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From an EO perspective, we would say that Christ was struggling to bring His Human Will in alignment with His Divine Will.
The Catholic doctrine is simple, at all events in its main lines. The faculty of willing is an integral part of human nature: therefore, our Lord had a human will, since He took a perfect human nature. His Divine will on the other hand is numerically one with that of the Father and the Holy Ghost. It is therefore necessary to acknowledge two wills in Christ.But if the word will is taken to mean not the faculty but the decision taken by the will (the will willed, not the will willing), then it is true that the two wills always acted in harmony: there were two wills willing and two acts, but one object, one will willed; in the phrase of St. Maximus, there were duo thelemata though mia gnome. The word will is also used to mean not a decision of the will, but a mere velleity or wish, voluntas ut natura (thelesis) as opposed to voluntas ut ratio (boulesis).
cizinec: You and EA appear to hold that written words must have absolute rule over all meaning, including the intent of the message.  You use definitions as you have defined them and not as defined in Chalcedon or by others when they were discussing the Tome of Leo.
"Each nature performs what is proper to it in communion with the other; the Word for instance, performing what is proper to the Word, and the flesh carrying out what is proper to the flesh"Following the above principle established by Leo, a Leonian would declare that: "The Word performed miracles, and the flesh suffered." Whilst the Word is portrayed as the subject of divine action, it is the flesh that is portrayed as the subject of human action. How in contrast would the miracles and sufferings of Christ be expressedÂÂ Orthodox Alexandrian/Cyrillian Christology?
If the Fathers of Chalcedon say that St. Leo is saying the same thing as St. Cyril
Following, then, the holy Fathers, we all unanimously teach that our Lord Jesus Christ is to us One and the same Son, the Self-same of a rational soul and body, consubstantial with the Father according to the Godhead, the Self-same consubstantial with us according to the Manhood... before the ages begotten of the Father according to the Godhead, but in the last days, the Self-same, for us and for our salvation (born) of Mary the Virgin Theotokos according to the Manhood...."Do you disagree with this teaching of the Council? If not, then what difference does it make how you interpret Leo's words today?
On a sidenote: I think an interesting point of distinction to bring up regarding our liturgical traditions, concerns the Trisagion.In the Eastern Church it Is said: "Holy God, Holy Mighty/Strong, Holy Immortal", and it stops at that. In the Coptic liturgy according to St Basil (http://www.coptic.net/prayers/StBasilLiturgy.html) we develop this further, by emphasizing that the divine was the subject of the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection..
 (Is it really necessary for me to list all the quotes again to prove it?).ÂÂ
it didn't affirm any fundamental Christological principle that wasn't already established.
No definition of a hypostatic union + no affirmation of The divine person of The Word as the subject of all the incarnational experiences (suffering, hunger, etc.) = bow to Nestorianism.
Historically; a politically motivated council of schism; a robbers council, robbing the See of Alexandria of its theological authority.
The Fathers of the OO church say that Leo's Christology objectively conflicts with that of St Cyril.
QuoteHistorically; a politically motivated council of schism; a robbers council, robbing the See of Alexandria of its theological authority.Hmmmm...........
So while in that controversial passage Leo seems to "personify" the "Word" and the "flesh", the remainder of Tome should make it clear that the selfsame who is from eternity God also in time became man.  It is this selfsame Subject that does all the actions.  This is not "Nestorian"
So who killed J.R. err... I mean who killed Nestorius? Kinda hypocritical to have any council considered to be Holy and then having it's faithful respond with anger and murder?
Stavro:   Do you think EO's are going to hell?
An attempt at humour??Shaumburg must be a very small town.....
I mean who killed Nestorius? Kinda hypocritical to have any council considered to be Holy and then having it's faithful respond with anger and murder?
Forgive me if this has already been raised, but have the Chalcedonians posting on this thread read V. C. Samuel's book The Council of Chalcedon Re-Examined?  I think this, more than anything else, does a good job of explaining our position on Chalcedon. ÂÂ
We also need to rememeber that the ramifications of Chalcedon were not just theoretical, but very real and tragic.  It was Chalcedon and the resulting persecutions which divided the Christian East and made it easy for the Muslims to conquer so much territory in so little time.....Can't we all just get along? I, like many others in this forum, would like to see our differences resolved so we could all be one Orthodox Church. ÂÂ
Giles: "That's why I think we should all keep a level head at this."Willow: "And I happen to think that mine is the level head and yours is the one things would roll off of."
If our differences are not dogmatic we can be One Church, if they are, then we must learn to co-exist in love.
I do think their refusal to accept Chalcedon's clarification had more to do with a woodenly literal acceptance of (?)Cyril's ambiguous "formula", an acceptance which could be labelled more schismatic rather than "heretical".
The point is that the "christologies" of Apollinarius and Eutyches were both heretical
it was this potential danger latent in the formula "one nature of the incarnate Word" that Chalcedon was trying to guard against in its clarification of the Hypostatic Union.
QuoteQuoteHistorically; a politically motivated council of schism; a robbers council, robbing the See of Alexandria of its theological authority.A statement that is not supported by evidence and again, exposes the lack of understanding of theology.
QuoteHistorically; a politically motivated council of schism; a robbers council, robbing the See of Alexandria of its theological authority.
Don't try and tell me that you think St. Leo does not recognise the singular Person of Christ when in the same tome he says:
The Divine Nature did not sleep
The fact of the matter is, neither the divine nature nor the human nature slept. The Word who is Christ who is The Son of God, is the one who slept according to His humanity.
