science on the first floor on the reception desk, near the turret control console.
- A Stealth Boy on the same floor to the east, in a crate near the drinking fountain.
- Two pre-War books on top of a filing cabinet on the second floor.
- Dean's Electronics on the top floor, in the room with the rigged shotguns, in a crate sitting on a desk, hidden under a steam gauge assembly and other miscellaneous items.
- A Stealth Boy in the same room, on the shelf next to the door by the fridge.
- A mini nuke in that same top-floor room, under some crates next to an open freezer with body parts in it.
Bethesda offices east[edit | edit source]
- Lockpick Bobblehead is located on a desk next to the turret control terminal (second level, southwest corner of the room with the turret) next to a wall safe (easy).
- Bottlecap mine on the workbench in the room with the turret.
- Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual in the first cubicle to the left on the second floor, on a desk next to two missiles and a typewriter.
- A mini nuke near the exit to the connecting bridge, on a filing cabinet in a pile of rubble from a collapsed ceiling.
- U.S. Army: 30 Handy Flamethrower Recipes and safe key held by the raider group's leader.
Bethesda offices exterior[edit | edit source]
- See raid shack.
- See Bethesda underworks.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- In Bethesda offices west, in the room with the shotgun trap, there is a refrigerator filled with chopped up wastelander body parts. A chopping board and bucket nearby are filled with meat. This implies that the Bethesda raiders are cannibals, consuming wastelanders unfortunate enough to encounter them.
- If the Lone Wanderer accesses the sewers, ghouls may spawn above ground in the ruins, leading to a fight between them and the raiders.
- Given its location and the presence of a workbench, this may be an ideal place for an early player character base, though the respawning enemies are something to keep in mind for the long term.
Appearances[edit | edit source]
The Bethesda ruins appear only in Fallout 3.
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
This location is a reference to the town of Bethesda, Maryland, the location of the original headquarters of Bethesda Softworks, the producers of Fallout 3.
Bugs[edit | edit source]
- Xbox 360 All the ghouls in the underworks may spawn right outside of the tunnel entrance, remaining inactive unless the player engages them. [verified]
- PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 If running the map marker on the Bethesda ruins, it will lead southeast of the Bethesda ruins, instead of going there directly. [verified]
- PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 The raiders of the Bethesda ruins respawn, as well as the one with the flamer with the U.S. Army: 30 Handy Flamethrower Recipes book included, providing an infinite source for the Big Guns skill book. [verified]


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I think every parent has a favourite child. You don't let them know it, but there is one that always surprises you. One that reflects the best of you while still becoming their own person. Ginger was always my favourite. Not only was she the one I feel I finally modeled perfectly correct, but with the animation's Laura made for her, she's absolutely not like the other girls. Also even though she is 13, she is smaller than her little sister Rose… something she is not happy about.
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Conducting mediational analysis is easier than you think.
Take-home message
►The details are provided below, but the take-home message is that the Baron & Kenny method is the one most often used but has some limitations, the Sobel test is more accurate but has low statistical power, and Bootstrapping is the preferred method because it's the only test that doesn't violate assumptions of normality (and it's recommended for small sample sizes). The same applies to Multiple mediation and Reverse mediation.
Whenever possible the links to helpful articles and websites about mediation are posted below, including a link to the Preacher website and Hayes website which has macros for SPSS and SAS that do everything you need because they provide output simultaneously for the (1) Baron & Kenny method, (2) sobel method, and (3) bootstrapping method. Macros exist for both simple mediation (click here for macro) and multiple medation (click here for macro).
What is mediation?
- There are so many good websites and articles that summarize mediation that it would be redundant to repost that information here, so...
- See the Kenny website which provides a wealth of concise information about mediation including design issues, specification error, and various extensions of mediational analysis.
- See the Hayes website which provides SPSS and SAS macros for mediation, as well as SPSS and SAS macros for other statistical tests.
- See the Preacher website which provides every test you need to conduct every type of mediation.
- See the MacKinnon website which provides an FAQ about mediation and the ability to ask questions of mediation experts.
Baron & Kenny
- What is this?
- The causal steps methods developed by (Baron & Kenny, 1986) is the most commonly used and most frequently cited test of mediation in psychology.
- (Baron & Kenny, 1986) defined three conditions necessary for mediation, and the updated version by (Kenny, 1998) describes four steps to infer mediation.
- How do you conduct this test (conceptually)?
- FYI - see the Kenny website for a pictorial representation of paths represented as a, b, c, c'
- The four steps involve:
- IV predicts DV (so estimate path c).
- IV predicts mediator (so estimate path a)
- Mediator predicts DV (while controlling for IV) (so estimate path b)
- IV does NOT predicts DV (while controlling for mediator) (so estimate path c' )
- How do you conduct this test (in practice)?
- Using regression analysis in SPSS (or related statistical program), you test:
- IV is predictor, and DV is criterion variable (want this significant)
- IV is predictor, and mediator is criterion variable (want this significant)
- IV & mediator as predictor, and DV as criterion variable (want b path to be significant but want c' path n.s.).