Quote from: EkhristosAnesti on Today at 03:43:37 AMThe fact of the matter is, neither the divine nature nor the human nature slept. The Word who is Christ who is The Son of God, is the one who slept according to His humanity.So, the Divine Nature is either mutable or not present in Christ. Either a Gnostic form of Monophysitism or Arianism.
Stavro,A statement that is not supported by evidence and again, exposes the lack of understanding of theology.Bro, the above quotation to which you were responding was made by me in reference to the Council of Chalcedon. I know the Chalcedonians often refer to Ephesus 449 as a robber's council; I was simply appropriately re-directing that label and applying it to Chalcedon.
Perhaps, in actual fact, "the Spirit has spoken through Stavro."
The authority of the Church and each individual is to confirm the faith and protect the faith against any changes, an authority that no other See exercised better than Alexandria. Period.
The holy council of Ephesus II was ratified by the fifth council of the Chalcedonian, for the decisions are one and the same. Chalcedon, that allowed Nestorians back to the church and sanctified their teachings, contradicts both.
"If anyone does not confess that the Word of God suffered in the flesh [or alternativelyt as I have stated "according to His flesh"] and was crucified in the flesh and tasted death in the flesh and became the first born of the dead, although as God he is life and life-giving, let him be anathema."
We are going in circles.Until you aknowledge that the one use of the word "Word" by St. Leo refers to the Divine Nature and that he understood that the singular Person/hypostasis of Christ is also the Word we will get nowhere.
Perhaps it's best we just agree to disagree and strive to co-exist in Christian love.
I have acknowledged that Leo uses the term "Word" to refer to the divine nature in the context of his tome. This is irrelevant to the point im making. Leo says that the flesh PERFORMS human acts. St Cyril anathemizes anyone who does not acknowledge that the personal subject of Christ (which St Cyril identifies as "the Word") is the one who performs human acts "In" or "According to" his flesh.
This may come as a surprise to you, but in fact human flesh does perform human acts.
Christ's created flesh required sleep- His Divine Nature didn't.
Christ's created flesh needed to eat and drink- His Divine Nature didn't.
Ozgeorge, we are really running in circles now.
Let me make it clear; it is a simple and fundamental metaphysical principle that acts are exercised by intellectual hypostasis, or in other words personal subjects. This is why for example, a human being by virtue of being a human being (which essentially entails the possession of a rational human soul, and hence self/ego/person) can perform functions, but a rock by virtue of its being a rock, for example does not. You do not see a rock rolling itself along a road, or jumping up into the air, or breaking through a glass window. When you do see a rock do these things, it is doing so NOT because it chose to perform these functions, but rather because an external force was applied to it — the rock itself does not perform a function since it possesses no rational principle by which it can do so........Another simple example which clearly demonstrates this point, is the manner in which we as human beings speak about our performance of certain functions. We say "ozgeorge typed up a response" or "Ozgeorge sat down on a chair" — It is "ozgeorge" who is the subject of these actions. Now the question is what does the name "Ozgeorge" denote? It's very simple - the name ozgeorge is no more than a reference to your self, your ego, or your person — it says nothing about your essential nature......Likewise, The divine person of The Word is the subject of all Christ's actions, which he performs by means of His natures. However His natures do not perform those actions since they lack personality.
The assumption that " it is a simple and fundamental metaphysical principle that acts are exercised by intellectual hypostasis, or in other words personal subjects" is wrong. A rock is performing acts- it exerts force, it occupies space, it breaks the ocean's waves, all without external forces acting on it.
Which leads me to your second big mistake: you are assuming that St. Leo is talking about the voluntary acts of Christ when he speaks of "performing what belongs to the flesh".
Thirdly, and most importantly, what you are saying is that "act" is a function of personhood only, based on the false premise that Person does not exist without self/ego.
But "self" and "ego" are merely illusions- they are mental constructs only, and not realities.
Point to your body and say "I own this body"...... Now tell me, where is this "I" that owns your body, can you point to it? Are you pointing to your body again? But isn't this the object that your "I" owns?
There is no "I" for us humans in reality. When we say "I", we simply mean "this organism" rather than "that organism". Only God has an "I". This is why God has revealed Himself to Moses as "I AM"
You are also confusing "Hypostasis" and "Person" in what you are saying, and although it is often translated as "Person", Hypostasis does not mean "Person".
Finally, as an aside, if Christ did not have a human will….
Wrong. That a rock occupies space, and that it passes through substances less dense than it, concern the nature of that rock's being as it is defined by its essence — i.e. that it possesses a particular mass and density; these are NOT however "performances" of a rock. The same principle applies to the rest of your examples.
Well now that I've shown that it has nothing to do with voluntary vs. involuntary, but rather the fact that a person or hypostasis experiences and performs acts according to the nature of being defined by the very attributes corollary of that being's essence;
Come on ozgeorge, just because my person/self/"I" possesses no being per se (such that I can point to it as you request), this does not negate the fact that it is a REAL and intrinsic principle/aspect of my being constituting my very being. Your conclusion is simply a non-sequitor. Existence and reality are two different categories my friend, do not get them confused.What you are saying is completely absurd; everyone has an "I" by which they recognize their self throughout history. The "I" principle is the only intellectual principle of our being that remains constant amid all changes. "I" the 19 year old, who is a 1 m 69 cm tall, slim, university student, am the same "I" who was a chubby little 9 year old in primary school. Exodus 3:14 has NOTHING to do with God's personhood; but rather the nature of the existence of His being per se. I refer you to St Augustine, St Hilary of Potiers, and Origen's commentary of this passage; it is to do with his being the eternally uncaused self-existent cause of all existence. This is irrelevant to His personhood, since personhood is a principle of being and not a being per se.
and I'd like you to quote my statement in which I regarded person and hypostasis as interchangeable equivalents according to their definitions - and not according to how they apply to a particular subject in which I may have regarded them equivalently, for that is another matter.
Professor Bittle in pondering the question as to what it is that gives a being "Person", continues:"It cannot be materiality; for God is not a material being, though man obviously has a material body. It cannot be life; for plants possess life, but they are certainly not 'persons.' It cannot be the simplicity of nature; for God is simple in nature, however man is aÂÂ compound of body and soul; yet both are 'persons.' ...It cannot be substance, essence, nature or subsistenc; for all individual existences, from inorganic bodies to God Himself, possess these degrees of reality. What then, is it? The only discoverable principle or element which is distinctive to God, Spirits and man yet which is lacking in all other beings below the level of man, is rationale/intellectuality." (ibis. page 269)
never denied that Christ had a human will, so I don't see what the problem is. I just believe that Christ's human will was both expressed and actualized by His hypostasis through His person. St Athanasius said that what Christ assumed was healed. If Christ did not assume a real human will, then the doctrine of theosis is a fallacy. Christ had a natural human will and a natural divine will, yet ultimately He possesses one personal will, by which he willed "humanly" and willed "divinely", but ultimately it was The Word who willed, and since The Word is one - His hypostasis/person One, therefore this personal will was one.
St Cyril says that the person/hypostasis of Christ suffered in the flesh (performed according to his human nature), yet according to Leo of Rome, the flesh suffered (the human nature performed).If you want to call St Cyril a gnostic monophysite or an arian, or whatever you wish, just to vindicate the tome, then that is your issue, and in that case there is no further room for discussion.
St Cyril says that the person/hypostasis of Christ suffered in the flesh (performed according to his human nature)
St Cyril the pillar of faith, in contrast to Leo of Rome, understands "The Word" as a title designating Christ's person/hypostasis and not His divine nature, and thus according to the 12th of the 12 anathemas vindicated at Ephesus 431 (in accordance with the traits of Athanasian Christology), St Cyril states that he who does not affirm that the divine person/hypostasis of Christ (The Word) is the subject of His incarnate experiences (suffering, death, hunger etc.), then let him be anathema, simple as that
Huh? So are you (and Prof. Bittle) saying that "Dionaea muscipula" or the "Venus Fly Trap" has personhood despite being a plant since it traps and digests insects?
Doesn't a rock have being and essense?
Enjoy the illusion.
If I said that I was Napolean Bonaparte (someone who actually existed)- you'd have me commited. Yet if I say that I am an "I" which even you say doesn't exist, I'm considered sane.
It is your claim that "act" is only a function of "person", not nature, therefore (you claim) act is a function of the Hypostasis of Christ, not His Natures.
Do severely brain damaged individuals who's brains can only sustain their breathing and heartbeat cease to be persons since they lack rationale/intellectuality?
Prof. Bittle is dribbling rubbish.
Person cannot be defined by intellect
and even if it could, we cannot use this to define the three Hypostasese of the Trinity because they share One Essense (and therefore, one intellect/rationale as this stupid Prof. Brittle puts it).
So Christ now has three distinct wills: a divine will, a human will, and a personal will? Or does he only have one personal will which is a "co-mingling" of His Divine and Human Wills to produce a third?
Oh these circles!Once again, let me repeat: the fifth Ecumenical Counci Declared that "One of the Trinity suffered in the flesh". And what does S. Cyril say?
So we agree then- St. Cyril and St. Leo used the word "Word" differently in one instance- therefore St. Leo is not a heretic and does not fall under St. Cyril's anathema
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Penatration, and what causes it.
Is it the momentum or the kenetic energy that penetrates?
I know its the momentum thats the recoil and the blasting back of the victum but what is the penetration decided by?
For example if a bullet was 0.01kg and traveling at 1000m/s it would have the KE of 5000J and momentum of 10kg m/s.
So would a car with a metal pole the same area of a bullet sticking out the front of it panetrate the same as the bullet if it drove into something at (its mass is 1000kg):
3.16m/s as it would have the same KE
0.01m/s as it would have the same momentum.
I was thinking it may be the KE, and even further the J/cm^2.
However this could even be true for kg-m/s-/cm^2 (but thats pretty long).
Thanks for answering.
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Thanks for that Hotwired it was intressting and did state how the kinetic enrgy is the dangerous thing, but didnt mention penetration.
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Penetration is a function of many things. If there's one area of research where the search for better penetration is most intense, it's in the field of anti-tank weapons, namely those that function mechanically as opposed to relying on explosives.
Let's take a state of the art projectile as an example, here's a 125mm APFSDS round:
In order to achieve optimal penetration, the following parameters are important:
1) high velocity - if a projectile travels slowly, the target will have time to deform and absorb the blow without penetration, and therefore in order to penetrate well you need as high a velocity as possible. A typical anti-tank round is travelling at around 5,000 fps.
2) high sectional density - in order to maintain its momentum, and transfer the energy in a concentrated manner, you need a projectile that is as heavy and narrow as possible - this is why APFSDS rounds are made of very dense materials such as tungsten or depleted uranium, which being long and thin to give the distinctive arrow shape.