- Some other issues
- Most argue that only Step 2 & 3 are required because the initial correlation between the IV and DV (step 1) is not essential, and the finding of a subsequent n.s. correlation between the IV and DV (step 4) is only necessary for arguing complete mediation (see below).
- Complete (or perfect) mediation occurs when path c' decreases to zero. Partial mediation occurs when c' decreases to nontrivial amount but not to zero. See (Shrout & Bolger, 2002) page 432 for the four reasons why partial mediation may occur.
- Limitations of this method
- Over the years the (Baron & Kenny, 1986) method has been critized for low power, Type I error, not being able to address suppression effects, and not addressing the central question of whether the indirect effect is significantly different from zero and in the expected direction (see (MacKinnnon, Lockwood, Hoffman, & West, 2002), (Preacher & Hayes, 2004), (Shrout & Bolger, 2002) for more detailed information.)
Sobel Test
- What is this?
- The Sobel test determines the significance of the indirect effect of the mediator by testing the hypothesis of no difference between the total effect (path c) and the direct effect (path c' ). The indirect effect of the mediator is the product of path ab which is equivalent to (c - c' ).
- The Sobel test is superior to the Baron & Kenny method in terms of all the limitations of the B&K method discussed above (e.g., power, Type I error, suppression effects, addressing the significance of the indirect effect).
- How do you conduct this test (conceptually)?
- Determine the standard error of the indirect effect.
- Divide the ab path by the standard error of the indirect effect.
- The ratio is compared to critial value from standard normal distribution for a given alpha level (i.e., treated as Z-test).
- How do you conduct this test (in practice)?
- There is an easy-to-use Sobel test calculator posted online by Kristopher J. Preacher. Just run regression analyses in SPSS (or similar statistical program) and input the requested numbers into the online calculator, OR
- Preacher and Hayes also offer a macro that calculates the Sobel test directly within SPSS and SAS.
- Limitations of this method
- The assumption for conducting the Sobel test (like most tests in psychology) is that the sampling distribution is normal. Hundreds of articles in statistical journals have shown that assumptions of normality are usually violated, especially in small samples, leading to reduced ability to detect true relationships amongst variables (see (Wilcox, 1998), (Wilcox, 2003), and (Wilcox, 2005) for more information).
- What is this?
- Bootstrapping is a way to overcome the limitations of statistical methods that make assumptions about the shape of sampling distributions, such as normality. It is becoming the preferred method for analyzing data.
- How do you conduct this test (conceptually)?
- See (Shrout & Bolger, 2002) for details, but basically bootstrapping involves repeatedly randomly sampling observations with replacement from the data set and computing the statistic of interest in each resample. Over many bootstrap resamples, an empirical approximation of the sampling distribution of the statistic can be generated and used for hypothesis testing.
- How do you conduct this test (in practice)?
- Preacher and Hayes offer a macro that calculates bootstrapping directly within SPSS and SAS.
- What is this?
- Structural Equation Modelling is a statistical technique for simultaneously analyzing the relationships among mutliple IVs and DVs by building and testing different models of the data. There are various programs for conducting SEM including EQS, AMOS, and LISREL.
- SEM offers many of the same tests listed above (Sobel test, bootstrapping), but can also control for measurement error and provides greater flexiblity in model design.
- How do you conduct this test (conceptually)?
- SEM tests significants of indirect effects similar to the Sobel test.
- How do you conduct this test (in practice)?
- The details of conducting SEM is beyond the scope of this page, and there are many helpful books/articles on how to analyze data using SEM.
- See also informative websites such as the David Kenny website on SEM, and the Ed Rigdon website on SEM.
- (Shrout & Bolger, 2002) provide syntax that enables EQS and AMOS to conduct tests of indirect effects with bootstrapping.
Multiple Mediation
- When you have more than one mediator, you can either conduct separate simple mediational analyses for each mediator, or examine all mediators within the same model.
- It is recommended that you conduct simultaneous multiple mediation because you can determine both if an overall effect exists for all mediators (total indirect effect) and the effect of each mediator (specific indirect effects). Plus, you can determine the unique effect of each mediator while controlling for the other mediators.
- The same issues discussed above with respect to simple mediation also apply to mutliple mediation, so its recommended to use the macro posted on Hayes's website to conduct multiple mediation within SPSS and SAS.
Moderated Mediation
- What is it?
- Moderated mediation refers to testing mediational models for different groups (e.g., control group versus condition group, males versus females, etc) or different levels of a continuous moderator variable. If the magnitude of the indirect effect changes significantly across values of a moderator, that's moderated mediation.
- If you have simple mediation (IV - M - DV), use this macro.
- If you have more than one mediator, use this macro.
- If you have more than one IV, use Structural Equation Modeling, or use this macro, treating one of the IVs as the primary one and the others as covariates.
- If you have more than one DV, use Structural Equation Modeling.
- If you have a moderating variable, use this macro.
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"Anti-U.S. sectarian militias may also threaten U.S. citizens and Western companies throughout Iraq. Attacks by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) occur in many areas of the country, including Baghdad," the statement said. "The U.S. government's ability to provide routine and emergency services to U.S. citizens in Iraq is extremely limited."
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