3) high projectile hardness - nature will always choose the path of least resistance, so if the target material is tougher than the projectile, the impact energy will go towards shattering or deforming the projectile as opposed to the target.
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Just a quick physics lesson.
Kinetic energy does play a major role in penetration, however the main penetration power comes directly from the surface area of the projectile.
Eg If you shoot a sharpened bullet (low surface energy to Kinetic energy ratio), it will penetrate a lot more than a flat potato (higher surface energy to Kinetic energy ratio)
Hope that helps
A simple comparison is to look at typical airguns in the UK, which are legally limited to the same kintetic energy of 12 ft/lbs.
A typical 0.22 pellet weighing 16 grains travels at 581 fps for 12 ft/lbs.
A typical 0.177 pellet weighing 8 grains travels at 822 fps for 12 ft/lbs.
The 0.177 pellet only has 70% of the momentum of the 0.22 pellet, but will penetrate further by virtue of its higher velocity and smaller diameter.
Ok thanks guys,
So can we conclude that the main factor in penetration is J/cm^?
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Pretty much.
1000J on a 0.1cm3 area is a better penetrator than 1000J on 1.0cm3 after all.
More force over a smaller area has the most influence on penetration.
But also hardness plays a part in penetration. A pure lead slug might dent a steel plate, but a lead slug with a tool steel tip mill have more penetration. This is a more important in more powerful weapons.
This can be seen in tungsten tipped bullets and steel cored bullets(a steel rod inside a normal bullet).
It's a sum of all the factors I mentioned above case in point:
Not necessarily;
1000J on a 1.0cm2 area delivered suddenly by a hard projectile will penetrate more than 1000J on a 0.1cm2 delivered slowly by a soft projectile.
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In equal scenarios which I expected it to be taken as then my point is true.
I'm aware a good penetrating projectile is hard, dense, thin, long, fast, and stabilised but that had already been posted.
With all other factors being equal, then your statement is correct, but given the fact that there are so many other variables involved that can equally affect penetration in a drastic manner, it's a bit of a sweeping statement to say that J/cm2 is the major factor involved.
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yeah, this is a good topic, it's something I've been wondering about. If you look at it from an energy perspective, you have KE=1/2*m*v^2. Then you also have E=f*d. So the higher your energy is, and the less force your projectile has to produce to penetrate (ie, make it sharp and keep the diameter down) the deeper it penetrates. So a high sectional density is defintely one of the keys. Which is what makes the arrow such a neat projectile: the old cultures were really onto something! Achieving aerodynamic stabilization and high sectional density all in one.
Heh, yeah, soft projectiles don't penetrate as well, for sure. A potato slug from my N-3 will go through 4 aluminum drink cans, but a marble takes out 10 and keeps right on plowing. (The potato really tore those 4 cans up, though.)
I hate to tell you this, but area is measured in square centimetres, not cubic centimetres.
I'm of the opinion that the factor involved in damage is really pressure on the target. (Not air pressure of course)
This can be figured by dividing momentum by impact time and cross-sectional area.
Essentially this is in proportion to J/cm^2, with a constant defined by target and projectile hardness.
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In an exclusive interview about his newest book, Bank 3.0, Brett King discusses how change occurring in the banking industry is inevitable, speeding up and disruptive. From the mobile wallet wars to the impact of social media, tablets and the 'de-banked' and digital consumer, Bank 3.0 shows why banking is no longer a place you go to, but something you do.
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Later, when speaking Spanish to Spanish-language reporters, Gutierrez was even harsher toward the Obama administration. "Where is the Justice Department? Here is an injustice against the basic rights. Where is the administration of Barack Obama and his Justice department?"
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Usher's heartbreaking ballad 'Climax' has reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard R&B / Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song is the first single from his upcoming album 'Looking for Myself,' which arrives in stores on June 12.
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Han Solo & Chewbacca, Rob Dydrek & Big Black, Don Quixote & Sancho Panza … whether you're flying the Millennium Falcon, making T.V. magic, or just in search of adventure, having a good right-hand-man is Muy importante! The same holds true for wakeskating. A good riding buddy can help you progress, tow you, and be a reliable source of gas money.
Here, we celebrate the riding buddy by highlighting four pairs. We find out from some of waterdancing's elite why the riding buddy is important; we get the dirt on who's better, and we see if some of your favorite riders are more like Batman & Robin or Rick James and Charlie Murphy.
Reed Hansen and Matt Manzari
How long have you guys known each other?
RH: "We have probably known each other for about four or five years (give or take a few light years)."
MM: "Long before wakeskating decided to find us."
How often do you ride together?
RH: "We try and ride together as much as we can, but it usually only ends up once or twice a week."
MM: "When we started, we only rode together. Now, it's just whenever we can."
Why is it important to have a good "Riding Buddy"?
RH: "With most 'riding buddies' you have been riding together for a long time and you know what tricks they can do. So when they land something new (or vise versa) you can be super pumped for them."
MM: "Reed knows exactly how I ride, knows how I do my tricks, knows to tell me if something is bad or good. When you have a close friend that you ride with a lot you learn to understand their riding a lot more. You can break it down a lot better than some random person."
Whether in sports, TV, movies, music, life, etc, who made the best duo of all time?
RH: "Batman and Robin. I mean they had gadgets, cars, bikes, hovercrafts, hiphopskitvhnopers,etc. Who wouldn't want to be on there side?"
MM: "The Boondock Saints for sure. If I can do a trio?? The father, son, and the Holy Spirit."
Are you guys more like Zoolander and Hansel (rivals who become friends) or Starsky and Hutch (friends who aren't really rivals, but have distinct personalities)?
RH: "I would say that we are like a shoebox and a bowl of potatoes. I mean you can't have one without the other. Unless you are a nocturnal. Then, we are like, two pees in a pod…flowing mastery of the wakeskate arts."
MM: "Like peanut butter and Jelly. It's much more delicious. I'm going to make some. God bless AMERICA"
Nick Harlos and Evan Reid
How long have you guys known each other?
NH: "Not sure?! I've lost a lot of brain cells over the years of knowing him…he'll know!"
ER: "A few years. I probably would have hung out with him sooner but my parents never let me hang with him cause he's kinda sketchy you know? But they were wrong. Harlos is cool. I was gunna buy a third hand wakeskate like 4 years ago but snaky Harlos went and bought it behind my back, so then we split it, and he gave it to me at the end of the year. We've always rode together, since the beginning."
How often do you ride together?
NH: "Well since Evan is not a bum like me and works Mon to Fri, I'd say anywhere from 3 to 5 times a week."
ER: "Sometimes more."
Is it important to have a good "Riding Buddy"?
NH: "Uber important! Just as important as owning a wakeskate, because you can't ride by yourself. It will also push your riding if you find the right partner. Trust is also a huge factor…you wouldn't get married to a girl you didn't trust would you? Well, I wouldn't let someone tow me I didn't trust!"
ER: "A good riding buddy will help you out and let you fall as much as you want, like Harlos does for me for instance. The best part about Harlos as my riding buddy is that he has a Sea Doo and a Winch. All I have is a jerry can that helps em run sometimes."
Are you guys more like Stockton & Malone (team mates) or Bird & Magic (rivals)?
NH: "I think a little of both at times. When we ride in the river, we're always trying to land something better than the other. At contests, we stick together and try and keep the other wakeskater on the podium."
ER: "We're more like Ricky Bobby and Cal Naughton Jr. friends as team mates, but then not friends as rivals but then friends again. So ya – we're both, except he beats me more. If ya ain't first, you're….2nd or third….."
Danny Hampson and Aaron Reed
How long have you guys known each other?
DH: "I have known Mr.Reed for five of the best years of my life, ever since he snuck into my room while I was staying at the wakeboard camp. Keep it quiet."
AR: "Since Danny was 14."
How often do you ride together?
DH: "I ride with Reed every chance I get. He is, in fact, pretty much the only person I ride with while I am in Orlando. We have been both traveling a lot lately, and I have been in the Keys a lot, so we have not connected as much as we like to. Hopefully we will be together a lot more coming up, pretty much attached at the hip."
AR: "Now that D lives in Orlando, we get to ride together almost every day. It's my dream come true!"
Why is it important to have a good "Riding Buddy"?
DH: "It's important so you have someone to stretch you out before your set and then cool you down afterwards. In my case, my riding buddy has given me a career, taught me all I know on the water, taught me how to take photos, and still constantly motivates me to wakeskate."
AR: "Someone that pushes you, no … that's too cheesy. I'd say it's someone to have fun with. If you are really "buddies," it seems to me that you would hang out off the water too. And everyone needs friends."
If wakeskating was a band, it would be the Beatles. As such, of you two, who is Lennon and who is McCartney? State why?
DH: "That's really hard. I don't know what to say…Reed would be Lennon, but I don't want to be McCartney. I'm Ringo Starr."
AR: "Danny is Lennon, he's way more dramatic than me."
We all know that Street Fighter II was the greatest video game ever made. Was Ryu truly better than Ken?
DH: "I don't know what your talking about really. Ken sounds real tough and American though and he probably wears a flag for a karate belt though, so I'll go with Ken."
AR: "What the hell are you talking about?"
Has there ever been a better film duo than Tango & Cash?
DH: "yeah Milo and Otis. Don't act like you have never seen this movie cause you have. I love it"
AR: "Kurt Russell is awesome!"
Nick Taylor and Stu Shinn
How long have you guys known each other?
NT: "I've known Stu since 6th grade, so like 6 years now. We used to dominate the trumpet section of the middle school band. We probably could've taken the brass section by storm, but we figured wakeskating was more conducive to our lifestyle."
SS: "About 6 or 7 years."
How often do you ride together?
NT: "Well, we both just moved out away from Manateeland, so we haven't been able to ride together as much, but when we were both living at home we rode at least 3 or 4 times a week. And even if we weren't riding we were always hangin out."
SS: "A couple times a week."
Why is it important to have a good "Riding Buddy"?
NT: "No matter what you do in life, it's always easier and more fun to have someone next to you the whole way, and with wakeskating's progressive aspect, to have someone to push you to progress and to help you always improve on yesterday, it's just the perfect set up."
SS: "Keep the progression going. if you always have someone there pushing you to do better you will progress a lot faster."
Apparently, Stu is a gifted eater. When Joey "Jaws" Chestnut beat his arch rival Takeru Kobayashi at this year's Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, was that not the greatest moment in American sports?
NT: "'Taking the eating contest back where it belongs: AMERICA' – Stuart Shinn (tear rolling down his cheek)."
SS: "I would say that was the greatest moment in American history to date. Bringing the trophy back home to America."
If you had to compare Reed Hansen and Matt Manzari to a famous duo (from either sports, entertainment or history) who would that duo be? State why.
NT: "Rick James and Charlie Murphy. They're always slapping each other around, getting in arguments, and forgetting that they ever did anything against the other. Glory."
SS: "Batman and Robin because Batman and Robin were always fighting but they always were still best friends just like Matt and Reed."


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TRANSFORMATIONS '98 participants had an opportunity to hear Gloria Snowden from the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Office of the Associate Administrator for Research and Acquisitions (ARA) discuss the implementation of ARA's results-based employee performance management program.
By focusing performance measurement on results, the performance management program supports shared responsibility, stresses individual accountability, and drives organizational success. Measuring results also provides an excellent base for rewarding performance.
The core design of ARA's appraisal program requires employee performance plans to:
Results statement(s) must be written for each employee. A result must be an intended product, outcome, accomplishment, or objective for which measures are established.
Ms. Snowden gave session attendees a model for creating results statements, with some examples. ARA results statements include a verb, a "what," and a "how." The "how" portion of the results statement includes the measures. The measures describe in numeric or descriptive terms how the result should be tracked. Measures are written in terms of:
For example, a results statement for an office clerk that includes appropriate measures might be:
Both the employee and the rating official are responsible for developing the performance plan. If the employee and rating official disagree about a results statement, the second-level manager makes the final determination. The employee or the rating official may request changes to the performance plan during the appraisal period if expectations change.
The program was put into effect in October 1997 and the first cycle ended on September 30, 1998. Part of the evaluation of the first cycle includes reviewing two hundred anonymous employee performance plans selected at random. Evaluators will assess the percentage of established expectations and standards that actually measure results.
Even though employee satisfaction data are not available yet, Ms. Snowden was able to share her own opinion of the program. When asked if she would like to return to the generic standards that ARA used previously, she replied, "No way! I use my performance plan now as an everyday working document that I keep pasted to the wall in front of my desk. Now I know exactly what's expected of me and what I have to do to exceed expectations. I like it much better this way!"
Ms. Snowden reminded attendees that change is difficult, but, as the old adage observes: "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got."
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Craig murder suspect appears in Moffat County District Court for advisement
December 10, 2012
A Craig resident accused of murder appeared Monday in Moffat County District Court for an advisement hearing.
Leroy Fief, 48, of Craig, is charged in district court with one count of first-degree murder, a Class 1 felony. He is in custody at Moffat County Jail and is being held without bond, pending a proof evident hearing scheduled for Dec. 19.
Chief Judge Michael O'Hara presided over Monday's proceedings. He explained to Fief his rights and potential penalties should he plead or be found guilty of the murder charge at trial.
According to Colorado Revised Statutes, the presumptive minimum sentence for a Class 1 felony is life in prison. The presumptive maximum is death.
According to the warrantless arrest affidavit, at approximately 12:20 a.m. Sunday, Craig Police Department officers were dispatched to Elk Head Apartments, 456 Yampa Ave., for an unknown disturbance.
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Upon their arrival, authorities encountered Fief and his wife standing in the parking lot between Elk Head Apartments and Mathers' Bar. A third individual, 43-year-old Craig resident Shane Arredondo, was lying on the ground and appeared to be the victim of an assault, according to the affidavit.
Fief approached one of the responding officers and said he stabbed Arredondo, according to the affidavit.
Fief was placed under arrest as law enforcement officers began first aid until EMS technicians arrived. Arredondo was transported to The Memorial Hospital in Craig where he was later pronounced dead, according to court records.
Fief and his wife were transported, separately, from the scene to the Moffat County Public Safety Center. During a Sunday morning interview with law enforcement officers, Fief said the alleged altercation stemmed from a Dec. 6 incident in which he observed his wife's cell phone contained a voicemail message and several text messages from an unknown male individual, according to the affidavit.
Fief confronted his wife about the messages. She responded that nothing inappropriate was happening, according to the affidavit.
At about 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Fief left home for Trapper Mine where he works as a heavy equipment operator. It was his first rotation back on the night shift. At about 10:30 p.m., after trying to reach his wife by phone several times, Fief told his boss he had to attend to a family emergency at home, according to the affidavit.
About 10 minutes later, Fief arrived at his house to find his wife wasn't home. He said he grabbed a knife from a wooden block in the kitchen and went looking for her, the affidavit stated.
Around 11 p.m., Fief said he located his wife's car in the parking lot on Yampa Ave. between Elk Head Apartments and Mathers' Bar. Fief pulled his truck into the lot and first looked for his wife at Mathers' but was unable to find her. Fief said he returned to his truck and sent his wife several messages from the parking lot during the course of the next hour, according to the affidavit. His wife never responded.
Fief told law enforcement officers he witnessed his wife exit a unit at Elk Head Apartments at about 12:10 or 12:15 a.m. with a then-unidentified male, Shane Arredondo. The two allegedly embraced and kissed outside her driver's side door, according to the affidavit.
Fief exited his truck, reportedly with his knife in hand, to confront Arredondo. During the interview, Fief told officers he thought he stabbed Arredondo four or five times in the ensuing confrontation.
After the incident, Fief said he told his wife to call for help. He was walking from the parking lot toward Yampa Avenue when law enforcement officers arrived, at which point he put his hands up and was taken into custody, according to the affidavit.
After the interview law enforcement officers learned Arredondo was pronounced dead at TMH. They escorted Fief to Moffat County Jail where he was booked on suspicion of first-degree murder, according to the affidavit.
On Monday, O'Hara ordered that Fief not tamper with any witnesses or victims in the case; control or possess a firearm or other weapon; or consume alcohol or other substances.
Fief also is governed by the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, O'Hara ordered, and may have consensual contact only with his wife.
Fief is represented by Sheryl Uhlmann, deputy state public defender out of the Steamboat Springs regional office.
Brett Barkey, 14th Judicial District Attorney, is prosecuting Fief.
Although it is customary for felony cases to begin in Moffat County Court, Barkey requested a direct file to district court, which was granted Monday by O'Hara.
Fief is scheduled to return to district court at 8:15 a.m. Dec. 19 for a status conference. A bond hearing may also take place immediately following.
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A Parent Trapped! (Japanese: とらわれのルギア! Captive Lugia!) is the 221st episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 25, 2001 and in the United States on November 30, 2002.
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With the young Lugia in the possession of Butch and Cassidy, Ash and friends set about rescuing it while protecting its parent from itself. The parent Lugia fights desperately to free its child—playing right into Team Rocket's hands. If Ash fails to win the Lugia's trust and convince it not to oppose Team Rocket alone, it seems this Pokemon is fated to end up in captivity along with its child.
With the child Lugia now captured by Team Rocket, Dr. Namba proudly stands in front of the new catch when Butch and Cassidy show up. They have a plan that they could use the child Lugia as a lure to capture its parent. The plan would seem almost too easy.
Ash, Misty, Brock, Ritchie, and Oliver sit depressed on the shore when Luka comes by. She wonders what's going on and they tell her that Team Rocket has captured the child Lugia. Luka is shocked, but they have little time to discuss a plan. The parent Lugia suddenly emerges from the sea. Soon everyone has been told about what happened to the child Lugia, which the parent Lugia doesn't respond to at first. The parent soon starts combing the area but doesn't find anything, so it goes back to the group. Again they tell it that the child was captured but they'll do whatever it takes to get the child back. The parent becomes enraged and releases a gigantic storm and wreaks havoc across the island and the neighboring one. With this the group seeks shelter in a cave.
Meanwhile, Jessie still wants to find some way to bring some attention. She still frets about having the chance of taking the child Lugia away, but maybe there's something else to it. They hop out of their sub but soon get blasted by the parent Lugia.
After a while in the cave, Ash decides that he is going to face Lugia and try to get it to believe them. Ritchie agrees, and goes with Ash. Luka offers to drive her boat. The three of them leave the cave and head to Lugia. However Lugia fires a beam at them, which Luka dodges easily. This continues for a while until finally it's an either now-or-never situation. Eventually, Lugia calms down and believes Ash and Ritchie when they say they'll find its child. Lugia stops the storm and flies away.
With that, now they have a new objective, finding Team Rocket's base. Their Pokémon do a scout of the area but couldn't find anything, but since it's not on land, maybe it's underwater. Ash, Misty, Brock, Ritchie, and Oliver get in scuba gear and head for the ocean. They don't find much, until they notice the Magikarp Submarine belonging to Jessie, James and Meowth. They follow that to the base but as soon as they get there, the Rocket's plan soon goes into effect. The base emerges towards the surface!
After the base had emerged, they release the child Lugia still in the cage and with some contraption out there for the parent to get. The group obviously knows this is a trap and soon the parent Lugia comes by. Everyone soon sees this, the group yelling not to get any near while running. Then they are stopped by Butch and Cassidy. Since they can't go any further, it would just be easier to attack the parent Lugia from here on to see if it would get the idea. Both Pikachu and Sparky go up for an attack, but the parent easily dodges it. Butch messes with a little gizmo and some headgear on their Pokémon glows orange for a while, making them aggressive. They explain that this new device not only keeps them angry, but boosts their abilities. Houndour does a Flamethrower which was significantly more powerful than before. This doesn't stop them however, the group persists on attacking the parent but every time Butch and Cassidy have their Pokémon retaliate.
Butch increases the intensity of the headgear and soon their Pokémon become worse. Ash sends out Cyndaquil and Ritchie sends out his Charmeleon, Zippo. But all it takes is one hit and no more. The group tries to give the parent again but this time the parent Lugia decided to give them a shot with its Aeroblast. Although the attack misses, it knocks all of them out. The Lugia continues on and the trap activates. Meanwhile, the Team Rocket trio is ready to put their balloon plan into action. However, Meowth accidentally pops it with his claws and it sends the trio blasting off. The Rockets soon retrieve their second catch, going back underwater.
Ash wakes up later, only to find himself, Misty, Brock and Ritchie in a cage.
Major events
- Ritchie's Zippo is revealed to have evolved into a Charmeleon.
- Ash, his friends, and the parent Lugia are captured by Team Rocket.
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the timeline of events.
Pokémon debuts
Who's That Pokémon?: Dragonite (US and international), Lanturn (Japan)
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Togepi (Misty's)
- Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
- Cyndaquil (Ash's)
- Totodile (Ash's)
- Noctowl (Ash's; Shiny)
- Goldeen (Misty's)
- Staryu (Misty's)
- Poliwhirl (Misty's)
- Corsola (Misty's)
- Crobat (Brock's)
- Pikachu (Ritchie's; Sparky)
- Charmeleon (Ritchie's; Zippo)
- Hitmontop (Butch's)
- Houndour (Cassidy's)
- Lanturn (Oliver's)
- Lugia (Silver)
- Lugia (anime; Silver's mother)
- Shellder
- The English dub title of this episode is a pun of the title of the 1961 film The Parent Trap.
- The device Butch uses to power up the abilities of their Pokémon might be the starting concept of the Miniremos from Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia, or the Shadow Pokémon from Pokémon Colosseum.
- This episode is featured on Volume 8: Lugia from Viz Media's Pokémon All-Stars series.
- Dr. Namba's device, the "Namba No. 5", could be a reference to the popular song Mambo No. 5.
- When Brock's Crobat comes back from its search for Team Rocket, its colors are reversed. Its body is blue while its wings are purple, much like its pre-evolved form.
- When the parent Lugia is searching for its child, it swims past the screen from left to right, at which point its legs are missing.
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In other languages
|Родител в капан!
|Mandarin Chinese
|Ouders in de Val
|European French
|Pris au piège
|Lugia in der Falle
|המצב מסתבךhamatzav mistabekh
|Lugia फस गया! Lugia phas gaya! *
|I Pokémon infuriati
|W pułapce
|Uma Armadilha pro Papai!
|A Armadilha!
|Latin America
|¡El padre atrapado!
|Un padre atrapado
|This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime.


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text: WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) The suspect in the deaths of two women whose bodies were found in suitcases dumped along a rural Wisconsin highway resigned his job as a police officer to avoid discipline amid allegations of stalking, lying and abuse of power, according to personnel records released Wednesday.Multiple women told investigators with the West Allis Police Department that Steven Zelich showed up at their work while on duty, pestered them for dates and used his position to get personal information, including home phone numbers. Several women told investigators they feared for their safety or that of their children."Over the last few months, a very distinct pattern has developed," then-Chief Dean Puschnig said in a draft of charges dated Aug. 8, 2001. "Every complaint is very similar in nature and involves young women. He has engaged in inappropriate actions with a known prostitute. While he has been on duty in his police uniform, Officer Zelich has asked numerous young women to go on dates with him. All of these women have felt intimidated and pressured into giving out their phone numbers and other personal information because he is a police officer in uniform."Zelich resigned less than two weeks later to avoid charges being filed with the city's Police and Fire Commission. The move allowed him to later pass criminal background checks and obtain a private security license from the state.Zelich was working a security officer when he was arrested June 25, weeks after the bodies of Jenny Gamez, a 19-year-old college student from Cottage Grove, Oregon, and Laura Simonson, 37, of Farmington, Minnesota, were found in the discarded suitcases.A detective testified last week that Zelich said he killed the women accidentally during rough sex and stored their bodies for months in his home and car before dumping them. He has been charged with two counts of hiding a corpse in Walworth County, where the suitcases were found. Authorities have said they expect homicide charges to come in the counties where the women died.Zelich, 52, worked for the West Allis Police Department for about 12 years. He had reprimands and short suspensions for accidents, neglect of duty and other issues. Then in May 2001, a prostitute complained that Zelich had knocked her to the ground during a struggle in his apartment when he was off duty. Zelich claimed the woman had tried to steal from him and he was trying to get his money back.He received a 20-day suspension, and police launched an internal investigation after receiving reports from other women Zelich had tried to date.A 22-year-old hair stylist complained in June 2001 that Zelich had been stopping by her salon almost every day to ask her out, parking his squad car behind her vehicle so that she couldn't leave. Weeks later, a 19-year-old student told police that Zelich stopped her when she came out of school, warned her about parking in a private lot and then asked her for a date. Four days later, a strip club owner told police that Zelich had been coming to the bar while on duty and asking out dancers.A dancer at a different club told police that she had moved three times in eight years, in part to avoid Zelich."Each time this would happen Officer Zelich would have her new unlisted telephone number and address," Lt. Thomas Baker wrote in a memo. "He would call her at home and would send her birthday cards, greeting cards, and Christmas cards."Police later determined that Zelich had run the woman's license plate at least 10 times between 1999 and 2000.Puschnig, who is now the spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Milwaukee, declined to comment on why Zelich was allowed to resign rather than face charges."It would be up to the new police chief to comment," he said.West Allis Police Chief Charles Padgett and current and past presidents of the West Allis Police and Fire Commission did not immediately respond to phone messages.Zelich's public defender, Travis Schwantes, said he also had asked for his client's personnel records but hadn't yet received copies and therefore couldn't comment on the contents.___Associated Press writers Carrie Antlfinger, Dinesh Ramde and Gretchen Ehlke contributed to this report.


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Maggie Mahar over at The Health Care Blog looks at Edwards and Clinton's health care plans, and she hits it out of the park. Money graf:
Quite simply, Clinton has opened the door to the single-payer model—if people want it. The beauty of her plan is that no one is forced into a government plan. Americans will wind up in a Medicare-like plan only if they choose it over a private insurer.Interesting take on it. I like the idea of giving people the option. If done right -- i.e. no structural gimmicks to favor private over public plans, or vice versa -- it will be interesting to see which way the market drifts. As a private provider of health care, I like the idea that there will be no monopsony driving down the cost of my services. -- i.e. the health plans will have to compete to maintain adequate networks. As the administrator of a small business, I like the idea that I will have more options (and hopefully more affordable options) to provide my employees with health insurance.
Clinton is not alone. Last spring John Edwards unfurled a proposal that would force private insurers to compete with a public plan that he calls "Medicare-Plus." Today, in a web-cast sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, he reiterated his goal "to give consumers a choice; they could gravitate in either direction."
One journalist on the panel was blunt: "Is this a back-door to single payer?"
Edwards liked the question. "That's partly right and partly wrong," he said, with a big smile. "It's not intended to take us to single-payer. It's designed to let Americans decide whether or not they want single payer."
I've gone on record saying Hillary is not my candidate of choice -- I'm pulling for Obama. But more smart policies like this from her and I could definitely warm up to her in the general, if it should turn out that way.


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